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"lobby" poems
My body mind's lobby old-time-y lobotomy. *Surfing kaleidoscope time waves, baking green tree eurythmy cookies, singing campfire folky-tale lullabies. We enjoy tasting dawn-squash memories.*
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Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 11:58 PM UTC
Mind/Body Time Warp
And when I met that girl in San Francisco Off a dusty little pier with rotting wood and squawking seals And screaming bayside wind She caught me off-tropics and danced with the grace of a palm tree lines between the quaked concrete off telegraph avenue On an obscuring Sunday morning and no she didn't go to church or any silly thing like a temple or synagogue She said those were no places for god God was the trees We smoked cigarettes and got off to each other's carcinogenic practices oxidizing a little faster in conjunction with hopeful Formaldehyde Deriding the formalities of small talk and trivialities She liked her guitars with nickel-wound strings I with nylon But I couldn't play songs that sounded any good with them while she could and did. and girl did it ever sound good She'd laugh at the contests on the radio while we drove on a half-moon to half-moon full and whole of ourselves We'd stopped in the lobby of a cheap motel And waltzed to background muzak wacked out of our minds Sniffing in deep huffs of subliminal divinity Understanding loving that mind-numbing monotony muzak... ppsh. Who ever really listened to that? And then she left at the end of one fine winter day in a cloudless sky I waved watched her plane skip off towards the edge of a pale blue horizon back south to warmer climes to wherever she truly stayed The tugging on my heartstrings chimed grotesque in precise D minor.
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Jun 6, 2018
Jun 6, 2018 at 9:23 PM UTC
Steel Guitar
people **** people with nothing but fingers and hair and their very heavy breath. their breath like a crow beak before crucifixes of straw. like a tightening banishment of a lung. remember when we would blow it onto our car window and create that consistent mirth of fog to begin in? the bodies riddled with bullets that flank the highway are no such thing. the schoolchildren lying face down in the corner of the closet are no such thing. they are just winter coats with schoolchildren to fill them for the time being. no amputation of what’s mine will aid them into the grave. no mass communication grief. so why would you call it a mass grave when in truth it was just a pit i dug to fill with crowds of people who died under the pretense that they had previously done so, that nothing was new under the sun. and when people **** people like people do with their instruments as ways of extending themselves into the world and into the marrow of our body obliterating organs of people with their stretching of the muscular rib, shoulder. one eye closes firmly. it’s nothing but a hand gun as if to say a hand eats the gun and makes it whole. as if to say the reinforced metal door exit plan for people who are being killed by other people clicked shut and locked 15,000 years ago and i can’t quit slamming what’s left of me into it. your kid is very dead. but then again so is mine. suppose they killed each other. suppose they both made the mistake of dragging their small, stupid bodies through the trajectory of another body in the first place. in the chip aisle of a gas station maybe. in theaters this christmas. in the midst of a good song that began playing on the lobby radio just a minute before, oh yeah before, things really got going. i saw people killing people on television the other day with their whole bodies, devouring themselves like surgical gloves slick with oiled consumption and bleeding out and i could do nothing. some kids died just because and they told me so and i was told nothing could ever help them because they were just people and they were dying. “breaking news” ended up just being people again. in those moments, i was eating breakfast. our houses were very quiet and needed me in all of them, grandfather clock over CNN, clarifying what has already been committed and committed again. the cipher was others lost blood.
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Dec 9, 2019
Dec 9, 2019 at 12:24 AM UTC
clarification
people **** people with nothing but fingers and hair and their very heavy breath. their breath like a crow beak before crucifixes of straw. like a tightening banishment of a lung. remember when we would blow it onto our car window and create that consistent mirth of fog to begin in? the bodies riddled with bullets that flank the highway are no such thing. the schoolchildren lying face down in the corner of the closet are no such thing. they are just winter coats with schoolchildren to fill them for the time being. no amputation of what’s mine will aid them into the grave. no mass communication grief. so why would you call it a mass grave when in truth it was just a pit i dug to fill with crowds of people who died under the pretense that they had previously done so, that nothing was new under the sun. and when people **** people like people do with their instruments as ways of extending themselves into the world and into the marrow of our body obliterating organs of people with their stretching of the muscular rib, shoulder. one eye closes firmly. it’s nothing but a hand gun as if to say a hand eats the gun and makes it whole. as if to say the reinforced metal door exit plan for people who are being killed by other people clicked shut and locked 15,000 years ago and i can’t quit slamming what’s left of me into it. your kid is very dead. but then again so is mine. suppose they killed each other. suppose they both made the mistake of dragging their small, stupid bodies through the trajectory of another body in the first place. in the chip aisle of a gas station maybe. in theaters this christmas. in the midst of a good song that began playing on the lobby radio just a minute before, oh yeah before, things really got going. i saw people killing people on television the other day with their whole bodies, devouring themselves like surgical gloves slick with oiled consumption and bleeding out and i could do nothing. some kids died just because and they told me so and i was told nothing could ever help them because they were just people and they were dying. “breaking news” ended up just being people again. in those moments, i was eating breakfast. our houses were very quiet and needed me in all of them, grandfather clock over CNN, clarifying what has already been committed and committed again. the cipher was others lost blood.
