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 Aug 2014 purple orchid
r
the corps
 Aug 2014 purple orchid
r
Ain't no reason
or particular season
to the rhyme...
but my head is heavy-
and my heart is rotten
to the core.

There's holes in my pages
where there once were words-
the book worms got 'em
and left me empty...

I asked ***** Joe for a light,
but his flint wore out
on the road into Fallujah.
Now he's rotten to the corps-
he can't hear us anymore...
a secret, silent sentry.

r ~ 8/22/14
\¥/\
|    Fallujah
/ \
deep pools of sorrow
waiting to drown me

pulled down by fear,
guilt and remorse

today, I know where
the stepping stones are
that guide me
step by step
to the other side
the quality of quantity is unmerciful,
prodigious production of
wine improperly aged,
pours soiled drops
spilled without craft,
care or taste,
poured too quick to be
nothing more than
less than waste

born in reckless unrestrained
than every thought a golden gift,
bestowed upon the masses,
droppeth like the harshest hurricane rains,
gives no moisture sustenance to the world,
only floods and lays waste in dazed hazes

blesses none but the one who
cannot but cant,
measures his own demeanor in the mirror,
unsuspecting the mirror mirrors
the ides of ego,
seeds of self destruction

the throned monarch
who giveth
but does not take,
thinking the king he is,
his own best,
even better than his creator
and tho he carvo's his retno critiques
upon the brows of his subjects,
he cares not,
for it boring brings
more mastubatory page views
his addition of success,
his edition of self congratulatory
of writs and snits,
which adds up to a whole lot of
****

but you may put you pen down now,
for the world needs only
need one poet,
and it ain't me,
and it certainly ain't
you




.
For Crumble
Succinctly put but with a smile she
leads me down that golden mile,
along the silver beach until
I reach the pier,
so near and yet so far away.

She led me there last Saturday,
near again but far away,
like sand that I can't concentrate my
hands are always trying to take
a hold on her.
If only she would stop to share a little bit
then I'd be there,
and would willingly walk another mile
to see her smile at me.

When the galloping is done and the sea
comes in to cover me in foam
I shall be home.
She will come as surely as the Sun will too
she always knew and so did I that
underneath the vastness of the sky,this
ocean is as vast or more and I'll be waiting
at the door to let her in.
are you for real?
why would you do this to yourself?
he’s not even real,
at least not that you know.
all he is is a combination
of letters and numbers,
zeros and ones
that you haven’t seen in the flesh.
but he likes you,
and nobody else does,
so why wouldn’t you jump at the chance?
because you’re lonely
and so is he
and he says that you’re
the most beautiful thing
he’s ever seen,
and no one has ever said that to you
in your entire life.
wow
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