Once upon a time
Dreamed the American Dream
Thought we had it all
But at the end of the line
Found the American Scheme
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Craiyon -
Photo by Volker Thimm on Pexels.com price of admission cost to survive belies the myth of innocence
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Photo by Stephen Leonardi on Pexels.com A once great nation
Washed up on a beach to rot
A tear shedding stench -
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like rain on the upside down
online lake of void -
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Now a free range forager
Thrift shop investor -
roving gangs of geese
murder chickens by the ditch
crime wave gone a fowl -
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an infinity below me
an infinity above of me
enjoying the condiments
of existence -
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boisterous behavior ends
a long-term friendship -
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soon to commitment in a
noncommittal way -
Every scion has
A backstory, yet they'll still
Spin their tale thus;
And whistle past the graveyard
Of those that gave them so much -
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through a prism in my cell
wall of science site -
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Boon for big dry eye pharma
Call your broker now -
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Mix and match reality
Select your own truth -
Photo by Helen Lee on Pexels.com opaque to many
to just as many it's clear
the rest pay no mind -
Photo by David Dibert on Pexels.com a flurry of wings
flapping with blood soaked fury
bringing home the wreaths -
conversation needs
not to have conversion as
a goal to achieve
if all of us could agree
nothing wrong with a nice chat -
Idolater words
Clever translation trellis
Swimming in a stew
A mass vagary mélange
Unclean aspic mysteries -
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I hate my neighbors wind chimes
My stuff and your crap -
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Lie, bloviate, and squeal
The poison will out -
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heinous concept of belong
root of all evil -
Living in grand style
Prosperity gospel slag
Cheating hubby wife
With self righteous finger wag
Shill a lush and shameful life -
Pocket my cell phone
Wander through my neighborhood
Haiku Will Travel -
Photo by Max O on Pexels.com What looks like sunrise
Is really Diogenes
Holding his lantern
Over our land searching for
An honest politician -
Photo by Max O on Pexels.com It's quite the travail
To hack through the wilderness
With all this baggage -
I offer my take
On outrage machine social
Slather on the grief -
trip over my own
words only to land flat on
the page once again -
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progenitor spirit champs
the bit for over
a hundred years seizing this
moment to shackle us all -
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Riff needs a resolution
Gliss home with grace notes -
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The spice that keeps me patient
Crushed joie de vivre -
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when past becomes now too soon
leaves no future room -
Photo by Monstera Production on Pexels.com Told there was a plan
Claimed there was no plan. There was.
It was a bad plan -
Two little boys scream
Menaced by a bumble bee
Under Gary's porch
Eventually
Gary's mom comes out to see
Shooed away the bee
Shakes her head at us
With great disdain for the boys
Such little babies -
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of icy mistrust will take
honest truth to thaw
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