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Ignore the itch you can't scratch deep in the palm of your hand. Ignore the morning alarms, just sleep right through them. Ignore the sound of the coffee bubbling over, let it spill. Ignore the toothpaste stain on your new shirt. Ignore the voicemail notification, who listens to them anyway? Ignore the mailman at the mailbox, he didn't really say hello. Ignore the stare of the drunk man in your lobby. Ignore the morning brigade of children running behind you. Ignore the damage your heels are doing to your feet. Ignore the whistle from the man half your height. Ignore the traffic light, the cars are going the other way. Ignore the loud honk from the trucker as he speeds off. Ignore the liquor store, and the desire to take a shot. Ignore the "Baby let me talk to you," from the **** wannabe. Ignore the text message, don't let them know you have a phone number. Ignore the cigarette smoke invading your lungs. Ignore the baby boy getting slapped by his mother. Ignore the bakery with the tres leches cake you like. Ignore the bank, you're probably broke. Ignore the homeless woman, she just wants to buy drugs. Ignore the Facebook notification, just another ALS challenge. Ignore the time, you're at work early. Ignore the habits, listen to your conscience and speak loudly and clearly. You are so much more than ignorant.
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 8:51 AM UTC
Ignorance
There is magic in live theatre It can't be understood For even watching a bad play Is really something good The footlights and the curtains The sound of actors on the boards Of orchestras and the sound effects Of cheaply painted swords The theatre is a special place It excites me to no end It's a long lost brother coming home It's a warm and welcome friend Sitting in a theatre Waiting for the overture Is an illness I suffer happily And one for which I wish no cure Good theatre is transporting Takes you where the actor lives You sense it in the speeches That every actor gives You get lost in what's going on You feel hurt and you feel pain And when you get another chance You splurge and go again Live theater is hypnotic It's a world that stands alone It's a place inside your being You learn how love is shown It's where you listen to great music Played by artists never seen Where you hear the actor's heartbeat Unlike on the silver screen Live theatre is true magic I can't tell you how I feel when I see a live performance I know exactly what is real The lights are slowly dimming I hear them closing the lobby doors Shhhhh....the orchestra is ready Here comes the overture.....
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 11:33 PM UTC
Theatre is Magic
"Murica" "Murica" "Murica" chants of patriotism ethnocentrism nationalist sentiments lacquered in blue red white spangled with stars and candy striped "enemies both foreign and domestic" the roar of jet engines accompanied by crackling sparklers summer sunlight glamorous fireworks red meat burning over charcoal because the chef is being kissed "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" the roar of jet engines accompanied by dying children systematized **** internment camps the division along the 38th parallel because the evil's communism not McCarthyism no never "my government has a firm policy not to capitulate" not to terrorists not to the UN not to common sense not to popular opinion not to love in all it's forms but to corruption to the oil lobby to racism to *** to the Almighty dollar "we have reason to believe Iraq has weapons of mass destruction." No. No, you don't. Lying ******** You ******* You ruined everything. *****
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Sep 28, 2013
Sep 28, 2013 at 11:57 AM UTC
'murica
(After Lorca) Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women. There's a shoulder where death comes to cry. There's a lobby with nine hundred windows. There's a tree where the doves go to die. There's a piece that was torn from the morning, and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws. I want you, I want you, I want you on a chair with a dead magazine. In the cave at the tip of the lily, in some hallway where love's never been. On a bed where the moon has been sweating, in a cry filled with footsteps and sand— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take its broken waist in your hand. This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz with its very own breath of brandy and death, dragging its tail in the sea. There's a concert hall in Vienna where your mouth had a thousand reviews. There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking, they've been sentenced to death by the blues. Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture with a garland of freshly cut tears? Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz, it's been dying for years. There's an attic where children are playing, where I've got to lie down with you soon, in a dream of Hungarian lanterns, in the mist of some sweet afternoon. And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow, all your sheep and your lilies of snow— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz with its "I'll never forget you, you know!" And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross. And you'll carry me down on your dancing to the pools that you lift on your wrist— O my love, O my love Take this waltz, take this waltz, it's yours now. It's all that there is.
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Take This Waltz
(After Lorca) Now in Vienna there are ten pretty women. There's a shoulder where death comes to cry. There's a lobby with nine hundred windows. There's a tree where the doves go to die. There's a piece that was torn from the morning, and it hangs in the Gallery of Frost— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws. I want you, I want you, I want you on a chair with a dead magazine. In the cave at the tip of the lily, in some hallway where love's never been. On a bed where the moon has been sweating, in a cry filled with footsteps and sand— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take its broken waist in your hand. This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz with its very own breath of brandy and death, dragging its tail in the sea. There's a concert hall in Vienna where your mouth had a thousand reviews. There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking, they've been sentenced to death by the blues. Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture with a garland of freshly cut tears? Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz, take this waltz, it's been dying for years. There's an attic where children are playing, where I've got to lie down with you soon, in a dream of Hungarian lanterns, in the mist of some sweet afternoon. And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow, all your sheep and your lilies of snow— Ay, ay ay ay Take this waltz, take this waltz with its "I'll never forget you, you know!" And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross. And you'll carry me down on your dancing to the pools that you lift on your wrist— O my love, O my love Take this waltz, take this waltz, it's yours now. It's all that there is.
