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#welfare
Heading to the welfare office to collect another check, the cost of surviving keeps compounding—I can’t outrun the debt. I’ve been staring in the distance, trying to recollect whoever’s left, because I’m drowning in the struggles I’m facing and I can’t catch a breath. Waking up exhausted from whatever I have going on daily, every bill’s a reminder that I’m barely standing stable. The rent’s due, my phone’s off and the fridge is running empty, I’m trading peace of mind just to keep food on my ******* table. Yeah I ****** it up for myself, made the calls that got me stuck, can't blame the world for choices when I pushed my own luck. But the system's got me circling now, can't climb out of this rut, and tomorrow looks the same as today—another day I'm ******
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Dec 23, 2025
Dec 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM UTC
Reality Check
The local convenience store dealers lean on glass windows with ****** pupils scanning the parking lot for any takers. I pump my gas on station four and spy from afar. Don’t make eye contact or that means you’re interested. No buyers yet. What do you suppose is on the menu for today? Judging from the amount of zombies I’ve seen pushing stolen shopping carts a block away from here, I’d say smack. Tar. Black. ****** Whatever they call it where you’re from. Welfare bodies withered down to just flesh hanging from bone, wandering around aimlessly for their next fix. I’ve only ever tried it once; I was curious and sad and it was there—in Violet’s hand and then in my lungs. Do you think my mother would cry out in those disgusting sobs of snot and heaves of not-being-able-to-breathe-tears if she knew? Do you think my sister would look at me with that glare of judgmental disapproval because yet again, here’s an example of why I’m the family ****** Do you think my father would smack me upside the head and call me a dumb *** Probably. And do you think my third and sixth grade teachers who told me I should one day do something with my writing would be gasping in disappointment? Definitely. The gas pump clicks off. A potential customer staggers across asphalt to meet his makers and I am no better than he is at this very moment.
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Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020 at 3:17 AM UTC
Drugstore Cowboys
You're hardly seen at home at all these days and I wonder when you will change your ways. But I do hope that everything's alright and the future for you also looks bright. Many people have gone on the wrong path seeking their own gain but acquiring wrath. When they do not consider the welfare or happiness of someone else do care. If you've fallen into that state somehow please listen to the words of wisdom now to discern their knowledge and to receive some advice for your soul as you believe. When you put other people's welfare first and for their happiness you also thirst doing those things for their satisfaction you'll reap a good harvest of attraction. This must be done in line with what is good and if viewed from a point of wisdom would not detract away from that high ideal which is the basis of our human weal. _______________________
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Jul 7, 2020
Jul 7, 2020 at 2:18 AM UTC
Advice To A Recalcitrant
Why, is the superfluous one. What, is unnecessary, too. How & When & Where, then, are inescapable.      If you act on instinct, how far will you go to self preserve? When will you break? Where will you turn? Is it your self you'd extinguish, or is it the other flames? There can be only one, but the prize is: death comes down the path of least resistance to take a multitude of shapes.      As for my body, nothing much to lose, nothing left to save. As for my body, nothing much to lose, nothing left to save.
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Aug 13, 2019
Aug 13, 2019 at 8:34 PM UTC
Life Eternal: Oh, Welfare Moon
who am i to say if the mozzer's lost touch? what does my rough draft have that is missing from his manuscript? nothing. so, i'll sit down here before the microphone and say,
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Aug 8, 2019
Aug 8, 2019 at 12:53 PM UTC
access is the great leveler
ever been a ***** or a ****** i have. and other names mostly given. ever been a scapegoat? i have. been a toy to the hatfields and the mccoys. any ink of brain leakage taken to the sawbone stitches over stitches on my lips sewn by my own hands the sands of time have passed, slow as they can fall -- blood from rips goes on the walls smear memories on the old **** to make a little sense of the prison in which i was living make a little bit of sense of my enemies apparently, i choose to ride the prisms of a prison to the coffin, as i'm better use dead but what kind of exit is a bullet to the head? tell you, it's a mess, what it is
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Aug 7, 2019
Aug 7, 2019 at 5:37 PM UTC
my existence was offensive from the start
all this time, i've yet to come to terms with certain words for instance, design, and all of its nuance how do i design in true when i am a shard of azure experience in the endlessness of midnight blue? all this time, i've yet to call my good form to return for instance, my designs, and all the nuances -- the water drains, shallow now, from my composition, as if i'm the desert, when once, i was my own oasis. reflection is a given. still, how can i reflect this ill in good faith, when the poisonous sick saw my leg up ascend into ruins?
