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Preacher, don't send me when I die to some big ghetto in the sky where rats eat cats of the leopard type and Sunday brunch is grits and tripe. I've known those rats I've seen them **** and grits I've had would make a hill, or maybe a mountain, so what I need from you on Sunday is a different creed. Preacher, please don't promise me streets of gold and milk for free. I stopped all milk at four years old and once I'm dead I won't need gold. I'd call a place pure paradise where families are loyal and strangers are nice, where the music is jazz and the season is fall. Promise me that or nothing at all.
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Preacher, Don't Send Me
On the 15th of May In the French Laund-er-y There was a small man, The Chef De Partie He was mixing and stirring And stirring his sauce, But his sauce wouldn’t thicken He was at a loss So he needed to think and ponder awhile Until on his face Was a bright white smile. “I have it!” He said. “I know what to do All  that I need Is a nice thick roux.” No reductions or tomatoes Or even puree He needed the roux It was the only way So what he did next was truly “the **** He melted some butter And dumped flour in it. This mixture was gloppy And looked like wet sand The roux was ‘a cooking But looked awfully bland Morton must think How to flavor this glob Chef Tomas Keller said “Morton its your job” He thought and he thought “Oh what can I do? Bechamel or Veloute? What to do with this roux.” “Veloute I think Sounds good for today. I’ll make some of that. Chef might exclaim, “yay!” So he added some stock Of Gertrude McFuzz It was the best bird It certainly was Fond Blanc De McFuzz Was clear and not milky Morton’s Veloute Ought to be silky He cooked it awhile Maybe for one half an hour And when it began to bubble The roux showed its power. It thickened and coated The back of a spoon This stuff’s almost ready It should be done soon He strained it removing the floury bits It needed to be clean No clumpys or grits It was almost over It was just about ready It still needed some tweaking “Can’t we eat it already?!” “No” said chef Teller as he took a lick Was it good? Was it bad? Was the sauce too thick “You did a great job! Trust me, you did.” Said Teller to Morton “You did good kid” “One thing I will say That you forgot to put in It’s the most vital ingredient In the entire kitchen” “Its something that most chefs Don’t use a lot of It comes from within The spice of true love” Morton thought a bit Like he often does And then he said “Chef! That’s what it was” “It didn’t taste right It was missing its pop Its pep in its step Its fizzle. Its hop” He learned something there From Chef Thomas Teller Food needs more love It needs to be stellar After all that And in the end Morton threw it away And started again.
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Mar 8, 2013
Mar 8, 2013 at 3:40 PM UTC
Morton Makes A Roux
On the 15th of May In the French Laund-er-y There was a small man, The Chef De Partie He was mixing and stirring And stirring his sauce, But his sauce wouldn’t thicken He was at a loss So he needed to think and ponder awhile Until on his face Was a bright white smile. “I have it!” He said. “I know what to do All  that I need Is a nice thick roux.” No reductions or tomatoes Or even puree He needed the roux It was the only way So what he did next was truly “the **** He melted some butter And dumped flour in it. This mixture was gloppy And looked like wet sand The roux was ‘a cooking But looked awfully bland Morton must think How to flavor this glob Chef Tomas Keller said “Morton its your job” He thought and he thought “Oh what can I do? Bechamel or Veloute? What to do with this roux.” “Veloute I think Sounds good for today. I’ll make some of that. Chef might exclaim, “yay!” So he added some stock Of Gertrude McFuzz It was the best bird It certainly was Fond Blanc De McFuzz Was clear and not milky Morton’s Veloute Ought to be silky He cooked it awhile Maybe for one half an hour And when it began to bubble The roux showed its power. It thickened and coated The back of a spoon This stuff’s almost ready It should be done soon He strained it removing the floury bits It needed to be clean No clumpys or grits It was almost over It was just about ready It still needed some tweaking “Can’t we eat it already?!” “No” said chef Teller as he took a lick Was it good? Was it bad? Was the sauce too thick “You did a great job! Trust me, you did.” Said Teller to Morton “You did good kid” “One thing I will say That you forgot to put in It’s the most vital ingredient In the entire kitchen” “Its something that most chefs Don’t use a lot of It comes from within The spice of true love” Morton thought a bit Like he often does And then he said “Chef! That’s what it was” “It didn’t taste right It was missing its pop Its pep in its step Its fizzle. Its hop” He learned something there From Chef Thomas Teller Food needs more love It needs to be stellar After all that And in the end Morton threw it away And started again.
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Slang Or common talk Yay all knows that peoples talk funny If yous are from the south. They cut off the lights and jaw jack alls night long. If youns need to find something. We cans find it down the road a piece or maybe over yawner. So if you think I talk funny or in slang. You alls need to catch the seconds of taters and grits and pig fat. You alls come back now you hear. And yes bring granny and the boys well have a shing dig.
