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Only musing
Long excludes
The madness that this world
Eschews
And leads me once again
To beckon
All the currents
I am swept in
Cast away
Forever kept in
Empty bottles
Dying breath in
Its bereft of hope’s
Last gasp
The sum of all of its fears
Amassed
Should come to pass
Its message dated
Only unto shores
Invaded
By the situation’s
Room
To grow
Its crypto
Oil boom
Dispossession
My enduring lesson
Failing only banks
Who fail to serve me
Up
A Great Depression
Ever there
To pull us out
With more rearmament
Equations
And a place
To place to the blame
On those subversive  
Of persuasion
For the fist of righteous order
Must come firmly first
Then swiftly
How the furies of
Its mighty fallen
Favored fortunes
Gift me
Overzealousness
Tempestuous
Recalcitrance
Averse
To what discursive
Rhetoricians
Still can’t openly
Converse
But I am not the same old
Liberals
In their biblical
New cities
I am not
The pretty power puffing
Chests
Arresting Diddies  
I am merely
Observations
From the outside
Looking in,
As foreign in
My disposition
As I am
American
From whence the wilted wandered
Wondered all
The money laundered
Has it gone
So far beyond
Where they would utter
De guerre ‘Nam
And from those jungles
Fill your lungs
With burning stakes
Of Amazon
But turning rates
Of the disinterested
To actively engage
From highly likely
If it’s nightly,
Daily,
Constantly replayed
To child’s play
Of puppeteers
In their clock working
Apparatus
To addict you
And afflict you
Forceful feed you
Needles madness
Then it’s habits
Gotta have it
You just gotta ******* grab it
Off the shelves
Or off their cellular
Dependencies
Like magic
Never invulnerable
Left to devices
For sooner
The listlessness
Kindly invites us
To break from the mold
Punching clocks
Growing old
As malfeasance
And negligence
Leaves us exposed
To intense
Hyper scrutiny
Make myself usefully
Not just intrusively
Yours to behold
Unless legions of people
Unequaled
In stature
Go marching
Like ants
In the colony
Fractured
The psyche
Then voices won’t matter
Who hurt you
Like Nike
Incisively
Signals its virtue
Upon the first trend
The Black Fridays we spend
As consumers
United
In rights to defend
Our most sheepish impulses
And wolf appetites
To the death
Of our liberties
In the black sites  
Where the word
Of slain leaders
Still herds its immunity
Deep in the cells
Of what sells
Black community
How to say
Come what may
Where the fault line is laid
What to do in events
You slip through it
Afraid
If you say it
Intrudes
And refuses to quit
If you feel how its dissonance
Widens the rift
Then you must
Find a way
To admit
Why we say it
Or doomed to repeatedly
Weeping
Replay it
Underneath
All the anger
A sadness
It’s tragic
And countless the times
I have rhymed it
With madness
But really
It’s simple
Some complex
Enigma
Is fractured
Enraptured
In mental health
Stigma
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