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"cokes" poems
Daddy liked his whiskey Momma liked her smokes Momma cursed like crazy Dad told ***** jokes To all the people 'round here They was ordinary folks Momma puffed on camels Dad drank whiskey cokes I dropped out of high school By the time I was fourteen I had no direction And I got mighty mean Sis, she had two babies But neither one was seen And to all the people 'round here We were just both normal teens The apple doesn't fall far from the tree You do not want to grow and be like me Listen to what I tell you, don't you do the things you see The apple doesn't fall far from the tree Nope, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree When ever there is fighting Folks 'round here go blind They all have got their secrets they don't want us to find That apples in around their house Are not quite as designed It's best to look at others For the truth, it isn't kind Momma kept on smoking Daddy drank his rye sis and I both left here No one ever asked them why Nothing changes ever so nobody will try and all the folks around here live inside this little lie The apple doesn't fall far from the tree You do not want to grow and be like me Listen to what I tell you, don't you do the things you see The apple doesn't fall far from the tree Nope, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 11:19 AM UTC
Apple doesn't fall far from the tree
Leashed by loves lynch till I’m dropped by my lack of respect for the beauty’s presence Thank god she wasn’t curbside taking tips with perked lips for a stranger’s ****** fix, But I needed to feel the evidence that the pieces fit, That’s why this is about me and a barstool princess Getting close enough to taste the moans of vodka’s venom Get close enough so I can know my needs can be fulfilled Like a lunar eclipse this species keeps grinding its teeth when teased Time and time again we’ve been taunted by, The mistress our ancestors once described as the serpent of Eve,   When procreation was preached as an STD Yet we’ve been perpetually pivoting, To defy the chastity of a species Grandfathered misconceptions relating to why you and I exist   As wickedness warms in the covers of the lustfully parallel So let’s drown in this bliss, From head to toe, eye caught, grazes at the nose, From the bar stool to a lonely man’s home, From one dollar tips for two *** and cokes To the bedroom of this writing, The nights like this, that remind me I am alone But this isn’t about me loathing the fact that I won’t hear her whispering for more body warmth, Nor am I looking for you to pity me because I’ll be sleeping solo Enough is enough since we are humans seeking ****** catacombs I’ll try to be an adult about how the human molds but it started me at childhood, When those that conceptualized love gave me this world, And now I no longer have to listen to what I’ve been told This is about how to perceive something we can never truly control, Lucky enough to avoid a contraceptive despite unable to remember the doctor’s pull, Its night’s like this I get to question, When will my sheets meet the perfect fit? When will this be more than just a humanizing fix?
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Apr 23, 2012
Apr 23, 2012 at 12:41 AM UTC
Bedside Lynching
Leashed by loves lynch till I’m dropped by my lack of respect for the beauty’s presence Thank god she wasn’t curbside taking tips with perked lips for a stranger’s ****** fix, But I needed to feel the evidence that the pieces fit, That’s why this is about me and a barstool princess Getting close enough to taste the moans of vodka’s venom Get close enough so I can know my needs can be fulfilled Like a lunar eclipse this species keeps grinding its teeth when teased Time and time again we’ve been taunted by, The mistress our ancestors once described as the serpent of Eve,   When procreation was preached as an STD Yet we’ve been perpetually pivoting, To defy the chastity of a species Grandfathered misconceptions relating to why you and I exist   As wickedness warms in the covers of the lustfully parallel So let’s drown in this bliss, From head to toe, eye caught, grazes at the nose, From the bar stool to a lonely man’s home, From one dollar tips for two *** and cokes To the bedroom of this writing, The nights like this, that remind me I am alone But this isn’t about me loathing the fact that I won’t hear her whispering for more body warmth, Nor am I looking for you to pity me because I’ll be sleeping solo Enough is enough since we are humans seeking ****** catacombs I’ll try to be an adult about how the human molds but it started me at childhood, When those that conceptualized love gave me this world, And now I no longer have to listen to what I’ve been told This is about how to perceive something we can never truly control, Lucky enough to avoid a contraceptive despite unable to remember the doctor’s pull, Its night’s like this I get to question, When will my sheets meet the perfect fit? When will this be more than just a humanizing fix?
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Skinny like a Starbucks drink with zero sugar, zero guilt and full of almond-milk joy. Skinny like a microwaved meal, perfectly portioned and easy to count. Skinny like two diet cokes and a cigarette for lunch. Skinny like Adderall, a high dose for higher grades. Skinny like late nights and random *** with strangers. Skinny like virginity. Skinny like binge-purge-repeat. Skinny like perfection, like mints and sadness and tight little swimsuits. Skinny like a disorder. Skinny like control out of control. Skinny like a diagnosis. Skinny like suffering. Skinny like her.
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 8:24 PM UTC
Skinny Like Her
That time we went to Fez and you said it's like Biblical times all these fecking donkeys and camels and people dressed like Jesus I said to Miriam so it was my first time and we had to leave the vehicle outside the gates of the city she said we were sitting at the Moroccan bar of the camp base sipping cokes and had French loaf sandwiches on plates beside us but it was good I said and that mosque I went in was great I had to take off my sandals mind you but hey the site inside was good I didn't go in but that market was out of this world she said she sat on a stool beside me sipping her coke she had a pink tee shirt and red shorts -I loved red- and bare feet I looked at the feet recalling mouthing her toes that night in Malaga after the shower at the camp base there and well the rest followed I bit into the French roll sandwich lettuce cheese cold lamb meat and some kind of pickle those women wore those black gown things she said could only see their eyes I don't think I could wear one of those I like to be seen and why bother to wear make up or wear something skimpy if you've got one of those on she said they don't I guess that's their religion I said she bit into her French roll and was silent she smelt of apples and hay and I could have licked her but we sat and ate and thought of the beach and moon and stars and *** if not too late.
