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I have a blue blanket, it looks corduroy but it's synthetic polynesian cotton. Considered by some to be polyester. After the ninth year of ownership I started Telling house guests it had always been mine; but secretly knowing it came from my Ex Kristina who left it with some of her other things in 2005 in my grand deluxe Evanston Apartment. In like some really awesome way, I could fold the corners together to see little blocks Of the Universe form cubes in the fourth dimension and gain a better understanding of my own Little black shmata. Top drawer, white dresser, in the back with the leftover girlfriend underwear between My first ever stuffed animal dog/rabbit. Amazing how these thinned and frayed azure threads had held so many midnight conversations Together- maybe fifteen other girls had nuzzled with Kristina's blanket. Last year the guilt set in. You Watch a girlfriend, say, ratchet through your room naked for something soft to put over her to listen to Some half-stanza from the new Yeats critical and that, do-I-tell-her feeling comes over you. Blue Polyester really had a way with women. My last serious crush, the one of six months, the one from the place that was close to where I worked six days a week, would you believe, she had not interest in that heap of thread, under my pillows spying on us sleep for twenty-four long weeks. "Drop in the bucket" the sixty-year-olds say. I say, bring me my ******* fourth dimension blocks and cubes ************ I want to visit the existential, I want to experience the hoo-ra and Ga-Ga those kids throw around on Milwaukee waiting for $150 NBA slippers. Wednesday is my day for telling the truth. 2:00p.m. sitting in the front of her alizarin El Dorado. "I have something I have to tell you," I said, my mouth practically filled with marbles as I barely could Utter the words: it's not going to work out.
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Apr 26, 2014
Apr 26, 2014 at 5:51 AM UTC
Blue Polyester
I have a blue blanket, it looks corduroy but it's synthetic polynesian cotton. Considered by some to be polyester. After the ninth year of ownership I started Telling house guests it had always been mine; but secretly knowing it came from my Ex Kristina who left it with some of her other things in 2005 in my grand deluxe Evanston Apartment. In like some really awesome way, I could fold the corners together to see little blocks Of the Universe form cubes in the fourth dimension and gain a better understanding of my own Little black shmata. Top drawer, white dresser, in the back with the leftover girlfriend underwear between My first ever stuffed animal dog/rabbit. Amazing how these thinned and frayed azure threads had held so many midnight conversations Together- maybe fifteen other girls had nuzzled with Kristina's blanket. Last year the guilt set in. You Watch a girlfriend, say, ratchet through your room naked for something soft to put over her to listen to Some half-stanza from the new Yeats critical and that, do-I-tell-her feeling comes over you. Blue Polyester really had a way with women. My last serious crush, the one of six months, the one from the place that was close to where I worked six days a week, would you believe, she had not interest in that heap of thread, under my pillows spying on us sleep for twenty-four long weeks. "Drop in the bucket" the sixty-year-olds say. I say, bring me my ******* fourth dimension blocks and cubes ************ I want to visit the existential, I want to experience the hoo-ra and Ga-Ga those kids throw around on Milwaukee waiting for $150 NBA slippers. Wednesday is my day for telling the truth. 2:00p.m. sitting in the front of her alizarin El Dorado. "I have something I have to tell you," I said, my mouth practically filled with marbles as I barely could Utter the words: it's not going to work out.
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Alone That's how I feel very often Sitting here on my own  Til the day I'm in my coffin  Double crossers run they mouth more than water in a faucet And these ratchet *** hoes only want what's in my pocket  Foreal  All these fake *** ****** claiming they yo friend But in the end everybody know its just pretend  Unlike the demons that I see in every empty room And the reasons why the world is stressed from work and shrooms Every season 50 people on Milwaukee news Dying cuz they tryna find a way to get around the rules And it's funny Well it's really kinda stunning Cuz they tryna make that money To see they kids make it out of school Now ig they'll never see that day.  Why ? Cuz they died tryna get paid.  Wow.  They lived for the same thing they died for.  Blood drips and now they the one that millions cry for.  But last week he was knocking on every single door Asking for donations for his child and nothing more But they snickered and lied on they doorstand  And now they sniffle and cry for this poor man The three types of people that I mentioned before Are the same people behind all those knocked doors  The double crossers were friends that wanted new friends The ratchet *** was his unsupportive girlfriend The fake guy Was every person that cried When they found out that he died  But mocked him while he was alive I don't want those kind of people around me That's why I claim my loneliness so proudly  That's why I'm lonely in this world with no poise Yes I'm alone. But loneliness is my choice.
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Aug 6, 2013
Aug 6, 2013 at 10:10 AM UTC
Loneliness: A Blessing or a Curse?
