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"aluminium" poems
Crew cut kiss curl stood above the goose steeping generals with empty heads and olive green jackets dangling aluminium war medals for shooting ducks across the border flying over Seoul “Nfeuirok2fmdfiwe384194u3ujriwejm" crew-cut kiss curl yelled. “I told you 091874874814729” ( his swedish education was now showing!) The train pulled out of pyongyang with two thousand dead that fed the famine. Only the driver was alive clutching a loaf of bread. stacked with cardboard cutout missiles atop 1920s tanks and painted with bloodred honesty the entire nation goose stepped to crew cuts orders. He was as nutty as a fruitcake but nobody laughed when he loaded his only nuclear missile to bring down the last remaining duck heading to Siberia. Ha ha! Author Notes This is not a joke. Or is it? © Marshall Gass. All rights reserved, a month ago
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 3:58 PM UTC
Megalomaniac
Dark branches dance against an aluminium sky as dusk taints the edges with blue. The last crow warns of death as it passes, it's cry echoing along the shoeless streets and down to the brook where once laughter played. Storm clouds gather in furious array shaking thunderous fists at the earth below, their forked tongues tearing the atmosphere as the first droplets spew forth from their ragged mouths.
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Jan 11, 2015
Jan 11, 2015 at 12:09 PM UTC
Cloudburst.
mini [=small car] mal [=preface as in 'malformed'] minim [=musical note] al [=aluminium] minimalism is art in its simplest form its fundamental features in words [start again from the top] [read beckett] in art [look at stella] [look at judd] in music [listen] [hear] [each] [note]
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May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 at 3:01 PM UTC
Minimalist
After a lot to negotiate toing and froing you exchanged your teeny heart for my bag of 18-something stones I carried it home in a hurry much lighter than I expected for what looked like a big cherry it was shaking when I checked it I worried at its odd little quivering a bit timid and nervy like a leaf blown from its tree but happy to have a new owner in me I nestled it carefully in my mother's best white sheets but was scared to see it start to bleed quite a bit not that it might die but about what my mother would say about the red in the laundry and what she might tell her mother if she got it back needing a doctor I decided to pat it with a towel to keep it dry no even better shower it each day keep it a bit moist sprinkle it with Eau de Toilette every morning blow it a kiss like having a sweet pet to greet after I shave I wanted to rub my hands with glee but it needed treating with kid gloves and exercised in carefree handling but first I had to squeeze it not hard in case it burst just in the middle bit around its plumped up waist it felt soft and squidgy and beat quite quickly not like my stones I wrapped it up in a cooler using styrofoam aluminium foil and a brown paper bag... Styrofoam is a good insulator and will keep the love from oozing out the aluminium foil is a heat reflector and the paper bag I am not sure about but grocery stores offer them to put your ice cream in so it doesn't melt as fast I had a meal of cheese on toast then returned to check my box your heart was not there to be seen isolated in polystyrene O dear I wished I'd cut a window giving it room to see it grow but then I spied you in the garden painting stones to a wondrous glow so lovely I traded back my carton and your heart lit up inside for me
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 9:08 PM UTC
Trading Lost Cherries & Losing Marbles
After a lot to negotiate toing and froing you exchanged your teeny heart for my bag of 18-something stones I carried it home in a hurry much lighter than I expected for what looked like a big cherry it was shaking when I checked it I worried at its odd little quivering a bit timid and nervy like a leaf blown from its tree but happy to have a new owner in me I nestled it carefully in my mother's best white sheets but was scared to see it start to bleed quite a bit not that it might die but about what my mother would say about the red in the laundry and what she might tell her mother if she got it back needing a doctor I decided to pat it with a towel to keep it dry no even better shower it each day keep it a bit moist sprinkle it with Eau de Toilette every morning blow it a kiss like having a sweet pet to greet after I shave I wanted to rub my hands with glee but it needed treating with kid gloves and exercised in carefree handling but first I had to squeeze it not hard in case it burst just in the middle bit around its plumped up waist it felt soft and squidgy and beat quite quickly not like my stones I wrapped it up in a cooler using styrofoam aluminium foil and a brown paper bag... Styrofoam is a good insulator and will keep the love from oozing out the aluminium foil is a heat reflector and the paper bag I am not sure about but grocery stores offer them to put your ice cream in so it doesn't melt as fast I had a meal of cheese on toast then returned to check my box your heart was not there to be seen isolated in polystyrene O dear I wished I'd cut a window giving it room to see it grow but then I spied you in the garden painting stones to a wondrous glow so lovely I traded back my carton and your heart lit up inside for me
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It was 3:30 in the morning The aunt died, heart attack they said. I only have a pale memory of her The pink-house, protest and abuse. Grandfather plucked us from there the next day The pink hibiscus my mother planted did not depart. She is dead today I went to see her in black clothes, The house, an empty aluminium box- With kids playing ‘ring around the roses’, Uncles debated politics and aunts gossiped And some moaned inside. I waited outside with few strange women, They asked me questions plenty of them The anti-social me smiled. The morning was usual Mother made noises in the kitchen with her steel plates and old radio, Father forgot the fish on his green kinetic honda, Cats had a feast that evening I did yoga, read newspaper and did- not take a wash. The dead body arrived late noon in an ambulance with her expatriate son. There was a sudden burst of cry- inside- her daughter and grandchildren. She looked like the fish to me, The fish my father brought that morning from the market, cold and dead. Her daughter’s cry reminded me of- an elapsed day in my pink house. My father kept pink flowers on her feet and prayed I did not move, sat with the same chitchatting women The chanting became loud and it reverberated. The body was finally taken to the fire My mother came late, she wept. The body burned down in minutes, Dear relatives decamped. I sat on the same chair with my cousins drawing the family tree, locating stories and laughed over family jokes. Then we sat tight lipped with brandy fumes and cashews. I came back home with my father in the green kinetic honda, I looked for the fish and the cat I could not find both.
