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Sep 2023 · 53
Time Gap Reaching for it
Geno Cattouse Sep 2023
This is just me looking for the smoke and by that I mean the ability to do words like I did years ago when the Muse came unannounced. I'm not looking for rhythm or rhyme or even sense of it. I was able to travel once to keep my perspective then it was gone.
I'm not sure if it was small insanity or me reaching for gravity but that was magical. I left my body and wrote for hours day in and day out. Right now I'm just taking notes. To be continued. The Duende.
May 2020 · 185
The manifesto
Geno Cattouse May 2020
Ok
You have done enough in your thousand journey to stop the struggle.Stay at peace and sleep.You are complete ,there is no need to repeat
Jun 2019 · 190
The Fire
Geno Cattouse Jun 2019
I wrote till the fire went out and it was do or die. He sent me a tool to build my resistance to the madness of the moment but the fire slowly died. Its so strange that this vehicle this tool that was dull  became sharp enough to draw blood, to hang onto, a blade.
So I hung on through misty nights and troubled waters.

Sometimes I stare at the scars in my palms where the blade dug into flesh but I had to not let go or fall into the crevices never to be return.
The scar tissues it never hurts or burns. This rope , this bramble , this blade. Amnesia made me let go so it is the long lost friend who tolerated me but knows all my inner secrets. I am ashamed to know you now so the words refuse me or in fact I refuse to utter. I'm still one foot in the gutter.

eight long years. Mamma gone now. Just the house remains. Alone now but the tool still shines brightly and beckons my touch. My crutch and faithful friend. Will it ever end ?
Oct 2018 · 228
Reality Break
Geno Cattouse Oct 2018
Ever know someone who took a gentle detour of the road to maybe pick wildflowers
or  chase a pretty butterfly or some such and returned sometime later.
But never came back
Carried of by aliens maybe.

I do.
This is a recurring theme for me
To watch a mind in complete free-fall with no clue at all.
Never ceases to amaze. If I could generate wealth by shaking my head in from side to side
I would be having lunch in Dubai. and dinner In Paris on a lark.Pull over and park
just for a minute will you. I need to vent.

Pull back the gold tasseled flap on my tent.
Eat drink to your hearts content. Have a glimpse of a purpose driven
helium filled balloon . stunning in its lightness of self and circumstance.
The man walking his dog sans pants.
Oct 2018 · 184
society hug
Geno Cattouse Oct 2018
Shoulders touch . No body contact.
Lean in air kiss
Smooches.

Looking over your shoulder to see wassup.
Got a passion for high fashon
High concept gear.

Rubbing elbows with the overexposed
While turning up your nose at the great unwashed.
Oh My Gosh.

Wana be wana be
Turn around
Wanna be wanna be touch the ground.
Oct 2018 · 207
End Gamers
Geno Cattouse Oct 2018
I forget to remember that I live in a world of slithering coils.Chilling.
We are walking the board calculating survival forever tribal.Pawns and bishops. Rooks and pawns.
Checks and counters.
Steampunk precision.
Clouds our vision.
So by all counts the end justifies the meAns
Oct 2018 · 170
Suspended
Geno Cattouse Oct 2018
I looked up one day while in the shower no reason but a  glimmer of movement reflexes turned up to wash my face and  the sleep for my eyes.
there suspended in mid-air it seemed a glistening light, a deadly convergence a sword's pinpoint tip moving to  and fro in small circles just inches from my brow made of bronze and steel.
I lean to the right to try and catch sight oh the Strand that held it suspense but there was none not even a  hair.
I am the sword of Damocles it whispered to me to me
Here am I
Here I will remain
Have a care.
Oct 2018 · 203
Waiting in line
Geno Cattouse Oct 2018
"Easy son" the old man grumbled. "That might take a bit of patience. You got a full grown tiger by the tail.
Oct 2018 · 147
Gott In Himmel
Geno Cattouse Oct 2018
The shell burst lit up the chilled night air
it crackled and boomed as men went topside and roared their fears away.Meanwhile cannon boomed and spirits rose by thousands to quietly pay homage .
to folly incarnate. He sat with arms folded as he nodded through it all high above the despicable scene.
he tired and retired  to a century of rest did he.
as we ground the face of creation to  fodder and ash.
Gott in Himmel.
abandoned the trenches and fences and rotting killing fields then turned on his heels in disgust.
he walked away from us on that day as millions would pay in blood and pain. The war to end all wars would resurface in two score.
Gott in Himmel
Oct 2018 · 175
Telstar
Geno Cattouse Oct 2018
Tellstar Orbits far now past this
Earthly realm.Decayed orbit he just quit.
Oct 2018 · 208
Patois chronicles
Geno Cattouse Oct 2018
Pipple

