Dustheap Poems | Examples


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Old Man In a Bar, Me

sexy couple shooting pool
what was that covetousness rule?
when am i going to get over this?
in the back of my mind, memories of bliss
keep me looking, well attached
until this longing body is dispatched
to the dustheap, while this mind
propelled into bardo, still looking behind
at all the ties that bind...

Nobody Cries For the Worker

Nobody cried for the worker

he left a pile of bills a

a rusty cage of body 

cry old soul

forgotten memories  

ashes of historys dustheap

real movers and shakers 

the cries are made 

but never heard.

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