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(1) There’s one thing I must get off my chest that’s bothered me now even 50 years on with the passage of time – my English teacher then she always told me when I grumbled homework was too difficult, she’d tell me: “That’s a piece of cake” And I’d go home discombobulated how anyone could eat paper or homework and she said this not once, but every time: “It’s a piece of cake” (2) And my parents and I looked at it every which way and from every point of view and concluded in our Perfect Ancient Native language: *“This English teacher is a loony. She is wooly-headed. She is the lamb Mary lost, silly and muddle-headed. How can homework be a piece of cake? Anyway, we don’t eat cake – we eat samosas.”* (3) And yet the English teacher would put her nose up in the air and remonstrate: “It’s a piece of cake!” Oh yeah, would you like tea with it? Now, my parents, bless their Ancient Souls, have gone on into the next world And I’m left wondering about the secret madness of that English teacher who’d ask me to eat cake when I expressed genuine concern… Well, my parents have passed on, as I said, and I’ve moved on as is plain and radiant to see to master idioms and vocabulary Punctuation, the catenative verb and Usage; and, as for that wooly-headed English teacher, I’m sure she’s moved on into a comfortable nuthouse where the staff makes her eat her cake, and make her think she can have it too - cos that’s what they do to nuts, and such instances (4) And now that I have got that off my chest, I can comfortably resume memorizing Volume 3 of theOxford Dictionary as  I perambulate and copy 100 entries from Fowler’s “Modern English Usage” as I victulate which is all part of my nightly ritual since she told me to do so some 50 years ago (cos I happened to look at her Union Jack knickers when she sat high on the table, and I stood up ***** cos that's what they made us do in the cinemas) - and that helps to put me into a state of dormancy, to hibernate till the sun ushers in a new day for me  – and a new cake for that wooly-headed English teacher, she, I can presume with certainty, elegantly reposed and superannuated Now, I’m glad I’ve got this off my chest and mastered my idioms and phrases and I can go eat my samosas
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Jun 28, 2013
Jun 28, 2013 at 8:21 AM UTC
My English teacher was wooly-headed
(1) There’s one thing I must get off my chest that’s bothered me now even 50 years on with the passage of time – my English teacher then she always told me when I grumbled homework was too difficult, she’d tell me: “That’s a piece of cake” And I’d go home discombobulated how anyone could eat paper or homework and she said this not once, but every time: “It’s a piece of cake” (2) And my parents and I looked at it every which way and from every point of view and concluded in our Perfect Ancient Native language: *“This English teacher is a loony. She is wooly-headed. She is the lamb Mary lost, silly and muddle-headed. How can homework be a piece of cake? Anyway, we don’t eat cake – we eat samosas.”* (3) And yet the English teacher would put her nose up in the air and remonstrate: “It’s a piece of cake!” Oh yeah, would you like tea with it? Now, my parents, bless their Ancient Souls, have gone on into the next world And I’m left wondering about the secret madness of that English teacher who’d ask me to eat cake when I expressed genuine concern… Well, my parents have passed on, as I said, and I’ve moved on as is plain and radiant to see to master idioms and vocabulary Punctuation, the catenative verb and Usage; and, as for that wooly-headed English teacher, I’m sure she’s moved on into a comfortable nuthouse where the staff makes her eat her cake, and make her think she can have it too - cos that’s what they do to nuts, and such instances (4) And now that I have got that off my chest, I can comfortably resume memorizing Volume 3 of theOxford Dictionary as  I perambulate and copy 100 entries from Fowler’s “Modern English Usage” as I victulate which is all part of my nightly ritual since she told me to do so some 50 years ago (cos I happened to look at her Union Jack knickers when she sat high on the table, and I stood up ***** cos that's what they made us do in the cinemas) - and that helps to put me into a state of dormancy, to hibernate till the sun ushers in a new day for me  – and a new cake for that wooly-headed English teacher, she, I can presume with certainty, elegantly reposed and superannuated Now, I’m glad I’ve got this off my chest and mastered my idioms and phrases and I can go eat my samosas
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Tucking Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment into the bedside cabinet of the cheap Paris hotel having cleaned the greasy sink and bidet you walked out on the street breathing in the Parisian air smelling the perfume of the restaurants on the side walks seeing the sights taking photographs as memoirs drinking the wines and beers and that fish with eyes still there putting you off you tried to get out of the cheap cafe but paid for the meal you couldn’t eat the fish eye gazing up at you dead eye battered fish and the Left Bank and night and you taking in the sights and lights and those ****** sitting in windows like gifts to have wrapped but not take home or the **** films you never went to see in those cinemas you just walked by or the Eiffel Tower day right to the top the view splendid the sight historical or those rides on the Metro riding the wrong carriages looking out for the train inspector pretending to be Aussies giving it the yak and later in your hotel room taking out Dostoyevsky and entering the Russian world of ****** and deceit   and being followed you imagined by the detective looking out onto the Parisian street from the open window of your room gazing at street corners and shadows   or remembering that French girl in the cafe who served you with bright eyes black and white dress and white apron the fine long legs and wiggling behind recalling the old priest who once said too much *** will make you blind.
