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"parkland" poems
I am alive by luck at this point. I wonder if the gun that will eventually take me has been made. Whose trigger will bury me. How many bullets, like a flock of sparrows, will come carry my life to its final bed. Today, I am alive but there is no law to thank. If not me, then someone else. Born into a game of chance we never asked for. Traded diplomas for obituaries. Traded graduation speeches for eulogies. Traded futures for an early grave. Forced to cash in their chips. We don’t want to play anymore. And this too is eulogy. And this too is prayer. And this too can resurrect the coffin wood back to a tree. Can sing back alive whatever parts of you died with them. Whatever leapt in your throat at yet another headline. Mourning until you, too, are a thing to mourn. But we will no longer be martyrs. We are the rude awakening to politicians who pawned out our safety, who bartered our lives for bribes. You say “gun reform is not the answer” but all I can see is a bullet rattling like a pinball in an innocent student’s jaw. You smell like gun smoke and I can see the AR15 you're holding behind your back and I guess it's easy to crack jokes about dodging bullets when you're the one firing them. Give teachers books not bullets: Kafka isn’t kevlar. Bronte isn’t bulletproof. And how sick is it that we must add school shootings to your list of proud american traditions. Throwing opinions like punches. How many more have to die before you decide your ego isn’t as important as you think it is? And I, too, am buried alive My soggy grave parting its greedy lips. To you, my bones, when ground into gunpowder and mixed into water, taste like champagne. My pulse, as thin as an obituary panting beneath sweaty palms, and sure We are “just kids,” But you are forgetting we are the next generation And you autopsy your fists. Call it reclamatory. Lately, when asked “how are you?” I respond with a name no longer living. And who knows if mine will be next
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Apr 14, 2018
Apr 14, 2018 at 10:32 PM UTC
Ammunition: a eulogy for parkland
I am alive by luck at this point. I wonder if the gun that will eventually take me has been made. Whose trigger will bury me. How many bullets, like a flock of sparrows, will come carry my life to its final bed. Today, I am alive but there is no law to thank. If not me, then someone else. Born into a game of chance we never asked for. Traded diplomas for obituaries. Traded graduation speeches for eulogies. Traded futures for an early grave. Forced to cash in their chips. We don’t want to play anymore. And this too is eulogy. And this too is prayer. And this too can resurrect the coffin wood back to a tree. Can sing back alive whatever parts of you died with them. Whatever leapt in your throat at yet another headline. Mourning until you, too, are a thing to mourn. But we will no longer be martyrs. We are the rude awakening to politicians who pawned out our safety, who bartered our lives for bribes. You say “gun reform is not the answer” but all I can see is a bullet rattling like a pinball in an innocent student’s jaw. You smell like gun smoke and I can see the AR15 you're holding behind your back and I guess it's easy to crack jokes about dodging bullets when you're the one firing them. Give teachers books not bullets: Kafka isn’t kevlar. Bronte isn’t bulletproof. And how sick is it that we must add school shootings to your list of proud american traditions. Throwing opinions like punches. How many more have to die before you decide your ego isn’t as important as you think it is? And I, too, am buried alive My soggy grave parting its greedy lips. To you, my bones, when ground into gunpowder and mixed into water, taste like champagne. My pulse, as thin as an obituary panting beneath sweaty palms, and sure We are “just kids,” But you are forgetting we are the next generation And you autopsy your fists. Call it reclamatory. Lately, when asked “how are you?” I respond with a name no longer living. And who knows if mine will be next
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It was an AR15 that the kid used. A gun that, in this free world, men can indulge and abuse. A boy who saw him load his gun, the gunman saw and simply said run, A word that made the child flee for his life, just before waves of bullets came upon the school, The kid looked on and asked himself why is life so cruel. How many more people have to die, before its ****** metal, not tears, that your children cry. This free world, rife with argument by silly politicians Men that make decisions, without experience of the repercussions. This gunman was not a delinquent, he was a child. Born of your failed systems, born of your sick traditions. A boy who without second thought, took up his assault rifle and headed into war with the children that learned ambition with him, emotion and sudden movement that made them all feel just that little bit stifled. This free world is one with a core of rights, A doubled edged dagger, a topic of discussion that makes the average fat man want to fight. ‘Over my cold dead body’ he said. LET ME HAVE MY GUN Because whilst others use it for fun, the protection I have outweighs the fact that when a 19 year old comes to school, all the other kids have to run. It’s ridiculous, heck its thoroughly imbecilic, How children have to be careful of the education system, not because of a nationwide test but a, nationwide threat of grown men, looking to prove their ego, men that can’t go against the party line that fail to realise that life is more important than the next donation than the dollar sign. You want protection? That’s completely fine. Just don’t use the bodies of your children as meat shields and pretend everything’s fine. Don’t say you’ll do something as if something will change because nothing will change unless it does. This free world is not filled with love but truly its filled with hate, A bloodlust so dense, even children’s blood cannot sate it’s thirst. Until it's more than just a child hurt, but a country with a bullet wound Caused by people, who love guns so much but blame it on the loons. Your pain, I cannot prove.
