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swanswart
swanswart
Desert dweller, urban refugee, Prufrocknroll daring to be on the fringe of society. I’m an educated poet who paints most of the time. Ambivalent, quixotic, and a Gen-X rated slacker driven to create.
Gatorade at the pinball machine a moderate allergy to most things prompts the mouse to stay indoors / the alive, the low, the excuse *I am a Sagittarius and I flirt with everybody* but U listing in the centermost rhombus of my woozy kaleidoscope are the kind of creature women write spells about and then grow gardens 4 / don't bring those outlaws here, to my Fabergé spacecraft. just yourself, and that...! my crown of moldy leaf
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Aug 17, 2016
Aug 17, 2016 at 10:00 AM UTC
What's your name?
Swallow and go. Something I can do, like pace myself or ********** You ask me what I write about. I say famous people, and discrepancies. Simulate applying mascara. Stainless steel reflections play tennis better than I ever could. [Yesterday] I read something that intibated me, preformed a lobotomy without a drill. I had a dream that I forgot my work shirt at a friends house and ran through downtown bare chested to see it serve as a shroud for the most recent saginaw st ****** At the bottom of a heartbeat you explain the grandfather paradox to me. Why wouldn't I go back and shoot the man who ***** my mother? I could have been a time capsule; could have been a light saber, could have been a different poet who wears a lot of tank tops but calls them camisoles. Late at night my boyfriend is more treasure chest than in the afternoon, his drunk, swollen face hooked and dark like his indian mothers. I tell him I am unfaithful every day at three, in the afternoon when he visits the crows nest to regurgitate tequila and recyclable fibers. I wear camisoles that I call tank tops; let some neighbor feel me up over a periwinkle floral pattern when I was trying to change my life. We then shared an avocado sandwich and peddled the fattest grams on the east side.
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Aug 17, 2016
Aug 17, 2016 at 1:28 AM UTC
Untitled
...... In this edge of the end Where simplicity flows Through the straight river The upstream songs As the ****** sunshine of Lost spring There today, Exhausted Myna drying feathers In the wet air Sitting on the shade of the window Steadfast attention on the distant horizon Slothful day in a comfort bed With a cup of tea A longed cigarette, Romanticism become struck Outside the open window Inside out Light clouds of August As if the "will" cradling to and fro Dropping the ageless poetry Filled with the words of dance Rain comes down on the unleash field Essence of mystic tunes flowing From the tearful trots of rains Moving, Flooding The both sides of the river .............. @Musfiq us shaleheen
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Aug 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 at 3:43 AM UTC
Cradle of Clouds
All of his letters ended in goodbye instead of to be continued someday we're all going to die my brother, he would say now he's got me saying the same words like the moon and darkness that only we could hear he'd listen to the blues and sip whiskey until morning, then wake me from my sleep, tell me to go out and cut the weeds growing up around the stone angels in the field.
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 4:52 PM UTC
Words that only we could hear
I’ve sewn together a thousand moments of nothing (butifandorthis) Outis of sorts and                              ends                      depressed          enough to make your head swim          your wrist spit          to drown in your own thinking grasp breath drench and saturate obsequious regurgitation prolix asphyxiation words worlds whirled LOGOS spew forth and I choke on what I can never get out the emptiness                within                                                    a                                                    few                                            secondsleftoverstepsout     line                                             of                                                curfews ensue more or less and less is more of the same (few cures for futures)                                                   of late a puddle reflecting and shallow sole-stomped-n-splattered I          Can not help but mis   s      the piece( is ) of me that mattered less than the least of my worries and the old black boot             with  a                hole                                                  the one that is always waiting to.                                                                                                           .                                                                                                           .                                                                                                            drop.                                                                                                                                                                                                               I Am                                                                           still                                                                      here                                                  hoping                               inre               verse                          It all fits                                               the tailor-made addendum but it doesn't                                      the sedentary splendor change                                                 the worn out agenda of yet another loop of the clock fomenting a grand sutuREDness rending a torque of tendencies to ward off the subversive inertia of idle thoughts—cum—wishes the edges of that cloud grapple with dissolution and the shaping of my                                          own                                                 periphery                                            sic         [i]magination                                                                                   The interior storm has come and gone replaced by a wretchedly anxious calm I then wonder if these tempests are what is… or just a fallway of mirrors I pass through in a tumble down some hole feeling it’s too late to know if I will ever be whole Alas, another looking glass I have been cut up too to see the half emptiness of ours in the hour glass timetumbling down the singularity of How are we? Relatively bleeding Speaking of self shred- ding dingbats-in-the-belfry A  f  r  a  y e d  address of questioning covered with s-t-i-t-c-h-e-s in this                                               fourth                                        dimension saves what? 9 lives? No rhyme--no reasoning with me                                  …I guess my wounds are dressed but only it will tell                                                                                           (What is real?)                                  (so obviously rhetorical) it marches on and it can’t be stopped but it’s of the essence and they say it will heal All wounds and I say when and how and isn’t now all I have to be? wound up again I see... And then be left to the present tense out of it, Up against it. Who the **** knows? said the Emperor I (in third person disguise) Wearing nothing (He supposes) Nothing But being                   but... The scars Uncovered for the seeing Being what scars are Are they something... Symbolic?  Systemic? Sympathetic? That makes seeing is believing Real for me, Or, for us all? Is Being Beingness Or is it Meaningless in a...life… S P A                                             Not evolving as fast           As semiotics                       Or sentient Robotics For the rest Of us To be Sure that we are Individual Beings at all? What? Time’s up?                          At least for the                                               Time being…                                                                      Nothing to worry about...
