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I rest now
"I won't answer",

I run now
" I can't breathe",

I shut my eyes now
"I could see you",

I crumble now
"I could despise you now",

Good heavens I despise you now

Come resurrect the broken
I'm holding on to the sunken
Bet, your north star flinched
Hunt, I'm the Betelguese

Drown, where are your waters?
Fetch, swim to my oceans.
a product of his instinct,
why use
ten when
two will do,
and the ratio is increasingly
progressive!

"lovely intimacy between poet and muse here,
like an old friendship-made of fatigue and faith"^


the only reason why my hair,
yet intact,
despite old age's creep
in every other elsewhere,

although
Gibson's, his sixteen,
a superior concision
of my endless, repetitive iterations,

his literatation
nonetheless
is an insufficient
to cures what ills me…

to calm my heart, soothe my dreams ,
would render 99 of  mine 100 muses,
and all your voices
ungainly unemployable

worsen yet,
the disheartening palpitations
that shake n' bake my very core,

them those demons too,
the contrapuntal hidden forces
that rue my brain,

well hell!
poet complains!exclaims!

for when the muses sleep,
these devils roam, they creep,
never permitting an easy sleep,
and instead of poems,
they give me forth in
groans and moans,
the unintelligible reverse of
my ever~faithful muses's intimacy,
the un~cooing of our pleasure,

for
when rhymes dewdrop^^
from the insertions from heaven's eyes,
and then when,
you and I
together embrace,
the harmony of spirit
that a poem
makes writer and reader
sharers,

the calm shaking
of hearts well tickled,
laughingly ratified,
and even momentarily
satiated and satisfied
is our
now combinatorial
esprit de corps^^^


~'~'''~~
just a wee ditzy ditty that
fell onto a screen
when reviewing
my silly but
true and utter faithful muses's^^^^
utterances,
in being be tweening
the quickest ten minutes
of my ridiculous life