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it's almost two in the morning. i toss and turn, roll around-- nothing. sighing, i sit up, and think to myself, "This hasn't happened in a while." my mind automatically goes back to that time, when i was younger, and our family went to the capital. slept in some fancy hotel with some fancy people with their fancy clothes. on the second night we stayed there, i couldn't get a wink of sleep. i don't know whether if it was because of exhaustion or something else. naturally, the next morning was hell. i was pissy and bored as we waited for father in the lobby. i couldn't take a nap in public because, well, i had my pride, of course! chewing a gum quite aggressively, i observed my surroundings. my gaze hopped from one person to another. a royal from a country i haven't even heard of. an important figure in politics. a celebrity. a kid. white blonde hair? i haven't seen hair of that shade. it was quite unnatural here. i whipped my head to the left and saw two beautiful people. the taller was around my age. he had the same mop of hair as the kid i saw (the shorter). the child, on the other hand, was most probably no older than six. they were both awesome. the light glowed on their figures, and it looked like they were godsend. i haven't seen anything more beautiful. and who knew that who knows how many years later, i would find myself looking back on that vivid memory. as if it had happened yesterday. (i feel like i'm still stuck in that time.)
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Apr 12, 2015
Apr 12, 2015 at 2:15 PM UTC
stuck
My first impression of the children's hospital was how nice everything was. It was new, with fish tanks and red sofas; pastel windows which made pretty colors on the floor when the sun went through them; walls were freshly painted and everyone talked with a smile. Everything just looked so peaceful. It wasn't until my second visit that I saw the flaws. I was sitting on one of the red couches, waiting for my name to be called, and I was looking at the fish tank. A little girl was pressed up to the glass telling her mother that she could see nemo. But when I looked closer, I saw a little fish turned over floating at the surface. A man behind the glass quickly pulled it out of the tank, but I saw. That's when I started noticing other things. Like the bloodstain on the cushion next to me. And the fact that a few tiles were missing from the floor. The wood paneling had scratches on it; one of the pastel windows was taped up; and every parent was smiling, but the little kids holding on to them kept asking what was wrong. Maybe that's just how hospitals are. They want you to think that everything's okay; that all that goes on inside are couches and fishtanks. They think that if they write out the word HOSPITAL in bubbly pink letters people might get it into their brains that everything's okay. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a hospital. Masking pain only works for so long, until broken bits and pieces push their way through. I think hospitals are just fish tanks. Everyone is put on display for doctors and visitors and things seem okay for a while, you know, until they aren't. When a little nemo dies, they send away his body and just replace him with another orange fish that people can look at. We are all the cracks in the pavement; elevators shut down for repair; a phantom pain that nobody wants to believe is real. If you stand far enough away; if you distance yourselves from anything close to the word hospital, you can just let yourself focus on the mask they put up. But once it's time, and you're sitting on a red couch in the lobby of the children's wing, with a kid asking you where her older brother went, you'll find yourself staring at the cracks in the facade with a single tear running down your face and with emptiness in your stomach.
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 11:06 AM UTC
Hospital
My first impression of the children's hospital was how nice everything was. It was new, with fish tanks and red sofas; pastel windows which made pretty colors on the floor when the sun went through them; walls were freshly painted and everyone talked with a smile. Everything just looked so peaceful. It wasn't until my second visit that I saw the flaws. I was sitting on one of the red couches, waiting for my name to be called, and I was looking at the fish tank. A little girl was pressed up to the glass telling her mother that she could see nemo. But when I looked closer, I saw a little fish turned over floating at the surface. A man behind the glass quickly pulled it out of the tank, but I saw. That's when I started noticing other things. Like the bloodstain on the cushion next to me. And the fact that a few tiles were missing from the floor. The wood paneling had scratches on it; one of the pastel windows was taped up; and every parent was smiling, but the little kids holding on to them kept asking what was wrong. Maybe that's just how hospitals are. They want you to think that everything's okay; that all that goes on inside are couches and fishtanks. They think that if they write out the word HOSPITAL in bubbly pink letters people might get it into their brains that everything's okay. But that doesn't change the fact that it's a hospital. Masking pain only works for so long, until broken bits and pieces push their way through. I think hospitals are just fish tanks. Everyone is put on display for doctors and visitors and things seem okay for a while, you know, until they aren't. When a little nemo dies, they send away his body and just replace him with another orange fish that people can look at. We are all the cracks in the pavement; elevators shut down for repair; a phantom pain that nobody wants to believe is real. If you stand far enough away; if you distance yourselves from anything close to the word hospital, you can just let yourself focus on the mask they put up. But once it's time, and you're sitting on a red couch in the lobby of the children's wing, with a kid asking you where her older brother went, you'll find yourself staring at the cracks in the facade with a single tear running down your face and with emptiness in your stomach.
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The streets are clear, we're hydrophobic Hoods propped by hats and socks pulled high; The rain brings peace to the agoraphobic Puddles form moats and clouds fill the sky. Splash, droplets hit the window, chauffeured by the gale outside. Squint your eyes and flash back boats tilt starboard, with the tide. The captain shouts to the decks, paranoid 'Clear the decks and brace for impact' Without turbulence we are disenfranchised Boredom becomes us when we're boring. Shake it off and stare at the dot to dot the residual carving of water as it slides Another droplet falls beside it, parallel it aligns, growling thunder overhead. Without stirring we are robotic workforces Without awaking we are left inside The constructs created for us, by corporate- conglomerate elitist-psychopaths. Two drops of water on the window simmer red with burning anger. Crash lightening sears the sky Rage becomes you, girders melt. The starry night undercurrent, flings us backwards, never up, as democracies which seek to serve sink into a sea of stocks and shares, the wall street journal sits atop the captains lobby, economies were meant to tumble as the working classes fumble for bread, men in suits gaggle and toast to the millions they left for dead. Resistance is futile, when eighty-five of the richest suit owners sit on currency that was meant for the three point five billion who aren’t driven by gluttony.
