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Is that what we wake up to every day? Fast food and gas stations are forever stamped in the corners of my eyes as they are looking through the glass of minimum wage to the red flashing lights of a man hoping to get back to his children safely. Is life is a pointed dagger then my blade is rusted and dull when I wonder why I even try some days. Do I dare defend my pride and still demand something more than this? Is this a call for engines in the air or wings made of wax? Death would be more alive than waking up to another day of shampoo commercials and microwave dinners. You are always whispering in my ear though dear and telling me that you're more than just a particle flown into my imagination from a world so oh very different than ours. Are your eyes as bright as I imagine? Will the glare from them blind me from the tax collectors whip and will your laughter drown out the screams of onlookers who are throwing peanuts through the bars at my feet? Will your kiss melt me and cause me to fall into wind like leaves in a storm, a tornado of color and beauty..? I lay in bed and my eyes close tightly, my breathing slows and thoughts drip into pits men drown themselves in, the murky waters of nihilistic cynicism... Though my hand will still not be closed around yours when the sun rises, the whisper lets me know you are still awake and searching for me too...
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 2:23 PM UTC
Whisper
Saturday night, I’m getting crazy as usual, taking pictures of my cats because they just look so beautiful. Yea, some people go out, but I’ve got so much to do, boys line up to take me out on dates but I tell them to shoo. “Who are these guys?” you wonder, but don’t worry about that, you wouldn’t know them because, they’re from a secret, hot guy frat. I stumbled upon it once when I was out doing cool stuff, like dancing with a king, and jumping off of bluffs. Then one day, I jumped right into the hot guys secret lair, and after I landed they could do nothing but stare. I thought that they were looking at the mole on my face, and I was right, but they loved it and begged me to stay at their place. Not for the night, but forever, they didn’t want me to leave, and who can blame them, I’ve got a badass weave. But I had to decline, I just wasn’t ready for that, so they said, “Come back anytime, even if you get fat.” And with tears in my eyes, I bid them goodbye, started my jetpack, and flew off into the sky. I don’t have pictures of any of this because they were burned up in the fire, but I can definitely assure you that I’m not a ***** liar. But anyway, back to what I’m doing tonight, I know that you’ll be jealous, you can’t help it, that’s alright. I’m meeting up with Michael Scott and crew, but that’s not really a big deal, we see each other every day, one time he tried to cop a feel. Well, I may have just imagined that, which is probably pretty weird, But I gave up on normal long ago, like my mother always feared. Which is why I’m sitting here on Saturday night, talking to some cats, who have low self-esteem because the media made them think they’re fat. Those cats on the MeowMix commercials always look so thin, no matter how hard regular cats try, they can really never win. “Don’t worry about it,” I tell them, “Let’s just have some fun.” So now we’re watching TV, because, what else would we have done?
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Nov 1, 2012
Nov 1, 2012 at 12:09 PM UTC
Cool Cats
Saturday night, I’m getting crazy as usual, taking pictures of my cats because they just look so beautiful. Yea, some people go out, but I’ve got so much to do, boys line up to take me out on dates but I tell them to shoo. “Who are these guys?” you wonder, but don’t worry about that, you wouldn’t know them because, they’re from a secret, hot guy frat. I stumbled upon it once when I was out doing cool stuff, like dancing with a king, and jumping off of bluffs. Then one day, I jumped right into the hot guys secret lair, and after I landed they could do nothing but stare. I thought that they were looking at the mole on my face, and I was right, but they loved it and begged me to stay at their place. Not for the night, but forever, they didn’t want me to leave, and who can blame them, I’ve got a badass weave. But I had to decline, I just wasn’t ready for that, so they said, “Come back anytime, even if you get fat.” And with tears in my eyes, I bid them goodbye, started my jetpack, and flew off into the sky. I don’t have pictures of any of this because they were burned up in the fire, but I can definitely assure you that I’m not a ***** liar. But anyway, back to what I’m doing tonight, I know that you’ll be jealous, you can’t help it, that’s alright. I’m meeting up with Michael Scott and crew, but that’s not really a big deal, we see each other every day, one time he tried to cop a feel. Well, I may have just imagined that, which is probably pretty weird, But I gave up on normal long ago, like my mother always feared. Which is why I’m sitting here on Saturday night, talking to some cats, who have low self-esteem because the media made them think they’re fat. Those cats on the MeowMix commercials always look so thin, no matter how hard regular cats try, they can really never win. “Don’t worry about it,” I tell them, “Let’s just have some fun.” So now we’re watching TV, because, what else would we have done?
