Ruled By Mars

Assertive aspirations
Rattle cages to
Impart liberation,
Existential ponderings and
Sustainable harmony through respect

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Hauled

in that
shopping
cart,

tearing the
pavement
with riotous
laughter

even after
those wheels
caught that
crack

sending you
sprawled into
the pickled
night.

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Sterility

Please don’t whisper Cupid’s brutal name
Salvation’s ghost can’t quell my shame
My heart pushes only blood
Through unproductive mud
Waste festers inside
No trace of pride
Pulses though
Without
You

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Stargirl Seven

Last night, I stole a glance of you streaking the zenith
in a moment of tranquil alarm, liberated from the
burden of grim isolation and despair. My
eyes lit in wonderment as you burst
free of your skin to finally share
one brilliant supernova with
this most woeful mortal
until spectral dust
danced away
glittering.

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Once Kinetic

I spy
a comfortable
chair at the sympathy
pantry while huddled at
the blast door near the entrance.

All
Hallows
Eve beckons
like a wild rush of
frigid, Canadian air,
rendering all clothing
mute in utter repentance.

My
mask
shall rule
from the inside
since all grotesque
notions begin their lurch

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Bedside

I twist with each terrible moan
escaping your lips in distress
while you lie prone, never alone,
to guess or stress on progress

of that mass invading you
sparked by ecology's change
to accrue tissues untrue
deranged limp in the exchange

until pulsing force vacates
through the tears welling inside
as their chemicals placate
to guide you outside doe-eyed

with papery sympathy
numbing such churning decay
to quake me with empathy
this day as you drift away.

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Paradox of Panic

When the cavalcade
in all its bluster
surrenders a gasp
to mutilation,
demands for reason
remind the renegade
that independence in isolation
ensures despair

regardless of economy
or lifting diction
until cornered,
provoking the reactive dongle
to flair each lizard eye
of survival with fangs
or invisibility

while skittering
like scandal onward
to twist the

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Athame

In this spin
the drum beat falters
as we begin
to decorate alters.

I don't know
when isolation
began to grow
to numb all sensation

in nerve nets
once teeming with souls
until regrets
drown nurturing goals

with the rush
of booming campaigns
as cheeks bloom flush
until loaded in trains

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Barren Chatter

Cake walks and avalanches dangle inviting
morsels of distress rushing like television
on schedules of mischief with egos aplenty
hauling the barrow without common vigilance
to dance on the fresh dirt while packing bodies in.

Loose change tumbles from limp palms and interest plans;
crescendos of misery sing in scoundrel ears
as set forth by campaigns of sin terrifying
to line up the languid in perilous events
always on schedule while creating blind demand

without sympathy to humans in mortal need
or harmony with living things beneficent.
Tangle knots of certainty grin from broken teeth
whittled to nubs by gnawing predatory greed,
the gums bleed fresh prayers to the curtain in the back.

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Whiteout Torrent

Blistering sheets of sting
Sizzle and pop on skin
With purity you sing
Arias spark vision
To tip that halo ring
Fortitude climbs within

Shivers thump open blood
Repelling lethargy
Adrenaline’s fright thud
Warns death stalls next to me
As my feet slide like mud
Skies push with gravity

In your storm I read codes
Difficult to ignore
Confetti blurs the roads
Man campaigns to restore
Future anguish explodes
At oblivion’s door

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