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Oct 2012 · 2.2k
Untitled
K Middleton Oct 2012
Them bastardized youths fell outside, dizzied by a reality unsolved.

Their maws scowled judgment and drooled Pabst down improbable bodies each of them lay in the stink of subtle conformity.  

Fiercely unique culture beasts starved away in suburbs; Wikidrifting, those drugged litterbugs scampered.

Dropout fish fast against the current of their time, tired from dancing through desperate crowded nights and disparate lonely dawns, dangling degrees and the specters of success burning incessant their pride.

They were the *******, made so over time contracted by blind parents to nine-to-blithes in which quiet desperation, credit nooses, and irony were the small print.

They were carpenters afraid of their hands.  With chisel to headstone, they lied on the hoods of used Japanese cars, panning the radio for a real connection and gazing up at vanishing constellations.  

They were their poison and they their elixir, but a cold cigarette was a much quicker fixer of Helplessness Blues and the back of a Bible where a brief intellectual wrote “I am suicidal.”

For how does the turn of the epigram read to those who care less with every new beat of a drummed-up society so high off its piety that seeing stars vanish is simply a shame?  

Those *******, dropouts tragically remiss, those Supertramps, Kerouacs, Cohens, and wits.

They were the alternative, urbanite fools that littered alleys with Greek fables and Tibetan tattoos.  

Criterion flash cards and the literary canon allowed them to flirt with god in verse and art clues until *******’s canvas did rip off their eyelids which left them to know only Socrates knew.

They danced and they writhed, then ****** to pass time, and kept on their passions till lost were their minds.  Then they all died, those blasphemous *******.

But at least they washed on the back of their crimes.

At least they danced.

At least they were.

And there may be something to movement in chaos.
Oct 2012 · 1.7k
Seeds
K Middleton Oct 2012
Nourish these seeds.
For the nourishment they each receive determines how prepared they'll be as trees.
Prepared young trees.
Told to find their own sunlight, lest their plight ends early. Branches seize.
Drifting, curious breeze.
Sin slips slyly through the forest, spreading guilt varicose under leaves.
Impending Winter freeze.
Even the most upright trunk may lose more leaves than it that shed a few in flirting with that sinful breeze.

Each believes, if it survives the winter freeze, it was of greater stature,
that its leaves, or trunk, or journey up set it apart from brethren battered.
But is a tree ever more a tree?  Or do wriggles and postures not matter if, in the spring, they all are trees?
Oct 2012 · 881
Untitled
K Middleton Oct 2012
Total stranger paying forward favors, not for gain just for their neighbor.

Small, small world, a dot, a pearl;

boy meets girl and love unfurls where Tao and poles and dreams are swirled.

Opposites react and in the act, the silent universe is stirred.
Oct 2012 · 1.9k
Wild Child
K Middleton Oct 2012
Fight, young child,

Hold that wild.

Brace yourself, the battle approaches.

Fly arrows, Strike torches.

Vital is this fight for wild;

Loose your tongue, ****** be the mild.

You were born wild, child.

Before the worn-on sorrow smiles

Before your very soul was filed.

Reach bright warrior, reach for wild.

There find you the truer smiles.

Breath in fire, breath out time.

Burn your file, wild child.

— The End —