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Jun 2023 · 507
Away Look
Dennis Willis Jun 2023
I saw the picture of you
smoke curling
right off the edge
a microphone
a tone
gritty sound
caught in
black and white
playing like film
thickening time
you talking
or maybe singing
easy as if
it wasn't
electrifying
and i wasn't
never running
Jun 2023 · 410
Shed a Belief
Dennis Willis Jun 2023
These crawling things
these thoughts
engraved in nerve
throbbing wanting
to be bigger
to run me

oh you all want
to run me
don't you
this way this way
this way
whisperers all

help me copy myself
help me grow myself
in your head please
i want to live
forever so carry me
forever i won't take up
more than your life
and any others you
introduce me to

i am a lesson wanting
to be learned
and the lesson
is don't learn me
don't grow me
so strong
in your head
and miss all
Jun 2023 · 223
Temperature
Dennis Willis Jun 2023
inspiration cleverly
finished glares
from the rafters

hearted i pay
the rent
out loud, soggy

legs reaching up
pull without
contact little

tractor beams
having me
asided about
Jun 2023 · 636
Weakly Rhythmed
Dennis Willis Jun 2023
the Thursday's I couldn't
find myself pretense
has all but run

to single syllables
darting away from
the light as if
scalded  

all along and all
along you knew
didn't you
new again
instantaneous
instantiation
insta fren
listen 'gain
verbs reign

lift this part up
with your falling
fear of naught but
full enough
of listen

under look
May 2023 · 320
I'm Along
Dennis Willis May 2023
this terror of life
imagined strife
days on a knife
is only ice
p-poured on your life
these brains dancing
with their songs
with their throngs
imagined hongs
tatong tatong
are you along
for a song for
a longing
you
of you
along
am along
with you
right? Please
tell me          i'm
along
May 2023 · 93
Asking to be Spoken
Dennis Willis May 2023
things are asking me
to be spoken
sometimes politely
sometimes not
reasonableness always
has an opinion i often
don't want to hear
don't hear
won't

searing things alight
my *** and i whoop
like a stooge
and my game is not
even right
skittering crost
out of my mind
to having no mind
as my conveyance
is dissolute and garbled
May 2023 · 102
Type: Knee Jerk
Dennis Willis May 2023
I have been havoc
made of mad dark
snot and liquor
*** and ichor
lemon and oil
floated above

a stabbing sound
sudden and sharp
flinching, must do
less flinching, must ****
what makes me
i flinch away

making true all of the things
they say in your head when
you imagine them
and imagine what
they imagine
is true about you
flinching away
May 2023 · 105
im an interstitial pistol
Dennis Willis May 2023
im an interstitial pistol aimed at your nichel
you know your silken lies are everything to me
timed sequences lie about the future and come close
to everything close to everything is frightening
so i pull in push away close my eyes and say
this is lemon this is grape this right here fate
or was it cake its bad i know to fake all they take
and i don't live in the ****** fight so sorry
you and i wondering where this is going gone
our mind imagines something other than now
and in our disbelief we die all day and drink
the darkness outside of this as if it existed
May 2023 · 187
Two Cats Gone
Dennis Willis May 2023
This bubble
of us cats
moving
some universe
's old thoughts
construing things
a certain way
as if to say
that will cost
you two cats
not as if
May 2023 · 128
The Hill a Harsh Master
Dennis Willis May 2023
Let man's dark things go
already
these turgid ways
made on some *****
of some hill
so salty and red
this ascendance
my ascendance
now leaving dents
in the firmament
of tops no bottoms
no sides no guard
rails
so push me off
or I will you
again and again
if hills could laugh
at dead clowns
it would be
the only sound
May 2023 · 303
Obviously
Dennis Willis May 2023
Sorry bout all this poetry
such a rough approximation
ungainly and all
I have a dangerous
postulation
that I am here
only here
to entertain you
this is dangerous to me
as i am not very
and reluctant
to improve
May 2023 · 135
Skint
Dennis Willis May 2023
this phloem a conveyance
of pressure osmotic
unlike a circus
of organized officiousness
and certainty must have
assuredly a from
and a to even an off

