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"cappuccinos" poems
When she held me, I felt like an earthquake, shrapnel cutting quick to the bone. I’m disaster, an unknown kind of danger is the most dangerous When he held me, I felt like a riptide, all control ran out the door. With the *** and cappuccinos I felt out of place in my new home When she held me, I felt disgusting, every move my own betrayal. Yes, she hurt like a gunshot but I did this to myself When he held me, I felt strange, like I should give my whole self. He never asked, I’m thankful. I don’t want to ruin everything else When she held me, I felt like a secret, like I was something small and wild. In a room of screaming children, we were something invincible He never held me, but that’s alright. Someone tell him I understand. Take it slow, like we’re new friends. I’m alive for once No one touch me, I don’t want it. Stop breathing down my neck. My throat fills with ***** But the hands never rest No one touch me, leave me alone. Stop pressing on my back. There are thumbprints on my wrist bones and handprints on my thighs Don’t touch me when you aren’t here. So many years have passed. Is it trauma? I don’t care. The filthy feeling always lasts Don’t touch me when you aren’t here. Nobody ever has to know. When you’re sitting by your lonesome Nobody cares, you’re on your own Nobody cares, you’re on your own
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May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016 at 12:10 PM UTC
Fingers
It wasnt long before the baluster flapped somewhere in the distance and Icarus knew how old he had been on the day of his birth. For whatever reason, the snow capped cappuccinos he had willfully destroyed in a heated debate on fiscal policy had him beginning again. Why was there always a beginning where there was an end? Fur traders used to circumnavigate the Hudson's Bay of his humanity when he was young, sharing drinks and fire water whiskey like it was all an H2O ready for the soul search. Sadly, many ended up in Hitlers concentration camps weeks after the **** invasion of Poland, about a month or so before the fall of the Roman Empire. Beginning with a last breath, Icarus strode off the plank with a new-found confidence unnatural in his niceties of long past. It was as if 1 minute and 35 seconds was enough to dish a clamouring populace onto the dinner table before the fat step-father gleefully orders everyone to 'dig in, everyone!' Cancelling everyone's appointment with Dr. Pardon meant the gaining of a key participatory certificate in El Dorado, and the gold lingering in dusty sun-beams was sifted for the taking. Some got rich, the rest got miserable. The rest used to imagine the gold, staring at ivory towers and lottery tickets, apple cores lording over old public servant applications near the city hall drain pipes as the modern world collapsed into a flash-mob image of Ronald Reagan. Icarus was a sliver of duskish light flittering a top distant windowsills, all cupped in an intentional light because happiness was as possible as sadness. Not that considering either would make you either. Icarus slept as his wings incinerated at the first glimpse of the solar system. He now believed every single proverb the old ***** slumbers had whispered their children as they woke to find themselves adults. In the beginning he found the beginning beginning again. It made him feel however you wish. Both were just as possible. Both were just as much a jazz configuration as a smooth and easy guitar rift. Ahha!
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Apr 1, 2013
Apr 1, 2013 at 5:31 PM UTC
Icarus Inside
It wasnt long before the baluster flapped somewhere in the distance and Icarus knew how old he had been on the day of his birth. For whatever reason, the snow capped cappuccinos he had willfully destroyed in a heated debate on fiscal policy had him beginning again. Why was there always a beginning where there was an end? Fur traders used to circumnavigate the Hudson's Bay of his humanity when he was young, sharing drinks and fire water whiskey like it was all an H2O ready for the soul search. Sadly, many ended up in Hitlers concentration camps weeks after the **** invasion of Poland, about a month or so before the fall of the Roman Empire. Beginning with a last breath, Icarus strode off the plank with a new-found confidence unnatural in his niceties of long past. It was as if 1 minute and 35 seconds was enough to dish a clamouring populace onto the dinner table before the fat step-father gleefully orders everyone to 'dig in, everyone!' Cancelling everyone's appointment with Dr. Pardon meant the gaining of a key participatory certificate in El Dorado, and the gold lingering in dusty sun-beams was sifted for the taking. Some got rich, the rest got miserable. The rest used to imagine the gold, staring at ivory towers and lottery tickets, apple cores lording over old public servant applications near the city hall drain pipes as the modern world collapsed into a flash-mob image of Ronald Reagan. Icarus was a sliver of duskish light flittering a top distant windowsills, all cupped in an intentional light because happiness was as possible as sadness. Not that considering either would make you either. Icarus slept as his wings incinerated at the first glimpse of the solar system. He now believed every single proverb the old ***** slumbers had whispered their children as they woke to find themselves adults. In the beginning he found the beginning beginning again. It made him feel however you wish. Both were just as possible. Both were just as much a jazz configuration as a smooth and easy guitar rift. Ahha!
