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21 · Jul 12
Grit girl
ZOO Jul 12
every Bag of Bones
    That comes through this town
          .you're grit
- Turns frowns upside down -
21 · Oct 2024
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.
20 · Jul 10
# --- tight rope ---#
ZOO Jul 10
It will not break free
farthest-away it spans—
a line and the middle seam.
the bridge
from breath to belief,
from ridge to ridge
the beginning to the end.


In a whisper of a fall
The tightrope pulled taut
gravity beneath us

---------------------------------------------------
walking the arc tremor
My path half-phased,
      each pause a beating errors
  
     
Hold the Blue dot aloft,
With a string
draw a line right through it
‐-‐-----‐‐‐----------------------------------------
    Higher­ still,
a balloon’s great lift
pulls the same thread
in an upward cloudless drift


---‐‐‐-----------------------------------
It's about two city blocks,
or two football fields end-to-end.

hung from
a Span of 600 feet and does not break
From the Lines own weight

------the Catenary Curve—
the shape of a flexible string
or
suspended cables staked
between two points
under its own weight


The rope between
two tall trees in a park,
or two light poles
on either side of a small canyon or wide field.

If going up. Vertically

lift with 12-ft helium balloon
(1,284 feet of rope):(1/4" polyester braided rope),
  the arc/sag/tension

This is just under the height of the Empire State Building

In open terrain,
it would look like a thread rising endlessly vanishing
into the sky.

o---------------- sag (~20 ft) ---------------o
   |                                             |
  [Pole]                                     [Pole]
   |                                             |
   |            ~400–600 ft span                 |
   |                                             |
   ~ Ground
--------------------------------------------
Cool morning hours: Air is denser and less turbulent as in
Clear skies

The rope appears like a glowing wire
it vibrates slightly in the hour
of light as
defying nature's usual paths.


Vibrations hum through the string,
like a long, single harp note.

It carries even distant footsteps or balloon-tugging winds

Cool in the morning, warm by noon  .Curios path that doesn’t fall.

Slight quivers beneath my feet, are enough for us to hang on to
‐--------------------------------------------------
Others below might find the line Suspicious of its height--




The string—whether hanging across  the sky—
weight and lift
are my partners in tension.

Forevery step is a study in my balance---
we chase distance or meaning.
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20 · Oct 2022
Hurts
ZOO Oct 2022
Intensity is needing to offer up a feeling everything at once to be placed
Unfortunately that does happen just once before death, and my last dying breath
To be snuffed out it makes me
before my God, unhappy.

Make me the light of a fallen idea
  As Venus rising up out of the sea
Confronting the eternal peace
  Of these wages upon me
waves upon waves when
  They can wash every shore clean.

  Protection resides up in
The morning star light
  It gives and i receive it
Am I besides myself alone
having no other thing than
But what i am offered up
Halted afraid as in hurts
my brother's keeper.
20 · Mar 2022
To appeal to the Irish
ZOO Mar 2022
It's  quiet beautiful
A present danger
I'm clenching here
say we
have come this far
20 · Jul 2024
Cake Echo
ZOO Jul 2024
Lower down than billionaires
Let them eat tears in the rain  
Daily diet of bouillon cubes
20 · Apr 2022
Go without
ZOO Apr 2022
a breather
But I can anytime
Burn
20 · Nov 2023
awakening
ZOO Nov 2023
I had a feeling
that I had had a bath in a
clean stream, mental, morale
physical and spiritual.  
All of a sudden I was clean.

The effects, as I lay there in bed
trying to understand this
feeling, a thought came, to
me that was foreign to any
thought I had ever had
because of its simplicity
and that thought was about
my EATING GOOD FOOD.
20 · Feb 2022
When is too soon
ZOO Feb 2022
Seconds
are guesses
Which hand moves faster
Then snap your fingers
20 · Sep 2024
sully king
ZOO Sep 2024
My shadow,
a Cast away
seeking sunlit sands
Escaped
his form to follow
19 · Mar 2021
The gray man's driver
ZOO Mar 2021
Curly hands
the second you spot me
In with
old people playing chess
Nevermind
I've become part of pattern of life.
Been to
19 · Feb 2022
Witch is good
ZOO Feb 2022
A sickness in an old house
Stay in bed naked
  sweat it out
Say, " until you Burn me at the stake"
The longing of shlong
Explaining failed disproportions
if my craft in life
drawing to my peers
In debt and
Forever pushing
19 · Jan 2024
Mirror
ZOO Jan 2024
Direct me
However dense various images overwhelmed my sixth sense
My little finger sparks and
Second natures tap.
19 · Mar 2021
Lies kicked
ZOO Mar 2021
Everyday I hide me
Laughing is all I have
And is Certainly
Tense.
19 · Jul 2024
Possum
ZOO Jul 2024
Gives into the chase
Faints Squinting to believe your
One lie at a time
19 · Feb 2021
To be young again
ZOO Feb 2021
I envy you standing
The threshold of your own
Experience.
18 · May 2024
seriously good
ZOO May 2024
Mamas bottom clean pancakes
for medicinal use only.
18 · Mar 2022
Refuge
ZOO Mar 2022
What Crazy
Is this The life
It takes away. I won't cry for   today and survive
Suffering
I don't cry for you and make a way to you
Christ
18 · May 11
Life boy
ZOO May 11
Blue Moon groaned you're late
  Charmed, Springs music slow fingers,
       Shoot out what I found.
18 · Mar 2021
Author
ZOO Mar 2021
another puff on a cigarette .  nicely stares
been the man in the house for as long as I can remember
when my eyes left
turned a little toward the northern Pole, a smile to my lips
grief sits here
in this place
waiting around for You
18 · Mar 2021
Wake up when
ZOO Mar 2021
this you would say loudestly
As a hug pillow
Doesn't take up much space
Night sweats
Self induced.
17 · Oct 2024
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.
17 · Feb 2022
Shauna
ZOO Feb 2022
I'm going to the sauna
Every body who ever died In loving memory,
there's no stopping me
The end is a heated wet wood room with friends.
You are here ,-invited
Especially the -un.
17 · Sep 2024
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.
17 · Nov 2023
OKd byLucyfers
ZOO Nov 2023
Rolling along a cardboard sign
I Amused, myself stopped to endure, more than patrol cars tired to give chase,
Hide behind as a skirt can try to reel me in, Are troll feelings even real?

