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"freeways" poems
Pieces of our past. Wondering how we will Patchwork them back together, in the days of the weeks, the months of the years ahead... as you disguise yourself, on benches, in corners, alleys. Hidden in woods, underpasses of freeways. Tents, cars of strangers. Filthy trap houses. You disappear, to find comfort in the only place left to heal. The Deep Depths of Sleep. Oh how I worry about you my love. You suffer so for this journey   you have embarked on... Oh, how I hurt for you, yearn for you, love for you and cry for you. Your pain so deep keeps you away, to dwell in the terrifying place that encourages the need to Self implode.. Obliterate all ability to feel. Even the true sense of Belonging Of being unconditionally loved.
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Aug 5, 2019
Aug 5, 2019 at 2:04 AM UTC
I Save...
the hills were beginning to grow the grass greening on the approach to Blue Earth, and how in summer Minnesota shed her old coat to shy guilty into brief silty lakes like the joy of a little kid, sneaking a forbidden dip. remarking, casually, about white warm flowers hung low from planned oaks, and the impossible way the town pulled local hills close, to coat in dandelions. and cultivate all under an ambitious midwestern sun.           rolling through the stop sign, hand on mine           you told me if you’re moving at all           you should keep it in second gear. and we had so far to go, but in the light that broke through westbound clouds, we became less so. contented to spread toes out in earth we dug into Minnesota, the middle coast: a land we could like to get to know. and you: looking down at the salt, the sand, the scars of the grand american plantation: the last coast. knowing that by the next coast, we you and me. we'd be through.           saying, ‘how could anybody die?’           saying,           ‘how could anybody tell you anything true?’ undercut by the honest waves of the little lake, the hum that drummed in my gas tank. trying, for once, at a little piece of truth:           when I leave this place I leave           a part of me behind.           and that part of me           will be you. saying there’s only so much sweetness in the soil, only so long after the thaw, and grief is rich and dark and made for sowing: must be, for maintaining verdant local hills, must be for to keep corn sweet. must be for to put grief on the table. must be for to keep with us.           for to keep a little bit to eat. saying, we bleed but together we make a hole to bury both our bodies in. saying there’s a west out west but too late it’s already hemmed us in.           saying now I am only a fragile assimilation of this weak           and fractured purpose that drives me, and you are           beautiful enough I would lie to let you love me. even I would scorch this soil if only things wouldn’t grow I would saying Blue Earth is still in the trucker's atlas is only an excuse for sunshine. a point, where freeways go. saying, “with earth, so green, that here they call it 'Blue'.”           saying           “I could learn to love a leopard.”           saying           “how dare you.”
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 7:20 AM UTC
kafka
the hills were beginning to grow the grass greening on the approach to Blue Earth, and how in summer Minnesota shed her old coat to shy guilty into brief silty lakes like the joy of a little kid, sneaking a forbidden dip. remarking, casually, about white warm flowers hung low from planned oaks, and the impossible way the town pulled local hills close, to coat in dandelions. and cultivate all under an ambitious midwestern sun.           rolling through the stop sign, hand on mine           you told me if you’re moving at all           you should keep it in second gear. and we had so far to go, but in the light that broke through westbound clouds, we became less so. contented to spread toes out in earth we dug into Minnesota, the middle coast: a land we could like to get to know. and you: looking down at the salt, the sand, the scars of the grand american plantation: the last coast. knowing that by the next coast, we you and me. we'd be through.           saying, ‘how could anybody die?’           saying,           ‘how could anybody tell you anything true?’ undercut by the honest waves of the little lake, the hum that drummed in my gas tank. trying, for once, at a little piece of truth:           when I leave this place I leave           a part of me behind.           and that part of me           will be you. saying there’s only so much sweetness in the soil, only so long after the thaw, and grief is rich and dark and made for sowing: must be, for maintaining verdant local hills, must be for to keep corn sweet. must be for to put grief on the table. must be for to keep with us.           for to keep a little bit to eat. saying, we bleed but together we make a hole to bury both our bodies in. saying there’s a west out west but too late it’s already hemmed us in.           saying now I am only a fragile assimilation of this weak           and fractured purpose that drives me, and you are           beautiful enough I would lie to let you love me. even I would scorch this soil if only things wouldn’t grow I would saying Blue Earth is still in the trucker's atlas is only an excuse for sunshine. a point, where freeways go. saying, “with earth, so green, that here they call it 'Blue'.”           saying           “I could learn to love a leopard.”           saying           “how dare you.”
