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ICE agents prowling, a band plays stairway to heaven. my wife is Mexican. they stop us at the store.   "i'm a US citizen!" detaining my wife, child, and me, my family broken. we're split up and taken like it is a chore. "i'm a US citizen!" our socials are nothing they'd believe in, i tried pulling them out and found them torn. ICE agents prowling, a band plays stairway to heaven. in a line in a room with smells that can't be taken in easily without thinking, "i can't take this anymore, i'm a US citizen!" i see the line for women and children. my wife holding hands, i think to run, my tears pour. ICE agents prowling, a band plays stairway to heaven. running and running, tackling and tackling, and they're livened. oh they riff in the air like they can't hear more. ICE agents prowling, a band plays stairway to heaven. "i'm a US Citizen!"
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Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025 at 12:36 PM UTC
tHeyRe nICE gUyS
Vexations Tell the boss how you really ******* feel His job totally ****** ***** and he does as a boss Blame him for you having no sales! As he’s in charge and talks to the client Who sends over new leads you call Give me some good leads and you’ll get sales Simple as that give me old **** leads What do you expect me to get nothing? Why I feel frustrated and ****** off! Unlike the clicky bosses who click along And most of the other reps with a sale each Give me a sale and I’ll feel a bit better If the right offer comes up see you later
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Aug 20, 2024
Aug 20, 2024 at 10:47 PM UTC
Vexations
Together Metrix love them hate them Top box CSAT bottom box DSAT What makes or breaks a rep Or Team Leader or support Your stats are my stats My stats are your stats We’re in this crap together The call centre job Love it hate it do it together Top or bottom never middle
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Aug 20, 2024
Aug 20, 2024 at 1:07 AM UTC
Together
The call centre rep/was branded on his top arm/it hurt for six months
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Aug 20, 2024
Aug 20, 2024 at 12:55 AM UTC
branded
I am searching for a literary agent who would assist me in publishing my poetry compilation if you know anyone please send me a message, including their contacts Thank you
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Dec 15, 2020
Dec 15, 2020 at 5:13 PM UTC
URGENT NEED
coerced and inundated, demands insistent, strident, prioritize me before-the-less-restless, escape to the land of reply all. our dictionary is now closed. all words are currently unavailable. delays are currently unavoidable. no guarantees re punctuation accur,acy imp lied. your on your own today. common sense is still open and trading. make your own words. clarity, your burden, innovation, your standard, all one words spoken. replytoalltoday. wearenolongeracceptingapplications. themarketofthemindisclosed. donotreplytothisreply'all
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Sep 29, 2017
Sep 29, 2017 at 4:19 PM UTC
donotreplytothisreplyall
𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝘕𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝐜'𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘮 𝘐? 𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸s 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝘐'𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 (𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵) 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘮𝘦 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘴 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦? 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝐦𝐞 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝐦𝐞
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Jun 15, 2020
Jun 15, 2020 at 6:14 AM UTC
UNDERCOVER AGENT
𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘬𝘦 𝘶𝘱 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝘕𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝐜'𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝘋𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘮 𝘐? 𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝐮𝐧𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝘛𝘰 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸s 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝘐'𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 (𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵) 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝐰𝐚𝐫 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘮𝘦 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘴 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘮𝘺 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝐬𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴𝘯'𝘵 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦? 𝘚𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝐦𝐞 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝐦𝐞
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*saw: the adoration of the daddy, as his red haired babes leaned into either side of him, courtiers to a king on the way to school this AM, transfusing his magical super~fatherly, by inhaling his special powers through their nostrils, direct from his broad and powerful brave-heart chest, for use later in the wild jungle* of second grade ••• *an elderly gent whose walker rattled with every lift and kerplunk on the street~steppes of a dangerous city for the brittle of bone and the easily dentable, and the crowd that gathered round walking at precisely the same pace he required to make it across the widest boulevard which was thirty seconds more than the Dept. of Transportation's asinine calculations and a miracle from Lourdes occurred - not one horn honked in ire as the court escorted their Long Live the King safely across the street, as if* ***idiocy was like rain, against the law, until after sunset as in Camelot*** ••• *an elegant germanic man, in homburg and velvet collared overcoat, taking care of sales and distribution of newspapers and candy at the corner paper "stand" while the elderly owner, whose partner~wife of fifty years had recently passed, now had no one but someone's pop whose was out walking our cocker spaniel, to tend the place while said candyman obeyed nature's callings and all his fans and friends who passed on their way to the adjacent subway station, exclaimed Erwin, Erwin what are you doing? his twinkled crinkled eyes replied, enjoying their puzzlement, laughingly saying* "making spare change" ••• *where I lived these little miracles occurred so frequently, was told a story that the ministering angels could not keep up with their duties, complaining to the On High, who resoundingly loudly commanded their silence! by reminding them that all these, his creatures, were his own precious, the reason for creation and why they were needed, and the sum of all these small acts gave them their own existential purpose, now angry at himself for loss of temper, soft spoke as a parent and told them better,* hush my children, we have much to do! ••• *so now you impatiently need to know why this scripture came to be known as $$$$$ for I was witness to all of this, all on that day, that was twenty fours hours long across many hard hearted Hiroshima decades, that made me temporarily the richest man in the world
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Oct 4, 2017
Oct 4, 2017 at 2:51 PM UTC
$$$$$ (street stories/hush my children, we have much to do!)
