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glottonous
glottonous
Traveling to the future daily at a constant speed. / / To see the illustrations that accompany my poetry, follow me on Instagram @glottonous
Starve fasces-brandishers who predicate Authority from appetite to lead. Uproot the system bred to overfeed Flush priests of law whose acts emaciate The restive body of we third estate, Condemning propaganda of the deed By terrorists like Johnny Appleseed. We must invoke our right to eat the state. Roast those who'd charge an honest cannibal For planting liberal teachings to displace The syndicate, and share economy. Fire up the cult of the imperial And ration insurrectionary grace Ample for all to feast on anarchy.
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Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 5:50 PM UTC
Sonnet no. 3
I'm fighting grind-split tooth and peeled nail Against all my selves I call other. Veiling mortal wounds with gossamer, I claim romantic identities Falsely, with sinister abandon. Coiling ever inward and away, I withdraw me from poor reflections; From glaring eyes betrayed and pooling Tar melting down from scorched railroad ties Strewn alongside deserted highways. I run again home to a cold box: Fluorescent orange light grating down eyes To dull accessories, who abet Escape to asylum in wombing Safety of echoing monologue. Reason rides to mind a snake oil savior To colonize my nobler instincts. Blood-choked and complacent, I'll deny My proudest breaths were spent defending Glass towers of an empty castle. Rend all your erstwhile double-tongued pharaohs. Cast out inner sycophantic slaves. Lay civil barriers to ruin. Surrender to grave knowledge of self.
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Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 5:49 PM UTC
Surrender
An irrational animal gets high From the ravenous pump of its own tongue, Nursing wounds of a disease untreated. His fat meat skulks through marbled corridors Around eyes that assign value to worth, Fixated on transactions to be paid. The ring and flash of victory courses Through his silken veins and opens his mouth To swallow the pride of the defeated Reflection in a puddle of his own Drool, clinging shakily from toothless dogs, Addicted to the peak and crash of trade.
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Jun 5, 2015
Jun 5, 2015 at 12:41 PM UTC
Wolf
This century spins wilder than prior gyres, Racing backward, ever more efficient and spectacular, Study finds.   The weather today, like every day, is Immense and incomprehensible.   Election week is soon, and the Salv-nation Party candidate Would like to remind voters of the Party of the Mysterious Robe's Mysteriousness. Representatives for the PMR gave no comment.   ****** digital performer @JezebElsa Went viral with her leaks. #HollywoodNewz   An impressive number of people we know Demand justice for all registered unrepentant killers.   A Meteor landed not ironically atop Selfiecomplishment Summit early this morning, Injuring only the most dedicated hikers. Confirming folklore, the Meteor disappeared once photographed. Don't go out trying to find it. However, you may still purchase a tincture of the liquid it contained From us at OrganicH2.Org.Headfeed.com No meteorologists were harmed.   Us vs. Terror: Terrorwatch!: The Monsters we've been ignoring Have taken the City and consumed the last of
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 10:07 PM UTC
Headfeed
Drink me: A shapely shifting goddess for thee. Nerves dance, The king is folded - now is your chance. Take nothing you need. Lend none of your heed to arms with no hands.   Mad hounds Crave and call your heart's ****** pounds. On beat, With thin air streaming under your feet. Your echoing **** rings guilty and gilded ears in the street.   Run fast To warn them that their idol's collapsed. Gold spills Deflated gods erupt from the hills. Rich lava bleeding through but not ceding to men's fragile wills.   Ready yourself for controversial glory. Set free the heavy hearts of those who can't flee Go write something wrong or heal with a song the eyes that won't see.
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 10:06 PM UTC
Mercury
From one end of a sea, I waved to you And carried it with me out to purlieu. Over desertous thirst. It sank me through A mermaid's con: rehearsed to drown on cue.   It reverbed off radars who threw it off course, Who clash out; Who say our sound invokes force. Who translate our call to a crime; (perforce); Who trained us to fall, then harbor remorse.   I wait still in oceans for your wave back. I wave me free from fear of dinful attack. I got it all up here, should they lose track. But I'm anchored still, -- slow, should you wave back.
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 10:02 PM UTC
Oceans
A star with night between her teeth; a girl Staggers a dance of seven heels, less six. Cues strewn along her route: a pin, a pearl, A tired, ****** queen a-lean on bricks.   Though under veil of spotlight she makes sway, No trace of rule remains on head or feet. Each sunset swallowed before birthing Day To toss to sirens feeding in the street.   Nocturnal vagrants fever dreaming deep Her cafe consorts, seeking but a friend. Mascara floods downstream where ducklings sleep, So get her to a bed and to an end.   And though low trolls will ever tweet her shame Each morning's jay will always sing her name.
