Backstairs and Love Affairs
Stealthily climbing the secluded backstairs
Pursuing one of my many illicit love affairs
Secret passions fulfilled in sweaty haste
Giving me your tender body to taste
I'm shallow, superficial, and I want it all
Yes, you are but another trophy on my wall
The thrill of the chase gives me a rush
Close your eyes, don't speak...hush
None can get to my cold and calloused heart
Stonewall; the name of my complex body part
We each got what we wanted and now I must run
Still empty inside, I'll return with the next setting sun
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Wilber Jean
I have a grandpa named Wilbur Jean
He hails from a small town in ol' Kaintuck
Someone gave him the handle 'Web', it stuck
He married his sweetie, Loleta Ruth
She gave him four kids, two of each
Oh yes, four! That's no figure of speech
He went to war, went to work, went to church
She fed the family and washed the pan
They drove the 'Blue Goose', a Ford sedan
Now my 'Pa' is turning ninety, a major milestone
Wow! Grandchildren, great grandchildren, and beyond
Four generations of us their love has spawned
Happy birthday, Pa. We love you!
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Midnight Confession
It came time for my midnight confession
Taking much delight in your facial expression
Nude bodies in deep passion and entwined
Heavy breathing, such a peace of mind
Happy to find my one and only true life mate
A smile and wink gives me a burgeoning heart rate
Spending my days with you thrills me to the bone
My brown eyed beauty, my love, my precious stone
Being far from the others, you're love is pure
Putting my old existence to bed, making it obscure
Holding my heart in your hands, mending my life
Grateful knowing one day you'll be my new wife
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Summer Rains
After a lengthy waiting game
In a parched southern Indiana
Belated summer rains came
Like the gift of heavenly manna
Due to a dry-as-a-bone summer
Corn fields withered and failed
This pitiful yield was a stunner
Bushel predictions got curtailed
Bad year for the resolute sodbuster
Watch a lone, ugly-ass turkey vulture
Soon others will circle in a cluster
Death knell of the farming culture
Check what the almanac says about spring
Deal with the high cost of fuel, feed, and seed
Tighten the belt; Live on a shoe-string
He is a Hoosier farmer and he will succeed
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Beautiful Women and Dog Days
I hit the beach running
Shapely babes are sunning
Oiled up so they won't burn
After a while, they turn
Skimpy swimwear does abound
Makes me want to hang around
Cut-off jeans, bikini, or a thong
I can gawk at them all day long
The afternoon sun and heat
Tops shed by the indiscreet
I love to see titillating tan lines
Jiggling bosoms and round behinds
Beautiful women and dog days
Laying there in the sun's rays
Oh what you do to me
Fruit of the forbidden tree
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It's All Right
It's all right
To wish upon a falling star on a midsummer night
It's all right
To love old movies, even in black and white
It's all right
To jump at nighttime noises that give you a fright
It's all right
To scoot up next to me and hold me tight
It's all right
To pinch pennys when the cookie jar money is tight
It's all right
To go to our future nuptials a little upright
It's all right
To be a little giddy on our wedding night
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Nights Are Cold, Lonely, and Long
As a damp darkness fell
Exchanged words of farewell
His phone calls are sporadic
A soldier's life is nomadic
Both are wishing time away
Seems like forever and a day
It's been fifteen months of hell
She's not holding up very well
He's away in a combat zone
She's eating meals all alone
Hugging up to a picture frame
Her bedtime isn't the same
Vivid autumn colors abound
Leaves dance to the ground
Her greatest Christmas gift
His homecoming military airlift
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Darkness
Cold darkness charged in
Killed off the warming light
Notify the next of kin
Sun fell victim to night
Man-in-the-moon jeers
Peaking through a cloud
Last ray of day disappears
Never crying out loud
It's good to be near the stove
Keeping the cold night air at bay
Trusty ol' blanket is hand wove
Believe it's time to hit the hay
Another day came and went
Never to be another one like it
Though it's a reoccurring event
Sun will get its revenge bit by bit
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Time
What if I put time in a glass jar
And tossed it into the rolling ocean
Do I get to wish upon a shooting star
Changing it into a potent love potion
What if I could stop the clock
So I can spend eternity with you
Never ending nights of pillow talk
Making me bellow yabbadabbadoo
What if I cherished you for the duration
My heart telling my brain what to do
Though you send it into fibrillation
Still every moment will be love anew
What if I made our time stand still
It's the real deal; no silly lover's game
Your vicious attack on my heart's bastille
For you and me are one and the same
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Midnight Odyssey
Started my midnight odyssey
Pondering some frivolity
Fixated at the storm's sound
Nature's theater in the round
Lightning illuminates the room
Chased by a vociferous sonic boom
Hope it's not a terrible tornado
Rather see a grand rainbow
News said this was to be mediocre
But it has turned into a real soaker
Little woman hasn't moved at all
She'll sleep through the squall
Rain is pelting the window
Adjust this new pillow
Just want to go to sleep
Will the Angel of Death reap?
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