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Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015 at 11:27 AM UTC
The aunt died
It was 3:30 in the morning The aunt died, heart attack they said. I only have a pale memory of her The pink-house, protest and abuse. Grandfather plucked us from there the next day The pink hibiscus my mother planted did not depart. She is dead today I went to see her in black clothes, The house, an empty aluminium box- With kids playing ‘ring around the roses’, Uncles debated politics and aunts gossiped And some moaned inside. I waited outside with few strange women, They asked me questions plenty of them The anti-social me smiled. The morning was usual Mother made noises in the kitchen with her steel plates and old radio, Father forgot the fish on his green kinetic honda, Cats had a feast that evening I did yoga, read newspaper and did- not take a wash. The dead body arrived late noon in an ambulance with her expatriate son. There was a sudden burst of cry- inside- her daughter and grandchildren. She looked like the fish to me, The fish my father brought that morning from the market, cold and dead. Her daughter’s cry reminded me of- an elapsed day in my pink house. My father kept pink flowers on her feet and prayed I did not move, sat with the same chitchatting women The chanting became loud and it reverberated. The body was finally taken to the fire My mother came late, she wept. The body burned down in minutes, Dear relatives decamped. I sat on the same chair with my cousins drawing the family tree, locating stories and laughed over family jokes. Then we sat tight lipped with brandy fumes and cashews. I came back home with my father in the green kinetic honda, I looked for the fish and the cat I could not find both.
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Spiralling downwards, Bitter taste of coke slipping in between the bumps on your tongue And months from now when I try to think about you I will remember the way you looked at me And how time stood still So it felt just like you were standing across from me Throwing your unsaid medals at my throat I let them slide down to my chest It burns Like the acid streams of coke surfacing my lungs And I cannot breathe All I can think about is why do I cross paths with people I am not supposed to fall in love with Coke sliding down your throat Swallow your golden apologies you never were brave enough to say Crackling fizzling drink I have been in love with you since May And every look out has been a habit, I still try to find you in a crowd I still try to swallow the bitter fizzy only slightly sweet taste of coke down my throat The same way I choke On every apology I never said to you and how I almost but never did tell you how much your cheekbones remind me of the sunset. Timeless This drink will never age and neither will your eyes Visceral bubbling youthful I have been waiting on nothing I feel the acid burn in my throat in my chest and it erupts as I ***** every scent I’ve had of you, every gaze we have exchanged while she looks at you and smiles Electric Like the fizz that touches the insides of my stomach I want to look at you and smile And all you do is watch me Sipping through your straw I am drinking coke And your eyes say it has been a while and look at me, look at what I do I want to show you what I do because it has been far too long Child I am not a child I am a hazy incense drifting through hollow walls, corridors and people infested places Everywhere I turn I cannot breathe I need something to quench this thirst of longing I have collected from every instance I never get to see you, every moment you look at me and she is with you I want to keep these aluminium tabs I want to push the bubbles down your throat, tell you this is how I feel every time I look at you and you look at me and we say nothing I want to tell you I have been doing just fine And that you are wearing the same shade of red I’ve been feeling and this coke can shares the red we are crying I want to say I am sorry I looked back and I wished so very hard Sohrab You are between these lines the coke can holds, every droplet that condenses on this metal surface, cool I have something to hold and I don’t know what to feel Only the acid taste of coke
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 5:19 AM UTC
Coke
