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“only” the lonely know (my special sign) {=} an incurable silence the meaningless, wasted touch of a hand, attached, directed by them from them to them a failed reassurance a classroom, a stadium, cornfield or grove, so many nutted fallen solitaries fallen to rot midst a globe of trillions never noticed, never missed the silly conceptual that the lonely, special unique, blessed with a curse, a specialist status, “only” they afflicted; with a ken that isolates and yet feels elevated - oh! I am special show me one, just one, human who doesn’t truly believe, they are the onliest loneliest and you will vision each and every lonely person who secret sighs and whose first thoughts are only: god spare me one more day of being, fearful of achieving my very own knowing, in the invisible place, the incurable silence award, reward of another purple heart, “only” the lonely service ribbon, my Cain marker ~my special sign~
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 4:09 PM UTC
"only” the lonely know (my special sign)
I wipe marker off the board, and I have a painful tendency of quickly growing bored. I can't erase the ink-spots lingering in high-up corners; to spare the self-defeat, I teach myself how to ignore them. Ignore the marks, and stains, and pains pretend I'm wiped clean, all the same with little left to lose or gain: I leave them; growth is self-restraint. Perfection is a non-existent notion, so they say; yet, unobtainability is all I can create. For in my mind, these false ideals make tame desires stray, and self-destructive pleasure is my antidote to pain. I think I'm like a little plant of stunted growth, just seeds to start, my plantpot made from breaking hearts: before I grow, I say I can't.
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Jul 7, 2018
Jul 7, 2018 at 1:12 PM UTC
eraser
If (WO)men are the ones that suffer an exacerbated amount Of the violence, the **** the abuse, and everything that comes with and from struggle and alienation; it is because of their femininity that men at times have come to believe that their contributions soften institutions. That at times throughout history neither capitalism, neoliberalism nor revolutionary experiments like that of Cuba have placed femininity as compatible with progress or resolution. In which case femininity must be hidden, silenced, or displaced with no purpose or place to belong. Thus everyone closely associated with this femininity such as homosexuals, transgendered (WO)men, and "effeminate" males, (ignoring, subverting and negating the lesbian identity because of their gender) have come to be marginalized by a structural system of exclusion. (WO)men carrying the highest burden for originating the associative distinction Homosexuals battling to find love by constantly having to assert their masculinity Transgendered (Wo)men afraid of expressing their through identity. Lesbians fighting to legitimize their own identity separate from the directives ascribed onto them by virtue of being born women. Males who are labeled effeminate because of their sympathy toward those who struggle and are alienated. And every other individual who refuses to deliver to give a marker to their identity and a degree to their femininity. Hold fast in your femininity and embrace the rancor that society grants you As a homosexual I speak with you brother and sister, not for you Realize that our self-ascribed degrees of femininity and identity are as revolutionary and transformative, and thus necessary, as those of Che Guevara, Mohammed Ali, Harriet Tubman, or the Dali Lama. That because we have decided to embrace our degrees of femininity, problematic to any movement, at one point or another, we have inadvertently decided to align our selves with those who are alienated the most by the systems in which they live. So that in this way we must make our struggles deliberate and political. Let our degrees of femininity become legitimizing banners of solidarity for anyone who suffers in any corner of the world.
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Mar 10, 2013
Mar 10, 2013 at 12:48 AM UTC
Revolutionary Solidarity (Embracing Our Femininity)
If (WO)men are the ones that suffer an exacerbated amount Of the violence, the **** the abuse, and everything that comes with and from struggle and alienation; it is because of their femininity that men at times have come to believe that their contributions soften institutions. That at times throughout history neither capitalism, neoliberalism nor revolutionary experiments like that of Cuba have placed femininity as compatible with progress or resolution. In which case femininity must be hidden, silenced, or displaced with no purpose or place to belong. Thus everyone closely associated with this femininity such as homosexuals, transgendered (WO)men, and "effeminate" males, (ignoring, subverting and negating the lesbian identity because of their gender) have come to be marginalized by a structural system of exclusion. (WO)men carrying the highest burden for originating the associative distinction Homosexuals battling to find love by constantly having to assert their masculinity Transgendered (Wo)men afraid of expressing their through identity. Lesbians fighting to legitimize their own identity separate from the directives ascribed onto them by virtue of being born women. Males who are labeled effeminate because of their sympathy toward those who struggle and are alienated. And every other individual who refuses to deliver to give a marker to their identity and a degree to their femininity. Hold fast in your femininity and embrace the rancor that society grants you As a homosexual I speak with you brother and sister, not for you Realize that our self-ascribed degrees of femininity and identity are as revolutionary and transformative, and thus necessary, as those of Che Guevara, Mohammed Ali, Harriet Tubman, or the Dali Lama. That because we have decided to embrace our degrees of femininity, problematic to any movement, at one point or another, we have inadvertently decided to align our selves with those who are alienated the most by the systems in which they live. So that in this way we must make our struggles deliberate and political. Let our degrees of femininity become legitimizing banners of solidarity for anyone who suffers in any corner of the world.
