25 November 2008

Three Poems

Kiss me, life!

Easy to deride

The way he stayed alive inside

His women with his puffed-up pride.

The pharmacy supplied

The rising truck ladder that the fire did not provide.

The toothless carnivore devoured Viagra and Finasteride

(Which is the one that shrinks the American prostate nationwide

And at a higher dosage grows hair on the bald) to stem the tide.

Not to die had been his way to hide

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