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"engineered" poems
All that we know maybe distorted Or a methodical manipulation Where truth is obfuscated by few Which spreads like an epidemic Words used with vested interest For us to play a role given to us Memorizing the scripts, to deliver Speeches with someone else’s ideas Thoughts and feelings engineered To suit the machinations of few With sinister ideas to play with the mind A conscious and intelligent manipulation Bereft of the tools of our own judgment Our perception is not even ours For the mind has been violated With the scheming and methodical manipulations
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 12:41 AM UTC
Manipulation
Wake Up Wretched World, I assert my Indigenous heritage I self identify With the ancestors of my continent Identity afraid to articulate Culture, unknowingly belonging to me Cycle of shame now shattered Product of love, hatred, lust, and desire europeans plundering my mother Latin America In chaos and violence, my skin's pigment Has been engineered through the mestizaje Of my Indigenous forefathers How could I not forget my lineage When the historical legacy of modernization Has been to massacre the consciousness Of where my people really come from Erasing indigenous pride Making Paisano and Indio Synonymous with poverty and alienation Insulting the humbleness State of hunger you've left us in Original lineage within me disturbed So you push me to ambiguity and embarrassment Not white, not indigenous? Pure indigenous brothers and sisters silenced Not an exploitable consumerist market, not in your campaigns Not benefactors of your philanthropic development tactics Bodies too costly to abuse, no reason to bring them Into the neoliberal multinational corporate circuit Constantly driving them off productive land Because they choose to assert their identity Live in collective communes, not owing you nothing Waiting for them to make barren lands productive So you can take those lands too Not capturing an obscure history, these are not colonial times This is the legacy of the european presence entering mother Latin America 21st century still defiling Indigenous cultures to civilize and modernize
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 10:26 PM UTC
Indigenous (Abducted Consciousness)
Wake Up Wretched World, I assert my Indigenous heritage I self identify With the ancestors of my continent Identity afraid to articulate Culture, unknowingly belonging to me Cycle of shame now shattered Product of love, hatred, lust, and desire europeans plundering my mother Latin America In chaos and violence, my skin's pigment Has been engineered through the mestizaje Of my Indigenous forefathers How could I not forget my lineage When the historical legacy of modernization Has been to massacre the consciousness Of where my people really come from Erasing indigenous pride Making Paisano and Indio Synonymous with poverty and alienation Insulting the humbleness State of hunger you've left us in Original lineage within me disturbed So you push me to ambiguity and embarrassment Not white, not indigenous? Pure indigenous brothers and sisters silenced Not an exploitable consumerist market, not in your campaigns Not benefactors of your philanthropic development tactics Bodies too costly to abuse, no reason to bring them Into the neoliberal multinational corporate circuit Constantly driving them off productive land Because they choose to assert their identity Live in collective communes, not owing you nothing Waiting for them to make barren lands productive So you can take those lands too Not capturing an obscure history, these are not colonial times This is the legacy of the european presence entering mother Latin America 21st century still defiling Indigenous cultures to civilize and modernize
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“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” Stephen Jay Gould Give me vacuum tube torus Lorentz-Klein interference receptors dual noble-gas maser integration processors at least one prosthetic Gaussian carbon-coated ribosomal Tesla coil an anthropomorphic hierarchical temporal meme-pseudopod some support vector k-nearest neighbor algorithms reverse engineered quantum optic die-cast silica motherboards self-assembling three dimensional electro-active protein polymers maybe even a superconducting spectral alkali resonance analyzer paired with harmonizing piezoelectric kinematic thermal modules dipped in subzero Kurzweil-circuit nanite neurotransmitters and voila! God.
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Dec 15, 2011
Dec 15, 2011 at 5:18 PM UTC
God is EZ PZ
Fear too is an epidemic, it stretches out like An incubation period for a kind of doom Population control, whispered a silent elite Who engineer our wallets, our GMO food, our futures Ebola was a convenient way, of making us fear Who we once were again, black as a Nigerian We died alone in deathbeds, isolated plastic containers For who we once were, our organs giving out Infection was a spider hand, MSM gave us False positives, but could the main-stream-media Be trusted any longer? Wasn’t this just a matter Of time, an algorithm set loose upon the billions? Fear is that place, where people go in adversity It’s hypnotic like an audience at a concert It’s contagious how the will for self-preservation can spread Fight of flee, but where to run, out of the cities? The new normal is a kind of paranoia While we watch the situation very closely Every hour there is underground news about Another case in another country, Ebola isn’t Your grandmother that only likes good climates She’s an engineered hypothesis of how mobility Causes any true pandemic to become a flamboyant outbreak The comet that signals black plagues has been seen Fear too is a weapon, when you can’t stop the world Because it’s too costly to do so, and you can’t Tell the world not to fly because we’re too free We left Africa a long time ago, but who among us Would stand 20 meters from their open graves?
