Hello Poetry
Submit your work and get some sparkles! Create free account
"emergency" poems
i don't watch home movies hate them reason being because when i was young i was looking for a movie my mother had recorded for me and accidentally put one in the vcr that i'm not sure i was supposed to see i know the obvious response *"uh oh, **** sorry to disappoint they were only marked with dates   1991 on live television montel williams asks my father *"how can you just throw your child away like a piece of trash?"*    1994 i spend so much time in the emergency room that my parents stop penciling in growth marks on the frame of my bedroom door i always thought it was because they believed i would never grow out of this sickness sometimes i believe the reason that they never bought me a dream catcher was because they never thought i'd live long enough to see them come true    1996 i am eliminated from a spelling bee because i didn't know the 'dad' is silent in 'family'    2013 before i got into poetry i used to do standup none of my jokes were funny one of the other comics tells me my skits are dry sometimes sad he says *"why don't you joke about something like your family?"* so i say *"i never wore any sunblock because i didn't want anything to keep me from my father"* i say *"what do you call christmas without lights or heat?"* before he has a chance to answer i say *"1997. better yet why don't you make like a dad and leave"*    2014 every time we drive past the hospital my mother reminds me how much it cost to save my life like she'd rather have her money back she doesn't have to say that sometimes she wishes it was me who had died instead of my brother i can hear it in the way she says "love you" sometimes i imagine that if i were to die that she would pick out a casket for a child because she never loved the person i became yesterday i told my father how close i'd been to suicide lately and he said *"that's my boy, livin on the edge.."* and i can't remember if i laughed or cried
0
Oct 15, 2015
Oct 15, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC
there are only dates
i don't watch home movies hate them reason being because when i was young i was looking for a movie my mother had recorded for me and accidentally put one in the vcr that i'm not sure i was supposed to see i know the obvious response *"uh oh, **** sorry to disappoint they were only marked with dates   1991 on live television montel williams asks my father *"how can you just throw your child away like a piece of trash?"*    1994 i spend so much time in the emergency room that my parents stop penciling in growth marks on the frame of my bedroom door i always thought it was because they believed i would never grow out of this sickness sometimes i believe the reason that they never bought me a dream catcher was because they never thought i'd live long enough to see them come true    1996 i am eliminated from a spelling bee because i didn't know the 'dad' is silent in 'family'    2013 before i got into poetry i used to do standup none of my jokes were funny one of the other comics tells me my skits are dry sometimes sad he says *"why don't you joke about something like your family?"* so i say *"i never wore any sunblock because i didn't want anything to keep me from my father"* i say *"what do you call christmas without lights or heat?"* before he has a chance to answer i say *"1997. better yet why don't you make like a dad and leave"*    2014 every time we drive past the hospital my mother reminds me how much it cost to save my life like she'd rather have her money back she doesn't have to say that sometimes she wishes it was me who had died instead of my brother i can hear it in the way she says "love you" sometimes i imagine that if i were to die that she would pick out a casket for a child because she never loved the person i became yesterday i told my father how close i'd been to suicide lately and he said *"that's my boy, livin on the edge.."* and i can't remember if i laughed or cried
Continue reading...
91
i have racked my mind trying to figure this whole thing out the staying, the going the threads we claim hold us here & the people who've stopped to play a tune on them i sometimes relate it to waking up in waist deep snow in our former selves the us we wish we could give one another the children we've sat on the shelves trapped, like the looks we leave behind in snow globes i sometimes imagine ships dragging the bottom to the sea of "me" for sleep & pieces of my old self to sell to the new one like history doesn't repeat itself it gets me wondering if you too want an apology from the rain or if you dream of burning family photo albums and wearing the ashes like perfume if you're anything like me how i hope god chokes on memories of me blowing out candles as a child i know i shouldn't reference my reader   but don't you know, the only difference between alone & lonely is you? that if my hands could talk the only thing they'd be able to say is "dear god we've missed you" and how can you tell me it isn't love when even the rain refuses to fall in places where i've kissed you i remember the day you found my smile at a yard sale it reminds me of how you'll leave i wonder if when you go you'll tell yourself the person in the rear view mirror is closer than they appear
0
May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 8:32 PM UTC
emergency room knuckles
It's an urgent emergency We're out of Vanilla Cake
0
Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 3:50 AM UTC
Vanilla Cake
I catch you sitting at the diner counter again at 2am, the fourth day in a row. The waitress comes over and hands you a black coffee. I stare, but you don’t turn around and catch me looking. You’re glaring into the mug, like somehow you’ll drown in the warm murky mix. Like somehow if you keep looking your problems will dissipate into the rising steam. Like somehow it’s the answer you’ve been searching for since you were born. You wanted an answer. Something that would make everything come full circle. It’s been years of you driving down an endless highway, passing every exit because you don’t know how to stay in one place. Even ghost towns won’t harbor something so deeply damaged. A person who can only pull the emergency break when they’re afraid they might crash. Crash into what? Not everything walking by you is a catastrophe.  Accidents only occur when you forget to pay attention. Just like how you forgot that your side door mirrors were broken. Those objects are not closer than they appear. You tried to slow down but they only seemed further away. Everything you’re trying to hold on to is slipping through your hands the way sand falls through the hourglass. Tick tock. Did you forget that people need affection if you want them to stay? They are not dolls you can glass-case until you feel like playing with them again. Not everybody enjoys being a toy. How long has it been since someone sat in the passenger seat? The car rides must be lonely when there’s no one around to fill the silence. You can blast the radio as loud as you want to but that won’t block out the hollow feeling in your chest. The one that sits where your heart is supposed to be. Something that music can’t fill. Your mother once told you that history repeats itself but did she mention that only happens when you refuse to change the scenery? If you always stay on the same road you’re never going to snap out of it. Break the curse. Realize that love is sitting at the base of every exit if you weren’t so scared of swerving into oncoming traffic. The only head-on collision that’s going to happen is when you grow too tired of driving alone that you forget to keep your eyes on the road. When you realize you placed yourself in your own hell and your breaks finally give out. When you fall asleep at the wheel and never wake up because you were terrified of letting somebody else steer.
