Long Burglary Poems

My terror began decades ago as I’d witnessed the plotting plans of taking a building down meetings conversations of how dynamite hand grenades including golf balls with draino finally dust pans to pour gasoline underneath...

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The sky was never the 
limit for those who sook 
to defy the norm. They 
soar to the highest 
heavens like eagles and 
become one with the 
storm. The staffless 
Moses of the black 
parliament...

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I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin 

I saw another end - the end of the band
I saw John and Yoko hand in hand

I saw commandos...

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Jasmine, the girl in gym with me, has a reputation of the school, theatre slut.
I BET IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS... she will become a famous actress who will end up
Being apart of the biggest...

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We were both arrested, 1st degree burglary, and me 1st degree burglary and 2nd degree 
attempted rape!  I couldn't believe I was charged with these two charges, when nothing was 
stolen, we didn't break...

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For me the whole universe is a stage
The past, the present, the future, every people, every age
I ride on the wings of my imaginations and they take me to my next place
I can write on...

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Fractured, and torn
Inside I am warn.
Branded and burned
But it’s not your concern.
Splinters sting inside of my heart
Not sure how to pick them apart.
Seen so many lies draped in smiles
This is my life, these are my...

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In 1967, fresh out of high school at seventeen, I boarded a northbound bus to the metropolis of the mid-west. After arriving in Chicago, while waiting to be picked up by a family member, I...

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100 Onions
                    (The absconding of the onions)
         ...

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12/27/20


Moving horizontally and vertically
It was an accident or done purposely
It's been disturbing me
Nothing lasts for an eternity
You either do or don't live life worry-free
With no urgency
Even during an emergency
Regardless of the uncertainty

Working earnestly
Always showing courtesy
Going...

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Goldiclocks was a B&E specialist,
Burglary of gold mantel clocks her specialty.
One night Goldie was out 'casing the 'hood",
When a thrilling score she did see...

It was a Little Clock Shop,
A bit dusty and surely quite old,
But...

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Voices Behind the Radio

I have chosen to be a dispatcher, working hard to save a life
It is our job to obtain the information from the chaos and the strife.

We do our best to get the...

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Call it condemnation or appraisal ,
It is far from it ;
I write from the bottom of my heart…
Full of sorrows and pain ,
That the world that I cherish and care for…
Is no longer safe and...

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Life is sweet when your tongue’s hanging out and your head’s out the window of a moving car.
What could be sweeter than that?
This young mutt lived a spoiled life of long walks and car rides...

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On a cold, dark, dearth autumn night, 
While I wrestle, nestle faithfully near my window pane
Over a long memory of callous and precarious heart break from a callus pain
While I stayed, stared at the glow...

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Japan, land of rising SUN

Faced Natures devastation
Tsunami, earthquake obliterated cities
Lost all but not hope, maturity, sanity

Collective harmony, community first attitude
No honking, no mad overtaking; only understanding on jammed roads
No shoplifting when lights fused in malls

Mature...

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The crumbling of humanity is developing. 
Burglary, deception, and hubris are ubiquitous. 
Money is being earned by cheating. 
These areas are known to be perilous.

The vast majority of the cash is made in the wild....

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Her late husband, badly missing
Possibly last week, still kissing
On his account, all companies shunning,
Their jokes she once loved, stunning.
Her meals eating with unhygienic cutlery,
Sometimes with none, as though lost to burglary.

In the nearest cupboard imprisoning...

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That girl you see walking

With her head down

And a hand covering her face?

Has severe insecurities.

 

The boy who always

Avoids touching others

That you touch just because?

Has microphobia.

 

That girl who you

Make fun of

For wearing long sleeves...

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Three years ago in Éire was the last time I was free,
I used to own a boat there, and roam an Emerald sea,
by the herald of a sunset that made all the shadows flee,
shadows older...

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You all know me as Percival Jack
But my real name is Charles Byard
So you know, it's pronounced by-yard
Living with this name has been hard

You guys are probably wondering
Where did that name originate
Certainly never heard it...

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I'm on point like a crack house full of needles 
like a sharp razor blade cuttin a wrist vertically
like a robbery turned homicide turn burglary  
like a 30-30 wit a bayonet on the tip...

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OUT OF HARM’S WAY

The arsenal environment was what I did not like.
      I went as a caregiver to make everything right.
I straighten her world to be just as mine.
 ...

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[I got approved today for another procedure
In the old days, a procedure was a surgery,
Nowadays the insurance company approves
It’s something akin to commercial burglary!]

A surgery used to mean a long hospital stay
But a procedure, you’re...

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There is greatest burglary
of the 21st Century Africa
No one is directly responsible
the Black world only suspects

But the burglary is a reality
minds of young Africans taken
hearts of many youth looted
creativity, inventiveness dwarfed

We see moving flesh active
consuming...

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