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"aristotle" poems
Check it I be the mic originator greater than the next hater So my nines will degrade ya send ya back to ya maker undertaker Shake ya With my earthquake flows formin' portals bigger than the black hole leave ya third eye swole My thoughts travelin' faster than the speed of light say goodnight from the snake bite A rhyming python wears cables and nylon runnin' bars harder than marathon true champion none could knock a don Birthed by the sun raised by moon Sonic booms soundwaves from heart rates feelin' doom and soon To be resting in the womb The belly of the earth retaining my turf know my worth make words hurts So suckas better tuck in ya skirts I'm catching mirth Along with death til my last breath cookin' up rhymes from the *** of my mind n continue to shine Its asinine to flex ya mind if you cross the gun line don't be a victim of a graphic design (Ya tapped out) Scatzzz all over the kitty katz with my woody bat making them brains cracks Cells it ain't hard to tell ****** fear me cuz I be the archangel Michael fallin' deep into the depths of my hell o well If you try to inhale my lyrical tales this ship is set to sail On ya brainwaves these days fools rappin' for cheap pay lookin' all gay **** that I rather use the AK Sittin' by the window seal signing the release will my soul'll still Be reaching regardless the hardest artist Usually ends up a carcass manifest the darkest Rhymes but shine light at the same time crime at an all time High once I blaze my thoughts cells fought & caught By the smokin' arrows of a ghostly pharoah Thats just my ancestors though lettin' me know it's time to show and go blow for blow toe to toe Hands or the chrome pistol The ghetto Aristotle makin' bodies mold from the enemies that caught a cold
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 3:40 PM UTC
on Da Bar
Check it I be the mic originator greater than the next hater So my nines will degrade ya send ya back to ya maker undertaker Shake ya With my earthquake flows formin' portals bigger than the black hole leave ya third eye swole My thoughts travelin' faster than the speed of light say goodnight from the snake bite A rhyming python wears cables and nylon runnin' bars harder than marathon true champion none could knock a don Birthed by the sun raised by moon Sonic booms soundwaves from heart rates feelin' doom and soon To be resting in the womb The belly of the earth retaining my turf know my worth make words hurts So suckas better tuck in ya skirts I'm catching mirth Along with death til my last breath cookin' up rhymes from the *** of my mind n continue to shine Its asinine to flex ya mind if you cross the gun line don't be a victim of a graphic design (Ya tapped out) Scatzzz all over the kitty katz with my woody bat making them brains cracks Cells it ain't hard to tell ****** fear me cuz I be the archangel Michael fallin' deep into the depths of my hell o well If you try to inhale my lyrical tales this ship is set to sail On ya brainwaves these days fools rappin' for cheap pay lookin' all gay **** that I rather use the AK Sittin' by the window seal signing the release will my soul'll still Be reaching regardless the hardest artist Usually ends up a carcass manifest the darkest Rhymes but shine light at the same time crime at an all time High once I blaze my thoughts cells fought & caught By the smokin' arrows of a ghostly pharoah Thats just my ancestors though lettin' me know it's time to show and go blow for blow toe to toe Hands or the chrome pistol The ghetto Aristotle makin' bodies mold from the enemies that caught a cold
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Fare thee well by islets of time, Beauteous blooms of fragrance; of thyme. Gliding symphonies beckons thine eye, Gentle minds float toward sky high. O cues sung by the siren, allure! Once, fusion of reason borne pillar. Twice ponder, may our paths entwine, Thrice to act, unlike the tranquil Seine. Like angelic enigmas par Euler, Soar upon the painted auric frontier. Air fresh: an ebullient morning dew, Wisdom: moisture for the thirsty few. By spring fountain, if thou art inclined, Bright sparrow among the bovine herd. Lo, argent quarry of dust- liquid guile, Behold, product beyond thunder- gale. Scents of lavender assail thy sleep, Euphoric dreams, we welcome with glee! Sleepy horizons, a glorious dawn, Morning filled with a trillion suns. Some time, some day: travel the stars, Mortal shackles unchain my awful maw. Pupil of Aristotle, Darwin, and Vinci, There lies truth; a transient hierarchy...
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Aug 28, 2010
Aug 28, 2010 at 5:18 AM UTC
Cosmic Melancholia
Crawled inside a whisky bottle For I am no aristotle This is my hiding spot for awail There is no need for 911 to be dialed I'm only trying to drown my misery Surly that is plain to see Please don't shake me out I need my whisky stout Let me stay In here for now I'll find my own way out.....some how
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Mar 22, 2016
Mar 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM UTC
Whisky Bottle
All your dreams are made of Cloudy lemonade The places you hide in filled with Sheet music All the words you say seem to be Soft lullabies The difference between dreams and reality Is the line between smiles and smirks Is the line between crying of joy and grief The line between laughing at a memory long lost And crying because of a current joke The line between Aristotle and Rowling Or just the horizon. All you ever say is that you'll be allright But don't you realize that All your dreams are made of Cloudy lemonade?
