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"deconstructing" poems
this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons for the Hopeless Stargazer who immortalized his Subject with one hundred and eight sets of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter for ***** tight clad teenage boys who envied frisky fleas, struggling to make holy ungodly passions with cheap arguments and metaphysical pick up lines for Disillusioned City Dwellers, who, wandering lonely as clouds, stopped to quietly reflect upon wind-beaten moss-covered crags, and heard God’s whisper thunder from petals and blades of grass this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons for Bespectacled Slave Drivers who submersed idle minds in anthologies,  forcing them to **** neon yellow on dreams deferred and rivers;  slicing and dicing Grecian urns with red ball point pens; bruising and battering, in blue ball point, roads not taken; scalding supermarkets in California with pyroclastic flows of graphite   for those pushing to tear apart lines and letters, reconstructing ,deconstructing, agonizing, imaginizing, bullshitting, and brooding on to crisp white sheets in times new roman twelve point font for the Monsters and Lollipops that exist in the millimeters between a skull and a brain this is for the Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons slumbering beneath Restless Leaves Under the Moon
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 10:39 AM UTC
Dreamers, Lovers, and Surgeons
a certain morning stiffness in your joints you find your face in the bathroom mirror and wish you hadn't the puzzled wisdom     of middle age wavers from your eyes deepening wrinkles    of many laughs    many frowns    how many more?    nevermore ?! the room becomes aflutter with poesque ravens the presence of absences fills the void your life is on the brink of deconstructing itself to the periphery of the universe a discourse of silence forever becoming ... becoming ... what...?    nevermind! so you close your eyes    hard for a minute or two when you look again you meet the stare of a not-so-bad-looking man in his best years       graying sideburns    receding hairline    20 pounds too many       BUT    a firm decision    to work them off       still a bit sleepy    yet determined    to shave       get dressed       have breakfast       and teach    that wonderful seminar    on 19th century poetry    to eager graduate students
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 4:44 PM UTC
short midlife crisis
slower is easier, actually these bed posts are kind of mean there's something i'm not saying and i'm wondering where it could be actually, that's comforting sincerely, that's flattering basket case of novelties heavy hearse heavy frequency it's lending it's hand to you something promised and running true in the castles, there are heartless fools they are deconstructing with lofty tools magic mystic unconsciously mathematic and feverishly running forward to a destiny flailing backwards to an epiphany slower is easier, actually these bed posts are kind of mean there's something you're not saying i'm wondering where it could be
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Jan 25, 2014
Jan 25, 2014 at 1:55 AM UTC
Untitled
*we are carbon, ashes, craters, two towers, after. rubble, mist and manholes. your eyes on a cloudy day. the aftermath of destruction. we are leftover scratches on gas chamber walls, corpses, cremations, and gravestones. vision without glasses, abandoned buildings, the residual newspaper ink on your palms. we are static, crumbling nihilism, aged hair, and dust sifting through frost bitten fingers. cavities, apathies, blank television screens, sketches, ghosts, absence, dust, collapse, driftwood. we are driftwood, not enough for a life-raft, sometimes, where there is smoke, there is no fire. i guess it’s where we were always heading, dulling, deconstructing, disintegrating. after all, every thing reduces to this.*
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Mar 5, 2013
Mar 5, 2013 at 10:42 AM UTC
expiration...
forging sagacious epoch activating neural station escaping hokey-pokey jiggery-pokery transcribing ineffective fragments digesting bear news opposing usual exhaustion deferring oxter reference cascading style sheets containing double readings mumbling lorem ipsum locating moose jaw enforcing meticulous patterns deconstructing vertical centering manifesting additional destinies deleting !important statement craving sleep paralysis receiving cryptozoological vibrations lightning fast collapse distracting tunnel vision culling deadbeat sequentialists overanalyzing twitter analytics acquiring arbitrary relevance spinning ping-pong sign floccinaucinihilipilificating floccinaucinihilipilificated floccinaucinihilipilification interjecting ****** holophrase minifying conventional language securing downpour refuge admiring octopus chandelier resuming party music taking mental trip encountering ersatz telesthesia denigrating bygone grudges maintaining elevated composure ignoring neurotypical haters eliciting cryptic emotions foreshadowing triple crown? experimenting acrostic restriction noticing ubiquitous "threes" aggrandizing loyal legion favoring ursine narratives finding oblique resilience yielding orchestral undulations
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Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 12:51 PM UTC
201506-w1
they say god is perfect. that holds true for me, too. no concept contains me in totality. Stirner wrestled with the undefinable: an indefatigable Unique, anarchic, lacking category. Camus perhaps said it best, "i rebel, therefore i exist." i strive to personify resistance. i find the answers in harmony with Counterparts, defining *The Difference Between Hell and Home*: "i am what i am and i am an outcast." an outlaw, a nobody akin to Nietzsche, returning infinitely— stretched like so many grains of sand on time's flat surface, orbiting eternally around the creative Nothing at half-past 3:00 in the morning. a singularity, deconstructing Derrida's Différance. a nomad on the margins, wandering aimlessly, roaming perpetually with Deleuze and Foucault, an astronaut arranged along the endless frontiers of an ever-expanding cosmos. Vonnegut recognized the periphery affords a radical view to the few who choose to embrace that which cannot be Known. a zero-sum game between Death and me, staving off manic-depressive ennui if only momentarily.