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There’s an Indian restaurant down the road, And the owners have a beautiful daughter, But she’s the apple of her daddy’s eye, So I really don’t think I oughta. There was a Chinese takeaway next door, That did the best fried-rice, But the authorities came and shut ‘em down, For infestation of rats and lice. There’s a newsagents further along, But it doesn’t do much to dazzle, Unless you want overpriced cigarettes, And back issues of Razzle. The Arab café across the road, Does the best cappuccinos around, The sound of Algerian pensioners laughing Is such a beautiful sound. There’s a Working Men’s around the corner, Where the Guinness is dirt cheap, And in it I’ve had drunken nights, And memories I’d fight to keep. There’s a chicken shop on the way back home, Which I must say is pretty useful, When I’m staggering home, ****** as a **** The chicken burgers taste ******* beautiful. There’s also a chippy down the way, That does an excellent saveloy, It got burnt down, and I can’t help but suspect, It was a sneaky insurance ploy. There’s an Irish pub next door to that, Full of drunken, singing Micks, The Dubliners on the jukebox, It’s where I get my fix. But I’m always drawn to the Indian restaurant, Where the owners have a beautiful daughter, She’s witty, glamourous, the same age as me, And I really think that I oughta.
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Sep 19, 2013
Sep 19, 2013 at 12:27 AM UTC
"There's an Indian restaurant down the road..."
Let's go get high on caffiene and drunk off each other. Lets spend hours in coffee shops, with nothing in our stomaches but butterflies and my cappuccinos and your lattes. Let's become giddy and delusional and find everything amusing and not be able to do anything but laugh. Lets drink and drive as we ride around to exciting places. With every turn down a new curvy road you'll travel deeper down the curvy roads of my mind. Ill become intoxicated and weak and you'll become more and more charming as with each turn we'll fall deeper into a drunken memory.
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Jul 27, 2015
Jul 27, 2015 at 1:58 PM UTC
Cross faded
people build their homes out of the age of their tea kettle and which plants they keep on the windowsill by whether or not the cups and plates match if the cupboards are minimalist or overstuffed from the color of the walls and state of the floor right down to what they hang on the fridge the scent they choose for their dish soap and the way the words come out of their mouths *i am tired of tending to other people’s homes using their sponges watering their dead plants sweeping their floors and smelling their dish soap tired of listening to my words crumbling as fast as i can get them out* and i want a home with fresh flowers on the counter at all times something delicious simmering on the stove with hot tea every night and cream line cappuccinos every morning for breakfast the plates don’t need to match although i’d like them to i know i’m not that type of person and the mugs and washcloths don’t need to be handmade but i’m sure most of them will be anyway with a goldfish and succulents both of which will live long healthy lives yellow walls and maybe a sunny breakfast nook with a crochet lace valence over top the window *your hand to hold your chest to rest my head on at night* and when the dishes rattle it won’t be in frustration or anger but in peels of citrus and laughter *i’m ready to build a home of my own and i want to build it with you by my side*
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Oct 29, 2018
Oct 29, 2018 at 7:09 PM UTC
home
Vivienne Westwood Always wears Chinos By Moschino When making Cappuccinos And insists all that drink The aforementioned fare Wear clothes Adorned with safety pins And have blond spiky hair. Vivienne rarely makes Cappuccinos.
