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"fiberglass" poems
Fading Sun... I was looking at the graying sky. Trying to chase a fading sun I peeped above the pointed leaves of the Yucca tree My eyes were met by little bursts of orange stars And oblique sunbeams... emitting fading brightness Through the bushy leaves of the Sampaguita plant. I was waiting for the moths to appear Near my lighted candle, But a gusty wind blew, and made the shell chimes Sway back and forth...left and right Round their base and through, Until all five chimes made pleasant music With the cool, whirring wind. I was waiting for the late afternoon sky To turn to elephant gray To highlight the yellow glow from the street lamp So I could test some newly hung Christmas lights And the capiz lantern outside the french windows But the rainshowers came all at once And i found myself wet, from the pouring rain. I was waiting...and saw a changing sky The rain, just tip-tapping on the roof A much cooler air blowing... Bringing sprays of mist on my face... Suddenly emerging...the shape of a bat or two, Flying, crashing, through the dripping red palm tree. On the horizon, sun was now a dipping balloon If there's any, i would wait for any kind of moon. On the garden chair, i sat And just above me, came a regular stray cat I heard its paws lightly scratching The wet surface of the fiberglass roofing. I still wait...and contemplate on hopes and prayers I wait...for a lot of dreams to come true i wait, for this long day to be over While the night creatures, In their own tones and tunes Have started to croon... Sally Copyright October 16, 2015 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Oct 16, 2015
Oct 16, 2015 at 9:19 AM UTC
FADING SUN
Fading Sun... I was looking at the graying sky. Trying to chase a fading sun I peeped above the pointed leaves of the Yucca tree My eyes were met by little bursts of orange stars And oblique sunbeams... emitting fading brightness Through the bushy leaves of the Sampaguita plant. I was waiting for the moths to appear Near my lighted candle, But a gusty wind blew, and made the shell chimes Sway back and forth...left and right Round their base and through, Until all five chimes made pleasant music With the cool, whirring wind. I was waiting for the late afternoon sky To turn to elephant gray To highlight the yellow glow from the street lamp So I could test some newly hung Christmas lights And the capiz lantern outside the french windows But the rainshowers came all at once And i found myself wet, from the pouring rain. I was waiting...and saw a changing sky The rain, just tip-tapping on the roof A much cooler air blowing... Bringing sprays of mist on my face... Suddenly emerging...the shape of a bat or two, Flying, crashing, through the dripping red palm tree. On the horizon, sun was now a dipping balloon If there's any, i would wait for any kind of moon. On the garden chair, i sat And just above me, came a regular stray cat I heard its paws lightly scratching The wet surface of the fiberglass roofing. I still wait...and contemplate on hopes and prayers I wait...for a lot of dreams to come true i wait, for this long day to be over While the night creatures, In their own tones and tunes Have started to croon... Sally Copyright October 16, 2015 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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she spoke to me, on the daffodil sweetness of the pasture while the grasses, waving, muttered their moist message on the wind of rot, and renewal, (but hold your lips, be still for an explosion of intimacy, for a moment) 'Are those a constellation?' she asks. "The Pleiades." 'You don't know that.' she doesn't care where the car begins, exhaling gently, to stop and she commends its forward motion (the keening love of a sodium light and forgetfulness in every bone of my body) I love the thrum of it, below my feet, murmuring vibrato in the pedals. They have a Huck Finn cave display at Disneyworld. In Adventure Island, or somewhere, or one of us, deep in the vastness of spines and fingers. Its fiberglass walls are a portrait of America - the glean of dew a reflection of that spirit that drove us over the borders, the rivers, to Oregon, so we could love under a naked moon, and renounce our lives of glee, and security for the bright unsettled plantation of the starless fields. 'You don't know a constellation from a cloud of dandelion seeds.' But oh, my relentless pioneer love, I do - I know a constellation is made of stars, and rough determination, and I know that, love is a today thing, and we are yesterday people that pain is tomorrow, and we will always be children of the dusk preceding destined, dear, to find our love receding Are you prepared, or will the wilderness this time swallow you?