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stupid nike fuel bank the commercials said you'd work now all i have is a bracelet that doesn't measure when i twerk stupid nike fuel band
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Apr 14, 2014
Apr 14, 2014 at 9:26 PM UTC
Nike Fuel Band
I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because the last time I opened up to someone artistically they told me it was pretty dark and I should keep it to myself. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because I was raised in a culture that was anti love and pro meaningless *** I saw endless commercials about movies that glamorize a lifestyle in which your body is fulfilled but your heart is ignored and at that impressionable age I learned my heart came second but my allure came first and the less I cared that happier I would be and I carried that belief around with me the way I used to carry around a Bible as a child. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because of the time that I opened my father’s phone to reveal a family secret I would hold to this day against my own moral instincts unraveling miles of insecurities wondering if I’m not a good enough daughter or if he stopped loving my mother or if true love was never real and although I had been taught marriage was my purpose, it was what I believed would make me happy, maybe rings aren’t enough to stay in love and maybe people’s feelings change and maybe no one actually has a “one true love” and that this purpose I had been taught was really an endless wild goose chase that only lead to broken families and lost souls. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because sometimes I still wonder why I fell into an abyss of toxicity at such a young age. And when I say wonder I don’t mean a trivial ponder, I mean I contemplate every possible reason why the person who I once believed held the universe in her eyes would lie to my face, why she never kissed me in public and our love was always a secret, why she valued girls with blue hair but my blonde hair was not good enough, why I had to hide bruises from my family when I was still in high school or more importantly, why at the time, I thought I deserved them. These thoughts, this lingering paranoia that I am undeserving of healthy love, they muddy my interpretations of real life and distort reality and effect my relationships. My doctor would call these intrusive thoughts, my best friend would tell me they’re symptoms of PTSD, but I have come to realize that I’ve been burned and I am damaged and I hope to god I can recover. But you, Oh god, you You can write this poem. You can be my safety net while I’m free falling in love. You can be the one to listen to my mental tilt-a-whirls, you can be the one that introduces my body and my heart, you can be the one that calms the storms in my mind when I’m questioning the love I’m deserving of. You are the one who makes sure I fall asleep in my bed after drunk nights, you are the one that still sees my value after acknowledging my flaws. You can write this poem.
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Jun 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017 at 12:33 AM UTC
I Can't Write This Poem
I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because the last time I opened up to someone artistically they told me it was pretty dark and I should keep it to myself. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because I was raised in a culture that was anti love and pro meaningless *** I saw endless commercials about movies that glamorize a lifestyle in which your body is fulfilled but your heart is ignored and at that impressionable age I learned my heart came second but my allure came first and the less I cared that happier I would be and I carried that belief around with me the way I used to carry around a Bible as a child. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because of the time that I opened my father’s phone to reveal a family secret I would hold to this day against my own moral instincts unraveling miles of insecurities wondering if I’m not a good enough daughter or if he stopped loving my mother or if true love was never real and although I had been taught marriage was my purpose, it was what I believed would make me happy, maybe rings aren’t enough to stay in love and maybe people’s feelings change and maybe no one actually has a “one true love” and that this purpose I had been taught was really an endless wild goose chase that only lead to broken families and lost souls. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because sometimes I still wonder why I fell into an abyss of toxicity at such a young age. And when I say wonder I don’t mean a trivial ponder, I mean I contemplate every possible reason why the person who I once believed held the universe in her eyes would lie to my face, why she never kissed me in public and our love was always a secret, why she valued girls with blue hair but my blonde hair was not good enough, why I had to hide bruises from my family when I was still in high school or more importantly, why at the time, I thought I deserved them. These thoughts, this lingering paranoia that I am undeserving of healthy love, they muddy my interpretations of real life and distort reality and effect my relationships. My doctor would call these intrusive thoughts, my best friend would tell me they’re symptoms of PTSD, but I have come to realize that I’ve been burned and I am damaged and I hope to god I can recover. But you, Oh god, you You can write this poem. You can be my safety net while I’m free falling in love. You can be the one to listen to my mental tilt-a-whirls, you can be the one that introduces my body and my heart, you can be the one that calms the storms in my mind when I’m questioning the love I’m deserving of. You are the one who makes sure I fall asleep in my bed after drunk nights, you are the one that still sees my value after acknowledging my flaws. You can write this poem.
