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Kelly McManus Mar 2020
Delicate Balance
saving the ecology
or dying from greed

          Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Oct 2020
The sin that saves us
from ultimate destruction
seems to be their greed

                 Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Feb 2022
A dictatorship
you must always keep one eye
on your generals...Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Dec 2021
Lasers plagues  and bombs
oh my they can't tell you why
heartless brainless lies...Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus May 2021
So how is the view
of the bottom of their shoe
where they're keeping you

                   Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jul 2021
Worthless as it seems
hoping beyond hope someday
human brains will change

                         Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Nov 2021
United we stand
then why is there two parties
dividing us all...Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Nov 2021
Want a sugar coating
then find another poet
to frost your cupcakes...Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jul 2019
If all that money
was just used to heal not hurt
you'd shovel less dirt
                                       Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Dec 2019
Stop funding doctors
and lawyers and warriors
and profit in peace

                   Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
Once you take people
out of the picture the world's
not such a bad place
                                      Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Feb 2021
When will people stop
worshiping other people
who don't deserve it

                Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
There's only one thing
any royal family
offers more frosting

                                   Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Oct 2019
All the leaderships
hoist the same flag on their masts
the skull and crossbones

                               Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jul 2020
What it is is greed
that feeds the starving children
their share of nothing

                            Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Feb 2020
I see your future
presently its repeating
mistakes of your past

             Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Apr 2021
Just cut to the chase
do the coronation now
Emperor Watson

            Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
As you sit alone
in a tiny room thinking
where did I go wrong
                                          Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
I hope they only
take the finer things we like
******* bars on Mars

                                    Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Nov 2021
Your world governments
have formed a suicide pact
waiting to enact ..Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Mar 2020
More devastation
outside the eye of the storm
why invite it in

                        Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jul 2021
Systematically
you chew your cud in the field
and are milked frequently

                          Kelly McManus
Just to let you know
television mind control
works best on sports fans
Kelly McManus Jul 2021
Civilization
what prevents it from being
the uncivilized

                     Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Nov 2019
What's the dirtiest
word you can say in front of
children government

                      Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Nov 2020
Where's the sanity
in saving humanity
more profanity

       Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2021
Privacy's being
systematically erased
bay a corporate state

         Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Sep 2020
It's simple to see
why there's nuclear weapons
pure stupidity

                       Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jun 2021
Someone must say no
to a toxic river flow
since we're the ocean

          Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
They say they serve you
but that's not so all they want
to be in control

                           Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Mar 2021
I'll go to my grave
and the fools will still decide
war's a way of life

                       Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Mar 2020
Unfree expression
with aggressive poetry
pleasing displeasing

              Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Dec 2020
A violent world
that won't learn from its mistakes
there's only one fate

                                Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jul 2021
As I'm writing this
my body's rotting away
hope you like decay

             Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
The fleshy portion,
of your arm, is where the wasp,
just landed to debate.

                                     Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus May 2021
Society is
institutional decay
just rotting away

    Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jul 2021
Lacking in logic
void of any common sense
why our time is spent

                   Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Oct 2021
Where is the kindness
you speak of I fail to see
any in mankind

              Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jul 2019
How long's the lifeline
in the hands that carry guns
ask their unborn sons

                                      Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Feb 2022
Protecting yourselves
from yourselves that's irony
that costs everything...Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus May 2020
How much does it cost
civilized barbarians
to march to demise

                 Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jun 2021
Writing about peace
to those who create disease
which is crazier

                    Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2021
Worlds forests in flames
water supplies going dry
what does that imply

               Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
We the people are
part of the infrastructure
left in disrepair

                           Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
We  need more funds for our infrastructure.
There are pockets, of our roads to extinction,
that need to be filled; or our society as a whole,
just won't function.
   We need to bridge the gap,
on weapons of mass destruction,
and construct,
more satellites to place up in space.
So, we can spy,
on the human race; cause,
you wouldn't want  to,
come in second place!
    Never fear, the corpse of engineers are here,
and will make everything, look like new, sure,
it might take a year or two, but they have nothing
better to do, and best of all
your kids will pick up the check,
so what the heck.
     The dream is clear,
when we reach the end of the road;
we'll find ourselves, in a virtual paradise,
of mushroom clouds, and silent sounds!

                                                        ­ Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
Come on baby,

do some open heart surgery on me.

Put back together my broken heart

that you ripped out of my chest, and tore apart,

stamped on in your stilettos,

and kicked into the gutter, while muttering,

I love you.

  Before you grab your scalpel,

to make your first cut,

clip some forceps to my lips,

so I can't whine like a pup.

No anesthesia to ease my pain;

you prefer to watch me lay here,

and go insane.

   After your done tinkering with my insides,

do some sloppy suturing, so my wound won't

heal very nice, leaving  chance of infection,

to arise; since your surgical instruments;

weren't sterilized.

   Giving me a small chance to survive,

tho operation, but if I do,

you'll give me  your third degree in psychology;

for a nominal fee, naturally!

                                                          Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus May 2021
All the pleasantries
being chopped down everyday
to build our caskets

                           Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Feb 2022
Hoarding bananas
in a world of chimpanzees
hors d'oeuvres pick some fleas...Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Apr 2021
Love's a butterfly
on a colorful flower
intricate beauty

      Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Jan 2020
Looked into the eyes
of creation saw the flaw
was imitation

                Kelly McManus
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