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Feb 23, 2010
Feb 23, 2010 at 10:46 AM UTC
Perennial Wagons and the Softest Stars
dearest moenhead, i am so deeply relieved that you are here for me when I walk in the door silently waiting to comfort me after a long day. I look up at your beautiful head, yes, I have neglected you~ there is rust collecting in your pores, and tears welling up in your sparkling grey eyes I wonder how long you have been going on like this? Oh come now. Don't be cold. I'm home! We can be together, right? I turn up the heat no wasting time I turn you on, warm you up, and step into your powerful flow of pure joy... You shower me with kindness, gently massaging away my every ache, all the day's tension down the drain oh you are the best~ under your washful forgiving eyes, freed from from the distraction of self awareness, lost in the luxury of suds and pelting pleasure, i seem to melt into the cheap fiberglass casing. but you... you transform ordinary water into liquid gold and make this place feel more like a resort taking me away to places no Calgon bath could ever dream of oh showerhead, I can barely stand to be out from under your steaming streams~ your warming current of comfort washing all the days crud off of me making me feel clean, energized, vibrant and youthful again ready to face the world or my dreams. Showerhead, sediment notwithstanding, I am happiest when I am with you. I am a better person. you make me feel alive again, and though I have tried to articulate this into meaningful words, words are unable to express my gratitude, for alas, you can never know what you mean to me. Just know that you are the most wonderful and awesome shower i have ever had, there is none like you. from the bottom of my sole, thank you. All my love, Geegirl
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Sep 8, 2013
Sep 8, 2013 at 9:00 PM UTC
my dearest moenhead
dearest moenhead, i am so deeply relieved that you are here for me when I walk in the door silently waiting to comfort me after a long day. I look up at your beautiful head, yes, I have neglected you~ there is rust collecting in your pores, and tears welling up in your sparkling grey eyes I wonder how long you have been going on like this? Oh come now. Don't be cold. I'm home! We can be together, right? I turn up the heat no wasting time I turn you on, warm you up, and step into your powerful flow of pure joy... You shower me with kindness, gently massaging away my every ache, all the day's tension down the drain oh you are the best~ under your washful forgiving eyes, freed from from the distraction of self awareness, lost in the luxury of suds and pelting pleasure, i seem to melt into the cheap fiberglass casing. but you... you transform ordinary water into liquid gold and make this place feel more like a resort taking me away to places no Calgon bath could ever dream of oh showerhead, I can barely stand to be out from under your steaming streams~ your warming current of comfort washing all the days crud off of me making me feel clean, energized, vibrant and youthful again ready to face the world or my dreams. Showerhead, sediment notwithstanding, I am happiest when I am with you. I am a better person. you make me feel alive again, and though I have tried to articulate this into meaningful words, words are unable to express my gratitude, for alas, you can never know what you mean to me. Just know that you are the most wonderful and awesome shower i have ever had, there is none like you. from the bottom of my sole, thank you. All my love, Geegirl
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I’m  at work Buzzing to get out of there Out of the fluorescence And the din of screaming children As it downplays the howling heads Of their mothers who Dream of their children’s exposed Necks and getting out of the grocery store Before it starts to rain. I am Bobcat Goldthwait underneath The large hanging lamps, pale green as barge lights I make little sounds with my lips And tongue, little incoherent sounds To push the time forward . A man comes through My line holding a beige patch Of cloth Over his exposed trachea beneath, with a voice like he crushes cement puts it in his coffee and ***** it up through a fiberglass straw., He drops some Toothpaste and a brush on the counter And says to me with that mutilated Voice: “there are only two types of ***** Big old ***** And old big ***** His skin is blotchy in the cheeks like the husks of craters seen from the sky, and the corners of his mouth are dry and cracked snaking and splitting outward like dry riverbeds. For a second I want to laugh so hard, That people will think I’m crazy, and Maybe one of the twitchy managers will have Me committed. If he says any more, it’s this: “You’re young, enjoy it, if you worry About the fuckups now, you’ll Be worrying until you’re an old ****** and that doesn’t do you any good, ***** hates the old **** ups.”
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Nov 16, 2011
Nov 16, 2011 at 10:42 PM UTC
***** Old Man.
All of the pencils in the drawer are broken Friday Night I'm sick of being alone Hopping off the curb in search of the killer Sniffing out the house parties They like the bass loud and it swells ******* us inside past ten parked cars They freestyle about Gun fire and blood on concrete He said I didn't believe him Cracked out beyond repair He shows me the scythe and hammer tattoo on his left breast I laugh with the proletariat Cheers and some soul passes me the bottle Cigarette smoke contained by plaster walls I'm eight days sober Don't tread on me Says a ***** blond next to me on the couch All strung out she is searching Searching for a bent spoon and needle in the tall grass Back yard a bonfire Walking barefoot on broken Heineken bottles strewn in the shadows Popping molly and sweating She called me a hick Her dopamine receptors Rubbed flat by heavy grade sandpaper I called her nothing I was too busy watching The rats scurry against the wall To their safe warm nest In the insulation A hand around my wrist Milk white incubus With breath like puked whiskey I escaped through a hole in the couch I fell between the cracked leather cushions And slept with the rats in piles of pink Fiberglass insulation scratching at the flesh I slip outside through the cracked window A woman stands at a console Turning dials that cause the streetlights to dim And bleed storefront windows fractals of neon She asks me what else I would like to know about the world. Someone tells me to get in and the door shuts A sound like gunfire I perspire sweat with cough Syrup scent peaking on the dark road to Okeechobee I should **** myself or run barefoot again through your head Where the forest floor is warm and the trees are alive always with birdsong
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Apr 6, 2013
Apr 6, 2013 at 4:14 AM UTC
Seventeen Dollars All To My Name
