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"buyers" poems
“Being a farmer is like being a priest; you take a vow of poverty and make a pact with the Lord that no typhoon will come and destroy your crops.” In the rise of sedentary human civilization, The nation’s agriculture Became the key expansion. Its history dates back thousands of years, With its development, Has been driven and defined – By different climates, cultures, and technologies. The Filipino farmers: Are they now a dying breed? Numbers of small farms has dwindled, With workers opting for city life. But this trend could exacerbate food insecurity! Yes, in an import-dependent country – Already struggling to meet current food demand. In the face of growing losses, And from volatile weather, To new-fangled farming tech, Limited education makes them less receptive. What took such toll on the agricultural sector? Maybe the farmer themselves, The investors, the buyers – maybe. Now, it’s due to the government policies, Our programs are good, yet so weak. There’s excessive reliance on agricultural imports, And corruption on the upper level. Compounding the problem Is a younger generation – Largely, leaving rural areas nationwide, And depleting the pool of potential agricultural workers. They say it’s too late to do something; But the mind-set of the younger generation Still we can change And make farming appealing once again. (9/8/13 @xirlleelang)
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 10:02 PM UTC
A Dying Filipino Breed
Rodin: My love, I am on my knees facing your beautiful body. My mouth is drinking your fire. I ***** us in stone. We are indissoluble. Camille: I am heaven and hell. I am goddess and fire. You are my chauvinistic art-boy concubine. Rodin: My dear Camille, can you not see my love for you is rooted in passion not stone or clay or bronze? Can you not feel my tongue lapping at your feet? Camille: Foolish man. My feet are broken. I walk over you on stumps. Camille leaves for England. Rodin follows. Camille: You are boring. Rodin: My love, can you not see that I am in a depressed mood. Can you not see that your capriciousness plagues me? Camille: I love another. Rodin: How can you say these things to me? I give you my heart. I give you my soul. I give you my artistic genius! Camille: You’re right. You are a genius. Rodin: Shall I write us up a contract? Camille: As long as you don’t touch me. Camille and Rodin return to Paris separately. Rodin: It has been written. I will mentor you, write you in newspapers, place you in museums, and find you buyers. Camille: You will not love another? You will spurn all but my art? Rodin: I will. And you will marry me in return. Camille: … Rodin: Is there something wrong, my love? Camille: Can you not see I am being facetious? Rodin: My dear, you are my flora and gaiety. You are my chisel and stone. You are my breath and lungs. Camille: Learn how to breathe without me. Camille exits. Rodin crumples at the feet of Eternelle Idole. Rodin: What have I done wrong? Camille re-enters, her hands caked in clay. Camille: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Rodin: Shall I get the handcuffs? Camille: No. The lion’s cage. Strong tides and wet fuchsias. Camille enters the cage forever.
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Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 12:40 PM UTC
Camille and Rodin play la passion
Rodin: My love, I am on my knees facing your beautiful body. My mouth is drinking your fire. I ***** us in stone. We are indissoluble. Camille: I am heaven and hell. I am goddess and fire. You are my chauvinistic art-boy concubine. Rodin: My dear Camille, can you not see my love for you is rooted in passion not stone or clay or bronze? Can you not feel my tongue lapping at your feet? Camille: Foolish man. My feet are broken. I walk over you on stumps. Camille leaves for England. Rodin follows. Camille: You are boring. Rodin: My love, can you not see that I am in a depressed mood. Can you not see that your capriciousness plagues me? Camille: I love another. Rodin: How can you say these things to me? I give you my heart. I give you my soul. I give you my artistic genius! Camille: You’re right. You are a genius. Rodin: Shall I write us up a contract? Camille: As long as you don’t touch me. Camille and Rodin return to Paris separately. Rodin: It has been written. I will mentor you, write you in newspapers, place you in museums, and find you buyers. Camille: You will not love another? You will spurn all but my art? Rodin: I will. And you will marry me in return. Camille: … Rodin: Is there something wrong, my love? Camille: Can you not see I am being facetious? Rodin: My dear, you are my flora and gaiety. You are my chisel and stone. You are my breath and lungs. Camille: Learn how to breathe without me. Camille exits. Rodin crumples at the feet of Eternelle Idole. Rodin: What have I done wrong? Camille re-enters, her hands caked in clay. Camille: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Rodin: Shall I get the handcuffs? Camille: No. The lion’s cage. Strong tides and wet fuchsias. Camille enters the cage forever.
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We, the people of this country, in your eyes are: babblers, bachelors, bafflers, baiters, barkers, beakers, beaters, brawlers, blamers, beggars, bloaters, bloopers, bombers, boozers, blunders, bruisers, bafflers, bluffers, burglars and burners. That's why you feel compelled to keep your foot on our heads keep us down, put us down, push us down subjugate us, belittle us, berate us. We, the people of this country, in our eyes are: butlers, bouncers, bakers, buyers, barbers, cake-makers, delivery-takers, cocktail-shakers, taxi drivers, cancer survivors, employers and hirers, music makers, entertainers, window washers, foster takers, plasterers, carpenters, scaffolders, sparks and builders, boxers, carers, coaches, tailors, shoe makers, designers, illustrators, multi-language facilitators, dog walkers, dog trainers, bikers and cycle couriers, doctors and nurses and all the emergency services. We are the People, the reason you are where you are now you sometimes forget that we exist as people, somehow locked in your ivory towers with gold plated showers and MP expenses and investment banker pretenses this is not theater, its real life drama, its not just a bluff its time to stand up and say enough is enough.
