Long Join forces Poems

THE INNER CHAMBER

Please.  Stop holding back on me.

Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.

I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...

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I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...

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“Just when he thought he’d had all he could take,
April arrived like a careless mistake.” 

From DRIVING DIXIE DOWN by Anonymous Brown
Smithstonian Folkways Recordings catalogue # 317-704-1106

When something is broken, it’s no longer of any...

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My 1st round:

I know we just met and you seem like you're cool but there's a whole bunch of s**t that I don't know about you. Now I don't care about your race, what kind...

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The words are dark, sharp,vicious, viscous.
The images like bubbling, darkest jam,
With bubble like grim faces riding to the surface
Then bursting.
I am thirsting.Alternately with blood and bile,black.
I am a sad sack,
A pillow filled with rotten meat
For...

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For soon the rains of destiny will fall
as innocence capitulates its soul.
Aggression sealed your fears within a wall
to let disease and hunger take their toll.
Your rank-and-file dissolved into the night
with nary whisper echoing their names,
‘tis...

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Man ever since I rejected Christ and join forces with the devil I started to see things that was beyond human eyes to see in I started to hear different voices in my head asking...

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Carrying with me a
halfhearted smile for the
braver men than I.
The men holding tightly
to past perceptions,
live or die.
Suppose I whispered to 'em
what I've heard through
the metaphorical grapevines.
Suppose I lent a hand.
Would they take it as an...

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Suppressing The Vote

People get involved, get out and vote
Your rights being dissolved, just take note
No policies to offer, so they revert to cheating
Rather than being fair, just take the beating

Suppression tactics, implementing unconstitutional rules
As though...

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Prayer to the Stone of Sobriety

Under a purple flannel-like sheet, but not as soft; 
As warm as flannel-but hotter,
I am sweating.
The flannel shroud soaks up my sweat like my liver soaks up venom

I see angry...

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Whats in the news today
and how much snow is on the ground
they say in the paper there is 2 600 homeless people
in my home city
but word of mouth and the people who work...

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It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led eighty thousand people on revue.
The strikers marched down Chicago’s Michigan...

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‘Turn swords into ploughshares and nightmares to dreams’
		
                I have not one plough and no shares in the market

		Insomnia has...

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Moving force 
I foretold a prophecy 
I told them I will wait for God time
They thought  it was just  poetry 
Now The youth are out on the streets again 
The echoes of needs...

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Your arrival predate mine by two generations
Five weeks now since
Your permanent departure
Internal thoughts conflicted
Forever reminiscin’
Your heavily influenced overture

13, a younglin’
Curtain rise’s inception
On my personal narrative
Shaped by your first instruction
Of the working traveler’s adventure
And the stupidity...

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You,*

                               Hard-of-hearing,

   ...

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Head: I'm the thinker, the planner, the seat of all-knowing
Hand: Yeah? Well I'm the doer, the maker, the one who keeps showing

Head: Books and theories, that's where wisdom lies
Hand: Spare me your lectures, your highbrow...

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The lion, as king of the jungle, did convene
the biggest meeting of animals you have ever seen.
There were rhinos and kangaroos from down south,
and a polar bear with forty-two teeth in his mouth.
Fish swam in...

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Let’s hear three cheers for the decade of disinfectant!
Clean out your insides with cheap vodka!
Blow your brains out with Nirvana!
Your breath reeking of teen spirits,

Does weed count as a vegetable?

You’re getting your five a day,
Candyman...

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set the recorder, ask the void what it knows
       feel the drag and pull but hear no noise
   then throbs of pain disrupt my heart
 does the...

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Take me back to the days of old,
And rich legacy that worth more than gold.
It took an entire village to raise a child,
Where they were free to roam and be wild.
The rivers and streams were...

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Sisters together we stand, we pledge in this land 
to fulfil the plan set by our master's hand
 
Solidiers in solidarity, sisters we will be, 
stronger and eager, vibrant as can be to complete our...

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the weather report predicted hectic thunder storms

oil jackets and umbrellas for all the stars in the show

stages were empty though except for a curtain raiser

who had failed to seek her measly social security grant


not exactly...

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Before ever there was time
before there was the heavens
and the stars gave their light
or the glimmerings of life
was it determined
to be a gift ?
this love to be stained with pain
was this the choice of our...

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“There is…another…Skywalker”
Though she’s not a Jedi Knight
The force is strong in her
She fights darkness with the light

A woman unafraid of danger
Princess Leia is her name
The kingdom is at stake
She’s out to win this game

She has...

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