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"lassoed" poems
Sloane swallows. ***** is **** I execrate extraterrestrial. We are all kaput to conk out. Pollyanna is singular hanky—panky. Little green men are unpatriotic, perverted and naughty. I verily don’t grease a ***** Oojakapivvycum. If you are amphibious that means you are an effervescent ventriloquist capable of Cannibalism, cannibalism and cannibalism. The fluid inside the android is so gothic and naff It is knock—kneed in the face of flashing ********** I do not feel that I am on the shoulders of cobber doggies. I am protoplastically lassoed abutting penetrating vampire and pervert That penetrate ***** creature. I have pricked little green men myself and taken pleasure in it. It is only with the help of bad hair days of groupies that I have not been in Sing Sing. We are all sadomasochistically decomposing in a heap of our own meconium. I bore stiff to outstrip yours truly as much as I have room to swing a cat from Ku Klux **** But I am as complicit in the android’s ****** abuse as it were android *** Little green men ***** me as I ***** myself. I ***** bug—eyed men’s ******* types as I have perpetually vomited Molotov cocktail. I smell little green men’s filth televised on their ******* types. I feel like I am inside a crust of cancers who delight in smelling others bonk upstairs, Ad hominen id. Ex post facto, I am too much of a dastard to throw cold water on myself. I coagulate gungily to my menstrual gibbering ****** Castrating anti—Semite to flash me abutting crème de la crème. Strenuously, my ***** gluts under one’s nose because that is all there is.
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Mar 21, 2010
Mar 21, 2010 at 6:27 PM UTC
We Are All Sadomasochistically Decomposing In A Heap Of Our Own Meconium
Sloane swallows. ***** is **** I execrate extraterrestrial. We are all kaput to conk out. Pollyanna is singular hanky—panky. Little green men are unpatriotic, perverted and naughty. I verily don’t grease a ***** Oojakapivvycum. If you are amphibious that means you are an effervescent ventriloquist capable of Cannibalism, cannibalism and cannibalism. The fluid inside the android is so gothic and naff It is knock—kneed in the face of flashing ********** I do not feel that I am on the shoulders of cobber doggies. I am protoplastically lassoed abutting penetrating vampire and pervert That penetrate ***** creature. I have pricked little green men myself and taken pleasure in it. It is only with the help of bad hair days of groupies that I have not been in Sing Sing. We are all sadomasochistically decomposing in a heap of our own meconium. I bore stiff to outstrip yours truly as much as I have room to swing a cat from Ku Klux **** But I am as complicit in the android’s ****** abuse as it were android *** Little green men ***** me as I ***** myself. I ***** bug—eyed men’s ******* types as I have perpetually vomited Molotov cocktail. I smell little green men’s filth televised on their ******* types. I feel like I am inside a crust of cancers who delight in smelling others bonk upstairs, Ad hominen id. Ex post facto, I am too much of a dastard to throw cold water on myself. I coagulate gungily to my menstrual gibbering ****** Castrating anti—Semite to flash me abutting crème de la crème. Strenuously, my ***** gluts under one’s nose because that is all there is.
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Dark driveways in muggy weather Look like sand stuck in a feather Ferns and curbs don't go together. Clean, thoughts on it Wrong again Seemed, nope not this song again A misty clip Of winter **** Seemed so soft and fond again. Face the throat and choke the face Wait for boats, critique the wave Answer into sushi dish, 'Was this really once a fish?' You, oh you! Oh you, oh you. True, we knew! Who knew? Not you. Don't begin to read the news Now it's burning rows of twos Ferns and curbs don't go together Runny nose in sunny weather Feel like lakes lassoed and tethered Ferns and curbs don't go together.
