Best Dysfunction Poems

On a dark Friday night, creature crawling 
The darkness silenced, frogs in swamps shuts 
Croaking and the hissing create muted at once
To perceive the whistlers whistling in turns 
PaMushika-shika, To board home, Combies

After being dropped off by the combi Pahasha
I opted for a quick thriving...

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I voted for Ronald McDonald for Governor
My local politician said that was rude
But if I had a choice of clowns
I wanted one with food
Now our Congressman’s campaign manager was Pinocchio
He thought he was very lucky
But when the campaign manager faced southwest
His nose was in Kentucky.
After...

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When dating
pay rapt attention
to your intuition

I did:

For self-preservation
in relation
to emotional creation

When he made it clear
that his ex is his BFF
I exited the scene
to be released
from negative energy...

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Ah you and I; such an unfathomable affair, 
So contradictory to logic and reason and safety – 
In being together we have thrown all caution to the fickle winds, 
We have bound ourselves together in a marriage of dysfunction 
And yet at the heart of...

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Mother asked her big brother to pass the sugar;

big brother ruined it by splashing on liquor;

father rued spilt liquor by throwing his jigger

that hit sister who lit an elbow hard slammer

straight into the hand of their rare guest and butcher;

butcher stood to secure a full-face...

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A father who curses one of his kids with the sting of Jingoism
the nuclear, becoming a toxin to the entire organism.

Leadership, void of manifesto will only harm and divide
even under the thickest google, the cataract cannot hide.

Neglecting the wide road to stubbornly follow the ditch
and...

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Politicians are just like flies
Great big mouths and bulging eyes

They talk and talk and say very little
And always refuse to meet in the middle

They walk the halls, back and forth
And get themselves all out of sorts

Over some imagined slight
Maybe some reporter will catch the fight

Then...

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Everyone in the world is eating breakfast.

Breakfast is a waste of time.

I need more time to toss and turn. 

To lie here, reluctantly. 

Maybe lying here will make me stronger. 

And more able to finish all the things I never got done. 

All those things...

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Electile Dysfunction
By Franklin Price
11/25/2016

Electile dysfunction 
That condition comes to mind
Was not a firm election
In November we would find

Adversaries  used enhancements
As they tried to screw the Trump
He got elected anyway
Opponents took it in the rump

The people chose to be involved
The establishment went limp
Trump won a...

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Every time you walk into my space, 
Everything that’s real about me,
Gets erased.
Somehow, it always ends up
My mistake—
Comatose I am,
to my own fate.
I have decades, years
Not knowing how--
Can I fix this ever,
 If not now?
Every step closer, you’re closing in on me,
You say cruel things
And...

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Sometimes I want to 
move freely in the wind 
and spread my wings 
Enjoy the feel of a 
summer breeze
resting beneath them
I often anticipate 
daylight tickling my 
funny bone until I 
crack a smile
as the sun plants soft
kisses on my skin
Maybe I should 
invite hope...

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why do you hate me?

You hate me because I stand up
(instead of lie down)

I tell the truth
(instead of contorting my lips, my life, my soul
to fit into your perfectly tidy little
story) 

Your perfect plan...

Everything that doesn't stay neatly within the lines of your
beautiful lies,
gets rejected,...

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There was love and sorrow
We shared the good and bad
Never thinking of tomorrow
We only thought of what we had
~
There was kindness and cruelty
We had the dysfunction thrown in
Not that we were really suffering
We knew the meaning of friendship
~
There was acceptance and rejection
We knew the best...

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I
cannot
imagine
future living
without eyes tearing
while screams chest develop -
no acceptance views sooth me -
wanting release for inner peace
seems a futile painful endeavor
I hear heaven's precious angels crying -
relationships   worship   purpose tainted
truth will be lost as dysfunctions grow -
artificial intelligence
violates all hearts ...

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My husband left me and I’m happy he’s gone
The tale is finally over and the curtain is drawn


November 1, 2019
Pithy Pome Poetry Contest
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