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 Jan 2018 Allison
My Name Here
No matter how softly they walk,
treads will wear the terrain
by the paths of least resistance.

In the tender tracks
I wanted briars to grow,
To draw out crimson pain.

Flowers bloomed instead.
Rough hands crushed green necks,
Yet you couldn't hear their fragrant cries, over the pride of adornment.
I know their pale petals fell
On your shoulders, like tears.

Spring torrents came,
soft resolve washed away,
Sharp edges of hardened
granite gleam.
Walk softly over barren rock.
 Jan 2018 Allison
Mister J
Mom
 Jan 2018 Allison
Mister J
Mom
She's someone you love
And someone you've hurt
No matter what you did
How far you've fallen
How distant you've become

She'll open her arms wide
Welcome you to her embrace
Give you rest after all the pain
She'll give you another chance
And she'll say
"No matter what, my son,
I'll still love you."
I love you Mom.
Thanks.
 Jan 2018 Allison
Lydia
Scoliosis
 Jan 2018 Allison
Lydia
I treated my skin like a goddess
Legs shaved, hands moisturized,
Any spot of acne scrubbed away and covered over with pale sheets
But I hid from my spine, like a snake always a few inches behind me, waiting to strike
This skin there was a poorly applied veneer,
Exaggerating the flaws it was meant to hide
The snake is in constant motion, waving an S up the core of my being,
Displaying my instability
It's curved, like the ridges of the Grand Canyon
Only more unnatural,
Un beautiful,
More like a line you tried to draw straight
Only when it wavered just a little too much, you threw it away and started over
I cannot start over
My snake drags venom along its body, instead of drooling it into a bite
And he is always biting,
So the skin on my back has never been touched
Never been pampered, or savored.
There is no "positive message" to this one but it is not meant to be a downer by any means . Everyone has their own insecurities and challenges. I'm super tall so when I  was little I grew too fast and my body didn't quite compensate. I have problems with many other joints too but I'm actually a runner and a swimmer.  Please comment :)
 Jan 2018 Allison
Johnny Noiπ
She wanted to walk thru Central Park
& I reminded her of Dorothy Arnold---
she chuckled, & said, I'm not afraid;
should I be? I said, no,
& we wlked thru the park to her townhouse;
said good-bye at the door---this was before
the snow started falling & Steichen
set
his tripod up outside the Flatiron---
& I walked back into the fture;

The machine something out of a comic book;
a reverse particle-accelerator
the size of a pocket-watch---
creates a micro singularity (a microscopic black hole)
the velocity of which is ionized at 0mxs=X0
creating a reverse trajectory of 0xs=T
where 0=0 (=/x)Tsxs/Txd=X
to wherever I want to go---
Time travel is easy, said Cleopatra at mdnight
it was hard for a long time
until it was discovered that Bronze Age man did it regularly
which is how we have idiots
in the 21st century who can't comprehend what they're seeing
& keep repeating old video
 Jan 2018 Allison
Johnny Noiπ
Me
 Jan 2018 Allison
Johnny Noiπ
Me
Something lives in me that is not me,
yet everything that is in me is me---
Everything that goes out of me is me;
yet what comes into me is not me---
Ur-(M)x(e)=Me/y=I(U)r It's easier to count backwards than forward b/c backwards ur certain. Forward, ur guessing.
 Jan 2018 Allison
Johnny Noiπ
The mind contains a mirror,
when we think we're looking at reality,
what we're really looking at
is the mind's mirror that is the exact
opposite of reality
just as the mirror is the opposite of u---
 Jan 2018 Allison
Nat Lipstadt
at the point of entry (explicit)

it does not strike me strange
at the point of entry
when the heightened senses and the dark subconscious merge

when the lust and the sweat intersect
with ego desire and self is everlasting everything
that the ***** words secretion is sticky on my tongue

when I pant poems born in rawness and tears
on this the last day of the year
and eyes closed see visions extraordinaire
and the Maker whispers in both ears see!

it is the see of what is me,
it is the point of entry and departure,
one and the same,
conception an immaculate mess,
the emptying and the fulfilling, when unkempt promises
are born free flowing and semi-truths transform into
actualities unforeseen and my child cells of new poems
are injected, stored, awaiting the birthright
and the death of publication,
my moment of privileged perfection passes
and frowns and smiles are
one and the same, silken thread wove open and shut

the precision precious circumcising of flesh and soul departing

the utter collapse from within, the drowning in the amniotic,
rebirthing rebutting my denying that I have no more to give

I believe I belong to you for it is what the desire firing cylinders
say repeatedly in the union of the up and the down cycle:

come, come inside me,
I am the pleasure
you are the treasure
in one cup measured
conjoined container
when the point of entry is the point of departure
and with eyes closed from satisfaction and prayer
I see everything all at the same time, uttering:

I am undone utterly and the difference between
the end and the beginning can be seen only
at the millisecond long seven decade coming
point of entry

12/31/17 5:38am dawn dying and new day mourning
explicit point of entry 12/31 nml
 Jan 2018 Allison
abecedarian
happy are the moneylenders

happy are the moneylenders
who charge the egregious rate
of friendship

they sleep with furious calm
their principle well invested, its return guaranteed,
for this lit pinpoint pinprick in their sleepy cerebrum
is the mini red light that illuminates the otherwise
dark bedroom of the mind so they can see and say with
equality and equanimity
I too, am, who I am.  

Does this answer the question?
1/7/17 12:56pm
happy are the moneylenders, but why
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