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Celso Moskowitz Sep 2018
What does not **** you
Brings you so ever closer
To ultimate death.
Celso Moskowitz May 2017
Why always poems,
usually short,
why no novels,
no longer
pieces?

It is
easy.

I prefer five minutes of
free flowing
brilliance
than five hours of
overworked, extended,
superfluous
boredom:

they usually
do
too.
Celso Moskowitz May 2017
"Now, who the **** does this guy think
he is??"

She did not say it,
but though it,
and she thought it
loud enough.

"The arrogant ****,
dispensing opinions and words
like he is
(imagine that!!)
someone,
a Bukowski wannabe,
like he has something to say
the earth itself has not yet died of boredom
listening to,
who the **** does he think he is?
He won't even dare
to use
his real
name,
the slimy *******!"

She will keep not saying it,
but thinking it,
just loud enough,
just until
the end.

Then she will leave,
change the page,
forget it soon,
and get back to reading those teenage poets,
those facebook, Instagram poets,
with real names
and fake verses,
or to reading nothing
at all:
which is,
thinking about it,
the same *******
thing.
Celso Moskowitz May 2017
Someday it will happen,
it always does:
the endlessness of the present will get
you
trapping you on the island
of yourself.

They days will still roll
as you've grown
used to,
and perhaps you won't even notice
the significance of all that
insignificance,
brain shot to hell
by life or the allure
of the
alternative.

Someday it will happen,
as the sun rises or the sun sets,
or any time in between:
growing hair,
drying paint,
fictitious dismantled
ships,
or the same words without the same meaning,
or new words
with it.

Someday, yes, someday
it will
surely
happen:
it wasn't today,
but one can never be sure
of tomorrow.
Celso Moskowitz May 2017
Terrorised by
the creative act
I
abstract.
Celso Moskowitz May 2017
I admire her unnoticed,
at first,
as she walks down
the other side
of the street
under the light
rain.

As she crosses
my position,
the eyes lock for a moment
too long; before
too long she is
gone,
leaving me with the cigarette
and the questions and the rain.

Twenty seconds or
twenty years are
the same,
in substance if not
magnitude.
Celso Moskowitz May 2017
Like an unseen leak spreading
infiltrations on barren walls,
it's always something
small turned
big:
a tighter ***
or a wider smile,
bigger ****
or more genuine laughter,
truer notes to the unheard
melody
or the better faking of
the truth,
a different set of eyes on yours
or just a peculiar way to stir
the coffee
or your brains.

We wait so much
for love,
the when love
comes, love
is not enough.

Neither are
we.
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