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Distance The space that is holding us back. The thing keeping my hand from caressing your back. These roadways, highways, and freeways Blocking my way to you I need to make my way to you. Distance This is the problem Love I believe it to be the answer. Tho, the solution to the problem Raises a question That needs to be answered. How far does love go? Distance What is love in distance? Would I measure it in miles or inches? How much love does it take to get to you? Does love matter if the distance is to great to get to you? Distance I don't like this distance Tho, I'll travel the farthest distance. Just to give you a give a kiss Can you feel the love don't resist it. Distance Love knows no distance If I were on Venus You were on Saturn We'd meet on Mars The distance wouldn't matter Distance It takes time to travel Tho, I think we could go the distance. When I said I love you I meant it. I know you felt the love Just try not to feel the distance.
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Jun 30, 2013
Jun 30, 2013 at 6:41 PM UTC
Distance
Hidden things obvious To opened eyes Pathways not taken missed Freeways of thought Caressing the hand seduction When starving Tickled breezes intoxicating A tornado of scent The taste of life opening Minds for experience listen for your bravery
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May 6, 2021
May 6, 2021 at 1:31 PM UTC
Ready?
When CNN monotony breaks my heart, children wail for candy at cash registers, and traffic buzz replaces birdsong, I flee to my garden to water and **** Sanctuary explodes in miniature chorales soprano buds breaking through cellulose cradles last waters from a thousand wilting blossoms sing tenor at their organic wake above the loam and endless pneumatic streams drip from leaf tips as they always have and will. A googolplex of minute carbon dramas occurs melodious ballads echo relentlessly like Buddha’s kalapas of soil and light as pistil and stamen call the fat brown bees. Equally marvelous are my hands' deft fingers fueled by arterial rivers lymph and blood on capillaric freeways with off-ramps for neighborhoods of dividing cells built into my DNA, this machine of loving grace. Even the leather of my gloves once lived thick on a bull eating grass that waved on a prairie where the soil let the sun in drank the rain and that meticulous ensemble plays still for the wolf and the eagle. With the last seed sewn I sit transfixed by the garden gate knowing every blossom in every random patch will arise and pass away like the pointless TV news and I hear the machinery of this impermanence crackling like spring frost when sprouts push through and Gaia’s eternal trumpets ring.
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May 28, 2012
May 28, 2012 at 10:31 PM UTC
TINY KALAPAS
concrete shades the yellow-lighted symphony. The peso-heavy take taxis; security valets motors steaming castle gates. I ask, which way is the 158? Indifferent, they say, walk straight neath the freewaythere is a bus stop two blocks away. **** **** **** Clocktower hands transpose Cindarella-brick to embers of electricity, a factory aside scrawled graffiti; fingers timidly ricket pitchfork fences. Palermo is 11 km north. Where is the north star? I look straight ahead, repeating what the travel blogs said like, Be lost, don’t look lost; flappy plastic maps scream vulnerability. Be lost, not rich; iPhones in gotham alleys are batman signals. Walk fast. Don’t pay attention to the eyes that pass. Careless ponytails and brass hair attract glances back. Two blocks deep into the homeless shelter beneath freeways, blankets in shopping carts toppled over, cars screaming away the symphony into shadowed silence between heels striking. Tunnel breath emerging on the other side, gasping past stacked Jenga towers, wired with antennas and empty clotheslines; families and crack ****** sleep inside. Safety’s herd thins as  couples dart left down cobblestone tributaries that either lead to bus stops or parked cars. I walk straight ahead with sleeve-covered hands that swing like sticks in the wind. The symphony turns to heartbeats and footsteps plucking quickly; fearing the 180 behind, to zombies with sunken eyes, thirsty for a thirty-cent high.