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I cried at the breakfast table this morning my father carefully explained, "wives must be submissive to their husbands" "housecleaning is the domain of the woman" "God created woman because man asked for a partner" This past semester I wrote two papers One, a fire and brimstone sermon           I quoted Anais Nin           sending the creators of sexist commercials to eternal suffering           **** them!" I said. "May they burn in hell."           For the women they portrayed were doormats           Misconceptions           Monsters The other, the role of women in the 1920s,            No longer confined to the kitchen            they dropped ballots with their new freedom            they wore short dresses and short tresses            fingers wrapped around cigs            they quoted Wilde instead of Alcott            they danced until their feet hurt         I read of Anais Nin's "new woman," her partnership, not submission to man, I craved a room of my own, neigh demanded it For sheep stayed in the kitchen, The Woolf had a study. I read poetry Sexton, Plath, I wept for their starved, depressed selves caged, suffocating inside the clasped hands of a man. Loved like rib-cage jails. Adrienne Rich made me angry, her daughter-in-law forever trying to fit into a box she was always too big for, spilling at the edges, her shaved legs like "white mammoth tusks" I was finally happy with my womanhood. ****** ****** ***** ******** they are mine. ******* free to move unrestrained, jiggling under my shirt. Wetness between my thighs. Menstrual blood, they are mine. mine. I am not ashamed of what I am because there is no shame. I am woman, I am girl, I am lady. I am a creature with a voice a mind. a creature who endured much abuse, continue to endure. I am woman and I don't have to be wife or mother unless I want to be. I was not created for man; I was created for the same reason he was, to serve the same great purpose on this tiny blue dot. I am not rib. I am ****** ****** ***** ******** ******* free, unrestrained, Wetness between my thighs. Menstrual blood, I am a per. I am a wo. I am a hu. Man and son need to back down, collaborate not dominate, speak not command, for when less are forced into silence, the maddening scream hidden inside skin and bones and muscle-meat becomes song. this world of car horns and tire screeches crying and wailing from raw throats angry protests of indignation could use a little music.
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Apr 8, 2013
Apr 8, 2013 at 6:59 PM UTC
Father broke my heart.
I cried at the breakfast table this morning my father carefully explained, "wives must be submissive to their husbands" "housecleaning is the domain of the woman" "God created woman because man asked for a partner" This past semester I wrote two papers One, a fire and brimstone sermon           I quoted Anais Nin           sending the creators of sexist commercials to eternal suffering           **** them!" I said. "May they burn in hell."           For the women they portrayed were doormats           Misconceptions           Monsters The other, the role of women in the 1920s,            No longer confined to the kitchen            they dropped ballots with their new freedom            they wore short dresses and short tresses            fingers wrapped around cigs            they quoted Wilde instead of Alcott            they danced until their feet hurt         I read of Anais Nin's "new woman," her partnership, not submission to man, I craved a room of my own, neigh demanded it For sheep stayed in the kitchen, The Woolf had a study. I read poetry Sexton, Plath, I wept for their starved, depressed selves caged, suffocating inside the clasped hands of a man. Loved like rib-cage jails. Adrienne Rich made me angry, her daughter-in-law forever trying to fit into a box she was always too big for, spilling at the edges, her shaved legs like "white mammoth tusks" I was finally happy with my womanhood. ****** ****** ***** ******** they are mine. ******* free to move unrestrained, jiggling under my shirt. Wetness between my thighs. Menstrual blood, they are mine. mine. I am not ashamed of what I am because there is no shame. I am woman, I am girl, I am lady. I am a creature with a voice a mind. a creature who endured much abuse, continue to endure. I am woman and I don't have to be wife or mother unless I want to be. I was not created for man; I was created for the same reason he was, to serve the same great purpose on this tiny blue dot. I am not rib. I am ****** ****** ***** ******** ******* free, unrestrained, Wetness between my thighs. Menstrual blood, I am a per. I am a wo. I am a hu. Man and son need to back down, collaborate not dominate, speak not command, for when less are forced into silence, the maddening scream hidden inside skin and bones and muscle-meat becomes song. this world of car horns and tire screeches crying and wailing from raw throats angry protests of indignation could use a little music.
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Retailers hope to net profits with the overlapping of holiday seasons. Thanksgiving is yet to be history; but, out comes the Christmas trimmings. No big surprise seeing holiday reminders arriving and filling mail box, comes with pre-season, this early blitz of commercials on tv now the net. Early arrival of holiday brings bell ringers standing between shopper's exit, a failure to repeat and repeat donations, brings looks of extreme displeasure. Each and every time you enter or exit discount, drug, and many retail stores, shoppers face not only bell ringers; but, 365 days donate at register requests. Most can't equal billion dollar give aways by Bill and Melinda Gates' circle. Most work extremely hard and donate but also choose to live on budgets. I donate and have nothing against charities; but, how much should one give? Retailers, putting shoppers on the spot, asking for donations upon check out? Never a pinch penny when it comes to sharing when there's an "actual" need, generosity is always a personal choice, I let guilt not be my companion in giving. Multiple donations to canister's of amnesiac holiday bell ringers? Wont happen! Nothing against legit charities; but, giving until you're broke, you "will" be needy.
