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The Power To Dabble With Invisible Seams
Has Given Me Sight To Reconnect My Dreams.
The Only Light Screams From The Moon In Beams.
All These Things I See The Way They Should Be,
For Evil Shall Be Done.
Would You Rather Follow The Bible
 Or Be A Christian?
No Matter What I Sing,
The Sheep Won’t Listen.
When There Is No Time There Is No Distance,
For Brainwashing The Public
Has Shown Li...

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Cannibal JonesAlabama

Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)

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Forgetting Home (or how can I forget you if you won't go away)  

Euphemisms white wash his-story

So truth disappears under vague denial

Southeast USA above Florida

Sharing a border with Pensacola

Where the past lives on 

In retrospective theme parks

The past is alive everywhere

Our world is full of museums

Memories gather into congregations

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Knozz Moe King

Knozz Moe King

People say he died young

But sixty-two

Sixty-three

Sixty-eight  

Isn’t young

For a poet

Poets are born old

Then age like cheese

Philosophers age more

Pensively and most are ambidextrous

Poet practitioner dreamer scrutinizer

Light heavy crawling flying

Swirling

He took it where he found it

Or where it found him

Then it dropped him

In...

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