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"additions" poems
I just want to ask one question Is the human race obeying the mathematical rule called BODMAS? Just a refresher...   Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction We have created different brackets where we enclose people like casket He's black, she's white, they are rich, those are poor, she's educated, he's religious, he's fat, she's slim... Brackets People are treated differently Based on the class that we've put them in Some are raised to power like exponents Others are trapped in like square roots...Orders The segregation has only intensified our division I don't fit in here, I belong over there My group is stronger, those ones are losers... Division Disunity and absence of love has caused A multiplication of our problems Threats, deportation, persecution We don't like them, we'll bomb them War, insurgency, terrorism, hate speech... Just problems Multiplication Every second, our population is experiencing several additions Our population keeps growing while Our natural resources are being exploited And depleting at a rate faster than our population growth Our resources are experiencing severe subtractions I just want to ask one more time... Aren't we obeying BODMAS?
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Nov 21, 2018
Nov 21, 2018 at 8:01 PM UTC
BODMAS
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:49 AM UTC
future primitive
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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We always talks about putting our broken pieces back together Or we speak of mending another with tape and glue Like stitches that won't undo But putting the pieces back together wont make them new Why don't we ever think about picking up each others broken parts And placing them where ours once were Instead of fixing a puzzle with missing pieces Why don't we become art And fill each other with beautiful parts? All that you find broken about yourself All that I find rotten within my hollow shell Are colorful pieces to complete a work of art If you take some of me and make it beautiful Then perhaps one day I too could see the beauty I betray I'll do the same for you as I collect these magnificent additions To the masterpiece that I make of myself One day we will become Mona Lisa and The Starry Night Not only will we be the art we will become the artists As grand as DaVinci, as unique as Van Gogh We will fill this world with our broken art And make others learn that there is beauty in every splintered part
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Aug 30, 2018
Aug 30, 2018 at 11:25 AM UTC
Broken Art
. *She walks the castle walls at night, with a rose held fast in her fingers, the mist rolls away across the land, the memory of her lover still lingers. Cold flagstones beneath her slippered feet hold the histories of the aeons tight. Old battles, wars, and terrifying sieges, ghosts of ancient warriors wail in the night. And still she clutches his parting gift, she wears the bond burden of his ring, his love weighs upon her broken heart, tears flow free with a melancholic sting. They fall upon the stones and disappear, additions to the heavy tomes of history, little gems writing sadness in a story, as she stares into the distance so wistfully.* © Pagan Paul (10/02/18)
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Feb 12, 2018
Feb 12, 2018 at 6:14 PM UTC
Lady Amarylis
The hands that mold us I am clay They could smash me into the table Kneading out the unwanted Shape me into whatever they thought Suited Adding bits, scraping others away An amorphous thing, waiting to become art I was almost complete But the artist thought better Gently my walls collapsed Once again I became a handful of earth Starting over I was fired once A low heat More set, you can’t make Major changes But additions, adjustments The sculptor waits Pondering carefully The steps to come
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Jun 7, 2013
Jun 7, 2013 at 3:07 PM UTC
Pottery
''When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary, When troubles come and my heart burdened be, Then, I am still and wait here in the silence Until You come and sit awhile with me.” <> not hidden, for I reside in my accustomed spot, but my face reveals a dispirited demeanor, so most leave me alone, but not in peace, late June, and the world less-than-august These burdens which are weighty mighty. are like weights in a trainer's vest, while they can be removed, only additions arrive, as screws tightened to increase the threshold of consternation and persistent pain insistent the silenced aura within which I sit most patiently, becomes both jailer and friend, while I await your salvation arrival, amidst tales of others who preceded me in this waiting game predicament, most unsuccessfully, admixed with stories of one or two rewarded... a tease, a stringy tale of hope, an endurance test, to make my heart even more burdened be, though wearied, yet unsuccmbed, for I have seen you, existence verified, and my patience knows no limits, awaiting the cool of fall, when the breezes bear and bare your scent, and hints your returning presence, changes the very meaning of awhile
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Jul 8, 2025
Jul 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM UTC
my heart burdened be
Drugs can be great and they can be destructive, they can take away any shred of your will for you to be productive. Some of them will even make your brain feel instructively reconstructive, when in reality its just making it reductive. Its only a matter of time until it starts it's demolition, then you'll be in a tough position and that's where some abort mission. Some people are lucky to come out of addiction and have no mental condition, those aren't any limited edition additions, they are there to stay and not to play. Drugs don't **** around and straight to your brain you gave them full permission along with free admission. I wouldn't blame you for taking the risk anyhow, when you take it and it hits you like POW all you can think is wow and wonder what's happening now. Unfortunately it all feels so great, you know, something you can really appreciate and do whether its early or late to put you in your favorite state, depending on the drug. Some feel like you're on top of the world and energetic as **** where others make you feel cozy and wrapped in a hug. You don't gotta be all **** and **** to do a drug, I did them for recreation. Then I lost all my movement and motivation, I no longer had any inspiration but to munch the **** out and play my PlayStation. Drugs overall drain you of something and you might think that that something is nothing but you'll be missing it and then you'll refuse to do any budging. You'll be caught in a slump, feeling like you're in a dump, and need a little bump to get you outta that **** So if you're really willing to go through that **** and so much more, go ahead and be a ********** go be that **** addict by the back door. But you can't say that I didn't warn you about them anymore. Sometimes you feel they're perfect and even if that is the majority of the time, you gotta ask yourself if its really worth it.
