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

Landing it
is more universe
sounding from your
strike

When a day gongs

to your effort
alone or one of
a wave you've
put your shoulder

Ring the bell
that oscillates existence
swing you hardening
resonation

Crescend up the beach
of night's tunings
reach the bar
be one with me

Someone let night
Out of the bag
It wasn't I

Someone let slippery Darkness
Reign o'er the day
It wasn't I

Someone let today get ahead
of you
It wasn't I

Someone
Not I

we've errored
in jungles
best forgotten
that distance
do not quiet
these found songs
still talking
while you
keep squawking
and I don't know
what is aloud

I am involved in the
deconstruction

I am pulling lines
snags are breaking

do you now flop
on a warm beach

regret or enjoy
the warm sand

I'm steaming
out of run
and it the sun
'at has its grip
'at's havin' its fun

You effin *******
what the f are you going on about?

Your latest heartbreak?
Eat it up.
Eat it the **** up.
Really.  It is delicious.

Your horror at the world's indifference to
(fill in the ******' blank)
Eat that too
******' humans

you are always right
they are always wrong
you win
they die

they win
you die
more
get made

them *******
effin *******
are going to die
too

we all will

and then we'll be replaced
by about 9 billion

***** ******'
*******
poeting about mostly
the same *******

my heart is broken
I'll cut myself
I'm a misfit
**** me

*******
you lazy poet
you're the *****
of unfuck

this world already
******* in heat
between these lines
****

and there you have it
sports fans
the game
is afoot

lines out of time
still resonate
******' nevermore
sings in my head

and you
read this
and wonder
if I'm a poet

I wonder
what your little ego
needs here
a heart?

**** me
can
i have one?
please.

Pretty please
with sugar on top
it is all i need
to sleep tonight.


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You wrote me in
to your conversation
I wrote you in
to my conversation
Here is what you
had to say

I didn't say that

I've written
you differently
this time

More convenient
No longer irascible

Now what you say
Hearable

This audience blinks and thinks
about hear-a-ability
and vanishes

Exclusivity dies here
in today's
more informed
hearts

I am enuf
to belong to
me an my
doing me

Want arises
from unconsciousness
Sees things
are good

Sets about
getting more
as belonging
is no longer a question

And Less
A Lever
As it
Moves inward

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Murky almost
poetry
spurks from
my mind
I am inclined
to not mind
as I accrete
skid marks
in sticky time

of an unhurried look
held softly steady

stirs even swirls
the room like a drink

I am spinning
I am circling

orbiting on a tether
to your smile

Lost, bobbing
along in delight

When you laugh
at your power

Yes
You still can

Rock a room

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I'm aching
To make sense
This binge-ing
on now here
Day after day
Oxygen fueled
Cooked atp 'n me
I'm just spent
not even sure
wisely matters
as life wins
from every
direction
Not saying
I lose
Sayin' life
Makes relentless
look weak

I've my socks half off
the way you hate

And i know
it's too late

I've just encountered
a ufo

unforgettable
female ohmy

that's a thing
i decided

i just can't say
your name

nothing fits your
angles and lines

except ****
goodbye

All of these days
under some cloud
I create unless
i don't
on some days

rain is a fixture
a saturating often
reign o'er even breath
do you now try
to breathe

the manliness is over
in this millennium
of women
i say i say
king of the hill
pathetic
and my ache
smallish
yet i
this beast
smell good
have money
excite
once again
take flight

(heat check)

Now I feel
happy

Bears repeating


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I am oscillating in a wrestling match over
an infuriating soup of potentials
I'd be a wave but I'm particular
We'd know if you'd look
that hardening down and away

The universe needs to be seen
to be

So I close my eyes
belligerent
disappear!

What are you watching for
what do you hope to catch
and respond to
Here?

