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22/F/MD
Poems
Stephen E Yocum Jun 2017
An Island Adventure
Stephen E Yocum
Jun 2017
Gauguin or Michener
horizon lust inspired,
The South Pacific desired.
From early childhood on.
Fiji in the 70’s all alone in
A Personal journey of self
and world discovery.
From the big island of
Viti Levu, embarked
on native small boat, fifty
miles out to the Yasawa group.
Reaching tiny Yaqeta with
300 souls living close to the bone,
No Running water, or electric spark
glowing. Remarkably bright stars
shine at night, no city lights showing
to hide their heavenly glow.
Unspoiled Melanesian Island people
Meagerly surviving only on the sea
and a thousand plus years of tradition.
I welcomed like a friend of long
standing, with smiling faces and
open sprits. Once eaters of other
humans beings, converted now to
Methodist believers.
Their Island beautiful beyond belief,
Azure pristine seas in every direction,
Coral reefs abounding with aquatic life.
Paradise found and deeply appreciated.
I swam and fished, played with the kids
and laid about in my hammock, enjoying
weeks of splendor alongside people
I came to revere, generous and loving
at peace with themselves and nature,
Embracing a stranger like a family member.
My small transistor radio warned big
Cyclone brewing, of Hurricane proportions.
My thoughts turned to Tidal Waves.
The village and all those people
living a few feet above sea level.
Tried to express my concerns to
my host family and others, getting
but smiles and shrugs in return.
Spoken communication almost
nonexistent, me no Fijian spoken,
Them, little English understood.
It started with rain, strong winds,
Worsening building by the minute.
The villagers’ merely tightening down
the hatches of their stick, thatch houses.
Content it seemed to ride out the storm,
As I assumed they always did.
Shouldering heavy backpack
I hugged my friends and headed
for high ground, the ridgebacks
of low mountains, the backbones
of the Island. Feeling guilty leaving
them to their fate from high water.
Perplexed, they ignored my warnings.
In half an hour winds strong enough
to take me off my feet, blowing even
from the other side of the Island.
On a ridge flank I hunkered down,
pulled rubber poncho over my body,
Laying in watershed running inches deep
cascading down slopes to the sea below.
The wind grew to astounding ferocity,
Later gusts reported approaching 160
miles per hour. Pushing me along
the ground closer to the cliff edge
and a 80 foot plunge to the sea below,
Clinging to cliff with fingers and toes.
For three hours it raged, trees blowing
off the summit above, disappearing into
the clouds and stormy wet mist beyond.
A false calm came calling, the eye of the
Cyclone hovered over the Island, as I
picked my drenched self up and made my
way over blown down trees and scattered
storm debris to the Village of my hosts.
Most wooden, tin roofed structures gone
or caved in, the few Island boats broken
and thrown up onto the land. Remarkably
many of the small one room “Bure” thatched
huts still stood. Designed by people that knew
the ways if big winds.
The high waves had not come as I feared.
Badly damaged, yet the village endured,
As did most of the people, some broken
bones, but, mercifully, no worse.
Back with my host family, in their Bure,
new preparations ensued, the big winds I
was informed would now return from the
opposite direction, and would be even worse.
For another four hours the little grass and
stick House shook, nearly rising from the
ground, held together only by woven vine
ropes, and hope, additional ropes looped
over roof beams held down by our bare
hands. Faith and old world knowledge
is a wonderful thing.
Two days past and no one came to check on
the Island, alone the people worked to save
their planted gardens from the salt water
contaminated ground, cleaned up debris and
set to mending their grass homes. The only fresh
Water well still unpolluted was busily used.
With a stoic resolve, from these self-reliant people,
life seemed to go on, this not the first wind blown
disaster they had endured, Cyclones I learned
came every year, though this one, named “Bebe”
worst in the memories of the old men of the island.
On the third day a boy came running,
having spotted and hailed a Motor yacht,
which dropped anchor in the lagoon on the
opposite side of the Island.
I swam out to the boat and was welcomed
aboard by the Australian skipper and crew.
Shared a cold Coke, ham sandwich and tales
of our respective adventures of surviving.
