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meltdown madness

We might as well stamp license plates
Government work makes us inmates
When assigned tasks inane
In asylums insane
We'll search for retirement dates

Meltdown

The bars of the jail
those electronics we serve
our cellphones and laptops
new wardens in stir

 Ipods and Ipads 
to Tweet and I.M.
the virtual distance
created within

24/7
we Text back and forth
when Email’s too slow
 a much faster course

But nature is watching
and planning a storm
the power grid wanton
with darkness for sure

And who is to blame
as we cry and we scream
our minds have been sentenced
we no longer dream

The reckoning promised
has come home at last
and this time not virtual
—our prison recast

(Dreamsleep: December, 2021)

Frosty Is Having a Meltdown

The snowman charged with trespassing 
        as his face was melting and his carrot
    was floating, like driftwood in threshold 
crossing. Santa and his reindeer
        pull out the naughty list. Frosty is
         not the one who’s in trouble. “Sorry
     Frosty,” says Santa, “you must melt
   a little bit longer as your neighbor
 gets madder and madder - turns
   Christmas Red, like Rudolph’s sporty nose,
            so I can gage how much coal 
              I need to have the naughty department sack.
   I’ll be back my friend
             to put you
                 back
      together
              again…
                            on Dancer…on Vixen”****
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12/9/2021

A Magic Mirror Meltdown

Evil Queen
Her face, a jealous green
The mirror on the wall
Black heart could not forestall

Snow White
Her beauty did ignite
Ruby lips and raven hair
Seven dwarves were quite aware

Meltdown Sunday

heat index alert~ a blackbird is melting into melody

Covid-19 Lockdown Or Meltdown - Pick One

COVID-19 LOCKDOWN OR MELTDOWN (pick one)

You want a meltdown
and barnish the lockdown?
Sport activities resumption?
Not yet a conclusion.
Dead businesses emergence?

Church & Mosque convergence?
Return normalcy long gone? 
Okay! DEATH has to go on
for LIFE to go on
if we all must move on.

VickWizzy.
Vick Manuel Poetry {VMP}.
Copyright © May 17th, 2020.

Antarctic Meltdown

majestic glaciers
the hottest day on record—
Antarctic meltdown

Purple Meltdown

Purple wig on purple clown
Laughing while he's counting down 

Princess in her gala gown
Through the streets of Chinatown

On her worried face a frown
She's looking for her misplaced crown

While the clown can't do much about her meltdown
He'll at least help to get her home by sundown



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on January 28, 2019 for contest PURPLE 2 sponsored by KEVIN SHAW

Al Stone and the 22 Caliber Meltdown

long after a full moon 
had thrown its arms around the sky
I stood with Al Stone 
ignoring the futility in our lives
adolescence gave way to manhood
or so we like to believe
our ideology stifled 
from a serious lack of dreams
with the care of a midwife 
removing a child from the womb
a marijuana cigarette was born 
then quickly consumed
our reality now disfigured
discolored and frayed
the sound of a revolver pop-pop-pop
felt like a siren calling our names
along the asphalt we strode 
where graffiti had not taken over
the corner of lesson and life
pondering the tips of our noses
underneath that streetlight
the story we all must tell
misplaced direction 
led to a portal of hell
our lack of caution
our upbringing tossed aside
opened the door for the siren
that revolver in our eyes
angels decided to sing
that melody an alarming sound
wheels of society turned and screeched
leaving tire tracks on the ground
the order was given to freeze
alternatives held tight in their hands
one placed directly at my temple
a transition from boy to man

Summer Meltdown

the sun melts slowly
a silence falls on the land
an eagle circles
my heart pauses in wonder
seems all so larger than life



AP: 1st place 2023, Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on April 23, 2018

Meltdown, Buildup

do you want some fun 
in a parked out car
or a video chat one on one

maybe a song
maybe several
maybe a kiss
life should be gentle

but its often not
it often gets hot
and your shoes start to melt
into the tarmac 

when that happens
don't tread on your tippy-toes
just call my number
and ill carry you home

Economic Meltdown

All income is lower than any bill
poverty swells, about to exhibit
to all options the mind would have to drill
fat growing needs already prohibit
the spouse and the children all will survive
whips from the family from unknown foe
yet stay intact and thankfully alive
but reduced in value to share a dough
a onetime agent of life so so kind
wealth and health in this mansion they wed
with needs and wants facing a quick grind
and a great lifestyle in a gown so red
a mass travel from all to create this mourn
what waits of these to pat the back is none.

Meltdown

What have I done? I’m breaking.
This pressure splits me at the seams. 
I’m burning alive in my covers.
My mind—it sputters and steams.

I’m trying so hard not to tell you,
I’m trying so hard to control,
this amorous beast inside my chest,
but my efforts have taken their toll.

My heart denies alternatives,
it seeks one prey alone.
I tried to protect you; restrain it,
but I’ve weakened while it has grown.

Leave me! Escape! Unless you dare—
to play fire-games with a waking bear.

9 May 2016

Meltdown

MELTDOWN

you triggered a 
meltdown
in a public place
what a disgrace
I came undone
while you had fun
so I went away
to that space
that I hate
where nothing
matters and
everyone speaks
“numb”













© Kim van Breda—3 October 2015

My Meltdown

The particles move
SO FAST
how can I reason or explain the process,
I cannot fathom this physics,
though I generate the power.
Natural. Dark.
Something splits, fission.
My nuclear dreams, waste thoughts.
I am what I am.
A confusion of matter,
a crippled, holistic
atomic plan

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