.




There you are !



I will take you home



If you want to go there




.

.



Lo

( look )


The melted candle

( & it's true !


THE FIRE GOES OUT AT THE END OF IT ALL )

)(

( & everyone is milling around at the train station )

)(

Someone is whispering a prayer

That possibly something will be understood


••


""


••

She holds her baby in her arms

And stares so deeply

Into his eyes

.

.



Borne on the dying breezes

Hints of a beauty

Long since gone

•


JUST BECAUSE I AM FAT AND UGLY

ON THE OUTSIDE

DOESNT MEAN THAT IM NOT

BEAUTIFUL

ON THE INSIDE

......... she said

••

We all looked at each other

Most quizzically

& someone spoke

PERHAPS

PERHAPS NOT

BUT IT DOES INDICATE

YOU ARE PROBABLY UNHAPPY

::::::

freight train sight

He jumps the box car

Just in time

•

she lingers !!

If she comes with me

She'll be alright



.

.


quick ! run ! hide !


"""""

She loves me !




With the bewildered mediocrity

Of spirit

Of a lost and frightened generation

Of AMERICA and her abandoned

Children



.

.




THE GREAT SHIP


the great gray ship is leaving the harbor

Thru the mist


///

We are of a somber time


We know too little about too much

••

We mistreat each other badly

•

leaving !


Everything fades away !

We are leaving the harbor

We cannot see the shore thru the mist

On the great gray ship

We leave

•



OM mother

Of the earth below
Or

The one above


•

I done what I done

/"""/

I don't know what is left behind



X

.


We can read the poems on HP

We can read of or watch the political campaigns

AND THEY ARE OF ONE

COOKIE CUTTER GENRE

::

( made up
Love )

•
•

On every level

We destroy ourselves according

To the societal and cultural norms

We are told is proper !!

•

There is really

ONE POET

ONE CANDIDATE

ONE MASS MARKET OF
THE WALKING DEAD

//

****** perversity !

**** poetry

**** politicians

And YOU

:;

willing victims who

Just get ****** !


.

.

all the strange little girls

all the hurting lost boys


//// • ||
<>
/ • )  • ) \

####

)(


a song by

THE 4 GIRLS

::::::::::::

the winds thru the song

The graveyard fantacy

//        //

She talks of dying

Let us follow her down

•

••••

•


well

What do we really know ?

See her there !

What does it matter ?

""""

She talks of killing  herself


( another empty seat in the 3d row )

••

The winds blow

;;;;

looking for love !!!

)(

In the broken freight train yard

Image of the hobo

Image of the policeman

//

And the corpse like vision

Of AMERICA

•

She

(       { ?}       )

Still living in the basement with no windows

)(

Suicide sweet

No more of her vague and self abusive poetry

she weren't having no good a time !

Seeking a lover

( always That ! )

)(

Seeking a lover

( ONLY That ! !

///


///////          //////:

0

We follow the path by the tracks

We hope it leads to the sea


Past the graveyard we see mountains


//


The children also see



But they do not believe



.

O
00"00
#                        #
~~


Far away


                                        ( Where dreams are born )

The lovely maid

Stopped by the stream to rest awhile

In the shade of a big elm tree

"""""

Will you rise up

My friend !

???

Wars come and we are of pure peace

)(

)(

From out the houses

From all the neighborhoods

Young boys and girls !

•

The message
---


DONT TELL US WHO OR WHAT

TO LOVE OR  HATE

::

The music of life

From every

Girl and boy !

//

We ain't believing the Lie no more !

;;


We hear

We heed

We come together as we should

)(

Our truth !


That is all it all is heading toward

It is what the world becomes



x

.




we move about

We go from here to there

We see many things

We drop
Our poems

To the ground

-""""-

A lover here
A lover there

( we move around )

••


I saw a young boy

He might have been an angel

Yesterday

////


In the shelter of pure imagination

We can so easily save eachother

And thus the world

///

So
Many stories float by


I add to these my simple song



X

.





soft breezes thru the pine

Gentle lover on the hill

The sounds of war / the broken spell

•

The angry young girl

Let us mock her

It shall be fun

//

We are hardly here

In the badlands of television

Wisdom (?) YES ! We'll call it that

•

Naked is her pain

Naked !

