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"aluminum" poems
Dear **** **** you and your devilish traps thanks for making my good days go to crap thanks for separating me from my mother, for making me look like a **** up to my brother thanks for the addiction I have to face you really did take me to another place thanks for making me into the person I am at least you never made me slam thanks for making me stay up for a week or two you showed me that I got nothing to lose thanks for putting shadows in front of my eyes but if it wasn’t for that I wouldn’t have realized my lies I now put a gat in the side of my lap cause I can’t even sleep or even take a nap I’m always moving around , where ever it is you take me bringing me to my dealers house making me beg on my knees even if it’s just leftover’s, crumpled up in aluminum foil Now I pick my arms because I think it begins to boil I’m known as the black sheep in my family you made my life a ****** up tragedy The scars you caused aren’t only visible but mental Thank god I stopped before I melted my dentals There’s still a voice in my head telling me not to leave you but I want to start my actual life, I want to be someone new I thank you for the **** caused, for the mistakes you made me do But I’m leaving you now, one last thing, **** you.
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Sep 23, 2014
Sep 23, 2014 at 5:18 PM UTC
Dear ****
The bright blue bottle hit me like a hint of death       on the breath of Spring. I imagined it being tossed out a truck window by underage teens fancying themselves clever       and mature and immortal as if the earth had willed upon them       that her stolen treasure, Aluminum, be returned or she’d cause their truck keys       disappear for all eternity.       I picked up the blue bottle tried to feel resurrection       in a recycling sort of way felt instead only the hollow emptiness       of mindless eternal reincarnation. Winter had been long this year and lately I fantasized resurrection more than usual at a field where I stopped to listen to meadowlark and field sparrow calling for mates or alerting everyone to the sin of the blue bottle. Several deer grazed the unseen first greens of Spring near skunk cabbage and coltsfoot. At a small stream, I cupped my hand into the icy fast water and raised it to my lips, then splashed my face, then splashed some more, more, then knelt, both knees at the streambed and submersed my face and head, in self-inflicted baptism       for my own blue bottle sins, opened my eyes, exhaled all my blue bubbles, for the longest of repentant moments, pulled out of the water gasping the holy Spring air       for dear life and thereafter walked each step in the garden of resurrection.
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Oct 28, 2018
Oct 28, 2018 at 9:25 PM UTC
The Blue Bottle
bae is sick his name isn't **** this sounds like a rap but it isn't a map he pronounces stuff strangely he can say "aluminum" barely he has the flu I think he needs to see dr dake we have shows to go to but he still has the flu so I'm lonely as heck for bae who isn't named beck
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 12:07 PM UTC
bae
Donuts, o donuts, Wheat Flour Enriched Soybean, Palm and Cottonseed Oil Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Partially Hydrogenated Cocoa Processed with Alkali, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate Sodium Aluminum Phosphate Aluminum Sulfate Salt, Dextrose, Soy Lecithin, Guar Gum, Cellulose Gum, Tapioca Dextrin, Corn Dextrins, Mono Diglycerides, Citric Acid, Enzymes, Natural & Artificial colors & flavors Sorbic Acid and Sodium Propionate and Potassium Sorbate To Retain Freshness: Eat 'em up yum.
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Mar 30, 2012
Mar 30, 2012 at 2:08 PM UTC
Donut Gems
The oxygen secreted from the walnut tree, the snap-pole green beans growing up the side of the rusty garden fence, and bags of aluminum cans stored  in the shed with the old cash registers from the antique store. These are the golden frames caught and edited onto organic film, etched into grey matter, projected from a foggy lens onto reflective marble. We abandoned the clubhouse because of spiders; they took the place for themselves after a storm. Our new abode was the patch of grass between the walnut tree and the fence in the back corner of the yard; shady, rough terrain from fallen walnuts, and the grass always had a slight dew in places. "The place where the snakes live" is what we called it when we were sprouts; now we could catch them in both hands. One night, the wind blew over the shed doors; flimsy, sliding rail, aluminum thing. We slinked in and got to play with the old adding machines, foreign tools, jars full of door hinges, and rusty hand-crank egg beaters. Eventually, the roof of the shed collected so many years of twigs, walnut husks, and foliage fallen that tiny trees began to pop their heads up from the clutter. Crickets underneath the gutter guards- two types; the black singers and the ones you have to dig for that will draw blood if they get a hold of one of your fingers. Sometimes, if bravery was roused and boiling, we would drift closer to the railroad tracks in attempts to catch yellow jackets, or even hornets. One popped their stinger into the back of my neck.
