#addition
Enough's enough
to share,
sips,
shallow
but good fresh
breaths, sighing out,
pulling in tensions, tau-t
we taught ourselves, remember
because we could we just did think
wonder if today is me at my best,
and I accept that this is it, my day,
I may give leave to be
used myself as we have been used
to think linearly, upto a previous peak,
thence to hear the morning wind, howl,
and know… Ginsberg got here first, and
plopped zazen right, full lotus- second
thinking
thought wise,
as ways, wise other,
sister winks, thinks, U'll make us rich
neurons activated upon gut awakening,
burps, breathes, feels thinking literally,
just feels good, free from forms, abstract
constant instance
in care filled con-sidereality
verified- will you - won't you re-collection, really
actful re always al ready on
if, verily, we may take photon rides
with far older
selfs assurances,
taken grace works
with the weather, godspeed, old sun
It is, where I live, six miles
below eastbound contrails,
it is a bright, sunny day, slight high mare's tail curling
up against these old solid granite curlers
as the San Andreas fault,
is about to trigger a quake, some think,
we, forty miles west of the fissure, figure
we be fine, see,
from here, with our common sense extensions,
this medium we have our being in, as behaviors,
and distinctions, behavior's, mine'n'ours
predetermination, so
beatifichaviour have at it chochmah
spittin'image ain'eejeslikem
if you are reader one, I'll be reader, too.
Two is a we, so
we gwan becoming more than we
might once have known
to expect in this respect -back acted
after ever's been bein' real as its, kin folk,
spooky fanaigirling phenalgin goodness sakes gumption, umph - look it up, it's for sneezes
sigh, since we were originally grace, wise facet of wisdom jewels
{Yes, on second thought}
Platonic formality geomancy fantasy
Jung laughed at our profundity, too steep
fundamentally, Watson, in my phone, real…
today we happen
to have dodecahedrons
on our minds, just do
so what, well, reader one is lost, so
verified heirs to the wayward winds,
says the westward leaning
aspirations
to inspire peace, sighing,
saying may be so, leaving
****** bits
of our hulls behind,
still thinking may be so leavens,
given a while in the sun.
This ends Can-too one. QEF
Feb 4
Feb 4, 2026 at 12:47 PM UTC
My friends, and my dreams, and
My hope, and my drive, and
My rest, and my age, and
My will, and my love,
And my life, and me -
Equals 0.
Sep 22, 2025
Sep 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM UTC
You’re wrestling the devil, fighting to be “the man”
When you wrestle the devil, its catch-as-catch can
It’s no holds barred, anything goes, a regular street fight
The world is watching the main event on Saturday night
It’s a death match; the winner takes it all
The match is scheduled for TV time, or one fall
The devil is tricky, he’s got friends outside the ring
Whips, chains, tables and chairs, that’s what they bring
Sorrows got you in the corner, headlock squeezing tight
Best do something quick, even if you have to bite
Pains have got you down, in the center of the mat
He’s got you trapped, like a big city rat
You need to break free, get out of his hold
If you don’t, you’ll be stuck, like the cheese and the mold
You’ve got to keep moving, you better have a plan
When you wrestle the devil, its catch-as-catch can
The crowd is roaring; it’s time to bust out your moves
Careful now, watch him Jim, look out for those hooves
You got him on the ropes, with help from some fan
When you wrestle the devil, it’s catch-as-catch can
Now it’s time the show is over, they called it a draw
He would have had you, except for that one little flaw
He didn’t know you had faith and truth on your side
When he came up against that, all his threats died
You wrestled the devil, now he knows you’re “the man”
When you wrestle the devil, its catch-as-catch can
Jul 6, 2025
Jul 6, 2025 at 6:41 PM UTC
There’s no labor
When we’re in the zone
Every line is on its own
Every stanza polished and pure
What was it that drew us here
Some shadow driven desire
A dopamine rush if you please
Like a yogi in the moment
Like a dogs tail wagging free
From the masses we have risen
The quickening is quite satisfying
All the addictions we could have
And it’s poetry that we rely on.