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I walked in all young and awkward and kindred spirit-less with a name tag that read in black marker with my bad penmanship that only comes on your first day of a new place. I walked in and a nameless face greeted me strange as he was and asked if my name was Strawberry. "It sure looks like it, doesn't it?" I replied courteously. And so they called me that. I walked in months later to my first weekend with people like me. and I liked it. and they all called me Strawberry. I walked in on several different occasions and I grew into my name as a plant will grow to whatever container you put it in. and so people loved me. I walked in with an air of summer an air of sweetness and bitterness and **** but they still loved me even more. I don't know what I will do when I walk in my first day as an adult and they ask me what my name is. I could tell them "Strawberry," but they would laugh. Adults do not understand the sweetness and the bitterness the **** as only kindred spirits can.
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Dec 24, 2012
Dec 24, 2012 at 1:04 AM UTC
Strawberry
‘We live with forest’ and ‘forest live with us’! Tallest tree of the forest is the symbol of our hope, The Python is our messenger of past, Blossoming flower of grassland are our depiction of smile, Birds are the our fortune teller, Earthworms are our marker, Butterflies are our messenger of worship, We design our life with them, They are our image of clan and family, We can’t live without them, Our aspiration is tuned with their respiration, We are cheerful with them! *** Now, out of the blue, you arrived and say we are poor! So, you will build industry for us and give job to us! But for that, You occupy our land, our forest, our friends and respiration, We never thought! ‘You are such a pitiable’ That you can’t build anything without our forest, But you say, ‘we are poor’! **** Please, go away from our blessed place Don’t wipe out our friend! We are rich and happy with the blessing of our friend There is no need of your industry, Please go away Leave us alone we will design our destination.
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 5:30 PM UTC
Depart and vacate our forest!
Visits of condolence is all we get from them. They squat at the Holocaust Memorial, They put on grave faces at the Wailing Wall And they laugh behind heavy curtains In their hotels. They have their pictures taken Together with our famous dead At Rachel's Tomb and Herzl's Tomb And on Ammunition Hill. They weep over our sweet boys And lust after our tough girls And hang up their underwear To dry quickly In cool, blue bathrooms. Once I sat on the steps by agate at David's Tower, I placed my two heavy baskets at my side. A group of tourists was standing around their guide and I became their target marker. "You see that man with the baskets? Just right of his head there's an arch from the Roman period. Just right of his head." "But he's moving, he's moving!" I said to myself: redemption will come only if their guide tells them, "You see that arch from the Roman period? It's not important: but next to it, left and down a bit, there sits a man who's bought fruit and vegetables for his family."
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let us toast, my dear, to making it this far. even with our tortured minds and glazed eyes; hell, who would've guessed it? // it's a good thing you don't wear mascara in public. then again, maybe it doesn't really matter. you only cry when you're alone. and i'm sure you're more broken than you seem, though you still manage to get up and plaster a smile onto your cold, blank face each dreary morning. // i am not the poster child of happiness, or wealth, or intelligence. (they don't know that, though.) failure is in my veins, mistakes written into my skin with permanent marker -- the same one they use to write all those A+s. // is it really faking if we believe it, too? bravo, bravo, look how good we've gotten -- believing our own little white lies. but little white lies never hurt nobody. // right?