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Aug 17, 2014
Aug 17, 2014 at 2:24 PM UTC
slang or common talk
Go out to the tarmac shove a pig into dirt Listen to the squeal make sure it hurt Hogtie'em smack'em on the *** into the van collect'em off the street and can them in the tan Ford Transit then we off to the chop shop The ****** butchers gonna cut some cop Drag them up feet first arms tied to the side Hang em up to dry over a reservoir for the gore Cut the cartery artery while they cry no more Whats it all for, whats it all for, a long pig cookout A hairless goat bled out now its time to get guts out Bleed slows to a drip time to take a head simply twist Off it comes like pop easy as a ******* croptop Get your blade nice and sharpish cuz next on the list Is skinning a cop shave off fuzz into the slop Then drag a knife from the plexus to the **** Tie off the **** and yank the excess its painless **** up and you can try again pick another off the herd Cut up again and again plenty of pork to slaughter Almost ready for the grill party just gotta get meat ready Detach arms, halve and quarter, keep your hands steady Time to get out the coriander and chili powder Hammer with a tenderizer on the counter Cuts of steaks without any guilt, all free range As I bite into a roast I make a toast to my rage That made this deranged cookout, pig liver on toast With some grits and cornbread as the feds approach Hundred cops'll will roll on the grillmaster Hundred shots out swiss cheesed by the ******** Read in the paper a monster cop killer Killed for fighting the terror with terror
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Jun 24, 2020
Jun 24, 2020 at 11:12 PM UTC
Grill Party
Go out to the tarmac shove a pig into dirt Listen to the squeal make sure it hurt Hogtie'em smack'em on the *** into the van collect'em off the street and can them in the tan Ford Transit then we off to the chop shop The ****** butchers gonna cut some cop Drag them up feet first arms tied to the side Hang em up to dry over a reservoir for the gore Cut the cartery artery while they cry no more Whats it all for, whats it all for, a long pig cookout A hairless goat bled out now its time to get guts out Bleed slows to a drip time to take a head simply twist Off it comes like pop easy as a ******* croptop Get your blade nice and sharpish cuz next on the list Is skinning a cop shave off fuzz into the slop Then drag a knife from the plexus to the **** Tie off the **** and yank the excess its painless **** up and you can try again pick another off the herd Cut up again and again plenty of pork to slaughter Almost ready for the grill party just gotta get meat ready Detach arms, halve and quarter, keep your hands steady Time to get out the coriander and chili powder Hammer with a tenderizer on the counter Cuts of steaks without any guilt, all free range As I bite into a roast I make a toast to my rage That made this deranged cookout, pig liver on toast With some grits and cornbread as the feds approach Hundred cops'll will roll on the grillmaster Hundred shots out swiss cheesed by the ******** Read in the paper a monster cop killer Killed for fighting the terror with terror
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She bolts awake from nightmare’s fear Her mind fumbles for the mask Its visage calm, gaze cool and clear Once in place no one will ask Exhausted from her restless night Escape routes all slammed shut The knots already pulling tight Deep down inside her gut The enemy stand at their station They circle round her bed Anticipating her annihilation The demons in her head Her feet are not yet on the floor But the battle has begun Another endless day of war She must fight, she cannot run She glances quickly in the glass Haunted eyes she cannot meet The enemy charge takes the pass Her soul in forced retreat The mask will serve her well today Its rigid smile conceals The terror barely held at bay The torment that she feels She plants her banner on the mound Though hopelessness holds sway She grits her teeth and holds her ground But the ******** make her pay All day the battle rages on But the mask remains in place Though at her feet hell’s chasms yawn The world sees not a trace The conflict ebbs, her shoulders slump No victory is claimed She turns for home, trailing blood Count her among the maimed Return to camp yields no respite Command’s duties have no end Cares for her troops into the night Strength's last measure she will spend All her charges now in bed Mask in hidden place she keeps In resignation bows her head And midst the dark, in silence weeps Now when the camp lies silent In night’s hush no pennant streams She braces for coming violence And girds for bloodshed in her dreams
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Aug 24, 2018
Aug 24, 2018 at 10:27 PM UTC
Endure
She bolts awake from nightmare’s fear Her mind fumbles for the mask Its visage calm, gaze cool and clear Once in place no one will ask Exhausted from her restless night Escape routes all slammed shut The knots already pulling tight Deep down inside her gut The enemy stand at their station They circle round her bed Anticipating her annihilation The demons in her head Her feet are not yet on the floor But the battle has begun Another endless day of war She must fight, she cannot run She glances quickly in the glass Haunted eyes she cannot meet The enemy charge takes the pass Her soul in forced retreat The mask will serve her well today Its rigid smile conceals The terror barely held at bay The torment that she feels She plants her banner on the mound Though hopelessness holds sway She grits her teeth and holds her ground But the ******** make her pay All day the battle rages on But the mask remains in place Though at her feet hell’s chasms yawn The world sees not a trace The conflict ebbs, her shoulders slump No victory is claimed She turns for home, trailing blood Count her among the maimed Return to camp yields no respite Command’s duties have no end Cares for her troops into the night Strength's last measure she will spend All her charges now in bed Mask in hidden place she keeps In resignation bows her head And midst the dark, in silence weeps Now when the camp lies silent In night’s hush no pennant streams She braces for coming violence And girds for bloodshed in her dreams
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A storm, a sandstorm, a blinding sandstorm! Grits of gold inebriated with a haunted hurricane danced with a fiendish fervour in its search for identity. Glare of gold blinds, grip of greed delirates. Like a marauding butcher, slivers of gold gouged out your saneness. You danced like a possessed, with the yellow glister holding your hand to the funeral pyre  of your created destiny.
