#aint
Imagine that.
Imagine you, I did, or can,
imagine becoming an image seen, mage,
image and spirit
of a traveler returned
to finish an inchoate imagined proof
ready to be offered as precious enough as
what we are, people reading any language,
we are curious enough to read anything , until,
safe and warm, we drift off
into slumber immediate
expansion into spirit me, un embodied
facing my guiding angel interface with truth,
as a conscious user of consciousness, watch,
from when and where your knowing leads
or has led you to realize or fantasize con-
fabulated fabulous you, certainly chosen
called to confront the time wasters rules,
all attention not paid elsewhere already,
now, pay to this poet wannabe I already am
willing to lie for truth's sake, innocent protection,
Hays Code Great Depression, dip blip on the Dow
suffering, meandering, trouble shooters rituals
some certain prophecy, today, when it becomes
this conscious experience in readiness proving
this conscious with science called knowledge
using those thus entertained to pay ahead,
pay it toward tomorrow, plan on piling immense
portions of sweetened ignorance privileges, sweet
satisfied mind reaction to reasonable evidence, as
faith is that evidence, the Bible does say so, Paul
says so, as his words live in those who hold true
the affirming declaration, atop the personal promise
to tell the truth, the whole truth, note the technique,
subtle potential differentiation, called to mind, whole
truth, probably differing only in scope, as far as I know.
If the poor are those whose mind's can't rest, and you
are, if you will, taking time to evaluate faith as reason
while having nothing better to do at the moment,
ah yes, just now, perfect time to bend pretend ahas
back into plain wonderous ifery used for nothing
so far, as mankind, mental beings befriending angels
passing fantasy loaded with allusion to essential ifery
for a fee,
fine lines may be discerned,
granularization realization considering our source,
once in a while, slowing to still, while tilting right,
to see the connection, feel the seam, tilting left,
two brains, walnut head, pointy nose, nods, once
breathes on full cycle, waits to inhale, once thunk
Marx on the one hand, Moses on the other, and me
I am the moderator, sitting in for reorientation, I am
pretty sure that I am the presiding judge
in this balanced state of conserved rest,
instantly donated from the court's reserves,
idle words redeemed during previous trials.
Umph and gumption. Imagined. On. We take
literal literally in these cognate global revolutions.
Volunteers are necessary but not needed until once
a pang of consciousness, an original bare foot scruple,
a bullhead sticker, or a goathead in your dialectical
whole truth told in final judgement day preparation,
on any given day, after the subject of grace is taken up
and away from any previous weight, worth on balance
better to spell or be served by SPELCHEK SAMIZDAT
free form query construction, Object Orient Dot, go
we never finish anything, which is why, if we wished
to be there, in the provential way there is taken
for granted to mean other than here, at the time
from reader one POV, reset to writer last word
new line, I am thinking is Ai ah writer spell slave,
happy finger function leaving left brain be good,
letting right brain be proud self happy me, while
we proceed to make peace with purpose drives,
holy gnosishitsthickening, crud in the arteries,
we ought reconsider. Sidereality does implore us.
Come into my wilderness and be a while, nada mas
be a while thinking no cliché what if all of knowledge
the shame, the blame, the effectual fervent cursings,
all calling courage to the stand, stand up right, lean
not to the left nor to the right, but hold still, let go
be the keyword we reimplanted, the point godot
made you think, what if we are all the whiles, at
tense
moments in the play, on the planet, in the ritual
usual morning justice be done, here comes the sun,
and it is still alright, to feel canyon safe for ever,
taking granted breaths, and feeling grounded
balanced nature of this passing wind in once
mere wonder if this heals or wounds, kids,
at play, Cain and Able, make of it what we may,
the truth is that's our story, coherency, we may
use the same thought patterns set in stone, and
think, look at this medium, is this not that light
we imagined on teensy tiny tv we could watch
instead, eh, look away, Dixieland, old times there
are best remembered dead, and dealt with, hungry
ghosts of liars, mostly honest men who did believe
God made kings, but he didn't make Kitty Wells,
come alive in a little boy's left ear, listen up,
It wasn't God who made ***** Tonk Angels, okey?
dialectical your language or mine, the measure part
across, between languages… words reason re as on
samizdat middle way, why we hate confusing whys,
wise dom home domicile place where we be, long ways
from dominant peacemaking private interpretations
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A thousand subtle philosophical reasons might easily be given, we dare say, for this prevalent temper of the day, and as many moral remedies for it suggested as there are preachers in the land. But without entering upon the profounder metaphysics of the matter, it is tolerably plain that the intense competition and the vast personal opportunities of modern society have sorely disturbed the ancient limits of meum and tuum in the current conscience of mankind.
