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mike-1
Bhutanese my parents reared me like an animal, / / but didnt realize i was / a cannibal. / / so i ate them, / / and thats why im a gentleman.
to the baby, and its babies:       your birth,       and the woman waiting for you; they are waiting. everyone, is waiting. time, is waiting. the sea, is waiting. elephants, are waiting. the cukes in the vat are waiting to be pickled.. the pickles are waiting to be traded for cash. to become their own weight in gold. and the money, is waiting to be buried back into the earth, as the earth sits in its own sort of waiting,    knowing, that even the end is waiting. while nothing also waits for anything else besides the end.
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Jul 7, 2023
Jul 7, 2023 at 6:24 AM UTC
the continental drift of sea shells
i am three armadillos. one that tucks and hides, rolls away if it has to. one, who fights and stands, rears on its haunches, exposing its softness, ready to live and to do the opposite of living. and one who knows, it is just a fiction, in some song or meditation or some story, who has the upper hand on its brothers, who seem to think that they are whatever the opposite of fiction might seem to be.
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Jul 4, 2023
Jul 4, 2023 at 3:02 AM UTC
a tumbleweed of neurons
The Woman- Make naked the thing which covers you. The Dress-                         -has no soul                     - is naked inside I. -peel the skin from my eyes.
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May 20, 2017
May 20, 2017 at 1:17 PM UTC
invisiballerina
You can put me in the ground. You can surely do that. If you have hands, sure and a knife, yes. a gun, of course. or, i don't know.. run me down with your car toss me in a vat of acid or maybe train your Lioness to maul me and to eat me. you could get inventive with it. inventiveness is good i'd adore you for that. or, well.. i'd say, make it an old fashioned kind of affair. swing a shovel well into my head and bury me where i lie. you'll want a shovel. yes you will. your hands, they're ***** enough already, i'd say. and, it's an awful lot of work- those graves. can't make em too shallow. you don't want to hang. cuz they'll find you. and they'll hang you. they can't dig enough graves when they forge for themselves the RIGHT to do so. ...above ground cemetery... They make Junkyards out of neighbors. strangers.. -anyone.. ..anyone they can CATCH! that they can get enough sets of HANDS on to hold down. To judge. With the collective mind of the many-headed-beast. and you're one of the moving pieces in that swarm of hate.. ..that frenzy of Blood-thirst. that Madness of Zombies... You are a vital ***** I've seen how you Pulse, like the red in your eyes.. and, so, my friend. my enemy. I tell you this: You can bury me, i'll allow it. I might flinch. I might scream. The body is involuntary. It's a shaky contraption. And you can bury it, however you want, but you can not **** me.. THAT....you can not do. No matter how much you might hunger for it. No matter what DEVIL your name may be. You can not **** the Heart which beats outside of this body. You can not **** the Heart which beats beyond this world.
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May 17, 2017
May 17, 2017 at 6:04 AM UTC
reading my obituary in the morning with my coffee.
You can put me in the ground. You can surely do that. If you have hands, sure and a knife, yes. a gun, of course. or, i don't know.. run me down with your car toss me in a vat of acid or maybe train your Lioness to maul me and to eat me. you could get inventive with it. inventiveness is good i'd adore you for that. or, well.. i'd say, make it an old fashioned kind of affair. swing a shovel well into my head and bury me where i lie. you'll want a shovel. yes you will. your hands, they're ***** enough already, i'd say. and, it's an awful lot of work- those graves. can't make em too shallow. you don't want to hang. cuz they'll find you. and they'll hang you. they can't dig enough graves when they forge for themselves the RIGHT to do so. ...above ground cemetery... They make Junkyards out of neighbors. strangers.. -anyone.. ..anyone they can CATCH! that they can get enough sets of HANDS on to hold down. To judge. With the collective mind of the many-headed-beast. and you're one of the moving pieces in that swarm of hate.. ..that frenzy of Blood-thirst. that Madness of Zombies... You are a vital ***** I've seen how you Pulse, like the red in your eyes.. and, so, my friend. my enemy. I tell you this: You can bury me, i'll allow it. I might flinch. I might scream. The body is involuntary. It's a shaky contraption. And you can bury it, however you want, but you can not **** me.. THAT....you can not do. No matter how much you might hunger for it. No matter what DEVIL your name may be. You can not **** the Heart which beats outside of this body. You can not **** the Heart which beats beyond this world.
