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palaver
palaver
We touch with an air of silence, A feeling warm, but none too cool. Our skin can feel the brilliance Of wading through this reflecting pool. In the night we'll build a fire And hang our clothes to dry. Then let our feelings perspire And embrace the morning sky.
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Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 9:14 AM UTC
Silent Pool
Getting old is growing lonely Passing on the foreboding trophy Digging the hole for pushing daisies Singing tunes for avoiding crazy Stalking memories by retelling stories Cheating time as reliving glory Cursing change while swigging brandy Scaring children wanting candy Knowing all and seeing phonies Growing grey is making you stoney Casting you far Dropping you coldly
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015 at 6:49 AM UTC
Growing grey
Isn't it nice to rhyme When words strike as divine Made to fit the part Unlike free verse aristofarts Who would **** your mother Like beatnik Stepbrother And sleep through their clocks For nocturnal jabberwocks If ever was a Good man. Benny swung with the times, man. But Jazz rolled from the hits Of white British misfits. When South Bronx fell through crack The sky and hood went black Poets sold missing car parts For Busta Rhymes to bust a start. Poetry had to lose an art. Rhyming tossed like the **** Who ****** Lord Tennyson's **** Which tugged at Victoria's smock. It's easy to criticize An age demystified But now personifies Poetry commercialized And the old aging misfit Tries to gather the spit With a mouth so dry. But not a poet in the sky Will sanction the crime To help his verse opine Against the words-of-a-kind That English bespoke to rhyme.
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015 at 2:20 AM UTC
Spit
A is for Austerity To pay back the Bank For the Collateral On your defaulted Debt That exploded Exponentially Like the financial Fiasco Of the Grecian Governments Indebted to Hitler's Homeland Return to Investors The rent on your Job Capital is their Kingdom The laborers are Landless Misers enslaved to Misery The N
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Feb 18, 2015
Feb 18, 2015 at 1:35 AM UTC
A for Austerity
Oh, poor foolish man. You led me astray. You emptied my pan. But the price is yours to pay. You could've robbed the rich You could've stole the earth But you only took a pinch Of a man as poor as dirt. And I've learned a lesson Less costly to a lord You could've had a session With a large and princely horde. I have taken pity From those who give sympathy And share with me their charity While regarding you in antipathy.
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Feb 16, 2015
Feb 16, 2015 at 4:23 AM UTC
Poor man's fool
China Lady, give me your time. Else, refuse me with a smile. China Lady, won't you be mine? And walk a thousand miles To the country in my head, Where my heart was bled That began these thousand miles. When she and all were mine Those promises sealed with smiles And buried in capsules of time. China Lady, give me those smiles. Let the sorrows be mine To walk those lonely miles. China Lady, let me rest my head In a ***** that never bled For love that dragged a thousand miles. Though the blood be mine. And the tears be smiles Like broken capsules of time. China Lady, what is the time? I haven't seen your smile.
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Feb 16, 2015
Feb 16, 2015 at 3:50 AM UTC
China Lady
Love of country! Love of country! If I had a dime For every time They brought out the wine They'd sell me their piece Of this country.
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Apr 21, 2014
Apr 21, 2014 at 6:42 AM UTC
Dollarocracy
Capitalism is fair. Though capitalists be well bred. The poor can only care That they should sometimes be fed. The rent they pay to capital Exceeds the nation's rate of growth. People are mere collateral When fortunes begin to bloat. The masses may start to shout. Though the rich intend to die out, Inheritances never croak. Inequality learns to cope.
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Apr 21, 2014
Apr 21, 2014 at 6:37 AM UTC
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Put down your sword, Oh mighty pen. Let me a word, Ere you count to ten. Do you ever speak The knowledge I seek? Please answer with zen.
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Apr 21, 2014
Apr 21, 2014 at 5:25 AM UTC
Dear Pen,
Margret, you are blue's favorite. If I could paint your portrait, I would render you more plain To bring your art less worldly fame. It would give critics fewer clues Should they look for some girl I knew. They'd compare it to every face And not find your pretty trace. But I would live over the way And still draw you everyday. Should my view be obstructed I would not be distracted. I'd still draw and think of you. Until you became the girl I drew. And I would forget the hue Of a Margret I once knew...
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Apr 21, 2014
Apr 21, 2014 at 4:59 AM UTC
Beau's Blue