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May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 at 1:42 PM UTC
PARIS WITH DOSTOYEVSKY.
I have never really been into poetry, Nor have I been into theater. I was never interested in animated films, Or movies in general And music was just a hobby for me Then I met you... And now it seems as if, I have found myself remembering you, by just listening to music, And spending many nights, sleepless and lorn. I'm patiently waiting for the next blockbuster hit To appear in cinemas, so that I may ask you For a single day together, once again. Now my ambition is to create a cartoon, Similar to that of Ghibli's, because you had me by a thread, On that day we watched Spirited together. I became the stage manager of a production, Worked hard so I could make you say That you were proud of me, but more than that was To simply make you something beautiful. And now all I can do Is write poetry, Every time, I think of you.
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 11:25 AM UTC
Never Have I Ever
On silver screen cinemas Actors portray pain Sobbing weeping Dripping tears Like that of thunderstorm rain Comedies - that's all they are Comedies is all I see Sick and twisted parodies of me and those like me Horror flicks and gruesome pics are simple things when compared Agony Yes Agony Agony is your true name What actor dare play my part what actor dare say "I Dare" Because of you Agony My bittersweet agony Joy is but a lost memory Because of you.... Agony my sweet agony Peace Is a mystery- never clear And my heart, my agony Is a flame flickering, riddled glimmer Beating..... nevermore Thanks to you- my sweet Agony I know Hate
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Mar 28, 2015
Mar 28, 2015 at 3:36 PM UTC
Agony
You had never seen kale before it looked like large cabbage plants reaching skyward so that you could hide in it and not be seen from the farm and Jane walked with you there and you both sat there talking she about her father and how he prepared his Sunday sermons right after the one given on the previous Sunday and how he liked to close himself away from the family for hours at a time with just his Bible and other books and God of course and get it down and afterwards polish it up until he had it off to pat and you listened to her trying to imagine what it must be like to have a father who was a pastor and you'd met her father a few times and her mother more (and was told she liked you) and tried to think about what her father's sermons were about (you never went to the services) and as she sat there with her flowery dress red and yellow and those white ankle socks and walking-about -the-farmland-shoes and dark hair tied at that moment with a red ribbon you noticed how beautiful she was in her own way plain way and how her hands were held together over her knees as she raised her legs and how the sun light still reached you both there in the kale and warmed and eased you both and you talked of London and when you left and why and how so different it was and how you could walk to at least to two cinemas whereas here there was none but that you didn't mind as it was a new life and next to nature and you could learn new things kind of life now and she smiled and that thrilled you that smile that spread of lips that pierce your heart and mind kind of smile and her wrists slim and white and the fingers thin and white and the nails had white half moons on them and you wanted to sit there with her forever in the tall kale with the bright sun and secret love and feel inside and 13 year old sensibilities each wanting to touch but not at least not much and she pointed out a Red Admiral butterfly fluttering over the kale and slowly by.
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 3:44 AM UTC
YOU AND JANE IN THE TALL KALE.
You had never seen kale before it looked like large cabbage plants reaching skyward so that you could hide in it and not be seen from the farm and Jane walked with you there and you both sat there talking she about her father and how he prepared his Sunday sermons right after the one given on the previous Sunday and how he liked to close himself away from the family for hours at a time with just his Bible and other books and God of course and get it down and afterwards polish it up until he had it off to pat and you listened to her trying to imagine what it must be like to have a father who was a pastor and you'd met her father a few times and her mother more (and was told she liked you) and tried to think about what her father's sermons were about (you never went to the services) and as she sat there with her flowery dress red and yellow and those white ankle socks and walking-about -the-farmland-shoes and dark hair tied at that moment with a red ribbon you noticed how beautiful she was in her own way plain way and how her hands were held together over her knees as she raised her legs and how the sun light still reached you both there in the kale and warmed and eased you both and you talked of London and when you left and why and how so different it was and how you could walk to at least to two cinemas whereas here there was none but that you didn't mind as it was a new life and next to nature and you could learn new things kind of life now and she smiled and that thrilled you that smile that spread of lips that pierce your heart and mind kind of smile and her wrists slim and white and the fingers thin and white and the nails had white half moons on them and you wanted to sit there with her forever in the tall kale with the bright sun and secret love and feel inside and 13 year old sensibilities each wanting to touch but not at least not much and she pointed out a Red Admiral butterfly fluttering over the kale and slowly by.
