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''*How wondrous it is to be read by someone who appreciates this gift given, A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion. A friend made, words displayed, a song, a poem, hello, goodbye, or maybe Shalom*" patty m <> look, it's not like I lack for inspiration. 138 butterscotch chips already exist, full poems, titles, couplets, bare naked (ladies) notions, (men, women, children, asordid genders ageless-survivors) all demanding rescue, their cry of SOS, undeniable, but their lamentations defied, asided, when miz patty m writes, and oblivious to all else, attention must be paid! even when it is 2:55am even on a Tuesday! (1) <.> to the meet, to the mess, to the beating heart that refuses to keep, a doctor's orders of de minimus seven hours sleep, when commissioned, when ordered without permission, you drift into the sunroom, where the night outside is holy dark, the silence raucous and overwhelming, and utter inaudibly in his mind, and piety and poet repeats: "Yes Ma'am, Yes Ma'am, sir! <.> *we write for no one in particular for there is no one who is not particular, all! special, sharp edged, distinctive,* and there is no limit, yet, to how many poems can be created in a day, except for the foolish delimiting, irritating science of 24/7/365+1; but mercy and insight is demanded, when miz patty m does not insist, but commands it <.> ''A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion..." ***indeed, in deed, in deep, these the elementals of the one true religion, perhaps the shortest excerpt that ever summarized the humanist's faith and the One Commandment, that summons us & Grace to the table where we compose and create, not by fate tempted, but by a fate commanded, by a faith so grounded & profound, that every human regardless of identity or language each has in their possession, a heaven sent something important to say, which is why,*** ''A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion..." ***is the largest tent ever constructed after the Tower of Babel where languages were created*** (4) a half hour has passed, a period of absolute measured time, that cannot be recreated, recsptured, but like energy, nor can it be destroyed, for this poem, this kiss, this tear, marks the moment, the neuronic iconic synapse (2) of our interactive minds believing and breathing as one, and even the atheist  among us must to no one in particular (well, maybe to the Angel Leonard) must whisper most utterly, hallelujah ''''''''''''' poem dispatched at 3:44 am EST, from the current latitude and longitude for where natty is, approximately 41.05° North latitude and -72.33° West longitude.
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Aug 5, 2025
Aug 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM UTC
''A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion..."
''*How wondrous it is to be read by someone who appreciates this gift given, A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion. A friend made, words displayed, a song, a poem, hello, goodbye, or maybe Shalom*" patty m <> look, it's not like I lack for inspiration. 138 butterscotch chips already exist, full poems, titles, couplets, bare naked (ladies) notions, (men, women, children, asordid genders ageless-survivors) all demanding rescue, their cry of SOS, undeniable, but their lamentations defied, asided, when miz patty m writes, and oblivious to all else, attention must be paid! even when it is 2:55am even on a Tuesday! (1) <.> to the meet, to the mess, to the beating heart that refuses to keep, a doctor's orders of de minimus seven hours sleep, when commissioned, when ordered without permission, you drift into the sunroom, where the night outside is holy dark, the silence raucous and overwhelming, and utter inaudibly in his mind, and piety and poet repeats: "Yes Ma'am, Yes Ma'am, sir! <.> *we write for no one in particular for there is no one who is not particular, all! special, sharp edged, distinctive,* and there is no limit, yet, to how many poems can be created in a day, except for the foolish delimiting, irritating science of 24/7/365+1; but mercy and insight is demanded, when miz patty m does not insist, but commands it <.> ''A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion..." ***indeed, in deed, in deep, these the elementals of the one true religion, perhaps the shortest excerpt that ever summarized the humanist's faith and the One Commandment, that summons us & Grace to the table where we compose and create, not by fate tempted, but by a fate commanded, by a faith so grounded & profound, that every human regardless of identity or language each has in their possession, a heaven sent something important to say, which is why,*** ''A kiss, a tear, a poet's religion..." ***is the largest tent ever constructed after the Tower of Babel where languages were created*** (4) a half hour has passed, a period of absolute measured time, that cannot be recreated, recsptured, but like energy, nor can it be destroyed, for this poem, this kiss, this tear, marks the moment, the neuronic iconic synapse (2) of our interactive minds believing and breathing as one, and even the atheist  among us must to no one in particular (well, maybe to the Angel Leonard) must whisper most utterly, hallelujah ''''''''''''' poem dispatched at 3:44 am EST, from the current latitude and longitude for where natty is, approximately 41.05° North latitude and -72.33° West longitude.
