Freedom Rat Poems

Arizona

My home is in Arizona. 
It is a hot state indeed. 
That is exactly why
I am here.

It has a temperature in the summer
of over one...

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There is no true freedom in considering someone else's thoughts of you
I walk my path alone as do they
But beware the sirens!
To stay afloat one...

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You follow the rat races,
Climbing ladders that never end,
Surrounded by faces,
But not one you could call friend,

You stare hungrily at your reflection, 
Picking apart your...

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Bubble the rat knew all of the words,
Of all the songs that you’ve ever heard,
He would sing in church below the nave,
And would accompany grieving...

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Like the pompous pied piper leading the way,
chirping his tune of a dawning new day,
frustrations were championed, oh how we followed,
the ego stuffed shirt of...

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A rat in bed 
Before going to bed, I was thinking of my dog it liked sleeping
 between my neck near the jugular vein, this...

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Surrounded by sand, clay buildings with hollow insides
for one thousand miles
My secret hiding place overlooking a palace
I wish, I wish I could rest my head...

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The typewriters tap,
with a rat-a-tat-tat,
like a fourth estate rap
to provide us the pap
(that serves as a snack with a rat-a-tat-tat)
in a newspaper scrap
crammed with meaningless...

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theyer mu girls and boys
theyer chase toys
some or blind can smell wine
they do this and that
roll like a hog
and have there on little chat
MY DOG...

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Start at the base of societal turn,

Perhaps someday soon we will learn?
To trust in riches you would be a fool;
Thick briars lined with scars through...

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