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Anonymous Americas

I lived from 1000-1950. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

Who wrote it? Who knows?
The names fell from the pages,
lost and never to return to where
the eyes of the reader might
ever see them.
I am no one, constructing eternity
so I can live forever.

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  • The Vulture (Parody of Poe's "Raven")
    Once upon a midnight chilling, as I held my feet unwilling
    O'er a tub of scalding water, at a heat of ninety-four;
    112 lines
  • Hellbound Train
    A Texas cowboy lay down on a barroom floor,
    Having drunk so much he could drink no more;
    63 lines, 7 comments
  • Eulogy for a veteran
    Do not stand at my grave and weep
    I am not there, I do not sleep.
    15 lines, 3 comments
  • A Riddle
    Legs I have got, yet seldom do I walk;
    I backbite many, yet I never talk:
    4 lines, 23 comments
  • A Son Of A Gun
    I wish I had a barrel of rum
    and sugar three hundred pound.
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • Frankie And Johnnie
    Frankie and Johnnie were lovers,
        O, my Gawd, how they could love,
    148 lines, 2 comments
  • Western Wind, When Will Thou Blow?
    Western wind, when will thou blow?
    The small rain down can rain.
    4 lines, 2 comments
  • The Great Titanic
    It was on one Monday morning just about one o'clock
    When that great Titanic began to reel and rock;
    29 lines, 4 comments
  • Away Down South In The Land of Traitors
    Away down South in the land of traitors,
    Rattlesnakes and alligators,
    42 lines
  • The Joy of Incompleteness
    If all our life were one broad glare
    Of sunlight, clear, unclouded;
    38 lines
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