Best Backs To The Wall Poems

as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! the burdens WE bear!

being HAVES (not the have-nots) as nature decrees
means WE’re...

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Adam was a husband,
misused by a wife.
He was very sincere,
and slain with a knife.
Ann laughs at his funeral.
She snickers to the bank.
She escapes with his earnings,
and leaves his life blank.
Ann fooled him for jewelry,
gained his love by theft,
and hides his secret diary,
his only possession left.
She...

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I’ve lost everything, my backs to the wall,
Where are my friends, no one seems to call,
I’ve heard the whispers, liar, cheat and nutter,
So I’m always alone where I lie in the gutter.

I reached for the curb to help me on my way, 
Then I stood...

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UNSPOKEN CONFESSION


“Is there something you want to tell me?”
the words echoed violently in my ears.

I heard the grinding of the gears,
releasing the latches on the trap door
on which I was standing……

the machinations of interrogation -
and guilt - manifesting themselves,

increased eye blink rate,
uneasy scanning of the...

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Mm, A limerick to write about shoes
Now which ones can I choose
Imelda Marcos I'll call
Now my backs to the wall
I've got the picking shoes blues...

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How Will It End?

When put to the test time after time,
Our backs to the wall I've got yours you've got mine
We've hugged and we've cried, yes, we've even lied
For a mental health day so our nerves could subside

We're nurses, we're proud, we give all that...

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Finally got home in the dead of a cold night 
With the Gators starting to pull away in this holiday fight 
It seems like this is the end to the day full of games 
That featured college students who are establishing their names

Big plays abound...

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by Mark Miller © 03/19/2014
Waiting beside the seaside absent who never arrives after graven payment-
Standing by Stan's shadow of ascent looks for loners promise repents,
Sullen watch golden sold feelings lost upon darken silhouette in trusted innocence
Filling pockets of soothing felon who battles lonesome fear
Shadows sun...

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Good morrow merry citizens
Here’s another Brexit gain
We may have our country back
But we can’t go live in Spain.
Record numbers now
Are all giving thanks
For the almost empty
Essential food banks.
The poor are getting poorer
The rich getting richer
In our Free New Britain 
A sad disgraceful picture.

The papers are...

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I held onto the top and looked over the fence
with a mighty jump and lift. The fence was so high
I struggled to see what was beyond.
It had taken all my strength to get near the top.
I had seen a glimpse of a man's head!
I knew...

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When the Germans invaded Latvia and Estonia
They decided these people would have 3rd Reich favours
And so they recruited or drafted young men into the Waffen SS 
Who fought on the Eastern Front battles showing their mettle

When the war started to go bad for the Germans
These...

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THE ELITE CORPORATIONS,
HAD KNOWN ALL ALONG.
WHAT THEY WERE DOING,
WAS TOTALLY WRONG.

HUMAN CELL TOWERS
TO SPREAD THE WORD.
THEY CLAIM THEY HAD
TO THIN THE HERD.

VACCINATIONS,
WAS THEIR TOOL OF CHOICE.
THOSE WHO SPOKE UP,
WOULD LOSE THEIR VOICE.

CRITICAL THINKERS,
WERE DISBARRED AND BANNED.
THEY WERE TOLD
BECAUSE WE CAN.

WE GOVERN THE GOVERNMENTS.
WE HAVE THE...

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newly deceased ghost lit his own caustic farts
wearing aluminum kitty cat ears with red jeweled hearts
our resident wild man Count Dracula laughed
as wisconsin cheese's weird math wizard graphed

gram’s annual preteen sunday school halloween party
was sailing with forthright butt-clenching gasses so farty
too many lima beans hidden...

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