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Nov 7, 2014
Nov 7, 2014 at 12:51 PM UTC
Chrysalism
In the dark of night, in the middle of a storm A dish falls, shatters A shriek tears the relative silence Pale pink blood blossoms in the water While rich red blood wells up in the hand Tears falling like a blinding waterfall Stabs and throbs of aching stinging searing pain Blood and pain and tears fill the mind A flash of white tissue beneath the torrents of red Panting sobs and hyperventilation Panicking as victim is rushed to the ER Mother tries to comfort daughter with story of healed, Previously lacerated toes Two words blurted between gasps of pain: NOT HELPING Arrive to an empty lobby, excepting a nurse and receptionist Focus on nothing, only the hand The possible tendon torn, the skin shredded, the blood spilt Dishtowel now soaking red irony fluid instead of clear soapy The story repeated 6, 7, 8 times A nurse asks if I smoke or drink A radiologist asks if there is any chance for pregnancy And for a moment I am shocked out of my pain into pondering The corruption of the modern generations, Such that I am asked these questions Any friend of mine would quickly tell that No, I'm not that kind of teenager... but how many are? Then I am whisked from the x-ray room Off for stitches, they say my tendon is cut That I need stitches The fingers no longer gush, but that triviality is soon remedied A doctor probes the wound for shards Nurse flushes it clean with chlorohexadine Both renew the flow Doctor returns, stitches both fingers and chats away Grand tally of five stitches, a splint, blankets of guaze, And a roll of medical tape Prescriptions for pain meds and antibiotics, both given A scoffing glance, but instructions are followed Forbidden from any activity with the right hand by my mother I struggle even to write, simple chores soon a nuisance First time the splint and stitches are gone, Doctor number two declares my hand usable First time the little finger bends, the half healed skin splits So all for a plate, a hand was rendered more useless
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Nov 13, 2012
Nov 13, 2012 at 10:07 PM UTC
hand laceration
In the dark of night, in the middle of a storm A dish falls, shatters A shriek tears the relative silence Pale pink blood blossoms in the water While rich red blood wells up in the hand Tears falling like a blinding waterfall Stabs and throbs of aching stinging searing pain Blood and pain and tears fill the mind A flash of white tissue beneath the torrents of red Panting sobs and hyperventilation Panicking as victim is rushed to the ER Mother tries to comfort daughter with story of healed, Previously lacerated toes Two words blurted between gasps of pain: NOT HELPING Arrive to an empty lobby, excepting a nurse and receptionist Focus on nothing, only the hand The possible tendon torn, the skin shredded, the blood spilt Dishtowel now soaking red irony fluid instead of clear soapy The story repeated 6, 7, 8 times A nurse asks if I smoke or drink A radiologist asks if there is any chance for pregnancy And for a moment I am shocked out of my pain into pondering The corruption of the modern generations, Such that I am asked these questions Any friend of mine would quickly tell that No, I'm not that kind of teenager... but how many are? Then I am whisked from the x-ray room Off for stitches, they say my tendon is cut That I need stitches The fingers no longer gush, but that triviality is soon remedied A doctor probes the wound for shards Nurse flushes it clean with chlorohexadine Both renew the flow Doctor returns, stitches both fingers and chats away Grand tally of five stitches, a splint, blankets of guaze, And a roll of medical tape Prescriptions for pain meds and antibiotics, both given A scoffing glance, but instructions are followed Forbidden from any activity with the right hand by my mother I struggle even to write, simple chores soon a nuisance First time the splint and stitches are gone, Doctor number two declares my hand usable First time the little finger bends, the half healed skin splits So all for a plate, a hand was rendered more useless
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I lived my half dictionary life before I could comprehend compulsory compromises. Collectors arise, disguises and devices beeping, chastising my blindness. Gather geography from Afghanistan and Myanmar graciously growing gold gilded gift horses, gleefully gloating about floating far away. My hoof beats above concrete match my heart’s defeat across borders and mountains embroidering cardboard cut-outs calling deserts, decorating front covers. Exhaling handcrafted letters for my missing half, half demanding highest caliber commanders and half commanding completion. Jade jays joyfully lay arrays of bouquets fragile flowers decay faraway in jawbones and jail cells. Begging farewells in a hotel’s lobby began my hobby, early morning coffee and carbon copies concurringly cocky around his dead body. Gang ciphers for cartels are Christmas bells hissing at collars, half dollars embellishing bar crawlers godfathers hollering at car haulers. Atrocities across cities attack, attachable atrophies audibly ambush arthritic anthologies. Anomalies begin apologies between apostrophes, advancing autonomy arousing ancient animosities. All eluding Antarctica, giant frozen crests, multi-coloured ice hidden in my illustrations anxious for my distant half. Friday cassettes and cigarettes deliberately making bets following “M”. Breaking bindings and finding “beta” in alphabet, may feasibly end in debt.
