Long Out of service Poems

I
The beggar outside the supermarket
You swore was picked up later
In a flashy car
Sat there in the sun for 8 hours
While you pissed & moaned
All the way home
To your bookless
Mausoleum 
With a chlorinated pool
Where one day...

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     On the night of December 2, 1984
a toxic gas leak at a Union Carbide pesticide plant
was a terrible tragedy that continues to evoke 
strong emotions even 30 years later, 
disaster...

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China, like the phoenix rising from the ashes, rises from the waters of the Eastern seas and spits unstoppable fire of the red dragon! He does not indulge in conflict but only progress. 

Sometimes, called...

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I glance at my watch,
Shake my head at the hands,
And count silver cars
While I patiently stand.
Three minutes, Five minutes,
Ten minutes late.
Time ticks away,
And still I must wait.

Traffic flows by
Like an ocean of steel,
Pausing at times...

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When grandpa D comes to visit, he smokes until we cough
We also have to say “We know you are here, you can stop smoking”
My father has been supposedly “gone” for nine years.
I see him monthly,...

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I'm too nervous to resurface,
it's not that I'm worthless
or don't want to work for this,
my motive sits motionless.

Can I bring it to your attention 
I need an intervention
to save me from selfish behavior,
a salvation of...

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Once upon a death or less zzzZZZzzz
Where quieter than 528Hz resides 
In a glance, in a jar, in a star as far
Where the gaze is clearly glossy
Candles take a chance out there

Somewhere between nice and...

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I promised to be home by Christmas
To see my kid and be with my family
But i didn't know the journey ahead
Would be my last

I thought i'd eat those fresh buns by morning
Now its noon and...

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The Land's Passion
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

A cloud of darkniss
A flag of empty
South Africa a
State of dispair
In hell over our
Sea's , mountain's , ground's
Our soul's are dough
We are not rising
He is corruption
He makes distruction.

South Africa out of service
A...

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The awkward feeling of being late. Anxiously waiting, anticipating, and expecting... Lost in this moment; temporarily out of service. The bus stops here and we still missed it. A bad start to any day. Patience...

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If you’re a certain age, I’ll bet
That stuck inside your brain
The numbers of your telephone
From youth must still remain.

For way back when you memorized
That sequence, it did stick,
Like Velcro, to your brain cells;
You can summon...

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The escalator’s very steep,
Enough to make me nervous.
There’ll be a lot of stairs to climb
When it is out of service.

The platform’s bright and spacious
And the walls are filled with art,
Mosaics well worth checking out
Before you...

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From The Saddest Depths Of Bitter Despair

Within this heart love born
once beloved now scorn
fills each little crevice
life seems out of service
bitter cold turns the wind
dark sets its pains to send
Alas! Loneliness reaps
broken shards into heaps
while...

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