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 8:45 PM UTC
cultural corridor
I aimed the old car south and ran as many red lights as my luck would allow. Kept my sunglasses on as I listened to Frusciante singing nothing but the truth all through the magic of my radio. Left the madness of the city and entered the land where atomic  bombs and peoples sanity have both been tested. Desert roads littered with desert lies, like oasis and promises made in Vegas. I took a toot off the side of my hand like I seen them do in the movies. Wasted the better part of my stash on this foolish trick. This ride I'm taking is real. On my way I'll be looking for a wild young girl to roll my joints and laugh at my jokes,give my eyes a place to rest in. I'm looking for a lovely from the low side of town. Whose  spirit has yet to be broken and whose mind isn't already filled with their lies. Watched as the California landscape turned from beaches and tropical palms to cactus taller than most men and dry forgotten land that most come to die in. From congested freeways that hold the drivers hostage. To wide open desert highways where its safe to drink straight from the bottle without that pestering public servant there to ruin your ride. If I make it out of this dam desert alive with my wallet and my sanity still intact. I'll look back at it all as just another memory. And try not to give in to ever going back.
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Feb 13, 2014
Feb 13, 2014 at 5:32 AM UTC
Leaving California
Staring into stars, the lonely people drink their tears And genuflect to empty car parks and swallow their fears Like Ernest Hemingway, they grit their teeth and laugh ********* a pocket bullet, contemplating aftermath And the shadows bend and grow… And the embers shine below. Geared for success, the lonely boy begins to starve His chest heaving from stress, his wish for waterfall in cars Freeways self-entitled, forcing ants into the gutter While a lonely father cries and the boy freezes and sputters And the doorway opens up As the mouth is finally shut. “I’m not mad, son, you’ve only disappointed me” Father, point the way for me, where is my life leading?! Should I sacrifice my happiness for a chance at succeeding? Should these calloused hands be empty, do I need a beating? You need to straighten up your tie and keep your noses clean. My mother’s eyes in moonlight silently judging me Inhumanity, why don’t you rule these streets? I bite my bottom lip and gaze down at my feet Lumped chunk of nicotine Pushing itself out of me. I want to stop blending rainwater with my leaking eye-sockets, Crying for another with which to share my gold locket, Tossing and turning, wondering where I will be next And for God’s sake, can I do it, am I trying my very best!? Why can’t I get up on time like every normal human being? Why do I always get sick, why do my guts hate me? Why are all my joints always crackling and aching? I never want to live, don’t ever try to save me! “I’m not mad, son, you’ve only disappointed me” Father, point the way for me, where is my life leading?! Should I sacrifice my happiness for a chance at succeeding? Should these calloused hands be empty, do I need a beating? Staring into stars, the lonely people sit and smile Counting all the faces staring back, retracing miles Celestial serenity, striving for an energy Never needing inquiry, embracing the no thing! Should these calloused hands be empty? Do I need a beating? Will these pruning hands deceive me? This Universe is in me.
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Jun 3, 2011
Jun 3, 2011 at 3:58 PM UTC
This Whitest Purse
Staring into stars, the lonely people drink their tears And genuflect to empty car parks and swallow their fears Like Ernest Hemingway, they grit their teeth and laugh ********* a pocket bullet, contemplating aftermath And the shadows bend and grow… And the embers shine below. Geared for success, the lonely boy begins to starve His chest heaving from stress, his wish for waterfall in cars Freeways self-entitled, forcing ants into the gutter While a lonely father cries and the boy freezes and sputters And the doorway opens up As the mouth is finally shut. “I’m not mad, son, you’ve only disappointed me” Father, point the way for me, where is my life leading?! Should I sacrifice my happiness for a chance at succeeding? Should these calloused hands be empty, do I need a beating? You need to straighten up your tie and keep your noses clean. My mother’s eyes in moonlight silently judging me Inhumanity, why don’t you rule these streets? I bite my bottom lip and gaze down at my feet Lumped chunk of nicotine Pushing itself out of me. I want to stop blending rainwater with my leaking eye-sockets, Crying for another with which to share my gold locket, Tossing and turning, wondering where I will be next And for God’s sake, can I do it, am I trying my very best!? Why can’t I get up on time like every normal human being? Why do I always get sick, why do my guts hate me? Why are all my joints always crackling and aching? I never want to live, don’t ever try to save me! “I’m not mad, son, you’ve only disappointed me” Father, point the way for me, where is my life leading?! Should I sacrifice my happiness for a chance at succeeding? Should these calloused hands be empty, do I need a beating? Staring into stars, the lonely people sit and smile Counting all the faces staring back, retracing miles Celestial serenity, striving for an energy Never needing inquiry, embracing the no thing! Should these calloused hands be empty? Do I need a beating? Will these pruning hands deceive me? This Universe is in me.
