this is not a name

born to agitate the state with commonplace questions. define your terms. the worms crawl in, the words crawl out of unclean mouths.

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

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a frog on the ground in Portland dances for the people of the world to change fences to garden trellis.
searching the aisles for a self-checkout to be on our way.

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

1/searching the aisles for logical consistency to starve this growl.
the aisles for patience to eradicate war.
the aisles for kill em all to ride the lightning.
i'll be home for Christmas to blaspheme the nativity scene.
oil in Venezuela for the United States to free its market.

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

2/
old rip van winkle awakening to a new world.
paul bunyan & sons selling insurance scams to American citizens.
searching the Federalist Papers #10 & 51 for an excuse to use against due process.

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

The Clay
the clay is solid.
the tent stakes will hold.
marshmallows at the end of branches.
foraging for food.
orion chases a bull.
the bull gives him wings.
the bull breathes, grunts, rushes.
the fire of life hardens the clay.

the clay dreams.

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

@MAGAVoice change your diaper

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

@arva61138 so no thinking then eh

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

2/

Shakespeare dramatizes this “should I stay or should I go” moment, echoing the Clash lyric: if we stay, there will be trouble; if we go, it could be double.

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

1/

After killing Caesar in the Senate, Brutus and the conspirators face a tense choice—stay and risk the angry crowd, or leave and risk their message being ignored—

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

2/
the age passing by like a dilapidated house,
the third realm alights
upon a funeral pyre,
the ashes fortify walls,
mortar and rigorous work:
revisionist whitewashed history.

Thanksgiving leftovers sit on the
dining room table,
surrounded by
a Mexican train
of dominoes

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

1/

#5 Alive

a child draws a stick figure
and leaves off the hands.
ibis, in the front yard,
stepping over
fallen palm fronds.

locked doors deny entry to all.

the past shoots off
in all directions--
the language in this mess;

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

they're coming to take me away ha ha
they're coming to take me away hee hee
ima stay standing right here la la
I refuse to turn and flee.

*a jet lands in el salvador

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

Columbia flows West
in her proletariat dress,
dancing the Manifest Destiny
with imperialist feet,
quoting truths she,
she herself, doesn’t see.

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

@MAGAVoice hey, bot, trump let him in. you allow your programmer to make you so gullible?

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

2/

blow it when you realize these people who die, one after the other, are our own sisters and brothers! and why? what for? whose war, whose profit?

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

1/

why question the narrative, stinkin free thinkers; remember the imperative: define terms, mind the bias, sift through systemic lies, do not refuse facts you despise, react as a stoic,

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

@MAGAVoice youre being played

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

@C_3C_3 you didn't prove anything. you made three empty claims and then basically folded your arms with that, "facts."

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

@w_terrence if ya gotta keep telling yourself that

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3/

catch and release
or treat the neighbors
to eat new flavors:
try these fish feet;
they cant be beat!

how many fish in the sea
how many fish in the city

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

fish bowl blues
(in response to
a chapbook lie)

the scales of justice
flop like a fish
when a flippant wish
turns this rust
to dust.

cyborg killing time,
bored, sighing,
asking when and why
we crossed the line
for a petty crime.

[this is not a name @yoyofrisbee]

2/

the rod is spared!
caught without a net,
working for a minimum bet;
no one cares,
go live under the stairs!

trolling with live bait:
emotional vampires
never tire
of lively debate-
what is liberty without the State?