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Michael W Noland Dec 2012
Its nefarious arrogance, that's scaring grandparents, but its in the air and I'm airing it, as we are seeing all the signs, but just staring at them.

Somehow there is safety as an arian, where we are safely alien to  Americans made in sapient sanitariums, shooting you first for glaring at em.

So what if i'm Dolling up my delirium for a serum to cure them all.

I am awol, from my call to duty, recreating movies, for serial groupies, suiting up to slither a delivery of a soothing sour piece.

I am stalling to clean the secretions from hostel sheets from the screamers being eaten, by Cretans, with beaten dogs at bay, staring blank at the fanfare from a cage.

Im burning white sage, under pages of poetry anointed by a stoical spleen, tuning out the dreams, of lesser beings, until complete.

A zoo within a zoo within a zoo, i barely know you now

Barely know how, to know you as a model citizen with baller trimmins, fixins, and a life with others wives, in the rough diamonds of the bluff, before the door opens just enough, to look through and confirm what you already knew.

Love is the stuff dreams are made of.

And through you..

Im through.

Pleading, to seed the need for repentance and with reduced sentences, bleeding the demands on stances of chance, in costly cants.

I am convulsing in the congruence, in which I am influenced, by my afflictions of depictions in my head

I might be addicted to the dread of previously said decor, in my adorable horror show afloat, deplorably denoting the nopes of logic, and the slippery slopes of khangi, that spring off me when i'm coughing on my green tea.

You are wrong to stop me in my dislogic, dodging the narcotic mocking of toxic strong arming, in proxy alarms, setting barns ablaze.

I praise the poetry pushed on me, dauntingly haunting me with savant like ambiance, from the have nots, having things as far as the eyes can see.
Mateuš Conrad Jun 2018
two-faced-coy before god:
does god throw dice?
perchance the question might
be asked, if i had the most "mundane"
job of experiencing
the transit of humanity in its
fullest...
      some minor role,
like a road cleaner...
  oh hell, i could tell you about
the transit...
and the dead fox i dragged into
the minor wilderness
from saturday to sunday...
begging the onlookers to not
pry their eyes at my unfathomable
gesture of: "concern"
for the sanitary worker being given
a break from "duty"...
yes, i skinned and weight the
******... no!
i weight him though...
came to across nearing 10kg
worth of a mature maine coot
cat...
            and since:
  the fox-spirit has furthered my
allowance on the "poor"
sanitation worker not woken
to alleviate the "concern"
of the public...
           almost puked pushing
my snout into its roadkill...
but instead of blood...
        i attempted to make vague
the odd signature of:
iron...
            lost in gushing from
the fox snout...
     now... i'll write what i've
lived... since i'm not being
paid: **** ALL! for it...
                 does god toss dice?
depends... been meditating
the concept with nine "magic"
squares worth of, but one "random"
take on a kabbalistic thought...
and you know what i thought?
borrow the sorrows from
other tongues, and make them unz!
hell before heaven forgot
babylon, and the fate of man was
not so immediate akin
to the other "formalities":
i too might exhaust taking to
heaving, rather than minding a soul...
again... does god toss dice?
   by now the sudoku square
is already assertive of the power
of nine, and further,
to the power of six,
  with each side being made as
sacrificial torso of the former,
prime, power spectacle...
       indeed the q'ah'baah...
a ******* meteor shower...
and not one source of worship that
exhausted the lizards...
         seeking blame is so
autocratic...
  but the mea culpa plea?
          so *******... un-democratic...
      does god throw dice,
to explain the fate of a mortal gamble?
or rather...
   is there but a coin flipped that
is determinate,
in having two of the same
faces embedded in the deciding
                       "whim"?
a harem of more slaughter that could
make even Herod blush his
***** region,
had he the affairs of bleachings
the cranium hairs of his
                supposed, ancestry...
desire: and the fed lie...
          by no consent is an indulgence
to be punished: if it was fed
by a lie...
              and so:
   no truth entrenched be allowed
special assertion of compensation
be acknowledged:
  by merit, no merit alone,
        and if... be neither nor allowed:
a grievance...
      made ample when experienced
in tutoring youth...
to shame the grieving party,
  and make it distinguishable from
the gaining party...
      rule of adolescence...
             does god, throw dice to make
impetus over lordship of
the only gamble that's the gamble
"neglected" in nature?
       my: the reality of poor lamb...
coin flip...
             my...
       the metaphor of wolf, incarnate!
ego breeding / feeding grounds
of the loss of plagiarism of
                a willing man, impetus!
does god throw dice...
  or does the chance of the already
gambling god...
   make up for the barking dog
accomplished by either
        heads... or tails?
                            kings... or subjects?
the french revolution was
a stranger concer for
making gambles...
               given that the tails one
the argument... against the echo of
sobering heads
that envisioned horns being
attached to their bargaining: status...
rather than... limitless politico:
of gambling with it...
   avoiding the schema of ******...
now...
   tell me...
what will the tails say this time
round... if they hear that the whole
point of equilibrium and waterfall
is in exacting of the order of the tails
not breeding in the agony of
              arisotractic
disconcern, for...            trans-*******
growing limbs without
movement?
      oh i'm sure the ****** have all
the answers...
         which are worth an hour of body...
but only a second in
aritocratic cultivation of the moral
(th)ought...
               all other animals have
been bred upon the rigid dynamism of
the entertaining exposure of chance...
only man...
        transcended it...
          against god...
      and at the same time could not
                 consolidate it within himself...
at last... not mere egyptian...
    devoid of the biblical affair with twin
torn at birth Aztec...
        i hardly think the story would have not
been better with:
the Aztec gallows...
                and this, Egyptian: "tomb"...
but does god throw dice?
            as far as i am concerned...
he's certainly holding the qa'bah in his hand...
   heads of monarchs...
                                    or tails of plumbers?!
the concept of the devil
overthrowing my curiosity of wrath,
sitting upon the cranium-throne of creation
leave them to their own:
           slouching future...
   and what better way to guise the currently
apparent, than the remaining
"joy" of having gambled on an "existence":
with their, predictable...
                          self-flagellating
            tree-stump's-worth-of-"pardonable"
sense of exploration...
                         yes...
i can almost imagine the crucifix
slowly morphing into a budding tree,
with laurel leaves surrounding it...
                                        does god play dice?
perhaps we could make use of
a coin that only had a tier for the use
inter-monarchy: tails-tails...
and a coin that only had a tier for
the use of inter-populace:
                           ah... as we already have...
unless people forget...
     England owns the head of Elizabeth...
since the concept of monarchy
is unchanged...
                      while Poland has a currency
with several heads of the former state...
                     Jagiełło to name the least...
oh but the rosey future is
not the aim of this stalling reality,
   once all: are accounted for...
all and none, a future bound to one:
nonetheless...
          in accordance:
let joy not buckle,
           before the young buck's play...
all in good, and reverent time...
these times require more fervour!
     more!
                 more!
                        the plight of
the roman empire, was never nero's ploy!
A happy family fixed upon an inviting bedazzled house,
a happy family that is untainted,
kids spirit strongly painted,
dad is with his spouse and mother wears a blouse.