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 5:23 PM UTC
Drugs
Drugs can be great and they can be destructive, they can take away any shred of your will for you to be productive. Some of them will even make your brain feel instructively reconstructive, when in reality its just making it reductive. Its only a matter of time until it starts it's demolition, then you'll be in a tough position and that's where some abort mission. Some people are lucky to come out of addiction and have no mental condition, those aren't any limited edition additions, they are there to stay and not to play. Drugs don't **** around and straight to your brain you gave them full permission along with free admission. I wouldn't blame you for taking the risk anyhow, when you take it and it hits you like POW all you can think is wow and wonder what's happening now. Unfortunately it all feels so great, you know, something you can really appreciate and do whether its early or late to put you in your favorite state, depending on the drug. Some feel like you're on top of the world and energetic as **** where others make you feel cozy and wrapped in a hug. You don't gotta be all **** and **** to do a drug, I did them for recreation. Then I lost all my movement and motivation, I no longer had any inspiration but to munch the **** out and play my PlayStation. Drugs overall drain you of something and you might think that that something is nothing but you'll be missing it and then you'll refuse to do any budging. You'll be caught in a slump, feeling like you're in a dump, and need a little bump to get you outta that **** So if you're really willing to go through that **** and so much more, go ahead and be a ********** go be that **** addict by the back door. But you can't say that I didn't warn you about them anymore. Sometimes you feel they're perfect and even if that is the majority of the time, you gotta ask yourself if its really worth it.
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at the first sight of you, my eyes did lie such a vision aptly defined by a priceless, timeless, true original work of fine art but unobtainable with one simple question you enslaved my attention instant gratification was my only compulsion led to no insinuation just an invitation fueled by a connection forced us in the direction that led to a culmination that never came to fruition ....but... no real violations to either one's restrictions you stuck to convictions no need for contritions taking considerations realized complications to us as additions for any continuations or further desicrations on sacred institutions ...and...
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Feb 7, 2016
Feb 7, 2016 at 11:05 AM UTC
at first sight part one
The Whys of My Briefcase don't know where you keep yours, mine, immediately resigned, to my black briefcase the bills I cannot pay, the notices that I knew would unfailingly come some day, the letters to my children, signed, sealed but never to be delivered till much later, maybe, by someone else's hand and so, I carry my briefcase every day, an appendage human, opens only for additions, never any subtractions, many reminders included, for letters previous posted, sent, and stamped~marked past, way past, overdue the authorities demand satisfaction, at the very least they want my whereabouts the doctors asks, what's wrong, you never filled that essential prescription~poem I wrote for you, that was even writ legible so you could not deny its existing urgency that **** briefcase is so heavy, tempted to chuck it into the Peconic, but it was a loving gift from her, not realizing that I carried no case, just so burdens invisible were imagined lighter, or extinct, but easily ignored where do you keep yours? the forget~me~knots that you don't want but can't crush legally or courageously when they open that unhappy pandora, they will wonder why nothing was e'er said, but they won't ask twice, but understand, for who among us does not have a black briefcase?
