No One Counts the Bodies Jesus Walked Past
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Kensington spreads its legs—
lets the city crawl in,
dripping Xylazine / fentanyl / tranq,
open sore veins
moaning dirty dirges.
False prophets—
all piss and panic—
bark half-lies
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Categories:
gangrenous, addiction, death, drug, mental
Form: Didactic
Blunt Black Beaks
...They're really masked buzzards
singing sweetly like pretty larks
until they plunge a blunt black beak
deep inside your giving heart.
Once your fully bled dry
you'll be fed talons of worthless ge...
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Categories:
gangrenous, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
On this gangrenous planet, where the sky bears the scars of time gone by
...On this gangrenous planet, where the sky bears the scars of time gone by,
we should refrain from weaving plans from threads of illusions and hopes,
yet we continue to craft them with an optimism th...
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Categories:
gangrenous, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Lips Curl At Your Fiddles
...(Piece is intended to be the most complex vocabulary gothic ever)
Grandiloquence,
mellifluous pulchritudinous,
gaiety of quintessential moistening serendipity,
bile deluge if you show the sangu...
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Categories:
gangrenous, anger, beauty, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Oceans of Blood
...A drowned Perpetua inhumane, whose dwellers art furthest from sane,
where mortals had once sought to reign, now mindless husks subject to an eerie pain.
And so, amidst boiling waves of a single...
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Categories:
gangrenous, angst, death, depression, eulogy,
Form: Narrative
I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment
...I haint donning royal carpet treatment
No stuntman/woman showed up,
albeit intervened in timely fashion
to thwart mishaps experienced
courtesy me I bemoan,
and poet lore re: yet of Perkiomen...
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Categories:
gangrenous, adventure, allusion, angel, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow Diorama
...Even the ghosts have faded now,
splashes of gray like shadows
in a child's diorama.
They slip in and out of mortared cracks
in my mind,
seeking a validation
I cannot besrow.
But they must rem...
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Categories:
gangrenous, death, dream, grave, grief,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Trite Nihilistic Occasion
...A Trite Nihilistic Occasion
This doodling Yankee
(boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit
fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom ma...
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Categories:
gangrenous, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Propagation of Hate
...Malignant gangrenous political cancer
corrupts, festers, and poisons United States,
thus opposition cannot wait,
especially since Gospel in accordance
with feeble minded Donald Trump
implement...
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Categories:
gangrenous, america, betrayal, dark, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Guerre De Trenches
...Who waits on tomorrow when today is barely tolerable?
greet the sun
and the light
Green leaves,
Warm brown bark.
How many dawns will see them still,
as they have always been?
It happened a ...
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Categories:
gangrenous, addiction, corruption, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Necrodoff
...Gruesome as Judas cradle growl,
I dabble in gore thereby.
Everyday Norse hannibalish,
so my ribs outward,
exposed flesh, gangrenous.
I beg water, I chew my tongue
Schwedentrunk painful,
Ju...
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Categories:
gangrenous, pain, violence,
Form: Vogon Poetry
Radiation Sickness
...Having failed yet another repair, on the leaking rods
I spit my liquified bowels all over the walls
Retching up toxic filth within
an expectoration of black lumpy phlegm
forms a pebbledash of gr...
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Categories:
gangrenous, allusion, cancer, hate, racism,
Form: Free verse
Dear, Virus
...Dear virus
don't you think you've had your fill
maybe its time to move on
why couldn't you have been
a friendly chap
with symptoms of happiness
sense of well being
greater love and compassion ...
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Categories:
gangrenous, baptism, death,
Form: Free verse
I Haint Donning Royal Carpet Treatment
...Aw shucks, I did sustain
moderately serious injury
series of unfortunate events
ludicrous and quite insane,
yours truly did previously explain
while crouching (think
Tony as papier mâché Tige...
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Categories:
gangrenous, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
Morning Meditation
...Deep inhalation and exhalation
breaths initially activate
relaxation, attributed to stress,
tension, unconscious vectors
woefully agglomerate
ache'n to gangrenous jackknifing noggin
dichoto...
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Categories:
gangrenous, assonance, good morning, imagery,
Form: Free verse
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