Short Irritations Poems

Whilst
        walking
     the way

pebbles in the
shoes
an eyelash 
     in the eye

minor irritations 
parables & trials
  to make us sigh 

opportunity
to
confess & 
meet our maker
before 
     .... we die...

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Such a jumble of chaotic discord
Easily jangled by the irritations of living
Where there is a lull in the wailing sirens
Life can only be torture and torment
An abysmal betrayal
A howling inferno
But life is a fire in which each burns
To erase all the derisions and humiliation
In a world full of ailments and faults......

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Little children  become loving
people in the odyssey of life.
Innocence exchanged for 
ecstasy in love,marriage,
relationships ups&downs 
..and strife.Pebbles in the
shoes,an eyelash in the eye
minor irritations ,parables &
trials to make us sigh if we've
confessed & met our maker
before we die.

Listen to me recite this structuredprose on youtube under my pen name ichthys chiro...

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I was too young to have opinions,
only irritations.
She had a revolutionary anger
against everything.

I breathed in her perfume,
her alien attraction.
She taught me what to think,
how to politicize angst.

Mostly I remember her little
sixteen-year-old breasts,
so angry, so sweet.

I wish we could both
return now,
to that brief vacation
in genteel Brighton.

To again
rage against the machine,
that has chewed us both up.

...

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