0
Sep 6, 2016
Sep 6, 2016 at 1:20 AM UTC
Car Accident
I catch you sitting at the diner counter again at 2am, the fourth day in a row. The waitress comes over and hands you a black coffee. I stare, but you don’t turn around and catch me looking. You’re glaring into the mug, like somehow you’ll drown in the warm murky mix. Like somehow if you keep looking your problems will dissipate into the rising steam. Like somehow it’s the answer you’ve been searching for since you were born. You wanted an answer. Something that would make everything come full circle. It’s been years of you driving down an endless highway, passing every exit because you don’t know how to stay in one place. Even ghost towns won’t harbor something so deeply damaged. A person who can only pull the emergency break when they’re afraid they might crash. Crash into what? Not everything walking by you is a catastrophe.  Accidents only occur when you forget to pay attention. Just like how you forgot that your side door mirrors were broken. Those objects are not closer than they appear. You tried to slow down but they only seemed further away. Everything you’re trying to hold on to is slipping through your hands the way sand falls through the hourglass. Tick tock. Did you forget that people need affection if you want them to stay? They are not dolls you can glass-case until you feel like playing with them again. Not everybody enjoys being a toy. How long has it been since someone sat in the passenger seat? The car rides must be lonely when there’s no one around to fill the silence. You can blast the radio as loud as you want to but that won’t block out the hollow feeling in your chest. The one that sits where your heart is supposed to be. Something that music can’t fill. Your mother once told you that history repeats itself but did she mention that only happens when you refuse to change the scenery? If you always stay on the same road you’re never going to snap out of it. Break the curse. Realize that love is sitting at the base of every exit if you weren’t so scared of swerving into oncoming traffic. The only head-on collision that’s going to happen is when you grow too tired of driving alone that you forget to keep your eyes on the road. When you realize you placed yourself in your own hell and your breaks finally give out. When you fall asleep at the wheel and never wake up because you were terrified of letting somebody else steer.
Continue reading...
1
I rolled out of bed to start my day, but the power was off my all electric home, as still as a grave. No coffee, or toast. The refrigerator not cold, the freezer started dripping the contents soon to spoil. No computer, no cell phone service! I began sweating profusely, no air conditioning to cool me. Not even a TV Emergency Broadcast Alert, to release this uneasy feeling of topsy-turvy . I drove into town seeking a pay phone, with not a single one to be found, gone the way of the dinosaurs, extinct now too I assumed. My old truck had no computer chips, most cars did and were dead in their tracks. I needed gas but the gas station pumps electric computer driven, all DOA to boot. The Nations electric grid had crashed, blacked out, stone cold dead everywhere. All heavenly satellites blacked out, expired. Everything computer related (and that is about everything), had ceased to function as had the electronic reliant world we had created.   The street throngs of dazed people walked around like zombies, clutching blacked out dead computer devices, knowing not what to do. Not even talking, forgotten I guess how to do that too. As dependently defectively programmed as the useless devices in their hands. In a panic I did awake finding that this scary dream world was indeed all fake, a nightmare of fearful unconscious thinking. My electric clock was still churning, It's music alarm blaring, birds outside still singing, my cell phone started ringing, it was merely another Robot call, Welcoming me back to the 21 century.
