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amidst Jeffersonian opulence the Prez broke bread with his GOP poker face friends to solve government gridlock and sequester predicament trends citizens of the republic hopeful for nonsense to cease sat at the table asking “would you pass the biscuits please?” Obama perused the wine list boldly choosing a luscious Merlot senators ordered the finest hors d'oeuvres the guests were all aglow numerous delectable dishes were liberally splayed on the table revelers sipped flowing vintages wine a surefire icebreaker sparkling crystal Lennox flutes tinkled with convivial release while America’s disenfranchised voices ask “would you pass the biscuits please?” chutney meat, curried hens and sweet walnut rainbow trout the table a horn a plenty the guests gorged on fine cuisine a blessed nations bounty the feast consumed the Senators sated said it was some of the finest ever served but the taxpayers only got a peak of the banquet a whiff of senators nerve and asked “would you pass the biscuits please?” the dessert cart was rolled in with custards, cakes, creme brulee cordials, cognac and VSOP tastes rounded out the wholesome feast when the check was presented for payment all guests headed for the door with haste they told the waiter the bill of fare was covered by the guy asking... “would you pass the biscuits please?” Music Selection: Andre Williams: Pass The Biscuits Please jbm Oakland 3/7/13
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 6:14 PM UTC
Pass the Biscuits Please
A SOCIETY WRITTEN IN FLAMES; SHROUDED IN DARKNESS *The tears flows in an endless way Bemoaning the days of yore Watching with eyes that sparks red, Sunken and beaten from the tragedies of yore Helpless and wishing for a relentless call As tragedy hits her most sensitive part, Bemoaning the tides, All her days of glory, Now a shadowy story* *She had been ***** by her very own, The children she yearned and bled for, The men she fed and trained, Where her rain fell full and vast, to soothe their hearts Where she gave it all, and smiled, hoping that someday, they will realize her sacrifices and sleepless nights, Her nights of terror and horrors Where she stood in the midst of the stormy eerie night, shrouded in darkness* *It was her ******* they ****** and clunged to, It was her arms that shielded them from the shadows of the dark, But when they grew and flew, She waited still Praying and wishing they would remember the days of yore* *Then the dark hour rolled away, And when morning came, it was harrowing. It was harrowing how she waited abandoned and dejected, As her sons and daughters peaked at the sky, Trampling her down, Relegating and belittling her Painful it were, as she cried from the agonies of the days of yore, Where she laid all her virtues down, Giving it all to see her children smile,* *It is this dejection that has brought her to tears, It is this wickedness of a child to a mother, that has made her weep endlessly It is this tragedy that have swallowed her glory, As her children keeps flying above huddles, in peace and harmony, Forgetting her, It is this callousness, that pushed them to sapping her virtues and enriching themselves with it thereon* *What is worse than a child abandoning his mother? It is this penchant, that drives them It is the love of greed, It is the seed of corruption, It is not an inherited trait, It is a despicable decision Like a monstrous shadow, Twirling the back of the night. It is the fire that burns within their heart, The fire to **** steal and destroy To take what she can never give again To live, To live big at the expenses of others sorrow and agony It is this evil that has perused Nigeria and has rendered her a roaming wretch And now tragedy looms, It booms and blooms,* A society written in flames Who will save MOTHER NIGERIA? Ovi Odiete© 2016, Oct. 31 All rights reserved Note Children here signifies the evil politicians and men that has sapped our country dry with their evil penchant
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Oct 31, 2016
Oct 31, 2016 at 7:03 AM UTC
"~~Nigeria-Written in Flames~~"
A SOCIETY WRITTEN IN FLAMES; SHROUDED IN DARKNESS *The tears flows in an endless way Bemoaning the days of yore Watching with eyes that sparks red, Sunken and beaten from the tragedies of yore Helpless and wishing for a relentless call As tragedy hits her most sensitive part, Bemoaning the tides, All her days of glory, Now a shadowy story* *She had been ***** by her very own, The children she yearned and bled for, The men she fed and trained, Where her rain fell full and vast, to soothe their hearts Where she gave it all, and smiled, hoping that someday, they will realize her sacrifices and sleepless nights, Her nights of terror and horrors Where she stood in the midst of the stormy eerie night, shrouded in darkness* *It was her ******* they ****** and clunged to, It was her arms that shielded them from the shadows of the dark, But when they grew and flew, She waited still Praying and wishing they would remember the days of yore* *Then the dark hour rolled away, And when morning came, it was harrowing. It was harrowing how she waited abandoned and dejected, As her sons and daughters peaked at the sky, Trampling her down, Relegating and belittling her Painful it were, as she cried from the agonies of the days of yore, Where she laid all her virtues down, Giving it all to see her children smile,* *It is this dejection that has brought her to tears, It is this wickedness of a child to a mother, that has made her weep endlessly It is this tragedy that have swallowed her glory, As her children keeps flying above huddles, in peace and harmony, Forgetting her, It is this callousness, that pushed them to sapping her virtues and enriching themselves with it thereon* *What is worse than a child abandoning his mother? It is this penchant, that drives them It is the love of greed, It is the seed of corruption, It is not an inherited trait, It is a despicable decision Like a monstrous shadow, Twirling the back of the night. It is the fire that burns within their heart, The fire to **** steal and destroy To take what she can never give again To live, To live big at the expenses of others sorrow and agony It is this evil that has perused Nigeria and has rendered her a roaming wretch And now tragedy looms, It booms and blooms,* A society written in flames Who will save MOTHER NIGERIA? Ovi Odiete© 2016, Oct. 31 All rights reserved Note Children here signifies the evil politicians and men that has sapped our country dry with their evil penchant
