Cat Sin Poems

(prelude) 
 
  the buzzing of the evening insects 
  presage evil ! 

  here are black wolves ! here are ghosts...

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Like a new babe at life's door
this one last chance at being alive
yet cries for redemption, 
I'm really, really, sorry, 
but be quiet.

I don't know...

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[Note: You will see in the work below connections to other poems I have posted here.  Those poems are tangents to this poem that...

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THE WAGE OF SIN.


What' should I call this?
Fortune or misfortune?
The fate of my curiosity.
Akin to that of the cat.

A child a blessing from God.
But this...

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Slaaag was a foul mouthed quick witted handy female. A cat fight was one of her specialities as was name calling and back stabbing. ****...

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I might be small, may have no voice
But that doesn’t mean that my life is your choice
Conceived, a babe, I’m not a sin
I’d show you...

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Huntress
by Michael R. Burch

after Baudelaire

Lynx-eyed, cat-like and cruel, you creep
across a crevice dropping deep
into a dark and doomed domain.
Your claws are sheathed. You smile, insane.
Rain...

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Church From Sin Was Sterile

Father Farrell found cat who had been feral,
Along with church that from sin was sterile;
Rules curve;
Beer serve,
So during sermon priest rolled...

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I hit the street feeling half-past dead
and the clock reads a quarter to three.
I feel the haze and I ask myself
why is everybody looking at...

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Driving with my best friend is the best. Music all the way up, singing like I'm in my own rock band, no worries, just free...

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Thai By
This place gets under your skin. Slowly creeping in like black Texas gold. I said I'd never partake in the cat house girls. Seeing...

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When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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the cause of spreading over of the fragrance
from our secret myrobalan to every side of the pillows
is not only such that in the morning 
an...

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Lord have they gone to far given an inch they want the yard            	...

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