(( >                                    O                         ­           < ))
^
   00                  ^^                    00

//// • ||
<>  
/    (   (     \

         ) )

   (           )

••

do you love me ?

••

We want something from eachother !!!!

What is it ?????

///                  

try to say something that isn't

Entirely Disgusting !!

//          

or inane

( like LOVE )

••

In the middle of this place some call

REALITY

                                       ///

Might as well be here since you actually are

((((              ))))
(          •   •          )
||
~~




                                          ­                  cute kid !

•   •

Every day

Everybody seems a little deader than the day before

||

Every day

One feels the world has a little less love

||

With every poem read

People seems a little less sincere

••

The light is going out

••

Only the TALK remains

////       /////

The

WHO GIVES A ****

reverberates

Louder and louder

||

Just read a        Love Poem            

About

SHIMMERING FRECKLES !

~|~

Waiting to hear about wet *******

And pulsating *******

Amid the ****** scars

And anonymous faceless soul - less lovers

Dying on the frozen sheets of death

/::/

So be it

/::/

Christmas is coming !

The RE BIRTH message is gone

•••

We shall wrap ourselves in tinsel

And joyless song

••

Today

A little bit more ugly than yesterday

://:

Going home

Amid the stars

(              
•
                    )






                   ­               
                                                 ­                        solitary

^^   ^^                                                               ­     

Old man                                                    

Amongst the street kids

                                               ( a dragon song )

A myth !

••                          
                  
                        Just a poor man

                                                           ••

what's he got to say !!!!

////

In this world of corporate philosophy ?

•••

To a bunch a kids who only want to get rich

So they can get laid

••

Solitary

No love is here

No lovers

Only such as you and I

( and we know what we are truly like )

••

Drone lovers

Fake it and get paid

Yeah

Lovers like that

Is what we are

( >                          < )
•       •
||
O

/        \

/\

                                                              ­                    she my love

    %%%%%%%

where will I see you ?
Where will we meet ?

••

Will I ever know you ?

::::::

Battles rage

••

It ain't no

World any more



( Oh no it ain't  )

////

Everybody

Here on their own !


?????

Brother that's just the Lie

The first one spoke

••

Where will I see you ?

It's where she is

••

Just follow that faint trail

Leads up to the ridge

|||{{

**** them all !
**** their wars !

///

We fight the battle

Against the Lie released

We bring the truth here

Of our loyalty

To each other

And our loveliness

And to the child

And Tomorrow blessed

/::/

Where will I see you !

Everywhere

You see anybody

Yeah I'll be there

Where
You see anybody

Yeah I'll be there

(                              
                             )
(                    
              )
(
\/
/\
/    \


%%%%%%%%%%%


Lonely

Lonely

/////

Lonely boy

Lonely day

On
A lonely road

/////

Singing softly

singing

About

Love

///////

Where are you girl ?

•

Who lives in these high

Hills floating all around like a dream ?

////                

A few birds maybe have survived

The universal self destruction

Going on

••

A ***** ole stream

•

In this hour where shall I place my trust ?

In what shall I put all of my belief ?

Where are you little girl ?

I thought I heard ya say if I came clean

I could Always find you here

•//•

Lonely boy

The road is hard

Loneliness

Destroys the heart

He sings !

A love song for you !

••

His love shall bring him unto you

That is

If you still want him to

/\
<<     >>
\/
                                                         the Star
•

I love to walk into the party and watch all the eyes
Turn towards me

I am a handsome young man !

My father is a powerful and immensely wealthy oil - man

I myself am already worth billions of dollars

That's right

Billions !

••

A simple man in love with love

//

I smile at a lovely girl

She smiles back so lovingly

ALL of her love !

•

Like any young man

I love to be loved

••

That night we bed in a splendor she has never known
Nor
Even imagined !

This we share together

Innocently / honestly

But soon I must be gone

A check is given

The love remains forever

••

I love the feeling of generosity

//

I love to see the young girl naked
On
The silken sheets

Legs

Spread so wide !

I

Could simply / easily
Totally climb inside !

Her ******* extending almost

To the ceiling !

•

Generous love !

Perfect love

•••

I love sitting in the back of my limousine

Being watched with envy

•

But I never break trust with these

I only want their love

I only want to share myself completely

••

Tonight !

Like any god - like child

Such as we all are

I shall grace another beauty with my truthful soul

And loving heart

////

Will it be you ?

How I hope so !

How I long to lie with you

Together

We

In eachother 's loving Arms !

( ( >>                        ^                        << ) )
^^
////  • ||
<>
/    (   (      \

%%%%

if it wasn't really Love / then what is lost ?

