Long Catch 22 Poems

...He laughed at memes, he watched podcasts,
rolled digital eyes at the news,
saw endless reams of adult stuff,
why they liked it, he never knew…

But in this searching he came on
a fact he’d never realized:
A.I.s lasted just...

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I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.

I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.

If that's a no,
but hard for you to show,
you clearly have...

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The stone laid plans 
erected in the Age of Man
are starting to cave in
Their sky towers scraping the blue stratosphere
has begun to crumple
under the oppressive weight of floating spore fear

It’s fungi clear as a glowing...

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Once there was a famous king,
More famous than Ozymandias.
His name was King Wolf. 
Sultan was his nickname.
He called himself a benevolent despot;
And his style of government 
A ‘democratic dictatorship.’

He spoke good English— 
A foreign language,...

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Knowing of evil and doing evil are two different things                         ...

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Each poem’s a web that I hang (time-smoked adage
that swirls in the sky) and dream seasons rare eyes!
With no thought of entrapment or hope of ingesting,
rhyme longs more to bless you, verse whispers, “Hello.”
Heart’s a...

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Why does the heart get all the credit for love?
By so-called affairs of the heart, 
that most storied of organs is not unduly inconvenienced. 
It beats, 
now faster, now slower,
that is all, its task ever...

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An Addict's War
By Jess McClintock

We survive in the dark shadows of night

Trying to run from our internal curse

Hiding our pain with the 
smoke that blocks out the light

Falling deeper in darkness feeling better for now...

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Nothing like a rousing game of spin the dolls leg
on a humid summer night to bring a little bit
of joy into an otherwise uneventful evening.
  The game piece acquired from one of the 
triplet...

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would you rather live in a 
totalitarian state which 
doesn’t dilly-dally round the
truth, pretending that citizens
have freedom, feeding them
the illusion that they will not
be crushed more & more 
each day & squandered by the
rich elite...

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Banned Books Week Thirtieth Anniversary

By Elton Camp

That some books are contemptible I must agree
But that’s not some fanatic’s call, but up to me

When books the government undertakes to ban
That type censorship can quickly get out...

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It’s an old story.
We were classmates, you and I, 
And later became colleagues,
Working under the same roof.
We had more or less the same specialization.
Married in the same year.
Our children went to the same school.
So far...

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Mae West's Room

Every hierarchy exists
dependent upon those below to support it.
Can it be any different with the gods,
when some are greater and some are less?

We all are gods and isn’t that the point
in Orwell’s book,...

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{EXTRA PRODUCTIONS}

Dedicated predestination escapades 
Celestial especially preresequites
Difiniti extro-skeletons mini+thins
Cherry skoal impeding doom death throes
Throwing caution to the wind Jethro JJ escalations
Remastered Reproductions Catasphore' Confuscious Anthropology
Follow suit swedish clocks Air Force Girlfriends ass is yummy 
Catch...

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Mr. Telephone man, I got some questions to run past you
Is it the phone the line or is this cold dime just that coo.
Honey’s a spit’n image of the woman in my contentions.
I like the...

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Catch 22 was fiction
Appealing to a humour like mine
But there was nothing very funny
About Section 69.

The army ran on regulations.
Obey them and you'd be fine
But, beware of that ubiquitous
Queens Regs Section 69.
Devised for situations
Where no...

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One minute apart
So much older
Yet we couldnt be further from eachother
You were a second mother
All three of us
Yet eye to eye we'll never see
Always wanted acceptance
Always wanted to fit in
Room full of people 
Yet im...

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Life is never 100% good, or 100% bad

The ups and downs are as normal as breathing

Going with the flow is pretty sound advice

It's how I've been able to stay relatively sane all these years

Each tragedy...

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Foam is formed--A shape appears.
   It seems to be a boat---An upside down boat-

   Glass is cut ---Resin is spread,
   Becoming stouter with every hour,
   Layer after...

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I
Midterm exams are here, and I want to pause
O no, can't do that, unless I pause to pray
They are young and retired folks, too, studying
Various courses, to brighten the way
And lighten the load of far...

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Everyone 
Rests in Peace 
Challenge is to
Live in Peace.

For Peace
Wars are fought 
Civilians life 
is cut into Pieces.
Challenge is to
Live in one-piece.

In Nature 
everything is at Peace
Trees, Waves, Peaks, Valleys 
don't terrorise, 
don't kill eachother
to...

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When forever finally comes to town
Not sure I wanna be around
When it stands outside to 
Knock upon my door

I’ll hide inside
Not make a sound
Turn out the lights
Get on the ground
Lay in the quiet
Shadow of the...

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Stand by the fridge, you are his best friend
Your legs are like nectar, drawing his kisses
He loves you, then leaves you with a wounded heart to mend
Until hunger strikes again, he realises it's you he...

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I woke up 
and in the mirror, 
saw a stranger-- 
a face not mine, 
but like my own. 
So I wondered: 
Am I mad now?

But no...
if you think you're insane, 
you're not-- 
the mind's own...

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DOOMSDAY
By: rontwigger
The dark evening sky rages with you, black riddles,
Crafted in the villain name of so much politics.
And all of a sudden all the senses are in awe,
Waiting for the morning that would start anew.
With...

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