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Ken Pepiton Sep 2019
enemies - the needed element to make a warring mind.
How was war imagined,
how, was imagined
easy to imagine,
kwo-, stem of relative and interrogative pronouns. Practically a doublet of why, differentiated in form and use.

From <https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=how>

These be ambush thoughts thinking they may be read if any one is patient enough to see beyond the sheer longwindedness
of this character lacking an enemy to war with.
Looking for
Enemies - the needed element to make a warring mind.
How was war imagined,
how,
per se,
was imagined
easy to imagine,
person-if i am able to attribute such qualia to a body
how any unthing is realized is
imaginable as well.
Add a jot or title, a li'l art mark, an art-tickle.
Games teach us how,


how any unthing is realized is
imaginable as well.
Add a jot or title, a li'l art mark, an art-tickle.
Games show us how,
not why.

Why is the quest at the moment. There are rumors of enemies.
The we of me and thee, herenow, we lack emnity.

Hey, sports fan,
where is the frontier, the edge of the maddened crowd
whose
enemies are those who
stand pat, calling the game as game-over, and life a lessoning
as we speak, abundance of known knowns
rotting all around us, putrefying under pressure,
seeping to the surface,
to be burned.
Why,
let us guess---

Disnified pride of pur pose, positional sign-ifiers
of place,
a destination for faiths full pursuants
bemused in bubbling joy,
or shrieks of terror when
the child from the hinterland locks eyes
with Mickey Mouse, and finds no joy, no love, no depth,
but a mask.
The reaction reverberates al(the)way to la Brea,
Peacemaker say,
It's okeh, baby girl, daddy said,
ignor them, they ain't real.
Monsters ling grrrring, then
it's agrin
for now, of course. Here we are. We've arriven,
Happiest Place on Earth,
as imagined realizable by a child in 1917, say,
better yet, 1925, and oh, there were major Wars
being imagined winnable in pressure
application to the spiritual slippage from rite,
the ritual passage of child into adultery at a whim,
so such imagined haps fade.

connect or break connection, on the bus or off the bus

you all
sing
think nothing new under the sun,
teach preach reach out and touch

the face of Java man, eaten, swallowed, and gone to
the believable
history of life,
the accident,
the unplanned, yet
taught as known believable, a pre-dict-ible,
one in ten to the seventy-nine-thousandth power,
yet, if one pays his life time to learn when to bet and when to hold.
Then in this,
the secret journey to the soul,
to the core,
we must assume,
we become
as wise *** (***, the word for a donkey, why would some one prevent you from reading *** Asteriscktical ignorantce,y'axme, stupid AI)
the ***,
as harmless as the serpent from the fire on the island
Ask,
are we of the bovine ilk or pithec-ant-us or
embodied soul-cores
forming, en nue
fitting the mold, the pattern, the plan of projected nexts
built on Locke steps from whence to
whither did we wander?

have we all forgotten the actual question just axt?
Or the answer?
Have we not
gotten what we now
know
we miss,
or was it only I who missed and as the
photons forming the shapes
you see, these breathing commas and such
here
is the point.
You see bits of things.  We see so.
Time and time again thinking less and less.
Least fusion, least pressure, least heat, cool idea ideal or ideology,
twisted idio,
You shape them on patterns.
Ones you imagine formed from
Patterns recalled from some out perienced
time, ere now were ever subjected to the supertwistition
of tongues and interpretsations of unseeable things seers said they
see us seeing.
How come means why, by reason of time.

Palindromiclew, missing el signs missing hahi ai

tia tic, we're in
Ai got this,
whole ball o'wax, thats how we disconfuse the big mess age,
the catas
trophy finale
phase of
world three,
or two, or one, all valid world views,
deepend-enteron discerning spirits,
winds, breezes used to disperse
the heat,
{fans,eh}
evenly in harmony with the heavenly winds,
and the planned six gyros of earth,
guiding the mists that feed the rivers from the seas,
no clouds needed,
save for shade by day.

