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"etcetera" poems
My essay, Changency, is a meme This meme has been growing inside of me I've been a carrier Many of us have been I'm not a benevolent character though I've been purposely placing the memetic material on blankets And leaving the blankets in local trading posts I call these 'trading posts' bookstores, universities, colleges, schools...coffee shops, pubs, restaurants, etcetera The beautiful thing is that these memes aren't really on blankets The memes are encoded on the backs of knowledge, truth, and authenticity They come from a place of pain Evolution can be painful (but does it have to be?) Three dimensions are easy to comprehend Four, sure just add time What about spacetime? And a fifth dimension...I don't really know what that means...but some do and they're watching, listening, waiting, and loving us
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 9:52 PM UTC
Changency is a meme
You ask me If I've considered suicide Like I'm actually going to answer Honestly I mean, What would I say? Yeah that's all I think about Please, Put me on piles of medicine So I can be crazy As well as sad But let me tell you I most definitely Have considered it I've got the perfect tree picked out It's got the perfect branch For hanging yourself There's a rope already attached Or if you prefer, It's easy to climb You could always just jump These are two options But wait, I've got more There's a lake out back It smells bad But you could definitely still drown Or better still, There's a great knife in the kitchen Really thin blade But it's super sharp For minimum pain And maximum blood Yet still, There's more I've got duct tape in the basement You could make yourself suffocate Of course, You could use your pillow for that There are the long ways You could starve yourself Sleep deprivation Dehydration Etcetera So Mr. "Psychological Doctor," I don't know... Would you say I've thought about suicide?
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Jun 6, 2015
Jun 6, 2015 at 9:01 PM UTC
"Psychological Doctor"
We are absurd You and I Fragments   We have created a fermentative reality, Where words are symbols of relation That you and I falsify   And Bingo was his name-o!   Ah!   Oh holy onomatopoeic jargon   What do you mean? And how shall we bargain?   And mora is but a half step to a whole   Eek gad!   January Febuary March and April May I introduce you to June and July August, Sept Oct Nov Dec   Randomly systemized organs organized Abstract or… dissonant? But who is in charge?   12345 12345678 12345 12345678   12344 12344556 12344 12344556   “Why so serious?” said The Riddler Mellow dramatic Melodrama Melancholy     Pantomimes! Pantomimes EVERYWHERE! They are able to speak But alone I mime, “Do you have the time?”   Together we fall! United I stand.   Backwards Upside down Inside out And grammar   What’s in a name? Please don’t be lame Sarcastic and the glamour   Synonymous nonsense Homophones and nyms Where are the polysemes? In the antonyms In the antonyms!   Repitition Exclamation Annunciation tions…   verbage verbage verbage syllables and such meaningless meaning defining definitions with such   True or False? Hide and Seek   Ring around the rosy We all fall down… We all fall down.   Black hat, white shoes, and I’m red all over.   Salt Sour And bitter And dill And And And And And And Ampersand   Institutionalized poetry But I am for rhythmic prose! No, not you Listen to the hue that the colors protrude red green blue red green blue   Black is not a color Chrome is my favorite I will not believe otherwise   You are an alien. I have divided by zero Musical dissonance *(asterisk) A beautiful disaster A shadow without its owner Wild natured wilderness And naturally a wildcard.   **** **** **** **** **** Etcetera.
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Sep 15, 2012
Sep 15, 2012 at 7:08 AM UTC
Sermon Monsieur
We are absurd You and I Fragments   We have created a fermentative reality, Where words are symbols of relation That you and I falsify   And Bingo was his name-o!   Ah!   Oh holy onomatopoeic jargon   What do you mean? And how shall we bargain?   And mora is but a half step to a whole   Eek gad!   January Febuary March and April May I introduce you to June and July August, Sept Oct Nov Dec   Randomly systemized organs organized Abstract or… dissonant? But who is in charge?   12345 12345678 12345 12345678   12344 12344556 12344 12344556   “Why so serious?” said The Riddler Mellow dramatic Melodrama Melancholy     Pantomimes! Pantomimes EVERYWHERE! They are able to speak But alone I mime, “Do you have the time?”   Together we fall! United I stand.   Backwards Upside down Inside out And grammar   What’s in a name? Please don’t be lame Sarcastic and the glamour   Synonymous nonsense Homophones and nyms Where are the polysemes? In the antonyms In the antonyms!   Repitition Exclamation Annunciation tions…   verbage verbage verbage syllables and such meaningless meaning defining definitions with such   True or False? Hide and Seek   Ring around the rosy We all fall down… We all fall down.   Black hat, white shoes, and I’m red all over.   Salt Sour And bitter And dill And And And And And And Ampersand   Institutionalized poetry But I am for rhythmic prose! No, not you Listen to the hue that the colors protrude red green blue red green blue   Black is not a color Chrome is my favorite I will not believe otherwise   You are an alien. I have divided by zero Musical dissonance *(asterisk) A beautiful disaster A shadow without its owner Wild natured wilderness And naturally a wildcard.   **** **** **** **** **** Etcetera.