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Dec 3, 2015
Dec 3, 2015 at 4:02 AM UTC
IF NOT TOO LATE 1970
sitting in a car two cokes in the cup holder too busy wondering how I got here because you're so much cooler and older we've stopped the car but the music playing I'm finding it hard focusing on what you're saying I'm too busy looking at your lips we both reach for our drinks, brushing fingertips you look at me in a way you haven't before I don't feel like such a little girl anymore I hear the sound of your seat belt unbuckle I can feel our bodies getting at a closer angle and we kissed in a car heatedly only stopping for breaths repeatedly and once we broke we were both breathing heavily I looked into your brown eyes they remind me of dark nights but I didn't feel alone I kissed you and felt at home.
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Aug 18, 2013
Aug 18, 2013 at 11:26 PM UTC
kissing in a car
I have been singing for forgotten things, beer bottles hidden in the hedgerows. The opera singer, the strangled vibrato, ash-filled cokes cans; the afterparty sunrise. This recovery has been long, fickle. Reckless optimism and the science of failure collide into the colour of a Daniel Johnston cartoon, or a songwriter's sense of humour. Disused pencils stand as monuments to old dreams of grass-roots art, the fragility of neurotic ******* drawn with innumerable straight lines that composite a woman's naked body. I have been drawing on memories and hoping for a brand-new image; dissolution of old borders - a strangled voice in a room full of opened tongues. The Hawaiian shirt made light of depression in darkened hours and wax smiles. Plastic cocktails, the pending brides; desperate men - the post-work demise. I have learned a lie ever since. This recovery has been imperfect, a fraud. Swollen truths to satisfy the concerned, only myself left to fool. I have found the early morning but cannot reach a sober conclusion. Redundant habits mildew my mind with the backwater of yesterday, familiar street names to mourn those who became strangers, the negative bias of my mind's eye. I have been writing words of action from the safety of my desk; all that the desk-lamp can illuminate, all of which words can make sense. This half-lived recovery is bunk, irretrievable. Working poverty and untied knots are co-morbid in meaninglessness; chains to hold me in Plato's Cave whilst her skin freckles in the sun. Disused and living outside of love, morning curtains open to a sheet of light that obliterates loneliness in the presence of shared heat, only for it to return again, come night.
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 3:25 PM UTC
Well, Again
I have been singing for forgotten things, beer bottles hidden in the hedgerows. The opera singer, the strangled vibrato, ash-filled cokes cans; the afterparty sunrise. This recovery has been long, fickle. Reckless optimism and the science of failure collide into the colour of a Daniel Johnston cartoon, or a songwriter's sense of humour. Disused pencils stand as monuments to old dreams of grass-roots art, the fragility of neurotic ******* drawn with innumerable straight lines that composite a woman's naked body. I have been drawing on memories and hoping for a brand-new image; dissolution of old borders - a strangled voice in a room full of opened tongues. The Hawaiian shirt made light of depression in darkened hours and wax smiles. Plastic cocktails, the pending brides; desperate men - the post-work demise. I have learned a lie ever since. This recovery has been imperfect, a fraud. Swollen truths to satisfy the concerned, only myself left to fool. I have found the early morning but cannot reach a sober conclusion. Redundant habits mildew my mind with the backwater of yesterday, familiar street names to mourn those who became strangers, the negative bias of my mind's eye. I have been writing words of action from the safety of my desk; all that the desk-lamp can illuminate, all of which words can make sense. This half-lived recovery is bunk, irretrievable. Working poverty and untied knots are co-morbid in meaninglessness; chains to hold me in Plato's Cave whilst her skin freckles in the sun. Disused and living outside of love, morning curtains open to a sheet of light that obliterates loneliness in the presence of shared heat, only for it to return again, come night.
