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A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR BLUNTS THE SHARP BLADES OF REALITY

"Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing." –Allen Klein

A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOR BLUNTS THE SHARP BLADES OF REALITY
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I lay on the table, a modern-day sacrificial lamb,
pillow cradling my head, a fortress of foam and fabric.
Then came Velcro, the sticky embrace of a high-tech straitjacket,
my legs

Categories: claustrophobia, 12th grade, humor,
Form: Free verse

Claustrophobia

The walls are closing in.
No matter what I say, I never win.
My life’s crumbling in my hands
Like it’s a stray rock, and I can’t see where it lands.

Everything’s falling apart before my eyes,
And only pain will arise
From the deep gash in my heart
That’s been there from the start.

I’ve lost control of everything,
And I’ve found myself

Categories: claustrophobia, 8th grade, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Reading the News

*ring* *ring* (A Facetime call)
Mom: “Hey hun, what’s up?”
Me: “Well, let’s see.. 
“We have an armed law enforcement that’s scared of the civilians they police.
One political party so corrupt it’s no longer interested in serving the people.
Half the population ignores the one real power mankind has - science.
Hackers shutting down pipelines, schools, hospitals and companies.
News

Categories: claustrophobia, anxiety, christian, conflict, evil,
Form: Free verse

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Claustrophobia

Someone broke my best friend’s heart.
They’d been together throughout the entire lock-down.
And even though it looks like we’re entering a freer time,
he said it felt like she’d become part of the claustrophobia.

Explanations can snag on nerves like fishhooks.

Categories: claustrophobia, 12th grade, break up,
Form: Free verse

Perpetual Claustrophobia - An Epitaph

'Neath this sod dwells Mavis who suffered many a phobia

Makes one wonder how she's handling claustrophobia

Categories: claustrophobia, humor,
Form: Epitaph

Repairs 2 Claustrophobia

claustrophobia...
furniture hissing at heels
— kissing time away

8/22/2018

Categories: claustrophobia, emotions,
Form: Haiku

Claustrophobia Competes To Thai Up Thy Psyche

Alacrity bespeaks entangled, entombed,
     and entrapped Thai soccer team
diminishing strength barely allows,
     but a whispered scream,

which rescue against all odds
     (plucked out cavernous catacomb),
     fast becoming a fading dream
vicariously agonizing to see

desperation and lads bravely brace,

Categories: claustrophobia, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Epic

Claustrophobia

Clever words fly in quaint echoes,
Live in that spot with buzz and moan;
Aim for a high that grows and grows,
Urge for a plot when play sifts groans;
See surreal themes mock salient fact,
Touch feels so sore in vivid light;
Ride that strange dream that hides harsh tact,
Offer faint core in twinkling sight;
Preach if you must in hue

Categories: claustrophobia, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet

Claustrophobia

Had visitors over on the weekend
The subject turned to life's scary moments
At ten years old had a daredevil heart
Dragged this story out of retirement

Trembled like I was living it over again
With my good buddies Ken and Bob
Crawled into a narrow culvert on our bellies
Amazing how my heart still throbs

Your truly was first, then Ken, then

Categories: claustrophobia, childhood, remember,
Form: Quatrain

Claustrophobia

For a patch of happiness 
you rushed into the arms
of clouds. Only to fall back with tears.
The glazing authority of moon
hangs on the poverty of spiked wisdom. 
Betrayal is the norm of celestial thinking;
how can you accept a drop of death?

What is your motive
in watching the pain ?
A path, a tunnel, 
a precipice. The collage

Categories: claustrophobia, natural disasters,
Form: ABC

Claustrophobia - Another Acrostic

Cannot
Long
Abide
Unusualy
Small 
Type
Rooms.
Once
Panic
Hits,
Ones
Breath
Is 
All gone.

Categories: claustrophobia, funny, health, people,
Form: Acrostic