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"canon" poems
I can't deny it anymore. I am in love with you. I didn't fall mind you. I chose this. I chose you. And I can't help but feel that I have chosen wrong. That I have chosen too soon. And it didn't help that you chose me as your beta. As your apprentice. As your most trusted photographer. Didn't help that you nursed all of my fangirl tendencies. Didn't help that you claimed to be my alpha, my coach, my captain. Didn't help that you made me feel like it is just the two of us in the pack. Didn't help that you verbalized my feelings and told me there is only us in the crew. That I am your first mate. The co-captain of a ship That only the two of us can set sail. The only thing is... I am the only one shipping us. And one day, you'll go canon with someone else. And believe me darling, those canons can sink our ship.
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Jun 16, 2015
Jun 16, 2015 at 10:32 AM UTC
First mate
Fire suns out of canons of old and decay in daylight. There might not be blood under your fingernails if you'd refused to laugh. Don't doubt it though, you're being watched. It thinks about your thoughts in thoughtless ways. Dance, pony, humor it. Fail to see the source. Research more. Someone else already answered your stupid questions. Go home. Go broke. Go on as long as you go away. Get a job, you idiot, and make sure it's a good one. If it isn't, fire yourself out of a canon into the Sun. Morphing is addictive. So is heroism. Go, sally gently forth. Froth. Growl low in the gut. Yeah, breathe the fear; die ******* mad about it.
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Mar 11, 2013
Mar 11, 2013 at 7:47 PM UTC
Eye
It's like this, and then there was total recall. Fast like a safety plan made wrong and then bouncing in and out all the way down the hall. Up through cable cars, Korean fast food market, wet fish, soupy street, concrete cracks filled with crab meat and **** heads. Just a square, a five block, two street, sideways quadrangle, beat of the Tenderloin, hour of the dove. Every one's dead on these loose ends. Hills of the back of her backside, skin of the back of her neck. Rapture is the grave of the sunset, memory is that thing that I said. No one cans in carnivores, no one runs moves like a shepherd. Sunday, daft as candy, luck in the ways of the prophet. Canon of the blaze of every woman that died today. The sleep setting, the motorcycle bending the hollow, the ravines noisy interlude, up through the rough and the tangles, huddles in a six pack, three or four walking up the block to meet the rest of them. The skin doesn't fit right, it wears wrong, the shoulders stiff, the masseuse excuses himself. Buckets of flowers hang from the ceiling like stripped cat christmas decorations in suburban mastermind serial killer resort town. Everyone is quiet because they gotta. They move their feet like they were hurrying death into a red volcano, like they were the errand of red from the top bell to the bottom of the town. I sit on a roof top, baking in the noon day sun. Stripping sticks and stems off the side to sideways, just roasting away, laying, low in the afternoon light. I see a girl with her hands on her skirt, wobbling, scooting a priest card on a periwinkle terra-cotta. I move my head, turn it upside round to take a better look. No one counts to ten when they see me. The gangster that woke up isn't the gangster that went to sleep last night. My wickedness ended my words mean your bright decay. So I ride the pavement exhausted, burying my coughs in an L-shaped arm
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
Sunday Morning
It's like this, and then there was total recall. Fast like a safety plan made wrong and then bouncing in and out all the way down the hall. Up through cable cars, Korean fast food market, wet fish, soupy street, concrete cracks filled with crab meat and **** heads. Just a square, a five block, two street, sideways quadrangle, beat of the Tenderloin, hour of the dove. Every one's dead on these loose ends. Hills of the back of her backside, skin of the back of her neck. Rapture is the grave of the sunset, memory is that thing that I said. No one cans in carnivores, no one runs moves like a shepherd. Sunday, daft as candy, luck in the ways of the prophet. Canon of the blaze of every woman that died today. The sleep setting, the motorcycle bending the hollow, the ravines noisy interlude, up through the rough and the tangles, huddles in a six pack, three or four walking up the block to meet the rest of them. The skin doesn't fit right, it wears wrong, the shoulders stiff, the masseuse excuses himself. Buckets of flowers hang from the ceiling like stripped cat christmas decorations in suburban mastermind serial killer resort town. Everyone is quiet because they gotta. They move their feet like they were hurrying death into a red volcano, like they were the errand of red from the top bell to the bottom of the town. I sit on a roof top, baking in the noon day sun. Stripping sticks and stems off the side to sideways, just roasting away, laying, low in the afternoon light. I see a girl with her hands on her skirt, wobbling, scooting a priest card on a periwinkle terra-cotta. I move my head, turn it upside round to take a better look. No one counts to ten when they see me. The gangster that woke up isn't the gangster that went to sleep last night. My wickedness ended my words mean your bright decay. So I ride the pavement exhausted, burying my coughs in an L-shaped arm
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a HOME credible THE BISHOP accusation ADMINISTRATION is PARISHES one MINISTRIES that, SCHOOLS after RESOURCES review SAFE ENVIRONMENT of EMPLOYEES reasonably CAREERS available, CONTACT US relevant MAKE A GIFT information BISHOP’S FAITH APPEAL in LOVE AND JUSTICE consultation AFRICAN AMERICAN MINISTRY with CATHOLIC CHARITIES the PLANNED GIVING Diocesan CHANCELLOR Review OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION Board HISPANIC MINISTRY or CAMPUS MINISTRY other CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY professionals, STEWARDSHIP AND COMMUNICATIONS there YOUTH MINISTRY is FINANCIAL SERVICES reason MODERATOR OF THE CURIA to MAKE A GIFT TO THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN believe SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY is FAMILY LIFE MINISTRY true VOCATIONS The soup today is not what it could be; We’d better search out the old recipe Explanatory Note: I fear the poem as written fails, which is my fault (perhaps I have lapsed into fuzziness from reading Leonard Cohen), so here is a bit of exposition: The words in small print are a quote from the Bishops of Texas (long may they wave), generated by some in-house scrivener, about what constitutes a "credible accusation."  "Credible accusation" is not a title in civil, criminal, or canon law, and it appears to be some sort of Article 58 (cf. Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago), a means whereby anyone is guilty because he has been accused.  It stinks. Also stinky is the behavior of some few priests and religious. Anyway, I pulled the quote from a diocesan web site, and scattered among it in LARGE TYPE categories from that site.  I stirred 'em all up in a soup because the matter of paedophilia and the bishops' responses seem to be a soup, making it difficult for a "good simpleton" (cf A Canticle for Leibowitz) like me to understand. May God have mercy on us all.
