Best Down And Out Poems

Down and Out in Saigon

Southeast Asia, and Mexico
 has always attracted 
A certain type of westerner
The down and out 

On a down word spiral
Why?
Relatively cheap to live
Lots of part-time gigs

Teaching English
Or other things
Cheap Booze, drugs, sex
Readily available


Places to stay
Dirt cheap
And no one needs 
To sleep...

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“Stay away, I can’t afford to be sick.
Hand sanitizer please, and make it quick!
I can’t have the flu,”
I moaned as I puked -
“I’m out of Tylenol, Nyquil, and Vics!”


12/30/11
For "Sneezing Limerick" contest...

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You eager commuters
you don’t see me
in the shadows shivering
Remembering that green door and the
warm baking bread smells
A king in a pocket sprung bed
Beside my abdicated queen
And the curly haired prince who
No longer hears my song

You eager commuters
Forward looking
I alone have 
Wealth and friendship
Bottle shaped
No idle...

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Hey stranger, will you help me 
I’m begging of you please 
My world has been turned upside down 
And now I’m on my knees. 

The job I held has disappeared 
The wife I had is gone 
The child whose hair I ruffled
no longer hears my...

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I found you when you were down and out 
your soul with holes and inside doubt 
the prayers you said with your rosary 
did not stop that deep, deep bleed 

you looked through me like I wasn’t there 
taking what I offered, refusing to share...

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So many nights like these
 on my hands and knees
Begging God please
 give me just a little release
In a dark desperate state
 with too much on my plate
Straight out of the gate
 this seems to be my fate
Since the womb ive been denied,
 hated and...

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DOWN AND OUT
By:Poetic-Life
May 21, 2013

i cant explain my feeling anymore cause everytime i think of you i cry, i been crying for days and nothing i can do but cry i can wipe my tears but im still going to cry, i can promise you...

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How I hate the way I feel today,
   I just want everything to go away.
Don't know if I am angry or sad ,
  All I know is that it feels real bad.
Everything is so mixed up inside ,
  Confused by it...

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don't dwell on the past
when the future has alot to offer...

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Poor man down and out

Set aside like trash at
A cold curb left
To wonder about how
Life so promising
And glee, could gray
Into thick black haze
Of somber dream
And waking nightmare
Where hunger live stout
And doubt stouter still
Each nights' eternity
Coolly serves reminder
Hope is beyond,
Far beyond...
This concrete laced lot....

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When your down and out
You want someone to lay down with you
Shine a light
Wash away all your dreams 
Ease your mind
So all your troubles disappear
Look into your eyes and wipe away the the tear....

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When you are down and out

When you feel alone
When the key no longer fits
When you no longer feel safe

When you can’t reach; reach whom it concers
When you can’t reach; reach the ones you love
When you can’t reach; reach the one you love

When you are isolated
When...

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When I feel down and out
It makes me want to shout
No one wants to hear it
So it makes me feel arrogant
My heart is good
But to many get misunderstood
I'm on my own
And nothing is set in stone
I'm there for friends 
But mine don't want to bend
Nothing...

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The cracks that people fall through are the cracks that can be filled
By those of us who care enough for those down and out and ill
Don’t wait around for politics government or laws
For they are not interested in anything but waging bloody wars
So spare a...

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