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Leftovers From A Darkened Life

Kelly Tull Martinez 1971 (Merrimac, Ma)

Ode
Leftovers; mottled eggs, darkened
 beans, and cultured peas.
What to do?
I live to be screwed.
All about who pays for the food.

Live a life of tortuous memories.
Not to have medicine, a bite to eat, or
 a blanket or heat.
What can our 500.00 a month not a
 week.

Eat a can.
Get in line.
People live to be failed.

Blood and linen will do a flag.
More than that makes a famine.

Meek in faith.
Death abase.
Failure can make you to ban.

Fight for your life,
To prove you are worth,
More than a miserable man.
  

About this poem

I wrote this in a psychiatric unit while I was processing what went wrong to bring me there.

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Written on July 09, 2021

Submitted by Kellytullmartinez on December 22, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXBB AXXXX CXX XX XAC XXC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 516
Words 127
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 3, 2, 3, 3
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I've been writing all my life but have never published. I either have sold my greatest works or given them away. There is a plethora of my talents hidden in society right now just waiting to be found. Good luck. My writing sample is now worth a lot of money. Its yours now before Christmas 2021 for a grand. more…

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