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 10:00 PM UTC
Sonnet no 2
Before there were such things as west or east, Four Pangeaic coasts shared secrets for life. Four chambers of a heart that pumped as one, Connected by the tissue of an earth. We rooted our economies in soil, And in the warmth of sun we learned to climb. But in winter, we drifted to the North. We dug in deep while praying for clear sky. And as icy Atlantis spread us wide, Our souls sank to the cradle of red seas, Terrifying as a medieval womb. Volcanic tempests flared as wild as would A child dropping stacks of plates to the floor. A continent, torn twain by rising tide, Divided into cents and centuries. An unspeakable chasm, put to verb In parts, where our voice was lost to scripture. Instinct overwritten by memory; Natural laws supplanted with rulebooks. Hard-wired archetypes melted into hard Categories and civilizations. A terrible beauty born on horseback Charges his chariots through deserts still, Blinded by the glaring golden vision Of history his-self in one image. Temples to monumental satellites Bleed up through our grounds, towers, and heavens. Transhuman? Quantified Self? What's the word; H.evolutis digs only data, From matrices' fall to the power of ten To trans-Pacific partnerships foretold. The axes that spin this marble will fold. The Old Western coast will crumble again into red molten islands at sunset. We'll evolve into our animal Selves, Or be mined and displayed in museums On red planets in the new native world. And these words will forge, or melt into code. Circled, triangled, squaring round again, From decimal to digital and back, Medial terrain falling to a side. We can feel the core of our nerve-centre Rotating slowly toward Oceana, After many weighted lifetimes marooned. Whenever and whomever left Here, Then Will be fragile but courageously sharp. Diamond-fueled quantum mechanified souls Will see the golden hills they remembered. Their mother will call them all back by force To the source, for a global renaissance. A stellar aeon will have passed since Death Forced self-sacrifice on a pantheon, And the old arms that ordered departings Will reach for but not reach one another From within universes to without. The stars in an East rising in accord Will be of all color and energy, Generating a fused atom of light From shared memories of metal and lith. Warming each egg in each nest in each cave, The heat will incubate a new blue bird Who'll wake, and fly back home to feed her sun.
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 9:59 PM UTC
Res Gestation
Before there were such things as west or east, Four Pangeaic coasts shared secrets for life. Four chambers of a heart that pumped as one, Connected by the tissue of an earth. We rooted our economies in soil, And in the warmth of sun we learned to climb. But in winter, we drifted to the North. We dug in deep while praying for clear sky. And as icy Atlantis spread us wide, Our souls sank to the cradle of red seas, Terrifying as a medieval womb. Volcanic tempests flared as wild as would A child dropping stacks of plates to the floor. A continent, torn twain by rising tide, Divided into cents and centuries. An unspeakable chasm, put to verb In parts, where our voice was lost to scripture. Instinct overwritten by memory; Natural laws supplanted with rulebooks. Hard-wired archetypes melted into hard Categories and civilizations. A terrible beauty born on horseback Charges his chariots through deserts still, Blinded by the glaring golden vision Of history his-self in one image. Temples to monumental satellites Bleed up through our grounds, towers, and heavens. Transhuman? Quantified Self? What's the word; H.evolutis digs only data, From matrices' fall to the power of ten To trans-Pacific partnerships foretold. The axes that spin this marble will fold. The Old Western coast will crumble again into red molten islands at sunset. We'll evolve into our animal Selves, Or be mined and displayed in museums On red planets in the new native world. And these words will forge, or melt into code. Circled, triangled, squaring round again, From decimal to digital and back, Medial terrain falling to a side. We can feel the core of our nerve-centre Rotating slowly toward Oceana, After many weighted lifetimes marooned. Whenever and whomever left Here, Then Will be fragile but courageously sharp. Diamond-fueled quantum mechanified souls Will see the golden hills they remembered. Their mother will call them all back by force To the source, for a global renaissance. A stellar aeon will have passed since Death Forced self-sacrifice on a pantheon, And the old arms that ordered departings Will reach for but not reach one another From within universes to without. The stars in an East rising in accord Will be of all color and energy, Generating a fused atom of light From shared memories of metal and lith. Warming each egg in each nest in each cave, The heat will incubate a new blue bird Who'll wake, and fly back home to feed her sun.
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Unfounded urgency draws Us out and toward impaling claws. Body fails on desert shore Where charging fog unravels with no sea to ride.   We cannot imagine coast Tearing through our raging ghost. Nor can we remember or Forget this comfort of eternal attrition   Reaching skyward ever, more, With all earth’s heave behind our roar. The bleak sunlight quiets most; Drained survivors drawn back toward retreating silence.   From out here. Quiet yet reserving might For each war against shadow-giving light. And each dark day we still reach for the moon As persistently as in illumed night.
