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When I enter, the black holes of myself, they are located, transcribed upon the blackboards of our unified bodies, the magnification of energy transversed, principles demonstrated by the unconcluding conclusion of the expansion of creation, the rebirthing of one universe never ending When I enter a woman, the discovery sought, the definitional needed, the proofs equational, the factors constant, not the variable truths, the demonstrations positive, the constants of the universe, combinational, all within, a single point glistening to gentle comfort this knowledge of my wasting, the foresight of my limitations from the day of birth my matter, matters, my energy neither destroyed or created, illimitable, my decline inevitable and yet! cannot alter my atomic structure. my future guaranteed, my inner light, traveling so fast, it has yet to arrive When I enter a woman, the laws of physics become special theories of relativity, we are motion in time, force and energy nucleotides rawest refined, elemental and particle nuclear, packets of light exclaimed When I enter a woman, organic, chemistry, interdisciplinary my body and its life force shaped as electric current transceivers crossing galaxies, there can be no deceivers, there but and only the birthing of heat, a byproduct of interjection, conjunction creation of creativity <> she is my proof long after the log normal of my nerves, now parceled to the invisible of an oscillating log natural, fertilizes the sea grasses that so intoxicate, flying, carried, by the invisiblity of the winds, all-where I have chosen as my shifting shape, when this container leaks and crack'd, in sentry reentry orbit, to the nearest garbage strewn construction-dead lot When I enter a woman, physics far beyond the commonplace, physical transition to knowledge of life ever after death and fear are time sensitized passing notions, crushed by the consolation of physics, the eternality of a time once begun, cannot end, and therefore this, my one theory of everything, the God I worship, of course, he is invisible!
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Nov 23, 2014
Nov 23, 2014 at 8:40 AM UTC
The Consolation of Physics (When I Enter a Woman) Nov. 2014
When I enter, the black holes of myself, they are located, transcribed upon the blackboards of our unified bodies, the magnification of energy transversed, principles demonstrated by the unconcluding conclusion of the expansion of creation, the rebirthing of one universe never ending When I enter a woman, the discovery sought, the definitional needed, the proofs equational, the factors constant, not the variable truths, the demonstrations positive, the constants of the universe, combinational, all within, a single point glistening to gentle comfort this knowledge of my wasting, the foresight of my limitations from the day of birth my matter, matters, my energy neither destroyed or created, illimitable, my decline inevitable and yet! cannot alter my atomic structure. my future guaranteed, my inner light, traveling so fast, it has yet to arrive When I enter a woman, the laws of physics become special theories of relativity, we are motion in time, force and energy nucleotides rawest refined, elemental and particle nuclear, packets of light exclaimed When I enter a woman, organic, chemistry, interdisciplinary my body and its life force shaped as electric current transceivers crossing galaxies, there can be no deceivers, there but and only the birthing of heat, a byproduct of interjection, conjunction creation of creativity <> she is my proof long after the log normal of my nerves, now parceled to the invisible of an oscillating log natural, fertilizes the sea grasses that so intoxicate, flying, carried, by the invisiblity of the winds, all-where I have chosen as my shifting shape, when this container leaks and crack'd, in sentry reentry orbit, to the nearest garbage strewn construction-dead lot When I enter a woman, physics far beyond the commonplace, physical transition to knowledge of life ever after death and fear are time sensitized passing notions, crushed by the consolation of physics, the eternality of a time once begun, cannot end, and therefore this, my one theory of everything, the God I worship, of course, he is invisible!
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C'mon out to the rattled caves the deep-sea malaise rested in the grey metamorphs of an ancient coastal chain Where Sisyphean slips of tectonic rifts pull the molding clay like play-dough and old rock that turns anew churned into great catacomb stele Babylonian towers far away from the great Mesopotamic interstate Surrounded by the immumerous trees the military sharpness of their pine quills writing their mark in the dirt for a hundred turns or so only to be rearranged into the great intercontinental soil Truly multisolipsistual And on the aggregate held open the mists of the vast expanse of ocean beyond L.A and stole the fruits of the tiny parceled condominium rainwater from distance far away angry men shouting-- "Give us back our life blood, GOD **** YOU!" Filling the tanks of their fleshomobiles running around and sweating it out trading it for cloth and wiping their brow on brown shirts perturbed and disobeyed But that great man with the chin muscatche brought the rough riders out of their dome into the frontier, riding trains Off they go! Seeking paradise in the sands and the trees and the coastal breeze dreaming of a world owned and seen by the world by man and by all these things It would be grand But that rock has been seen before in Luarentian islands long ago or perhaps a great FUJI-SAN of the west coast worshiped by critters and dinosaurs You are late to the game, sweet dreamers, you! These monuments give to honor due not you, no sir did you build these things? did you mold these things with the patience of a father with the consequentiality of the womb and a motherly affection for all things true? the gift is for you, remember your father's gifts sweet princes of the earth because they will outlive you. And I walk along the stream stepping upon these little bits of Yosemite Pulverized mountain rocks Renal Stones of the diseased to which the water flushed out deeply and cured the grey things from all that left them displeased hoping for more than just selfies and sticking it to god's face laughing at half-dome climbing it and getting the better of ourselves Believing we have achieved bliss When in reality, there is nothing to this which we can reach.