Hi! Will whoever has the vacuum cleaner let me know when you're done with it please?

Soh!ound would you like to live a life that is delicious
Shamenanonam
Jellied
Patrol Car 1
17 · Mar 2024
Fictophilia
ZOO Mar 2024
We can exist a lot in life longer than you
think you can.
17 · Oct 2022
Into the fire
ZOO Oct 2022
You and I can declare like myself his human will had failed that God can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves unless we can admit our complete defeat.

In ordering a new world to be lifted before each other,
There is no more original power in sin or in him than there is in me at this minute unless we can offer our suffering up for such an impossible tasks ahead if us.

Shout the greatest tidings of such wars over our  burnt offerings of which God is better pleased to receive between Cain or Abel.

At This time I would ask to help my brother with what is here in each of our hearts the choicest of the flock and the fattest spring time meats.
17 · Dec 2023
Terrible spaces
ZOO Dec 2023
In my head, dope
picks out
The nothing clap of quick eyes
Paired with a faint hand
  gauking over much-needed else
But steady silent reflection.
17 · Dec 2020
Hush puppy
ZOO Dec 2020
My momma was so beautiful
She didn't have to touch the stove
She just brushed her hand
To turn it on.
16 · Jun 28
Something between us
ZOO Jun 28
Jour needs live's breathes
  toward each takes many  

            heroes  
rescued from themselves.
Story structures
16 · Mar 2024
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.
16 · Jan 10
deficit of face
ZOO Jan 10
touted as tidy  
   disgusting in the ways of waste
   nervous and diverse
   fill in a bit
   of whats tucked in your head
  nearly full deck
I'll turn the tables on tmtou
I've have
Been around the world
  
   along the spine       _  / B/
   Stichn slips   _   /O/ _
     slips of paper    _  / O/
                
   nooks crannies _   / K/ _
 leaning.               _  / S/ _
16 · Feb 2021
Terrible conversation
ZOO Feb 2021
Don't talk to those who can't
Imagine dancing with a wolf,
Trips you up
At twilight.
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.
16 · Dec 2024
Your Anise Haiku
ZOO Dec 2024
frosted spiced sugar
hardened blue lacquer candy
tastes like licorice


If I was created like God intended as rainbows . . .
Why did God put an amusement center next to a sewage system when creating  me?
Mix and boil: corn syrup,
blue food dye and anise spice; pour out as a cool hard sheet break up with mallet in chunks.
flavor of ancient times
ZOO Mar 2024
secrets keep you sick

to the room where a rage
  holds no fear over being
appointments are necessary disappointed

  hung a sign to read

Awetoppsies performing daily
  To strip to Sit in my lapse of reason
Soon appears in middle of that room

  sovereign knowledge of flat lining

pieces of flesh are dissected
  Spirited away quietly
adventure awaits you in the off world
15 · Mar 2021
this ideal work
ZOO Mar 2021
on the hedge of taking it off
likes others walks with no mask
while talking on the cell phone, seems ok but I dare not.

yeah! it's Nice, real freed to see you
absorbed in facing it.

I don’t like wearing pants
and then there’s the rules,
skirts or masks
need to be lifted.
15 · Dec 2020
Bank account
ZOO Dec 2020
I played squash
A lot of money
You ran until
A cough,
A
lot of
Good
Push To use ours
I take a cigarette.
15 · Nov 2023
Quiet soon
ZOO Nov 2023
how to keep somebody safe
  dazed and confused
  
down and out of it
  jumped up too late
  
forgot how it felt,
  for too long
Th
15 · Jan 2024
To Mammoth
ZOO Jan 2024
I offer up in small devotionals
All my HOLISMs to their Almighty Vigils
  as a Creed
In vain hope that These credits work
  as kryptonite.
14 · May 2024
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.
14 · Feb 2024
Payrent before you parent
ZOO Feb 2024
Render your heart not your clothes
Fast and wash your face before
You bring out the art and make apparent
what lives without the ability
to pay rent before you parent.
14 · Jun 2024
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
14 · Mar 2024
Rainbow in the dark
ZOO Mar 2024
The green revolution turns away from
our remains of us in cremation as ashes
into water by a similar flushed process;

we go down the drain end up in a sewer
evaporate turn into a upper atmosphere;

But there's no one there, or no one here, who completes the mystery I amazingly trust no one has to known anything else.

The meaning of the story and narrative
It wants to know an answer it won't get,
dissolves freedom, liberates perfection.

wholeness is always absolute chaos, beautiful chaos. nowhere better to get to,
this is my stardust, whole time is no time.
14 · Mar 2024
can't cadaver
ZOO Mar 2024
breathing Birthday-Suits-
search for what isn't really,
  again! clothed.F'sakes!
13 · May 2024
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
13 · Jun 2024
How did I get there ,
ZOO Jun 2024
dark nails looted merch
Life lacks beauty
I shrug
13 · Jan 2022
You or me
ZOO Jan 2022
Noone
loves
such bad news
I believe in.
13 · Aug 2024
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.
13 · Jul 2024
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.
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