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"oatmeal" poems
,***how do you know when (a human is too broken?)*** <•> human too broken? like the light bulb, removal from its fixture, a simple shaking revelation of the tinkling filament spent, something that cannot be repaired, the only option is replacement and that makes you cry the empty box of oatmeal raisin cookies, you find secret’d, hid by you, not to be found by you at the bottom of the kitchen garbage, but box betrayal, by the chartreuse tipped box lid sided peeking upwards, asking, silencing screaming, what did I do to deserve this degrading like the blouse now too tight that it brings stares as the buttons strain, unwelcome attention unintended, you know it but still pretend not to see, for you both once loved that silky guise that so heightened the high tender, the match of your pink rose skin letting, no! making your eyes glisten, like broken filament glass, on the sidewalk, recalling the pleasured admiration, rain remembered from the prior priority of a life consisting of only perfect gifts so mean revert to the poseur question; this is how... remove the human from a fixed place, whimpering-threatened, you may hear clear the crackle cackling  of the innard shards against the misperception of a body intact, even if you do, no repair service you want,  can be found, see it nowhere, is it even anywhere advertised? the body presumed intact is secret’d under a tactile coverlet, holey scupperrd holy cuttered so that the cells and bicuspids, the threads no longer function in a tandem, you keep it in the closet closed, in the back, deep hid, where, when it screams why, it can be safe ignored, because  ‘betrayed’ is no longer a word, in your globe's dictionary, the parental controls activated by you to save your own inner child’s unconstrained confusion, it has been removed so the broken glass, the clothes you dressed each other, if not weep-well, well enough hid, the fit is off, the fit is off, the coverlet ripped so bad and neither cares
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 11:17 AM UTC
how do you know when (a human is too broken?)
,***how do you know when (a human is too broken?)*** <•> human too broken? like the light bulb, removal from its fixture, a simple shaking revelation of the tinkling filament spent, something that cannot be repaired, the only option is replacement and that makes you cry the empty box of oatmeal raisin cookies, you find secret’d, hid by you, not to be found by you at the bottom of the kitchen garbage, but box betrayal, by the chartreuse tipped box lid sided peeking upwards, asking, silencing screaming, what did I do to deserve this degrading like the blouse now too tight that it brings stares as the buttons strain, unwelcome attention unintended, you know it but still pretend not to see, for you both once loved that silky guise that so heightened the high tender, the match of your pink rose skin letting, no! making your eyes glisten, like broken filament glass, on the sidewalk, recalling the pleasured admiration, rain remembered from the prior priority of a life consisting of only perfect gifts so mean revert to the poseur question; this is how... remove the human from a fixed place, whimpering-threatened, you may hear clear the crackle cackling  of the innard shards against the misperception of a body intact, even if you do, no repair service you want,  can be found, see it nowhere, is it even anywhere advertised? the body presumed intact is secret’d under a tactile coverlet, holey scupperrd holy cuttered so that the cells and bicuspids, the threads no longer function in a tandem, you keep it in the closet closed, in the back, deep hid, where, when it screams why, it can be safe ignored, because  ‘betrayed’ is no longer a word, in your globe's dictionary, the parental controls activated by you to save your own inner child’s unconstrained confusion, it has been removed so the broken glass, the clothes you dressed each other, if not weep-well, well enough hid, the fit is off, the fit is off, the coverlet ripped so bad and neither cares
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i hate that i’m lying in bed with a cup of tea and can see myself in the future in our bed with a cup of tea and you lying next to me and i hate that i can see myself turning out the light and laying my head to rest on your chest i hate that i can see us sitting at a little round kitchen table next to the window you in your black rimmed glasses scrolling through your phone me with my hair tied up and one knee draw up to my chest, eating a bowl of oatmeal as the sun creeps its way into the middle of the sky i hate that i can see us side by side brushing our teeth in a cramped bathroom in front of a foggy mirror, listening to music as we get ready for the day i hate that i can see us walking out the front door, i hate that i can see us kissing goodbye because i’m lying in bed with a cup of tea thinking about all of this, thinking about you yet i’ve already kissed you goodbye.
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Jan 7, 2015
Jan 7, 2015 at 12:50 PM UTC
lingering daydreams
Eat plenty of oatmeal. Sauna every season, Roll in the snow, Naked. Laugh, until you cry, Cry, until you laugh. Leave a love note, For no reason. Take long, lazy, walks, Behold Mother Earth. Hug tightly, Tease lightly, Kiss tenderly, yet mightily. Listen always, Heart open. Forgive quickly. Love lavishly. And… Every day, Every single day, Pray, Pray, Pray. ~ PE Kaplan
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Jan 15, 2012
Jan 15, 2012 at 9:42 AM UTC
Finnish Wedding Blessing
You tip my femininity when you scratch my back with your stubble before you shave in the mornings and it is so lovely to be near one who can cry. You wear heavy boots with the tip of the steel toe showing to match the glint of mischief bouncing off your eyeglass frames and i stand on your toes to kiss you goodnight on my porch in the snow where you brought me oatmeal cookies to talk with you about foundations. I don’t know if you needed help with that paper, but I certainly needed the cookies.
