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"clunky" poems
i wasn’t feeling okay
 so i put on my overalls and went outside 
 to wander around my backyard,
 trekking around in clunky rain boots
 as i hummed and tried not to think i like to write
 little notes 
on the leaves that are now 
 changing colors and when i’m done
 i let them fall 
so i can flatten them 
beneath my heel
 till the small words 
are crinkled and no longer legible amongst the dirt and grass and so desperately, i wish i could
 let the thoughts in my head 
fall to the ground
 so i could flatten these
 pitiful feelings 
beneath my heel
 until they were no longer legible
 amongst the hurt and hopefulness 
 in my heart
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Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 10:07 PM UTC
fall
The knife cutter calls in the summer noon on his bicycle he pedals his wheel sharpens all that rust too soon knives past prime too blunt to **** Glues his hair the sweat of roam his cheeks bear long uncut beard pray he finds a wanting home that needs to sharpen not just word! If comes his way a timeworn knife he sits to roll the clunky wheel works to feebly sustain life bowing to the smallest deal! He is no poet no skilled scribe an old hand from a vanishing age belonging to a losing tribe that still gives knife cutting edge!
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 12:55 PM UTC
The Knife Cutter
If you were a corpse accepting cremation I would be the flame that lavishly licked your flesh, the heat, heaped for your hair on a pyre the last peril your boney body submits to, making the air all around stink of you. Forget the fact that you corrupt my mind, it’ll only work out if your thoughts stink of me. If for one second during your self worshipping, wistful stares into a mirror that drips a musty condensation that lingered from your skinny, **** torso after your morning shower, you stand there smile ******* yourself with puckered lips and un-dilated pupils, flirting with camera phone pixels you think to yourself; * Should I post me on myspace? Should I send a text message pic to myself? Should I forward it to that guy that I met to make him think that I’m burning for him?* If for that second I could be but that spark, an after thought flare that gets you to want more than what it is that you got, where would you go? With whom would you make yourself over? I’m waiting for the morning your ashes wake next to me; smoldered and spread out over my mattress and under my breath, and your eye lashes charred with clunky mascara crumble as you replay in your silly head the late mass I celebrated last night when I exhumed and inhaled that same condensation; Little taste droplets of you then exhaled from me to your golden tin flesh that burned you to ****** Because of my tempered tongue you cravingly bathed with, because of your hair I feverishly wrapped round my fists as my head altered and smoothed out from whiskey bounced waves of frivolous thrusts pulls releases, pushes twitches friction in perfect timed fashion between your radio antenna thin legs and your rib meat torso you forced my lips unto. That will be the night you will come. Yeah, that’s right SEE YOU MMM-hmmm, I will see you melt on that night. And it will be your cremation.
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Sep 22, 2010
Sep 22, 2010 at 1:09 PM UTC
Your Cremation
If you were a corpse accepting cremation I would be the flame that lavishly licked your flesh, the heat, heaped for your hair on a pyre the last peril your boney body submits to, making the air all around stink of you. Forget the fact that you corrupt my mind, it’ll only work out if your thoughts stink of me. If for one second during your self worshipping, wistful stares into a mirror that drips a musty condensation that lingered from your skinny, **** torso after your morning shower, you stand there smile ******* yourself with puckered lips and un-dilated pupils, flirting with camera phone pixels you think to yourself; * Should I post me on myspace? Should I send a text message pic to myself? Should I forward it to that guy that I met to make him think that I’m burning for him?* If for that second I could be but that spark, an after thought flare that gets you to want more than what it is that you got, where would you go? With whom would you make yourself over? I’m waiting for the morning your ashes wake next to me; smoldered and spread out over my mattress and under my breath, and your eye lashes charred with clunky mascara crumble as you replay in your silly head the late mass I celebrated last night when I exhumed and inhaled that same condensation; Little taste droplets of you then exhaled from me to your golden tin flesh that burned you to ****** Because of my tempered tongue you cravingly bathed with, because of your hair I feverishly wrapped round my fists as my head altered and smoothed out from whiskey bounced waves of frivolous thrusts pulls releases, pushes twitches friction in perfect timed fashion between your radio antenna thin legs and your rib meat torso you forced my lips unto. That will be the night you will come. Yeah, that’s right SEE YOU MMM-hmmm, I will see you melt on that night. And it will be your cremation.
