Best Rid Of Poems

You distract me from where I want to be
You destroy my life as well as those around me
You deceive my family, putting false promises in their way
You demolish my friends, watching their lives crumble away

I am determined to get rid of you
I am desiring to kick you out of my house
To say goodbye to you...

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(This poem is not directed at innocent spouses)

Chlamydia   

Chlamydia, Chlamydia,
How do we get rid of ya.?

Take up painting,
Stay at home.
Learn to play the saxophone.

Raise Chihuahuas.
Learn cabinetry.
Take ballet lessons,
Make furniture for the family.

Write a novel,
Even if it stinks,
Don’t drown yourself in alcoholic drinks.

Write a poem
Raise a horse.
Cleaning up the stable,
Will keep you on course.

Stop...

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Church Be Rid Of

They died and went to heaven above;
Where each one can enjoy God's love;
Was such a scare;
Bullets everywhere;
Church decided to destroy and are rid of....

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You cant get rid of your shadow 

Its always there on the wall

The movement of sunlight makes it flow

It dances whenever you call

It rises forever in the daybreak

Gripping every corners edge

Sets in the sundown of its wake

Finding us in every slope and ledge

We always look behind us 

To catch a glimpse of its cover

But when...

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A Haibun

I tell you no one wanted that car. We kept it parked in the driveway for years while we made payments on Saturns and bought Subarus and Hondas and tried to ignore it. Meanwhile, I would drive it once a week to Trader Joe's or the Beaverton Library.

driver's door opens
chains pulled across pipes
runs great,...

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Having lived as long as I have, this cluttered head
can't find any space to breathe and make me think;
ideas and thoughts never used won't run as ink
and leave beautiful words for others to read.

No task is easy and getting rid of clutter might be ideal,
doing multiple tasks leaves little time for a busy mind to...

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we are living in an age when people would rather cover 
their ass than think about what they say,
when people would rather try to censor the way we speak
than look at the reasons that we say the things that we
do &
kids are getting the full beating treatment,
as schools in nyc are proposing a new ban...

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To Get Rid of Something

I was listening to the bug exterminator
Commercial. This Horn Haiku came to
mind.

Can exterminate;
Completely eradicate,
And eliminate.

When you want to get rid of something, 
this is what you have to end up doing.
After all of this has happened, the problem
is no longer there.

Jim Horn...

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Somethings are listed as a bargain
they make it sound so fine
"You can buy this for under thirty bucks"!
Whats the price?  $29.99.

Wow, that's a whole penny
there's no way you can lose.
with the money you'll be saving
how could you refuse?

The current price of Gasoline
is $2.68 and nine-tenths
why not make it $2.69
wouldn't that make more sense?

The extra...

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Here I lie in Ramona,
sick with the virus Corona.
     I feel like hell
     and cannot smell,
but glad I don't have pneumonia.

In five days' time, I finally felt fine:
Free from the virus Corona.
     Then again it hit,
     now I'm sick...

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i see your anger
from the cold-hearted ego basher
but you can't get rid of me

i see your suspicion
from the unexpected action
but you can't get rid of me

i see your wonder
from everything under cover
but you can't get rid of me

i see your hope
from the new ways to cope
but you can't get rid of me

i see your thankfulness
from...

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Vivian, my eighty-years-seasoned neighbor, called Vi, is a mystery only to those who did not return her first cheerful “hi”.
She is an open-book person, ready to love and accept everyone.  I met Vi the first day I was out in my yard building a rock garden, two days after moving in.  She came...

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God Get Rid of Trump

Made Trump president and it did madden;
Then seemed so silent and would sadden;
Perturb,
And disturb;
Should get rid of Trump  and us gladden.

Jim Horn...

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Are We Trying To Get Rid Of God?

Why is our country trying to remove 
God from “everything?”
Do we think about the consequences this will bring?

Our early fathers looked to him for a “moral direction.”
But now we’re burdened down 
with “political correction.”

When our country’s leaders signed the constitution…
They had no idea this paper would cause so...

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Rid of You

You were an anchor tied to my feet
sinking me down into your dark sea.
You thought that I could not be complete
without you, but wow! Now I can be me.

It’s great to be free of your frustrating ways:
all your sulking and moaning and putting me down.
You brought me a world in mere varying grays...

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