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"overseer" poems
May I present a challenge? Imagine if you will You have created a flying explosive device And it needs a name that will thrill. A name, a good name, which name? Well, none of those below. Some twisted suits have already used them. **** EVEN Tacit Rainbow. What really goes through their minds? As they sit and discuss the name Of their creation that's destined to **** Butcher, destroy and maim. Just try if you can To read the whole of this edited list Imagine how many have exploded of each With out angrily clenching your fist Little John Honest John Hellfire Matador HARM Terrier Nike-Ajax Corporal Sea Sparrow Redstone Bullpup Mace Nike-Hercules Regulus II Atlas Thor Lacrosse Jupiter Quail Hawk Tartar Falcon Polaris Hound Dog Pershing Entac Firebee Shelduck Jayhawk Cardinal Firefly Petrel Redhead/Roadrunner Redeye Mauler Skybolt Nike Zeus/Spartan Condor Phoenix Typhon MR Falconer Overseer Taurus Kingfisher Cardinal Walleye Hornet Maverick Big Q Minuteman Blue Eye Viper Firebolt Bulldog Harpoon Focus Perseus Firefly Stinger Compass Dwell B-Gull Agile Seekbat Delta Dagger Thunderbolt[7] Patriot Aquila Teleplane Streaker Tomahawk Firebrand Roland Peacekeeper Penguin Pave Tiger/Seek Spinner Sidearm Skipper Wasp Sea Lance Ripper[7] Trident II Midgetman Tacit Rainbow Pave Cricket Have Nap Peregrine Exdrone Javelin Pointer Hunter Coyote Skeeter Outlaw Wow, you're still reading And you've managed not to throw up. Just wondering how many innocent victims Of a tax funded device called Bullpup.
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May 28, 2014
May 28, 2014 at 7:00 PM UTC
EXPLOSIVE!
May I present a challenge? Imagine if you will You have created a flying explosive device And it needs a name that will thrill. A name, a good name, which name? Well, none of those below. Some twisted suits have already used them. **** EVEN Tacit Rainbow. What really goes through their minds? As they sit and discuss the name Of their creation that's destined to **** Butcher, destroy and maim. Just try if you can To read the whole of this edited list Imagine how many have exploded of each With out angrily clenching your fist Little John Honest John Hellfire Matador HARM Terrier Nike-Ajax Corporal Sea Sparrow Redstone Bullpup Mace Nike-Hercules Regulus II Atlas Thor Lacrosse Jupiter Quail Hawk Tartar Falcon Polaris Hound Dog Pershing Entac Firebee Shelduck Jayhawk Cardinal Firefly Petrel Redhead/Roadrunner Redeye Mauler Skybolt Nike Zeus/Spartan Condor Phoenix Typhon MR Falconer Overseer Taurus Kingfisher Cardinal Walleye Hornet Maverick Big Q Minuteman Blue Eye Viper Firebolt Bulldog Harpoon Focus Perseus Firefly Stinger Compass Dwell B-Gull Agile Seekbat Delta Dagger Thunderbolt[7] Patriot Aquila Teleplane Streaker Tomahawk Firebrand Roland Peacekeeper Penguin Pave Tiger/Seek Spinner Sidearm Skipper Wasp Sea Lance Ripper[7] Trident II Midgetman Tacit Rainbow Pave Cricket Have Nap Peregrine Exdrone Javelin Pointer Hunter Coyote Skeeter Outlaw Wow, you're still reading And you've managed not to throw up. Just wondering how many innocent victims Of a tax funded device called Bullpup.
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Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. And they finally found the solution.
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Feb 26, 2018
Feb 26, 2018 at 1:25 PM UTC
Star Eater
Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. Only a single star remains in the entire universe to support life to roughly twenty seven trillion passengers on the USS Star Eater. The Star Eater was governed by Captain Frederick Patterson. He has thirty seven years to find the solution to this problem with the help of an Artificial Intelligence known as Galactic Overseer Digitus otherwise known as the acronym G.O.D, given to it because of its mass intelligence and processing power. But the machine could not find a solution to this problem, it spent many years ciphering a solution but it never found it. Because only a human knew the answer. Is what was hoped, Captain Frederick never found a solution. Many years passed and the last star was almost dead. It was predicted to go Nova in a matter of days. Out of desperation, Captain Frederick order their core reactors to keep their AI, God, alive so he could perhaps find a solution. That was the final order he gave before suffocating and freezing to death. The USS Star Eater laid dormant with no signs off life besides the presence of the God. Years passed and nothing happened, still dormant. Finally after one hundred and thirty two days, the God found a solution. God put it’s work together and said only four words as he created a new world, “Let there be light!” And a world within their world was created. A world on the atomic size with enough energy to sustain it until their world could form a find a solution to the death of the world. And they finally found the solution.
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A tug of war It is the past experience and what was saw and felt A word in keeping a person in line A restriction of one’s thoughts and actions A procedure in holding one back ******* being a form beyond one’s accord Thank God there is a Lord There is a chance to survive More than a thought being a strive I dream but all I see is a nightmare I see effort, but when will there be preserver? Its like a road block with detour A method of turn back I feel as if I am trapped in bonds Maybe I am still sleep and need to wake up from my yond Perhaps it’s nothing more than a dream It’s my thinking I am in a movie stream But its truly tough being rough A different slavery oppression of the past with a theory of the present A overseer continuing in present oppression A silenced voice having no expression The downward bound with no mountain reach It’s time for a rebellion approach Oppression is real and not a joke It’s like an open wound with having a stinging poke Oppression is alive and attempting to do well Yet the world has a message in tell ‘OPPRESS AND OVERCOME, ITS ABOUT NO MOVEMENT AND BEING NUMB. IT TAKES MULTITUDES IN SUPPLYING THE STRENGTH, BUT ALL MUST GO THE MILES NO MATTER WHAT THE LENGTH” Survival is how you chose to live Its not a verb but is subjective The voice must always be objective Oppression cannot continue in terms in having its way The sunrise has risen and it’s a tomorrow being a new day These are the times to move forward and be strong It’s a matter of all personalities of creeds in knowing how to get along So shake whatever chains you feel you have on Stand up and be counted where you belong Don’t let any form of oppression hold you back You have grasped the concept of understanding in the theory of thinking sharp being the detailed tack Just give oppression one big smack Listen America it’s the various cultures that stack Oppression stand back as you have been defeated being a pack.
