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A Fascist Symphony
Emboldened by the brazen bigotry of his bearing, he betrayed the people who gave him his power, a democracy broken by a peering, prying, lying leader and furthering his feathering by freely paving a patterned pathway in bribes and scandal. ———————————— Helpless we watch and wearily we retweet or write to those who should be…
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Death Ripped Him from Her.
The jagged edges of his death cut through her heart, tearing it out and displaying it for all to see. She looked at it forcing the blood around her body hating it for keeping her alive when he had gone. ——————- Texting messages that showed hope, when she knew the the white…
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Democracy lost.
Their faces hidden by veiled views of disdain towards the poor and unemployed, suffering slaves and a cold contempt for the ones who stand against the constant cover-up of criminal ——– actions that pass unheeded before the courts, which they manipulate to their own ends and the visor of innocence is strengthened by misinformation and…
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Lockdown Terror
Creeping through to the cold kitchen, desperate, daring to decant a drink into her dirty cup from her school bag long since hung up, and the small heart in the little girl clung achingly to the hope that he would not hear. ——————————- Canned from his countless cans, his cantankerous snoring filled her head and…
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Deadly
There was a cloud of purple winged butterflies, fluttering to and fro, settling like thistledown on the flowers and leaves of the thickly wooded slopes of the rising morning misted mountains. —————————— Bees hummed amidst the ruby red geraniums, and their tiny legs filled with he mysteries of multi grains of pollen, carry back to…
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I have a Dream.
“I have a dream,” he spoke clearly and the people cheered and agreed. while government grew the cult of ‘white supremacy” no Klu Klux Klan, begat by burning crosses, visible but the silence of white supremacy shouted through the establishment til the rootedness grew like bindweed ——————————– but only those who threaded their twisting origins…
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Super Powers
The labyrinth closes its teeth upon the walking weary, brides of empty pockets, and plates weighted with weeds for food, and the hungry minotaur of wealthy governments nibbling at their ills and taking away their children. ==================== Each turn brokered a new agreement to supplement their lot, and take away any rights and dreams, turning…
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One rule for me
His eyes were darkly darting, as he surveyed from high. The ivory tower that chained the poor and the care workers to queues at a local food bank. ——————- He groaned as the media attacked him. He moaned behind the bricks at us while smiling thinly, and showing us whitened teeth, which have been polished…
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Eating to die?
I stared at the biscuit box, the chocolate, crisps, empty cases and a loaf? just bread crumbs, and wept. I cried for the pain that I was trying to suppress, the old hurts that oppressed. ——————— and I knew that I was heavy and hopeless, I would have to go through this again, and again,…
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It’s the Kids.
The child lay at peace her eyes closed and her long dark lashes fanned her gaunt cheeks. Each breath taken an effort and each heart beat slowing as her life seeps slowly from her shrinking soul. ———————– Another child lies asleep on a soft mattress and pillows both at the mercy of bullying braggarts and…
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