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**Festivals of my land are** Filled with The brilliance of colors.. The elegance of attire.. The resonance of lights.. The flamboyance of richness.. Of The essence of laughter.. The sense of happiness.. The fragrance of love .. The immence feeling of Joy.. The exuberance of festivities.. The relevance of celebration.. The Perseverance of culture.. Its all about My Motherland.... My India.. Yes !! Its that time of the year When 1/7 th population of the world celebrates The Festival of Lights.. On the dark night of No Moon .. The whole country is filled with lights.. From earthen lamps and LEDs To Celebrate the win of Good over evil.. To celebrate The homecoming - after the win.. The brightness of lights.. The purity of air.. The brimming faces.. The laughter echoes.. Elders, kids, adults all come together, To fill the land with Sparkles and Divinity.... Diwali it is !! Diwali it will be !! The festival of love.. The festival of respect.. The festival of sharing.. The festival of caring.. The festival of loving.. The festival of giving .. !!! ** Sharing, Caring, Loving, Giving.... The young kids rhyme.. We teach them by action, That we want them to remember...!! Happy Diwali.. The festival of lights..!! ** Sparkle In Wisdom Nov 2018
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Nov 3, 2018
Nov 3, 2018 at 8:43 AM UTC
Festival of Lights
And here in this windless hole, I sit and wonder where I had left that which mattered most to me under the starlit fields of Montreal. I crave it and yet wish to God that I had never been the man who held you close to me. Everything I had in my arms in the parking lot outside of that hotel dash turned dash residence. A messy room and a crowded cafeteria. A hotel dash turned dash residence dash turning dash memory. And here in this wonderless ******** in this airtight cabin of past fantasy’s design, the rent keeps piling up and oh the dishes are due. Half-finished paperback classics flapjacked on top of each other in this white shirt no sweat world with the sleeves rolled up. This pill form city with all the charm and magic of an after dinner mint. Take a walk with me, let me tell you about this dream I had. It had wine and white sheets and tables. Paintings that I knew but did not recognise, gasping under the grip of yellowing wallpaper with pink flowers. It was hell, hell I tell you. waking up with fever thinking I was portuguese and that there were three of me Remembering when you sat me down, and told me who I was in all of two paragraphs- underline this underline that. Black and red LEDs in full contrast of the room turning real again. All I remember is you.
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Sep 8, 2010
Sep 8, 2010 at 10:23 PM UTC
Perceptual flatulence.
It’s a hot summer afternoon, perfect in every way, A time to enjoy and relax, loll about and play. But the afternoon’s long shadow of darkness makes it clear, That for a particular group of students, disaster is near. And this unfortunate bunch march into a hot class that noon, With filled stomachs and eyes full of blissful slumber, But still, there is a sense of impending doom in the air, and soon The class will have to face up to a nightmare they fear. Then at half past one a man walks in, He smiles and says,“ good afternoon, class, lets begin!!” The sir then starts his physics lecture, Much to the students agony and dismay, And while they curse and snarl silently like a mangled cur, They wish they had never lived to see this day. And in no time the teacher sends out a barrage, Of “physics”, from lasers to parallel rays, characteristics of a coherent light source, Reflection, Wein’s displacement, sinusoidal wavefronts and an electron’s charge, He shouts his voice out till he goes hoarse. I too, as part of that class, try, To make sense of the gibberish spoken, But its hopeless, I give up with a sigh, I doubt his explanation could be understood by the smartest of men… And in the sweltering heat of the afternoon, with the lecture being a bore, The students just can’t listen to him, but can certainly do a lot more… And within minutes of the lecture the class is in its own world, Where life by quantum physics is not obscured… Boys start throwing paper pellets at one another, While mocking the teacher behind his back, Meanwhile the girls giggle and nudge each other, Laughing at the jokes they crack. And oblivious to all that is going on around him, The teacher goes on to say why the LEDs glow dim. And I am caught, in a whirl, Of various activities all around me, And while I pen down a poem, think about my favorite girl, I am amazed at the sight I do see… The class becomes more and more unruly, falling apart, And at a certain point it is too much and hence, The sir stops talking about the critical value, and does start, To take the class’s attendence. No sooner is the roll call done that the herd stampedes out, With many a push, a yell and a shout. The same phenomena will occur again next week, Isn’t it an example of college life at it’s peak?...
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Nov 5, 2010
Nov 5, 2010 at 10:42 AM UTC
AN AFTERNOON PHYSICS CLASS...