Alone That's how I feel very often Sitting here on my own  Til the day I'm in my coffin  Double crossers run they mouth more than water in a faucet And these ratchet *** hoes only want what's in my pocket  Foreal  All these fake *** ****** claiming they yo friend But in the end everybody know its just pretend  Unlike the demons that I see in every empty room And the reasons why the world is stressed from work and shrooms Every season 50 people on Milwaukee news Dying cuz they tryna find a way to get around the rules And it's funny Well it's really kinda stunning Cuz they tryna make that money To see they kids make it out of school Now ig they'll never see that day.  Why ? Cuz they died tryna get paid.  Wow.  They lived for the same thing they died for.  Blood drips and now they the one that millions cry for.  But last week he was knocking on every single door Asking for donations for his child and nothing more But they snickered and lied on they doorstand  And now they sniffle and cry for this poor man The three types of people that I mentioned before Are the same people behind all those knocked doors  The double crossers were friends that wanted new friends The ratchet *** was his unsupportive girlfriend The fake guy Was every person that cried When they found out that he died  But mocked him while he was alive I don't want those kind of people around me That's why I claim my loneliness so proudly  That's why I'm lonely in this world with no poise Yes I'm alone. But loneliness is my choice.
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I can make anybody pretty I can make you believe any lie I can make you pick a fight With somebody twice your size I been known to cause a few break ups I been known to cause a few births I can make you new friends Or get you fired from Work And since the day I left Milwaukee Lynchburg and Bordeaux France Been making the bars lots of big money And helping white people dance I got you in trouble in high school But college, now that was a ball You had some of the best times You'll never remember with me Alcohol Alcohol I got blamed at your wedding reception For your best man's embarrassing speech And also for those Naked pictures of you at the beach I've influenced kings and world leaders I helped Hemmingway write like he did And I'll bet you a drink or two that I can make you Put that lampshade on your head 'Cause since the day I left Milwaukee Lynchburg and Bordeaux France Been making a fool out of folks just like you And helping white people dance I'm medicine and I am poison I can help you up or make you fall You had some of the best times You'll never remember with me Alcohol Alcohol
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Jun 9, 2015
Jun 9, 2015 at 3:41 AM UTC
Alcohol
Ach so! thou much-praised and lauded Milwaukee, Thou delightful Wisconsin Stadt of boundless pulchritude, Verily hath History endowed thy blessed name With the noisomely beery breath of immortality! And thank the benign Almighty in highest Heav’n That thy delectable streets and arboreal squares Doth remain heretofore untouched by unseemly civic strife, Despite thy renown as veritable midwife to Sewer Socialism! Yet, tear-inducing recollections have I of this dwelling-place And herewith followeth heart-rending remembrances Of what transpired when I inveigled a plump young Mädchen there For a brief sojourn of untrammelled concupiscence. Alas, alack, after gorging her impetuous appetites On a gargantuan repast of mitteleuropäische delicacies, Methinks her poor heart gave up survival’s uneven battle And, warbling a soft piffero-reminiscent sigh, she expired. ‘Twas too tragic thus to depart this happy welkin in mid-prandials, Emitting a final flatus, sweet adieu, from her rearmost aperture, Leaving me, her poor forlorn swain, bereft and solitary, Faced with mine host’s request for instant monetary rendition. From that naughty place of my bereavement fled I, Clutching to my ***** the contents of her silken purse, Determined to partake in untrammelled ***** licence elsewhere, Ere the chanticleer’s dawn croak wake the inebriated citizens.
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Dec 5, 2014
Dec 5, 2014 at 12:21 PM UTC
Tragically Gay Memories of Old Milwaukee (poem by Edna's ******** brother Siegfried)
No one born too far from Niedersachsen, said Oma, ever quite captures their sing-song intonation. Characterized by subtleties, like an umlauted vowel, all non-native imitations sound inevitably as ****** as would a cry of “ello, guv’nah!” in a London coffee shop. Her Plattdeutsch instincts neutered by decades abroad, married to a son of Milwaukee, her permanent, dormant longing for Salzgitter awakes only to trigger hunger pangs of irreconcilable nostalgia at the passing whiff of a Germantown bakery. She taught me the word “sehnsucht” over lukewarm coffee and a pause in our conversation: a compound word that no well-intentioned English translation could render faithfully. It isn’t the same as just longing, she sighed— longing is curable. Sehnsucht holds the fragments of an imperfect world and laments that they are patternless. How the soul yearns vaguely for a home remembered only in the residual ache of incomplete childhood fancies; futile as the ruins of an ancient, annihilated people. How life’s staccato joys soothe a heart sore from the world, yet the existential hunger, gnawing from the malnourished stomach of the bruised human psyche, remains— insatiable, eternal. Long enough ago, a reasonably-priced bus ride away from the red-roofed apartment in which she babbled her first words, a kindly old man in a pharmacy asked her about her peculiar, exotic accent. Once inevitably prompted with the question of where she was from, she responded only that she was a tourist off the beaten track. And when I pointed out, to my immediate regret, that she gets the same question back here in Ohio, I realized then that, not once, has she ever referred to the way the people of her pined-for hometown spoke as though she had ever belonged to it.