The poetic sentence
The Searchers sentence
Not the Finders
Not the fulfilled

They aren't here
tortured
By whatever feels your need
to be tortured

Set points are careless
Of you and me
And the other broken hearted
Suicidal
Gender confused
Aging out
Numb in the middle
******* ******* who bought into the paradigm
Made up by confused primates
Who demand an explanation
For wetness
For gladness

And I smile
P a little more on tomorrow
Slink towards my demise
Primp for your eyes

Another line
Not a final
line

Not yet time
You delightful swine


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He shot him!
When did he shoot him?

He shot him
All the time

He's still
Shooting him

He was
Shooting him

And he will be
Shooting him

Shoot shoot shooting him
Is fun

He's thinking
About it

Somehow hears Peter Gabriel
singing it

Bang
you shot me down

Cher
takes the mic

Is your head
like this?

Oliver
doing the twist?


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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

I need
Better poetry

So I asked
The doctor

He said
Bend over

Hmmmm
He said

Thougtfully
I think I see

The source
Of your problem


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Thinking creates
physical possibility
Awareness finds
ready-to-be way
tho not like me
to take it

What does that mean
I ask someone other
than me inside my head
they respond quickly
inquiring as to my
need to know

I need to know  her number
her skin
her dimples
let's not dance around this
I need to know
her as a human

Is a giant
FU

to someone
just don't know

who in general
in specific

it's you
you you you

you

i am frozen
in lone

line after line
no time

is lost among these
trees

of separateness
these branches

time winds
up hanging

you and I
am something

aware of what
transpires 'tween breaths

no matter
no matter are we

thinking this line
that line

oh it's fine
grip it tight

is unsaid



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So it's a thought
upside down
Bucketed
and banging
in here
going *******
for a way
to be strung out
up even
going for not easily
gotten over

What did you
Huh?
say
all this banging
has me
I'm doin
can't hear
you

why can't u
hear me
can't u see
what's going on
in here
standing
mouth open
you're no help

thought u wuz
my friend
hunh

Thought like this
banging in me

Thinking like this
ahm clanging
hanging me up




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Viewed through a shallow liquid
Your beauty is blurred
Or is something else
Blurred into Beauty

Is the shallow liquid
Tears or tea or tequila
And the viewer
Hidden in a nest

Of deeper imaginings
That is to say shallow
you smile and elbow on
As if this aligned with

Feeling that feeling that way
Sorry
Feeling this way
Pinballing your way here

Riccocheting off raw nows
to some any other numb now
where opinions leap filling
spaces with instant foam

At the mouth of who r u
again really still why
Aren't you quite weary
The soldiering on

I don't wish to be in
Your regiment or mine
This discovery Sublime
Capitals not mine

The time I have elicited
elongates or even
telescopes to this' end

Reaching into the dark
bag of tomorrow
disappears my hand

Could it be on you
forever dismembered
leading a happy second

dancing in neural halls
now imagined in mine
absurdly drawn

God I'm a crust
I think
Considering my behavior earlier

reading
Jamadhi Verse

To treat people
Like people

Not things

My generation
Processed the fear of the last

Who fed themselves
To the beautiful machine

That made the world
Ugly

Littered with
What doesn't make us happy



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the video
hesitates
and stutters
     no wait
ers
that  that that
that's my life

drinking future
smoothness
  no wait
drinking now
spoonfuls
gulping
missing
splashing
yeah

mean
to mean

I keep crashing on you
I keep crashing on you
I keep crashing on you

I never learn






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Smashing rain
is numbing
the squirming soil

Drowning time
heaves its discordant
sandwich

I am nummy
numbed this tastes
good like more

time and drool
will hold
you here

go you fool

I've got this
condition

Indulge until
Blech

On a bad
<insert self indulgent excuse>

Blame it on
<that>

Blech.