It’s a hot summer afternoon, perfect in every way, A time to enjoy and relax, loll about and play. But the afternoon’s long shadow of darkness makes it clear, That for a particular group of students, disaster is near. And this unfortunate bunch march into a hot class that noon, With filled stomachs and eyes full of blissful slumber, But still, there is a sense of impending doom in the air, and soon The class will have to face up to a nightmare they fear. Then at half past one a man walks in, He smiles and says,“ good afternoon, class, lets begin!!” The sir then starts his physics lecture, Much to the students agony and dismay, And while they curse and snarl silently like a mangled cur, They wish they had never lived to see this day. And in no time the teacher sends out a barrage, Of “physics”, from lasers to parallel rays, characteristics of a coherent light source, Reflection, Wein’s displacement, sinusoidal wavefronts and an electron’s charge, He shouts his voice out till he goes hoarse. I too, as part of that class, try, To make sense of the gibberish spoken, But its hopeless, I give up with a sigh, I doubt his explanation could be understood by the smartest of men… And in the sweltering heat of the afternoon, with the lecture being a bore, The students just can’t listen to him, but can certainly do a lot more… And within minutes of the lecture the class is in its own world, Where life by quantum physics is not obscured… Boys start throwing paper pellets at one another, While mocking the teacher behind his back, Meanwhile the girls giggle and nudge each other, Laughing at the jokes they crack. And oblivious to all that is going on around him, The teacher goes on to say why the LEDs glow dim. And I am caught, in a whirl, Of various activities all around me, And while I pen down a poem, think about my favorite girl, I am amazed at the sight I do see… The class becomes more and more unruly, falling apart, And at a certain point it is too much and hence, The sir stops talking about the critical value, and does start, To take the class’s attendence. No sooner is the roll call done that the herd stampedes out, With many a push, a yell and a shout. The same phenomena will occur again next week, Isn’t it an example of college life at it’s peak?...
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Oh Darling, don't sanctify me as a higher being, your salvation out of your rut. the world is a green moist sponge, and I am just another dihydrogen oxide molecule trapped in it's fibers crying for salvation screaming for baptization waiting for nothing and although you think in binary terms. I think in decimal and yet we are the stigma of the guy and the gal in this dream of dreams. a heiress of confession I am here surreal and every single inch made out of stardust to remind you... Remember Montague and the frosted lake? where we built the blanketfort among the trees for the child and lit her world with dazzling LEDs, as she stared in the tent higher than fools talking nonsense words about the world and her feelings because she's so sad and because she's so mad because no one cares except her and her watering eyes. she says. I have no one. And you can't do anything about it, starwhale because that's the way I like it.
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Apr 24, 2012
Apr 24, 2012 at 1:00 AM UTC
The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Love in the time of LEDs “Honey, I’m just not feeling it”. She said this to me, constantly. “The moon and the stars and the planets sing to me, an orchestra of nature and eternal time intertwined.” “Mother nature directing this divine symphony.” “These new lights just don’t do it for me.” We traveled here and traveled there, over many a year. Then one night , One full harvest moon night, High on a cliff, Deep in the night, Silent and still and cold, She shed every stitch that covered her frame And opened her arms to the celestial rain. Rays from heaven pouring down, illuminating her shape, saturating Earth’s lovely ground. Dancing about, With not a trace of restraint, The moon and stars and the night Sang to her soul, Sang to every fiber of her being, Sang to her every bone. ‘You see, Mother Nature knows the cycles that feed the soul.’ she whispered to me, in her soft and sultry voice. Watching, transfixed, drawn into the dance, surrounded by stars twinkling, Milky Way flowing, Waking from this trance, I tapped out a message, read it aloud, I QUIT! I quit selling LEDs and the bright artificial lights. I quit this nightmare of a job! I quit this life of a thief, this one of stealing the stars! I quit this very night! I threw my smart phone over the cliff, each article of clothing removed, following quick. I stood bare under the moon, Bare under the stars, Bare under the planets And bare to Mars. Well? I asked hesitantly, hope having dimmed for so many a year. ‘We’ll see.’ she replied to me A tiny smile appearing upon her lips, A small promising twinkle coming to her eye, For the first time in all these many years. For the first time my heart leapt, beating with this hint of hope, beating with joy, under this majestic, star studded, inky black, huge moon filled, cold, silent, magical, night sky!
