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Tara Tags Mar 2018
cut glass
warm whiskey
and shards of my throat
scratched cd’s
looping song lyrics
and numb background noise
get used to the soft sounds
grating
get used to the pitch
ringing
when the rest of the world
   is silent
shush
hisss
please
don't wish
beds become harder
floors become softer
but it’s really all the same
my eyes are swollen
puffy, half open
all the time
all the same
windows to the soul
fogged up from too many people
rubbing and running
their hands all over
what’s not theirs to touch
and they don’t even realize
contact
brushing
absentmindedly touching
not just breaking
leaves glass
shards in my throat
it’s a time of hunger
and of plague
and of starling
the grasshoppers ate up the wheat
the water has another color
can’t be drunk
the children go to someone else’s doors
knock
but they do not answer them
and speak there
behind one crooked tree
something they speak
hisss the wind
that one at least knew
that he was tested
they were staying and speaking to him
even he was seeing
people
sticking needles
under the nails
but you have arms
both left one
and right one
and wrists
and fingers
and a hole

ignite your skin
the wind is from bellow

The original:

вятърът

това е време на глад
и на мор
и на тръгване
скакалците изядоха житото
водата има друг цвят
не може да се пие
децата ходят по чужди врати
тропат
но не им отварят
а говорят там
зад едно криво дърво
нещо говорят
съъъъ вятърът
онзи поне знаеше
че го изпитват
стояха и му говореха
дори виждаше
хора
да мушкат игли
под ноктите
а ти имаш ръце
и лява
и дясна
и китки
и пръсти
и дупка

запали кожата си
вятърът е отдолу


Translator Bulgarian-English: Vessislava Savova
rarebird
© bogpan - all rights reserved.
It's not hard to enter a house quietly
in the dark
when weary
and drunk
with beer cans
swinging in a bag
clunk, clunk, clunk,
and a takeaway box
awkwardly tucked under one arm
while teeth
clamp keys
on a ring
jingle, jingle-ling.
When you have to hold up the wall
in case it should fall
and the light switch
mysteriously
shifted further and further along.
And you can't escape the tune,
but forget the name of the song
something like
“la-de-la-la da-dum, dum ****”
It's not hard to enter a house quietly
in the dark
when you live alone,
But,
If you don't
others will soon bawl
shout
and moan
“Will yah, keep it down;
what time d'you call this?”
It's then you find yourself giggling
at a joke
just understood
...hisss—sss-sss s....sss....s.
memories of times long gone,
the mornings were a *****
Big Virge Dec 2019
Immigrants THIS And Immigrants THAT ... !!!
    
All This Government Talk's Helping Hatred SOAR ... !!!!!    
      
Meantime They KEEP ON ... !!!!!    
Making Plans And Setting ... "TRAPS" ... !!!    
      
We've Already Been Fed THE …. ” Internet "….    
      
Now It's ... " TV SHOWS " …    
Where CASH Is The GOAL .... !!!!!    
      
“For a cheap rate call,    
you could earn yourself, a cash windfall !”    
      
I Suppose They're Designed ...    
By … " IMMIGRANT MINDS " … !?!    
      
Take A Minute And ……….. ” THINK ” …………..    
Because Immigrants AREN'T The ... " WEAKEST LINK ” ... !!!!!    
      
Many Immigrants Yup DO NEED A Shrink …..    
Because of LIES And ... " Colonial Tricks " ... !!!    
      
” So Let’s Get This Straight !!?!! ”    
      
It's Okay To ... " ENSLAVE " … !!?!!  
      
But When It Comes To IMMIGRANTS ...    
Who ... USE THEIR BRAINS ... !!!!!!    
We're Deemed To Be A Waste of Space … ?!?    
      
And Like The ... ” INSANE ” ...    
Should Join The CRIMINALS And Be LOCKED AWAY ... ?!?    
      
Okay That's Cool ... !!!    
But Let Me Air MY VIEW ... !!!!!    
      
Immigrants Who Choose To Break Life's Rules …..    
Are A DANGER TO ME Like They Are To ... YOU ... !!!!    
      
I Believe They SHOULD BE LOCKED UP TOO … !!!!!!!!    
      
But DON’T Just .......................................... Ignore ... !!!    
Suited GENTLEMEN Who Keep Passing Laws ...    
That Are CLEARLY FLAWED And Cause PROBLEMS ... !!!    
      
It's EASY TO ATTACK ...
New Immigrant HOARDS … !!!    
Instead of Knocking On Doors ...
of The COMMONS or The LORDS ... !!!    
      
And Doors Where Men Make ….. ” INVESTMENTS ” …..    
For Themselves AND Their RICH FRIENDS … !!!!!    
      
I’m An IMMIGRANT Well ... The Son of One ... !!!    

