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163 · Apr 2021
The Love Of
Butch Decatoria Apr 2021
The wind is howling again outside, clearing the early evening sky of clouds,
(as the curtains open...)
Exposing a drowsy eye of Crescent Moon,
A bright chesire smile on the backdrop of colbalt blue.

It's early yet for Stars, deepening to navy coal dark, a bleeding of midnight and ebony, darkness like an invisible cloak
Showing more of the heavens in the darkest of nights. And the later I stay to stargaze, upon the face so infinite her beauty--a universe enlightening in Love,
Brightening All of the Above.

The winds' howls lessen as though looking up with mine eyes wide with awe.
My very being astounded, to even have this moment to witness be--i'm dumbfounded
Overcome with such Peace.
The Love of God in me .
162 · Jan 2021
Life's Poetry 1
Butch Decatoria Jan 2021
Poetry is what happens before / during / & after
The heart break,
as life mitigates our free will to choose
When falling in love or in the midst of two
Poetry is you there confused
Unable to refuse
All beautiful things of
Life's poetry.
First draft
161 · May 2021
Repost
Butch Decatoria May 2021
HOMILY


After the preaching’s
Done-finished
Picking at the scabs
Of our guilt,
At week's end / day of rest;
Just when we almost had it
Bygone / Forgotten
From our minds
           It's a kinder kin to amnesia
A softer fog of fugue,
A healing art of our brain farts,
Not soaking in shame's
Diminishment,
Or stewing in self-helps.
"Deliver us!"      (bow down genuflect)

But then again
Here we are together to gather
Uncomplainingly
Complacently listening
Absorbing every lash
Of the metaphorical whip,
To be guided back to good
Such sermons for the flawed
humans that we know
We are -- unworthy...
But willingly we suffer
The word.
Oh how to be just like
The lamb...

So now, afterwards, when we have been
Emotionally & verbally punctured
Full of hollow
We are holes unworthy
Of being
Made whole...
Or so, we've been told
"It is written."

Now then let us meet for
homily
After King James harangues us
His version of fellowship,
Let us have verbal
******* with the word.
(Begotten?)
Perhaps over supping
Or during beer & NFL
Or some blood
Sport
Non-emasculating,
Reminding us how
Weekends roar
And Life is
Worth more
Than the inner wars
We are ourselves
Fighting.

After the sermon,  
Let's have true verbal
*******...
(Without be-getting a shred
Of guilt).
161 · Dec 2019
A Most-Complicated Machine
Butch Decatoria Dec 2019
1.

The contradictions of being human, a human being inhumane
Becoming more or less / a worsting mess / the cause or blame;
The virus to all the rest in paradise, the succubi of Life:
Befallen Caines—outcasts blind / roaming wild all the while:
Sisyphus carrying the weight  of his hubris shame....
161 · Jun 2021
Repost
Butch Decatoria Jun 2021
Downtown Mike’s Halitosis

It's not easy speak
or a Speak Easy
when conversing with him,
dark'ling gremlin toothless grin
but he's your friend so I carry on
with Yoda in the corner of my mind
"judgmental you must be not"
and Comicon's collective excitement fading
as the light will do in the west...

We speak easy with the circling
of the communal pipe
crystal peace in mists of glass orbs
oil burner fog horns
piercingly in & between my ears
but its not so easy to ignore
the scent of death in his halitosis

We spoke of Superheroes
their idiosyncratic identities
His secret celebrity crushes  
envying Green Lantern’s ring finger
he speculates on Cyclop's orientation,

"Y don’t you make me an X man, professor?"

Informatively encyclopedic volubility,
Mike speaks queerly and toofless
yet well versed on oral
said he rims pacific beach boys
(And I can smell the white lies
wafting from his mouth)
as I color at his studly fairy tales
and his idolatry of prepubescent innocence
the hyper kind of *******
as he verbally recalls the taste of how sweet
the sweet untouched were...

"The most gorgeous boys I’ve ever seen
in **** or anyplace on the face of the planet
comes from and are probably ******* now
in Europe... Mmm, European boys...
I want to use my life’s savings to go there
enter the war zone and come back wounded..."

I can't even imagine
Shrapnel jacked backside, points and protrusions
grandiloquent mouths and holes full of
enunciations...