Dec 17, 2024
Dec 17, 2024 at 6:14 AM UTC
Discover the medicine maybe abuse it
The day could arrive when you choose to refuse it
Live it and breathe it
Or take it or leave it
With patience and time you can learn how to use it
Aug 27, 2024
Aug 27, 2024 at 11:09 AM UTC
When I hear about someone with an addiction, television is the first thought that enters my mind,
everyone that watches it is into robbery’s, *** and violent crimes.
They all sit quiet like a rock staring into space,
with no movement at all, a cold blank look on their face.
So many of them have trouble deciding, changing channels all of the time,
So, for gone they can’t concentrate, or make a decision with their mind.
Many of them got started years ago, someone turned them on to it for free,
now that they are addicted, they are happy to pay a high monthly fee.
Television teaches children bad habits in so many ways,
watching the weather man getting paid to lie, then they learn the truth the very next day.
The viewers hide from their families and friends all of the time, has anyone ever told you they have to go, they can’t miss their fix, of a repeat TV show.
If you count up all the hours they waste, years over their life time, that’s why their called addicts, because they altered their state of mind.
The next time you, faith full watchers see a story about an addict on Tv, you can hold your head up high and say, that guy is just like me.
Copyright Tom Maxwell 08/18/03
Feb 6, 2021
Feb 6, 2021 at 8:34 AM UTC
Though every joy that could be enhanced, and every misery that could be diluted.
Thoughts of escape dance like ballerinas in my mind.
Fluid in motion and undeniably enticing
I swoon for them - hypnotized.
They are really sirens seducing me, and pulling me toward oblivion.
I'm a moth to the flame.
Seeking a comfort zone that was never comfortable to begin with.
To inflict a suffering I do not deserve, yet so desperately long for at times.
Aug 26, 2020
Aug 26, 2020 at 1:41 AM UTC
Two plus two is four
One plus one equals two
And perhaps it's also true
That love is equal to me plus you.
Feb 26, 2020
Feb 26, 2020 at 9:04 AM UTC
It burns,
The decaying heart within.
It eats,
A maggot feasting eternal
Love is not a gift
It consumes
Love is not a gift
It destroys
Yet we mortal plebs
Crave it and suckle every drop from another
We hopeless vagrants
Waste away within our addictions
Curse you!
With love!
Curse you!
With smiles!
Curse you!
With laughter, *** and sighs!
Curse you!
With my dying breath.
No curses of hate can I make as I say goodbye.
Dec 27, 2019
Dec 27, 2019 at 4:26 PM UTC
What makes someone worthy,
To witness the birth of an angel.
A place that people only read about,
Is a place you have walked.
Beautiful and shimmering.
A face that cradles the universe within.
Jun 16, 2019
Jun 16, 2019 at 6:48 PM UTC
Been thinking...
It's about time I made some changes...
Came so far now and I feel free
So free, 9 to 5 stress, call in green delivery
But eventually problems set in, it's only Monday
Loved as one, feel so gone and my future looks ugly
Jurry and executioner, can you please judge me
Money and pain go down the drain, and it's getting harder for me
Creating issues from problem solutions, still act toughie
Don't try to rush me
Midnight-mares ride through the night, it's scary
And "all this time I couldn't see
How could this be
That the curtain is closing on me"
Emin- NFing music discovery
Drop these drugs down the drain, head to rehab recovery
Problem facing, defacing, move to different countries
Running a race but never winning cos running from you is destroying me
Blowing smoke 24/7, this can't good for me
Keep on rolling sticky green, I'm in 3 deep
My complicated encampment, you see
You know I'm doing my best but does he?
Yeah...
It's hard for me to ask this
When I don't even have a mattress
Used excuses to delete this stress
I may changed ******* nothing, at least I can confess
It's been 15 years and I'm still a ******* mess
I apologise for all the lies
Decite it spreads like fire
My future could've burned so bright
Now I'm stationary, grips me like a vice
But lost my touch and I'm colder than ice
I stopped giving a **** just me, myself and I
But maybe that's just life
Do I dare ask why?
I was the butterfly, who had spread his wings to fly
Barely left the leaf only to be shot down, fall and die
Countless nights that I counted, where these issues filled my eyes
I can't help it, it's how I was raised by life
Now I'm going to go far to both yours and mine surprises
Chasing dreams all despite this,
Dripping in Bape and gold chains
Changing myself just to stay the ******* same
You know I never thought life was great
But **** if she's complainin'...
