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 Feb 2014 Guss
spysgrandson
pull the trigger many times
leave the unsuspecting wall behind you
a scalded scarlet tapestry
a Picasso of every raging memory
etched on your festering finite folds
splatter your secrets through the earless, eyeless air
it will not care,  but you must pull the trigger
over and over, for every silent sin
must be expiated, and one shot is never enough
all that is written must be erased
no speck of you may be seen,
no letters may form your name
the world of faceless readers must forget
you were ever there, lest your death
will have been in vain
there is nothing final in the stopping of a heart
pull the trigger again and again
leave no trace but art's dripping masterpiece
in red
still have writers block but this popped out in a noisy hotel room Saturday night
 Feb 2014 Guss
spysgrandson
it takes great skill  
to fry ants--patience, precision,
the will to ****, omnipotence (or)
a mighty magnifying glass

we don’t hear scorched screams
and only the most refined noses
smell the funeral pyres  

some stay stone still
for their fiery executions  
others scurry about
looking for their queen  
as if she can save them
from our twisted wrist
that visits the sun’s
wrath upon them

while we watch
colonies ablaze,
in blissful silence
we, the ant killers
 Feb 2014 Guss
spysgrandson
who among us has not purloined
the bread, blue with mold  
or fresh with sweet scent?

some have even filched the meat,
the flesh there for the taking,
they rapaciously presume  

who can claim the air they breathe
is theirs, fetid foul or crisp
with white mountain’s bite?    

who is not ripe with prevarications,
necessary fictions to make it through
all these imperfect days?
  
who is innocent of these cryptic crimes?  
yet bars and chains are the bounty
of the chosen ******, the curse
of a wretched few
  
while the rest of us plunder and slaughter  
and blindly wash the blood away
with stolen water
 Feb 2014 Guss
jeffrey robin
Come

KNOW!



Know the child ******* and the ****

••

Walk the streets

In purest solidarity

With every form of poverty

••

Take your tongue out of the polician's ***!

Take your tongue out of the media
Anchor man's ***!

The ******* music!

Sports!

The world they make you live in!

The **** they say and that you believe!

••

The **** you eat!



Come child

Ain't it time to simply say

"I AM A HUMAN BEING"

••

Ain't it time to know what

"HUMAN BEING"

Means!

••

Come

KNOW!



The child ******* is you yourself being *****

As you dwell in purest poverty

On the broken

American streets

••

Let us stand in sacred solidarity

Let us not live in fear

Anymore
He slumped onto the barbedwire
thinking of the end in no man's land
his uniform grey with ash
his army colours now blind to all

From out of a trench he had dashed
but dying no hero by the call of a whistle
just a name in a thankless world war
that in a thousand more years
will have tragically so many tears

No Poppy will grow here
whilst the bombs and gunfire go on
this land will not settle
with killing machines of metal

So he is dying with his blood and pride
yet not in a land for butterflies
he looks at his loves stained photograph
in his last breath gasps, Poppy my Poppy

By Christis Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
 Feb 2014 Guss
Elizabeth Squires
summer's long dry spell
eroded the landholders
chances of a crop
 Feb 2014 Guss
brooke
Untitled
 Feb 2014 Guss
brooke
I see myself in chunks
in fat limbs and a month's
worth of self-hatred, my mom
asks if I'm any better but the truth
is I've just stopped crying over it.
(c) Brooke Otto 2014
 Feb 2014 Guss
Sally A Bayan
When inspirations burst forth,
Needing to be unleashed...
What now???
A follow up to Pradip's Writer's Block.....

It is as much a dilemma as writer's block,
When ideas flow unstoppable
Seems your hands are tied,
You don't have the means,
Not a chance to write them all down...
What a waste...........
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