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Cold rain pelting on my skin, city lights reflected in the wet black tar of a road almost too narrow for the cars racing by - all this I saw last when you were standing by my side, feeling the nighttime city live and breathe around us as we watched people scurry by and call for taxis in the cold. It has never felt lonely to me before, I never saw how isolated you are in a city when you're standing in its heart, watching the blood pump through veins around you and yet not moving, stagnancy amidst torrents. A neon light flickers across the street from me and I am ripped out of my dream to realise you are not with me this time. I see you in every street lamp; around every corner I expect to see your face to face only myself in the mirror of a dark shop window. My face looks unexpectedly hollow, my shape unfamiliar without you next to it, and I wonder when my life became about you. I do not belong here, into this city where lights gleam bright even in the darkest hours and sirens scream agony all night long. I am from a different world, one where dogs run free across wide fields and along rivers and the air smells of fresh-cut grass in spring. I am from a world where nobody locks their door and stone-and-wood houses are made to live in, not concrete boxes where numbers rule lives.   All this was once foreign to me, and is again; I do not belong with the neon lights and cinemas, the glass facades and cold black tar, I do not belong with the flashing ads and loud sirens, the people who don't smile as they walk by. All these things remind me of you. I was one of them, one of the souls that made up this city but I cannot live in it when you are not here. I do not belong here anymore, among the thousand lights that remind me of your eyes and the constant noise that sounds like your breath. All this reminds me too much of you.
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Feb 8, 2016
Feb 8, 2016 at 6:21 PM UTC
things that remind me of you
Cold rain pelting on my skin, city lights reflected in the wet black tar of a road almost too narrow for the cars racing by - all this I saw last when you were standing by my side, feeling the nighttime city live and breathe around us as we watched people scurry by and call for taxis in the cold. It has never felt lonely to me before, I never saw how isolated you are in a city when you're standing in its heart, watching the blood pump through veins around you and yet not moving, stagnancy amidst torrents. A neon light flickers across the street from me and I am ripped out of my dream to realise you are not with me this time. I see you in every street lamp; around every corner I expect to see your face to face only myself in the mirror of a dark shop window. My face looks unexpectedly hollow, my shape unfamiliar without you next to it, and I wonder when my life became about you. I do not belong here, into this city where lights gleam bright even in the darkest hours and sirens scream agony all night long. I am from a different world, one where dogs run free across wide fields and along rivers and the air smells of fresh-cut grass in spring. I am from a world where nobody locks their door and stone-and-wood houses are made to live in, not concrete boxes where numbers rule lives.   All this was once foreign to me, and is again; I do not belong with the neon lights and cinemas, the glass facades and cold black tar, I do not belong with the flashing ads and loud sirens, the people who don't smile as they walk by. All these things remind me of you. I was one of them, one of the souls that made up this city but I cannot live in it when you are not here. I do not belong here anymore, among the thousand lights that remind me of your eyes and the constant noise that sounds like your breath. All this reminds me too much of you.
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Oh it’s just gorgeous outside pale skins hide sunworshippers basking in a lazy glow work, troubles for a while they don’t know cinemas, libraries emptier today as kids want to go outside to play natures calling work rates falling beer gardens, beaches suddenly enthralling Oh boss can we have a reprieve Can we have sunny days leave? Especially in this lovely Emerald Isle where glorious sunshine only stays a while
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 8:00 AM UTC
Sunny
Y, desgraciadamente, el dolor crece en el mundo a cada rato, crece a treinta minutos por segundo, paso a paso, y la naturaleza del dolor, es el dolor dos veces y la condición del martirio, carnívora, voraz, es el dolor dos veces y la función de la yerba purísima, el dolor dos veces y el bien de ser, dolernos doblemente. Jamás, hombres humanos, hubo tanto dolor en el pecho, en la solapa, en la cartera, en el vaso, en la carnicería, en la aritmética! Jamás tanto cariño doloroso, jamás tanta cerca arremetió lo lejos, jamás el fuego nunca jugó mejor su rol de frío muerto! Jamás, señor ministro de salud, fue la salud más mortal y la migraña extrajo tanta frente de la frente! Y el mueble tuvo en su cajón, dolor, el corazón, en su cajón, dolor, la lagartija, en su cajón, dolor. Crece la desdicha, hermanos hombres, más pronto que la máquina, a diez máquinas, y crece con la res de Rosseau, con nuestras barbas; crece el mal por razones que ignoramos y es una inundación con propios líquidos, con propio barro y propia nube sólida! Invierte el sufrimiento posiciones, da función en que el humor acuoso es vertical al pavimento, el ojo es visto y esta oreja oída, y esta oreja da nueve campanadas a la hora del rayo, y nueve carcajadas a la hora del trigo, y nueve sones hembras a la hora del llanto, y nueve cánticos a la hora del hambre y nueve truenos y nueve látigos, menos un grito. El dolor nos agarra, hermanos hombres, por detrás, de perfil, y nos aloca en los cinemas, nos clava en los gramófonos, nos desclava en los lechos, cae perpendicularmente a nuestros boletos, a nuestras cartas; y es muy grave sufrir, puede uno orar... Pues de resultas del dolor, hay algunos que nacen, otros crecen, otros mueren, y otros que nacen y no mueren, otros que sin haber nacido, mueren, y otros que no nacen ni mueren (son los más). Y también de resultas del sufrimiento, estoy triste hasta la cabeza, y más triste hasta el tobillo, de ver al pan, crucificado, al nabo, ensangrentado, llorando, a la cebolla, al cereal, en general, harina, a la sal, hecha polvo, al agua, huyendo, al vino, un ecce-homo, tan pálida a la nieve, al sol tan ardido¹! ¡Cómo, hermanos humanos, no deciros que ya no puedo y ya no puedo con tanto cajón, tanto minuto, tanta lagartija y tanta inversión, tanto lejos y tanta sed de sed! Señor Ministro de Salud: ¿qué hacer? ¡Ah! desgraciadamente, hombre humanos, hay, hermanos, muchísimo que hacer.