She is naked / let's go see her

//

All in all

We are

Bride of infinite possibilities

•

She ( armed with her cookie cutter )

Encounters the world

Hmm! She tastes good !


)(

Do I know you ?

What of that !

let us **** & say " happy"

//

The long eternal GOODYE

say HELLO ... (?)

Who knows how




.

.



We eat the crumbs from off the table

And try to remember

The old gods

But we can't even remember why we

Think we should remember

//

WE ARE SO UNHAPPY

( is that it ? )

•


I always look around & think

I am in a ***** house or someplace weird

::

Aren't people suppossed to be moral

( or something like that ? )

•


The only gods I seem to barely remember

Are the Coney Island Freaks

""

The bearded lady

You know

THOSE gods !

THE REAL GODS !

//

I remember walking the streets of Greenwich Village  

We knew everyone was a god & therefore we loved life

And lived in joy

><

But all the old gods are gone

)(

I can't seem to always remember why I should care

<>

You look so beautiful when you are free

I remember when you still made love

And there were no strangers

And no need

To travel around in UFO's

Talking dumb **** about salvation !


•

Yeah

I knew you'd pop up in the story somewhere !

)(

Oh reality !

Here we come !


.

(      )
(          )
::::::



the mystery of sadness


To escape flood waters
We seek higher ground

)(


Christians say suffering is necessary for

Salvation

//

let them be

//


The lonely girl

Makes myth
of her melancholy

CHAINED TO THE ROCK

CRYING OUT TO THE GODS !

)(

Calling to        all TRUE HEROES

ARISE !!!!

)(

She is

Salvation in human form !

Walking thru the High School Corridors !

••


OH TRUE LOVE !
THERE SHE IS !


that's what the boys are
Suppossed to say

( but they don't )

////


Oh Romance !


The golden dawn by the sea


I see a pair of goddess eyes


Oh yes !


The girl I want



.

O            0o0            O


::



You are my mother
You are my father
You are my brother

You are my friend

""

You are riches
You are wisdom

You are my all

My lord to me

                                      ------------ aarti

••

Brooklyn bridge at dawn !


Oh lord !

Here at last


::

baking bread the

Old fashioned way !

//

To begin again !

•

Oh yes !

Let's go !


/////

The simple feeling


The story true


""


The every sense of purity and grace !


""

I love you


The only word spoken here



.

.




                                            ( & other cliches )


•

•                   •

•                   •                   •


if she didn't come up  &. break a paper bag

Full of her **** into
My face

Every morning

I wouldn't know how much I love her  !

( for there is no joy without sorrow -- but we
All learned that from reading the poems

Of the EXPERIENCED boys and girls )

//

I saw Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump

On tee vee

And if someone hadn't kept using words like

ELECTION
Or
CAMPAIGN

I wouldn't of known what they were doing

& even then

I didn't know why they were doing it

Cause it's as phony as hell

( like someone smashing open a bag of **** in your face ! )

•


Or like watching the ' broken hearted "
Ones


Rising from the Ashes

Of their glorified pain


x

when I am with YOU

NOTHING ( I mean nothing ! )
Else matters

•

YOU ARE TRULY

EVERYTHING


)(

Let it al
Happen

The so -called troubles of the world

YOU AND I
WE

ARE A WHOLE WORLD UNTO OURSELVES

"""

Let the terrorists destroy foreign cities

WHAT DOES IT MATTER IF I HAVE YOU ?

ALL ALONE
FOR MYSELF

let the drone airplanes shoot their missles.
Level neighborhoods

Mutilate children

YOUT SCRNT IS INCENSE

BORN IN HEAVENS


let the world burn !

Let the rivers go dry

Let whole nations starve

Let the wars begin

AS LONG AS YOU ARE MINE


MY SWEETHEART !