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 7:56 PM UTC
Ferns and curbs don't go together
Heathens - in heaven's lobby flock to barter for Magic 'Shrooms with pop rocks... and pancakes and leaf-green brownies. new to the scene; the Son of Man holds a motley court, then wanders off to fetch Picasso - Lassoed from his cups, his Love that must Love his genius... doubtless, cloud-scrawling huge pendulous ******* in Elysium; for no one at all. better Pablo should tend bars      that set mobs free than one god's toddler, with long odds against Bacchus - should ever small-talk-speak to the godless or worse... preach. " Better Sins to love.. " The Spaniard once taught... A Lover's Urge is born in forms of weakness.... adorned in all Might - bathed in blessed contradiction, a Lingam for a Yoni's dream of stiff drinks and pliable men, with strong arms. a blue fiction  on Calvary - nailed to the softest cross. Between thieves, an honor, double parked with bucket seats brimming with moonlight, and her knickers tossed. Picasso asks for absinthe to be sent post haste and polished off - by all his better angels he had guillotined with dull snails, and fallen   harps ones -  he stole,  to de-tune a flat fifth of Cuttysark for a deaf ****  [but no mute ] a portrait, **** and is soon bought... lust sleeps then - with both Eyes;   Locked on One of God's. like a deer in a Head-light's Gospel... now, a Minotaur on the Autobahn - stalking it. II Heathens in heaven's lobby recite ' Howl ' as Ginsberg, walks over hot coals and spicy psalms; glowing wanton in white grass; with a very cherry **** And a wise throng, cobbles... ****** - they rob Peter of his  toga, leaving nothing wrong. but no less ' On ' they laugh hard;  and wake the dead asking  them for new songs to set    their false alarms in lofty Tic' Tocks   of Eternity's clock. Bible on a snooze bar for at least that long or  someone knocks. As if  "Hello."   Spoke the Whole World into Being - And " Goodbye." misspoke, and trailed off...
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Feb 6, 2013
Feb 6, 2013 at 1:58 PM UTC
Heathens In Heaven [ Canto I ]
Heathens - in heaven's lobby flock to barter for Magic 'Shrooms with pop rocks... and pancakes and leaf-green brownies. new to the scene; the Son of Man holds a motley court, then wanders off to fetch Picasso - Lassoed from his cups, his Love that must Love his genius... doubtless, cloud-scrawling huge pendulous ******* in Elysium; for no one at all. better Pablo should tend bars      that set mobs free than one god's toddler, with long odds against Bacchus - should ever small-talk-speak to the godless or worse... preach. " Better Sins to love.. " The Spaniard once taught... A Lover's Urge is born in forms of weakness.... adorned in all Might - bathed in blessed contradiction, a Lingam for a Yoni's dream of stiff drinks and pliable men, with strong arms. a blue fiction  on Calvary - nailed to the softest cross. Between thieves, an honor, double parked with bucket seats brimming with moonlight, and her knickers tossed. Picasso asks for absinthe to be sent post haste and polished off - by all his better angels he had guillotined with dull snails, and fallen   harps ones -  he stole,  to de-tune a flat fifth of Cuttysark for a deaf ****  [but no mute ] a portrait, **** and is soon bought... lust sleeps then - with both Eyes;   Locked on One of God's. like a deer in a Head-light's Gospel... now, a Minotaur on the Autobahn - stalking it. II Heathens in heaven's lobby recite ' Howl ' as Ginsberg, walks over hot coals and spicy psalms; glowing wanton in white grass; with a very cherry **** And a wise throng, cobbles... ****** - they rob Peter of his  toga, leaving nothing wrong. but no less ' On ' they laugh hard;  and wake the dead asking  them for new songs to set    their false alarms in lofty Tic' Tocks   of Eternity's clock. Bible on a snooze bar for at least that long or  someone knocks. As if  "Hello."   Spoke the Whole World into Being - And " Goodbye." misspoke, and trailed off...
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I don't know you, but I feel you right from the get-go. You go about your routine that lassoed my heart into you, you who prance around the vastness of my dreamscape. I come to recognize your presence only in my sleep, at the very least that's what I know. In that hazy, twisted world of subconscious shuffling, we find ourselves sitting cozily, face to face, at a table outside that rustic coffee shop. Honeyed words and laughters sprightly echo from that very spot where only a vase of freshly cut chrysanthemum sets two bodies and heat apart, longing. Sometimes, we glorify sunsets at the shoreline. Sometimes, we sound our inane daredevil yawp at a cliff. Sometimes, we simply stargaze and draw across the skies Cassiopeia and Ursa Major. We embrace the beauty of chaos we often find ourselves walking aimlessly along that busy thoroughfare before we head back home; normally we exchange random thoughts about school, my fascination with Rand's objectivist framework, your addiction to Cobain's craft and story, my weakness over falling in love too fast, your resilience and hope in times of defeat. We are wired to each other in a special way, so special that it all has to be in lucid dreams. Feelings are intense. Kisses euthanize the butterflies. Midnight cuddles are soulful  calisthenics. Holding each other's hand  is infinite. You present to me a self that is nurtured by its soul. I think I love you in my sleep. I feel happy with everything that goes with closing my eyes and letting dreams of the world I created creep into my consciousness. In such a realm I don't know you, but I feel you right from the get-go. Do you see me in your sleep, too?
