Long Quality control Poems

in your own backyard
people being tortured by a game
of making your life unfair
without breaking any laws
people like charles manson have proved it
a manipulative emotional blackmail
of lies they are told
that they then experience

Martyred by my sex...

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Jesus searched for disciples in the Middle East

came up with Thomas Mark Mathew and John

quite a leap of faith from the dessert to London

with bridges burning and not a bush in sight

oh ye of little...

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I remember my mom having a collection of hats she stored under her bed.
For any occasion that could arise…she had a hat to set atop her head.

Moms of today are different…often they go out with...

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When I was young my mom, like most women, donned a hat when she went out.
Dad said it added to her beauty…of this I had no doubt.

My mom had a collection of hats she stored...

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Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or 
become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician...

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Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or 
become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician...

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Courtesy of one or more tradesmen, 
first Monday in September set aside
for employees able, eager, ready 
and willing to acquire money 
to marry groom or bride
climb the corporate ladder or 
become an artisan, entrepreneur, technician...

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In our phonetics class of tongue-tasking
Students delight in pronunciation basking
Musk is distinct against mosque… just checking
And musk differs from mask; that’s so striking!

With definitions for queries, asking
“Can musking be right, when mask has masking?”
Yes, musk...

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I took an aging friend out shopping the other day
There was an Anne Summers shop, a new one by the way
“Oh come on there’s underwear," she said, "they may have my size."
My answer was “No...

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Fear
Fear of yourself
Fear of the nameless faceless
Fear

If it wasn’t so divided
By wealth and poverty
Would it seem to need 
Defending
Protecting the opulence
Thought to own
By a minority who have
And those who have; none

Live so in comfortable peace
While...

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Imagine My surprise,
Not only in getting through in under 2 minutes, 
But also being helped by the first res-ponder

But wait it, didn't stop there,
I felt I was actually being treated as customer,
And what I had...

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It is because I’m colored true red
That I was chosen for their homestead.
Initially, I was quite well tended,
But such care eventually ended.
Sure, their attention remains constant,
But it's rarely from a cleaning solvent.
I love a scrubbing,...

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Steely conceit,
low-grade manufactured lies
Stolen property:
iron crowbar kiss the tinted window glass
before the face paint dries
Idol chassis things 
rolling off the conveyor belt
Humble beginnings — 
discarded memories ... slag from the smelt
Silver dross assembled self,
triple A...

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QUALITY    CONTROL

Visions of scientists in white coats, with glass jars
Scraping layers of paint off new cars
Or women with heavy blackframed glasses 
Weighing the sugar content of two sweetened masses
Or testing the strength...

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I used to inspect at work in a die cast company
                      before I moved...

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