Best Retributive Poems

Please don't speak his trumped up name

Like ValdeMore
and more
and more hard-played cards
in my competing hand,
history echoes such dark memories
fettered, now and then,
by death's final reincarnation

Because some will claim
his was a name
for Boys will be CowBoys
all White the privileged 
well-capitalized same,

An unspoken name
for Wild CowBoy Lost,
a...

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When I was in seminary
my spiritual director advised me to notice,
as had he,
that there are two kinds of:

Clergy

Those who understand their calling
as to coldly forgive
and heatedly challenge
all bedeviled sinners

And those who feel called to mentor
gods and goddesses
and all transgender images in-between
to warmly engage
and repeatedly comfort
all...

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What do top and bottom
transcendent and immanent
above and below
leader and follower
high and low

Day and night
mountain and valley
up and down
pole and hole

Convex and concave
vertex and vortex
frontsides and backslides
dominant and recessive
outsides and insides

North and south
colonize and creolize
expert and indigenous
crown and root
knowing and feeling

Sperm and egg
knowledge and wisdom
voice...

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