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I'd like to think that she's thinking: "How far have I fallen?" As she sits on the corner of her bed, Listening to the soft buzz of his battery-powered toothbrush. I imagine her, Running her fingers through her clumsy, coagulated hair. Glancing at her chipped, crimson toe nails, Then looking to her class ring, Made entirely of imitation ingredients, Wondering when is the proper time to trash it. When she was still a friend of mine, I never saw her wear make up, I never saw her show off in tight jeans or low-cut tees. But as he spews the toothpaste into the sink, Skinny jeans lay tussled on the floor, Next to the side door that leads to his sister's side room. The make up she wears is from the night before. It's skewed and shows evidence of running, Like a wasted watercolor. I'd like to think he isn't that handsome, And that he's obsessed with Paul Walker. I'd like to think when he re-enters the room, He's in grey sweatpants, He's wearing a black tank top, With a Confederate flag backdrop, With two barely dressed babes looking ****** in the foreground. His hair, unwashed and greasy. He rubs his belly, And bears an idiot grin on his face. Looking like he just learned how to smile at this pace. "Did it feel good?" feel good. After he asks, he scans her body, Beginning at those crimson toes, And Ending at that clumsy hair. Every second he scans, He still wears that drawn-on Idiot grin. I'd like to think at this point she thinks of me. Of my warnings and prophesy. Her eyes start at the chipped toe nails, Course over her tanning bed-inspired legs. And finally reach the only thing she has on, A t-shirt that belongs to his sister. A t-shirt, when given by him, It was mentioned, "thanks, mister". Though she didn't satisfy all his redneck intentions, During last night's expedition. He still paid her back with a morning one-sided session. "It felt good" she says. In reference to the ten minute ********** When her body was strummed and plucked, Underneath his sister's Terri Clark T-shirt. As she sits in the filth and the ****** fallout, On a bed that is six days ***** While he is grinning, Being everything but wordy. I'd like to think she's thinking: "How far have I fallen?"
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Jun 4, 2010
Jun 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM UTC
She was a Friend of Mine
I'd like to think that she's thinking: "How far have I fallen?" As she sits on the corner of her bed, Listening to the soft buzz of his battery-powered toothbrush. I imagine her, Running her fingers through her clumsy, coagulated hair. Glancing at her chipped, crimson toe nails, Then looking to her class ring, Made entirely of imitation ingredients, Wondering when is the proper time to trash it. When she was still a friend of mine, I never saw her wear make up, I never saw her show off in tight jeans or low-cut tees. But as he spews the toothpaste into the sink, Skinny jeans lay tussled on the floor, Next to the side door that leads to his sister's side room. The make up she wears is from the night before. It's skewed and shows evidence of running, Like a wasted watercolor. I'd like to think he isn't that handsome, And that he's obsessed with Paul Walker. I'd like to think when he re-enters the room, He's in grey sweatpants, He's wearing a black tank top, With a Confederate flag backdrop, With two barely dressed babes looking ****** in the foreground. His hair, unwashed and greasy. He rubs his belly, And bears an idiot grin on his face. Looking like he just learned how to smile at this pace. "Did it feel good?" feel good. After he asks, he scans her body, Beginning at those crimson toes, And Ending at that clumsy hair. Every second he scans, He still wears that drawn-on Idiot grin. I'd like to think at this point she thinks of me. Of my warnings and prophesy. Her eyes start at the chipped toe nails, Course over her tanning bed-inspired legs. And finally reach the only thing she has on, A t-shirt that belongs to his sister. A t-shirt, when given by him, It was mentioned, "thanks, mister". Though she didn't satisfy all his redneck intentions, During last night's expedition. He still paid her back with a morning one-sided session. "It felt good" she says. In reference to the ten minute ********** When her body was strummed and plucked, Underneath his sister's Terri Clark T-shirt. As she sits in the filth and the ****** fallout, On a bed that is six days ***** While he is grinning, Being everything but wordy. I'd like to think she's thinking: "How far have I fallen?"
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Like superman to your batman I actually got power Power with ink, Power with flow Don't even blink I'll make your mind blow Like my cape to your batmobile How does it feel? Knowing I can fly, You just spinning your wheels Throwing around money While I'm saving the world Like my Lois Lane to your Robin I'll actually get the guy You sitting there cryin Cause money don't but happiness Neither does fame Just writing what I feel And you'll never be the same My Clark Kent to your Bruce Wayne Might as well just give up Cause you'll never be me I'm just made of stronger stuff Its the end of the line Especially for you Maybe it's time To figure out what else you can do...
