{"id":3931,"date":"2020-01-05T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:25:34","slug":"clearly-c-david-l-onan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2020\/01\/05\/clearly-c-david-l-onan\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly! (c) David L O’Nan"},"content":{"rendered":"

This piece was written circa 2005 during the Bush administration. I was frustrated as much as I am currently with how the world was circling. I wrote this beat-poem, satirical poem (in Ginsberg\/Phil Ochs) stylings & influence. This poem has been published previously in my own books, Fevers of the Mind Poetry & Art Digest Volume 1<\/em>, & a big piece in my new chapbook ‘The Cartoon Diaries<\/em>‘ currently out on paperback<\/a> & Kindle<\/a>. The point of this poem is that when everything seems so clear and resolving, people just bring out the worst in themselves instead. They don’t look for the change, they look for the quickest way to get by. Without thinking about the clarity. All the metaphors in this poem are looking in the deeper self, and finding clotting to resolve our bigger problems on Earth. A poem to rise against these hates, and unite in peace! Clearly!<\/p>\n

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CLEARLY!<\/p>\n

Kaleidoscopic rainbow men
\nscurrying through dumpsters
\nIn search of their souls.
\nThey carry the hands of fate
\nwith matching bleeding fate
\nThey succumb to territorialism,
\nthey breathe in tantric manoeuvring
\nThey slit the soldier\u2019s wrist in the green air,
\nThe war air
\nBombshells, gun shells
\nfilling up their stomachs with nuclear slime.
\nDigesting liquified bones
\nDreaming in presidential monotone
\nPicking the hands off the clock
\nwith many shades of plasma and blood
\non their claws
\nRipping the tock away,
\nmaking love to the ticking
\nRelishing and marinating
\nin each other\u2019s sexual juices
\nLighting a cloud on fire,
\nthen inhaling the ashes
\nTo take in the ultimate high
\nHigh as a cloud they exclaim!
\nAs they continue
\npulling their amulets and chains
\nout from under God\u2019s lockbox.
\nSepia coloured tombs
\nbeing spit at by these loose streetwalkers
\nThese, living in monarchy
\ndressing in megalomania clothing
\nThey peel whispers out of strangers,
\nsecrets locked in silence
\nChipping away at the stones of their mind statues
\nBeaming red flame cigars
\nin their quivering halitosis mouths
\nGorgeous sun burning their breasts and legs
\nwith Cancerous sores.
\nGlory written in black on their televisions,
\non their windows
\nGlory burned in their mind
\nmuch like a hot iron pressed into their brain cells.
\nThey are found by cold blooded killers
\nWith gangrene gasses and poisonous sewage
\nTrapping them into a burden
\nParading them with acid rain
\nand bulletproof tears
\nThe sexy ladies are there
\npicking them the flowers
\nThat crumble and die once they touch the palm
\nThe murder geniuses
\nare salivating in their orange vests
\nScreaming with lungs crippled
\nand dangling from their smoke-filled chest.
\nStaring into and out of trees
\nwith decrepit sinister eyes
\nSenile diseased chapped loins
\nbeing gazed at on busy sidewalks
\nthroughout the city everyday
\nThey walk in moderation
\nTo picket the celebration
\nTo riot against a freedom nation
\nThey want to close minds
\nDrink the juice of the atrocious arsenic wine
\nAnd who is that in sheep\u2019s clothing?
\nIt\u2019s a It\u2019s a government,
\na media darling
\nThe sounds of hell\u2019s wolves howling
\nCLEARLY!<\/p>\n

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Photo by @Hillesha<\/h6>\n
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From Fevers of the Mind Press NEW\u00a0 12\/31\/19 ‘The Cartoon Diaries’ by
\nDavid L O’Nan<\/p>\n

paperback<\/a> for $6.99
\nKindle<\/a> $3.99 currently.<\/p>\n

www.feversofthemind.wordpress.com
\nTwitter: @DavidLONan1 @feversof
\nFacebook: DavidLONan1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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