All of the pencils in the drawer are broken Friday Night I'm sick of being alone Hopping off the curb in search of the killer Sniffing out the house parties They like the bass loud and it swells ******* us inside past ten parked cars They freestyle about Gun fire and blood on concrete He said I didn't believe him Cracked out beyond repair He shows me the scythe and hammer tattoo on his left breast I laugh with the proletariat Cheers and some soul passes me the bottle Cigarette smoke contained by plaster walls I'm eight days sober Don't tread on me Says a ***** blond next to me on the couch All strung out she is searching Searching for a bent spoon and needle in the tall grass Back yard a bonfire Walking barefoot on broken Heineken bottles strewn in the shadows Popping molly and sweating She called me a hick Her dopamine receptors Rubbed flat by heavy grade sandpaper I called her nothing I was too busy watching The rats scurry against the wall To their safe warm nest In the insulation A hand around my wrist Milk white incubus With breath like puked whiskey I escaped through a hole in the couch I fell between the cracked leather cushions And slept with the rats in piles of pink Fiberglass insulation scratching at the flesh I slip outside through the cracked window A woman stands at a console Turning dials that cause the streetlights to dim And bleed storefront windows fractals of neon She asks me what else I would like to know about the world. Someone tells me to get in and the door shuts A sound like gunfire I perspire sweat with cough Syrup scent peaking on the dark road to Okeechobee I should **** myself or run barefoot again through your head Where the forest floor is warm and the trees are alive always with birdsong
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The cloud are reflecting off my computer screen Moving at a rapid pace They have somewhere to be They have to move on Fading into my shadow They’re like daggers My head is like daggers And my smile is like a rifle Loops one more time Just picking the achy strings I think he’s exhausted Really just ******* tired And the way he sings Just wants to speak And pour all of his heart Thoughts Emotions Pain Pain Pain These pitches, John, they aren’t real They aren’t right You aren’t right I’m listening to this for you Because last night was the night I took your life I was tired too I was tired and used your insecurities As an excuse To blow you off Bryce come back please I love you I CAN’T SEE WHAT I’m typing anymore It’s waterwashed I love you I love you I lov you please Please trust me My tears are ocean currents My calves are the sand Pull me to La Jolla please now Hold my hand Bryce You’ll be unconscience in 5 minutes Fiberglass isn’t all that dependable Fiberglass will float on You’re heart is lead Let it sink Hold my hand Let it sink They’ll find our bodies Eaten decayed by algae You look just as fine with your Skin pruned and ribcage exposed I would kiss you all the same with your Toes consumed by fishes 4 times over John 4 times you don’t sound anymore like an answer
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 8:39 PM UTC
Flimsy, buoyant. I am a pool noodle
From the beach my group departs for a deep sea fishing excursion Huddled in a fiberglass vessel known as the Barracuda Captain Alberto is a burly man with dark skin and a silver tooth Operating the motor is his young apprentice and amigo The captain has his children’s names painted on the hull One of them, Estrella, rings out in my mind The boat rocks me nearly nauseous in the bobbing motions My excitement builds as I photograph a variety of species Fish would breach the surface, birds would swoop and dive I even saw a whale Distinguishable by tail We slowed down for a better look at century-old tortugas Circled round a mating pair, voyeurs to procreation An engine boom and acceleration meant there was a bite Alberto took the rod yet handed it to my party The Mahi-Mahi swam and pulled with all its mortal strength Its yellowish body shining and shimmering while it leapt Our captain unsheathed an instrument for pulling the fish aboard A candy cane shaped hook with a fine blade ending the curve Impaled the marine dweller, pinned his body to the deck It flopped about violently seeming to spill blood by the gallon I found the creature’s face to be both hideous and handsome A long bony bridge protruded from its forehead Here, Alberto beat the beast to death with a wooden bat It died with dignity Fed a family I thank the sea For this gift
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Jan 8, 2011
Jan 8, 2011 at 6:37 AM UTC
59. Barracuda 1/5/11
The house broth trickles onto the plywood floor Filtered by fiberglass cotton candy A humid breeze slams the oblong door and knocks over the table I found so handy This storm has brought my ceiling down on my head The rafters are surely next to fall Thunder sings songs with words never said That entices the slugs to climb the wall A deathtrap, a battlefield, a childhood home have fused to form this cocoon of mold The flies have settled, no longer to roam and I'm left for the winds to bend and fold This leaky old roof that Grandfather built can barely now stand, let alone shelter strays But if I leave in the night, I drag only my guilt My body goes wandering, but my dream world stays
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 11:12 AM UTC
Sneaky Storm/Rascal Raccoons/Tiles Tumble
If the fallacy of thought lies within the indifference of a heart's indrawn breath, would there be a second chance to mold a circle from the intangible fluid epic of dream? Could so much blinding light encompass the derelict and the saved, bathing all that is seen in the breeze of fairy wings that just learned how to fly? There are no shadows here beneath a full moon of illumination where everything is cast into the shade of pearls and silver, one tinged with the sea, another with air At the core of a spiral tree, in the hollow center of a peach's eye we could then look into the unveiled truth of Nature's simplicity, separate the ******** from the poetry, and the muse from the song But if we're gathered here, does that mean we're about to meet our maker, that this mystery of life should be released in a sonnet written through a fiberglass pen? There are no strangers here beneath the harsh glare of a full moon, where everything is reduced to pearls and silver, varying shades of pink and gray And if this litany is so much scattered stardust on the surface of an infinity that can't be asked to care, does it matter either way if what we say is set in stone or sand, that our words remain here as whispers caught in the seashell of unending time? Because there are no secrets here beneath the illumination of a full-bodied moon We are all children playing amongst pearls and silver, not knowing yet that our trinkets have worth We are still innocent to war and strife and grief So let us toss up our circles of pearls, let us trod over these streets of silver, let us gather here once more before Eden fades into the dark side of the moon...