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Feb 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018 at 6:46 AM UTC
Parkland Shooting.
It was an AR15 that the kid used. A gun that, in this free world, men can indulge and abuse. A boy who saw him load his gun, the gunman saw and simply said run, A word that made the child flee for his life, just before waves of bullets came upon the school, The kid looked on and asked himself why is life so cruel. How many more people have to die, before its ****** metal, not tears, that your children cry. This free world, rife with argument by silly politicians Men that make decisions, without experience of the repercussions. This gunman was not a delinquent, he was a child. Born of your failed systems, born of your sick traditions. A boy who without second thought, took up his assault rifle and headed into war with the children that learned ambition with him, emotion and sudden movement that made them all feel just that little bit stifled. This free world is one with a core of rights, A doubled edged dagger, a topic of discussion that makes the average fat man want to fight. ‘Over my cold dead body’ he said. LET ME HAVE MY GUN Because whilst others use it for fun, the protection I have outweighs the fact that when a 19 year old comes to school, all the other kids have to run. It’s ridiculous, heck its thoroughly imbecilic, How children have to be careful of the education system, not because of a nationwide test but a, nationwide threat of grown men, looking to prove their ego, men that can’t go against the party line that fail to realise that life is more important than the next donation than the dollar sign. You want protection? That’s completely fine. Just don’t use the bodies of your children as meat shields and pretend everything’s fine. Don’t say you’ll do something as if something will change because nothing will change unless it does. This free world is not filled with love but truly its filled with hate, A bloodlust so dense, even children’s blood cannot sate it’s thirst. Until it's more than just a child hurt, but a country with a bullet wound Caused by people, who love guns so much but blame it on the loons. Your pain, I cannot prove.
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There is a bullet in a box of crayons with really strange names like Parkland Perrywinkle, Sandy Hook Sanguine, and Great Mills Green in a place where children play Russian Roulette with their school supplies when they reach in to grab one and they’ve been learning about probability this week Forrest Gump will tell them you never know if you’re going to finish the lesson or turn into a statistic my sister likes to create mosaics by putting a hairdryer to crayons melting cascades of wax down a blank page sometimes she reaches in and it’s the one lead crayon at the top of the page and it’s only one color that seeps down into the crevices of the cafeteria’s tile floor that proceeds to wash away the Proud Honor Roll Parent stickers washes away the Proud Honor Roll Parent stickers I see another child reach into the box and I write another word problem I write another word problem: “Zoey reaches into a box of crayons. What is the likelihood she will not get to hang her drawing up on her kitchen refrigerator? What is the likelihood her funeral photo will hang there instead?” Draw students’ attention to the key word “likelihood.” Tell students This word shows that the question is asking whether or not you will live to tell your parents how your day at school was. and I wonder when school desks will take the shape of caskets in a place where both screams of laughter and screams of terror are permitted
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May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 at 1:02 PM UTC
Bullet in a Box of Crayons
If you survive, Go tell the world. Not that you survived, but of what happened. Bring awareness to those, Who were left in the darkness. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 9-11, Parkland shooting, Only naming a few. For those whose voices are forever quieted, Speak with the weight of their legacy on your shoulders. But don't carry the load alone, There are others who feel the same, With tear-stained faces, their burden is heavier than yours, So shoulder the pain together, And survive.