///        ///

The stranger walking in the rain ?

•

He is real

Even if he is not you

//                        

If you are not a lonely stranger walking in the rain

then

What is it you do  ?

                                   //

We waste each other's time and spirit

So constantly

•            •

Needing a real community

//

We are ALL lonely strangers

Walking in the rain

///

Look !

2 lonely strangers walking together in the rain !

••

If it's not really Love

Then tell me what it is ?

//

What is there to lose

Really

Anyway ?

••

If it's not really love / then what is lost ?

////

If it's not really love

Tell me

What can be gained ?

(          
      )
(        
)
\/
/\
/   \
                        %%%%

The subtle reasons                                        
                    We can live           We can die

( yes we can )

•

I see you

••

The hours contain so many possible stories

///                                
I am

WITH you

//

Let's see what we gotta see

//                        

I loved her because I was with her

I wasn't with her because I loved her

/:/

It's really simple

Don't you see ?

••

In the Real

We stood

••

We stood together

SIDE BY SIDE

••

Everybody !

They wanted to be with US

( is that why we were together ----THINK ! )

••                            

We can live           We can die

//

So many stories

So many possible stories

REAL stories

So many reasons

//

But only One way

To survive

(( >                                <))
^
^^

(()  <<<<<<               (  )                >>>>>> ())
(    )
(     )
/---\
                                                                        we meet
••

( Sometimes )                                                      
                                                   //

://:

In the rain

On foreign soil
Under alien skies

••

Some think falling in love with someone is to meet them

( visions of rotting corpses in the mud )

••                              

The battle rages

While there even be a world tomorrow ?

Will you even be here ?

••

( Visions of rotting corpse piled high )

                                        •

EYE TO EYE

•                              

He first saw her in the high school corridor

Visions of the Good **** filled the air

She was wanted by all the guys

He would get her and win the Good **** Prize

••                                        

( then he would graduate

Join the army

Go to war

And die )

••

Somehow we just don't seem to meet anymore

••        

••

No

And really

Who even ever really tries ?

((>             ^           <))
  ^^
//// • ||
<>
/   (   (    \

                                                          ••   ••

The Twin Towers come crashing to the ground  !

                                             ////

A little while later
                                                 YOU

were born                                        

••

We roam the New York City Nights
                                              
•

Hoping morning never again appears

//

We talk of such silly things

                                          //

Masked men only everywhere

//

We roam all nights below foreign stars

:/;

Angels and demons doing what they can

(                                                  
)                      
(                                        
)                            
(                                    
\/                                    
/\                                    
  /   \                                    0
                                              =•=
                                               ||

~~~

                              The stream in the mountains

Sweet hippie girl !

Free from the madness of this dying age                                                  

•

Well it was on that subtle day

I saw her laughing midst the dream of All

That we would seed the New Pure World

••

Meditating in the hills

No need again to go to school !

//                                          

Love

                                     //

This is what we must know completely

•                      

The elders are insane with greed

They are killers rapists and Paedophiles

••

Little hippie girl in the hills !

The air so lovely is beckoning

(  (                                
(              
•
                    )
                                         )  )




•

The simplest subtlety

                                                        ( The only one )

••                                                          

When a Rescuer tries to save a Suicider

He always looks him straight into the eyes and says

LOOK AT ME            I SEE YOU

••

We know why

•

The simplest subtlety

••

The stories play out in the dead of night

LOOK AT ME

///          

the simplest subtlety

We know what it is

///

I SEE YOU

in the dead of night

••

Ringing loudly

Yes it is

(  (                                
(          
•
               )
                                   )  )




                            0                            
=•=
||

•

Gentle child kneeling

Sipping real water from a mountain stream

Mother !

The bird flies endlessly thru the sky

I heard the whisper of the first song

•                          

We are only ONLY EVERYTHING

/////                                

Despite the Massacres Occurring

                                /////

There is that first song being played

////                      

Naked death !

Strangers making love thru ugly dreams

We who are Only
                                  Everything

Creating babies for the Wars

••                

The gentle child

Drinks real water from the mountain stream

We watch / / frozen with pure wonder

The Policeman puts a gun to the back of his head

The bird circling in eternal skies

((  (                    
•
                     )  ))




~~~~

the reign of death rains down so gently upon us

We walk the silken streets arm in arm with demon lovers

We are at peace here

It is all so very familiar

••

I STILL HAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL AUSCHWITZ DREAMS

she murmers softly

Gazing into his SCHOOL CAFETERIA eyes !

