SEPARATISTS YOU
FOR NEWS, WHAT IS IT YOU DO?
GOES FOR TRUMPERS TOO
UFOs—
unidentified flying objects.
But flying objects
are often man-made.
So does that mean
our government is alien?
The big deception:
alien life forms in space.
But alien life forms
aren’t humans from other countries.
Aliens are monsters—
monsters are predators—
corrupt entities
hidden within a nation’s trust.
Citizens believe
in current events
while real threats
remain hush-hush.
Maybe we need a system
without division—
multiplying solutions
by removing opposition,
until cooperation
becomes the thing
we recognize
as human.
We blink to hide a shooting star.
The world moves on before we are.
The eyelids clap their fleeting flight.
Eclipse the night, then break the light.
Before the tongue begins to speak.
The eyelids flicker for signs they seek.
A moment's dark to dwell to approve.
What doubt found out in deeper groove.
A wink is more than half a glance.
It asks the truth itself to a dance.
One eye says "yes," one eye says "wait"!
Between two eyes, we celebrate.
Blink...to let the world slip by.
Think...to flap a hidden why.
Wink....to send a truth sky high.
Smile...to watch bright eyes reply.
You eat what you are fed
whatever might pass for food.
You don't question it,
you choose to be complacent.
Behind the scenes
there's a monopoly,
a conspiracy to get rich
feeding you whatever
can enrich their greedy pockets.
Your health will pay the true price
of proactive due diligence.
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
You’re autistic, you say?
Well that’s on you.
You chose medication,
Rather than meditation,
Take some accountability!
You don’t like wearing jeans?
Well don’t just blame your genes!
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
More like Attention-Desperate Human-Disease.
Don’t get upset,
I’m just trying to help you!
You might not know as much as me,
But that’s okay!
Anyway,
Have you tried drinking water?
.They think they've got us neatly fooled,By global maps and globes in school.But look outside, it's plain to see,The ground is flat as it can be.If we were spinning out in space,We’d all be flying off the place.The water would just spill right out,Of every lake and water spout.And don't get started on the moon,Or NASA’s giant space balloon.They hide the ice wall at the edge,With penguins guarding on the ledge.It’s just a giant dinner plate,No spinning core or heavy weight.So drop the math and look outside,There is no curve for them to hide.
There's another man my age
On the other side of town.
He's got my face, my exact face.
Our back accounts are different.
For all I can tell, his car is nice.
Married, big happy family.
His jokes are the same as my jokes.
I saw him at a cafe yesterday.
I was sitting with my daughter.
He was sitting with his son.
For a moment we made eye contact.
He laughed through it
Pitching his head back,
Sustaining the contact with me,
His doppelganger.
Then back to his son,
Then me back to my daughter.
Yesterday I watched him get on a plane to Wichita,
Hugging good-bye to his wife and kids at the gate.
There goes my face, I thought, off to Kansas.
Doors closed as the plane taxied away
And his sad family meandered.
"Daddy!" yelled his youngest
Spotting me behind the fern
50 ft away in front of
Fern Gully's Gastropub.
Note: Poem sung using the melody from Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns.
isn’t it perfect
the moment the scales slip off
right when the spotlight hits.
are we a duo
me on the ground pretending calm
you mid-air, mid-morph, mid-blink.
send in the reptiles
the ones with the tailored suits,
the ones who rehearse their humanity
and have suspiciously cool hands.
isn’t it lovely
how they glide through chaos
like actors missing half their cues.
one keeps pacing in circles
one freezes like a statue
both insisting they’re totally human.
send in the reptiles
oh right~
they’re already here
adjusting their holograms
and sipping lukewarm tea.
don’t you love farce
the cosmic variety
where the joke sheds a reptilian tail.
I thought you’d stay hidden
sorry, my dear
you never do.
so send in the reptiles
quick, send in the reptiles
don’t bother~
they’re already here .
SPREAD THEM AS THEY PLEASE
THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES
BOTH SIDES USING THESE
A leviathan tower
engulfs the skyline
grey and brooding.
One watery morn
green robed ghosts
convened with mortals
to obfuscate and inveigle
a white soul
in sanitised halls
where consent is captured;
no ransom demanded.
We fear the government spies in the dead of night,
So we buy a wiretap to adjust the light.
We panic over microchips implanted in the skin,
While carrying a tracker where the scrolling begins.
There is no need for a fly on the wall to watch the show,
When we livestream our breakfast so the advertisers know.
It's now time to query the ultimate conspiracy theory
Every intellects satisfaction forms the perfect distraction
Can you see where this is going with the motive finally showing
I have yet not to fail, receive, or give any detail
Intentionally keeping this broad to convey msg we can't afford
I give no more confusion, hopeful to end the delusion
So many have lied to keep unrested
occupied
Logic & suggestions make this crowd form questions
One hand give other takes the denial of many mistakes
I'm just trying to implore what many ignore
A waste of your time in itself is a crime
Useful nessecsary tool malicious not intent to fool
Secret bubble, I will now bust to reveal we are just dust.
need not be conspiracy
nor parade of lunacy
or ignore bear
and fold in despair
putin put in prison
with warlords clinton bush
obama trump biden
to gehenna all push
this coincidence
though not providence
consequences still apply
when russians die
iranian friends fry
hezballah hamas fail
gazans who live do so in hell
created by modern israel
who is loved by corina machado
asking hatchet for maduro machado
and gives aid to our good saint zel
so progressives pink washed
don't want you be squashed
but let this sink in
as advocate violence
and boost cause silence
merrikka israel win
time after time again
for sake of all love god
don't be a brain clod
while ukraine remains cannon fod
Is it enough, the constant
Abuse of words homeward
On all mind and attackers if better
The worthing of my sleepy eyelids
Shantee dwelled eyelids
Of humans assembled against that I alone
Creating terror in silence
Witness criminology from affronted dishonor
Boundary as military parallel and in stilled eye single remorse I'll not review in news
Years begat war none speak of the front lines
All will myself lonely into the trench
As yesterday you will wake up tomorrow forgotten of being past the freedom of a single vote, literally, in time
I don't want to hear
your conspiracy theory,
your blah blah blah
is making me weary!
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