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Aug 19, 2018
Aug 19, 2018 at 5:19 PM UTC
Yosemite Spills
C'mon out to the rattled caves the deep-sea malaise rested in the grey metamorphs of an ancient coastal chain Where Sisyphean slips of tectonic rifts pull the molding clay like play-dough and old rock that turns anew churned into great catacomb stele Babylonian towers far away from the great Mesopotamic interstate Surrounded by the immumerous trees the military sharpness of their pine quills writing their mark in the dirt for a hundred turns or so only to be rearranged into the great intercontinental soil Truly multisolipsistual And on the aggregate held open the mists of the vast expanse of ocean beyond L.A and stole the fruits of the tiny parceled condominium rainwater from distance far away angry men shouting-- "Give us back our life blood, GOD **** YOU!" Filling the tanks of their fleshomobiles running around and sweating it out trading it for cloth and wiping their brow on brown shirts perturbed and disobeyed But that great man with the chin muscatche brought the rough riders out of their dome into the frontier, riding trains Off they go! Seeking paradise in the sands and the trees and the coastal breeze dreaming of a world owned and seen by the world by man and by all these things It would be grand But that rock has been seen before in Luarentian islands long ago or perhaps a great FUJI-SAN of the west coast worshiped by critters and dinosaurs You are late to the game, sweet dreamers, you! These monuments give to honor due not you, no sir did you build these things? did you mold these things with the patience of a father with the consequentiality of the womb and a motherly affection for all things true? the gift is for you, remember your father's gifts sweet princes of the earth because they will outlive you. And I walk along the stream stepping upon these little bits of Yosemite Pulverized mountain rocks Renal Stones of the diseased to which the water flushed out deeply and cured the grey things from all that left them displeased hoping for more than just selfies and sticking it to god's face laughing at half-dome climbing it and getting the better of ourselves Believing we have achieved bliss When in reality, there is nothing to this which we can reach.
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We were drinking coffee when depression showed up at the door of the home we built, pounding. Eviction notice in hand, your soul parceled out into donation bins. Foreclosure sign, caution tape around the chest that I slept on for a year. I sit out in the sun to bleach the tan line from my ring finger. I hold cold cups and shake strangers’ hands to erase the mould of your grasp from mine. I want to sear off my palms. I miss even those nights when you looked at my fire and laughed. So I make you coffee (but I know I make it wrong); your ghost in this house still criticizes. I made you coffee every day because it was all I could do; my only way of getting into you, a vector. As the hot brew flowed past your heart, I watched, like a child at Christmas, hoping you’d feel my love. Hoping the glaze would clear up from your eyes. I only wish this were a bond that stayed, that stayed when your mind put plugs in your ears: when I screamed and screamed that I loved you, that I’d rock every little thing you regret to sleep. I went to the doctor about this dizziness. He checked my ears, he asked why my eyes were red. This vertigo--a hurricane made by the page turning in my life. I am a bag in your wind. The day you left I wrote you a recipe for how you like your coffee, because you don’t know, but I have it memorized. My handwriting changes halfway down the page, as I change, as you drive farther and farther away. Our love is a child I’ve carried, now I’m bent over, sick. Loss took your place in our home, but it’s unsteady on its feet; I have to walk it from room to room. My name has been yours, possessive. And although these days I correct myself and say ‘I’ during speech, My thoughts are still ‘we.’ I still think about your lungs when I cough. So I still make us coffee every day (but I know I make it wrong).
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Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 7:26 AM UTC
This vertigo
We were drinking coffee when depression showed up at the door of the home we built, pounding. Eviction notice in hand, your soul parceled out into donation bins. Foreclosure sign, caution tape around the chest that I slept on for a year. I sit out in the sun to bleach the tan line from my ring finger. I hold cold cups and shake strangers’ hands to erase the mould of your grasp from mine. I want to sear off my palms. I miss even those nights when you looked at my fire and laughed. So I make you coffee (but I know I make it wrong); your ghost in this house still criticizes. I made you coffee every day because it was all I could do; my only way of getting into you, a vector. As the hot brew flowed past your heart, I watched, like a child at Christmas, hoping you’d feel my love. Hoping the glaze would clear up from your eyes. I only wish this were a bond that stayed, that stayed when your mind put plugs in your ears: when I screamed and screamed that I loved you, that I’d rock every little thing you regret to sleep. I went to the doctor about this dizziness. He checked my ears, he asked why my eyes were red. This vertigo--a hurricane made by the page turning in my life. I am a bag in your wind. The day you left I wrote you a recipe for how you like your coffee, because you don’t know, but I have it memorized. My handwriting changes halfway down the page, as I change, as you drive farther and farther away. Our love is a child I’ve carried, now I’m bent over, sick. Loss took your place in our home, but it’s unsteady on its feet; I have to walk it from room to room. My name has been yours, possessive. And although these days I correct myself and say ‘I’ during speech, My thoughts are still ‘we.’ I still think about your lungs when I cough. So I still make us coffee every day (but I know I make it wrong).
