FACTORY OF VIOLENCE
...There was no accident.
It is an entire generation your failures have delivered to the flames.
Beneath your crumpled suits, betrayals show their seams.
You deconstructed without rebuilding,
demoli...
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Categories:
communiqués, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Awkwardly, Ineptly, and Submissively Fumbled Thru Life
...I awkwardly, ineptly, and submissively fumbled thru life...,
whereat purposefulness rarely gained traction
Fatherhood (half my life time ago)
bolstered reasonable rhyme
manifesting itself befor...
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Categories:
communiqués, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lima Describe How Yours Truly Went Peru Zing
...Lima describe how yours truly went Peru zing...
thru truckloads of his personal communiqués broadcast
(methinks quite some years ago) across world wide web,
but now still smarting from selfishne...
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Categories:
communiqués, absence, conflict, emotions, family,
Form: Rhyme
Snookered
...When ‘He’ decides to destroy one and all
I’ll spend my last day in this old snooker hall
My cue in one hand and a beer in the other
I’ll play my last game with my dad and my brother
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Categories:
communiqués, earth, fate, moon, space,
Form: Rhyme
They're Cute At This Age
...subtitled: The Bolder Boys (rivals of The Golden Girls)
written for a word bank contest - twenty really weird ones
Two graying seniors with appalling chimera
bantering back and forth - mental ...
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Categories:
communiqués, 11th grade, old, retirement,
Form: Quatrain
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1
...[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.
But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always ...
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Categories:
communiqués, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme
The World of Communication
...When the first humans walked the earth,
They all huddled in droves,
Hooted and cried to warn of dangers,
Lurking in the mangrove,
Loud voices and echoes, conveyed a return,
Along with a large ...
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Categories:
communiqués, analogy, appreciation, computer, hero,
Form: Ballad
Through the Wires
...Through the wires, miracles of a sparkling age
Provide the means to make contact;
And in the closing petals of dusk, or the full bloom of dawn,
Configures the channels by which we interact.
The s...
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Categories:
communiqués, computer-internet, friendship, life, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Human Wreckage (Part 5)
...I am left with the human wreckage of my life,
My baggage of bones and clutter, spectres and desire
To slaver around and haunt me until it ends.
To look back is pain, to look forward is fear and to...
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Categories:
communiqués, life, loss, lost love,
Form: Blank verse
Dead Letters
...From cold concrete floor to plaster ceiling
in cardboard boxes, damp and peeling;
beneath migraine fluorescence,
humming, blinking incessance.
They languish spectrally bound and gagged,
indexed,...
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Categories:
communiqués, allegory, life, loss, lost
Form: Verse