Donald Dunbar

3 poems

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Champions of Everyone


The bank called, said "This is the bank!" excitedly. The bank called, said "This is the bank." The bank called, said "You're out of money." The bank called, said "De-clined." The bank called, said "We'll give you some more." The bank called, said "Oh you pretty man we'll give you some more you pretty fucking thing."

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A Joke for the Movies


A man with a mustache walks into a bar in the Wild West. And there's a bunch of other men with beards and mustaches and combinations of the two in there. They're drinking and playing cards and reciting lines from a long script. The man looks at the bartender, yep, he's got a mustache. The bartender looks down at his script and says, "You've come in before your time." The men playing cards all look up holler, "Get out of here! You're confusing the audience!" The man with the mustache nods deliberately, quirks a smile to the camera, eats his pistol gets two shots off.

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A Joke for a Long Day


A man walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a drink. "Whisky, straight," he manages to say as he starts to cry, "I just. couldn't. save. her." The bartender pours the whisky and sets it in front of the man. "She knew it was close and she gasped and her eyes became so wide it was like," the man says in between sobs, "it was like..." "It was like they were trying to fly away?" asks the bartender. "It was like they were trying to crawl out of her eyelids and fly away," says the man. "And then she died," says the bartender. "Yes, then she died," agrees the man.

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Donald Dunbar lives in Portland, Oregon.