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Loyalty They talk about loyalty, Like it’s a fantasy, They talk about loyalty, But have no clue, what it means. They talk about equality, Like it’s currently happening, They talk about democracy, But have no clue, what it means. Glocks aimed at cops, Glocks aimed back at someone’s pop, Many lives have been lost over Gaup. Gaup that buys whips and thots. All got something to prove, But to who? All got something to lose, What will you choose? If money equal power, Than why is the taste so sour? After all the castles and ivory towers. You’re left a lonely dragon like bowser. Loyalty tell me what it means to me? To hang with royalty, Or help those in poverty. The place I used to be. Helping people like me. That society has coated with a cloak of invisibility. Because they can’t stand minorities. And that’s why we can’t stand authorities. A toxic cycle that stems from a different ideology. Instead of equality, We have uniformity, Instead of democracy, We have white supremacy. Instead of loyalty, We have hypocrisy. They talk about loyalty, Like it’s a fantasy, They talk about loyalty, But have no clue, what it means. They talk about equality, Like it’s currently happening, They talk about democracy, But have no clue, what it means. Too many broken promises, I feel like James Sie, Losing all his cabbages. But since we are deemed as savages, All the damages attributed, Are treated as shenanigans, Instead of answering calls to action, We have a government completely dumbfounded. Instead of compassion, We are harassed and hounded. We still got all lot of work to do. And I hope one day we’ll have a breakthrough! For we all got something to prove? But to who? Maybe for me or for you! All got something to lose, If we never take the time to put on another’s shoe. So, what will you choose? Will you help light the fuse? Or treat this issue like your alarm clock, And put in on snooze? Who will you be loyal to? Your heart? Or to your privilege? Hmm… They talk about loyalty, Like it’s a fantasy, They talk about loyalty, But have no clue, what it means. They talk about equality, Like it’s currently happening, They talk about democracy, But have no clue, what it means.
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Jun 16, 2021
Jun 16, 2021 at 8:26 PM UTC
Loyalty
Loyalty They talk about loyalty, Like it’s a fantasy, They talk about loyalty, But have no clue, what it means. They talk about equality, Like it’s currently happening, They talk about democracy, But have no clue, what it means. Glocks aimed at cops, Glocks aimed back at someone’s pop, Many lives have been lost over Gaup. Gaup that buys whips and thots. All got something to prove, But to who? All got something to lose, What will you choose? If money equal power, Than why is the taste so sour? After all the castles and ivory towers. You’re left a lonely dragon like bowser. Loyalty tell me what it means to me? To hang with royalty, Or help those in poverty. The place I used to be. Helping people like me. That society has coated with a cloak of invisibility. Because they can’t stand minorities. And that’s why we can’t stand authorities. A toxic cycle that stems from a different ideology. Instead of equality, We have uniformity, Instead of democracy, We have white supremacy. Instead of loyalty, We have hypocrisy. They talk about loyalty, Like it’s a fantasy, They talk about loyalty, But have no clue, what it means. They talk about equality, Like it’s currently happening, They talk about democracy, But have no clue, what it means. Too many broken promises, I feel like James Sie, Losing all his cabbages. But since we are deemed as savages, All the damages attributed, Are treated as shenanigans, Instead of answering calls to action, We have a government completely dumbfounded. Instead of compassion, We are harassed and hounded. We still got all lot of work to do. And I hope one day we’ll have a breakthrough! For we all got something to prove? But to who? Maybe for me or for you! All got something to lose, If we never take the time to put on another’s shoe. So, what will you choose? Will you help light the fuse? Or treat this issue like your alarm clock, And put in on snooze? Who will you be loyal to? Your heart? Or to your privilege? Hmm… They talk about loyalty, Like it’s a fantasy, They talk about loyalty, But have no clue, what it means. They talk about equality, Like it’s currently happening, They talk about democracy, But have no clue, what it means.
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Woof.....woof.....woof...woof....woof....wooof Some Red setters dogs are eating Jewish people in England But why, do call them off, they are british people, The are hard working, Industrious, Entrepreneurs, Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, Bankers, Entertainers Scientists, Writers, eminent Surgeons, Artists, these are nice Britons....stop the dogs, stop the dogs..... Woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof...woof woof Some Red Setters dogs are eating and biting some Labour MPs all over the country But why, do call off the dogs, No! we have a list and this list,  highlighted the behaviour of a number of Left MPs, including Jess Phillips for telling Corbyn’s ally Diane Abbott to **** off”, John Woodcock for dismissing the party leader as a ******* disaster” and Tristram Hunt for describing Labour as “in the **** and all the other hard working Moderate MPs who dared protest at Anti-Semitic stance or supported the Jews . Woof.....woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof...woof Some Red Setters dogs are devouring some minor Royal from Africa But why, do call off the dogs. No that ****** has a big **** he's Charismatic, intelligent, wholesome, has good work ethics, polite, wise, charming, generous, witty and a ****** good lover and to top it all he's Royal. Now that's ******* GREEDY, how much can a ******* man have. NO! he's a goner. He is too perfect, he must be hounded and persecuted to death. Woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof.....woof.......woof Grrr.....woof.....Grrrrr....woof...wooof...Grrrr....wooof Congratulations People, we have got rid of them all we now have real democracy, we have a real society now Get in the dogs ... And all you useless ******* people shut up! And report to the Labor Camps 7:30a.m. tomorrow You're Working Class and now you ****** have to work!
