Best Deductible Poems

Shattered bottled up dreams
strewn in callous fashion,
litter those Tobacco roads
of man-made poverty
Cancerous amorality
is the accepted dystopian reality
Majority rule by the metal ballot law ... 
second...

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Tax Time

File by April 15th,
avoid penalty and interest.

Declare all income from: 
          gainful employment
  ...

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Please don't anybody ask me to decide anything. I do not know
The difference between, the Concord or a Jet Plane
The Republican or the Democrats, 
White...

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Ocean Falls, B.C. has on average
Over 300 days of rain a year
Surely not somewhere I'd want to live
Many attempt suicide I hear

Canadians have a funny...

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I have seen enough and have to speak out
These health insurance companies making money off people
Is so disturbing and beyond words.
People with less money cannot...

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Mr. Eli is such a nice guy, 
his skin's a pretty Lilly white
'times when my placebo ain't workin'
my personal pill prescribing plight

generically i'm very uncommon
as...

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Death by Insurance

She sits in her car,
in the parking lot
of  the emergency room,

with the worst stomach ache of her life.

Watching the fluorescent lights rhythmically...

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CORRUPTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Now that I’m approaching the final inning
I need to re assess the ideas I had at the beginning
I thought that if you were...

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It’s no longer here.
Gone is my set of wheels.
Pieces of glass lie here.
My car’s gone.

We called the police.
A report was filled out.
Gave them all the...

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Pity the Poor Octopus
The octopus is a curious creature
With eight long tentacles his most outstanding feature.
But because of his oddly shaped cephalopod bod,
He's not one...

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We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex wakes in a drop of...

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any fool can be a philosopher
and it's not that big a deal
to be an Oracle either
we all notice more than we let on
so much is...

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A cat runs across the road,
then a rabbit, then a deer.
I look left, a barn is airborne,
it flies away in slow motion,
boards silently flapping.

We have...

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A cat runs across the road,
then a rabbit, then a deer.
I look left, a barn is airborne,
it flies away in slow motion,
boards silently flapping.

We have...

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He could suck joy out of a daisy,
turn a Spring day to dust and grit.
His belief was a second-hand fire-sale.

His wife practiced adultery,
gamely trying to...

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