Oaths
water of many places
these words come with arms
and damn us to remember
but not to be faithful
Angry poems
Angry poems — a collection of the best works on PoemShip.
The great equalizer
in the city of the dead
the poor cannot have any bell
ring for them
we fear that public sand
fear being forced to lie there
like a little warren
The coming of spring
the cult of money would have
some other light at noon
stop the green
experiments of spring
and to take their place
a red meat world
Conviction
busy
I order an answer
full of ring and rage
a cold answer
an answer to stop
all future worlds from being
and no doubt in any
part of me after
a while
Crackdown
we must shut up shop
on a meat-dark night
business keeping us naked
in a rich city
having already spent
one year’s share of our fear
Civilization
the place drawn out of
a quiet heavy nothing
like a letter from me to myself
each thinking the other a fool
every city is all
the cities in the world
their neighbors in the country pay
in blood and little supper
Speaking truth to power
who follows the lies
expressed on all occasions now
the art of lying is over
guns hear nothing
whether in earnest or not
Backward river
years of my life full
of horrid memory
taking me back into the river
that thin nation
all fury and revenge
cruel men never suffer
barbarous as the afternoon office
Chainsaw
the old oak rocks
taken by fire and exhaust
how an engine promises
the least world
a house which will be
very hard to love
Business as usual
our usual business
is sickness:
all the hurt
to all our families
a great feast of work
cards to the blind
Strike
we go out on strike
left eye as poor as a cog
heart forced to sing an impossible part
ear a well for the mad
the no-good hips
what faction lit up the mind
Birnam Wood
the whole difference
between a wood and an army
is love
they that laugh and do nothing
only respect the grave
razing all the strongholds
giving the land a massacre in the fields
but none of the men I write about
burn like candles
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