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I saw the Maori Jesus Walking on Wellington Harbour. He wore blue dungarees, His beard and hair were long. His breath smelled of mussels and paraoa. When he smiled it looked like the dawn. When he broke wind the little fishes trembled. When he frowned the ground shook. When he laughed everybody got drunk. The Maori Jesus came on shore And picked out his twelve disciples. One cleaned toilets in the railway station; His hands were scrubbed red to get the **** out of the pores. One was a call-girl who turned it up for nothing. One was a housewife who had forgotten the Pill And stuck her TV set in the ******* can. One was a little office clerk Who'd tried to set fire to the Government Buldings. Yes, and there were several others; One was a sad old quean; One was an alcoholic priest Going slowly mad in a respectable parish. The Maori Jesus said, 'Man, From now on the sun will shine.' He did no miracles; He played the guitar sitting on the ground. The first day he was arrested For having no lawful means of support. The second day he was beaten up by the cops For telling a dee his house was not in order. The third day he was charged with being a Maori And given a month in Mt Crawford. The fourth day he was sent to Porirua For telling a ***** the sun would stop rising. The fifth day lasted seven years While he worked in the Asylum laundry Never out of the steam. The sixth day he told the head doctor, 'I am the Light in the Void; I am who I am.' The seventh day he was lobotomised; The brain of God was cut in half. On the eighth day the sun did not rise. It did not rise the day after. God was neither alive nor dead. The darkness of the Void, Mountainous, mile-deep, civilised darkness Sat on the earth from then till now.
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 7:53 AM UTC
The Maori Jesus - James K. Baxter
I saw the Maori Jesus Walking on Wellington Harbour. He wore blue dungarees, His beard and hair were long. His breath smelled of mussels and paraoa. When he smiled it looked like the dawn. When he broke wind the little fishes trembled. When he frowned the ground shook. When he laughed everybody got drunk. The Maori Jesus came on shore And picked out his twelve disciples. One cleaned toilets in the railway station; His hands were scrubbed red to get the **** out of the pores. One was a call-girl who turned it up for nothing. One was a housewife who had forgotten the Pill And stuck her TV set in the ******* can. One was a little office clerk Who'd tried to set fire to the Government Buldings. Yes, and there were several others; One was a sad old quean; One was an alcoholic priest Going slowly mad in a respectable parish. The Maori Jesus said, 'Man, From now on the sun will shine.' He did no miracles; He played the guitar sitting on the ground. The first day he was arrested For having no lawful means of support. The second day he was beaten up by the cops For telling a dee his house was not in order. The third day he was charged with being a Maori And given a month in Mt Crawford. The fourth day he was sent to Porirua For telling a ***** the sun would stop rising. The fifth day lasted seven years While he worked in the Asylum laundry Never out of the steam. The sixth day he told the head doctor, 'I am the Light in the Void; I am who I am.' The seventh day he was lobotomised; The brain of God was cut in half. On the eighth day the sun did not rise. It did not rise the day after. God was neither alive nor dead. The darkness of the Void, Mountainous, mile-deep, civilised darkness Sat on the earth from then till now.
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It's stuck in my head, Until it's gone, When I can make endless complaints Endless back stabs to match. But till its gone, it is there. After it's been there and gone, It is there again. Every night of everyday And also in random hours of my days. I see the old, then I see the new. It seems my world has turned black and blue. My heart beats faster And my eyes: they cry. I feel I am mourning a loss; Of someone never born to be able to die. It's the cases like this That are always the worst. You think you've found someone, When they're not there at all. So many good times Have all gone down the drain, Because everyone's a faker. Don't you know I hate liars? You liar, you deceitful and manipulative **** You ***** I hate you, I hate you, And then I hate you even more. What you have done made me fall to the floor. I don't know how I can get through this, Because last time I could just hate, Which still I am doing. You make that more difficult. Because when all the memories Come back again, I don't want to believe that was you, Surely it can't be true? But I know too well To be fooled more than once, Not that there's a way you would make it twice, Because you hate me too. It's all because of you. And her And the other. All "best friends" do Is end up having to stab each other. You see I am missing, Someone nonexistent. I knew it was too good to be true, But that won't stop me bleeding. I wish the 'you' I was friends with Was actually real. Instead I just feel messed over, All over again. I don't want to picture, Not anymore, Of what's flashing through my head. The so many too good times. They've been damaged again. I trusted you As I trusted them all, Because you have to trust to do anything at all. Again and again trusting proved to be devastating, Because there is no one who actually Has your back. So no I don't want to picture, I don't want another picture game. When I'm talking about you in rants, The devil is your name. When I'm speaking I do not have to be sad, It's only the times that I get to think on my own, When I feel even more torn down. When I see you walking around, I wish you were not. Do you know not what exactly you all have caused? I can hear you all talking, Just like we all used to do, Then the thousands of memories Come flooding in once again. And until I convince myself to dry up my emotions, I watch the dry river banks Become diluted without letting the rain fall. Because my tears; You never deserved them at all. I don't want to picture what you may think of me. If you hate me then go on, You can resent me as much as you can. But maybe you'd like to know: I stood up for you. Even though it was proved to be true. I didn't believe it at first, Because it was you. How dare you! If you think I didn't know reasons to take sides, Didn't you think I would defend you as I did her? Well I God **** tried! And if roles were reversed then I would've taken yours, As it wasn't out of favouritism as it stood, But because you were so unbelievable That nothing could be done. No friendship was saved. Being civilised? Well I just try to ignore your name.