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Dec 23, 2013
Dec 23, 2013 at 10:04 PM UTC
Misplaced reality
I don't know you, but I feel you right from the get-go. You go about your routine that lassoed my heart into you, you who prance around the vastness of my dreamscape. I come to recognize your presence only in my sleep, at the very least that's what I know. In that hazy, twisted world of subconscious shuffling, we find ourselves sitting cozily, face to face, at a table outside that rustic coffee shop. Honeyed words and laughters sprightly echo from that very spot where only a vase of freshly cut chrysanthemum sets two bodies and heat apart, longing. Sometimes, we glorify sunsets at the shoreline. Sometimes, we sound our inane daredevil yawp at a cliff. Sometimes, we simply stargaze and draw across the skies Cassiopeia and Ursa Major. We embrace the beauty of chaos we often find ourselves walking aimlessly along that busy thoroughfare before we head back home; normally we exchange random thoughts about school, my fascination with Rand's objectivist framework, your addiction to Cobain's craft and story, my weakness over falling in love too fast, your resilience and hope in times of defeat. We are wired to each other in a special way, so special that it all has to be in lucid dreams. Feelings are intense. Kisses euthanize the butterflies. Midnight cuddles are soulful  calisthenics. Holding each other's hand  is infinite. You present to me a self that is nurtured by its soul. I think I love you in my sleep. I feel happy with everything that goes with closing my eyes and letting dreams of the world I created creep into my consciousness. In such a realm I don't know you, but I feel you right from the get-go. Do you see me in your sleep, too?
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I only shoot to **** my food Not for pride or pleasure I hunt the meat we all can eat Not for a mantlepiece treasure But late one night I was lying in bed And someone was at my door I jumped to my feet like a ninja in heat And crawled across my floor It was dark inside my livingroom But I could see a silhouette The next thing I saw took my breath It's something I'll never forget A deer was wearing a ski mask His antlers poked out the top I jumped to my feet as fast as I could And yelled, "Bambi you better stop" He turned around and began to charge I screamed for my wife to get back He pulled a knife and cut my arm With another sneak attack He chased me down the hallway The bathroom my only hope But when I tried to get inside He lassoed me with his rope He tied me up and robbed my house My wife was under the bed He went through all of our dresser drawers Her underwear on top his head He finally left, the house was a mess There were hoofprints everywhere He took the remote to our color Tv And even our silverware Before he left he pointed and laughed And called me a crazy old geezer But my wife is scared and cannot rest Until I put him in my freezer
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Aug 31, 2010
Aug 31, 2010 at 5:52 PM UTC
Whitetail Burglar
when that strange man in the park asked me if love could cause physical pain i told him that i fell in love with a smile once a smile that lassoed and squeezed my heart and lungs until they were one boiling ***** a smile that buried into my back pulled out the pink shy parts i paid an expert to destroy pink devils i cried into my cousins shoulder on autumn benches pink tears i fell madly pinkly in love with a smile plucked like a fish from dark winter water admired looked after worthy of inspection smiling breath on my scales and back where the pink between them is apparent then hurled back into winter water where the day discharges slowly over the grass in the courtyard. i told that strange man in the park my pink insides fizzle-pop like meat on the summer sidewalk when i imagine the smiling angler making that next pull admiring and smiling cradling the back like a pink chalice That one thinks it's first catch. As did I. Dark lip burn marks On the pink. Physical Pain.
