Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Free? Never.

Freedom is an ironic thirst to slake
Break, snake my way out of these chains
Take the blame for the stain inflicted on the
Generation of liars, crackheads, tweakers
Sneakers, more important than your teachers
Features a misplaced greed, never been weaker
Morality, untuned radio, mental waves of fortitude
Attitude of empty suits, blank hands, face value
Zero cents in the bank account of metaphors
Bitter rhymes in times of frozen dereliction
Picture the mixture of misogynistic misters
Denouncing, pouncing, on darker berries mounting
Frowning, clown sings, hands unchained but heart
Bleeds for the youth in the favelas, don’t know better than
To shoot, no use to fight the past, tradition is a pistol
Whose bullet shoots to last, crass criticisms of art
Delivered fast, what makes a painting but emotional motes
Of trash, pain, abstract names in sundered plains
Buffalo knocked down dead, no one to blame
But the force that pushes, chooses to muse us, turn your fellow man
To a speck of dust, pale blue dot, earth shivers itself
It knows that the most marvelous, golden idol is just an inch away
From uselessness, fruitful bliss, ignorant to the solvent bit
Of truth, impossible to see
The bitter clown with shattered dreams is really
Truly free

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Shame

I wondered briefly
Chiefly concerning
Discerning madness
Classless vagrants
Paid rent, but grim times
Late fines and cheap words
Herds of mismanaged men
When what’s left is less
Best to leave it to those
Pose a question of integrity
Economy is withering, but the suits
Loot the bank, stark fear, fervor
Curbs stained with the pain
Blame it on the parents, not the teacher
Feature headline, two dead after mis-fire
Liars walk the street, plague of insanity
Humanity, cradled, coddled by mis-truth
Ruthless, fearless, bloodshot toddler
Took her by the throat, no one answered
Transferred to an empty room, light switch
Itch in her brain, tumors the only thing growing
Row in her school, kids watch like it's normal
Formal to beat your neighbors face in
Face it, we’re done as a race and
Our last prayer answered
Cancer to end a global mind-set of hate
Fate to fit the shame, let it rot
Pot to fill his feeble mind with hope
Rope, to end the self-esteem
Steam stays bubbled
Rubble, once an infant
Mint condition, provision, varnished
Tarnished by diffidence, apathy
As we see, justly musty, sorrow
Borrowed time, leased alacrity
Mentally stitched to help swallow
Follow your doctor's orders
Borders set to limit your spastic
Elastic emotions, reaching the end of clarity
It's fairly cheap to fill the bottle
Mottled kids, too young to spell their name
Change into monsters capable of swiping
Ripened to rape and destroy
Toy with the fabric of a quilt
Built to represent our deepest shit
Spit of politicians

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Muffled

To him that bubbles
Virulent mass of flesh and
Bone, tearing segment piece by
Ligament and water-mark
Print, saddled in the ferocity
Of mice and marred dreams
Scuttling horrors that knock on
Wishes and realizations
Truth is an ether that muffles
Confused are we the addicts
Fiends of forgotten realms
Acrimonious, can’t sensationalize
The senseless masses are flooding
Forth, inundate the brain that spawned a
Cycle of tyranny and madness, the steadfast
Of champions, broken limbs, charred remains
Heroes down-trodden, trodden, fallen?
Rise up, the phoenix says to wizened corpse
But corpse denies instead it digs
Further down, vermiculation
Facsimile forms of indignation
Stumbling into caverns, hilly patches
Tender lies that feed the youth
Fulfilled

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Infected Mushroom

The gnomenclature
Features nature
Sickness bred in fright
Infected shrooms
A cruel volume
Of zombies near
In sight
A class of points
And prongs, too few
Take a chunk
Split a piece
Disease is scored
By vomit spewed
Vision melts
With infant beards
And cookie farms
In candy-fields
The gum-drop crop
Displayed in hay
Horses splayed
Organs blotched
Strewn in the shade
Gnomish princes
Wince in fits of
Absolution, power lost
To distribution
Bacteria starts
The circle flows
Germs begin
Gnomes will grow
What starts in slime
Soon ends in foam
And so the mushroom
Crumbled top
Victim to spells
And putrid rot
Sophistication
Burned on sight
To be a gnome
Is to end in blight