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Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 9:54 AM UTC
Another Angry Voice
**IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA BASE FORTHWITH.  ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS, WEBMASTERS, WEB BASED LINKS, WINKS, TWINKS, COLONEL CLINCKS, BOSSES, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, SALESMEN, ASCCOUNT REPS/EXCS, ACCOUNTANTS, BROKERS, CO-BROKERS, HACKERS, SLACKERS, WHACKERS, JERKS, PIMPS, HOES, HOBOS, BUMS, DERELICTS, DEGENERATES, DOPERS, DEALERS, TWEEKERS, GAMBLERS, RAMBLERS, SOLICITORS, SIDEKICKS, COHORTS, WINGMEN, WHEELMEN, LOOKOUTS, OUTLAWS, IN-LAWS, RELATIVES, FIANCES, GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, EVIL NEMISIS', CANVASSERS, INQUIRERS, QUEERS, QUEENS, COWBOYS, KINGS, **** DRAGS, HAGS, HETEROS, HOMOS, TONY ROMOS, FEMALE IMPERSONATORS, (PRE OR POST) MALE IMPERSONATORS, ***** ***** VAN ***** **** VAN **** LESBIANS, LIARS, BUYERS, CRYERS, CIGAR SMOKERS, CARPET MUNCHERS, RUG RATS, TODDLERS, TEENAGERS, YOUNGSTERS, SENIORS, SUCKERS, TRUCKERS, MOTHER shut yer mouth, LAW MAKERS, LAWYERS, ATTORNEYS, JUDGES, POLITICIANS, PECKERWOODS, LEADERS, FOLLOWERS, DISCIPLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, SAVIORS, SINNERS, SAINTS, SOOTHSAYERS, MEDICINE MEN, GYPSYS, TRAMPS, AND THIEVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, VAMPIRES, LYCANS, ZOMBIES, WAR MONGERS, PROTESTERS, SOLIDERS, GENERALS, GOVERNORS, PRESIDENTS, PATRIOTS, PACKERS, LIONS, BEARS, BROWNS, BLACKHAWKS, REDWINGS, RIGHT WING, LIBERALS, OR LAW BIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT ME AND LOOSE MY NUMBER. BUT IF YOU SEE MY MOM, TELL HER TO CALL ME. ........................................................................BA-ZING....................................................................**
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Dec 27, 2013
Dec 27, 2013 at 9:47 AM UTC
SPAMMER SMACKDOWN
**IMMEDIATELY PLEASE REMOVE ALL OF MY INFORMATION FROM YOUR DATA BASE FORTHWITH.  ALSO, ADVISE ANY AND ALL CONTRACTORS, SUB-CONTRACTORS, AGENTS, SUB-AGENTS, AFFILIATES, PARTNERS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES, CLIENTS, WEBMASTERS, WEB BASED LINKS, WINKS, TWINKS, COLONEL CLINCKS, BOSSES, CO-WORKERS, EMPLOYEES, VENDORS, SUPPLIERS, SALESMEN, ASCCOUNT REPS/EXCS, ACCOUNTANTS, BROKERS, CO-BROKERS, HACKERS, SLACKERS, WHACKERS, JERKS, PIMPS, HOES, HOBOS, BUMS, DERELICTS, DEGENERATES, DOPERS, DEALERS, TWEEKERS, GAMBLERS, RAMBLERS, SOLICITORS, SIDEKICKS, COHORTS, WINGMEN, WHEELMEN, LOOKOUTS, OUTLAWS, IN-LAWS, RELATIVES, FIANCES, GIRLFRIENDS, BOYFRIENDS, FAMILY, FRIENDS, ENEMIES, EVIL NEMISIS', CANVASSERS, INQUIRERS, QUEERS, QUEENS, COWBOYS, KINGS, **** DRAGS, HAGS, HETEROS, HOMOS, TONY ROMOS, FEMALE IMPERSONATORS, (PRE OR POST) MALE IMPERSONATORS, ***** ***** VAN ***** **** VAN **** LESBIANS, LIARS, BUYERS, CRYERS, CIGAR SMOKERS, CARPET MUNCHERS, RUG RATS, TODDLERS, TEENAGERS, YOUNGSTERS, SENIORS, SUCKERS, TRUCKERS, MOTHER shut yer mouth, LAW MAKERS, LAWYERS, ATTORNEYS, JUDGES, POLITICIANS, PECKERWOODS, LEADERS, FOLLOWERS, DISCIPLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, SAVIORS, SINNERS, SAINTS, SOOTHSAYERS, MEDICINE MEN, GYPSYS, TRAMPS, AND THIEVES, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, VAMPIRES, LYCANS, ZOMBIES, WAR MONGERS, PROTESTERS, SOLIDERS, GENERALS, GOVERNORS, PRESIDENTS, PATRIOTS, PACKERS, LIONS, BEARS, BROWNS, BLACKHAWKS, REDWINGS, RIGHT WING, LIBERALS, OR LAW BIDING CITIZENS, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT ME AND LOOSE MY NUMBER. BUT IF YOU SEE MY MOM, TELL HER TO CALL ME. ........................................................................BA-ZING....................................................................**
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Islamist Extremists. Boat Capsized. Obama and Nelson Mandela. Celebrity Lies. Plane Crash. Forest Fires. Missing Girl. Handgun-buyers. Amazon Lawsuit. ANT-MAN. Low Supplies! Walmart Empty Shelves. Chinese Food Scandal. Microsoft Layoffs. Heat and Gasoline. Oil. Mad Max! Comic Book Convention Drama. Breast Lumps and Swelling. Television. Veteran's Hospitals. Israel and Gaza Fight On. Beachgoers Hit by Lightning. Baseball Drinking Songs. Sci-fi, Wi-fi, Ebola, and Libya. Ukraine. Venezuela. Marriage. Liver failure. Allen Webster. USA. RACE CARS. Global Catastrophe Down to Warming of the Earth. Dinosaurs Had Feathers. MH17. Profits. Desert Bakery. Syria. We Must be Mad. Philippines: 100 Million People on an Island. Salmonella Lawsuit. Cheeseburger Diet. Twinkies Never Going Bad. Putin, Palin, and the Tour de France. Fracking. Cats and Dogs.
