Layabouts Poems | Examples


Premium Member War of Malingering Swarms

Male bees are useless layabouts
Gather no nectar or pollen
Can't feed themselves
Have no stingers
Yet World War III
Will be fought with a swarm
Of a billion, billion drones
Some made of cardboard
Mind how the malingers
Have risen, supplanting
Planes, ships, tanks, missiles and subs
war

Unemployed

I sit here wondering 
What to say 
My words exhausted 
Throughout the day 
The kids they ask me 
What have I done 
Hows my day gone 
Have I had fun 
To this my reply 
Its always the same 
Been down the dole 
Passed the day in vain 
After working 
All my life to date 
I never thought 
OF this my fate
It makes you think 
What its all been for 
Stuck on the dole 
At forty four 
I used to see them 
Hanging around 
Layabouts,scum 
There's work to be found 
But now I find 
I,m in there place 
Being out of work 
Is no disgrace 
It hurts you when 
You truly know,At my time of life 
No one wants to know,
Form: ABC


Drug Test All Those Layabouts

Drug Test All Those Layabouts

By Elton Camp

Everyone has now heard the damning report
Half the country are on government support

As to those who look to Sam for a living
And little, if any, in return are giving

Here’s what we should be doing, by heck
Require a drug test before giving the check

But start with those who abuse the most
A group of over 500 from coast to coast

Ones who get almost all their needs met
Yet virtually nothing they have done yet

They mostly sit around, bicker and fuss
Most every one of them is an ornery cuss

They get income, insurance and perks
Even if they are nothing but big jerks

There is simply no reason I can see
Not to require them in a cup to pee

If a positive result should come about
Then all their benefits must be cut out

For congress & senate it should be required
Just as soon as, by the voters, they are hired
Form: Rhyme

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