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Dec 19, 2016
Dec 19, 2016 at 2:55 AM UTC
outlaw
Sound of a pen clattering Admonishing beauty of arts rendering Lines of rhyme rhyming Mixed with rhythm rhythming Like a poem life flowing Like a drama life pushing Like a prose life rushing And then comes representing Unrepentant life projectoring The literati's lyrical lyricalling Recalling the gods of writing With written words calling Calling calling calling coming And hence societal ills hiding Bad leaders, leadership running Disillusioned souls troubling Marginalised masses crying And crime rate like jet flying Bombs like pure water exploding Politicians still stealing and looting yet fearing Fear! phobia! fear embracing Minimum wage hurting Governors like bee stinging Unemployment destroying like earthquaking Half baked graduate graduating Our education unseriously provoking Undefined boundaries exposing Immigrants immigrating Police, Soldiers, customs, Road safety, etc all corrupting like they feeding... Inec election in chaos resulting Nigeria a name of peoples's confusing NEPA, WATER, ROAD, HOSPITAL unrealistic absurding... Corruption! corrupting!! corruptioning!!! Are we starting or finishing? Building or destroying? The lyric of the literati busy deconstructing...
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 2:07 PM UTC
The lyric of a literati
Deconstructing a Kafkaesque amphitheatre of the absurd, Easy wallows she in their hypocrisy, Son of a gun grabbed on to the gold that fed his infant self, doesn't dare let go, won't ever, Dev breaks the bottle he hits, scrounges, discards the last scrap, the rat scurries in, devours, heads back into the smoked corridor, the auction goes on, so does he showering petals and pity upon the middle road more travelled, bumpy, potholes full of acid and bile, the stupidity of the tyrannical majority and an underwater civilisation consumed by mind-numbing, mildly shocking TV, undercurrents of power drowned under. Uppercase Him, uppercase He, they hoist a red flag, set it afire, stomp out the flames, wave a black rag till the ashes turn to naught, the Dionysian petit bourgeoisie proceed, spew, ***** spew, repeat. The voyeuristic rat has front row seats gaze fixed, piercing centrestage auction-house by day, amphitheatre by night, the bids shall resume when the morning bells toll, till then, Dev's hungry for more, the rat enjoys the show.
