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May 2013 · 455
The Details
Geno Cattouse May 2013
There he goes skulking low.
Snake in tall grass.
There I see yellow tinged eyes
peeking hungrily from the weeds.

Ah ha.I saw him again out back behind silo number seven
Hey. There he goes again.
Slippery little sneak.

Up that hickory tree.   See claw marks on the trunk
High and low you have to know that the Devil is in
the details
May 2013 · 357
I who have nothing
Geno Cattouse May 2013
I who have nothing.

I who have no one.

Adore you and want you so.
I'm just a no one with nothing to
Give you but oh. I love you.

He. He buys you diamonds.

Bright sparkling diamonds.

But believe me, hear when I say
That he can give you the world
but he'll never love you the way
I love you
These Lyrics were the most heartfelt cry for love that my
fifteen year old heart had ever heard. A cover done by the great Jamaican singer John Jones.
May 2013 · 582
Your Way
Geno Cattouse May 2013
Not the way you touch my hand so lightly as you speak.
Not the way your eyes ooze into my will.
Oh no, Not that.

Not the way you breath so softly as you sleep.
I cozy up to your face on the pillow savor every breath.
Silently I yearn to share every essence of you.

Not your mouth.your lips that quiver with anticipation
as I draw you close to me. a preamble of what is to be
unspeakable pleasure your eyes twin abysses.

Oh no. Please speak a word. any word.
Now my darling for every whisper is a symphony.
a treasure like no other.Each more priceless than the other.

Your hands were made to hold my heart forever and no other.
Slender fingers serpentine. to slither and caress. Oh sweetheart
My love My dearest your hips they sway a pulsing rhythm that I can
hear, a bossa nova.Cool and warm is your charm.

Have I not loved before?
No.
Clearly,This way is like no other.

I lay awake on endless nights and shudder.
Wipe the silent tears away.Mourn the day
when I have lost your way to another.

I do so love you.
May 2013 · 560
shell
Geno Cattouse May 2013
Well the words are there . The way you look out from behind your hair
Tells me confusion swirls. In your mind there is a thing awaiting to. Be set free. My heart aches for you and for me.
But then what was our recipe
Blind youth meets heart hungry traveler.
The great unraveler pulled his pound of flesh from the rotting carcass of our indiscretions, the glaring foil of me to the twisted open ended question named you then. now.
what has changed but the economy and the weather  Still together like
carcass and coffin.
Playing blind man's bluff what ****** stuff and you to boot.
A pathology in pumps.
tipping through life
somebody elses wife.
May 2013 · 3.0k
Belize
Geno Cattouse May 2013
Where the sky is as blue as CG special tinting reality to a sharpened point.

The seas are. As warm as the womb.AMNIOTIC shock when I dive in.
I can smell beauty in the cool trade winds. My god made paradise here
Carried it away to parts unknown.
My god.

My lover set me free many years ago but I never returned to her tender
Arms. I had forgotten her charms even while laying in her four post bed and running my hands slowly over silken skin. The thrill was gone.

She is forgiving
                       She looks at me with eyes that glisten.
In the starlight. But time is not my ally.
Soon I think she will deny me.
A lover scorned.
May 2013 · 885
Whistle Me Home
Geno Cattouse May 2013
Wickering destruction thundering from the summit
First a death rain then deafening sound.
                                                    Rumble­ and boom.
                                                    Cordite­ flowers bloom and twinkle in
                                                    The srarless night.
Whistle me home my friend though my face unseen.
Lock and load my friend .
Then whistle me swiftly home.

                                                     Mother stands in the doorway worlds apart. She ponders the sudden chill.

                                                      FIR­E. Pull the lanyard wire and whistle me home.away.

Soaring. Sireen.screaming thunder
True and deadly.
Ground zero stands the hero.

Drop the sight
Gunny,crank her down.
Lock and load Gunny
Fire and whistle me home.
For the veterans all who served and the ones who paid any price
In conflict.
May 2013 · 809
Endless
Geno Cattouse May 2013
A misty morning smitten by frolicking waves sang out.
Close stood we in the buffeting breezes.
To and fro our rapture flowed.

Standing. on naked feet
In sandy drift. Closer we stood.
The gulls lamented their soitary ways
Taken afar by arrogant breezes.
Aloft and far above.

Soaring,drifting asleep on woven wings.
Sing sweet lamted days gone long in stormy skies
Now ice and cloudless.

Close stood we. Buffeted by mighty chance the god of the restless
                            They questioned.
How long?

How strong?
                             Will weary time intervene. Among and between

                              And pul love apart. Brick by brick. Moment by memory.



For it's own sake.

Gentle hands gripped tightly
Hearts believing.
Eyes assuring.
Breathless

Scatterd mist lit on silent tears
Heads bowed to stay the course..

Forever said we.
Closer we stood.
Never ending.
Endless
Said we.
May 2013 · 677
Heaven's garden
Geno Cattouse May 2013
My dreams.They come to me like midnight jasmine.

Treacle sweet as I walk in heavens garden.
Leaves brush my cheek
In passing.

As I srroll through heavens garden.