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 6:45 PM UTC
“call off the dogs”.
Woof.....woof.....woof...woof....woof....wooof Some Red setters dogs are eating Jewish people in England But why, do call them off, they are british people, The are hard working, Industrious, Entrepreneurs, Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, Bankers, Entertainers Scientists, Writers, eminent Surgeons, Artists, these are nice Britons....stop the dogs, stop the dogs..... Woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof...woof woof Some Red Setters dogs are eating and biting some Labour MPs all over the country But why, do call off the dogs, No! we have a list and this list,  highlighted the behaviour of a number of Left MPs, including Jess Phillips for telling Corbyn’s ally Diane Abbott to **** off”, John Woodcock for dismissing the party leader as a ******* disaster” and Tristram Hunt for describing Labour as “in the **** and all the other hard working Moderate MPs who dared protest at Anti-Semitic stance or supported the Jews . Woof.....woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof...woof Some Red Setters dogs are devouring some minor Royal from Africa But why, do call off the dogs. No that ****** has a big **** he's Charismatic, intelligent, wholesome, has good work ethics, polite, wise, charming, generous, witty and a ****** good lover and to top it all he's Royal. Now that's ******* GREEDY, how much can a ******* man have. NO! he's a goner. He is too perfect, he must be hounded and persecuted to death. Woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof.....woof.......woof Grrr.....woof.....Grrrrr....woof...wooof...Grrrr....wooof Congratulations People, we have got rid of them all we now have real democracy, we have a real society now Get in the dogs ... And all you useless ******* people shut up! And report to the Labor Camps 7:30a.m. tomorrow You're Working Class and now you ****** have to work!
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You can see it already: chalks and ochers; Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines; Ground-level rooftops hidden by the shrubbery; Sporadic haystacks standing on the grass; Smoky old rooftops tarnishing the landscape; A river (not Cayster or Ganges, though: A feeble Norman salt-infested watercourse); On the right, to the north, bizarre terrain All angular--you'd think a shovel did it. So that's the foreground. An old chapel adds Its antique spire, and gathers alongside it A few gnarled elms with grumpy silhouettes; Seemingly tired of all the frisky breezes, They carp at every gust that stirs them up. At one side of my house a big wheelbarrow Is rusting; and before me lies the vast Horizon, all its notches filled with ocean blue; ***** and hens spread their gildings, and converse Beneath my window; and the rooftop attics, Now and then, toss me songs in dialect. In my lane dwells a patriarchal rope-maker; The old man makes his wheel run loud, and goes Retrograde, hemp wreathed tightly round the midriff. I like these waters where the wild gale scuds; All day the country tempts me to go strolling; The little village urchins, book in hand, Envy me, at the schoolmaster's (my lodging), As a big schoolboy sneaking a day off. The air is pure, the sky smiles; there's a constant Soft noise of children spelling things aloud. The waters flow; a linnet flies; and I say: "Thank you! Thank you, Almighty God!"--So, then, I live: Peacefully, hour by hour, with little fuss, I shed My days, and think of you, my lady fair! I hear the children chattering; and I see, at times, Sailing across the high seas in its pride, Over the gables of the tranquil village, Some winged ship which is traveling far away, Flying across the ocean, hounded by all the winds. Lately it slept in port beside the quay. Nothing has kept it from the jealous sea-surge: No tears of relatives, nor fears of wives, Nor reefs dimly reflected in the waters, Nor importunity of sinister birds.