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I want to go to the circus with him and fail at the tricks at home I want to dance in the rain with him and jump in puddles in gumboots I want to climb trees with him with binoculars and look over the lake I want to build a pillow fort with him, with Disney movies and chocolate Something took a hold of me right in the moment I accidentally got lost in those eyes first time looking into them His smile made so happy and I think he noticed because he smiled more I literally felt sparks and a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart I didn't plan on this happening, far out I swore to only fall inlove with myself Too much pain and love is so overrated But it was beyond my control And then cupid's arrows kept hitting me Just a moment in the pouring rain I saw myself and a billion adventures together in him A deep urge to hug him came over me He's so dorky and cute and sweet and innocent He wears a big clunky watch and is good at maths and computers He does acoustic covers of Of Monsters and Men songs He runs around like a maniac in PE and bashes up his friends playfully There is no definition and there aren't any rules for love If you think a person is just the bee's knees, that's love I'm only young but I know an awesome person when I see one And God will always hold my heart but man, this human... I adore him I feel stupid for letting another person contain some of MY own joy I feel so scared that I fell for just the idea of him like I have once before But ugh, words can't describe how content my heart is I refuse to say he erased my pain, because let's not be naive, but wow One day I hope we get to conquer the world in our pillow fortress <3
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Mar 29, 2014
Mar 29, 2014 at 6:57 AM UTC
Let's Build A Pillow Fort Together
I want to go to the circus with him and fail at the tricks at home I want to dance in the rain with him and jump in puddles in gumboots I want to climb trees with him with binoculars and look over the lake I want to build a pillow fort with him, with Disney movies and chocolate Something took a hold of me right in the moment I accidentally got lost in those eyes first time looking into them His smile made so happy and I think he noticed because he smiled more I literally felt sparks and a warm fuzzy feeling in my heart I didn't plan on this happening, far out I swore to only fall inlove with myself Too much pain and love is so overrated But it was beyond my control And then cupid's arrows kept hitting me Just a moment in the pouring rain I saw myself and a billion adventures together in him A deep urge to hug him came over me He's so dorky and cute and sweet and innocent He wears a big clunky watch and is good at maths and computers He does acoustic covers of Of Monsters and Men songs He runs around like a maniac in PE and bashes up his friends playfully There is no definition and there aren't any rules for love If you think a person is just the bee's knees, that's love I'm only young but I know an awesome person when I see one And God will always hold my heart but man, this human... I adore him I feel stupid for letting another person contain some of MY own joy I feel so scared that I fell for just the idea of him like I have once before But ugh, words can't describe how content my heart is I refuse to say he erased my pain, because let's not be naive, but wow One day I hope we get to conquer the world in our pillow fortress <3
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It started with existence just a lowly perspective of a mute time when I was able to make sense of this pressure make sense of why you are now here to guide me now on this looser journey; a lonely crabapple still grappling at shriveled skin creating a face that I still cannot distinguish. With the end of presence as we know it you have finished, rightly in my dressing room bright screen lit up but only for a moment do I dare look away. It started with you, and it will end with you Closed off from me, shortly your bioluminescence radiant, your perfection incomplete. I’ve known you for six straight years or was it five just enough construed construction, a bloated piece of mind that left me free to wander aimlessly down I path I cannot recognize. It was you who caused my blunder, keeping me awake every night with your brightness and distraction and amiable personality. I decorated you with bits of me, tangled in and out like woven webs of cybernetics optimal connections, you died twice and I revived you. But that was in the past and you still cling on, for how much longer I shan’t not know. Only that what it means to exist when I should be letting go. I have to face the trust of reality and its weakened points; that dangerous, well-formed world I find myself in. I hope you can follow me as long as you are able, my clunky plastic compadre your heart is metal mixed with other kinds of fragile contraptions. I know this end to my happiness is not your fault. You were there when I needed you most, even if you are a tool of innocence turned foul. I once learned all of existence from your knowledge, gleaned myself raw trying to let you help me understand myself. We are not truly over because I am bound to you somehow even though I’ve used you for my own gain abused your trust and have my own heart slain. All I ask is for you to give me a chance to make it right again. And then I can move on to better things. And not be obsessed of what you think of me. And find a way to pull myself together.