My days are spent in reverie of blissfull
Oceans lapping distant shores.
Misty breezes take me deep

As I walk in heavens garden

She holds my hand and thrills my heart.
Long and winding paths take me up counry roads.
Birds urge me forward with sweet song.
To the place where I belong.

As I stroll through heavens garden.

Sunshine opens my soul. Eternal joy from afar.

Stars await their turn. To burn and glow from a million miles
To light the way for my footfall . Sweetgrass s is my bed.

Crickets serenade

as I drift through heaven's garden.
Apr 2013 · 572
The Sun in repose
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
What ?
Woman.
Where? Head to toe.
Who ? All things tangible.
Easy on the eyes. on the inside.
    On the inside. I smell strong desire. A fire. That flickers
       The scent of sweet tangerines. The skin can burn your eyes..

How many have tried? And cried
The floral offering with prickly stem
To hold on tight as palms bled.
But to have the moon in your vision.
As the tide rises with no struggle for decision.

Sunni do you know?
You must know.
Slow and turgid.
Slow and sensuosus.

The power is yours to lose.
They will push your soul
Your will.
Still.
                   The velvet glove my love.
                   Stocking feet. My sweet.
                   Force with inertia.
                   Abide.
                                                          ­You need nothing but be your
                                                           Moniker. From the beauty inside
                                                          ­               Your heart is your weakness
                                                        ­                   Your salvation.
                                                      ­                     So much to give.
                                                           ­                Just live and turn the tide
Apr 2013 · 602
Crimson reclining
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
Certain special days
The sun drops in the ocean
I catch it now and then.
Half dipped a glowing ember.

All across the horizon.
A stunning life bleeds out
The distant shimmer
Slowly succumbs to cool evening.

It catches me unawares a
I go about my business,glancing
Then staring entranced always
Transfixed

Nature paints another rejection
Of our hubris.
Vanity bows in shame. My heart surrenders
Like undying love again. I love you
My dear. Stronger than before.
Apr 2013 · 618
fortytwo
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
Jack stepped over the line but
He died early. Not in years.
Combat fatigue.

He ran like a man possesed pidgeon toed
Helter skelter. Hounds nipping at his heals.
Look into his eyes as he rounds third.

Afraid to be afraid.
A ball and a bat spiked shoes flashing
In the October sun.

Jack Johnson whispered.
Satchel page dazzled.
" never look over your shoulder,something might be gaining on you" .

Jack be nimble.
Jack be quick.
Jack was walking point
How could you hear him. Scream from behind
Dead eyes.
You could not.

Articulate and tough.
The poison seeped through his pores
Like Agent Orange
Cannon fodder

                               Suicide mission.
                               A big man decision.
                                America's pastime
                                  Was overdue.
Apr 2013 · 702
The truth about fish
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
My goldfish bowl is empty now
The fish took leave a month ago.

To tell the truth.I did not see them go.
Must have been on Saturday.

Was it something I fed. ?
Apr 2013 · 430
Who goes there ?
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
something picked me up and gently set me down on  the river bank.

The same thing picked me up and dropped me in the caldron.

Picked me up and dusted me off.

Put a size twelve boot where the sun refused to shine.

Plumped my pillow then pressed it over my face till the cows
came home.

Who goes there ?
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
Used to be Skid row.
where you go to lay low.

Open air flopping
The floors need no mopping.

The walls are made of cellophane.
Head lice as big as dung beetles.

A sidewalk ornament.
Bus bench chillin.
East coast icicle.

Ah the land of milk and honey.
free to be. Free.

Sleeping on the ground
In for a penny.
In for a pound.

Tracked up ******
Crack a jack,
wet.
The bugged out alphabet
of whatever come along.

Another day in paradise.
.
Apr 2013 · 312
The Rabbit has a plan
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
He thinks he can take the money and
run.

The money has strings.
or maybe piano wire.
Apr 2013 · 1.0k
Walking Point
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
I am suspended taking steps into thin air
as destiny carries me forward. the next few steps will
take me around the bend which is a blind disrobing
all or nothing bet. Yet one foot then the next.

Nothing is assured,each breath  like a sinew.
life is  loan and nothing more until my time ticks out one way or the next.
locked and loaded anticipating  eden.

A green field or burning chasm.

Elysium, Valhalla.

A soldier's suspended state.

Temporary insanity. To willfully walk into oblivion.

Spin the chamber and assume nothing. To
spin again.

That is a slice of walking point.
Two days from now. strolling in the mall.
A cold sweat. still on point.

Still dead to myself. The chamber is
still spinning.

How the **** could ever hear me scream
behind dead eyes.
You
can't
Apr 2013 · 352
The Man In The Moon
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
IS LEAVING. HIS WORK IS DONE NOW
TIME TO STOW HIS GEAR. PUNCH THE CLOCK
STREET LIGHTS FLICKER IN HIS WAKE.
SUNNY SIDE  UP.

Short shadows from the east carry forward a message.
to the man in the moon to rise and shine again.
Apr 2013 · 654
Love Amnesiac.
Geno Cattouse Apr 2013
A casual thing so slight and airy
     Splintered hearts ground to fine powder.
           Hard leather heel ,headless on the pivot.

