Dehumanization Poems - Poems about Dehumanization

i was good, though i was born with mens eyes crawling on my skin like ants, following me through the grocery store. i was good, i was 5 the first time i was told to close my legs, sitting on the couch the same way as my brothers, told not to "distract" my brothers, it wasn't ladylike to...

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Half flesh, half steel, sinews and twined wire, Begotten in the heat of half-love, tempered By hatred and the axe, fathered by one Who killed her mother, the male chauvinist boar Whose eye-teeth, razor-sharp, saw through the spine, Joy-sword in sheath. Wrought iron, blood vessels, Bone and cable, one part conceived, the other forged On the hard anvil where gusts of...

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In the end, it was the numbers that did us in.? They lined us up into military rows and assigned us all numbers? One after one after one after one after one….? How many, nobody knows.? You see, it’s a numbers game, it’s all the same You’re not to blame, you’re not your name, you’re your numbers.? Let me explain how...

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Emerging from sleep dream temerity, his remote aurora spectral prisms from which his wakefulness gives legerity, from which surfaces new burgeoning aphorisms. Truth’s contours arrayed in fluid fluency, his morning ataraxia in the still water lake from where his senses lose their truancy, from where ideation sheds the opaque. He finds repose in a moment's seclusion, his lucid cortex in reflective possibility, but...

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Path To Dehumanization Indifference being the height of inhumanity Brings us to the loathsome solo sounds of children In tears with fear and fleeing foreign lands to nowhere People thinking, that’s not me. It’s a TV show There’s nothing I can do So moving on Desensitized, we watch the news in silent isolation So much violence becomes the common place Numbed by...

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The bullet is on the tip of my tongue Your heart is underneath the barrel of the gun I’ll blow your HEART to pieces With this: A lethal word; a deathly weapon I’ll watch you bleed to nothing Shrivel, shiver with this: An assassinating label; DEHUMANIZATION...

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