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it is no surprise
that it feels
so suffocating
with a mask held
this firmly in place
neth jones Dec 2023
the cat inhabits the kitchen chair
  glibly being   a warm and spread pat
as my seat is taken      i am stood
  weight shifting   between pained legs
    taking in my breakfast   like medicine
chumming it down
  addressing none of its flavours or ‘mouthfeel’

a man passes the window
uncreased  in a deceased business suit
yet   bunched into himself under a brolly

it's not raining
      but   it was  most-likely  forecast on his cellphone

strange human behaviour…

i note my own
and remove the somnolent cat
to take my seat at the table
theres's me
in battle against my own healthy design
no way to approach a day
iffy from  laborious digestion
neth jones Jun 2023
i've a plundering urge
to whom it is absurd,
                     the black teeth
                     the blood scribes
                     the woe, the whither,
                                               the word
i felt seen   from afar
telescoped warmth  cups my right shoulder
and i expand from shrivel   in your forgiving light
are you my soilmate ?

for you i prepare scents   beading from my most sweaty regions
       a moist sporing    emits in nifty allium spritzes
i stammer to a standing position
                          and exercise my full height

sporting,
           i swing and tap an annihilated aluminum bat
              sounding out my specific code of fidelations
                   resonation through the ground
                     and suddenly you are near
                    receiving the humming
                  up the souls of your doughy bare feet
                         you shiver

i prance wildly and perfect kilter in my hips
i offer to preen you
i present you with a pyramid of spittle balloons
i **** myself a little
i sink my teeth into your side    (it's not 'your jam'
    but we recover the mood)
i give chase to you for you to be chased
and it's a wild kind of keen fun
         and you are a madcap display of laughter and wide smiles
and   within     i feel a gordian nest  
         of some lust manoeuvre 
(maybe we can copulate face-to-face ?)

pondering scars     wounds that were much deserved
the white meat    the bright stars    delivered

who is rude to the rule       of what is ours ?  
i knew you
magnesium burn    and unwholesomely dauntless
  bold   your portfolio always within an easy reach
your passionate simmering might    you branded my eye
and now we're similar    mites in a feather
simian partners surveying territory needs

and then you’re gone again
        vanished

       and we are distant minds that strike the hour together
                                like before
between our signals I am met with cross chatter
my hemispheres bicker
and retorting memories barrage
        refunding the past
    and taking you away from me

i am a mating dunce once more
             i shrivel
neth jones Nov 2022
behaving lunatics
repressing     til the coming of rupture
                    when the clocks shall strike dumb

then we shall plumb freedom of expression
1st version 24/11/22

MARK
neth jones Sep 2022
s t a t i c

populous city
summer heat gloating
these isolated nights poison
anxious residents
all strangers to their neighbours

squared away
bedded
they coil about their trusted genitalia
despising



c o w e r

wolf ,
          could you even go stalking in the woods ?
                 you'd get blisters
                            breaking in pricy footwear
          that smart suit ?
                             ridiculous ;     covering your fur
           you've become cowed by your domesticated soul
other brevity version - static

summer   city   night
cast    in orange static
dried spoil crunches underfoot
heavily housed buildings
beings
      anxious
of their unknown neighbours       
 
bedded   
they coil
  around their genitalia
        soundly
                and despise
Zywa Aug 2022
People only change

when someone else forces them --


They can't change themselves.
"Het volgende verhaal" ("The next story", 1991, Cees Nooteboom)

Collection "Willegos"
Zywa Jul 2022
Don't ask 'How are you?'

if you really want to know --


Behaviour tells you.
"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"
Big Virge Sep 2021
Now This Poem Is Steered...
Towards The Crazy Things...
That We See And Hear... !!!
  
From Women And Fellas...
Who Are Changing Their Genders...
  
To The Type Whose Agendas...
Prove That They're Pretenders...
When It Comes To... ***...
And Who They Like To Bed... !!!
  
I’ve Said It Before...
And I’ll Say It Again...
It Doesn't Seem Pure...
To Be Wanting Children...  
  
If SAME *** Movements...
Are What You Choose...
To Now DEFINE YOU... ?!?
  
Cos It’s Just CRAZY To Me... ?!?
To... TRULY BELIEVE...
That It’s A NATURAL Thing...
To... Claim To Want Kids...
  
If You Are A Man...
Who Likes To **** *****... ?!?
  
Or If You’re A Woman...
Who Loves LICKING *****... ?!?
  
Now To Me That’s... CRAZY... ?!?
  
But It’s What We Now See...
From Those In The Movies...
To Those We Now See...
On Our Flatscreen TV's  ... !!!
  
So These People CLEARLY...
Have ALWAYS Been Part of TV Teams...
That Work … BEHIND The Scenes... !!!
  
It Seems... LITERALLY... !!!
  
That’s Just A JOKE OKAY...
So Don’t Get Bent Out of Shape... !!!
  
Cos’ There Are CRAZY THINGS...
That Live In... DIFFERENT Skins... !!!
  