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Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 10:36 PM UTC
News
Observing these old men sitting at the stockyard cafe, Suspendered bellies hanging above huge buckles And button-crotched Levi's tucked tight  over leather boots, Legs grown bowed and thin, but carrying  them to the sale, still, To hear the auctioneer, talking fast to work the buying crowd, And get their fill of cattle, shoved indoors, Sold beneath the steady cracking whips, A spectacle to burn its way into my minds's forever eye: The skidding steers, the rolling eyes, the frantic scramble to find cover, While buyers gave their quiet signs: A tilted cap, a winking eye, a thumb or index finger up or at a side, To purchase cow or bull or horse, in living flesh... Then out again, through the other door, And turn our heads to wait for more, and read the scrolling numbers: How many head, how much per pound, perhaps a buyer's name, And then the swinging sound of other cattle coming in to start again. So, here these old boys sit again, Slurping coffee through their yellowed teeth, Remembering days  of indoor cigarettes and harried waitresses, The smell of cow manure and jingling spurs, Though now the smokeless ring seems tame, more civilized, I see the glory days reflecting in the old men's eyes..... I was just a boy back in those good old days, My memory is a little hazed, but I can recall When smoking was allowed and sawdust covered the filthy floor, A Coca-Cola cost a dime, and the cattle sale with Dad was the big time; Quaking as we treaded light on the catwalks above the pens, Looked for our calves, or cows Dad culled to bring to sale, Then going down and in to see them sell. Fondly now, I can recall the restaurant at the ring Where  I hoped for a slice of lemon pie from behind chill-fogged glass, Saw cowmen wearing spurs and neckerchiefs and chaps... Dreamed of growing up to be a cowboy.
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Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015 at 1:32 AM UTC
Montana Livestock Auction
Observing these old men sitting at the stockyard cafe, Suspendered bellies hanging above huge buckles And button-crotched Levi's tucked tight  over leather boots, Legs grown bowed and thin, but carrying  them to the sale, still, To hear the auctioneer, talking fast to work the buying crowd, And get their fill of cattle, shoved indoors, Sold beneath the steady cracking whips, A spectacle to burn its way into my minds's forever eye: The skidding steers, the rolling eyes, the frantic scramble to find cover, While buyers gave their quiet signs: A tilted cap, a winking eye, a thumb or index finger up or at a side, To purchase cow or bull or horse, in living flesh... Then out again, through the other door, And turn our heads to wait for more, and read the scrolling numbers: How many head, how much per pound, perhaps a buyer's name, And then the swinging sound of other cattle coming in to start again. So, here these old boys sit again, Slurping coffee through their yellowed teeth, Remembering days  of indoor cigarettes and harried waitresses, The smell of cow manure and jingling spurs, Though now the smokeless ring seems tame, more civilized, I see the glory days reflecting in the old men's eyes..... I was just a boy back in those good old days, My memory is a little hazed, but I can recall When smoking was allowed and sawdust covered the filthy floor, A Coca-Cola cost a dime, and the cattle sale with Dad was the big time; Quaking as we treaded light on the catwalks above the pens, Looked for our calves, or cows Dad culled to bring to sale, Then going down and in to see them sell. Fondly now, I can recall the restaurant at the ring Where  I hoped for a slice of lemon pie from behind chill-fogged glass, Saw cowmen wearing spurs and neckerchiefs and chaps... Dreamed of growing up to be a cowboy.
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As I move on the streets of Mangalore city on the west seafront, It is an afternoon and the sun is starkly overhead, Burning, roasting in the hot-dry sky of May. While en route the beach I passed from a really silent street, Then I pass from the side of the Rosario Cathedral, The only person I notice was a young vendor. The vendor is a little girl who looked determined to empty her stock, I peered into her basket and was pleased to see in it, Even today I believe she sits there by the street. Sitting in the rain or in the harsh, merciless sun she prays to the God, Just back to her the church apparently has some priority line to Him, She bribes Him a beautiful sea shell or two if He sends some buyers... Though I do not need any sea shells, but I still go and spare a look, I choose a pair of green sea shells and pay her for it, Because she sells the sea shells by the street side.