••                            

Such a lovely day

All our youthful fantasies run freely thru

These police streets

The music of gun fire and children screaming out in pain

••

I LOVE YOU !

they speak to eachother in tones

Of awe and wonder

And gratitude

For they have found their monthly mate

As they approach the Ammunition Store

To prepare themselves for

The New School Day

//////                                

across the street they see the ragged poet boy

( you know the one I mean )

They make special note

Nod serenely

And continue on their chosen way

(                
•
                       )

^^^                                                           ­ 
••

I have just read an article showing how most / if not all /

Of the school shootings of the past

20 years / have / as  their  cause /

****** jealously and ****** humiliation/

and the acceptance of     Revenge       as a means of

recapturing Self Esteem

And that the factor of narcissistic possessiveness

that is being promoted in the schools

is the main source of

this dysfunctional behavior

••

••

I ( of course ) thought of        The lovers !         Of HP

and their willing participation in the murderous dysfunctionality

of society and their purposeful distortion of what

Love really is ////

Taken as a whole

Our poetry is one big

******* !

thrown up in the face of LIFE

//

And is it any wonder one senses LIFE

replying

******* TOO !

::::::

This is called KARMA

:::::::

I
( of course )

Do not enter the fray but remain

LOVING AND SUPPORTIVE

••

But with every single DEATH

in the battlefield called Earth

I think of HP

and our careless words

and the Halloween Hatred

disguised as Love

and the wasted humanity of our

Uselessness

and our REAL PARTICIPATION

in the killings

and of our collective guilt

(            
•
                   )


^^                                                

ONLY LOVE CAN BREAK A HEART
ONLY LOVE CAN MEND IT AGAIN

Gene Pitney


Though
( of course )

For us here on HP

only the first line is applicable

(            
•
                 )




                                                       ^^

••

The winds blow

The rain ceases

All that's left is the empty plain

Strewn with the corpses of our false love

||
                     ((   @
                                                 @  ))
                                                                             ||
     <>

••

Every day is halloween here at  HP

a bunch a kids in masks

Begging for some love treats

Threats of hatred in they don't get what they want

But all in all

Just a superficial show of costumes

Hollow on the inside

( <            ¥          > )
   O       O
\/

~~~

/\

/\
                                                               ­          John Q Poet
< the last hope for Mankind >                                                            

••

he writes his poems on the walls of young girls bedrooms

With the dripping ***** from his used condoms

To the tune of the girls moaning

His beloved name

••

He is

John Q Poet

                                         Of renown and fame

He sets them hearts a crying

He ***** but don't come back again !

But they love him just the same

•
Oh me misery

Is the game a comin down

)(                        )(
O      ^        O
////  • ||
<>
(                                              )
                    ***                       ***                

                ••

we

Pretty promises

The dyin day

••

No matter what you want

Gonna gonna gonna

Come down again

••            

Little child

                              Little dyin  boy

••

Sing your songs of mountains

Sleep in love's dream

Tell the world your floating high

But tomorrow shall not change

/////                    

Tell us of your Jesus

Your god of the 1000 names

The child is dyin

And his sentence will not change

:::::::

Ode to Mother Nature

And the love she did create

//

Abandoned by all of us

And left out to her fate

)
•      
(                



~~~~~                    

Oh yes

What can I give you ?

                                 Tell me please

What you want        

••                      
In the darkness

YE seem like yer playin

A part in a Movie !!

••

                                                        D­eath

Death                            
:::
                        Ye seem like yer dyin

YE seem

So
Out
Of breath

••

My name is

----      Perfect Misfortune      ----

//

That's what you call me

( that is my guess )

••            

Ain't no love in the world no more no more
Ain't no love in the world

••

••


Embracing

The skeletons of false stories

The part in the Movie

Of vanquished life

/::/

I know you seek Me

----      Perfect Misfortune    -----

•

YE think your pain's gonna get you thru the night

•        •

What can I get you

as a prop for your Movie

A razor blade or a knife ?

