The Corrupt Judicial System, Hillsborough County, Florida
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the air reeks of stale coffee and ink-stamped lies,
judges sit like smug kings,
smirking over lives they'll never live,
dismissing truth with a gavel's cough.
innocent men shuffle like cattle...
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Categories:
stenographer, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Recovery Isn't Just for Addicts
...Becoming the prey
I’m melting away like a 5 foot wick
To show a skeleton of who was once the author
Now the pencil tips break and the pens ink tends to escape
My eyelids worked overtime as haza...
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Categories:
stenographer, angst, devotion, emotions, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Over-Run By Muses
...At best, I am a stenographer:
the Muse dictates...and I write;
the Muse seeming all the
inspiration, a constellation
of wit and style – while I, a
single star – an abysmal one
at that...having...
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Categories:
stenographer, confusion, creation, culture, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Court Room Verdict---
...In the court room there's
one stenographer
six men
six women must be the jury
one judge
one verdict
audience the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event
one court r...
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Categories:
stenographer, analogy, community, engagement,
Form: List
Baby Blues
...Baby Blues
Tom considered himself a very lucky man
His girlfriend, Sally, was pregnant, going for a 20 week scan
They decided they wanted to know the sex, and Tom’s heart was filled with joy
Wh...
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Categories:
stenographer, baby, birth, child, children,
Form: Rhyme
Somewhere In America
...Somewhere in New York,
A piece of paper floats
Several stories above the ground.
Somewhere in Virginia,
The devil licks a lime
And fire erupts.
Somewhere in Pennsylvania,
There is a swan s...
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Categories:
stenographer, dedication, history, loss
Form: Free verse
Super Hero Thing
...While watching my parents being mugged and killed
At age thirty-one my calling was revealed
Got bitten by a rare deadly bug
While surviving a nuclear blast so snug
In a exploding toxic waste du...
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Categories:
stenographer, funnyme, world, hero, me,
Form: Rhyme