Pretends Poems - Poems about Pretends

Tissy is reading the best book she’s ever read. Her tummy is full of Kibble, she has been greatly fed. You can come off the shelf if you want, her owner said. But Tissy is happy in her sailing ship, she has named Ed. Surrounding her on other shelves are seashells and such. For Tissy loves the sound of the...

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Dorothy’s fabricated Pollyannaism struck me as obnoxious. She pretends to be a pacificator at these PTA meetings. I have seen her social media posts. She is an avid hawk with violent words. She loves guns and bullets. Pretending to be a dove here. Asking for us to vote her in as president. Does she have the other women fooled? Should I stand up...

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The pursuit of happiness is the American Dream but how can I be happy if I ain’t spending? What kind of world have we all come to live in where happiness is sold at filthy auctions? Add it to my cart online and hope I’ve earned free shipping. Go to college, get a job, make something of yourself. I did exactly as the...

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My co-workers flock in to see me. But they do not, actually see the real me. I hide from them. They stay a bit, telling me What I do not listen to, But pretend I do. They are satisfied when They leave For I have mastered The face That pretends To Care I Am Rather Horrible But I am not here For them I am here for the children. When the children come I...

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America pretends today that it didn't actually put an unqualified narcissistic bully in the position of the most powerful man in the whole known universe, America pretends today that somehow this lying two-faced con-man can best represent their interests & actually givea damn, America pretends today that its o.k. that the office of the President is now run by a scamming tycoon real-estate developer whose claim to fame is really just his name, America pretends today, that mocking the broken, denigrating tortured...

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