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Give me a Coca Cola party number 1 And boot conservos up the *** All they care is their 4 bedroom house yeah mate yeah Give me a Coca Cola party Number 2 As we watch the singer do the boogaloo and then we crack open that bottle and spray it on Their uncle oh how cool Give me a Coca Cola party Number 3 Simon finally puts up the Christmas tree First he puts the tinsel and then the bells and an angel to go on top ph yeseree Give me a Coca Cola party Number 5 After those 5 cokes I feel alive I jump up and down to every song I heard on the radio Nice and high Give me a Coca Cola party Number 6 The nice Coca Cola will give me A nice sugar fix As I slam it down, it goes through my body Yeah if also rots my teeth Give me a Coca Cola party number 7 Coke is so bad for you I want to send if to oblivion But the more I see santa or Sydney swans or the big Coke truck red and white is the key Give me a Coca Cola party number 8 Instead of roast dinners I prefer Cola lollies on my plate You see as I ate each one I sank into a garlic naan The lollies gave it a sweet taste Give me a Coca Cola party number 9 I would take my Coke and walk around the party introducing myself saying hi, my name is Brian and I told one man I hate the liberal party Cause they don't like the poor Give me a Coca Cola party Number 10 While doing your tapestry you have your 2 litre Coke near you like your one of the real men But people say cokes a kids drink and I say to you this ****** oathe I am a cool kid Give me a Coca Cola party Number 11 If you keep drinking that stuff You'll end up in heaven But not in a good way You will be with tony Grieg And Norman may How cools that Give me a Coca Cola party Number 12 Have a few quite cokes with santa and his elves After Christmas Day When they load all the presents into the sleigh Party party party Give me a Coca Cola party Number 13 If the Coca Cola party was a kid He would be finally in his teens But he will say to his uncle Have I got the muscle To enjoy drinking Coke oh yeah Give me a Coca Cola party Number 14 Every kid was nice to people But me mate I was really naughty So santa gave me no presents And scounged around my house for money To buy a nice 2 litre bottle Of Coke Give me a Coca Cola party Number 15 When I go for a run I feel tired And a bit sweaty The Coke slows me down mate Please don't lose your entire Top row mate stop drinking Coke Merry Christmas Coke lovers Past and present
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Dec 9, 2017
Dec 9, 2017 at 7:51 AM UTC
coca cola party 1 to 15
Give me a Coca Cola party number 1 And boot conservos up the *** All they care is their 4 bedroom house yeah mate yeah Give me a Coca Cola party Number 2 As we watch the singer do the boogaloo and then we crack open that bottle and spray it on Their uncle oh how cool Give me a Coca Cola party Number 3 Simon finally puts up the Christmas tree First he puts the tinsel and then the bells and an angel to go on top ph yeseree Give me a Coca Cola party Number 5 After those 5 cokes I feel alive I jump up and down to every song I heard on the radio Nice and high Give me a Coca Cola party Number 6 The nice Coca Cola will give me A nice sugar fix As I slam it down, it goes through my body Yeah if also rots my teeth Give me a Coca Cola party number 7 Coke is so bad for you I want to send if to oblivion But the more I see santa or Sydney swans or the big Coke truck red and white is the key Give me a Coca Cola party number 8 Instead of roast dinners I prefer Cola lollies on my plate You see as I ate each one I sank into a garlic naan The lollies gave it a sweet taste Give me a Coca Cola party number 9 I would take my Coke and walk around the party introducing myself saying hi, my name is Brian and I told one man I hate the liberal party Cause they don't like the poor Give me a Coca Cola party Number 10 While doing your tapestry you have your 2 litre Coke near you like your one of the real men But people say cokes a kids drink and I say to you this ****** oathe I am a cool kid Give me a Coca Cola party Number 11 If you keep drinking that stuff You'll end up in heaven But not in a good way You will be with tony Grieg And Norman may How cools that Give me a Coca Cola party Number 12 Have a few quite cokes with santa and his elves After Christmas Day When they load all the presents into the sleigh Party party party Give me a Coca Cola party Number 13 If the Coca Cola party was a kid He would be finally in his teens But he will say to his uncle Have I got the muscle To enjoy drinking Coke oh yeah Give me a Coca Cola party Number 14 Every kid was nice to people But me mate I was really naughty So santa gave me no presents And scounged around my house for money To buy a nice 2 litre bottle Of Coke Give me a Coca Cola party Number 15 When I go for a run I feel tired And a bit sweaty The Coke slows me down mate Please don't lose your entire Top row mate stop drinking Coke Merry Christmas Coke lovers Past and present
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As you sit in the cafe in the shopping mall you see Sophie and her man friend smooching across the table he with moustache and thinning combed back hair and she with dark black hair straight to the collar of her white blouse they purse their lips he closes his eyes leans forward she likewise as if in some French cafe   in some 1950s film you sip your latte watch the show he once worked pushing trolleys in some super store she unsure but with a carer sometimes seen walking the mall or in the bank or shops and some days she’ll come up and say hello in a loud voice as if she’d not seen you in a thousand years other days not at all or she’ll tell you some news about her life or some small trouble that’s got her down today she sits and kisses and converses with the man friend and he’ll laugh and maybe she too and hold hands over the cokes and cakes you sit back in the chair and watch them there repeat their kissing or holding hands the Romeo eyes now open leaning near mouthing words you cannot hear she lips still pursed says loudly of a love she feels or how hot the weather is or how his scarf untidy looks or unbuttoned shirt others who do not know them sit and gawk and make snide comment behind their hands make judgement in their bourgeoisie world but you like others who know them of old sit and drink and make no judgements of what they say or do but watch the kissing and holding of hands like in a B feature at the cinema waiting for the real thing maybe but content to see the movie through having no where to go or other things to do.
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Jul 15, 2013
Jul 15, 2013 at 2:45 AM UTC
NO OTHER THINGS TO DO.
As you sit in the cafe in the shopping mall you see Sophie and her man friend smooching across the table he with moustache and thinning combed back hair and she with dark black hair straight to the collar of her white blouse they purse their lips he closes his eyes leans forward she likewise as if in some French cafe   in some 1950s film you sip your latte watch the show he once worked pushing trolleys in some super store she unsure but with a carer sometimes seen walking the mall or in the bank or shops and some days she’ll come up and say hello in a loud voice as if she’d not seen you in a thousand years other days not at all or she’ll tell you some news about her life or some small trouble that’s got her down today she sits and kisses and converses with the man friend and he’ll laugh and maybe she too and hold hands over the cokes and cakes you sit back in the chair and watch them there repeat their kissing or holding hands the Romeo eyes now open leaning near mouthing words you cannot hear she lips still pursed says loudly of a love she feels or how hot the weather is or how his scarf untidy looks or unbuttoned shirt others who do not know them sit and gawk and make snide comment behind their hands make judgement in their bourgeoisie world but you like others who know them of old sit and drink and make no judgements of what they say or do but watch the kissing and holding of hands like in a B feature at the cinema waiting for the real thing maybe but content to see the movie through having no where to go or other things to do.