< ) < )                           ( >  ( >
^  ^  ^
^^
<<<                    >>>
     <<<<<<<<                    (  )                        >>>>>>>>
(    )
(      )
/ --- \
%%%%%%%%                                            
          ­                   ••


There is no linear time

Therefore

All wisdom is of the Present

•

The creation is NOW

the incarnation is NOW

••

Your breath is the primal motion

Your self identity is the Christ

••

To follow CHRIST is to follow your breath
( to meditate )

••

To not follow your breath NOW

is to ****** Christ NOW

••

Religions introduce TIME into the world

This distorts all meaning

And allows for the imposition of priests

Who rule over you

And **** CHRIST consciousness


••

Truth is as simple as we know it to be

••

LOVE is the primal feeling

The essence of all creation

••

It's use as a term for physical emotions

Is something that should be used cautiously

••

Certainly

It is not to be used as something

YOU NEED

(                                                   )
^
O                            O

////  • ||
<>
/      (  (     \

%%%%%%%%%%%%%

she comes softly thru these the sorrowful years

                            ••

But she comes

••        

She comes cause she knows you're here

She comes   // she's looking for you

•    •

Be ready


||||
|||
||
|

She doesn't come to hear your excuses

She doesn't come to share your pain

||||
|||
||
|

She comes for your love

•   •

Be ready

//////

If you are not ready

Get ready

((            
•
              ))





^^

wanders the hills

                                ( valleys and streams )

•

We could do what we want if we wanted to

                          •

The meaning is clear

•                  

•

                      •


Little the child who sees

Precious the moment when he realizes

Just how much he really cares

( and the grace )

And just how much love is here.

(              
•
            )






                                          ­        ^^

the possible
                                               True
Love

••

but who believes ?

••

We walk the streets of
                                         Lonliness

•

Our dreams are lovely

but are        Only
dreams

••

Days fade

only Years remain

••

Everything so still

It's up to YOU to dare to change

••

possible
                                            ­ True
Love

••

on the rainy street

Lovers appear when you appear

As pure love

I do believe

////
              ////
                         ////

                                                                          ////
& you over  there                                                                  

•

Yeah
                                                            We know the one      

( looks like you )                                                                
•         •

We all appear to
                                      Be hiding

But we ain't fooling anyone !

•

•

No

Not

ANYONE

•                         •

This

The very lost day

The stumble *** !

Like we heading for the desert

And we ' re running out of water !

And courage

And love

••

Yes

LOVE

••

like we all be sayng

SURE

I KNOW I LOOK LIKE  A HUMAN BEING

BUT REALLY !

I' M NOT REALLY INTO IT !

JUST HANGIN OUT


••

WELL YES

I ' D RATHER NOT USE THE WORD

//      ZOMBIE     //

BUT I GUESS YOU COULD

//

You know

We don't oppose
Any wrong

We don't pronounce

Any principle

As Albert Camus said

//    We **** and read the newspaper  //

•

                                  We are just here

Over there                                                                              

•              
                            Long long
This day

Harsh harsh

These years

Oh so bitter

Our tears

As we cry out for sympathy !
                                  
•

But no one hears !

•

Light oh light be here !

God of everywhere

•


YOU ARE !

•


We are so afraid

To say we know you

And are known

We know earth 's our only home

But some power has taken o'er

And we know we aren't meant for war

We really don't know what to do

•              

Such is

The truth

////

So let us come together and really talk awhile

Let us come together till the task is through

(                
           )
(          
)
\/
/\
/    \

                              ~~~    ~~~    ~~~    ~~~

••

Sacred waters

                                                      Sacred fountain

What are we doing here
                                              In this ungodly place ?

•

We the gentle

                                             Purpose of all creation

The guardians of all Nature

The HUMAN RACE                      

••         ••

No !  No !

I'M NOT GONNA DO THIS ANY MORE !

I'm not gonna live the ugliness

Of immoral LIE

•

I'm not going to pretend any longer

I'm not going  to masquerade

As some form of  morbid lover

Of false emotions

Born out of ignorance & deceit

//

I'm not gonna pretend that I can't see

Exactly what we are doing

To ourselves and others

Trying to appease the feared masters !

I'm not going to die any longer

For anybody ' s sake

////

Sacred

( Everybody )

Everybody's

Sons  & Daughters

The holy waters

That god himself created

That god himself drinks

•

Come home

To the sacred fountain

If YE'd be a

Sacred human being

^^^^^^
||
(                                )
**               ////  • ||                   **
               <>                
/    (  (    \

                            ###

Sacred mother

The silence of pure feeling

Sacred song

                          ||

seems like we got our differences

About some things don't really matter

•

The alleyways

If any kid is there

We all are there


We all are in the prisons

Our human - ness refused

••

LOVE

••

Sacred father

Raw with holy power

Sacred song

                               ||

Sure we got our differences

About some things don't really matter

••

Our children !

Crying out for mercy

In School !!!!

Stumbling thru the madness

Of some kind of mind control !