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Dec 24, 2021
Dec 24, 2021 at 5:52 PM UTC
Love in the time of LEDs
Love in the time of LEDs “Honey, I’m just not feeling it”. She said this to me, constantly. “The moon and the stars and the planets sing to me, an orchestra of nature and eternal time intertwined.” “Mother nature directing this divine symphony.” “These new lights just don’t do it for me.” We traveled here and traveled there, over many a year. Then one night , One full harvest moon night, High on a cliff, Deep in the night, Silent and still and cold, She shed every stitch that covered her frame And opened her arms to the celestial rain. Rays from heaven pouring down, illuminating her shape, saturating Earth’s lovely ground. Dancing about, With not a trace of restraint, The moon and stars and the night Sang to her soul, Sang to every fiber of her being, Sang to her every bone. ‘You see, Mother Nature knows the cycles that feed the soul.’ she whispered to me, in her soft and sultry voice. Watching, transfixed, drawn into the dance, surrounded by stars twinkling, Milky Way flowing, Waking from this trance, I tapped out a message, read it aloud, I QUIT! I quit selling LEDs and the bright artificial lights. I quit this nightmare of a job! I quit this life of a thief, this one of stealing the stars! I quit this very night! I threw my smart phone over the cliff, each article of clothing removed, following quick. I stood bare under the moon, Bare under the stars, Bare under the planets And bare to Mars. Well? I asked hesitantly, hope having dimmed for so many a year. ‘We’ll see.’ she replied to me A tiny smile appearing upon her lips, A small promising twinkle coming to her eye, For the first time in all these many years. For the first time my heart leapt, beating with this hint of hope, beating with joy, under this majestic, star studded, inky black, huge moon filled, cold, silent, magical, night sky!
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It’s Friday night and a group of us, the ‘university summer fellows’ (Quinn, Jammie, Monique, Lisa and I) are going groovin’. Quinn, a Harvard man (we’ve shed our jaundiced opinions of him), assured us he knows the Boston bar scene. We’re going to test that. We told him we wanted to sway to whimsical beats and chase vivid, neon lights across dance floors, like a bunch of cats - till the hours get wee. His plan is for us to pop-in the “touristy” places, like ‘the Havana Club’, ‘the Manray club’, ‘Garage Boston’ and ‘The Grand’, we’re so 111. As usual, Charles is our party mom, escort and driver. When Peter and I were in Saint-Tropez, earlier this summer, there were beach clothes - dresses, skirts and men's shirts - where they’d woven micro-LEDs into the flowered, dry-wick, fabrics. I think the effect is amazing, friday, and joyous. I got two skirts for everyone (all of my roommates). Tonight Lisa and I are wearing a couple of them. Funny. I’ve mentioned it before, but Lisa‘s an audrey. Her school friends and roommates are all used to it, we’ve been exposed, we have built up immunity. But Quinn’s a newbie, when Lisa came into the living room, LED glittered and lookin-right, he was literally stunned. He froze, for a microsecond, his face went blank and his fingers wiggled, as if disconnected from his overloaded central nervous system. *** Jammie said, having just turned around, “holla at ya brooke!,” he declared, shaking his head in admiration. “Umm mmm,” he added. “I’m sure.” Lisa said, starting to transfer things from her everyday bag to her glittery clutch, the girl cannot accept a compliment. Quinn, coming out of it, cleared his throat. We’re ready. Let Friday night begin!
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Jun 30, 2023
Jun 30, 2023 at 12:12 PM UTC
friday night lites
It’s Friday night and a group of us, the ‘university summer fellows’ (Quinn, Jammie, Monique, Lisa and I) are going groovin’. Quinn, a Harvard man (we’ve shed our jaundiced opinions of him), assured us he knows the Boston bar scene. We’re going to test that. We told him we wanted to sway to whimsical beats and chase vivid, neon lights across dance floors, like a bunch of cats - till the hours get wee. His plan is for us to pop-in the “touristy” places, like ‘the Havana Club’, ‘the Manray club’, ‘Garage Boston’ and ‘The Grand’, we’re so 111. As usual, Charles is our party mom, escort and driver. When Peter and I were in Saint-Tropez, earlier this summer, there were beach clothes - dresses, skirts and men's shirts - where they’d woven micro-LEDs into the flowered, dry-wick, fabrics. I think the effect is amazing, friday, and joyous. I got two skirts for everyone (all of my roommates). Tonight Lisa and I are wearing a couple of them. Funny. I’ve mentioned it before, but Lisa‘s an audrey. Her school friends and roommates are all used to it, we’ve been exposed, we have built up immunity. But Quinn’s a newbie, when Lisa came into the living room, LED glittered and lookin-right, he was literally stunned. He froze, for a microsecond, his face went blank and his fingers wiggled, as if disconnected from his overloaded central nervous system. *** Jammie said, having just turned around, “holla at ya brooke!,” he declared, shaking his head in admiration. “Umm mmm,” he added. “I’m sure.” Lisa said, starting to transfer things from her everyday bag to her glittery clutch, the girl cannot accept a compliment. Quinn, coming out of it, cleared his throat. We’re ready. Let Friday night begin!
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there's basically no difference between clouds and fog, and thunderstorms and reduced visibility have both put the fear of God in me; loving you is all pain and lust, interchangeable, interchangeable. slippery squealing synthesizers, aching for your touch and dying to throw these LCDs and LEDs and private snapchats into the Recycle Bin, and I am glittering in the dark, swerving across the median, drunk driving on the thought of seeing you just a little sooner than never.
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 8:28 PM UTC
m.i.a.