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Dec 17, 2015
Dec 17, 2015 at 12:01 PM UTC
I Don't Want To Picture
It's stuck in my head, Until it's gone, When I can make endless complaints Endless back stabs to match. But till its gone, it is there. After it's been there and gone, It is there again. Every night of everyday And also in random hours of my days. I see the old, then I see the new. It seems my world has turned black and blue. My heart beats faster And my eyes: they cry. I feel I am mourning a loss; Of someone never born to be able to die. It's the cases like this That are always the worst. You think you've found someone, When they're not there at all. So many good times Have all gone down the drain, Because everyone's a faker. Don't you know I hate liars? You liar, you deceitful and manipulative **** You ***** I hate you, I hate you, And then I hate you even more. What you have done made me fall to the floor. I don't know how I can get through this, Because last time I could just hate, Which still I am doing. You make that more difficult. Because when all the memories Come back again, I don't want to believe that was you, Surely it can't be true? But I know too well To be fooled more than once, Not that there's a way you would make it twice, Because you hate me too. It's all because of you. And her And the other. All "best friends" do Is end up having to stab each other. You see I am missing, Someone nonexistent. I knew it was too good to be true, But that won't stop me bleeding. I wish the 'you' I was friends with Was actually real. Instead I just feel messed over, All over again. I don't want to picture, Not anymore, Of what's flashing through my head. The so many too good times. They've been damaged again. I trusted you As I trusted them all, Because you have to trust to do anything at all. Again and again trusting proved to be devastating, Because there is no one who actually Has your back. So no I don't want to picture, I don't want another picture game. When I'm talking about you in rants, The devil is your name. When I'm speaking I do not have to be sad, It's only the times that I get to think on my own, When I feel even more torn down. When I see you walking around, I wish you were not. Do you know not what exactly you all have caused? I can hear you all talking, Just like we all used to do, Then the thousands of memories Come flooding in once again. And until I convince myself to dry up my emotions, I watch the dry river banks Become diluted without letting the rain fall. Because my tears; You never deserved them at all. I don't want to picture what you may think of me. If you hate me then go on, You can resent me as much as you can. But maybe you'd like to know: I stood up for you. Even though it was proved to be true. I didn't believe it at first, Because it was you. How dare you! If you think I didn't know reasons to take sides, Didn't you think I would defend you as I did her? Well I God **** tried! And if roles were reversed then I would've taken yours, As it wasn't out of favouritism as it stood, But because you were so unbelievable That nothing could be done. No friendship was saved. Being civilised? Well I just try to ignore your name.
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I wear beads and  African bracelets for beauty. I forget why the people before me wore them. I wear them with pride not because I earned them but because I simply look beautiful. Beautiful!? What does that even mean? My Nana has scars on her body. She shows them to me with pride. Narrates stories of the war in the past like an action movie only she didn't have a gun only bows and poisonous arrows. The missing teeth in her mouth causes her to spit almost every second she talks. But this embarrassment is only felt by me. She is proud of the hole in her mouth. Suddenly I feel the urge to remove my African beads. They have no meaning only that they are African and I am and so am entitled. But I have done nothing for my heritage. Not even fight for it. Slowly it's being forgotten and people are crossing over without a care in the world. 'To civilisation' we say.  'For the good of the people' we say. But is it? We were a community wrong as we were to circumcise women, marry them off at an early age, burn the wrong... We were a community. We loved each other. We cared. We taught our children how to feel and be the earth. We taught our children to respect the earth and in return the earth blesses us with herbs to cure. What did they call it? Aaah yes 'witchcraft'. We were not animals who forget their children in  pit latrines or by the river side just because we cannot afford them or don't want them. We cared not of individualism because together we grew in spirit, body and soul. It was not backward it was culture. And culture is flexible. It can change but can never be terminated. It is not a shoe that when you grow out of  you throw and buy another. And so I am not telling you to go back to your roots because if am quite honest you were never in it. Rather embrace it. See how 'civilised' you will feel then. yours The Red_Head
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Jun 21, 2017
Jun 21, 2017 at 3:08 AM UTC
Conscious beads.
