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"century" poems
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 1:35 AM UTC
Your's truly, Travelogue.
That workaholic lady who's always on call, keeping up with the market fall. That newly married lady with chunky red bangles, returning to her father's big castles. That person who's scared to get lapse, so stays active on the google maps. That person who swings like a kid at the back door, Or the one who perform calisthenics on an empty floor. That next door girl with a red lipstick, flicking her shinny hair & gossiping with her clique, That dreamer gazing outside the window, That overworked soul dozing on his elbow. That 21st century kid, listening to Eminem & playing video games. Or That 90’s kid, listening to Jenga Boys & playing outdoor games. That banker with a big fat stomach, filled with his beautiful wife’s love. That lady who eats like a thief, in her big fat bag hiding a beef. That old man who can’t stand Bombay's winding turns. That granny spotting & criticing  every fashion trends. That man who has Raju Rastogi’s concerns, thinking & chanting for earns & returns. Those kids who believe their job is to fill the voids in a battlefield, in the still crowd surpassing like electrons into a magnetic field. That lady sitting under cold seat like a glacial, than standing with 7kgs in a crowded central, & tryna stay sane listening to George Michael. That geek who switchs from Linkedin to Arjun Reddy, when the masses flee into the scenery. That trader crunching numbers so rapidly, when the stock prices go down hourly. That person on the last seat, diagressing from work & gazing around, soaking in her pashmina, with a career newfound.
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Gliding deftly along the city street rolling quick and constantly onward to some unknown scene, some backward park in the nighttime smoke curling from these parted lips, moist and inviting calling me somewhere I've never seen. New day, new night new feelings, rage in delight fill me with your hilarious entropy, knock my quarks into the next century, will you please? Now you're smoking the pipe and all at once you are free between you and me, this smoke is thicker and sticks like glue, wispy and dreamy and the world spins and calls Toltec telephone company can't pay me for all those calls collected and rendered obsolete Sun god dead as that silly calendar meme Amaterasu, and Imma tell you these ladies in the picnic table buried alive for boxed lunch and god's brunch Jesus ******* Christ and a indelible roster of good guys, to which we all must strive to live and die behind, never moving forward chasing our tails like a sick dog under the jasmine runner between the decades-old tanbark imported from overseas dead trees dead canine and oh isn't it just divine? You see it, pretty lady. I can see it hiding behind your eyes the things you don't tell the others because you're afraid if they found out, you'd be crucified. Well honey I hate to inform, With KGB efficiency that these love-a-dumbs aint Methuselah, they'll be dead! long before your flood of tears tears me from the land ballistas me across the great expanse to some strange Ararat of the eastern seaboard, or maybe wash me deep along the 80 into the desert sands and tiles on a leaky cell phone screen desperately trying to dial home on low battery, realizing all this was one big deferred dream, baking in the sun and shriveling oh well, back to the grindstone-- all those lies plucked your nose, gotta cut it back to size, 'else your soul it'll outgrow Don't worry honey bee It hasn't happened to me, and We know with calcuable mathematical truth that it'll never happen to you.
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Jun 26, 2018
Jun 26, 2018 at 9:50 PM UTC
Roller Derby
Gliding deftly along the city street rolling quick and constantly onward to some unknown scene, some backward park in the nighttime smoke curling from these parted lips, moist and inviting calling me somewhere I've never seen. New day, new night new feelings, rage in delight fill me with your hilarious entropy, knock my quarks into the next century, will you please? Now you're smoking the pipe and all at once you are free between you and me, this smoke is thicker and sticks like glue, wispy and dreamy and the world spins and calls Toltec telephone company can't pay me for all those calls collected and rendered obsolete Sun god dead as that silly calendar meme Amaterasu, and Imma tell you these ladies in the picnic table buried alive for boxed lunch and god's brunch Jesus ******* Christ and a indelible roster of good guys, to which we all must strive to live and die behind, never moving forward chasing our tails like a sick dog under the jasmine runner between the decades-old tanbark imported from overseas dead trees dead canine and oh isn't it just divine? You see it, pretty lady. I can see it hiding behind your eyes the things you don't tell the others because you're afraid if they found out, you'd be crucified. Well honey I hate to inform, With KGB efficiency that these love-a-dumbs aint Methuselah, they'll be dead! long before your flood of tears tears me from the land ballistas me across the great expanse to some strange Ararat of the eastern seaboard, or maybe wash me deep along the 80 into the desert sands and tiles on a leaky cell phone screen desperately trying to dial home on low battery, realizing all this was one big deferred dream, baking in the sun and shriveling oh well, back to the grindstone-- all those lies plucked your nose, gotta cut it back to size, 'else your soul it'll outgrow Don't worry honey bee It hasn't happened to me, and We know with calcuable mathematical truth that it'll never happen to you.