It’s December and my roommates and I are deeply into Christmas. We’ve got a little 3ft tall Christmas tree with about fifty-thousand little multicolor LED lights on it (LEDs because we ARE saving the planet). We’re in the ‘study period’ right before finals and It’s a lowkey Saturday night. Lisa and I were pajama’d and gelaxing in our suite’s common room. She was in a tan easy chair and I was slouched on our red corduroy couch, my slippered feet up on a white coffee table. We had a Christmas playlist playing throughout the suite, a ‘Christmas lights of Paris’ Youtube video streaming silently on our TV and cups of Keurig brewed hot-chocolate with little marshmallows. Leong came out of her room and joined us, taking a seat on the far side of the couch with me. After a moment she stretched-out, putting her head in my lap. I love her jet-black, cornsilk hair and it wasn’t long before I found myself stroking it, a gesture primates have been making since the pleistocene period. When Lisa glanced over at us and smiled, I started making gestures like I was looking for fleas in her hair and eating them - in a silly, momentary comedy lost on Leong. We got back from November recess a few days ago. After three years together, it was easy, almost automatic, for us to fall back in our rhythms as roommates. On arrival, I glanced through my drawers, ***** clothes and shelves, taking a casual inventory. Everything was as I remembered it but still, everything had the feel of trivial leftovers from some lost civilization. I got a new M3-iMac, it’s really the best platform for putting docs side by side. The first thing I did was hit ‘restore my setup’ from the cloud. I love futzing with tech - I can remember when that kind of restoration would have taken all day - but fifteen minutes later I could tell from the files on my desktop that everything was restoring nicely. As I sat back on my office chair watching the restoration, I felt myself relax. THIS was real life, this was how life should be done. No matter what else I’d done or where else I’d gone - this was how my life should be - at school, with friends, facing those challenges. It was a peek-moment. It was an illusion that my little iMac welcomed me back, like an old friend, as it finished restoring - wasn’t it?
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Dec 5, 2023
Dec 5, 2023 at 10:30 AM UTC
study period
It’s December and my roommates and I are deeply into Christmas. We’ve got a little 3ft tall Christmas tree with about fifty-thousand little multicolor LED lights on it (LEDs because we ARE saving the planet). We’re in the ‘study period’ right before finals and It’s a lowkey Saturday night. Lisa and I were pajama’d and gelaxing in our suite’s common room. She was in a tan easy chair and I was slouched on our red corduroy couch, my slippered feet up on a white coffee table. We had a Christmas playlist playing throughout the suite, a ‘Christmas lights of Paris’ Youtube video streaming silently on our TV and cups of Keurig brewed hot-chocolate with little marshmallows. Leong came out of her room and joined us, taking a seat on the far side of the couch with me. After a moment she stretched-out, putting her head in my lap. I love her jet-black, cornsilk hair and it wasn’t long before I found myself stroking it, a gesture primates have been making since the pleistocene period. When Lisa glanced over at us and smiled, I started making gestures like I was looking for fleas in her hair and eating them - in a silly, momentary comedy lost on Leong. We got back from November recess a few days ago. After three years together, it was easy, almost automatic, for us to fall back in our rhythms as roommates. On arrival, I glanced through my drawers, ***** clothes and shelves, taking a casual inventory. Everything was as I remembered it but still, everything had the feel of trivial leftovers from some lost civilization. I got a new M3-iMac, it’s really the best platform for putting docs side by side. The first thing I did was hit ‘restore my setup’ from the cloud. I love futzing with tech - I can remember when that kind of restoration would have taken all day - but fifteen minutes later I could tell from the files on my desktop that everything was restoring nicely. As I sat back on my office chair watching the restoration, I felt myself relax. THIS was real life, this was how life should be done. No matter what else I’d done or where else I’d gone - this was how my life should be - at school, with friends, facing those challenges. It was a peek-moment. It was an illusion that my little iMac welcomed me back, like an old friend, as it finished restoring - wasn’t it?
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This sadness never ends. Parade of Scars. A broken glass, broken hands. Concrete walls, a soldierhead, the memories will trick you. A ritual of ghosts, angels of death, attitude adjustment, auto-inflicted destruction. Forceful behavior leds to the blackest tears, empty eyes, empty minds, prosthetic minds of fear and greed. Live the American dream, unleash the ultimate scream! Man spricht Deutsch und die Alarme begann zu läuten. Warum? This could be anywhere in the world, march on the kingdom of the dead, we came to conquer! Live the American dream, unleash the ultimate scream! Carriers of the plague, everything invaded, redemption. This time's for real, why do you tell me all these lies? My patience is getting shorter and killing you is killing me. We stand as one, harvest, sacrifice...