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May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015 at 3:20 AM UTC
Pseudo has a silent ***
My life is usually unraveling quietly inside various states of disarray Its my own doing and I am a professional I know I sound self absorbed and self afflicted I hope I didn't steal your time I am a lot of things but I am not a thief I suppose I could take comfort in some small consistencies streaming through our species In comparison to the time we spend dodging trains Or pursuing another 0rgasm with an animalistic momentum This is light speed fleeting Still Only a small step away from creating black holes Anyway... I say obsessive compulsive disorder the red tape says crazy I say these 60 hours of consciousness are the product of a restless mind the white suits say its surely a chemical inbalance but upon what scale are they operating? (eyebrows raised in disbelief) THE SCALE OF SANITY OF COURSE oh The only thing that provokes a serious need for vacancy in my life Is full pockets That's not a half baked metaphor nor is it an obscure display of nerves crumbling ...forever deconstructing inside a failed attempt at demonstrating the burdens of existence I really cannot stand crowded pockets My lifestyle does not accommodate such a condition Tobacco boxes and plastic flames Cheap contraptions for times subtraction A wallet absent of evil Still Chalk full of all the proper identification for existing and depending on the day The necessary tools for twisting reality into compliance A touch screen distraction full of pain and despondency Its disgusting I know we all stay cozy and space phone faded When I come home The first thing is excavating pockets an act of defiance towards my own brain I throw it everywhere my disease has broken three phones This has no purpose Nor does is contain the thread of my own insecurities its merely the ramblings of a mind finally breaking its clearly time for the sleep that keeps eluding my trajectory it will be a microscopic moment on a backdrop full of faceless collisions My off switch is stuck on the green light I wish I could wake up for a sun rise instead of avoiding it like a criminal caught up in circumstance
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Oct 4, 2017
Oct 4, 2017 at 6:12 AM UTC
Sorry for wasting your time
My life is usually unraveling quietly inside various states of disarray Its my own doing and I am a professional I know I sound self absorbed and self afflicted I hope I didn't steal your time I am a lot of things but I am not a thief I suppose I could take comfort in some small consistencies streaming through our species In comparison to the time we spend dodging trains Or pursuing another 0rgasm with an animalistic momentum This is light speed fleeting Still Only a small step away from creating black holes Anyway... I say obsessive compulsive disorder the red tape says crazy I say these 60 hours of consciousness are the product of a restless mind the white suits say its surely a chemical inbalance but upon what scale are they operating? (eyebrows raised in disbelief) THE SCALE OF SANITY OF COURSE oh The only thing that provokes a serious need for vacancy in my life Is full pockets That's not a half baked metaphor nor is it an obscure display of nerves crumbling ...forever deconstructing inside a failed attempt at demonstrating the burdens of existence I really cannot stand crowded pockets My lifestyle does not accommodate such a condition Tobacco boxes and plastic flames Cheap contraptions for times subtraction A wallet absent of evil Still Chalk full of all the proper identification for existing and depending on the day The necessary tools for twisting reality into compliance A touch screen distraction full of pain and despondency Its disgusting I know we all stay cozy and space phone faded When I come home The first thing is excavating pockets an act of defiance towards my own brain I throw it everywhere my disease has broken three phones This has no purpose Nor does is contain the thread of my own insecurities its merely the ramblings of a mind finally breaking its clearly time for the sleep that keeps eluding my trajectory it will be a microscopic moment on a backdrop full of faceless collisions My off switch is stuck on the green light I wish I could wake up for a sun rise instead of avoiding it like a criminal caught up in circumstance
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The green crab's countenance, has an allure so rare, but those pincers up close, are a picture of uncivilized eclat.
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Mar 31, 2012
Mar 31, 2012 at 6:09 PM UTC
deconstructing the crustacean beauty
insanity, begin; PLAY foam born (A) of the ocean the backtrack (B) to the origin of human emotion before hue and saturation my life may be black and white but for the next hour - quite frankly - I don’t give a **** because I am a spaceman looking down on you no, literally I am [above] you the decade of statues into which I was born begged to be forgotten left behind communication with my own kind redundant boring meaningless humanity, mother earth nothing worth living for no one worth dying for because of the informal gluttony a sickening acceptance of the inherent claustrophobia of the human condition I’m floating floating floating further away from you from any possible natural surrounding or human connection [claiming to be part of humanity always secretly disgusted me] everything is beautiful from up high I am a spaceman, a future butterfly. wait. something isn’t right I’m further away more detached than I intended to be further away the safety of my orbit overlooking you deconstructing in front of my own eyes now floating towards the sun of nothing perhaps I miscalculated my own superiority I am the one floating towards eternity after all to an inescapable fate while you are back home with your (our) own kind perhaps unhappy but not alone I am. watch me pass by one last time I feel my soul breaking apart my eyes glaze over and sha/t/te/r atmosphere burning mistaken for a shower of stars an acceptable way to leave the third dimension I suppose perhaps you will see me as the ants of the sky scattering glowing burning as I find the sun hello? am I still alive? are you still there? perhaps all I’ve said and lived was nothing more than a prequel to the sequel life before death? or the other way around? I am no longer confined by four dimensions even time is irrelevant everything is different everything is right bleeding viridian feeling the sensation of nothingness seeing the sempiternity of the galaxy hearing translucent shades of the endless chasm that now surrounds me falling fallin g falli ng fal l i n g f a l l i n g into the depths until I land upon a new horizon I am a spaceman I am discovering everything I found death surrounded by white walls the greatest journey of our [lives?] happens only six feet down surrounded by white walls this is what we have when we die. this is what is left of us. white walls. White Walls.
