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"pinging" poems
Many believe they know the law Because they were arrested; Others know how to teach Because they too were tested. If you have a religious question, They attended church; Mention you've an ache or pain, They diagnose your hurt. Should you bring up politics, Republican or worse, They'll explain Democracy Cause they've been free since birth. Admit your car is pinging, Your faucets aren't behaving, The oven isn't cooking right, Your fridge is warm and shaking, The air conditioner's out of whack, Your furnace has turned blue, They'll tell you what to do: Change the thermo-coupler. It's always their one answer. Say you like this stock or bond, An investment that's appealing, They'll  discourse that all agents Are cunning conniving stealing. On Monday mention the big game, They'll re-play, play by play, As if you slept right through it. If you hear a rousing band, Attend a movie or a play, Know-its are informed critics, Once they were stagehands. They pose as friends and family, Waiting for an opening, To disrupt with diatribe, To display how much they know. I know what I'm on about, So let me advise you, I'm a Know-It-All poet, All I write is true. So, *Never miss the opportunity To keep your mouth shut too*.
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Apr 19, 2017
Apr 19, 2017 at 10:54 AM UTC
Know-It-Alls
when you would have thought that nerve had gone, worn down, when you would have thought that sense was a nub, tuckered out, given a well deserved rest, after all, it was the best of each of us maybe a glow, flickering in and out, a summer sun between clouds, the occasional pang pinging, radiant, radiating in forgotten places, luxury good, can’t longer afford, once, given with a happy reckless crazy how love stays with me, low grade infection, ready to spread, bud by morning, afternoon full blossom, black wilt by next daylight, can’t decipher, finally decide, these tremors make old age life worthy? absent, but memorized slivers, old poems, drive by glances of places, hurt like hell so briefly, double over, no one notices, so fast dispensed, it’s crazy how love stays with me, and it’s a crazy that tastes so good, hurts so awfully good, so badly bad perhaps that is why behind my back, not to my face, they whisper,  call me, the guy, still crazy after all these years, just still crazy after all these tears, or just,                                  still crazy
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Jul 9, 2023
Jul 9, 2023 at 5:45 AM UTC
“it’s just crazy how love stays with me
The pen shakes in my hand; to write these words Sleep all day, sleep all night, doesn't matter Haven't missed much, an empty conversation Exchanged under this leaking roof in whispers Slumping on the porch, watching it all drip down Pinging off of empty brown bottles in the grass Keeping time by your breathing, the rain pours down As I hold your hand in mine, side by side Puddles overflow, spilling their cloudy contents Only to fill another puddle
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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010 at 5:04 AM UTC
Minerals Added For Taste
There’s a sickness or a ringing in the early hours of night and it creeps and creeps and creeps till you’re begging for the light. There’s a pinging, pinging, triumph of wisdom in your eyes. You have grown and now you know not to take me by surprise. It’s a slow infatuation seems to ebb and flow with tides or with the special flitter-flutter of un-all-knowing minds.
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Jan 13, 2012
Jan 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM UTC
When I was younger, I read Dickinson and Milligan in conjunction.
if ears had lips mine would gladly tell you all the things they can and cannot comprehend they would explain the difference between hearing and understanding; just because they hear a sound doesn’t mean they know what it is or where it’s coming from just because they hear a voice doesn’t mean they discern words they would ask you to please speak louder and tell you that even though volume is their friend if you take a jumble and turn up the juice sometimes it becomes clearer other times it’s just a loud jumble they might tell you that writing things down saves time or that texting works better than voicemail they would tell you how much they miss the rain’s incessant song the wind’s sweeping whistle a dropped pin’s pinging ping earthy crashing blue green wave sounds a lover’s soft whisper eavesdropping’s noseyness distance’s subtle sounds footsteps’ proximity a fire’s warm red orange crackle freeway traffic’s rushing background noise a phone call’s lively conversation a tv show’s clever, non-closed-captioned script a radio’s soulful catchy lyrics live performance’s vibrant voice the timbre of each note in a chord as I strummed my guitar they would tell you how the ringing tones inside my head compete with your words they would speak of their frustration and indignation when you ignorantly accuse them of selective hearing they would apologize for asking you to repeat and laugh with you at my disability they would thank you for dealing with me anyway they would smile in appreciation for your exaggerated syll•a•bi•ca•tion if ears could see mine would overlook your rolling eyes and exasperated sighs and expressions they know it’s not your fault that they don’t work good and hope you know it’s not their fault either
