Keep Your Mouth Shut Poems - Poems about Keep Your Mouth Shut

They came for the ones who floated in on streamers. I did not care, they weren’t relatives or anything. Then the soldiers came for the polka dotted ashtinglers. I was never fond of them, so I ignored their screams. When they came to take away the marshmonitors, I almost stepped in. But they had guns and bayonets, and they were...

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The neck can be tame, The tongue can never be tame, Discipline your mouth....

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She brought her alien sidekick to the cafeteria. The rest of the sophomores gave them room. Scooting out of the way, wondering what talents the sidekick had. Just keep your mouth shut, she told the sidekick. As long as they think you are an alien, the teachers will let you stay. She had actually sprung her little sister from kindergarten. Teachers...

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I should not have said anything But I did And now it is coming back To kick my petootsie To eat my heart up To constipate my liver I should not have said anything Why can I not control this mouth? When she opened I knew And yet I let it happen This is on me....

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Keep your mouth shut. Count to ten and when your done start over again. It only goes south in the end. People will disappoint you time after time. Do you want some cheese with that whine? It only goes south in the end. Try to process. Get some rest and then put your resiliency to the test but it will...

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I hear the conversation and I know All of the players. They do not know this, so do I tell them who I am? They are in a public place saying mean things about my relative. Do I keep to myself? Pretty soon with the clues I know who this person is. My cousin cannot say anything nice...

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