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The deed begun and the deed done, a breath taken, and a breath released. The work, writing, reading as we go. No shame, no pressure, no debt. Living long under the prosperity. Not our own, no, our providence answered faith of our previous makers of ways where no way was when white pages haunted open hearted souls called to comfort motherless children, unfeedable little lost souls told tales remember Be ware what you think we mean, as us I mean, we become whole new things, keyed with ancient yeast and slime mold shapes of green oatmeal flow like the golden oil running down Aarron's beard, ah Chavad gotta a deal gotta say we getta witness, see say you know this game, three cards, just three, see. Pop chaos theoretical butterfly flap of a wing among millions of wings flapping subsonic whirs we hear but by conditioning perceive - the butterfly effect - if believed unbelievable - unbelieve it now, - exhale, inhale, and think we have all the time in the world and electricity always on, or could be so we know, borders are imaginary bubble walls, the earth as a system keeps itself, the people as a whole have roles, the worth of each single point, once sine qua non, you knew the truth and thus thought then freely, I am a mental image of the truth life makes. Winds return on their circuits, as sounds in silence, deep teenage wasteland topsoil lifts away, frame the vision, make it plain, word after word, logical as as as as yes, as logos itself, infancy an incunabuluman* nonage ex-empt-ion say that five times on judgement day matada innocent self… being presupposed to be or become metamorphosed from inexperienced to immediate past tense confusing time with chance considering the relative worth of an innocent self… a me among men, amen without spot or blemish, perfect babe, infantile in all her unrhetted ignorance inside the fog of war, holding flax at bay break out fibers fine as Rapunzel's flaxen locks first precious light in the day, shining out from ivory skinned faces, woe, is us, as we have never been so exposed naked nonsense makers, but no, just me, judging where I may imagine I must be, in my morning ritual mediation caught up, being in time flow, rolling along, singin' my song, wrong, or right, you just don't know, you just go, sparrow wise, tweeting make believe at made believers. * Latin incunabula "cradle, birthplace; rudiments or beginnings" From <https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=infancy> End part one, a poetic after shock from Mike Makowsky's Death by Lightning A four part series behind a Netflix paywall not too hard to peer over these days… I keep thinking you are paying attention We keep thinking we lose our minds, no we get to, relate to Charles J. Guiteau and the odds of dying by constant lightning we blow our bubbles of being to the extent of now, on an orderly planet rewarding ment enjoyment, an at it attitude, doing indeed a day. What we can learn in an hour, no mind born before 1940 could imagine.
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 1:11 PM UTC
Death by Lightning Binge Reaction
The deed begun and the deed done, a breath taken, and a breath released. The work, writing, reading as we go. No shame, no pressure, no debt. Living long under the prosperity. Not our own, no, our providence answered faith of our previous makers of ways where no way was when white pages haunted open hearted souls called to comfort motherless children, unfeedable little lost souls told tales remember Be ware what you think we mean, as us I mean, we become whole new things, keyed with ancient yeast and slime mold shapes of green oatmeal flow like the golden oil running down Aarron's beard, ah Chavad gotta a deal gotta say we getta witness, see say you know this game, three cards, just three, see. Pop chaos theoretical butterfly flap of a wing among millions of wings flapping subsonic whirs we hear but by conditioning perceive - the butterfly effect - if believed unbelievable - unbelieve it now, - exhale, inhale, and think we have all the time in the world and electricity always on, or could be so we know, borders are imaginary bubble walls, the earth as a system keeps itself, the people as a whole have roles, the worth of each single point, once sine qua non, you knew the truth and thus thought then freely, I am a mental image of the truth life makes. Winds return on their circuits, as sounds in silence, deep teenage wasteland topsoil lifts away, frame the vision, make it plain, word after word, logical as as as as yes, as logos itself, infancy an incunabuluman* nonage ex-empt-ion say that five times on judgement day matada innocent self… being presupposed to be or become metamorphosed from inexperienced to immediate past tense confusing time with chance considering the relative worth of an innocent self… a me among men, amen without spot or blemish, perfect babe, infantile in all her unrhetted ignorance inside the fog of war, holding flax at bay break out fibers fine as Rapunzel's flaxen locks first precious light in the day, shining out from ivory skinned faces, woe, is us, as we have never been so exposed naked nonsense makers, but no, just me, judging where I may imagine I must be, in my morning ritual mediation caught up, being in time flow, rolling along, singin' my song, wrong, or right, you just don't know, you just go, sparrow wise, tweeting make believe at made believers. * Latin incunabula "cradle, birthplace; rudiments or beginnings" From <https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=infancy> End part one, a poetic after shock from Mike Makowsky's Death by Lightning A four part series behind a Netflix paywall not too hard to peer over these days… I keep thinking you are paying attention We keep thinking we lose our minds, no we get to, relate to Charles J. Guiteau and the odds of dying by constant lightning we blow our bubbles of being to the extent of now, on an orderly planet rewarding ment enjoyment, an at it attitude, doing indeed a day. What we can learn in an hour, no mind born before 1940 could imagine.