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Dec 4, 2011
Dec 4, 2011 at 3:21 PM UTC
If Ears Had Lips
if ears had lips mine would gladly tell you all the things they can and cannot comprehend they would explain the difference between hearing and understanding; just because they hear a sound doesn’t mean they know what it is or where it’s coming from just because they hear a voice doesn’t mean they discern words they would ask you to please speak louder and tell you that even though volume is their friend if you take a jumble and turn up the juice sometimes it becomes clearer other times it’s just a loud jumble they might tell you that writing things down saves time or that texting works better than voicemail they would tell you how much they miss the rain’s incessant song the wind’s sweeping whistle a dropped pin’s pinging ping earthy crashing blue green wave sounds a lover’s soft whisper eavesdropping’s noseyness distance’s subtle sounds footsteps’ proximity a fire’s warm red orange crackle freeway traffic’s rushing background noise a phone call’s lively conversation a tv show’s clever, non-closed-captioned script a radio’s soulful catchy lyrics live performance’s vibrant voice the timbre of each note in a chord as I strummed my guitar they would tell you how the ringing tones inside my head compete with your words they would speak of their frustration and indignation when you ignorantly accuse them of selective hearing they would apologize for asking you to repeat and laugh with you at my disability they would thank you for dealing with me anyway they would smile in appreciation for your exaggerated syll•a•bi•ca•tion if ears could see mine would overlook your rolling eyes and exasperated sighs and expressions they know it’s not your fault that they don’t work good and hope you know it’s not their fault either
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I’m lying down in the ground as the sun shines its rays right inbound on me. hounding me (surrounding) Without a sound Or is there? A ringing or dinging a pinging maybe a constant stinging. I wouldn’t know. Could be the blood pulse or the sea dulse wrapping the seashells doing their sins or a pair of siamese twins trying to dance and lance and advance on my grave (how brave! how brave! i hope they cave) germinated spouts and terminated doubts with exterminated outs.
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Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014 at 3:16 PM UTC
cadaver in a casket
I am in a ********* I know what you’re thinking ‘Really? You? Standards must be sinking’ But you see My lovers guard me, they are my protection On my left is Anxiety And on my right is Depression They both think I am…smoking hot Like I am something worth fighting over Both claiming my thoughts as belonging to them each As though everything I learn is all what they teach Depression likes to mess with my body as well as my thoughts Running its sharp and callous hands over the flesh of my limbs believing I get pleasure from its touch While Anxiety gnaws at my wrists like a rubber band ping, ping, pinging As though I don’t have better things to do like living. Three is a crowd And we have tried breaking up But Anxiety is clingy And even when I change the locks it still manages to nit-pick its way back inside Depression is so addictive and likes to hug Wraps its arms around me and even when I cover my ears I still hear it whisper it look what you’ve done D and A are similar in ways They both like to put me down, tell me I’m not good enough And then hold me until I believe they have me picked me up And saved me from killing this part of the trilogy I am the last part I am so far unwritten The last piece of the puzzle That makes up the picture Of a self-destructive girl In the midst of something she can’t understand She has a nice smile though and a good heart But the lovers are not attracted to that Though they don’t mind ripping them apart Until her lips are too battered to smile anymore The ***** that once pumped double time is so unsure Of itself it finds it difficult to even try You know what, **** it I can do this I will break up with them They have done this to hundreds of people before And they’ll do it again This is not right This is not how I should be treated I am a strong independent woman I will not be defeated. To Anxiety and Depression, you’re not getting custody Not of this mind and not of this body I am not letting you through the gate anymore I will buy stronger locks And not let you in even if you politely knock There is no home here for you You go hand in hand Like young naïve lovers Straggling for attention Even under the covers I will not call you again We once were lovers but you were never my friends.
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Jul 27, 2013
Jul 27, 2013 at 1:54 PM UTC
A letter to the rest of the love triangle...
