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· The Door: Selected Poems

· The Fuck Generation


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· My Interview with Laurel Johnson in 2003


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· A Double Murder in Los Angeles

· Ask Not What You Can Do For Your Country

· O Woman, I am a Lily of the Valley...

· Reunion and Uncle Joe's Adventures in Korea

· Our Minds Were Drifting

· Ode to Mental Patients

· Pisces Girl

· Happy as a Goose

· I Don't Belong

· A Screaming Poem

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For Charlie Kirk

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No matter how hard they tried
To distort and bury the truth,
You will live in the hearts of youth
And your legacy will never die.

Friday, September 19, 2025


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For Charlie Kirk

No matter how hard they tried
To distort and bury the truth,
You will live in the hearts of youth
And your legacy will never die.

No bullet can silence a man
With the courage to speak his mind
To the ideologically blind,
Whose viewpoints they cannot stand.

With the constant media stream
Filled with lies, propaganda and hate,
You embraced an honest debate
That your enemies couldn't win.

So you paid the price with your life
For your faith and the word you preached,
For your fight for the freedom of speech,
For your love of your children and wife.

Rest in peace, dear friend, rest in peace,
As your message's heard throughout the world--
"We are Charlie" hundred-thousandfold--
We are fireworks that you released.

  September 19, 2025
--Alexander Shaumyan

 

 

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Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on September 19, 2025
Well done Alex. In my remembrance: one of your better pieces, especially in content. As Charlie postulated: "If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas - not run away from them, or try to silence them." May those fireworks continue to light the sky with truth and hope. Thank you for sharing. Hope you're well. r

Reviewed by Kalikiano Kalei
Reviewed on September 19, 2025
Excellent poetic eulogy, Alex. I very much like the reference to "We are Charlie!" Words are a literary minefield...more evidence that the pen has Multiple Independently Retargetable Vehicularity (as "MIRV" Griffin never said, but perhaps should have). We are indeed Charlie!


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