Short Shafted Poems

A dangerous job 
Shafted as hearts collapse in
Into energy bleed...

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Bobby Aiken was proud to be Scotch.
As a pole-vaulter he was top-notch.
But on one faulty try
he became a soprano guy,
having been poled crack-on in the crotch....

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I was hoping for a little bit of tit 
She was hoping for a little bit of tat 
But when she turned 'round 
My balls hit the ground 
Because she was a he...with a bat...

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Downy carpet hill,
Yellowed from the sunlight daze,
Rosy-shafted beams
Drifting off to sea
     begin another day,
Waspy tailed whips of clouds
     seemingly write
Onto the newly wet earth....

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Hit me like a back-handed slap
when off-guard, unprepared and vulnerable.
I could not see it coming!
Lover's sweet words, once honeyed and kind,
now sharp and cruel as thorns, piercing unrelenting,
hacking into the quick, where you know it hurts.
Leaving me shattered, splattered,
stunned and dumped off-track.
I was taken aback, and shafted
by the attack....

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As a teacher, I do so agree
with all those parents
 who support me valiantly
  
Yes, the school experience should be sunny
a teacher's job, too, is worth more money
  
  And when kids' futures are shafted
  as happens more than occasionally 
  it's especially un-funny to me

Yet teachers are and never have been 
renumerated well monetarily
  Their true rewards are sought and found educationally...

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I'm just an old shovel, who loved spooning around
    Scooping up and over again, the same old ground
    I’ve handled jobs, few others would call profound
    Always piling high, and patting down a big mound
    Some folks leaned on me, if no seats to be found 
    Then gave me a shoulder, when homeward bound
    When on the scrap heap, I never made one sound
    Got shafted damn good... but, I’m on the rebound...

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Invisible to the eye
he sat
visible to the sky
he sat
the stars opened up
and there was no light
and he felt empty
he felt so empty

Mute to the ear
she sat
slave to her fear
she sat
the stars opened up
and there was no light
and she felt whole again
she felt so whole

Against their will
they met
upon the window-sill
they met
the stars opened up 
and there was no light
with each other to lean on
they felt so shafted...

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