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Todd Thiel
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Charlie's Comeuppance
Sidney Tyler Lofton
Cycles and cycles
Love and hate and hate and hate
Hate taints love
Changes love
Unrecognizable love
Becomes a distant enemy
Always looming
Terrorizing the children
Mainstream and manufactured at speeds that would traumatize god
A god mainlined
Becomes fundamental
Fundamentalist
So blind to the world
Eyes only on an unperceived eternity
Ignoring reality
Sacrificing your children to demons
But not the ones you were raised to fear
There is no Satan and god is a fervent wish
Your demons are our masters
Your faith has broken us
Twisted us
And why
For dollars and obscene pleasure of course.
Neither of which you'll ever see.
You stroke each other off and are gleeful that others lack
That’s the only joy you'll know
A calloused hand job that stops right before completion.
They'll say…” my arm hurts” and you'll say “okay can I buy you dinner?”
They rape your children
They do nothing when they are murdered
Then they beg you to grieve hateful morons
While again ignoring your dead children
And you as a whole don't care.
Children are the price of the American dream folks
You can keep your AC and your $15.00 McDonalds’ cheeseburger
You can leave leaders who ignore you
You can die because the doctor is just a dream
You can starve because the grocery store is becoming a fantasy
You can have all this
Price dead kids
And wholesale suffering
And we just line up
Like losers who buy dinner
For people who couldn't jerk us off right.
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Wind and Winter Light
E.W. Farnsworth
“It’s scary,” I thought
You said, but it was your name,
The last word from you.
“It’s comical,” but
Another said “outrageous”
Your cosmic comic horror.
Bloody leaves flutter.
I hear nearest traffic sounds:
Rich intensity.
Too chilly to run
Yet autumnal colors peak,
Insouciant now.
You left suddenly
No warning words to say,
“Catch me as you can!”
Such goodness and such
Grace, now gone, perchance you
Found a better state.