The Consistent Prescription

The sarcastic arts snort at the undaunted audience,
whose bizarre autobiographies chew unique justice.
Her lifetime commitment to appropriate opioids

became a chapter filled with odd words of awkward.
(As in, "She shows sideshows in the Southern Specific.")
With this silent expensive enthralling result,

to inject a maddening lance of molasses
into the quickened black locker of the dangerous page,
confounding the scholarly opera reporters.

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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Amid Giant Kingdom

you or it you demanded fall down
contested woodlands, a tapestry of, for trees
we and they it said accused really

almond urgency, a sense for, in cannons
of you're sure the forests gain
plum tea, an interest in, in ships

for they're foreign the apple bedecked
they and you you include said absolutely
red china, a cup of, at sea

-- Glenn R. Frantz

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