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Where are all the carnival rides The Ferris wheel with bright lights The fairy floss and cherry cokes and the warm sultry nights The call of the racketeer encouraging all to take a chance Where's the monkey you carried just so we could hold hands Where are all the park benches that used to ring the pond Where are the acres of green grass where we sat as you sang me our song and where have all the ducks gone? Where has gone the soda shop, the big band dance halls and the local Ihop? There stands the apartment block where our little house once stood Where have all the children gone that we once watched from the stoop Where are the endless games of hide and seek and peek a boo Where's the night gone, the fires out Where is the heartbeat of our intimacy we shared in our bedroom? Its all there in the asbestos ceiling and in the plaster that is cracked it crinkles beneath fingers of cold cotton bed sheets sterile of comfort and it lacks the vibrancy of emotions from another lifetime Laying still, awaiting the ground It drifts like fog in an ageing mind
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Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 4:29 AM UTC
Silent Hours
For Pennsylvania is the Land Where Men with Hearts may Understand, And much the nicest part must be The County of Montgomery. And in that district I most like The town that ends the Pottstown Pike. For heaven's blessings rarely stick to folk who live in Limerick, and you would be the worse to know the crimes that they commit in Stowe, and heaven's wrath comes raining down on men who live in Boyertown, where sins are strange, and stranger still are secrets hid in Douglasville; they'd slit your throat for twenty pence in frightful Lower Providence and rumour tells me true that no men are virtuous in Perkiomen. But Pottstown, oh, but dear Pottstown! Why, there a person may lie down upon its riverbanks so stony, or paddle in the Manatawny. They laugh and love their life so well They're purchasing a carousel. (And when they get to feeling old, A thousand senior Cokes are sold with super fries and apple pie: McDonalds, Hanover and High.)
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Nov 4, 2010
Nov 4, 2010 at 1:20 PM UTC
With apologies to Rupert Brooke
Some people make it seem so romantic and some would probably say I'm guilty of exploiting it as well. Well let me be the first to tell you there's no glory in burning out. I live my life and to excess of course but it's not my mission to overdose or end up splattered across highway. Death isn't a choice it's a promise and to fear it is to worry over breathing its just part of the game folks. The **** I write about isn't a fantasy or what I believe its like I've actually lived it. And out of a handful of people I know I'm lucky enough to say I'm still here. I cant tell you how to live your life and honestly I don't ever give a **** how you do. I've done most every drug known to man and some of them are rather overrated to be honest that's why I prefer booze mainly because I really don't trust putting **** in my system made by people who look like they haven't slept or washed there *** in two weeks. Yeah cokes real good **** you stay paranoid as **** and if you get a good taste for it it'll **** you bank account and your heart but it is good to have on hand for picking up strippers. Hey I'm just saying if you go to the woods to hunt animals you probably use bait. Well my hunting ground is probably a lot more comfortable than yours but hey whatever gets you off. Where all checking out sooner or later but don't ever fall for that delusion that getting out early is ******* romantic **** if I had pulled the trigger when I was a miserable ass teen I would have really missed some overrated times and some hot chicks who just happened to lower there standards yes be used is kickass especially when you get a happy ending out of the deal. Live it as you will not as others would prefer cause only a spineless candy *** plays it safe. I write a lot of crazy **** cause I live a lot worse crazy **** But at least I have ******* fun. Sure you can say **** it all to this world. Or you can really **** the ******** off and shake **** up till they put your *** in the dirt. Me I'm going to go down with the ******* ship. A drink in hand and laughing like a madman the whole way down. Cause nothing ***** with the ignorant worse than a son of ***** that just wont stay down. Cheers hamsters. Gonzo
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Sep 24, 2013
Sep 24, 2013 at 3:42 PM UTC
Self Destruction And All That Other ********
Some people make it seem so romantic and some would probably say I'm guilty of exploiting it as well. Well let me be the first to tell you there's no glory in burning out. I live my life and to excess of course but it's not my mission to overdose or end up splattered across highway. Death isn't a choice it's a promise and to fear it is to worry over breathing its just part of the game folks. The **** I write about isn't a fantasy or what I believe its like I've actually lived it. And out of a handful of people I know I'm lucky enough to say I'm still here. I cant tell you how to live your life and honestly I don't ever give a **** how you do. I've done most every drug known to man and some of them are rather overrated to be honest that's why I prefer booze mainly because I really don't trust putting **** in my system made by people who look like they haven't slept or washed there *** in two weeks. Yeah cokes real good **** you stay paranoid as **** and if you get a good taste for it it'll **** you bank account and your heart but it is good to have on hand for picking up strippers. Hey I'm just saying if you go to the woods to hunt animals you probably use bait. Well my hunting ground is probably a lot more comfortable than yours but hey whatever gets you off. Where all checking out sooner or later but don't ever fall for that delusion that getting out early is ******* romantic **** if I had pulled the trigger when I was a miserable ass teen I would have really missed some overrated times and some hot chicks who just happened to lower there standards yes be used is kickass especially when you get a happy ending out of the deal. Live it as you will not as others would prefer cause only a spineless candy *** plays it safe. I write a lot of crazy **** cause I live a lot worse crazy **** But at least I have ******* fun. Sure you can say **** it all to this world. Or you can really **** the ******** off and shake **** up till they put your *** in the dirt. Me I'm going to go down with the ******* ship. A drink in hand and laughing like a madman the whole way down. Cause nothing ***** with the ignorant worse than a son of ***** that just wont stay down. Cheers hamsters. Gonzo
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DDK; ***** Dank Kush I light it up like arson to a bush I paint the town red just like my eyes If my mom knew it would be a surprise I fall down, I don't know why I see my life before my eyes I realize that this kush laced with coke I pray for saftey I pray for hope Then I realize cokes ******* awesome I punch a kid, I punch a possum I go home and **** my ***** Not realizing that it was actually my landlord, what a **** I think that coke and me will be alright I ride into the sunset all night.