Spiralling downwards, Bitter taste of coke slipping in between the bumps on your tongue And months from now when I try to think about you I will remember the way you looked at me And how time stood still So it felt just like you were standing across from me Throwing your unsaid medals at my throat I let them slide down to my chest It burns Like the acid streams of coke surfacing my lungs And I cannot breathe All I can think about is why do I cross paths with people I am not supposed to fall in love with Coke sliding down your throat Swallow your golden apologies you never were brave enough to say Crackling fizzling drink I have been in love with you since May And every look out has been a habit, I still try to find you in a crowd I still try to swallow the bitter fizzy only slightly sweet taste of coke down my throat The same way I choke On every apology I never said to you and how I almost but never did tell you how much your cheekbones remind me of the sunset. Timeless This drink will never age and neither will your eyes Visceral bubbling youthful I have been waiting on nothing I feel the acid burn in my throat in my chest and it erupts as I ***** every scent I’ve had of you, every gaze we have exchanged while she looks at you and smiles Electric Like the fizz that touches the insides of my stomach I want to look at you and smile And all you do is watch me Sipping through your straw I am drinking coke And your eyes say it has been a while and look at me, look at what I do I want to show you what I do because it has been far too long Child I am not a child I am a hazy incense drifting through hollow walls, corridors and people infested places Everywhere I turn I cannot breathe I need something to quench this thirst of longing I have collected from every instance I never get to see you, every moment you look at me and she is with you I want to keep these aluminium tabs I want to push the bubbles down your throat, tell you this is how I feel every time I look at you and you look at me and we say nothing I want to tell you I have been doing just fine And that you are wearing the same shade of red I’ve been feeling and this coke can shares the red we are crying I want to say I am sorry I looked back and I wished so very hard Sohrab You are between these lines the coke can holds, every droplet that condenses on this metal surface, cool I have something to hold and I don’t know what to feel Only the acid taste of coke
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The displays Half-a-commode.... salvaged from construction-site debris, in an enclosure; Corrugated tin... inverted containers, shop-floor seats, hollow from the inside; Squashed up... aluminium coke-cans and bottle-lids, stashed by the dozens; Rusting old pair... of dented batteries - A-class, from discarded torch lights; Mounted rectangle... sketch-canvas half-a-diagonal triangle coloured black; Foreground Expanse of water... mirage lit by a deceptive lamp playing evening sun.
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Dec 30, 2012
Dec 30, 2012 at 1:11 PM UTC
Modern Art | The Earth Chronicles
bitterness of iron: remove the milk in bate of oxen blood spills a bovine scent coagulates -- two membranes, five and nine in aluminium warp the boiling point -- two hundred, ninety degrees Celsius, left standing, half a day: cardboard instruction sets carbon constriction imprinting burnt hair, burnt hooves  -- the taste of not eating a liver, raw -- Where is the nameless face carrying cups of coffee, bought on a journey somewhere, and nowhere et al . . . kindreds, wrapped in the smell of decay: the uncured hide around his hips, or was it his wrists, never touching?
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Oct 26, 2013
Oct 26, 2013 at 7:09 AM UTC
14:18 -- In Liver and Gelatine
I choose not to be defensive under constructive criticism offered by good counsel I also choose to believe that what drove me then remains what I'm about still But... Maybe my idea is aluminium and they're talking about steel I choose to realize that as talented as I happen to be, I still... Need guidance around skill Medicinal advice to take me higher than a drug Capsule or a round pill But then again I also choose... To be realistic Sever certain loyalties and lose... Those that are pessimistic I choose to see the bigger picture painted in a snow storm Cold and artistic Bring about a new wave of doing things... futuristic Reflecting back... I should have seen the message on the mirror written in red lipstick 'REDRUM!' But I was disillusioned, detached back then, I was dead... numb Then I heard a voice tell me to accept the guidance... I needed to get out of this maze, follow the bread crumbs While still swaying to my own tune, moving to my dance And start anew So, to an impoverished way of thinking I say 'adieu'.
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Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012 at 6:09 AM UTC
Anew(the ones that I didn't post on HP)
1 simple set of instructions 4 heavy flatpack boxes 5 square aluminium legs 27 painted pieces of wood 100 ridged wooden dowels 101 white plastic ***** covers 102 blister-causing screws of various sizes. Assumption that no unter or ober Equals drunken waves of shelves Sadly means finished is unfinished Reworked masterpiece complete at last Male ego boosted by admiring plaudits Value enhanced by effort expended Flatpack frustration in 4 easy pieces.
