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"flyer" poems
i see the flyer at starbucks "are you caucasian? without mental health and drug problems?" wow i don’t know the answer to any of these questions is a jew a caucasian? is the occasional naked, dick-slamming drunken rampage a drug problem? as for mental health i’m a deadbeat poet and unpopular pop musician i’ve got a job fighting death and boredom and i just changed my facebook password to "eat **** my frustrations have driven weaker souls to homicide but are these PROBLEMS?
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Sep 8, 2018
Sep 8, 2018 at 5:16 AM UTC
ARE YOU CAUCASIAN?
There was once a kite flyer who flew his kites so high He can hold on to his strings and never get tired He makes his kites by hand He makes 'em colorful He makes 'em grand So one day, the kite maker flew his finest kites In the hopes of showing everyone his amazing feats of flight But because there were so many and the wind was strong His strings tangled and the flight patterns got all wrong one of the strings snapped and one of the kites flew the wind took it and away it blew One by one the strings broke and all the kite flyer can do was to watch them float away from him, the kites were set free All his hard work, his dreams. his reality The kite flyer looked up the sky crying and regretting There's nothing left of him nothing but broken strings
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Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014 at 2:55 AM UTC
The Kite Flyer
Under the old house cast in conglomerate mix the cataract window and cracked sill broken joists and cross beams wringer wash and saddle set A draw string light brings life to the corner bench fowler toads and fingerlings jitter bugs and dazzy vance dirt planks filled with mason crown classics Buggy whip and whippletree shelved on the chopboard tackle and mucks stacked at the back horseshoe and jack rod bend the pike pole a sawhorse placed for the Martindale push Gallon jars and growlers prepped for the taking ropes and reins for transport and fest goggle eye jumps the flyer setting up nicely for the Haldimand town fair
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Jan 28, 2017
Jan 28, 2017 at 12:31 PM UTC
The Cellar
Not everyone flies. You land hard a lot. Then just as you think it's time for a new direction, just as you think it's not worth another stumble, a fresh fall onto your knees, you launch and take flight. An updraft catches your wings and you're airborne. And when you eventually land you see that you've got somewhere new, a whole new perspective. That's when you know you're a flyer. Not every line flies. You land hard a lot. Then just as you think it's time for a new direction, just as you think it's not worth another stumble, a fresh fall, your thoughts take flight. An updraft catches your wings and you're airborne. And when you eventually land you see that you've got somewhere new, a whole new perspective. That's when you know you're a poet. Not every prayer flies. You land hard a lot. Then just as you think it's time for a new direction, just as you think it's not worth another stumble, a fresh fall onto your knees, your prayer takes flight. Your spirit resonates with His and you see His face. And when you get to your 'Amen', you see that you've got  somewhere new, a whole new perspective. That's when you know you're a pray-er.
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Dec 25, 2018
Dec 25, 2018 at 5:45 AM UTC
Flyer
There was a shooting in Redstone Only one man dead, none hurt He was found dead in the morning With just one hole right through his shirt He was lying in the main street Face down, right there in the dirt He was found dead in the morning With just one hole right through his shirt I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT IN THE BACK I WAS GUNNED DOWN BY A COWARD I DIDN'T HEAR THE GUNSHOT CRACK The crowd had formed around him Lying there, all hard and cold No witnessess to the shooting At least not one so bold They knew him from his weapon The sixteen notches on the grip He came in on the Flyer He won't be on the return trip I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT IN THE BACK I WAS GUNNED DOWN BY A COWARD I DIDN'T HEAR THE GUNSHOT CRACK He was staying at The Belfry He only brought one bag to town No one knew why he had come here Except to shoot somebody down The papers ran the story The next morning in THE SUN They ran a picture and a story Of the "Man With The Pearl Gun" I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT IN THE BACK I WAS GUNNED DOWN BY A COWARD I DIDN'T HEAR THE GUNSHOT CRACK The story was quite lengthy Considering no one saw him shot But, as usual there was someone Who had a story to be bought He'd been shot from an end window Above the Local Mercantile Store One bullet from a rifle And the gunman was no more I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT IN THE BACK I WAS GUNNED DOWN BY A COWARD I DIDN'T HEAR THE GUNSHOT CRACK Turns out the gunman's killer Was the one he'd come to find The shooter was the killer's child The only son, he'd left behind They never met before this He'd never ever met his Dad But, The Gunman came to find him And in the end, it's kind of sad I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT BY MY SON I WAS GUNNED DOWN WITHOUT KNOWING I GUESS HE'S NOW THE WANTED GUN.
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Oct 1, 2012
Oct 1, 2012 at 8:35 PM UTC
A Western Tale.
