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Contentment and contention, met me where I was musing using confidence in certain adages, regarding peace in plentitude, measured for worth, homeostasis, wise home, home, at last, the idea, achieved. Bleibe doch, this is Earth, I can make it here. And, having made it, I have it made, waiting is grokking a rock, feeling earthy, ****** otherwise content as content can seem, solidstate amenable. Two minds met with opposing force, for right, in a chirally complex differential power train, left real historic human revolution ringing shame and blame, who uses the gold, who uses the lead? Settle with me for a measure, what I have I spend, it's only time, I hear, and I am wasting it being me, happy enough to share haps on occasion, we meet, my contentment entity and my uncontented wish pit, where all our selfish prayers rest, at best, all folded up, and safe as wool in cedar, to be put to use in Heaven, boy, won't we have ourselves some fun, you betcha. Son of mankind, inclined to bet one does have some worth to God, some worldly worth to life itself, to truth, per se, free from fear of death, born again, given a measure of faith, as the only evidence bearing witness, good trees fructify while perfectly content, good enough as the pecans all fall on the same day, as the katydids crawl out the same night, as the clouds that warn of hurricanes appear we can rest assured, we see with ***** Crosby, the best mind state, blind, faith, the substance of things hoped for, such as days with nothing needing doing, days aside realizing peace is possibly easiest best contest in terms of contention with discontents who have a legitimate cry before the judge of the world, we who measure degrees of good or bad, by how well we work as we use a measure granted generally for nothing, we balance this and that with the beam in our own eye, indeed, to accept great gain, as that which is plenty enough to share, half is better than none, as is some peace, on a Saturday in November, anywhere, better than none.
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Nov 8, 2025
Nov 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM UTC
Great Gain, good enough, ratio
Contentment and contention, met me where I was musing using confidence in certain adages, regarding peace in plentitude, measured for worth, homeostasis, wise home, home, at last, the idea, achieved. Bleibe doch, this is Earth, I can make it here. And, having made it, I have it made, waiting is grokking a rock, feeling earthy, ****** otherwise content as content can seem, solidstate amenable. Two minds met with opposing force, for right, in a chirally complex differential power train, left real historic human revolution ringing shame and blame, who uses the gold, who uses the lead? Settle with me for a measure, what I have I spend, it's only time, I hear, and I am wasting it being me, happy enough to share haps on occasion, we meet, my contentment entity and my uncontented wish pit, where all our selfish prayers rest, at best, all folded up, and safe as wool in cedar, to be put to use in Heaven, boy, won't we have ourselves some fun, you betcha. Son of mankind, inclined to bet one does have some worth to God, some worldly worth to life itself, to truth, per se, free from fear of death, born again, given a measure of faith, as the only evidence bearing witness, good trees fructify while perfectly content, good enough as the pecans all fall on the same day, as the katydids crawl out the same night, as the clouds that warn of hurricanes appear we can rest assured, we see with ***** Crosby, the best mind state, blind, faith, the substance of things hoped for, such as days with nothing needing doing, days aside realizing peace is possibly easiest best contest in terms of contention with discontents who have a legitimate cry before the judge of the world, we who measure degrees of good or bad, by how well we work as we use a measure granted generally for nothing, we balance this and that with the beam in our own eye, indeed, to accept great gain, as that which is plenty enough to share, half is better than none, as is some peace, on a Saturday in November, anywhere, better than none.
