Bryan Corbett

you know Ali and Foreman and Dempsey and Tyson
Louis and Frazier, Sugar Ray and Johnson
but do you recall?
the most famous boxer of all?
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noun is a noun
pronoun is a noun
verb is a noun
adverb is a noun
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most every woman
thinks she has pretty feet
most every woman
is delusional on the subject
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it looks to me
as though Jared
never really lost
all that weight
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'R' Mildred, I told you
'R' is for reverse
'D' is for forward,
how many times
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some
times
I feel
like a
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no one before me    (have a Coke and a smile)
has ever loved another    (have a Coke and a smile)
person as much as I love    (have a Coke and a smile)
you    (have a Coke and a smile)
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it all started,
innocently enough,
a few years ago:
I would retire to the bedroom
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somewhere in California
somewhere in The Valley
somewhere in some random 7-Eleven
a man buys his morning coffee,
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find the word
speak the word
play with the word
be the word
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then, like Sisyphus,
start pushing the word
up the hill again…
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remember the word
forgive the word

then, like Sisyphus,
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when we fight
it's always about
nothing
but, still
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Pam from Pittsburg
was pretty, polite
and punctual
for her first audition
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the squirrel ran down the tree
Evel Knievel jumps cars
don't drink orange juice after brushing teeth
brown leaves in the gutter
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took out a mortgage
that I couldn't afford
to show the world
who I was
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everyday after school
and somedays when I
should have been in school
I'd go hide among the trains
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two tickets in the outfield
two hotdogs, two beers
salted peanuts to share
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my brother from another mother
my sister from another mister
no, Guy Fieri and Anne Burrell
aren't actually related
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