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In A Dark Time
In a dark time
within us and here,
we smooth ourselves over
with oil and gossip.
Beating our heels into the floor music,
paying more with less
awareness.
Whistling old songs
like they'll save us.
Give us that shot,
vaccine against swine
boiled in the underworld.
There's not enough
lighthouses to cast light over the dying sea.
The fires are burning California.
Where's the great Kennedy from yesterday?
Only Dylan still has a spark to share.
We should march for something...
We're in a vacuum of overpopulation,
soulless mass,
lost
in a dark time.
Bio:
Stephen Jarrell Williams loves to write, listen to his music, and dance late into the night. He was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His parents are native Texans. He has lived most of his life in California. His poetry has appeared in Anthology, Avocet, Blue Collar Review, The Broome Review, Byline Magazine, Chronogram Magazine, Eskimo Pie, Fissure Magazine, Freefall, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hawaii Review, HUNGUR, Liquid Imagination, Nerve Cowboy, Mirror Dance, POEM, Poesia, Posey, protestpoems.org, Purpose, REAL, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and others.
(author retains copyright)
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In A Dark Time
In a dark time
within us and here,
we smooth ourselves over
with oil and gossip.
Beating our heels into the floor music,
paying more with less
awareness.
Whistling old songs
like they'll save us.
Give us that shot,
vaccine against swine
boiled in the underworld.
There's not enough
lighthouses to cast light over the dying sea.
The fires are burning California.
Where's the great Kennedy from yesterday?
Only Dylan still has a spark to share.
We should march for something...
We're in a vacuum of overpopulation,
soulless mass,
lost
in a dark time.
Bio:
Stephen Jarrell Williams loves to write, listen to his music, and dance late into the night. He was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. His parents are native Texans. He has lived most of his life in California. His poetry has appeared in Anthology, Avocet, Blue Collar Review, The Broome Review, Byline Magazine, Chronogram Magazine, Eskimo Pie, Fissure Magazine, Freefall, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Hawaii Review, HUNGUR, Liquid Imagination, Nerve Cowboy, Mirror Dance, POEM, Poesia, Posey, protestpoems.org, Purpose, REAL, Tales from the Moonlit Path, and others.
(author retains copyright)
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