Best Twenty Percent Poems

new nation to craft
founding fathers sought to draft
a declaration of independence
document that made sense

Thomas Jefferson sought to free slaves
but was warned not to make waves
five...

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"Baby, this view is fantastic, 
Who knew what you could buy with plastic! 
With these credit cards, unlimited funds, 
Any regrets, heck no, baby I...

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I lay in my hospital bed after giving birth, Could hear the murdering, raping 
Hutus approaching my bed
My baby was no more. They ravaged me....

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We’re complaining about life and throwing food away,
But there’s nearly 800 million people going hungry in the world today.
Over 150 million children involved in child...

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Waiting in line, 
Before the ATM of closed banks for 60 Euros to withdraw under the scourging sun  
Old and invalid people are submitted...

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The World has been playing a game
Oh what a shame
The world has been playing a game
This is insane
Leaders come and leaders go
Leaving me to continue...

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What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was...

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Their numbers drawn, the backwards lottery
Almost none were aware they were playing

Assaulted by the poisons that save them 
Hairless children with steroid-swollen cheeks
Feared stigmata of...

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An empty bottle
leaves twenty percent guilt
and ten percent regret.





Paddi March
Philosophical...

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Have you ever heard of the eighty twenty rule 
Well that was created for a lot of us fools
In a relationship you re only getting...

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Alleys strewn with endless trash...
Discarded needles as broken glass
Shopping carts, these cornerstones
Of make shift homes; enslaved lives
Beaten hearts, grime clad children
Running wild; adorning downtown 
Parks...

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coney island
bay parkway
prospect park
sheepshead bay

place eighty percent 
of my ashes 
where they were once 
most happy

and twenty percent 
mail to the IRS
return receipt 
requested...

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-In 2008, a massive recall of peanuts thought to be contaminated with bacteria occured. Not 
very many people became ill, and only twenty percent of...

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The Income Tax Audit

By Elton Camp

Perry boasted how the IRS he so loved to cheat
But found that he should’ve been more discreet
When a neighbor notified...

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There is no excuse for ignorance
You must know when you were born
There is no excuse for ignorance
You are sucking the energy out of the popcorn
And...

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