Long Leprous Poems

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In those slow, dead hours that hang attendant
Upon the birth of the dawn,
When all things pure lie safe abed,
Nested in sleep's safe oblivion,
The rituals take place, unseen, unfelt
In the woods or in the alleys
In the...

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              The Night Soil Man

			I

		Nothing sticks to-get-her like turds
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“A teacher, taught our ignorance the path to civilization,
respect all.”

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I am the Project Air Bridge, 
The veritable virus lord-cum-felon of duty fraud.
Fumaye's privileged his bridge that projects pompous airs.
Maelstrom, mammon coextend where it forks and fares.
Transpontine ambulances shriek, hearses creak;
Cispontine pandemia profiteerings peak. 
Lip...

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Eve, the mother of all mankind,
Adam found his helpmeet in her.
Old Sarah, through faith, was confined.
Rebecca, the first twins’ mother.
Shiphrah and Puah, brave midwives
Saved Hebrew children, fearing God.
Fearless Jochebed hid her child,
Because of her, Moses...

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A heart of dark sentiments!
What did my dark periscope see?
A misogynistic judge presiding over a case;
An interesting case of 
A woman who reneged midway on a pact.

I was but a witness lest you be curious
Why...

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Seasons have changed their weathered cycles here
A frigid frost frolics on dead dry air.
Old man winter is summoned now so soon
It is a cranky world and a coatless moon
And through it shivering the homeless roam
Like...

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He looks at her
with mutilated disgust
The gentle touch on his shoulder,
from the woman she now is,
changes the look on his face
Through no fault of her own,
cancer has taken a twin part of her away
He heaves...

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On seeing the painting of Edvard Munch
Of the woodland stretching endless
One would feel, one has entered a sanctuary,
Where stillness prevails and coolness overpowers
There is no sound except the sound of rustling leaves.
Tall trees touching Heaven’s...

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When Meaning Is Meaningless
The value of life is delicious debris
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Within my psychedelic psychosis divided by hell’s malignant mitosis,
Navigated by narcotized neurosis absorption through opiate osmosis…
Within my lunatic leverage of will, I needed to miraculously madly mill,
The negligent neurons of my ill amidst a faltering...

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An early frost came,
  unannounced, uninvited, a carefree assassin,
  some indiscriminate vacuum.
Bejeweled fingers scratched the pane
  and found their way inside;
  a fleeting touch, a brush with fate,
  a young...

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Autumn draws closer day by day
From far is heard 
The screeching of a lone bird
Voicing its dismay aloud
Over the impending fall
Here the moss scrawls 
Ugly pictures on the bark of trees 
Where black spiders weave...

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Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she steals through the hallways of 
Maplethorpe House. Mysterious, moody 
and always morose, it's as if she is leprous 
     no one...

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Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she steals through the hallways of 
Maplethorpe House. Mysterious, moody 
and always morose, it's as if she is leprous 
     no one...

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Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she steals through the hallways of 
Maplethorpe House. Mysterious, moody 
and always morose, it's as if she is leprous 
     no one...

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Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she steals through the hallways of 
Maplethorpe House. Mysterious, moody 
and always morose, it's as if she is leprous 
     no one...

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Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she wanders the hallways of Maplethorpe House. 
Mysterious, moody and always morose, 
it's as if she is leprous no one can get close.

She carries a parcel...

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As this fevered vision comes to pass
these saviors with their plagued feet
grinning lips bereft of truth and teeth
sorely hunger for our wealthy carcass

Armed with a legion of noisy mosquitoes
billboards, loudspeakers are screaming out
glossy party programs...

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Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she steals through the hallways of Maplethorpe House; 
mysterious, moody and always morose, 
it's as if she is leprous, no one can get close.

She carries a...

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Megan's alone, she's as quiet as a mouse, 
as she steals through the hallways of Maplethorpe House; 
mysterious, moody and always morose, 
it's as if she is leprous, no one can get close.

She carries a...

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From dawn to dusk and often beyond midnight,
she cleans incurable wounds, assures the frightened,
and emboldens the lost, the desperate;

She gives soothing company to the delirious and the dying,
and whispers a prayer for anyone who eventually,
inevitably,...

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I

Truly how blessed are we not to bow to the barbaric chivalry
Of emperors and kings’  in raging insanity
Historical madness runs in the house of Caesars

Considered great, ruler of lands and seas
The house of Caesar...

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In heading to Jerusalem Jesus had made His way
In the midst of Samaria and Galilee on that day
When ten leprous men cried out from afar
Oh Lord Jesus heal us for we heard who you are...

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Nightly they give thanks
With uncanny stealth they close in
By the scent of carbon dioxide
Drawn to a table
well prepared in the presence
And, of their enemy!

Endlessly raped and pillaged
In my sleepless sleep I wonder...
These gluttonous suckers
Fattened by...

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