"redacts" poems
Unguarded fool! Know this,
Thy kind words and thy gifts
Had bought for thee a mortal bliss,
Yet never healed the rifts
Within; no love redacts
The balance unredressed,
Despite thy wanton saintly acts
Thy remnants lay unblessed
Aug 30, 2014
Aug 30, 2014 at 9:02 PM UTC
in such times, it is constantly 2am. a friend pulls carefully at your ear. a friend’s thumb is a hologram of a thumb. you are being told that what you’re about to be told is highly confidential. because it’s dark, and because your bed is the prize winning bed of a formerly dethroned insomniac, you are nothing if not empowered to listen. your friend’s tongue redacts the parts of your body that have been marked. this is done in secret. what you’re hearing right now was scored some time ago. when things were the same.
Jan 8, 2013
Jan 8, 2013 at 4:49 PM UTC
Redacted
constricted
contracted
restricted.
We are all being closed down
it's a drop out
a cop out
and we are the objective.
We the collective
disintegrate
under the mighty weight
of the state.
Machinery?
We are the cogs in obscenity
but does it bother me?
I am a tree
growing wild and
think I'm free
'til the man with the axe
comes again
and redacts me.
Nov 22, 2015
Nov 22, 2015 at 5:31 AM UTC