Genre: Examination of our Society, Youth Culture, Dark, Reality, The Playground by Phillip Rivers old buildings, empty fields, and those vacant haunted lots we used to play games now they’re moving different rocks oxy pills, heroin, get the molly from ‘Pops’ never met the biological just old dude from the block broken swings, broken glass, shards at… Continue reading The Playground, Poetry by Phillip Rivers
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Cigarette Butts, Poetry by Rebeccah Pope
Genre: Family Cigarette Butts My father made me. Sculpted me out of the cigarette butts he & my mother left outside the bar where they met. Each butt falling, landing & forming their foundation. Accumulating, into child after child after child. Children to sit at his feet. Tugging at his heart until he removed the strings.… Continue reading Cigarette Butts, Poetry by Rebeccah Pope
