Potential Titles: Wallace Irwin

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Who rattles off a rag-time con - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

And kicked up rough the same as I - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

And sends a batch of sonnets to the store - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Just why their crop of thinks is running small - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Saw my lightning finish from the start - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

That my hand-me-down is out of style - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

We take a tumble and the cog-wheels stop - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

No more I see the husk in dreams I saw - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

When I am playing more than solitaire - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

When it's a case of razors in the air - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

And competition knocks me off creation - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

A gin-fountain smashed by Carrie Nation - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

You'd think he'd leased the sidewalk - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

You're not the only lion after Daniel - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

You're not the only oyster in the stew - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Last night I tumbled off the water cart - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

That beat Vesuvius out for sizz and spunk - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Who with his landlord stands deuce high - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Sidestepping when a creditor goes by - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

You played me double and you knew it - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Nor cared a wad of gum how I would feel - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Cheap balloon juice of a Blarney brew - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Shanghaied without a steady place to eat - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

For you are playing favorites again - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Smooth as eels and slick as soap - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

And scored a flock of zeroes on my tally-board - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Offer trips to heaven at tourist's rates - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Trying to transfer at the Pearly Gates - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

This jolt that smashed the charm - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

To ring a bull's-eye when he shoots at me - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

My soul is quite a worn and frazzled rag - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

And leave a blaze of fireworks in your wake - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Pining in vain some hothouse plant to meet - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Where flows the whiskey sour or the russet bock - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Into the old bone orchard I am blowing - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Pass checks through cigarette asphyxiation - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

The sum and substance of my hard-luck story - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"

Since Love and I collided at the curve - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Can't four-flush when he's paying rent for two - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

And some one flipped a handspring in my heart - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

I have been sky-prancing all night long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Get one license to unloose my soul and shout - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Which keeps hobos poor and corporations rich - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Scared three babies into fits - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

With such an iceberg on the track - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Full of thought and microbes wend their way - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

When it came to rolling nickels by - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

A lamp-post race could beat me round the block - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

Bluff a flock of dragons with a safety pin - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

And stony hearts can't stand up long - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

The Porous Plaster wins because it sticks - Wallace Irwin "The Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor"

That sours the Milk of Life and blasts the nascent Flowers - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

The craving Phoenix rises from its Fires - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Last year's Pledge with this New Year expires - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Dispels the cackling Hag of Night at need - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

While the tired Dog-Watch hailed the sea-merged Star - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Making Lament with many an Ivory Yawn - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Day has broken Night's unwholesome Dish - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

In just Proportion to the Sum you Earn - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

The Fair of Vanity has many a Booth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Nothing will chide you in your Looking-Glass - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Who will invent a Mirror that will lie? - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

What shallow Guerdon of terrestrial Strife - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

You know not what's Inside them till they're Broke - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Better than Years with Ibsen spent - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Lettered the Riddle in the Lambent Suns - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Upon the Book of Time the Autocrat has writ - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

A Halo-crown of vapoured Vortex Rings - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

While Israfel loud chanted from the Void - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

And from its Bowl narcotic Joys beguile - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Within the Kitchen of the House of Dreams - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Where all my Pasts within the Future wait - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Let me stay and taste undying Youth - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

And sell their Reputations passing cheap - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Whose spiral-twisted Coils Discretion spell - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Engagements where I won my Brazen Spurs - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

A Solon ponders till his Years are great - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Starves while growing Roses in a Cabbage Lot - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

The astral Turrets where the Patient wake - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Whose Scent exhaled the Asphodel - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Some undiminished Anodyne to burn - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Will never ask my Memory to awake - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

May not my hallowed Ashes be preserved - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

The Keeper of the Sky has hasped his Doors - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

Prone he lies in Warp of dreamless Sleep - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."

And find my Muse asleep within an empty Box - Wallace Irwin "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr."


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