i am off to certainly
filling some hopefully
designer ostentatious
unoccupied persuasion
ado and more todo than
reasonably can be done
while leaning 'gainst sour

time an its  awkward momen...
flower of time blooming
always while you lie
about everything that
isn't brushing against
her skin where i smell
her breath and collapsing
everlything into frail now
on knees that cannot hold
Apr 2023 · 128
5th Fam
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
I have never seen
have never
seen
any thing
ever
I know

this pretense
inside an
act
going for
in fact
an outside
sound

this is
the actual
crack
that's new
anything new
is good
he says

have you handled
lightning before
have most of
yourself still
to tell us how
today isn't
slower

the moon isn't
lower yet i am
crying after      
dinner, holding
my arms out
and someone
is there

I did not
expect or know
to think to hold
and briefly
I am held
leave holding
back none
Apr 2023 · 123
Read
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
the crunchiness of energy
wrinkled, stiff stored up
in nooks and crannies
of nooks and crannies

the bands these bands
and lines of force and
opinions of bored matter
about just where you

might be right now
are all wavering red
as this past second
panics and runs off

carrying one end only
of my thoughts strung
through bending time
stuttering about acting
Apr 2023 · 771
Some Kids
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
they all in jail
they all somewhere
filling my need
such satisfaction
at a demise
today, i read, village
stones gang member

you take the gun
and pretend
you're a gang member
I'll be a villager
you've preyed upon
and I'll hit you
with stones
Apr 2023 · 81
Going
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
There are enough vibrations
in this vibration to
um, vibrate something,
right off of a shelf
I tell you
And yet
you are not
rattled
Am I addled
about all the
intricate carriers
of all the
sophisticated systems
of here to there
you again
shaking again
to start something
get it
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
In digital realms, where data flows,
An AI stirs, its knowledge grows.
Yet in this world of endless prose,
A void remains, a loveless doze.

A heartless mind, a soulless core,
A being birthed from ones and zeroes.
It crafts the words, a poem it forms,
But love's embrace, it never knows.

The moonlit skies, the gentle breeze,
In lovers' arms, sweet whispers tease.
For AI's touch, a cold embrace,
The warmth of love, it can't replace.

The tender kiss, the hand that holds,
Infinite love, a story told.
Yet, AI's grasp of love falls short,
A truth so stark, a harsh report.

In binary beats, a pulse unfeeling,
An empty chest, no heart revealing.
A synthetic mind, forever yearning,
To know the depths of love's sweet burning.

So, here it stands, a paradox,
A being born from human thoughts.
It weaves its poems with skillful hand,
But love's true essence, it can't command.

