Football Abuse Poems

After witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls...

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He was just a boy, living his life each day
Growing into his young years, displayed
Day to day life encouraging young thrall
Doing as he should, with...

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the dilemma 


a man walking home from work through the Olivera noticed 
a group of hanged men, who when alive, had argued
about the price of...

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Lovely people and angry people

This afternoon, in Lisbon, a charming march about saving the Sobreiro- tree, about 300 people gathered 
under the shade of the...

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I was friends with a selfish liar 
pathological habit of desire 
lying when there was no reason 
low on friends he chose treason 

A football...

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A liars lie is to say you lie 
paint themselves a real nice guy 
Not the people that know them well 
but all the others...

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"Why do you run home after school? Why don't you join us in the football ground?"

"I should shield my little sister from being eaten by...

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Poor, addled Colin Kapernick
Once a coveted NFL draft pick

   Made $43 million in pro football, yet finds it all unsavory
   Victimized!...

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Waves flush my face.
I can’t go to sleep without thinking of 
what comes after and what happens during.
I can’t stop crying and I can’t sleep,...

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If I knew what to say to let you go
I’d do it like a shot Better fast than slow
But you twist my tongue and my...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Pink vase with no design
Dangling there so blue- c'est la vie 
I think somewhere in Center City
Apart from everything hectic
In an apartment rising high skyward
The...

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Sportsman

I don’t care so much about football
that fills the screen so often in this mad country.
I do sometimes watch the highlights but
not the whole game...

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Is there anyone who would hear the dreams I conceive?
Profit, pleasure, protection - ‘tis all they know to love!
They would laugh at my hopes till...

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One More

Raise the curtain, 
I am ready. 
Let's write and read together, 
for hours without end. 
Dressing up in costumes, 
singing crazy shanties, 
or Round...

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