New one.. It's been awhile, so the skills are getting a wee bit rusty. (of course, "wee" is all relative to whatever "skill" was there in the first place.)
I like this concept, but not really sure where it's going. As always, your feedback is 'preciated, dadburnit. :-)
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This Country is a Gentlemen Cemetery
I wake up at 7:30 every morning
to scrub my face with soap and
bailing wire until it's flush and bald,
and soak it in the basin of cold water fantasies.
Because today I'm learning,
to be you a little more, to be an honorary member
of the parade of snakecharmers, the order
of sullen hypnotists they call modern man,
where the sly and clever hold the day
and the opportunist romantics keep the night flag
held firmly in the corner of the ungrateful.
In the arena where we filter off the sweat
to feed the factory wheels, the filthy wreck of
Grace and Mercy are locked gleefully away,
since their meddling would make our brainless
badge of merits futile and vain.
And the sacred and profane are voided here, because
this country is a gentlemen cemetery, and in lieu of
flowers we've soiled up a barren wasteland of
men who are as unique and precious as mice, suave but
still oblivious in their velvet cages
4:16:29 AM 
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