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 3:30 PM UTC
DDK
Riding bikes Skinning Knees Time spent climbing All the trees Sit back and feel the summer breeze Remember how it was? Swimming pools Baseball games Every kid had funny names The times they just don't seem the same Remember how it was? Summer time was glorious You only had a kids concerns No school until September You didn't care if you got burned Summer time was heavenly A pirates life , you led You were out 'till past the sun went down Then it was dinner, bath and bed Marbles, swimming At the creek A hundred kids playing hide and seek Cadging smokes Of which none would speak Remember how it was? Building forts And running wild Outside all day where sunshine smiled Living the life Of every child Remember how it was? Summer time was glorious You only had a kids concerns No school until September You didn't care if you got burned Summer time was heavenly A pirates life, you led You were out 'till past the sun went down Then it was dinner, bath and bed Baseball, soccer cards in spokes Blood brothers and ***** jokes trading cards and drinking cokes Remember how it was Running fast and walking slow A few weeks left To school we'll go Tag...you're it Friend or foe Remember how it was? Summer time was glorious You only had a kids concerns No school until September You didn't care if you got burned Summer time was heavenly A pirates life, you led You were out 'till past the sun went down Then it was dinner, bath and bed
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Sep 3, 2012
Sep 3, 2012 at 12:15 PM UTC
Summer Time !!!
a tree did grow in Brooklyn. it was June-- our third-- and the summer weather hadn't turned yet: school was just out, Prospect Park was never full, and the nights were still cool. it was summer in the city before it comes unglued. i had yet to resent the F train terminal or its crowds or its sweat. i hadn't grown bored of 23rd St. on one end of the day and Church Avenue on another, or of the cost of cigarettes or coffee or of the FOODTOWN sign at the top of the subway steps. it was a beautiful month because it was doomed barely to last its 30 days. and there were too so many long hours, sitting barely shaded on your stoop, fending off the landlord's sister and the bugs and waiting for the fall. each time i've gone back since then i've sat on those slow steps; that summer it was no different: three months to crown three years, moving so timelessly by that next month the heat bore down, not the heat only of the sun and the air but the wet, ***** heat of the city, steam forever rising from underground, the oil spills in the gutters beginning to boil. but still it was New York and summer. the roaches and rats hadn't yet eaten all the fireflies. i grew to love routine disquiet: the long car rides to Queens, the Mets games and their pretzel smell and riding back, inevitably discouraged, my homemade tank top leaking Magic marker onto my chest; the trips to the beach at Rockaway, sullen and determined, and their return to Manhattan, tasting like salt (and you, once, like blood) and my hair stiff with brine and feeling the sand in our shoes grit against the ***** sidewalks; those quick walks from Smith&9th Streets, sipping Mexican Cokes and rationing our time by cigarettes: all of July was exhausting, but familiar by then. in August the tornado came, first Brooklyn'd seen in 30 years. we two slept blissfully through it, woke only for the aftermath. we went outside almost giddy, certainly unbelieving, holding hands. and the tree which had stood outside so serenly was uprooted, having missed the bedroom window by only a few feet. [it was June-- cool. barely shaded so timelessly beginning to boil all the fireflies.]
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Nov 19, 2010
Nov 19, 2010 at 11:18 AM UTC
a tree did grow
a tree did grow in Brooklyn. it was June-- our third-- and the summer weather hadn't turned yet: school was just out, Prospect Park was never full, and the nights were still cool. it was summer in the city before it comes unglued. i had yet to resent the F train terminal or its crowds or its sweat. i hadn't grown bored of 23rd St. on one end of the day and Church Avenue on another, or of the cost of cigarettes or coffee or of the FOODTOWN sign at the top of the subway steps. it was a beautiful month because it was doomed barely to last its 30 days. and there were too so many long hours, sitting barely shaded on your stoop, fending off the landlord's sister and the bugs and waiting for the fall. each time i've gone back since then i've sat on those slow steps; that summer it was no different: three months to crown three years, moving so timelessly by that next month the heat bore down, not the heat only of the sun and the air but the wet, ***** heat of the city, steam forever rising from underground, the oil spills in the gutters beginning to boil. but still it was New York and summer. the roaches and rats hadn't yet eaten all the fireflies. i grew to love routine disquiet: the long car rides to Queens, the Mets games and their pretzel smell and riding back, inevitably discouraged, my homemade tank top leaking Magic marker onto my chest; the trips to the beach at Rockaway, sullen and determined, and their return to Manhattan, tasting like salt (and you, once, like blood) and my hair stiff with brine and feeling the sand in our shoes grit against the ***** sidewalks; those quick walks from Smith&9th Streets, sipping Mexican Cokes and rationing our time by cigarettes: all of July was exhausting, but familiar by then. in August the tornado came, first Brooklyn'd seen in 30 years. we two slept blissfully through it, woke only for the aftermath. we went outside almost giddy, certainly unbelieving, holding hands. and the tree which had stood outside so serenly was uprooted, having missed the bedroom window by only a few feet. [it was June-- cool. barely shaded so timelessly beginning to boil all the fireflies.]