;;;

)(
)(

Love is a splendid thing !

YOU AND I FOREVER

ARM IN ARM

.


there is a Higher Love waiting for you

What will you give up in exchange for this Higher Love  ?

What you have to sacrifice is everything
That is lower than
This Higher Love

::::

There are hundreds , thousands of ways

In which you

Act and react
Think and plan

that you can

( With strong work )

Detect as obstacles to you

Possessing the higher state of love

Which is the same thing

As the state of authentic

And lasting happiness

:://::

What will you give up ? ---- that's the

Question

And I have given you some of the answers

And I will tell you rather specifically

What you will have to abandon

In order to find the Life of Higher Love


::::::::

Which is our obsession and addiction
To all the forms of Lower Love



.

.



winds

Blowing thru

///

The graveyard yields it's dead

///

too numb

The poet falls face down

///

The brazen nakedness

Twitching soundlessly in the mud

<>

She never felt a thing

Fake love

Fake sorrow

//

Winds blow

The graveyard creaks and moans

//


We were dead before we died

Face down in the mud



.

/  •  \

0           0


)(


we do marry every day !

||                            ||

the southern song



//::\


The freight train hobo

Scans the yard


Hopin he don't see no policeman

•


She

The sunset dream come free

Of every sense

Of lust or greed

)(

Walking cross the desert sand

In the first of the world


.

.




Such is the world





<><><>

Oh well

<><><>



Ain't no reason to change my ole game plan !


//


You know

GET LAID
GOOF OFF
HAVE A LOTTA MONEY

( the real **** )

•


But

It'll be a lonely dream


When we are all dead


X

.


Dear boys and girls !

If you would like to start

Your own compilation

Of trite phrases concerning love

JOIN HELLO POETRY !

where you can find them by

The hundreds and thousands !

//

Here they are for you to enjoy and use

FOR YOURSELF !

and create as many

LOVERS IN YOUR MIND

as you desire

•

HELO POETRY !

Where we specialize in

In

NOT REALLY BEING REAL AT ALL !


.

.


WHY do I love you ?

---

Because you  are totally imaginary

•


When you hurt me there is no real pain

•

When I ******* I don't have to worry
that you might get pregnant

•
•

Because it is all unreal

No-one actually gets jealous !

•

You let me live my life like I am daring and courageous
even as I fade into oblivion

•

I LOVE YOU !

( & you too ! )

As I love all the imaginary poets I imagine are

Out there

Imagining their own lovers

Friends and other imaginary things

X

~~


/ ( • ). ( • ) \

####


                                               the man who loved all women

_


CAN THINGS GET ANY WORSE. ?

just then his mother came into the room

Bit him on the neck

And ****** out all of his blood !

YES THINGS       CAN GET WORSE

••
••


... & then

He fell in love !


....

OH NO ! TOO BAD !

.....

( he " !l get over it in a few years. ! )

/////

She with the bare ******* in the foggy night
Of angel's song

Was leaning out her window

Looking down at me

I of the sweet street

I of the god 's home

)(

And we saw each other

And every child is glad

)(

Violins sing in the early evening

Unicorns dance unto the dawn

Little Mary loves  little Joey

It is good


)(

Come child be free

Come child

Unto me


X

:


                                        If ya wanna (?)

                         Look and see !