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Nov 25, 2012
Nov 25, 2012 at 9:00 AM UTC
Flatpack Frustration
Undo my buttons and let the soul breathe for the body to freeze or scorch! I am done with each attempt to see with wistful bras and weeping knickers Sulked by sore heads that lay on pvc pillows And aluminium beds Mouths that drink blood chew mud Lips that never kissed the moonlight Eyes that never waved to the sunbeam All talk of love to redeem this mass of jagged insanity “La vie est un sommeil, l'amour en est le rêve." Undo my buttons and caress all the scars it took to believe I am as dead as my cigars.
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Mar 24, 2018
Mar 24, 2018 at 11:08 AM UTC
Mad poppy dead
Swift punt to the soda pop tin Littering the low lit path before me Flash back to kick the can And hopscotch jumping rope To wittled cans from which to smoke And losing family to knotted rope Years pile on tense shoulders Bearing zirconium smiling teeth Finding diamonds in my grief But always pacing forward To flash back on bronze days Glowing like bonfire embers Finishing the last of the thirty rack Never realizing I was drowning Just sad and aloof and smiling Smoking bad **** from a PBR can
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Jun 2, 2021
Jun 2, 2021 at 2:35 AM UTC
Aluminium
To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them. To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes. To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”. To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by. To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.” To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope. To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit. To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland. Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time. To the men who take every sortie with a last salute. To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky. The Eighth of October is for them. To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them. To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes. To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”. To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by. To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.” To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope. To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit. To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland. Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time. To the men who take every sortie with a last salute. To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky. The Eighth of October is for them.
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 11:24 AM UTC
paper planes
To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them. To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes. To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”. To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by. To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.” To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope. To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit. To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland. Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time. To the men who take every sortie with a last salute. To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky. The Eighth of October is for them. To those men who are always behind us, though sometimes we may not see them. To those men who are too busy flying fighter jets to teach their daughters to make paper planes. To those sons who will point at every aeroplane that skims the horizon to proudly claim, “that’s my father!”. To those women whose hearts will return wrapped in the tricolour and chipped aluminium; Who will place dented helmets beside faded polaroids of days gone by. To those youth who will break solemn promises- “I’ll come back soon.” To those families that will stare out of windows, refusing to draw down curtains as they hope against hope. To those men who can truly say the sky is the limit. To those men who fly above us yet are so rooted to the cause of their motherland. Those brave hearts whose faces are lined with sweat and determination as they kiss the ground beneath their feet before they embrace the heavens for the last time. To the men who take every sortie with a last salute. To the white saris and navy-blue shirts stashed away and medals hung on rusted nails. To survival and martyrdom and the presence of absences. To commodores and flight lieutenants and wingmen. To parades and memoirs and sacrifices and soldiers in the sky. The Eighth of October is for them.
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There may have been a time I was soft There may have been a time I cared But that time is over. You say if I don't start caring again I'm going to loose you They say if I don't start feeling again their going to leave But no one sees No one sees that I do care just not in the open anymore No one sees that I do feel just not as easily as before Not many know that to fix a broken heart you have to mend it with iron but iron melts , so I tried aluminium But its shiny appearance attracts to many theives, so I tried steel but its weak ability left me open than I remembered what I was once told , what the hardest metal can hold so I covered my heart with titanium. Once you've been hurt by love its hard going back, and once your trust in love has been broken its hard to trust it again , I was once forced to play a game where I lost everything and a man who lost everything has nothing left to loose so leave or stay but my attitude will remain and my Titanium heart will never again feel all that pain of love.
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Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015 at 7:04 PM UTC
Titanium heart.
