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mark john junor Oct 2013
i could not hold on anymore
to the desperate plea of the futile ones
who live off another wallet
so i set out that night for the south
to find the great parking lots
where i might find a space and place to rest my weary head
where i might find a place to be safely reckless
with her potions and instruments
but the violin she played spun a queer note
and i knew that if i did not go on with
whatever she wanted she would be the end of me
the  end of poor poor me
gather my slim riches in my carpetbaggers coat
and picked up the threadbare bag
that had all the steam-pipes and tools
for making a new titanic
lets sink it right this time
we ended up just east of Pensacola
in a fairytale land of flea markets
trying to barter our yesterdays
for a bowl of thin soup today
gather my threadbare deadlock hippie chick companion
and counseled her against talking too loud
against the tourqouse monsters
and she told me i was just nervouse
and stripped away the rationalizations
to show that the fat man is only selling tickets
to the free show
so i follow her
having made up my mind that she sees the reality
of this sandy soil wasteland
we ended up leaving Pensacola
and with a quick prayer
we were on the the boat to the Bahama
with our lives intact
maybe next time we will escape
maybe next time you will come back with another woman stead of me
and i said that's a possibility
that wouldn't make either of us happy but
that's the way it should be sometimes
life doesn't always make sense
well most of the time it dont
Ken Pepiton Jun 2019
each day is new.
each life is measured re-ified or ified,
--- but 1.0 can't think past named things and their uses.
--- 2.0 must have an intuition of good begetting
that includes 1.0 gnosis of aim in an immediate way.

Oh. Here's a map.
Like Disneyland as a mall...
or DC with the alu-mini-um pyramid on top.

A schema instantiation, says the blithering flow
charting our course to
sapins sapiens augmentatious
It's obvious,
the children shall all be 2.0 in 1.0 mechanical material;

the tree of knowledge was all inclusive.
hence, the POV development circuits
are cross sired-wired dialecticalishit

seen innerish, not clearly but
seen, men as trees sorta thing.
not blind
but not visionary in a professional
TED talk worth
attending to after eight straight.

The time on earth is variable.
The cost/value of a duration is perimental,
be
coming here
being still
unborn in silken wombs
--- chirp

there are ground squirrels in California
which chirp
incessant chirp chirp chirp with

enough variety in volume tone and frequency,
to make old Morse Code five-letter code groups
come rattling through the radioman's head.

killit.
no, focus, do some meditatishit mind over world,
silken swaddles to moth or...

squeeking wheel gits the grease.
grease it, no, go to the squirrel and trigger its
cog that has no
cognition save intuition. Click.

look it in the cute little squirrel eye.
see it see you, say to it, shut up.

it don't blink. it don't shut up.
bold rodent,
I AM MAN. I shout, it squeeks,
gnoshit,
no cognitive over ride of intuition to fear the man,
is thinkable.
It is a squirrel.

It don't mean nothin'. A curse o' apophrenia on ye.

Bubbles in bubbles, foaming Being
Thoughts resolve to gearish
imaginations
cogs and gears and wheels whirling through some
filtering of needless data informing points
big
number
dimensional, scale and distance, durational
direct
measure in systems
for value and balance,
with no true vacuum, but the idea,

the null-set. Where never happens and nothing is.

We twist hard here.
The torque is what jects
the ob at the sub, via a
mechanical cam-shaft, pusher-puller-twister system
mit ein trigger, which we
click.
Think.
Who is writing my part in the book of life?
I asked me, you are not here, but
in my mind I hear replies more wise than I was
inclined
to imagine
a common man of common gifts can be for
believing
magic has always been
what magi know how to do for goodness sake.
Magi. Heros.
Not a no knack common man, wombed or un.

Peace nullifes any reason War-corroded minds can
calculate,
the numbers prove it all. Count the stars.
Use your augmented eyes, search your global memory,

run the numbers, nullify time with eternity,
subtract the works of darkness,
(don't delve into the details, you can imagine hell some other time)

----
A Valis idea, stuck between my chew-eschew-awarea
P.K. ****, trips, bags, and scenes
as became the cliche'.

Let 'em imagine any thing, define the terms and force
agreement for access.

