Borders of fantasy
Tickle my fancy
This notion
I own it
And you must
Supplant me
For it to be
How this world works
After all
No amount of
Appalling crimes
Seems to forestall
The incessant assumption
The earth
A free luncheon
A boundless oasis
Of endless consumption
And pieces of its
Apple pie
In the sky
Are some property value
For which we should die
If some other
Entitlement
Troglodyte
Fights us
And alpha failed states
Send their pigs
To indict us
On charges of merely
Refuting its merits
Refusing to pay
Further into
Its tariffs

Integrate
The shadow
You will be
With me
Lucidity
And unto its becoming
One
The egos
Interlinked
Could be
Increasingly
Less prone to war
Less likely to
Project it more
Endure the grips of psyche
Tightening
Sense of self
Awareness
Heightening
Frightening
When you think it through
That I am merely
Thoughts of you

For they once
Roamed these halls
Innocent
Learning
To be better humans
And into them
Turning
But suddenly yearning
For home
In an instant
For mommy and daddy
Could not be more distant
When bursting forth
Barrel blasts
Shatter reality,
Not yet a decade
Of fragile morality
Splattered in
Evil
Incarnate
Depravity
All the unvarnished
Unraveling
Tragedy,
Tragically
Yet again
Weaponized,
Minimized
Merely an afterthought
Footnote
Politicized

Friends have been dead to me
Begged me
On bended knee
Spare me your pity
Your judgment
Your envy
I just want your friendship
I don’t need
Your enmity
Only you
Make me
Your enemy
Then be my friend again
Nothing could change that
But they
Lose their way
And we cannot rephrase that
Without sounding deep
In the worry about
We can only cut deep
In more reasons to doubt
One another’s integrity
Manly
Identity
Loyalty
Honesty
Honestly, everything
Save for the rain on parades
In good fun
And that’s all that I meant
By the quick-to-draw gun

Look at me
Look at me
Narcissistic
Tendency
Enemies
Nemeses
Everywhere
Dependency
Unfriending
Distant memories
Becoming
Penitentiaries  
To place the blame
In block chain cages
Gamify
The dread AI
Then manufacture
Your outrages
Cheap
From its
All-seeing eye

Childhood made this
Default to
Fantastical
Maturation
Then forbade it
Impractical
Always though
Something to hide
And yet simplify
Something inside
All the others would
Vilify
Vying for more
Stories told
They’d control
But I found my form
Still most befitting
The scroll

Funny how
The pinnacles
Of civilized
Could circumcise
And always find a reason
To make endless warring
Justified

Find myself beaming
Like spectacles gleaming
And trapped
In my craft
I’m more passively
Scheming
Than many years past
All this hubris was riven
With oceans of vast
Blasphemies
Unforgiven
But checked from my heights
Has my vision ignited  
And wrecked from my spiteful
Ambitions
Delighted
In treacheries,
Leprosies
Can’t stop afflicting
The world
And its beings
With paradigm shifting

And one day soon
Hence
You will get your
Comeuppance
Your tongue-biting
Sycophants
Stay their reluctance
To mutiny
23 times
Run you through
As across senate floors
Your blood pours
Into view

I heard on the state news
That your news is fake
That some other landholders
Own most of the stake
In their chokehold
Of holdings
Is taking its toll
On the working class
Progeny’s
Dreams that they stole
And so naturally
There I go
Seeking the enemy
Finding it’s simply
A credit card’s
Spending spree
Taking the shape
Of transferable currency
Zeroes and ones
Some ethereal
Sons
And their guns
Still outnumber,
Outweigh us in tons
But the Huns at the gates
And the wolves at the door
Just belie
The real causus belli
For the war
That is racking up debt
And attacking the poor
And still cornering markets
In one single store
With the rest of us
Hungry
And thirsty
For more

Led them all
To water
Not quite pure
But runs the mill
And though manure
Is my cure
Its mass allure is streaming still
And cannon fodder
Scheming still
To see them sooner to the slaughter
Than a city on a hill
For I was offered
Coffers bottomless
To teach them
Ignorance is bliss
And steer my fear
Adherents
To salvation
Off a cliff

Sharp
Jagged fragments
Of shattering madness  
Still strewn about
Corpse-littered scores of my sadness
But glad this
Morass
Won’t reflect in the glass
Any faster than present
Is mirroring past

We’d all love
To be seen
Little more
Than we clean
Up the messes
Attesting
To low
Self-esteem
And it seems
We’d all hate
To be torn
At the seams
But we love  
To watch others’
Unreachable dreams
And yet hate to feel
Fairness is trampled
Pursuing
The knocks
Of the opportune
Peacemakers
Couping
Who we love to hate
Hate to love
The cartoonish
Banality
Evil
Still mirroring
Munich