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Nov 23, 2013
Nov 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM UTC
Charity
I have two persona with very different duality, I have too extreme of a personality, And I have a hard time expressing myself to your factuality. Only veiled my discreet personal past with thin layers of exclamation, To diverge, veer, or in discrete my own expression. To die within my own words to save my honor, Or to stay translucent to dye my tongue in fake color. For I have failed myself in becoming true to my belief, For eye to eye I can't seem to meet any sort of relief, Are these my real eyes point of view, Or have I realized I been dreaming of you, Or were they simply all real lies of my personal skew? This desire to raise your understanding, But your voice raze my defense to oblivion, And heavenly rays depart like the moons with wolf howl with your gaze! Was there nothing of me that sparkled to your kindred spirit, Was I that loathing of your presence to lose your smile? No matter as past are like the whim of a sail, I Know that happiness has no sale. Believe me when I say I want you to be happy, But my hunger to eat this precious apple pie will hurt me more, Much more than my desire to be fit like those men in commercials. Sorry possibly good looking ads, But I must cheat on you for good! Those eight pies, I ate them with pride and prejudice! For my temptation was hubris!
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Nov 1, 2015
Nov 1, 2015 at 11:15 PM UTC
Temptress Pride and all Hubris!
There are three versions of this poem. only one of them is available on the internet. This first version is from the New Yorker in a 1941 issue. It is the earliest version and the one that is quoted all over the internet. To My Valentine     by Ogden Nash (1902-1971) More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, That's how much I love you. I love you more than a duck can swim, And more than a grapefruit squirts, I love you more than gin rummy is a bore, And more than a toothache hurts. As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea, Or a juggler hates a shove, As a hostess detests unexpected guests, That's how much you I love. I love you more than a wasp can sting, And more than the subway jerks, I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch, And more than a hangnail irks. I swear to you by the stars above, And below, if such there be, As the High Court loathes perjurious oaths, That's how you're loved by me. The next version is the lyric of a song from the Broadway musical "One Touch of Venus" (1943) by Ogden Nash, J S Perelman and Kurt Weill. Nash wrote this lyric. It is not on the internet that I could find. I got it from the sheet music. HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, That's how much I love you. As a sailor's sweetheart hates the sea, Or a juggler hates a shove, As a wife detests unexpected guests, That's how much you I love. I love you more than a wasp can sting, And more than a hangnail hurts. I love you more than commercials are a bore, And more than a grapefruit squirts. I swear to you by the stars above, And below, if such there be, As a bride would resent a blessed event, That's how you are loved by me. More than a waitress hates to wait , Or a lioness hates the zoo, Or a batter dislikes those called third strikes, That's how much I love you. As much as a lifeguard hates to swim, Or a writer hates to read, As Hays office frowns on low cut gowns, That's how much you I need. I love you more than a hive can itch, And more than a chilblain chills. I yearn for you in an ivy clad igloo, As a liver yearns for pills. I swear to you by the stars above, And below, if such there be, As a dachshund abhors revolving doors, That's how you are loved by me. The third is from the book "Marriage Lines: notes of a student husband" It was published in 1964 and contains a revised version of the poem with a much different ending. This too is not on the internet. I got it from the book. TO MY VALENTINE More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or an odalisque hates the Sultan's mates, That's how much I love you. I love you more than a duck can swim, And more than a grapefruit squirts, I love you more than commercials are a bore, And more than a toothache hurts. As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea, Or a juggler hates a shove, As a hostess detests unexpected guests, That's how much you I love. I love you more than a wasp can sting, And more than the subway jerks, I love you truer than a toper loves a brewer, And more than a hangnail irks. I love you more than a bronco bucks, Or a Yale man cheers the Blue. Ask not what is this thing called love; It's what I'm in with you.
