Short Perniciously Poems
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Tyrant
You who perniciously perpetuate
In your own timely image
In a changing, disastrously dangerous world
You reap momentary satisfaction
Millions of blind, awe-struck hangers-on
Whose eerie interpretation is often mistook
Now you deceptively sway them
Tomorrow someone will slay them
As each tempo or rhythm separates...
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Categories:
perniciously, poems, political,
Form:
Political Verse
The Way of the Damned
Sisyphus pushes his rock up hill
While Atlas bears his load.
Damned by the ire of capricious gods,
Forced down a toilsome road.
And so it is with the gods of thrill
Who trap and hold you fast
With opioids and images,
Perniciously unsurpassed!
Beware the promise of wealth or skill
Contained in a bottle brown.
Hold to the rod of simple truth
Lest you be taken down!
June 29, 2017...
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Categories:
perniciously, drug, mythology,
Form:
Quatrain
Ordinary Breakfast Brutality
Adjacent to Magic Mr. Coffee
Miss Sunbeam sits anxiously
atop the frigid Ms. Frigidaire
Grab two of her offspring
She protests perniciously
and shrieks ‘Kidnapper!!’
Madame Cuisinart murmurs
‘C’mon, right here in my slots
Oooh! Yes, you NAUGHTY boy’
Shove down her handle and hear
one victim exclaim to the other:
‘Hey bro, I think we’re toast’….
Damn RIGHT you are Sunny Boy
and don’t you dare burn me
then try to butter me up again
Bzzzt! (A shocking turn of events)...
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Categories:
perniciously, food,
Form:
Light Verse