Long Kleptomaniac Poems

I cannot focus on the focal point to equivocal, the pain in my memory, to memorial site. The night smells gunpowder in the middle galaxy to summon the smart, south to Saturn where I rest...

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1MDB Walking Free

Talk about living charmed lives for some people in positions of power.....
The latest involve news of the latest appointments of certain financial  figures...
News about President elect Donald Trump's handpicking of certain people..
To...

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She was a kleptomaniac,
His wife of thirty years.
The risks she took for stuff of little value
Had all but driven him to tears.

She had such low regard for the risk;
Always said, “If I’m caught, I’ll pay.”
“But...

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Trying to figure you out is like living in the Ice Age,
My love for you is like a dream escapade.
Tears dropping are more constant than a Tsunami,
Us together is like a cat and mouse game.
Emotions...

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Fragment of tears,
elements of sorrow. 
This is the wild assumption that pushes
blood to a glandful tattered branch of the heart. 
You are the lost  coin been looked for, 
I am the lost sheep of...

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March 2011
Alzheimer’s unit
A light-fingered kleptomaniac
Among the residents.

If you want to keep something,
Do not bring it with you; and hand
your car keys to the nurses at the front desk
but pray they will not be called away,...

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All avenues are amphibious arenas
Bubbles belch-burst, bitter Bacchanalian bombs
Clouds' cast-iron crescendo creates cold cantankerous caricatures
Drenched - darkness descending, daylight dying, disappearing duskwards
Every eye echoing every eye, emotional evidence enveloped
Fake furs, fashionable fools, firm friends fleeing...

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Our dear nation, virtuous and seated in an impious sit
Surrounded by constant chaos of defiances 
After all this years of nationhood we are still not
 Sure of our future as a nation

Oh dear our precious...

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Inspired by Portrait of a Kleptomaniac Painting by Théodore Géricault. An 1822 painting done as a series for a psychiatrist to identify mental illnesses. 

I sit here awhile
It's my task today
Lost in empty dreaming
Consciousness reserved...

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Kitty Fluffy and her Thanksgiving plate
Invited us to dine, yelling “Don’t be late!”
Kitty was welcoming, her plate was absurd.
We are having a twenty pound turkey, a hideous bird!

That plate is annoying said my cousin Tom.
But...

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THE SECRET

Shh! The walls have ears; let them not hear you
Let no other ear hear this! Threatening warnings of my father
Compelled alliance with my father; concealing the truth from my mother
Sight of my mother’s ignorant...

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You once told me your race
(Not if I really cared)
You once showed me the true color of your face
(Not if that mattered)
You are whom you want to be
You are the sheep, you are the bee.

You...

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THE GRIEVANCE OF DEATH

It comes unannounced
With caloric and musty sour
Calls from far and near
Under unnumerous Canopies

Behold the upper chambers 
Swimming and bleeding
In white wet handkerchiefs 
In saucer-eyed voice, They yell

Grievance of death
The mantle of Loneliness
Thou...

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Based on my consulting this year’s almanac    
June 30th being the best possible day for a BBQ out back
I sent out invitations to everyone, I didn’t hold back

There was the lumberjack, the...

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Rejoice not when her financial muscle dwindles
Gout her feet and hand joints assails
A kleptomaniac her little cash swindles
The love of her life from away sails 

Rendering her social, financial and metabolic status repulsive
When in your...

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Mountain 
has 
been 
firmly 
fixed.
Its 
content 
were 
metallic 
mixed.
Its 
known 
to be 
unshakable
to move 
it,no 
one is 
able.
But with 
determination,its 
certain
that I 
can 
move 
the 
mountain.

NECO is 
nicknamed 
trouble.
WAEC is 
its 
double.
It is 
impossible 
to...

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This is absolutely out of this universe
That a consummate kleptomaniac thinks
That he has the right to steal any ranks
Any rings, any votes, anybody in the hearse
This is scurrilously crazy to try steal
To commit murder on...

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first time that brought the
bliss,
must’ve been when with her/his
best friend, in some mall in the
middle of ****ing
nowhere---
little things when s/he was young &
was sick of asking for money 
from the parental figures,
sick of seeing others...

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My country is under a siege
That's why I write a dirge
My country is falling apart 
'cause her leaders have taken the wrong path

The land is full of greed 
Remember, That's not what we agreed 
Masses...

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To the Tree, He was condemned,
like a callous kleptomaniac.
Castigated and scorned by
a cackle of cacophonic voices.
Clamours and clanging...
clanging of corrupt tongues.
Away, they led Him to
the welcoming Cursed Cross.

For ages, this Cross has borne criminals, 
The...

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Posh Avenue 

Beautiful avenue big trees on both sides lend dignity to palatial homes, 
tall walls with broken glass on top and silence. Yet it is the wrong kind 
of hush like a solid melancholy...

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It is not my fault. 
Not in my linage,
not in my blood,
how to make things 
disappear as I pass close 
to other peoples things 
or items not mine 
or cherished possessions,
not even in their absence,
things...

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The man who invented pockets,
Never owned a bag.
The man who invented pockets,
Had really tiny hands.
The man who invented pockets,
Bought the patent in a flash,
so The man who invented pockets,
Was never short of cash.
The man who...

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5 Girlfriends

Girlfriend number one was wealthy and clean
Air filled her head as she got lost along with rain
Could not find her way out of anything
Paper bags were not her thing 

The next one was a...

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Senators come home
For what you have acquired
seventy percent is ours
 Come home!
From where you are dogmatic followers
  Come home!
For we can't vote you again
Come home!
 From where truths are bitters
Senators! Come home 
For we...

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