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Sep 29, 2015
Sep 29, 2015 at 2:21 PM UTC
"Sehnsucht"
No one born too far from Niedersachsen, said Oma, ever quite captures their sing-song intonation. Characterized by subtleties, like an umlauted vowel, all non-native imitations sound inevitably as ****** as would a cry of “ello, guv’nah!” in a London coffee shop. Her Plattdeutsch instincts neutered by decades abroad, married to a son of Milwaukee, her permanent, dormant longing for Salzgitter awakes only to trigger hunger pangs of irreconcilable nostalgia at the passing whiff of a Germantown bakery. She taught me the word “sehnsucht” over lukewarm coffee and a pause in our conversation: a compound word that no well-intentioned English translation could render faithfully. It isn’t the same as just longing, she sighed— longing is curable. Sehnsucht holds the fragments of an imperfect world and laments that they are patternless. How the soul yearns vaguely for a home remembered only in the residual ache of incomplete childhood fancies; futile as the ruins of an ancient, annihilated people. How life’s staccato joys soothe a heart sore from the world, yet the existential hunger, gnawing from the malnourished stomach of the bruised human psyche, remains— insatiable, eternal. Long enough ago, a reasonably-priced bus ride away from the red-roofed apartment in which she babbled her first words, a kindly old man in a pharmacy asked her about her peculiar, exotic accent. Once inevitably prompted with the question of where she was from, she responded only that she was a tourist off the beaten track. And when I pointed out, to my immediate regret, that she gets the same question back here in Ohio, I realized then that, not once, has she ever referred to the way the people of her pined-for hometown spoke as though she had ever belonged to it.
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A born salesman, my father made all his dough by selling wool to Fieldcrest, Woolrich and Faribo. A born talker, he could sell one hundred wet-down bales of that white stuff. He could clock the miles and the sales and make it pay. At home each sentence he would utter had first pleased the buyer who'd paid him off in butter. Each word had been tried over and over, at any rate, on the man who was sold by the man who filled my plate. My father hovered over the Yorkshire pudding and the beef: a peddler, a hawker, a merchant and an Indian chief. Roosevelt! Willkie! and war! How suddenly gauche I was with my old-maid heart and my funny teenage applause. Each night at home my father was in love with maps while the radio fought its battles with Nazis and **** Except when he hid in his bedroom on a three-day drunk, he typed out complex itineraries, packed his trunk, his matched luggage and pocketed a confirmed reservation, his heart already pushing over the red routes of the nation. I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening thee wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones. He died on the road, his heart pushed from neck to back, his white hanky signaling from the window of the Cadillac. My husband, as blue-eyed as a picture book, sells wool: boxes of card waste, laps and rovings he can pull to the thread and say Leicester, Rambouillet, Merino, a half-blood, it's greasy and thick, yellow as old snow. And when you drive off, my darling, Yes, sir! Yes, sir! It's one for my dame, your sample cases branded with my father's name, your itinerary open, its tolls ticking and greedy, its highways built up like new loves, raw and speedy.
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And One For My Dame
A born salesman, my father made all his dough by selling wool to Fieldcrest, Woolrich and Faribo. A born talker, he could sell one hundred wet-down bales of that white stuff. He could clock the miles and the sales and make it pay. At home each sentence he would utter had first pleased the buyer who'd paid him off in butter. Each word had been tried over and over, at any rate, on the man who was sold by the man who filled my plate. My father hovered over the Yorkshire pudding and the beef: a peddler, a hawker, a merchant and an Indian chief. Roosevelt! Willkie! and war! How suddenly gauche I was with my old-maid heart and my funny teenage applause. Each night at home my father was in love with maps while the radio fought its battles with Nazis and **** Except when he hid in his bedroom on a three-day drunk, he typed out complex itineraries, packed his trunk, his matched luggage and pocketed a confirmed reservation, his heart already pushing over the red routes of the nation. I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening thee wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones. He died on the road, his heart pushed from neck to back, his white hanky signaling from the window of the Cadillac. My husband, as blue-eyed as a picture book, sells wool: boxes of card waste, laps and rovings he can pull to the thread and say Leicester, Rambouillet, Merino, a half-blood, it's greasy and thick, yellow as old snow. And when you drive off, my darling, Yes, sir! Yes, sir! It's one for my dame, your sample cases branded with my father's name, your itinerary open, its tolls ticking and greedy, its highways built up like new loves, raw and speedy.
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We walked in together and from that moment on, I watched the way your eyes traced each line in each portrait. Arms stiffened in the pockets of your tight, but not too tight jeans, I wondered what it would be like to kiss you. In an art museum I'd never been to, you were the most beautiful piece in the room. I couldn't look away. While most people take pictures of the paintings they love, the sculptures that mesmerize them, I turned my focus to those carolina blue eyes as they focused on the art. I traced your jawline in my mind, and I tried to count each hair in your ****** scruff. I wondered who was responsible for such an incredible work, who could have created such beauty, and how I came so lucky to witness it. At least a thousand other people were in the museum yet I felt as though it was only you. You seemingly perfect human being, your elegantly disheveled hair, your tired yet lively eyes. I want to create something with you. I want to make art so beautiful it radiates, I want to love you so purely it never ends. You stopped to get gas on the way back. I stepped out of the car to take a mental picture of the way those iridescent lights hit your face, and as I approached, you kissed me. This moment was a masterpiece, the world should have counted my heartbeats. We broke the kiss and headed home. I held your hand the whole way. I have loved art my entire life, but have never come across beauty as pure as you.