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You can see it already: chalks and ochers; Country crossed with a thousand furrow-lines; Ground-level rooftops hidden by the shrubbery; Sporadic haystacks standing on the grass; Smoky old rooftops tarnishing the landscape; A river (not Cayster or Ganges, though: A feeble Norman salt-infested watercourse); On the right, to the north, bizarre terrain All angular--you'd think a shovel did it. So that's the foreground. An old chapel adds Its antique spire, and gathers alongside it A few gnarled elms with grumpy silhouettes; Seemingly tired of all the frisky breezes, They carp at every gust that stirs them up. At one side of my house a big wheelbarrow Is rusting; and before me lies the vast Horizon, all its notches filled with ocean blue; ***** and hens spread their gildings, and converse Beneath my window; and the rooftop attics, Now and then, toss me songs in dialect. In my lane dwells a patriarchal rope-maker; The old man makes his wheel run loud, and goes Retrograde, hemp wreathed tightly round the midriff. I like these waters where the wild gale scuds; All day the country tempts me to go strolling; The little village urchins, book in hand, Envy me, at the schoolmaster's (my lodging), As a big schoolboy sneaking a day off. The air is pure, the sky smiles; there's a constant Soft noise of children spelling things aloud. The waters flow; a linnet flies; and I say: "Thank you! Thank you, Almighty God!"--So, then, I live: Peacefully, hour by hour, with little fuss, I shed My days, and think of you, my lady fair! I hear the children chattering; and I see, at times, Sailing across the high seas in its pride, Over the gables of the tranquil village, Some winged ship which is traveling far away, Flying across the ocean, hounded by all the winds. Lately it slept in port beside the quay. Nothing has kept it from the jealous sea-surge: No tears of relatives, nor fears of wives, Nor reefs dimly reflected in the waters, Nor importunity of sinister birds.
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Harried, Harassed, Hassled and Hounded- These are the H-words I work by. Harpies and Henchmen, Harridans and Heathens- These are the H-folk I work with. Hubbub and Hokum and Hurly-burly- These are the places I do it. Hoodlums and Hooligans, loaded with Hubris- These are the clients I deal with. Heartless and Horrible, Hateful and Hurtful These are the attitudes around me. Hopeless and Hapless, Haggard and Helpless- This is the way I usually feel. What happened to Happy, and Hopeful and Harmony- These are the H-words I search for. Hinder and Hobble, Heckle and Hamper- These are the Hamstrings that trip me. Heaven and Harmony, Humor and Honor- These are the things that I strive for. Havoc and Hades, Hurt, Hate and Hauteur- These are the H’s that I have to conquer. Hope, Help, and Herculean effort- Is How I will finally get myself Home. ljm
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Feb 25, 2017
Feb 25, 2017 at 12:30 AM UTC
THE H-WORDS
What failures oh the failures of leaving home at seventeen of living and thriving as a minority foreigner of working and studying to post-grad levels of maturing wonderfully and being up and decent of loving and marrying and creating a good home of no crime, no debts, not a drunk, not a player of no stained reputation, no borrowing or theft of being easy-going, nice and friendly, an all-rounder what failures the failure of being successful and capable in grace the failure of doing so well a white neighbor burgled the failure of saying that's not right, you're rotten thieves the failure of standing up to bullying thieving mobs the failure of being gangstalked and destroyed the failure of being an educated professional black the failure of being a solid, courageous, wholesome man the failure of knowing you can't do wrong and get by Ladies and Gentlemen these are my failures Its all there in black and white its the failure of being a minority In the british democracy of the Socialists for it is greed to work hard and be successful its a failure for blacks to aspire and do well when your white neighbor is a drunken, welfare dependent waster and thief And Blacks beware, for if you dare tell them to go change you will be stalked, hounded, smeared, defamed, humiliated harassed, bullied, slandered, sabotaged, and basically driven to suicide or a breakdown They manufacture Failures to reflect their own failures They call it Trading Places and dish it out to 'Uppity' Blacks
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Aug 18, 2019
Aug 18, 2019 at 7:40 AM UTC
Failure by design.........
