Short Thuggish Poems

No beliefs except the unworthy,
A thuggish frame without a mind
Growing reeds with his father's seeds,
No thoughts except the unkind.
Idle Prince on wicker Olympus,
Stroll down and inherit your Earth.
The risen dead may come and see
The King of human stock,

While he slinks stinging,
To another room,
A Cinna....

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The tyrants psyche is broken.
He sits in his gilded palace
Surrounded by his trusty band
Of armed thuggish cutthroats, waiting
For the inevitable end.
Outside the palace walls a crowd
Of angry, loathing citizens
Whose long suppressed voices bellow
An immediate regime change;
But like most tyrants of the past
Ego and self-aggrandizement
Deludes clear, rational thinking;
As a result, grasping at straws
Hoping for the impossible....

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In the spiffing, slender summer thinking, thundery thaw;
The strong, silly summer thunderous, thirsty thaw;

So smart, stupid summer thrusting, thin thaw, so hot outside; 
Sweet, southern summer thorny, thrifty thaw, on this ;

Slippery, sultry summer theological, thuggish thaw; 
Scary, slow summer threatening, through thaw;

Such as the wisdom of it all it's summer where's the snow?




6/23/19
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2019...

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