All routes we traverse
Places and phases diverse
Speck of Universe

Lobby groups dilute
Secular nation statute
Public will refute

The bait is ready
Weather finally steady
Wait over heady

I said to poetry,
I don’t want a diary.
It wasn’t tears on that prairie,
It was– That lie holds no chivalry!
The lies are simply cowardly.
I never laid claim to gallantry,
I will not recreate history.

Intelligence spin
Augmented mental linchpin
But Genius Within

Man of sedition
Father of revolution
Lasting conviction

Sudden urgency
Recall notes of currency
Cash deficiency

The truth?
He was on the run from the Queen of hearts.
He was cursed by Queen Grimhilde.
If he didn’t, Maleficent would come and…
Dr. Facilier would send
Black slithering creatures, with red eyes
For us all!

The truth?
Lady Tremaine spelled him to marry her,
Ratcliffe promised him gold on a voyage
To Never– land
Jafar guaranteed him three wishes
And mercy from Claude Frollo,
For us all!

The Stranger Inside
a poem about eddy styx

Repeat aphorisms
Manipulate all the schisms
Views filtered by prisms