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POEM: Insane Asylum Patience

Whose violence is worse They argued The insane asylum patience Condemning barbarism As the strongest barbarians Write history And write makes right Or sow it might As cartoonish caricatures Capture humanities A tension Leaving those under Lying causes Uniformly camouflaged … Continue reading

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POEM: Metings, I’d Rather Do Without

I listen To that which speaks A bigger In feeleds of dreams Wanting more Then words Aloft from fences Of unsatisfying breadth And stealy calculation Dis passionate mines As inevitable ballbusters Descending from bona fide guise Even handed lines Powerless … Continue reading

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POEM: A Wrench In The Machine

He was having one of those lives Where he woke up Only to find himself A wrench in the machine Threw and threw Putting his whole life into question What kind of tool are you? This poem was triggered by … Continue reading

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POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self

In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading

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POEM: Nevermore Contrived

In the distant future But not too distant Man fashions A machine That does every thing For us For the trees Imperceptible To awe but sum Living in passed tense Eternal re-pose Holding sway In make believe lives And unexamined … Continue reading

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POEM: Succor Punch: Owed to Water

Water is Liquid liveliness On the surface So abundant Yet its unique Properties for gotten Pre-sumptuously owin’ The establishment Of hour get-up and go Taken For granite In difference to animating schemas And listless graces Making passable Setting in motion … Continue reading

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ELECTION POEM: We De-serve More Than One Date a Year

Even with The sorry lack He in the capitol arena He refuse To beg for change As riddled with ballots From a stone throne Presumed in a sense As the free mark it To mock a difference In hour damn … Continue reading

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POEM: Democracy – as seen on TV

Wherever I land In the electoral whirled Politicians ceremoniously execute The will of the people In doctored fashion Yet an other sort of capitol punishment Delegated to the coroner Turning voting off In a Pyrrhic victory So hollowed by those … Continue reading

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POEM: Nothing New Under The Sun

There is nothing new under the sun Though in the shadows The same old same old Is more mournfully familiar Settling for reality-lite Too at home with night Groping with eyes open Instead of lightly touched Even with eyes closed … Continue reading

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POEM: Be Riffed of Life

He said “The world is inert.” I said “You mean Dead?” He re-plied That it is Assure thing Beyond doubt I queeried “On your incite Or the out?” By all means Necessary As you must And arbitrary mold No higher … Continue reading

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POEM: Rare Prayer

I found myself In rare prayer A genus reserved for Mother’s ilk Only doing what Kin be done In udder neglect Of that long a go Cached in Fore more sensible weighs Now wholly saved For foxholes The mass Of … Continue reading

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POEM: The Death of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier

He was a Baby with a capital B A ruler by which so many would be judged He was unjust A child of 20 A President for life A President for death As so many capriciously dyin’ with a king … Continue reading

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POEM: As I Poor Myself

As I poor myself Out into the streets A pasture for the people At ease with just us Weather soon becoming A torrent of change Oar that which trickles our fancy A tributary to humanity That no’s know bounds And … Continue reading

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POEM: Double Oh Seven Up

Double Oh Seven Up He bought That violence works Buy strong Wield men Where once lust Now found Like some secret Agent of change As if Like first see’d Bared in some virgin soil Unable to grow any further Only … Continue reading

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POEM: Sew Your Frayed

Fear takes you Too the toil it For those privy to life If you have years, listen Courage makes you What sow ever the seasoning Spring dew Or winter flakes You knead not be Scared for life Weather an incite … Continue reading

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Owed to Knot Rhyming

The ability to rhyme Is not my paradigm I brandish cacophonies To unleash new homeys Word And soul full plurality Welcoming that which can knot Be beat My poetry is offbeat.  That is not to say that it doesn’t have … Continue reading

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POEM: Never Wanton Too Leave

In the tree of life I take my leave Looking not To politicians, generals, celebrities, or philanthropists For salvation Re-lying not On triangulating hourly opinions In gluttonous cynicism That fuels no bodies everywhere But their own Leaning not On skulking … Continue reading

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POEM: The Meaning of Vex Lex

In a universe beyond apprehension She caught herself Vexing once again Is there meaning? Looking above The stars just winked Looking below The grass said “How can you stand it?” Looking forward Her next meal said “Eat me.” Looking back … Continue reading

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POEM: In Jesting Another Triple Crown

America’s quest for monarchy Failed again A triple crown thwarted The quest for total domination Foundering Another cracker jack faux A for-see-able sir prize Californian gold transmuted Into chrome Bronzed A tanned hide Soon forgotten A hoarse race A poorer … Continue reading

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POEM: Needling a Haystack

The stockpiles of human knowledge grow exponentially And wisdom, like needling a haystack Says, “What the hay?!” Finding better questions is where it’s at Not how fast you can shovel it Nor how big your pitchfork is Rather what thread … Continue reading

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