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Flowers

Flowers are like people
when one withers, another blooms

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Jungle Warfare - Vietnam War

The slickness of a blade
pressing against a throat....
the cold steel meeting tender flesh
blood drips and a body tumbles 

the taste.... the sight... the sound....
all quite euphoric.....

Ripped clothes, smashed items, 
echo screams, and the raging fires that glow throughout the night

The beauty.... the savagery.... the destruction
all quite euphoric....

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Trap House

The stench of piss, vomit, and feces 
immediately hit my senses
as I step over dirty syringes
and white, powdered filled baggies 
the imperfect combination
of junkie and overdose
the drool dripping out of their mouths
and the sight of eyeballs rolling 
into the back of heads
I see the hookers who parade around
in their birthday suits
who's bodies resembled that
of a skeletal corpse, and of course
who can forget the music
that shakes the exterior 
of a cracking foundation 
half-dead bodies moving and grooving
to the sound of a repetitive beat 
but the irony out of all this of course
is the transaction.....
the meeting between men
the sell of deadly prescriptions 
and the lost of finances 
only to repeat its licentious cycle again
but this is nothing.... it's actually quite normal
in the stomping grounds of the ghetto....

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Diary of a Soldier - World War 1

Surrounded by mud
our feet make love to the surface
the bullets kiss us, the bayonets hug
our intestines and the blankets
cuddle with our cold, decaying corpses
we write to our wives, letters that will never be delivered
the wet ground gives our feet an unpleasant present
in the form of gangrene, the rats 
make themselves at home feasting upon the rotten
flesh of fallen comrades while the maggots make use
of newly formed skulks and aged decaying bone
then comes the symphony of artillery 
the roar of gunfire, the marching of tanks
the mighty foot soldiers, and 
the majestic golden smoke of mustard gas
the trenches become our unwanted love
and unholiest of homes, "the tears do not shed
the blood does not spill, and the soldier does not die"
is the common the battle cry sung upon us 
constantly by our commanders but on the contrary 
these bitter notes of blind fate forever sing to us
the illusion of life and the irony of war.....

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Poetry For the Common Man

It's 3 P.M, Sitting, staring at the reruns of Jeopardy and Seinfield 
a microwave steak and some potatoes 
sit gingerly on the tray, crunchy and frozen....

It's 5 P.M., a bottle of room temperature beer
cuddles itself around my hands
some potato chips spread across my lap.....
the television remote and I sit inches apart
yet, the separation feels like miles 

It's 7 P.M., cold, rusty water pelts my naked flesh
the bath towels feel like steel wool
every little fiber, scratching and tearing at my skin
the soap is as tough as rubber......

It's 9 P.M, bed bugs have swarmed my mattress 
scratching and biting, I smash one and a million more follow 
some are flat and dry and some explode with leaking blood....

It's 11 P.M. I slip into my dungarees, there's a urine spot
in the middle of the seams.... my shovel is rusty....
the van leaks exhaust and it bleeds gasoline 

It's 1 A.M., I gaze at the tombstones and they gaze back
a foggy midst looms from the hills, it's raining....
a flash of lighting strikes, bright as the sun itself
thunder rumbles the earth.....

It's 3 A.M., strolling by the red light district
a back alley blowjob, no condoms....
ten dollars for one hour, twenty for two
I only have five.....

It's 5 A.M. the sun begins to rise
beer bottles pilled at my door
saliva, drying at the seams of my mouth....
back into my bug infested abode.....

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A Cookie Full of Bullets

I open my package of
oatmeal raisin, chocolate chips cookies
I scraped away the sun dried devils 
and devoured the chocolate chips of course 
but something felt funny, so I forced
my finger down my throat and puked 
up my lunch, the yellow,green concoction 
contradicted the lead filled little bites of death
and I also spit up some blood as well 
stomach pains and heart palpitations
were my best friends for the next 3 months 
reminding me that if I ever buy cookies 
online again make sure the package 
doesn't say "from Russia with love..."

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The Iron Tank

1. 
The cold touch of steel masonry 
it's violent barrage of iron shell
and the crashing thunder with raining shrapnel

2. 
The rain, the mud, and bloody terrain  
swiftly it crashes through the enemy lines
with it, a swarm of bayonets and steel helmets

3. 
Piles of broken bone and empty artillery
raging inferno's and gray smog
bloody bodies and a white flag

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Our eyes sparked a flame that melted our hearts

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The Beauty of Combat

Combat.... 

though morbid in nature, there is a sense of beauty....

for example - 
the bullet and it's chamber
the slickness of steel, and the power of the trigger 
which together correlates the symphony of motion 
from the time the trigger is pulled, to the
daunting escape of a bullet, and then finally to the penetration of it's victim.....

Quite morbid... yet hauntingly beautiful.....

Then come's the bullets quintessential cohorts

The Chemical and The Armored Car (a Tank)

The brutal barrage of steel cartage 
crashing into unstable masonry 
then the soothing smog of golden mustard gas...

The echoed shrieks, the violent shakes, 
the bloody eyes and mucus filled noses
whose violent episodes finally conclude 
when the eyes of death stare back at them...

Quite morbid.... yet hauntingly beautiful....

The finally... how can we forget the noble foot soldier?
his footsteps, silent to the earth....

out of the hysteria and chaos
two men, two weapons, and a whirlwind of emotion  
nationalistic pride, paranoid fear, and  scattered  tranquility...

A sign, as is to say....
"I don't want to fight, but I have to..."

Which all correlates in the thrust of the bayonet 
a twinkle of blood, and then finally the gentle weeps...

Quite morbid.... yet hauntingly beautiful....

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My Friend, Frank

I went to visit my friend, Frank
I shouted his name and to no response...
this was the first time in six months 
that I went to visit him....
he already depressed about losing his father
and having his wife leave him....
I tried to get his number, to call him
but... he simply disappeared
I got in touch with one of his co-workers
to get his address...

the first I notice when I visited was the unhinged doors
and the broken wine bottles 

I went to the kitchen
the first thing I noticed there was the smell of spoiled milk
and the first thing I saw were the rat droppings
and roaches crawling in the bread pantry 

I spotted the rusty knives, and smashed plates
the walls were filled with fungus and mold
the roof was the leaking and the doors 
were torn off their hinges....
the garbage bags were ripped apart 
rotten apple cores, half-eaten oranges 
1/3 of a whole pizza and a rusty razor blade 
laid bare...

I went upstairs, 
they creaked and any second they were about to cave in 

on the first door to the right was his room
spiderwebs cuddled with the doorknob
once inside, all I saw was stacked up porn magazines
dried up tissue, and a static TV.....
the pictures were smashed and there was hole in the wall
Cocaine, rusty needles and heroin filled his dresser 

I walked out and went to the second on my left 
there was the attic.... filled with yearbooks,
degrees, pictures, just so many memories left untouched... 

I walked to the last door on my right
that was his bathroom...
I open the door, the first thing I noticed... 

it was Frank's body hanging from the rafters
he was wearing a white wedding dress
with makeup smeared all over his face
roaches ate his eyes and his arms
were coated with dry blood...
the toilet was filled with feces 
the shower curtains were ripped
and the sink ran brown water
there was no note.....
but the body spoke for itself...