Short Underclass Poems

Affection brings comfort ,displays exquisiteness,
Fascinates   generosity, houses ideal justice, kind-hearted
like Martyrs needed occasionally, professing quietude,
Rebuking savagery towards underclass villeins whereas
x-rated youths zinger.	


Date:9-25-2015...

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Underclass ; a running box that middles
                  the center of a (not)living room.

Kidney table; an African girl beams
                   down into the smoke
                   an ashtray of burnt souls.

Faces full of thin beer admire
                   the box lights of the estate,
                   double binds, grins, hopless rutting.

Far ; the black flat of fields
       owls and air, silence....

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The underclass falls into things
Appreciating food when it comes along
Grateful for a cup of coffee or a hot roast beef sandwich

They do not beg any more
Their relatives are tapped out
Do-gooder church people types seek them out
This is how they get a new pair of shoes

The underclass is surviving
Without apology
Not caring about changing

What works for them
Would not work for many
They have friends who uplift them...

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Honey
sweet honey
food of love, nectar
sugar well amix amino antioxidants.
fruit of relationship
Sweet 
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Queen 
enchantress vision belle royal
epitome heroine leading light
female monarch regnant
underclass down N out
Dreg


12/13/2023
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©
from anthology " a Place 4 Her Heart "

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On this day 11-21-24
I'm going on record to say
suicide is not an act of selfishness and cowardice
It is not an act of self-hate
but an act of pure self-love
a love so pure that it 
drowns out the fathomless pain
puts an exclamation point on the end of.... hopeless.
suicide is a pearl of courage
surrounded by petals of merciful kindness
 
Then it's in the hands of God to put a ribbon upon the last breath
or feed it to the potter of the underclass
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