COMMON GROUND

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cobra, drought, Global warming, poem, poetry, Snake, viral YouTube video, Water

COMMON GROUND

cobra: well he felt thirsty
cobra became
our best friend

must have
known humans
from somewhere

(perhaps put
some in
the ground)

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FULL STOP

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Humanity, poem, poetry, satire

FULL STOP

worst paradox possible:
you can’t expand
humanity
into anything

but you can shrink it down
into thing size of a dot

fullstop

JOKE

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Alien, History, Humanity, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, Universe

JOKE

the aliens came
filmed, recorded,
we gave them
our best

and so they left
bearing reel after reel
of grotesque satire

pigs in the pulpit
preaching the new pig God
and all his dreams of a
pure pig world

perfect in its poke
stripped of humanity
stripped of hope

bound to
an ever heavier,
more murderous yoke

aliens thought it
a pretty sad joke

SHAME

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Humanity, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, racism, satire

SHAME

we want
to be
pure

we want
to be
different

we
want to
be
same

we want the
best of
both worlds, of
all worlds

coursing
through our veins

so desiring
so
frightened

our species
such a shame

H2 C and O

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carbon life form, DNA, Humanity, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, the body

H2 C AND O

you are bone
and gristle
shit and
piddle

but you are more than that
you are
miracle of
hydrocarbon

child of the
stars

messenger for
humanity
(that you troll,
and cuss and
much
belittle

with demigod sneer
and sheer profanity)

DARK MATTER

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Evil, Humanity, poem, poetry, science, Universe

DARK MATTER

dark energy
dark matter

looking to find it
can answer the
question as
to the future of
the Universe

and why
we are so
cruel, brutal,
to
one another

CARAVAN

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Humanity, immigrants, migrants, migration, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, power, Race, satire

they dance, they sing,
they summersault
tell jokes
in the strangest dialects
about strange things

a winding snake
with so much to say, so much to give,
but they are
human so
we shall never
let them in

have sown the mines
have fields of
fire
that interlock, whether
stone or rock
the weapon of choice
that they bring
we are ready

not a life will be saved
not a joy given

we are
thoroughly Biblical
about their being
a threat
to our very existence

OF THAT RECIPE

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death, Humanity, poem, poetry, Rebirth, Universe

OF THAT RECIPE

chatted
to a star

star told me
they would
soon claim me

take control of
“the dust
that you are”

and from that dust
new life forged

but none of
that sad, flawed, speak-to-
the-stars
stuff

no more
of that recipe
the cosmos
not
having any

CREATURE OF LIGHT

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dark, Life, light and dark, poem, poetry, satire

CREATURE OF LIGHT

perhaps it was a dream
a dark dream

me in the kitchen
stirring the pot
realizing
it is all
about dress code
our capacity
for survival

wear the wrong cut
of cloth and you
are dead as a doornail
they will find
the detergent to
clean away your flesh

perhaps it
was all
a dream

but the stronger
I stirred
the darker it was
becoming

and me
in the kitchen
imagining myself
a creature of light

SO BARELY MEAN

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Good versus evil, Humanity, meaning, poem, Universe

SO BARELY MEAN

the battle in my soul
between good
and evil
is no big deal
no Rocky/Apollo
fifteen-rounder

needing Dr Lecter and
St Francis, to referee, blow
their whistles when
I get way too demonic,
become angelic holy

this little scrap, storm
in a
teacup, backyard duel,

hardly
the fate of the Universe
resting on its outcome
hardly the great feud of
history between
rich and wretched poor

no just
my inner oscillations, of
no spiritual importance
for what
is good
and what is
evil to such dull, malformed
creatures whose lives
so barely mean?