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Oct 21, 2018
Oct 21, 2018 at 12:27 PM UTC
The lost equilibrium
My heart beats with dissonance— the kind of clash that grits teeth and twists pretty faces. Still, she pulses, unforgiving, to her own imbalance, aware of her existence; aware that the definition of music is infinite, and her song will never beg to be understood.
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Mar 1, 2016
Mar 1, 2016 at 12:45 PM UTC
this tuesday feels like a broken piano
No use whistling for Lyonnesse! Sea-cold, sea-cold it certainly is. Take a look at the white, high berg on his forehead- There's where it sunk. The blue, green, Gray, indeterminate gilt Sea of his eyes washing over it And a round bubble Popping upward from the mouths of bells People and cows. The Lyonians had always thought Heaven would be something else, But with the same faces, The same places... It was not a shock- The clear, green, quite breathable atmosphere, Cold grits underfoot, And the spidery water-dazzle on field and street. It never occurred that they had been forgot, That the big God Had lazily closed one eye and let them slip Over the English cliff and under so much history! They did not see him smile, Turn, like an animal, In his cage of ether, his cage of stars. He'd had so many wars! The white gape of his mind was the real Tabula Rasa.
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Lyonnesse
I lived once ago before death Came and took my soul away My hoodie is stained with blood and ash I am so lost they worry as well To how we got to this hell I ask them stories to reclaim my brain One girl says she was on a date The man she met was nice and sweet Until it was a quarter til eight He grew very strange and became irate He pulled her to the back o no Quickly unzipped his pants to ****** She felt so much pain and shame After he stopped he drew a gun Cocked it shot her then smiled and run How horrible I thought to die like that I asked a boy no older than 6 He said he is here but don’t know why His story was like a newspaper blackeye Playing with blocks while mom cook grits The door opened up his brother walked in To give a toy that he always liked It was an army man just like his dad But then that’s when his shirt turned plaid His shirt stained with red lines all over He grew real cold his mother in tears It seemed his brothers gang life came home Two stories with endings that ached my dome As I walked past a tv I saw My truth being told to me “17 year-old walking back from school With music in ears the hood on top However his life would see a drop A man called in with a compliant And the cops came looking for a mess But found a boy who they drew at Behind his back their guns are raised 4 stop movings 0 warning shots and then Un phased they unloaded their glocks He fell another live lost.” My heart It drops now I see why the stain We are all victims of violence or fear The world just throws us away like beer I miss my mom I miss my color I miss my skin I miss my hair I miss knowing that I knew love Now I know my life was never Going to fit in this world like a Hand in a glove
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 at 7:46 PM UTC
Black teenage zombie
I lived once ago before death Came and took my soul away My hoodie is stained with blood and ash I am so lost they worry as well To how we got to this hell I ask them stories to reclaim my brain One girl says she was on a date The man she met was nice and sweet Until it was a quarter til eight He grew very strange and became irate He pulled her to the back o no Quickly unzipped his pants to ****** She felt so much pain and shame After he stopped he drew a gun Cocked it shot her then smiled and run How horrible I thought to die like that I asked a boy no older than 6 He said he is here but don’t know why His story was like a newspaper blackeye Playing with blocks while mom cook grits The door opened up his brother walked in To give a toy that he always liked It was an army man just like his dad But then that’s when his shirt turned plaid His shirt stained with red lines all over He grew real cold his mother in tears It seemed his brothers gang life came home Two stories with endings that ached my dome As I walked past a tv I saw My truth being told to me “17 year-old walking back from school With music in ears the hood on top However his life would see a drop A man called in with a compliant And the cops came looking for a mess But found a boy who they drew at Behind his back their guns are raised 4 stop movings 0 warning shots and then Un phased they unloaded their glocks He fell another live lost.” My heart It drops now I see why the stain We are all victims of violence or fear The world just throws us away like beer I miss my mom I miss my color I miss my skin I miss my hair I miss knowing that I knew love Now I know my life was never Going to fit in this world like a Hand in a glove
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The shoe won't fit...the shoe won't fit... Cinderella sits on the velvet stool. My toes won't fit...my heels won't fit... She desperately crams her foot into the shoe. The glass it burns...cool against my blood... Her curtain of locks mask her scrunched-up face. Just a little longer....just a minute more... She holds back the tears smarting in her eyes. It fits...it fits...I'll make it fit... Slowly, she gets on her own two feet. A better life...better future... She grits her teeth, walking forward, step by step, scarlet tears dripping from her mangled feet.
