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“Normality” people cry And I can’t help but ask Why? A slave to the wage Already trapped in a cage What is it about life before That you are all grieving so much for? The freedom of which you speak Having to book a holiday for a ******* week Yes I miss a warm embrace I want him here kissing my face Technology overload So ***** I’ll explode Yet somehow I know That back to ‘normal’ Is not where I want to go When this is over You’ll book that holiday And take the next flight To some far away place To have the same sun On your face Then back to your cage A slave to the wage This simulation was not a success Mother Nature cries You’re all a ******* mess She’s given you a chance A time to pause To reflect To ponder To dream Yet you dare not ask What does all this mean? Do you sit there and wait For world leaders To decide your fate? Will you choose to do good? To have compassion for those Where isolation is all they know? Locked away behind bars With their trauma and their scars Out of site Out of mind They’ve been left behind When this is over I’ll ask myself the question What do I yearn for? And the answer will be As it’s always has been Freedom From normality
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Apr 17, 2020
Apr 17, 2020 at 7:45 PM UTC
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February 8th, 2018 - 11:06pm. In. An. The. How much deeper will this go? This desert. This baron land and escape from the moonlit evenings’ effervescent engineering of short-lived Neanderthals. These voices are enough to split our hides through and through like an cheese grater, that pants-boots combo chases us into the early morning forecast. I need to get out with her. We need to get out from here. We need to go out from this place. There are hexes and hieroglyphs places matte with ill-defined Finnish designs. There is the yolk and that which copies it. There is the phone and the web of tangling eyes whose corpus is mimicry. I am the notes and the music is taking me down, down, down. Whether it’s our dreams or the sweats that keep us ratcheting our bodies beaten eyes hooked to the cadavers we once chose. Now it’s up to you to choose. This is the fuse that we’ve let loose, maybe your furnace can curtsy and observe these sad blackened buffoons while they make us shrivel up and go hide back in our bed cocoons. This is a zoo I tell you and you tell me. This is a zoo of mayhem, hedonists, and 400° degrees. These are the tiny beds we hide in until they melt us down, into the heirs of our highness, our luxuries quick to abscond.
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Feb 9, 2018
Feb 9, 2018 at 6:55 AM UTC
February 8th
Tuffy skinned a cat Behind Walker Bros. Stores; He was probably in on The sand-girl's situation, But no one believes her; Yet believe Tuffy capable of such. He wrestled ostriches and kangaroos At Jungleworld, Real ones. Some say the animals were old and drugged, But Tuffy pinned them all the same. Margo's house burned to the studs Following her sex-driven ****** That was thirty years ago, The same time Jungleworld, With its spiders, snakes and caged bear Died off with Tuffy and his peacock, And the secrets of his take downs and holds. I never saw Tuffy perform His flaming knife-throws, Destroying balloons between lips, Slicing straps with his swordplay. He would've thrived in Venice with Leonardo, Dazzling Popes and Princes, Who would be benefactors and patrons. Tuffy would have lived in a villa, On a mountainside, overlooking his audience, And applauding them for their attention to detail.
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Dec 1, 2016
Dec 1, 2016 at 10:38 AM UTC
Skinning the Cat
Somehow the gate's been opened To the urban zoo; And the rural petting farm Is something gone askew. The wildebeests and monkeys Are leading lambs and lemmings, They're trumpetting their call, I hear them through the concrete wall.
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Mar 3, 2016
Mar 3, 2016 at 5:18 PM UTC
Trumpeting Their Call