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Grade F
Young man begging outside the train station
Not only is he young but he's also white
Privileged like the queen
Porcelain white skin
He should try being as dark as the night
A kid with a kid
That's what her mum called her
Her beautiful baby won't stop crying
Should have just had an abortion
She's Muslim as well
So she thinks she's destined for hell
No hanky panky before marriage
What a disgrace!
40 year old male with no driving license
What is it that Margaret Thatcher said?
A man riding a bus at age 26 may count himself a failure
Damn right!
Tick Tock Tick Tock
That's your biological clock
30 year old unmarried female
Don't you know you have failed?
Marriage and children is all you're worth.
What a disgrace!
Unsuccessful Humans
drugged out in an alley full of piss, nodding off or emerging from the high into the hell of need. Failure of a human: marks on both wrists, abraisions on the neck, inability to move anywhere but in bad company. Loss of all vision, living only in the past, as if reliving it over and over will change the present into something beautiful and better or more ugly. Fail to acknowledge all life as valuable and worthy of not being denigrated - even the incorrigible and sinful. Those who chose alcohol and or a radical racial perspective over people, kin and strangers. Freezing in fear instead of fighting back - destined to not die well. Just a few thoughts. Hell is what you make it. Heaven is here and possible for any human, no matter their failings or cursedness. - Just struck a chord's all ~Interesting write, food for more than thought.
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I had to do a bit of ranting as being 65 and never married. I am a success and I think the poem is a plaint, a look at reality without blinders, realitiy in the raw - not personal perpective and philosophy, just the way it is. The ego defends the rest of the mind well. You write the way a poet emotes. Hope you are very bored at work again soon. Welcome to Postpoems. ~Star~
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