Next casualty in the reticle
grist for the mill
cordite in the breeze.

Shadows on the wall
rendered by the blast.

A  casual thing so like a fairytale
   Wintered in the north , now the thawing out.
          Cast with ease behind her, no crying if you please.
Mar 2013 · 513
Benidictus
Geno Cattouse Mar 2013
Bless me father for I have sinned.
My last confession was two lifetimes ago.
The pontif is in place.

White smoke.Black smoke
Ritualistic joke.

To err is human,to forgive is devine.
Father silk sash once diddled a friend o mine.
Absoulute power corrupts absolutely ?

Absolutely.
Now.
Carry on.
Eyepatch in place.
Fall from grace. Never.

Go my son. And sin no. More.
Get a life.
Get a wife.
Get real.
Mar 2013 · 593
A world without shame
Geno Cattouse Mar 2013
Please. Lock me away
And don't allow the day.
Here inside, where I hide with my lonelyness.

I don't care what they say I won't stay in a world without shame.

I will wait and in awhile I will see inhuman guile.
It will come I don't know when. Maybe soon I know so baby until then.
Lock me way and don't allow the day. Here inside where I hide with my lonlyness.

I don't care what the say I won't stay in a world without shame.
This is dedicated to all the vapid,empty,souls for.sale who we elect.and send to Capitol with finely honed stilletos that we give them to stab us in the back.
Mar 2013 · 634
impressionable you
Geno Cattouse Mar 2013
Molding .
Shaping.
Urging.
Opening young minds to my world.
Poetry.
My tossed salad thinking expressing.
Blinking imaginings from my mind to yours.
Lose in translation.
Gain full imagination.

A seed was planted. No.six small seedlings.need-lings rertilized.
Eyes ,open mouths closed.
Ears listing to infinate possibilities. To the torch. To the pen. To the verse
To the meter.hearts afire for the word's embrace. My mind to
theirs.Peeling back onioned layers. An onioned pearl. For the taking.

Young minds sitting on worn chairs in the halls of knowlege like gaping.sponges.poetry.given lineage received. My mind to my pen.
My mind is the inkwell , the quill scratches froward then moves on.
Mar 2013 · 1.0k
Dreams in apnea
Geno Cattouse Mar 2013
Little star clusters bubbling and rise.
Shimmering soap bubbles fragile and thin.
Float past. Small neurons fire weakly.

Deep blue haze drifts slowly by with long streaming banners.
Messages to Oz. Messages to captaon Nemo.
Earth to my synapses. Peanut brittle treats.
Can you feel the chasm all around.
Feb 2013 · 1.8k
Nocturnal Remission
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
Now I lay me down to sleep. It is near 2:00 P.M,Pacific time.

I pray the Lord my sleep to keep. Been tossing and turning a lot lately.

If I should Dream before I wake. No March Hares if you please.

I pray the lord my twitch to take. Restless leg syndrome.

Goodnight Insomniacs.
Late night surfers.
Medicated Jitterbugs.
Jet-lagged Travelers.
Partners of snoring bed mates. With or without earplugs.
Late night ruminators.
Wanna be fornicators.
See ya later Nocturnal alligators.

Inspiration is but a breath away.
Feb 2013 · 758
Jagged Descent
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
Green mossy stones coated like
                       Irresistibly slick velvet carpets.
                                          magnified by smooth sliding crystal water,
                                                                  The fall away in dizzying cadence to a misty cloud.


This dream is a sweet recurrence. foreboding, inviting and familiar.
Far and away.High above even the clouds the emerald world below seems benign should
fall or launch to infinity.

The high priest in snowy white linen. He holds the golden staff aloft.
                yes there is nothing to fear. The gates are open wide for the chosen.
                                 I fear not. He holds his

hands wide and looks skyward. The chant is ancient.
                                                  Deliverance is assured to the sacrificial soul. Behold eternal bliss awaits.
                                                                       Open the gates we are the lamb upon the alter. cannot falter.
The covenant is sealed.

A dollar for your soul. A penny for your thoughts.

Material gain.Delay the pain for instant grats.

Today. Now.

Tomorrow is guaranteed to no man so eat drink and be merry for tomorrow

We fall to the emerald eternity.

Awaken from this dream. No ?

Dream on.
Feb 2013 · 2.4k
Me And Augustin
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
would walk out of the city on Sunday afternoon after Sunday Mass
Dinner at noon was the custom. then the city would slip into  Sunday coma.
Mantovani, Acher Bilk, and the BBC wafted from the Television less homes we passed
on our way to the river.

Old chocolate men reclined on rickety old wooden porches smoking hand rolled
whatever as we strolled by giving us the lazy eye. All knowing , know nothings.
Sun beaten and calloused to lives of hard labor. every now and then one would just give a
jaundiced nod and look away/ Live to smoke another day.

Half paved tar and gravel roads simmered and writhed in the distance.
but our bare feet.
slapped in rhythm .cut off knee pants and skinny bare chest attested to sparse living but we
never knew it cause the mangrove jungle was minutes away and big
unwanted catfish to hook and throw away. Disdainful (Kiatto).

