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Haves and Have Nots
It’s a cold world out there, the haves versus the have nots, so unfair, that the poor worry for food, the rich without care, certain things we should share, imagine living without air, or no coats for your kids and its brick outside, black girl lost, turning tricks outside, and just last week one of…
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Fall Of An Empire
In a tunnel of darkness. On a day of disaster. With the eve of destruction. Rising above the empire. In the morning of chaos. In the midday of decay. The night air seals the coffin, of the wounded brigade. In the morning a silence. By noon time still silent. At night it is quiet ,…
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On A Roll
And all the fleeced have gone to sleep. The last chips collected, there are no cheap Replacement modes to gather wits or Count what bodes ill or otherwise. As flies pick the crumbs of buffets Closed for the brief time it takes To clean the commodes before the next Dreamers arrive to wish upon the…
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Distortion Distraction
Distortion/Distraction strong, feeble or weak reaction Distortion/Distraction a leader for change and maturation for a doomed nation, this is surely a distraction that we are all facing. Fake politicians with fake words and a fake message for all of us to listen. They cook up a storm and blow smoke up our ass inside of…
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Keepin it Ill
My whole persona real, and don’t really care if I cop me a deal, don’t walk with it, but keep my eye on the steal, come talk wit it, and then you dying for real, but I ain’t a gangster, ain’t my desire to kill, but for this freedom, I’ll hold this iron for real,…
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So Much, Gray
This is a hilltop story dedicated to you. One height of myopic vision While laying supine, you see So much blue clearly To be had. Drink it up. Lay One on me. Tell me something Any order of words sounding Any vision imagined sublime Like skyscrapers submerged Any version of titanium sheaths asunder on thirty-fourth…
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Pin a Tale on a Bobby
They demand it be simple like the possible backstory For the bobby pin on the floor and those benched around Laboring relatively on the beat. Rich with tentative accounts, The suggestions will simply be decorative. A patterned housing A leg encased in netting, the wig from which it fell. The night All shades and hue,…
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On the crosswalk
Between the painted lines, fast food scraps And headlines break down in the sidewalk cracks like grout of front-page, Arts and Culture, abbreviated World stacks Stunting sprouting dandelions. A song interrupts as a jingling advert: ”What’s It All About” from that album by the Grouch Plastic and Paper Product Restaurant and Catering Supplies All flies…
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How to avoid the peace obstacle
I am more animal now than ever. You are more vegetable. Less human, more numeral breakdown A cobalt dissolution Purify my drinking water With a sign of the cross My heart pours in copper over the sink So as not to drip a dipstick needle in your distilled horseradish Peppering bloods. One day I won’t…
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Drawing Attention to the Human Familiar
I focus on moments of unconscious behavior All races presume their given places in the Basic emotional truth of ugliness the finest Moments look awful like life with children All brothers and sisters looking level I level the lens preserving lies about earth Bearing codes of ourselves taking snapshots Of deniable circumstance I use my…