Short Dehumanized Poems

The people’s existence, strongly dehumanized
peak of crimes against humanity localized
a hub for death’s way station
corrupt and a blind nation
hoping its eyes open to see and realize....

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I’m learning how to recognize 
the disfigured, defaced, disguised, 
multiplied, masked, dehumanized –

my companions, scantily clad 
in the social fabric – 
do you recognize me?

2004 Fall...

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How to rehumanize the dehumanized?
That is the crux of the problem.
A perplexing question.
A philosophical quandary.
Let’s not dehumanize them in the first place an eight-year-old suggested.
What does a child know? 
Said one of the ninety-year old -decision makers in the senate....

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To the heart, there are
no dehumanized objects;
even viewed from afar
each has a given Name.
And in that place,
not of names but of personal pronouns,
where I converse with Me,
the recognition is manifest
That You and You
are also We.
And even those We think as They
still have a voice,
something to say....

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Uncommon Man

hard hat 
lunch bucket
high steel walker
at home where eagles soar.

mole, in pits and holes
deep, dark cracking stone
labyrinth’s glitter.

salt stained, rocking seas
tread her whims
for silver glint glimmer.

nine to five, three shift
two shift
blue denim Atlas
balances the World.

vilified, patronized
then dehumanized
into work units
commerce engine
used up, spat out
but they abide....

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