Chumming the water
With small fish to roil the sea
Corrupt Don absconds
-
Craiyon -
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than medieval power feast
my social diet -
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via algorithm plots
deceptive exploit -
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"The jig is up! It's the copse."
"Let's not stick around."
So both of them made like trees
Pulled up roots and went to leave -
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Reminders tasks or deadlines
Time ticking to tick -
a hole in the truth
way too big for a Humvee
to plug up with lies
intimidation brute force
vigilante injustice -
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Nine out of ten billionaires
Endorse starting rich -
Metal escutcheon
Around perception keyhole
Is scratched and pitted
From inanities truncheon
Efforts to unlock function -
I thought what was what
What I didn't know was what
What had turned into -
our decrepitude
ruthless rancid and randy
offends all senses
waddling around the world
worst of us on full display -
some podcasts make you
take the gish gallop challenge
turn nonsense to sense -
the natty flea flies
out without it's overcoat
in a flea-brained flight -
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Falls like a cigarette ash
Off the glowing coal
On the butt of this smoke break
To the ashtray of our days -
bare trees speak to me
without the clutter of leaves
message from their roots -
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Bring back good ol broadcast snow
Watch ghosts come on through -
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chew before swallowing cause
your brain has no teeth -
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Timed thaw and ripen cycle
Live task wheel process -
seems all the stories
I tell myself about me
are anecdotal -
Only takes a peek
No vigil necessary
To see the abyss
Looming up before us all
Executive malfeasance -
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of IRL surroundings
subsumed all day while
partaking of violent games
ingesting haughty delights -
Many a disease
I've given myself watching
YouTube videos -
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just a Different Century
and the band played on
Haiku a Day 