Long Cheapening Poems

It seems these days, across the land,
that the Klan has somehow got a tan.
Somehow, instead of being free,
folk now take pride in their bigotry.

They say their skin defines their life,
even dictates who they take for...

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The world does not look now
like a place that I once belonged to.

Opening an atlas
the maps looks like nowhere I have ever been.

I pass through different windows now,
white rabbits lead the way.

Being older than I...

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Being older than I once was, inevitably places have changed,
yet where I was born now looks like an alien city to me,
it’s now a tourist destination for the ever rootless.
Back then people were dangerous yet...

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Busily flicking possibilities, swarmed faces swum
Fishes flipped fast before the following 
Murky harbour deep, screen swallowing
Clear impression of traits innate to individual ones


Flash of fin colour, gleam of sleek opalescent flank
Specimen slide best sides on...

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I'M HAVING A DAY OFF

I am sick of all their fakeness, as everybody wants my time
Their unforgiving fortitude makes for no reason, nor rhyme 
Thus cheapening the quality of all the things I want to...

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What cruel trick is hope;
that brings both joy and pain?
Residing in our hearts,
it can drive us insane.

Disenchanted with life,
we seek ways of escape.
And when fate's fit feels wrong,
we try to change its shape.

Why do we...

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