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Los nueve monstruos
Y, desgraciadamente, el dolor crece en el mundo a cada rato, crece a treinta minutos por segundo, paso a paso, y la naturaleza del dolor, es el dolor dos veces y la condición del martirio, carnívora, voraz, es el dolor dos veces y la función de la yerba purísima, el dolor dos veces y el bien de ser, dolernos doblemente. Jamás, hombres humanos, hubo tanto dolor en el pecho, en la solapa, en la cartera, en el vaso, en la carnicería, en la aritmética! Jamás tanto cariño doloroso, jamás tanta cerca arremetió lo lejos, jamás el fuego nunca jugó mejor su rol de frío muerto! Jamás, señor ministro de salud, fue la salud más mortal y la migraña extrajo tanta frente de la frente! Y el mueble tuvo en su cajón, dolor, el corazón, en su cajón, dolor, la lagartija, en su cajón, dolor. Crece la desdicha, hermanos hombres, más pronto que la máquina, a diez máquinas, y crece con la res de Rosseau, con nuestras barbas; crece el mal por razones que ignoramos y es una inundación con propios líquidos, con propio barro y propia nube sólida! Invierte el sufrimiento posiciones, da función en que el humor acuoso es vertical al pavimento, el ojo es visto y esta oreja oída, y esta oreja da nueve campanadas a la hora del rayo, y nueve carcajadas a la hora del trigo, y nueve sones hembras a la hora del llanto, y nueve cánticos a la hora del hambre y nueve truenos y nueve látigos, menos un grito. El dolor nos agarra, hermanos hombres, por detrás, de perfil, y nos aloca en los cinemas, nos clava en los gramófonos, nos desclava en los lechos, cae perpendicularmente a nuestros boletos, a nuestras cartas; y es muy grave sufrir, puede uno orar... Pues de resultas del dolor, hay algunos que nacen, otros crecen, otros mueren, y otros que nacen y no mueren, otros que sin haber nacido, mueren, y otros que no nacen ni mueren (son los más). Y también de resultas del sufrimiento, estoy triste hasta la cabeza, y más triste hasta el tobillo, de ver al pan, crucificado, al nabo, ensangrentado, llorando, a la cebolla, al cereal, en general, harina, a la sal, hecha polvo, al agua, huyendo, al vino, un ecce-homo, tan pálida a la nieve, al sol tan ardido¹! ¡Cómo, hermanos humanos, no deciros que ya no puedo y ya no puedo con tanto cajón, tanto minuto, tanta lagartija y tanta inversión, tanto lejos y tanta sed de sed! Señor Ministro de Salud: ¿qué hacer? ¡Ah! desgraciadamente, hombre humanos, hay, hermanos, muchísimo que hacer.
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There will be no better days there were no bad days there were just so many days one after another and another and another and there will be unendingly more because this is never done… …each day is a quantum string of moments shimmering with meter, rhythm and rhyme if you listen moments make days of music... …but not loud more like angels whispering to each other just out of earshot there it is behind the other sounds traffic of door and automobile the hiss that kills the middle ear that makes hummingbirds hide… …so just listen; be present and the leaves will shiver in delight as the hawk cries and cat stiffens and you finish your latte and the barrista smiles at you and you… …remember childhood’s pets rain rivers on windowpanes through which you sat and watched cinemas of sunsets with those sweet, few others who understood this with you…
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Mar 11, 2012
Mar 11, 2012 at 11:14 AM UTC
SPRINGSTEEN WAS WRONG
Night's hours gathered slowly at my chair delayed to stare as each conferred upon the next I was still. The hour of doubt crept in a shroud for me fear a storm to tremble in the hour of remorse so reticent to leave. Memory gave Judas' kiss desire an empty cup to parted lips. At the edge of dawn the morning stars do fade I saw an amber line on distant hills weak before the vow of dawn was made. In that final hour only you. Before what light could prove gathered round the hours of my days whispered hushes rustling as crowds do in cinemas and concert halls. Then only you the one I fell on spent a scent breathed in out object of my touch the parts of you the wish to hide the night in you.
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Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 2012 at 11:37 AM UTC
Sleepless
These memories are like wounds, and even though they are old they still feel fresh. You never said you were sorry, you never stitched up my gashes, so every time I am reminded of them, they start to bleed again. In flashes I watch them, the memories, like old-time movies on cinema screens, in black and white, so monochrome, the least my mind can do, at least spare me from the colorful detail. I am trapped in that theater, forced to watch through ocean waves, until a boy comes with a golden key to unlock the doors. His smile comforts me, covers up my cuts like bandages. His voice, my morphine, makes the pain fade. But like every medication, the relief wears off, the boy disappears, and I am alone again. Left to wonder when the delicate dressings will rip, and when the blood will pour down my chest, infinitely.