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My New Year’s Eve was spent collecting fragmented recollections to confirm that my dignity had truly died. Soberly, I perused the bars and clubs, and walked aimlessly up and down crowded streets, feeling like my life had somehow been shifted into slow motion, while the rest of the world, engaging in joyous celebration and ffestivities, was knocked out of rhythm from my existence. How in the world could the clock strike midnight? How could people embrace, and kiss at the dropping of the ball? How could they laugh and smiile, and wish each other a “Happy New Year!”? More importantly, how could those god **** traffic lights have the audacity to continue changing from red to ggreen to yellow, then back to red again. My dignity had just died. My dignity had just died. My dignity was dead. My dignity was gone. In the days and weeks that followed the death of my dignity, I noticed that life faded from colloquial to iconic, like something mystical, or an intangible object of deep longing. And recurrent images of those ******* obnoxious traffic lights insensitively switching colors replay in my mind to remind me over and over in the greens (go), the reds (stop), and the yellows (be careful), that my dignity had died. Memories of the ddays before my dignity had died run through my mind like old home movies with centuries of black and white film stuck on repeat, and slowly fraying, around the edges, because of the harsh demands of time. It is life’s harsh and cruel irony that these images, once my greatest joy, have now become inflicters of the greatest pain that I have ever felt. Like a sound wave of pain, so powerful, that it has silenced any other pain that my heart has ever heard. So now I know, it is true life is a bitch. The fading of my dignity has made me overly aware of the earth turning on its axis. As spring approached, for the very first time, I noticed the way the flowers seem reluctant to bloom, as if uncertain of their welcome invitation. Such a cruel reality, that the flowers would choose to bloom, and nature would choose to carry on, slipping further and further away from the day that my dignity died. And still, to this day, those **** traffic lights keep switching colors
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Jan 10, 2018
Jan 10, 2018 at 8:32 AM UTC
Traffic Lights
My New Year’s Eve was spent collecting fragmented recollections to confirm that my dignity had truly died. Soberly, I perused the bars and clubs, and walked aimlessly up and down crowded streets, feeling like my life had somehow been shifted into slow motion, while the rest of the world, engaging in joyous celebration and ffestivities, was knocked out of rhythm from my existence. How in the world could the clock strike midnight? How could people embrace, and kiss at the dropping of the ball? How could they laugh and smiile, and wish each other a “Happy New Year!”? More importantly, how could those god **** traffic lights have the audacity to continue changing from red to ggreen to yellow, then back to red again. My dignity had just died. My dignity had just died. My dignity was dead. My dignity was gone. In the days and weeks that followed the death of my dignity, I noticed that life faded from colloquial to iconic, like something mystical, or an intangible object of deep longing. And recurrent images of those ******* obnoxious traffic lights insensitively switching colors replay in my mind to remind me over and over in the greens (go), the reds (stop), and the yellows (be careful), that my dignity had died. Memories of the ddays before my dignity had died run through my mind like old home movies with centuries of black and white film stuck on repeat, and slowly fraying, around the edges, because of the harsh demands of time. It is life’s harsh and cruel irony that these images, once my greatest joy, have now become inflicters of the greatest pain that I have ever felt. Like a sound wave of pain, so powerful, that it has silenced any other pain that my heart has ever heard. So now I know, it is true life is a bitch. The fading of my dignity has made me overly aware of the earth turning on its axis. As spring approached, for the very first time, I noticed the way the flowers seem reluctant to bloom, as if uncertain of their welcome invitation. Such a cruel reality, that the flowers would choose to bloom, and nature would choose to carry on, slipping further and further away from the day that my dignity died. And still, to this day, those **** traffic lights keep switching colors
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Perfected spending ideal day off Prepared a hot breakfast in bed Procrastinated Java or Columbia Perused the paper cover to cover Perplexed prayer over crossword Pampered by bath-time bubbles Phoned almost forgotten friends Purchased Murakami on Amazon Polished off a lunchtime martini Postponed exercise with siesta Perambulated the beach slowly Pushed the boat out for dinner Preferred Barolo to Barbaresco Panicked - work again tomorrow.
