The Omen Road
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I rode my bike down Omen Road,
Knew they'd be after me, I'd reap what I sowed.
Crossed into Jersey, saw a dead bird ahead—
I prefer voices, I get symbols instead
In a pullout was a conv...
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Categories:
semiotics, anxiety, bullying, evil,
Form: Lyric
Cough
...The troublesome throaty explosion
For which demanded is handkerchief
That helps to hinder hell’s diffusion
By the thoughtless simple man or chief…
The oft-followed by a dragged-out gob
The ow...
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Categories:
semiotics, cry, fear, health, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Mimesis
...I know languages count by silent lexicons
I know oceans measure by waving hands
I know serpents poison by miseries
I know clouds mould by whispers
I know rivers clutter by sediments
I ...
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Categories:
semiotics, character, conflict, confusion, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Thousandth and One Face of a Hero
...Somewhere out there in the world
There was a girl, No! strike that—a woman.
He saw as a girl, but knew as a woman.
And loved her only like a man, only a real man can.
A full grown man. Pa...
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Categories:
semiotics, allegory, conflict, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Tin Can With a Wire Handle
...from all identical to nothing identical
many exceptions to no exceptions
eventually deduced from the above
all deductions being eventual
that to have a spirit there must be suffering
now for th...
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Categories:
semiotics, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Unknown
...Space is unknown, but we must explore it,
Without predicting what aliens we will find,
No understood language with no semiotics,
No ticked physicality to suggest a mind.
Life presents exper...
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Categories:
semiotics, imagery, language, relationship, space,
Form: Quatrain
Diagram Semiotics
...the serene people whose ease of manner
once made him yearn and confabulate
are laughable cartoonish and piteous now
could have been much worse he said
as his last breath left his scarred throat
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Categories:
semiotics, how i feel, slam,
Form: Free verse
Rhythmic Rainbow Revolution
...Memory of past,
imagination of mirrored future,
evolve dipolar octaves of functional form,
informating appositional contention,
encoded, and therefore neurally decoding,
recoding
reconnecting f...
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Categories:
semiotics, beauty, color, earth, math,
Form: Free verse