0
Jul 17, 2017
Jul 17, 2017 at 10:51 PM UTC
Dinosaurs and Devices
I rolled out of bed to start my day, but the power was off my all electric home, as still as a grave. No coffee, or toast. The refrigerator not cold, the freezer started dripping the contents soon to spoil. No computer, no cell phone service! I began sweating profusely, no air conditioning to cool me. Not even a TV Emergency Broadcast Alert, to release this uneasy feeling of topsy-turvy . I drove into town seeking a pay phone, with not a single one to be found, gone the way of the dinosaurs, extinct now too I assumed. My old truck had no computer chips, most cars did and were dead in their tracks. I needed gas but the gas station pumps electric computer driven, all DOA to boot. The Nations electric grid had crashed, blacked out, stone cold dead everywhere. All heavenly satellites blacked out, expired. Everything computer related (and that is about everything), had ceased to function as had the electronic reliant world we had created.   The street throngs of dazed people walked around like zombies, clutching blacked out dead computer devices, knowing not what to do. Not even talking, forgotten I guess how to do that too. As dependently defectively programmed as the useless devices in their hands. In a panic I did awake finding that this scary dream world was indeed all fake, a nightmare of fearful unconscious thinking. My electric clock was still churning, It's music alarm blaring, birds outside still singing, my cell phone started ringing, it was merely another Robot call, Welcoming me back to the 21 century.
Continue reading...
44
Human directives, veracities unverified   Bellies belching with anger, murderers Udders dripping hate, foundling banters Hunters striking the hungered, unfortunate Glare sight to seek the truth, hold me lets sink Tear motions and debates of inequality My Dafur, the realm of the fur, demise All armed in Sudan, the arid, a battlefield Emergency alarms sirens from 2003 The indefinite complications and hunger A land of the displaced, starving nomads Hear me out in these non-dissolving conflicts Guantanamo bay detention a prison vicious A base for “war in terrorism”, reciprocal laws Inhumane human interrogations persists A breach, a revolt, the hunger riots devolve Force-feeding, torturous measures applied All undressed, humiliated, genitalia exposed A Rwanda slain in divide and rule Civil clashes, mashes, all trashed Swaying war rapes, tapes, the raves Machetes slashing necks and hands A lust of power, a genocide slaughter The Tutsi slewed and unsewn from a patch Autocratic regime boring divisions Territorial ethnic cleansing, a holocaust The oppression of Jews, Romanis, Poles Homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill Indifference pooled in pits and camps The institutional social indoctrination The honor and killing to expose shame The violation and dishonor of moral fabric For what is “good”, “bad”, fixated moral values Buried waists and head, awaiting stones to hit Confessional secrets of only what lays within A torment watching witnesses, all dangling Marxists calls ships to stow ashore Masses kidnapped, confused in deceit Invalid contracts awaits signatures The white immigrants to be enslaved All aboard, now abroad to revolve labor Wage packages taken to pay for freedom Humans bought and sold to be owned Slaves yorked and counted as assets Bounded to serve plantations and homes A human, non human, a chattel, a slave A debt ******* offended and ***** Untamed and made to obey a master A falling global strings unturned Tunes strumming hate, war and pain Human trafficking, violence, inequality Child abuse, civil conflicts, capitalists Commercialism, zero hour contracts For if we have no rights, I have none For if we have no peace I have none
0
Jan 20, 2016
Jan 20, 2016 at 6:54 AM UTC
Cruel Inhumane Autocracies
Human directives, veracities unverified   Bellies belching with anger, murderers Udders dripping hate, foundling banters Hunters striking the hungered, unfortunate Glare sight to seek the truth, hold me lets sink Tear motions and debates of inequality My Dafur, the realm of the fur, demise All armed in Sudan, the arid, a battlefield Emergency alarms sirens from 2003 The indefinite complications and hunger A land of the displaced, starving nomads Hear me out in these non-dissolving conflicts Guantanamo bay detention a prison vicious A base for “war in terrorism”, reciprocal laws Inhumane human interrogations persists A breach, a revolt, the hunger riots devolve Force-feeding, torturous measures applied All undressed, humiliated, genitalia exposed A Rwanda slain in divide and rule Civil clashes, mashes, all trashed Swaying war rapes, tapes, the raves Machetes slashing necks and hands A lust of power, a genocide slaughter The Tutsi slewed and unsewn from a patch Autocratic regime boring divisions Territorial ethnic cleansing, a holocaust The oppression of Jews, Romanis, Poles Homosexuals, the disabled and mentally ill Indifference pooled in pits and camps The institutional social indoctrination The honor and killing to expose shame The violation and dishonor of moral fabric For what is “good”, “bad”, fixated moral values Buried waists and head, awaiting stones to hit Confessional secrets of only what lays within A torment watching witnesses, all dangling Marxists calls ships to stow ashore Masses kidnapped, confused in deceit Invalid contracts awaits signatures The white immigrants to be enslaved All aboard, now abroad to revolve labor Wage packages taken to pay for freedom Humans bought and sold to be owned Slaves yorked and counted as assets Bounded to serve plantations and homes A human, non human, a chattel, a slave A debt ******* offended and ***** Untamed and made to obey a master A falling global strings unturned Tunes strumming hate, war and pain Human trafficking, violence, inequality Child abuse, civil conflicts, capitalists Commercialism, zero hour contracts For if we have no rights, I have none For if we have no peace I have none
Continue reading...