They agreed to carry me back to the Big Island.
A crewman returned me ashore in a dingy.
I crossed the island and retrieved my things,
Bidding and hugging my friends in farewell.
I asked permission to write a story about the
storm and the village, the elders' smiles agreed,
they had nothing to loose, seemed pleased.
One last time I traversed the island and stepped
Into the yachts small rowboat, my back to
the island. Hearing a commotions I turned
seeing many people gathering along the
shores beach. I climbed out and went among
them, hugging most in farewell, some and
me too with tears in our eyes, fondness, respect
reflected, shared, received.
As the skiff rowed away halfway to the ship,
the Aussie mate made a motion with his eyes
and chin, back towards the beach.
Turning around in my seat I saw there
most of the island population, gathered,
many held aloft small pieces of colored cloth,
tiny flags of farewell waving in the breeze,
they were singing, chanting a island song,
slow, like a lament of sorts.
Overwhelmed, I stood and faced the shore,
opened wide my arms, as to embrace them all,
tears of emotions unashamedly ran down my face.
Seeing the people on the beach, the Aussie crewman
intoned, “****** marvelous that. Good on 'ya mate.”
Yes, I remember Fiji and Cyclone Bebe, most of all
I fondly remember my Island brothers and sisters.
End
horizon lust inspired,
The South Pacific desired.
From early childhood on.
Fiji in the 70’s all alone in
A Personal journey of self
and world discovery.
From the big island of
Viti Levu, embarked
on native small boat, fifty
miles out to the Yasawa group.
Reaching tiny Yaqeta with
300 souls living close to the bone,
No Running water, or electric spark
glowing. Remarkably bright stars
shine at night, no city lights showing
to hide their heavenly glow.
Unspoiled Melanesian Island people
Meagerly surviving only on the sea
and a thousand plus years of tradition.
I welcomed like a friend of long
standing, with smiling faces and
open sprits. Once eaters of other
humans beings, converted now to
Methodist believers.
Their Island beautiful beyond belief,
Azure pristine seas in every direction,
Coral reefs abounding with aquatic life.
Paradise found and deeply appreciated.
I swam and fished, played with the kids
and laid about in my hammock, enjoying
weeks of splendor alongside people
I came to revere, generous and loving
at peace with themselves and nature,
Embracing a stranger like a family member.
My small transistor radio warned big
Cyclone brewing, of Hurricane proportions.
My thoughts turned to Tidal Waves.
The village and all those people
living a few feet above sea level.
Tried to express my concerns to
my host family and others, getting
but smiles and shrugs in return.
Spoken communication almost
nonexistent, me no Fijian spoken,
Them, little English understood.
It started with rain, strong winds,
Worsening building by the minute.
The villagers’ merely tightening down
the hatches of their stick, thatch houses.
Content it seemed to ride out the storm,
As I assumed they always did.
Shouldering heavy backpack
I hugged my friends and headed
for high ground, the ridgebacks
of low mountains, the backbones
of the Island. Feeling guilty leaving
them to their fate from high water.
Perplexed, they ignored my warnings.
In half an hour winds strong enough
to take me off my feet, blowing even
from the other side of the Island.
On a ridge flank I hunkered down,
pulled rubber poncho over my body,
Laying in watershed running inches deep
cascading down slopes to the sea below.
The wind grew to astounding ferocity,
Later gusts reported approaching 160
miles per hour. Pushing me along
the ground closer to the cliff edge
and a 80 foot plunge to the sea below,
Clinging to cliff with fingers and toes.
For three hours it raged, trees blowing
off the summit above, disappearing into
the clouds and stormy wet mist beyond.
A false calm came calling, the eye of the
Cyclone hovered over the Island, as I
picked my drenched self up and made my
way over blown down trees and scattered
storm debris to the Village of my hosts.
Most wooden, tin roofed structures gone
or caved in, the few Island boats broken
and thrown up onto the land. Remarkably
many of the small one room “Bure” thatched
huts still stood. Designed by people that knew
the ways if big winds.
The high waves had not come as I feared.
Badly damaged, yet the village endured,
As did most of the people, some broken
bones, but, mercifully, no worse.
