Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
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We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.
They had the secret.
Not gold, n...
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Categories:
intravenously, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Words We Cannot Escape
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“Words We Cannot Escape”
Words we can no longer speak
we tap dance over keys
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand
Autumn now gone
across white-washed n...
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Categories:
intravenously, muse,
Form: Free verse
Sorry, Barbara Bush
...Saltine crackers have become my worst enemy
Add that to my rapidly-growing list of “do-not-eats”
Along with many common foods I considered treats
Salt, sugar, and fats, in general, are my archenem...
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Categories:
intravenously, endurance, food, health, heart,
Form: Quatrain
An Addiction
...As coffee cups go mine's very pretty
With butterflies and flowers thereon
Not very masculine I must admit
But welcome at the crack of dawn
Stumbling my way down to the kitchen
At six o'clock o...
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Categories:
intravenously, addiction,
Form: Rhyme
Awhile Yeah I Know This Is Wrong But Isn'T It Pretty
...I love it when you hear a word you haven't heard in a while
like intravenously
and use it like
she slipped intravenously into the room
then blurted
and every eye blurted their approval
Probably...
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Categories:
intravenously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
This Is the Amble Before
...I liked the wean(Scottish for child) who tasted glue first
Honoured to see the bullies as the bullied turned their face
Caught the eye of ever trust
Taking hope intravenously or two tablets a day
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Categories:
intravenously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fire Cypher 2 For My Haters
...This is a lethal ink injection.
I know I’m blessed to have rejection
Haters in my life
only lead to introspection
Understand
I’m still the man
Who are you to question
I agree to disagree
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Categories:
intravenously, art, hip hop, rap,
Form: Rhyme
The Tongue In Cheek Balm
...The (tongue In Cheek) Balm...
Of "permanent" Sleep
Abbott, nothing beats the
immortal heavenly reincarnation
after mortality odometer
unexpectedly set to zeros
preparing deceas...
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Categories:
intravenously, absence, allah, angel, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Bad News Junkie
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They like their news delivered intravenously
Nonstop drip of
horrific images pumped straight to the cortex
Ophthalmologically dosed every hour
Raw footage unedited,
fatal tragic scenes...
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Categories:
intravenously, addiction, drug, metaphor, truth,
Form: Free verse
Drugged
...I have been drugged by you.
I was intravenously injected with false love and happiness by you.
I trusted you.
You took advantage of me when I was the weakest and let my guard down.
You saw it as ...
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Categories:
intravenously, betrayal, corruption, for him,
Form: I do not know?
Magic Ruins
...in the rusty tide animating bones
of deluded gods reaching for the lie
etched on eroded steles in dead lisps
licking flames of seers tossing guts
filled with blue and red fascists
infecting the...
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Categories:
intravenously, art, christian, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
Existence
...traffic jams, the constant beat ,bloody robotic tune,
automobile cells, comatose faces, last stand, this subtle hate.;
frying intellect, counting money ,faraway fields, mind machinery,
comatose...
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Categories:
intravenously, society, symbolism, truth, drug,
Form: Free verse
The Vamperic Prayer-Dracula's Oath
...In the name of blood, for it is the source of life itself,
Plasma's crimson essence of liquid infusion, to the undead's
Pulsating heart.
Intravenously feeding cravings passion, through the carotid...
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Categories:
intravenously, dark, evil, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Trust the System
...footsteps aimlessly
walking on their trails
beaten down and broken
shiny as the rails
the rails of the train
over used and rusted
crumbling ignored
the system that you trusted
the silence of conformi...
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Categories:
intravenously, age, america, baptism, class,
Form: Free verse
Intravenously
...As coffee cups go mine's very pretty
With butterflies and flowers thereon
Not very masculine I must admit
But sure welcome at the crack of dawn
Stumbling my way down to the kitchen
At six o'...
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Categories:
intravenously, humorous, body,
Form: Quatrain
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