All kine a piple want respec but few kina pipple wan give it cause easya fi tek R barrah dan fi reach an leggo. Everybady come wid di same tools maybe one R two come sharted but big eye no mean good eyesight nar big ears good hearing.

My pipple come ina shades and callahs from blue-black to pink-brown.Downtung , Uptung pipple cant stay right cause material gravity ton dem hed rung.
Oct 2017 · 306
The King That You Are
Geno Cattouse Oct 2017
The king that you are
Caused me to recapture my light By
gazing into the prism of your rainbow.
The essence of
the colors of the flavors of you.

Because of the king that you are, the transparency
of your polished surface refracted the dullness of my edge
into sparkling rays of remembrance.
Not is but what could be.

The king that you are,ricocheted my power from gray to black
into that intangible darkness where the mystery of creation blossoms.
into manifestation.

The king that you are is water poured into the crevice of my soul,
soaking up the wastelands and parched desert regions of my Queendom cultivating me into an orchard of gratitude and thanksgiving.

Because of the king that you are,I stand strong like the mighty palm trees dancing in the wind
because you selflessly allowed me to bask in your light.

The king hat you are is the king that I see.
This poem was written to me from
a woman that I hoped to find greater understanding with in time
and she surprised me with this poem and with the excellency of the words and feelings
Jun 2016 · 528
Moods And Interludes
Geno Cattouse Jun 2016
When the day is blazing
I'm ready for brisk and lazing.
sunshine as crisp as pine needles.
Seeing for miles in ocean blue skies.
Then the needle quivers on E
the sun commits to losing the fight.

Comes night,Oh I despise but summer nights in summer skies bring crickets,fire Flys and sweet possibilities. So stay and the children will squeal and play and cool wafting air to chase the night away.
you too please stay.
No go.No stay
I want to make love to you night and day
I can't choose so one and two makes three
both of you
stay ?
May 2016 · 651
I Took A Walk
Geno Cattouse May 2016
In the quiet of the night as the world slept
well into December, there were no spirits to dredge nor scars as such. I didn't have vices that demanded much. NON SUCH.

A few insomniacs  from my tribe burned fresh wicks of discontent as flickering light from static devices crept through half drawn sashes living rooms. But for me
Non Such.