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 9:22 AM UTC
Ebola, the 60% protocol
title: not god, but his clock, will gnaw at us: that we are mortal, and agitated by a libido to continue, as to why the immortals find us so cosmic, for the worth of not exacting a better joke prescribed to other genus archetypes... whether the atheists believe in a blind-watchmaker is beside the point... the actual conjuring of the ultimate engineered thing will undo us... only the gods could have engineered time... space? they can't fathom space, the gods could only engineer time, but they couldn't engineer space: the cliche, think outside the box? even the gods know nought concerning this; and if there is only one god... he has been lodged into a letter: θ - a 1 inside a 0; the being already confined... even gods have limits beyond the stressor of supposed immortality... they can't engineer space... all they can engineer, is a transcendence of time... only mortals, men, can engineer the concept of space... hence nations, hence borders, hence differences, hence the concept of magnetism and repulsion... if gods engineered time, then men engineered space... as now, and forever, will remain so, the quest for a cosmic joke / clue. it won't be the blind-watchmaker who eats us up,   the the clock itself -    it will devour us,    it will gnaw our flesh toward the bone,          and then with out bones play an instrument     to glorify its procession down the aisles of our endeavours to express civility...     was there any to begin with? our temporal anxiety, being mortals, equates itself with the spatial anxiety of the immortals (gods).
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Jul 3, 2017
Jul 3, 2017 at 9:30 PM UTC
nie bóg, lecz jego zegar, będzie nas żreć
title: not god, but his clock, will gnaw at us: that we are mortal, and agitated by a libido to continue, as to why the immortals find us so cosmic, for the worth of not exacting a better joke prescribed to other genus archetypes... whether the atheists believe in a blind-watchmaker is beside the point... the actual conjuring of the ultimate engineered thing will undo us... only the gods could have engineered time... space? they can't fathom space, the gods could only engineer time, but they couldn't engineer space: the cliche, think outside the box? even the gods know nought concerning this; and if there is only one god... he has been lodged into a letter: θ - a 1 inside a 0; the being already confined... even gods have limits beyond the stressor of supposed immortality... they can't engineer space... all they can engineer, is a transcendence of time... only mortals, men, can engineer the concept of space... hence nations, hence borders, hence differences, hence the concept of magnetism and repulsion... if gods engineered time, then men engineered space... as now, and forever, will remain so, the quest for a cosmic joke / clue. it won't be the blind-watchmaker who eats us up,   the the clock itself -    it will devour us,    it will gnaw our flesh toward the bone,          and then with out bones play an instrument     to glorify its procession down the aisles of our endeavours to express civility...     was there any to begin with? our temporal anxiety, being mortals, equates itself with the spatial anxiety of the immortals (gods).