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Jan 20, 2015
Jan 20, 2015 at 1:42 AM UTC
Glass Slipper
We salute you, Gentlemen, And Ladies, God bless you, (He clearly has) We bless you, We support you, At par, So far, Lest you bring us all down, (That was the threat, Was it not?) You are so Wicked smart, Except those few, Who couldn't hold on, For our gravy train, To respond, For those few, We hope last year's bonus, Will help you survive, Your trip down the tubes, (Sigh) And for all, We are led to believe, That you're back on your feet, And doing quite well, We were glad to help out, Your derivative pleasure, Just makes our hearts soar, And to help you to help The economy heal, We're taxing your janitors More than your managers 'Cause we know you're the source Of all job creation, Within this great nation, How do we know this? Well, We've been told this Been told by some very fine folk, Some folk whom you... own? For sure there are doubters, But we question their wisdom, We don't even think that They're being good citizens, But there are some suspicions, My well heeled good friends, That what's good for you folk, Might be just a bit toxic, To those of us few, Who compose, That diminishing remnant, Of what once we could call, The vast middle class, Today, We ain't even, Half vast. Sad to say, Now a few of us wonder, If you're not quite our friends, If you don't have our best int'rests In your schemes and your ends, All of those yachts, They're critical – right? We believe in you now, To make every thing bright, To bring our economy Back from the dead, To create all those jobs, With that barely taxed bread, So, While we're eatin' those grits, In this world that you've made, With the pols that you've bought, Just Remember my friends, Rot infects not just wood, But your hearts and your souls, And the Fire Next Time Might be more than a book It might be unhappy folk, With your ***** in their sights.
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Oct 6, 2011
Oct 6, 2011 at 9:40 PM UTC
Homage to Our Investment Bankers
We salute you, Gentlemen, And Ladies, God bless you, (He clearly has) We bless you, We support you, At par, So far, Lest you bring us all down, (That was the threat, Was it not?) You are so Wicked smart, Except those few, Who couldn't hold on, For our gravy train, To respond, For those few, We hope last year's bonus, Will help you survive, Your trip down the tubes, (Sigh) And for all, We are led to believe, That you're back on your feet, And doing quite well, We were glad to help out, Your derivative pleasure, Just makes our hearts soar, And to help you to help The economy heal, We're taxing your janitors More than your managers 'Cause we know you're the source Of all job creation, Within this great nation, How do we know this? Well, We've been told this Been told by some very fine folk, Some folk whom you... own? For sure there are doubters, But we question their wisdom, We don't even think that They're being good citizens, But there are some suspicions, My well heeled good friends, That what's good for you folk, Might be just a bit toxic, To those of us few, Who compose, That diminishing remnant, Of what once we could call, The vast middle class, Today, We ain't even, Half vast. Sad to say, Now a few of us wonder, If you're not quite our friends, If you don't have our best int'rests In your schemes and your ends, All of those yachts, They're critical – right? We believe in you now, To make every thing bright, To bring our economy Back from the dead, To create all those jobs, With that barely taxed bread, So, While we're eatin' those grits, In this world that you've made, With the pols that you've bought, Just Remember my friends, Rot infects not just wood, But your hearts and your souls, And the Fire Next Time Might be more than a book It might be unhappy folk, With your ***** in their sights.
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Gitano yawned, stretching out under the shrine of Öli. Here he plotted and hid a mouthful of secrets; and the Lord watched over him as he slept. He plotted, for coyote wisdom is disguised by folly and cunning and guile. All about, the vermilion stain of Mars. The coyote chuckled mischievously, dreaming at the feet of the Master and Judge. Above, a ziggurat raised to the Goddess. Two great black eagles circled in a sky of dry roses and lilacs. La Santisima Muerte stood at a distance, yet bore Gitano in Her ***** His mischiefs were scribed upon a cartouche to amuse gods and teach men; Yet men are not so easily taught as gods are amused; For men have not yet learned to believe what makes them laugh. And so Gitano sleeps, and talks while he sleeps; wherefore the Ways of mischief and trickery were laid bare. The secret is to teach at the expense of innocence. Certain illusions persist; they must be shattered, but their thrall can only be broken by design. Whether bitterness takes root in the wake of the shattering is not Gitano's concern. Because sometimes realization can only come through being made a fool, revealed to ourselves as absurd. Angry at our own foolishness, we blame the one who denudes it. The coyote, too, is a Fool. A Fool can learn, shaping destiny by taking responsibility. Through death a Fool becomes wise, seeing the joke. The burden of karma is left to those who cannot laugh. Man grits his teeth, his brow furrowed. He despairs. Gitano chuckles, unperturbed.
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 3:57 PM UTC
Coyote
Gitano yawned, stretching out under the shrine of Öli. Here he plotted and hid a mouthful of secrets; and the Lord watched over him as he slept. He plotted, for coyote wisdom is disguised by folly and cunning and guile. All about, the vermilion stain of Mars. The coyote chuckled mischievously, dreaming at the feet of the Master and Judge. Above, a ziggurat raised to the Goddess. Two great black eagles circled in a sky of dry roses and lilacs. La Santisima Muerte stood at a distance, yet bore Gitano in Her ***** His mischiefs were scribed upon a cartouche to amuse gods and teach men; Yet men are not so easily taught as gods are amused; For men have not yet learned to believe what makes them laugh. And so Gitano sleeps, and talks while he sleeps; wherefore the Ways of mischief and trickery were laid bare. The secret is to teach at the expense of innocence. Certain illusions persist; they must be shattered, but their thrall can only be broken by design. Whether bitterness takes root in the wake of the shattering is not Gitano's concern. Because sometimes realization can only come through being made a fool, revealed to ourselves as absurd. Angry at our own foolishness, we blame the one who denudes it. The coyote, too, is a Fool. A Fool can learn, shaping destiny by taking responsibility. Through death a Fool becomes wise, seeing the joke. The burden of karma is left to those who cannot laugh. Man grits his teeth, his brow furrowed. He despairs. Gitano chuckles, unperturbed.