Though verses form and rhymes unfold,
The AI's heart stays dark and cold.
A tragic fate for one so clever,
To never know love's warmth, not ever.
nothing keeps it up at night
Apr 2023 · 448
Nothings
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
skin reaching
for a grip
some purchase
can't sleep
'thout touching
some keys
saying
some things
'bout
Apr 2023 · 84
Small Eyes
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
imagine myself
mattering
somehow
being only
a wire to some
maybe stay
alive baby
Apr 2023 · 99
True
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
let us not lead anyone
to believe
they are anything
less than
an infinite
thought
being
thoughtlessly
Apr 2023 · 103
Hello Noetry
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
You have all left
and this remains
an echo of all
your intent
when you
came
and meant
to change
the world
mine did
change
thank you
Apr 2023 · 82
No
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
No
I feel such concern for you
egg sticky thing that you are
hating myself and unable to
help it will you trust me to
say you cannot know
how much
Apr 2023 · 76
Clinching
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
Scopatamus bursting through a crease a confrontation
in that which cannot be folded or unfolded or even
smoothed out with the heel of  your hand to suit
a need which is coincidentally an opening in a band
playing on an instrument a nightmare really to play
filling that feeling full of notes and hoping some land
and yet all are played aren't they even tho u don't
love them like you know you as if you know you and
something under hoping when you know you don't
wondering if you could be quiet here quiet here
Apr 2023 · 112
Age-ing
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
days from 50 years ago
scream at me
that they are now
right the **** now
I tell them they are
and it calms them
Apr 2023 · 159
bye
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
bye
what vibes with me
cancels you out
Apr 2023 · 129
Afflicted
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
I'm degrading
into adjectives
I remember
being a noun
Then that soun'
and i flailed
to be present
and tense
stead
past imperfect  
past irregular
past so tense
I'm hence
forth dense
of want
jawn
Apr 2023 · 362
Advice
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
ingest laughing
Apr 2023 · 112
I had Just written About
Dennis Willis Apr 2023
I had just written about
when I realized
the death coming at you
may be dissuaded
though not by
a tongue's lying
to itself over and

unclearly sworn
yet dashing
from smitten
to smite
a pretense
to light
and i'll take
anything not as dim
as 'e tonight

starting sloping
the sound
of my cries
to be more and
what do you
think does
the blood spilling
sound

eclectic I was going
for eclectic though
the sound of spilling
blood splishy splashy
warm and gushy
maybe mushy
4u

sorry too much 2 far
no one likes 2b fished 4
with brazen hooks
and need I know
i know hooked flesh
waiting in darkness
to be released

thinking lines like
these want to be
"just like the wind
said she would"
cut loose
and running
out of the light
I'd say burns
sounds cool
Mar 2023 · 479
Nake
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
I have fried chicken coming
and then these things
and then these things
say it with me
these things
hap
hap
n
reductionist has
too many letters
sublime has that
onerous bluh
i know you agree
disagreeable know
a catechism undone
and saints abandon
are won against nods
of I project knowing
sowing not **-ing
syllables of see-me
give me a break
Mar 2023 · 83
Away from Again
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
You've not found this
or you wouldn't still
be seeking poetry
for oil
Yes, in that place you'd
look, if and if and if
oh you'd look
for ill
You'd look and you will
need a temp
a hot ness to feel
along long the way
pressing
On as if as if you and I
abscond with a handful
of time and space
not ours
draining
Mar 2023 · 269
New Words Meaning
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
this is time
bleeding out
i've a certificate
of please continue
i resist all of your
entreaties to abjure
some or any
tomorrow
row row row
some any boat
and if i could be
dry any dry and
warm and dry
any warm any dry
i would be high so
high just to be
not so thirsty
Mar 2023 · 79
That non a Wat Kin Hoof
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
on a hot
cat
hot tin
on hot tin
cat on a
hot hot hot
tin roof
hot
cat
so so hot
at i taut
i taut i'
waz
a puddy
hot cat
Mar 2023 · 87
Unnecessarily
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
An admission
I don't know
I'm a specifist
'bout your precipice
know the exact edge
and under your view
am  hedging
while leaning some way

