Long Garbage heap Poems

I woke up this morning with courage over my back and wisdom in my hat
I was determined to put an end to the sneaky kangaroo rats
No one had done me anything but I was reeling...

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I stand here in my innocence
Not knowing what is planned in heaven
The skies are grey the wind is still and
The heavy sound system is blasting on the hill
I could not tell what it was all...

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I have been used to living alone for so long
I am determined and easy going but headstrong
This morning was rather strange because I was on the train
I woke up with people gallivanting around me in...

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The afternoon dances before and night sky
Threadbare shoes dangling on their tired feet
Torn up clothes bulging underneath the deep
Dirty clothes sticking to their slender backs
And a strange odor circulates around them
Five boys and one girl...

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Mama taught me to wash my hair 
Every Saturday with no delay
To unbraid it and let in air
So that lice may not build a lair
On my head to birth and play.

“What is lice,” I asked...

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A nearly full bag of fries in a trash bin 
is a little tempting to one not having eaten all day!
Somewhere is a single mom scrubbing floors
so her kids can eat a PB sandwich
smeared with...

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E mu Numba


E mu Numba
Pick your number
Right in your dream
Or from the whispers 
Of the mad woman who lives 
Sane by the garbage heap.

E mu numba
The young and old
Whose riches have been foretold
By numbers in...

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When Tyrants Tremble

when tyrants tremble
at the fury of those who tremble no more

their veneer of stability seems rotten to the core

when the trembling ones shake off their long-hushed fear

the trembling ones
tremble now with a rage...

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A FACT I WISH WERE FICTION

Together as a team they finally found the thirteen year old young lady at last
The insanity of uncertainty was permanently part of the past
Little Miss Lost was discovered after a...

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OH MY GOD I HATE YOUR GOD

I cannot hold back the flood of tears
and it's been that way for years
kids tossed away in a garbage heap
and not even buried the traditional six feet deep
raped, defiled...

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There was a time when
You couldn’t leave my side
We lay in bed
Two lovers waiting in the dark
Wishing the night would never end
Listening to each other’s heartbeat
Instinctively knowing what the other wanted.

Then you turned your back...

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Death In the Cesspool
Forget the dead, there faces never smile,
nor do they fret about life's uphill climb,
but if one must, 'tis good to cry a while,
remembering they've died from age or crime.

Or if you're of...

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I will send you a note 
tonight
if I can catch the firefly
in bed

somewhere 
in an old worn out basin
down by the river
is left an empty seashell
if I can coil over its rusty fence
and say goodbye...

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From the wrecks of time
and life's garbage heap,
the Lily sprouts; nurtured 
by the spittle of life's deceit,
energized, fanned by the fierceness
of the gossipy winds.
Burrowing through the slime and
grime of nothingness.
Clambering 
over the 
rot of rejection,...

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