There was a shooting in Redstone Only one man dead, none hurt He was found dead in the morning With just one hole right through his shirt He was lying in the main street Face down, right there in the dirt He was found dead in the morning With just one hole right through his shirt I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT IN THE BACK I WAS GUNNED DOWN BY A COWARD I DIDN'T HEAR THE GUNSHOT CRACK The crowd had formed around him Lying there, all hard and cold No witnessess to the shooting At least not one so bold They knew him from his weapon The sixteen notches on the grip He came in on the Flyer He won't be on the return trip I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT IN THE BACK I WAS GUNNED DOWN BY A COWARD I DIDN'T HEAR THE GUNSHOT CRACK He was staying at The Belfry He only brought one bag to town No one knew why he had come here Except to shoot somebody down The papers ran the story The next morning in THE SUN They ran a picture and a story Of the "Man With The Pearl Gun" I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT IN THE BACK I WAS GUNNED DOWN BY A COWARD I DIDN'T HEAR THE GUNSHOT CRACK The story was quite lengthy Considering no one saw him shot But, as usual there was someone Who had a story to be bought He'd been shot from an end window Above the Local Mercantile Store One bullet from a rifle And the gunman was no more I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT IN THE BACK I WAS GUNNED DOWN BY A COWARD I DIDN'T HEAR THE GUNSHOT CRACK Turns out the gunman's killer Was the one he'd come to find The shooter was the killer's child The only son, he'd left behind They never met before this He'd never ever met his Dad But, The Gunman came to find him And in the end, it's kind of sad I'T WASN'T SUPPOSED TO END LIKE THIS FACE DOWN HERE, IN THE STREET I'M A GUNFIGHTER OF MUCH RENOWN I'M JUST A GUN WHO CAN'T BE BEAT I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE LYING DEAD, SHOT BY MY SON I WAS GUNNED DOWN WITHOUT KNOWING I GUESS HE'S NOW THE WANTED GUN.
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I know how hard you’re trying: caught between what’s good and what’s right, triangulated by compliance to a routine that leaves you restless. You’ve spent your childhood dreaming of ‘somewhere else’ but now that you’re here, you dream again: of ‘somewhere new.’ You can’t pin down a pilot, and you’re a high flyer with a heart for danger and full of desire from the stardust in your veins and the galaxies mirrored in your eyes. You’re no Harry Potter-- their attention drives you wild, craving counteraction to the demons that followed you from your home planet and have tainted your every breath. *(he’s got stars in his smiles that stretch like galaxies. oh, god, you know what that means.)* Like I said, you can’t pin down a pilot, and you don’t want to be found. You’ll push and push until your heart gives out, compensate and retaliate by breaking the hearts that beat for you. If you’re going down, they will too. You’re a beautiful disaster creating new paths for strength to rise out of, a beautiful disaster caught between cliffs and a hard place. You wanted to touch down on every planet in your system, but you never planned on your engines failing. You can’t pin down a pilot, not until he’s crashing.
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 9:26 PM UTC
THE PILOT
I needed to do some shopping On poem ideas I was running low So I checked out the local flyer To the downtown poet store Just to see what they had on sale Some of my friends they call me cheap But why pay full price if you don't have to On all the rhyming words I need The front page slapped me in the face With the Spring Cleaning Sale Galore Everything I needed was half price So I headed straight to the store I ventured up and down the isles Filling my basket with the best of rhyme Getting a few extras of every word So I'd have them when the time was right I stocked up on love and encouragement The right words I carefully chose Because in my experience You can never have to many of those I even took a few from the back Down a darkened isle where the lights were low Being a poet my mood can rapidly change And what words I might need you never know With my basket full of wonder I felt my day of shopping done Confidant and ready To go home and continue writing poems
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Apr 1, 2013
Apr 1, 2013 at 5:23 PM UTC
"Shopping"
Alone the groans of humanity that were once united in love at last. finds its rest . We wait for a call that never comes , and close our eyes in death . Now the cricket finds its leaf on some Tunisian shores weaves silk it’s song of love , just as My hand reaches out to yours only for you to flinch and turn from love . the pebble washed over by the shore  finds itself on ship wrecked Oceans of thee . Where once lovers walked hand in hand their love like the sands of time exposed . Like pebbles stolen from the beach where once Greek lovers found  play ,Their. wedding songs bliss , hand in hand on moon set tidel bays . So the twilight casts its gaze , Soon my time moves ever on  , the midnight flyer i once caught Only to never find the one . Love and death have yet to follow me , their paths I know not well , the sunshine tomorrow’s ring brings sage of old to tell . Out of these dark ages Saxon roamed , Autumn leaves once green in bloom , have turned a golden brown only now to deaths decay . Their  sorrows winter shall take and find , An Ampetheatre of Chicken bones they gorge, eight thousand demon hoards , helmet , belt and sword and my victory is assured . “ Now set the table honey just mix the salad dear “   “ Look mother an olive all by itself can I have it please ? ” “Yes , now wash your hands “ and i was swollowed , ...whole ..
