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#vsspoem

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Steven Cudahy

i went to the marketplace
of ideas, just to browse
long trestles of thinkings
in various stages of wear and tear

many bloody, old, wrinkled
often pumped with plastic
or saline to plump them shiny
but daylit to lumpy sagging slop

so many ideas dug clear
from graves of grand or great grand
parents heavy with rot
so many uniformed

jackbooted - priced cheap
piled high to sell to those desperate
for something to hold
but unwilling to spend

#Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art - undervalue

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Steven Cudahy

inside are doors
and locks and sometimes
keys but if not keys
then travel is complex

some places within
die drowning in dust
and soft spider-spun ropes
bind fragments of time
in the angles of ceilings
and walls

sometimes there are loud
strong hands with sledgehammers
and sometimes that's enough

but maybe a small voice
sanding scarred wood
to paint afresh
will offer metal slivers

this is how you pick a lock

if you want to

#Poetry #Writing #vssPoem Thanks @worded_art for prompt - obstruct

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stgreenie

Selective morality
so in vogue
with us rambunctious
foam at the mouth zealots
weighs heavily on the soul..

This modern affliction
causes my stiff neck
these contentious days
to be perpetually in pain
from always
looking the other way
from the high volume sins
of our very flawed leadership..

Handicapping me to such an extent
I have to #shift my body
to see the train of reality
speeding down the tracks
to squash gullible me
and the proper discernment I lack..

When you read my brief obituary
the blurb that sums me up will say..

Death by lame rationalizations

GIF
#vsspoem#poetry#poem
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