Expectation is the root of all heartache

 

A bumptious fool

I met but once

as I, a step

on the ladder rung

of his ambition's tarnished soul

as he climbed to his pottage of gold.

 

Random Word: Bumptious

 

 

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Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale

 

You rang and said 'Andrew.’

I knew then, bloody tattoo

but I was wrong to eschew you

even on yahoo

so Dad, don't redo

just call, love, Drew.

 

 

 

Random Word: Eschew

 

 

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A perfect love gone wrong

 

 

 

It was on a heist
that we got spliced
but she was iced
when sex was priced.
Thank the Christ,
she ain't my zeitgeist.

 

 

 

 

Random Word: Zeitgeist.

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Swinging in the Jungle

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Tarzan was alone as love had been kinda of knotty when he spied another man-creature with strange deformities – a chest that sagged and a loin-cloth that didn’t.

As he walked over, Jane looked up and said ‘Fabolousli.’ Armani had found their replacement for Beckham.

And Tarzan? Well he got honey without shaking the tree.

 

 Random Word: Sleepless

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From a dream I fall

 

 

Piter was very rich, if he wanted sunshine, he flew there, if he wanted women, they rang him. Piter liked this version of his life.

 

 

 

Random Word: Plausible

 

 

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Run Rabbit Run

I saw this yowza furry babe swimming in distress. It was a new garden but for some bunny-honey I’d dive in. The traps were for saps so at the pool, I called and dived, ready for some sugar. So how was I to know that the Robertson's cooked al fresco.

Random Word: Rabbit

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When in Rome…ask!

I

 

 

It was all a silly misunderstanding the Orion tried to explain.‘You store your dead…well in the ground, which is where we store our food.’

 

 

 

 

Random Word: Visage

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