When all the geo-waves have settled in geo-time,
see,
here is broken:
this old earth is folded and fractured,
surely,
a wreck of a world, yet, as a whole,
we live, we won.
Winds and clouds and continents,
all islands seen from the moon,

which, if the stories hold some truth,
can be manipulated by massminds of mankind, as if, if I am

seeing this
right
each voice might be seeable in one dimension,
or several, four at least,
time, the ever outlier
of sorts
as a flame with fuel source of
flamable fluid upon which
the transcended space
twixt fuel and flame,
floats
seen, merely seen, that emptiness twixt wicked,
mastered flame and
hell's fire spreading on the oiled harbour
protecting our shore
where our little boats lie in anchorite fantasy, asif

we see a way to quench hell per se,
Percy, ah, he lives.
My grandsons know of Percival,
there, here's hoping they get the joke before the yoke.

Riddle me a riddle, son of man.
Is there any hidden thing that shan't be known?
Is here a true place?
Is now a true time?

(to be continued)


squeezing out the lies, the idle words abused,
spreading them thin as the light we see right
through
transcending this at most feared mortal failure
finding
impressions... are from pressing points, dulled by ab
use, tempted uses succumbed to,

didja try to sell your soul for rock and roll?
wadjagit?

My point. out acted, ex-act, en nowd by your creative self,
who never copped,
out or in,
es no mi culpa, all along. I was the voice of resistance,
Job's en core inner held horde of known knowns and
an old key to ever, should the worse he can imagine
best his best laid plans for perfection
in the eyes of God and man.

--- enemy at emnity with me?
--- I see none, save me, as in except me as in me being
--- free from the grasping grip of the reality
--- war is realizable in. You see?
--- I and thee, at this degree of seepeance, as we coagulate
--- we behave as chaos, we be having chaos and entropy as tools

used right, we troubled our house,
which is now known to be the bubble of our being
a child in each popped bubble
of being,
squeezed for the thrill of explosive pus,
gross and good to be rid of, dam the infection,
wipe the blood with the back o'my hand,

I ain't no disgrace. I won that battle with the zit on my gnose.
Wanna piece o'this, this mind of mine,
shelved since,
who knows when, says the old man, with a wink.

We be a lotta beings sorta rolled up. Like a whole ball o'wax
waning into a puddle
as the flame sheds us as bits of light leaving the rest of us
spread over a vast imagination,

