Shakeup Poems | Examples


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Green Anarchy

The shakeup/anarchy 
The Green party is in power
Not many cars on the streets
Asphalt is removed, cobblestones too.
They are planting trees and vegetables
The motorway is a strawberry field.
I don’t mind, pick fruit as I walk 
To the tax office, which shut no one
Is supposed to pay tax anymore.
Airports are farms, planes are forbidden 
They pollute too much.
Private hospitals have gone public and
That gladdens my heart equality at last.
Law enforcement and the army have
Also been disbanded they never served
The peoples need.
There is peace in the land and rivers 
are full of trout, and 
the king is my next-door neighbour.

Pension Fund Raiders

Fox in the henhouse

             retirement nesteggs eyed,

                bond market shakeup...

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