Lateness Poems - Poems about Lateness

A lousy late-to-school child Big faults sees and makes mild: In future turns late worker, A scheduled-time rule breaker, Later late-to-act husband You stir with a struck band To secure quicker favor For his wife in hell labour... A late-to-pay fees father, As his child's fresh debts gather; Tomorrow's late unionist Since a meeting is no tryst... A late-to-alert-the-cops When a folk to doom hops, The guy's suicide...

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Penumbric Fringe David J Walker The lateness of the hour Measured in the meter of the News-mans message The Hour is Late But not come Cries the downtown crier The lateness of the hour With unrealized power From the sun But then They will be they Won’t they They are the one-word Future The lateness of the hour Is Time And time again Repeated in Ambit chaos Within the penumbric...

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Find fine excuses for your lateness; That way you will protect your Greatness: A Street fight that just ended a life, A man The beating out of wife, A purge that vowed to keep you at home, A drug you took, everything A Dome … A soiling of your wear by a car, Your offer to trace some kid afar; A patient...

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So why am I always late? Well, I’ll tell you straight I bought this watch from Tesco (yes, I know it’s not the best co) But I’ve been short recently, things to do, people to see Food to get and bills to pay, a final demand from the C.S.A. Honestly, I’m a rabbit, if I see a tail I’m...

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In the wee hours, When the wish hours of sleep flowers, To computer games still sticking And one’s satisfied lips licking; A still irrepressible interest in understanding a movie Or memorizing the lyrics of an American groovy To the end follow a longish Italian Mafia Or faithfully sum up the untouchable truths of Radio Biafra: A normal persons destined inability to short- change...

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In the wee hours, When the wish hours of sleep flowers, To computer games still sticking And one’s satisfied lips licking; A still irrepressible interest in understanding a movie Or memorizing the lyrics of an American groovy To the end follow a longish Italian Mafia Or faithfully sum up the untouchable truths of Radio Biafra: A normal persons destined inability to short- change...

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lateness is so sad chock full of excuses, it reeks ...

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Written displacement Oriented Figures focus Loose stance Bile manufactures Masculine Angelic Body Doubles Stretch new skin Over the Wise Spicy neglect You neglected Your mind's Obese child Write letters To dead Virgins It'll take your heart Off trivia Slice most glances (If you read) Do not compare Lateness to sickness...

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As usual frozen seagulls fly above us every night, blind I approach our bed in the darkness, tracing the linear surfaces of the embroidery, as their long-winged spans shadow the pillow mounds. The salty residue found on your lips, Falls off as you ask me the time. Late, very late, almost too late, sorry, The journey back was longer than I planned. The...

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