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May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018 at 1:40 PM UTC
If you survive
No thoughts were thrown around, let alone conscious decisions bound in clear evidence and concrete fence-post facts. She was awake before the frost settled, and my how her eyes showed the time: Lengthy red lines pretending to be hands that chimed. The parkland grasses awaited the speckled dappled, sunlight shade, to warm its back in the morning masquerade. - Only her body was thrown around, alone across a car bonnet in a clear honest, beautiful smudge of fashion and blood. She would never awake the same again, and how the nurses soothed her pain with modern miracle, clear liquid rain, medicine. The parkland grasses still await the speckled dappled, sunlight shade, to warm its back in the morning death march masquerade.
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Apr 20, 2013
Apr 20, 2013 at 8:01 PM UTC
BROWN LEATHER BICYCLE SEAT GIRL
the dark ice cream man floats up and down the empty streets his truck weakly cranking out a warped sounding song that leaves a trail of dogs objecting the truck has the word pestilence painted on it instead of ice cream his dark form hunched over the steering wheel his cheshire grin has aspects of his delirium imprinted on its clean toothy shine he only comes out at three am and glides the cool pavement in search of Delilah's phone number she promised him that she would be his one true and he meant to hold her to it he would do anything to have her all to himself Delilah walks barefoot along the train track with one ear nailed acutely to the train whistle approaching the other ear in her pocket where she hums a **** version of the battle hymn of the republic all good girls love horses and shotgun weddings she wants her shotgun wedding on the saddle with the ice cream mans brother who she thinks is just too nifty to be anything but heavenly she always pictured him with angel wings carrying a sword and riding a pale horse named death there are echoes in the concrete parkland the neatly trimmed grass glistens wetly in the darkness a dew touched tree stands on a narrow hill its leaves thrashed slowly by a whisper of wind the sound of running feet laughter its an illusion she is an illusion i make matchstick men watch them march in precision lines i am a matchstick man watch me scribble in precision lines the ice cream man now sleeping away the humid hot afternoon stashed away in the back of his pestilence truck while Delilah learns how to knit and make candles that ice cream mans brother sells at flea markets we all settle for what we think we want and in the end we all get what we deserve Delilah marries the brother and they live happily while ice cream man spends his mid-life crisis as a politician who leads a double life making ice cream sandwichs out of his basement and i am discovered 'neith the truck making matchstick men out of twigs from the tree of life
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 12:09 AM UTC
matchstick men
the dark ice cream man floats up and down the empty streets his truck weakly cranking out a warped sounding song that leaves a trail of dogs objecting the truck has the word pestilence painted on it instead of ice cream his dark form hunched over the steering wheel his cheshire grin has aspects of his delirium imprinted on its clean toothy shine he only comes out at three am and glides the cool pavement in search of Delilah's phone number she promised him that she would be his one true and he meant to hold her to it he would do anything to have her all to himself Delilah walks barefoot along the train track with one ear nailed acutely to the train whistle approaching the other ear in her pocket where she hums a **** version of the battle hymn of the republic all good girls love horses and shotgun weddings she wants her shotgun wedding on the saddle with the ice cream mans brother who she thinks is just too nifty to be anything but heavenly she always pictured him with angel wings carrying a sword and riding a pale horse named death there are echoes in the concrete parkland the neatly trimmed grass glistens wetly in the darkness a dew touched tree stands on a narrow hill its leaves thrashed slowly by a whisper of wind the sound of running feet laughter its an illusion she is an illusion i make matchstick men watch them march in precision lines i am a matchstick man watch me scribble in precision lines the ice cream man now sleeping away the humid hot afternoon stashed away in the back of his pestilence truck while Delilah learns how to knit and make candles that ice cream mans brother sells at flea markets we all settle for what we think we want and in the end we all get what we deserve Delilah marries the brother and they live happily while ice cream man spends his mid-life crisis as a politician who leads a double life making ice cream sandwichs out of his basement and i am discovered 'neith the truck making matchstick men out of twigs from the tree of life
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In that telepathy where the tincture of you flows across into me and two minds are as one and the linguistics could be any language they please where we understand everything amid the teasing of the tone and where the home I have made is the bed upon which we laid there is a playing of games across the Ocean whose name I no longer recall. but no matter of that, in my mind,in my flat you are here with me. telepathically speaking until still seeking connect I elect to a meeting a fleeting of faces a mouthful of places come up for a rendezvous. Do you know where the flowers grow tall by the hot dog seller next to the bandstand in the parkland up at Hampstead hill? You do? good see you at three twenty and I have got plenty to say. Later in the day after hot dogs and soda I told her let's move on,the evening has brought on a chill will you come home with me? I waited to see what her reply might be, 'that could be good' and I knew that it would so we tootled off scootily and she tootled quite beautifully and on this bed that we laid we made another nightshade.