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Awake. Rise to meet The day that greets you. Do not rise to meet The day you hope for Or the day you fear. The world is millions of Quarks and neutrinos Passing through our bodies each day. The world is protons and electrons Spinning in perpetuity and decaying. The world is atoms and valance bands Bonding into molecules and cells Building organs and tissue. The world is people and plants and animals Feeding on each other to survive another day In city streets and freeways And states and nations And continents and oceans Under an atmosphere By a moon In one solar system Of one galaxy Of a universe that has hundreds of billions of them. And space. Most of all space. Empty and marvelous. Relax. There is time. Time to greet the day. Not the day you hope for Or the day you fear But the day that is.
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Sep 22, 2012
Sep 22, 2012 at 3:33 AM UTC
This Day
a pleasant memory of riding in cars taking us to places so near and so far looking out the windows in amazement and wonder as we pass all the sights that make our minds ponder the freeways, the streets, the canyons, and alleys rolling along at great speeds and right through the valleys through the window you see, a whole different world as the wheels roll along and the sights are unfurled... Brian Hill - 2020 # 298
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Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 at 2:42 PM UTC
Through the Windows
*The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships. These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes. *
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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 7:27 AM UTC
The Paradox Of Age
*The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less. We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less time; We have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We've conquered outer space, but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've split the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short character; steep profits, and shallow relationships. These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes. *
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Staring into stars, the lonely people drink their tears And genuflect to empty car parks and swallow their fears Like Ernest Hemingway, they grit their teeth and laugh ********* a pocket bullet, contemplating aftermath And the shadows bend and grow… And the embers shine below. Geared for success, the lonely boy begins to starve His chest heaving from stress, his wish for waterfall in cars Freeways self-entitled, forcing ants into the gutter While a lonely father cries and the boy freezes and sputters And the doorway opens up As the mouth is finally shut. “I’m not mad, son, you’ve only disappointed me” Father, point the way for me, where is my life leading?! Should I sacrifice my happiness for a chance at succeeding? Should these calloused hands be empty, do I need a beating? You need to straighten up your tie and keep your noses clean. My mother’s eyes in moonlight silently judging me Inhumanity, why don’t you rule these streets? I bite my bottom lip and gaze down at my feet Lumped chunk of nicotine Pushing itself out of me. I want to stop blending rainwater with my leaking eye-sockets, Crying for another with which to share my gold locket, Tossing and turning, wondering where I will be next And for God’s sake, can I do it, am I trying my very best!? Why can’t I get up on time like every normal human being? Why do I always get sick, why do my guts hate me? Why are all my joints always crackling and aching? I never want to live, don’t ever try to save me! “I’m not mad, son, you’ve only disappointed me” Father, point the way for me, where is my life leading?! Should I sacrifice my happiness for a chance at succeeding? Should these calloused hands be empty, do I need a beating? Staring into stars, the lonely people sit and smile Counting all the faces staring back, retracing miles Celestial serenity, striving for an energy Never needing inquiry, embracing the no thing! Should these calloused hands be empty? Do I need a beating? Will these pruning hands deceive me? This Universe is in me.
