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K Middleton  Oct 2012
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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.
Jude kyrie Oct 2016
I know I stand below the shadow of your beauty
I know the line that awaits your favors is long.
But I stand and  there I remain.
To you in your starry tower
Your loveliness is ordinary.
But to me it floods my heart with grace.

Let your hair fall for me.
As you would for a lover.
Hear the songs that my desperate heart sings.
Ignore my lonely failings for I shall repent them.
To share a moment in your eyes.

Loosen your gossamer gown
As you would for a lover.
Feel the need of my want.
Breathe the fires of my passion.
Take this burning from my heart.

Lie beside me in the moon's light
As you would for a lover.
Feed on me until hunger turns to greed.
Drain the soul from my body.
And take the loneliness from my heart.
As you would for a lover…..
As you would for a lover.
I Love Leonard Cohens Poetry
Jude
Sam  Jan 2016
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Sam Jan 2016
X
look at all the Leonard Cohens writing poems
filling their prose with death morose
this isn't a poem for your pleasure
x simply marks there IS a treasure