Death Animal Poems

      What killed the Cat was not ‘Curiosity’

         ~ ‘Twas the ferocity...

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Issue, O Iridescence!
Luminesce on the sly.
Pore over, phosphorescence?
Oh yes, and here is why!

Students of the nebula!
Empire has its cost!
Best to keep it regular?
That or deal...

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The hunting of Boojumous Snark,
It ain't but no kind of a lark.
It's best to wear lead,
From toes to the head,
And aim 'twixt the eyes with...

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the last blackbird


even now, i’m not sure
why i walked to the end of the avenue
before sitting on the curb.

one city bus marquee after another boasted
that...

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one trick pony

the man was too corpulent to dress in lime green and lemon yellow
yet it was his colored grapefruit vest that identified him with...

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Zebras and giraffes are pals with wows!
Like pygmy goats and milking cows
If predators are close, giraffes sound the alarm
Zebras run with their herd to avoid...

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The animal trap
The artist the athlete the strength of the human condition
The leaders still fight
Those inner demons
Dance death into extinction 
Loves only threat
Humans were a...

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I bought the world. 
Can you see where the merchant likes to sit?
I wanted to buy, that strange thing that pearled.
I offered my heart 
but...

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I.

The night was as thick as melted asphalt
when her prehistoric form
emerged like a monument
in the sand
and each egg that descended
spiked the air with the scent...

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It was a strong opponent,
it fought against us very well.
Many of us were slaughtered
before it finally went down.

Again and again it tried to run,
but we...

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What if humans fled to a distant star?
Seeking a better world, but traveling far?
Missing the truth, that Earth was the best.
Leaving behind a planet, to...

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Cold night engulfs an injured bird

Wings caging it from

The naked reality

It seeks warmth

In a frosted golden cage

Of escaping hope......

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From the trenches of the dark underground into the sewers of the slumworld, a place terrified with the pain of fear, gripped from their minds...

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La gravedad se hace intensa con tu recuerdo 
Creo que la tierra quiere llevarme contigo,
La escucho reclamando mi cuerpo mientras pudre el tuyo 
Como si...

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You bury your only dog beneath a home of desecrated poppies.
Pup frozen from years of neglect, full of ignorance and stained of regret.
You claw at...

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