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Blue Collars

Agustin Andrade

Sick of seeing blue collars in news columns
because they felt the need to kill another
wear blue but step in blood, got new red bottoms
cause by their logic, we bleed the same color
“But we don’t kill!” they swore their swears were solemn
and honestly, their white lies just get duller
maybe if we reworked this corrupt system
before we clean out the bodies of victims

About this poem

This poem represents the corrupt police system.

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Written on June 11, 2021

Submitted by adandrade1607 on June 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABABCBCA
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 367
Words 69
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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