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 4:24 PM UTC
Nothing and Beingness
I’ve sewn together a thousand moments of nothing (butifandorthis) Outis of sorts and                              ends                      depressed          enough to make your head swim          your wrist spit          to drown in your own thinking grasp breath drench and saturate obsequious regurgitation prolix asphyxiation words worlds whirled LOGOS spew forth and I choke on what I can never get out the emptiness                within                                                    a                                                    few                                            secondsleftoverstepsout     line                                             of                                                curfews ensue more or less and less is more of the same (few cures for futures)                                                   of late a puddle reflecting and shallow sole-stomped-n-splattered I          Can not help but mis   s      the piece( is ) of me that mattered less than the least of my worries and the old black boot             with  a                hole                                                  the one that is always waiting to.                                                                                                           .                                                                                                           .                                                                                                            drop.                                                                                                                                                                                                               I Am                                                                           still                                                                      here                                                  hoping                               inre               verse                          It all fits                                               the tailor-made addendum but it doesn't                                      the sedentary splendor change                                                 the worn out agenda of yet another loop of the clock fomenting a grand sutuREDness rending a torque of tendencies to ward off the subversive inertia of idle thoughts—cum—wishes the edges of that cloud grapple with dissolution and the shaping of my                                          own                                                 periphery                                            sic         [i]magination                                                                                   The interior storm has come and gone replaced by a wretchedly anxious calm I then wonder if these tempests are what is… or just a fallway of mirrors I pass through in a tumble down some hole feeling it’s too late to know if I will ever be whole Alas, another looking glass I have been cut up too to see the half emptiness of ours in the hour glass timetumbling down the singularity of How are we? Relatively bleeding Speaking of self shred- ding dingbats-in-the-belfry A  f  r  a  y e d  address of questioning covered with s-t-i-t-c-h-e-s in this                                               fourth                                        dimension saves what? 9 lives? No rhyme--no reasoning with me                                  …I guess my wounds are dressed but only it will tell                                                                                           (What is real?)                                  (so obviously rhetorical) it marches on and it can’t be stopped but it’s of the essence and they say it will heal All wounds and I say when and how and isn’t now all I have to be? wound up again I see... And then be left to the present tense out of it, Up against it. Who the **** knows? said the Emperor I (in third person disguise) Wearing nothing (He supposes) Nothing But being                   but... The scars Uncovered for the seeing Being what scars are Are they something... Symbolic?  Systemic? Sympathetic? That makes seeing is believing Real for me, Or, for us all? Is Being Beingness Or is it Meaningless in a...life… S P A                                             Not evolving as fast           As semiotics                       Or sentient Robotics For the rest Of us To be Sure that we are Individual Beings at all? What? Time’s up?                          At least for the                                               Time being…                                                                      Nothing to worry about...
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In a city In a room With no thing Save a rescued Chair There’s A windowpane view Without reflection To the streets Below Sits A man without Purpose With Determination Broken By A Notion You see He thought himself Conspicuously unusable Sentenced To Be Some detached observer Surfeited with suffering Posing What Could be Apart From the pain
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 12:21 PM UTC
In a City
this whole human race is crazy I walk upon a ground that craves me no one ever said that this world would please you and no one sees you it really isn't hard to please me but the beginning or the end ain't easy just a due to be paid to the ground that craves you and no one saves you
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 12:18 PM UTC
no one saves you
I spend my time thinking but all it brings is drinking even with my eyes unblinking I don't have an inkling I spend my time creating the gates of my debating hating my own procrastinating it's only time I'm wasting I spend my time drinking but all it brings is thinking when my mentality is shrinking I don't have an inkling
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 12:11 PM UTC
inkling
I'm not quite sure when the dark thought first came to me; it crept up softly and quietly, like a black cat in the garden of night; like a light through a crack in a door opening slowly and too soon; or perhaps a drowning man in the deep waving back at the moon; too far over his head.
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 11:41 AM UTC
Like a crack in the night