Best Generalizations Poems

Absurd situations amuse me; they get written into poems.
Foolish generalizations about groups of people infuriate me; 
they also get written into poems.
All Irish, all whites,...

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My friends are my family.
Except....they like me, they adore me, they say nice things about me.
My friends understand that in a writer's life, sometimes I...

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No one else ever….  



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Avoiding the unpleasantries of the Barbarians At The Gate                ...

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Maybe in another lifetime
There will be no classifications or 
generalizations, nor discriminations.
Stereotypical consultations of 
people with no limitations of racial 
inclinations.

Shall external images forever 
dominate?
With...

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If you are angry with me 
Or with anyone or everyone
For some (in-)explicable reasons, 
Then, this poem is meant for you!

My basic hypothesis: 
In a...

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Alan as Buckminster
delivers Fuller Watts.

Left-Brain partisans of deductive "prickles"
and Right-Brain partisans of inductive "goo"
have reduced mutually antagonistic arguments
into something resembling a pile of boorish poo.

Prickly...

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What a difference a day makes.
The universal truth is in the knowledge gave.
     This is not a road to trek all...

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What happens to our dreams?
They seem to discolor;
they shrivel
and fall wistfully into distant memory
like so many autumn leaves.
They seem to slip from grasp
and shatter painfully
as...

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Shirley is a professional generalizer of people.
Rapidly slinging out stereotypes.
All blacks….
All Kansans….
All men…
All Irish….
All Asians…
All city dwellers….
All children….
All whites….
All teachers….
All Ukrainians….
All firemen….
All thieves….
All women…
She blames...

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Labels for groups of people are ridik.
No one fits.
Generalizations silly.
Few fit.
Bigots, unlearned, unaware, uninformed, unfriendly, unopen.
Not me.
Not me.
Not me.
Ha!
One day during counseling class I remembered...

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Everybody likes flowers right,
Except children who were violated in bedrooms with flowered wallpaper.
Oh.
 
Everyone loves faeries right?
Except a sensitive young twelve-year-old boy who was called...

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Indoctrination courtesy pledge of allegiance
occurred every morning soon after I arrived
at grade school, a little boy namely Matthew
Scott Harris remembers obligatory recitation
mindful to keep right...

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What do you expect? His mother looks twelve.
Generalizations like this bother me.
 “I was a young mother,” I say.
“I bet you were a better mother...

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Ostentatious bragging
Undermining people
Tattling and gossiping

Offending groups of people on purpose
Yacking without substance or purpose

Closed minds
Old-people-generalizations
Messing with other people’s property
Fierce Ferociousness
Ogling and cat-calling women or men
Rumor-mongers...

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