The Decider
...We are killing at a distance now.
It is a most clean and efficient form of homicide.
The Decider decides,
not the guy in the drone control,
not the millinery brass - no,
every hand is washed,
...
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Categories:
automata, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Call of the Grimoire
...
"The Call of the Grimoire"
when Exalibur was retrieved
from the rock, then foolishly
and irretrievably lost
in that dreadful battle most worthless
...
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Categories:
automata, i am, light, magic,
Form: Narrative
Chasing Ghosts In Cars
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“Chasing Ghosts in Cars”
Like automata
we walk inside
winding up the stairs
it’s all mechanical
the romance
programmed
by steep degrees
in the
well-routined
...
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Categories:
automata, muse,
Form: Free verse
Dream Bug
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"Dream Bug"
Hour glass
rainbows sparkling
crystal grainy rapids
sliding intrepidly through life’s fingers
their coloured sands speak in to...
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Categories:
automata, dark, psychological, romance,
Form: Free verse
Sung In
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"Sung In"
We are notes
on the tongue
of God
Each of us words
in a never ending
sentence
Music is math
God breathes us in
out of ...
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Categories:
automata, humanity, i am,
Form: Free verse
Not a Robot
...Facebook drugs scrolling, infinite in veins
sensational Instagram ADDICTED so high
sleep DRAINED lives can't ABSTAIN Twitter
Linkedin DESTINED to intersect and reply.
Pinterest SLAIN time as ...
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Categories:
automata, addiction, health, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
50 Words For Poe: Automata
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“50 Words for Poe: Automata”
Haunted eyes of an automaton
the monkey grinds his music
outside the Magic Theatre
Harry looks on
"For Mad...
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Categories:
automata, gothic, horror, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Theater of Utter Charm Part 23
...sometimes you have to look after your sanity
and try to understand the laws of sequence
where before and after absolutely must preexist
perhaps consciousness cannot access its source
but we're no...
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Categories:
automata, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Automata
...The new lips do not pride
The old philosophical sense, only the rosiness
Games, hysterically arouse,
For those who would keep the lips
Before they start to drink, the empty
Brain of a rider star....
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Categories:
automata, dream, mystery, old, old,
Form: Free verse
Love With Fury
...Fire of passion disclosed
Triumphs an endless butane battery
Storing up nuclear charge
All mystic splashing neon energy
Love of soul pools communal
Exchanging cryptic disguise for truth
The kind tha...
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Categories:
automata, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Biography of a Man
...Biography of a Man
We are creatures
atop and below
whose ancestors joined
long ago.
Slimed together
in gelatinous
biological glue
swallowed into
the maw of an elastic fish.
I don't...
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Categories:
automata, people,
Form: Imagism
The Rock-Garden
...Come with me, to where the river-water
Snakes around and through the rocks,
Lit by the sun,
To where the rushing stream
Cools hot, tired feet
Where all noise is stemmed by the stones.
Join me in ...
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Categories:
automata, art, life, nature, places,
Form: Free verse