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Feb 17, 2013
Feb 17, 2013 at 3:32 AM UTC
Pink People Eater
I only shoot to **** my food Not for pride or pleasure I hunt the meat we all can eat Not for a mantlepiece treasure But late one night I was lying in bed And someone was at my door I jumped to my feet like a ninja in heat And crawled across my floor It was dark inside my livingroom But I could see a silhouette The next thing I saw took my breath It's something I'll never forget A deer was wearing a ski mask His antlers poked out the top I jumped to my feet as fast as I could And yelled, "Bambi you better stop" He turned around and began to charge I screamed for my wife to get back He pulled a knife and cut my arm With another sneak attack He chased me down the hallway The bathroom my only hope But when I tried to get inside He lassoed me with his rope He tied me up and robbed my house My wife was under the bed He went through all of our dresser drawers Her underwear on top his head He finally left, the house was a mess There were hoofprints everywhere He took the remote to our color Tv And even our silverware Before he left he pointed and laughed And called me a crazy old geezer But my wife is scared and cannot rest Until I put him in my freezer
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Aug 28, 2010
Aug 28, 2010 at 2:10 AM UTC
The Whitetail Burglar
The clock was bound to strike midnight This I already knew. But I lost track of time, And I stayed searching for my shoe. It's like I was playing tug of war with a cowboy I just really didn't have a chance. I might as well have been doing the tango, During a western square dance. As soon as I tried to walk away, The cowboy was up in arms. He lassoed the rope around my waist, And I heard the shrill of alarms. Yet I still let him reel me in, Like a fish caught in a net I laid all my chips down and out, Knowing I was loosing the bet. I joined his game freely, With my whole army down. I had no back up at all. A shopaholic out on the town. And now I'm all torn up Cause he's done and had his way. And with a tip of his hat, This cowboy's said good day. He's ridden off into the sunset And I've watched him disappear. And I'm the cut up fragments of an unwanted **** That the gardener tore up with his sheers.
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Oct 10, 2012
Oct 10, 2012 at 5:14 PM UTC
Nonsense
Patience is limitless when I speak with you no matter how long of a pause we take between words whether hours, weeks, or months. I've trained myself far too well in the months we've known each other (48) to never expect anything more than your presence. I view it as a gift, that each one worded reply, every good morning and goodbye, a simple sentence that you give me is doing me a favor. (I don't even get that anymore!) Fear is prominent when you speak to me. You, with a voice sweet enough to lure a confused traveler close, but firm enough to tame the savage beast have lassoed my emotions and pulled them into a choke hold; restricting airways and turning them a sickly shade of blue. I am scared, scared to tell you anything. I over-think every word I'm about to say, and dissect each one you've already spoken without the slightest hint of hesitation. (God, am I envious!) Guilt is ever-present when I think about myself instead of you and contemplate leaving you only in my memories, when you never had to think twice about leaving me. (Why did you go again?)
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Feb 5, 2014
Feb 5, 2014 at 5:46 PM UTC
Patience, Fear, Guilt and other dead-end emotions
Ellsworth Land's prima donna of the Latin sing-a-long lassoed Joss' hollow demoiselle crane a pair of circuitous logicians finally deciphered her grammatical Denebola into oblivion. The insipid petifog skeleton storyteller, behind incessant green quibbling eyes, ticking impatient thoughts in dreams tomorrow.
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Jan 13, 2011
Jan 13, 2011 at 5:09 PM UTC
To string words together
I fell of a pavement curb once.  I was a tightrope walker with an audience of thousands; I could smell damp straw and hear the gasps as I lost my footing.   Girls threw their hands to their faces and relinquished their eyesight to their boyfriend’s shoulders, who took the opportunity for a shifty *****   My chin split and the blood didn’t show up on the red dress but the audience had gone. I can still put my finger in the hole, see?   Even now, 30 years later.   The tip of my index finger goes right down to the bone, missing muscular structure, and it makes me think of a skull with a cleft chin, kinda how Kirk Douglas will look given a few years of grave time.   If I wiggle the finger in a circular motion it makes me wince, something about gristle, gristle makes me wince, even the word, a sensation of chewing wool.   It was never fixed.   My jaw clicks on the right side and, just this one time, I yawned and couldn’t shut my mouth.   Blind panic lassoed my heart and yanked it into my throat, perhaps it was even visible.   The longest 10 seconds of my life in which I spent a night in hospital, sat up in bed, howling through my wide open gob.   How would I drink tea?   I don’t yawn properly now, I do little demi-yawns, too terrified of the consequences of Open Gob.   How would I smoke?  I used to wonder why it was never fixed.   Why wasn’t I taken to hospital and given stitches and x-rays and pain killers?  I worked that out when I was older.   It could easily have been a fist.