Insider wannabe, do you agree, come and see? Or
do you dare to challenge

the common sense of all man kind as represented in Christ
of Nicea and Abeka Books, from Pensacola, Florida,

Whoa, rock the box, make bubbles cavitate the prop,

spinnin wheels like the Bismark's final bow.

--- i'm un comfortable and I don't know why.
--- a feeling
--- those are mocked as meaningless, by apathetic slobs.
--- so easy being a ***, ethos pathos logos, ***
--- comic relief
--- in mortal moments of turmoil and confusion as things are stirred.

All that could be shaken, was shaken.
All that could be strained, was strained.
All that mercurial messages could mean, was meant.

We lie in wait, wishing cogs and cogitate was as symbiotic
a thought as we thought while thinking

earlier
Art is artificial intelligence. Imagine that. A.I.

Demiurge, my cultural osmosis of vocalizings,
left me thinkin' a demi urge
is a little urge, a diminutive urgekin,

urging me to be
creative, let that lil' light shine, Marjoe

these being public displays at the edges of some of the bubbles,

bubs, some kid just shook my bottle

to pretend the wine was moving of itself, making turmoil

careful as in accurate art-iculation, this is not realist materialist
gasping
grasping for
dignity, stalwort, courage, responsibility

we are yet legions, industrial models
used to build swords with motors,
when we come to America, we join the unem.
We, the people's industrial war complex, merge
with the abandonded gods Neil Gaimon pointed out,
formin a loose unity of spirits, engines and factories and artisans

self-defined, an unum from many, on a national scale,

Da deme demotic da-emonic conspiracy of steam, incorporated
with dwarven knackeristics of old,
fur usin' Hermes as a river to call gold to our rule maker,
food bringer, h'laf weard, Lord of the loaf.

Listen,

illiterate heathen, my Grandma said we'd be if we did not know the story
after hearing it told three times.
Third time's the charm.

We were weighing your worth,
got hooked on a breeze from the broom sweeping this
pile of parts and pieces of what you imagined being worth

that's not much more worth than one in eight millions of millions,
of you kind, unless you earned admitance to the inside

externalization of imagination
pro-ject that on next---
stop. Imagine all that
and guess... ob or sub... its your roll.

I'm the door, says the door. I have no key, it says to me,
come and see,

the progress regress con tro tra la la la

That rascal who just wondered by on Youtube

com a part mentalized, an urge to count the cost

ungrateful and thanksgiving
curse and bless
sweet and bitter from one fount, that ought not be, but
it is possible, all things are,
it can be evil, but
on
discovery
such a curse is not worse than miss fitting a taken point,

we ethos pathos logos ourselves, we say, my domain,
bad
poetry can have good ideas in it. Ah, I see.

Humble your self under the mighty hand of that which has been
given the joystick,

eh, what if a lie is running your ranking order?
careful articulation?

Jackson Pollack step up, this carefulness of art,
answer that for me.

Ah, the hero, around whom thy sun wraps, what haps ever after,

you get old and the world changes against your wish.

do you believe in God.
I do, the one Jesus believed in,

by my leave, my letting a true thing be

happily, after a life of seeking for another path.

The earth is round.

Are there ideas that cost, in the use?
Is there an ancient of days account
of idle words

verbs given for acts, as seen done, from an earthling POV
idle verbs that call no act
lest the cost come clear, daemonitic tech that seems magic,
blessing cursing and claiming to heal, all
mere art... the ability to be like Jesus, that knack

there was a wise man, as he was sweeping his way one day,
his daemon, who had the assignment,
reported finding meaning
in being filled
to over flowing, have you boasted that? Never?

Did you ever shed a tear for another's pain?

You know, pathos, commonality of us all, or you know
not
and the sufficiency of evil is calling you to be the inner hero,
making room for truth
in a heart fed lies from the womb.

After all is said and done. Believe the truth makes free
upon the point of knowing the story.

Love is a verb I seldom use. I dared redeem it for future use.
It cost me dear reader.
there are verbs we abuse at a terrible price. Paid. Not by me.

