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Martyrdom As Social Strategy | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. August 10, 2015. Martyrdom As Social Strategy. You make a long journey. Into your worst vision. Of the wrong side of the tracks,. Whether you have the weapons for this,. The right tools for the job,. The right answers to the questions. They are likely to ask you —. All the time thinking. You’re a fraud and they’ll shit you out. After eating you still alive. You imagine being swallowed. To hurt. Unbearable pain’s. And posted ...
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The Gates | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. August 12, 2015. So hard into my moments. In search of their meaning. That I forget to be respectable so. In the name of those. Who live just outside. I must ask if there is. A natural right to be. A given right to be. That you become incapable. Of coherence as defined. And if this right exists. Why is exercising it. So fraught with danger. So heavy on the shoulders. So hard upon our fingernails. So torn and shredded. How To...
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The Nature Of Evil | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. August 7, 2015. The Nature Of Evil. The nature of Evil —. Evil capitalized, Evil as a. Unifying force, Evil not as. Stifled in polite company. But as policy and practice. Stiffly written on solid legal. Ground and traditional paper —. I know the nature of Evil. Due to its presence. In my raising, my ordinary male-raising. That weaponized dense old parts of my soul. Which I keep trying to change or crush away. To find a fires...
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Tony Brown | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. Author Archives: Tony Brown. A poet with a history in slam, lots of publications; my personal poetry and a little bit of daily life and opinions. Read the page called "About." for the details. September 1, 2016. God On Pound Hill. I can see Pound Hill. That’s where God. Lived before She moved. To Far Mountain on the. She left a ghost. Behind to watch the place. And keep in touch with us. We go there only. All the way back.
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Poems From The Slam Years | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. Poems From The Slam Years. Below, you’ll find an archive of some of the old slam-era poems I don’t perform much anymore but which are requested often. For a good number of years, I was deeply involved in the world of the Poetry Slam, and for the most part, this represents the work I used during those years and immediately afterwards when I was performing, touring, competing, etc. To act up at public gatherings. Involves us a...
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Daybreak | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. August 2, 2015. Came and went and. I’m still here. A bit of a. These days if I. Will be, but so far,. I’m holding on. I’m so certain. That when it happens. I’ll die in my. Sleep Just as possible. That I’ll fall face first into. On the couch,. With a mediocre new poem. Unfinished under the darkness. On the screen,. Weaving her fear against. My legs and the window. Some small breeze trickling. Will my eyes still be open? Lazy ...
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A Certain Comfort | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. August 13, 2015. Outside at night to write. By lantern light, on a whim. Should I offer a representation of. This clean sky framed by. Of the backyard oak? Not tonight — the Perseids. Are overhead and every. Half-minute or so a streak. Survives the night, I will. Return to it tomorrow. Although I am not that familiar. With hope or optimism,. A certain foolish comfort. In the magical thinking. That there will always be. Super...
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Nomads | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. August 11, 2015. Where we are,. There’s a there. Somewhere that will somehow. Remain forever a here,. A home away from home. That will still feel fresh. After years of being in it, a partner. Never wears, a medium in which. We never tire of messing. Get up and go is how. We go, doing that. From the last thing done,. Lapping up miles the way dogs. Lift water into themselves,. Heads down on the lines. And posted in poetry.
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The Firetail | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. August 13, 2015. Just let the firetail go,. Said Papa, so I did;. As it flew off,. At the trailing flames. As it surged away. I screamed and Jalil screamed;. Papa aimed his long rifle. But was not able to strike,. And thus it escaped,. Never to be seen again. Our fear and pain became. A legend; to this day. People speak of the firetail. With awe, wondering how Jalil and I. Caught it in the first place, how it came. August 31...
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Shooting Stars | Dark Matter
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Poems From The Slam Years. Show schedule, tracks, and more…. You've been warned. August 3, 2015. Rocks and dust, despondent, missing. Their star systems of origin,. Toss themselves into our air. For those reminders of loss. Known as shooting stars. Think about how you await them,. What you wish for as they pass;. Then think about all on earth. Who do the same and are reviled. Or forgotten once they’ve passed:. Only now and then are they noticed. By anyone, and few can say. Or if they ever come true.