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Jul 11, 2014
Jul 11, 2014 at 12:10 AM UTC
on oatmeal cookies & bridges & boots
I feel like a lot of people can relate to the never-failing love for all the cookies on my plate. Sweet, delicate, chocolate chip. I glance at the milk, then take a sip. Even raisin, sugar, or oatmeal cause' any kind of cookie is a good deal. Every cookie, every crumb these beauties make my heart go numb. The excitement within me grows and grows at the pace of the aroma drifting into my nose. Without realizing, I may have eaten over thirty-one Any regrets? ha! None.
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 11:20 PM UTC
Cookies
As Autumn approaches, my mind drifts to the decaying leaves, Halloween, the cool, crisp breeze... The communal understanding that eternal heaven comes only with death— that Summer must always go. And that beloved Autumn must always usher in bitter Winter who lays the foundations for an exalted Spring. Oh hell...I hope for a long Autumn, I want to make it stay— like a host who lectures his party guest for too long so he won't look at his watch. Oh how I need the frumpy sweaters and pumpkin heads on window sills! Oh how I need the billowing steam from milky beige cocoa, the misty light rain in the gray of the morning, the high canopy of fleshy red flakes! And echoes of children laughing as they eat candy on their way home from trick-or-treating—reminding me that life can be enjoyed with sacred rituals and good company. I need Autumn personified— a cool-headed, crackling-fireplace-girl. A quilt-maker, cloud-gazer, two-dogs-and-a-cat bookworm. Someone comforting like oatmeal. Someone surprising like the first day of school. I need Autumn. I need Autumn but it never seems to need me too.
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Sep 6, 2018
Sep 6, 2018 at 9:23 PM UTC
Ah, Autumn...
Cookies, Cookies which ones to make? Cookies, Cookies which ones to bake? Is it oatmeal for him? sugar for me? Ooh! these jam ones look scrumptious (in the picture) you see? Will it be bran for momma, or peanut butter for sis? Oh, I could cook them all and someone's favorite still miss..... I could wash, and I could dust & sweep and mop , till i'm dead, but alas, if you watch, I'll be baking instead because I have cookies in my head. Cookies, Cookies, which ones to make Cookis, Cookies, which ones to bake?
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 1:22 AM UTC
Cookies!!
Why is there no monument To Porridge in our land? It it's good enough to eat, It's good enough to stand! On a plinth in London A statue we should see Of Porridge made in Scotland Signed, "Oatmeal, O.B.E." (By a young dog of three)
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Porridge
It’s something that try we should To provide the parrot its basic food Apple minus seeds mango banana Grape orange guava papaya As for vegetables cooked dried bean With beet broccoli its heart you can win Cucumber carrot and cauliflower They surely love like they love a shower Corn on the cob is fun for parrot They aren’t fussy as them you thought Hot peppers peapod lettuce For them delicacies you can choose Sweet and baked potato well cooked yam They devour in delight add to their glam Parrots are cute friendly and nice Give them oatmeal millet brown rice They’re not greedy from you they won’t beg Though these birds love scrambled boiled egg The parrot is innocent gorgeous and sweet Can’t call them carnivore yes they like meat Must talk to them and not keep your mouth shut Your loving pet the parrot loves occasional nut. Now words of caution what don’t do them good Candy and chocolate and all junk food I know you are smart and not at all mean To offer this wonder bird mushrooms caffeine Believe my words they aren’t my opinion Use them in your food don’t give them onion Dairy products for them are a big ‘no’ ‘no’ You surely want them to healthily glow Give the parrot shower keep its cage clean Give them just fresh foods no sugar no caffeine Say ‘no’ to pesticides choose only organic See in their bowel nothing goes toxic Follow what I’ve said the task is not hard Spend your time well with this beautiful bird.
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 8:18 AM UTC
Parrot Care
burn the light of fire and wax the ears of injustice. chide the moon and bid ado to the reckless sun. count the blessings of misfortunes and wave verbs in the air-- breathing the hopeful breaths of married sandals Label the pains of a billion rain drops and fawn the feathers of a nightingale over the glory of failed triumphs known as yesterday. break the hands of a wristwatch and make a ******* of time-- for through the God in Satan was how Earth was won.