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 4:51 PM UTC
Cappuccinos And Vivienne Westwood
*(i'm 42% sure i don't exist.)* intensely greased plastic hair secondhand green day coldplay in the rain i love the sound that waxed paper deli sheets make and i could choke on a glassed reflection of celery salts and windex. *(i'm 42% sure i don't exist because when i look into my eyes i see someone else)* i'm not catholic and do not understand who st. peter is but i wonder if he won't let us into heaven because we're failures or if we're failures because he won't let us into heaven *(i'm 42% sure i don't exist and questioning how bad hell can really be.)* too quiet for a saturday i wrote the word decaf so many times i forgot how to spell it decaf decaf decaf decaf *(does decaf have two f's? because i don't have two f's to give anymore i mean i would but i can't even find vowels much less extra consonants)* when i was a child i always counted in mississippis now that i'm older i find myself counting in cappuccinos i dreamed my legs were bleeding and i remembered that they're not i want so badly just to sleep in a bag of crystallized ginger and swim in a mixing bowl of tasteless tea. *(i can't tell what's real anymore but i'm 42% sure that i am not.)*
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Aug 24, 2016
Aug 24, 2016 at 5:44 PM UTC
42%
Hello. Good evening and welcome back This is tonight’s program The air is ripe Ripe with social abundance And whimsical latte grooves A warmth in the air It caresses your body, this warmth It walks by your side, this warmth It’s there holding your hand Knowing that you’re alone Because this isn’t the same warmth of a person’s hand But this comfort, this invisible hand, this invisible other Is the warmth of the free midnight air The city lights: fluorescent metal plants with flashing neon insects and prowling jungle dwellers The soft ambient jazz that plays from the dripping rain. Giving your life the harmony of passion The melody of joy But with the rhythms of melancholy A lone phrase that passes by each composition Your world goes black and white Full becomes hollow Radiant becomes dull Trust becomes deception Love becomes hate Life becomes death The rain intensifies with translucent color Reflecting the street illumination of grandeur and sensual subtlety Urban poetry doused by mythic ambition Perplexing the eyes of the unknowing artist Raising the half full glass to the half empty person Objects in mirror are closer than they appear You are that much closer to your reflective self The part of you that will never leave the gaze of reflective surfaces There when you look away from your noon time coffee on the café window There when your mind wonders away from your spouses’ arguing; the mirror behind them There on the puddles on the asphalt and street corners, asking you with voiceless faces ‘Where are you now?” “Is this the dream of God subconscious?” “Is God asleep? Is this all just a dream of something bigger than us/’ Having a conversation with your reflection can turn out to be quite enlightening. This program is brought to you by the following sponsors; Oatmeal, tea leaves, voiceover actors, large print books, Lucretius, Bill Shakespeare, handmade leather wallets, chocolate kisses, long hair, motorcycles, Frank Gambale, Daft Punk, Martin Scorsese, Goya, Kevin Smith, Evan Rachel Wood, Jones Soda, Cappuccinos and all the little people (excluding mole people…they know why.) Please swing by again.
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Jan 20, 2013
Jan 20, 2013 at 7:40 PM UTC
The Obsidian Theater III: Our Mythic Ambition.
Hello. Good evening and welcome back This is tonight’s program The air is ripe Ripe with social abundance And whimsical latte grooves A warmth in the air It caresses your body, this warmth It walks by your side, this warmth It’s there holding your hand Knowing that you’re alone Because this isn’t the same warmth of a person’s hand But this comfort, this invisible hand, this invisible other Is the warmth of the free midnight air The city lights: fluorescent metal plants with flashing neon insects and prowling jungle dwellers The soft ambient jazz that plays from the dripping rain. Giving your life the harmony of passion The melody of joy But with the rhythms of melancholy A lone phrase that passes by each composition Your world goes black and white Full becomes hollow Radiant becomes dull Trust becomes deception Love becomes hate Life becomes death The rain intensifies with translucent color Reflecting the street illumination of grandeur and sensual subtlety Urban poetry doused by mythic ambition Perplexing the eyes of the unknowing artist Raising the half full glass to the half empty person Objects in mirror are closer than they appear You are that much closer to your reflective self The part of you that will never leave the gaze of reflective surfaces There when you look away from your noon time coffee on the café window There when your mind wonders away from your spouses’ arguing; the mirror behind them There on the puddles on the asphalt and street corners, asking you with voiceless faces ‘Where are you now?” “Is this the dream of God subconscious?” “Is God asleep? Is this all just a dream of something bigger than us/’ Having a conversation with your reflection can turn out to be quite enlightening. This program is brought to you by the following sponsors; Oatmeal, tea leaves, voiceover actors, large print books, Lucretius, Bill Shakespeare, handmade leather wallets, chocolate kisses, long hair, motorcycles, Frank Gambale, Daft Punk, Martin Scorsese, Goya, Kevin Smith, Evan Rachel Wood, Jones Soda, Cappuccinos and all the little people (excluding mole people…they know why.) Please swing by again.
