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~for L3igh~ the briefness of brevity, the quality of giving and indeed, it is a-quality, a luxury item so affordable, yet, so totally, rarely purchased, When giving up the requisite, only the lonely, but always the critical, relevant or necessary exquisite in a few words Let us practice: I love you, but only the very first time, in a memory bronzed and burnished, putting to shame the way too short modesty of forever… uttering a precious precision of a soulful thank you to a passing stranger, who runs into your home afire, saving all of your family's lives could go on, and on, But that would not be, A Concision, instead, a concession, to the very few times in a day, in the world's entirety, when those are the words, are only the only, a sufficient holy, a devout summary spectacular, akin, but only a just, derivative of, a sincerely uttered: Thank You God^ nml
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Oct 5, 2025
Oct 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM UTC
The Concision
Before there was anything that mattered everything that would ever be existed , it was the essence of totality , it was without dimensional constriction or necessitated form .  Optimistically speaking time had no relative realism to it’s progression because realistically nothing had happened yet .  As it continued it became according to it’s innate inflections as a functionally integrable form .  The questionably understandable nature of it’s conjunction was an omnipotent directive beyond necessitated action or morphological construction .  The enigmatic consciousness of it’s relatively interrelated conception was spontaneous and yet it continued without elemental omniscience.   As the relative complexity of it’s interrelations evolved dimensional consistence was born.  Humanly understandable laws of physical integration governed many facets of it’s conjunction yet the totality of it’s ramification was beyond humanly realistic conjecture .   The organic morphology of biological ontogeny was a conceptually reflective derivative of functional physical mechanics yet it’s diversity exceeded it’s physical complexity , understanding evolved .  Relatively extraneous interpolations of adhesively practical extremity succeeded in a hierarchy of functionally integrable forms . Retrospectively speaking pragmatic practicality is a humanly rational possibility .  Rational logic can conceive of individually totalitarian structural forms , yet the implosive nature of their rational cohesiveness becomes a practical partiality due to the diversity of their definitive impetus . Perhaps the essence of our being is the logical counterpart for the matrix of our subjectively conclusive social fragmentation , or perhaps we are evolutionally incapable of cumulatively rational correlation.  Problematic diversity could be perfectible on an individually infinite level or contrarily perhaps ubiquitous causality is the ultimate survivor.   In any case it is beyond our subjugatively rational cohesive coercion to intercede en masse on our own behalf as an integrated unit. Our conceptual abilities have been thwarted by the unmitigatably individual nature of our extraneous conclusiveness .
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Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 5:15 PM UTC
Glyph
Before there was anything that mattered everything that would ever be existed , it was the essence of totality , it was without dimensional constriction or necessitated form .  Optimistically speaking time had no relative realism to it’s progression because realistically nothing had happened yet .  As it continued it became according to it’s innate inflections as a functionally integrable form .  The questionably understandable nature of it’s conjunction was an omnipotent directive beyond necessitated action or morphological construction .  The enigmatic consciousness of it’s relatively interrelated conception was spontaneous and yet it continued without elemental omniscience.   As the relative complexity of it’s interrelations evolved dimensional consistence was born.  Humanly understandable laws of physical integration governed many facets of it’s conjunction yet the totality of it’s ramification was beyond humanly realistic conjecture .   The organic morphology of biological ontogeny was a conceptually reflective derivative of functional physical mechanics yet it’s diversity exceeded it’s physical complexity , understanding evolved .  Relatively extraneous interpolations of adhesively practical extremity succeeded in a hierarchy of functionally integrable forms . Retrospectively speaking pragmatic practicality is a humanly rational possibility .  Rational logic can conceive of individually totalitarian structural forms , yet the implosive nature of their rational cohesiveness becomes a practical partiality due to the diversity of their definitive impetus . Perhaps the essence of our being is the logical counterpart for the matrix of our subjectively conclusive social fragmentation , or perhaps we are evolutionally incapable of cumulatively rational correlation.  Problematic diversity could be perfectible on an individually infinite level or contrarily perhaps ubiquitous causality is the ultimate survivor.   In any case it is beyond our subjugatively rational cohesive coercion to intercede en masse on our own behalf as an integrated unit. Our conceptual abilities have been thwarted by the unmitigatably individual nature of our extraneous conclusiveness .
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I sit doing my calculus homework The homework that I should have done yesterday The numbers swim in front of me Until they spell out your name I take your derivative To find the critical points And realize that our entire Not-quite-friendship Has a downward slope. I still ride that curve down Pretend I am falling in love Instead of falling deeper and deeper Instead of what is really just Begrudging tolerance. My homework remains undone.
