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ZOO Nov 2024
In neural sparks and ancient bone,
Love and hope were carved, not grown.
Evolution shaped their guise,
A social need, a brain’s disguise.

Yet in their fire, we find our creed,
A shared delusion we still feed.
Though chemistry explains the flame,
Its warmth transcends the fleeting name.

For truth resides not just in fact,
But in the ways our hearts react.
If love's a lie, it still feels real,
And hope compels the will to heal.

In subject’s gaze, the universal’s clear,
A fragile truth, yet no less dear.
Oct 2024 · 29
curtains wrap around me
ZOO Oct 2024
Unfunny punchlines
reluctantly wait meanwhile
   Until you are ready
Oct 2024 · 20
Sculpting in Time
ZOO Oct 2024
Imagine standing in a field just after a storm. The air smells new, and everything around you feels warm — the world is breathing.

You see a rainbow,
bending in the sky,
Unreachable to touch or hold
     yet you are happy,
And don’t know why;


It’s the same way you feel when you see a butterfly or hear a song  
    your heart races away
to understand the world without needing to explain it.

But to make life as art significantly longer--
       To assimilate ourselves
        to the world and to others
        to be humble, compassionate, forgiving and understanding.

     We live. We have our ups and downs.  We hope or wait for something.  Finally, We die,
     and are born again but
We remember nothing.

And everything begins from scratch.
May everything come true.
May, they believe.

And may they laugh at their passions, But above all
  Let them believe in themselves.
  Let them be helpless children
  For weakness is a great thing Because what has hardened will never win.

In a vast, barren landscape
  the sky keeps its oranges and
  purples, until nearly
  understanding isolation
  in eyes heavy with unspoken
  thoughts preparing to reveal.

Rake a plow across the dry soil with bare fingers, dirt caking
as in a mirror--
this act of cultivating the soul—
    each dig is slow and deliberate,
    conveying struggle and toil,
earth is tough, reluctant to yield.

The sea is glazing over, reflecting a flicker of distant light, perhaps fire or stars, to symbolize a revelation, the small hints of something greater beyond them,
cut rapidly into being human.

Show me a field of dormant plants in the ploughed earth,
   imaged we are soon tangled
   roots beneath the  deep unseen realms.

My muffled sound
a heartbeat over the quiet rustle of wind or soil—barely perceptible,
—drawing a parallel between 
the rhythm slow. methodical.

Nearly confronting the cliff's edge in a fog-covered expanse,
There’s no clear direction,
  Where paths are invisible
the inevitable finality of death.

Torn into peices
Life moves away
    my follicles follow,
    Laying finger to unbutton
    in shades blouse silhouette
  
 The water well spat into
  sloped cottage flows down
    forgotten things to prepare
    naught enough time to think
    To hope in soul's certainty.
grasp intuitively, and had a stroke, all the laws of this world, its beauty and ugliness, it's compassion and cruelty, its Infinity and its limitations. In this sense, art comes much closer to being a spiritual experience And its creation is to enact a Faith.
Oct 2024 · 24
Grizzly stare
ZOO Oct 2024
unpredictability of human behaviour especially in who's last breath is for:

     here is not a map or compass
     all seemingly lost becomes satisfying
When I am to predict
  -  where my life begins
   - the arrow spins unbearably.

Who or what in The moment I'm to change into revolt and turn into live and stare.
Sep 2024 · 22
Hella yeah
ZOO Sep 2024
Touch my eyes.
I'm singled out instantly
  And slumming down your  smile
  ;,,, constantly; my head plunges
  Did we do you again, I'm so sorry
the same day is over, tomorrow.
Sep 2024 · 23
sully king
ZOO Sep 2024
My shadow,
a Cast away
seeking sunlit sands
Escaped
his form to follow
Aug 2024 · 34
I can't imagine either
ZOO Aug 2024
Aphantasia,
the best parts of life, just like     you l've always struggled with imagining chasing my own
  tale, but you?
  You've got your sights set on bigger things,
and neither of us can imagine what that is.
Aug 2024 · 26
Sloth mouth
ZOO Aug 2024
Slow down
with every word you chew
       try a different tooth
Spoon
           mana
                       off the ground
Aug 2024 · 13
content with it
ZOO Aug 2024

                  If
           I'm
      to
see          moon...
   the
       man
             In
                  the 
a
Painful
Labor
I'll
just
have
to
be.
Jul 2024 · 15
Dear daughter,
ZOO Jul 2024
And these are the hell texts I never send to
a child I never had a hard chance with
a distance relationship with a little girl


Dear daughter,

How's your day going?
Can we chat?