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Mar 24, 2010
Mar 24, 2010 at 5:49 PM UTC
Pearls and Silver
If the fallacy of thought lies within the indifference of a heart's indrawn breath, would there be a second chance to mold a circle from the intangible fluid epic of dream? Could so much blinding light encompass the derelict and the saved, bathing all that is seen in the breeze of fairy wings that just learned how to fly? There are no shadows here beneath a full moon of illumination where everything is cast into the shade of pearls and silver, one tinged with the sea, another with air At the core of a spiral tree, in the hollow center of a peach's eye we could then look into the unveiled truth of Nature's simplicity, separate the ******** from the poetry, and the muse from the song But if we're gathered here, does that mean we're about to meet our maker, that this mystery of life should be released in a sonnet written through a fiberglass pen? There are no strangers here beneath the harsh glare of a full moon, where everything is reduced to pearls and silver, varying shades of pink and gray And if this litany is so much scattered stardust on the surface of an infinity that can't be asked to care, does it matter either way if what we say is set in stone or sand, that our words remain here as whispers caught in the seashell of unending time? Because there are no secrets here beneath the illumination of a full-bodied moon We are all children playing amongst pearls and silver, not knowing yet that our trinkets have worth We are still innocent to war and strife and grief So let us toss up our circles of pearls, let us trod over these streets of silver, let us gather here once more before Eden fades into the dark side of the moon...
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Strings plucked by cold fingers on cold hands. The hand-bone's connected to the heart-string.... Sinew rasps against brazen cords, etching orchestral symphonies on the stone in my chest. Riding the waves of screams, cries, songs...time. Upon that crest I ride, ever away from that distant shore; Ever away from that distant hope. Ever away. Caught in the tide of cold spring air. Cool air sifted through fiberglass filters. Menthol kissing lips, freezing the air across my teeth. Welcome, Nicotine. Welcome to my body; lift me on your crest, carry my inhibition. Invoke your calm upon my weary mind and let me forget I am alone. Alone? Or...alone...? Faces will be forgotten. Sand covers cracks...sand covers much.... Time covers much, but not all. Who will you remember best? Whom will I never forget? Who won't I have to? The sand will fill the gaps, but...my house is clean.... Clockwise from the front, right: chap stick, lighter, change; nothing; wallet, gang-ties; pump; phone's in the jacket. This is my identity, always with me - my companions. But none are company. None can give what I seek. None, it seems. Desolation is a feeling. And feelings console. At least you can be certain of their purpose, at least you know who they are. Who are you? How will I know? When will I see that wry smile and be certain of it? Give me that stone heart, that I may etch my symphony upon it. Let my sinew warm those brazen strings. Ride upon my crest. Be my Nicotine, my sand...my certainty.
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May 22, 2013
May 22, 2013 at 3:53 PM UTC
Nicotine Symphony
Strings plucked by cold fingers on cold hands. The hand-bone's connected to the heart-string.... Sinew rasps against brazen cords, etching orchestral symphonies on the stone in my chest. Riding the waves of screams, cries, songs...time. Upon that crest I ride, ever away from that distant shore; Ever away from that distant hope. Ever away. Caught in the tide of cold spring air. Cool air sifted through fiberglass filters. Menthol kissing lips, freezing the air across my teeth. Welcome, Nicotine. Welcome to my body; lift me on your crest, carry my inhibition. Invoke your calm upon my weary mind and let me forget I am alone. Alone? Or...alone...? Faces will be forgotten. Sand covers cracks...sand covers much.... Time covers much, but not all. Who will you remember best? Whom will I never forget? Who won't I have to? The sand will fill the gaps, but...my house is clean.... Clockwise from the front, right: chap stick, lighter, change; nothing; wallet, gang-ties; pump; phone's in the jacket. This is my identity, always with me - my companions. But none are company. None can give what I seek. None, it seems. Desolation is a feeling. And feelings console. At least you can be certain of their purpose, at least you know who they are. Who are you? How will I know? When will I see that wry smile and be certain of it? Give me that stone heart, that I may etch my symphony upon it. Let my sinew warm those brazen strings. Ride upon my crest. Be my Nicotine, my sand...my certainty.
