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The existence of pain is sovereign
I am ashamed of my own intolerance
We dry our tears on paper napkins
Facing your fears requires years of practice
I’ll never show you what i’m seeking
I’ll never tell you what i’m thinking
in utter confusion
the syncopated sycophants
soliloquize about sunset and sunrise
god is a verb she mutters
and they turn their heads
stunned to see who could speak such a daring statement
sonorous and sodomized by sunrises spent in sullen longing
stolen anguish shuddered upon the pavement’s dismemberment
I dare give that girl a kiss
who speaks volumes in her silence
smelts golden apples in her furnace
and burns the papyrus into dust
this dirt is holy like a paycheck
swollen like an irishman’s neck
she shrugs and releases her arm
it is cast from the aperture of the sun
a vision so swift its gone before you even notice her
Gone are the former lovers
Who held you against your will
Sediments can **** you too
We are all aware of that
As ancestors fill you in
On their escapades
Beyond the veil
We hail taxis
And light candles
Wear our sandals
In the winter
Do you dare
Approve of my uselessness
And my foolish endeavors
We are slow as snails
Gone to gather rainwater
We are healthy failures
Financially ruined
At upscale funerals
We demand the water bearers
Be heard
Firm against the herd
Birds throw stones
In our gardens  
To find their own way home
Close the televisions
You are yearning
For individuation
Satisfy my occupation
With strategic capacities
I speak my own language
My own code unfolding
From the depths
Of the subconscious
I speak in categories
And hear myself
Interpreting the Silence
Can we agree to believe in anything
Before life fades away
We shake our head again each day
There are countless apples in deliverance
So we partake in escapes so impressive
That trouble comes to collect our autographs
We are infamous and i knew I needed you
The moment I saw you staring at me
While i made myself a sandwich
We are artifacts of another time and place
It seems the remains are fading and so are you
But please don’t fall asleep, tonight
I need your many faces to keep me company
We are tracing our contemporary lives
With minds and bodies underlined
Pining for a little beauty and perhaps an apology
I am opinionated like an article of clothing
A particle of compulsive residue
We are shuddering at the sound of molecules and ions
These non-ionizing operations of insight
And licenses of poetic defiance
We are appliances of self-discovery
Upholstered in our recovery
Eating mustard greens and banana leaves
A distant relative of organisms and multiple *******
Are we awake or just bumbling through our lives
Do we divide our time between essence
And deferential retribution
Contusions of fortitude sorted and surrendered
We are the sundry insouciance
That keeps plundering our own protuberances
Money for nothing and living is free
Breath is abundant and so we sing
There is harmony, melody and your feathery feet
Are all over the upholstery
Your company is cheap
So we take leaps of discomfort
Only to discover that we all equally
Hurt and burn in the firmness of determination
Commanding action with the least bit of understanding
Some souls are a little too porous
They break promises and justify it
A little too effin effortlessly
Words are my only medium these days
And I’d hate for you to have to hesitate
Just because you lack character and have
Nothing relevant or useful to relay
your strategies are rusted
like cast-iron in the rain
grains of rice are fussed over
by hands too small to hold
weeds are plucked with flowers
and softer are the hours
than you’ve ever even known
I hesitate to ask you
Why you’ve returned
Sunburned and broken
Before the third word is spoken
You've corrected me again
I may be wrong but i think
That there is a song
Inside of you worth saving
Teeth clatter against the cold
We stole all the fire we could ever own
If you’re apprehensive
Please know that I feel you in my bones
If you’re ready to begin trying
We’ll soon be warm enough to fly
This listening is abundant
As a river flowing home
Back on its own trajectory
We shake like melancholy and grapes
Hanging from vines of redolent wisdom
Vineyards define our vision
Like snowy hillsides in autumn
We are those blue skies left to dry
On the tired old clotheslines
Of our most intimate images
introspection is violent
mindless
silence reprimands
our kindness
tired eyes drift off
hours lost in intra-course
sordid thoughts
of getting lost in spain
mainline the veins
dance in stained underpants
smart men are sailors
the semantics
that they gave us
burn us out
forensics are lost
on foreigners
it will cost you
a pretty penny
those shoes are worth many
soldiers depart
like bottles of art
cartons of copper pennies
in rolls
as kids we counted them
do you smell the furnace
those gifts
are always welcome
be aware of the hearts
you break
it is all unknown
the sword and the stone
the alchemist and the butcher
surrounding each other in daylight’s mist
the embrace of moisture
the soft hue of summer
the solstice luster

