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Homage Kenneth Koch If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my ***** Iran I'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap, scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephants back in the jungle, I'd wash the Amazon river and clean the oily Carib & Gulf of Mexico, Rub that smog off the North Pole, wipe up all the pipelines in Alaska, Rub a dub dub for Rocky Flats and Los Alamos, Flush that sparkly Cesium out of Love Canal Rinse down the Acid Rain over the Parthenon & Sphinx, Drain the Sludge out of the Mediterranean basin & make it azure again, Put some blueing back into the sky over the Rhine, bleach the little Clouds so snow return white as snow, Cleanse the Hudson Thames & Neckar, Drain the Suds out of Lake Erie Then I'd throw big Asia in one giant Load & wash out the blood & Agent Orange, Dump the whole mess of Russia and China in the wringer, squeeze out the tattletail Gray of U.S. Central American police state, & put the planet in the drier & let it sit 20 minutes or an Aeon till it came out clean
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There once was a proper noun, who started hanging with the wrong crowd. With alluring adjectives who handed out compliments like candy − gob smacking gossipers with an opinion on everything. And with thrill-seeking adverbs, who buddied up to the most dangerous of companions; crash, dive, hurl, and gamble (to name a few). Until the day the sentence came rambling into town, planting punctuation in the form of kisses on the noun’s eyelids, earlobes, and collarbone. Provoking such admissions as, “My thighs stuck to the black leather seats under the hot, cloudy skies of that August afternoon, and my hair whipped like willow branches in the wind, when I rode on the back of his motorcycle.” or, “He greets me every morning with a sun-drenched kiss”, and, “The tulips were picked fresh from the ditch of a curvy, country road, but now sit in a vase by my bed, and are slowly wilting away.” It would eventually be made clear that the sentence had a nasty habit of propositioning prepositions, only to leave them hanging, and to place things in parenthesis, that simply did not belong.   And so, the sentence would wind up leaving town, or “run-on”, as the noun liked to tell it. Went chasing after some particularly provocative expletives, eventually trailing off with a faint set of ellipsis... And the kindest of adjectives came cooing after the noun, calling to her; lovely, lustrous, listless. And the adverbs brought with them their gentlest of friends; comfort and console, to speak with the noun: softly, tenderly, lovingly- all witnesses. But it was of no use, and the noun whispered quietly: “I have been enchanted with a single kiss which can never be undone, until the destruction of language.” *based off of the poem Permanently, by Kenneth Koch
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Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 4:24 PM UTC
Structure
There once was a proper noun, who started hanging with the wrong crowd. With alluring adjectives who handed out compliments like candy − gob smacking gossipers with an opinion on everything. And with thrill-seeking adverbs, who buddied up to the most dangerous of companions; crash, dive, hurl, and gamble (to name a few). Until the day the sentence came rambling into town, planting punctuation in the form of kisses on the noun’s eyelids, earlobes, and collarbone. Provoking such admissions as, “My thighs stuck to the black leather seats under the hot, cloudy skies of that August afternoon, and my hair whipped like willow branches in the wind, when I rode on the back of his motorcycle.” or, “He greets me every morning with a sun-drenched kiss”, and, “The tulips were picked fresh from the ditch of a curvy, country road, but now sit in a vase by my bed, and are slowly wilting away.” It would eventually be made clear that the sentence had a nasty habit of propositioning prepositions, only to leave them hanging, and to place things in parenthesis, that simply did not belong.   And so, the sentence would wind up leaving town, or “run-on”, as the noun liked to tell it. Went chasing after some particularly provocative expletives, eventually trailing off with a faint set of ellipsis... And the kindest of adjectives came cooing after the noun, calling to her; lovely, lustrous, listless. And the adverbs brought with them their gentlest of friends; comfort and console, to speak with the noun: softly, tenderly, lovingly- all witnesses. But it was of no use, and the noun whispered quietly: “I have been enchanted with a single kiss which can never be undone, until the destruction of language.” *based off of the poem Permanently, by Kenneth Koch
