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It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that it ain't exactly real, or it's real, but it ain't exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the gay: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. It's coming through a crack in the wall, on a visionary flood of alcohol; from the staggering account of the Sermon on the Mount which I don't pretend to understand at all. It's coming from the silence on the dock of the bay, from the brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. It's coming from the sorrow on the street the holy places where the races meet; from the homicidal bitchin' that goes down in every kitchen to determine who will serve and who will eat. From the wells of disappointment where the women kneel to pray for the grace of G-d in the desert here and the desert far away: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. Sail on, sail on o mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need past the Reefs of Greed through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on It's coming to America first, the cradle of the best and the worst. It's here they got the range and the machinery for change and it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken and it's here the lonely say that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. It's coming from the women and the men. O baby, we'll be making love again. We'll be going down so deep that the river's going to weep, and the mountain's going to shout Amen! It's coming to the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway, imperial, mysterious in amorous array: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. Sail on, sail on o mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need past the Reefs of Greed through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on I'm sentimental if you know what I mean: I love the country but I can't stand the scene. And I'm neither left or right I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen. But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that Time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
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Democracy
It's coming through a hole in the air, from those nights in Tiananmen Square. It's coming from the feel that it ain't exactly real, or it's real, but it ain't exactly there. From the wars against disorder, from the sirens night and day, from the fires of the homeless, from the ashes of the gay: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. It's coming through a crack in the wall, on a visionary flood of alcohol; from the staggering account of the Sermon on the Mount which I don't pretend to understand at all. It's coming from the silence on the dock of the bay, from the brave, the bold, the battered heart of Chevrolet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. It's coming from the sorrow on the street the holy places where the races meet; from the homicidal bitchin' that goes down in every kitchen to determine who will serve and who will eat. From the wells of disappointment where the women kneel to pray for the grace of G-d in the desert here and the desert far away: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. Sail on, sail on o mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need past the Reefs of Greed through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on It's coming to America first, the cradle of the best and the worst. It's here they got the range and the machinery for change and it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken and it's here the lonely say that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. It's coming from the women and the men. O baby, we'll be making love again. We'll be going down so deep that the river's going to weep, and the mountain's going to shout Amen! It's coming to the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway, imperial, mysterious in amorous array: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. Sail on, sail on o mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need past the Reefs of Greed through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on I'm sentimental if you know what I mean: I love the country but I can't stand the scene. And I'm neither left or right I'm just staying home tonight, getting lost in that hopeless little screen. But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags that Time cannot decay, I'm junk but I'm still holding up this little wild bouquet: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.
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I think of mom often. Like when I read anything by Jack London or Ernest Thompson Seton. Her memory swirls around me when I see a dead opossum by the roadside it reminds me of the one we had as kids. Yes, we had an opossum. It wasn't a pet as much as it was a wounded soldier, convalescing in a field hospital close to the front and cared for by Florence Nightingale, except the field hospital was our carport under a suspended Old Towne wood canoe, the battle, with a Ford or Chevrolet, on the main road near our house in Connecticut. Florence was Mom. She peeks at me around corners in the kitchen when I make fish, or soup, because I hated fish as a child. She made us eat it because it was healthy and the blocks of frozen Turbot were cheap and she was a single mom at forty two with three hungry mouths to feed. She tried to make me think it was exotic because it came from Iceland. I thought Turbot was Icelandic for "more bones in your mouth than you ever thought possible". Mom was, however, an accomplished homemade souper. She's by my side as I explain wild things to other little wild things which hang on my every word. Words put into my head which make it seem, to the under four foot set, that I know everything. Knowledge put there by her in our yard, by the lakes of New York, the mountains of West Virginia or deserts of California. She is in every frog that jumps, whippoorwill that calls or each stalk of Jewel **** which is a cure for poison ivy by the way, that grows near a stream in the woods. But then today as my daughter opened the overhead sunglass holder in her car for the first time, the Subaru she inherited from Mom over a year ago, and Grandma's sunglasses fell out, there were no thoughts of lessons learned or knowledge imparted. Today, I just thought of her.
