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Best In The Gutter Poems


My Life In the Gutter
My life that never goes to sleep
And kills me everyday
My life that always pulls me in too deep
And leaves me with this price to pay

My life that always falls into pieces
And suffocates my happiness everyday
My life and my heart that continuelly creases
And my depression that...

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Categories: in the gutter, sad, life, me, life,
Form: Canzone
Water In the Gutter
It is two o’clock and the sun is shining.
Its  rays are shimmering on the ground.
The rain had come with perfect timing.
School is out, and boys fooling around.

The rays are reflected from high above
and the rain has fallen at the usual time.
Why does it happen...

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Categories: in the gutter, childhood, rain, water, rain,
Form: Rhyme
In the Gutter
You say you are braver, superior, smarter,
Your pride, ever swollen, has poisoned the air.
In fact, you are already deep in the gutter,
You've merged with the shades of the earthly despair.

Your crave for respect, much more cash, a career,
But luck's velvet fingers won't grant you a...

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Categories: in the gutter, life, people, philosophy, satire,
Form: Rhyme

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Blood In the Gutter
Eating bowls of dying meat
                      sucking poison which taste sweet.
              ...

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Categories: in the gutter, confusion, death, death, death,
Form: Ballade
Growing Up In the Gutter
Where I grew up,
Dysfunction was viewed as normal
Normal was viewed as dysfunction
               Where I grew up,
My family was just like the streets
 The streets were just like My family
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Categories: in the gutter, life, recovery from..., sad,
Form: Lyric
The Man Out In the Gutter
The great God Almighty showed a man in a dream one night
that he'd die out in the gutter if he didn't change his plight,
with ants crawling in his mouth and flies sucking up his blood.
Just one more drink would do it--Satan gave the final shove.
Death...

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Categories: in the gutter, abuse, death, drink, fate,
Form: Rhyme




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