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I remember the last time I went surfing. I loved every second of it. I loved running out into the icy water, the chill taking a second to hit the vulnerable skin under my wetsuit. Those fleeting seconds of running ankle deep in the water before realizing how cold it is, and the moments following where I just kept running anyway, my body and board becoming dispersed in sea froth. I loved feeling my feet sink into the grainy sand as I gradually reach a depth that touches above my waist, then, bracing myself for the numbing cold, diving onto my board, immersing my top half in the crisp temperature the water holds. After the piercing cold is absorbed by my skin, and I am lying flat on smooth fiberglass, I see a wave forming in the distance. In a hurry, paddling madly, grazing my hands on the fiberglass sides of the board, desperate to get deep enough to catch the wave. I turn the board around and feel the wave coming behind me. This is the moment. The moment that feels like waiting for your plane to take off, or waiting for a raffle to be drawn, hoping desperately to hear your name called out. I feel the swell behind me, and continue paddling, facing the shore this time. I can feel it as a powerful but consistent surge brings the nose of my board up, and I hurry to lift myself up. I am crouching. My hands nervously let go of the sides. I am bent over. I am straightening. I am standing. My palms are flailing madly, but feel free in the warmer air. Within seconds, I lose my balance and the rush pulls me under. I fall off the board and take a mouthful of seawater. I emerge, laughing, trying to stabilize my focus and figure out whereabouts on the beach I am. As I drag the board back to shore, the salty sea water is already drying in my hair, fingernails and skin. I feel the familiar crunch of dry sand, and collapse, laughing, into the soft grains. I could do this again. I was so excited to finally have my own surfboard. Brand new, I just hadn't had the chance to take it out yet. My brother asked to borrow it one day, and I couldn't see why not. He helped me attach the fins and leg rope, and I watched him walk away with my latest investment. I was going into the garage to find something when I saw it there, in half, the fiberglass peeled towards the nose, the insides stuffed with sand, lying in a pile. The next day, my brother came home to find me waiting for him outside his room. "I have good and bad news! The bad news is, I broke your surfboard, the good news is, you now have two boogie boards!". I am sitting.
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Feb 11, 2013
Feb 11, 2013 at 3:54 AM UTC
I am standing.
I remember the last time I went surfing. I loved every second of it. I loved running out into the icy water, the chill taking a second to hit the vulnerable skin under my wetsuit. Those fleeting seconds of running ankle deep in the water before realizing how cold it is, and the moments following where I just kept running anyway, my body and board becoming dispersed in sea froth. I loved feeling my feet sink into the grainy sand as I gradually reach a depth that touches above my waist, then, bracing myself for the numbing cold, diving onto my board, immersing my top half in the crisp temperature the water holds. After the piercing cold is absorbed by my skin, and I am lying flat on smooth fiberglass, I see a wave forming in the distance. In a hurry, paddling madly, grazing my hands on the fiberglass sides of the board, desperate to get deep enough to catch the wave. I turn the board around and feel the wave coming behind me. This is the moment. The moment that feels like waiting for your plane to take off, or waiting for a raffle to be drawn, hoping desperately to hear your name called out. I feel the swell behind me, and continue paddling, facing the shore this time. I can feel it as a powerful but consistent surge brings the nose of my board up, and I hurry to lift myself up. I am crouching. My hands nervously let go of the sides. I am bent over. I am straightening. I am standing. My palms are flailing madly, but feel free in the warmer air. Within seconds, I lose my balance and the rush pulls me under. I fall off the board and take a mouthful of seawater. I emerge, laughing, trying to stabilize my focus and figure out whereabouts on the beach I am. As I drag the board back to shore, the salty sea water is already drying in my hair, fingernails and skin. I feel the familiar crunch of dry sand, and collapse, laughing, into the soft grains. I could do this again. I was so excited to finally have my own surfboard. Brand new, I just hadn't had the chance to take it out yet. My brother asked to borrow it one day, and I couldn't see why not. He helped me attach the fins and leg rope, and I watched him walk away with my latest investment. I was going into the garage to find something when I saw it there, in half, the fiberglass peeled towards the nose, the insides stuffed with sand, lying in a pile. The next day, my brother came home to find me waiting for him outside his room. "I have good and bad news! The bad news is, I broke your surfboard, the good news is, you now have two boogie boards!". I am sitting.
