Best Dead Right Poems

A true story....


Well I lived in Sioux City for a little while
Another job site, hubby and I have covered some miles

While there, my mother in...

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When I first awoke in this hospital, they tell me I had stared straight ahead and never uttered a word. I was in shock for...

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“The heaventree of stars” (in Ulysses as said Joyce)
“hung with humid nightblue fruit” (ah that Bloomian voice)
could evoke a masterpiece the world has come to...

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My thumbs in my mouth as saliva drips out

taste like there's dirt in my finger nail

look at my hand, the others are clean

but one is...

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Always at the end of his jokes
She heads off to visit her folks
Being a blonde is no fun
So off she does run
For sometime away from...

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She is my heartbeat, and lately my hearts skipping beats. 
I missing beats like artist miss drop dates. 
Im missing her like she was gone...

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The years passed, things never did get better..
Her Garden Club was the only thing that held her together
The mental abuse had taken it’s toll...
As far...

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Pain in the ****
Pain in the neck
Neck with a bolt
Neck that’s been wrecked
Wrecked on the sands
Wrecked on the beach
Beach all the boats
Beach beyond reach
Reach for...

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Surrounded by the enemy

Walking, crawling, sliding their slimy bodies on the ground

People you once knew

Shared time with, loved, cared for

Mothers, neighbors, 4th grade teachers

Call them...

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Step back be rational. 
Sit back roll this hash and blow.
A/C cold in the lac sittin low.
Niggas gone hate cuz the game so throwed
Chromed out...

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Do you know how it Feels?
When Rejection Reveals.
It always Hurt to Know,
but you have to Accept.

My Heart Aches whenever you Reject me,
Whenever they look at...

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Stop pushing me around!! You're just a Bully aren't you!!
Don't for once think you'll intimidate me..
I've had my fair share a Bully or two!

If you...

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Relief will come
in little steps
each passing day
a small step
closer
to the edge
of life again...

a little piece
a little glimpse
of who we used to be

a holiday
has come and...

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Republican 'Sandburs!' 

Republican sandburs are such an annoyance,
This kind of a weed seems to love to hitch ride,
They scoff at man's brotherhood, scorn to share...

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When the dark comes 
I run but it’s hard to run 
I see the light 
My friend’s say to run and don’t look back
When they...

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