Long Escapists Poems
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Reentry PrioritiesI find imprisoning parallels
between early Nazi Germany
and early Roaring Trumpian 20s USA,
between fascist and fake propaganda,
between judicial patriarchal-privileged racist stockpiling,
between CEOs living above our democratically inclusive laws
while self-pardoning for agressions,
trespasses,
debts against a cooperatively co-investing society,
between...
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Categories:
escapists, analogy, freedom, hate, health, integrity, prison,
Form:
Political Verse
Village PoliticsIn U.S. municipalities
we have Survivalists
and Thrivalists,
Revivalists
and Liberated Rapturists,
AggressiveRisk Addicts
and MultiCultural WinWin Escapists
into monoculturing WinLose Cocoon Closets.
Survivalist addicts
often show up at Town Council
and School Board meetings
fueled by alcohol
speaking Either This Yang Wins!
or that alien green ecofeminist...
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Categories:
escapists, drug, green, hair, health, parody, peace, political,
Form:
Free verse
My Christmas Gift 2022333
3 thirds of Me
1 ounce of Tea
The EACE that starts with P
My Christmas Gift 2022
was one I didn't expect
Though I've prayed for it often
I assumed the Universe would neglect
I've preached Radical Acceptance
And truly...
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Categories:
escapists, abuse, angst, appreciation, celebration, forgiveness, funeral, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
Elevator To My Subconscious Part 2How about the woman!
His voice suddenly full of venom
You know the one I speak of
Let's commence her to squealin
It's just a dream you know
You are king of justification
Let's ravage this little beauty
And give her an...
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Categories:
escapists, introspection, dream, dream, me, , Lullaby,
Form:
Free verse
An Escapist Man DreamsThink of a place on Earth’s long frozen pole
Where polar seas don a crisp snow-white dress,
What if a warm sea roars— man’s karmic dole
In place where there was frosty wilderness!
If icy soils...
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Categories:
escapists, dream, environment, men, satire,
Form:
Quatrain
Lenity In the SlumsShe lit candles
in her empty kitchen.
Burnt air disappears
through the back door.
Pale and wild,
brittle street witch,
shy, wide eyes.
Her mind like a weathered epitaph,
left alone in it's quiet mystery;
but her spirit roams
gentle and porous.
City sorrows like ashes
cling...
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Categories:
escapists, imagination, urban, visionary,
Form:
Imagism
A Day To ForgetA day to forget
It was a rotten day from the start, got up late
feeling as if he had not slept at all and the night had been dreamless
all his phobias leak into his dream, making...
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Categories:
escapists, abuse, betrayal, dark,
Form:
Blank verse
Church Camp: Part Iiinevitably, one night a few of the forced occupants decided that they had had enough &
took it upon themselves to try & leave the church camp---
they made their way out of their dorms & down...
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Categories:
escapists, life,
Form:
Free verse
The EscapistsThe night has bobbed away….the stereo blasting
Through the moon roof as the highway markers
Roared by….the night has bobbed away….like
Sinatra’s undercover meetings with the makers
….nobody heard us running as far and as fast
As we could, following...
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Categories:
escapists, adventurenight, night,
Form:
Narrative
One Tiny Red BalloonOver by the corner the bandstand plays on
next to the cotton candy wagon and the clown
Its a circus act full of people and acrobats
and tallish men on walking wooden stilts
One tiny red balloon...
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Categories:
escapists, addiction, anxiety, future,
Form:
Quatrain