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Jun 3, 2011
Jun 3, 2011 at 4:01 PM UTC
This Whitest Purse
Staring into stars, the lonely people drink their tears And genuflect to empty car parks and swallow their fears Like Ernest Hemingway, they grit their teeth and laugh ********* a pocket bullet, contemplating aftermath And the shadows bend and grow… And the embers shine below. Geared for success, the lonely boy begins to starve His chest heaving from stress, his wish for waterfall in cars Freeways self-entitled, forcing ants into the gutter While a lonely father cries and the boy freezes and sputters And the doorway opens up As the mouth is finally shut. “I’m not mad, son, you’ve only disappointed me” Father, point the way for me, where is my life leading?! Should I sacrifice my happiness for a chance at succeeding? Should these calloused hands be empty, do I need a beating? You need to straighten up your tie and keep your noses clean. My mother’s eyes in moonlight silently judging me Inhumanity, why don’t you rule these streets? I bite my bottom lip and gaze down at my feet Lumped chunk of nicotine Pushing itself out of me. I want to stop blending rainwater with my leaking eye-sockets, Crying for another with which to share my gold locket, Tossing and turning, wondering where I will be next And for God’s sake, can I do it, am I trying my very best!? Why can’t I get up on time like every normal human being? Why do I always get sick, why do my guts hate me? Why are all my joints always crackling and aching? I never want to live, don’t ever try to save me! “I’m not mad, son, you’ve only disappointed me” Father, point the way for me, where is my life leading?! Should I sacrifice my happiness for a chance at succeeding? Should these calloused hands be empty, do I need a beating? Staring into stars, the lonely people sit and smile Counting all the faces staring back, retracing miles Celestial serenity, striving for an energy Never needing inquiry, embracing the no thing! Should these calloused hands be empty? Do I need a beating? Will these pruning hands deceive me? This Universe is in me.
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We made nests in clocks that Summer the electricity died. Stars rose out of the ether for the first time in centuries. Autumn rolled in but it only grew hotter. We climbed on rooftops to escape the heat of our homes and saw the silhouettes of strangers follow. Winter choked the freeways, the subways, the old ways. Rust fell on us like rain. We danced in the belly of an abandoned ship cheeks burning with mirth. By Spring the plants had withered and the animals had slept until their bodies devoured their souls. We sat on the town hall as the sun engulfed the sky Thankful for such a beautiful life.
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Dec 8, 2015
Dec 8, 2015 at 8:37 AM UTC
sweet death
o, darling daylight has never been your most flattering light and how could it be? you never sleep, because life is but a dream like that old children's song goes dear god of boujee women, the ones with bloodstained louboutins let me autotune myself to sound inhuman, say my prayers to you in the dying light of the atl freeways my only hymn i have to offer is that of migos and instead of bread and wine i have lean and xanax o, darling our eyes will never age and new money, who dis? will forever be the closest thing we have to a mantra
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Feb 20, 2018
Feb 20, 2018 at 2:05 PM UTC
boujee
Ive still got your hands locked around my throat like a noose and its cold cold as summer rain when spring breaks there is still frost up in the mountains for gods sake and when i hear you sing its like whatever heaven is supposed to be breaks and holds me in its celestial proverbial arms and rocks me gently when you sing the vibrations shake my soul and resonate deeply and completely and you let all your vocal chords ring out in beautiful chords that i try to play on my guitar but they always sound flat and this old hat that i wear on my head seems to travel more than i will as its been to brazil and i thank roger for that but i digress cause the point is to say when you sing it brings me to a place i only dream and it seems that with each breath you take it makes my heart quiver and shake and break into a thousand pieces but it only takes a crescendo to bring it back together so please sing for me baby i know your register better than you do so please sing for me baby when im old and grey and beatdown and blue i will remember you i will remember you as one thousand melodies carrying through the trees i will remember every word you said to me but I will remember them as a song blowing down the streets on cold winter mornings and hot summer days through the hallways and alleyways on the highways and freeways syncopating with the hum of my tired engine running on fumes and memories of afternoons and evenings listening to you sing so before you go one last encore one last song to ease me into my cosmic core as i lay on the shore of the great south bay like it was on the first day and like it will be on this the last sing me something slow but with fast parts that catch me off guard like the first time I heard the pixies in my bestfriends backyard something that will send chills down my spine and relax my mind to solidify this truth that to me is self evident as my energy is spent i need to hear you sing your song in this place that was always tuned to so different a key please sing for me baby please just sing for me baby