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Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015 at 9:06 PM UTC
Cousin Punches
The oxygen secreted from the walnut tree, the snap-pole green beans growing up the side of the rusty garden fence, and bags of aluminum cans stored  in the shed with the old cash registers from the antique store. These are the golden frames caught and edited onto organic film, etched into grey matter, projected from a foggy lens onto reflective marble. We abandoned the clubhouse because of spiders; they took the place for themselves after a storm. Our new abode was the patch of grass between the walnut tree and the fence in the back corner of the yard; shady, rough terrain from fallen walnuts, and the grass always had a slight dew in places. "The place where the snakes live" is what we called it when we were sprouts; now we could catch them in both hands. One night, the wind blew over the shed doors; flimsy, sliding rail, aluminum thing. We slinked in and got to play with the old adding machines, foreign tools, jars full of door hinges, and rusty hand-crank egg beaters. Eventually, the roof of the shed collected so many years of twigs, walnut husks, and foliage fallen that tiny trees began to pop their heads up from the clutter. Crickets underneath the gutter guards- two types; the black singers and the ones you have to dig for that will draw blood if they get a hold of one of your fingers. Sometimes, if bravery was roused and boiling, we would drift closer to the railroad tracks in attempts to catch yellow jackets, or even hornets. One popped their stinger into the back of my neck.
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Trash can, wastebasket; the place we throw it all away. Used tissues--soggy mascara, dried ***** or the babies that would never be, and the heaps of food waste, human waste. Wasted human. Why do we take ourselves and the people we used to love, toss people and our person deep within a hole of shame, darkness, misery, guilt, worry, frustration, fear? If someone only said to you, or to me, when we dig deep into the ground and find the place no one will find us or them, the people we are burying-- if they only said, "You are not trash." Our emotions refuse to become refuse, the remains of being unwanted, as we perceive ourselves to be. But we is just me, and even though I can't hear the voice I long to hear above my own, the sounds reverberate in my chest, next to my heart, where I heard them last. The last time we spoke your fingers did not reach for mine. Your jeans did not rip in the same one spot. The dog that I picked that you picked after you went back, his tail wagging all the way on the ride back to his new home, did not kiss my face and my eyes and ears like he loves to do. Even though you didn't still love me, you did before, now thrown hastily, yet decidedly in the trash can outside your door. I dropped off the last remnant of your physical being, an old rabbit-eared antennae. I didn't, couldn't look in your trash can, or stand in the driveway longer than was needed to drop and run the hell away from crumbling gravel, a window newly aluminum foiled, and the motorcycle kept under surveillance at all times. I hope he looked on his camera screen and saw walking, talking, feeling, breathing human trash gliding down the sidewalk, feet pattering into a jog. The grass licked my feet and tangled in my toes on the way to the one place my sighs could sink lower than my feet, deep into the warm upholstery of my car seat, the grandma car, the dented, imperfect, but mostly reliable car away, far away, to a place where someone would look curiously, pick up the trash, my trash, me, and say, "It's beautiful."
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Jul 4, 2016
Jul 4, 2016 at 12:04 AM UTC
trash panda
Trash can, wastebasket; the place we throw it all away. Used tissues--soggy mascara, dried ***** or the babies that would never be, and the heaps of food waste, human waste. Wasted human. Why do we take ourselves and the people we used to love, toss people and our person deep within a hole of shame, darkness, misery, guilt, worry, frustration, fear? If someone only said to you, or to me, when we dig deep into the ground and find the place no one will find us or them, the people we are burying-- if they only said, "You are not trash." Our emotions refuse to become refuse, the remains of being unwanted, as we perceive ourselves to be. But we is just me, and even though I can't hear the voice I long to hear above my own, the sounds reverberate in my chest, next to my heart, where I heard them last. The last time we spoke your fingers did not reach for mine. Your jeans did not rip in the same one spot. The dog that I picked that you picked after you went back, his tail wagging all the way on the ride back to his new home, did not kiss my face and my eyes and ears like he loves to do. Even though you didn't still love me, you did before, now thrown hastily, yet decidedly in the trash can outside your door. I dropped off the last remnant of your physical being, an old rabbit-eared antennae. I didn't, couldn't look in your trash can, or stand in the driveway longer than was needed to drop and run the hell away from crumbling gravel, a window newly aluminum foiled, and the motorcycle kept under surveillance at all times. I hope he looked on his camera screen and saw walking, talking, feeling, breathing human trash gliding down the sidewalk, feet pattering into a jog. The grass licked my feet and tangled in my toes on the way to the one place my sighs could sink lower than my feet, deep into the warm upholstery of my car seat, the grandma car, the dented, imperfect, but mostly reliable car away, far away, to a place where someone would look curiously, pick up the trash, my trash, me, and say, "It's beautiful."
