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Bad because you don't love me
Bad because you never touch me
Bad because you have a mouth
Bad whenever you please

Bad as lies
Bad breath, constipation
Bad as censorship
As a bald rat in garbage
Bad as poverty
As a drivers license photo
Bad as a rubber check
As smacking your granny

Bad as trichinosis
Bad as a hit man
Bad as spiders
Bad and full of cunning

Bad as orders, decency or a good conscience
Bad wherever you look
Bad as a throbbing root canal
Bad as a rusty nail
Bad as a Czech film
Bad as cold soup
Bad as the end of the century

Bad by nature
Bad from head to foot
Bad, bad, bad
Bad, but so damn beautiful

Liliana Felipe

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Vachel Lindsay
'The Leaden-Eyed'

Let not young souls be smothered out before
They do quaint deeds and fully flaunt their pride.
It is the world's one crime its babes grow dull,
Its poor are ox-like, limp and leaden-eyed.

Not that they starve, but starve so dreamlessly;
Not that they sow, but that they seldom reap;
Not that they serve, but have no gods to serve;
Not that they die, but that they die like sheep.