Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Beleagered

You can cut through

a box with words

the sharp edges of jargon

valiantly smite the 

irrelevance of contradiction

with each phrase

each participle

that dangles from the 

ballpoint before splashing 

onto my page,

i interlope the freedom

of the unjust only to find 

justice

muffled under the gag order of

judgement

we live in an irrational world

where denizens of devilry

pry their way into my thoughts

with fanciful promises of freedom

what freedom?

the angst that allows me to

pitch away my triumps at the five 

and dime hoping for a dream?

or the belicosity that enables a war

machine to roam the desert freely 

in search of foreign prey?

what else should i scaple onto the page?

promises of romantic certainty that

always seems to escape the

reality of we?

Us becoming beleagured

the heavy pressures of sovereignty...

a farce that does not make its way beyond the beaches....

where do i stand

is this place some sort of mystical

wonderland

where the fantasy's 

of citizen ship

are only designed to lure

the would be traveler into

some trap

perhaps

the truth lies squarely behind the gestures

killing me softly before 

gestation

a nation that has somehow

lost its head

seems we're fed from

a chipped spoon

the lot of us bafoons 

and i'm getting tired of pretendin'

too busy focused on saving face

our saving grace begining to 

have a funny taste to it

beleagured like a 

battleship

caught in a crossfire

our squadron suffering friendly fire

and we can't see

blame the fog

I can't pretend not to see

that we are a fragmented 

and vulnerable

got to be careful of associations

closed communications can 

be the death of us

never know what folk be discussin'

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