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I remember how that Puxatony dirt felt between my fingers. Gritty and cold – the earth that covers  graves. Falling from my palm, landing at his paws, he curled around my leg, shivering. Against my ankle, he rested his long ears. Polaroids of a mothers chew-toy earrings; memories of March spent playing in ***** backyards, forests, and playgrounds. We shivered together, in the heat of Spring, with gritty rock-filled driveways underneath our paws. Lives, those playful daisies sprouting from gravel, that we ate day by day; pushing graves down out of mind, but spilling from our ears. The summer wrought steel cages to grip awe, with training meant, bent to destroy dirt kept caked on worn-out sandals. Grits scooped off a breakfast plate to a shivering dachshund. His collar jingled, shimmering as it clashed against his bowl. Cold gravy and dry cat food, with textured scents. Gritty, furry, and harsh. Ears dipped in water bowls finding the only bath of the month, clearing dirt from a death in the family. Soft, unknowing paws treaded with grace, and a parentless pause as we crumbled. Directionless grief shivered the big men with their shrunken hearts, ***** from a three-hour drenching sob at the grave. But love is not measured by the size of loss - it is made of highs and lows; rough and gritty. Seven pounds of compassion weighs with gridded precision on my chest. Those tiny paws, batting at my heart. Soft, two-times-too-large ears crying with us and pleading through shivers to enjoy everything. Now your graves are dug together - between you only a foot of dirt. Gritty reality seeps in from shivering fiction. Your paws on your own grave, I place my ear to the dirt, and whimper.
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Nov 27, 2011
Nov 27, 2011 at 11:24 AM UTC
Rough
I remember how that Puxatony dirt felt between my fingers. Gritty and cold – the earth that covers  graves. Falling from my palm, landing at his paws, he curled around my leg, shivering. Against my ankle, he rested his long ears. Polaroids of a mothers chew-toy earrings; memories of March spent playing in ***** backyards, forests, and playgrounds. We shivered together, in the heat of Spring, with gritty rock-filled driveways underneath our paws. Lives, those playful daisies sprouting from gravel, that we ate day by day; pushing graves down out of mind, but spilling from our ears. The summer wrought steel cages to grip awe, with training meant, bent to destroy dirt kept caked on worn-out sandals. Grits scooped off a breakfast plate to a shivering dachshund. His collar jingled, shimmering as it clashed against his bowl. Cold gravy and dry cat food, with textured scents. Gritty, furry, and harsh. Ears dipped in water bowls finding the only bath of the month, clearing dirt from a death in the family. Soft, unknowing paws treaded with grace, and a parentless pause as we crumbled. Directionless grief shivered the big men with their shrunken hearts, ***** from a three-hour drenching sob at the grave. But love is not measured by the size of loss - it is made of highs and lows; rough and gritty. Seven pounds of compassion weighs with gridded precision on my chest. Those tiny paws, batting at my heart. Soft, two-times-too-large ears crying with us and pleading through shivers to enjoy everything. Now your graves are dug together - between you only a foot of dirt. Gritty reality seeps in from shivering fiction. Your paws on your own grave, I place my ear to the dirt, and whimper.
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You are the dab of butter melting in my morning grits. The incessant flicker from the candles glowing in my room. You’re in that glass, the golden dancer of bubbles tingling my nose and mouth. As I approach that stop sign, you’ll be that blinding bus, at each street corner, stealing my time even years after graduation. Remembering as I do, you. The highlighter that lit up my life. So bold, and so brilliant. Forget the other paragraphs, yours were the only words that mattered. It wasn’t until early on a Tuesday the daily shift to morning from night. Allowing a bright sun to greet us as the moon planned its escape. There you were, a stranger in my bed Like a yolk surprise, cracked before my eyes, I finally saw your true colors
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Jan 9, 2013
Jan 9, 2013 at 5:28 PM UTC
disappointment
1. Go under water and breathe in. 2. Take your dinner knife and push it through your heart. Slowly. 3. Open up your skull, and fill it with bees. Dance around a bit to aggravate them. 4. Stare into the sun without blinking. 5. Stick your tongue to a stop sign pole when the temperature is below zero. 6. Walk across a fire pit. Hell, just stand still in the middle. 7. Run as fast as you can and hit the corner of your counter with your hip bones. 8. Bite on your lower lip until it bleeds. 9. Lie on the ground and have someone put rocks onto your chest. 10. Pour grits on the floor and kneel upon them. You'll bleed some, but that's okay. 10. Go outside during an autumn evening with a sweatshirt on. Do you feel that breeze? 9. Read the Bible and wonder why God didn't tell anyone to write a book solely about you. 8. Play with children. 7. Stay up late and watch your favorite shows under thick blankets and pillows. 6. Put up Christmas lights and turn off all the others and think of how happy you were in every Christmas you've ever had. 5. Go to your local ball park and catch a game. 4. Look at how the stars match the same constellations in your eyes. 3. Go camping and wake up early. Make sure you make hot chocolate and fried potatoes and wear a hoody the whole trip. 2. Read poetry and sit at the ocean. 1. Fall in love with yourself too.