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Jul 14, 2013
Jul 14, 2013 at 1:10 AM UTC
Grandma's Sunglasses
I think of mom often. Like when I read anything by Jack London or Ernest Thompson Seton. Her memory swirls around me when I see a dead opossum by the roadside it reminds me of the one we had as kids. Yes, we had an opossum. It wasn't a pet as much as it was a wounded soldier, convalescing in a field hospital close to the front and cared for by Florence Nightingale, except the field hospital was our carport under a suspended Old Towne wood canoe, the battle, with a Ford or Chevrolet, on the main road near our house in Connecticut. Florence was Mom. She peeks at me around corners in the kitchen when I make fish, or soup, because I hated fish as a child. She made us eat it because it was healthy and the blocks of frozen Turbot were cheap and she was a single mom at forty two with three hungry mouths to feed. She tried to make me think it was exotic because it came from Iceland. I thought Turbot was Icelandic for "more bones in your mouth than you ever thought possible". Mom was, however, an accomplished homemade souper. She's by my side as I explain wild things to other little wild things which hang on my every word. Words put into my head which make it seem, to the under four foot set, that I know everything. Knowledge put there by her in our yard, by the lakes of New York, the mountains of West Virginia or deserts of California. She is in every frog that jumps, whippoorwill that calls or each stalk of Jewel **** which is a cure for poison ivy by the way, that grows near a stream in the woods. But then today as my daughter opened the overhead sunglass holder in her car for the first time, the Subaru she inherited from Mom over a year ago, and Grandma's sunglasses fell out, there were no thoughts of lessons learned or knowledge imparted. Today, I just thought of her.
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Homecoming body: A grey cardigan strips down, bonding skin to night’s air, penetrating Chevrolet safe havens drowned in lover’s spit. My Mind thanks Google, enabling electronic bibles to leave disciples stifled with religious quotas, an excuse to quote us — “Trouble at the Border, read the former court room reporter working for the, sensationalized, through remnants of blood stains in our eyes.” Midway through Chapter 1 — reeks not only of of *** in the backseat — but of Venezuela’s shorelines. Of her high school hallways. Of the intrigue of the unexplored Mexican neighbor, her freedom amidst constraint, where Visas lease us advertising campaigns for maquiladora made lampshades. Despite their protest, common sense lent comparisons, a consequence of stories told in reverse. They hover over Venezuela’s familiar curves, her long black hair straddling my shoulders.
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Jan 5, 2012
Jan 5, 2012 at 8:00 PM UTC
Playground Love
Sitting in my fifty six Chevy The top down and feeling good. I love driving in the city Like I never believed I would. Girls and guys scope my car And they wish they had one. It has a few primer spots but The car is far from a bad one. I love my fifty six Chevy The best one ever made. Three speeds, six cylinders Ford never made the grade! The don’t make them now They way that they used to. They’re not made of solid steel Like the older classic used do. You kept up with the fluids Changed the tires when had to. Give up my wonderful Chevrolet? Dude, I’d be absolutely mad to. I love my fifty six Chevy Never a bit of car trouble. It’s so much like driving in A mid-century auto bubble. It doesn’t have the modern stuff Like air bags and cruise control But, still it comes fully equipped With clout and a whole lot of soul. Punch it on the straight-away And watch the other cars go by. It runs better after half a century Than most modern cars I can buy. I love my fifty six Chevy Much more fun than all the rest. Back then they made the cars With stamina and a lot of zest! It’s a beauty from another day. Don’t try to take my car away. It’s bigger, and a bit more heavy, But I still love my fifty six Chevy!
