Best Swartz Poems

When my fingers hurt 
the pain binds and forms 
at the base of my greatest fear

I never knew fear
Until it knocked on my door
So fierce...

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When my fingers hurt 
the pain binds and forms 
at the base of my greatest fear

I never knew fear
Until it knocked on my door
So fierce...

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Collaboration: James Swartz, LadyLabyrinth





"Scorpion"




Lack of water leads to lack of life
exposed beneath the Sun like blood
from the tip of a Scorpion’s tail

Corporal attitudes aligned in...

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Mickey and Minnie were lovers
Not ones you're thinking about, my friends
Mickey Swartz and Minnie O'Malley
A pairing they had to defend

Got married just a little while...

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Nightshade seduction
arouse androidal desires
to taste the dangerous pleasure pill
that only humans are allowed to feel
Love poisons the non-emotional circuitry;
flip the kill switch ... flood the...

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following the “suicide”
of Aaron Swartz,
a delightful punch has been driven
into the gut of the empire,
whose eyes now
twitch & whose muscles now
flinch,
for the tables are turning,
when...

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Your Brother
You didn’t take the food and leave it for your brother
Instead you gave it to a stranger and rushed home to your mother

She was...

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It was raining fish from up in the sky
Hard to believe, but saw it with my very own eyes
They just appeared
We all cheered
But poor Mrs....

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Scorpion 
A collaboration with Lady Labyrinth 

Lack of water leads to lack of life
exposed beneath the Sun like blood
from the tip of a Scorpion’s tail

Corporal...

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I'm not the "Scum from Swartz Creek".
I'm not the "Geek from Gaines".
I'm not the "Brat from Byron",
but the stigma still remains.

I've worn so many labels
and...

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