*saw: the adoration of the daddy, as his red haired babes leaned into either side of him, courtiers to a king on the way to school this AM, transfusing his magical super~fatherly, by inhaling his special powers through their nostrils, direct from his broad and powerful brave-heart chest, for use later in the wild jungle* of second grade ••• *an elderly gent whose walker rattled with every lift and kerplunk on the street~steppes of a dangerous city for the brittle of bone and the easily dentable, and the crowd that gathered round walking at precisely the same pace he required to make it across the widest boulevard which was thirty seconds more than the Dept. of Transportation's asinine calculations and a miracle from Lourdes occurred - not one horn honked in ire as the court escorted their Long Live the King safely across the street, as if* ***idiocy was like rain, against the law, until after sunset as in Camelot*** ••• *an elegant germanic man, in homburg and velvet collared overcoat, taking care of sales and distribution of newspapers and candy at the corner paper "stand" while the elderly owner, whose partner~wife of fifty years had recently passed, now had no one but someone's pop whose was out walking our cocker spaniel, to tend the place while said candyman obeyed nature's callings and all his fans and friends who passed on their way to the adjacent subway station, exclaimed Erwin, Erwin what are you doing? his twinkled crinkled eyes replied, enjoying their puzzlement, laughingly saying* "making spare change" ••• *where I lived these little miracles occurred so frequently, was told a story that the ministering angels could not keep up with their duties, complaining to the On High, who resoundingly loudly commanded their silence! by reminding them that all these, his creatures, were his own precious, the reason for creation and why they were needed, and the sum of all these small acts gave them their own existential purpose, now angry at himself for loss of temper, soft spoke as a parent and told them better,* hush my children, we have much to do! ••• *so now you impatiently need to know why this scripture came to be known as $$$$$ for I was witness to all of this, all on that day, that was twenty fours hours long across many hard hearted Hiroshima decades, that made me temporarily the richest man in the world
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Drunk on polluted farts of the left winds pulled by long noses into witless pens spewing red ink artificial energy from Columbia and caffeine powered husks vacuous soldiers of Mao and Lenin re-drilling Winter Palace debacle woke world of plastics damaged to plastic pollution by damagers fair Narrow minded short sighted rabbles humming Laissez-faire sanctioners regulating home-brewed hocks equal distribution is hatching Gullivers limb by limp to feed giants makes sense in the senseless vacuum of bacon slashers by Farm pigs beasts of every land and clime this is the new world order by crimson Pol *** psychologists are making the future cancerous and caffeinated they read minds and pull strings power is making my bad choices, frustration and inadequacies yours two wrong makes right and dare see left as a wrong or you are goner altra right come take lessons on how to mask and leave pointed hats behind......
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Sep 9, 2019
Sep 9, 2019 at 6:09 AM UTC
Put the kettle on........
at your own peril! *dare to vex provoke, antagonize, exasperate that is what my words will do they won't irritate or annoy, bug or merely peeve, a simple bother insufficient vex your core, demand that you more than mere question yourself but riptide extracts the elemental, battery acid on the essence bared learn the power of crafting words for maximum effect torment, infuriate, expose yourself, what has lain beneath the skin, you will let me in, to let you out why play with poetry, the most dangerous weapon unless you nakedly intend to* !dare to vex!