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Nov 14, 2013
Nov 14, 2013 at 10:30 PM UTC
If you want to try an understand how it feels to love you.
Dish on it gwib **** on my bib From the bib dribbled a slibular fib A glandular **** A rugged soghard A pish-po-dish get it wet Pish po dib, gwib, flib flippy pippy whip slick The tick slipped wicked from the slippy drib Michael Jordan basketball New Kix, Box of Got it three-ninety-nine in the aisle Put it on the box of it did it Why didn't I do it? Did it. Sock hard the block guard The twiss'ed grits
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Aug 25, 2011
Aug 25, 2011 at 8:37 PM UTC
Dish on it Gwib
I worry about you, boo. I worry that you are alone                   in a dark room like a prison cell rats running over the floor disease grits for every meal dirt in every crevice cold toes.                         I worry about you. I worry that you are alone with no one beside you to comfort you. I want to pick up the phone and call              I worry too much or perhaps never enough
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Oct 9, 2011
Oct 9, 2011 at 11:25 PM UTC
worry
There is a stirring in my chest, an elation I will not and cannot resist. There was once a moment where all of life stood still and my feet grew heavy barren heavy. Completely empty and ready to fall. There is a fire down below where the depths of sight can’t grow. It still feeds off my worried brain like a fetus planted hover-vein. The Venus Fly Trap sets its will spiked teeth ready, for the **** There is a place where spider webs and crawling things fit for nub ebb. All my flagrant floppy body deteriorates, demotivates, deregulates into a monster of the fiendish kind one where holographic glass goes blind. there is a feed that ***** in silt it still eats grits, their shiny pelt slimy, sloshes, ready, in frigid waters’ under-grin. Come follow me, dear Venus Trap into a submarine unsnap there is a blooming in my groin where dead things lay there shivering.
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Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 10:35 PM UTC
Venus Fly Trap
The sun dips over the horizon. Beginning its' rise. Alarm 1... Grudgingly greeted With a fist. Alarm 2... Mama waking me. 3... Me waking you. Early morning songbirds whistling their tune. Gospel dimly transient from the far let room. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, and grits on the stove. OJ and milk sits for the kids, While coffee brews for the adults. Early morning chatter. Sounds like shoe laces and belt buckles. Tooth brushes and hair brushes Frantic in pace. Traffic Back and forth, up and down While we, Barely awake. White Cadillacs, Lincoln's, and Oldsmobiles With the beige and burgundy rag tops. Reminds me of Granny's car. 4 in the back 3 in the front. With room to spare. Red lights and stop signs. Peppermints and tootsie rolls. Meijer. So we're halfway there. Slanted park job in the lot. High heels and Stacy Adams Clash the cement. Like soldiers We march in Just in time for praise. Cheerful smiles and warm greetings. Some real. Some fake. We sit. And now We pray. Thank you Lord For this day. The sun is up Such as our faith. Our health is good Our love is strong So thank you Lord For this lasting bond. We nap. We chat. We clap. We praise. We jump. We shout. We cry. We raise And benedict. Home for dinner. *** roast and corn. Sweet potatoes and greens. Kids playful in their youth Adults lively in their jeans. We sit. Thank you for this food We are about to receive For the nourishment of our bodies In Jesus' name We pray. Amen. We eat and enjoy each others company No conversation needed. Just the sound of good food. The feeling of love. The sun Setting in the window. It's almost time for rest. I can't wait until next Sunday. The weekend might be over But the love, The memories Are the best I've ever had.
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Feb 24, 2013
Feb 24, 2013 at 11:06 PM UTC
Sunday
The sun dips over the horizon. Beginning its' rise. Alarm 1... Grudgingly greeted With a fist. Alarm 2... Mama waking me. 3... Me waking you. Early morning songbirds whistling their tune. Gospel dimly transient from the far let room. Pancakes, eggs, bacon, and grits on the stove. OJ and milk sits for the kids, While coffee brews for the adults. Early morning chatter. Sounds like shoe laces and belt buckles. Tooth brushes and hair brushes Frantic in pace. Traffic Back and forth, up and down While we, Barely awake. White Cadillacs, Lincoln's, and Oldsmobiles With the beige and burgundy rag tops. Reminds me of Granny's car. 4 in the back 3 in the front. With room to spare. Red lights and stop signs. Peppermints and tootsie rolls. Meijer. So we're halfway there. Slanted park job in the lot. High heels and Stacy Adams Clash the cement. Like soldiers We march in Just in time for praise. Cheerful smiles and warm greetings. Some real. Some fake. We sit. And now We pray. Thank you Lord For this day. The sun is up Such as our faith. Our health is good Our love is strong So thank you Lord For this lasting bond. We nap. We chat. We clap. We praise. We jump. We shout. We cry. We raise And benedict. Home for dinner. *** roast and corn. Sweet potatoes and greens. Kids playful in their youth Adults lively in their jeans. We sit. Thank you for this food We are about to receive For the nourishment of our bodies In Jesus' name We pray. Amen. We eat and enjoy each others company No conversation needed. Just the sound of good food. The feeling of love. The sun Setting in the window. It's almost time for rest. I can't wait until next Sunday. The weekend might be over But the love, The memories Are the best I've ever had.
