once shoes went to cobblers

new valves a radio renewed

cut-throat razors stropping

nappies boiled then brewed

now artefacts come and go

we exploit them every day

serve a purpose then gone

discards, just thrown away

are us people any different?

used and then tossed aside

minds or bodies plundered

left weeping, hollow, dried

poets call it romantic l...

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Of a sudden I see stars

I can barely utter a vowel

I'm down on bended knee

Trainer threw in the towel

That's what Bertha did to me

Her beauty rained right hooks

Love peppering me with jabs

Knocked out cold by her looks

She didn't pull her punches

Her uppercuts thrown at will

She trapped me on the ropes

Bertha's big punches can kill

They carried me...

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