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Is this and that’s all there is before the thought becomes fleeting like the next and the day after, the clichéd story your mind perhaps upon this future mystery of a happening you've already started remembering Is this all we have to look for forward to wondering if this brain cell’s thought creative nerd to put forth on the edge on the confrontational abyss of a blank page is enough thorough fair and still contradictory enough to ride the grind of someone else’s nerve We wonder Is this all there is because we could have sworn there was more than this to offer and accept and worship and appreciate and cherish and love and adorn with tiny boxes of truth on every branch of something or someone but we watch and wonder Is this what I was ever trying to say It just wound round into this something of something spilt on the page A little dialogue of soul tribes trying to call a little bit of themselves home. I want to physically ****** my life I want to take my life out with a ****** I want to tear it apart with my teeth, gnaw at it with forgiveness blood on my cheekbones I want to hold it between my fangs and sniff at it with my liver I want to grapple it perfect, and inhale the bitter bite of its wild corpsey stench And then, I want to nurse it’s beauty and unwholelyness. There is more. There has to be more. More than when you haven’t finished your question and the answer is I haven’t even finished my beer yet you wonder what was the question that you heard You want to hike through golden gate park and do some shrooms? Have you ever climbed monkey bars at midnight? Why are giraffes so tall? And it all shovel pours into the question Is there some flux capacitor continuum where time is enough where time for me isn't separate where time for me is always enough?
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Dec 31, 2012
Dec 31, 2012 at 1:56 AM UTC
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Is this and that’s all there is before the thought becomes fleeting like the next and the day after, the clichéd story your mind perhaps upon this future mystery of a happening you've already started remembering Is this all we have to look for forward to wondering if this brain cell’s thought creative nerd to put forth on the edge on the confrontational abyss of a blank page is enough thorough fair and still contradictory enough to ride the grind of someone else’s nerve We wonder Is this all there is because we could have sworn there was more than this to offer and accept and worship and appreciate and cherish and love and adorn with tiny boxes of truth on every branch of something or someone but we watch and wonder Is this what I was ever trying to say It just wound round into this something of something spilt on the page A little dialogue of soul tribes trying to call a little bit of themselves home. I want to physically ****** my life I want to take my life out with a ****** I want to tear it apart with my teeth, gnaw at it with forgiveness blood on my cheekbones I want to hold it between my fangs and sniff at it with my liver I want to grapple it perfect, and inhale the bitter bite of its wild corpsey stench And then, I want to nurse it’s beauty and unwholelyness. There is more. There has to be more. More than when you haven’t finished your question and the answer is I haven’t even finished my beer yet you wonder what was the question that you heard You want to hike through golden gate park and do some shrooms? Have you ever climbed monkey bars at midnight? Why are giraffes so tall? And it all shovel pours into the question Is there some flux capacitor continuum where time is enough where time for me isn't separate where time for me is always enough?
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Is this and that’s all there is before the thought becomes fleeting like the next and the day after, the clichéd story your mind perhaps upon this future mystery of a happening you've already started remembering Is this all we have to look for forward to wondering if this brain cell’s thought creative nerd to put forth on the edge on the confrontational abyss of a blank page is enough thorough fair and still contradictory enough to ride the grind of someone else’s nerve We wonder Is this all there is because we could have sworn there was more than this to offer and accept and worship and appreciate and cherish and love and adorn with tiny boxes of truth on every branch of something or someone but we watch and wonder Is this what I was ever trying to say It just wound round into this something of something spilt on the page A little dialogue of soul tribes trying to call a little bit of themselves home. I want to physically ****** my life I want to take my life out with a ****** I want to tear it apart with my teeth, gnaw at it with forgiveness blood on my cheekbones I want to hold it between my fangs and sniff at it with my liver I want to grapple it perfect, and inhale the bitter bite of its wild corpsey stench And then, I want to nurse it’s beauty and unwholelyness. There is more. There has to be more. More than when you haven’t finished your question and the answer is I haven’t even finished my beer yet you wonder what was the question that you heard You want to hike through golden gate park and do some shrooms? Have you ever climbed monkey bars at midnight? Why are giraffes so tall? Why is my internet connection so slow when is seems I need it most? And it all shovel pours into the question Is there some flux capacitor continuum where time is enough where time for me isn't separate where time for me is always enough?