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 8:00 PM UTC
dare to vex poetry
*tremulous and tender, the crook'd finger neither timid or tentative,* yet trembles, *though it be from care, not fear, consideration, not trepidation the renegade finger strokes her sleeping cheek, tender the tip to each cell beloved, as if sealing a bond there is no more to say when awakening comes, one will be gone, with no note, thus this last soft stoking, outline stroking tremulous and tender, his finger, U shaped-crook'd, but he is no longer is her you* he leaves, departing, yet lightly shaking, no longer can he be her prized and proud claiming show-horse, gone, that man she loved, for he cannot abide his being called a former, dark glory, a bent cane spirit, his body, its entirety,   crooked by weight of an improvident provision, not just his finger, this, his,  a greater intolerable, his pain of failure unacceptable and shame searing, his woe bends his love acrooked
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Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 4:41 PM UTC
tremulous and tender, the crook'd finger, yet trembles
I tried to be a secret agent I smuggled the keys to your heart Little did I know You had changed the lock
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Mar 13, 2019
Mar 13, 2019 at 1:12 PM UTC
Sneak
I’ve been struck down again, fully aware it’s my own doing. Do you have a heart you can lend? Mine’s drying from the taping and the glueing. Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my sweet Clementine, are you smiling or are you snarling, more importantly are you mine? Outside the window seasons blend, the temperature holds no meaning. I notice the change and the trend, to ignore the withdrawals from weaning. Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my sweet Clementine, you’ve been avoiding and been barring, but you can’t severe this line. The stronger the initial fear usually means the most is at stake, and trying to prevent a single tear can lead to the worst heartbreak. Those who leave the best memories usually leave us with the most hurt, you know we can’t just live life with ease, there needs to be some blood on a white shirt. You can try to completely forget someone, but putting that effort in means you’re actually fixated more, and after all is said and done, honestly who do you wish to be behind that door? Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my sweet Clementine, is it cleansing or more harming, to live in denial all the time? Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my sweet Clementine, when it’s finished it’ll be starting, and I’ll stand under the Montauk sign.
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Feb 19, 2019
Feb 19, 2019 at 7:07 AM UTC
Agent Orange
when she was wise that underlay spies with greater machines whether grants alight her home yet align a sentence with parallel verve of song but with melodious flight in throes would spirit those nights
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Jan 27, 2019
Jan 27, 2019 at 11:19 AM UTC
Jane 4687
All this having spanned since a borning is the activity of Sleeper Agent This Agent has grown Impy of this lively drumming of clingings It is recognised and marked as ; distraction an entertainment an irreverent viewing A clearer work must commence an underlying detached being Operations within the drama life are now operations in a training ground All these efforts are toward Project Awake and projected life is now secondary though useful.
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Jan 5, 2019
Jan 5, 2019 at 5:09 PM UTC
agent statement
what has come to this indigenous things we do~ better follow the others cause what once was fiction now rings true can't blame apocalypse our letters aren't edible and judicious arrangements are post script letters so i embrace the gift that i'm a wandering wolf~ cow paths lead to danger in my book and these sheep follow bull's **** raw hide as a service systems on delivery don't follow lines of those deserving this what has come & what will be
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Jul 15, 2018
Jul 15, 2018 at 12:35 AM UTC
Inedible Apocalyptic Arrangements
a bill of fire lifted my queen with a submarine arise to their heights near the Bering Sea now their democracy in a gilded age of maternity while in Minsk they'd sing Magellan's hymn
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Feb 19, 2018
Feb 19, 2018 at 3:46 AM UTC
Russian Escapade
me and her we barely talk like spies for different governments I've tried extracting information but I'm cut off, passing out and I wake up every time 17, heart-broken with silence blank stares scan my every evening somehow I am still invisible turning this into a cold green light to explore the dark corridors of my heart my thoughts turn to microfilms and battle plans and secret blueprints my cover's hanging by a thread I'm now a fugitive with everything to lose a secret agent in love with their handler, the disembodied string of signs on glowing screen how much emptier than this is it possible to get because there is no home and you can't just go back to the agency one wrong step and charges vary from espionage to treason and there've never been any right moves at all so now it's back to basics
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Jul 24, 2017
Jul 24, 2017 at 2:50 PM UTC
Serious Games (The Agent, pt.1)
If Traveler were my manager I'd still be poor, yes, destitute no gigs, or clubs, or money no golden, parachute I'd poetically wander the plains of poverty, debt, and dearth no funds would be, or remain not a cent, upon this earth So ware the offer, if it comes his heart's in the right place but know, there won't be any sums as your coffers emptier, than space
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Jul 11, 2017
Jul 11, 2017 at 8:24 AM UTC
If Traveler were my manager
Wonder how they came up ahead of me… she’d been leaking information to the enemy. A double agent. She loves me but it can’t be helped. It is her nature. Well don’t you know, my seductive charming spy mistress, that the fuse is lit. Your behavior, a recipe for calamity. We might be the epicenter, ground zero, but no one shall be spared. Everyone involved will be affected. A 360 degree firestorm of shrapnel. Just because. You needed more… to feel more beautiful, more wanted, more seductive, by more parties. Never enough. More. Love lies spilling guts, from the mess up still partially beautiful. Face almost calm, not contorted. Pain is numbed as she disintegrates like vapour. But we’ve become a desert and it will not rain back for centuries.