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 10:18 PM UTC
utopia
being a poet is not planned **~for Gabriella Garcia~ ~~ *a sixteen old soul says she understands, being a poet is not planned, forcing an old mans re-collection of the first time, he made love to a virginal white papyrus with muscles trembling, body bent, chest bursting a rockets red glaring, eyes marking the sheets with salty drip spots what possessed the wrist veins to wrest a cheap ballpoint pen to transfuse pain, in a semaphore of uncoded ink blotches, what was he thinking was he thinking? that it was an ejection that it was an *********** that it was a tribulation expiation that it was a tribute explanation? that it was an injection that it was a circumspection inspection that it was a circumscision surgery of emotional complexion excising an infection with a written genuflection? try, but no might, the first is subsumed by the thousands that followed dutifully though his one poem  flawless, expertly recalled, it will always be the next, and unplanned just like this one too who anointed his brow, the hair and forehead, with oil pure, dripping down onto, into his cut cain marker, who is not answering a query relentless is this his plan, his appointment, is this his flawed excellence, is this his imperfect penance perpetual? knowing well and full now the unplanned is his plan, it’s his faceted flaws that refract his coloraturas* ~~ upon this he reflects, praying that god protect the young poets from planning ______________ https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2893127/unplanned
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Feb 27, 2019
Feb 27, 2019 at 1:27 PM UTC
being a poet is not planned
being a poet is not planned **~for Gabriella Garcia~ ~~ *a sixteen old soul says she understands, being a poet is not planned, forcing an old mans re-collection of the first time, he made love to a virginal white papyrus with muscles trembling, body bent, chest bursting a rockets red glaring, eyes marking the sheets with salty drip spots what possessed the wrist veins to wrest a cheap ballpoint pen to transfuse pain, in a semaphore of uncoded ink blotches, what was he thinking was he thinking? that it was an ejection that it was an *********** that it was a tribulation expiation that it was a tribute explanation? that it was an injection that it was a circumspection inspection that it was a circumscision surgery of emotional complexion excising an infection with a written genuflection? try, but no might, the first is subsumed by the thousands that followed dutifully though his one poem  flawless, expertly recalled, it will always be the next, and unplanned just like this one too who anointed his brow, the hair and forehead, with oil pure, dripping down onto, into his cut cain marker, who is not answering a query relentless is this his plan, his appointment, is this his flawed excellence, is this his imperfect penance perpetual? knowing well and full now the unplanned is his plan, it’s his faceted flaws that refract his coloraturas* ~~ upon this he reflects, praying that god protect the young poets from planning ______________ https://hellopoetry.com/poem/2893127/unplanned
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I’m talking to you in my head been cultivating this shyness since I was three years old talking to inanimate objects painted smiles, rubber-skinned metal frames turning wheels the family minivan kept me company as mountains rose and fell like held breaths let go. playing games with pregnant raindrops rolling down the glass obsessed with the shark’s fin triangle the wipers could not reach. I’m obsessing over seeing you. always trying to be invisible your eyes beginning to skim past I, they didn’t used too. *“The voices that once spoke love but did not mean love.”* the withered rose living in the trash, abandoned friends in the attic forgotten songs unfinished books I am the forgotten I am the abandoned I am the left behind cobweb-and-cotton-dust-collector the silence connoisseur I wear loneliness like an unwashed favorite shirt If I die Will you read this? Does anyone else think such things or is Tonio Kroger my only brother? I am Kafka’s cockroach, everyone is waiting for me to die or to change into what you want me to be. my name will not be in the history books by the time my children’s children will have children I am no one. Everything fades in this world like whiteboard-marker on acetate lives. Desolate corners and garbage tell stories art is vandalism, vandalism is art. and people wear diamonds but they are worth nothing. and babies inherit their father’s eyes. I am not yours. You are not mine. Isn’t ownership objectification? If a man owns a clock does the clock own the man? Let’s be money and greed or greed and suffering. one cannot survive without… Let’s be the mismatched pyramids of wealth and population form a parallelogram like bricks on an unstable wall never falling down.
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Apr 15, 2012
Apr 15, 2012 at 7:46 AM UTC
parallelogram
I’m talking to you in my head been cultivating this shyness since I was three years old talking to inanimate objects painted smiles, rubber-skinned metal frames turning wheels the family minivan kept me company as mountains rose and fell like held breaths let go. playing games with pregnant raindrops rolling down the glass obsessed with the shark’s fin triangle the wipers could not reach. I’m obsessing over seeing you. always trying to be invisible your eyes beginning to skim past I, they didn’t used too. *“The voices that once spoke love but did not mean love.”* the withered rose living in the trash, abandoned friends in the attic forgotten songs unfinished books I am the forgotten I am the abandoned I am the left behind cobweb-and-cotton-dust-collector the silence connoisseur I wear loneliness like an unwashed favorite shirt If I die Will you read this? Does anyone else think such things or is Tonio Kroger my only brother? I am Kafka’s cockroach, everyone is waiting for me to die or to change into what you want me to be. my name will not be in the history books by the time my children’s children will have children I am no one. Everything fades in this world like whiteboard-marker on acetate lives. Desolate corners and garbage tell stories art is vandalism, vandalism is art. and people wear diamonds but they are worth nothing. and babies inherit their father’s eyes. I am not yours. You are not mine. Isn’t ownership objectification? If a man owns a clock does the clock own the man? Let’s be money and greed or greed and suffering. one cannot survive without… Let’s be the mismatched pyramids of wealth and population form a parallelogram like bricks on an unstable wall never falling down.