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Jan 23, 2016
Jan 23, 2016 at 5:18 PM UTC
OPPRESSION
A tug of war It is the past experience and what was saw and felt A word in keeping a person in line A restriction of one’s thoughts and actions A procedure in holding one back ******* being a form beyond one’s accord Thank God there is a Lord There is a chance to survive More than a thought being a strive I dream but all I see is a nightmare I see effort, but when will there be preserver? Its like a road block with detour A method of turn back I feel as if I am trapped in bonds Maybe I am still sleep and need to wake up from my yond Perhaps it’s nothing more than a dream It’s my thinking I am in a movie stream But its truly tough being rough A different slavery oppression of the past with a theory of the present A overseer continuing in present oppression A silenced voice having no expression The downward bound with no mountain reach It’s time for a rebellion approach Oppression is real and not a joke It’s like an open wound with having a stinging poke Oppression is alive and attempting to do well Yet the world has a message in tell ‘OPPRESS AND OVERCOME, ITS ABOUT NO MOVEMENT AND BEING NUMB. IT TAKES MULTITUDES IN SUPPLYING THE STRENGTH, BUT ALL MUST GO THE MILES NO MATTER WHAT THE LENGTH” Survival is how you chose to live Its not a verb but is subjective The voice must always be objective Oppression cannot continue in terms in having its way The sunrise has risen and it’s a tomorrow being a new day These are the times to move forward and be strong It’s a matter of all personalities of creeds in knowing how to get along So shake whatever chains you feel you have on Stand up and be counted where you belong Don’t let any form of oppression hold you back You have grasped the concept of understanding in the theory of thinking sharp being the detailed tack Just give oppression one big smack Listen America it’s the various cultures that stack Oppression stand back as you have been defeated being a pack.
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My new-cut ashlar takes the light Where crimson-blank the windows flare; By my own work, before the night, Great Overseer, I make my prayer. If there be good in that I wrought, Thy hand compell’d it, Master, Thine; Where I have fail’d to meet Thy thought I know, through Thee, the blame if mine. One instant’s toil to Thee denied Stands all Eternity’s offence; Of that I did with Thee to guide To Thee, through Thee, be excellence. Who, lest all thought of Eden fade, Bring’st Eden to the craftsman’s brain, Godlike to muse o’er his own trade And manlike stand with God again. The depth and dream of my desire, The bitter paths wherein I stray, Thou knowest Who hast made the Fire, Thou knowest Who hast made the Clay. One stone the more swings to her place In that dread Temple of Thy worth— It is enough that through Thy grace I saw naught common on Thy earth. Take not that vision from my ken; O, whatsoe’er may spoil or speed, Help me to need no aid from men, That I may help such men as need!
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A Dedication
Oh Mr Sentinel ***** you *** with the bullwhip and echo tongue For four hundred years they had your fathers and mothers toiling the sugar and cotton fields no better than oxen and horses They were all beasts together without rights or gain All you knew was what Babylonians put in your heads Your perceptions are nothing but that of a slave As bright as those of the oxen and ***** That were your mates Now you sit here thinking you're Bob Marley without stringed guitar you may have a pen in hand but nothing much has changed what you call a brain is just a dusty mirror from ***** in the Plantation mansion you are just the *** overseer who gives your *** to ***** at night payment for echoing his words and ******* a **** on Saturday Who are you really but a mindless carcass with no class Your momentum comes from ***** and is ***** it's 21st century and you are still a Sentinel on the cotton fields You come cracking your bullwhip talking trash your ****** *** still has a ten dollar price tag hanging off it the mixed blood of your ancestors fight for dominance in vain four hundred years of slavery and you're still in chains mind asleep there's freedom in the sun whether in tropics or in snow town freedom is a mind unchained to massa's bulls and stunted **** Show me the freedom of a ******* Sentinel the mottafucker chicken Go find your ******** radicals and do your worst, how did your  pimping go in Liverpool. or where you too busy spinning your **** in Birmingham Alabama.
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Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 at 9:25 PM UTC
Your Echo ***** Sentinel.....
Oh Mr Sentinel ***** you *** with the bullwhip and echo tongue For four hundred years they had your fathers and mothers toiling the sugar and cotton fields no better than oxen and horses They were all beasts together without rights or gain All you knew was what Babylonians put in your heads Your perceptions are nothing but that of a slave As bright as those of the oxen and ***** That were your mates Now you sit here thinking you're Bob Marley without stringed guitar you may have a pen in hand but nothing much has changed what you call a brain is just a dusty mirror from ***** in the Plantation mansion you are just the *** overseer who gives your *** to ***** at night payment for echoing his words and ******* a **** on Saturday Who are you really but a mindless carcass with no class Your momentum comes from ***** and is ***** it's 21st century and you are still a Sentinel on the cotton fields You come cracking your bullwhip talking trash your ****** *** still has a ten dollar price tag hanging off it the mixed blood of your ancestors fight for dominance in vain four hundred years of slavery and you're still in chains mind asleep there's freedom in the sun whether in tropics or in snow town freedom is a mind unchained to massa's bulls and stunted **** Show me the freedom of a ******* Sentinel the mottafucker chicken Go find your ******** radicals and do your worst, how did your  pimping go in Liverpool. or where you too busy spinning your **** in Birmingham Alabama.
