Long Jab Poems
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A chorus of cravings murmured beneath each breath.
A hunger-chatter humming me halfway to early death.
Like static in the wires, like tinnitus in the bone,
it called from every cupboard when I stood there alone.
“There’s cake in the kitchen,” came the relentless cry—
“Chocolate in the pantry—don’t ask yourself why not—just comply.”
You don’t want the carrots; you don’t want a leafy green—
you want the sweet white thunder, of sugar pristine.
I'm below my set-point horizon, where my body sounds an alarm,
my ears are ringing with its echoes, my hunger coaxing with its charm.
My metabolism slowed when I dieted, its tricks now on show,
so losing weight became like walking through fresh snow.
Then, suddenly the food noise was silenced—
the hunger's ringing went still.
No phantom bell in the skull to keep playing.
No cravings on the hill.
The mouth’s old echo faded,
as I took the jab, or powered up the will
to stand in an empty kitchen
the cake uncut, all there still.
It was a tinnitus of hunger, pitched high inside the mind.
A private shrill insistence, I could neither leave, nor unwind.
The appetite’s phantom ringing, loudest in the calm,
absence becoming resonance, desire becoming a sung psalm.
The body’s restless asking will not soften, nor be outdone.
It tugged me back to excess, like a planet to its sun.
Each diet was a ladder a slippery slope in the rain,
each rung greased with longing; each slip returned its gain.
For the body has its set point, its gravity, its law,
a weight it keeps returning to, with hunger in its maw.
And when I slip beneath it, some ancient siren knew,
it could tempt me back with sweetness, to collect its due.
Then, suddenly the food noise was silenced—
the hunger's ringing went still.
No phantom bell in the skull to keep playing.
No cravings on the hill.
The mouth’s old echo faded,
as I took the jab, or powered up the will.
To stand in an empty kitchen,
the cake uncut, all there still.
What changed me was
Due to the buzz
An injection
Meant for protection
A needle like a honeybee
Sounding sweet but ended up dangerous for me
When the stinger pricked my arm
It did a little harm
My body turned red
I felt like I was dead
Something that I had inside
A sickness was trying to hide
This was such a terrible infection
From a helpful injection!
When I should claim rejection
Explaining no to one wanting reelection
Last night
They came into my hospital room where I was having a fright
Unwelcome news you have something evil inside
It was trying to hide
But on the other side
We caught the bug
Pulled it out from the rug
You are going to be fine
Since the illness in your body was declined
Leaving a letter stating it resigned.
Oh boy that is great
Using the injection as bait
No need to worry
Only the virus will be buried
Now I will go on to say
I am now little bit healthier wealthy and wise today
when Democrats outliers gnashed
teeth, and nonestablishmentarian outlaws
pistol whipped and hashed
tagged traitors who roared America
went bankrupt at sold at fire sale price slashed
when Donald Trump ran the country
into the ground evidenced by Molotov Cocktails residue
in concert with the sulfuric odor of hand grenades trashed
like some sorority or fraternity house
left the sanctified righteous West Wing
with powder puffs sans canisters
of pepper spray, whereby
most docile, humble, and liberal took a page
from playbook of Pandora, and took an aimless swing
at the root cause of melee by hurling objet’s d’art
at the pompous trump ping
Septuagenarian, whose platoons of goons
rent asunder peoples against their king
the donnybrook heathen, whose remarks
against libertarian rubric that made America great
wantonly soup peer egg go whist tickly
reviving prejudices declared dead
from yesteryear and his attempt to bring
back the glory days, when Whistler Blowers
getting water boarded and aching
deigning to implement dictatorship
of the Proletariat as a capital idée fix
weaving together, the salient strengths
viz founding fathers credo gave licks
to King George, and now in an ironic
twist and shout of fate through eclectic mix
basket of deplorables further shamed
by being routed by the New York Nicks
sewed jaws, heads of state, and dignitaries
with limping bodies spent like derricks
Oil used up and no place to go except
to keep Alice in Chains and
Alice Cooper Company with toys in the attics.
Your are under arrest
in your house
your concentration camp
quiet
before for being unmasked
get fined.
You have no rights
to buy, sell or travel
without hand or forehead
being jabbed
in preparation
for microchip ahead.
Can't buy bread? Starve
with the little mouths
you allowed to live
they could have been
used in vaccines.
You are not to visit
friends, family
or enemies
in nursing homes
or hospital beds
dying
to be disposed of
quietly.
You are not to go to school
knowledge is dangerous
infecting brain to brain
to rioting dissent!
Let the screen be your teacher
and Alexa your friend.
You are not to go to parties
or indoor movies
alone get drunk
and watch your *****
and blood at home.
You are to be vaccinated
enemy of all that is progress
who gave you the audacity
to question vaccines'
safety and efficacy
with elderly and terminally ill
dying from Covid-19?
Unapproved, obsolete
what’s that to us?
Give to Caesar money
to science your body
and to 666 your hand
to be microchipped
if you want medicine
travel or be fed.
Gagged, tied, mesmerized
fear turns hearts to ice
but a remnant keeps shining
God’s charity
feeding hungry
hugging lonesome
praying in private
and in public
for a self destroying
faithless humanity
heading to depopulation.
Fed by heaven
sealed on the forehead
with the cross of salvation
chosen to be preserved
to start a new world
of love, peace and joy
with Jesus Christ as King
in an environment of beauty
health and energy
as it was meant to be
with foods that nourish
herbs that heal
joy of family life
in villages
full of boys and girls
running with health.
The remnant could be you.
Lord Jesus come
hurry do not delay
Thy Kingdom come.
Congressman and senators forewent
all manner of civility, fidelity and integrity wii
hull ding broadswords, derringers
and exhibiting the right to bare firearms
as all hell broke loose as testimony
to the dire prognostication foretold
more than saber rattling and Gatling guns que
kind from lambastes, fisticuffs
and brickbats ratcheted up as agents provocateurs nee
said obedience to semper fidelis credo, coda and cock knee
stance when dire straits called for restraint
against excess versus raising cane old hickory
i.e. Andrew Jackson latched onto when opposing with energy
plus verve espoused by fellow delegates,
and his hologram ghost bloody
from battle scars outside and/or inside
the halls of government where blows bashed
dovetailed elected legislators to officiate
as angry birds viz brouhaha clashed
Federalist against their nemesis
of the twenty first century
during the term of Donald Trump
who throve on the cutthroat frenzied
internecine lawlessness dashed
to and fro, hither and yon
any hopelessness for civilians to escape bloodshed
spilled from without vaunted halls of justice,
the approach of doomsday
writ large as anarchy and mayhem flashed
with uproarious coup d’etat,
The Jab
I am somewhat disenchanted by what I’ve seen and read
Antivaxxers believe the lie that soon the vaccinated will be dead
That our leaders are out to get us, dictating what we need
and will decrease the population by deciding how we breed
I’ve heard more twisted theories in my time upon this rock
made so much worse with rumors on you tube and tic tok
I pray that common sense will soon take hold of every friend
Covid 19 is NOT just another virus. Don’t let it be your end
Remember mumps, measles, tetanus and whooping cough
They were cured by science, not a de wormer in a trough
Think of polio, rubella, diphtheria, hepatitis B and A
Thanks to vaccinations, these diseases were kept at bay
This world is full of deadly germs, we make perfect hosts
Please listen to the doctors instead of any ill-informed posts
Life is short, so show respect for the time you’ve got
Think of others, not just yourself. Now go and get your shot!