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Dystopia Poems

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2084
— Lee Geoghegan
It’s winter in the year twenty-eighty-four
Hell has landed on every shore
Devilish eyes aglow as they rose to dominate
People now captive to a...
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3 cots & a hot
— John Jessup Kennan
I wuz
free as thoid when yez
poichase the foist two
geek in a freak
show side tent
specializing in
children in
bazaar off-broadway
where
sparkle is art...
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caviar with perry
— John Jessup Kennan
lunatic from
krypton forgot his vax
passport card set it on
the dresser in his
bedroom at his mom's
house on their home
planet as he was waitin
for...
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flex
— John Jessup Kennan
vexed concave
concave conned, caved
conned concave vexed conned cave
dwellers convexed in concave
fashion on cave walls and...
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Graven Images (The Death Rattle Of J. Alfred Prufrock)
— John Jessup Kennan
I've grown weary of the questions
You insist that must be asked
You'll sleep in peace with opium
Strangled with a vital mask
I will make your skull my...
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Notes From The Ward
— John Jessup Kennan
came, ministered
strapped me to this table
or maybe it was a cot
i don't remember
it's so hard to remember
since treatment was executed
i should...
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retina soup
— John Jessup Kennan
was stubborn
in irritation if not
incense that we had in
her mind been relegated to
insignificant eyeballers

it mattered to
her to...
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Rue Morgue Boulevard
— John Jessup Kennan
Pearl-inlaid bayonet bidets
On high deaf TV sets
Bed-and-breakfast warriors
Burning babies' bassinets
While redneck hipsters snort away
The Mason-Dixon...
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veggie tails
— John Jessup Kennan
of
cabbages gatherings
of intelligence
leeks
mass-produce
perfection process
deflowering
package freaks
voices in my
head are angels...
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You Won't Feel A Thing
— John Jessup Kennan
Under skilled benevolent guidance
Your blowtorch took my eyes
Necessary for me to see
We must all see I realize
I didn't even mind the pliers
To share...
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