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{those donuts are three days older, that's all} I did not buy them, there was always a Winchells a walk from any where, free no more than 27 hours old, that's right, new donuts daily clean and reheat to fry, takes about three hours, to fry the first batch, minutes but during the warm up, Winchell's in LA metro, threw all the donuts in the store at grease refresh, goes, in the bag, for whoever gets there first, we do, we always do, this is our Winchell's, Dennis Easy Rider, he lived at 1312, we had 1412 N. Crescent Heights Hopper, that's him, what's a generational remembering, the sounds Harley's Made then, Indians had a tone, different, Honda's were scooter legal kid of 14, 55MPH one passenger, no helmets, and skateboards and whisky Pseudovectorial spinning applied to a two pivot pendulum pattern painting, no sweat, in 2006, a Flashscript could doit done it This has Mel Zalewsky "La Papelera de Secretos" on stage, window, screen gut to heart to brain, brain tastes the conversation, sense minds of this demo model, has this retina reverted to wemind and become a model reader thunk through to live another new day in digital paradice as far as any mind, any form information acting free agents, so true. We all know we each see what we each see, so true held… just so, for as long as we have period sets NPC. Once deeper, fly on the wall, not buzzing, not bothering any body's piece of mind, weform, many lenses on one flake glint true choice worth value heavy mindwise of what weform from, as lakes freeze at your touch Mel Zalewsky "La Papelera de Secretos" Guardaste mis secretos:   los poemas que arranqué del pecho   y lancé hacia tu oscuridad.   Esos versos torpes,   hojas arrugadas por el llanto,   pedazos de alma   que terminaron en tu vientre de metal.   Nadie supo que fuiste   el horno donde quemé   cartas de "siempre" y sobres de "nunca más".   Tus esquinas aún huelen   a tinta derretida.   Sepultaste las cenizas   sin preguntar nombres.   Ahora esos papeles   —los que sobrevivieron al fuego—   alumbran otras noches ajenas.   ¿Quién notaría que eres   solo una papelera?   Que en tu silencio   hay más verdades   que en todos los poemas que aún no he publicado.   Mel Zalewsky. From <https://hellopoetry.com/> "The Trash Can of Secrets" You kept my secrets: the poems I tore from my chest and threw into your darkness. Those clumsy verses, sheets crumpled by tears, pieces of soul that ended up in your metal belly. No one knew you were the oven where I burned letters of "always" and envelopes of "never again." Your corners still smell of melted ink. You buried the ashes without asking names. Now those papers — those that survived the fire — light up other, distant nights. Who would notice that you are just a trash can? That in your silence there are more truths than in all the poems I have yet to publish.