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daffy duck is tired daffy duck is quacking tired of being drawn and being scripted and engineered into always being a cartoon character; daffy duck no longer wants to be daffy duck the cartoon character daffy duck wants to be a philosopher which is all quite quacking satisfying even just to think about and so daffy duck the philosopher thinks: *daffy duck thinks, therefore daffy duck is; but if I, daffy duck do not think I am daffy duck and renounce all the scripts and the words and the expectations and the roles; if I do not think I am daffy duck I am no longer daffy duck or, for that matter, any quacking duck* and so (much to the dismay of loyal fans who want always to be Daffy Duck Fans) daffy duck is no more the cartoon character and becomes daffy duck the philosopher; and daffy duck the philosopher thinks himself out of the quacking role of daffy duck as any quacking duck or anybody at all (much to the dismay of loyal fans who want always to be Daffy Duck Fans)
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Oct 18, 2010
Oct 18, 2010 at 2:34 AM UTC
daffy duck the philosopher
~ each intersection, a crossroad made, every answer, a question began; each wrong, a right opposing, every song, a note composing, after darkness, the light again! angry words won’t heal the pain, apologies like ointment’s rain; flood-washed roads a crossing need, no line in sand, a bridge instead, points me north, your heart to claim! i am no island, though often seems, my pained retreat, a blood trail leaves; i find my greatest strength of all, within your heart’s loving embrace, held firmly in your grip of grace! there is no strength in platitudes, cliches are weak, like worn out shoes; the darkened bank cannot hold sway, o’er lighted bridge that leads the way, points me north, and back to you! ~ *post script. learning something of defense mechanisms, mine in particular;   sadly, when brokenness is too acute to hide, the retreat is not bloodless. bridges built of simple three-word sentences greatly needed ...  not a crafted flood of well-worded, defensive responses. “i am sorry!” and “i love you!”... two, eight-letter, three-cord ropes, requiring no word-smithing, yet are sound-ly engineered for mending souls and building hearts-bridges not easily broken... each capable of bearing (baring) great weights. and yes, there are notes composing here, for it is said, “a song solidifies the heart’s passionate decisions!”*
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Jul 23, 2016
Jul 23, 2016 at 1:08 PM UTC
bridges
In a perfect world, equal opportunity would be a facet of every society, not just a promise made and then recanted.   In a perfect world, fixed annuity would be given out with staunch sobriety, and the cries of poverty would cease being chanted. In a perfect world, the disparity of race would be forgotten, replaced with celebratory practice of traditions, preserved. In a perfect world, discrimination would no longer be begotten, and nothing but compassion and kindness would be reserved. In the perfect world, medicine would work like magic, with disease being left as a thing of the past. In the perfect world, a diagnosis of cancer would no longer be tragic, and our bodies would be engineered to last. Yet, the future’s uncertain, and the past’s all but gone So the present must be where our battles are won If a perfect world is what we desire It must be done now Where our bones are unweary And our minds shall not tire
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 12:40 AM UTC
In a Perfect World
By Arcassin B "Nerdy kid from Queens in the city that never sleeps, Single moments without the peace and ability to be eased, Simplicity to finding your dreams replacing the deeper means, With a Genius intellect, No these kids can not rival me, I was brought up and taught these things and took the blessings, A misconception in human minds don't get the message, Babylon in full effect ,is where we're all headed, One day I'm gonna be something,I think manifest it, My teenage years were pretty weird and wasn't kind to me, Richard and Mary Parker was just distant memory, If anything I found myself a remedy to cope with thinking why I found all of this as a stranger dreaming, Who knew one day I actually become a man? Who knew one I'd actually have a real friend? Who knew one day that I would be bitten by a radioactive engineered Spider in the very end?..... ◾ (New Poem Titled "Responsibility" to Spider-Man Project Coming soon!) Full Poem below⬇️ ◾ ©abpoetry2022
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Jun 12, 2022
Jun 12, 2022 at 6:13 PM UTC
"Responsibility"