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Feb 4, 2019
Feb 4, 2019 at 4:20 PM UTC
Our Catholic Soup Kitchen (Explanatory Note Appended)
a HOME credible THE BISHOP accusation ADMINISTRATION is PARISHES one MINISTRIES that, SCHOOLS after RESOURCES review SAFE ENVIRONMENT of EMPLOYEES reasonably CAREERS available, CONTACT US relevant MAKE A GIFT information BISHOP’S FAITH APPEAL in LOVE AND JUSTICE consultation AFRICAN AMERICAN MINISTRY with CATHOLIC CHARITIES the PLANNED GIVING Diocesan CHANCELLOR Review OFFICE OF CONSTRUCTION Board HISPANIC MINISTRY or CAMPUS MINISTRY other CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY professionals, STEWARDSHIP AND COMMUNICATIONS there YOUTH MINISTRY is FINANCIAL SERVICES reason MODERATOR OF THE CURIA to MAKE A GIFT TO THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN believe SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY is FAMILY LIFE MINISTRY true VOCATIONS The soup today is not what it could be; We’d better search out the old recipe Explanatory Note: I fear the poem as written fails, which is my fault (perhaps I have lapsed into fuzziness from reading Leonard Cohen), so here is a bit of exposition: The words in small print are a quote from the Bishops of Texas (long may they wave), generated by some in-house scrivener, about what constitutes a "credible accusation."  "Credible accusation" is not a title in civil, criminal, or canon law, and it appears to be some sort of Article 58 (cf. Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago), a means whereby anyone is guilty because he has been accused.  It stinks. Also stinky is the behavior of some few priests and religious. Anyway, I pulled the quote from a diocesan web site, and scattered among it in LARGE TYPE categories from that site.  I stirred 'em all up in a soup because the matter of paedophilia and the bishops' responses seem to be a soup, making it difficult for a "good simpleton" (cf A Canticle for Leibowitz) like me to understand. May God have mercy on us all.
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Prescient, her essence Casts a demure persuasion,                 Endowed with verve and vision; Concept to consummation, The serenely possessed, Creator, originator, Allusion to the eternal azure, Logos of abstraction, Word and image collision. Tonal palette of faith infused reason Beauty and sublimity, Serve to season Verse, canvas and film, Mediating aesthetic, seminal senses blossom, Lyrical each permutation, Seeds of vibrant chroma diffusing the mystical. Visage and hair,  her figure haunted With perfection - a work of Art Nurtured and lived invocation, The canon of taste; Crystal for the ***** Devotional fragrance , Holistic ethos, melodic invention, Animated, pure - The embodiment of redemption. Transcending form, parenthetically   (Merely) the decorative,   Allure, artistry and symmetry Superlative complexity, Her erudition satiates, supplanting Winds of constructive banality. Purveyor of an uncommon savor, She collaborates in the peculiar Pursuit and reward, Encounter  with depth, explored, Human and divine, prosaic meets sublime Igniting within an Eros Passion for truth, being and Telos. Visionary of grace and peace Transforming our earthbound dissonance; Our caprice, Hope and abundance, the myth of scarcity, She narrates the Good. Pen, lens, color and stage Vulnerable, unrepressed, effusive Romantic articulation, The reservoir deep, Innately primed conduit of Love. Beyond plebeian, cosmetic, the trite Woman of substance, pulchritude And delight. Effervescent - her smile exquisite, Eclipsing suffering, Wordless expression, understood language. I am transported, my imagination replete, Sonya Rose - Art personified; unabridged, complete. ©2008 & 2013 W.S . Warner
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Mar 28, 2013
Mar 28, 2013 at 12:28 PM UTC
Sonya Rose
Prescient, her essence Casts a demure persuasion,                 Endowed with verve and vision; Concept to consummation, The serenely possessed, Creator, originator, Allusion to the eternal azure, Logos of abstraction, Word and image collision. Tonal palette of faith infused reason Beauty and sublimity, Serve to season Verse, canvas and film, Mediating aesthetic, seminal senses blossom, Lyrical each permutation, Seeds of vibrant chroma diffusing the mystical. Visage and hair,  her figure haunted With perfection - a work of Art Nurtured and lived invocation, The canon of taste; Crystal for the ***** Devotional fragrance , Holistic ethos, melodic invention, Animated, pure - The embodiment of redemption. Transcending form, parenthetically   (Merely) the decorative,   Allure, artistry and symmetry Superlative complexity, Her erudition satiates, supplanting Winds of constructive