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Month: September 2019

Colloidal Cautions

September 26, 2019 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Please remember, folks,

All that Jiggles ain’t jello.

Sometimes, friends, it’s slime.

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Shades of Intent

September 24, 2019 / agarrabrant / 1 Comment

via Shades of Intent

I was reminded of this poem earlier today. Much has changed in the five years since I wrote it but I find the reminder timely as ever.

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No Stomach For Saccharine Sycophancy

September 22, 2019 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Swimming in your stew

redolent with emotions

leaves an aftertaste

no amount of unctuous goo

can ever hope to disguise.

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Pie In The Sky

September 20, 2019September 19, 2019 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

If you want the moon,

Then bloody ask for the moon!

Demanding sun and stars too,

Nets you naught but resentment!

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Pause Before Impulse

September 19, 2019 / agarrabrant / 1 Comment

Did she ask herself,

before trashing my network,

“Wonder what this button does?”

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Forgive Us, World, Our Folly, We Pray

September 12, 2019 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Compassionlessness

can’t be a family value

embraced by Americans!

~

But it can, it seems,

be a blazoned guiding light

for our chief executive.

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On Deck

September 7, 2019 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Burning at both ends?

My candle’s bathed in jetwash

And the afterburner’s on!

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Senryū 6 Sep 2019

September 6, 2019 / agarrabrant / Leave a comment

Which of the packs of

Rabid dogs has their teeth tight

‘Round your junk today?

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