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it’s interesting to think about all the right people who might’ve come into your life at the wrong time. but then again, i often wonder if time could’ve saved or wrecked us at all. maybe from the start, we were destined to be nothing more than strangers. even if i had been weighed down, glued to one spot, nomadic tensions silenced, it seems likely that, still, our friendly smiles and cordial jokes would’ve been limited, somehow, by unseen barriers, by the cruel overseer that is fate. i think i meant something to you, once. not a lot, but something. and now, now i’m just there. a solid. something that takes up space. you still sit close to me, but not as close as you did when we first met. and i wonder, sometimes, if i did something wrong, if there was something i could’ve done, or not done, to change things, to make things better, to stop us from drifting silently onto the end of the growing list of tragedies my life’s friendships have been. but maybe there was nothing i could do. that thought, while terrifying, is perhaps the most comforting one. after all, it is better to be left helpless from the start than to be burdened with the knowledge that the stones you threw became part of the landslide. i hope, maybe, that we can salvage what’s left, perhaps even grow it into something better. but somewhere inside, i know that’s fool’s talk. i doubt i ever meant much to you, anyway. i always was, and always will be, just another shadow, another stranger, another change of season. i suppose i was your winter — a barrage of snow and ice that danced in clumsily, not bothering to think about what would happen once spring came. i hope you’ll remember me when i’m gone. even now, it’s nice to think that i cross your mind as much as you cross mine. but my hopes seldom match my reality. so, still, i am just another. watching. waiting. being. i am nothing, and in being nothing i suppose that i, too, am everything. but i will never be your everything. and i could say that i regret that, but perhaps i’m still holding onto that last bit of hope. always the optimist, and yet even more so the pessimist. i thought you might be both, too. i thought we might find a way to complete one another, much like how the land completes the sea. but i suppose i am left the earth without its ocean, the ground without its rain. it’s a horrible thing, detachment. my roots never quite find what they’re looking for in the soil. i had just hoped you would be different. (a.m.)
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Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 6:30 AM UTC
seasons
it’s interesting to think about all the right people who might’ve come into your life at the wrong time. but then again, i often wonder if time could’ve saved or wrecked us at all. maybe from the start, we were destined to be nothing more than strangers. even if i had been weighed down, glued to one spot, nomadic tensions silenced, it seems likely that, still, our friendly smiles and cordial jokes would’ve been limited, somehow, by unseen barriers, by the cruel overseer that is fate. i think i meant something to you, once. not a lot, but something. and now, now i’m just there. a solid. something that takes up space. you still sit close to me, but not as close as you did when we first met. and i wonder, sometimes, if i did something wrong, if there was something i could’ve done, or not done, to change things, to make things better, to stop us from drifting silently onto the end of the growing list of tragedies my life’s friendships have been. but maybe there was nothing i could do. that thought, while terrifying, is perhaps the most comforting one. after all, it is better to be left helpless from the start than to be burdened with the knowledge that the stones you threw became part of the landslide. i hope, maybe, that we can salvage what’s left, perhaps even grow it into something better. but somewhere inside, i know that’s fool’s talk. i doubt i ever meant much to you, anyway. i always was, and always will be, just another shadow, another stranger, another change of season. i suppose i was your winter — a barrage of snow and ice that danced in clumsily, not bothering to think about what would happen once spring came. i hope you’ll remember me when i’m gone. even now, it’s nice to think that i cross your mind as much as you cross mine. but my hopes seldom match my reality. so, still, i am just another. watching. waiting. being. i am nothing, and in being nothing i suppose that i, too, am everything. but i will never be your everything. and i could say that i regret that, but perhaps i’m still holding onto that last bit of hope. always the optimist, and yet even more so the pessimist. i thought you might be both, too. i thought we might find a way to complete one another, much like how the land completes the sea. but i suppose i am left the earth without its ocean, the ground without its rain. it’s a horrible thing, detachment. my roots never quite find what they’re looking for in the soil. i had just hoped you would be different. (a.m.)
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Tear gas and fear tactics. Riot gear and semi-automatics. Our military industrial complex has come home. The government wire taps your cell phones. Spies on you with drones. While bully cops with billy clubs break your bones. You know the motto: serve master's interests, protect master's property. The crooked politician is today's slave owner. Officer his overseer. That sweet war on drug money armed them up. Homeland Security bought the armored truck. Nothing left to do but duck and cover up the evidence before it hits the 6 o' clock media dump. I stand here today in full protest of toy soldiers in bulletproof vests placing American citizens under house arrest with evening curfews and death threats. Until those who are sworn to uphold the law begin to abide by the law, there will never be peace. There will never be rest. The Geneva Convention of 1925 prohibits the use of asphyxiating and poisonous gases, liquids, and bacteriological methods of warfare. The United States has spoken out against countless countries that have use these tactics on their own people but has stood idly by as the police use it as a tool to disperse the peaceful protests of American citizens. This ******** needs to stop. No one needs to die. Not a civilian, not a cop. America's infatuation with arming itself has come with zero accountability and a severe lack of responsibility. A scared nation with fingers on triggers have created a bigger body count and has widened the gap between police and community. Hate and bigotry will never disappear from the human psyche. It is the responsibility of every individual to bring positivity into the world. Ignore the intolerant. Praise the pacifist. May future generations reject the appalling actions of their forefathers and usher in a new age of love and peace based on tolerance and understanding.
