Short Waistband Poems

billboard sign
winks at me
eat here now

temptation
hungry bear
buffet line

plate piled high
ten pounds plus
waistband stretch...

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billboard sign
winks at me
eat here now

temptation
hungry bear
buffet line

plate piled high
ten pounds plus
waistband stretch...

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05/09/2018
                
                a sea of salt sand
                populates swimsuit waistband
                the oceans wet itch...

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elastic waistband
society norms dead
wearing pajamas at Starbucks
no one stares
or cares
that I brought my own blanket too
as it is sometimes cold in here
a big change from home where
I will go to nap in an hour...

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The thing about chiggers:
I’m glad they’re not bigger.
They’ll make you go dancing
Like A. A. Milne’s Tigger.

Avoid ‘em with vigor!
When they pull the trigger,
Get under your waistband,
You may need a jigger.

Of whiskey! Of whiskey!
You’ve gotta ask right,
'Cuz chiggers are red
And jiggers are white.

O, chigger! O, jigger!
They both like to bite.
The former’s a flea;
The latter’s a mite....

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How could someone choose to live in such a wasteland
A polluted mess of burgers and fries in your hand,
Populated with emotional distress as tighter becomes the waistband,
Personal vendetta achieved bit by bit without love or a man
You have yourself to blame and have no pity to demand

Now you have lost all potential with nobody to care,
One choice made and now a fertile life is bare,
When you make a child to be an adult, this could be you....

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