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Short Knife Fight Poems

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Bringing Guns To a Knife Fight
watching the US & its NATO buddies
beat the middle east senseless 
until it get its way, 
is like watching kids show up on the playground 
with semi-automatics,
when the few that they are gonna fight
have a couple of switchblades 
between them....

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Categories: knife fight, life,
Form: Free verse



Took a Poem To a Knife Fight
I lost my mind
somewhere 
between the seconds    ticking
God left 
and the devil punched in


Stray winds
dark and long
blew coldly on my paper sails
as 
things I thought I knew 
sank away
down into lightless fathoms


And when 
in answer to my begging letters
a bashful dawn bled in
I made her promises
that somewhere 
deep within
I knew 
I’d only go and break...

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Categories: knife fight, drug, emotions, loneliness, lost love, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Right Before Dawn
Sleep is the sand
that slips through my fingers
My hands
the only way i can hold on
Dust blown in the wind
The glitter and twinkle
Im falling and drifting
In and out of my head
Crack open the window
And let the sweat dry
Her scent keeps me up
The only sense i have laying heavy
I am always loneliest right before dawn
Id rather have a knife fight
Than have my lover lured away
At least then someone else
Can feel me
No fantasy can distract me
And the drugs dont last long enough...

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Categories: knife fight, anxiety, drug, jealousy, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

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