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the republicans

believe life begins

at conception

and ends at the moment

an AR-15 is unloaded

into the heads of school children

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ATM

Post author By aayoung
Post date November 22, 2020
2 Comments on ATM

They

will sell you

candy cigarettes,

insulin,

Camel Wides,

chemotherapy,

God,

nicotine patches,

life insurance,

and a bronze casket

all

in one lifetime.

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Maslow’s Fire Sale

don’t you worry, working poor

the richest people

will always have access

to

food

clothing

shelter

sex

god’s offering plate

drugs to feel good

meaningless trophies

abortions too

so go on fighting

about the right

to wear a gun

but not a face mask

in your red Trump hat

and Walmart shoes

Tags Abraham Maslow, Dictatorships, Divisive Politics, Sheep, Tyranny

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of thee I sing

the true measure

of a civilized society

are the rumors

told by its ghosts

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after the quake

trudged out of bed
late this morning
not willing to join
this new shaken world
to find my twin sons
seated on the couch
with furrowed brows
tears in their reddened eyes

they’ve endured bullying at school
for being autistic
the whole of their twenty-year-old lives

how horrified they were earlier this year
when they saw a presidential candidate
make fun of a disabled person
during a campaign speech

now that candidate has won the presidency
my sons asked me,

“Mom, we’re scared. How could this happen?”
“How could Americans elect a bully?”
“How will we be safe?”
“Will we be allowed to go to college?”
“Will we be institutionalized?”

answer them, mr. president-elect…

i am a mother
i am a woman
i will unleash hell
before your eyes

Tags bigotry, Evil, Fear, love, poetry, wrath

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war

Post author By aayoung
Post date September 7, 2016
1 Comment on war

if mothers’ tears
could build palaces
the whole of humanity
would live as kings

Tags love, poetry, War

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dad’s gonna be pissed

my generation had no great war

until the towers fell

and the government invented one

then we were told

it’s not our fight

beyond the departures gate

at the airport

our struggle is removing our shoes

and grabby TSA agents

we never grew a victory garden

we never salvaged all our metal to make bullets

or watched the soldierly Vietnam death toll

march across the bottom of our television screens

we were raised by Atari systems, Pop Rocks, Sweet Valley High books,

and Bob Barker’s skinny microphone

so forgive me, my fellow

generationally x’d out americans

if i don’t give a shit

about your opinions on the upcoming election

Tags age, jouralism, nationalism, poetry, Terrorism, War

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war makes murderers

there are but three

unchangeable forces

known

in our meager lives

.

history is indestructible

dying

and the passage of time

.

that having been said

no wrongful death

may be avenged

with the death of another

.

if history has taught us

nothing else

it is that

war

makes murderers

of all humankind

Tags death, history, Humankind, Murder, Time, Truth, War