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Jul 10, 2017
Jul 10, 2017 at 2:13 AM UTC
Sabotage
As he'd flip his hat his ties have shone though quaint in fact just belied and bade his call of freedom yet his mapping afield where he'd belay topography and his harmony too with hint of something new even enticed quite averse that hastened to implore he cherished that linen more refined in his attire as he must wear it again.
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Mar 13, 2017
Mar 13, 2017 at 7:57 PM UTC
A Neck Tie
For the life of me I cannot understand the monotony Chasing tails up and down stairwells Ludicrous! How can you call this excitement? I cannot remember the last 5 minutes! This dreadful spinning Responsibility is heavy Calling all my friends and family Government mandatory Legalized this circus There is no way around it you must have insurance!!! Now they will label me Certainly the wolf at the door Stacking up bills You can't afford to ignore So maybe one day IF you qualify You can give someone money When you die
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Mar 10, 2017
Mar 10, 2017 at 4:52 PM UTC
Insurance
Bill lit up a cigarette, began to dress. The young punk on the bed yakked about left wing crap. Bill turned off his hearing, the *** had been good, the talk not. He buttoned up his collar, tied his tie. Exhaled the smoke, put on his shoes. Walked to the small kitchen, flipped on the radio, put on the kettle. The young punk got off the bed, dressed, gazed at the older man in the kitchen, classic **** from the radio. Bill offered coffee and toast. The young punk said: ok, sat in a chair, pushed fingers through black hair, shoulder length. Bill took in the Debussy, turned on the toaster, made coffee. The kid was talking away, lit up, watched Bill's back, the shooter in an holster over the shoulder. Bill laid down the coffee and toast, sat opposite the punk, gentle spoke. The punk had liked the *** ate the toast, sipped the coffee, feared the shooter. The Debussy ended, Bach ***** music, punk yawned. Are you a cop? the punk asked. No, Bill said, in business. Business? the punk wondered what sort, exhaled smoke. Worldwide stuff, Bill said, musing on the arranged suicide **** in Iraq, dead is dead.
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Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 at 12:05 PM UTC
DEAD IS DEAD 1999.
Bill knew the facts; He lies abed. Lifts up his eyes to the shadeless naked light bulb. The Bay of Pigs, that fiasco in 61. Kennedy was ****** Castro survived. The Agency out to get him: Pres JFK, not Castro yet. Conspiracy they call it now. A turkey shoot, to take him out. Bill had met him in the White House, good looking dude, had talked briefly. 22nd of November year 63. Bill lies smoking. Framed Lee Oswald, the patsy, then taken him out. Bill sighs out smoke: Warren report a ****** whitewash. Cover up their collective *** Bill was young then, a young green horn. Then came black ops: Other places, other people. Those arranged deaths, those “suicides”, set up protests in foreign fields, regime changes. Bill recalls now that **** agent in East Berlin. Held her down firm in the washhouse. That spy in Rome who had a fall Bill had arranged. Time past time gone. Bill watches smoke Grey white twisting on the ceiling. Long ago now. Little conscience; Little feeling.
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Jan 24, 2017
Jan 24, 2017 at 8:35 AM UTC
BILL'S KNOWN FACTS 1997.