people hate their leaders

as they love themselves--

tangible--controllable

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poor old soul leaving himself behind--

forever saying good bye to those

who said good bye to him long long ago

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I and I whirl from the twirl

I and I sick mon

I and I puke from a revelation

I and I found in da cow cod soup

O Lion of Judea

maka waya

I and I do as do con

but I and I so sick from it mon

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I am the Hanged Man

neither straight nor reversed

but spinning with my tree

as an abyss swallows it up

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praise the foot in the mouth that prevents you from putting

one or two more in there--

praise the misunderstanding that diverts you from a

ill-fated commitment--

praise the loss of what you thought you couldn't live without

for the peace you find afterward--

praise the praise and praise the scorn--without these

your world would have no limits

and would only trick you beyond yours--

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I wake in the morning

rising from my bed cursing the Lord--

such is how the fool in me expresses

himself--while I get up and out

to do his dirty work--and all his mendacity

goes on my tab--

God's Bar And Grill--

Serving day and nightly--wake to my breakfast bereavement--

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for those tired of runny assed poetry (wee wee wee)

I have a solution...

...

...

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received wisdom is deceived wisdom

don't leave home without your soul

or you'll live and die by jelly roll

your diet relieved jizzum--

(oh mr. honey what do I do now with all these end rhymes?

these hums and comes and bums and chums and rums and ta-dums?

these boles and nulls and goals and trolls and shoals andholes and wholes?

not to mention...well...not to mention...

so mr. honey are you conceived? bereaved? retrieved? believed?

leave home with your soul and the rest to the --ah cheating here--cold...

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HA! new content? new execution?

well, maybe--perhaps--I guess--we'll

see...

Content (c) 2008-2009 Philip Milito.