Seventeen Seventeens
Artistic Poetry Challenge 2018
(1.)
"New Year's Eve"
Boolean query
how most are dead or crazy
let's all hail Marat
(2.)
"A CLARION CALL"
any act of war
first and foremost signifies
the poets have failed
(3.)
"GOP BS"
abject poverty
heightens the rat stench blare of
the trickle down lie
(4.)
"FIRST COFFEE"
forsythia bloom
jonquils and daffodils too
yellow trumpets Spring
(5.)
"EARLY RETIREMENT"
teakettle hissing
snow on the cherry blossoms
taking the day off
(6.)
"HE HAS ARISEN"
apple blossoms rain
like celebrants' confetti
Easter has arrived
(7.)
"Trump Is President"
new sheriff in town
no hard-on for trophy wife
let's nuke Korea
(8.)
"LIFE CHURCH"
as a writer I
don't call it as I see it
but as I smell it
(9.)
"RELATIVISM"
great antagonist
peace debate perpetual
hand daddy his pipe
(10.)
"First Coffee"
death of a rival
as it eventualized
misery comrade
(11.)
"FUTURISM"
a man ain't happy
'til no naked refugees
in churches' closets
(12.)
"LIFE CHURCH"
usury begets
apocalyptic fodder
alienation
(13.)
"LIFE CHURCH"
jubilation is
a duty as breathing to
refreshen vision
(14.)
"LIFE CHURCH"
self-righteousness is
as readily perfected
as debauchery
(15.)
"RECONCILE"
siblings and lovers
you should know are capable
of all betrayals
(16.)
"LIFE CHURCH"
service is now to
only the master you see
in the eyes of birth
(17.)
"RELATIVISM"
deal the cards dealer
all other players are shills
koan performative
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