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Feb 17, 2013
Feb 17, 2013 at 1:51 PM UTC
Monday
Restless hungry, found a tiny scrap of a brownie in the back of the refrigerator, wrapped in plastic about the size of a large 35 cent quarter.   Gobbled up and gone. Eye had purchased it a week ago, maybe more.   Actually it was more like eye was held up at gunpoint by a sad young face for a large and green single dollar Bill. In return, was bequeathed said brownie eye dropper-ful. The  apartment I live in a big city, many apartments were recession empty for a long time.  But in the last few years, the empty apartments in the building were almost all sold to foreigners.   Now the bldg is an amulet melted of the lucky overseas fortunate, those overseers overseas seizers, who come to reside in the most fabulous site in these United States...and buy a piece of the dream away from the be-headers, secret police or governments that decide you are now an enemy of the state, as of this morning. No judgement. anyway, this doe eyed child of estimated six or eight years of age accosts me in our large lobby, proffers me the brownie scrap for a Bill. me a sucker of a salesman myself, and an eye affician-doe, well those doefuls, those eyes, no one could resist! so eye asked her name, but all she could say in Anglais was... "Brownie One Dollar?" laughing out loud for no apparent cause, the hanging about lobbyists looked at me staring... Why was eye laughing? laughing cause eye realized this elfin child had become fitfully but fully Americanized. and I loved her eyes in mine, and when I see her periodically, I say: "Hey! Brownie One Dollar, How are ya!" and everyone snicker smiles at the old man with the even stupider grin upon his eyes. That would be eye.
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May 1, 2015
May 1, 2015 at 7:02 PM UTC
the brownie salesman (the codes between us)
Restless hungry, found a tiny scrap of a brownie in the back of the refrigerator, wrapped in plastic about the size of a large 35 cent quarter.   Gobbled up and gone. Eye had purchased it a week ago, maybe more.   Actually it was more like eye was held up at gunpoint by a sad young face for a large and green single dollar Bill. In return, was bequeathed said brownie eye dropper-ful. The  apartment I live in a big city, many apartments were recession empty for a long time.  But in the last few years, the empty apartments in the building were almost all sold to foreigners.   Now the bldg is an amulet melted of the lucky overseas fortunate, those overseers overseas seizers, who come to reside in the most fabulous site in these United States...and buy a piece of the dream away from the be-headers, secret police or governments that decide you are now an enemy of the state, as of this morning. No judgement. anyway, this doe eyed child of estimated six or eight years of age accosts me in our large lobby, proffers me the brownie scrap for a Bill. me a sucker of a salesman myself, and an eye affician-doe, well those doefuls, those eyes, no one could resist! so eye asked her name, but all she could say in Anglais was... "Brownie One Dollar?" laughing out loud for no apparent cause, the hanging about lobbyists looked at me staring... Why was eye laughing? laughing cause eye realized this elfin child had become fitfully but fully Americanized. and I loved her eyes in mine, and when I see her periodically, I say: "Hey! Brownie One Dollar, How are ya!" and everyone snicker smiles at the old man with the even stupider grin upon his eyes. That would be eye.
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Awake to a slowly beating drum morning meditation drifting up the hill in the garden, tiny birds add sweet highs tuneless ravens, the bass undertone trees whisper ancient lyrics on the passing breeze. We stroll the Path of Philosophy through massive wooden gates into carefully sculpted gardens exploring the endless number of temples dotting Kyoto each more lovely than the last. Quiet Nanzen-Ji is where I feel the most following worship worn steps to a cave-shrine heady with wet and incense we are purified by waterfall spray before returning the way we came voices hushed buoyed by eternity’s hand. The hotel lobby is filled with crimson and saffron glistening heads and broad smiles from monks gathered there we bow to each other and are one may it never be forgotten revelers arrive by busload for hanami, cherry blossom viewing beneath a revered tree decked out in pink splendor lit from below to radiate surreal, internal light we sample Kobe yakitori soba and corn grilled over open flame as we flow through the smiling celebratory crowd we savor what is transitory as sparks and blossoms whirl settling on our hair and skin.
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Jan 13, 2016
Jan 13, 2016 at 12:15 PM UTC
Kyoto
I am Shashank Dwivedi I am always ready My work is to study I love my mom and daddy Saurav Ganguly is my favourite cricketer I like Sehwag's high crackers I like making friends Because friendship is a relation that never ends Writing poems is my hobby I enjoy sitting alone in my lobby I promote Hindu-Muslim unity Wars for religion is very pitty I have interest in History I like reading moral Stories I also have interest in General knowledge I want to learn Life at every edge
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May 9, 2012
May 9, 2012 at 6:20 PM UTC
Myself
I often had dinner with my ninety four year old father at the nursing home, who,  towards the end had little to say. what he said was mostly incoherent and softly spoken. after one dinner, where little was said, we sat together, he in his wheelchair, I in a lounger, in the lobby, in front of the television, digesting, he turned to me, and said, "I didn't think this would go on so long."
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 8:18 PM UTC
I often had dinner
I have cancer, but that's not what I want to talk about. Nor do I want to talk about the cold bouncing in   from the sliding glass door of the lobby. (The lst    floor lights give off deceptive warmth.) I don't want to talk about hospitals, or illness for that matter because, truthfully, its become a game   of things I'd rather not discuss.    If you have an imagination, you get it. I don't want to talk about the thirty day hospital intervals, or the way my heart turns seeing my mother watch her son   soldier through. I can be brave and not feel like talking.    Because why talk when I have you here, next to me, smiling.