Show's over, Radioman morphed to Grandpa and Oliver
watching the real world turn beneath the sun,
relative to an earthling POV. The day's sufficiency of evil all swept away.
Seeking worth whiles while marveling muses from the global brain. The walls between a common man on earth today and the hightest reaches of Academe daemonium of pan,  Is nullified, nullified ask any question and you can find all anyone ever knew about it.
Kyle Dal Santo Sep 2017
I just wanted to feel again
For too long I was trained to feel nothing
Self medication was killing my senses
The government numbed my feelings
Her lack of love killed my hope
She had cheated on me again
I was a thousand miles from home
And then I met you

I was broken, lonely, lost, and dazed
confused, hollow, a killing machine for Uncle Sam
But deep down, the trapped little boy cried out
for passion, for love,
to feel something other than nothing
and there you were
An angel with a devilish smile
the Southern Belle I'd always dreamed of
On a park bench outside the rec I confessed
with so much fear, I wasn't ready to let my heart go again
but I really liked you, and I couldn't hold it back anymore
instead of being let down, you lifted me up
from a painful October to a November of dancing
your name rolled off the tongue
like an Italian singing to a Sinatra Sonata
Kellie Greene
a North Carolina peach with a body like a violin
a beautiful, **** warrior woman, with a heart of gold
Who knew such women existed!

With each moment I fell harder, loved more dangerously
I kept winning, so I kept pushing my luck
with you, I always got lucky
I loved you
and you loved me back twice
each kiss was a ****** shot that froze me in place
don't even start me on your Southern curves
or your Carolina twang
God crafted you like a sword smith crafts a katana
smooth, ****, and razor sharp
few deserve such a goddess
I sure didn't, but Fate doesn't always pick favorites
Fate give me you, and you gave me something
I never knew existed
Love that didn't cost me freedom,
Love that didn't drive me mad
Love that didn't leave withdrawals
Love I wasn't afraid to give back
And the *** was something the angels sing about.
Kyle D.
From Austin on to Pensacola
from there I went to South Dakota
Moved on back to Arizona
Just trying to start a life

Went from Flagstaff to Daytona
then headed out just past Pamona
hung around and hit Sedona
Just trying to start a life

It didn't matter where I was
I had to move on just because
She'd find me in my dreams
I shut my eyes but couldn't sleep
Her image in my mind would creep
She'd find me in my dreams

Spent some time down in L.A.
There she was so I couldn't stay
Went and moved to Spanish Bay
But there she was again

Found a place in Monte Ray
only stayed there for a day
went down south down by Queens Cay
But, she followed me again

I shut my eyes and I did find
Her image burned into my mind
The girl was in my dreams
Although I tried to start anew
There was nothing I could say or do
And you should have heard my screams

I tried again, but had no luck
I even slept inside a truck
I woke up cuddled with a duck
And again her in my dreams

I'd been all 'round this country side
I'd walked, and flew and hitched a ride
It may be better if I died
But, I'm sure she'd find those dreams

I'm sure it didn't matter where
She didn't really care
She would always haunt my dreams
Hair so blonde and eyes of blue
I just can not get rid of you
You'll never leave my dreams
Andrés, aunque te quitas la boina cuando paso
y me llamas «señor», distanciándote un poco.
reprobándome -veo- que no lleve corbata,
que trate falsamente de ser un tú cualquiera,
que cambie los papeles -tú por tú, tú barato-,
que no sea el que exiges -el amo respetable
que te descansaría-,
y me tiendes tu mano floja, rara, asusta
como un triste estropajo de esclavo milenario,
no somos dos extraños.
Tus penas yo las sufro. Mas no puedo aliviarte
de las tuyas dictando qué es lo justo y lo injusto.

No sé si tienes hijos.
No conozco tu casa, ni tus intimidades.
Te he visto en mis talleres, día a día, durando,
y nunca he distinguido si estabas triste, alegre,
cansado, indiferente, nostálgico o borracho.
Tampoco tú sabías cómo andaban mis nervios,
ni que escribía versos -siempre me ha avergonzado-,
ni que yo y tú, directos,
podíamos tocarnos, sin más ni más, ni menos,
cordialmente furiosos, estrictamente amargos,
anónimos, fallidos, descontentos a secas,
mas pese a todo unidos como trabajadores.