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 10:12 PM UTC
Cuts, bruises, and cinemas
Most breeze through the Boardwalk Big Dipper Bling Ocean Street Sleeze, and a walk on Cowell Beach and say I've seen it all, that's Santa Cruz, as they cruise off on highway 1 or crash into the barriers or 17 but that's not all, at all I love Santa Cruz on a bright sunny day in May as I gorge on the Indian vegetarian buffet, available all day, by the way And check out the O'Niel sidewalk sale, and then past the sweaty crowds in front of the Cineplex and the sign in the window display at Camouflage that reminds: May is National ************ Month, are you doing your part? and at Pergolesi a homemade sign says "friends don't let friends drink Starbucks" and there are two art house cinemas within 200 yards of each other and there are lesbians holding hands and homeless people breathing the fresh air with their shelter pets and I feel free like anything can happen here, even me
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May 24, 2013
May 24, 2013 at 8:27 PM UTC
why i love Santa Cruz
Man with no name Laconic in every frame Smoking a cigar Or driving a police car Westerns or a Cop Thriller As a Drifter or a Rider Iconoclastic instant justice 44 Magnum to carry it out without prejudice Mayor of Carmel All American Male Filling cinemas across the globe East West North or South Its got to be Clint Eastwood
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Dec 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021 at 7:59 AM UTC
CLINT EASTWOOD
Ingrid knows the absence of real love, she 's known it all 9 years of her life. Her mother's indifference, her father's strict and cruel attention, the beatings, the cold stares, the loud shouts, the harsh threats, promises of spankings. There is just the one love: Benedict from along the narrow balcony of the flats, 9 years old, brave of heart, with his sword painted blue (his old man had made it), false silver 6 shooter, cap firing toy hand gun, gun holster, leather belt, with wide grin, hazel eyes, with talk of cowboy films, Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, and she his pretty Maid Marian, so he says or cowgirl borrowing his rifle, to shoot down bad cowboys or Injuns. He takes her to his haunts: the bomb sites, the bombed out old buildings, the play parks, cinemas to watch films in the dark, feeling safe beside him. He has seen her bruises, her medals of beatings, the red welts on her skin; understands the reasons, who did it, but not why; giving her cruel father the cold eye or hard sneer when he sees her father in the Square or passing on the stair, ********* two digits (up you pal) gesturing behind her father's back. Ingrid knows the absence of real love, she known it all 9 years of her life; except for Benedict, her young knight with blue sword, and one day, when they're grown and left home, she'll be his pretty Maid Marian love and wife, so she dreams in her bed in the night of her sad childhood life.
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Dec 29, 2013
Dec 29, 2013 at 2:29 AM UTC
INGRID KNOWS.
Derelict concrete buildings from the second world war sit like the skeletons of dinosaurs with gaping holes where someone used to look through windows dotting our island that look now empty eye sockets in great big skulls lookout towers and brick built barracks and cinemas and pump stations and piers reach out to supply ships that now either turned to deep reefs for fish and sea creatures of myriad kinds or cut up and recycled into modern metal sea horses carrying a new generation of teenagers on to some kind of glory death and war.
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 1:54 PM UTC
Skeletons
Fay met you at the bus stop on the New Kent Road she was dressed in the lemon coloured dress you liked and her hair was pulled tight into a ponytail where are you going? she asked to the Globe you said what Shakespeare’s Globe? she asked no the fleapit cinema at Camberwell Green you replied oh she said I’ve never been there my daddy doesn’t like me going to cinemas he says they’re dens of sin she looked at you as if you would confirm her father’s words well it’s certainly a den you stated but whether its of sin I don’t know she looked puzzled and touched her ponytail with her hand are you coming along? you asked she looked about as if her father might be behind her should I? she asked do you want to? yes she replied then let’s go but I haven’t any money she said I have enough you said my Mother gave me money for chores I did oh I see she muttered and she bit her lip what would my daddy say if he saw me? he won’t how can you be so sure? trust me you said fathers know little of what their kids do she smiled if you think so she said sure I do besides it’ll do you good you said giving her a smile and then the bus came and you both got on and sat next to each other and you paid the bus conductor the fare and as the bus moved off you both swayed to the motion of the bus her arm touching yours the fading bruise on her flesh a mixture of yellow and brown and blue but you said nothing besides you thought if her old man beats her what the hell can I do?
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Oct 16, 2012
Oct 16, 2012 at 2:00 AM UTC
FAY AND YOU AND THE FADING BRUISE.