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 6:46 PM UTC
Superman vs. Batman
I. Time passes, another batch of refugees and migrants. Cities turn into new houses of gambling and vicious cycles. Some say only machines can speak clearly and most humans have lost what they have earned throughout all this time, just right on schedule. To own our language, and the relationships it sets into motion, we learn painfully, repeatedly like sunrise and sunsets. Claiming our own spaces and demons hidden in our conveniences and reflex routines, and learning the tricks that has kept peoples from fully healing from broken promises and betrayals throughout time. We own up to our language and its demons every day and night that we toss and turn into something feasible, edible, livable. II. Iba ibang uri ng digma. duguang kasaysayang binabaong buhay binubura ang lakas at memorya tulad ng siyudad ng Songdo sa South Korea na ang ibig sabihin ay "city with no memory". Ito din ang isa sa mga modelo para sa New Clark City na tinatayo sa Luzon. Sa dalawahang mga pamamaraan ng mga naghahari-harian, nakikibaka ang anakpawis, nakikibaka ang kamalayan ng pagpapasya at pagwasto sa mga pagkakamali, na paulit-ulit na sinusubukang patayin sa iba ibang mukha. Mula pa sa panahon ng mga lolo at lola noong 1940s hanggang ngayon, patuloy ang mga pag-eexperimento nila at paggamit ng panlilinlang  at dahas, sa ngalan ng kalusugan, edukasyon at batas, upang ipain ang buhay sarili, lasunin ang lupang kinakain ang sarili. Kung hindi tayo mag-aaral at mag-iingat din, tayo mismo ang papatay sa mga sinisimulan. #
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 2:58 AM UTC
Owning our language, facing its demons
I. Time passes, another batch of refugees and migrants. Cities turn into new houses of gambling and vicious cycles. Some say only machines can speak clearly and most humans have lost what they have earned throughout all this time, just right on schedule. To own our language, and the relationships it sets into motion, we learn painfully, repeatedly like sunrise and sunsets. Claiming our own spaces and demons hidden in our conveniences and reflex routines, and learning the tricks that has kept peoples from fully healing from broken promises and betrayals throughout time. We own up to our language and its demons every day and night that we toss and turn into something feasible, edible, livable. II. Iba ibang uri ng digma. duguang kasaysayang binabaong buhay binubura ang lakas at memorya tulad ng siyudad ng Songdo sa South Korea na ang ibig sabihin ay "city with no memory". Ito din ang isa sa mga modelo para sa New Clark City na tinatayo sa Luzon. Sa dalawahang mga pamamaraan ng mga naghahari-harian, nakikibaka ang anakpawis, nakikibaka ang kamalayan ng pagpapasya at pagwasto sa mga pagkakamali, na paulit-ulit na sinusubukang patayin sa iba ibang mukha. Mula pa sa panahon ng mga lolo at lola noong 1940s hanggang ngayon, patuloy ang mga pag-eexperimento nila at paggamit ng panlilinlang  at dahas, sa ngalan ng kalusugan, edukasyon at batas, upang ipain ang buhay sarili, lasunin ang lupang kinakain ang sarili. Kung hindi tayo mag-aaral at mag-iingat din, tayo mismo ang papatay sa mga sinisimulan. #
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*I'd love to be your hero Your knight in shining armor To take all your pain away* **I'd love to be your damsel in distress Your Lois Lane, Daphne Blake Because you're my Clark Kent, my Fred Jones You're my everything And, thanks to you, there is no pain**
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Apr 14, 2014
Apr 14, 2014 at 11:46 AM UTC
You're my Superhero
Be my Clark Kent, My superhero, The one who saves me from myself Be my Joker, My Partner in crime, The one who loves my crazy side
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Jul 2, 2016
Jul 2, 2016 at 1:47 PM UTC
My superhero-villain
dear clark, rip off your suit and save me already. i'm lost. love, lois
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Sep 29, 2014
Sep 29, 2014 at 1:18 PM UTC
cc: superman
PARNELL'S FUNERAL UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that is clear of cloud Brightness remains; a brighter star shoots down; What shudders run through all that animal blood? What is this sacrifice? Can someone there Recall the Cretan barb that pierced a star? Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through, A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow; A woman, and an arrow on a string; A pierced boy, image of a star laid low. That woman, the Great Mother imaging, Cut out his heart. Some master of design Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin. An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives. But popular rage, Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down. None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart. Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Bred out of the c-ontagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die. Leave nothing but the nothingS that belong To this bare soul, let all men judge that can Whether it be an animal or a man. The rest I pass, one sentence I unsay. Had de Valera eaten parnell's heart No loose-lipped demagogue had won the day. No civil rancour torn the land apart. Had Cosgrave eaten parnell's heart, the land's Imagination had been satisfied, Or lacking that, government in such hands. O'Higgins its sole statesman had not died. Had even O'Duffy -- but I name no more -- Their school a crowd, his master solitude; Through Jonathan Swift's clark grove he passed, and there plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.
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From A Full Moon In March
PARNELL'S FUNERAL UNDER the Great Comedian's tomb the crowd. A bundle of tempestuous cloud is blown About the sky; where that is clear of cloud Brightness remains; a brighter star shoots down; What shudders run through all that animal blood? What is this sacrifice? Can someone there Recall the Cretan barb that pierced a star? Rich foliage that the starlight glittered through, A frenzied crowd, and where the branches sprang A beautiful seated boy; a sacred bow; A woman, and an arrow on a string; A pierced boy, image of a star laid low. That woman, the Great Mother imaging, Cut out his heart. Some master of design Stamped boy and tree upon Sicilian coin. An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives. But popular rage, Hysterica passio dragged this quarry down. None shared our guilt; nor did we play a part Upon a painted stage when we devoured his heart. Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Bred out of the c-ontagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die. Leave nothing but the nothingS that belong To this bare soul, let all men judge that can Whether it be an animal or a man. The rest I pass, one sentence I unsay. Had de Valera eaten parnell's heart No loose-lipped demagogue had won the day. No civil rancour torn the land apart. Had Cosgrave eaten parnell's heart, the land's Imagination had been satisfied, Or lacking that, government in such hands. O'Higgins its sole statesman had not died. Had even O'Duffy -- but I name no more -- Their school a crowd, his master solitude; Through Jonathan Swift's clark grove he passed, and there plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.
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Instead of a red cape is a plain T-shirt and shorts, Accompanied by a smile that can make a heart fly; Beneath all this is my superman. He may not be unbeatable in all sports, But he doesn't even have to try. Because no matter what, I'm still his biggest fan. Laser eyes and X-ray vision, Or even eyes that could see the future; These are nothing, compared to his eyes. Just staring at them gives me satisfaction Than staring at any other picture. Because in his eyes, I can see that love lies. His hands aren't bullet-proof; They can't stop a crashing plane, Nor can they bend gold. But my reasons are way over the roof, That even through a hurricane, It's still his hands I want to hold. Super strength or super speed, The ability to fly or to travel through time; All of these, he has none. But there really is no need; I'd still write him poems that rhyme Because his power on me, will never be gone. So who cares if he really isn't a superhero? Kryptonian or not, Still, on Earth he was sent; Not to be everyone's superman, But to be my one and only hero. He's the best weapon I've got. Lois Lane may have her own Clark Kent, But I have my own superman.
