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Best Deprecating Poems

Self-Deprecating Joke and Humor

Read this in conjunction with my previous poem, when I wanted to be white

The Amazing Coconut. Why is it amazing?
It is like the people of India - Indians:
"Brown outside, white inside!"...

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Categories: deprecating, analogy, color, confusion, fruit,
Form: Epigram

I Could Not Keep Up

Attempting to revive them 
I felt my nostrils fill 
With the bloodiness of their deaths

Determined I kept digging
My fingernails full of stench 
of her hopelessness and despondency

You are in there! I told her.
I remember you.
But the problem is, she didn’t.

No matter how much muck and...

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Categories: deprecating, self,
Form: Free verse