With burnt plastic you exhale
Soft hair and skin and small weight on dirty mattress
A paper weight pressing down
I split the wire and I stored the glass bottle in the cabinet beneath the sink.
Where I thought of kissing you.
In the room I put my fingers in your mouth,
Where she heard everything to the other wall,
Where we held each other.
With burnt plastic I exhale
And with a school-issued laptop.
From showering in clothes
From swimming in clothes
To a clinging
In the mouth and on the skin
I didn't bring a toothbrush
Will the floor welcome me
Where there is nowhere to put my weight?
"I can get through anything.
Through any night,"
I tell myself
And it is true.
When my heart felt like
A hopping cricket or
A feather falling or
A tire rolling or
A record skipping or
A ball being squeezed tightly by a fist,
It kept working and pumping blood.
When I feel it run in my neck
Or when I saw it open on my hip,
When I see it in the toilet too
It runs.
Unlike when I run
It is controlled.
Pump bump beating.
When my feet strike the ground I am not sure what they will do next.
Like I may fall upwards with a quick flip.
No, there are rules.
Trump bombed Iran, a war he did start
Now he tries to get peace on the chart
While hedging their bets
Iran issued threats
So Trump hid in a catering cart
I strolled onto a forest glade
to hear a bird in concert serenade,
but when I heard him speak,
this issued from his beak,
"I'm not the bird you seek.
Some birds with pretty voices sing,
while those of broken heart and broken wing
have no worm on which to snack.
Some birds wear colors, bright,
and look so beautiful in flight,
while the hapless hit a wall and..."smack!".
But, I'm no such bird. This inky crow
(while there are birds that don't know which way to go,
in this world of birdy woe)
won't sing like Perry Co-MO,
or flaunt the colors of the rainbow.
I am the bird in black."
I would say off with their heads
the queen’s evil cousin said
Lawanda, the queen kept mum
sometimes her cuz could speak rather dumb
you should have edicts, make them eat cake
said her brother, whose marriage did not take
the queen mother had oodles of advice too
give them the raspberry, throw them a shoe
the queen had no idea the trouble she would see
when she was in power and could write a decree
Be kind to each other, be generous and fair.
She wrote it out and waved her wand in the air
What about power? Don’t you want to be in charge?
This idiotic idea was issued to her by her Aunt Marge.
I want to have a kingdom that is full of people who care.
So saying, the queen twirled her sceptre in the air
We used to keep maps
In our home and the car
To navigate when
We were traveling far.
Most were AAA issued;
We got them for free
For New York or wherever
Our next trip would be.
When planning a journey,
We’d highlight the route
So, aside from construction,
There’d be no dispute.
We relied on our maps
Until GPS came,
Then a voice gave directions;
It wasn’t the same.
With WAZE, there are updates
Of traffic, we’re told,
So our routes can be switched
With no maps to unfold.
Our stash, which once helped us
Avoid getting lost
Has, except for some strays,
Been, quite candidly, tossed.
God’s consistent plan as tapestried for man's soul shine
and blessing-stitched with enriched knowledge threads divine,
decrees that His cherished children each faithfully heed
all spiritual growth their pains may gain when hearts bleed.
Since the first sad tears from first eyes shed thundered rain,
God has lovingly, universally issued and used pain
that His children will yearn to call His name for insight.
Without dark as hurt fraught, many would never seek His light.
Wounds serve to swerve us towards knowledge beyond ourselves
for answers His perfect love-light shines brighter than all else.
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And also the army inspector general
Allow article of legislated fold to the company
That is to history a military companies issuance
Also this issuance of assembled congress
Issued legislation
Legislation signed is congressional directed spending
A law for the people by the people
Not to be obstructed by assembly of state outsiding a "lobby"
The civil liberties Americans own issued by
Karen Bass will not deteriorate in contest
opposition nor regression of draw by
opponents in campaigned rhetoric to
be also heard at a time of poverty dwellings.
The blemish of labor is construction and labor.
