Sympathy Discrimination Poems

Hate Vacuuming?

By Mark Stucky
Vacuum cleaners are pneumatic nobles,
built to cleanse our offices and homes,
sucking dust from floors and crevices
to discard in trash cans
(where dirt belongs).

What...

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Hey, Billy you walked among the blind,
they had no reason to be kind;
hey, Billy you carried no single weight on your shoulders,
and saw no street...

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Too many listen and give in to domestic terrorism/
Home’s a wreck and terror’s risen for our children/
Most don’t inspect many carry on missing radicalism in...

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So sad for me is human ignorance, painful disdain can be sworn
For men and women who feel unnatural in the way they were born
Why is...

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"A hand that gives receives" 

Sad ! Sad to see we've been reduced to nothing but beggars
Lining up on the streets to receive 
The same...

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I know the difference
between cooperatively intended sympathy
and solidarity of empathy
more easily articulated
by identifying sympathy's antithesis
as dissociation.

Sympathetic feelings
may be captured by:

Twinkle twinkle 
little star
how I wonder...

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anger in your eyes
crimson are your lips
ivory is your skin 
sweet is your sin 
smooth are your hips 
Bitter bitter are your lies...

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A people person made to not like people
I've known the worst ones, spiteful, evil,

I gave sympathy
they pointed out the wimp in me

I gave time
they mocked...

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in mind thoughts are waste
           heartbeats at hummingbird pace
      ...

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Glory, glory, hear my story, it’s time for me to tell
oratory of a gory crime; for I must dwell
pre-purgatory ‘til I’m hoary slime in hell.

Jury,...

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Being seen 
With poker face
Mistaken 
As who does not give a damn

Cool and distant
Unfriendly aura
On the way
With people's stares and whispers
That she is a bad...

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Two Worlds

He sits in a room, 
with a TV and crayons. 
She sits in a room, 
with tech and friends. 

He is not unhappy. 
She...

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What a matter of pity!
brain activity
what kind of duty! its 
morality!

It's a matter of sympathy
need empathy
No no! it's not a matter of
traditional treatment
Be a refugee...

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Whatever happened to Jansports and Tevas 
-By the fire side and courage the cowardly dog 
The unending episodes of the famous five 
-And ice pellets...

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This empty callous country of ghosts
That has drained into a polluted ocean of regret
Where vain venomous demons rise from the constitutional Sea
Swallowing our political fire...

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