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Encased in inch-thick glass, Assange displayed;
The plaque upon his cage reads "DISSIDENT;"
The withered man in court is laid;
Imprisoned corpse announcing precedent.
To those "who hold these truths self-evident,"
Behold the Press awaiting punishment;
To be delivered to your government,
The Law so torn in wreckless brandishment.
Abuse! And ursurpation! Tyrant! Swine!
One Nation under God? Or under You?
Your boot does stamp upon that dream of mine
Believing "We the People" to be true.
Reclaim Your soul! For God's sake free this man!
Redeem the meaning of American.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-annihilation-of-julian-assange/
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A matted cross of gray does catch the light,
In muted form it shines atop a peak
To all of us who hate the dreary sight
The massive model church awakes to speak:
"Embrace the waste! Industrial people!
For whom are you to say, 'I stand apart?'
The Earth constructed this plastic steeple
Because you molded dreams with plastic heart!"
"So bow to your God! Industrial men!
The plastic veins inside me gush with you!
You're made in my image! Say it! Amen!
We'll write a Good Book, friend -- gray plastic, new!
But like all gods to which humans pray,
To wake from kneeling dreams, god fades away.
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Oh Lord please tell me what Isaiah meant
That “the wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus?”
I look out at the full moon in the morning atop an unfinished Cube Smart
Storage facility, the I-76 highway buzzes in the foreground. The rolling hills of empty tree tops
just barely hiding the myriad of man made shapes beneath
I cant stop looking at the moon, the sunrise at my back out of sight
behind this worthless building
but painting all the clouds around the moon with a gray-pink.
I tear up thinking of a line that I could never quite get to work in a poem
Give back to Caesar this un-beating heart
And unto you oh God my soul depart.
There's something there but its still kind of corny.
Too forced, too rhythmic.
I get a text from my foreman
“Sorry was on the phone coming up now.”
I see you God in the little moments,
But they don't last very long.
“Draw near O nations, to hear
and give attention O peoples!
Let the earth hear, and all that fills it.
For the Lord is enraged against all the nations
And furious against all their host;
He has devoted them to destruction, has given them over to slaughter.
Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise;
The mountains shall flow with their blood.”
A truck passes by using its engine brakes BRAP BRAP BRAP BRAP
“Thorns shall grow over its strongholds, nettles and thistles in its fortresses
It shall be the haunt of jackals an abode for ostriches.”
Ostriches on the highway, I’m into it. I don't really get off on the stench of corpses like Isaiah though.
Why the love of vengeance Lord?
I’d like to think Isaiah an imperfect messenger. But I get the anger over the destruction of nature
Tell me Lord if this world will be destroyed? Will you let our selfishness destroy everything?
It seems like its getting pretty close.
Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done.
Please Lord protect the Earth and let me be an instrument for You, Eternal Love;
And to help usher in The Kingdom
Amen.
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They marched in millions chanting down the street,
Their captured likeness published in the Post.
Rewarded citizens retake their seat;
(His subjects satisfied) They brag and boast.
They file back inside their business park,
No choice when keeping families afloat;
"At least on 'Climate Day' I made my mark,
At least that little history I've wrote."
The King in roars goes stomping through this place;
He rends the trees and tears at mountain skin.
His human guards asleep in drunken space,
From royal gifts of blackened fossil gin.
An oiled Curse doth reign; the Earth He wrecks.
This evil Thing. Tyrannosaurus Hex.
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1 A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
It casts an orb three hundred stories high
Over the Sun and ends his morning song.
The birds and trees now stand a silent throng,
Before this rumbling mass with lightning veins,
Announcing from its depths un-living Wrong.
The cloud unveils from its ashen rains,
A haunted prow so steered by sinewed mains.
2 Behold! A rotted snout in shattered disrepair,
Reluctant nose of mad, titanic head,
Emerging from primordial earthen air,
The Lizard King returning, dripping red.
That oily blood His putrid skin does shed
Out from the seams ‘tween rotted flesh and flags
That iron wired stitches weakly wed,
An undead Rex in form with skin that sags
From conquered kingly flesh and bannered rags.
3 Revolting stench. It wilts the grassy blades
As He does near, the fields bowing low
Before this Beast in sickly browning shades
He leaves behind a wake that Death did mow
And only offers wretched blood to sow
Those massive drips of blood in rhythmic beat
Do form dark ruby ponds so far below
But kingly blood alone the ground does meet
This monster floats in air, no legs or feet.
4 Above the Rex’s form, a massive wing:
A host of silver zepplins bred for war;
They bear upon their sides a scripted ring
of “DEUS EX MACHINA!” circling core;
On this he hangs suspended from the floor.