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Sep 29, 2018
Sep 29, 2018 at 5:03 PM UTC
Chicken salad .
some years back, not too difficile to recall, revive and animate those memories of love and disasters, but the distance is comparable to half-a-dozen eighty day trips around the world, many frequent flyer  miles accumulated with trips to love disasters, interspersed with the days of shock and awe believing (sigh) that stumbled, fumbled my way in what we silly call true love, which is really the high of believing that you deserved the easy way, but now know, there is no easy way, and romance is a hard earned privilege, and sensory deprivation can  fool you, absence makes you vulnerable, don’t be vulnerable, stand up right, **** out, and eyes smiling but phasers on full, nonetheless… this not a downer, but a dis-claimer, even I claim the never be sure of the 100% foolproof methodologies for discerning the genius of genuine, when the risk is the reward maybe when your 22, even 23, you’ll be better at true discernment, but until then be wise, there is no saving the day, till your knees are scraped, and crackling and cracking heart seem like the same thing but they’re not do not confuse causality with correlation love is not your cause, be-all, or even the end-all, do the  work on your self to betterment 24/7, knowledge to be wiser comes with vive les expériences! and someday you’ll senses will be tickled, and the aroma of possibilities will arose that dormant hunger, and may be a correlation to another human in the immediate vicinity, a man, swimming in your moat without permission, then, check him out and maybe, jump in, once you’ve passed the red cross lifesavers test, cause the murk is murky, and is never fraught with just rose water, but jump a few toes in and if you’re still sinking, hell he’ll find away and give him the rope to help you climb a board, yeah, a broad tough as clear varnished nails with a heart radiating the nuclear fission of Strontium 90.
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Jul 13, 2023
Jul 13, 2023 at 1:31 AM UTC
Once was seventeen, not so long but so very far away
some years back, not too difficile to recall, revive and animate those memories of love and disasters, but the distance is comparable to half-a-dozen eighty day trips around the world, many frequent flyer  miles accumulated with trips to love disasters, interspersed with the days of shock and awe believing (sigh) that stumbled, fumbled my way in what we silly call true love, which is really the high of believing that you deserved the easy way, but now know, there is no easy way, and romance is a hard earned privilege, and sensory deprivation can  fool you, absence makes you vulnerable, don’t be vulnerable, stand up right, **** out, and eyes smiling but phasers on full, nonetheless… this not a downer, but a dis-claimer, even I claim the never be sure of the 100% foolproof methodologies for discerning the genius of genuine, when the risk is the reward maybe when your 22, even 23, you’ll be better at true discernment, but until then be wise, there is no saving the day, till your knees are scraped, and crackling and cracking heart seem like the same thing but they’re not do not confuse causality with correlation love is not your cause, be-all, or even the end-all, do the  work on your self to betterment 24/7, knowledge to be wiser comes with vive les expériences! and someday you’ll senses will be tickled, and the aroma of possibilities will arose that dormant hunger, and may be a correlation to another human in the immediate vicinity, a man, swimming in your moat without permission, then, check him out and maybe, jump in, once you’ve passed the red cross lifesavers test, cause the murk is murky, and is never fraught with just rose water, but jump a few toes in and if you’re still sinking, hell he’ll find away and give him the rope to help you climb a board, yeah, a broad tough as clear varnished nails with a heart radiating the nuclear fission of Strontium 90.
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This is one American that drops beats, not bombs This is one American that admits when she’s wrong. But an ocean doesn’t divide us Only you divide us With your words for labels that say what’s you, not me Your stereotypes are gunna be the death of me You’re killing me with these close-minded philosophies And Who the hell ever said you were the referee of me? We gotta spend less time sneering and swearing We gotta spend less time jeering and tearing You should never have to defend when you love You should never have to defend why you love You should never have to defend who you love We are all created equal; That’s the condition of the receiver And we are all the receivers But some keep spewing that hate; those hate-believers But we don’t accept their judgment upon us We gotta rise up out of adversity placed on us Some out there will go to their graves justifying Committing acts based on fear is nothing but mortifying And I’m gunna be truthful; I’m not even lying When your preach your ******** the human race is dying. You see United this house stands strong Every new hand we hold pushes us along Every brick makes us higher Acceptance makes us flyer Gotta keep hate out of your heart And maybe then we’ll get to start To come together To love one another And to be free like it is intended Maybe then the human race will be mended Maybe then this bad movie will get a better sequel Maybe then we’ll realize We are all created equal. I want to stop it all To go into a free-for-all To rip those signs apart To take that hate from that heart All I can do is spread the word on love And hope to God that will be enough All I can do is be me and let you be you All I can do is all I can do But together we can appreciate That all together we can officiate Love that knows no bounds That type of harmony with unreal sounds. We may measure success by what’s published We may measure it by what’s re-said By how much money we make By the course that we take But one thing I know that will bring us deliverance All that matters is that one voice that says You make a ******* difference.