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Skiffle they called 'em Wikipedia says so Woe Socrates is my memory less active than yourn of yore? I have had mine augmented you know, to give account for no-account idle words and some Supposed to be yourn qualify as idle if you don't mind my mentioning how little you knew. Except I don't believe you ever did breathe one written word I think that Plato kid he was fearin' he would be kilt Sure as home or whatever was sure as hell in them days, He cyphered out a way to say more than one thing at a time, and said he heard you say that, just the way he said it, same words, same exasperations and sighs and spit on certain expletives held back. Exactly, I do apologize, but you all knew nothing. Did you even know that old lady with the Aleph was Noah's wife. She tells you know thyself and you say you can't. What kind of man were you? Or what kind of man did Plato say you were. That's all we know, or can with 2018 magi-tech palimpsest restoration apps. So Plato, the broad-shouldered ox, had you **** your ownself for saying what he said. But only on paper later. I don't think anybody got the fact that orators Orated what people said they said is all we have. But rumor has it they could all remember anything they wished. Political careers do not require such memory training any more so such is seldom taught. Thank God for cameras on cellphones, right Catch that sucker in the act on the Sabbath day When only lines drawn in sand can be drawn in rest, blame the broad, she did the work. A congress man accounts on twitter all their idle words in direct confrontation with those of the freshman class president at Mohave County Union High School sixty years or so ago. Who is refusing to tweet for proverbial reasons that trump the lies before. Like deep spiritual prayers are said to be answered before they are prayed. I answer all the worlds stupid questions, Writing with the clouds all the water remembers from its journies, Oh I am a rich man. Have you seen my library. Have you read my mind. Did I make you pay? No way. Freely I have received I must freely give and acknowledge I am, in deed, warmed and filled. Measure me by me please. Was I true to my DNA and circumstances and zeitgeists and all the outside influencers introducing errors with spare change. I worked for a living. I was very well paid. I got life and made of it A mess Or a mess of things Or a mess -age, but no complaints, I took the deal set before me for watching. I watched, I hid and watched as I was told, and now I tell you Life and death set before me more than once, no lie, I always took life, ever' time for what it's worth, for ever changes all the time. I ain't never gone be bored. Hell, no. Pony up, rhymes are a dime a dozen, epics cost you a whole life of blood and tears, in dog years that translates to about $13,392,578.17. Who ever is making use of my money may send it to me with no usury fees, cause I believe using it is better than burying it and You did not lose my money and your soul? Did you? Would you know? I mean, if you are that broke. Would you know if you lost everything I invest my life in, I did the investing, not you. What did you do? Right, you prayed. Effectually, show me the money wanderer, word wrangler, what is what you made with your mortal minute worth to any… Flowing questions, churning lies, when the water spreads out in a shallow place where you can see rocks about skull-size making ripples, not white-water, slow-wide-shallow desert-river settled out all the mud and only clear, clear water comes here, even 100 years after the General Crook, Havasu-Pai still drink blue water, clear blue water as our mothers did. A fording place, the fording place, that was the ford ing place the bible said was the border of the promised land where I have a share When living there. A river named "a good place to crossover". Just above the Topock swamp, I may have read that on the rocks, once long a gone Polysemy, whole new word for me to call what I was doing when I squared my double entendres and called them country songs. I learned that word today. Words mean what men make them say. Many meanings are not wrong. Private meanings, secret meanings, those are not right in public prayers or answers. If all the promises of God in Christ are Yes and Amen, we must look under that promise we stand on to stand under the cleansing flood. Shelter from the storm she offered, I said no thanks and crawled on in the mud. That or this all happened years ago before I remember being here, for sure, but now that I stop, look and listen as I was trained to do, The messenger who came to me was not wicked, he was broke. He sold his soul, some say, for rock and roll, but I never knew the true meaning of the words. It could a been a code that everybody knew but me, but I never let 'em know. I lied. Right up to the offer at the cross-roads, at the junction, in the desert… I remember now, there was a long 6-percenter, Jake brake howling, ****** fool with one them old highway man lanterns, tar-pots they called 'em, he musta been deaf and blind or a deer with just enough sense to stare, there Was that the wreck at Vidal Junction down on highway 62? (1969, there was hotel… I could not stop… I rolled on by and even now I imagine that is one of those things that never really Happened, y'know, what I mean? Do you know what I mean/ What lies do you believe. It's out there some where. My old song. I sang it for supper several times, now I just sing it for rent. Mortal minutes tick away, I need some place to grow that wont drown my roots and make my guard leaves yellow and lose pressure inside and bend to the point of Rotting in the mud. I had a couple crops failed that way, back in the day. That first crop was all bullheads and tumbleweeds mixed with wild oats and grade school lies. I was glad that one rotted, not then, but later, when I saw Some people die by their own sown seeds fructifing with a vengeance I did not know, some of their wild oats brought forth 20,40, 100 fold by the time they died, just a mortal minute ago. In 2023, alone by choice. Finding these times alone in the past, I have the future's promise, art intuition, take the test, accept the risk, wake up in context… appearing in your own confusion using solar energy to imagine becoming worth enough to be eligible for whole duty done, patience perfected, this is six years later, I am technically deeper in debt, but that is the discourse agreed to at the guessing session. When I guessed it would be good if you could think so.