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Oct 2, 2013
Oct 2, 2013 at 6:40 PM UTC
Calculus
There is a harsh beauty in mathematics. Under curves and over slopes, Equations rise and fall endlessly In a perfectly measured void. Optimized, rationalized, sterilized; Formulas that never lie, Theorems looming before us Like an archaic God, A golden deity whose Volume is maximized. How I dream of drifting in this flux, Concave up and concave down, Riding the sign of my second derivative For positive and negative, For better and worse. I would not travel alone; With C by my side, Friend, ally, brother, Always paired with my antiderivative, For whenever we journey back Into the past, it is necessary To have a companion to pull us out again In case we are unsure of where we started. Rules and laws Strict organization, control; There is a harsh beauty in mathematics. Order; two plus two is always four. Sines and cosines and theta All dancing in the unit circle of life, A conga line that joins itself To form a mathematical ouroboros. But the harshest of the harsh beauties Presented in this Divine Subject Is that though there is an infinite capacity For positivity and growth, So too is there the possibility of stretching Endlessly towards negativity forever. However, it is much more terrifying To lie in the middle; To be undefined, unknowable, and to add Or subtract to no effect; The most fear inducing, mysterious, and gorgeous number Of zero; nothing yet something, Infinite yet not, The most grand of all contradictions. A hole; a jump; a discontinuity, Easily removed from life and smoothed out If you just apply the formulas. Graphs and coordinates, integers and ordered pairs, Is that not what life is? We live within the grandest equation, Each our own variable, Constantly solving for ourselves With the harsh beauties of mathematics.
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Jun 2, 2013
Jun 2, 2013 at 10:27 PM UTC
Calculus
There is a harsh beauty in mathematics. Under curves and over slopes, Equations rise and fall endlessly In a perfectly measured void. Optimized, rationalized, sterilized; Formulas that never lie, Theorems looming before us Like an archaic God, A golden deity whose Volume is maximized. How I dream of drifting in this flux, Concave up and concave down, Riding the sign of my second derivative For positive and negative, For better and worse. I would not travel alone; With C by my side, Friend, ally, brother, Always paired with my antiderivative, For whenever we journey back Into the past, it is necessary To have a companion to pull us out again In case we are unsure of where we started. Rules and laws Strict organization, control; There is a harsh beauty in mathematics. Order; two plus two is always four. Sines and cosines and theta All dancing in the unit circle of life, A conga line that joins itself To form a mathematical ouroboros. But the harshest of the harsh beauties Presented in this Divine Subject Is that though there is an infinite capacity For positivity and growth, So too is there the possibility of stretching Endlessly towards negativity forever. However, it is much more terrifying To lie in the middle; To be undefined, unknowable, and to add Or subtract to no effect; The most fear inducing, mysterious, and gorgeous number Of zero; nothing yet something, Infinite yet not, The most grand of all contradictions. A hole; a jump; a discontinuity, Easily removed from life and smoothed out If you just apply the formulas. Graphs and coordinates, integers and ordered pairs, Is that not what life is? We live within the grandest equation, Each our own variable, Constantly solving for ourselves With the harsh beauties of mathematics.
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Part II  of "Got 0 Followers" aim high to keep it low expectations such an Awesome Awful curse others infect you with don't, yada yada, ya wanna be like Tom, **** and Jane, even Harry, a transgendered friend and fellow (ha) outcast, all with a good job prospects of a goodly tented long life? so ya write poems to nobody about nothing and you are pleased to be pleasing just yourself in writing you have nothing to prove, so read them like keepsakes ya like, keep 'em & me hid, in the shoebox under the closeted pile of ***** clothes, special designer outfits concocted so they keep my remains, privatized and unsanitized, my equity, hidden, disguised as disgusting but for god-sakes don't follow me, unless you want to curse us both with Expectations of Expectations, then comes with illiteracy of Affection then the literary pre-tension that always follows, leading to Affectation, the first derivative of the infection of affection yeah, then comes caring and it instantly it's too late, you're ******* right up the mental heine, lost condemned ruined annihilated crushed subverted crushed into mental death camp suffocation of more, please ma, can I have some more? crap, why did you have to go and follow me?
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Mar 8, 2015
Mar 8, 2015 at 8:14 PM UTC
the expectation of expectations March 2015 (crap, why did you have to go and follow me?)
Before there was anything that mattered everything that would ever be existed , it was the essence of totality , it was without dimensional constriction or necessitated form .  Optimistically speaking time had no relative realism to it’s progression because realistically nothing had happened yet .  As it continued it became according to it’s innate inflections as a functionally integrable form .  The questionably understandable nature of it’s conjunction was an omnipotent directive beyond necessitated action or morphological construction .  The enigmatic consciousness of it’s relatively interrelated conception was spontaneous and yet it continued without elemental omniscience . As the relative complexity of it’s interrelations evolved dimensional consistence was born.  Humanly understandable laws of physical integration governed many facets of it’s conjunction yet the totality of it’s ramification was beyond humanly realistic conjecture .   The organic morphology of biological ontogeny was a conceptually reflective derivative of functional physical mechanics yet it’s diversity exceeded it’s physical complexity , understanding evolved .  Relatively extraneous interpolations of adhesively practical extremity succeeded in a hierarchy of functionally integrable forms . Retrospectively speaking pragmatic practicality is a humanly rational possibility .  Rational logic can conceive of individually totalitarian structural forms , yet the implosive nature of their rational cohesiveness becomes a practical partiality due to the diversity of their definitive impetus . Perhaps the essence of our being is the logical counterpart for the matrix of our subjectively conclusive social fragmentation , or perhaps we are evolutionally incapable of cumulatively rational correlation .  Problematic diversity could be perfectible on an individually infinite level or contrarily perhaps ubiquitous causality is the ultimate survivor .   In any case it is beyond our subjugatively rational cohesive coercion to intercede en masse on our own behalf as an integrated unit. Our conceptual abilities have been thwarted by the unmitigatably individual nature of our extraneous conclusiveness .
