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"automobile" poems
dark hearts lost down dusty path her soul within inches of my grasp why must our time be numbered when we see the angels weep ill show you solitude my finger prints were missing when I washed away the sin do you fear the things that may be I turned my back on the crowd dont turn your back on me now I ask you your ***** ways and you felt strange I gave you everything you want and then you run away you always run back my friend and let me feel your soft hand the sound of buckels and metal ring from this chilly automobile take in the passion of the night and bask in the warmth you fe
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Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 4:09 PM UTC
Space For Solitude
walking out of the liquor store wine bottles double ****** asphalt concrete curb stone the great expanse of the universe the mundane welded water tight that Escher print of ribboned minds personal accounting money as abstraction automobile documents layers of bureaus the great and powerful realm of ideas shared fallen history the strike of the pen ideals ethics the avoidance of sin cold is coming warmth is rare plug into existential wetness yet suffer banality Friday, November 1, 2013
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 12:06 PM UTC
bean sprout
"Beep-beep. BANKERS TRUST AUTOMOBILE LOAN You'll find a banker at Bankers Trust" Advertisement in N.Y. Times When comes my second childhood, As to all men it must, I want to be a banker Like the banker at Bankers Trust. I wouldn't ask to be president Or even assistant veep, I'd only ask for a kiddie car And permission to go beep-beep. The banker at Chase Manhattan, He bids a polite Good-day; The banker at Immigrant Savings Cries Scusi! and Olé! But I'd be a sleek Ferrari Or perhaps a joggly jeep, And scooting around at Bankers Trust, Beep-beep, I'd go, beep-beep. The trolley car used to say clang-clang And the choo-choo said toot-toot, But the beep of the banker at Bankers Trust Is every bit as cute. Miaow, says the cuddly kitten, Baa, says the woolly sheep, Oink, says the piggy-wiggy, And the banker says beep-beep. So I want to play at Bankers Trust Like a hippety-hoppety bunny, And best of all, oh best of all, With really truly money. Now grown-ups dear, it's nightie-night Until my dream comes true, And I bid you a happy boop-a-doop And a big beep-beep adieu.
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If He Were Alive Today, Mayhap, Mr. Morgan Would Sit on the Midget's Lap
The moment I spoke your name for the last time, you felt it. You had to throw the net again into the sea, to trap me in my pathetic admiration of you. You felt it when I forgot you existed. You had to weasel your way back in to my heart. But the space reserved for you has grown so small. How many years do you plan on pulling me along? Dragging me behind your reckless automobile, my face raw from rubbing the asphalt. Skin chaffed from repeated abuse. You are the madman behind the wheel. I forgot about you until you reminded me that I'm simply not me unless I feel discarded, abandoned, unloved by you.
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Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012 at 1:13 AM UTC
Why are you so mean to me?
You once told me that I reminded you Of Icicles. They were cold like my hands And short like my tolerance For you. I never enjoyed the taste of them, But I liked the idea of them. Remind me that icicles have no taste. I'll recommend you try one That is holding onto An Automobile. You'll tell me that you already have.
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Jan 22, 2012
Jan 22, 2012 at 4:20 PM UTC
Icicles and Automobiles.
early morning and the same sun rises over distant lands and close-by skyscrapers searing rusting infrastructure with its harsh orange glow spreading westward, stretching over asphalt pathways that connect, divide, structure, and destroy alighting wearied faces of automobile drivers careening through their morning commutes, consuming caffeine like ******* while they deftly maneuver their 2,000 pounds of steel behind, along, aside, and ahead of their neighbors this, is New Jersey, where all roads lead to Newark and there is nothing left but roads approaching the colossus, the cars cram and crawl into curb-side cases narrowly avoiding calamitous collisions and condescending traffic cops doors, fly open and a mad flurry of arms and legs, boxes and backpacks come whirl-winding out onto the entryway rushed goodbyes and abrupt adieus color the palette of the doorway dripping inside, bleeding into the harshness of late businessmen and screaming families. Shoes Off. Laptops Out. and pray dearly that the TSA doesn't shove their fingers inside of you today. arms up, legs spread exposed to the imperceptible energy of American exceptionalism the magnetic arm swings, impregnating its subjects with the Joy of Fear and the awe of empire swings again, and releases the hapless passenger from its total control Through. Checked. Complete. Pass Go, collect $200. and into the international installation itself. Enjoy your flight.
