January Prison Poems

Living in one
renting the other
Owning them both
then to discover
As owner I’m captive
the tenant is free
In debt to the banker
—remortgaging me

(The New Room: January, 2024)
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She is anxious
Like the rushing wind
She bleeds worry
Because she fears within
She is insecure, an exposed doubt
Vulnerable to rejection, to the 
Unlocked shame, regret
So dark it...

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Fear is an all-consuming fog 
Consuming shining rays of hope and light 
Eyes trapped shut in this ash-filled smog 
Voices of mania are heard at...

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Writing the words
imprisoning the words

Lettered confinement
—frozen in time

(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)...

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Nikki Haley, Sean Spicer,
Trey Goudy, Richard Grenell,
Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, 
Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, 
Rick Santorum, Tucker Carlson,
Rupert Murdoch, Kimberly Guilfoyle,
Ed Rollins, Eric Trump,
Ivanka Trump,...

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I got my mind on my money and money on my mind/
Cat scan if you like you'll tell I ain't lying/
Verse One
Money is all I...

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Throw me to the wolves
Can't you see, they are ravenous!
Appease their hungry-eyed stare
With another hasty, careless devour

Don't wait for them to salivate
Nor stalk with pensive-like...

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Hapsburg bailiff Gessler’s hollow kow-tow;
was a farce William Tell would disavow.
A hat on a pole!  I'll never bow.  

Such disregard tagged him, non-compliant
in...

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Invisible shackles,
Untouchable burden;
Silent noises,
Unseeable vision.

Am I in a prison?
Or left stranded under a shade?
From fruit of my poison,
Of all efforts that were made.

Hear Ye! Hear...

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I drove home from a party one winters night
I'd had quite a few drinks but I felt alright
It was pouring rain as I approached our...

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In an exotic country of bursting colour
A paradise for majestic and exquisite birds
Shameless poachers and traffickers
Conduct unspeakable injustices
Conjuring a movement of resistance
From a tireless passionate...

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I m p r i s o n e d.
   C o n f i n e d.
     ...

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Injustice has a name!

Twenty years in prison, detained because he refused to kill
his fellowman in wartime, was against his conscience and will.

Twenty years in prison,...

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