starstruck teenagers with feelings undiscovered
embrace the aperture of the morning’s disarmament
i am spent and satiated by your touch
all forms of punishment are no longer enough

come and break my heart a thousand times
i am reminded of a simple line of poetry
the way the spring becomes its own harmony
dervishes twirl on the dusty sand
the cracked desert in your hand
i am nothing but thine own command

so send me where you think i belong
all our passages are free of charge
the safety of noah’s ark
the next boat that hits the mark
will surely be knighted by the oligarch
somebody else took over my mind
and now i can’t find the essence of the time
you are immaculate in your dissension
i am hesitant and full of suspicion

dimly lit streets filled with the smell of sulphur
the fumes make you gasp
and clench your throat in defensive tension
give me a minute and i’ll release this declension

ascension is inevitable
select the inexplicable feelings
and sever your attachment to that which lingers
in hurried anticipation
our actions are mere limitations
strong as stars our abstract applications

the serpent hour approaches
without a warning
i am turning inside out
please retract your fangs so i can kiss you
let me hold your head and whisper kindness
lovers need each other’s minds
to hear the sounds of breaking hearts

long for the burning bush to crash through your wall
long ago the night fall came and went
scents of longing in the shadows hidden
rid me of these western rhythms
serve your sentence in the police academy
articulate the addicts in their gatherings
of community based infrastructures
stark against the walls of cinnamon
so many classes that are uncommonly disparaging
the drill sergeants are still just as dangerous
Silence and shapeless images
Dancing naked on the edge of a sword
We are spinning our breath into meager sediments
And what’s left are my only relationships
Is this my retaliation against the blades of oblivion
Why must I always be eliminated right before illumination
Or the combustion of concrete symbols like carbon atoms
As if my soul was undergoing oxidation
It's unconscious really that the instant we need to be aware
We take a break from concentration and fall into silent reverie
A shining monotony as the moon
Lights the way to our observation towers
We are heavy as daylight and lonely as an empty windowsill  
Whenever the sunlight shines luxuriously upon it
We are human beings doing but just barely used to using
Our unlimited and never-ending powers of imagination
If it's not elation that makes us escape our innocent privations
Then must we be immaculately nascent
Or veritably complacent and understated
In our jogging shoes and self effacement strategies
You have the blues and the reds too
The vibrations echo and they become your only decoration
Mellow and sedated we escape our approximations
By just getting a little more naked and familiar with our shadows
We shake our shoulders and shift our weight back towards the basics
As we get a little older we fold our best napkins in our pockets
And reposition the sockets and the clocks by our nightstands
To tell time just how we would like it to be
Exactly the way it was right before we died to ourselves
Are you understanding my odd way of speaking
Listening to the rhyming water as humid arias fall short of permutations
We are negotiating with contemplation’s namesake
Underlying visitations from our highest escalators
Concentrate and digest, we move forward
And caress the feathery fingers you have bared too often
We are clever and undefinable formulations
Monkeying around with the substrate of our eradication
I speak elated seances and fancy equations
Which underlie our negated vituperations
A Motley array of monkey business
Fizzles in the vaporous mist
It's an evaporative way of saying i love you
We are tender and tangential
We are offended by the examples you forget to administer
In your haste you restate the laziness of a piece of paper towel
To reply to your confessions
Underneath the premonitions you make
Is something that tastes quite a bit like logic
Money is a mass illusion
A conspiracy of occlusion
We are involuted and fruitfully disappointed
You are free to disagree
With any of melancholy’s anthems
For they are only apathetic hymns
Written to the sounds of the anointed
Funnels of trust and courage
Make you love yourself more often
Must we give happiness the rub
And settle down in our lonely carriages
Only three harmless appointments later
I saw you staring at the furniture
I hoped that it would fade way
So you could get your voice back already
In your body is a serpent
And your lungs are the ocean
You were gasping as if life
Was only one form of devotion
Or was this another failed attempt at liberation
Undertaken once too often
We have made attempts to rest
But nothing exhales anymore
And now only this shortness of breath
Can show us what's really necessary
The first thing i would do,
If i was ever in your shoes,
Is I’d walk backwards, through this room
I’d walk barefoot, through these woods
And then I’d buy you,
A brand new pair of shoes.
