UYINENE (second poem)

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death, poem, poetry, rape, South Africa, tragic

UYINENE
(second poem)

like a half-
dead spider
he invited her
into his morbid,
decaying world

it was hard to
even look at her
her eyes blazing
with young light
her mind racing with
medium-is-
the message, film, TV, digital,
everything
global, electronic,
hip ‘n cool
about this media

the door closes like a bank vault
he switches to red, like a
killer creature
like an
attack submarine

the red drowns her out
kills her beauty and
her humanity

for an hour he
has the power
of an ancient, evil god

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ARROW

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death, love, poem, poetry, Sexual

ARROW

just want to
thank you

as you
roll me
in the mattress

fling me
in the dumpster

commit to
the flames (true
Viking funeral)

for the
beautiful death

my soul
not just
leaving

softly,
quietly

but shot
from like an arrow
from your
gorgeous quiver

stupendously
strong bow

ISLAND

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death, good v evil, Humanity, identity, poem, poetry

ISLAND

so much
dark energy
swirling around
teasing, taunting
penetrating

and yet an
island

which knows nothing
of the power
that is death
that is
blood

sometimes I am
whisked here
out of nowhere

to smell the air
hear these ghosts speak

but cannot stay, though
the voices intrigue me

theirs a sacrifice
that, though called upon,
I did not possess
the supreme courage to make

POSTMORTEM

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death, poem, poetry

POSTMORTEM

you called me
back from
the dead

to serve in
the military, for
jury duty

join the
people’s
paramilitary
march
up and
down

but I must
apologize
did not
get the
message

or maybe
I did and
decided not
to come

thinking
maybe it would be
better to wait
to the people you
speak for
rise up
against you

refute your
philosophy
reject your
program

take
your head

for that
I would come for

drag myself
back from
the grave

for that is something
truly historical
I dare not
miss at all

AFRICANUS

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blade, Consciousness, death, fear, philosophy, poem, poetry, strategy, tactics, warfare, warrior

AFRICANUS

worst thing in existence
is to be
warrior-philosopher

trying to
hone the
acuteness of
a Barca, weld
to the
principles of
Sun Tsu

refine in thinking through
the tactics of
Africanus

but
this acuity

so
double-edged

when thinking the sharpness
of a deadly weapon

running until the blood
really drips
flows

a finger along that
cruel edge

just
to test

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

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death, Heaven, Humanity, meaning, Ocean, poem, poetry, sea, Universe

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

was thinking
of Heaven

when shark came
swam past, circled,
great white
huge slate gray
fin
massive

a whopper

not much room
to maneuver, but
food
for thought

imagined, just before
the bite came

shark speaking, asking
me

why even
in situation so
dire
might I find myself
inclined to
second-
guess Heaven?

JOURNEYMAN

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death, Humanity, loss, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, Separation

JOURNEYMAN

waved goodbye
to the human race

hardly any of
those creatures
left about
this place

unless shadows, clones,
imitations, pastiche
pitiful beings
that strive
but somehow
lack the reach

and that more
than enough reason,
justification for my journey

hoping to
get
far away
so
far away

no point
my returning

AT LEAST

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arrogance, balance, climate change, death, denialists, earth, Ecology, Global warming, Justice, poem, poetry, power, revenge, satire

AT LEAST

let them
sleep
on their sins
children

these
denialists

these authors of vomit
bile demagogues of
spin

make sure
they are
buried

nice
and
tight

brought to
ironic final rest
in the Earth they so
painfully
despised

Mother grown
in wisdom
overcoming her initial reluctance to
hold them
love them

even such
deep denial
of her love
forgive

but
what gives?
why should
you
even the dead, dead,dead
in this case
let
live
(here no
concept
of insult
to injury)

so when
you to
re-
dress
rebalance

you piss
you
shit

turning all
that poor poor
metaphor
decidedly literal

clear the arrogance of
those epitaphed names
away
wash
the slate
clean

restore
the absolute anonymity
they once
had
now deserve again

think what they took
and what they owe

what
souls must endure

before
balance restored

the soul above them
now fertilized
at least

runners of my,
our

your
world

ANNULMENT

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dark, death, Life, Light, Metaphysical, poem, poetry

ANNULMENT

death be
not divorce

be more
annulment

of all
you ever were

but wait, the air
so cold

cold as the bleakest
darkest spot of
the Universe

sub-zero breath of
your new lover your
new true partner

finally, yes,
the perfect ice
of this embrace

it gets to last
for all eternity
(there
foreshadowed

in every word
dark muse

of life itself, all
its poetry)

THE LESSON

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arrogance, Britain, death, Humanity, irony, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, power, satire, thermonuclear, Twist in the tail

‪THE LESSON‬

‪teach a lesson‬
‪teach a lesson‬

‪your eyes‬
‪blazing like‬
‪red-hot coals‬
mushroom clouds‬
‪fogging what‬
‪passes‬
‪for a brain‬

‪you who paid‬
‪so little attention‬
‪in school‬
‪never read‬
‪a book‬
‪from‬
‪cover to‬
‪cover

‪duck‬
‪and cover!‬

‪wanting‬
‪to teach the world a lesson‬