55
“the simplest definition of our learning to count to infinity” *wrote those words to a stranger in pain, awful pain, asking him to count his blessings* *now awful pain no stranger to me a pain four decades long, that the surgeon promised was fully excised. but today was triggered, chest pain dagger ingredient emergency room so I am counting for, but not to, counting on infinity when the wounding cannot be recalled, only a minor scar to struggle from wonder whence came it from which is the definition of reaching the infinity place,* where finite comes to rest
0
Dec 10, 2019
Dec 10, 2019 at 5:37 PM UTC
the simplest definition of our learning to count to infinity
The sun is coming up so big and bright and bold that it feels like I could just reach out and grab it and put it in my pocket for later. I'm pretty sure I'm going to need it later. I think he took his sun away for good. I tried to keep his sun shining. I tried so hard to keep it lit. But no matter how hard I stoked the fire, he kept me in the dark. Somehow, I got so busy sustaining his solar energy that I didn't notice my own sun going out. His appeared so bright that I forgot I needed the warmth of my own. I don't know how long it will take my sun to heat up again. Now it's as if I'm stumbling around a dark house during a power outage, searching for the emergency flashlight and hoping the batteries aren't as dead as we are. I think he used it last, and he never puts things back the way he found them. Good thing I grabbed the sun this morning and put it in my pocket for later.
0
May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 7:01 PM UTC
Heartbreak at Sunrise
say yes to this small favor its an emergency you'll hardly notice this ***** only flea size with no bite and itch-less
0
Oct 14, 2018
Oct 14, 2018 at 3:07 PM UTC
Flea *****
You called me selfish. For a long time I felt guilty, until I turned you from a victim into a villain. As the anger has faded from the lights of an ambulance into the dull, neon red glow of an emergency exit sign, I have begun to realize that you saw me as the bad guy, too. You probably still do, and maybe I am selfish, and maybe I want to apologize, but what if they're all right and you were just trying to get me to say sorry? What if you're just dying to see me come crawling back to you? I don't want you to think I need you, because I don't, but I'm not selfish, and I don't want you to think so.
0
Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 7:11 PM UTC
Selfish
this is a medical emergency ossified in utero part the hair to cover pink earwax scar innervated this cochlea this ******* that steals the spotlight and rooster’s comb braised sockets for teeth wired through the rafters kissing corner braces shallow chromium double-eye poke like a pile of face bones stacked paul bunyan forest slide and jump from the peak to the pool shallow and undisturbed to dunk your face and see future pure voodoo spirit board and voice box locked with tongue-ectomy removal of cough through neck hole cardboard cut stickers in half to write ***** I’m done.*
0
Oct 16, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 at 4:24 PM UTC
blood and guts folklore
evening loneliness arrives at dawn and knocks on the dusty windowpane in the kitchen, i lie — with threadbare arms — against the shabby wooden cupboard frame this house is void of all electricity except for the light bulbs, the fridge, the T.V. and my steady-beating heart of rhythmic defeat lying naked across the tear-stained sheets if you come home and find that i am dead, perhaps some ***** dishes fell on my head but most likely, i'll be, in the living room gloom with a half-drunk bottle of wine to consume with emergency flares tied to both wrists, i'll leave you a smile, a sigh, and a kiss
0
May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 7:52 AM UTC
suburban daydreams
Let us go, Oedipus, let me walk you 'Twixt towers reaching to heaven, Where women are charged to be patient and perfect. You will not stay upon your leash. We walk through Mandalay, not Paris, Where the women have no face. 'Tis but a siren of emergency That sings to me. What worth I am to you, Oedipus, What worth am I to them? When the footman holds my coat, and snickers, What worth am I to them? Every man is a piece of the continent! She may love me for the dangers I have passed, And I her that she did pity them, But she cannot, now and forever. And while the sun excludes me, I am not them and they not I, And the waters do not glisten, She is their chattel and not mine. I gaze upon her ornate face and sing, Her eyes are pools of wonder that see me, and swing away. I am older, I have sense, Like Oedipus my King, But when I see her ornate face I very nearly sing. After many lonely nights In shirtsleeves and not silk, I went to her, and said: Here, take this silver, for my milk. And she may have loved me once But for my thought and sense, I'm but a bumblebee today - I left at some expense.
