Long Manacle Poems

"The Reptilian Anthropocene"



The Reptilians
war daily 
enrobed in their
stiff distinction suits
rainbow coloured badges 
pinned to their lapels
they beat their breasts 
and oily palms
profiting from all 
the soft-boiled 
foxes on the run
cerebral cortex bound
thinking they are free-willed
and...

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i need to stop frowning and epitomizing
and sell this Caddy to the Cardinal
trying to let it miss your attention won't fly
since writing is speech even if somewhat removed
or fit only for bouncy news anchor banter
pancake...

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So Dog Gone Tired Today...
May 20th, 2021

Like a fly without his/her buzz
even popping a guarana (caffeine) does
not shake the feeling
like brain covered with fuzz

no matter how hard I try eyelids claps
shut nor how many hours...

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    Self's colors-change in the modes of wanting, 
as a chameleon in the daylight, 
as the seasons fade to black, hunting season
where loyalty is clothed in sackcloth, 
used as a knapsack with...

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The Other Side of Work


When from afar you look
  The door of a big office
Tiny hole, an obscure it is
  A little square of an orifice.
Draw near; knock to enter
  Inside Big...

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            Belladonnic poison seeps from your eyes, 
          like an electric serum of Venusian alchemy,...

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Frigid metals twist like 
Banshees in shriek,
Making all who hear it fear it's threatening speech.
Cognitive cogs, turning out torture-
instigating further madness noir.
Pale green and gold in it's likeness.
Promulgated sickness.
Rusted iron dust to waft in the...

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You, the high handsome himalayan peak
And I am flickering flowing river which speaks
You, the graceful harmonic  hesitation of heart
And I am open elegant alive profound poem
You are divine dissolute dense darkness
And I am taste...

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ICE         NINE

The sourceling of anti-matter,
morphed in, a slithering form.
From Darkness's anteroom chamber-
The wormhole, in escape-
The place where disobedience was born.
A
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staircase,...

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Blue velvet caged
Behind rusty bars.
Soul within chars.
Fervent flames raged.

Mighty door creaked
Black-veiled phantoms
Chanting the anthems
Thus the dusts freaked.

All the phantoms read
The holy pages.
The pious sages
For repentance plead.

Life’s last drops
Time’s burning tears.
Soaked deep in fears,
Crushed by crops,

The...

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Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk

Know Your Onions

Hey there Big Cheese
I think you are the bee’s knees

Not a bluenose or a flat tire,
But, ooh hardboiled & too Oliver Twist to resist

Let us skip the...

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To the desert shackle, sweaty all day 
Manacle it is for the appalling thirst 
Searching for water all day
A pinnacle of complexity and the dust 
Approaching no where to keep the sand away 
Every other...

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Gag my mouth to thwart my speech and seal my protests
But the language of my eyes will be heard in the hallowed highs,
I speak not to be heard by those that have no ears to...

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But nevermore my harsh friend, for I hear Kipling poignantly 
Clearer now, when he beseeched “If neither foes nor loving friends 
can hurt you.” I am holding nothing against you. But allow me a wry...

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I came to the cross to heed Christ’s clarion call,
Rolling in dust and ashes to say I’m sincerely sorry
for all the dirty deeds that led to my sudden stall.

I was once lost, far away from...

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I have a still snivelling mirror
From the silk-cotton tree
But can that take the stabbing cowries 
From my heavy,swollen foot?

I am in the dark the naked she-goat
Panting over flying stones.
I must eat washings of my half-thread...

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Shouldn’t you manacle villains?
For a villain should be in chains 
You might be laboring in vain
With one often using his brain
And dreaming to derail a train
Or cause to fall untimely rain…

Needn’t you deal with that...

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Man child. Mean manacle meaningless.  
Painfully pondering potent powerlessness.
What and where and why the worst.
Found fear of failing. This the first.
Faced foe fist for fist.
Gaining gentlemen game gist.
Soon shattered, smoked so surely.
Error eternal, earning...

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Scarlet, grey and blacker than
The blackest primordial depths of man;
Whispers lighter than snowflakes,
Slithering slicker than grass snakes.
Telling of earth and turmoil,
Desire, love and graveyard soil;
Spilling guts and dreams galore,
Rags that patrol the killing floor.
Bounced off...

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     You are the Angel of curiousity and poison, 
in my little shop of errors.
You are my penance, a dungeon as I sentence myself in pre-judiced derision stoked, 
  ...

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Captured and chained
A cellar, my home
Neck manacle
Hands free to roam
 
As she sits astride
Taking me in
Deepening feeling
Flesh to skin
 
In throws of thrust
She gorges my love
In this darkened room
Freedom above
 
Her spasmodic scream
Orgasmic outs
Her breasts...

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