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Curled up in the passenger side, my moccasins rested on the edge of the seat. Projecting heat pleaded the piercing winter from under my skin. My chin fell slowly as ash insulated my heart. My lips would part as second-hand soothing soot Grew arms and cradled my soul like the look A newborn baby receives when wrapped in adoration. A suffocation as an indication I was not alone. Strangers. Soaring together for forty-eight hours. Oblivious to dangers our adolescent wings never noticed. Our only focus was on each other. At first, words of conversation refused to be discovered. But all at once we slowly uttered Our pasts until his demons appeared in front of me. Surprised I could still see through the windshield ahead, I did not dread the broken being to my left. Because who was I to judge the stranger Who’d unknowingly love me as if his life depended on it? Have you ever been in love with a Thunderbird? One that flies solely in winter blizzards? Fueled by chain-smoking cigarettes And Dunkin Donut cappuccinos with five sugars. It never once regarded the threat Of driving through life At ninety-five miles per hour. I fell in love at six in the morning, wearing a borrowed jacket. Coated in sleep’s drowsiness, we floated on clouds, Dodging white paper coral trees and buried houses. I fell in love when the world stood still And the snow descended along with our sanity. Somehow a Thunderbird granted me amnesty from myself. As humanity remained asleep, with stealth We drifted through back roads in horrific elegance That jostled my brain until my mind was rewired to my heart And has remained that way since.
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Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 10:10 PM UTC
Thunderbird
Curled up in the passenger side, my moccasins rested on the edge of the seat. Projecting heat pleaded the piercing winter from under my skin. My chin fell slowly as ash insulated my heart. My lips would part as second-hand soothing soot Grew arms and cradled my soul like the look A newborn baby receives when wrapped in adoration. A suffocation as an indication I was not alone. Strangers. Soaring together for forty-eight hours. Oblivious to dangers our adolescent wings never noticed. Our only focus was on each other. At first, words of conversation refused to be discovered. But all at once we slowly uttered Our pasts until his demons appeared in front of me. Surprised I could still see through the windshield ahead, I did not dread the broken being to my left. Because who was I to judge the stranger Who’d unknowingly love me as if his life depended on it? Have you ever been in love with a Thunderbird? One that flies solely in winter blizzards? Fueled by chain-smoking cigarettes And Dunkin Donut cappuccinos with five sugars. It never once regarded the threat Of driving through life At ninety-five miles per hour. I fell in love at six in the morning, wearing a borrowed jacket. Coated in sleep’s drowsiness, we floated on clouds, Dodging white paper coral trees and buried houses. I fell in love when the world stood still And the snow descended along with our sanity. Somehow a Thunderbird granted me amnesty from myself. As humanity remained asleep, with stealth We drifted through back roads in horrific elegance That jostled my brain until my mind was rewired to my heart And has remained that way since.
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"plan a" was to be cordial: you said, "coexist." we toasted with our cappuccinos, "to coexisting," before replacing our masks. smile. wave. be polite. I suppose some dozen missteps by me rendered this plan useless. "plan b" is much harder. put your hand on the table. the knife comes down, quick, press the hot metal to the wound. amputate. cauterize. use your friends as a tourniquet, like the one I've been twisting you into for the last year and a half.
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 11:21 PM UTC
plan b
the donkeys bray and panic when bricks fly through bank windows. gobsmacked, the ***** ogle the trashed Starbucks and ask, "but...who will serve us cappuccinos?" the elephants intone, "violence is never the answer" and neglect to add that's why they pilot remote-operated predator drones: you won't see those stomped in the elephants' stampede. their ***** wars are covert. peace cannot interrupt the cash-flow. as pigs fit armor over bellies buttressed by doughnuts, they stare down the wolf pack—a bloc awash in black— and slap their sticks in primitive percussion shouting, "do not resist," punctuating the order with concussion grenades and tear gas. the wolves howl back, "no cops, no KKK, no fascist USA!" equal parts bark and bite in the fight for humanity, solidarity with the least of these, laughing in the face of the State. each time the wolves show their teeth, the pigs shrink back and quiver in fear, while the wolves roar, "refugees are welcome here!" we will make racists afraid again. antifa, here to stay so long as there remain Nazis to punch in the face.
