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The Tiger Lillies are the finest black cabaret band ever. I adore their entire catalogue. Irreverent, irresistibly brilliant. Dark, funny, sad and sooooooo dark. My 🖤 swells.
Tag: dark
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It started with
Phone Boxes
Robbing coins
Building skills
Graduating to safe
Cracking
He wanted more
To rob banks
To kidnap swells
He became the
“Shooting Fool”
Enforcer of Chicago
Bullets snapped
Danced
At his feet
Capone’s men tried
To tame him
Drucci paid Capone
With more than
A thousand bullets
The Hawthorn Hotel
Had never seen
Such blazing heat
“You SOB, I’ll get you,
I’ll wait on
Your doorstep
For You”
The cops put
4 shots
Into Drucci
At point blank
Range
That saved Capone
From “The Shooting
Fool”
Placed in a
$10,000 coffin with
$30,000 worth of
Flowers
A policeman
Murdered him but
We sure gave him
A grand funeral
More #true-crime poetry
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toilet piled in front
broken sink and garbage abounds
there goes the curb appeal
once again my neighbors spill out into the street leaving mess and mayhem behind
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grass grows grows grows
higher and higher each day
covering the corpses
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broken fountain waits
brackish water pools on the street
already mosquitoes
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lawnmowers burring
cicadas erupt from the ground
carcasses flower
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Executed on the gallows, Sept 6, 1833
A roguishly handsome fellow was he
Arriving from France for the family Sayre
He worked for them as a common laborer
Antoine resented his work, his bed in the shed
It would not soon be long before all were struck dead
Beating both Mr. and Mrs. Sayre with a shovel
He buried them both in the manure by his hovel
12 thousand people were present at his death
The majority were women who saw him draw his last breath
True crime poetry based upon the real exploits of the bad men/ women found in history
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man walks on the road
as a car crests the hill top
neither will give way
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tics coat my dog’s back
i pinch them off one by one
love should not draw blood
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waiting in my room
bandcamp sales are not working
17 years in music
I think of all my favorites trying to stay alive during Covid-19
Outlaw Poetry 