banality. Purveyor of an uncommon savor, She collaborates in the peculiar Pursuit and reward, Encounter  with depth, explored, Human and divine, prosaic meets sublime Igniting within an Eros Passion for truth, being and Telos. Visionary of grace and peace Transforming our earthbound dissonance; Our caprice, Hope and abundance, the myth of scarcity, She narrates the Good. Pen, lens, color and stage Vulnerable, unrepressed, effusive Romantic articulation, The reservoir deep, Innately primed conduit of Love. Beyond plebeian, cosmetic, the trite Woman of substance, pulchritude And delight. Effervescent - her smile exquisite, Eclipsing suffering, Wordless expression, understood language. I am transported, my imagination replete, Sonya Rose - Art personified; unabridged, complete. ©2008 & 2013 W.S . Warner
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Out of a **** he made Great Art It was no ordinary **** no! It was straight from the heart, that    **** It had lain too long in the dark Now was it's time to start To make its bid for freedom... and for stardom. It flew like a dart that **** from the    heart Like an arrow strung from Cupids    bow Little did it know how luminous it'd    glow Becoming one of the Greats in the    Farting Canon. It was probably the greatest **** poem    ever written In my own humble opinion It was very daring and it smelt of    onion It was certainly the fairest fartiest    poem I ever seen If it was one of the three Musketeers It would have to have been    D'artagoine. It inflated like a balloon, blew up like    a great glass bubble Then it popped and headed off    toward England Flying further afield than any ****    had ever flown It touched people's hearts, bewitched    every nation Resounded around the world Yea! was heard in every Kingdom. It flew long, it rounded the Horn Like a Lark, that **** it soared and    sung It was no boring old **** It was far fartier and fruiter than that It was a King of Farts Way above the fartiest of farters and    all the farting Arthurs It was the real King Arthur The King Arthur of all farts and    Farters. A real Belter was that **** that came    from the heart That had all the Angels singing in    their cloisters, A real work of Art just like Mozart Or remember... remember your    Shakespeare "Hark! A **** a **** Whereforth art ?     Thou **** It played its part, that **** yea! it    wielded its Excalibur. O! there's nothing I'd rather do than lie here blowing sweet bubbles next    to you You! on your little flutey flute flute and    Me! on my big Bass Trombone.
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Jul 24, 2020
Jul 24, 2020 at 7:24 PM UTC
Out of a **** he made Great Art
Out of a **** he made Great Art It was no ordinary **** no! It was straight from the heart, that    **** It had lain too long in the dark Now was it's time to start To make its bid for freedom... and for stardom. It flew like a dart that **** from the    heart Like an arrow strung from Cupids    bow Little did it know how luminous it'd    glow Becoming one of the Greats in the    Farting Canon. It was probably the greatest **** poem    ever written In my own humble opinion It was very daring and it smelt of    onion It was certainly the fairest fartiest    poem I ever seen If it was one of the three Musketeers It would have to have been    D'artagoine. It inflated like a balloon, blew up like    a great glass bubble Then it popped and headed off    toward England Flying further afield than any ****    had ever flown It touched people's hearts, bewitched    every nation Resounded around the world Yea! was heard in every Kingdom. It flew long, it rounded the Horn Like a Lark, that **** it soared and    sung It was no boring old **** It was far fartier and fruiter than that It was a King of Farts Way above the fartiest of farters and    all the farting Arthurs It was the real King Arthur The King Arthur of all farts and    Farters. A real Belter was that **** that came    from the heart That had all the Angels singing in    their cloisters, A real work of Art just like Mozart Or remember... remember your    Shakespeare "Hark! A **** a **** Whereforth art ?     Thou **** It played its part, that **** yea! it    wielded its Excalibur. O! there's nothing I'd rather do than lie here blowing sweet bubbles next    to you You! on your little flutey flute flute and    Me! on my big Bass Trombone.
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the mime made to put it in my mouth. but the wind picked up. it was three blocks suspended before the backside of a fan pulled it from the street and into a pawn shop. it dropped to the floor. all very dramatic said some clown to another. said the other to his white hand always putting it on.
