Charles Cicirella: Poetry,. Voice

Jonestown America (Bitter Almonds)

The water reminds me of a baptism I never had.

Because I am Jewish, one of the chosen, persecuted, unwashed and displaced.

Forget where you came from and only focus on where you’re going.

Learn to unlearn the education shoved down your throat like a McNugget.

Accept the tattoos and branding as just another misstep in your life of trials and tribulations.

When the girl at self-checkout acts like a druggie, that’s because she probably is, and no amount of rehab will save her because she likes the path she has chosen.

The poetry struck me like an eighteen-wheeler driven by Stephen King.

It gave me a sense of purpose when I felt outside my Hannibal Lecter skin.

Shame on you for using shame as a crutch.

You should be mortified by how gullible you have become when you wait in line for handouts at the polling place of your retrofitted mind.

As we prepare the syringes with cyanide, Valium, and Flavor Aid, America is its own Jonestown.

Charles Cicirella

7/13/2025

Photo: Members of the Peoples Temple cult at Jonestown drank cyanide mixed with Flavor Aid to commit suicide. Photo by Matthew Naythons/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images

Charles Cicirella: Poetry, Voice

Charles Cicirella: Poetry, Voice

Charles Cicirella: Poetry, Voice

Charles Cicirella: Poetry, Voice

Charles Cicirella: Poetry, Voice

Image: Convergence, 1952, Jackson Pollock

@ Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Charles Cicirella: Poetry, Voice

Charles Cicirella: Poetry, Voice

Charles Cicirella: poetry and voice

Charles Cicirella: Poetry, Voice

Cleveland, Ohio

7/11/2022

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