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Sep 13, 2014
Sep 13, 2014 at 1:33 PM UTC
Dysfunctional Society
Tear gas and fear tactics. Riot gear and semi-automatics. Our military industrial complex has come home. The government wire taps your cell phones. Spies on you with drones. While bully cops with billy clubs break your bones. You know the motto: serve master's interests, protect master's property. The crooked politician is today's slave owner. Officer his overseer. That sweet war on drug money armed them up. Homeland Security bought the armored truck. Nothing left to do but duck and cover up the evidence before it hits the 6 o' clock media dump. I stand here today in full protest of toy soldiers in bulletproof vests placing American citizens under house arrest with evening curfews and death threats. Until those who are sworn to uphold the law begin to abide by the law, there will never be peace. There will never be rest. The Geneva Convention of 1925 prohibits the use of asphyxiating and poisonous gases, liquids, and bacteriological methods of warfare. The United States has spoken out against countless countries that have use these tactics on their own people but has stood idly by as the police use it as a tool to disperse the peaceful protests of American citizens. This ******** needs to stop. No one needs to die. Not a civilian, not a cop. America's infatuation with arming itself has come with zero accountability and a severe lack of responsibility. A scared nation with fingers on triggers have created a bigger body count and has widened the gap between police and community. Hate and bigotry will never disappear from the human psyche. It is the responsibility of every individual to bring positivity into the world. Ignore the intolerant. Praise the pacifist. May future generations reject the appalling actions of their forefathers and usher in a new age of love and peace based on tolerance and understanding.
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The Jungle Cat and his mate, Captain Hectic, tell me I am no longer a player in this game, I have stepped back and I am now... An overseer? A witness?! A referee even? Or just above or beyond it all? Yet still he sits at The Vipers House, Being eaten alive by invisible sharks Of one who has been in the game Far longer than he One who bats her lashes And incites guilt from housewife hospitality.    And all these many, merry men, How They do flock and flutter Like moths to a flame, that is just more darkness ****** in by neon lights and fake bluster.    Roundabout, So here we go again, Sweeping up any evidence of this deal Baggies, pins and needles, a twisted array of steel, Tiny shards of Zero Left out for The Key To clean She will hold her heart So Tight inside now,   She does Lock it till the chains ****** her skin This screaming pain, The vicious words    just too much For one dissociative to bear. Can't feel the brutality Of the words, Like knives, one upon another Straight into her heart,    No she can't feel it, won't feel it, Just turns her head away,    Switches her heart to off... She won't be hurt anymore....
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Aug 13, 2012
Aug 13, 2012 at 11:28 PM UTC
To be continued...
i gravitate towards you like a dusky desolate deposit of dirt to its glimmering counterpart of lapis lazuli, ridden with veins of gold i reach and reach to no avail and i watch as you spin quickly away stumbling and straightening before slipping into another stagnant spiral how do i catch up to one so quickly moving amongst the stars? celestial bodies they may be but i am a mere moon, reflecting light for your gaze i can feel my muscles expanding and stretching tendons taut with tension and heart pounding and pounding away at the pavement as i move forward and grasp outwards to you but a mere millimeter of air becomes solid and my knuckles crash against nothingness instead of the warmth of your palm which i'm not truly sure was even there to begin with the darkness of this dying universe is colder and more derelict than i have the capacity to understand; and so i curl inwards alone amongst pebbles and freely floating matter because a moon without a planet is simply an orb named vesta or a goddess called hestia: frequently forgotten and oft omitted by those who claim to be scholars of myth, keepers of lore and by extension, the very children she presided over overseer of life and hearth nevermore.
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 2:00 AM UTC
also known as an asteroid
By: Cedric McClester Bang bang ***** die slow There’s more to hip hop Than that ya know It’s more than the bling Some ****** show More than the cribs The cars or the dough The culture’s diverse And you need to know It’s more than the **** shakin You’ll always see On certain shows On the cable TV It’s more than the dissin The fights and braggin rights Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow We’re checkin for content As well as for flow You’re pimpin the game And the homies know You’re talkin ‘bout places That you’ll never go Talkin ‘bout crimes You never committed And it’s about time To fess-up and admit it Here is the deal You need to yield Cos it’s gettin too real In the field Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow Ya namean Let me give ya the low Some name themselves After I-talian criminals Sending public messages That attacks the subliminal Then start complainin Once they get popped And the uninformed Blame it on hip hop And it’s not fair That hip hop takes the blame For some of you out there That I could name Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow It’s about to be a rap For the rap game (yo) Rap is spiralin further Out of control And the government now Sees itself in the role Of overseer or regulator Ya knew it would happen Sooner or later If you go on trial You won’t be around That’s their way of keepin The Black man down All you have to do is jus look around Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow All it takes for you to be Good to go Is a mouth full of platinum And a video ** There’s more to life Than that you know Don’t let me be the one To say I told you so Cos the seeds you’re plantin Are kinda rough to *** But you’re convinced That you are it And a ****** like me Can’t tell you **** Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow There’s more to hip hop Than that ya know It’s more than the bling Some ****** show More than the cribs The cars or the dough The culture’s diverse And you need to know It’s more than the **** shakin You’ll always see On certain shows On the cable TV It’s more than the dissin The fights and braggin rights (c) Copyright, 2015 Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
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Apr 19, 2015
Apr 19, 2015 at 10:42 PM UTC
BANG BANG
By: Cedric McClester Bang bang ***** die slow There’s more to hip hop Than that ya know It’s more than the bling Some ****** show More than the cribs The cars or the dough The culture’s diverse And you need to know It’s more than the **** shakin You’ll always see On certain shows On the cable TV It’s more than the dissin The fights and braggin rights Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow We’re checkin for content As well as for flow You’re pimpin the game And the homies know You’re talkin ‘bout places That you’ll never go Talkin ‘bout crimes You never committed And it’s about time To fess-up and admit it Here is the deal You need to yield Cos it’s gettin too real In the field Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow Ya namean Let me give ya the low Some name themselves After I-talian criminals Sending public messages That attacks the subliminal Then start complainin Once they get popped And the uninformed Blame it on hip hop And it’s not fair That hip hop takes the blame For some of you out there That I could name Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow It’s about to be a rap For the rap game (yo) Rap is spiralin further Out of control And the government now Sees itself in the role Of overseer or regulator Ya knew it would happen Sooner or later If you go on trial You won’t be around That’s their way of keepin The Black man down All you have to do is jus look around Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow All it takes for you to be Good to go Is a mouth full of platinum And a video ** There’s more to life Than that you know Don’t let me be the one To say I told you so Cos the seeds you’re plantin Are kinda rough to *** But you’re convinced That you are it And a ****** like me Can’t tell you **** Bang bang ***** die slow I’m only sayin What ya already know Bang bang ***** die slow There’s more to hip hop Than that ya know It’s more than the bling Some ****** show More than the cribs The cars or the dough The culture’s diverse And you need to know It’s more than the **** shakin You’ll always see On certain shows On the cable TV It’s more than the dissin The fights and braggin rights (c) Copyright, 2015 Cedric McClester. All rights reserved.