Take it
Wrest it
Rip it
From the clutches
Of my claims
When they are splayed
And splattered
Matters
Of my brainless
Bullet aims
Still fixing
Barrels
To the temples’
Self-imposed
Alienation
Making wars
And civil wastelands
Of the isolated nation

Your causes are broken
I’m bending through hoops
Your free speech is verboten
In tending to groups
Thinking no more abortion
Just lawful contortion
Of what formerly
Would’ve hanged for
Extortion
Endorsements
Of donor class
Actors
Who funnel
Our funds
Through their private jet
Public debt
Tunnels
And I am just funnily
Flipping the pages
And balancing beaming
To multiple stages
As wages stagnate
And the nation implodes
And the state is a circus
Of nobody knows

We could be lonely
Together
Sequestering
Close open wounds
Interminably festering
Leave the world lost
To its doomsday devices
No more counting costs
And considering prices
This rife with
The absence
Of wholeness
Won’t hurt us
Alluring
Distractions
Won’t fully  
Divert us  
Won’t turn us from
Shared
And more personal gains
Won’t be sunny skies
Every day
Chances it rains
On occasion
But we
Would just lay still
And listen
And lazily wake
To the morning dew glisten

Cast your spells
Ring your bells
I draw
The parallels
Back to the basics
Of human equations
Mentation
Illuminates
Merely gestations
Are not quite the squirming
The learning
The earning
The born to
A bullet storm
Mourning
World burning

And there we were
Synergy
You collide
Into me
Moments materialize
Synchronicity
Then the earth shatters
Shakes us to the core
And imploding
In discordant war
We endure
But recede ever further
Cordoned into nations
Partitioned and pawned,
Pacified
On their waitlist
Deprived of the care
The holistic approach
But the first class
Unconscious
Just shoves us in coach
And yet woke
Is the liberalist paradigm
Spinning
The worth on its Axis
And wickedly
Grinning

I want to be closer
To work more together
Collaborate whether
We’re under the weather
Or over the moon
For each other  
As lovers
Uncovered
Should naturally be
Where the butterflies fluttered

This incoherence
Ostensibly
Somehow resemblant
Appearance
To cogent conveyance
Of strictest adherence
To norms and conventions
Of formally writing
But radically
Back to the roots
I’m reciting

The polls
And the podium
Punditry  
Funding spree
Populist
Pageantry
Palace
Of luxury
Muse to my drudgery
Fuse to my thuggery
Drug to the content
Creator’s
Skullduggery
Masterfully dealt
To a Democrat base
And to Bible Belt’s tightening
Heavenly laced
With an ******
Mass appeal
Classes dismissed
For the brass taxes
Cut with
The sinfully rich

Abandonment issues
Don’t cut it this time
If I lose you
That’s it for me
End of the line
So I want you to stay
Want us both to feel safe
In the longing for always
The other’s embrace
Not just pitched
In an argument
Soon to forget
Soon enough
We’re conflating
It all as a threat
To respect
To the debt
That we owe
To the photos
To memories
Fade to pain
Only
Alone knows

So proud to be American
Forget
Humanitarian
That neighbors
Might be strangers
Rearranging
Their vivarium
That we are all
Just prisoners
Within the planetarium
As free to be
Convicted
By a jury of our peers
As we are to form convictions
From a 30 rack of beers

Live for the moments
When even unspoken
In love
Can be broken
Wholeheartedly open
And peering deep into
The festering wounds
As you kindly
But blindly
Bind them
And refuse
More immediate
Medical help
Convalescence
Forgive instead
Live for the moment
Transgressions

You people
Are crafty
Got deals
To attract me
Entrap
Not exactly
I’ll hear you out
Gladly
But sadly
Not buying
A stay here today
Million ways
You can say
Don’t delay
Getaway
That my family
My time
Is most precious in life
Overestimate
What I would do
For my wife
But if dollars
And cents
Don’t add up
In equations
I’m sorry
I don’t in fact
Need a vacation

Better luck next time,
Until then take aim
At what’s lost in their budget cut’s
Capital gain
Isn’t merely our livelihoods’,
Neighborhoods’
Bane
It’s the state of our
Nationhood’s
Skin in the game
So play yours
To its strengths
Make your mark
More precisely
Be it
With a ballot
Or bullet
Politely
Propelled from the chamber
But echoing
Kansas
Still bleeding
Its greeting
Sic semper tyrannus