What failures oh the failures of leaving home at seventeen of living and thriving as a minority foreigner of working and studying to post-grad levels of maturing wonderfully and being up and decent of loving and marrying and creating a good home of no crime, no debts, not a drunk, not a player of no stained reputation, no borrowing or theft of being easy-going, nice and friendly, an all-rounder what failures the failure of being successful and capable in grace the failure of doing so well a white neighbor burgled the failure of saying that's not right, you're rotten thieves the failure of standing up to bullying thieving mobs the failure of being gangstalked and destroyed the failure of being an educated professional black the failure of being a solid, courageous, wholesome man the failure of knowing you can't do wrong and get by Ladies and Gentlemen these are my failures Its all there in black and white its the failure of being a minority In the british democracy of the Socialists for it is greed to work hard and be successful its a failure for blacks to aspire and do well when your white neighbor is a drunken, welfare dependent waster and thief And Blacks beware, for if you dare tell them to go change you will be stalked, hounded, smeared, defamed, humiliated harassed, bullied, slandered, sabotaged, and basically driven to suicide or a breakdown They manufacture Failures to reflect their own failures They call it Trading Places and dish it out to 'Uppity' Blacks
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An immigrant from County Clare brought to this harsher clime- Phoebe Prince, an Irish lass, a gentle heart and mind. First used, and then discarded by one boy, then another.- Object of the mean girl’s scorn the consummate "outsider"   On her last day alive                                                                                                                                                         They hounded her from school. The girl they called the “Irish **** disgraced and played the fool. Her sister, Lauren, found her body hanging lifeless in the hall. Befriended by nobody Phoebe chose to end it all And on the day they held her wake Those monsters held their dance A debutante cotillion for a troop of soulless tramps. She’s buried here in County Clare because the Ocean's waves protect her from the harpies who drove her to her grave
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Jan 14, 2012
Jan 14, 2012 at 10:56 PM UTC
A Girl named Phoebe
Surrounded by empty parts of a forgotten past Chasing myself around to end up in the same place as last I spiral all night on a bed beaten by time and mistakes Just to sleep in segments of new horror in a different time of space Helplessly in love with the possibility that you may impossibly have what I'm looking for Hounded by remedy crooks with cold coffee and platitudes Abandoned by the church of the broken, to fall back into poisonous loving arms Now I'm talking to the walls and crying with the windows Spinning with the ceiling and alone in our bedroom Remembering the promises made in a 101 proof haze Living on borrowed time remembering yesterdays
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Dec 19, 2021
Dec 19, 2021 at 11:15 PM UTC
Hello Walls
I see the sad color of racism not every other day But every second of the hour, all minutes of the day I see the serious mental and physical damages That this cancer has done throughout the ages And is still doing to our beloved human beings The others treat our People like they are leftover beans On a petty pet's plate. Our people deserve respect Fairness, justice, equality, acknowledgement Compassion, credit and better treatment Our sisters are tired of being left out on the deck Our siblings are often harassed senselessly, persecuted Falsely accused and relentlessly prosecuted At one time, they were hunted and hounded by the system At other time, hindered and haunted by an organized medium Created to attack, destroy, burn, ravage and annihilate To embarrass, marginalize, ridicule, punish and discriminate I see the color of racism, when the police for no apparent reasons Stopped, frisked and handcuffed our homeless, our elderlies Or our law abiding citizens, like it was open seasons To hunt for mule deer or bears, who behave like enemies Of the civilized society. I see the sick color of racism When our people are not hired not for being unqualified But because of their skin color; they're quickly disqualified Dismissed, fired or terminated. I see the monster of cynicism All golly minutes of the day. The arrogance is unparalleled Beyond belief. The racists forgot that God only created one race One human race, one human race, one **** human race. Their false pride, their fake supremacy, their ignorance is unleveled And their audacity is incomparable. I see the colors of racism Not that I want to search for them, not that I want to find them Most of the time, I simply cannot elude, evade or escape them It is not easy to ignore the litanies of bad or negative mannerisms The bigots easily function like virulent or venomous vipers That **** out the emotions, and that destroy all positive characters Our lives, Black lives, like other lives, are sacramental and important And our contributions to the world are significant I see the ugly and surly color of racism not every other day But every second of the hour, every minute of the **** day. Copyright © February 24,2015, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
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Sep 11, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM UTC
The Color Of Abject Racism
I see the sad color of racism not every other day But every second of the hour, all minutes of the day I see the serious mental and physical damages That this cancer has done throughout the ages And is still doing to our beloved human beings The others treat our People like they are leftover beans On a petty pet's plate. Our people deserve respect Fairness, justice, equality, acknowledgement Compassion, credit and better treatment Our sisters are tired of being left out on the deck Our siblings are often harassed senselessly, persecuted Falsely accused and relentlessly prosecuted At one time, they were hunted and hounded by the system At other time, hindered and haunted by an organized medium Created to attack, destroy, burn, ravage and annihilate To embarrass, marginalize, ridicule, punish and discriminate I see the color of racism, when the police for no apparent reasons Stopped, frisked and handcuffed our homeless, our elderlies Or our law abiding citizens, like it was open seasons To hunt for mule deer or bears, who behave like enemies Of the civilized society. I see the sick color of racism When our people are not hired not for being unqualified But because of their skin color; they're quickly disqualified Dismissed, fired or terminated. I see the monster of cynicism All golly minutes of the day. The arrogance is unparalleled Beyond belief. The racists forgot that God only created one race One human race, one human race, one **** human race. Their false pride, their fake supremacy, their ignorance is unleveled And their audacity is incomparable. I see the colors of racism Not that I want to search for them, not that I want to find them Most of the time, I simply cannot elude, evade or escape them It is not easy to ignore the litanies of bad or negative mannerisms The bigots easily function like virulent or venomous vipers That **** out the emotions, and that destroy all positive characters Our lives, Black lives, like other lives, are sacramental and important And our contributions to the world are significant I see the ugly and surly color of racism not every other day But every second of the hour, every minute of the **** day. Copyright © February 24,2015, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
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she cups something in the cradle of her shivering hands a piece of body warm candy, cellophane crumbled up a neon quilted paperclip, a wilted tulip the stars, the moon, the quivering of the rocking fan the warping granite, the pastel green lawns, the cars that sped along she wore a feline attire, whiskers drawn on the curves of her cheeks she held out her secret, the one she kept close to her feet while she stayed low to the ground, safe as she hounded out, "this is my stuff, my stuff you see, but it is for me, for me, only."