The front door was square and the invitation within was over tempting,
free of fear and bound by faith,
we walk passively up those steps,
this is the beginning, this is unbeknownst to be an evil risk to take.

Inside the copper veil of the outside world this house has signs,
trauma stains in the pores fill the gaps of intrusion,
no room for positive incision,
as the evil has rashly soaked everything in blind illusion.

Stagnant air compress the depression,
we walked though starting our painful life lesson.
The kids play amongst this hidden ungodly confession,
the husband tries to shield his prophesized wife from the coming torment,
because he's second guessing.

Everything must go but the windows are closed,
no light can shine through the devil pained glass,
clearing the air was impossible as everything that came in held negative pressure,
I prayed this would pass.

A newly established home yet unfinished,
progress made, but no time to continue the cleansing,
back for work to live in this chaos day by day,
now I'm breathing in this cycle unchanged,
back to work and the exorcist delayed,
I vow to come back and fix this dismay,
daily feeling of the ghosts sinking between each board unlayed.

Upon returning through the front door no longer square as I'm growing grey hair,
the little ones are regressing as my torment progresses,
my breathing more intense as the angels regress,
I know the end comes soon,
because the sings are there, a feeling of certain Doom.

My spouse's blouse is missing,
her disconnect to reconnect no longer a submissive,
something went wrong along this song so passive,
my heart yearns of a disconcern so massive,
our certain end comes denying where we're from,
no matter the trials I stay a while as my heart beat slams the drum.

Through the fallen front door the frame is now obtuse,
my heart shape is acute,
the kids neglectfully eat rotten fruit,
I had a feeling but never knew,
the end of us is something I can't chew,
the immoral air standing still now blew,
through our souls chilled by the sun so blue,
the windows cracked and the evil no longer new,
reaching for my spouse I go right through,
the little ones can no longer see either of us two.