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Mar 8, 2013
Mar 8, 2013 at 4:14 PM UTC
Glyph
Before there was anything that mattered everything that would ever be existed , it was the essence of totality , it was without dimensional constriction or necessitated form .  Optimistically speaking time had no relative realism to it’s progression because realistically nothing had happened yet .  As it continued it became according to it’s innate inflections as a functionally integrable form .  The questionably understandable nature of it’s conjunction was an omnipotent directive beyond necessitated action or morphological construction .  The enigmatic consciousness of it’s relatively interrelated conception was spontaneous and yet it continued without elemental omniscience . As the relative complexity of it’s interrelations evolved dimensional consistence was born.  Humanly understandable laws of physical integration governed many facets of it’s conjunction yet the totality of it’s ramification was beyond humanly realistic conjecture .   The organic morphology of biological ontogeny was a conceptually reflective derivative of functional physical mechanics yet it’s diversity exceeded it’s physical complexity , understanding evolved .  Relatively extraneous interpolations of adhesively practical extremity succeeded in a hierarchy of functionally integrable forms . Retrospectively speaking pragmatic practicality is a humanly rational possibility .  Rational logic can conceive of individually totalitarian structural forms , yet the implosive nature of their rational cohesiveness becomes a practical partiality due to the diversity of their definitive impetus . Perhaps the essence of our being is the logical counterpart for the matrix of our subjectively conclusive social fragmentation , or perhaps we are evolutionally incapable of cumulatively rational correlation .  Problematic diversity could be perfectible on an individually infinite level or contrarily perhaps ubiquitous causality is the ultimate survivor .   In any case it is beyond our subjugatively rational cohesive coercion to intercede en masse on our own behalf as an integrated unit. Our conceptual abilities have been thwarted by the unmitigatably individual nature of our extraneous conclusiveness .
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Against the saturated Horizon of dawn, Loitering in the dark timbre Of emerging consciousness - Dissipating somnolence And preemptive despair, Tacitly adumbrate the Yawning abyss. Chastened by the cunning and Lubricious nihilism, Igniting fermented provocations, Silent subterfuge; death, By mirth - the inane; Lament of the mundane. Fallow paradigms, accretions of The last gasp - Evaporating empty liturgies Of suspicion; Charity and equanimity - Lost in confinement, Triumphant avarice bearing Descendants Of intransigence; Wielding imperious Schemes of orthodoxy. Pollard fragments of Silken tapestry, Miasma draped depression Abridging; Conversely, Permuted flurries of anxiety Dislodge The vestiges of meaning That abide In brazen equivocation. Tributaries of dogma reach Their confluence, Watershed moment,   Numinous effusion Streams naked epiphany, The precarious vision - A gesture of providence, Certainty and contingency; Gratuitously derivative, life Equals choice. Verdant branches of intention; And opportunity the vine, Live forward - The pen, my voice, Piquant conduit pouring, Exuberant wine. Footprints found in givenness Underline, Penumbrae of my soul; Mirrored silhouettes, Thoughts and words engender; And in verse adorn Fecund soil, Line after line, The cosmos altered, Continuum of permanence - Artist’s art articulating Essence of my imagination, I proliferate, I design Phrases unique, Participation mystique. Words creating world, The apparatus of infinity Heidegger, ontologically precise, Language - The house of Being, Ineffable, Promethean Literary devise - Envisioning possibility, And abundance to allow, I occur Inhabit Manifest Future phenomena Experienced as now. ©2008 & ©2011 W.S. Warner
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Sep 16, 2011
Sep 16, 2011 at 2:02 PM UTC
The Precarious Vision
Against the saturated Horizon of dawn, Loitering in the dark timbre Of emerging consciousness - Dissipating somnolence And preemptive despair, Tacitly adumbrate the Yawning abyss. Chastened by the cunning and Lubricious nihilism, Igniting fermented provocations, Silent subterfuge; death, By mirth - the inane; Lament of the mundane. Fallow paradigms, accretions of The last gasp - Evaporating empty liturgies Of suspicion; Charity and equanimity - Lost in confinement, Triumphant avarice bearing Descendants Of intransigence; Wielding imperious Schemes of orthodoxy. Pollard fragments of Silken tapestry, Miasma draped depression Abridging; Conversely, Permuted flurries of anxiety Dislodge The vestiges of meaning That abide In brazen equivocation. Tributaries of dogma reach Their confluence, Watershed moment,   Numinous effusion Streams naked epiphany, The precarious vision - A gesture of providence, Certainty and contingency; Gratuitously derivative, life Equals choice. Verdant branches of intention; And opportunity the vine, Live forward - The pen, my voice, Piquant conduit pouring, Exuberant wine. Footprints found in givenness Underline, Penumbrae of my soul; Mirrored silhouettes, Thoughts and words engender; And in verse adorn Fecund soil, Line after line, The cosmos altered, Continuum of permanence - Artist’s art articulating Essence of my imagination, I proliferate, I design Phrases unique, Participation mystique. Words creating world, The apparatus of infinity Heidegger, ontologically precise, Language - The house of Being, Ineffable, Promethean Literary devise - Envisioning possibility, And abundance to allow, I occur Inhabit Manifest Future phenomena Experienced as now. ©2008 & ©2011 W.S. Warner
