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ben-coleman
ben-coleman
I write these for fun...chances are they're not that good.
Finding a million Bucks in your pants each day for The rest of your life Being wrapped in warm Blankets that sing lovingly As they ******* you Riding a white bear Through outer space watching Cuse Win the title, live.
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Oct 23, 2013
Oct 23, 2013 at 7:15 AM UTC
Being In Love is Like
You are a cog in a great machine, Free to do whatever you please, Just so long as you keep spinning.
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Sep 4, 2012
Sep 4, 2012 at 8:12 AM UTC
Cog
From an airplane The clouds Are a soft Blanket, Tucked up Over the Earth's crust - Keeping it cozy and warm - Even in winter. From an airplane The rainbow sheen On the sea Is a patch On the ocean's Dark Wal-Mart jeans - Bringing life To what's otherwise Uninteresting. From an airplane The cities (quotidianly) Are just toys Left by children on Christmas morning That could not Compete with The Next Greatest Thing. Back on Earth I'm a speck On a sad rock In a terminal sea Under the Never ending White expanse Of The Greenhouse - Sweating, In February.
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Sep 3, 2012
Sep 3, 2012 at 8:36 PM UTC
From An Airplane
In the time it took to read these lines A million mayflies were born and died In half a blink of the cosmic eye.
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Sep 3, 2012
Sep 3, 2012 at 8:23 PM UTC
Perspective
Cut the trees and drain the lakes, Burn up everything we know For iPads. That's what progress takes: Cut the trees and drain the lakes (Ignore the tempests and the quakes) And as the garbage mountains grow Cut the trees and drain the lakes, Burn up everything we know.
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:54 PM UTC
Triolet - 1
Perhaps we ask the Earth too much. Instead of giving it a crutch We demand tee-vees and jets and such Commodities from factories: Big cars and tiger pelts to touch. Perhaps our goals are just too great To be fulfilled by the natural state. We want wealth, food on our plates, Cures to diseases we create. We'll drown the world in all our waste.
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:52 PM UTC
Demand
What is a wall, A building traced? Or a public creative space? To write on one Is to deface? Or should the practice Be embraced? I wrote my name Upon the wall. Selfish message Seen by all. I wrote it so I won't be missed. Lest any doubt That I exist.
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:48 PM UTC
What is a Wall
The Brain: In fact - Greater than god. For - should the two compete - The one makes all the other can And more - much more - with ease
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:34 PM UTC
Response to Dickinson's "632"
We'll all be dead in a million years, Perhaps much sooner than that. The way we go about our lives Is conducive to that track. If we don't end all existence in A blazing nuclear war, We'll poison this sphere (that much is clear) With smoke and sludge and tar. But here in my tree, Surrounded by leaves And the golden, sparkling light, The bombs and the haze Seem so far away. Perhaps we'll be all right.
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:33 PM UTC
Optimism in the Face of Terrible Odds
A light A love A lie I laugh I pant I cry We spark We flare We die
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Nov 30, 2011
Nov 30, 2011 at 9:29 PM UTC
Spark