Off the simmering road now hopping toads. Johnny fiddler ***** for bait .
The canoe awaits us two small school boys in our natural state. One seven one eight.

Pelicans survey slowly above where the river meets the sea A small ripple and down he goes. He knows where school is in for mackerel and terrapin. Bone fish too.
We small boys with no fear . Innocence a pole and cork. One hook apiece is our gear.
Knee deep in mire as we push of and jump. A paddle apiece as we stroke against the tide to traverse the emerald river wide. The far bank. My Aunt Doris's shack.

Man over board to tie of the. Bow.

A snack of tortillas and beans then up the river no fear. Fun and the fish
Sun and the wish for an endless Sunday. We hate Monday. Back the priests and nuns.Slate writing board and times tables.
Let's fish.
Let us dream.
Tied off in the mangrove shade.
Swatting horse flies quietly. Quietly?

Like bird dogs we study the floating cork.
A wiggle, a bob. A bob. Set the hook and out comes the prize.
Then more. More flapping underfoot.we can hardly.walk. The glee
A bonanza.
All fried up and crisp.Catch and release. What madness. Catch and consume.

Day is done in the Carribean sun.
Home eastward. The pitch road is more forgiving on bare feet now
with the September sun at our backs. A leisurely stroll back to the
house. No worries,

A bath  and change for the Sunday evening show.
The Thief Of Baghdad or  maybe El Cid.
The Duke Audie Murphy in a double header.

The walk home along the moonlit seaside.
To start another Halcyon stream.
Another time and place rooted firmly in my memory.
Read  THE RIVER ROCK. More from Memories of a childhood in Belize.
Feb 2013 · 4.3k
My Family Tree
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
Sprang forth with no branches or leaves. Small roots.
Bore mangoes, papayas,guava and bananas. Hybrid, mid limb grafting.
The trunk is a figment but it stands non less. You see
my family tree never was and always will be.
A roadside shade with low hanging fruit.

Was never planted.It was a deposit from the bowels of an exotic bird
of the jungles that sampled at leisure the offerings of the rain forests.
The Hardtack and marmalade came on ships with the kings business
Mixed with the Nigerian Fu-Fu  ,the Aztec maize the Mayan legumes.
and all points of the compass.

Old Joe Denegri, The Blancaneaux , The Cattouse, The Melado, The Pinks
The Flowers,The Orozco and more. And boundless from the ***** of opportunity.
Piecemeal and untethered. But it is the tree that I must cling to.
However rough the bark.

The sap runs heavy and slow in the humid Belizean heat.To meet the earth.
Cool breezes blow a haunting disharmony. A sweet unity in chaos.
The soil is rich,pungent and forgiving.  Soon, A bell tolls  in the distance.
The Sea mists my dreams.

A stairway of coconut fronds to azure skies.
Nighttime smells like creation.
The still slackened pace.
The small rat race.
Tempest in a teapot.
Urban-rural.

Coolie gal.
Creole boy.
New Chinese.
Old African.
Ubiquitous Espania.
Garinagu. Mosquito coast.
Children of Mennon.
Old Basque faces.
Things we call races left with small traces
of what?

My tree, her tree, histree.
I am you and you are me.
I see me in your face and you see me.
We are  and will continue to be.
Blended.
a hybrid. An orchid wild.
Feb 2013 · 859
The Circle
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
Feet firmly planted.
Eyes peering into ciy lights . My old friends had waited patiently.
The merry go round would stop.  The hurdy gurdy would stop with
Deafening silence. As if what.

As if the token was never paid.
As if the effort was never made.
As if the book ran out of pages with no happy ending.

Optional. Washed away.  History told by the one eyed griot
Who had long since gone deaf.long ago lost a marble. But could not
Do the tally.

As if nothing matters but the most recent revision.
As if trutth was a street walker working for her next fix.
As if the distortion was a virtue.

Years in the salt mines. Drudgery and dillusion paassing for
Infinite hope.  The yolk bit deep the lash was a given annointed
as saviour.

As if the piper played for gratis.
As if the contract was written in wine.
As if one side payed while the other played.

Blood is thicker than *****
Like minds meld in commonality.
The twig lays close to the branch



As if that is the last word.
As if all is wellin mudvill.
As if Casey put it over the fence.
As if.
Feb 2013 · 1.6k
Twain. Fathoms. Depth.
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing it cannot be carried to too great an extent and

Wit is the  sudden marriage of ideas which before their union had no relation.

Americans will occasionally astonish the God that created us when given a fair shake .

Indecency is the first thing the missionary teaches the savage.

Nature knows no indecencies ;man invents them.


Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities ,truth isn't.

Action is always the way ; words will answer as long as it is his neighbor who is in trouble.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have.Let us economize it.