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Nov 6, 2016
Nov 6, 2016 at 3:32 PM UTC
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Autumn
Midnight eyes, a sad seduction to parlor jazz, ads burn through windows rolled up tight on Lincoln Drive, the skyline drips and sighs with pleasure. You and I could sleep all night on our Uber ride to the towers (we never mind the drunken fight, we never mind the complications). Lightning loves the tallest trees, and you and I? A redwood forest. But what is love without the static? (A dead-eyed kiss, a glance at strangers). Pale, the art that imitates us. Lungs collapse with rampant laughter. (We pay no heed to warning signs, we pay no mind to hidden danger).
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Aug 31, 2018
Aug 31, 2018 at 2:44 PM UTC
Redwoods in Milwaukee
Last year's version of the mind-body problem: my mind gives orders that my body won’t obey. It’s a problem. The body’s warranty has expired and spare parts are scarce. Plastic tubes To help me drain have become part of my day. So there’s still a will. But sometimes no way. I am now my sister’s age when she died. And some nights as I lie down in darkness there’s a moment of wondering could this be the night of the Great Reckoning when everything I’ve said and done goes mute and I am gone. And crawling over me like a slow stain is dread that everything important in life has already happened. I remember some days less than my dreams. But friend, not this tone! Let us write a history of now. Body and soul, stand up and shout “Baseball road trip!” Car: check. Best friend: check. Nostalgia for a simpler time. We can fake that one. The red zigzags on our map turn into places: Six ballparks in a week. Detroit haze, gasping Chicago wind, Milwaukee self-serve micro brew Cincinnati chili and watering eyes, Cleveland’s defiant self-love, Pittsburgh’s Primanti brothers monstrosity sandwich— Burger, coleslaw, and fries on toast. The American dream tastes like fast food, But the mystery lives between the lines. Thwack of fastball into catcher’s glove, Whock! of line drive into the gap, Ball rolling free across the green While the runner speeds for home. Home. Let’s keep going, friend. There’s another bridge up ahead and a ballpark’s lights shining somewhere in the dusk of the upper Midwest and the open road unrolls toward the setting sun.
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 7:16 PM UTC
2018: Road Trip with Last Year’s Man
Last year's version of the mind-body problem: my mind gives orders that my body won’t obey. It’s a problem. The body’s warranty has expired and spare parts are scarce. Plastic tubes To help me drain have become part of my day. So there’s still a will. But sometimes no way. I am now my sister’s age when she died. And some nights as I lie down in darkness there’s a moment of wondering could this be the night of the Great Reckoning when everything I’ve said and done goes mute and I am gone. And crawling over me like a slow stain is dread that everything important in life has already happened. I remember some days less than my dreams. But friend, not this tone! Let us write a history of now. Body and soul, stand up and shout “Baseball road trip!” Car: check. Best friend: check. Nostalgia for a simpler time. We can fake that one. The red zigzags on our map turn into places: Six ballparks in a week. Detroit haze, gasping Chicago wind, Milwaukee self-serve micro brew Cincinnati chili and watering eyes, Cleveland’s defiant self-love, Pittsburgh’s Primanti brothers monstrosity sandwich— Burger, coleslaw, and fries on toast. The American dream tastes like fast food, But the mystery lives between the lines. Thwack of fastball into catcher’s glove, Whock! of line drive into the gap, Ball rolling free across the green While the runner speeds for home. Home. Let’s keep going, friend. There’s another bridge up ahead and a ballpark’s lights shining somewhere in the dusk of the upper Midwest and the open road unrolls toward the setting sun.
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ha ha! a ha ha ha ha ha ha! sorry... i sometimes get the giggles... you know that jeffrey dahmer biopic? ha ha ha ha! i'm laughing, because i'm authentically just curios... who was the inspiration for the film, Napoleon Dynamite? who?! ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! are, you, sure, that Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't the muse are you, sure?! ha ha ha ha! doubt it... seriously doubt it... NA(H)PO(H)LEO(N) DYNAMITE... what a "vague" similarity... with a Jeffrey Dahmer... **** it... let's go full **** - DJ REBEL & MAHOMBI ft. SHAGGY... but... ha ha ha! i love the fact that Napoleon Dynamite was borrowed from... ha ha! ah ha ha ha! the Milwaukee cannibal! please tell me when Albert Fish pops up... esp. with the scene of injecting needles into his groin before sitting on the electric chair: i'm guessing for the added O in gasping for... anything but air. it's still sinking in... it's nighttime and i'm... seriously trying to avert laughing out-loud... how there's connection... reciprocal points of vested interest culminating in pristine Abel... and his shadow, Cain... now... if Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't the inspiration for Napoleon Dynamite? then Pinocchio elongating nose... wasn't the basis for a ***** i must always be wrong, it would seem.
