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the gift of theft

Eight 
hundred 
indie 
fringe godfath-
ers stole thunder from 
forty frayed dandies who thought they 

were today's trendy 
answer to 
tonight's tiny fright-
ened finger 
toads but in fact were 

only dreadnought friends 
of the hidden thrifty fudge in-
ferred from a rougher runty third 

of the grounded ruddy roundheads 
remaining defi-
ant 'til notified not to 
be 

         and 
to return to fraught infight-
ing at their always 
          well funded freehand orgies.
-

rapped heads i don't connect

Come again
Come against
The temple the how is is going 
Sir
Like my name
Next time
Aint a happen
Yet im a man
In line
Like how i defi 
Ant
To me
Loud about it
Check da mate
King to a cause
You inordinate
I subordinate
Textable mouths
I fed
Like an agent of change
Your minds a painful page
Working on lines
In war
You a charge that can’t fake in

Enter Key Extravaganza

en
ter ke
y	
extra
va
ganz
a

someone som
ewhere dec
ided that th
ey & they alone k
now the co
rrect way that a poem is 
formed & thu
s what it is to write poetr
y to dwell in a po
etic ma
n
ner withi
n th
e realm
of 
lit
era
tu
re.

thi
s nar 
row-min
ded fasc
ist who wants to be
the one who draws the param
eters arou
nd wi
thin we free huma
n beings are supposed to functio
n within ne
eds to break that see on that little bub
ble that they li
ve in be
cause out he
re the rest of us defi
ne freedom
a dif
ferent way.

we will 
do what 
we want 
when we 
want in 
the manner 
that we 
want & 
if you 
want to 
stop us 
you will 
have to 
kill us.

go
od
day.


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