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Jun 1, 2013
Jun 1, 2013 at 12:17 PM UTC
My Superman
I am a grounded explorer: I dream of travelling the stars, but alas there are few tickets to even Mars. I romanticize the explorers of yor, who roamed the oceans to explore. Oh to be with Captains Lewis and Clark, an expedition through the wilderness to embark! The maps are made and the earth is mapped; The Final Frontier is barely unwrapped. It is not a do-it-yourself sort of thing, I cannot just into space my body fling. To explore the unknown would yield such glee, But I console myself: at least the world's new to me.
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 6:03 PM UTC
The Grounded Explorer
This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll This song it ain't bout country things Like pickup trucks and cars You'll never find me writing About getting drunk in bars There's no mention here of Taylor Swift or The Charlie Daniels Band I wouldn't write of how the banks are taking our farmland This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I don't know **** 'bout Redneck stuff like hunting dogs and guns I wouldn't write of Daisy Dukes showing off some hot babes buns I won't write 'bout the Opry I don't know all that stuff Of Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones And Mr. Roy Acuff This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll There's nothing here 'bout Bourbon or of Racing through the fields I don't know much about farming or crop futures or of yields I listen to The Rolling Stones Trace Adkins I don't like Lady A can go away Kid Rock can ride his bike You won't hear much about Zac Browns Band or of food thats Chicken Fried I might go to a hoedown If I'd  just  up and died My music, it fulfills me It makes me who I am But I'll stay away from country songs, Cause I don't give a **** No Oak Ridge Boys or Hee Haw Here Hank Williams I won't buy I'll never buy a Dixie Beer It's a drink I'll never try I won't sing about Kentucky or of a Texas Yellow Rose you know this aint no country song Good god I hope it shows There's no mohter, dogs or applie pie no  fishin' in the dark No Everything is Beautiful No songs by Terry Clark I'm really open minded My friends they are the same We won't buy country music To us it's just so lame This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I won't mention stuff you'll find in songs by Nashville bands There's nothing here about watching football in the stands I'll never write a country song Cause country just ain't fun Oh crap I just read this thing And I think I just wrote one This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll
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May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012 at 10:33 AM UTC
This Ain't A ****** Country Song
This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll This song it ain't bout country things Like pickup trucks and cars You'll never find me writing About getting drunk in bars There's no mention here of Taylor Swift or The Charlie Daniels Band I wouldn't write of how the banks are taking our farmland This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I don't know **** 'bout Redneck stuff like hunting dogs and guns I wouldn't write of Daisy Dukes showing off some hot babes buns I won't write 'bout the Opry I don't know all that stuff Of Minnie Pearl and Grandpa Jones And Mr. Roy Acuff This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll There's nothing here 'bout Bourbon or of Racing through the fields I don't know much about farming or crop futures or of yields I listen to The Rolling Stones Trace Adkins I don't like Lady A can go away Kid Rock can ride his bike You won't hear much about Zac Browns Band or of food thats Chicken Fried I might go to a hoedown If I'd  just  up and died My music, it fulfills me It makes me who I am But I'll stay away from country songs, Cause I don't give a **** No Oak Ridge Boys or Hee Haw Here Hank Williams I won't buy I'll never buy a Dixie Beer It's a drink I'll never try I won't sing about Kentucky or of a Texas Yellow Rose you know this aint no country song Good god I hope it shows There's no mohter, dogs or applie pie no  fishin' in the dark No Everything is Beautiful No songs by Terry Clark I'm really open minded My friends they are the same We won't buy country music To us it's just so lame This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll I won't mention stuff you'll find in songs by Nashville bands There's nothing here about watching football in the stands I'll never write a country song Cause country just ain't fun Oh crap I just read this thing And I think I just wrote one This Ain't a ******* Country Song You know I love my Rock and Roll I wouldn't write a Country Song 'Cause that's not how I roll
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# * My mother lied to me today When I found out I had to say Oh Mother why’d you tell a lie and from me this thing try to hide? With a coy smile she looked at me and spoke in a voice so softly My dearest son it is my job to keep you safe, away from harm At times that may in fact include in order to hide or seclude the things in life you should not see because you’re simply not ready You may discover on your own Much later in life when you're grown But when you're underneath my wing Your one concern is just to sing Life’s worries I will take for you The stress and hurt I will shield too Life asks a lot and has its pains and slowly these things you’ll be trained But in due time; Have patience son Life's not a race, no need to run So take your time; stop and enjoy One day you will not be a boy Out in the world; learn on your own Keep with you all the things I've shown And piece by piece on each you'll build For you I wish a life fulfilled There is still much you need to learn I shield from you all the concerns It's somewhat understandable You might be slightly gullible Because you're simply not aware So many things from you I've spared Allowed you distance as you grew But always kept an eye on you I gave you room to let you fly To stretch your wings; explore the sky And you may not have seen me there but I did not just disappear No matter the heights you could reach I always had more I could teach So even though at times it seemed Untethered and were not a team Could not be further from the truth Clark Kent changing in a phone booth When needed became Superman If duty called I lent a hand Free range to fly all on your own Solve problems with the skills I've shown A carpenter; I gave the tools But up to you how you would use My hope that given in due time the skills you had would exceed mine And there you'd fly so high above As I look up; heart filled with love Amazing heights I know you'll reach This life we live is up to each of us deciding what to do And I'll always believe in you And just remember as you fly Wherever you go or how high; Into the world I've sent you off to learn life's lessons as their taught So when you look you might not see Think I have gone; Can not find me But whether up or down below I just want you to always know You are my son and I love you No limit to what you can do The distance might be further now But since your birth I kept this vow That you would be under my wing To keep you safe and watch you sing * #
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May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018 at 7:26 PM UTC
A Mother's Lie