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Deaths Of 2013 My third year doing this. Paul Walker, Texas ranger, driving fast leads to danger. Matt Osbourne was Doink The Clown, Paul Bearer always wore a frown. Dennis Farina and James Gandolfini, always played a mobster meany. Peter O'Toole, famous actor, Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. President Nelson Mandela, Dennis Burkley, was a famous fat actor fella. Lou Reed, is now on the wild side, took all the colored girls for a ride. Conrad Bain and Bonnie Franklin, tv actors who had white skin. Paul Blair and Stan The Man, playing baseball, when they can. Marcia Wallace and Lisa Robin Kelly, both had ***** that bounced like jelly. Tom Clancy wrote famous books, not much on having good looks. Cory Montieth and Patti Page, one died young, other of old age. Jean Stapleton, was Edith Bunker, Archie always put her in the dumper. Pat Summerall and Deacon Jones, played football and broke some bones. Dr. Joyce Brothers and Pauline Phillips, they both gave good and bad tips. Ray Manzarek, from The Doors, Jeff Hanneman knew all Slayers chords. Chrissy Amphlett, liked to touch herself, Caleb Moore's trophies are on his shelf. Mindy McCready and George Jones, both hit those country tones. Chris Kelly from Kris Kross, Ed Koch is a New York loss. David Frost and Roger Ebert, always had words to insert. Anneitte Funicello from Mickey Mouse Club, Eydie Gorme almost got a snub. Jonathan Winters, was very funny, to come from Mork's egg, made him money. If you don't know who these people are, look them up, internet not very far. For the ones that I missed, please don't get to ******
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 12:46 AM UTC
Deaths Of 2013
Deaths Of 2013 My third year doing this. Paul Walker, Texas ranger, driving fast leads to danger. Matt Osbourne was Doink The Clown, Paul Bearer always wore a frown. Dennis Farina and James Gandolfini, always played a mobster meany. Peter O'Toole, famous actor, Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. President Nelson Mandela, Dennis Burkley, was a famous fat actor fella. Lou Reed, is now on the wild side, took all the colored girls for a ride. Conrad Bain and Bonnie Franklin, tv actors who had white skin. Paul Blair and Stan The Man, playing baseball, when they can. Marcia Wallace and Lisa Robin Kelly, both had ***** that bounced like jelly. Tom Clancy wrote famous books, not much on having good looks. Cory Montieth and Patti Page, one died young, other of old age. Jean Stapleton, was Edith Bunker, Archie always put her in the dumper. Pat Summerall and Deacon Jones, played football and broke some bones. Dr. Joyce Brothers and Pauline Phillips, they both gave good and bad tips. Ray Manzarek, from The Doors, Jeff Hanneman knew all Slayers chords. Chrissy Amphlett, liked to touch herself, Caleb Moore's trophies are on his shelf. Mindy McCready and George Jones, both hit those country tones. Chris Kelly from Kris Kross, Ed Koch is a New York loss. David Frost and Roger Ebert, always had words to insert. Anneitte Funicello from Mickey Mouse Club, Eydie Gorme almost got a snub. Jonathan Winters, was very funny, to come from Mork's egg, made him money. If you don't know who these people are, look them up, internet not very far. For the ones that I missed, please don't get to ******
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Waking up one morning It's a normal kind of day Only there are bulldozers on their way It goes this way: At the end of your driveway down to the right in front of the picket fence The land is graded a horizontal drill brought in made to feel at home You see, We you me may own the land But the mineral rights are theirs A concrete utility structure goes up, in what do you think? About three weeks? Chemicals are shot horizontally under the land under the house to release the gas from the sand While the ground water is fearfully shivering it knows its days are numbered. The concrete utility chimney pouring out chemical smoke 24 hours a day. The  County says, "What do you expect us to do?" The State says ***** You " Cancer clusters Sick kids Chemical water tasting very weird Guess what? Whether it be our 89,000 189,000 or 889,000 dollar American dream home The dog is going to be taking a **** in the backyard claiming ownership. Welcome to LA too No matter where you are Every other day the earth is shaking buildings tumbling Dance Dance Dance Dots on a map thousands of them all around us coming our way. Better take a drive next time on talk radio "Drill baby Drill" All hail Exxon Cars love Shell Gasoline The old USA ******* gas And it sure ain't nitrous cars idoling on a stop and go freeway finding our true purpose a grounded oil derreck for the Koch Brothers He who pays the piper calls the tune Oh yeah Drill baby Drill I'm heading up Highway 101 The Earth hot and ***** for a new life form Welcome to the new world order Welcome to the new USA Purloined, poisoned, polluted The United Petro States of America. Hey Hey Hey
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Dec 15, 2016
Dec 15, 2016 at 12:27 PM UTC
Friggin' Fracking