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It's the colour of little flowers in a field It's the colour of the old easter dress in the back of my closet It's the colour of princess sneakers most four year old girls stomp to get the little lights to flash It's the colour of innocent dreams kept by six year olds It's the colour of the marker I wrote this with It's the colour that I used to say was my favorite, but can't anymore It's the colour of my two favorite nail polishes that I always ruin as I paint it It's the colour that I put on my cheeks to show more happiness because I can't show enough It's the colour I feel when I twirl in a dress and the skirts fly up around my knees It's the colour I wish I could be, young, innocent, stupid, carefree, laughing with friends on the play ground on a spring day, getting small flowers from the boy in my first grade class, who says he likes when I wear my princess light up shoes It's a colour I want to call "ME" It's the colour that surrounds my mind when all I can think about is something that I thought was cute It's the colour behind my eyes when stories that I want to write keep my mind from shutting down and sleeping It's not the colour that graces my lips during the day, but in the morning when the day is fresh and I have yet to see the world It's not the colour I wish to be, it's the colour i'm going to strive to be Pink cheeks, Pink light up shoes, Pink skirts, Pink drawings on the walls, Pink flowers in a field of green, Pink dreams, Pink nails I always ruin, Pink markers and crayons, Pink hair I had before everything went down hill Pink was the colour of my innocence and i'm going to get it back
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 1:21 PM UTC
Pink
It's the colour of little flowers in a field It's the colour of the old easter dress in the back of my closet It's the colour of princess sneakers most four year old girls stomp to get the little lights to flash It's the colour of innocent dreams kept by six year olds It's the colour of the marker I wrote this with It's the colour that I used to say was my favorite, but can't anymore It's the colour of my two favorite nail polishes that I always ruin as I paint it It's the colour that I put on my cheeks to show more happiness because I can't show enough It's the colour I feel when I twirl in a dress and the skirts fly up around my knees It's the colour I wish I could be, young, innocent, stupid, carefree, laughing with friends on the play ground on a spring day, getting small flowers from the boy in my first grade class, who says he likes when I wear my princess light up shoes It's a colour I want to call "ME" It's the colour that surrounds my mind when all I can think about is something that I thought was cute It's the colour behind my eyes when stories that I want to write keep my mind from shutting down and sleeping It's not the colour that graces my lips during the day, but in the morning when the day is fresh and I have yet to see the world It's not the colour I wish to be, it's the colour i'm going to strive to be Pink cheeks, Pink light up shoes, Pink skirts, Pink drawings on the walls, Pink flowers in a field of green, Pink dreams, Pink nails I always ruin, Pink markers and crayons, Pink hair I had before everything went down hill Pink was the colour of my innocence and i'm going to get it back
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a lot of people I know are never really happy even when they’re happy, they’re really just sad a lot of people I know settle for just about anything they’ll settle for emotional abuse and then settle for a deep addiction to feel better about the emotional abuse they’re letting themselves prostrate to as long as it can still make “living” seem feasible, they’ll settle because nobody taught them how to ask for what they want, so all this time they never ******* knew they were granted permission to feel worthy of getting what they want because this world likes to think that nobody is entitled to feel worthy or to give into clarity a lot of people I know get off on damaging themselves because blood and burns and bones and ***** and *** and pills and puke are such disgusting in-your-face secrets and this world knows it’s not acceptable to just blatantly write “I hate myself” on your forehead with permanent marker for everyone else to see yes, this stupid, guileful world we live in decided to trick everyone into believing that secrecy and suppression are what make a person interesting and loveable a lot of people I know have this wicked demon inside of them and they like to imagine it looks like a fiery nightmare, red like terror with a devilish face; poisonous eyes and a heartless grin; a face that says “I own you” just so that they can reinforce their ideas of worthlessness and the self-pity of not having true control over themselves when really, they can always have true control whenever they want what a lot of people I know don’t know is that that wicked demon thing inside of them is really just a flower wilting, starving, dying, waiting, hoping, longing to be watered and wondering what the **** they did to be tortured like this
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 11:24 AM UTC
innocent flowers
a lot of people I know are never really happy even when they’re happy, they’re really just sad a lot of people I know settle for just about anything they’ll settle for emotional abuse and then settle for a deep addiction to feel better about the emotional abuse they’re letting themselves prostrate to as long as it can still make “living” seem feasible, they’ll settle because nobody taught them how to ask for what they want, so all this time they never ******* knew they were granted permission to feel worthy of getting what they want because this world likes to think that nobody is entitled to feel worthy or to give into clarity a lot of people I know get off on damaging themselves because blood and burns and bones and ***** and *** and pills and puke are such disgusting in-your-face secrets and this world knows it’s not acceptable to just blatantly write “I hate myself” on your forehead with permanent marker for everyone else to see yes, this stupid, guileful world we live in decided to trick everyone into believing that secrecy and suppression are what make a person interesting and loveable a lot of people I know have this wicked demon inside of them and they like to imagine it looks like a fiery nightmare, red like terror with a devilish face; poisonous eyes and a heartless grin; a face that says “I own you” just so that they can reinforce their ideas of worthlessness and the self-pity of not having true control over themselves when really, they can always have true control whenever they want what a lot of people I know don’t know is that that wicked demon thing inside of them is really just a flower wilting, starving, dying, waiting, hoping, longing to be watered and wondering what the **** they did to be tortured like this
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pinecones are childhood summers spent tripping over the syllables of dense forests folded somewhere between real world Europe and my very real imagination, nestled against each other on bookshelves made of pinewood - a childhood game of hide and go seek pressed in photo albums where a version of me lived; a version of me who delighted my mother and father, a version who to me remains a stranger - smiling gap toothed, shoes in snow boots, sticky fingers pressing pine cones against her nose - the present, a fragrance; the future, a rolling pine forest. pinecones are what the years between 17 and 19 felt like in perennial wanderlust, soul spliced into shards trying to make sense of everything I felt and everything I thought; everything I needed and everything I still want. pine cones perfume the edges of a dream dipped in the streams and stories of far-off lands, pine cones are the crutches of a crippled mind still building a new home for itself in the basements of other people’s hearts. pinecones are platforms which I danced from, leaping limber, slaying fear, the win always near; pine cones are a reminder that while a man can break his shoulder trying to tear one from the tree, the true mark of bravery lies in how well you can break free. pine cones are the skeletons upon which hang the colourless drapes of my future before stepping into galactic puddles that splash colour all over every unmade plan, memories’ strands shining technicolour through translucent skin - the touch of your fingers no longer feel like sins. pine cones are young green and supple, seeds of love lust and chance encounters that blaze into fiery shades of yellows and oranges, every colour turning a tinge darker, a daily time marker; pine cones are what remain, dark and unyielding after a lifecycle of fires starting and dying within the embers of consciousness.
