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Punch-in-the-Face Poetry

Punch-in-the-Face Poetry showcases poems that leave you sore, gasping, and possibly embarrassed. They make you feel like you've got something to prove. They bring you out swinging.

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“Tired,” Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two-
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

newgreyhair Poem Leave a comment August 28, 2023August 26, 2023
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