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Dec 31, 2012
Dec 31, 2012 at 1:54 AM UTC
Is this
Is this and that’s all there is before the thought becomes fleeting like the next and the day after, the clichéd story your mind perhaps upon this future mystery of a happening you've already started remembering Is this all we have to look for forward to wondering if this brain cell’s thought creative nerd to put forth on the edge on the confrontational abyss of a blank page is enough thorough fair and still contradictory enough to ride the grind of someone else’s nerve We wonder Is this all there is because we could have sworn there was more than this to offer and accept and worship and appreciate and cherish and love and adorn with tiny boxes of truth on every branch of something or someone but we watch and wonder Is this what I was ever trying to say It just wound round into this something of something spilt on the page A little dialogue of soul tribes trying to call a little bit of themselves home. I want to physically ****** my life I want to take my life out with a ****** I want to tear it apart with my teeth, gnaw at it with forgiveness blood on my cheekbones I want to hold it between my fangs and sniff at it with my liver I want to grapple it perfect, and inhale the bitter bite of its wild corpsey stench And then, I want to nurse it’s beauty and unwholelyness. There is more. There has to be more. More than when you haven’t finished your question and the answer is I haven’t even finished my beer yet you wonder what was the question that you heard You want to hike through golden gate park and do some shrooms? Have you ever climbed monkey bars at midnight? Why are giraffes so tall? Why is my internet connection so slow when is seems I need it most? And it all shovel pours into the question Is there some flux capacitor continuum where time is enough where time for me isn't separate where time for me is always enough?
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It only took three days for me to think I'd finally found someone perfect and I begged you for your flaws you discombobulated my love flux capacitor penetrated my apathy and climbed my spine with your diction you made my heart want again you made my heart think all the time I'd wasted wanting to find my match my someone were the final yards to a destitute race but then you called it quits while I made foolish plans left me to wallow in a murky shower of self deprecation and wonder who gets to love you and why she's not me
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Jan 3, 2012
Jan 3, 2012 at 3:31 AM UTC
**** a love poem
She tripped on it rambling through the forgotten field. The grimy thing sat amidst a pile of rotten junk, The ***** halo. She wiped it on her sleeve, drab and hanging loose on cold bones like a mossy fern after Winter’s damnation. Spinning the halo on a fingernail, an eclipsed moon. Clouds pinched at each other grey, like the saggy suit of a man with a furrowed brow, a bleak prayer on his heart culminating into a trinity of holy mystery. The faded halo now forgotten, kicked and bent like the neck of a sinner who’s bowed head could never steep far enough, deep enough down to reach the pit of forgiveness.
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Jan 3, 2012
Jan 3, 2012 at 3:21 AM UTC
***** Halo
This is not about you. This is not about the transmutation of your jail celled mind wrapped in self-help and cellophane. This is not about your new found discovery discovering me and my afflictions according to the white man’s diction a dictation of my past extracted and examined under the microscopic power of time. This is not about your self-defined enlightenment when you made a deal to unearth the truth of HeLa coated in dust covered particles of HeLa on your nightstand and I laid in a grave unmarked. This is not about my big lips and thick hips under ***** covers running a sweat fever on my thighs shaking feet in stirrups and the pain was rich after a tight pinch and I didn’t know what part of me had been snipped to grow cold and never die. No, this is not about you. This is about me. A historic legacy left to thrive across the time less chains of nucleic tidal waves Covalent bonds could never rival the strides of this soul miles beyond the distant COLORED ENTRANCE something brewing inside dividing inexplicable replication, readying for harvest behind a dried tobacco field
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Jan 3, 2012
Jan 3, 2012 at 3:21 AM UTC
Ready for Harvest (in memory of Henrietta Lacks)
He’s not a real doctor. I thought you should know. But you’ve probably figured that out. The whole idea seemed rather silly to me But he urged, just hear me out! First, was the cat Always pawing and scratching Making a mess of the house And what’s even worse Is that cat in his hat Not once tried to catch a mouse! Red Fish and Blue they are here too But kept in a separate bowl I’m not sure why, I don’t care to ask The answer not worth the trouble Books stacked high, a rainbow of knowledge tottering towards the sky. As I cook, and I clean One Fish and Two jump up, trying to fly. “The books, the books,” he shouts in a flurry As I rush to steady the stack With him for my husband I’m never quite sure just what will happen next! You should’ve been around last Christmas time Don’t worry, not a thing is missing That green furry thing is quite old in his age and came by the doc’s inviting They sat around talking who’s who in the world over a cup of tea but what the doc wanted was the mean thing as the star in his new movie Then there was Horton A big surprise, he found on one of his trips He wasn’t so bad, it was just his size That caused the disturbance But don’t pity me I married the man And oh the places we went. Just for the record, When Sam made us brunch, It made my stomach quite sick. The day we met I knew he was special Doodling all the time “Those really are quite good” I mentioned to him After that, he made me his wife He told me one day what he wanted to do write for kids across the globe I stood by his side and what can I say he’s done a really great job!