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Aug 8, 2015
Aug 8, 2015 at 11:47 PM UTC
FIFTY SIX CHEVY
Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** *** Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** The moment I laid eyes on you I knew it was true love You were sharing a root beer float with your friends Down at the soda shop I looked debonair in my Pompadour You cute in your poodle skirt I took out my comb to slick down the sides As you smiled, giggled, and twirled I asked if you'd like to go out Just you and me on a date I picked you up at seven o'clock In my 56' Chevrolet Your father gave me a stern look Your mother a gleam in her eye He asked where we were going Why to church sir, I said with a smile Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** *** Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** I took you to the drive in Bobs Burgers and Late Night Shakes Afterwards we both went dancing At the Hop just down the street You had my heart all in a flutter As we slowed danced all night It was then I knew for certain That I would make you my lovely wife I got you home way past your curfew Your dads silhouette by the front door You said I can't go back to that I pressed the peddle to the floor So here we are these many years later Me as your husband you as my wife With our grand kids playing about our feet Thinking back to that fateful night Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, *** *** Shoop, Shoop ***Shoe, ***
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Dec 28, 2013
Dec 28, 2013 at 7:58 AM UTC
A 50's Poem
O, come a little closer - hear what I have to say, I know that one piece of writing can be interpreted in so many different ways. O, but do pay attention to my word-play, To the picture I’m trying to portray. O, I hope by the end of this you will understand the image I am trying to convey, But do not get me wrong, the end of this is something I am attempting to delay. O, it is saddening to know that sooner or later my rhymes will fade away So I will replay, replay, replay. O, how I pray that what we have will not decay. Like all the flowers & bouquets that I watched wither/die a bit more every day. O, but how pretty were they? Sad to know that each & every single one was thrown out like the contents of an ashtray. O, how you must have noticed the repetition of O’s - I think they are here to stay, Unlike my pathetic, childish rhymes that I am struggling to hold at bay. O, do not get me wrong - the rules to rhyme are so easy to obey, They are so easy to slay. O, like tray, cafe, puree, For god sake, even JFK. O, please tell me - do you see the problem on display? Do you see what I am trying to say, what is coming my way? O, it feels like a betrayal No, no, no that’s not a rhyme. I need to rhyme, I need us to be okay. Ray, clay, Bombay. Tray, fray, mae. Ray, clay, Bombay. Tray, fray, mae. O, please stay I need us to be okay. O, I know repetition of words is not a rhyme, Nothing more than copy & paste. Ray, clay, Bombay, Tray, fray, mae. Ray, clay, Bombay, Tray, fray, mae. O, please I don't want us to stray I hate how we went from white to grey. O, please I don’t us to end this way, I know I am barely rhyming but I will try my best, okay? Look - ballet, allay, hooray, Hay, weigh, olay. Look - ballet, allay, hooray, Hay, weigh, olay. O, please stay I need us to be okay. O, I know repetition of words is not a rhyme, Nothing more than copy & paste. I’ll come up with more, Dismay, replay, is-lay. Tray, cafe, valet, Delray, Alleyway, Chevrolet. It is not that I don’t know how to rhyme, I just need something to rhyme for. Rhyming is synchronisation, it is compatibility I just need to know we are. Please, stay, stay, stay, Don't go away, don't go away, don't go away. Please, stay, stay, stay, Don't go away, don't go away, don't go away. Ray, clay, Bombay, Tray, fray, mae. Ray, clay, Bombay, Tray, fray, mae. I know I am barely rhyming, but I will do my best okay? Please stay, Don’t go away.
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Jul 28, 2022
Jul 28, 2022 at 2:11 PM UTC
Give Me Something To Rhyme For/Let Us Rhyme
O, come a little closer - hear what I have to say, I know that one piece of writing can be interpreted in so many different ways. O, but do pay attention to my word-play, To the picture I’m trying to portray. O, I hope by the end of this you will understand the image I am trying to convey, But do not get me wrong, the end of this is something I am attempting to delay. O, it is saddening to know that sooner or later my rhymes will fade away So I will replay, replay, replay. O, how I pray that what we have will not decay. Like all the flowers & bouquets that I watched wither/die a bit more every day. O, but how pretty were they? Sad to know that each & every single one was thrown out like the contents of an ashtray. O, how you must have noticed the repetition of O’s - I think they are here to stay, Unlike my pathetic, childish rhymes that I am struggling to hold at bay. O, do not get me wrong - the rules to rhyme are so easy to obey, They are so easy to slay. O, like tray, cafe, puree, For god sake, even JFK. O, please tell me - do you see the problem on display? Do you see what I am trying to say, what is coming my way? O, it feels like a betrayal No, no, no that’s not a rhyme. I need to rhyme, I need us to be okay. Ray, clay, Bombay. Tray, fray, mae. Ray, clay, Bombay. Tray, fray, mae. O, please stay I need us to be okay. O, I know repetition of words is not a rhyme, Nothing more than copy & paste. Ray, clay, Bombay, Tray, fray, mae. Ray, clay, Bombay, Tray, fray, mae. O, please I don't want us to stray I hate how we went from white to grey. O, please I don’t us to end this way, I know I am barely rhyming but I will try my best, okay? Look - ballet, allay, hooray, Hay, weigh, olay. Look - ballet, allay, hooray, Hay, weigh, olay. O, please stay I need us to be okay. O, I know repetition of words is not a rhyme, Nothing more than copy & paste. I’ll come up with more, Dismay, replay, is-lay. Tray, cafe, valet, Delray, Alleyway, Chevrolet. It is not that I don’t know how to rhyme, I just need something to rhyme for. Rhyming is synchronisation, it is compatibility I just need to know we are. Please, stay, stay, stay, Don't go away, don't go away, don't go away. Please, stay, stay, stay, Don't go away, don't go away, don't go away. Ray, clay, Bombay, Tray, fray, mae. Ray, clay, Bombay, Tray, fray, mae. I know I am barely rhyming, but I will do my best okay? Please stay, Don’t go away.
