Short Unemployment Poems

Unemployment
Okay, who moved my cheese?...

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Bail Out
Foreclosure
Unemployment
Took golden umbrellas
Bankrupt...

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At the unemployment office
Yep! Im still here, and still unemployed...

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Working days are hell  
Holidays are hard to pass
For the unemployed...

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How dare this notion
Bury with green the last roots
And piss off a rose!...

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Oh good, happy hour
The bartender cashes my
 Unemployment check...

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Injured dream-
reality bruising 'daymare'
another blood sweat stain...






mirroring the state of unemployment in Nigeria....

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Folks lose their job
Now some sob for
No job- no cash!


Dorian Petersen Potter
Aka ladydp2000
Copyright@2014

10.16.14...

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I lost my job two years ago today
Unemployment ran out sometime in May
Saving cans you know
Still play the Lotto
My little retirement plan, per se...

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There once was an economist who claimed
Deregulation wasn’t to blame
For the failure of banks
Loss of middle class ranks
‘Til unemployment had to pay him in francs...

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Poor ol' boy Richard Odekirk,
Just couldn't get fired and hasta work.
It's unfair that he'll miss the enjoyment,
Of his 96 weeks of Unemployment!

Just for Caties contest!!!...

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Presidents Day

I can hardly wait for Presidents day
I seem to see it just one way
If Obama steps out and sees his shadow
We'll have another year of high unemployment to go!

By Mike Francis...

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Nigerian graduates,
Suffering because of unemployment,
believing in government’s empty promises.
A meaningless hope on a janus-faced entity
governing sadistically.

A Stewart Annie Everestus's poem © 2019...

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Unemployment line
Single file to soup kitchen...
Fear of homelessness

Unemployment line
Cries in emergency room...
Fear, no insurance

Unemployment line
Like a faith-healer's crusade...
Hope to help, heal, house...

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Reckless tumbleweed
hurries across forgotten graves
of those who toiled through despair
and anguish
fighting drought and famine
depression and unemployment
heat and cold
locusts and dust storms
daily uncertainty......

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All over the world 
Innocent men
Women and children 
By the tens of thousands
Being put down

News ratings 
Poverty
Unemployment 
Rhetoric
Way up

Political intelligence
In the twenty first century
So far
Flat...

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I’m happy to see you 

Where have you been?
Amazing work, you’re doing brilliant 
Not so fast, could I ask a favour?
Treasure is what you are 

Oxford? You’ll have to get As
Unemployment isn’t an option
Time to get up...

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How do you lay off a writer…
unemployment assured
In labored obscurity,
his fortune unscored
How do you invest in a future
that’s devalued today
When checks never balance
—and words will not pay

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

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Most of our energy supply,
depends on coal,
now it seems,
that's about to go.
Jobs will be lost, 
towns will fall,
unemployment will rise,
disturbing to all.
Now is the time,
we need the facts,
if we allow this,
we're really in a crack....

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There was a young woman who stayed persistently unemployed
Not having a job, or any work, made her feel overjoyed
Drawing her fine government check
To complainers, said “What the heck!”
Which made those working around her considerably annoyed. 

May 27, 2021...

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Tis an ode to the glory
of this unemployment story
Got no food to eat
Can't even wash my feet
A quick way to get cash- go on Maury!*


8th place in the "Economical Woe Limericks" contest by
Carolyn Devonshire

*The Maury Povich Show- similar to
Jerry Springer.

A. Green...

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Here I sit
        in the room
 I have recently fixed 
up
 I hope the 
game 
which I have been playing
moves me into something productive
The sorrow
    which was known 
to me
      for many years
has come back into 
     my consciousness
Yes, I've got the 
   unemployment blues...

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The kettle is bubbling,
Youths are whistling, 
Police on the run.

Nation angry,
Children hungry,
Bellies empty.

Riots rising,
Mothers bawling,
Cities burning.

Communication breaking,
Recession increasing,
Unemployment growing.

Politicians assembling,
Britain crumbling, 
People worrying,
Population dividing....

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Babies... Children... Mealtime... Cooking...
   Food... Agriculture... Farms... Failure...
Economy... Disaster… Jobs... Unemployment...
   Food-Banks... Bankruptcies... Suicides...
Health... Resilience... Struggle... Overcome...
   Unity... Cooperation... Triumph … Relief...
Smiles... Joy... Love... Peace... Truth... Messiah...

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covid-19 deaths,
unemployment on the rise...
so is homelessness.

the pain very real
our ship of state is living...
a complete nightmare.

no relief in sight
not quite a happy new year...
lifeline held hostage.



Date written: 12/27/2020...

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