::Limited edition::
...I’m a limited edition, when all is said and done
Nothing special, only unique in a maze of humdrum
Kill spiders for a pastime, coz I hate their beady eyes
Watching me try to sleep, as they para...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, confusion, i am, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Only Slade's Brain
...Tim was the new judge in Deadwood Flat
Not really qualified, just a rancher at that
He first case was of the outlaw, Horace Slade
Caught red handed in a cattle raid
The jury took ten minutes to...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, humor, time, western,
Form: Lyric
A Loop In the Soup
...It’s been a year since I joined the soup,
Meanwhile we’ve gone round the sun in a loop,
Sadly some fell off, didn’t quite make it all the way,
I’m clinging on, hoping to find one better day.
B...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, life, planet, poetry, simple,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom
...Free will
an
illusion.
Free, limited
only.
Programmed
to a path,
course of
actions
predetermined!
Endless choices,
genetically
constrained.
Aggressive
by nature,
or timid be.
Any...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
When Sparrows Fall
...Most humans realize that the animal kingdom, unlike us, proceeds, reacts, and responds instinctively. It's as if there's a built-in preprogrammed computer device that controls their activities. Als...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, animal, bird, god, inspiration,
Form: Narrative
New Attitude
...Deprived for affection
She flaunted her kindness
For nickels and dimes
For anyone interested
Preprogrammed and
Desperately afraid
To face aloneness
Hurt once too many
For the very last tim...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, change, heart, innocence, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Ave Artificial Life
...Hey there Avidian
who do you
think you are?
Some rara avis
eminently gifted?
a New Age prophet
with memory that learns
and yearns to grow?
Ovidian offspring
of eminent domain?
The yeuk ...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, allegory, allusion, angst, future,
Form: Free verse
As-Shanfara
...My ancient Arabs know exactly how to tell a tale,
Of hardship, kinsman, outcasts, how to be so strong,
Withstanding weather, find your way, what it does entail
To fight a world alone, with nowhere...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, adventure, appreciation, poetry, tribute,
Form: Quatrain
How Much Is Up To Us
...Do we really have free will, or are we preprogrammed
to be who we are to be?
Being born a boy or a girl did we have any say?
Hormones in my body that motivate were not ordered by me.
Everything a...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, art,
Form: Prose Poetry
Synth
...How could he be so cold with the raging lightning striking through his aluminum lines?
His synthetic skin made of wax, glass, and fibrous mass has more than an eternity brushed abrasively against...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, beauty, body, love, sensual,
Form: Prose Poetry
Just a Merry Old Soul Is Me
...With all the crap that's going on in the world
It's a wonder we maintain our humour
Gets kinda difficult if you watch the news
Leaves us in a kind of a stupor
Shouldn't find it strange ...
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Categories:
preprogrammed, happiness,
Form: Narrative