Tag: police
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Last Person to Know Her Name
1. A stranger in a blue wig rolled on the floor, Her eyes rolled too Until sclera hues matched wall paint Matched Styrofoam. Loose change Founds its marks along the carpet. Police entered and embedded dead Presidents In the fabric. “What’s her name?” Reasons to name corpses. Soft kicks to hips. Officer knelt for prayer …
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Trusting Silence to Reveal the Truth and Becoming Depressed about what is revealed….
“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.“-Emil Cioran Adoration for simplicity, qualified Kingdom-come, welcomed new centuries and fixed regicide to rectify introspection. (If we are GODS. We are MARTYRS too). Newscaster reported that, “the revolution will not be televised,”as footage of the capital burning played…
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(insert recycled sitcom trope here)
Cardboard boxes, stacked before the dumpster, Simplified access To raccoons, who ate like royalty, gorging on trash. Cardboard crumples when wet and rainfall Exchanged convenience for knowledge. Egg yolk Bespeckled with blood spots, Stayed the predator’s hand And examined the concept Of what could’ve been. NO. Life becomes. Life doesn’t happen. Dog urine Perfumed the…
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Trash Bags forgotten at the Bus Stop
1. The Bereaved were outfitted In their standard black costumes and stood before the soldiers Who bordered the Officer’s casket in Red, White & Blue. A hot mic captured the priest, presiding over the funeral, Take a drink from his water bottle and announce, “BLECH! That tastes like it came from the tap.” The soldiers…
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F*** Twelve
Meanwhile in Madison WI
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Three P’s
Sitcom dialogue influenced by meta brandishing, character lips pulsating in accordance to dial tones, placated on screens smaller than faces, inviting cataracts to scar rapid eyes, blinking censorship. Empty pill bottle requires Bad Faith inquisitions to clone the metabolism process of throat to vein maze transference. To welcome aches and pains is to carry the…
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planZzZz
Bellyache rumblings conscript the hunger pains of traveling galaxies, salutations to mutilations separating the restrictions of consciousness from formulating progressive observations on reasons to discriminate the namesake of stars and planets. Time acknowledges dimensions required to accommodate every possibility unraveling as descriptions unfold. But if an animal severs the jugular vein of another and no…
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GOD IS A REPUBLICAN
“The Madison Police Department is one of more than 100 police agencies withdrawing from agreements to send personnel to bolster security at next month’s Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee“ Silent scenarios close captioned via body language. Deaf assumption deciphered ambient melodies and what was the transference of Beethoven’s quill to bombastic inflections? Moonlight glutted the…
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The Aesthetic Beauty of a Riot
The process to present riot gear as aesthetically pleasing to the populace while retaining a menacing essence required months of research. A weapons manufacturer printed advertisements in popular right wing publications requesting “Men and Women of all shapes and sizes” to serve their country like never before. Patriotic men slid their bellies off from their…
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