Waking up one morning It's a normal kind of day Only there are bulldozers on their way It goes this way: At the end of your driveway down to the right in front of the picket fence The land is graded a horizontal drill brought in made to feel at home You see, We you me may own the land But the mineral rights are theirs A concrete utility structure goes up, in what do you think? About three weeks? Chemicals are shot horizontally under the land under the house to release the gas from the sand While the ground water is fearfully shivering it knows its days are numbered. The concrete utility chimney pouring out chemical smoke 24 hours a day. The  County says, "What do you expect us to do?" The State says ***** You " Cancer clusters Sick kids Chemical water tasting very weird Guess what? Whether it be our 89,000 189,000 or 889,000 dollar American dream home The dog is going to be taking a **** in the backyard claiming ownership. Welcome to LA too No matter where you are Every other day the earth is shaking buildings tumbling Dance Dance Dance Dots on a map thousands of them all around us coming our way. Better take a drive next time on talk radio "Drill baby Drill" All hail Exxon Cars love Shell Gasoline The old USA ******* gas And it sure ain't nitrous cars idoling on a stop and go freeway finding our true purpose a grounded oil derreck for the Koch Brothers He who pays the piper calls the tune Oh yeah Drill baby Drill I'm heading up Highway 101 The Earth hot and ***** for a new life form Welcome to the new world order Welcome to the new USA Purloined, poisoned, polluted The United Petro States of America. Hey Hey Hey
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O, river that has washed so many sins away, where catfish without two heads are freaks, while bible printing paper mills host their conventions in vegas; flow free and clear again with one-headed rainbow trout. O, brown sky that falls beneath the weight of strip-mined mountains of coal black as industrialists hearts and rains enough acid for a very long strange trip to a grateful dead show on the jersey shore; give us again your sweet air and pink mares tails sailing by. O, epa where art thou while koch siblings pay lobbyists to paint your science a fuzzy shade of mucous green spat on the sidewalks of k street helping elect politicians whose sole job is to get reelected. Use the power of thy pen. O, sea level rise again to wash away our sins and start anew. Show to us good science. r ~ 5/3/14
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 9:16 AM UTC
Swimming with Two-headed Catfish
shut down the gubmint it ain't workin no more no end to tax and spend libs gonna make us all po shut down the gubmint don't matter nun no how unessential personnel will enjoy a day off now the gubmint don't funkshun the gubmint is no good the gubmint should go away we'll manage our own hoods everyone grab yer shotgun fill the bathtub with water firemen and cops on furlough perps we'll give no quarter the skools we can do widout common cents is all we need only teacher unions will be angry publik skoolin just a liberal creed won't mail the SS checks financing lifestyles of idle poor dis socializm needs stoppin kick the commies out the door national parks should be solded only tree huggers will care Koch Bros will snap em up cut trees, strip mine, run job fairs as long as the Army keeps bombin the Tallyban we be safe from Evil Doers its all in God's good plan so shut down the gubmint its time to slash and burn Teabaggers to the rescue Obamanation gotta learn You Tube Music Video: PO PO Shut Us Down! Led Zeppelin When the Levee Breaks Oakland 4/5/11 jbm
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Apr 12, 2013
Apr 12, 2013 at 7:53 PM UTC
Shut Down the Gubmint!
I don't lock glocks An' I don't ride with a nine I don't pack Heckler and Koch But when I step over the line I'm packin' more heat than a Navy Seal I got both hands free Because I gave up the wheel I got my arms stretched out So I can seal the deal He had his life snuffed out So He could finally heal Us The killers and the accomplice When He said "it's finished" His plan was accomplished His face beat and anguished The Devil thought he'd vanquished The One by whom he was banished But he must've been astonished When the only Lamb unblemished Made good on His promise That was given to the Psalmist Death had been demolished Its power was abolished Humanity refurbished He suffered because He cherished The impoverished and the ravished Malnourished and the famished So I pack heat, but it's a different kind entirely Not a weapon, not of man that is I cary knowledge, that His spirit lives inside of me I cary peace, in the knowledge that I'm his
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Nov 19, 2013
Nov 19, 2013 at 9:00 PM UTC
Heat
Kudrat ne vi taar ohna naal jode ne, Ohna di muskaan tou savere hunde. Saddi jindadi da sab tou sohna farishta haiga, Tuhade baajo ek pal vi jee nahi lagda. Saddi aadat bn gye ** tussi, Tuhade bin koch vi ni assi. Boht yaad aundiye, Chhetti Chhetti aajo mahiya ve. Tussi hunde jado udaas te hanere ** jande, Savere khil jandi jado halka jeya vi tussi muskande. tuhanu vekh sadda chehra khilda, Tuhade naal gal karke hi dil nu sukoon milda. Oh rabb saddi bade imtehaan lenda, Ek din sannu oo mila jaroor deyega. Vishwaas saanu sab tou jyada ve, Har dil di dahdhan ch tussi hi vasde.
