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Brad Majors
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0 posted 2012-10-12 07:31 PM



I see from the back of my conscious
mind
time spinning by
like a top
each of its glass panels
decorated with the imoral idols
of future, past and present

I feel alone
numb wrapped in hipster challenged
frocks
staring at the wall of my eternal
indifference
which I etch random notes
to prove my own existence

I am a conservative Christian republican
who can think
inspite of the lies to the contrary
Jesus and Reason carve my psyche  
colors my hands and feet and tongue

I wonder as the top begins to spin faster
will I even care
about this or that
or become a eccentric hermit and spout my prose
to cats
as I become lost in a whirl of fantastic
insanity

I remember events
time photographs
etches in God's eyelids
things both beautiful
and those so heinous
I wish I cool wash my mind
of the horror stains

I preach and wonder
I listen and read
and wonder where time has spun
off too
why am I stuck while others
have adapted all so well
become part of the mind borg

I am here all alone
watching the different panels of time
change from present to past to future
smell the half dead lily in my cracked flower pot
and fall deep asleep

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JerryPat2
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1 posted 2012-10-12 07:33 PM


Here's to the conservative mind that wrote this challenging (to yourself) poem, with plenty to think about.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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