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Windpipe Malignancy



They love to puff the beryl nicotine

Incendiary lungs
sucking down the cancerous green

Hard drag queens,
dressed to mass extinct kill,
inhale poisonous mushroom dreams

Napalm verbal smoke:
fungi promises coming out of plastic windpipes
Pinocchio nose choke
pollute the global atmosphere with mint gripes

Cigar truth snubbed in a submarine ashtray
New Cuban missile crisis
put cerulean code Leviathan in play
Naval equatorial smoke circles ...
Ring of Fire raze reprisals ends a Green Day

Negotiated denials has got a jade glow
As the wizened warlords
sell refugee passes — 
Microchip markers ... gamma emerald

Dragging chain smoking kings,
boast ballast policies of reptilian oppression
Puff fork tongues pack a blowtorch sting

Black-hearted lungs
exhaling cold malignant scorch gangrene

Dirge windpipes hate the cure love brings

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 10/22/2018 10:09:00 PM
How DO you dream these phrases up?! There's just SO much going on in this poem, it boggles the imagination---at least the imagination of a mere mortal like myself. I'm in awe. ~ Gershon
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