my lips quake as i bow to you
my heart shakes and trembles like a leaf
nature's temples wait and remind us of simplicity
are our minds as tranquil as a lake
do they reside in peaceful quiet
can we sense the edges of the wild
lines are changed and bodies rearranged daily
have you come into your power lately

i swallowed my pride but not my feelings
i give thanks for this healing
as my fingers lick your spine
i am blinded by your fury
we combine memory and poetry
lights are dancing
hunger abates and we must
face our fears with fealty
this light is bright
this life is mindless
kind of like a spiral
these burning brains
drain our storehouses
while we waste away our resources
like porous hourglasses
drip time like honey

i am a sign waving in the wind
singing my rhythms
from deep within
the water and the earth
are permanently hurting
shrouds of candid letters
leftovers that will forever
remain lonely
as isotopes of poetry
are the ions of everything
Targets never argue
And bullets never lie
Finances and fiancées
Certainly have some value
Yet we underrate our skies
Miles of lost continents
Drift out from your skin
We begin an embargo
Hoping in the future we will win
Metaphysical furniture
Effects the state of mind you're in
The record player is turned down
Heat me up and we'll begin
Strategies are decent
If we are pleasant to look at
I wonder if you have a diamond necklace
Would you mind if i pawned it
I love your ashen appearance
Last chance to buy this on clearance
Permanent breathing
Baking our wheat in the oven
It rises into fiery clouds of dough
You can't control your appetite
Instead align your soul
her eyes are fire
gliding on the wind
they simply begin to spiral
i remain invisible to you
you touch me in your lust
as houses are dismantled
and bodies sold for furniture
its a total scramble
that requires no preamble
children sample this silliness
when chili is for dinner
i am weak and ready for the winter
you lift the hunger further away
i drift like water into slumber
wherever it is we lay
you inspire me with poetry
i am likely to fall asleep
but keep on talking anyway
it might just be the thing
to help me with my feelings
and let me sort them out
i remove the usefulness
and replace it with your doubt
she ruined my world
with her beauty
i was turned upside down
and tuned-in to a different station
all my life came shattering on top of me
the moment i saw her face
and that was just the start
of the total annihilation that followed
these escapades are brutal
as all your attempts at love are fatal
so lets just let it run its course
before we are filled with more remorse
so what's the point anyway
if we aren't listening we may be destroyed
are there examples of a love this rare
please come show me your secrets
or at least give me a reason
to despise something
more than our punctuation
we were agitated
so we decided to dance
and then your hands touched mine
and so much time passed
before one could look the other in the eye
and in the eye i saw one color
one color dripping like a waterfall
a thousand doors
a thousand doors
opening
closing
practice sitting in silence
and surely you shall break free
of insincere eyelids
that wink at you
when you fall asleep
tiger talons sandwiched between islands
feline phobias bought with diamonds
in the shadows of the rainbow
sailboats are dancing
What’s it about her
That keeps you from snoring
And drawing conclusions
Whenever she removes
Her masks and her make up
All of our taste buds get used
This is probably worth exploring
And our talents are also worthy
When at last we have excelled
At all our entangled entitlements
So now it's time to begin
The undeniable silence
There’s nothing to it
Except the collapse of the entire world
It shatters all meaning
And opens new doors of connection
Were you expecting something else
A holy renaissance perhaps
Or some feeling of permanence
Ha you are fooling yourself
So go to sleep and wake up naked
Never take it for granted
That when you open your eyes
The skies could be different
And the sunrise could just
Lie there like a fire that's gone cold
We are older but never
Bolder than this moment
Everything is individual
An antipathy of time
Is right here in our mind
For millions of years
We have already formed our next life
Covered in gold we are never
As dead as you’d like us to be
He who fears the unconscious
Fears all eternity
