Work Chicago Poems
These Work Chicago poems are examples of Chicago poems about Work. These are the best examples of Chicago Work poems written by international poets.
U Can 2U can 2 was on the license plate of my
store manager brown Benz where a dead man
was found in the trunk Alston Isadore...
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Categories:
business, chicago, death, film,
My Serial KillerI didn't know him as a serial not exactly
at least not at first even though I'd overheard
the plotting of arson from a dim...
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Categories:
anxiety, chicago, literature, peace,
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all...
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Categories:
chicago, america, beautiful, black african
Final PrayersChicago's new mayor just proposed
another plan to put a heavy load
on us beleaguered taxpayers --
We'd...
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Categories:
business, chicago, people, political,
Johnny Rocko the Chicago SalesmanJohnny Rocko was born to be a salesman.
His words are breezy.
He has a devil-may-care attitude.
His ways are playful and jaunty.
He is the pied piper of...
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Categories:
chicago, work,
What Is Astonishing You In UsaFirst time to be in USA, I think I am still in South Africa,
More things resemble,
Let me tell you Americans and South Africans, ...
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Categories:
abuse, africa, america, chicago,
ValentinesI thought today I could make it work
it wasn’t so much the sadness
as lightness
as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi
as broken arrows across the ascended
the...
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Categories:
chicago, heartbreak, identity, lonely, longing,
'the City That Works'Five business days and counting
since the last mail delivery
Remember Chicago? - 'The City that Works?'
An epidemic now rages, of...
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Categories:
chicago, time, work,
The Chicago StockyardsThe tracks long abandoned now
weeds growing between their rails
tracks that once brought sheep and cows
thousands of workers with lunch pails
The stockyards...
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Categories:
animal, chicago, history, men,
Heading To Chicago On a Commuter TrainThey are looking out tiny boxes
traveling toward the city from the suburbs
wearing tennis shoes on their tired feet
Many have left their dress shoes at...
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Categories:
chicago, city, people, work,
The OfficeJungle clamour
Banter twisted like vines
Lions with psyche scars
Monkeys as crackpot sleuths
Snakes in a labyrinth guise
Parrots preen an oily beauty
Giraffes creak in rumpled posture
Immersive labelling
My colleagues...
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Categories:
animal, business, career, chicago,
Car-Jack and JillJill decided she'd live a life of crime
Profitable way to spend all her time --
Gang boss said, "Learn to Carjack
And we'll...
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Categories:
car, chicago, work,
Killed In Chicago, 8 Years Old
~Who Was She~
The little...
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Categories:
chicago, america, black african american,
Violence Equals ErosionVIOLENCE EQUALS EROSION
by
JOHN M. ARROBAS
There Was a Time in this Great Land
You Could Voice an Opinion, Take a Stand
That Right Is Eroding in this Great...
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Categories:
america, angst, chicago, freedom,
Chicago Life 101Life 101 was taught to me in an old mansion in inner-city Chicago. ...
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Categories:
care, chicago, house,