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labyrinth lit by floodlights straining the vibrations emanating from the ground crusted with glue pine sap and citric acid a flashlight in hand to shine shadows on awareness to cast the eyes shut and unflinching not a twitch of sight feeling the coarse pig hair of the walls shutting out the light with clenched lids open palms with fiberglass gashes staining a path not to follow but to inhale the pathogenic patterns ghosts showing us the way towards translucent permanence
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Nov 17, 2014
Nov 17, 2014 at 1:21 PM UTC
maze
Sitting in the narrowest cabin half made of glass half fiberglass it could be for a death or a birth Corridors full of standing people side by side as if They will talk all night but Sun has set down already and We have crossed the villages The bazaars My devouring eyes Its now time to sink down Dim lights here and there I have seen a praying man for his cup of meal presenting this to his own All gods sit on the road side Dim lights here and there The last match has blown out by the wind alas alas i cannot write Write no more alas We'll go althogether so Patience's silence Change Change to a hymn of surrounder We'll go Altogether so towards The land of the kings The sun will rise for us in a desert Like a dream and maybe a dream Yes we'll go altogether so Until dawn ... but for now I will just watch the stars from where i lie and listen to a song ...
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Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 9:18 AM UTC
'Myth'
You could have reached here Wednesday by last choice Perhaps your mood shifted. All the calm nights you had now lay awake. You explore the city built by the perfect people, white cathedral stands upright on a slant, a compass buried in plain sight, the gibberish of art students from painting lullabies as sirens. Only children are asleep. The university grows younger each year. The best teacher is always late, not realizing her impact. The person I’m most comfortable with stays in bed. Security found indoors the couch allures, security in the capsule, The deafening whispers, the genuine friends who live nearby and can’t talk straight. The blessed temple building worshiped by advertising majors. The lucid potential, morning sprints round the track, a library sustained by crushed Adderall — glowering orbs rotating back counter clockwise, out of chimneys the black spirits climb, detectives bicycling, the honor students rummaging for class notes in the deep end of the dumpster. So this is college? That frontier plateauing before you can dive off a cloud? So this utopia was a dollhouse, the daily on the doormat camps in the hallway: waits while the child watches a sit-com? Don’t apartments stand still? Are abstract paintings and basketball supposed to nurture a city, not only Richmond, but also other lonely cities of misunderstood brunettes, dank **** and dubstep the weekend will seldom put out until the city you moved to shuts its eye? Just tell yourself, “live.” The best teacher, eighteen when she moved to the university, still grins even as she coughs out fiberglass. Any day now, she sings, I’ll take a drive and leave this place. I pull her close and say. You haven’t slept in your own bed. The boy who you’ve always loved still thinks about you. The books you read before breakfast, whoever the author may be, inspires and your least favorite student who raises her hand is judged but her posture never falters.
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 4:29 PM UTC
Opaque Shades of Richmond
You could have reached here Wednesday by last choice Perhaps your mood shifted. All the calm nights you had now lay awake. You explore the city built by the perfect people, white cathedral stands upright on a slant, a compass buried in plain sight, the gibberish of art students from painting lullabies as sirens. Only children are asleep. The university grows younger each year. The best teacher is always late, not realizing her impact. The person I’m most comfortable with stays in bed. Security found indoors the couch allures, security in the capsule, The deafening whispers, the genuine friends who live nearby and can’t talk straight. The blessed temple building worshiped by advertising majors. The lucid potential, morning sprints round the track, a library sustained by crushed Adderall — glowering orbs rotating back counter clockwise, out of chimneys the black spirits climb, detectives bicycling, the honor students rummaging for class notes in the deep end of the dumpster. So this is college? That frontier plateauing before you can dive off a cloud? So this utopia was a dollhouse, the daily on the doormat camps in the hallway: waits while the child watches a sit-com? Don’t apartments stand still? Are abstract paintings and basketball supposed to nurture a city, not only Richmond, but also other lonely cities of misunderstood brunettes, dank **** and dubstep the weekend will seldom put out until the city you moved to shuts its eye? Just tell yourself, “live.” The best teacher, eighteen when she moved to the university, still grins even as she coughs out fiberglass. Any day now, she sings, I’ll take a drive and leave this place. I pull her close and say. You haven’t slept in your own bed. The boy who you’ve always loved still thinks about you. The books you read before breakfast, whoever the author may be, inspires and your least favorite student who raises her hand is judged but her posture never falters.
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have we met ? seems so. you got them elastic rainbows i know you from and that outskirts of pure idyll... you throttle the ominous pond of our requited aplomb. we enjoy beetles. this is how love chips away at the decade of obscure lesions. the reverse forward to a back-hand eclipse in a blithering idiot of genius. unkempt. a bone rug. the skim milk of human kindness, blinds the unicorn and the cabbage lichen florescent in the mildew parchment of evening's attire. i'll be here at the met, less attending but haunting the fiberglass whispers of your recent events. the ones you left. left to their own devices. our every crisis is kind myth, crushing the throat of our adversary. as we pluck shamrocks in the way of our luckless fathers. we alter the plausible cause with our audible launch of not rockets. where the air... the air don't sing. but you ain't been there really anyway.
