Ode to the Voice I Never Wanted to Hear
...Oh, the joy of telemarketers,
Who call you up without a care,
With offers they believe are clever,
But really just provoke despair.
They call with grand insurance plans,
Covid kits and credit ...
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Categories:
telemarketer, business, funny, hello, humorous,
Form: Ode
Clocking out of Chaos
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I needed a job to pay the bills
not knowing what I was getting into.
A telemarketing company if you can believe
selling pieces of Titanic’s carpet with a view.
They said it was a ...
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Categories:
telemarketer, abuse, anger, conflict, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Five Days of Telephonic Hell
...Five days of hell
on the phone, selling lies
and pieces of the Titanic carpet.
A sinking ship of a company
with a captain who gropes and leers
and a crew who watches it happen.
Fiv...
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Categories:
telemarketer, abuse, anger, conflict, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Find My Phone
...I heard a ringing, it must be my phone.
So, off I ran, I was home alone.
I looked high, I looked low.
I even looked in the Freezer below.
I looked upstairs and down again.
I looked in the ov...
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Categories:
telemarketer, funny, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Telemarketer
...Hello
This is Mervin
No thanks do not need them
Really we have enough thank you
Good bye
Sponsor Sotto Poet
Contest Name Traditional Cinquain
15/4/2023...
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Categories:
telemarketer, thanks,
Form: Cinquain
My Life Is Unraveling
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A Metamucil Moment"
Woke up this morning
Feeling rather blue
Ran out of Metamucil
Don't know what to do
Muscles really aching
Joints are creaky sore
I ran out of Ben-Gay
Have to...
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Categories:
telemarketer, angst, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Telemarketer Auto Caller
...stop!!
auto calls
telemarketer
Why! you do you keep calling?
2/6/18
by James Edward Lee Sr....
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Categories:
telemarketer, anger, anxiety, conflict, voice,
Form: Questionku
Got Your Goat
...Crickety china the Chinese chicken Where is the cheese dominoes ...
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Categories:
telemarketer, fun, funny, hilarious, humor,
Form: Free verse
Kissing You In This Dream
...kissing you in this dream
then getting bitten by the truth
i guess that is why it is called later youth
the bloom of me is now wilted
i feel like damaged goods
i was a vulnerable future evictee
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Categories:
telemarketer, blue, heartbreak, heartbroken, how
Form: Free verse
An Ideal Job
...A satire by Elton Camp
“To find what type of job you are best fitted to and then to secure an opportunity to pursue it, is the key to happiness.” -- John Dewey
For me, it’s now too late to do
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Categories:
telemarketer, satire,
Form: Rhyme
The Folly of Eating Green Eggs and Ham
...By Elton Camp
Sam much too intently does insist
Green eggs and ham not be missed
I don’t like them isn’t good enough
Sam persistently promotes the stuff
He is very much like a telemarketer...
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Categories:
telemarketer, humor,
Form: Rhyme
An Ideal Job Is Easily Found
...An Ideal Job Is Easily Found
By Elton Camp
“To find what type of job you are best fitted to and then to secure an opportunity to pursue it, is the key to happiness.” -- John Dewey
It’s now ...
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Categories:
telemarketer, humor,
Form: Rhyme
A Solution To Telemarketers That Actually Works
...A Solution to Telemarketers That Actually Works
By Elton Camp
Those of you who are regular readers will find this different from anything I’ve published before. It’s not a poem and not a prose...
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Categories:
telemarketer, angst, money,
Form: Narrative
Calling All Angels
...This lonely drive to work, I barely felt alive
I felt a little quirk, on this mundane drive
I pulled over to make a call, next to a park
My secretary called, then my screen went dark
I procee...
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Categories:
telemarketer, life
Form: Couplet
Some Daze
...The a/c in the truck has been broken
I adjust the wing window, but it's sucking
Another red light and I'm steering wheel tapping
There is a rattle in the speaker that's blasting
The summer bree...
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Categories:
telemarketer, funny
Form: I do not know?
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