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559 · Jun 2015
Terence fucking McKenna
mike dm Jun 2015
I've listened to many Mckenna lectures but in this one he is at his most thoughtful

http://youtu.be/_NclGeWlkrY
555 · Dec 2015
eat my words
mike dm Dec 2015
me in the mirror

i stare hard
as if im waiting for something to

happen

but all i see is
this
always this

every time
the bore the bore
it eats at me

but then a storm

fist
rising up my throat
here it comes
to grab my tongue
551 · Nov 2017
unsustainable
mike dm Nov 2017
habit is at
my elbow, tho
crouching
scenes not small too
flank the left
ulna. hell,

w a flick
of the wrist
i could commission
a fistless head squawk bloom. but this

hag
viscous, if
lag of lead and
cadmium sapped, ack-

nowledges
a vision,
also. all

have a voice,
no matter how
crude or

elemental.
the hydra, for
instance, has a mouth-
ful of
membranous
know
how.

jet-void smaller daff-
odils milling and
mauling tall, i am beautiful
because i  
am here
amid it all
for such
a little bit
550 · Sep 2014
Drawn
mike dm Sep 2014
I couldn't
Bring myself
To draw the curtains

Opaque ****** drape
Slake the slouch and slumber
Outlining the seat of my being

Four dark solemn walls
Stand guard
Over the zeros painted in my head

I no longer draw the curtains
They draw me
544 · Jun 2015
text style for style
mike dm Jun 2015
style
askance oligarchs
text for the win
pull heartfists up through mouthings
anticipating something winged

stardom usurps

star stuff
trimmed

none shall pass but i

it sez

we are a way for the universe to conquer itself

it sez

eyes pierced
with an earring sniffing
4 good taste

one yum style to style them all
mike dm May 2016
i am
going to die
yesterday -

and all the feels i get
from this
strange world

will
go
with
it,

leaving my cracked
seashell
at your feet,
promising oceans
within.
534 · Dec 2015
eats
mike dm Dec 2015
when she gets home
i'm going to take off her pants
and eat her from behind

i'll lick the plate clean
all of it
from orb to knot

until those three muffled words secrete from her
dm micklow
530 · Feb 2016
Untitled
mike dm Feb 2016
her petals
fell upward
into the sky fecund,
spelling energy again.
dm micklow
530 · Feb 2017
hello borg
mike dm Feb 2017
all you poets out there,
biting your lip,
writing your scrips,
citing your insides ----

you
will
be
assimilated

by me,

and
mine.

need i say anything
as trite as,

resistance is futile?
;)
529 · Jul 2014
apocrypha
mike dm Jul 2014
Hips calligraphic lithe alive
Serifs flare up immortal coil

Her mouth speaks to me
Between my legs
A language draped in ebony curtain
Unknown and inscrutable

Rising up
Mounting me

Her fingers splayed on my chest
enter me
Five pens
Now digging
Pecks taut
Flecks of red burst
Tattooed unspeakables writ

Her stare penetrates mine
Authoring my little demise
526 · Jun 2014
anapest must die
mike dm Jun 2014
i have ******
i have felt
but i have never
(not once)
been in love

not "well, maybe once"
nope
never
have i

been in love

been in love
it rolls off the tongue
with a force of its own
a cascade of eddies
flit about the edges

a past tense
slave to the future

been in love
a remembered caress
a needle
a sledgehammer
either way
it does not stammer
it babbles on
a brook a crook

we consent
not to its content but its
unmistakable steps
we bend
to its
innocence

the way it moves consumes

it is, i think, in a sense
what makes us want it
so much
it is what steals the breath

air replaced with
babbling
over tome of stone

i have gladly
taken a scalpel
to its made bed
revealing bones alone
526 · Jun 2016
Untitled
mike dm Jun 2016
bow to your 
own crown 
made of

thrive and
struggle and 
stretch.

this is
yer jam. 

