We got born as Gemini

Look-alikes from head to toe

We saw the world eye to eye

Took our setbacks blow by blow


We dwelled both peer and rival

Duplicates in diverse turn

We clung on for survival

Felt the discontented burn


We grew old with like wisdom

Replicas in minstrelsies

We joined the solar system

Clean forgot as twin trustees

We were jealous of each other

and the stupid reason for that

'tis I couldn't see any addition

tween selfishness via selfless

To be a better man

Is the last jig I'll nail

Then bide the master plan

Out there beyond the pale


To let love be my guide

Is the last crux I'll face

Then eat some humble pie

Out there in empty space


To face death with a smile

Is the last thing I'll do

Then rest for a long while

Out there in Timbuktu

All life and living things must stop

Succumbing to biology

The laws of nature merciless

Acting without apology


All life and living things must go

Returning to past lifelessness

The blanks of preexistent slates

Lasting in constant quietness


All life and living things must die

Resigning to mortality

The gift of living transient

Ending in harsh reality

Oh, I'm feeling glory in your poem

pure power of a well human spirit

your ode 'tis Homo-sapiens hopes

re-boosting a Shakespearean love

Poets, poems and poetry

May no longer be in style

Yet all human hearts and minds

Prize the perfect poesy smile


It lifts up jaded spirits

With beams of mystic power

No evilness can resist

The fragrance of its flower


Minstrels of the silver screen

Auteurs in the faddish light

Ply the muser's wonder drug

Human truth in all its might


Poets, poems and poetry

In all carnal forms and casts

Cannot perish from the world

For love though frail always lasts

At one time poetry ruled the world of intellectual literature

but tribalists and warmongers pushed sonnets out of favor,

misogyny and homophobia made jokes out of Shakespeare

as odes have gone from limelight to back-burner obscurity

Better to have loved than not

Better to at least have aimed

Splendid is the heart let go

Still all flings pan out the same


Better to have won than lost

Better to at least have strove

Sterling is the life made full

Still each turn's a treasure trove


Better to have lived than not

Better to at least have tried

Stellar is the life well lived

Still all runs are worth the ride

The Great Experiment has failed

Its tenants deftly hypnotized

One nation now divisible

By party lines thinly disguised


The democratic dream has died

Its ruling classes doubling down

One fair republic torn by greed

That stood its omnipotent ground


The patriotic pledge has tanked

It's promise flunking freedom's test

Once an unconquerable land

Now gaga as a cuckoo's nest

Their empathy's mangled by tangled sympathy,

and worn-out compassion wears torn gratitude


Aggression's higher than their lowest grammar,

envy's taken what well human beings will give

We played the wrong sport

A tragic bad turn

Sidelined by defeat

Bad move razor burn


We tumbled like weeds

Of dry delusion

Shortsighted by fate

In purblind fusion


We played the wrong sport

A dire crash-landing

Still walking away

Gimps in good standing

Please don't join them, and beat them when you can

as more extreme and radical 'tis better for kind man

a human culture homicidal 'tis Earth's suicidal bane

so please help us stop them, as status quo's to blame

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