And whoever makes themselves
A tyrant never earns freedom
the Umbrian stairs with a Tuscan flair
street walkers are there
again on the sidewalk
the moon flickers upon their jewelry
by the water they dance
and take their time laughing
while a thief waits in hiding
for morning to come
he stole the moon’s necklace
and hopes to sell it
in the heat of afternoon
to a capitalist who gives
sermons on the water
while your daughters lay around all day
thinking about how
they have nothing left to live for
If buying time is a waste of money
Then meretricious attorneys
Bleed you of your dignity (and alimony)
Currently it is only in dying
That we see no need to speak
While our currency is evolving
We are solely imitations
Of our inimical engines
Of dissipating digestion
As sedentary wives
Remain tied to triumphant spines
Shining like a pestilence
Atrophying like elephants at a circus
Their bodies and minds imprisoned
And bound by imaginary stakes in the dirt
Young prisoners in solitary confinement
Are hiding mental gems
And emotional diamonds
In lonely shipping containers
For you to polish and find
Like two lovers intertwined
She said, I can guide myself
Despite the immensity of your lies
I’ve recently declined your invitations
Because there are at least a hundred valid reasons
One should never negotiate or try to reason
With a terrorist or a tourist (for that matter)
For each are very dangerous
The more obsequious the star
The harder and more likely it will fall
But if you happen to catch one
Please remember the following
That when you put it in your jar
You must close the lid immediately
I beg your pardon
Darling what’s the use in crying
You as well as anyone  
Must know (by now) how we are all trying
To be the best we can
Given the circumstances
We are making amends for the ways
We dissected our reality
It's a tragedy that the objectification of objects
Leads to a such a Complex Elegance:
In praise of all these isolated sediments
Sorely perplexed at our own self-vehemence
jam makers dance
upon the ripe berries
inhaling sweet cherries
spitting out the seeds
like acorns falling
from nests of squirrels
that land tenderly
upon your *******
humanity’s days are roasted
in the fire-pit of the gods
in perfect symmetry we are broken
in repeating patterns and forms
from the mantle of eternity
we fell and smashed the urns
that held our ancient ashes
and kept us safe from thorns
Are you awake my love
A lady is any place with a river
And I have a shivering mind
That's only at home in the forest
We must run for the sunlight is fading
I was amazed by the crazy and the cryptic
Until you deciphered the pied piper’s rhythms
And sent him packing again in his knickers
We are wrapped in sand yet can't understand
All these candid cancellations
In the middle of November
Remember the time you ran for president
I was expecting you back home before the world ended
Do you fancy a kiss in the darkness
We can always make use of this fireplace
It tastes like turmoil and thunder
And a sundry sauntering caper
Just waiting to properly happen
I love you
There i said it
But if i tell you
Will i live to regret it
You told me
Little of your desires
You made me guess
As to what you preferred
Are we ready to speak more openly
And unfold our virtues
As well as our claws
Morbid monuments to the unknown
Speak louder than our throats can echo
So we cry into glasses of red wine
And take our time
Turning our tears and arguments into poems
Our fears are unknown soldiers
Fighting in the falling rain
Quiet as the rainbow
I know you’ll never
See me quite the same again
If i let you go, will you
Unfold or return to your sorrow
In the coldest spaces
The warmest set of hands
Can usually console you the most
choking on childless mothers
boyfriends and girlfriends
hesitate to divest their portfolios
solid again just as we melted
your crying eyes shine
like shadows on the moons of Jupiter
i am a camel like lucifer was
look for me in the quieter neighborhoods
i am a used car salesman
branded in the carcass of another
frozen like chosen pieces of dinner
to be reheated and thawed
at television meetings
and sincerely beaten
for syncopated rhythms
still slivers of love survive
lovers die
lovers birth again
hovering in between their skin
Jupiter returns at 35
like reruns of nick at nite
or reunions of the blind
block parties and violet staircases
thank god for elevators
and basements child
