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palladia  Aug 2013
loathe / adore
palladia Aug 2013
loathe* — july 17, 2013

reëstablish the current which made being whole
no, not just in another life since fragmented whole is nothing tethered to the waist. that’s what belts are for. *if you say so

monitor it like
you would anywhere
the trajectory is clear : light the torch of multi-orbed sensation
where we wait on the cusp
of the whole
perhaps in another life, we dare to suggest it. i don’t dare. if i did, i would consider myself a pigment of this pallet
i don’t breathe limited expectation
scientific claims
they’re just as good as dead to me. perhaps the whole can be related and consume our progress. there is too much to see. too little methods
methodic function isn’t perfunctory yet. a push is required. jumpstarting will only cause sparks.
i know something better
so sit down and move to the right. the light’s blocking my view and i cannot surmise unless i’m granted a complete oversight. nothing backseat, because we all know
that is reductive
paint splatters on my face
                                                i
              ­                                am
                              ­             frozen
the colors reimage our complexion and erase the mistakes until we are whole
[ uncertainty is the new guarantee ]
introspection is a form by which we do so. everything we see is incomplete. our eyes need to be adjusted
to the [ uncertain ]


adore — july 29 , 2013

black blue strata pillars spruces flutes
eclectic aftermath debris snaffle pop
  chute-in whelked chrome lugubrious
   lifeblood : trans yes mutate pro-ohms
    in timehalts wyoming woodsmoke
     screened scans : rancid gemini rotors
      hulks histories back - lying supine arts
       ( please remind me to act regimentally )
"They are polar opposites. Yet they are one in the same. They are like snake eyes. They are everything I hate and love...odi et amo. Catullus isn't the only one questioning here."
--Inez Impyriad
James R  Sep 2021
Alligator
James R Sep 2021
What difference can you spot
Between an alligator and a croc
Well first there's colours: light and dark
Which help to set the two apart
Or failing that try this for size:
Open up those beady eyes
And scan the length of your beast
The alligator will be least
Then last of all find jaw and snout
For then you'll know just all about
The rounded face - but don't reach in
He'll snaffle your arm with a top-toothed grin
An animal poem for my son
I might scratch myself, as would a ******, to save my snaffle-toothed, bandy-legged, sallow-complected wife from having to work for damnable **** dam builders. Soon K.O. (Kenyan Obama) will expunge my negritude as he'd promised to from copy-cat Joe Biden's ratty apartment in A.D. 2008. Creedsmen et confreres unite! Pitch the V.T.R.P.E. (Variable Terrain Radio Parabolic)! Egest (excrete) pitches intersubjective (inter-relating 2 consciousnesses). Sing with a united and/or unified voice “Giovinezza” (Italy's official Fascist song). I think my dog is hungry. I think that his hunger knows no end. I think that he's watching me. I think that he plots to eat me while I sleep.

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