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all aluminum alloy ammo   bane bat brakes badly basters back bones come call cthulhu Cristo cuz dead ********** dominate de download   even elven eternal endowments fail frivolously flaming for fair fraudulence grant good goggles give grandiose gratuity how hella homeboys have how he has If I ignore I implicate its implore jack jacks jacks kay killla kooks krack LAPD locks la lackeys maybe mom made mad monoxide no, no natural nix NOx neutralizes oh over overt opp only overlay orphic please protest politely panic pretenses perpetuity quiet quivers quiet queens remember rage reaps reciprocity so sour sits supplanters sat to tell them to tare trail *** tat? universal unhappiness underlays under us victory validates victors vanity why warble when winners wont waste worry wanting x-axis x-rays Xerophagy Xanax Xanthorroea you yodel yonder yet yahweh's yells Yarrish zero zag zealots zoos
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Jun 20, 2012
Jun 20, 2012 at 4:40 AM UTC
Untitled
Around the table, Literacy discussion turned elitist... Bemoaning some poor Johnny, Son of a plumber who does not read Beyond the practical need, And has no desire to. I stopped to check my sense of what I had just heard... Was transported to a prairie farm; Thought of my Father, then in his eighties Who felt no need and no sense of loss For not having read Shakespeare nor Kant For missing Milton's Paradises and Hemingway, For by-passing Black Elk Speaks and C.S. Lewis. Every morning, he read his Bible; Some nights he read the mail's Motley collection of literature: Ads and politicians and fanatics, Demanding money and his time, But mostly money. "I don't have time to read!" He'd shout when I suggested a novel. What literature he had was in his head, Poems memorized when he was a boy In a two room school, or His own lines, written as a young man, Describing work and friends Long distant now, but still alive In memory. Dad taught me how to read In different literacies and different texts: Nuances of sky to read the weather - What chill or storm or drought was on its way ("Storm's coming, boys! Let's get that hay!"); Cows and calves and bulls, (Which one was sick or well, dry or bred); Ways to diagnose mechanical ailments ("Start with the easiest options first"); Metals, to know which welding rod applied ("Aluminum sags, and cast iron cracks"); Grain, rolled crisp between hard hands, (a test of ripeness); Cement, to blend the perfect mix, ("Clean gravel/sand, no dirt, not too much water!); Conservation, ("Always keep some grain on hand" &   "Keep your fuel above half-tank"). So many literacies... Dad, the Master Reader of them all... No wonder he'd no time for books.
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Dec 20, 2011
Dec 20, 2011 at 9:26 PM UTC
RR No Time For Books
Around the table, Literacy discussion turned elitist... Bemoaning some poor Johnny, Son of a plumber who does not read Beyond the practical need, And has no desire to. I stopped to check my sense of what I had just heard... Was transported to a prairie farm; Thought of my Father, then in his eighties Who felt no need and no sense of loss For not having read Shakespeare nor Kant For missing Milton's Paradises and Hemingway, For by-passing Black Elk Speaks and C.S. Lewis. Every morning, he read his Bible; Some nights he read the mail's Motley collection of literature: Ads and politicians and fanatics, Demanding money and his time, But mostly money. "I don't have time to read!" He'd shout when I suggested a novel. What literature he had was in his head, Poems memorized when he was a boy In a two room school, or His own lines, written as a young man, Describing work and friends Long distant now, but still alive In memory. Dad taught me how to read In different literacies and different texts: Nuances of sky to read the weather - What chill or storm or drought was on its way ("Storm's coming, boys! Let's get that hay!"); Cows and calves and bulls, (Which one was sick or well, dry or bred); Ways to diagnose mechanical ailments ("Start with the easiest options first"); Metals, to know which welding rod applied ("Aluminum sags, and cast iron cracks"); Grain, rolled crisp between hard hands, (a test of ripeness); Cement, to blend the perfect mix, ("Clean gravel/sand, no dirt, not too much water!); Conservation, ("Always keep some grain on hand" &   "Keep your fuel above half-tank"). So many literacies... Dad, the Master Reader of them all... No wonder he'd no time for books.