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This sickened day. Burrowing — Further into shadow, Further into regret. A minus Struck against my worth. These sins — These worthless aspects Born into flesh. Parceled to beyond. Away. Away. You are all strangers Blurry ghosts in the streets. Was everything.         too much         to ask? Who cares about the love? Who cares about the tender words? It was a lifetime ago. I'm pointed to oblivion                            without return.
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Feb 10, 2015
Feb 10, 2015 at 6:32 PM UTC
Notes On Heartache, destruction
*ants crawl on slowly* 1. left eye is hopping fast for days now and time's but a fair damsel of delightful illusion how she taunts and teases you into sweet oblivion of wickedly sensual basking she drugs you with deep charisma and struts at the doorway of your senses she clutches onto the tracks in your mind and claws deep into your ragged psyche that same old song playing over and over... ........over 2. see right through train's chassis rail sleepers spin vigorously backward in such frightful haste to get nowhere no-one knows the real speed of time out there..... but for mere mortals it's leniently paced in adagio and parceled in mellowed excruciation as ants walk serene alongside the tracks 3. creep into chaotic patterns fall into hell through a secret back door even satan knows not of as perched as he is on his oh-so lofty pile of ordure his blind heart sees not the strobed tracks of your visiting soul 4. take a syncopated shot up the arm from the foul fang of a kind sinner while saints bathe in fat glory elsewhere when you look again you lie alone in a corner room broken yet untethered tracks to heaven so obscured by your paradoxical attempts at levity on the twisted playground of life's malady 5. how badly you tripped so many **** times you ....got in the way of your own remise each time you fell you looked UP expecting help when all the while the answers lay at your feet: [your own mistakes are authentic and real; you try to fox-tread out but trying to turn your back on a ***** called destiny - equals catastrophe personified oh, she WILL beckon you back with her crooked finger most kindly to ensure no overdue lessons wait too long.....] *the ants crawl on so slowly* S T, Wed 10 July 2013
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Jul 10, 2013
Jul 10, 2013 at 6:52 AM UTC
tracks
*ants crawl on slowly* 1. left eye is hopping fast for days now and time's but a fair damsel of delightful illusion how she taunts and teases you into sweet oblivion of wickedly sensual basking she drugs you with deep charisma and struts at the doorway of your senses she clutches onto the tracks in your mind and claws deep into your ragged psyche that same old song playing over and over... ........over 2. see right through train's chassis rail sleepers spin vigorously backward in such frightful haste to get nowhere no-one knows the real speed of time out there..... but for mere mortals it's leniently paced in adagio and parceled in mellowed excruciation as ants walk serene alongside the tracks 3. creep into chaotic patterns fall into hell through a secret back door even satan knows not of as perched as he is on his oh-so lofty pile of ordure his blind heart sees not the strobed tracks of your visiting soul 4. take a syncopated shot up the arm from the foul fang of a kind sinner while saints bathe in fat glory elsewhere when you look again you lie alone in a corner room broken yet untethered tracks to heaven so obscured by your paradoxical attempts at levity on the twisted playground of life's malady 5. how badly you tripped so many **** times you ....got in the way of your own remise each time you fell you looked UP expecting help when all the while the answers lay at your feet: [your own mistakes are authentic and real; you try to fox-tread out but trying to turn your back on a ***** called destiny - equals catastrophe personified oh, she WILL beckon you back with her crooked finger most kindly to ensure no overdue lessons wait too long.....] *the ants crawl on so slowly* S T, Wed 10 July 2013
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~for yocum~ <> the quality of commitment is not restrained by quantity, nor by size, impressed by nylon sheerest volume, avoirdupois grams, Imperial weight, steeled feathers, immeasurable, one ton tips no true scale into red lined sincerity the necessary respectful silences it requires, the social nearness of geo-distancing, all need prodigal acceptance, like a long lost son, welcomed without questioning we flawed, banded by many weaknesses, poorly confessed, yet, no excuses tendered, to it, long ago surrendered, but understand this, constancy is  not judged by the frequency of our waves, but by the fervor of an undertow of unwavering constancy one that unceasingly rages, beneath superficial, steady waves, and through the thickened, roughed old skin separating atmospheres, I have grasped your heartened essence man, found its depths, blessed it with words, you’ve never fathomed surely you will growl at this, claiming obfuscation, excuses not in your vocabulary, nor should it be, though you require the steady reassurance of frequent brevity so and yet, but and still, I deny your claims, what you think, incorrect, cause I know my heart, and well it kens what lays in thine, what’s in yours is in mine, deep planted, a full nut grove flowering, your complaints, mine as well, all part parceled, with grace accepted for what is friendship but the path through parted seas, joining two borders, the best part of that is the landed connectivity, leading to where we two ends, meet in laughing two-gether old fools, younger-then-than-now, committed, grumpy men.