Back with my host family, in their Bure,
new preparations ensued, the big winds I
was informed would now return from the
opposite direction, and would be even worse.
For another four hours the little grass and
stick House shook, nearly rising from the
ground, held together only by woven vine
ropes, and hope, additional ropes looped
over roof beams held down by our bare
hands. Faith and old world knowledge
is a wonderful thing.
Two days past and no one came to check on
the Island, alone the people worked to save
their planted gardens from the salt water
contaminated ground, cleaned up debris and
set to mending their grass homes. The only fresh
Water well still unpolluted was busily used.
With a stoic resolve, from these self-reliant people,
life seemed to go on, this not the first wind blown
disaster they had endured, Cyclones I learned
came every year, though this one, named “Bebe”
worst in the memories of the old men of the island.
On the third day a boy came running,
having spotted and hailed a Motor yacht,
which dropped anchor in the lagoon on the
opposite side of the Island.
I swam out to the boat and was welcomed
aboard by the Australian skipper and crew.
Shared a cold Coke, ham sandwich and tales
of our respective adventures of surviving.
They agreed to carry me back to the Big Island.
A crewman returned me ashore in a dingy.
I crossed the island and retrieved my things,
Bidding and hugging my friends in farewell.
I asked permission to write a story about the
storm and the village, the elders' smiles agreed,
they had nothing to loose, seemed pleased.
One last time I traversed the island and stepped
Into the yachts small rowboat, my back to
the island. Hearing a commotions I turned
seeing many people gathering along the
shores beach. I climbed out and went among
them, hugging most in farewell, some and
me too with tears in our eyes, fondness, respect
reflected, shared, received.
As the skiff rowed away halfway to the ship,
the Aussie mate made a motion with his eyes
and chin, back towards the beach.
Turning around in my seat I saw there
most of the island population, gathered,
many held aloft small pieces of colored cloth,
tiny flags of farewell waving in the breeze,
they were singing, chanting a island song,
slow, like a lament of sorts.
Overwhelmed, I stood and faced the shore,
opened wide my arms, as to embrace them all,
tears of emotions unashamedly ran down my face.
Seeing the people on the beach, the Aussie crewman
intoned, “****** marvelous that. Good on 'ya mate.”
Yes, I remember Fiji and Cyclone Bebe, most of all
I fondly remember my Island brothers and sisters.
End
Two years later I returned to that island, lovingly
received like a retuning son, feasted and drank
Kava with the Chief and Elders most of the night,
A pepper plant root concoction that intoxicates
And makes you sleep most all the next day.
My newspaper story picked up by other papers
Galvanizing an outpouring of thoughtful support,
A Sacramento Methodist Church collected clothes,
money and donations of pots and pans and Gas
lanterns along with fishing gear and other useful things.
All packed in and flown by a C-130 Hercules Cargo plane
out of McClellan Air Force Base, U.S.A and down to Fiji,
cargo earmarked for the Island of Yaqeta and my friends.
On my return there was an abundance of cut off
Levies and Mickey Mouse T-Shirts, and both a
brand New Schoolhouse and Church built by
U.S. and New Zealand Peace Corps workers.
This island of old world people were some of the best
People I have ever known. I cherish their memory and
My time spent in their generous and convivial company.
Life is truly a teacher if we but seek out the lessons.
This memory may be too long for HP reading, was
writ mostly for me and my kids, a recall that needed
to be inscribed. Meeting people out in the world, on
common ground is a sure cure for ignorance and
intolerance. I highly recommend it. Horizon Lust
can educate and set you free.
received like a retuning son, feasted and drank
Kava with the Chief and Elders most of the night,
A pepper plant root concoction that intoxicates
And makes you sleep most all the next day.
My newspaper story picked up by other papers
Galvanizing an outpouring of thoughtful support,
A Sacramento Methodist Church collected clothes,
money and donations of pots and pans and Gas
lanterns along with fishing gear and other useful things.
All packed in and flown by a C-130 Hercules Cargo plane
out of McClellan Air Force Base, U.S.A and down to Fiji,
cargo earmarked for the Island of Yaqeta and my friends.
