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Cynic

Diogenes

By Michael DeNicolaPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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I will kill the cynic.

The living-dead man of poetry

A bastard son to emotion

His calling card is “sadness”

With a preference to the cliché

A rotten corpse of art

Turning back the pages.

To which his throne rest upon a mountain

Crafted by the hands of knowledge

A tower of burning books.

Never read and not worth reading.

He is a child to The Raven

Onto which he barely understands

A heretic of the Avant Garde

Wearing armor of sham

Crucify him on his dusty writing desk.

Tear back his tattooed flesh

Reveal the child inside

Hold her by your side

sad poetry
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