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Jan 8, 2014
Jan 8, 2014 at 12:36 PM UTC
not quite Rome
I sit amongst rampant consumerism, Yet I smile as I sip my Starbucks tall Pike Place. To my left, old ladies decked in Tiffany decry their neighbours folly, Even while they sit blind to their own. To my right, Chapters! Book store that offers so much more, A perfect monument of society's needs answered in one storefront. We don't shop here for a read, or for the escape some unknown author's words spell for us. No, this masterfully crafted shop answers our shared need of empty spending on soulless items that will lift us from the mire of our meaningless lives for one instance, Before that scented candle or witty greeting card is left to collect the dust of our fallen gods. Behind me the street is full of noise but no one is listening, Busses carry the many but each is a world onto themselves, Thoughts not of their making wrestle for attention with smartphones, Before long the thoughts echo what the eyes read on the digital screens glowing below them. The enemy of my friend... Don't let consciousness wake! Combined the noise without and the noise within will drown whatever chance we had at relevancy. And so Oprah wins, Look under your chairs, It's your new life, Not to be mistaken with your old one, This one comes with a shiny new automobile, trip, ring, dress, shoes, Anything but enlightenment. Before me, Possibilities. You?
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Jun 23, 2014
Jun 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM UTC
Society
I've never had a fistful of love, because my fist is too full of dirt from digging graves. And the greatest fist I've ever known is the one leaving bruises all over my insides. But that fist has graduated and been granted tools to be used as weapons. And my insides which were once diamonds, are now nothing but sawdust. And I can feel the knife. I can always feel the knife. And stab me just for kicks because it tickles my fickle chest and makes me feel like I'm living in a French city with a quick and fickle tramway system that can take me anywhere I want to be. But instead I'm always going to a town a mere hour away and sitting in traffic in a stuffed automobile, wishing I was where the trains are. Because the trains that have always sang me lullabies whisper melodies to me all the time now, through smoke and haze and swirling lights. I can feel the knife. I can always feel the knife. Call me Miss November because I'm the first snowfall after the best time of year, and I cut the world with my icicle sword of a soul. Can you feel the sword? I hope you can always feel the sword. And I will leave and the world will be warm and happy, and upon my returnal, I'll give you beautiful sweater weather and stab you with my icicle sword when you least expect it. I can feel the knife. You can feel the sword. It tickles. Me and Miss June sing a sister song, making harmonies with our weaponry. My icicle sword, her scalding torch. Just call me Miss Emmy Lou November. I'll sing a duet with you and depart for almost forever, and leave with my sister, Miss June. Wake up. It's November. I'm here. Wake up. I won't be here for long. I was born red all over. Never knowing if I'm meant for love or anger. But angry leaves fall in November, getting their revenge. But nobody listens to anger when it's falling to the ground so gracefully. So come to my November house jam and we'll all be angry and loving and cold and happy and dreading the latter end of my company, and I'll be wishing sister June was with me. I'm a blackhearted lover. I'm a blackhearted grave digger. I'm a blackhearted skinny lover with skinny arms that'll never be able to cover anyone from my frigid aura.
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 4:54 PM UTC
Miss November
I've never had a fistful of love, because my fist is too full of dirt from digging graves. And the greatest fist I've ever known is the one leaving bruises all over my insides. But that fist has graduated and been granted tools to be used as weapons. And my insides which were once diamonds, are now nothing but sawdust. And I can feel the knife. I can always feel the knife. And stab me just for kicks because it tickles my fickle chest and makes me feel like I'm living in a French city with a quick and fickle tramway system that can take me anywhere I want to be. But instead I'm always going to a town a mere hour away and sitting in traffic in a stuffed automobile, wishing I was where the trains are. Because the trains that have always sang me lullabies whisper melodies to me all the time now, through smoke and haze and swirling lights. I can feel the knife. I can always feel the knife. Call me Miss November because I'm the first snowfall after the best time of year, and I cut the world with my icicle sword of a soul. Can you feel the sword? I hope you can always feel the sword. And I will leave and the world will be warm and happy, and upon my returnal, I'll give you beautiful sweater weather and stab you with my icicle sword when you least expect it. I can feel the knife. You can feel the sword. It tickles. Me and Miss June sing a sister song, making harmonies with our weaponry. My icicle sword, her scalding torch. Just call me Miss Emmy Lou November. I'll sing a duet with you and depart for almost forever, and leave with my sister, Miss June. Wake up. It's November. I'm here. Wake up. I won't be here for long. I was born red all over. Never knowing if I'm meant for love or anger. But angry leaves fall in November, getting their revenge. But nobody listens to anger when it's falling to the ground so gracefully. So come to my November house jam and we'll all be angry and loving and cold and happy and dreading the latter end of my company, and I'll be wishing sister June was with me. I'm a blackhearted lover. I'm a blackhearted grave digger. I'm a blackhearted skinny lover with skinny arms that'll never be able to cover anyone from my frigid aura.