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Nov 25, 2012
Nov 25, 2012 at 9:23 AM UTC
Holiday
I do not like this scene or this chapter in my book My fingers have failed me as my thoughts evade me I can’t write this for you though you’ve done so much You’ve written me into existence and I want to edit myself out It’s easier to put words on a page that you can rip out than to speak them to you and watch the venom bleed through the cracks of your tired skin I’m so hurtful, like the edges of dry, fresh cut paper— sharp enough to cut, too dull to scar— only ever thumbed through never perused—yearning to be read and understood and remembered
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Jul 30, 2013
Jul 30, 2013 at 9:07 PM UTC
The Protagonist Is the Antagonist
Some say the Hero came first, others say the Poet. I perused again the olden verse, sure enough; the poet. A hero and a poet are always, 'side-by-side.' How else might we know it, -without the forlorn scribe?
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Jun 18, 2016
Jun 18, 2016 at 11:31 AM UTC
Iolaus
The markets up, the Markets down For weeks it just meanders. Alas, my stocks are always down Each time I take a gander. GM, Lehman, Citicorp My broker bought for me- And you can guess the net result- I’m broker now, not he. Those friends who don’t avoid me Say I’ve reversed Midas’ touch. I don’t turn things I touch to gold I turn gold into rust. I’d heard dart tossing Simians Can best the S & P So I went to the Zoo this March to consult a Chimpanzee. He perused the chart then flung a dart to pick a stock for me- And now I’m getting margin calls because I bought BP. He seemed the sage of Omaha before he ruined me. I should have tried Orangutans And paid their higher fee . They wanted five bananas My monkey worked for three. But now I’m bust because I used a discount Chimpanzee. I might have dodged a massive loss And profited besides Had I but heeded the baboons’ Sell signaling behinds
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Jan 14, 2012
Jan 14, 2012 at 3:43 PM UTC
Monkey Business ( March 2009)
Five days a week    for six months now I have crossed the street    from work to the little shop    that sells sticky buns pork nuzzled by pastry    and perused the food something for lunch    and almost always pick a baguette brimming with chicken    chilled cucumber disks a sprinkling of lettuce    plus a muddy-coloured latte for that extra afternoon kick though today is different    I’m feeling ruthless a shimmery packet of salt and vinegar    waits for me to pluck it from the shelf    squeak it open the lady says hi and I reply    with a we’ve spoken five days a week for six months now    and it’s about time I told you these small encounters    brighten my day a rotten cliché I know    so I leave quick with my grub but a tiny grin on my face unwrap the baguette    take a satisfying bite
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Dec 2, 2015
Dec 2, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC
Chicken Baguette, Latte, Salt and Vinegar Crisps
i looked with quizzical disdain it was plain i was not amused as i perused and openly confused, i was about to say... she said "chill" she stood with stern command glass from sand she would not budge (not even for fudge) but not to judge, she was about to ...say... i said "chill" we held on to the night fear the light blind to the unknown where the winds blown what's to be shown? we were about to say... "chill"
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Jun 19, 2010
Jun 19, 2010 at 9:36 AM UTC
chill
This is The end of a phase The beginning of an era Where hope is the villain and everything bright with dreams of happy endings Is perused with intent to **** I'm not your friend I'm not your savior I am the gun buried in the hate of everyone who's ever felt the sting of betrayal, the whip of hate searing it's name into the bowels of your heart I am the beginning, the ending of everything to come I am your friend burying the knife in the back of everything you believe I am a creature of your makings Feed me, Keep me Hate me HATE ME And just before you forget me, Remember all that's been done before its too late and everything you love becomes forsaken, destroyed and is left in the wake of everything, everything you've had me become..
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May 12, 2014
May 12, 2014 at 10:34 PM UTC
Hate
Our house was a 12 year old Lancer car Sitting in its congested patio, Beheld the sky That sky spilled over the sky Stars squirmed and threatened to jump down immediately We were like the children beneath the mango tree who do not rush to school Even after the last bell The wind may blow any moment Our house was a 12 year old Lancer car Descried the sea Sitting inside its smoke-filled, odorous kitchen That sea overflowed the sea The fish swimming along in the deep asked, “coming?” We were Like the fisherman waiting for the snakehead murrel Though it is noon and he is hungry The sea fish do not know The grooves of tears and the little waterway Rainclouds can arrive anytime Our house was a 12 year old Lancer car Saw the woods sitting near its un-curtained window Those woods got darker than woods Trees pretending to cavil for my being late Moonlight clear and fuzzy amongst boughs Us, like fireflies watching ripened paddy stalks There are wounds that are hidden A lightning can strike any moment Our house was a 12 year old Lancer car Sitting in its spaces coarse otherwise We quenched each other’s thirst and hunger Argued Prayed Perused the holy book Often, while no one watched, We fed the dolls Sung them lullabies On these occasions, I went out pretending that I wanted a smoke Thereupon, between us Sky sea woods.