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Love Is not an equation. There is no x, y, or z No variable No shortcut to find a companion If there was, Well, It wouldn't be love But a cheap imitation, The store brand of human emotion. And yet I still yearn to be a Derivative So that I might lie tangent to your curves.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 2:54 PM UTC
Calculator Romance
There's an architect designing the world from the skyline downwards, as he believes himself to be a God The paraffin lamps on Victorian cobbled corners are as dry as the seraph in dust bowls over some arid sea A portrait exists, of a town covered in mist and the orange cliffs are a thousand bloodied wrists Somewhere music plays to ghosts, obtuse reverberations of some cave on a mountain... or something and what a useless skill it is to be a poet, flouting fanciful words as if a single soul cared or could possibly muster anything more than unadulterated apathy What a lonely life it is, to spend entire days watching *********** and reveling in dissociative stoicism Watching cam girls for hours on end, swept up in conversation yet never taking part, only watching They seem as lonely as anybody, holed up in crimson rooms as anonymous DJs play through laptop speakers Fielding obscene questions with a smile and renting their body in timetables to the highest tipper and some days the depression becomes so heavy that ************ seems impossible, though it's possible to blame such scarcity on the anti-anxiety meds that have ruined so many-a youthful folly Is there a more flattering notion, than a story teller being commended for honesty when every word is a lie Fictional accounts of melancholic lives told in a pulchritudinous verse or a prose of the most regal purples Using nothing more than psycho-stimulants and a smeared bedroom window for inspiration There's a writer sat at a desk, typing ridiculous lines of text, as he knows himself to be human and in that humanity he strives to create a realists interpretation of existence through scattered memories and derivative styles of his favourite authors whilst using educational texts as footnotes in imaginary diaries
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Nov 24, 2013
Nov 24, 2013 at 2:10 PM UTC
This Machine Frees Oppressed Chickens
There's an architect designing the world from the skyline downwards, as he believes himself to be a God The paraffin lamps on Victorian cobbled corners are as dry as the seraph in dust bowls over some arid sea A portrait exists, of a town covered in mist and the orange cliffs are a thousand bloodied wrists Somewhere music plays to ghosts, obtuse reverberations of some cave on a mountain... or something and what a useless skill it is to be a poet, flouting fanciful words as if a single soul cared or could possibly muster anything more than unadulterated apathy What a lonely life it is, to spend entire days watching *********** and reveling in dissociative stoicism Watching cam girls for hours on end, swept up in conversation yet never taking part, only watching They seem as lonely as anybody, holed up in crimson rooms as anonymous DJs play through laptop speakers Fielding obscene questions with a smile and renting their body in timetables to the highest tipper and some days the depression becomes so heavy that ************ seems impossible, though it's possible to blame such scarcity on the anti-anxiety meds that have ruined so many-a youthful folly Is there a more flattering notion, than a story teller being commended for honesty when every word is a lie Fictional accounts of melancholic lives told in a pulchritudinous verse or a prose of the most regal purples Using nothing more than psycho-stimulants and a smeared bedroom window for inspiration There's a writer sat at a desk, typing ridiculous lines of text, as he knows himself to be human and in that humanity he strives to create a realists interpretation of existence through scattered memories and derivative styles of his favourite authors whilst using educational texts as footnotes in imaginary diaries
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the pitch dark symmetry of spiral engraved glossy jet black vinyl the ***** claws and webbed spiders; graced with impeccable scratch words come back around from dog day afternoon; entwined in ritual beatology technique absorbed in prowess dedication assimilated by passion; human form and synthetic resin becomes overlayed polyvinyl chloride or unsaturated hydrocarbon radicals; a derivative by any other name I'll leave that nugget for the pub quiz and relax, post-Christmas stress; the street scramble bustle, embrace a pint of black magic
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Dec 16, 2012
Dec 16, 2012 at 10:28 AM UTC
Hip Hop Stormtrooper