Estábamos unidos por la común tarea,
por quehaceres viriles, por cierto ser conjunto,
por labores sin duda poco sentimentales
-cumplir este pedido con tal costo a tal fecha;
arreglar como sea esta máquina hoy mismo-
y nunca nos hablamos de las cóleras frías,
de los milagros machos,
de cómo estos esfuerzos serán nuestra sustancia,
y el sueldo y la familia, cosas vanas, remotas,
accesorias, gratuitas, sin último sentido.
Nunca como el trabajo por sí y en sí sagrado
o sólo necesario.

Andrés, tú lo comprendes. Andrés, tú eres un vasco.
Contigo sí que puedo tratar de lo que importa,
de materias primeras,
resistencias opacas, cegueras sustanciales,
ofrecidas a manos que sabían tocarlas,
apreciarlas, pesarlas, valorarlas, herirlas,
orgullosas, fabriles, materiales, curiosas.
Tengo un título bello que tú entiendes: Madera,
Pino rojo de Suecia y Haya brava de Hungría,
Samanguilas y Okolas venidas de Guinea,
Robles de Slavonía y Abetos del Mar Blanco,
Pinoteas de Tampa, Mobile o Pensacola.

Maderas, las maderas humildemente nobles,
lentamente crecidas, cargadas de pasado,
nutridas de secretos terrenos y paciencia,
de primaveras justas, de duración callada,
de savias sustanciadas, felizmente ascendentes.
Maderas, las maderas buenas, limpias, sumisas,
y el olor que expandían,
y el gesto, el nudo, el vicio personal que tenían
a veces ciertas rollas,
la influencia escondida de ciertas tempestades,
de haber crecido en esta, bien en otra ladera,
de haber sorbido vagas corrientes aturdidas.

Hay gentes que trabajan el hierro y el cemento;
las hay dadas a espartos, o a conservas, o a granos,
o a lanas, o a anilinas, o a vinos, o a carbones;
las hay que sólo charlan y ponen telegramas
mas sirven a su modo;
las hay que entienden mucho de amiantos o de grasas,
de prensas, celulosas, electrodos, nitratos; 
las hay, como nosotros, dadas a la  madera,
unidas por las sierras, los tupis, las machihembras,
las herramientas fieras del héroe prometeico
que entre otras nos concretan
la tarea del hombre con dos manos, diez dedos.

Tales son los oficios. Tales son las materias.
Tal la forma de asalto del amor de la nuestra,
la tuya, Andrés, la mía.
Tal la oscura tarea que impone el ser un hombre.
Tal la humildad que siento. Tal el peso que acepto.
Tales los atrevidos esfuerzos contra un mundo
que quisiera seguirse sin pena y sin cambio,
pacífico y materno,
remotamente manso, durmiendo en su materia.
Tales, tercos, rebeldes, nosotros, con dos manos,
transformándolo, fieros, construimos un mundo
contra naturaleza, gloriosamente humano.

Tales son los oficios. Tales son las materias.
Tales son las dos manos del hombre, no ente abstracto.
Tales son las humildes tareas que precisan
la empresa prometeica.
Tales son los trabajos comunes y distintos;
tales son los orgullos, las rabias insistentes,
los silencios mortales, los pecados secretos,
los sarcasmos, las llamas, los cansancios, las lluvias;
tales las resistencias no mentales que, brutas,
obligan a los hombres a no explicar lo que hacen;
tales sus peculiares maneras de no hablarse
y unirse, sin embargo.

Mira, Andrés, a los hombres con sus manos capaces,
con manos que construyen armarios y dínamos,
y versos y zapatos;
con manos que manejan furiosas herramientas,
fabrican, eficaces, tejidos, radios, casas,
y otras veces se quedan inmóviles y abiertas
sobre ese blanco absorto de una cuartilla muerta.
Manos raras, humanas;
manos de constructores, manos de amantes fieles
hechas a la medida de un seno acariciado;
manos desorientadas que el sufrimiento mueve
a estrechar fuertemente, buscando la una en la otra.

