Demarco Poems

Hot Summer Day ----- Contest Entry

...Hydrants open; the waters gush and flood
the burning road. The children cheer and run
in suits, to feel the flowing cold. While mom
and pop stand side by side, the neighbors prom-
enade, and Mary...

Athens Shall Burn For the 3rd Time

...The three hundred
shall perish again,
As history repeats
itself.
Although this time,
it may only be 297.
My mother was
possessed by the
God, Apollo,
On the 21st the new
Oracle of Delphi is
crowned.
A...

My Blue Heaven

..."The Oshen Family was a simple family. There was a father, a mother, a brother and a sister. The brother and sister were twins. Some people even said they could feel each other’s pain, but they were ...

The Amnesia of Magic

...Magic happens 
behind closed eyelids
It is fading with a blink
And erased from your memory 
almost immediately

Like a dream right after you awake
the forgetfulness of true magic is overwhelmi...

Have a Wonderful Summer Break

...Twas the day before Summer Break
And all through the school
Not a single kid was studying
or following one single rule
The books were all stacked in the corner with care
while paper and spitball...

Dancing With Dragonflies

...Flip-pity fly,
Swoop-pity sail
Catch a dragonfly
By the tail
If he buzzes
Let him bail
Flip-pity fly,
Swoop-pity sail

My mother said 
that looks are only
skin deep
and it's on
the inside that counts...

Going To a Funeral In Another World

...The scene is all too familiar
(Except for the purple sky),
Has this happened before?
Deja vu on the edge of a waking dream?
In another life,
Or maybe all funerals are the same?

The same ceremony.
Th...

Stop the Development

...Swarming like insects
The development is coming
gnats, mosquitoes, and ants
They are destroying all the plants

Their buzzing sound
is more like the cash register going Cha-ching
It matters NO...

Soul Pieces

...The Lizard King has taken up refuge in my
Subconscious
The spell has been cast
I defecate on sacred ground
And the Earth quakes
Sending Tidal vibrations
Across the largest ocean
Cracked and broken
pl...

The Persistence of Memory

...We all hear the internal clock ticking,
A self-contained Doomsday device,
Melting like a candle in the desert heat

Shaded by our consciousness,
We try to ignore the Fun House mirrors 
That man...

I Met a Young Girl, She Gave Me a Rainbow

...Black Pearls

and Broken ocean shells

Cannot stop my love for you



We are shipwrecked

on a jagged reef

A pirate's treasure of booty

with nothing to spend it on



The curse is...

This Is the Story of How We Begin To Remember- Part 2

...We hardly remember the truth
Victims of the Great Forgetting
We hardly recognize that history is popular culture
A screenplay of the past written by the victor

We joke George Washington 
Is th...

This Is the Story of How We Begin To Remember

...We hardly remember the truth
Victims of the Great Forgetting
We hardly recognize that history is popular culture
A screenplay of the past written by the victor

Just look at Thomas Jefferson
Au...

We Can'T Work It Out

...Everytime I bring up the subject

We get caught in the loop

perpetually

It is as if we are frozen in this amber forever

forced to relive the same argument 

time and time again

"How c...

The (Not-So-Great) Bailout of 2008

...Gather round children,
 as I tell the tale,
Of how all the banks
 started to fail.
About how the government
 bailed out the rich,
Rather than the poor, 
 which would have been a switch.

Peo...

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