You need to pay a sin tax for the way you talk smack, calling me your property your syntax is making me over. the. hill. I’m heels over head with you making me crazy the way that you speak your diction’s too weak. “you’re so nice” how boring, I choose more elegant words to describe your glory I could write a five-page double-spaced essay about you and get accepted to your ivy league I could wrap my arms around you like ivy on stone hang you up to dry on the clothesline til you answer the telephone I could cling to you like static on your sweater you better not flick.me.off. Hell, my poetry ain’t free it’s about as free as slaves I have confines, rules bats in caves It costs me thoughts and time and frustration costs me more than just greenbacks and a vacaction. you need to pay up talk isn’t cheap your words cost you attention even if my love don’t cost a thing I train you like a golden retriever you retrieve my orders like a wide receiver my language is figurative but your actions are derivative you’re confusing me like trigonometry love triangles are not my thing. our l θve i ∫ a sin(x) cos we go  off on tangents and don’t know where to begin first we’re infatuated then we’re done next we’re inebriated then we have some fun happens so fast then we come together at last This rollercoaster of emotion has me puking again I’m trying to calculate this algorithm in my head. its so complicated I’ll need something else instead. in this kaleidoscope I see many sides of you and me I spin it round to try to understand all I see is a blur of colors even when I hold your hand. I wish I could see the thoughts you hide from me I want to understand you’re radioactive your face is glowing even in pitch black your smile is showing but, I never get to see your eyes make me crazy hazy they trip me up and pull me down periodically, you’re in your element and everything clicks then we stick and the chemistry’s quick but then you open your mouth garbage spurts out I think it’s about time I take you out
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Oct 7, 2011
Oct 7, 2011 at 2:06 PM UTC
Syn-tax
You need to pay a sin tax for the way you talk smack, calling me your property your syntax is making me over. the. hill. I’m heels over head with you making me crazy the way that you speak your diction’s too weak. “you’re so nice” how boring, I choose more elegant words to describe your glory I could write a five-page double-spaced essay about you and get accepted to your ivy league I could wrap my arms around you like ivy on stone hang you up to dry on the clothesline til you answer the telephone I could cling to you like static on your sweater you better not flick.me.off. Hell, my poetry ain’t free it’s about as free as slaves I have confines, rules bats in caves It costs me thoughts and time and frustration costs me more than just greenbacks and a vacaction. you need to pay up talk isn’t cheap your words cost you attention even if my love don’t cost a thing I train you like a golden retriever you retrieve my orders like a wide receiver my language is figurative but your actions are derivative you’re confusing me like trigonometry love triangles are not my thing. our l θve i ∫ a sin(x) cos we go  off on tangents and don’t know where to begin first we’re infatuated then we’re done next we’re inebriated then we have some fun happens so fast then we come together at last This rollercoaster of emotion has me puking again I’m trying to calculate this algorithm in my head. its so complicated I’ll need something else instead. in this kaleidoscope I see many sides of you and me I spin it round to try to understand all I see is a blur of colors even when I hold your hand. I wish I could see the thoughts you hide from me I want to understand you’re radioactive your face is glowing even in pitch black your smile is showing but, I never get to see your eyes make me crazy hazy they trip me up and pull me down periodically, you’re in your element and everything clicks then we stick and the chemistry’s quick but then you open your mouth garbage spurts out I think it’s about time I take you out
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So primitive that it should be criminal like a limited pyramid of minimal innocent citizen, inhabitant, or denizen infinite vision and mission subliminal principled, committed and disciplined addicted to the privileged derivative affirmative velocity, motive inquisitive inhabiting, uninhibited, where prohibited
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 1:47 AM UTC
Denizens of a Dark Derivative
Wanderlust warlock blaspheme rapacity Obsequious diligence pier pair appearance Obstreperously vituperative vociferous tenacity Consortium eclectic synectics concurrence In extremis extremity cantilever capacity Citadel clairvoyance pilaster conveyance Inductive integration interpolative audacity Derivative factor derivational appliance Futurity fatidic’s laconic sagacity Aseity veracity cacophony compliance Accidence ambience aesthetics opacity Acoustical articulation intonational occurrence Apomixes anabolics histophysiological mendacity Epistemological somatalogy syntactics refulgence Refractive reflective semantics complicity Hephestian dialectics Hegelian effulgence                       Linguistic syntax synaptic intensity                                         totally tangential
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 9:10 AM UTC
Kitsch
My whole life is about ( dy\dx) now . that reached me out to think what if we were one function and you was my own derivative , a part of me that can't handle for a second derivative . and all these chapters are discussing the problems between us . the question is : are we both good at calculus enough to figure this out yet or am I to late to ask this question ?
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May 5, 2017
May 5, 2017 at 4:21 PM UTC
Calculus heart
Love is a Waldorf. A Graham or an Ackermann? Nope, won’t suffice. Fortuitous interactions led me here. The crest of Eebs, the sphere. A polynomial function is infinitely differentiable. It carries many names, and many tools. analyze it and again and again Each derivative kills information. Eventually we all go to zero. Enjoy it while you can, speaks the radio man man man STOP RHYMING The rhyme scheme will further our demise destruction is imminent at least I had waldorf reduction to nothing. at least I got chicken.
