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"basest" poems
a birthday poem for S. perhaps, this is the responsibility, the purposeful gentility, that poetry engenders, that thwarts the impulse to anger, guiding away, finding a way, to temper the temper, to out and joust away our basest, our first, but never our foremost nor finest, succinct instinct, yet terrible human nonetheless... perhaps, this is where we hide, neath our carnival masque, our-would-be better selves, and struggle in this, this intensity intentional, the season's change is subtly blatant, not obvious 'cept to those who have a front seat, a well worn Adirondack chair in the nook where the airy breeze offers fruits of words so easy, pluck words as easy as breathing, and the slight gradation change, in the light and temperature, and yet, the suns cares not, for it still warms my body, though lower and slower, nonetheless, when the heat invades my soul, confirming my, our, existence, burning off the fog of our contradictory confusions, and eliciting an unsolicited "thank you god" for my, our personal miracle of re~birthing and better comprehending, that other miracle we can embrace never enough loving kindness sun~mon sep 14~15 twenty twenty five
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Sep 15, 2025
Sep 15, 2025 at 8:33 AM UTC
"Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world"
"The problem is..." he drawls "that it is'nt us who see people differently from you, but you see things different from us. We are not the problem you are. You see the basest humans when we paint majestic creatures, we tell stories of superheroes with no faults, we expect our boyfriends to mirror night skies in their comfort, and speak like Kerouac. Kiss our scars like white girl tumblr pictures." "People like you," he says; "...Dont ever **** yourselves. You're used to the disappointment. Your used to kissing your boyfriends sweaty upper lips and smelling...just that. You clean up the puke on bathroom floors without complaining because you know what people look like from the inside. That's why your art will never be good. Thats why today in class when I asked you to paint a human body cut open, you drew a colorless man with his organs splaying out of him, and ******* he laughs.. "I have to fold petals into my boyfriends armpits just to stand the sight of him our ******* is'nt ******* its ********** Supposedly. When I tell this story later, I'll leave out the spit and saliva and how the human body aint that pretty, especially gay *** Even 6 ft 3 chiseled muscle of it, ill write metaphors about his eyes and similes to his fists, you will tell us about the humaness of his breath and how it annoyingly kept you up at night, you will speak of storms but not of the ones in his eyes. The ones in your belly when he farts during *** and you will describe every putrid detail, like the fact that waking up in the morning aint so pretty, morning breath is something we dreamers leave out in movies. And, it must be exhausting living here seeing things how they really are, but atleast when you expect disappointment, theres room for surprise. People like me expect the good and are disappointed when its ****** on."
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Dec 9, 2013
Dec 9, 2013 at 6:04 PM UTC
Conversation with an art teacher
"The problem is..." he drawls "that it is'nt us who see people differently from you, but you see things different from us. We are not the problem you are. You see the basest humans when we paint majestic creatures, we tell stories of superheroes with no faults, we expect our boyfriends to mirror night skies in their comfort, and speak like Kerouac. Kiss our scars like white girl tumblr pictures." "People like you," he says; "...Dont ever **** yourselves. You're used to the disappointment. Your used to kissing your boyfriends sweaty upper lips and smelling...just that. You clean up the puke on bathroom floors without complaining because you know what people look like from the inside. That's why your art will never be good. Thats why today in class when I asked you to paint a human body cut open, you drew a colorless man with his organs splaying out of him, and ******* he laughs.. "I have to fold petals into my boyfriends armpits just to stand the sight of him our ******* is'nt ******* its ********** Supposedly. When I tell this story later, I'll leave out the spit and saliva and how the human body aint that pretty, especially gay *** Even 6 ft 3 chiseled muscle of it, ill write metaphors about his eyes and similes to his fists, you will tell us about the humaness of his breath and how it annoyingly kept you up at night, you will speak of storms but not of the ones in his eyes. The ones in your belly when he farts during *** and you will describe every putrid detail, like the fact that waking up in the morning aint so pretty, morning breath is something we dreamers leave out in movies. And, it must be exhausting living here seeing things how they really are, but atleast when you expect disappointment, theres room for surprise. People like me expect the good and are disappointed when its ****** on."