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The fox runs alongside the astronaut, who looks at a picture frame. Around the fox’s neck, a white bandana. There, on the spooky moon, his only company is the fox colored aluminum. The aluminum fur of the fox blends into the moonscape. The ship is empty aside from them and the spooky remanence of the rest of the crew. As the lone astronaut works to return home, his only comfort being the bandana and the picture frame. The frame that holds a photo of a woman, standing before the ship of aluminum. Tied around her hair, the bandana which has since been given to the fox. The memories it brings ever haunting the astronaut making the moon ever more spooky. The spooky feeling is not eased by the frame as the remains of passed astronauts are trapped in this aluminum ship, the lone survivors being the man and the fox. He keeps his thoughts on the bandana. Her bandana, given to him on a dark and spooky day, which he then gave to the fox so he may pretend the woman in the frame isn’t millions of miles away from them. A fox of aluminum and a lonely astronaut. The astronaut chooses to focus on returning to the woman without her bandana. He works tirelessly to get the aluminum rocket ship off the spooky and desolate moon, and back to earth, to see the woman in the frame. By his side on this barren rock, looking up at him, stands the fox. The astronaut refuses to let the spooky atmosphere deter him from his goal of returning the bandana to the woman in the frame, ever thankful for the company of the aluminum fox.
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Oct 30, 2020
Oct 30, 2020 at 11:03 AM UTC
The Spooky moon with the Astronaut's Frame and the Aluminum Fox's Bandana.
The fox runs alongside the astronaut, who looks at a picture frame. Around the fox’s neck, a white bandana. There, on the spooky moon, his only company is the fox colored aluminum. The aluminum fur of the fox blends into the moonscape. The ship is empty aside from them and the spooky remanence of the rest of the crew. As the lone astronaut works to return home, his only comfort being the bandana and the picture frame. The frame that holds a photo of a woman, standing before the ship of aluminum. Tied around her hair, the bandana which has since been given to the fox. The memories it brings ever haunting the astronaut making the moon ever more spooky. The spooky feeling is not eased by the frame as the remains of passed astronauts are trapped in this aluminum ship, the lone survivors being the man and the fox. He keeps his thoughts on the bandana. Her bandana, given to him on a dark and spooky day, which he then gave to the fox so he may pretend the woman in the frame isn’t millions of miles away from them. A fox of aluminum and a lonely astronaut. The astronaut chooses to focus on returning to the woman without her bandana. He works tirelessly to get the aluminum rocket ship off the spooky and desolate moon, and back to earth, to see the woman in the frame. By his side on this barren rock, looking up at him, stands the fox. The astronaut refuses to let the spooky atmosphere deter him from his goal of returning the bandana to the woman in the frame, ever thankful for the company of the aluminum fox.
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* "Our cattle graze, the wind breathes." -Garcilaso * It was my ancient voice ignorant of thick bitter juices. I sense it lapping my feet beneath the fragile wet ferns. Ay, ancient voice of my love, ay, voice of my truth, ay, voice of my open flank, when all the roses flowed from my tongue and grass knew nothing of horses' impassive teeth! Here are you drinking my blood, drinking my tedious childhood mood, while in the wind my eyes are bludgeoned by aluminum and drunken voices. Let me pass the gates where Eve eats ants and Adam seeds dazzled fish. Let me return, manikins with horns, to the grove where I stretch and leap with joy. I know a rite so secret it requires an old rusty pin and I know the horror of open eyes on a plate's concrete surface. But I want neither world nor dream, nor divine voice, I want my freedom, my human love in the darkest corner of breeze that no oen wants. My human love! Those hounds of the sea chase each other and the wind spies on careless tree trunks. Oh ancient voice, burn with your tongue this voice of tin and talc! I long to weep because I want to, as the children cry in the last row, because I'm not man, nor poet, nor leaf, but only a wounded pulse circling the things of the other side I want to cry out speaking my name, rose, child and fir-tree beside this lake, to speak my truth as a man of blood slay in myself teh tricks and turns of the word. No, no. I'm not asking, I, desire, voice, my freedom that laps my hands. In the labyrinth of screens it's my nakedness receives the moon of punishment and the ash-drowned clock. Thus I was speaking. Thus I was speaking with Saturn stopped the trains, when the fod and Dream and Death were seeking me. Seeking me where the cows, with tiny pages' feet, bellow and where my body floats between opposing fulcrums.
