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"appropriating" poems
Graffiti, Graffiti, Graffiti Being bled onto The landscapes between thighs Incarcerating women's wombs Justifying men's genes Foreigners appropriating Women's and men's sexualities Losing the power to be When changing our roles' long overdue Gendering our words and attitudes Man, who taught you to be a chauvinist! Woman, who taught you to be a ********* Don't put your god in gendered bigotry Do man's emotions feminize him? When will women freely carry torches! What gender do you assign this voice? What gender do you assign this words? Will the masses even understand these choices? Don't worry, my sexuality won't infect you Criminalizing sexuality Placing it front and center, implying that's all I am Graffiti, Graffiti, Graffiti Being bled onto The landscapes between thighs Graffiti, defiling the masses not high classes Because men and women of society Full of stride, take pride, in their gendered hyde Graffiti, defiling the masses not high classes Ignored hoods, barrios, countrysides, ghettos, projects Devouring women's and men's bodies Younger and younger people falling to HIV/AIDS and STDS Vaginas receiving the violence, wombs bringing misery LGBT youth ****** into fire Lost males (in mental chains) ****** to assert their manhoods Graffiti, Graffiti, Graffiti Full of dangerous chemicals, being sprayed onto The landscapes between thighs Attempting to legislate our stories, without warrant
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Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013 at 10:06 PM UTC
Graffiti (Between Landscapes of Thighs)
resuming vogon poetry altering website logos pretending everyone cares playing "east hastings" asphyxiating well-nigh denouement depicting twitter status obfuscating coincident deletions translating from Sḵwx̱wú7mesh assuring Sḵwx̱wú7mesh exists painting skwiḵw's mother? decrying micropolitical maelstrom imbibing fireball fountain inundating lexical foofaraw crafting poetic wonders desiring other mediums remaining practically invisible ending internet-only depression drafting noetic blunders requesting astute clique blazing perilous trail aging ominous grisaille depicting kmart realism seeking darker groups increasing pre-weekend laughter appropriating communist symbols making lone chuckle offending worldwide communists colonizing hello poetry colonizing parallel universe relaxing e-migration policies пить чистую водку photographing abduction scene ¿losing consistent format? increasing bluebird insignia avoiding frivolous legalities striking astraphobic comments assuming near-universal automation lowering latent inhibition traversing oneiric plane laxwadding afebrile loodies wallscaping pitchsourced chthonicities closing one-star conveniences sharing alien-looking alphabet writing system downtimes
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Sep 13, 2015
Sep 13, 2015 at 7:42 PM UTC
201509-w1
Thunder birds Feathers made of light No crashing in the night Heedless heals shatter the ground Muskets silencing every warning Thunder birds Voices carry out songs No silence in the oblivion Hollowed breathing gasping oxygen Bullets' sonic reverberations Overpowering every whimpering Thunder Birds Witnessing every crime No veils cloud the terror Burning images through tears Weapons of desolation spark Smoke and fire to blind just eyes With every burning desire We were meant to love But instead fell low Construing our delirium As if by predestined design Without faulting the system Facilitating issuance of our sickness Restless voices trivialized To demobilize their power Appropriating oppression as ours
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 11:31 PM UTC
Thunder Birds
Growing up unguided and penniless Torturous upbringing pushing me down A handgun, speculating and rash Gluttony attempts to smother my eyes Wearing the condemnation of men Appropriating the virtues of girls Feasting in the winds of a fandango Weakening under the need for support Emblazoned under the influence of white powder nights Ceilings lights spinning out of control Locked up and discover the stars in strife Sweet seclusion with a Beelzebub for company Crawling through the gutters on all fours to get out Black and white key arias connected Caressing coloraturia platitudes on fire Busting a gut on the walkway to truth Peaceful vigilance a bismillah fraternity Deserted, drowning in civilisation Tanked, yanked and naked Is this Mama Mia    Standing on two feet Rebuked, not loved Rebellion, unshackled Revelations, so, not want to die Reciting bohemian poetry before the bullet strikes high                                                                        Scaramouche....
