Political Mental Illness Poems

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...

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Greedy dirty pigs
taking more than you deserve
I now live on scraps...

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Strange Fruit choreography 
speaks to me of seeing 
and smelling 

this strange evil fruit 
of hatred 
and bigotry 
and fear 

and straight white man 
perpetual...

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What is the main difference
between the life time of a star
and your personal trauma history?

Could it be for you,
as for me?

How long we take
to get...

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Dark chances,
unhealthy and unsafe trauma 
HiStories

Degenerating predative dogmas
not wanting to let go of ballistics
even for dawning light's sacred peace promise
to grab full-immersion hold
and heal dark...

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Do you
too
grow tired?

Feeling no sufficient vacation
from your sacred 
ponderous vocation
as this endless day's resilient
wise Elder generation

Constantly longing for recognition,
faithfully
hopefully loving

InBetween a cognitive
emotive place 

Impatient 
for...

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Overly familiar with her defiance
patterns of fetal alcohol confusion,
neuro-systemic habits of resistance,

I, the consummate ecofeminist,
was sure my daughter felt
I was shutting wounded Ivy out
when she...

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End Times

When good men 
see bad things happen, 
and do nothing 
but watch... 
The world is set... 
on the road, 
directly to destruction.

Hope is put...

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Emi’lokan, the lyrics from a loon,
the vituperation born from the womb of greed, 
the menace of recycled gangsters. 
Emi’lokan, the beggarly shame of old vermin,...

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Heavy is the brow that sits the crown of power, 
fame or shame it is a wonder that we live with 
greed to want for...

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"Grief can be a doorway to love."
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Grief can open toward gratitude
As loss can open doors to access gain

As trauma can open...

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When I feel anxious,
threatened,
endangered by mortal loss
of an immortality
never organically promised
for perpetual pleasures of compassion,

When I feel anxious
aging toward permanent disability
before my Wise Elder fruition
returns...

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Down distance streets distant days obscured 
Visions of idle things resting in the weeds skeletal 
Rusted eons have fallen machines dead

In their stance flies flicker...

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Parenting defiant trauma
attached to both hurt child
and wounded parent
needing to continue
co-invested relationships,
positive and constant,
without breaks
in healthy communication,
direct
and, if possible,
playful

Counteracting fear
that both TraumaChild
and I
will pressure ego-me
to...

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Nonviolent designers 
of Public Service Announcements

Like "STOP"
smoking
shooting up
drinking
trashing
burning
ignoring various morbid diseases
sinning
sundry mental/spiritual pathologies
unsafe behavior

And feeling ugly
smelling
bad sexing
eating crap
unsafe touching

Undeclaring vengeful killing wars
Straight White Male supremacy
ecofeminist...

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