WARRIOR

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, War

WARRIOR

I have fought in
the war
too end all
wars
every war
to end all wars

but unlike you
you do not see
me carrying the flag
flaunting my medals
crowing about it

because in every
single war
I fought

all those wars
to end
all wars

it was my fate to fight
for both sides

POEM ALPHA

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Humanity, poem, poem poetry political moral, Poet, poetry, satire, thermonuclear, wordplay, writing

POEM ALPHA

ALPHA TANGO ZULU FOXTROT

yep

I thought about
having a
foxtrot

but decided to cover
myself with mud and leaves
lie down in a river bed
until it
all passed over

Empire’s rise and
fall
it is a
law
of history

Empire’s fall
but never
with such weaponry

and so I decided
to fire off
all my poems first

no sense
letting them get
caught on the ground before
they could get airborne

before they
might
plead the cause
of peace

show
the horrors of war

ALPHA ZULU TANGO FOXTROT confidence
is high this is the poem you
have targeted
we have confirmation
it’s the one
you require

XENOMORPH

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Alien, Humanity, identity, Other, poem, poetry, writing

XENOMORPH

xenomorph
in my system

my laptop
flamed out

leaving me
stuck on this planet
no hope
of finding
the heart
of the galaxy

just xenomorph
as me
chasing other
with extermination
in mind

playing chess
from
time to time

drinking wine

casual species
miscegenation
not entirely
out of the question

AND ABEL

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Creation, Fall, Humanity, identity, loss, poem, poetry, Twist in the tail

AND ABEL

Ah, yes,
we ARE indeed all
in that image

and yes, but no,

but yes,

we all
broke

the mould

(so much
greater than
the sum of our parts)

ALONE

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empathy, Humanity, identity, new media, poem, poetry, trolling

ALONE

you trolled me
so hard

my meat
fell off the bone

you with all your backing
bots and
analytical, life-
stealing
corporate
enterprises

me so
helplessly, hopefully
heroically
impulsively
rebellious

forever
destined and determined
to stand alone

STICK

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blackjack, Chaos, poem, poetry, randomness, Value and meaning

STICK

twist
or
stick

bank
holding
the very

card
you need

in the dark — taking
a flier

won’t catch you
in the searchlight
with a pair
of eights
(between a
pair of
eighty-eights)

so far out on a limb
off the beaten track

odds
worse than
life molecules growing
on a rock
lit by a matchstick

Oh that ocean
Hubble bubble

thought it was a star
but is a whole fucking galaxy
(get you
kid’s brain
around that one)

the Universe a thing
even HAL can’t compute

and now
multiverse

a billion poems writing each other
at the exact same moment in time
(spooky writing
at a distance)

every night praying for something more simple
even if it’s 20,000 leagues travelling under the sea

childhood
my brain taking me back their
(old microvolts electric)

place I always return to
when absolutely need to dredge

and you
the villain of the piece

acting God, exceeding your ambit as
Platonic Guardian, father,

couldn’t cope with me
pushing my arms through your circumference
knocking bricks
out your walls

grabbing things outside your truth and dream
pretty much by definition

things darker
pulsating, seething

with ambivalent energy

my job
— as you step aside —

for us both
to figure out, negotiate, come
to terms with

for better or worse
not for eternal peace or salvation —
no simply for
expansion and continuity of mankind

twist
or stick

put your
money where your mouth is

faith
on the line — this line!

AM I?

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Humanity, identity, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, relativity, science, writing

AM I?

am I
dead

or am
I alive?

relative time:
I am
snail

the rest of
the world

is shooting
star

is hurtling past
me making
my clock
go fast

(only angels
travelling
beyond the
speed of light)

BEACH PARTY

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Apocalypse, endowing, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, sex, Thanatos

‪BEACH PARTY‬

‪Oh wish I‬
‪were ‬
‪young again‬

‪when the sky‬
‪falls‬
‪tsunami‬
‪rolls in‬

‪to be ‬
‪young and‬
‪free and‬
‪on the beach‬

‪consumed by‬
‪wild passionate‬
‪panic sex‬

‪best part of‬
‪Thanatos‬
‪without‬

‪a shadow of‬
‪a doubt‬

‪without‬
‪a shadow ‬
‪of a doubt‬

CARE

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altruism, care, Humanity, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire

CARE

this is the hot
final summer
of our selfishness
as we
burn on the
griddle (all
power
to the fuel)

are so nicely
caramelized, so
perfectly

(as we
say here)
“braaied”

a little burnt, still
far from
charcoal

if only our
ideas as
a species
(of ourselves
as a species)

could
so spring
into action

rich in
solutions

forged in
the mind’s fire

cooked
with such care

WHOLE OTHER GAME

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, poverty

WHOLE OTHER GAME

I see
poverty
from the
outside

and it does
not look good

but from
the inside
that’s a
whole other game

like having your
skin peeled
off your body
off your
face
with a jeweled blade.