Best Illegibly Poems

Crazed beyond this fragile manuscript
  ink now bled out in caustic flow
emptying my mind of the clutter
  pouring from a heart beat’s mechanism
grinding gears of rusted thoughts
  handwriting illegibly unrecognizable 
scratched into burned edge parchment
  pleading for destinations
across borderlines and wastelands
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I love to see the children and the youths going to school
In their uniforms looking so smart and cool
Shirts and blouses all tucked in
Pants, bags, socks and the shoes matching 
Hair combed and hair styled, these really enhance the love that is here for you...

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Self help addict needles unsuspecting reader 

Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow 
scouting about for carrion 
scavenging for dead animals 
and rooting about garbage to sell 
at annual corvus entrepôt,
where at birds eye...

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Paternal grandmother's headstone - Beth David, Elmont, Long Island

Shaindel (Sadie), variant of Shana Harris
died May 13th, 1959 exquisitely chiseled
alphanumeric characters legibly engraved
sepulchral casket entombing lovely bones
deoxyribonucleic acid repurposed into me
Matthew Scott Harris patronymic protector,
when I die taking family surname to netherland
who unwittingly named his youngest...

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With some reluctance 
I must confess to you 
I found myself  
At the Inland Revenue 

Opening the door 
To an enormous queue 
I waited in line... 
Forever. As you do. 

Filling in forms
Of great quantity 
Ticking boxes 
Writing illegibly 

Contradicting myself 
In the fine...

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