Fay met you at the bus stop on the New Kent Road she was dressed in the lemon coloured dress you liked and her hair was pulled tight into a ponytail where are you going? she asked to the Globe you said what Shakespeare’s Globe? she asked no the fleapit cinema at Camberwell Green you replied oh she said I’ve never been there my daddy doesn’t like me going to cinemas he says they’re dens of sin she looked at you as if you would confirm her father’s words well it’s certainly a den you stated but whether its of sin I don’t know she looked puzzled and touched her ponytail with her hand are you coming along? you asked she looked about as if her father might be behind her should I? she asked do you want to? yes she replied then let’s go but I haven’t any money she said I have enough you said my Mother gave me money for chores I did oh I see she muttered and she bit her lip what would my daddy say if he saw me? he won’t how can you be so sure? trust me you said fathers know little of what their kids do she smiled if you think so she said sure I do besides it’ll do you good you said giving her a smile and then the bus came and you both got on and sat next to each other and you paid the bus conductor the fare and as the bus moved off you both swayed to the motion of the bus her arm touching yours the fading bruise on her flesh a mixture of yellow and brown and blue but you said nothing besides you thought if her old man beats her what the hell can I do?
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Tonight is something different. Not the cinemas, not the bars, not the restaurants. Tonight we chose to lie on the front deck of my dad’s catamaran, In total silence. Just gazing at the sky above. Your head rested on my chest, My fingers twirling and digging in your hair As if there was something I was searching for. Above us, the silver moon stands out in brilliant splendor, And perfect contrast with the deep, dark, night sky. I twist my head slightly And look over to the shore Where I spot tiny silhouettes of little children playing on the beach, Kicking a ball and running and dancing about full of energy. Their distant playful shouts and screams are carried across to us By a pleasant gust of wind that brushes past, Whoosh! And the boat dances in the waves. A slow, rocking motion. As we lay In silence.
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Oct 16, 2012
Oct 16, 2012 at 5:59 AM UTC
Hush
It’s in the night, when light recedes to leave me with my thoughts and the darkness encompasses every crevice of my room and of my mind, that the person I am is most illuminated. In those long hours that stretch with lack of sleep my thoughts are as clear as a cloudless blue sky. On good nights, there'll be thoughts of my future, of my hopes and my dreams. On good nights my imagination will soar to heights beyond the sky for on good nights not even the sky is the limit. But good nights are rare and most nights, the darkness seeps into my thoughts with the past. with each and every imperfection that owns me. All my weaknesses and fears are painted on a black canvas portraying the things I’m so afraid the world will see. my cowardess, loneliness, hopelessness. my fears of betrayal of feeling too much, caring too much, loving too much…yet not enough. Like tendrils of smoke the thoughts linger on one fear then float away only to be replaced by another. As my eyelids become cinemas of the past, images of innocence lost flash behind my eyelids Almost as if they’re stuck on repeat Sometimes, I embrace those nights As if they were an old friend. I wonder if that makes me masochistic but Truth is those nights, difficult though they may be, are the times I’m most honest with myself.
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May 21, 2014
May 21, 2014 at 1:58 AM UTC
Late Nights, Early Mornings
I got the flu in mid January and it's nearly Spring and still I cough but I decided to force myself to go out and get on Bart and go to Berkeley and I saw things stared at an ad for "American Idol" on the platform for an unseemly amount of time trying to figure out which human representation had been more photo-shopped Fascinated, coming out into another land other than work home bed Standing on the Bart platform, with no evil smells like the New York City subway and a breeze and a polite voice telling me when the train would come And at the next station an ad for the Jewish Museum and a young Ethiopian Jewish man has an exhibit there and I felt good, that yes, there is such awfulness in Israel but even there, like here, some can rise And then Berkeley and my favorite cafe, and it so reminds me of Columbia University, only cleaner but it doesn't hurt about my X anymore but it reminded me of my cat who was dieing in July and he didn't want me near him too much because dieing things like small spaces and not too much attention so I left him in the closet curled up as cancer worked it's inevitable devastation And I was coughing and tired, an invalid at the end of the day but I made it to the Shattuck Cinemas to watch "Lincoln" and they have a bar, and couches in the theater and you can take drink in if you're over 21 and that was our idea, in my days as a theater manager, we'd talk about ways to bring more people in and we suggested couches and alcohol and our manager laughed and thought we were crazy but here is crazy and people walk in and love it I sat in the back and took up a whole two seat couch selfishly and listened to people come in and say how nice it was Today I was an invalid again and could hardly get up but the memory, it was worth it I am slightly more alive again
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Mar 10, 2013
Mar 10, 2013 at 9:32 PM UTC
Invalid's Day Out