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 12:52 AM UTC
kittycat
I make trips to the corner store, at 12 in the morning. Calling all cars to get the **** out of the road, I'm swerving. Calling all lights, blink and be gone. Streetlights, stoplights, lamps, lighters, blunt tips, cigarette butts, all lights be gone. Dear Earth, get low in the darkness. On my first trip, I was accosted by rabid dogs who drooled shoelaces and I could tell they were being hounded by the kilter of their angry maws and sawed-off minds. They barked like guns. And they saw me--completely irrelevant--- popping caps off Lokos taking sips that could **** up an Orca, completely swimming. I had to kick them home. At work today, Someone got caught stealing five pesos worth of food, and got threatened with a felony, but they've got some lint in their pocket, and knew how to keep it cool. My girlfriend operates in ideas. I've been at work for so long, that I yell and walk around, like I'm in the shower.
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Dec 15, 2013
Dec 15, 2013 at 10:35 AM UTC
Uniform displeasure with life.
We have seen your greasy lips Of supple warmth nibble our geographical space with relish With your cerebral repertoire of Machiavellian tactics A savage sage gleaning with resounding skill And crafty navigational sail Your masterstrokes through climes and tongues reverberated With your sparkling craft of vile crypt Across regions, tribes and locales Of your fangs that foiled good governance But this time… Your gladiatorial glide on this political turf Shall experience a firestorm of rejection Your emissaries across territorial divides Shall be hounded to delusion For the masses shall maul your mushy mantle of self grandeur To the abyss of dishonour For your subsequent arrival shall be booed to your doom Your waning clout shall swing you to judgement Of abysmal invasion We are watching your fragile trot through this fearsome terrain Of your permutation in levitation For Damocles’ fiery sword shall haunt your ambition Your raging mist on this cloudy night Shall encounter a violent tussle Prepare for war! The scarlet venom from your cruel camp Shall cease with instant visitation From the warhorses of this fearless infantry Armed with the right tools to disarm your fortified fortress As you dispatch your foot soldiers Of monsters and Leviathans To play a callous hoax like the cunning fox Their morbid mien shall encounter an eternal fall! Let the music begin… Onuchi Mark © 2010
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Aug 20, 2010
Aug 20, 2010 at 6:32 AM UTC
DARKENED TRAIL
Am a stain... As it a man... A skinny fiddler mouth. Drifted as unholy mink. A hounded firmly stinks. Find me in the dark. Am a stain... As it a man... Morgue violets you. Virtuous eye, gloom Your volute egoism. Give your soul to me. For i am the darkest night of yours. Fainthearted fought risky moors. Am a stain... As it a man...
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Dec 16, 2010
Dec 16, 2010 at 6:55 AM UTC
Secret of A Man's Forecast Name
Its a Land with 3 inches of Soil Sprouts High Voltage Lines, Oil Derriks And Microwave Towers everywhere Like a Modern Steel Forest Landscape The wind is ever present and Unending Its a Cruel Wind, strips the Paint off of All At Night the Howling and Humming of All that steel wire sets your teeth on edge The wind Strips the electrons from All Leaving a Negative charge in the Air Like some Electrical Spirit plagues the Land Scrambling your thoughts and Actions Its the Desolation Where Revial Meeting Tents Flapped in 1930s wind there for Salvation of Souls The Place where anger flares up from Minds wore down A Brother gets shot over Drumstick in any given town At the motel I pace in the Night hounded by the sound As if I had to witness this Howling wind strip the Ground Morning coffee I reach for a Styrofoam Cup with the Rolls It Leaps 5 inches into my hand trying to get away from this Land A Land of endless wind and sand run across West Texas Like A Frieght train Whistling and Howling as it Rumbles By Shaking the Ground with its Passing Through the Town The Lands Only Salvation is its Blue unending Skies
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Mar 23, 2015
Mar 23, 2015 at 12:10 PM UTC
West Texas Oil Fields
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second. My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first. Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home. Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger. I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths. I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep today at five a.m. Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time. Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water. And you, falcon, unchanging year after year, always in the same cage, your gaze always fixed on the same point in space, forgive me, even if it turns out you were stuffed. My apologies to the felled tree for the table's four legs. My apologies to great questions for small answers. Truth, please don't pay me much attention. Dignity, please be magnanimous. Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train. Soul, don't take offense that I've only got you now and then. My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once. My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man. I know I won't be justified as long as I live, since I myself stand in my own way. Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words, then labor heavily so that they may seem light.
