“You’re sick of the game!” Well, now, that’s a shame. You’re young and you’re brave and you’re bright.“You’ve had a raw deal!” I know — but don’t squeal, Buck up, do your damnedest, and fight.It’s the plugging away that will win you the day, So don’t be a piker, old pard!Just draw…
Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age — Summer 2025 Record of Dissent is a free digital chapbook featuring 44 poems of protest, resistance, survival, and hope—written in response to the rising authoritarianism of the Trump era in America. This collection comes from The Chaos Section Poetry Project, a newer offshoot of this site…
Scaling broken souls to reach the fiat carrot Matrix zombies echo rhetoric of parrots Lifeless heart and lung long decayed Ashes to ashes and dust to dust repaid Dry and dusty bones litter the field The darkness of the universe is revealed But a spark in the mind may travel far Command chest thumps…
by Anne Kapp I will be the sonof fathers good and bad.I will be the dadsomeone never had. I will be the laborerin factories big and small.I will climb and fall,and mortar my own wall. I will be the madmanin a suit of eccentricity,drowning in publicity—only true friends can find me. I will be the…
The emperor has no clothes, throwing rocks from his glass house. Atop his ivory towers, watching each quiet church mouse. Oppressing the subjects with his greedy dictates of self-serving proclamations for power. Thieving slight of hand from behind his holy veil; sanctimonious stench, sheep-skinned wolf, thorny dying flower. The royal lighthouse goes dim, but the…
by Anne Kapp Questions aren’t as plaguingwhen you know the answer is your choice.Free will reveals the unfoldingof what each of us do with our voice. Times are changing,just as always they have been.Outside of you chaos rages –the beginning of peace begins within. From institutionalized dreams awake,Forgetting only what matters.Wealth of life is in…
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