Depression
Swimming in a lake
The weeds strangle my body
Trying to break free
I’m only pulled down deeper
into the opaque water
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Heavy Rain commences
Another wet season
Termites on the attack
More wood consumed
Me and the missus
Ponder
Will we pass away before shack collapses from decay?
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Jealousy
Like termites on wet wood, jealousy will eat a person alive.
There will always be someone else who has more.
Is it even possible to keep up with it all?
Life is unfair.
Contentment is the only key that opens the door to a peaceful existence.
Everyone must look into the mirror.
The decision is for each individual to make.
I cannot help at all.
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Desire=Suffering
Daily craving
Meditation
Listen to gong
1-2 hours long
Confused
Mind savors simple food
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What Is Education?
You throw me a book and tell me to learn.
Just because you have a pocket full of degrees does not make you the master of everyone’s destiny.
You are all cushy, safe and completely surrounded with wealth all around.
Get off your high horse and go learn firsthand how much many people struggle to survive across the land.
Then we will sit and talk.
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Few months away
20 years no cell phone
Wife
Capitulated
Purchased her own $39.99 smartphone
I knew something was up
After two days
She finally fessed-up
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lounging in hammock
small irritating bird
“peep, peep, peep”
ripe papayas hang from tree
my stomach complaining
“give me a treat”
I’m trying to fall asleep
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He lived in a shack
Writing his poems day and night
No one read the work
Death came and the tombstone said
“Brilliant mind and tortured soul”
Robots
Devoured
Marketplace
Mass produced poetry
All that sold
Humans
Brainwashed
Read only what they were told
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The sun will soon burn into the water and take the day’s final breath.
Alone, I walk on the white sand beach, tossing shells into the sea, trying to forget.
I’m clutching deep-rooted memories and my mind remains upset.
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long drawn-out rain drips
peeling wallpaper
newspapers
books
scattered on the floor
his mind constantly craves more
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Young girl
Sitting on dirty blanket
Tiny fingers
Reaching into packet
Scarfs down
Leftover
French fries
Mother
Collected
While
Begging on the street
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cocooned in studio
decades forming clay
twisted stiff fingers
unsold sculptures
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1st light
morning pickings
searching
finding
filling
basket
with
cucumbers
lettuce
peppers
scallions
ripe tomatoes
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small table
we sit
dipping bread into olive oil
drinking wine
remembering those times…
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Elegantly dressed, she eagerly waited at the railway station.
By late afternoon, head down, slowly walking away, realizing the satisfying roleplay sessions would never happen again.
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I’m holding a blue rock in my hands.
I begin to move the jagged, hefty piece, around with my fingers and thumb.
It is easy to become attached to this little treasure, that I do not remember where or when it was found.
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Dispassionate fog
Provides Concealment for
Predator and prey
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purchased in 1991
sitting under blistering sun
terracotta pot
survived
tropical storms
hurricanes
deteriorating
bit by bit
sinking into the earth
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mind’s web
accumulates past
calculates future
struggles
with
present
to
cooperate
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Peasants
Congregate
On the street
Submissively
Waiting
Holding bowls
While
Privileged
Donate
Soup of the day
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corruption
acknowledges no pain
population
begs for change
Miami’s
luxury real estate
place to park illicit gains
soldiers
follow
the
dictator
&
generals’
orders
until
butchering
arrives
at their door
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Garden swing
Sitting
Cutting
Pieces of pear
Using
Sharp knife
Hedonistic bites
Under
Moonlight
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Hospital bed
Connected to IV drip
Urine half fills container
Days pass examining ceiling
Scheduled
Tests
Medication
Frustration
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technologically advanced
species
remained
primitive warriors
until
extinction
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No expensive toys
Laughing
Smiling
Riding water buffalo
Free entertainment for children
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window seat
crowded
city bus
long
slow
stop and go ride
discussing
history
with
older gentleman
holding
stack of books
from the public library
who
asked
me
an
illuminating
question:
Do you think today’s upheaval is just another cycle, or an inevitable march towards perpetual evil?
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boondocks
sitting in a shitbox
cross gate arms down
watching train roll by
wish I caught that ride
any change will improve life
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park bench
silence
a man sat next to me and said
“all I have left is my mind
Can you hear the chimes?
that magnificent sound
is keeping me alive”
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Roofing
Eight stories tall
Do not fall
Shirt off
Sun cooking my skin
Long day
Muscles hurt
Tomorrow
Do it again
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leaky faucet
drip
drip
I just was riding the drift
same
same
power game
building blocks
one
two
three
your lungs full of rage
STOP
shouting at me
I did not ask for fame
forget my name
No
you will not piss on my grave
I’m camouflaged
disappearing
into
dust
disappointment
I will not make appointment
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home
in the shadows
waiting
alone
wife
cries
while
husband
sitting at the bar
washes down reality
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prey on those living in misery
crush disadvantaged
use legal system for advantage
accumulate luxury frivolous things
ego sings
fool peasants with razzle-dazzle
free pass for the jackals
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plants need to drink
ancient vessel leaks
happiness is what everyone seeks
however
humans
suffer
Who controls the switch?
faith
continues
to make its pitch
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STAMPED “Bad Luck”
always jump on the back of wrong truck
struggling
glue no longer holding fragments together
misery goes on forever
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regurgitate history
today
Does it even matter?
morality deranged
climate change
technology on speed train
Who has the power to slow it all down
before society drowns?
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falling
clutching onto failures
all the way down
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sidewalk
busy intersection
pacing
around and around and around
hysterically
scratching
lottery card
the lady stopped
raised her arms
called out
over and over and over
“I won 5 bucks”
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give just a little
take a lot
you always ask for a doggy bag
extra packets of sugar in the pocket
scrapping leftover bits from your dinner plate
small takes
subsisting as a cheapskate
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I no longer perform in the circus
useless
try harder
What for?
the puppet master keeps the score
taking his cut
constant hunger in my gut
I search for the fresh
only find the rotten
top layered with cream
underneath
smashed dreams
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