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Premium Member Vote Them Out
Vote them out!
Vote them out!
Though the many
Marxist will curse
you out. Let them
defame, try to shut
your mouth – our
youth need a chance
to live free and dance
something...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: down the tubes, humanity, inspirational, music, perspective,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 6 Am
6 a.m.
 
I saw your pain compressed in
Tourniquets and plungers.
Memories condensed to tears.
Cooling your hand holding bottles.
Dripping in puddles that flowed,
With white wind down glass...

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Categories: down the tubes, addiction, dark, farewell, friend,
Form: Narrative
Three Sewing Sisters
The mythical fates had a dubious task
Sewing the cloth of life for men
“How did that work?” you ask
Well, get three sisters who sew
Give each one...

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Categories: down the tubes, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Art of the Con
Listen to the chumps,
listen to the rubes,
screaming that democracy
is going down the tubes

But every wise guy knows
when the fix is in
To put all their money...

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Categories: down the tubes, corruption, parody, political, satire,
Form: Political Verse
Do You Know My Abc's?
And it was there. Looking me in the eye, “I shall born you.” I was overcome with 
sadness.

Before I was born I died. I was...

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Categories: down the tubes, allegory, confusion, death, history,
Form: ABC



Wimpole Street, Part 3 of 7
(In a 19th-century legal judgment studied by all who 
learn the English common law, Sturges v. Bridgeman,
the court found in favour of a "nice" doctor...

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Categories: down the tubes, london,
Form: Couplet
Fighter
*Letter to my daughter who had various surgeries when she was a baby.


Maya
you are as still as a rose
as prayers work through
your small body
and needles...

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Categories: down the tubes, child, children, for her,
Form: Free verse
Six Million Feet Under
Six million feet under...going down dirty tubes and dark tunnels
Gun shots...sirens...lightning and thunder
Falling from grace and I'm falling forever
Too far gone...six million feet under

Six million...

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Categories: down the tubes, evil, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Blank verse
The Debriefing: Part Ii
a.”possible?  what is possible?  you’re a solider, private.  “possible” to you is what gets handed down, via the chain of command. ...

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Categories: down the tubes, life, june, morning,
Form: Free verse
Gullibility
He can only find oil by opening a can of sardines.
By hoping to make money, he employs some strange means.
He takes his metal detector, and...

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Categories: down the tubes, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Count Your Quarters
Some times it's difficult to rhyme.
We are living in a interesting time.
Putin's war which won't relent,
nor will our "telepathic" ex-President..
Covid still making people sick.
Our information...

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Categories: down the tubes, irony,
Form: Light Verse
Hemp Lights Glasshouse
All around the glasshouse grew hemp in fields
And when the plants began to ripen and flare
The beguiling grass-seeds caught in air
Flew through the windows of...

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Categories: down the tubes, political,
Form: Quintain (English)
Art of the Con --- Repost
Listen to the chumps,
listen to the rubes,
screaming that democracy
is going down the tubes

But every wise guy knows
when the fix is in
To put all their money...

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Categories: down the tubes, corruption, perspective, political, truth,
Form: Political Verse
6 Million Feet Under
6 million feet under going down dirty tubes and dark tunnels
gunshots,sirens and strobe lights lightning and thunder
falling from grace and i'm falling 4ever
too far gone...

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Categories: down the tubes, adventure
Form: Lyric

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