Raw Diet

By DEL WILLS

A tribute to the people who live

Through what most of us couldn't

Begin to swallow each day of their life.

Learning too young, living too fast, and dying slow.

This is a common legacy they've had to sow.

Where nothing is promised but a

Hard life and an untimely funeral procession.

Where the old outlive the young

An ugly fact accepted without question.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Nov 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781636928296

Book preview

Gunshot

Sent with best regards from perpetrators of pain.

Laying the marked cards on the table with the outcome the same.

Another statistic is all we’ve gained.

Washed blood down the gutter where evil reigns.

Carried out by depravity who now rules over what was once love’s domain.

Gunpowder, addictions, and bluesteel are the weapons of choice

Silenced is love’s ever-weakening voice.

To stop a heartbeat, flatline, making a loved one left want to die

Again in a stupor at the gravesite churning out a steady grist.

Tomorrow will wager another farewell kiss.

Stab, blast, or overdose.

Another mouthful swallowed up within our midst.

Like an epidemic, rampant is the likes of this.

Again conceived by the madness of inhumanity to man.

Virulent ever in darkness plotting their next plan.

No solution against evil by evil men can stand.

Del Wills

9/30/2019

Neo Slaves

Bent backed

Bowed down to the vices

With voices of incivility

Screaming lies in their

Ears while all the while

Stealing and destroying

All that’s held dear

Though the cotton is gone

And Jim Crow is tucked away.

The feathers and tar of

Servitude still stuck to

The feet in the darkness

Of greed, addiction, and promiscuity.

The whips and chains of

Slavery self-imposed,

They repeat.

Like whipped, dumb sheep

Fallen into a hole dug deeper each generation.

The echoes of errors bleat.

Modern times cannot stop the

Worn, self-inflicted wounds

That we repeat.

An incessant quicksand that

Catches our feet.

Heritage and morals have

Been tucked away.

Earned heirlooms sleep

The souls of great grandmother’s

Are troubled and weep.

New viruses from new strains

Mothers at gravesites cry

From reopened wounds. And

Self-inflicted pains.

Blood has been bleached

Yet we replace the stain

Once we broke the chains

Now we’re shackled again

By our own greed, perversion

And ever-darkening purpose

Again old Massah has surfaced

Too live crew hadn’t a clue

Barely cracking the surface.

Stubbornness and rebellion are

Killing credibility at its core

A mildew of raunchy, calamitous uproar.

Credit cards creasing the flesh

Of quivering behinds within a

Frenzy of abandon where we’ve

Lost our minds.

Another fallen Rome

An internal demotion.

A calculated tryst far beyond

A slap on the wrist.

A neo slave has surfaced.

A corpse risen in the swamp of remorse.

Repetition of the suspect guile of perdition.

Tarred and feathered

Island birds who cannot fly or swim

Caught up, hedged in unable to fend.

Without end

Lost within the pollution of

Drugs and self-imposed death

We must contend

Despite the black and bloated

Fruit that hung from wicked limbs

Lessening odds already slim

Regression cannot win.

But the battle doesn’t ever

Start without but deep within.

Del Wills

2019

Glazed Donuts

Glazed eyes with holes in their heads.

Ignoring the body count,

The dispensable, they might

As well say.

If we yawn right through

This it might go away.

A civil war in an uncivil time

A diseased society catapulting

Toward total decline.

Raging in the liberty of the night

Where anything is deplorably all right

But in the subterfuge of the day

It becomes a pitiable oversight

Daytime is politically incorrect

But murdering each other in the

Night where it feigns invisibility

For those sleeping in safety,

They think, do not object.

We all will feel it

The ripple effect of malcontent

While glazed donuts lay in slumber

As evil’s reign rages with its advent.

Del Wills

2019

Up in Smoke

Nostrils dull to the rank

And rancid humor

As it curls seductively

About the nose

Catching at the throat

Caught up in a dizzying moment

Clots of regret are again swallowed

No matter how much you choke

How much you have to pay for

The moment even if you’re broke.

The wheel of addiction must

Turn despite the loss of your core.

The loss of life spoke

Depravity dulls the senses

As the smoke swells in their head

Up in smoke

A charred and shattered life rolled.

Roach clipped

All of your own device

Bite with gusto into the sawdust

Of your days.

Up in smoke

Caught up in a purple haze

Snake eyes have been thrown to the

Wind of chance.

Spiraling up into smoke permeating your soul

With its hypnotic glance

Del Wills

Reprobates

Like disease these

Troubled souls have

Gone rabid

Ruminating upon their

Next evil spree

Making examples of

Their depravity.

Virulent, spreading their

Anger and pain through

The clogged overburdened

Arteries of society

Dragging along with them

Their self-loathing and

Unresolved debris

Cowards afraid of the

Dark in themselves having

A Pandora box making too many

Lives a living hell

With their weapons of show

And don’t tell.

Wreaking havoc and lives bullet

Riddled with fear and pain

Reprobates with their weapons of blame

Shooting off threats day and night

Bullets spraying the air never

Solving their plight.

Reprobates afflicting

Their own and others

Nothing is sacred to them

Not child or mother

Bullets and drugs are their brother

All infamy is their only claim to fame

Brutality, drunkenness, and drugs

To them is all the same.

At the end of the road for them

Is their real addiction, gain at

Any cost however the dice are tossed

Putting their evil in remission

Sewing up one wound while

Another criminal act makes another

Invasive incision.

Reprobates. Degenerates.

Soldiers of fortune with crime.

The armpits of society born to

Lose is their goal

Unable to pay for the lives

That they stole.

Stealing all but the eyes of the blind

No concern about their dark end

Wherein you’ll discover the many

Shades of evil stalking like shadows

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