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1d · 36
Microtrips
Preprogrammed to function
No shred of compunction
Just solely
So soullessly
Feed our consumption
Nobody knows
Why they go
Why they leave us
Nobody else feels it
Although they believe us
No one saw their face
Emanate
City lights
No one sees it now
Keeping with
Sleeping in
Sight,
No artistic expression
Interprets
Abandoned
Like shells
Of our former selves
Talking in
Tangents
No one cares to share
Lest they hear
In their heart
An impartial ear
Fears
No appearance
Too dark
But the one
No one wants
To be seen with alone
No one haunts us
Like absent
The light they once shone
And no life form
In known universes
Has known
The extents of the Freudian voids
We are rendered
When try to forget
Just remains
What’s remembered
2d · 37
The Pretext
Crossed before
But not forsaken
For the demons
Oft mistaken
By the angels
Saving graces
Gods of mine
Have many faces
Of my making
Though
Forever
Bleeding edge
Of fates
To sever
Pleasure
From emotive virtue
All I want
Is not to hurt you
Nor convert
Revert
Desert you
To the frigid wastes
Of time
The outer spaces
Of the mind
Without some
Silly myth
To save us
Heavens gate
Keepers
Enslave us
One last instance
On the shores
Before we’re sent
To fight
Their wars
5d · 21
Megalomedia
Look to your elders
Extinction
News pages
And watch as their
Actors
Stage fright
Is contagious
For shivers
And withering health
Infrastructure
Livestock market
Boom
And bust
Bubbles
To rupture
And bursting forth
Scorched earth campaigns
And elections
Yet sheepish and blind
Is the viewer discretion
For views are expressed in
Parameters
Profit-based
All the earth’s
Exigencies
Become outer-spaced
Centered on power
Corrupts absolutely
Now enter the power mad king
In his movie
Aug 14 · 23
The City Planner
Urban desolation
From the decades
Of decay
An urchin nation
Of unhoused
Frustration’s
Homeless
Take home pay
In layman’s terms
Cannot be turned
Into a ghetto
Of the fascists
Lest the sewer rats
And gators
Reinstate
Their Alcatraz’s
Yet imagine such a world
Where only people
Need unite
And the dehumanizing
Rhetoric
Need not so often write
Whatever partisan
Pretensions
Still rebranded
On display
Mutually
Assure destruction
Desolation
And decay
Aug 14 · 39
Strangest Things
Study the maladies
Plaguing my people
These deaths of disparity
Separate
Unequal
Apparently
Anxious
Is not so innate
And the healthcare
To treat it
Is incorporate
Just a medicate
State
Of emergency
Rooms
Inundated
With victims of flooding
Too soon
In a surge
Of resurgent
Policing the polis
And quantum computing
The polls
Is no solace
For further replacement
Theorizing
To sicken
The still barely human’s
Transference
To quicken
And soon enough ill
Information
Malpractice
Turns once robust
Sentience
To tentacled rabbits
Aug 12 · 31
Emotional Wrecks
Just shells
Of our sorrow
Our anguish
Our pain
Traumatized
Dramatized
Movie plot holes
Contain
No explicit
Admissible
Evident
Claim
To be nonetheless
Guilty
Of levying
Blame
On producers
Consumers
And critics alike
All the cynics
And mimics
And gimmicks
Despite
No conclusive
Dispute
To we all do it too
We all know
We all feel
Not a soul
Has a clue
Aug 9 · 32
Legal Reasons
Brought us all
Together
To the apex
Of our making
From the trappings of
Our station
To the law and order’s
Breaking
Points accusatory
Fingers in
The eye for inclination
To exact its retribution swiftly
Justice though
Comes not so quickly
Aug 7 · 51
The Muskovites
Seconds from igniting
Powder keg
Of more infighting
And delighting
In dividing
Plots of history
Rewriting
Is a sleight of hand
Too deft to check
Totalitarians
Of tech
Aug 6 · 34
Pauper Economics
Neoliberalism
Is increasingly
Autism
And duopolies
On policies
And polities
A schism
Forming wider
In between us
The machine
To supersede us
As disparities in wealth
And income
Patently
Egregious
Seem as reasons
To believe
That it is working
To achieve
A democratic
Systematic
Toxic atmosphere
We breathe
Aug 6 · 39
Anachronistic
Pinnacle of youth
Approaching cusp
Of aging out
The gears are rusting
Readjusting
To the cosmic dusted
Drought
And each encounter
Over counter
Runs a counterclaim
To sane
Though disillusioned
Looming puniness
Is my true claim to fame
And though I knew
From early ages
It was not on center stages
That I’d ever
Most precisely
Find the light
That best assuages
What the worthless nexus
Mind complexes
Never goes
Outmoded
Though it often goes
To show
By all these updates
Overloaded
Aug 4 · 48
The Floodgates
Can you not see?
Demagoguery
Obviates
More heir apparently
Aryan
Nation-states
Pro
Natalist,
Prison camps
But can’t concentrate
On the most blatant
Abuses of propagates
Power projects
The world over
Disorder
Is over now
Stand aside
Open the border
Spineless
Sock puppets
Won’t get their
Comeuppance
And angry mob rulers
Won’t soon to reluctance
Exude
Or refuse to write history
Tragically skewed
Any more than it favors
The boldest
Enslavers
Whose toxic fumes
Humans consume
Favorite flavors
Aug 1 · 31
The Avant Vanguard
Foreign
Dark
Money
Makes voting
Seem funny
And corn fed
Reserves
Purge the hurt
From my tummy
The strong man
Facade’s
A ventriloquist
Dummy
But all its consumerist
Gummies
Are yummy
And yet
The vets
Wander the cold
And go hungry
For crumby the
Food insecurity
System
And numb
We become
To its gun
Toting victim
Just blame the whole
Name of the game
On the working poor
Lurking class
Warfare
Us middle men
Paying for
Jul 28 · 1
Last Kiss Abyss
And what does your heart say?