0
Sep 17, 2010
Sep 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM UTC
Oedipus
Patience patience patience it does pay to be patient any time any day patience patience patience it's waiting waiting waiting no, not delay there will be a proper sun then you can put out the hay patience patience patience you aren't an emergency patient line up patiently for your turn patience patience patience as you read my lay* look not at your watch don't rush away patience patience patience don't long my friend for my sentence to end
0
Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 6:14 PM UTC
PATIENCE
“i haven’t seen her in years,” said the hospital bed, “though i’ve seen many others, who sobbed violently like her, who sunk into me like a young, rusting anchor. who could not get comfortable in one position or one mindset or one truth. i have felt them dig in their heels and try to ache and and fight and scream, just quietly enough not to wake their roommate.” “i remember their shapes,” said the hospital bed, “how their voices rose slowly like a far-off ambulance siren, how their faces fell when they remembered the emergency was right here. i have been kicked, punched, clung to, held on to, as if gravity switched suddenly and they feared yet another aspect of the universe was against them. i’ve seen ***** sheets and i’ve seen clean ones. i’ve seen boys with tattoos on their faces and razor marks on their arms. i’ve seen pain. i’ve seen girls who wouldn’t turn off the lights, girls who couldn’t turn off the lights, girls who had turned a light off once and never wanted to do anything else. i’ve seen pain. i’ve felt love before more often than the lovers thought they loved, more strongly than the fighters thought they could fight. in shaky hands folding down blankets more carefully than they have all week in heads that flop ungracefully onto pillows, securely, fulfilled. in the slow turn of a hospital bracelet around a pale wrist, in large, golden brown hands, inspected through tear-blurred eyes, through scratched glasses, picked up off the floor after discovering force won’t carry a ring of thin plastic as far as you thought. i hear change in whispers, good night, good luck, in hushed acceptance, in ‘yes, i really am here’. in screams that send nurses in panic only to find you were laughing. in numbers, in ‘five hundred milligrams,’ in ‘three gained pounds’, in ‘one more day’. i hear shock, i hear fear, in echoes of parents’ voices, ‘why here? why now?’ i have heard and seen and felt all of them. but she,” continued the hospital bed, “hasn’t been in here in a while. i haven’t heard her whisper to her roommate about what she did ‘that night’, i haven’t seen her sneak away from her pile of pajamas as if she didn’t just hide something there, i haven’t heard her empathize with a pencil sharpener. it’s been so long, it’s hard to imagine,” said the hospital bed, ‘i hardly remember her'. if only the hospital bed knew that she could hardly remember herself from then either, if only it knew she hadn't stopped fighting once she left if only it knew how she felt when they said she only needed to go to therapy every other week. it felt like progress, and it felt like hope, and no one better than a hospital bed could understand that.
0
Oct 21, 2014
Oct 21, 2014 at 11:43 PM UTC
Hospital Bed Said
“i haven’t seen her in years,” said the hospital bed, “though i’ve seen many others, who sobbed violently like her, who sunk into me like a young, rusting anchor. who could not get comfortable in one position or one mindset or one truth. i have felt them dig in their heels and try to ache and and fight and scream, just quietly enough not to wake their roommate.” “i remember their shapes,” said the hospital bed, “how their voices rose slowly like a far-off ambulance siren, how their faces fell when they remembered the emergency was right here. i have been kicked, punched, clung to, held on to, as if gravity switched suddenly and they feared yet another aspect of the universe was against them. i’ve seen ***** sheets and i’ve seen clean ones. i’ve seen boys with tattoos on their faces and razor marks on their arms. i’ve seen pain. i’ve seen girls who wouldn’t turn off the lights, girls who couldn’t turn off the lights, girls who had turned a light off once and never wanted to do anything else. i’ve seen pain. i’ve felt love before more often than the lovers thought they loved, more strongly than the fighters thought they could fight. in shaky hands folding down blankets more carefully than they have all week in heads that flop ungracefully onto pillows, securely, fulfilled. in the slow turn of a hospital bracelet around a pale wrist, in large, golden brown hands, inspected through tear-blurred eyes, through scratched glasses, picked up off the floor after discovering force won’t carry a ring of thin plastic as far as you thought. i hear change in whispers, good night, good luck, in hushed acceptance, in ‘yes, i really am here’. in screams that send nurses in panic only to find you were laughing. in numbers, in ‘five hundred milligrams,’ in ‘three gained pounds’, in ‘one more day’. i hear shock, i hear fear, in echoes of parents’ voices, ‘why here? why now?’ i have heard and seen and felt all of them. but she,” continued the hospital bed, “hasn’t been in here in a while. i haven’t heard her whisper to her roommate about what she did ‘that night’, i haven’t seen her sneak away from her pile of pajamas as if she didn’t just hide something there, i haven’t heard her empathize with a pencil sharpener. it’s been so long, it’s hard to imagine,” said the hospital bed, ‘i hardly remember her'. if only the hospital bed knew that she could hardly remember herself from then either, if only it knew she hadn't stopped fighting once she left if only it knew how she felt when they said she only needed to go to therapy every other week. it felt like progress, and it felt like hope, and no one better than a hospital bed could understand that.
