Long Freeloaders Poems

Deep concern across the land, respect is all but gone
protesters attack, harass, all night until the dawn
Looking closely, feeling pain, no such thing as fair
doesn't happen, in your face, shut you down they swear

Simple rally,...

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In his wealthy days, he looked down
on homeless people and disgusted by their
stench, he cried out, " Take a warm bath! " 
He kept on walking fixing his black hat
tossed upward by a capricious, wild...

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Stars are at their peak 
Giving each other pecks on the cheek 
Telling friends watching in fantasy land what they speak 
How wonderful it is 
Being in television movie making biz 
Having a Bah calling...

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Nobody can crush your dreams.
Your blessings will come in reams.
Strivers are winners, not losers.
Things happen for a good reason.
Do not fear a strange season.
Things will be fine; if the trousers
Fit, wear them. Make the best
Of...

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Sometimes, as an American, 
and a poet, 
The tears flow down face...
All countries seem to hate us,
As though they lived in an
Eternal state of kindness and grace?

I wonder, why any American would 
dare post a...

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In a small town in Nevada
lived a man named Joe McCoy,
he never touched a bottle,
never bothered or annoyed.

He was a dark-haired bean-pole,
rarely even shot the bull,
the only thing said about him
was that he was always...

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The powers that be, undefined, ruthless, opaque authority 
Shapeless, bodiless, upstanding folk, coercing the majority 
Overseeing applications, supplications, ensuring conformity 
Specialists in quagmires, minefields, esoteric bureaucracy. 

The powers that be, model citizens, high ranking royalty...

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Storms do not last
They happen very fast
But the damages stay
In the trays, in the hays, and lay
With us for a very long time
The memories are worth more than a dime
The souvenirs disappear
The bad judgments reappear
From...

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Tommorrow's Brighter Day

is what we wish for, isn't it?
It always offers just a bit more time
to set the scene before the curtain rises,
before the houselights dim,
the orchestra to take a break,
before some truth is caught...

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Oh I thank heavens they're all gone now 
My perfect holiday dinner, yet somehow
I managed to shut my mouth ever tight
When all hell broke loose Christmas night!

"This turkey is tough," I heard them all say...

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Filling a Void



…..feelings like
disappointment or
fulfillment, mistreatment or
kindness, loved or
neglected
are clear moments that
teach me
to step back, cope with my story

……and sometimes,
life story is just terrifying limpid, and
some days, I
rather
collapse and back away

at that point, I
lean in
to...

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Quitting my job today, and going to live in a tent.
Hey, man, it isn't so bad, I get State Aid and pay 
no rent!
I get free medical care, free food and free meds,too.
In the USA,...

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I said it ones, I said it twice
Lay off my son that is not your kind.
Your nonsense is obvious. It's becoming world wide.
If his father didn't choose you.
Doesn't make you to be around mine.

You try...

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Haute Prejudice.

Wrapped around manicured fingers,
Carats and ounces.

Flung over muscled shoulders,
Pin-stripes and silk.

Shoveled down open mouths,
Caviar and oysters.

Reeking from each pore,
Prejudice and hate.

The reeking odour is alive.

It is carried by the forlorn breeze,
Wafting through mansions and...

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Of late, I seem unable
To write a song or fable.
Perhaps it’s too much caffeine;
I seem to be unstable.

Now recently, I’m shaking;
My muscles have been aching.
I may be lacking protein,
Or maybe I’m just faking.

A certain strange...

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Angel?
Demon?
Faerie?
Witch?
Random labels
None apply.
We are all changelings
Pure and simple
Or complicated and unpure
Depending upon the mood, the moment, and our momentous events.
Divorce, death, cancer, car wrecks, they all take a toll on us.
Changing us completely in one...

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The onset of construction
Left a gaping excavation.
They built a chain link fence 
Around the hole.
Once the footers and foundation
Were sufficiently established
A dump truck load of gravel
Did its thing.

I have faith the task 
Will be accomplished.
I...

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Bowlegged belligerent bellowing Boxcar Betty
Rarely rose to the ripe, refreshed or ready
She always had an exasperatingly idiotic excuse
To cavort and converse on Charlie’s Chicken caboose

Eddie’s Enthusiastic Engine was trite and tired.
Of these two freeloaders, quarrelsomely...

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Para Todos~ for Everyone

This world works for all who work it.
Sitting and complaining, no, you will
not make it.
The Doers of this planet,oh, so hated!
The freeloaders walk the world unabated.
Victimhood, oh how we praise it!!!

True goodness~...

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though we are
a dollar a dozen
certainly not what
someone might
waste a wooden
nickle on we've
still become
part of the
universe

yet think
and believe
in our superiority
yet politically if when
we meet the other 
beings i know it
won't be men
tioned take
us to 

your...

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(This is a fictional poem)

It's very frustrating because fifteen people live in my house.
Six of them are my relatives and the rest are relatives of my spouse.
We're packed in like sardines and I can't even...

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