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Apr 15, 2020
Apr 15, 2020 at 2:02 PM UTC
the quality of commitment
~for yocum~ <> the quality of commitment is not restrained by quantity, nor by size, impressed by nylon sheerest volume, avoirdupois grams, Imperial weight, steeled feathers, immeasurable, one ton tips no true scale into red lined sincerity the necessary respectful silences it requires, the social nearness of geo-distancing, all need prodigal acceptance, like a long lost son, welcomed without questioning we flawed, banded by many weaknesses, poorly confessed, yet, no excuses tendered, to it, long ago surrendered, but understand this, constancy is  not judged by the frequency of our waves, but by the fervor of an undertow of unwavering constancy one that unceasingly rages, beneath superficial, steady waves, and through the thickened, roughed old skin separating atmospheres, I have grasped your heartened essence man, found its depths, blessed it with words, you’ve never fathomed surely you will growl at this, claiming obfuscation, excuses not in your vocabulary, nor should it be, though you require the steady reassurance of frequent brevity so and yet, but and still, I deny your claims, what you think, incorrect, cause I know my heart, and well it kens what lays in thine, what’s in yours is in mine, deep planted, a full nut grove flowering, your complaints, mine as well, all part parceled, with grace accepted for what is friendship but the path through parted seas, joining two borders, the best part of that is the landed connectivity, leading to where we two ends, meet in laughing two-gether old fools, younger-then-than-now, committed, grumpy men.
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Butterfly globe make light in a passion pit. My beach house is surreal, is a high water mark, is the heart of all the radio left in this world. But I am here writing technical reports about environmental beasts in Massachusetts, in New York in Connecticut where I think people stuff air, drive slow and waste everything. I can tell by the aerial maps that geography is tethered by our parceled teeth of desire. In the office I whisper, love is urban a little too loud but no one decides to hear and so I scribble it on the FOIL and send it to municipalities in search of property records in search of environmental concerns, old pre-industrial gas stations with nameless owners. I like to zoom in and out real neurotic   When I should be looking for the Site, with the – Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator. Instead, I’d like to live between every green space on GoogleEarth, an ubiquitous witch fevering undulating land, thighs straddling the seasons between documentation and myth. Release. Repeat the Response Action Outcome. Instead, I envy the road – all wide open yawn stripe and ticking yellow. I’d write, "Tank Status: Removed," in purple chalk across the brick and vinyl siding of all the buildings on Columbus Avenue. This morning I am impossible. This morning I believe I am Earth and I can’t say no to the height of caffeine in subterranean climates and the reflection my mouth makes swallowing navy blue, waves like falsity, waves like any nation flag under screen.  I often think an office is not a space, there would be less sighing, there would be love in action.
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Sep 13, 2012
Sep 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM UTC
Response Action Outcome
Butterfly globe make light in a passion pit. My beach house is surreal, is a high water mark, is the heart of all the radio left in this world. But I am here writing technical reports about environmental beasts in Massachusetts, in New York in Connecticut where I think people stuff air, drive slow and waste everything. I can tell by the aerial maps that geography is tethered by our parceled teeth of desire. In the office I whisper, love is urban a little too loud but no one decides to hear and so I scribble it on the FOIL and send it to municipalities in search of property records in search of environmental concerns, old pre-industrial gas stations with nameless owners. I like to zoom in and out real neurotic   When I should be looking for the Site, with the – Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator. Instead, I’d like to live between every green space on GoogleEarth, an ubiquitous witch fevering undulating land, thighs straddling the seasons between documentation and myth. Release. Repeat the Response Action Outcome. Instead, I envy the road – all wide open yawn stripe and ticking yellow. I’d write, "Tank Status: Removed," in purple chalk across the brick and vinyl siding of all the buildings on Columbus Avenue. This morning I am impossible. This morning I believe I am Earth and I can’t say no to the height of caffeine in subterranean climates and the reflection my mouth makes swallowing navy blue, waves like falsity, waves like any nation flag under screen.  I often think an office is not a space, there would be less sighing, there would be love in action.
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Tiny little parcel All wrapped up and waiting to be Undone. Sitting quietly Under the shade of Resentful Ambiguity. Cautious scarred and wry (smiling) insecurity See me sitting calmly assembled All parceled up and wanting Waiting To be unpicked Carefully Hand stitched Calling softly (upon deaf ears) To be untied To see what lies Beneath each fettered Layer. Role player This small and softly spoken Box Of being Seeing nothing Feeling everything With wary (doleful) Soulful eyes. (closed) Dreaming of being (open) I am token Bundle ****** a pile of sticks untamed. Paused upon the ground unsound Aspiring to to be burned In order to (feel) spurned. This collated stack Of feelings lost to the numb of Being wrapped up and tied to the self. A book full of stories Unnamed. Pages upon pages Loose words Collected Piled and falling Upon a dusty Neglected shelf Too much of the self Not enough of the other. Resting. Worn out Dog eared Belayed by fear. Waiting Wasting Hasting to be undone. To be unknotted Frayed Displayed Vast volume Unspoken betray. Hold fast This minute Package Lying restless At your feet.
