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971 · Sep 2019
Missteps
Kelly McManus Sep 2019
Struggling more and more
sinking deeper and deeper
the quicksand called man

             Kelly McManus
587 · Nov 2019
The Cone Of Silence
Kelly McManus Nov 2019
Cloaked in secrecy
yet claiming transparency
what do you believe

                   Kelly McManus
565 · Apr 2021
String Along
Kelly McManus Apr 2021
It's hard to believe
for so long people agree
to the puppetry

               Kelly McManus
556 · Jan 2020
Budgeting To Be Bludgeoned
Kelly McManus Jan 2020
What they take from you
to spend on armageddon
will make one end meet

                  Kelly McManus
548 · Aug 23
Opaque Opulence
Kelly McManus Aug 23
Take this blank canvas
and make it your masterpiece
with pops of color
548 · Aug 2019
Security Blanket
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
There's global unrest
hide under your desks until
you hear the all clear

                                       Kelly McManus
524 · May 2021
Toothpicks
Kelly McManus May 2021
While your popping pills
zombies chew fresh human brains
just to ease the pain

                                 Kelly McManus
505 · May 2021
Disavowed
Kelly McManus May 2021
What did they teach you
governments exploit people
and they're proud of it

                     Kelly McManus
496 · Aug 2019
Shade
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
The sun is sweating
during the heat of the day
but soon a cool moon

                                    Kelly McManus
494 · Oct 2019
Drop The Balm
Kelly McManus Oct 2019
Across the worlds face
there's a flesh eating virus
called the human race

                  Kelly McManus
479 · May 2021
Flickering Wings
Kelly McManus May 2021
Let the planets fly
around a sunlight candle
in a solar wind

                Kelly McManus
422 · Oct 2023
Shells
Kelly McManus Oct 2023
Cup full of peanuts
clipped to the top of a fence
watch the squirrels dance
416 · Feb 2023
The eye of the storm
Kelly McManus Feb 2023
The eye of the storm
where everything is calm
outside rages on...Kelly McManus
407 · May 2021
My Watch Stopped
Kelly McManus May 2021
The fate of the world
left up to human beings
never stood a chance

              Kelly McManus
392 · Sep 2019
Squeeze Play
Kelly McManus Sep 2019
Saying we're all safe
and free while giving us all
the trigger finger
                    
              Kelly McManus
386 · Jun 2019
Deferred Maintenance
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
We  need more funds for our infrastructure.
There are pockets, of our roads to extinction,
that need to be filled; or our society as a whole,
just won't function.
   We need to bridge the gap,
on weapons of mass destruction,
and construct,
more satellites to place up in space.
So, we can spy,
on the human race; cause,
you wouldn't want  to,
come in second place!
    Never fear, the corpse of engineers are here,
and will make everything, look like new, sure,
it might take a year or two, but they have nothing
better to do, and best of all
your kids will pick up the check,
so what the heck.
     The dream is clear,
when we reach the end of the road;
we'll find ourselves, in a virtual paradise,
of mushroom clouds, and silent sounds!

                                                        ­ Kelly McManus
380 · Oct 2021
Salt Air
Kelly McManus Oct 2021
Barefoot on the beach
with the sun peaking through clouds
and ocean wave sounds

                                     Kelly McManus
377 · Aug 2019
Diminishing Returns
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
So much in this world
we're forced to accept until
there is nothing left

                                  Kelly McManus
373 · Jul 2019
Have A Scow
Kelly McManus Jul 2019
It's time to invent
a new line of boats that float
on a plastic sea
                             Kelly McManus
372 · Jun 2023
Less Than Dirt
Kelly McManus Jun 2023
Just one place to go
ruled by their false status quo
that's six feet below...Kelly McManus
369 · Aug 2021
Listen To Reason
Kelly McManus Aug 2021
They try to warn you
poets and musicians too
but fear's a deaf ear

              Kelly McManus
366 · Jun 2019
Say Ah
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
What can be prescribed
in an artificial world
but a placebo
                         Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Aug 2019
I've been fed their good
since childhood it's really
indigestible
                                    
        ­           Kelly McManus
357 · Jun 2019
Survival Diet
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
Remove everything
that's unhealthy in your life
and dine on world peace
                                             Kelly McManus
350 · Sep 2021
Coiled
Kelly McManus Sep 2021
Two snakes intertwined
government and big business
constricting progress

                        Kelly McManus
345 · Oct 2021
Imaginary
Kelly McManus Oct 2021
Concepts time money
theories mental functioning
all so amusing

                     Kelly McManus
344 · Jun 2019
There's Fungus Among Us!
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
The little piggy
smiled ear to ear as it hogged
a big fat truffle

                             Kelly McManus
338 · Jul 2019
Entanglements
Kelly McManus Jul 2019
As the spider is
to the fly stuck in its web
that is the system

                              Kelly McManus
336 · Jul 2019
A Remote Setting
Kelly McManus Jul 2019
Unusual That
the usual programing
is programing you

                               Kelly McManus
322 · Jun 2019
Just Smile For The Camera
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
What's Hollywood?
Leni Riefenstahl's dream;
via, J. Edgar scheme.