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Nov 27, 2011
Nov 27, 2011 at 4:37 PM UTC
Cloudy Lemonade
I'm ****** off with Robert Frost And the guy who wrote Paradise Lost. I ain't happy with Aristotle, And especially John, the weird Apostle. Don't mention, please, Shelley or Keats, Blake, Byron or Yeats; Each and every one you see, (if you're ready for some truth) Took their themes from me. Don't look aghast, Don't tsk and titter, Their thievery's left me Mean and bitter. Just because they said it first, Doesn't mean I find it just. It doesn't give them ownership Of my themes and authorship. I write of Roads, Good and Evil, God and Satan, love and leaving. I know I'm internally bleating, But I can't abide this metric beating. Although they're merely dust and bones, They don't have the right to own All the great lines I have sown: The best laid plans of mice and men. (I said that before Robbie Burns). Let me make this poeticaly clear; ***If I was there, or he were here, I'd sue the *** of Will Shakespeare***.
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May 11, 2018
May 11, 2018 at 9:31 AM UTC
Robbie Burns Is a Plagiarist
I'm really sick. Like ***** is going to come out of my mouth-- an eruption of **** from my ears is due. I've laid too long dormant and one by one the hot spots of my petty jealousy,      indignation, and      mistrust are at boiling points: The Ring of Fire, they call it. Yellowstone I'm the ********* Yellowstone caldera. The great rim, ****** up and blister scarred, knock-kneed from falling out of bed in nightmares, weird from the predisposition to volcanic shittiness       (not in a romantic way) but none the less active,          or reactive. This vexation is as old as grinding plates. This repulsion is as old as the poisoning of Aristotle My head is the Spartan scythe because I'm a new sign in an old world. I use old signs to poison this newly dug well between us But not well can I keep this message         banner         ******* billboard to myself. So let me just wrap the code from ear to ear, in plain text where you can see the cypher: **** your red dress. You see, those blisters are the gravity between White Dwarves pulling at skin, and earth, and ending thrown halfway across the universe. I knew I'd seen you before, there at the edge of the Oort Cloud where we tell people we just met: I stopped eating I was hurt once I was ugly too and no one was really listening. You and the rest of our red dresses meant too little. But still then why do you whine over the hungry, and hurt, and ugly and spit in my face for being there at the Edge, and for loving the thrill in listlessness, the passion in mundanity? And that ******** about the shallowness of victims? You didn’t learn a thing traveling and trusting and falling out of beds. Your drunken honesty is your sober lack of layers. This isn’t a far reach of space, your torn dress and cork heels won't work here. Don’t bring that littleness here, you're the only one not really listening now.
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Jan 11, 2015
Jan 11, 2015 at 12:25 AM UTC
The Drunken Lack of Layers to Ms. Almond
I'm really sick. Like ***** is going to come out of my mouth-- an eruption of **** from my ears is due. I've laid too long dormant and one by one the hot spots of my petty jealousy,      indignation, and      mistrust are at boiling points: The Ring of Fire, they call it. Yellowstone I'm the ********* Yellowstone caldera. The great rim, ****** up and blister scarred, knock-kneed from falling out of bed in nightmares, weird from the predisposition to volcanic shittiness       (not in a romantic way) but none the less active,          or reactive. This vexation is as old as grinding plates. This repulsion is as old as the poisoning of Aristotle My head is the Spartan scythe because I'm a new sign in an old world. I use old signs to poison this newly dug well between us But not well can I keep this message         banner         ******* billboard to myself. So let me just wrap the code from ear to ear, in plain text where you can see the cypher: **** your red dress. You see, those blisters are the gravity between White Dwarves pulling at skin, and earth, and ending thrown halfway across the universe. I knew I'd seen you before, there at the edge of the Oort Cloud where we tell people we just met: I stopped eating I was hurt once I was ugly too and no one was really listening. You and the rest of our red dresses meant too little. But still then why do you whine over the hungry, and hurt, and ugly and spit in my face for being there at the Edge, and for loving the thrill in listlessness, the passion in mundanity? And that ******** about the shallowness of victims? You didn’t learn a thing traveling and trusting and falling out of beds. Your drunken honesty is your sober lack of layers. This isn’t a far reach of space, your torn dress and cork heels won't work here. Don’t bring that littleness here, you're the only one not really listening now.
