Best Disadvantage Poems

you could never understand,
what we're denied 
from the vantage point
on which you stand,
your privilege

your money, power,
your cap and gown,
block this from view
when you look down,
from privilege

you cannot see, or you forget,
that all was built on
the blood and sweat 
of those that you now stand upon,
with...

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I am at a mathematical disadvantage
to you

Because as you see i have only
have 10 fingers and toes

And can only count up to 20

Whereas you seem to have
a brain with an in built calculator

Maths is one of those subject's
you either get or you don't

And you just...

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Pressure to impress, perceived ineptitude, kills
Incapable of King imitation, blame plagued eyes
Publicly pressed to deliver sought after replica
Infiltrated by inescapable history Ben despised 

Failed expectation driven prime of life suicide
Hailed Presley descendant, drifted pale ghost
Image Siamesed by status of rock relic
Near half century after legend's...

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I gave my friend a car.
She complained it was not a good one.

I paid her rent for a year.
She resented me for that.

I gave her some clothes.
She threw them out, disgusted they did not have designer labels.

I paid for her dinners when we went out
Because...

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