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Mar 6, 2013
Mar 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM UTC
Envelopes of Oatmeal Psychology
The beauty of comatose can only be seen through the eyes of a wizard in a blizzard strutting in garlic slippers, or Christ with knees bent at the tabernacle peeling bananas and kicking prayers farther than eternity with each gapping second, or like Basquiat slumped back to the wall, with ounces of speedball dancing through his veins, eating 80’s free-based fried chicken *******   as his eyelids paints beautiful nightmares of lemon flowers and Bacchus bacon over a glycopyrrolate desert of flagrant cuckold buffoonery. Or like leprechauns burning chocolate ******* candles on the mantle of Zion, sipping oatmeal sprinkled with Staten Island malt liquor bacon. or like Tupac reading the thoughts of Mother Shipton through the daze of California cannabis and hearing the ominous voice of Plutarch sing death assignments from heaven to Assassins on horsebacks goggling ***** water to wet the dry bones of their throats as they prepare to fulfill the gospel of self-fulfilling prophecies of being fell by ***** bullets. Or like sophisticated wallets of spice and kitchen characters in a bald head cooking chemical kisses and 18 February nights under Moloch’s skin, where constitutions are written in charcoal diaries with Egyptian ciphers and razors. “I had rain sowed into the pockets of my sneakers and composed 1310 eulogies at the basement of king David’s tower,” said the Kraftwerkian caricature, as he dangles cigarettes in remembrance of Klaus Nomi and philosophizes on the proliferation of poetic vandalism at urinals where modernism failed under the phosphorescence of coloration at the avenue of no trees where Picasso's "Guernica" **** Lies All.
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Jul 17, 2012
Jul 17, 2012 at 6:01 PM UTC
Stream: the 13th love song of Alfred Prufrock
The beauty of comatose can only be seen through the eyes of a wizard in a blizzard strutting in garlic slippers, or Christ with knees bent at the tabernacle peeling bananas and kicking prayers farther than eternity with each gapping second, or like Basquiat slumped back to the wall, with ounces of speedball dancing through his veins, eating 80’s free-based fried chicken *******   as his eyelids paints beautiful nightmares of lemon flowers and Bacchus bacon over a glycopyrrolate desert of flagrant cuckold buffoonery. Or like leprechauns burning chocolate ******* candles on the mantle of Zion, sipping oatmeal sprinkled with Staten Island malt liquor bacon. or like Tupac reading the thoughts of Mother Shipton through the daze of California cannabis and hearing the ominous voice of Plutarch sing death assignments from heaven to Assassins on horsebacks goggling ***** water to wet the dry bones of their throats as they prepare to fulfill the gospel of self-fulfilling prophecies of being fell by ***** bullets. Or like sophisticated wallets of spice and kitchen characters in a bald head cooking chemical kisses and 18 February nights under Moloch’s skin, where constitutions are written in charcoal diaries with Egyptian ciphers and razors. “I had rain sowed into the pockets of my sneakers and composed 1310 eulogies at the basement of king David’s tower,” said the Kraftwerkian caricature, as he dangles cigarettes in remembrance of Klaus Nomi and philosophizes on the proliferation of poetic vandalism at urinals where modernism failed under the phosphorescence of coloration at the avenue of no trees where Picasso's "Guernica" **** Lies All.
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In Grandma’s kitchen, There’s the old raggety rocker, The one that always tips back too far And my heart skips a beat as I Secretly enjoy the thrill. In Grandma’s kitchen, There’s the mounds of old recipes on The counter, yellowing with age, being Ripped from ancient editions of House and Home magazines. In Grandma’s kitchen, There’s the constant pleasant aroma of Cookies, chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin And snickerdoodle, the presence of cookie Jars that are quickly ransacked by us. In Grandma’s kitchen, There is the collection of teapots on The shelf, the daily weather forecast that Grandpa writes out every day on the table, The forest of palms and tiger lilies in the center. In Grandma’s kitchen, Time seems to stand still, and everything Is perfect, familiar, right. Even when the room itself doesn’t belong to Her anymore, it will always be to me Grandma’s kitchen.
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May 24, 2018
May 24, 2018 at 11:54 AM UTC
Grandma's Kitchen
Some days I think I need nothing more in life than a spoon. With a spoon I can eat oatmeal, or take the medicine doctors prescribe. I can swat a fly sleeping on the sill or pound the table to get attention. I can point accusingly at God or stab the empty air repeatedly. Looking into the spoon's mirror, I can study my small face in its shiny bowl, or cover one eye to make half the world disappear. With a spoon I can dig a tunnel to freedom, spoonful by spoonful of dirt, or waste life catching moonlight and flinging it into the blackest night.
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The Spoon
Soft shapes touch a child's finger, Memories of their sweetness linger-- Helping grandma roll the dough In her kitchen long ago. I like the shape your cookies take When they spread out as they bake, Like the changing shapes of crowds, Melting snow or summer clouds. Oven-hot and placed on racks, Lined up , lying on their backs, Coming from a single batch, But none of them a perfect match. Toll house cookies, soft, convex, Each perfection, like the next: Chocolate chips their surface grace-- Freckles on a child's face. Pecan ball aren't perfect spheres, But they're gentle little dears: Bottoms flat, sides dented slightly, With white sugar sprinkled lightly. Sugar cookies cold days cheer, Shaped like angles and reindeer Glazed with frosting sweet and white, Decked with sprinkles all delight.   Santa's Whiskers, coconut rolled, Long fat logs of sugared dough, Cut in portions smooth and round, Pecan bits, cherries abound.   Molasses crinkles' faces lined Like old men's--the friendly kind-- With lines like back roads on a map, Dunked in milk before a nap. Oatmeal cookies, shapes amorphous Juicy raisins budge enormous, Semi-blobs, their texture rough, Sometimes packed with nuts and stuff. So many cookies through our life, Since we became husband and wife, In their sweet aroma and taste Years rushed by like cars in a race. Looking at their shapes diverse Reminds me of our love at first: We weren't sure just where we'd go And all we had was cookie dough.
