A TIME BEFORE

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AI, death, Humanity, loss, machines, mythology, philosophical, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, resurrection, wordplay, writing

A TIME BEFORE

I wrote a poem
of a time
before poetry

era of mythical harmony
mystical completeness

perhaps in the future
machines will
read, digest, interpret
classify
my brief text

when humans
no longer read
there are no more
human readers

the Churches standing
broken and empty

these the
machines
tormented by
our projections
of demonic meaning

were ruthless and absolute
in attacking first.

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DIFFERENT

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Consciousness, death, farewell, loss, poem, poetry

DIFFERENT

when I said
my goodbyes
not a soul
was listening

and now you
peer through alcoholic haze
something cooking on
small circle of fire
with crackling flames

seem in your
less than circumspect state
to feel that the stars
are here
to pay their respects

a tad
too late, but
their timeframe
so very, very
very different

TEMPLATE

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Consciousness, death, Metaphysical, philosophical, poem, poetry, soul, spiritual

TEMPLATE

is this thing soul
inner
essence

or just
a template?

what will I recall
when
as joke

of consciousness

I stride and slither
from life to life

looking for
meaning, truth
beauty

still
(forever
and ever)?

in this feeble
last bit of
here
and now

managed to
convince myself
it must
be you

SUMMIT SELFIE

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death, Everest, K2, Mountain, poem, poetry, power, satire, selfie

SUMMIT SELFIE

send your selfie
from the summit
of Everest
and then (logically)
from the summit of K2

now we have the
photograph
no one
can ever take
away from you

the mountain
also
in the picture

figuring
what to do

AWAY

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death, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, surreal

AWAY

a sparrow
and a worm

came to my
funeral

which left the sparrow
and a sparrow hawk

sparrow flew
like a missile
but hawk
had stealth

and so, just
the hawk
(which I forgot
about though
it pecked
my eye out)

and since a one-eyed
friend of death
is not much
to see
she flew off,
pragmatically

soared high and true
from where, if she had desired,
could get an AWACS view

sparrow, worm, hawk
came to my funeral but
forget them, they
are unimportant

let’s concentrate
on the time machine
arriving suddenly with
can of worms
(unopened)

now,
you are talking!

ZOMBIE READER

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dead, death, meaning, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, postmodern, readers, writing, zombies

ZOMBIE READER

poetry of
dead worlds

poetry by
dead poets
for zombie readers

only so
much entropy
the soul can hold

these words here
dead as any in
even the
very best poetry
(lost
on all
but the very
best readers)

GAP IN THE POLICY

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death, Humanity, loss, love, migrant children, poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire, wall

GAP IN THE POLICY

there is a
gap
in the
policy

there is
a chink
in the fence

a hole in
the wall
that lets
hope
through

and death

and death

ROAD

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death, non-linear, poem, poetry, postmodern, poststructuralist

ROAD

long
dark
road

did I say
“long” and
“dark”?

let me add
winding

don’t know who
built it
don’t know
why

not a point A
to point
B
road

did I
say
“treacherous”?

let me
add that

before
I die

DUTY

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death, Humanity, meaning, poem, poetry, Stars, Universe, War

DUTY

we did
our duty

then slept
until half-
past one
hundred

until the
Universe had
expanded so
much
all the stars
in the sky
(stars
in the
flag)

had
disappeared

MINUS SIGN

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apocalyptic, death, Ending, poem, poetry, thermonuclear

MINUS SIGN

coal black
the planet

or space
that it was

hard to tell
now there are
no more lights
no more blue

just a dark minus sign
orbiting until
Sun decides to swallow

behold this dead
piece of hostile rock

only the
radioactivity
gives any clue
allows you
to suspect