Short Noncompliance Poems

a chastushka

Civil noncompliance like whiskey
ages slow with pressure until...
Laws that render conscience risky
should be labeled a reflux still....

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The Devil comes in the form of an organization. 

A group of people bent on harvesting my defiance. 

So that they may go home and feast at night. 

I had not even finished unpacking. 

In this rancid new home....

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With silence comes hope, and with morning comes flair. 

A world open to noncompliance is there. 

As I free my eyes, there’s no disruption to thinking. 

There comes to me no harm from blinking. 

With the sky comes rain and not just dust. 

I spurt with a twist, it’s time to heed trust....

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i drown myself in shallow streams my known noncompliance in the only reason i scream

i hang myself from 4ft high i only flail because i know that i won't die

i cut only a half inch deep i only cry because i know my life i'll keep

i throw myself off a 10ft post and i do it again and again because i know that broken bones will be the most

In the face of death my body pleads but my mind it screams 

because it knows that death is the one thing i need...

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