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Dec 17, 2017
Dec 17, 2017 at 11:05 AM UTC
Cookies
coupon for Granny's Original 32% All Natural Oatmeal® cart-to-cart down aisle 48 and this man's an affront to khakis and this woman's brain runs off a child's complaints BLIZZARD 2013 according to the radar, buy 80 pounds of rock salt from The Home Depot®, more saving. more doing.™ more rock salt. more doing BLIZZARD 2013 according to the radar, buy two-weeks-worth of tuna, a pallet of Pepsi Max®, and four loaves of Baker Good's NeverMold Bread® all for $21.99 with your Sam's Club® Rewards Card BLIZZARD 2013 cart-to-cart down aisle 62 where once there was soda, now an I.O.U. and I read on the internet that the preservatives in diet cola will keep my body from decomposing and I read on the internet that these dented, discount tuna cans will give me botulism BLIZZARD 2013 one jug of water from a spring in Mountain View, Arkansas one jug of water from a spring in New Iberia, Louisiana picking between Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana the pitter-patter on the warehouse roof reassures time for eenie meenie miney mo BLIZZARD 2013 and the intercom desperate for a cart wrangler customer service now open for checkout don't leave your toddlers alone in shopping carts they're choking on free samples with an echo, raindrops strike parking lot pools just past the intersection an ambulance grumbles BLIZZARD 2013 in a room with a view wishing the windowpane weatherized beers bought by volume, candles forgotten, six months of licorice, EverFluff® popcorn, and hand warmers of chemical kind remembered BLIZZARD 2013 will not be landing in the city, watch out for that rain though if the temperatures drop below 32 degrees it could ice over and if the temperatures don't, well, it won't News 7's coverage of Blizzard 2013 brought to you by The Home Depot®, more saving. More doing.™ and Sam's Club®, savings made simple.™
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Feb 26, 2013
Feb 26, 2013 at 2:40 PM UTC
the blizzard of 2013
coupon for Granny's Original 32% All Natural Oatmeal® cart-to-cart down aisle 48 and this man's an affront to khakis and this woman's brain runs off a child's complaints BLIZZARD 2013 according to the radar, buy 80 pounds of rock salt from The Home Depot®, more saving. more doing.™ more rock salt. more doing BLIZZARD 2013 according to the radar, buy two-weeks-worth of tuna, a pallet of Pepsi Max®, and four loaves of Baker Good's NeverMold Bread® all for $21.99 with your Sam's Club® Rewards Card BLIZZARD 2013 cart-to-cart down aisle 62 where once there was soda, now an I.O.U. and I read on the internet that the preservatives in diet cola will keep my body from decomposing and I read on the internet that these dented, discount tuna cans will give me botulism BLIZZARD 2013 one jug of water from a spring in Mountain View, Arkansas one jug of water from a spring in New Iberia, Louisiana picking between Miley Cyrus and Hannah Montana the pitter-patter on the warehouse roof reassures time for eenie meenie miney mo BLIZZARD 2013 and the intercom desperate for a cart wrangler customer service now open for checkout don't leave your toddlers alone in shopping carts they're choking on free samples with an echo, raindrops strike parking lot pools just past the intersection an ambulance grumbles BLIZZARD 2013 in a room with a view wishing the windowpane weatherized beers bought by volume, candles forgotten, six months of licorice, EverFluff® popcorn, and hand warmers of chemical kind remembered BLIZZARD 2013 will not be landing in the city, watch out for that rain though if the temperatures drop below 32 degrees it could ice over and if the temperatures don't, well, it won't News 7's coverage of Blizzard 2013 brought to you by The Home Depot®, more saving. More doing.™ and Sam's Club®, savings made simple.™
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I used to be unique. Kool-Aid hair dye and all. Boys wrote my name on bathrooms stalls. I swore at teachers. I drank ***** behind the bleachers. I puked at football games on cheerleaders. I had black eyes and cigarette burns and soccer thighs. I used to wear my shirt undone. I used to have fun. Now I own a 6-room house, a 4-door car, a water-dispensing fridge, bell jars. Also, religion, caffeine addiction, magazine subscriptions, diazepam prescriptions, goldfish, 900 pairs of shoes, PVA glue, a self-inflicted curfew, sexually transmitted virtue, and many, many cats. All this between walls painted in 6 muted shades of deja-vu from whence I commence my pin-cushion voodoo. I sleep in pajamas. I set an alarm clock and my snooze allowance never exceeds 4 minutes. I spend my mornings yawning through thick oatmeal, ********** in the dark. I work in a bank in an office on a phone, making friends with dead ends. I come home to wash, rinse, and repeat, undress in the dark, and brush away the question marks of hair in the bathtub.