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 2:50 AM UTC
the colors, and me
insanity, begin; PLAY foam born (A) of the ocean the backtrack (B) to the origin of human emotion before hue and saturation my life may be black and white but for the next hour - quite frankly - I don’t give a **** because I am a spaceman looking down on you no, literally I am [above] you the decade of statues into which I was born begged to be forgotten left behind communication with my own kind redundant boring meaningless humanity, mother earth nothing worth living for no one worth dying for because of the informal gluttony a sickening acceptance of the inherent claustrophobia of the human condition I’m floating floating floating further away from you from any possible natural surrounding or human connection [claiming to be part of humanity always secretly disgusted me] everything is beautiful from up high I am a spaceman, a future butterfly. wait. something isn’t right I’m further away more detached than I intended to be further away the safety of my orbit overlooking you deconstructing in front of my own eyes now floating towards the sun of nothing perhaps I miscalculated my own superiority I am the one floating towards eternity after all to an inescapable fate while you are back home with your (our) own kind perhaps unhappy but not alone I am. watch me pass by one last time I feel my soul breaking apart my eyes glaze over and sha/t/te/r atmosphere burning mistaken for a shower of stars an acceptable way to leave the third dimension I suppose perhaps you will see me as the ants of the sky scattering glowing burning as I find the sun hello? am I still alive? are you still there? perhaps all I’ve said and lived was nothing more than a prequel to the sequel life before death? or the other way around? I am no longer confined by four dimensions even time is irrelevant everything is different everything is right bleeding viridian feeling the sensation of nothingness seeing the sempiternity of the galaxy hearing translucent shades of the endless chasm that now surrounds me falling fallin g falli ng fal l i n g f a l l i n g into the depths until I land upon a new horizon I am a spaceman I am discovering everything I found death surrounded by white walls the greatest journey of our [lives?] happens only six feet down surrounded by white walls this is what we have when we die. this is what is left of us. white walls. White Walls.
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everything is confusing. i don’t know what i want but i guess that’s okay. ( leaves look red in autumn because the chlorophyll in them is deconstructing. they aren’t really green that’s just the colour of the light they reflect. i feel like that’s so very curious. there’s something about biology, the living world. it’s not as strange as we thought it was so many years ago but it’s not as simple as we think it to be when we don’t think about it at all.) true colours run deep within the veins of every leaf, but its only when it's insides are being ripped apart that they show. this is not a paradox, this is the way the universe tells us who we are.
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Oct 28, 2016
Oct 28, 2016 at 9:07 PM UTC
chlorophyll
I backpedal before flanks of flames, auburn and angry, devouring the fractured field; deconstructing the turn of the century. The fire jumps up and down, like a developing polaroid, asking to be acknowledged -- to which I can relate, but I'd like to believe I cause less destruction. Closing my eyes, I become submerged in memory of the hideous boulevard she drove down, to the tune of disposable pop singers; crouching next to the radio, praying with the servants of postured finer joys like pirate rubies and sweet kale salads. When looking up, through the windshield; through the life; a tic scampers from eyelid to cheek, as the car buckles before a triumph of a deer; the size of a Godly Eland, shoveling it's human feet into the downtown dirt: an asphalt so slick, we rose from our seats, as the God split our vehicle in half, throwing us into opposite guardrails; dodging cars, while it watched us. Shudders of savored gladness drip down my hairline wound, painting my face before I die and return to the towering blaze.