I wear beads and  African bracelets for beauty. I forget why the people before me wore them. I wear them with pride not because I earned them but because I simply look beautiful. Beautiful!? What does that even mean? My Nana has scars on her body. She shows them to me with pride. Narrates stories of the war in the past like an action movie only she didn't have a gun only bows and poisonous arrows. The missing teeth in her mouth causes her to spit almost every second she talks. But this embarrassment is only felt by me. She is proud of the hole in her mouth. Suddenly I feel the urge to remove my African beads. They have no meaning only that they are African and I am and so am entitled. But I have done nothing for my heritage. Not even fight for it. Slowly it's being forgotten and people are crossing over without a care in the world. 'To civilisation' we say.  'For the good of the people' we say. But is it? We were a community wrong as we were to circumcise women, marry them off at an early age, burn the wrong... We were a community. We loved each other. We cared. We taught our children how to feel and be the earth. We taught our children to respect the earth and in return the earth blesses us with herbs to cure. What did they call it? Aaah yes 'witchcraft'. We were not animals who forget their children in  pit latrines or by the river side just because we cannot afford them or don't want them. We cared not of individualism because together we grew in spirit, body and soul. It was not backward it was culture. And culture is flexible. It can change but can never be terminated. It is not a shoe that when you grow out of  you throw and buy another. And so I am not telling you to go back to your roots because if am quite honest you were never in it. Rather embrace it. See how 'civilised' you will feel then. yours The Red_Head
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PLEDGE TO NIGERIA By: Adigun Temitope Idealism From between heaven and earth stand a perilous place Where poverty kicked us on face Tears stand as our drinks Where hunger eat up our meals Our pain is a poisonous laughter Where sadness becomes our daily activities Where hardship becomes our ambition And sorrow our career Still, we need to pledge to Nigeria Blood, bone and oil, Are the pedestal of earth Where killing is a lifestyle And ****** a hobby Where humiliation becomes our take home And misfortune our store-house Where graduate works by the road-side Where poverty is titillating and titivating before the mirror of our land Yet we need to pledge to Nigeria Pledge to Nigeria Even when the birds refuses to sing, When moon dims its light, When our days turn into nights When sun fails to shine And flowers refuse to bloom When life fails to give reasons When dreams refuse to forgive When the weep inside birth the smile outside When tears wash hope from our sight Nigeria must still be pledge to I pledge to Nigeria Not to be one if the ambassadors that sing the National Anthem with a teleprompter smiling at them in a shameful tears I pledge not to be a naked masquerade dancing at the village square I pledge to steal government money for the poor when I become the President I pledge to be loyal and not betrayal I pledge to fight off vices and calamities with my pen If democracy must to end I pledge to go crazy to stop it to the end If civilization was to make us stupid I pledge to swim in stupidity not to be civilised I pledge, I pledge ©2015 Adigun Temitope Idealism (Deacon) #Muse #PurposefulPoetry #BPM #IIB #Asaplanet #ThoughtAndSociety #Poetfreak blackpridemagazin.simplesite.com @blackpridemag1
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 3:11 AM UTC
MY PLEDGE TO NIGERIA
PLEDGE TO NIGERIA By: Adigun Temitope Idealism From between heaven and earth stand a perilous place Where poverty kicked us on face Tears stand as our drinks Where hunger eat up our meals Our pain is a poisonous laughter Where sadness becomes our daily activities Where hardship becomes our ambition And sorrow our career Still, we need to pledge to Nigeria Blood, bone and oil, Are the pedestal of earth Where killing is a lifestyle And ****** a hobby Where humiliation becomes our take home And misfortune our store-house Where graduate works by the road-side Where poverty is titillating and titivating before the mirror of our land Yet we need to pledge to Nigeria Pledge to Nigeria Even when the birds refuses to sing, When moon dims its light, When our days turn into nights When sun fails to shine And flowers refuse to bloom When life fails to give reasons When dreams refuse to forgive When the weep inside birth the smile outside When tears wash hope from our sight Nigeria must still be pledge to I pledge to Nigeria Not to be one if the ambassadors that sing the National Anthem with a teleprompter smiling at them in a shameful tears I pledge not to be a naked masquerade dancing at the village square I pledge to steal government money for the poor when I become the President I pledge to be loyal and not betrayal I pledge to fight off vices and calamities with my pen If democracy must to end I pledge to go crazy to stop it to the end If civilization was to make us stupid I pledge to swim in stupidity not to be civilised I pledge, I pledge ©2015 Adigun Temitope Idealism (Deacon) #Muse #PurposefulPoetry #BPM #IIB #Asaplanet #ThoughtAndSociety #Poetfreak blackpridemagazin.simplesite.com @blackpridemag1
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We rode our horses cross-country, Through the nations of the unknown, We survived the snowy mountains, And lived off the land and the trees, Through hot summers and cold winters, Through deserts storms; we circled the trails, We learned from the birds and the bees, We hunted the elk, the deer and the buffalo, We fished to feed the travelling spirit, We turned acorns into flour, We set our senses free. $ Europeans brought Soldiers, missionaries, smallpox, the common cold, scalping, reservations, whisky and the rush for gold. You brought land grabbers, oil barons, fencing, bricks, barbed wire and all the accoutrements of your civilised culture! You made this country your own; and forced it's 1st nation people into a 3rd world culture. You ***** the land of its resources, filled it with waste. You wasted the water to make coke, burgers, and fantasy towns. To reign supreme in a new-world without shame! Savages!
