Fast-fact feelings
Knee-jerk reactions
You don’t really know what is going on

Never see the bigger picture
Struggling for easy answers
in a complex world
Grasping at straws
Fast-fact thinking
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Never see the bigger picture
Struggling for easy answers
in a complex world
Grasping at straws
Fast-fact thinking

It’s the dire results we
must endure
Fast food for our souls
Leaves us empty and
hungry for so much more
as your greed knows no bounds

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Emptiness is better than this.
Ran out of bad memories to dredge
back up.
Nothing to show.
Too much to feel.
So out of place.
My life never
leaves a trace.
My days fade into a dull haze.
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Just out of frame
are the movie scenes of our lives
you’ll never see

Just out of frame
We cling to faded dreams
that never come true.

Just out of frame
is where the real story is
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sunday self-promotion. new poems. by me. every sunday. substack. read. like. share. subscribe. link. in. comments.
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My frank case against the #Trump presidency in 10 parts...#TheTrumpYears is a #poetic howl about living under the daily nightmare of the first #Trump administration
It’s very relevant for the horror we are living through today...
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I just posted a new poem on #Ko-Fi. It's called Warmongering Wh**es.

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September stroll @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @richlyevocative.bsky.social #poets

Everyone filling their lives
with distractions
Not trying to dwell on
their private end

Some people never feel
anything at all
So battered down by life
Reduced to a broken crawl.
Fearful and waiting for their
next unforeseen fall
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All in the name
of a so-called greatness
you’ve never known.

A twisted reality TV dictator
turning all notions of our democracy
into an ugly farce.

Visions of borderlines.
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Beyond callous,
a greedy ugliness
we can’t easily explain away.

All done in our name
in the end.
A haunting reality to face.

Visions of borderlines.

Everywhere
divided,
inside
and out.
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Warnings
howling through history,
ignored on high.

Hey,
but it’s all to make America great again?
Never felt less so.
Shame chokes me.

Visions of borderlines.

Our ideals set on fire,
ignorance,
hatred
as a crushing policy.
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Visions of borderlines.

Barbed wire
ripped through our hearts and
souls.

Young children
left
in cages,
in cold tents,
alone
at the Texas border.

Families
split up,
hearts shattered.
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A legion of
liars
freaks
corrupt
twisted buffoons
enabling a reckless
dangerous fool

Torching our constitution
and the rule of law
Everything distorted
like a funhouse mirror in hell

Truth
turned upside down

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Hollow,
shallow
policies.

An ugly strawman
in disguise.

No sincerity
or honesty in
your cagey eyes.
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