Confusion Urban Poems

The footfall of civilians
the screeching of the cars
The wailing of the siren
Perched on the ambulance
The blaring of the radios
issuing from the shops
The robbers fleeing oh...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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…on an Amtrak train.  
Business-class from DC to Trenton. 
It's the work rush.

There is a white man.  
Dark eyes. 
Gray temples…
Southern.  

Loud....

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Her hair blown in the infernal blast
As the train hurtles pass
hot are the rains rushing past
Falling on an ashen hued metropolis
her form is framed in...

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The book says, people have no face and we have no eyes.
Yet we are expected to drive through.
Irony at its best.
The enemy at our gates,...

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Ocean girdled nation had prospect for absolute containment
Overseas observers, in distant comfort, complacent 
Wuhan origin arrivals sparked a catastrophic failure
Leaving lock down 25th January, flying...

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tomorrow stopped by 
looking fresh as always
as yesterday was getting ready to leave
had errands to take care of before midnight 

that’s what she told us...

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I have never really felt anything serious for you
I have never really imagined that you would ever kiss me
I have never really imagined that you...

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URBAN SONNET – TO BE OR NOT TO BE

How would Shakespeare view an urban sonnet,
If, by some chance, he came back down today?
Do you reckon...

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In a world of awe-inspiring wonder
We have been programmed to believe
We are the victim of a system
Giving birth to modern disease
This virus can...

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armies pouring out of Mordor.
peaks of mass
our souls out of Albion
came Ether among us
& sought of the clovers
sweet sustenance, of ages past
& came sealing among...

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The TV shows
wars and scandal
with big faces 
moving lips
running words
on every wall
while disc jockeys threaten 
bad traffic and weather
through the ceiling.
I slurp my omelet’s florescent...

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I fell asleep in my dream

at the wheel, 
unfolded maps on the car's floor

to wake up to her smile 
not once but twice....

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In New York City, traffic lights
By walkers are ignored,
For getting someplace faster
Is the ultimate reward.

Except for little children – 
Thus, the right way must be...

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Political Correctness Brings Weakness!

In our country’s pursuit of “political correctness…”
We’re not in a position of strength…  But weakness!
It’s like you can’t hardly say anything...

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