Best Well Meaning Poems

I'm writing to you, youth of today, hoping you will read my words of advice. I know you think you've heard it all many times before, the well-meaning counsel from others, but don't tune me out just yet, and please don't roll your eyes at...

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Had we but oil enough and gas,
All welfare bill would easily pass,
And we’d be spending hard, I bet,
Without incurring any debt.
You, on the Moon, would keep your bees
And tend to Martian refugees;
And I would sleep all day, in mirth,
Upon the lap of Mother Earth.
And I...

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Don’t despair, his editor would say,
fame will come and soon one day.
So don’t give up; patience enhances.
Keep writing, your time is near.
And, by-the-way, to this give ear:
Suicide will only kill your chances
not to mention your career....

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