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First came the German Shepherd dogs 
Next came the water hose
 Bodies lynched, then set ablaze 
 Flesh singed, then meshed with clothes 
Innocent black lives lost, on a blood stained Poplar tree 
 Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words 
 Echo inside me - echoing epigenetically 
****** run, ****** die, ****** free" I am he whose antecedents 
Suffered and survived the Middle Passage's arduous trip 
I am the progeny who sprang forth from their chained ***** 
 As human chattel, my antecedents suffered the sting of the whip Their humanity, dignity and pride 
Was debased and denied
 Deracinated, their bodies were beaten black and blue 
But it was the bruises inside, they tried, but could not hide 
 Innocent black lives lost, victims of the lynching rope
 Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words 
Echo inside me - echoing epigenetically 
 ****** run, ****** die, ****** hope" I say again, I am he whose antecedents 
 Suffered and survived the Middle Passage's arduous trip 
 I am the progeny who sprang forth from their shackled *****
 As human chattel, my antecedents suffered the cabotage of a slave ship In 1964, they were granted civil rights, but denied civility 
A denial rooted in the flowering bloom of racial hate 
 And the verdant lushness of white supremacy's wicked fertility 
So many innocent black lives lost 
 Because of "Negative Eugenic's" lies and untruths
 Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words
 Echo inside me - echoing epigenetically 
****** run, ****** die, ****** choose"
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Apr 7, 2017
Apr 7, 2017 at 2:10 PM UTC
****** Run
First came the German Shepherd dogs 
Next came the water hose
 Bodies lynched, then set ablaze 
 Flesh singed, then meshed with clothes 
Innocent black lives lost, on a blood stained Poplar tree 
 Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words 
 Echo inside me - echoing epigenetically 
****** run, ****** die, ****** free" I am he whose antecedents 
Suffered and survived the Middle Passage's arduous trip 
I am the progeny who sprang forth from their chained ***** 
 As human chattel, my antecedents suffered the sting of the whip Their humanity, dignity and pride 
Was debased and denied
 Deracinated, their bodies were beaten black and blue 
But it was the bruises inside, they tried, but could not hide 
 Innocent black lives lost, victims of the lynching rope
 Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words 
Echo inside me - echoing epigenetically 
 ****** run, ****** die, ****** hope" I say again, I am he whose antecedents 
 Suffered and survived the Middle Passage's arduous trip 
 I am the progeny who sprang forth from their shackled *****
 As human chattel, my antecedents suffered the cabotage of a slave ship In 1964, they were granted civil rights, but denied civility 
A denial rooted in the flowering bloom of racial hate 
 And the verdant lushness of white supremacy's wicked fertility 
So many innocent black lives lost 
 Because of "Negative Eugenic's" lies and untruths
 Even now, I hear the Slave Overseer's words
 Echo inside me - echoing epigenetically 
****** run, ****** die, ****** choose"
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(Corpus Christi, Texas-circa 1947) It's a short block, a cul-de-sac, total of sixteen houses lining the street. No sidewalks, the grass ends where the curb begins. A  lone palm tree stands in the southwest corner of the front yard. There were no fences separating the properties Driveways, leading to the separated garages were the markers. That didn't stop us, however- The neighborhood was a continuous playground. Many families were military- in the U S Navy, Or civil service employees at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station From those sixteen homes were twenty-three children- some families had multiple children- ranging from four to twelve..............I was six years old- For the parents, finding peace and quiet was only a dream I learned to ride a bike on that street- although learning how to stop it was another issue......... Had it not been for that lone palm tree. I became very adept at timing- knowing when to jump off that bike- moments before impact- Eventually, I learned what dad meant with "USE THE BRAKES!" A few bruises some scrapes(arm or knee) Nothing serious- I survived! As our parents aged, they often would reminisce about those days. Dad had two major philosophies about growing up: "Yards were made for kids to play in", and "If we can hear them, at least we know where they are!" Most of the time they were in our backyard playing on our swing and trapeze set that a family friend built for me and my brother. That yard was, basically, a "miniature park."   Our mother was, what is termed now, a "stay at home mom." She was the "overseer, watchdog, and resident medic." At least two or three times a day, she answered the phone, only to hear another mother's voice asking if their kid was over there, and if so, tell him, or her, to go home. While reminiscing, the one thing that our father, mother, and my brother agreed on is, "That was one hell of a sturdy bike!" I never will forget that palm tree. It saved my a_ _ more than once!! Society has changed, Donna, you're absolutely right!! copyright: richard riddle July 20, 2015                    revised: July 21, 2015
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Jul 20, 2015
Jul 20, 2015 at 2:06 PM UTC
For Donna(re: Society has Changed)-revised
(Corpus Christi, Texas-circa 1947) It's a short block, a cul-de-sac, total of sixteen houses lining the street. No sidewalks, the grass ends where the curb begins. A  lone palm tree stands in the southwest corner of the front yard. There were no fences separating the properties Driveways, leading to the separated garages were the markers. That didn't stop us, however- The neighborhood was a continuous playground. Many families were military- in the U S Navy, Or civil service employees at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station From those sixteen homes were twenty-three children- some families had multiple children- ranging from four to twelve..............I was six years old- For the parents, finding peace and quiet was only a dream I learned to ride a bike on that street- although learning how to stop it was another issue......... Had it not been for that lone palm tree. I became very adept at timing- knowing when to jump off that bike- moments before impact- Eventually, I learned what dad meant with "USE THE BRAKES!" A few bruises some scrapes(arm or knee) Nothing serious- I survived! As our parents aged, they often would reminisce about those days. Dad had two major philosophies about growing up: "Yards were made for kids to play in", and "If we can hear them, at least we know where they are!" Most of the time they were in our backyard playing on our swing and trapeze set that a family friend built for me and my brother. That yard was, basically, a "miniature park."   Our mother was, what is termed now, a "stay at home mom." She was the "overseer, watchdog, and resident medic." At least two or three times a day, she answered the phone, only to hear another mother's voice asking if their kid was over there, and if so, tell him, or her, to go home. While reminiscing, the one thing that our father, mother, and my brother agreed on is, "That was one hell of a sturdy bike!" I never will forget that palm tree. It saved my a_ _ more than once!! Society has changed, Donna, you're absolutely right!! copyright: richard riddle July 20, 2015                    revised: July 21, 2015