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Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018 at 2:51 PM UTC
TO MY VALENTINE Ogdon Nash three versions
There are three versions of this poem. only one of them is available on the internet. This first version is from the New Yorker in a 1941 issue. It is the earliest version and the one that is quoted all over the internet. To My Valentine     by Ogden Nash (1902-1971) More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, That's how much I love you. I love you more than a duck can swim, And more than a grapefruit squirts, I love you more than gin rummy is a bore, And more than a toothache hurts. As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea, Or a juggler hates a shove, As a hostess detests unexpected guests, That's how much you I love. I love you more than a wasp can sting, And more than the subway jerks, I love you as much as a beggar needs a crutch, And more than a hangnail irks. I swear to you by the stars above, And below, if such there be, As the High Court loathes perjurious oaths, That's how you're loved by me. The next version is the lyric of a song from the Broadway musical "One Touch of Venus" (1943) by Ogden Nash, J S Perelman and Kurt Weill. Nash wrote this lyric. It is not on the internet that I could find. I got it from the sheet music. HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or the Axis hates the United States, That's how much I love you. As a sailor's sweetheart hates the sea, Or a juggler hates a shove, As a wife detests unexpected guests, That's how much you I love. I love you more than a wasp can sting, And more than a hangnail hurts. I love you more than commercials are a bore, And more than a grapefruit squirts. I swear to you by the stars above, And below, if such there be, As a bride would resent a blessed event, That's how you are loved by me. More than a waitress hates to wait , Or a lioness hates the zoo, Or a batter dislikes those called third strikes, That's how much I love you. As much as a lifeguard hates to swim, Or a writer hates to read, As Hays office frowns on low cut gowns, That's how much you I need. I love you more than a hive can itch, And more than a chilblain chills. I yearn for you in an ivy clad igloo, As a liver yearns for pills. I swear to you by the stars above, And below, if such there be, As a dachshund abhors revolving doors, That's how you are loved by me. The third is from the book "Marriage Lines: notes of a student husband" It was published in 1964 and contains a revised version of the poem with a much different ending. This too is not on the internet. I got it from the book. TO MY VALENTINE More than a catbird hates a cat, Or a criminal hates a clue, Or an odalisque hates the Sultan's mates, That's how much I love you. I love you more than a duck can swim, And more than a grapefruit squirts, I love you more than commercials are a bore, And more than a toothache hurts. As a shipwrecked sailor hates the sea, Or a juggler hates a shove, As a hostess detests unexpected guests, That's how much you I love. I love you more than a wasp can sting, And more than the subway jerks, I love you truer than a toper loves a brewer, And more than a hangnail irks. I love you more than a bronco bucks, Or a Yale man cheers the Blue. Ask not what is this thing called love; It's what I'm in with you.
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The nineties sold us unity: bright sitcoms, Benetton colors, commercials where everyone smiled as though inequity had been resolved. But the decade bled on screen— a Black man beaten on asphalt, a truck driver dragged from his cab, bomb dust in Oklahoma, children hunted in a school corridor. Unity was the costume; violence was the stage. Then came a Black president. For a moment, the story looked complete. "Post-racial," they said, as though history had closed. But the mask split. Social media tore out the gatekeepers. The hate that had been muted found its tongue, found its profit, and screamed into the feed. Division pays. Unity does not. Violence is systemic, holistic, from home to street to state. Silence makes it whole. The ethic remains: If it is wrong, you stop it. Otherwise the cycle turns, profitable, endless, calling itself America.
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Aug 19, 2025
Aug 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM UTC
The United States of Bananas
Just because the color of my skin I somehow never fit in With all of those girls The ones with the pale skin and springy curls Whose eyes are brilliant shades of the rainbow Unlike my natural hair Eyes dark brown, and skin unfair I can sit in the mirror and stare Wondering why people like me aren't on the magazines That I read Or on the commercials I see on T.V. Thinking some days that I'm not pretty Because I'm not like them Those girls who I see everyday Who will never know the way it feels To be a black girl Have people say You're pretty for a dark girl Like my skin tone affects my beauty How I am suppose to look I'd date you if you weren't black So when did being attractive become a matter of race? When did I not become enough All due to the color of my face? But they don't understand The one that hurts the most Worse of all Worse of all Is YOU DON'T ACT LIKE A BLACK GIRL Oh Excuse me for having class Not shaking my *** Having decorum And speaking my mind; politely My mother raised me right To act right Showing me that life would be tough for girls like me Girls who didn't fit into the stereotypes of our race Girls who dressed modestly Talked properly Girls who didn't fight Girls who acted white But I always thought I was just acting right But no one ever saw That I was just being me Because you see I may be a black girl But a black girl isn't all I'll ever be
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Oct 25, 2015
Oct 25, 2015 at 9:11 AM UTC
Black Girl
Coke holiday commercials got me drinkin', New Years day, expect to pass a kidney stone.