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Aug 7, 2019
Aug 7, 2019 at 1:26 PM UTC
the tuning
I just watched a mini-documentary on pig factory farming using extreme confinement of individual pigs in ‘gestation crates’: I saw each poor pig trapped within metal box-grates which pressed against their flesh stopping the pig from turning around stopping the pig from walking around, each pig suffers their whole life standing in one direction or slumped down on the ***** floor. I saw pigs with open wounds, pressure sores, infections, bleeding gums from biting the metal bars. I saw pigs screaming in distress Or suffering slumped down depressed. I saw trapped pigs going mad banging on the metal grates distressedly trying to break free and failing and slumping down depressed. I ask myself is there a humane way to farm animals? Such as free-range farming?
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Jul 21, 2019
Jul 21, 2019 at 5:44 AM UTC
Pig Factory Farming
I can't believe I bought them. Is this the top scoop? I've entered a raffle for pea & ham soup. I can't even eat it, I'm vegetarian you see. Won't you just change it to tomato for me? I don't mind the peas, It's the ham that's no good. They slaughter those piggies screaming, covered in blood. Eyes bulging, their throats cut. It's really not nice. There's so much more to choose from, not just cakes made of rice. Have you seen how they nugget, crispy goujons and breast? They've found faeces and gristle in a food safety test. So don't think that these people have your interests at best. Look it up, do your research and I'll give it a rest! Poetry by Kaydee.
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 12:28 AM UTC
Pea & Ham Soup.
When did our homes become tombs? When did our truths become lies? When did our hearts become stones? When did our laughs turn to cries? When did our men become gods? When did our gods become men? When did this world become someone's? When, oh when, oh when?
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Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017 at 11:41 PM UTC
Some Bleak Prophecy
My pitch through sow and debt trouble superfluous with wealth in Coe where thrift a hoax now but tread yuan nigh there my dear and die in relief that join forces by tomorrow's spring.
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Mar 14, 2017
Mar 14, 2017 at 2:26 PM UTC
My Hold
The man in the middle quietly weeps as the deafening crescendo grows on… Hoping by chance he’ll soon join the dance but knowing deep down, somehow, he is wrong? The people who lead have more than they need insisting on evermore -till it’s gone. And at the end of the day they’ll cry merrily and gay; “What happened t’was a wonderful song?” *
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Jun 6, 2016
Jun 6, 2016 at 11:54 PM UTC
A Pity
Some will make their home Wherever they can Get to with their feet. Cardboard box houses And pallets they find By trash bins on the street. The boxes work well Unless it snows or rains And then when they melt It’s out to find a home again. Go on home Where the love is Home to family Go on home Where you’re welcome There is no home for me. Cookie used to be a chef He lives under that low bridge He cooks in used coffee cans That just how his life is. Makes dinner when he has it For us who have so little. You’ll find him most days Cooking delicious food Halfway to the middle. Go on home Where your bed is Home to wife and your kids Go on home And be grateful And not living on the skids. Some people gripe When the waiter is slow And some were once waiters Themselves long ago. Some people are full After they have dined Others only manage to eat Whatever castoffs they find. Go on home Because you have one Because you have a job. Go home where no one Call you a lazy slob. Go home and thank God You have a place to sleep. Go home and be grateful Go home and God keep.
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Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 2016 at 1:58 PM UTC
GO ON HOME
Sustenance for friends and clients; state your case – come one, come all. The matron arms of Social Service will not let you fall. Food stamps make our nation stronger, licked, then stuck on the public roll. Social programs last much longer adding recipients on the dole… Like the Ephesian Diana many are my benefits! Mine the matriarchal manna; latch and suckle at my teats. Yours the client’s right to nurture. Mother will supply your need; Child, you must not fear the future – feed, my baby, feed. Call me nanny, call me Lord just make sure you’re calling on me. Mine are the gifts you can afford they’re taxpayer-funded, worry-free! Once you are latched I’ll keep it flowing like an intravenous habit. Keep that ****** situated where your will can never grab it Let it never cross your mind that there’s an end to all lactation. Cloward-Piven have refined this titillation. Love me.  Need me.  I’m the State. Your well-being is my affair. With your consent I’ll dominate, because I care.