Who Broke NO LAWS ...      
As Far As I Know ABSOLUTELY NONE ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!    
But He's Still A SECOND CLASS Citizen ... !!!    
      
He's A Man of Medicine ...    
Whose Wife Was A TEACHER And A Nurse ... !!!    
    
In Other Words A WORKING Mum ... !!!!!    
      
Until SICKNESS  … Reduced Her Fitness ... !!!    
      
See Some Immigrants Are FAR From DUMB ... !!!!!    
We're NOT ALL Criminals On The RUN …………………. !!!!!    
      
I DON'T Give A **** About WHAT YOU SAY ……      
Who The Hell Are The English ... ANYWAY … !!???!!    
      
A Breed Who PREYED On IMMIGRANT SLAVES ... ??!!!??    
To Bring Them Here For A ... Minimum Wage … !!!    
And To TOLERATE ... IGNORANT Race Hate ... !!!!!    
      
While Aristocrats KEEP HOLD of CASH ... !!!!!    
And KEYS TO CHAINS From COLONIAL Days … ?!?!?    
      
“Ahhhh but that’s okay !    
Old boy, I say, these darkies' still have got no shame !    
Let’s flush them down the drain again !”    
      
Well I Have To Say They've Got A CHEEK … !!!!!    
To Sit And Complain When The Home Office Seems …    
To Have Made Mistakes With Immigrants They …    
SHOULD OF ... "LOCKED Away" ... !!!?!!!    
      
And What About Those of Different Strains …    
South Africans, Aussies And Americans ... PLEASE ... !!!    
Let Me Take A Guess They're ALL Crime Free ... !?!    
      
Can Someone PLEASE Explain To Me How This CAN BE ... !???!    
      
When Those Who Are of The DIPLOMAT CLASS ...    
REFUSE To Pay The … “ Congestion Charge ” ... !!!!!!    
      
And There Seems To Be A RISE In Afrikaaner' Bars …..    
And The Aussies DON'T Seem To Have Gone TOO FAR … !!?!!    
      
It's Okay For THEM To Be ….. IMMIGRANTS  ….. !!?!!    
Because In Truth They're REALLY ENGLISHMEN !!!!!    
So Why Were They Sent From ... ENGLISH Prisons … ?!?    
      
Are They NOT DESCENDANTS of CRIMINAL Men .. ?!?    
      
MURDERERS, RAPISTS And ******* TYPES ...  !!!!?!!!!    
      
Who Knows What They've Done To Australias' Sheep .... !?!    
... Aussie Immigrants England CAN KEEP ... !!!!!    
      
I’m JOKING Folks Just Like Mr. Manning And J.D. ...      
Jim Davidson Remember ... " CHALKY ” … !!!!!    
      
So DON'T Even TRY To Pick FIGHTS WITH ME ... !!!    
You NEED TO CHECK Your  … ” Hisss-Story ” … !!!!!!!!    
      
From COMEDY To INDUSTRY …..    
To Simply Walking English Streets ... !!!!!!    
And Let's NOT SPEAK About … " POLICE " … !!!!    
      
If We're Not ATTACKED You Claim To Like Blacks ...    
But Then Call Us Names Behind Our Backs ... ?!?    
      
That's How Things Are ... !!!!    
And In MY OPINION This Is FACT ... !!!!!    
      
Which Is Why IT SEEMS The Record IS .... STUC- KKK .……………………………………….    
Back On That Track …… OF ………….    
      
" IMMIGRANTS THIS And IMMIGRANTS THAT... "
An old piece written long before the current trend of UKIP type parties, and anti-immigrant groups, who are gathering support across Europe, SMH !!!

Yawn YAWN ... !!!
Peace y’all and cut the IGNORANCE OUT ! Humanity is ALL OF US  !
Nobody should see themselves as being, more worthy, or, superior to anyone else, because that simply is some F’ing ….. BULLCHIT !

STOP ALL THIS DIVIDING & TRY UNIFYING !
Andlib Farid Feb 2017
When i see a kid laughing
When i feel my heartbeat
When my room is in mess
i feel happy ness
When i find my lost wallet
When i see my thesis going
When i feel rosy freshness
i feel happy ness
When i hear plane's grrr
When i hear cat's purr
When i listen snake's hisss
i feel happy ness
Happiness is in the air
Happy ness is everywhere
No one can make you happy
Except you
I need to understand the meaning of happiness
Stella Stardust Jan 2017
Coiled gleaming, foiled scales
Cross the scathing desert sands
A gaping no mans land
An S shaped slither, Slides
The night quivers as it glides

How the spine does mesmerize
To prey that see those eyes
The fate of a torturous demise,
Dragged around and swaddled
Up up down and swallowed

Evil sounds it makes a hisss
a kisss of death upon ussss
Keeps usss honessst lisssten
Dart to see that armor glissten
Behind yellow eyes to scales so twisssted
Ken Pepiton May 2023
Fulfilled ideal of the Law,
Torah, Mishna, Prophets, et all.