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poisoned well of the antichrist littered with ground cover picking out ****** flecks of gravel blacktop kneeskin patience pieces of scattered space time to go back to the future of continuity lack of genius ingenuity and the suckling of the pig entourage riding in a flat top hatchback cadillac of the daily grind upperclassman japan onii-chan brother in arms from anotha motha hug from afar colliding with crackpot theory terrible fantasia cooling bricks in soggy sun swallowed his pride with a glass of self-worth and these ***** don't cook like they used to I don't look like I used to warped veil of camouflage chameleon leather with a ****** level of automobile salesman tried to get closer to god ground him up, picked out the stems twisted him into thin paper touched flame to his finger tip and a son of Adam was born gum shoe gaze or the emptiness felt at the end of reasonable doubt correctional text messaging system sent from hoarse corpses tenderly poignant in their ****** coffins will think for food cries from an outdated MENSA over ***** and under-appreciated siting on hunched shoulders to get a better look to be a martian in a plain port wharf warehouse whaling boat red tide in a Shanghai ********** floodgates made of bitter premise that last bit of purple yam **** Okonkwo Things Fall Apart fell apart due to faded highschool ambitions and bloodshot eyes cruel like the shade of off-cerulean champagne fizz tickles at the soft meat of his tarnished throat and silver tongue as the matchstick framework so fragile in comparison fizzles out on drenched sidewalk while cigarette ash floats by like gray gnats
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May 30, 2013
May 30, 2013 at 4:03 PM UTC
The Glass Breakfast
poisoned well of the antichrist littered with ground cover picking out ****** flecks of gravel blacktop kneeskin patience pieces of scattered space time to go back to the future of continuity lack of genius ingenuity and the suckling of the pig entourage riding in a flat top hatchback cadillac of the daily grind upperclassman japan onii-chan brother in arms from anotha motha hug from afar colliding with crackpot theory terrible fantasia cooling bricks in soggy sun swallowed his pride with a glass of self-worth and these ***** don't cook like they used to I don't look like I used to warped veil of camouflage chameleon leather with a ****** level of automobile salesman tried to get closer to god ground him up, picked out the stems twisted him into thin paper touched flame to his finger tip and a son of Adam was born gum shoe gaze or the emptiness felt at the end of reasonable doubt correctional text messaging system sent from hoarse corpses tenderly poignant in their ****** coffins will think for food cries from an outdated MENSA over ***** and under-appreciated siting on hunched shoulders to get a better look to be a martian in a plain port wharf warehouse whaling boat red tide in a Shanghai ********** floodgates made of bitter premise that last bit of purple yam **** Okonkwo Things Fall Apart fell apart due to faded highschool ambitions and bloodshot eyes cruel like the shade of off-cerulean champagne fizz tickles at the soft meat of his tarnished throat and silver tongue as the matchstick framework so fragile in comparison fizzles out on drenched sidewalk while cigarette ash floats by like gray gnats
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i. What occupies thy soul and being? Worldly knowledge, book's, gold, material thing's; Diamond's, jewelry, ring's, automobile's, weapon's that **** Poison's that we put into ourn spiritual bodies. ii. Where is thy heart? Into plastic, stuck in a casket, pulling apart? Art thou striving to a life of just surviving, or actually living life; What cometh first? God, family, friend's, or earthly trend's? iii. Whom doth thou serve? The thought's of the devil? The grave and the shovel? Art thou on another level? Or dying to get rich; Living as a slave? Choked in a cave? Giving all, as all the lord gaveth thee. iv. What doth thou fearest? Mankind? With bomb's that shineth, and gun's to smoketh? Or thy creator whom hold's the key to life and death, art thou like all the rest laying thy treasure on men's step's? Or in Jehovah's kingdom? The great architect's ringing the doorbell at thy being; ding **** Ding **** Ring. Ring!!!! Wilt thou let him in? Or serve the world and men? ©Brandon Nagley ©Lonesome poet's poetry
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Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 at 7:35 AM UTC
Where is thy treasure?