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Sep 9, 2015
Sep 9, 2015 at 9:07 PM UTC
Licked, Stamped, Undelivered
*i need (i want) Your help, You see, i cannot go alone, just me. and You with all Your wealth and gold, should give and give and shall not hold.* *yet Your safe is blocked with a guard man's lock, and only little will You give, even spare change goes nowhere but Your stock, so force is the only way i live?* Disparaged one, feel free to go on, speak freely as you will. but note your words are here then gone, I'm busy working to pay the bill. A common facade is that which you say, I will not give to the poor, what dismay! But while you sit and complain away, and say that I am ill, what change or good have you done today? I'm busy working to pay the bill.
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 3:02 AM UTC
i need (i want) Your help, You see
I try to escape, I try to fly But you pull me down, you love my cries It gives you strength to carry on Not right from what is wrong I try to run, I try to go But you catch me back and stop my flow You beat me down and stop my life You make the days fill with strife I try to tell, I try to speak My future looks oh so bleak This is not how I want to die But you hold me back each time I try
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 8:18 AM UTC
Tales of the abused
There's a poem hidden on my tongue but I just can't find it, my mouth is numb. I've been sipping on winter for way too long, this city is colder than your bubbler **** but I like the way it's one way streets all seem to lead from you to me, and I like how you take them at full throttle playing marco polo with the bottom of the bottle- -As if you don't find it every night; like the last few drops aren't your lullaby. And it's an alibi that lulls you out of lucidity, because your favourite superpower is anonymity. And you don't mind if I show up when I'm ******* high, because I'm a god **** child who can't handle life. *I'm the peak of the mountain all covered in white, I'm the age old dragon, I'm the youthful sprite* I'm the bowl that you smoke when you come down slowly, I'm the pipe that you **** when you got no rollies. I'm your vice, I'm your habit, I'm your bad addiction I'm your fight, I'm your project, I'm your real life fiction. I'm the cut on your tongue that you won't let heal, I'm the poem in your mouth that you cannot feel. Now I'm the lover of your discontent, I'm the jar in your cupboard that's labelled 'rent'. It's the 26th and the jar's still empty, but we've got a two-six and your pouring hand's heavy. Using whisky and water as lubrication- it numbs and smooths through our expectations. And I don't know when we made the agreement to feed our ***** and starve our feelings, But my belly feels full like the waxing moon, and my chest holds as much as a fractured spoon. *Naked and hungry- we share your bed -searching for the words, in each other's heads.*
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 10:11 PM UTC
HIDDEN | SEARCHING
There's a poem hidden on my tongue but I just can't find it, my mouth is numb. I've been sipping on winter for way too long, this city is colder than your bubbler **** but I like the way it's one way streets all seem to lead from you to me, and I like how you take them at full throttle playing marco polo with the bottom of the bottle- -As if you don't find it every night; like the last few drops aren't your lullaby. And it's an alibi that lulls you out of lucidity, because your favourite superpower is anonymity. And you don't mind if I show up when I'm ******* high, because I'm a god **** child who can't handle life. *I'm the peak of the mountain all covered in white, I'm the age old dragon, I'm the youthful sprite* I'm the bowl that you smoke when you come down slowly, I'm the pipe that you **** when you got no rollies. I'm your vice, I'm your habit, I'm your bad addiction I'm your fight, I'm your project, I'm your real life fiction. I'm the cut on your tongue that you won't let heal, I'm the poem in your mouth that you cannot feel. Now I'm the lover of your discontent, I'm the jar in your cupboard that's labelled 'rent'. It's the 26th and the jar's still empty, but we've got a two-six and your pouring hand's heavy. Using whisky and water as lubrication- it numbs and smooths through our expectations. And I don't know when we made the agreement to feed our ***** and starve our feelings, But my belly feels full like the waxing moon, and my chest holds as much as a fractured spoon. *Naked and hungry- we share your bed -searching for the words, in each other's heads.*
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