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Zywa Dec 2023
Be generous, give

a like for a like, force it --


through the bad gateway.
S-zaynab-kamoonpury (Nigeria - Swaziland - Tanzania) publishes poems on HelloPoetry, in December 2022 "NOT A POEM THIS ONE": "If I read your poem and give it a thumb/heart then plz also read mine poem below and comment and click thumb too if you wish"

HTTP status code "502 Bad Gateway" (broken connection between two discrete networks)
Zywa Dec 2023
The wind blows, nothing

happens, maybe unless you --


look to see something.
Novel "De gebeurtenis" ("The event", 2022, Peter Terrin), chapter Frederik (2) #1 - "The 'looking' was the event"

Collection "Held/True"
Zywa Dec 2023
Something different:

a story of a search what --


crime was committed.
Novel "De gebeurtenis" ("The event", 2022, Peter Terrin), chapter Frederik (2) #1

Collection "Glimpsed"
Ken Pepiton Dec 2023
Pushing back occlusions,
opening the shame shed,
I said, If I could, I would, love my enemy...
Our... inspiring wedom myth or mystery
bring your least worthy self, knowing
only we
prayers, never having heard me prayers,
save from dying folks on telly,
pray…
------------- times and time, and a half a time
memorial days to come,
during some poor soul's error,
finding I am as alive as ever was,
thinking we imagine life without us
is as if no life were, but we know better.

Ersatz Earth and Star maps from Griffith Park.

Life with no beat, buzzing, humming cicada rate
when do we assume the mind frame, cicada rate

cycles subterranean, staggered emersions, cosmic
clocks synchronized, some when, once, aha, we all,

us cicada, concentrations, thinking we don't have
cicadas where I live, so my ears are in a realm older,

if, in fact, fiction is not an art, fitting future hope
where now, hate and envy and incredulity hold hostage

truths we never speak of in church.

One way I have told the greatest story ever told,
the story bound within the covers on the book of life.

Lo', a bystander waves, signaling all clear. Tabula rosa.

Right on, some where, higher on the pain share meter,
O, Danny Shapiro, the pain, the pain, a toothache in 1873.

As the conditions were, but for a rural farm project 'lectric,
one light bulb, one refrigerator, one resistance coil burner.

A rather Spartan lifestyle, as reported,
in the Washington Star, the Moonies Newspaper,
sa sa lederlin sa, we lost our way in 1983, woke here, as
ware
with python variables accessible by original Hypercard scripts.

Imitating Life, the entirety of living things, non-infinite things,
ones,
onces upon times,
not this one, then those days,

solitude, subtlest fortitude, iron cage, bricked in,
put away in penance in some hyper holy cult of killers.

Here he comes, to save the day!
That means that Mighty Mouse, is on the way!

Who financed Snidely Whiplash?
Who floated Wiley Coyote's single satisfaction source
of never ending creative means to fail, for a laugh,

Slap stuck without the embarassment you see in comics,
assment so wise it feels too cheap, freedominion wedoming.

Give me the children, for three hours each Saturday,
I'll give you certified boomer level consumers, trust me.

Three Musketeers was big enough for you and two chosen.
Who is it who gets it,
the girls, boo, old advertising boom repercussing, whamo!

No fee poetic licentiousness' eh? Free for the reader's attention

in the realm of musing minds joining when winds tighten
to force a flush from the wetlands to feed the fish,
who feed the people who feel better thin than fat.
This is a real effort to not demean the art involved in giving verse free forms.
It never works until some time is spent to read this far...
Zywa Dec 2023
I do as I like,

Mum stays calm, I don't know if --


I even exist.
Poem "Telemachus' Guilt" (1996, Louise Glück)

Collection "Unseen"
Zywa Nov 2023
Being in love, blind,

but don't be blind later on --


It would be the end.
Novel "Munya" (name: "Wish/Desire/ What is longed for permanently even though it is very difficult to get", 2008, Abdelkader Benali), chapter Amsterdam

Collection "Loves Tricks Gains Pains in the 0s"
Zywa Nov 2023
My father narrates,

the speaker is off, I film --


deep inside his mind.
Documentary "Scenes with My Father" (2022, Biserka Suran) - Conversation on a bench in front of an abandoned factory; there is a loudspeaker next to the entrance

Collection "New Ago"
Zywa Nov 2023
It's like a Hopper

painting, sitting on a bench --


next to my father.
Documentary "Scenes with My Father" (2022, Biserka Suran) - Conversation on a bench in front of an abandoned factory; there is a loudspeaker next to the entrance - Scenery as a painting by Edward Hopper (Nyack 1882-1967)

Collection "New Ago"
Zywa Nov 2023
I'm fully present,

my body, all my senses --


here, in this garden.
Composition "Saor" ("Free", 2022, Claire M Singer), for five organs, performed by her on November 11th, 2023 in the Organpark

Collection "org anp ark" #317
Zywa Oct 2023
Well, I used to cry,

but I stopped, because no one --


cared, no one at all.
Film "Past Lives" (2023, Celine Song)

Collection "VacantVoid"
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