                   Kelly McManus
319 · Sep 2021
Don't Forget Your Lunch
Kelly McManus Sep 2021
Hard to get free from
a programed pre packaged dream
that's not all it seems

                              Kelly McManus
290 · Oct 2021
Freedoms Creation
Kelly McManus Oct 2021
No stipulations
threats or intimidation
end of all nations

            Kelly McManus
288 · Jul 2019
My Best Employee
Kelly McManus Jul 2019
My occupation
inspires me so I think that
i'm gonna hire me

My best employee
indeed has got to be me
who else could it be

Where else can I find
someone who will work for less
than minimum wage

Now I hate my job
and where did they find my boss
reminds me of me
                                  Kelly McManus
284 · Jul 2019
indescribable
Kelly McManus Jul 2019
imagination
intercommunication
interpretation
                          © Kelly McManus
284 · Nov 2019
Pendulum Feathers
Kelly McManus Nov 2019
A flock of pigeons
swaying as they walked around
pecking at the ground

                             Kelly McManus
283 · Jan 2022
Splattered Dreams
Kelly McManus Jan 2022
It'll be to late
before you people listen
to disarmament...Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Sep 2020
It's simple to see
why there's nuclear weapons
pure stupidity

                       Kelly McManus
276 · Apr 2021
Spiraling Out Of Control
Kelly McManus Apr 2021
We're circling the drain
position they put us in
with their run around

              Kelly McManus
274 · Aug 2021
Mental Picture
Kelly McManus Aug 2021
In their perfect world
looks like we would all be dead
see their armories

                           Kelly McManus
Kelly McManus Apr 2021
A club or a gun
are still the weapons used by
primitive cultures

                       Kelly McManus
267 · Apr 2021
This Is Not A Test
Kelly McManus Apr 2021
Sharpen your pencils
learn to be subservient
to hypocrisy

            Kelly McManus
264 · Dec 2021
Half Fool Or Half Empty
Kelly McManus Dec 2021
Nuclear weapons
what's the sense in having bombs
unless you use them...Kelly McManus
261 · Jun 2019
Milk It
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
With my dairy air
crème de la crème style
won't move or kowtow
                                          Kelly McManus
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259 · Nov 2019
Apish
Kelly McManus Nov 2019
Why can't science see
humanity's missing link
obviously peace

               Kelly McManus
258 · Jun 2019
Microscopic
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
If they offend thee?
Pluck out the eyes of spies,
and see life freely.

                          Kelly McManus
258 · Jun 2019
Royal Flush
Kelly McManus Jun 2019
Poetry as a therapy  are you out of your mind
why can't it be just a pleasant thing for me and
not be some contrived quackery to help relieve
me of my time and money isn't that funny.
Let's talk about my troubling dreams taking me
places I'd rather not be like a battle
field with people dying all around me in defense of
single minded philosophy that some maniacs have the
audacity to call free
or in a world where people think they have to
bow and grovel at other peoples feet
that would be complete loonacy don't you agree
for a world like that would simply be a nightmarish
fantasy certainly not a place I'd want to be
that's plain to see.
Fortunately my world is fine everyone working side
by side to peacefully advance us all to find that
paradise that Adam and Eve sacrificed.
                                                     ­                     Kelly McManus
255 · Nov 2021
Memo From The Grime Reaper
Kelly McManus Nov 2021
Keep building weapons
for the sake of someone's greed
see you soon I think...Kelly McManus
254 · Sep 2021
Sell The Realm
Kelly McManus Sep 2021
Free monetary
police state interest rate
compounded daily

              Kelly McManus
247 · May 2021
Big Eyes
Kelly McManus May 2021
An owl in a tree
patiently waiting to see
its dinner scurry

              Kelly McManus
244 · Jul 2021
Weeping Willow
Kelly McManus Jul 2021
My exhausted eyes
cry as I look at this world's
senseless disfunction

                    Kelly McManus
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