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Aug 21, 2015
Aug 21, 2015 at 3:32 AM UTC
Not To Mention
~ *When Pharaoh checked out at the Red Sea, odd circumstance made a grab for his vacant scepter, and kingdom collided with plague to paint a mural on the palace wall (or maybe, it was the hotel lobby), of a dreamer's garden, his wife in veils, her dance a cordial invitation to a great many unmentionable things, the feral sky had blown itself out, and in muted candle nightshade, the mistress of war disembarked, and so somewhere in those upper rooms, ruler and consort, hearing the sound of running water, mystified their carnal senses by infusing themselves with a little vigorous morphine of the soul* ~
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Jul 26, 2021
Jul 26, 2021 at 2:45 PM UTC
*** in Egypt
The Butler Model of Tourism I come back year after year cracked black valise, busted zipper spring-shot lobby divans drained of color, to press crisp bills into Monte’s hand come up for air from the tortoise shell of his thread bare uniform, ease myself down on a sagging mattress wait for the clatter of ancient bones his creaking cart and shuffling feet to recede into absolute silence down the dimly lit hall, broken only by a spate of conversation between the couple I can just make out in the water stained fresco above the bed two of them lost in a heated row as if I couldn’t hear their bald appraisals shockingly frank in this flocked walled room with musty corners and milky windows disagreeing only on the degree of my progression through the dismal stages of “The Butler Model of Tourism” him making a half-hearted case for Rejuvenation, the woman straddling the thin line between Stagnation and Decline.
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Sep 24, 2016
Sep 24, 2016 at 9:47 AM UTC
The Butler Model of Tourism
The Chicago Tribune called it, “The Affair of the Decade!” Everyone’s mothers called it, “Another tragic heartbreak”. When the coroner wiped his hands, He predicted a sensation, And so did every uniformed man Sitting in the po-lice station. In a cold Illinois motel, A man in a suit smiles. He was twenty years in, A detective for the city. Oh, that smile he’ll smile, But gone is his laughter, Along with his pity, For tonight, tonight, He would shoot up the city. Regina combed her blonde hair, And took the lift down to the lobby. The pale-skinned princess, That woman’s body… How many fell for her Remains quite a mystery. We watch, Ladies and gentlemen, We watch, As her dress moves in the breeze. Like a dandelion in the dark, She rides the carriage Into the park. The detective stood alone, A cut-out cornerstone. He was no longer nervous, He looked like a statue, And the virgin-white snow Fell quietly to his shoes. In the moonlight, she came. He spoke her name. In the moonlight, she walked. But when he spoke, she stopped. “Regina, Regina, Please reconsider. Without you, The nighttime is darker, The cold air much thinner. Without you, The wind becomes sour, The daylight so bitter. Regina, Regina, It’s just a few days… Say yes, And in the morning, We’ll be far from this place!” But that Regina, Regina, She let him down easy: “Your job is to spy, To live in the quiet. You’re a prowler, You were born to sneak, And I will proceed, But do not follow me.” And we watch, Ladies and gentlemen, We watch, As she turns on a dime, Leaving our detective behind. A poor, tortured soul, He smiles that smile, And in an act of desperation, Pulls out his frosted .45. For Regina, He aimed, and For Regina, He fired. In the heart of Chicago, Be it snowfall or in heat, No one can be spared When a man is in defeat. T’will be the foggy air, The hot metal, and The echo of the gun That will help us remember The night that we watched, Ladies and gentlemen, We watched… We watched... The snow, and how It lost its innocence that night. And poor Regina, and how Her yellow dress blended into the sight. The detective, and how He would step into the street, Killing everyone he’d meet. Twenty men dead, Now the asphalt is sticky, And the blood spilled is gritty- For tonight, tonight, The detective shot up the city. The coroner wiped his hands, And predicted a sensation, And so did every uniformed man Sitting in the po-lice station.
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Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM UTC
For Regina
The Chicago Tribune called it, “The Affair of the Decade!” Everyone’s mothers called it, “Another tragic heartbreak”. When the coroner wiped his hands, He predicted a sensation, And so did every uniformed man Sitting in the po-lice station. In a cold Illinois motel, A man in a suit smiles. He was twenty years in, A detective for the city. Oh, that smile he’ll smile, But gone is his laughter, Along with his pity, For tonight, tonight, He would shoot up the city. Regina combed her blonde hair, And took the lift down to the lobby. The pale-skinned princess, That woman’s body… How many fell for her Remains quite a mystery. We watch, Ladies and gentlemen, We watch, As her dress moves in the breeze. Like a dandelion in the dark, She rides the carriage Into the park. The detective stood alone, A cut-out cornerstone. He was no longer nervous, He looked like a statue, And the virgin-white snow Fell quietly to his shoes. In the moonlight, she came. He spoke her name. In the moonlight, she walked. But when he spoke, she stopped. “Regina, Regina, Please reconsider. Without you, The nighttime is darker, The cold air much thinner. Without you, The wind becomes sour, The daylight so bitter. Regina, Regina, It’s just a few days… Say yes, And in the morning, We’ll be far from this place!” But that Regina, Regina, She let him down easy: “Your job is to spy, To live in the quiet. You’re a prowler, You were born to sneak, And I will proceed, But do not follow me.” And we watch, Ladies and gentlemen, We watch, As she turns on a dime, Leaving our detective behind. A poor, tortured soul, He smiles that smile, And in an act of desperation, Pulls out his frosted .45. For Regina, He aimed, and For Regina, He fired. In the heart of Chicago, Be it snowfall or in heat, No one can be spared When a man is in defeat. T’will be the foggy air, The hot metal, and The echo of the gun That will help us remember The night that we watched, Ladies and gentlemen, We watched… We watched... The snow, and how It lost its innocence that night. And poor Regina, and how Her yellow dress blended into the sight. The detective, and how He would step into the street, Killing everyone he’d meet. Twenty men dead, Now the asphalt is sticky, And the blood spilled is gritty- For tonight, tonight, The detective shot up the city. The coroner wiped his hands, And predicted a sensation, And so did every uniformed man Sitting in the po-lice station.