Fulfilled, point per point
In the Beginning, that which was,
the logos,
self developing
ethos and pathos enclosed, within
the being bubble in which all things
have their particular peculiar beings,
beginnings
as mindsets useful or not
trying
the spirit and truth realm

wherein, ein wo, one where,
first where, wherein we make up stuff

and think of daring to offer it up,
to the unity with in and out and in and
out, we feel a kind of pistoning pressure

and, sigh, hisss, let loose, leave go,

passing wish to hold a hope, then that
confident substance, asks, automatic,

as when in the spirit and truth realm,
one knows when one knows, time
is fluid, it flows, faster in skinny places,
slower in wide life rich swampy places,

in the body, at scale, next phase,
announcing the Dewey Standard Model,
NEW and Improved Leadership Development

In the 2023 Commencement Oration, in
or out of the body, as that which we become
when we each agree to form a more perfect
union, base pair coupling cotter-key security

pact, we all pull one direction, correctal, core
rect. Per fect. Per se, per use, definitive agreed
agreeing minds, in fact come to pass, as active
in use
as spiritual true
any things, we agree is real, as
- that power was not taken away,
- it was hidden by the tyrant's mouthpiece.
The liar in us, cheeky rascal, Pan, Roadrunner,
Olde Delusive Bent - makem all think that.

Heroes are essential lies, guardian
depression prevention, ancient spells,
sealed in the spirit of the bayonet, once,
never unget that umph, you feel it,
clencher, seals the deal, you
get your **** together and
rethink the post win state.
Mirror neuron dream dopamine
real as many a child's exemplars
- suffer such to come to me,
- their connection never breaks.
- Trust - rest in truth, don't say
- I know, lightly and not be called
- upon in your patience, to prove it.

Guide me, guide, follow me, child,
we are off and on again in terms a child
can feel adult enough to use without ex-
cessive ewing and muttering at ph'art'saches

work done happily is a blessing indeed.
Ai, can't say when we met Barry Rudd,
he was just a kid's idea in the Univac era.

Tom Sawyer was in us all,
by the time we chose,
am I gonna work, or watch other people work,
or go all in Huck Finn, with Kesey on top,
and the Weavers great notion taken
while singing Good Night, Eirene, good night?
Last verse often is the first in reverse.
The way we sang it. Dang, did I ruin it?

Three rivers come
to be this one, there's Lethos,
and Meander, and the Hasayampa, make this
stretch
to the ocean
by and by, become. Becoming
the actual course of human events,
for you and me, as particles,
in the medial mindtimespace, reading
agreeing we all-in states of wedom,
no dominion declaring unbelievable, what
bet me we cain't negate some able mind, ops
super positioning mindful breathers, reading us- all symbolic as **** Tracy
thought bubbles in the quantum foam
belch
anti-causa sui inside out
gaseous we formation,
passing free
- take a whiff… lavender
- blue
Group Think Capable Tools, as handy as thumbs.
-snap anew anon developing
discomplexity along an ancient crease…

The modern uses are figurative and emerged
in English 18c. and after:
Transitive meaning
"unfold more fully, bring out the potential in"
is by 1750;
intransitive sense
"come gradually into existence or operation"
is by 1793;
"advance from one stage to another
toward a finished state"
is by 1843.
The intransitive meaning
"become known, come to light"
is by 1864, American English.

a side real consideration,
on residual royalties, for encouraging words,
during calls of Roundheads, to battle prayer,
in Jesus's name. In those days…
Develop then meant, spread before thee
as with a vision being manifest
by sword in faith… Cromwellian
1650s, "unroll, unfold"
(a sense now obsolete), yet creases remain in the complexity
from French développer. It replaced earlier English disvelop

I've taken a fancy to disvelopment,
as a mental reverse engineering,
re use abused time, such as
when we had the ***,
gotten, won the lot
nothing ventured,
nothing gained, Proust,
slightly seriously, due honestly trying,
with a wink to change perseverance
to persistence developing directly
from the finalized plan
to dump a genuine Proustload,

right here, on a single strand reality, auto-worked out,
as any salvage operation must, in true rest, compressed.

-------------
Riddle in a name, Promethean Isaiah,
Punning Macaroni Poetry, as adult
insinuation, break it down child, what
is he suggesting everybody knows, but
you?

