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Screw It

To think I've been, in this soup
Probably a year
No matter how hard I write
I'm nowhere getting near
Rob I think I had it
And I'm really getting pissed
What the hell is going on
Why can't I make The List

There are a hundred poems
Wrote by just a few
It's always the same poets
There seems there's nothing new
Who's the one I have to pay
And what's the going fee
To put my poems at the top
The place they aught to be

I know, they hold back commenting
In hopes that I won't stay
Secretly between themselves
They wish I'd go away
Outside of the click, I guess 
That's the way I'm being viewed
It's just not my great poetry
It's me that's being screwed


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Views expressed by me are not necessarily mine.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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Nunez Avatar
April 16, 2015 at 5:49 AM
LOL! Sarcasm...the chasm that wells up in a man's enthusiasm...I wrote this, and the poem disappeared from my page! Don't worry Jerry, you are not alone...HUgs! :)
Curtis Avatar
April 16, 2015 at 6:07 AM
Thanks Kim, I see you also have a way with words
Laurie Avatar
April 14, 2015 at 9:53 PM
G'day Jerry... there will be many who take your poem seriously Jerry. You might be elected the leader of an anti-conspiracy group shortly. Thanks for the giggle Jerry - Lindsay
Curtis Avatar
April 15, 2015 at 7:11 AM
Thanks Lindsay, I didn't even know I was nominated. I hope most members know me now and realize I write because I love it, and the rewards I enjoy are comments like yours , Mate Cheers
Curtis Avatar
April 11, 2015 at 12:06 PM
Very nice poem, maybe the problem is not many people comment on your poems. I read poems ,never commenting on them. Don't give up Your poems are very good.
Curtis Avatar
April 12, 2015 at 7:42 AM
Thanks Ma---but this is just a poem for a contest, not to be taken seriously.
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