Angst Brother Poems

Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war

After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible nightmare
no amount of therapy can expunge.

Lifetime trauma inflicted perpetrators wage
dead bodies...

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Hebrews war 
We see them breaking every law of criminal conduct like it should be an everyday occurrence 
We are told by the eminent Jordan...

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I hear it more and more,
Every time I visit the store,
Walk along the shore,
Or hear our neighbors next door.

"Nobody is going to tell me what...

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a part was ripped right out of me
i’m stripped of my autonomy

i clutch my own cold, lifeless face 
i chase the warmth of your embrace

it...

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Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within...

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Once, I’d stood beside a man
Who, with heart and soul o’erwrought, 
Silently searched for answers, but answers found him not. 
His sister recently had passed...

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Conversations are mostly friendly
Vacate my mind
Inhale passing clouds

Avoid taxes and the police
Trouble with me is ~

The envelope arrives like a meteor
Foreign, inalienable & free

Fatal attractions...

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The brotherhood of man 

 When he came into the hall, his brother came down
the stairs, he had forgotten to buy milk
Outside, guns blasted his...

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This is you; this is me,
  at the end of the row, white-faced.
I have you clamped in an iron grip 
  to keep...

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Aloof brother concedes duty evaded...

Foremost gratitude heavenly indebted,
jumbling kindling, linkedin mourning
numbness overlaid, pervaded, quashed,
routed thoroughly undermined vibrant
warbling, when xing yesterday's youth

zigzagging, accompanying blitzkrieg
cleaving deafeningly exploding,
formative...

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The night is very dark with a slight summer breeze,
A shimmer of moon peeking through the branches of trees.
I hear another’s footsteps in the distance...

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When you we’re around 
your posthumous belongings
Lost and never found...

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I tripped into a foxhole
down 
	down
		down
shiny black button eyes beamed
a dime a dozen for your doe-eyed sins
can you call your mother’s name?

Sleek and shining you
see
	me
		bleed
matchstick...

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I’m just dead and so sorrowful inside
It feels like no one cares I feel this way
I’m full of dread and God’s merciful humility soaks away...

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When you have to bury your brother
but there's nothing left to cover
push the frigid snow to the side.
Scoop some up in your freezing hands.
Make a...

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