# * My mother lied to me today When I found out I had to say Oh Mother why’d you tell a lie and from me this thing try to hide? With a coy smile she looked at me and spoke in a voice so softly My dearest son it is my job to keep you safe, away from harm At times that may in fact include in order to hide or seclude the things in life you should not see because you’re simply not ready You may discover on your own Much later in life when you're grown But when you're underneath my wing Your one concern is just to sing Life’s worries I will take for you The stress and hurt I will shield too Life asks a lot and has its pains and slowly these things you’ll be trained But in due time; Have patience son Life's not a race, no need to run So take your time; stop and enjoy One day you will not be a boy Out in the world; learn on your own Keep with you all the things I've shown And piece by piece on each you'll build For you I wish a life fulfilled There is still much you need to learn I shield from you all the concerns It's somewhat understandable You might be slightly gullible Because you're simply not aware So many things from you I've spared Allowed you distance as you grew But always kept an eye on you I gave you room to let you fly To stretch your wings; explore the sky And you may not have seen me there but I did not just disappear No matter the heights you could reach I always had more I could teach So even though at times it seemed Untethered and were not a team Could not be further from the truth Clark Kent changing in a phone booth When needed became Superman If duty called I lent a hand Free range to fly all on your own Solve problems with the skills I've shown A carpenter; I gave the tools But up to you how you would use My hope that given in due time the skills you had would exceed mine And there you'd fly so high above As I look up; heart filled with love Amazing heights I know you'll reach This life we live is up to each of us deciding what to do And I'll always believe in you And just remember as you fly Wherever you go or how high; Into the world I've sent you off to learn life's lessons as their taught So when you look you might not see Think I have gone; Can not find me But whether up or down below I just want you to always know You are my son and I love you No limit to what you can do The distance might be further now But since your birth I kept this vow That you would be under my wing To keep you safe and watch you sing * #
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She wears t-shirts of the Beatles And she loves the Rolling Stones She wakes up to David Bowie And she dreams of the Ramones She goes out to dance clubs nightly Till her ear drums both get blown But, she has a deep dark secret That her friends will never know At night when she is by herself When the room is nice and dark She slips beneath the covers With Johann Sebastian Bach She's a closet classic ****** And her name is Amber Clark She just loves orchestral music The rock and roll is just a lark Her friends think something classical Is something for your folks They cannot play an instrument They cannot read the notes They think that  chamber music is What people play on boats But she has a deep dark secret She loves the stuff that Chopin wrote At night when she is by herself And her friends have gotten ****** She slips beneath the covers And she listens to some Liszt She listens to it many times In case there's things she's missed She's a closet classic ****** She has "Baroque" upon her wrist She listens to the music That her friends like to be cool If she told them what she listens to They'd laugh her out of school So, when they go out  clubbing She will join them as a rule But...ah that deep dark secret This girl is no ones fool She listens to Beethoven And she knows each piece by heart She knows where one bar ends And another one will start She can play most every instrument And she knows most every part She's a classic closet ****** But she still knows Boyce and Hart She has cds in her library And most sit there untouched When her friends are gone they don't get played She doesn't like them much She would rather hear a symphony By a composter who was Dutch But there's that deep dark secret And she won't use it a crutch At night when she is warm in bed She listens to Mozart She needs a little Nacht Musique To open up her heart It's a piece that sets her mind a blaze It hits her like a dart She's a closet classic ****** And she keeps her worlds apart By day she sings Bruce Springsteen At night she listens to Composers that her friends don't know They're so old they're new So she keeps her world a secret For she knows what they would do If they found she didn't know Where were you in sixty two But at night she is a ****** And she listens to Mozart She needs that piece of music To shoot an arrow through her heart Eine Kleine Nachmusic She conducts every part She's our Closet Classic ****** shhh.....the song's about to start...
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May 4, 2012
May 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM UTC
Closet Classic ****** - (The Street - poem 4)
She wears t-shirts of the Beatles And she loves the Rolling Stones She wakes up to David Bowie And she dreams of the Ramones She goes out to dance clubs nightly Till her ear drums both get blown But, she has a deep dark secret That her friends will never know At night when she is by herself When the room is nice and dark She slips beneath the covers With Johann Sebastian Bach She's a closet classic ****** And her name is Amber Clark She just loves orchestral music The rock and roll is just a lark Her friends think something classical Is something for your folks They cannot play an instrument They cannot read the notes They think that  chamber music is What people play on boats But she has a deep dark secret She loves the stuff that Chopin wrote At night when she is by herself And her friends have gotten ****** She slips beneath the covers And she listens to some Liszt She listens to it many times In case there's things she's missed She's a closet classic ****** She has "Baroque" upon her wrist She listens to the music That her friends like to be cool If she told them what she listens to They'd laugh her out of school So, when they go out  clubbing She will join them as a rule But...ah that deep dark secret This girl is no ones fool She listens to Beethoven And she knows each piece by heart She knows where one bar ends And another one will start She can play most every instrument And she knows most every part She's a classic closet ****** But she still knows Boyce and Hart She has cds in her library And most sit there untouched When her friends are gone they don't get played She doesn't like them much She would rather hear a symphony By a composter who was Dutch But there's that deep dark secret And she won't use it a crutch At night when she is warm in bed She listens to Mozart She needs a little Nacht Musique To open up her heart It's a piece that sets her mind a blaze It hits her like a dart She's a closet classic ****** And she keeps her worlds apart By day she sings Bruce Springsteen At night she listens to Composers that her friends don't know They're so old they're new So she keeps her world a secret For she knows what they would do If they found she didn't know Where were you in sixty two But at night she is a ****** And she listens to Mozart She needs that piece of music To shoot an arrow through her heart Eine Kleine Nachmusic She conducts every part She's our Closet Classic ****** shhh.....the song's about to start...