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Jun 2, 2025
Jun 2, 2025 at 9:24 PM UTC
I dared deem it worth doing
{those donuts are three days older, that's all} I did not buy them, there was always a Winchells a walk from any where, free no more than 27 hours old, that's right, new donuts daily clean and reheat to fry, takes about three hours, to fry the first batch, minutes but during the warm up, Winchell's in LA metro, threw all the donuts in the store at grease refresh, goes, in the bag, for whoever gets there first, we do, we always do, this is our Winchell's, Dennis Easy Rider, he lived at 1312, we had 1412 N. Crescent Heights Hopper, that's him, what's a generational remembering, the sounds Harley's Made then, Indians had a tone, different, Honda's were scooter legal kid of 14, 55MPH one passenger, no helmets, and skateboards and whisky Pseudovectorial spinning applied to a two pivot pendulum pattern painting, no sweat, in 2006, a Flashscript could doit done it This has Mel Zalewsky "La Papelera de Secretos" on stage, window, screen gut to heart to brain, brain tastes the conversation, sense minds of this demo model, has this retina reverted to wemind and become a model reader thunk through to live another new day in digital paradice as far as any mind, any form information acting free agents, so true. We all know we each see what we each see, so true held… just so, for as long as we have period sets NPC. Once deeper, fly on the wall, not buzzing, not bothering any body's piece of mind, weform, many lenses on one flake glint true choice worth value heavy mindwise of what weform from, as lakes freeze at your touch Mel Zalewsky "La Papelera de Secretos" Guardaste mis secretos:   los poemas que arranqué del pecho   y lancé hacia tu oscuridad.   Esos versos torpes,   hojas arrugadas por el llanto,   pedazos de alma   que terminaron en tu vientre de metal.   Nadie supo que fuiste   el horno donde quemé   cartas de "siempre" y sobres de "nunca más".   Tus esquinas aún huelen   a tinta derretida.   Sepultaste las cenizas   sin preguntar nombres.   Ahora esos papeles   —los que sobrevivieron al fuego—   alumbran otras noches ajenas.   ¿Quién notaría que eres   solo una papelera?   Que en tu silencio   hay más verdades   que en todos los poemas que aún no he publicado.   Mel Zalewsky. From <https://hellopoetry.com/> "The Trash Can of Secrets" You kept my secrets: the poems I tore from my chest and threw into your darkness. Those clumsy verses, sheets crumpled by tears, pieces of soul that ended up in your metal belly. No one knew you were the oven where I burned letters of "always" and envelopes of "never again." Your corners still smell of melted ink. You buried the ashes without asking names. Now those papers — those that survived the fire — light up other, distant nights. Who would notice that you are just a trash can? That in your silence there are more truths than in all the poems I have yet to publish.
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It's unbearable to hear the blind speak of light Or the dead teaching the dead how to live And liars affirming liars with yet more lies But alas inescapable is this babelic cacophony I run, far into the wilderness, but woe upon me clings Thus I close my eyes, shut my ears, seal my tongue Wrap myself in the dark depths of desolation And like the dead, slip into the silence of the void
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Feb 13, 2025
Feb 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM UTC
Desolation of the Educated
A sigh is a barebacked rider, soundless along a sandy coast, A candle tipped with starlight, wheeling in a cosmos of smoke, A firefly floating on the ruins of the wind like a winged gyroscope, A skull in the stomach whose teeth are my own and breathes With Babel’s thousand tongues telling fragrant untruths.
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Feb 6, 2022
Feb 6, 2022 at 8:44 PM UTC
Babel Sighs in Ruin
God, we love to vote Because it matters, truly So let the Man slit your throats To hold the ballots of duty Making promises they'll never keep Letting our hope fall out so cruelly But then they speak the right words And we're seduced back to its beauty Hope, change The serpent is a slogan Enticing us to taste A fruit that's just a poison Constricting all around us Silencing all commotion We don't question anything All just contained within devotion And when it's time to speak We are proficiently dogmatic Erupting in a fervor To endorse the fear and panic Raising religion in our minds Until our hearts become mechanic Programmed to hear only the system We've come receptacles of static Critical thought has been abandoned Our introspection is