Like Men Who’ve Been Jailed...
Due To Charges of ****... !!!
Who Then MARRY The Chick...
Who ACCUSED THEM of It... !?!?!
  
Once They've Served Their Time...
For A SERIOUS Crime...
That They DIDN'T Commit... ?!?
  
And That’s A... REAL Thing...
Because I’ve Met A Man Who DID... !!!
  
Now Does That Seem Right... ?
Or Is That Just... CRAZY...

To MARRY... A Lady... ?!?
Who CHANGED Your Life...
Because of Telling LIES... ?!?
  
There Are TOO MANY Crimes...
To Now Write Within Rhymes... !!!
  
But Here Are … One Or Two...
That Prove That CRAZY MOVES...
Are Pulled By Youngsters Too... !!!
  
I’ve Recently Seen...
A Girl of... Nineteen...
  
Treat Her Own MOTHER... !?!
Like Some Kind of Lover...
Who'd Abused Her Trust...
So Then Figured She’d Shut...
And Then LOCK OUT Her Mom...
From Their Shared Apartment...
On Her Work Vacation In The Caribbean... ?!?
  
Because of... IGNORANCE... !!!
And Her Temper That Runs...
Within Her Like The ***...
That Bajans’ Drink For Fun... !!!
  
A Vision That STUNNED...
And Left Me Rather SHOCKED... !!!
  
To See That One SO YOUNG...
Could Act Like Who She Was...
Was GREATER Than The Lady...
Who Raised Her From A Baby... ?!?
  
To Me That’s JUST CRAZY... !?!
Because... To Put It PLAINLY...
  
If I’d EVER Shown...
... Such DISRESPECT... !!!
To One of My Parents...
Back In The Days...
When I Was Teenaged...
  
You’d NEVER of Read...
ANY Big Virge Poems... !!!!!!!!!
  
Because I’d Be DEAD... !!!
  
Due To The Punishment...
That Would of Knocked Some SENSE...  
... UPSIDE of My Head... !!!
  
Because Those Were The Days...
Where Disciplines REIGNED...
  
That Are Seen Today...
As... ABUSIVE Traits... !!!
Systems WON’T TOLERATE... !!!  
  
The Things That We See And Hear NOWADAYS...
Are Now FRYING BRAINS Cos’ They TRULY AMAZE... !!!
  
Like Hearing These CLAIMS...
That... Black Lives Matter... !!!
  
When It’s CLEAR That Some ARABS...
STILL SEE Blacks As... SLAVES... !!!
  
So Are QUICK To SHAME...
Any... Arab Babe...
Who Picks Some Dark Skin...
To... Truly Bind With...
  
Because They CLAIM...
  
That It Is FORBIDDEN...
Or The Word... “ HARAM “...
To Be Linking UP With...  
Any Man Whose Skin's DARK... !!!  
  
Because...
  
SLAVES Shouldn’t Be...
Part of Family Trees...
That Some Arabs See...
As Needing PURITY... !!!
  
Which Is TRULY CRAZY... ?!?
  
Cos’ When It Comes To DARK Breeds...
Their Philosophies Seem...
To Resemble... NAZIS... !?!
  
While Supremacist Teams...
See THEIR People As Weak... !!!
  
And EXTREMISTS They Deem...
To Be Those UNWORTHY...
of Seeing... UNITY...
  
When It Comes To White Crews...
of Supremacists... Who...
  
STILL HATE A DARK FACE...
Even In This NEW Age... ?!?
  
Where Black Lives Now MATTER...
Well... “ APPARENTLY “... ?!?
  
Which Is CLEARLY CRAZY... !?!
  
When You See How Police...
Treat Black People In Streets... !?!
  
So MANY FALLACIES...
That Are TRULY CRAZY... ?!?
Clearly Rule What We Deem...
To Be Our Human Breed...
  
Like The CLAIM That We're FREE...
To Air Our Views FREELY... !!!
  
UNLESS You Air Views...
That OFFEND Certain Groups...
Like The... LGBT... !!!
  
As Well As The Queers...
Who’ve Now Made It CLEAR...
That They Now EXPECT...
To Get Some RESPECT... !!!
  
For... WHO They Are... !!!
Or You’ll Face Being Charged...
With Crimes Now Designed...
To Keep Thinking IN LINE... !!!!!
  
With New Age Policies... !!!
  
Which We All Can Now See...
May Be Somewhat Off Key... !?!
  
When Opinions Can't Be...
Part of... SOCIETIES... ?!?
Or New Media Feeds... !?!
  
Which Is Why I Believe...
That A BACKLASH Is Coming......
Due To Things Being Steered...
Towards What's … Corruptive... !!!
  
That’s Stirring Up Things...
That May Well Prove To STING... !!!
  
Due To Falling Victim...
of Simply... OFFENDING... !?!
  
And The Things That We’ve Heard...
And Now Seen... APPEAR...
  
In....
  
“ The CRAZY Things That  
     We See And Hear ! “
We really do see some strange things in each other !
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