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Brian Fahey Jul 2015
Wear the style make the money Grab your coffee
Turn the lights on tame the dogs and comb your hair
But when the kids about the wall and up the ante
Consider this you weren't first to first declare.
Among the dreams of love they gave us all the nightmares
But you awoke and said this isn't fair.

Do you recall a time where everybody,
All alike were free to breath into the air,
When grass was green and life was just a party?
Do you recall you weren't first to be their heir?

But you do the workout, ride your pony, cut your copy,
Take your pills and play it safe cuz you don't care,
But when this **** aligns like one Backlit Okapi,
Remember all you needed now was everywhere.
Old song still in progress
All my online trivia games
Seem to think the okapi is
An extremely important animal
To be able to recognize
At least once a week
I’m asked to identify
The okapi
It is
Apparently
Vital to the online trivia community
Jeremy Anderson Apr 2020
Structure. Poetry is deemed poetry due to its structure.
Well why can’t my poetry just do what it wants.                              One word over here

One word here
Must everything make sense
An okapi does not wish it were more giraffe than zebra.    
Accepting it is is what it does and in doing so collaborates with life.
But   not us.
Does it botther  u? Does it bother you when I spell bother you incorrectly?
Bother you when My words jump around the page in nonsense.
Am I writing prose or a verse in free verse free of verse   Why can’t I just regurgitate these words upon this page and be loved and accepted for putting these words upon a page

So often are people admired for their sonnets and sestinas
But did you ever find love for structure
                  In
             madness

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