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Apr 7, 2021
Apr 7, 2021 at 1:59 PM UTC
Scaramouche, standing on two feet
winter lips press into her memory bones aching with the fever of remembrance quiet words raise half lipped appeasement mostly scarring scars scar her mind but occasionally words stir up like rosebuds of alphabet soup spelling out novels of repeated notes picture picture picture click click click half lipped winds greased strands flap loose flap in the loose whipped winds white comforter white blanket white snow white southern comfort white south corporate and government city lights counting monies greased oil slicked back hair scalps scalped dentists appropriating native american hunting tools scalped girl appropriating brown skin winter lips kiss kiss kiss from root to tip toe down the hallway to scar thighs thigh highs soft like southern comfort white south and the blood is red but red blood cells are combatants of white blood cells like winter lips are combatants of her thoughts
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Dec 28, 2014
Dec 28, 2014 at 8:26 PM UTC
winter lips
------ BACK BEHIND THE LINE! Appropriating an arsenal of verbal weaponry
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Feb 27, 2014
Feb 27, 2014 at 6:14 PM UTC
Upbraided
Chin up What are you looking down on for? I heard you were the winner of this contest Why down When you are already in the up Your life is as high as the clouds Tiptoeing on the gold When every floor shines to you People latch on you like a magnet Hoping to leech off some basket of your talent To me and the eyes of the envy, that is not humility It is nothing but vanity You have the neatest work Organized and logical Most understandable and desirable You have the cheeriest face and smile You have the coolest of fiercest lies You have done the impossible You have the peaceful of memorable You have the breath freshing life You have a simple but satisfying affection You have somebody willing to sacrifice for you Best of both worlds connection You do not have a broken brain That fluctuates on every thought train To me, I see rain Instead of the bow's grains You do not faint In world's every little madness added with vain You stay rooted on your spot Defending yourself even when the fire's hot Dare playing forget-me-not I ask myself everyday Why cannot I be strong? Why cannot I be independent? Why cannot I be more talented? Why cannot I be clean? Why cannot I be innocent and still loved? Why do I keep thinking? Why cannot I just stop? Why am I surviving? Why Why cannot be like them? Why cannot I be like you Always never enough Improves but fails Told to be yourself but I am tired of doing both the appropriating and the disappointing Always hurt Always inviting pain Nothing to gain With my self pitying With my self degrading Demotivating this miserably, hopelessly beating, drowsing heart As I long stare on Is it me Is it you Is it everybody That I am crying out for this? Repeating the celebrity thinking To prevent sinking You have to keep sailing in everyone's mingling To forget what you are actually dancing What you are living Until you are completely failing Fading Because we are all missing something Then blame it on everything It is hard to maintain the: "Just sing and soon everyone will respect you."
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Feb 20, 2019
Feb 20, 2019 at 7:34 AM UTC
My Bloodcoiled, Irremovable Envy
Chin up What are you looking down on for? I heard you were the winner of this contest Why down When you are already in the up Your life is as high as the clouds Tiptoeing on the gold When every floor shines to you People latch on you like a magnet Hoping to leech off some basket of your talent To me and the eyes of the envy, that is not humility It is nothing but vanity You have the neatest work Organized and logical Most understandable and desirable You have the cheeriest face and smile You have the coolest of fiercest lies You have done the impossible You have the peaceful of memorable You have the breath freshing life You have a simple but satisfying affection You have somebody willing to sacrifice for you Best of both worlds connection You do not have a broken brain That fluctuates on every thought train To me, I see rain Instead of the bow's grains You do not faint In world's every little madness added with vain You stay rooted on your spot Defending yourself even when the fire's hot Dare playing forget-me-not I ask myself everyday Why cannot I be strong? Why cannot I be independent? Why cannot I be more talented? Why cannot I be clean? Why cannot I be innocent and still loved? Why do I keep thinking? Why cannot I just stop? Why am I surviving? Why Why cannot be like them? Why cannot I be like you Always never enough Improves but fails Told to be yourself but I am tired of doing both the appropriating and the disappointing Always hurt Always inviting pain Nothing to gain With my self pitying With my self degrading Demotivating this miserably, hopelessly beating, drowsing heart As I long stare on Is it me Is it you Is it everybody That I am crying out for this? Repeating the celebrity thinking To prevent sinking You have to keep sailing in everyone's mingling To forget what you are actually dancing What you are living Until you are completely failing Fading Because we are all missing something Then blame it on everything It is hard to maintain the: "Just sing and soon everyone will respect you."
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Growing up alone A world of torture Speculating and waste Drowning in gluttony Wearing the condemnation of men Appropriating the virtues of girls Feasting in the winds of noise Dealing the white powders Trialling the ceilings lights Filling containers for strife Sweet seclusion with a toilet for company Crawling through the gutters on all fours Black and white keys connected Caressing platitudes on fire Busting a gut on the walkway Peaceful vigilance a fraternity Standing on two feet Tanked, yanked and naked Where is that space in time Deserted, drowning in civilisation Rebuked Rebellion Revelations Reciting poetry
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Apr 3, 2021
Apr 3, 2021 at 8:08 PM UTC
Standing on two feet, no excuses.