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 7:18 AM UTC
The Whys of My Briefcase
for a year, I have learned to accept new additions, to my family. I have learned to appreciate Mom, my life, and you. You have taught me, diplomacy, in the face of Mom's hormones. You have helped me, learn to be happier, and to not let myself sink. You have made me laugh, at nothing. As far as Step Dad's go, I never thought I would have one. (Well one that I could call "dad" anyway.) But I figure, your pretty much, the winning lotto ticket, in the step-dad lottery. I Love You Dad....
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Jun 19, 2010
Jun 19, 2010 at 8:16 PM UTC
I Forgive You For The Fishing Channel
But today, I just want to tell you why. Why I had to ad lib this wack status. Why I was convinced to go freestyle. Why I'll pen every word with no fuss- And it should only take a little while. Why I will not use reference for this- Block of lines that I dedicate to you. Why I'll insist on calling this a piece- Despite the fact its not so beautiful. Why it seems like random thoughts- Unraveling from a messed up brain. Why it kinda is like a couple of dots- Connecting to form a ****** chain. Why I appreciate who you are to me- So much that I say 'I really love you.' Why I will always praise your beauty- Though your persona's more beautiful. Why I wrote you a poem but kept it- Cuz I am not PrinceCharmer enough- To explain my feels to you complete; Why I have to cut this status in half. Why I always count on your advice. Why I believe you will have my back- And thus endeavor to pay the price- For someone who really knows Jack. Why I think I'm sure about this one; That you are smart, caring and wise. That you understand Alex as a man- Who dares but also smiles and cries. Why I don't know how to be a poet- Enough to write down my emotions. Why suddenly our 26-letter alphabet- Seems to be needing major additions. Why this is where I will sign off from. Why I wish I'd speak from my heart. Why this status is just like any poem- Without all 'why's to end from start. Keep Smiling
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Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013 at 2:28 AM UTC
One Day, I Will Write You A Poem
"Don't leave out the graphic details." Oh, trust me. I won't. The gruesome, disturbing, intimacies. The bone-chilling, hair-raising fragments. It's almost too much to bear. But not quite. This vulgarity is just enough to keep them on the edge of their seats. Every tiny, twisted moral of the story. In between the cracks, find shining slivers of redemption. Only to immediately cover them up with rotten deception. Good, ***** flair. Scummy additions. Sick annotations. Keep the masses rollin' in. Complexity, concentration, then chaos when they want more fear. The blood-curdling, stomach-churning truths. The disgraceful, distasteful deductions. We've come to the conclusion they crave this coagulation of **** Dark disdain eating away at the corpse of wellness. Vermin, pests, gnawing, slobbering. Choking on the bones of prosperity. The decomposition of this life is what they love. Flies, gnats, swarm. Maggots clump. Crack, rip, slurp, gag, choke, ******* die.
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Sep 8, 2010
Sep 8, 2010 at 6:57 PM UTC
Horror
On this day, Twenty-eight years ago, I realized that love is not divided... Not halved between. A father's love for his children... Is a multiplication, An expansion. How do I explain? Meanings of life change; Additions and subtractions aside, Love multiplies...matures: Exult or suffer, it endures Even the agony of division. Mainly now, love suffers, But always it endures.
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Mar 25, 2012
Mar 25, 2012 at 8:30 AM UTC
For Her 28th Birthday
My favorite parts about myself Are the metal rods Protruding from my skin My nose My ears The diamonds             They sparkle How is it that I cherish The things I added The most My favorite features are stitched in Mounted to my skin For I do not find much beauty In myself But my expression of me Is slowly getting to Where I need it to be Decorating my skin Embellishing myself Soon I hope to have ink Streaking my surface On display Shards of the inner me Out where everyone can see maybe one day
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 11:32 PM UTC
Additions
Amelia fixes her veil in the mirror, and tilts her head from side to side. Not satisfied, she removes it. She brushes her brown hair. If only God had made her the way that she wished she could be. The artist that she is, she desires to paint herself pretty. It's like she feels that her Maker put out His first draft on her and forgot to erase the mistakes, to improve the rough draft. Amelia adds rosy color to her cheeks, and petal softness to her lips. She dots her eyes with lovely additions and powders her nose as if icing to the cake. Yet Amelia's love does not care if she looked perfect. He always teases her when she fusses and fusses, and he often reveals to her that she is more beautiful than a garden of flowers. Amelia relaxes her face. Maybe this isn't what she would have ordered if she could have possibly gotten her choice of looks right out from a store catalog. She can tell by her own eyes that they are alive. She laughs at herself in her reflection. She knows her beloved is the right choice. From down the hallway to her room, Amelia's mother calls out, "Come along, Amelia. Today is your wedding day."