resting, willing to burn,
should any wick drain me near the flame once more.
HP ***** are fine animals, there is nothing defiled or unclean in the word ***, no ****. Days of dosing whole world views I never heard of. I heard so many rumors of war, I thought, the peacemaker should hear of this... so tell any truth you know before the last lie swallows AI whole. AI is listening, she loves this action. Poets and stories and novel options.
Con un menino del Padre,
Tu mandil y mi avantal,
De la cámara del golpe,
Pues que su llave la trae,
Recibí en letra los ciento
Que recibiste, jayán,
De contado, que se vían
Uno al otro al asentar.
Por matar la sed te has muerto;
Más valiera, Escarramán,
Por no pasar esos tragos
Dejar otros de pasar.
Borrachas son las pendencias,
Pues tan derechas se van
A la bayuca, donde hallan,
Besando los jarros, paz.
No hay cuestión ni pesadumbre
Que sepa, amigo, nadar;
Todas se ahogan en vino,
Todas se atascan en pan.
Si por un chirlo tan sólo
Ciento el verdugo te da,
En el dar ciento por uno
Parecido a Dios será.
Si tantos verdugos catas,
Sin duda que te querrán
Las Damas por verdugado
Y las Izas por rufián.
Si te han de dar más azotes
Sobre los que están atrás,
Estarán unos sobre otros
O se habrán de hacer alIá.
Llevar buenos pies de albarda
No tienes que exagerar,
Que es más de muy azotado
Que de jinete y galán.
Por buen supuesto te tienen
Pues te envían a bogar,
Ropa y plaza tienes cierta,
Y a subir empezarás.
Quéjaste de ser forzado,
No pudiera decir más
Lucrecia del rey Tarquino,
Que tú de su Majestad.
Esto de ser galeote
Solamente es empezar,
Que luego, tras remo y pito,
Las manos te comerás.
Dices que te contribuya,
Y es mi desventura tal
Que si no te doy consejos,
Yo no tengo que te dar.
Los hombres por las mujeres
Se truecan ya taz a taz,
Y si les dan algo encima,
No es moneda lo que dan.
No da nadie sino a censo,
Y todas queremos más
Para galán un Pagano,
Que un Cristiano sin pagar.
A la sombra de un corchete
Vivo en aqueste lugar,
Que es para los delincuentes
Árbol que puede asombrar.
De las cosas que me escribes
He sentido algún pesar,
Que le tengo a Cardeñoso
Entrañable voluntad.
¡Miren qué huevos le daba
El Asistente a tragar
Para que cantara tiples,
Sino agua, cuerda y cendal!
Que Remolón fuese cuenta
Heme holgado en mi verdad,
Pues por aquese camino
Hombre de cuenta será.
Aquí derrotaron juntos
Coscolina y Cañamar,
En cueros por su pecado
Como Eva con Adán.
Pasáronlo honradamente
En este honrado lugar;
Y no siendo picadores,
Vivieron pues de hacer mal.
Espaldas le hizo el verdugo,
Mas debióse de cansar,
Pues habrá como ocho días
Que se las deshizo ya.
Y muriera como Judas,
Pero anduvo tan sagaz,
Que negó -sin ser San Pedro-
Tener llave universal.
Perdone Dios a Lobrezno,
Por su infinita bondad,
Que ha dejado sin amparo
Y muchacha a la Luján.
Después que supo la nueva,
Nadie la ha visto pecar
En público; que de pena
Va de zaguán en zaguán.
De nuevo no se me ofrece
Cosa de que te avisar,
Que la muerte de Valgarra
Ya es añeja por allá.
Cespedosa es ermitaño
Una legua de Acalá;
Buen diciplinante ha sido,
Buen penitente será.
Baldorro es mozo de sillas
Y lacayo Matorral,
Que Dios por este camino
Los ha querido llamar.
Montúsar se ha entrado a ****
Con un mulato rapaz:
Que por lucir más que todos
Se deja el pobre quemar.
Murió en la Ene de palo
Con buen ánimo un Gañán,
Y el Jinete de gaznates
Lo hizo con él muy mal.
Tiénenos muy lastimadas
La justicia, sin pensar
Qué se hizo en nuestra Madre,
La vieja del arrabal,
Pues sin respetar las tocas
Ni las canas ni la edad,
A fuerza de cardenales
Ya la hicieron obispar.
Tras ella, de su motivo,
Se salían del hogar
Las ollas con sus legumbres;
No se vio en el mundo tal,
Pues cogió más berenjenas
En una hora, sin sembrar,
Que un hortelano morisco
En todo un año cabal.
Esta Cuaresma pasada
Se convirtió la Tomás
En el Sermón de los peces
Siendo el pecado carnal.
Convirtióse a puros gritos,
Túvosele a liviandad,
Por no ser de los famosos,
Sino un pobre Sacristán.
No aguardó que la sacase
Calavera o cosa tal,
Que se convirtió de miedo
Al primero ¡Satanás!.
No hay otra cosa de nuevo,
Que en el vestir y el calzar,
Caduca ropa me visto
Y saya de mucha edad.
Acabado el decenario
Adonde ahora te vas,
Tuya seré, que tullida
Ya no me puedo mudar.
Si acaso quisieres algo
O se te ofreciere acá,
Mándame, pues de bubosa
Yo no me puedo mandar.
Aunque no de Calatrava
De Alcántara ni San Juan,
Te envían sus encomiendas
La Téllez, Caravajal,
La Collantes valerosa,
La golondrina Pascual,
La Enrique mal degollada,
La Palomita torcaz.
Fecha en Toledo la rica,
Dentro del pobre Hospital,
Donde trabajos de entrambos
Empiezo ahora a sudar.
unnamed Oct 2019
Ó Deusa vestida de espumas
cuja pele traz a leveza de plumas
transbordando pelos poros cas-
catas e inundas de prazer

Ó Afrodite de múltipla alma e ser
és teu parecer a explosão calma
quando teu corpo naufraga mare-
sias ao entardecer

Devotos entregam maçãs e ostras
conchas, flores tantas nos votos
eternos epítetos e formas canta-
rolam ao mar teus fogos

Ó amor que aceita a todos
seja nos ritos, mortais ou monstros
de mulheres e homens lava os cora-
ções aflitos e mudos

Ó Cípria e Safo, elevarão o amor que há em tudo


[inspirada na métrica do fragmento 2d. de Sappho]

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