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Premium Member BROKEN DOWN ANGELS
...BROKEN DOWN ANGELS It disny seem that long ago Toddling and having fun, Crawling then walking along the floor And learning how tae run. Potty trained and full eh life They’d run you af yer......

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Categories: on the dole, abuse, addiction, dark, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul To Soul
... Never felt like a toad hopping along the road, Nor have I suffered like God's servant Job. Never have I been deprived of a humble abode, Nor have I ever been denied warmth from the cold. But ......

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Categories: on the dole, christmas,
Form: Rhyme



Pumpkin Head Fred
...There once was a man with a head Like a pumpkin it was, and called Fred How they laughed in the Spring At the pumpkin head thing Oh the sting of rejection, he said In summer the sun burned a h......

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Categories: on the dole, character, halloween, hero, humor,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Compassionate Souls
...Written 27 July 2023 For a Triolet Poetry Contest Compassionate Souls Let there be no dearth of compassionate souls ......

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Categories: on the dole, blessing, humanity, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Triolet
Automated Despair
...I’m bad tempered and upset, Feeling tired isolated alone Sitting hopefully waiting for Someone to answer the phone . I just want to hear A normal human voice But these days my dears You don’......

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Categories: on the dole, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Depp Depth
...Johnny Depp was playing a role That his wife would never console He took her to court And will not abort 'til one or both are on the dole!......

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Categories: on the dole, humor,
Form: Limerick
The Gop Rider
...When an horse stepped into an hole A cowboy was dumped on the dole He sat in his saddle Just rowing a paddle Because work was never his goal......

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Categories: on the dole, political,
Form: Limerick
Right Hand Twist
...Right Hand Twist With a twisted sexuality like that Anything was possible Especially when you were called Zenky And were from Oldham The most deprived town in England But that doesn’t matte......

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Categories: on the dole, parody, poverty, satire, urban,
Form: Prose Poetry
No Sharing Here
...An horrific situation happened in a country town. The districts big employer has closed their factory down. Twenty men had lost their job; the town had lost its soul. Not one man was happy about g......

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Categories: on the dole, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Ciao Chow
...Army cooks don't do anything wrong By feeding a "Mad Killer" throng & that's rather droll Like a troll on the dole Who freaks out on a Viet Cong dong......

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Categories: on the dole, culture, food, money, patriotic,
Form: Limerick
Stormy Sighs
...I met a girl quite bonny Downtown in Pukalani Her "Heavenly Hole" Fits men on the dole And Presidents like Donny . . . ........

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Categories: on the dole, allusion, funny love, humor,
Form: Limerick
Only Racists Drink Here
...The light is low but the music loud, blaring from fiddles and steel guitars. The bar is filled with a moderate crowd, could be anywhere, but here they are, drinking and two-stepping in this bar. ......

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Categories: on the dole, america, culture, discrimination, how
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member In Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-Six
...In Seventeen Hundred and Seventy-six By Franklin Price 7/4/2017 In seventeen hundred and seventy-six this Independence Day Declared by our fore fathers, our freedoms here to stay They fought ......

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Categories: on the dole, independence day,
Form: Couplet
Back To My Roots
...Back to my Roots I returned home to see my folks After being away too long Found my way back to my family home But everyone was gone Where has everybody gone? My family and my friends I ne......

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Categories: on the dole, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again
...Dan's on the mezzanine asking where the mayor lives I'm on the dole line, wondrin bout conservatives The man with the leg cramps boot camps wheel clamps says they cut his food stamps. L......

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Categories: on the dole, satire,
Form: Lyric

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