On my return there was an abundance of cut off
Levies and Mickey Mouse T-Shirts, and both a
brand New Schoolhouse and Church built by
U.S. and New Zealand Peace Corps workers.
This island of old world people were some of the best
People I have ever known. I cherish their memory and
My time spent in their generous and convivial company.
Life is truly a teacher if we but seek out the lessons.
This memory may be too long for HP reading, was
writ mostly for me and my kids, a recall that needed
to be inscribed. Meeting people out in the world, on
common ground is a sure cure for ignorance and
intolerance. I highly recommend it. Horizon Lust
can educate and set you free.
Mateuš Conrad
Feb 2019
what's the biggest difference
between 20th century's
french and german
existentialism,
and the 21st century's
primarily, anglo-sphere,
realisation of an existential
"crisis"...
anti-jew meme...
the globalist octopus...
imagine...
some people have
recovered from an existential
crisis, having established
vast constructs of thought
way back in the 20th century,
namely
the french, and the germans..
but...
my oh my oh my my...
the anglo-sphere of linguistics
has only, "just now"
awoken to this...
quiet a predicament,
wouldn't you say?
fertile ground...
oh sure, there was existential
angst in the anglo-
sphere among irish
pillars...
beckett, joyce...
but concrete architectures
of thought, regarding existentialism,
seem to be absent...
so... counter-argument:
so how come i can
freely buy a copy of some
german philosopher,
a french novelist turned
philosopher...
but...
i'm skint... when it comes
to english thinkers more
or less associated with
my status, rather than stance,
on contemporary "translation"?
elitism...
no... it's not that...
i could have just well
have procured
a life helping out my father
in industrial roofing...
i didn't mind roofing...
it's not an exactly pristine
labour of love sort
of environment...
the scottish widows' h.q.
roof near st. paul's?
me.
i was part of that
monstrosity...
but... come again?
but there are some many attachment
cursors when it comes
to an anglican take
on "revising" continental
existentialism...
whatever crisis
the continental people
felt, and consolidated
the 20th century people...
is only just starting to bud
in the anglo-phonic world...
start-up, island,
end result,
h'america and australia...
there was never a question
as to why, or if,
the english-speaking
people would ever entertain
existentialism,
but, suddenly they are,
at least starting to look
into the pit,
from their ivory towers...
immediate escape
impetus?
reach for the fictive
narrative,
disavow journalism...
make journalism bedfellows
with political rhetoric...
there's no debate...
circus, however you look
at it...
you can't fathom
an abstract variant
of the german or the french
mind, gripped by
an existential critique,
a piquancy,
a pedantry...
in the english speaking world...
there are,
just simply...
too many attachments
to deal with...
- growing a beard:
meant exactly that -
eat ****.
i don't see where
there a "me" to be found
in a (0, 0) starting space,
of net-worth-"work"...
coumpters-freeze
network...
for a language...
that ridiculed,
or became succinct
in succumbing
to its anglo-preferences
of objectifying counter-standards
for its own...
shortcomings...
what has 20th century
existential philosophy have
to do with "anything",
esp. if arrived from
the either french
of german, cultures?
we have Joe Slave over 'ere...
oh right... sorry...
paweł nowak....
just took joe stephen slave's
role was
the person, the hands,
in a recycling factory...
do you mind?
rather:
do you mind...
teaching your natives...
to...
and you know how that
cindarella story ends...
introducing existentialism
to the brits and,
generally,
the anglican variety of
the tongue, being
used...
will end up as, failure...
the 20th century
taught me this,
the irish failed,
the french
and the germans...
basically a "foreign" idea
is more than just...
