Science won't say you're the pig and rat Or why some people adore an arrogant cat Don't get this wrong, there's infrequent exceptions Like when the media tells a Truth within the deceptions Psychologists can't say that your curly-haired friend Is brighter than you...
The Conduit
One cannot plan the process Of a poem No more than a pregnancy A literal gestation period Riding the swells Of good words In bad worlds And bad words In good worlds In the background therein Beats a rhythmic cadence Both furious and eloquent Muffled by layers Of...
Angels We Have Heard On High
'So this is Christmas… And what have you've done?' Does anyone recall The song Lennon had sung? 'For the rich and the poor ones For the black and the white' For the humble disabled Warm or cold on this night. I would extend it to the Earth Our pets and the Sun To the...
A Poet’s Chore
We are like the dinosaur No one sees us anymore Our pterodactyl metaphor You've but chosen to ignore Like victims of an unseen war You're hiding out behind a door But all the Gods are keeping score What was shall be as was before And all the poets apiece implore But...
A Rational Anthem
In our heart of hearts We know, we know We come around Around we go Spinning wheels Spinning tires Spinning thoughts On spinning spires We wonder why I ask, why wonder? They've spun the spell You've been put under Drugged and numb In an addict's attic Remote in hand...
Powerless Power
Have you met the Devil 'He-She'? With severe aquiline features? She's poised on every pinnacle Extolling all her preachers She dances quite seductively In a body starved for power Her lips a pursed and cynical grin For the next victim to devour She infiltrates all...
Anonymous Author: Revised
We the unwitting Led by the unknowing Are trying to do the impossible For the ungrateful. We have done so much For so long With so little That we are now qualified As slaves To do nothing About anything. Ciera S. Louise c. November 23, 2005
In Memory of a Brown Rat Named Reebok
I know of eleven Innocents, their little Souls put down Never had a chance in life for a family to be found They grew up in the chaos of assaulting noise and light No one took the time to see these beings of the night I came along all too late when their fate was all...
Angels Go Crazy
Angels go crazy It's no surprise Expected to start life The moment it dies Arms where once wings Feet where were none Halos taken up By the burning Sun Auras of friction Humans despise Fallen Empire In darkened eyes We tend to look up Aware of our fall Once Universal...
Skeletons in America’s Closet
You best be damn careful if you are poor Don't anger the neighbor or knock on his door Don't call the police or they'll haul YOU away Never get sick and need a hospital stay You are despised and blamed for your lot Condemned to poverty, lest you get caught...
