Bad Genes
...My third wife is angry now, she knows that I cheated.
But I like life on the edge, so I told her to pack up and beat it.
Then I walked in Santa Monica, a man was lying in the path
He was in obviou...
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Categories:
gooders, addiction, character, drug, fate,
Form: Lyric
October Seven: An Acrostic
...Each incoming missile took out by ‘The dome’
Very few, thankfully, get to hit home
It never will change till tyrannical men
Learn to repent of their actions back then…
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Categories:
gooders, religion, war,
Form: Acrostic
Once In a While
...Greed feeds the cliché: nice guys finish last,
there is little appetite for the truth.
And do-gooders are constantly harassed,
a lesson taught to intolerant youth.
Facing a future ...
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Categories:
gooders, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Ottava rima
Just the Way It Was
...‘Twas way back in them days
when the ranch owner’s ways
was just about the only law there was around
Rancher’s money was king
and gun violence reigned
till marshal Ben Miller made his way int...
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Categories:
gooders, grandson, poetry, writing,
Form: Rhyme
My Purpose Drawn To Disorder - Them Mind Games Tag You'Re It- My Spokenword
...Never mind games tag you're it,
What's my true purpose here am I to be really cute and feared
My not name blaspheme and smeared
This unknown gospel to the center is it made clear
As I...
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Categories:
gooders, allusion, analogy, black african
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Who Helped You
...two lost forlorn basset hounds had their tempers on the ground
they were wet and soggy and soppy and lonely, and it was cold.
two gooders named Sammy and Petey came quickly around.
Sammy the cat w...
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Categories:
gooders, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Quatrain
No Gooders
...Do gooders are hard to escape.
They're addicted to wearing the cape.
With less than a clue
Of what's good for you,
They insert then deny it's a rape!...
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Categories:
gooders, abuse, addiction,
Form: Limerick
Her Mood of Nothingness
...I have nothing to say
I do nothing
I am nothing
Please leave me alone to enjoy my nothingness
Many do-gooders ran toward her.
She must be depressed.
She must be unhappy.
She needed their hel...
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Categories:
gooders, work,
Form: Narrative
Humanity Salvation-
...There's a heaviness in my heart
A plumage a sense of danger
There isn't enough love when will we start
To follow through to do what Jesus do
What he's done the perfect human to mirror...
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Categories:
gooders, analogy, community, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Stand In a Field and Scream
...When you are confused, anxious, in pain, your stomach in a granny knot.
Near the end, nowhere to go, no friends, no family that understands.
"Stand in a field and scream," it helps, they say. I can...
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Categories:
gooders, anxiety, betrayal, depression, lost
Form: Villanelle
A Message From Hell
...A light summer rain falls across distant blue mountains.
I have a pretty cottage by a winding stream.
This evening I recline in a garden chair
on a sloping lawn.
I merely need to think of a ...
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Categories:
gooders, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Backhand
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"Backhand"
You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage ...
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Categories:
gooders, child abuse, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Self-Righteous Do-Gooders
...Self-righteous do-gooders, so they believe, preaching the Word while minds they deceive,
Casting their ballots for racist, lying, cheats, shelving morality for them to be the lead,
Satisfied pr...
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Categories:
gooders, america, corruption, evil, hate,
Form: Rhyme
Introjection An
...‘We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are’
Anaïs Nin
‘Life shrinks or expands in...
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Categories:
gooders, sensual,
Form: Free verse
The Takers Change Christmas
...There are takers, and they can ruin the season.
Teaching their children to get on all the Christmas lists.
Yelling at the do-gooders who bring toys but no receipts.
Showing the do-gooders children...
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Categories:
gooders, confusion, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
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