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"pavlov" poems
The form in which we live our lives Breeds in the midst of demon hives. For dogs do bark in senseless fright At shadows lurking in the night, And souls shiver at that unseen; Cathartic reasons not to dream. Voices whisper ideas, faux truths, That knowledge has no valid use. And when we hear, we do obey The voice that blocks the light of day. Lamplight dances against cave walls And childlike wonder slowly falls. Pavlov shakes his head in sadness, For we, indeed, are his madness. And Plato weeps within his cage For all his truths leave him in rage. Is all that we can ever see Vague words that tell us not to be?
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 3:10 PM UTC
Shadows on the Cave
I have not grown accustomed to the sound of your messages. Their presence did little to assure, nor did their absence cause unsettling. Today, however, I must admit that I have waited for that bell. My heart salivated at the sound of passing bicycles, hoping finally it was you remembering the love you have left waiting. I wonder: How could you have conditioned me to anticipate something that has never been constant anyway? for j.e. 013115
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Jan 31, 2015
Jan 31, 2015 at 10:29 AM UTC
Did Pavlov's dog ever wait for that bell?
Hip hop. Equals art stop. That crude **** stopped musical fusion Right in its tracks. When it first landed, it was still music with a lotta spittle flying. Not naming names. I listened to a lot of it. Then Gangsta rap hit. Oh **** Cant accuse me of blind judgment, I still check it out from time to time How do you say.Get diverse mud flappers. Know the history. learn to play an instrument and read it so you can write it. Then come back an see me. Who am I?. John Q public. Pavlov's dog. Tin Pan Ali. Long Tall sally. Sachmo. Scratch less. Yard-bird. Donald Bird. Stubborn **** Stuff out there is weak as thrice used tea bags. And cost more to get unless you got a peg leg and a parrot ******** on yer shoulder. Lyrically, man my six year old says more about less with **** left over. What? Flame out digitized No talent constructs that make me wanna hurl, url give a dog a bone. Tin eared, tone def hoochies and synthetic cool cats. Not to mention the rough neks. Looking like they pooped their pants six times and forgot how to belt up. There are some real deal talents out there but it is like pickin peanuts out **** After disco died. Yes I said disco. It has been a circle **** in the cemetery after dark. Naw mean. But I digress. .
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Sep 24, 2012
Sep 24, 2012 at 4:42 AM UTC
Much Ado
What if they had a War and nobody came ! my sentiment all along Actions so transparent and telegraphed a mile long absurd anchoring, even more absurd triggering so absurd as to be meaningless the hotchpotch logic of simpletons on acid The banal manifestations of the anodyne retards with advanced hysteria Think unruly kids on Colombian marching powder think advanced psychosis with total stage ten delusions Watch mass hysteria contagion Logic was never there, rationality bolted beating Usain Bolt Inveterate liars and fantasists now control maddened throngs Oh dear! they decided I am madly in love with acquaintance neither I or poor acquaintance know this But let not the truth get in the way of a soap opera by the insanes After All meaningless triggers and Delusionary prompts keep the sheeples busy in People's Power utopia They are all having a war, nobody has told me about it I don't understand their language yet they are very eloquent Deep in their imagined Neuro-linguistic Programming or mental pygmies playing Pavlov Dog theory of the semi-illiterates   I just realized why cancer is prevalent amongst them They carry so much poison and emotional ******* in their beings It pollutes and eat away at them internally, they get cancer! Never have been interested in little minds and liars and thieves Have little time for dumb people, the toxics and the sheeples What makes cretins think I take anything of theirs to mind what can I learn or gain from contemptibles I don't feel inferior so why would I want to learn how to slander and defame others to bring them down 'Slander is the GREAT LEVELLER voiced one of them poor inadequate soul, poor pathetic degenerate I look twenty years younger than my years, no wrinkles Just slightly greying, mind as sharp as razor Because I don't carry acidic ******* hate or foul nonsense in my head, Because my mind is full of worthy knowledge because I am not an ignoramus with attitude because I am not a shameless coward or an empty headed nonentity Because I am not amongst the madding crowd I am not an insignificant pointless HATER with cancer in waiting! I am NOT a SHAMELESS RACIST white THIEF discrediting the Victim I STOLE from OR an OBNOXIOUS gang of SOCIALIST crazed subhumans cancerized by jealousy and envy
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Oct 1, 2018
Oct 1, 2018 at 4:47 PM UTC
Advance C. Macafartty Soldiers
What if they had a War and nobody came ! my sentiment all along Actions so transparent and telegraphed a mile long absurd anchoring, even more absurd triggering so absurd as to be meaningless the hotchpotch logic of simpletons on acid The banal manifestations of the anodyne retards with advanced hysteria Think unruly kids on Colombian marching powder think advanced psychosis with total stage ten delusions Watch mass hysteria contagion Logic was never there, rationality bolted beating Usain Bolt Inveterate liars and fantasists now control maddened throngs Oh dear! they decided I am madly in love with acquaintance neither I or poor acquaintance know this But let not the truth get in the way of a soap opera by the insanes After All meaningless triggers and Delusionary prompts keep the sheeples busy in People's Power utopia They are all having a war, nobody has told me about it I don't understand their language yet they are very eloquent Deep in their imagined Neuro-linguistic Programming or mental pygmies playing Pavlov Dog theory of the semi-illiterates   I just realized why cancer is prevalent amongst them They carry so much poison and emotional ******* in their beings It pollutes and eat away at them internally, they get cancer! Never have been interested in