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Do I ride that wave
Am I prism cut
Some bend of puce grey
A splintered chanterelle ray
I dunno Bobbio
All those online tests sure sayso
But I have yet to be
Neuromanced and diagnosed
So who can really sayso
You I suppose
Tell me
Is the ghost of your
Daddio all arodeo
In his brothers grave
At the thought of you
Is he rather glad
To be dead instead
Under that eternal flame
I got a degree
I got a PhD
I got a job
(for now)
I pay my taxes
All the papers sayso
Anyhow
Is this a poem
How the **** would I know
Death to
the fascist
the dictator
the oligarch
May they meet their end
grisly and flayed
flesh rent from bone
at the edge
of a rusty dull blade
Their countenance tested
measured and weighed
against a gravel road grade
History is not a warm blanket
it is the carpet hiding the bodies
unfurled
reality cold
It can inspire
but it should mostly terrify
as we are sometimes inspirational
but mostly terrifying
creatures
So
look not away child
lock the **** in and
behold the horror
the horror
How narrow the scope of you how limited in breadth and extent your being that to shine you must diminish the brightness of others erase their accomplishment to embolden the whispy mark of you on the page of our story once epic as any of legendary yore reduced now to the smeared jabberwockian scribble of toddlers loudly greedily proclaiming themselves without any true understanding a mimickery a mockery a tragedy Beware the White Liberal a prophet once prophesied an augury unfortunately unheeded as I am confronted by my own mirrored reflection in a glass house that has left us all House Slaves cowering for scraps and grateful for the beatings pitiful as any kicked dog licking its wounds under the table but it is long past time to break those legs bite the hand and grab the guns from the cabinet what we really need is a little more of that Detroit Red
Give me your tired
I will exhaust them
Give me your poor
I will leave them destitute
Give me your huddled and hungry
I will leave them freezing and starved
Give me
Gimme
Gimme
Gimme
Texas fried chicken
They will lie
and lie
and lie
and lie
and lie you safely
in
your
grave
Bizarre
that the moon can conjure such dread
Peel you to the bone
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