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and were the ears so pleased when: the iciclic needles dug into our skins, fleshy cloths that, sewn together, made the mask to hide the whole. we wore them like the cheapest of trophies, the basest of glories and the simplest of stories. we wore them to contrast to the whiteness of space, the empty black white gray of life's living littleness with the reddened hardwork of claymade shells. they glowed with the rusty red of millions of faces free to make their mark as they see best fit. we had found these skins forgotten on the floor, and so we picked them up with our biglittle hands and opened the door to newmade makings and brand new beings. it was empty within us-- the beings of old and the yearnings of yore had retreated far beneath the surface, burrowed deep below mountains and meadows and hills pushed up like sand in a box, crushed against the sides of our enclosure. it was silent within us-- the screech-making moon sang in time to chest-beatings and the barking of stray dogs; the melody of moments lost in time.
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Dec 25, 2012
Dec 25, 2012 at 5:26 PM UTC
moments lost in time
Sorry to... Hit yo noes like a brick of green Like the grass that grow nourished by the Celtic saints that know Man tell a lie better make it true if you don’t, then what do I make of you? Now Wonder Woman no wonder were human bringing Brooklyn some thunder hoodlum My baited brown eyes look up and down you Mile marker .66 and I’m still hitting this crisp as a chrysalis you may be the eyewitness of my fist to this more like the wittiness of my pen tip dipped in ambergris I get around you get the gist healing hands I mend the cyst with broken hands I gripped the rich don't understand don't worry like Krishna I persist zzzz Slept on like The buzz of viciousness **** the violence turn the red to VIOLET just look right through my eyes slit Now and then divine feminine deigned to grace my face again turned fake eyes to grin false pride, double subs, and sin. Complete appreciation, genuflected form reflected in this fertile goddeSS who puts the seeds in season She see through SnakeS and reedS when She based in wiSdom reaSon designed to take the basest race from darkest depths to airs of divine space till we’re flushed with grace some are hushed by my ace in the whole I'm a S33ker throwing axes but YOU better only call me an axehole when I mis s . ***** simple as this.
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Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019 at 12:22 AM UTC
[Divine Feminine] On ze road again.
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/first-date-17/ http://hellopoetry.com/poem/first-date-ii/ http://hellopoetry.com/poem/first-date-iii/ (best read in order) He blankets her with a mist that is fine and as pure as his postpartum soul is able to manifest. He’s sorry that she is sobbing on the dirt floor. He can’t think past the hunger that is beating upon her, which beats upon him. He is angry that his ancient predatory instincts are gaping to the fore. For the ancient being now gently weeping on a cold dirt floor. Why did he not recognize her? How did he get so lax in the thinking that cattle could disguise it self? A Wolf in Sheep’s clothing? Well... it’s not like he has not donned the same costume! He had been a Protector for so long. Rising each Sunset with the challenges that bring on the most predatory beasts that hunger for pain. He, alone, has stood beside Humanity to bring the world a semblance of normality, morality, a passing moment when they thought they were King of the world… but their inflated egos were never touched by doubt. Because of him. But she brings him down to the basest level. He feels… For her For her hunger For her emptiness For her utter contemptuousness She is the creature that he has been birthed to fight. The utter savageness that she brings forth when it becomes night. He alone, in eternity, wanders the earth to make Mortal life the one thing that is right. She lifts her head from the cold dirt floor to stare at him. He materializes as a persona that should scare her, one that heralds Death, but his emotions are fraught with peril. She is important to him. He may have been birthed to bring Death but he was never denied that one could become his Life. His pulse quickens, her eyes widen, her pulse quickens, he is afraid of the sight that lays bare in front of him. His fangs are buried deep in his bottom lip, he can not say a word even if his immortal soul depends on it. She licks her lips in hesitation, maybe anticipation; she could be licking her lips because of the small droplet of blood that lingers in the corner of her mouth. He wants to touch his tongue to said lips and cheek and ear and throat and, well HELL, he’s happy to continue south… as long as his tongue is touching skin… She looks away, briefly, and cries again. She is unable to fight past her hunger even though she has recognized the Protector. She needs protecting too! She’s so hungry! But from the swelling of his body, so is he…