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May 8, 2010
May 8, 2010 at 12:19 AM UTC
Mrs.S
He’s not a real doctor. I thought you should know. But you’ve probably figured that out. The whole idea seemed rather silly to me But he urged, just hear me out! First, was the cat Always pawing and scratching Making a mess of the house And what’s even worse Is that cat in his hat Not once tried to catch a mouse! Red Fish and Blue they are here too But kept in a separate bowl I’m not sure why, I don’t care to ask The answer not worth the trouble Books stacked high, a rainbow of knowledge tottering towards the sky. As I cook, and I clean One Fish and Two jump up, trying to fly. “The books, the books,” he shouts in a flurry As I rush to steady the stack With him for my husband I’m never quite sure just what will happen next! You should’ve been around last Christmas time Don’t worry, not a thing is missing That green furry thing is quite old in his age and came by the doc’s inviting They sat around talking who’s who in the world over a cup of tea but what the doc wanted was the mean thing as the star in his new movie Then there was Horton A big surprise, he found on one of his trips He wasn’t so bad, it was just his size That caused the disturbance But don’t pity me I married the man And oh the places we went. Just for the record, When Sam made us brunch, It made my stomach quite sick. The day we met I knew he was special Doodling all the time “Those really are quite good” I mentioned to him After that, he made me his wife He told me one day what he wanted to do write for kids across the globe I stood by his side and what can I say he’s done a really great job!
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Heels and a thin coat. Scissors cut like wind. 4 minutes. Arriving. Hidden in the shadows of a ***** bus driver and disbelief. A squeal of pressure is my savior, Four minutes later.
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May 8, 2010
May 8, 2010 at 12:16 AM UTC
major MUNI changes
my tongue unfurls to the dry desert of my mouth like a snake writhing in a dark cave, unwinding slow luring me from the abyss that is my subconscious unconscious escaping into the night. Shades hide the shining forehead of the sun as the earth rotates birthing a new day stealing the night away. The dream fades along with the shiny flickers on the backs of my eyelids and I reach out to the empty space next to me, a breathy fear arises due to your absence my palm flattens the warm gap you’ve left. I turn away from the window from the new day from the hole you’ve created shattering my complete comfort, when I see your shadow emerge in the cracked light of the doorway. You come closer holding a glass a slosh whispers as you place it in my hand my fingertips, your knuckles brush. I close my eyes, and put the brim to my lips the snake writhes in anticipation. I roll the edge along my bottom lip before tipping it back letting the water fall and slide down the valley of my throat and hills that form my esophagus surfing down like silk sliding off fingertips. The water coats my throat until it is wet with satisfaction My tongue dances in the circumference of the empty glass. My eyes open and your shadow has evaporated, next to me your warmth delivers a shiver, my thirst quenched a new day drips closer.
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Mar 5, 2010
Mar 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM UTC
Parched (an aubade)