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<> reversed a verse from “Like a Rolling Stone; ~complements to Mr. B. Dylan, a Nobel man~ you, me, hear what you’re hearing, feeling it, you, me, hear what you’re thinking, feeling that, regenerating, excising, pinching a single word of Bobby’s lyricizing, knowing, you’ve just handbag-snatched a poem full. the rolling stone sings of next meal scrounging, he’s talking to you, knowing you, you customizing his lyrics modifying-jiggering, for your purposeful brain, emotional crazed notions, your monsanto seed of needs and strains. *nah, I’m fibbing, polite-ly lying, like clover waves springing up overnight after a night’s soaking, raining, picking up hints, misdirections, clues, *** poem titles dripping from my glassy eyes! des idées for the next poem, the one, in the garden hereafter, now called thereafter, all arriving in tranches, backyard bunches, just to write down the titles fast enough, sometimes, trouble, oft easy, sometimes rough, but always a fast rush jiggling job.* yeah, I’m liking that word, scrounging, got character, internal noises aclashing, so I’m scrounging while lounging , it’s so ******* easy, it’s getting borrowed till you! steal it out from under me, like an ill reputed good poet should... P.S. don’t keep me waiting! let the scrounging commencin’ tw36
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Jun 22, 2020
Jun 22, 2020 at 4:38 PM UTC
scrounging your next poem (now you don’t seem so proud)
uptown train a rare sighting, a shiny dime,, in a city where clothesworn-grime, an unshed waning gray, a skin coloring, stony faces always chewing, enduring in tunnels neath rivers of streets, there is no moon, so little hope, nightly somebody’s thinking, somebody’s baby, I’ll be, tonight, someday, maybe who will see them as they are, willI I, will I, before they’ve gone too far, roadies, touring to nowhere, disciples, nose-led by a vision, daring, but archetypal there are no gardens, but plenty secrets, all planted, that will never planet bloom, seeds raised to die, in watered sorrows drown, embryos stillborn, passed to daughters down the trains go uptown to shiny places, to uptown people, washed, shiny faces, bedecked with futures, hope, their jewel, but not for them, the downtime people five pm, afternoon dying into night bleeding, the subway noises, the perfumed stink, all, goes unnoticed by senses dulled, unfulfilled, day goes down, another, and another, colored pained refrain, why do we bother?
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Jun 9, 2020
Jun 9, 2020 at 5:13 PM UTC
After Tom Waits: uptown train
the day blinks, the sunset stinks, the rhyming is de-fining, is this how low you’ll go? to get their blood hot, earn their likes and hearts, a lot? your personal side slides, means you don’t need to repent, nyet, been sentenced-sent to the zone of indeterminacy *the day blinks, somewhere tween day dying time and maybe nighttime resurrection* *unless you been there, you missed it when, the day blinks, then all them souls, sinners and saints, (oh yeah, the **** poets too!) sneaky snuck out, went forced marching* into the zone of indeterminacy
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Jun 6, 2020
Jun 6, 2020 at 8:23 AM UTC
the day blinks, sliding into the zone of indeterminacy
decided why waiting, my name, my curse, my retrocognition, last week, was sore-spent, from abusing discontinuation, retribution, lovers who took more, too much, left contentedly, not looking back over their shoulder, at the wasted wake left behind, nothing to them just was their “been here, now, just a hereafter” remainder reminder can’t believe I’m writing, in these blues lyrics electrified, my ribs, plucked like guitar strings for “pic”ing demand wailing, my own hereafter starts now, past days eradicated, freshened up, these aren’t the days of reminiscing, these are the days of  no más! of my hereafter, now I understand, did not know how, clarity arrived but now will love only in equality, no worshiping, no portraits to be admired  hanging on hallway walls, got rollers and pan, repainting walls crazy whites, starting again, coming out today, the hiding separated, put in trash bags on the street, for takeaway in crazy notions, commencing my hereafter, is inviting you, join me, improve my cadence, my rhymes, finish my sentences, with periods of laughter, commas of words of perfect additions, waiting no more, from here after and ever more so, my name hereafter, is now my retrofitted futures, no longer waiting...
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Jun 13, 2020
Jun 13, 2020 at 11:44 AM UTC
my hereafter starts now (my name, my curse!)
what’s the difference tween ************ & writing poetry? let us cut to the chase, cause I know how much-you hate to be kept waiting, lest your addled, added, impatient attention grow as big as the U.S. budget deficit. answer: not much in fact, can’t come up with a single signal differentiation. 1. both require tissues when done 2. both give you short and sweet satisfaction, that is a renewable resource 3. serotonin levels up, up and away - yay! 4. long term impact for both is wrist pain 5. inevitably, makes you late for tedious life chores 6. doesn’t burn much calories, though you record it on your activity-tracker as “aerobic exercise” 7. one tends to exclaim “Oh **** when completed. 8. both master bait you (pun. get it?) who’s the master, who’s the bait? 9. are you bored already? Go forth and do either activity, (I know you’re getting hot) 10. both leave you satisfied but the urge to purge returns very quickly 11. tendency to lock the bathroom door for both, when “composing” 12. filed on your computer as introspection and mindfulness (that cracks me up) 13. gonna stop right here so you take your ADD meds 14. you love them both in no particular order 15. you cannot get coronavirus from either (sincerely hope not!) 16. your denials deserve a retort: so ***** you too!
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Jun 21, 2020
Jun 21, 2020 at 8:38 AM UTC
what’s the difference tween ************ and writing poetry?