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 10:44 AM UTC
Under One Small Star by Wislawa Szymborska
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second. My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first. Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home. Forgive me, open wounds, for pricking my finger. I apologize for my record of minuets to those who cry from the depths. I apologize to those who wait in railway stations for being asleep today at five a.m. Pardon me, hounded hope, for laughing from time to time. Pardon me, deserts, that I don't rush to you bearing a spoonful of water. And you, falcon, unchanging year after year, always in the same cage, your gaze always fixed on the same point in space, forgive me, even if it turns out you were stuffed. My apologies to the felled tree for the table's four legs. My apologies to great questions for small answers. Truth, please don't pay me much attention. Dignity, please be magnanimous. Bear with me, O mystery of existence, as I pluck the occasional thread from your train. Soul, don't take offense that I've only got you now and then. My apologies to everything that I can't be everywhere at once. My apologies to everyone that I can't be each woman and each man. I know I won't be justified as long as I live, since I myself stand in my own way. Don't bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words, then labor heavily so that they may seem light.
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Words set to music give the body tonic-- poetic melody: rhymes, rhythms, caesuras, meters, beats, stanzas and envoys in use. Making millions of dollars off an album, platinum pop stars: hounded by paparazzi, landed in a Jaccuzi; deified are poets-- pursued by Muse's mustang midst the prairies of inspiration trotting. Poetry draws no pretty penny, prizes like the Nobel praise. Mummy poetry is exhaling in the lyrical pantheon of music.
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Sep 13, 2013
Sep 13, 2013 at 2:32 PM UTC
Alive in Music (10w x 7)
Oh hello there, my feline friend Aren't you a silky black beauty? I have never seen you around here What brought you to my grass patch? I afraid I have nothing but bread; You dining habit does amuse me As I watch you slap the piece a bit And jumping around it before eating. Taking your pictures, I could not help But wonder, how you and your furry kin How are you holding up in this pandemic? I cannot even imagine your hardship The things you risk to even survive Or, perhaps, things were no different? For a wild specimen such as yourself? Part of me is jealous of you, envious And it is not just for your good looks Or how agile and carefree you appear to be. No, you are blessed with far more Despite hounded by stray dogs You seem to be in satisfactory solitude And most importantly, you have freedom Free from the clutches of powerful idiots We dumb humans have for "leaders"!
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Aug 18, 2021
Aug 18, 2021 at 4:56 AM UTC
The Surprise Visitor
Yevgeny Yevtushenko No monument stands over Babi Yar. A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. I am afraid. Today I am as old in years as all the Jewish people. Now I seem to be a Jew. Here I plod through ancient Egypt. Here I perish crucified, on the cross, and to this day I bear the scars of nails. I seem to be Dreyfus. The Philistine is both informer and judge. I am behind bars. Beset on every side. Hounded, spat on, slandered. Squealing, dainty ladies in flounced Brussels lace stick their parasols into my face. I seem to be then a young boy in Byelostok. Blood runs, spilling over the floors. The barroom rabble-rousers give off a stench of ***** and onion. A boot kicks me aside, helpless. In vain I plead with these pogrom bullies. While they jeer and shout, "Beat the Yids. Save Russia!" some grain-marketeer beats up my mother. 0 my Russian people! I know you are international to the core. But those with unclean hands have often made a jingle of your purest name. I know the goodness of my land. How vile these anti-Semites- without a qualm they pompously called themselves the Union of the Russian People! I seem to be Anne Frank transparent as a branch in April. And I love. And have no need of phrases. My need is that we gaze into each other. How little we can see or smell! We are denied the leaves, we are denied the sky. Yet we can do so much -- tenderly embrace each other in a darkened room. They're coming here? Be not afraid. Those are the booming sounds of spring: spring is coming here. Come then to me. Quick, give me your lips. Are they smashing down the door? No, it's the ice breaking ... The wild grasses rustle over Babi Yar. The trees look ominous, like judges. Here all things scream silently, and, baring my head, slowly I feel myself turning gray. And I myself am one massive, soundless scream above the thousand thousand buried here. I am each old man here shot dead. I am every child here shot dead. Nothing in me shall ever forget! The "Internationale," let it thunder when the last anti-Semite on earth is buried forever. In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian!