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Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014 at 5:40 PM UTC
Coca Cola holiday commercials 15w
DUDE WHERE IS MY COUNTRY- Have you ever seen the bumper sticker that reads- “DUDE WHERE IS MY COUNTRY?”- While I have and I am asking you- Dude where is my country? I think it was stolen my corporate monkeys- Making us consumer junkies- Its kind of funny-How corporations with all the money- Make us feel like we are bumming-In search of materialistically something- Its almost numbing how they deep drumming products in our face- Make us feel like we have to buy-Or we will lose the race- It’s a disgrace-Not the American way to make us feel like we smell bad without that Axe Man’s Body spray- Or I wont feel cool unless I’m holding a latte- And my eye glasses read dolce- Slide a credit card man its okay- Dig a deeper hole to your grave- Consumer America I am your slave- Product buying all day- Broke as a joke-my money goes away- My credit cards get their pay- In minimal monthly payments anyway- Its like a rat race-Or a never ending case- You stay in the chase to collect what you make and the credit cards get their cake- Its great- Buy things you don’t need with credit cards you can’t afford- Its all for the money-That’s why commercials go to war- AND I LOVE IT- I mean how can you not-A badass commercial where a dude kills a cop-gets the cold-grabs the chick-and doing it all while wearing Gillet Sport Speed Stick- Its sick that I buy into this shit-A consumer ****** who needs another hit- Its unfortunate- But it’s the way it is- Thank you Hollywood Biz-Thank you Corporate big wigs-and thank you Uncle Sam- Without you I wouldn’t be the product buying-credit card sliding man that I am- And before I go- I ask you again- DUDE WHERE IS MY COUNTRY??? Richard A. Itskovich
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Sep 23, 2011
Sep 23, 2011 at 4:47 PM UTC
DUDE WHERE IS MY COUNTRY-
DUDE WHERE IS MY COUNTRY- Have you ever seen the bumper sticker that reads- “DUDE WHERE IS MY COUNTRY?”- While I have and I am asking you- Dude where is my country? I think it was stolen my corporate monkeys- Making us consumer junkies- Its kind of funny-How corporations with all the money- Make us feel like we are bumming-In search of materialistically something- Its almost numbing how they deep drumming products in our face- Make us feel like we have to buy-Or we will lose the race- It’s a disgrace-Not the American way to make us feel like we smell bad without that Axe Man’s Body spray- Or I wont feel cool unless I’m holding a latte- And my eye glasses read dolce- Slide a credit card man its okay- Dig a deeper hole to your grave- Consumer America I am your slave- Product buying all day- Broke as a joke-my money goes away- My credit cards get their pay- In minimal monthly payments anyway- Its like a rat race-Or a never ending case- You stay in the chase to collect what you make and the credit cards get their cake- Its great- Buy things you don’t need with credit cards you can’t afford- Its all for the money-That’s why commercials go to war- AND I LOVE IT- I mean how can you not-A badass commercial where a dude kills a cop-gets the cold-grabs the chick-and doing it all while wearing Gillet Sport Speed Stick- Its sick that I buy into this shit-A consumer ****** who needs another hit- Its unfortunate- But it’s the way it is- Thank you Hollywood Biz-Thank you Corporate big wigs-and thank you Uncle Sam- Without you I wouldn’t be the product buying-credit card sliding man that I am- And before I go- I ask you again- DUDE WHERE IS MY COUNTRY??? Richard A. Itskovich
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The answer sits awkward in my mouth Like an Egyptian vowel Some language I have yet to learn And I stand like a third world country that there are no commercials for There are no heartstrings to tug No Sarah Mclachlan songs No one sees the hunger Building in the bellies of my motherless country But if there must be indifference in this love I want to love you more than you love me
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 4:30 PM UTC
I Stand Like A Third World Country
We're sorry for that brief interruption Someone hacked our station for a minute We're now using some simple deduction To try to find out the perfect culprit. You hear static? Hello news viewers, audio is clear? Good, it is, time to let the show start We've seen their boring little white lies here Right in between commercials for Walmart Stay tuned for more!
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Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014 at 4:32 PM UTC
Broadcast interruption
All these stanzas look alike they talk about the same things with the same words, the same poem written over and over again like voices, whispers, copying each other unable to feel and trust experience differently, socialized for homogeneity unified but dull, strong but obedient their writing seemed the narratives of machines unable to innovate plagiarizing voices they believed were their own, authentic, pure their literary journals were a politics of masters of arts and agendas of contests like car commercials without a proper enjoyment of speed, or our favorite writers whose names we only knew because they were the ones who died at the right time while somebody was looking, reading them but the bookstores didn’t know their metaphors were weak, or their life’s work was merely symbolic, that’s the thing isn’t it poets are only symbols, as poems are only fluff, paper, the labor of writers-in-residence while the rest of the world are more interested in serial killers and which stocks might be worth getting into, and when to sell out investing in words seemed silly to them and, in my selected works there was nothing of how to be a Poet Laureate or how to win prizes exceptional or not, publication was left to amazon state grants, fellowships, visiting writers academics who never felt truly how to write poetry at its heart was a colonization of artists few could share what that meant, we were the first illiterate generation, spending more time with the internet than with books.
