Archive for Social Comment
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THE FOX AND THE HOUND • by G Westall
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you said i was your paramour
so irresistable you had to chase
across fields and shallow rivers
catching me deep amongst the trees
my fight was just flirting and i
let you take a gullet of blood
because you found its scent alluring
the days grow cold and dim without you
G Westall spends more time thinking about poetry than writing it. He [...]
Nature, Other, Romance, Social Comment
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ON THE DRIVE INTO WORK IN SILICON VALLEY • by Steve Lucchesi
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Other, Social Comment
Car is warm,
A womb in motion,
music soothes and thoughts are free.
Trees awaken, colored with subtle soul
as the sun makes promise of
life beyond language and symbol.
Some fearing, others not hearing the promise
drive deaf and blinded
to be birthed
into dry antiseptic halls of commerce
where demands of ambitions
are conscience.
There, possibilities of the unformed day
are [...]
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FACELESS • by Katherine McIntyre
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They don’t look at you;
Other, Social Comment
specters aren’t concrete.
They only see a torn T-shirt
bought from Pennies,
your threadbare scarf
and an old pack of Poptarts
crumbling at the bottom of your bag.
No, they don’t realize
you’re clinging to your mother’s old Timex
although ol’ Mike’s Pawn Shop would
procure temporary reprieve from the
rolling thunder in your stomach.
They glare at sidewalks to ignore you,
every [...]
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TIANANMEN SQUARE • by George McKim
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we met in tiananmen square
Social Comment, Surreal
in a wet, anemic daydream
you wore a long dress
made from newly formed continents
i was naked except for a necklace
made from constellations
and power tools
we danced
your breath formed small pink clouds
in the hieroglyphic night sky
we drank the dark star elixir
with open skull delirium
we climb the great wall
i hear you
in the distant [...]
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BRACEROS • by J. B. Hogan
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Beneath the desert sun they worked:
Inspirational, Literary, Poems, Social Comment
thin bodies bent double in dusty rows,
with bronzed and calloused hands,
thinning cotton with short-handled hoes.
Mid-morning sun, eye-burning, strength-sapping heat
rising in waves off the ground,
thinking of lunch time beans and tortillas,
jars of jalapeños, the afternoon ahead.
Working fiercely for a dollar an hour,
saving it for a cheap radio or new straw hat,
all [...]
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FLEEING UNDER COVER OF DAY • by Dennis Misurell
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From across the street, I stare at you
Other, Social Comment
pacing up and down
the metal runway of the U-Haul,
a gang plank to nowhere.
You scurry,
traverse your bridge too far,
and lug the remains of your American dream,
crammed into corrugated prisons.
A modern day Joad,
shaking dust from your ARM’s,
and the whirlwind of leverage you created.
Flipping mortgages was financial eggs over easy.
You had [...]