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Jan 27, 2013
Jan 27, 2013 at 3:04 AM UTC
Babi Yar
Yevgeny Yevtushenko No monument stands over Babi Yar. A drop sheer as a crude gravestone. I am afraid. Today I am as old in years as all the Jewish people. Now I seem to be a Jew. Here I plod through ancient Egypt. Here I perish crucified, on the cross, and to this day I bear the scars of nails. I seem to be Dreyfus. The Philistine is both informer and judge. I am behind bars. Beset on every side. Hounded, spat on, slandered. Squealing, dainty ladies in flounced Brussels lace stick their parasols into my face. I seem to be then a young boy in Byelostok. Blood runs, spilling over the floors. The barroom rabble-rousers give off a stench of ***** and onion. A boot kicks me aside, helpless. In vain I plead with these pogrom bullies. While they jeer and shout, "Beat the Yids. Save Russia!" some grain-marketeer beats up my mother. 0 my Russian people! I know you are international to the core. But those with unclean hands have often made a jingle of your purest name. I know the goodness of my land. How vile these anti-Semites- without a qualm they pompously called themselves the Union of the Russian People! I seem to be Anne Frank transparent as a branch in April. And I love. And have no need of phrases. My need is that we gaze into each other. How little we can see or smell! We are denied the leaves, we are denied the sky. Yet we can do so much -- tenderly embrace each other in a darkened room. They're coming here? Be not afraid. Those are the booming sounds of spring: spring is coming here. Come then to me. Quick, give me your lips. Are they smashing down the door? No, it's the ice breaking ... The wild grasses rustle over Babi Yar. The trees look ominous, like judges. Here all things scream silently, and, baring my head, slowly I feel myself turning gray. And I myself am one massive, soundless scream above the thousand thousand buried here. I am each old man here shot dead. I am every child here shot dead. Nothing in me shall ever forget! The "Internationale," let it thunder when the last anti-Semite on earth is buried forever. In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian!
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Packs of men like hyenas scavenging the bones of a long lost cause poor beautiful girls hounded by the eyes and tongues of men, for it's women on their minds.
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Mar 4, 2013
Mar 4, 2013 at 10:51 PM UTC
Lesbians at 36th Street
The down of the gown of the dawn of some gone day, A ray day that has downed and dawned at sunset, They have diabolically colonized our divine state, Belligerently gang ****** our stupendous democracy at will, The demonic bloodthirsty ********* barbarians, Declaring a violent war which no one wants to fight, A losing warring war of one against all. Impetuously slaughtering our defenseless defenders at will, Turning the blue-clad fierce hunters to the fierce hunted, The hunted that are being haunted, Hounded and hunted by the hunted, Converting every corner into the hunters’ hunted ground, The church and the charge office, The home and the street, The here and the there. Who will protect our “toy gun” wielding protectors, Protect our trigger-shy protectors from the cunning detractors, As one by one they are won one by one, One by one by the one that is supposed to be won, The defenders of our slate state, The defenders of our democratic democracy, The defenseless defenders of the defenseless. They have been plunged under siege, As every one of them personifies some certain demise, Every one of them is just some subterfuge death in waiting, Some truculent death just waiting to happen, Bust, rust and dust in the waiting, Stylistically stylistic starving yawning mobile graves, Prey of their own prey, The ultimate fray prey. As day in day out they live the life of a cigarette, On one side they are smoking, On the other, they are being smoked, Any attempt to fight back is regarded criminal of the worst order, Police brutality, We forsake them, they forsake them, the law forsakes them, Who will defend the mighty defenders?
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 6:29 AM UTC
Who will defend our defenders
The down of the gown of the dawn of some gone day, A ray day that has downed and dawned at sunset, They have diabolically colonized our divine state, Belligerently gang ****** our stupendous democracy at will, The demonic bloodthirsty ********* barbarians, Declaring a violent war which no one wants to fight, A losing warring war of one against all. Impetuously slaughtering our defenseless defenders at will, Turning the blue-clad fierce hunters to the fierce hunted, The hunted that are being haunted, Hounded and hunted by the hunted, Converting every corner into the hunters’ hunted ground, The church and the charge office, The home and the street, The here and the there. Who will protect our “toy gun” wielding protectors, Protect our trigger-shy protectors from the cunning detractors, As one by one they are won one by one, One by one by the one that is supposed to be won, The defenders of our slate state, The defenders of our democratic democracy, The defenseless defenders of the defenseless. They have been plunged under siege, As every one of them personifies some certain demise, Every one of them is just some subterfuge death in waiting, Some truculent death just waiting to happen, Bust, rust and dust in the waiting, Stylistically stylistic starving yawning mobile graves, Prey of their own prey, The ultimate fray prey. As day in day out they live the life of a cigarette, On one side they are smoking, On the other, they are being smoked, Any attempt to fight back is regarded criminal of the worst order, Police brutality, We forsake them, they forsake them, the law forsakes them, Who will defend the mighty defenders?
