Music Corruption Poems

Sun in your eyes

in the white sea of sun-bleached straws
I saw a crow struggle and drown
in the glare
I was given a chance to see and...

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The shape of the world is not a man standing on a globe, or a man dressed in white robe, it is the shape of...

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I am trying to compose a rhythm that everyone can sing, I am trying to compose a rhythm that everyone can join in. You did...

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It doesn’t do any good to mind your own business,
if you’re black, you’re going to get knocked down.
Makes no difference if a hundred people beg...

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This is way the flesh ends not in burning or dust
Not in a whimper but a scream
As you see I am an Artiste and such,...

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Simulations and Symphonies

Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need invitations

Caring for what others...

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I am not done yet until all of you speak the truth, I am not done yet until I obtain justice for my brutal youth,...

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Night in Lisbon 

Once, I went to a dance hall in Lisbon
 an awful place full of desperate middle-aged women
hoping to catch a man, any...

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Under your twisted lips, runs a wooden tongue called time, you have drained the city of all that is divine,and your tongue is rolling over...

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I wanted to pen this verse from yesterday but the temperature kept rising all day; I wanted to pen this verse from yesterday but the...

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Not every bird a singer
the crow more like a
frog

not every bird a sweet
melody
the parrot fondest of parody

the goose more like
an intersection horn

when I vocalize in...

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(Sung to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s "The Duke of Plaza Toro," from The Gondoliers)
 
When all the land did take a stand
When bugs...

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dollars dance ...

in the eyes of angels
plates at the ends of pews
passed strategically in tempo
to burnish words
(even more strategic)
pretty sheep
buttered and wagging
like the smooth tongue...

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Is that you there 
I recognize that stair
Those eyes of a faraway dream
Fancy seeing you here, on this twilight day 
While walking along this 
Sterile...

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Toxic

The malevolent man was in control of everything. 
He was put there by forces beyond the peasant's capabilities to prevent. 
There was a war, seen...

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