Johnny Noir Poems

Biblical logic has it that form emerged out of chaos
Before creation began and how could it be otherwise—
A creator who saw his own reflection in the deep
Mistook that reflection for another creator and started a war
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From Gibson girls to flappers spare me the tribal tattoos,
While the rest of the world goes backwards in time,
Timeless beauty has run out of time—
Alternative beauty is just another word for ugly,
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Tamara striding forth, paint brush in her hand
Painted you, stylized eyeliner lining your shining dark eyes
As the sun beams off your hands’ painted fingers
Dark eyes gazing upon the cold metropolis snows
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The Jews really want to kill the Arabs
And I think they might
Like aliens from another world
Coming as thieves in the night;
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Skin white as bone, bone thin as skin,
Don’t want to be just another skin to be in
Just like St. Augustine,
Leave her to her diet she’ll try anything,
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One day I awoke from a dream
Wherein the world was asleep,
No one was beside me,
I wasn’t in bed, but on the subway
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Red balls dropp like riddles from the sky,
The glowering green gnome whose face is naught,
The thought too severe,
God likes it this way, she said—
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If I should arrive with the fiery sunrise
Would you stay with me through the night?
And when the truth comes alive like a contented suckling child,
Would you bite me through the heart if I ask you to?
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There are drums along the Congo
And violins in my head,
The wild women of Wongo are dancing
In eyeliner and war paint
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Masters of hate, you don’t know where you stand,
You oppose evil but not the evil of man—
You wait until darkness and then you strike,
Lighting the bomb that destroys the light—
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