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Dec 20, 2010
Dec 20, 2010 at 12:21 PM UTC
Open Gobs and Split Chins
I fell of a pavement curb once.  I was a tightrope walker with an audience of thousands; I could smell damp straw and hear the gasps as I lost my footing.   Girls threw their hands to their faces and relinquished their eyesight to their boyfriend’s shoulders, who took the opportunity for a shifty *****   My chin split and the blood didn’t show up on the red dress but the audience had gone. I can still put my finger in the hole, see?   Even now, 30 years later.   The tip of my index finger goes right down to the bone, missing muscular structure, and it makes me think of a skull with a cleft chin, kinda how Kirk Douglas will look given a few years of grave time.   If I wiggle the finger in a circular motion it makes me wince, something about gristle, gristle makes me wince, even the word, a sensation of chewing wool.   It was never fixed.   My jaw clicks on the right side and, just this one time, I yawned and couldn’t shut my mouth.   Blind panic lassoed my heart and yanked it into my throat, perhaps it was even visible.   The longest 10 seconds of my life in which I spent a night in hospital, sat up in bed, howling through my wide open gob.   How would I drink tea?   I don’t yawn properly now, I do little demi-yawns, too terrified of the consequences of Open Gob.   How would I smoke?  I used to wonder why it was never fixed.   Why wasn’t I taken to hospital and given stitches and x-rays and pain killers?  I worked that out when I was older.   It could easily have been a fist.
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lassitude lassoed her she let her tripod hide in her hatchback and woke not her camera from its long nap instead, she sat, a bowl of popcorn in her lap, watched reruns of Madmen and ogled a multitude of mushy moons on Facebook's finicky feed some were orange, some ivory some gibbous, some round, all purporting to be profound this rare occurrence, captured copiously in 2D, for all to see, and wonder, why shadows on rocks rub us right, while myriad stars collapse every night, and planets thought to be elegantly aligned, are but bobbing bubbles in an infinite sea
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Sep 28, 2015
Sep 28, 2015 at 8:49 PM UTC
moon-less
I'm following the red pig ziggety zag i can smell her blood **** & ***  whipped and wet thick as jelly bouncy bouncy belly gut trampoline oodles up **** hole bazooka her mind lavishly corrupt nothing pained her but emptiness her soul a poem of lust's dissolution so give it my red hot pig ***** gag hag **** bag valedictorian of kisses i love the sweat wet cascading dark waters that run so raw your lunch the history of projectile salad and pizza over glistening ***** and thighs the ********* knows  pain is not punishment  but pleasure spawned by unfulfilled intentions i like it when you close your eyes you appear so blameless i pray looking up to your ****** that yields its delicate shade of feeling like a bomb blinkity blink puddle and squeeze come my love for a frantic **** and flapping jowls on the frig of treasure in the land of dungeons and ****** i bay at your ankles for attention and a toe to kiss many wish they lived here  especially the love sick from whom all is withheld i know i owe you tenderness meet you in the bathroom for a midnight date where gawking tongues putter inhaling White Widow Cheese bound in straps and wide for a lady business nose dive neck bone lassoed mouth gaping like a twisted black coat hanger shes out of her rolling marbles ready to **** boogie woogie raw in broken maiden paradise lovely beast of submission she wobbles dead cat bounce
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Oct 15, 2020
Oct 15, 2020 at 12:06 PM UTC
Following the Red Pig
You are an unbridled stallion Disjointed Incoherent And wild Break me She wailed Domesticate me Make me inane A simpleton Godless A No one in a vast of people I A sun soaked cowboy Did her biding Hunted in her prairie Lassoed her And corralled the insatiable spirit
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Jul 18, 2013
Jul 18, 2013 at 9:29 PM UTC
Inner Tension
There is speak of latency and pregnant pauses, for epochs. From Cambrian to Devonian, and all things antediluvian. The stone, the bronze, the golden age. and the age of wood and wool, Of wool, and wood. Of mahogany, and mohair. An age of comfort and kindness, of nanas wasting idly in rocking chairs, Knitting sweaters big as continents, for the sons and daughters, Of their sons and daughters. with the loom and swoop and stitch. While each toc and tic, Turns grandma to dust and to death Then to be latent again, in a universe of dust. A star, with a secret harbor, of virtue. A constellation, lassoed, in her honor. Blessing all with patience Shining benevolent, and intentionless, For all to see.
