Angst No Problem Poems

Here comes the drill
that will inhabit
my tooth.

Goggles and mask
overhead. Victim, I
mean patient, not
patient, wanting out.
Still,

to make it out of pain,
I must let the end-

odontist root
out...

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There are prayers that we’ve been praying
Hoping hunger will somehow vanish away
Little hands held up to heaven obeying

Laughing and smiling, children are playing
In spite of...

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listen 
we
really
don’t
want or need
to hear
every
goary
detail

just tell us
how to fix it



AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on October 14, 2018...

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NEW TIME SAME PROBLEM STILL PREJUDICE

I am colored by my skin type is...
Dark brown I am black
If the color of my skin offends you, then
Just...

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I ordered a steak
It came back too rare

I looked in the mirror
I'm losing my hair

A traffic nut passed me on the right
Honked my horn with...

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Stepping Over The Problem

I make my bed 
on the street
Curled in a doorway 
under your feet
You step over me
we're unlikely to meet
I'm covered in newspaper
sometimes...

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Here Lies the Problem

I can’t believe it! I did it again!
Once more I told the truth!
Each and every time I desire to disguise
Something that should...

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Mind not dense as neutron star
Stil feel like I'm in hot tar!

What a sticky situation
Under pressure of masterbation

Do I really need release?
Father forgive me please!

Be...

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i should do this
not that
control control control
i should be this way 
not like me
sucks to be me 
i'm not you

I should be perfect and kind...

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A Problem
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Worry
Tormenting minds
Over having low cash flow.
Threatening to foreclose on home loans.
Homeless.


Form:  Cinquain.
©  November 2009...

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‘ What Is Your Problem ? ’   16th Senryu



         What is Your Problem ?
 To...

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Yeah, I know,
It's "My Problem"...
No sweat to you...
Even though I might beg,
For help or advise what to do...

I'm cut off from the internet...
My last human...

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i am a possibility
of many possibilities
i am a ratio
an indecisive factor
in the rest of what this dimension has to offer

the world is a top
i spin...

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Sullen and defensive
(what's it to you?)
quietly disappearing

what difference does it make?
[tiny] and inferior
beaten into believing the propaganda
from [un]reliable sources

Her heart knew [stuck in survival mode]
nothing...

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I stay awake to this fading dream
Unable to sleep for dreams of her
I avoid the truth within my head
I burn the things that make me...

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