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BLESSED be this place, More blessed still this tower; A ****** arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering, mastering it, Rose like these walls from these Storm-beaten cottages -- In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time HaIf dead at the top. Alexandria's was a beacon tower, and Babylon's An image of the moving heavens, a log-book of the sun's journey and the moon's; And Shelley had his towers, thought's crowned powers he called them once. I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair; That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there. Swift beating on his breast in sibylline frenzy blind Because the heart in his blood-sodden breast had dragged him down into mankind, Goldsmith deliberately sipping at the honey-pot of his mind, And haughtier-headed Burke that proved the State a tree, That this unconquerable labyrinth of the birds, cen- tury after century, Cast but dead leaves to mathematical equality; And God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream, That this pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its farrow that so solid seem, Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme; Saeva Indignatio and the labourer's hire, The strength that gives our blood and state magnani- mity of its own desire; Everything that is not God consumed with intellectual fire. III The purity of the unclouded moon Has flung its atrowy shaft upon the floor. Seven centuries have passed and it is pure, The blood of innocence has left no stain. There, on blood-saturated ground, have stood Soldier, assassin, executioner. Whether for daily pittance or in blind fear Or out of abstract hatred, and shed blood, But could not cast a single jet thereon. Odour of blood on the ancestral stair! And we that have shed none must gather there And clamour in drunken frenzy for the moon. IV Upon the dusty, glittering windows cling, And seem to cling upon the moonlit skies, Tortoiseshell butterflies, peacock butterflies, A couple of night-moths are on the wing. Is every modern nation like the tower, Half dead at the top? No matter what I said, For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.
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Blood And The Moon
BLESSED be this place, More blessed still this tower; A ****** arrogant power Rose out of the race Uttering, mastering it, Rose like these walls from these Storm-beaten cottages -- In mockery I have set A powerful emblem up, And sing it rhyme upon rhyme In mockery of a time HaIf dead at the top. Alexandria's was a beacon tower, and Babylon's An image of the moving heavens, a log-book of the sun's journey and the moon's; And Shelley had his towers, thought's crowned powers he called them once. I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair; That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there. Swift beating on his breast in sibylline frenzy blind Because the heart in his blood-sodden breast had dragged him down into mankind, Goldsmith deliberately sipping at the honey-pot of his mind, And haughtier-headed Burke that proved the State a tree, That this unconquerable labyrinth of the birds, cen- tury after century, Cast but dead leaves to mathematical equality; And God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream, That this pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its farrow that so solid seem, Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme; Saeva Indignatio and the labourer's hire, The strength that gives our blood and state magnani- mity of its own desire; Everything that is not God consumed with intellectual fire. III The purity of the unclouded moon Has flung its atrowy shaft upon the floor. Seven centuries have passed and it is pure, The blood of innocence has left no stain. There, on blood-saturated ground, have stood Soldier, assassin, executioner. Whether for daily pittance or in blind fear Or out of abstract hatred, and shed blood, But could not cast a single jet thereon. Odour of blood on the ancestral stair! And we that have shed none must gather there And clamour in drunken frenzy for the moon. IV Upon the dusty, glittering windows cling, And seem to cling upon the moonlit skies, Tortoiseshell butterflies, peacock butterflies, A couple of night-moths are on the wing. Is every modern nation like the tower, Half dead at the top? No matter what I said, For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.
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All of the dance moms are on their iPhones- All I have is my notebook. Pen scratching on paper, I am... Old school. An island of last century In a sea of modern marvels of technology.
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May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 at 2:20 PM UTC
The Technology Dance
Brick         By             Brick A house is built Hour         By             Hour The house becomes a home Day         By             Day The home turns into memories Year         By             Year The memories turn into people Century         By             Century The people turn into stories Story         By             Story Stories turn into legends Legend         After             Legend History is changed Piece         By             Piece Lives are changed Person         By             Person Love is spread One Love         After             Another Bricks are purchased That build houses That turn into homes That create memories That turn into people That turn into stories That turn into legends That change history And it all started with Just. One. Brick.
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Mar 16, 2018
Mar 16, 2018 at 10:28 PM UTC
The Little Things
He says I should do this Society usually agrees There's only so much a girl can do Do I have anything to prove? I can't "compare" with other men Society says they're "more advantaged" Where does this leave me? Unable to prove my capability? The thing with sexism is, despite living in the 21st century, some people are closed-minded as can be...
