Subtracting Poems

Felix Culpa

...We quarreled to bitter, burning degrees 
(you)loving me 
as a tender trespasser 
     a chew toy 
     boy 
demanding compliance 
forced feedings 
down
to sock selection 
(your)cons...

Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow

...Putin non gmo gluten free cheese on the ritz as a celiac to follow

Initially written March 18th, 2023
and revised exactly two years later
tweaking the poem here and there
courtesy adding or sub...

The Seven Mysteries Revealed to the Apostle Paul according to Robert Breaker part two

...#1  Justification (Imputed Righteousness)
#2   Jesus and us (Incarnated Godhead)
#3   Jesus and you (Indwelling of Holy Spirit
#4   You in Jesus  (Christ)
#5   JOYFUL EXIT (Interstellar Rapture)
...

subtracting voices

...chandeliers hung by dead feathers
cannon balls of years when time hated fairly
left over promises i'm not friends with

getting lept out
hanging death 
to find a friend
running away
marrying ...

Haversack Hope

...Haversack hopes bring bitter crack
Next to nothing is brought back

Recalled promises all are lacking 
Adding nothing but subtracting 

Public messages are attacking 
Better dreams start retra...

Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe and his spouse to a Utopian country

...Spirit and sponsor sane sexagenarian scribe (and his spouse) to a Utopian country

He seeks (in tandem with the missus) 
legal asylum in Canada...
New Brunswick, Newfoundland, 
Nova Scotia, et c...

Tom, You Shouldn’t Be Here

...
“Tom, You Shouldn’t Be Here”
New Years Day 2017
Miracle Man
10/2/2024

At birth God assigned me
an unknown expiration date.
God has seen fit to bless me
with my date coming late.

...

LANGUAGES OF NATIONS

...What where HOW can we be we
Speak then cleave to fair flare FEAR?
Urwa we do DO WE SPEAK discrete
We deem how we speak! Unknown 
Language LUST dear DEMIER we
Share? Is this some Language such
A...

I Planted Something New

...It’s the breath I need but can’t reach
Arms extended as far as they can reach
But the superhero is late this time and can’t save me
Plan ahead they say so you can make time to smell the flower thi...

The Confusing Sex Wars of Twenty Twenty Three

...It’s 2023 and the war between the sexes has reached a fevered pitch
Maybe it’s what they call 3-D chess
But whatever, the boundaries have shifted
Blurred and literally merged
Or at least now we p...

P W P

...Frass the math..A help to agri.? A culture to far.' I
Ain't having any.. ( B S ) would be better than this '
Real hell for leather.' How can you plan to help
Organical food.? With insect dung..Thi...

Downtown Mission

...Grand Hope Flower
CA Hospital over 
a century of healing
Construction din
all of downtown one 
enormous construction 
site with all its might 
peeling into daylight 

Executive traffic think...

Decolonizing Capitalism

...We are nearly all macro-economic capitalists
Yet micro-economic cooperativists
with those we trust

S/he said
while burning up
and out.

Yet,
a Patriarchal Capitalist
has also fully monopol...

Impossible Mission To Captcha Infinitesimal Moment

...Impossible mission to captcha infinitesimal moment

alternately titled: tick tock runneth amuck
seconds elapse imperceptibly 
leaving me dumbstruck,
how quickly fleeting tempus fugit; 
ofttimes...

Sacred Promise

...That first black and white
grainy
strangely fluid
floating
flat screen view
of the early developing individual
inside EarthMother's womb

Reminds me
of that first
full-spectrum green and bl...

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