Best Stiffs Poems

From Monday through Friday
We come to work - and work and work…

No fun allowed
No smiles, no jokes
It’s a serious job
Our work that we work…

No horsing...

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This was only our second date...

A Black Tie Affair...

...Set against an incredible view,
vineyards, waterfalls,
a plentitude of flower beds,
all just outside a charming postcard Town.

This indeed...

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Abominable holiday season greeting to the have-nots me and you
Bombshell tabloid sleigh bells got those ear holes ringing
Cut the tax gift wrap ribbon, only good...

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Pilfered Soulless House

Pilfered dawn occasions a soulless house, bruised
appeals innocence whilst porch screen once tended,
concedes whispers of dust calm quest...

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Ossenburger, the business genius, 
when he graduated from college, 
he started a budget mortuary service.

Five dollars a corpse!
He was the Wal-Mart of death.
Burry ‘em, burn...

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World without words will wear worse' worth 
People provoke power points
By being born before bondage 
- Bond by beliefs, base, bone...

Brotherhood-base borders bonafide-bliss
Be beuty-bench backing...

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I’d like to discuss the manners of crow,
That dine on the roads where cars come and go.

They peck at road kill without forks or knives,
But...

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I could write to you about what it feels like to be
unhinged, untethered, to float on a breeze of malintent
But what would it matter to...

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now the big hoilday
comes our way
tho love we win
and tho who brought us
from dust
we remember with our
gifts theyer not just stiffs
no need you fess
its that...

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It's my body, and I'll cry if I want to!
Lie if I want to!
Die if I want to!
You might die too if I come near...

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people power will take the day,
 from the rich and petty way,
will it, fairness for all,
 give the master taste of gall,
the poor to own...

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In the arctic tundra live strange critters
called lemming that, legend says, jump off cliffs. 
Their fate's enough to give one the jitters,
imagine finding all those...

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Ah! For the good old days when you could fill the tank for a dollar.
If folks paid more'n a quarter a gallon, my, how they'd...

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the rich, the poor and the middle class
an invisible subliminal system of caste
we are suppose to be a nation of freedom and opportunity
a democratic society...

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 A Footle Murder Mystery

The sleuth
in truth
Was miffed.
The stiffs,
As such,
Weren’t much;
No clue 
In view
To find
This kind
Of crook,
Who took
The stash
Of cash
Then wrote
A note
To tell
How swell
(Misspelt!)
He felt.

“It’s...

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