Continue reading...
85
The feel of the pen on the paper the poet grabs a verse. the dripping of morphine the flow of endorphins flow of electronic lines across the monitor let’s hope we don’t flatline this mere mortal needs a portal to the stars this mere mortal needs defibrillation to the heart the way the poetry forms in the lungs and the mind the way life needs beauty is sometimes unkind I am the blood transfusion the illusion of poems bells chime Electrons flow Radioactive X-rays know Poetry opens doors I am the emergency poet I will take flight in flames never shall I be tamed But I will make that heart beat and get you out of your seat And on the road to recovery and discovery Because poetry heals and steals back our songs what could go wrong?
0
Dec 8, 2021
Dec 8, 2021 at 2:54 PM UTC
The Emergency Poet
We, the people of this country, in your eyes are: babblers, bachelors, bafflers, baiters, barkers, beakers, beaters, brawlers, blamers, beggars, bloaters, bloopers, bombers, boozers, blunders, bruisers, bafflers, bluffers, burglars and burners. That's why you feel compelled to keep your foot on our heads keep us down, put us down, push us down subjugate us, belittle us, berate us. We, the people of this country, in our eyes are: butlers, bouncers, bakers, buyers, barbers, cake-makers, delivery-takers, cocktail-shakers, taxi drivers, cancer survivors, employers and hirers, music makers, entertainers, window washers, foster takers, plasterers, carpenters, scaffolders, sparks and builders, boxers, carers, coaches, tailors, shoe makers, designers, illustrators, multi-language facilitators, dog walkers, dog trainers, bikers and cycle couriers, doctors and nurses and all the emergency services. We are the People, the reason you are where you are now you sometimes forget that we exist as people, somehow locked in your ivory towers with gold plated showers and MP expenses and investment banker pretenses this is not theater, its real life drama, its not just a bluff its time to stand up and say enough is enough.
0
Jun 27, 2014
Jun 27, 2014 at 9:54 AM UTC
Another Angry Voice
Paris was targeted on Friday the 13th, It's an evil incident further defaming it, Now would be bolstered the superstition, Sad...
0
Nov 16, 2015
Nov 16, 2015 at 7:30 PM UTC
Emergency on Friday the 13th
(but something to consider) everything is fine. no.worries. it's just that there is a d a r k n e s s closing in on the edges, and lights swirl in the p e r i p h e r y.
0
Nov 7, 2017
Nov 7, 2017 at 8:27 PM UTC
not an emergency
Looking back, memories distort. Replace damaged nodes with something similar Perhaps reconstructed From previous set-up before X and Y parameters Report Step One: Check patient notes to self Re-calculate from de-constructed Inject imagination Respect self-defence mechanism or immediate virus node termination (a response attack organism) Re-calibrate instruments awareness Strip upgrade Love version 4.1 Reboot only in emergency Refer to install options Error: Temporal Lobe Anomaly Virus detected Internal nodes infected Import Rejection version 3.2 and couple with Lets Be Friends upgrade 1 (Advanced program) Monitor assimilation Danger! Overheated components - Re-inject Memory Node Objective Hindsight applet. Refer to Step One It is now safe to shut down Should you wish to.