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Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015 at 9:40 AM UTC
The ultimate scream
on cloudless days we besmirch the suns reign the spirit hankers for Autumn the baltic coast apposite launches thy being by the northern skies, a trinity of light  leds to the caucasus plains to reveal Edens gardens and locate cultivars of apple and vine to graft onto our dying seasons
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Oct 7, 2013
Oct 7, 2013 at 4:03 PM UTC
To the virginal cultivar.
the light pulses flashes draws you in it narrows and widens can’t block out that glow it flickers Begging for your attention Like a helpless moth You're flying towards it Confused This isn't the real light These girls, like neons they got you These numbers they flickering like the halogen and they got you They promising everlasting love like LEDs and it got you Got you frantic chasing that lime light You're in that frame Shine bright like the sun Staring at it too long and you’ll go blind
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Apr 5, 2017
Apr 5, 2017 at 12:12 AM UTC
Lights Off.
the hues of black of the object in front of me closely vibrates each shade of the spectrum of worldly colors showing them self they warn me their caution to better my own the chemical begins to gnaw at my ego the green hallway to nowhere in my brain where the monsters chased me as a child where I’d run to hide away seem endless terror doesn’t live here flashes of LEDs shining through the bottles of mezcal next to mescaline laying on the table remind me you don’t live there listen to the sounds of a voice you don’t want to hear block out that **** you say god I don’t even know what day is it?
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Sep 28, 2020
Sep 28, 2020 at 8:44 PM UTC
15D DREAMS
Grievous I hold you as the chameleon with his spring-trigger bone Holds his tongue And I will catch you as a fist I will lick the stench from your odor sacks as a skunk All those creepy little fragments bugs in the system;glitched codes they are shackled souls in a microsecond arc-length of the universal Prodding the dirt and the worms as stars How about all the spice trees? The many different species of food glitter they make the buds sparkle, they are thinking of the taste of umami, of sour, of patchwork gaze the cooked vestibules of bone the marrow, seeping into the stew The pepper trees are smoked equinoctial bonfires You and I are yet to be cooked through A taxi in the trader joes parking lot Big repetitive 7's splattered across its paneling I won't forget when i'm drunk or inebriated somehow The tree in the center of town is lit up with LEDs Branches curling like worms You are Pharos, you are the great celestial beam you are the crescent moon, thin as a sleeve and the hot taste of batter on your breath the way you let my Guinness cool off next to the space-heater and give me yogurt from the local townsfolk Everything is creamy, you said. But i don't like to hear that It's a steel rod into my brain, that. I am a simple Vishnu Hare Brahma I do not have any purpose but to be enlightened and worshiped for my powerful odors and a four-chambered bowel that makes the turn easier for worms. 2 Pitiful You are the hopeless pod the many wildebeest, crossing their annuals through twirling water-crocs, Lion Prides Leopards shifting within the brush Bacterial infections from ***** tusks Strange metal boxes No 7's on this side I want to blow the ******* skulls off of anything that aims for you, sweet mare 45-70 Will literally send chunks of it into orbit Lion or Turtle or window or Children The most godly thing is a bullet And the streams of blood that will seed a new ravine and seep the next feed of riverrun Will you be mine, then?
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Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018 at 4:39 AM UTC
Sub-Sahara
Grievous I hold you as the chameleon with his spring-trigger bone Holds his tongue And I will catch you as a fist I will lick the stench from your odor sacks as a skunk All those creepy little fragments bugs in the system;glitched codes they are shackled souls in a microsecond arc-length of the universal Prodding the dirt and the worms as stars How about all the spice trees? The many different species of food glitter they make the buds sparkle, they are thinking of the taste of umami, of sour, of patchwork gaze the cooked vestibules of bone the marrow, seeping into the stew The pepper trees are smoked equinoctial bonfires You and I are yet to be cooked through A taxi in the trader joes parking lot Big repetitive 7's splattered across its paneling I won't forget when i'm drunk or inebriated somehow The tree in the center of town is lit up with LEDs Branches curling like worms You are Pharos, you are the great celestial beam you are the crescent moon, thin as a sleeve and the hot taste of batter on your breath the way you let my Guinness cool off next to the space-heater and give me yogurt from the local townsfolk Everything is creamy, you said. But i don't like to hear that It's a steel rod into my brain, that. I am a simple Vishnu Hare Brahma I do not have any purpose but to be enlightened and worshiped for my powerful odors and a four-chambered bowel that makes the turn easier for worms. 2 Pitiful You are the hopeless pod the many wildebeest, crossing their annuals through twirling water-crocs, Lion Prides Leopards shifting within the brush Bacterial infections from ***** tusks Strange metal boxes No 7's on this side I want to blow the ******* skulls off of anything that aims for you, sweet mare 45-70 Will literally send chunks of it into orbit Lion or Turtle or window or Children The most godly thing is a bullet And the streams of blood that will seed a new ravine and seep the next feed of riverrun Will you be mine, then?