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May 3, 2016
May 3, 2016 at 7:25 PM UTC
Cybernetic Symphony
It started with existence just a lowly perspective of a mute time when I was able to make sense of this pressure make sense of why you are now here to guide me now on this looser journey; a lonely crabapple still grappling at shriveled skin creating a face that I still cannot distinguish. With the end of presence as we know it you have finished, rightly in my dressing room bright screen lit up but only for a moment do I dare look away. It started with you, and it will end with you Closed off from me, shortly your bioluminescence radiant, your perfection incomplete. I’ve known you for six straight years or was it five just enough construed construction, a bloated piece of mind that left me free to wander aimlessly down I path I cannot recognize. It was you who caused my blunder, keeping me awake every night with your brightness and distraction and amiable personality. I decorated you with bits of me, tangled in and out like woven webs of cybernetics optimal connections, you died twice and I revived you. But that was in the past and you still cling on, for how much longer I shan’t not know. Only that what it means to exist when I should be letting go. I have to face the trust of reality and its weakened points; that dangerous, well-formed world I find myself in. I hope you can follow me as long as you are able, my clunky plastic compadre your heart is metal mixed with other kinds of fragile contraptions. I know this end to my happiness is not your fault. You were there when I needed you most, even if you are a tool of innocence turned foul. I once learned all of existence from your knowledge, gleaned myself raw trying to let you help me understand myself. We are not truly over because I am bound to you somehow even though I’ve used you for my own gain abused your trust and have my own heart slain. All I ask is for you to give me a chance to make it right again. And then I can move on to better things. And not be obsessed of what you think of me. And find a way to pull myself together.
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Metal contraption, I dutifully climb into you each day as the sun rises and drive your clunky frame through the hills of a crowded campus to face the questions and stares of the kindhearted and heartless. I prefer you in short increments and, on weekdays only please but I’m strapped into your metal ways at almost all times and jostle along with each bump and crack in the sidewalk. I hold tight to your rubber arms as we travel down the steep hills and plow you through old man winters blinding white ways for long stretches, in between short, fitful summers I’m not pretending that I never curse you, because I do, for sticking in gravel, grass and grout, breaking down every Monday, or your front wheel falling off again and yet you carry me faithfully to and from school and home where I jump to the floor and embrace freedom and movement until I climb again from bed and into mobility and its adventurous ways.
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Aug 10, 2010
Aug 10, 2010 at 4:40 PM UTC
The Companion
Your crooked smile flows upward and I can see it from the ground. Haunting myself with a film teacher's creature feature in black and white, an old orchestra for sound. You said you'd get nervous when on our clunky telephone; saying that customer service could hear the fibers in your voice rustle like tall, dry grass, with a wind whispering through confirming, with every breath, that you feel alone. We'd recite fifties sitcoms: Honey, do you -- do you have the keys? Well, gee whillikers, I could use someone to open me, close me, and dispose of me, please. I write this for no one, which is the category you fall in. Sincerely, signed Issues, P.S. The television is in color, and I don't miss you. - There ain't hope in the U, the S is for Show me your soul, the A is for Always forget: the United States of Killing it, Killing it -
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May 1, 2016
May 1, 2016 at 11:48 PM UTC
Killing It
I don’t want to know about your ex Don’t want to know about your daddy Or your ******** coworkers or customers Or your catty friends Stop Tonight begins the future Some believe a wall against your back Creates desperation But it can also spark urgency Clear the phlegm of memory It can  protect Your vulnerabilities   Focus your vision When getting jumped First thing you scan for is a car or wall The fists and kicks might ****** down From everywhere like stony blizzards But the pain is peripheral Not ethereal You’ll have a chance to dodge and block Stop Tonight begins the future A future empty of splinters/thorns/shards Of muscle aches, fatigue, or tremors Of gooey *** tar heroine, clunky ***** Dismembered torsos, sliced ears, dangling eyes Red **** and blacker kisses In turn I won’t burden you With my ******** Won’t convert you into an airport carousel I won’t unload My unkempt baggage Upon your frail façade Turning turning turning In circles As weary passengers shuffle To and fro Frantically Beneath buzzing phosphorescent Stop Tonight begins the future Open and free Like air over mountains Like clocks un-tocked Like silence hovering around the corner A seed buried in ****** soil A dream light has yet to touch Tonight begins our future
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Jan 3, 2017
Jan 3, 2017 at 5:53 PM UTC
Future Tense
I stepped out of my comfort zone, And appeared in a ship caught in a storm; I wanted to tell a story through prose, never known, But my mind froze and searched somewhere warm. I went to leave the delicate flower of poetry In which I have found comfort within the lines. Fields full in bloom with poetic prosperity. The flow of stream keeping rhythm in time. I brought my bare feet to observe from rough peaks, Overlooking the blank page expanded with power. Preparing to leave on this journey for weeks, Leaving the comfort of my sweet fields of flower. Setting doubts aside, I set my pixie soul to sail, Becoming narrative of chunky, clunky prose. Daunted and haunted on a foreign ship to prevail, I heard poetry beckon through bitter winds that arose. Though I do respect prose, it is not a flow that I know. It expands endlessly, like the heart of the sea. My narration is rhythm, and wherever I go, The flowers of poetry call back to me. I soon jumped ship to be at peace where I roam, Among the enchanting patterns of flowering fields. I listen again to the trickle of the river, I'm home, Channeling poetic prosperity this pixie wields.