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We are absurd You and I Fragments We have created a figmentative reality, where words are symbols of relation that you and I falsify And Bingo was his name-o! Ah! Oh holy onomatopoeic jargon What do you mean? and how shall we bargain? And mora is but a half step to a whole Eek gad! January Febuary March and April May I introduce you to June and July August 28th Sept Oct Nov Dec Randomly systemized organs organized Abstract or… dissonant? But who is in charge? 12345 12345678 12345 12345678 12344 12344556 12344 12344556 “Why so serious?” said The Riddler Mellow dramatic Melodrama Melancholy Pantomimes! Pantomimes EVERYWHERE! They are able to speak But alone I mime, “Do you have the time?” Together we fall! United I stand. Backwards Upside down Inside out And grammar What’s in a name? Please don’t be lame Sarcastic and the glamour Synonymous nonsense Homophones and nyms Where are the polysemes? In the antonyms In the antonyms! Repetition Exclamation Annunciation tions… verbage verbage verbage syllables and such meaningless meaning defining definitions with such True or False? Hide and Seek Ring around the rosy We all fall down… We all fall down. Salt Sour And bitter And dill And And And And And And Ampersand Institutionalized poetry But I am for rhythmic prose! No, not you Listen to the hue that the colors protrude red green blue red green blue Black is not a color Chrome is my favorite I will not believe otherwise You are an alien. I have divided by zero Musical dissonance Asterisk* A beautiful disaster A shadow without its owner Wild natured wilderness And naturally a wildcard. **** **** **** **** **** Etcetera.
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Sep 19, 2012
Sep 19, 2012 at 12:26 AM UTC
Sermon Monsieur
We are absurd You and I Fragments We have created a figmentative reality, where words are symbols of relation that you and I falsify And Bingo was his name-o! Ah! Oh holy onomatopoeic jargon What do you mean? and how shall we bargain? And mora is but a half step to a whole Eek gad! January Febuary March and April May I introduce you to June and July August 28th Sept Oct Nov Dec Randomly systemized organs organized Abstract or… dissonant? But who is in charge? 12345 12345678 12345 12345678 12344 12344556 12344 12344556 “Why so serious?” said The Riddler Mellow dramatic Melodrama Melancholy Pantomimes! Pantomimes EVERYWHERE! They are able to speak But alone I mime, “Do you have the time?” Together we fall! United I stand. Backwards Upside down Inside out And grammar What’s in a name? Please don’t be lame Sarcastic and the glamour Synonymous nonsense Homophones and nyms Where are the polysemes? In the antonyms In the antonyms! Repetition Exclamation Annunciation tions… verbage verbage verbage syllables and such meaningless meaning defining definitions with such True or False? Hide and Seek Ring around the rosy We all fall down… We all fall down. Salt Sour And bitter And dill And And And And And And Ampersand Institutionalized poetry But I am for rhythmic prose! No, not you Listen to the hue that the colors protrude red green blue red green blue Black is not a color Chrome is my favorite I will not believe otherwise You are an alien. I have divided by zero Musical dissonance Asterisk* A beautiful disaster A shadow without its owner Wild natured wilderness And naturally a wildcard. **** **** **** **** **** Etcetera.
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I like slandering your makeshift forceps. I hammer you down with watery *** and then spill the remainder on the couch. Yarg! A diamond’s worth at least a small intestine, and you are worth whatever’s left over after night has upended itself, poured sideways out of its shellacked crawlspace, and turned the basement sour. There are remnants of you in the park, some red stain by the baseball field where, if you’ll remember, you watched little leaguers build teamwork, and faint splotches on tree bark from your lactations which, if you’ll remember, happened every morning. I whisper your godforsaken name and am slapped in the head. The children cry when I smile. I cry when the children smile. Good heavens. I forbid you from not entering my corridor, even as I set up a barricade. I like my water scalding, my passion chilled, and I like you in easy-to- swallow doses. I like you in my eggs. Ditto the faucet, keyboard, the occasional lily, but do not mess with my pearls. I mumble of apodictic meadows while I sleep. What can I say? I do not mumble of unclogging your bathtub, which has a certain foul repute, and has grown heavy and ugly with your hair, which is everywhere, just as you are everywhere, and wherever, and so ********* hidden it’s not funny anymore, we stopped looking some millennia ago, after scouring the drainpipes, kicking down your doors, dissecting your mattress, speculating about your burial site, etcetera, and even so we have not been really looking all this time, have we, just blaring your name through the speakers, putting wrong numbers on our calling cards, leaving uncooked meat out on the back porch as if you were a raccoon, oh, or a lion, which you are not, or not quite, though, as the books say, you have honey in your stomach, and if you could but be ripped open we would taste and see.