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Sep 17, 2012
Sep 17, 2012 at 7:49 AM UTC
I used to be unique
We slump in mismatched chairs. Two hunches over shame and a 3am breakfast, I think: *There’s gotta be a reason why art rhymes with **** If you want anything to go anywhere with any respectable…affect, the force of pressure on the inside must exceed that from the outside. Interrupting this genius, He asks: How can you eat that crap? It’s so…empty. He is flipping through his coffeeblack back pocket note rag. It’s soiled, wrinkled concave with the ever-heaving stomachfuls of his inky midnight doubt, and I would really rather not have it at the table while I’m eating. I am pouring another glorious bowl of Frooty Froot Hoops—yeasty, store-brand sugarfuel for the lower-middle-income child poet. He spends another tasteless oatmeal evening reading essays about how to improve his writing. Instead of, like, writing to improve his writing. I ask: If you took a knife to the edge of your boundary’s boundary—stabbed right into your life-world’s fleshy monad-sac, glory running ****** down your blade, As you breached forth into the well-lit unknown, would it still be courageous, if you emerged from your warm wet ignorance, and they were all waiting outside with mylar balloons, a banner, and "Congratulations on your Artistic Rupture!” in blue icing on the cake?? There's still a moment there, right? Petrified in the sap of thrill, in the momentous-stasis between The arrow flung and the arrow fallen. A moment of advancement …a moment of abandon! (He nods along, but he isn't listening.) I say: Newness, originality, (birth), is purely indexical. It points, and no one notices that all those shiny vegas lights aren't really moving anywhere—It's just utility bills and light-bulb trickery. They're asking for genesis extended, genesis again and again and each false gesture points only towards another incandescent unreachable elsewhere. (He nods along, still, not listening.) But there's little monotony in taking a stab! Even if it's just for them, again, those perennial spectators expecting, Waiting outside with ***** little pocket notebooks of their own, crowding the bassinets, ever-eager to begin another “surprise" celebration. Gulping sweet, sugarpink milk, I say: I happen to like this crap! It keeps my knife sharp. (He nods along, but he isn't listening.)
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 11:47 PM UTC
Congratulations on your artistic rupture!
We slump in mismatched chairs. Two hunches over shame and a 3am breakfast, I think: *There’s gotta be a reason why art rhymes with **** If you want anything to go anywhere with any respectable…affect, the force of pressure on the inside must exceed that from the outside. Interrupting this genius, He asks: How can you eat that crap? It’s so…empty. He is flipping through his coffeeblack back pocket note rag. It’s soiled, wrinkled concave with the ever-heaving stomachfuls of his inky midnight doubt, and I would really rather not have it at the table while I’m eating. I am pouring another glorious bowl of Frooty Froot Hoops—yeasty, store-brand sugarfuel for the lower-middle-income child poet. He spends another tasteless oatmeal evening reading essays about how to improve his writing. Instead of, like, writing to improve his writing. I ask: If you took a knife to the edge of your boundary’s boundary—stabbed right into your life-world’s fleshy monad-sac, glory running ****** down your blade, As you breached forth into the well-lit unknown, would it still be courageous, if you emerged from your warm wet ignorance, and they were all waiting outside with mylar balloons, a banner, and "Congratulations on your Artistic Rupture!” in blue icing on the cake?? There's still a moment there, right? Petrified in the sap of thrill, in the momentous-stasis between The arrow flung and the arrow fallen. A moment of advancement …a moment of abandon! (He nods along, but he isn't listening.) I say: Newness, originality, (birth), is purely indexical. It points, and no one notices that all those shiny vegas lights aren't really moving anywhere—It's just utility bills and light-bulb trickery. They're asking for genesis extended, genesis again and again and each false gesture points only towards another incandescent unreachable elsewhere. (He nods along, still, not listening.) But there's little monotony in taking a stab! Even if it's just for them, again, those perennial spectators expecting, Waiting outside with ***** little pocket notebooks of their own, crowding the bassinets, ever-eager to begin another “surprise" celebration. Gulping sweet, sugarpink milk, I say: I happen to like this crap! It keeps my knife sharp. (He nods along, but he isn't listening.)
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Stars, brilliant, yellow and white, they pierce the total black dome arching over the trees. Campfires spew sparks, dragons fly and jump to meet the stars, Miniature electric lights; a spritely accent around the RVs. Night choristers, peeping, honking voices dispelled by dawn Morning light creeps up Dew Dripped, rivulets ran down the side of the tent Campfires, lit anew Pancakes, sausage, oatmeal. Noon the heat of the sun bakes the ground, dew dispelled.