Están así los hombres
con sus manos fabriles o bien sólo dolientes,
con manos que a la postre no sé para qué sirven.
Están así los hombres vestidos, con bolsillos
para el púdico espanto de esas manos desnudas
que se miran a solas, sintiéndolas extrañas.
Están así los hombres y, en sus ojos, cambiadas,
las cosas de muy dentro con las cosas de fuera,
y el tranvía, y las nubes, y un instinto -un hallazgo-,
todo junto, cualquiera,
todo único y sencillo, y efímero, importante,
como esas cien nonadas que pasan o no pasan.

Mira, Andrés, a los hombres, ya sentados, ya andando,
tan raros si nos miran seriamente callados,
tan raros si caminan, trabajan o se matan,
tan raros si nos odian, tan raros si perdonan
el daño inevitable,
tan raros que si ríen nos enseñan los dientes,
tan raros que si piensan se doblan de ironía.
Mira, Andrés, a estos hombres.
Míralos. Yo te miro. Mírame si es que aguantas.
Dime que no vale la pena de que hablemos,
dime cuánto silencio formó tu ser obrero,
qué inútilmente escribo, qué mal gusto despliego.

Mira, Andrés, cómo estamos unidos pese a todo,
cómo estamos estando, qué ciegamente amamos.
Aunque ya las palabras no nos sirven de nada,
aunque nuestras fatigas no puedan explicarse
y se tuerzan las bocas si tratamos de hablarnos,
aunque desesperados,
bien sea por inercia, terquedad o cansancio,
metafísica rabia, locura de existentes
que nunca se resignan, seguimos trabajando,
cavando en el silencio,
hay algo que conmueve y entiendes sin ideas
si de pronto te estrecho febrilmente la mano.
La mano, Andrés. Tu mano, medida de la mía.
Lyra Brown  Jul 2013
i miss you
Lyra Brown Jul 2013
I’d give anything to be back
writing our names in the sand
on Pensacola beach
feeling your joy seep itself
into my body as if
it were a sponge, the tide
touching my thighs as if to wish me
a safe flight home
as if it knew that the only real home
I would ever know
would be there,
with you,
as if it knew it would be
half a year before we would be able
to embrace each other again.

There is no one in this city
I can be my whole self around
and I cannot help but feel guilty
for claiming loneliness
because there are a handful
of people I could call right now
that would come over to hold me
if I expressed my emptiness
to them. But none of them
are you and that
is the greatest
tragedy I have ever known and so
I can’t help but stay here as I am,
alone.

I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you.
mike  Mar 2015
hes backstairs
mike Mar 2015
when i want to talk my best friend
i listen to his music.
thats where he is.
but he is also
in a motel room
in Pensacola
probably
playing
guitar.
To  Gulf Shore , my temptress , a dying poetic salvo and wish
To be cast into warm waters , whence I first appeared , declaring ,
We've the shore of Pensacola for all eternity .........
Copyright September 25 , 2015 by Randolph L Wilson * All Rights Reserved
krm  Aug 2017
We Spoke
krm Aug 2017
In the dusk of August we remained separated.
Different lives lived,
wondering has the "best day of our lives" already come.
Riding home in your car;
I remember how full of life you looked in my eyes.
We both laughed about inside jokes & stories from childhood,
I never figured out how to stifle my guffaw that spoke of how lonely I am.
I promised you my honesty, always.
Referred to it as a curse,
but a fate much worse is-
the one where we never belonged to one another.

Sometimes, my head gets so heavy:
I never belonged underneath the sun.
I had stopped writing poetry for weeks because, I didn't feel I had anything worth saying.
Until August 4th.
I cried to you, poured my heart out to the waves.
Where I dreamt they carried us away-
in the mundane life I lived,
my bones could never be content in finding happiness within myself.
Last August we spoke like two children in love.
Becoming the lights that illuminated Gulf Breeze where my residency was.
My heart erupted into
smoke signals across Pensacola
that reach your window.

We spoke effervescently of a future we'd
be a part of together.
We spoke of intimacy and how it'd feel to be enraptured by passion.
I'm a fleeting thing, my love.
Gone.
Like the rotting leaves through Autumn in another state,
I am the present time when-
destiny does not meet with fate.
I'm no longer here,
with a curtained heart outstretched,
loving me is dastardly,
and now it's too late.

—KRM

— The End —