little minds and liars and thieves Have little time for dumb people, the toxics and the sheeples What makes cretins think I take anything of theirs to mind what can I learn or gain from contemptibles I don't feel inferior so why would I want to learn how to slander and defame others to bring them down 'Slander is the GREAT LEVELLER voiced one of them poor inadequate soul, poor pathetic degenerate I look twenty years younger than my years, no wrinkles Just slightly greying, mind as sharp as razor Because I don't carry acidic ******* hate or foul nonsense in my head, Because my mind is full of worthy knowledge because I am not an ignoramus with attitude because I am not a shameless coward or an empty headed nonentity Because I am not amongst the madding crowd I am not an insignificant pointless HATER with cancer in waiting! I am NOT a SHAMELESS RACIST white THIEF discrediting the Victim I STOLE from OR an OBNOXIOUS gang of SOCIALIST crazed subhumans cancerized by jealousy and envy
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so greed took mankind with genetics decomposed from the inside a sick thought, I thoughts. ... inhale your doom, I thought. change your ways, you ought, I thought. choke the carcinoma cells. knee swells, Capricorn. better go later for assurance of; Death. talk to those doctors;feed your own lies, only to discover them being drunk off of disguise. sick conditioned, The words definition, domestication of everything Everything gratitude gratitude to Pavlov, whose name capitalizes;   a way of nature creature creator, part of the world's annihilator. cousin to eugenics we have cosmetics, anesthetics for the mind. a nice golden walkway for mankind. inevitably so, We herd along, too dumb to fight what we refuse to know. Ignorance, etiquette, silence; rhyme. herbal healing humans; survive. © 2015 Kate Volk
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Dec 1, 2013
Dec 1, 2013 at 3:07 AM UTC
botany
As I close my laptop and it snaps shut my dog sits up ears perked, chest puffed, and at the ready for me to stand up and grab a leash and a plastic bag for his **** And he knows this routine because it has been seared into his brain with the white-hot branding iron of repetition. A force of nature. A category-five hurricane. We laugh at them for chasing their tails when the microwave dings, for salivating at bells, but I am no better than they are. The same routines are seared into my brain, too— stimulus, response stimulus, response eat, sleep, **** walk, **** love, reproduce, etc. and I will continue to do so aimlessly just like Ivan Pavlov said I would. One day I’ll find myself like he’ll find himself— lying on a cold slab in a sterile room only half alive aghast at how quickly youth slipped away but otherwise numb as loved ones circle around, hands over their mouths, horrified to press the button.
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Mar 14, 2015
Mar 14, 2015 at 2:38 AM UTC
Stimulus/Response
The glass of wine spins on sins Encircling the royal roulette All rotating on a hamster wheel Pinned on canvas and illusional walls So tiny in errors and unbalanced books Unaccounted annotated distributions Twisting hands on colluded coils Deeper projections from the heart An eruption of the social notions Extracted on the paradise of life For no truth echoes authenticity Eccentrically finding a lived reality Plato symposiums and simulacrums Pavlov trails of social conditioning Sampled in tented objectifications Functioning within the invisible rules We sniffle as we expose the false actuality Reactive explosions from robust heat Unloaded rods dancing under the moon In our tenderness rejecting the paradigm
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Mar 4, 2016
Mar 4, 2016 at 1:03 PM UTC
Paradigm Distortion
it's inherent ontology, it's not even necessary to process inherited ontology; inherited ontology can be riddled and lost to abstraction like the invention of crosswords as antidote to the drilling-in of the Bible... but inherent ontology? inherent is a tautological invitation to italicise the word ontology - tautology anti synonym - the doubly stressed, point origin secured, but from two adjacent / adjective angles - well, might as well be a compound, the adjacent-adjective, when language meets math and math meets.... d'uh... or simply arithmetic, because that's how it's easily translated, arithmetic is grey people and math the rich... language the poets and grammar the farts. a shortened critique of pure reason -                                                                   a) based on phenomena                     (things most likely talked about) and                                             b) based of noumenna                                         (things least likely talked about).... i.e.                    a) and the ego implant, and                                                      b) the god implant - likewise the zealots on either side, bleep bleep beep r r e r s.... and muslims... i forgot to mention that Kant forgot to mention the trigonometric foundations as justifying owning a villa or whatnot, the same foundations of having the implant ego secured and willed are the same parameters of the implant god secured and thought the point being dynamic parallelism, mid-way between cosine and sine rigid fluctuation tangents occur, the ridiculous abbreviations, the p.s., and ibis.; you're basically born with ego or you're born with god - there's no woof woof Pavlov chime chime in between - ring-a-ding-ding-surprise? there's no side-winding to create cinema - being born with ego is explained clearly, coerced with monetary affairs; being born with god is explained "clearly", coerced with murderers, lastly - no psychological theory will box-me-in given the lost tribalism and the usage of the trans-valuation of the synonym of thing - with money came slang - and all thorough evils, with slang, synonyms, antonyms, critique of vocab., Arizona in the ******* Amazon - i'm basically saying what Kant said: god isn't uncool or whatever atheism tends to forget, it's an implant of functioning, we can't rid it by argument, and we certainly can't accept it by prayer - unless we're dumb enough to do either for worth of understanding tornadoes; because that's were Seymour Hoffman started for me, filming Twister.