Having big things
to say

With this tiny
Little heart

Breaks

Me like a cone
holding chocolate

I have no shape
I have no defense
I am melting away
But I'm sweet
This isn't fair
Gurgle
Ga

I slurk away
down
****** flavor lane

Thinking of my favorite ice cream
deaths

Misery loves
a melting sweetness

Ah
that's it


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When do you notice
your hands

under a lens
typing for you

golden or some
color i can't name

fretting or
doing my bidding

Landing this tomatoe
of a life
like a bush-man
whacking away
at the imaginary
at the statuary
at the contrary

This this avocado
is happening
with lemon and onion
your tongue's saliva
disolving these words
like wedges
like edges
of salt and lime

I have time now
as always
awakening
lands you here now
going wow


Then now and
you drift on words
floating in cerebellum
um um um
grid neurons and place neurons
chatter you here
and you
you believe you

Landing
then steps
then steppes
then schweppes
all accessible
this distance and discomfort
from unnatural connection

just fillin' in here
found these lines
blank

didn't seem right

I am herein
and heretofore
choosing the universe
its polarity
to its polity

I am directing it
to continue to be
the early knocker
the look out focker
the I'll be
what you see

Rollover and scratch verse
and some throw and catch
verse

The I look there
and you look there
for no reason
and see
seeing synchronize
to simultaneous
sighs
and looks

that acknowledge
the experience
from inside it
knowing only my seeing
is all I'm seeing
so let's see it this way

Now can I see your
****** of verse?

Piece and peace
Push

Part
am I

Push
for doesn't matter

Push
for a piece

Doesn't matter
Part of

on the side
turning

toward
seeing you

parting

paring down
pieces


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This evening
she walked in
and out
left in a pout
I did say something
very evil

I am certain
I did

I have some
confusion
as to what
as is usual

My capacity
for inadvertent
evil
is only exceeded
by my capacity
for inadvertent
okay

So I make it all
okay
seemingly
well you know
but don't laugh
at my necessaries

If i can accept
and love the *******
in the mirror

I can accept
and love
your ******* too

Oh the voices
I have quieted
That have stopped
That I've stopped
That have left
I hear them
reconnoiter
from inside
observing their
Non-existentence
and gasping well thought
Ideas of air

let's grease
this last sandwich
down

slip and slide
right inside
down

a thing in time
let's bring it
down

what i meant
let's bring it
down

and you here
just part
of it

In this episode
of our incredibly long-running
**** show

Our intrepid hero
is at it again
hoping

And we need him
to be
moping

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and tune-in to

All the things
that can go wrong
starting with

look behind you now
with some
didn't see that coming

now on with the show
slow pan
he is at the keyboard

alone
given time to bang
grievances

against deaf dumb
sumbitches counting
syllables and seconds

missing meaning
and lives
oh my

i declare i shant
go there
upside down in time

the scene twists away
from his
provocations

two as far apart
as two can be
on a bed

never more
never more
amusingly alone

he knows
the audience needs respite
needs a laugh

to not squirm turn
away to
you got 'em tv

I have 5:30 to 6pm
to get this down
and get back up

hating but
unbowed
that's a wrap

how are the ratings
we're up? let's
party

I don't know
what  you'll like

I'm not seeing
what you are like

and then fear
ebbs out

and I'm see ing
s omething

inside the circle
here

and your nervousness
is skinny

and shift y
slinking

around
what the hell

until tomorrow
n e way


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I'm successful
I have my **** together
I'm not alone
You'll read this far

What are your favorite
lies to tell?

This time stuff
spilled all over

An' I wen' in t'
yesterday

an I watched
myself gettin' o'er

bein' me all day
in no pa'ticular way

Is a mix of *******
And blindness

Designed by hope
And fear
Mostly fear

Does that seem
Rude to say

the objective, I've discovered
is to make it all play
it's the thing
you must admit
to be eloquent
there it went

a life of
inflammation
with bouts of
consternation
and today's
conflagration
the final
indignation
my yawning
imagination
write sleep now
gesticulation
and vanish
distribilation

has meaning gone?
oh good

What is a song
Does it have long brown hair
falling down it's back
as it moves
around you

That note right there
a wave of arching
your back your head
exalting up and back
rippling back down
ruby highlights
dance over hips

we reach
for higher notes

How can I love a song so much

That
was some
Apology
Oh my


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