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Aug 10, 2012
Aug 10, 2012 at 11:41 AM UTC
aesthetic canon
Changing Names and Changing Faces Changing Times and Changing Places The emptiness remains the same The Sunna Sutta, Part of the Pali canon, Relates that the monk Ananda, Buddha's attendant asked, "It is said that the world is empty, the world is empty, lord. In what respects is it said that the world is empty?" The Buddha replied, "Insofar as it is empty of a self Or of anything pertaining to a self: Thus it is said, Ananda, that the world is empty. Form is emptiness Emptiness is form Emptiness is not separate from form, Form is not separate from emptiness Whatever is form is emptiness, Whatever is emptiness is form One time to the next time That is all it is Try to be a good person Be kind to others Show others the love that Jesus showed I just want a good friend is all That would be nice Someone to share my life with
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 8:42 PM UTC
The emptiness
Bus-riding, crumb-counting hand wringers Bibble-babbler, channel-flipper slogan slingers Keep the volume loud enough to drown out the machines That fill their cupped hands daily with excrement and dreams These are the ****** of the canon Button-pushing, lever-pulling product users Wife-buying, tax-paying alcohol abusers Emasculated monkeys done up in black and white Clock in in the morning and flock home late at night These are the ****** of the canon Train-conducting, ring-leading hand shakers String-fingered, queue-cutting, man makers Drive home, cursing, lonely, breaking bones beneath their wheels Without the time to diagnose that emptiness they feel These are the ****** of the canon
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Aug 4, 2013
Aug 4, 2013 at 3:32 PM UTC
On Massachusetts Ave.
Shadows dance the night away You ask me if I'm here to stay Following the beat is tough; The music isn't loud enough Golden eyes that pierce the veil In search of love, not fairy tale Whispers in a cloud of smoke I cannot breathe; I gasp, I choke Forget me not, can't forget Stuck in an endless pirrouette Bodies close, our breathing, slow The best (and worst) intentions show Letting go of all things past Not the First, but will be the Last Won't deny this thing I've found-- someone to keep me safe and sound I ask if you're here to stay As shadows dance the night away.
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 12:38 PM UTC
Canon at the Bar or Nightclub
jesus and judas kissed in the garden moments before the world caved in. the gospel of judas says that the betrayer was the most loved of all disciples, that jesus took him aside and taught him touched him laughed. there are two sides to canon, history, myth: someone somewhere at sometime wanted a better story, where the betrayer was held close and favored, forgiven— but the gospels all end the same. the son is strung up for someone else's sins as judas wastes alone in the garden. intention is a matter of interpretation but what is silver worth, really? metaphor disintegrates and you come to me in my dreams. to love you after all of this is apocryphal— tempting yet untrustworthy. you're not judas, i'm just a mortal man, and there is no gnosis, no hidden knowledge, only apocalyptic revelations now. the world is irrevocable, just born. i miss you in the same way jesus met judas' eyes on the cross. somewhere in a field of blood or a forgotten library buried under the earth, there is a better story. over time only becoming more unknowable, hopeful fragments turning to dust in trembling hands.
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Nov 16, 2022
Nov 16, 2022 at 11:48 PM UTC
the gospel of judas
The decaying mansions of English language Rot and recede into teenage grasses with each unspoken year The hired help have left their hair unmown and surrendered their uniform dress Content with the neglect of nature taking its timely course When the architects and master masons of linguistics Survey their forgotten plans in the heaven of English literature They are not dismayed but patiently sit and sit The pristine edifices of the classics Once grand and clad in deferential brick Stand scaffolded and unread The doors unlocked, ajar and hopelessly inviting Into the library of the English canon The dusty cloak on the carpets of grammar Sheets thrown over the disused armchairs of archaic words Echoing the plink of the out-of-tune pianoforte of the perfectly crafted short story Bathrooms of formal poetry With the rusty plumbing of metre and rhyme Whereas the temporary outhouses, hastily arranged huts of slang and idiom are adorned by the living grasses of new forms, creepers of half remembered dreams mulching leaves of half formed thoughts forests of half forgotten loves writhing in living incompleteness Which will in turn harden and fossilize And we can then rue the passing of our once organic lingo
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Dec 14, 2009
Dec 14, 2009 at 10:18 AM UTC
the decaying mansions of the english language
"Turn back the pages of history, and see the men who have shaped the destiny of the world. Security was never theirs, but they lived rather than existed," said Hunter S. Thompson at age 17, before he became The Duke, and shaved off a leg in Doonsbury cartoons, before he rapped the sharp corner of his shot glass, so too many times, on the inch thick enamel, of the Woody Creek Tavern bar top, and waited until closing time to begin blowing lines, out of the divets he'd made. The people clapping, the moon attacking, the red bone blood of America pumping past his eyes. After he died, everyone there had a Hunter story: Hunter shot his hot girl assistant in the *** by mistake, but he felt like **** about it. Hunter had a dozen red cheeked lasses he skied with, but he never messed with them. Hunter showed up in a Cadillac convertible packed with strippers dressed burlesque. But it was hard to tell just exactly what he was up to with the strippers, the peacocks, or anything else. Alot of the stories had ****** implications, but what they mostly implied was he was cool about it. He didn't write any of those stories. Despite all evidence to the contrary he liked his privacy, and what peace he found in rare quiet. And he made **** sure they'd shoot his ashes out of a ******* canon when he died. The canon is still there. So are the peacocks.