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Jun 24, 2016
Jun 24, 2016 at 7:29 PM UTC
a shortened critique of pure reason / adjacent-adjective compound
it's inherent ontology, it's not even necessary to process inherited ontology; inherited ontology can be riddled and lost to abstraction like the invention of crosswords as antidote to the drilling-in of the Bible... but inherent ontology? inherent is a tautological invitation to italicise the word ontology - tautology anti synonym - the doubly stressed, point origin secured, but from two adjacent / adjective angles - well, might as well be a compound, the adjacent-adjective, when language meets math and math meets.... d'uh... or simply arithmetic, because that's how it's easily translated, arithmetic is grey people and math the rich... language the poets and grammar the farts. a shortened critique of pure reason -                                                                   a) based on phenomena                     (things most likely talked about) and                                             b) based of noumenna                                         (things least likely talked about).... i.e.                    a) and the ego implant, and                                                      b) the god implant - likewise the zealots on either side, bleep bleep beep r r e r s.... and muslims... i forgot to mention that Kant forgot to mention the trigonometric foundations as justifying owning a villa or whatnot, the same foundations of having the implant ego secured and willed are the same parameters of the implant god secured and thought the point being dynamic parallelism, mid-way between cosine and sine rigid fluctuation tangents occur, the ridiculous abbreviations, the p.s., and ibis.; you're basically born with ego or you're born with god - there's no woof woof Pavlov chime chime in between - ring-a-ding-ding-surprise? there's no side-winding to create cinema - being born with ego is explained clearly, coerced with monetary affairs; being born with god is explained "clearly", coerced with murderers, lastly - no psychological theory will box-me-in given the lost tribalism and the usage of the trans-valuation of the synonym of thing - with money came slang - and all thorough evils, with slang, synonyms, antonyms, critique of vocab., Arizona in the ******* Amazon - i'm basically saying what Kant said: god isn't uncool or whatever atheism tends to forget, it's an implant of functioning, we can't rid it by argument, and we certainly can't accept it by prayer - unless we're dumb enough to do either for worth of understanding tornadoes; because that's were Seymour Hoffman started for me, filming Twister.
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They were two lovers who were destined to meet, With a passion so hot you could feel the heat, Lovers with feelings so hot and so strong, They could not be contained for very long, Feeling more from the groin than from the heart, Nothing on Earth could keep them apart, Taking their passions incredibly higher, They burned out of control like wildfire, She was playful like a little child, But under the sheets she was wild, Him, she thought, was ******* great, No other lover could hope to rate, On a regular basis these two would meet, Taking great pains to keep it discreet, Once they entered that downtown hotel, It was like Pavlov's dogs at the sound of the bell, In what was more of a ***** than a loving embrace, Lips were soon locked as they stood face to face, While pulling at their clothes until they were torn, They were soon naked as the day they were born, Once they were free of shirts and pants, They began their famous lover's dance, As they hit the bed they began to ball, Like two animals hearing nature's call, As their heated bodies started to mesh, Soon naked flesh pounded naked flesh, Grabbing her arms firmly in his grasp, He worked her so hard she began to gasp, Grunts and moans were all that was heard, As neither of the two could utter a word, Lovers who soared so very high, They wrote their names upon the sky, Lovers who heeded the call of the night, Making hot love with all of their might, In a blazing moment of sweat and glory, It was another chapter in a lover's story. 07-02-10.