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Aug 22, 2010
Aug 22, 2010 at 4:07 PM UTC
small parcel waiting to be undone
~for old, recovered, & new tunes ‘n friends~ Lord I’m one… <> the lovely old tune ease on in, infiltrating, harmonizing, my soul with just-the-ice of another glorious sunrise, inching over the North Fork soon enough, the body~mind continuum, will ask me to slide~glide, move over, make room for a new tune, here, asking you to call me, if you need a friend, find place, a chair & navy cushion,   to We observe as one mine own carnival of animals, do their morning exercise, jumping from here to crazy, squirrel~crazy, the flitting flighty birds, back and frothy forthing, pointless lyrically zooming from tree to tree, their AM calisthenics an ancient crooner sings of knowledge of how lonely life can be, and I soft retort, this morning forbids lonely, come to me, you my dear ones, who welcome me into your hearts… kiss my words with affection, stating everything will bring a chain love, a tear of joy, & everything is and will be alright yes there is something happening over here, so when you ask, what’s it  all about Natty, my reply is easy, how sweet it is to be with you, my words unrehearsed, and I brim with anticipation of Us together, sipping our coffees, giving Our silence to be part & parceled out to the superior quietude of our surroundings, where the sounds, well, they infiltrate our conjoined beings, I think~sing-enjoy deeply, that old tune “Lord I’m One” 800am Mon Aug 12 2024 by the Sound…
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Aug 12, 2024
Aug 12, 2024 at 8:32 AM UTC
Lord I’m One
She stood there quivering, Then about to speak the unspeakable, Unbinding her tongue she opened her mouth With a few words and a quaint sob escaping her mouth Stood there blinking Not knowing what to speak pain unfurling her heart She looked at his eyes directly but could not even sound her pain In anger he broke the silence and without any thought He pulled out his knife and there she stood with her eyes filled with tears Trying to speak what she couldn’t express With her tongue out she uttered o’er there… and stopped Lost in anger he cut off her tongue Without being able to utter she stood unspeakable For ever hidden Behind the wound she hid her pain The culprit walked free He did not know that behind her pain Was a greater wound than just this wounded tongue Her eyes pleading to the cruelty of human heart She held her heart and head high Lost in thoughts to tell him of her story She started writing her diary Often up from her bed late at night She dotted many a line Words filled day by day Lost in pain and writing She finally grew out of it Learned that her body is just a sheath Beneath its layers lies a deeper soul Untouched and full of promise Weeks passed by and months followed And she was fully ready To tell her story of pain Nobody was interested But she parceled her diary to him He had missed her a lot And he knew it was his loss Then this new turning Surprised he stood in silence He had her gift Unbinding he was so eager To reach for its content To his surprise it was her diary. Leafing through the pages A thousand words buzzed his head Not knowing what to do His hands started shivering And the last page turned open I was ***** and the man is o’er there It echoed: oe’r there, oe’r there Realizing his mistake he cried out his heart aloud He had wounded her double Knowing now why it was unspeakable How hard it was to speak He begged her forgiveness With a smile on her lips and warmth in her heart ‘Unspeakable’ she stood watching him. -------------
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Jan 7, 2016
Jan 7, 2016 at 4:35 AM UTC
Unspeakable
She stood there quivering, Then about to speak the unspeakable, Unbinding her tongue she opened her mouth With a few words and a quaint sob escaping her mouth Stood there blinking Not knowing what to speak pain unfurling her heart She looked at his eyes directly but could not even sound her pain In anger he broke the silence and without any thought He pulled out his knife and there she stood with her eyes filled with tears Trying to speak what she couldn’t express With her tongue out she uttered o’er there… and stopped Lost in anger he cut off her tongue Without being able to utter she stood unspeakable For ever hidden Behind the wound she hid her pain The culprit walked free He did not know that behind her pain Was a greater wound than just this wounded tongue Her eyes pleading to the cruelty of human heart She held her heart and head high Lost in thoughts to tell him of her story She started writing her diary Often up from her bed late at night She dotted many a line Words filled day by day Lost in pain and writing She finally grew out of it Learned that her body is just a sheath Beneath its layers lies a deeper soul Untouched and full of promise Weeks passed by and months followed And she was fully ready To tell her story of pain Nobody was interested But she parceled her diary to him He had missed her a lot And he knew it was his loss Then this new turning Surprised he stood in silence He had her gift Unbinding he was so eager To reach for its content To his surprise it was her diary. Leafing through the pages A thousand words buzzed his head Not knowing what to do His hands started shivering And the last page turned open I was ***** and the man is o’er there It echoed: oe’r there, oe’r there Realizing his mistake he cried out his heart aloud He had wounded her double Knowing now why it was unspeakable How hard it was to speak He begged her forgiveness With a smile on her lips and warmth in her heart ‘Unspeakable’ she stood watching him. -------------
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Souls sold for Antiquated crude As bitter enemies crossed over Frozen tundra and vast deserts to duel Quietly does the Dark Wraith of death Sweep across the blood soaked terrain And the Angel of Mercy does the like To ease our fallen soldiers' pains America's nefarious war in Iraq has been for naught Many young lives were Recklessly packaged for this reckoning Packaged, parceled, and bought I've often wondered If the dead would Protest against the government's lies If they could So many lives extinguished on both sides They breathe no more Doomed to the cold cauldrons of their eternal sepulchers By the wicked Gods of war * Reprinted from 'Exegesis a Decade of Poetry by Mekael' © July 14, 2009 by Mekael Shane
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Jan 12, 2014
Jan 12, 2014 at 2:27 PM UTC
Gods of War
Bring it in, this little shaking plight. I'll own it, gladly. Lay it down on these linen sheets, It is this linen I shall wrap us in, Forever. Bring it near, this quaking fever. I'll own it gladly. I hear its little hum, With it I'll strike in harmony, Forever. Bring it here, this hoarse, crackled voice. I'll eat it gladly. I taste your breath, And swallow your parceled words. I'll steal your tongue, And covet your tender insides. I'll weep, I'll weep with your precious, precious, yearning, Forever, Gladly.