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Oct 10, 2018
Oct 10, 2018 at 4:38 PM UTC
Native
Looking at the map, my eyes find their way to the unnamed borders, the many lines that divide the land and the sea, the civilised, and the savage. I dimly wonder if those lines are truly the ends of the earth, or are they beginnings of a new world?
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Aug 12, 2020
Aug 12, 2020 at 11:33 AM UTC
Map
Rascals, ruffians and rogues alike. Slumming the alleys with their slurs, And sewage rats. Across the streets, just beyond the performers. The dames of paradise carrying flowered parasols. *A ***** she is. Stupid Alessandra!* one said. The hooligans hugged each other with glee, As the women struck each other, With their spiteful words. Filthy, is the life of the cleaner souls, And rich, is the life of the poorest minds. Alas, the weirdest of them all is God.
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Jul 14, 2013
Jul 14, 2013 at 4:48 AM UTC
Civilised
Pharaoh Tutankhamun graced the Egyptian throne, A ***** brisk and spry. From his majestical hands, dangled a scepter And on his handsome head, sat a crown. His empire was at its peak For he wielded influence all over africa. The bearded Europeans and nubianS sought his protection For egypt, was a haven. So organised was the land: Amun-re and maat protected the people, The country grew with the help of viziers. Agriculture was a noble profession in the land, As her economic markets were the best in the world Egypt gave light to Greece and Mesopotamia For her civilisation altered many a life. And also, was the birth place of man Such, was the land of egypt The middle ages stroke and Europe went to sleep But mama africa gave birth to many strong children: Ghana, Mali, Songhai and many more These children shoke the world with their riches and organisation. Such was the history that africa recorded before they came. Fredriech Hegel in want of speech said: “Africa never had a history before the whites came.” Such a mediocre declaration from an illiterate For in place of his brain, graced a kidney. Africa was well civilised before the bearded people came: We had a religion We had education as seen in egypt We had a well organised system in all aspects. We had everything needed for prosperity, We attracted them with our gold, thus they came. But most of all, we believed in equality. Such was africa before they came But when the bearded people came, They altered our ways and put us in stocks Then said: “we had no history.” Oblivious that africa had made history, BEFORE AND BEFORE THE
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May 17, 2015
May 17, 2015 at 7:39 AM UTC
before
Pharaoh Tutankhamun graced the Egyptian throne, A ***** brisk and spry. From his majestical hands, dangled a scepter And on his handsome head, sat a crown. His empire was at its peak For he wielded influence all over africa. The bearded Europeans and nubianS sought his protection For egypt, was a haven. So organised was the land: Amun-re and maat protected the people, The country grew with the help of viziers. Agriculture was a noble profession in the land, As her economic markets were the best in the world Egypt gave light to Greece and Mesopotamia For her civilisation altered many a life. And also, was the birth place of man Such, was the land of egypt The middle ages stroke and Europe went to sleep But mama africa gave birth to many strong children: Ghana, Mali, Songhai and many more These children shoke the world with their riches and organisation. Such was the history that africa recorded before they came. Fredriech Hegel in want of speech said: “Africa never had a history before the whites came.” Such a mediocre declaration from an illiterate For in place of his brain, graced a kidney. Africa was well civilised before the bearded people came: We had a religion We had education as seen in egypt We had a well organised system in all aspects. We had everything needed for prosperity, We attracted them with our gold, thus they came. But most of all, we believed in equality. Such was africa before they came But when the bearded people came, They altered our ways and put us in stocks Then said: “we had no history.” Oblivious that africa had made history, BEFORE AND BEFORE THE
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It's London, all the time, when at night I close my eyes, it's when and where I get to roam and dwell, in the city I know inside-out so well, where all the narrow streets and cobbled stones, teacups, pint glasses, and fresh scones, lend themselves into the misty English air, of London's ancient, yet so modern flair, of Piccadilly, and Hyde Park Corner's box, riding Black Cabs, or a big Red Double-Bus, evening gas-lamp walks with ol' Saucy Jack, fish and chips and shandys for a perfect snack; then the changing of The Guard at Buckingham, where native Cockney's and young mums with prams, gather for a view of Lizzy's Royal Family Show; but, my, how rich the April sun sets and does glow, over the rolling raging river Thames of yore, where ancient Roman armies marched to shore, proclaimed: LONDINIUM! -the regal rest, of civilised peoples and the Royal Crests, where lives and deaths would go and come, yet The City despite all odds has lost and won, in the hearts, souls and minds of all who take, great London as their true hearth and home to stake, and arise and fall the poet's versing nights and days, whilst Big Ben chimes his toll in the foggy haze; and alas, London from my slumber dissipates, to that of which I yearn and love, asleep or wake, knowing where my home of soul-keep lies divine: in London, my dear London; it's London, all the time. ______ London: http://beautyineverything.com/3366195864