a phantom We just follow without question Each submissive in tandem Each corrupted in our minds Indoctrinated to ransom That we pontificate belief In an eternal anthem Every generation Becomes another aggressor Serving violence to the world In an unlimited measure Every belief passed down To form a tyrant of successors Who cannot think a thought themselves And turn hostile with pressure All culturally pompous As dependent as infants A congregation held together Through processes so stringent Throwing tantrums in an instant At the first sight of a difference Just to mask the very fact That their whole being's deficient We fill up the stadiums And stare towards the podium The passion in our minds Conjure the soul of Napoleon For the State is our faith It form's a world that's dystopian We see the absence of slavery As just pure pandemonium That's why we vote Because we're trained that it matters That without coercion and violence Our whole world would just shatter So we increase regulation Profess a dictum of manners All hailing this corruption And our enslavement to masters © GaratheDen © HeartOfBabel
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Sep 22, 2021
Sep 22, 2021 at 2:29 AM UTC
[ Cultural Ballot ]
God, we love to vote Because it matters, truly So let the Man slit your throats To hold the ballots of duty Making promises they'll never keep Letting our hope fall out so cruelly But then they speak the right words And we're seduced back to its beauty Hope, change The serpent is a slogan Enticing us to taste A fruit that's just a poison Constricting all around us Silencing all commotion We don't question anything All just contained within devotion And when it's time to speak We are proficiently dogmatic Erupting in a fervor To endorse the fear and panic Raising religion in our minds Until our hearts become mechanic Programmed to hear only the system We've come receptacles of static Critical thought has been abandoned Our introspection is a phantom We just follow without question Each submissive in tandem Each corrupted in our minds Indoctrinated to ransom That we pontificate belief In an eternal anthem Every generation Becomes another aggressor Serving violence to the world In an unlimited measure Every belief passed down To form a tyrant of successors Who cannot think a thought themselves And turn hostile with pressure All culturally pompous As dependent as infants A congregation held together Through processes so stringent Throwing tantrums in an instant At the first sight of a difference Just to mask the very fact That their whole being's deficient We fill up the stadiums And stare towards the podium The passion in our minds Conjure the soul of Napoleon For the State is our faith It form's a world that's dystopian We see the absence of slavery As just pure pandemonium That's why we vote Because we're trained that it matters That without coercion and violence Our whole world would just shatter So we increase regulation Profess a dictum of manners All hailing this corruption And our enslavement to masters © GaratheDen © HeartOfBabel
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Trade winds blow backwards My mind reels Insight in insight Thirdhand apocrypha Melting all the time Icebergs within icebergs
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Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021 at 11:37 PM UTC
Icebergs
Our universe is like a bolt of lightning Suspended between A negative and positive force The past that connects the future The conductor is intelligence Conscious energy Ever flowing Unfortunately faster than we can think So it appears our world is on the brinks Yet beyond all worry and fear Our energy is pure
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Jan 9, 2021
Jan 9, 2021 at 8:29 AM UTC
Patterns
one word just one spark one soul just one race remember we built a tower up to heaven reaching up and out to Him curious to what’s beyond united in our purpose then one tongue one mind one hand we climbed the tower and was it wrong to search the sky? to know the angels, brush their wings? was it wrong to meditate? to equate ourselves to kings? and when He deemed we rose too high He brought the tower to the ground colored flesh and broke our tongues with a hard hand held us down remember the tower and was it wrong to search the sky with all those stars we looked upon? to see the truths eluding us? to know what heaven lies beyond?
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Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020 at 7:55 PM UTC
Babel
Banished to wander the Earth But rebelled to build a City Babel was temporary, now COVID19 For worship of numbers makes Money, and Man, god.