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May 25, 2010
May 25, 2010 at 8:21 PM UTC
Sleep-deprived Birdcall (in the year in which the weather cancelled the subcommittee on the weather)
I like slandering your makeshift forceps. I hammer you down with watery *** and then spill the remainder on the couch. Yarg! A diamond’s worth at least a small intestine, and you are worth whatever’s left over after night has upended itself, poured sideways out of its shellacked crawlspace, and turned the basement sour. There are remnants of you in the park, some red stain by the baseball field where, if you’ll remember, you watched little leaguers build teamwork, and faint splotches on tree bark from your lactations which, if you’ll remember, happened every morning. I whisper your godforsaken name and am slapped in the head. The children cry when I smile. I cry when the children smile. Good heavens. I forbid you from not entering my corridor, even as I set up a barricade. I like my water scalding, my passion chilled, and I like you in easy-to- swallow doses. I like you in my eggs. Ditto the faucet, keyboard, the occasional lily, but do not mess with my pearls. I mumble of apodictic meadows while I sleep. What can I say? I do not mumble of unclogging your bathtub, which has a certain foul repute, and has grown heavy and ugly with your hair, which is everywhere, just as you are everywhere, and wherever, and so ********* hidden it’s not funny anymore, we stopped looking some millennia ago, after scouring the drainpipes, kicking down your doors, dissecting your mattress, speculating about your burial site, etcetera, and even so we have not been really looking all this time, have we, just blaring your name through the speakers, putting wrong numbers on our calling cards, leaving uncooked meat out on the back porch as if you were a raccoon, oh, or a lion, which you are not, or not quite, though, as the books say, you have honey in your stomach, and if you could but be ripped open we would taste and see.
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you acknowledge a concept no matter how you do and when you grasp onto it so easily you now know it is time to critique the painting to write the song to film the scene etcetera in order to express to one another means to lose what you knew at one point you played around to only discover all harmony but to only tear off a piece and feed that alone to the others once it was mastered was as if everything else was forgotten buried back into the depth's of your heart to never be found again unknown beauty infamous tragedy
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 5:36 PM UTC
art's sacrifice
chemical cocktail— serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, etcetera. i'd write you a poem but i'd rather spend my time in bed drinking this chemical cocktail with you.
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Jan 10, 2014
Jan 10, 2014 at 12:55 AM UTC
Chemical Cocktail
O woe, woe, People are born and die, We also shall be dead pretty soon Therefore let us act as if we were dead already. The bird sits on the hawthorn tree But he dies also, presently. Some lads get hung, and some get shot. Woeful is this human lot. Woe! woe, etcetera . . . . London is a woeful place, Shropshire is much pleasanter. Then let us smile a little space Upon fond nature’s morbid grace. Oh, Woe, woe, woe, etcetera . . . .
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Song In The Manner Of Housman
aunt lucy during the recent war could and what is more did tell you just what everybody was fighting for, my sister isabel created hundreds (and hundreds)of socks not to mention shirts fleaproof earwarmers etcetera wristers etcetera, my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could meanwhile my self etcetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of Your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera)
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Apr 6, 2015
Apr 6, 2015 at 5:51 PM UTC
my sweet old etcetera - e e cummings
There is no whiskey in his room tonight... Instead, There is a half-empty glass of- Rock shandy, Pepsi-cola, Dr.Pepper, Or something black. Something minuscule, even though he has not sipped from it. He has not looked at it- his tongue Was only dry for two minutes before he Locked the door. For the only presence that made it hard for him to swallow Was in the form of something that he was still trying to release... at 2AM. Release at 2AM. There is a typewriter in front of him and he is feeling as permeable as The glass that is sitting next to it. 'as permeable if it had a closed lid made up out of carbon' he thinks. 'Closed lid', 'Carbon', 'Closed lid' He does not know what to type. As distance diminished it's existence throughout the years, He began to realize that Letters were starting to transform themselves Into Diary-Entries and vice-versa. The art of belittling seclusion through the method of fictionalizing himself Was turning more into a hobby than an art and he did not know what to do except to accept it as a tragedy That nobody else needed to know about. "Tragedy:" he types. "I don't know how to forget about you." 'And etcetera,' he thinks. In his minds eye he sees a girl in a school far away. She's holding a camera and a textbook and a picture of a boy That isn't him. She's walking into her new life and one day she will go a week without Thinking about how it feels to know interest and feel it shared from someone who thought it never existed. One day she will go a week without thinking about the boy who stared at empty pages And wrote letters about bitter meals that his tongue thought could never be tasted. One day she will go a week with just the thought of how glamorous a life spent alone is... Before she meets someone there... Who will make her taste something that is less bitter than him himself. 'I hope that's where my story ends.' He thinks. And then imagines himself embedded into Dark bitter things. (Tobacco, caffeine, dark chocolate.) He sighs and stares at the words he has already typed. He can imagine these bitter things spilling into his glass and changing its taste with each little drop. "You were dead to me before you even walked out of the door..." He decides, And puts it onto the paper. He lifts the glass and takes a sip and then puts it back down again. 'One day she will go a week without thinking about me..."  He thinks. Release at 2AM.