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Feb 2, 2017
Feb 2, 2017 at 9:25 PM UTC
punch
The law says: every action must be accompanied by a reaction. So when I slipped out of bra and ******* and spread myself open on the kitchen floor, I expected that he would at least put down the crossword puzzle. No response, though. I rose up and emptied the saucepan over him. I went on a course: 'Poetry-writing for beginners'. I made my similes illuminate the dark, like phosphorus flares. My metaphors danced the can-can, naked, around the market square. The teacher said: "Yes, very clever dear. But your imagery clothes a void, Where the poet's deepest thoughts and feelings should be". That was when I unstoppered the nitric acid bottle. She will probably keep the sight in one eye. I joined my local writers' discussion group. At the last meeting, this was the consensus: Music was subordinating sense; my attempt at profundity was just a lazy mysticism. They suggested flushing out the drivel from the windmills of my mind. I added bleach to their cappuccinos. They were left speechless. I looked in Yellow Pages, and found a personal poetry trainer. He said, "From now on, you let other people see your poetry only when I say you may. I shall hold you back until every cadence convinces; Until I hear the extraordinary, the important and the authentic sing from the bedside table." Eventually, we were both satisfied.
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Feb 8, 2012
Feb 8, 2012 at 9:37 AM UTC
Feedback
He brought me 76 roses One for each sunrise we’ve seen The snow falling Not in unique patterns But awkward clumps But I like them that way They seem more real And with him I hoped everything was real He brought me to an art gallery Where we carefully took notes Graphite stained hands Touched and shared thoughts On this painting and that Joking at our intellectuality And he bought me a poster Of Dali’s Persistence of Memory And an ebony frame Which he helped me put up Onto my wall Above my bed So I could see it each day As the flowers bloomed Outside In August was waves Where we held hands Perfectly sculpted for one another And watched waves roll by And sand tickle toes Not a word exchanged No need for it Our scents mixing Into the fresh air Billowing by A hint of lemonade And beer from down the way He took me on a picnic In the middle of October We sat under the stars While the trees carefully Cried tears of leaves On us Entwining us Bonding us into one As we covered ourselves in blanket A makeshift house To guard us against all And we could hide away Just the two of us Winter came once more Lights dangling on front doors And that night He took me to a café And we sat until 2am Reading our novels Though it was hard to concentrate So instead we ordered Cappuccinos And talked the night away About nothing and everything While snow fell Not in unique patterns But awkward clumps But I like them that way They seem more real And with him I hoped everything was real
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Jun 29, 2013
Jun 29, 2013 at 8:33 PM UTC
76 roses
He brought me 76 roses One for each sunrise we’ve seen The snow falling Not in unique patterns But awkward clumps But I like them that way They seem more real And with him I hoped everything was real He brought me to an art gallery Where we carefully took notes Graphite stained hands Touched and shared thoughts On this painting and that Joking at our intellectuality And he bought me a poster Of Dali’s Persistence of Memory And an ebony frame Which he helped me put up Onto my wall Above my bed So I could see it each day As the flowers bloomed Outside In August was waves Where we held hands Perfectly sculpted for one another And watched waves roll by And sand tickle toes Not a word exchanged No need for it Our scents mixing Into the fresh air Billowing by A hint of lemonade And beer from down the way He took me on a picnic In the middle of October We sat under the stars While the trees carefully Cried tears of leaves On us Entwining us Bonding us into one As we covered ourselves in blanket A makeshift house To guard us against all And we could hide away Just the two of us Winter came once more Lights dangling on front doors And that night He took me to a café And we sat until 2am Reading our novels Though it was hard to concentrate So instead we ordered Cappuccinos And talked the night away About nothing and everything While snow fell Not in unique patterns But awkward clumps But I like them that way They seem more real And with him I hoped everything was real
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Closing time. Cold marble steps, brisk evening air. Small cappuccinos, hot chocolate with cream you didn't ask for. The Canadian Embassy casting glittering lights across the fountain waters. Faint indigo sky, laughing about the Renaissance, falling asleep on the Bakerloo.
