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Slab city
Freedom is captivity. To be free, You must lose liberties. You’re heart can be open to the world, But you’re body will be closed to joys— Off the grid. No authority. A paradise of your own making, Keeps you locked. Hidden. Shackled, In a state of renewal. Where there is no time for rest. Only growth. ...

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Categories: slab, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Urban Slab
some level of falling from grace happens in slab city its twisted humanity when kindness stops being nornal when green crusaders are dismissed, unseen like burying waste in landfill city of slab-stick where we live normal lives within shuttered malls affluence superimposed on poverty can anything mellow us with nature clotted under sprawl? breeding, feeding, receding within plated walls unable to bend the city to one's...

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Categories: slab, allusion, angst, city, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Slab City
Unincorporated The Slab City Off-the-grid different community. Slab City is a place of real danger, whether be a resident or stranger. Lawless free city, yet hundred fifty families live without...

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Categories: slab, city, community,
Form: Couplet
Slab City
Out in the desert, dry and wide, There’s a place where people hide. No rules, no rent, no locked-up gates, Just open skies and empty plates. Homes are built from scraps and sand, Painted bright by careful hand. Words of crime and dreams untold, On walls that crack from heat and cold. Some come to stay, some come to go, Some criminals just want...

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Categories: slab, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme
SLAB IS FAB
SLAB IS FAB I just found out about the town of Slab City Well, perhaps it is not really a town as such It sounds like a mix of Hippie and Wild West Where a civilisation, in its way, has regressed But in fact from far away, I cannot tell much I have seen reviews online that it smells ty Perhaps the...

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Categories: slab, america, art, city, perspective,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Slab City
“Squatters’ Paradise” contains concrete remains of an old training base head west where trailer life reigns and vanish into freedom ...

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Categories: slab, places,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Slab City Crisis Tamed
Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest ************************* City hum drifts through spurious ways, teeming in a wild, woody ward. The jasmine vine twists down...

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Categories: slab, angst, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slab City
Raised a thumb, hitched a ride random raced, inside a freaky, desert mirage— —then took it——solo and slammed smack dab into Slab City. Oasis to lost, wandering souls outcasts, living off society’s Grid —crash landed— into immediate immersion of oddball oddities and eccentricities. Psychedelic dreamscapes mixed with Truth tellers— —Salvation Mountain, God’s love and John 3:16. then, around the corner East Jesus, where heathens and aliens commune. Find...

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Categories: slab, society, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slab City
I got water and weed I'm richer' n richer I ain't in need of cash you can drop me your trash gonna make me an art for the East Jesus shrine. Hear this from a wizard ole Stalin is the man red dolphins are the truth.  Plastic legs on the roof of my old pink Chevy (not been to the levee) Barbie girls, haunted dreams, painted rats and...

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Categories: slab, life,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Slab City
You don't like my story. You don't like my song. I guess I never did belong. Adios amigo. I say, so long. I'm going to Slab City. You told me that we're insane, the angel and devil in my brain. There's only one place that frees us - East Jesus. I don't think I can stay afloat. I need somewhere...

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Categories: slab, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Trees in Slab City
who remembers trees when air was free from fares guiltless tankless unassailable cliches of rustling leaves enchanted forests infanticidal practices like nestling newborns atop boughs cordate declarations etched beneath oak bark and canary sashes as dead as concrete blocks and the nearest approximation is a toy broccoli flower wire wools welded for steel...

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Categories: slab, culture, environment, future, natural
Form: Free verse
My Love, Josefin Slab
My love, Josefin Slab My first thought the time I wake up My inspiration in moments I create art My joy when we chat and laugh together My strength when I'm on job The last person I contact before my sleep The only girl in my mind The beautiful creature I found With your sweetest voice and charming smile With your amazing chatting emoji...

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Categories: slab, emotions, heartbreak, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Granite Slab
The door to our bathroom is tiny, Made of a faded red plastic nearly two decades ago, One of its hinges has already been eaten away, By time & rust that blossomed at its end, Its latch has never worked, The builder had his drawing wrong and we never managed to fix it, And the door never really closed all the...

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Categories: slab, family, me, pain, parents,
Form: Free verse
Took Cab To See Dull and Drab Cold Slab
We went in a cab to see cold slab, That did appear to be dull and drab; Letters were distinct when viewed; So much sadness there we ensued. Tombstones arranged row after row; All around green grass grew and grew; In background were abundant trees; In faces we would feel a cool breeze. On a long beach many boats landed; By an officer...

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Categories: slab, allegory, analogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Need Rehab On Cold Slab and More
Need Rehab on Cold Slab Could be because I became a crab; What we really need is some rehab; For while waited; Was reactivated; They found us lying on a cold slab. Jim Horn My Goodness and Great Lord Oh my goodness and great Lord, So He will welcome you aboard; Will invite, More poems write; Hearing from does look toward. Jim Horn On test started with vibe...

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Categories: slab, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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