Redaction of Treasury Note
...A world stabilized by signature
Completed comprehension of letters
Leaving of all accounted
To begin work without support
Endowing the mind of all alive
Without distraction
The treasury note
B...
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Categories:
unhoused, america,
Form: Free verse
Angel in The Ashes
...They called it “order,” they called it “right,”
As shadows grew thicker and swallowed the light.
A whisper became a decree, then a law,
And mercy was branded rebellion, a flaw.
The Angel delive...
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Categories:
unhoused, corruption, humanity, racism, world
Form: Rhyme
Red-Bearded Origin
...Whenever I spot
red-bearded Origin,
the destitute street musician
of Budapest who asks for a donation,
not making a protest with a grin;
don't be amazed if I'm the first
to drop coins in hi...
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Categories:
unhoused, anxiety, blue, emotions, fear,
Form: Lyric
New Year’s Old Wishes
...So many live life as a masquerade
With guarded heart and masking face
It’s not until we lose or gain in faith
That we are pruned to grow by grace
As the year ends we regret deaths
Thinking of...
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Categories:
unhoused, america, house, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
The Blooming Block
...Sitting on the block of the day
Looking into amethyst abyss
No longer seen as hunter or prey
Disenfranchised like blue cold kiss
Watching the animals fight their wars
Knowing some win some lo...
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Categories:
unhoused, america, blue, boy, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Love is Unfamiliar
...You bend me, twist me, break me
In unfamiliar ways
All pleasure no pain
You soft as petal, you light as a feather
Unhoused me
You have my body, my flesh and bones
I must now build a home in you...
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Categories:
unhoused, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
The Senior City Center
...When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance
I could hear no music,
see no dancing.
The quilting room
and the ga...
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Categories:
unhoused, age, america, community, education,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
A Shamed City
...Our mayor and city council know what to do
The county supervisors and talk show hosts too
Budget measure HHH we Angelinos passed
Costing billions, homelessness would end at last
There were 57...
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Categories:
unhoused, political, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
Disabling Corporate Culture
...Dynamically spiraling fractions
of potentially integral energy
win/win cooperative
and win/lose disruptive
Against peaceful eight octaves
of eight
is one hundred per day
full-octave spectral...
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Categories:
unhoused, culture, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Blackest Fragile Friday
...Black Friday,
iconic of Climate Fragility,
is designed to transition retail
from red
to black
end of year balance sheets.
Black Friday
is black
good
wealthy
robust
from a competitive cor...
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Categories:
unhoused, earth, god, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
CareFueling Charges
...I was charged with a misdemeanor,
based on witnesses
who imagined they heard me saying I was leaving
without a note,
even though I knew
I dinged a new red truck's door.
I know they saw my opp...
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Categories:
unhoused, angel, depression, health, mental
Form: Free verse
Stone of St Croix Island
...Carefree in leisure time, one blasé tourist,
almost happy, I once had collected a complicated stone;
after the sunny hours had ended and last opportunity
for keepsakes began.
In my hand the stone h...
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Categories:
unhoused, africa, dream, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
A Mandrake's Gesture Vol. Iv
...Yes, there were certain
majesties, which
in all regards are
to be expected.
For upon the engagements
of husband and wife,
Prince and Princess,
to marry, there is
an exaltation, thought
the...
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Categories:
unhoused, loss, lost love, love,
Form: Epic