tired autonomies, days keep on flailin', seizin'; darlin', I'd be bolder if only I'd tried. makin' plans to abandon 'em, the dark reach and tenements of those towers of regret for all of my inactivity or self-targeted hostility, and those dreams meant everything to me until awakening into morning hours or afternoon, more likely, with the dull grip of uncertainty shudderin' all the windowpanes back and forth lightly, oh so **** delicately, and I think about you as soon as I've drawn up ambition to make any kind of move, the pieces of the vast puzzle I've called your mind for the better part of the calendar dates I've drawn up into fifteen gauge shells of the ghosts of my past, those that follow my footprints in evenings, the pools of aluminium meltings and lemon extractions to constrict the summer hours, convictions that bleach out all other chances of hope. so relinquish your grip on my red and unfolding heart I've been beating the syllables of your name with, and abusing the page width of headspace, serving only to alienate the froth on the shoreline of daring chances: I'd have given my all at the sight of romance, but I sit here with no glimpse of intention from you; the crestfalls I subject myself to, not for the sake of lack of want, but full lack of what I'd do if I called and asked where you wanted to go at three a.m. or five p.m., or any other canonical time of the day; I'd spend any of 'em with you, and I'd ask, but I'm somewhat sure you're not that into whatever I could mean, or whatever my words do seem to transcribe themselves upon contact with your mind, so keep on existing and I will do the same. [or, anyway, at least I'll try]
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Apr 15, 2013
Apr 15, 2013 at 5:27 AM UTC
sergeants, i & ii
tired autonomies, days keep on flailin', seizin'; darlin', I'd be bolder if only I'd tried. makin' plans to abandon 'em, the dark reach and tenements of those towers of regret for all of my inactivity or self-targeted hostility, and those dreams meant everything to me until awakening into morning hours or afternoon, more likely, with the dull grip of uncertainty shudderin' all the windowpanes back and forth lightly, oh so **** delicately, and I think about you as soon as I've drawn up ambition to make any kind of move, the pieces of the vast puzzle I've called your mind for the better part of the calendar dates I've drawn up into fifteen gauge shells of the ghosts of my past, those that follow my footprints in evenings, the pools of aluminium meltings and lemon extractions to constrict the summer hours, convictions that bleach out all other chances of hope. so relinquish your grip on my red and unfolding heart I've been beating the syllables of your name with, and abusing the page width of headspace, serving only to alienate the froth on the shoreline of daring chances: I'd have given my all at the sight of romance, but I sit here with no glimpse of intention from you; the crestfalls I subject myself to, not for the sake of lack of want, but full lack of what I'd do if I called and asked where you wanted to go at three a.m. or five p.m., or any other canonical time of the day; I'd spend any of 'em with you, and I'd ask, but I'm somewhat sure you're not that into whatever I could mean, or whatever my words do seem to transcribe themselves upon contact with your mind, so keep on existing and I will do the same. [or, anyway, at least I'll try]
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I sit here in the local laundromat on a aluminium park bench amongst the fish eyed dryers and icberg washing machines that rumble with never siated coin fed hunger, the smell of artificial spring and wet dog swelling on the humid breeze In the corner an o.d lady sits reading a mills and boon love story two young men  stand leaning against the door frame, smoking cigarettes, they look like casual warrior guards, on their day off all surfer dude tan and body buff guarding the inner sanctum of local cleanliness Another mother, you can, tell by the handbag is playing a game on her tablet, some tinny music wafts over, and she glances at me with apology in her eyes I have brought nothing except my phone on which I am writing this, and carkeys and wallet I watch the tumble dryers tumble, and am mesmerized by the kaleidoscope of linens,playing at being acrobats it is warm and cozy in the evening light, a world apart Out side on the still warm sidewalk and old dog lounges his eyes focused on old Mrs Mills and Boon, her load finishes and as she gets up, so does the dog, both slow and methodical as she folds her washing the dog noses the air, comes to the doorway, where one of the young blokes offers his hand for a pat, the dog allows the contact, but his eyes remain on the old lady as she packs her wasing into a wheeled bag, the pair then leave, walking down the street into the dusk, the dog's nose mere inches from the old ladies gnarled hand and his tail wagging furiously. I fell I have witnessed something beautiful and intimate, as they wander away...
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Jul 13, 2017
Jul 13, 2017 at 5:54 PM UTC
Love at the laundromat
I sit here in the local laundromat on a aluminium park bench amongst the fish eyed dryers and icberg washing machines that rumble with never siated coin fed hunger, the smell of artificial spring and wet dog swelling on the humid breeze In the corner an o.d lady sits reading a mills and boon love story two young men  stand leaning against the door frame, smoking cigarettes, they look like casual warrior guards, on their day off all surfer dude tan and body buff guarding the inner sanctum of local cleanliness Another mother, you can, tell by the handbag is playing a game on her tablet, some tinny music wafts over, and she glances at me with apology in her eyes I have brought nothing except my phone on which I am writing this, and carkeys and wallet I watch the tumble dryers tumble, and am mesmerized by the kaleidoscope of linens,playing at being acrobats it is warm and cozy in the evening light, a world apart Out side on the still warm sidewalk and old dog lounges his eyes focused on old Mrs Mills and Boon, her load finishes and as she gets up, so does the dog, both slow and methodical as she folds her washing the dog noses the air, comes to the doorway, where one of the young blokes offers his hand for a pat, the dog allows the contact, but his eyes remain on the old lady as she packs her wasing into a wheeled bag, the pair then leave, walking down the street into the dusk, the dog's nose mere inches from the old ladies gnarled hand and his tail wagging furiously. I fell I have witnessed something beautiful and intimate, as they wander away...