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Dec 23, 2011
Dec 23, 2011 at 12:59 AM UTC
Lover's Story
They were two lovers who were destined to meet, With a passion so hot you could feel the heat, Lovers with feelings so hot and so strong, They could not be contained for very long, Feeling more from the groin than from the heart, Nothing on Earth could keep them apart, Taking their passions incredibly higher, They burned out of control like wildfire, She was playful like a little child, But under the sheets she was wild, Him, she thought, was ******* great, No other lover could hope to rate, On a regular basis these two would meet, Taking great pains to keep it discreet, Once they entered that downtown hotel, It was like Pavlov's dogs at the sound of the bell, In what was more of a ***** than a loving embrace, Lips were soon locked as they stood face to face, While pulling at their clothes until they were torn, They were soon naked as the day they were born, Once they were free of shirts and pants, They began their famous lover's dance, As they hit the bed they began to ball, Like two animals hearing nature's call, As their heated bodies started to mesh, Soon naked flesh pounded naked flesh, Grabbing her arms firmly in his grasp, He worked her so hard she began to gasp, Grunts and moans were all that was heard, As neither of the two could utter a word, Lovers who soared so very high, They wrote their names upon the sky, Lovers who heeded the call of the night, Making hot love with all of their might, In a blazing moment of sweat and glory, It was another chapter in a lover's story. 07-02-10.
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Yesterday I was a school going kid Always Hungry for knowledge Always Thirsty for lessons of life Obediently sitting in a large noisy class Listening and recording every words preached Hoping they were stored forever... Or atleast before the exam day was over Today I still go to school Twice a week with a bunch of happy people We have fun learning! embarassing ourselves mostly In the most intellectual way!! laughing at ourselves for being silly Sometimes unsure whether we are hungry or thirsty But knowledge is like the sea... Endless and wide. Rather ... We are desperate to digest it all The ZPD, Scaffolding, Sociocultural and Constructivism? Hey hey whose theory? And Skinner, Pavlov, Vygotsky and Chomsky Hope they are here to tell us a story. To go or to let go Hard .. dont you know? Decided to go with the flow... Determined that one day We will stand tall On that humble stage Wearing that long pretty robe ... in our hands a scroll... There's nothing like having a PHD With your sweat and tears... and a whole lot of laughters too.... The feelings? Of course... unexplainable The experience? PRICELESS!!!
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Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 12:00 PM UTC
PHD PARANOIA
Ex's I am a part of all of them even the ones I hate. Maybe especially the ones I hate. They are transferred paint after the fender ****** at the unfortunate intersection of fate and bad timing. Not enough damage to make a difference. Not even enough impression that you care to be bothered changing your schedule to repair it. But every time you leave the house, and on every lap around the chariot, you see a trespassing color screaming of either their bad decision.........or yours. Sometimes it seems there are more accidents than pleasant Sunday drives. I suppose most encounters must be accidents until we find the uncluttered road to our destiny. L.E. was life shift and napkins. I didn't even know I needed napkins when I had paper towels in the house. I Jones for napkins these days. D.B. was college and fashion. Shiny shoes moved her to the soul of my feet. Now Kiwi polish smells like foreplay to me. N.R. was forbidden and my piano teacher. I hated practice, she loved to kiss The oral exam was one of my best finals. I like tests more than most people today. J.T. was a cougar and Tchaikovsky connoisseur. Maturity was uncovered, along with adult lessons about carpet knap and fireplaces. I am Pavlov's dog in the strings of Symphony #6. L.J. was adventure and abandon. She is a grassy carpet over a live train tunnel in a memory I should regret, but don't. She is the crossbeam in my permanent smile. I am an estrogen inspired creation finding purpose in soft fleshy motivation. I am who I am because of their compunctions and compulsions. They scraped off on me in the kamikaze journey to fight loneliness. But in the dive I learned - grace is humbling when you don't deserve it, toilet paper has a perfect delivery direction, I get the right side of the bed, you shouldn't say anything you don't want to hear again, it's my job to take out the trash, shutting your mouth sooner than you think is almost always the better choice, you can never have enough closet space, and some experiences are so good that you should never try to repeat them again. She may be gone forever. And we may not be able to have a decent conversation for the rest of our lives. But God knows I'll always have napkins.
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Oct 5, 2013
Oct 5, 2013 at 1:55 PM UTC
Ex's
Ex's I am a part of all of them even the ones I hate. Maybe especially the ones I hate. They are transferred paint after the fender ****** at the unfortunate intersection of fate and bad timing. Not enough damage to make a difference. Not even enough impression that you care to be bothered changing your schedule to repair it. But every time you leave the house, and on every lap around the chariot, you see a trespassing color screaming of either their bad decision.........or yours. Sometimes it seems there are more accidents than pleasant Sunday drives. I suppose most encounters must be accidents until we find the uncluttered road to our destiny. L.E. was life shift and napkins. I didn't even know I needed napkins when I had paper towels in the house. I Jones for napkins these days. D.B. was college and fashion. Shiny shoes moved her to the soul of my feet. Now Kiwi polish smells like foreplay to me. N.R. was forbidden and my piano teacher. I hated practice, she loved to kiss The oral exam was one of my best finals. I like tests more than most people today. J.T. was a cougar and Tchaikovsky connoisseur. Maturity was uncovered, along with adult lessons about carpet knap and fireplaces. I am Pavlov's dog in the strings of Symphony #6. L.J. was adventure and abandon. She is a grassy carpet over a live train tunnel in a memory I should regret, but don't. She is the crossbeam in my permanent smile. I am an estrogen inspired creation finding purpose in soft fleshy motivation. I am who I am because of their compunctions and compulsions. They scraped off on me in the kamikaze journey to fight loneliness. But in the dive I learned - grace is humbling when you don't deserve it, toilet paper has a perfect delivery direction, I get the right side of the bed, you shouldn't say anything you don't want to hear again, it's my job to take out the trash, shutting your mouth sooner than you think is almost always the better choice, you can never have enough closet space, and some experiences are so good that you should never try to repeat them again. She may be gone forever. And we may not be able to have a decent conversation for the rest of our lives. But God knows I'll always have napkins.