Look closely, do you see it? Down below, where man has not been A deity with roots, deeply burrowed in the earth There lies a mighty tree Taking warmth from the core and in return, provides life on the surface Thousands of birds live within his branches Songs sung of unexplainable beauty His base, hollowed out for furry creatures in the colder months Oh, how he loves the tiny animals They make him laugh, dropping the sweetest of fruit Perfection it would seem, he grew curious What goes on beyond his personal Eden? Several branches wrap around each other Winding and unwinding, to reveal an old man Terra-god, in flesh and blood Ripping out a strong root to help hold himself up, The long journey begins Three days he walked through the forest But what is three days to a man who has lived hundred of thousands of years. Entire civilizations rise and fall, lifetimes must feel like matters of seconds He continues to wander along. Suddenly he sees something not seen before, No cover from his branches, an open night sky He had never felt such wonder How many stars were as old as he? Taking it all in, he continued to walk. Morning came as did another discovery. A jungle, grey, concrete, filled with soulless monsters Black thick air, foulest of all Stacks of stolen, re-engineered earth rising higher then any tree. There is no life here, only man's false heaven. Disgusted and furious at what he saw, he cursed this domain of blastphemy, and turned homeward Upon walking back as time progressed he felt weaker He began to feel time, slower, and slower Something felt wrong, something, felt wrong He noticed the animals wandering about, picked one up “Find shelter little one” in a worried tone, “It will be cold soon” As he looked up, he trembled His home Eden, ***** and torn by man The sweetest of fruit, The furry animals, All destroyed, leaving but a trunk He fell to the ground weeping, Withering to nothing The age of nature has ended
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Oct 27, 2012
Oct 27, 2012 at 2:22 PM UTC
Death of a Tree
Look closely, do you see it? Down below, where man has not been A deity with roots, deeply burrowed in the earth There lies a mighty tree Taking warmth from the core and in return, provides life on the surface Thousands of birds live within his branches Songs sung of unexplainable beauty His base, hollowed out for furry creatures in the colder months Oh, how he loves the tiny animals They make him laugh, dropping the sweetest of fruit Perfection it would seem, he grew curious What goes on beyond his personal Eden? Several branches wrap around each other Winding and unwinding, to reveal an old man Terra-god, in flesh and blood Ripping out a strong root to help hold himself up, The long journey begins Three days he walked through the forest But what is three days to a man who has lived hundred of thousands of years. Entire civilizations rise and fall, lifetimes must feel like matters of seconds He continues to wander along. Suddenly he sees something not seen before, No cover from his branches, an open night sky He had never felt such wonder How many stars were as old as he? Taking it all in, he continued to walk. Morning came as did another discovery. A jungle, grey, concrete, filled with soulless monsters Black thick air, foulest of all Stacks of stolen, re-engineered earth rising higher then any tree. There is no life here, only man's false heaven. Disgusted and furious at what he saw, he cursed this domain of blastphemy, and turned homeward Upon walking back as time progressed he felt weaker He began to feel time, slower, and slower Something felt wrong, something, felt wrong He noticed the animals wandering about, picked one up “Find shelter little one” in a worried tone, “It will be cold soon” As he looked up, he trembled His home Eden, ***** and torn by man The sweetest of fruit, The furry animals, All destroyed, leaving but a trunk He fell to the ground weeping, Withering to nothing The age of nature has ended
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perfunctory actions zombie habits sheep normalcy blindly following the cud chewers lemmings fall to their deaths slowly genetically engineered crops dusted with pharmaceutical poison laced with irradiated petroleum pesticides fed to the babies of the poor – wealthy voyeurs eagerly tune-in as the impoverished masses rot for viewing pleasure leisurely strolling across manicured lawns those in power scoff at the growing spectacle unaware that the cake is stale and the masses smell blood – hurriedly, accountants shuffle tax rates mix those with interest credit season it with mortgage fees and serve it on wall street place mats taking stock of stock market gains gamblers do double gainers off high rises adding to the flesh being consumed by the under class under classed – underclassmen, underpaid, stretch under ware elastic as waistlines expand with the debt ceiling both symbolizing the slow decline of the American dream screaming into the sewer fewer eyes look back as disease dulls the iris loss of the inner shine glowing reflection of living organisms fading as the day slips into the blue-black – night falls on a nation of imbeciles brain dead patients broken by depression and weight-loss scams hearts crying out for care personal and compassionate instead are met with sterile robotics and sanitary “C” students dressed in white fearful of lawsuits and spiders they prescribe to symptoms without knowing insurance number 87319A23-S1 is a human being, just like them also living in fear of the same establishment –
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 1:33 PM UTC
trip to the Dr.