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I'm looking through at the joys Which are traveling slowly On these dim LEDs tonight. There is eternal love Behind one of the doors, And behind plenty of others There exists a world Where we begin to dissolve, But our surface area increases greatly. Will we luck out, Or are we destined to call this audible? I don't know why you Are coating yourself in this Jagged exterior of elitism When you know all too well How Faust squandered his soul. Don't tell me I'm repeating my mistakes Because you don't understand That I'm bettering myself, As you glare in to my consciousness Through your kaleidoscope Where everything must look like paradox. Let me think for myself now. I've weighed the advantages More times than you have, And I promise you, These circumstances are far better. Love to you is like the Monty Hall Problem, And you always think there's a bigger prize Behind the next door. You aren't increasing your fortune, And that's not how you win. I'd say you're not using game theory very well, And I'd posit that's no way to live your life. You want to feel calculated and powerful By approaching love with your Id fully wanting, And wanting the apex of what it can obtain.
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Oct 25, 2015
Oct 25, 2015 at 11:21 PM UTC
Love as the Monty Hall Problem.
I yearn to someday make something of utmost individuality. But it seems today I'm pensively turning blank pages perpetually. It seems I'm marred, and it's macrame macrame, same thing every time. Presumably, light of it comes, but with what am I left as it goes? Retinal scarring! Badum poots. Maybe some knots in the cords of my back and creases down the corners of my every smile. What comes up must go down dimple dimple frown frown Come on outside for a while! Sunshine daisy daffodil! Hills and valleys, mountains and canyons it's a whole life story out there But then I sit down sit down, and pluck the same strings same strings. Different order same strings. What'sit bring? What's it bring? Today I sit down sit down to tell you a story. It's a short story, but it's also a long story. Like a mountain range you see from miles away without walking it's entire length. I was a little monster with blinders on. I took to my parents in a way of which I'm not too fond. I was an orb of obsession and wrinkles of scorn on her forehead. I was particles and waveforms trying to ride a bicycle. I was ropa vieja mistaken for some kinda soup. Papá! You taught me how you saw the workings of the universe but you worked it like a cockroach. You turned me into low tail low tail grinding on the guard rail. Ready to flip over the side and tumble tumble crash. I was ready to die. You sewed my face onto screens of LEDs screaming with the cries of unclothed children. and you left me crying Mäma! Mäma! Saving grace grave face I'm sorry for what he's done to you. I see the weight of over two decades worth of ball and chain dead leaves still dangling from your eyelashes. I see you ripping them out from the roots when it gets to be too much. I solemnly sit beside you at that cursed kitchen table trying to wish on as many of my own so that yours may grow back without any fault. Oh, but I see them sprouting out all crooked in all directions and whenever you bat an eye you run the risk of years of silent tears tumbling on back in an attempt to finally be heard. I've learned that no truth will come from the wishes you make on the lashes you take with force. Let 'em go with grace. Leave them alone and let them fall from your face like the loudest raindrops. Our wishes come true just as we speak — and listen...
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Mar 17, 2015
Mar 17, 2015 at 3:20 PM UTC
Listen...
I yearn to someday make something of utmost individuality. But it seems today I'm pensively turning blank pages perpetually. It seems I'm marred, and it's macrame macrame, same thing every time. Presumably, light of it comes, but with what am I left as it goes? Retinal scarring! Badum poots. Maybe some knots in the cords of my back and creases down the corners of my every smile. What comes up must go down dimple dimple frown frown Come on outside for a while! Sunshine daisy daffodil! Hills and valleys, mountains and canyons it's a whole life story out there But then I sit down sit down, and pluck the same strings same strings. Different order same strings. What'sit bring? What's it bring? Today I sit down sit down to tell you a story. It's a short story, but it's also a long story. Like a mountain range you see from miles away without walking it's entire length. I was a little monster with blinders on. I took to my parents in a way of which I'm not too fond. I was an orb of obsession and wrinkles of scorn on her forehead. I was particles and waveforms trying to ride a bicycle. I was ropa vieja mistaken for some kinda soup. Papá! You taught me how you saw the workings of the universe but you worked it like a cockroach. You turned me into low tail low tail grinding on the guard rail. Ready to flip over the side and tumble tumble crash. I was ready to die. You sewed my face onto screens of LEDs screaming with the cries of unclothed children. and you left me crying Mäma! Mäma! Saving grace grave face I'm sorry for what he's done to you. I see the weight of over two decades worth of ball and chain dead leaves still dangling from your eyelashes. I see you ripping them out from the roots when it gets to be too much. I solemnly sit beside you at that cursed kitchen table trying to wish on as many of my own so that yours may grow back without any fault. Oh, but I see them sprouting out all crooked in all directions and whenever you bat an eye you run the risk of years of silent tears tumbling on back in an attempt to finally be heard. I've learned that no truth will come from the wishes you make on the lashes you take with force. Let 'em go with grace. Leave them alone and let them fall from your face like the loudest raindrops. Our wishes come true just as we speak — and listen...