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Nov 1, 2025
Nov 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM UTC
Rent Party Eight Years Ago
Skiffle they called 'em Wikipedia says so Woe Socrates is my memory less active than yourn of yore? I have had mine augmented you know, to give account for no-account idle words and some Supposed to be yourn qualify as idle if you don't mind my mentioning how little you knew. Except I don't believe you ever did breathe one written word I think that Plato kid he was fearin' he would be kilt Sure as home or whatever was sure as hell in them days, He cyphered out a way to say more than one thing at a time, and said he heard you say that, just the way he said it, same words, same exasperations and sighs and spit on certain expletives held back. Exactly, I do apologize, but you all knew nothing. Did you even know that old lady with the Aleph was Noah's wife. She tells you know thyself and you say you can't. What kind of man were you? Or what kind of man did Plato say you were. That's all we know, or can with 2018 magi-tech palimpsest restoration apps. So Plato, the broad-shouldered ox, had you **** your ownself for saying what he said. But only on paper later. I don't think anybody got the fact that orators Orated what people said they said is all we have. But rumor has it they could all remember anything they wished. Political careers do not require such memory training any more so such is seldom taught. Thank God for cameras on cellphones, right Catch that sucker in the act on the Sabbath day When only lines drawn in sand can be drawn in rest, blame the broad, she did the work. A congress man accounts on twitter all their idle words in direct confrontation with those of the freshman class president at Mohave County Union High School sixty years or so ago. Who is refusing to tweet for proverbial reasons that trump the lies before. Like deep spiritual prayers are said to be answered before they are prayed. I answer all the worlds stupid questions, Writing with the clouds all the water remembers from its journies, Oh I am a rich man. Have you seen my library. Have you read my mind. Did I make you pay? No way. Freely I have received I must freely give and acknowledge I am, in deed, warmed and filled. Measure me by me please. Was I true to my DNA and circumstances and zeitgeists and all the outside influencers introducing errors with spare change. I worked for a living. I was very well paid. I got life and made of it A mess Or a mess of things Or a mess -age, but no complaints, I took the deal set before me for watching. I watched, I hid and watched as I was told, and now I tell you Life and death set before me more than once, no lie, I always took life, ever' time for what it's worth, for ever changes all the time. I ain't never gone be bored. Hell, no. Pony up, rhymes are a dime a dozen, epics cost you a whole life of blood and tears, in dog years that translates to about $13,392,578.17. Who ever is making use of my money may send it to me with no usury fees, cause I believe using it is better than burying it and You did not lose my money and your soul? Did you? Would you know? I mean, if you are that broke. Would you know if you lost everything I invest my life in, I did the investing, not you. What did you do? Right, you prayed. Effectually, show me the money wanderer, word wrangler, what is what you made with your mortal minute worth to any… Flowing questions, churning lies, when the water spreads out in a shallow place where you can see rocks about skull-size making ripples, not white-water, slow-wide-shallow desert-river settled out all the mud and only clear, clear water comes here, even 100 years after the General Crook, Havasu-Pai still drink blue water, clear blue water as our mothers did. A fording place, the fording place, that was the ford ing place the bible said was the border of the promised land where I have a share When living there. A river named "a good place to crossover". Just above the Topock swamp, I may have read that on the rocks, once long a gone Polysemy, whole new word for me to call what I was doing when I squared my double entendres and called them country songs. I learned that word today. Words mean what men make them say. Many meanings are not wrong. Private meanings, secret meanings, those are not right in public prayers or answers. If all the promises of God in Christ are Yes and Amen, we must look under that promise we stand on to stand under the cleansing flood. Shelter from the storm she offered, I said no thanks and crawled on in the mud. That or this all happened years ago before I remember being here, for sure, but now that I stop, look and listen as I was trained to do, The messenger who came to me was not wicked, he was broke. He sold his soul, some