Best Zip Code Poems

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Contaminated water
For a few more dollars
Immoral power

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Red Zone
No loans
Where are the politicians with a backbone?

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Confrontation
Discrimination
Forced incrimination

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Dirty streets
Vociferous beats
Too shallow to be deep

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Higher prices
Thinner slices
This is a major crisis

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High unemployment
Super high rent
What! It’s just a misprint?

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Clean streets
Cushioned seats
But they're...

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Love’s Zip Code
By Rick Rucker

Do you wonder what Love is worth?
For me, more than anything on Earth,

It will make your heart fly 'round,
Though your feet be on the ground.

Once you find your Love so true,
You will always want it inside you.

When I tell some how...

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Zip-Code Pi
(The Sweet Flesh of Temptation)
David J Walker

Zip-code Pi 
Is where I will 
receive my mail

Mark it eternal 
Where the white-gowned crowd
With pipe cleaner halos 

Cleanse and censor every lens 
And line to erase
Any reference to God’s mistake

Making our bodies so holy that
Not even we...

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Wearing a snapback on the highway,
cherry-stained lips from a sno-cone.
I fill in the blank ‘Zip code hooray’.

I have been waiting to leave all day.
It’s finally time and my mind is blown,
wearing a snapback on the highway.

Cannot work this hard and not play,
carrying a bag and...

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