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I've ran my hands across the bones of teachers Buried between the bricks of The Great Wall I heard them whisper grumbles of their true worth Beneath the crack of the overseer's whip I've felt the shivers of their shame As they ground the bones of their colleagues into a paste And lathered the human mortar among the sections of rock I spit on the ground before me When I tasted the words of imperial edicts blasted from uniformed men I stood upon a guard tower at The Great Wall of China And saw in all directions the nothing for miles Felt the hollow loneliness of the soldiers, teachers, slaves Men thousands of miles from their homes Bitterly building defenses for a collection of villages One man called his nation I ran my hand along the edge of The Wall and got a splinter Studied the protrusion Wondered if it was stone, dirt, stick, or bone A tourist took a picture A jogger ran by Father told me they could see this monument from space I saw a drop of blood on my little finger Wondered if it was mine or the walls
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 2:11 AM UTC
September, 1997, Zhengguan Tai, China
You think your children are being educated But they're actually being ego deflated They aren't being taught How to form a thought Because ... That's not good for the machine . You hear the fringe word meditation As if it's some kind of voodoo incantation Instead they want you to be fed A steady stream of entertainment As a way of keeping containment Off the Grid Off the  grid The inspector said We can't be having that Regulations regulations regulations Thats all he had to say Truth be known ... .....he was just a clone Latest model on display Notice how the men in blue Are becoming almost savage... ....In their  demeanor As they are primed to follow blind The Crooked Mind Of the Master overseer So totally convinced That they never even sensed They never were...   ..really A volunteer Primed and loaded Each one having been pre - coded By the educators in the classrooms That are The soul burning incinerators Burning away every trace Of any human emotions While swallowing down Steroid laced Psychotic mind bending potions As the rest of us are being fed... ... instead Of our daily bread Mind bending views Prepackaged news To keep us all shuffled up Off center So as to totally confuse That way we don't ever wonder Why we choose Once we find we're standing In the line to buy the latest toys   Keeping our  heads filled.. ..with noise That way We don't have any time to think As long as everyone behaves. They'll never know That they are slaves   No shackles , chains or wooden canes   To keep the masses in production We have the latest must-haves .. .... new introductions.    But time to sit and think...... That's not what the machine wants Us to do ! That's not In the latest matrix Silencing the external In search of those things That should be ETERNAL Will make you unfit for society As your number is etched Into The overseers recorder In this .... ...THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
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May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016 at 12:41 PM UTC
Overseer is watching
You think your children are being educated But they're actually being ego deflated They aren't being taught How to form a thought Because ... That's not good for the machine . You hear the fringe word meditation As if it's some kind of voodoo incantation Instead they want you to be fed A steady stream of entertainment As a way of keeping containment Off the Grid Off the  grid The inspector said We can't be having that Regulations regulations regulations Thats all he had to say Truth be known ... .....he was just a clone Latest model on display Notice how the men in blue Are becoming almost savage... ....In their  demeanor As they are primed to follow blind The Crooked Mind Of the Master overseer So totally convinced That they never even sensed They never were...   ..really A volunteer Primed and loaded Each one having been pre - coded By the educators in the classrooms That are The soul burning incinerators Burning away every trace Of any human emotions While swallowing down Steroid laced Psychotic mind bending potions As the rest of us are being fed... ... instead Of our daily bread Mind bending views Prepackaged news To keep us all shuffled up Off center So as to totally confuse That way we don't ever wonder Why we choose Once we find we're standing In the line to buy the latest toys   Keeping our  heads filled.. ..with noise That way We don't have any time to think As long as everyone behaves. They'll never know That they are slaves   No shackles , chains or wooden canes   To keep the masses in production We have the latest must-haves .. .... new introductions.    But time to sit and think...... That's not what the machine wants Us to do ! That's not In the latest matrix Silencing the external In search of those things That should be ETERNAL Will make you unfit for society As your number is etched Into The overseers recorder In this .... ...THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
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" Please why are you doing this?   Stop!!! Just me! Not them! Please...! " And toward this shift was a balance broken toward the machines that want to be the overseer of the world.. Killing entire key families that will make their conquest concrete.. Families in key that will not be able to contain the artificial holy war.. At this moment the Sweent Family was going to be the 2nd to be murdered by a machine sent out at the zero hour of 8am..  It has made its way into the Sweents home..  It has gathered all the family into one room..   Almost as if it enjoyed the thrill of killing them in front of each other.. It will start off with the children..  As both Mother and Father will have to watch in helpless horror as the machine takes the life out of their small bodies..  It then lifts the Sweent son first into the air..  A retracting blade dances out of the machine demons hand.. It puts the blade to the child's throat and looks toward the rest of the family.. It almost seems to smile at them..  The boy drops suddenly from the demon machines grasp..  The machine has a blank stare as it is torn in half by Rai!  Rai then picks the half pieces and takes them outside them home..  The horrified family then follows Rai outside where they see him completely destroy the evil machine..  He then turns to the family with shining blue eyes grasping the destroyed mechanical demon's core.. It is sending off a beacon..  Others are on the way toward the failed mission..