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Aug 27, 2014
Aug 27, 2014 at 9:55 AM UTC
She Sells The Sea Shells By The Street Side
*Come, we have a story, said the Old Man. Come, sit and I shall tell you all a little tale of a donkey, a boy and his father…and of strangers too…and many a busybody… And the children sat round the campfire and the Old Man began his tale…* One day (and this is many, many uncountable days ago) Father called Son and he said: ‘Son you are grown now into a fine young lad and you must learn how to buy and sell and make a profit ‘So, come let us go you and I to the market to see what silver coins we can get for this old donkey in our shed’ 2 And so Son and Dad set out for the town market across the sandy and rocky miles and some way off Dad grew tired and he said: ‘Ah, Son this walk tires me and so I shall ride the donkey while you walk by the side; so, come let us go you and I to the market to see what silver coins we can get for this old donkey that I shall ride’ 3 ** ** What do we have here?’ came a voice as the Dad sat riding the donkey while the Son walked by the side ‘A cruel father you are,’ said the Family Standards Officer ‘Get down, you grown man and let the child ride!’ And the Father was ashamed and so he let the Son ride the donkey and he walked beside And the Family Standards Officer was extremely pleased and he filled up his forms and he bade the Father and Son safe journey: ‘Ah, this is another success story of the Family Welfare Dept where conscience has won the day and the Son rides the donkey and the Father walks beside’ 4 And the Father and Son are gone but a mile, a mile - when another interruption came their way, heading straight their way…. ‘What do we have here?’ came a scream and the Mandarin of the State Morals Education stopped the trio and the Mandarin glared disapprovingly at the boy riding the donkey and he said: ‘Where is your filial piety? Know you not the son must do his duty by the father? Get off the donkey - you young donkey! and allow your father to ride while you walk with reverence and duty beside!’ And so now we have the Father on the donkey and the Son walking beside all three slowly on and on Father and son to the market to see what silver coins they might get for this old donkey that they have taken turns to ride 5 Then comes an old woman and she mutters to herself as she passes by: ‘Ah, what’s come of life that a father should ride and allow the young to walk.’ And so the Father bids his Son be a pillion rider with him on the donkey and so they ride merrily, merrily on to the market to see what silver coins they can get for this old donkey that they both ride 5 But no sooner have they covered but a mile, just a mile with the respectable Father and the filial Son (both on the hapless donkey) when a voice thunders out from the bush and the Animal Rights Activist stands out and he screams: ‘Oh, you cruel people that you should ride a helpless donkey ! Shame on you! Much better that you both carried the creature!’ And of course the Son and Father so reasonable and always with an open mind they jump off the donkey and they carry the donkey all the way all the way just four more miles just four more miles and they soon come into the market carrying the donkey and shouting: ‘Donkey for sale! Donkey for sale!’ 6 And the buyers at the markets they see this Father and Son carrying the donkey and screaming: ‘Donkey f or sale! Donkey for sale!’ And the buyers they say: ‘But it appears, Sirs, there are three donkeys for sale three donkeys for sale! In declaring “Donkey for Sale!” when there are clearly three are you offering three for the price of one?’
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 7:04 PM UTC
Listening to every Tom, **** and Donkey
*Come, we have a story, said the Old Man. Come, sit and I shall tell you all a little tale of a donkey, a boy and his father…and of strangers too…and many a busybody… And the children sat round the campfire and the Old Man began his tale…* One day (and this is many, many uncountable days ago) Father called Son and he said: ‘Son you are grown now into a fine young lad and you must learn how to buy and sell and make a profit ‘So, come let us go you and I to the market to see what silver coins we can get for this old donkey in our shed’ 2 And so Son and Dad set out for the town market across the sandy and rocky miles and some way off Dad grew tired and he said: ‘Ah, Son this walk tires me and so I shall ride the donkey while you walk by the side; so, come let us go you and I to the market to see what silver coins we can get for this old donkey that I shall ride’ 3 ** ** What do we have here?’ came a voice as the Dad sat riding the donkey while the Son walked by the side ‘A cruel father you are,’ said the Family Standards Officer ‘Get down, you grown man and let the child ride!’ And the Father was ashamed and so he let the Son ride the donkey and he walked beside And the Family Standards Officer was extremely pleased and he filled up his forms and he bade the Father and Son safe journey: ‘Ah, this is another success story of the Family Welfare Dept where conscience has won the day and the Son rides the donkey and the Father walks beside’ 4 And the Father and Son are gone but a mile, a mile - when another interruption came their way, heading straight their way…. ‘What do we have here?’ came a scream and the Mandarin of the State Morals Education stopped the trio and the Mandarin glared disapprovingly at the boy riding the donkey and he said: ‘Where is your filial piety? Know you not the son must do his duty by the father? Get off the donkey - you young donkey! and allow your father to ride while you walk with reverence and duty beside!’ And so now we have the Father on the donkey and the Son walking beside all three slowly on and on Father and son to the market to see what silver coins they might get for this old donkey that they have taken turns to ride 5 Then comes an old woman and she mutters to herself as she passes by: ‘Ah, what’s come of life that a father should ride and allow the young to walk.’ And so the Father bids his Son be a pillion rider with him on the donkey and so they ride merrily, merrily on to the market to see what silver coins they can get for this old donkey that they both ride 5 But no sooner have they covered but a mile, just a mile with the respectable Father and the filial Son (both on the hapless donkey) when a voice thunders out from the bush and the Animal Rights Activist stands out and he screams: ‘Oh, you cruel people that you should ride a helpless donkey ! Shame on you! Much better that you both carried the creature!’ And of course the Son and Father so reasonable and always with an open mind they jump off the donkey and they carry the donkey all the way all the way just four more miles just four more miles and they soon come into the market carrying the donkey and shouting: ‘Donkey for sale! Donkey for sale!’ 6 And the buyers at the markets they see this Father and Son carrying the donkey and screaming: ‘Donkey f or sale! Donkey for sale!’ And the buyers they say: ‘But it appears, Sirs, there are three donkeys for sale three donkeys for sale! In declaring “Donkey for Sale!” when there are clearly three are you offering three for the price of one?’