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Has it rained in your  heart and have you buried all of those drowned kissing frogs? The saturated coastal trail leds you  further away. Yet I recall the days your postcards were postmarked Polegate with the best of Sunshine intentions
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Feb 13, 2014
Feb 13, 2014 at 5:31 PM UTC
Drowned Frogs
The white LEDs shine bright Like the unwanted pseudo-stars they are The living room that houses the sofa I am lying down on Has white walls that reflect the bulbs' light Almost as if they were mirrors The lights hit my face the way lights hit faces, In less than a snap of the fingers, It still feels like it's dark, to be frank It's the kind of darkness you experience When a blanket is over your head While you're camping on a starless, moonless night With only the tent floor as your sleeping bag You feel the earth stabbing you in a billion different points As the cold slowly freezes your fingers into submission And the darkness you see is the darkness only the ones who have gouged their eyes out can describe The pitch black of all the pitch black The lights hit my face now like an oncoming train, Yet I see darkness emanate out of the bulb like splashing waves on a beach
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Jan 3, 2017
Jan 3, 2017 at 10:27 AM UTC
Lights
a pair of headphones with the mufflers missing the wire that goes from said headphones to the computer a ceramic pug in a red scarf containing tubes of paint an ocarina that i picked up in a ghost town/tourist trap in california a red cup for water during painting a book called the artist's mentor an adjustable lamp wristbands a lover made for me a book for savannah college of art and design featuring someone holding a large inflatable red ball on the cover an incomplete abstract painting on canvas paper, slightly crumbled, a box for the savannah college of art and design VR kit that they sent me a book on writing a book about color line and form in the visual arts a red squishy ball inside a a fishnet containment, creating organic bulbous abscesses when squeezed a book of poetry with a red cloth on the cover a small packet of konpeito, a japanese sugar-based hard candy a novelty necklace designed to resemble christmas lights, complete with glowing LEDs a red colored pencil a red marker a red mechanical pencil a gigantic anthology of american poetry i have yet to dive into a packet of cherry jello
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May 20, 2018
May 20, 2018 at 4:43 PM UTC
a list of things currently on my desk that have the color red somewhere on them (probably incomplete)
my vision blurs and refocuses around the sight of tamed blue fire. i am waiting for the low wheezing sound of the kettle as my mind wanders everywhere i wish it not to go. there was always tea ready for me at my therapist’s office; i think that’s where it started. we used to talk about my parents a lot, me and my old therapist. i remember telling her this one time: I love like my dad. I rage like my mom. she asked me to elaborate and i couldn’t give her much more to write down in her little notepad. i wish i’d said something about how sometimes i wish oranges could grow out of apple trees. this is one of those days. every move i make has been pre-programmed. i grab a mug from the cabinet. i place it down on the counter. i am trying very hard not to cry. the teabag bobs to the surface so i stick my trembling finger in the water, i drown it until skin turns red and sore, and i’m thinking, You know, maybe I’m not so above it all (hurried whispers, clashing teeth, the hesitant theatre we make out of our long-starving hands). Maybe i need it, very badly. but then again, i’m not bad at being in love; it’s the being loved part that always gets me. it's funny, isn't it? the paralyzing, nauseating threat of requited affection. funny if you’re the dissector and not the dissectee, that is. **** but isn’t that what we all want? to be seen? for someone to finally notice everything we love about ourselves and love everything we hate about ourselves? would i not rather see myself through the reflection of your eyes than my own, unforgiving? sharp bathroom LEDs can’t ever beat half-dark and candlelit. see, i know that much. but such is life. some people will walk towards the light and some people will run from it. from the bottom of my cup, the teabag stains clear water a dark, muddy brown.
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Jul 23, 2021
Jul 23, 2021 at 11:50 PM UTC
the perfect cup of tea
my vision blurs and refocuses around the sight of tamed blue fire. i am waiting for the low wheezing sound of the kettle as my mind wanders everywhere i wish it not to go. there was always tea ready for me at my therapist’s office; i think that’s where it started. we used to talk about my parents a lot, me and my old therapist. i remember telling her this one time: I love like my dad. I rage like my mom. she asked me to elaborate and i couldn’t give her much more to write down in her little notepad. i wish i’d said something about how sometimes i wish oranges could grow out of apple trees. this is one of those days. every move i make has been pre-programmed. i grab a mug from the cabinet. i place it down on the counter. i am trying very hard not to cry. the teabag bobs to the surface so i stick my trembling finger in the water, i drown it until skin turns red and sore, and i’m thinking, You know, maybe I’m not so above it all (hurried whispers, clashing teeth, the hesitant theatre we make out of our long-starving hands). Maybe i need it, very badly. but then again, i’m not bad at being in love; it’s the being loved part that always gets me. it's funny, isn't it? the paralyzing, nauseating threat of requited affection. funny if you’re the dissector and not the dissectee, that is. **** but isn’t that what we all want? to be seen? for someone to finally notice everything we love about ourselves and love everything we hate about ourselves? would i not rather see myself through the reflection of your eyes than my own, unforgiving? sharp bathroom LEDs can’t ever beat half-dark and candlelit. see, i know that much. but such is life. some people will walk towards the light and some people will run from it. from the bottom of my cup, the teabag stains clear water a dark, muddy brown.