Smell of sweet night grass and stilted Oleander,crickets startled into apnea.
Dogs sending smoke signals of solitary
illumination. But I, non such.
A pace of great deliberation.
Resounding over dated concrete tablets do mark my time in moonlite.
But peace of mind.Nonsuch.
May 2016 · 507
Hill And Gully
Geno Cattouse May 2016
At the bottom
look way up to the rim up there where the air is slim. So the steep escape comes lumbering in to reach the edge of wondering.
This is
the end
of
me.
Dec 2015 · 475
Untitled
Geno Cattouse Dec 2015
Just massage or a little  bit and pass it up
Bring it up.
Dec 2015 · 503
Put a rush on it
Geno Cattouse Dec 2015
Just massage or a little  bit and pass it up
Bring it up.
Aug 2015 · 734
Wondever
Geno Cattouse Aug 2015
A small piece of humanness
almost not here at all but she is big in the heart and her spirit is wall to wall.
Sparkler.  
Not to be deminished
at all.
A sparkling light. Ember like.
burning furiously and quiet save for a fizz and flicker.
Quicker than soft silver. A flicker.
Flickering soul detained to never grow old.
Old soul in a wind whipped frame
Framed in a miniscule  moment.
A moment is all you are.
Are.
Jul 2015 · 583
THE Little things
Geno Cattouse Jul 2015
It's the little things that seal the deal.
They make it real. Little things to small  except to feel.
Like the way you stand and sit when you don't realize that eyes are on you.
The way you fix your mouth to speak a word. The sounds you make that go unheard.
The little things like small kindnesses that remind us what the heart can feel.
How your hands move when you speak or the way look from through your eyes that surprises me every time and leaves me soft and weak.
The little things.
The way you sleep
Like sweet secrets that you keep and share exclusively.......
Those things.
Those little things that are there..Your hair...Your chin;
your goodness even when the world is unfair.
The little things my dear.
Jul 2015 · 544
METRONOME
Geno Cattouse Jul 2015
Somewhere  deep in the ***** of her
Contractions  will drive flagella  home.
To blend and twirl in pleasure and
Build a metronome. The quickening and spark.
mind and body  are destined to link and intuition can meld with spirit  and cells. A silent awakening a crawling from the brink as liquid solitude nurtures to find a a living home. As system after system  speaks the tongue  of the metronome
quick and crisp
thick and strong
for long and long
mild hesitation
pause meditation
labored progress
halting redress
Silence.
Jul 2015 · 583
Big Iron
Geno Cattouse Jul 2015
As he stepped  down from stirrup to dirt the road worn traveler reached up to the boiling  sun.

How far had he rode today. From pillar to hitching post a wayward  ghost a hollow merchant.

Swathed in leather and silver...tooled steel on his hip...a killer by trade. He was made to this

By nightfall alone on moonlit  trail would he be in slow self procession to find bad intentions.Tradesman in sulfur and lead...black smoke and resounding explosions. Then silence.

Tradesman in black.
Death and deliverance.
Paid in full.
Jul 2015 · 533
Bend in the river
Geno Cattouse Jul 2015
A million  drops of blood fell to the earthen
floor where it seems a million years before
a spirit visited  my soul and gave me insight.
my pain  found deliverance
♧♧♧ a stroke from the mystic
Expressions  stitched with barbed  wire encircled my brow. Paid penance  for a negligent heart.
A blurred dismissal of truth an ode to one's  youth.

                  A Ragged
Magician in frayed costume. No rabbits to flurrish  from threadworn sleeves nor doves to take flight with flapping relief.
a gift. Golden bangles fall from wrist.
Times fold over and over in rythym  as prescribed  by delusion.
Forward.
The belted restrictions of perception only imply. Four  square confinement  to adorn the journey.
Dust.
Geno Cattouse Apr 2015
The rain pelted down angrily on rusted red corrugated zinc. It pounded it's message home on a tropical night. Thunder rolled on massive cumulus wheels.The oceans roiled to deep but still he could not sleep.
                  His favorite lullaby had failed
       A tropical concoction. to no avail. and so.

With fingers clasped behind his head and staring at the candles dance on wall and ceiling.

                  No answers came calling though wished upon, no squall brought mournful musings... Nothing to cling to till dawns awakening..
A vacancy there. His stares unending to pierce the roof and ceiling again to see the heavens in eyes of mind....A vacancy still. no takers.
minutes turned to hours.  Ah but wait.. no the wind now lashes pelting drops a harsh tattoo and cascade.
Sleep in it the bed you made.

Come quiet morning
Come with the sun come hither. The guttural croak. Croak and response of the plague. Frogs in swamped places now boast and make merry and willfully taunting. a sing song of nature.

goes on ... and you with laced fingers and no answers..
Patience
Apr 2015 · 472
Stalemate
Geno Cattouse Apr 2015
Some say a draw
Some say a quit

Enough   is enough  Lets move on

I say why wait for a consensus, a meeting of the minds.
But.... more sides to this than Rubik's Cube
So you pull your opinion of choice.
I got mine cocked and aimed.

who wants to start the end my friend.
Take a deep breath.
We have arrived.
At
A Stalemate.
Apr 2015 · 667
zeke
Geno Cattouse Apr 2015
Bitter cold winters kept me far and wrapped away but today the well beckons me.. the bucket and winch tied to my rope of hope. So one foot following the next with thawing frosty breath.
I zeke.. Ezekiel.
Approaches.