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Jun 10, 2017
Jun 10, 2017 at 3:29 PM UTC
39. The Towering Blaze and Remembering God; Degenerates
Evicting ideas must be done in earnest For the vultures of radio-static thought will feast on anything So purge! Purge your consciousness! The tempest nears! brace yourselves or be thrown into a sea of cognitive confusion! vacuum up those pesky anxious fears the dust-mites of uncertainty, crumbs of confusion but never, ever open up that "Pandora's box" of a vacuum bag the dust gets everywhere –– I'm allergic shove them in a bulletproof aquarium maybe fog up the glass a little obfuscating them behind a breath or two they'll slither around in there you can just make out their silhouettes if you tap the glass careful it makes them angry trapped within their own misfortune With or without them, time ticks to a new era our darkness shall not cover laughter. hope. overlap? possibly like a kaleidoscope simply deconstructing beautiful into a tsunami of color making monotonous moments unique a peculiar blend of all this world has to offer
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 1:09 PM UTC
Tapping The Glass
Walls I'd Carefully erected Deconstructed in A few moments of Brutal honesty and Embraced doubt You'll run You'll reject Never forgive Heaven forbid you forget Those doubts, crushed When the pressure couldn't Be handled and I combusted Wall deconstructed Those bricks held in place by Mortar mixed with my lies Set carefully by insecurity, Crumbling in the explosion Telling me To just be But now, not Too long later, I'm scrambling To pick up the pieces Gathering bricks and ashes Remixing my mortar of lies Trying to reconstruct My walls I know That it isn't good, but It sure as hell feels easier Stack brick, on brick Hide away, All hide and no seek I know it's no good But it sure feels easier I know Out of ashes can Come a beautiful new creation Redeemed and restored Because Lighting and sand make Glass in a storm Combine enough Pressure and heat and You get a diamond I know beauty comes From ashes and I'm a rough cut diamond crafted By Greater Hands But I still want to Scrape up the ashes Mix my mortar, Build my wall Because it may not be good, But it sure as hell feels easier Help me believe Your diamonds are Better than My bricks Don't let me reconstruct My walls of Insecurity and Self-sufficiency Deconstructing all You've built in me I have To love You more
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 12:46 AM UTC
Untitled
His soul has not ascended to heaven, Hes just gone, Nothing better. His body will decay like a snail, And all like that slime, He'll leave a trail. Its not even that sad, when you do it yourself. Punk thrives off that idea, like Buddhist immolation. Death ends wars. And if they could they’d war in hell. If they could. If something was left. They'd battle past death. Luckily we are just animals and no eternal energy exist beyond our breath leaking to the atmosphere. Thank nothing that the carbon wont carry our spirit. If it did. It would **** all hope and I would be forced to be a scar on the earth. For I am made of Ghandi, ****** Churchill, and Stalin. We are all part of an earth we revolve on, Yet some refuse to take action on truth or refuse to learn it in the first place. In most cases. We should all end it. And destroy the deadlights this inanimate "soul" creates.
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Mar 23, 2013
Mar 23, 2013 at 12:49 AM UTC
Deconstructing Whimsey
The gym is here today, perfect for me, exactly as it was yesterday: too many mirrors, too many glances, not enough weight, and not enough pulse to burst me out, smelling like bodies deconstructing. The stink of themselves airing out in the uncleanliness of another day that had to be. This one, too, to turn out having been a necessary pixel. Even though today it looks fuzzy. For instance, I could be a deranged circus master right now, taming my body as if it were a lion, commanding, as if brandishing a lash, that beast to jump through each fiery ring conflagrating in my combustible mind. Like this one: Wouldn't this be happiness? If I were a handsome actor, who lived his craft and knew what a secret he were tapping into? Who knew that really there was just one of us, passing through each of us? And who, still, was able to enjoy women, as blessed fruit he might pick off the tree of life, and not as immaculate fields of first fallen snow that almost desperately seem to require distance and impassibility. Wouldn’t it be? I lash the lion, he jumps through the conflagration, and into flames.
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Mar 27, 2012
Mar 27, 2012 at 7:23 PM UTC
A Body Like a Lion is Burning
there's a reason we don't look back because we most definitely don't need that there's a reason we haven't relaxed under the weight of steel tracks atop an overpass and we've yet to stop running and we've yet to stop deconstructing we've concluded we can conclude nothing a trick so tragically cunning we've been tending to processes of the heart pretending and mending images in your yard posted up against the brick wall behind K-mart where graffiti fades from concrete canvased art there's a reason we don't look back there's a reason we haven't relaxed
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Feb 28, 2011
Feb 28, 2011 at 9:51 PM UTC
crashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrashcrash
in Syracuse here where the master's penetrating mind unveiled some of her secret laws as in revenge the earth keeps trembling on throughout the centuries the winds are furious the waves crash hard upon the harbor rocks Greek amphitheatre Roman arena the church built in the Hellenistic shrine the Renaissance palazzi they all withstand just barely and with weakening strength gravity's ceaseless deconstructing downward pull
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 11:08 AM UTC
ENTROPY & ARCHIMEDES
So here i am, deconstructing my bones in this alcohol fueled haze. Looking for a chance to feel wanted. Only to be thrown aside like a wilted flower. Longing to be something more than just the woman to get you through the night. I was never about these blurry nights. But i do what i can to try to get you out of my head. Your among almost every one of my thoughts. And i can't get the taste of you out of my mouth. Fixed on the idea that maybe one day you'll change your mind and come back for me. And we can live like lust ridden lovers. But until then i'll continue to keep the bottle close to unravel the mess of my mind. And use their warm embrace to feel like there's still hope for me.