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Click, Slick, The whir of Jenny, Tinny Jenny on ball bearing wheels. A slick ***** Clicks his fingers, Jenny glides to his side, Pen and paper in hand. Jenny purrs, LEDs wink under false lashes, Mechanoid pretence at femine, Tips a wink and lifts a steel leg under tin foil skirt. “Your order Sir”, she chirps, As Slick **** ***** an eye at aluminium thigh. “Chips, silicone chips”, he replies, Jenny’s circuits fry, Dumb waitress cry’s light oil from glass eye. Slick ***** Rick, Laughs as Jenny’s electronic whine murmurs incoherent bleeps, Systems down, Fuses blown, Jenny’s memory erased.
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Jul 29, 2019
Jul 29, 2019 at 3:57 PM UTC
Jenny 240 volts
The extra split second of suspense waiting for  fingers to be release held captive by soda-stained keys the familiar rhythm uncomfortably disturbed The echoing strain as eyes feel the magnetic pull towards an airplane TV endlessly searching for dialogue gone MIA Shredded fingers and cracked lips wind-burned lungs and throbbing eardrums pulsating temples the familiar ache Peeling t-shirts off of backs making sense of childhood love soaking in tri-colored LEDs questioning validity Past stages feeling like distant memories old therapy now feeling like a chore memories linger out of habit instead of desire assumptions of immaturity mask diluted longing Stringy hair from groping fingers shattered nailbeds from shameful sabotage magenta stains covering past identities nighttime risks saturating your pace Silence fills your ear at night isolation creaks around your fingers slow beating heart serves as a singular passage of time as hot summer nights slowly tick by
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Jun 7, 2019
Jun 7, 2019 at 1:39 AM UTC
In Limbo
Eyes are bloodshot staring at the alcoholic LEDs, It would be impossible to rip them off of The angelic glaze slathered on the screen. Tears streaming on a face fixed for a permanent smile. Can’t scream, not s’pposed to. The eyes are taking in sips of wood alcohol Littered with food coloring to make it seem like bourbon. They know it’s not, The burns all the same. Eyes sleepless and fried while the screen fries itself. Maybe it's time to shut them
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Mar 29, 2020
Mar 29, 2020 at 5:07 AM UTC
alcoholic screen-time
The whining hum of LEDs distract from their sneaking shadows where pallid light falls dimly 'round corners, walls, and vents. White is the prescription for walls, panels, screens and plastic or metal or manufactured wood abound. If this office were a sandwich maybe it would be ham and cheese but instead of ham maybe it had tofu. Tofu is not so bad the taste is fine but still it is white and, relatively speaking, bland.
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Jan 24, 2025
Jan 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM UTC
Tofu Office
Cliche Cobbled Hurried steps, desperate for footing Up and down again I remember when I was more paced Uncertain and odd, there was yet truth to my movements Invoking a sound from a texture long lost I wonder what a round moment might feel like Pushed against a sharpness I didn't not account for My choices are smaller still Whisper between the lanes of edge and acceptance I eat an apple in my mind But only fried potato in reality Sickly with starch and false comfort Down, below the dancing LEDs There, the pit of pits I want to scream, but only for myself I don't want to be heard or considered Loneliness, I am no longer offered Maybe I'll manufacture it instead? Push away, let you down, a crack in the reverberation A bell toll wakes me up to a new modality A pattern I haven't yet considered? The dull uniformity tells me no There is discipline, and there is me Far from married, at war with knowledge Cliche Cobbled I watch the walls of my basement crumble The mortar turns to sand Adhesion long dried Dust Dust Dust
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Dec 8, 2019
Dec 8, 2019 at 11:33 PM UTC
Crumble
When my channeled radiowaves groove and reach your ears like LEDs (and in mind's eye explode) with colorful remnants of unimposing ultra all-knowing, unimportant dues You will want (if anything) to pick up the phone and (to no one in particular) call and take a taxi beneath the moon
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Feb 28, 2021
Feb 28, 2021 at 6:50 PM UTC
take a taxi