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They enter the bus Conversing About busses Like this one And other passengers Taking up space Designated for them They do not address us But clearly They are talking about Us Like they sit in the lobby In cheap chartered hotels Taking up space Conversing About other guests Being loud Or obnoxious They do not address us Or ask who we are But clearly They assume And they are talking About us
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Jul 8, 2013
Jul 8, 2013 at 2:31 PM UTC
Passive Aggressive Danes
There are the two choices. Wicked, wheel-men curving towards that which I wear in the evening when I paint on my black suit. The pitter-patter of organic matter, the Metropolis ground fresh. You tell me raspberry, I tell you I am not impressed. And then from the inimical lips, those bards from distance, sand spots and hordes of watering holes I place fresh Republicans on- and they were stealing the magazines. Jury on. Four devils they figure some, four devils. A anthelmintic potion to square away the worms. The pink worm, who takes long-distance telephone calls on your roommates only moments before the red worm, his head shriveled and his limbs crying from ****** she the blue curly worm; she is what we've been looking out and everything about this evening has slipped in the pattern we expected. Red light in fact, They used the concatenations of frog legs(this was the big deal since My Mother loved the chelura of some tropical varieties of frogs and funny-legged), banjax the first one before the weather catches the summary being the news. Going as far as the the ecstasy of officials leaving the scene. The species catching its last names of life- genus and family alike racing towards safety. And so I build in the fly zone. I haggle for President, and make sacred the realms of figures; denaturalized are the entanglements of humans, even whatever the mephitic and bellicose shadows shend and fordo their greatest powers. I lull and lust, my pugnacious frazil, just like my recalcitrant logomachy that I ****** and slide angrily and profusely with m and everything I try to do. Just so long as you can see me usufruct and lobby forthright the message. Mine. Hate. Anxiety.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 5:06 AM UTC
Boiling the Humans in the Dip
There are the two choices. Wicked, wheel-men curving towards that which I wear in the evening when I paint on my black suit. The pitter-patter of organic matter, the Metropolis ground fresh. You tell me raspberry, I tell you I am not impressed. And then from the inimical lips, those bards from distance, sand spots and hordes of watering holes I place fresh Republicans on- and they were stealing the magazines. Jury on. Four devils they figure some, four devils. A anthelmintic potion to square away the worms. The pink worm, who takes long-distance telephone calls on your roommates only moments before the red worm, his head shriveled and his limbs crying from ****** she the blue curly worm; she is what we've been looking out and everything about this evening has slipped in the pattern we expected. Red light in fact, They used the concatenations of frog legs(this was the big deal since My Mother loved the chelura of some tropical varieties of frogs and funny-legged), banjax the first one before the weather catches the summary being the news. Going as far as the the ecstasy of officials leaving the scene. The species catching its last names of life- genus and family alike racing towards safety. And so I build in the fly zone. I haggle for President, and make sacred the realms of figures; denaturalized are the entanglements of humans, even whatever the mephitic and bellicose shadows shend and fordo their greatest powers. I lull and lust, my pugnacious frazil, just like my recalcitrant logomachy that I ****** and slide angrily and profusely with m and everything I try to do. Just so long as you can see me usufruct and lobby forthright the message. Mine. Hate. Anxiety.
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If you drive down route 235, the lonely parallel line of route 5, running through St. Mary's County, Maryland, between the intersection of Old Three Notch road and St. Andrew's Church road, and the liquor store at the corner of Mattapany-- you must do so with a fat wallet, and a growling stomach, who barks at the flashing signs of the sparkling chain restaurants-- wafting their familiar scents out the windows and onto the busy street. Utterly beleaguered every which way by these olfactory factories, your mouth waters and your wallet lightens as the tantalizing sensations permeate your vehicle. So you cave; another lost soul vacates the street at Restaurant Alley, under the prowling searchlights and the intoxicating smells lingering like a dense fog; You linger in your purgatory with glee. You exit satisfied, patting your abdominous belly and lifting your smiling face to the sky in thanks to the gluttonous gods who rain down these chain restaurants from the heavens. A satisfied sigh seeps out of loose lips, barely hanging on to your fleshy face, so ruddy and fat. You act like your stop was something novel, like it wasn't routine to acquiesce to these temptations; you return to your car to continue your roamings down restaurant alley. Sadly, a full stomach won't stifle a querying nose, and your senses are soon at it again; just as the waiters and waitresses, cooks and busboys-- are back at the window, leaning outside with their clamorings and bustlings and cookings-- You pretend to entertain willpower as your copilot, but even if that were so, your senses would still be at the wheel, with your mind bound and gagged in the trunk. Restaurant Alley goes on for miles and miles and miles, seemingly endless in the permeating fog of burgers and pancakes and pasta and chicken and fries and burgers and soda and ice cream and beer and pasta and wine and America and pancakes and steak and appetizers and desserts and entrees and specials and kids menus and burgers and chicken and pasta and fries and burgers and ice cream and salad and burgers and soda and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat! There's nothing to eat; there's nothing to do but eat in Restaurant Alley, on route 235 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. So fasten your seat belt, and loosen your waist belt, and take a doomed trip down the endless roadway-- where you are dragged, shackled to food chains that haul you from the perdition that is the lobby's waiting room to be seated with loved ones at the mercy seat of Ambrosia.
