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JustDaniel
post Sep 24 15, 08:45
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final touching

cute as a button;
child fund-raisin for a nose
facin' down scarecrow


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post Sep 24 15, 14:42
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corn feels

the face down scarecrow
was slapped hard by miss scarecrow
for raisin’ her dress


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post Sep 24 15, 22:08
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dressing brief

raisin address:
post office-playing boxers
both under-wearing


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post Sep 26 15, 23:04
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blown coverage

wear both rings under
some boxing gloves with tissues
for marital spats


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post Sep 28 15, 10:44
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unmoving

martial arts spats
make the ankles too stiff;
death takes the kick out


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post Sep 28 15, 22:37
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aimless gestures

the kick out at death
will always end in de-feet
denting the bucket


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post Sep 28 15, 23:08
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wanna make doe?

kicking the buckette
reveals transgender bias;
who'd pass up the buck?


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Larry
post Sep 29 15, 17:34
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safe deposits

the buck in the pass
keeps all his doe by the bank
with alarming horns


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post Sep 30 15, 05:37
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a tension

a horn alarms
ex-convict with a cell phone;
imprisoned in thought


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post Oct 1 15, 14:34
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Didn't know which to go with so I posted both.

bar designs

in prisoner’s thoughts
there are escapes for more crimes,
too much steel to steal



speaking your mind

thoughts are imprisoned
by vocabulary’s lack,
words are freedom’s key


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post Oct 2 15, 15:21
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gushy ending

words are freedom's ski
down a long, slippery slope;
flatter at bottom


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post Oct 3 15, 21:48
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cityscapes

flattering bottom
belongs to the young lady
seen around the square


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post Oct 4 15, 08:16
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math-o-matics

scene around the square
root of the multipliers:
too rabbits in heat


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post Oct 5 15, 22:59
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cold cuts

in two rabbits’ feet
there should be some kind of luck
not coincidence


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post Oct 6 15, 08:27
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surreal estate

a coin incident:
it comes up heads 50 times
while flipping a house


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post Oct 7 15, 13:03
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ill fashioned

while in the flop house
I saw the wurst of the lot
and the seersucker


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post Oct 7 15, 17:29
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stocking up

he's a seers sucker;
somehow what seems to suit him
are Wall Street prophets


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post Oct 8 15, 17:41
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can you dig it

Wall Street profiteers
say your luck is in the cards
a spade full of dirt


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post Oct 9 15, 07:33
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the fix is in

the spayed fell in dirt
causing a bad infection;
puppies won't get it


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post Oct 11 15, 23:37
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runts grunts

it won’t give pups ease
when there are not enough teats
some litters are big


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