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As I let my mind wander into time, and release these binds that have me confined, I began to feel a great energy, like the sun had been compressed and put into me, and as time tic tocs and unwinds into its trail of infinity. I realize a trinity mind body soul, they burn as a whole, for the mightiest of goals. and as time unwinds it'll leave you behind. unless you get your spot in, a line of legacys never to be forgotten Confucius, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr, George Washington, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Nelson Mendala, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Steve Jobs, Stephen Hawkins, Leonardo Da Vinci, Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart, nikola tesla, Wael Ghonim, Jimi Hendrix, Joseph Stiglitz, Reed Hastings, François Rabelais, Archimedes, Sigmund Frued, Charles Darwin, Aryabhata, Bob Marley, Garrett Morgan, George Washington Carver, Aristotle, John Locke, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Plato, Galileo Galilei...and many many more... Stand for something. Think outside the box. Evolve and express yourself. Make a difference  #STEM #LegacyToIfinity
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Nov 28, 2014
Nov 28, 2014 at 5:31 PM UTC
Thoughts of a Legacy
The best ever military commander Was a young king named Alexander. From the Macadonian city state He was known as Alexander the Great. A brave man - he had a lot of bottle; A wise man too - taught by Aristotle. He fought many battles & always won, His army never lost a single one. Turkey, Syria and Egypt all fell, So did Babylon, and Persia as well. But after 13 years of war, his men Said they wanted to go home again. That was the end of conquest & glory And that's the end of Alexander's story
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Aug 10, 2014
Aug 10, 2014 at 10:25 AM UTC
Alexander The Great
Hail to Thee, Immortal Three Knowledge we sing on laud Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates Philosophy, to be human awed Teach through time, consciously Nod not, what others fraud Socrates taught, Divine Being God not of brutal Athens’ passions Entity of Beauty, Truth Seeing Goodness unseen in day’s fashions Soul for unalloyed agreeing Lessons humanities’ compassion Talk eternal justice, everlasting life Socrates’ Sovereign Right of Reason Clearly mind deceived sense’s strife Invincible perfection be God’s season Thus, our key to knowledge ever rife Priests who find this, absolute treason No church or Socratic school A barefoot man roamed to teach Socrates mocked for looking a fool His speech not one to simply preach Plato witnesses a martyr’s drool Cruel hemlock, words did so breach Handsome aristocratic youth Plato Followed Socrates’ Eternal Wisdom But soon to find his own credo In Medara to find Euclid and freedom Egyptian geometry to provide dado To Plato life, expression; not a system Eternally an artist, Plato did develop Philosophic circle in Academus groves Bring Athens, world knowledge envelop Discretions of sensations, be not oaths What man may be, an animal jealous Plato’s allegorical cave found in droves As Plato once be Socrates’ disciple So too, to Plato would Aristotle be Passing comprehension archetypal Successions of genius’ visions do see Aristotle taking it step further, as vital To science of hands-on discovery And this is where we see a parting Of two distinctly opposing philosophies Plato being at odds, with science starting Aristotle’s truth, finding no apologies Things not happening by chance imparting Frivolity of duopoly, dichotomy to Socrates But a new era has surely now dawned Science exploring an invisible atom And the seen and unseen correspond So to Aristotle’s, Plato’s, Socrates’ datum Brilliant new philosophies have spawned An abstract notion of conceived stratum
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 12:09 PM UTC
Immortal Three
Hail to Thee, Immortal Three Knowledge we sing on laud Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates Philosophy, to be human awed Teach through time, consciously Nod not, what others fraud Socrates taught, Divine Being God not of brutal Athens’ passions Entity of Beauty, Truth Seeing Goodness unseen in day’s fashions Soul for unalloyed agreeing Lessons humanities’ compassion Talk eternal justice, everlasting life Socrates’ Sovereign Right of Reason Clearly mind deceived sense’s strife Invincible perfection be God’s season Thus, our key to knowledge ever rife Priests who find this, absolute treason No church or Socratic school A barefoot man roamed to teach Socrates mocked for looking a fool His speech not one to simply preach Plato witnesses a martyr’s drool Cruel hemlock, words did so breach Handsome aristocratic youth Plato Followed Socrates’ Eternal Wisdom But soon to find his own credo In Medara to find Euclid and freedom Egyptian geometry to provide dado To Plato life, expression; not a system Eternally an artist, Plato did develop Philosophic circle in Academus groves Bring Athens, world knowledge envelop Discretions of sensations, be not oaths What man may be, an animal jealous Plato’s allegorical cave found in droves As Plato once be Socrates’ disciple So too, to Plato would Aristotle be Passing comprehension archetypal Successions of genius’ visions do see Aristotle taking it step further, as vital To science of hands-on discovery And this is where we see a parting Of two distinctly opposing philosophies Plato being at odds, with science starting Aristotle’s truth, finding no apologies Things not happening by chance imparting Frivolity of duopoly, dichotomy to Socrates But a new era has surely now dawned Science exploring an invisible atom And the seen and unseen correspond So to Aristotle’s, Plato’s, Socrates’ datum Brilliant new philosophies have spawned An abstract notion of conceived stratum