"Fourteen is the age of consent there..." he is smiling
a caricature of a wolf *** fang less
Such a pseudo wanna-be
possibly already
******* friend from the broken rainbow factory,
how I chuckle uncomfortably
shake my head disbelievingly

oh the humorous horror of it...

(I'm grinding my teeth, until I notice myself
doing so and get an image of him
with a gummy grin,
I preoccupy my thinking
nodding as I half-heartedly half listen)
160 · Dec 2019
My Unrequited I
Butch Decatoria Dec 2019
These fleeting moments
Fleeing feeling
Just being / next to you now
Is quite unbarable
Not able to touch

Unable to rust
I thought I trusted my own judgement
Do I know myself enough
to trust in how easy it is to sink?
Still I reach for you inside

That **** look in your eyes
Dark strength certain
In fleeting moments
Behind the curtain
Or next to you
Whom I would proudly love
To touch
To kiss
Fleeing feelings
You are so much more
Mean so much to me
Maybe too much for me,

My Unrequited.
160 · Sep 2017
Revision 3 (10w)
Butch Decatoria Sep 2017
What doesn't **** you EMOTIONALLY makes you stronger, so it's said.
160 · Feb 2021
Chicken (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Feb 2021
No Fear in it’s meat,
Tastes like Tyrannosaur-Rex.
Best Kentucky Fried.
160 · Jun 2021
Boastful
Butch Decatoria Jun 2021
Men are the loudest, proudest
Animals
Howling Hollering screams
That he is the apex predator
Most intelligent in this blue bubble.

Pride is known to be a sin in the Good Book
I mistook for the kind of pride that walks with love for our sons,
I realize now,
It is self/ prideful boasting
Blaming bliss of ignorance
Conquering the weak
Who are the meek
Newborn heirs?
Possession/ obsessing over
Breath & breadth alive
Unknowing
Innocence
Outside his walls of boxes.
What is inner light of beings
Only human afterall?
What are animals without their nature?
if let to live as themselves
Still will die
Minds thirdeye blind.
What would be Man without his rhyme?
Man is the Loudest Animal.

Arrows from Babylon to Heaven
Only fall back down returning his own jealous fury.

What is silence to that sound?
Words of war machines speak not for Heaven,
Can't blame any rain that falls
Nor claim to be above it all...
Man is loudest and proudest
Of all...

(Hide behind thy marble halls,
What is Life to mortal ones)
159 · Apr 2019
Quote #allaboutperspective
Butch Decatoria Apr 2019
Death is the word that strikes fear in the hearts of men,
Some lose sight in such loss.
Would it be easier to think of it as a door or a box,
Shall we wrap in ribbons like a
Gift?
159 · May 2021
Edification (10w)
Butch Decatoria May 2021
If only Schools could teach us how to learn well.
Butch Decatoria May 2018
BRILLIANT

Light of Life
                      Of love…
The brilliance of
YOUTHANDDARE
Magic
Twinkling
Vast ink
Cloak of Invisibly
Such visions in the dark
A lovely canvas
For the
Stars

Who shine
The Brilliance!
Of Love
Of Life
Of Love
Above

Youth & Airs!

Brilliant!
I wanted this poem to loop, to begin again at the end, brilliant.
158 · Aug 2021
Origami.
Butch Decatoria Aug 2021
These creases of ours—
tales of dragons and white ships.
Neatly folded sheets.
Revised.
158 · Jun 2021
Grin
Butch Decatoria Jun 2021
Childhood is often seen in
Experiences
Like observations second hand
Snapshots
From inside circus photobooths
Selfies
All day
Way, No way!
Convince ourselves to smile
Unconvincingly
Grin.
With a grain of salt
Faking it aint Making it.
Why even bare it? Childhood has no choice.
Experiences.
157 · Jul 2017
Experience 2 (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2017
Pay to spend your time
As Life becomes expensive
Illusions aren’t cheap.
157 · Apr 2021
(evangelist)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2021
Great loud words from The Word: Hatemonger's propaganda/ masses conditioned at Sunday mass: Faith weaponized./