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Hounded into the dungeons, Heavy Kicks and malevolent slaps, Spirit broken with spiked bludgeons, Tossed onward, unto the belty straps.
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 5:44 AM UTC
Retribution
Out from the base the green mist arose The pain comes and goes. Like the neon man A flash in the pan. Life is like that For a cool,cool cat But he can't keep pulling rabbits From his old top hat. He needs a bit of time to knit things together Into a freshly knotted rhyme. If you don't give him that Then his world becomes flat and the corners are not rounded Hounded here and hounded there in a neon mist that doesn't care Because it's all typed in his head. But on the baseline we presume to be dead 'til we're woken. And we are spoken to in lyrics that inspire the inner spirits To arise. In the green mist neon dies and comes back in amber light Fight this if you can But we're all the neon man and we see the flashing crashing down Into a sultry Summer brown. A Yoruba girl came to town,Shivering slightly. I held her tightly Kissed her face. Touched her hand This woman from another land looked at me And saw not an ocean but an inland sea so full of salt it made her bolt. No rabbits in this hat My life is full of things like that. Don't leave the key within the lock I've taken stock I'm not that man. Just the pan without the flash The dot without the dash No home,no car,no cash. And after all of this and life like that I'm just a rabbit in the old top hat. And going home to have my tea I see a reflection in the window That used to be me.
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Mar 2, 2013
Mar 2, 2013 at 3:34 PM UTC
Metered
You haunted us as you were haunted Spectres spreading from your head To your heart To your hands To the souls of your daughters and son. You were haunted Hunted Hounded by demons of your own creation Reality slipping, spiraling slowly Out and away Grasping at lucidity Groping for clarity Desperate for breath in the growing vacuum Of your world. We spread your ashes at Brandy Creek Three generations went into the woods And two came back. We took you to the waterfall Poured you like milk Spreading cloudy white into the earth We took you to the dogwood On the creek bed In the shelter of a wise and fallen oak Covered you like a sleeping baby with leaves We took you to the stump by the rock Overlooking the creek Spread you like wishes in its gut And prayed for new life from your remains. We exorcised you in Whiskeytown Spread your head and heart and hands And broke you free of the bounty on your soul.
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 11:45 PM UTC
An Exorcism
Two strapping squadies sat on a tank Both just been for a sly ham shank One called Peter one called Paul Both rather partial to the others smalls Along came the Sgt he didn't want to play Went and told the CO he thought they were gay Along came the MPs in their red hats Dragged them to the guard house quick as a flash Now a court martial and public ridicule The Sgt said the showers where not safe at all A dishonerable discharge for being a *** Being a soldier was all that they had Twenty years latter we now go to war You love a man or woman even three or four The Army doesnt care if you play the rear flank So long as you can shoot to **** Or drive a Tommy tank Well that was then and this is now Many came back from another gulf war Hounded like prey by the lawyers of today For doing exactly what the CO says So sign up Peter sign up Paul Do what you like with you best friends smalls But for heaven's sake be you John or Jane DON'T SHOOT ANYONE IN THE GOVERNMENTS NAME!!
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Feb 23, 2013
Feb 23, 2013 at 10:38 AM UTC
That was then This is now
Man, all you ************* start out the same Oh honey I can appreciate you, is all you claim. Where’s the chivalry, why can’t y’all be gentlemanly. It’s such a shame Can’t even walk around without being hounded by one of these ******* lames Yes I said hounded cause y’all can be bunch of dogs. If I look good, politely let your glasses fog Try not to stare, a quick glance, don’t stare maybe you’ll have a chance, that’s fair. I don’t expect perfect Prince Charming But the lack of manners is ******* alarming Ask me how I am, whatever you do dion’t say how you can give it to me Or how you can make my day. A nice conversation can go a long way. Don’t ask me about my man, or why I don’t have one All I’m gonna say, this would of been nice but now that fool won. If he was putting it down I wouldn’t be hanging around. If he asked how my day was Id be all kisses and hugs Yes I have a man but his selfishness ******* bugs I thought I wanted a sweet man Now I’m more attracted to thugs At least now Im familiar with the ***** made I don’t even feel right throwing his mama shade She treats him like he’s a gift from god The way she coddles him makes me ******* nod. I’m done talking about this! **** is making my sob.
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Aug 11, 2018
Aug 11, 2018 at 9:12 PM UTC
***** made