Matthew Harris Poet Free verse

Red Hot Chili Pepper Poker Face

Red hot chili pepper poker face...

Born that way angry antithetical 
mailer daemon when...
all of Christendom bows their collective 
talking heads in supplication,
a temporary truce and reprieve 
against bigotry, deviltry, idolatry (nah),  
et cetera across the nation.

Yuletide pageant merry doth go round
where credo, ethos, and 
faith no more jinxes webbed, wide world, 
nevertheless soul asylum limned courtesy 
peace on earth and goodwill 
toward all men sentiment 
sacrilegious to bully, 
fully sully mankind's divine holiness, 
and present disgrace to human race
in the dolled guise of heretic

quasi analogous to a matador ramrod ready 
to Catch Bull at Four in a China shop
gored when muleta waved - 
courtesy matador incited Bos Taurus 
both fuming, fretting, foaming, et cetera
even the spectators 
frothing at the mouth with lather
while smartphones captured tableau
frozen in time photo touched up
stripping bare every bloody

last vestige of cruelty 
toward a gregarious animal 
exclusively a domestic species 
males genetic propensity 
culled, goaded, likened as fearsome beast,
synonymous when anonymous nasty brute 
fomented enormous disaster
monetarily eviscerated yours truly 
an online scamming  assault, 
the repercussions I still forced to wage

depredations living hand to mouth
quaffing caustic acidic ale, 
a cunning prankster did stage
comparable to kindle figurative 
ringed fire of rage 
within my still smoldering belly – 
coalescence fuels tinder
while financial security riven 
and rent asunder 
severely dislocating, hobbling, 

paralyzing vertebrae constituting 
gray and white matter, appearing 
in a cross-section as H-shaped gray matter 
surrounded by white matter, 
whereat the gray matter consists 
of the cell bodies of motor 
and sensory neurons, 
interneurons, and neuropils 
(neuroglia cells and mostly 
unmyelinated axons).

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