Animals abolishing apples and apricots, angry astronauts abandon Abraham's automobile, algae acting after ant at Ally alligator's aunt's apartment Aching antsy alpha aardvarks arranging afternoon arguments After Amanda ate anchors, Anna attacked Alabama at Abbey Road Alice anounced an aristocrat arriving. An acceptable antonym!
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Apr 16, 2010
Apr 16, 2010 at 3:32 PM UTC
A
Exchanging or replacing an old automobile can be an intensely emotional experience for anyone I still have the license plate screws from the first car my mom sold although I didn’t care at all when my dad sold his car first I remember crying at the dealership when they took my mom’s Toyota I don’t even remember my dad telling us he got a new Ford backseat on the left, behind the driver, was my designated spot, still is I kept them in an empty Hubba Bubba OUCH! Gum tin, the screws sometimes I’d open it up just to hold them and wonder why I’d cared so much about that car
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 10:52 AM UTC
Those New Car Tears
My heart beeps and grinds but mechanics apply WD-40 and I grind no more. I am plugged in (only to charge now) and soon I'll be free to travel as far as the wi-fi allows. It's new ish, my technology and a lot of people are afraid. I am not the Terminator. I can not fix myself. I have no mind but people are afraid because I'm not what they're used to. If you fear me, then don't watch colour tv or use digital clocks or drive an automobile because they're new ish too, just like me.
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Jan 12, 2015
Jan 12, 2015 at 1:46 PM UTC
Call me the Enemy
i. we drove north on highway six the night a perfect black close about us with neither moon nor stars to shine their light and cut the darkness ii. the pines hovered at the very edge of the narrow road making a long, dark tunnel when, after a curve just north of Nisswa, we emerged suddenly in to a birch stand iii. the car lights caught the white birch bark which reflected the light an eerie white stand of bright, white birch in a pitch black night the trees on either side rising in a gentle slope iv. i heard the breath catch in every passenger and then, just as suddenly, we are come upon an automobile accident v. the glitter of broken windshield glass flashed in the car headlights as i stop a car had wrapped about a pole, the driver's door open vi. soon, the drama was over we got in the car to drive home the whine of the tires on road filled the silent cabin the white lines of the road the white birch trees with their black shadows the far-away moon in the sky exactly over the road, seemed now living their own life apart and incomprehensible, yet very near to man vii. it was the beginning of April after a warm spring day the night had cooled a faint touch of frost fell the breath of spring felt in the soft, chilly air the highway ran endlessly through the northern woods viii. on both sides of the road the night was lit by the the headlights and birch trees in the brilliant, peaceful moonlight night and all were silent sunk in thought everything around seemed kindly, youthful, akin, everything--trees and sky, and even the moon, and one longed to think that so it would be always.
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Jan 19, 2012
Jan 19, 2012 at 9:52 AM UTC
an incident in a birch stand on Highway 6, 1997
i. we drove north on highway six the night a perfect black close about us with neither moon nor stars to shine their light and cut the darkness ii. the pines hovered at the very edge of the narrow road making a long, dark tunnel when, after a curve just north of Nisswa, we emerged suddenly in to a birch stand iii. the car lights caught the white birch bark which reflected the light an eerie white stand of bright, white birch in a pitch black night the trees on either side rising in a gentle slope iv. i heard the breath catch in every passenger and then, just as suddenly, we are come upon an automobile accident v. the glitter of broken windshield glass flashed in the car headlights as i stop a car had wrapped about a pole, the driver's door open vi. soon, the drama was over we got in the car to drive home the whine of the tires on road filled the silent cabin the white lines of the road the white birch trees with their black shadows the far-away moon in the sky exactly over the road, seemed now living their own life apart and incomprehensible, yet very near to man vii. it was the beginning of April after a warm spring day the night had cooled a faint touch of frost fell the breath of spring felt in the soft, chilly air the highway ran endlessly through the northern woods viii. on both sides of the road the night was lit by the the headlights and birch trees in the brilliant, peaceful moonlight night and all were silent sunk in thought everything around seemed kindly, youthful, akin, everything--trees and sky, and even the moon, and one longed to think that so it would be always.