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Euphoria! Climb, energetic and prostrate yourself! Walking each graffiti hajj Bleak signal from an indigo mountaintop. Iraq memoir remains constant. You, Pavlov knew, Coax solitary jazz.
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Oct 8, 2013
Oct 8, 2013 at 4:31 PM UTC
Alphabetic Terminations
Deep Mystique in calico coat Stealthy Strut as if to gloat *Diamond Eyes to bend the world to her might just enough to satisfy her kitty curiosity* She's mindful and sharing playful and daring by winking and staring, she puts her prey under her spells, like Pavlov's dogs to ringing bells. Be careful if you are guided in to cuddle or to coo If she decides to change her mind, there's nothing you can do! A tricky personality and god-like gusto Never underestimate or you'll say, "Uh-Oh!!" She's definitely a different breed Not like all the others I love my feisty feline, She's my Cat of many Colors.
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Feb 12, 2015
Feb 12, 2015 at 1:15 PM UTC
Cat of many Colors
The streets are paved with garbage and the air is thick with smog. In a world of repetition, ring my bell, I'm Pavlov's dog. The beggars have no hands, and the soldiers cannot see. A flag hangs in my prison cell, in the land of the free. The children never cry out and their footsteps never fall. 'Cause we define what's called a life, and some are just too small. Politicians map our future in their picture perfect plan; a world corrupt by power, which in turn corrupts the man. Our morals are immoral, and our values have no worth. It's nature versus nurture, but we've known to lie since birth. We're taught to love our neighbors, but in turn neglect our own: And so our "huddled masses", huddle desperately alone. We're serving in the kitchens, while they're starving in the streets, somewhere amidst the chaos formed where sick and striving meets. Leaders shout, "We have no money!", from atop their golden hill. While we, the workers down below, just spin the workers' wheel. Our rights are plainly written, but we don't know how to read; and so our every breath's abused by those who choose to lead. We're warned of other cultures from our hole deep in the ground, but if we stood up eye to eye acceptance might be found. They said that times were a-changing, they say that times have CHANGEd. Yet, still I see the bold outline of social class arranged. No hourglass turned sideways. Time will not reach a halt, but if we leave this world unchanged it will be all our fault. Instead, let's use our actions like ripples in the sea to build a world far better than the one we've seen it be.
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Jul 4, 2012
Jul 4, 2012 at 4:53 AM UTC
Can you spare some CHANGE please sir?
The streets are paved with garbage and the air is thick with smog. In a world of repetition, ring my bell, I'm Pavlov's dog. The beggars have no hands, and the soldiers cannot see. A flag hangs in my prison cell, in the land of the free. The children never cry out and their footsteps never fall. 'Cause we define what's called a life, and some are just too small. Politicians map our future in their picture perfect plan; a world corrupt by power, which in turn corrupts the man. Our morals are immoral, and our values have no worth. It's nature versus nurture, but we've known to lie since birth. We're taught to love our neighbors, but in turn neglect our own: And so our "huddled masses", huddle desperately alone. We're serving in the kitchens, while they're starving in the streets, somewhere amidst the chaos formed where sick and striving meets. Leaders shout, "We have no money!", from atop their golden hill. While we, the workers down below, just spin the workers' wheel. Our rights are plainly written, but we don't know how to read; and so our every breath's abused by those who choose to lead. We're warned of other cultures from our hole deep in the ground, but if we stood up eye to eye acceptance might be found. They said that times were a-changing, they say that times have CHANGEd. Yet, still I see the bold outline of social class arranged. No hourglass turned sideways. Time will not reach a halt, but if we leave this world unchanged it will be all our fault. Instead, let's use our actions like ripples in the sea to build a world far better than the one we've seen it be.