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Dec 15, 2012
Dec 15, 2012 at 4:29 PM UTC
I'll Be Here At The Met, Where We Left....
we’ve traded knowing apples with lush green mothers of cadmium and fiberglass veins of copper, silver, and gold siliconed our brains to currents of controlled thunder we ****** flat breasted, hand-sized puddles of glass like only lesbians and lonely wives can wish for iron our souls out in selfies of people we wish we were epoxied our hearts to shallow resins of hope we’ve followed polyester roads of truth have we forgotten the simple flesh of carbon? the naked nitrogen of our belly buttons? the happy hydrogen of our eye lids? the oxygen of ****** **** me not with metals of progress but with ancient odes of skin and calcium teeth i’ll take the devil of old over this
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 3:17 AM UTC
Beelzebub
It’s time for chemicals ******* the fiberglass Roll with the punches **** Roll, **** Roll
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Jul 17, 2012
Jul 17, 2012 at 10:32 PM UTC
Suck/Roll
There was one a seed inside of me, it was abstract and flimsy at first. It is now the size of your left nut, I can feel it protruding through my gut. The maid is in the bathroom, cleaning up my remains from ralphing earlier. The ******* was thick, chunky from the omelet I'd eaten earlier. I thought I'd stored my brain chemicals away better than that. That, that once was a lousy piece of seed inside my cumbersome belly due to the ashes you left in my mouth yesterday. Chewing on fiberglass, glad we're passed that. Not too long ago I always felt like the elephant in the room. I was the octopus squirting slippery blue... liquid from my eyes, my laugh and words contorted to form my broken leg feeling of dangled care out the window. The wind blew my hysterical scene away, that, time, and the suppliers of the missing balance in the chemistry of my mind. My feelings towards these events are slowly unravelling themselves and soaring away like the lost feathers in my metallic bore smelling place of sleep.
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 4:33 PM UTC
The Elephant That Holds Contorted Fiberglass
Not just anything will do, I want the '66 coupe. The Corvette That is deep maroon. It will gleam in the sun, With its masculine curves, Fiberglass weight, A throaty burn. I will have it, One of these days. I will not settle For a lower taste. I will park it on some road, At two in the morning. I will be so alive, My heart will be burning. The stars will be masquerading Across the soft summer night. I will be with someone special, Looking up to the sky. Our lips may lock together, Like our hearts already are. I met this soul long ago, We have come so far. Maybe, the next morning, We will drive it to a cafe. We will talk endlessly, There is always so much to say. Me and this other half, Will run away for awhile. To the coast, up north, Anywhere that she smiles. The Corvette The '66 coupe. I don't you have yet. I will find you soon. But I already have my love.
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May 8, 2013
May 8, 2013 at 1:58 AM UTC
'66 Coupe
technology Frayed wires like spider webs around a broken motherboard Pieces of green fiberglass and resistors torn Shattered glass where the screen used to be Yet the hard drive still carries pictures of you and me art Stick glue and duct tape; stitch up what was worn Pieces of cardboard heart and soul mended; keep each other warm Splatter paint on each other in white to renew the canvas Draw new memories in melted crayon biology Be the wind that blows new life into my lungs Be the hiking, the fishing, and the sun Be the tree with strong roots; grow tall Be the stone support beneath the waterfall sociology Together we can establish a friendship Between the past, the future, and especially the present Never give in to tyranny or fear Live on what you've learned "no more tears" arithmetic One plus one could equal me and you which is significantly equivalent to two I won't make you divide your legs or multiply Just hold up my numerator so i can touch the sky language にほんご: 愛してる Français: Je t'aime اللغة العربية : أحبك English: I love you
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May 7, 2014
May 7, 2014 at 4:53 PM UTC
Re-connected Subjects
I was alone, but not too lonely. You were strong, but that was only When your brothers were around. Brand new, seemed like something better. Pretty scars, eyes like leather. So much different than we’d seen. We made love with a choking hand. We stayed drunk on a million plans. We were running out of time. Even the cruel get worse than they deserve. Even the cruel get worse than they deserve. Even the cruel get worse than they deserve, But baby, you deserve to have it all I was sweating through fiberglass. I got a feeling in my hands I’d be apologizing to my dreams. Tripping slow, spit in the glass, Blood on the pillows, falling fast, Choking on a nickle in the dark. Laughing happy with manic moon, Melted glass in a broken spoon. We were the spirit of the times. Even the cruel get worse than they deserve ... etc. I bent down on a blizzard day To find out what was in my way. It was you, you were praying to nothing at all I lit a candle to the ghost of magazines. I burned down a strip club with kerosine. I was wondering why I felt so bored. I woke up on the rooftop. I was making sure there were no cops, Alone, but not too lonley, staring down at the street.