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these faces on the wall that have no eyes, the young children with blood escaping from their hands as they pick up a mound of the Earth and throw at genuflected roses. these battered men in parks searching for light and my woman is no longer with me. it’s all vaudeville: this obnoxious working of continuance, these redundant flutings, these unprecedented fluctuations. opening the yellow gates to death as the automobile churns the last of its exhausted snarl. we are children peering through glass cases as death laughs at his hopeless clientele, sad, desolate progenies in working-classes, in parks, in factories, somewhere along Mendiola, or just treading the waist-high hellish froths of Dapitan, there’s always death in the nooks of the quiet and from where birds stir in sidereal circles, death with his hands resting on the cage, chases us back to our homes. death the changing of the gatekeeper. death the telling machine. death the dentist. death my next door neighbor. death, this boorish broken-winged Maya twitching in front of my dog’s shadow shot out of the Sun’s shameful recoil. death, my loud and loutish muse, death the truant, death, the copious fog somewhere in Kennon Rd. death, in my hands through darkness and light, death through troves of enigma, death through undisputed clearings, death the long line of red beads in EDSA, death the gates of Plaridel, it’s the moon following you, trailing your measure, i hold my woman’s used shirt, pick up her photographs and there’s no tender movement left but the still-seeking lion prowling the jungles of my heart, seared by lovelorn undoing. through the bottom of the sky and the unchanging roof-beam, the weathervane ceases to a sojourn and the wind is trapped in a place where we cannot utter any word between the gnashing of our teeth – through the wasted years, through the sleeping in and out of homes filled with beatings, to cathedrals swollen with tribulations, and to the vineyards wrung out of wine, my lover, walking through fire, sound silence.
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Jan 2, 2016
Jan 2, 2016 at 9:20 PM UTC
Anthem
these faces on the wall that have no eyes, the young children with blood escaping from their hands as they pick up a mound of the Earth and throw at genuflected roses. these battered men in parks searching for light and my woman is no longer with me. it’s all vaudeville: this obnoxious working of continuance, these redundant flutings, these unprecedented fluctuations. opening the yellow gates to death as the automobile churns the last of its exhausted snarl. we are children peering through glass cases as death laughs at his hopeless clientele, sad, desolate progenies in working-classes, in parks, in factories, somewhere along Mendiola, or just treading the waist-high hellish froths of Dapitan, there’s always death in the nooks of the quiet and from where birds stir in sidereal circles, death with his hands resting on the cage, chases us back to our homes. death the changing of the gatekeeper. death the telling machine. death the dentist. death my next door neighbor. death, this boorish broken-winged Maya twitching in front of my dog’s shadow shot out of the Sun’s shameful recoil. death, my loud and loutish muse, death the truant, death, the copious fog somewhere in Kennon Rd. death, in my hands through darkness and light, death through troves of enigma, death through undisputed clearings, death the long line of red beads in EDSA, death the gates of Plaridel, it’s the moon following you, trailing your measure, i hold my woman’s used shirt, pick up her photographs and there’s no tender movement left but the still-seeking lion prowling the jungles of my heart, seared by lovelorn undoing. through the bottom of the sky and the unchanging roof-beam, the weathervane ceases to a sojourn and the wind is trapped in a place where we cannot utter any word between the gnashing of our teeth – through the wasted years, through the sleeping in and out of homes filled with beatings, to cathedrals swollen with tribulations, and to the vineyards wrung out of wine, my lover, walking through fire, sound silence.
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Mind body lump sushi tastes people blanket's warm sausage loopy plaid pants mimosa fueled mathematics map making pancakes waffles don't know **** Add chicken and enjoy. Dance like a coked up Napoleon ecstatic to heard Vincent Price reading Poe while Moby **** writes rhymes opined to killer wale princes and lords. Service the dinosaur's automobile when you get a chance don't dance on like a midnight acid FLOWER power of the hour scours the loud crowd to life after death.