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 12:04 PM UTC
On the decline of literacy
All these stanzas look alike they talk about the same things with the same words, the same poem written over and over again like voices, whispers, copying each other unable to feel and trust experience differently, socialized for homogeneity unified but dull, strong but obedient their writing seemed the narratives of machines unable to innovate plagiarizing voices they believed were their own, authentic, pure their literary journals were a politics of masters of arts and agendas of contests like car commercials without a proper enjoyment of speed, or our favorite writers whose names we only knew because they were the ones who died at the right time while somebody was looking, reading them but the bookstores didn’t know their metaphors were weak, or their life’s work was merely symbolic, that’s the thing isn’t it poets are only symbols, as poems are only fluff, paper, the labor of writers-in-residence while the rest of the world are more interested in serial killers and which stocks might be worth getting into, and when to sell out investing in words seemed silly to them and, in my selected works there was nothing of how to be a Poet Laureate or how to win prizes exceptional or not, publication was left to amazon state grants, fellowships, visiting writers academics who never felt truly how to write poetry at its heart was a colonization of artists few could share what that meant, we were the first illiterate generation, spending more time with the internet than with books.
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Peak temperature water levels fake diagnoses white psychopaths starving hunger jingoism violence [systems that deprive us] guns entitlement shots fired accidents grief/mourning choking hazard corporate mascots corporate favoritism corporate bailouts corporate people ideology without monitor nationalism patriotism conservatives patriarchy murder-rape-suicide victim silence lack of conviction religious ********** false history infant mortality job insecurity invisible hands trickle down economics union busters corporate police brutal police evil police secret police debt bankruptcy foreclosure homelessness lost confused prisoner criminal banker war preparations propaganda ballots commercials advertisements campaigns money power puppets figureheads armies genocides **** bomb gas fire no survival violence wealthy lawyers assassinations heart complications death sleep.
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 1:40 PM UTC
"Jawbone; Prescription Assisted."
To the ancient Egyptians hieroglyphics looked like IMAX-HD blockbusters; Renaissance art is so real it's like the Holy Family's really right in front of u! gamers & pervs lose their egos to avatars & **** - the surplus visual culture strikes future generations like silent movies today; commercials are empty & expensive; drama, cliched stereotypes for the money; gone are the days of Baal & Dionysus, & gone are the ecstatic frenzies,  gone are realism & surrealism; space is our new home, now forget everything u've ever known
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Jul 22, 2018
Jul 22, 2018 at 7:16 AM UTC
culture is still a cult
The rich life has always haunted me with jealousy I want to swing bats for money Make wishes for the girl that people take photographs of I want to be asked to do commercials for large corporations In the back of my mind, fear lies in being forgotten Wake me up from this dream Bacon cooking up stairs I can settle for the life I have Keep the fame Family comes first
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Nov 4, 2012
Nov 4, 2012 at 5:31 PM UTC
David
If I were from Africa or Brazil or one of those places, where I slept on a mat in a little room, America would be weird to me. Because of like food commercials. McDonald's.  Or Tempur Pedics! Where it's all about comfort and they're worried about the arc in their bed, and I mean, I'm sleeping on a mat. I think about myself too much and I don't think about other people as much as I would want to. I want to think about how others are feeling when I talk to them, you know? I've tried to drop all stereotypes because really everyone has an individual category. And I think everyone has at least a small amount of mercy. Even if they don't show or choose it. And I love Mom.   So much
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Mar 1, 2013
Mar 1, 2013 at 12:28 AM UTC
Rhino
My daughter will not crawl from crib to tanning bed. She will learn the terms “unnattainable beauty standards” before she learns the alphabet. She will never compare herself to anyone. She will never compare herself to Britney, Christina, Selena. She will never compare herself to Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Hell. No. She will never aspire to be the sultry *** kitten taking seductive showers in shampoo commercials. No. My daughter will be named Venus. The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, The most beautiful woman I ever saw. She is plump, fullfigured barebreasted wide hipped with curly hair covered mons Goddess. My daughter will grow up to be ****** poisonously beautiful With long locks of goldenrodred hair, like her mother. Greyblueblack eyes and shoulder freckles, like her father. And if I can never become pregnant, my sisters daughters will be my daughters skin the color of cinnamon or chocolate, or vanilla ice cream and just as sweet. Men, women, boys, girls will pine over her, fall in love with her radiating skin that will never look photoshopped, but always real. As if the sun came down from the sky to give her the glow of all the light in the universe. She will love her body the way that my mother taught me to love mine. I will show her pictures of Whoopi Goldberg and America Ferrera and Margaret Cho and Marilyn Monroe And she will know that beauty is not a synonym for skinny. Beauty is not a synonym for **** Beauty is not defined by size or color or texture, no. It is defined by how she distributes her love and light to everyone she meets. no exceptions. and she will never doubt that she is lovely.
