Long Normalized Poems

It appears that I was both half asleep and awake.  For all intents and purposes, let's just call it a dream. There was a zoo and everything about it seemed normal. That is, if...

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No Saints were Artists….



Suckd down a portal incorrectly chosen by disbelief blah and a challenge that is ill advised plays out a lost and a soul was threatened to be taken but should counter offensive...

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I was for long an active art enthusiast, with a special passion for still lifes,
As the roving, scarlet sun, develops late passion for the bustling nightlife.

I was ofttimes in large art museums, and I had...

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My wife Judith opened my eyes
into the world of adoption for pets
with special needs.

   It takes a special person to give
an animal a second chance at life
by adopting a special needs dog,
or cat.
...

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Whatever when you look to a lie
 to salvage what started as a good day
When the storm takes over the blue sky
When the cost is a friend lost but you must pay

Whatever when you take...

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Wake.
Commute.
Work.
Repeat.

They call this living?

I call it the hamster wheel—
spinning faster each year
while the cage only shrinks.

Three jobs to afford one roof.
Two hours of daylight between shifts.
One life slipping through fingers
calloused from climbing ladders
that only lead...

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III.
Making it worse, the doctors had told her
that great damage had been done by the birth,
she could never carry children again,
was bound to be childless on this earth,
for months she was just a big ball...

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The sounds of a new-born baby crying for the first time, 
Can bring joy to a brand-new mother, 
Can bring a smile to her sweaty, tired face, 
Knowing that she has delivered a blessing from...

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I often ponder about the perpetuous anathema in my household, because growing up, that abominable behavior was quite normalized.
I’ve always heard derogatory, disrespectful remarks or comments, God, they’re so standardized; my conception was that being...

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#Hashtag Me Too
#I like you
#me too
#me too woke
#me too just awaken from my sleep
#me too everything not normal it stinks
#me too It started in grade school, when I pulled your hair
#me too back then it...

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A gardener, I became by chance
a purposeful man with detailed plans 
With a thought for each exigency
and a strategy for each contingency

I organized and theorized
I categorized, I normalized 
I estimated and resized
and finally, I stabilized

I...

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Faces of death stare against my raptured skin.

Silently, they watch me in frigid judgment.

I used to run from them in unholy matrimony,
Peeling the sins from my teardrops
Wishing they would

Just go away.

The brown-skinned disease normalized her...

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New World Order; Psychological Warfare

Split minds, souls at unrest; UFOs or USOs? 
Wealth, lost in the wash, fear-mongering media, 
indoctrinated control. Listen here, listen there. 
Do what you are told. Lost, chock full of filth....

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It comes to you in the post
the first day you’re born
certified and normalized your invoice of sale 
in Christmas cards sent you
while you’re at school
authorized, depersonalized 
let’s all hope you do not fail

It falls on...

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They like their news delivered intravenously
Nonstop drip of
horrific images pumped straight to the cortex
Ophthalmologically dosed every hour 
Raw footage unedited,
fatal tragic scenes 
unfiltered 
on the television screen
Traumatized survivors giving ghastly, weeping accounts
Macabre absorption byway of...

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Could I, should I, and may I?
You are my poetry. I am in love with his present, that my future longs for. 
My poetry is you, pale love.

Your giddy eyes mesmerize me, your plump lips...

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Career has developed huge glands
a surrogate, closing the eyes from loved ones.
Suit and tie on the pages of priority
sucking life away until age loses its lubricant.
Banks hold the candy, but only stored in the oceans
virtual...

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So, I'm listening to the radio
on the way down the road.
To a "local color" piece
about a some cowboys out west
and they're interviewing this
one cowboy,

"What's it like out here?"
and he responds "Well, we're
just rounding up some...

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Words are seeds that grow and blossom, 
Open doors,
Change the course,
The mouthpiece of the mind,
Intertwined with society,
Use case undefined,
Words depart as soon as they come, 
Although,
Their meanings linger like a quiet echo, 
A weight with...

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Paint a picture wit my poetry, young brothas killing each other over faces of white men, we were sold a false definition of success, the means to get this success, is controlled by the one...

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They twitch along nerves
still wired to those fever 
induced rooms, memories
of faces pressed against
windows, peering in through
curtains with their red eyes,
screams stuck in throats
suffocating to a groan 
in gaping mouths.

There were places to hide
when day...

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Thou wretched spot, thou churlish little knave,
canst thou in truth believe thine own deceit?
Engendered by thy lusts, thou art a slave,
ensconced by thy morality’s retreat.

Ye target those placed trusting in your care,
such innocent, inquisitive young...

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Father, you say there will be good times and bad times
But why does this all seem unfair?
How many more sleepless nights?
How many more hungry nights?
How many more cold nights?
Do I have to endure before the...

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They go the way they come
the way that would always make tears drop
silently, or with a wail
by the air, or by that they left behind

they go the way they come
toothless and helpless; all, but not...

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Souls are assigned an agenda of purposeful worth
People meander meaning as a purpose of birth

Souls are here to experience emotional exchange
Our confluence with drama deceives us estrange

Souls are magically magnetized by a soul mate 
We...

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