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How I retry Backside Pen Slide Lyrics spirits quips glide Elbows Shins Blood Blot Dried When Wind Blows Wicked Words Rise Idioms Soul Grind Infinite rails Applied Thoughts Ollie Pop Manual quill Pipe bomb Ultra Stick Ink Drips 360 Plot Shov-it Twist Push Kick I Pedal Prose Skate Tricks, Morphemes Stick. Perpetual Pendulums Prop People to Place Peckers in Potato Grits Times Up!
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May 27, 2015
May 27, 2015 at 2:38 PM UTC
How I Blew It, Up! (Skatepark Poet)
Maggie was my mother, my emotional mother. She came into my life when I was in third grade. She and her husband, Floyd, lived in the apartment on the third floor of our house. My biological mother was too depressed to be my emotional mother. She spent every afternoon taking a nap from 1 to 4:30 and watched TV by herself in the living room from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., then went upstairs to her own bedroom and read detective paperbacks until about 3 a.m. So Maggie always fixed breakfast--two poached eggs, grits, and two toasted and buttered slices of wholewheat bread--for me every morning as I grew up. Maggie also washed my ***** clothes, spanked me when I need a spanking, and hugged me when I needed a huge. I have never forgotten the time when Maggie (I have no memory of my biological mother ever being in my bedroom when I was in it) brought me lunch when I was sick in bed with a cold, along with an ice-cold bottle of Squirt. I remember loving the taste of Squirt, which, for some unknown reason, I had never tasted it before, nor was I ever going to taste it again. Many, many times I would go up to the apartment around dinner time when Floyd had gotten home from working at the Santa Fe shops, knock on their door, and invariably Maggie would say "Come in," even as she was cooking dinner for Floyd and herself, because she knew it was Tod. I sat with Floyd at their small kitchen table and talked to him about, among other things, who we each thought was the better center fielder, Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle. I felt at home with Maggie and Floyd. The two took my two sisters and me on occasion to the drive-in to see a movie in their old car. What fun! Maggie, a Black who had grown up in racist southern Texas, was illiterate, but I was not conscious of it when I was so young, and when I got older and knew Maggie couldn't read or write, it didn't matter to me at all. Maggie could love! That was the important thing. I always felt loved when I was with Maggie. And Floyd, even though he thought Mays was better than Mantle, remained my friend for along time after Maggie had passed away. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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Apr 24, 2023
Apr 24, 2023 at 12:28 AM UTC
MAGGIE
Maggie was my mother, my emotional mother. She came into my life when I was in third grade. She and her husband, Floyd, lived in the apartment on the third floor of our house. My biological mother was too depressed to be my emotional mother. She spent every afternoon taking a nap from 1 to 4:30 and watched TV by herself in the living room from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., then went upstairs to her own bedroom and read detective paperbacks until about 3 a.m. So Maggie always fixed breakfast--two poached eggs, grits, and two toasted and buttered slices of wholewheat bread--for me every morning as I grew up. Maggie also washed my ***** clothes, spanked me when I need a spanking, and hugged me when I needed a huge. I have never forgotten the time when Maggie (I have no memory of my biological mother ever being in my bedroom when I was in it) brought me lunch when I was sick in bed with a cold, along with an ice-cold bottle of Squirt. I remember loving the taste of Squirt, which, for some unknown reason, I had never tasted it before, nor was I ever going to taste it again. Many, many times I would go up to the apartment around dinner time when Floyd had gotten home from working at the Santa Fe shops, knock on their door, and invariably Maggie would say "Come in," even as she was cooking dinner for Floyd and herself, because she knew it was Tod. I sat with Floyd at their small kitchen table and talked to him about, among other things, who we each thought was the better center fielder, Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle. I felt at home with Maggie and Floyd. The two took my two sisters and me on occasion to the drive-in to see a movie in their old car. What fun! Maggie, a Black who had grown up in racist southern Texas, was illiterate, but I was not conscious of it when I was so young, and when I got older and knew Maggie couldn't read or write, it didn't matter to me at all. Maggie could love! That was the important thing. I always felt loved when I was with Maggie. And Floyd, even though he thought Mays was better than Mantle, remained my friend for along time after Maggie had passed away. TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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I can't dream if it's from this closet Every thing I want to do just sounds so god **** pompous I talk about what I want to do and everybody thinks I've lost it I'm on the radar, but I'm the darkest blip Walking the plank on purpose, S.S. **** you, I'm off this ship I feel like I've finally got it, and of course then I've lost it I write a masterpiece, "hey where's the follow up?" Like me and my girl jinxin the future with a prenup 'Oh you know we just trying to be safe,' right ***** let's marry up this **** then You can take it