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Jan 13, 2016
Jan 13, 2016 at 2:56 AM UTC
pinecones.
pinecones are childhood summers spent tripping over the syllables of dense forests folded somewhere between real world Europe and my very real imagination, nestled against each other on bookshelves made of pinewood - a childhood game of hide and go seek pressed in photo albums where a version of me lived; a version of me who delighted my mother and father, a version who to me remains a stranger - smiling gap toothed, shoes in snow boots, sticky fingers pressing pine cones against her nose - the present, a fragrance; the future, a rolling pine forest. pinecones are what the years between 17 and 19 felt like in perennial wanderlust, soul spliced into shards trying to make sense of everything I felt and everything I thought; everything I needed and everything I still want. pine cones perfume the edges of a dream dipped in the streams and stories of far-off lands, pine cones are the crutches of a crippled mind still building a new home for itself in the basements of other people’s hearts. pinecones are platforms which I danced from, leaping limber, slaying fear, the win always near; pine cones are a reminder that while a man can break his shoulder trying to tear one from the tree, the true mark of bravery lies in how well you can break free. pine cones are the skeletons upon which hang the colourless drapes of my future before stepping into galactic puddles that splash colour all over every unmade plan, memories’ strands shining technicolour through translucent skin - the touch of your fingers no longer feel like sins. pine cones are young green and supple, seeds of love lust and chance encounters that blaze into fiery shades of yellows and oranges, every colour turning a tinge darker, a daily time marker; pine cones are what remain, dark and unyielding after a lifecycle of fires starting and dying within the embers of consciousness.
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60 sunshines, 59 nightfalls till I face the day 40 topics held in to regurgitate, **** and span for the marker man to give a brother a break. Wait, I ain't done Got anxiety about two more chores in head Not to ***** and moan but ******* Getting tired of this **** What's the point to push if you don't know where to go Blindful blissful ignorance? They say, and you go. What subject? What ever is most respected. What job? What ever brings financial comfort. What about this? Nah, you ain't good at that. And so you sulk ever so distracted Hearing the drip drop taps, splat on to the sink. The metallic ting of the radiator reverberates as dormant inner silence sings. Forever more. A didactic sore for the ears, Apologies in advance, Though regardless you must hear it. Never run to please others Rather, focus and listen to the deep.
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Dec 10, 2017
Dec 10, 2017 at 3:15 PM UTC
Listen to the deep...to get out of the sh**!
Three days, is what the HR rep said, somewhat sheepishly, As if she was fully aware that boxing up one’s grief In a span of a few dozen hours Is a matter of wishful thinking And certainly she sympathizes (Indeed, as she speaks, She spreads her hands in such a way As you half expect doves to come forth in full flight) Empathy being their stock in trade, But the law and the handbook say three days, And then you need to have your head ******* back on and looking forward. Eventually, the mail brings fewer envelopes Marked with embossed flowers And subdued and tasteful stamps, The usual flow of solicitous inquiries, Pre-stamped and pre-sorted, Inquiring as to your credit needs, The condition of your windows and siding, Resumes apace, and more than once, In fits of inappropriate black humor and frustration, You scribble, in bold thick strokes of a marker, The addressee no longer resides at this location. You return to nine-to-five, Though your ghosts keep their own hours, Stopping by to visit on their own schedule alone, Prompted by the tiniest of things: The dog scampering to its feet in a hurry, As if someone was at the door, The discovery of a long-unused pitching wedge Standing expectantly in the back of the closet, A song from long ago which was beloved When you lived in the pairing mandated by Noah Before you entered the shadow world of ones and nones. Sometimes you give into the giddy madness, And rise to waltz around the room, Careening about unsteadily, clumsily As you have yet to completely master The difference in weight shift and distribution That is required of a solo act. The timing of these visitations Often disrupts your schedule and sleep patterns, And you think that perhaps tomorrow you’ll call in.
