Words

1. The Sin of Guido

Guido is in hell; for his deception sapped Palestina's walls.
Ulysses and Guido had both purged cities
So deception gained the walls. 
Ulysses Troy and Guido Palestina;
Then they slaughtered and utterly destroyed.
Ulysses used the Trojan Horse;
Guido the Papal Promise.

Yet, Dante, remember who was right in their war.
The Pope wished to unify Europe and end the bloodshed.
So with Ulysses he defended the right of the marriage vow.

Tom, the sluggish Prufrock...
Did he gain his lover through deception? 

2. A Satire on the American Sentence

American poets are slaves to stupid forms; what's wrong with Haikus?

Beatniks created it; I will kill it. I, a rebel poet, too.

My rebellion is form; I defy the generation herefore me.

For when poetry has no chains, only then can it truly be free.

3. The Feuding of the Heroes

I watched the feud of two great cities:
Prometheus stole the thunder, 
And Thalaba prophesied the war.
Prometheus blasphemes like Fucci
In the Circles of hell, being imprisoned
And bears his great grief with patience.

Thalaba, watching Prometheus steal
Jove's thunder, warned of great demise.
Thalaba prophesied blood, and the rain
Of putrid gore, and the oceans turned to blood.
Prometheus threw his lightning,
For he ruled the Earth and all within it.

The two, in great war, flit their powers
So the thunders roared with flashing lightning
And the oceans turned to blood,
While the Earth quaked violently.
The Poets in their prophetic powers
Spoke their curses one toward the other.

I, Thaddeus, watched, trembling in fear.
The war was great, the allies were gathering.
There was the Buck of Rylstone
Who knew the science of the feud, 
And the Mariner with his fleets,
Blown here and there, and everywhere.
Then, there was Prometheus and Ozymandias
Firing their bolts of lightning like the Queen of Hell.
The fleets of the Mariner, and the Stags rid
Into battle; Thalaba, thy wisdom!
Yet, Prometheus said of you
That thou brought shame;
Thou enlarged the fetters of free men!

I, the poor man in his sackloth
Witness the battles of great prophetic might.
The words of curses fire in their heated throws;
I am too frightened to read them.

4. The Only Way Science Could Logically Prove God Does Not Exist

If science said that at the base of everything
Were atoms, and those atoms were immutable
Unable to change, but were consistent, and could not be broken down
Any further. Then, the universe were truly infinite.
If there were not a single bit of choice,
And all things were created by an infinite chain of cause and effect.
If there were no beginning to the universe, and no end.
If there were no true communication; but rather,
Men were limited to only their rational minds'
And its experiences, if energy were created,
If an atom could not be broken down to smaller parts,
If force did not exist in the universe;
By that I mean, all things would be a causal chain
Of matter interacting with matter,
And matter were solid, and not comprised of any void,
If the universe were expanding into empty space
Which existed for eternity.

However, none of these assumptions are proven true.
Rather, just the opposite I'm being told.
Therefore, I can logically presume God exists.

How I rationalize it to my God
Is He's the best one of the lot of them.

5. Hitchens

It's true that a moral statement
Could not be made by a Christian
That couldn't be made by an Atheist.
That's because morality is self-evident.
God exists to pardon us, when we haven't 
Fully committed ourselves
To what we already knew inherently.
And if we decide not to accept His pardon
He exists to bring upon men the recompense 
Of their own ill will.

6. Pocahontas

How can we even know the truth?
If history is deliberately lied about
And written accounts are ignored...
And oral stories are more weighty
Giving justice to the Jamestown Massacre...

Let's look at the facts.
Pocahontas and John Smith were very good friends.
Given the rivalry between the Pilgrims and Powhatans
It's more than likely Pocahontas saved John Smith's life.
It's almost entirely fabricated that Pocahontas was kidnapped
And her dying in England---and I'm not sure she did at this point
Because the historical details never remain the same---
Is license for the Natives to slaughter 300 innocent people?
The Powhatans were cannibals
As was true for almost all Americans both Northern and Southern Natives;
And Pocahontas kept the peace between the two factions.

Given these factual details,
It's almost certain the modern story being taught is a fabrication
Of revisionist historians, and the actual truth
Has been lost if not outright and deliberately destroyed.

This is what happens when you mix politics and history.
When I studied this in 2020, I saw what seemed more truthful.
That Pocahontas saved John Smith's life by laying her head in his lap,
That the two had a sort of paternal relationship---as ten year old girls recognize kindness in a man---
That Pocahontas likely wasn't kidnapped, which likely did not lead to the Jamestown Massacre...
It may be true that Pocahontas got smallpox or fever in London
But that's not the settler's fault.
That is simply nature.
Furthermore, it's almost 100% unlikely that Pocahontas was the reason for Jamestown's Massacre.
As John Rolfe, her husband, and the Shaman Tomocomo accompanied her to England.

7. My Righteousness

I have tried to do what's right
And I only do what's wrong.
At my best, with every bit of my heart
Given to the task, my righteousness
Is like a filthy cloth plugged
Into a menstruous woman.
I can do no good. Only God can.

8. Logos; A Tanka

That which is. Language,
It is what was said. In math
It is what's measured.
In law, it is what truly
Increases peace and pleasure.

9. The Communist

The Communist

In a flourishing capitalistic country
One sees the milk flowing in the streets;
One sees the honey dripping from the sidewalks;
One sees the pancakes on every street corner.
One sees free napkins, free utensils
Abundant waters in the deserts,
Lush forests, clean water,
Sterile hospitals.
They think to themselves,
“Why not share this wealth with the world?
“For, I go here, and there, and I have abundantly;
“Why does the rest of the world suffer?
“Why, do I, having this affluence, still suffer?”

Thus, mistaking the abundance
Like it were freely created energy;
Materialized atoms from magic,
They wish to disperse this to everyone.
And in doing so, a man's work is stolen from him.
Thus, the motivation for producing such wealth
Is abolished, and outlawed; Property, work, pleasure...
It belongs to all, even those who haven't labored for it.

Thus, mistaking this abundance---
As a child I was wasteful, and thought the abundance was 
Free, and would last to eternity...---
They believe they can materialize it for the world.
Yet, they forget that it is labor which creates it...
Thus, a man's labor supports him
And it is a man's property that gives him satisfaction.
But the communist wishes to abolish property,
Therefore, all incentive to work;
Therefore, none work as hard as they could.
It is work which produces from materials
The surplus we enjoy. And when work is outlawed
Because property is outlawed;
And a man is forbidden to work on his own home,
It happens that workers are sluggish, or work is outlawed.
Thus, stipends become more numerous,
And the supplies which the stipends purchase
Become less available.
To wit, men live in squalor.
This is more miserable than the most lavish poor
In our Capitalism. For the poor are well fed
In America. 
The only thing America must do, 
Is to not hinder the poor from finding meaningful labor. 

10. It Would Be A Sin

God, to me,
Must exist.
For without Him
All would be immoral.

It would be a sin
If God would not
Judge... A Sin
If there were no
Heaven or Hell.

In short, 
It would be a sin
If God did not 
Exist.

For, who would then
Recompense suffering?