Submissions by Magnetron
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Roam
In the dark and dusty attic
Her memories of him
Nothing less than sporadic
Strewn about in no particlar fashion
She tries them as if theatre costumes
Playing dressup like a little girl
In this least pleasant of backstage dressing rooms
Returning to a simpler day and age when
The men sailed overseas to combat
While the women yearned for them to return home
When the men fought the evils of the world
Wherever these may be at
And the women resisted tempations to stray
The urge to wander
Roam
Her memories of him
Nothing less than sporadic
Strewn about in no particlar fashion
She tries them as if theatre costumes
Playing dressup like a little girl
In this least pleasant of backstage dressing rooms
Returning to a simpler day and age when
The men sailed overseas to combat
While the women yearned for them to return home
When the men fought the evils of the world
Wherever these may be at
And the women resisted tempations to stray
The urge to wander
Roam
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Rebelnations
Feigning ignorance as he takes the throne
The Great Deceiver of untold lies
Awaiting for his enemies to atone
After their silver Falcons cross the skies
Cast westward by King of Terror into flight
Tearing asunder mirrored monument
A forceful display of wicked might
Drawing forth a wary Eagle perched for descent
Enter the insatiable belly of the Beast
With ten horns
Rising up in the Middle East
A mockery of the One adorned
With a crown of many thorns
Long ago this was forewarned
Prepare for the bloodbath ...
The Great Deceiver of untold lies
Awaiting for his enemies to atone
After their silver Falcons cross the skies
Cast westward by King of Terror into flight
Tearing asunder mirrored monument
A forceful display of wicked might
Drawing forth a wary Eagle perched for descent
Enter the insatiable belly of the Beast
With ten horns
Rising up in the Middle East
A mockery of the One adorned
With a crown of many thorns
Long ago this was forewarned
Prepare for the bloodbath ...
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Rapping Kid Ramses
Strutting in as if walking on water
Spawner of Pharisees dividing the seas
Making several passes parting cheering masses
Hailed in their idol worship
Awestruck wonder
With each trip around the ring
Failed attempts stealing not my thunder
For this true son of pharoaohs sees
What you're up to with your plagues
Disease and Pestilence
Upon your entrance
Super flies and frogs leaping
Banished poet laureate
May savage a brother
While keeping him from his rightful throne
Begone with you who I now disown
Stay and I will own you...
Spawner of Pharisees dividing the seas
Making several passes parting cheering masses
Hailed in their idol worship
Awestruck wonder
With each trip around the ring
Failed attempts stealing not my thunder
For this true son of pharoaohs sees
What you're up to with your plagues
Disease and Pestilence
Upon your entrance
Super flies and frogs leaping
Banished poet laureate
May savage a brother
While keeping him from his rightful throne
Begone with you who I now disown
Stay and I will own you...
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Prosperity
Starlight filters through
The bullet riddled black veil above
A rider in the cold night air
Who knows not what it would be like
To greet tender lips with love
The company of a good hearted woman
Sharing warm apple cider by a fireplace
To have any number of his desires fulfilled
Those dreams have long been killed
The Town of Prosperity welcomes him
Bustling with an occasional tumbleweed
Howling winds driving the sand into a frenzy
Along the main street like spirit horses
Whistling through jagged remnants of windows
Absent...
The bullet riddled black veil above
A rider in the cold night air
Who knows not what it would be like
To greet tender lips with love
The company of a good hearted woman
Sharing warm apple cider by a fireplace
To have any number of his desires fulfilled
Those dreams have long been killed
The Town of Prosperity welcomes him
Bustling with an occasional tumbleweed
Howling winds driving the sand into a frenzy
Along the main street like spirit horses
Whistling through jagged remnants of windows
Absent...
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Looking Glassed, Rabbit Holed
Her voice penned in the journal of my mind
Takes me back to an earlier page and day
One abreft of sunrise or moonset
Bereft of ending and beginning
In most peculiar, abbreviated way
Scribblings of her laughter, ambient
Return me to that unique time and space
Streams of joy dribbling down my cheeks
Heart skipping forward in a three legged race
Since our abrupt parting, dreams there have been
And secrets I've longed to share, withheld
If only there was another chapter to our story
If only the sequel could be wishing welled
One...
Takes me back to an earlier page and day
One abreft of sunrise or moonset
Bereft of ending and beginning
In most peculiar, abbreviated way
Scribblings of her laughter, ambient
Return me to that unique time and space
Streams of joy dribbling down my cheeks
Heart skipping forward in a three legged race
Since our abrupt parting, dreams there have been
And secrets I've longed to share, withheld
If only there was another chapter to our story
If only the sequel could be wishing welled
One...
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I Done Found Me A Mermaid
Yesterday
Noticed the bathroom door was shut
Didn't know for certain who was in there
Had I known better
I would've asked what
Helped myself in with a spare key I keep
And as water rushed out
Stood there ankle deep
Faced with a woman's bare derriere
But .....
..... upon further discovery
I done found me a Mermaid
That's right
That's what I said
I found me a Mermaid
Left dumbstruck
Scratching my head
As for today
She was living it up in the shower
Didn't have the nerve to kick her to...
Noticed the bathroom door was shut
Didn't know for certain who was in there
Had I known better
I would've asked what
Helped myself in with a spare key I keep
And as water rushed out
Stood there ankle deep
Faced with a woman's bare derriere
But .....
..... upon further discovery
I done found me a Mermaid
That's right
That's what I said
I found me a Mermaid
Left dumbstruck
Scratching my head
As for today
She was living it up in the shower
Didn't have the nerve to kick her to...
