A Beginner's Guide to Flying

 

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an original poem by Joshua Brown

Flip the script on soft tyrants.

Whip the llama and fly

Fly away to paradise through test.

Test of the system.

Barbarians, tearing down walls

Systems, historic, falling

A western degeneracy wonton

By its familial capital Heil.

Greetings.

I saw you sitting there.

Would histr'y repeat or rhyme?

I am too tired to know,

For sleep has come upon me.

And I am going to that unconscious place.

Are those two trapped?

Under the rubble there. Can you see?

None cared, but I noticed.

And the people reading beheld.

You. 

You beheld.

This grand history of temptation to Hell

A reprieve from cranial violence

Back to the reality of what I have done.

Choice. Choice. Choice. Choice.

A painting on the wall against mirrors

No imperfections allowed by maids

A harsh... ouch... the sting of this!

Bloody trouble of those servant girls!

Deep service to those they view in awe.

Not awe of objective but subjective,

To the time and place and tricks by

A demand on men unspoken.

See them now in unity

Dance with cultural paints to preserve

Against the onslaught of illiberality

Of the old hags and terrorized lions.

Instead of consumption and masturbation,

Return fire.

ALL ABOARD! Not a train into warehouse,

But a boat observed

Urban warfare with no retreat

For retreat is sure rejection by seed.

Truth demands, not blood, but victory

And cannot I bring to birth

That beautiful goddess

Whose wings dry all tears?

Or am I predetermined to allow the death

Of little boy Josh, who just wanted

Wings, to fly fast over the landscape?

An imaginative precocious radioman.

And then I felt beneath me fall away

Into the pixelated mattress below

For Choice I made to win, for me

For him.

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Thanks for reading "A Beginner's Guide to Flying" which was written on April 18, 2023 in Denver, Colorado, United States, North America. My last poem is entitled "Where's Mom and Dad?" and is a reflection on the surviving children of a deadly car crash called divorce. Or a deadly divorce called a car crash. It is meant to be ambiguous. Take from it what you can.

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