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Apr 15, 2020
Apr 15, 2020 at 12:24 AM UTC
Cities
we climb higher and higher in our ivory towers land is at a premium a square foot a king's ransom so we dwell among the clouds eye to eye with the birds though never know their freedom we are with the stars though we burn out their celestial light we can whisper in God's ear though above the clatter he may never hear us
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Feb 27, 2020
Feb 27, 2020 at 6:17 PM UTC
Babel City
In the proud of the night (well past the community allowance of social mirth) curfew has been ignored on mass The town is flooded with its near full population on the streets A tension Intelligence is lost in the mob formation all tender that something is frowning that a ‘big thing’ is about to happen How do you speak out in this field ? Town Cryer An old fashioned post but still held Professional, he strikes out a pound against the atmosphere Might I hold your attention Good People Gods People may I bend your ear ? Upon my authority Mark my words And As Goodly subjects of our fare town I ask that you return to your abodes Account for your household Barrier your threshold Tend a warm hearth And wait out this night Praying as family As unit bond And union under Gods kind eye The Cryer has given direction Repeating to all the gatherings he comes upon By his office he has told them to swear off The public move Infected by the nights vibration Addled and inflamed Disperse Crowds coward together And relax apart Walking foal, new to footfall Unsecured Sparks in the dark Unguided and untested Weapons into the criminal night New spawned characters Fused Laughing giddiots, scolders, prancers Diners, not surgeons Fledded on venoms Sense riders As their individual monsters grow they distance one another They pepper Repeating the town Strays of mess opportunity Few go straight home A remattered night is made place An unpracticed costume horror No dress rehearsal here ! A remattered night is made
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Aug 24, 2019
Aug 24, 2019 at 5:13 PM UTC
Town Crier [BabelTolls]
In the proud of the night (well past the community allowance of social mirth) curfew has been ignored on mass The town is flooded with its near full population on the streets A tension Intelligence is lost in the mob formation all tender that something is frowning that a ‘big thing’ is about to happen How do you speak out in this field ? Town Cryer An old fashioned post but still held Professional, he strikes out a pound against the atmosphere Might I hold your attention Good People Gods People may I bend your ear ? Upon my authority Mark my words And As Goodly subjects of our fare town I ask that you return to your abodes Account for your household Barrier your threshold Tend a warm hearth And wait out this night Praying as family As unit bond And union under Gods kind eye The Cryer has given direction Repeating to all the gatherings he comes upon By his office he has told them to swear off The public move Infected by the nights vibration Addled and inflamed Disperse Crowds coward together And relax apart Walking foal, new to footfall Unsecured Sparks in the dark Unguided and untested Weapons into the criminal night New spawned characters Fused Laughing giddiots, scolders, prancers Diners, not surgeons Fledded on venoms Sense riders As their individual monsters grow they distance one another They pepper Repeating the town Strays of mess opportunity Few go straight home A remattered night is made place An unpracticed costume horror No dress rehearsal here ! A remattered night is made
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and then the churches not a climbing peel not the telling of bells but an absense felt a spirit skin hammering out the pressure the clung tongues of worry Babel Tolls Fellowing then following and opposing this A deprevision blow to the senses a ballooning calm A nature of electricity makes itself stage, tone and is source of beacon A strobe of invitation past the the mid mark of night
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Jul 17, 2019
Jul 17, 2019 at 11:46 PM UTC
The Churches [BabelTolls]
Tattle calls Curses amongst the Merchants They hack of new seasons brided with ill weather These social breaks that cement their business relations ; A ****** of Tongues A Jinn A wit that flees port Fleas to the ears that scout town.
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Apr 22, 2019
Apr 22, 2019 at 8:49 PM UTC
The Merchants [BabelTolls]
There's fierce work Amoungst the Butchers Tooling upon a diseased cattle cull A mutter of meats and turned pieces To be discussed by the Monies in charge stained wet and heated Thick knit Behind clothed doors.
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Apr 22, 2019
Apr 22, 2019 at 8:47 PM UTC
The Meat Monies [BabelTolls]
It sounds like prose, perfect sentence, punctuation and all. But broken up here and there, an attempt to imitate poetry. To say words that are not words: Driven - like a wind blown plastic bag: Uncertain, circling, bobbing around - But driven it is, if not tapped, it’ll reached the seas and be lost: To bring into existence a thing never heard. A fragment, a hint, an ineffable thing, an echo of the Word, long lost since Babel; Yet living, its life’s magic very much potent, resonant, manifold and transcendental. Encouraged by similar sounds and whispers, of dead and living poets, of the same spirit but differently gifted. That I owe it to all of them to do my part, to craft this unique bit of mine. And the ethereal Word, more wholesome by the Day, that it may soon resound, loud and unambiguously, that even the dead will rise.