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They heard she was a poet who shocked the open mic Friday nights with tight skirts and loose words that slid off her teeth over her whiskey breath. Truck drivers,   who rode hard, daily listened for ******** screams and honking horns, came to see her. They balanced on rustic chairs, drank *** and Cokes, and hoped she wanted a ride to Reno. She heard they were drivers with sharp eyes and taut ***** beneath blue denim.   She didn’t mind weather beaten beards, calloused hands or that they would leave in the morning.   She was a poet who gathered words from interludes among pillows and sheets that aroused tomorrow’s verse of wanton words and enticing skits.
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Jun 11, 2012
Jun 11, 2012 at 4:04 PM UTC
A Ride to Reno
Be with me in ****** footprints / in your mom's silverware sets / in stucco walls I want to sleep on dark leather couches with you. Tell me more about cable: I want you to introduce me to damp grass on football fields that we skateboarded to underneath the stars that I was with when i was away from you Hello, earthling! Let's do normal Earth things together (I could be a person for you) I fixed the thermostat so that my bedroom can be habitable for human beans such as yourself Drink six Diet Cokes with me so we can put six dead ladie bugs inside the bottles and BlowThemUpWithFire "Yes, I know about fire! I've seen it all before OK! And I want to pretend I haven't so that i can ooooh and aawwwhhh when you show me !!!!" I want to be a person for you. Spray paint my bones gold when you're done crafting my skin into a turban so that I know it's real - I made this for you
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 9:32 PM UTC
Spoken words / punk Boys
What brings me here are multiple *** and cokes and my lasting impression on so many of the cool kids and the following broads who think this is a cool thing to do. Me? I feel my eyes start to fall red and my face starts to resonate heat. ***** No, I'm not at that point. Yet. But I can see spots of light and feel my ears pop. This is my life in a bunny costume. In a Deadmau5 head my roommate crafted, I DJ a basement of partyheads. I smoke my cheap cigarettes and think "wow, what would my mother think?". I have never thought how this would spin my world upside down. But this is Spring Weekend. And the dance floor is open to new adventures and brilliant encounters with strange people. I can only imagine how God is looking at me now.
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Apr 22, 2012
Apr 22, 2012 at 1:39 AM UTC
My Life in a Bunny Costume
two orders black pepper chicken with fried rice instead of white rice also one order of General Tso chicken and Crab Ragoons with 2 cokes and I’m using cash forty minutes? okay, thank you.
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Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012 at 5:46 PM UTC
General Tso What
In sweet water we fish and swim When we are finished We give it back To Pachamama This music is good And hunger is our attitude Diagonal winds Further our stories Hundreds of copies Are made each day Before we've awakened Cities taste like fried rice And we wait on lines For cokes and coffees Relativity tries to explain What it can't deny That we are unstable and often high You are gullible like the night sky As single women Drift along your incision It's a mission to not hunt them all at once Juggle the waterfall and pay for her dinner Gifts are abundant And some are seeking you too Kindred spirits kindle our fire As tired hands hug their mother Love is burning with desire Cool down and we can begin to dig Listen to the sounds that are far away Beyond your mansions Into the woods We drove for days And still no one Understood our need for silence And sometimes our dramas We were in need of laughter So i attached a pair Of jumper cables To the inside of your pajamas
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Apr 3, 2019
Apr 3, 2019 at 1:54 PM UTC
pajama(ma) parties (pachamama esta de fiesta)
The moonlight deprived those couples of an Asian slum as if herded together in a plastic drum who lived in a roofless brick- less shove much like a Mal- functioning, Primes-stove. It also deprived those, whose tin- sheet- roof bore gaping cracks as the results of heavy monsoon downpours as the result of unruly monkey- like clouds’ aqua- missile- attacks. These youngsters were robbed by the silvery - mask –clad bullies of the moonlight who shackled them in their homes and held them tight. It robbed them of the throbbing- pillows of arms of caressing balms, of cuddles, of charms, of lullaby- songs. As a giggling newlywed bride pointing index- finger at sky, said " I am scared of the full moon, as I proceeded the other day to hug my man he stared from above , like a mischievous goon. " It denied privacy to the folks who sobbed in embrace together in pain. Their elder son was, in a religious frenzy stabbed and the middle was crushed under a streaming train. It denied the anonymity to the bald tooth-less woman who was caught sipping coke from the fridge and who, by her grandson was whisked from the kitchen Store- room --- which she shared in her late husband- built- house, with a jumbo mouse-- and asked to sleep on the fan- less Veranda. Where she lay reminiscing the crate- fulls she stuffed, -- as she smiled and coughed-- into her fridge, in her youth of Cokes and Miranda !
