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  "Lion in Antarctica"

  

  By Kavon, Milwaukee, WI

  The rain in December… felt like teardrops of acid, creeping down my back It was the feel of a thousand tarantulas, crawling down my spine down the isle of my arms down the corridors of my legs, biting me to near death The Grimm with its fleshless, skinless skeletal hands covered my mouth, be...
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  "Beautiful Black Roses"

  

  By Kavon, Milwaukee, WI

  On a strawberry red country road… I drove a mint white Cadillac pass your “Welcome to Hershey, Pennsylvania” sign That’s what your skin resembles…chocolate an Aztec delicacy, stirred in the circle of life’s nineteenth-century Nigerian ritual bowl My nose marinades in the sculptress...
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  A Beautiful Storm

  

  By Kavon, Milwaukee, WI

  You’re precious, precious as the pristine northern lights, the Aurora Borealis, being slurped by innocent Alaskan eyes, you’re gorgeous, gorgeous as Georgia in the arms of August, green as Savannah ,laughing at the envy of Atlanta, you’re pugnacious, pugnacious as a patronized ...
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  "Angels On Ground Zero"(to (9/11)

  

  By Kavon, Milwaukee, WI

  I can honestly say I remember where I was when that trepidacious day came andflamed the eyes of vulnerable people's pupils, all across the world, but particular in these so called United States, I was 6-years-old in a white button and navy blue jeans, our uniform in our elementary school, ...
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  "Bulletproof Sky"

  

  By Kavon, Milwaukee, WI

  There,at the pinnacle of firmament, we rose like a red flower at the inception of May, after being saturated by wet pieces of April, we rose like the massive stone blocks on Egyptian sun tanned backs,that built the pyramids of Giza,the Valley of the Kings, and the headdress of the Sphinx, We ...
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  "Wounds Of Fire"

  

  By Kavon, Milwaukee, WI

  This masculine massive fire tied the knot with this fragile feminine land and gave birth to CHAOS!, that came out the wounds of lamenting people's pupils, watching there homes become engulfed, after the unmeasurable arms of the blaze became engaged to the unscorched Earth's claustrop...