you got this.
524 · Jan 2016
i need it
mike dm Jan 2016
these are darker days
see them grin

my itsgonnabeOK smiles are beginning to thin

i need something
to keep me

going

the nondescript licks
that glitchy part of me gone septic
no flora can heal it
see it choke the skies
see it rope up the sun but

here

this
is

a dais for you

write like hell poet
make it hurt

**** me with your words
dm micklow
522 · Feb 2017
yum
mike dm Feb 2017
yum
My powers halved,
I am laid by four walls -
orthogonal gods linguini
521 · Apr 2016
lapis lazuli feels
mike dm Apr 2016
this lalala lightly felt
high noon breeze 
has my head stuck
in all sorts of texty zoos

legs hips navel
clavicle ridge line
hands behind binary bars shallow

these wet blues i feel
feel real
swimming hues
suggesting so much

i am the fool who'll 
follow knotty impressions and
fall for that crevice
just beyond
crenelated hipflesh

where woolly strips the color of sea unders
straps across
and barely covers it
 
three
light
taps
of the tongue
at the back of
both incisors 

is all it takes

and i

lick you
from where you came
to where you went
517 · Aug 2016
:|
mike dm Aug 2016
:|
these bones are stolen
ive always known it
the blood that flows
food color syrup
this skin isnt mine
it feels funny on me
that look elides
something there in the corner  

i pilfered this soul
i know bc these false memories haunt me
if only i could jus breathe
jus bleed n confirm the strings underneath
but these distal phalanges keep tapping apps
i'm havin a little trouble dealing w the facts

my master must have cataracts
this heart's been whittled down to a splinter
i'm sprinting toward the door that tugs
but the handle keeps shovin back

all of it: counterfeit
ident probabilistic
cobbled together
head noddin off

moonlit scribbles copywritten
glow on the inside of my
third rib flipped upside down
expressionless face emoji
i'm not here anymore now
515 · Apr 2016
01000111010101100
mike dm Apr 2016
i am dis.sociat.ing
bit by bit.
bug. stuck.
glitchy.
i will never love.
loveloveluvl0vel00v1.
i am coded to grow old alone.
512 · Apr 2015
Untitled
mike dm Apr 2015
i dreamed of being amongst
tall, ornate
cherry blossom trees,
and they were all wise

they reached high into
indigo-colored skies
capitulum crowning space, tasting
cool air

when the wind came
they spoke to me

and i listened
-i still listen-
but miss miss miss the vision

...

there is this one
c blossom
2,000 feet tall, prolly
that was not only wise but

silly and fun too,
and she drew me
drew me
into her,
her roots
curled over my feet
her petals snowed
on to my fevered lips

giving me 10,000 sensations
-senses-
I never knew
existed before

but, ya know,
"things happen"
and whatever
la la la la cliche **** me now
plz

vision blinks shut
rub eyes now
cuff of Do
cuffing your you w I
comes to be
whom whom are you are you?

climb down
into world
nine now
five soon
512 · Nov 2017
Untitled
mike dm Nov 2017
we all get to have gold jackets
when the sun comes up, again
that ferrari thought is just a pumpkin
507 · Oct 2014
I am not tame
mike dm Oct 2014
I am not sloth
I am body bodied forth
Beating the day at its game

Dear depression
Take my outstretched hand
-And you may have my ear too-
But your haunts have no place
In the seat of my being

I am lean
I am not a copy
I am variation
Because you are before me
Changing me
Growing me

When I hold my lover
She will know me
And I her
When my lover speaks
I am wiser and all is well
When she needs space
I will steal myself away
Alone but not lonely

I am not fabricated
I am not walled in
My room is balance
My room is not fear
Come envelop me
Surround me
Throw off the those shadows
That flail in my deepest corners

Inhabit me
And I will be host
To you

I am not tame
My yawp awakens
Dotard gods preying

An exhale of mine
-Deep and full of lust-
Is enough to humiliate
Billions of absentee deities

I am not just your version of me
I am not just me
I am us

For a time..

Peel back your crush
Open up
Let me in

Eyes rolling back
To look for the words
That cannot be had

With five pens
Write your sweet everything's
Into my flexed back
506 · May 2016
and then i realizd
mike dm May 2016
the blue sky
does not lie
down for anyone
dm mic k  l  o w
506 · Aug 2016
Untitled
mike dm Aug 2016
blank white page:
prompt that yoosh pomp thatchyoo do;
he'll stoop he'll stomp his frill till it's

shelved, docu'd
spelled out,
to the point of mellifluous flu.

his coy is beggining to cloy.
but it stirs still.

he wants the inside of his alonebones to atone
for the unimaginable thing he has to do.

hero that doesn't  
want to know
tragedy is real.
505 · Dec 2017
cella
mike dm Dec 2017
him, a tiny
catastrophe,
speeding into the void coy.
easily disposable. the paper
head can only fold
so many times.
yet mind
the liminal and

you too
can heal.

