Paul Stanway

CLASS PRECEDES ALL OTHER CONCERNS

sonnet

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I shall not palter or add much finesse
Because I am a heterosexual male,
And white to boot. Should I have the largesse
To accept the guilt when others assail

The women, gays, blacks or whomsoever
You think, I may think? "I take for granted
Privilege!" But I'm attacked, with anger,
For . . .

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September 16, 2017

FUTURE'S STATIC DOCUMENT

Sonnet

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Unroofed, my heart's arrhythmic and target
Encircled. The clouds are rotten, plaster things
Crumbling a grey mist, fingered. Up I drift
Past all the copters - the sects surveilling

My sense for rent. Parallax, a reversed
Me unfolds: Prison Street sounds. I'm wailing
Free, as the fist clacks down . . .

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September 15, 2017

Autoloss

I Will Never Be Happy

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Exiguous.
I reverse through ex to us
Revealing excrescence
In error. The logorrhea
Vitiates one tattooed word,
Two diagonal flicks - 'x'.
Three rivers flow.

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August 31, 2017

The Current Social Malaise: An Exploratory Poetic Interlude

Neolibtard Globalist Sheeple's DSM Mental Health Spreadsheet

That the magic wears off over time seems obvious
Now I'm over the age of thirty-five.
I fail to feel anything from taking this drug.

My life stopped twenty years ago. Back then, I was capable of love
And saying "Yes. OK." to things like going out.
Life was not a nightmare
And sleep was no dreamless . . .

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August 31, 2017

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