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Jun 19, 2014
Jun 19, 2014 at 10:02 AM UTC
12 year old sky sea woods
Mr. Gibson penetrates my poem, my paining senses, "When raw grief turns into aching music" by witch, he notates my inundation (1), a summary succinct, essencing my poem to its bare ***** cri de cœur, it's comforting to be gotten, grasped, felt & taken, for ten out of nine, times, when I compose there is music aching in my muscles and in my perused words, begging to be read in a thorough, careful way, and he honors them thusly, and I am deeply touched, at our conjuring conjunction of connection, a phrase worthy of a poem in and of itself, but let someone else, perhaps him, perhaps you, write it, I am contented: *to be heard, to be believed, to be by, relieved, to being understood to be felt, given and + taken, and given a great musical measure of comforting… in summary too, here is where*, I thank you. nml 9/12/25 5:15am
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Sep 12, 2025
Sep 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM UTC
For William A Gibson: "When Raw Grief turns into aching music"
Do you remember that Wednesday afternoon three years ago When we made a fruit tree by stringing together store bought bananas on Christmas lights And tossed up our sunny masterpiece on sycamore branches Sick of more dead winter Sick of unsproutable seedlings Sick of Patience, the Godliest of virtues? Tap! Tap! Tap! I’m sitting a few feet away from the leaky faucet. Perhaps the faucet is clued in on the old adage that persistence pays off So it presses on, presses on, presses on… Marching to the beat of it’s own drum But this drumming sounds too much like hollow dripping, Like how I imagine the IV’s medicinal potion entering into your veins to sound. Tap! Tap! Tap! Your mother’s fidgeting fingers are dancing nervously on a People’s Magazine She’s thumbing through pages but her face is fixated on the clock Mentally counting down the minutes until your surgery is done Mentally noting the ironies of a Waiting Room trying too hard to pass off as a careless bubble of distraction. After all the room reeks of hospital cleaner laced with some derivative of a citrus scent, And the television is left talking to itself like some incoherent patient diagnosed with insanity And it reminds of her of an article she perused so long ago Which read something along the lines of “if you hang out with crazy long enough, you’ll become crazy yourself” And for a brief moment, she was comforted Tap! Tap! Tap! The doctor politely knocks before entering, Everyone raises up to surround him, But I stay physically stay affixed to my seat And mentally float back to that faraway memory Where we sprung into action Combating the cold With the only acceptable weapons of choice: Bright lights and Yellow bananas.
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 11:09 PM UTC
Bright Lights & Yellow Bananas
Do you remember that Wednesday afternoon three years ago When we made a fruit tree by stringing together store bought bananas on Christmas lights And tossed up our sunny masterpiece on sycamore branches Sick of more dead winter Sick of unsproutable seedlings Sick of Patience, the Godliest of virtues? Tap! Tap! Tap! I’m sitting a few feet away from the leaky faucet. Perhaps the faucet is clued in on the old adage that persistence pays off So it presses on, presses on, presses on… Marching to the beat of it’s own drum But this drumming sounds too much like hollow dripping, Like how I imagine the IV’s medicinal potion entering into your veins to sound. Tap! Tap! Tap! Your mother’s fidgeting fingers are dancing nervously on a People’s Magazine She’s thumbing through pages but her face is fixated on the clock Mentally counting down the minutes until your surgery is done Mentally noting the ironies of a Waiting Room trying too hard to pass off as a careless bubble of distraction. After all the room reeks of hospital cleaner laced with some derivative of a citrus scent, And the television is left talking to itself like some incoherent patient diagnosed with insanity And it reminds of her of an article she perused so long ago Which read something along the lines of “if you hang out with crazy long enough, you’ll become crazy yourself” And for a brief moment, she was comforted Tap! Tap! Tap! The doctor politely knocks before entering, Everyone raises up to surround him, But I stay physically stay affixed to my seat And mentally float back to that faraway memory Where we sprung into action Combating the cold With the only acceptable weapons of choice: Bright lights and Yellow bananas.