I'm sorry but I'm not having a great day.

Maybe a visit with my daughter
who I Love
to cry about
in my dreams
will help me get away from
my current troubles with sleeping?

Yes, I have recurring nightmares of having had lost you
in some weird strange city
and I'm driving or running around not ever finding you.

I'm Going up to strangers asking if you have been seen.

I've lost her...

I can't find her ...

It's just terribly sad stuff you wouldn't want to dream and wake up crying about

Or want to forget it
happened when you wake up...


Somehow, I feel it's really real or
has already been happening.

Sorry so 😔
Jul 2024 · 19
Possum
ZOO Jul 2024
Gives into the chase
Faints Squinting to believe your
One lie at a time
Jul 2024 · 44
Balanced with whip
ZOO Jul 2024
From Ben Dover MA
  U are not my soil ph
  a NYmph minute fan
Jul 2024 · 23
Cake Echo
ZOO Jul 2024
Lower down than billionaires
Let them eat tears in the rain  
Daily diet of bouillon cubes
Jul 2024 · 17
A piece of me
ZOO Jul 2024
Next to a Panhandler
Who sells you with, " all of this...
will be yours one day"

only The Three feet of air above you
Counsels you on your peice of cake

Trade A cot and A hot, or exchange work
       that will fry your eyes on a sidewalk,

and fake it better
Than your spare change of heart,

        yearns better than for you
        Not slipping up, bubble clairvoyant

The staked cairn
       My chin propped up on
       to cry to sleep in the cracks opening

How fun it'll be one day,
rolls up in dark
canvas sleep & dream where I'm winning.
ZOO Jul 2024
If these stones could speak

Spock -
piled up and ran with few needs to meld with the many,..." I outweighed and
embraced them,
                          and prospered."

                             - with the
                wild beauty

Գara daVinci
Livɘ aɈ Ɉʜe Ƨqυare Яadiυs
Wright ЯabbiɈs Hopɘd JυsɈ openɘd
[ Գɒinfυllγ ϘυieɈ ]
Գara daVinci
Livɘ aɈ Ɉʜe Ƨqυare Яadiυs
Wright ЯabbiɈs Hopɘd JυsɈ openɘd
[ Գɒinfυllγ ϘυieɈ ]
Jul 2024 · 31
○ff // ○n
ZOO Jul 2024
(○n  be obvious  
  All in
(○ff things work
Jun 2024 · 33
flat equal
ZOO Jun 2024
The city sits small in a forest
noise canceling by leaves.
. This ant-infecting fungus that manipulates the behaviour of its prey, the so-called “zombie-ant fungus” causes infected ants to climb upwards in forests to enable the fungal spores to be more widely distributed from the dying corpse
Jun 2024 · 29
Good turns
ZOO Jun 2024
Don't let the door hit ya,
  where the good lord split ya, [over]
See ya wouldn't want to be ya; [
)me
Jun 2024 · 13
How did I get there ,
ZOO Jun 2024
dark nails looted merch
Life lacks beauty
I shrug
Jun 2024 · 32
OldEnglish redy
ZOO Jun 2024
Red rover read
  Send  it or end it, [over]
Turns on a ;[
)ime
Fun with character's limited type
ZOO Jun 2024
Whatever Will Be, Will Be
   sweetheart,
what future lies ahead?
   (Que Sera, Sera)

I knew her
"before she
;"[)ied

and that unfortunate reputation of being missed"
but with my happy-go-lucky image
Just write

Here lies
Goody Two-Shoes,
Jun 2024 · 13
A smile about her
ZOO Jun 2024
I don't know what it is
Snappy braided poney tail
(cluck-cluck)(kiss-kiss) whoa
Jun 2024 · 29
Cuddle cafe
ZOO Jun 2024
hide when you're two afraid -
but not enough to first try -
and pay as you go.
Jun 2024 · 18
Can't pass it up
ZOO Jun 2024
universal invariant
The times Zip  
 Are these Veggies

produce sections
Of Understanding
Not What
You
Said
So i Write it
Down and
Report it

In my Comparison
I Did Detect
What bugs me
linear acting
Of all shapes
can be evident so simple
to predict:

we are Alone
amongst the aliens above
who have all the better things
May 2024 · 28
To Soppy to read;
ZOO May 2024
I know what you think
open book my mind  casts down
, - )
Sad angry orphan
May 2024 · 28
Distributing circles
ZOO May 2024
going to do it with a wheeze hop
No purpose in saving a thumb
gotta grind Axels and sign stuff on some
May 2024 · 12
wood base
ZOO May 2024
Use love for the ones who can hears ya
And be in perfect pitch
to be as old as that other potter- in four year's is replaced.