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Dec 7, 2014
Dec 7, 2014 at 4:23 PM UTC
Tobacco, Caffeine, Dark Chocolate
There is no whiskey in his room tonight... Instead, There is a half-empty glass of- Rock shandy, Pepsi-cola, Dr.Pepper, Or something black. Something minuscule, even though he has not sipped from it. He has not looked at it- his tongue Was only dry for two minutes before he Locked the door. For the only presence that made it hard for him to swallow Was in the form of something that he was still trying to release... at 2AM. Release at 2AM. There is a typewriter in front of him and he is feeling as permeable as The glass that is sitting next to it. 'as permeable if it had a closed lid made up out of carbon' he thinks. 'Closed lid', 'Carbon', 'Closed lid' He does not know what to type. As distance diminished it's existence throughout the years, He began to realize that Letters were starting to transform themselves Into Diary-Entries and vice-versa. The art of belittling seclusion through the method of fictionalizing himself Was turning more into a hobby than an art and he did not know what to do except to accept it as a tragedy That nobody else needed to know about. "Tragedy:" he types. "I don't know how to forget about you." 'And etcetera,' he thinks. In his minds eye he sees a girl in a school far away. She's holding a camera and a textbook and a picture of a boy That isn't him. She's walking into her new life and one day she will go a week without Thinking about how it feels to know interest and feel it shared from someone who thought it never existed. One day she will go a week without thinking about the boy who stared at empty pages And wrote letters about bitter meals that his tongue thought could never be tasted. One day she will go a week with just the thought of how glamorous a life spent alone is... Before she meets someone there... Who will make her taste something that is less bitter than him himself. 'I hope that's where my story ends.' He thinks. And then imagines himself embedded into Dark bitter things. (Tobacco, caffeine, dark chocolate.) He sighs and stares at the words he has already typed. He can imagine these bitter things spilling into his glass and changing its taste with each little drop. "You were dead to me before you even walked out of the door..." He decides, And puts it onto the paper. He lifts the glass and takes a sip and then puts it back down again. 'One day she will go a week without thinking about me..."  He thinks. Release at 2AM.
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As soon as you make something seem terrible, it becomes slightly terrible. Someone could be using that very something in a good way, but as soon as someone comes up with a bad way it could be used, that thing becomes tainted by thought. Those people ignore the good in that thing, and imagine a bad future with it, creating a taboo that is almost inescapable. Our thoughts create our future. Give things a chance. Think positive. The future is in our hands. It is also in the hands of bad people. We must coexist and cease blame on things.
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Feb 21, 2017
Feb 21, 2017 at 11:25 AM UTC
Face-Recognition Technology Etcetera
fallow lay in a field, neath soil well over-tilled, the bones of explanations, excuses, and desperation, a singular self-destructive but upward thrusted commandment, compose a poem of revelation, a poem of destiny and unknown destination of thee, I write, ashen standing, with the poker face of a lying son, before the father confessor mirror, stand with palms facing outward, with perfect calm and utter fright for every nominated error listed below, when confronted, hopeless the innocence, easier now to admit, with perfect clarity, your innermost confabulatory familiar friends, rise to the fire, first and foremost belabor not with supposed ratiocinations, put aside, your ration of conjured up-for-all, and-all-for-naught excuses, the prosecutors charges, so thoroughly distinguished, it disables, speech, vision, all reason extinguished as the lips and fingers silent move, the hopeless knowledge of a pardon of 99.9%, untenable, ransacks, for what passerby criminal thought has not resided in your head, the hearth of who you are? you, write of nature, love, celestial notions, the Etcetera's of life, but to me, leave the exposure of our uncompressed, here revealed sinning, for among those who unashamedly acknowledge the intertwining nature of human failings, and for the balance, uncap our divine imagery you write at of those other nuanced pleasures, nature, love, celestial notions, while the sinners wrestle with the angelic demons of confrontation and revelation for your own sake and saving, do not wrestle with me for sinners love, welcome company
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Feb 17, 2017
Feb 17, 2017 at 6:54 PM UTC
