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Rock paper scissors lizard spock

rock smashes scissors

break our swords

Scissors cut paper

tear up our poetry

paper covers rock.

shielded by policy

 

we have our voices.

all rock, all scissor, all paper.

all spock, all lizard

we do not play games, we Speak.

We throw spock hands like Gang signs

spit parsel tongue at pride haters

we write love letters to revolution

We cut red tape with our long fuzes

Hit rock bottom, more bass in our

Voices than god knows what to do with

So we tell him exactlly where it should go.

 

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock

 

They hold their pens like scissors

carving history books into erasure poems

 

We would swing our pens like swords.

But no leader we trust has been elected yet.

 

We would have a leader to guide us

But snakeoil salesmen plague our trenches.

 

There would be no snakeoil salesmen if

we had a stable government

 

We would have a stable government

but the stability was sharpied out of our history books.

 

And To history, loud voices sound

like the fires of god.

And are we not the voices with more bass then God knows what to do with.

without words on the wind,

There is no flame

so aren't we fire.

 

We all have tealights waiting in cold oven hearts.

stone hearths begging for Ignition

eager for bootleg promises of warmth

The orange rhetoric of our future

no warmer than tinders logo.

or a video recording of a fireplace

flickering on a flatscreen at best buy.

We are distracted constantly.

misdirected by Houses of paper cards

origami swans we don't dare unfold

Staying ignorant of the tire track liner inside.

origami swans are so much more beautiful

when they have secrets, right?

 

I have a matchstick

watch me strike it lit

flare this paper swan into a pheonix.

And hold it in my fist.

there will be fire.

and it will not be a metaphor

But It will be a revolution

And it will be a pheonix

and the pheonix WILL be a metaphor

 

The Rabbi at Temple Beth El

said when a mans consumed by gods fire

it is a severance from faith, a spiritual death.

what have we done

if not lost faith in our government?

Been consumed by the fires of god.

and why not tattoo pheonix feathers

on our backs?

at least this death gave us warmth.

a home in the world's ashes.

 

I stared at the dragons fire that stormed towards me

thanked it for the oppurtunity

to walk out of this world

holding dragons eggs

Like Daneris Tygareon

and they will be real dragons.

incubated by REAL fire

despite this crumbling cataclysm

you call a great america.

Spock handed Lizards larger and louder

with all the rocks

paper and scissors they need

to set the world on fire.

To Finally see something beautiful be born.

A Home that keeps them warm.

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GeekElement
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Jun 7, 2017
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