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Double Poem of lake Eden
* "Our cattle graze, the wind breathes." -Garcilaso * It was my ancient voice ignorant of thick bitter juices. I sense it lapping my feet beneath the fragile wet ferns. Ay, ancient voice of my love, ay, voice of my truth, ay, voice of my open flank, when all the roses flowed from my tongue and grass knew nothing of horses' impassive teeth! Here are you drinking my blood, drinking my tedious childhood mood, while in the wind my eyes are bludgeoned by aluminum and drunken voices. Let me pass the gates where Eve eats ants and Adam seeds dazzled fish. Let me return, manikins with horns, to the grove where I stretch and leap with joy. I know a rite so secret it requires an old rusty pin and I know the horror of open eyes on a plate's concrete surface. But I want neither world nor dream, nor divine voice, I want my freedom, my human love in the darkest corner of breeze that no oen wants. My human love! Those hounds of the sea chase each other and the wind spies on careless tree trunks. Oh ancient voice, burn with your tongue this voice of tin and talc! I long to weep because I want to, as the children cry in the last row, because I'm not man, nor poet, nor leaf, but only a wounded pulse circling the things of the other side I want to cry out speaking my name, rose, child and fir-tree beside this lake, to speak my truth as a man of blood slay in myself teh tricks and turns of the word. No, no. I'm not asking, I, desire, voice, my freedom that laps my hands. In the labyrinth of screens it's my nakedness receives the moon of punishment and the ash-drowned clock. Thus I was speaking. Thus I was speaking with Saturn stopped the trains, when the fod and Dream and Death were seeking me. Seeking me where the cows, with tiny pages' feet, bellow and where my body floats between opposing fulcrums.
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People, they just ain't all golden, not at all. Not even silver, magnesium or copper. Maybe zinc, because it tastes like ink and it does your body good, but you never get enough, even though you know you should. But had I the means, and the ends were understood, would I be zinc? Would I carry the common good? Would I feign precious metal? Or am I nothing but wood? I met today aluminum, he said, "I'm bad luck." "I know it," I said, "You're out of your element." "My melting point is 660.2°C!" I told him my name was Kristian Huselius, but that turned into a testament. "You're just lucky you aren't a duck," he said. "Maybe, but I find I've got too much will." "You can't spread will on bread, my friend," he said, much to my Brazil, "but lucky for you they make contraceptives in pills." I didn't want children anyway, but when Boron arrived, I was feeling less than sublime. Boron said, "My name rhymes with 'moron'!" "No kidding, Boron," I replied. "I can come in both the dark crystal and brown powder variety!" "That may or may not be true," said Aluminum, "but at least I benefit society." Oh, yeah, he said it, he went there. "I value correctness and propriety!" Boron shrieked. "And you can be flimsy, squishy, and weak!" I wanted no part in this, so I meandered. Not too long after, I met Helium. I told him my name was Carlton Deandre. "I don't believe you, mealworm," he bombasted. "You're gaseous," I said, "I wouldn't put it past ya."
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Apr 5, 2010
Apr 5, 2010 at 8:14 PM UTC
The Common Element
wrapped up in aluminum foil head resting on cracked concrete surrounded by winking lights and blinking eyes warmth from the glow of humility basking in the rays of a two dollar toaster cardboard dwelling and trashbag scenery paper towel t-shirt, styrofoam socks salt and pepper lunchtime pedastal reconstruction hot coffee burnt tongue peanut allergy and poisoned water locked cabinet, rotting condiments inside an unplugged refrigerator dying romance read only in magazines purple heart scrawled on my arm syringe full of bourbon plunged directly in my eye.
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Nov 27, 2011
Nov 27, 2011 at 9:03 AM UTC
glow of humility
Did the effort ever hurt you? Your fight for me; it's like a second winter. You only **** me with soft things. You only **** me when you laugh and smile. I hope all the flowers that find your hands may die. I hope to be where the angels are. God is dead, and take me with you. Like second winter. Like being dead already. Like the beginning of the end. You only **** me with soft things.
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Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 1:48 AM UTC
"Hurt Everything With Aluminum Bats."
Andi Balise combined a half page of a short story, “Thanks Going Without Saying” by Liz Balise, with half a page of an essay by Klee, “On Modern Art”, from a book called Modern Artists on Art, 10 Unabridged Essays, edited by Robert L. Herbert. With some small edits and line-breaks comes this miracle of a poem: Painting a Function Different I peek out over the railing of reality’s magic Beyond the porch-floor Minerva hangs her wash making the invisible visible Eighty two and three quarters deaf she doesn’t notice   But this is, in fact, reality Has always been this way— Bent and bird-like existence   Balanced on two twigs—always busy— Her task, is the *********** of space   Cutting coupons, crushing aluminum cans, ironing The three phenomena which I must.... Things no one notices— climbing on the abstract surface of a picture Switching the curtains   God! I wish from the infinity of space..she wouldn’t…! It figures that— Rusty, her cat, is weaving in fortune or misfortune   I try to fix them— Her ankles now And she curses at accidental quality from the corner of her mouth which has only one form Clothespin or cigarette?   Long johns and animals and men in heaven and bureau scarf and sheets—all, non-infinite deities surround us translucent, contained    I decide what to get for her birthday— We are good friends through painting a function different For me? Predestined necessity. Minerva? forgets her manners and eats like a survivor— Thanks going without saying.
