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The answer is no

I’m looking for answers with authority to questions i’ll ask when i’m 40 those dark nights I lay awake to stake claims my tombstone will display but then I hear a shout, shriek, cry daft machination, bargain faustian, yet worth … Continue reading

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Forgive

Remember dates Remember concepts Remember words One day your whole perception of the world will become a dinosaur without a fossil Remember tradition Remember your forefathers Remember your debt to them Remember also that your grandchildren will forget them and … Continue reading

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Cheap death

The noose is the third eye, the wake of destruction I watch it dangling, the rope braided by poor folk My hand can’t quite reach it, I laugh uneasily The problem with buying cheap death My brain holds these moments … Continue reading

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Open your mind

The iconic pistol images Handguns of the past They speak to me Tell me to become barrel chested Is that the aim? No, says the cyclops He wasn’t always a cyclops His third eye was shot at Why say anything? … Continue reading

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Open to interpretation

Pots and panhandlers, it’s still black and white Name calling and hand slights, on bait hard bite Inertia holds you back, new physics based excuses Empty ruses, preemptive strikes by brown recluses Hurl abuses at the father figure, curl up … Continue reading

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Fossil

The meteoric rise and fall Pieces forced into the puzzle We thrived peacefully But it came to a violent end Some feared it and ran Others considered it a godsend The skyline in flames Premonition of the end of days … Continue reading

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Everyone becomes a philosopher after 40

They say the pudding has good proof Universe invented before that is true A physicality, recluse, witches’ brew Win or lose, after the bruise, truce Lineage, generations, lost identity Intensity of the blow withstands city Knowledge begets philosophical propensity Decadence … Continue reading

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Delusion

A bit of background here. I wrote this poem almost exactly an year back( 13-11-09 to be exact). I just found it in my old copy from second semester. There are more of these that didnt make it on the … Continue reading

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