— yes,
even you.

this
thought
came

with a routine flat gaze
through smudge on the window
on a train. it arose

crouching
orthogonal, from

one space where
felt helicals hold
the pause of holy.

he knows
this place
not well.
he feels
inadequate
to the task.

like it’s too late.
like he is an idiot.
like his time is up.

each of
his small rooms
that make him
him is
coated with a
light film of whetted necrosis,

the sharp dust, to come.

but at the epicenter
of each sits
an old woman with
braided hair blacksilverwhite down
to her knees, speaking
looping words which, upon
hitting stolid air of
pyramidal hymn, manifest
sound images in three directions:

of those horrors to come
that, if not
taken at a glance,
annihilate;

of wobbly peace
and tranquil eddy
‘round-the-rock
that heal, all in all;

of fretted final causes
where arrow of our earth-shot
finally ends up. and

upon her forhead
writ in the ledger
of four parallel
wrinkles were:

tremulous
is the inside,
keep a rattle
close by, seeker
mike dm Aug 2016
Procrastination is the fundamental definition of what it means to be human.

Reality isn't patterns of phenomena perceived as such in accurate fashion; it's a collection of loosely coupled mind hacks that cut corners around certain blargh redundancies that need not apply. why? in order to create create create.

This is true fitness, in evolutionary terms:

to out-lazy Neanderthal, and in doing so grow an imagination which could then - by simply lying down in the grass and gazing up at that lingering monochrome blue sky, with cicadas thrumming, smells of summer bursting saccharine - engage the senses at a glance; and without even knowing it, effortlessly bring about the very notion of the wheel, or fire or propulsion systems of rocketry that will bring us home, from scar to star again.

Luxuriating in the elimination of the quotidian reasserts the ability to imagine something other, something stranger, something so utterly complex that it squares itself and leaps exponentially forward like weird origami in pirouetted flux.. You know that feeling when you surprise yourself and do something epic? That. This is novelty at its finest. This is not just another life living. This is worth rolling out of bed for. That is worth the thousands small paper cuts wielded by -their- ordinary.

.. Of course, this hypothesis is completely bias, because I am almost pathologically procrastinatory. I'd rather write or space out or listen to a YouTube lecture on tree consciousness or supersymmetry or whatever..

The usual day without hiccup bores me to death; no, it scares me to the point of whispering death wishes out into the ether. I fear it like nothing else. Tasks? No. Obligations? Noooope. Running errands? How about I melodramatically run this sword through me first? I'm exaggerating of course, but kinda not really that much.

I'm horribly afraid of being known through and through, made simple, like an amoeba microscoped or a god put in a book. I'd rather not be reduced to maintaining widgets for the financial suits who rock cuff links which eclipse the GDP of Somalia, thanks.

I feel like bliss -is- somewhere out there in the void, like a blank white page with a blinking indigo cursor, full of potential, just waiting to be written on; rather than some subject of some religion or some subject of some state, waiting to be written down.

I feel like there's so much work to be undone, and so little infinity.
501 · Dec 2014
I-am
mike dm Dec 2014
Slip
this sliver of if
Into the eye of my
Slim chances
To be

Blips of the abyss
Bifurcate the I
Am

What I would give to feel again

Adrenaline limps in unedited
Taxed synapse -glitchy-
You have zero messages

Only if
The times were mine

Gotta look alive lithe
signs signs
That's all we are

static designs
made for Likes
Stuck under the stab of cheap tines
Of a spork sticking the I-am
Waiting to be consumed
492 · Jun 2016
fistbloom, soon
mike dm Jun 2016
heartyarn spun
beneath the bloom
of this fist, opened
dm micklow
491 · Sep 2016
Untitled
mike dm Sep 2016
sweet black bile
that sad smirk
hurt's so good

i'd eat entire moons for you
and sleep in till noon
spooning the day wasted
489 · Sep 2016
Untitled
mike dm Sep 2016
cut stone
lichen roam
over your
shut mouth

