Short Demote Poems

Partial character selection
to profile, define and judge
just to demote and reduce
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Words

Are all equal..

Dismissing the

Call to elevate some

Demote others..

Yet in dreamland

Separation enthralls

And frightens

As words are

Unleashed to

Trick and treat......

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A kid is not a human child
But offspring of a goat
So why do you then call him so
And thus your son demote.
Kids are animals wild and free
That butt and kick and bite,
On second thoughts – I’ve met your son,
Perhaps in fact you’re right....

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He is more than idle,
Idleness his Idol;
A sloth without bridle,
Along sidewalks sidle …

Now begun to languish
And had been in Anguish; 
You can guess: Empty Tank!
His heart this morning sank;
Why won’t it in basement
For a rump on pavement?

A human to demote
Or send to camps remote;
One I would never quote
Nor in election vote....

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Instead of rising to the skies please demote to my heart
if you don't,my heart will fall apart when my heart was falling from the night
he found your hair so strong so bright he grabbed your shiny hair so tight
your hair became an abode for my heart he found delight from the light of your side
Now my only dilemma is;where are you,your hair and my heart....

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A goat in a suit
was appointed farm manager
in a potatoes farm he worked
He was always smart and sharp
when he harvested potatoes
half he ate, half he took as evidence

When asked how much potatoes
he took to market
he often replied;

“How can a smart goat in a suit
steal mere potatoes?
Open my stomach
and check to confirm
boil the meat and eat
if it tastes potatoes
then demote me
if it does not, then pay me
all potatoes in the farm...

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