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I want to adopt an old-timer, A jolly, kind old fellow, His socks would never match, And his sweater would be yellow. He would tell me stories, About the good ol’ days. We’d inch around town, In his 59 Chevrolet. We would go fly-fishing, And he’d wear flannel tops. He would call me youngster And I would call him Pops.
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Oct 2, 2012
Oct 2, 2012 at 1:32 PM UTC
Old-timer Adoption
This room—not his nor the house, the yard Though a placard bares his name it slides out at a moment’s notice when the waiting ends when his old hand stops— twirling, mindless against the loving quilt This house-- the same but different from a distance He should be sitting in this still life an old Sachem on his lawn chair This garage—where I stand still his, strangely Patient tools Cherry Chevrolet wait with work gloves resting... Cannot bring myself to touch where his hands last laid them As if to move a thing would **** the matrix of the man His moment rushing toward me.... I can hear their whispers now Leaves, once forbidden have gathered in his absence tangled in his hedges nestled by the stairs Chattering together— “Man with the rake—no longer comes”
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Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 12:53 PM UTC
Man With a Rake
On July the 4th in 1976, the bicentennial of our great nation.  I awoke at 3am in Lakeside, Ohio to start a journey to Plant City, Florida. I was to pick up a leased car in Kent, Ohio and take it to Greenwich, Connecticut. Where I joined several others to make the trek to the Sunshine State.  When I crossed the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River in New York City, off to my right I saw the tall ships heading out to the harbor for the day's celebrations. The radio played every version of God Bless America in their archive. I sang every one of them. We traveled all day and into the night where we saw fireworks in at least 4 states. We reached our destination in Plant City very early in the morning on the 5th of July. But I Larry Dean Goodwin on July 4th, 1976 in a brand new American made Red Chevrolet Monti Carlo sedan traveled through Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. God Bless America, God Bless Us All.
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Jul 5, 2013
Jul 5, 2013 at 12:48 AM UTC
July 4th, 1976
chameleon soul bright eyes starry night apple pie vanilla coke wild and free chevrolet american dream
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Apr 29, 2013
Apr 29, 2013 at 7:19 PM UTC
free
Clumsy Gazelle Poem 10/??/2015 Dear Dad, The last time we spoke, was spent walking down the sidewalk together in some metropolitan area.  There was a tunnel up above, I guess we were in what you would call an underpass and a giant graffiti'd dumpster was awaiting our passage.  You pulled on my arm with strong resolve and guided me into the street, as if the cars would dissolve in front of us as we inched farther away with our feet.  I felt like a modern day Moses, it was magical.  Once we reached the other side of the Chevrolet sea, you pointed out to me that our sudden death match with the traffic was a tactical maneuver.  There was a gang operation being run no sooner than just beyond the trash bin... I woke up from that dream and immediately knew what could have happened. I took a trip to Chicago this summer, the first of its kind.  I felt like you were watching over me, keeping me safe the entire time. I can't recall too many words you've said to me, but I have quite a few for you.  Like to start, here's two.  I'm gay.  I wonder all the time, if maybe you already knew.  You always called me by the nickname Cool.  You told my mom that when I grow up I would be a ******* and a big drinker too.  You got one-and-a-half of those right.   I inherited your hair and your goofy smile too.  Neither of those are all that great, but I guess they'll have to do.  I've heard the story from your poker pals about the time you won at pool.  You got up on the table and in your most graceful pose and poise, the pool stick struck, and as the 8 ball sunk, gravity grabbed and you fell.  Once you stood up, you addressed the **** up and said, "Like a gazelle."     I've made my own leaps too, but every gazelle has its gaffes.  I've fallen in front of friends but made it out of every situation's extremes. It seems that when gravity pulls me down, all I can do is laugh. I'm glad I got that from you - I'd rather be a 'clumsy gazelle' than a 'graceful giraffe.'