The well of depth and revelation. My witherd soul cries for transfusion.
Clarity from dark delusion..

The stinging cold as I place my hands on  the frozen stone and lean forward to gaze deep to the murky bottom. Answers fermented but potent distilled.
Zeke..I am Ezekiel...the bucket drops swiftly to the limited...submerges.. seeking answers.

There it rises as I turn the handle slowly.
There it rises with hidden freedom.
There.Ezekiel's answe lies within the inner.

Begin again..zeke
Rewind...questions will always exceed answers..so begin
Again...another day has been granted.
Begin again... Renew the You within
Apr 2015 · 600
Reewine
Geno Cattouse Apr 2015
Di seasons dey come an go
      But Rasta stay in flow.

Naturalnes in thinnking..linking I with.eternal.
Rewine I.
Rewind me
Return me like bran nue perspect.

Reewine I an push play.
Nov 2014 · 486
Distinctly
Geno Cattouse Nov 2014
Just as you were coming within the weather changed and out you ran for sunny frolics
without.
The music echoed from a distant window from another world in another time.

I wondered who you were then, the wind carried your essence along but changed you in hidden ways as you came back into focus a stranger thing.

My mind sought stick figures to flesh you out again in the old images of you but none were to be found all occupied with scripted lives ad blinders tied securely. Surely this a vision of things to come.
I wash my hands now.

This is how it carries over to the next eternal.
white smoke as leader in curling wisps of magic sliding under doors and past restrictions into forbidden places to see the useable the occult.

The ticking clock like booming thunder reminds me like sand slipping downward in the hourglass by grain by drop by seconds by the minute.
Clear as the morning chill brings focus and transition to the new day
my will in question
my very essence queried
a distinct sense of reality wafting gently to ground like a bloodhound on task, there will be answers and resolutions
all has been written regardless so we dance.
Nov 2014 · 490
Ascension
Geno Cattouse Nov 2014
The Mountain beckoned me and so.
I climbed to summit.
Every crevice as toe hold and ragged purchase for thumb and finger.
                                       A voice did whisper "do not look down nor linger"
                                       The pinnacle it resisted me and so did I malinger frequently. But by and by with force of will I clambered up to heaven' sill then stood and scanned horizon.

The setting sun did welcome me as it sank low to slumber.
It touched me gently cross my brow then pointed out to distant range that ran quite high and resolute.

" Greater challenges await my friend before you enter Heaven's gate" said the mountain. And less you forget, your  reward will be the journey not the destination set.
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
I heard you coming long before you appeared because off your suffering groans the lovely clanking of your adornments. A call and response from mouth to bound ankles. The pleasure cloaks the pain. And... what have you then gained for the struggle.

All those burning lashes across ones back to  teach hard lessons  of loss and gain to climb from perdition with determined zeal as  baying hounds dogged your heels and still.
Wasted lessons
Lost recollection  
Repeated folly nothing  retained amnesiac.

Dejavous persists to drag you beneath the tides off chaos  defeat from victory.
Willful battering of heads on stone walls.
Come witness Your Babylonian demise your self same recesion bought out and sold away to material gain and  things with diamond studded wings  of chilling indifference.
Weak dilated eyes lacking wisdom of vision lost to boxed in divisions ***** clawing upwards on the backs of hope folly.
Divest yourselves of baubles and karats tied to sticks. Wiley tricks played on selfish ambitions.
Come home and rest by the warming fires of flamboyant flaming Rome.
Come home.
.
Oct 2014 · 558
Come Twilight
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Hurry home to rest Oh failing Sun you are rewarded a days duty done as you send shadows long and defeated to ground.
Come.