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 4:46 PM UTC
Camping
i detoxed myself under this pale sun      (you stood by and watched the       unfolding saga all the while       questioning the meaning of zen) the original concept was lost somewhere along the way when i dropped the ball on the forty yard line      (can you recover your own fumbles?) every time i stand by, the waiting is eternal and i become engrossed in the uselessness of my position, pondering      (my love for this is a game of solitaire) i am the ultimate in irrational action, a demagogue of dark pathways and religious zealotry, trapped beneath glass floors watching, trying desperately to cannibalize my fingers. i have smoked your toenails and wandered away listless at comments unbecoming and salivated on the fires set to displace my vessels      (i have seen you ignoring me) in the coming months i will rend my eyes and pierce my skull artificially so you will be able to see into my soul and destroy me more efficiently      (you will know me by the number of the dead) i will search deep and long inside this shadow's shell, extracting this cancer so i can cook up my shortcomings and inject them into a Ken doll because then at least i will be pretty. i will feed my chilled oatmeal to a Cantonese family that will honor me as the ***** poo-flinger i am for you. i will cease to exist on a plane with your type, sinking lower on scale like a rock in the Mississippi River. Mom, when i stop growing up, i will be the ****** loser everyone always thought i would      (aren't you proud?)      (isn't he cute?) i cannot imagine surviving your intern camp after the tattooing of arms, we will eat the testicles of the fallen gods and dispense great suffering on the weak because of our enlightened prospects and redemptions      (what do you know about pain?) i will place my severed head in a place of prominence, likely in your bed, right before i cease to breathe my eyelids weaken.... flicker, flutter.... i grow tired with the advent of your indecision, the totality of abandonment the lenses fog, fade... flicker, flutter... i have run out of things to sacrifice
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 7:57 PM UTC
flicker, flutter
i detoxed myself under this pale sun      (you stood by and watched the       unfolding saga all the while       questioning the meaning of zen) the original concept was lost somewhere along the way when i dropped the ball on the forty yard line      (can you recover your own fumbles?) every time i stand by, the waiting is eternal and i become engrossed in the uselessness of my position, pondering      (my love for this is a game of solitaire) i am the ultimate in irrational action, a demagogue of dark pathways and religious zealotry, trapped beneath glass floors watching, trying desperately to cannibalize my fingers. i have smoked your toenails and wandered away listless at comments unbecoming and salivated on the fires set to displace my vessels      (i have seen you ignoring me) in the coming months i will rend my eyes and pierce my skull artificially so you will be able to see into my soul and destroy me more efficiently      (you will know me by the number of the dead) i will search deep and long inside this shadow's shell, extracting this cancer so i can cook up my shortcomings and inject them into a Ken doll because then at least i will be pretty. i will feed my chilled oatmeal to a Cantonese family that will honor me as the ***** poo-flinger i am for you. i will cease to exist on a plane with your type, sinking lower on scale like a rock in the Mississippi River. Mom, when i stop growing up, i will be the ****** loser everyone always thought i would      (aren't you proud?)      (isn't he cute?) i cannot imagine surviving your intern camp after the tattooing of arms, we will eat the testicles of the fallen gods and dispense great suffering on the weak because of our enlightened prospects and redemptions      (what do you know about pain?) i will place my severed head in a place of prominence, likely in your bed, right before i cease to breathe my eyelids weaken.... flicker, flutter.... i grow tired with the advent of your indecision, the totality of abandonment the lenses fog, fade... flicker, flutter... i have run out of things to sacrifice
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My mom offers me a bowl of oatmeal she cooked at seven. It is eight. Sitting on the stove, it looks clumpy and cold — a mash drowning raisins. I pretend like I don’t see it. But it calls my name as I start my day, even though it looks repulsive and I have avoided oatmeal since college. I toast some bread. She glances over the counter to see if I am paying attention  — a reflex from my childhood. Because as a child,  my parents said I had selective attention. — sometimes I listened and other times I didn’t. When they got divorced, it got worse. I was distracted by the bristle of my dad's 5 o’clock shadow and the sigh in my mom's voice when they asked me separately, What time I needed to leave? and If all my stuff was packed? But all  I kept thinking was: Is that all there is? You get married, get divorced, and cart around your kids. The thought of swallowing this is repulsive. like leftover oatmeal,  it stares me in the face. I don't want it. Most girls I know are raisins — They already have their whole wedding planned on Pinterest, and their kids names picked out. Everytime, I  see engagements on FB, I can't help but forsee divorce and I wonder why people run for a partner, kids, and a mortgage, when in college their ambitions were more. I wonder when their mid-life crisis will be, or when they'll wake up and want more than 9 to 5 to fulfill a lie patriarchy put forth. So I spread peanut butter on  toast and murmur, “I put the oatmeal in the fridge — someone will eat it.” My mom puts her head down and finishes her coffee. I eat my peanut butter sandwich. I am stuck trying to answer an impossible question, as she begins sentences like "Once you get settled, you'll want to look for someone..." I tune out. I don't have selective attention, just the perception that everyone is ignoring this important question: Is that all there is?
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Sep 2, 2014
Sep 2, 2014 at 3:06 PM UTC
Is this all there is?