A man's job, not that of the business community.
Gavin Newsom
Microphone hot
Second thought decision coordinating a posse,
gang, terrorist act. For profit illegitimate.
Aggravating mob mentality in civil disruption
Mr. Newsom
Sit, stay at your desk
Make it resolute
Arrest warrant issued on 21 November 2024. Accused Last name: Netanyahu. Accused First name: Benjamin.
Charges: Allegedly responsible for the war crimes of starvation as a method of warfare and of intentionally directing an attack against the civilian population; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024.
Accused Crimes: War crimes and Crimes against humanity.
Accused States: At large
Situation Name Colloquial:
State of Palestine.
--
Source: The International Criminal Court.
arrest have issued ~
crimes against humanity,
war crimes, and much more
Allowance is issued by allegiance
Descent
De scenting the grain
Defection from account
The man above watches
As open journal
His story is carved
And reared
Nearer grown abundant
Recital of vow and order
un adhered
Ends actions statements
A fold is created
Company is kept seperate
A serving size they say is wise
Never issued a measuring cup
Nobody led with avoid demise
Here take a sweet nothing, yup!
How do you quantify gluttony?
Misrecognition from the start
Is it hunger or just bad company?
The hollow sale of a poisoned dart
I told you so, I TOLD you so
But you never listen to me
You're loud, proud, and your head's in a cloud
And your eyes are too blind to see
You just use your head for a hat rack
And you damn well know it's true
You're old enough to know, you know I told you so
Now look at what's happened to you
Found your ass in jail without bail
And stinking of rot gut gin
The fella in the bunk above declared his love
And made you his new girlfriend
Then with your sentence through, I thought you knew
You had to check in every week
But the cops found you there at the county fair
So drunk that you couldn't speak
The judge issued a one way ticket
Back to the cage with your old friend
I told you so, you KNOW I told you so
I'll send some balm for your rear end
There once was an old Pope from Rome
who had the Good Book a huge tome
an altar ego and mass appeal
so he made the Vatican home
2015 he addressed the environment
on climate change caused by man
and issued a Catholic Church encyclical
the first-ever since Popes began
let's trust instructing his cardinals
to avoid any more scandals
when pontificating and preaching to the choir
to burn less incense and light fewer candles
altho' it's a slippery slope here's the dope
and no I won't soft-soap
there's not much hope of Pope on a rope
but I can cope so I won't mope
now hear my voice as it's a choice
if I may be quite so bold
religion is discretionary not hereditary
and the herd of sheep in the fold should be told
May we be blessed to understand what a hero is…
when it comes to our dominion
because in our country at this moment there is a difference of opinion…
I believe the Capitol police who died defending our Capitol
and safeguarding our freedom January 6 were heroes…
To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States
and the laws of the District of Columbia
these oaths…they were fulfilling them.
While President Trump issued a blanket pardon
to more than1,500 people charged in the insurrection…
including those responsible for killing them.
But we will not be swayed by those trying to re-write history…
Those of us who witnessed the insurrection that day…will not be deterred…
For we will always remember what happened
and we know who the heroes were!
In 1773 the sun never set
on the British Empire so goes the story
now the 'Teatime Islands'
crumbs of Great Britain’s former glory
but as the moon rose over the White Cliffs of Dover
standing guard at the Gateway to England
ramparts the enemy to forestall
if the ravens left the Tower of London
the kingdom itself then would fall
and Britain would rule Gibraltar
one of the Pillars of Hercules
so long as macaques inhabit the Rock
another of man's legendary absurdities
but should those Barbary apes depart
the British too will soon follow
and the Overseas Territory come apart
yet to save the primate population
Winston Churhill did insist
in the early days of World War II
reinforcing British rule would persist
to ensure the troop replenishment
he issued a directive September 1944
for five such females brought from Morocco
to maintain the number at twenty-four
and so it seems my friend in the end
the continuance of this green and pleasant land
is in the balance and totally dependent on keeping
a certain breed of bird and Old World monkey on hand
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