City Stench

walking...
I listen

grit
grinding
between
shoe
and
pavement-

dampness
brings
the smell
of this
decayed city
to life

it pulsates
it pulsates

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To The Dusk

She returned
to the dusk,

so many often do

Daybreak,
an
eternity away

The
season of
wine and song,
longing and laughter
had become
dull in thought

Forever remembrances
weren't
hollow words.

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America: A Day In It's Life

National Hero
of the year
arrested.
Sheriff
jailed for trading Meth
for sex

Woman put Morphine
in Grandma's chili.

Major banks sued
for foreclosing on
homes illegally

Major Discount Retailors
customer's
injured by syringes
found in their clothing

Dog shoots

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Blackened Wild Rain

Her laughter,
robust and hearty

Her rage,
quick and fierce

one minute,
she was
blackened wild rain

the next,
she was
the delicate bow,
pulled gently across
the sweet strings
of a
Stradivarious

Both,
provincial

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Sunset of our Life

The sunset of our life
is still brilliantly ablaze
just as the Autumns foliage glistens
amidst it's frosted, sun-drenched glaze

No fading, timid emotions
for passion still rages within
ever longing for a sensual being
to lay beside wanting skin

Cooling embers of age
are naïve as youthful lust
crying hands held back tears
of loves we felt unjust

Reluctantly we concede to time
in attempt to suffocate want
searing pain, silently screams
knowing only loneliness and it's taunt

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I Haven't Given Up, Life

i haven't
given up,
life

even though u
made me,
my mother's
bastard,
your
bitch, life

i haven't
given up

you tore open
my skin,
exposing
moist meat,
raw nerves
and bare bones

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The Other Day....long Ago

I saw you the other
day, long ago…,
wrapped in the
plushest of
white robes.

You looked out
on to the ocean.

Sitting,
your one hand
clutched the
other's wrist,
as they wrapped
around your
knees.
Both, of which
were tucked,
in fetal position,
up against

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Poet

Darkness,
behind the cloak.

Random words spewed

Subconscience thought,
so obscure their meaning

'Why would anyone want
to be a fuckin' poet? '
I ask.

Eerie blackness
within a wretched,
reckless soul
reveals the heart of men
but you,
eyes open, don't blink

'Why would anyone want

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The Scientist

Disheveled hair,
Eye glasses
perched at
the end of
a ripe, red nose.

I am a
Scientist-
of sort

A Scientist
of my
surroundings;
of my life's
environment

I wear
drunkenness
like an
Intellectual

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City in Heat

City in Heat

[3: 00 am]
screaming cat
in heat,
begging
for a fk

[3: 15 am]
goddmn
car alarm siren
wails loudly,
non-stop

Furious,
I pound
on the
neighbors
screen door...

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