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 9:55 PM UTC
The Reach
Love is Brutal. Jealous eyes and gasping heart anticipate downfall to start backing out now would be smart; avoid impending pain. Love is Futile. oversold and overrated embers destined to go faded ecstacy is surely fated to become disdain. Love Proves Fatal. short of breath, I can't stop bleeding what once was yours, no longer beating life is flickering and fleeting down the bathtub drain. Red is- -Valentines and fire trucks; sunsets and war, both sides of this razor and both people in this mirror. -Roses and romance; my lips and my hair, and my unhealed wounds inspired by and forever reminding me of the intimacy that will never be. Again. -Passion and ****** beauty and death, and pain that surpasses the simple capacity of the nerve endings in my tangible flesh. -Love and hate. The love I need from you, and the hate I reserve for myself, and all the blurred and liquid emotions that drip so delicately from Inside. And the Lust I can't resist And the regret that will persist No matter how much thick, beautiful color I wash over my wrist. Autopsy "This one is an interesting case," I addressed the group As you see in the slide, she looks normal outside But when the procedure got under way, we realized Her affliction was unique. We made the cranial incision, and pulled apart the skull. We then noticed that the brain had been eaten away By some degenerative disease. It had devoured all but the brain stem, and looked as though It had tortured her for years. "It must have been terrible," one colleague observed, "having your mind Rotting away every day from corroding memories and false hope." "Yes," I confirmed, "this could be our cause of death." Curiouser still, upon separating the ribs, we discovered that her chest cavity Was lined with some sort of Tar-like Substance, Mostly surrounding the Heart. It was thick, cold, and black and it stuck to our gloves. "It must have hurt." a doctor stated. "It looks as though she tried to scrape it off With razorblades, or dissolve it with smiles or Love, But it kept growing back." "Yes," I concurred, "this is what might have killed her." The strangest of all was found as we continued the Y downward. Upon opening the abdomen, we were astonished to see that there was Nothing inside. She was completely empty. Not a stomach, Kidney, spleen, friend, Soul or dream was found in that cavern "It must have been hard," he whispered, "trying to go on when you're so empty inside." "Yes," I said, "perhaps this is what made her die." "And so," I told the students, "with all of her amassed ailments, I decided Jane Doe C33's COD to be listed Unknown. We aren't quite sure what happened to her, or when it was contracted. All we know is that something awful usurped this girl's mind and body, Taking from her until there was nothing left to hurt, And she died." "So log this one away in your notes, in the event this becomes an epidemic. An interesting one, indeed …Now, on to the next case for study."
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 9:54 PM UTC
Three old love poems.
Love is Brutal. Jealous eyes and gasping heart anticipate downfall to start backing out now would be smart; avoid impending pain. Love is Futile. oversold and overrated embers destined to go faded ecstacy is surely fated to become disdain. Love Proves Fatal. short of breath, I can't stop bleeding what once was yours, no longer beating life is flickering and fleeting down the bathtub drain. Red is- -Valentines and fire trucks; sunsets and war, both sides of this razor and both people in this mirror. -Roses and romance; my lips and my hair, and my unhealed wounds inspired by and forever reminding me of the intimacy that will never be. Again. -Passion and ****** beauty and death, and pain that surpasses the simple capacity of the nerve endings in my tangible flesh. -Love and hate. The love I need from you, and the hate I reserve for myself, and all the blurred and liquid emotions that drip so delicately from Inside. And the Lust I can't resist And the regret that will persist No matter how much thick, beautiful color I wash over my wrist. Autopsy "This one is an interesting case," I addressed the group As you see in the slide, she looks normal outside But when the procedure got under way, we realized Her affliction was unique. We made the cranial incision, and pulled apart the skull. We then noticed that the brain had been eaten away By some degenerative disease. It had devoured all but the brain stem, and looked as though It had tortured her for years. "It must have been terrible," one colleague observed, "having your mind Rotting away every day from corroding memories and false hope." "Yes," I confirmed, "this could be our cause of death." Curiouser still, upon separating the ribs, we discovered that her chest cavity Was lined with some sort of Tar-like Substance, Mostly surrounding the Heart. It was thick, cold, and black and it stuck to our gloves. "It must have hurt." a doctor stated. "It looks as though she tried to scrape it off With razorblades, or dissolve it with smiles or Love, But it kept growing back." "Yes," I concurred, "this is what might have killed her." The strangest of all was found as we continued the Y downward. Upon opening the abdomen, we were astonished to see that there was Nothing inside. She was completely empty. Not a stomach, Kidney, spleen, friend, Soul or dream was found in that cavern "It must have been hard," he whispered, "trying to go on when you're so empty inside." "Yes," I said, "perhaps this is what made her die." "And so," I told the students, "with all of her amassed ailments, I decided Jane Doe C33's COD to be listed Unknown. We aren't quite sure what happened to her, or when it was contracted. All we know is that something awful usurped this girl's mind and body, Taking from her until there was nothing left to hurt, And she died." "So log this one away in your notes, in the event this becomes an epidemic. An interesting one, indeed …Now, on to the next case for study."
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