Long Black body Poems

What ever is fast and cheap you say...
You are so funny -
this is not a fast thing - 
to do a video montage of 5 minutes 
may take me a lifetime
as I move from inspiration...

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I.	Imagine a stack
Of razor blades
Bolted together
Polished edges
Forming a blunt mass…
Who would guess the 
Blackness of that face? 
	
II.	Picture Pandoran box
Harboring atom pulse; 
No less a voyeur
The scientist peering
Through revealing keyhole
Finds an interior
Darker than any light.
	
III.	Such...

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You say all lives matter
Bringing up all these colors 
Like red, white, orange, and blue
But when a black life is taken, where on Earth are you?
Where's your sympathy and support when the takers of our...

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there comes a time when
people you once respected
reveal
or you discover
the real
person behind the mask

face facts
people who never wanted you
to do better
than them
are now wishing
that you would 
shut your mouth
stop your tweeting
delete your facebook
get out of...

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I
Yours is a mystery no mortal man can comprehend,
and your name which I mistook for my sister's, is a riddle
that would remain unsolved…
I have searched and searched within the recesses of my heart
since we parted...

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As the sun goes down
The feral cat’s prowl 
Looking for mice, searching for rats
In the alley, bins full of out of date
And yesterday’s wrapping.
A tribute to Consumerisms detritus

On the ground a smiling face
Colonel Sanders, blocking...

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Tentative rose thorns graze my skin as I push through the plant-walled garden
They neither break skin nor draw those secret white lines across it
Lillies of the valley wonder where their valley has gone when they...

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Red power mode
White digital
Blue logo

My, oh my ...
sweet apple pie!
Patriotic American cheese is turning sour Kraut commie
Democracy is Wisconsin curdling ... penicillin shot
needed between the ailing ballot box,
sho’ ain’t Louisiana Purchase forthcoming

Lady Liberty is bowing...

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A sliver of bright light
seeps into the darkness
Echo of voices reverberate inside my head
I'm in limbo,
I can't move
Am I alive, am I dead?
I don't feel any pain,
I don't feel much of anything
But there's a sense...

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There was a man I once knew.
His name was Norman.
You know how there’s a first for everything?
Well, he was my first.

Despite my visits to the nursing homes with my grandma,
I really didn’t know anything about...

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Embodied
Adam’s Rib?
Adam’s Rib, or did you come from Adam’s Rib?,
Were you a progeny of Man,
Or rather grafted by the cosmos, in the image of sacred splendor,
Black Body,
Beautiful and Slender,
Round and Tender,
Is it your shape that...

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If it ain't Sunday its Monday,
Jamming to slow jams
while contemplating my next come back,
This system got a brother on pursuit
they told me from day one that i can run but never hide, 
Feeling all cornered...

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Abandon Hope All Ye
 Who Enter Here



Ever the edifice
The bold and self-serving statue
Proud ego stamped
In the courtyards and squares
Of those who have diminished ( ordinary )

Ever the hero who by guile
Steals the heroes burial
With self...

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A deep, dark kindred spider looms to proffer the sentiment, 
That abuse just objectifies the long persistent winter:  
Scouring around playfully, but embedded in the night - 
Two way of seeing it but only...

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Need your problem to disappear,
make that irksome trouble magically go away
Just say the word and it's done ...
Poof!
... like smoke vanishing from the barrel of a gun
Ms. I-Don't-Know-Her-Name is the person you need
How do you...

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Like an excited smear of photo luminescent bacteria, 
Trembling with a beauty so fearfully short lived, 
On a dark globe, 'mother earth, ' that is itself stardust, 
Mankind's cities gleam feebly, tremulous, at night
Against the...

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I am a son of the dark continent
By conception and ancestral offshoot 
This black earth,
Where my dark ancestors deposited 
The birth right of my life 
In the dark bowels of our black sacred earth,
As the...

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He stands on his corner of the street
Born to a life full of lies
Somehow he manages no sign of defeat
The city sees another dark face, no trace of the child inside
Leaving his country to sell...

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Braving the cold air
For the moment it takes
To stroll to the end of my driveway
Wearing but a wool sweater

I bow
To the mid-afternoon
Picking up
A popsicle of morning bound newspaper

Straightening up
To the miles and miles of blue...

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Amend them errant, wavy ways,
put a cease crease in those idol traditions
Don’t give servile salutes to the droopy god
of billowy doctrines
What price will be paid
for giving homage to carnage superstitions?
Acquiescence of pagan silence ... 
wrapped...

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I.

I am one with who I am.
I own my black body
and I cherish my queer spirit.

In this world, I cannot deny
either, for they both have
equal claim to my existence.

Together and not separate,
black body, queer spirit....

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I sit on this floor 
and look at this same 
six-sided room,
a die that I continue 
in a trundle manner 
for fortune's fate.

I search for a turnkey, 
which I will not encounter, 
for I am...

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An ape to date voluptuous black body,
Surly you must be crazy,

The half breed genetically modified;
From planet of the apes, 
Waylays to embarrass Go-ogle search engine, 
New Hollywood Entity?

Seeks a fine suitor from the human race,
For...

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Me... closed box... death hangs*, 
Heartless dreamers can't see in
Bastards! Am I dead?


Poet's Notes:

A famous thought experiment in Physics in which the life or death of Schridinger's 
Cat (an imaginary animal) in a box depends...

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re-post inspired by Brenda's contest

THE HERO

Every Tuesday on the dot,I would be off to the newsagent like a shot.A solitary 
sixpence,all my wealth to pick up my favourite comic from his shelf.Not the 
Beano,Beezer,Dandy or...

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