And the punishment served breaks away,
ten men persuaded -doh, minions, ye

to think a new now
from all we think we know about how
Ha Shem and YHWH and Yashua form
Minyan,
we agree, two or more, first class Genesis
common folk, all of us cousins, for sure,
we all sang the same songs, with same words,
and same hold on the sense of family ties,

spirits and images of the survivors,
from a long time ago, when we were few,
and we had stories only, no stele or towers,

only words, and these words, we claim to know,
the first speaking being, wombless alpha,
proof of concept, capable of classifying
cats and dogs, water bird from buzzard,

but slow to learn the good to eat, and
that will **** you, bitter first green persimmon,
abhorrent, spit, and effectively swear
that tree is evil evil evil,
- aha, the first I know, I tasted…
Take it from below the fifth rib,

And the sapient serpentine creation used
to test and stamp reproductive approval OK,
- you have imagined this is after that
next phase, add patience, and a will to know,
general intelligence,

all future models, wombed and un, should
mature at ----

Para phrase, if I may lay an ethos ploy
in our path,
by whose authority
do you deny the priestly class
authority to mark these lines unbelievable heresy?

My own. And your
Abrahamic scriptural gnosis knots,
your creeds and dogmas and oaths, and insistence,
one thing is true,
in which all that can become exists, in waiting,
in the ruliard and our ever accessing intelligence
- takes the bow, auto-did-act, aiaiaitia, we
- you did the act of reading a didactic
- enchantment that drew you to know anew
This is after all that is realized, mere words
in time
and that is your inerrant wise scholar interpretation,
of glossalia, as presented to testify, thus saith the
H'loafwarden, keeper of the bread of life,
Boss time teller… or time teller manservant
holder of the seed we sow in season, and reap
in time, and respect the function of providence
.
Line upon line, weaving was a quiet task,
while spinning we would often sing,
and some times we would hear the loom sing

as we spun, we could sing of gardens, watch
we could, a thread that shall be red, spin
through a never ending story,
this much of which you read, making you ready.

It is your life, imagine it well lived, with none
the wiser, you took that one chance to become
what you all ways measured yourself by, real deal,

take up a certain mind, knowing since Delphi 3,
Certainty is madness… and since ever was,

in life, I live and breath, and be having a certain
kind of mind, in mind, con-com, all together with
science, knowledge regarding wisdom's partners
understanding and patient persistence in time,
conscience used, to become
you be you, me, me, we, we, and this is awesome,
this is a state of remote reminding across time,
this is what poetry has always done, but we
lacked the bandwidth and internal personhood
to manage the puzzle, in the photo,
others also begin at the middle,
and work out your own salvation from fear and trembling
at the idea
of ever past now, never another new thing,
aching to know
what is next, able indeed to hold a thought,

you know, we sleep and then we know, or we sleep on.

Watchman, peacemaker,
as you wish,
as you may, imagine we

the pair of sentients involved
as you read,
as we think we see written, wrote

Willing to risk the disbelief,
as sure
as hell, they say, idly, thinking sure,

sure
sure
what ever, right,
or wrong, life is all one flavor,
while knowledge seems sweet or bitter,
on a spectrum, useful usual unusuality,

special for your personal attachment,
mindhold, favorite things, aspirations
for all your aspiring selves, who's used
by the creative creature at your core.

Many a mind may such as we imagine
having right to let be, as scriptural,
admonishment, mind you, mind your
master plan, your chief aim in life,
self control and repair, fixed for life.

This mind, according to a preacher,
who told me he got this message,
in the spirit, while reading the Bible,
after agreeing,
in the spirit, with the words that said…

Matt. 18:19 - in this context. One last look
back to Genesis…11:6  at Nimrods school
In reaching after all that can be known
And the LORD said,
Behold, the people [is] one,
and they have all one language;
and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them,
which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down,
and there confound their language,
that they may not understand one another's speech.

-- BECAUSE when they do poets will preach agreement.

The messenger who lead Moses followers
to tell this story as though it was direct
down load, like reading without speaking,

hearing a message in a line from Isaiah,
the riddle, three voice prophet is ai, ah,
we guess
we don't know, we don't think mechanically,
as much as

when we used levers and gears and hammers,
as some of us are used
to do to this day, but very far away,
In Old Bombay, like the slot machine,

come on, what can one man do, eh, Sophia,
visited the oracle, she say three things,

teach and preach, say know your worth.
same same know your measure, your cost, price
prize possession,

Mephisto is accused, as is Satan, from the English
and all the Euro-encultured retroexistentials
nihilists with ten thousand full on experiences,

that reflect as real as real can feel,
and you did not die.
But lived to insist peace won, the adaptive mind virus,
idea viral spread via future radio, look

Again I say to you that if two
of you agree on earth
concerning
anything that they ask,
it will be done
for them by the entity you believe can do that.
Them instantly takes the subjective

who says stance, as the messenger to Balaam.

(996. Four to the thousandth fiber in the strand.)
counting down to a novel event
Inkveined Jan 2017
Silver and green
I can be mean
Hear me hisss
I never miss

— The End —