Herodotus says,very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all

Obsession is the man with a hole in the seat of his pants and cannot keep his fingers out  it

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me but I think she enjoyed it

Size of the dog in the fight dont count.size of the fight in the dog

Dont go around going the world owes you a living. The world was here first

Denial Just aint a river in EGYPT

Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules & verifies the details.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated

Hunger is pride's master
Feb 2013 · 646
A Turn for The Dark
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
I fear my verses have taken lately a  turned for the dark but my life is mostly
the wellspring that waters the leaves and branches. The thorns well they are
the barbs hatched from bitter and pointed eruptions of harsh reality.

The spring is tainted now. But that too will pass as always and I am obliged to purge
or remain stagnant, bitter, fermented and Toxic. My demons lash my will and taunt.
Old wounds long thought healed now crack and peel away Keloids be dammed. Open Sesame.

The great Satchel Page said " never look back cause something might be gaining on Ya".

Mother nature and father time are the third and anchor legs for the four by four hundred relay
Nothing but ***** and elbows. Kicking rocks, fast and furious. How curious life is. A bass ackwards quiz. Gotcha !!.
Feb 2013 · 300
One Day
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
At the very least I hope there will be one day
when.

The perfect union of words and feeling will fit like hand in glove to
bring forth the ultimate expression. We here all of us seek that
perfection.

When the essence of what we feel will layer with what we think
will merge with what we have experienced will unite with the moment

Will embrace the angst the pain the yearning the need to be heard in perfect
pitch.

One day I will see the seven wonders, walk in space, journey to Microscopia,
touch the bottom of the deepest sea, live in all dimensions simultaneously.

When perfect convergence  of the limitless and  the finite in the perfect utterance
from my mind  will fall to paper or spring forth to existence and I will seek no more.
Feb 2013 · 550
The Dark
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
Tonight I. Stood next to a moaning spirit.
She told of days gone by and grief.
The low and mournful sighs delivered me to her doorstep
The portal where no light shone within.

The graveyard beckoned as I walked the quiet path.
Once inside the spirits rose from every corner. One wafting spectre
Drifted near she floated then stood on a headstone all alone. Stepping

down she rested a chill on my right shoulder. Fetted breath took me by surprize. Vacant eyes told a lifes story.

Faded youth. Faded glory. The spirit lived a fitfull life and passsed
With no fanfare. To sullen darkness. She did rest one hundred years.
Now told her tale.
To me. I gently. Aked why?
You are the catcher for my pain. She told the story
Once again then turned her back.
Wafted once again to rest. In peace.
Feb 2013 · 785
The Light
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
Today I stood next to a tall and lovely woman. No one
thing struck me at once. The conversation was not deep but
her eyes were.  The moment was lightening. I had forgotten
Lightening. It strikes rarely,

Coy and seductive. The moment burned for a second. A million years.
We both knew in that instant. The sensual flash. That offering. The accepting.
Then it was gone. A low hum but we will close that distance again soon.
It is destined. She is surreal in her essence.Forbidden.

She will come to me many times in flickering light cast against the wall.
A shadow. warm, sent by tallow and burning wick. Inflame my senses.
The seed now planted and I have planted mine.We both now know
a moment of decision awaits. My woven words and soothing tone will do
the magic it has always done. No arrogance in the least I assure.

What is ,is. We passed the divide riding beams of gentle light. we will both
decide but I can tip the balance and fall from grace to passion. Her body is willing
the language is surrender. Perhaps a moments pleasure.

Pandora's portal.
A flickering light beckons.
Feb 2013 · 780
Short Timer on a hitch knot
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
How much slack do you give to an errant mind, an arrogant twist.
two hands five hands more, Not sure but the fish running with the hook
has an idea that something is amiss. Twang, hiss. out of options.

When does one say Okay, you caught your limit
Time to call it a day pack your catch away. The
sun is setting. Less we are going to night fish.
Hmm when does the light go on for the thief in the night'
blazing bright casting blame and reality to all corners.

Human nature is a curious thing.We will make the elastic
mental contortions to make the means justify the ends. Retro fit
the outcome. suborn in our belief. An inch is rewarded by a mile
just smile and all will be well. Hell is the destination of the deluded.
But the nature of it can be jarring ,the content surreal.

This is a personal observation of one who was a good friend but allowed
Hubris and raw desire to to blunt caution and reason. Old habits were hard to abandon.
tested the ice in the middle of the pond wearing lead boots. The outcome
was assured.
Feb 2013 · 1.1k
Dumb Luck
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
**** karma put me on the train-track
Under the trestle. Wearing  full black and the night was pitch. The
Moon hid behind blackened clouds as the
Beauty of it all escaped me
Like dry hard mathematics
Umbrella of starless night has
Cloaked  the irresistible force a
Kiss goodnight.
Feb 2013 · 1.8k
Hooverville
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
A day of darkness descends on the barren land.

The  Big Plowup struck pay-dirt. More dirt

less pay.  

No green fields just stinging sand has driven all to  Hooverville no

bonanza.

Throats burn  raw. What they all saw was miles high grit.nature's
Mother at end if wits.

Dust bowl.parched earth .dragging nails across her back
She reared up
Rolled over.
Evened the score.hard
Times made for hard choices.

Then no choice at all.
Feb 2013 · 1.4k
spitfire
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
The spitfire met the Messerschmidt his back was to the sun.