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A quaint little bazaar In the heart of the town Tells a story Of a thousand moments Dal Bazaar as they call it Or "Curry Market" for others who don't know. I have fragments of memorable memories Deep within my mind The smell The intoxicating smell of spices Blended with the quiescent yet cacophonous lives Of Merchants and Beggars Of Buyers and Sellers Of Bullions and a single calloused rupia In the hands of the old ***** The sunlight baking Bags of turmeric. Suspending the scent In the minds of men. Capering clouds of black and grey And the sudden squall Stirring the monotony Of the customary. The pirouette of rain The one that excites the plainest of the plain Painting the whitewash with shades of grey The chalky walls Dust Moist corriander And the relief of earth Conciliating So rewarding For the ruins of the bare sun. This flashback into my soul Where all my senses seem to be so awake. The feel of the wooden veranda Scent so inexpressible My eyes devouring the sunset Tasting the heavens Hearing it all. Feeling it all. Oh the plight of poets The ritual to end a poem. Painful.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 3:33 AM UTC
Dal Bazaar
There are bloggers and selfie-takers, Know the difference. There are noisemakers and peacemakers, I can show you the evidence. There are admirers and haters. Be especially mindful. There are well-wishers and supporters. Be very careful The are naysayers and yeasayers Always be aware.  There are brothers and brother's keeper, Always ready to take care. There are destroyers and fixers, Separate them. There are mixers and blenders, We need them. There are writers and publishers, They need each other. There are readers and proofreader. Both read for different reasons. There are bystanders and onlookers. Both will be watching. There are movers and shakers, One of them has the edge. There are dreams snatches and vision busters, Be on the lookout. There are ghost whisperers and Ghostbusters, Both have connection to a ghost. There are buyers and sellers, Each one benefits. There are singers and there are dancers. Everyone provides some entertainment. ©IvanBrooksPoetry 21/8/2018
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 1:59 PM UTC
Adversal
We ambled the streets of Harare Meandering aimlessly Fleeting past wide-eyes scanning us enviously Hand in hand we walked into the restaurant Leisurely on Second Street Our hunger awakened Our appetites heightened At almost closing time With no one in overtime mode A signal that here we could only dine on another day Joina City was our next stop Up the lift right to the top 'Closed' it read at the coffee shop Into the nearest chair I went flop! Though hungry, we gabbed non-stop By and by we regarded the clock It chimed 8 o'clock And sadly, it was time to go home Busy and noisy Were the streets of Harare Jabbering crowds, kombis hooting Hawkers, vendors or is it hustlers now - Calling for buyers or just huddled to pass time No chill in Harare Picturesque like a dream Surreal… Hand in hand we dawdled In despair for a hot meal In the shimmering distance Like a mirage in the desert The neon lights read 'Creamy Inn' Something to calm our rambling bellies At last… Nippy evening air hit our souls 'Ice-cream tastes better at night' I said 'I can't believe I'm having ice-cream' He said We frolicked Hand in hand we danced past faces painted with adoration 'What a handsome lover!' They probably thought: My delectable younger brother
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Oct 27, 2017
Oct 27, 2017 at 4:18 PM UTC
Down the Streets of Harare
Governors, Mayors, Policemen, Night keepers, Men folk and all of you On the crest of powers that be Don’t brutalize prostitutes, Nor mishandle ****** Or terrorize harlots, They were born natural Innocent and callow With plain white brains Not tainted with any miss-morals, Genuine in hearts And humane in the genesis, Until they grew up Beyond father and mother Clan and relatives, Into the realm of money civilizations, Where man and woman, Must sell to survive, Sell the wares of trade, Commodities and tools of work, Where men sell labour of their arms To those crafty buyers, And women sell smiles, And the ******** of their ***** To serve vice of man In the glory of warped thought, Prostitutes have no tribe, Neither class nor race, They have no permanent foe Nor permanent friend, They have no permanent memory, Their love is devoid of logic, They love most but fickle, Where they make no money And love least but with nostalgia where they make money, So don’t brutalize them, Only love them, Pay them, Kiss them fondly And sing to them, Lyrical songs of love, Sent them to lull and slumber With your sensuous ****** Of their ******** fountains, Both male and female ****** of your rendezvous.