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The gentle drawl of Guy Clark's voice beckoned me from sleep, saying that when his father died he'd found no tear to weep. It wasn't that his dad was mean, nor that he didn't try, Guy couldn't find a worthy tear-- he wasn't yet ready to cry. The blade was broken off the knife a half inch from the tip. He could almost feel its  jagged edge, recalling that camping trip His dad had let him take the knife to a Boy Scout Jamboree it was there he broke the blade tip off throwing at a tree That knife had served at daddy's side when he went off to war, saving his life in combat. Of that he'd say  no more. His father never said a word-- put the broken knife away. It rested in a dresser drawer until his dying day. It was only when Guy's hand had found and closed around the handle that he knew, amid the sudden tears Dad had loved him more than Randall.
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Jan 7, 2018
Jan 7, 2018 at 9:57 AM UTC
The Randall Knife
(for John and Teckla Clark) Ours yet not ours, being set apart As a shrine to friendship, Empty and silent most of the year, This room awaits from you What you alone, as visitor, can bring, A weekend of personal life. In a house backed by orderly woods, Facing a tractored sugar-beet country, Your working hosts engaged to their stint, You are unlike to encounter Dragons or romance: were drama a craving, You would not have come. Books we do have for almost any Literate mood, and notepaper, envelopes, For a writing one (to "borrow" stamps Is the mark of ill-breeding): Between lunch and tea, perhaps a drive; After dinner, music or gossip. Should you have troubles (pets will die Lovers are always behaving badly) And confession helps, we will hear it, Examine and give our counsel: If to mention them hurts too much, We shall not be nosey. Easy at first, the language of friendship Is, as we soon discover, Very difficult to speak well, a tongue With no cognates, no resemblance To the galimatias of nursery and bedroom, Court rhyme or shepherd's prose, And, unless spoken often, soon goes rusty. Distance and duties divide us, But absence will not seem an evil If it make our re-meeting A real occasion. Come when you can: Your room will be ready. In Tum-Tum's reign a tin of biscuits On the bedside table provided For nocturnal munching. Now weapons have changed, And the fashion of appetites: There, for sunbathers who count their calories, A bottle of mineral water. Felicissima notte! May you fall at once Into a cordial dream, assured That whoever slept in this bed before Was also someone we like, That within the circle of our affection Also you have no double.
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For Friends Only
(for John and Teckla Clark) Ours yet not ours, being set apart As a shrine to friendship, Empty and silent most of the year, This room awaits from you What you alone, as visitor, can bring, A weekend of personal life. In a house backed by orderly woods, Facing a tractored sugar-beet country, Your working hosts engaged to their stint, You are unlike to encounter Dragons or romance: were drama a craving, You would not have come. Books we do have for almost any Literate mood, and notepaper, envelopes, For a writing one (to "borrow" stamps Is the mark of ill-breeding): Between lunch and tea, perhaps a drive; After dinner, music or gossip. Should you have troubles (pets will die Lovers are always behaving badly) And confession helps, we will hear it, Examine and give our counsel: If to mention them hurts too much, We shall not be nosey. Easy at first, the language of friendship Is, as we soon discover, Very difficult to speak well, a tongue With no cognates, no resemblance To the galimatias of nursery and bedroom, Court rhyme or shepherd's prose, And, unless spoken often, soon goes rusty. Distance and duties divide us, But absence will not seem an evil If it make our re-meeting A real occasion. Come when you can: Your room will be ready. In Tum-Tum's reign a tin of biscuits On the bedside table provided For nocturnal munching. Now weapons have changed, And the fashion of appetites: There, for sunbathers who count their calories, A bottle of mineral water. Felicissima notte! May you fall at once Into a cordial dream, assured That whoever slept in this bed before Was also someone we like, That within the circle of our affection Also you have no double.
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homage to Wallace Stevens I - My Focus pistoned up the rise       and all at once, the Rockies -             silhouettes against the western skies. II - On the road to Boulder       a pleated ridge crawls north             like a blue whale bound for the open sea. III -  Appalachia's intoxicating verdure       never fails to induce in us             a certain mellowing of the spirit. IV - You 'conquered' my North Face, did you?       Why, I should skewer your arrogant ***             like a holiday lamb culled for the sacrifice. V - Lewis and Clark looked west       surveying the Bitterroots' frigid expanse.             Farewell Northwest Passage!   VI - Pueblos stranded on Enchanted Mesa -       their rock stairs crumbled to the valley floor.             Should they dive to their death or starve? VII –Touristas at Big Bend Park       wonder at its pastel window -             its romantic haze a toxic gift       from stacks across the Rio Grande. VIII – The once mighty Ozarks humbled by age,                 dwarfed by the youthful Rockies.             Listen up, youngsters, your time will come! IX – We de-bussed to seize the dolomites       with our hyper-kinetic shutters.             Pausing for a draught of Italian air,       I felt the whack of an Alpine snowball. X - Before Oregon's crater had its lake,       the mountain scorched the village below.             Today its azure waters preach only serenity. XI – Looking down from Shissler peak       to the golden meadow below             where the elk herd calmly grazes. XII – Do mists veil the Blue Ridge Mountains       or are there really no mountains at all -             only clouds decked out in mountain attire? XIII – They say that peaks more steep than Everest       soar up from the ocean floor.             Who will scale their sunken heights? May 28,  2010 – Boulder Colorado
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Mar 19, 2014
Mar 19, 2014 at 12:18 AM UTC
