5 Poems. By Clifford K. Watkins, Jr.
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If Only To Smile
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If only to smile
and laugh away hurtful
spurious words
uttered in her circus of lies
your face
your fragrance
even your eyes
I've grown to despise
love can't be erased
it never dies
but I have countless times
locked inside
yet out of my mind
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Humiliation As An Art
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love wasn't lost
it was never attained
dancing madly in the acid rain
timorous glances
muttered words echo insane
poems of futility
I'll never be the same
sliding with reality
in fiery graffiti I paint your name
sighs of eternity
a mind swirling deranged
promises unheard
reflections that linger unchanged
laughing away the pain
but embarrassing truth is all that remains
she disregarded my words
love
and heart
I'm an imbecile
a fool masking humiliation as art
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The Ugly
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an inhaler
the vapors of madness
assorted pills
razor blades
the word 'ugly' scabbed over
he never escaped sadness
nor transcended reality
he tried to forget
and avoided mirrors
he traced his faults
and grew inferior
he fell into a dream
an unrelenting fever
with useless swells
and non believers
atrophy of connected minds
existing idly
imprisoned by time
today he is gone
farewell
the insane realize
there's nothing to know
life's a pointless show
flickering on a screen in a vacant room
demise is always imminent
we're destined for doom
gloom
doom
ruin
deceitful mother in well-lit tomb
try to prosper
yet
it comes too soon
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What's In a Word
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what is in a word
depends on the voice
standing on an oyster mound
this overzealous clown
pisses on the river's reflection
I can black out my eyes
but there's no protection
I'm a whirling dervish
an eerie stranger's voice
echoing beneath towering erections
it always begins again
futility is my only friend
if only tomorrow
if not for today
coffin is open
corpse on display
casting lives away
inhaling madness
go away!
I can only see anxiety-gray
laughing at the sun
there is ample fuel
to transcend or travel
I can only laugh
it's hard not to
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Cowardice Rules
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fiends encircling fire
desperate liars bound by futility
drinking from a single jar
escaping reality
pretending to know everything
anything beyond their limited minds
laughing at danger
as cowardice rules
dancing like bird-people
waiting for a vision of truth
to assuage worried minds
witnessing the moon through new eyes
still no less blind
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