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 Sep 2012 Darkin
BB Tyler
Bring forth your
whole self.
I do not mean
pronounce your name,
show your form,
or announce the game you play,
but the being that is
without death;
the blank page that was before
the writings of mother and father
graced its white
humility.

Show me this.

It may seem a difficult task,
yet it is done without being asked,
no trifle nor trouble,
and once completed,
seems to have been done before
you even set about
to begin.

For the self is selfless
and gives its isness freely,
thus leaves no mark,
holds no home,
sits not stark,
does not roam,
from where/when/why/how it already is.

abound with fruits
are flowers;
are seeds.
black and warm,
with no need
for audio/visual,
hands-on learning techniques.

a fire is simply
burning,
yet is not itself when so.

Show me this.
Wu Wei
 Aug 2012 Darkin
dj
Time Wizard
 Aug 2012 Darkin
dj
I can't
Believe
I made you go away

I need a Time Wizard so I can recant
So I can retrieve
That guy I was yesterday
Yesterday
Who am I kidding

It's been three years
And
As cliche as this sounds
Every time
I have the slightest thought of
You
My ears tune in to my heartbeats
And they sound sad

Still.
 Jul 2012 Darkin
BB Tyler
We don't want to be machines,
it's in our programming.
 Jul 2012 Darkin
dj
Ken Doll
 Jul 2012 Darkin
dj
Calf augmentation => silicon implantation
Endoscopy, otoplasty, baby
Mentoplasty, rhinoplasty, scalpel
Juvederm at 4, Starbucks pit-stop right after,
pop some xany's and go

Chemical peel, dermabrasion
Dr. Unknown PhD. meet patient Montag XR3.
Brain stimulation, kneecap replacement
Doc, I'm starting to miss the table, is this a complication I should expect?

Fat grafting, bone grafting, mystic tanning
(what really is natural nowadays?)
Chin reconstruction, laser resurfacing,
(what really is me anyways?)

Consultation with your post-op pain,
It's gonna be "Ouchy" for a month,
but worth it in the end.
Self-esteem scan shows a cancerous tumor and growth
Yuck
And here I thought plastic was
"cancer-free"?
x_x
 Jul 2012 Darkin
dj
Monsanto
 Jul 2012 Darkin
dj
X marks the spot,
A man in overalls and rubber gloves tells me

Go stand there, son

And pick the bones & beaks
Out of the
Chicken press

The whole factory reeked of ammonia
I went home reeking of ammonia.

Chicken conveyor-belts
With upside-down chickens on hooks
Riding slowly over one master neck-splitting saw
Heads in baskets
For when the master saw cuts too deep

I watched them come
& go...

The factory was filled with silent mechanical drumming
Eventually,
I went home
Silent & mechanical.
Observations on human moral plasticity. GMOs meet a poet.
 Jul 2012 Darkin
BB Tyler
Midday
 Jul 2012 Darkin
BB Tyler
Some days the taste in your mouth is sweet.
Some days leave you feeling complete.
Today is a day always under your feet.
Tomorrow a day you will never meet.
Yet still we retreat
from yesterday,
and in a dead heat
you blessed her stay,
than she was away.

She keeps her cool
even with blood a'boiling;
I'd be a fool
not to smell what i'm spoiling.
When I fell in love with you
I thought I knew myself.
I told you all about who I thought I was,
and I might have been right.
For the time being.

Now I know that I don't know myself
and that everything changes
including my self.

I no longer feign understanding of who I am,
I just have to live and find out.

Words make things seem so simple. So concrete.
In 'reality', nothing is further from the truth.

I am a myriad of things which constantly change in a plethora of ways and which defy definitions.

Not only do I not know what will change, nor how, nor why,
but I also don't know when nor how quickly.
Not to mention what events these changes may set in motion,
or what motions they may stop.

It is evident that some things have changed.
In me. In you. In the world. For better and for worse.
Some things have indeed stayed the same. For better and for worse.
Some events have been set in motion. For better and for worse.
Some motions have been stopped. For better and for worse.

We need to allow things to change or stay the same.
For better or worse are matters of perception
and thus are relative to each individual
for better or for worse.
Only by letting go can we keep hanging on.
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