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Oct 7, 2017
Oct 7, 2017 at 2:12 PM UTC
Painting a Function Different
Andi Balise combined a half page of a short story, “Thanks Going Without Saying” by Liz Balise, with half a page of an essay by Klee, “On Modern Art”, from a book called Modern Artists on Art, 10 Unabridged Essays, edited by Robert L. Herbert. With some small edits and line-breaks comes this miracle of a poem: Painting a Function Different I peek out over the railing of reality’s magic Beyond the porch-floor Minerva hangs her wash making the invisible visible Eighty two and three quarters deaf she doesn’t notice   But this is, in fact, reality Has always been this way— Bent and bird-like existence   Balanced on two twigs—always busy— Her task, is the *********** of space   Cutting coupons, crushing aluminum cans, ironing The three phenomena which I must.... Things no one notices— climbing on the abstract surface of a picture Switching the curtains   God! I wish from the infinity of space..she wouldn’t…! It figures that— Rusty, her cat, is weaving in fortune or misfortune   I try to fix them— Her ankles now And she curses at accidental quality from the corner of her mouth which has only one form Clothespin or cigarette?   Long johns and animals and men in heaven and bureau scarf and sheets—all, non-infinite deities surround us translucent, contained    I decide what to get for her birthday— We are good friends through painting a function different For me? Predestined necessity. Minerva? forgets her manners and eats like a survivor— Thanks going without saying.
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Let’s start this with some counting One, two, Three One, two, Three One, two, Three Three One in three girls In this room will Suffer at the hands Of the one who swears They love you The one who swears They’ll never hurt you Again But it happens Again And Again And Again And Again Again We pretend It only Happens to us Let's do some more counting One, two, three, four One, two, three, four One, two, three, four One, two, three, four Four One in four of you boys Will be affected By the words she said By the cuts and bruises She caused You have no clue How they happened Because it's embarrassing To admit you got your *** Kicked by a girl Only due to the fact You refuse to Hit her back Because you respect More counting One, two, Three One, two, Three One, two, Three Three Three Three Three women will have died today From Domestic Violence It's such a strange paradox Domestic is calm and tame Violence is a force that is intended to hurt, damage, or **** And from where I Stand there is Nothing- Nothing Domestic about Violence Knowing these Facts It makes me afraid I am afraid to be a Lover To be a Mother Because when I look at my past When I look at my past I am afraid it will repeat I am afraid I’ll choose a man Who beats me with an aluminum baseball bat Like my own mother did When I look at my past I am afraid it will repeat I am afraid A man will choose me And I’ll abuse him with my words And he’ll take it Like my father does When I look at my past I am terrified it will repeat I am terrified My children will look for an escape Like the five million children do Like I do
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Jun 1, 2019
Jun 1, 2019 at 2:55 PM UTC
Counting Victims
Let’s start this with some counting One, two, Three One, two, Three One, two, Three Three One in three girls In this room will Suffer at the hands Of the one who swears They love you The one who swears They’ll never hurt you Again But it happens Again And Again And Again And Again Again We pretend It only Happens to us Let's do some more counting One, two, three, four One, two, three, four One, two, three, four One, two, three, four Four One in four of you boys Will be affected By the words she said By the cuts and bruises She caused You have no clue How they happened Because it's embarrassing To admit you got your *** Kicked by a girl Only due to the fact You refuse to Hit her back Because you respect More counting One, two, Three One, two, Three One, two, Three Three Three Three Three women will have died today From Domestic Violence It's such a strange paradox Domestic is calm and tame Violence is a force that is intended to hurt, damage, or **** And from where I Stand there is Nothing- Nothing Domestic about Violence Knowing these Facts It makes me afraid I am afraid to be a Lover To be a Mother Because when I look at my past When I look at my past I am afraid it will repeat I am afraid I’ll choose a man Who beats me with an aluminum baseball bat Like my own mother did When I look at my past I am afraid it will repeat I am afraid A man will choose me And I’ll abuse him with my words And he’ll take it Like my father does When I look at my past I am terrified it will repeat I am terrified My children will look for an escape Like the five million children do Like I do
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Peppermint creme-filled fingers dabble nothing; sleep through alarms and dislocated anger sockets every morning. And there are flyers littering my floor speaking truths I never wanted and never knew through band names shock factoring their ardent prisons. Attention is a world currency, just like *** just like symmetry, and the plates shift while my plates sit in the aluminum sink in my kitchen.