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 6:58 PM UTC
Love is a Waldorf
He knows not how the toner trails, I know how my conduits drain themselves. Forming a queue while spitting blood They’re an anemic residue. He knows not how to freshen my palate, With warmth, I see no remedy My so-fatigued heart, I was a monochrome in plastic wares. I wasn’t a prototype, but a derivative. Seclusion I abhor, indeed my life too
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Dec 18, 2015
Dec 18, 2015 at 8:07 PM UTC
Blueprint
Give it all you got Only option left to choose Tip your cap Turn your back Throw up that deuce But, who woulda knew That clarity of concentration Comes from unexpected deviations From our anticipations Suddenly Shipwrecked Lost at sea Starin at that deep blue green Like, it's just you, And me And we are the masters behind these sails When our stories told It'll be the stuff of fairy tales The true master misses miserably alot What matters most is We take all our shots So this is my position Listen up I don't give a **** About you ***** Who don't give a **** You on the sidelines of the game What's it gonna take for you to lace em And step it up? I see you suckers pacin' Over self-made situations Like destiny isn't something we participate in But what if we switch stations Movin' makin' Anxious Amplification Got that body breakin' Beats to shuffle strutin' feet and Our music's the motivation Our life, our part Art over every evocation Trumpets triumphantly proclaim the pontification Sifting, shifting the breeze The time, they are a' changin' The rhythms's exquisite equations Derivative of internal escavated wisdoms Whimsical inquisitive exploration
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Sep 16, 2012
Sep 16, 2012 at 6:58 AM UTC
Anxious Amplification
the isle meets us gruffly, ferry over rough seas, meaner winds, bay size puddling lakes a/k/a local  flooding, roads littered with tree debris, all saying an uncoded message: "see humans, you come to stay only with my forbearance" But I know that familiar voice, disguised as nature, a first derivative of the alpha of that god who comes, torturing me with requests for forgiveness I am nature too, I am human nature, and I too, am not in a forgiving mood, and one-word reply: Barcelona ashamed, the ugly skies ease off and next morn, an August beauty provided but I am neither assuaged, bought off, forgetting, address the hiding-in-disguise master of the universe: "*you trifle with us as if we could not count, keep tabs, and weary be at the newest sabbath carnage never ending give me storms, keep your glories, fell trees, drown us, if it pleases, we are neither perfect nor innocent but take impotent responsibility set us not one against the other, there, here, Charlottesville, keep your false free choice that always comes with a wink and nod, a little nudge, and exclaims of humans doing your work*" I light a candle not to you, but for you and be terrified when I no longer do <•> Aug. 19, 2017 12:14 pm
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Aug 19, 2017
Aug 19, 2017 at 1:14 PM UTC
Barcelona (the first derivative), Finlandia, Disguising God
'Don't you ever worry,' she asked, 'about being written off as a poor man's Bukowski?' I answer, quite honestly for a pretentious, wannabe poet: 'I'd be happy being anyone's Bukowski.' Which was a cute line, I thought, but she still didn't **** me. Maybe I was someone's Bukowski, but I definitely wasn't hers.
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Jan 12, 2016
Jan 12, 2016 at 3:58 PM UTC
Derivative
We salute you, Gentlemen, And Ladies, God bless you, (He clearly has) We bless you, We support you, At par, So far, Lest you bring us all down, (That was the threat, Was it not?) You are so Wicked smart, Except those few, Who couldn't hold on, For our gravy train, To respond, For those few, We hope last year's bonus, Will help you survive, Your trip down the tubes, (Sigh) And for all, We are led to believe, That you're back on your feet, And doing quite well, We were glad to help out, Your derivative pleasure, Just makes our hearts soar, And to help you to help The economy heal, We're taxing your janitors More than your managers 'Cause we know you're the source Of all job creation, Within this great nation, How do we know this? Well, We've been told this Been told by some very fine folk, Some folk whom you... own? For sure there are doubters, But we question their wisdom, We don't even think that They're being good citizens, But there are some suspicions, My well heeled good friends, That what's good for you folk, Might be just a bit toxic, To those of us few, Who compose, That diminishing remnant, Of what once we could call, The vast middle class, Today, We ain't even, Half vast. Sad to say, Now a few of us wonder, If you're not quite our friends, If you don't have our best int'rests In your schemes and your ends, All of those yachts, They're critical – right? We believe in you now, To make every thing bright, To bring our economy Back from the dead, To create all those jobs, With that barely taxed bread, So, While we're eatin' those grits, In this world that you've made, With the pols that you've bought, Just Remember my friends, Rot infects not just wood, But your hearts and your souls, And the Fire Next Time Might be more than a book It might be unhappy folk, With your ***** in their sights.