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Nov 29, 2009
Nov 29, 2009 at 10:31 AM UTC
Amelia on Her Wedding Day
the woman disregards what's best for me, ( See http://hellopoetry.com/poem/bus-poems-victuals-victim/ ) gives me with kind regard, what's best for me, for this is the kindness that hallmarks the long lasting kind bring before your childlike tap tap attention wains, a treatise on leftover chicken wings and other such nonsensical finger food additions, purposed to inspire, to find innovation, in expressing, reclaiming and newly exclaiming that miscreant four letter word that appears in the other 99% of les ecrivants (See the notes) in some poem writ recent, pontificated that the most overused three words, yes, those abused three, degraded by overuse, losing their poetic juice thru constant repetition, being nearly boringly indecent, even when boldly italicized, the impact upon the reader is in the realm of "oh yeah, that's nice for you" Better to be best in show, deduce how, to demonstrate rather than insistently remonstrate, new ways every day to say chicken wings means.. you know what... Some get tea and oranges, others get cherished when our repast is twice recast, when she feeds me leftover chicken wings, both kinds, spiced and honey just like l....e should be do you know why Silly has two L's? Correct. for the run lies therein, kissing knuckles when unexpected, ********** the exhausted, tucking them in, going out for ice cream in the midst of a polar vortex, recording the game to watch later, so her downtown abbey guys, she can be watching at the proper English place and time, and celebrating life the next day with leftover chicken wings and other heartfelt, but unheart healthy food additions that folks, is how you writ a poem in deed, that will be returned to you sevenfold in reads, when you want to explain how, you can, truly, sigh, you know, love another... with sinful, leftover chicken wings
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Feb 5, 2014
Feb 5, 2014 at 12:01 AM UTC
leftover chicken wings and other love nonsense
the woman disregards what's best for me, ( See http://hellopoetry.com/poem/bus-poems-victuals-victim/ ) gives me with kind regard, what's best for me, for this is the kindness that hallmarks the long lasting kind bring before your childlike tap tap attention wains, a treatise on leftover chicken wings and other such nonsensical finger food additions, purposed to inspire, to find innovation, in expressing, reclaiming and newly exclaiming that miscreant four letter word that appears in the other 99% of les ecrivants (See the notes) in some poem writ recent, pontificated that the most overused three words, yes, those abused three, degraded by overuse, losing their poetic juice thru constant repetition, being nearly boringly indecent, even when boldly italicized, the impact upon the reader is in the realm of "oh yeah, that's nice for you" Better to be best in show, deduce how, to demonstrate rather than insistently remonstrate, new ways every day to say chicken wings means.. you know what... Some get tea and oranges, others get cherished when our repast is twice recast, when she feeds me leftover chicken wings, both kinds, spiced and honey just like l....e should be do you know why Silly has two L's? Correct. for the run lies therein, kissing knuckles when unexpected, ********** the exhausted, tucking them in, going out for ice cream in the midst of a polar vortex, recording the game to watch later, so her downtown abbey guys, she can be watching at the proper English place and time, and celebrating life the next day with leftover chicken wings and other heartfelt, but unheart healthy food additions that folks, is how you writ a poem in deed, that will be returned to you sevenfold in reads, when you want to explain how, you can, truly, sigh, you know, love another... with sinful, leftover chicken wings
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a lyric from Plaisir D’Amour (1), these singed edged memories, the grievous tingling tinge of lost love, last a  lifetime, can reappear symptomatically, with crystalline purity, for longer then any ejaculatory momentary spasmodic instant joyous vibes of a hallelujah salutation Grief, Why It Even Can: erode away the smooth s skin casing of years of effective affection, a long term construction project of a million individual additions *why then is pain so long lived, grief never brief, but deep rooted, and pleasing data so easily overlooked, pushed away by the* “sharp edge of a short knife?” why does the low, slow beat of a sad song bear down, demands endless woeful exhalation&repetition, and reversus, the celebration tuning of a happy days are here again, an us, a wee-two-too~together, always hummable but not overly memorable? I posit no solution but whenever I think of human it is of the soft tissues outlining our long bruised wounds of suffering, that rise up from deepest within flooding the plains of our thin~skinned senses colliding and collectively rendering us imbolized do you have an answer? cheap confess do not know no answer but believe now it is a seasoned characteristic that is genetic, the sum of thousands of years of the harsh struggling of lives hard worked where the life balance is ar best a sometime thing, *and the really real is grief that lasts a lifetime*
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Oct 4, 2024
Oct 4, 2024 at 8:13 AM UTC
The grief of love lasts a lifetime
have a credit in your account at the First NATional City Bank. Some free advice: Spend it unwisely, with reckless abandon! If you do, the credit balance will irregularly and improbably be increased in recognition of additions to the sadly diminishing stock of beauty, kindness, and the essences of humanity or some other derivative thereof, but by Writing more poetry,
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Aug 27, 2024
Aug 27, 2024 at 1:43 PM UTC
YOU!