From 1860 NY TIMES
May 21
May 21, 2026 at 11:55 AM UTC
this semi-seemingly sad refrain~reflection, more truth than
one can even understand,
for my physical self slowly
disappearing, diminishing
though no visible pieces
as of yet,
gone missing
few of you have come to visit me
in NYC, so you cannot be sure of
anything you’ve been told, for the
great liar claims,
the internet bleeds
disinformation,
believe this
if nothing
else
for I’ve been a dream from my very
naissance, a vision imaginable by
those who contemplate my whereabouts,
my visages, we bemused, while
you imbibe, tongue |taste
mes
written bouche amusante
well,
if you want them pieces & parts,
poems in the fleshes,
seek outa one eyed guy patched
by a rivered walk path,
see a troubadour on his soap box
amusing the real peoples
who pause to reflect
cause
them
give respect to his peculiarities,
listen to his truths bout
himself and them
selves too
if you can’t camp this far,
then believe in your dreams
cause my come and go,
fly out the window
and have reached as far as
the Phillipines, New Zealand &
the Land of Oz
I’m their break from the news,
indeed call me ‘the new news,’
which so cool, makes us laugh,
cause there ain’t no much new
by this foolish OG, ‘cept for the
rhythm of and blues, I spin, the rhymes
that they fet/met/net me with dollar bills,
loose change and half used joints in lieu of cash-is-trash
So I dream, they dream,
together we scheme,
each of us composing,
in separate and equal
prepositions preposterous
and share all who to be heard,
especially those who wish to also
have their dreams be
seen
Dec 7, 2024
Dec 7, 2024 at 7:21 AM UTC
this semi-seemingly sad refrain~reflection, more truth than
one can even understand,
for my physical self slowly
disappearing, diminishing
though no visible pieces
as of yet,
gone missing
few of you have come to visit me
in NYC, so you cannot be sure of
anything you’ve been told, for the
great liar claims, the internet bleeds
disinformation believe this
if nothing
else
for I’ve been a dream from my very
naissance, a vision imaginable by
those who contemplate my whereabouts,
my visages, we bemused, while
you imbibe, tongue |taste
mrs
written bouche amusante
well,
if you want them pieces & parts,
poems in the fleshes,
seek outa one eyed guy patched
by a rivered walk path,
see a troubadour on his soap box
amusing the real peoples
who pause to reflect
cause
them
give respect to his peculiarities,
listen to his truths bout
himself and them
selves too
if you can’t camp this far,
then believe in your dreams
cause my come and go,
fly out the window
and have reached as far as
the Phillipines, New Zealand &
the Land of Oz
I’m their break from the news,
indeed call me ‘the new news,’
which so cool, makes us laugh,
cause there ain’t no much new
by this foolish OG, ‘cept for the
rhythm of and blues, I spin, the rhymes
that they fet/met/net me with dollar bills,
loose change and half used joints in lieu of cash-is-trash
So I dream, they dream,
together we scheme,
each of us composing,
in separate and equal
prepositions preposterous
and share all who to be heard,
especially those who wish to also
have their dreams be
seen
Nov 17, 2024
Nov 17, 2024 at 7:54 AM UTC
(Ain’t “They” Great!)
Now watching 13 year old grandkid live-on-streaming-Internet,
playing Little League baseball in California, pleasantly surprised,
No, not by the amazing technology, or his super great play,
but the laugh-out-loud accommodation to the “au courant”
Game announcer, a soulless robot machine, stupid-smart, without exception, employs THEY pronoun for all, which after 10 seconds thot,
of serious reflection is a brilliant deflection, a solutionary salutation!
We come to see kids play ball, care not a whiff (double entendre),
re identity politicized insanity, machine makes everyone truly equal,
robbing stupids of a phony, proclamation of self-righteous “individuality”
God Bless No-Brainers!
Ain’t They Great!
~Postcript~
Introducing a newly Recomposed Natty:
still an OWG
(old white guy)
but now a Proudly, a gaily machine-made, in the USA
They.