Lit by polluted incandescent pain. willingness the city roars and cavorts in limited sensuality...hidden desires unraveling by night.
Come hither.
Wafting breezes eases transition of myriad shades of black...pushing back at the world weary day.
Whispering hope...familial collusion at hour's conclusion.
Come rebirth, come nightfall come quiet
Come twilight
Come moolight.
Come daylight
Rejoin the fight
In Burning sunlight
Then forevermore
Come forward.
Come twilight.
Oct 2014 · 568
Pay Oh tay
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Eagles Soar.
Desert Floor.
Mountains rise
Sky blue eyes.
Tequila smooth
Attitude
Eagle drifts
Altitude.
Warm rising lifting
Eye sky blue.
And
You.
Oct 2014 · 667
Rockin and Rollin
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
My.. my Garanny smoke puro in quiet corner smokin them over for the rollin.
Just when they think it's rolling comes rockin.
Mystic smoke and candles
Granny got handles.

On your will and soul.
She dont dip Skoal just blaze tobacco not wacky kind.
Say a few phraeses , damnation or praises
Rockin your roll and drop ya in a six foot hole
Alive.
Eyes open pitch black.
Oct 2014 · 366
Consider This
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Already said two much

Food for thought

You get what you pay for
Short end of the stick is
Slippery.

hang tight.
Oct 2014 · 933
Short Leash
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Diane  l and made hot love under the tamarind tree.
Teenage love simple and sweet.
Two months later she come up swollen no precautions.Oops it feel sweet but it shorten mi chain  now I bark a bit howl a bit cough when she **** me in close no raincoat
Just
Shorten mi chain.
Oct 2014 · 530
steely dan state of mind
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
loving you madly Mady
But you like me a lot when the mood hits then it's quitsville honey why do you flaunt me only to reject and haunt me.
I'm in a Steely Dan state of mind running frantically you chasing my emotions and then im running way behind manic to the max got
Me on boogie then we bump and grind so twisted cause you insisted on a
Steely Dan state of mind.
Wanna gently rock your boat and tickle your fancy bang down your back door get all over your frame make **** sure yoy emote when you came but just the same,in a steely dan state of mind
Oct 2014 · 392
bend in the rainbow
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Break the fragile future
Push the temerlope.

See into tomorrow.
Breath the temperhope.
One step leads another-----time

Then becomes now.. Now becomes then
Round the bend.        Up the stairs.        Down rabbit hole.
Again
Again
And
Again
Free flyer.
Oct 2014 · 750
Pow Wow
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Had a chat with my
    Gat last night.Ruger P90
"Patience son" he said.
            " my job is spittin lead"
        He said." Not rhetoric"
"Pokelickin is for fun" said the gun.
Lickshot is not..
          So no skylarkin when P90 gets to barking.
      Lets think this thing through. Consider what you do before not after.
"Patience "
Said the gun.
Oct 2014 · 524
The riddle of the jynx
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
It matters not your intent nor will for a molehill is a mountain in the hiding.
To rise suddenly by a millimeter or two.
Surprises.

All is written some profess.

The pages rustle freely in the Autum breezes to rest and suggest with majesty.

But the story is amorphous.
Till final chapter and fullstop.
Oct 2014 · 327
" I dont know "
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Can't.
Won't
Shouldn't
Couldn't
Didn't.  Just not working.
I don't know.
Gonna let it go.
Oct 2014 · 635
Chin Check
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Old school rhymes burning rubber
    On top of dimes
    Givin back loose change.

Talkin **** is a grade school prereq.
Till hard knocks U.
slaps yer palm with a diploma
And a Chin Check.
Mommy and Daddy cant
Intervene.
Chin checkin
Just wrecking egos and
Dreams
Oct 2014 · 665
Big Batty Girl
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Calling all West Indian and Carribean man.
All points bulletin for the big batty girl.
Yuh know ?
She gone long time but she still leavin the room.
Yuh know ?.

No hard feelings bout the small variety.
Big Batty girl push it back
Daily and nightly.
Yuh know ?

All about that bass.
No Treble.
Oct 2014 · 411
Fodder
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Bless me father for I have sinned and you refuse to let me begin again.
So.
Once again a sad song
It plays.
I slowly unravel my Karma.
To litter the ages
As
Fodder.
Oct 2014 · 768
Slide Ruler
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
The bigger the lie the cooler the cool.
Ahh
Oct 2014 · 366
Small Wonder
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
If not for you the sun would have risen and retreated the moon could not hand have driven the tide
If not for you my friend.
Really, you could not have known.
Clearly.

