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Deductible Poems - Poems about Deductible

Premium MemberShake your shoes out

...Make sure you shake your shoes out before putting them on.
they make excellent overnight campsites for vagabond crawlers.
I once got bit by something (i suspect a spider)
on the long toe of my lef...
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Categories: deductible, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberQuantum Challenged VI

..."Referencing an old poetic imagism sort of poem I wrote some four years ago--almost to the day---wherein lies a paradox," ... by The Poet. 

MIRROR, MIRROR 

I was in a room,
there, I sa...
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Categories: deductible, analogy,
Form: Imagism



Premium Memberpickups

...It sits out in your driveway
a glittering metallic sculpture.
It costs more than your house,
you love it more than your spouse.
You can hardly drive it, it’s too high,
you can barely park it, it...
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Categories: deductible, addiction, beautiful, technology, travel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberChristmas Stocking Stuffers

...Pity the Poor Octopus
The octopus is a curious creature
With eight long tentacles his most outstanding feature.
But because of his oddly shaped cephalopod bod,
He's not one of those who lo...
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Categories: deductible, christmas,
Form: Other

Minor Damage

...A cat runs across the road,
then a rabbit, then a deer.
I look left, a barn is airborne,
it flies away in slow motion,
boards silently flapping.

We have a deductible of $500, you say.
A gull ...
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Categories: deductible, poetry,
Form: Free verse



You Made This

...We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex wakes in a drop of amber, takes a look around,
decides to go e...
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Categories: deductible, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The New Normal

...We have seen every ghastly act and recorded it.
Grisly deeds yellow in archives waiting to be refined and improved.
Tyrannosaurus Rex awakes in a drop of amber, takes a look around,
decides to go ...
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Categories: deductible, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Corruption

...CORRUPTION
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Now that I’m approaching the final inning
I need to re assess the ideas I had at the beginning
I thought that if you were altruistic and right
That alone was t...
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Categories: deductible, character, corruption, integrity, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Death By Insurance

...Death by Insurance

She sits in her car,
in the parking lot
of  the emergency room,

with the worst stomach ache of her life.

Watching the fluorescent lights rhythmically blink,
she blinks ...
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Categories: deductible, bereavement, confusion, introspection, meaningful,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Minor Damage

...A cat runs across the road,
then a rabbit, then a deer.
I look left, a barn is airborne,
it flies away in slow motion,
boards silently flapping.

We have a deductible of $400, you say.
A gull ...
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Categories: deductible, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The Television Evangalist

...He could suck joy out of a daisy,
turn a Spring day to dust and grit.
His belief was a second-hand fire-sale.

His wife practiced adultery,
gamely trying to perfect the craft.
She would join hi...
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Categories: deductible, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Dystopian Reality

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Shattered bottled up dreams
strewn in callous fashion,
litter those Tobacco roads
of man-made poverty
Cancerous amorality
is the accepted dystopian reality
Majority rule by the metal...
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Categories: deductible, allegory, dark, imagery, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Theater of Utter Charm Part 20

...any fool can be a philosopher
and it's not that big a deal
to be an Oracle either
we all notice more than we let on
so much is kept from us
to lessen disruption is the scam
while time disrupts ...
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Categories: deductible, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Have Seen Enough

...I have seen enough and have to speak out
These health insurance companies making money off people
Is so disturbing and beyond words.
People with less money cannot keep up with these premiums,
Ded...
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Categories: deductible, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTax Time

...Tax Time

File by April 15th,
avoid penalty and interest.

Declare all income from: 
          gainful employment
          investments
          state refunds
          poker winnings
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Categories: deductible, april,
Form: Free verse

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