13 Ways of Looking at the Mountains
homage to Wallace Stevens I - My Focus pistoned up the rise       and all at once, the Rockies -             silhouettes against the western skies. II - On the road to Boulder       a pleated ridge crawls north             like a blue whale bound for the open sea. III -  Appalachia's intoxicating verdure       never fails to induce in us             a certain mellowing of the spirit. IV - You 'conquered' my North Face, did you?       Why, I should skewer your arrogant ***             like a holiday lamb culled for the sacrifice. V - Lewis and Clark looked west       surveying the Bitterroots' frigid expanse.             Farewell Northwest Passage!   VI - Pueblos stranded on Enchanted Mesa -       their rock stairs crumbled to the valley floor.             Should they dive to their death or starve? VII –Touristas at Big Bend Park       wonder at its pastel window -             its romantic haze a toxic gift       from stacks across the Rio Grande. VIII – The once mighty Ozarks humbled by age,                 dwarfed by the youthful Rockies.             Listen up, youngsters, your time will come! IX – We de-bussed to seize the dolomites       with our hyper-kinetic shutters.             Pausing for a draught of Italian air,       I felt the whack of an Alpine snowball. X - Before Oregon's crater had its lake,       the mountain scorched the village below.             Today its azure waters preach only serenity. XI – Looking down from Shissler peak       to the golden meadow below             where the elk herd calmly grazes. XII – Do mists veil the Blue Ridge Mountains       or are there really no mountains at all -             only clouds decked out in mountain attire? XIII – They say that peaks more steep than Everest       soar up from the ocean floor.             Who will scale their sunken heights? May 28,  2010 – Boulder Colorado
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When I say hero you look for Superman Flying through Metropolis or Batman slinking through Gotham’s shadows. And when I say heroine You can think only of needles Poking through skin like the shell of a beetle. When I say hero Everyone looks skyward for capes and spandex Or a symbol lighting up the clouds. But Clark Bruce and Peter can’t save you from yourself. These suit-clad saviors are fantasies. Fairytales put before us so we can have something to believe in when the ordinary people fail us. I have seen people around me, people I love, crumble like weakened plaster. And I have met people who were already lying in a pile of dust and debris at my feet. I’ve seen them **** asbestos into their lungs and draw tic tac toe on their arms in crimson I have seen someone become their own villain! But I have seen these people get up again, Pick up the pieces of their glass hearts, And glue them back together for the sake of their sanity. I have seen villains become heroes. These heroes, MY heroes are the ones with the scars on their wrists but no tags on their toes, the ones that heave into the porcelain bowl but still try to eat each day. These are my heroes. My heroes are the parents raising kids and battling demons old and new, the abuse victims who got out, or are stuck but still fighting. These…these are my heroes. Broken survivors, living despite everything that keeps them from wanting to, Despite all their scars and battle wounds they are alive and they are trying. The ones who are not saving others but saving themselves. These are heroes. Some people look down on the wounded, the broken, and the insecure like they were the cause of their own problems and refused the simple solutions of **** it up” and “get over it” because they were too lazy to get better. Don’t you dare tell me that they don’t want to fix this, That they don’t wake up each morning and wish With every fiber of their being that they could look into a mirror And finally, finally, love what they see. Don’t tell me that these people aren’t strong Because they go to bed each night with eyes red and raw from crying And they wake up with bags under their eyes but they. Keep. Going. **** your superheroes.
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Apr 2, 2013
Apr 2, 2013 at 8:32 AM UTC
Heroes
When I say hero you look for Superman Flying through Metropolis or Batman slinking through Gotham’s shadows. And when I say heroine You can think only of needles Poking through skin like the shell of a beetle. When I say hero Everyone looks skyward for capes and spandex Or a symbol lighting up the clouds. But Clark Bruce and Peter can’t save you from yourself. These suit-clad saviors are fantasies. Fairytales put before us so we can have something to believe in when the ordinary people fail us. I have seen people around me, people I love, crumble like weakened plaster. And I have met people who were already lying in a pile of dust and debris at my feet. I’ve seen them **** asbestos into their lungs and draw tic tac toe on their arms in crimson I have seen someone become their own villain! But I have seen these people get up again, Pick up the pieces of their glass hearts, And glue them back together for the sake of their sanity. I have seen villains become heroes. These heroes, MY heroes are the ones with the scars on their wrists but no tags on their toes, the ones that heave into the porcelain bowl but still try to eat each day. These are my heroes. My heroes are the parents raising kids and battling demons old and new, the abuse victims who got out, or are stuck but still fighting. These…these are my heroes. Broken survivors, living despite everything that keeps them from wanting to, Despite all their scars and battle wounds they are alive and they are trying. The ones who are not saving others but saving themselves. These are heroes. Some people look down on the wounded, the broken, and the insecure like they were the cause of their own problems and refused the simple solutions of **** it up” and “get over it” because they were too lazy to get better. Don’t you dare tell me that they don’t want to fix this, That they don’t wake up each morning and wish With every fiber of their being that they could look into a mirror And finally, finally, love what they see. Don’t tell me that these people aren’t strong Because they go to bed each night with eyes red and raw from crying And they wake up with bags under their eyes but they. Keep. Going. **** your superheroes.