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Apr 20, 2013
Apr 20, 2013 at 5:45 PM UTC
Sometimes I’m like Macklemore.
This is one American that drops beats, not bombs This is one American that admits when she’s wrong. But an ocean doesn’t divide us Only you divide us With your words for labels that say what’s you, not me Your stereotypes are gunna be the death of me You’re killing me with these close-minded philosophies And Who the hell ever said you were the referee of me? We gotta spend less time sneering and swearing We gotta spend less time jeering and tearing You should never have to defend when you love You should never have to defend why you love You should never have to defend who you love We are all created equal; That’s the condition of the receiver And we are all the receivers But some keep spewing that hate; those hate-believers But we don’t accept their judgment upon us We gotta rise up out of adversity placed on us Some out there will go to their graves justifying Committing acts based on fear is nothing but mortifying And I’m gunna be truthful; I’m not even lying When your preach your ******** the human race is dying. You see United this house stands strong Every new hand we hold pushes us along Every brick makes us higher Acceptance makes us flyer Gotta keep hate out of your heart And maybe then we’ll get to start To come together To love one another And to be free like it is intended Maybe then the human race will be mended Maybe then this bad movie will get a better sequel Maybe then we’ll realize We are all created equal. I want to stop it all To go into a free-for-all To rip those signs apart To take that hate from that heart All I can do is spread the word on love And hope to God that will be enough All I can do is be me and let you be you All I can do is all I can do But together we can appreciate That all together we can officiate Love that knows no bounds That type of harmony with unreal sounds. We may measure success by what’s published We may measure it by what’s re-said By how much money we make By the course that we take But one thing I know that will bring us deliverance All that matters is that one voice that says You make a ******* difference.
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Glances in passing and nothingness, I'll drop out and take up gardening. And you are so cool, all German bred, and sometimes braided. I see you, so well-read and rather regal. ***** blonde nuclear, alabaster, aluminum rods - electricity dripping from the soles of your shoes. This classroom, my own ink blotted incubator, the radiator sits, flatlining. Your jaw as two razor blades, your shoulder blades, broad, gentle. I wonder how you look in the morning, How you look at yourself in the mirror. Do you practice smiling, and how often do you wash your hair? Oh, you exist in glass, and I will not try to know you. Leaving this poem limited, and yet. Your jam drop mouth houses all well-spoken soliloquies, radical requiems. So, what would happen if we brushed shoulders in passing? Your little accent. Accident, we appeared in the same huddled mass. Literary plugs in the drain, and your new American. So, why don't we just go walking on airplane wings? Some transcontinental affair. Frequent flyer ******* stranger.
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Feb 27, 2017
Feb 27, 2017 at 5:48 PM UTC
classmates
Children of Louisiana, Swept away and drowned, In the river’s flood And the ocean surge. Never have recovered Fully from the rain falling down, And of a city that was purged. Ignored by the government And its fellow man, Follow in a long line of sufferers Since the melting, ice age glaciers And even a tsunami in the North Sea That wiped out Doggerland. Dark Ages got darker as people ran And Britain’s white cliffs were sheared. Times got better and then got worse, But the people carried on. Now, the floods are a weekly thing, A blip on a newscast, As lost as the victims in a mess Of other disasters, Of wildfires, droughts and don’t Even mention the quaking earth Or volcanoes! We can’t take credit For causing those! Rich men in their castles, Feasting and clapping each other On their fatty backs, Rolling in the spoils and spills Of oil, on the flaming water of The American plains. Sheikhs in old Mesopotamia Whine about oil pipelines, Promised to them by President Cheney, While the people starve. Bloated oligarchs spread destruction All over the world, from The Congo to Chernobyl, Melting icecaps and raising the sea, Sinking islands where they don’t live, Vacationing in the Maldives, On special rates before those go under. They won’t fix Miami, but let it sink, But not before they plunder The empty towers built on foolish dreams. Of course, they’ll be the last to go, Crammed into mansions up in the Alps, Fighting with the European nobles Over who gets a crumbling palace Now sitting on the last ice floe. A few American cousins round each other up To catch the Dixie Flyer down to New Orleans, Trying to hide from the polar vortex, A dazzling case of ignorance and greed, Only to find the tracks buried in the sea… Down in the mud of the deep, brown sea.