lover of love's long lost history you are so intrinsically dear to me and i know you can hear the beat when our hands go blistering i love the neapolitan but not naples listen to how the city sings like the others but she buys time and barely bothers to remove her appropriating staples she is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection of a reflection but you, my dear neapolitans, how holistically human you happen to be and what a human thing to do to braid oneself with a few ventricles of other hearts unseen you are not special insofar as you are human and the home you make mistakes you for a permanent resident, assumes you are a planted person whose sole purpose is bloomin but you are dynamic, not static you do not live in someone's attic you move around, the ground beneath you isn't bequeathed to staying beneath you, you keep moving and loving and all of the aboving because our love isn't something that can be taken away by a location change or how 21,000 hearts are arranged
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Apr 3, 2018
Apr 3, 2018 at 5:37 PM UTC
to love the neapolitan, to critique naples
The homily that turned into slobbering, unequaled any ordinary drool. Evenly balance my center of gravity. Breathe in, breathe out. Lung sacs are losing elasticity. Tighten descension through to  your love. Air is thick surrounding what is held inside a chalice.   Blood mist pillows. Body crimson flush. An amity offered presently, so shortly gives a second's continuance. My will to hold your crux, so I may adore, eat of, drink of, understand. Our sacrament has not yet recognition in eyes of high on holy. Still, I promise to sit with you, sopping all this be all and end all, so I may call your meat, bone, and marrow, solely mine. As amorousness is the weakness I worship, you are my sin.
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 9:59 PM UTC
Appropriating
Coalesce in moonlight as the hour of the wolf passes, transcend it all at midnight her lithe body thrashes, transmuting daylight into fervent cries, and appropriating passion for the open skies, evoking the lover in hopes of knowing truth, though she's alone in a home with her dreams of youth
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Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 1:17 AM UTC
Coalesce
Lessening sadnesses by appropriating real-time I wish for certainty but don’t grant myself that luxury–unworthy of getting my way, fulfilling my desires…all renters no buyers, not in this market Writing without cause to satisfy my purpose Giving your name less power by replacing it with Jump Ship, ‘cause that’s what you do, when the action gets too hot you can no longer allot your time…your priorities change within a day I wish for consistency but don’t grant myself the serenity to accept it won’t come from you.
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May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015 at 2:24 AM UTC
Still holding out
Adulterous besieging capstone damnation exploitation foists groping, heaving insidiously jerking knowingly lunges machinations notoriously nymphomaniacal officiating ****** quests rapaciously, sadistically tenaciously, unstoppably vasocongested wickedness Xerses yawped zeolously. *************************** All throughout history of man/woman kind ascendent civilizations extensively gouged, impailed, kindled, murderous outrages quashing sacred urges, women yearned. *************************** Versatile thematic refrain punctuating nubiles maximized looting, pillaging, ****** visited upon females via decimating fountainhead guarding brestworks of vestal virgins, innocent youths (little boys and girls). *************************** Twenty first century **** Sapiens male population continue to applaud, covet, extol, gloat, invoke, kickstart, ****** outrages, quest savagely thee unbridled wedded yoke appropriating coquettishly enshrined gals imposing killing mandates okaying queasy sordid ugly wretchedness yanking aborhent behavior denigrating, fulminating, harrassing, jawdropping lewdness, nabbing prized rearends, twerking, violently whiplashing, yelling zingers. *************************** Now not a day elapses with instances women claim untoward advances, and/or forced coercion to satiate and temporarily slate the ****** thirst informing prononced picadilloes (philandering if married pompous head honcho demands appeasement of coitus, ******** indecent lowball outrageous ribald uncouth ****** animalistic, carnal, feral, gonadal, immoral, kleptomaniacally misogynistic, narcissistic, opportunistic, pathetically reprehensible, torturously undervaluing, validating virility within Yankee Doodle, haply lambasting, proudly touting, vaunted wayfair zest. *************************** The above meandering stream of consciousness attempted to amplify, a recent spate of accusations figuratively slapped against a male *** mongers, who specifically rule roost, and blithely, demandingly, forcefully, hideously, impishly, killingly, malignantly, opprobriously, powerfully, repeatedly, terminally, vindictively, wantonly, yearningly acrimoniously belittle, demean flagrantly, harshly insinuate keeping mindful, not publicize rabid ****** unwanted villainous withering zeal!
