Dirty Rag Dolls.



world of sunken teeth
tongue of steel rips
apart
any descending
thought

dirty rag dolls
cremate the guilty
want want children

soiled environment
where humanity drips
its collective greed.

end.
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Submitted by LennyGazbowski on February 15, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXXX XXX XAX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 183
Words 30
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 3, 3

Lenny Gazbowski

Despite being chronically ill and surviving cancer Lenny continues to write poetry with a difference, he alternates between Light and Darkness; even his humour is dark, despite that Lenny still has a killer smile. Lenny was born in Liverpool in 1960 and he is married to an angel, Nikki, they have been together for 13 years. more…

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