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Tingly under the daisies; Glassy-eyed, glazed, greasy; Shaking, shivering, shuddering, Wishing, wandering, whimpering, Westernizing— Romanizing— Constitutionalizing— Institutionalizing— Perpetually searching And dying And living, Watching Death survive And scythe the frolickers, The prancers, The rompers, The merrymakers. A rose clamped between his Grinning teeth glistens brightly, And he dances so joyously. “Yes!” say the naysayers, Confused are the soothsayers, Lost are the cartographers. Oh, Utopia! The monks are extravagant; The meditations are a farce! The preachers are beggars And swindlers and chargers, And Machiavelli fulfills his wishes! Babies are stillborn, stabbed, and Ritualistically sacrificed, And their blood is spilled, drunk, Slathered over the ***** man. The evangelists scream and lie: “You are all predestined to die!” Oh, hail Utopia! Wedded are the girls to the girls; Wedded are the boys to the boys; Wedded is Death to Death, Life to Life, And Life to Death. Wedded are the living to the existent. And the milking babes are slaughtered Ceremoniously, Surreptitiously, Ostentatiously. Oh, hail great Utopia! We are all dead and unintelligent: Laugh, laugh, Einstein, at your Stupidity. Laugh, laugh, Temple Grandin at Your retardation. Laugh, laugh, laugh! Look at the sluggard, thou ant; Look at the boy, sobbing wolf; Aesop was drunk, Aristotle was delusional, Michelangelo was blind, Beethoven could hear, Poe was sane. And I can't read. They ramble, I watch. They sleep, I watch. They dream, I watch. They sleep-talk, I watch. They scream, I watch. They choke, I watch. They suffocate, I watch. Stone-faced, I stare; Raspingly, I breathe; Uncontrollably, I twitch; Inwardly, I rage. I hope you die, I hope you die. I hope you bleed, I hope you die. I want you begging and crying, I want you blubbering at my feet, I want you gnashing at my ankles, I want you writhing in pain, I want your arm twisted off, Cracking with the snapping sinews, I want your beating heart in my hands, I want your genitals uprooted and stuffed in your throat, I want your stomach so I can eat the still-digesting food, I want your shrunken head and I want to force my thumbs into your unblinking eyes and I want to tear your face in two and I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die.
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 9:47 PM UTC
Utopia
Tingly under the daisies; Glassy-eyed, glazed, greasy; Shaking, shivering, shuddering, Wishing, wandering, whimpering, Westernizing— Romanizing— Constitutionalizing— Institutionalizing— Perpetually searching And dying And living, Watching Death survive And scythe the frolickers, The prancers, The rompers, The merrymakers. A rose clamped between his Grinning teeth glistens brightly, And he dances so joyously. “Yes!” say the naysayers, Confused are the soothsayers, Lost are the cartographers. Oh, Utopia! The monks are extravagant; The meditations are a farce! The preachers are beggars And swindlers and chargers, And Machiavelli fulfills his wishes! Babies are stillborn, stabbed, and Ritualistically sacrificed, And their blood is spilled, drunk, Slathered over the ***** man. The evangelists scream and lie: “You are all predestined to die!” Oh, hail Utopia! Wedded are the girls to the girls; Wedded are the boys to the boys; Wedded is Death to Death, Life to Life, And Life to Death. Wedded are the living to the existent. And the milking babes are slaughtered Ceremoniously, Surreptitiously, Ostentatiously. Oh, hail great Utopia! We are all dead and unintelligent: Laugh, laugh, Einstein, at your Stupidity. Laugh, laugh, Temple Grandin at Your retardation. Laugh, laugh, laugh! Look at the sluggard, thou ant; Look at the boy, sobbing wolf; Aesop was drunk, Aristotle was delusional, Michelangelo was blind, Beethoven could hear, Poe was sane. And I can't read. They ramble, I watch. They sleep, I watch. They dream, I watch. They sleep-talk, I watch. They scream, I watch. They choke, I watch. They suffocate, I watch. Stone-faced, I stare; Raspingly, I breathe; Uncontrollably, I twitch; Inwardly, I rage. I hope you die, I hope you die. I hope you bleed, I hope you die. I want you begging and crying, I want you blubbering at my feet, I want you gnashing at my ankles, I want you writhing in pain, I want your arm twisted off, Cracking with the snapping sinews, I want your beating heart in my hands, I want your genitals uprooted and stuffed in your throat, I want your stomach so I can eat the still-digesting food, I want your shrunken head and I want to force my thumbs into your unblinking eyes and I want to tear your face in two and I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die.
