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Insurrections
Note: this poem is NOT about what happened at the Capitol on January 6th. I'm a very liberal writer, and what happened there is not what I'm talking about in this poem. -
The Nights
These are the nights
When everything looks too big and too small
and I'm sitting in front of my computer screen
texting a friend
These are the nights
When I'm listening to nostalgic coldplay
and crying when the beat drops -
Teach Me How To Fall In Love
Oh, dear beloved,
Teach me how to fall in love,
Because
I'm afraid I'm going to break your heart
And thus break my own.
Oh, dear beloved,
Teach me how to fall in love,
Because
I don't know how to commit -
Ode to Writer’s Rage
Anger! 'Tis the Fuel of Poetry
Burning within my Soul—
Igniting my blood, my veins, my eyes
And will not stop at All–
Because, as all my friends know
And as I call to the Night—
Anger me, and I will explode. -
Lady Liberty En Danse
She does a pirouette even as she chokes
On her cigarette, her body dancing through the smoke
Her house on fire, she leaps—she has nothing to lose
The fall of an empire, bricks collapse with every move -
The world now
I'm always so
Angry all the time—
Rage
Boiling my blood
As the sun
Burns my face
Outside at a march.
I'm ranting at the dinner table
Ranting online
Too much, it's too much
These political scams,