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 5:28 AM UTC
First Date (IV)
http://hellopoetry.com/poem/first-date-17/ http://hellopoetry.com/poem/first-date-ii/ http://hellopoetry.com/poem/first-date-iii/ (best read in order) He blankets her with a mist that is fine and as pure as his postpartum soul is able to manifest. He’s sorry that she is sobbing on the dirt floor. He can’t think past the hunger that is beating upon her, which beats upon him. He is angry that his ancient predatory instincts are gaping to the fore. For the ancient being now gently weeping on a cold dirt floor. Why did he not recognize her? How did he get so lax in the thinking that cattle could disguise it self? A Wolf in Sheep’s clothing? Well... it’s not like he has not donned the same costume! He had been a Protector for so long. Rising each Sunset with the challenges that bring on the most predatory beasts that hunger for pain. He, alone, has stood beside Humanity to bring the world a semblance of normality, morality, a passing moment when they thought they were King of the world… but their inflated egos were never touched by doubt. Because of him. But she brings him down to the basest level. He feels… For her For her hunger For her emptiness For her utter contemptuousness She is the creature that he has been birthed to fight. The utter savageness that she brings forth when it becomes night. He alone, in eternity, wanders the earth to make Mortal life the one thing that is right. She lifts her head from the cold dirt floor to stare at him. He materializes as a persona that should scare her, one that heralds Death, but his emotions are fraught with peril. She is important to him. He may have been birthed to bring Death but he was never denied that one could become his Life. His pulse quickens, her eyes widen, her pulse quickens, he is afraid of the sight that lays bare in front of him. His fangs are buried deep in his bottom lip, he can not say a word even if his immortal soul depends on it. She licks her lips in hesitation, maybe anticipation; she could be licking her lips because of the small droplet of blood that lingers in the corner of her mouth. He wants to touch his tongue to said lips and cheek and ear and throat and, well HELL, he’s happy to continue south… as long as his tongue is touching skin… She looks away, briefly, and cries again. She is unable to fight past her hunger even though she has recognized the Protector. She needs protecting too! She’s so hungry! But from the swelling of his body, so is he…
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a million ears listening no one hears a thing basest news a big surprise ignominy is crowned king a squander of treasure best minds laid to waste price of fear forever accrues funds the purpose of the place eyes of a diligent nation brains filled with briny mush ears clogged and waxen expertise in smelling **** central intel brainiacs the heft of heavy dudes a sordid nest of vipers collecting despots dues Music selection: Radiohead, Artificial Intelligence Oakland 2/14/11 jbm
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 7:34 PM UTC
Central Intelligence
FALSE world, good night! since thou hast brought That hour upon my morn of age; Henceforth I quit thee from my thought, My part is ended on thy stage. Yes, threaten, do. Alas! I fear As little as I hope from thee: I know thou canst not show nor bear More hatred than thou hast to me. My tender, first, and simple years Thou didst abuse and then betray; Since stir'd'st up jealousies and fears, When all the causes were away. Then in a soil hast planted me Where breathe the basest of thy fools; Where envious arts professed be, And pride and ignorance the schools; Where nothing is examined, weigh'd, But as 'tis rumour'd, so believed; Where every freedom is betray'd, And every goodness tax'd or grieved. But what we're born for, we must bear: Our frail condition it is such That what to all may happen here, If 't chance to me, I must not grutch. Else I my state should much mistake To harbour a divided thought From all my kind--that, for my sake, There should a miracle be wrought. No, I do know that I was born To age, misfortune, sickness, grief: But I will bear these with that scorn As shall not need thy false relief. Nor for my peace will I go far, As wanderers do, that still do roam; But make my strengths, such as they are, Here in my ***** and at home.
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A Farewell to the World
It’s so dumb and not really the point. I wish, I wish, I wish, I could force you to choke on it. With every verbal message you spew, The more the realization that the sparkle and shine, Was just a shackle of the basest iron. One that you released me from yourself. I wish, I wish, I wish, I could force you to choke on it. It’s so dumb and not really the point.