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Aug 31, 2012
Aug 31, 2012 at 9:42 PM UTC
I hear its little hum.
(For my old mate Kevin Blackburn) Bentonite is magic When mixed in slurry form, And injected into apertures Where earth worms are the norm. The slurry forms a barrier Which holds the concrete, wet, Quite apart from earthen surfaces To give exactly what you get. YOU GET NO CONTAMINATION YOU GET CONCRETE DRYING CLEAN YOU GET SMOOTH GREYISH SURFACES WHICH COULD BE PARCELED TO THE QUEEN! So when constructing tunnels Or massive footings bare Or reinforced deep piling Which extends way down to there, You MUST pour in the Bentonite In slippery, slurry form To keep the concrete looking Sparkling clean, as is the norm. Then.... YOU GET NO CONTAMINATION YOU GET CONCRETE NICE AND CLEAN YOU GET BEAUTIFUL GREY SURFACES SHINING BRIGHTLY FOR THE QUEEN! Marshalg Lurking near the Bentonite tanks Victoria Park Tunnel 15 June 2011
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Jun 14, 2011
Jun 14, 2011 at 9:14 PM UTC
Bentonite is Magic
last night dreams of neatly packaged anxiety neatly parceled into my worst fears planted themselves, grew their roots during my sleep. i dreamt of irreparable scarring a face no one could love the pity of strangers grief painted across my face in streaks of angry red dry skin red like your mother's old tea kettle crackling like newsprint on a windy day when you feel as if you are fighting a losing battle with your own flesh there is only so much war to be waged face defeat. skin will never be her flawless porcelain will burn as deeply as your shame. your teeth slightly crooked sugarfree gum packed into a hesitant casing leaning as if trying to escape the only mouth they will ever know in an age of daylily smiles women sculpted by their own reassurance will you ever see my smile beyond all that i am not?
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May 30, 2016
May 30, 2016 at 12:02 PM UTC
skin&teeth
~~~ "Fact about me:  You design me" line from a poem published here on Nov. 30, 2013 part I of a trilogy nml ~~~ 6:33am 9 minutes left in the AM hour of my tribulation, the re-design time, redoing  my outer shell legs pounding, towel sodden soggy, soon return to home do my morning ablutions followed by a frosty walk to the multiple screens for trading things makeover, do-over, but you can only easy shed and cleanse exterior surfaces, shape and appearance, the inside stuff, that's the gut wrencher don't be so hard on yourself kid! nah ain't gonna kid myself too old, too much a wise guy to show much forgiveness to self, of untruly yours, whose design was only 50% mine someone is dying,^ my cocktail of words and emotions more muddled than my usual abnormal, while sweating off the golden baddies to the golden oldies so where exactly is the truth burden?^^ somewhere  between sad and  a curt "no cares" my physical reformation, is part and parceled, of my regeneration, the one who gave me the desire to die before my time, is dead before her time, and I don't know the clear water truth of my variable emotions design me? she is deigning to design me still with her untimely death so I cycle even harder to release the anxiety of mis-everything regretting what was lost, now missed, that too was, and is, part of my design, part of burden of truths that design who we were, are, and yet may be
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Feb 11, 2016
Feb 11, 2016 at 5:01 PM UTC
Part I: You & She, Design Me
~for old, recovered, & new tunes ‘n friends~ Lord I’m one… <> the lovely old tune ease on in, infiltrating, harmonizing, my soul with just-the-ice of another glorious sunrise, inching over the North Fork soon enough, the body~mind continuum, will ask me to slide~glide, move over, make room for a new tune, here, asking you to call me, if you need a friend, find place, a chair & navy cushion,   to We observe as one mine own carnival of animals, do their morning exercise, jumping from here to crazy, squirrel~crazy, the flitting flighty birds, back and frothy forthing, pointless lyrically zooming from tree to tree, their AM calisthenics an ancient crooner sings of knowledge of how lonely life can be, and I soft retort, this morning forbids lonely, come to me, you my dear ones, who welcome me into your hearts… kiss my words with affection, stating everything will bring a chained love, linked by tears of pearl drop-down, a necklace of joy, & everything is and will be alright yes there is something happening over here, so when you ask, what’s it  all about Natty, my reply is easy, how sweet it is to be with you, my words unrehearsed, and I brim with anticipation of Us together, sipping our coffees, giving Our silence to be part & parceled out to the superior quietude of our surroundings, where the sounds, well, they infiltrate our conjoined beings, I think~sing-enjoy deeply, that old tune “Lord I’m One” 800am Mon Aug 12 2024 by the Sound…
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Aug 12, 2024
Aug 12, 2024 at 4:28 PM UTC
Lord I’m One
I saw two grown men cry this week. heaving their bodies, weighted with wails my father with guilt burrowed in his gut live streams his tears asking anyone for answers to fix his sick son my lover wishing to be shattered into dust, logging each passing thought in emails parceled with regret I carry them; I bundle and swaddle and embrace I light three matches for each of us, the flame kissing my index finger we are one in the ember I hear we have taken only one family vacation I wanted to cut off my finger and send it to you you promised to protect me my father is martyred my love is sleepless these are my men and although this week I have had black thread weaved underneath my skin and I have carved out my name in my stomach with worry and I have been swallowed whole by the memory of my favourite small town in Long Island he is black he is in a drought he is marred too