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The sunset was tainted In it's orange glowly faint as skies billowy loaded clouded with chemtrails the balium and aluminium fed as streaks of ******   as strontium is ingested Injected in our soils as our oils turn sour to drool our brains of thought and ambition Projected to our souls as we ache and ail in trials and fails that drill our veins with fraught and draught as skies billowy loaded In it's crescent lowly paint The moon was sainted
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Jan 5, 2017
Jan 5, 2017 at 4:15 PM UTC
Chemtrails
the city's moon                                                    fixated in its peoples tics and behaviour                     crass and mentally fractured traction acts the loony satellite makes sway for rude construction                                                             padding our ego psychology nothing    simple    allowed we are all a manic reference of each other the city weather is steered                                      by currents of gossip withhold your info                culture clutches misguiding alliances     treasure your details                                                                     it is your only insurance this city                                             it's a view to thrill                                                            but it odors me til ill ****** privacy and get undressed too much time here   harbouring thirst       quibbling hurt feelings                                    signals ;  Life Emitting Distress so                                                     lock up the night city stars                                                   mar-glaring bulbs of pity-me                           staring about for vagrancy i flip up my hood              lucent pandery eyes span the communal routes    search us out       merchandise and mood i turn down an alleyway and am confronted                                           a vain and voyeuristic fan tail varieties cocktail of sales and entertainment ad lights send out sonar 'pings' wing-ed ; fencing judgement i wear pricy contacts to veil my retinas and my hood is lined with aluminium      i cough and concentrate on breath commemorate each step undertaken weaponize my walk eyes low my being is voided into guise heading further from the city centre i can straighten from my defensive pose in amongst the dwellings                            the urban effect dwindles kindled   instead   by the dosey soup wash of streetlights delights;   the holy crop of them webbing outward    retching past our boundaries                         shored back upon natures breath                       (so i imagine)
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Nov 8, 2022
Nov 8, 2022 at 9:03 PM UTC
c i t y L.E.D.s
the city's moon                                                    fixated in its peoples tics and behaviour                     crass and mentally fractured traction acts the loony satellite makes sway for rude construction                                                             padding our ego psychology nothing    simple    allowed we are all a manic reference of each other the city weather is steered                                      by currents of gossip withhold your info                culture clutches misguiding alliances     treasure your details                                                                     it is your only insurance this city                                             it's a view to thrill                                                            but it odors me til ill ****** privacy and get undressed too much time here   harbouring thirst       quibbling hurt feelings                                    signals ;  Life Emitting Distress so                                                     lock up the night city stars                                                   mar-glaring bulbs of pity-me                           staring about for vagrancy i flip up my hood              lucent pandery eyes span the communal routes    search us out       merchandise and mood i turn down an alleyway and am confronted                                           a vain and voyeuristic fan tail varieties cocktail of sales and entertainment ad lights send out sonar 'pings' wing-ed ; fencing judgement i wear pricy contacts to veil my retinas and my hood is lined with aluminium      i cough and concentrate on breath commemorate each step undertaken weaponize my walk eyes low my being is voided into guise heading further from the city centre i can straighten from my defensive pose in amongst the dwellings                            the urban effect dwindles kindled   instead   by the dosey soup wash of streetlights delights;   the holy crop of them webbing outward    retching past our boundaries                         shored back upon natures breath                       (so i imagine)
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Aluminium ladders from the attic creak during forbidden midnight ventures, whilst auditory perceptions of Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy echo within the magical darkness. Many times, Dolly stood at the edge of the platform and articulated prismatic pronouncements, as the train hurtled along the tracks. We must permit our nostalgic souls to remain attached by silver chords, as we travail along the corridor of indiscernible planes towards twilight. Therefore, my slippery soul of simplicity, we must hold up the lantern in this obscure existence. Joe, I have toasted bread by the coal fire within the flickering shadows of overwhelming anticipation. Your carriage awaits.
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Dec 24, 2013
Dec 24, 2013 at 10:07 PM UTC
Incorporeal Sentimentality
love is like a fungus beautiful like an umbrella mushroom and sticky like mould on bread and nefarious mad like psilobycin and scary like an aluminium cage .conditions apply.