Supported by three slabs of giant stone
His body seeping t’ward the dying moor
Devoid of proper structure, missing bone
The makeshift monster slowly glides alone.
5 Protruding ‘long his back in lumpen form
Stand satellite receivers, glossy white
The china saucers cut through ashen storm
And throw back to the sun his hated light
They crave instead the call from Endless Night
Eternal Acheron, the void of space
Where floats the Ferryman in powered kite
They hear his oar disturb as he does race
Across that sea which life and death encase.
6 His vessel only seen among the dark
Imposter laid amidst the noble stars
Revealed by its constant moving mark
For Charon never sleeps, each night he mares
An undisturbéd sky he always bars
That Beast, he makes it so from constant blight
Upon the land, his stooges, kings and czars
They gladly do his bidding claiming right
To speak for God through horrid death and might.
7 The fools, their eyes so blind to monstrous ploy
Mind not for what the King of Kings commands
Who seeks all life outside him to destroy
He only satisfied in wasted lands
His subjects there he lovingly remands
The forests felled, the creatures turned to slaves
To serve the Great Machin’ry’s many hands
The kings and serfs alike would claim He saves
They freed from States of Nature and the Caves.
8 “How good this world be!” They do exclaim.
“My every need be eas’ly met
No fear of violent death that horrid game
I gladly place myself in Rex’s debt
My loyalty upon his feet I set
To vow upon my life to fight for him
His en’mies hated blood I vow to let
Upon the floor, in crimson baths I’ll swim
Eternal servant be, it glad or grim.”
9 Recited by the Monster’s brood this theme
Those men and women housed in flesh are plugged
Into that ghastly Monster’s crimson stream.
His blood they sup, in ecstasy they’re drugged;
So tethered they remain, this tubing lugged.
A bloody feed injected at the spine
It weighing down their necks, the shoulders shrugged
embedded by a vice of angled spikes, this line.
They mind it not, so drowned in pleasure fine.
10 This gift, the beasts convincing drapery
that hides a sickly bride ‘neath ‘lectric veil
Displaying text, it reads “SOCIETY”
It crawling left and leading lettered tail
Across that glowing screen with reddish hale
But disappearing at the Western seam
Returning only at the Eastern rail
This scrolling pendulum’s hypnotic stream
So grips our sated eyes in pleasant dream.
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Of all the world this century I see
What shimmers – artifice devoid of soul.
Pneumatic truncheons burying dreams of She,
The Mother, under satin sheets of coal.
If would mine eyes deceive me not I’d think
It just a putrid fantasy, from which
The shadows formed by tortured lids could blink
Awake into the rays from which no niche
Could cling like pincers holding darkness gripped.
Inverted it would seem the very Laws,
When God can’t stop in poison water dipped,
The baptism of Earth in fossil maws.
I pray that life – eternal Hope so fair,
Can snatch redemption from morose Despair.
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11 Contracted in this state our marriage made
And only far too late we recognize
That gladly with Reptilian Flesh we’ve laid
The veil torn away revealing eyes
Of yellow flame exposéd we surmise
Out from the darkened room these floating orbs
No longer hidden ‘neath a nightly guise
We try to look away but it absorbs
Consuming all we are, becoming hordes.
12 A vicious lie beneath a treachery
A lie from which we cannot look away
We love this all consuming lechery
We love the Beast demanding that we stay
“Absolve yourself” quoth Rex in gravely bray
No need to rage against your master now
All things I’ll grant to you just kneel and pray
Eternal pleasure for your soul I vow
Relinquish it! That awful burden. Bow!
13 So held in desperate stupor we must wait
As New Jerusalem pounds at the door
That bride adorned by God now filled with hate
Against this Serpent’s kin she doth implore,
“Release my love and rot! Deceiving whore!
Return your corpse to hell and burn in flame!”
No answer heard, collapsing on the floor
She weeps for Human weakness, cursing name
“Oh Father! God!” quoth she, “It’s you I blame!”
14 O must I suffer like my mother, Eve?
So helplessly betrayed by wicked snake?
A measly apple eaten? No reprieve?
And this describes the justice that you make?
So tell me God the rule I now forsake?
The fitting crime committed by my hand
That justifies the ancient vow you break
To save my lover from their own remand
And I Oh God! Left watching. Helpless! Damned!
15 If only I could tear with holy might
These bolts out from the wall and wrap around
That filthy gorge these hands, they gripping tight
And strangle horrid Rex upon the ground!