For the Sin
fallow lay in a field, neath soil well over-tilled, the bones of explanations, excuses, and desperation, a singular self-destructive but upward thrusted commandment, compose a poem of revelation, a poem of destiny and unknown destination of thee, I write, ashen standing, with the poker face of a lying son, before the father confessor mirror, stand with palms facing outward, with perfect calm and utter fright for every nominated error listed below, when confronted, hopeless the innocence, easier now to admit, with perfect clarity, your innermost confabulatory familiar friends, rise to the fire, first and foremost belabor not with supposed ratiocinations, put aside, your ration of conjured up-for-all, and-all-for-naught excuses, the prosecutors charges, so thoroughly distinguished, it disables, speech, vision, all reason extinguished as the lips and fingers silent move, the hopeless knowledge of a pardon of 99.9%, untenable, ransacks, for what passerby criminal thought has not resided in your head, the hearth of who you are? you, write of nature, love, celestial notions, the Etcetera's of life, but to me, leave the exposure of our uncompressed, here revealed sinning, for among those who unashamedly acknowledge the intertwining nature of human failings, and for the balance, uncap our divine imagery you write at of those other nuanced pleasures, nature, love, celestial notions, while the sinners wrestle with the angelic demons of confrontation and revelation for your own sake and saving, do not wrestle with me for sinners love, welcome company
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when you only see the world through the prism of an Instagram filter, the spectrum's overshadowed by black and white vignettes. brick-by-brick you build that wall around yourself, closed off to the plight of every one else. who needs borders when you refuse to see beyond the periphery of your iPhone's screen? refugees? border patrol? endless war? merely fragmentary snapshots in off-kilter snapchats casting grim light on contemporary outcasts, rebels built to outlast the vitriol leveled at modern-day martyrs by tyrants and overlords. 'cause when you neglect to read the passages of history, you scapegoat the brave, can't see the forest for the trees, reduce the complex to Manichean binaries of Good vs. Evil, Left vs. Right, an infinite etcetera of demagoguery. noses glued to illuminated screens, ignoring the visionaries for illusionary fantasies: one-click—purchased happiness, bread and circus. advertising has us chasing a feeling fleeting as a riptide when we ought to be rallying on the front lines, punching Nazis. a black bloc tossing bricks into storefront windows.
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Apr 1, 2017
Apr 1, 2017 at 12:46 AM UTC
bricks
I'm not a great man, But, I've been here and there, and I've learned a lot. Like how not to get shot, And where to buy *** I've bent every misdemeanor law, Some would call me a libertarian, I say democracy is a farce, Keep your vote, and leave me out of it. Most of what I know is useless idiosyncratic observation. For instance, I know how many days it takes to hide 73 pipes, and other miscellaneous paraphernalia. My father was raised in the depression, He refused to let us throw anything out, And we had a chest of drawers, full of old junk. Watches without bands, and any piece of scrap paper, That had free space on it. Last years receipt, dry cleaning tickets, etcetera... And, Subsequently, It rubbed off on me, And I hate throwing anything out. I don't buy new stuff, until the old stuff goes bust. I had a 10 pound Toshiba satellite, for 8 years, Until the plug jack came loose, and I fried the sucker. So when my doctor told me I had to quit smoking... Everything, I had forty plus years of accumulated paraphernalia. I gave a pipe, to friends who were interested, But it wasn't enough. I hear you saying it now, "You irresponsible old lunatic!" And you're right, but I look at it a little different. You might call it promoting lawlessness, I say a law that is obsolete should be repealed. Walk down the street, you'll see the dime bags, and blunt wrappers everywhere. No need to promote something that will happen anyway. Teens will smoke, so I hid a bunch near high schools. Up at Rutgers, I hid one in ten different buildings, A few outside of the police station, and the courthouse, And one in the bushes of my snobby neighbor. Any place I could think of, I hid a pipe. Rebellion be ****** I did it because I felt good, Like a simple ********** A stolen cherry, in the supermarket. Sowhatsthepoint? Crime isn't cool kiddies, But, as long as you steer clear of felonious activity, They won't send you to real **** ****** jail. Even your grandma, probably jaywalks from time to time. Oh if you stumble on one of my pipe hiding spots, Don't touch it until your old enough.
