Short Shunted Poems

I have an awful stressful job
I have to do it to earn a bob.
Shunted,……..
Pushed,………..
Round and round
Like a shiny ball in a pinball machine.

2004...

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In latent halls, where memories dwell
Mist gathers on a shunted trolly
Abandoned wreckage
A decaying track runs forever
From shrouded heights
Fall unnamed questions
A bell’s toll fades
Resting only on the lines end
Indeed, only the end...

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Have you ever been in a job that sucks
You feel so lost as if your life is stuck
Being afraid to venture out into the new
With the young and dynamic waiting in queue
You have reached the end of your career graph
Shunted and pushed aside you and all the old staff
But you stay on waiting for your retirement benefits
Silently playing computer games with all the other misfits
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I admit I've the blues
I swear this is true
Mother of one
Stepmom to none.

But a lover I am
To three children's father
Engagement whatever
Legally doesn't matter.

Marriage counts
In the courts they say
My opinions don't
Until my wedding day.

Even then I'm told
A difference it won't make
To one who's heart
Remains locked away.

Shunted if I do
Shunned if not
Thus why I've got
The not-so stepmom blues....

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