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Jun 17, 2013
Jun 17, 2013 at 6:36 AM UTC
Love in the 50's
A day of love, a day of hearts: Valentine's Day, twenty eighteen. The day started out like any other But ended in a horrific scene. Students in Parkland, Florida, Shared their valentines today. A former student entered the school To celebrate in a different way. An AR-15 assault-style rifle Was that student's valentine. Killing and hurting students and teachers Was his version of "Please be mine." All it takes is a single person To drag a special day through the mud. Roses and hearts with Cupid's arrow Lie on the ground, splattered with blood. Are we failing our people here? When shootings occur, we ask for prayers Instead of taking appropriate measures. What a sad state of affairs! Most of us enjoy our day; Our lives return to normal tomorrow. Valentine's Day for people in Parkland Forever will be suffused with sorrow. -by Bob B (2-14-18)
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Feb 15, 2018
Feb 15, 2018 at 9:46 AM UTC
Valentine's Day, 2018
Our Lady visits places where no man has trod asunder Places where the hand of time has kept them from the sun, Places where the roiling earth hath ground to rend like thunder Where history, as we know it now, had barely, then, begun. With elegance she burrows forth, with elegance a seeking Tended by her retinue of young, admirers’ lithe, With elegance she sinuously writhes within containment, To elegantly strive to shape her contour, uncontrived. So femininely fabulous, admired by all and sundry Her deadlines met assiduously, taken in her stride. Secretly she smiles the smile of one who dwells thereunder Who secretly entrances with her quiet performing pride. Fare welled on her journey by adoring crowd and bunting, Fare welled midst a sea of flags by rotund Prince and child To coyly disappear from sight with retinue of admirers To reappear with fanfare in a year, to drive men wild. Sinuously spinning in her secret world beneath us, Spinning and beguiling in uniquely female way, Alice holds our promise in sweet dreams and aspirations Our Subterranean Goddess…Our Lady of the Day. Marshalg Plant Co-ordinator The Wellconnected Consortium AUCKLAND. 27 January 2014 Alice is our giant tunnel boring machine. She is currently 40 m beneath parkland and housing in Owairaka, Auckland. In 12 months she will emerge at Waterview to be spun around to burrow the return tunnel back to the point of origin. These tunnels will form the completing stages of the modern motorway system in Auckland. The system, which will be completed in 2017, will revolutionise the existing transport network and benefit the people of Auckland and New Zealand for decades to come.
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 5:06 PM UTC
Our Subterranean Goddess.
Our Lady visits places where no man has trod asunder Places where the hand of time has kept them from the sun, Places where the roiling earth hath ground to rend like thunder Where history, as we know it now, had barely, then, begun. With elegance she burrows forth, with elegance a seeking Tended by her retinue of young, admirers’ lithe, With elegance she sinuously writhes within containment, To elegantly strive to shape her contour, uncontrived. So femininely fabulous, admired by all and sundry Her deadlines met assiduously, taken in her stride. Secretly she smiles the smile of one who dwells thereunder Who secretly entrances with her quiet performing pride. Fare welled on her journey by adoring crowd and bunting, Fare welled midst a sea of flags by rotund Prince and child To coyly disappear from sight with retinue of admirers To reappear with fanfare in a year, to drive men wild. Sinuously spinning in her secret world beneath us, Spinning and beguiling in uniquely female way, Alice holds our promise in sweet dreams and aspirations Our Subterranean Goddess…Our Lady of the Day. Marshalg Plant Co-ordinator The Wellconnected Consortium AUCKLAND. 27 January 2014 Alice is our giant tunnel boring machine. She is currently 40 m beneath parkland and housing in Owairaka, Auckland. In 12 months she will emerge at Waterview to be spun around to burrow the return tunnel back to the point of origin. These tunnels will form the completing stages of the modern motorway system in Auckland. The system, which will be completed in 2017, will revolutionise the existing transport network and benefit the people of Auckland and New Zealand for decades to come.
