Disorientation is natural in our ramshackle life
Each day a pertinacious resistance to death, loss, boredom
Each breathe a hiatus from a gnawing sense of "what more?"

Disorientation (noun)

confusion (usually transient) about where you are and how to proceed; uncertainty as to direction

a wild delusion (especially one induced by a hallucinogenic drug)

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Ramshackle (adjective)

loosely made or held together; shaky

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Pertinacious (adjective)

Persistent or stubborn in holding to one’s own opinion; resolute; obstinate. Usually as a negative quality.

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Hiatus (noun)

a break in or as if in a material object : gap; biology : a gap or passage in an anatomical part or organ

an interruption in time or continuity : break; the occurrence of two vowel sounds without pause or intervening consonantal sound

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You postulate life, love, death, hope, despair: each theory unearned.
I drown in praxis: each breathe, each beat an opportunity.
We emulate peace through different routes, missing equally.

Postulate (verb)

demand, claim

to assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary : depend upon or start from the postulate of; to assume as a postulate or axiom (as in logic or mathematics)

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Praxis (noun)

practice, as distinguished from theory

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emulate (verb)

strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with

imitate the function of another system, as by modifying the hardware or the software

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A line was brazenly drawn between beds, lamps, stuffed animals
each's land now conterminous separated by strands of yarn.
At bedtime I find, though, their love is still bioluminescent.

Brazen (adjective)

made of brass

sounding harsh and loud like struck brass; of the color of polished brass

marked by shameless or disrespectful boldness

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Coterminous (adjective)

having the same border or covering the same area

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Bioluminescent (adjective)

(of living organisms) emitting light

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To fait accompli ambition he effervescenced language
mayheming against sense, verbifying sesquipedalian.
Trompe l'oeiling prose was a failure to communicate.

fait accompli (noun)

an accomplished fact; a thing already done

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effervescence (noun)

the process of bubbling as gas escapes

the property of giving off bubbles

irrepressible liveliness and good spirit

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Mayhem (noun)

needless or willful damage or violence

willful and permanent deprivation of a body part resulting in the impairment of a person’s fighting ability; willful and permanent disabling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of the body

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Verbify (verb)

To convert (a word, esp. a noun) into a verb.

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trompe l’oeil (noun)

a painting rendered in such great detail as to deceive the viewer concerning its reality

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We once enjoyed flocculent blessings until they filled with kemp
Pensive baas thwarting sleep, warmth turned itchy, spinning wheel broken
So we enjoined our little god and now welcome our house snake

Flocculent (adjective)

soft like wool or fleece

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Kemp (noun)

a coarse hair or fiber, used especially of wool

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pensive (adjective)

quietly sad or thoughtful

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Enjoin (verb)

to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition

forbid, prohibit; to prohibit by a judicial order : put an injunction on

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house snake (noun)

A snake believed to protect or watch over a household, esp. one kept as a household god.

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On her, words were impetrate. On him, they were framed in fortitude.
On her, irrevocable and repulsive.  On him, persuasive.
She rises again after each dismissive pummel, he guides the fist.

Impetrate (verb)

to obtain by pleading or begging

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Fortitude (noun)

mental and emotional strength in facing difficulty, adversity, danger, or temptation courageously

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irrevocable (adjective)

incapable of being retracted or revoked; cannot be undone or taken back

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repulsive (adjective)

causing strong dislike or disgust

of or relating to the force that pushes something away from something else

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Pummel (verb)

To beat or pound, with or as if with fists.

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Abluded from human nature, silence pressed in wet ink ,
Intentionally recondite, unnecessary aggression:
Paperwork turns a job into an exercise in uitwaaien.

Nondisclosure (noun)

failure to reveal information, especially in a legal case

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Ablude (verb)

To differ, be out of keeping. Usually with from.

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Recondite (adjective)

difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep

of, relating to, or dealing with something little known or obscure

hidden from sight

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Uitwaaien (noun)

the Dutch practice of jogging or walking into the wind

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Ripples form and break across the surface of my erstwhile life
Lies once told, forgotten, reborn on someone else's red lips
Anything I once thought I was broken by my own subterfuge

ripple (noun)

a small wave on the surface of a liquid, a shape or pattern having small waves

a sound that gradually becomes louder and then quieter

something that passes or spreads through or over someone or something

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Erstwhile (adverb)

former; of times past

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Subterfuge (noun)

deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade

a deceptive device or stratagem

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Often I am described as phelegmatic, port in the storm
But my calm is painstakingly, palpably built of flanerie.
Each breathe a transaction to let me quietly rabble-rouse

Phlegmatic (adjective)

self-possessed, calm, or composed

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Painstakingly (adverb)

in a fastidious and painstaking manner

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palpable (adjective)

obvious and noticeable

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Flânerie (noun)

aimless strolling or lounging

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transaction (noun)

conducting business within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities)

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rabble-rouse (verb)

To stir up the masses, especially to incite action or change.

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In global affairs, we decry dollar diplomacy 
extravagant waste, pettifog in place of actual debate
but prepend the alternative: the sonorous effect of bombs

Decry (verb)

to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly

to express strong disapproval of

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dollar diplomacy (noun)

foreign policy influenced by economic considerations

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extravagant (adjective)

more than is usual, necessary, or proper; very fancy;

very expensive and not necessary; spending a lot of money

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Pettifog (verb)

To quibble over trivial matters.

To engage in petty, often legalistic, chicanery.

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Perpend (verb)

to consider

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sonorous (adjective)

full, loud and deep

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