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the brain can ache complaining like a child 'give me my sugar' or I will send you insane.
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Mar 18
Mar 18, 2026 at 10:06 AM UTC
brain ache
We can't avoid sleep it creeps up on us sometimes need to rest awhile _____________
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Aug 31, 2025
Aug 31, 2025 at 5:44 AM UTC
Haiku / Senryu #25 - Sleep and Rest
since I last rode a bus, no, poems aplenty have poured and dripped from ink-saturated fingers, here there and  everywhere, disguised by many a nom de guerre the bus riding infrequently, as work no longer demands me, I ride for the occasional occasion, when legs won’t carry me the far away distances they say violence in the city is random, and just seems worse, seemingly a newspaper creation, but I know better, and random violence & poetry inspiration do not walk or talk hand in hand, not for the hands that write… in every crack, lamppost, festooned with flyers for concerts years ago, poems reached out to me, write, right? I too am papered with memories of long-ago city travels, picking up scenes & dreams that became poems, instantaneously, scrambling, to get home with them retained, untainted, preserved with the freshness of city smells, city swells, homeless, rowdies & oldies shuffling, the interwoven of disparate desperate humans, fodder once and now for Walt Whitman’s leaves, each distinct needy for something else, but for me, just one city big view, a Cloister’s museum tapestry, remade, rewoven anew every moment of every day and a poem-rough tumbles from without & within ,
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Oct 24, 2023
Oct 24, 2023 at 8:55 AM UTC
it’s been awhile...
Subject enters trance Subject enters trance state Subject enters entrancement Entrance word opens mind Mental kind Mind kind, man kind, male and female see that fe, see iron, the processed bile, from certain ores - see a detail allowed the ancient few who read all the ancient writings, as we read French or Farsi, today, we the augmental. Augmented I, exo-mindful chooser bot, software, with a calcium lattice frame, any curious child could have been shown, by way of instructions, seldom read, ready do the drill. Do it again. Do another whole day. Being particular as to what use is made of my pronominal reality state, my real estate. Non moi. My ever after all of that. This. These times that try men's souls, since this means of forming information along bendable old bones, Once, in the dreamtime's local translation mindspace timeless, nothing was. Nothing was evil, and that was good, a chain construct, mind chain, prior to any sense we readers hold chains to represent, closed torqued rods of iron, formed on the horn of the anvil, the only known anvil, for the making of such things was closed knowing, must be earned, this epithet, honest, most honed, among the dull stone scattered across my plain, Mam, re, remember, Mamre had a plain called by his name. Terebinthine Oaks, con-secration acknowledged, by whom, asks my little boy, who knew which oak Jacob buried the stolen idols lied about under, for shame. For shame, he who wrestles still, with the will to be the bherer of all my own shame, amen. Nothing hidden that shall… should we quibble? Known is known, and should one choose one may make a plain from a point once, stretched this far. And holding… ad in fun item, Chotsky for any one to open worm cans with.
