April 7 Why Trump
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April 7—Figure something out in a poem
Why Trump?
For the last six years
I have been trying
To figure out
Why 40 percent
Of my fellow Americans
Still support Trump.
Still believe ...
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Categories:
lower middle class, america, evil, political,
Form: Political Verse
Post-Minimalist Portrait of a Lower Middle Class American--Digital Text On Computerized Canvas
...tequila smells like nail polish
and then lemon put in it
tequila now smells like nail polish with lemon
and youre vulnerable to retching
because nail polish regardless of whether there is lemo...
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Categories:
lower middle class, america, art, drink, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Insanity
...We've got fascists on the left
Nazis on the right
Supremacists in the middle
All dressed up in white
As commies come in colors
That are hard at times to see
They're still a colorful array
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Categories:
lower middle class, crazy, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Stranger In the Soup Kitchen Spills the Beans
...I have a friend, old and retired, who keeps busy helping the poor. Let's call him Ted because he wants to remain anonymous. Some of his ideas, he says, wouldn’t make many of his neighbors happy.
T...
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Categories:
lower middle class, poverty,
Form: Prose
Complains Against the Poet
...Always complains are there against poets
For being petty and writing on trivial things
And rounding their mind on lower middle class issues
When I heard these charges I was too angry
As I was...
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Categories:
lower middle class, poets,
Form: Free verse
A Love Story
...The girl is an ultra-modern scholar,
Belongs with an upper-middle class family.
Looking very nice, smart, gets angry suddenly.
She reads M.A in English at Presidency University.
She is as...
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Categories:
lower middle class, culture, deep, emotions, loss,
Form: Free verse
Old Time Neighborhood
...OLD TIME NEIGHBORHOOD (1934)
Reborn a wrinkled old child
Inhaling the smell of budget
Walking those cracked skated-on sidewalks
Old trees with grainy knothole eyes
standing arm...
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Categories:
lower middle class, nostalgia
Form: Free verse
Family Reunion of Reality
...proof of a holy war brought from hell
look at your t.v
4 families chosen to be made over
brought to the same place
see if they recognise their own family
and the family friend that knows the oth...
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Categories:
lower middle class, adventure, confusion, education, faithlife,
Form: Free verse