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Apr 15, 2015
Apr 15, 2015 at 6:50 AM UTC
Sexism
Ah the perfect boy Mushy and gushy, all human like, with normal human skin, and smile Scratch that Heavy body armor, brandishing a sword, born in the mid 15th century Hmmm, no Aluminim for hair, copper in his head, lack of understanding of any type of human emotions That's not right, no How about Scales? Not possible Gills? Smells fishy A being of pure light energy? Sigh, beyond my comprehension I guess I'll just get A pet rock
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 9:07 PM UTC
Pet Rock
kiss me with mango sherbet in your mouth and sticky orange tinted lips these car tires are growing old but I am young with three dimples on my face callouses on my fingertips of my left hand stop with the 'you're scared' in which century does refusal amount to fear liberation by the pen drawings on my hand consumes me individuality is not dead I am here with fiery intent occasionally lost in a girly figure with a small waist and awkward ankles don't dance alone dance a soliloquy like the bruise on my neck (labors of love are not merely towards humans)
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Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 11:12 PM UTC
try again
From Alan Lomax to the commercial art and now the money machine. At the turn of the century; when sound recording 1st became available to the masses, recording a song was an opportunity for folk to reach out; and tell the world something up front and personal. It meant that people were able to put themselves on “The record” A way of leaving a permanent audio statement, an epitaph, an audio sound bite immortalising ~ life, mood, emotion captured and bottled for all eternity. (A medium that conveyed messages from artists and storytellers of all kinds) A recording was also a great addition to "The family album" something more tangible, a window to a real person, with a real life, a message and a point of view; a legacy, a blast from the past. Few people expected sound prints to be re-designed, homogenised, formulated, copied, repackaged and that art and the message would be played over and over again by new artists in the form of "cover music" or that the style of the messages would become secularized, seperated into distinctive groups, or constrained by an elite clique or commercial genre. Labelling and streamlining art & music mostly benefits the commercial art & music industry; and no longer the artists and creators. I've no problem with good business, or the multi-billion pound industrys that have gained commercial success. However the process of mass homogenisation, product synthesis, marketing, streamlining and then packaging fashion, sound and synthetic culture to sell a product, leaves very little room for creative people to just be creative. A medium originally open to many for self expression, a historical record, an archive, a voice, a personal message; Is now just a vehicle for advertising and perpetuating a genre of nonsense, so much so that there is now more white noise immortalised than messages. To re-cap ~ I Think that creativity and expressionism; like story telling conveys moods and messages from the present and past! Artists and musicians should have the opportunity to create and produce more information than they copy; thus creating a richer more colourful tapestry, whilst not devaluing the message of their predecessors! Purcy Flaherty.
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Jan 9, 2018
Jan 9, 2018 at 10:38 AM UTC
The media machine and its lack of authenticity
From Alan Lomax to the commercial art and now the money machine. At the turn of the century; when sound recording 1st became available to the masses, recording a song was an opportunity for folk to reach out; and tell the world something up front and personal. It meant that people were able to put themselves on “The record” A way of leaving a permanent audio statement, an epitaph, an audio sound bite immortalising ~ life, mood, emotion captured and bottled for all eternity. (A medium that conveyed messages from artists and storytellers of all kinds) A recording was also a great addition to "The family album" something more tangible, a window to a real person, with a real life, a message and a point of view; a legacy, a blast from the past. Few people expected sound prints to be re-designed, homogenised, formulated, copied, repackaged and that art and the message would be played over and over again by new artists in the form of "cover music" or that the style of the messages would become secularized, seperated into distinctive groups, or constrained by an elite clique or commercial genre. Labelling and streamlining art & music mostly benefits the commercial art & music industry; and no longer the artists and creators. I've no problem with good business, or the multi-billion pound industrys that have gained commercial success. However the process of mass homogenisation, product synthesis, marketing, streamlining and then packaging fashion, sound and synthetic culture to sell a product, leaves very little room for creative people to just be creative. A medium originally open to many for self expression, a historical record, an archive, a voice, a personal message; Is now just a vehicle for advertising and perpetuating a genre of nonsense, so much so that there is now more white noise immortalised than messages. To re-cap ~ I Think that creativity and expressionism; like story telling conveys moods and messages from the present and past! Artists and musicians should have the opportunity to create and produce more information than they copy; thus creating a richer more colourful tapestry, whilst not devaluing the message of their predecessors! Purcy Flaherty.
