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fight your discontents

[i am here to put you in your place]

By john sweet

and yr whole fucking life is

a suicide cult, but

here we are


pretty houses up and down

tree-lined streets


age of sorrow

bleeding effortlessly

into the age of drugs


get high or

be afraid


choices,

right?


the bullshit that

passes for freedom when

none of us are

really free


the idea of leaders

as dead men


of everyone,

everywhere, as

the enemy


once it gets stuck

in yr head,

you can never really

shake it loose


John Sweet sends greetings from the rural wastelands of upstate NY. He is a firm believer in writing as catharsis, and in compassionate nihilism. His poetry collections include BASTARD FAITH (2017 Scars Publications). NO ONE STARVES IN A NATION OF CORPSES (2020 Analog Submission Press) and NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT YOU (2024 Apathy Press Poets). More bile & hilarity on the way in 2025!

2025-05-28 // creation