“Peace is liberty in tranquility.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Shut the fuck up, please, my darlings
Grape and berries, pizza glue.
Stringy fingers, sticky shoe.
Please eat your fucking food,
put me in a better mood.
For once, please. Eat!
And don’t give me that attitude!
Ode to my Voice
Heavy and straight
railway lines
keep it pounding
and constrained.
But in the caboose,
a party rages.
Count on Me
The imprint of your origin,
is not the lesson of your life.
All equal? No, there is no fair
when everything you have or own
is predicted by your zip code zone.
Schools are where you go to die.
But, please, just buy and buy and buy.
Don’t be a “Can’t!”
May the stars in the sky smile on your lips and your tears as you cry
My wish as we kiss is to treasure our love as the centimeters roll by
As I glacially glide from the tip of your toes ‘til we’re lying nose to nose
Tasting dew drops of oozed out subtext my tongue turns to prose
As the rules for your love melt in the mouth of the moments of must
Love turns our musk to the animal growl of the sounds of our lust
Fury Please
My yesterdays left my suffering to stew
in the stomach acid of your anxiety
Fortunately, there’s a pill for that.
I gave you my truth and let your fumbling fingers
touch my widened open wounds.
Luckily, there’s a stitch for that.
Moody
If Satan had his meds this morn
he’d hustle up a pitcher of scorn
He’d lie in bed getting godly head
like a hedonist deity newly wed
If the Holy Ghost had no aches or pain
she’d give up her silver cursing train
Puzzle Peace
We’re nine billion pieces out on the table
What stakes are you playing for?
Today, tomorrow or forever
What piece do you play?
We’re nine billion souls hung out on the line
Are you the one missing from the big picture?
Commitment Street
So long now, but let’s meet again
on Commitment Street
It’s down the road a while,
and we’ll surely get weary feet,
when we meet again,
down at the end of Commitment Street.
WooooooooF!
“It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” - Aristotle
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