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Unread 12-06-2015, 05:38 PM
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No ifs or buts.
Our Nigel's nuts.
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Unread 12-08-2015, 02:42 AM
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No ifs or buts.
Our Nigel's nuts.
I'm glad we can at least agree on Farage, John.
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Unread 12-08-2015, 03:53 AM
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Hemmed by ‘leftish’ media dreams
Our man of Kent in terse verse wrote

Of Nigel, nuts and scribbled reams -
"A Rhymer He Would Never Quote."
While Nige Farage, whom he liked best,
Blared ever rightward – like the rest.

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Unread 12-08-2015, 05:16 AM
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Switched off the telly, quit all social media, ditched the press
And found this country wasn't, after all, in such a mess.
My febrile mood cooled quickly, I clearly saw the answer:
Mind is the organ it torments, news the cancer.
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Unread 12-10-2015, 03:54 PM
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Modern News Crews on US Television

All foxy, young, (most blond) take up
The talking chairs. With thicker makeup,
With skirts cut high, and liberal views
Of thighs between now low cut news;
Nothing so much improved a rating,
Or drew more glimpse from queued folks waiting.

Red faced or blue, each analyst
Out-shouts, not wits, a panel pissed.
I flipped it to the latest news talk
So lit and glossed, you'd swear a catwalk.
I overheard a loud mudslinger—
Fox News mistook for Jerry Springer.
As stuffed as Fox proved CNN
With Barbie-belles and anchor-Ken.
Those only air news monologues
With looks to match ad catalogs.

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Unread 12-10-2015, 07:25 PM
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A cake on a walk met a Trump
And ended up dumped from his rump.
Said Trump, I’m da man,
My shit’s in demand,
And he sold it to ebay’s next chump.
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Unread 12-11-2015, 01:12 AM
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On eBay the item was not
A success for The Trump. He forgot
By the time it was sold
It would have gone cold
Thus denying the buyer ... the opportunity to get the beauty of it hot.


(The above is a form of ekphrasis, mirroring the subject's inability to know when to shut up.)
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Unread 12-11-2015, 05:14 AM
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Trump saw the Bull and took the horns;
The horns took Trump into the thorns.
The Trump mistook the State a cakewalk,
The State outrageous Trump as fake talk;
As when some novice ill-equipped,
Vaunts he’ll mount Ever’st, pompous-lipped,
But fools think might is just as boast is—
The rest see Trump as good as toast is.

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