Free Verse!!

Free Verse!!

Free verse, 

stop binding 

it in loose leaf,

stapling it in 

dusty folders,

storing it with files 

it can't use to escape 

boxing it in rhyme, 

rhythm, and form,
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>--bust it out,--<
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it's been locked up 

in tight lipped

poetically correct 

brain cells

for far to l o n g

words are a 

bubbling brook

flowing from

a gravely throat,

shrieked from 

the top of a chair

over steaming cups of 

latte-fricking-dah,

make 'em crap-a-chino,

give 'em choas,

rabid rants,

squinty eyes

brain freezes 

from all those words

just stacked like 

Marilyn Monroe, 

before the overdose,

make 'em think ink

bleed adjectives

hack up 

dangling participles,

make it pro-etry,

skewer the world's woes

on the point of your pen, 

and roast them

over coals from your soul.

free verse, be adverse,

obverse, reversed,

conversational and yet

intensly unique,

everything else is just

pigment on the pulp 

of some trees 

you'll never climb.

free speech

freed dreams

freedom rocks

be born free

 and die free

 and fill all that 

is inbetween

with free thoughts

it cost nothiung 

but it can do

so much