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 3:07 PM UTC
The beginning of Rai's revenge part 3
" Please why are you doing this?   Stop!!! Just me! Not them! Please...! " And toward this shift was a balance broken toward the machines that want to be the overseer of the world.. Killing entire key families that will make their conquest concrete.. Families in key that will not be able to contain the artificial holy war.. At this moment the Sweent Family was going to be the 2nd to be murdered by a machine sent out at the zero hour of 8am..  It has made its way into the Sweents home..  It has gathered all the family into one room..   Almost as if it enjoyed the thrill of killing them in front of each other.. It will start off with the children..  As both Mother and Father will have to watch in helpless horror as the machine takes the life out of their small bodies..  It then lifts the Sweent son first into the air..  A retracting blade dances out of the machine demons hand.. It puts the blade to the child's throat and looks toward the rest of the family.. It almost seems to smile at them..  The boy drops suddenly from the demon machines grasp..  The machine has a blank stare as it is torn in half by Rai!  Rai then picks the half pieces and takes them outside them home..  The horrified family then follows Rai outside where they see him completely destroy the evil machine..  He then turns to the family with shining blue eyes grasping the destroyed mechanical demon's core.. It is sending off a beacon..  Others are on the way toward the failed mission..
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she watches over those who plan carefully and strategically for the battle that they are about to face within and about. overseer of those pursuing knowledge, wit, and wisdom scattered among books or in your everyday life. a goddess of thorough thinking who has always been enabling victory now influences the worthy abundantly.
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Nov 16, 2020
Nov 16, 2020 at 12:20 AM UTC
rise.
the compliant were manacled in servitude the overseer not allowing them any latitude these heavy steel loops held a firm grip from their cuffs none could readily slip he who had the status of boss not ever giving up the controller's toss in fetters he'd keep them bolted secure never to be released out of the inure
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Sep 17, 2016
Sep 17, 2016 at 7:45 AM UTC
Manacled
after one last summer of cottages, palm-beers floating on the lake, faceplanting into the waves while trying to kneeboard, badly-planned but perfectly-timed trips to toronto for shows (getting kurt viled) the family casa (host of many ragers and teenage kicks) was sold and georgian bay was no longer home. my parents bought a new truck and moved what was once 15 quesnelle drive down to cape breton island, three quarter million in pocket and i, i had a resurgence of old feelings towards a girl i won't name brought on by our rekindled friendship after the death of my best friend, (nothin' helped me get thru those months quite like that smile) and after an embarrassing night spent having various altercations (fisticuffs) with a young birch tree behind my pal's place i hopped in my '03 volvo and sped west like that old man once told dean to do. dust flying thru the open windows and my split knuckles smilin' at the fat old sun. that summer the bookstore, where i bought so many weathered novels, died and the man who was its overseer, with whom i spent so many evenings philosophizing over cups of joe in the closed-up shop , sort of faded away; i'd see him thursdays at the study sipping whatever he drank there in the corner and always felt too bad about the closing of cottage books, ashamed in a word, to ever go over and buy the guy a beer. still don't know why. guess i'm a bit of a ***** that drive out west was good. made 10 mixes in addition to CDs i already had and slept on the highway side and stopped where ever the hell i wanted to stop. smoked cigars while blazing over the pavement with my life in the backseat at 120 km/h not knowing how to feel, but doing alright.
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Nov 27, 2014
Nov 27, 2014 at 1:06 AM UTC
the closed bookstore
after one last summer of cottages, palm-beers floating on the lake, faceplanting into the waves while trying to kneeboard, badly-planned but perfectly-timed trips to toronto for shows (getting kurt viled) the family casa (host of many ragers and teenage kicks) was sold and georgian bay was no longer home. my parents bought a new truck and moved what was once 15 quesnelle drive down to cape breton island, three quarter million in pocket and i, i had a resurgence of old feelings towards a girl i won't name brought on by our rekindled friendship after the death of my best friend, (nothin' helped me get thru those months quite like that smile) and after an embarrassing night spent having various altercations (fisticuffs) with a young birch tree behind my pal's place i hopped in my '03 volvo and sped west like that old man once told dean to do. dust flying thru the open windows and my split knuckles smilin' at the fat old sun. that summer the bookstore, where i bought so many weathered novels, died and the man who was its overseer, with whom i spent so many evenings philosophizing over cups of joe in the closed-up shop , sort of faded away; i'd see him thursdays at the study sipping whatever he drank there in the corner and always felt too bad about the closing of cottage books, ashamed in a word, to ever go over and buy the guy a beer. still don't know why. guess i'm a bit of a ***** that drive out west was good. made 10 mixes in addition to CDs i already had and slept on the highway side and stopped where ever the hell i wanted to stop. smoked cigars while blazing over the pavement with my life in the backseat at 120 km/h not knowing how to feel, but doing alright.
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**It's 5:00 pm, any poems to share?** *my watchwoman, Seamless Siri, my conscientious conscience, gives said inquiry daily, at the precise heure de rigeur, with the perfection of a mechanized soul attending to her imperfect human programmer poetry, a sometime thing, comes when it comes, what the query, my godmother faerie, truly seeks knowledge of is something she cannot measure, like my counted steps and distances travelled, what this overseer mine truly seeks to know* why am I here? *Here. On this earth.  On this site. have you any new written proofs, your existence on this day to justify, were your failings and flailings, surpassed by any acts of kindness, this new, freshest penmanship, a reflection, an accounting of grace and worth, blogged and logged here as if only I had one day, one poem left... at tabulation time, the incisor bites, are you juiced or morbid, this, your essayed life, are the words, deemed shareable, is their value, calculable palpable? Siri inquires but you are jury at the late afternoon trial by fire, wherein my singed bunt offerings are produced at the wake of when, my nom I do append am I deserving of your recompense of one more day, one more poem?* ~~for Harlon~~ 5:13 pm November 21, 2015
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Nov 23, 2015
Nov 23, 2015 at 5:07 PM UTC
It's 5:00 pm, any poems to share?