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I used to only look at a mans shoes Shallow and fickle were my views Didn’t care about his news or what books he perused He had to wear a decent pair or I’d walk away with a toss of my hair They didn’t have to have a label just polished and smart got under my table I don’t understand it now its personality these days that makes me go wow I look into their eyes and smile that’s what will make me stay a while If their kind, gentle and smart me and them will never part I no longer confuse friendship with shoes
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 10:47 AM UTC
Shoe Fetish
I’ll only say this once, and once a ******* lone. There’s a problem to address, and yes, there’s a reason for my tone. You’ve been prancing around me blissfully, and in a few seconds’ time, you’ll think of someplace else wishfully. Once I say. Just once. It’s certainly not fair when I’m the one removing the hair from that hole. I’m a sick ******* but I have no lust for disgust. After my mind is perused, I’m angry and confused. The possibility dawns on me that it could well be your ***** Or the gel ridden, straw-like hair on your head. That image fills me with a different kind of dread. With this in mind, I’ll be shuddering with repulsion, Trapped later in life with memories of physically indulging my hand your slimy Barnet. Believe me, that’s not normal hair, so don’t start telling me to calm it. Or no…perhaps… It’s sent my mind searing, it’s ever so weird to, for one moment, consider that you have the ability of growing a beard. You’re baby-faced, commonplace, and don’t have a thought worth hearing. You’re still a child, a mental ****** and to top it off, a beard is now appearing. Well that’s great. Another thing I have to deal with. Can you not take care of your own affairs? If I were you I’d encase all the little hairs in a purse of some kind, so you’ll always pay mind to the fact that you now look like a man despite being a **** Miraculous. I must say, I’m a fan. Well I guess now it doesn’t even matter, your face is bare and the bath tub is spattered. I’m shattered. This isn’t how I pictured my early years, wasting furious tears over beards. If only early on I had been told, that eventually I would end up staring in outrage daily at your beard in the plughole.
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Apr 5, 2014
Apr 5, 2014 at 4:42 AM UTC
Your Beard in the Plughole
I’ll only say this once, and once a ******* lone. There’s a problem to address, and yes, there’s a reason for my tone. You’ve been prancing around me blissfully, and in a few seconds’ time, you’ll think of someplace else wishfully. Once I say. Just once. It’s certainly not fair when I’m the one removing the hair from that hole. I’m a sick ******* but I have no lust for disgust. After my mind is perused, I’m angry and confused. The possibility dawns on me that it could well be your ***** Or the gel ridden, straw-like hair on your head. That image fills me with a different kind of dread. With this in mind, I’ll be shuddering with repulsion, Trapped later in life with memories of physically indulging my hand your slimy Barnet. Believe me, that’s not normal hair, so don’t start telling me to calm it. Or no…perhaps… It’s sent my mind searing, it’s ever so weird to, for one moment, consider that you have the ability of growing a beard. You’re baby-faced, commonplace, and don’t have a thought worth hearing. You’re still a child, a mental ****** and to top it off, a beard is now appearing. Well that’s great. Another thing I have to deal with. Can you not take care of your own affairs? If I were you I’d encase all the little hairs in a purse of some kind, so you’ll always pay mind to the fact that you now look like a man despite being a **** Miraculous. I must say, I’m a fan. Well I guess now it doesn’t even matter, your face is bare and the bath tub is spattered. I’m shattered. This isn’t how I pictured my early years, wasting furious tears over beards. If only early on I had been told, that eventually I would end up staring in outrage daily at your beard in the plughole.
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I perused through the catacombs gliding my fingers along your innumerate spines, picked you up where you blossomed in my palm and breathed archaic mysteries into my face. I felt myself trembling as I dared enter the hallowed corridors, opening doors and peeking inside in hopes to catch a semblance of your touch, your taste, your voice. A fingerprint, a coffee stain, clues and the origins of bricolage that left me breathless and teary-eyed as the weight of this sacred place bore itself entirely upon me. A part of your soul encased within each one of your treasures: I heard your stereo in a jazz history, heard you ponder within Dostoyevsky, saw your wry smile and charm within Fleming, and your humor within Vaudeville-- and as I perused onward, and the archetype bore itself naked in a holy privilege, I closed myself within that impalpable bubble and wept at the gates of Eden. As I removed my hands from your ribcage, and withdrew the breath from your nostrils, walking away with your words and fragments of your soul I soon realized-- You Are What You Read.
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Oct 13, 2016
Oct 13, 2016 at 12:40 AM UTC
Catacombs
I could tell you of romance, I could tell you of Sicily and sanctity, and what cold-blooded loving is like. You can touch me like an iron blade, rusted, perused; and carve into me stolen serenades. Jigsaw my dreams into sense, I’m a little too tired of waking up alone. We can do a give-and-take of hands and we can go look for things we lost. I could tell you how to love, if you can show me how to stop.
