Francis Duggan Poems

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7691.
Young Ted

In his mid twenties and quite good in bed
Going by some of the local women who have been with Ted
It has even been said the Mayor's aging wife who with brown dye cloaks her gray
Enjoyed a few hours of passion with him believe that if you may
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7692.
Money Is Most Important Why Otherwise Pretend

Money speaks every language as some are known to say
This is how it is and always will be this way
The poor are powerless and as powerless until death does stay
And those with heaps of money in the news every day
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7693.
Someone Will Remember You

You may not be one of the famous or in money be worth a million or two
But you will be remembered by someone yes someone will remember you
Someone will say to his or her friends he or she was caring and kind
Such a compassionate person better would be hard to find
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7694.
In His Daydreams

In his daydreams he used to daydream of wealth and renown
The working class man of the ordinary town
Now in his mid thirties and past his life's prime
And also a few years past daydreaming time
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7695.
In Millstreet In May

A half an hour walk west of the Town of Millstreet
In the old rushy fields where the rivers do meet
The wildborn pheasant is crowing today
Where the hawthorns are cloaked in their white blooms of the May
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7696.
He Is From The Bare Brown Lands

He is from the bare brown lands where the salt bush grow
Where old Murray River towards the Pacific crawls slow
Since he left Tailem Bend he has traveled far and wide
And has shorn in many a hot shearing shed in the brown outback countryside
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7697.
My View On Life

My views on life to me alone only count
To others to nothing they seem to amount
My rhymes may be many but my readers are few
Though many of my sort and this is nothing new
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7698.
Homophobia

To the holier than thou in their judgmental way
Homophobia is always one of their fear words of the day
To them all non heterosexual people have in them something wrong
And to human society they ought not belong
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7699.
The Honorable And Devoted Man

On the last time i was in Hawkesdale the sun was going down
In a pale red towards the west of the old country Town
An old man out walking the years had left stooped and gray
Stopped for a brief chat and to wish me good day
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7700.
Young Tim

It is not of fans or followers one of does read
But of the people who are born to lead
And young Tim does not lead or the praises of others does not sing
A carefree chap he just does his own thing
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