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Aug 20, 2016
Aug 20, 2016 at 7:27 PM UTC
toska
I parceled out my affection in tiny little bits and though the rate at which I gave, was surely not the rate at which you wanted to take your hands stayed waiting, for my lonely contributions and you gathered them together and took them to a quiet place where they could come to know each other, as I have come to know you, my love
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Nov 30, 2012
Nov 30, 2012 at 9:46 AM UTC
learning to love the lemon tree
You are the child I that I call mine, The child that I birthed into this place. You have brought me joy, And an opportunity for growth. Your open heart, and loving soul Has opened me to the understanding That I cannot know all of you For you are all things to me. When I feel the gentle rain I feel your gentle love. The sound of water, the smell of the sea, The breeze on my face all remind me of you. When I stand on a mountain I feel your support. When I look at the stars I see your shining light. You never comprise yourself or judge another, You never complain but in your quiet way, You smile and laugh, even though others would cry. You always have a kind and loving word for everyone. You remind me that life Cannot be parceled into tangible form. You remind me to be open hearted And that Love is forever You remind me, that without you, I would not be the me that I am. And through you my horizons Have encompassed the planet. You remind me of hope for a better future .You are the light of my soul, The joy in my heart And the promise of a better world.
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Dec 30, 2013
Dec 30, 2013 at 1:32 PM UTC
Love is forever
That child of my youth Lies now in her bed As she always did Covers pulled up to keep her warm But she is thin and frail As she was as a young girl The safety of the bed though Evades her As it always did The things underneath Still haunt her And have become real Those shadowed horrors from below Have come to claim her Tubes are snaked like vines Around her Invading her Covering her like an ancient ruin Finding every crevice to crawl into A young woman Now old The road maps on her skin Traced not by time and experience But by tragedy and chance, Cruel blows that glanced From her guarding arms She will never know laugh lines Burned into her skin by a million smiles Those smiles will never come They will only be bitter sweet ones smiled by us As we talk about old times Laughing into the night With worn grins And Tired eyes And the lines will be etched Into our faces instead What we measure in decades She measures out in minutes Hours are years And days stretch into decades Every moment is now measured into a cup Metered and parceled On a glowing monitor The poor girl who never had a chance Still doesn’t And never will It is such a shame She is such as a sweet girl And she has such soft hands
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Jan 20, 2014
Jan 20, 2014 at 9:16 AM UTC
Merry Christmas child
To my loves each and every one You sweet ghosts of potential Diaphanous specters haunting me With what could and will never be I do not lust for thee Shame on me how I lie so easily But I am learning to lose that part To scrape that side of my heart clean Till desire is just a passing thing Just a mid-summer night’s dream That only belongs to my memory To you all who inspired said passion I am grateful not hateful nor jealous Of what I will never have or touch For now the idea of love is enough To secure my solitude with poetic platitudes The attitudes I give latitude to reign And not be ashamed is a full blooming pain Parceled out with partial bouts of pleasure You frequent my fantastic dreams *** Coming and going as you please Please do not ignore or forget me I promise that I understand We are just woman and man As friends
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Jul 4, 2015
Jul 4, 2015 at 1:54 PM UTC
To My Loves
engaged in sippin’ it’s a delicacy among all the actions we fool humans partake sippin’ is of a kind, a slower breathing, a finery of human, tiny steps taken, gifting balance, perspective one sense at a time sorta a purification, a priest anointing, oil on a king’s head, droplet by drop, for that is what it makes, takes, to be royal, patient, wisdom of consideration my love is royal, parceled out like broad wide~wet~ white wake, witnessed, verified bu synchronized fly~sized human eyes, tiny impartial arbiters of finery, the lace hand~ sewn into the delicate fabrics of our world, skin of our lives sipping’ is the pace full of grace envy, but forget to emulate rushing to join the waiting frustration of endless traffic to meetings that blab blah blah blah, ah, wasting brain cells turn to my woman, big grin, worn in a slow borning smile, she says what? as if I’m keeping a great secret, an angonizing revealtion for when I slow breathe out, in drops deliberate, giving a pledge, a phraseology, I~Love~You but taking maybe so long an extended ten! whole seconds, which to her is an eternity, earning/deserving a punch to whichever of my arms be nearest to her body’s heart while I slow laugh, sippin’ great pleasure from a well and proper brimming cup of joyous, write a small sip tribute of an another only love poem
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Sep 24, 2024
Sep 24, 2024 at 9:21 AM UTC
sippin’ good morning