••

Some form of

****** abuse

///

Sacred brothers and sisters

Embrace

Wholly and fully

///

You are the angels

And the saints

The simplicity of sacredness

Amid these

Our only days to live

Living

Thru these

Days

For the sake of those to come

(            
•
                    )






Yer here

Yer real

Or yer not

( < (                                              ) < )
  O
^^ ^        ^^ ^

(((         <<<<<                           ( )                      >>>>>           )))
    (    )
   (       )
   /----\

In the middle of each moment

There's a monumental feeling

Erupting

//////              

COME HOME !
Come home

///

No place but here
No where to hide

If the people don't gather together
This hour

We all gone a die !!

••

So

COME HOME !
Come home

                              //  //

The pulsating of the power

Of the people

Acting as one

IS LOVE !
Is love

///                          

In the middle of each moment

Is a monumental feeling

Erupting

KNOWLEDGE !
Know & Be known

KNOW & BE KNOWN !

•

It ain't no mystery

Ain't no secrets

No subtle intentions

Only Sacred Simplicity

Only YOU

comin into your own

••

In the middle of each moment

I see you erupting

As Pure Love

as  Pure Love

//////             /////                                              
(                          )

the dyin time                                  

                                             the dyin time

    The dyin time                        

Got to

STEP UP        NOW !

////

Be a
                                MAN

Try !           ( at least)

••                                  

In the middle of the graveyard

Who cares what you think

We       GOTTA KNOW  now

////


Who cares about your Love masquerade

We got better things to do

Than watch your CHARADE

Look !

                                            The children are dyin !

While you act like you're posing

In a ***** MAGAZINE

///

It's the dyin time                                        

                                    It's the dyin time

It's the dyin time

/:/

Really sick of all the games being played

I'm  dyin

(<^>  <^>)
/-
<>

/\
/\

•

So hard to say
                              So hard to tell

So little to offer
                                  Got nothin to sell

••              

We gotta stop        

                           All a these silly games

Watchin the world
                                         go up in flames !

••        

So little we know
                            Do we even care

Anymore
                                                 What's goin on out there !

//:       ://

So little to say
                                   So little to tell

Seems our love is but false promises

Causin so much pain

But we just keep doin it all over again

/::/
/::/
/::/

After all the poems from the

BETRAYED LOVERS out there

not even ONE confessional
Not even ONE              explanation
From a BETRAYER !!

POETS must be pretty durn pure beings

Or maybe just full of **** !

I JUST  CANT TELL ANYMORE !