<nml>
10/6 no tricks 2025
3:10am ~3:20am
~~~
and
now let the real,
hard-work of handiwork ahead,
of writing
something akin
to a psalm, a prayer,
a train of quatrains,
a hiya to haikus,
a ballad to bellow,
you know,
that serious stuffing
that leaves us both
😢aweeping😪
with the unadulterated
purest of joy
^
William A Gibson

Re "FPOTD✅: good mid-of night, my beautiful muses, living and imagined'
"
There’s a lovely intimacy between poet and muse here, like an old friendship made of fatigue and faith"

^^
for Marshall G.
an admission
of guilty feelings

^^^
esprit de corps:
"the shared sense of camaraderie, unity, enthusiasm, and loyalty that develops among the members of a group, such as a bunch of poets
^^^^
muses's
insist this 'bespoke' out loud
~a jump-rope chant~

Black silk handkerchief,
what ya’ gonna’ hide?
A pox that knocks on the church’s side.
Preacher won’t preach where my daddy died.
Angel forgot which soul to guide.

Both arms wrapped in moccasin skin,
open the gate and let her in!
Snake-bone hag with watery eyes,
count to ten when the baby cries.

One for the moon,
and two for sin,
three for the teeth with the rusted grin.
Four for the girl with the copper cough,
dancin' in the attic with the light turned off.

Five, six,
skillet ticks.
Seven, eight,
shut the gate!
Nine, ten, count again—
bathe him slow and cool the skin.

held him close till the fever broke;
air curled white from pinewood smoke.
Chewed the haw and bit the sage,
wrapped his bottle in a bible page.

Ghost stood watch on the porch out back,
shadow thin and eyes coal-black.
Sayin', I’m fine, don’t mind the cold,
died last spring but ain’t been told.
a creole jump-rope chant, written as a companion piece to https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5130798/rusty-nails-brick-dust/
I am the spine of a book, pages open on either side.
I am steel rails down a valley that two greening hills divide.
I am the corpus callosum, of two minds in every thought.
Am I sleeping or here wakeful, one eye open, one eye not?

I am the nest with two birds calling, both the same but different still,
I disperse myself in potions, both the doctor and the ill.
I am the worm who grew two wings, one of blue and one of gold,
Meeting in the middle when in flight and when in fold.
2021
 Oct 2024 JoJo Nguyen
maria
Like a weightless, wordless mime,
like a baby bird watching mother fly,
I’ll follow your lead like a dancer,
copy your moves to avoid the red laser.

New to this world and in over my head,
you’ll hold my hand as we walk the thread.
You’ll explain the rules and guide my hand,
as I hold my breath and remember to stand.

Weak in the knees and warm in the heart,
I can’t rush the finish before we even start.
I’ll slow my pace and keep the tempo
and caution what feelings are prone to grow.
 Jul 2024 JoJo Nguyen
ZOO
Next to a Panhandler
Who sells you with, " all of this...
will be yours one day"

only The Three feet of air above you
Counsels you on your peice of cake

Trade A cot and A hot, or exchange work
       that will fry your eyes on a sidewalk,

and fake it better
Than your spare change of heart,

        yearns better than for you
        Not slipping up, bubble clairvoyant

The staked cairn
       My chin propped up on
       to cry to sleep in the cracks opening

How fun it'll be one day,
rolls up in dark
canvas sleep & dream where I'm winning.
With an old secret
I sank into her endless eyes
Pondering over laws
That effected such marvel
And leased me to madness
Words were melting in my mouth
She, refraining her turn of phrase
A tear rolled down my cheek
Stirring passion's tongue
A tear rolled down hers
Wielding my soul ablaze
I rejoiced in silence
Lest i betray my confidence
She handled my eyes
Spotting my inference
I could no longer bear
The fruits of my fear
I leaned over and touched
Her sculptured nails tenderly
Freeing my emotion
She smiled coyly
Sealing my devotion.
Dig deep poet;
You too reader;

Commandment One:

Both must obsess to possess,
Air the curvature of each line
shape with two hands, creasing and
no ceasing not till the air waves have filled
your flushed face with compressed comprehensions

You weep as you compose!
Good!
The well of tears where hid
the pool of emotions
in cavernous reservoirs
in the center of your
gravity,
needs a daily tapping,
a draining, a purification,
a quenching sweet and
raucous

where you dig, salted water will come

in the soiled, imperial but imperfect body/mind cappuccino,
there are swirls of treasures, sins and histrionics
that need discovery, expiation, expulsion,
when~then, object is surgically removed,
accept surging water will desoil,
and you can revel
in the revelation
of honest effort

Debate Commencement:

reveal, which, what and how
much, how much? how much?
(this reverbs)
what must be shared,
what must be reburied,
what must be refuted,
what must be reconstructed,
refurbished,
and what must be
demolished & deconstructed

ah, but as soul judge,
you hold yourself to a higher standard,
but in all of this but two constraints rule:

the quality of the recalled data,
the quantity of storage space delimitation

do not tease us with rivulets, nor bury
us under thunderous rushes of memories
spilling and cresting with a reek of abandon,
unless, you’re abandoning the memory en tout,
giving us your newly orphaned all innermost,
then, we must accept the product of your labor,
whether it be spoiled fruit or glorious
                            truth

Tuesday Apr 16
8:32AM
(the year of pollard, a/k/a 2024)
inspired by dancers and choreographers speaking about the sources of creativity @Guggenheim New York
 Apr 2024 JoJo Nguyen
avery
All of your music is in my head
So today I’m listening to streets you don’t walk
And people you don’t talk to
I’m hearing nothing but your voice
So today I’m talking over it
With no hopes I won’t bore it
I’m turning your fumes into flowers
Your screams that are fueling my noisy head
I’m walking faster and farther
And you are filling in a grave you dug yourself
Toxicity bring about buckets of words
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