Best Recidivist Poems

The lapse takes place in moonlight,
Curtained behind the rain,
Where the raucous chimes of midnight
Mock with their cracked-ice refrain;
The gut-churning whiskey of sorrow
Swills on the palate of fear,
And the cigarette breath of tomorrow
Spills through memorial beer.

Resurrecting the buried and burning
Raised from the shallowest grave,
She never was...

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As a dumb dog
Returning t his vomit
Again I swallow
Once more I wallow
Like a sow
That was washed
Returning to her mire
O wretched man that I am!
Struggling to understand
Why I do what I allow not
For the good that I would
I do not do
And that which I do
I don't...

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Released from prison.
Refused to follow
Rules explained to him;
Repeat offender
Robs convenience store.
Real smart, grasshopper!
Returned to prison.



Submitted for...
Pleiades R Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
Date written: 04/14/2021...

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