I am in a ********* I know what you’re thinking ‘Really? You? Standards must be sinking’ But you see My lovers guard me, they are my protection On my left is Anxiety And on my right is Depression They both think I am…smoking hot Like I am something worth fighting over Both claiming my thoughts as belonging to them each As though everything I learn is all what they teach Depression likes to mess with my body as well as my thoughts Running its sharp and callous hands over the flesh of my limbs believing I get pleasure from its touch While Anxiety gnaws at my wrists like a rubber band ping, ping, pinging As though I don’t have better things to do like living. Three is a crowd And we have tried breaking up But Anxiety is clingy And even when I change the locks it still manages to nit-pick its way back inside Depression is so addictive and likes to hug Wraps its arms around me and even when I cover my ears I still hear it whisper it look what you’ve done D and A are similar in ways They both like to put me down, tell me I’m not good enough And then hold me until I believe they have me picked me up And saved me from killing this part of the trilogy I am the last part I am so far unwritten The last piece of the puzzle That makes up the picture Of a self-destructive girl In the midst of something she can’t understand She has a nice smile though and a good heart But the lovers are not attracted to that Though they don’t mind ripping them apart Until her lips are too battered to smile anymore The ***** that once pumped double time is so unsure Of itself it finds it difficult to even try You know what, **** it I can do this I will break up with them They have done this to hundreds of people before And they’ll do it again This is not right This is not how I should be treated I am a strong independent woman I will not be defeated. To Anxiety and Depression, you’re not getting custody Not of this mind and not of this body I am not letting you through the gate anymore I will buy stronger locks And not let you in even if you politely knock There is no home here for you You go hand in hand Like young naïve lovers Straggling for attention Even under the covers I will not call you again We once were lovers but you were never my friends.
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Because I could not stop for Love, She kindly stopped for me. And I collapsed into her arms, Cured then of being free. In a golden carriage far we drove Off cliffs and over rises. Each time I felt sure that I'd died But Love never lacks surprises. And we passed Death along the road, I waved but he would not reply- I pounded on the windows gold But he mutely passed me by. For Love sat not with me inside But whipped the horses viciously. I asked her why and she replied, "Love means no company." We passed a church and, out behind, A graveyard glowing in the dusk, Two lovers' silhouettes defined Beside a tombstone, clasped in lust. We passed a darkened house and there A lanky boy threw pinging pebbles. And as the light when on, the air Was filled with midnight funeral bells. We passed a first kiss, slow and sweet, Two schoolgirls shamed but still adoring, And every time their lips would meet A raven hoarsely tried to sing. We passed a man and wife's "I do." And peering through the stained glass window Pallbearers paused their work to see The other face of sorrow. One thought gloats over all I see, "When all is said and done," I muse in silent reverie, "Love leaves you quite alone." Because I could not stop for Love, She kindly stopped for me. And I will die my deathless death For all eternity.
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 7:03 PM UTC
Because I Could Not Stop For Love
I’ve tried really, really hard to not look like I’m trying- See? I am Super Girlie-Girl for one night only. Every detail attended to. I’m even wearing kitten heels for ***** sake. (quite literally, I think) I’ve gone for pretty… (or as close as age allows) ... not at all scary. I’ve no idea what we’ll talk about but, so far, I’ve managed to say hi and not stare at his hands. Still thinking ‘bout them though. I’ve seen him play guitar- ‘nough said. He’s grinning and I wonder, briefly- If I might’ve let slip as words some of these thoughts but, since no one near by is rolling round on the floor ******* themselves laughing- I think I’m safe. He’s just given me the most beautiful flowers. The deepest red roses, all half-opened velvety buds and frothy white gypsophila. (it’s one of those bouquets) Closer, almost burying my face in the petals- they smell delicious. That's done it. Even without a context- that word turns me on but now? My brain is seriously misfiring. Pinging thoughts and words and images around like a demonic pinball machine. Oh Dear God- I hope he’s not a mind reader. How long, do you think- can I stay hidden here in these (delicious) flowers? How long before I need to try one? Before the urge to lick and taste and bite- overcomes me? That just wouldn’t be cool, would it? Not on a first date.
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Oct 6, 2011
Oct 6, 2011 at 3:15 PM UTC
for one night only
The sun creeps through two small windows where the wall and ceiling meet, small panels of light begin their saunter towards us on the couch. You’ve rolled over towards me in your sleep, and our legs are tangled. Hot breath on my neck and chest, but it feels good. I’m cold. I hear bustling and business upstairs, the sound of pots and pans pinging and crashing together. You contract briefly, and then extend your arms and legs like morning glories in spring, a sort of early morning développé: Oh my gosh, you say, I am so thirsty, rubbing your thumbs on your temples, cradling your forehead in your fingers. Rising from the auburn leather sofa, we approach the stairs and have a hearty, stale laugh together before venturing upstairs. At the top, your mother’s red kitchen is alive: Peppers and onions sauté in a pan on the stove. She stirs eggs in an orange ceramic bowl. Your father reads the newspaper, squinting even through his glasses. Your younger sister paces the hardwood clutching one single, black combat style boot, muttering about her siblings taking her clothes. Your parents say nothing to me of spending the night- your father says only Good morning, and your mother, How are you? Can I get you anything? Offer your guest something to drink. A wry smile shades in your lips.
