Long Spokesperson Poems

Inxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa

Although gainfully unemployed 
(fate now finds me receiving 
social security disability – 
for approximately 
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...

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One morning early a Dad and his son Tom went for a walk in the country, they journeyed
through the still mist looking for flowers for the boy's Mom, but they did not see many.
Just then...

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Hey bruh, 
haven’t you heard,
ain’t you read the news?
The White House is gonna eradicate 
the fear infested inner city blues
That Trump fella says,
he’s got his poison pen ready to use
He says black folks got nothing...

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L'Assimilation – Non! Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Assimilation – No !” by T. Wignesan

Born Kathleen Jean Mary RUSKA on November 3, 1920, in the North Stradbroke Island, off Queensland, she was deemed as an aboriginal...

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Stuck in between races

I stand melanin enough because all my fellow people think they grew up with the struggles they heard from you. 
I stand here because your daughter was accused of being racist.
See you...

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A FOREIGNER ASKED THIS QUESTION OF ME
“WHERE CAN I IN U.S. FIND SOLDIER TO SEE?”
HIS ENGLISH WAS BROKEN, BUT CLEARLY RECEIVED
YET, HOW COULD I BEST EXPLAIN WHAT I BELIEVED
THE ANSWER I GAVE TO THIS QUESTIONABLE...

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In the beginning 
All I ever wanted to do is talk it over 
But constantly getting the cold shoulder 
Causes cold hopes
You made me feel like nothing inside 
And egg with no yoke
You can't be...

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One minute bought to make an impression,
   One minute to stir emotions, swirls of anger, guilt, affliction,
       One minute to pull the heartstrings to pack a punch...

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Unshackle my verse: The People V. Poetry

The judge says, 
“Will the defendant please rise”
Intently, I stare into his eyes, 
was once the apple, but now despised. 

“Poetry, you have been charged with multiple counts of...

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(alternately titled random axe of violence)

I calculated an average 
of ~10.16.... deaths per year 
of mass school shootings since Columbine, 
a morbid benchmark where,

iGen / Gen Z 1995 - 2012 bore significant hit,
now students require...

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The Alex Joneses among us

As we are coming up to Christmas, which is a feast 
for the advertisers, and it is impossible turning 
or switching on the radio or TV without getting an earful of...

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Both of these Facts

Whilst holding completely

Opposite opinions and points of view 

Yes are 100 percent correct

People all people are

Individuals 

&

Yes we are all simultaneously

1 and the same no different at all

Fact

Some of which say 

And...

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Songstress
by Michael R. Burch
 
for Nadia Anjuman
 
Within its starkwhite ribcage, how the heart
must flutter wildly, O, and always sing
against the pressing darkness: all it knows
until at last it feels the numbing sting
of death. Then...

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Ollie Hynd MBE is a first class swimmer, 
And has neuromuscular myopathy et all, 
He broke his brother Sam’s WR skimmer, 
Which was set in Beijing 2008, his gaul.

Ollie debuted in 2011 at the IPC...

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Calindae knows everything
She is the expert of all
I sit next to her during meetings
For there might be group work
And I know she will grab the poster board
And the markers and do it her way

Such a...

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I knew you before you were even thought of,
By your parents on mother earth.
Your attributes, your qualities, yes even your shortcomings,
I knew all before your miraculous birth.
I then set the plan in motion,
A chemistry between...

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To speak for those, who no longer have a voice,
were I to get it wrong, would they really have a choice?

No.., they didn't choose me as spokesperson, why would they?
I am not clairvoyant.
But they haunt...

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Dear Jonathan you seem more refined than most
Were you appointed spokesperson to fill a post
I'm the Canadian equivalent
I'm really quite magnifient
When it comes to public speaking I can't help but boast

Well don't be shy you...

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saw the cover of 
a magazine while 
waiting in the grocery
checkout line that
revealed to me, a
citizen of the cesspool,
that mr. tom cruise
HAS BEEN ALONE
FOR_______(insert
whatever amount of 
time that said smut 
writer thinks is enough
to get...

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Jali, jeli
African historian
You’re a storyteller;
Praise singer;griot

Griot, jali, jeli
You’re a storyteller;
Singing, telling your tales;
Words songs in harmony wails;
Poet or musician;
Oral repository tradition;
Seen often as leader;
Advisor to royal personages;
Kings and Queens

Jali, jeli
African historian
You’re a storyteller;
Praise singer;

Sometimes called...

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IT WAS A PASS
A DREAM
TRAVELED DOWN A HORRIBLE SCENE
FIRES AND NOISES
CRIES, WITH TERRIBLE FLAMES
UNKNOWN NAMES
A DARK SCENE
A NON WAY OUT
CRIES WERE LOUD
CREATURES RUNNING
A DOWN ELEVATOR
DOOR CLOSES SHUT
DISFIGURED FACES
BODIES BURNING
A NON STOP PAIN
AN EVERLASTING HURTING
TORTURED, NO...

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hillary hillary hillary
who sobbed her way in cafés 
all along the campaign trail
who now sits beside her prime opponent
as spokesperson-talking-head-puppet o’ the empire,
telling us all for the
489,675,788,899 th time
that the possibility of Iran
being blown off...

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A path I never towed
Has no trace of my foot print
Only those that destiny bid me
I have walked and paid my fee.

It is only destiny
That can lift a man
Towards that path he dreads
And circumstances push...

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BADSEEDPRESS is a fabricated enterprise. 
Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are invented characters, 
as are all the other players identified herein as having 
had a role in the sweet soul seduction of this sad luck,...

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We follow Jesus's lesson,
For He is the main reason,
We have survived this season.
He's a saviour with no comparison,
A rock that was rejected by mason,
And later became the cornerstone.

Through Him we survived knife edges,
After our enemies...

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