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Once for Halloween I dressed up as Athena The Greek goddess My favorite Greek goddess And it was a decent costume Your standard iParty fare Paired with an elaborate hairdo and some 50 cent earrings And I knew I was only a cheap imitation Nothing close to the real thing For no one would ever build me a temple Burn cattle in my name Put on white robes and fall to their knees For me No, not for me But for Athena Oh, how they fell! How the ancient Greeks worshipped her very name Gave her their capital city And dedicated the most powerful force to her Wisdom That force which drove the philosophers The very energy That sustained Socrates And Plato And Aristotle And all those dead guys we read about in class I was in a class Reading the words those dead guys collected In their moments of clarity But all I could think about All I really wanted Was to throw on a white robe And fall to my knees at the Parthenon Begging for wisdom, wisdom Please, Athena, some wisdom! I don't care if it's heresy I don't care if you're a myth nowadays Because you once reigned You once stood on Mount Olympus In all your ancient power And watched your people crying out wisdom, Athena, wisdom! Please! I wish I could have been there I wish I could have seen The day the goddess cracked open Zeus's skull And was born Fully armed Ready for her battle Not the fight for wisdom, no The fight she faced was undying The war she would lead Would ripple through the ages Taking all civilizations And tearing at their social order For it was the men she was fighting The disbelieving fools who put her *** down Taking all women's wisdom And deeming it inferior Substandard Not good enough So Athena blazed in glory And for her, men believed Believed in their mothers and wives and daughters Saw in that enthroned goddess The sparks that fueled women's minds Yes, I wish I'd been there I wish I could have kissed her sword And asked her to stick around To blaze her way to the twenty-first century And make these guys tremble, too Instead I look around my 80% male college of engineering And wonder why I need to prove my worth Simply because I have a second x chromosome I wish that I could blaze in glory And dazzle them all the same That my Halloween costume could be enough to fool them That they would turn their toga-party bedsheets Into white robes And fall to their knees Gasping, "Wisdom, wisdom!" And that, for one moment I could be their goddess
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Nov 27, 2010
Nov 27, 2010 at 6:38 PM UTC
Athena
Once for Halloween I dressed up as Athena The Greek goddess My favorite Greek goddess And it was a decent costume Your standard iParty fare Paired with an elaborate hairdo and some 50 cent earrings And I knew I was only a cheap imitation Nothing close to the real thing For no one would ever build me a temple Burn cattle in my name Put on white robes and fall to their knees For me No, not for me But for Athena Oh, how they fell! How the ancient Greeks worshipped her very name Gave her their capital city And dedicated the most powerful force to her Wisdom That force which drove the philosophers The very energy That sustained Socrates And Plato And Aristotle And all those dead guys we read about in class I was in a class Reading the words those dead guys collected In their moments of clarity But all I could think about All I really wanted Was to throw on a white robe And fall to my knees at the Parthenon Begging for wisdom, wisdom Please, Athena, some wisdom! I don't care if it's heresy I don't care if you're a myth nowadays Because you once reigned You once stood on Mount Olympus In all your ancient power And watched your people crying out wisdom, Athena, wisdom! Please! I wish I could have been there I wish I could have seen The day the goddess cracked open Zeus's skull And was born Fully armed Ready for her battle Not the fight for wisdom, no The fight she faced was undying The war she would lead Would ripple through the ages Taking all civilizations And tearing at their social order For it was the men she was fighting The disbelieving fools who put her *** down Taking all women's wisdom And deeming it inferior Substandard Not good enough So Athena blazed in glory And for her, men believed Believed in their mothers and wives and daughters Saw in that enthroned goddess The sparks that fueled women's minds Yes, I wish I'd been there I wish I could have kissed her sword And asked her to stick around To blaze her way to the twenty-first century And make these guys tremble, too Instead I look around my 80% male college of engineering And wonder why I need to prove my worth Simply because I have a second x chromosome I wish that I could blaze in glory And dazzle them all the same That my Halloween costume could be enough to fool them That they would turn their toga-party bedsheets Into white robes And fall to their knees Gasping, "Wisdom, wisdom!" And that, for one moment I could be their goddess
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her morning pleasure occasionally actually exercised, a substituted delight for gym-going work with Lulu exercised, no man can, will ever, understand the nature/nurture debate over, in my mind resolved, nature, hands up and hands down RR's^  query, is god dead, no longer rumbles around in my head cause when he speaks, I can't get a word in edgewise what i did in the sixties, lost to time in memoriam, especially some really bad poetry but this gender differentiation a matter that Aristotle dutifully, so wisely, philosophically avoided there is no Socratic method rationality in what is just crazy insanely meiosis, there is no comprehension of the essence of  elemental genetic division, like the NY Mets, ya just gotta believe, or just accept but from the other side of the bed comes a surly, dry rejoinder, a gelled spike *thanks to modern science, why don't you come over to the right side, maybe then, you'll understand the true meaning of pleasure transgend your self, show your willingness per the bible, to be god's new and improved version of a human being* So, a pretty little, light A-line, with a summer floral pattern, a size 12, (20? *** I, will wear with great human pride, come June
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Mar 12, 2017
Mar 12, 2017 at 11:20 AM UTC
dress shopping on-line, in bed, on a Sunday morn at 10:00am (just another love poem)
You had to be me talking **** about Aristotle then finding him in the poem on the next page. We had been talking about how rhetoric makes students of analysis feel like they live in some intelligent matrix. You had to be me to know that was very topical at that time in my life. To know what wild bewilderment meant at it’s actual size. Two eyes, about the size of spare change, must of been going crazy, but I couldn’t know unless I was you. You had to be me to feel as if you were enclosed in open space feeling simultaneously, empty objects come to life. Tugging at the connections in mind I was bound to make because of where those same mechanical hands had already fostered me. Making me think something like god could be construction lights over my exit sign creating a tunnel out of the kind of darkness night tells tired protagonists exists to make you stronger. You had to be me to know that strength is a metric of preparedness, and preparedness is a metric of memory. I forgave mine. I only know an instant, the past shrinks under the weight of my experience like a shivering body under a bed sheet. My strength dreams quiet fists and sweats from voracious hips. Unlike the stories, the night has made me a tender man. Unlike the stories, that’s ok. I’m dying just as fast as any hero with much more romance.