perfunctory actions zombie habits sheep normalcy blindly following the cud chewers lemmings fall to their deaths slowly genetically engineered crops dusted with pharmaceutical poison laced with irradiated petroleum pesticides fed to the babies of the poor – wealthy voyeurs eagerly tune-in as the impoverished masses rot for viewing pleasure leisurely strolling across manicured lawns those in power scoff at the growing spectacle unaware that the cake is stale and the masses smell blood – hurriedly, accountants shuffle tax rates mix those with interest credit season it with mortgage fees and serve it on wall street place mats taking stock of stock market gains gamblers do double gainers off high rises adding to the flesh being consumed by the under class under classed – underclassmen, underpaid, stretch under ware elastic as waistlines expand with the debt ceiling both symbolizing the slow decline of the American dream screaming into the sewer fewer eyes look back as disease dulls the iris loss of the inner shine glowing reflection of living organisms fading as the day slips into the blue-black – night falls on a nation of imbeciles brain dead patients broken by depression and weight-loss scams hearts crying out for care personal and compassionate instead are met with sterile robotics and sanitary “C” students dressed in white fearful of lawsuits and spiders they prescribe to symptoms without knowing insurance number 87319A23-S1 is a human being, just like them also living in fear of the same establishment –
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Casually caressing the comedy of life A child knows not tragedy’s strife. There is always another dream toy or friend for their fetal-esteem. They spell their grammar with candy and curiosity while maintaining a history in smile and laughter. The heroism of Joe the G.I. and the beauty of a Barbie are created impulsively and fueled by imagination and apple juice. A bike is not a means of transportation but rather meant to be raced and jumped. Scooby-Doo and the ****** Tunes should rule Saturday mornings from their throne in the tube. Monkey bars and playgrounds, are not merely a facility to upkeep physical activity. Instead it is a kingdom of escape engineered by make-believe funded by risk-taking and motivated by the eradication of the cootie-plagued and ****** pickers. Where did time go, when these bones grew old this brain grew dull and these hands lost their callus? The world is cruel for the elder mind. Yet, for our youthful kin, Society does not exist in coloring books and world peace is only found in imagination and apple juice.
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Jan 11, 2013
Jan 11, 2013 at 2:02 AM UTC
Imagination and Apple Juice
an ancient lyric, come to haunt, no longer a shield, now thinner, of gossamer consistency, a tissue-thin papyrus, “my poetry to protect me” the poem words always were a clarinet reed, capable of singing, a highest pitch voice for turning blades of clean steel clean away, now blunting paper bunting, penetrated. re-formed my shield, re-purposed, into a stabbing instrument offensive, my poetry pricking tearings in my worn thin fabric tapestry, woven from linen excuses of why I can’t, why couldn’t I. this is life. moats becoming drowning pools, castle walls reversed to entrapments, wrecking machines, boulders hurling, medieval defenseless against modern rhymes giving away to free verse horde onslaught. too late to apologize to myself, alas, my words, my protectorate, island redoubt, now ruined by doubts treachery breech birthed from within, these verses hollow point bullets engineered, Caesar’s words clarified, you, et tu, are Brutus too, two, for the price of one, betrayer and betrayed.
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Jun 21, 2020
Jun 21, 2020 at 5:44 PM UTC
“my poetry to protect me”
to sleep i may, but not the dark vessel of mine eyes, over stormy seas of placenta and albatross tossed from the palm of  a rough hewn, Five-Headed Crane raking five beaks across a canvass of my wounded fires - and my brazen black honey, trembling on the lip of mis-fortunate birth..., in the cataract of a fine hat on a fat rebel. my public spaces engineered to come from the inside the wastelands are beautiful as you gawk at the red sun a bead of red plasma, flowing from an open vein in a mind shaft. with a bad back and no front. but a lasting gasp....
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Sep 23, 2014
Sep 23, 2014 at 5:49 PM UTC
"I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Frida Kahlo
First, garlic. Dig your nails into its flaking paper, pink and beige like magnolia petals parched in the gutter. Peel back the skin and crush the weighted bud with the heel of your hand on your favourite knife. It has been waiting for this. The thick expectent smell sits up on the chopping board, looks up at you like an old friend. It has burrowed itself into the skin of your hands and lingers there it will not be washed away, instead it quietly clings to your fingers, flavouring letters on your keyboard, the edge of the banister, every light switch in the house. The pulped clove is scattered into a scraped frying pan, your grandmother's; it was never non-stick. The stuck parts were always the best bit, and so it goes, the oil and creamy crumbs find the same spots, engineered over forty years. Some were accidents. All were happy. Yours were ambition-led experiments. The thumbs in the brown recipe book were never your thumbs, the dried-out sedimentary edges were never your mishaps but still it is a bible of sorts, providing answers but never asking questions. Later after dinner when everything is cleared away and nobody can tell that you had been cooking at all bring your fingertips to your nose and inhale the remaining relic of your meal, a letter to yourself, the end notes enduring but faint now, lastly lastly garlic.