Siren song: Sheppard: gathers his "flock" for worship: overacting full of words./
False prophets' speaking/ in tongues for Heaven?/

Filthy rich with sin: master of the mansion / on his plantation, ***** down south/ molesting innocents devout./ His money on his mind, he's full of
_ words./

Televangelist on HD-4K smart TV, now wide reaching, the preaching, most have bought into   it. Cost? Hollocaust of doubt and lost minds.
Faith now weaponized.../

(Evangelist)
157 · Nov 2019
Debonair / senryu
Butch Decatoria Nov 2019
Dean in gabled suits,
Eloquent body jazz-smooth,
Sweeps her off her feet.
157 · Feb 2020
Yoke.
Butch Decatoria Feb 2020
Imagine what happens when
Two bodies collide in great haste

Shatter the shell
You’ll ruin the yoke.

Lust is mindless
Though blissful in feeling
What is ****** or physically pleasing
Can often ****
What’s inside
Like an idea not yet hatched or born
(We are) free of will
Yet thoughtless selfish & un-still
Un-woke

Some pleasures of the body
Will ruin the yoke.
Be mindful of your soul.
155 · Dec 2020
Luck (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Dec 2020
A fickle friendship
Perhaps imaginary,
Don’t gamble the Rent.
155 · Sep 2020
Icarus Kush
Butch Decatoria Sep 2020
Get on with your Bad self

Go on with your Hustle

Into the bustle

And the gristle

Briskly

Frisky

Grizzly world...

Go 'head find and get that paper

Let your greenback wings unfurl

Telling you who to be

Made

So dapper...

Go Rise above

But still only talking

'Bout what don't matter,

The Unfathomable

Kind of Love.

Still wrapping

The turkey in a noose

Letting bullets loose

For hundred dollar shoes

Shoes!

Shoot sure 'nuf!

Time to wake up / this close to the Sun

Waxin' & Flossin'

Ill prepared to Rise above

Pretending to exude

The same kind

Of Love...

You

Go'ne now...

You Dawg you - A "g"

N-word y'heard in Everythang

We trust

Go'ne muss it up!

I just must know

(My boo)

Didn't you?

Give the World

This Life

Much Love?

Fire in the sky... Fallen

Too high

At dusk.

Gone to fly into the eye...

(Kush)
155 · Mar 2019
Quote: #interiordesign
Butch Decatoria Mar 2019
A Cook prepares a recipe, while
The Chef is an interior designer for your mouth & stomach.
155 · Oct 2020
10.20.2020
Butch Decatoria Oct 2020
I’m the old man, and the sea is the blank page before me, journeyless Journal, a so-called life to script, “Dear diary I’m the ****...”
    Oh how shall I drown in the words beloved, absolute the depth, the breadth of one’s soul. It’s Worth... While men die never to capture immortality, legends rise while spoken as freely upon the wind, the worthwhile songs some weep to feel how the greatest love feels ...
        Life .  Like an old man upon that sea, drowning to know love. (god)

Purpose.
155 · Jul 2018
Spaces 2
Butch Decatoria Jul 2018
Ohm’s peace keeps warm
The soul in Light

One wealth of love
All stars at night.
155 · May 2021
Revised
Butch Decatoria May 2021
GLACIERS (acrostic)

Going Green all year round
Leads to strikes, tree-huggers who loudly shout,
As road raging Cadillac runneth them over.
Cold winter melts as fishermen over plunder.
In our human chapters of hubristic excuses,
Earth fracked, death by corporate Amusement.
Races all face mother nature storming in,
Slow still drowns with the Hare--better learn how to swim.
153 · Jun 2021
(Le Petite Mort)
Butch Decatoria Jun 2021
Second Skin


I find sleep quite amiable
less resistant
after touching
The timpani of tigers
like prowling
Your other jungle-wilderness .
It’s my undoing
after we have done what we did
Physically
Akin
Our own doubts kept close as
Our tingling, our tender cooing…

The gooseflesh shivers
Birthday suits
Aquiver
In the miasma of life's (bowels)
howling, bowdlerizing
the sensations of our
everyday heaven.

I find sleep more pliable
after a swim in you
and I taste myself
in the salt
of our commingling
skins
        Tingling
Whinging
swathed in mouths
primrose
fragrant waterfalls
thunderclouds /deluge
A downpour.

