Category: Free Verse
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They say “the apple don’t fall far from the tree”It leaves me queasy βI can’t stomach the gravity of this situationI plummet into a cavity and dissipatesin parroting in the incubated A desire conceived and birthedDeserved for the Bathsheba An empire of deceit and murder A moment of mirth seceded by curse The deed conferredEven…
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Part IRodents run in the retail rotunda with rooks There’s no slumber in sootBlackface in the rat raceThe back page of an aristocratGrappling tit for tatwhile getting your business smackedAt Saks on Fifth Got sacked on the fifth Now her fit sags Vividly shellacked Sat next to a chilling sax “What happened?”The wicked whispered their…
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LIVING… at break-neck acceleration, resignation of your apex preservation. Funny how now you want to pray. Found faith, underground, Under the town grates. I guess the summit was insufferable. Was the top so tumultuous?Was government so grotesque? And now you meet your new master, The monstrosity, The beast of burden, That jackal-faced juggernaut That feasts…
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I am irrelevant – irrelevant – From the age of five to eighteen, I was taking medicine – was taking medicine – They called it Dexedrine. It made every element of my essence feel like excrement. A repellent pushing electrons like exotic matter until they pulled out plasma guns to dislodge my atoms. Tossed and…
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How many called Fran Drescher when she started regressionwith post traumatic depression on prophylactics, Excedrin? I’m sorry. I started off with a question.I just lionize the thesis because both Ice Spice and Jesus know that that’s a part of the lesson. My chalkboard? It’s all yours, but some balk before they start marching towards THE…
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The trumpet blares its final C, embouchures are unglued and all instruments are lowered.To raucous applause, the concerto concludes.The maestro bows; a flutist raises his bow.thwunk!Over heads and through one, A cortex has processed its last memory. A child belts her first scream since birth, An athlete runs his first lane since college, A woman…
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UP?WHY DID YOU BRING IT BACK I had the horror buried under the floorboards of my spinal column. I mean, it was closer than my facial folliclesto being excreted. Out of sight, unseen, but now I have to face the folly, THAT egregious scene. WHY DID YOU BRING ME BACK DOWN?Like a determined wrestlerLike a…
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The wind whispered behind her earlobe the way AntΓ΄nio did.Cool, it caressed the columns of her spine, making her moan as it walked down to her lower back like representatives in recess from PalΓ‘cio da JustiΓ§a.In the warmth, her chilling secret ceded a secretion down her cheek. She tried to hold it like the iron…
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See if you can catch the references. Have fun! { Kobe Bryant} {Metta World Peace/Ron Artest} { LeBron James / Sacramento Kings } {Nike} {Atlanta Hawks} {Er1c Adams/NYC} {Joker, Jokic} {Dane DiLiegro} You got two secondswith two checkingtwo by two arms pressing your two guardhe flex in the two step in you to the fourthe…