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Joseph Martinez Jan 2015
The honeybee creeps forward out of necessity to the flower

The *** opens up a box of gemstones

I am looking at the flower

I sit in park and a man walks up to me, instinctively sensing that I need someone, something.  What I want is not what I need.

Nature spreads her view in and of time through perception & stillness
Joseph Martinez Jan 2015
Sit back & watch the butterflies in their perfect insect dance wings fluttering they swirl around one another overhead of the daisies & you think "My God" how tasteful & perfectly arranged all of it is; that god could work such a miracle as all of this right down to the purpose of the butterfly & it's flowers and work in the elegant little dance of the creature without interrupting or spoiling it's purpose merely adding to it's majesty.  & all the crude things are seen plainly to be undesirable but thankful for them so that we may know what we do not want in our worlds.  The world reveals itself in silence.
Joseph Martinez Jan 2015
You leave the dingy room, 333, and out into the long old halls with ***** honeybee carpet, the stains so worn in they've become part of the design.  The housekeeper's cart is parked at the end of the long hall.  It is filled with cleaning supplies and ***** blankets.  Her body seems younger than it looks somehow as she comes through the doorway of an empty room and smiles through the wrinkles of her sunken, toothless mouth and underneath the well-worn lines of her face & beaming through her bright eyes is an original warmth and beauty that even a thousand years of junk couldn't touch.
Joseph Martinez Jan 2015
All the warm pleasure shared between us
in moments common
& as you think of me
I wonder of you still
How do you feel now?
What do you wonder of me?
While you must know
or at least intuit
I am lost in my own madness
& worldview
yet still see you as beloved
Perfect in your incompleteness
Aware of the possibilities
of achieving understanding
Easing me through gentle riddles
suffering High School & bad relationships
drunkenness & revelations
Joseph Martinez Jan 2015
Give me room
Bring me forward
I require all of you & none of myself
Your letters disappeared
Somehow vanished
Just as love may vanish over years
pushed off among the faithful
squandered at my folly
How I long to know you
truly & unimagined
As you are
For yourself and not for me
though
sculpted by my love
Please remain
As I try to change
Joseph Martinez Jan 2015
The seat is warm later on in the nightclub.  Fares form the shocking, pleasant surprise. Over the course of leaves today, the seventh Monday, right off the bat.  That librarian is an **** worker, never sitting down but to smirk.  She is more involved through worry and pushed to demand what she has just caught on to.  Actually she seems to get along with everyone warmly glowing.  Sarah Obviously Upset is out in the cold smoking alley & drawn to the howling smile she wishes she can trust.  You'll never see her but to gaze regularly in reserve because she only sort of grasps him who she adores.  Other than that, to speak of it is merely washing hands with the Overwhelmed.  Beauty & color vision is the average breath of the dependent.  The receptionist is driving home cash & what about me?  You're doing papers you depend on; first week documents huddled in drawers.  He turns to face the stage and suddenly I am in the Eternal Theater again, again & always right There.  He's watching the absurdities & I can never look away.  He's now more than a mask, more than a spirit, more than a memory & now we're all passing through the echoing hall itself.  The theater is the amusement park ride is the skyborn dream & Absolute Lie.  Not a demon but a doorway.
Joseph Martinez Jan 2015
As I roam the shifting sands
All these images command
something out of me
Everybody wants something
out of someone
But there's nothing but what's given
Are you living lonely?
In an unfurnished room
Where are your flowers?
I long for the touch of dove petals
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