Healthy Children

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  • hippideeth
  • Hey guys! I recently published a poetry chapbook in memory of my mammaw. It's available on amazon.com and createspace e store. It's titled If I Settle Down... by Charles Cross.

Healthy Children

City I live, bed to boredom
topless leaders underly puffed up pillows
and citizens tend to more boring estates
vain and vigurous fellows prescribe virtue,
but by night they jump bridges

   Collapse the cancer-causing agent and see suicide aid more
Healthy children follow affairs in an erotic, yet delicate deception
Believe, healthy children will rely on the estates of unsound elders
to progress and be
Young lawyers, politicians, stockbrokers inhale a superior breath
of aristocracy
and exhale a long period of idiocracy, famine and poverty
    these wise, ambitious and unpresumptuous ladies and gentlemen

mastered the burning Jew and starving Gypsy
perfected death as a comedy show, a product of entertainment
left art screaming and abandoned at the mental assylum
War is not of concern- it is in the hands of the fallow minded people
of my city
Clergymen! Ministry! The Gospel, well refurbished with idolatry
   inhales more economic devotions than the aristocracy
     these prudent, modest kings and queens
       rule ou God-fearing and gullable country

City I live, bed to boredom
bottoms up to a topless god
Here thee! Here thee! Toast to the gardeners
Martha Stewart and John Basetow prescribe the average
but by night they build bridges

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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

hippideeth’s Poems (37)

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If I Settle Down... 0
Tuesday Morning 0
If Christ Had a Face Like Ingrid Bergman... 1
To Our Teachers 1
Loving Contemplation 0
Cats on the Corner 0
Sal the Snail's Simple Confession 2
The Bye-and-Bye Epitaph of an American 0
Goat Song 3
The Right Hand 2
A Promise in Soap 6
Isaac Brock 0
Free Talker 1
Dirty Windshield 1
City Underground: Badland Chronicles Chapter II 7
Hills of Nirvana 5
20 Prescriptions For My Dear Aunt Sally 2
City Underground: The Badland Chronicles 2
When I Call Mom... 4
Piers of Passion 4
Pop-tart Education 4
Fucking the Hero 4
Two Second Spirit 1
Around the Block 0
Society is a Whore 1
College 0
Watchman's Rattle 1
Still 0
Healthy Children 0
Passionate Nights 1
1999 1
A Walk With Sister 2
A Hollow Howls Before the Mountain Storm... 1
Sitting on the Crapper 1
Irezumi Doctor 1
Tuva Street Song to America 3
Incense 1