Best Mortgaging Poems

1. Big Brother
Big Brother's protecting his mice
with a secret eavesdropping device.
          If you hang up the phone
          he'll just send in a drone
when a warrant won't really...

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Planning your demise is like 
tip-toeing on a tight rope    
realising there's no net
challenging a 
speeding car and
daring it to stop
mortgaging your manhood
amassing liabilities with no program of repayment
leaping to the wrong conclusions
leaning toward self-delusions
indulging in the same old 
self-defeating speculations
endorsing self-destruction...

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Money pours out the door as we buy presents for loved ones
and spend on food and drink three or four times more than usual.
Mortgaging ourselves for the next six months. Yet! Why?
To load family with more unwanted goods and thicker waist lines?
To drink past the...

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These days, you just gotta be so aware,
always on the alert ... busy looking around
Harm you might step into, so sniff the air ...
dog trouble’s out there laying snares down

Even when things appear harmless as can be,
keep a sharp watch out for a rude intrude
‘Cause...

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Business before pleasure
Are you a big spender
Mortgaging your heart
For lustful endeavors
Straddling your bottom line
Leveraged with burgundy wine
She wants a quick merger
Before your numbers decline...

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As Swedish lightning enters
Renders day from deepest night
And (soulful) wishers beg
Mortgaging their tearful fortunes
For an ounce of pure spiritual bullion
With happy veins glistening
Truth, honor, sufficient respect
Among the smelted ore
Ready for mold and use
Pass me down
The spirit roars
Throw me selflessly into the frenzy
That needs the slightest...

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Most mind boggling mysterious mortal

Mystification prevails stupefying yours truly
befuddled, he blindly stumbles along rocky
pathway illusory impediments strewn helter
skelter intangible obstructions hinder access
psychological barricades effective impasse

detains, deters, detours manhood maturation
manumission manifestation materialization
linkedin, when permanent submission arises
beckoning corporeal leaden entity into avast
eternal realm, where material disintegration

promises venerable...

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after years of working &
raising the kids, whom both adopted,
ended up with problems that came from
undisclosed heredity,
the two had put aside a 
nest egg, as so many did 
in their generation,
growing up with parents who
remembered the depression &
what it was like to have nothing---
hearing everyday...

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Liberals with a credit card
Debts they’ll never pay
Mortgaging our future
The present now ‘in play’

Conservatives with a checkbook
The balance no concern
Hope now bouncing downward,
—when will we ever learn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Planning your demise is like 

tip-toeing on a tight rope    

realising there's no net

challenging a 

speeding car and

daring it to stop

mortgaging your manhood

amassing liabilities with no program of repayment

leaping to the wrong conclusions

leaning toward self-delusions

indulging in the same old 

self-defeating speculations

endorsing self-destruction...

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Liberals with a credit card,
Debts they’ll never pay
Mortgaging our future,
The present now ‘in play’

Conservatives with a checkbook,
The balance no concern
Hope now bouncing downward
  —when will we ever learn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Planning your demise is like 
walking on a tight rope    
realizing there's no net
challenging a 
speeding car and
daring it to stop
mortgaging your manhood
amassing liabilities 
with no program of repayment
leaping to the wrong conclusions
leaning toward self-delusions
indulging in the same old self-
defeating speculations
endorsing self-destruction...

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Memories are expensive
spent on looking back
Unpaid moments lost in time
debts for what we lack
Overdue nostalgia
debiting supreme
Clouded statements left unrhymed
—mortgaging our dreams

(Dreamsleep: May, 2023)...

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If Africans were enslaved that time
bought, sold as goods and maimed
carried away to work as ancient robots
they would be wise today

If Africans were colonized that time
harassed, robbed, some ancestors deleted
and wealth looted to build cities, metropolis
they would be wise today

If Africans were racially segregated that...

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Angel of mercy please intercede

Weakest most lame specimen
among human breed
control of my life I willingly concede
wordless son of a gun fires off 
following capricious poetic deed 
done dirt cheap while 
traveling highway to hell
the speed limit I did not exceed,
nevertheless pressing pedal to metal
found me...

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