Short Chain Gang Poems

i’m a prisoner
please put me in a chain gang
so others will know...

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all ships
need crew

forecastle
chain gang

flight deck
airdales

deckapes
backbone

mess decks
feed crew

captain
in charge...

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Ting-a-ling the sirens rang
The guns went bark and dogs bang
Then, chirp chirp the cats sang
I'd escaped the chain gang...

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did you bang
let the bells rang
are on the chain gang
feel pain
or did you eyes rain
thinking back 
did you rock the sack
anyway 
HOW WAS YOUR HOLIDAY...

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Is democracy sinking
into feral autocracy
The billionaire elites
with all the control

Politicians but puppets
where rich pull the strings
The rest of us lost
in deception and whim

(Dreamsleep: April, 2022)...

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                                                  My gift to him was simple
                                                          A stuffed gorilla dressed plain
                                                  Black white chain gang uniform
                                                          Holds red bleeding heart...

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The palace of injustice,
Breath is just a clock ticking.
Without love, your heart is just
A wind up toy.
The chasm of sorrow.
The channels of pain.
Human beings, God's beloved virus.
Billows of smoke, expelled from my lungs, 
Escaping my mouth like a prisoner from a chain gang.
I exist trapped in a snow globe
filled with Beethoven's 5th....

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My typewriter gushes red ink
my mind frustrates flowing verse 
numbing blackened thoughts.
My fingers ready for the keys
record no words
My brain is blank…
Struggling for a true voice
boxing with imagination
Knockout!
My typewriter wins today 
Tomorrow it will bleed black ink from
my calloused hands,
striking the letters like breaking
rocks in a chain gang....

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