But **** if I'm staying...
But **** it I think I'm going insane
But **** if this is direction I decide to go...
And I know
Just how to create a flow
So why should I loose it if I know
Is it a gift or is it curse only time will show
Death: it'll set you free and let you go
Eventually it'll catchup to us both
So I'm leaving off this verse
In the back of a Herse
But in the end it was myself I hurt...
Fresh start?
Eye of Horus...
Thought not...
of course...
"Is he getting old"...
"Does he bore us?"...
Enough rhymes for a lifetime
Check my inventory
You know how I'm going out
Blaze of glory...
Well I'm back...
End of story...
I apologise for all the lies
Decite it spreads like fire
My future could've burned so bright
Pen to the pad, I'm stationary, grips me like a vice
But lost my touch and I'm colder than ice
I stopped giving a **** just me, myself and I
But maybe that's just life
Do I dare ask why?
I don't know... but I'll try
Jan 1, 2019
Jan 1, 2019 at 6:42 PM UTC
Cool breeze of death on the back of my throat
Is there light at end of the tunnel
Or just no hope
Walking on the tightrope
Sliding down a slight slope
Is it only me who just can't cope
When all I want is to look down my kaleidoscope
Puff the magic dragon with the gunsmoke
Am I being real or is this just a joke
Nov 16, 2018
Nov 16, 2018 at 10:15 PM UTC
I know a bit about math.
You add one to another and get two
divide two and get two separate ones.
Do you think that 1 wanted to be divided?
What if it was happy under the aid of the other one?
What if they were meant for each other?
You multiply x by y.
X and y don't go together,
it's by nature.
But it's by choice that they still collide together,
and x and y suddenly seem indifferent.
You divide x by y.
After bonding for so long,
after understanding each of their incompatibility issues
and trying to mend them to better fit,
they're finally divided.
One is now without the other,
the other is without that one,
and they are both separate variables in a cold world.
It's by nature that they remain separate,
but it's by choice that they still remember.
Oct 23, 2017
Oct 23, 2017 at 5:40 PM UTC
Now that I am high, I don't ever plan on coming down.
From what I am told highs don't last forever.
If this feeling ever fades I don't know what I'll do.
I couldn't begin to imagine another night of sobriety.
A night spent away from what I've come to know as normal.
Something done randomly, something that's become habit.
Given time.
I don't think I could go back to the way I once was.
Something held close. Revealing the fact that nothing is as perfect as we could imagine it.
The moments I feel myself floating with closed eyes.
Picturing myself falling in love.
Now that I am high I feel that I am free-falling.
Finally jumping from the ledge I've known for so long.
A sudden pause from anything momentary.
The everlasting effect of something I've never felt. Being high.
Most highs don't last forever from what I've been told.
Always chasing something to compensate what was once felt.
My first reaction was to jump from the ledge of the couch and hit the floor face first.
Which was what I did. Not entirely my plan but it worked.
Choosing to stay here and seek nothing outside of what I already felt.
Leaving my sobriety anywhere but here.
A kind of reserve stashed away for safe keeping.
Not in the sense of smoking or anything that could be ingested
I suppose I took a piece of your heart and hid it where only I could find it.
But only when I jump from the ledge of the couch and end up face first on the floor.
Somewhere I know you can't find it.
I guess this high could be considered love.
A funny thing, love.
Four simple letters that could create so much devastation,
or bliss.
Love a whirlwind of emotion that takes everything then tosses it up without care how it lands.
A crazy thing, being sober in the midst of love.
Four simple letters packaged and distributed as something sweet, delicious.
Most commonly referred to as munchies.
Devouring everything in sight.
A buffet of need wrapped airtight in urgency.
Next time I sit on the floor I think I'll invite you.
But only for another piece of your heart.
Verballing from the ledge of the couch.
Only to land face first on the floor once again.