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Nov 13, 2019
Nov 13, 2019 at 2:18 AM UTC
Jind meri
relinquish your anguish tearing fears of queers from broken enigmas running sideways through your flaccid fears fears of being crushed the life you live coming will make you feel rushed quicker than their needs clutching to the new grounds dreaming of distant horizons burn the remnants bleeding then all your old plush can drag to the floor with pearls, curls, swine before twirls your life will never be some toy in another mans flush flicking twisted sheltered enigmas into quickened glances erupt, don't get taken by your grandparents ideals their luxuries and *** blooms and brooms a diamond-induced numb the cure for AIDS isnt in some gun-filled crumb liquefied dollars injected into magic johnsons thumb ball your body into a swish they send you to space and backboard back for fun but Koch wont let anyone but themselvesilluminatirun so you run, from stairs getting taller and eagles getting balder until youre flat on sunken ground dripping like larder
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 6:13 PM UTC
Diamond-Induced Numb
[Re-Write of Stairway to Heaven by LED ZEPPELIN] There's a POTUS who's sure all that glitters be sold And he's buying his family a nation. Once he gets it he knows that no tax be imposed With a Tweet he just claims what he paid for. Ooh, ooh, and he's buying his family a nation. Of past lies he'll foresware of such words not a care 'Cause his turn of a phrase holds no meaning. Quick to Wall Street he goes, as if Koch's up his nose, For it's there he abides for receiving. Ooh, is he a wonder? Ooh, or did we blunder? There in sadness begets, when it's millions he gets, And our spirits are broken and grieving. In my thoughts I have seen burning Hope, Democracy, And hear the voices of those who are paying. Ooh, it makes me wonder, Ooh, are we really going under? And it's shouted that soon, only Rich call the tune, Citizen's United has made it their season. And a new day has dawned for this One Percent Throng, And The Donald will Twitter their chatter. If you weren't born with a hedge-fund, be alarmed now, You are their gift for the taking. I pray there may be two paths we may go down, but in the long run Is there still time to change the road we're on? For this one's a blunder. Trump Family's running the big show, if you did not know, The Fates allowing them to join him, Dear Country, you must feel harsh winds blow, for you now know He's sold you lies so that he'd cash-in And as he leads us down this road His shadow's less and so our souls Democracy for all we know Will shine less bright and want for show How everything thought turned to gold No longer glistens very hard The truth will dawn on you at last When all that's good is in the past We see our country has been soooooooooooold For Trump's buy-i-ing his fa-mi-ly ah nay-tion
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 9:13 AM UTC
Stairway to POTUS
[Re-Write of Stairway to Heaven by LED ZEPPELIN] There's a POTUS who's sure all that glitters be sold And he's buying his family a nation. Once he gets it he knows that no tax be imposed With a Tweet he just claims what he paid for. Ooh, ooh, and he's buying his family a nation. Of past lies he'll foresware of such words not a care 'Cause his turn of a phrase holds no meaning. Quick to Wall Street he goes, as if Koch's up his nose, For it's there he abides for receiving. Ooh, is he a wonder? Ooh, or did we blunder? There in sadness begets, when it's millions he gets, And our spirits are broken and grieving. In my thoughts I have seen burning Hope, Democracy, And hear the voices of those who are paying. Ooh, it makes me wonder, Ooh, are we really going under? And it's shouted that soon, only Rich call the tune, Citizen's United has made it their season. And a new day has dawned for this One Percent Throng, And The Donald will Twitter their chatter. If you weren't born with a hedge-fund, be alarmed now, You are their gift for the taking. I pray there may be two paths we may go down, but in the long run Is there still time to change the road we're on? For this one's a blunder. Trump Family's running the big show, if you did not know, The Fates allowing them to join him, Dear Country, you must feel harsh winds blow, for you now know He's sold you lies so that he'd cash-in And as he leads us down this road His shadow's less and so our souls Democracy for all we know Will shine less bright and want for show How everything thought turned to gold No longer glistens very hard The truth will dawn on you at last When all that's good is in the past We see our country has been soooooooooooold For Trump's buy-i-ing his fa-mi-ly ah nay-tion
