UNEMPLOYMENT (I) (a Diamante) UNEMPLOYMENT (I) (a Diamante)

UNEMPLOYMENT (I) (a Diamante)

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Status: Finished  |  Genre: Literary Fiction  |  House: Booksie Classic
A diamante-style poem about the horrors of modern-day unemployment.

Submitted: April 12, 2011

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Submitted: April 12, 2011

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Unemployment
Degraded, downtrodden
Begging, pleading, failing
No-one gives a damn!
Crying, sighing, dying
Beaten, belittled
The forgotten

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Philip Roberts, Melbourne, Australia


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Literary Fiction despair poverty helplessness failing desperation beaten pleading hopelessness downtrodden begging unemployment the forgotten belittled degraded

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