******..
the people are ******,
with paradoxes
of their women...
sure... a bit like
Iceland...
oh, ****, a bit too close
to the continent...
like madagascar
is to africa...
and sri lanka is to india?
i'm not 'ere to care to
the idiosyncratic
concerns of island people...
contra the, "collective"...
island people will forever
remain island people,
"solipsistic", idiosyncratic,
idioms...
i can't change that...
always prone to export...
but never to import...
island people,
the **** is there to say?
ever bewilder yourself
over chanel 4 news...
and how...
john snow is slipping
into dementia?
you listen to the cue?
no?
sorry... john...
dementia on the horizon...
attempting to adapt
existentialism into england
will fail,
given their moral high-ground
of the "migrant crisis"...
it's an island...
the borders are clarifying,
distinct,
sure, the people can be *****
when their language
is bored in being
a "lingua franca"...
but other people have
other, in-debt defences...
western slavs?
ever hear a spaniard speak
pollack, just because
he hiked with a polish girl?
yeah... mahler...
violins and ****...
you only listen:
for an idea...
it comes, it comes,
it doesn't come...
well... you move onto
some khachaturian...
so, no biggie...
you can't import continetal
thinking to an island people,
they have no concept
of borders...
their naive presupposing
barrier, centered-ground is
unshakeable...
existential philosophy
"meme" rate of survival is... ?
0.1,
binary, negation, an affirmative
statement,
and then the fiasco...
it doesn't help
that there's an alternative
outlet via h'america or australia...
i'm not looking
at the "bigger picture",
when there isn't one...
20th century existentialism
will not work in 21st century england,
or any english-speaking world
to begin with...
there are just, too many,
attachment points,
as many nurtured
nostalgia avenues
as there are amnesia riddled
currencies of attention
exhaustion...
it's just a pristine model
to revive the serf...
there's no point reading existentialism
to a people,
so far lodged in their
isolationism that they
can claim, both an island-stature...
and two continents,
by extension
of stating: "being aware"...
i guess you have to be born
on the continent
to read anything by 20th century
writers,
but... trying to implement
the word...
into the idiosyncrasy
of island-dwelling people,
akin to the English?
i'm not even going
to bother trying...
they're island-folk...
they "think" of borders akin
to coastlines...
and not migration
fake bordering of a contradiction
of peoples occupying
a quicksand pit
of looking at a geography map...
island-folk...
they know border...
because they know... island...
you can't translate
something that's already
paradoxical to them
(hypocritical, is not a milder
term of usage for the desired
execution)...
no...
not going to happen...
two islands,
some set of continental enclaves...
culture...
whatever you want...
i've lived with them,
even though i've lived pretty much
among either the irish migrants,
or the scots...
you're not going to translate
an island, into a continent's
auxiliary...
right now...
you'd think that
Estonia would become
characteristic of an island-people
auxiliary mentality...
i can't blame these people
though...
an island environment
provides an island people
mentality...
if you have never been
part of a congregation,
geographically...
yes...
but they're borrowing
continental idiosyncracy...
****** *****...
Iceland?
yeah... oh yeah...
they're hot on the topic of what
island life is like...
being so...
conservative that they even
have developed apps
for people to check their
genetic proximity
and any immediacy to live,
+ baggage...
the Brits were always 'ere...
the Icelandisch?
were always there...
and...
sorry... for the already given
postcard: wish you were
here analogy of...
curiosity killed
the cat...
but island dwelling people
will always be,
an island dwelling people...
right now,
you do what i do...
you play chamaleon...
"sociopath"...
you...
begin with: a-pathy...
without pathology
looking for... what requires
you to mingle with the most
pathological examples of
a hushed sanity of society...
and...
your luck, as well as mine...
nothing really happens...
like butter smeared
over a gently toasted
piece of toast.
hello tomorrow.
between 20th century's
french and german
existentialism,
and the 21st century's
primarily, anglo-sphere,
realisation of an existential
"crisis"...
anti-jew meme...
the globalist octopus...
imagine...
some people have
recovered from an existential
crisis, having established
vast constructs of thought
way back in the 20th century,
namely
the french, and the germans..
but...
my oh my oh my my...
the anglo-sphere of linguistics
has only, "just now"
awoken to this...
quiet a predicament,
wouldn't you say?
fertile ground...
oh sure, there was existential
angst in the anglo-
sphere among irish
pillars...
beckett, joyce...
but concrete architectures
of thought, regarding existentialism,
seem to be absent...