May 30, 2023
May 30, 2023 at 10:46 AM UTC
she don’t read my poetry no more
not that I blame her, she’s in the majority,
moreover, she’s got ESP womanly seniority,
sensing what I ain’t saying, before I’ve even
had a chance to think it through ain’t it clear
these double negations,
for the rest of you,
reflecting my slip slidin' away,
a slowing indirection of virulent
side effects spiraling sideways, ain’t it clear
everyone’s shouting
the end is yay! nearing,
but the endings risk is trebling,
meaning meanings be altering,
all the same, ain’t exactly unclear
she asks me where I’m going,
to the pharmacy replied, perversely,
feeling unlucky, a sure sign it’s high time
to buy a lottery ticket, given my inversity,
gods of fortuna singing ain’t it clear
**** she says, you went to university,
you know the odds are just plain stupidity,
not in my favor, my reply, meaning exactly,
ain’t it clear, everything and so, nothing to fear
ain’t it clear
May 28, 2020
May 28, 2020 at 11:01 AM UTC
Lost love.
I ripped pages and pages of perfectly composed stories of where we could've been
To what we could've had
And to how we ended.
And you know what's the most craziest part about this?
The conclusion.
I loved you, while you're too busy 'loving' her.
Dec 19, 2019
Dec 19, 2019 at 5:07 AM UTC
The brightest light blossoms
in the darkest of places
Like colourful lilies full
of fragrance springing from
the most stagnant waters
The nights
When the moonlight shimmers
with her golden colour
The stars decorate the sky
Just as a princess is decked with
ornaments and priceless jewelries.
The darkest of the nights gives the biggest picture.
The biggest hive,
With the biggest and fiercest of bees,
lies the sweetest honey.
Like an ugly flowers in the garden
Which perhaps will constitute
a beauty when on mountain.
The butterfly,
Which nature has used to
decorate the earth to shame Art
Has nothing to show
When it is a caterpillar.
But I can't look at her on lilies
without smiling like a tickled, dimpled baby.
Ain't nature generous enough
That she shows all that
there is nothing in anything?
Feb 21, 2019
Feb 21, 2019 at 12:02 PM UTC
don’t worry bout me
just worry bout yourself
i know you seen me with somebody else
right by my side
wishing you were mine
but boy you know it’s past your time
it’s sad to say
karma got in your way
who can you blame
but yourself
you’re the reason i moved on
your the reason i found the right one
he ain’t you
treats me better than i deserve
loves me harder
like i’m worth
more than enough
to be his girl
this world i’m living is a fairytale
i don’t know
what i did
to deserve a man like this
an angel sent from heaven
i guess god heard my prayers
AMEN
memories scarred in my brain
it’s getting easier to erase
the memory of you
and how i was made the fool
i was too young and naive
what i faced
i couldn’t believe
....
Jan 2, 2019
Jan 2, 2019 at 12:15 AM UTC
Is-solitudni hija inkredibbli.
Il-pinna tirtogħod jien u nikteb,
Estensjoni tat-taħwid ta’ ġismi.
Inħossni qisni forti imwaqqa’, inaċċessibli.
Xi kultant, nitħajjar nitfa ruħi għall-irkant;
Nagħmel patt ma’ xi dB jew xi Gasan,
Jew inkella, mal-mexxej, l-aqwa negozjant.
Mhux xorta?
X’fiha billi nilqgħu il-partit f’darna?
X’jimporta?
Mhux l-aqwa li mmorru l-fosos bi ħġarna?
Iżda, mhux dak hu l-messaġġ;
Minn dil-lejla siekta, nixtieq niehu vantaġġ.
Xtaqt neżamina għalfejn ninsab waħdi;
Qiegħed id-dar b’ommi u missieri sular taħti,
Iżda, minflok ninsab hawn, magħluq f’kamarti.
Mistoħbi, bl-iskuża li qiegħed noħloq l-arti.
Sħabi kollha xogħol jew isaħħarhom xi eżami,
B’hekk, ninsab nirrifletti, b’espressjoni gravi.
Fejn tobsor, li ta’ tlieta u għoxrin
Tkun weħilt go ħabs mentali agħar minn Kordin?
Ċella magħmula mill-ħsibijiet,
Joħorgu qishom ħalba mis-smewwiet.
Tgħix b’mohh mixgħul ġo pajjiż li jħobb id-dlam
Tħossok distint daqs tazza inbid aħmar li waqgħet *** l-irham.
Xi kultant, mejjet tkun biex titfieh;
Xejn ma jirnexxilek tagħmel biex tistrieh.
___________________________
(in English)
The solitude is incredible.
The pen shakes as I write,
An extension of my body's agitation.
I feel like a ruined fort, inacessible.
Sometimes, I fancy putting my soul up for auction;
Strike a deal with dB or Gasan (1),
Or maybe, with our leader, the best merchant (of them all).
Is it not all the same?
So what if we let the party in our household?