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The army brat has come back He whistles a whirling tune And speaks of charms and amulets He gambles and always wins somehow You can now tell he's feeling free Hiding behind witty sarcasm He couldn't care less Let's agree to disagree And understand that we have a misunderstanding   The ornament doesn't care much about her appearance Just about her performance on the playing field She rides her boards goofy-footed Always making plans with Mary Jane Building Rube Goldberg Machines Cleaning up after Pavlov's dogs Let's agree to disagree And understand that we have a misunderstanding   They can't get out of their own way Brushed hair, combed teeth with two different shoes on Suffering from ADD But demand perfection Refuse to bend or break Don't let them latch on and bring you down with them Let's agree to disagree And understand that we have a misunderstanding   We're flip-flop-waffle-minded people Who can't make heads or tails of signs and labels Who are aware of the bad blood between some Unintentionally manipulating and deceiving one another We're on the third pitch, let's not miss it But even if we do, we look good doing it in style When we make exclusive appearances Let's agree to disagree And understand that we have a misunderstanding -Tommy Johnson
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 9:34 PM UTC
Depart Parted
Certain people see things differently. Now why do we do that? Is it a lack of closeness? Maybe communication? I have questions for the pastor/Pete Campbell clone at Immanuel Bible Church. Like, why does your sermon feel derivative? How often are songs played in-between the sermons? Are these songs a necessary transition? A slideshow? A distraction? I still don’t know how to sing, or keep tempo with claps. Pavlov’s dog is hated, by you. Do you hate the dog? Or do you hate the results of the experiment? Is science, a deceitful ex-girlfriend to you? Someone you don’t trust? If so I can understand you. But I don’t understand you. Because you have your truth. And I have my truth. Peter said to me truth is an abstraction. I’m telling you your truth is yours. But, cup your hand and press it against the wall of my truth, listen and you will hear a man and a man talking to each other. Their naked bodies are sealed by an anchor that you have never seen. The first man leans forward and kisses the second man on the nape of his neck. Then, the second man kisses the first man on the left part of his chest. Should I stop? Am I scaring you? Do you want to watch a blonde girl stick her tongue down another blonde girl’s throat, Until her breath cannot escape and float and trail off her lips. Like the dove white spaceships that launch into the expanding horizon of darkness. Am I making sense? I want you to follow my words. I want you to respect me. The first man is talking. The second man has his arms folded behind his back like a Korean man, and he’s looking out the window, gazing at the dove white spaceship Propelling into the incredible shadow, the one that is swallowing up everything we love. Pete Campbell is the shadow. Do you care about POV? Are you bothered when another person is talking about a person in the third person? I consider your opinion, Even when you don’t consider mine. Does that make me weak? “Television turn off the mind,” that is a quote that shot out of your mouth, like an arrow from the Green Arrow dressed in Cupid’s apparel. Or is that the flesh? Carnal. I digress. Tangents happen. I was rude. I am sorry, And I know sorry is a word, And you do not value words. But I am a poet. Words are my salmon and red wine Rewind the cassette.
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May 2, 2016
May 2, 2016 at 2:43 PM UTC
Sunday Notes Written for The Illiterate
Certain people see things differently. Now why do we do that? Is it a lack of closeness? Maybe communication? I have questions for the pastor/Pete Campbell clone at Immanuel Bible Church. Like, why does your sermon feel derivative? How often are songs played in-between the sermons? Are these songs a necessary transition? A slideshow? A distraction? I still don’t know how to sing, or keep tempo with claps. Pavlov’s dog is hated, by you. Do you hate the dog? Or do you hate the results of the experiment? Is science, a deceitful ex-girlfriend to you? Someone you don’t trust? If so I can understand you. But I don’t understand you. Because you have your truth. And I have my truth. Peter said to me truth is an abstraction. I’m telling you your truth is yours. But, cup your hand and press it against the wall of my truth, listen and you will hear a man and a man talking to each other. Their naked bodies are sealed by an anchor that you have never seen. The first man leans forward and kisses the second man on the nape of his neck. Then, the second man kisses the first man on the left part of his chest. Should I stop? Am I scaring you? Do you want to watch a blonde girl stick her tongue down another blonde girl’s throat, Until her breath cannot escape and float and trail off her lips. Like the dove white spaceships that launch into the expanding horizon of darkness. Am I making sense? I want you to follow my words. I want you to respect me. The first man is talking. The second man has his arms folded behind his back like a Korean man, and he’s looking out the window, gazing at the dove white spaceship Propelling into the incredible shadow, the one that is swallowing up everything we love. Pete Campbell is the shadow. Do you care about POV? Are you bothered when another person is talking about a person in the third person? I consider your opinion, Even when you don’t consider mine. Does that make me weak? “Television turn off the mind,” that is a quote that shot out of your mouth, like an arrow from the Green Arrow dressed in Cupid’s apparel. Or is that the flesh? Carnal. I digress. Tangents happen. I was rude. I am sorry, And I know sorry is a word, And you do not value words. But I am a poet. Words are my salmon and red wine Rewind the cassette.