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a thousand brilliant lies (Hafiz, Iran 1320-1389);      (L.F.P., USA 20~21st century) - Hafez -                                 - Left Foot Poet- “I have a                                  if only, in my meager possess, thousand brilliant lies,          but one lie when easy asked For the question:                    the simplest damning of, How are you?                          are you generally happy? I have a                                    what is god you ask, thousand brilliant lies.          no lies required, For the question:                    many answers upon my face visible, What is God?                          unsure if any worthy of believing If you think that the               8 centuries separate us, yet Truth can be known,              you lie; we poets - you, I, all believe From words                             in the divinity of words If you think that the                a thousand brilliant sparkles Sun and the Ocean,                 when Sun loves the Ocean, Can pass through that            each one a poem passing, tiny opening Called                my mouth, my wide eyes, the mouth,                                uttering a Cohen's hallelujah O someone should                 So we gleam, mirthing in glorious start laughing!                         and gleeful delight at ourselves Someone should start             for your brilliant happy lies easily wildly Laughing Now!"                                                                                        unravel into a thousand laughs
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Jun 21, 2018
Jun 21, 2018 at 2:30 PM UTC
a thousand brilliant lies (Hafiz, Left Foot)
a thousand brilliant lies (Hafiz, Iran 1320-1389);      (L.F.P., USA 20~21st century) - Hafez -                                 - Left Foot Poet- “I have a                                  if only, in my meager possess, thousand brilliant lies,          but one lie when easy asked For the question:                    the simplest damning of, How are you?                          are you generally happy? I have a                                    what is god you ask, thousand brilliant lies.          no lies required, For the question:                    many answers upon my face visible, What is God?                          unsure if any worthy of believing If you think that the               8 centuries separate us, yet Truth can be known,              you lie; we poets - you, I, all believe From words                             in the divinity of words If you think that the                a thousand brilliant sparkles Sun and the Ocean,                 when Sun loves the Ocean, Can pass through that            each one a poem passing, tiny opening Called                my mouth, my wide eyes, the mouth,                                uttering a Cohen's hallelujah O someone should                 So we gleam, mirthing in glorious start laughing!                         and gleeful delight at ourselves Someone should start             for your brilliant happy lies easily wildly Laughing Now!"                                                                                        unravel into a thousand laughs
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ladies and gentlemen this little girl with the good teeth and small important ******* (is it the Frolic or the Century whirl? ones memory indignantly protests) this little dancer with the tightened eyes crisp ogling shoulders and the ripe quite too large lips always clenched faintly,wishes you with all her fragile might to not surmise she dreamed one afternoon ….or maybe read? of time a when the beautiful most of her (this here and This, do you get me?) will maybe dance and maybe sing and be absitively posolutely dead, like Coney Island in winter
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Ladies And Gentlemen This Little Girl
I rolled out of bed to start my day, but the power was off my all electric home, as still as a grave. No coffee, or toast. The refrigerator not cold, the freezer started dripping the contents soon to spoil. No computer, no cell phone service! I began sweating profusely, no air conditioning to cool me. Not even a TV Emergency Broadcast Alert, to release this uneasy feeling of topsy-turvy . I drove into town seeking a pay phone, with not a single one to be found, gone the way of the dinosaurs, extinct now too I assumed. My old truck had no computer chips, most cars did and were dead in their tracks. I needed gas but the gas station pumps electric computer driven, all DOA to boot. The Nations electric grid had crashed, blacked out, stone cold dead everywhere. All heavenly satellites blacked out, expired. Everything computer related (and that is about everything), had ceased to function as had the electronic reliant world we had created.   The street throngs of dazed people walked around like zombies, clutching blacked out dead computer devices, knowing not what to do. Not even talking, forgotten I guess how to do that too. As dependently defectively programmed as the useless devices in their hands. In a panic I did awake finding that this scary dream world was indeed all fake, a nightmare of fearful unconscious thinking. My electric clock was still churning, It's music alarm blaring, birds outside still singing, my cell phone started ringing, it was merely another Robot call, Welcoming me back to the 21 century.