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Dec 27, 2012
Dec 27, 2012 at 12:26 AM UTC
Tossing words in the ocean
How is that we take everything for granted And we don't realize what we have until We see others suffering or barely managing. We believe that they have some sort of good-will. Took a plain, train and automobile, Aside the monuments, we walk the streets. These people are destitute; hungry and lonely. Sleeping on the concrete floor and ***** seats. When we see the difference in our lives to their's We how much we have in comparison to them. They savor every piece of food and fresh water, Why wait? It's our turn to be the supporting stem. We walk, we cry, we sleep, we pry. We wait, we see, we hear, we touch. We sense, we pray, we love, we hate. We teach, we learn, we strive, we watch. What is the difference between them and me? We are human. Our blood is red. Where love exists, there's only positivity. Just to see them smile when you give - is enough for now.
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Dec 15, 2013
Dec 15, 2013 at 10:16 AM UTC
Granted
At a time where it seems so very hard, for me just to feel alive. all I wanted then, was to drive As ridiculous as it seems it was the stuff of my dreams all I needed was my car and vacant 4am roads. Going through the gears, as if they were my final years piston tatted-ring finger; hand firmly wrapped around the wheel braking late into the corner locking up the alloy steel wheels on my automobile   the tires squeal waltzing them back into rotation as I find the threshold clutch in twist of the leg at the hip, I blip the throttle with my heel down into second one swift movement un-burnt fuel erupts in the pipes. blitzing through the off ramp keeping it tight, clipping the manhole cover in the apex pedal flat coming out, bounce the tach' as its not worth the upshift pitch the car into the long sweeping overpass bend the back end kicks out on decel' counter steer and slam the accelerator back into the bare metal floor front wheels clawing in the direction that I please keys slapping my knees straighten out and I ease her back home. reverse down into the narrow; dimly lit garage as I climb out, I can feel the heat radiating from the machine I built hot oil ticking as it finds its way back to the pan I stand and watch my car slowly disappear behind the garage door it is but another night survived for both of us.
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Sep 18, 2017
Sep 18, 2017 at 1:47 AM UTC
I miss street Racing
Every morning I must slay a mighty rusted dragon. His jaws gape as he waits for me. I climb his belly slowly, but persistently. When I reach his mouth I throw myself in. I burst from his stomach and slide down his back and he lies with his wounds and waits for tomorrow. I will slay him again today. These dragons are everywhere, waiting to be destroyed every morning by commuters and diabetics and dialysis patients. We must grit our teeth as the needle pierces the skin or as the engine starts again. We take that bitter pill and emerge victorious. But to what end? The dragon will be waiting the following morning as he always has, as he always will. It is the curse of the modern man. Each day we will slay this dragon until one of us is too weak to fight. But I know, too, that this dragon is necessary. He is the grain of salt in my morning that seasons the bike ride down his back. I have learned to enjoy riding through the rusted iron bridge that is his throat, and yes, even the climb I must endure to reach it. Each day I must slay this dragon. I must. It is for me that he exists, not the other way around. And I will slay him each day until I am struck by an automobile or die of a blood disease. So when I rise tomorrow, I will look him in the eye and he will wink. And I’ll know that he is not just a hill capped with a rusted iron bridge. He is the plight of modern men. He is the eternal struggle that must be, else life would be tedium. and we need each other, him and I. When I wake, I will rise and slay him again. And again. And again.
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Oct 24, 2013
Oct 24, 2013 at 1:30 AM UTC
Slaying the Dragon
Every morning I must slay a mighty rusted dragon. His jaws gape as he waits for me. I climb his belly slowly, but persistently. When I reach his mouth I throw myself in. I burst from his stomach and slide down his back and he lies with his wounds and waits for tomorrow. I will slay him again today. These dragons are everywhere, waiting to be destroyed every morning by commuters and diabetics and dialysis patients. We must grit our teeth as the needle pierces the skin or as the engine starts again. We take that bitter pill and emerge victorious. But to what end? The dragon will be waiting the following morning as he always has, as he always will. It is the curse of the modern man. Each day we will slay this dragon until one of us is too weak to fight. But I know, too, that this dragon is necessary. He is the grain of salt in my morning that seasons the bike ride down his back. I have learned to enjoy riding through the rusted iron bridge that is his throat, and yes, even the climb I must endure to reach it. Each day I must slay this dragon. I must. It is for me that he exists, not the other way around. And I will slay him each day until I am struck by an automobile or die of a blood disease. So when I rise tomorrow, I will look him in the eye and he will wink. And I’ll know that he is not just a hill capped with a rusted iron bridge. He is the plight of modern men. He is the eternal struggle that must be, else life would be tedium. and we need each other, him and I. When I wake, I will rise and slay him again. And again. And again.