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Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017 at 10:38 AM UTC
sick day
Three days, is what the HR rep said, somewhat sheepishly, As if she was fully aware that boxing up one’s grief In a span of a few dozen hours Is a matter of wishful thinking And certainly she sympathizes (Indeed, as she speaks, She spreads her hands in such a way As you half expect doves to come forth in full flight) Empathy being their stock in trade, But the law and the handbook say three days, And then you need to have your head ******* back on and looking forward. Eventually, the mail brings fewer envelopes Marked with embossed flowers And subdued and tasteful stamps, The usual flow of solicitous inquiries, Pre-stamped and pre-sorted, Inquiring as to your credit needs, The condition of your windows and siding, Resumes apace, and more than once, In fits of inappropriate black humor and frustration, You scribble, in bold thick strokes of a marker, The addressee no longer resides at this location. You return to nine-to-five, Though your ghosts keep their own hours, Stopping by to visit on their own schedule alone, Prompted by the tiniest of things: The dog scampering to its feet in a hurry, As if someone was at the door, The discovery of a long-unused pitching wedge Standing expectantly in the back of the closet, A song from long ago which was beloved When you lived in the pairing mandated by Noah Before you entered the shadow world of ones and nones. Sometimes you give into the giddy madness, And rise to waltz around the room, Careening about unsteadily, clumsily As you have yet to completely master The difference in weight shift and distribution That is required of a solo act. The timing of these visitations Often disrupts your schedule and sleep patterns, And you think that perhaps tomorrow you’ll call in.
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it is an honor to love and be loved by you (only you) i wanted a hippie van and you wanted to make me happy so you took off your Vans and grabbed a marker we wrote "don't worry, be hippie" on the fabric until our fingers cramped
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 1:55 AM UTC
one random Tuesday
tunnel vision life everything happening far away backwards telescope high school prom pink & blue balloons I walked through those doors off the devil's wagon like a poltergeist I was either invisible or a painted blood red target Alone in the hallways they laughed at me a wasp-like ****** entombed in toilet paper spit & magic marker they didn't hate me, they got me to hate me everywhere I went their gummy bioengineered shadow stalked it was stuck on me all those years like a bucket of pigs blood to the head that I could never wash off but I'm not that loser anymore Don't worry, dea  r Lo ve me.
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Mar 16, 2013
Mar 16, 2013 at 3:50 PM UTC
Lunch In the Bathroom
I think I will walk out today, ill turn and look the other way Put my darkest sunglasses on and stare directly at the sun When I look back nothing ill see But a bright white glare where you used to be Our names scratched in to old concrete And a lingering taste left not so sweet Ill leave a note slipped under our front door Each word more lost than the word before Picture painted at a lonely pace Now drawn in soft lines on your face Lines that are now filled with tears Memories of days and weeks and months and years Time together spent so alone A lesson ill learn on my own Photos faded chipped and cracked and worn Slowly decay beneath the burning sun The sun will set on a forgotten grave Where lies a piece of me that died that day No stone marker there no epitaph Overgrown with weeds but not far off the path The path that you will walk if you search for me The path that leads you to this old oak tree Beneath I sit alone with pen in hand I write this to you will you understand You’ll forget me not though feelings fade Ill pluck a flower as I walk away Petal after petal and step after step As the petals fall so days I will forget I do not look back after the last one drops For the last one tells me that she loves me not (c)2008 CJG
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Sep 22, 2012
Sep 22, 2012 at 12:38 PM UTC
ForgetMeNot
my love brought me tranquility. my love bought me tranquility, in a Manhattan bodega. late at night in my city, everything is for sale where least expected in mini marts, local delis, greek coffee shops, spanish bodegas pizza parlors, hardware stores, all selling salves for late night salvation purveyors of differential equations of differing soulful sustenances, certain imports that will probably never be for sale in Walmart after midnight all, readily available, twenty four seven in my miracle Manhattan heaven My woman, mapper of the byways of my ****** landmarks worn broad~ways, his-toric foot trails of tears, lines of laughters, even a purported dimple I call a crevasse. a sole survivor of a mother's birthing skill marker, duly recorded by her upon my visage, in my miracle Manhattan She knows, as do some of youse guys, that my poetry is water born(e) and water soluble, but Peconic Bay always ain't right handy, so bring on a substitute teacher, a hot bath, helps me to enunciate my verbal visitations my love brought me tranquility. my  love bought me tranquility in a Manhattan bodega. pour the aromatherapy, my love brought me for inspiration into and upon my liquid writing table, "Tranquility," a summer garden aroma It soothes my bad memories, the herbs salve accursed ancient wounds that will never ever fully heal or be forgiven my love brought me tranquility. my graces restored, this poem offered in grateful appreciation with unlimited adoration, something, maybe even the very one thing **that can't be bought, even, in my miracle Manhattan**