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Sep 15, 2018
Sep 15, 2018 at 7:59 PM UTC
jeffrey "napoleon dynamite" dahmer
I've always aspired to be a little bit of everything Try everything once, give everyone a second chance I dreamt of making mountains from milwaukee's molehills And find prosperity and pleasure in the potholes Ask not what your city can do for you but what you can do for your city And I'll give my city a little bit of everything Befriend a little bit of everyone Some see my city as small, but it gives birth to such big dreams such high hopes A state that has given birth to my state of creativity A city that has certified that anything can happen At any second My city is a little bit of everything Dangerous like the streets as the numbers get lower Rambunctious like the fireworks at the lakefront on the 3rd of July Still  like the suburbs of Wauwatosa all the way to Muskego Freezing like Madison mid January Scorching like the city during summertime My city has made me as Poetic as Maya Angelou Brave as Martin Luther King Intelligent as Thurgood Marshall Soulful as that lady that sung the blues **** as Dorothy Dandridge in her red dress Delicate as Diana before she met the Wiz Quiet as Celie Sweet as Suga Arrogant as Ali Humble as Halle Milwaukee, the city that made my dreams.
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 3:13 PM UTC
My City
Ah magnificence how temperament will change the world at large for they'd abandon these cages as force fields now presume their quadrants in June and search for those left decides these pastures albeit unknown while green meadows I've forebode managing lifestyle as abridged heretofore these days of being heard that altogether here's my play where inflation surely wield as weird alienation might sprout importunate places likeness kin and then shoot gorilla not extinct these dawns upon gatekeeper meld, have brought Milwaukee Instagram with certain flair now upstream in these gardens is reform!
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Jun 7, 2016
Jun 7, 2016 at 6:27 AM UTC
Gardens
saying **** off* seems so much more easier when you're petting cats.... they just say it for you... there he is, Quarus, the operatic singer nearing sunset, 200 variations of a mulling of meow, i end up calling him Orbison Rufus, the ginger Roy of Peckham - he basically meows lazily like Roy singing... as said / i.d. (id est): the umbras or umbrellas - counting the shadows' version of Apache's yawn: ah-woo ah-woo ah-woo nagging the reflex... gave them the yawn and gave them 1950s America... Billy the Kid talking to the king of Specs... hank marvin.... cheese grater with those teeth... dozen cows buckling with the herding in while the dog carved a feel for religion in the translation of the Vatican from coliseum into football requirements... the movies were great in the 1950s, just after the technicolour... petting cats was never such a thrill... the operatic meow, onomatopoeia from echo in a cave to knock-on-wood... 200 variations of the knock and 12 whiskey shots downed while playing poker... 12 cowboys 1 Milwaukee and 30 Turks... classic Tarantino... i said the Apache yawn... i never said giving out smoke signals... Quarus my ginger is demanded as having laughed... he's Roy Orbison with the meow, pretty much lazy... looks like a murmur when he tries singing, pretty woman, trolling down the street, Gucci, Chanel, and everything in the scrapheap of lobotomy, as is Paris necessarily mentioned: chiselled white collars... Roy knew before Elvis... the trick came with sunglasses, and the gluttonous slur of the half-opened mouthing for subsequent mouthing it off... no amount of cheese in French could ever charter the success of the cheeses added to cheeseburgers with the milkshakes, which were plainly Dutch laughing cows named Novices.... quick-melts and some said: dreadlocks of string-yellow Gouda pulled for a hippies' worth of Chinese chugging down a pint or two, for worth of gag and the slim mascot; the Chinese never taught Cannes arithmetic of the thumb through to pinky... i don't know how they taught counting with their complex ideograms, they never taught arithmetic give their encoding... they taught pure math.. they never taught the simplest of assurances... meaning so few of them became bankers.