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Under the fists of steel I wonder If we’ll flutter Like butterflies Trapped under the steel thumb Of the man who vowed to save us Like Pavlov’s dog Would the butterflies Grow steel wings Just so that they could survive? Under the fists of steel I wonder If we’ll cower Like an apprehended child Afraid Of a sin we did not commit Would it be right To call blind disobedience Democracy? A placebo effect From our fears and doubts The butterflies, Despite the burden Of the additional weight, See the steel wings As a cure Because instead of The scream-filled halls We heard silence, Ordered by the man Who dared to say he’d save us, And called it peace
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Aug 15, 2016
Aug 15, 2016 at 1:15 AM UTC
Steel Savior
He pulls a feather from her bodice She laughs and turns a coy cheek. The boa, all but bare, looks ragged. Like her smile when she's feeling anxious. She feels the heat of his eyes, feels his intensity. Her fears belie her desires. She wishes she could see. See what he sees. See this thing that he calls beautiful. He seems to look to look right through her skin. But all she can focus on is the curves and the scars. The strange shape of her body. The embarrassment. The awkward turn of her mouth. The knit in her brow. Her conflicts with pleasure, her repulsion for needing to submit. The memories that bite at the back of her moans. The shadows of abuse crawling out of the seams. Ugly, twisted devils that sought to steal her innocence. Returning to feed again, to taint the morrows of adulthood. All of these things color the love she makes. Tar and feather it. Blacken it with shame. He senses her discomfort. Internalizes it. Confuses it. He shrinks back, recoiling from the slap of rejection. But it isn't him at all. Him, she craves. Salivates for. But like the ringing of Pavlov's bell, they've built a deeper path. Men she never knew; Can't even remember. Faces obscured. Yet she can trace the footprints they've left on her mind. Tracks set with iron spikes running through the bedrock, Through the deepest layers of her psyche. Below the surface. To where thoughts exist without consciousness, without effort. The symphony of tragedy continues to play on. She has no words to express this to him. She can only hope that he senses it. Senses the murky bubbles of awakening as they arise. Senses her need for him. Her need for his patience. Senses her need for silence, for distance and recollection. Senses her need for his quiet embrace. For understanding For her troubled state of mind and damaged sense of self. For a self that she has barely even begun to understand.
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Sep 27, 2015
Sep 27, 2015 at 8:43 AM UTC
Voluntary Blackouts; Standing Tall & Facing the Demons of Past Abuse
He pulls a feather from her bodice She laughs and turns a coy cheek. The boa, all but bare, looks ragged. Like her smile when she's feeling anxious. She feels the heat of his eyes, feels his intensity. Her fears belie her desires. She wishes she could see. See what he sees. See this thing that he calls beautiful. He seems to look to look right through her skin. But all she can focus on is the curves and the scars. The strange shape of her body. The embarrassment. The awkward turn of her mouth. The knit in her brow. Her conflicts with pleasure, her repulsion for needing to submit. The memories that bite at the back of her moans. The shadows of abuse crawling out of the seams. Ugly, twisted devils that sought to steal her innocence. Returning to feed again, to taint the morrows of adulthood. All of these things color the love she makes. Tar and feather it. Blacken it with shame. He senses her discomfort. Internalizes it. Confuses it. He shrinks back, recoiling from the slap of rejection. But it isn't him at all. Him, she craves. Salivates for. But like the ringing of Pavlov's bell, they've built a deeper path. Men she never knew; Can't even remember. Faces obscured. Yet she can trace the footprints they've left on her mind. Tracks set with iron spikes running through the bedrock, Through the deepest layers of her psyche. Below the surface. To where thoughts exist without consciousness, without effort. The symphony of tragedy continues to play on. She has no words to express this to him. She can only hope that he senses it. Senses the murky bubbles of awakening as they arise. Senses her need for him. Her need for his patience. Senses her need for silence, for distance and recollection. Senses her need for his quiet embrace. For understanding For her troubled state of mind and damaged sense of self. For a self that she has barely even begun to understand.
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notifications made me really and primitively love the color red >_<
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Jul 21, 2012
Jul 21, 2012 at 1:50 AM UTC
Pavlov's *****
**** you, Pavlov.
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Sep 29, 2015
Sep 29, 2015 at 9:29 PM UTC
Withdrawal PT 4
I want you to dribble. I want you to turn From the matriarch past To a subject to learn. I want to state plainly. I want you to see What your vain, selfish givings Have created in me: Most lustful of torments, Low pains from my knees, A pattern for this mind's Truly bittersweet disease. Just twelve years of innocence, Could've thanked you for that, As you gouged in this monster Within this boy on his back. I often search for the key now, That I might walk from this cell. But I'm still Pavlov's pup, With you holding the bell.
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Nov 2, 2011
Nov 2, 2011 at 1:42 AM UTC
akinkingrateful
My mouth waters at the thought of you. Like some ***** in heat, I am common and lewd. I long to taste the shell of your ear And bruise you in your most intimate places.
