Long Deathtrap Poems

Exploding Airbags

There you have it, another car user death reported in an accident..
Somewhere in Houston , Detroit a 17 Year old is the latest statistic...

As in any day, while being on the road, we risk...

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In her ivory tower, she was raised,
A sheltered child, a life of ease,
But Alice's tale, Lorina's heart had seized,
Her mind now set on a different phase.

Married at twenty to a man much too old,
Her life...

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Take your crucifixes, Your holy water.
Immortal love of a vampire's daughter.
Silver stakes and a garlic deathtrap.
Like a Priest's slave and a fatal attack.
Your final need for Darla's blood.
Reaping with the gift of Life.
The sun finally...

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Time and again finances stretched
to breaking point
crackle, pop, and snap
'curse Alfred E. Neuman
smiles at yours truly
(this luckless papa)

with with his toothy gap
haint even Abel nor Cain,
nor I pull myself up
courtesy frayed bootstrap
dirt poor penniless deathtrap
compliments...

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Made dwelling at own home but living in emptiness,
The lumbered dreams are dying, what a heave is that;
Setting fire in water so fool wish, 
What hell have you done to me, what a damn is...

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every rose has a thorn and every road has a turn
dancing with the devil and i'm sure to get burned
some jokers never listen...some jackyls never learn
2 seconds from 4ever...i make a u-turn

screams and shouts like...

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Blasted through the arteries of great wide open spaces
like fuel-injected bullets from some laser-sighted gun,
over-priced and deathtrap built, nothing cars to nowhere places,
trailing prisms of bleeding sump oil underneath the cooling sun.

From the money-grubbing fingers...

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The ship under full sail
The ocean murmurs an old tale
Nearby cutting through water is a whale
The fresh air enters your lungs as you inhale

The huge albatross spreads its wings
The wind in the sails sings
It tells...

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By GILBERT MAPENGO MWANGUKU

Rotten and forgotten
Mealing once a day
As if they are on a fasting session 
Jam-packed as they sleep
Like maggots in a filled latrine

Stinky is their world
Can’t even remember their toilet pose
As the bucket...

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