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Aug 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 at 11:21 PM UTC
Apache Yawn Echo Imitation
saying **** off* seems so much more easier when you're petting cats.... they just say it for you... there he is, Quarus, the operatic singer nearing sunset, 200 variations of a mulling of meow, i end up calling him Orbison Rufus, the ginger Roy of Peckham - he basically meows lazily like Roy singing... as said / i.d. (id est): the umbras or umbrellas - counting the shadows' version of Apache's yawn: ah-woo ah-woo ah-woo nagging the reflex... gave them the yawn and gave them 1950s America... Billy the Kid talking to the king of Specs... hank marvin.... cheese grater with those teeth... dozen cows buckling with the herding in while the dog carved a feel for religion in the translation of the Vatican from coliseum into football requirements... the movies were great in the 1950s, just after the technicolour... petting cats was never such a thrill... the operatic meow, onomatopoeia from echo in a cave to knock-on-wood... 200 variations of the knock and 12 whiskey shots downed while playing poker... 12 cowboys 1 Milwaukee and 30 Turks... classic Tarantino... i said the Apache yawn... i never said giving out smoke signals... Quarus my ginger is demanded as having laughed... he's Roy Orbison with the meow, pretty much lazy... looks like a murmur when he tries singing, pretty woman, trolling down the street, Gucci, Chanel, and everything in the scrapheap of lobotomy, as is Paris necessarily mentioned: chiselled white collars... Roy knew before Elvis... the trick came with sunglasses, and the gluttonous slur of the half-opened mouthing for subsequent mouthing it off... no amount of cheese in French could ever charter the success of the cheeses added to cheeseburgers with the milkshakes, which were plainly Dutch laughing cows named Novices.... quick-melts and some said: dreadlocks of string-yellow Gouda pulled for a hippies' worth of Chinese chugging down a pint or two, for worth of gag and the slim mascot; the Chinese never taught Cannes arithmetic of the thumb through to pinky... i don't know how they taught counting with their complex ideograms, they never taught arithmetic give their encoding... they taught pure math.. they never taught the simplest of assurances... meaning so few of them became bankers.
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I Found God I found God in a Baptist Church in Milwaukee. Faith, small hands and scratched bibles. Warm cookies. The delicate and the children. Their names in coded words on the skin under my arms. . Dedicate: the day to the great E. Perience. There is a new Age coming. I smoke a cigarette. God arrived in fancy clothes. Women dressed, frown. Still voices in the Wilderness Witness the Beloved baptism of perfumed sinners I smoked for them all. My fee for being previously Apostate. Caroline Shank
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Dec 14, 2021
Dec 14, 2021 at 8:13 PM UTC
I Found God
Old Milwaukee raised me. Groomed me, shaped me. Prepped me, made me. I must have been born for the wild.. Bright lights, long nights. Skyscrapers, paper chasers. Yellow cabs, livin' fast. Dream chasin', heart racin'. Crowded trains, heat and rain. Livin' right, rockstar life. Heart breakers, money makers. I was definitely born for the wild. Baited me, hooked me. Caught me, took me. New York City has my heart.
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Sep 2, 2013
Sep 2, 2013 at 3:26 PM UTC
Where the Wild Things Are
Turn on the television at your own risk. We're dying. People like us are dying and we are the killers. Three shootings before 10pm. 18 year old woman found dead on the sidewalk Six shootings took place in Milwaukee last night The stories just start to blend together. And after a while they all begin to end the same: No one is in custody at this time, there are no suspects
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 12:31 PM UTC
Stop the Violence
Her plan with bantam there shakes subsequent arthritis or foment her albatross when zion mats superfluously and poverty now ungrateful in their Milwaukee suburbs while her ruby floss allure in her java melts mine.
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Sep 14, 2016
Sep 14, 2016 at 4:01 PM UTC
Her Insurrection
Harley Davidson motorcycle song By David John Clare My elektra glide had to find her Shes got the key to turn it on Street wheels are spinning Now were are wining... When she sez go let's get it on... Harley love will get you racing the street bike you'll be a chasing So ride the wind with Harley Davidson the machine for you... Now my baby said to me boy now don't be slow let's get over to the Sunday cycle show our fat boy was still looking the best Want my advice? Here's what I suggest. Chorus Well we don't talk much so to hell with a car Romping in the country under Texas stars She rolled out the blanket on the grassy dew We started drinking Jim beem right out of her shoe... Chorus Harley Davidson motorcycle Milwaukee Wisconsin David John Clare
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 7:27 AM UTC
Harley Davidson Song