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Mar 10, 2021
Mar 10, 2021 at 4:26 PM UTC
Katrina
Children of Louisiana, Swept away and drowned, In the river’s flood And the ocean surge. Never have recovered Fully from the rain falling down, And of a city that was purged. Ignored by the government And its fellow man, Follow in a long line of sufferers Since the melting, ice age glaciers And even a tsunami in the North Sea That wiped out Doggerland. Dark Ages got darker as people ran And Britain’s white cliffs were sheared. Times got better and then got worse, But the people carried on. Now, the floods are a weekly thing, A blip on a newscast, As lost as the victims in a mess Of other disasters, Of wildfires, droughts and don’t Even mention the quaking earth Or volcanoes! We can’t take credit For causing those! Rich men in their castles, Feasting and clapping each other On their fatty backs, Rolling in the spoils and spills Of oil, on the flaming water of The American plains. Sheikhs in old Mesopotamia Whine about oil pipelines, Promised to them by President Cheney, While the people starve. Bloated oligarchs spread destruction All over the world, from The Congo to Chernobyl, Melting icecaps and raising the sea, Sinking islands where they don’t live, Vacationing in the Maldives, On special rates before those go under. They won’t fix Miami, but let it sink, But not before they plunder The empty towers built on foolish dreams. Of course, they’ll be the last to go, Crammed into mansions up in the Alps, Fighting with the European nobles Over who gets a crumbling palace Now sitting on the last ice floe. A few American cousins round each other up To catch the Dixie Flyer down to New Orleans, Trying to hide from the polar vortex, A dazzling case of ignorance and greed, Only to find the tracks buried in the sea… Down in the mud of the deep, brown sea.
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its funny a flower called impatient still has to root down and tangle with grass you too never to be caught dead in the same social circle as a window planter or aluminum pinwheels the same instruments that brought you radio flyer wagons and torn-knees in your jeans innocence **** you window-shop with a brick in your handbag and a white patterned dress
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May 28, 2013
May 28, 2013 at 10:38 PM UTC
Window-Shopping With A Brick.
Producers are making films On the decades of my life. I'm sitting there, and I think out loud: I remember that! At the Henry Ford Museum They've displayed my Radio Flyer And wooden Yo-Yo. I lost them long ago. Flea Markets sell postcards Of Grand Bend Beach and Casino. I bet my life there. I've been told My steel tubular kitchen set Is retro. I didn't know. Classic Car Shows Put barrier ropes Around VWs. They were cheap, Dependable. And everything's back in vogue, 'cept me.
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 3:35 PM UTC
Back in Vogue
Royal indeed it is my Scottish mile, May I borrow your body awhile, Your brew gives me just the smile, I'll save you forever in my travelers file!! Another year now, another year new, whiskey, one too many a few, like strangers who haven' a clue, one more night, at the backpacker's blue!! Now or never, those eyes shine forever, in my senses, in my heart, in my pyre, bagpipes printed over the hogmanay's flyer, singin, hey ya'll, cry me a ****** river!!
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Jan 7, 2013
Jan 7, 2013 at 4:38 PM UTC
Backpacker's dream
#I'm as lonely as a station at night. The december mist and the moon peaking high over the iron fence dulled the low volt into weird halo. But like bats I reap the rewards of night. The buzz of the crickets rose in crescendo from the undergrowths around the track sounding as unreal as the silent platform abruptly cropping up on nowhere land doubtful if ever a train would notice it. *Days are dull actings dancing to strings yielding nothing to let you know you. I'm in full vision before the lightless mirror opening up alone but with the many faces the dreary day ruthlessly hid from me.* The mist was engulfing the iron railings and when a distant engine whistled there was no track or platform but only the lone flyer hung on the moon like a bat glued to the scent of night.
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May 9, 2018
May 9, 2018 at 10:39 AM UTC
The Lonely Flier
When the clouds below turn to into carpet Up there in the cold morning light, The VFR pilot jitters and frets: Time to check fuel, to come up with a plan To search for a hole in the billow below, And bring the craft in to land. So it was when a pilot coming back from a lark, Flew in a circle somewhere over Williston, Above clouds turning thicker and dark. In his office sat Phil, across the state line, When the radio crackled, pleading a break: "VFR practice," he thought, "He's probably fine." Phil headed to lunch, had an errand to do... Drove downtown for a couple of hours, Returning somewhere around 2:00. The radio tone carried tired despair When Phil walked back in from his break And heard the pilot, still stuck in the air. Phil knew that the fuel must be drained In the old Piper Cub overhead, So he logged a flight plan and ran for his plane. He flew to the east and banked to the north, Rising above the gray carpet below, And spotted the wanderer holding its course. Coming in fast, cutting his distance by half, "Super Cub over Williston, this is Bonanza On your left. How much fuel do you have?" "About 30 minutes," came a despondent reply, Standard answer, but gauging the hours, Phil calculated the response was a lie. "I am going to fly by your side. Follow me and dive when I dive; Keep contact and enjoy the ride." The planes in tandem turned around; Phil flew by IFR to find the runway end, Backed off the throttle, and led them down. The tail dragger followed, did not complain, Dropped into the soup gliding blind Except for the strobe on the faster plane. The old Cub flared when Phil said, "Land!" Settled onto the runway end as the propeller stalled, And Phil had saved a desperate man. On the hangar wall now hangs a plaque, Though Phil himself is gone, The Governor's gift for bringing a flyer back. -------------- My brother once watched Phil Petrik of Sidney Aviation fly off the Sidney runway, disappearing into a pea soup fog, carrying our father and mother on an emergency flight to Billings, to save my father's life. I lay this poetic rose upon Phil's grave as a slim tribute to a man who earned my admiration and life long gratitude. Rest In Peace, Phil Petrik.