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Jan 30, 2014
Jan 30, 2014 at 12:44 AM UTC
my love brought me tranquility
my love brought me tranquility. my love bought me tranquility, in a Manhattan bodega. late at night in my city, everything is for sale where least expected in mini marts, local delis, greek coffee shops, spanish bodegas pizza parlors, hardware stores, all selling salves for late night salvation purveyors of differential equations of differing soulful sustenances, certain imports that will probably never be for sale in Walmart after midnight all, readily available, twenty four seven in my miracle Manhattan heaven My woman, mapper of the byways of my ****** landmarks worn broad~ways, his-toric foot trails of tears, lines of laughters, even a purported dimple I call a crevasse. a sole survivor of a mother's birthing skill marker, duly recorded by her upon my visage, in my miracle Manhattan She knows, as do some of youse guys, that my poetry is water born(e) and water soluble, but Peconic Bay always ain't right handy, so bring on a substitute teacher, a hot bath, helps me to enunciate my verbal visitations my love brought me tranquility. my  love bought me tranquility in a Manhattan bodega. pour the aromatherapy, my love brought me for inspiration into and upon my liquid writing table, "Tranquility," a summer garden aroma It soothes my bad memories, the herbs salve accursed ancient wounds that will never ever fully heal or be forgiven my love brought me tranquility. my graces restored, this poem offered in grateful appreciation with unlimited adoration, something, maybe even the very one thing **that can't be bought, even, in my miracle Manhattan**
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O Out of a bed of love When that immortal hospital made one more moove to soothe The curless counted body, And ruin and his causes Over the barbed and shooting sea assumed an army And swept into our wounds and houses, I climb to greet the war in which I have no heart but only That one dark I owe my light, Call for confessor and wiser mirror but there is none To glow after the god stoning night And I am struck as lonely as a holy marker by the sun. No Praise that the spring time is all Gabriel and radiant shrubbery as the morning grows joyful Out of the woebegone pyre And the multitude's sultry tear turns cool on the weeping wall, My arising prodgidal Sun the father his quiver full of the infants of pure fire, But blessed be hail and upheaval That uncalm still it is sure alone to stand and sing Alone in the husk of man's home And the mother and toppling house of the holy spring, If only for a last time.
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Dylan Thomas - Holy Spring
she gave me 5 stars cause the BIG dipper left scars on her psyche, searing her soul, touching her in forbidden places, tapping new springs of dieve and decadence MOTHER OF GOD! she screams, tongue untied by throes of passion, toes curl, fingers engage stroking wax off bikini strings as she rolls over to insert a page marker into my new anthology of ****** poetry: the BIG dipper! coming soon to a booksmith's near you.... ~ P (#theBIGdipper)
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 1:29 PM UTC
the BIG dipper
Sorry to... Hit yo noes like a brick of green Like the grass that grow nourished by the Celtic saints that know Man tell a lie better make it true if you don’t, then what do I make of you? Now Wonder Woman no wonder were human bringing Brooklyn some thunder hoodlum My baited brown eyes look up and down you Mile marker .66 and I’m still hitting this crisp as a chrysalis you may be the eyewitness of my fist to this more like the wittiness of my pen tip dipped in ambergris I get around you get the gist healing hands I mend the cyst with broken hands I gripped the rich don't understand don't worry like Krishna I persist zzzz Slept on like The buzz of viciousness **** the violence turn the red to VIOLET just look right through my eyes slit Now and then divine feminine deigned to grace my face again turned fake eyes to grin false pride, double subs, and sin. Complete appreciation, genuflected form reflected in this fertile goddeSS who puts the seeds in season She see through SnakeS and reedS when She based in wiSdom reaSon designed to take the basest race from darkest depths to airs of divine space till we’re flushed with grace some are hushed by my ace in the whole I'm a S33ker throwing axes but YOU better only call me an axehole when I mis s . ***** simple as this.