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Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014 at 1:24 AM UTC
i have not been in the love
thread hangs dewy bright oxidized aluminium contrasts grey glassy grey crumpled in doorway a song through whiskers licked yellow and smoke flecked black ash. notes float coats the space between a boy silver bits (remnants of magic cards move moving Mother) from pocket to pocket "silver linings, eh " scaffolding reached a little higher and somehow mucus trails had a musical movement
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Nov 23, 2016
Nov 23, 2016 at 2:14 AM UTC
Jacob's ladder
I am Marhteena I come from a small village in southern Cameroon where people use kerosene lamps at night and store drinking water in large aluminium pots. where neighbors share kitchen utensils on a daily basis and eat from the same bowls of soup with one another. where children go to the streams in the morning to fetch some water for cooking and rake the woods for some firewood. where women go to their farms to plant corn, yams and vegetables while the men tap fresh palm wine and tend the goats and pigs. where children play under the scorching sun and eat roasted grasshoppers for lunch. where children make their own toys from rafiagrass and abandoned wires where children climb trees and hunt birds with their catapults where children go fishing with small bowls and learn how to swim by themselves where children sat around fireplaces at night to tell folktales and ancient stories I am Marhteena, i come from a very small clan but these experiences have shaped me into who i am today I AM PROUDLY AFRICAN!!!
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 1:59 AM UTC
I am Marhteena
Through the glaze of snow falling from ninety-nine cent aluminium, we'd taken the remains of a novel formulation to remove the stars from the sky and plant them in a field. I took crushing endlessness and the heat of leaves growing in moments to make the autumn of a town I hadn't yet seen. This is how I escaped from the sealed-elevator flight plan the first time; talking had failed me, pinned against the face of a fleeing infant. His mother could never find a way to paint him as a forgery, a skeleton, and make it stick, so he coughed rough and eloped from the schematic with his brother as their father remained on the ground, paying out the parking lot tower fees, unaware that he, himself, was only a figment. and I, just another figment, ventured off into the village, the leaves cascading and trembling, the gold of their hues dissipating as the flight crew shook a lifeless husk, spent lives ago, now, with the clamour of shells dividing, each split or junction or birth yielding arcs of light as my sister tells me how the strings she pulls around her wrists tell metric time whilst I brush my hand against concrete and glass, leaving traces of skin within the grain, sloughing away finally in the small moments as I float through an antique dealership: mahogany gods, carved tall as redwoods, and bathed in mist like the western coast at dawn. and I, indifferent to the television sets implanted between memories, broadcasting coffee-stain eyes lost midsummer years ago, still indifferent. as I finally reach the elevator, the last level, the depth below, struck me. I am the test subject, my irrealities are just trying to get out, to survive this feigned life, to be born into the world I frequent. They are abstractions and know it. I have not said a word as I step out onto that plane, amidst the rising roar of engines and the row of the crowds and the swell of my emptiness. I breathe in and become the field, at last.
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 1:02 AM UTC
reverie 11/03
Through the glaze of snow falling from ninety-nine cent aluminium, we'd taken the remains of a novel formulation to remove the stars from the sky and plant them in a field. I took crushing endlessness and the heat of leaves growing in moments to make the autumn of a town I hadn't yet seen. This is how I escaped from the sealed-elevator flight plan the first time; talking had failed me, pinned against the face of a fleeing infant. His mother could never find a way to paint him as a forgery, a skeleton, and make it stick, so he coughed rough and eloped from the schematic with his brother as their father remained on the ground, paying out the parking lot tower fees, unaware that he, himself, was only a figment. and I, just another figment, ventured off into the village, the leaves cascading and trembling, the gold of their hues dissipating as the flight crew shook a lifeless husk, spent lives ago, now, with the clamour of shells dividing, each split or junction or birth yielding arcs of light as my sister tells me how the strings she pulls around her wrists tell metric time whilst I brush my hand against concrete and glass, leaving traces of skin within the grain, sloughing away finally in the small moments as I float through an antique dealership: mahogany gods, carved tall as redwoods, and bathed in mist like the western coast at dawn. and I, indifferent to the television sets implanted between memories, broadcasting coffee-stain eyes lost midsummer years ago, still indifferent. as I finally reach the elevator, the last level, the depth below, struck me. I am the test subject, my irrealities are just trying to get out, to survive this feigned life, to be born into the world I frequent. They are abstractions and know it. I have not said a word as I step out onto that plane, amidst the rising roar of engines and the row of the crowds and the swell of my emptiness. I breathe in and become the field, at last.
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Believe  it or not, I come from a conservative Islamic family, My Life is based on Islamic principles, But,I don't feel caged, In fact, I feel at peace,calm and safe. Home is where you live, Home life is on the principles of Faith in Allah, And its two arms patience and gratitude to HIM. Trust, kindness and above all respect for each other is a must, A visitor who knocks on your door is as good as an angel, He should be greeted and treated with courtesy, Greetings create a bond in the name of Allah, Parents are our peers and given utmost respect, We never speak out of context to them. Breakfast,lunch and dinner is a family affair, We all sit on the floor in a circle with a big aluminium thaal (plate) in the middle, And partake our portion of food from there, Before eating we begin with Bismillah and a pinch of salt. Women cover their heads all the time with a dupatta, When they go out they wear a hijab. Women are prohibited to talk loudly but some do, What goes behind close doors between a husband and wife should remain between them, Not to wash the ***** linens in public. Music is not allowed in islam but most of us do, A Muslim must pay part of his earnings as zakat (charity). From birth till death our lives depend on the sound advise of our Spritual Leader, I am delighted I have somebody to guide me, He makes sure each and every community member is provided with lunch, So no one goes to sleep hungry, Most of all festivals are community based gatherings so no one is alone, I am the lucky one,not imprisoned.
