Long Burning at the stake Poems

HeteroSapiens have bipolar developed
miraculous capacities
to stretch and blur
legitimate moral peace initiatives
subordinate to licit legal judicial systems

Judiciously approved punishment
for misdemeanors
felonies,
cardinal
and moral
and carnal
and original sins
requiring flat fees
regardless of capacity to pay,
imprisonment,
enslavement,
lynching,
beheading,
burning at the stake,
chemical injections,

Capital disembodied punishments
NOT...

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oh but how those goddamned Atheists 
would not stop yammering away---
with their Darwin & their Evolution & their
want to live in the reality of a world in which 
human beings take responsibility for the lives...

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Mardi Gras "The Medieval Story"  

On a hot, heavy night in Orleans,
Joan and Jane were seen rubbing chest on chest
An inviting, intimate moment, to undress
Two pretty trimmed tops, eating like dames
They touched in ways,...

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This quest arose for Jeanne d'Arc,
   A peasant girl engrossed in prayer.
   When voices deep inside her head,
   Spoke of her future, saving France.
   During the passing...

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I sit at my bench again,
this whole scene is getting old.
Same old sinners skulking in,
same defense a trillion-fold.

Now the room fills up with steam.
Next, flames shoot up through the grate.
I'm so bored I want to...

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I sit at my bench again,
this whole scene is getting old.
Same old sinners skulking in,
same defense a trillion-fold.

Next the room fills up with steam,
then flames shoot up through the grate.
I'm so bored I want to...

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I had a rival whose name was 'Susie'
The streetwalker I'd nicknamed 'the floozie'
Through the night she would strut
Wiggling her pudgy butt
If only I'd been holding an Uzi!

One night Susie and I had quite a spat
She...

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That wind so wild can cause those wooden limbs
to shake from side to side as though to slap a face.
It is worth watching through your window
feeling the weird warmth within, while witnessing
another's violence, as viewing...

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“which memories to us are near
moments of joy or those of fear”

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Some like romance
Others horror films
Joys of innocence 
Or adrenaline grim

Life is but a play
Which we direct
As actors we sway
Since we forget 

When we do...

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I've got to stay involved.
I overheard terrible things one 
day.
You'll slain, scorch and stake 
me.
The problem's never solved.
I can feel it catching up to me.
It'll maim, torch and slaughter 
me.
 
Burning at the stake.
A suspect...

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Villanelle:
aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa

Heart-Ache



Why does my heart ache?
I am an alright guy
There is only so much I can take!

Often, I sit in seclusion by this lake
Think of my let downs and cry
Why does...

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Arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder and it's been so long since the night I told her.

Please come closer and look at me harder.

You had me crying tears of liquid lying.

Burning at the stake...

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