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 Jan 2017 Mishael Ward
MRQUIPTY
lift and tilt the screaming jig
clip of hair to red spot.
rip cloth

make tip in hit snick hook's
barb it bit flesh on a tug.
bait comes

(stage cloth raises high
applause covers
opening)

old hit picks at scab
grey edge to living pink
irresistible

split is spat wet . it is in
virus will make want
charisma
phantom
orgasma

(cloth in stages parts
curtains
trained spotting)
Putting out the money
Going to buy me a line
Paying for my funeral
20 bucks at a time

Gonna burn myself out
A form of self- cremation
Ashes to ashes... Scattered
Among the Genesis of my creation

If you are using
What's doing the using
And what's being used

If you are abusing
What's doing the abusing
And what's being abused

If that place where you exist
Keep shrinking day after day
And seems to be something you missed
Even though it was sold off every time that you pay

Understand that this is no lecture
Just tidbits - hints - observations and lessons to me
Pulled out, up and in as conjecture
Expanding those Horizons with moderation as the key

I believe avoiding all forms of addiction
Is like trying to catch Moonbeams  in the palm of your hand
No prediction needed to predicate predilection

No excuse...
But the speed of that which we produce
With addictive qualifications
Could rival the oceans ability to produce Sand and Gravel
Wave upon wave just churning it out

Then when...
The whole mess turns into big business

Again I have to wonder...
Who's being used and who's doing the using
Who's being abused and who's doing the abusing

Too often too many find their last hope
Was all ******* at the end of the rope

Understand me... Don't...
Underestimate me!
 Jan 2017 Mishael Ward
Tommy Le
A body of water vast and flowing
to the current of humanity knowing
that deep within the monsters fest.

An eye of the storm fighting
to see through the mist shrouding
the truth that they jest.

The spaced and empty mind seeking
knowledge but still knowing
that not knowing is sometimes best.
 Jan 2017 Mishael Ward
S Mia
It was said that this year, our new year would be delayed by one second.  
And it wasn't until that one second when I paid mind to my breathing and my beating. They didn't match up.  
My head and my heart, they didn't match up.  My heart was bursting at the seams, but my head, well it was my head.  
It's 2017 and I can't help but feel as if I was just born, lost, yet full of wonder.
I can't help but just feel.

Yes, it is the new year.  But that one second felt so familiar.
 Jan 2017 Mishael Ward
SN
Sea
 Jan 2017 Mishael Ward
SN
Sea
I wonder if you know
You are sitting on a dream

Carried away
An ocean
Words as thoughts in an endless stream

Whisked away under the spell of darkness
Where twilight is slowly broken
By the shimmering lights of the quiet stars above

A sea of stark diamonds
Waves beneath which you keep
Silently your prayers
Quietly your sleep

You don't know why you are here
Or how you've come to be
Under the light of our ancestors
You've forgotten how to see
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