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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020 at 7:32 PM UTC
Clumsy Gazelle
Clumsy Gazelle Poem 10/??/2015 Dear Dad, The last time we spoke, was spent walking down the sidewalk together in some metropolitan area.  There was a tunnel up above, I guess we were in what you would call an underpass and a giant graffiti'd dumpster was awaiting our passage.  You pulled on my arm with strong resolve and guided me into the street, as if the cars would dissolve in front of us as we inched farther away with our feet.  I felt like a modern day Moses, it was magical.  Once we reached the other side of the Chevrolet sea, you pointed out to me that our sudden death match with the traffic was a tactical maneuver.  There was a gang operation being run no sooner than just beyond the trash bin... I woke up from that dream and immediately knew what could have happened. I took a trip to Chicago this summer, the first of its kind.  I felt like you were watching over me, keeping me safe the entire time. I can't recall too many words you've said to me, but I have quite a few for you.  Like to start, here's two.  I'm gay.  I wonder all the time, if maybe you already knew.  You always called me by the nickname Cool.  You told my mom that when I grow up I would be a ******* and a big drinker too.  You got one-and-a-half of those right.   I inherited your hair and your goofy smile too.  Neither of those are all that great, but I guess they'll have to do.  I've heard the story from your poker pals about the time you won at pool.  You got up on the table and in your most graceful pose and poise, the pool stick struck, and as the 8 ball sunk, gravity grabbed and you fell.  Once you stood up, you addressed the **** up and said, "Like a gazelle."     I've made my own leaps too, but every gazelle has its gaffes.  I've fallen in front of friends but made it out of every situation's extremes. It seems that when gravity pulls me down, all I can do is laugh. I'm glad I got that from you - I'd rather be a 'clumsy gazelle' than a 'graceful giraffe.'
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My right thumb dove from my pitcher into a man's water glass, soaking his napkin and place mat. He pulled away from his mug of Labatt Blue, lips curling the caramel color back past his picket fence teeth. Like his wife's diamond ring, she was turned away. Her face was illuminated by her phone. Sharon's back with Tom? Shoot me. He slid his chair back, legs scraping the floorboards like a car accident. He stood a decent four inches taller than me. Chevrolet was printed across his faded t-shirt, and his boots hit the floor like mallets when he stepped. The pitcher in my grip shook like the Titanic capsizing. This man was the iceberg; I was the captain panicking behind the wheel.
