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Squalid (Free verse) by Caducus
Inhibitions, Suppressed by cowards water. Skirts ride half mast Grieving for the death of self respect. At ‘Chicago Rocks’ bar A place made to feel American There are Kosovan immigrants With acrylic patterned jumpers Tucked into Wranglers. There is a black man in the toilet Trying to sell ‘Pizazz’ to men who wear ‘Chanel’. I could love this place If monogamy stopped raping me, Yet a girlfiend at home waiting Was yesterdays whore gyrating? Steel bar Monkeys Change to 2am vultures Waiting for a ballad to bail them out, With the size 16 leaopardskin blouse killer Who has a great personality nobody wants. Maybe she sees a Goddess, Maybe she is? Maybe just maybe, What we seek is squalid.

Up the ladder: Monday Morning
Down the ladder: Goa

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Arithmetic Mean: 6.25
Weighted score: 5.1490035
Overall Rank: 5327
Posted: November 25, 2005 5:07 AM PST; Last modified: March 22, 2006 8:06 AM PST
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[n/a] Caducus @ 80.168.238.75 | 22-Mar-06/8:07 AM | Reply
comments deleted as it was a totally different poem to the one above.

yawn

[8] Ranger @ 62.252.32.15 | 23-Mar-06/6:32 AM | Reply
This is one thousand percent right. And well put, at that.
[7] matt door @ 65.32.138.73 | 23-Mar-06/9:52 PM | Reply
Maybe just maybe,
what we seek is less words from rhyming vultures, who pick at the bones of poetry - in search of something they found years and sentences ago?
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