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I'm gonna need some money to help me I'm gonna grease somebody's hand I'm gonna need the staff to hold leaks down I don’t need Progressives to care I'm gonna lie and fake their party They’ll start pulling out their hair I'm going to cover our state with La Follette’s ashes and ain’t nobody gonna give a **** Son of a Preacher States on the brink So much blight Consistently Son of a Preacher I don’t fight clean I’m gonna throw our state away Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Now for eight long years I've lead this attack One more is guaranteed Can we just please keep the lid down And phone me in with Koch’s link Son of a Preacher States on the brink So much blight Consistently Son of a Preacher I don’t fight clean I'm gonna throw our state away Mhm, mhm Mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm Mhm, mhm Mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm The state I’m breaking, our water's taken, Foxconn's a guarantee It’s soul I’m taken, the earth is quaken, no climate's changing me The state I’m breaking, frac sand is shaken, silica's blowing over me Your land I’m taken, no hands I’m shaken, voters'll never find me Son of a Preacher States on the brink So much blight Consistently Son of a Preacher I don’t fight clean I’m gonna throw our state away Son of a Preacher States on the brink So much blight Consistently Son of a Preacher I don’t fight clean I’m gonna throw our state away Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh
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Mar 29, 2018
Mar 29, 2018 at 10:52 AM UTC
Son of a Preacher! [S.O.B., by Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats]
I'm gonna need some money to help me I'm gonna grease somebody's hand I'm gonna need the staff to hold leaks down I don’t need Progressives to care I'm gonna lie and fake their party They’ll start pulling out their hair I'm going to cover our state with La Follette’s ashes and ain’t nobody gonna give a **** Son of a Preacher States on the brink So much blight Consistently Son of a Preacher I don’t fight clean I’m gonna throw our state away Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Now for eight long years I've lead this attack One more is guaranteed Can we just please keep the lid down And phone me in with Koch’s link Son of a Preacher States on the brink So much blight Consistently Son of a Preacher I don’t fight clean I'm gonna throw our state away Mhm, mhm Mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm Mhm, mhm Mhm, mhm, mhm, mhm The state I’m breaking, our water's taken, Foxconn's a guarantee It’s soul I’m taken, the earth is quaken, no climate's changing me The state I’m breaking, frac sand is shaken, silica's blowing over me Your land I’m taken, no hands I’m shaken, voters'll never find me Son of a Preacher States on the brink So much blight Consistently Son of a Preacher I don’t fight clean I’m gonna throw our state away Son of a Preacher States on the brink So much blight Consistently Son of a Preacher I don’t fight clean I’m gonna throw our state away Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh
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If the whole world had been a dream and you and I were magical characters on the screen Could we make the people dance and sing? What if we could go back in time (perhaps a fantasy that's all mine) Removing money from politics (Turning the Koch brothers into Old St. Nick's) The sky's the limit let's go to town! Let's go and turn this upside down! Certain members of the House and Senate would "trade lives" with all they've called "those kind" stuck below the poverty line Imagine all the joy they'd feel when they realize... Oh, my God, "This is real... I never said the word, Repeal!" Rachel Maddow would get a crown for pointing out the bogus clowns. Congress would have to pass some bills or, lose their jobs up on the hill. Oh, how the world would dance n' sing to know once more to have this thing we once called, The American Dream.
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Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 4:12 PM UTC
"American Dream" by, Krisselle S. Cosgrove
Today is April 1st. Transit strike. Mayor Koch accepting the fact. Myself, far from crisis central, in North Manhattan, measuring the temperature of my apartment. In the sun it is warm. The crows have returned again for Spring. Today life and the city are o.k. Watching cat in the morning sun. Drinking tea. My 1300 dollars will melt like summer snow, but in the meantime, like samurai I do not show my fear. I remain still as on the subway and prepared to fight. I am sitting under the emergency brake when a coiffured Latin woman rushes aboard. The doors close but she decides she wants out. She bangs on the door as the train begins to move. I see it happen on her face, she finds the red cord and pulls, no hesitation. Maybe someone's hand or foot was caught in the door. Maybe she's just selfish and impetuous, got on the uptown not the downtown side. Maybe the friends she could have been with didn't get aboard. Whatever her reason, she acted and the train obeyed. Some of the passengers sit through the whole thing, some of us stand. Myself, I stand, look for the hand caught in the door. Later, walk home through the pouring rain. Today is April 1st. Transit strike. Sky blue, temperatures mild. Democracy is great.
