Political Jobs Poems

Boby Shafto was just told to go
When made redundant from P&O.
He’s annoyed with the company’s gall
They only dismissed him by video call.
They just gave him...

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Today or Yesterday

Today the gas price is over 5.00. 
We struggle now to decide what to pay? 
The food bill, 
the rent bill, 
or the...

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Joy for me means that  

You are here where I once sat 

Clutching the reigns  

Playing political games  

Taking over my tasks...

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Trump's government's a total wreck
The unemployed could wring his neck
They needed relief
But found only grief
With a Trump Reality Cheque...

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 Here's hoping Joe Biden gets hired,
It’s what all his voters desired,
He can then say to Trump,
(the arrogant lump),
Hey Donald, I'm Potus - ‘YOU’RE FIRED...

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Scruffy was a disgusting slob
Who planted people for the mob
Though none ever grew
At least Scruffy knew
Times are tough, but he has a job!...

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Early/mid afternoon May 22nd, 2020...

Raindrops percolate Perkiomen Valley watershed
pleasant reprieve versus quite warm temperatures
yesterday found yours truly averse attempting re:
ding outside, the secluded alcove visible...

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Their pounded wind
called our neighborhood.

We were children
who entered their work
like a hearth.

Electric wisk, whine,
sawdusted the cool summer
uder our trees.

From banded boards
basking in dirt
to skeletal hints
at...

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Earnings
help wanted
long evenings
a service toil of trays
which exhausted smile
the tip

Earnings
high cut mini
her service
always the management's eye
for sex

The table shines
coins in ashtrays
ashes in plates
faces crowded with...

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Working ethic.
          steel ethnic.
Pittsburgh in the rain
like metal canisters.

The grain of the Alleghenies.
Old labor's hand sings...

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I am the American worker
coal fired for refined thieves
on the thirty first floor.

My secrets rest
roadside beyond the guardrail
where ditched alleys
lead to rowhouses.

A list of porches
repeating...

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Trailing steel cans
and rolling out their
long rags.

The morning is a frost
broken in clamorous relief.

Frayed holes in their eaten
gloves carry a crushed chore,
a rotted job bundled...

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Disposition tilts dogma of poetaster
elicits, nevertheless adopting role jester
trending toward vagueness exhibited
by Addams family uncle Fester.

Yours truly makes exception to his
preference for law and order,...

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IN CONSIDERATION OF WHAT WAS NEGLECTED
WE FOUND WAYS THAT BESETS THE NESSECITY OF
OUR URGENCTACY AND NEED
THAT IT MIGHT LACK CONCERN FROM WORDS MENTIONING
WE WRITE TO...

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THIS IS TO DRAW ATTENTION TO AMERICA
SO THAT WE AS AMERICAN CAN CREATE 
HAVENS FOR BOTH VICTIMS AND
THOSE CONVICTED OF SEXUAL ABUSE.
ALLOWING THE FORMATION OF...

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