Clutching the little ones I can feel the slime of anxiety,
they haven't been around for a while in this reality,
rushing for the closing door I throw them out,
turning around once more I can see the truth of evil start to shout,
subject to control by sin,
I can see it's originating from the spouse,
latin words of vanity spew from her mouth,
I choke my dreadful tears back out loud,
my innocence crushed by the devil in a shroud,
this devil was there all along under the blouse,
outside I join, to watch the collapse of this bedeviled house.
I am not.

And in that moment, an unquenchable rage all but consumed me. The innocence he once clung to exposed to nothing but the remnants of the child he believed himself to be. To his dismay, he was anything but. He knew with each minute elapsed I had been counting the times he glanced between my

eyes.

lips.

eyes.

lips again.

He knew because I was doing the same, and we were hungry.

Common tactic I would use to lure in the next one. With ease foregoing any pleasantries for conviviality. “Let’s be friends.” “I quite like you.” Holding his chin, eyes tilted downward and dark, closer than he knows I should be. He lets me do it, and the best part—He doesn’t have the slightest premonition that this is no two-player game.

I am feeding.

These were some of the idiomatic expressions I relied on to make of sweet fruit, my meal.

I was always hungry.

Since childhood there were signs I am sure many ignored either out of apathetic disconcern with my well-being or, perhaps, fear I lacked such capacity to change. Those who’ve past tried were lost on me; what silly nostrums…

I, for one, truly do believe it could not have been different. I have always been an animal trapped in cage. Gnawing bars and biting at hands. The one you end up having to shoot out back in the end. “Sorry.” “We tried.”

That’s quite alright.

I often feel as if I exist within oscillating abstractions of myself. Concepts rather than an absolute self. Not transcendental or opulent, nor omnipotent or anything of the sort. Just an experience. A show. Entertainment. That is what I am to my core. Don’t bother trying to pick me apart. I really am nothing, and I have got nothing to hide. Every question you ask I will have a different answer to. There is nothing to interpret, and I am certainly not lying. In that moment you are, for whatever intent and purposes, experiencing the real “me.” Whatever implications that may have, I concede. But for all you religious people. That is how I feel.

I’ve learned that I do feel a lot. The glass pane I am viewing you through is a mirror. I see what you want. What could make you happy. What could make you laugh. What could make you cry. And I arrange my muscles, and thoughts, and mien accordingly. This has made me very good at detecting emotions I like: fear, humiliation, lust, excitement. These are good because I understand them, and often I quite enjoy feeling them. Know that if anything at all,

I am intentional.

I harbor vigorous disdain for bravado, charisma, observance, or whatever other adjacencies that may scratch my mirror, or force my hand at engaging on a human level. I do not want to be human. I want to experience it. Do not interrupt me.

It vexes me.

I get angry a lot. No one around me would describe me as an angry person but I am angry a lot. I get angry when I am told what to do, when one might suggest I am making the wrong choices, when people are concerned. They don’t know me. They do not know that I am not one of them. I am watching you. You are simply a player in a game that I am hedging bets on. Manipulating, or at least trying to do so. There is no second “self” in the room with you. Whatever you see is you, you are naked, sitting in front of me. And I am watching the way your skin wrinkles, eyes squint, bones smell, the heat your body emits when I touch you, or make a joke, or divulge an insecurity you did not know you had. In a nice way of course.

I am nice.

The center of the party really. The main attraction. The bellowing operatic voice at the dinner table. The hand yielding pints of cider and inciting bouts of laughter. A smile or touch of a hand. Grazing your thigh or waist. It was not an accident. Nothing I do is. Think about it.

Think about it all night.

I quite enjoy the idea of strangers touching themselves to the idea of me. That is why I curate every aesthetic choice to their wildest fantasies. My “identity” is conditional, reliant on whatever you need. I am very careful with these choices as to not cause upset. Or confusion. I manage my choices clearly. When I don’t: I lie. This is one of the few foolish mistakes. I would say it is most likely my biggest fault. However, I care not to change it. It suits me. Or whatever you think “me” is.

Let me tell you something. People are stupid. Stupid and simple. And that is the **** best thing about them.

This is why I make minimal and careful choices about my appearance. I choose inoffensive and agreeable alterations, rather than rash, permanent ones. I like to slip in and out of each character, my wardrobe “happy place” of persuasion and deceit. Small tattoos, neutral hair color, unpainted nails, my characters are solid, good, approachable, and likeable. My biggest failure is misjudging my crowd and failing to launch. If they don’t like me, they will not fall in love with me. And I will have one less toy to break. Belligerent child screeches and I die again.

Do it better next time—

Try harder—

Bleed for your audience—

Slit your wrists and bow—

Standing ovation—

Scene.

— The End —