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Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 10:51 PM UTC
Dinosaurs and Devices
I rolled out of bed to start my day, but the power was off my all electric home, as still as a grave. No coffee, or toast. The refrigerator not cold, the freezer started dripping the contents soon to spoil. No computer, no cell phone service! I began sweating profusely, no air conditioning to cool me. Not even a TV Emergency Broadcast Alert, to release this uneasy feeling of topsy-turvy . I drove into town seeking a pay phone, with not a single one to be found, gone the way of the dinosaurs, extinct now too I assumed. My old truck had no computer chips, most cars did and were dead in their tracks. I needed gas but the gas station pumps electric computer driven, all DOA to boot. The Nations electric grid had crashed, blacked out, stone cold dead everywhere. All heavenly satellites blacked out, expired. Everything computer related (and that is about everything), had ceased to function as had the electronic reliant world we had created.   The street throngs of dazed people walked around like zombies, clutching blacked out dead computer devices, knowing not what to do. Not even talking, forgotten I guess how to do that too. As dependently defectively programmed as the useless devices in their hands. In a panic I did awake finding that this scary dream world was indeed all fake, a nightmare of fearful unconscious thinking. My electric clock was still churning, It's music alarm blaring, birds outside still singing, my cell phone started ringing, it was merely another Robot call, Welcoming me back to the 21 century.
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You do the math and I'll provide the irrationals, as I tend to cling to panic in the asymmetry of life. In this Twenty-First century women still suffer from laws streaming out of councils of men. These are not self-stabbing heroines, they do not ask the heavy deluge of derision. They are faced with laws stemming from an abbatoir, from men who wish to usurp the birthright. Men who have become strangers to their own mothers, men whose ***** dispense a fouled milk, men who deserve an **** ultrasound colonoscopy. So, I beg you to balance the inequality of the equation, gather our sisters in this non-Euclidean space: this is one we solve by inspection!
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May 5, 2012
May 5, 2012 at 10:57 PM UTC
Moral Algebra
huh, what time is it? phone slips back into pocket huh, what time is it? a bear with regret making its bold confessions from behind a meme life in the future: computer in my glasses yet still no jetpacks ancestors hunted only ate what they could **** now we have WalMart flowers were once wild bananas used to have seeds - how we shape the world
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Apr 29, 2014
Apr 29, 2014 at 12:38 AM UTC
21st Century Haiku Part IV
Feel the tide. I am the ship. I am the captain. The ocean is a savage the way it pulls my body, slinging me around like i'm weightless. I will not surrender to this beast. The waves mean nothing to me. I've been fighting this savage ocean for a century. 100 years of getting carried away across these waters. Isolation is my home. It's all I know. I brought this on myself. I ran away from land and into the water, unknowing of the horror it holds. But I will not surrender I am the ship. I will not kiss the ocean goodnight. I will not fight. I will float on until the day comes I greet the sea. My lungs will sting and my head will rush. Leave my body in isolation. Let it be a peace offering. So the ocean wouldn't have to carry away another ship that day.
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 10:12 PM UTC
The Savage One
Money Talks and what it said back then on the railway bridge at Bloomfield Road (no longer there of course) was "You can spare me – it means only one less penny ice lolly from the corner shop !" (no longer there of course) and the train will make me huge (steam no longer here of course) and the others will laugh and cheer as you scramble down to the line place me centred and climb back up here again before the train shoots through to Central Station (no longer there of course). Gigantic copper-coloured disc and this recall. Still talking half a century after. (c) C J Heyworth August 2014
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Aug 8, 2014
Aug 8, 2014 at 12:17 PM UTC
Money talks...
What puts a smile on my face is a smile on yours When we sit and talk and your problems you pour I like you even more when the same you do for me When you say, "I understand," you're the friend of the century I welcome your presence because every moment counts Time with you is like love taken in large amounts There's no such thing as too close You never stray too far What I really like about ya is that you know who you are You never spend your time trying to convince others that you are nice and kind You just let them discover We know where we stand Outsiders need not apply They see not what I do when looking at your eyes We connect on a level different than most You're my constant guest I'm proud to be your host You and me together is so uncomparable; what dreams are made of or a love parable
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
Positive Reinforcement
I sit and try and be a lotus after killing the third fly of the evening with a pocket book of recipes and a thirty centimetre ruler stolen from bathroom **** measuring contests to our knees. Young professionals tread these boards and I watch, trying to paint them lotus. I listen and learn like I was told to do then clock watch, mop, cycle home to you; I am still trying to be a lotus even in wet shoes and no socks. With less than five-hundred pounds to my various names, an office-chair-cum-clothes-horse, eight USB charging ports and a future that stretches to Sunday’s last reluctant second, I am sitting, trying to be lotus figuring out the professional path David Attenborough heard in his gentleman’s class: that son of a- - I walked into an army recruitment vault with dreams of being Gulliver, though was asked to leave out the cat flap cathedral door back into war as they’d got their laugh and didn’t applaud. Perhaps I should’ve been better at maths where apparently a career can be predicted on a scatter graph, and the pigeons of today were the pigeons of next year and the months that’ll follow the century after that. I am still trying to figure out the hoo-ha of ************ and ring fingers and collar sizes and the inner circles of hyenas when the winter solstice splits the seasons. There is no reason for this lotus procrastination when what’s there to live for but a crooked world and one bandage left.
