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You can't Streep poverty under the carpet... - NaPoWriMo Day 9

by Ushiku Crisafulli

A silence fell upon the city,

contorted shadows twisting moonlight.

Stuttering in a speakeasy seemed so misplaced

bottles rattled flickering like Fedora feathers

in an unforgiving wind.

 

The wretched odour of deprivation

a stench that sticks and degrades ones existence.

Even by day this city remains a lifeless sap

and by night the vampires feast on th...

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Tuesday 9th April 2013 4:44 pm

Politics   Humanity   Mobsters   Banksters   War   NaPoWriMo   Global   Thatcher   Maggie Thatcher   Margaret Thatcher   Film   Film Noir   Noir   Prohibition   America   Britain   1930s   1980s   2013   universal   poverty   politicians   exploitation   inequality   hate   division   celebration   class   Class War   victory   battle   struggle   cooperation   cohesion

What is this you call victory?

by Ushiku Crisafulli

What is this you call victory?
by Ushiku Indigo Angel Crisafulli on Tuesday, 08 November 2011 at 22:35

What happens when a triumph

doesn't ring like titanic trumpets?

Hopes remain Titanic,

exceptional, erroneously erred

and sinking with realisation.

 

I decapitated depression, deep

...

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Tuesday 8th November 2011 11:25 pm

depression   money   victory   love   longing   distance

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