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Sep 16, 2011
Sep 16, 2011 at 1:16 AM UTC
When you sing
Ive still got your hands locked around my throat like a noose and its cold cold as summer rain when spring breaks there is still frost up in the mountains for gods sake and when i hear you sing its like whatever heaven is supposed to be breaks and holds me in its celestial proverbial arms and rocks me gently when you sing the vibrations shake my soul and resonate deeply and completely and you let all your vocal chords ring out in beautiful chords that i try to play on my guitar but they always sound flat and this old hat that i wear on my head seems to travel more than i will as its been to brazil and i thank roger for that but i digress cause the point is to say when you sing it brings me to a place i only dream and it seems that with each breath you take it makes my heart quiver and shake and break into a thousand pieces but it only takes a crescendo to bring it back together so please sing for me baby i know your register better than you do so please sing for me baby when im old and grey and beatdown and blue i will remember you i will remember you as one thousand melodies carrying through the trees i will remember every word you said to me but I will remember them as a song blowing down the streets on cold winter mornings and hot summer days through the hallways and alleyways on the highways and freeways syncopating with the hum of my tired engine running on fumes and memories of afternoons and evenings listening to you sing so before you go one last encore one last song to ease me into my cosmic core as i lay on the shore of the great south bay like it was on the first day and like it will be on this the last sing me something slow but with fast parts that catch me off guard like the first time I heard the pixies in my bestfriends backyard something that will send chills down my spine and relax my mind to solidify this truth that to me is self evident as my energy is spent i need to hear you sing your song in this place that was always tuned to so different a key please sing for me baby please just sing for me baby
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sunrise is lazy this morning as our awakening coincides with shivers running up and down cool spines on crusty concrete floors sheets and sweating water cups, that's what we ride for past waterfronts and freeways, fast as we can with sleep in our eyes paisley prints surround us as i lay and recount our night flashes of flash lights reveal strange structures inside of silos, climb on, climb on, exploring exploitation of the norm, art in ways art hasn't yet dreamed wild animal sounds bounce and billow around in old grain homes, while hands keep beats and hearts are pedaled in shadow onto walls fire breathing pipes belch into the calm, black night and attempts to climb towers are squandered by men holding flashlights and power so we fade into the nothingness and find other metal mountains to explore, garage doors open up to windmills and i find myself with knees as ****** and black as the night before us still, the animals cry out, but this time it's low and between rushed breaths that betray a sense of ecstasy only felt when it sneaks up from behind
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Aug 21, 2013
Aug 21, 2013 at 11:38 AM UTC
city of night
Sometimes I'm feeling like... I need'a Speed up. Move fast. As the Green light turns Red. Pedal to metal. I am off in a flash. Foot on lock. Won't ease up. Drift off. Drift late. Just wait. Skidding with thunder. As the Red Accord rubber wheels bleed We recede in aero Fall off Into the off ramps bridge Onto The freeways Incoming traffic Levitated, watching myself Crashing Going numb. No longer masking. My actions.      my actions. cause they are there to see From the bridge Lights flashing Honking, speeding passing Cannot flee. Hitting elements. Fire, cement, gust of mighty winds glass, clashing. With a subtle gentle breeze I am there I stare I am surrounded by the abyss Our life They are there O' so aware We conversating without words Bliss Awaken We all are bare Naked
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May 14, 2017
May 14, 2017 at 5:21 PM UTC
A time of somes.
some of the “greats” are walking among us making eye contact upon our sidewalks sharing sweaty seats on our buses eating tempeh and salad at our cafés lying next to us, sleeping, in our beds we shop at their record stores throw dollars in their guitar cases curse their driving on our freeways art and history are presently in motion the past is just the place where we idealize them
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 12:34 PM UTC
his ****** poems will seem iconic once he’s dead
bone is bone is bone is bone. my hands are forever too tiny, my hips forever too big, and you forever the girl who’s always wanted to leave. when we first met you talked of hating the palm trees seventy degrees traffic clogged grit and smog, graffiti covered rat sewers mansions dotting all the hills and everything else i’ve ever loved. i reminded myself that some people need more than a place with hundreds of stars on the sidewalk but hardly any in the sky. when i think of superpowers i imagine being strong enough to carry manhattan to you on my shoulders and all your rain clouds in my arms. if you ever turned fragile i would arrange a fortress out of skyscrapers big enough to cover all the hills, and with tiny hands i’d point to the clouds and make them fill the sky outside your window; white as bone, as bone, as bone.