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Oct 6, 2011
Oct 6, 2011 at 9:40 PM UTC
Homage to Our Investment Bankers
We salute you, Gentlemen, And Ladies, God bless you, (He clearly has) We bless you, We support you, At par, So far, Lest you bring us all down, (That was the threat, Was it not?) You are so Wicked smart, Except those few, Who couldn't hold on, For our gravy train, To respond, For those few, We hope last year's bonus, Will help you survive, Your trip down the tubes, (Sigh) And for all, We are led to believe, That you're back on your feet, And doing quite well, We were glad to help out, Your derivative pleasure, Just makes our hearts soar, And to help you to help The economy heal, We're taxing your janitors More than your managers 'Cause we know you're the source Of all job creation, Within this great nation, How do we know this? Well, We've been told this Been told by some very fine folk, Some folk whom you... own? For sure there are doubters, But we question their wisdom, We don't even think that They're being good citizens, But there are some suspicions, My well heeled good friends, That what's good for you folk, Might be just a bit toxic, To those of us few, Who compose, That diminishing remnant, Of what once we could call, The vast middle class, Today, We ain't even, Half vast. Sad to say, Now a few of us wonder, If you're not quite our friends, If you don't have our best int'rests In your schemes and your ends, All of those yachts, They're critical – right? We believe in you now, To make every thing bright, To bring our economy Back from the dead, To create all those jobs, With that barely taxed bread, So, While we're eatin' those grits, In this world that you've made, With the pols that you've bought, Just Remember my friends, Rot infects not just wood, But your hearts and your souls, And the Fire Next Time Might be more than a book It might be unhappy folk, With your ***** in their sights.
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Stake claim, enslave Falling behind A wake so odd Cosmic, wretched truth Will all compose With repetition Til all devolves Equally wrong choices, with dire stakes Options weighed, time again Derived presets, and presupposition Derivative motion,  placed on this clean slate And left for a lifetime Of horrid substitutions
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Jun 30, 2018
Jun 30, 2018 at 5:37 AM UTC
Latency
.. …. …... …..... …........... ….................. …............ …..................... …............ …......................... …................. …..... barometric tendrils psuedo-random and hybrid sets growing like ivy in the clutches of time such a            chocking                    but actualising     grasp ..huh? what? oh yes! sorry, sorry come in, come in,                        ..you know, I too, once, like how you are now, was here too so                    very                                very                                              present. Aha! Oh yes! Permit me a mock stifled cry of ostentatious self derision, 'hee hee hee' aaaaaahhh.. I really was pitiful back then. seeing you there now, I feel oh so whimsical and overcome with ahem sorry. ..dank and musty cellars,     hashish and a can of beans. (baked, not fried, -we were really naive enough to believe that?- ) had it all back then though, didn't we? By which I mean we had nothing, but the conviction that obligation was something that actually meant something rather than a Cryptocurrency in a Ponzi scheme, (with a slice of lemon) confidence intervals stockpiled in the stocks of confidence men. Derivative markets oh, so very much so so very derivative idiomatic and ******* asinine.   ..Still, it does harken to its era, doesn't it? 'detached and disposable.' toothpicks limbs ideals all that goodness! I was supposed to be offering advice, wasn't I? Interpolate up some mediated conjecture. But the kids can look after themselves just fine, can't they? So our fiscal policy seems to think; 'I wager we shear up the youth to buy shares in implementing youth wages.' sorry, I guess it's an antiquated complaint, “think of the children!” , they say? Can't they see, the whole **** market's aimed at the proto-teens?? we do it all for them the little snots. laissez faire welfare hedge or double down? A shrubbery? Or a bacon butty with bread as ****** chicken and cheese? (I just vomited in my mouth a little, (how pastiche)) See, and people ask why I’m trapped in the past; the future's got me car sick. and honestly we're just brimming with history (the scourge of post-modernity) like a black moss spewed on the walls Poisoning visions and Rheumatic fever tearing up our lovely lovely pacified pay and display psuedo proto posterity …..... …................. …......................... …............ …..................... …............ ….................. …........... …..... …... …. ..