all just split them assets Get me bent with no price or rent See I ain't tryna get around just tryna win this Can't seem to get to the top when I'm the only one in the bracket Try to be a team player, but my teams full of ******* I'm Harry Potter ***** imma smash that *** like quidditch I gonna hit that pinata, till the cash flow get me riches I talk ***** but I miss the way you talk British, you a fit birdy, girl I eat my grits, but I ain't really eating till after we're flirty, girl Take you to the back room, pour some wine and then some feelings, watch some mad men and tell you bout my last girl I said I like the way you talk to me but I think I just like how I can talk to you You're an outlet, and I'm plugging, your sticking around, but you should know I'm just thuggin And maybe I just say the ***** things I say to mask my potential under promiscuity cause I got a real problem promising myself I'll solve my problems too (I'd never admit it though) See that's just something me and my crew do I guess it masks all the little ***** blues 'fake cries' During this poem I think I grew three inches for you   In my heart See it's so easy to gravitate to you like your the sun and I'm Mercury, I'm too close and you're burning me alive, but I can't pull myself apart, girl it'll never work We can't stop Miley, that's melancholy for sure (but keep the twerk) You make me feel like Frank Sinatra, and I can't even sing So **** confident, you let me discover myself, I'm deep, I can feel, I'm Mike Tyson, Kung Pao chicken, I bring it all to the ring All these little kids on the streets learning how to *** from me 'like fricken' The thought of you got me sick to the stomach, it's sticking .. Too bad you're just a god **** fling
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 11:40 PM UTC
Confidence as big as how big I think I am.
I can't dream if it's from this closet Every thing I want to do just sounds so god **** pompous I talk about what I want to do and everybody thinks I've lost it I'm on the radar, but I'm the darkest blip Walking the plank on purpose, S.S. **** you, I'm off this ship I feel like I've finally got it, and of course then I've lost it I write a masterpiece, "hey where's the follow up?" Like me and my girl jinxin the future with a prenup 'Oh you know we just trying to be safe,' right ***** let's marry up this **** then You can take it all just split them assets Get me bent with no price or rent See I ain't tryna get around just tryna win this Can't seem to get to the top when I'm the only one in the bracket Try to be a team player, but my teams full of ******* I'm Harry Potter ***** imma smash that *** like quidditch I gonna hit that pinata, till the cash flow get me riches I talk ***** but I miss the way you talk British, you a fit birdy, girl I eat my grits, but I ain't really eating till after we're flirty, girl Take you to the back room, pour some wine and then some feelings, watch some mad men and tell you bout my last girl I said I like the way you talk to me but I think I just like how I can talk to you You're an outlet, and I'm plugging, your sticking around, but you should know I'm just thuggin And maybe I just say the ***** things I say to mask my potential under promiscuity cause I got a real problem promising myself I'll solve my problems too (I'd never admit it though) See that's just something me and my crew do I guess it masks all the little ***** blues 'fake cries' During this poem I think I grew three inches for you   In my heart See it's so easy to gravitate to you like your the sun and I'm Mercury, I'm too close and you're burning me alive, but I can't pull myself apart, girl it'll never work We can't stop Miley, that's melancholy for sure (but keep the twerk) You make me feel like Frank Sinatra, and I can't even sing So **** confident, you let me discover myself, I'm deep, I can feel, I'm Mike Tyson, Kung Pao chicken, I bring it all to the ring All these little kids on the streets learning how to *** from me 'like fricken' The thought of you got me sick to the stomach, it's sticking .. Too bad you're just a god **** fling
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Biscuit and sorghum syrup happy faces with Georgia peach butter and blackberry muffins , childhood favorites that tickle the palette ! For a bag of Fall persimmons , a handful of roasted pecans I would gladly cross the Alcovy River naked as a jaybird ! Rutabagas , turnips and cracklin cornbread would be my staple of choice if marooned on an island , a Frosty Root beer and mothers egg custard ! Peach ice cream and scuppernong jelly , fig preserves and tomato gravy ! Columbus grits and Claxton fruitcake , Vidalia onion rings , Elijay apples ! In my next life I relish the very thought of becoming a Cardinal , turned loose in a muscadine arbor ! The most heart stopping  , meanest scarecrow ever made would be no match for a wise old crow in a watermelon patch ! Mockingbird busy in a old plum tree , a honeybee in a clover field as far as the eye can see !
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM UTC
Southern Sweets
Ok, let me see, where to start? Ah ha! Fav color-black Fav flower-tiger lily Fav season- spring Fav activity-anything creative Fav book-all books tht I've read Hair-brown, medium length Eyes-hazel (blue when really happy) Height-5' 7" Skin-lightly tan Dislikes-rude/mean people extremely cold weather baked beans grits Fav music-country(but I like all genres) Fav song-undecided Likes-sincereness animals Fav animal-snake I don't know what else to put about me, oh well
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Jan 6, 2015
Jan 6, 2015 at 10:17 PM UTC
This is my bio