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Rum Mirror

Neil Dave 1993

The light don’t do me justice
The mirrors always got me down
At 19 dollars a bottle, I can be the best looking around
Looking browner
Cheeks rounder
Now there is one good looking man!
On empty, at 19 dollars a bottle,
I can do it all over again

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Inspired by a long Friday night

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Written on August 10, 2022

Submitted by neilkdave on September 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDDEFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 246
Words 51
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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Neil Dave

I'm a writer and stand up comedian trying my hand at poetry. If you enjoy any of my writing this is not what I do full time and any token of your appreciation is greatly appreciated as it will help fund making writing a greater part of my life and get more content to you! You can buy me a cup of coffee (or 2) here ko-fi.com/neilkdave, most of these were written on caffeine, all caffeine helps. more…

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