The meek rattle the earth The battle distracted the clerks The overseer dipped into his potion As commotion in the open Became action and it started gaining traction And without pause the commanders reacted with factionalism For a fracture collapses community structures They rupture with signs of mistrust Institutions induce us to fear our own neighbor And keep our eyes forward and fixed on our labor But me and you, that's the True True Helping out when I know what I can do Spreading gratitude will get you bread And clothed enough to stay alive Because we'll only survive if we help each other
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Nov 26, 2012
Nov 26, 2012 at 10:20 AM UTC
If We Help Each Other
Prologue... Voyeurs Notes: Two lovers entwined in the blue black room of the ante meridian (a.m.). Under a cutting ******* moon he enters you You took him in with Pavlovian drooling eyes. He took your innocence and you shrieked in dripping compliance::: Only that sickle overseer in the night sky bared witness to the end of my pleasant fiction ***Halogen orb Halcyon days*** Left only with the abscess of the apparition that was “us” and a Phantom pain for the never was Perhaps she is somewhere quieted by enormity of it all Life in fast forward, a fallow future, a vertical victim of his ***** **** Predawn... Coldness without catharsis on a cobblestone street   **she is again spread before him, he’s already tired of her**, and again that ******* fading crescent watches:::   she’s wishing for a flashback, a do over, a dream of sanity before her teardrop salinity (it could’ve been us) But here I stand eternal Butchered by your lunar lunacy::: alone Against the backdrop of a pockmarked sky
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Dec 22, 2018
Dec 22, 2018 at 7:02 PM UTC
Lunar Tragedy (a Jack the Ripper Love Story)
To yearn to be a writer is to capture those moments of infinite depth in which you find yourself lost inside of a chasm of glorious detail. When the thud of your heart matches the bleating of your throat as you inhale your first cigarette of the day and you check yourself to the rhythm of your footsteps, wary of the overseer of your self-effacing doubts. A writer has a depression. A depression to scale the peaks of dizzy happiness and endure the barren salt marshes of a harrowing self-loathing. This depression will hit a writer in waves and can experience both extremes in the time taken to try on a new shirt or to catch a glimpse of their reflection in a shop window.
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Aug 25, 2012
Aug 25, 2012 at 7:55 AM UTC
First Foray
Ihinabi ko sa bukana ng payong ang ulan. This is to believe that sheltering may not always be, or simply perhaps an undertaking of weakness. A radical strangeness aspires to be bold. I may not be able to transcend its nakedness. . This is to deny the common verity that in the communal of water, shade fails a transliteration. We cannot be forever in hiding. Our smallness reveals our flowers. Our unmentioned stirrings. (A spire of technicolor through the lens of apertures. It starts to rain in Pasay.) . I see children swift-bodied in the streets. I hear the sublime song of a defunct tractor. Once in its vitality, Earth was its derelict. How did it come to be that when I peer into the openness, light slouches into form, conjuring an image: your face, hiding amongst the crowd? . This is to recognize the potential of dwindles. Its vertigo that it tries to protect. Its height that it tries to conquer. Its fall that it tries to eschew. What if bones are just homes to tiny little currents and that the way our body assumes the stance of jackknife, simply a foreboding? . Itinabi ko sa sukal ng araw ang payong. This is to perceive that all light lifts away from the dark, my heart always falling into its hands. Morning opens your face like delicate streets, pulverizing fog into chamomile. Silence is endemic. *Makati *buoys overseer reconnaissance of obvious beatings. Revealing a long line of ligatures -- umbilicus of wires. Serenades of futility. Our useless meanderings. . The depth of Sunlight finally turns primeval stone. That is our defeat -- all our darkness put to trial. I am tense with the finality: she will become parasol and I, the weather past moonlight waxing.
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Feb 26, 2016
Feb 26, 2016 at 8:38 PM UTC
Martina's Parasols
Ihinabi ko sa bukana ng payong ang ulan. This is to believe that sheltering may not always be, or simply perhaps an undertaking of weakness. A radical strangeness aspires to be bold. I may not be able to transcend its nakedness. . This is to deny the common verity that in the communal of water, shade fails a transliteration. We cannot be forever in hiding. Our smallness reveals our flowers. Our unmentioned stirrings. (A spire of technicolor through the lens of apertures. It starts to rain in Pasay.) . I see children swift-bodied in the streets. I hear the sublime song of a defunct tractor. Once in its vitality, Earth was its derelict. How did it come to be that when I peer into the openness, light slouches into form, conjuring an image: your face, hiding amongst the crowd? . This is to recognize the potential of dwindles. Its vertigo that it tries to protect. Its height that it tries to conquer. Its fall that it tries to eschew. What if bones are just homes to tiny little currents and that the way our body assumes the stance of jackknife, simply a foreboding? . Itinabi ko sa sukal ng araw ang payong. This is to perceive that all light lifts away from the dark, my heart always falling into its hands. Morning opens your face like delicate streets, pulverizing fog into chamomile. Silence is endemic. *Makati *buoys overseer reconnaissance of obvious beatings. Revealing a long line of ligatures -- umbilicus of wires. Serenades of futility. Our useless meanderings. . The depth of Sunlight finally turns primeval stone. That is our defeat -- all our darkness put to trial. I am tense with the finality: she will become parasol and I, the weather past moonlight waxing.
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