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Mar 17, 2023
Mar 17, 2023 at 2:02 PM UTC
Shared ideas, shared ways, shared means
Subject enters trance Subject enters trance state Subject enters entrancement Entrance word opens mind Mental kind Mind kind, man kind, male and female see that fe, see iron, the processed bile, from certain ores - see a detail allowed the ancient few who read all the ancient writings, as we read French or Farsi, today, we the augmental. Augmented I, exo-mindful chooser bot, software, with a calcium lattice frame, any curious child could have been shown, by way of instructions, seldom read, ready do the drill. Do it again. Do another whole day. Being particular as to what use is made of my pronominal reality state, my real estate. Non moi. My ever after all of that. This. These times that try men's souls, since this means of forming information along bendable old bones, Once, in the dreamtime's local translation mindspace timeless, nothing was. Nothing was evil, and that was good, a chain construct, mind chain, prior to any sense we readers hold chains to represent, closed torqued rods of iron, formed on the horn of the anvil, the only known anvil, for the making of such things was closed knowing, must be earned, this epithet, honest, most honed, among the dull stone scattered across my plain, Mam, re, remember, Mamre had a plain called by his name. Terebinthine Oaks, con-secration acknowledged, by whom, asks my little boy, who knew which oak Jacob buried the stolen idols lied about under, for shame. For shame, he who wrestles still, with the will to be the bherer of all my own shame, amen. Nothing hidden that shall… should we quibble? Known is known, and should one choose one may make a plain from a point once, stretched this far. And holding… ad in fun item, Chotsky for any one to open worm cans with.
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Go crazier and crazier the longer you stay Cry all night Sleep half the day You remain by side throughout the upheaval You are capable of delivering me from evil Something is not right between us Cannot place my finger On the imperfection The air of frustration lingers So I am caught in between your feelings and my own Thoughts collide within Creating cyclone Moving in mind with force Trail of mayhem in it's wake Causing already hurting head to violently throb and ache As I ponder what to do time tumbles out of my hands My reflexes are too slow to catch before it lands Clock is never on my side whether I turn left or right No matter which way I examine Predicament not black and white Waiting for next error so I have a good excuse The longer it takes the more I ask myself "What is the use?" You deserve to be with somebody equally devoted Why the truth I'm telling you is not sugar-coated I wish you would come to this conclusion without my aid You are simply too optimistic I'm afraid I hate doing this to you but I feel it is more fair Being straightforward with you than to leave you unaware Your heart may feel broken It will only be for awhile Promise that without me you'll again learn how to smile
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Aug 24, 2021
Aug 24, 2021 at 8:25 AM UTC
Crazier
I ask myself the question How much longer will we last? You are trying you say That was also said in the past (But I know you really are) Another week? Another Month? I'm afraid when you will stop When you can't go on any longer When will I be dropped I wish to stay as long as I can Stay happily with you as long as I can I wish for your love Your happiness But is staying with me part of the plans I want a future with you But I know that may not come true I just want to stay with you Awhile longer Please my dear blue Another year longer Give me time to have hope I've only just retrieved it I'm trying to cope I'm begging you won't change That you'll still want to be with me You'll still love me dear That you won't want to let me go And I'll pray and I'll pray I'll plead and I'll plead To the almighty heavens Looking down at thee Give us fate, Give us hope Give us a chance to grasp the fraying rope Let us keep trying as long as we possibly can Let me continue holding onto that precious hand Awhile longer Let me feel happiness Just awhile longer
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Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020 at 11:27 PM UTC
Awhile Longer
It seems the harder I try the less I prevail ,You know well (Well )that water runs deep , an I’m knee deep in it Only wanted to soak my feet seems I’m in over the limit It’s automatically assumed that you’d know what to do , if life handed you lemons Implication Nothing is ever easy an I tend to complicate things . That’s life
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Aug 21, 2019
Aug 21, 2019 at 9:44 AM UTC
Life
It's been awhile myself seems I only write to look busy at work I have forgotten how to communicate always looking for le mot juste to tell myself it's okay.