Practice with kids for the best good soil  to make posts,
    May you do or say as I do it - in a pinch
    Is just a string of loops or phrases;

To be able to throw those out,
as any lump of clay
just to challenge any new hapless game
with ***** in hand waiting to be lifted;

Do as the form allows one to believe,
and make just enough to keep on simply
What I do is the way I see it.
to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless"  form of word
May 2024 · 16
MayFlower
ZOO May 2024
Where of extreme beauty, when covered with their snowy fleece of bloom, or when glowing sweet and tasting, stony red apples outside the margins vary
   from tooth, to lobed or divided,
   thorns long and stout, or few and feeble; thus belying the name, a spectacle.
May 2024 · 33
Boss
ZOO May 2024
Telluride, a white lightning
you haven't read anything yet;
Gather rounds - work goes down
   the Alzhammer Electric mule,
   they drive-in-it ***** and mean,
 And I get them, they're nothing, and better by the falling glow.
May 2024 · 72
The way I see it
ZOO May 2024
Use love for the ones who make it
And you can never be perfect enough
Subjugation is to become phenomenol

practice with kids for the best good *** you can
Over coming oneself rather than being replaced

Is known by another poet's form
Can you do or say it in a Pinch
as strings of words wind and become looplike lapse of reason to know

And to be able to just throw them out
As any greenware potter
just to challenge any new try
lumpless
Ball waits around to be lifted

Do as many practices as it takes to form
And to make enough money to keep
What I do: One is in my simple woods a declaration at Walden,
Henry David Thoreau
is to exercise good observation.

Henry David Thoreau describes the treezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond
Henry David Thoreau describes the treezing and thawing of the pond, and recounts his experiments to measure the depth and shape of the bottom of the supposedly "bottomless" Walden Pond
ZOO May 2024
I work until 3, 4, 5 or until I'm tired,
I'm bound in Life to work until I die.

It makes me have to Save until it has
nothing left to work for, but accepts.

Until the Till can change mechanism,
Except when to do so has no Soldiers.
May 2024 · 26
brie liberally
ZOO May 2024
bend some white creme cheese
harden
      to inescapable tension
      Of being inebriated
      parlay until it courtesies
;old and smooth and romantic
May 2024 · 17
face 2 face 1 HR $38
ZOO May 2024
Punching the wrong buttons
at much error of time self manage
work the kiosk myself mistake
Just to try face to face
Job Interview for the county downtown

      when getting In Or Out
for the Lots of THEM
Is to pay 38$:dollars... for a gadgetry
Of beuravracy doohickeygolden arm


later...
Exit Attendants have been replaced by this kiosk

NO attendant no fuss
to raise a gate lever

No  little man in the cage
because of cutbacks

To get my car out of the public lot for parking  

      There is a lesson somewhere
as I thought about it ****  **** !
swiped my card.

trying to parking your *** and work
for the government is ******* expensive
May 2024 · 15
Typeface matters
ZOO May 2024
crudely scribbled sick
but LOUDLY
   in a Fat Black Sharpie Marker
torn, duct taped up by
old grey hair beggar
   in wheelchair

who barley can hold on:
crumpled cardboard sign

#   ANY HELP
     GOD BLESS.  #

  Or

  Drip.merch.bussin.dope.sic
Curvy bratty rich colors beautified job cursive writing by
  teen dancing twirling

barley can hold onto their jeans:
thin white posers

#  °°○○ScHOol Car Wash○○☆☆
;)        ☆☆ help just $5.00.   #
May 2024 · 19
seriously good
ZOO May 2024
Mamas bottom clean pancakes
for medicinal use only.
May 2024 · 14
ALCOHOLOGIC
ZOO May 2024
seeks cosmoplay professional
: poor me to another
to make more twocents protests
: this is all I can do
as expressing right to
: think about the pour
Poor me
May 2024 · 13
You are My only hope
ZOO May 2024
Red Rover red rover the forced game
  Of just Eating The crumbs was over.

