Angst Money Poems

#1

I would like to see
the day I win the lottery.

Just ten grand?

No, I demand,
you must rescan;

I cannot plan
a life as bland

as the one I'm living...

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investing money
planning for retirement time ~
money pit repairs...

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I heard them when I was small
words of hatred words worst of all
words of steel knives stabbing me
meaningless words  all for me
it didn't matter...

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Why aren't words spilled, have voices stilled?
Our protest songs barely a squeak.
Have we grown inured to a hateful world,
now rest on our laurels, so to...

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“Time is money
It’s a sign that you worked all night 
A sense that you did everything right. 
And a life sentence, that keeps you awake...

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Lots of hands held over a candle
In angst fuelled bravado this Winter
No prisoners taken will there be
For many young and old will splinter

Knowing this sadness...

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T'was in the 1960s in South Africa. There was a brand of sweets that fascinated us young ones. Inside the pocket of sweets were toys...

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Dribbling

If someone continually gets knocked down
Eventually they will give up the ghost
If around every corner is more negativity
Which of us has lost the most?

Started to...

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I firmly believe that fairy tales should come with a disclaimer
some sort of warning label affixed to the very front page
right before the first paragraph...

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The blade in my hand has been honed razor sharp by reality
I wield it with the careful precision of a skilled physician
who was accrued decades...

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Forest Sun
Laid out to pasture the company doesn’t want us
We got our severance pay then thanked them
Like they thanked us the day they made us...

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home
comfortable, secure
loving, sharing, growing
anxiety, demands, cleaning, repairing
cooking, shopping, banking
expensive, exhausting
work




August 30, 2021
Caren Krutsinger / Diamante...

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This is a great idea, tee hee,
Good suggestions are so me,
Nuisance caller was asking me,
Money for her fundraising committee,
"Right," said little old chirpy me,
"You can...

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Time is like money
When you waste it, it feels like a burden
But I always seem to overestimate it
And waste it as if I was rich...

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Studying for hours on a subject that I love and despise
Grappling with words and definitions
Trying to make sense out of all the confusion and complexities
Of...

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