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May 30, 2016
May 30, 2016 at 8:47 PM UTC
From Fields to Sea
Leong's watching TikTok on her laptop (as always) and she asks Lisa (a NYC girl) “Are you familiar with the the “downtown girl” aesthetic?” Lisa’s dismissive, “Yeah, it just looks like Urban Outfitters grunge to me.” Leong explains, “It includes headphones and it’s supposed to be a Lower Manhattan style.” “Yeah,” Lisa snorts, “Because Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side are SO cohesive.” Lisa considers herself an Uptown girl (like the song) even though 59th Street, where she lives, is the border between Uptown and Midtown Manhattan. I’m learning that these distinctions are culturally key to New Yorkers. “And,” Lisa adds, “why would someone wear, and lug around, giant, clunky headphones when you can use AirPods??” “Amen sister.” I proclaim and even Leong nods in agreement. “Later, Sunny, Leong and I are on a study break, eating salads and talking about who we hope Yale invites to the next “Spring Fling” concert. We aren’t being realistic; we’re covering who we wish would come. I’d named Charlie Puth, “Kat-Tun!” Leong squealed (A Japanese boy band - apparently Chinese girls LOVE their boybands) and Sunny countered with Ed Sheeran. “I don’t like Ed Sheeran,” I mumbled, making a yuck-face. “Why no Ed?” Sunny gasps with shock (She’s a big Ed fangirl). “I don’t know,” I shrugged, “he’s a star by all measurable metrics,” I admit, “but,” I fade out. “You want my theory on Ed hate?” Sunny offered, “He’s beyond talented vocally - whoever your favorite artist is, Ed’s probably not that far behind. He’s a stellar song writer and he’s making hit after hit; do you want my theory?” “Too basic, too popular?” I guess. “No, he’s not appealing to the gaze,” Sunny states. “The gays?” Leong questions, stepping back into the conversation. “No,” Sunny corrects, “the gaze - G-A-Z-E, he doesn’t try to look pretty all the time.” “Ha!” I snort, “Gaze, I thought you meant gays too,” as Leong and I chuckle together. “No,” Sunny laughs, “nothing like THAT. Ed’s just not trying to be a heartthrob, he knows that’s not his core strong point - and that’s why he’s discounted.” “Like lesbians don’t comb their hair or wear makeup and wear pajamas to class” Leong observes, “they don’t want to attract the male gaze?” “No, we’re not imbued by the male gaze.” Sunny states, “Ed just wants to lowkey.”