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Aug 24, 2012
Aug 24, 2012 at 9:18 AM UTC
Hiding Pipes
I'm not a great man, But, I've been here and there, and I've learned a lot. Like how not to get shot, And where to buy *** I've bent every misdemeanor law, Some would call me a libertarian, I say democracy is a farce, Keep your vote, and leave me out of it. Most of what I know is useless idiosyncratic observation. For instance, I know how many days it takes to hide 73 pipes, and other miscellaneous paraphernalia. My father was raised in the depression, He refused to let us throw anything out, And we had a chest of drawers, full of old junk. Watches without bands, and any piece of scrap paper, That had free space on it. Last years receipt, dry cleaning tickets, etcetera... And, Subsequently, It rubbed off on me, And I hate throwing anything out. I don't buy new stuff, until the old stuff goes bust. I had a 10 pound Toshiba satellite, for 8 years, Until the plug jack came loose, and I fried the sucker. So when my doctor told me I had to quit smoking... Everything, I had forty plus years of accumulated paraphernalia. I gave a pipe, to friends who were interested, But it wasn't enough. I hear you saying it now, "You irresponsible old lunatic!" And you're right, but I look at it a little different. You might call it promoting lawlessness, I say a law that is obsolete should be repealed. Walk down the street, you'll see the dime bags, and blunt wrappers everywhere. No need to promote something that will happen anyway. Teens will smoke, so I hid a bunch near high schools. Up at Rutgers, I hid one in ten different buildings, A few outside of the police station, and the courthouse, And one in the bushes of my snobby neighbor. Any place I could think of, I hid a pipe. Rebellion be ****** I did it because I felt good, Like a simple ********** A stolen cherry, in the supermarket. Sowhatsthepoint? Crime isn't cool kiddies, But, as long as you steer clear of felonious activity, They won't send you to real **** ****** jail. Even your grandma, probably jaywalks from time to time. Oh if you stumble on one of my pipe hiding spots, Don't touch it until your old enough.
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Extraordinary eggs eat elephants' empanadas exact erasers enlist every eagle earlobe extract exit each elf entrance Evil envelopes e-mail England Easy eccentrics etcetera etcetera exiting end!
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Apr 16, 2010
Apr 16, 2010 at 4:16 PM UTC
E
my eye lids are heavier than canvas shopping bags after a particular gratitious shop (fret not, i bought your biscuits) and my heart is full of jangly indie twee pop with a stomping bassline that makes me want to dance with tears in my eyes at times, happy ones, the kind that makes old(er) people in old or stereotypical things proclaim 'turn off that infernal racket' 'what is that god awful noise' etcetera but less circuituously look at me world, i'm happy look at this ******* smile look at it look at my yellowed teeth and tell me that i'm not a woman look at my hair and tell me that i wasn't born with it look at my face and pretend you've never seen anything so confusing wait the last one didn't work did it let me try again give me the key to the city and i'll give you the key to my heart okay the last one was a lie but you get or can hopefully at least begin to grasp the point, I can recommend some secondary reading if you're interested in reading around the topic. but yes, where was i? ah yes, i'm on the crest of a sugar high and i think i can see my house from here i can see the ruins and the new developments going up and from up here, as always, everything is pretty ******* beautiful there's so little air no wait another lie, sorry, there's empty space with nothing in it not even gas particles only me and my feelings and so little room to move in this tiny car but i'm safe and i'm well and i'm strapped in tight and i can see my house from here. honestly, it's that one right there. i can see myself at the window, eating a bagel with margarine and wondering how the hell I ever got so high off the ground.
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Oct 10, 2012
Oct 10, 2012 at 12:10 AM UTC
Peak
my eye lids are heavier than canvas shopping bags after a particular gratitious shop (fret not, i bought your biscuits) and my heart is full of jangly indie twee pop with a stomping bassline that makes me want to dance with tears in my eyes at times, happy ones, the kind that makes old(er) people in old or stereotypical things proclaim 'turn off that infernal racket' 'what is that god awful noise' etcetera but less circuituously look at me world, i'm happy look at this ******* smile look at it look at my yellowed teeth and tell me that i'm not a woman look at my hair and tell me that i wasn't born with it look at my face and pretend you've never seen anything so confusing wait the last one didn't work did it let me try again give me the key to the city and i'll give you the key to my heart okay the last one was a lie but you get or can hopefully at least begin to grasp the point, I can recommend some secondary reading if you're interested in reading around the topic. but yes, where was i? ah yes, i'm on the crest of a sugar high and i think i can see my house from here i can see the ruins and the new developments going up and from up here, as always, everything is pretty ******* beautiful there's so little air no wait another lie, sorry, there's empty space with nothing in it not even gas particles only me and my feelings and so little room to move in this tiny car but i'm safe and i'm well and i'm strapped in tight and i can see my house from here. honestly, it's that one right there. i can see myself at the window, eating a bagel with margarine and wondering how the hell I ever got so high off the ground.