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 6:46 AM UTC
DON’T BRUTALIZE PROSTITUTES
I was gonna write about how I was writing standing up like Hemingway at some bar in Key West, but instead I ended up nearly lying down, like some Roman eating grapes, and I’m not scrawling with a pen. I’m typing. Why the standing up, Ernest? Was it to gauge how difficult it was to keep good posture? Was it to better measure how drunk you were getting? He would have boxed me for those asking those questions, or maybe he’d just slam a few shots. All of us Northeasterners enjoy getting drunk somewhere tropical. I never have a choice in the matter. Whether it’s Florida, South Carolina, or the South Caribbean (I've never left the Western Hemisphere), all I really like down there is beaches and seawater. Everything else gives deep cringes. Those other tourists, so annoying just to look at. Flip flops, whole families, and the god awful shops they keep open. You go to a place good for a beach, green hills, seawater, and fruit, and you want to buy diamonds? C’mon. I wish you’d want these islands to be like national parks; nature over here and cities over there. But the tourists enjoy fake grass huts that try really hard to sell them junk. So who’s to blame for the sellers perpetuating petty sales and mediocre values? Is it the islanders that make a profit, or the buyers that want the wares? Or is there a third party guaranteeing that the buyers and sellers alike are propagandized to expect the less than fine things in life? Are the salespeople actually working the shops, the ones really getting rich from the sale?
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 10:04 PM UTC
We're not just Mediocre
I was gonna write about how I was writing standing up like Hemingway at some bar in Key West, but instead I ended up nearly lying down, like some Roman eating grapes, and I’m not scrawling with a pen. I’m typing. Why the standing up, Ernest? Was it to gauge how difficult it was to keep good posture? Was it to better measure how drunk you were getting? He would have boxed me for those asking those questions, or maybe he’d just slam a few shots. All of us Northeasterners enjoy getting drunk somewhere tropical. I never have a choice in the matter. Whether it’s Florida, South Carolina, or the South Caribbean (I've never left the Western Hemisphere), all I really like down there is beaches and seawater. Everything else gives deep cringes. Those other tourists, so annoying just to look at. Flip flops, whole families, and the god awful shops they keep open. You go to a place good for a beach, green hills, seawater, and fruit, and you want to buy diamonds? C’mon. I wish you’d want these islands to be like national parks; nature over here and cities over there. But the tourists enjoy fake grass huts that try really hard to sell them junk. So who’s to blame for the sellers perpetuating petty sales and mediocre values? Is it the islanders that make a profit, or the buyers that want the wares? Or is there a third party guaranteeing that the buyers and sellers alike are propagandized to expect the less than fine things in life? Are the salespeople actually working the shops, the ones really getting rich from the sale?
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Imagine the outrage If a band, all-male members, Refuse to play tunes for the opposite gender. Imagine the uproar The venue would face For excluding a half of their customer base. “It’s rank discrimination!” The ladies would moan. If the males got to listen while the girls stayed at home. Yet the Bulletproof Stockings, That band that wears wigs, Exclude guys from their concerts Not just chauvinist pigs. “It’s a matter of Faith!” The girl band members say; No guys at their gigs! No men hear them play. Yet I’ve heard pious Pastry chefs Don’t get to choose. If gay brides want a cake It’s a crime to refuse. An Orthodox authoress who published a tome would be most put out if male buyers stayed home. So if girl musicians seek public expression They ought to think twice about gender oppression. Its great that they’re keeping an orthodox home. But enough of these concerts For women alone.
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Aug 11, 2014
Aug 11, 2014 at 10:18 PM UTC
Down with the Bulletproof Stockings!
I want to be a criminal defence lawyer. And I would be a ‘sincere’ criminal defence lawyer, Breaking the norms. Pretending to defend the criminal till the court date, Just long enough to gather all of the evidence I get against him. Give him just enough hope to stop the seed of suspicion to grow, Then change my colour like a chameleon, And sweep his sinful life into the darkness of prison. But I will be rich right? Because my uncle makes a fortune with this profession, So yes, being a criminal defence lawyer would be a good idea. I could also be a realtor. And I would be an impatient realtor, Yelling at the buyers when They spend 6 months looking at houses and deciding not to buy it. I would give them half of the information, Leaving them wondering, Like an individual looking for a drop of water in a desert. And I would be able to live in a luxurious house, With a huge chandelier at the entrance and a glass elevator, right? Just like my cousin. So yes, being a realtor is also not a bad idea. Or I could be a writer. And I would be an excellent writer, Something that I wanted to be after the first book I read, Reflecting upon what I know and, Wondering about the unknown. A grand chandelier I may not have but, A wall decorated with my curious thoughts, Lightning up the mind of the one who enters the small but cozy home. I am not the water changing myself to fit the glass, But I am the glass with unique design and space, Allowing my dreams and imagination to fill the empty space.
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 12:59 PM UTC
Comparison or Destruction?
I want to be a criminal defence lawyer. And I would be a ‘sincere’ criminal defence lawyer, Breaking the norms. Pretending to defend the criminal till the court date, Just long enough to gather all of the evidence I get against him. Give him just enough hope to stop the seed of suspicion to grow, Then change my colour like a chameleon, And sweep his sinful life into the darkness of prison. But I will be rich right? Because my uncle makes a fortune with this profession, So yes, being a criminal defence lawyer would be a good idea. I could also be a realtor. And I would be an impatient realtor, Yelling at the buyers when They spend 6 months looking at houses and deciding not to buy it. I would give them half of the information, Leaving them wondering, Like an individual looking for a drop of water in a desert. And I would be able to live in a luxurious house, With a huge chandelier at the entrance and a glass elevator, right? Just like my cousin. So yes, being a realtor is also not a bad idea. Or I could be a writer. And I would be an excellent writer, Something that I wanted to be after the first book I read, Reflecting upon what I know and, Wondering about the unknown. A grand chandelier I may not have but, A wall decorated with my curious thoughts, Lightning up the mind of the one who enters the small but cozy home. I am not the water changing myself to fit the glass, But I am the glass with unique design and space, Allowing my dreams and imagination to fill the empty space.
