Slavery wasn't slavery
...There's a man who I call DeSatan
From Florida to Sunshine State
who said that slavery for Black folks in America
was beneficial and great.
they were taught skills on how to be
better product...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
F-CK YOU - On Cybercoercion
...It’s been 10 years since you last saw me.
I’m softer. Matured. Unrecognizable. And yet
the feeling of your roaming eyes still darkens my skin,
the phantom sensations making me retch.
Your vile i...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, abuse, anger, angst, child
Form: Free verse
A ditty to my titty
...A ditty to my titty
There you are upon my chest
You used to be the boob I loved best
But now all you do is cause me grief
I just need a moments relief
But you would rather swell and cause me p...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, health,
Form: Rhyme
april 14 my computer is plotting against me
...
Sometimes I think
My computer is plotting against me
And only me!
Trying deliberately to drive me mad.
My computer knows
When I am busy,
Then it throws a hissy fit.
Constantly Crashing...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
...Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive di...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, 2nd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dead By Morning Ii
...Dead by Morning II
(Dead by Morning, 3/13/20 explained what will happen. This is the followup.)
I’m no prophet…
I just pay attention…
so cough it…
What say you? Ah choo? Who?
...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, abuse, addiction, angst, animal,
Form: Free verse
The Photo Never Lies
...When I look at a recent photo of myself…I admit to sometimes feeling dread…because the photo that I’m seeing doesn’t match the picture in my head.
In my head I am much younger…on this my heart and...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, age, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Santa Gone Bad
...It was the night before Christmas and all through the house,
Santa stole all of my stuff and he ran off with my spouse.
That fatso stole everything that I had.
I was shocked because Santa went bad...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, christmas, holiday, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Avoid Cliches Like the Plague
...Creative Writing was my love,
a passion I thought highly of.
A freshman, I felt I could shove
one course in my school year.
Assignment 1 - simple indeed:
"Who broke your heart and made it ble...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, class, poetry, word play,
Form: Rhyme
The Lament of a Black Man
...Who am I? Am I even human? What is my place in this world?
I am confused, sometimes I do not even feel like a human being.
Like a boat in a stormy sea, I aimlessly drift back and forth,
And cannot...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, black african american, death,
Form: Free verse
Gut Punch
...Bearing the brunt of betrayal,
his long-time lady lover leaves him
for another flame. Surprisingly saying
"I'm so sorry, Sam, we should start
seeing other people"
Broken by a bruta...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, betrayal, friendship, love, relationship,
Form: Alliteration
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
...Somewhere tucked away in a Bethlehem hostel
Little Salam sleeps to the sound of the river Jordan
Unaware of the narrative of two thousand years
Or some glorious eternity still waiting to hap...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, child,
Form: Free verse
The Night Before Christmas
...‘Twas the night before Christmas and I’ve gone and broken my big toe,
I slipped and fell and injured it, in the freshly fallen snow!
I was carrying the Christmas tree, the one that set alight
Thou...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, christmas, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
You're Not the Boss of Me
...Please don't add insult to injury
Let’s agree to disagree
Somewhere somehow inadvertently
You lost the last of your integrity
You’re not the boss of me
You’ve forgotten the basics of courtesy...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, bullying, grief, relationship, rude,
Form: Monorhyme
Unquotable Quotes: Xlix - Tongue Teasers
...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: Tongue-Teasers - XLIX
« Third Degree » is when you add « Insult to injury ».
If you take everything everybody says with a « pinch of salt », we’ll soon be able to drink oc...
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Categories:
add insult to injury, humor, irony, race, word
Form: Epigram
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