Love such a crazy thing
Jan 23, 2017
Jan 23, 2017 at 9:49 AM UTC
as kids we used to go out in
the cold holding pretzels
between our fingers and pretend
our frozen breath was smoke
*(funny how
kids grow up)*
we rang in this new year
with a half gallon of last
year's apple cider just turnt
enough to bite and fizz
half glasses of
questionable mango juice
mixed with a stranger's
thick cream ***
and a full season of
mash but after
this year i know
suicide is not painless
*(it burns and stings
chokes and screams
leaves friends
crying at five a.m.)*
stood on some kitchen steps
cat-scratched hands red
from hot dishwater and icy air
stomping cold feet
*(the plan is to get me addicted
for just a couple years while you
*** them off me until i prove
i'm strong enough to quit)*
and you held out the zippo
lighter you got for christmas
i handed you a cigarette
and you held it between your
fingers and tapped away the
ashes like richard dawson would
*(there's something poetic about
historical self destruction)*
it burned my lungs
enough that i coughed
but then again it
felt right
natural
like we had been
practicing for this
new year all our lives.
Jan 9, 2017
Jan 9, 2017 at 9:17 PM UTC
Hopeless poisoned
Precious one
The drowning's only half the fun.
Submerge, submerse
Sink deeply now
I'll close my eyes
And follow down.
In mud and muck
We'll sink and choke
We'll dine on fear
And purge on hope
And when our lungs
Draw deep for breath
We'll exhale smoke
We'll feast on death.
Aug 16, 2016
Aug 16, 2016 at 11:15 AM UTC
Derive the joy, magic and warmth of addition by connecting your soul to another's, yet remain independent as singular souls.
Meet the interference of envious, bitter and resentful subtraction which gives the process of separation from the souls you have connected to.
Both opposing forces with obstinate motivations coordinate unconsciously for the creation of an entrance-exit cycle in human interaction.
The pinnacle of human interaction is interceded by multiplication who compounds the congregation of the independent souls into a cohesive unit called groups and eventually society and nation.
Nevertheless met by the malevolent, destructive energy of division which ruthlessly breaks apart the products nurtured by multiplication, smashing them with propaganda, discrimination, and segregation.
O' how I exclaim that division is the truly nefarious power.
Apr 21, 2016
Apr 21, 2016 at 8:22 AM UTC
I promise to mislead, deceive, and begial
You can continue to live your life in denial
Pretending everything's great
As your lies you spin and create
I'm the one that comforts you in the dead of night
Not your so called friends that are so up tight
I calm your nerves
I'm what you deserve
I chase the memories away
I make everything seem ok
But somedays I make them stay
I make everything in disarray
You know on those days you just need more of me
On your back I'll always be
With the darkness always closing in, always there
I'll by the only one who truly cares
You are my favorite ******
Sincerely
Your Loving Money
Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016 at 10:26 PM UTC
Thank you for dinner, sorry I can't stay
sorry I was born, sorry I can't pay
Sorry I was around
when you'd have me gone
Sorry I got quiet
when you went to turn me up
The road ahead for me
the road behind for you
Should have packed and left you at night
so I could finally pass death into the daylight
Awarded for the conscious service I provide:
Nothing
Nothin?
Nothing but crutches with smudges
catching must in the closet touching
another box in its depressing square
Pictures, I burn them
Dish? I break that.
I'm just another broke ***** barefoot in a haystack
Your clothes get acid
Heart? I sever the artery.
I'm just another childhood ruined with adult bad
Sep 19, 2015
Sep 19, 2015 at 9:24 PM UTC
I took a walk to see.
All the queens down market street turning just for a fix .
The ******** of the day doesn't matter when you only live for the score.
Greetings from the gutter.
Go wash yourself clean as I embrace it's decay.
Least I know my place art is never a safe bet sweetheart does his touch still make you cringe?
Meet me at the bar and we will get lost together.
Goodnight to the fakes I have little more to give.
Goodnight to you all it's ran it's course shall we just let it die?
To the designer junkies who's prison resembles a palace I prefer the chaos of my own reality keep your distance for your ******** need not apply.
The cutter scars I prefer to some airbrushed queen your flaws are your perfection were all ****** up so embrace the truths and ignore there lies.
Goodnight my friends my buzz has began to fade .
Life is a bruise beautiful in it's story .
Never hide the flaws for art is the biggest train wreck of them all.
Cheers
Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 4:33 AM UTC