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I am selling away these board games, The Sorries, the Troubles, and the Twisters On which I struggled competitively with you. My yard sale stifles the lawn, Pours over my patio and infiltrates my porch swing. I am selling each game piece, each memory, Each pair of dice and their two-sided arguments. They are thrown from my mind once they are carried Away by strangers who thought them a bargain. I am selling our immature conflicts, The jail in my Monopoly And the alarm clock in Don’t Wake Daddy. Even Candy Land for me is age appropriate no longer, As you continue to barely meet its mental requirements – “for ages 3 and up.” So I am selling away these amusements Stacked firmly upon cheap plastic tables, Feeding my palms with the richness of your absence. Perhaps your game of Life will entertain one of my buyers, Taking your cardboard words of wisdom With an appreciation that I no longer have. I wish them luck with their future mind-Scrabble, As their pursuits will be a Risk yet unknown.
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Sep 26, 2011
Sep 26, 2011 at 11:37 PM UTC
Board Games
The local convenience store dealers lean on glass windows with ****** pupils scanning the parking lot for any takers. I pump my gas on station four and spy from afar. Don’t make eye contact or that means you’re interested. No buyers yet. What do you suppose is on the menu for today? Judging from the amount of zombies I’ve seen pushing stolen shopping carts a block away from here, I’d say smack. Tar. Black. ****** Whatever they call it where you’re from. Welfare bodies withered down to just flesh hanging from bone, wandering around aimlessly for their next fix. I’ve only ever tried it once; I was curious and sad and it was there—in Violet’s hand and then in my lungs. Do you think my mother would cry out in those disgusting sobs of snot and heaves of not-being-able-to-breathe-tears if she knew? Do you think my sister would look at me with that glare of judgmental disapproval because yet again, here’s an example of why I’m the family ****** Do you think my father would smack me upside the head and call me a dumb *** Probably. And do you think my third and sixth grade teachers who told me I should one day do something with my writing would be gasping in disappointment? Definitely. The gas pump clicks off. A potential customer staggers across asphalt to meet his makers and I am no better than he is at this very moment.
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Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020 at 3:17 AM UTC
Drugstore Cowboys
Let us begin in the factoring of gin where the malefactors and blaggards try hard not to show us a grin. and begin. Factor out taste and factor in waste in the factory, in any case nobody cares,and the gin could be anything from nappies to ****** toys for the big boys and pearls for the girls,but we call it gin. and begin. They're all scammers,flim flamming their way from the start to the end of each day and we pay,through the nose,for **** knows what,(a touch of soylent green),get your brains on toast,shin for sunday roast and the marketeers,new age buccaneers blow us out of the water,someone should have taught me how cruel this life can be. and we begin. Back in the factory buying up gin with a passion,the fashionistas get ****** on the fumes and the poor people are shown only crap filled back rooms where the gnomes sit to **** out, tomorrow we'll sit out in the sun,spit out what's home spun and make money from telling funny jokes to the poker faced liars and the gin filled flash buyers who have bought up our Christmas and resold it to China, 'and it's another fine mess dear Laurel,please pass me the bottle of 'mist chloral'. 'Why certainly' said Stanley who seemed ever so manly in the valley when the dolls had gone home.
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Dec 9, 2013
Dec 9, 2013 at 5:31 AM UTC
Merry Christmas from the 'Keystone cops'
Budding with excitement and seemingly pointless fear, but I held a new life in my hands shown through a *** of all my savings. My eyes dart wildly in awe of all the different cars, big ones, small ones, new ones, and foreign ones. Everyone smiled at us - the dealers and the other buyers who walked out with shiny, new vessels as if it were nothing. Nobody knew this was our fifth dealership, even we pretended to lose count maybe this time we’ll leave with something. I know they can see how badly I yearn for a car of my very own that I can say is mine, that I worked for it, that I can watch age through the years.
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Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 1:20 PM UTC
I Went to the Car Dealership
More economic problems On the way As I read in this article today Here it is You can read it too I'm no financial expert But world economies Seem ******* Lol “I think it’s pretty obvious that the top is in,” the Reagan administration’s OMB director said Thursday on CNBC’s “Futures Now.” The S&P; 500 has traded in a historically narrow range for the better part of 2015, having moved just 1 percent higher year to date. “It’s just waiting for the knee-jerk bulls, robo traders and dip buyers to finally capitulate.” Stockman, whose past claims have yet to come to fruition, still believes that the excessive monetary policy from central banks around the world has created a “debt supernova,” and all the signs point to “the end of the central bank enabled bubble,” which could cause a worldwide recession. “The larger picture has nothing to do with the jobs report [Friday] or even the September decision by the Fed,” said Stockman. “It has to do with the the fact that the world economy, including the U.S., is heading into what is clearly going to be an epochal deflation to the likes of what we have never experienced in modern time.”
