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Digital Footprints

The screen holds, ever close and dear,The darkest secrets we love and fear,With digging light, and there for free,A man’s animal for all to see,A mother saw her son’s reward —awarded a trophy, a fine award,Another watched with no bypassas a glass jar shattered in her son’s ass,A father saw on his deathbed,When his daughter …

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The Cynic

Over and over the cassette plays,The same song from the dawn of days,A million times thoughts streak across,A million times laid on the same cross. Will the scepsis ever stop?Will the voices ever go away? At the end of days, on blackened stone,An inscription writ on a battered throne:Here sat the fool whose eagle eyesSaw …

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The Parroting

Wise think and wise feel,Words said before,Yet to unreachable applesyou gravitate forevermore,A heart ever full of hopewith a sore, burning core,A naive wish to elopewith another man’s amore. Never a push, though ever a nudge;All in reach but ne’er in touch.

We Were Here

On a thin layerin some future rockhidden in some future forestof strange and bizarre trees,An Other looks and seesbetween the dust and sand and chalk,The dreams of humanity and all we held dear,Ground, pounded, lost and forgotten,But as the Other examines with manner austere,A piece of plastic, it holds, with the words“We were here!”