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*If I had to write a suicide note, right now, what would it say? I think it would go something like this:* Dear (No, too cliche. I don't want to put the blame on someone by mentioning them here), I'm tired. my eyelids are heavy and my toes are dragging below me. I want to run, run far far away as fast as I possibly can. But I won't. I hate running. So I'm going to stop now. Stop running from everything and hiding from everyone and burying my head in books that I don't even care about anymore. So here's what I have to say. Don't make me a martyr. I was not bullied, except by myself. I'm not the victim of our school system or the government or some political agenda. And I'm no advocate for self-righteousness, either. I'm just a human who got too tired. Too tired from staying up all night studying, writing speeches, researching arguments and arguing with people; living in this day and age is exhausting and I simply couldn't keep up. To the one who knew me best I say this: When you're flirting with Death (which I'm sure you are as I write this) you don't have to come visit me. I'm still not convinced that I'll be there to be visited, and think of how it would crush the Tree Gremlin to know you could see me and she couldn't. Plus I wouldn't know you. Who knows anyone in the land of the dead? To Tree Gremlin: Marry your idiot. To my family I have nothing to say; mine was a battle enacted beneath their noses, under their roof, in the tree behind their house. To the debate team: Get over your petty **** and write some arguments. I spent the entire weekend writing and researching and collapsing twice from exhaustion and my team STILL lost. Get your **** together and stop ******* around. 42, the Game, sodium hexametaphosphate, elf king, are you an insect, sea turtles, etcetera etcetera you've heard it all before, good bye and good luck. ~Abby *This is why I'm glad I'm not writing this today; I really have nothing of value to say.*
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Nov 18, 2013
Nov 18, 2013 at 5:13 PM UTC
If I Had to (Letter)
*If I had to write a suicide note, right now, what would it say? I think it would go something like this:* Dear (No, too cliche. I don't want to put the blame on someone by mentioning them here), I'm tired. my eyelids are heavy and my toes are dragging below me. I want to run, run far far away as fast as I possibly can. But I won't. I hate running. So I'm going to stop now. Stop running from everything and hiding from everyone and burying my head in books that I don't even care about anymore. So here's what I have to say. Don't make me a martyr. I was not bullied, except by myself. I'm not the victim of our school system or the government or some political agenda. And I'm no advocate for self-righteousness, either. I'm just a human who got too tired. Too tired from staying up all night studying, writing speeches, researching arguments and arguing with people; living in this day and age is exhausting and I simply couldn't keep up. To the one who knew me best I say this: When you're flirting with Death (which I'm sure you are as I write this) you don't have to come visit me. I'm still not convinced that I'll be there to be visited, and think of how it would crush the Tree Gremlin to know you could see me and she couldn't. Plus I wouldn't know you. Who knows anyone in the land of the dead? To Tree Gremlin: Marry your idiot. To my family I have nothing to say; mine was a battle enacted beneath their noses, under their roof, in the tree behind their house. To the debate team: Get over your petty **** and write some arguments. I spent the entire weekend writing and researching and collapsing twice from exhaustion and my team STILL lost. Get your **** together and stop ******* around. 42, the Game, sodium hexametaphosphate, elf king, are you an insect, sea turtles, etcetera etcetera you've heard it all before, good bye and good luck. ~Abby *This is why I'm glad I'm not writing this today; I really have nothing of value to say.*
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The potential quarrel only, And I say only, is the thought That 'us' would not be us After our kisses. We will never be just one flame, One firebird in the distance Pecking at mimosas. And there's just too much flaw If we are perfect for each other. I could be the day of our starts, And you, the day that begins. I don't know. You tend to over-think, And often, I think of you, Etcetera, Vice versa. So one by one, we secretly seek Each other's secret; One by one, we hate How we hated each other Till other things remain In other things. And so we think of each other Only, And then we kiss. And I say: Let love be a kiss, For when two people kiss, it never mattered Who stoops or reaches more. © 2010 J.S.P
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 2:48 AM UTC
For When We Kiss
And because love battles not only in its burning agricultures but also in the mouth of men and women, I will finish off by taking the path away to those who between my chest and your fragrance want to interpose their obscure plant. About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you. I lived in the prairies before I got to know you and I did not wait love but I was laying in wait for and I jumped on the rose. What more can they tell you? I am neither good nor bad but a man, and they will then associate the danger of my life, which you know and which with your passion you shared. And good, this danger is danger of love, of complete love for all life, for all lives, and if this love brings us the death and the prisons, I am sure that your big eyes, as when I kiss them, will then close with pride, into double pride, love, with your pride and my pride. But to my ears they will come before to wear down the tour of the sweet and hard love which binds us, and they will say: “The one you love, is not a woman for you, Why do you love her? I think you could find one more beautiful, more serious, more deep, more other, you understand me, look how she’s light, and what a head she has, and look at how she dresses, and etcetera and etcetera”. And I in these lines say: Like this I want you, love, love, Like this I love you, as you dress and how your hair lifts up and how your mouth smiles, light as the water of the spring upon the pure stones, Like this I love you, beloved. To bread I do not ask to teach me but only not to lack during every day of life. I don’t know anything about light, from where it comes nor where it goes, I only want the light to light up, I do not ask to the night explanations, I wait for it and it envelops me, And so you, bread and light And shadow are. You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments. Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 7:45 PM UTC