I got the flu in mid January and it's nearly Spring and still I cough but I decided to force myself to go out and get on Bart and go to Berkeley and I saw things stared at an ad for "American Idol" on the platform for an unseemly amount of time trying to figure out which human representation had been more photo-shopped Fascinated, coming out into another land other than work home bed Standing on the Bart platform, with no evil smells like the New York City subway and a breeze and a polite voice telling me when the train would come And at the next station an ad for the Jewish Museum and a young Ethiopian Jewish man has an exhibit there and I felt good, that yes, there is such awfulness in Israel but even there, like here, some can rise And then Berkeley and my favorite cafe, and it so reminds me of Columbia University, only cleaner but it doesn't hurt about my X anymore but it reminded me of my cat who was dieing in July and he didn't want me near him too much because dieing things like small spaces and not too much attention so I left him in the closet curled up as cancer worked it's inevitable devastation And I was coughing and tired, an invalid at the end of the day but I made it to the Shattuck Cinemas to watch "Lincoln" and they have a bar, and couches in the theater and you can take drink in if you're over 21 and that was our idea, in my days as a theater manager, we'd talk about ways to bring more people in and we suggested couches and alcohol and our manager laughed and thought we were crazy but here is crazy and people walk in and love it I sat in the back and took up a whole two seat couch selfishly and listened to people come in and say how nice it was Today I was an invalid again and could hardly get up but the memory, it was worth it I am slightly more alive again
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Chocolate in paper cups Early mornings having maths Long bus drives that never end Letters I've written but not send Cinemas next to the port A falling star that we lost Photos of us with the sea backround The waves we reach with no sound We live in a society oathed to distruct Too many scratches in a tiny box of love My mind is racing back and forth Am I the one, the same I was a moment before? Sweet shops like the sixties Nebulae that this magic kisses You're already too far away Memories that I'm afraid to make We are people destined to forget Too many black holes into which we step My mind is lost in bright fallen leaves The rain will turn into light summer breeze
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Feb 25, 2015
Feb 25, 2015 at 5:22 PM UTC
Our second year
Box Office Breaker I’m sorry if you’ll be hurt with what’s up my sleeve But HBO lied, Universal deceived. From adults swearing to ****** useless quarrels Not every great movie comes with great morals Whether they’re vile or full of wonder All movie characters seem to end six feet under. Lives blown away like husks in the wind, People **** anyone of any variety Is this really the direction of our society? Death is the end, but it’s just the beginning ‘Cause movies approve other methods of sinning. Whiskey bottles are emptied, and smoking gives class Teens can kiss as they please, and it’s great to have sass How are we desensitized to people being killed? How much more death is needed until our satisfaction is filled? How can we live when our integrity’s sent to slaughter? How can we breathe if we’re drowning in sin’s waters? In a world where we need to love what’s right Our faith is assaulted, yet, do we put up a fight? We watch as the world venomously mocks our statutes. We may be called to stand, but not stand like statues. If you think this is just a battle that shouldn’t be fought Just look at all the chaos these dogmas have wrought I’m sure there wouldn’t have been any school shooting If the cameras at action films hadn’t been shooting Let’s try to clear the cinemas for the approaching era For how can a young child follow God if no one does on camera? We are losing this war, Satan marches with his crew How can our hearts and minds survive When the defenders are so few? We can rise up in arms if we rise up in words and actions Keep battling through the trenches of violent reactions With God in our hearts, and the Bible in our hands The Holy Spirit will energize us as we purify the lands Don’t do it for the fame, don’t try to take the honors Be humble in your victories, and God will give heaven’s Oscars. Be a Christian who shapes as he is shaped, be an earth shaker. Do it all in the name of Jesus, be a box office breaker.
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Oct 10, 2014
Oct 10, 2014 at 8:13 PM UTC
Box Office Breaker
Box Office Breaker I’m sorry if you’ll be hurt with what’s up my sleeve But HBO lied, Universal deceived. From adults swearing to ****** useless quarrels Not every great movie comes with great morals Whether they’re vile or full of wonder All movie characters seem to end six feet under. Lives blown away like husks in the wind, People **** anyone of any variety Is this really the direction of our society? Death is the end, but it’s just the beginning ‘Cause movies approve other methods of sinning. Whiskey bottles are emptied, and smoking gives class Teens can kiss as they please, and it’s great to have sass How are we desensitized to people being killed? How much more death is needed until our satisfaction is filled? How can we live when our integrity’s sent to slaughter? How can we breathe if we’re drowning in sin’s waters? In a world where we need to love what’s right Our faith is assaulted, yet, do we put up a fight? We watch as the world venomously mocks our statutes. We may be called to stand, but not stand like statues. If you think this is just a battle that shouldn’t be fought Just look at all the chaos these dogmas have wrought I’m sure there wouldn’t have been any school shooting If the cameras at action films hadn’t been shooting Let’s try to clear the cinemas for the approaching era For how can a young child follow God if no one does on camera? We are losing this war, Satan marches with his crew How can our hearts and minds survive When the defenders are so few? We can rise up in arms if we rise up in words and actions Keep battling through the trenches of violent reactions With God in our hearts, and the Bible in our hands The Holy Spirit will energize us as we purify the lands Don’t do it for the fame, don’t try to take the honors Be humble in your victories, and God will give heaven’s Oscars. Be a Christian who shapes as he is shaped, be an earth shaker. Do it all in the name of Jesus, be a box office breaker.
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Types of girls: heavy rain drops sliding down your shoulder, customized license plates, smokey motel rooms, black nail polish, dead roses, empty cinemas, expired valentines chocolate.
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Apr 9, 2013
Apr 9, 2013 at 5:36 PM UTC
Types of girls
I get a little bit sick to my stomach Each time I see that repulsive blue heart. Who else will be holding hands now, Swapping kisses for hours, Making love in the darkness? I seem to be the odd one out When double dates are planned. Everyone says they haven’t seen me in forever, Everyone says that they miss me, Everyone says that I’m too beautiful to be alone. Nobody seems to realize That I’m always around, Sitting in coffeeshop corners, Or in the backs of cinemas, Relationship status: single.