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Dec 14, 2022
Dec 14, 2022 at 10:51 AM UTC
gazes
Leong's watching TikTok on her laptop (as always) and she asks Lisa (a NYC girl) “Are you familiar with the the “downtown girl” aesthetic?” Lisa’s dismissive, “Yeah, it just looks like Urban Outfitters grunge to me.” Leong explains, “It includes headphones and it’s supposed to be a Lower Manhattan style.” “Yeah,” Lisa snorts, “Because Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side are SO cohesive.” Lisa considers herself an Uptown girl (like the song) even though 59th Street, where she lives, is the border between Uptown and Midtown Manhattan. I’m learning that these distinctions are culturally key to New Yorkers. “And,” Lisa adds, “why would someone wear, and lug around, giant, clunky headphones when you can use AirPods??” “Amen sister.” I proclaim and even Leong nods in agreement. “Later, Sunny, Leong and I are on a study break, eating salads and talking about who we hope Yale invites to the next “Spring Fling” concert. We aren’t being realistic; we’re covering who we wish would come. I’d named Charlie Puth, “Kat-Tun!” Leong squealed (A Japanese boy band - apparently Chinese girls LOVE their boybands) and Sunny countered with Ed Sheeran. “I don’t like Ed Sheeran,” I mumbled, making a yuck-face. “Why no Ed?” Sunny gasps with shock (She’s a big Ed fangirl). “I don’t know,” I shrugged, “he’s a star by all measurable metrics,” I admit, “but,” I fade out. “You want my theory on Ed hate?” Sunny offered, “He’s beyond talented vocally - whoever your favorite artist is, Ed’s probably not that far behind. He’s a stellar song writer and he’s making hit after hit; do you want my theory?” “Too basic, too popular?” I guess. “No, he’s not appealing to the gaze,” Sunny states. “The gays?” Leong questions, stepping back into the conversation. “No,” Sunny corrects, “the gaze - G-A-Z-E, he doesn’t try to look pretty all the time.” “Ha!” I snort, “Gaze, I thought you meant gays too,” as Leong and I chuckle together. “No,” Sunny laughs, “nothing like THAT. Ed’s just not trying to be a heartthrob, he knows that’s not his core strong point - and that’s why he’s discounted.” “Like lesbians don’t comb their hair or wear makeup and wear pajamas to class” Leong observes, “they don’t want to attract the male gaze?” “No, we’re not imbued by the male gaze.” Sunny states, “Ed just wants to lowkey.”
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It was 3 degrees outside She wore a purple fuzzy headband that seemed to cover her entire head Her large and puffy grey coat went to her knees A grey turtleneck underneath And those clunky duck boots While everyone else smiled at the weekend at 3 on a Friday She looked confused I could only imagine what she was thinking about It was 58 degrees outside The headband gone She has blonde hair that’s up in a ponytail more often than it isn’t The coat is gone but the turtleneck is still there It’s striped this time She still wears the duck boots since the snow is melting away And there are puddles with every step She’s smiling and laughing on the phone Trying to explain directions I can only imagine who she’s talking to I can see it I can see my future in the way her hair is flipping back and forth as she walks I can see my future in the way her face lights up when she laughs I can see my future in the way she curls her hands into her sleeves I can see my future in how she tries to avoid a puddle but then steps into a deeper one I can see my future in the way that puddle ripples around her I can see my future in the way the melting snow seems to glimmer when she passes it I learned she got the headband for free once When she spent too much money at her favorite store Her grey coat is a family company she’s obviously loyal to The grey turtleneck is from the place she got the headband from Obviously, she tells me with an eye roll and a laugh The duck boots keep her feet dry, even if they’re not very warm She looked confused because she was leaving economics, her hardest class She had just learned a new concept that all of her classmates understood But for some reason, she couldn’t wrap her head around it She likes that her hair is blonde But knows it’ll turn brown one day, like her mom So she gets highlights put in, knowing it won’t help, but hopes anyway She’s always wearing turtlenecks because she’s always cold It’s from the same store as the other one Obviously The duck boots are her favorite and her feet like them too much to wear other shoes She’ll never admit it But she steps in the deeper puddles on purpose because she likes how they splash She was on the phone with her friend from high school Directing her to the lot to park in She’s staying over this weekend I was right when I said my future was in her It’s in the hair The jacket The turtlenecks The headband The boots The confused look The happy one The eye roll The laugh The puddles The snow My future is her
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Mar 11, 2019
Mar 11, 2019 at 8:18 PM UTC
How I Imagine He'll See Me For The First Time
