Best Roommate Poems

This is no joke,
Ever since I moved to this place,
My roommate always competes with me,
In everything that I do,
Doesn't matter what,
Like I study she studies too,
I cook, she cooks at the same time,
I get up to go to the bathroom, 
Se races me before I...

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Unhealthy human body, fighting its owner, in need of a Goldsmith
months of hygiene malpractice, now counting as the sixth,
his blanket of microflora possesses a morgue beneath
weeks without touching water, despite the pretense quite stealth
one, five, seven, nine; already getting umpteenth.
From 03:18am to 20:16 hours; the...

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Roommate mosquito
waits for me to hit the sack
turns to a vampire,
my hand strikes as a hammer,
it flies out, I break my neck.

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August : 30, 2021
Contest : A Buggy Tanka Contest
Sponsor : M.L. Kiser...

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That room; 
And the bathroom too, 
She made them alien territory. 
My petty sentiments kicked in, 
And made me a slave to my roommate. 

The scented atmosphere, stockings; 
Frilly brassieres in plain sight, 
And blouses bright as gardens—thrilling,
But foreign!
Lo, an invasive roommate. 

Some mornings she...

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(none fiction)

A roommate from hell, I will never forget.
It first started out nice until "he" was touch 
by a demon from hell.
We became enemies, I figured what the hell.
That's when I realized it was touched by the demon from hell.
He was possess and seduce by...

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Roommate is on my plate
Dropping herself into my grits
Little flecks of warm porridge splash into my eyes

It is one of Trixie’s assistant muses
She has a killer smile and rainbow hair
Hi she greets me with telepathy

Lump of eggs rises 
I see two glowing green eyes
Getting higher...

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there is a cotton feeling to it:
the same sheets
            the same bed
                      ...

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It’s the Thursday morning before valentine’s day. Lisa and I are scrambling to get out of our suite. We share an Organic Biochemistry class and we’re running a hot minute late. As we pulled on our shoes Lisa asked me, “Do you have fun Valentine's...

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When your baby leaves home you are either overjoyed or sad.
I was overjoyed, until I could not reach her on her phone for days,
and then a week, and then ten days.
Her roommate said her stuff was there, but 
“I never see her.” 

I asked if...

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I couldn’t sleep. I was lying in bed watching the patterns reflected moonlight made on my ceiling when I heard the faint beep of the kitchen microwave. I smelled popcorn.

I decided to fill up my water bottle and see who was up. I slipped on...

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(a story in senryu stanzas)

I get migraines.
- lucky me - glare can set me
off within seconds.

I always have a
pair of dark, polarized shades
with me - it’s a quirk.

When I was fourteen,
we lived in Shenzhen, China
very near Macau.

Macau, China, the
“Las Vegas” of Asia, is
the home of...

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The "poem length police have nabbed me again - so I had to put my new piece
"Sunny" 
in the story story section.

Here's the URL:
https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/sunny_9449...

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Leong (one of my roommates) squirms up to me at breakfast, in the cafeteria.

“May I ask..,” she said, looking around like a secret agent getting ready to make a dead-drop, “what contraceptives do you use?”

I thought this an odd question from someone who just broke...

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I posted a new story poem - too long for here - look under short stories

Maybe this link will work…
https://www.poetrysoup.com/short_stories/lunch_crush_9333...

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My houseplant committed suicide.
It came out of the blue - or at least - I didn’t catch the signs.

I’d put it on my window ledge so it could catch some sun
- it appeared to be having a good time.

I brushed it with my elbow -...

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