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Nov 10, 2013
Nov 10, 2013 at 2:33 AM UTC
Rhetoric
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal city with its expensive life. But I am young and in excellent health. My command of Greek is superb (I know all there is about Aristotle, Plato; orators, poets, you name it.) I have an idea of military affairs, and have friends among the mercenary chiefs. I am on the inside of administration as well. Last year I spent six months in Alexandria; I have some knowledge (and this is useful) of affairs there: intentions of the Malefactor, and villainies, et cetera. Therefore I believe that I am fully qualified to serve this country, my beloved homeland Syria. In whatever capacity they place me I shall strive to be useful to the country. This is my intent. Then again, if they thwart me with their methods -- we know those able people: need we talk about it now? if they thwart me, I am not to blame. First, I shall apply to Zabinas, and if this ***** does not appreciate me, I shall go to his rival Grypos. And if this idiot does not hire me, I shall go straight to Hyrcanos. One of the three will want me however. And my conscience is not troubled about not worrying about my choice. All three harm Syria equally. But, a ruined man, why is it my fault. Wretched man, I am trying to make ends meet. The almighty gods should have provided and created a fourth, good man. Gladly would I have joined him.
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They Should Have Provided
Collaboration Bundles and fibers Soul and science Defiance Da’ Vinci took my hands, Galileo my logic Aristotle and Plato my mind Gandhi and Theresa my heart Others the ability to dream The King Jr. compassion Jews the capability to forgive The oppressed the willingness to live Darwin took my curiosity Who handed it down to Einstein and Marie Curie Others take some, many take none But all the power of ambition To strive to become Human
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Feb 9, 2013
Feb 9, 2013 at 9:46 PM UTC
Collaboration
I am haunted by iguanas Crawling though the attics of my dreams And lately my front teeth Are growing some kind of orange fur I worry that ring tailed lemurs Have stolen my remote control I'm ridiculed by spider monkeys Holding my underwear for ransom My faithful cat ignores my worries Unless her dish is empty Now ants seem vaguely threatening And magpies watch me in the morning Late at night, I wonder what advice Kafka or maybe Aristotle could offer But they've never friended me or twittered.
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Mar 22, 2012
Mar 22, 2012 at 2:46 AM UTC
I'm haunted by Iguanas
How to get a good night's sleep-- Instead of enumerating endless sheep, Reclining beautifully with Aristotle, Don't decline, hit the bottle, What does rhyme with Aristotle? I ponder parades of passing Axolotls, Maybe Australia's golden wattles, Driving by, foot on throttle. Yes, they all rhyme with Aristotle, Maybe I shouldn't drink that bottle, Musing thoughts philosophical, Aristotle waxing lyrical and logical, I'll curl up with this learned book, "What is beautiful?" at Aristotle I'll look, Far different from enumerating sheep, Drifting into a good night's sleep.
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 5:02 PM UTC
SLEEP AND ARISTOTLE
aristotle and plato were convinced that the circle was the heavenliest shape in all of creation. it was eternal. but, see, the ellipse is that much better. the oval is the imperfect circle, the imperfect shape that instead of having one heart has two, the sound of an open mouth as you gasp, the shape of fingerprint bruises. the earth moves in an ellipse. all of the planets do. as we spin around the sun, you and i are planets. no wonder when i see you from afar, i can't breathe; we're just in space. you are neptune. you are deep blue and stormy sea clouds that look like sweat and work, but you are mysterious and beautiful and so far away. when you are neptune, i am uranus, being pulled by the way you move. sometimes i am saturn. i am swollen with the dust and dirt that make up my outsides. when i am saturn, you are jupiter: a friend who is bigger than i am. we're space stations and metal, too cold to touch until we get hot from the movement of each other. we're satellites and moons and space-time fabric. aristotle and plato were convinced that the circle was the heavenliest shape in all of creation. i think that they're so wrong. the shape of your hips, your words, your kindness, your taste, your mouth, your body, your creativity, your sweetness all end up tasting like eternity and heaven. my heart beats in circles sometimes. but, when i look at you, my heart beats like you and i and ovals.