This is a new document
I hesitate to efface it with words
Life is like a blank slate
Obscured before it is ever even spoken
It's a clean start to a ***** finish
What we begin has already ended
Yet it lives inside of us waiting to be reborn
Tonight we reside in flaming letters
Comfort is a breath away from being broken
So hold me and observe me in my shyness
We fit together like crying children
This symmetry is obviously oblivious
But we'll miss the bus if we keep talking nonsense
Sometimes we take our silence a bit too seriously
And you were always free to agree or disagree with anything
But plausible denial has always been a bit above my paygrade
It's a symphony of harmonics
Flowers are the architects of desire
We are longing for a multitude of wisdom
So simply listen and all will be sung
An offering among the rosebuds
A little gift from the dandelions
A poem and a portrait of the moon
Hung against the memory
Of our fragile blossoming
We are apparitions
Appearing and disappearing too soon
We fear the indestructible
Has become one more puzzle
For you to unlock
But i am not a part of that prison system
I give my spark and my soul to god
We are forever
And just as we are
We all must eventually come
To touch the gardener’s heart
With our fingers and linger
In the sound of leaves
Rustling to the heartbeat of the wind
We are turning into tulips and hyacinths
We are shining sylphs
Making funny sounds with our mouths
We are lovers entwined
Like deadly vines in your backyard
We are the seeds of the new earth
And we have been reborn
From the chaos of hurt
That was sprinkled
Like compost over everything
just once
decide
never to hide
your light
no matter how
frightened or scared you may be
i am here to keep you company
remember me
my nature is ecstasy
the fruit of the tree
friendship
and community
sit with me
and be silent
let your mind quiet
pouring down
the light of the sun
its just begun
it will surely rise
if you take your time
and never compromise
in the silent skies
the mind wanders and flies
towards the life review
to see if your were true
the fragrant breath
the highest test
is shining
like a diamond
what fragrant letters you’ve left lingering before me
i am the magazine’s most faithful follower
i worship only copy and devour context as if it were holy
truly life is meaningless unless it is bound or print in glossy
I really didn’t know where to turn
Until I fell into your arms and learned
A lesson that hurt but was truly necessary
Neglect the exit strategies
Factor in the fireplaces
And make a run for the bathrooms
We are artists with no medium
As kindred spirits are united
We must drink this tedium together
And make real words from our seances
We tied ropes around our souls
Solely to shake up our abandonment issues
We have confused virtue and servitude
Confused by loose lips and loose cannons
And the bad breath of certain movie stars
We all share these vulnerable parts
That are as loyal and broken as our heart
does anything make life meaningful
will it ever make sense
or are we destined to cry for eternity
simply let go and be free
give measure and comparison a rest
set your intentions high
follow the sun
and become musically sensitive
as we make our arrows sharp
we become sparks of the divine
no theories can ever contain this
no words could ever express it
it remains a mystery
yes we can point to the divine
like a finger pointing at the sky
but still the divide is infinite
even as the divine is immanent
there are no splits just unity
yet the girl performs her aerobics
with grace and precision
each split a vision of eternity
i seek lightning and trudge up mountains
you follow rivers and kiss the comfrey
i peak behind the curtain
and smell the sweet embers burning
As fences are felons we take turns
Tearing them all to little pieces
Palaces fall in the morning
For they alert us of our tiny perspectives
We sell our breath to the haggard
The hecklers can take
These letters of recommendation to the grave with them
I would rather take you to bed with me
But you are not ready to let me
Imbibe that watery something yet
It's like honey without the bees or the bumbling
We are troubled by troops of covetous warriors
Awarding our appetites with only knives and comforters
Words are like scalpels, for they can dissect you. Words are like a prism where everything is refracted into a million different colors.