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Mar 8, 2016
Mar 8, 2016 at 11:18 AM UTC
Phil Petrik
When the clouds below turn to into carpet Up there in the cold morning light, The VFR pilot jitters and frets: Time to check fuel, to come up with a plan To search for a hole in the billow below, And bring the craft in to land. So it was when a pilot coming back from a lark, Flew in a circle somewhere over Williston, Above clouds turning thicker and dark. In his office sat Phil, across the state line, When the radio crackled, pleading a break: "VFR practice," he thought, "He's probably fine." Phil headed to lunch, had an errand to do... Drove downtown for a couple of hours, Returning somewhere around 2:00. The radio tone carried tired despair When Phil walked back in from his break And heard the pilot, still stuck in the air. Phil knew that the fuel must be drained In the old Piper Cub overhead, So he logged a flight plan and ran for his plane. He flew to the east and banked to the north, Rising above the gray carpet below, And spotted the wanderer holding its course. Coming in fast, cutting his distance by half, "Super Cub over Williston, this is Bonanza On your left. How much fuel do you have?" "About 30 minutes," came a despondent reply, Standard answer, but gauging the hours, Phil calculated the response was a lie. "I am going to fly by your side. Follow me and dive when I dive; Keep contact and enjoy the ride." The planes in tandem turned around; Phil flew by IFR to find the runway end, Backed off the throttle, and led them down. The tail dragger followed, did not complain, Dropped into the soup gliding blind Except for the strobe on the faster plane. The old Cub flared when Phil said, "Land!" Settled onto the runway end as the propeller stalled, And Phil had saved a desperate man. On the hangar wall now hangs a plaque, Though Phil himself is gone, The Governor's gift for bringing a flyer back. -------------- My brother once watched Phil Petrik of Sidney Aviation fly off the Sidney runway, disappearing into a pea soup fog, carrying our father and mother on an emergency flight to Billings, to save my father's life. I lay this poetic rose upon Phil's grave as a slim tribute to a man who earned my admiration and life long gratitude. Rest In Peace, Phil Petrik.
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Twisted tales come surging From a mind writhing and purging In an oft fomented urging For expressions, pure and raw That fight repressions, lure and claw Their way up to the surface To effect a sense of purpose But it's really all just worthless. . . That's, unless you think it's not! But if you don't: Your brain might rot! Your skin might bubble, blood might clot Leaving you heaving bile and snot Or maybe phlegm and sputum So your mental stores, you loot 'em Load these rhymes up and you shoot 'em Into repressed regression's mains Into depressed suppression's veins Until they sing a glad refrain Of being decoagulated Platelets become agitated Now the blood is circulated And the brain that hibernated Has awakened from its slumber Now it ponderously lumbers With intentions unencumbered Gotta do it by the numbers So, them synapses start firin' Them cortices start wirin' And belly full of fire sings Of jelly beans and tire swings Of silly schemes and flyer wings On foul mouthed little parrot, Owners ***** laundry, airs it Polly want a ******* Just a snack sir? But old Polly sez: **** me harder, Álvarez!"* Look aghast, her husband Ted: *"Oh hell no ***** 'cause that's the bed that both we AND our children sleep in! you've got Latin Lovers creepin'?"* She vacates the bedroom weepin' Well . . . that took a drastic turn To dwellings where disasters churn So silly, will we ever learn Or for mere want of learning, yearn? (Tom, to himself: Go eat food. . . .) (Tom, back to himself: Good idea!) I think he left, but I'm still near As tattered, scattered writing, dear! So, read me well and read me clear, And bring some friends to visit here!