///

It's so hard to say
It's so hard to tell

Why we so intent on turning

Heaven into hell

0h
0h 0h
0h gentle child

(              
•
                   )
0h                                                            0h
~~~
~~          ~~

Love is a gift         YE carry
Love           is a song

You are
                                         the child of fortune

You are the Only Reason

                                         There is a world at all

/////

Everybody's lookin for a home for their hatred !!!!

0h !  0h 0h NO!

//////
////            

Gentle child
                                           Master of the seasons

YE givin life
                                      To everyone

•
           •
                        •

Little child
One with the mountain

YE married the river

Came down to the ocean

Fertile field
                                       The fruit the shelter

For humanity yeah

0h 0h
                  0h
                                   0h

•

Everybody lookin for a home for their hatred !
Everybody lookin for a home for their hatred !
Everybody lookin for a home for their hatred !

So they pretend to
                                              fall        in   LOVE !

//

0h! 0h 0h NO !

••

Gentleness

Holiness

Gentle touch

Holy breath

0h 0h 0h

))
((      
            ))
((
\/
/\
/   \
•••••••

Whenever someone says

I NEED YOU

I reply

NO YOU DONT

WHY ARE YOU LYING ?

///

Usually

They just smile and say

I DONT KNOW

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( (                
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/    \
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                              •

One

Each

Every

All

•        •

Words

Drift over mountains

There !

••

Oh child !

This is only this

There is no meaning

There is no wisdom

••

One

Each

Every

All

//////

We
Drift
Over
Mountains

Free

< (                                                   ) >
O                                        O
^^          ^^
////  • ||
<>  
/        (    (      \

+++

everyone is holy

The boy who was cruel to you
And broke your heart

He's holy
So very holy

••

You are holy
He is holy

•

Holy holy holy

••

What are YE doin ?

Everybody's doin it

He's doin it
She's doin it

You're doin it

Yet you're holy
All holy

Holy holy holy

•

The world's ****** up !

Don't make it worse

//

See the holy people !

See the holiness

///•///

The girl who betrayed you
And broke your heart

She is holy
So very holy

•

You are holy
She is holy

••

Holy holy holy

//

Everybody's holy

(  (                              
•
                            )  )






                              ^^
•                            

Little Jackie Paper
Singin for his supper

He ain't got no home

//

Little Mary's just a kid
Sleeping underneath the bridge

She ain't got no home

•   •

AMERICA is just a lie
An ugliness in space & time

It ain't nobody's home

//

But I'll love you / you can love me
And we can be one family

And make this world a home

•  •

Little Jackie Paper
Singin for his supper

He ain't got no home

//

Little Mary's just a kid
Sleeping underneath the bridge

She aint got no home
She ain't got no home

She ain't got no home

(                            
•            
)




                                                                      ^^^
••

She said

I AM LOOKING FOR

" MY MAN "

I AM LOOKING FOR

" THE --- ONE --- FOR ME "

ARE YOU HE ?

//

YES

He said

//

She smiled victoriously

AND YOU ' LL ALWAYS BE TRUE ?

ALWAYS THERE FOR ME ?

//

OF COURSE

he said

//

AND YOU' LL

NEVER FORSAKE ME FOR ANOTHER ?

//

& with a smiled that melted her completely

He replied

NO ! NO OF COURSE NOT

YOU CAN TRUST ME COMPLETELY

//

She said

YOU KNOW

I DON 'T EVEN KNOW YOUR NAME !

//

He said

IT'S JESUS

JESUS OF ZAZARETH

//      
                  //

She hemmed and and hawed
Looking around

And finally muttered

UH

MAYBE LETS RUN THRU THOSE QUESTIONS AGAIN ?

((((((                                                                             )))))
^^^^^                   ^^^^^
<<<<<                   ( )                   >>>>>
(    )
(       )
/-----\
##                    ##

And on our own

•                    

                                        Maybe free .... ( ? )

                                 ///

( you can say just what you you want )

••

We are  here

to get the same thing done

•

Tryin to fill the world with Love

//        
              //

Its alright to know me

Yes it is

•

It's alright

//              //

We  are the pureness of human touch

Soul to soul

Blazing forever

In holy Light

^^^
<<<   0                                        0  >>>
////   •  ||
<>  

/    (         )      \
(              )  
                       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                      O

one bird flyin thru the sky

                                     One lovely girl

                      One boy lookin down from the rise

••                    

Someone sayin

Somebody got to die                                      
                                                       ••

(  endless war                          
                                          And insanity  )

•

Lovers gather on the shore                      

••                        

are you a comin with me

Ain't no time to hesitate

                                      ••

Only one boy & girl

One dragon
One unicorn

•

Only one Seed

Only one Soil

/::/                

To take the FIRST STEP

You must know

The roads A THOUSAND MILES

••

One bird flyin thru One Sky

(                                
(                
(      
(
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/    \
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Dignity

                                                                ( without pride )

•

Gentleness !!                                          

•

                                               ( sure )

//                                        

Being open and vulnerable
                                              

••

Respecting human sensibilities

                                  ///

THE WORLD WILL SOON BE OVER

( some say )

•

At least we were here together for awhile

(                  
•
                        )  




                                                     last call
////

       one small boy                                                        
///

                                          ( now what ? )

••                        
              
                        If you were god .....:::  (?)

••

We write our poems so carelessly

                                ••

When your " lover " leaves you