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Apr 27, 2013
Apr 27, 2013 at 9:14 AM UTC
Even The Cruel
Remember that time when I was on a first date with that guy. I brought him to your place and we sat at the edge of the pool while you laughed at the german-exchange student swimming laps. And I jumped in with all of my clothes on and he wasn’t sure whether to laugh or not, because of the way I floated but he didn’t know that it was something I always did He texted me later saying he wished he kissed me but I didn’t check until morning because we were singing loud and the neighbors were yelling We lived outside of Richmond but didn’t like to think of it that way like it was separate but the way we put up fences like rows of wooden teeth isolated us within The patches on the Huguenot Bridge, the old one made your car bounce and the radio went in and out Remember that time when we would only smoke marlboro’s? That guy’s car was a stick so it didn’t move the same way yours did and he accidentally turned down that one way street on our way to meet you at that show But I don’t even remember going in because of something like the doors were closed but the sound was ****** so we walked around the corner to that place we like to go and sit on the pillows on the floor At home I sat on the third floor alone, and the lack of laughter is louder somehow And the shadows stretch further as the night gets longer and draws out the little pieces... Let’s stay sane so we drive downtown and see three guys long boarding down broad street at midnight they’re in that band that’s pretty good so we yell out the window and break into a long laugh. Sadness is like salt that pool was like the dead sea it helps you float because no one wants to sink to such abundant misery And joy it was there too riding in cars with you and that guy who loved me like a fool The two ideas of pain and joy lingered over me like opposing magnets but the water must have been cold because I was numb But when gravity pulls from two sides it compresses The Earth breaks and makes a mountain; I broke and sank to the fiberglass bottom of your ***** suburban pool.
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Feb 6, 2014
Feb 6, 2014 at 4:30 PM UTC
Buoyancy
Remember that time when I was on a first date with that guy. I brought him to your place and we sat at the edge of the pool while you laughed at the german-exchange student swimming laps. And I jumped in with all of my clothes on and he wasn’t sure whether to laugh or not, because of the way I floated but he didn’t know that it was something I always did He texted me later saying he wished he kissed me but I didn’t check until morning because we were singing loud and the neighbors were yelling We lived outside of Richmond but didn’t like to think of it that way like it was separate but the way we put up fences like rows of wooden teeth isolated us within The patches on the Huguenot Bridge, the old one made your car bounce and the radio went in and out Remember that time when we would only smoke marlboro’s? That guy’s car was a stick so it didn’t move the same way yours did and he accidentally turned down that one way street on our way to meet you at that show But I don’t even remember going in because of something like the doors were closed but the sound was ****** so we walked around the corner to that place we like to go and sit on the pillows on the floor At home I sat on the third floor alone, and the lack of laughter is louder somehow And the shadows stretch further as the night gets longer and draws out the little pieces... Let’s stay sane so we drive downtown and see three guys long boarding down broad street at midnight they’re in that band that’s pretty good so we yell out the window and break into a long laugh. Sadness is like salt that pool was like the dead sea it helps you float because no one wants to sink to such abundant misery And joy it was there too riding in cars with you and that guy who loved me like a fool The two ideas of pain and joy lingered over me like opposing magnets but the water must have been cold because I was numb But when gravity pulls from two sides it compresses The Earth breaks and makes a mountain; I broke and sank to the fiberglass bottom of your ***** suburban pool.
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It is eight o'clock, after dinner... Only distant stars adorn a blue-black moonless sky Quiet evening, no voices screaming, No vendors calling... Not one nocturnal sound, to prove the night's existence I hear numbered footfalls above,  A slightly, heavy weight, presses on the fiberglass roofing Silently informing,  Very careful not to startle me with the roof creaking I am not scared of its presence, for it knows... This is me...I do not fuss, I do not bellow There is no one else, it is only me it always follows, Hidden in the dark, on me it never lurks... A welcome cloaked friend, this stray cat in the shadows... }}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} Sally Copyright 2014 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Oct 30, 2014
Oct 30, 2014 at 8:16 PM UTC
TUESDAY NIGHT
In the heart of the city, where magenta veins pulsate, A symphony of lights, where shadows dissipate. Alleys whisper secrets, in electric glow they bathe, Where loneliness is currency, in another world depraved. Billboard signs flicker like fireflies in the night, A digital dance, a city's heartbeat in flight. In the labyrinth of circuits, where dreams collide, Loneliness echoes, in the depths where souls want to hide. Fast-paced technology, a relentless stream, In the dimly-lit alleys, lost souls scream. Connections fleeting, in a cybernetic maze, Anxiety is thriving, in the digital craze. In the city smog's haze, where futures are sold, Humanity fades, in a world growing cold. Echoes of the past, in the television's static hum, Heartbroken minds persist, in the city's artificial thrum. Yet amidst the chaos, a flicker of hope, In the sprawling streets, where outcasts elope. For in the depths of darkness, a spark ignites, A rebellion against loneliness, in the rain-drenched nights. So let the puddle glow, let it guide the way, Through fiberglass and darkness, we'll find our day. In the embrace of technology, we'll carve our fate, And in the retina-burning neon lights, we'll find a new state. © fey (27/04/24)
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Apr 30, 2024
Apr 30, 2024 at 6:33 AM UTC
Cybernetic loneliness