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 12:21 AM UTC
Labatt Blue Iceberg
Television taught me to talk Now I don't know how to walk Unless I'm in high heels Fed a pop culture diet I don't know why, But I think you should try it Cruising around In a Chevrolet limousine Flicking through The pages of a magazine Silver screen beauty queen Cult classic with a classic colt Shooting up in the pictures Truth and fiction in the lyrical mixtures Televised script gone viral High roller girl in an upward spiral It's a glamorous soundtrack life With a soulless soundtrack laugh Television has all the appeal So now I don't know how to feel Nothing feels real Because I don't know What real is beyond the reel
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May 7, 2018
May 7, 2018 at 9:19 AM UTC
Televisionary
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. You, lazy little 'twerdnerd. Easy. Live. Take my truth, let this mind be in you, it does the hard part for you. Ai ai ai this guy, I tol' you, extol the road, ride on, cowboy. Let go. Re laxation, enemystic, plop. Plot to end with a thousand swings gnosis-not-burger 'n' fries swung wide and low. Sweet cherry '63. Once belonged to the gayest geometry teacher ever, eh, in Kingman, Arizona. Mr. Zubek, annual faculty advisor to Optimist Club, Annual (also)Highschool Boys Speech Contest, bi- annually, he traded in his Chevrolet. -- voice of experience, That triggered this then, not now I saw a ****** lowrider, brand new, showroom floor, yep, a certain mind set, kept with odd links, missed opportunities to go the other way, kicks the BTDT system of old ahas, and ahs, as once imagined… not possible, pre dementia. Wait for it, should you live so long, it all runs together beautifully, to match the beauty of the messenger's feet, in your cultural awareness of total unknowing- to eternity, and beyond. The Bill and Ted Trilogy, vs Left Behind. So, crates of lemons have no thorns. See, Lemon trees have big ol' thorns, but lemon wreaths, all on a bough snipped, thorns and all, to show those who never picked a lemon, and won life's sweetest point. Such wreaths are December treasures, if you know where they grow 'em. You can sell them, or give them away, the beauty in the whole fruiting sprig goes along.
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May 8, 2023
May 8, 2023 at 1:27 AM UTC
re-aspired twist on true beauty
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do. You, lazy little 'twerdnerd. Easy. Live. Take my truth, let this mind be in you, it does the hard part for you. Ai ai ai this guy, I tol' you, extol the road, ride on, cowboy. Let go. Re laxation, enemystic, plop. Plot to end with a thousand swings gnosis-not-burger 'n' fries swung wide and low. Sweet cherry '63. Once belonged to the gayest geometry teacher ever, eh, in Kingman, Arizona. Mr. Zubek, annual faculty advisor to Optimist Club, Annual (also)Highschool Boys Speech Contest, bi- annually, he traded in his Chevrolet. -- voice of experience, That triggered this then, not now I saw a ****** lowrider, brand new, showroom floor, yep, a certain mind set, kept with odd links, missed opportunities to go the other way, kicks the BTDT system of old ahas, and ahs, as once imagined… not possible, pre dementia. Wait for it, should you live so long, it all runs together beautifully, to match the beauty of the messenger's feet, in your cultural awareness of total unknowing- to eternity, and beyond. The Bill and Ted Trilogy, vs Left Behind. So, crates of lemons have no thorns. See, Lemon trees have big ol' thorns, but lemon wreaths, all on a bough snipped, thorns and all, to show those who never picked a lemon, and won life's sweetest point. Such wreaths are December treasures, if you know where they grow 'em. You can sell them, or give them away, the beauty in the whole fruiting sprig goes along.
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Two Christmases ago, Morning cold hovers in electrons. Frost covers the Chevrolet Backed by whiteness Under zero degree sunlight The old farm place sees morning Bright and calm.... The ancient barn, **** frosted roof agleam, Stands downhill to the north, Below a curving tractor trail Cut in the snow... At the other end of those tracks, Eighty-one and counting, You are crawling down the tractor steps, Pulling battered buckets from the ancient fodder shack, Hobbling to the cattle troughs... Doing what you love to do... Have done for fifty years.... I am taking pictures at the house, Amazed at the cold and frost; An onlooker now, Somehow aware that I can not Follow you...or won't, Wistful still for attentions you always freely gave To kine instead of kin. Could I go back, Would I go down To trough the feed? I tell myself I would, Or I would not. The image burns coldly, Electrically before me, And only vaguely I'm aware That you have slipped away.
