January 1, 2025
I told Candace Walter's cheating
I told Megan she was fat
I said Gail's looks are fleeting
And that's such an ugly hat
I told Dan his son's a loser
And his wife is scarfing pills
I told Frankie he's a boozer
They should pay me for my skills
I told Ted his breath is frightful
It could make an angel cry
The truth is so delightful
I'm a great and fearless guy
I'm tenacious and observant
I refuse to pull my punches
I'm a real public servant
They should honor me at lunches
I'm a paladin of virtue
In a world of falsity
If reality can hurt you
You're a fool for blaming me
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Honesty Scrabble, Humor, humorous poetry, losers, Nick Youngson, Poetry
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December 27, 2024
A phantom and a promise
A kiss, a smile, a lie
Back when our love
Was alive enough to die
You ghosted me for days
You haunted me for years
You don't have any right
To ask about my tears
Now suddenly you emerge
From the shadows of deceit
Asking about my loved ones
And sounding so sweet
You ghosted me for days
You haunted me for years
You don't have any right
To ask about my tears
Seeking greener pastures
When it's time for you to roll
You leave behind a wasteland
For the famine in your soul
You ghosted me for days
You haunted me for years
You don't have any right
To ask about my tears
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, Cruel, lyrics, Muhamed Husain, sad songs
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December 24, 2024
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out
–John Lennon
When the long knives come out
And the landscape turns to Hell
There won't be any omelets
Just a pile of eggshells
Bombs in Iraq,
Bullets in the back,
And crazy Comrade Lenin
Knows who to attack
Summary execution
Is that how you cope?
When every kook starts shooting
It's a slippery slope
Bombs in Iraq,
Bullets in the back,
And crazy Comrade Lenin
Knows who to attack
If you found a messiah
Who tells you who to kill
You're mistaking mental illness
For that phony red pill
Bombs in Iraq,
Bullets in the back,
And crazy Comrade Lenin
Knows who to attack
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, John Lennon, lyrics, vigilantism, Vladamir Lenin
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December 19, 2024
Sometimes I like to wear shoes
But I never watch the news
That stupid guy on the tv
Don't give a crap about me
You can sneak and you can snoop
But don't you put me in a group
I do things the way I please
I like my burgers with some cheese
I like the rivers and the trees
And I appreciate them bees
You can sneak and you can snoop
But don't you put me in a group
That big machine is taking notes
All my preferences and votes
Every letter that I wrote
And all the writers I can quote
You can sneak and you can snoop
But don't you put me in a group
I ain't no standard deviation
You can scour the population
You won't find no correlation
Cuz I'm a walking aberration
You can sneak and you can snoop
But don't you put me in a group
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, Ju gatsu mikka, lyrics, Village stats Konoha.svg
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December 7, 2024
Ticky tacky talk
They sneak and stalk
And lie and mock
And put you in a box
They take you down
And break you down
They're never leaving
This old town
Avoid abusers and accusers
Losers gonna loser
I'm not a beggar
I'm a chooser
They take you down
And break you down
They're never leaving
This old town
They'll never let you be
But they can't shackle me
They're just a memory
I'm happy flying free
They take you down
And break you down
They're never leaving
This old town
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Chris Seaton, country music, Country Music Lyrics, gossip, losers, lyrics
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December 4, 2024
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
-Theodore Roethke
What is beauty?
What is love?
What is color?
What is art?
What is laughter?
What is sunshine?
What is rustling
In my heart?
What is real?
What is romance?
What is magic?
What is true?
What are raindrops?
What are roses?
What are puppies?
What are you?
What is light?
What is time?
What is space?
What's a star?
What makes
The heavens sing
Everywhere
You are?
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Andy Dixon, Booooooom!, country music, Country Music Lyrics, I Knew a woman, love songs, lyrics, Theodore Roethke
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November 29, 2024
We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.
-Djuna Barnes, Watchman, What of the Night?
Get home before the sun goes down
This ain't no ordinary town
Cool your mind – keep out of sight
Don't bestir the doom of night
Hairy hounds released from hell
Zombies under wicked spells
Fiends and fury from The Fall
Moloch Gorgon Satan Baal
Tell-Tale Heart – The Witch of Coos
Now it's time to pay your dues
Spirits demons lunatics
I hope your house is made of bricks
Stay inside and lock the door
Don't look outside – don't ask wherefore
Calm your heart and clear your head
Keep a lantern by your bed
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Djuna Barnes, Edgar Allan Poe, Poetry, Robert Frost, scary poems, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Szatan, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Witch of Coos
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November 20, 2024
no not never darkness
empty ugly stupid
laughing evil putrid
nothing nowhere fear
falling filthy dingy ruin
senseless cracked crooked
smelly frigid fruitless
doomed dreary busted smear
cruel crappy murder
hateful burning blocked
hopeless sneering creepy
losing broken insincere
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Macbeth, Poetry, William Shakespeare
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November 10, 2024
Who I am
And where I am
And what I'm gonna do
It's the trail I gotta take
It's not about you
Taking time
To live my rhyme
And find what
I can find
Ain't got time
For reading minds
And sniffing
Fools' behinds
Stuff that bores
And clogs my pores
I just let it be
Listening to my nightmares
To understand my dreams
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: Alexandra Park, Bored, country music, Country Music Lyrics, lyrics
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October 26, 2024
I like rainy days and Ibsen plays and lonesome lullabies
Long walks and funny talks and folks that don't tell lies
I like hound dogs and yule logs and films that make me cry
Crescent moons and show tunes and monarch butterflies
I like sunsets and Mookie Betts and Rome before the fall
Short naps and ginger snaps and pickup basketball
I like hay bales and mountain trails and comfy old shoes
Warm smiles and sundials and women just like you
I got nothing planned
So take my hand
And let's talk about you
Maybe, you and me
Can find something to do
by Richard W. Bray
Tags: country music, Country Music Lyrics, Danaus plexippus, love songs, lyrics, LyWashu
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