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Feb 25, 2014
Feb 25, 2014 at 1:02 PM UTC
brash aluminum, and peppermint
you swallowed prunes as if your life depended on it, and to your mental state, they were better than any gateway drug or needle implanted into your muscles the rough exterior cracked and ripped apart your lips unforgivably; tearing down your esophagus with the force of a peach pit you rubbed dried apricots onto your skin as if that could cure you of all your sadness; as if it could take the need to get away and drown yourself until you were buried deep into the soil and there are flowers nestled into the crooks of your bones and you tasted of sweat, ***** and tears when at night you sit on the edge of your bed contemplating life or death between sobriety and a drunk that lingers for days on end clinging under your nails and to all the people who roll their eyes at you and say ‘you’ll get over it’ tell them to **** themselves; tell them that when they see apricots, they see sunshine, but you see death to infinity and beyond; you see all the broken promises that were whispered into the knots in your back you see the lily pads of roses that dripped with regrets and words that were never said words that gripped your lungs like a vice in the back of a car when you thought of love, you thought of apricot kisses rubbed against your lips; of rolled up aluminum foil of lighters drained of their fluids in a week time of the close to boiling water that invaded your personal space and reached the tip of your nose and of peach kisses from Georgia that dug its way into you; promising another day
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 1:20 AM UTC
apricot kisses
you swallowed prunes as if your life depended on it, and to your mental state, they were better than any gateway drug or needle implanted into your muscles the rough exterior cracked and ripped apart your lips unforgivably; tearing down your esophagus with the force of a peach pit you rubbed dried apricots onto your skin as if that could cure you of all your sadness; as if it could take the need to get away and drown yourself until you were buried deep into the soil and there are flowers nestled into the crooks of your bones and you tasted of sweat, ***** and tears when at night you sit on the edge of your bed contemplating life or death between sobriety and a drunk that lingers for days on end clinging under your nails and to all the people who roll their eyes at you and say ‘you’ll get over it’ tell them to **** themselves; tell them that when they see apricots, they see sunshine, but you see death to infinity and beyond; you see all the broken promises that were whispered into the knots in your back you see the lily pads of roses that dripped with regrets and words that were never said words that gripped your lungs like a vice in the back of a car when you thought of love, you thought of apricot kisses rubbed against your lips; of rolled up aluminum foil of lighters drained of their fluids in a week time of the close to boiling water that invaded your personal space and reached the tip of your nose and of peach kisses from Georgia that dug its way into you; promising another day
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Crystal White Pearl paint, red racing stripes, MX-5 traced on the side Lightweight aluminum alloy, seventeen inch wheels wrapped in 205/45 summer performance tires, Limited- Slip Differential, rear wheel drive, Six-speed manual transmission, weighted shift **** perfectly palm-sized Black sport clutch bucket seats, seamed racing red stitching, a clutch worked with a snap of the heel, a flick of the wrist. Crystal White dash panel, red racing stripe MX-5 traced lines match the stripes outside. Piano Black mirrors match bucket seats and the cloth soft top unfolds on summer days, spring nights, fall mornings. Heaven/ Nirvana/ Happiness found now with a snap of the heel & flick of the wrist.
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Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015 at 10:44 PM UTC
Driving
It didn't matter if it was August, and the air felt like an oven on broil, or if it was February, and the dumpsters were icecicles to the soul. We needed ***** and since we didn't have jobs, the cans, at 5 cents a piece were our aluminum tickets to sweet relief. The magic click. Enough cans meant a bottle of whiskey ***** gin, anything to dull the sharp, vivid pain of life. We sifted through cat **** catsup ***** diapers discarded ***** mags, and all the other garbage from the rich and the poor. One winter morning, I threw back a heavy metal lid, and there was a fat raccoon looking up at me. If Bacchus or Dionysus were smiling, we found a full bottle. It happened once in a while during summer when the college kids headed home. Miles of walking, freezing or burning up, We were the aluminum cowboys.
