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Vapidity of a Salaried Life
Everyday repeat,
Going to office, come home
Salaried life bores....

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Categories: salaried, confusion, emotions, how i
Form: Haiku



I Am Out of Breath
(In the light of humanity- Oh,
I’m out of breath, I feel suffocated
I cannot breathe, though no Cov-19 infects me
Yes, truly I cannot breathe now

On this...

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Categories: salaried, humanity, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Basin Plugs In a Bap
Power points of dimensional spinning graphs are largely placed in cement viewfinders in aerated office space with dome foam chairs. Dome foam chairs are the...

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Categories: salaried, animal,
Form: I do not know?
Desolation Row
Kids of today, we here them say, no respect, what do you expect
Always hanging around on the streets, doing nothing and nothing to do
Is it...

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Categories: salaried, kids, drug,
Form: I do not know?
Better Household Income
??

Over there in the rural countryside where I'm  at currently....
Gravel road, water and electrical woes are challenges daily....

Hardly any economic activities that bring in...

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Categories: salaried, betrayal, community, crazy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse



Limn of Adult Life
After getting a world class education
and a promise of renewed life
We supposedly enter a life of endless opporunity

A high salaried job becomes the life's expectation
add...

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Categories: salaried, life, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Hypocritical Politicians
Hypocritical Politicians

One cannot but agree about diplomacy being all hypocrisy...
Those who double talk and sugar coat their  wordings...
Are actually buying for time for double...

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Categories: salaried, anger, betrayal, community, education,
Form: Free verse
Homelessness Isn'T Always Hard
it's a good thing
it's summertime

a gentle night breeze
stirs the air above me.

as I stretch out 
just below the stone
wall that encircles
the hallowed ground.

I am surprisingly
comfy...

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Categories: salaried, faith, inspirational, life, social,
Form: Free verse
Sassy Sobriquets Schooled Sissy Spindleshanks
Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious skinny scruffy scribe

Scathing, scolding, screaming,
scorning, searing, sing,
sociopathic sarin soaked skewed
squirt, sputtering, squawking, sleepily
staggering, stabbing, swaggering
sweltering sadistic, sarcastic,

savage, systemically systematically
stigmatized, supersized...

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Categories: salaried, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lady With the Pink Fuzzy Floppy Hat
If you ever espy a latitudinally
and longitudinally challenged
older yet shopping savvy woman,
(wedded to yours truly
for almost twenty six years),
who stands approximately
four feet and ten inches
a...

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Categories: salaried, character, color, cute, freedom,
Form: Free verse
The Clock
the worst enemy of the worker---
it stares back at you ticking away
informing quietly 
of every single second, minute, hour
that you will never ever get back...

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Categories: salaried, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Every Teacher a Dictionary
Every teacher is a dictionary
Biology teacher is biology dictionary
History teacher is a history journal
Arts teacher is a Michelangelo alive

Every one of them own dictionary
Each an...

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Categories: salaried, education, irony, teacher,
Form: Imagism
Strange Human Race
Strange, strange the character of the human race

We, the human race on the earth is very strange -

The precious jingling anklet we wear on our...

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Categories: salaried, life,
Form: Free verse
Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks
Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe

My utmost humblest apology
for inducing the following
cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium,
but the cost of friendship
with yours truly...

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Categories: salaried, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks
I wanna trade in my stubby spindleshanks...,

(a poor excuse for legs),
and get me the latest
sophisticated prosthetics advancements,
whereat integration of cultured stem cells
into custom made appendages
allows,...

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Categories: salaried, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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