         In a land far and away
my stomach
         had receded from its trash,
a basket compactor-
                 On 2nd chance day of scraps
just to be revived for a 3rd time
happily May this forth me to live.
Apr 2024 · 29
China in Paris
ZOO Apr 2024
Anthony Bourdain Parts Uncertain
Smashing real plates gets hard
Generalized and plastered reveal
First-hand-Job- universal entertainment.
Apr 2024 · 15
powerless
ZOO Apr 2024
I need your ways or else you may be
   transformed into something  else.

Living without it is
   like everyday living on the Angel's edge

Duct taped wings appear when there is
    some groan beating between us.
Apr 2024 · 9
The van Gohs
ZOO Apr 2024
Needing: in the small breath I’m holding,

that from other people’s conversations,

cutoff in my element listen alone,

withered thinner easily grovel or stoop,

to the conventions of others years
who involved my art with money.



Here: a smile is waiting reposed,

it's poor rendering despised,

what bosses her heart,

squeezing paint out in a new way,

the tender old accumulating inside
beauty behind rehab.




Appreciation: what colors work engauge,

my manners strengths to help when,

youths arrow light or dark I can't recall,

your newborn art rage was abandoned.



Portrait: sitting down suddenly slumped,

a coffee shop to hang these up in,

there is that someone or that so-in-so,

worse than mine should I need to compare,

why there are artists asking her to pose.



To age someone: many blinks it takes,

to the light, to the air, in confidence,

I am so aware what it is to make,

things wanting to be sold to this *****,

crooked smile or non-brushed-hair
a window to the world she was remade.
Apr 2024 · 21
Dustications
ZOO Apr 2024
This wasted land of consumption
opens me up to grab even more
it wasn't anything else to do but keep.

Return with sentences the soil collected  lays motionless to nothing and opening  hands dedicates each day to consonants.

Antidote is love life without any evidence
For what the hecks wrong with you,
be the blind mice drama mistook us for.
Apr 2024 · 23
Moist mouth
ZOO Apr 2024
Aversion to infuriating
Cant cop to that

when Life becomes lifey
like Mr Hair whose not hairing
speaks by hidden sounds

listening is asking
repeating what you said
Share your triumphs or struggles

sounds-like
Share your
TRiAMPs or Try[Eyeu]mphs
Apr 2024 · 13
Shame
ZOO Apr 2024
In you is an agreement unable to decide
  Tomorrow by not going there today'
To be certain walks about unnoticed
  another quick comsumptous feat opens  thin gaunt hungry deaf echo to undo
  making me appear foolish to hide.
Apr 2024 · 3
diasporalomat
ZOO Apr 2024
The New diplomacy by AI ChatGPT
In recognition of the many in one
Use Once you're not special to think
Data on a dopamine drip drip drips it
migrates to where you cannot escape
The Brave world avatars answer as me
Apr 2024 · 9
ComPassionate
ZOO Apr 2024
The shift to protection
to struggle with me
Or toward the Exodus
how to Behave
or let be and have an exit

My secret
Isn't the sickness
Just try to be on the same side
Love is just as a contagion
to hold up and be
Mar 2024 · 8
early years
ZOO Mar 2024
shoot me up for you to stare back at
to go with you knowing you
Were such a snap left me without
  just to cope being blacked out
The old Slips in and the new is out

On the sunny side of life adulting
I hit hard at my younger self groaning
peeled up from ambitious skin
shrunk back from getting touched when
To be part of this terminal knowing

a foggy skin showers me with doubt
were the years where i told it nothing
when I whistled to just go on without
You was yet to be painfully spelled out
with the escapes yet to be escaped from

mix in the swirls of the starry heavens
strip teasers strapped to me invented
targets my knees by soothe whispers
fills me up with such Sesame says to
slip into a glass sparkling with webs
Mar 2024 · 17
Fictophilia
ZOO Mar 2024
We can exist a lot in life longer than you
think you can.
Mar 2024 · 25
just drive
ZOO Mar 2024
I.d.'diction is the eye just obsessing-
super ego's identity, it's a powerful myself
fixated I dream to out live all others
Our reality is what it costs us.
Mar 2024 · 16
Purrfectly be like
ZOO Mar 2024
a bit confused and paused
  why it's my job,
To get rid of the mice
  chastising me to catch them

oh, !zzznap to just lay around
The kitchen floor
Staring back into that void
THEY be trippin' over catnip.
Mar 2024 · 29
Unusable
ZOO Mar 2024
to paw away with a broken thing
try to sell what it did and save
The more I know I can give away.
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