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Apr 13, 2019
Apr 13, 2019 at 5:38 AM UTC
Poetic
word to us speak words cannot say ancient fragments scattered word in words embedded craft by spirit and intuition moved faint and fleeting echoes conjured strange voices awakened soul word unspeakable spoken
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Apr 6, 2019
Apr 6, 2019 at 9:14 AM UTC
word in words
Don't scream "I love you" from the mountaintops, competing with the babel and clamor of the world. Whisper it to me in the still silence of the night, making me strain to hear it, blocking out the din of the universe to focus on the melody of your voice. Let me feel it infuse the skin of my neck, carried by the sweetness of your breath.
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Feb 5, 2018
Feb 5, 2018 at 12:03 PM UTC
Aria
Taste the black and white keys Caked with the blood of passion Sweep the streets of keyless doors Find the lock that fits under the trees Ration the waves of this nation And the lonely desert breeze I have seen the golden sheen In the alchemy of ages gone I have worn the berserker's skin And sung the piper's song I have heard the sound of earth And I have learned the beating of the land I have learned that God can not be captured By any mortal man The tower will always fall But flight will forever be ambition The human soul is impregnable The revolution never asks permission To place that first brick down Take more than it's been given To see God within the clouds And pull him down to be forgiven
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Apr 14, 2016
Apr 14, 2016 at 7:15 PM UTC
Skyscraper
i sometimes find myself thinking about time and its ability to shrink me to a singularity in space and remind me of my unimportance my insignificance in the face of a marching army intent on mowing me down and splashing their leather boots in the puddles of my blood that runs through the fields and waters the crops takes a part of me to nourish from east coast to west coast to the heartland and beyond the sea sometimes i think about how time takes history into its sanguinely stained mouth silver spoon held gingerly in a vice grip in the hand of a grandfather that knows all my secrets and my shame he swallows them masticated to a grey mass whose form has been lost an amorphous ball of unspeakable words and dreams that had until recently lived in the pit of my stomach burrowing into my bowels trying desperately to escape to break free from the misty world of 'if's and 'maybes' of 'hope' of reckless abandon if the words escaped somehow the infinite gravity of time's death grip could the blind masses comprehend them? gathered around the burning wreckage of that shooting star that fell from the wide open obsidian sky they speak but they do not understand they hear but they do not listen and my dream my desperate words that condensed until they both imploded into a vitreous glass of transparent delusion and exploded to burn and consume the world that they have neglected as they gather around my message and their own Tower of Babel where they've lost their words.
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May 19, 2015
May 19, 2015 at 12:42 PM UTC
Babel
i sometimes find myself thinking about time and its ability to shrink me to a singularity in space and remind me of my unimportance my insignificance in the face of a marching army intent on mowing me down and splashing their leather boots in the puddles of my blood that runs through the fields and waters the crops takes a part of me to nourish from east coast to west coast to the heartland and beyond the sea sometimes i think about how time takes history into its sanguinely stained mouth silver spoon held gingerly in a vice grip in the hand of a grandfather that knows all my secrets and my shame he swallows them masticated to a grey mass whose form has been lost an amorphous ball of unspeakable words and dreams that had until recently lived in the pit of my stomach burrowing into my bowels trying desperately to escape to break free from the misty world of 'if's and 'maybes' of 'hope' of reckless abandon if the words escaped somehow the infinite gravity of time's death grip could the blind masses comprehend them? gathered around the burning wreckage of that shooting star that fell from the wide open obsidian sky they speak but they do not understand they hear but they do not listen and my dream my desperate words that condensed until they both imploded into a vitreous glass of transparent delusion and exploded to burn and consume the world that they have neglected as they gather around my message and their own Tower of Babel where they've lost their words.
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It seems as though we all live in separate worlds.. In that case I'm hitchhiking through the galaxy, won't you come with me? Hitchhike through this galaxy with me! We'll see new and old worlds, hear some odd dialects, remember to bring your guide and babel fish and if we are lost we musn't panic! We'd all love to be hitchhiking through the galaxy, so come on! Hitchhike through the galaxy with me!!
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 2:38 AM UTC
Hitchhike through the galaxy with me