Cincinnati

sin city sincerity
an honest thief stays bought
but when we're rich will we remember
what we really sought?

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..What this city needs is gambling!
we 're shy on hookers, too.
Vegas ex-pats will be at home,
get rich, and love the view.

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RE: RE: Cincinnati

Porkopolis is your name...
No breadline in the depression--
A german town with old money...
Some have their first penny...
which is their confession...

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Over-the-Rhine

Where English was hardly heard,
Munich was replicated.
Proudly teeming, ambition steaming,
Now tumbling and dessicated


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the Ohio

smoothly slicing its path
through hills to the Big Muddy
implacably giving
and taking away.

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you can hear her grind
rusty metal bones
the crush and moan of life
as the ohio draws a wet line in the dust.

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Clifton waxes and wanes
Some shotguns have been
Shined up new - while others sift
to dust beyond the gaslights

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RE: Cincinnati

compassion of less
wishing a chance encounter
would have saved a lonely character
from perishing with the world

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Over-the-Rhyme

it's so sweet
to beat your feet
in the mississippi
mud, a treat ...

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RE: the Ohio

It came up to the neighbors doors
my mother and her mother
grabbed what they could
and made for higher ground

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Ohio & Michigan

Great lakes, rivers,
broad expanses of forests
and farmland; best of all,
old friends from school.

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And when the buildings
lay
in rubble, the people went
away.

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By foolish plan
the city died,
Destroy! Destroy!
The powerful cried.

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the city is pompous,
uncaring and cold,
even while mouthing compassion
its highest concern is its gold.

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It's a pity...that you don't like the city...
Perhaps you should move if you feel it is _ _ _ _ _ _ !
Why do you feel that way...
Why would you even want to stay??

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along the banks

sinuous trail-where barges range
once traveled by canoe
past Gallipolis and down it's banks
where the big river cats lie

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ohioi

The living river made this place,
watered it to grow,
brought it people, brought it wealth
with it's mighty flow.

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"Athens of the West!"
its citizens declared.
Claimed as a home for the arts
and culture for those who cared.

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Far from perfect,
my native city,
with scandals and heroes
some shining, some gritty.

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Cincinnati

Once I left my heart there,
and should you ever find it,
i pray you are kind enough,
to leave it dancing in the square.

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the ohio

Like the Seine, it's being tamed.
Hemmed with concrete shore
barren lots in sizzling sun
and THE BANKS to bring us more

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cincinnati

Hot october dry and dusty days
whine of wheels on rusty tracks
machines and wheels and sirens call
but the ohio flows, not looking back

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So useless to worry over,
the details of her life
were the way we kept a
sense of her presence.

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RE: RE: Cincinnati

In the midst of our loss
the greatest regrets
are the little things,
like useless, childhood scarves.

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RE: Cincinnati

Once I left my scarf there-
New Year's Eve: a gift from
my mother with purple hat;
I cried for it when she died.

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