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Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 10:36 PM UTC
Learning
Once this girl, she had me But then I called her bluff I found she was double dealing And lord declared enough The balance did catch up now Her man perused a thrill She came to me for comfort And you know she’s searching still -Oh my lord She’ll never find no comfort here This little girl will have to linger My pity train will steer clear She cried to me in the morning She begged me all through the day She was on her knees by nightfall Lord I’d have it no other way -Aw yes She’ll never find no comfort here This little girl will have to linger My pity train will steer clear So then I sat her near me I took her by the waist I told her so very sweetly That this was all a piece of fate -Oh my lord She’ll never find no comfort here This little girl will have to linger My pity train will steer clear
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Jul 24, 2012
Jul 24, 2012 at 10:11 PM UTC
Pity Train Blues
to foresee a massive catastrophe catastrophe and its associated calamity calamity destruction and vast devastation devastation in a massive catastrophe the seas swelling to magnitude great great their height of mountainous proportions proportions which are awesome to espy espy the magnitude of the seas volcanoes erupting spewing forth much lava lava flows uncontrollably over the lands lands burning in the lava fire which doesn't subside subside the fire will not buildings in cities and rural locales shaking shaking and rattling tectonic plates impacting impacting on man's planet, tremors felt far and wide wide the expanse of the Earth's shaking men, women and children affected by the catastrophe catastrophe foretold in ancient text text which we've perused from time to time time to refresh our modern day minds man can't circumvent the immensity which shall unfold unfold the catastrophe shall to our sight sight the calamity and its associated ruin ruin which is foreseen in ancient text
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Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 7:18 PM UTC
Ancient Text (Loop Poem)
Wry is one of many things you do well.... ~~~~~~ dedicated to, inspired by Paul Anthony Hutchinson, who wrote those words to me but two hours ago *Wry - produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the ****** features: a wry grin. - abnormally bent or turned to one side; twisted; crooked: a wry mouth. - devious in course or purpose; misdirected. - contrary; perverse. - distorted or perverted, as in meaning. - bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing: a wry remark.* It is bitter, It is amusing, the distorting that gives a shape and thereby meaning to a misdirected life, the ****** muscles perused, all reversed, all per-versed t'is not just the smile that is loopy, or simplistically turned upside down, twisted but not dubious, nor devious, twisted but straight, I say, wry is not a seething something I do well, wry is in every nuclei I ever split, every line etch-a-sketched in every poem worn down, physically inscribed on my face. so much to reveal, but not here not now not, ever on and ever in, explicit but blurred, burred, and buried within them is the ironic of a man that laughed through the better part of his life, for in that period, there was no better, just worse I was born wry. the last of three, I was nameless till I was twenty one, they called me just brother, or the brother. at twenty five, I married the wrong woman, though we both wanted not too, thirty five years of wry, the lawyers rejoiced, the judges celebrated, the poets went mad, swear it true, the family counselors said beyond hopeless, and with wry smiles at the spectacle of years wasted, spent like there was no tomorrow, for there was none in the titanic disaster of more, new lives corrupted I lived life wry. now, in the final fourth quaternary, see how he, the master of the unceremonious, in on bent knee, hands clasped, on bed, rested, when he seeks comfort and guidance for the upcoming finality following a two minute warning, warning that even now, the future wry, turned to one side, when all he wanted, was to live quiet in the straight and narrow and not write poems asking himself with trepidation, from where will come the courage to make this last passage.... oh yes, I do wry so well, and all things that wryhme with hell, you will be spared, for wryly he exclaims "Enough, enough" wry why! for in all the days of his disheveled life, there have been but a few, when it has been simply, enough
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Feb 4, 2014
Feb 4, 2014 at 11:05 PM UTC
wry is one of many things you do well....
Wry is one of many things you do well.... ~~~~~~ dedicated to, inspired by Paul Anthony Hutchinson, who wrote those words to me but two hours ago *Wry - produced by a distortion or lopsidedness of the ****** features: a wry grin. - abnormally bent or turned to one side; twisted; crooked: a wry mouth. - devious in course or purpose; misdirected. - contrary; perverse. - distorted or perverted, as in meaning. - bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing: a wry remark.* It is bitter, It is amusing, the distorting that gives a shape and thereby meaning to a misdirected life, the ****** muscles perused, all reversed, all per-versed t'is not just the smile that is loopy, or simplistically turned upside down, twisted but not dubious, nor devious, twisted but straight, I say, wry is not a seething something I do well, wry is in every nuclei I ever split, every line etch-a-sketched in every poem worn down, physically inscribed on my face. so much to reveal, but not here not now not, ever on and ever in, explicit but blurred, burred, and buried within them is the ironic of a man that laughed through the better part of his life, for in that period, there was no better, just worse I was born wry. the last of three, I was nameless till I was twenty one, they called me just brother, or the brother. at twenty five, I married the wrong woman, though we both wanted not too, thirty five years of wry, the lawyers rejoiced, the judges celebrated, the poets went mad, swear it true, the family counselors said beyond hopeless, and with wry smiles at the spectacle of years wasted, spent like there was no tomorrow, for there was none in the titanic disaster of more, new lives corrupted I lived life wry. now, in the final fourth quaternary, see how he, the master of the unceremonious, in on bent knee, hands clasped, on bed, rested, when he seeks comfort and guidance for the upcoming finality following a two minute warning, warning that even now, the future wry, turned to one side, when all he wanted, was to live quiet in the straight and narrow and not write poems asking himself with trepidation, from where will come the courage to make this last passage.... oh yes, I do wry so well, and all things that wryhme with hell, you will be spared, for wryly he exclaims "Enough, enough" wry why! for in all the days of his disheveled life, there have been but a few, when it has been simply, enough