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Nov 22, 2011
Nov 22, 2011 at 1:59 AM UTC
Pavlov
1) It puts the peanut butter on its ***** 2) Finna meat sum ******* 3) Classical conditioner 4) Pavlov ain't russian in the bathroom 5) He would never steak his reputation upon his looks 6) He met his husband on meatgrindr 7) His creepy uncle 8) Pavlov rools dogs drool 9) He was tired of being confused with Sylvia Plath 10) He needed all the leverage he could get on Skinner
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Feb 1, 2016
Feb 1, 2016 at 1:21 AM UTC
Why was Pavlov so well groomed?
One two three four counting tiles on the wall Do I do it in consciousness or subliminal After all I put them there! I know how many already We think the strangest thoughts, daydreams of simply bored What if Shrodinger had a dog and Pavlov a cat Would science be different for that? Did man really walk on the moon or was it a desert soundstage? Can air brushed looks ever replace a memory of another's face Do dogs bark because they can? Or are we to thick to understand I dont know I I don't speak dog or human sometimes for that matter If I had religion with god I could natter As I don't and never will I'll count more until I'm done Five six seven eight
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Mar 17, 2013
Mar 17, 2013 at 11:45 AM UTC
one two three four daydream for a bathtub
Take a look at all of you down there So sure of yourselves So full of the hustle-bustle of life itself Never stopping to see what could be Potentially the greatest things of your lives Jutting through the stream like hot knives No all simply let life pass them by Not seeing all the things Looking you in the eye And will watch even when you lie asleep For the final time You all think you’re hot **** All hit and no miss No questions All answers Obsess with self worth Convinced that you’re dust with a value Just because a god you’re not even sure exists told you so When the urge to **** is gone What’s the difference between you and the dirt you walk on You all rise and fall like the waves in the oceans Like a glissando of smoker coughs New ideas are thrown against the scoffs and scrutiny Of those obstinate practitioners of organized ignorance You are the only one who should impose sanction on your life Not some pretty news anchor Who nods at the teleprompter with total belief You all chase after superficiality like a poor animal At the snap of some fat fingers Call yourselves Pavlov’s pet You fattened the hand that feeds you yourselves Have you met the total of life’s offer Have you looked at yourself in the mirror And not seen cheap narcissism winking back Self-imposed limits are acceptable to live by A moratorium of thought is not You have free speech Now learn free thought Explain the intricacies of a fast food drive through To the children of Darfur Explain how you didn’t want to learn how to finish your schoolwork To the little girl who can’t afford to buy pencils for hers She will tell you with chagrin how she aspires to be a writer and a poet But can’t afford the books to help her help herself You express yourself by exerting as little effort While she isn’t able to put in the effort to express herself It’s the ultimate irony Religion ceased to be the ****** of the masses When it got it reached one-million views You all can ask where do I get off And I will only smile and tell you how I am just like you I watch the same TV Eat the same food Wear the same clothes The only difference is you can be different And by simply choosing to do so or not is a step in the right direction You are your own Atlas Carry your own world Anyone else is just liable to drop it
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Nov 20, 2010
Nov 20, 2010 at 11:38 PM UTC
Us
Take a look at all of you down there So sure of yourselves So full of the hustle-bustle of life itself Never stopping to see what could be Potentially the greatest things of your lives Jutting through the stream like hot knives No all simply let life pass them by Not seeing all the things Looking you in the eye And will watch even when you lie asleep For the final time You all think you’re hot **** All hit and no miss No questions All answers Obsess with self worth Convinced that you’re dust with a value Just because a god you’re not even sure exists told you so When the urge to **** is gone What’s the difference between you and the dirt you walk on You all rise and fall like the waves in the oceans Like a glissando of smoker coughs New ideas are thrown against the scoffs and scrutiny Of those obstinate practitioners of organized ignorance You are the only one who should impose sanction on your life Not some pretty news anchor Who nods at the teleprompter with total belief You all chase after superficiality like a poor animal At the snap of some fat fingers Call yourselves Pavlov’s pet You fattened the hand that feeds you yourselves Have you met the total of life’s offer Have you looked at yourself in the mirror And not seen cheap narcissism winking back Self-imposed limits are acceptable to live by A moratorium of thought is not You have free speech Now learn free thought Explain the intricacies of a fast food drive through To the children of Darfur Explain how you didn’t want to learn how to finish your schoolwork To the little girl who can’t afford to buy pencils for hers She will tell you with chagrin how she aspires to be a writer and a poet But can’t afford the books to help her help herself You express yourself by exerting as little effort While she isn’t able to put in the effort to express herself It’s the ultimate irony Religion ceased to be the ****** of the masses When it got it reached one-million views You all can ask where do I get off And I will only smile and tell you how I am just like you I watch the same TV Eat the same food Wear the same clothes The only difference is you can be different And by simply choosing to do so or not is a step in the right direction You are your own Atlas Carry your own world Anyone else is just liable to drop it
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