0
Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 8:09 AM UTC
Love 2.0 compliant
I.      the smell of sad odorless colorless like ***** similar familiar sidewinder effects, musty invasive, it has no specificity, no locale centrale, well closeted, saddling sadding, in place, plain sighted better to toy our lives, pervades persists, worse lingers, impervious to sprays and even everyone’s good literature (even Will S’s), good wishes good intentions and mood prayers to the nearest lay god on duty at the spiritual emergency room on weekends, still stink don’t think that this poem is for you; solely for the writer, your doppelgänger ****** your mirror’s inside hiding out place, I, who has your sadness smell into my skin cells creepily crept waft woof and warp wet weft-woven into the sad receptacles hidden in my head’s cubbies and the palms of my tree hands-covering face there are cures so wonderful and inexpensive but unavailable at the local Rite Aid, though they are the right aid recoverable, so closer than close, so close that the internist cannot prescribe them because he must inject himself first because the live bacteria in the antidote can **** all this odor lays down bamboo-strong roots; to eradicate you must dig down deep, six feet perhaps more, with heavy earth moving equipment, uproot at the source, follow sad always all-the-way down and the root great god gone, but the saddest truth stench odor yet present***
0
Dec 1, 2018
Dec 1, 2018 at 10:54 AM UTC
I. the smell of sad
I am the Individual Isness incarnated in this body. I am not the body. I have travelled through many lifetimes in many bodies. always learning learning learning. I have developed nous from my experiences only. I WILL NOT EVER- accept a mind in my head. accept any conditioned identity as being  me. cede control over my brain centres to any mind or groupmind that exists anywhere.. I WILL NOT EVER-- cede control over my brain centres to any conditioned identity or group conditioned identity that exists anywhere. or accept that any other but me,the Individual Isness, using my brain centres,using my brain the way I,the Individual Isness,want to and can do to be in charge of the brain centres in the head of this body that I,the Isness,am incarnated in. I WILL NOT EVER-- be prey to opinion-formers and experts and  pie charts and focus groups and surveys. be manipulated by PR men and women in shiny suits. see Edward Bernays book--Propaganda. be manipulated by GroupMinds into thinking  their way. be taken in by brutal security forces posing as "guardians of peace. respect in any way any member of any military forces anywhere no matter how fancy the uniforms or excuses for ****** they wear. I do not respect these parasites anywhere as they are nothing more than paid mercenary murderers on behalf of various Oligarchies.. see Jaques Ellul's book--Propaganda. I WILL NOT EVER-- take any dangerous addictive cancer causing drugs such as Alcohol and Tobacco primarily-- food additives... No one has ever died from any cannabis product. or from LSD or Mesccaline or Psylocybin. believe in any so-called "god" or "goddess". believe in any so-called "prophet" of any so-called "god"or "goddess". accept any so-called "holy" book as valid or truthful or valuable in any way except as emergency papers to roll a grass joint or to wipe my **** on. be taken in by depraved words and concepts in any of these so-called "holy "books that have led to endless wars and still ongoing terrorism and atrocities in the name of one bloodthirsty "god" or "goddess". I WILL NOT EVER-- accept anything as reality unless I can see clearly that it is beyond duality. accept any Conditioned Identity as me. For I am the Isness which is a small but equal,individual, autonomous and independant part of the essence of the Isness of the Universe--!. which is not a "soul" or Atman or spirit or any other religious concoction. I WILL NOT EVER--- accept Mind as a necessary evil accept GroupMind as a necessary evil. I WILL NOT EVER --- eat junk food of any kind. drink tap water anywhere except in direst emergency. eat white sugar or any other pure carbohydrate. be a hypocritical moralising vegetarian. become stoopid through bowing and scraping and stooping at stupas. I will be just a Self realised man living on a big ball in space with a Self Realised woman playing and singing and dancing the Song of Our Lives. www.thefournobletruthsrevised.co.uk
0
Jul 6, 2014
Jul 6, 2014 at 1:13 AM UTC
My promise to the Isness of the Universe
I am the Individual Isness incarnated in this body. I am not the body. I have travelled through many lifetimes in many bodies. always learning learning learning. I have developed nous from my experiences only. I WILL NOT EVER- accept a mind in my head. accept any conditioned identity as being  me. cede control over my brain centres to any mind or groupmind that exists anywhere.. I WILL NOT EVER-- cede control over my brain centres to any conditioned identity or group conditioned identity that exists anywhere. or accept that any other but me,the Individual Isness, using my brain centres,using my brain the way I,the Individual Isness,want to and can do to be in charge of the brain centres in the head of this body that I,the Isness,am incarnated in. I WILL NOT EVER-- be prey to opinion-formers and experts and  pie charts and focus groups and surveys. be manipulated by PR men and women in shiny suits. see Edward Bernays book--Propaganda. be manipulated by GroupMinds into thinking  their way. be taken in by brutal security forces posing as "guardians of peace. respect in any way any member of any military forces anywhere no matter how fancy the uniforms or excuses for ****** they wear. I do not respect these parasites anywhere as they are nothing more than paid mercenary murderers on behalf of various Oligarchies.. see Jaques Ellul's book--Propaganda. I WILL NOT EVER-- take any dangerous addictive cancer causing drugs such as Alcohol and Tobacco primarily-- food additives... No one has ever died from any cannabis product. or from LSD or Mesccaline or Psylocybin. believe in any so-called "god" or "goddess". believe in any so-called "prophet" of any so-called "god"or "goddess". accept any so-called "holy" book as valid or truthful or valuable in any way except as emergency papers to roll a grass joint or to wipe my **** on. be taken in by depraved words and concepts in any of these so-called "holy "books that have led to endless wars and still ongoing terrorism and atrocities in the name of one bloodthirsty "god" or "goddess". I WILL NOT EVER-- accept anything as reality unless I can see clearly that it is beyond duality. accept any Conditioned Identity as me. For I am the Isness which is a small but equal,individual, autonomous and independant part of the essence of the Isness of the Universe--!. which is not a "soul" or Atman or spirit or any other religious concoction. I WILL NOT EVER--- accept Mind as a necessary evil accept GroupMind as a necessary evil. I WILL NOT EVER --- eat junk food of any kind. drink tap water anywhere except in direst emergency. eat white sugar or any other pure carbohydrate. be a hypocritical moralising vegetarian. become stoopid through bowing and scraping and stooping at stupas. I will be just a Self realised man living on a big ball in space with a Self Realised woman playing and singing and dancing the Song of Our Lives. www.thefournobletruthsrevised.co.uk
Continue reading...