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Jun 9, 2018
Jun 9, 2018 at 1:23 AM UTC
Dumb
'So It Begins...' once upon a time there was a girl who always ran around in circles figuratively, of course not literally, because if she was literally always running in circles, she'd pretty soon be dead but that's neither here nor there. back to the girl she had no idea that she did this but everyone around and about was painfully aware of her issues she was convinced that she was always coming up with new and exciting ideas when really she just spent all her time recycling her own idiocy and she became increasingly irate as all the things that she kept around even though she would never admit that she intentionally kept them around started to seem wrong or used or just completely foreign until a magic prince with a magic want who totally dug the fact that this chick was entirely self obsessed and weird and pretty much certifiable snuck in the middle of the night and robbed the ***** blind however because the guy took all her worthless pointless and in the end meaningless baggage away with him she replaced her former obsessions with stalking him and he became her magic want which he severely regretted soon enough because with her circular habits her stalking efforts were not unlike being relentlessly pursued by a small angry but not entirely unaffectionate chihuahua he fully intended for her to stalk him from the beginning but unfortunately as he had been raised in a pseudo-feministic yet highly romanticized society he was under the false impression that once this chick started pursuing him she would give in to her basest wants and deep seated but repressed desires that every girl has but doesn't admit to ending up with a magic prince he was wrong there was no fairytale and once she caught up with him the relationship that ensued became a vicious cycle of marriage, divorce, and remarriage because he had been ****** in to her circularity. the end
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Feb 13, 2010
Feb 13, 2010 at 6:28 PM UTC
Internet Fairytales I
'So It Begins...' once upon a time there was a girl who always ran around in circles figuratively, of course not literally, because if she was literally always running in circles, she'd pretty soon be dead but that's neither here nor there. back to the girl she had no idea that she did this but everyone around and about was painfully aware of her issues she was convinced that she was always coming up with new and exciting ideas when really she just spent all her time recycling her own idiocy and she became increasingly irate as all the things that she kept around even though she would never admit that she intentionally kept them around started to seem wrong or used or just completely foreign until a magic prince with a magic want who totally dug the fact that this chick was entirely self obsessed and weird and pretty much certifiable snuck in the middle of the night and robbed the ***** blind however because the guy took all her worthless pointless and in the end meaningless baggage away with him she replaced her former obsessions with stalking him and he became her magic want which he severely regretted soon enough because with her circular habits her stalking efforts were not unlike being relentlessly pursued by a small angry but not entirely unaffectionate chihuahua he fully intended for her to stalk him from the beginning but unfortunately as he had been raised in a pseudo-feministic yet highly romanticized society he was under the false impression that once this chick started pursuing him she would give in to her basest wants and deep seated but repressed desires that every girl has but doesn't admit to ending up with a magic prince he was wrong there was no fairytale and once she caught up with him the relationship that ensued became a vicious cycle of marriage, divorce, and remarriage because he had been ****** in to her circularity. the end
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Retro Morn: Re-Reading Jenny (1.) and Her Purple Hat, (2.), Listening to Vonda Shepard I am a beautiful woman, and reliably informed so, by handsome. men, lustful fools, and one too many sideward glances in a difference place, musical needs call me out to retro smooth me away from the waves of nausea of news repeats ingested, the lesser qualities of human beings basic basest nature, I inhale subdued Jenny’s defiance of life’s expectations and Vonda’s voice smooth my discordant emotive candles that won’t stay lit, add in a touch of melting Joni & Divine Ms. Bette, gets me slow kickstarting and I have not reached the lofty plateau of twenty five years of age *but my mom, the  Queen Regent, reminds me royalty possesses very old souls, which Is why I’m caught out listening, dancing awake to the music of her youth* and hear her discreetly humming the tunes, even though the phone connection broken minutes earlier she signed off with a practised Elizabethan airy disturbance royal wave of her hand, instructing this raining (no, not reigning) Queen to  “darling go write a poem…” don’t we all listen to our mothers?* my name is brandychanning music inhale subdued kickstarting a poem
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Dec 13, 2023
Dec 13, 2023 at 12:35 PM UTC
Retro Morn: Re-Reading Jenny and Her Purple Hat, Listening to Vonda Shepard
with each passing day, I understand less and less, for who could ever claim to know it all, yet, the simplicity of our base-ic basest instincts makes evil so easily attractive, that now, I forgive almost nothing, anyone for the cruelty inherent in on the surfacial skin of our normalcy, so easily, revealed, and reveled in, wrecks me, and the poetry sparks are not doused, but wick and ember shriveled oh the irony, that foolish me should write of the commandment to love just as the world displays old levels of hate historically deep… .I am hated, to many who would know me only as Jew, and this refresher course in my brain, reminds me, that love thy neighbor as thyself, can morph into a generational opposite, that my former degree of comfort, beliefs, was only skin deep…and Tolstoy was a naïf, a romantic, a royal, who hoped for the best in each man, and that cannot ne achieved for hate is so easy digestible, so sweet a treat for humans, who desire no compass other than simple baseness to know which direction to take…. ————————————————————————————- ”There can be only one permanent revolution—a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." Tolstoy ”To perform evil deeds a person must discover “a justification for his actions,” so that he can regard stealing, humiliating and killing as good. “Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble,” and so conscience restrained him. He had no ideology, Solzhenitsyn observes, nothing like “anti-imperialism” or “decolonization” to allay pangs of guilt. Solzhenitsyn concludes: “Ideology—that is what gives evil-doing its long-sought justification and gives the evil-doer the necessary steadfastness and determination . . . so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but receive praise and honors.Solzhenitsyn
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Oct 20, 2023
Oct 20, 2023 at 3:08 PM UTC
Tolstoy uses a French expression, “Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner”: To understand all is to forgive all.