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Sep 26, 2015
Sep 26, 2015 at 2:50 AM UTC
Said A Bride : As I Proceeded To Hug : Full Moon Stared From Above Like A Goon
Chaotic neutral lighthouse sirens. The spirits of sailors lost returning from sea. Ethereal beings and what not. Insert sappy and haunting intro here. It's 1941 and we are writing love letters, Tucking them into a big oak tree To retrieve on our way to and from school. Cherry cokes and late night smoke breaks. My downstairs neighbors are fighting, And I'm watching snow land on the ocean. I don't feel special. Uncharted waters and peeling wallpaper. "Vinyl is better baby, Trust me, You must have lost your edge." Drop Dead
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 9:33 PM UTC
Opaque
We wish, we wished, we knew, how the peace we make lingers, magical thinking must not work, but we were reared to really pray, unceasingly, never failing to expect to have, even as we uttered our amen, peace enough to share, by our own will making our agreement amenable in spirit, and truth, as two parts of all that ever may be, you and me, in the way life happens where you and me live. It is written, any judgement begun, where ideas form words to hold them in common, any truth can be tested by its effect on a satisfied mind, so when I say, spirit, you assume I speak of nothing tangible in the natural, just something like a will we let be today's good in our local mind, at the time, to make us think, before we use pre judged worths, a dime, or a penny, today, ain't worth a wooden nickel, -- I just remembered when I was thirteen… Coke machines in Texas sold bottled Cokes in six ounce bottles, for a Nickel, and two empties garnered six cents, enough for a soda pop and a piece of bubble gum. That's how much things change in the space of one measured neighborly Jubillee. Whittling kindling is what honed knives are for, I watched old men do it, and found it works, look ahead to a winter fire easy to revive, with shavings from summer whittle sessions, making peace where none was when I woke up, the whole world under old war rules running on, but, while Jubilees are, done while considering, just imagined, how debt erasure functions, allows us freedom from wrong reasons past. We have all seen the size of Earth, we all know our only neighbors are here. We are a chosen planet, not a chosen people. And on this planet, good people, make useful peace.
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Sep 1, 2025
Sep 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM UTC
Whittling things to a point
We wish, we wished, we knew, how the peace we make lingers, magical thinking must not work, but we were reared to really pray, unceasingly, never failing to expect to have, even as we uttered our amen, peace enough to share, by our own will making our agreement amenable in spirit, and truth, as two parts of all that ever may be, you and me, in the way life happens where you and me live. It is written, any judgement begun, where ideas form words to hold them in common, any truth can be tested by its effect on a satisfied mind, so when I say, spirit, you assume I speak of nothing tangible in the natural, just something like a will we let be today's good in our local mind, at the time, to make us think, before we use pre judged worths, a dime, or a penny, today, ain't worth a wooden nickel, -- I just remembered when I was thirteen… Coke machines in Texas sold bottled Cokes in six ounce bottles, for a Nickel, and two empties garnered six cents, enough for a soda pop and a piece of bubble gum. That's how much things change in the space of one measured neighborly Jubillee. Whittling kindling is what honed knives are for, I watched old men do it, and found it works, look ahead to a winter fire easy to revive, with shavings from summer whittle sessions, making peace where none was when I woke up, the whole world under old war rules running on, but, while Jubilees are, done while considering, just imagined, how debt erasure functions, allows us freedom from wrong reasons past. We have all seen the size of Earth, we all know our only neighbors are here. We are a chosen planet, not a chosen people. And on this planet, good people, make useful peace.
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Sipping on my cup of tea. Down it travels. Clear and smooth it slips as I swallow. Chilling coolness strokes like beads of diamonds down my throat. Flavour blossoming. Morphing hollow. Unlike water with such lucid simplicity. Light shaded fragrance of flattered flowery. A twinge of texture silky and sleek, coaxes your mind. Distinct yet tasted so gentle and meek. Unlike coffee it does not choke. Nor fattening like lattes, sodas and cokes. Now here comes the part I loved most. Its aftertaste that lingers bleak, bitter and cold. Just like my soul.
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Aug 23, 2014
Aug 23, 2014 at 5:17 AM UTC
Aftertaste
Ain’t seen you in ages Let’s get married in vegas Lunar phases, lunar ****** Space **** with a built in dongle Stars at night super fast internet Watch your favourite movie Fastened onto a turbojet Pornstars in your eyes Scarlett Skies Supermassive slack hole explicit I’m just giving you sound bites, apéritif Cosmic ****** if you must Hot to the touch I’m growing up While you’re looking down gasping Hands clasping, rocket launch Houston this missile is staunch Better turn the lights off Things are about to get ****** So is it written in the stars? Or do I need to text an explanation? Your eyes are reflecting the light Stars twinkling so bright So now you’re full of rocket fuel Engines ready isn’t ******** cool? Deep space walking, space dazzle Starship cougar from Newcastle Tell me all your secrets The ones that cause you hassle Those stockings look nice Northern tights Blasting them off into unknown heights Outside the atmosphere air is light Unidentified arousal phenomena Explore her Andromeda The Milky Way sprayed on her front I must be blunt, space passport scan Tells star bureau I’m an OG spaceman Space duty frees large Toblerone Radiation sickness and no suntan Cosmic ****** if you must Light speed chat up lines In stardust I’m gonna draw you signs Baby can’t get enough of my *** So I showed her in IMAX Double ***** cokes with treble ****** Jelly legs. So is it written in the stars? Or do I need to text an explanation? Your eyes are reflecting the light Stars twinkling so bright Can we just take a moment To admire the cosmos With a cosmo Can we just take a moment To admire the cosmos With a cosmo.