••

Above the dying moans

Of a tragically unloved generation

~~~

()()

An alien spaced out show !

In the terror house

Day after day !

See the children suffer !

;;

arising ----I

//

You can rise with me



)(



Up to the mountains

Back into the woods



X

.



^
^
//// • ||
<>  
/ ( • ) ( • ) \


####


I never ****** her

I wanted to but she didn't let me

I wrote love poems to her on hello poetry

••

Everyone thought I was sensitive

••

They didn't know I was talking about my little sister

••

Does it matter ?

////

Every fantasy

Every imaginary thing !

:/:
:/:

We claim to be miserable unlovable losers

At least we got something right


X

... In the Heartland

of the Country

///

Let it rain pure blood

Before we pretend that we are ignorant

And should do nothing !

//

How can a person make love to a

Coward ?

( ( by huddling together in shame --

Somewhere hidden

From the true Story ! ) )

•


If you say

I LOVE YOU !

fer Christ sake MEAN something

Why don't ya ?


.

.


oh

Dear friend !

We must

Climb the high mountain

Again


) 0 (


warrior love


enough of the pathetic

Whimpering

//

We never loved

We never lost a lover


//

It was all


A FANTASY

About

A FANTASY

!!!!!

trying to ease the pain thru pain

!!!!!

One life !

The eternal soul !

//

::

//

Bare breasted she

Beauty incarnate

Reveals the power

Always well hidden

But ready to serve

::

She gathers all
Lovers

Within her heart

She headed for holiness

So long ago


:;

I see

The long hard road

It won't get easier


IT'S TIME TO GO


.

)      (
~|||||~
<>

/\

/\

•


I picked her up at the yuppie bar

I put her down in the hills of Kentucky

()

I wander those hills with the CHRIST'S

And the BUDDHAS

;:(

in the middle of the grand illusion

We bring everybody to god

//

Which is a very simple thing to do


)(

)(


Come

Let's go to god

I know he's waiting


.

.


" I love you ! "

She said

"""

I replied :

" good !  Love is what leads one

To enlightment and peace ! "

•

" BUT FROM YOU I'VE ONLY GOTTEN

HEARTBREAK ! "

••

" well "

I said

" then you don't really love me "

••

••

.
By a guy who is

Simultaneously getting

**** - ******

does she get credit for *******

2 guys at once ?


••

This is one of the questions

SCREAMING IN THE SILENCE !!!

We fail ( alas ) to address

;:;

According to our EXPERTS

poetry is the INK of pain

Or perhaps they mean

The OINK of pain


//

The expert is your pal

He won't tell you how to stop suffering

But his smarmy words will tell you to go on and on !

and suffer in vain !

OH THANK YOU MR EXPERT !

oh ,,, and you are

Watching out for us


THANK YOU DADDY POET !

SCREACHING FROM THE MAD HOUSE

WHERE YOUR FANS     TRY TO SURVIVE


THE ******* OF YOUR LIES

)(

She rclaimed her dignity

She threw away her PAPER

and spilled her INK in the gutter

)(


You can tell she is a poet

Because in her arms

She is carrying a child



X

.



child lover

Walks the neon midnight

Dreams of a reality

Softly emerging


•


But oh ! No !

...:

What's going on ?

//////

Questions linger


The child lover cowers

Drunken in alleyways

Staring at the scars


Waiting for the healing

That never comes


••  ••

Child lover

Lost in shame

::;

Wins the Hello Poetry DAILY

&

Proudly


Mutilates herself again !


AND LIFE GOES ON

)(

She walks the neon midnight streets

Where dreams of a reality

Die so very ugly

Pushes her shopping cart

With all her useless memories

Piled up and over-flowing

Onto the filthy streets

//

Remembers her old poetry

Her old gods and mythologies


Nights of neon splendor

And artificial stars

Shinning
Shimmering


In polluted skies



.

~~



::


Bearing all fruit


::;;::


She wanders the corridors of school
and sees


Only despair

( for that is all there is to see )

)(


The grasping for images that might

Indicate some love

Might be here

( but they find none )

••


••


So they invent a world of fantasy


Where pain is good


••


She


Wanders thru the corridors of school

Amid the despair

And sings

THE TRUE LOVE SONG

;;

She is not heard



She wanders out into the street

And into the dark alleyways

Where the lost children dwell


She is accepted

And so


Little seeds of love


Into pure flowers