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-Studying car lights from outside- an automobile's slow flash- Primary colors of headlight reflections, flirt in their dance-like dash. Here I sit in the back of my van, in the corner on the side of the street; I've been right here since 5pm, how the hours lapse with deceit. Its been just over 5 full hours that I've been paralyzed in this seat; Now as it's pushing 10pm, documented my defeat: I'm more than done with this pit of fear, overcome the paranoid gap, all I need is to now pause, re-evaluate   Exiting this trap. To wrap it up in this conclusion To iterate the hours ceaseless delusion Is to redefine isolations inherent seclusion-  with confidence, strength- dispel illogic's confusion.
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Sep 7, 2024
Sep 7, 2024 at 3:17 AM UTC
The Moment's Prison of Littleness
Introduction _____________ some words chase you around infiltrating and winking, in emails and poems to your attention dispatched undeniably messaging a wanting to be realized, completed, teasingly speaking you know a poem newly birthing in your left brain, tender pleading, love me already, just write me like you would make love to a woman!" messages from others employ the self-same word r e p e a t e d l y, you start to get the hint very very v i g o r o u s l y the rumbling, the back-seat tumbling, you're driving bipedal composing, guitar and piano gas and brake pedals to the mettle, and the speed limit was 15 mph under where your brain is fermenting all tuning you up to meet the guild's product quality standards, yet unlike an automobile, a poem, like a life, has a unique DNA, cannot just be recalled, for repair and additional tinkering, jes' because once it is out there, it has been outed sure enough in my my "started but *** file, a lazy layabout, overlooked and undercooked, the poem below, a dabble and a muddle, so ignored, so berefted for so long it got this special introduction by way of an apology.... Incarnate She is my poem incarnate She is the carne of my body She is the innate of my soul She is my woman incarnate she is all I need in form realized and invisible imagined, angel and thank god, devil as well...
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 11:06 AM UTC
Incarnate
I have never been in this situation before trying to decide which of the two girls to go after I am a lion with two gazelles in his cross hairs Both looking graceful and delicately desirable But I can't have both I would like the one who whispers into people's ears about how she feels like an unfinished automobile helplessly being carried on the assembly line, moving centimeter by centimeter, towards me. But whenever the two of us are together, she would pretend to be miles away Then again, I would like the other one whose subtle glances, though transient, are like the worms you put at the end of a fish hook or the aromatic meat left in an animal trap that makes you brush off caution from the end of your sleeves or put on the helmet and jump It's going to be one way or the other I tell myself as I lay all alone in the room, one foot already over the threshold of sleep, strange faces beginning to appear in the air and very soon I would be pulled below the surface, sinking slowly, towards the dark bottom of the other world Before then there's a decision to make: I can either go left or right but I can't have both. Especially when they're room mates
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Oct 2, 2012
Oct 2, 2012 at 2:08 PM UTC
Dilemma
If you were an automobile, You would be out of my price range, Yet here you are, parked in my bed, Complete with all available luxuries. Your revving engine, sends a thrill through me, When I'm sad, your wipers clear my tears. When the night is cold, your heat keeps me warm. I love to run my hands along your sleek chassis. Polish up all my favorite bits. I love you more than a vato loves his low rider. I love you more than a redneck loves his pickup. I love you more than speed racer loves his Mach five. I love you more than Barbie loves her pink convertible. You're my Hot Rod, You take me places, nobody else can. You and I will be riding of into the sunset, Until the wheels fall off.