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Don't be scared to sneeze in MATH105 Blow these numbers off the page, so I can finally have an excuse to Blow off some time with you I want to memorize what that sneeze sounds like, unique to the individual Each sound varies upon sneezers voice, allergies, voice box, larynx, even personality If that's all true, I bet even you, sneeze as **** as a mother ****** The only thing that I want more wet and slimey than the inside of your elbow, Is the way we make love "Oh baby, that's it! Sneeze for me! Sneeze harder! Sneezed like you've never sneezed for a man before and then sneeze harder!" Don't EVER hold a sneeze back! You're not only killing brain cells But killing me as well! I want to see what kind of tornados you can throw when a dust storm gets at you What demons are you hiding, not letting Christ expel Don't be ashamed! Are you scared that just you're sneeze Will create tsunami waves of attention If so! I'm buying a front row ticket wearing nothing but arm floaties and a rain coat If you get sick, kiss me with your breathe And well get over this cold- feet together I want to know your sneeze so when we Are cooking dinner, you can be half way through inhale And I'll have a tissue and the words "Bless you" Already trotting outta my mouth I want to be the blessed one To be within hearing distance Be able to bless you back See you come outta your shell for .237 seconds There to catch the science of your anatomy jumping off the cliff of your nose I want to be in the bookstore, Reading super hero graphic novels And hear you in your boredom two floors up at Starbucks, sneeze, And be able to say "YES! THATS MY MAN!!" You hear that one Peter Parker? Try to dodge your spidey-sense around that one! That's a sneeze that'd make the phone booth go inside Clark Kent! We'll have two kids, named Gesundheit and Salud The cat's name will be Ah-Choo Unless you're allergic to cats Then scratch the kids, we'll have A cat zoo! So I can hear the symphony Of your nostrils on the daily If you think this poem is gross Wait tell you see the way I sneeze When I'm thinking of you
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Mar 19, 2014
Mar 19, 2014 at 5:02 PM UTC
for the cute boy who holds back his sneezes
Don't be scared to sneeze in MATH105 Blow these numbers off the page, so I can finally have an excuse to Blow off some time with you I want to memorize what that sneeze sounds like, unique to the individual Each sound varies upon sneezers voice, allergies, voice box, larynx, even personality If that's all true, I bet even you, sneeze as **** as a mother ****** The only thing that I want more wet and slimey than the inside of your elbow, Is the way we make love "Oh baby, that's it! Sneeze for me! Sneeze harder! Sneezed like you've never sneezed for a man before and then sneeze harder!" Don't EVER hold a sneeze back! You're not only killing brain cells But killing me as well! I want to see what kind of tornados you can throw when a dust storm gets at you What demons are you hiding, not letting Christ expel Don't be ashamed! Are you scared that just you're sneeze Will create tsunami waves of attention If so! I'm buying a front row ticket wearing nothing but arm floaties and a rain coat If you get sick, kiss me with your breathe And well get over this cold- feet together I want to know your sneeze so when we Are cooking dinner, you can be half way through inhale And I'll have a tissue and the words "Bless you" Already trotting outta my mouth I want to be the blessed one To be within hearing distance Be able to bless you back See you come outta your shell for .237 seconds There to catch the science of your anatomy jumping off the cliff of your nose I want to be in the bookstore, Reading super hero graphic novels And hear you in your boredom two floors up at Starbucks, sneeze, And be able to say "YES! THATS MY MAN!!" You hear that one Peter Parker? Try to dodge your spidey-sense around that one! That's a sneeze that'd make the phone booth go inside Clark Kent! We'll have two kids, named Gesundheit and Salud The cat's name will be Ah-Choo Unless you're allergic to cats Then scratch the kids, we'll have A cat zoo! So I can hear the symphony Of your nostrils on the daily If you think this poem is gross Wait tell you see the way I sneeze When I'm thinking of you
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Put on the old LPs tonight, Alex, from a time long before you were born. Top of the queue was Petula Clark belting out Don't Give Up, defiant as an alley cat in a street fight. Remembered how in her heyday, she'd been forced to conceal the fact that she was married --- all performers being mysteriously virginal in those days. Thoughts segue several years to my time in the service and a female lieutenant who was my OIC. Served a 20 year career, but never knew a finer officer. She realized leadership was saying the things that made you want to follow. Just after making captain, due to pregnancy, she was forced to terminate her service career. Today, women routinely travel in space, perform extreme surgeries, design skyscrappers; one just might become president. And somewhere in the tenements of NYC a young poet spins metaphor straight from the streets and the cosmos, constructing a world in lines we'd all wish to enter.
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Jul 6, 2012
Jul 6, 2012 at 2:22 AM UTC
Don't Give Up --- A Poem for Alexandra
I just want to feel closure I want her to close the gap that separates us from getting closer But there’s canyons of trust issues that become the biggest issue we face Echoes from past relations along with your unfaithful accusations which leaves us in this abundance of confrontation But I only wanted to feel closure I just wanted her to come closer I'm not trying to fast forward time it’s just life is short so I'm sitting here just trying to pray and debate these feelings Because I ****** up and caught feelings for her It was her eyes that caught my eye The first night she laid her head on my chest and cried because yet another guy got into her mind Now I’m sitting here with your head on my chest My shirt drench with a mixture of her sweet aroma and tears realizing I'm just the guy she runs to when some other man runs from her Thinking maybe it’s my status Maybe the latitude of my reputation doesn't meet the longitude of her popularity which is why the coordinates of us being together cannot be found on this map of love But I guess I'm just not high enough to fly with your social standards It seems like she can't really grasp the thought of a good man She just wants to exhale the good feelings and inhale the countless amount of pain and strain from ******* guys as her lungs become black holes due to the many hoes she's been replaced by But if he cheated on his previous boo with you then who the hell said you wouldn't be victim number two? See I was a little too late Fate wasn't on my side as I was in a race not even knowing it and I lost because I tried to be a gentlemen and give her something she wasn’t used to but she refused me as she returned to what she was used to She just wasn't used to me But she always said she was waiting on her Superman not realizing she’s been passing up Clark Kent every day And I wasn't going to contemplate with the thought that I should change my ways just to get her Because I know that even if I get her I'll already be tired of her because I've used all my energy just to get her Running Boston marathons and getting bombed by my competition just for her attention I was tired of hearing your voice miles away I wanted it to come closer and reveal your tender exposure I just wanted your closure I wanted your presence closer I had your friendship now I just wanted to feel the whole experience I was tired of your friend zone I was tired of working your part time position I was tired of only feeling closure from you when you needed someone to be close to you It wasn't even me you wanted you only thirsted for the essence of a human touch It’s like you used me But on some real **** I really just wanted some real **** I just wanted some closure I wanted to feel her closer I wanted her mind body and soul to come closer to me