My mom offers me a bowl of oatmeal she cooked at seven. It is eight. Sitting on the stove, it looks clumpy and cold — a mash drowning raisins. I pretend like I don’t see it. But it calls my name as I start my day, even though it looks repulsive and I have avoided oatmeal since college. I toast some bread. She glances over the counter to see if I am paying attention  — a reflex from my childhood. Because as a child,  my parents said I had selective attention. — sometimes I listened and other times I didn’t. When they got divorced, it got worse. I was distracted by the bristle of my dad's 5 o’clock shadow and the sigh in my mom's voice when they asked me separately, What time I needed to leave? and If all my stuff was packed? But all  I kept thinking was: Is that all there is? You get married, get divorced, and cart around your kids. The thought of swallowing this is repulsive. like leftover oatmeal,  it stares me in the face. I don't want it. Most girls I know are raisins — They already have their whole wedding planned on Pinterest, and their kids names picked out. Everytime, I  see engagements on FB, I can't help but forsee divorce and I wonder why people run for a partner, kids, and a mortgage, when in college their ambitions were more. I wonder when their mid-life crisis will be, or when they'll wake up and want more than 9 to 5 to fulfill a lie patriarchy put forth. So I spread peanut butter on  toast and murmur, “I put the oatmeal in the fridge — someone will eat it.” My mom puts her head down and finishes her coffee. I eat my peanut butter sandwich. I am stuck trying to answer an impossible question, as she begins sentences like "Once you get settled, you'll want to look for someone..." I tune out. I don't have selective attention, just the perception that everyone is ignoring this important question: Is that all there is?
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Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous to her sister-art Music? The Diluter gives us first a few notes of some well-known Air, then a dozen bars of his own, then a few more notes of the Air, and so on alternately: thus saving the listener, if not from all risk of recognising the melody at all, at least from the too-exciting transports which it might produce in a more concentrated form. The process is termed "setting" by Composers, and any one, that has ever experienced the emotion of being unexpectedly set down in a heap of mortar, will recognise the truthfulness of this happy phrase. For truly, just as the genuine Epicure lingers lovingly over a morsel of supreme Venison - whose every fibre seems to murmur "Excelsior!" - yet swallows, ere returning to the toothsome dainty, great mouthfuls of oatmeal-porridge and winkles: and just as the perfect Connoisseur in Claret permits himself but one delicate sip, and then tosses off a pint or more of boarding-school beer: so also - I NEVER loved a dear Gazelle - NOR ANYTHING THAT COST ME MUCH: HIGH PRICES PROFIT THOSE WHO SELL, BUT WHY SHOULD I BE FOND OF SUCH? To glad me with his soft black eye MY SON COMES TROTTING HOME FROM SCHOOL; HE'S HAD A FIGHT BUT CAN'T TELL WHY - HE ALWAYS WAS A LITTLE FOOL! But, when he came to know me well, HE KICKED ME OUT, HER TESTY SIRE: AND WHEN I STAINED MY HAIR, THAT BELLE MIGHT NOTE THE CHANGE, AND THUS ADMIRE And love me, it was sure to dye A MUDDY GREEN OR STARING BLUE: WHILST ONE MIGHT TRACE, WITH HALF AN EYE, THE STILL TRIUMPHANT CARROT THROUGH.
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Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous to her sister-art Music? The Diluter gives us first a few notes of some well-known Air, then a dozen bars of his own, then a few more notes of the Air, and so on alternately: thus saving the listener, if not from all risk of recognising the melody at all, at least from the too-exciting transports which it might produce in a more concentrated form. The process is termed "setting" by Composers, and any one, that has ever experienced the emotion of being unexpectedly set down in a heap of mortar, will recognise the truthfulness of this happy phrase. For truly, just as the genuine Epicure lingers lovingly over a morsel of supreme Venison - whose every fibre seems to murmur "Excelsior!" - yet swallows, ere returning to the toothsome dainty, great mouthfuls of oatmeal-porridge and winkles: and just as the perfect Connoisseur in Claret permits himself but one delicate sip, and then tosses off a pint or more of boarding-school beer: so also - I NEVER loved a dear Gazelle - NOR ANYTHING THAT COST ME MUCH: HIGH PRICES PROFIT THOSE WHO SELL, BUT WHY SHOULD I BE FOND OF SUCH? To glad me with his soft black eye MY SON COMES TROTTING HOME FROM SCHOOL; HE'S HAD A FIGHT BUT CAN'T TELL WHY - HE ALWAYS WAS A LITTLE FOOL! But, when he came to know me well, HE KICKED ME OUT, HER TESTY SIRE: AND WHEN I STAINED MY HAIR, THAT BELLE MIGHT NOTE THE CHANGE, AND THUS ADMIRE And love me, it was sure to dye A MUDDY GREEN OR STARING BLUE: WHILST ONE MIGHT TRACE, WITH HALF AN EYE, THE STILL TRIUMPHANT CARROT THROUGH.