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Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012 at 10:06 AM UTC
Hot Rod
They told him to be a carpenter. His stupid black fingers could never form equations of substantial value; they were simply meant to grow callused and rough, like his soul, as they built the large houses he could never afford. They told him to be a painter. He lacked the skill to be an inventor- to create light or wind or space like his God. His hands could never create sound as they floated through air in front of an orchestra. They could only transform the house his brother built into a color he couldn't spell. They told him to be a miner. The coal could blend with his skin, hopefully thick enough to smother him out of society. The soot from his skin would cover the beakers and test tubes, making him incapable of performing the experiments necessary to develop a more reasonable resource in a lab that could save the world from death. They told him to be a mechanic. His hands were meant for hard labor, oil and grease, not healing ailing bodies as their organs began to falter from an automobile collision. He was too dumb to save a life; he could only fix a car for a dead corpse. They told him what he could be in order to tell him he was incapable of greater things as he held his dark face with darker features in his hands, weak from wiping tears. People build their dreams based on encouragement- this man knew no such words. He told me I would be a doctor. My hands were meant for healing hearts and multiplying white blood cells, as well as lives and smiles. I would save a nation, a dying breed of people because God has given me His own hands. He told me I would be a lawyer. My hunger for justice would fuel a revolution and all would know their innocence held true value. The rights of men were of sincere importance and I would protect them at all costs, especially young men told to be painters and carpenters, because I was one of the few with the integrity to do so. He told me I would be a president. My words would meet a standard higher than those on the political spectrum. I would part the seas flooding a nation because I had been blessed by the Holy Waters of God. The theory that peace was in a land too far away would be broken as I carried the world to the Promise Land. He told me I would be an astronaut. I would defy the status quo while defying gravity as I became the greatest pioneer since Sacagawea. My brilliant mind would fill with every star I peeled from the sky to light my path to Heaven. And I would show the globe how to fly despite the odds. He told me what I could be in order to tell me I was capable of great things as my small, tan hand intertwined with his dark hand, callused and rough from raising a child of God. He knew that people build their dreams based on encouragement- and I know the words he never had the chance to. --For my Dad
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May 13, 2011
May 13, 2011 at 5:28 PM UTC
Encouragement
They told him to be a carpenter. His stupid black fingers could never form equations of substantial value; they were simply meant to grow callused and rough, like his soul, as they built the large houses he could never afford. They told him to be a painter. He lacked the skill to be an inventor- to create light or wind or space like his God. His hands could never create sound as they floated through air in front of an orchestra. They could only transform the house his brother built into a color he couldn't spell. They told him to be a miner. The coal could blend with his skin, hopefully thick enough to smother him out of society. The soot from his skin would cover the beakers and test tubes, making him incapable of performing the experiments necessary to develop a more reasonable resource in a lab that could save the world from death. They told him to be a mechanic. His hands were meant for hard labor, oil and grease, not healing ailing bodies as their organs began to falter from an automobile collision. He was too dumb to save a life; he could only fix a car for a dead corpse. They told him what he could be in order to tell him he was incapable of greater things as he held his dark face with darker features in his hands, weak from wiping tears. People build their dreams based on encouragement- this man knew no such words. He told me I would be a doctor. My hands were meant for healing hearts and multiplying white blood cells, as well as lives and smiles. I would save a nation, a dying breed of people because God has given me His own hands. He told me I would be a lawyer. My hunger for justice would fuel a revolution and all would know their innocence held true value. The rights of men were of sincere importance and I would protect them at all costs, especially young men told to be painters and carpenters, because I was one of the few with the integrity to do so. He told me I would be a president. My words would meet a standard higher than those on the political spectrum. I would part the seas flooding a nation because I had been blessed by the Holy Waters of God. The theory that peace was in a land too far away would be broken as I carried the world to the Promise Land. He told me I would be an astronaut. I would defy the status quo while defying gravity as I became the greatest pioneer since Sacagawea. My brilliant mind would fill with every star I peeled from the sky to light my path to Heaven. And I would show the globe how to fly despite the odds. He told me what I could be in order to tell me I was capable of great things as my small, tan hand intertwined with his dark hand, callused and rough from raising a child of God. He knew that people build their dreams based on encouragement- and I know the words he never had the chance to. --For my Dad
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The power of now the energy flow the focus driven all effort controlled and plans are in making the winds roar through the screen of the window the green leaves nearer than the the milky sky beauty is in the eyes today the automobile soars as well as the breeze my ears tell me this story the power of now this very second if desired renew chilled or steady my body exists my mind is the video of all I have my hands are the maker's of all I craft the power of now the touch smooth keys electricity such a powerful presence a vibrating vein to the world of components the power of now this age of time this shiny day this is now - William Crowell September 9th 2012
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Jul 7, 2014
Jul 7, 2014 at 11:39 PM UTC
Now (poem)