Don’t bother me with poetry,
It's really not to my taste at all;
I prefer football and television,
Or maybe a good ol' fashioned brawl.
hunger is a form of necromancy
if you lust for other people’s intelligence
then you might as well covet their soul
the future is a burning flame
and desire is her name
life is radiant like a water buffalo
so please show me the way to stay sane
amidst the rhinos and tigers of the plains
what is your name child
if you are here then you must surely be wild
i am a witness to the limitless
creativity of the goddess
she partakes in every single particle we perceive
i am an article of her majesty
formed in the factory of her imagination
satisfaction is my identity
so lets awaken to the reality of creativity
with each and every breath we take
i wish i could take the credit
but its the combination of ghee and honey
that brings me to ecstasy
with schisandra you will be elevated
but use her mindfully
because she’ll easily blow your mind
this lonely existence burns like a fire
i offer you these words
a speckle of hope or a thread of rope
as artifacts from an earlier time
that connects us to our home
i know its difficult to cope with all this tragedy
so lets resurrect an an anthology of goodness
what are we choosing to remember
only the cold embers of yesterday’s funeral pyre
or the flames that leapt through the air
while you shouted higher and higher
its ok to be proud of nothing
forever warming our backs by the fire
so many ancestors stood proud behind you
never once do they judge you
so why must we collect
impertinent insults from our neighbors
when they prefer to sit around and savor
the mesmerizing nonsense
that captivates their souls called television
i am beyond understanding
sandwiched between anger
and demanding justice
first we must conclude that the world is broken
so we can decide on the proper attitude
or adjustment
infinite beings
sitting in a room
sending visions from a distance
the listeners agree
we are free to try anything
as long as it doesnʼt alter
free will or destiny
if you let me show you
iʼll give you a taste of your own medicine
selected from feathers and falling leaves
breath agrees with bone
and form is hollow
mnemonic agents whisper agendas
into fields of green
lavender beings sweep the streets
and perform feats of beauty
that are rarely ever seen
We are unstoppable cooperatives
In a house of philanthropic mistrust
burned rubber on the pavement
is this the thanks you gave for our engagement
send it all back to the drawing board again
i spent millions on your friends
so lend me the love you borrowed
show me the lines you’ve narrowed down to nothing
i am a something controlled by the one thing
love is my leader and where it goes i’ll follow closely
you are my existence without you i’d be nothing
justice is my father and he is all about our sovereignty
light is our dignity in these final hours of infamy
ignominious liars taste the funeral pyres eventually
all will rot within this tired melting *** of inequality
and when dinner is ready your chambers shall be empty
satiated on time
drunk on the vine of days
i became quiet and reflected
about the world i could not save
is this a vision
or is it an omen
so many moments
we must let go of
forever passing
is love’s last gesture
i will let go
before i am swept away
There are probably seven million
Reasons why I shouldn't kiss you
Yet I miss you more than any of them
i swam in a sea of glandular secretions
the music was already playing
you were like a kite in the wind
and you let the ocean take you
I said, please keep a clear head
you said, that could take a lifetime
while i recited the verses of my soul
you said that you were really sorry
and that we both already knew
that belief could be a fire
that sometimes burns its own
Love is a poem that always hurts,
But never when you need it to.
life is an inside out circle
substitute your mind for the divine presence
open you eyes and gaze upon the unknown
I speak for a plethora of overgrown gardens
are we cartons of cigarettes or bundles of sweetgrass
answers like these are never necessary
yet we borrow everything from life's apothecary
i am among the tired lions
who offer their music to your dynasties
its a weekend campaign finance escapade
to bring farms to your table and then go back to the basics
i wish you could see the benefits
that only exist beyond these earthly dimensions
for limits expand whenever we question them

I give thanks for the earth
i give thanks for the trees
i give thanks for the mother
i give thanks for the bees
i give thanks for the soil
i give thanks for the work
i give thanks for the passion
i give thanks for the hurt
i give thanks for the smiles
i give thanks for the children
i give thanks for the flowers
i give thanks for the silence
i give thanks for the power
i give thanks for the rain
i give thanks for the sunshine
i give thanks for the pain
i give thanks for the anger
i give thanks for the rage
i give thanks for the strength
to never separate myself from you
if you are naked
i’ll undress the moon for you
and i'll spoon her too (for you)
and if you are tired
i’ll make the bed for you
if you are hungry
i’ll cook my head for you
and you'll have to let it sit there
and you'll have to let it bleed
and I'll row your boat (for you)
gently down the stream
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