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Apr 22, 2025
Apr 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM UTC
Cosmic ******
Ain’t seen you in ages Let’s get married in vegas Lunar phases, lunar ****** Space **** with a built in dongle Stars at night super fast internet Watch your favourite movie Fastened onto a turbojet Pornstars in your eyes Scarlett Skies Supermassive slack hole explicit I’m just giving you sound bites, apéritif Cosmic ****** if you must Hot to the touch I’m growing up While you’re looking down gasping Hands clasping, rocket launch Houston this missile is staunch Better turn the lights off Things are about to get ****** So is it written in the stars? Or do I need to text an explanation? Your eyes are reflecting the light Stars twinkling so bright So now you’re full of rocket fuel Engines ready isn’t ******** cool? Deep space walking, space dazzle Starship cougar from Newcastle Tell me all your secrets The ones that cause you hassle Those stockings look nice Northern tights Blasting them off into unknown heights Outside the atmosphere air is light Unidentified arousal phenomena Explore her Andromeda The Milky Way sprayed on her front I must be blunt, space passport scan Tells star bureau I’m an OG spaceman Space duty frees large Toblerone Radiation sickness and no suntan Cosmic ****** if you must Light speed chat up lines In stardust I’m gonna draw you signs Baby can’t get enough of my *** So I showed her in IMAX Double ***** cokes with treble ****** Jelly legs. So is it written in the stars? Or do I need to text an explanation? Your eyes are reflecting the light Stars twinkling so bright Can we just take a moment To admire the cosmos With a cosmo Can we just take a moment To admire the cosmos With a cosmo.
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These things we do, we who feel too much. We who the world tries to crush every day. We who have to fight for every breath. I have no problem with a joint A glass of wine or port. Even a forty in its brown paper jacket. I have known many who partied. And many who partook in secret or just alone. I have known. Many who spread their skin with blades, A vent for excruciating pain. And often times I sit alone, watching. I've been called naive because I don't see the world as a thing that necessarily has to e ****** up. I choose to hope for the best rather then give in to the critics. And I wish to eliminate the victims. Victims are those who have stuff done to them. Terrible stuff. All over the spectrum. I don't want us to be victims. Everything has its place. Even as a warning sign. I believe cannabis was created for a reason. But my friends, that reason is not for you to exist in a sad state of numbness that allows you to keep yourself from taking action. It's not to numb the side effects of a broken heart a broken spirit a fractured soul. I have gotten softly drunk in Italy , sipping on white whine and nasty ***** and cokes and called our host a non specific Italian name. Whiskey can be used to numb injuries. To prepare soldiers for amputation in primitive times. But my friends, alcohol is not there to make you bold or keep you unaware. To the sorrowful souls who have so much pain they have to slice themselves , starve themselves , harm their selves to survive, I ask you to be strong. You are not a slave to the blade. You are strong enough to change your life To my dreamers, we must stop numbing ourselves as to not have to deal with reality. I believe so many of us do that the that real Change of ourselves and others and the world is pushed even farther away. And we are what humanity needs. The need people who feel and hurt and need and love and create. They need Someone to help Someone to offer a better choice. This is rough and not well written But the dreamers have been on my heart tonight.
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Oct 22, 2013
Oct 22, 2013 at 2:56 AM UTC
Smoking smoke. Drinking drink. Slicing flesh.
These things we do, we who feel too much. We who the world tries to crush every day. We who have to fight for every breath. I have no problem with a joint A glass of wine or port. Even a forty in its brown paper jacket. I have known many who partied. And many who partook in secret or just alone. I have known. Many who spread their skin with blades, A vent for excruciating pain. And often times I sit alone, watching. I've been called naive because I don't see the world as a thing that necessarily has to e ****** up. I choose to hope for the best rather then give in to the critics. And I wish to eliminate the victims. Victims are those who have stuff done to them. Terrible stuff. All over the spectrum. I don't want us to be victims. Everything has its place. Even as a warning sign. I believe cannabis was created for a reason. But my friends, that reason is not for you to exist in a sad state of numbness that allows you to keep yourself from taking action. It's not to numb the side effects of a broken heart a broken spirit a fractured soul. I have gotten softly drunk in Italy , sipping on white whine and nasty ***** and cokes and called our host a non specific Italian name. Whiskey can be used to numb injuries. To prepare soldiers for amputation in primitive times. But my friends, alcohol is not there to make you bold or keep you unaware. To the sorrowful souls who have so much pain they have to slice themselves , starve themselves , harm their selves to survive, I ask you to be strong. You are not a slave to the blade. You are strong enough to change your life To my dreamers, we must stop numbing ourselves as to not have to deal with reality. I believe so many of us do that the that real Change of ourselves and others and the world is pushed even farther away. And we are what humanity needs. The need people who feel and hurt and need and love and create. They need Someone to help Someone to offer a better choice. This is rough and not well written But the dreamers have been on my heart tonight.
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