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Oct 17, 2016
Oct 17, 2016 at 2:18 PM UTC
I am trying to be a lotus for the millenniu’nth time
I was brought into this house Ordered from the local furniture shop Made to order according to specifications I am a wingback, Upholstered in full-grain leather   True to my rich heritage I was placed in the library Amongst the illustrious works of famous writers Half- a - century have passed, providing support To the backbone of the family Although tired, he finds solace in my cozy embrace I give him my wings to fly into the world of literature Cervantes, Bunyan, Bacon, Goehte, Dostoevsky, Chekov, Tolstoy Some of the names from the illustrious collection Not all were privileged to have a seat here He was transported to each era, savoring the rich legacy Of literature down the centuries I was privy to the mind-boggling debates Which he conducted with himself Trying to reason each work of literature A mere wingback rose to be a companion Providing sturdy support on the mahogany legs One fine day the reading session ended in deep slumber Five decades of bonding and companionship came to an end Now, I stand here, forlorn, at the corner of the library Reminiscing the reading sessions, and siesta The wingback does not have the wings to fly away from this bond © Amitav (Radiance)
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 2:35 PM UTC
The Wingback Chair
My easel, has been asleep for a while, like a whale on the lost deep seas finding a prey to victimise to sate the belly full. Your easel, sees in my eyes the robbers on the blink of an unruly end finding recognition in social media to favor ego to sate the belly full. Your easel, is a mellow fine lens Hands in line holding a gun set a trigger, to silence the crowds the doom in the public cruise trollers and vipers with wipers to sate the belly full What have we come to dear friend? we seek fame and lose our self to the shadows of the masses who denude our dignity to gain their sanity to sate the belly full What have we come to dear friend? in the spaces of the contours between dehumanised by the social media the medium of the century voice the armageddon of currency that sate to fill it's belly
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Aug 25, 2016
Aug 25, 2016 at 1:45 PM UTC
Robbers (Art Poetry: Social media dehumanisation)
I have been going to the track for so long that all the employees know me, and now with winter here it's dark before the last race. as I walk to the parking lot the valet recognizes my slouching gait and before I reach him my car is waiting for me, lights on, engine warm. the other patrons (still waiting) ask, "who the hell is that guy?" I slip the valet a tip, the size depending upon the luck of the day (and my luck has been amazingly good lately) and I then am in the machine and out on the street as the horses break from the gate. I drive east down Century Blvd. turning on the radio to get the result of that last race. at first the announcer is concerned only with bad weather and poor freeway conditions. we are old friends: I have listened to his voice for decades but, of course, the time will finally come when neither one of us will need to clip our toenails or heed the complaints of our women any longer. meanwhile, there is a certain rhythm to the essentials that now need attending to. I light my cigarette check the dashboard adjust the seat and weave between a Volks and a Fiat. as flecks of rain spatter the windshield I decide not to die just yet: this good life just smells too sweet.
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I log into the network of my self-esteem, To see the hearts and the wows and the laughs flooding in. A simple 'like' wouldn’t cut it anymore ‘Likes’ were so 2010, even 2010 was bored. ‘Cause that’s the zeitgeist of the age, you see, A tendency to wear hearts on sleeves. Loves and kisses are a dime a dozen, With a million friends and followers double. National debates and social justice petitions, Real crises, distorted renditions. High definition photos of disaster zones Flash up against cat videos on every smart phone. Snapchat filters do not lie, Just tell a story of hours gone by; Selecting the perfect background, the ideal shade To express love on the dozen’th date. But that’s the zeitgeist of the century, A tendency to wear hearts on sleeves. To document in minute detail, with extensive pictorial evidence Clockwork days of humdrum nonchalance. And perhaps the generation that came before Would call it vanity, vainglory, or something more. But it ain’t like they were without their sins, We didn’t invent tabloid columnists. And now that we are at the end, Let me sign off with this request: Like, comment, and share your love Let your heart fall out of your shirt cuff.
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 1:53 AM UTC
A Tendency to Wear Hearts on Sleeves