It was 3 degrees outside She wore a purple fuzzy headband that seemed to cover her entire head Her large and puffy grey coat went to her knees A grey turtleneck underneath And those clunky duck boots While everyone else smiled at the weekend at 3 on a Friday She looked confused I could only imagine what she was thinking about It was 58 degrees outside The headband gone She has blonde hair that’s up in a ponytail more often than it isn’t The coat is gone but the turtleneck is still there It’s striped this time She still wears the duck boots since the snow is melting away And there are puddles with every step She’s smiling and laughing on the phone Trying to explain directions I can only imagine who she’s talking to I can see it I can see my future in the way her hair is flipping back and forth as she walks I can see my future in the way her face lights up when she laughs I can see my future in the way she curls her hands into her sleeves I can see my future in how she tries to avoid a puddle but then steps into a deeper one I can see my future in the way that puddle ripples around her I can see my future in the way the melting snow seems to glimmer when she passes it I learned she got the headband for free once When she spent too much money at her favorite store Her grey coat is a family company she’s obviously loyal to The grey turtleneck is from the place she got the headband from Obviously, she tells me with an eye roll and a laugh The duck boots keep her feet dry, even if they’re not very warm She looked confused because she was leaving economics, her hardest class She had just learned a new concept that all of her classmates understood But for some reason, she couldn’t wrap her head around it She likes that her hair is blonde But knows it’ll turn brown one day, like her mom So she gets highlights put in, knowing it won’t help, but hopes anyway She’s always wearing turtlenecks because she’s always cold It’s from the same store as the other one Obviously The duck boots are her favorite and her feet like them too much to wear other shoes She’ll never admit it But she steps in the deeper puddles on purpose because she likes how they splash She was on the phone with her friend from high school Directing her to the lot to park in She’s staying over this weekend I was right when I said my future was in her It’s in the hair The jacket The turtlenecks The headband The boots The confused look The happy one The eye roll The laugh The puddles The snow My future is her
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there was a rip in my stockings, inner limb, long and exposed. "i like your tights" clunky boots, shorts, a skirt, a dress. i was wearing them when your fingers played with my insides. legs long enough to drown in, did you imagine them tangled, bruised? my thighs are my gems, they will quiver, damp under the sheer, ripped, flowered, polka-dotted material. daddy, lover, with your palms along my calves, your teeth ridging the edge. baby boy, with your nails tearing my hips. i will be your black-eyed beauty. the night you spoke my name in inked lights, the night your lips tasted like cigarettes and chocolate, my tights shredded. knee high socks and blood red lipstick, i’ve been wearing nothing but ripped tights.
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Jan 29, 2014
Jan 29, 2014 at 12:11 AM UTC
lacerated fabric
Defunct steam punk on the top bunk smelled skunk and shrunk into a trunk. Funky crunk juice with floating chunks of dunked ***** shot from a Monk’s junk. Spelunker, a drunkard, bucks ****** up truck drivers hiding behind tree trunks… the schmuck. Clunky blunt, fronted musky, and held by a hunk flunked the test and was debunked in Timbuctoo.
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Jul 1, 2015
Jul 1, 2015 at 4:55 PM UTC
Unk, not Uncle
For almost two years we’ve been sitting on a conveyor belt Heading straight for the potato peeler, which will Slice right through our thickened skins and puncture our vitals; A cold cruel machine designed to sit In industrial kitchens Waiting for Sodexo’s next batch. But we— We’re from the farmer’s market and we are not Four inches in diameter and six inches in length. We are clunky. We are knobbled. We are Purpleyellow and we are waterysweet. We are not Iowabland or a poem of rhyming couplets, yeah We are free verse and we Had *** because we’re friends. Or maybe because We love each other In one way or another. Or maybe because we’re lost Or maybe all of the above, yeah—I don’t know, I just know The potato peeler won’t accept us for a second. That mechanical grip, slicing slicing slicing, A fumbling tumbling in countless browntowhite progression, It won't accept Our color, our flavor, our beautiful swirling eyes, And for a while I didn't either. But whether we have two more months on the belt or twenty years, I know that our knobbled progression to nowhere Will have been one of everywhere.
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Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 8:30 PM UTC
Potato Peeler
X's dim bedroom featured two tones: olive skin and rind of lime. Like her walls, her sheets and comforter clashed. The contrast in color reminded me of 80's clothing. In her room, X smoked cigarettes that tasted like a mechanic's finger. A clunky radio played 24/7.   "Do your parents know you smoke in here?" I said.   "What?" She said.   Her parents were phantoms. She barely knew them, which makes me barely able to describe them. A week ago, I asked what they looked like. She shrugged and said she'd check the side of a milk carton.   *** was the only thing that connected us. We took turns touching each other like we were being dared to run our finger through an open flame. I said I loved her. She said not to be silly.