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Sep 2, 2011
Sep 2, 2011 at 11:47 AM UTC
Venus
My daughter will not crawl from crib to tanning bed. She will learn the terms “unnattainable beauty standards” before she learns the alphabet. She will never compare herself to anyone. She will never compare herself to Britney, Christina, Selena. She will never compare herself to Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Hell. No. She will never aspire to be the sultry *** kitten taking seductive showers in shampoo commercials. No. My daughter will be named Venus. The goddess of love, beauty, fertility, The most beautiful woman I ever saw. She is plump, fullfigured barebreasted wide hipped with curly hair covered mons Goddess. My daughter will grow up to be ****** poisonously beautiful With long locks of goldenrodred hair, like her mother. Greyblueblack eyes and shoulder freckles, like her father. And if I can never become pregnant, my sisters daughters will be my daughters skin the color of cinnamon or chocolate, or vanilla ice cream and just as sweet. Men, women, boys, girls will pine over her, fall in love with her radiating skin that will never look photoshopped, but always real. As if the sun came down from the sky to give her the glow of all the light in the universe. She will love her body the way that my mother taught me to love mine. I will show her pictures of Whoopi Goldberg and America Ferrera and Margaret Cho and Marilyn Monroe And she will know that beauty is not a synonym for skinny. Beauty is not a synonym for **** Beauty is not defined by size or color or texture, no. It is defined by how she distributes her love and light to everyone she meets. no exceptions. and she will never doubt that she is lovely.
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One of the most abused gifts of life, Even toothpaste commercials use it to advertise, Brings pleasure whilst leaving others in deep strife, Its one thing that creates soul ties, It deserves more than just physical feelings to be undergone, Though,it seems in this area we have chosen to be ignorant and to harden our hearts like stone, As long as we satisfy our momental desires.. And when the deed is done,our conscience fights itself then retires.. It retires from caring who the deed is done with later on..
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 8:55 AM UTC
***
mob scenes be-headings cops killing without reason that is obscene ****** not *******   so beautiful or **** or men's junk what gets me wrong what I think should not be published are commercials that lead into the nightly news featuring the next black man getting his *** shot by quick triggered cops, or some television anchor rant about Republicans caring about **** Give me a full frontal, please!!
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Mar 2, 2015
Mar 2, 2015 at 7:46 PM UTC
***
Strange, then maybe it's me. All these kiss-up politicians in commercials against sanctuary cities. Remind you they wouldn't assist anyone in need. Probably wouldn't offer them food or clothes. Really!-probably not a thing. Many would have instantly supported that ****** dictator in his conquest. And left many concentration victims in camps. We, required to help those seeking protection. Not attack them because of their heritage or skin color. But notice highly with a truth that many ministers hide instead of assisting those they need to be trying to recruit. Scriptures, states the poor shall inherit the earth. Nothing at all about the successful.
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Jul 29, 2018
Jul 29, 2018 at 9:23 PM UTC
Sanctuary Cities
See this heart encased by imperfect skin It masks the beauty that is locked within Because society has no eyes to look inside At the beauty that commercials hide We see perfection as an image to high That we fight to make ourselves try to be something that will never make sense In this sad world that encourages this We hear names screamed out at us to morph us into something, while society laughs at us It's telling us if we fit the role then maybe you'll be considered full They tell you to be yourself then list out what to change And if your opinions are different you're suddenly strange If you don't look or act or live a certain way Then you're automatically cast out and shamed Hold your head up high and press on Because I won't be conformed to a society That's hiding me Because I'm not who they say I should be
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May 29, 2014
May 29, 2014 at 11:33 PM UTC
Labeled By Society
Watching men defeat each other, Like it's our own little Colosseum. People pay to be up close, To be with the winning team as they boast. The women stand at the side, Cheering for front line tide. They will crash with the other team's wave, Split the difference bets are made. Body on body they battle each other, Do they even know one and another? Or do they just follow the coach's words, "Push forward boys, make them hurl." Game after game, They do the same thing. Win or lose, They still get paid. Paid the big bucks to put on a show, Commercials roll on before you know. Get you to buy, get you to watch, Buy this ****** like Miss March. Forty-Sixth battle same as all before. Crowds will still cheer, the cheerleaders are all ****** Losers will ***** and the Referee always ***** These mindless men get paid the big bucks.
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Feb 5, 2012
Feb 5, 2012 at 6:12 PM UTC
Current Colosseum Clashes