Ted Sheridan Poems

Having only ever experienced love in a room dark with suspicions
She really had no clue as to the depth of the incisions love can make
When preformed by a surgeon who knows how to cut
Or the drunkeness it can induce
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I wonder …if you spend over two hundred million dollars to become President
Just how much money would it take to become Emperor?
It couldn’t be that much more…
Emperor Hillary Clinton has a certain ring to it don’t you think…
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It was just a bomb that took four arms and six legs
From nine perfectly healthy individuals
It was just a bomb that took sixteen lives
And left seventy two people seriously wounded
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Like a blight of black flies
darkness had consumed my world.
A thousand mouths chewed my flesh
as they buzzed my every thought
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She sleeps as my tired old eyes make love to her....
Her long grey hair frames her gentle face and softly touches
Both of her round and dimpled alabaster colored shoulders
My sense of smell is enticed beyond any simple fantasy
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I am doing research on the most effective and least
Painful ways for me to forever leave this life
So far the only two methods I have found both involve
A Monkey, a Boa snake and a Handmaiden.....
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Napalm gas and white phosphorous filled clouds
explode in cavalcades of predictable burst
Hatchet men with machetes lop off offensive ears
with a deafening silent swish as all bayonets are readied
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John McCain; Republican candidate and apparent nominee
for the Presidency of the United States of America.
John McCain sounds like Elmer Fudd when he speaks
but he looks more like Barney Rubble as he paces back and forth,
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The wife lost another of her dwarf Alberta spruce evergreens this week
Making a total of three she has lost to the extreme drought in the Southeast
With late fall temperatures rising to well above the record seventy five degrees
The rain that had originally been predicted for the month has failed to materialize
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A capable writer can sum up your life's dreams in a few words or less
A good photographer can capture your essence in a snap of their shutter
And both could still be lying to you if they say they love you more than me
Me the one you never conceive of asking unless you need reinforcing.....
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