Jack the Ripper
...Aaron Kosminski, you were not Jack the Ripper
as many would have thought.
You have not kept a dissecting knife under your coat
as Raskolnikov had kept the ax.
You were not addicted to opium...
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Categories:
raskolnikov, death,
Form: Verse
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 20
...Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 20
To what extent violent thoughts can be crimes
Is there one person who’s not guilty by thought
The Real in the Apparent see you rhymes
With w...
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Categories:
raskolnikov, philosophy, political, riddle, violence,
Form: Villanelle
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 18
...Villanelle : The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 18
World in which is ingrained innate violence
Where nation-States all hell-bent on blitz wars
He who abstains from doing harm commits offence
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Categories:
raskolnikov, freedom, political, violence, war,
Form: Villanelle
Mazel Tov
...A Jewish attorney, Raskolnikov,
his Buddhist half-brother, Kaletnikov,
now here comes the bother,
they mimic each other,
so who gets 'good health!' or a 'mazel tov?'...
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Categories:
raskolnikov, funny,
Form: Limerick
Oscuridad En Aguascalientes
...el psiquiatra
deberías haber visto venir
se dijo a sí mismo este
como la puerta estaba cerrada en sus narices y
todas las aguas hirvientes
todos los rayos del sol
no puede calmar a aquellos que no qu...
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Categories:
raskolnikov, life,
Form: Free verse
Bitter Old Man
...hostile,
pungent,
nasty,
&
redefining the art of having a
chip on his shoulder
he marches through the last specks of his burnt out existence
telling us all how we should live our lives
(spout...
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Categories:
raskolnikov, lifesympathy,
Form: Free verse
Where Do I Sign?
...I
my visions— i miss them.
II
the summer i was 18,
i thought i could be a poet.
sleep till noon,
at night, at midnight,
in Gage Park,
a divine place of youth.
III
July, the cicadas...
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Categories:
raskolnikov, on writing and words,
Form: Blank verse