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Mar 4, 2015
Mar 4, 2015 at 4:34 PM UTC
In The Company of Frank
A crowded café, bustling, boisterous, filled with jocular talk and the ardent gossip of young men and women, a salesman’s smarmy sincerity, and the deft, placid intonations of desire over two cappuccinos with skim milk, and she is there, in the corner, against the brick wall, sipping unadorned Earl Grey, and then a zoom focus, her presence enhanced, the room falls away, and the chatter quiets into a cushioning white noise, background to the film he has constructed, and with the leads filled, the location set, the supporting cast in place, now, the script.
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May 2, 2021
May 2, 2021 at 3:40 PM UTC
Movie Lover
**Sorry to inform you, I have adopted you to be my teenager daughter (I really am crazy)** Someday we might meet, But meantime semi-officially informing you You've been adopted by me, With all the rights and privileges thereof You get to beat up on me, When you need to beat on someone, Like everybody needs to sometime You get to weep on my shirt, Cause I keep an extra nearby at all times, In case you have teenage sadness *** blues You can try out your poems on me, And if they're trite, my limitless sprite, I won't reveal, for you have a thousand more inside My repute as dad is hardly assured, Two sons would might give me a maybe stolid high five, On a scale of one to no jive, premised, dads are just necessary evils. But I am open to learning, the arduous task Of raising a teenage daughter, After I have my head examined Though I am just a bunch of eclectic electrons, I got powers a few, like making life's happiness Hearted happier, encouraging your forays into You-know-what, And when tables turn, a hasty retreat you beat, For imaginary cappuccinos and poems we will meet, Comparing notes on who felt lousier when... But what I can do 100% is assure you There is no lone nor lonely daughter extant, Your voice not just clear but soft-edged, For I have poetically adopted you, Here and now, assuming you sign on the .................................................................. P.S. Someday with you I'll share my most fav poem of all times, Entitled "Why I Always Carry Tissues" Which by the by, I still do
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Jun 28, 2013
Jun 28, 2013 at 2:22 AM UTC
Adopted you to be my teenage daughter
**Sorry to inform you, I have adopted you to be my teenager daughter (I really am crazy)** Someday we might meet, But meantime semi-officially informing you You've been adopted by me, With all the rights and privileges thereof You get to beat up on me, When you need to beat on someone, Like everybody needs to sometime You get to weep on my shirt, Cause I keep an extra nearby at all times, In case you have teenage sadness *** blues You can try out your poems on me, And if they're trite, my limitless sprite, I won't reveal, for you have a thousand more inside My repute as dad is hardly assured, Two sons would might give me a maybe stolid high five, On a scale of one to no jive, premised, dads are just necessary evils. But I am open to learning, the arduous task Of raising a teenage daughter, After I have my head examined Though I am just a bunch of eclectic electrons, I got powers a few, like making life's happiness Hearted happier, encouraging your forays into You-know-what, And when tables turn, a hasty retreat you beat, For imaginary cappuccinos and poems we will meet, Comparing notes on who felt lousier when... But what I can do 100% is assure you There is no lone nor lonely daughter extant, Your voice not just clear but soft-edged, For I have poetically adopted you, Here and now, assuming you sign on the .................................................................. P.S. Someday with you I'll share my most fav poem of all times, Entitled "Why I Always Carry Tissues" Which by the by, I still do
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I am like a cup of coffee The black coffee is my soul the cup is my body the hot temperature is my love the steam rising are my dreams The sugar is my friends the cream is my family Leave me out too long I start to get cold re-heating me is like giving me a hug reminding me that I am not alone The spoon is my soulmate I need him to mix the flavors Whip cream is the blessings I receive on a daily basis The sprinkles on top are milestones I have reached the scent is my voice for when I sing and when I speak Vanilla is my favorite holidays Chocolate is my birthday Raspberry is my laughter Macchiato is my sad days Pumpkin Spice is my comfort Peppermint is my kisses Lattes are my poetry Cappuccinos are my tears Every flavor is another part of me you have to get to know first in order to like Irish Creme is my hello Hot chocolate is my goodbye I am brewed every minute of everyday I am well loved by everybody I can warm you up and make you feel alive just like a cup of coffee
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Sep 18, 2015
Sep 18, 2015 at 9:02 PM UTC
Me In A Cup
