Ima Ryma Poems

Africa has no tiger cat,
But boasts having the tigerfish.
Oh my, what razor sharp teeth that
I have to use in yearning wish
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I am a beaver with a butt,
With a musky vanilla scent,
Thanks to castor glands in my gut,
Producing sense pleasing content.
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George Washington, he criticized
As a general quite inept.
Then he later apologized,
And to himself, such thoughts he kept.
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A bush baby baby am I,
Bouncing 'neath the baobob tree.
Not sure I'm a gal or guy,
But Lincoln Park Zoo's home to me.
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Rock - paper - scissors, a hard game
To choose a winner of two folk.
Pick a gesture that wins - the aim.
Pick scissors and two fingers poke.
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Gun laws - Chicago's got a load,
And we're always whining for more.
But for years, statistics have showed
Law enforcement is very poor.
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Margaret Thatcher and the press
Gave each other a lot of flack.
Journalists 'round her did possess
Lots of foreign knic and knac -
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1800's - no womens' lib,
So New York City's Murray Hall
Began to tell a little fib,
'Twas just politics after all.
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Orpheus and Eurydice
Were two lovers in ancient Greece,
And vowed forever he and she
Share a love that would never cease.
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Catwoman to the comics came
First in 1940 to be
A sexy player in the game
As Batman's skilled adversary.
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