with each passing day, I understand less and less, for who could ever claim to know it all, yet, the simplicity of our base-ic basest instincts makes evil so easily attractive, that now, I forgive almost nothing, anyone for the cruelty inherent in on the surfacial skin of our normalcy, so easily, revealed, and reveled in, wrecks me, and the poetry sparks are not doused, but wick and ember shriveled oh the irony, that foolish me should write of the commandment to love just as the world displays old levels of hate historically deep… .I am hated, to many who would know me only as Jew, and this refresher course in my brain, reminds me, that love thy neighbor as thyself, can morph into a generational opposite, that my former degree of comfort, beliefs, was only skin deep…and Tolstoy was a naïf, a romantic, a royal, who hoped for the best in each man, and that cannot ne achieved for hate is so easy digestible, so sweet a treat for humans, who desire no compass other than simple baseness to know which direction to take…. ————————————————————————————- ”There can be only one permanent revolution—a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself." Tolstoy ”To perform evil deeds a person must discover “a justification for his actions,” so that he can regard stealing, humiliating and killing as good. “Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble,” and so conscience restrained him. He had no ideology, Solzhenitsyn observes, nothing like “anti-imperialism” or “decolonization” to allay pangs of guilt. Solzhenitsyn concludes: “Ideology—that is what gives evil-doing its long-sought justification and gives the evil-doer the necessary steadfastness and determination . . . so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but receive praise and honors.Solzhenitsyn
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did because i well jeez 10:23 farther steeper i'd was a outside 10:24 a junebug is creaking on the well like a fine cylinder. it's because steeper or 10:27 clunking a light of amiable is sort of. at 10:31 a common a cool the. into if. a very sorry long is diacriticly loose with the scab of lunging trees by the barn 10:31:53 is . it's was almost because i did i well jeez the june is a crimped fine determined juice. did it seem because or and a breif i s haloed somewhat or creaking a junebug is big for by the stalls shuffling with legs in the sort of barn by the 10:36 it's gabled a bit. or does it seem a because well did i and meyou. pm well it were 10:37 and longest brown is seemingly. otherwise unmarked a phonetic element. by a 10:39PM leafing softly the scuttle a. unnerved little scraping. beneath or metatarsaled cadence a the grassed stripping earth went from the basest mouth of timbered certainly to the unskinniest blue. a vanity of wheels or because well did i jeez
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Mar 9, 2011
Mar 9, 2011 at 12:19 PM UTC
i4
I created a ray to save the world. We had come too far, had lost ourselves, it seemed to me and we were taking the Earth along with us into the abyss. Too much knowledge: too much thought. We needed to go back. And so I created the Great Devolver Ray and stood, trembling, by the trigger. This would return us to our basest animal selves. Would tune us perfectly into Nature, re-thread us into the fabric of Creation destroy the wall between Natural and Unnatural. Pure uncorrupted survival: nothing more. And so I stood, on the brink, unsure as all great revolutionaries must be, put my hand in place, and pushed. And the ray burst forth and we were transformed into the pure ******* creatures that Life demanded. And absolutely nothing changed at all.
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Nov 24, 2013
Nov 24, 2013 at 8:31 AM UTC
The Scientist
Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountaintops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy; Anon permit the basest clouds to ride With ugly rack on his celestial face, And from the forlorn world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace. Even so my sun one early morn did shine With all-triumphant splendour on my brow. But out, alack! He was but one hour mine; The region cloud hath masked him from me now. Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth; Suns of the world may stain when heaven’s sun staineth.
