Ersatz Poems - Poems about Ersatz

Welcome. I'm the one they left behind. An alter ego of sorts— just the keeper, the inventory clerk, interim ghost. New items arrive every day— spat out from my boss's pockets, sometimes still wet, still ticking. I stack them in corners. I don't ask where they've been. This way, please: to the Room of Poorly Considered Promises— frayed friendship bracelets, a mixtape of second thoughts, a half-cooked wishbone...

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It is a tale of love concerning an event of a story once upon a time beholden nature as it is couldn't resist such a mystery the forests, rivers moon and mountains were resonating to consternations of which site once upon found if it were a golden search the world would have been reporting a narration may be concerning her own ah! life were seeming to...

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Joseph Robinette Biden now commander in chief yay manning ship of state tossing anchors aweigh heavily pierced tattooed donning sheepish pirate(s) at heady roiling waterway fending off trolling rapscallion much more thrilling than watching cabaret January twenty first two thousand twenty one marks his first full day wherein Oval Office finally flushed, ousted, and zapped, whose paternal ancestry begat genealogical linkedin émigré name unknown, nevertheless one Johann Trump born within Bobenheim am Berg,...

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Chauvinistic men with a false sense of pride drum their chests repeatedly like a gorilla standing upright arrogantly proclaiming themselves the kings of the universe bragging to anyone who would listen how men run the world and hold it up like Atlas. They sure love to boast. They'd boast about anything under the sun: how...

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After three decades and a kicking more, I deem it glaring waste and blatant loss To play sad part of second servile fiddle In elite cadres agleam with ersatz gloss. Whatever charged scrolls attuned to pelt With loaded deterrents deft souls that try, I now must with age's ever-tightening belt Stand to trite spites and their swipes defy. Despite your puffed plots...

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Substitute happiness modeled on material things Buy new iterations of the same every seasonal change Improved, your life will be from promises of acquisition guarantee Ersatz ecstasy ... cankered desires rotting the spirit from within Manufactured joy bought with paper and plastic Non-biodegradable debris tossed away in a cobweb attic If every item sold be advertised as perfection, why don’t the products last forever? Ersatz...

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Prime Minister Netanyahu Present Knesset, Likud Jew Said Jews have duel capitals: Jerusalem with armed control And the city of Tel Aviv. Who is this ruler called “Bibi” Who rejects the peace summit talks? With his constant thwarting and balks And a recent turn of events By slating sixteen settlements On the Palestinians land. Too long has he the upper hand: A status quo that rules the...

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