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Nov 14, 2014
Nov 14, 2014 at 3:33 AM UTC
dialogues ii
.. …. …... …..... …........... ….................. …............ …..................... …............ …......................... …................. …..... barometric tendrils psuedo-random and hybrid sets growing like ivy in the clutches of time such a            chocking                    but actualising     grasp ..huh? what? oh yes! sorry, sorry come in, come in,                        ..you know, I too, once, like how you are now, was here too so                    very                                very                                              present. Aha! Oh yes! Permit me a mock stifled cry of ostentatious self derision, 'hee hee hee' aaaaaahhh.. I really was pitiful back then. seeing you there now, I feel oh so whimsical and overcome with ahem sorry. ..dank and musty cellars,     hashish and a can of beans. (baked, not fried, -we were really naive enough to believe that?- ) had it all back then though, didn't we? By which I mean we had nothing, but the conviction that obligation was something that actually meant something rather than a Cryptocurrency in a Ponzi scheme, (with a slice of lemon) confidence intervals stockpiled in the stocks of confidence men. Derivative markets oh, so very much so so very derivative idiomatic and ******* asinine.   ..Still, it does harken to its era, doesn't it? 'detached and disposable.' toothpicks limbs ideals all that goodness! I was supposed to be offering advice, wasn't I? Interpolate up some mediated conjecture. But the kids can look after themselves just fine, can't they? So our fiscal policy seems to think; 'I wager we shear up the youth to buy shares in implementing youth wages.' sorry, I guess it's an antiquated complaint, “think of the children!” , they say? Can't they see, the whole **** market's aimed at the proto-teens?? we do it all for them the little snots. laissez faire welfare hedge or double down? A shrubbery? Or a bacon butty with bread as ****** chicken and cheese? (I just vomited in my mouth a little, (how pastiche)) See, and people ask why I’m trapped in the past; the future's got me car sick. and honestly we're just brimming with history (the scourge of post-modernity) like a black moss spewed on the walls Poisoning visions and Rheumatic fever tearing up our lovely lovely pacified pay and display psuedo proto posterity …..... …................. …......................... …............ …..................... …............ ….................. …........... …..... …... …. ..
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(Authors note: I realize this is more short story than poem. I hope you find it poetic as well. Apologies in advance if this is not an appropriate forum.) Have You Seen This Girl ? I sat sleepy eyed one morning enduring yet another cardboard and treebark bran flavored bowl of breakfast with milk, 2 percent of course, and I stared at the carton. First I reviewed the measures of various fat content, and nutritional values listed as a matter of law. And as usual, I thought of you. This time by way of pondering the plight of the American Dairy Farmer and remembering it was the “corporatizing” of the independent dairy farms which led your family to other uses for the land they had raised dairy cows on for over a century. And I missed you terribly. To quickly shake the associated feelings of loneliness, and your face from my mind, I was drawn to the deep dark eyes of the child who was missing and apparently exploited on the other side of the carton. She had innocent, kind eyes that indicated she wouldn't even harm an insect. Curious eyes that would watch an insect for hours as it munched on grasses and leaves she fed it. She would be two years grown and two years older since last seen in blue jeans and a t-shirt in Amarillo, Texas, in the company of her biological father who was possibly armed, dangerous, and driving a pickup truck towards Mexico. Or Canada. And it struck me. You needed to be on the side of a milk carton. 2 percent of course. At some point in our life together, you had been kidnapped. Whoever was responsible had gone to a lot of trouble to replace you, to carefully drop you right back into my life. It was a great attempt but finally my belief that the real you would never do the things you did to me were validated. You had the misfortune of actually having an “evil twin” and corporatized or not, it seemed only the Dairy Council could help, since there is no Center For Missing and Exploited Adults. Big red letters screaming “Have You Seen This Girl ? ” were what we needed now. God knows I had recent photos, and could describe all of your features-distinguishing or not. I think tomorrow, I'll have French Toast. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on my work at www.emotionalorphan.net.
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Dec 11, 2009
Dec 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM UTC
Have You Seen This Girl ?
(Authors note: I realize this is more short story than poem. I hope you find it poetic as well. Apologies in advance if this is not an appropriate forum.) Have You Seen This Girl ? I sat sleepy eyed one morning enduring yet another cardboard and treebark bran flavored bowl of breakfast with milk, 2 percent of course, and I stared at the carton. First I reviewed the measures of various fat content, and nutritional values listed as a matter of law. And as usual, I thought of you. This time by way of pondering the plight of the American Dairy Farmer and remembering it was the “corporatizing” of the independent dairy farms which led your family to other uses for the land they had raised dairy cows on for over a century. And I missed you terribly. To quickly shake the associated feelings of loneliness, and your face from my mind, I was drawn to the deep dark eyes of the child who was missing and apparently exploited on the other side of the carton. She had innocent, kind eyes that indicated she wouldn't even harm an insect. Curious eyes that would watch an insect for hours as it munched on grasses and leaves she fed it. She would be two years grown and two years older since last seen in blue jeans and a t-shirt in Amarillo, Texas, in the company of her biological father who was possibly armed, dangerous, and driving a pickup truck towards Mexico. Or Canada. And it struck me. You needed to be on the side of a milk carton. 2 percent of course. At some point in our life together, you had been kidnapped. Whoever was responsible had gone to a lot of trouble to replace you, to carefully drop you right back into my life. It was a great attempt but finally my belief that the real you would never do the things you did to me were validated. You had the misfortune of actually having an “evil twin” and corporatized or not, it seemed only the Dairy Council could help, since there is no Center For Missing and Exploited Adults. Big red letters screaming “Have You Seen This Girl ? ” were what we needed now. God knows I had recent photos, and could describe all of your features-distinguishing or not. I think tomorrow, I'll have French Toast. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Based on my work at www.emotionalorphan.net.
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