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• First They Came For The Communists

  First they came for the Communists,
  and I didn’t speak up,

  by Martin Niemoller 12 lines, 2 comments
• The Menudo Of A Cuchifrito Love Affair

  la ruca
  juanita rosita esposita

  by Miguel Pinero 44 lines
• The Black Finger

  I have just seen a beautiful thing
  Slim and still,

  by Angelina Weld Grimke 12 lines, 2 comments
• Poetry Readings

  poetry readings have to be some of the saddest
  damned things ever,

  by Charles Bukowski 49 lines, 4 comments
• The Little Boy And The Old Man

  Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
  Said the old man, "I do that too."

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 9 lines, 3 comments
• Bus East

  \Poem written on a bus April 1954 from S. F. to New York \
  BUS EAST

  by Jack Kerouac 44 lines, 2 comments
• This Is Not The Place Where I Was Born

  puerto rico 1974
  this is not the place where i was born

  by Miguel Pinero 78 lines, 1 comment
• The Galilee Hitch-Hiker

  The Galilee Hitch-Hiker
  Part 1

  by Richard Brautigan 201 lines, 1 comment
• Flag Salute

  \"I pledge allegiance to the flag"-- \
  "They dragged him naked

  by Esther Popel 37 lines, 8 comments
• The Fury of Aerial Bombardment

  You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
  Would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces

  by Richard Eberhart 16 lines, 2 comments
• The Triantiwontigongolope

  There's a very funny insect that you do not often spy,
  And it isn't quite a spider, and it isn't quite a fly;

  by C J Dennis 38 lines, 5 comments
• An Abortion

  Do not bathe her in blood,
  the little one whose sex is

  by Frank O Hara 20 lines, 1 comment
• Nebraska

  April doesnt hurt here
  Like it does in New England

  by Jack Kerouac 66 lines
• She's All My Fancy Painted Him

  An obstacle, that came between
  Him, and ourselves, and it.

  by Lewis Carroll 32 lines
• 10th Chorus Mexico City Blues

  The great hanging weak teat of India
  on the map

  by Jack Kerouac 22 lines
• Hug O'War

  I will not play at tug o' war.
  I'd rather play at hug o' war,

  by Sheldon Allan Silverstein 11 lines, 6 comments
• Meditation On The A30

  A man on his own in a car
  Is revenging himself on his wife;

  by Sir John Betjeman 23 lines, 1 comment
• Genius

  Genius, like gold and precious stones,
  is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

  by Mark Twain 41 lines, 2 comments
• On The Pulse Of Morning

  A Rock, A River, A Tree
  Hosts to species long since departed,

  by Dr. Maya Angelou 105 lines, 1 comment
• The Soul Of Spain

  In the rain in the rain in the rain in the rain in Spain.
  Does it rain in Spain?

  by Ernest Hemingway 49 lines
• Hunger

  I come among the peoples like a shadow.
  I sit down by each man's side.

  by Robert Laurence Binyon 19 lines, 2 comments
• Renyard The Fox - Part 2

  On old Cold Crendon's windy tops
  Grows wintrily Blown Hilcote Copse,

  by John Masefield 1517 lines
• Dos Patrias

  Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche.
  ¿O son una las dos? No bien retira

  by Jose Marti 20 lines, 1 comment
• A Slice Of Wedding Cake

  Why have such scores of lovely, gifted girls
      Married impossible men?

  by Robert Graves 20 lines
• The Patriot

  I am standing for peace and non-violence.
  Why world is fighting fighting

  by Nissim Ezekiel 46 lines, 1 comment
• Tartary

  If I were Lord of Tartary,
  Myself, and me alone,

  by Walter de la Mare 32 lines, 2 comments
• Running Scared

  RUNNIN' SCARED -- RUNNIN' SCARED
  you're goin' nowhere

  by Miguel Pinero 68 lines
• The Objection To Being Stepped On

  At the end of the row
  I stepped on the toe

  by Robert Frost 18 lines, 4 comments
• Against Love

  He feels no raptures which are joys diseased,
  And is not much transported, but still pleased.

  by Katherine Philips 17 lines, 1 comment
• Ironic Poem about Prostitution

  When I was young and had no sense
  In far-off Mandalay

  by George Orwell 13 lines, 7 comments

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