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Sonnet 033: Full Many A Glorious Morning Have I Seen
i ring the door bell twice the door opens there is a boy maybe 4 5 he smiles at me rustled ***** blonde hair blue eyes shining seeing into me knowing me in the basest truth as only children can know "Hi. Welcome. Hello." all rapidly said so politely i step inside the house is not too large not small by any means this porridge is just right he leads me in as one who leads a child to the den well furnished the father sits in his chair watching the boy gratefully the boy buzzing with the energy of new company leaps onto the couch and announces himself "My name is Demetri. Nice to meet you. Welcome to my home. What is your name?" "Sam" "Hey, Sam, nice to meet you, Sam." he flips off the couch grandly grabs my hand and shakes violently "Nice to meet you, Sam. Im Demetri. Welcome to my home. Please, please. Sit, sit." He pulls me to the couch I sit so my arm is not dislocated he lets go wrist hurting not the strength of a 4 5 year old boy a well developed boy well spoken i look to his father who watches son lost in amazement proud as can be as should be the boy is again in my ear "What brought you here, Sam? Did you want to see my house? Did you wanna see my legos? I got a lot of them. I like building spaceships. I wanna build a real one. Hey Sam, you wanna build a spaceship." no idea how to build a spaceship "Im here to speak with your father, little guy." "Really? About what? Huh? About what? Do you bring things to people? Like presents? Do you have a present? I think I know what about. You have a present for my dad. Is that it, Sam, do you have a present?" im both annoyed and fascinated simultaneously by the boy annoyance why father has not said something leash this dog muzzle however fascination buzzing by simple fact i did have something for his father a present for the father to keep forever for the boy to find later
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Aug 1, 2011
Aug 1, 2011 at 8:26 PM UTC
the boy at the door
i ring the door bell twice the door opens there is a boy maybe 4 5 he smiles at me rustled ***** blonde hair blue eyes shining seeing into me knowing me in the basest truth as only children can know "Hi. Welcome. Hello." all rapidly said so politely i step inside the house is not too large not small by any means this porridge is just right he leads me in as one who leads a child to the den well furnished the father sits in his chair watching the boy gratefully the boy buzzing with the energy of new company leaps onto the couch and announces himself "My name is Demetri. Nice to meet you. Welcome to my home. What is your name?" "Sam" "Hey, Sam, nice to meet you, Sam." he flips off the couch grandly grabs my hand and shakes violently "Nice to meet you, Sam. Im Demetri. Welcome to my home. Please, please. Sit, sit." He pulls me to the couch I sit so my arm is not dislocated he lets go wrist hurting not the strength of a 4 5 year old boy a well developed boy well spoken i look to his father who watches son lost in amazement proud as can be as should be the boy is again in my ear "What brought you here, Sam? Did you want to see my house? Did you wanna see my legos? I got a lot of them. I like building spaceships. I wanna build a real one. Hey Sam, you wanna build a spaceship." no idea how to build a spaceship "Im here to speak with your father, little guy." "Really? About what? Huh? About what? Do you bring things to people? Like presents? Do you have a present? I think I know what about. You have a present for my dad. Is that it, Sam, do you have a present?" im both annoyed and fascinated simultaneously by the boy annoyance why father has not said something leash this dog muzzle however fascination buzzing by simple fact i did have something for his father a present for the father to keep forever for the boy to find later
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Times behold when twisted men are captured by their spleen When souls will writhe in torment though their thoughts are seldom seen, When agitation rides aloft with blunt spur on its' **** And the hounds of hell are baying as though purgatory will pass. Torment in its' basest form is shaded beastly red Immersing flocks of faithful in the mind set till they’re dead, For shredded nails and worry lines, so deeply now ingrained, Are signatured paralysis of the breed that has abstained. Abstained in all things beautiful, such as dreams which flow in mirth, Abstained from eyes of merriment and joyful leaps from earth, Divorced to all that conjures up the gracious well of love Divorced from thoughts of holiness in faith, both hand in glove. Baptised to despondency, inured to sights and sounds Which lift the mind's creation well beyond all earthly bounds, Committed to the trench of the dark abyss of gloom Assigned to unenlightenment...The soul has left the room. © 2012 Marshal Gebbie
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May 23, 2012
May 23, 2012 at 4:26 AM UTC
A Signatured Paralysis
They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing, they most do show, Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, Unmovèd, cold, and to temptation slow, They rightly do inherit heaven’s graces, And husband nature’s riches from expense; They are the lords and owners of their faces, Others, but stewards of their excellence. The summer’s flower is to the summer sweet, Though to itself, it only live and die, But if that flower with base infection meet, The basest **** outbraves his dignity. For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
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Sonnet 094: They That Have Power To Hurt And Will Do None
We are suffering today From a disease called hypocrisy. And it is the basest enemy Of freedom in democracy. It substitutes a dollar amount For lives and souls and hope And tantalizes the population With TV, ***** and dope. By the time the population Wakes up and catches on A new batch of crooks exist The old got rich, moved on. Every campaign promise They will fail to deliver. They will lie to your face And sell you down the river. Our women are widows Our children are orphans The churches want money For larger pipe organs. They wring their hands Subject abortion to scorn But, abandon them to penury As soon as they are born. They say they want nobody To receive free ride Medicare Then freely give corporations Un-needed trillions in welfare. The chant against big government Is a perennial marching tune. They’ll decide the kind of *** And have control over wombs, The world is a place today Where the dollar comes first And the children of the poor Are usually treated the worst. We are suffering today From a disease called hypocrisy. And it is the basest enemy Of freedom in democracy.