My path was brighter, morning like a cool morning breeze a gust of salty sea air guiding.Overiding pain.
If not for you my friend.

Solitary goodness
Unabashed kindness
A lone star I looked for daily to hold my course to hold steady by and still today my friend.

My task bore me under but your gently reassurances so timely.
Solitary goodness.
Unabashed kindness.

A jewel among axes and swords.A small treasure.A bubbling spring
Open faced pleasure.Contrast and kingship unknown still.
My distant friend.
A gift well welcomed
Thank you my friend.
My task would have crumpled me then if not for you friend.
If not for you.
Oct 2014 · 1.0k
yak yak
Geno Cattouse Oct 2014
Love listening to loose lips
Slowly sinking ships.
****** Babble from the rabble
Rousers. Staining their trousers.
All lite and brite.
All nite can't act rite
A rusty liquid ooze stain down the temporal side of tin gilded craniums.
Group think
Ramant
Me as fly on the ceiling.
Them as fembots reeling.
Wielding well honed scalpels
Between scapula. Smiling in faces.
Smearing feces.right left and center.
Enter at your peril.
Me.
I'm just a squirrel
Trying
To get
A nut.
Sep 2014 · 538
Voixes
Geno Cattouse Sep 2014
My father speaks to me daily.
In my infancy as a dream my childhood a sigh my youth rustling leaf.
He walks a path unknown to me yet and still.
In my boyhood a whisper.

A grumbling prophet in my youth a subtle **** in my rutting time. A cautionary tale in my wanderings, my father.

My father took residence in my mirror in my wisdom took a stand in my slight declining. Took Pitty in my questing.

He stands at my back in chaos by my side in victory
By my manhood by my word.
He is
Here now and always.
Sep 2014 · 447
Look To your Past
Geno Cattouse Sep 2014
With my feet turned backwards in the irons a full tilt gallop astride  power and speed. RIDE FORTH.

forward.With eyes fixed on vanishing past.
Sep 2014 · 1.1k
Beacon
Geno Cattouse Sep 2014
The cryptic mystic climbed the stairs to put fire to the lighthouse candle.
Two hundred circular winding steps to  his nightly destination...lives hung in the balnce....you see the ships at sea clung desperately to the streaming beams of salvation......To guide them past the ragged reefs and jagged rocks.

The Cryptic mystic huffed and stumbled, and grunted as he mumbled  " one hundred more to go".
For forty odd years, the mystical cryptic did dilligently climb to task as the setting sun did glow and bask the tower in fading light.
Preceeding dark and blinding nightfall.

Forty years and to the day or forty one I dont know which the crypic one was dutybound.

If he had only thought to look in the cellar there, he would have  seen a light switch on the southern wall.
In the lantern two hundred feet,high a massive bulb hung high above the wick and tallow
And to this day,the old man makes the climb on creaky knees a penance paid  pain.
A beam of hope for ship and scow still pierces blackest night as the cryptic one will still be found climbing up and hobbling down the winding staircase dutybound.
Sep 2014 · 508
Shy Eyed Girl
Geno Cattouse Sep 2014
At first I missed it too busy or dismissing it as a twitch or fluke but it happened again and once more.

Looking up to meet the sweet expression in speach. A soft agreement written on air.

The second time was a flicker
But the feeling did
wicker gently but still not real..Her face was beautifull.

Fell to the floor a game a twist but nothing more .The next time I saw it
I promise that I would find much more next time I looked into her eyes.She was not shy by any means and so the question bore asking.
Sep 2014 · 329
seek
Geno Cattouse Sep 2014
Not promised.
Not level.
Not easy.
Not.
Never.

Not bought
Nor sold
Neither secured
No whim.

Can't be easy or tainted.
Can't be free no value
Won't be hollow
No value.

Won't come when called.
Can't shut in by walls.
I never knew my
Mother's face
Nor turned my head to her call.
Father's mystery
He who I resemble most is still a ghost..so I am the eternal seeker
Stronger not weaker
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