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Since Parkland Florida many are taking a stand against senseless violence, and such Yet I still wonder, When are parents going to start being parents, And securing their guns and weapons? When are parents going to start taking responsibility for their actions? When are parents going to begin making things right, And teach their children to use their brains, and solve their differences with communication, and if all else fails never bring a gun to a fist fight? When are parents going to start being parents? Cause last time I checked being a parent was more than just kissing a child goodnight Being a parent meant being responsible and taking responsibility for all the wrongs a parent needs to make right
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Feb 26, 2018
Feb 26, 2018 at 3:58 PM UTC
ParenTS maKe tHings RigHt, Pleasssee
I remember the lights going off in the brains of young poets. Deep in the dank streets of New York or Columbia college. When the blues and twos would come and round up The beatniks snapping to the howl of a homosexual mind. When the generational attitudes of those too old to know, Control the ****** acts of “violence”, or The deepening scars of our philosophies. When the urbanization of historical prowess leads to Gentrified gypsies of the diamond deserts and endless skyways When the great in the country isn’t good enough For the red hats and spray tanned millionaires. When the stocks of corporate dragons burn down The attempts of upstart knights and online kingdoms. When the politicians of old become the scapegoats For the ironically gerontocratic few. When the female few who dared couldn’t find their lost primaries Or control the lifeblood leaking out of the Strait of Hormuz.   When the powerful and powerless fought in-between The dejected and all too often ignored. When the powered halogen lights flooded prison yards of Wrongly convicted and murderously in need of help. When the San Francisco clubs lit up with muzzle flash And the dancers lay weeping in their blood. When the schools became places to duck and cover Or learn to trip a friend when running from a gun. When parkland high became a manufacturing ground For casings, tears, and candlelight vigils. When the American dream came combo packaged And supersized with obesity and unemployment. When the education of the youth became about The profit margin in a spreadsheet full of debt. When the sun sets in the smoke filled horizons And sleepless rest settles on the western front.
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Dec 4, 2020
Dec 4, 2020 at 1:16 AM UTC
I Remember.
I remember the lights going off in the brains of young poets. Deep in the dank streets of New York or Columbia college. When the blues and twos would come and round up The beatniks snapping to the howl of a homosexual mind. When the generational attitudes of those too old to know, Control the ****** acts of “violence”, or The deepening scars of our philosophies. When the urbanization of historical prowess leads to Gentrified gypsies of the diamond deserts and endless skyways When the great in the country isn’t good enough For the red hats and spray tanned millionaires. When the stocks of corporate dragons burn down The attempts of upstart knights and online kingdoms. When the politicians of old become the scapegoats For the ironically gerontocratic few. When the female few who dared couldn’t find their lost primaries Or control the lifeblood leaking out of the Strait of Hormuz.   When the powerful and powerless fought in-between The dejected and all too often ignored. When the powered halogen lights flooded prison yards of Wrongly convicted and murderously in need of help. When the San Francisco clubs lit up with muzzle flash And the dancers lay weeping in their blood. When the schools became places to duck and cover Or learn to trip a friend when running from a gun. When parkland high became a manufacturing ground For casings, tears, and candlelight vigils. When the American dream came combo packaged And supersized with obesity and unemployment. When the education of the youth became about The profit margin in a spreadsheet full of debt. When the sun sets in the smoke filled horizons And sleepless rest settles on the western front.
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the 19th SCHOOL shooting in the USA in 48 days the gun lobby is lying low the president      surprise avoids a straight comment 17 school children dead because in the land of the free any psychopath can buy a semiautomatic without problems and vent his frustrations and fears in a shooting spree home schooling is on the rise for better or worse what do you call a president who is unwilling     or unable     to protect the health and security of his people? LOSER!!!
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Feb 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018 at 3:10 PM UTC
targets for psychos (apropos the terrible school massacre in Parkland, FL, February 2018)
We are just back from an autumnal walk. Gold, red, and yellow lead green by a nose And the sharper neighbourhood edges are softened With leaf piles that fill the dips and voids. We are just in from a loop around the 'hood. The unseasonable warmth has even coerced Teenagers onto patches of parkland to play ball While their digital assault rifles go unused. We have returned from exposure to the environs. A long summer of incremental house adjustments Pauses for the interim, so neighbours can await The soon-to-be revised ostentation index. We are inside again at the end of an autumn day. Dying rays of sunlight filter through windows and half-bare trees. Free warmth leaves us to rely upon the furnace And savour anonymity among the bricks, stucco and vinyl.