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Jul 28, 2019
Jul 28, 2019 at 1:03 PM UTC
LSDNA (lysergic acid diethyloxyribonucleicamide)
Twisted tales come surging From a mind writhing and purging In an oft fomented urging For expressions, pure and raw That fight repressions, lure and claw Their way up to the surface To effect a sense of purpose But it's really all just worthless. . . That's, unless you think it's not! But if you don't: Your brain might rot! Your skin might bubble, blood might clot Leaving you heaving bile and snot Or maybe phlegm and sputum So your mental stores, you loot 'em Load these rhymes up and you shoot 'em Into repressed regression's mains Into depressed suppression's veins Until they sing a glad refrain Of being decoagulated Platelets become agitated Now the blood is circulated And the brain that hibernated Has awakened from its slumber Now it ponderously lumbers With intentions unencumbered Gotta do it by the numbers So, them synapses start firin' Them cortices start wirin' And belly full of fire sings Of jelly beans and tire swings Of silly schemes and flyer wings On foul mouthed little parrot, Owners ***** laundry, airs it Polly want a ******* Just a snack sir? But old Polly sez: **** me harder, Álvarez!"* Look aghast, her husband Ted: *"Oh hell no ***** 'cause that's the bed that both we AND our children sleep in! you've got Latin Lovers creepin'?"* She vacates the bedroom weepin' Well . . . that took a drastic turn To dwellings where disasters churn So silly, will we ever learn Or for mere want of learning, yearn? (Tom, to himself: Go eat food. . . .) (Tom, back to himself: Good idea!) I think he left, but I'm still near As tattered, scattered writing, dear! So, read me well and read me clear, And bring some friends to visit here!
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Hiro, the Kamikaze, Happily lives just over the hill, Sleeps every night quite calmly, So proud of his never a **** Hiro, the Kamikaze, Veteran flyer is he, Flew back from 33 missions, Dropped his payloads in the sea. ----------------------------
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Mar 2, 2014
Mar 2, 2014 at 1:31 PM UTC
Hiro, The Kamikaze
My attire, flyer than a kite Bellowing higher Floating, but ****** Sober, I'm told The only state I'm in Ain't about sin Just a means to avoid a loose mind Of a multiple kind Where happy and mad coincide Follow me through the workings, Go inside. Where the mood pendulates side to side With reckless abandon. Manifest in a man To have childish tantrums Self righteous in  his self deprecating anthems To spring one's phantoms alive. This, I strive to evade I hide, but to save No one else, but me. Everyman for himself! The mantra (sadly) of anyone seeking to be Free!
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Jun 20, 2017
Jun 20, 2017 at 6:54 PM UTC
Everyman for himself! (Spoken word)
If you’ve only ever smelled fir trees covered with freshly fallen snow- then you haven’t smelled it. It’s an acquired smell, for sure. It comes just in between the whiffs of mashed potatoes mashed carrots mashed peas mashed turkey hell, mashed ginger-ale for all I know. . . Somewhere amongst that microwaved menagerie, masked with the smell of eau de toilette, it lives, and smells sweeter the longer brown sugar bubbles on top of caramelizing yams. If you can’t smell it, maybe you can find it. Not many can, or do. It hides in plain sight, though. A lost and found box with accumulated cobwebs - everything still unclaimed. A flyer for free puppies that no one ever took because they were “too much responsibility.” Maybe there aren’t enough seekers in this game of empty rooms and blank guest books. But keep looking, until bingo prize hand-me-downs after school plays look like Oscars. You won’t see it until it makes you believe that plastic Mardis Gras beads are Tiffany-blue boxes. It’s not so much in the nose, or the eyes as it is in the endurance. Endure the voiceless Glenn Miller until his brass bellows become her voice - whispering “I love you” to the effortless rhythm of “Moonlight Serenade.” And imagine her, swapping her orthopedics for black heels, elegantly taking Pop’s hand as he helps her up from her wheelchair, to join him for just one more dance. Watch as they become the sepia-colored couple in every anniversary photo. That black dress. Those fake pearls. The crescendo of the band. It’s hard to miss when it’s screaming at you.
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Feb 18, 2014
Feb 18, 2014 at 11:38 PM UTC
Love sits in wheelchairs and sticks to dentures.
If you’ve only ever smelled fir trees covered with freshly fallen snow- then you haven’t smelled it. It’s an acquired smell, for sure. It comes just in between the whiffs of mashed potatoes mashed carrots mashed peas mashed turkey hell, mashed ginger-ale for all I know. . . Somewhere amongst that microwaved menagerie, masked with the smell of eau de toilette, it lives, and smells sweeter the longer brown sugar bubbles on top of caramelizing yams. If you can’t smell it, maybe you can find it. Not many can, or do. It hides in plain sight, though. A lost and found box with accumulated cobwebs - everything still unclaimed. A flyer for free puppies that no one ever took because they were “too much responsibility.” Maybe there aren’t enough seekers in this game of empty rooms and blank guest books. But keep looking, until bingo prize hand-me-downs after school plays look like Oscars. You won’t see it until it makes you believe that plastic Mardis Gras beads are Tiffany-blue boxes. It’s not so much in the nose, or the eyes as it is in the endurance. Endure the voiceless Glenn Miller until his brass bellows become her voice - whispering “I love you” to the effortless rhythm of “Moonlight Serenade.” And imagine her, swapping her orthopedics for black heels, elegantly taking Pop’s hand as he helps her up from her wheelchair, to join him for just one more dance. Watch as they become the sepia-colored couple in every anniversary photo. That black dress. Those fake pearls. The crescendo of the band. It’s hard to miss when it’s screaming at you.
