Tag: rhyming

• Baddabing

  First sign of ill behaviour Standing up, flipping tables Sit him down, eyelids sabled Not talking now, mouth stapled Trying to stand, as if he’s able Talk to man, as if he’s Plato And not a do nothing laid low in a cave I’m Alexander the Great ungrateful at being made To placate himself before…

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• I’m done

  Leave mouths crooked Hooked fish, fish hooking Whole lotta fucking, not a lot of hugging Zero fucking discussion Nobody sleeps on my cushions Time’s your cab arriving? Storm outside Happy inside, Life of Riley Make a smoothie in front of her without even offering a sip Drink it loudly and sloppily, gulping, upend the end…

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• Country living

  Chicks when they see me thinking dwarven verbs, dig it Even a male officer doesn’t give me a ticket Or even offer reprimand, before he leaves takes my hand kisses it Paying lip service to my responsibilities, thinking about poems and smoking weed My head abounds with pastures greener, plots of thought-thieving trees, sort I…

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• kingkingkings

  How I talk to them Down, not the county Oval Office’s evil resident I am the president When I tell them how it is I know I have residence in their head Deferring, preferring to look down at their shoes Word master, read the charges confirm, long wrap sheet Never had to war on the…

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• The fearless cannot flee

  The fearless cannot flee, even as those holding walls fall to scree They see no danger, death seems not only distant but an impossibility They ride out from the safety of the inner keep to the overtaken streets Blades in hand, shaken aloft, you will never take us alive, they adopt Bear fury, conjuring from…

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