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Jan 2016 · 311
Love you later.
Valerious Jan 2016
Another time,
Another place,
Another us.
Jan 2016 · 866
Nodus Tollens
Valerious Jan 2016
Maybe if you leave, we can work it out.

I need a permanent blanket of nimbus clouds more oppressive than a Roman Catholic Court.

But, moving to London might convict me back to the cityscape of wasted Fridays and Saturdays.

Because without it, the Betrand Russell in me might just start to wake up. And then I’d remember - there has to be more to life than the 9 to 5 daze.

Washington DC stopped being fun after week two, and now I see it for what it is — a crush of desperate tourists blowing cigarette smoke in your face while you sweat last night’s drinks and Jumbo slice crash.

Anywhere that sells Nutella crepes is pretty sweet, and I love all the kite flyers and buskers festivals. I long ago realized that while Christiania has hundreds of market stalls, they’re all selling the same material things on a Groundhog Day loop: baked goods, stolen bikes, old furniture, cheap phones, and bags of open air hash.

Climbing up Carcassonne, a fortified medieval French town, probably is the best thing ever, but somehow, the two-hour lines to get into Berghain seem more worth it — all that dirt, grunge, and spinning feels as close to Dante’s Inferno; as close to feeling alive as it gets.

But now my Sunday afternoons are spent curled on top of my clean bedsheets, twitching about like a decapitated blue whale - batshit exhausted and depressed but somehow grinning like The Joker, wondering if sleep ever sets.
Valerious Aug 2015
You and I are suspended over the Rhine.
Soon we will be lost to the North Sea with a bottle of wine.
While contemplating your life’s chores,
You drank yourself to death behind closed doors.
A Prince, a Count, privileged guest, prisoner, slave, or pet.
All in the same like a preset cassette.
Aug 2015 · 489
Encore et encore
Valerious Aug 2015
Quand tu rencontres
la bonne personne,

tu tiens la distance.

Et laisse moi te dire
sur la distance.

Tout le monde change.

Mais si tu es avec la
bonne personne et ils changent.

Tu rencontres la bonne
personne tout recommencer.
Aug 2015 · 636
Garbage
Valerious Aug 2015
To the pursuit of knowledge,
Impervious to emotions acknowledged.
You can’t outrun toxic haulage,
With competing interests far voyaged.
Double infinity,
Forward to the unholy Trinity.
Aug 2015 · 605
Our Summer Palace
Valerious Aug 2015
Like two ends, we meet in the corner.
One more compulsive affair.  
We're everywhere and nowhere.
Like summer somewhere.
Jul 2015 · 1.5k
Skirmish
Valerious Jul 2015
She played Juliet but refused to drink the poison dry.
Indulging her Irish-Boston cream pie.
Save the date for Dubai.
Wheels up in ten for the red-eye.
Dress code: Evening gown, straitjacket and tie.
Jul 2015 · 574
Firefight
Valerious Jul 2015
Patrolling the defeated campsite,
As we perform Their last religious rite.
Like a storm, we ravished the dead of night,
Just another toxic waste site.
Every gardener’s delight,
Exit stage right.
Jul 2015 · 571
From Backstage
Valerious Jul 2015
Greetings from the cast iron cage.
We live in an age,
Where existence is on live stage.
Swept through sand dunes and wild sage.
Should we even bother with a title page?
Lest we discover to disengage.
Jul 2015 · 606
Round Two
Valerious Jul 2015
Though we have all found new lives
Our old lives linger in the shadow of knives
Soon enough it will come looking
Don't step through the door opening
Only darkness outside the gates.
We're en route, our Madness awaits.
Jul 2015 · 490
The Scriptures
Valerious Jul 2015
The illusion of an ivory tower.
The disastrous rise of misplaced power.
Existing.
Persisting.
The height of ignorance,
Accepted ideology in appearance.
Cognitive dissonance repeating on a wide screen.
The next twenty-four stood between
Revelation and oblivion.
The final Corinthian.
Jul 2015 · 669
2nd Battalion
Valerious Jul 2015
He’s fighting a war he doesn’t understand,
Governments and mass media in command.
Stacking lies disguised as truth,
Ever corrupting the fountain of youth.
For when he is called to perform mass ******,
Attention: post-traumatic stress disorder.
A well-equipped war machine
of marching men and marching bullets far between.
A soldier to the death,
Time to gasp for his parting breath.
As he drowns in the shallow pain of the Divine,
Time to join the unemployment line.
Jul 2015 · 604
Garnison
Valerious Jul 2015
In the Alps of you and me,
There can be no victory.
The problem isn’t that you’re unfavorable,
The problem is that I don’t care enough to be capable.
Captivated by our loyalty and then berating our backstory,
Another mystery, special delivery.
No longer caged in your palace chorus,
But in my memory palace you remain victorious.
A revisionist history,
A thousand times I am sorry.
Jul 2015 · 701
Linear
Valerious Jul 2015
Magic aligned the astrological key,
Allied deep trenches in the grey sea,
With looming penitentiary,
Maybe later, in Firenze 14th century.
Jul 2015 · 562
Communism
Valerious Jul 2015
The noncommittal,
No room for acquittal.
Just to make it official:
*****, Hammer and Sickle.
Jul 2015 · 961
VERSAILLES
Valerious Jul 2015
2006
It was a masquerade
But neither of us strayed

2007
Paris went off like a grenade
Timing should’ve been more delayed

2008
We became a Medieval serenade
Bach and Baroque through the decade

2009
Your Boer War needed you to invade
As I fought my own crusade

2010
Went to your flag parade
But couldn’t keep up with the charade

2011
We dangerously played
We burned and betrayed

2012-2014
We created a blockade
For us to eventually fade

It clearly needed an upgrade

2015
But like a cavalry brigade
We remain investment grade
Jul 2015 · 485
Nevermind
Valerious Jul 2015
The raw district of her mind
An aquarius heaven in-kind
On a constant state of rewind
The dark sky has so kindly declined
It’s too bad we’ve already signed
Let simpler times lead us blind
Jul 2015 · 302
Visions of You
Valerious Jul 2015
As the dusk turns into confusion,

your echo tainted like an illusion.

After you break my heart again in true high fashion,

I hope you find clarity in compassion...

... if only you'd spare me from the wrath of infatuation.
Jul 2015 · 347
Surge
Valerious Jul 2015
In the midst of my shallow existence, I built a hall.
For you, a perfect storm, to flood it all.
Jul 2015 · 278
So short
Valerious Jul 2015
So long to the words unspoken,
So long to the promise broken.

— The End —