i walked through death’s door
and i kicked the reaper in the nuts
he was quite surprised
and even dropped his scythe
with a pained sigh
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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Tag Archives: Poem
DOLLY MIXTURE (With Love to Women) // A Crisp Dragée Haiku
he calls her ‘art house’
there’s sound and the picture’s clear
but he can’t fathom
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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DOLLY MIXTURE (With Love to Women) // A Jelly Bean Tanka
we are pretty sure
venus doesn’t want a riot
when she spins clockwise
mixing up her left and right
how very like a woman
by TETIANA ALEKSINA & TONY SINGLE
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seeds for your pocket
o demon face
may you reach the end of yourself
so that you will know
you will know that no one had to die
your lies have led to a thousand blooms
set alight in the silence
your crimes have made them feel too much
everything then nothing
the bodies you’ve threshed underfoot
are the seeds you’ve sown of your destruction
their scarlet heads now reach and sway
freedom cries scattered to the wind
and the wind remove all trace of you
hie thee into damnable night
your brutal answers went unquestioned
now circling back to haunt you
o barrel chest
may you reach the end of your hollow self
you know that none had to die
you fucking know
by TONY SINGLE
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let it rain
have you dared to declaim with your true face
have you seen how they inward flinch
have they made a monster of the hole in you
have you longed for truest validation
have their eyes doth pummelled your face to tears
have you hidden your tears under veil of rain
if only this was a happy song
if only we could fill our lungs again
if only for the air ‘tween the drops of rain
have you pulled truer weeds from the broken earth
have you doth counted and more so for praying
have you monstered after the four-leaf clover
have you truly known that you never belonged here
have you paid your respects to friend grief again
have you layed yourself down in the face of pain
if only this was a happy song
if only we could feel our lungs again
if only for the air ‘tween the drops of pain
by TONY SINGLE
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