Work Out Of Gas Poems

This is, as indicated, the 1st HALF of this fairly lengthy poem. The 2nd half had to be posted separately due to Poetry Soup's file-size...

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Just because I had a job
Doesn't mean I was gainfully employed
Or could afford my college degrees
Or even to eat, to sleep
So working low wage jobs...

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Penny Postcard, Wrong Address
by Michael R. Burch

(for the victims and survivors of the Holocaust)

We saw their pictures:
tortured out of our imaginations
like golems.

We could not believe
in...

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Have You Got Gas?
By: Tom Wright
8/1/2006

I power your mowers and propel your cars
One of many derivatives from a barrel of oil,
Pushing three stage rockets past...

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Tear gas in their faces
Malicious militia’s hunt, 
The people we depend upon
To bear the work we shun
The caravan has reached our gates
Their faces full of...

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One Word #14
Word: Gas
Gas, An airlike fluid substance which expands freely to fill any space available, irrespective of its quantity. 

My
heart drops. 
My loved ones...

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(Disclaimer: this is what happens when I am bored at work on a Saturday)

Gas is a powerful thing
It can certainly clear a room
Yes gas is...

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God...give me the gas to turn fallen angels into fiery ashes
Lips of lust and lashes into tongue capsules
Swallowed by serpents and captured by servants
Chained and...

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Where do you go
In the bumper starlight splashed
Pressed upon time with parking fines

What do you see
On your endless concrete journey
Carving out carcass of shopping spree

What...

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Everyday I would see her on my way to work.
Her owner was a brutal and cold hearted jerk.
She was his gas station guard dog but...

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My van is on push!
Can I borrow some money
To fill up the tank....

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