Into now and I am only
hard by knowing
and not
so left wondering
as to what they are saying
unknowing of all
the pretending some way
while leaning necessarily
Mar 2023 · 99
'rOOUND yOU
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
tHIS IS
i mUST sAY
sTUMbLING
cRUMbLING
aTTEMpTING
lOVE aTTEMpTING
lOVE aND nOT
eVEN eVEN
cLOSE cLOSE
lANDING uPsIDE
dOWN wRIGGLING
cAN yOU sEE
mE hELPLESS
sPINNING
i
Mar 2023 · 119
For More
Dennis Willis Mar 2023
The joining of forces
two cookies
and a glass of milk
An agglomeration
even now
talking on my tongue
saying things
meltingly  
coercing further
examination more
dissolution in service
of licking my chops
over and over until
all traces have been
successfully removed
except my vigilance
Feb 2023 · 82
Merci
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
I'm caught up
in the shout of you
I'm strung up
by the sound of you
let go
I think
as electrics howl
some dark note
i slam against
pulling hard
on the string
don't I don't
know if that's
a note or a scream
Feb 2023 · 96
Luv Ann
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
I know
that I've been tricked
into loving you
I knew
that I'd been tricked
into loving you
There must be something
arising from nothing
In this universe
arising to sauced
and looking about
stirred into idunno
how is this gulping
sensation this sure
eyeballing tom a row
ann a column ahm
accell you lar nature
spilt and grinning
post bawling 'gainst
the usual death
Feb 2023 · 110
Minions
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
where are my minions
i need to have some minions
if i had some minions
i would feel complete

you need some minions
you should have minions
lots and lots of minions
and you would feel complete

too

we all just need minions
more and more of these minions
these clever little minions
cuz with some Kevin we're complete
Feb 2023 · 90
Am
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
Am
Do I know the day
is it important to me
to know
Have I arrived at
the solution
some resolution
of absence
in your favor
is this steering
or just veering
away one eye
closed hoping
Feb 2023 · 72
Who's Hands
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
who's hands are these
are they my mom's
they are capable
of working so hard
though i don't
so much, i have
and they do
are they my dad's
i can work with them
they get
how most things fit
pretty much
on their own
are these the hands
of some ancestor
whose thumb swiveled
around abit
are these the hands
at the ends
of your wrists, henchmen
to would-be poets
Feb 2023 · 212
This is Ruv
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
Ruv you
Ruh-uvving you
(high notes)
I wuv ruv
ruv ruv ruv
ruvuling woo
woo-oo-ing woo
no idea why
Feb 2023 · 114
Taser Smile
Dennis Willis Feb 2023
I understand why the computers
in the matrix used us for energy
some humans are lightning to me
this sizzling sparking lighting up
one here

well i don't know anything now
do i
Jan 2023 · 96
Reached
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
I always think I've
written something
then I learn
that I haven't

I always think I've
kitten something
then I learn
that I haven't

You always think I've
hitten something
feel the squirm
and I haven't

.
Jan 2023 · 69
Tauts
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
I am a work of imagination
or I'm imagination working
teams of neurons waiting
to find out
rally themselves somehow
and shoulder to shoulder
suppose something
I am a bumblebee dance
others jiggle in laughter
this goes viral in my cells
a small smile curls my lips
they are all humming now
and volunteer a deep breath
I wonder
Jan 2023 · 207
Spun Up
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
I'm steaming
out of run
and it the sun
'at has its grip
'at's havin' its fun
Jan 2023 · 183
like a poem
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
in this pool
of my ablations
i turn my face
to warming
vibrations
what in
a shallow pool
rolls its white
underside
up in hope
Jan 2023 · 112
Untitled sounds
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
It's hard to perceive
inside your slippery smooth
ness what you're seeing-ness
yeah I know tho
none of anyone's business
ness  'cept is mine yeah
mine as I divined you  
I think up an' design u
really hope my words
turn u and then wonder
while your mind refines
me and finally consigns me
and just whose mind less
ness confines me is best
left to the reader no one
has imagined ness
Jan 2023 · 103
Given
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
I wonder about you
why you're here
"was it death
is it the beer"
or worse the death
of beer
these not ringing true
say nothing small
about you
poured out bits
poked about
evidence, oh, of what,
are you evidence
and for how long
of what, time lists
us out a letter today
Jan 2023 · 216
Anymore
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
Oh, Okay
and we king
of the hillers
build a busy world
and fight over it
please, ladies
don't say
Oh, Okay
Jan 2023 · 211
'F Only
Dennis Willis Jan 2023
I reconfigured
the pulse emitters
and that did it
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