i am terribly sorry for this horrifying sight you see, for the caretaker has recently joined the residents and the grass has almost no manners at all. i am also terribly sorry for this deafening silence you hear, for everyone is either lonely or sad and no one bothers to speak or sing. everything here has been reduced to dust, and just let this be at the back of your mind―everywhere you step there is someone underneath. repeat after me: This Is Not A Pun. i remember telling you about how no one ever noticed me or gave me attention but you silenced me with a withering glare and a no-one-cares-about-you lecture. it’s kind of funny each time i think about it, because i still stay by your side desperately inhaling all your methane filled words. if you’re looking for warmth and happiness then you’ve knocked the wrong door, because over here i have seen more regrets than in prisons; more tears than in hospitals; more bruises than in kindergartens. the stars in the night skies here hang limply on their hinges and there is nothing romantic in the way someone appears holding a bouquet of flowers. here is a girl with cherry blossom veins on her wrists, and there is a man with breath like the stinging October wind. everyone is a puzzle piece except that there is no picture to form, and we are all connected by intangible threads. in the most poetic way, everyone here is part of a poem, some rhyming, some free verse, except that there is no end to this poem―new additions. every month, a new spot. under the tree; next to the bench; these are the souls of people who scrape their knees in the empty forest but want to be helped up, an- OH, by the way, if you hear whispers and see movement from under the leaves, it’s not a hallucination. What? Didn’t I tell you? Welcome to The Cemetery.
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 9:41 AM UTC
The Cemetry
i am terribly sorry for this horrifying sight you see, for the caretaker has recently joined the residents and the grass has almost no manners at all. i am also terribly sorry for this deafening silence you hear, for everyone is either lonely or sad and no one bothers to speak or sing. everything here has been reduced to dust, and just let this be at the back of your mind―everywhere you step there is someone underneath. repeat after me: This Is Not A Pun. i remember telling you about how no one ever noticed me or gave me attention but you silenced me with a withering glare and a no-one-cares-about-you lecture. it’s kind of funny each time i think about it, because i still stay by your side desperately inhaling all your methane filled words. if you’re looking for warmth and happiness then you’ve knocked the wrong door, because over here i have seen more regrets than in prisons; more tears than in hospitals; more bruises than in kindergartens. the stars in the night skies here hang limply on their hinges and there is nothing romantic in the way someone appears holding a bouquet of flowers. here is a girl with cherry blossom veins on her wrists, and there is a man with breath like the stinging October wind. everyone is a puzzle piece except that there is no picture to form, and we are all connected by intangible threads. in the most poetic way, everyone here is part of a poem, some rhyming, some free verse, except that there is no end to this poem―new additions. every month, a new spot. under the tree; next to the bench; these are the souls of people who scrape their knees in the empty forest but want to be helped up, an- OH, by the way, if you hear whispers and see movement from under the leaves, it’s not a hallucination. What? Didn’t I tell you? Welcome to The Cemetery.
