Gladiator Games
...The arena is built lie by lie, sobs by sobs.
Names don't matter.
A game is still a game,
called by any other name.
Children with ribs like shattered shields
do not volunteer; they are raised f...
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Categories:
embargoes, allegory, dark, world,
Form: Free verse
If there was just one thing I could change
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"After the Port Arthur Massacre, mass shooting in Tasmania, Australia, on April 28–29, 1996, that left 35 people dead and some 18 wounded, it led to stricter gun controls, notably a ban on all ful...
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Categories:
embargoes, world,
Form: Narrative
The Fourth Reich
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Davos visiting prostitute spends her
unbeknownst last hours wide eyed
in a strange new World. As she smiles to her John,
a BlackRock Assassin, who watches his boss
approach the stage...
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Categories:
embargoes, dark,
Form: Other
When I Was Twentysomething 1980s
...I saw a man die who took a stance
I saw he just wanted to give peace a chance
I saw the boycotts and the embargoes
I saw trafficking in human cargos
I saw hedge funds, junk bonds, oil and...
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Categories:
embargoes, history, world,
Form: Couplet
Persius Flaccus Redux
...Suppose we ran it by a friendly Martian
(I’d say “by Martial”, but he wouldn’t be gentle).
You crave Armani, Hugo Boss, Versacci and
that Hilfiger who’s naff, naff. Are you mental?
This myth o...
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Categories:
embargoes, satire,
Form: Quatrain
Enigma
...Life restricts my living,
Death prevents my end...
The world, a phantasm,
too much embargoes in it,
that neither let me fly, nor let me die....
The moments to cherish,
forever perish....
Am...
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Categories:
embargoes, life, loneliness, lonely, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Sanity
...Waking up to reality
Hurts like reaching into insanity
Embracing your insecurity
Risking your sense of purity
Establishing a base of obscurity
In my mind I erase my clemency
Sew a new seed of...
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Categories:
embargoes, confusion
Form: Acrostic