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Apr 21, 2013
Apr 21, 2013 at 11:53 PM UTC
Freeze Frame
Kids compare their love to the stars. Citing celestial forces in their rooftop, late night, parents-can't-hear, stolen-beer vows. They compare the way their hands combine to constellations ever present in the night sky. I trashed this misconception in the back of a Chevrolet with the married man I was with that day when he compared our love to the moon and sun and how ours was a forbidden one. There wasn't a notion of poetry in his slurred words, just a man so scared of growing old he needed the comfort of a child, to soothe his soul. You and me, you and the person I am trying to be, don't need the sun or the moon or the stars in the sky, we just need the TV set on a Tuesday night. We fell in love in the daylight, in parks down the street. We fell for each other, not the universe, that before you, had tortured me. We don't need space suits to look into each other's eyes and know that it's here, right here, on this couch where we first made love that we call home. The kids can keep their zodiac signs and universe themed metaphors because our love can't be illustrated with astrological analogies. It's complicated and messy and hurtful and hard, but loving you is the best thing I’ve ever done, right here on earth. -bcg (we fell in love in the daylight, so what happens when the sun goes down)
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May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM UTC
right here on earth
*The vans on the interstate they go real slow, they go real slow the vans on the interstate 20 MPH below, 20 MPG below the limit* I'm too fast for this road, There's nowhere I can't go. I'm free I carry no load, Speed limit? No. *The vannies are nannies don't ya know, don't ya know vannies are nannies really slow, really slow it really is no secret* Time goes quickly, Soon it'll go below. But life's too quick, For me to go slow. *I'm not sure they comprehend, comprehend really not sure they understand either GMC, or Chevrolet whether GMC, or Chevrolet being the clot in the road* *Embrace the speed while you can, Before you blink. It'll disappear, Before you can think.*
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Jul 3, 2018
Jul 3, 2018 at 1:17 PM UTC
Vanned Again (ft Temporal Fugue)
the windows of your 1985 Chevrolet clouded with steam produced by our heavy breathing. this summer night was particularly hot and made us even more eager than usual to shed our unnecessary layers. lipstick trails took me to foreign places on your body and i felt like i was learning a whole new language with every kiss. we tried to have each other all at once, impatient desire fueling our every move. moaning louder than the engine of the old vehicle, going faster than its 80mph limit, we caused the Hawaiian girl on the dashboard to hula like there was no tomorrow with the way we shook; one would think we were driving over potholes from a distance. when it all finished, our skin simmered lightly on the friction-heated leather and we melted into each other's arms.
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Apr 6, 2014
Apr 6, 2014 at 3:38 AM UTC
crimson night
I caught her eye Through her heart-shaped Gucci sunglasses Cherry red lips And just as sweet-smelling, She smiled With scarlet nails, Upon a slender and soft hand She beckoned me I was nervous She was gorgeous One hand on a wiry steering wheel Belonging to a pastel coloured Chevrolet I leaned in through the lowered window She smiled Her other hand carded through A magenta mop of messy hair She laughed She was a woman Wet and wild With a mischievous smile And a lilt in her voice, She asked me for my name and number I gave her a lot more than that The ocean’s roar Against a dodgy seaside town She took me for a ride And what a ride it was Seeing the sights Rolling on a road Through places neither of us know The engine purrs And so, does she As she laces one arm across my shoulders From the driver’s seat My heart skips a beat We holed up in a motel She had bought the room Days ago With her Daddy’s credit card Her Chevrolet parked out front Our room Her room Amid plasticky ferns And stinking asphalt Under a hazy summer cloud Vintage dresses in her closet Perfume bottles Glistening on her drawers Elegant scents In an inelegant room Out the window Encased in nautical décor I could glimpse the sea and sand I ran my fingers On the edge of her bedside table She ran her fingers Along the edge of my spine The bed bounced Beneath our weight Touching, whispering Clothes on the floor I couldn’t have wanted more For she was All for me A first like none other She was gorgeous A dreamy goddess I did see go In a pastel pink Chevrolet Wearing Gucci glasses And an impish smile On cherry cola flavoured lips Above eyes Which were bright Like swirling, burning stars A vivacious light To count my blessings And amorous bruising by
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Feb 8, 2018
Feb 8, 2018 at 6:22 PM UTC
