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Wake Up Call! - A poem about change

You think you are so smart Empty Is your mind and your heart Broken Your future and your life Wasted Is all you'll ever be  Nothing Unless you change it up WAKE UP!

Treason - A poem about purpose

Purpose and the meaning of life we're all looking surrounded by our fears and our dreams overlooking the time we've left behind  and our lost hopes our young innocent selves now our life blows! Everything falling apart and they're laughing we're dying - can not breathe - we are coughing trying to hold on for what reason? If we betray ourselves is it treason?

Hard Work & Class Clowns - A poem about choices

Everything's a joke  but you are the biggest fool you see everybody laughing but they're looking right at you. If you were remotely clever you'd be giving it your best while you are wasting time they are acing life's test. You look down on all my choices and my cosy busy life when you're begging in the street you'll see luck is but a lie.

Career Advice - Spoken Word Poetry

You know when you're in university in a new city and you’re worried about your electricity   bill   so there’s no time to sit still because you’re left will no will to live.  Then you work like a bee without getting the honey you don’t make any money but you have to explain the quotation   use annotation have some thought exploration.   No that’s not exploitation   even with no remuneration.   Do you wonder what it’s all for? If your ideas are not worth more than someone else’s beliefs because he’s been published before? No, there is no light in the tunnel in a system that runs like a funnel towards unemployment   and zero enjoyment. It’s a pain with no ointment to get a job that you hate People will tell you it’s fate you should find someone to mate to continue the species and pay the price, which is to forget all your wishes So why are you doing this in the first place? You dress your words in fine lace   get in the right head space   ...

An Othello Roast From Desdemona's POV

I was rereading Othello the other day while watching comedy roasts on youtube. This seemed like a good idea at the time. I hope the great bard forgives me. This is what Desdemona should say to all the men in this play...  Look at all you fools your scheming and your tools of mass destruction all talk but little action except against each other Do you tell your own mother your thoughts about women? You disgrace the name of 'men'! Iago, you complain about your life think they all slept with your wife. Maybe everyone but you because this one thing is true: your mind's all inside my bed and my husband in your head! Othello, how the mighty now have fallen your honour and your reputation stolen! If you believe that I was cheating only madness you'll be meeting. Your jealousy becomes a flood of your delusions wanting blood! Cassio, Misogynistic sexist pig your actions your own grave dig. Nobody forced you to get drunk or fight and act out like a skunk. As long as Shakespeare t...