Brother Angst Poems

Unsettling premonition kickstarts fiendish abomination

Consider the following 
dogmatic, enigmatic, fantastic, 
idiotic, jargonistic, kimetic, linguistic,  
narcissistic, opportunistic,
poetic, quixotic, rhapsodistic, 
scholastic, transformistic, 
universalistic agglomeration
as an abbreviation
overactive...

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Our Stolen Days

The given days we take,
Childlike, heedless of consequence.
We swallow them as our due,
Our entitled share of happiness
Or, at least, consideration of the stake
Each...

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Everybody spoke from town to town

That he had the greatest smile hands down 

Till his big brother Keith

Knocked out all his front teeth

Now he greets...

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(Mimic the song..."If I Only Had A Brain" by the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz)

I could be so independent

So lavish and resplendent

Just a player...

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Slavery is not the end of atrocities 
Suffered by minority communities
The every day systematic sway
Of bricks piled against you like
A wall of pain
So many bricks
The...

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Date:  March  2051

3 days until April:
Flight time 3:05 afternoon--  IN flight 
"Dolly and Molly fumbled in their
Seat to achieve comfort. "Ooo does
This...

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Fear acclimated to my very senses, a dire undertaking
This is, living in the present, yet a time traveling mind
Sent me to relive the past, not...

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I'm wearing the blue,
yes, proudly, and don't prejudge me
and I won't prejudge you.
Some nights I sleep swirling in
nightmares,
seeing the blood of victims, and
I still very...

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Slipping
Sliding...... 

Sliding
Slipping

Down this slippery slope
I'm going fast, real fast
Can someone do me a solid and send me a rope? 
I know I'm good for one
There's...

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The cries of a young girls pain




    As I walk up these stairs, guess what I see?
    I see...

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Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war

After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible nightmare
no amount of therapy can expunge.

Lifetime trauma inflicted perpetrators wage
dead bodies...

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Aftermath of war: onerous task...

to salvage flotsam and jetsam
of human wreckage
amidst a sea where triage
witnessed courtesy scattered corpses
populating the Gaza strip
more'n pound of cold flesh
forced...

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Hebrews war 
We see them breaking every law of criminal conduct like it should be an everyday occurrence 
We are told by the eminent Jordan...

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I hear it more and more,
Every time I visit the store,
Walk along the shore,
Or hear our neighbors next door.

"Nobody is going to tell me what...

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One step, two steps, three steps, four
Up the stairs with hideous thoughts 
Preparing myself as I open the door
My mind, even now, is trying to...

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