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George Krokos Jun 2018
No one should try and bite off more than what they can ever chew
because they’ll get themselves into difficulties if and when they do.
Everybody usually tries to get by with what they each can score
but sometimes their greed backfires on them if they go for more.
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From "The Quatrains" ongoing writings since the early '90's
nick armbrister Apr 2018
Blasted Backfires

Digital beeping death tone

Radio net is up and running

Sailors die under enemy fire

Same with our soldiers

Souls harvested to heaven

Or taken down down below

Whatever the reason or cause

Digital death tone keeps beeping


Beep pause beep pause beep ...

Missiles flying up up high

Soon to arc down and hit

Guess nobody killed the archers


Before they launched their loads

Enemy arrows inbound!

Those enemy birds are lethal

Sink our carriers **** our grunts


Enemy Neo Soviet Backfires

Ready for bear and used by him

Yankee Eagle versus Ivan Bear

Digital death tone ongoing


Blips on the screen oh so quick!

Truck size antiship missiles

Gonna sink our ship!

Time to splash those Backfires


Bomb their base and escalate

We aint gonna lose this war

Till the Stars and Bars

Flies over the Kremlin


Digital death tone

Loud and clear
Lost Mar 2016
There is not a sign on my back saying "kick me".
Therefore there is no invitation to do so.
What about that is so hard to understand?
The world will probably never know.
We let others play their games and
Maybe when they've grown up,
The might feel the same pain they put us through.
Tired of being bullied for existing.
tabitha Oct 2015
so i came up with a master plan
(in a desperate attempt)
to gradually unbrand you
from my body & my brain to
~
s t o p.
t h i n k i n g.
a b o u t.
y o u.
~
so I’ve taken to picking at my cuticles
yes
whenever I have the urge to call you,
to ask if you ever got that part,
i just tear random bits of flesh apart
to remind myself
of what it feels like
to love you

but now my fingers are all s w o l l e n
and my iPhone’s all b l o o d y
and it  h u r t s and i'm hurt and
i just want to hug somebody
and i would if i could but now i can't
because
of
my
grand
*******
master plan
  and now i'm just alone again
*neurosis

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