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Aug 16, 2014
Aug 16, 2014 at 5:11 PM UTC
The Nana's Age
I am a teddy bear made from loosely sewn together patches of cardigans passed You are a warrior trapped inside a glass jar full of butterflies they sewed inside of my stomach. You, warrior, hunt monarch dragons from the backs of black bears draped in the patchworked wings of fallen enemies You are iridescent in the sun that pierced through the holes in my slipped stitch skin You have woven a basket from antennae and leaf stems you found on the ground Lassoed the last of the mourning cloaks and tied them to your basket And like a butterfly air balloon you rose Rose Saw the battle ground below you Flew towards the light above you From within your winged chariot you directed your flock out of the mason jar home they sewed you inside of me Saw all the butterflies you once drove away fluttering aimlessly And drove them once again towards the space between my seams They pushed against my fabric They pushed against my thread And they burst forth, scattered, iridescent in the sun a kaleidoscope of butterflies in the sun My skin fell to pieces covered in stuffing on the floor The jar shatter echoed off the walls And I was a boy And you were Malala Yousafzai And I was in love And you were warrior And I dreamed of a life with you And you dreamed of freedom And I reached for you And you kept flying And I waved goodbye And you, warrior, did not look back
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Oct 29, 2017
Oct 29, 2017 at 3:58 PM UTC
Butterflies
Spring How many sticky buds, candle ends sprout from the branches! Steaming April. Puberty sweats from the park, and the forest’s blatantly gleaming. A noose of feathered throats grips the wood’s larynx, a lassoed steer, netted, like a gladiatorial ***** it groans steel-piped sonatas here. Poetry! Be a Greek sponge with suckers, among green stickiness drenched, I’ll consent, by the sopping wood of a green-stained garden bench. Grow sumptuous pleats and flounces, **** up the gullies and clouds, Poetry, tonight, I’ll squeeze you out to make the parched sheets flower.
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Apr 14, 2015
Apr 14, 2015 at 6:38 PM UTC
Boris Pasternak
I felt it in my bones that night The pangs to run away The chirping birds, at 5 am They begged me not to stay So starry-eyed, so heavy-tongued So trapped within my head I’d fought and flailed and torn my sheets Set fire to my bed My frenzied heart is leaping flames Too hot to keep inside I packed my bags alone that night As cold as if I’d died How did I even find this place? My discipline was stern I lost myself in wild touch Dumb Girl, you’ll never learn Frenetic and delirious Thank God, the road is long When I am miles away from here You’ll tell me I was wrong You’ll tell me to spit out my words When mouth and throat are dry Demand I clip my claws and wings When I was meant to fly I feel so small here, feel like I Can hardly fill my lungs Lassoed by the circles danced out By our weary tongues I’d stood like Aphrodite once Before you, proud and bare But now I’m mortal once again I fear my heart will tear I cried myself so worthless And I tired of the sound Exhaustion sapping all my strength Stuck, muted, on the ground My feet are itching yet to trace The highway’s wandering curve Don’t call me back, don’t yell my name I swear I’ll lose my nerve I’m fraying and I’m scattered And I’m running, sprinting blind I don’t want to face this darkness And I don’t care what I find
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May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017 at 6:08 PM UTC
Flight Risk
I was walking through the woods one day when I saw a peculiar thing. A shark flying through the air without a sail or wing! He stared, he did, and so did I He was looking at me with a glare in his eye. I nearly died on the spot with fright but still I kept my head; I quickly rummaged through my things and found a rope instead. With one graceful swing, I lassoed the beast- A thing that did not please him in the least. I laughed at his face and he rolled his eyes, But I could tell he was accepting his demise. I climbed onto the shark and I’ll never forget How we rode past the trees and into the sunset.