Its final kingly words a gurgling sound
The lifeless corse, I’d leave in haunted stare
Alone to answer for the sins it’s found
In Hell, A massive stone to bear
Upon Its scaley back forever there.
16 That rock which God himself hath built upon
Behold his founding Church victorious
Displayed atop that Satan’s earthly spawn
Like Atlas holding Earth laborious
My God I see it now! So Glorious!
The evil of the Earth confined at last
Under the heavy weight of furious
True laws of saints and prophets of the past
Those brave and persecuted righteous caste
17 And God now spoke to New Jerusalem,
My child you know the answer to your cries
Why spirits must not interfere with them
The humans on the Earth, they must surmise
Amongst themselves the Holy truth from lies
The love we give must freely be returned
Else what we love, mere slaves in human guise
Not human anymore their freedom spurned
Remember child the lessons that you’ve learned.
18 O spare me God! These lectures that you teach!
That so called heart of yours lies buried down
‘Neath heaps of Holy pride no love can reach
That piece long lost and never to be found
For I your daughter here in wedding gown
Must freshly die alone each day
While you so satisifed will watch me pound
Upon this wretched door in vain and pray
BANG! BANG! Come back to me my love I say!
19 BANG! BANG! Explosive power shakes the air
BANG! BANG! Release them you deceiving whore!
BANG! BANG! In Rex’s eyes we deeply stare
BANG! BANG! She thunders at the bedroom door
BANG! BANG! The sound consumes the engine floor.
BANG! BANG! Dark shapes do tend the searing flames
BANG! BANG! And keep alive the monstrous core.
BANG! BANG! These servants with their sickly frames
BANG! BANG! The sacrifice that Rex so claims.
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I keep your time, so brief, all to myself;
It liquefied and forged in sheets of green,
And stamped with faces on historic shelf –
The marbled Fathers' perch; they claim you’re free.
Those vultures from on high look down like gods,
Upon the carcassed wastelands they have wrought.
Perhaps bemused, but more amused, by rods
of Iron that the One Percent hath bought.
The prophet John foretold in dreams our right,
We kings of sickly visage understood;
But idle lives so spent will drain ‘till Blight
Unless our fangs may sup the Worker’s blood.
I want a thing no more, to shed this curse,
But on this neck my kin to dine? Far worse.
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I look upon a tree in windowed box,
A summer lover planted in the grass,
Inside the tiny window vision locks
A living painting made of shimmering mass.
From on my chair out through transparent wall,
I stare at what appears more orb than tree;
No trunk in sight, this verdant crystal ball
Does tell a fortune set in marbled sea:
The wind! It roars through branched societies,
who vy for fickle glory, bending fate.
They spread their kingdoms, crushing enemies,
But in the end they're beaten home by hate.
For all that Wind -- Its name "Desired Fame--"
Can only for a moment sway the Frame.
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You died at 22; left me alive
At 25 to write this sonnet tomb;
Block letters hewn, with fumbling hands I drive
This pen in metered clangs around your room.
In desperate pause, I step away to see
The ugly product of my trembling hands.
What is the use? These sculpted memories be
But dross unfit for what your name demands.
Oblivion. The void awaiting those
Who died before their fame could last.
I had no doubts; The noble path you chose
Was working, but the sickness worked too fast.
I look upon this tomb, its failed role;
And for your sake, elect to sell my soul.
II
How many wives of Donne, their throats to slit,
Must I enlist? The author forced to watch.
“A thousand Holy Sonnets you shall writ!
Or else this woman too! I’ll butcher! Botch!”
A Monster I’ve become, demanding text,
Out from this poet’s brain like industry;
Extruding beauty, meter, rhythm, “Next!"
"You’ll write for Mine! My Love! In chains you’ll be!”
Until my thirst for blood be satisfied,
But blood so written out in papered rhyme,
Enough to fill soft veins of her's who died;
"Mikaela! Write it Man! Inspired this time!"
I can't release the weeping poet Donne,
Until immortal fame this woman's won.
III
"Put down the pen!" I hear my lips exclaim;
And with a shudder 'waken in disgust --
Hungover mind arrested from the game
Of making all things right with blood and lust.
The Fates, God! took you cruelly from this place,
You lying there, in gurney, bridging realms.
We prayed around your body holding space,
Your plastic altar donning wired helms.
But now in Spirit, the Body finished,
I dream you're still alive atop a tree;
In that Garden, Eden, undiminished,
See "New Jerusalem" at peace; you're free.
You wrote your life: impassioned, selfless ink;
I pray you've found Utopia, I think.
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