Gregory Richard Barden Poet Rhyme

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down in up

will it up
     grill it up
         fill it up to brimming
          swill to still those silly cells
         drowned in what they’re
     swimming …

          press ‘em up
     mess ‘em up
 dress ‘em up with practice
a hoarder in its order
 and thorned as any
     cactus …

mock it up
     talk it up
         chalk it up to neurons
          firing with mis-wiring
         the receptors that they
     were on …

          hike 'em up
     strike 'em up
 spike 'em up your coursings
joy's in that sweet poison
 tho it's life that you're
     divorcing …

burn it up
     churn it up
         turn it up to 'leven 
          bursting drums, but first it comes
         and lies to you like
     heaven …

          smoke 'em up
     toke 'em up
 choke 'em up a-breathing
red the mud, as thin as blood
 to leave your angels
     seething …

tighten up
     whiten up
         lighten up and torch it
          melt the moon into the spoon
         and soon you'll swoon to
     scorch it …

          wind it down
     bind it down
 grind it down to fill you
you won't miss amidst your bliss
 the sweetest kiss to
     kill you …

her sweetest kiss ... can kill.





~ POETRY AGAINST POVERTY ~

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