Infinite fragments
Distorted
From focus
The deregulation
Continues to choke us
And swarming like locusts
The banking clan
Broke us
And spoke in its
Serpentine
Privatized
Tongues
Stole the breath
From our
Microplasticity
Lungs
Pumped our veins
With arterial rage
Donut glaze
And what’s left of our minds
They keep locked
In a cage
They keep blocking
Progression’s
Diminutive leads
While expanding their
Theaters of war
Overseas
So it’s high time we seize
The whole picture,
Reframe it,
Imagine a nation
Of us
And reclaim it
The wealth we create,
That we generate,
Ours
We are masters of Earth
To their ******* of Mars
And the starlinks
And golden domes
Building their iron thrones
Shame will embrace
When we all lose
Their game of bones

To some of you
Once a good man
At first glance
Or first happenstance
Chance
I might find you
Entranced
But the rants
And the rancid
Cantankerous
Raving
Is lunacy
Set to default’s
Isolating
Increasingly fringe
Foreign take
On the issue
That leaves me with
More paranoia
To sift through
And sitting through
One more superfluous meeting
Might soon reveal
Looks
Can at times
Be deceiving
My name, image, likeness
Empire of thieving
My pound of flesh
Wounded pride’s
Internal bleeding
Not fit to be leading
A nation of many
When personally,
Morally
Bankrupted
Plenty

Left to discordant
Decay
Left to disarray
Iron fist’s
Fiscal bliss
Impotent  
Power play
Towers and walls,
Bits of coin
And coal mines
Lots of bribes
Underlying
More sinister crimes
And the party line
Drawing
More polarized
Borderlines
Warning signs
Blinded eyes’
Views of supremacy
Racial in nature’s
Dehumanist tendency
Make nemeses
Of the poor huddled masses
And kindles their fears
Like a downfall of ashes

No no
No thoughts for me
What are they costing me
Losses amounting
To only
Exhausting me
Lost causes
Lost track of time
Always agonize
Over the top
Of the hill
My allegiance lies
Cries on it
Dies on it
Bides its whole
Life on it
Further entrenched in its view
Stakes its life on it
Like a false flag
With a ****** of force
Buries
In roots and the soil
The toil
And wearies
The mind to more critical forms of it
Racking
The brain
With its myriad
Don’t feel safe
Cracking

Seeing only red
Dilutes the stop light
Colored
Dread
And all the rest
Is free to go
Into a
Hasty
Guilty
Pled
So slow you roll
Before creating
One more not so
Special ed
Another crime scene to be fled
Another pipeline to aWOKEn
The arrested walking dead
Another anthem of the victimized
To fill your little head
And wedded foremost
To your infantries
You hiss and lash
And shed
The superficial
Artificial
Skin decisions
To conform
To recapitulate
Submissively
And watch
The global warm

Insider traitors
Still trading our lives away
Charging us more
For the right
To go work all day

Mother
I wonder
How could you not smother me
Shrieking for twenty plus years
Out of infancy
Violently
Lashing out
My insecurity
Clashing with
Crippling doubt
Nothing new to me
Felt all your rage
And your anguish
Get through to me
Clearly
More resonantly
Than didactic
Could ever successfully
Teach us
The tragic
Downfall of the love
That still lives in
Your son,
In the ghost of his father
Now comfortably numb
But in baring such burdens
Alone all these years
You kept sparing me from
Far more nightmarish fears
Through reminding
At times
To the tempests and maelstroms
Of mind
We are thrown
But our interlinked hearts
See our wayward souls
Home

Either you’re broken
Or broken right open
So let go
Of no stone unturned
Goes unspoken
And throw yourself
So unreservedly
Into
The passions
You bask in
To mask
What you’ve been through
We all do
Go onward
And reap what we sow
We all weep
In the withering wastelands
Of woe
With the infinite void
Of our sorrows
In tow
High and low
All the while
Stay searching,
Resisting
The often alluring
Submission
Insisting
We offer ourselves
To the last
Sweet escape
And instead
In the interim
Content create

Rather take culture
Than power
All day
But my counterclaims
Waging their wars
To the grave
To the say no more
Nemeses
Seek to enslave
Though if any
Among them
Demand I behave
It is not an enraged
Won’t go quietly
Cage
State of mind
I would seek to portray
For the slobbering, driveling
Man babies
Wave
Their unfurling economy
Banners
In flame
For some impulse control
Wholly lacking
Performance
Their victimized,
Histrionic
Self-endorsement
Is not how my dormant
Internalized
Torment
Awakens to its
Catastrophic
Disruption
Or floods the zone
With more
Amoral
Corruption