He rolled away right into blue skies dotted with puffs of
Cannon fire smoke stitched a  polka dot trail behind.

Chalk white cliffs glisten in relief. Soon the moment of truth will step forward destiny waited patiently it's turn as the island burned by night

The speckled.sky by day. The chatter and moan the struggle of flesh

against fire and steel.
Against will a death-dealing skill
**** or be killed
A ballet of silver winged coffins filled with fear and courage.
Times that try men's souls.
In the end.

The outcome was in doubt for many who stood
and made stand  that spoke of commitment to survival.
That spirit is now past.
But school will commence again
soon. Soon.
Sorry to say.
Read gaping spaces between the lines. Though a different
wolf wrapped in fine garments and expensive Italian footwear
will prance into our nightmares
stoke our insecurities
smile and assure.
No Mustache or comb-over though.

Doomsayer say you.
Chill pill versus paranoia.
Feb 2013 · 1.0k
In Wine There Is Truth
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
The truth set me free along tome ago.
A lightness of mind like vapor from a Tennessee still
nestled way back in the Blue Kentucky hills.

Carefree as a bird swiftly winging  to buckshot every feather in place.
The song of my nature driving me forward. To be or not.
Easier to forward than crash into false recollections.
Like a roaring inferno set upon the land. Reckless.

A mind too lazy to conjure in webs of reckless  fantasy. Encased with  surety.
A perch above the turmoil where the view is forever and blue.
Yes there is a price however. The winged truth is easy target for the hunter.

He lies in the brush well concealed and leads the mark by a hair.
Placing projectiles in the way of surety with devastating precision.
Truth falls to earth in a death spiral ****** feathers waft behind.
Fire and destruction. Fire and resurrection. Fire at will.

The heady substance is a snare.
a small price to pay. The Phoenix will rise  however.

The outcome will replay.
The Phoenix will rise yet still. Stubborn in his way.
Set free to soar and fall to ground
Set free to soar.
Set free.
Feb 2013 · 3.1k
Flight #44 from delusion
Geno Cattouse Feb 2013
The runway begins to blur as the nose goes up slowly.
That sinking feeling invades from head to toe. Taught  knuckles engage.
Fight or flight in mid air flight. Hope instruments checked.
my how far we have come.

A pathological liar is like bank of mirrors that go on to infinity
nothing there to stop the infinite delusion. This poem is about s friend of mine
I almost dare call name. She is an infinitely interesting study. like
watching a Mugging in slow motion. Just say the thing when you
get the notion then deny with a smile.

A fine girl hard working driven. but to what and by what.
Her light blue eyes give away nothing at first .Her laughter was honey dripped,
One day the scaly beast did flash as I rubbed my eyes  to focus but it was gone.

Years past and the thing sprouted tiny wings and flitted
about like a moth  and later landed  with a thud. Belligerent and  claiming
space at my table.
Amazing that delusion can have weight and occupy space.  of itself by itself and for itself
I did love her once but she is no longer.stronger forces have laid claim and I cannot call her name for

fear of my heart falling to the abby's, to which my friend has gone, Never to return I fear. She
A victim of life's tortures, Succumbed to the demon there deep asleep in strands of DNA
gather round and throw the flowers on the gleaming   glass casket for she has passed on but just as lovely
She smiles up at me from the grave then turns her back and fluffs the pillow defiantly. I wipe a tear and wave. looking down on the dear departed.
Six deep still awake but lost forever. My words go unheard, my tears fall like raindrops on the crystal.
Lost in delusion the lies soothes her confusion.

A beautiful ghost now.Taunts me.
Nothing breaks the spell. The fall is a graceful simulation of flight.
my hands reach out still but she folds her arms across he *****
lies to me in gesture. tortured circular contortions that put me back at the start
not enough breadcrumbs retrieve her way.
I guess 44 was her number. The sweet insanity did come then
though I hardly noticed at first.
Well No one told me about her
Daddy knew. so did Mom
as did all. The skeleton , found the skeleton key and let
itself free from the inside with hardly a noise.
Dangerous and lovely.
swept away forever.
My darling. Take my hand  
one last time.
She did reply."Nevermore."
I pray that is a lie.
Jan 2013 · 1.5k
Like no other lover
Geno Cattouse Jan 2013
My expression in verse and word.
It is my rock.
My salvation though I. Walked away when limbs were healed. Over the
Years. It sat in dusty corner like the forgotten bookcase.
Runway living.      Reaching for the next thing distraction.

Social interaction has become a relic. As we wiggle and prance but
Speak less about truth. Face to face. Eye to eye.

Raise your hands out there if you hear me.
Look up from. The screen if you know. Ditto.



Pain is the great equalizer. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.the mighty has a date as well as the meek .
Nod your head if too weak to speak.

I swear. This coil.

This man-ifestation of struggle and toil.
Fear not. The bottom approaches with a rush. A sudden stop.
It is the anticpation that tingles and teases.
Breathlessly we glide.



My words are my blessing and damnation. Barbed and tipped with buffalo ****.

