Benjamin K Duncan Poems

They can ban the rebel in me,
But they'll never stop the anarchy,
It runs deep in the veins of society.
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Tomato sauce runs through my veins
Tobasco sauce is what it rains

Kitchen condiments and the like
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the sun has a blunt hardness about it
keeping the world well lit

for the sun's carcinogenic touch we're unfit
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Lost. That word never used to mean anything when I was in your arms, breathing your breath.
Pain. Was never an issue. You lifted me from my pain. You made me forget, like a drug.
Not only forget, but like my life had never happened before I met you.
It was like, I had nothing to forget or remember, when I was with you.
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Have you forgotten when you were young?

When ignorance was your primary concern.
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The words of those you love, mean the most.
They can kill all that your spirit imbibes.
But they can not take away your spirit.
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I see myself in every jaded old person. Soon I will be an old person.
And I will be every bit as jaded as them. Why, because they missed opportunities.
They're angry at themselves, because they thought they could change their destiny.
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Where I wonder in auburn madness
dream of wonder, dream of sadness
Living like no tomorrow
in a day already forgotten.
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Looking through the lense of deciet
dissassociated from the atrocities of evil.

The trigger pulls itself into a
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