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i didn't feel a poem but

the poem feeled me, so

I ppeeled the skin of lin

-guist-sticks and built a

lil tree fort
touch my unmealed body like a holocaust joke
how many minds does it take to ***** in a
light-bulb - - - one if they've got an idea !

touch my unmealed body like a genocide
survivorman kommandant ki(ll)ss me so
softy directly to the lips he's a sly one, a
little flirtatious and can i blame him he's
got victims up the ying yang darkbright
why would he choose me for the camp
nap eternal?

touch my unmealed body like a holocaust joke
touch my unmealed body - - - make me drop t
he soap so i know what it is to lean in love as
you grab me - - won't fall won't fall i'm yours
as you yonder and ponder and make my insides
collapse with what god endowed as gify measure

but you save me, so I lean in love and i do not
fall
u grab me like a lover, slap me like a brother,
speak softly like a mother - - now you smother
and you smother and you smother but you save
me, so I lean in love and do not fall

so I lean in love and do not fall

so I lean in love and do not *fall
 Nov 2013 Derek Yohn
Epic Monkey
(To my sisters and brother)

I will always miss …


Our sunset ending quarrels

Our never-ending teases

Christmas’ shared carols

Warm hugs

Through sweet gazes

The sarcastic smiling faces

The growing-up races

Revenge taking chases

Greed over goodies to be hidden

In unpredictable places


And I will always miss …


Competitions and crazy bets

Singing hilarious duets

Of made-up songs in the shower

This innocence

Of our childish humor

Screamed from a room to another

That art of tricking eachother

To cleverly stay in control

Or wrestling over the remote control



And I will always miss …

Decades of shared history

Amplified joy and divided misery

Bursts of laughter on old tapes

Creatively imagined games

Of whirlpools in drapes

And goalkeeper leaps

Random costume parties

Daily role-play stories

Sega sagas from dusk to dawn

Alliances and conspiracies


Sisters, my lovely sisters

Wise, you have become

Loving wives, caring mothers

Soon, you will become

Make sure your kids relive

What we used to live

Their uncle will make you proud

Just like you fill him with pride


Brother, dear brother

I secretly looked up to you

As I grew older

I kept resembling you

It doesn’t matter

If you’re a little far

Brotherhood’s a matter

Of unbreakable bond


And I will always admire, respect, love and cherish …
Every single one of you
Written last month.
My brother lives in another country and my sisters will both get married next year
 Nov 2013 Derek Yohn
Reece
The bed is cold when you turn in at night
   because the frigid winter winds have settled in too
   and like a fool you left the window open all day
You take a dab of speed as the lamp goes dim
   its the only thing to keep tumescence
   when you make love to a lover you no longer love
******* is no longer sport, only a chore
   and the night birds at the window sing a song of sadness
   beady eyes keeping tabs on the city boy's blues
When the day is done the television screeches, unreality television
   you're so depressed and you have nothing, not even sleep
   and the cold body beside you snores through the night
Even on rare occasions of sleep, you only dream of dying
   fiery bus brought with peasant's tokens is burning
   as it flies over some cliff face and you remain stoic
Waking only in afternoon sunsets with a sore head and dry mouth
   stumble down the stairs to an empty kitchen and the cat has **** again
   you clean the mess and make a sandwich, no topping just butter
How many days can pass before you crawl to the shop to buy food
   and you contemplate suicide as you scrape the tub of butter again
   falling upstairs in a somber stupor, vomiting after eating
She comes home from work and calls it off, packing her bags
   you roll another joint without words being spoken
   she closes the door and the already broken window breaks more
Smoking on your herbal solitude and preparing the last hit
   that sweet tender brown in a spoon you found
   it hits the vein and you feel happiness, first and final time
Sitting in some trash-found chair and reading Camus
   these are the final moments, surely you cannot hold on
   Abner Jay is playing and you fall asleep forever
a thin pencil line
of light was seen to the west
as day came to end
And
                       ........
                                          (After all)

••

After all of the screen has been torn away

And we see love

                                (After that ....?)

AFTER THAT MY GOD WHAT THEN!!--?

••

(After all Fear is slain)

••

And we start rising from the dead

And we put an end

To the destroying of our world

••

And the children are freed

Frm the chains being forged for them

••

Come
Let us speak plain

The simpleness

The gentle human power

That we are

••
••

Let us mean

(& do)

Everything that we say
[the slave auction is over
                                    on the other side of town]



And woe unto us this dark drear day

Woe unto us

For the games we have our children play

••

••

[somewhere-----(it is said).                              
A good man lives].                                      

        •

How can I know you?

What do you want?



Love is beautiful
Love is kind

Life

Life is a wonder

These are terrible times

Have no fear

Love is strength

••

There is an anger
Know it well
Only the sea

Only the lovers walk the sand

Hand in hand and also death

The cold chill wind -- (ah yes!)

••

I see you 1000 years ahead

A child and the whole human race

••

We are -----SEED

••

The bright light?

(The moon?

OR GOD!)

••

Oh my eyes!
What we have seen!



It's just you and me

(All in all --

And everyone)
 Nov 2013 Derek Yohn
JM
Another cold night alone
with nothing but the ringing in my ears
and the traffic on the hill
as I grind into sleep.

You are missing from me

I need your smells to welcome me home.
I want your warmth left on the couch cushion.
I have to see girl stuff infiltrate my cabinets.

Please

Bring me yoga pants left on the chair
and random hair ties in weird places
and long hairs on the pillow
and clean dishes
and **** that I would never think of cooking
and stretch marks
and skin products
and grace
and beauty
and soft lips
and smooth curves
and wet folds
and a soft touch
and mood swings
and chub rolls
and dresses, lots of dresses.

Give me your shadows weight
and your insecurities
and fears
and scars
and let me carry
your nothing.

I will help you heal

This cold night,
this tortuous loneliness,
this moment,
Now,

I need you here

Be my sugar.
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