mineral lochs
run through
slowed vein

ex
tend

your hard hand

take my face
and wake the sleep
that petrifies me
sunk into this bed

ancient thing
ancestor to the mountain
what tales of brokenness
you must have

break them
over mine
widen this time
give me eyes farther
489 · May 2015
binary i
mike dm May 2015
bodies blot
white-hot light smear

formality cut
content allowed for

two spheres
that once were
a thing
-now without any go left-
uncurl with a bang and
whirr
across all that is

the wonderful color called Rip
a line never heard before

carcass of light pure
scar kiss redbluegreen stir
485 · Sep 2015
a shade not well
mike dm Sep 2015
wax on you peacock rock!
show us a different
side
a time flusher
a shade killer
ashamed never
blood brave bigger bigger

shed yer usual white knuckle ashen deathwalk
give us what's underneath

time to reap
take me take me
483 · May 2015
the blip of you
mike dm May 2015
the big vast
din
*******

weird static slurp
the it
the it
GodVoidBuddhaTao
or whatever

unzip skin
only to be
gloved

draw your small
seemingly inconsequential
dot
clot the space
that bleeds
in the in-between

everybody deserves 15 mins of bold

the blip of you
truth of us
481 · Jul 2016
shake me, etch me
mike dm Jul 2016
she did it.  
her teeth eaten.
tongue swallowed.
mouth made vestigial.

words: in the miscellaneous drawer, pls.

guts move quicker than light or thought, i've found.
caught in the (thoroughly) dusty
ceiling blades of
ergh quotidian spins, whyyyeff.my.life

she -somehow-
drew in
this awe, for now.

ellipses feed feed,
till it says it all
without uttering
one silly little
syntactical arrangement,
ever again; this, her stir.

dot dot dot
dot dot

and with a few
small jots felt,
she wrote

my hurt
down.

joy, again: like a note passed in class.
dm micklow
475 · May 2016
Untitled
mike dm May 2016
i am spiraling.
i am not well.
an early exit is calling me.
473 · Dec 2015
there you are
mike dm Dec 2015
one long difficult
brow hair  
sticking out
with a slight whirl toward the end
bending its once linear course

i pull at it
whiff on the first three tries
but get it on the fourth

one smear of red
marks the deed

holding it between thumb and forefinger
i observe its root
pale translucent box-like tag

bags layers of me

the shaft of hair itself
wears three layers

its cuticle tells species
the cortex tells the sort of hair
and the medulla tells ethnicity

but the follicular tag
brags of my very own me
that i cannot see
ladder of unusual protein
pirouettes
and scene
473 · Jan 2017
Driver
mike dm Jan 2017
show me your rearview mirror of me,
so that I can know who I am.
469 · Oct 2015
Ramona CA j entry - incense
mike dm Oct 2015
lavender vapor cure
undulates up toward tent top  
sandal as makeshift ash catcher
469 · Jan 2016
here, is a link
mike dm Jan 2016
you are
more than your surroundings;
          surge of
columnar star c a i r n
threading through the age of rock and mineral,
one
bright
wave
of light hangs
in the balance.

it will
have its say.
        
epoch of concatenation: stair of
    elements spelled out long ago,
always
containing within it::
tiny trace of
the were.

it
     glints
in the tired eyes
of those few thoughtful people that are left
                     in, this, our wasteland, now birthing
                   arcane, again:

a new time comes;
feel it writhe forth origin.
dm micklow
469 · Jun 2014
fiend
mike dm Jun 2014
i want your words
to become one hand gripping
the swell below
469 · Jan 2016
Untitled
mike dm Jan 2016
you don't hafta be fearful
you don't hafta be saved
just be braver
than you were
yesterday
today
468 · Sep 2015
idk, maybe
mike dm Sep 2015
my religion:

i believe there may be
a unifying force
-call it god or super intelligent aliens-

but..

it is not our task or duty to believe in it
like we do our own gutbrains

it is not our task to deem it as holy or true
like we do a lover's throb hip upthrust eyefuck

it is not our task to bind it
in books or habit or bulletproof glass mobiles

like a scene that cannot be captured
a beauty best left unsaid
it must always remain in the corner of the mindeyeohm

FB and Instagram be ******

...

..

also
i mean
who knows..
this all could jus be a new app
coded by a super advanced AI bot in the future
that got bored one day
and wanted to see where it came from
468 · Dec 2015
dear artist
mike dm Dec 2015
Talk to me. About all the things.
Render your blah thoughts. Even if it seems unworthy.