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May 3, 2015
May 3, 2015 at 2:47 PM UTC
Relationship Status: Single
American singers, Australian cinemas, love, court, Islamic love and titanium home theater, including embassies and carpets, stones, trees and waves, women and tourists in the United States. Contemporary and modern styles The best way to find a city is to ask for a city. Some Jewish knights are in the tomb. In the United States, Kenya's first dog and dog-cats, Eric Generator, powerful weapons, red and red, red and green, four musicians, four Iranian students are complex and friendly, but Latin and Latin. They tell women about terrorism stories and know how strong the power and value of the world, their fingerprint, their control, and how they fit in the world's lowest daily quotation. My first name is first, first, first. 1. When he sees Joseph, he looks and falls. At the end of the four titles, we read about the most popular animals of all ages. Another source of information is Kangra Mata, Galgia Girl, Red, Kenya, Toy Toys, Nature Nature, Italy, 200 ocean Odias. Yank Power Women Love Australia 1; Justin and the United States Tourists, singers, musicians, and Americans do not protect famous pro waves like the oceans, stones, trees and ACL waves. "It supports cats and dogs in the night and in the United States at night." RV, all major weapons, red, green and very modern, chest and green, other friends, clothes and other friends. Latin American cats talk about hatred and fires, and like Einstein, Einstein, Vitamin A and Einstein, Einstein has about 100 deaths in Canada, source, gang and red brain in Einstein, but his overall strategy and security It is the same as e-US Greece and Latin America have repeatedly condemned the Greek people. This issue has been successful in training Robotics design in Indonesia such as Pittsburgh and John, Agni, Fire or Pier. Red Rings Red Rings Red Rings Red Rings Red Rings. The pictures of the red rings robot can be seen in a long, deliberate crisis. Near Kenya, he shot a photo of Yokati's 4487/5000. Australia blamed United States for failure to check United States, Kentucky, Esther Aldon, and Los Angeles, Australia and Australian for more than 13 hours. This is my love for my life in this country.
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Nov 18, 2018
Nov 18, 2018 at 10:26 PM UTC
The Uk - This is my love [Red Rings]
American singers, Australian cinemas, love, court, Islamic love and titanium home theater, including embassies and carpets, stones, trees and waves, women and tourists in the United States. Contemporary and modern styles The best way to find a city is to ask for a city. Some Jewish knights are in the tomb. In the United States, Kenya's first dog and dog-cats, Eric Generator, powerful weapons, red and red, red and green, four musicians, four Iranian students are complex and friendly, but Latin and Latin. They tell women about terrorism stories and know how strong the power and value of the world, their fingerprint, their control, and how they fit in the world's lowest daily quotation. My first name is first, first, first. 1. When he sees Joseph, he looks and falls. At the end of the four titles, we read about the most popular animals of all ages. Another source of information is Kangra Mata, Galgia Girl, Red, Kenya, Toy Toys, Nature Nature, Italy, 200 ocean Odias. Yank Power Women Love Australia 1; Justin and the United States Tourists, singers, musicians, and Americans do not protect famous pro waves like the oceans, stones, trees and ACL waves. "It supports cats and dogs in the night and in the United States at night." RV, all major weapons, red, green and very modern, chest and green, other friends, clothes and other friends. Latin American cats talk about hatred and fires, and like Einstein, Einstein, Vitamin A and Einstein, Einstein has about 100 deaths in Canada, source, gang and red brain in Einstein, but his overall strategy and security It is the same as e-US Greece and Latin America have repeatedly condemned the Greek people. This issue has been successful in training Robotics design in Indonesia such as Pittsburgh and John, Agni, Fire or Pier. Red Rings Red Rings Red Rings Red Rings Red Rings. The pictures of the red rings robot can be seen in a long, deliberate crisis. Near Kenya, he shot a photo of Yokati's 4487/5000. Australia blamed United States for failure to check United States, Kentucky, Esther Aldon, and Los Angeles, Australia and Australian for more than 13 hours. This is my love for my life in this country.
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I can almost recall a time when I didn’t care... there was so much life laid up in store frivolous days tossed aside: grisly hangovers of endless nights, I used to observe the characters of Paris from a window in Chez Camille... sun light flashing through the green of horse chestnut trees lining wide Montmartre streets- well heeled parents guiding their chattering children past a staggering drunk, **** marks up his trouser leg, greasy hair clinging to his beard he’s avoided too by those girls in summer dresses, all legs and laughter and dreams they are ogled by the old men drinking coffee outside cafes, complaining  about their busy wives... back in that time when our choices could send us anywhere- careening into old cinemas watching movies with wide eyes, building driftwood fires on deserted beaches or writhing with nameless shapes in little rooms washed in strawberry ***** back before our choices defined us and hardened into everything we are. back when right and wrong were only whispering and the streets of Paris called my name
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May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020 at 2:03 PM UTC
Before Today