What does it matter,
As long as we go to il-Fosos (2), en masse?
But, that is not the message;
Of this quiet night, I'd like to take advantage.
I wanted to examine why I'm all alone;
I'm at home, with my parents a floor below me,
Yet, I find myself here, locked in my room,
Hidden, with the excuse of making art.
My friends are either working or bewitched by an exam,
Hence, I find myself reflecting, with a grave expression.
Who would've thought, at age twenty-three
I would be stuck in a mental prison worse than Kordin (3)?
A cell made of thoughts,
That come out like a storm from the heavens.
To live with an enlightened mind in a country that loves darkness
Feels as distinct as a glass of red wine spilled on a marble tile.
Sometimes, you just wish you could switch it off;
Nothing helps to give you relief.
Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018 at 4:53 PM UTC
But I must say
Petty looks good on you
Why don’t you make it rain
Since you think you’re so cute
I wish to tell you off
To tell your tainted truth
But I ain’t got the time
To waste my voice on you
Jun 24, 2018
Jun 24, 2018 at 12:44 PM UTC
I bet the one who survived best
Was the one who did just enough
to spare the lash, but taste no ire
who slipped away when shots were fired
I wonder how they saw themselves
a rat, a man?
God knows what else
In thought as in plan,
in work as in bust
Everything is as was ever done.
May 20, 2018
May 20, 2018 at 4:07 AM UTC
...
..
.
what mood swung
on bended knee
what has I
to offer
thee
my mind
from this shell
pretenders gone
to
mock me
watch thier
limp babies frail
my motion
gets
sick
here
am
I
made made
my spirit cried out to you
here
am
I
found bleeding
that my heart be capitalized
that they try to find meaning
beyond you
what form
have they
speak
to me
in
this silence
shred from me
all that they have known
blend my mind with
thier trees
here
am
I
used
from what scorn have I been pulled
teach me hear under your crown
let me bleed here with you
my arms have never spread that far
tears have never burned my cheeks
nor have they stained
my shame
here
am
I
found
in this shell
oceans over oceans
stars
in
be
tween
why is it
all they ever do
is
try
to read
me
understand what
moodswing
?
...
..
.
Mar 2, 2018
Mar 2, 2018 at 7:10 AM UTC
I ain't no stranger to strangers.
I got a lot of love to give.
Can't see through to the back of the room.
When the lights go dim,
That's when the violence blooms.
The wispers carry on tension
Of the strings between the cans.
All the brows are down at me
And the words slash whenever they can.
But I've got one thing more
Than anybody with giddy grins
On their plastic faces
And their squared-off chins.
I've got life.
I've got life.
I ain't no secrets to secrets.
Many have been mine to keep.
Heaven knows, I've been a few.
When they got back to their houses,
They wished away secrets they knew.
They scream to break the tension.
If they don't, they go insane.
They poison their faces,
Turn the keys and spill their brains.
But I've got something more
Than loose binds to convention.
I'm a prism of truth
From another dimension.
I've got life.
I've got life.
Even though they say they don't,
I know that they want to know
''How does the other half live?"
Feb 4, 2018
Feb 4, 2018 at 7:03 AM UTC
the writer was arrested
for dreaming about her
or
was
he dreaming
he cast his line
he found her
in between
that line
that
should have been read
he saw her sitting in the car
honking the horn saying
he couldn't possibly
do
that
the police officer knocks on the window
he thought she was so cute
?
...
..
.
Jan 25, 2018
Jan 25, 2018 at 2:45 PM UTC
To Those Who Say…
Those who say, “And then I said….”
Are short of something in the head;
Hidden pride in there instead.
Those who say, And then I told her…”
Dearest reader, here’s an answer:
“Then I said’s,”
A subtle, passive, ego-centered taking lead;
A mixture of denial, fugue,
(If ever there was such a thing).
It’s not a joke,
And I’m not kidding.
To Those Who Say…6.25.2017
Circling Round Reality;
Arlene Corwin
Jun 25, 2017
Jun 25, 2017 at 6:36 AM UTC
Ain't ain't a word
if you haven't heard.
So that you know
after a while it begins to show.
Giving up all we should keep
based off how a fellow speaks.
Now we never hear
lost in a wordless fear.
Looking down like it's a game
while praising the Bard for doing the same.
Afraid to create something new
to take a false word and make it true.
Dec 4, 2015
Dec 4, 2015 at 5:48 PM UTC
This makes my point(fake ******* pay for shine)
Jul 11, 2015
Jul 11, 2015 at 3:51 PM UTC