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 1:03 PM UTC
This Poem is Not a Recipe
I’m a renaissance woman. Not in the sense that I’ll birth your children, and keep a perfect clean house I am a Muse. I rebirthed and reclaimed my mind and body Away from the Dark Age of adolescence So, I can finally feel present in my own skin I’m a renaissance man in a woman’s body Not in the sense that I feel trapped in the wrong time, place or body But that I've become skilled in many fields I will never stop trying to better myself I have designed and engineered a par of perfect wings. I guess you’ve never seen an angel in disguise But unlike Icarus, my wings can hold me, So, **** you Leonardo, I’m a better renaissance woman than you were a renaissance man
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Dec 4, 2017
Dec 4, 2017 at 10:56 AM UTC
Renaissance Woman
"There were good people on both sides." Donald Trump's father was a card-carrying Klansman & Trump learned everything he knows about business from Roy Cohen, a notoriously evil self-hating homosexual, gangster, politician, mouthpiece for the Mafia   & aide-de-camp to the same Joseph McCarthy who engineered the Red Scare & subsequent blacklisting of Hollywood's best & most creative talent; this is Donald Trump's history & education & legacy - why is a man POTUS who lied, cheated & paid hush money; [the only way he knows how to do business]; he loves dictators, who laugh behind his back, & even to his stupid, clueless face; Trump's 'base' composed of desperate, angry morons
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 5:36 PM UTC
Donald Trump on **** Germany:
Unmotivated Tears I used to criticize The eyes Of those I knew Who, at Drops of a hat Shed tears of ardor: God-knows-what. Ascribing it To vitamins and lack thereof, Past, present and/or too much ‘love’. Too something/something out of balance; Nothing but a prevalence Of yin or yang Ganging up On both those ducts. Uncaring and unfeelingly – I used to be. Now, at eighty-three it’s me. I may need hormone therapy. Or is it age sagacity - Unmotivated tears Based on a grasp of life’s chimere That takes in all - An all which makes one engineered By tears One must defer to. Unmotivated Tears 4.24.2018 I Is Always You Is We; Nature Of & In Reality; Circling Round Aging; Arlene Corwin
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Apr 24, 2018
Apr 24, 2018 at 8:10 AM UTC
Unmotivated Tears
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL? Were you aware that our nation opposed Haiti's revolution for democracy in the early 1800s; that our nation's war against Mexico that began in 1846 resulted in our taking half of Mexico for ourselves; that our nation defeated Spain ostensibly to liberate Cuba, but actually established a military base on the island and furtively gained de facto control of its puppet government; that our nation seized Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam; that our nation had fought a brutal war to subjugate the Phillipines; that our nation had opened Japan for trade with us with threats and gunboats; that our nation created an "Open Door" policy with China to exploit it economically; that our nation engineered a revolution against Colombia to create the nation of Panama so we could build the canal through it; that our nation sent 5,000 Marines in 1926 to Nicaragua to counter their democratic revolution; that our nation in 1916 intervened in the Dominican Republic for the fourth time; that our nation in 1915 intervened in Haiti for the second time, and so on. Imperialism, not democracy, steered our nation's decisions and movements. Did any of you learn about, let alone study extensively, any of these flagitious Ameican acts and policies as you sat and squirmed in your high school American history class? My surmise is that you did not. But I bet you were required in at least one of your classrooms sometime between 1st and 12th grade to stand at attention, as it were, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as you saluted the flag in the corner. My riposte: What does it matter if our flags are waving, if our spirits are flagging? Epilogue: Most importantly, never forget that it was the two evils of slavery and genocide that propelled our nation into what once was the most influential nation on Earth. Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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Jun 26, 2020
Jun 26, 2020 at 8:52 PM UTC
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL?