And because Love battles by Pablo Neruda
And because love battles not only in its burning agricultures but also in the mouth of men and women, I will finish off by taking the path away to those who between my chest and your fragrance want to interpose their obscure plant. About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you. I lived in the prairies before I got to know you and I did not wait love but I was laying in wait for and I jumped on the rose. What more can they tell you? I am neither good nor bad but a man, and they will then associate the danger of my life, which you know and which with your passion you shared. And good, this danger is danger of love, of complete love for all life, for all lives, and if this love brings us the death and the prisons, I am sure that your big eyes, as when I kiss them, will then close with pride, into double pride, love, with your pride and my pride. But to my ears they will come before to wear down the tour of the sweet and hard love which binds us, and they will say: “The one you love, is not a woman for you, Why do you love her? I think you could find one more beautiful, more serious, more deep, more other, you understand me, look how she’s light, and what a head she has, and look at how she dresses, and etcetera and etcetera”. And I in these lines say: Like this I want you, love, love, Like this I love you, as you dress and how your hair lifts up and how your mouth smiles, light as the water of the spring upon the pure stones, Like this I love you, beloved. To bread I do not ask to teach me but only not to lack during every day of life. I don’t know anything about light, from where it comes nor where it goes, I only want the light to light up, I do not ask to the night explanations, I wait for it and it envelops me, And so you, bread and light And shadow are. You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments. Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love.
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One day Frick when to the place to buy some stuff While Frack stayed in the area to do some things Frack tossed out some junk He used the the whatchamacallit to clean the thingamajig Pick up the odds and ends And he scrubbed a doodad with the thingamabob Frick purchesed some knickknacks and bric-a-brac A few sundries A couple of tchotkes and trinkets Some whatnot A gizmo A gadget And more miscellaneous paraphernalia When Frick got home Frack asked "What'd you buy?" Frick said " Oh, this and that" "What'd you do all day?" Frack said "Just a hodgepodge of etcetera, etcetera" -Tommy Johnson
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Jul 2, 2014
Jul 2, 2014 at 7:46 PM UTC
Bunk
Bite One What are you doing?! You know you're on a diet! Don't eat that! Bite Two OH MY GOD. That last bight could've just made another official pound Bite Three Don't think just eat! Bite Four Bites Five Bite Six Bite Seven Etcetera. Purge One What am I doing? Google said this is a mental disorder Purge Two Mental disorder or not you're still fat! Do something about it. Purge Three The acid is burning my throat... No more. Purge Four Keep going until it's all gone! Purge Five Am I ever going to be skinny? You see, They call me, "thick thighs, nice eyes." I call me, "stretch marks bigger than a kind man's heart" And... I know that when I'm skinny this will all fade. Because I know that, the girl across the room is laughing because of my fat face. And I know that, that boy is saying that he'd never date me because my fat is a disgrace. And for now... I'm not thin enough Not pretty enough Not light enough Not bright enough But every time I purge I'm closer to being perfect enough
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Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 12:00 AM UTC
Mental disorder
It's easy to write a poem. It's hard, however, to write a piece of originality : something where you don't fear people are reading it thinking "Where have I seen this before?". No clichés, no copying, no integrating bits of your work and bits of others, always give credit where credit is due. Etcetera. But that's not really what poetry is about. I guess, in my own words and understanding of it, it's just about expression and ideas and spilling words onto pages that you could never say aloud. I guess it comes from the abyss within yourself. Where, in your heart, letters swim in pools of emotions waiting to be saved and salvaged. And in your mind, they are forming in an orderly line waiting to be made sense of. Maybe none of this makes any sense. Or maybe it does. I once heard the expression : "Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known." And that's the **** truth.
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 8:52 PM UTC
Classic Initiation for my First Poem.
The temptress zigzags into the barracks And makes off with the subservient uniform wearing rifleman's milk money To buy a swimsuit for her ephemeral summer body That will sag to the floor by the first few days of autumn She hacks the submarine's sonar system And lets the current take her to a cedar river bend Where she sniffles while polishing her handgun Reserved for all those who lag behind in the arid region To release them from their contractual servitude Causing a ripple effect Of inconclusive prospects Etcetera , etcetera
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 9:03 PM UTC
The Sniffling Temptress