Start to grow




.

(      (          •       •           )      )
             <>              

/\

/\


;;;

  All right

Time to quit ******* around

.

/ ( • ) ( • ) \




my love comes surely

If not quickly


She never does not come at all



••


Young boy's eyes

Gazing out the window


EYES !


( fully alive ! )

••

( In a manner most befitting

Pure humanity )

||||

in the rain

SHE ..... (?)

Feels

Some force upon her


& there is love

----   Love comes alive in the darkness ---

And mystery

//

••

Softly

Right on time

///

Love

Grows slowly
To grow deeply

From simple feelings
And honest telling


We can be

The New Beginning

If we want


/////

The moon is bright

With tomorrow 's sunlight

And we too

Can fulfill

Eachother's dreams


X

/




Been a long night

-/-

Winds

From over the hill



Gentle !


The words that we hear


all lies


Inhumanly dark

We are

On the
verge of war


#


Sweet child

Don't be afraid


Death is here

Only life is real


••

I am here


I am real



X

.





...

... Let's get it on !

Let's let this ole world fade away

&
Let our love be real

!!!

& , sure --- why not .... (?)


//


In a while

It will all be over !!




X

.




                                  ( ... was once a man she thought she knew ... )        

)(


---- ---- Dreams often come in handy ---- ----


)(

hey
We know all the games being played

How to
Hurt

( &
Deceive )

---- and how to stay free and help free ----

:::

Yeah

We all been lost

We all talk of rainy day streets

We all get lonely when we are alone

AND WE ALL REALLY KNOW

HOW TO GET HOME !!

;:;

the song drifts to and fro

We see the far mountains

We see the omen sky erupting

We see the holiness

The warriors and the goddesses

The blessed child and the saint

/////



We walk the Long Road with the rest



X

.






                 COME !

                                                     IT'S TIME
TO RISE AGAIN

•


We are of the gods

Let us live like gods

;;;

Create the words that describe reality


;:;:;

The words that BECOME yourself

::::

Becoming the  full creation

As you know you are to be

••

Tune scent !

It is the scent of freedom

It is the scent  of others

It is the scent of life

X

.

I try not to hang out in those sorts of places


)?)

You know

I too try to avoid all negativity

))))

I try to focus on the one true goal of life which is

TO WIN
THE DAILY

and

Make my psychiatrist proud of me

...

Ancient laws

So visibly and proudly broken

THE NEW AMERICA (?  


Respect your elders ..... ?)

**** THAT !!!!

////

We are the

NEW
PIGS OF THE WORLD !

/:/

She

She is lovely

She is the moon child


///

The wolf people

Come to steal her

Make her  A CHANGELING

turn her into

A HELLO POETRY POET !

( you know the kind I mean ! )

Though you may pretend you don't


::::


The shelterer

The healer

The true lover !

THANK GOD !

Here I am


""

/////   •    •     \\\
<>

^^^^^

•



And The Lord said


WHO SHALL GO FOR ME ?
WHO SHALL I SEND ?

& we said

SHUT UP MAN !

CAN'T A SEE I'M WRITING A POEM !

)(


Along the Paris Boulevards

Images appear

Of clowns and saints

<>


I see only children everywhere

I see the killing

I see the ****

•

I call upon you

And wait for you to appear

)(

( but yo ain't been around

For quite a few years )


.

||              ||

(  0  )


:::


.. A true path

                                           ... To the Sanctuary

)(


( purity )

•


She went bathing in the cess pool

Of lust and degradation

And then stood naked before her lover

Who blushed in shame

)(

the naked cities are burning

AMERICA is in flames


)(

WELL

THATS A GOOD REASON TO ***** ME

she said

( and stripped down to the hyena shape

She really is )

•


Over the bridge and into the hills


I'll be back when I'm good and ready


.

.


.



her eyes

SEE


;;;


( child beware

But do not be afraid )

••

Oh child

The day !!!!

Breaks into

Visions of anger

Visions of shame

:/:

Her eyes

Know you so well

///           ///


"""""

Boy !

Warrior !

You were called and you came

::

GOLDEN BOY

her eyes

Rest upon you

Ever so gently

••


.

.


just a country OF Stupid Girls


///

she kept jabbing her pen into her ******