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL? Were you aware that our nation opposed Haiti's revolution for democracy in the early 1800s; that our nation's war against Mexico that began in 1846 resulted in our taking half of Mexico for ourselves; that our nation defeated Spain ostensibly to liberate Cuba, but actually established a military base on the island and furtively gained de facto control of its puppet government; that our nation seized Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam; that our nation had fought a brutal war to subjugate the Phillipines; that our nation had opened Japan for trade with us with threats and gunboats; that our nation created an "Open Door" policy with China to exploit it economically; that our nation engineered a revolution against Colombia to create the nation of Panama so we could build the canal through it; that our nation sent 5,000 Marines in 1926 to Nicaragua to counter their democratic revolution; that our nation in 1916 intervened in the Dominican Republic for the fourth time; that our nation in 1915 intervened in Haiti for the second time, and so on. Imperialism, not democracy, steered our nation's decisions and movements. Did any of you learn about, let alone study extensively, any of these flagitious Ameican acts and policies as you sat and squirmed in your high school American history class? My surmise is that you did not. But I bet you were required in at least one of your classrooms sometime between 1st and 12th grade to stand at attention, as it were, and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as you saluted the flag in the corner. My riposte: What does it matter if our flags are waving, if our spirits are flagging? Epilogue: Most importantly, never forget that it was the two evils of slavery and genocide that propelled our nation into what once was the most influential nation on Earth. Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
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after witty humour, which spawned slapstick... slapstick can only spawn the last of the known humours... the offensive type, the 'get me out of this straithjacket of everything's fine apathy,' the ugly humour... rude humour... i take oaths humour... i rather write a swear word to oil up than degrade myself with thesaurus usage humour. why is poetry such a ***** of coding daily activity... who needs poetry if the everyday is intact? atheism didn’t **** god... it merely killed the logic of myth.... atheism is far worse than mythology... it just regurgitates facts to make you submit to them without the necessary philosophical awe of finding them interesting... poetry isn’t dead... it’s a ***** which is worse than death where i come from... there’s ezra with his fountain comparison: ‘i ****** in it... and put pigmenting chlorine in it - you **** in it... streaks of blue... i think that’s called cubism in france.’ did i say alcoholism was engineered by the nazis for the bomb sarcasm? cheap humour you say... ah well slapstick was invented after sarcasam... i heard the new best anti-ageing cream was butter rather than l’oreal - there are too many stages in the differences of women, i quite like the summer spring autumn winter thing going... it’s like this thing that’s happening right now... christian nations censor words... like **** cultish **** of the brothel... and islamic nations invoke words... like kefir (sour milk, not quite youghurt), dawah... adhan salat abraham... one party censors words for excess ***** saying: ‘we don’t like swear words in accomplished spelling, we like dyslexia and **** teen **** graphic...’ sounds about right... the other party says: ‘we hate censoring ***** words, that’s doubly censoring, censor ***** words get more dirt out of it... we invoke the power of arabic to teach koran latin for the knobs!’ problem sorted... we’re all power brokers of spelling / punctuation / arithmetic - that’s what i don’t get, the ratio of the two languages... all you have in the digits A to Z is spelling and punctuation... but what you have in the digits ZERO to NINE is so much more... is grammar a castle that’s keeping certain functions out? in mathematics you have +, x, obelisk, -, square root, etc. but in linguistics you have this permament reminder: SPELL RIGHT FROM WRONG AND RITE FROM THONG. well... ****** me timbers... i think i just spotted a lumberjack chequers tweed jacket.
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Nov 24, 2015
Nov 24, 2015 at 8:49 PM UTC
a lumberjack chequers tweed jacket
after witty humour, which spawned slapstick... slapstick can only spawn the last of the known humours... the offensive type, the 'get me out of this straithjacket of everything's fine apathy,' the ugly humour... rude humour... i take oaths humour... i rather write a swear word to oil up than degrade myself with thesaurus usage humour. why is poetry such a ***** of coding daily activity... who needs poetry if the everyday is intact? atheism didn’t **** god... it merely killed the logic of myth.... atheism is far worse than mythology... it just regurgitates facts to make you submit to them without the necessary philosophical awe of finding them interesting... poetry isn’t dead... it’s a ***** which is worse than death where i come from... there’s ezra with his fountain comparison: ‘i ****** in it... and put pigmenting chlorine in it - you **** in it... streaks of blue... i think that’s called cubism in france.’ did i say alcoholism was engineered by the nazis for the bomb sarcasm? cheap humour you say... ah well slapstick was invented after sarcasam... i heard the new best anti-ageing cream was butter rather than l’oreal - there are too many stages in the differences of women, i quite like the summer spring autumn winter thing going... it’s like this thing that’s happening right now... christian nations censor words... like **** cultish **** of the brothel... and islamic nations invoke words... like kefir (sour milk, not quite youghurt), dawah... adhan salat abraham... one party censors words for excess ***** saying: ‘we don’t like swear words in accomplished spelling, we like dyslexia and **** teen **** graphic...’ sounds about right... the other party says: ‘we hate censoring ***** words, that’s doubly censoring, censor ***** words get more dirt out of it... we invoke the power of arabic to teach koran latin for the knobs!’ problem sorted... we’re all power brokers of spelling / punctuation / arithmetic - that’s what i don’t get, the ratio of the two languages... all you have in the digits A to Z is spelling and punctuation... but what you have in the digits ZERO to NINE is so much more... is grammar a castle that’s keeping certain functions out? in mathematics you have +, x, obelisk, -, square root, etc. but in linguistics you have this permament reminder: SPELL RIGHT FROM WRONG AND RITE FROM THONG. well... ****** me timbers... i think i just spotted a lumberjack chequers tweed jacket.
