Short Underpaid Poems

   When life underpaid Max

     ~ he started taking kickbacks...

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my head is full
my stomach: sick
my hands are made of lead
undermanned
underpaid
and surely overfed...

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So what silly notion has taken over today?
My brain works independently I don't have a say
I do draw the line
And start to whine
When my brain complains it's underpaid...

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So what silly notion has taken over today?
My brain works independently, I don't have a say
I do draw the line
And start to whine
When my brain complains it's seriously underpaid...

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So what silly notion has taken over today?
My brain works independently, I don't have a say
I do draw the line
And start to whine
When my brain tries to claim it's seriously underpaid...

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So what silly notion has taken over today?
My brain works independently, I don't have a say
I do draw the line
And start to whine
When my brain tries to claim it's seriously underpaid


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Someday. In old age.
My well-being will be in the hands of: 
Underpaid cutters and x-addicts 
serial texters and sadists
tide pod eaters-assorted derelicts
the odd minister, 
lost Christmas carolers...

I pray to remain somewhat fit....

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Dimmissed, defective, unimportant,
Discounted, unworthy,
Unnoticed, undervalued,
Guilt-ridden, under-employed,
Underpaid, misunderstanding,
Unempathetic, overwhelmed,
Under duress, under siege,
Over-whelmed,
Over-dose, undertaker, underground

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In K-5, K-8 or K-12 is drained
    the curiosity from eager brains

  Then off to college most folks go
    where Truth is disseminated from Moscow

  A nursing home's a spruced-up jail
    from which residents would love to bail ...

  In between, we're on the job every day
    where we're overworked and underpaid...

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Nurses defeat death, determined and brave,

        seems strange, they're overworked and underpaid.

Some front-line workers died, when things got grave

        each risked their lives, despite being afraid.

Honk your horns! Applaud! And cheerfully wave!

        Kind acts are more heartfelt, when they’re homemade.


(Harrisham Rhyme)


05/03/2020...

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Daniel
overweight, underpaid, insomniac, and out-of-date...
unbiasedly proud father of Raiden and Anika Mei...
a lover of language, of forests, of night...
who feels (at turns) lucid, alone and alive...
who fears hopelessness, boredom and hell...
who'd love to see th'aurora, the earth from the moon and the far side of ninety...
resident of the "blackbird's roost" in "the origin of the sun"...
Beus...

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The neck pain was singled 
out. Roll yourself down?
from the hills. The
figures were crying.

You cannot dismiss 
the infamous past tense.
The butchered birthday?
of freedom of speech.

The underpaid stone cutters
of the quarry, and the
golddiggers crowding the street.
Whom will you give your hand ?

In glass, the progeny-
grows, away from home,
from inheritance.
I stare in disbelief, unblinking.



Satish Verma...

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Eminem dissed Will Smith, no slap there, 
Chris Rock did it, Will went spare 

The Golden Globes returns to air, 
just like each year we don’t care. 

Harry’s crying, ginger spare, 
William the third, got no hair

Idaho murders, psycho glare 
climate change, heated air 

Striking workforce everywhere 
underpaid now that’s unfair 

The Queen the Pope and Pele’s prayers
in Heaven is there underwear? 

In my boredom here’s my flair 
a boring poem you can share...

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Homes under trees
family in tents
refugees in forests
hunting of edible rats
cattle rustled away
harpoons to hook fish
wild humans eating
weak humans legally
clothing of rags 
thrown as gifts from sky
slave diggers in mines
tortured, underpaid
smuggled females
exploited as things of joy
jungle life at work
enhanced by jungle brains
by those in stone houses
this indeed is neo-stone age
Stone Age relived
Stone Age in promotion
Stone Age modified
and called civilization...

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