Long Veritas Poems

Agostino Tassi

(The Accused now gives evidence,
coming fresh from the vigil torture,
which involves sleep deprivation.
His arrogant, careless manner
doesn't win him any friends.)


I think the Court will understand
if I’m a little under par.
The vigil thing!  I...

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II.
In the week that followed that cold, hard scene,
Reno settled in and got down to work,
he did tie up loose ends for the estate,
but mostly in the saloons did lurk.

Listening hard for any rumor,
even if...

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She thought he would rage, clean blow his stack,
but he just nodded with a sad look,
said,”After what I saw, I can’t go back,
there are many things the was has took,
things you can’t even read of...

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1..A rusty door-nail leaks a drying crust.
2..The taint of copper pennies.
3.Salt licking the scars of the unhealed.
4..A sunset burning dry corn.
5.Eyes bruised by anger.
6.Lips cut by stinging words.
7.Money burning holes in red letter days.
8.A fledglings...

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"Just take this chalk," (so went his talk, 
to servants sent before): 
"And do not balk. When you uncork 
good liquor, mark the door." 

This way, the churchman planned to pass, 
when pausing for a...

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Gustav Klimt adored for his murals and paintings
Turned life in poverty into art of awesome glory
Pioneering erotic paintings depicting female body
Moving boldly to shape pages of his artistic story.

Honored for murals painted in famous public...

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while she believed she was me
signing my name on personal injury
claims in fort lauderdale
I cradled my identity  i was every part

of america i was every part of germany while she 
believed she was me...

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(on the basis of Max Ehrmann’s Desiderata)


Be calm, because it's vanity of vanities,
reach harmony taking a truce.
Be generous, despite “in vino veritas” 
all in the world forget the truth. 

Remember that all have their rights...

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(Not) Regretting Cake

Never ending restrictions are slave driver’s tools a debatable concept wielding

Onslaughts on conscience asceticism zero sums zero size and perfection

To not trespass the segments of cake the boundaries and frontiers rules and


Regulations to...

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Levity and gravity

The weight of gravity and lightness of levity complement nicely
Like a seesaw or ying and yang they are balanced precisely
Levity may add the touch of light relief in a minuscule dose
But too much...

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Canto V: The Oracle
________________

She came round the dunes again to disturb
Wise and whistling maiden bristled knowledge
Ghost's and demon's she did like to perturb
Those with knives, came to give homage
'He lost' she sighed and her tears...

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From Cabin Boy To Grateful Recollections By Old Sailor

Kindness, heart and deep joy, as I remember you
I child, a mere boy, innocent without a clue.
Your attention and love, a blessing warm and true
In Heaven far...

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Truth,in today's world,is a vexing word,
by what standard does the superior inferior discern?
is the notion,preconcieved,absurd,
or is it unjust,because of what we learn...

Convenient truth is subjective at best
more circumstantial than accidental,
objectively penetrating conflict to rest
massive testing...

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Curriculum vita in a perfect suit for the over emphasized job,
overwritten obituaries by all means towards the career to the top.
Artificial titles painting in phrase the landscape of the desire,
everybody loves a piece of paper...

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Veritas Vincit
 the elusive goddess of the mind and soul couplet
a revelation of who we are, what we believe,
 all that we imagine is or should be conceived;
born on the rising of the sun
 holding...

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“Karlsruhe Hbf”

A man wore a bib on the outside of his down jacket
at Weiner Feinbacher.
Struedel doesn’t drip.
Poinsettias from Blumen leaving on the next train,
maybe from the same platform where 
945 Jews departed.
Citizens unwillingly embarked. 
The...

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A great man had a dream
Ending in a murder scene
And I'm not such a man
Never been so brave or grand

But little one
I had a dream
About a nation that became...

A dazzling sky
The heroes of youth
A burning...

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In Vino Veritas, But Whiskey’s Better

In wine there is certainly such real-truth to be found,
And in whiskey there is even more of it to go around!

Wine may maketh one truly sagacious, whilst whiskey
Elevates one to...

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Trust in the truth to set you free,
Light offers proof as soul can see.


Truth wears a veil in joy sublime,
Light now unveils a lovely time.


Joy speaks clear zest to unwrap cheer,
Hope works out best faith...

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Late the music played in the smoky air
  in our noir Bogey and Bacall vignette,
and hands that stroked your silky chestnut hair
  held a red wine and lit a cigarette.
Your soft skin smelt...

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Mightier than fibs and sharp swords, 
Manacled truth will with time prevail
Against high peak and gigantic vale, 
And glossed lips' deodorized words. 

Sharper than lucre's nectared studs
Stabs tested truth's right-driven nail;
Till all wrong-worn tongues wax...

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This bloody sequel shall have no equal
Death becomes you,  so seek spirit to quell
Uneasy sensations as hell around you burns
Beaten bloody to afterlife's eerie pitched mourns
Morning comes and there is no body
It's over I...

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Our history has known too many wars by far, 
Not one’s gone to oblivion without a scar. 

In a war - other truth, contrived by a wrong man, 
Where in fact there is, clear as...

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I sleep with two guns to my head
One says I love you, one says death
I sleep with two guns to my head

Aquitas Veritas
Falsitas, pravitas

I sleep with two guns to my head
One says I love you,...

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Ivy leaguers smell like turd bits
Near the king’s commode where he s*its
Don should flush elites
Like what he excretes
Including these ass wipes and twits:

Yale University…J.D. Vance
Yale University…Scott Bessent
Yale University…Daniel Driscoll
Harvard University…Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 
Harvard University…John...

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