say, for rock and roll, but I never knew the true meaning of the words. It could a been a code that everybody knew but me, but I never let 'em know. I lied. Right up to the offer at the cross-roads, at the junction, in the desert… I remember now, there was a long 6-percenter, Jake brake howling, ****** fool with one them old highway man lanterns, tar-pots they called 'em, he musta been deaf and blind or a deer with just enough sense to stare, there Was that the wreck at Vidal Junction down on highway 62? (1969, there was hotel… I could not stop… I rolled on by and even now I imagine that is one of those things that never really Happened, y'know, what I mean? Do you know what I mean/ What lies do you believe. It's out there some where. My old song. I sang it for supper several times, now I just sing it for rent. Mortal minutes tick away, I need some place to grow that wont drown my roots and make my guard leaves yellow and lose pressure inside and bend to the point of Rotting in the mud. I had a couple crops failed that way, back in the day. That first crop was all bullheads and tumbleweeds mixed with wild oats and grade school lies. I was glad that one rotted, not then, but later, when I saw Some people die by their own sown seeds fructifing with a vengeance I did not know, some of their wild oats brought forth 20,40, 100 fold by the time they died, just a mortal minute ago. In 2023, alone by choice. Finding these times alone in the past, I have the future's promise, art intuition, take the test, accept the risk, wake up in context… appearing in your own confusion using solar energy to imagine becoming worth enough to be eligible for whole duty done, patience perfected, this is six years later, I am technically deeper in debt, but that is the discourse agreed to at the guessing session. When I guessed it would be good if you could think so.
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we were testing every limit we could get our hands on.... it was like we could not survive without chaos. it was always us dancing in burning building, threatening the lightning, coasting that gray line between life and death. you'd push and I'd pull.... we fought like cats and dogs. we blamed the world for it's shallow trick's it played on us.... but we were already way off the deep end, crashing through the surface of everything we wanted to be.
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Mar 31, 2025
Mar 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM UTC
Testing
I built it with wisdom So that it may survive criticism I built it with caution So that it may retain perfection My love saturated in every action Every pain , impending completion, erased Due to this fatal attraction Every piece Harmoniously placed And finally I rest Seeing your immaculate function Shall I run a test? To temper your reactions
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Mar 27, 2024
Mar 27, 2024 at 5:27 AM UTC
What I built
windowless day, particles of strange salt on his brow, generator man on the coil, double-sided, a love for radioactive honey: a storm in a teacup... but for some reason could not reciprocate due to the metallic taste in his mouth, and so he seemed driven to build his electrical dream, and took comfort from his pigeons, the “lightning machine,” the hair on his head bristled as he discovered his purpose in rings of glory that died as flags of dust...
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Dec 13, 2023
Dec 13, 2023 at 9:15 AM UTC
Storm in a Teacup
Entertained. Contained. Maintained. Retaining access to once knowns, sit still listening, not thinking anything - calling living winning, then quitting. Get up and ask the truth to forgive me as I have forgiven, and correct me where my functioning is hindering. Stretching the cord to tie the load… Become what truth embodied is, cushion the fall from the stacked featherbeds for religious businesses- thumpwhump, takes y'breathaway Conscienceless conscious necience, all automated - due souly to luck in the making of DNA, you see, discovery is the easy part, much more inter- esting testing resting mind mingle, estimating instants time in transit… imagining the code used to build the ladder, up one side, down the other. Handling, managing manacled hopes, most substantial, dashed to smithereens, whither in the rearview I see you not looking, not noticing the era we lived through, seeing sublime simplicity unfold before us as we examine essential, necience, non knowing unrecognizable, feeling path, finding fortunate occasional fruit sweet, as a path crossing fruiting bough slaps sweetness perception from reward schedules, stinging sensation, signal sending saying, it's okeh, sudden sinking subtle ******* muddy awareness, sniff, just agnosis dripping, thinking life's a trip, travel light.