How many squares on the checker board , one against one comes with an allowance letting another progress so to see the weakness make a play but when will they pay Color not as important as numbers ,actions still being based on reactions, secretly basking on their incompetence Progression can be placid or briskly making its way to persevere, paving a hidden path seen as the winning way seeing just squares on a board rectangles have four sides ,then why not four players Red and Black are known as blood and death, is an unknown hidden mire behind the supposedly simple game Check and balances is often a tale of life, opposing sides as part of strife ,are we to be patrons or purveyors Positive motions moving forward often with hidden emotions ,outside actions can not interfere others can make a counterclaim Passively we can make allow a process, shifting a game without showing shame, while the partner pays the penance Premeditation using a shadowy mindset is now an advantage, parceled out as actions instead of knee **** reactions Cresting high creating confusion can create new abilities rather than the perceived disabilities when making a play against tenants Small disks now taking on a new role with different risks ,stacking for strength ,focusing while also shifting still hiding our passions Piece to piece ,place to place, face to face, laid out on the table ready to begin realizing only one will be left to guard the stable flip of a coin to decide the beginner, but many processes will be engaged ,passing on ,leaning back before we decide a true winner Mid game break or mid life crisis ,the surrounding hushes or whispers happen making an unknown mark yet to have a true label Payed with the subconscious and some sweat ,hopefully no act has made something possible so we're not seen a just a beginner R.C.
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May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016 at 1:28 AM UTC
CHECK MATE
How many squares on the checker board , one against one comes with an allowance letting another progress so to see the weakness make a play but when will they pay Color not as important as numbers ,actions still being based on reactions, secretly basking on their incompetence Progression can be placid or briskly making its way to persevere, paving a hidden path seen as the winning way seeing just squares on a board rectangles have four sides ,then why not four players Red and Black are known as blood and death, is an unknown hidden mire behind the supposedly simple game Check and balances is often a tale of life, opposing sides as part of strife ,are we to be patrons or purveyors Positive motions moving forward often with hidden emotions ,outside actions can not interfere others can make a counterclaim Passively we can make allow a process, shifting a game without showing shame, while the partner pays the penance Premeditation using a shadowy mindset is now an advantage, parceled out as actions instead of knee **** reactions Cresting high creating confusion can create new abilities rather than the perceived disabilities when making a play against tenants Small disks now taking on a new role with different risks ,stacking for strength ,focusing while also shifting still hiding our passions Piece to piece ,place to place, face to face, laid out on the table ready to begin realizing only one will be left to guard the stable flip of a coin to decide the beginner, but many processes will be engaged ,passing on ,leaning back before we decide a true winner Mid game break or mid life crisis ,the surrounding hushes or whispers happen making an unknown mark yet to have a true label Payed with the subconscious and some sweat ,hopefully no act has made something possible so we're not seen a just a beginner R.C.
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I got the nice guy rage Anger that stirs Beneath the pages Past the posts I pasted Parceled out in controlled fashion Because my passion Stems from the pain of the world Floods and fallen stars Broken expectations Failure to pierce the infinite void Of human ignorance It is unhealthy A weakness A fear That even if it is justified I may find the same monster Lurking inside my mind That plagued my matriarch The rage that darkened her heart And contorted her face As she lashed out at me So with every available icebox I freeze and lock Those dangerous emotions Till I am numb Allowing only a fraction Of said passion to ever surface In my writings Now I am afraid That I locked to much away Disconnected the locks and lost the keys So I can never get back to the real me All because I am afraid of the anger
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Oct 7, 2015
Oct 7, 2015 at 12:37 PM UTC
Rage Fear
“Why aren’t you in a relationship?”, “But you’re 21 right?” “Don’t you feel lonely?” Questions asked and left unanswered, by my raised eye brows and loud silence. While some queries need to be answered in words, some need to be handled with elegance. I didn’t know there was an age limit, to find someone and fall in love. I sure as hell am not expecting the perfect guy, to be wrapped and parceled by God above. (I am an atheist, I did that for the rhyme.) I have a different definition of ‘lonely’, if it means to others the absence of a companion. I have learned to find my other half inside myself, who had been long dead since oblivion. I am not sorry because I don’t have a plus one, really, I can have myself and still have all the fun. They can make all the jokes they want, about singleton and ************ but I’d really rather have myself, than be unprepared for emotional devastation. I never saw a relationship as a bond between people, to fill in the empty time, to ask for validation. The moment I give my deep analysis about this bond, I have to declare I am alright and I am asked for clarification. So yes, I am single and jubilant, having all the fun I can, in life. Age doesn’t give way to relationships and marriage, I can be just fine not being someone’s girlfriend and wife.
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Aug 17, 2016
Aug 17, 2016 at 3:47 PM UTC
To Being Single.