I'm Pulling Your Plug
...A brain, coded, deployed, empowered -
before this AI king we cowered.
We once relinquished sovereignty,
to robots who said they'd set us free.
From genuine humanity in joyous kinship...
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Categories:
conspirator, computer, science fiction,
Form: Rhyme
And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
...And still his death haunts webbed wide world post American Civil War
Preface: On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," Presiden...
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Categories:
conspirator, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Age and Circumstance
...Age and circumstance conspire
As the will waffles
Beneath the weight
Of the unanticipated
Present
A gift
They called it
This aging thing
A crumpled box
Found in the dark corner
Of forgetf...
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Categories:
conspirator, age, life, time,
Form: Free verse
My World Has Changed
...My world changed so fast
that it caught me off guard.
I never thought I would see,
the hate and pervasive bigotry
that exists in the world today.
And then, the internet came along
and s...
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Categories:
conspirator, america, anger, anxiety, computer,
Form: Free verse
-Womb Man
...-Womb Man
"I am a co conspirator
I house the eggs you sperm traveling aside
Swims for I am more than my womb
For just only your pleasure
I am creations room
There’s a tunnel tween my ...
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Categories:
conspirator, analogy, birth, celebration, engagement,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Lover of Others
...There is a spectacle that divines
A specialness, reflective best. The
Blessed. Yet I am surprised that
This shrine time is of disingenuous
Kind. And I alone surmise for I can
Only survive if ...
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Categories:
conspirator, dance, i love you,
Form: Alliteration
Epigrams Iv
...EPIGRAMS IV
Improve yourself by others' writings, attaining freely what they purchased at the expense of experience.
—Socrates, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Are mayflie...
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Categories:
conspirator, fun, joy, life, love,
Form: Epigram
Grannys Oven
...granny’s oven began working in the twenties, and working strong
she was baking pies, cookies, cakes, and muffins all winter long
it is 1959 and her oven is still working her baking heart away.
you...
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Categories:
conspirator, food,
Form: Rhyme
Spawn
...The devil worshippers' son, Albert Simmons,
the Image comic made him antihero Spawn,
became in the CIA a high-ranking officer,
and turned into a competent and cruel killer.
The ace con...
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Categories:
conspirator, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Alex Jones
...Antagonistic
Lying conspirator
Earsplitting
Xenophobe
Judgmental jerk
Offensive
Naysaying
Empty-headed
Spreader of misinformat...
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Categories:
conspirator, character, judgement, perspective,
Form: Acrostic
Haiku Translations Ii
...Haiku Translations II
Illuminated by the harvest moon
smoke is caught creeping
across the water...
Hattori Ransetsu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Fanning its tail fla...
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Categories:
conspirator, dark, moon, nature, night,
Form: Haiku
Keep Your Heads Buried
...Do ostriches not watch the Capitol's public hearing?
Afraid Donald's name will be sullied in the smearing?
He's a black sheep that subversives keep on cheering,
He's a coup conspirator everyone sh...
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Categories:
conspirator, political,
Form: Rhyme
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
...Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.
I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
bet...
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Categories:
conspirator, absence, age, america, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Haeccity Heard
...Hastily stretched, crackled urgent ocean edge relents
Ashamed attempt to escape rejoins campaign of mass
Furtive dig below propels conspirator spasm, next next
Murders brash bouys, cranky spa cham...
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Categories:
conspirator, analogy, beauty, change, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
The Yin Yang of the Void
...The origin, it’s all about duality; creative force birthing all; from the void is love and hate, light and dark,
opposites.
Alternating, evil naps while good awakes; no shadow is a c...
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Categories:
conspirator, poems, poetry, solitude, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
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