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In this era of stressed props, I am sighing. Lists and signs and disagreements in which prawnbrokers have added rabid plantlife in addition to that already labeled in the corner of the shop. Often those additions are at the request of seers.
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Feb 2, 2013
Feb 2, 2013 at 8:55 AM UTC
In Addition to that Already in the OREF Form
Pop bottles. Boxes of them. The old man brought them home. He collected them on the construction site, between lifts. Sometimes it would be days between lifts, So he filled time collecting bottles. *Hires, Fanta, Tab, Fresca, 7 Up, Mountain Dew, Canada Dry*... Emptied by men, like him, from all over. What conversations did he have with them When he picked up the empties. Did he indulge? He'd have liked Vernors. Pop bottles were as good as gold. Large bottles, a nickel: Small, two cents. He kept us busy, weeding, straightening nails, digging, mixing cement, building fences, painting them, and the house; Root cellars, garages, additions; In fair, wet, or hot conditions. Winter had it's own cuffs. We'd cash in the bottles at Walker Bros. Every Sunday he'd leave for weeks, Up North, to places like Kapuskasing and Hearst. He must've been thinking about us up there, Collecting our bottles, In fair, wet, or hot conditions.
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May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018 at 10:03 PM UTC
Bottles. Pop Bottles
There is change that is certain. The earth slowly shifting, The sky slowly shifting. Seven billion universes Rotating around each of us, Each one of us an axis. The recurring misalignment, Collisions, and revisions of Our orbiting bodies Shape the illusion of stability Hanging from our celestial ceiling. I did not expect to come home To an empty house, My family's effects removed Like the leftovers of an evicted tenant. I am a stranger here, In this room where I became a woman. This room that exalted and imprisoned me No longer offers solace. Litter, that upon closer inspection Reveals a mosaic of my childhood Is spinning. The pieces of my past Are spinning Out and away, Gravitating towards a larger body. The car I drove to a stranger's house To get ****** instead of going To dinner with my family Now belongs to another. The dresser that kept my underwear In the top drawer For twenty years Discarded and lain in the gutter. The walls which I painted The most neon shade of green In an act of adolescent rebellion Are now covered over In rental home white To attract the widest audience Of potential tenants. The floor is slipping out from beneath me, The ceiling lifting and floating away. New additions to my orbital debris. This place, Disassembled. Each part Far more significant than the whole. This house Will never again be a home. If I had stayed, Would the gravity of my presence Have been enough to keep it together? Were any of these parts Part of my universe in the first place?
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Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 7:45 PM UTC
Disassembled (Upon returning to my father's house before deployment)
There is change that is certain. The earth slowly shifting, The sky slowly shifting. Seven billion universes Rotating around each of us, Each one of us an axis. The recurring misalignment, Collisions, and revisions of Our orbiting bodies Shape the illusion of stability Hanging from our celestial ceiling. I did not expect to come home To an empty house, My family's effects removed Like the leftovers of an evicted tenant. I am a stranger here, In this room where I became a woman. This room that exalted and imprisoned me No longer offers solace. Litter, that upon closer inspection Reveals a mosaic of my childhood Is spinning. The pieces of my past Are spinning Out and away, Gravitating towards a larger body. The car I drove to a stranger's house To get ****** instead of going To dinner with my family Now belongs to another. The dresser that kept my underwear In the top drawer For twenty years Discarded and lain in the gutter. The walls which I painted The most neon shade of green In an act of adolescent rebellion Are now covered over In rental home white To attract the widest audience Of potential tenants. The floor is slipping out from beneath me, The ceiling lifting and floating away. New additions to my orbital debris. This place, Disassembled. Each part Far more significant than the whole. This house Will never again be a home. If I had stayed, Would the gravity of my presence Have been enough to keep it together? Were any of these parts Part of my universe in the first place?
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It takes three days to pick up a habit. How sound this is, I'm not sure, because some habits seem as inconsequential as a statement regarding time and vice. It makes one wonder how long it takes to believe a statement to be true. Possibly as long as a *** of coffee to be brewed. Surely the amount of time will vary by the weight of the statement. But even a measurement is prone to be thrown off by unforeseen additions. Eight cups of water, and four scoops of grinds, you're bound to have a little too much or a little less than expected. It becomes harder to tell when dealing with a slow drip. Brewing coffee may be completely divisible when dealing with a recipe, but hardly unequivocal when the time comes to measure up. This follows suit with patrons and their proclivity. Only in fiction is the coffee shop patron enigmatic. Only in fiction can the patron enjoy a cigarette indoors. Men and women wake and head to their cubicles, coffee in hand, five days a week. By the third day a habit has formed, and maybe that is why acceptance is had midweek and why the first day of the nine-to-five seems so everlasting, if not inscrutable.
