Best Bet Your Bottom Dollar Poems

Zealously, she circles want-ads
Years have dashed her expectations. 
Xeroxing her application
Wishing for some vindication
Voices on the telephone, asking for the skills she's honed
Under rated, and...

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If the Dark Ages were to come again
and electricity would cease to exist,
pray tell what'd happen to us?
P'raps it be smart to start a list.

Well...

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I ain't afraid of no ghost, friend,
You can bet your bottom dollar
I'm an expert on ghosts of men -
I was born in Booger Holler.

Now the...

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since may 2010,
before any kind of trial at all has taken place,
bradley manning rots in solitary 
confinement, 
“being denied exercise, any kind of social 
interaction...

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Every day you wake up happy,
There are people who wake up sad;
Every time you have some good luck
Others’ luck is being bad.

Every check-up that finds...

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Oh, I could tell you that all is fine that everything is just great
Just keep on sipping your wine and don't worry about your fate
I...

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These are my words
There are many like them 
But these are mine
So I most stay true to the power of my deliverance
Because the words...

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Throw me to the wolfs 
And I will surely lead the pack
Some lead it from the front 
But I will lead it from the back

Watching...

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Money is a universal language. They say money talk bull crap walks
even the def hears it. You gotta pay the price to live nice.
Money can...

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They’re motives of the weekend - they’re a gardener’s saving grace,
buzzing up and down and ‘round and ‘round cleaning up the place.
There’s nothing like the...

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