Best Unlisted Poems

Invested, unrested, the minutes appear shorter everyday
  Infected, unprotected not liking the games they play

 Rated, unmotivated everyone seems to know their part
  Hated, unrelated figured it all out from the start

 Addicted, unlisted in the book of their super-secret code
  Inflicted,...

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Alas it seems my list has been curtailed
as half my list has been unjustly jailed
all those naughty bits
challenging my wits
I’ve tried and tried again yet always failed


John G. Lawless
©8/3/2019...

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No matter you’re not in the phone book
and you pay with cash, not checks;
no matter if you dress in the faded
worn-out rags that were all she left;

no matter if you wrap yourself in cobwebs
and drive a three-wheeled wreck;
no matter if you give up your martinis
and...

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She never called back.?
I kept the faith, kept hoping.?
In the end I stopped trying.?
I went to a priest,?
he had not heard anything either,?
I guess cell phones?
don’t reach God
yet....

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