I was born in California and raised in Arizona yet neither one of those places are home to me Milwaukee, Wisconsin is my home Milwaukee is where I took my first real breath after coming to terms that I was now a person living with a mental illness Milwaukee is where I took my first steps as an adult Milwaukee is where I found my love for writing on the floor of my walk in closet on South 28th street Milwaukee is where I fell in love for the first time lost my virginity and got my heart smashed to pieces and even though I was hurting I never gave up on the belief in love Milwaukee is where I smoked my first cigarette Milwaukee is where I bought my first Mayday Parade album after cutting the **** out of my legs in my father's basement Milwaukee is where I met snow for the first time at age two and 23 years later I swear I can remember the feeling I had when I touched it Milwaukee is where I discovered my favorite coffee flavor at the Starbucks on Howell Avenue Milwaukee was where I dyed my hair black and began my journey to finding out who I was as a person Milwaukee is my battlefield in which I fought demons I never thought I would have to fight It's where I tasted betrayal, abuse, anger, depression and anxiety for the first time It's also where I contemplated suicide and almost went through with it I've endured hell in Milwaukee but it's where I persevered It's where I got tough It's where my broken heart healed It's where I looked my demons straight in the face and yelled "TRY ME ***** Milwaukee is where I grew as a person in ways I never thought I could Milwaukee is more than a city most people pass through on their journey to somewhere else Milwaukee is a part of my soul that I am far from ashamed of My birth certificate may say I am from California but Milwaukee, Wisconsin is where I'm really from Its my home and no one can tell me differently
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Jul 20, 2017
Jul 20, 2017 at 1:02 PM UTC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
I was born in California and raised in Arizona yet neither one of those places are home to me Milwaukee, Wisconsin is my home Milwaukee is where I took my first real breath after coming to terms that I was now a person living with a mental illness Milwaukee is where I took my first steps as an adult Milwaukee is where I found my love for writing on the floor of my walk in closet on South 28th street Milwaukee is where I fell in love for the first time lost my virginity and got my heart smashed to pieces and even though I was hurting I never gave up on the belief in love Milwaukee is where I smoked my first cigarette Milwaukee is where I bought my first Mayday Parade album after cutting the **** out of my legs in my father's basement Milwaukee is where I met snow for the first time at age two and 23 years later I swear I can remember the feeling I had when I touched it Milwaukee is where I discovered my favorite coffee flavor at the Starbucks on Howell Avenue Milwaukee was where I dyed my hair black and began my journey to finding out who I was as a person Milwaukee is my battlefield in which I fought demons I never thought I would have to fight It's where I tasted betrayal, abuse, anger, depression and anxiety for the first time It's also where I contemplated suicide and almost went through with it I've endured hell in Milwaukee but it's where I persevered It's where I got tough It's where my broken heart healed It's where I looked my demons straight in the face and yelled "TRY ME ***** Milwaukee is where I grew as a person in ways I never thought I could Milwaukee is more than a city most people pass through on their journey to somewhere else Milwaukee is a part of my soul that I am far from ashamed of My birth certificate may say I am from California but Milwaukee, Wisconsin is where I'm really from Its my home and no one can tell me differently
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through my microscope, I spend hours looking at the interstices of a plant cell wall; if the earth did not spin, I could endure the whole frigid night staring through my telescope at one violently still crater on the moon but I eat only soggy cheerios for breakfast, ramen--chicken flavor--for lunch, EVERY day, and either Dinty Moore stew or cheese ravioli for my evening repast my toothbrush must be blue, the paste pure white and I could never tolerate the plight, of socks slipping down past my ankles I love Vivaldi, Brahms, and the sound of soft rain, but hail batters my brain like a billion ball bearings on an defenseless tin *** my alarm must face due north and my bed sunset west, beyond those things I have no peculiar request except that things remain EXACTLY the way they are/were for eternity I can't play a savant symphony like some would expect, or do cataclysmic calculations in my head though I can recall, two years and four months ago today, a gold thumbtack sitting alone on my dead granddad’s wood work bench, and the gray smelling roll of duct tape I placed precisely three inches from it, to keep it company and if I ever again travel 365.26 miles to visit Granny in Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA, it better be there, not having dared to move a nightmarish nanometer
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Oct 23, 2015
Oct 23, 2015 at 10:20 PM UTC
a thumbtack, a roll of duct tape
Last fed is the last out of bed. Just a few words to live by. I guess what I mean is I meant what I said, I never looked back as I tore out of town. Back home, folks were slower than most, lazy days, nowhere to go. Not much disrupting, except occasional snow, and me, I kept right in my lane. Now those days are gone, and for real, I don’t miss it. Never been ****** like I was that one Christmas; now holidays hurt, but I won’t cross those bridges. Symbols in smoke are sketched in the sky, I mistook them for clouds, guess the shapes caught my eye. My sister once scribbled a scene in her notebook, looked just like Milwaukee, but felt just like home. Everyone hurts, we’re all just the same; but I’ll make a name, when I dust off the dirt. Can’t quit for trying, and won’t keep pretending. All we can do is keep on enduring.
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Sep 11, 2017
Sep 11, 2017 at 12:49 PM UTC
Sisyphus
Never drink to distract yourself It always ends in success. But once you remember what you were trying to forget, You have a crash There is a burn, A sting of memory. And there's no forgetting What's been singed inside your head. Those times between sheets, And kisses and fond memories. Permanent are these for you to keep, Despite desperate attempts of forgetting. Everything is blurry except those mental pictures, Even Milwaukee's Finest can't drown those primest memories you have. And everything ends in the singular thought... I wish. You. Were. Here.
