Long Twenty percent Poems

The World has been playing a game
Oh what a shame
The world has been playing a game
This is insane
Leaders come and leaders go
Leaving me to continue the show
Leaders come and leaders go
Repeating the show of long...

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What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no one to guard the door
What would the rich do...

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The world is a clown looking at you up and down
The world is a clown; the plane is about to touchdown
Madness in the East, madness in the west
And the north and the south are gallivanting...

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There is no excuse for ignorance
You must know when you were born
There is no excuse for ignorance
You are sucking the energy out of the popcorn
And fooling everybody about your naked charity
There is no excuse for...

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Everyone has his four o’clock there is no doubt about that
Everyone has his four o’ clock even if he wears a cowboy’s hat
Everyone has his four o’ clock even if he roams around in a...

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You bite that apple!
Give it a go, put on a show
There is no shame
You said shame is a sham
And clams are happy
Do they hop or skip?
Tripping along the seafloor
Playing hopscotch
Eating numbers like cookies
Chips Ahoy!
Sleeve after...

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"Baby, this view is fantastic, 
Who knew what you could buy with plastic! 
With these credit cards, unlimited funds, 
Any regrets, heck no, baby I got none. 
Riding on an interest rate of twenty percent,...

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One hundred people 
saving ten dollars per week
a thousand dollars per week
fifty-two thousand dollars per year

the deposit for a house every year 
a road to wealth and growth
that is my idea
people working together 

saving together...

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The space around me gets larger everyday and the wind that sits beyond the mountain is blowing residue of hope in the air and the birds sitting on top of the tree trembles in fear....

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Internal Monologue


I guess I am truly getting old.
The time has come to let the old me go.
My face of youth no longer suits.
No longer feeling bullet proof;
More like feeling twenty-percent proof,
When I wake up, still...

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Their numbers drawn, the backwards lottery
Almost none were aware they were playing

Assaulted by the poisons that save them 
Hairless children with steroid-swollen cheeks
Feared stigmata of chemotherapy
Daily valiance, heroism unsought

Magic bullets are a relative thing
Modern wonder...

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Waiting in line, 
Before the ATM of closed banks for 60 Euros to withdraw under the scourging sun  
Old and invalid people are submitted to this daily torture, constantly moaning, for Our country’s suffering...

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We’re complaining about life and throwing food away,
But there’s nearly 800 million people going hungry in the world today.
Over 150 million children involved in child labour worldwide,
And Innocent people are being killed right now due...

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I lay in my hospital bed after giving birth, Could hear the murdering, raping 
Hutus approaching my bed
My baby was no more. They ravaged me.  Left me alive...........
Could hear the battle getting nearer
All I...

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-In 2008, a massive recall of peanuts thought to be contaminated with bacteria occured. Not 
very many people became ill, and only twenty percent of those that did were hospitalized. 
Only a handful died. It...

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new nation to craft
founding fathers sought to draft
a declaration of independence
document that made sense

Thomas Jefferson sought to free slaves
but was warned not to make waves
five of thirteen colonies
he had to appease

breaking from British rule
ignited a...

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Have you ever heard of the eighty twenty rule 
Well that was created for a lot of us fools
In a relationship you re only getting eighty percent 
Of what you really need
Even though there are...

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I want to spit when e'er I think 
of how seniors are treated.
We worked and slaved all of our lives	
and now we have been cheated.

We paid into the SS fund
throughout all our working years.
Now that...

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The headlines blared “COVID-19 vaccines kill people!”
“More vaccinated people die of COVID than non-vaccinated!”
“COVID vaccines are a government conspiracy!”

Wait a minute, though.
Let’s think about this for a moment.
For argument, assume that the vaccines 
Have no...

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The Income Tax Audit

By Elton Camp

Perry boasted how the IRS he so loved to cheat
But found that he should’ve been more discreet
When a neighbor notified the Internal Revenue,
The agency decided that an audit they would...

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If I had a sad broken heart
Not because you died dear
But that you chose another bride
Who's so limited I fear

She posseses only twenty
Percent and I eighty
Chosen in my youth gifted blessed
God prepared me for thee

Now...

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The smartest thing I feel you can do in your time here. If you've already failed what's left to fear. You will never regret giving in to what you hold dear. I played a game...

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In dream last night when I talked to AI,
Our dialogue went on back and forth like this:
I said, look, brain sees what it likes  well nigh,
Hope, you help not with same human disease. 
Men...

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I feel sick.
Feverish with chronic,
Long standing lung disease.
The governor here
Has mandated everyone
Wear a mask when they go out
In public. 
Some people will have to wear it
24/7.
Makes it all that much harder
To breathe.
My name is not...

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Our vision must be accurate
We must see it for what it is
Social illness is not the cause
In truth it is the symptom
If this is accurate then it follows
No illness may be cured by passing a...

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