Just touched down from Darwin, 2 hour layover in Sydney & I’m starvin’, met a girl at the airport, and invited her to dinner, they say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but I’ve got a credit card that let’s me dine, at almost any restaurant in any country, on any continent in any dateline, so I often invite, beautiful girls and other fellow travelers, to dine with me as my guest for free, where we share stories over appetizers, more peace stories than war stories, more love than hate, because when you really get to know someone, you find you differ in less ways than you relate, anyways, there we were, both on rest stops till our next stop, two world travelers, I’d noticed an engagement ring, more than a modest sized rock, but I noticed the finger on which it sat, made the look a bit odd, see she wore the ring, on her middle finger instead of her ring finger, so it was more of a fck you instead of a love you, I asked her if there was a reason for this position, she said it was because, it simply didn’t fit on her ring finger, that it was a simple mix up that was it but, I suspected there was a reason that was deeper, so I questioned her intentions, why was she with this man but still acting like a free woman, why was she speaking of “exploding like a volcano!”, when she sees a man and feels an attraction, about how she had a fantasy, of meeting a beautiful Australian man, on a beach and he’d teach her to surf, and she’d ride his surfboard from the wave to the sand, this was when I decided to speak up, to tell her I didn’t think this engagement would work out, that maybe tying the knot with a man was already a dad, was not the best idea for a woman with no kids that liked to go out, that maybe I was in a way, an Angel of Divine Intervention, and how every moment of our lives, had led us up to that instant, I told her no man owned her, that her body was hers alone to control, that life is too short to compromise, that there is no moment other than now, I told her that that was the reason, that I didn’t have a wife, because there are many women I love, and to love only one wouldn’t be right, how can I tell one of my lovers, that she’s better than all the rest, how can I tell any of the others, that they’re not as good as the one that I’m with, I can’t, because love is not confined into the body of one, love is free to love and do what love does, and with that we finished our tapas, and finished our rendezvous with cappuccinos and hugs, back into the world, back into the embrace of another lover, back into the future, to make more memories with more women at more dinners… ∆ LaLux ∆
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Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 6:51 PM UTC
Angel of Divine Intervention
Just touched down from Darwin, 2 hour layover in Sydney & I’m starvin’, met a girl at the airport, and invited her to dinner, they say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but I’ve got a credit card that let’s me dine, at almost any restaurant in any country, on any continent in any dateline, so I often invite, beautiful girls and other fellow travelers, to dine with me as my guest for free, where we share stories over appetizers, more peace stories than war stories, more love than hate, because when you really get to know someone, you find you differ in less ways than you relate, anyways, there we were, both on rest stops till our next stop, two world travelers, I’d noticed an engagement ring, more than a modest sized rock, but I noticed the finger on which it sat, made the look a bit odd, see she wore the ring, on her middle finger instead of her ring finger, so it was more of a fck you instead of a love you, I asked her if there was a reason for this position, she said it was because, it simply didn’t fit on her ring finger, that it was a simple mix up that was it but, I suspected there was a reason that was deeper, so I questioned her intentions, why was she with this man but still acting like a free woman, why was she speaking of “exploding like a volcano!”, when she sees a man and feels an attraction, about how she had a fantasy, of meeting a beautiful Australian man, on a beach and he’d teach her to surf, and she’d ride his surfboard from the wave to the sand, this was when I decided to speak up, to tell her I didn’t think this engagement would work out, that maybe tying the knot with a man was already a dad, was not the best idea for a woman with no kids that liked to go out, that maybe I was in a way, an Angel of Divine Intervention, and how every moment of our lives, had led us up to that instant, I told her no man owned her, that her body was hers alone to control, that life is too short to compromise, that there is no moment other than now, I told her that that was the reason, that I didn’t have a wife, because there are many women I love, and to love only one wouldn’t be right, how can I tell one of my lovers, that she’s better than all the rest, how can I tell any of the others, that they’re not as good as the one that I’m with, I can’t, because love is not confined into the body of one, love is free to love and do what love does, and with that we finished our tapas, and finished our rendezvous with cappuccinos and hugs, back into the world, back into the embrace of another lover, back into the future, to make more memories with more women at more dinners… ∆ LaLux ∆
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i ache for the dimly lit late night cafes with wine bottles on the walls and foamy brown cappuccinos on the tables. i lust after the nameless, elegant dishes and the martinis and the sophistication. you are wendy's at midnight a chain restaurant on our anniversary. practicality. i want mindless rewards without guilt. i want cafes and restaurants no one outside of this town has heard of i want to be what i am: twenty years old fresh off the french coffee press ready to sweep my way through all the archetypes i have observed longingly. you're seven years too late, darling.