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 1:45 AM UTC
Ode to Hunter Thompson, and All Those Who Died Trying
I been on, and on, and on going at it. Bring the metal, if you have it. We can play it out. I'm paranoid, indulge into the void. I'm a black Savage, bad as Black Sabbath. Set your ship, shit-deep, Your last words, you better assist with what we can salvage! The other side of me, asked _if you can manage!_ I'll take us both out! Go out. Goku and Raditz Blasted into King Kait's World Special Beam Canon. None of this is common. None of ths Canon. I'm no Nick, we wildin' out Flying high, disregard all by default without a calculated LANDING. KOBE!!! DAMN! We miss you! _Repent for our sins. Cause we done ENOUGH DAMAGE! I'm losing my patience and my cool I'll be ****** if another fool goes inside a school, with a gun I'm no mailman. But I will bust out the package. Go ham on the packet, take it out da plastic! I'll road-rage-rampage, Laredo Heat Blacked out Bandit. I am coming for answers!_ No water, all Ice with fire. Pray for help, if he's old enough To game and gamble, then he can get scrabbled.... like eggs! Then give him every sample to lead by example I am not playing games, off with his head! i am not soft with the dread. Get ravaged and dismantled act hard, then get HANDLED!! Help me. Help me. Help me.... White noise bringing the realization from the brain's static _My mind's eye open, I'ma black man, I know, I know, I know, I know, I no **** with black magic! Playing board games, got me bored with your tactics Try me, you be in Monopoly, figuring why you're "Sorry" The trouble is on it's way and Trouble is bringing damage I got nothing else to lose, My life more wasted than CJ on highway drifting on xanax. SKKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRTTT!!!!!!! Awh **** HERE WE GO AGAIN._
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Aug 7, 2022
Aug 7, 2022 at 9:39 PM UTC
Ice Fire 2
I been on, and on, and on going at it. Bring the metal, if you have it. We can play it out. I'm paranoid, indulge into the void. I'm a black Savage, bad as Black Sabbath. Set your ship, shit-deep, Your last words, you better assist with what we can salvage! The other side of me, asked _if you can manage!_ I'll take us both out! Go out. Goku and Raditz Blasted into King Kait's World Special Beam Canon. None of this is common. None of ths Canon. I'm no Nick, we wildin' out Flying high, disregard all by default without a calculated LANDING. KOBE!!! DAMN! We miss you! _Repent for our sins. Cause we done ENOUGH DAMAGE! I'm losing my patience and my cool I'll be ****** if another fool goes inside a school, with a gun I'm no mailman. But I will bust out the package. Go ham on the packet, take it out da plastic! I'll road-rage-rampage, Laredo Heat Blacked out Bandit. I am coming for answers!_ No water, all Ice with fire. Pray for help, if he's old enough To game and gamble, then he can get scrabbled.... like eggs! Then give him every sample to lead by example I am not playing games, off with his head! i am not soft with the dread. Get ravaged and dismantled act hard, then get HANDLED!! Help me. Help me. Help me.... White noise bringing the realization from the brain's static _My mind's eye open, I'ma black man, I know, I know, I know, I know, I no **** with black magic! Playing board games, got me bored with your tactics Try me, you be in Monopoly, figuring why you're "Sorry" The trouble is on it's way and Trouble is bringing damage I got nothing else to lose, My life more wasted than CJ on highway drifting on xanax. SKKKKKKKRRRRRRRRRTTT!!!!!!! Awh **** HERE WE GO AGAIN._
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Them bastardized youths fell outside, dizzied by a reality unsolved. Their maws scowled judgment and drooled Pabst down improbable bodies each of them lay in the stink of subtle conformity.   Fiercely unique culture beasts starved away in suburbs; Wikidrifting, those drugged litterbugs scampered. Dropout fish fast against the current of their time, tired from dancing through desperate crowded nights and disparate lonely dawns, dangling degrees and the specters of success burning incessant their pride. They were the ******** made so over time contracted by blind parents to nine-to-blithes in which quiet desperation, credit nooses, and irony were the small print. They were carpenters afraid of their hands.  With chisel to headstone, they lied on the hoods of used Japanese cars, panning the radio for a real connection and gazing up at vanishing constellations.   They were their poison and they their elixir, but a cold cigarette was a much quicker fixer of Helplessness Blues and the back of a Bible where a brief intellectual wrote “I am suicidal.” For how does the turn of the epigram read to those who care less with every new beat of a drummed-up society so high off its piety that seeing stars vanish is simply a shame?   Those ******** dropouts tragically remiss, those Supertramps, Kerouacs, Cohens, and wits. They were the alternative, urbanite fools that littered alleys with Greek fables and Tibetan tattoos.   Criterion flash cards and the literary canon allowed them to flirt with god in verse and art clues until Pollock’s canvas did rip off their eyelids which left them to know only Socrates knew. They danced and they writhed, then ****** to pass time, and kept on their passions till lost were their minds.  Then they all died, those blasphemous ******** But at least they washed on the back of their crimes. At least they danced. At least they were. And there may be something to movement in chaos.