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Aug 15, 2017
Aug 15, 2017 at 9:57 PM UTC
X's Room
The man on the phone told him that rent was due by five o'clock rent which was not there but five was seven hours away and he had this feeling that seven hours was a good distance to put between him and Richmond so he packed up his clothes his old jeans and plaid button downs and his typewriter that old clunky son of a ***** which made such sweet music he stuffed it all into a backpack and left his keys in the apartment as the door closed for him for the last time He left Virginia behind and headed west he spent a night or two in Memphis drinking cheap bourbon from a plastic bottle and dancing with some pretty little thing as Johnny Cash played over the radio He took his car and passed through Fort Smith Arkansas but he didn't stay too long He made a few bucks cleaning glasses in a ****** old bar in Oklahoma City sleeping in the small room upstairs He made it to Amarillo Texas and thought that he might just stay under the dead pan Texas sun but he was restlessly being chased by his memories and fears His car broke down in Albuquerque so he hopped on a train heading to Phoenix but Phoenix was tough and alien and he got footloose real quick He hitched out of there with a ****** cardboard sign which read simply "West" and he met some strangers and made some new friends before he found himself in fallen angel country Hollywood heart breaks and smog covered starlight with no more road left to travel he'd been coast to coast he settled down like the pioneers who came before him and burned his maps just a ***** road weary, traveler with a typewriter and dusty worn jeans a traveler who made his way home
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 11:31 AM UTC
Hitting the Road
The man on the phone told him that rent was due by five o'clock rent which was not there but five was seven hours away and he had this feeling that seven hours was a good distance to put between him and Richmond so he packed up his clothes his old jeans and plaid button downs and his typewriter that old clunky son of a ***** which made such sweet music he stuffed it all into a backpack and left his keys in the apartment as the door closed for him for the last time He left Virginia behind and headed west he spent a night or two in Memphis drinking cheap bourbon from a plastic bottle and dancing with some pretty little thing as Johnny Cash played over the radio He took his car and passed through Fort Smith Arkansas but he didn't stay too long He made a few bucks cleaning glasses in a ****** old bar in Oklahoma City sleeping in the small room upstairs He made it to Amarillo Texas and thought that he might just stay under the dead pan Texas sun but he was restlessly being chased by his memories and fears His car broke down in Albuquerque so he hopped on a train heading to Phoenix but Phoenix was tough and alien and he got footloose real quick He hitched out of there with a ****** cardboard sign which read simply "West" and he met some strangers and made some new friends before he found himself in fallen angel country Hollywood heart breaks and smog covered starlight with no more road left to travel he'd been coast to coast he settled down like the pioneers who came before him and burned his maps just a ***** road weary, traveler with a typewriter and dusty worn jeans a traveler who made his way home
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The silky strings of empathic poetry wind thier way through my mind to my fingertips, In turn each caress hums electricity and glowing reverberated letters form the beauty of eloquence reserved for greats, restrained. Instead the satin pearls lay sprawled gathered with elcectric tweed and tied with pixel yarn with clunky pebbles inbetween , the pearls calling to each other to dance together on the electric string, and the pebbles beg for polish in order for thier beauty to sing. I however,will not. For they are eloquence and beauty to me, and are as my creative souls expression faultless in the delivery of my first truth, in all art born of soul and heart simply elegantly evocative in the highest perfection of the electrons clumsily, imperfectly formed birth of inspirations.
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Oct 31, 2013
Oct 31, 2013 at 8:54 AM UTC
Sub-eloquence
Sleepless in Seattle on my mind and in my feelings, Making me feel moody and 90's, Chunky belts and colorful, dark sweater, Old airports in family comedies, Big clunky landline phones, When Harry Met Sally and I watched it on a plane for the first time last summer. Baroque in my headphones and 1950's swing playing from the ceiling Girls talking loud, so important, Deciding options for their next photo shoot, sweet and divine making their plans. And me Silently observing, enjoying If I were an overweight man probably I would be creepy But I am a nice package They're in L.A. for the weekend. Oh, they've been to London and "her boyfriend is an ******* She wore the baby blue, "it was my mother's", and it brings out her eyes Why is he friend's with Madeline? She's a ***** But we like her. She's very bold. Plans laid and heading out. Good for them. And I'm still here. Ache in my neck, Baroque in my ears (because I heard it improves learning and slows heart rate), This anti-poem coming from my fingertips Alone in this cafe and now the mood has shifted.