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You hanged yourself from a palm on a desert island. Starved for weeks. Catching flies in the cave that hung open in your mouth. Swaying on the wind until it was worn too thin and died. And you see a series of the most beautiful sunrises. Which you paint in my sleep every night after you've crept through my skull and come visit me. Telling me all that you know of the habits of flies While the new ones Those kids Dance around my breathing nose To settle and sleep on my gums.- All waiting to hatch to get a glimpse of that sunrise Of which their parents dreamt. A timeless chant The only thing that god can be called And the skin fell off of the shell of their light to make naked a thing that can not be named. Cracking and peeling back their eyes to make way for the divine to come pouring out Drowning a bloated belly thirst Light explodes from every inch of the body- It is the building of Ash, The ripening of the past. Until all that is left is he lthe two pupils falling Like flies giving up on their lives Into a pool of pure psychedelia Dropping as a pearl tastes in the ignorant mouth of a thousand wanting oysters swallowing down the ****** of said god. Who chokes on its own divine light That it can finally die Away from the madness of its mind -overandover andoveragain. And our island Is a venus fly trap Devouring its neighboring flowers Until there's no distinction between The sweetness of rotting And the living which is a thing we call ours.
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May 15, 2017
May 15, 2017 at 2:38 AM UTC
The pendulum, the yo-yo, the hypnotist, the hatchlings.
You hanged yourself from a palm on a desert island. Starved for weeks. Catching flies in the cave that hung open in your mouth. Swaying on the wind until it was worn too thin and died. And you see a series of the most beautiful sunrises. Which you paint in my sleep every night after you've crept through my skull and come visit me. Telling me all that you know of the habits of flies While the new ones Those kids Dance around my breathing nose To settle and sleep on my gums.- All waiting to hatch to get a glimpse of that sunrise Of which their parents dreamt. A timeless chant The only thing that god can be called And the skin fell off of the shell of their light to make naked a thing that can not be named. Cracking and peeling back their eyes to make way for the divine to come pouring out Drowning a bloated belly thirst Light explodes from every inch of the body- It is the building of Ash, The ripening of the past. Until all that is left is he lthe two pupils falling Like flies giving up on their lives Into a pool of pure psychedelia Dropping as a pearl tastes in the ignorant mouth of a thousand wanting oysters swallowing down the ****** of said god. Who chokes on its own divine light That it can finally die Away from the madness of its mind -overandover andoveragain. And our island Is a venus fly trap Devouring its neighboring flowers Until there's no distinction between The sweetness of rotting And the living which is a thing we call ours.
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May 15, 2017
May 15, 2017 at 2:38 AM UTC
The pendulum, the yo-yo, the hypnotist, the hatchlings.
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May 15, 2017
May 15, 2017 at 2:25 AM UTC
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You hanged yourself from a palm on a desert island Starved for weeks Catching flies in the cave that hung open in your mouth. Swaying in the wind And saw a series of the most beautiful sunrises which you paint in my sleep every night when you come to visit me. Telling me all that you know of the habits of flies while the new ones, those kids, dance around my breathing nose and settle in my gums. All waiting to hatch to get a glimpse of that sunrise their parents dreamt of. -overandover. andoveragain.
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May 12, 2017
May 12, 2017 at 11:56 PM UTC
the pendulum, the yo-yo, the hypnotist, the hatchlings.
It's the way we cut off our heads in trying to lose it, throwing it in the river, but are so consumed with curiosity with what we will become that we find ourselves still stuck at the rivers edge, trying with all our might, to watch where it goes.
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May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 at 10:37 PM UTC
the great chase of losing your mind in trying to find something worth losing.
My mind keeps trying to find my soul. But when its distracted and forgets to look it finds it while absently watching the trees barely uncaringly grow so slow.
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May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 10:24 PM UTC
barnaclebrain