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The Man
Silver screen athletes / quitting soccer teams / to join homophobic friends
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Taxi Driver
Nocturnal gypsy / gnawing at the neglected / passengers from alley voids
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Forest Trails Untraveled
Hungry stones line the narrows / a jagged, muddy trail / aspen trees as pharaohs
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Colorblind
The grit in this world seems to be gone, / all of us have just become pawns / in this static, yet enigmatic,
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Dissonant Livelihood
Looking through a complex eye / poisoned by countless vials of nitroglycerin / the world sings a familiar tune of
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Tyranny with Manners
Ambiguous propaganda seeps paranoia / into crevasses of budding knowledge, / spawning hordes of diffident souls
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Of Withering Smiles
The vacant hallway echoes futile cries / of withering smiles / and half-murmured lies.
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Untitled
A nascent society gluttonously feeds / on the palingenesis of hyaline paragons / forged by stolid and archaic eremites.
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Fighting Crime With Rhyme
I may not own the streets / or ride them in leather seats, / but if you can hear the beat
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The Battlefield of Blind Courage
Obelisk of black, shades in all directions; / death's become a knack, creatures void affection. / Blood is all about, with battle raging on;
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