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 4:21 AM UTC
Believe It Or Not
Believe  it or not, I come from a conservative Islamic family, My Life is based on Islamic principles, But,I don't feel caged, In fact, I feel at peace,calm and safe. Home is where you live, Home life is on the principles of Faith in Allah, And its two arms patience and gratitude to HIM. Trust, kindness and above all respect for each other is a must, A visitor who knocks on your door is as good as an angel, He should be greeted and treated with courtesy, Greetings create a bond in the name of Allah, Parents are our peers and given utmost respect, We never speak out of context to them. Breakfast,lunch and dinner is a family affair, We all sit on the floor in a circle with a big aluminium thaal (plate) in the middle, And partake our portion of food from there, Before eating we begin with Bismillah and a pinch of salt. Women cover their heads all the time with a dupatta, When they go out they wear a hijab. Women are prohibited to talk loudly but some do, What goes behind close doors between a husband and wife should remain between them, Not to wash the ***** linens in public. Music is not allowed in islam but most of us do, A Muslim must pay part of his earnings as zakat (charity). From birth till death our lives depend on the sound advise of our Spritual Leader, I am delighted I have somebody to guide me, He makes sure each and every community member is provided with lunch, So no one goes to sleep hungry, Most of all festivals are community based gatherings so no one is alone, I am the lucky one,not imprisoned.
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If death did not wear black would he be taken so seriously? If one literally wore one's heart on one's sleeve what would be the medical implications and would your friends still take you seriously? If it is true that 'the beat goes on', is it any wonder that 'the rhythm is gonna get ya'? When Dana sang 'All kinds of everything remind me of you', did she include rubella and death metal in this? If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one to hear it fall does it make a sound? If a man plays cello in a forest do the trees mark him out of ten? If the simulacra is real then surely all one needs to do is to pay more attention?  If one pays more attention, how much should one tip? Descartes stated "I think therefore I am".  What on earth was he thinking? Mans awareness of his mortality created the need for a divine being in order to facilitate the concept that there is life after death.  No one can say definitively if there is life after death.  Does this paradox create a dizzying confusion?  Is this confusion a lot like spending too much money in a carnival? Britain's Got Talent: in a population of approximately 60 million, one would certainly hope so. Is the concept of the omnipotence of god applicable if priests are unavailable for confession? Is this a question? Is the presence of a question mark the only thing required to ensure that something is a question?  Seven cherubs aluminium?  Is that a question! The concept of 'keeping ones feet on the ground', by which we mean to not get carried away with success, for example, can never be difficult if one accepts the laws of gravity. What sounds lie in the spaces between keys on a piano? Any identifiable stimuli?
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Apr 15, 2012
Apr 15, 2012 at 6:01 AM UTC
Questions that occur after 5 days in Hospital
If death did not wear black would he be taken so seriously? If one literally wore one's heart on one's sleeve what would be the medical implications and would your friends still take you seriously? If it is true that 'the beat goes on', is it any wonder that 'the rhythm is gonna get ya'? When Dana sang 'All kinds of everything remind me of you', did she include rubella and death metal in this? If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one to hear it fall does it make a sound? If a man plays cello in a forest do the trees mark him out of ten? If the simulacra is real then surely all one needs to do is to pay more attention?  If one pays more attention, how much should one tip? Descartes stated "I think therefore I am".  What on earth was he thinking? Mans awareness of his mortality created the need for a divine being in order to facilitate the concept that there is life after death.  No one can say definitively if there is life after death.  Does this paradox create a dizzying confusion?  Is this confusion a lot like spending too much money in a carnival? Britain's Got Talent: in a population of approximately 60 million, one would certainly hope so. Is the concept of the omnipotence of god applicable if priests are unavailable for confession? Is this a question? Is the presence of a question mark the only thing required to ensure that something is a question?  Seven cherubs aluminium?  Is that a question! The concept of 'keeping ones feet on the ground', by which we mean to not get carried away with success, for example, can never be difficult if one accepts the laws of gravity. What sounds lie in the spaces between keys on a piano? Any identifiable stimuli?
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