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Oct 29, 2012
Oct 29, 2012 at 8:06 PM UTC
Untitled
Them bastardized youths fell outside, dizzied by a reality unsolved. Their maws scowled judgment and drooled Pabst down improbable bodies each of them lay in the stink of subtle conformity.   Fiercely unique culture beasts starved away in suburbs; Wikidrifting, those drugged litterbugs scampered. Dropout fish fast against the current of their time, tired from dancing through desperate crowded nights and disparate lonely dawns, dangling degrees and the specters of success burning incessant their pride. They were the ******** made so over time contracted by blind parents to nine-to-blithes in which quiet desperation, credit nooses, and irony were the small print. They were carpenters afraid of their hands.  With chisel to headstone, they lied on the hoods of used Japanese cars, panning the radio for a real connection and gazing up at vanishing constellations.   They were their poison and they their elixir, but a cold cigarette was a much quicker fixer of Helplessness Blues and the back of a Bible where a brief intellectual wrote “I am suicidal.” For how does the turn of the epigram read to those who care less with every new beat of a drummed-up society so high off its piety that seeing stars vanish is simply a shame?   Those ******** dropouts tragically remiss, those Supertramps, Kerouacs, Cohens, and wits. They were the alternative, urbanite fools that littered alleys with Greek fables and Tibetan tattoos.   Criterion flash cards and the literary canon allowed them to flirt with god in verse and art clues until Pollock’s canvas did rip off their eyelids which left them to know only Socrates knew. They danced and they writhed, then ****** to pass time, and kept on their passions till lost were their minds.  Then they all died, those blasphemous ******** But at least they washed on the back of their crimes. At least they danced. At least they were. And there may be something to movement in chaos.
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Expect miracles every minute Not. Go away children if you want Uplifting, This is a dark adventure Composition. Gloomy the mood, Gorgeous the day, You have received my disclaimer, Scurry away. I scribe smoke that is uncontainable, Smoke that suffocates, not for decoration. You are the unrighteousness, not on the list, Peekaboo voyeurs who read and dismiss. Why I pen this or this. Lost in the shuffling cards, Luck is not inexhaustible, Mine, bottled in the bin labelled, The last recycling. Dark is the blue sky, White clouds just clothing to disguise Morose is the vision, Of eyes that have not seen a miracle In decades of waiting. Let us divorce today, Find good cheer and company elsewhere. From my finger these words fall freely, No waiting, from me to you instantaneously. What ails thee smoke scribe? I have given and been taken, leeched and bled and now wasted the last of my Nine lives. This is where I stand, edged and ledged, Miracles are not shown to me anymore. My quota, used, I'm not us-confused, Cause I wrote the disclaimer, The warnings, the risks, well understood. Write of the good, the bad, of the Beautiful that does not last, Wonder if this is the poem shall be my Epitaph? Poetry craft, was the sword I breathed thru, Unlike you, my motet is completed, The music, the canon smoke, here, come, then Gone.
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Sep 22, 2013
Sep 22, 2013 at 7:30 AM UTC
Expect miracles every minute, Not. (Sept. 2013)
Then there are these moments When your constant addition and subtractions, Not finalized, But put aside, For the smallest of tokens become the Largesse of life. I am writing a long poem that is yet unfinished, Of Richard II, Bach, and the death of a king, King Ego, the battle infernal of vanity, insecurity, And the constancy, the sense that one is never good enough. Then sacked, for a loss, behind the goal line, By the few, the kind, the genteel. From nowhere, sought not, comes quiet thanks, Appreciation that makes my angst seem Petty and childish, smaller than small. One draws a deep breath, In no rush to exhale. Then as luck would have it, Pachelbel's Canon In D Major arrives, An uninvited, most lovely, most timely guest, and I am on the floor Weeping unashamedly that the kindness of the Few, the kind, the genteel lift me up and tissue my tears. Unclear and unknown what I have done to deserve Such affection, for all I have proffered are a few words, An insight or two garnered from reading between the lines. I understand less, emote more, and head spun, I, poet, defenseless, for I am inadequate to the task. I feel your hands upon my elbows, Your arms around my shoulders, I, am poet risen, Words not insufficient, for Words deemed unnecessary. For I am poet risen, Up, up, up by the Uncompromising embrace of the Few, the kind, the genteel.
