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Spokes

we've reached that painful stage

where she can't do nothing right

life's all shouting glare and fume

but for me its an unequal fight

 

sorry, but I can't take it anymore

she's wearing me out to a thread

the urge to kill her daily corrosive

wish to God she'd just drop dead

 

something occurred in her mind

hormonal changes kill older cells

where age-related issues...

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Two Cats

Oscar is the light of her life

in bed she nips off his ticks

drowns them in water, she's

dispensed with other pricks

 

but Oscar meets his nemesis

she's spurned him for Teddie

he's well-bred and better-hung

soon they were going steady

 

locked out of her bedroom

Oscar hear animal sounds

tackle cut off long ago, now

his mistress out of bounds

 

hissing a...

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