Best Generalizing Poems

You see a car and you instantly think
She’s young, She’s cute. She’s blonde. She’s perky.
She’s a smiler. She has perfect nails.

Then you catch up.
She is...

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The Eternal Youth

I can handle the truth
It is all under wood
It doesn't change, it always stood
No matter what you think is good

People have to take...

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Wouldn't it seem to persist an unspoken personal longing for perfection?
Is insinuated toward poetic supremacy; obviously . . .
I would feel confident in generalizing the...

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Hillary referred to half of the voters as a “basket of deplorables,”
Grossly generalizing Trump’s supporters as not so adorable.
She is cutting off her nose to...

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You're not gonna see this.
You don't even notice.
I'm not gonna stand here whispering.

I'm never invited,
to ask where my mind is.
You know I'm not generalizing.

You ask...

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He is a schizophrenic. 
And of course, which expert is saying this to me?
A person who has never met a schizophrenic, of course,
She might not...

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To whom it may concern,
When will be the day when political thoughts will evolve, when racism can stop and end this brutality and call it...

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I watch women leave with assorted bodies, bulky purses, proudly displaying their newly-done up rainbow hair, blue streak hair, purple yarn hair, six braid in...

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labels
not designer
not sewn in
attached firmly and instantly 
seen clearly upon arrival.
Sadly...

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There once was a math teacher
well-versed in singing
"We have many ways to learn."

Eyes
and ears,
Touch
and feelings,
Tastes
and smells
each looking for redundant
polypathic messages
from polyphonic Others.

The math teacher
was conservative
about...

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Title: What’s Bugging Me – WBM

People who make quick assessments
Who never bring the refreshments
They make me so mad
Being such a cad
I give them none of...

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Dressy reindeer was given a marvelous outfit to wear.
To show off to the rest of the herd, most amazed and aware.
She was something special, a...

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Global warming
Polar bears do not have a name for it
They have not read about it in Geographic
But they are dying anyway

Pollution of our oceans
Whales are...

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She would not understand specificity
If it bit her in the ****,
If it smacked her in the eye, or if it
Rolled her around in a bed.

“All...

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speak up
life is not fair
women are discounted
not equal in so many ways
speak up


speak up
life is difficult
seasoned workers are invisible in the work place
ignored and bullied
speak...

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