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On an island with so much untouched nature outside, why are the prices of things so expensive inside Is it really necessary to charge a customer for oatmeal cookies four times the price they should be Does it really take stealing from people and worrying people to sustain a country; to fuel an economy Molded apples and molded oranges not having sold quick enough being removed from the shelves in a store Things are so complicated, I say to a cashier at the register about life as it is now She shakes her head yes and says, I often ask myself where am I? written on 12/19/18
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Dec 26, 2018
Dec 26, 2018 at 8:11 PM UTC
Where am I?
I don’t have any pressure to go sledding Because I’m still afraid of falling on the ice And you loved the snow I don’t have to risk my life on icy back roads every day On the pretense of returning your things Just so I don’t have to wait 24 hours to see you I don’t have an extra pair of your shoes under my bed From when you accidentally left them there You were always leaving your things around I don’t have a second home to spend the day at With open fields full of snow banks for fort-building The house is gone and so are you I don’t have a reason to build a snow-fort this year No one cares to sleep in it, it’s too cold You were that kind of crazy I don’t have someone to bake cardamom cookies with We both had sticky dough on our hands And we washed them in the same sink at the same time I don’t have a friend at the Christmas parties Who can back up my wild stories about the week And argue with me about the rules for card games I don’t have a cuddle-buddy for watching movies We never really got the chance to do that We were always running off to get some alone time I don’t have to hide when I’m changing out of my wet snowy clothes Because you’re never going to walk in from the cold And start changing your clothes too I don’t have a fire in my hearth But I’m sure there’s one in yours I used to enjoy watching you make them with your dad I don’t have any wet, ***** sandy puddles to clean up Because you’ll never walk across my kitchen And forget to take off your boots I don’t have to walk around barefoot Even if it means getting my socks wet Because you’re not there to remind me with your calloused toes I don’t have twice as many presents under the tree Not because we ever exchanged gifts, we were too poor But every present you received and loved made me happy too I don’t have snow down my neck from the snowballs you threw I don’t have wet globs of melting ice in my hair because you tackled me I don’t have anyone to make tea for, because I don’t even like tea I don’t have your countless little siblings to share my snacks with I don’t have to make cooking mistakes because I can’t bring you baked oatmeal I don’t have a built in heater to share the backseat with I don’t have a hoodie I can pass back and forth between us I don’t have a companion to go on long walks with I don’t have a curious mind to share kissing ideas with I don’t have a hand to hold when I’m about to fall down on the ice I don’t have you *This is the time of year that makes me miss you I start to notice the empty spaces in my life And there are little things everywhere to remind me of you.*
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Dec 22, 2012
Dec 22, 2012 at 11:08 AM UTC
Holiday Memories
I don’t have any pressure to go sledding Because I’m still afraid of falling on the ice And you loved the snow I don’t have to risk my life on icy back roads every day On the pretense of returning your things Just so I don’t have to wait 24 hours to see you I don’t have an extra pair of your shoes under my bed From when you accidentally left them there You were always leaving your things around I don’t have a second home to spend the day at With open fields full of snow banks for fort-building The house is gone and so are you I don’t have a reason to build a snow-fort this year No one cares to sleep in it, it’s too cold You were that kind of crazy I don’t have someone to bake cardamom cookies with We both had sticky dough on our hands And we washed them in the same sink at the same time I don’t have a friend at the Christmas parties Who can back up my wild stories about the week And argue with me about the rules for card games I don’t have a cuddle-buddy for watching movies We never really got the chance to do that We were always running off to get some alone time I don’t have to hide when I’m changing out of my wet snowy clothes Because you’re never going to walk in from the cold And start changing your clothes too I don’t have a fire in my hearth But I’m sure there’s one in yours I used to enjoy watching you make them with your dad I don’t have any wet, ***** sandy puddles to clean up Because you’ll never walk across my kitchen And forget to take off your boots I don’t have to walk around barefoot Even if it means getting my socks wet Because you’re not there to remind me with your calloused toes I don’t have twice as many presents under the tree Not because we ever exchanged gifts, we were too poor But every present you received and loved made me happy too I don’t have snow down my neck from the snowballs you threw I don’t have wet globs of melting ice in my hair because you tackled me I don’t have anyone to make tea for, because I don’t even like tea I don’t have your countless little siblings to share my snacks with I don’t have to make cooking mistakes because I can’t bring you baked oatmeal I don’t have a built in heater to share the backseat with I don’t have a hoodie I can pass back and forth between us I don’t have a companion to go on long walks with I don’t have a curious mind to share kissing ideas with I don’t have a hand to hold when I’m about to fall down on the ice I don’t have you *This is the time of year that makes me miss you I start to notice the empty spaces in my life And there are little things everywhere to remind me of you.*
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It might be the brilliant yellow of turmeric boiled into salted potatoes, washed down with the brown of peppermint tea. Or the intoxicating fragrance, when we are hungry enough, of simple spices. Cinnamon and cloves, in another dish of oatmeal. Outside the house, across the street, the neighbors' children scream happily into the warm night, where the first fireflies begin to appear.
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May 23, 2016
May 23, 2016 at 12:29 PM UTC
A Poet's Food