Exclusion
...I know the game of exclusion,
have played it all my life and
now I've mastered it,
a talent to brag about.
Exclusion from normality,
the joy of inclusion.
Exclusion from continuity,
the mala...
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Categories:
unfreedom, absence,
Form: Ballad
Costs of Freedom
...The value of individual freedom
seems impossible to quantify
without at least knowing,
What is this freedom for?
What is this freeing political and economic purpose?
Will my freedom
and you...
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Categories:
unfreedom, culture, earth, freedom, health,
Form: Political Verse
Sad Kindness
...Neither happiness or sadness
can preclude each other's continued personal
political
and economic,
social
and psychological,
sensory
and neurological potentiality
If only because sadness
ha...
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Categories:
unfreedom, anxiety, green, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
De-Confinement
...The decree has disturbed my
desire to isolate myself in my cocoon. Loneliness
is now public policy, its armor pressed
with tenderness of genuine sadness.
Let my soul take command
without your ...
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Categories:
unfreedom, abuse, allusion,
Form: Pastoral
Experiential Origins
...When we lose access
to our most primal Other,
our EarthMother experience
dreamily following DNA's developmental scripts,
original sacred scripture
of external habitats
becoming internal identit...
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Categories:
unfreedom, caregiving, health, integrity, mother,
Form: Political Verse
I Love To Hate 9-11
...I. now we see Pandora's Box yawning wide
The caverns of unfreedom; terrorists hide
among us, among Saudi friends, friends of The Bride
My Dreams burned to cinders in Two Towers beside
I...
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Categories:
unfreedom, abortion, corruption, daughter, dream,
Form: Quatrain
Bovine Spirits of a Baked Land
...I know you hate a slaughterhouse
I know what you eat with slit tongues
I know what lures your sly saliva
I know what bites your bile and bovine
I know what irks your intimate ingest
I ...
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Categories:
unfreedom, allegory, city, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse