Rigged Poems - Poems about Rigged

The ballot box frowns As a second slip sneaks in Agents asleep, their guard undone This act, their party's loss begun. In another world, quiet and cold Where eyes merely witness, and truth is sold Another ballot box grins with glee Its smile bought by bribery. What once was a promising race Now marred by a missing name, a darkened trace. ...

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Rigged Up Laid out to pasture the company doesn’t want us We don’t get our severance pay so we turn on them Like they turned on us the day they made us sign We belonged to them then and we were slaves Made to work in the forest cutting down trees Or in the lead mines manually extracting the ore We found...

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Jerry built in the dictionary means shoddy craftsmanship. I had a cousin named Little Jerry. He built many wonderful things. There was nothing lacking in his ability, tools, or his finished products. The next word in the dictionary was jerry-rigged. Another dispersion on the name Jerry. I could not help wondering now. Was there one person who held out until...

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My heart doesn’t beat like yours any more It’s held together with duct tape and string Balloons pump my blood and gears turn the beat Paper clips hold everything in place I’ve noticed no one notices Though I’m patched and stitched in places And the seams stretch and pull and tear They still feel open half the time You see, I still work...

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Trying forceful optimism Failing to forget It's like some form of masochism I need to let it... I'm tired of this repetition It's gone on far too long Let's just complete this demolition Listen to me, one time only I need to let it come undone I hope you know you're the only one Who can make me feel so insecure I'm sure You do, somewhere inside Oh...

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