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  Mr. Caucasians

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  Mr. Caucasians was pleased Friends, neighbors, failed to call us American Were told, It was easy to leave our home to have our life packed away Families aging in the dust Hope caught in the barbed wire Mr. Caucasians, the police, the government, Lost our freedom in storage...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  He Was Like Singing

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  He was like singing. Why, it even ended with a sore throat and stinging eyes And it was being safe and alive and grown-up and complete Well, who wants to live in an old record anyway? Even if it was a classic. Who misses arbitrary laughter and counting firsts? Looking up through eyelashes an...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Picketed

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  All she believed was what she saw, all she knew was what she was told, and she was told not to waste her time climbing, for she shouldn’t bring her head any closer to the clouds. But she defied them obedience as they defied her a reason to obey, as she felt the bark grow courser under her feet. Sh...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Out, Out!

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  Somehow it got in crawling right under my skin Shut my eyes, cover my ears, purse my lips, hide the tears it's rattling in my head again no way out, but through my pen....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Illiteracy

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  my tremendous curse I can't read! How will I know? What I have just wrote...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Phone

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  Ever tried a phone? it's at all not like a touch please do come home soon...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Graceful Bird

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  Nope. Not going to compare my self to a bird I'm not a cliché...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Tisk Tisk

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  You make me shout about lying female dogs one day to your face...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Crumpets and Trumpets

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  I don't like crumpets or trumpets or packages late. Or people who lecture about what they hate. I simply prefer cats that don't shed. And legs a bit shorter that the length of my bed. I like stairwells long and farewells short. And children who don't use pillows as forts. But th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Desk Days

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  Look astray, look away, then just one more glance to see. Is he still looking at me? Pretend to take notes, just clearing my throat. I'm was staring out the window. At trees....
• Fiction > All Fiction
  Dear Trix Cereal

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  Dear Trix Cereal, I am a loyal follower of your glorious mission to spread the word of Trix throughout the nation. Every Saturday morning I attend the Disney stations with my family and neighbors. We feel comforted when the multicultural children repeat those words of wisdom, “all part of a nut...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Amazing Shrinking Town

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA

  Alone atop the wall, pushed Humpty out of my spot deedle-lee deedle-lee deedle-lie deedle-lie from the watch that I forgot Sitting too high for a hummer to reach, so the air is nice and clear Forgotten plastic Easter eggs, extra points next year “Happy birthday” caught between my lips to...
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  Tyger

  

  By Bat-Mobile, Sacramento, CA