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Lady Blackbird
word what what
wha-word what what
Lady Blackbird
With those lovely big brown eyes
Wha-wha-word on the street is
You're a pistol under the sheet
Packin heat
Holstered between those thighs
word what what
wha-word what what
Lady Blackbird
Baby, please tell me no lies
word what up
wha-word what down
That's the word that I'm hearin
Along the East Side of town
word what left
wha-word what right
The shiz that I'm hearin is
That you're dynamite
Lady Blackbird
This may come as no surprise...
wha-word what what
Lady Blackbird
With those lovely big brown eyes
Wha-wha-word on the street is
You're a pistol under the sheet
Packin heat
Holstered between those thighs
word what what
wha-word what what
Lady Blackbird
Baby, please tell me no lies
word what up
wha-word what down
That's the word that I'm hearin
Along the East Side of town
word what left
wha-word what right
The shiz that I'm hearin is
That you're dynamite
Lady Blackbird
This may come as no surprise...
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Ghosts Of The Plantation
They are dancing
Glimpse them in the corner of your eye
In fleeting courtyard shadows
Melting in Twilight's embrace
As they fade away
You may catch the hint of a smile
An invitation to spend a while
In this old abandoned place
Servants tend to the grounds
Waiting for the Lady to return
She left on a cloudy Spring day
Seemingly earlier this year
For her reacquaintence
They do yearn
As if it was only yesterday
Home is where the heart is
Their hearts linger here
Keeping her things as they were
...
Glimpse them in the corner of your eye
In fleeting courtyard shadows
Melting in Twilight's embrace
As they fade away
You may catch the hint of a smile
An invitation to spend a while
In this old abandoned place
Servants tend to the grounds
Waiting for the Lady to return
She left on a cloudy Spring day
Seemingly earlier this year
For her reacquaintence
They do yearn
As if it was only yesterday
Home is where the heart is
Their hearts linger here
Keeping her things as they were
...
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Entierro En El Utero
Listen up, Lady
And listen real good
I'm gonna tear you apart
From the inside out
No one is going to hear you
So be my guest
Scream and shout
Worst case scenario come true
Accept there's nothing you can do
Might as well linger outside the hospital
Face pressed against the glass
Pray the Lord will save you
But for the time being
Watch the miracle of your life fleeing
Feel it slipping
Let it pass
With every excruciating contraction
Every winded breath
Flashed before your eyes
These revelations...
And listen real good
I'm gonna tear you apart
From the inside out
No one is going to hear you
So be my guest
Scream and shout
Worst case scenario come true
Accept there's nothing you can do
Might as well linger outside the hospital
Face pressed against the glass
Pray the Lord will save you
But for the time being
Watch the miracle of your life fleeing
Feel it slipping
Let it pass
With every excruciating contraction
Every winded breath
Flashed before your eyes
These revelations...
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El Bautizar Del Indeseado
A busted Eldorado with Texas plates
Halted under the blistering sun
Somewhere south of the Mexican border
The air conditioning failed
Ninety miles ago on Route 31
And finding a mechanic was in order
Pregnant, the driver found
Sanctuary from the heat instead
Nearby in a quaint little church
And rested her feet and head
On the last row of warped benches
Cobbled together from discarded birch
Exhausted in her flight
From a nameless demon of which
She could never get far enough away
While a couple...
Halted under the blistering sun
Somewhere south of the Mexican border
The air conditioning failed
Ninety miles ago on Route 31
And finding a mechanic was in order
Pregnant, the driver found
Sanctuary from the heat instead
Nearby in a quaint little church
And rested her feet and head
On the last row of warped benches
Cobbled together from discarded birch
Exhausted in her flight
From a nameless demon of which
She could never get far enough away
While a couple...
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Easy Money, False Prophet
Buddy Christ making bank in stereo
Snowy static on my wavelength
Agent of God somehow immaculately in the Know
Public relations not your greatest strength
More suited you are for breaking rock with a pick axe
Like all crooks and assorted messianistic hacks
Collection plate passed down each and every row
Tollbooth at Heaven's Gate requires a hefty tax
While a saviour of souls you purport yourself to be
Whoring your services to Jesus supposedly for free
Living in the lap of luxury is the righteously fervent
Beneath the grand illusion of an...
Snowy static on my wavelength
Agent of God somehow immaculately in the Know
Public relations not your greatest strength
More suited you are for breaking rock with a pick axe
Like all crooks and assorted messianistic hacks
Collection plate passed down each and every row
Tollbooth at Heaven's Gate requires a hefty tax
While a saviour of souls you purport yourself to be
Whoring your services to Jesus supposedly for free
Living in the lap of luxury is the righteously fervent
Beneath the grand illusion of an...
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Dance, Monkey, Dance
Think you know me
You don't know me
Not the slightest
You'd better think again
Never considered you an enemy of mine
That's a luxury I'd only give a friend
See
You lost that privelege
With your ventriloquistic speaking on my behalf
Despite your dummy rhetoric from my lips
Always being well worth it for a laugh
Funny as it is being thrown overboard
Chummed to the sharks
Left alone for myself to fend
I always manage to walk ashore
On my own two feet
Stronger in the end
While you wrap it up
Slap a...
You don't know me
Not the slightest
You'd better think again
Never considered you an enemy of mine
That's a luxury I'd only give a friend
See
You lost that privelege
With your ventriloquistic speaking on my behalf
Despite your dummy rhetoric from my lips
Always being well worth it for a laugh
Funny as it is being thrown overboard
Chummed to the sharks
Left alone for myself to fend
I always manage to walk ashore
On my own two feet
Stronger in the end
While you wrap it up
Slap a...
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