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The young man stands on the stage
Stripped to the waist,
His blemish-free flesh telling a tale
Independent of his role.
He's required to peel away..
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I haven't touched it for years:
Like a contemptuous spouse,
It sulks in a corner and gathers dust.
Its main function these days
Is support for som..
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Once you sweat out the anger,
Its acidic residue remains;
You alter your routines to avoid encounters
And test variations you'd prefer not to use.
..
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Now is the time for all good poets,
Statesmen, and educated every-folk
To come to the aid of humanity
By hotly rejecting the alpha mug,
His ratty ..
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Nor can one love anybody else,
for love is a vulnerability
that exposes one's tender innards to shots
from slingers and wingers and wrecking ball s..
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Your stars are fading
and you cannot call on them
to give you consolation
and sustenance.
New stars will replace them
and in turn fade and die
..
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Arise ye phantoms of alienation,
And hack out the pith of this aberration,
This sickly old oak that we call Our Nation.
The core is rotten: It igno..
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Twenty say thirty years past, I imagined
By now I'd have met at least one example
Of a person with more than a passive interest
In the life of anot..
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"Isn't it funny," a friend of mine said,
"How auteurs gravitate toward flaming excess,
Until their indulgence does them in,
Burns them, crisps th..
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The way things are going,
We'll be lucky to survive.
Stupidity on all levels
Not only erodes our long-range futures,
But imperils the world
With ..
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