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Feb 14, 2013
Feb 14, 2013 at 2:38 PM UTC
planetary motions in love
Parents are your first teachers; But if they were permissive, Teachers have rules they follow through on. If parents were too strict, Teachers cut you slack. If you fall, they may or may not pick you up. If you were abused, they will report it, Despite all your objections. If you've been excluded, you're now in a class. If you're really smart, they'll show you how much there is to learn. If you're struggling, they'll show you how to learn. If you're afraid, stand beside a teacher. If you're a bully, you will confront your victims. If you're in doubt, they'll search you out. If you're cocky, they'll trim your spurs. If you're lonely, they have room. If you need solitude, they have a room. If you're in love, they know the season; If you know hate, they know the feeling. When you compete, they're in the seats. When you're sad, or conflicted, Teachers listen. They taught Moses, Jesus and Mohamed, Yes. Teachers beget teachers. They instructed Socrates, Aristotle and Plato. They put us in North America and on the moon. They worked with Salk and Banting, Gates and Jobs. Anyone can learn something. They even taught our parents, But not everyone learns. Hey, Teachers, don't leave those kids alone!
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 8:58 AM UTC
Teachers
No one ever fell in love with the slash of a sword You can slice, dice and tear But there are war-ravaged, pain-stricken voices echoing everywhere And rivers cascading of blood, meat and bone And a pen made a legend because Aristotle was only a philosopher and Alexander was Great So the pen made the sword, swords never made pens And ****** was an eight-year-old choir boy on the road to priesthood And Stalin was the child of abusive alcoholic, kicked out of school But the pen draws scars far deeper then the sword Because words can hurt far better then they heal And words can cut down people in ways the sword can't fathom And you can always stab someone with a pen But you can hardly write a lullaby with a ****** dagger.
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 11:52 AM UTC
Pen and Sword - The Battle of Might
Flits of crepuscular longing across the simoom in the night. For with samiel at the helm, all hell will take us for sloth. Firstly, a schism overtakes the wind, backsliding the doorstep of Lucifer’s kin. Keep an eye on the door’s of ewes. The child angered by sky will surely lust for the hedonists imbue. Then the rattle shakes, pelting trunks of lye, chafing the goons of the dawn and choking from the ***** in our young. Aristotle bakes yore, and relief takes the pen, until the quietness of the impala becomes transfixed by our brethren. Then sores take the skin by trial. Eagerly rushing towards the venomous trails, and only then does the bandit bemoan the pain. Only then will the hungered and hungry peel back their fingers for fare, there where the flocks lay in wait and in pairs. Here where the melancholy of revenge, fills our quivers with children’s tears. Only then do we make haste for the shade, otherwise the sun will cook our hides to the colors of the day, then we will lay quiet too. Maybe then we’ll be overtaken by the Xombie Moon.
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Jul 11, 2018
Jul 11, 2018 at 8:33 AM UTC
The Wittol
Longing the curse of Human Satisfaction I clear my throat Remembering the madness of a storming boat The whipping winds Introduced a chaos That infinity even had to question Correcting confidences like a teacher would the troublemaker Insanity rides high, Protecting itself from women That they thought they knew at the time But soon discovered They wouldn't even lend'em a dime I lost track of something way back when But now see that I was never young Just not strong enough to grip the gun Forgetful through shallow puddles of dampening and soggy Love I try to structure these thoughts But only produce Ashy white doves For the fire inside all of us is burning hard and eternal There is no hope that can forever float So in these times after alabaster marble shiners And politicians pinching pennies naked in front of camera's A policemen whispers to a friend he hates the leader And soon is bludgeoned and branded a freak Forever dead dreams in a child's mind is the place I wish to be Away from the hanging school halls Away from the broken bottle battalions A place directed towards indirectness Where mystery lightly grips its boot heels Ready to flee at any chance given to thee Startling laughter rests in the ears of men un-hearing Obsessed pig tail wearing women Upset the gifted girl a la two first names Swinging herself madly and wildly With words she herself cannot even understand or control But Oh the traces of mastery and genius with clouded perceptions Of shadows contemplating Aristotle easily For the barman is asking for the tab now And the lonesome nights I knew before Still await me once again As the same dead knights rest in books On high ancient shelves In dusty far away nooks
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Feb 27, 2011
Feb 27, 2011 at 11:34 AM UTC
Infinity