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Oct 12, 2013
Oct 12, 2013 at 5:10 PM UTC
Anonymous Residents of Everyhood
There’d been a factory here once, Squat red brick structure Suffused with too much noise and too little ventilation, Built for the purpose of making typewriters, Unwieldy, cacophonous clanking anachronisms Whose time, like the town it occupied, Had long since come and gone, The only businesses on the sad little main drag Being those shabby, tattered concerns Which flower, improbable and cactus-like At the intersection of the vagaries of memory And the ascent of decay. Nothing sits here now, Simply an empty lot returning to Nature, Although half-hearted attempts To accelerate that process have not taken root, As the soil, fouled by metal shavings, solvents, And only God knows what else, Has proved less than amenable To anything save weedy shoots and scrubby boxwoods, So it sits empty, impossible to build upon (There is liability in every spike of crabgrass, A potential lawsuit in every patch of clover) And wholly impractical as parkland. The firm which owned the site erected a fence To keep whatever was in there in and everyone else out (In their final addition of injury to insult, The check they gave to the fencing company in payment Bounced higher than a child’s rubber ball) But a generation of winters and general inattention Have left the chain-links a patchwork affair, And though the “POSTED” signs remain (Their original angry and officious red Having faded to a benign maroon), Enforcement of their edicts is spotty at best, So we sit, unbothered and alone, On an odd little mound at the back of the lot As the dusk begins to take hold, I, in an act of mad optimism, the peculiar positing That there are good things yet to come, Grab your hand, intertwining the fingers with mine.
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Aug 16, 2018
Aug 16, 2018 at 10:56 AM UTC
love on the brownfield
There’d been a factory here once, Squat red brick structure Suffused with too much noise and too little ventilation, Built for the purpose of making typewriters, Unwieldy, cacophonous clanking anachronisms Whose time, like the town it occupied, Had long since come and gone, The only businesses on the sad little main drag Being those shabby, tattered concerns Which flower, improbable and cactus-like At the intersection of the vagaries of memory And the ascent of decay. Nothing sits here now, Simply an empty lot returning to Nature, Although half-hearted attempts To accelerate that process have not taken root, As the soil, fouled by metal shavings, solvents, And only God knows what else, Has proved less than amenable To anything save weedy shoots and scrubby boxwoods, So it sits empty, impossible to build upon (There is liability in every spike of crabgrass, A potential lawsuit in every patch of clover) And wholly impractical as parkland. The firm which owned the site erected a fence To keep whatever was in there in and everyone else out (In their final addition of injury to insult, The check they gave to the fencing company in payment Bounced higher than a child’s rubber ball) But a generation of winters and general inattention Have left the chain-links a patchwork affair, And though the “POSTED” signs remain (Their original angry and officious red Having faded to a benign maroon), Enforcement of their edicts is spotty at best, So we sit, unbothered and alone, On an odd little mound at the back of the lot As the dusk begins to take hold, I, in an act of mad optimism, the peculiar positing That there are good things yet to come, Grab your hand, intertwining the fingers with mine.
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rest of title...Parkland, Fla.,February 14, 2018 One more senseless mass homicide twas the sole arbitrary aim as a former student nonchalantly sauntered empty hallways seconds preceding blame brazenly intent to maximize total killed matter of factly telling police (his incomprehensible) (ill) logic he did explain when cornered, he willingly, unflinchingly, reticently admitted guilt Nikolas Cruz rocketed to instantaneous infamous fame pulling a fire alarm ("FAKE") emergency, then going leisurely ambling along his killing spree total of seventeen slain (comprising 3 faculty and 14 students) mercilessly gunned down as if they were wild game when handcuffed, an innocuous 19 year old did readily admit emptying one firearm after another at a fairly rapid clip then at some predestined or spurious moment didst dip and dive out amidst the chaotic madding crowd before reality flopped then did flip as lower teeth he nervously bit upper lip made feeble getaway at a nearby eatery casually flirted with cashier and made no move to flit upon his seizure as cornered prey subsequently large tract massively cordoned off strong arm of the law slightly halting in speech detailed his gambit deliberately staking a stance to maximize hit and once again afflicted parents lit up with rancor and rage pit toughly battling sorrow which will not quit til death doth bring peaceful rest sans, those grieving family visit.
