LPiA-23 Nov. 13

[Tiger the Lion]

Let's Pretend it's April - Nov. 13

Rules: Write a poem for LPiA on the topic or form described. Each poem should appear as a New Reply to this thread. The goal is to, at the end of the month, have written 30 poems for the month of November. (or one, or six, or fifteen) Prompts may be revisited at any time. All members are welcome.

Topic : Write a poem inspired by a conspiracy. 
Form : Any
Line requirements: Ideally 13 

Feel free to reply with comments or kudos as you wish. 

Questions?

[TranquillityBase]

Why an apple
and why the pleasures of sex
kept locked in a vault
in a fruit no less
hanging in a tree
where serpents like to frolic
and whisper behind the Old Man’s back?
It makes no sense,
not even as a fable.
Eve should have been a honey pot
to catch the Devil,
not the other way around.
What was God thinking?

[RiverNotch]

My mum and my old church, of which she's still a part,
have sober takes on Palestine, acknowledging
how death is death, how we must pray
for righteousness, not triumph,

while my present priest, he sometimes rails against
"Rothschild" in his sermons---

"We were baptised here
and we will die here" read a headline
on a rocket striking the ancient church
of St. Porphyrios in Gaza

while an American friend of mine is singled out
for her big nose, her knowledge of High German---

Winter lights.

[rayheinrich]

              < cats are social animals >
               
                to the extent that
                war is a social activity
               
                it only takes one cat
                to form a conspiracy
               
                but if you see two cats
                that normally fight each other
                saber-tooth and claw
               
                if you see them sitting side by side
                watch out!
                no good has come of this
               
                somewhere
                in the depths of your house
                something is broken
               
                with one cat
                it's something valuable
                with two cats
                it's valuable
                irreplaceable
                and emotionally important
               
                or maybe it's just shoes
                in the morning
                innocently sitting by your bed
                waiting
                waiting for your sleepy bare feet
               
                with one cat
                it's the right one
               
                with two cats
                it's both
               
                only the conspirators know
                which shoes contain
                fresh, juicy hairballs
               
                        - - -

[dukealien]

Conspiracy


Adam Smith asserted and supported
his belief that businesspeople will
conspire among themselves at each
occasion when they meet to raise
the prices of their stock in trade.

Legislators since “progressivism” started
seek to act against this tendency
with regulation, accusation,
denunciation and expropriation–
assuming, wrongly, that it’s a bad thing.

“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.”

– An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

[CRNDLSM]

He saw every way imaginable.
There was no trigger, 
only one possibility after another.
He wanted it, 
but he didn't want to want it.
He could use the investigators 
own neck tie, smash
his head in the mirror repeatedly.
He wanted to,
but he didn't want to want to.
He never once claimed innocent.
saved his dad's life
getting to a hospital in time. 
He wanted it
but he didn't want to want it.
He was arrested immediately
After what he did
To that other family years later.
He wanted to
But he didn't want to want to.

[Tiger the Lion]

False Flag

when storied intelligence
and military might
oversleep on the same morning,

it's fair to wonder 
if they ever got a wink.