Best Can You Spare A Dime Poems

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Although , everyone knew what was needed was a “quarter;” 
yet all we asked for was a dime,* it would have...

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(this write is inspired by the real story of a homeless man who found a student's 
bag with two thousand nine hundred dollars cash in...

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I feel like I can move forward now

I have completed what I think is my legacy ?

I've staked my reputation on it 

So if you...

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The Soup kitchen's queue are in line .
The economy , banjaxed and dyin' .
When Lehmans went bust
The bankers just cussed
So now , " Buddy who...

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Sending foreign aid just doesn’t make sense
With American families living in tents
Just how many countries rushed to give cash
When into New Orleans Katrina crashed

San Andreas...

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EARLY TO RISE (COLLABORATION)

Early to bed and early to rise,
So my mother said,
Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
So, come on, get out of bed.
Assumed...

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Who's Got Time for Politics?

I had the kids in tow,
as I was walking out the store.
A nice lady with a clipboard
enquired who I was voting...

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POETIC LYRICS BY THOMAS L. H. ANDRESS



Hit the books...see stars ON MAR'S SWEET...ask Me!
Class is RIGHT or LEFT...or WRONG-TEST...don't Ask-Me!
CALL-ME...or...LEAVE-ME...ALONE...JUST...DON'T-ASK-ME!

Hit the...

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Gypsy of the Railways

I march to a different drummer
My life it is my own
I'm an explorer of experience
That is how I'm known

I've seen snow in...

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I march to a different drummer
My life it is my own
I'm an explorer of experience
That is how I'm known

I've seen snow in South Dakota
I've been...

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So young and newly married
Hanging on by the thread of love
Sometimes though in life we see
That thread isn't wound tight enough

Through the daily struggles
Most of...

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Global girth seems to gain all the time,
Giants garnering world's every dime,
The rich grab all the pie--
Why the poor poorer die
In the world, piling wealth's...

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Brother can you spare a dime?
Brother do you got the time?
To think about me, brother can’t you see?
That I am a person, I do exist.
Even...

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“Brother can you spare a dime”,
Was scrawled on the cardboard sign
When I looked at him a little closer
His face looked an awful lot like mine

I...

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All you bums of the world unite!
Now I don't mean the fleshy kind
I mean the ones you see on the streets
“Brother can you spare a...

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