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I caught her eye Through her heart-shaped Gucci sunglasses Cherry red lips And just as sweet-smelling, She smiled With scarlet nails, Upon a slender and soft hand She beckoned me I was nervous She was gorgeous One hand on a wiry steering wheel Belonging to a pastel coloured Chevrolet I leaned in through the lowered window She smiled Her other hand carded through A magenta mop of messy hair She laughed She was a woman Wet and wild With a mischievous smile And a lilt in her voice, She asked me for my name and number I gave her a lot more than that The ocean’s roar Against a dodgy seaside town She took me for a ride And what a ride it was Seeing the sights Rolling on a road Through places neither of us know The engine purrs And so, does she As she laces one arm across my shoulders From the driver’s seat My heart skips a beat We holed up in a motel She had bought the room Days ago With her Daddy’s credit card Her Chevrolet parked out front Our room Her room Amid plasticky ferns And stinking asphalt Under a hazy summer cloud Vintage dresses in her closet Perfume bottles Glistening on her drawers Elegant scents In an inelegant room Out the window Encased in nautical décor I could glimpse the sea and sand I ran my fingers On the edge of her bedside table She ran her fingers Along the edge of my spine The bed bounced Beneath our weight Touching, whispering Clothes on the floor I couldn’t have wanted more For she was All for me A first like none other She was gorgeous A dreamy goddess I did see go In a pastel pink Chevrolet Wearing Gucci glasses And an impish smile On cherry cola flavoured lips Above eyes Which were bright Like swirling, burning stars A vivacious light To count my blessings And amorous bruising by
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I got me an all-night-girl, keeps the door unlocked for me, and even when my girl forgets, she'll throw me down the key sayin', "come on up, down waste your time, you're wanted in this room." "Well that's fine with me, but I've got time to take my shoes off I assume?" Yes, she's the one, the only one, whose face floats in my dreams. And she ain't like nobody else 'cause she's always as she seems. Yes, she can take the paint right off my Chevrolet Bel Air with just a sweet little kiss or one electric stare, and then she'll jump right in the back and down the road we go with the windows down and the music loud, she doesn't like to take it slow. She's somethin' else, she surely is, and she never leaves me wantin'. This all-night-girl really rocks me. Yes, she sure is somethin'.
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Aug 27, 2017
Aug 27, 2017 at 7:57 PM UTC
All-Night-Girl
Sparse grass adorns the hillside Thinly green against the grey, Where lurking bull ant wolf packs Hunt where chirping crickets play. Way too thin to waft in breezes Way too thin to really count Like bad dealerships in Chevrolet Mostly struggle to surmount. Like thin pacifists in fist fights Race, back peddaling for the door, When, in fact, the convenience Is a bullet through the floor. And hot starlets jiggle **** jobs Strutting carpet, red as rose, Imitating, superficially here, Whoredom wishing to impose. Those roaring Russians, in denial As their cheating athlete’s pale, All denied their right of entry To Olympia’s Holy Grail. And insipidly they all collapse In fracking’s blatant wake, Leaving gloating, fat Americans Gorging merrily on steak. Whilst the oceans are advancing As the ice floes dissipate, And the clamour is ignored Though Island nations inundate. Fractious currencies do vacillate In global bouts of greed, Where the rich are fatly richer And the rest in desperate need. Where all truth is but a fantasy Which everyone ignores, Where expediency is the answer And future proofing snores. Black distrusts the whiteness Islam hates the Jew, East and West at loggerheads What hope now…. for you? Oh sparse grass adorns the hillside Thin green against the grey, Where the morrow is a vaugary And worrisome it’s way. M. Friday 13th November 2015
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Nov 13, 2015
Nov 13, 2015 at 7:35 PM UTC
Sparse Grass
*Brothers of free will that night-embraced and sung their worries away To the tune of the Beatles in the night as they all cast troubles astray. The fallen angel soon healed-and the brothers-they turned out fine. And together they were never parted till the very end of times. And to this day-they're still out there-in the prettiest Chevrolet- Because after all-Team Free Will- will always be there to save the day.*
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Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 12:11 PM UTC
Untitled Pt 3 (Epilogue)
Two brothers and an angel, in a 67 Chevrolet- together a team of free will- you might say.
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Jun 11, 2013
Jun 11, 2013 at 2:08 AM UTC
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you were a drug that only worked when i didn’t need you a run down crimson chevrolet driving so swiftly down the beachside boulevard nothing but endless ocean to the left and a booming city at rest to the right i needed you i wanted to come home to lie next to you dreaming of a life full of daises and strawberries on silver platters in the summer blue skies forever star light, star bright the first star i seen that night never worked
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Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020 at 5:56 PM UTC
crimson chevrolet driving so swiftly down beachside boulevard