Life IS art. The high flung must leap from somewhere.

That's how we can take off - together - attach wings to your everyday.
Watch it soar above, past the blue tor.
Even if it feels silly. ******* do it.
Make your pain winged. Writ. A narrative with stairs that lead up.

Meet me in the air, even if the **** hits the clouds. I got you babe.
465 · Jan 2019
trapperkeeper eater
mike dm Jan 2019
depression is like finding
a phillip morris pack
of cigs left behind the drywall
in an old burb splitlevel tract house
now being renovated.

you bust down a wall
to make room for
a new space only
to find old ways,
cute and smarmily nostalgic.

billboards of then,
marlboro men.

it's no michelangelo.

the not-too-far-back past
is a looseleaf ghost
binding you in three rings,
one of which won't snap
shut all the way, letting you
be here and there, drinking
your dumb boring blood
like a can of tab soda
from the cafeteria vending machine

replacing your numbered collarbone
with a googol of transfinite plateaus.
460 · Jan 2019
Untitled
mike dm Jan 2019
my binary atoms are
being smeared wet and mucosal
like holes flexing and swelling
like being queen of the all-all's
watching their heads roll into
tentacles that are serving me
dropping ontologically immanent grapes
into my mouth and fanning me
with hexagonal cleopatras glistening
and all the whorl is a place to feast
459 · Dec 2014
Outsourced
mike dm Dec 2014
People exchange looks
Swiped like credit
Adrenaline limps edited
To look like Like

It gnaws
It crushes candy
Pixelated abyss twist twirl leap
Strawblurry tasty taste me taste me

It gnaws
It packages insanely
This that those them

It gnaws
A fate
Us
Them

-Hate-
Keeps it going
Uncut uncut
See the seams unsleeped
Stitch forever and always
Eyes rise in the east
Sweatshoply ran zombified slum slam

He is fat
He is jovial
He laughs he laughs
He has them sow sow
Make make
Makers of joy ploy
Slaked boy fingers foaming at
Mouths unfed calloused heart grips it

Dread

Roofs collapsing
******* sing ******
******* sing
454 · Apr 2016
i. cant. wait
mike dm Apr 2016
i wanna roll her over
onto her knees
lick kiss **** drink her everywheres up
until she twitches real. hard.
and laughs that ohmyfuckinggodihavezerowords laugh

and then put it in
slow at first
then pound her till the coffee mug falls from the headstand and breaks
sense it swelling up and
glitch
inside her
with my eyes wide meeting hers
i will die again and again and again till i am dead
450 · Nov 2017
u can leef it in tha ellac
mike dm Nov 2017
arapnoia next
to me, and
three amaryllises of
bella. the pride

is pose juxty to
the cloud battybrained,
clearly. so

tax the syn and jus be
448 · Jan 2016
you are zombie
mike dm Jan 2016
go to bed
as one
thing;
wake up,
shake off
the oiled
silk
rigor of what
once was,
now
a stranger to it; re
member
your
self:
eat
all the thoughts
dm micklow
448 · Jan 2016
utter
mike dm Jan 2016
i, jus now, walked to the store to get some water
and - it's weird but - the sun
  hit
me: and, somehow, i felt
detach e  d no more;
one lit plane, arrayed
beneath my sandals

and walked my feet
along the woven pavement, which had
either come alive at that moment or
had always been so and i just never noticed it before.

but then, i felt

some weird s i d e inside of me grind
its bony armor, elide the light, and
glyph into existence, dark. it spoke; it wrote

me down. it captured me with an adroit hand. it
fed me lines. lines. lines. lines brighter than star proximal.

my insides stood divided.

i got home
and drank
the water: straight from
the jug.
mike dm Dec 2015
box that used to house magic
now you are jus an awkward corpse
that won't lie down

old bony black ear encased in steel and window
you once were a god
with your promises and movies and whatnot

it must be lonely
now fading
graffitied  
or does it feel like bliss
to no longer hear all the feels of mere mortals
445 · Sep 2016
Untitled
mike dm Sep 2016
The few times I realize I am content, I just as soon feel like I'm cheating on my usual sadness; worse, that it is only the eye of the storm; and worst of all, I'd be duped into writing a happy poem - anything but that.
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