Sweet as the sweetest nectar. Volatile   and ******.
Willful and recklessly they exit to strike and injure.caress. Convince.

My fathers legacy. Process of elimination.
Truth. Has gone wanting today
Never to return I fear. A vagabond.outcast.
A *****.

The wellspring rustles and bubbles patiently not stagnant.

Time is of essence an essence. In essence. A dab or two behind each ear.and sodium pentothal. politicians fess up.
Money caves see sunlight in all corners the thief has absconded. The judge

Slinks down from his perch blood red hands clasped behind his back

There stands the summit. Still I must climb. Unknown the other side.
Will truth abide? there .Another expanse of lies and  distortion.Trickeration says I.
a misty bog. Listen. Bagpipes ?. The leafless branch vibrates  a siren song to the sod.

The shimmering pool in the parched desert of god.
I stagger foward now unaware. No I am past caring. The will still is there
A ghost. Soon soon.

No ?. No. A mirage
Geno Cattouse Jan 2013
She stood head bowed over the empty kitchen sink.
The man stood to side in the doorway watching her.

What could she be thinking in the vacant pause. No dishes or pots there.
No greasy spoons or chipped coffe cups.
A billowing cloud of steaming dreams defferd rose wistfully from the dingy faucets fall that issued forth nothing at all.

Her hands did scald as her heart twirled and spiraled away to the sewers. Gone. Gone her youth.
Wasted. Wasted her precious youthfull ember. It trickled down her nose. Like a lousiana dirge to white rain washed slabs.no cake walk for her eyes.

The man wondered still. and yet stil today.
What could she ever say.
Jan 2013 · 2.8k
Danny
Geno Cattouse Jan 2013
Hey Danny, I droped it twice but this one is just as nice
On the fly a small hummingbird on flittering wings just dusting the room
With dann dust and goodwill.

A quiver filled with curative pin point healing
She is wheeling and dealing
Danielle I presume is the full story.
Acufeel good. Feelgood ancient curative
Sent from the far east.

Miniature
Magic whipping about in sea blue scrubs
All good news .
Never gave me the bluesy tude.
Cool runnings miss danny.
Nuff respect.
A short poem for a big spirit. In. Small spirit
Country.
Seek and ye shall find I am inclined to believe
She has a good vibe.
Cool runnings hummingbird.
See you at the water cooler
Jan 2013 · 1.1k
Porkpie Charlie
Geno Cattouse Jan 2013
There he is the little dude with the brown paper
bag Sticking out of his right back pocket.
Taking quick swigs and casting furtive glances
dude is taking major chances. You see.
He knows a lot about who shot John.

A little brown lid perched risky on his matted head
This cat has mastered Newton , he is a highfalutin Playa
real soothsayer. He tips another swig either that or blow his wig
just at the corner of irrelevant and vine. drinking cheap wine.

His blanket has long blown way down the avenue with
yesterday's news as Pork-pie charlie hums the blues counting
cop cars by the ones and twos. Hustler's delight on the far corner
trying to sell something that he never owned. A dip is a guy who picks your pocket.

Oh I see the golden glint of a small gold locket in his stealthy palm
Minutes before it was going south on fifth street tucked away neat.
Now the price of a fix. Pork-pie sees all tells all. That is why he
is missing some teeth well, one reason why.

He just missed his bus and is kicking up dust
Oh well miss one catch one. Old guy in burgundy slacks
Run down shoes slowed him down as he rolled on the ground stood
and dusted off. Charlie smiles then he doffs just another day in Paradise.

A  fixture a mixture of pathos and primp
still thinks he is a **** but only when the
spirit hits from the ***** top green bottle.
Pork-pie charlie will never die he has a recruit in the wings
showing him things. Like the old soft shoe and
other tricks to fill up his hat.

Hey mister, you got any spare change.
Jan 2013 · 2.2k
The Park Bench
Geno Cattouse Jan 2013
There in the corner resting silently the old wooden bench
reclines beneath the billowing sky. Peeled and pale much
the worst for wear.

"A couple of young fellas  down at Kitty Hawk flew like wounded ducks". Did you hear?
That was a humdinger. "Somebody swiped the Mona Lisa right under their noses"
Tick

witness to it all has heard the deepest of dark secrets whether tumbledown in solitude
or passed about in chatter.

"The Titanic went down last week ,What a pity." wasn't that thing impossible to sink"
well I'll see you later The Trolleys are running slow today.

There's  this young upstart playing at the picture show this week. Chaplin I think his name is
Moving pictures,oh what will they think of next.

I got a letter from William fighting in The Somme. Dont know when or if he is coming home.

Nights are cold in the rain. Tick

Bathtub gin.  A little nip every now and then can't be a sin.
The Lucky Lindy is the latest swing.
Tock.

Mickey mouse meet sliced bread.  The birth of a nation
Bring the kids out on Saturday The can play awhile.