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Jan 17, 2014
Jan 17, 2014 at 12:42 AM UTC
freeways and fortresses
Under the enigmatically colored sky, I did wait, in the place where you were  expected days, nights, weeks and months passed by, years added their handiwork on my body, but my spirit, refused to fail, kept awake I traveled through the freeways of the sky, learning the art of flight, all by myself, asked the birds repeatedly about you except the time they sang how you inspire but they remained mute to my questions                                       "Fly towards east where light is" I heard a wise one say I found light at the dawn and struggled to keep it alive at night, only thinking about you,I needed the heat to survive. In the blue watery depth of the sea, I dived, heard the music of silence. It was your paens silence kept on singing, Through the fertile planes i walked, saw the corn speak of plenty. you bestow on us, the peace it brings. I wandered through the mountains and hills, the grass was green and flowers on the vines, had fragrance that reminded me your presence, ripened fruits hanging on trees spoke on the sweet love we shared. Though you were away from me and i wandered with a heart full of questions. A song bird on the tree of wish sang, it was all about your love for me, I was amazed, my weary head paused and felt peace at last, I fell in love as the hands of mountain wind caressed. In my dream you came and sat near. I was transformed, did I wake up from that ecstasy or am I still asleep,I and  you are no different.
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Apr 1, 2017
Apr 1, 2017 at 11:02 AM UTC
In a dream forever together
Under the enigmatically colored sky, I did wait, in the place where you were  expected days, nights, weeks and months passed by, years added their handiwork on my body, but my spirit, refused to fail, kept awake I traveled through the freeways of the sky, learning the art of flight, all by myself, asked the birds repeatedly about you except the time they sang how you inspire but they remained mute to my questions                                       "Fly towards east where light is" I heard a wise one say I found light at the dawn and struggled to keep it alive at night, only thinking about you,I needed the heat to survive. In the blue watery depth of the sea, I dived, heard the music of silence. It was your paens silence kept on singing, Through the fertile planes i walked, saw the corn speak of plenty. you bestow on us, the peace it brings. I wandered through the mountains and hills, the grass was green and flowers on the vines, had fragrance that reminded me your presence, ripened fruits hanging on trees spoke on the sweet love we shared. Though you were away from me and i wandered with a heart full of questions. A song bird on the tree of wish sang, it was all about your love for me, I was amazed, my weary head paused and felt peace at last, I fell in love as the hands of mountain wind caressed. In my dream you came and sat near. I was transformed, did I wake up from that ecstasy or am I still asleep,I and  you are no different.
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with my head behind a cloud thoughts ping pong around drown drown loserdom in a stip mall parking lot kicks against the curb three quarters and a fist life a near miss sweat steaming the distortions of the face cops handy mans hookers and housewives l.a., l.a. l.a. paved my brain a candy bar and a bar and a heat wave and a drawn on face l.a., l.a. l.a. paved my brain and a tic tac toe hopscotch foot tied race l.a., l.a. l.a. paved my brain to an anvil off the top of the capitol building beauty night line daytime sky sky orange high touch me somebody reach out and ***** out my stutter heart time cvrime buy buy buy not buy me anything feel me something feel what? who am i satturday or Tuesday or Noday cement pavement horse drawn nowhere freeways freeways thunder 4/5/10 219pm
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Apr 5, 2010
Apr 5, 2010 at 1:22 PM UTC
l.a., l.a. l.a. paved my brain
sleep is just a metaphor for deep dream seeking. chasing dragons & demons through a seamless sequence of events which defy all weakness with tongue in cheek & grinding teeth toward bedsheet beacons bright light beams that scream through bleak dreamscapes. but better your head than these streets & freeways..
