It's All Robbery Poem by Smoky Hoss

It's All Robbery

Rating: 5.0


Baby, lately I been wondering
maybe I've lost my touch,
you been a chillin'...
and I'm thinking way too much -

Cops drinking coffee
checking my plates,
we're both pushing' hard
against the fates -

A couple drinks down
that bank looks nice and easy;
been a good long while
since you was naughty and sleazy -

A dollar in the juke box...
songs about Amsterdam; but ya know,
too many shots to the gut
takes the fight outta any man -

Billy the Kid
strolls in the bar,
askin', who owns
that cool ol' muscle car -

We hit that bank hard
and got away clean, and fast;
some things people choose to love
just don't last -

Baby, I'll send you a postcard
from down ol' Mexico way; but,
alas, you never really listened much
to what I was trying to say, anyway -

'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.' - Prospero, from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Perhaps I'm watching too many old noir movies...
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kim Barney 04 February 2021

Great fantasy, Smoky! Five stars.

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Varsha M 04 February 2021

This is nice expressive of robbery, a sweet robbery that takes away all yet leave us back as the richest man on earth. Beautiful.

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Glen Kappy 27 March 2021

Well, Smoky, the rhythms and diction feel familiar, but the subject's different for you. -Glen

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Juan Olivarez 06 February 2021

I love it. Lol, Old William Bonney himself. Salutations old friend.

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Lawerence Mize, Sr. 05 February 2021

As usual, another great one Smoky.

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Maria Mitea 05 February 2021

Great work!

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Kostas Lagos 05 February 2021

An outlaw masterpiece!

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