Short Perma Poems

the gargoyle spouted restless streams until 
icicles silenced the steady façade’s faucet 
into perma-frosted solitude in meditation

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ODE TO KLONOPIN

CALMNESS
RUSHES THROUGH ME
SERENITY FLOWS
REACHING
FEELING ITS WAY
INTO MY BONES
FINTERTIPS
TINGLE
PERMA SMILE
CHESHIRE CAT
WITH BEDROOM EYES
SERENITY GLOWS
IN MY VEINS
WRIGGLES AMD TICKLES
ITS WAY 
TO THE HEART OF ME
SLIDES DOWN
INTO THE DEPTHS
I'M WARM AND FREE.
NUMB...

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These feelings in my mouth 
Make it hard to speak. 
Sour and acidic  
My face becoming a perma cringe!
I would swallow my words
But I fear death would be ,
The end result.
I cannot breathe dread and 
Anxiety take hold of me.
I grow pale;
And pray you can read
My thoughts, and see
The things I would not
Say.
I’m not at ease,
And am one breath away
From spitting out a curse!...

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Austerity?

Expensive cars chocking the approaches 
to Vilamoura, the yacht and seaside town.
No austerity today, a man in an old Fiat
was laughed off the road, probably a waiter
on the way to work. No poverty no beggars
only shampooed dogs with golden collars.
And as always the poor, the silent majority,
stayed in their howls, sun is exclusively for
the perma- tan set in August....

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