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Oct 27, 2010
Oct 27, 2010 at 7:31 PM UTC
It's London, all the time
Rotating bodies, confusion of sound Negative imagery holding us down Social delusion, clearly constructed Human condition, morals corrupted Trapped in reaction, lawlessness, war Dissatisfaction from bowels to core Devils technology, strategy for Human mythologies, urban folklore Sick of psychology, counterfeit cure Wicked theology robbing the poor Scheme demonology mislead the pure Strict and strategically, studying war Light shown in darkness, image exposed Few can see through the new emperor's clothes Lustful this hussle turns humans to hoes When the blind lead the blind Just more trouble and woes It's the mind that they chose It's designed to stay closed Standards of jokers, court just a logic Sick looking cosmics, from schoolyards to college Primitive man with civilised knowledge System collapse and he still won't acknowledge God is the saviour, studies behaviour Trying to fix the mind that he gave ya Stiff-necked scholars on prescription meds Wishing their problems were all in their heads Moral dilemma, pride is the root Misguided from youth, heart divided from truth Egyptians and Grecians, spiritually dead Imperially led, by the gods in their head Motives and thoughts Industrial wealth Global economy, in for itself Heart full of madness, covered with kind Pleasure designed to take over your mind Furnished in godliness, painted in good This talented priesthood got real saints misunderstood While classes in government, set up the veil And cultivate minds for more mythical tales Typical Hollywood follies good girl While vice and corruption take over the world Motives and thoughts Check your motives and thoughts Blind with the wickedness deep in your heart Modern day wickedness is all you've been taught Lied to your neighbours, so you get ahead Modern day trickery is all you've been fed Motives and thoughts Check your motives and thoughts
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 7:52 AM UTC
Lauren Hill - Motives and Thoughts.
Rotating bodies, confusion of sound Negative imagery holding us down Social delusion, clearly constructed Human condition, morals corrupted Trapped in reaction, lawlessness, war Dissatisfaction from bowels to core Devils technology, strategy for Human mythologies, urban folklore Sick of psychology, counterfeit cure Wicked theology robbing the poor Scheme demonology mislead the pure Strict and strategically, studying war Light shown in darkness, image exposed Few can see through the new emperor's clothes Lustful this hussle turns humans to hoes When the blind lead the blind Just more trouble and woes It's the mind that they chose It's designed to stay closed Standards of jokers, court just a logic Sick looking cosmics, from schoolyards to college Primitive man with civilised knowledge System collapse and he still won't acknowledge God is the saviour, studies behaviour Trying to fix the mind that he gave ya Stiff-necked scholars on prescription meds Wishing their problems were all in their heads Moral dilemma, pride is the root Misguided from youth, heart divided from truth Egyptians and Grecians, spiritually dead Imperially led, by the gods in their head Motives and thoughts Industrial wealth Global economy, in for itself Heart full of madness, covered with kind Pleasure designed to take over your mind Furnished in godliness, painted in good This talented priesthood got real saints misunderstood While classes in government, set up the veil And cultivate minds for more mythical tales Typical Hollywood follies good girl While vice and corruption take over the world Motives and thoughts Check your motives and thoughts Blind with the wickedness deep in your heart Modern day wickedness is all you've been taught Lied to your neighbours, so you get ahead Modern day trickery is all you've been fed Motives and thoughts Check your motives and thoughts
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It closes The surrounding darkness is somehow contracting Though it was always equally lacking in light, the walls approach on the edges of your vision. The jagged edges that hold a promise of riches never yielded their prize. They fall and crush, snapping your vertebrae without thought. Pinned to the damp floor, your skeletal remains give up their fight. It has won. Not daggers, no, far less civilised, far more brutal shards pierce roughly through your chest. The sound of your screams is replaced with silence The battle is over. Yet still the blows crash against your skull, the pounding on the inside of your head starts to break out. Perspectives reverse Not dark, sunrise, not rocks, a quilt, not screams, but beeps. A day begins It Was All In Your Head Does that make it alright? Do you feel better for that truth? Your mind tricked you, is that what you want? Which restricts more, a prison of rock or thoughts?
