Desperation
...
Inspiration yields to desperation
with each tick of the clock
underarms damp as the back of your knees
soiling even your frumpy frock...
Time is finite,...
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Categories:
underarms, anxiety, time, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Still Life: Seventh-Grade Art Teacher Gets High Marks
...
I'm a woman now. I have means to be
mean and get away with it.
He died—too fast for my liking.
I’d already hired a detective,
ready to face it—
or at least harass the details of th...
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Categories:
underarms, absence, anger, child,
Form: Free verse
I am a slob today
...slob
unkempt
slovenly
my hair is weird
my face is dirty
my teeth are quite smelly
my underarms are screaming
I am a total wreck mama
I have worn this nightshirt for three days
there is a woo...
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Categories:
underarms, me,
Form: Free verse
If You Have Never Had Crutches
...if you have never had crutches you do not know this
but….
they hurt your underarms in the worst kind of way
They are clumsy and difficult to use
Sometimes they pop against a rock and you go dow...
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Categories:
underarms, life,
Form: Free verse
Meltering Sweltering
...Meltering sweltering is just up ahead
Sweat soaking sheets of our double bed
Underarms are odorous
Some parts are dangerous
Don't light a match it might kill you dead...
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Categories:
underarms, weather,
Form: Limerick
Queen of the Disgusting Underarms
...Let’s do an underarm reveal, she said in a daring sort of way.
I knew at that minute that this contest would make my day.
She has not shaved since 1997; not being demure.
This was hilarious to me ...
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Categories:
underarms, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Nutty
...My nutty week stays long in my memory
My brain didn't process like it would normally
But just to be sure I now lay of the pink gin
I will share you my tale and shall now begin.
Paracetamol had ...
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Categories:
underarms, confusion, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
Some May Be Offended, But
...underarms are hairy
unless you shave them very
often -- not to mention smelly
most use a-p roll-on gel
ee -- gad zooks what good are underarms
please don't bare yours in my barn!
...
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Categories:
underarms, body, humor, senses,
Form: Light Verse
Splashing Paint On a Canvas
...Splashing paint on a canvas
Is that visual art?
Does it constitute anything resembling design?
A huge swastika as a backdrop
for an Israeli Jew crushing a
Palestinian Arab baby under
...
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Categories:
underarms, art, creation, film,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Contests Are Silly
...Poetry contests. How ridiculous. Silly even. It is like comparing:
dogs with underarms,
underarms with toothbrushes,
toothbrushes with giraffes,
giraffes with garden parties,
garden parties wi...
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Categories:
underarms, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: List
Anxiety
...Anxiety
Awaiting results to any test,
Not knowing if you will be the best.
X-rays that look at painful places.
Ignominy from the laughing faces.
Emittin...
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Categories:
underarms, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Acrostic
Tags
...TAGS
TV tells the stories that connect us,
Get the benefits you deserve.
Of course, everyone knows
There is nothing worse than dingy clothes.
Open a bottle of pop
And you open happiness.
I...
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Categories:
underarms, life, parody,
Form: Free verse
Barbie Kisses
...Flicking
Like a snake’s tongue
Out and in
Long scars
From under the loose cuffs of her long sleeves
No matter the sultry summer day
Crisscrossed up and down
The banana skin of her underarms
R...
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Categories:
underarms, addiction, body, depression, hurt,
Form: Free verse
Michael's Salon of Pits
...People often say now I understand
When they hear that I'm from Paree
Not Gay Paree silly, but redneck
In the heart of Tennessee
I am the newest style of hairdressers
Here to lay out all the fa...
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Categories:
underarms, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Discomfort Notwithstanding
...hanging in the air
humidity’s heaviness . . .
the river’s slow crawl
On the Mississippi lies the beautiful little city where I once lived. How many times I trudged up inclined streets...
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Categories:
underarms, life,
Form: Haibun
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