60
Sometimes the words I love you swarm like hornets behind my teeth, a phrase so heavy it only has eight letters just like I lost you. Sometimes in the pause you take before you speak, I wonder if you’re fighting to keep down the same things as I am; trying to swallow a confession that seems less like a secret and more like stating the obvious. We were funny, we were bad at holding hands, I hated when a car goes over the tracks, you had this way of making silence the loudest sound in the room when it hit the floor. I made a home out of your hands just like how many beautiful things go without reciprocation. We seem to have found fault in being whole, somewhere alone the way, we’ve started enjoying breaking things; Like my ribs when you’re gone and I want to know if you can tell the difference between the absence of my voice and silence. You are the only thing I’ve ever let go that makes my hands ache. I’m still trying to piece together what made you lose your faith in me, was it how everything starts with gritting teeth and everything ends with you walking away? I should’ve known, the way you used to hold my back like you were checking it for exit wounds. It took me 2 car wrecks and 6 shattered mirrors for me to realize that the world has so much more to say when it is silent; if I didn’t bruise so easily, if I wasn’t looking for a way to be made of a river, if I needed the silence to mean something, then I would ask you to build me out of quiet revenge and goodbyes that stick in your sides like tree branches, I would need you to build me out of reasons to believe instead of reasons to be afraid, I would turn my kneecaps into strawberries in exchange for potter’s hands so I could mild you a bulletproof spirit. It was silence and your lighter, I was cold, you were drinking; that was our backbone. You were alone, I was going too fast because sometimes you don’t have to be in the wrong place to be looking for the wrong thing. I am afraid and you are warm; this is the beginning of a forest fire filled with broken glass shattering in broken homes with broken people inside on a broken piece of land in a city that has too much rain for someone to build an emergency room in. I spend nights up until my body can’t handle itself any longer, mornings have come like a hammer to my head- instead of my face, all I can see in the mirror is an unfamiliar expression, something like a dead battery. All I ever wanted was for you to be my fire, I am tired of these old lives and would like to see them burn.
0
Mar 9, 2016
Mar 9, 2016 at 3:31 AM UTC
Sitting In An Airport With A Sign That Says "Who You Used To Be"
Sometimes the words I love you swarm like hornets behind my teeth, a phrase so heavy it only has eight letters just like I lost you. Sometimes in the pause you take before you speak, I wonder if you’re fighting to keep down the same things as I am; trying to swallow a confession that seems less like a secret and more like stating the obvious. We were funny, we were bad at holding hands, I hated when a car goes over the tracks, you had this way of making silence the loudest sound in the room when it hit the floor. I made a home out of your hands just like how many beautiful things go without reciprocation. We seem to have found fault in being whole, somewhere alone the way, we’ve started enjoying breaking things; Like my ribs when you’re gone and I want to know if you can tell the difference between the absence of my voice and silence. You are the only thing I’ve ever let go that makes my hands ache. I’m still trying to piece together what made you lose your faith in me, was it how everything starts with gritting teeth and everything ends with you walking away? I should’ve known, the way you used to hold my back like you were checking it for exit wounds. It took me 2 car wrecks and 6 shattered mirrors for me to realize that the world has so much more to say when it is silent; if I didn’t bruise so easily, if I wasn’t looking for a way to be made of a river, if I needed the silence to mean something, then I would ask you to build me out of quiet revenge and goodbyes that stick in your sides like tree branches, I would need you to build me out of reasons to believe instead of reasons to be afraid, I would turn my kneecaps into strawberries in exchange for potter’s hands so I could mild you a bulletproof spirit. It was silence and your lighter, I was cold, you were drinking; that was our backbone. You were alone, I was going too fast because sometimes you don’t have to be in the wrong place to be looking for the wrong thing. I am afraid and you are warm; this is the beginning of a forest fire filled with broken glass shattering in broken homes with broken people inside on a broken piece of land in a city that has too much rain for someone to build an emergency room in. I spend nights up until my body can’t handle itself any longer, mornings have come like a hammer to my head- instead of my face, all I can see in the mirror is an unfamiliar expression, something like a dead battery. All I ever wanted was for you to be my fire, I am tired of these old lives and would like to see them burn.
Continue reading...
18