Longing the curse of Human Satisfaction I clear my throat Remembering the madness of a storming boat The whipping winds Introduced a chaos That infinity even had to question Correcting confidences like a teacher would the troublemaker Insanity rides high, Protecting itself from women That they thought they knew at the time But soon discovered They wouldn't even lend'em a dime I lost track of something way back when But now see that I was never young Just not strong enough to grip the gun Forgetful through shallow puddles of dampening and soggy Love I try to structure these thoughts But only produce Ashy white doves For the fire inside all of us is burning hard and eternal There is no hope that can forever float So in these times after alabaster marble shiners And politicians pinching pennies naked in front of camera's A policemen whispers to a friend he hates the leader And soon is bludgeoned and branded a freak Forever dead dreams in a child's mind is the place I wish to be Away from the hanging school halls Away from the broken bottle battalions A place directed towards indirectness Where mystery lightly grips its boot heels Ready to flee at any chance given to thee Startling laughter rests in the ears of men un-hearing Obsessed pig tail wearing women Upset the gifted girl a la two first names Swinging herself madly and wildly With words she herself cannot even understand or control But Oh the traces of mastery and genius with clouded perceptions Of shadows contemplating Aristotle easily For the barman is asking for the tab now And the lonesome nights I knew before Still await me once again As the same dead knights rest in books On high ancient shelves In dusty far away nooks
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For who can say life is not but a dream. When you sleep does your mind often know that you're not awake? Something that your brain can't distinguish between, is it reality or dreamlike serene? For who can say that death is not but a dream. Free'd from mortal coil, the body may wither but the mind may transcend separated from the body. Time is only conceptualized and regimented. Time is of course intangible. There has only ever been one time, the now everything is happening on one scale, at one time, always. Empty, like all living beings. composed of nothing. All that lie behind those thin human shells, and interact as if aesthetics are taken for granted. However, all is perceived and compiled of atoms and molecules, particles. Nothing lies truly there except for perception, look aside of the boundaries and reevaluate the conception. Living, stagnant cogs of the world with fear of rejection. Are you a dreamer? there isn't too many of us around anymore. Life, is a waking dream and you walk down its path, but must challenge it and not give in, therefore life is a walking exam. Aristotle spoke of knowing something because he knows he knew nothing. I know nothing, we all know nothing, knowledge is found therein. Faking your way through everything, who's going to call who's bluff. Invisible boundaries, ones greatest enemy must surely be themselves, for instance all those living their lives painting imaginary walls to lock their dreams in. Told something that isn't just on a daily basis by media no you shouldn't  and no you can't. Hypnosis of the masses, bow down to the monopoly and put priority to the meaningless monetary. Living lives chained to sheets of paper, always chasing, never ever asking why? do you need that, but will you die? Confused and lost sight of the real. pursuit of Happiness, Knowledge, Creativity, Love, Possibilities of above. Break out the invisible shackles, leap out from under the internal prison and run, never stop till you reach the top of the mountain and scream. We are free and the time is now, there has never been a greater time to be alive. The world is our oyster lets soar and leap to the pinnacle of our greatness. We can all achieve our potential, your life on a canvas, paint your masterpiece.
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Jul 12, 2014
Jul 12, 2014 at 10:58 AM UTC
Life wrapped in a dream
For who can say life is not but a dream. When you sleep does your mind often know that you're not awake? Something that your brain can't distinguish between, is it reality or dreamlike serene? For who can say that death is not but a dream. Free'd from mortal coil, the body may wither but the mind may transcend separated from the body. Time is only conceptualized and regimented. Time is of course intangible. There has only ever been one time, the now everything is happening on one scale, at one time, always. Empty, like all living beings. composed of nothing. All that lie behind those thin human shells, and interact as if aesthetics are taken for granted. However, all is perceived and compiled of atoms and molecules, particles. Nothing lies truly there except for perception, look aside of the boundaries and reevaluate the conception. Living, stagnant cogs of the world with fear of rejection. Are you a dreamer? there isn't too many of us around anymore. Life, is a waking dream and you walk down its path, but must challenge it and not give in, therefore life is a walking exam. Aristotle spoke of knowing something because he knows he knew nothing. I know nothing, we all know nothing, knowledge is found therein. Faking your way through everything, who's going to call who's bluff. Invisible boundaries, ones greatest enemy must surely be themselves, for instance all those living their lives painting imaginary walls to lock their dreams in. Told something that isn't just on a daily basis by media no you shouldn't  and no you can't. Hypnosis of the masses, bow down to the monopoly and put priority to the meaningless monetary. Living lives chained to sheets of paper, always chasing, never ever asking why? do you need that, but will you die? Confused and lost sight of the real. pursuit of Happiness, Knowledge, Creativity, Love, Possibilities of above. Break out the invisible shackles, leap out from under the internal prison and run, never stop till you reach the top of the mountain and scream. We are free and the time is now, there has never been a greater time to be alive. The world is our oyster lets soar and leap to the pinnacle of our greatness. We can all achieve our potential, your life on a canvas, paint your masterpiece.
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