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 11:17 PM UTC
seven years too late
I remember so many warm moments Like chatting over coffee in the rain Under an umbrella on the boulevard It hurts to know we won’t do that again. We will never again go to a buffet And eat all the expensive stuff up, Avoiding bread and pasta as filling And then sit and drink cocoa by the cup. I remember when we walked together Along the shore, a perfect place to be, The two of us sharing old-time stories Of what had happened to you and to me. We caught each other up on the news Of things that each did not yet know. Not just the tales of disgust or glory From the old days so very long ago. I remember how easily you laughed At the jokes I had saved up to tell. The sound was always a happy one With the undertone of a tinkling bell. And when I made up stories about People that walked down the street You always lightly poked my shoulder; Chided me that I needed to be sweet. I remember that it was good to be there, Seeing your warm smile that truly glowed. I remember people looking at us, grinning At two people, happy beside the busy road. It was that kind of scene for us, it’s true. Two people sharing cappuccinos that day; A memory that still resides within me. A gift you left me before you passed away.
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Aug 26, 2015
Aug 26, 2015 at 11:55 PM UTC
REMEMBERING
Henry sipping his latte, spied a girl with a dog across the way, small dog sitting on her lap. His group sipped and chattered; he studied her as she waited for some other dame to bring their drinks. The dog moved on her lap, rising up her short blue skirt. He looked away, a member of his group asked about an item of news seen in the paper which one of them held: some financial deal or war unending in some far off land, and talked of other things that seemed more at hand. But instinct urged him to glance back at the dame with the mutt on her lap. Her friend had brought the two cappuccinos and put them down, an older dame, mother or aunt or mother-in-law, and the dame sat down and the girl put the dog down to the ground. Henry glanced at the already risen short blue skirt, to see if she pulled it down, but she didn't, she sipped her drink chatting away. Fine thighs met his eyes, two to gaze at and dream of what lay beyond the borders of the skirt's cloth. But the group’s talk had reached a peak and his involvement was desired, so he looked away, his fires alight, his engines fired.
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Aug 19, 2016
Aug 19, 2016 at 1:53 AM UTC
HIS ENGINES FIRED.
I never knew my father, but I see him pass in every window reflection. Collar turned to the wind, he bumbles towards the book store with a coffee shop upstairs. I'm entombed in literature and fellow hermits. We become non-existence for all moments but this; as we hunch over scalding cappuccinos, eyes darting to each other semi-covertly, for once hopeful of human contact. I never knew my father. He died of lung cancer before memories bloomed, in the space between the womb and indoctrination. All traces of him are left in trinkets, soap-preserved hair fibres in a shaving mug, and ripples of gravitational waves. He tells me that I have a place, without ever saying a word. And, he never tells me off for smoking. I never knew my father. He was a military man and belonged to the Salvation Army. I don't think we'd see eye-to-eye now, but perhaps he would have saved me from my artist's starvation; with my bleeding heart pouring pointlessly into each and every gutter. I would have walked with more of a stride than a fluster, and call out names to the streets, without ever caring for consequence. I never knew my father, but I met him once. I met him in the caverns of mind, as I swung around with a flashlight; hoping to find meaning in meditation. He held my shoulders as I fell to sobs, as I told him I missed him, as I told him I was lost. To that he just smiled and said: “You're already there.”
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Mar 19, 2014
Mar 19, 2014 at 8:06 PM UTC
James Coles
Document steals business, and we're just hanging, improving our cappuccinos... Would you like some pistachio cake? Do you drink? If I'm going to spend $6000 on liquor, it might as well be at the same two places. See, I could never do that. I'm terrible with computers.
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Nov 9, 2017
Nov 9, 2017 at 12:32 PM UTC
Conversation with a barista