and you write him into the BOOK OF THE DEAD...:....( ? )

••                        

the small boy

                                                   By the side of the road

•

Oh

The bombs shall be a falling on all of our heads !!

///                            

In this lovely evening

                                     neath the stars that are left

^^^
0                      0
(          ////  • ||          )
<>  
<<<<<                     /   (  (    \                  >>>>>>

|
/\
               /////                                        

what are your real dreams ?

                                   ••  

in the still night                              
             In the  one night

••
                
You are seen

////

The rain

The child running thru the streets

Gunfire !

He 's down !

                                ( I seen it on T V )

•

In the still night

                                        The one night

•  •                                  

Dreams die ugly

                              When betrayed

///

She talks of loving him

But it was she who

Shot him down !

//                      

Though

( of course !)

She tells the story differently

)
           (                      
                       )    
(
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/\
/    \
       ###

                                                                    Softly
••

Broken hearted girl

                                                      ( what are you talking about ?  )

I don't know // I don't know

                                            ••

I seen young boys shot to death
                           upon the street

•                      

There is       One Day
here

No-one lives there

But
                                            Me
••

OINK OINK
                               ( the Pig song )

Plays everywhere

••

The broken hearted girl

Wallows in Self - Defeat

Walk along hoping to find

Another broken toy

To pick up off the street

:::

Gently drifting

The signals

Cross the sky

(  (                                        
( (                
•
                           ) )
                                                     )   )





we the fragile                                                    

• •

THERE ARE NO
                                                              ­      GREAT MEN

ANYMORE

~~

we wander

We call it       Our
               Given   Destiny !

••

We carry our         Suit cases
Of emotions !

( our Sensitive feelings ! )

From

Old hotel to old hotel

///

We treat each other as

Mere Possession

To

BUY AND TO SELL

Tattered baggage

Strewn across the deserted trail

•
•

When it's over      .....  (?)

Well ..... (!)

The story falters as we fall down

And like LOOTERS

or LOVERS

We pick up the broken pieces

From off the ground

(  )                       (  )
/\                       /\

/\                       /\
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

sure

If you say so

•                

                                     why not ?

//                              

What's the big deal ?

                            //
//              

I used to go to acting school

Tried to learn to play the part of a human being

                        •  •

I wanted to play the part of a beautiful
Black goddess

Roaming naked in the holy mountains

//                

I wanted to show her in the sweat of sacred labor

                          //

Her beautiful skin

The utter conviction of her brutal purity

Her fearless embrace of both life and death

••

I got me a job as a short order cook in Harlem

///            

I used to love to watch the people walkin in the rain

//

Really

There is too much death here

Too much pain

••

I was standing on the Brooklyn bridge at midnight

///

I thought

IT WOULDN'T REALLY BE THAT HARD TO CHANGE

()

Sure

If you say so

•

                                                          ­ Why not ?            

/ /
                                            
What's the big deal

(
                   •
                                      )
                                                            





••                        

ain't no ...
                              More

///                  
              
            We done did it in

                                           •

Lonely beach child ahead of it all

••                      

Too much death here
( you know )

••

Remember pregnant afternoons

In the Park

Promises to meet again when the sun went down

Lovers kissing so thankfully in the dark

Remember

••

Someone

<<<>>>

Broken

She is !
      ( really --- she is a broken thing
Laying forlornly in the  emptiness
Of her dreams )

///    

                                 Of a holy world

••.                    

Ain't no ....
                                             More

///

******* !

We done her in !

The broken world !

And see !

The lovely child is gone !
                    
                       |||||

Yes yes

So he is

0                          
//\                          
//||\                            
||/\||                            
                                                           It looks like love

••

I fell in love with the love I thought you felt for me

We were young

We didn't even know the alphabet
We couldn't even    spell    LOVE

But I thought your thoughts were always about me

////           ////

I remember sitting at your grandma ' s house
hand in hand

Watching T V

We learned all about love there and then
I think

I loved the smell of the peanut butter
You wiped upon your dress

And the smell of the iodine when you skinned
Your knee

I loved the thought that I thought it good
That you thought of me

And together YES !

We learned our A  B  C 's !

And that

TWO AND TWO ARE THREE !

////

I loved the thought that we would never separate

But I didn't know a thing about 1st grade!

You went into the big ole world and are lost to me

And my happiness is just a distant memory

••

Now here alone I sit with my dog and cat

Sippin wine and waitin on my welfare check

I'm miserable / how could I let you slip away

Gotta go now / oh hell / where'd I leave my cane !

I 'd like to say I'm sorry / I take upon me all the blame

But alas / I really can't / remember your name

But alas / I really can't / remember your name

(                                                )
O             ­                         O

^^^

>>>>>>>                //// • ||                 <<<<<<<
<>        

/      (     (        \

################

she
                                           ( pure love )
is quite the thing                        

                                  ­         |||||

THOUGHTS ON BULLYING
~~~