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Sep 22, 2013
Sep 22, 2013 at 4:48 PM UTC
Then there are these moments
Please, please, first listen to this, if you are unfamiliar with this musical piece http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kllZlF6mB2s ~~~~~~~~~~~ you thought you didn't know it, but you did somewhere a wedding, a movie and you thought how beautiful I hear it each note distinct, unique and a passageway to the next and the next a transcendence a generation an uplifting an arousal a smoothing a calming a weeping smithy of words, I have read, I have writ words that gut punch me, round my mouth into oh's, cause me weeping endless but this music arrests and rests me, miracle each time I walk on its waters how utter fools we be to have "lost" this for over three hundred years! I rediscover it each time somewhere a wedding a movie and you thought how beautiful for me, a funeral, play it for me at my funeral, hold it in a wedding chapel, so with it, upon hearing its invocation, I may thee wed thereafter, when you stumble on it our vows be timely renewed, and though apart, together, we will weep, once more, transcendent, once again, ascendant, then and now
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
Pachelbel's Canon
I hear the smell of chocolate ice cream Ringing through my ears It echoes through my head Like an old ***** in an England church I can taste Canon in D Major, Refreshing like lemonade On a hot summer day I smell my favorite songs Like the perfume rack at Macy’s, When I read the printed word I sigh, because I have tasted chocolate cake And when I touch sandpaper I taste banana cream pie And when I see you I hear the most beautiful ballad Impalpable, playfully teasing me with its notes Dancing in my head Waiting to be attained I never will reach it But I will reach you
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Dec 9, 2012
Dec 9, 2012 at 9:02 PM UTC
Synesthesia
got a lovely tatty on ya left leggy got no motivation or inspiration but that *** needs lotsa smackin' or maybe mine does, red from your hands bittercress amongst the flowers outdoors warding dancing birdflit of people friendly pudgy pigeons man i hate the birds, the people singing their arias, their liturgy feeling like they know somebody in the canon, me in the sheets listening to their rumors, trying to break our secret
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Apr 7, 2018
Apr 7, 2018 at 1:53 AM UTC
the sparrow chick
THE LANGUAGE OF WATER You wait by the lake alone except for your self & your reflected self as if the landscape dreamt you up. Your thoughts a flock of birds scattered across the failing light. Clouds laugh run along the ground on tiny unseen feet. Trees stand on their heads wriggling their toes in the air & you become as two both real & unreal as if a living dream. You hum Pachabel's Canon as sun & horizon listen. Not bad for a human they both agree. It's as if I need a key to enter this magical dimension as if I have to invent one ...a magical one. I take a little stone whisper to it the secrets of flight and teach it how to say: "Splash! " in the language of water. The little stone transformed  with its new knowledge does as it is told shatters this mirror world opens the dream and I enter bewitched as any fairytale Prince my voice calling your sweet name with longing you turn & we embrace kiss & look upon ourselves as the dream remakes itself stitching itself together with silence. An old artist (unknown to us then)   places us the lovers at the center of his composition adds this final brushstroke and pleased with his efforts folds up his chair packs up his paints & easel smiles at our kisses wishes us a goodnight and is gone eaten by the twilight. Our laughter frail & fragile lingering on the night air playing peek-a-boo with the moonlight.
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Nov 21, 2018
Nov 21, 2018 at 5:38 PM UTC
THE LANGUAGE OF WATER
The saucy heated beat begins The body and blood starts to rise The sensual vibration moves Shaking in the lower meat thighs Vibrant lights turn off their burn beams Crowded areas start to glow I have that richness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno Arms are tight with a violent sway Body smooth moves from side to side The feet are twins glued together Move into a straight liquid glide Dance in a mind all becomes one Gleaming body begins to flow I have that quickness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno Take a chance and slide to the left Then move the twitched out body right Yell the dance passion out so loud From the chest of full burning might Everyone becomes a crazy In a hot crooked little row I have that twitchiness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno Sparked up veins become a robot Bring into the fake or the real All the breakers spin the limbs Move to what the body can feel The people dressed in colored lights Starring in a music life show I have that thickness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno Blast many bombs of the treble Bringing in a canon for bass The music drug enters the mind Keeping at a speedy trance pace Powerful injected speakers Start a quick mind vibrating blow I have that itchiness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno People embody together The happiness like fire spreads Millions of all colors dance Laughing from the harmonic meds A circular world of music Close your eyes to move fast or slow I have that sickness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno
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Jun 15, 2010
Jun 15, 2010 at 9:12 PM UTC
Electric Chronic-Techno
The saucy heated beat begins The body and blood starts to rise The sensual vibration moves Shaking in the lower meat thighs Vibrant lights turn off their burn beams Crowded areas start to glow I have that richness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno Arms are tight with a violent sway Body smooth moves from side to side The feet are twins glued together Move into a straight liquid glide Dance in a mind all becomes one Gleaming body begins to flow I have that quickness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno Take a chance and slide to the left Then move the twitched out body right Yell the dance passion out so loud From the chest of full burning might Everyone becomes a crazy In a hot crooked little row I have that twitchiness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno Sparked up veins become a robot Bring into the fake or the real All the breakers spin the limbs Move to what the body can feel The people dressed in colored lights Starring in a music life show I have that thickness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno Blast many bombs of the treble Bringing in a canon for bass The music drug enters the mind Keeping at a speedy trance pace Powerful injected speakers Start a quick mind vibrating blow I have that itchiness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno People embody together The happiness like fire spreads Millions of all colors dance Laughing from the harmonic meds A circular world of music Close your eyes to move fast or slow I have that sickness once again It’s Electric Chronic-Techno
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I long to be a patient companion who stays to listen to every unspoken word & whispered plea when all else run out of compassion for an anxious pilgrim in deep, tiresome agony Through fires and rains, An enduring and trusting friend as a friend can be guilty pleasures and pains, understanding as Christ has been, you’ve been to me I long to be a faithful companion ‘cause despite hurting still you have not left me abandoned rather daily still, you make me want to live and will to overcome life’s bitter ordeals and see His manifold glory revealed So let me be your companion write stories of mercy ’til we fill up an entire canon Through the devil's canyon, conquering the flames of angered dragons, all the while marvelling at the Creator of the Grand Canyon Journeying today and tomorrow with zealous passion Together, until the day we arrive home in Zion.