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Oct 16, 2023
Oct 16, 2023 at 1:26 PM UTC
Testing the tethers
Ai, as it is, in my nature, my bend in the river, rounding an edge, drop off… question I have ever had, is how's they do it? Jeffers and Emerson, rich men, to begin with, eh, what a difference a childhood makes, or a pension, I suppose, as good as rich, growing old and happy, satisfied, with what the rich man had, had he had this satisfactory mind, in my time.
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Nov 2, 2022
Nov 2, 2022 at 10:33 PM UTC
Right, I wondered
now and then i like to turn off the lights let the moon and instinct guide me swallowed by the dark there is no path    to choose only chance; blind luck balancing upon    the finest of lines eyes will adapt to the pitiful offering of the clouded crescent but there is neither enough silvery light nor confidence to be sure of safety for long in the enveloping darkness anxiety rises fear overpowers and faith in the self becomes questionable; headlights are flicked on again in panicked haste as the road and its obstacles become clear once more i am left wondering if i truly believed i could navigate without the help being offered or if i simply wanted to force myself into failure
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Apr 18, 2022
Apr 18, 2022 at 5:08 PM UTC
easter moon
9 seats 9 brains 9 kids All kids Expected to know To understand Expected to focus On a screen with no meaning No root in reality A brain being molded On another’s dime // EW
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Nov 9, 2020
Nov 9, 2020 at 2:15 PM UTC
Data
St. George, Utah, 1953 Look out your window What do you see? ***** Harry And winds that mean no harm Nice big mushroom cloud Gonna dust your farm ee-I-ee-I-o
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Aug 27, 2020
Aug 27, 2020 at 9:51 PM UTC
Mormon Judy and Cow People
dante testing god
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Jul 5, 2020
Jul 5, 2020 at 4:27 PM UTC
dantestingod - a minimal haiku or ku
You left, I turned out right.
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Jun 21, 2020
Jun 21, 2020 at 9:20 PM UTC
Right (one liner)
A little splinter today a tiny shiv to ***** at our resolve to flatten the curve buckle in and fatten up in your locality so beautiful days can be unlocked again
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Apr 11, 2020
Apr 11, 2020 at 5:38 AM UTC
Testing
My neck aches from testing And staying up all night To brand numbers on my skin Calloused from pens held tight
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Feb 11, 2019
Feb 11, 2019 at 3:53 PM UTC
#2 Pencil
I can't wait for winter break, Too much work and my brain aches, Could just stop that's all it takes, But I'm doing this for their sake, Learn things for tests no mistakes, Relate fingers to great lakes, Superior till' I break, To Michigan that's the stakes, Get her on to take the cake, Ontario has the steak, More eerie than poison snakes, To remember words and shapes, That's what's done rewind the tapes.
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Nov 1, 2018
Nov 1, 2018 at 8:02 PM UTC
Winter Break
#*Lord Jesus, Plower of my heart, though the darkness descends around me and heavy moods fall over me, though the warm feelings of intimacy begin to fade and encroaching melancholy threatens to set in like a cold reversal of the winds, still I will rejoice in Your presence with me, for You are causing me to press beyond— beyond the delightful sense of You and into the delightful assurance of You. If I know nothing else, I know that You are here, You are faithful and You love me. So I will keep clinging to that when everything else seems to slip like dust through my fingers and all hope of good things in this life grows dim. I will cling to the promise that You are clinging to me, that You’ve got me no matter what, that You are never leaving or letting go. For You are the unchanging I AM in my ever-changing circumstances, through my ever-shifting emotions, over my ever-shaking life and around my ever-feeble heart. Here is my hand, Lord Jesus. I put it safely in Yours and trust You to lead me through this dark night. Work Your holy, harrowing fingers deep into the soil of my heart until every idol is uprooted, every stone removed and every broken place restored. Thank You, Jesus. I love You.*#
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Aug 1, 2017
Aug 1, 2017 at 5:16 PM UTC
~ The Assurance ~
#***In Solidarity Limited , Not by Limitations Confined , Not by Conformity***#
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 1:49 PM UTC
Oneness
this is an endless hellscape housed by demons mocking my torture blood rains from my fingertips clotting in the gaping mouths of the spectators' bellow my bones snap and mend at crooked angles set by my captor injecting formaldehyde to freeze my body poisoned by exposure
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May 10, 2018
May 10, 2018 at 1:09 AM UTC
test day