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Jun 29, 2019
Jun 29, 2019 at 1:27 AM UTC
It's Been a While
It might have been a week since last What do I know I don't think about when, where or who You think so highly of yourself as I look at you with tease in my eyes                  but oh baby it's just a disguise You are not the one Not for me                                                     But easy In the moment the only thing I see is you pleasuring me When I'm done I leave you like a piece of toy left filled with joy                                                     But easy It's just for a time you got the prime When i find something new   You have been chewed I leave you wanting more Letting you know I'm out to explore                     sorry boo I'm not for you
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Apr 30, 2019
Apr 30, 2019 at 5:53 PM UTC
prime time
It's been awhile since you've crossed my mind Since I felt those memories and our lives entwined Our film playing silently in the back While our lives continue swiftly, steadily on track And it's been awhile since I've heard your voice That obnoxious laugh and those playful jokes Your music that you so passionately create Those songs you wrote, beautifully defined fate And that smile of yours that gleamed like the sun Paired with deep blue eyes like the raging rivers that run Those dark brown locks that curled ever so slightly around And for a moment everything ceases to make a sound It's been awhile since I walked down our path Since I entered those classrooms, since we were those outcasts I haven't listened to our songs or read through our texts I haven't talked about you or gone to such depths As I remember more then anything they said I knew you like non of them ever would Define toxic, manipulative and wrong But even if it's so, you're still my favourite song And I loved you my dear, with a sincerest heart But from the very beginning it was destine to fall apart I miss you, and everything that we were Even if now that period of contentment is only a b l u r We talked for awhile, only moments ago And it was as if for a second, time would slow We talked about your girlfriend and for that I'm truly happy I'm glad you found somebody perfect for you I say As I attempt not to be too sappy No matter the past, present and future I'm glad you were a key part of my life You gave me the world even if it were just a night As in a world that is dark you were my light And for that I'm eternally grateful ***It's been awhile Even so I still love you all the same*** ~
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Nov 25, 2018
Nov 25, 2018 at 12:21 AM UTC
It's been awhile...
It's been awhile since you've crossed my mind Since I felt those memories and our lives entwined Our film playing silently in the back While our lives continue swiftly, steadily on track And it's been awhile since I've heard your voice That obnoxious laugh and those playful jokes Your music that you so passionately create Those songs you wrote, beautifully defined fate And that smile of yours that gleamed like the sun Paired with deep blue eyes like the raging rivers that run Those dark brown locks that curled ever so slightly around And for a moment everything ceases to make a sound It's been awhile since I walked down our path Since I entered those classrooms, since we were those outcasts I haven't listened to our songs or read through our texts I haven't talked about you or gone to such depths As I remember more then anything they said I knew you like non of them ever would Define toxic, manipulative and wrong But even if it's so, you're still my favourite song And I loved you my dear, with a sincerest heart But from the very beginning it was destine to fall apart I miss you, and everything that we were Even if now that period of contentment is only a b l u r We talked for awhile, only moments ago And it was as if for a second, time would slow We talked about your girlfriend and for that I'm truly happy I'm glad you found somebody perfect for you I say As I attempt not to be too sappy No matter the past, present and future I'm glad you were a key part of my life You gave me the world even if it were just a night As in a world that is dark you were my light And for that I'm eternally grateful ***It's been awhile Even so I still love you all the same*** ~
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What is this .... This feeling I cant explain This feeling I get Every time I feel something worth while for anything and it gets taken away Why ? I don't know .. I don't ******* know Its seems I am Destin  to mess everything up Everything worth something And I thought you might be different That you might be the one thing I was capable of feeling something for without ******* it up ..... Maybe I was wrong Maybe you are not different or maybe I am just the same The same guy that ruins every thing one way or another What is this ? This feeling I get every time I **** something up ? Hahahaha Haha If I had to describe it . I would say nothing But a nothing that causes pain in everything that I do Because no matter what I do My mind always runs back to you And then this nothingness returns Cause I ****** up .....
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Dec 24, 2017
Dec 24, 2017 at 12:56 PM UTC
A sad sunday night
Sorry for what I have done to you and what I'm about to do to you can't live my life anymore live in all the this pain anymore just need a break from this so I'm going to leave for awhile I may never come back but just know that your everything to me you are my light your the reason why I have a true smile now know that I care for you so much more than I do myself....well this is a good bye for awhile
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Jun 13, 2017
Jun 13, 2017 at 4:06 PM UTC
Awhile
with a few drinks a couple friends loud music and laughing so hard it hurts to breathe it's easy to feel like everything is right in life I've thought for so long that people who drink their feelings away had it all wrong but it turns out I wasn't the one who was right I like forgetting about life for awhile I like being able to be me with no restrictions or concern for anyone's feelings or even having to worry about anyone else All I need is myself
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 5:34 PM UTC
Forget for awhile
She walked away, and I shouted back, "I'm not asking for forever!" She stops. She turns in the aisle and sadly smiles. "That's why I'm leaving." My own smile drops. And that's the end of that endeavour. Because time never really stops. Forever is all some people want, and they won't settle for just a while. Even if a while is all that I've got.
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Dec 14, 2014
Dec 14, 2014 at 3:25 PM UTC
A While