Seed & Petrichor

in the aftermath
Of our victory
That ******
within and about
our dance of
Skin—I am
washed away
a tiny death
a cry to heaven...

I feel naked
when you're not clothed on me,
how queer to need you
to swim ...

I find dreams much better
aloft
My second skin.
Making Love is the tiny death.
153 · Sep 2020
A Different Kind of Canvas
Butch Decatoria Sep 2020
Poetry
Consider it / Art
Upon a different kind of canvas.
Paint colorful the words
That weep brushstrokes
A masterpiece of true blue

Fool, let your words flow
Your virtual canvas imbued
With learned mind aglow.
A light tower on the Hill
Picturesque poems
Low and On the down
Low and behold
The rhyme of stone willed.
Still Art / life / on canvas
Of a different kind...
Paint colorful the words.

Yours is a tapestry.
Grapes ripe on the vine.
Be the Art
flowing like wines,
Drowning in the emotions.
Oh poetry.

Never cease the heart
Live loud your Love
an act & the Art.
You are
Poetry.
153 · May 2021
Repost
Butch Decatoria May 2021
Inspiration is Divination.


Definition : Divination – “the practice of prophesy, of seeking knowledge of the future, Unknown, by supernatural means/divining”

Definition : Inspiration – “the process of being
Inspired by, being stimulated to creativity,
The Art, of beautiful things divine from humility.”




Inspiration is Divination,
A sort of magic / making
The mundane as Muse,
The inspiration, a beauteous thing
All eyes fall upon / to worship.

Inspiration is Divination
Reanimation imagination perspective
Shaper of reality —how doth vision?

When it’s sheens / of wetness
On smoothest stone / after the rain
Rays of daylight piercing gray,
At an angle, for a split second,
It appears / to shimmer like a jewel

A perspective moment, introspective worth
Of rougher stone, good enough
To gaze upon
So intrigued / interestingly…

The briefest breath of curiosity
The strange queries of such gravity
The mundane / beautiful things
All that our lives make to sing
Poetry’s butterfly wings.

Inspiration is Divination.
152 · Jan 2020
Same Old (for TimTom)
Butch Decatoria Jan 2020
**** dim is the ambience for active bedrooms,
On battery powered candles / Concorde lighting.
The carpet's edges chewed thin like
Receding hairlines
Then he uses me as bait..?

A neglected puppy's teething
Nesting under California
King / Mojo's hollowed cushions,
Keeps him gnawing these nights
Misters and oil burners.

I was mistaken, there are those
That revisit—reacquaint with him.
They must of shared a Starbucks,
As his Sasquatch hands
Rub wet platinum on his old fellow
Bears and their Cubs.
Silicone smooth pets, house boys
Fished from the deep web,
Plagiarizing with their eyes the pleasures
Of Eurocreme,
Bare back dreams, hours heave
The subtitled felatio scenes.

I tell the old man, they only ***
After and mostly when
the guested leave, guises, guilt…
There’s one hovering still
Round bouts quick to mount
To accommodate new daddy’s
Ginger manly worthless girth…

I'll be out in the smoking section
Out at the side of the house
Through the slider door, you know
From off the kitchen dining space
Where he had once
Replaced the table with billiards
For Less of a man friend
and pretend straight shooters
Happy birthday old trooper….

His Android vibrates every time
I take a five to breathe
Chain smoke my self defecating grief
He posts another ad. Pics of vehemency
On Craig’s and bb diseased.

If only you had heard
The vagrant shout / banshee in my skull
For these off the street urchins
left from whence they came;
Plugged in to the internet's latest
(Stoop)
For a place to squat
For winter will be cold *****,
For them to just
Scoot! Shoo! ****** off!

And here I go again,
Assuming that these were decent folk
Come for the holidays.
Between taint and pocket rocket
Wallets drain
When one lets the desperate
Indigents
Free range...