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Feb 7, 2010
Feb 7, 2010 at 6:49 PM UTC
dreaming
of course I'd want you to come visit me in New York take the subway to off broadway make snow angles in Central Park buy overpriced latte's in the glistening rain but there are invisible bounds and I must restrain the bounds of a city then marked by footprints replaced now by loud freeways and hippies the bounds of downtown once marked by trees and spring beauties roots once tangled and over grown cemented over now by sidewalks and shows the bounds of two souls enveloped in love as friends not lovers soul mates, kind of if I move away do the bounds bend and sway or like a string break and disintegrate away
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Mar 5, 2021
Mar 5, 2021 at 2:47 AM UTC
Bounds
I am the emptiness that exists in the kitchen at such hours, late and lonely. I can operate only in this space, at night when the answers become irrelevant and the present tense becomes the past. I rely on the sporadic sounds of movement of traffic below the window. I am the scratchy sound of death cab on the Buick’s aged speakers. I claw at the insides of the aluminum and seep out through cracked windows. I shore myself against a distant past despite better judgment. I am born of the vivid summer heat. I ride the train to the loop and back out to the city’s extremities, like blood through a body. I sweat under layers of wool humidity. I am the concrete paving the boundless suburban streets. I exhale tar and forest as the rain begins to fall, long after dark, cooling the still-hot surface. I crave the tires and feet that brace themselves against me. I am the slow moving clouds at dusk, the color of tea. I ignite as the sun slouches toward the horizon. I consume the jets that depart from O’ Hare in every direction. I am familiar laughter, striking ears in palpable waves. I move most freely though vicious August heat, But even in such passive chilled air, I proceed. I careen toward what has been named peace, though it’s been forgotten over the years. I have fled the immortal city for one more ageless. I crave the smell of the death of summer. I pass into a state of suspension like the bodies that surround me, never born but built. I trace the veins and find no flesh, but only bones beneath them. I stretch willing to bridge the gaps that exist. I am the tangled freeways moving among one another in the heart of a city accused of being heartless. I am guiltless in the face of isolation. I hold blood hostage on a daily basis. I am lethargic, gold-soaked afternoons Bearing such spacious skies. I lie beneath gilded light like the lazy palm lined streets. I am the trembling airwaves, And I disarm the distance itself.
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Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012 at 10:10 PM UTC
Everything in Transit
I am the emptiness that exists in the kitchen at such hours, late and lonely. I can operate only in this space, at night when the answers become irrelevant and the present tense becomes the past. I rely on the sporadic sounds of movement of traffic below the window. I am the scratchy sound of death cab on the Buick’s aged speakers. I claw at the insides of the aluminum and seep out through cracked windows. I shore myself against a distant past despite better judgment. I am born of the vivid summer heat. I ride the train to the loop and back out to the city’s extremities, like blood through a body. I sweat under layers of wool humidity. I am the concrete paving the boundless suburban streets. I exhale tar and forest as the rain begins to fall, long after dark, cooling the still-hot surface. I crave the tires and feet that brace themselves against me. I am the slow moving clouds at dusk, the color of tea. I ignite as the sun slouches toward the horizon. I consume the jets that depart from O’ Hare in every direction. I am familiar laughter, striking ears in palpable waves. I move most freely though vicious August heat, But even in such passive chilled air, I proceed. I careen toward what has been named peace, though it’s been forgotten over the years. I have fled the immortal city for one more ageless. I crave the smell of the death of summer. I pass into a state of suspension like the bodies that surround me, never born but built. I trace the veins and find no flesh, but only bones beneath them. I stretch willing to bridge the gaps that exist. I am the tangled freeways moving among one another in the heart of a city accused of being heartless. I am guiltless in the face of isolation. I hold blood hostage on a daily basis. I am lethargic, gold-soaked afternoons Bearing such spacious skies. I lie beneath gilded light like the lazy palm lined streets. I am the trembling airwaves, And I disarm the distance itself.
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