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Dec 28, 2014
Dec 28, 2014 at 9:10 PM UTC
Caves
Beggars line the busy streets cup and cloth outstretched the look of desperation etched on their faces like the dawn shadow of a carved lithograph they don't ask me for spare change just a simple nod of acknowledgement; even after a shower and a change of clothes I must have their look, that broken beaten look the look of the street. George Square is busy today tourists happy clicking panoramic memories admiration of forced foolish bravery at the Cenotaph a list of names they will never know and marvel at the antiquated architecture to later revel in the wonderment of how anyone in a civilised and modern society can do without skyscrapers while they grudgingly share a half-measure of a single malt I sit on a bench that marks a families love and remembrance to the passing of a woman named Judith the pigeons flock in carnal mass gatherings knowing I've been there for 3 hours already because I have the look of someone who hides his crusts because I have the hungry eyes of the look of the street. The well dressed man at the end of the alleyway, the plume of carcinogen cigar smoke like a coal fired power station  in the sunlight this is where they go for over-priced craft ales with Sautéed Wild Rabbit starter and £65 Wagyu Tomahawk Steak a place for fine pickings in the alleyway ashtrays dispensed cancer sticks left disregarded the half-finished defiance of another £9 packet that was simply spare change to begin with I hover around making false promises on a deadline phone call pretending in mime to be semi-OK that the compadres are running late and "tell me about the theatre show later" the misdirection amid the camouflage of plastic peace lilies while my other hand rummages the unspent tobacco and the black-on-black door steward keeps clocking me because I have the look of the street.
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Apr 19, 2016
Apr 19, 2016 at 7:53 AM UTC
Pigeons & Demons
Beggars line the busy streets cup and cloth outstretched the look of desperation etched on their faces like the dawn shadow of a carved lithograph they don't ask me for spare change just a simple nod of acknowledgement; even after a shower and a change of clothes I must have their look, that broken beaten look the look of the street. George Square is busy today tourists happy clicking panoramic memories admiration of forced foolish bravery at the Cenotaph a list of names they will never know and marvel at the antiquated architecture to later revel in the wonderment of how anyone in a civilised and modern society can do without skyscrapers while they grudgingly share a half-measure of a single malt I sit on a bench that marks a families love and remembrance to the passing of a woman named Judith the pigeons flock in carnal mass gatherings knowing I've been there for 3 hours already because I have the look of someone who hides his crusts because I have the hungry eyes of the look of the street. The well dressed man at the end of the alleyway, the plume of carcinogen cigar smoke like a coal fired power station  in the sunlight this is where they go for over-priced craft ales with Sautéed Wild Rabbit starter and £65 Wagyu Tomahawk Steak a place for fine pickings in the alleyway ashtrays dispensed cancer sticks left disregarded the half-finished defiance of another £9 packet that was simply spare change to begin with I hover around making false promises on a deadline phone call pretending in mime to be semi-OK that the compadres are running late and "tell me about the theatre show later" the misdirection amid the camouflage of plastic peace lilies while my other hand rummages the unspent tobacco and the black-on-black door steward keeps clocking me because I have the look of the street.
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mothers of                "β"-males; and the whole world, and all the world,                         ⠃⠇⠊⠝⠙           a civilised world...                                          without a chance to think!                i just think of: mothers of the beta-males...          how sooner i am to relinquish the act of                         impeding death! i die: but also make a relief of having had a mother! as man... loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser loser... the one word mantra starts bugging... loser with that sort of quiff?! twitter addict?! president of the united states of h'america?! now you're ******* joking... you aren't?! no comment. no comment. and? no comment. i like thinking about β-males... in terms of feminism, and in terms of β-males having mothers... by beta, i mean you don't / didn't have a mother... o.k.? now you know the answer my father would give... the d.n.a. ******** ends here! now! you have your little existential tirade about: holding a car-boot boutique in an essex field... you're fine... have it: i'm happy as ego becoming extinct... ******* snow fairies.
