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too busy to show human compassion

A poem I wrote from a combination of workshop prompts and too many YouTube videos.

By Chloe GilholyPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Top Story - April 2024
too busy to show human compassion
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JL's music career on the six is her greatest

acting achievement snatching back her husband's tips

with nanny's working slave contracts

she's too busy to show human compassion

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OW boasts about a special drug

and gets her followers addicted

now there's a shortage and outrage

the ones who need it can't get it

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Don't get me wrong SS is a great guy

their music makes you feel something

but must we see their derriere wobbling

beneath fishnet tights under red lights

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as for JK I don't always agree with

everything thing she has said and done

but we can't forget she's the reason

why so many hold a pen and a book

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I don't know much about MM

but they blame her for the rain,

an old lady's death, and a man's fall

she wants privacy in the spotlight

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Those childhood stars we related to

learning about the stuff they did to you

I'm not surprised that some of you "rebelled"

Profit over welfare - a real horror story

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and as for those crooks to the left and the right

all dining with the elites as anti-Robin Hoods

if there's one thing I've learned it's that one

should never trust the words of a politician

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These celebrities we should admire and politicians to trust

and the services we should depend on are used and abused

like puppets on a string spat out on the streets to rot

is it any wonder we have a crisis in every single sector?

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The world's gone downhill since MJ died

Then shattered after the talented DB died.

it never matters how technology advances

as the birds fly by and fall to their death

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They talk about making this planet cleaner

World leaders and activists need to stop

bombing the shit out of each other

but they ban plastic straws instead

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About the Creator

Chloe Gilholy

I live in Oxfordshire. Visited 20+ countries. I've written a couple of poetry books and also published a dystopian novel called Game of Mass Destruction and a horror novella called Heavenly Seas.

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    Written by Chloe Gilholy