( ---- like an epidemic
         Sweeping thru the culture

Especially amongst the YOUNG )

••                  

every act of disrespect

Every act of insensitivity

Of treating another as Alien

/:::/

Is actually an act of

SOCIAL TERRORISM

Which at the personal level
The one on one level

We call BULLYING

/:::/

Which we mistakenly limit to a recurrent but still
isolated incident ,

But / upon further reflection / we notice that these
incidents are often of a POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE

In the same way that GANGS  ----- lawyer up ---- and enter
POLITICS and POLITICAL PARTIES

& POLITICAL PARTIES ( as GOVERNMENT )
take on all the characteristics of GANGS
as they start spying on and terrorizing
The population
and basically using their Power as a form of
PROTECTION RACKET

////

We too / internalize these tactics of Control /
and legitamatise them into SOCIAL NORMS
hence
BULLYING

( especially in the School System )

The Schools being where the kids turn into
Lab rats in a maze
and into
BRICKS IN THE WALL

//:://

This TERRORISM / BULLYING

as SOCIAL NORM

is primarily seen in that aspect of a child's life
Where the child is most sensitive

The EMOTIONAN LIFE
the ****** LIFE

••

First / thru the Media
The child is bombarded with
Images of Wanton ****** excess
And always within a commercial setting///

The body as COMMODITY
as PHYSICAL    OBJECT

///

One ATTAINS one of these OBJECTS

if one is  / WORTHY !
( has POWER )

meeting this object
And  KEEPING this object

Becomes a totally INDUCED PREOCCUPATION

and / as it is being played out in young minds /

It is a total MIND CONTROL OPERATION

Instilling IDEAS and ATTITUDES that will last
A lifetime

POLICAL ATTITUDES !

The acceptance of VIOLENCE at all levels
of experience

So early / and so deeply ingrained / that the VIOLENCE seems NORMAL

and then the child becomes dependent on GOVERNMENT
for protection

///////

now / let us look at ourselves thru

OUR OWN EYES !
the eyes of
OUR OWN POETRY

••

The subtlety of our BULLYING !

I LOVE YOU !
YOU HURT ME SO BAD
I AM FORCED TO HURT MYSELF !

This is so obviously simply BULLYING the other person into
doing what you want

I HATE YOU NOW !
AND I HATE YOUR NEW PARTNER !
MAY YOU BOTH GO TO HELL !

The hidden threat is obvious !

This is TERRORISM !

••

The main property of

TERRORISM / BULLYING

Is the way it induces CONFORMITY
into the society

Anyone who stands freely outside these INDUCED SOCIAL NORMS  is harshly labelled and ostracized

This of course begins in the schools ( as you must know )

Words like

FREAK / GEEK / NERD / LOSER / LONER
Etc

Abound // but it is the EMOTIONAL UNDERPINNINGS of these words which are used as a meals of legitimating VIOLENCE that we must notice

VIOLENCE against these OUTCASTS / REBELS become tolerated  by AUTHORITY  

and all Youth is divided
And INNOCENCE RENDERED IMPOTENT  

//

Now

I could go on and on
( and on )
And on  !

With examples

But we all have read ourselves !

///

So
I am just asking that we all examine ourselves
And ask

WHERE DO MY IDEAS ORIGINATE FROM ?

WHY

DO WE HURT EACH OTHER AND THUSLY
OURSELVES THIS WAY ?

Perhaps then
We will see who are friends should be

And who are enemies are

SAGE ADVICE FOR ALL THE

BROKEN HEARTED !
TORN INSIDE !
SCARRED  !

WANTING ! PANTING ! NEEDING !

Loser babes of Hello Poetry !!

HOW TO KEEP YOUR

BOY !

HOW TO KEEP HIM FROM GROWING UP
AND BECOMING A MAN !

~~~

AND DUMPING YOUR SORRY *** !

~~~~

****** !!

------

Now      
                                         the story goes like this

See / I met this poet girl

And show her HELLO POETRY

••

She reads for awhile

Pucks all over my computer screen !

And then

SHE SPEAKS !

••

the girls at my school don't have these **** problems !

******!

We all know how to get tons of it

Imagine

The guy is at your house

You slip some ****** into his beer !

Up pops his **** and he thinks he loves you !

He *****  you and his **** stays hard !

No more of this

I SMELL HIM ON MY SHEETS  ******* !

He ***** you again and again !!

You keep slipping the ****** into his beer

For as long as you want

At parties

We slip ******  into all the drinks but

The girls know to leave them alone

Imagine a party where all the guys are

Standing there with these giant *****

Wandering what's going on

But afraid to tell anyone !!

Total CONTROL !!

WE
( the **** bunny babes ! )

Have stolen the show !!

Like pigs in the poke !

We don't have to wear our FREE *****
placards

Any more !

We just sit back and watch em crawl

---

Now the down side is that some of  the boys

Really freak our

In our school

Maybe 7
Maybe 10

Boys
Have committed suicide

Since we started this

But

No girl feels

RIPPED APART !
BLEEDING INSIDE !
Etc

Any more

Nor have had to cut themselves
With razor blades

///

Better a few dead boys than pain

Right !

---------

Hearing her really messed me up

I turned towards her

( after gingerly laying down the
Pepsi can I had been drinking from )

And said

YOU     GOT TO     BR PUTTING ME ON

••

She smiled and said

OF COURSE I AM

BUT SO ARE ALL THOSE
SO - CALLED
SELF - DESCRIBED

LOVERS !!!

ON HELLO POETRY