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478 · Mar 2016
Expiration Date
steve green Mar 2016
Living my life

one breath

at a time

Maybe

a little too hard

for a well worn man

of my obvious limitations

Sharp pain explosion

Numbness spreads

Better lay down

and clear

my suddenly

dizzy head

Screams

and commotion

Sirens blare

My express trip

to intensive care

Men in white

wheel me in

Monitor my

life functions

beep beep beep

follow the bouncing

beep

High tech toys flash red

Tube goes

up my nose

Apprehension grows

Here we go

Close the show

Fade to black

Flat line melody

Step into

the white light

and don't

look back
444 · Mar 2016
Market Dogma
steve green Mar 2016
The casual observer
and innocent bystander
sharing a bottle of transparency
down at Cafe Apathy

Putting their two cents in
the neon jukebox
they blare the latest hit
from the high profile band
Vox Populi

Well dressed media pundits
converge on the scene
to conduct yet another
well choreographed focus group
to tell us what it all means

An evening of cliche laden
conversation they will spend
leading the random sample sheep
to conclusions that meet the desired end

The well coiffed prop messiah
in the tailored suit
will be spoon fed this data eventually
in the spirit of self fulfilling prophesies

Which will validate the legitimacy
of his devoted apostles
who spread the word
of the second coming
to the disinterested patrons
of Club Apocalypse
who are too busy
achieving perfect numbness
to buy in to the consumable product
that passes for modern absolute truth
411 · Aug 2015
Natural Selection
steve green Aug 2015
The chances

of you and I
getting out
of this party
with our virtue still alive
is virtually an impossibility

The fragility
of the Sunday school morality
drilled into our fair heads
before we were ever acquainted
with physical temptation

As the years accumulate

and the implanted guilt dissipates

we realize finally

the futility

of constantly restraining

our natural urges
381 · Dec 2015
Pay Back Reflex
steve green Dec 2015
You hit us

We hit back

Round and round

Punch and counter punch

Hatred is trending

Now we commence
once again
the ****** dance

to avenge Paris

and get our revenge

as humanity descends

deeper

into the abyss

of recycled violence
362 · Dec 2015
Love of My Night
steve green Dec 2015
This much I know

Twas a night of epic cheer

Though it turned to blur

sometime between

hello and good bye  

So here I lie

in a strange bed

Unclear how I got here

or what I did

and with whom

Singular or plural

Very hard to say

Next move

Do I sneak out silently
or snuggle
with the mystery lump
laying next to me?

Is this the end
or a romance beginning?

What was her name again?
355 · Dec 2015
Keep The Change
steve green Dec 2015
I am today

not who I was yesterday

Nor am I now

who I shall be tomorrow

Is this evolution or erosion?

The natural ebb and flow
of the currents of time

Or perhaps change
is nothing more
than a state of mind?

I don't  know  

Who's to say?

Tis all a crap shoot anyway

Keep the change
333 · Dec 2015
Prayer Poetry
steve green Dec 2015
All the pilgrims gather
for their weak *** Sunday blather

as stained glass saints bear witness
to prayers recited by rote
by the zombie congregation
awash in traditional hypocrisies

Sinners seeking to con their way
into happily ever after eternity

As if salvation can be bought
by slipping some coin
into the collection plate

You best take those homilies
and hymns you sing off key
a tad more seriously

Absorb those ancient words to heart

and begin to walk

the righteous walk

Amen
313 · Dec 2015
The Forsaken One
steve green Dec 2015
Deep within this blaring intersection
hangs a man from a blood drenched cross

Looking down on the pilgrims below
as they scurry madly to and fro

What was once
a tourist curiosity show
now a trivia question nobody knows

Part of the 24/7 scenery unseen

Melded into the mosaic of a society lost

Just another annoying city obstacle
we step over and around

As we mutter about urban clutter

Nobody bothers to take the time
to see humanity's greatest crime

Not one soul will be found
to help this wounded soul down

A slice of 21st Century selfishness

The new original sin
313 · Dec 2015
Odd Bawling
steve green Dec 2015
I've always struggled
with the concept of appropriate

Forever straining the fabric
of social conventions

I am harmless though

but I realize

my flights from propriety  
make friends and family cringe

Like a maladjusted puzzle piece
forever battling to fit in
to somehow pass for normal

People call me a character

as they snicker and chatter

about my latest indiscretion

I smile like fools do

but it bothers me

more than they know

Why do I always

have to be

out

          of

sync?
310 · Dec 2015
Chipped Glass
steve green Dec 2015
Before I became
the shadow I am today

I use to care deeply

Filled with empowerment

Believed that I mattered

People cared what I had to say

but the world

had it's own agenda

Made me feel irrelevant

Now I chirp irreverent

A bitter mockingbird

hopping around

with clipped wings
297 · Dec 2015
Club Hamanity
steve green Dec 2015
Let us concede

that hatred had

a really big year

Riding a seemingly endless
winning streak

fueled by mutual fear

and a sense of dread

that by next news cycle
any one of us
could end up dead

Constant retaliations
leave us seeking isolation

behind walls of false insulation

Treating the symptoms
without curing the disease
simply delays
the body's demise

If we are to survive

we gotta realize

we are one species

one humanity

sharing the same planet

for a limited time

No one country

No one ideology

No one theology

No one person

is better than the next

Peace will only come
to this troubled blue speck

with mutual respect

and global equality

— The End —