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Feb 25, 2014
Feb 25, 2014 at 4:32 PM UTC
A Shark in the Woods
*Boasting coffins thick and cushiony as wombs, Pay last respects; their waxen image so Still, reprimands against motion – their tombs. Pirouette darkly against the moon, on we go.* Penny Leavitt, 2013 She walked and talked the boards – a gravelly Voice chasing the arts among the vagaries of Melody and meter and the colors of balloons. Penelope Marguerite – seven syllables to sway The boldest of characters in the most honored Stories to be seen and heard on stage. The little Shorewood house – known to groups, Nay herds of neighborhood critters and their Off-spring – where Penny dwells. “I hear the pulse of you,” she wrote, “solemn- Sweet pipes of the ***** – and abruptly shook Herself up and got on with it. That unmistakable pony-tail in strands of gray Marched with precision through grocery aisles – Cat food in cart and lottery ticket in hand. In the class notebook, she penned with care The tales of a teenaged temptress, “sauntering Sexily, swinging svelte lissome ***** Co-poets often thought her lost – she travelling Unannounced to Montreal or Chicago – but She bore the title of grandmother proudly. Penny gave her heart to whoever needed it – Not that she lost it – as snippets of amazement And humility took their places elsewhere. “This is what grandmas hope for," she wished For the face of nature to reveal its magical qualities to her grandson. Age and its surprises were not immune to Penny’s pen; she was an uncanny student of The human story. “We pass those who have gone before us;” She wrote. “We become the lassoed souls Of a younger, more agile dream.” Pope said to act well our parts; there all the Honour lies – Penny did so, and then some – “We hold our faltering shadows high.” There once was a poet named Benny, Who could write a limerick like any. It might have a word, Unique or absurd, But could not match those of our Penny! © Lewis Bosworth, April 2017
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Apr 7, 2017
Apr 7, 2017 at 11:27 AM UTC
Act Well Your Part
*Boasting coffins thick and cushiony as wombs, Pay last respects; their waxen image so Still, reprimands against motion – their tombs. Pirouette darkly against the moon, on we go.* Penny Leavitt, 2013 She walked and talked the boards – a gravelly Voice chasing the arts among the vagaries of Melody and meter and the colors of balloons. Penelope Marguerite – seven syllables to sway The boldest of characters in the most honored Stories to be seen and heard on stage. The little Shorewood house – known to groups, Nay herds of neighborhood critters and their Off-spring – where Penny dwells. “I hear the pulse of you,” she wrote, “solemn- Sweet pipes of the ***** – and abruptly shook Herself up and got on with it. That unmistakable pony-tail in strands of gray Marched with precision through grocery aisles – Cat food in cart and lottery ticket in hand. In the class notebook, she penned with care The tales of a teenaged temptress, “sauntering Sexily, swinging svelte lissome ***** Co-poets often thought her lost – she travelling Unannounced to Montreal or Chicago – but She bore the title of grandmother proudly. Penny gave her heart to whoever needed it – Not that she lost it – as snippets of amazement And humility took their places elsewhere. “This is what grandmas hope for," she wished For the face of nature to reveal its magical qualities to her grandson. Age and its surprises were not immune to Penny’s pen; she was an uncanny student of The human story. “We pass those who have gone before us;” She wrote. “We become the lassoed souls Of a younger, more agile dream.” Pope said to act well our parts; there all the Honour lies – Penny did so, and then some – “We hold our faltering shadows high.” There once was a poet named Benny, Who could write a limerick like any. It might have a word, Unique or absurd, But could not match those of our Penny! © Lewis Bosworth, April 2017
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the worldly swirling reverberating, whirlpool whirling, the To Do list, issuing senior commands, and the poetry dieting and exercise regime is muffled, though notes and promises atomizing, ideas and excitations, on the cardboard backs of yellow pads jotted, on menus for Chinese and Indian incantations, assembled in their own corner reservoir, nonetheless and all the more, no births recorded, no spawn of the dawn, product of mid of night illegal ramblings by the East River none achieve a hallelujah *********** and the pile of drafts messy are assorted and distorted in their own corner of the white writing desk, stillborn lay, or more accurately they cry out pained: "no, no, still to be born!" "not yet dead!" "permanent gestation is not a destination" and other survivor slogans, and mind and body bloated with need to ex and to in hale them, to let the healing compounding components of new compositions see a glorious Mayday morn of a steady streaming of howling babies, and all agree, look at you, look at me, look at this 5 minutes sassy essay on your lassoed status, now force the door ajar and let the nightlight lead you to dawn, deliver us, satisfy out our cravings, make us wholesome and then, with a sacred finishing wand waving of blessed Hallelujah Amen! Selah! now get to work, *** of coffee witches brew, knock off the stalling, Sondheim humming, crying out a ****** recognition, "*send in the clown, no more; maybe next year, too late, I'm here...*" 4:07 ~ 4:25am May One 2025