"What's there for dinner?"  
**** chicken heads again?
Same ole same old dope...
152 · Sep 2020
Ubiquitous
Butch Decatoria Sep 2020
Ubiquitous like the River,
Running yet stands still
From higher climbs, rapids spill
To the ocean, then sky delivered home,

Life is like the river, ubiquitous
Ride the flow and bends, hurt and mend
The dips and turns, calms and storms
The changes ever shifting, like growth,

Like you Unquenched, wanting more
To your own life, a nothing,  ***** in glamor...
Never can ride the river twice
Each time it’s new and yet, in hindsight

Thirst stays the same, life like
The deeps with rogue wave Tsunami
A thing in two places at once
Life here then gone / Kamikaze

Elsewhere after / Let us run like
The River, ubiquitously.
The soul is a river, running to the deeps...
To sweet home’s perfection. Absolutely,
At peace.
151 · May 2021
Repost
Butch Decatoria May 2021
Santino

It would be rude to
Ask his mother (running to market for syringes)
Ask if he was crooked coming out,
A broken bambino, was he?

Haunched Santino and his mother
From their makeshift hut of crates
And unwanted soiled baby blankets
Stab themselves between the toes

While the Asians pass through
In their Lexus's and glittering Samsungs
As indifferent as the heroine
That Santino and his mother buy
(Veins like fingers rivers lightning)

She's sensitive about everything,
Watch what you say...
It seems like love, a son and his enabler
Or vice verses all the world
A rotten oyster.

I dare not ask his mother
Which came first
(The chicken or the egg?)
Was he a crack baby, her good boy, Santino
Or was she?

“Watch your mouth!”— She's yelling
At foodies parking their cars,
With her eyes closed, walking about, lost, lots...

He's a good kid, forever her bambino
I now understand selfishness
How deformed came the world to Santino...
151 · Jul 2019
River
Butch Decatoria Jul 2019
The impetus
                     Of being
Always on the run
               Through pinwheel eyes
                              Those standing by
                                          The mystic roadway :    River
Blue yet to be brushed
                      or in blush
                           Of evening chill's breathing
canvas-like windows dreaming felt
All mindful
And chockfull O'
                              Wonder
Then ponder
                Yonder "window breaks"
                         Past the wilderness' sleep
Bone heavy wood
                             Umber earth

                             Past whoosh and rush of liquid
Folding on itself / a soundtrack

      Listen now
      Pedestrian be

Mindful of the cautionary whales
                                               Old Ahab’s yell
                                  Obsessions
                           Fears
                                   Or loathing.

If one is drowning in one's sleep
Look wildly
                  widely
                              Blithely
                                    Down river  
Or up there beyond finger's point
                      Sidewinder snake journeys
Until sky and below it
All meet

The distance
        Now only a line
                 Coalescing what is beyond
                      Our ability to see
Far and away
    Evanescent
         Effervescent
                     Ever after      
                             River.     Life.
Here
We are proud and
     The free spirit is fluent
           With the rapid rivers loud
                            Always on the run
Currents like a child's curiosity ...
How then,
When or why
                        does it end ?
Where do we go?
                    
Like most things existing,
           Will lead to the high art /
love's deep oceans...
          
We often forget to seek
                              And mind
                                     the sublimations/
                                                            d¬¬rift wood.
Let’s then
Begin with a dot .
A speck of dusk
                     bursts of light
                                        A starry sky,
pieces to mastery

                   Raging fragility of waters’
Unctuous undulations
                    Folding itself in volumes
Or falling from on high
       A droplet cry !

Then flash of lightning
                   (crash or bloom)
From the heavens
                                 like electric rivers
So brilliantly
                   Festoons

Where do we go
With those under toes
       There and here / underfoot /
                   Over north / southern sleep
                                   To oceans twilight deep?
Go wrapped or map-less
Or no.
            Up
                Way
       Up yonder
There up there
                    Everywhere
                    All without fear...

My heart like the river yearns
                 To go toward the sun
                       A flow /
                                     the beating drum
Always on the run
And
     Yet
            Still
                    Here.
(Repost)
151 · Apr 2021
By Example (senryu)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2021
Preacher teaches ire.
Parents reprimand and scold.
Small hands on fire.
Human Nature #7
150 · Jul 2020
Connections (word-play)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2020
Science
Conscience
Sentience
Conciously
Psyched
Scions
Sensuous
Sensing
Sensationalized
Emotions' emoji
Sighing
Feelings
Love / nascent.
No science
Simon saying
Wake up
Senses
Conscious
Conscience
Sentiment
Loving Life
All (human) feeling
Alive here
Here!
Science is silent.