so... counter-argument:
so how come i can
freely buy a copy of some
german philosopher,
a french novelist turned
philosopher...
but...
i'm skint... when it comes
to english thinkers more
or less associated with
my status, rather than stance,
on contemporary "translation"?
elitism...
no... it's not that...
i could have just well
have procured
a life helping out my father
in industrial roofing...
i didn't mind roofing...
it's not an exactly pristine
labour of love sort
of environment...
the scottish widows' h.q.
roof near st. paul's?
me.
i was part of that
monstrosity...
but... come again?
but there are some many attachment
cursors when it comes
to an anglican take
on "revising" continental
existentialism...
whatever crisis
the continental people
felt, and consolidated
the 20th century people...
is only just starting to bud
in the anglo-phonic world...
start-up, island,
end result,
h'america and australia...
there was never a question
as to why, or if,
the english-speaking
people would ever entertain
existentialism,
but, suddenly they are,
at least starting to look
into the pit,
from their ivory towers...
immediate escape
impetus?
reach for the fictive
narrative,
disavow journalism...
make journalism bedfellows
with political rhetoric...
there's no debate...
circus, however you look
at it...
you can't fathom
an abstract variant
of the german or the french
mind, gripped by
an existential critique,
a piquancy,
a pedantry...
in the english speaking world...
there are,
just simply...
too many attachments
to deal with...
- growing a beard:
meant exactly that -
eat ****.
i don't see where
there a "me" to be found
in a (0, 0) starting space,
of net-worth-"work"...
coumpters-freeze
network...
for a language...
that ridiculed,
or became succinct
in succumbing
to its anglo-preferences
of objectifying counter-standards
for its own...
shortcomings...
what has 20th century
existential philosophy have
to do with "anything",
esp. if arrived from
the either french
of german, cultures?
we have Joe Slave over 'ere...
oh right... sorry...
paweł nowak....
just took joe stephen slave's
role was
the person, the hands,
in a recycling factory...
do you mind?
rather:
do you mind...
teaching your natives...
to...
and you know how that
cindarella story ends...
introducing existentialism
to the brits and,
generally,
the anglican variety of
the tongue, being
used...
will end up as, failure...
the 20th century
taught me this,
the irish failed,
the french
and the germans...
basically a "foreign" idea
is more than just...
******..
the people are ******,
with paradoxes
of their women...
sure... a bit like
Iceland...
oh, ****, a bit too close
to the continent...
like madagascar
is to africa...
and sri lanka is to india?
i'm not 'ere to care to
the idiosyncratic
concerns of island people...
contra the, "collective"...
island people will forever
remain island people,
"solipsistic", idiosyncratic,
idioms...
i can't change that...
always prone to export...
but never to import...
island people,
the **** is there to say?
ever bewilder yourself
over chanel 4 news...
and how...
john snow is slipping
into dementia?
you listen to the cue?
no?
sorry... john...
dementia on the horizon...
attempting to adapt
existentialism into england
will fail,
given their moral high-ground
of the "migrant crisis"...
it's an island...
the borders are clarifying,
distinct,
sure, the people can be *****
when their language
is bored in being
a "lingua franca"...
but other people have
other, in-debt defences...
western slavs?
ever hear a spaniard speak
pollack, just because
he hiked with a polish girl?
yeah... mahler...
violins and ****...
you only listen:
for an idea...
it comes, it comes,
it doesn't come...
well... you move onto
some khachaturian...
so, no biggie...
you can't import continetal
thinking to an island people,
they have no concept
of borders...
their naive presupposing
barrier, centered-ground is
unshakeable...
existential philosophy
"meme" rate of survival is... ?
0.1,
binary, negation, an affirmative
statement,
and then the fiasco...
it doesn't help
that there's an alternative
outlet via h'america or australia...
i'm not looking
at the "bigger picture",
when there isn't one...