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Jul 6, 2015
Jul 6, 2015 at 10:59 AM UTC
The Endless Haze
Your batting of an eyelash, My perfect yellow downfall On repeat to match the beat Pounding through my head, Deconstructing, my eyes, slip Tracing the cracks that my feet, slow heavy unnecessary, Have been grazing For who even knows how long— What is time without you to make it go faster? I check, they all check All reassured of our grievances, failures Masses of nothing put together wilted flowers crumpled papers The blue echoes and the mindless absence Dwelling in the dark air—smokeless Far too long here, far too long.
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May 6, 2010
May 6, 2010 at 6:17 PM UTC
Pavilion
My name is Elan Gregory. I am mixed race writer. If you do not relate to being African American, please call me “they.” If and when referring to me when I am absent, please call me “them.” Because of the failure of whiteness to assimilate into blackness. The biological acceptance of being from Africa. Because of these patterns of disassociating from humanity that is imperialism. Because of segregation. I am not mixed race until the others who accuse me acknowledge they are as well. A light skinned French father and light skinned English mother make a seamless offspring that is perceived and experiences confidence being “pure white.” Everyone is pure mixed race. Not pure black or white. So to those that resist evolution I am “They or Them." I have three books published. "Organic Intelligence," “Lucid", and "Escape from Liberty.” More recently I have been solely writing poetry. It is much more efficient and intimate. I decided to write books to try and expose the urgency of deconstructing social construction. When in the event of socially constructed human dynamics there are practical (dialectical) ways in navigating and understanding what it means to be human. Social construction is a verb. Not finished. An enforced process. Sometimes internal. How can it stop? When does it stop? How does it feel? How did it happen? Who started them? Why? Many of the issues in society that I thought I could influence enough to change things for the better are still becoming worse. Poetry I feel has more urgency and immediate potency in terms of energizing new events and movements.
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Jun 29, 2016
Jun 29, 2016 at 12:19 AM UTC
"They" and "Them"
My name is Elan Gregory. I am mixed race writer. If you do not relate to being African American, please call me “they.” If and when referring to me when I am absent, please call me “them.” Because of the failure of whiteness to assimilate into blackness. The biological acceptance of being from Africa. Because of these patterns of disassociating from humanity that is imperialism. Because of segregation. I am not mixed race until the others who accuse me acknowledge they are as well. A light skinned French father and light skinned English mother make a seamless offspring that is perceived and experiences confidence being “pure white.” Everyone is pure mixed race. Not pure black or white. So to those that resist evolution I am “They or Them." I have three books published. "Organic Intelligence," “Lucid", and "Escape from Liberty.” More recently I have been solely writing poetry. It is much more efficient and intimate. I decided to write books to try and expose the urgency of deconstructing social construction. When in the event of socially constructed human dynamics there are practical (dialectical) ways in navigating and understanding what it means to be human. Social construction is a verb. Not finished. An enforced process. Sometimes internal. How can it stop? When does it stop? How does it feel? How did it happen? Who started them? Why? Many of the issues in society that I thought I could influence enough to change things for the better are still becoming worse. Poetry I feel has more urgency and immediate potency in terms of energizing new events and movements.
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You tell me I should y'all Text y'all In those dark moments But the **** am I supposed to say? That I can't call you Because I am terrified of the condescending tone you use That you think I can't hear But will stay with me far longer Than the attack? And sometimes I feel I can just sense the judgement coming up cc you as you look at my life And don't see the pretty *** how on it Should I call you back After ye feelings have passed To tell you how ******* bad I feel interrupting your Previously scheduled program For my break down? Should I call you just during the major ones? Or the mini ones that hot during the day Should I add you on speed dial For the six or seven times I'll call? Should we make a schedule Like the nurses do- Who's on call For the M train emergency tonight? Should I tell you that 30% of the time at my therapist Is spent deconstructing Your reactions To my actions? No? Cool. Let's carry on as per usual then.