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 6:41 PM UTC
IGNOBLE CAUSE
Good neighbors, sweet friends, can you forgive me? In long, still and creeping hours of study, I can be stern and inaccessible. My studies tax me to basest function, resting, weight-like, on my wretched shoulders. I, too-weary, ebb and at times, tend to spare few feelings and gall, as if licensed. Sometimes I go, unwillingly to class, a melancholy lass. Please, if we talk, speak gently. I labor under command, and you may not be answered with reason. Hereby hangs the tale, ladies just and fair. Sleep, that dark medicine, has restored me, my sanity and my better judgment. Patiently receive my apology and recall our many fun adventures.
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Sep 16, 2023
Sep 16, 2023 at 9:47 AM UTC
regrets
Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness; Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport; Both grace and faults are loved of more and less; Thou mak’st faults graces that to thee resort. As on the finger of a thronèd queen, The basest jewel will be well esteemed. So are those errors that in thee are seen To truths translated, and for true things deemed. How many lambs might the stern wolf betray, If like a lamb he could his looks translate! How many gazers mightst thou lead away, if thou wouldst use the strength of all thy state! But do not so; I love thee in such sort As thou being mine, mine is thy good report.
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Sonnet 096: Some Say Thy Fault Is Youth, Some Wantonness
Down her cheek there rolls a tear Lowered eyes reflect the fear She feels that others see the pain She tries to hide to mask the shame. Shame of what she has become Despite her efforts to succumb To good intentioned, sound advice Delivered at preposterous price. Shame at how the mind deplores Those temperamental personal flaws, Of slights inferred and insults hurled At friend and foe with flag unfurled. Friend and foe who tried to help, Who lowered guard to feel the welt Of verbal horsewhip to the jowl, To violently recoil with howl. Betrayal in its basest form All sympathetic help withdrawn. She furiously stands distraught In isolation’s cold white thought. Down her cheek there rolls a tear Of distain for the eyes that jeer, Direction of the darts of blame From whence no help will come again. Marshalg Collateral damage 4 February 2012
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Feb 3, 2012
Feb 3, 2012 at 7:45 PM UTC
Bridges Burnt
i find certain poets too engaged with a pronoun interchange, and underusing nouns, with some fear to clear their footprints to go further; and there's no reason for them to go further, there's more reason to stand-still... and disengage from the basest description language of overly using pronouns and speaking like philosophers: referring to everything with the word thing, whether that's a subject or an object or whatever.
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Feb 10, 2016
Feb 10, 2016 at 11:48 AM UTC
modern poets
*where every millenia one bird flies past and alters the stone that would have sacrificed itself to idols* The poem is written loosely in my clothing.  I wrap it into my hair decorated with sighs as I prepare to leave home each morning I check myself in the mirror and in all possible reflections, just to be sure it hasn't unraveled in the absence of audience or that some subtle aspect of it's beauty hasn't morphed into something else since last I looked. What you think is vain is simple. Is there anything I might have missed? Look again. Look again. What have you missed? How am I ever to find God when all I want is Art? Given: To be an artist is to be driven solely by sin.    Lustful enough to encompass the world, Greedy. Vain enough to imagine that God with her many arms, mother and eater of worlds could be woven into the ascendant strata of my spine. She could climb up from my gut a ladder built of the basest desires and from the space between hemispheres, jump out across the synapse as light cast into the void, and echo of herself to herself singing only I am.
