Long Flattening Poems

                           The wind is blowing cold tonight 

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Living in California is a brave thing to do, I’m convinced
Any time the ground around you could break into pieces, but residents seem so indifferent
of this threat that the ground they stand on could take...

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Otter trance dance meets mice, worms and soups

A single iron is fed up with flattening material. In fact it has spoke of breaking. It considers such actions as pointless and therefore fruitless. And creases are...

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              Dr. False Fauci


Fauci, aka,"Doctor I scareth thee,"M.D.~
Cannot stop deceiving all of humanity.


With his monetary marriage to the heinous Bill Gates,
He falsely...

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A view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted snow;
Across the matted undergrowth
A bronzed carpet of copper coloured
Leaves
Whose rusting...

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Now you’re turning to the south
To save your battered face,
To claim some sort of victory
By flattening the place.

If soldiers cannot win your war
You’ll bomb and you will shell:
Blow everything to smithereens,
Turn towns to living hell.

Your...

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Life shattered by the state
merciless and heavy handed...
It may seem as if a fate
threw you here to be stranded.

All alone with your sorrow,
with the grief stamped on your soul
for today and tomorrow,
with no person to...

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"Another 150 Illinoisans have lost their lives in the last 24 hours
   May each of their memories be for a blessing
2,240 residents have tested positive for the virus
   Another 365 new...

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Running cracks of lead flaked paint, spiders across the front door like a grandfather's
forehead. 
Its hinges squeal from years of inattention and forgotten maintenance
Floor boards moan a song of dismemberment and forgotten age
While musty gloom...

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Never pass up a good cartoonity                             ...

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ORIGINS

I
It began in the dank basement of the Thallasic column
steeped in abyssal brine of a thousand supernovae
so much alchemic sludge churned up, expelled by the co-tidal vice into the epeiric sea
 
A million points of...

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Only twenty-five years since I took your name,
fluorescent lights, a government building,
the officiant a stranger we met that morning—
no pictures, no rehearsals, just vows
read like lines on a form, under a plastic trellis
someone thought might...

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It is serene, a stream flows behind the house, beyond are fields

A pastoral landscape where the geese come to visit daily

To our front lies a lake, momentarily drained, latent moor awaiting its fill of spring

Beautiful...

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So many of them abound
They make for a burdensome crown
Worn by a government needing to be overthrown
Is it time to kick all these bureaucrats
Out of town?

The mangling of democracy by quangos
Is the new autocracy
A daily...

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False faces and pretentious promises churn my heart,
like what the desert storm does to the dunes. 
I can’t calm down my mind’s twirling turbulence
as the friction of fury shatters the shield of restraint.
Defenseless and discounted...

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The view from this cracked motel window pairs perfectly with this dower depression flattening my mood and numbing my awareness,
The sweet reward of a drink well drunk.

The misshapen humps of old asphalt going gray and...

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"Leave before you live"
They taught you that, everything you loved was a distraction.
They made you walk the paved road of normality.
It had no flowers to give colour to the journey,
Or thorns,
To tear your skin away...

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Go and gather up the known affiliates.
We're gonna build a village of idiots.
We gotta make sure this gets crazy.
"Getting out of hand" to me is just lazy.
Had our fill of tastless "pain et cirque".
Contorting dough...

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Rest, stirring heart,
Narrow-minded in your fears, courage close awaits
Though bold your words be, 
Your lack of action gives you away and despairs you
I am amused by your imaginings, 
For simple these worries be,
And strange is...

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Revisiting our ancestral farmhouse
I feel this certain tinge of aloneness,
Which smudges the lively remembrances
About a big clan huddled together
Under narra trees, each Sunday…a frolic kindled
By Grandpa’s recycled stories about literature,
His passion for Cole Porter’s music,
And...

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SPIRING

jumping over hoops,
getting caught on iron needles high.
dogs nipping, gnawing,
clawing at skin and rags,
rolling,
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I love the wind
Blowing softly against my face,
Fanning it on a hot Summer’s day,
Stirring my hair;
Making the branches and leaves quiver
And the grasses to dance and sway,
And all the while
Whispering a soothing melody
If one but...

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So the world softly exploded,
concussion grenade in a pillow factory;
shocking and disjointing,
dust and feathers spraying the vision,
tickling the optic nerve.

Clattering and booming, although
silently, like an inconsequential earthquake
in a vacuum.

Heartbeats came limping through,
dull, solemn, the drum...

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When she finally closed the curtain, even though transparent, 
Sensations of dusky satin, gravitational pull bearing down, 
Flattening disbelief, burgeoning spread of gleaming poison, 
Sucked the wind from my lungs that I might drown. 

The...

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Little boy scales the snowbank
          in Spider-Man boots 
          stomping snow,
      ...

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