Connections.
149 · Apr 2020
Red-Hot Religion (revised)
Butch Decatoria Apr 2020
He has this . . . Hunger like
Hurricane Hips interpreting endangered
wanton meanings of lustful touch
Starving eyes wanting

He has this . . Culpable shame
that’s  relative to the Red-Hot Religions
of sailors, muscled maritimes
showers of spit and ****
storms of guy-gravy
and then the little girl inside,
that darling damnation,
leaves him to those parched cats eyes

The panther's eager lips
that somehow rescues him sexually
With cold reptilian offerings
spires and skies which takes him home

away & aware he’s one of them:
chestnuts from china
The Buffalo’s bride
Lost in one salted heavenly hell

He has that . . . Craving,
A ***** for Jackal-harsh joys
but the lipstick love of sinful men
like magnets to his mad blindness
its ***** and biohazard truths
Still resounds in the black poetry
A stain of empty pews

Hearts
designed by desires over
Sins & desperations both
an epic dirge, some think
which will later play in a temple
That will sink darkly, singing
a Red-Hot  requiem reckoning

for all who are
lost in their lust
and the god-awful truth of it,
In beings lost  
Never having even begun
To know Love
Not cross…
Love is love
So what's ***?
149 · Nov 2020
Evictions
Butch Decatoria Nov 2020
I wonder how Trump must feel, losing his house,
Right about now families suffer the cold
I wonder if he’s familiar with empathy,
Fallen in apathies, feeling simply
This is what it’s like…

I tell my mother
That it’s bullying when they say **** like
“Might as well pack up now I’m filing for your eviction”
**** like that, in a time of COVID,
You must file with the Court for assistance.
I don’t need to tell my mother
How to fight the hatred,
Struggling to get by
One way or another,
This is what it’s like…
(Thy neighbor as thy brother?)


The caustic relationships we **** ourselves to have,
As we keep the dust swept under the rug,
As we’re drained of our chi, convince ourselves perhaps
It’s meant to be, friends to the end of our childhood,
I’m exhausted hoping that you’d keep your word
Adult friends learn common curtesy during
childhood, ya know

Now I’m grown and what I know is —
         There’s someone you know standing out in the cold
Waiting for the bus, close to midnight
And you’d rather drink and ****,
My apologies, I don’t do either, mothertruckers.
In the desert it’s a must to sweep out the dust
Last and final warning,
Cold waiting at the bus —stop...
149 · May 2020
Cross Our Fingers
Butch Decatoria May 2020
If you have it...
Love within, around, or about,
Pray, Let it be true—few may also pray
For you,
Send GetWell cards to you, gaudy
Flowers and colorful balloons
While others will not
Believe you
Say you’re unworthy, unkindly becoming
Abrasive with cunning / biting
Words to cut you deep
Confrontational mouths outnumbering
Louder than you, wanting to leave...
Infectious Doubt now hovering
It’s clouds covering a gathering fury
Ire of grey and storms a flurry
Curtains close
The light of Day away
Sun behind the dark dismay
Though rays not seen or warmth reflected
Absent from eyes but nay the mind
Knowing tomorrow will be on time…
Respect it.

Tho the day star sun hides behind clouds,
Mouths loud with discontent
Spreading contagion, sickness of soul
Numbing the heart of love,
Like sight with emotional blindness
Life unfeeling, soul depleted—man un being
And misguided...
If you are certain of this love you know
Seeing is truly as belief is yours
Don’t read too much into it, cuz
Don’t be a fool, but be one for Love
If that Love loves you too.
Here’s hoping, crossing our fingers—for True...

.
149 · May 2021
Disharmony
Butch Decatoria May 2021
We are closer to
Our souls than our dreams,
Our hearts than our logic,
If you're trying to reach heaven
Begin by finding inner peace
Find you in loving me...
Suffer your humanity
The illusions of/are  Free
all strangers lie and grieve.

Disharmony.

