Gambling - a Poem for dVerse and Friday Writings

     A night not so good 

    Broke but I played with 

    big boys anyway 

    About halfway through 

    night I panicked 

    luck was so so 

    not running real good 

    Why did I panic 

    bad my kind of luck 

    Fellow with cigar 

    he hollered real loud 

    his words not what 

    I wanted to hear 

   "Time to pony up 

    boys, it's pockets out"

    at that time I was 

    down nine hundred bucks  

    only had ten cents 

    IOUs were due 

    fellow with cigar 

    had been winning all 

    night, some others too 

    Ended up hocking 

    my gold watch and my 

    false teeth to Andy 

    Their interest was high 

    ten times bank charges 

    but I was lucky to keep  

    lucky to keep my 

    shoes and underwear 

    Hey friend, a few bucks

    I'm getting hungry 

    and out of the game 

    That bad night seemed long 

    But was cut way short 

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- Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved 

- I am linked with sarahsouthwest in Poetics  at dVerse,

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/30/acting-like-animals/ 

*Click here to visit other writers on the "animals as a verb" prompt, my word, "pony" associated with the word "up" means 'pay your debt now' 

 - I am also linked with Magaly of the Friday Writings #79,   

     https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/?m=1

 - Her prompt idea is "to write poetry or prose inspired by an unfinished project.   My unfinished project that came to mind was to clean up the mess in the garage and in the second downstairs bedroom with was dedicated to being my 'office' but turned out to be junk room for my surpluses and things I needed to sort through.  

 - Since Friday Writing allows other previous work, I am opting out for now.  My opening first two lines would have been: 

        "How do you make a mess 

          Answer is, "You don't" 

I may write about that some other day, it looked like a fun project in itself.  But I am using this poem as it didn't get the reading that I had hoped for on last Tuesday, May 30, with the dVerse group.  I had linked it up using the wrong address and didn't discover this until later the next day when I had no comments.  I repaired it but was expecting several other with whom I had read their poems and left comments on them.  

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Eating my Recipe Food -- a Poem for dVerse

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Make me some Stuffed Peppers Please

You make with greatest of ease

Here's the low down how

Boil the pepper cut in half

Mash a link of Cajun Boudin

Half the Boudin in each Pepper piece

Bake twenty minutes until hot

And serve *

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2023, All Rights Reserved  at dVerse  

 - I am linked with paeansunplugged i at dVerse prompt

    https://dversepoets.com/2023/05/29/quadrillepass-the-pepper-please/

 - Click here to read other writer's works with this form  ..

  

*Note:  (My recipe, I developed several "Quick and Easy" [see my Apple pie here] recipes while I was in three years of freedom, i.e. Single Life) 

 

    "Jim's Quick and Easy Stuffed Peppers":

Tell about one of your experiences with peppers.  I like and use quite often my recipe for "Quick and Easy Stuffed Bell Peppers."  To make it faster have all your ingredients out; I use hot water from my Keurig machine as it is almost ready to boil.

Use precooked boudin, it consists of Cajun spiced sausage and rice, perfect for stuffing precooked Green Pepper halves (boiled). One link will make two stuffed half bell peppers, a package of Cajun Boudin generally comes with two or more links. 

 - Boil the cut peppers to soften 

 - Mash one Boudin one link per pepper and divide in halves 

 - Stuff the boiled pepper halves with the Boudin 

 - Bake in the oven, probably about 350 degrees until nice and hot, I do seven to ten minutes. (If you've just defrosted the boudin and softened the boiled peppers they will be somewhat warmish already)

 - You can garnish the top with bread crumbs or even put ketchup on the tops.  I'd put the ketchup on top before heating.  

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