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Aug 7, 2015
Aug 7, 2015 at 8:59 PM UTC
Economic Problems
this past week the cattle sale went very well all the vendors were keen and eager to sell the buyers had loads of money for purchasing they bought over six hundred cows for breeding record sales such as this are rarely seen about here the buyers always reckon the cattle prices appear to be dear but the auctioneer was sweating for quite a while he sold many pens of cattle with a beaming smile all in all the sale day was a successful affair everyone who attended were glad that they were there this sale will go down in the history books for sure cattle changed hands quite literally by the score the next sale is scheduled for the seventh of May and the district cattle breeders can't wait for the day sellers will be hoping that the prices keep following an upward trend and that there will be a goodly amount of cattle penned
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Sep 10, 2013
Sep 10, 2013 at 6:51 AM UTC
Cattle Sale (Narrative Poem)
Eli tossed the ****** novel aside; a radical tale of painters in the far future when paint itself would be illegal; arms dealers, drug traffickers, *** workers gathering in dark interstellar holes bored into passing comets & orbiting meteors docking illegally at satellite ports & unloading chemicals frozen into place by the artists who can never let their identities be known; all colors on earth are registered & trade marked by the Beast's Corporation & so Space Art is highly sought & lucrative but lethal as it can made to explode w/ enough energy & radiation to leave a small planet barren for millions of years; the Beast is reasonably worried as Space Art, or Action Painting [after the ancient school] is wildly popular & traded openly for billions of dollars; the Beast may be able to keep everyone stupid & greedy but Art liberates them into heights of ecstasy & kindled wisdom; freedom of thought the last frontier no one suspected & so abrogated their intelligence & imagination to fembots      who pump their heads full of colorful action sequences; the illegal paintings too stiff,   just stand or lean & look back                       at one w/out blinking & the female-computer-network unable to bear the silence, initiates automatic shut-down of itself;   femportals      abandoned on stations where the painted images    projected on microcells to the clandestine buyers,                  spread as an unseen mist through the various                                              artificial environments;                   the distant star                     paint miners                   smoking up a storm & using steam-powered                                                                fembots                                       to mine for their oil & charcoal;                                        Eli putting on the kettle for tea, thinks about the fembots in the novel & calling a ********** demands she not speak; the girl arriving naked in stockings
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Aug 29, 2018
Aug 29, 2018 at 8:38 PM UTC
Eli, having read the book
Eli tossed the ****** novel aside; a radical tale of painters in the far future when paint itself would be illegal; arms dealers, drug traffickers, *** workers gathering in dark interstellar holes bored into passing comets & orbiting meteors docking illegally at satellite ports & unloading chemicals frozen into place by the artists who can never let their identities be known; all colors on earth are registered & trade marked by the Beast's Corporation & so Space Art is highly sought & lucrative but lethal as it can made to explode w/ enough energy & radiation to leave a small planet barren for millions of years; the Beast is reasonably worried as Space Art, or Action Painting [after the ancient school] is wildly popular & traded openly for billions of dollars; the Beast may be able to keep everyone stupid & greedy but Art liberates them into heights of ecstasy & kindled wisdom; freedom of thought the last frontier no one suspected & so abrogated their intelligence & imagination to fembots      who pump their heads full of colorful action sequences; the illegal paintings too stiff,   just stand or lean & look back                       at one w/out blinking & the female-computer-network unable to bear the silence, initiates automatic shut-down of itself;   femportals      abandoned on stations where the painted images    projected on microcells to the clandestine buyers,                  spread as an unseen mist through the various                                              artificial environments;                   the distant star                     paint miners                   smoking up a storm & using steam-powered                                                                fembots                                       to mine for their oil & charcoal;                                        Eli putting on the kettle for tea, thinks about the fembots in the novel & calling a ********** demands she not speak; the girl arriving naked in stockings
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How does the rancher learn to dance The annual rhythms of the land? When do we bring the cows, bawling, From open summer to sheltered winter pastures? When is it time to bring the stubborn bulls To the empty, urgent cows, Or to remove them from contented cows, Grown placid in the heaviness of calves? How do we know the time To round up the sweltering herds, Bringing the bellering calves to brand? Or when do we cull the frightened heifers, Lucky in their selection, but uncertain? When should we pare the weanlings, And when call we the buyers? And, when is the time for hiking forty miles Of rusting fence, Replacing posts, Mending broken wire Before the changing of pastures? And when is the time to come to ease, To sense the satisfaction In seeing grazing cattle, Tails swishing away the black flies of June, Moving through gray-green prairie grass On their way to cool creek water?
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Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 8:29 AM UTC
Finding Our Timing: Cows
All so called blood relations have gone to dogs Either they are blood thirsty or weak like thread Faces and hearts are filled with filth as prologues Want to ****** away even last loaves of bread Sell coffins of their dear ones to make them naked They are  constant buyers of contempt and hatred They get their buds nurtured with loved ones blood Their actions speak louder than their words avid Let me take the case to all who suffer with malice Wash intentions with the water of heaven to be fair Be sincere and honest in your approach not jealous Let us take pains of all to take care ,be ready to bear Col Muhammad Khalid Khan Copyright 2016 Golden Glow
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Sep 17, 2016
Sep 17, 2016 at 8:08 AM UTC
Weak Thread Relations