Flesh still bears the wounds.
Alienated, abused
Mind screwed, and misused.
But this old fool’s soul sustains.
Lingers, bathed in shame.

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​At my birth, I skirled;
through my #infancy I mewled;
now, I mostly grumph.

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The trend it was bucked,
when the #deer (doh!) struck the truck,
right between the lamps.

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Those smug senior clerks,
cocky inner #circle jerks
who rubbed the wrong way.

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Announcer announced:
"The commencement will #commence:
anon, hence, and once."

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Commence the laughter.
We’ll circle back to the joke.
The laugh track will play,
The greatest hits of my life.
Nothings funnier.

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A #frog and black cat
atop a turtle's back sat—
alas, that shell cracked.

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She made me humble;
in the back seat we fumbled—
#autumnal tumble.

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​Proud August years pledge
cold #autumnal quietude
ere a hushed winter...

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Common earthworm, #chilled
deep to its own boneless bones
in frozen tundra.

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The Count of #Sanguine
was turned vampire as a teen,
which made his life suck.

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And with each chop, their
faux sanguine façade crumbled.
Revealing a most
Ghastly visage, as the elms
Life withered away.

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Happily, they glowed.
Their sanguine disposition
Left me unconvinced.
For I knew, the moon hid a
Far darker aspect.

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Grandiloquence is
#esoteric foppery
for clever people.

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Her kisses kept me
Battling banalities
For the sweet promise
Of esoteric passion
That’ll rescue my soul

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Slaughter their past time
Oriented towards Mars
Words of eloquence
Concerning the blood imbibed
By drunken soldiers

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Baskerville's dark hound,
tracking Dartmoor's muddy #ground
o'er freshly washed floors.

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Foundations laid and
Grounded in naïveté
Destined to buckle
Under realities’s weight
Have a short shelf life

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O meddled #mélange—
mixed, mingled, mishmash medley
of miscellany.

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