School was a pleasing dream a world of wonder in which I yearned to get through the door to the desk to my graphite, with its #2 That scent of worn paper and paste upon the wood my place of reprieve full of my passions like a kid in a toy shop a poor boy in a rich man's world that was when school was a neverending treasure trove with golden coin upon coin but then was suddenly halted by a hard brick wall the word testing carved against the stones 3rd grade hit and then my mind began to bite their words turning them to solid stone as time passed on my thoughts degraded till all was gray and uniform like a blonde child in a **** school mind wiped and reprogrammed forced to stay in line scolded to sit still throwing culture out the window till only the standardized colors of a flag remained Now I’m just a bibliophile sitting atop a pile with books and texts throughout the ages heaped under my feet but I can not make out their stories For their pages are blackened and their words blurred like a rushing river of soiled ink caused by cluttered shelves in the library of my mind that has been burned by torches held by men and women in suits and ties holding badges of authority like my mind is a criminal being investigated by the FBI They tell me I should know that it’s easy 1, 2, 3 go but I can’t they locked my door once they began to teach their TEKS my colors hid and got locked beneath and now my mindsets stuck with no hope for release What was a rainbow with it’s *** of golden words Now resides a rusting locker with chipping paint and faded words The creative concepts once in my head have been broken by just five letters that changed my words to dull markings and erased the color from my thoughts like the page in a coloring book quickly erased so the sky would be blue instead of magenta because the sky can never be anything else but blue Five letters that I thought defined who I was that I was always worried to fail A big red F peeking over my shoulder Five letters that could destroy thinking that they controlled my fate three old ladies threatening with their scissors and thread to cut a cord made of multiple choice answers Five letters that could mean success or doom like a hazy brained plan to stop a war that could only continue to grow worse as each soldier fell while running through the minefield of society But those five letters are just a tool To add an extra grade and a little more rules Stamping labels upon our IQ Taking away our peace and serenity Angling our goals away from our own Adding stress upon tentative minds Redirecting our thoughts from right to left so suddenly trees are plastic and the alphabet only has letters A-H and all we know are large cement buildings instead of fields of flowers My whole world in a pint sized room with flowing waterfalls that burst from my imagination obscured by bland walls and heavy doors Colorful assemblies with shushing giants making up a chorus irony written on every poster of every wall learn and you’ll pass go to sleep and you’ll pass eat healthy and you’ll pass no need for imagination no need for outside experience just sit in that chair and take that quiz that test that exam that benchmark We’ll have fun later in the year, but that better not be your essay topic and that story better not be fiction And all the while I scream I want color I want the sky to be magenta I want to use every word and phrase available to me I want to soar as crane flying across a lake I want to run like a track star to the the finish Throw down the pencils the printed paper throw away the charts and empty messages on the walls I want to run down the halls and dance instead of sit I want to sing instead of speak I want to learn instead of being taught But all I can do is sit All I can do is write All I can do is conform So I won’t be thrown in the trash like a piece of worthless junk that still has a purpose So i won’t be stuck in the same room for more than eighteen years like a prison sentence for not knowing the laws of this country So i won’t be left behind like the homeless in the streets School was a joy Education was a treasure But now is defiled by one small packet of paper
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Apr 7, 2018
Apr 7, 2018 at 1:06 PM UTC
Five Letters to one Acronym
School was a pleasing dream a world of wonder in which I yearned to get through the door to the desk to my graphite, with its #2 That scent of worn paper and paste upon the wood my place of reprieve full of my passions like a kid in a toy shop a poor boy in a rich man's world that was when school was a neverending treasure trove with golden coin upon coin but then was suddenly halted by a hard brick wall the word testing carved against the stones 3rd grade hit and then my mind began to bite their words turning them to solid stone as time passed on my thoughts degraded till all was gray and uniform like a blonde child in a **** school mind wiped and reprogrammed forced to stay in line scolded to sit still throwing culture out the window till only the standardized colors of a flag remained Now I’m just a bibliophile sitting atop a pile with books and texts throughout the ages heaped under my feet but I can not make out their stories For their pages are blackened and their words blurred