Short Deadbeat Poems

They have love children who send them hate mail.
Such is the life of most deadbeat dads in jail....

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A playboy and his schnauzer in Ames
think life’s all about fun and games
With his money all spent
he can’t pay the rent
Now it’s his deadbeat dog that he blames...

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She told him that she was pregnant with his baby.
"Say What? " he said, "You kidding me?"
Her silence reenforced that she was speaking truthfully.
His last words to her were, "Hasta La Vista Baby,"
and alas, another dad is born a deadbeat....

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Skid row bums
Dress for no occasion,
Refuse raiders
Need no reservations.

Drug-addicted tenants
Beg for coins and candy,
Deadbeat derelicts
Reside at Hotel Alley.

Gutter renters
Lounge against brick walls,
Vagrant paupers
Rise to no wake-up calls.

Psychotic transients
Cruise dim lit corners
Wayward sons
Fight without honor....

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A deadbeat drug addict Frank was stark mean
A cheat he made all the money not clean
Neglectful father single
With him children didn’t mingle
He died in coma of Covid nineteen.

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April 16, 2022
TV Show : Shameless
Rhyme checked on rhymezone.com
Syllable count : 10/10/7/7/10 (HMS)
Contest : On A Lim
Sponsored by : Joseph May...

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smoke wafted up 
from my worried lips
my phone was dead
starbucks doesnt have outlets
we had run for 5 miles that day
so the extra few 
i ran to get home
didnt matter much
the people stared at the musty youth
running in flat shoes

i bet they saw some deadbeat hoodlum in the night
Im a killer without a sense of direction
the same thing I guess...

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Clueless, wandering suits of meat
With eyes open but remaining blind
Unknowingly searching for the truth
Harming the tragic and the joyous
Tragedy offers pious shelter
Pain is a seductive mistress
Clueless, wandering suits of meat
Happiest when lost in the shadows
Dreaming of hanging in the gallows
Clueless, wandering suits of meat
Trapped on the circuit of the deadbeat!
...

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Deadbeat lost soul, no hope.
Nice guy, loyalty, good bloke.
Love found is no joke.
Ends meet but always broke.
Chance given, can he cope?

Outsiders chance of glory.
Just go the distance
That's the best story.
Fight with the champ.

Toe to toe
Blow to blow
Live the dream

Italian Stallion
Break odds 

Rocky.

For favourite movie challenge sponsored by Nayda Ivette Negron....

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Dad was a deaf crab
limerick



                                    Dad was a deaf crab very bad
                                      My mom was naturally sad
                                             Uca the fiddler
                                          The greatest riddler
                              Riddled dad's deafness- deadbeat dad









© Rajat kanti Chakrabarty
12/02/2014...

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No rhythm or life within my head
Silent mind
darkness eyes
Still and quiet below God's skies
Thunderstorm
gentle rain
has quickly taken 30 years of wretched pain
No meter or 1/2 time
just a deadness all around this tragic aging mind
Feel free to end ME
there is nothing more for these pupils to see
Life is old
The muse is void
deadbeat of ears
not for the living or self-employed
Just
an
epitaph
to
a
dismal and final death...

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Don't be a deadbeat
Beat poet actor man -- 
because I need you to
SUCK IT UP
understand? what I'm trying to say?
Kerouac and Ginsberg
loved and fled and
hated domesticity, but somehow
relegated their women to it
and liked their domestic money
to buy pretty domestic drugs
and Burroughs
SHOT his wife
(albeat on accident --
deadBEAT tell me the sym-bo-lism
in THAT).
Grow up and love ME
like you were meant to -- 
and
do. your. own. laundry....

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