How to Sell Newspapers
She had once been very pretty
If not beautiful ……………………..
Although face-down like some
discarded doll like that
and on wasteland too she was
anything but ………………………..
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Her peppermint purse was full
fit to burst
when they found her there …….
While her pockets were
crammed with pertinent verse ..
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And all the newspaper guys and
the media freaks call it poetry …...
But Steve always said
its them bodies on slabs makes
the money mate ……………………...
While poets are starving in droves
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