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Aug 18, 2021
Aug 18, 2021 at 11:34 PM UTC
A Pilgrim's Companion
Spider society needs their own locus While others break of, I'm keeping my focus Let me breathe, can't you see I'm what this universe needs? Millions at risk, due to inaccuracy I'm never Icarus, only report I'm accepting is one I succeed in They ask if I'm good, life's not black and white The justice I'm seeking seems bleak in the light Priority, I cannot stoop to being petty Won't take no from no miles, no Pieter, no Gwen and no Penni My law is final, the canon's at stake I have to be brutal, taking out the fakes "I thought we're the good guys" we are, we... Are? Just look at the good we've done, the lengths, how far I respect every person in this room, the doom and the gloom I'm no vigilante, don't wait for the moon When I see anomalies I just go and Boom Maybe we can... But think of the Spider-verse Can't think of her now, they're not in this universe That kid was on to something, I can't crack That life I used to lead, I just can't go back Maybe we're not heroes, maybe we're not evil we're just in the middle, anomalies to unveil the job we do, seem to never get hailed But if I fail this, then it's her that I've failed
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Jun 30, 2023
Jun 30, 2023 at 8:31 AM UTC
Web of Canon
. i'm not an alcoholic, i'm an intermediating construct of blues... i think more about blank canvas i am to fill, than the next drink 'm about to have.... why give a dog's bollock's care concerning yourself with whst other other, proper, "sober", sensible people make of your?   i guess an inhibition of a lost verse...        in poetry we call that a quais take on a paragraph...    something akin to: the same worth of the worth of something worth losing... get the drift?!   Clive Owen... Denzel Washington, Brian Molko... now? breed me, a ******* hybrid Q your nag hammadi perfectionism! you trans-gender eucharist!    breed me an example to my specification! breed it! show me the Frankenstein! breed it!        i want wolf ***** "ingested" in women subjects! i, WANT, THEM!                you want the Frankenstein monster? first you need the mad doctor... you have me... cuffed and teasing!      i am,. dying to waake from what is death, and what is death assured, in the fork form of, shadow...    you, want, the monster... i am giving your the antithesis of the nameless caricature of what man's capability!             i need it, whatever "it", is...        i will not sleep till this "thing" is awake in the womb of my cognition... and i know of its wake!                  it's funeral a birth, it's birth, banshee screech!                  the failed Polish winged hussar charge against the Ukranian Cossack upriing, thick, in, mud...                         i have the desires to damage marking banknotes...       Shelley will always outlast the credibility of Austen...     Mary contra Jane...        horror... Frankenstein monsters... vampires...      werewolves... she's the third of the canon!   you don't do that! you can't do that!                 but you did, do that! there is a shadow of man, he dares to call history to contra the visage for the excuses of journalism...      not here... not now...   as a young boy, i dreamed of mingling the ***** of wolves, being impregnated in human females...         i guess, as a treat... to alleviate the existing product                  of down syndrome' what? what is science? if not the reinvigorated perpetuation of trans-categorical inquiry? p.s. when i drink? the last "thing" on my mind is the activity of drinking, notably, for socially unhinged barriers to be broken... i'm an anti-social drinker... i hate conversation, esp. when drinking... a ******* desert, when it comes to              the calorie intake!
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 9:52 PM UTC
confession
. i'm not an alcoholic, i'm an intermediating construct of blues... i think more about blank canvas i am to fill, than the next drink 'm about to have.... why give a dog's bollock's care concerning yourself with whst other other, proper, "sober", sensible people make of your?   i guess an inhibition of a lost verse...        in poetry we call that a quais take on a paragraph...    something akin to: the same worth of the worth of something worth losing... get the drift?!   Clive Owen... Denzel Washington, Brian Molko... now? breed me, a ******* hybrid Q your nag hammadi perfectionism! you trans-gender eucharist!    breed me an example to my specification! breed it! show me the Frankenstein! breed it!        i want wolf ***** "ingested" in women subjects! i, WANT, THEM!                you want the Frankenstein monster? first you need the mad doctor... you have me... cuffed and teasing!      i am,. dying to waake from what is death, and what is death assured, in the fork form of, shadow...    you, want, the monster... i am giving your the antithesis of the nameless caricature of what man's capability!             i need it, whatever "it", is...        i will not sleep till this "thing" is awake in the womb of my cognition... and i know of its wake!                  it's funeral a birth, it's birth, banshee screech!                  the failed Polish winged hussar charge against the Ukranian Cossack upriing, thick, in, mud...                         i have the desires to damage marking banknotes...       Shelley will always outlast the credibility of Austen...     Mary contra Jane...        horror... Frankenstein monsters... vampires...      werewolves... she's the third of the canon!   you don't do that! you can't do that!                 but you did, do that! there is a shadow of man, he dares to call history to contra the visage for the excuses of journalism...      not here... not now...   as a young boy, i dreamed of mingling the ***** of wolves, being impregnated in human females...         i guess, as a treat... to alleviate the existing product                  of down syndrome' what? what is science? if not the reinvigorated perpetuation of trans-categorical inquiry? p.s. when i drink? the last "thing" on my mind is the activity of drinking, notably, for socially unhinged barriers to be broken... i'm an anti-social drinker... i hate conversation, esp. when drinking... a ******* desert, when it comes to              the calorie intake!
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