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 11:32 PM UTC
Closure (Come Closer)
I just want to feel closure I want her to close the gap that separates us from getting closer But there’s canyons of trust issues that become the biggest issue we face Echoes from past relations along with your unfaithful accusations which leaves us in this abundance of confrontation But I only wanted to feel closure I just wanted her to come closer I'm not trying to fast forward time it’s just life is short so I'm sitting here just trying to pray and debate these feelings Because I ****** up and caught feelings for her It was her eyes that caught my eye The first night she laid her head on my chest and cried because yet another guy got into her mind Now I’m sitting here with your head on my chest My shirt drench with a mixture of her sweet aroma and tears realizing I'm just the guy she runs to when some other man runs from her Thinking maybe it’s my status Maybe the latitude of my reputation doesn't meet the longitude of her popularity which is why the coordinates of us being together cannot be found on this map of love But I guess I'm just not high enough to fly with your social standards It seems like she can't really grasp the thought of a good man She just wants to exhale the good feelings and inhale the countless amount of pain and strain from ******* guys as her lungs become black holes due to the many hoes she's been replaced by But if he cheated on his previous boo with you then who the hell said you wouldn't be victim number two? See I was a little too late Fate wasn't on my side as I was in a race not even knowing it and I lost because I tried to be a gentlemen and give her something she wasn’t used to but she refused me as she returned to what she was used to She just wasn't used to me But she always said she was waiting on her Superman not realizing she’s been passing up Clark Kent every day And I wasn't going to contemplate with the thought that I should change my ways just to get her Because I know that even if I get her I'll already be tired of her because I've used all my energy just to get her Running Boston marathons and getting bombed by my competition just for her attention I was tired of hearing your voice miles away I wanted it to come closer and reveal your tender exposure I just wanted your closure I wanted your presence closer I had your friendship now I just wanted to feel the whole experience I was tired of your friend zone I was tired of working your part time position I was tired of only feeling closure from you when you needed someone to be close to you It wasn't even me you wanted you only thirsted for the essence of a human touch It’s like you used me But on some real **** I really just wanted some real **** I just wanted some closure I wanted to feel her closer I wanted her mind body and soul to come closer to me
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So, our hero of tha day waz DJ Herc   He b driven’ lil Mizz Dazze ‘round, in a pimped out Merc   Queensbridge waz tha birthplace of Hip-Hop   Red alert, it just won’t stop   It will hurt uz a bit   No more than a **** wid a hit   Wee all thank Merc 4 puttin’ on dat show   Smokin’ sum **** n angel dust, wid sum real blow     A bro named, Coke LA Rock, waz also a financier friend of mine   Handin’ out goodies 2 tha children in-line, all tha time   Nickel bag half n ounce, quarter pound pow, now wee poppin’   Az long az tha music izn’t stoppin’ and tha rocks r still droppin’   If champagne waz still a flowin’, then tha freaks wood b steppin’ in line   Hotel, Motel, u don’t tell, wee don’t tell, one-time root 9   There’s notta man dat can’t b thrown, a horse dat can’t b rode   A bull dat can’t b stopped, a disco dat can’t b rocked, can u decode     Were u @ dat famous house party, thee dope   Spinnin’ tha holy crates of hip-hop, wee hope   A1 B-boy from every known neighborhood, wid a scent   From JC, Tony D’, Sweet n Sour, 2 super DJ ‘Fcukin’ Clark Kent   Sellin’ nickel bags of cannabis, 2 miss layD hoes to mi crew   Made mi coin roll into notes, helping outta few dat I knew   Hip-Hop waz made 4 peace, love, unity n fun   Still b countin’ mi riches, retired n still layin’ in tha hot sun
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Apr 8, 2020
Apr 8, 2020 at 1:50 AM UTC
Peace, Love, Unity n Fun
Going left a smile green* bluesy* drift___ Getting out of debt The heartedly so flowery rosy ring around Gifted box Valentine Rosy I box heads over puppy tails cozy firey Love diary doing the Cutesy Bow Wow parade Those red hot lips cascades she's... the... lie... The hue (Anchor- Blue) Gotcha  "Eyes Baby blue Clue" To cross my red heart And hope not to die The Lady's finger (Godiva)   I-spy finger* Heartless Diva The fork of the road Lies of the dead ringer He points his finger Face to two face facelift? Boom-Boom___ a car crash just a dash Her beats and hearts What a crush to her     ___left Tell me sweet lies          I box gift Oh! Yes you're___ right Like the scoundrel The damsel in distress sweet morsel I sir box like spots spread Like the (Chickenpox) Hearing lies tons of squirrels Like Botox Plastic Rascals I-box ties Hallmark, I love you lies Superman Clark Outfoxed the ballpark Little lies blue big shark Smartphone I Sir bark Red Valentine love walk People are the luckiest       I- wish Close your eyes sweet lies Sweet I-Box in Trio CEO Watching "TV FIO"   Podcast little lies turn into big lies Ballot Political list Romantic cutout card lies Tell me, Little Lies he trips Electric lips music chair Open eyes full shut lips
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Feb 12, 2019
Feb 12, 2019 at 8:35 AM UTC
Lies I Sir Box
A thriving port A declining port A potential port Cliches A dockland A wasteland A stones throw From my home A docker A carter A clark No vacancy USA EEC A History Our dockland A grain store A butter mountain A starving world An unused fountain A dock village A flower show No work for A dockland copyright/all rights reserved Joe Fogg 2011
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Jul 27, 2011
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:26 AM UTC
Dockland
What are they to do with their hands if they no longer care? if they would rather take an iPad over fresh air? If it’s auto-correct teaching them how to spell words? when raising your child: is Nicki Minaj doing a better job? It’s because they now live in that neon-green X-Box glow blasting strangers from all walks of life online playing Halo. While Smokey the Bear goes around lighting matches there are no more sandwiches left in our pic-a-nic baskets. It’s the Kids! Because the only toboggan they go through is YouTube because there are no such things as books in Facebook. Because it’s behind a shiny screen their ingenuity goes to waste because it’s the equivalent of dropping Simba on his face. So lets just Skype instead of meeting up and going for a walk! 140 characters or less to dictate the way we communicate and talk! Because Clark Kent is not Superman unless his Twitter feed is verified and behind close doors there's no room to grow a child’s mind.
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 1:45 PM UTC
The Kids!