Best Burgess Poems

My name is Axon Burgess
I am broken and thin
I went to fight for glory and right
but only drank more gin 

Before he died
my friend would confide 
about his sister's beauty
if her eyes did look at me 
her eyes would look right through me 

What are...

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Sprawling, against a backlit Sun.   Magenta

 the Clockwork of Time

and its infinite antinominies

..................of timeless aimlessness

and Void of Time

 fades as a memory

the pulse and rhythm of each staccato stroke



against the clockwork springs

 and fine-tuned apparatus

    the pendulum swing

and weighted balance...

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PLEASE SAY THAT AGAIN MR. BURGESS (JUST A LITTLE BIT LOUDER)

Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess
(Director of the US Defense Intelligence Agency)
sat there in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday &
asserted to the world that 
“Iran is unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a...

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