Now she too can say

I WRITE WITH BLEEDING PEN !!!



She wants to get a Reality Show
and do it

On television ..

Let's give her a big Hello Poetry  round of applause !


.

.



//// • ||
<>
\\

#####


She likes to walk bare breasted

Down exclusive beaches

Where rich young boys may buy her body

And rich old men may buy her drinks

••

she likes to feel her thighs rub together

And her ***** start flowing

And her ******* start rising

)(

She dreams of being free

••

The loves to be naked at the pagan ****

Where ritual torture and *** do merge and mate

)(

Wild eyed and madly

Fornicating with the Elite

•

Giving blow jobs to young boys

And eating out old ladies

)(

Bare breasted on the sands

Naked ***** in their eyes

Throbbing ******* before cool sea breezes



Free


Free at last !


)(


Selling her body to the young boys

gonna be a movie star some day


.

.



. We gather together




//




We come to pure nature

We need a reminder

Of just what is real

And the truth of it all


/:::/

We are such fragile beings

Because

It teaches us to be gentle


And to be strong


•
<^>
•


We are not naive


We know the fabric of AMERICA  has been destroyed

We know of the wars to come

We know our dreams are but fantacies

••

And so we are here

We come to the sea

We come to the heart of creation


We come to
Be together


We come to
Make decisions

We come to create


A NEW WORLD


X

.


Children of the

LIGHT


//

In the dark streets


The down town        
                                          City Night

)(
)(           )(

And the soft child dream

Still trying to survive


••


We are

( Oh yes )

We are

Headin West

Into the heartland


That we love the best




.

.



Trying to figure out the obvious is a waste of time

"""

New words for a new world !

( was I naive ? )

"""

Just rest

Life and death will do their dance
And don't need me

••

No one dares to be free

//

Silly little ******* lie on the devil's bed

Writing poetry !

•

I walk away. ( again ! )

•

Little cabin in the hill

•

Little mother of the little kids

•

Little god with the empty hand

"

Oh well

Time for pure faith again !


""

Now I lay me down to rest awhile

•

In the back seat

•


•

Why don't YOU drive awhile (?)


X

:
/\


//


ATLAS

Holds up the world !



//

oh humble god who graced the world

With tiny images of himself !


Oh gentle warrior who doesn't ****

Unless the moment demands as such

;;

Oh tender maiden whose love so chaste

Is bestowed on everyone

|||~|||

•

Who wanders the starry skies
at Night

And lies with whomsoever she pleases

••

As children in a sheltered place


We love completely

And the tale is done


.

.



The best poem

Is an expression of a pure and complete

Surrender

Of pride and dignity

Unto a STRANGER

elevated mystically

Into LOVER

that one is FOREVER

subservient to

And enthralled by

///

This allows the poet to make up

Any **** he / she wants to

Without fear of that person

( since the lover is all imagination)

And hence ( also )

No possibility of any pain

Nor any necessity for feeling any responsibility

For anything

Or anyone

•


All great poems basically amount to

The full flowering of the

I FEEL SORRY FOR MYSELF

brand of psuedo artistry we are trying

So desperately to cultivate

••

This is the GREAT STANDARD

Set here at HP

//

It is also known as

THE DUMBING DOWN OF AMERICA 'S CHILDREN

/::/

and we are all MASTERS OF DUMB

which is our Pride

And the legacy

We leave for tomorrow


.

.



Thanks



X

.



(                                    
                                  )
(                    
      ­               )
(
\/
/\
/    \

####

the world is dying
We do nothing

Yet

We claim that we are worthy of love !

;;;

we are only broken pieces of phrases

From old love songs

We babble our inane PROMISES

We see what happens and move on

)(

Playing to the imagined audience !

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Like anyone should give a **** about

Your love trips

And your hate games

!!!!!

NO

YOU DO NOT HAVE INK IN YOUR VEINS !

( ONLY IN YOUR VANITY )

)(

after the last *******

everyone is ******

( hey

That sounds like fun ! )


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