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Women who think like men Men who act like children Children who act like they're forty and think they're adults I opened the box to find a crudely written IOU on the back of an expired Domino's coupon We tried to assimilate the whole thing My co-worker made a long distance phone call It was to the peanut gallery They told her she should have put another quarter in the parking meter so she could have avoided the fine "Fredrick Brown" Said my boss That was the name he gave us when he made the reservation Sounded like pseudonym the chiseler made up on the spot But all he ate was side dishes And a bag of corn nuts he brought in Now the investigation was in full swing The cops came Asking questions A description A name And what he ordered "Burnt french fries, uncooked calamari, re fried beans, a salad with only brown lettuce, a can of cranberry sauce, a porterhouse steak medium rare with mushrooms and onions and a hot fudge sundae without any ice cream" The officers perused the table and found that sundae and the steak were untouched And the can of cranberry sauce was only half eaten Days later a man was found screaming in the industrial park Yelling obscenities and wearing a bald cap While trying to listen to scratched skipping Cd's on his Walkman that had no batteries It goes without saying the man was deranged It was the very same man I waited on in the restaurant Police only released one statement on the matter They said when asked why he was in there in the first place He told them he was looking for work to pay a bill the he owed to a local restaurant who had top notch service His real name was Ercy ****** That name is now branded into my memory
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 8:10 PM UTC
Fredrick Brown
Women who think like men Men who act like children Children who act like they're forty and think they're adults I opened the box to find a crudely written IOU on the back of an expired Domino's coupon We tried to assimilate the whole thing My co-worker made a long distance phone call It was to the peanut gallery They told her she should have put another quarter in the parking meter so she could have avoided the fine "Fredrick Brown" Said my boss That was the name he gave us when he made the reservation Sounded like pseudonym the chiseler made up on the spot But all he ate was side dishes And a bag of corn nuts he brought in Now the investigation was in full swing The cops came Asking questions A description A name And what he ordered "Burnt french fries, uncooked calamari, re fried beans, a salad with only brown lettuce, a can of cranberry sauce, a porterhouse steak medium rare with mushrooms and onions and a hot fudge sundae without any ice cream" The officers perused the table and found that sundae and the steak were untouched And the can of cranberry sauce was only half eaten Days later a man was found screaming in the industrial park Yelling obscenities and wearing a bald cap While trying to listen to scratched skipping Cd's on his Walkman that had no batteries It goes without saying the man was deranged It was the very same man I waited on in the restaurant Police only released one statement on the matter They said when asked why he was in there in the first place He told them he was looking for work to pay a bill the he owed to a local restaurant who had top notch service His real name was Ercy ****** That name is now branded into my memory
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My muse diffused A love abused The news infused My dream refused. Your life deduced My life reduced Our lives seduced In the end confused. Words effused Our lines reused My passion disused Together, bemused. Our game overused Our emotions excused Our love perused But really misused.
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Oct 28, 2015
Oct 28, 2015 at 9:43 AM UTC
Used
They say the grass is greener On the other side Which makes me wonder what color grass they see When they look at mine People are never satisfied with their token hue, gardens perceive many views 'neath blue moons yet still seek to plant their own rose colored seeds But with the hand of seed comes a heart in need To plant where they will thrive And when we look at our lives deep We see a parched land much too dry Upgrading new playgrounds 'tween picket transplants only proves to drain emotional fence posts, there's no satisfaction in elevation's turf ventures proof grows amuck the dark sod of every plot perused
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Jun 30, 2015
Jun 30, 2015 at 3:02 PM UTC
An Envious Shade of Green - -Collaboration w/Mike Hauser
Around sunset it happened, While I was sipping coffee from my gilded cup, Staring through glass at my own reflection, A virtual image with a hint of refraction. I remember I frowned As I saw with dismay a hair out of place, Curling from my forehead in a tidal wave, Like the deliberate flick of the coiffured knave. This won’t do it all, I thought, Placing my cup with delicacy aside, Lining up my face within the glass, Imagining the image this morning past. I gently nudged the hair aside Checking that everything else was right, Turning my head from side to side; A trifle vain, I don’t need to confide. While I perused my hair with care, The light grew beyond the horizon, A surprise I most heartily confess, And provided not a little stress. For I saw the sun set not a moment before, As I stared at my face and the irritant hair. It usually goes down to the west, don’t you know. It flashed in my eyes like the white glare of snow. Thankfully I wear my sunglasses at night, But it didn’t protect me at all that well. I cursed at the light as it lanced through my eyes, It pierced through my soul and unraveled my lies. The ascending rumble began, shaking the walls, Cracking the glass, reflections recursed. The first shake of God’s great roar never stopped As the towers of Babel shivered and dropped. The last thing I saw before I met you Was the rise of the flame racing the wind. As I was consumed, I noticed the wings Of the angel of death and the end of all things.