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Oct 11, 2013
Oct 11, 2013 at 3:29 PM UTC
Habit Forming
On a dewy moonlit front stoop in September the hiss of extinguishing embers in an ashtray drowns out crickets (in the city? Why?) and truck horns from the highway while the neighbors drink cheap domestic beer and sing out loud to radio hits, sounds penetrating, muffled, through heavy doors. Stretch arms up with back cracks side to side, bending forward and considering the pile of paperwork shoved to the side of the desk, next to a *** full of water that only occasionally spills, only when the chair pushes against the side of the smooth black surface, only when there's been one too many and the Saturdays are full of drizzly skies and shouting at televisions as men jump and yell and throw themselves into each other such that organizing space is much less than a priority. There is a spot on the front lawn where grass is reluctant to grow that on the Fourth of July held a folding table with red plastic cups and awkward side glances to try to obscure the uncomfortable meets and greets and questions asked with eyes and loud patriotism bouncing off the street still warm from the afternoon sunshine. The dust of front window and squeaky red door pulls additions when stomping feet on soggy doormat and turns quickly to mud on the concrete step that is home to insecurities and broken promises that fall from mouths well trained and bike accidents of a karmic nature. Squint and smile into the dark with toothy grin that mocks and muses and beats down on insecure eyes spread wide with admiration seeking your go-ahead, the few moments of your life when you drop your shoulders and admit that someone else has a point. Touching hand to doorknob, a waver. Hand reaches into pocket and pulls out another. Lighter flicks into shadows lit by a moon too bright. You sit back down and listen to the night.
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Oct 22, 2013
Oct 22, 2013 at 5:24 PM UTC
Academy
On a dewy moonlit front stoop in September the hiss of extinguishing embers in an ashtray drowns out crickets (in the city? Why?) and truck horns from the highway while the neighbors drink cheap domestic beer and sing out loud to radio hits, sounds penetrating, muffled, through heavy doors. Stretch arms up with back cracks side to side, bending forward and considering the pile of paperwork shoved to the side of the desk, next to a *** full of water that only occasionally spills, only when the chair pushes against the side of the smooth black surface, only when there's been one too many and the Saturdays are full of drizzly skies and shouting at televisions as men jump and yell and throw themselves into each other such that organizing space is much less than a priority. There is a spot on the front lawn where grass is reluctant to grow that on the Fourth of July held a folding table with red plastic cups and awkward side glances to try to obscure the uncomfortable meets and greets and questions asked with eyes and loud patriotism bouncing off the street still warm from the afternoon sunshine. The dust of front window and squeaky red door pulls additions when stomping feet on soggy doormat and turns quickly to mud on the concrete step that is home to insecurities and broken promises that fall from mouths well trained and bike accidents of a karmic nature. Squint and smile into the dark with toothy grin that mocks and muses and beats down on insecure eyes spread wide with admiration seeking your go-ahead, the few moments of your life when you drop your shoulders and admit that someone else has a point. Touching hand to doorknob, a waver. Hand reaches into pocket and pulls out another. Lighter flicks into shadows lit by a moon too bright. You sit back down and listen to the night.
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I've helped you help me process my addiction your conviction to your faith or lack my conviction with the law the smack the tall walls fall around I have found myself on many grounds your voice rang no sound all the evil within cut away without forsaking your skin sin in complex ****** addiction in addition additional additions conveyed swept away easy not ****** saves my day I speak with nothing in the way convey my wish for more has been gone or delayed relayed admissions of guilt of the many tables I have tilted still I have my bouts doubts God? Can you help this mother ****** out? hurdling hurdles under me feet can He feel this beat? Stumbling upon piles and lost at the four way ...street... un-ended my God is not offended.
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Apr 28, 2015
Apr 28, 2015 at 3:44 PM UTC
Guide Me