20th century existentialism
will not work in 21st century england,
or any english-speaking world
to begin with...
there are just, too many,
attachment points,
as many nurtured
nostalgia avenues
as there are amnesia riddled
currencies of attention
exhaustion...
it's just a pristine model
to revive the serf...
there's no point reading existentialism
to a people,
so far lodged in their
isolationism that they
can claim, both an island-stature...
and two continents,
by extension
of stating: "being aware"...
i guess you have to be born
on the continent
to read anything by 20th century
writers,
but... trying to implement
the word...
into the idiosyncrasy
of island-dwelling people,
akin to the English?
i'm not even going
to bother trying...
they're island-folk...
they "think" of borders akin
to coastlines...
and not migration
fake bordering of a contradiction
of peoples occupying
a quicksand pit
of looking at a geography map...
island-folk...
they know border...
because they know... island...
you can't translate
something that's already
paradoxical to them
(hypocritical, is not a milder
term of usage for the desired
execution)...
no...
not going to happen...
two islands,
some set of continental enclaves...
culture...
whatever you want...
i've lived with them,
even though i've lived pretty much
among either the irish migrants,
or the scots...
you're not going to translate
an island, into a continent's
auxiliary...
right now...
you'd think that
Estonia would become
characteristic of an island-people
auxiliary mentality...
i can't blame these people
though...
an island environment
provides an island people
mentality...
if you have never been
part of a congregation,
geographically...
yes...
but they're borrowing
continental idiosyncracy...
****** *****...
Iceland?
yeah... oh yeah...
they're hot on the topic of what
island life is like...
being so...
conservative that they even
have developed apps
for people to check their
genetic proximity
and any immediacy to live,
+ baggage...
the Brits were always 'ere...
the Icelandisch?
were always there...
and...
sorry... for the already given
postcard: wish you were
here analogy of...
curiosity killed
the cat...
but island dwelling people
will always be,
an island dwelling people...
right now,
you do what i do...
you play chamaleon...
"sociopath"...
you...
begin with: a-pathy...
without pathology
looking for... what requires
you to mingle with the most
pathological examples of
a hushed sanity of society...
and...
your luck, as well as mine...
nothing really happens...
like butter smeared
over a gently toasted
piece of toast.
hello tomorrow.
Brandy Michelle Aug 2019
The Island
Brandy Michelle
Aug 2019
There's an island in the distance, I hear its beautiful... The water crystal blue... Waves so gentle... Sand so soft... The breeze blows gently, the palms sway back and forth... That island is just up ahead, keep heading north... Large grey rocks and deep blue waters will lead you to that island...The island of forever.... Where the maybes don't turn into never,and dreams never become doubts... See it in the distance, it looks close enough to touch. Smell the salt in the air.... Drift away... Let it all go... Let it all go there...Safe and sound, leave all of your troubles behind... Get to that island... Get lost in time. In a time where everything is nothing and nothing is everything...The island of lost dreams and broken sorrows.. The island of hope and shattered promises. Full of beauty, full of lies, full of enchantment.. Yet, full of cries...Cries of disbelief, cries of laughter, cries of heartache, cries to just escape... Escape from all insanity to sane or from sane to insanity. The island... Is pure vanity..Step into the water so peaceful and serene... So crystal clear and warm... So unsettling but enticingly inviting Let it invite you in...Going further out... Its getting deeper.. But the island... The island is just up ahead. The current growing stronger that beautiful water getting darker.. Nothing surrounds me now.. No light.. No sound...Deep darkness below me and all around, I'm growing weaker.. My arms and legs tired. Don't think I can go much farther but the island, the island is so promising. I've got to get there, someway somehow.. I can not give up now... Please not now..All of my hopes,dreams and effort have been put into getting to this island...The island, so full of beauty, so full of grace, I've got to make it to that peaceful and wonderful place...I catch a final wind, a breath of that salty air... I can almost taste it, am I almost there? A sudden urge to swim faster... But my legs just keep getting heavier... I just can't swim anymore....The island... But the island.. In the distance... Just up ahead...Out here in the deep... My arms now weak.. I try to cry out.. My voice.. My voice won't speak..I begin to sink... All of the salty air I once breathed... Is now set free... Now I belong to the sea...The sea of broken promises and empty dreams. It has gained another lost and once hopeful soul... Trying to reach her dream that lies just beyond the sea.... Her dream to just catch a glimpse of that island.... That island…
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