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*Mirror! Mirror!  On the wall Though art the cause of many a fall What with them endless hours adjusting and re-adjusting Visages to desired perfection mindless of the misgiving. Wearing masks in a variety of color In a bid to entice a bachelor With whose heart she’ll most disconcertingly hold ransom Anticipating a blossom Of a methodically engineered relationship Minding her speech lest a Freudian slip Nips at the bud Her good “fortune” exposing her as a fraud. Perfect imperfections, perfectly mirrored By an imperfect mirror…*absurd.
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Dec 11, 2013
Dec 11, 2013 at 9:11 AM UTC
Literal Lateral inversion.
i. Cometh hither darling, passeth through the enlightened pergola, seeith how ourn moniker's, art carved into the archway thither ourn bower; A chivalrous Noble tower. ii. No worrying mine dear, a buckler shalt be close to mine grab, for the attacker's shalt tryeth to invade, steal, and get all in a duetimes hand; though the circlet I shalt place upon thine top, shalt giveth thee shielding, from the Creation's that mock. iii. Artista, mine chosen of coëval; chalcedony balconies shalt giveth us visibility, up close we shalt toast, in thine calligraphist theory, in intimacy we'll float. iv. The eaves of ourn citadel, shalt be engineered by thine geniusness, none better to build ourn protection, as thou art a stalwart of the age, a queen aloft all name's, an angel upon a seraph's stage, as I wilt espy thee from the window inside thine midst. ©Brandon Nagley ©Lonesome poets poetry ©Earl Jane Nagley dedicated ( Filipino rose)
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Jan 11, 2016
Jan 11, 2016 at 4:40 PM UTC
pergola goleuedig ( Enlightened pergola) welsh tongue
The beginning of a story Read with me, if you desire At dawn a huge explosion Filled the void with fire, Cooled and hardened into rock, Orbits now another star, A life sustaining prison Caterpillars in a jar. A thousand, thousand, thousand years, Then a thousand, thousand more Passed as though an eye blink Before a creature crawled to shore. What miracle was engineered? Creating ocean from a fire, Creating algae in the ocean, And life from muck and mire? Was the engineer benevolent? With a careful laid out plan? Or is the earth a failed experiment Where the byproduct is Man? And if Man was unintended What results were meant to be? Would earth have been a better place With just oceans, land and trees? Maybe chemical reactions, On this random, rolling stone Were responsible for all its life Chemicals alone. Astronomic odds against it, But the odds of Heaven are high as well. I cannot comprehend it. That story someone else must tell. Phil Lindsey June, 2015
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 9:00 AM UTC
Caterpillars in a Jar
*Sacramental Elixir & Illuminated Blues, Experimental Flauntings Of Her Midsummer Hues, Radioactive Eyes & Her Fairytale Lies, Seductive Abuses Across The New Divide, Vivid Intersections In Her Phenomenal Rage, Shatterproof Reflections Splattered Upstage, Midnight Passions Of Her Perplexed Lust, Starlight Rains Glittering Hybrid Dusts, Transitional Paradigms & Engineered Moans, Theatrical Concoctions In Her Symphonic Tones, Flirtatious Illuminations Under The Darkest Light, Stained Animations Igniting Kryptonite, Palisades Of Her Collated Reflections, Cascades Emitting Her Sedated Projections, Contraband Infatuation Resonating Magnetic Love, Raving Constellations Provocating Atomic Dove, Divine Catharsis Of Her Cupid Amour Eternity, Valentine Bliss Mystifying Her Restrained Insanity, Charismatic Futility & ****** Binge, Cinematic Tranquility Emanating From Her Bulletproof Sins, Neon Subways & Fragile Foreplays, Sensual Arrays Of Her Red-Light Decays. - 03:53AM -*
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 6:30 PM UTC
Elixir