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Mar 5, 2016
Mar 5, 2016 at 5:02 PM UTC
Restaurant Alley
If you drive down route 235, the lonely parallel line of route 5, running through St. Mary's County, Maryland, between the intersection of Old Three Notch road and St. Andrew's Church road, and the liquor store at the corner of Mattapany-- you must do so with a fat wallet, and a growling stomach, who barks at the flashing signs of the sparkling chain restaurants-- wafting their familiar scents out the windows and onto the busy street. Utterly beleaguered every which way by these olfactory factories, your mouth waters and your wallet lightens as the tantalizing sensations permeate your vehicle. So you cave; another lost soul vacates the street at Restaurant Alley, under the prowling searchlights and the intoxicating smells lingering like a dense fog; You linger in your purgatory with glee. You exit satisfied, patting your abdominous belly and lifting your smiling face to the sky in thanks to the gluttonous gods who rain down these chain restaurants from the heavens. A satisfied sigh seeps out of loose lips, barely hanging on to your fleshy face, so ruddy and fat. You act like your stop was something novel, like it wasn't routine to acquiesce to these temptations; you return to your car to continue your roamings down restaurant alley. Sadly, a full stomach won't stifle a querying nose, and your senses are soon at it again; just as the waiters and waitresses, cooks and busboys-- are back at the window, leaning outside with their clamorings and bustlings and cookings-- You pretend to entertain willpower as your copilot, but even if that were so, your senses would still be at the wheel, with your mind bound and gagged in the trunk. Restaurant Alley goes on for miles and miles and miles, seemingly endless in the permeating fog of burgers and pancakes and pasta and chicken and fries and burgers and soda and ice cream and beer and pasta and wine and America and pancakes and steak and appetizers and desserts and entrees and specials and kids menus and burgers and chicken and pasta and fries and burgers and ice cream and salad and burgers and soda and eat and eat and eat and eat and eat! There's nothing to eat; there's nothing to do but eat in Restaurant Alley, on route 235 in St. Mary's County, Maryland. So fasten your seat belt, and loosen your waist belt, and take a doomed trip down the endless roadway-- where you are dragged, shackled to food chains that haul you from the perdition that is the lobby's waiting room to be seated with loved ones at the mercy seat of Ambrosia.
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*Their eyes light up, As they glanced into the mirror, In their distinguished and fashionable costumes, Awaiting to attend the first annual magical competition, And their face glowed, Upon departing their private rooms. On a glamorous Halloween night, When three endearing teenage girls, Played Jasmine, Cinderella, and Belle, They dressed in extravagant fairy tale gowns, As they held on a prestigious lobby rail, And their heart stood still, as they walked down the stairs, in a fine hotel. When guest sighed and applaud, Into a standing ovation, While the princess' streamed upon the platform, In their lovely long dresses, Posing lavishly, in distinctive and vibrant colors, And in amazement, they came to a halt, in an exquisite form. When three young male ushers, Gently, reached out their hand, Slowly proceeding with their Disney queens, Guiding them to the dance floor, And soon their wishes, Became quite a reality, like a dream. But before the clock struck to 12:00, The girls quickly ran towards the door, When one of Cinderella's shoes, slipped off her foot, And was unable to stop, Since a curfew was set at home, And there, it sadly stood.*
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 8:35 AM UTC
On A Glamorous Halloween Night
Guida & Me drove up to the ***** D In my whip there was co-pilot Bryx and Captain Sleezy E We rolled up to my yerp bro Brad D's Next were greeted by Dino whos drinking a 40 Labatt Blue bonging and ponging like were competing for beer drinking glory Then its onto asweome fries, saganaki, and telling funny stories That night was crazy and a definite blast Woke up the next day to see Dino's Dad's spot and gasp! Walk into the kitchen to see Grandma Rontondo cooking homemade marinara Smelling fresher than the lobby inside of a Panera Next it's downstaris to the "Thunderdome," mindblow is all I can tell ya! The food was amazing with Uncle D on the grill Sammy the Bull said "Plastic Cups!" so that was the deal Party was wild, popping bottles in other words unreal Zoo was great, conductor swag was for real Tigers beat the Twins, and that night it was freestyling, speeches, and Labatts on chill Like the words of Willie Nelson the ***** D stays on my mind I'll never forget that trip like my brain is a VCR and has the element of rewind!
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Sep 19, 2011
Sep 19, 2011 at 7:00 PM UTC
My First Trip To The ***** D