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Feb 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018 at 7:18 PM UTC
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...
why i will march on march 24 for the victims of february 14 i will march because i have been a student i still am a student i will march because i have seen people with guns and what they can do i will march because my best friend lives 18 minutes away from parkland, florida and my cousin lives 30 minutes away from great mills high school in lexington, maryland i will march because people prefer to protect their weapons of mass destruction over their own children i will march because i am sick of thoughts and prayers i am sick of calls for action without any move to do anything i will march because many of our top politicians still generously take contributions from the NRA i will march because my president would rather protect the 2nd amendment than let me live till graduation i will march because any kid out of the hundreds that have died could have been me it still could be me and i am not just going to let that happen
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Mar 22, 2018
Mar 22, 2018 at 12:10 PM UTC
why i march
1. I started in the shadow of one of God’s many houses, fat plums on common ground offered themselves, taut, bruise-purple skin still pristine for maybe two, three more weeks Walking on, a burst fig signaled something fresh green torn scandalously showing fleshy insides that should be kept private for lovers, gourmands, gluttons All the while, intermittently, the straight line train drones by, keeping Presbyterian hold on passing passengers who through unopened windows cannot smell, hear or taste the divine All the while the crickets sang of being 2. All the while the crickets scored my steps until ahead, nettle and dog rose conversations conspired to thwart this man’s, any man’s, attempts to walk straight and true A detour took me from the soft lost chaos of grasses to tight lawns, hard front doors, dark-ish satanic mills making wheat biscuits and the ever sad chorus of a million tyres Nearing home, a young rabbit’s boldness held until too close, melted away in the managed parkland dragonfly truths called, m’ ducks dragonfly truths called
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Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021 at 7:32 AM UTC
Islip to Ise Lodge
Parkland, Fla. February 14, 2018 One more senseless mass homicide twas the sole arbitrary aim as a former student nonchalantly sauntered empty hallways seconds preceding blame brazenly intent to maximize total killed matter of factly telling police (his incomprehensible) (ill) logic he did explain when cornered, he willingly, unflinchingly, reticently admitted guilt Nikolas Cruz rocketed to instantaneous infamous fame pulling a fire alarm ("FAKE") emergency, then going leisurely ambling along his killing spree total of seventeen slain (comprising 3 faculty and 14 students) mercilessly gunned down as if they were wild game when handcuffed, an innocuous 19 year old did readily admit emptying one firearm after another at a fairly rapid clip then at some predestined or spurious moment didst dip and dive out amidst the chaotic madding crowd before reality flopped then did flip as lower teeth nervously bit upper lip made feeble getaway at a nearby eatery casually flirted with cashier and made no move to flit upon his seizure as cornered prey subsequently large tract massively cordoned off strong arm of the law slightly halting in speech detailed his gambit deliberately staking a stance to maximize hit and once again afflicted parents lit up with rancor and rage pit toughly battling sorrow which will not quit til death doth those grieving family visit.
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Feb 16, 2018
Feb 16, 2018 at 6:11 PM UTC
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
it was 63 when a man said i have a dream there for that day peoplo walked away with in there head somthin is going to change we all said were going to get the man on the moon and loved a man that got them there a man woke time for work in his wallet he he had a 20 that he would never spend the pain to get dressed was unreal that no one else could feel he went to the table to eat there was his son and daughter little jon jon was what he called his son daddy can i go with no son bet you can come to the airport to wave us goodbye so he ran to his room to get dressed so there they were so father and mother waiting for it to land as they all held hands they jumped it to choper as they were called they flew to andrews promising to son and sis that they would be back they landed in pink and blue the cheered for the wife as the husband had strife many hands just to many to count all reached for camolot they jumped in the car they dint have far he said a speech and once again hand were at reach on the path many peoplo did line to see the man who said i know i can the car did slow for the peoplo did flow you cant say they dont love you here a women did show bam bam bam was the sound that was herd as peoplo fell to the dirt they took off very fast for the man may not last they arived at a place called parkland and they did no waist to get the man in blue and the women in pink and the dreded red that was added to pink and blue peoplo wept as they saw the women and man oh oh oh so much red the man was dead when a hour did pass oh why could he not last the women in pink and again so much red it was a flash as the women put her children to bed as the man they loved was dead for camolot you will never see again for the man who had a dream in 63 would never see the relalty but the hill he spoke of the man in blue would see and see and see for all the corwards did flee