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Nov 21, 2017
Nov 21, 2017 at 7:51 PM UTC
Predilections of the ******* beast
Adulterous besieging capstone damnation exploitation foists groping, heaving insidiously jerking knowingly lunges machinations notoriously nymphomaniacal officiating ****** quests rapaciously, sadistically tenaciously, unstoppably vasocongested wickedness Xerses yawped zeolously. *************************** All throughout history of man/woman kind ascendent civilizations extensively gouged, impailed, kindled, murderous outrages quashing sacred urges, women yearned. *************************** Versatile thematic refrain punctuating nubiles maximized looting, pillaging, ****** visited upon females via decimating fountainhead guarding brestworks of vestal virgins, innocent youths (little boys and girls). *************************** Twenty first century **** Sapiens male population continue to applaud, covet, extol, gloat, invoke, kickstart, ****** outrages, quest savagely thee unbridled wedded yoke appropriating coquettishly enshrined gals imposing killing mandates okaying queasy sordid ugly wretchedness yanking aborhent behavior denigrating, fulminating, harrassing, jawdropping lewdness, nabbing prized rearends, twerking, violently whiplashing, yelling zingers. *************************** Now not a day elapses with instances women claim untoward advances, and/or forced coercion to satiate and temporarily slate the ****** thirst informing prononced picadilloes (philandering if married pompous head honcho demands appeasement of coitus, ******** indecent lowball outrageous ribald uncouth ****** animalistic, carnal, feral, gonadal, immoral, kleptomaniacally misogynistic, narcissistic, opportunistic, pathetically reprehensible, torturously undervaluing, validating virility within Yankee Doodle, haply lambasting, proudly touting, vaunted wayfair zest. *************************** The above meandering stream of consciousness attempted to amplify, a recent spate of accusations figuratively slapped against a male *** mongers, who specifically rule roost, and blithely, demandingly, forcefully, hideously, impishly, killingly, malignantly, opprobriously, powerfully, repeatedly, terminally, vindictively, wantonly, yearningly acrimoniously belittle, demean flagrantly, harshly insinuate keeping mindful, not publicize rabid ****** unwanted villainous withering zeal!
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I, the capitalist war machine, I, the magnificent static, I, the bomb shelter peace, I, the twenty four hour news cycle, the rise, the relapse, the detox, the retox, the crucifixion, the rebirth, the disgrace, the continuation of the theme repeating ad nausea towards annihilation, I, the caged ****** I, the black boy bleeding to death, I, the rioters in the street, I, the Wall Street gallows, I, the old money militia, I, the yuppie **** appropriating culture from the scraps of endless genocide, I, the shock value mockeries of conventional moralities dumbed down to be digested, I, the blood spilled on sacrificial altars on holy ground, I, the celestial body ignored, passing back and forth endlessly through peripheral visions, I, the madman howling at the moon for some ******* peace and quiet I, the pill popping siren choking on adoration, I, the mass hallucination shared and reshared till it loses all meaning, I, the Pantheon collapsed, The downfall broadcast, The television unplugged and still playing, I, the crushing realization, The devastating grip of ruinous apathy, The movement monetized, The victory shallow, I have built this tomb with my own hands, I have changed the channel one too many times, I have let this consume me I am guilty You are no better Lie still Let it consume you
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 2:30 AM UTC
In defense of the system,
Math is appropriating the qualities of form so as to make generalizations about their interactions. Like saying W=wisdom, l=love, and s=speech, then I could say W(l,s)=Wl+Ws. Here wisdom acts as a qualitative change of l and s together. Or, W(l,s)=Wl*Ws. In this way wisdom act as a multiplier, but it could get trickier if wisdom acted as both a multiplier and a qualitative change. So I could ask how I could represent that. The difference is that wisdom has no physical representative. Whereas stating V, a smooth vector space, has elements (e1,...,en) automatically gives a representation. Functions onto this space would be characterized both by its definition and representation, much like the term "running". What seems difficult is adding more and more verbs together to form other verbs, where these verbs have a whole list of what is included. Also, why would two different symbols, like walk and run, have similar qualities? Or, why would two similar definitions, like escort and escrow, have different meanings? Thus, although math is said to be a universal language, it still is a nuanced language, and the number of years and hours spent learning it is directly related to its familiarity.
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Mar 27, 2021
Mar 27, 2021 at 3:18 PM UTC
A nuanced universal language
Lawrence Hall [email protected]   https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/ poeticdrivel.blogspot.com                                   Slogging Through the Cantos A feral howl of sustained malevolence The souring stench of anti-Semitism Random ideograms scattered about Appropriating a touch of Chinese cool Defining tainted chic at Rapallo Free verse scattered like post-war hopes shattered - And did he take a splash of Mussolini With his death-in-the-afternoon denials? How awkward for those whose poetic sage Was but a mad relic of a tattered age
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Aug 6, 2021
Aug 6, 2021 at 9:49 AM UTC
Slogging Through Pound's Cantos