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Feb 14, 2018
Feb 14, 2018 at 10:01 PM UTC
mothers of "β"-males: "mothers"
Quenched thirst I deserve I need to quench this thirst I scatter and scampere to quench this thirst. I fumble and scramble in quenching this thirst. This thirst I must quench cooling effect protruding in inner me. can the thirst be quenched? I should quench my thirst with no time. I need cascades of quenchful waters in inner me to quench my thirst I deserve this thirst quenched mother, quenching my thirst its only what I want. The thirst is still here quenching it needs give me a platter of civilised waters I am here to quench this thirsty thirst. I need help in the thirst quenching please share with me the holy waters if possible I would adore to quench my thirst. Thirsty thirst like mrrh elongated thirst embers of thirst in inner me I must quench my thirst.
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Jun 29, 2016
Jun 29, 2016 at 3:06 AM UTC
This Thirsty Thirst
After the snow,with nowhere to go,when the streets are so hard,a yard thick in ice,it's not nice, but for those with a home and a nose for some heat,the drifters can shift,because you can't beat a bit of selfishness , and surely them what has less, do not deserve more,or what the hell are we working for? Let them eat cake, courtesy of this great welfare state who give benefits for,to keep the wolves from our door. It's all give and take at the end of the day and at the end of the day they drift slowly away to some courtyard or bridge,ridges of ice on their brow, how sad it all seems when the Queen's got so much and the dickwads in Whitehall are so out of touch, such is the way of the city today,we bypass and pass by,some glance and some wonder why, but most of us really don't care. It's not us who's there,no concern of mine and no time to stop and see what they do not it has to stop. We are the civilised and it's time that we realised, that it's not dog eat dog,we are all just a cog in the workings of life.
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 7:53 PM UTC
Drawing Winter
I do not like olives. They are the only food I have been unable to educate myself into. Just one food, Most people have more, But I will eat anything Rather than an olive, I'd rather gobble down a rotten egg. I want to like them. When the waiter brings a little bowl, Balsamic, bread and oil, I sigh and let the wistfulness kick in. They are so civilised, So summery, I feel I'm missing out - - But I just can't - They taste like mackintosh, Or shower gel, Or toothpaste gone wrong. I feel sorry for the olives, Offering a holiday vibe, A Mediterranean ambience, And meeting revulsion, rejection, (Juddery shuddering). Perhaps I am making too much of this, No-one can like everything, They will never know. Perhaps I am someone's olive aversion. Perhaps they are (Juddery shuddering) At the thought of me, right now.
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Oct 4, 2013
Oct 4, 2013 at 4:30 PM UTC
Olive Aversion
Irresponsible behaviors. Civility of civilised on test. Much arrogance and pride. In extremes who's the best? Insensitive to alien customs. Insensitive to other's belief. Then why teach tolerance? Kindly explain, please debrief. **** anti-Semitic cartoons! Didn't it led to Death Camps. Can we call this Freedom. Ask yourselves, O Champs! I am Charlie! I am Charlie! The echoing words I hear. I am Kouchi! I am Kouchi! Might be heard I fear.
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Jan 18, 2015
Jan 18, 2015 at 1:34 PM UTC
I am not Charlie
In nature, as in civilised homes, there is evidence of conformity That only significant study would make apparent, but his studies were suspicious and neighbours would talk The nose is bleeding and his pretty song is skipping on the jukebox by the bathroom door Anhedonia now is constant, the pathos inherent As their mother went missing years ago While they read Proust by the window, and the day was drawing closed Their father was sick with Absinthe shakes whilst little duck starved in the pond behind the house On disagreeable days, profound introspection becomes not more than subversive psycho-babble and the words he speaks are dust on the tongue a bother and little more Purported to be perpetually depressed, his cool demeanor left an impression on his sister, as she would gaze upwards at his face, displaying world-weariness So Weltschmerz they called him and his cool was palpable but only her smile could bring colour to his fa-*
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Jan 21, 2014
Jan 21, 2014 at 12:32 PM UTC
Anomalous Anomie and the Thorough Breakdown of Familial Bonds or Literary Ambitions
well acting is a metaphysical assertion of the physical act of theft, in Cartesian terms: a part of the extension is stolen, for example an object passed down via generations, your grandmother's wedding ring... acting is in a sense a theft that defines creating a civilisation and eradicating tribalism: galoshes, guttering, sewers and irritable bowel movements. some said acting was a subtler form of defining theft, given the term       doppelgänger; i.e. i stole your shadow, all you have is a hand to mimic a shape of a hare's head to please children,                           deal with it.