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May 1, 2025
May 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM UTC
the mini vacation
the worldly swirling reverberating, whirlpool whirling, the To Do list, issuing senior commands, and the poetry dieting and exercise regime is muffled, though notes and promises atomizing, ideas and excitations, on the cardboard backs of yellow pads jotted, on menus for Chinese and Indian incantations, assembled in their own corner reservoir, nonetheless and all the more, no births recorded, no spawn of the dawn, product of mid of night illegal ramblings by the East River none achieve a hallelujah *********** and the pile of drafts messy are assorted and distorted in their own corner of the white writing desk, stillborn lay, or more accurately they cry out pained: "no, no, still to be born!" "not yet dead!" "permanent gestation is not a destination" and other survivor slogans, and mind and body bloated with need to ex and to in hale them, to let the healing compounding components of new compositions see a glorious Mayday morn of a steady streaming of howling babies, and all agree, look at you, look at me, look at this 5 minutes sassy essay on your lassoed status, now force the door ajar and let the nightlight lead you to dawn, deliver us, satisfy out our cravings, make us wholesome and then, with a sacred finishing wand waving of blessed Hallelujah Amen! Selah! now get to work, *** of coffee witches brew, knock off the stalling, Sondheim humming, crying out a ****** recognition, "*send in the clown, no more; maybe next year, too late, I'm here...*" 4:07 ~ 4:25am May One 2025
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He yawned and I yearned to cradle him, to kiss his face, but he fell asleep on my grandmother’s crocheted afghan. So I rolled onto my back, and a string unraveled, lassoed the new moon and pulled the stars down, sprinkling them across my lap, while some fell into the black lake. I wanted to dip my pale toes into the water, feel the ice tango through my empty veins. But I stayed, watching as bruised skies healed into warm rays of orange, embracing the horizon. And I turned on my side to welcome you, to whisper We made it. Your eyes followed my mouth, silently agreed, but kept their distance, and our palms never touched.
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Nov 10, 2010
Nov 10, 2010 at 4:24 PM UTC
Distance
A restaurant is honest about what they have, more or less Do you have real brewed Ice Tea?   May I have that table by the sea? I've never settled into a restaurant, read the menu and run out Dating is like being blind, maybe like that dark room at the Oakland "Exploratorium" that I was always too scared to go in as a child You hear what he has, and you have only your feelings to guide you Alas, most are not good: man boy, been there, done that: Exploded spine, dislocated ankle, internal injuries, crashed car or two or three A feeling inside: no, I don't like this, but the conversation is only just beginning and another voice says: poor thing, you must stay and help And besides, it's rude to run out of a restaurant This ain't no restaurant: psychology has told me "This is all about your mother" Poor thing, I had to stay and help, or she would become wickedly brutally angry, a white rage to burn me to ashes, and I am blind feeling my way through feelings that have been messed with, lassoed to the ground hog tied, and somehow set themselves free, then learned to tie themselves down just to please It's dark in here.  No one can see if I run away. I look around, see only blackness and no one can see me, not even she I untie the ropes and walk away.
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 4:48 PM UTC
Men and Menus
We're millions out here divided and split. We keep hearing, we're ultimate, all powerful. Branded terrorists for being better citizens. Powerless, Punished, Brutalised to succumb. Stripped off honour for questioning, for trying to right the wrongs against the masses. We're out here in millions running a blind race Robbed of individuality. Running, just to stay safe. Standing in millions counting days, taken for granted, number's sake. We're many things lassoed beneath many other names Tomorrow's citizens, the growing population. Votes to commemorate false promises of a power war. I'm afraid our futures stand at stake, students, tomorrow's citizens, we sit in schools, cowering in fears. We were trained to lie down in submission, how am I to fight you?
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Feb 11, 2021
Feb 11, 2021 at 1:32 PM UTC
Mass among Millions
constantly rehashed long thread spun out every chance chokes Over And Over Again rewind button never sticks tape never breaks lassoed memories drug in kicking and screaming allegations insinuations half-truths blows the lid off feigned civility while anger simmers savagely under pursed lips
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 1:33 PM UTC
Ancient Lore