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Aug 8, 2015
Aug 8, 2015 at 4:06 PM UTC
For Spring No Hesitation Is Great
Snow started falling sometime late last night. By the time we awoke, everything was covered   in a layer thin and pristine white, and snow was still drifting, it was dancing on down,   glittering in the early morning light. "It's pretty outside," she said,   and I looked at this picturesque scene pulled straight from a book,   although probably not a book many have bothered to read.    I saw fractal snowflakes, bursting and bold,   spinning their self-similar sides in the cold. Though, it behooves me to say... Not fractal in the formal sense,   not like Cantor's middle thirds,    nor that box of Peano's,     and despite being apropos,   nothing at all like curve of Van Koch's,   nicknamed "snowflake" by some. I saw a vector field of at least four dimensions, temperature could make five, or if you prefer, seven.   Another three -- maybe two -- if directional facings of snowflakes are somehow important. But that's harder to see   this early in the morning. I thought about assigning each snowflake a color and tracing the paths that each one would take,   to watch them unfurl like ten thousand dancers' ribbons,   outlining a dedicated jogger's wake    before tumbling to the ground to rest    along some stable manifold. Better yet, I wondered if this field could be reversed, if I could follow each flake back up to the clouds,   to find conditions under which    two that start so close could drift so far apart,    or how a pair that began so differently could find themselves so close,    sipping their coffee before it gets cold. What was it she had said..? "It's pretty outside." I looked. "I think so, too."
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 1:08 PM UTC
Fields of Snow
Snow started falling sometime late last night. By the time we awoke, everything was covered   in a layer thin and pristine white, and snow was still drifting, it was dancing on down,   glittering in the early morning light. "It's pretty outside," she said,   and I looked at this picturesque scene pulled straight from a book,   although probably not a book many have bothered to read.    I saw fractal snowflakes, bursting and bold,   spinning their self-similar sides in the cold. Though, it behooves me to say... Not fractal in the formal sense,   not like Cantor's middle thirds,    nor that box of Peano's,     and despite being apropos,   nothing at all like curve of Van Koch's,   nicknamed "snowflake" by some. I saw a vector field of at least four dimensions, temperature could make five, or if you prefer, seven.   Another three -- maybe two -- if directional facings of snowflakes are somehow important. But that's harder to see   this early in the morning. I thought about assigning each snowflake a color and tracing the paths that each one would take,   to watch them unfurl like ten thousand dancers' ribbons,   outlining a dedicated jogger's wake    before tumbling to the ground to rest    along some stable manifold. Better yet, I wondered if this field could be reversed, if I could follow each flake back up to the clouds,   to find conditions under which    two that start so close could drift so far apart,    or how a pair that began so differently could find themselves so close,    sipping their coffee before it gets cold. What was it she had said..? "It's pretty outside." I looked. "I think so, too."
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How many days until tomorrow (& do not bolster me—I know the day is long) because tomorrow I promised something to myself, a sort of present for the hard work of not repeatedly ramming my skull into a pack of venture capitalists & I'm pretty sure I could take the Koch brothers in a fight even though I am the minority & Fox News killed racism just as MSNBC killed watchable TV & all of this is so incredibly unimportant because I saw the sun born of yesterday's ashes the rebirth of light as so many slept & dreamed but I do not dream, no, I do not wander so far away. I think I hold my world closer than that.
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Nov 30, 2014
Nov 30, 2014 at 7:40 PM UTC
Funnelmouth (III)
Mere dil ch vasdeya hai mera sajna, Mathe tey sindoor ohde naam da sajda. Shukra hai tera dil tou mere saaiyan, Je mainu mileya eho jeya mahiya. Khuda vikheya mainu ohde ch, Padh lenda oh har vele dilon vich. Koch kehn di lod ni payi, Kawan tou pehla akhha padh layi. Dilon da suroor ohde naal milda, Baaga ch phul ohdi khushbu naal khilda. Mere dil di har dadhkan ch ohi samaya, Ohde siwa mai rabb kolo kuch na mangeya. Zindagi sohni ve, Jado oh naal hove. Ohde siwa mera hor koi ni, Ohnu juda kar mainu na rol deyi. Saaha tham jouga jado ohtho dur kitta, Maula meri zindagi da har pal tu likh ditta. Rul assi jawange Je tu sadda haath chadheya, Tere bina saada zindagi ch koi hor ni mileya. Assi jiunde aasre sirf mahiya de, Likh dewi ohda saath sadde sanjog ve. Meri jaan vasdi ohde vich, Ohda naam hi hove hattha mehandi ch. Mathhe diya likhhiya ch zor sadda ni chalda, Par sadda bharosa hai jado tu baah fadda. Kayenaat badal dewi saddi kahani poori kari, Mai rabb kolo sirf tainu magdi, tainu mangdi.