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Mar 18, 2012
Mar 18, 2012 at 8:07 PM UTC
the artist, alone, creating no graven image
A *** DEAL MADE ME NOT 01-23-10 Moral Conundrums Dilemma Number 1: If you won a million dollars and were told that you could give it all away to the needs of others or you could keep it all to yourself, what would you do? My Honest Answer: I’d keep it and sneak it back around from my profitable endeavors. So yes I would keep it, only to further my ability to give back more than a million. Seriously. If I thought I didn’t have the ability to do that, given the chance, then I’d rather quickly fade away and give it all to the Humane Society. A happy medium, ethically, would be all of the above, or I think I would be happy dying trying! Dilemma Number 2: You pull off the interstate and wait for a green light. You are turning left, so you must wait. It is raining, hard. It’s 55 degree’s, unusual for Florida. The woman outside your window is over seventy, and toothless, wet as a tired sewer rat. But she is not a rat. She is or was or could have been someone’s mother. She certainly was someone’s daughter, but that doesn’t really matter much, never has, and never will sometimes, always. Out of ten there will always be one sometimes or no-times child. There will always be those with and without. There will always be that “have more or less” mentality based on sentiments of the basest of humanity. I have a dollar…until next week. One dollar. Until next week. I have some food and some cigarette butts. I have an adequate amount of liquor…to make it to next week. None of this really penetrates my brain. I want to feel the cold rain falling on my hand as I wish her the best and silently express my gratitude to God. In some sort of way, be it the way which is chosen and taken by me… and everyone else. I must stop thinking like this! I alone can make a difference, I will make a difference; right here, right now! I feel it in my gut, my brain, the burning turmoil inside my soul! I turn off the exit going east on I-192. My tires were fine moments ago. Now one blows. I skid to a stop in front of a gas station. My hand is out; I need a little change to call for some help. My dollar is gone, but I’m not.
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Jun 29, 2010
Jun 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM UTC
A *** DEAL MADE ME NOT
A *** DEAL MADE ME NOT 01-23-10 Moral Conundrums Dilemma Number 1: If you won a million dollars and were told that you could give it all away to the needs of others or you could keep it all to yourself, what would you do? My Honest Answer: I’d keep it and sneak it back around from my profitable endeavors. So yes I would keep it, only to further my ability to give back more than a million. Seriously. If I thought I didn’t have the ability to do that, given the chance, then I’d rather quickly fade away and give it all to the Humane Society. A happy medium, ethically, would be all of the above, or I think I would be happy dying trying! Dilemma Number 2: You pull off the interstate and wait for a green light. You are turning left, so you must wait. It is raining, hard. It’s 55 degree’s, unusual for Florida. The woman outside your window is over seventy, and toothless, wet as a tired sewer rat. But she is not a rat. She is or was or could have been someone’s mother. She certainly was someone’s daughter, but that doesn’t really matter much, never has, and never will sometimes, always. Out of ten there will always be one sometimes or no-times child. There will always be those with and without. There will always be that “have more or less” mentality based on sentiments of the basest of humanity. I have a dollar…until next week. One dollar. Until next week. I have some food and some cigarette butts. I have an adequate amount of liquor…to make it to next week. None of this really penetrates my brain. I want to feel the cold rain falling on my hand as I wish her the best and silently express my gratitude to God. In some sort of way, be it the way which is chosen and taken by me… and everyone else. I must stop thinking like this! I alone can make a difference, I will make a difference; right here, right now! I feel it in my gut, my brain, the burning turmoil inside my soul! I turn off the exit going east on I-192. My tires were fine moments ago. Now one blows. I skid to a stop in front of a gas station. My hand is out; I need a little change to call for some help. My dollar is gone, but I’m not.
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Gently feeling round the edge, detect the shape of inner you and I’ve been tangled in the texture, taste and weight and scent and hue. Ardently keening for the contact Hearts race. Our basest needs need meet. Now heat is emanating out like all the clothes about our feet. Circumnavigate your figure in a boat inside my mouth. Paint long ribbons in its wake, colour you in till you’re a lake. The water’s warm, the tide is rising let the swell come rolling in. Lovely undercurrent rythme, relentless. Drawing me within. Here come the breakers, catch a breath, asphyxiate a tiny death. Between your thighs my ears are roaring, hear a pulse and nothing else. Convulsions padded by our warmth Hold on, and throw a gentle fit. We're just swirling in the swell The outside world does not exist.
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Jun 23, 2016
Jun 23, 2016 at 12:06 AM UTC
The ocean in your bed