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Jul 2, 2025
Jul 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM UTC
We were the Aluminum Cowboys
Aluminum Have you memorized your storybooks How does it feel to catch on fire You go where bugs go in the winter Surface waves How does it feel to be momentary An oven timer Or a sparkler Sidewalk How does it feel to be cracked open To bleed to death Blunt force trauma for 200 Rooftop How's the autumn The air's quite nice But the ending is blurry Oh winter How does it feel to melt To simply Stop existing Open ocean How does it feel to drown I thought there were bandaids And you never even saw me
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Aug 14, 2014
Aug 14, 2014 at 12:25 AM UTC
Afternoon
Her blood is cyanide She cannot seem to hide She is light as helium She's strong as aluminum She is graphite carbon As subdued as boron Abundant as hydrogen But toxic as nitrogen She's precious as platinum Her skin is thallium In her lungs there is radon She is as rare as xenon Helpful as iodine Whose life is astatine's She is soft as lithium Her eyes are beryllium There is nothing I can do Already the tumor grew
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Apr 28, 2016
Apr 28, 2016 at 6:57 PM UTC
Periodic Table
the night was already crazy-wild by the time we arrived at Jarred's pool. he had a big house but we never went in 4 teens, teen dream, a dream team; but I knew deep down just what it was we snuck out for. a "transform-optional" rite, this hollow night. but I still had doubts... as Jarred offered me an aluminum can of something and I nervously said, "no thank you", the moon had proudly jut out he had a big house but we never went in. I hadn't noticed, without the moonlight, just how sharp Jarred's teeth and fingernails were. canines, ivory & sporadic. looking at me I hadn't noticed how reptilian our 2 friends were The fangs and dislocating jaws, tendrils & scales. Man-o-war for a head, giant earthworm for an arm She looked scarier than he. Those 2 went at each other in a murderous way A blood sport of sorts. Confusing to me. She spread her jaws wide - a parachute with teeth And bit down hard between his legs. Blood everywhere. Blood spattered on her face She looked ****** god-awful by then. The meat of his dead body then re-animated And assimilated with hers. Anabiosis + Differentiate Jarred, a werewolf or something like it, approached me. He had a big house but we never went in. we chatted poolside for a while he'd go harmoniously from monster to human, human to monster. Boiling cancerous growths under his fur Grew angry eyes that glared at me. clawhand on the back of my neck, he went in for a kiss (or a bite) with a puckered face and bared teeth. This is it. I finally felt a grossness so profound that I, without thinking, jumped in the pool to splish-splash, cool, to escape, whatever I opened my eyes and just floated there for a bit. hanging in the stillness trying to forget those alien freaks staring up at the moon from the bottom of a pool.
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Aug 21, 2012
Aug 21, 2012 at 10:33 PM UTC
Jump In the Pool
the night was already crazy-wild by the time we arrived at Jarred's pool. he had a big house but we never went in 4 teens, teen dream, a dream team; but I knew deep down just what it was we snuck out for. a "transform-optional" rite, this hollow night. but I still had doubts... as Jarred offered me an aluminum can of something and I nervously said, "no thank you", the moon had proudly jut out he had a big house but we never went in. I hadn't noticed, without the moonlight, just how sharp Jarred's teeth and fingernails were. canines, ivory & sporadic. looking at me I hadn't noticed how reptilian our 2 friends were The fangs and dislocating jaws, tendrils & scales. Man-o-war for a head, giant earthworm for an arm She looked scarier than he. Those 2 went at each other in a murderous way A blood sport of sorts. Confusing to me. She spread her jaws wide - a parachute with teeth And bit down hard between his legs. Blood everywhere. Blood spattered on her face She looked ****** god-awful by then. The meat of his dead body then re-animated And assimilated with hers. Anabiosis + Differentiate Jarred, a werewolf or something like it, approached me. He had a big house but we never went in. we chatted poolside for a while he'd go harmoniously from monster to human, human to monster. Boiling cancerous growths under his fur Grew angry eyes that glared at me. clawhand on the back of my neck, he went in for a kiss (or a bite) with a puckered face and bared teeth. This is it. I finally felt a grossness so profound that I, without thinking, jumped in the pool to splish-splash, cool, to escape, whatever I opened my eyes and just floated there for a bit. hanging in the stillness trying to forget those alien freaks staring up at the moon from the bottom of a pool.
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You made me a rose today Out of the aluminum foil From your burrito at Qdoba.. And that was the first time A guy has ever given me a flower.
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 8:32 PM UTC
fast food romance
My family eats dinner underwater. We bounce between the seats of our chairs and the bottom of the table, we pass the stuffing as it floats off the plate, and no one seems to blink. My parents just talk about how safe it is, here, below the surface. No gay fiances or athiests or postmodernists or liberal Christians. I am the only one with an oxygen tank. “I have never owned a tent that kept the rain out.” My family camps with gear from the 80s. We cook in bare aluminum and eat with volatile plastics, a crusty dining cloth pinned to the warped picnic bench. My feet and head push through the tent wall and into the rain fly. I always wake up wet. “I have never owned a bed that was long enough.” In house 1 and 2, my feet hang off the end of the bed, circulation halted at the ankles by the wooden frame. In dorm 1 and 2, I lie diagonally on the bed, my shoulder hitting the wall. In dorm 3, My feet are pressed flat against the wardrobe. I fall asleep not knowing who I wake up for. “I have never loved anyone I didn't have to.”
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Jan 15, 2014
Jan 15, 2014 at 3:05 AM UTC
Faulty