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 12:42 AM UTC
the man in blue
it was 63 when a man said i have a dream there for that day peoplo walked away with in there head somthin is going to change we all said were going to get the man on the moon and loved a man that got them there a man woke time for work in his wallet he he had a 20 that he would never spend the pain to get dressed was unreal that no one else could feel he went to the table to eat there was his son and daughter little jon jon was what he called his son daddy can i go with no son bet you can come to the airport to wave us goodbye so he ran to his room to get dressed so there they were so father and mother waiting for it to land as they all held hands they jumped it to choper as they were called they flew to andrews promising to son and sis that they would be back they landed in pink and blue the cheered for the wife as the husband had strife many hands just to many to count all reached for camolot they jumped in the car they dint have far he said a speech and once again hand were at reach on the path many peoplo did line to see the man who said i know i can the car did slow for the peoplo did flow you cant say they dont love you here a women did show bam bam bam was the sound that was herd as peoplo fell to the dirt they took off very fast for the man may not last they arived at a place called parkland and they did no waist to get the man in blue and the women in pink and the dreded red that was added to pink and blue peoplo wept as they saw the women and man oh oh oh so much red the man was dead when a hour did pass oh why could he not last the women in pink and again so much red it was a flash as the women put her children to bed as the man they loved was dead for camolot you will never see again for the man who had a dream in 63 would never see the relalty but the hill he spoke of the man in blue would see and see and see for all the corwards did flee
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River sparkles under scowling sky Flowing curves Serpentine sweepings Amidst steel and concrete. I lived in a ghetto box here. Nothing is permanent. Let’s go in a boat through secret underground streams to that place deep beneath parkland roots of elm, ash and hazel where wise old rocks with lime green beards sit still in wisdom. Do they envy us movement? Moss is slippy underfoot. Nothing is permanent. Let’s alchemise emotions of liquid Peel off layers Abandon those old world clothes in a pile Slip naked into pure warm water Soak in a healing cave of glowing amethyst Until Through a crack in the crystal We enter a shaft of light Magnificent and frightening Then emerge into pastel skies Return to earth Boisterous Forever transformed by the fusion Welcomed back By a squelching piano Made of our ancestors’ mud To play To sing To be.
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Mar 21, 2018
Mar 21, 2018 at 4:26 PM UTC
Live Here
Preludium: as gaps fulfill their color... may we be privy to dream. From a cornered eye, freed from its perfect cut... true to life, yet not. A sharp right into blue. Its sky slid the silent take of a red tail hawk...caught to the gravity of a limp bird, shrunk by shock. I sat by, the bird's feathers fell in countered curls and spins. Amidst parkland, near a pitcher's mound...snow traced its fall the night prior. The wind blew, and I swear...snowflakes coupled with those falling feathers. What's out of sight is always gentle--what sees is carried away.
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Jan 8, 2017
Jan 8, 2017 at 1:41 AM UTC
What Sees Is Carried Away
mass slaughter of innocent kids aye abhor, an undeniable chance, some and/or all those slain Valentine' Day 2018, would be alive borne out in living color before killing spree resulted in unwonted deaths, when deputy Scot Peterson abdicated his chief chore and did not intervene (perhaps... playing positive pivotal role)that fateful day, but walked up to a closed door then rode a golf cart February fourteenth (appearing dumbfounded as Eeyore) when seventeen people killed (lying dead on the floor) inside the Parkland, Fla. school seeds bracketed speculation galore, sans officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School did ignore Shooting not "FAKE" baffles and begs question, why bemused mentioned deputy did not strong arm gunman Nikolas Cruz, Who unloaded his AR-15 inside the school settling revengeful dues as said killer explained, which no skew logic can excuse as the latter indiscriminately brandished barrel that fired bullets at random youths (unwitting targets) lighting a fuse of explosive rage, and (leaving no iota of doubt) lose zing no chance against death penalty, as surveillance video released into news media Thursday (July 15th), truth one cannot refuse to see, where young baby faced assassin blithely pumped bullets dooming lives, whose shoes unable to outrun as classmates got felled by ones and twos.
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Mar 15, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 at 4:29 PM UTC
Inaction Of One Man
Martha Your kin still fly uncaged and called young November sky scored countless For three high days they came great in massing climbing, radiant fire-milk lariats gaps in blaming rain pursued. When leaf-cull doors low fruit to fall implores the motley parkland bronze Your kin will fly uncaged and called Your legacy lives on.
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Nov 24, 2023
Nov 24, 2023 at 11:52 PM UTC
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