And words give way
To waves
Give way
To worlds
Give way to graves
And we are all together
Digging
Deeper
Living
In our caves
Just facing out across
The bluest
Of expanses
One could dream
But seldom looking
Back the other way
Unless upon a screen

Gatekeepers
Guarding
The access
To knowledge
And some
Greater evils
We had to abolish

Start shredding the news
I’m grieving today
You play not so great
Parts
In the heart
Of LA
And ablaze
Is encroaching
Where lives matter
Most
Where the homelessness spreads
Avocado on toast
And the host
Of the talk show
Or podcast
Awoken
Amassing
Vast fortune
Non-fungible token
A hope that delusions of grandeur
Sustain us
Oases of plentiful
Potencies
Tame us
Proclaim to us
All the solutions
Salvation,
That Satan himself
Is the PBS station
But all machinations
Of waning states’
Greatness
Must propagate
Some form of hate
To create this
Supremacy culture
War’s winning mentality
Dog eat dog
Alpha male’s
Failed nationality

Not veracity
But frequency
Determining
The truth
And it is just
How many times
The jingle ringing
Ears of youth
Have heard
Routinely
What is schemingly
Alluring
And seductive
And its limiting
Abilities
To reasoning
Deductive
What its function
Is inherently
To pacify
The meek
But in reality
Adherents
Are empowering the weak

Sever synapses
Themselves
Or take heed
That deep frying
The circuitry
Amplifies
Greed
In a world
Where monopolists
Still rig the game
And their brands
Build the boardwalks
And jails
To detain
In a blackout
Of hunger
And thirst
To reclaim
A more clarified sense
Of exigency’s
Belly
When starved for attention
Like some
Megyn Kelly
But ultimately
We’re all *******
And warring
And boring
Ourselves
To a blissful
Oblivion
Entering
Wealthy
Or peasantry
Synonym
Judged before
Faced with eternity
Swimming in
One cataclysm
More costly
Than last
If we still fail
The basic exams
Of the past

Not much
For observation’s blinds
Unless they’re on
Vacation’s dimes
For time is of the essence
Of some all too precious
Prescience
And myopic are
The open eyes
Divining
Not a penchant  
For an overload of senses
Mother Nature’s
Battle trenches
When transparency
Requires
Darker-shaded
Ethnic lenses

Little excites
Like it used to
Ignites
The creative spark
Darkening
Save to incite
An incisive
But maybe
Divisive
Disorder
Identity crises
Of billionaires’
Borders  
And lawlessness orders
Like Wild West
Fable’s
Evangelists
Saying
Its grace at their tables
But saving their scraps
For as always
The trash
As their scare tactics
Home economically
Crash
Into fast money
Supermarkets
To the rescue
And poster boy
Seek and destroyers
To bless you
With testing their products
And formerly “services”
Rendered
By state
And municipal servicemen
All just exploited
Sold off
Or disposed
By the donor class
Capital gains
Undisclosed

I saw some people
In need
And I helped them
Some way
Shape or form
For a moment
I felt them
But also saw
Opportunistic
Endeavors
Fortuitous chances
To watch how it weathers
In whether or not
I decide
To be tending
Acculturation’s
Cultivations
Ascending
To more hungry lion’s
Shares
First feeding me
And what’s left of the carcass
Society
I would sell to the vultures
At auction
And keep
The pride rock
For my kind
To impregnably sleep
And in promises steeped
In self-serving deceit
Subjugate
Sycophantic
Hyena
Elite
And as long as no
Exiled kings
Should contend
You will never go hungry again…
And again

Maybe you’ve flirted
With funeral
Widows
Perhaps even mirrored
Their bleak
Weeping willows
But pillows have ways
Of prescribing more pill woes
And roses
Can’t say
Where the amorous
Thrill goes
And those of us
Willing to
Vow to take part
Should take heart
In unduly
How truly
We mark
The occasions
As often
As coffins
And ravens
Engrave them
And to our most
Sordid devices
Enslave them

All I have sacrificed
Given
Permitted
By seeking asylums
To which I’m committed
In more ways than one
With the refugees
Numb
To the wounds
We’ve inflicted
As lord of the slum
Bidding done
In the shadows
Or flooding the zone
And regardless
What pile of ****
Sits the throne
I alone cannot save us
Just stark raving
Madly
Homegrown
Terror
Raise us
To less ill-informed,
More illumined,
Dissent
To consenting
Too big to failed
Experiment