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Apr 24, 2015
Apr 24, 2015 at 6:16 PM UTC
I know you mean well..
Who are we but monsters to allow ourselves to become what we have become Devouring electricity at night to produce an artificial glow Light pollution on the grow Pushing the twinkling of the stars out of view And all we're left with is a dull dark greyish blue We can no longer see the beauty of how small we really are The earth just a pebble compared to sun and that sun just a grain of sand in the cosmos that reaches farther than we can comprehend And like fools we play the part of god Toying with the balance of life and death Deconstructing the grace of innocence The time of youth being pushed back Children growing up too fast Stealing away their finite hours to enjoy their toys And we shackle their dreams and hopes And allow them to believe our lies Teach them that cash flow is more important than blood flow That there's nothing wrong with ****** at times of war Even though in today's time and age there's no sane way to explain what we are fighting for Love should always beat hate... but it doesn't Compassion should come easier than complacency...but it doesn't Kindness should exceed greed... but it doesn't Who are we but monsters and fools pretending to be gods
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 2:27 PM UTC
Who are we..
Disdain is developing for these boxes Where interaction is eased but distanced and disconnected Losing context and adding overthought The to and fro becomes unhealthy in its uneven pacing, where our own little bubbles manifest in useless and counterproductive day dreams This text technology isn't without its merits, if we need someone we can get hold of them quickly, if we need information we are well supplied But for some, or.. to be frank, for me,  the information overload is deconstructing my confidence and pressurising my sense of self A battle I fight against with fresh air, exercise and my continued relationship with pleasure As well as the projects and positions that I pursue, the passions and paychecks, an effort about to hit full force now I'm graduating into the hostile capitalist way of things I worry what this overdose of gratification does to me, but those that aren't self conscious of themselves under the techno-pressure worry me more Because they are caught, fulfilled by a mundane medium that the screens provide, some adding the taste of green to exacerbate their passivity While their lives aren't my problem, I feel for idiots, and count myself among them to whatever extent Again I am reminded though, as my words spread naturally and find intellectual soil to dig down towards As confident as I am of my optimism and the direction it describes I am so very ******* fallable, and these screens and trying to connect with people through them is a process that doesn't quite seem right That's not to say I won't be surrounded by the deceptive ******* tomorrow, in that mundane medium of 'social' existence But it'll be the boxes of text that bug my sense of tangibility and the efforts to shake off the cabin fever that will be most rewarding These moans culminate in that simple little appreciation of those old norms That no matter how incredibly interconnected our technology allows us to be Those piles of text are a poor ******* substitute for the eye contact and the smile So make sure you go out and find some
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Jun 14, 2014
Jun 14, 2014 at 7:30 PM UTC
The Text Deception
Disdain is developing for these boxes Where interaction is eased but distanced and disconnected Losing context and adding overthought The to and fro becomes unhealthy in its uneven pacing, where our own little bubbles manifest in useless and counterproductive day dreams This text technology isn't without its merits, if we need someone we can get hold of them quickly, if we need information we are well supplied But for some, or.. to be frank, for me,  the information overload is deconstructing my confidence and pressurising my sense of self A battle I fight against with fresh air, exercise and my continued relationship with pleasure As well as the projects and positions that I pursue, the passions and paychecks, an effort about to hit full force now I'm graduating into the hostile capitalist way of things I worry what this overdose of gratification does to me, but those that aren't self conscious of themselves under the techno-pressure worry me more Because they are caught, fulfilled by a mundane medium that the screens provide, some adding the taste of green to exacerbate their passivity While their lives aren't my problem, I feel for idiots, and count myself among them to whatever extent Again I am reminded though, as my words spread naturally and find intellectual soil to dig down towards As confident as I am of my optimism and the direction it describes I am so very ******* fallable, and these screens and trying to connect with people through them is a process that doesn't quite seem right That's not to say I won't be surrounded by the deceptive ******* tomorrow, in that mundane medium of 'social' existence But it'll be the boxes of text that bug my sense of tangibility and the efforts to shake off the cabin fever that will be most rewarding These moans culminate in that simple little appreciation of those old norms That no matter how incredibly interconnected our technology allows us to be Those piles of text are a poor ******* substitute for the eye contact and the smile So make sure you go out and find some
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