The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
The Insolidity of Oathmeal

What harm is a boy to imagine 
asked to raise his unsinister arm
and swear clean words to the throng?

Or cover his bits to testify
with fig leaf fingers uncrossed
his commitment to the uncommon good?

To slay and play heroic 
Lift laurels with broad shoulders
and never speak of what happened

To mean to uphold the doctrine
of cliff notes being quite enough
and to opine with oblivious signals

To gnosticate a preference for
uncommon sense so he may step 
over the already huddling downtrodden

Spilling their porridge for sport
holding the silver medallion of not-them
to slay the vampyric with a toss of bullets.
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