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Dreaming the Impossible Dream

...Recently, I awoke 
from a very specific dream--
In which I expressed 
my getting-a-B.A. scheme

A long-time ambition 
I've put on the back-burner
Delayed because I'm not 
much of a wage-earne...

Categories: wage earner, confidence, dream, education, prayer,
Form: Quatrain

Unquotable Quotes: Li 51 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams

...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: LI - Tongue-Teasers

If you want to give someone a « taste of his own medicine", you must first obtain sufficient quantities of the same medicine in the market, and if it’s ou...

Categories: wage earner, corruption, judgement, planet, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Wage Earner

...My Love
has no bottom
My Love 
has no top
I truly wish

She would 
stop dancing
in clubs
like that....

Categories: wage earner, 12th grade, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Rant Against the Left and Rant Against the Right

...I listen to the Leftists
I listen to the Rightists
  They are not among the brightest.

The Leftists want a $15 minimum wage, a guaranteed job
For every wage-earner in the US, be he gentleman or...

Categories: wage earner, bullying, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

1959 Was My Heyday

...I retired gracefully, happily, knowing I could never be fully completely replaced even to this day.
I was slick, photographic, revered by so many, loved by a few, heavy, a bit conceited but in a goo...

Categories: wage earner, 12th grade, childhood, christmas,
Form: Personification

Memoir of An African-American Man, Achievement, I

...Achievement, 1 of 2
                            —Time to share—

I grew up in a slum where the gang members,
at the risk of their lives, fight over their turf.
My lullaby was red and blue warnin...

Categories: wage earner, anger, black african american,
Form: Epic

The Ticket

...Inside the room in the administrative offices floor
of a plush hotel, an unmarried middle aged lady executive,
showing a lottery ticket, told her secretary 
that she won five hundred dollars. She ...

Categories: wage earner, humanity, thanksgiving, wisdom,
Form: Narrative

Wage Earner

...Helpless puppet
Dancing on a string
Make me dance
Make me sing

I must bow deeply
So I can eat
Yes sir, okay!
May I clean your feet?

You pass your exams
You earn your degree
I’m your favorite flunky...

Categories: wage earner, slam, me,
Form: Quatrain

E=mc2

...Never really quite understood,
so mind boggling it's just no good,
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

E=mc2 he defined as Energy
equals Mass times twice Velocity -
but what's that to a po...

Categories: wage earner, funny, introspection, life,
Form: Light Verse