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 10:28 PM UTC
civilised theft
Back in the twenty first century The world was in chaos. There was no World Gov. Democracy was limited to certain “Nations” As such territories were called. (We were so territorial then). Millions died of malnutrition In places called “Asia”, “Africa” and elsewhere. Factions fought for land, resources And “Religious” beliefs That I will describe to you later. In those days people were persecuted For their race, gender And any way in which they differed from “the norm”. Anyone who spoke up against injustice And countless other wrongs Was branded “Un-PC” Humiliated Before his (or her) peers. Those were troubled times, Back in those “frontier days”. Be thankful we are now civilised: United Human Race, Worldwide Democracy, People Loving, Compassionate For the Good of All. Welcome to my history class. Let us learn from our mistakes, And never repeat them. Paul Butters
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Dec 7, 2016
Dec 7, 2016 at 5:23 AM UTC
Back Then
Dear warmth, May you rub your back against my shoulder ‘til the windows mist with condensation, and we fall back into youth, hiding away from the older. May your temperature, rising to the point of red cheek puncture, provide an oasis under the sand of duvet’s cover. May your hair whip around like every flame I’ve ever seen, no agenda or judgement, just sheer ecstasy and excitement. May you conjure up that lone shower feeling, that one where for a brief slot in time everything you know and have become floats away through that extractor fan, out into the air- climbing higher. May you provide that gasp of heat that hits the cook in the face, after opening the oven’s gate in hunger and haste. May you be that holiday sun I always seek. May you be the metal womb of a car when outside in the myriad hospital world where it’s cold. May you be humorous and humid and totally lovely to be with. May you be a heated conversation and argument and disagreement, that torment of words I need to hear. May you be my laugh that bubbles up from the volcano underneath. May you be the heat caused by key and lock, that one that stops others from coming in and making for ruin. May you be that first sip of ‘the most civilised thing in the world’, as Hemmingway put it, and let it ignite a dance below. May you not judge the mixture of my grape and grain, and my love for walking in the rain and my waiting for ex-girlfriends every time they call. May you always let me bed down in that manger in the snug, though Steve doesn’t know I borrowed his blanket rug. May you forever toast that bread at midnight, just before bed. Yours faithfully, The Cold.
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 9:59 AM UTC
HOW TO WRITE A LETTER TO A FRIEND
Dear warmth, May you rub your back against my shoulder ‘til the windows mist with condensation, and we fall back into youth, hiding away from the older. May your temperature, rising to the point of red cheek puncture, provide an oasis under the sand of duvet’s cover. May your hair whip around like every flame I’ve ever seen, no agenda or judgement, just sheer ecstasy and excitement. May you conjure up that lone shower feeling, that one where for a brief slot in time everything you know and have become floats away through that extractor fan, out into the air- climbing higher. May you provide that gasp of heat that hits the cook in the face, after opening the oven’s gate in hunger and haste. May you be that holiday sun I always seek. May you be the metal womb of a car when outside in the myriad hospital world where it’s cold. May you be humorous and humid and totally lovely to be with. May you be a heated conversation and argument and disagreement, that torment of words I need to hear. May you be my laugh that bubbles up from the volcano underneath. May you be the heat caused by key and lock, that one that stops others from coming in and making for ruin. May you be that first sip of ‘the most civilised thing in the world’, as Hemmingway put it, and let it ignite a dance below. May you not judge the mixture of my grape and grain, and my love for walking in the rain and my waiting for ex-girlfriends every time they call. May you always let me bed down in that manger in the snug, though Steve doesn’t know I borrowed his blanket rug. May you forever toast that bread at midnight, just before bed. Yours faithfully, The Cold.
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Oh, how we strut about the world We, the civilized population Unsatisfied until we've unfurled Blankets of our cultivation How proud we are of the machines That gauge and plunder the earths crust To farm by artificial means Deemed by the "uncivilized" as unjust The "uncivilized", those wayward tribes That naively worship this blue globe Need alcohol and such like prescribed To adjust malfunctioning temporal lobes Can they not observe our contentment And our superior living standard They squat and rant with some resentment We are progressive, they have meandered I wonder when those of tribal birth Will mature and see we've got it right And that their unkempt patch of earth Will make a fine farm or building site Or better still, once they're packing Up their dwellings and  possessions We can begin some civilised fracking With our governmental concessions That's what separates us from them I hope you have now realised It is a government controlled by business That makes us so very civilized
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Jun 8, 2014
Jun 8, 2014 at 4:53 PM UTC
How Civilized.
Tiptoeing on velvet vines silky and smooth to the touch we dance in the twilight shades of subtle poetic lines trying never to say too much thus preventing that anything fades Imagining alternative scenes in flexible collaboration we dream in adjectives and verbs as sentences rush through our veins sweet figment of imagination all our civilised structures perturbs Dancing lightly across the keys our fingers and souls thus create quiet symphonies on backlit sheets wishful journeys across the seas of what we dare only comtemplate as we immerse ourselves in these beats
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Mar 7, 2013
Mar 7, 2013 at 11:00 AM UTC
Digital Ballet