Am I such a toxin
Does it no more feel
First date fates
Interlocked in
The box
Growing old
Growing closer together
Or do the fake doctors
Know us
So much better?
Have they seen us weeping
Besides ourselves
Dying inside
Without sleeping
And keeping with
Daily turmoil
And turbulence
Ground us back
Safely and soundly
To furtherance
Seeing this through
To whatever
The end
Such a daunting prospectus
To sign with a pen
But obliged nonetheless
To commit to its binding
Promissory
Family
History
Finding
A better way forward
Than parents
Have failed
Prior lovers,
And brothers,
Relationships
Sailed
And its left us quite
Stranded
But not empty-handed
My soul has been yours
And you know
You’ve commanded
My plans since the start
On my heart
Made your mark
But if yours
Torn apart
Would cast me to the dark
And the spark
Flickers merely
To just be extinguished
And we just revert
To a pair of kind
Linguists
Then all I can say
Is I’m sorry I ****** it
Took everything good in my life
And corrupted
Its sacrosanct
Precious
Most uplifting bliss
To some poisonous
Deathly wish
Last kiss abyss
We all covet stages
Or platforms
To play on
Display what identity
Leads us astray on
Some tangent
Some rant
Raving rampage
Of madness
Celebrity complex
Of I
Have to have this
This status
Attention
The followers
Mention
My image
And likeness
My personal penchant
For myriad realms
Of myself economics
Authentic pretension
Anxiety tonics
Have long been its
Mass appeal
Crack Tok addiction
And fear of its makers
Our predisposition
But trust in its fakers
A base inclination
As well
If they’re selling
The end of humanity’s
Not worth rebelling
Jul 24 · 41
The Gerrymanderers
Supreme leaders
Schemers
Worst of nightmares
To the dreamers
And the fiends
That they convene with
Filter out
The in-betweeners
With obscenely toxic
Shock and awe
Campaigns
Of more in flames
And the replacement theorists
Still refuse
To use
Their smarter brains
To take a look around
The demographic
Map with all its
Party lines
Redistricted across it
To partition us
Like Palestine
Jul 24 · 30
Deep Cuts to Medicaid
Not trying to win
No, just stay afloat
Voting
Do my civic duty
To country
Imploding
Eroding
What constitutes
Quantum leap
Can’t compute
How we’ve transformed
To a nation
Of prostitutes
No more enslaved
Well per se,
There are wages
But they just stagnate
And the taxes
Outrageous
Work multiple jobs
But still living in cages
And leaders
Are corporate *****
Wars over stages
And we can’t afford
To uplift ourselves suasion
Our station in life
Remains solely unchanged
And
The wealth we aspired
To some day retire
In firm reassurance
Is set to expire
We will not give in
Before the end
Unto that end
We begin again
Seeking higher power
Citizen
Sleeping with the devil’s
Grin again
Cheap we sold
Our soul American
To the industry
Like Marilyn

Fame and fortune
And more unfortunate
Disproportionate  
Wealth distorting it
As a sort of
Passport to snorting its
Endless growth’s
Collapse
Endorsing it
All the world…
We just keep
Importing it
Jul 18 · 99
The Merry Go Round
Life on the merry go round
Just gets better
Goes up
And goes down
But revolves around pleasure
Jul 17 · 45
Quick Updates
Planes falling out of the skies
And the floods
In a flash
Cashing in
On the end of days
Drugs
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
Jul 13 · 44
Empathy
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
Jul 12 · 69
Social Science
Check your leaders
At the door
And stomp
With riot boots
The floor
For there is no salvation
In the vote
The vox
The vax…
If every body’s
Positivity
Remains immune
To facts
Jul 11 · 29
Sandy Hook
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
Jul 8 · 192
Palantir
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
Jul 6 · 29
Return to Form
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
Jul 3 · 37
The Zionists
Funny how
The pinnacles
Of civilized
Could circumcise
And always find a reason
To make endless warring
Justified
Jul 1 · 52
The Starburster
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
Jul 1 · 161
The Dictator for Life
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
Simple ape
Of simple taste
A bone club-wielding
Waste of space
Save not for my
Fine line
Between
A day job
And a daily dream
Jun 26 · 39
Truth Social
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
Jun 24 · 76
The Black Shepherd
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
Jun 22 · 119
Shards
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
Jun 18 · 103
Love/Hate
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
Jun 16 · 66
The Lobbyist
Now you work for me
Philanthropy
My Heads of Boar
Refueling
Culture wars
Endorsing
Genocide’s
Revolving door
Jun 16 · 314
Cold Dead Hands
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
Jun 13 · 56
The Acrobat
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
Jun 12 · 133
The Isolationists
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
Jun 11 · 183
The Anti-Natalist
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
Jun 8 · 57
Continental Drift
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
Jun 7 · 75
The Sweet Spot
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
Jun 4 · 74
Word Jumble
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
Jun 3 · 70
The Vaporizer
Wherein once
Harmony
Reigned from the skies
Now pollution
A gas mask
A plastic disguise
Is infusing its fumes
With our doom and gloom
Suicide
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
May 28 · 108
Abandonment Issues
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
May 28 · 88
Bud Light
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
May 27 · 62
Live for the Moment
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
May 27 · 68
Timeshare Salesmen
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
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