"factotum" poems
Sting of sloppy light.
Purse, bow, amphetamine.
Brown hair & a pink—
wind current cut through
one open car window
to the other car window
pilling cigarette smoke cheap
& steady forward.
He's a beauty, that one.
Wallet, vest & tie, coke.
Cut open her stomach &—
waves of salt water
bolted to the ground
like tiny rocks & hardened
shells lain beneath the sea,
a doubtless factotum.
Pull & stitch.
Sting again.
Dec 27, 2013
Dec 27, 2013 at 2:04 AM UTC
the demidiety
of the household,
demands
the sun....
he craves for to bask
in glorious heat....
and have,
the world adore....
his corrugated, gargoyled blue-grey skinned beauty.
as well it should...
he is....
after all....a rex....
of the mau, bast, line.
and me, his loyal
human factotum....
i am here to....
open the blinds...
May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 at 7:33 PM UTC
Reading at the bar
Drinking at the library
—Henry Chinaski
Oct 14, 2020
Oct 14, 2020 at 9:29 AM UTC
The art invention AI, the Allsay, I'll-gorithm,
Aiaia ai
let me say this is poetry, I did not write,
but found
enlightening:
*dhe-
*dhē-,
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to set, put."
It forms all or part of:
abdomen; abscond; affair; affect
(v.1) "make a mental impression on;"
affect
(v.2) "make a pretense of;"
affection; amplify; anathema; antithesis;
apothecary;
artifact; artifice;
beatific; benefice; beneficence; beneficial; benefit;
bibliothec;
bodega; boutique;
certify;
chafe; chauffeur;
comfit; condiment; confection; confetti; counterfeit;
deed; deem; deface; defeasance; defeat; defect; deficient;
difficulty; dignify; discomfit; do (v.);
doom; -dom;
duma;
edifice; edify;
efface; effect; efficacious; efficient;
epithet;
facade; face; facet; ******
-facient;
facile; facilitate; facsimile; fact;
faction (n.1) "political party;"
-faction;
factitious; factitive; factor; factory;
factotum; faculty; fashion; feasible; feat; feature;
feckless; fetish;
-fic;
fordo; forfeit;
-fy;
gratify;
hacienda;
hypothecate; hypothesis;
incondite; indeed; infect;
justify;
malefactor; malfeasance;
manufacture;
metathesis;
misfeasance;
modify; mollify;
multifarious;
notify;
nullify;
office; officinal;
omnifarious;
orifice;
parenthesis;
perfect;
petrify;
pluperfect;
pontifex;
prefect;
prima facie;
proficient; profit; prosthesis; prothesis;
purdah; putrefy;
qualify;
rarefy;
recondite; rectify; refectory;
sacrifice;
salmagundi;
samadhi;
satisfy;
sconce;
suffice; sufficient;
surface; surfeit;
synthesis;
tay;
ticking (n.);
theco-; thematic; theme; thesis;
verify.
It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by:
Sanskrit dadhati "puts, places;"
Avestan dadaiti "he puts;"
Old Persian ada "he made;"
Hittite dai- "to place;"
Greek tithenai "to put, set, place;"
Latin facere "to make, do; perform; bring about;"
Lithuanian dėti "to put;"
Polish dziać się "to be happening;"
Russian delat' "to do;"
Old High German tuon,
German tun,
Old English don "t
dondiddondondon just the facts.
Mar 28, 2021
Mar 28, 2021 at 4:45 PM UTC
The girl at the book store
With dark shoulder length hair
Fervent in the way she moved
And all I could do was stare
She approached me, dancing
'Can I help you look?'
'Sorry? Oh, I'm just glancing'
'Let me know if you need help finding a book'
She hung around,
No more than an aisle away
When I looked up,
Her body was in the way
'Do you stock Factotum?,
Then i'll be on my way'
Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 2:25 AM UTC
Meticulous, Prodigious;
Pedagogy, Melancholy;
Sanctimonious, Sacrilegious;
Fallacy, Facetious, Flippant.
Contumacious, Efficacious;
Equanimous, Calamitous;
Sclerotic, Spasmodic;
Fastidious, Feckless, Fecund.
Rebarbative, Pervasive;
Petulant, Redolent;
Wheedling, Withering;
Fulsome, Friable, Factotum.
Jun 22, 2018
Jun 22, 2018 at 7:11 PM UTC
Tu fus souvent cruelle,
Même injuste parfois,
Mais que fait, ô ma belle,
Puisqu'en toi seule crois
Et puisque suis ta chose.
Que tu me trompes avec Pierre,
Louis, et cœtera punctum,
Je sais, mais, là ! n'en ai que faire :
Ne suis que l'humble factotum
De ton humeur gaie ou morose.
S'il arrive que tu me battes,
Soufflettes, égratignes, tu
Es le maître dans nos pénates,
Et moi le cocu, le battu,
Suis content et vois tout en rose.
Et puis dame j'opine
Qu'à me voir ainsi si
Tien, finiras, divine
Par m'aimoter ainsi
Qu'on s'attache à sa chose.
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