World Peace Now!
148 · Jul 2017
Man (10w)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2017
Man was "made" to understand. Seeks and learns
To "Know"...
147 · Aug 2018
Homeless Junky (10w)
Butch Decatoria Aug 2018
Most tell him to get lost, but he’s already lost.
147 · Aug 2017
Chi-Raq (repost)
Butch Decatoria Aug 2017
A Buster is busted.

Figuratively.

Mayhap way he speak.

Not just slow

Cuz he got flow

Figured out the Hustle

Keeps on and on and on and...

(An Energizer rabbit's foot.)


"Yo! This Life is Broke!"

(Swisher Blunts stunted Swoosh!)

Busters Is Busted.

Vigorously.     (Or rock-steady kool).

Tommy-guns, Polish

(Head like a hole...)

Our whips.

Our babies.

Our Peeps

The War / The Streets

The Word  itself, asleep...

Sweet Tea at the ready

They're thirsty in

CHi-Raq.
147 · Dec 2019
Foot Soldier / senryu
Butch Decatoria Dec 2019
Sir Purple Pickle
Hides his sticky in his boot.
At war in Chi'raq.
A Sticky is a ***** gun.
146 · Dec 2020
Christmas Morning
Butch Decatoria Dec 2020
It’s always mostly quiet
Christmas morning,
more so when you’re
Alone
Like a barren tree covered in snow.
It’s truly winter
in this stillness,
Not so much the icy cold
rather the feeling
Desolate.
Mostly always quiet...

(Christmas morning.)
145 · Jul 2017
Revision 2 (10w)
Butch Decatoria Jul 2017
Judgements are like sphincters,
And everyone can pinch a loaf.
145 · Nov 2020
Hermit Crab (Evictions 2)
Butch Decatoria Nov 2020
We outgrow our homes,
Moving on up, penthouse suites,
Or shopping cart roads

We fit in boxes
A shell of comforting walls
Apartmentalized

Rent to own abodes
Timeshare of lives all alone
The walls we’ll outgrow

To stand on clean sand
The Beach on clear nights, star-filled—
Soul outgrows the hand.
144 · Jul 2020
Shaped
Butch Decatoria Jul 2020
How do the blind among us seeing
Stoic eyes wide mimicking awakenings

How can poetry be greatly felt
With words to shape more words don’t help.

How water is the shape of love
That we drown in its deeps, a hollow rain.

Hence fire is the shape of pain
It’s roaring loudly inside, outwardly howling

Heartbreak, explosions—concerning yowls!
The sounds of our emblazoned lives.

Thoughts : the shape of thunder, time.
Emotions we made to blame, then shades of

How, we only but admire,
With words to shape the soul’s attire.

We howling creatures brief,
What is the shape of words, belief —in

The End?
Fire On Fire!
144 · May 2021
Street Surfin' (senryu)
Butch Decatoria May 2021
Spitfire, cruiser;
Trucks for a hau'li's longboard.
Leaning into it.
142 · Aug 2017
Survey (Senryu)
Butch Decatoria Aug 2017
Entergy* down south

Old opinions on the polls

Them gone country nights.
SSI
142 · Oct 2018
HOME (Senryu)<revised>
Butch Decatoria Oct 2018
1.
Gift of family,
Holidays all welcome smiles.
Here, the heart resides.
2.
She kisses baby
In her crib, while father reads
At bedtime, stories.
142 · Sep 2019
Our selfs
Butch Decatoria Sep 2019
You are a universe
        Unto yourself.
We are universes
       Unto ourselves.
I am a universe
         Unto myself.
Can’ t avoid i t self.
Butch Decatoria Dec 2020
Wallace, my man Wallace, fell
In love with his wife,
For real for real
Fell in love.

If someone should happen upon
To see the two of them
If by chance passed by
Them two together

How odd a couple
They may say
She's such a little thing
Something so prestine to
Wallace, homeless guy howler.
Who is more himself with her than
Without her.

Mr. dumpster-diver-king!

The two individually are
Themselves genuinely
Together lovey-dovey,
Not an act.

Wallace falls in love,
Says that's a fact
Knowing that it also means
He’s found someone
to lose.

Still, Wallace knew
love.
It's the god-honest Truth.
A lonely man’s church.
Dedicated to his wife lost to COVID-19
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