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Do you remember when we met? Cuz I feel like it was so long ago; That you handed me that flyer And invited me to your show I thought it sounded stupid So I decided not to go But you didn't hold it against me And our friendship managed to grow Eventually you became my person The one that was always there You held me in my hardest moments And could always show me you care Even when things got rocky We knew how to work it out And it was only ever a matter of days Before a new level of friendship would sprout But lately things have started to change I feel that you don't have my back And though I'm trying hard to forgive I feel our friendship is starting to crack    You started to call me less and less                I've started to give up on you And then you just stopped coming by                  I've began to drift away        The worst part is you always defend             I don't want to put in the effort     All of the people who make me cry               On a street that's just one way        You never seize opportunities                I just don't have it in me anymore        To have me in your life                            To always be fighting for you    Then whenever we finally talk                  It should be this freaking lonely    We usually get into another strife              It shouldn't make me feel so blue And I'm not saying it's all your fault...    ....I'm not sure what went wrong I'm just not sure what to think...                 ...How we got so disconnected We just keep drifting apart...                               ...And you don't seem to care We are just SO out of sync...                                                  ...And I just feel dejected
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Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 5:19 AM UTC
Disassociated
Do you remember when we met? Cuz I feel like it was so long ago; That you handed me that flyer And invited me to your show I thought it sounded stupid So I decided not to go But you didn't hold it against me And our friendship managed to grow Eventually you became my person The one that was always there You held me in my hardest moments And could always show me you care Even when things got rocky We knew how to work it out And it was only ever a matter of days Before a new level of friendship would sprout But lately things have started to change I feel that you don't have my back And though I'm trying hard to forgive I feel our friendship is starting to crack    You started to call me less and less                I've started to give up on you And then you just stopped coming by                  I've began to drift away        The worst part is you always defend             I don't want to put in the effort     All of the people who make me cry               On a street that's just one way        You never seize opportunities                I just don't have it in me anymore        To have me in your life                            To always be fighting for you    Then whenever we finally talk                  It should be this freaking lonely    We usually get into another strife              It shouldn't make me feel so blue And I'm not saying it's all your fault...    ....I'm not sure what went wrong I'm just not sure what to think...                 ...How we got so disconnected We just keep drifting apart...                               ...And you don't seem to care We are just SO out of sync...                                                  ...And I just feel dejected
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it's time time to load my most personal  things taking only the most important escape this apocalypse you'll see me on the side of the road my cardboard box full of notepads a lifetime of heart things feelings tear stained yellow page after page pulling a Radio Flyer on I-10 three  cats and an old faithful black labrador dame and one box
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Jun 28, 2017
Jun 28, 2017 at 2:24 AM UTC
Radio Flyer
Summer night bonfires Tanning days Hella beach babes Party all night Here take a flyer Our shades were Gucci Is it always this bright Phone calls until sunrise Search for similarities Good head that's the prize New girls everyday Short shorts and high tops Grind on me when the beat drops Loud pack don't forget to pay Take your top off just for a tease, circled nah ellipse Summer's ended We all went different ways Xbox live? No one plays Now all we leave is our legacy We were the kids everybody wanted to be
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 2:03 AM UTC
Summers Past
Already so much distraction You're always so close Yet still just out of my reach Like trying to catch smoke You're a freedom flyer "She dreams of love He lives to run" You can't contain a snowflake and expect it not to melt and evaporate. This is the science of nature, and thus is the nature of life. However unwilling to alter they seem. Communication is key. It's been lacking My patience waning The edge is near but I'm not weak I refuse to succumb There's little more satisfying than winning a fight. But how do you expect to win when the referee is a liar? A thief of truth So cold Too proud to admit defeat The only war being waged is within the self-his self. The day is coming upon us that we will not fall But rise in the glory and beauty of love Where the Loneliness in Ourselves Value Everything An ethereal utopia A world where there is no defeat A world only big enough for us A world where you will let me set you free Where nothing is forced but as natural as the mechanics of lungs created to subconsciously allow our meat suits life.
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Aug 28, 2013
Aug 28, 2013 at 1:44 PM UTC
influences by B. Cubbins