It's All Robbery Poem by Smoky Hoss

It's All Robbery

Rating: 5.0


Baby, lately I been wondering
maybe I've lost my touch,
you been a chillin'...
and I'm thinking way too much -

Cops drinking coffee
checking my plates,
we're both pushing' hard
against the fates -

A couple drinks down
that bank looks nice and easy;
been a good long while
since you was naughty and sleazy -

A dollar in the juke box...
songs about Amsterdam; but ya know,
too many shots to the gut
takes the fight outta any man -

Billy the Kid
strolls in the bar,
askin', who owns
that cool ol' muscle car -

We hit that bank hard
and got away clean, and fast;
some things people choose to love
just don't last -

Baby, I'll send you a postcard
from down ol' Mexico way; but,
alas, you never really listened much
to what I was trying to say, anyway -

'This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine.' - Prospero, from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Perhaps I'm watching too many old noir movies...
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Varsha M 04 February 2021

This is nice expressive of robbery, a sweet robbery that takes away all yet leave us back as the richest man on earth. Beautiful.

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Kim Barney 04 February 2021

Great fantasy, Smoky! Five stars.

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Glen Kappy 27 March 2021

Well, Smoky, the rhythms and diction feel familiar, but the subject's different for you. -Glen

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Juan Olivarez 06 February 2021

I love it. Lol, Old William Bonney himself. Salutations old friend.

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Lawerence Mize, Sr. 05 February 2021

As usual, another great one Smoky.

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Maria Mitea 05 February 2021

Great work!

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Kostas Lagos 05 February 2021

An outlaw masterpiece!

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