RUNAWAY
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Brad Evans
Brad Evans was born in Sydney, Australia in 1971. He was placed into various educational institutions for twenty years, finally escaping in 1997 when poetry became too influential in his life. Some of his latest poems, articles, interviews, and reviews have been, or will soon be, featured in the following magazines (printed / online) and anthologies: Scriberazone (UK), Struggle (US), Centoria (AUST), Lateral Moves (UK), Wonderlust (UK), Poetry DownUnder (AUST), The Animist (AUST), Angel (UK), The Brobdingnagian Times (EIRE), Skald (UK), Breakfast All Day (UK / FR), Konfluence (UK), Paris / Atlantic (FR), Sivullinen (FNLD), Asphyxia (AUST), Quantum Leap (UK), Zine Zone (UK), Hobo (AUST), Ygdrasil (CAN), Dancing Barefoot (BELG), & (AUST), Apples & Oranges (US), Hjokfinnies Sanglines (UK), Panic! (UK), Roadworks (UK), Markings (UK), Haggard & Halloo (US), Voices of Liberation (UK), Rising (UK), Black Spring Review (US), Fire (UK), Manifold (UK), Lochs (UK), In Our Own Words (US), Cordite (AUST), Borderlines (UK), Zimmerzine (UK), Slacker (UK), Insurgentz (US), Braquemard (UK), Community of Poets (UK), Papillon (UK), At Last (UK), Poezine (UK), Big Bridge (UK). Brad is the founder and editor of Red Lamp, a journal for realist, socialist and humanitarian poetry.By Brad Evans
Published on 04/5/2000
throwing off this blanket
of ignorance
I pen
on a train
spilling lies and greed.
around me
throwing off this blanket
of ignorance
I pen
on a train
spilling lies and greed.
around me
those in limbo
sit or moan
to a victorious
deaf
the knives move
as
our backs move:
the men,
women,
the lost
stabbed and hauled
short
of
hope
some dream,
a spark
or chance
to know ourselves.
and I know
some time ago,
before I burst
hopelessly out
onto
this wicked carriage
called life-
decisions
commands
orders
were issued for us
in a prenatal manner
to ensure a benign
and ignorant flock:
servitude
for
the few
of them
and
I call on them
all
these wise men
from
the institutions:
the Chicago School,
the enlightened
Harvard cavaliers
who think
that living beyond their
means
can demonstrate something:
an ambition,
a way of securing
individual power
over something
hideous
as
this
out
of
control
beast
Copyright © Brad Evans, 2000. All Rights Reserved.
throwing off this blanket
of ignorance
I pen
on a train
spilling lies and greed.
around me
throwing off this blanket
of ignorance
I pen
on a train
spilling lies and greed.
around me
those in limbo
sit or moan
to a victorious
deaf
the knives move
as
our backs move:
the men,
women,
the lost
stabbed and hauled
short
of
hope
some dream,
a spark
or chance
to know ourselves.
and I know
some time ago,
before I burst
hopelessly out
onto
this wicked carriage
called life-
decisions
commands
orders
were issued for us
in a prenatal manner
to ensure a benign
and ignorant flock:
servitude
for
the few
of them
and
I call on them
all
these wise men
from
the institutions:
the Chicago School,
the enlightened
Harvard cavaliers
who think
that living beyond their
means
can demonstrate something:
an ambition,
a way of securing
individual power
over something
hideous
as
this
out
of
control
beast
Copyright © Brad Evans, 2000. All Rights Reserved.