Teenagers
...Teenagers
Tired of being harassed
By your stupid parents
Act now
Stuppidly wanted
Pack your bags and your irrigants
Get up off your ass
Get a job
Fill out an application
Pay your ow...
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Categories:
fill out, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Thank You For Calling
...Thank you for calling Your Destruction.
If you’re calling to bring forth your personal hell, press 1.
If you’re calling for emotional devastation, press 2.
If you’re calling to enact physica...
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Categories:
fill out, dark, depression, humor,
Form: Free verse
On the Body's Decision to Become a Freight Elevator
...
I didn't fill out any paperwork.
There was no memo, no consent form.
Just a nameless morning when the mirror refused
to acknowledge anything above my collarbone.
After that, people entered m...
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Categories:
fill out, age, extended metaphor,
Form: Haibun
Alice
...Alice
I got my draft notice in 1971
Nam was winding down
I didn’t wanna go.
So, I started hummin a song,
just a few bars mind you
about Alice, you remember
Alice. This is a song about Alice...
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Categories:
fill out, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
American Word Games
...They call it social welfare
when it is for the poor
To help the ones who have grown old
or sick and have no cure
They scream they don’t want taxes
and the richest scream the most
But it ...
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Categories:
fill out, political, words,
Form: Rhyme
Open Enrollment
...It’s November and it’s that time of the year for Open Enrollment for health care coverage. Yeah, this happens in November, but the good news is, God has Open Enrollment year round. Open enrollment me...
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Categories:
fill out, blessing, encouraging, god, health,
Form: Narrative
Senryu'd too
....
found i in hern bed
the nymph's panties side mine head
stretched now be mine neck
*Senryu: pronounced; sen-re(u)
*"you'd too" if ya seen her ...
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Categories:
fill out, humor,
Form: Senryu
I Can't Get There
...
On a Friday morning at ten, you say?
But our bus doesn’t go out on that day.
I can do Tuesdays but never at one.
Only in the morning does our bus run.
How about a Thursday AM at ten?
What? ...
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Categories:
fill out, angst, conflict, humor, retirement,
Form: Rhyme
I Cry For The Children
...I cry for the boys who just need to be left to be themselves
To play and explore, take risks and learn the hard way
With peers, and fathers and grandfathers
Getting the role models they need and d...
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Categories:
fill out, child, mentor, perspective, social,
Form: Narrative
N I H
...Just to see the doc, you have to fill out a questionnaire.
It's an N.I.H. mandate that really isn't fair.
You're required to cry your heart out, and list every secret,
And hope the ones reading ...
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Categories:
fill out, health,
Form: Rhyme
Turning Pages
...Every once in a while,
I slow down.
I don't think I even mean to,
but you do something to make me pause.
For a moment,
I tune out the hustle and bustle,
the beautiful chaos that lives in our...
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Categories:
fill out, mother son,
Form: Free verse
MY GOD HE DOES WONDERFUL THINGS FOR ME-
...Feed me Lord Prime hungry and thirsty
Fill out my try for I am seeking you Worthy
Come cleanse me now for I am so dirty
Release Me Now I promise to be holy
My God has
HE does He is wonderful t...
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Categories:
fill out, appreciation, caregiving, god, humanity,
Form: Lyric
Being Not Received at Reception Desk
...I am thrilled to only see two people ahead of me at medical clinic
No one is at reception’s desk
I know the routine
so I fill out the forms while I wait
No one comes.
I have been here four minut...
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Categories:
fill out, humorous,
Form: Narrative
A Fantastic Four Parody
...Dr Doom: Well Reed, we meet again, and excuse me for putting your dear ex to sleep, or she'd use her powers to conjure that defense shield that would make capturing the "Eccentric Four" a bit more ti...
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Categories:
fill out, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Epic
No Weapon Form
...No Weapon form against us shall prosper let me share
A Venting Moment to mind thoughts to know Knowledge to Knowledge my friends. Are you There? My Narrative Emotional Steady resting on the sof...
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Categories:
fill out, adventure, beauty, celebration, faith,
Form: Free verse
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