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Feb 14, 2015
Feb 14, 2015 at 1:27 AM UTC
Blurry
There are tongues hidden away inside cabinets, fingers pressed between the floorboards, members ****** into dresser drawers -- You caressed them lovingly, every tooth and freckle turned over in your memory, you play them over as you sleep And every once in awhile, their faces gulp to life beneath your chest, and maybe your heart beat quickly for a moment, and you whispered to yourself: thank god, this day has finally come -- His kindergarten dreams his sugar sweet mouth his cream soft tongue, they succumbed to you like beasts trapped beneath the riverbed You let them float, dry tongues hang out between bloodied lips, you touched their lips in the darkness and the dance continued until morning And later, caught up in the nightmare you stared into the sky. Maybe the full moon reached out and touched you, maybe you smiled But you said, thank god; thank god I am the man I am -- And something made you, starstuff shaped and twisted until they formed those fingers, those hands those eyes the brows that would furrow in the darkness of that closet until it came down over your head and as the memories surged through your mind? I hope they came first, one wailing scream pushing through your heart before you succumbed thank god, thank god
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Apr 12, 2012
Apr 12, 2012 at 11:59 PM UTC
apartment 213, milwaukee
Do I jump right in, or just slowly submerge, and resist the urge to quickly drown me? Do I hold your hand as I wade right in, or force your head down under my chin? Or should I push you in and go on alone...? I feel optimistic I feel saddened I feel just fine I feel rabid I feel like losing every form of hope I feel my grip slip on the rope I feel, I feel, I feel I- nevermind.. Like a corpsman from a failure, Like a shell-shocked, ship-wrecked sailor, Like a wounded, desert dog, or maybe Like a shaken baby, I crawl away from you. I taste delicious irony in all the things they say will **** me; they tend to be the only things that keep me breathing. The light only shines though after all the drink and drugs I do fully set in, and I feel I can last again. Amphetamine and LSD Are the only cure for what you've done to me. Thanks to you and all the opening up I do. Thanks to me and my trust for those around me.
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May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012 at 12:32 PM UTC
My Milwaukee Protocol
Maybe I'll call it polisatire. Maybe I'll call it Satpolire. Satoplire. Let's go people... nothing to see here but a big old fat ******* Satoplire... coughs coughs vigorously shakes is naked just wasn't naked but now is Satoplire #Hilldabeast2016 #Hilldabeast Hillary Clinton scares me. I think she's capable of producing some dark days... We had the black guy... now we're going to get the woman. What's next... An Octopus? *are you offended because I didn't say black woman or Mexican and instead went all the way down the line to octopus? Come on... You'd be offended if I said anything regarding race or *** there... that is... if you're a little ***** I'm done. This ain't a poem... more of a stream of my ****** up consciousness on Lots of drugs and Lots of Nosleep. *kids... don't go askin' around for that new **** called Nosleep... I just mean I haven't slept in a few days is all.* **Note to self: start putting ajax and powdered ***** in capsules and market it as Nosleep** More Notes: Go on a road trip to Brooklyn with one of the kids you got hooked on Nosleeps and refuse them Nosleep the entire way there. They'll be too young to get it because it's a lot easier to sell fake drugs to miners. *Notes on Notes: I think he meant I should market to minors... not miners. Spent the day last day down in the ***** coal mines of West Allis and boy oh boy.... did they ever find fury down there with which to beat my *** when I tried to sell them Nosleep. Do not sell to miners* **Don't sell to minors either. Jail is not the place you want to be. At least not in Milwaukee county. I'm a white boy with soft skin and the prisons here are like., well., let's just say I'd be the ******** on the black sheets** dude you can't use the word black in a metaphor if you're using it to describe black people oops... **** it* #fuckit ((literallyfuckit)) k what was it? You know. No I don't ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ miners get awfully lonely down there ;)
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Apr 18, 2015
Apr 18, 2015 at 5:44 AM UTC
Today I'm going to write something political and satirical
Maybe I'll call it polisatire. Maybe I'll call it Satpolire. Satoplire. Let's go people... nothing to see here but a big old fat ******* Satoplire... coughs coughs vigorously shakes is naked just wasn't naked but now is Satoplire #Hilldabeast2016 #Hilldabeast Hillary Clinton scares me. I think she's capable of producing some dark days... We had the black guy... now we're going to get the woman. What's next... An Octopus? *are you offended because I didn't say black woman or Mexican and instead went all the way down the line to octopus? Come on... You'd be offended if I said anything regarding race or *** there... that is... if you're a little ***** I'm done. This ain't a poem... more of a stream of my ****** up consciousness on Lots of drugs and Lots of Nosleep. *kids... don't go askin' around for that new **** called Nosleep... I just mean I haven't slept in a few days is all.* **Note to self: start putting ajax and powdered ***** in capsules and market it as Nosleep** More Notes: Go on a road trip to Brooklyn with one of the kids you got hooked on Nosleeps and refuse them Nosleep the entire way there. They'll be too young to get it because it's a lot easier to sell fake drugs to miners. *Notes on Notes: I think he meant I should market to minors... not miners. Spent the day last day down in the ***** coal mines of West Allis and boy oh boy.... did they ever find fury down there with which to beat my *** when I tried to sell them Nosleep. Do not sell to miners* **Don't sell to minors either. Jail is not the place you want to be. At least not in Milwaukee county. I'm a white boy with soft skin and the prisons here are like., well., let's just say I'd be the ******** on the black sheets** dude you can't use the word black in a metaphor if you're using it to describe black people oops... **** it* #fuckit ((literallyfuckit)) k what was it? You know. No I don't ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ miners get awfully lonely down there ;)
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