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Feb 8, 2019
Feb 8, 2019 at 9:34 PM UTC
FRIDAY 06:33PM PST
The bell rings. I am one of the many cows that herd towards the door, mooing impatiently to exit. By entering into the hallway, I find you easily because I know where to search, and we have grown accustomed to picking each other out in crowds. Our eyes lock for a fleeting second, then we both find a spot on the floor to inspect as we wait for me to make my way towards your stationary self and your pocketed hands. Step after clunky step. Once I arrive, in place of exchanging greetings, our bodies 180 turn and make our way among fellow cows. Our lanky walks fall in sync with each other, clumsy in all the same places. We walk side by side together. This is routine. We do this every day. Two among a herd of cows. Moral of the story: To everyone else, we are nobody. To each other, we are somebody. The favorite part of my day is knowing someone is there Waiting for me to find my way to them. The best part is I always do.
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Feb 28, 2013
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:38 AM UTC
The Lesson That Cows Teach Me After Fifth Period
I'm whistling you a tune to waft into. Some say to walk with the wind on your heels. I don't do that. I crash forward with clunky, massive steps cracking concrete, shattering asphalt and charging onward like a directionless bull. If anything, I barrel into you like a semi off a freeway. You smile and say you never knew what hit you. You fall backwards. As I run towards, you cave in. I'm pressing my lips against you with something akin to force. (the desperation of the intoxicated) I burrow into your chest trying to make a place to hide in. You sigh and fall to pieces; crumble into dust to lay in.
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Jul 11, 2011
Jul 11, 2011 at 8:21 PM UTC
Heavy Feet
Ghosts The ghosts float about sometimes above my head sometimes in my chest they wrap themselves Oh to be lycan I saw a wolf in the northwest covered with snow blue eyes looking right through me as if to say wake up you stupid human stuck in the mud float in snow my man! I feel the heat on my inner thighs creeping upward tickling enticing as if the summer is trying to peak its head through cold winter soil the shiny black snake coils around my ankles squeezes telling me to be not afraid of the primordial divine impulse to take my earthiness and embrace it bring it to the heavens where it belongs with my spirit. The Woman The long thin silk scarf around her neck ***** and flies off her left shoulder like angel wings in the wind caresses my cheek and neck wants me within her feminine self. Ah! what sweetness to behold! her soft skin gentlizes me takes my hairy clunky body lifts it into my dreams into her moistness. Awake And now I am awake to spring in its irrepressible green daffodils at the base of the pear tree direct my eyes from earth to sky like an organic gothic arch long puffy clouds stand still against the bright azure sky heaven on earth.
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Mar 18, 2021
Mar 18, 2021 at 2:26 PM UTC
Heaven on Earth
Death becomes you, So modest and frail Caressing Last Rites Laid out in Braille Wearing a gray suit Free hand pulling the hem taut Clunky black shoes Hair tied in a knot Distress's mistress With barren lips Lust glistening from her eyes Cleverly drips Mouth opened just enough To notice the absence of sound Seized words Left in impound A last little twitch Consumes an entire room Giving away spring Before the lilac had a chance to bloom
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Mar 27, 2017
Mar 27, 2017 at 11:30 PM UTC
Lady In Gray
Clunky hands tick round To beckon the rooster's crow -- No crisp morn summoned. Perhaps sharp teeth sliced Spilling chunks on moving gears -- Springs once sprung severed. Though ticks still trundle Their purpose swings freshly void -- Dense clunks breed gloaming. With no shredding bay Ending rapid eye movement -- Endless night transpires.
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May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015 at 5:05 PM UTC
Old Broken Clocks Can't Wake The Day
Swat the butterflies whose wings Decieve the poem and inscribes Its colored brilliance on gilded flights; There is no grace to his clunky Flying and brings repetitive hooplah To the natural poem and steals Its personable voice. Every language has a flow of poetry Whose inner soul derives of the Course of one's harmony and rhythm, And using a star of butterflies in every Poem brings about the very sameness We all suffer from daily. See the beauty in a vulture Whose glide is magnificent Spreading his wings in silent Flight above rolling hills. His beauty is not that of the Butterfly, but it's flight is undeniably Graceful and finding its natural Poetic flow is deeper still.
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Jan 9, 2016
Jan 9, 2016 at 11:42 AM UTC
Swat The Butterflies