like a rushing river of soiled ink caused by cluttered shelves in the library of my mind that has been burned by torches held by men and women in suits and ties holding badges of authority like my mind is a criminal being investigated by the FBI They tell me I should know that it’s easy 1, 2, 3 go but I can’t they locked my door once they began to teach their TEKS my colors hid and got locked beneath and now my mindsets stuck with no hope for release What was a rainbow with it’s *** of golden words Now resides a rusting locker with chipping paint and faded words The creative concepts once in my head have been broken by just five letters that changed my words to dull markings and erased the color from my thoughts like the page in a coloring book quickly erased so the sky would be blue instead of magenta because the sky can never be anything else but blue Five letters that I thought defined who I was that I was always worried to fail A big red F peeking over my shoulder Five letters that could destroy thinking that they controlled my fate three old ladies threatening with their scissors and thread to cut a cord made of multiple choice answers Five letters that could mean success or doom like a hazy brained plan to stop a war that could only continue to grow worse as each soldier fell while running through the minefield of society But those five letters are just a tool To add an extra grade and a little more rules Stamping labels upon our IQ Taking away our peace and serenity Angling our goals away from our own Adding stress upon tentative minds Redirecting our thoughts from right to left so suddenly trees are plastic and the alphabet only has letters A-H and all we know are large cement buildings instead of fields of flowers My whole world in a pint sized room with flowing waterfalls that burst from my imagination obscured by bland walls and heavy doors Colorful assemblies with shushing giants making up a chorus irony written on every poster of every wall learn and you’ll pass go to sleep and you’ll pass eat healthy and you’ll pass no need for imagination no need for outside experience just sit in that chair and take that quiz that test that exam that benchmark We’ll have fun later in the year, but that better not be your essay topic and that story better not be fiction And all the while I scream I want color I want the sky to be magenta I want to use every word and phrase available to me I want to soar as crane flying across a lake I want to run like a track star to the the finish Throw down the pencils the printed paper throw away the charts and empty messages on the walls I want to run down the halls and dance instead of sit I want to sing instead of speak I want to learn instead of being taught But all I can do is sit All I can do is write All I can do is conform So I won’t be thrown in the trash like a piece of worthless junk that still has a purpose So i won’t be stuck in the same room for more than eighteen years like a prison sentence for not knowing the laws of this country So i won’t be left behind like the homeless in the streets School was a joy Education was a treasure But now is defiled by one small packet of paper
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The fonterrorists will go elsewhere The big boy powers always find a small dot far away from their large splodge To check and wreck havoc to It’s got to be far far enough away that if you can smell the smoke, It’s faint enough that you could mistake it for incense Or your might twitch your nose Turn your head and say Is someone smoking? It smells like someone is smoking? When the water is more **** than water When it is only dry, desitutte, eroded wasted uselessness, The fonterrorists will go elsewhere Somewhere with more utility.
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Sep 17, 2017
Sep 17, 2017 at 9:11 PM UTC
elsewhere
On the playgrounds of the future Children will laugh and sing And we’ll cross the bridge to real peace Where the bells of sanity shall ring Until then we’ll play the game Which will all add up to naught “It’s your fault, no, it’s theirs…” Why some fail at what is taught. We’ve been given new books and bosses Numerous regs to do the job But money flows to the burbs Inner-cities fair game to rob Touching the future may seem easy From a point too far away One could assume it’s all just ditto - Then lunch - then math - then play If this is your belief You could not be further from the fact That success is measured forward As we have our students’ back So forward we will plod Secretly teaching to the mean We will test, and test and test From which all congress shall glean Information in nice neat form Of bars and charts sublime Symbolic of teachers and students Who have been sentenced to hard time And the monied districts shall rule Golden in and out And the bootstraps will appear Accusing all who doubt Good will be the words to spread And many who will eat them The failures will be shown the straps But for pity’s sake, don’t beat them G. Davis-Feldman
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Sep 15, 2016 at 9:54 AM UTC
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