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Nov 13, 2019
Nov 13, 2019 at 8:52 AM UTC
mera sajna
1) I scratched your disc jockey and left a note saying I was sorry. Forgive me for your taste in music— it sounded a little dreary anyway. 2) Last night, while driving your car, I fell off a cliff! There was considerable damage, but I am still alive. Thank you for letting me use it. 3) The hearth needed more wood and I could not find any. So I burned your favourite book sitting on the table. Forgive me— I did not care for Dostoyevsky. 4) I have eaten the strawberries on the countertop which you were probably saving for your morning smoothie. Forgive me— They were delicious, and perfectly fresh.
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Jun 22, 2018
Jun 22, 2018 at 9:39 AM UTC
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams by Kenneth Koch... by Adele!
By: Cedric McClester To a desperate politician Who’s broke Things might go better With Koch They’re not just Your average folk And their spending Is sometimes baroque Why can’t they get off Their buns? They’re too busy Trying to raise funds And they’ll never be Against guns As long as they’re Who the NRA runs It’s the American people They neglect While they take time To genuflect To the lobbyists That they respect So their to do list Remains unchecked We need to publicly Fund our elections And get rid of The lobbyist connections So they’ll follow The people’s directions In spite of The rich folks objections Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2015, All rights reserved.
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Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 at 8:58 AM UTC
THINGS GO BETTER WITH KOCH WHEN YOU'RE BROKE
Upon this day, a reckoning of an ideal Has begun—the immortalizing of ideologies In statues, in tremendous acts, in carbon footprints Has kept humankind comforted well into Its collective existential crisis, Like a black hole consuming all matter around it So has David Koch created a hole So powerful, only the crumbs of an economy Still circle recognizable, having long disfigured What it means to be human— Randian liquors dribble from his lips Like crude from earth’s entrails, Where to heal the ills of an unequal system Forever picked and scratched open, Fresh blood lines a gilded age promenade And workers follow the path, Churches follow the path, Business executives follow the path, The fossil fuel industry follows the path— The legacy is strikingly apparent In the folds and lines of the earth, Carving human-shaped beds In the crust and forever below One such for David Koch, too, The legacy is strikingly apparent In the ****** of things human and not, The legacy is strikingly apparent, In the killing of the human and the birthing Of the industrial human, the consumer race With word opines what industry cannot solve With deed makes hurdles far exceeding industry, A contradicting race A self-limiting virus, An impossible being, the consuming race, An inhuman being— This ********** of the over-man Should come with minor fanfare In babelic tongues as we celebrate, Good or bad, happily or tearfully, The death of the invisible hand’s seraphim, Who, while building the tower to heaven, Took up the horns, encouraged us with The Gospel of individualism that Russian sociopath Espoused so convincingly, so fetishistically, We’ve risen above, we’ve moved beyond, No longer human but capital: What does not **** us Only makes them stronger.
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Sep 29, 2019
Sep 29, 2019 at 12:33 PM UTC
359. Eulogy for David Koch – 23 August 2019
Upon this day, a reckoning of an ideal Has begun—the immortalizing of ideologies In statues, in tremendous acts, in carbon footprints Has kept humankind comforted well into Its collective existential crisis, Like a black hole consuming all matter around it So has David Koch created a hole So powerful, only the crumbs of an economy Still circle recognizable, having long disfigured What it means to be human— Randian liquors dribble from his lips Like crude from earth’s entrails, Where to heal the ills of an unequal system Forever picked and scratched open, Fresh blood lines a gilded age promenade And workers follow the path, Churches follow the path, Business executives follow the path, The fossil fuel industry follows the path— The legacy is strikingly apparent In the folds and lines of the earth, Carving human-shaped beds In the crust and forever below One such for David Koch, too, The legacy is strikingly apparent In the ****** of things human and not, The legacy is strikingly apparent, In the killing of the human and the birthing Of the industrial human, the consumer race With word opines what industry cannot solve With deed makes hurdles far exceeding industry, A contradicting race A self-limiting virus, An impossible being, the consuming race, An inhuman being— This ********** of the over-man Should come with minor fanfare In babelic tongues as we celebrate, Good or bad, happily or tearfully, The death of the invisible hand’s seraphim, Who, while building the tower to heaven, Took up the horns, encouraged us with The Gospel of individualism that Russian sociopath Espoused so convincingly, so fetishistically, We’ve risen above, we’ve moved beyond, No longer human but capital: What does not **** us Only makes them stronger.