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Feb 28, 2019
Feb 28, 2019 at 12:22 AM UTC
[Divine Feminine] On ze road again.
the air was thick and heavy the sun was heating up the sky And somewhere in the jungle more men were gonna die The streets were full of people Feral dogs were running free The haze was thick and murky The sun you couldn't see It's a Saigon Sunday Morning Ten more men were going home To  a flag tri-corner folded And a marker of white stone The men were all assembled To load them up with care It was a Saigon Sunday Morning with ten men no longer there The jungle was a minefield The trees were blocking out the light It was ***** trapped like crazy And it seemed like it was night A patrol went hunting "Charlie" But, they were found out first It only took twelve seconds And it turned out for the worst The city never noticed The 'copters flying overhead Whether bringing in supplies Or taking out the dead It was a Saigon Sunday Morning It never changed one little bit The air was always heavy And the alleys smelled like **** Back home the news delivered The families destroyed They were waiting for their loved ones A short time were deployed Ribbons tied around the Oak Tree to support those coming back On a Saigon Sunday Morning With twenty bullets in their back A transport with the bodies Drops fifty more to play the game It's a vicious, endless, circle The procedure's all the same It's a Saigon Sunday Morning Ten more men were going home To a flag tri-corner folded And a marker of white stone
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 11:07 AM UTC
saigon sunday morning
for AR and Maria, oh heck, for The Crew **A dog ear is a phrase that refers to the folded down corner of a book page, a dog ear can serve as a bookmark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_ears** ~~~~~~ we fold a page corner down, here we pause in this poetry book, for now, a marker of incompletion, or not a passage, a phrase, whole stands on its own, but today crew, slated for an exit, a return-to-someday, but aside, aside, discarded till... *all on that day run to the mountain, the mountain wont hide you run to the sea, the sea will not have you and run to your grave, your grave will not hold you all on that day* so I, sinnerman, injured my book, I hurt that page disgraced, act of disgraceful, but I am injured and don't have no cares but come the day of return the day I hope to must to believe in, twice as much, all on that day, when the sea, the mountains, and the risen dead, have me back, to my proper place even though will be dog tired, to that dog-eared page, in that worn old notebook return, pick up my sticks, my pens, that have no erasers, start again just where I know, just when I don't, but this why I know, but to that dog-eared return, the page where I died, I shall return, all on that day ~~~~~~~~~~ Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? Run to the moon, "Moon, won't you hide me?" Run to the sea, "Sea, won't you hide me?" Run to the sun, "Sun, won't you hide me all on that day?" Lord said, "Sinner man, moon'll be a bleeding" Lord said, "Sinner man, sea'll be a sinking" Lord said, "Sinner man, sun'll be a freezing all on that day" Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? Run to the Lord, "Lord, won't You hide me?" Run to the Lord, "Lord, won't You hide me?" Run, run, "Lord, won't You hide me all on that day?" Lord said, "Sinner man, you should've been a praying" Lord said, "Sinner man, should've been a praying" Lord said, "Sinner man, should've been a praying all on that day" Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4h55nVbt4c
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 11:41 AM UTC
One more for the road... all on that day, dog ear'd
for AR and Maria, oh heck, for The Crew **A dog ear is a phrase that refers to the folded down corner of a book page, a dog ear can serve as a bookmark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_ears** ~~~~~~ we fold a page corner down, here we pause in this poetry book, for now, a marker of incompletion, or not a passage, a phrase, whole stands on its own, but today crew, slated for an exit, a return-to-someday, but aside, aside, discarded till... *all on that day run to the mountain, the mountain wont hide you run to the sea, the sea will not have you and run to your grave, your grave will not hold you all on that day* so I, sinnerman, injured my book, I hurt that page disgraced, act of disgraceful, but I am injured and don't have no cares but come the day of return the day I hope to must to believe in, twice as much, all on that day, when the sea, the mountains, and the risen dead, have me back, to my proper place even though will be dog tired, to that dog-eared page, in that worn old notebook return, pick up my sticks, my pens, that have no erasers, start again just where I know, just when I don't, but this why I know, but to that dog-eared return, the page where I died, I shall return, all on that day ~~~~~~~~~~ Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? Run to the moon, "Moon, won't you hide me?" Run to the sea, "Sea, won't you hide me?" Run to the sun, "Sun, won't you hide me all on that day?" Lord said, "Sinner man, moon'll be a bleeding" Lord said, "Sinner man, sea'll be a sinking" Lord said, "Sinner man, sun'll be a freezing all on that day" Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? Run to the Lord, "Lord, won't You hide me?" Run to the Lord, "Lord, won't You hide me?" Run, run, "Lord, won't You hide me all on that day?" Lord said, "Sinner man, you should've been a praying" Lord said, "Sinner man, should've been a praying" Lord said, "Sinner man, should've been a praying all on that day" Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to? Oh, sinner man, where you're gonna run to all on that day? www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4h55nVbt4c
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there was a little dolphin a clever chap was he he lived in the ocean in the deep blue sea he sad sonar sense to guide him on his way to tell him to go so he wouldnt stray oneday while out swimming he heard a little noise coming from the side of a marker buoy it was a little crab very sad was he caught up in the buoy trying to break free dolphin he was clever and knew what to do the rope the crab was stuck in he began to chew dophin chewed and chewed till the crab was free he had been released back in to the sea crab was very happy dolphin saved the day he waved goodbye to dolphin as he swam away dolphin he was glad the little crab was free feeling very proud a hero now was he
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Jan 28, 2017
Jan 28, 2017 at 8:22 AM UTC
hero dolphin