Long Bite off Poems

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       Xenophobia

Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings 
They're bound to be a bit tart...

Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...

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Out with his boys drinking, feeling rowdy
Special occasion
Rolling the way they do
His lover is not with them
She stayed in for the night
He misses her company
But enjoys his time with the guys
He'll swing by later

A local...

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My mom was everything to me
She was my every day, my every morning
She was literally my life and I lived every single bit of it, in her world
She was my inspiration and her smile, was...

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Afraid To Face The World

You may be the one to help redeem my spirit 
For you seem so incredibly inspiring. 
Anything I create I destroy 
Save me from destroying myself 
Oh potential Muse 
A wild...

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my world of tidal waves and sinking cities has not surprised me
of falling towers and other such horrors
its like ive accidentally seen them coming
and now I hate this world thinking I'm some sort of god
stuck...

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Stripped like a slave I have no freedom
No rights inside this enclosed life
Its starring me in the eyes what do I do with this knife
Dropping it as it crashes to the cold tiled floor
I fall...

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Beauty Found Within

What are you talking about that I am nobody.
I traveled deep and far
I came back with the ability
to see all the beauty within
Do not tell me I am ugly because I sin
I found...

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Living with a pack in the rocks,
above the waterfalls of the stone stream,
I learned that the one that is...

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MIGS
By: Melissa Ann Hardin
May 1, 1997

Long ago in a land across the sea lived a man by the name of Damian Stee. He lived all alone with his chickens and pigs, and sometimes he patted...

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You work and work for years and years. You're always on the go. 
You never take a minute off, you're too busy makin' dough. 
Some day, you say, you'll have your fun when you're a...

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Is your mind in the gutter,
full of what you shouldn't utter?
  Or perhaps it's your conscience
  which eats you alive with slanderous nonsense--
  about your ex, matters of sex, or your neighbor's...

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Just a moment ago there was laughter
The aching longing had since past
When you walked into the room
My heart simply gasped 
You were everything I was missing
There was no room left for denial
I leapt across the...

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Every true poet is my muse. Their poems, 
The cannon fodder of dreams exploded, 
(Feed me a dark crow) , even if they walk
With only one leg, or have to be carried
In the arms of,...

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Its bad enough with millions out of work
But many of those millions have loans
They struggle to make due to get out
With all they can gather together
Just to have enough for another day.

One job isn't enough
Two...

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Your slumber is long overdue
So hush as I sing this for you
Now sleep the entire night through
As your mummy and I hope to do

Your mummy seemed really quite certain
There’s no-one hid behind the curtain
The scratching...

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Wonder into the woods with ax in hand
Take care to be on time when you arrive

The forest is dark. It slumbers.  Don't be alarmed 
Bring an umbrella in case it rains

Rotted fallen lumber is...

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So on you go,
  fleeing for your life,
heart trying
     to leap out of your chest,
sweat
    soaking you
to the bone
        ...

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Dorothy and Toto went skipping
the Yellow Brick Road(she was tripping).
She had just smoked a joint--
getting high was the point--
and now she was bent on some stripping.

She thought that old scarecrow looked easy
(he'd be a good...

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IT WAS A SETUP

In the beginning the was word
And the word became flesh
It was a setup! When a virgin was with a child
And the little child shall lead them.

Et tu, Brute? Et tu, Brute?
In exchange...

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An Idiomatic Chicken Tale

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch,
you may bite off more than you can chew.
But if you do count, make sure you have
a bird in the hand rather than two in the...

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AUSCHWITZ MOTHER

mother, your skin
is so thin
the light shines
on your face so bright
i can read
my book
without opening the blinds
or wondering if today
you will be kind.

there is something truly miraculous about you.
you have survived
the death of a...

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I mouth the words and giggle, shrill and bright
Just how you like it.
I make sure to take all the corresponding steps, to walk this sugar-glazed path 
Tongue on your neck 
I make sure everything’s in...

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Stomach growling
     harsh, 
                 scowling
at me to feed...

Emaciating myself
  toward Emancipation,

A hunger strike of...

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"."'ve cracked my sp "." ne
for you to see
"."'ve r"."pped open my ch e st
for you to read
crack open my sk u ll
so you would think....
of me.

        ...

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One day Diaz the Dragon was hungry, but too tired to hunt
"Hmm, what's good to eat, I've already had a lamb, but he was a runt!"
In the woods he spied, Alessandra the unicorn. "Hmm," thought...

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