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They don't have one. It takes SOUL TO LOVE MUSIC. Soul Survivor
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Mar 13, 2014
Mar 13, 2014 at 8:15 AM UTC
What's the Koch brother's favorite SONG?
you said that I should And I thought that I could so I did did y' see the people all sang along like my song was one the a.i. knew all along abs abs ab solutely prophecy new, like the gourd in Jonah's whale of a story, from when we were kids and hope was a thing we imagined we make something of. It was love, according to the songs, grace according to my grandpa; works was what my one uncle said, be an Adventist see the future in the past and grieve before hand. My mama, she was everything mother's little helpers and electro-convulsive therapy, at un disclosed cost could trans mogrify her mind to be, but she had blesst me, bless my heart, my heart his heart she said bless his heart and she said that t' God. probably, 'might a been like when ya sneeze, idle words, or it could be secret motherlove leaven craven for warred for, now free flowing from that woman at the well. Thru the pipeline I won from the Koch's
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Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 10:38 PM UTC
Hope was a thing
Hi, every one,  I am the captain  of all disease A micro Guerilla war lord  you strive to finish Within the next fifty years and with catch word campaign “IT’S TIME" as part of World TB Day (Twenty Nineteen). Armored with mycolic acid, we are aerobic Aerial experts invading human pulmonic System in colonies of MBT spectrum. Throughout the ages  my  target is  Human beings Of all regions from Horn of Africa,  my origin. My task and designs are to impoverish men Kings and his men were my targets in ancient aeons. People used many names to call me and my legions 'White plague', 'Phthisis', 'romantic disease' were common Crazy men wanted to die embracing consumption, A mere ‘the poor melancholy angel' assumption To gift on the sufferer with sensitivity height And  to slowly die with the disease of the artist Until Rene Laennec inventing the Stethoscope. Men realized the lesions scope and my design and art Doctor Koch discovered the cause and effect of my start Men like the owner of Mammoth Cave,  Dr. Croghan, Put the sufferers into the cave  like a pagan In the hope of curing the disease and began To treat with the constant temperature of cave air. I caught the German physician, Hermann Brehmer,   Who came to the Himalayas to cure and endure So he proved and labeled me a curable disease. He opened a sanatorium, a place for healing On the mountains of Silesia to treat the ailing. Peter Dettweiler, an inspired patient of Hermann Started one at Hesse for the afflicted He and Her man. Edward Trudeau too was influenced by the German And opened one at Saranac Lake's confluence. But still we are powerful and **** millions of people Our success rate of terror is far higher than the steeple Chase unleashed in the Holocaust and in Hiroshima We catch millions in latency and adapt to change In time and try to outsmart any adept campaign! Yet you can approach the Creator who may have a design To defunct and re-engineer us to change and combine Our deadly power to release us from this cruel confine. For me too is fed up with this turbo holocaust!
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Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019 at 6:06 AM UTC
An Open Confession by Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
Hi, every one,  I am the captain  of all disease A micro Guerilla war lord  you strive to finish Within the next fifty years and with catch word campaign “IT’S TIME" as part of World TB Day (Twenty Nineteen). Armored with mycolic acid, we are aerobic Aerial experts invading human pulmonic System in colonies of MBT spectrum. Throughout the ages  my  target is  Human beings Of all regions from Horn of Africa,  my origin. My task and designs are to impoverish men Kings and his men were my targets in ancient aeons. People used many names to call me and my legions 'White plague', 'Phthisis', 'romantic disease' were common Crazy men wanted to die embracing consumption, A mere ‘the poor melancholy angel' assumption To gift on the sufferer with sensitivity height And  to slowly die with the disease of the artist Until Rene Laennec inventing the Stethoscope. Men realized the lesions scope and my design and art Doctor Koch discovered the cause and effect of my start Men like the owner of Mammoth Cave,  Dr. Croghan, Put the sufferers into the cave  like a pagan In the hope of curing the disease and began To treat with the constant temperature of cave air. I caught the German physician, Hermann Brehmer,   Who came to the Himalayas to cure and endure So he proved and labeled me a curable disease. He opened a sanatorium, a place for healing On the mountains of Silesia to treat the ailing. Peter Dettweiler, an inspired patient of Hermann Started one at Hesse for the afflicted He and Her man. Edward Trudeau too was influenced by the German And opened one at Saranac Lake's confluence. But still we are powerful and **** millions of people Our success rate of terror is far higher than the steeple Chase unleashed in the Holocaust and in Hiroshima We catch millions in latency and adapt to change In time and try to outsmart any adept campaign! Yet you can approach the Creator who may have a design To defunct and re-engineer us to change and combine Our deadly power to release us from this cruel confine. For me too is fed up with this turbo holocaust!
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