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Apr 13, 2015
Apr 13, 2015 at 7:17 AM UTC
The End of All Things
Around sunset it happened, While I was sipping coffee from my gilded cup, Staring through glass at my own reflection, A virtual image with a hint of refraction. I remember I frowned As I saw with dismay a hair out of place, Curling from my forehead in a tidal wave, Like the deliberate flick of the coiffured knave. This won’t do it all, I thought, Placing my cup with delicacy aside, Lining up my face within the glass, Imagining the image this morning past. I gently nudged the hair aside Checking that everything else was right, Turning my head from side to side; A trifle vain, I don’t need to confide. While I perused my hair with care, The light grew beyond the horizon, A surprise I most heartily confess, And provided not a little stress. For I saw the sun set not a moment before, As I stared at my face and the irritant hair. It usually goes down to the west, don’t you know. It flashed in my eyes like the white glare of snow. Thankfully I wear my sunglasses at night, But it didn’t protect me at all that well. I cursed at the light as it lanced through my eyes, It pierced through my soul and unraveled my lies. The ascending rumble began, shaking the walls, Cracking the glass, reflections recursed. The first shake of God’s great roar never stopped As the towers of Babel shivered and dropped. The last thing I saw before I met you Was the rise of the flame racing the wind. As I was consumed, I noticed the wings Of the angel of death and the end of all things.
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-I've got bored of words. -You tergiversate... Small world.What this bouquet of flowers is doing in the intermediate?It's a date? -Ah... such prolixity... More champagne? -What's the point? -My aim? Mmm... to try to oscullate you. -... What?... Such profane elixir do you desire? -It'll be more than tasty.It's alleged... -But, don't you distinguish the mayhem's reflection below? -Your solicitude.. Ah!... What a nice champagne.Hmm... Cake? By the other way or not there's nothing at the ceiling. -You've perused my protocol... A small slice, please. -A kiss a skirmish.Palatable as this recipe... Well... apart from an armageddon... -Stop pushing on boy. -I already vanquished the inception, you know... -Catastrophe is your trophy, but I disavow your apocalypse. -I was expecting something more digestible.How's the alcohol? -Standstill... -Hm!... As everything surrounding us. -Ahhh... No... They just don't move.. don't have gravity... -Funny waiter... Hovering waiter.Did you emend your canon? -Champagne and desserts will not litigate your anticipation.You know.How strange is... -The room? No... Is normal for it to circle upside down. -A hug? -In this desert? With all those people? -They are frozen, and... before I veto, quivering in a hurt heart. -Blown sand... popped champagne... Oh, I didn't notice the light fixture's embroidery. -The sun's in the bottom.Look up... Its obumbration is into the typhoon. -Standstill, nothing's synchronized... -Is your tranquility dissipated? gone?... -No.If isn't yours. -I just still want that hug. -Hmmm... I forgot you're a cold person... -And you a hot girl... Irony... -You'll melt... -I'm apt to it... Then an aurora flash And splashing glass Accompanied by springing sparks Shattered bass walls Begetting noctilucent dark and dusk A hurricane, breathing the sun Just dust to dust
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Jul 20, 2017
Jul 20, 2017 at 5:48 PM UTC
Etude VII
-I've got bored of words. -You tergiversate... Small world.What this bouquet of flowers is doing in the intermediate?It's a date? -Ah... such prolixity... More champagne? -What's the point? -My aim? Mmm... to try to oscullate you. -... What?... Such profane elixir do you desire? -It'll be more than tasty.It's alleged... -But, don't you distinguish the mayhem's reflection below? -Your solicitude.. Ah!... What a nice champagne.Hmm... Cake? By the other way or not there's nothing at the ceiling. -You've perused my protocol... A small slice, please. -A kiss a skirmish.Palatable as this recipe... Well... apart from an armageddon... -Stop pushing on boy. -I already vanquished the inception, you know... -Catastrophe is your trophy, but I disavow your apocalypse. -I was expecting something more digestible.How's the alcohol? -Standstill... -Hm!... As everything surrounding us. -Ahhh... No... They just don't move.. don't have gravity... -Funny waiter... Hovering waiter.Did you emend your canon? -Champagne and desserts will not litigate your anticipation.You know.How strange is... -The room? No... Is normal for it to circle upside down. -A hug? -In this desert? With all those people? -They are frozen, and... before I veto, quivering in a hurt heart. -Blown sand... popped champagne... Oh, I didn't notice the light fixture's embroidery. -The sun's in the bottom.Look up... Its obumbration is into the typhoon. -Standstill, nothing's synchronized... -Is your tranquility dissipated? gone?... -No.If isn't yours. -I just still want that hug. -Hmmm... I forgot you're a cold person... -And you a hot girl... Irony... -You'll melt... -I'm apt to it... Then an aurora flash And splashing glass Accompanied by springing sparks Shattered bass walls Begetting noctilucent dark and dusk A hurricane, breathing the sun Just dust to dust
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