Heard That ****** Trotsky got shot. What do you think that  will bring
Guess Adolf bit off more than he could Chew cause  that big air war in
Britain made him tuck tail.
Tick
The greatest generation has come and is all but gone
The park bench sits and awaits the dawn
past Y 2 K and on and on
till today, this very hour
waiting for another story to tell
like a morning flower at sunrise
Beautiful petals and leaves
No one grieves for the passing of time.
The park bench sighs and
Then reclines.
Jan 2013 · 1.2k
The Duckling Speaks
Geno Cattouse Jan 2013
The bird stood by the lake and peered at the bird on the other side so beautiful and  fine
" So long my friend,I know now that you  a are a state of my mind. I can never hope to be  as superb as you.
Can never hope to be.

One day
After many years, the bird fell in love with a skunk that was a smelly mess
and after many years the bird fell in love with a chameleon. Very confusing affair
neither here nor there..The bird  thought she was a chameleon too. No sense of self
She could have been an elf if that was required.
She eventually tired slithered and flew away.

Many years later she fell in love with a Hawk.You should have heard her squeak and squawk.
Said the hawk . I am hunter, you are prey now for your own good just fly away. She decided to stay. Anyway.
Persistent.?
Blind?
who is to stay.

The Hawk for some reason saw the good in the bird and
relented.
Learned to love the bird though a difficult task
to not follow instinct and gut the poor thing.
Little  hawklings did spring.
Hawk .

Many, Many years later after much coaxing and coaching the bird
stood tall and felt a good vibe.
Tried to eat the hawk alive. Who knew.

A sad ending to the tale
duck feathers  on the floor.
Dec 2012 · 1.8k
Humility
Geno Cattouse Dec 2012
Be humble and he might let you in.

Stay humble and she might let you win.
Every success is

cause not to celebrate
but to
pray.
Dec 2012 · 1.0k
Evil Is Alive And Well
Geno Cattouse Dec 2012
How can we reconcile the evil that men do in
These times.
They say that after awhile the human spirit left to it's
Devices will find the path of right and good. That we are
Inherently good.

Maybe. I think .maybe.

Evil is alive and well,
  has broken his bonds and lives among us
Turning a would be heaven to a burning hell.

A society is ultimatly juged by the way the very young and old are
Handled in the comings and goings

The ones that have known and the
Just now knowing.that evil is alive and well ensconced.

Babies like your baby and babies like mine
Angels like yours and angels like mine.have
Suffered at the hands of societies ills.

Please when you tuck your children in
Please say a prayer for all.

We are in evils crosshairs each and every one .

Pray for the children the parents and all
And thank our blessings each and every day.
Evil is alive and well . He walks and talks. He smiles and stalks.
Tomorows are not guaranteed.

Evil is alive and well, determined to succeed.
Dec 2012 · 407
three little birds
Geno Cattouse Dec 2012
Rise up this morning.
Smiled with the rising sun.Three little birds
Pitched by my doorstep.

Singing sweet song.
A melody pure and true.
This is our message to you

Don't worry about a thing
Cause every little thing gonna be alright.
A touch of Marley. Simple and clear.
Dec 2012 · 1.5k
Duende
Geno Cattouse Dec 2012
Tales told to me by my grandmother of  the Duende.
as the campfires danced . The black leopard
stood far back in the trees

A ghost in the machine as we describe it today.

Jettisoned by the sun gods
for knowledge of self one little elf.

Now Boogeyman
Hobgoblin.
Troll. A manifestation of all men fear.
To walkabout and scurry in the pale moonlight.
The Duende awaits  the ship in the night sky
lift him up away to the
end of time.
Dec 2012 · 610
Si Vis Pacem,Para Bellum
Geno Cattouse Dec 2012
What good is peace if war is not a possibility.
Fool's gold though old men get to sit out while the young
are minced,vaporized.

                                              ­               Peace is a Noble aspiration and
well worth pursuing.  Meanwhile The warrior must stand firm
To allow peace to have a say. Wolves are at bay not by happenstance
but by design. The devil will take the hindmost but will catch hell from the foremost who will turn and unleash havoc
Even at the highest cost.
It has always been. That way.

SEMPER FI.
Dec 2012 · 4.5k
Gladiator
Geno Cattouse Dec 2012
The Brute in me is a gleeful beast.
The Trog is older now and mellow.Yet. Pull up a chair.
Just a minute of your time if you will. Sometimes,
I watch  him  ooze  through the pores of my skin and he stands there.

Myself and he apart
He always  walks down to the river's edge where I always find
him skipping stones. skipping stones and staring at the far bank.
He does not see me or it seems so. This never changed for years.
After some time in reverie,he turns and walks by me.
I can smell the potent odor of his sweat.
The brute is me at twenty three.

Later still he returns to his dimension
deep within my past,
Wordless, yes until one day.
The beast  looked  over his shoulder mid toss


A stone skipped and tipped the  universal
constants.

Pulling a pistol from thin air he shot me at point blank.
Two head, one heart. A bit of a start not mention
That was a bit rude but not out of character for me
at that age. No no don't get me wrong.The impulsive side
Not the homicide
Suicide. Hellofa ride.

Well. Well without further discussion, we casually
Walked back to the house an split a bottle of Stoli's
And. Watched MMA bloodletting on cable T.V.
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