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Oct 3, 2015
Oct 3, 2015 at 11:14 AM UTC
Egg whites sizzling in a non-stick pan Saturday morning (iv)
/// *Falling, easing, pinging over the night the rain’s shadow, throughout the horizon running between she and me The leaf has reflected the inclined light dropping her tears from the flight nobody has meant it to care, though I am in fear The gleaming days have gone I have made my passion too done but she may be quite undone and the fire of spring has made me to burn* *Falling, easing, pinging over the night the rain’s shadow, no more turns can’t green her meadow As if the pale sky kisses to sorrow   The rains shadow, throughout the horizon running between she and me falling, easing, pinging over the night* /// @Musfiq us shaleheen
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Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 3:46 PM UTC
The Rain’s Shadow
And oh I ache, like a creaking door, like a rusty faucet pipe. I can hear all the blood running it's errands in the sides of my head, it's this bathroom, this ******* bathroom. I feel like the turning handle on a mall gumball machine, no, then I feel like the ******* gumball, and I fall to the little black crevice with door, and you roll me out and pop me into your mouth, chewing hard and your spit is turning blue and I'm getting softer and softer in your lips. A caged Ocelot, and all I have to look to for a golden tomorrow is the poster of all the colorful wildlife, advertising this sickness. This pinging on a metal ceiling. This brownness. But my posters are of a different pair of devastating blue eyes that I know are evil too, but I pacify myself with the thought that they are so light because they are pure and clear, not because they are cold and hard. I started crying in my sleep. And I wake up with the streetlight shining through the window from that ***** alley that I love, and my face is so wet and so pink, and I say it's better that I cry unknowingly than consciously. I beg and toss for migration and distraction, chaos, oh baby where did you go? You can't leave me here with loose pieces of skin and a sick heart. You can't pick off the bottles on the ledge one by one with a rubber band and some pebbles and leave me with nothing. All I've got left are some nail polish bottles, some concert tickets, a few empty backseats. Things are either so incredible and hopeful or so ***** filthy, like gas stations, like the inside of ovens, and my fingers are becoming calloused. I'm floating like a cherry in a ***** shirley. Oh come, with your fingers in my hair, and kiss me.
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 4:37 AM UTC
cherries, I guess
And oh I ache, like a creaking door, like a rusty faucet pipe. I can hear all the blood running it's errands in the sides of my head, it's this bathroom, this ******* bathroom. I feel like the turning handle on a mall gumball machine, no, then I feel like the ******* gumball, and I fall to the little black crevice with door, and you roll me out and pop me into your mouth, chewing hard and your spit is turning blue and I'm getting softer and softer in your lips. A caged Ocelot, and all I have to look to for a golden tomorrow is the poster of all the colorful wildlife, advertising this sickness. This pinging on a metal ceiling. This brownness. But my posters are of a different pair of devastating blue eyes that I know are evil too, but I pacify myself with the thought that they are so light because they are pure and clear, not because they are cold and hard. I started crying in my sleep. And I wake up with the streetlight shining through the window from that ***** alley that I love, and my face is so wet and so pink, and I say it's better that I cry unknowingly than consciously. I beg and toss for migration and distraction, chaos, oh baby where did you go? You can't leave me here with loose pieces of skin and a sick heart. You can't pick off the bottles on the ledge one by one with a rubber band and some pebbles and leave me with nothing. All I've got left are some nail polish bottles, some concert tickets, a few empty backseats. Things are either so incredible and hopeful or so ***** filthy, like gas stations, like the inside of ovens, and my fingers are becoming calloused. I'm floating like a cherry in a ***** shirley. Oh come, with your fingers in my hair, and kiss me.
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that place with comforting as theme overriding, essentials of dream, complex, shelter, cocoon, which/whether, almost irrelevant, if and or, don't matter when you are at home, light, fierce sun rays eyes filled, moonlight stars invading one's composure now! time to alight, feet on the grounding, rain, pelting, not an inhibitor to the poem in me, its resonating drumming me up, to a beating, a lyric, a thyme of rhyme, fragrantly repeating in my head, home, home is where the flagrant poems are born, delivered by no midwife, from the ***** of my entirety, all five sensoria, commanded by multiple generals on different battlefields, coordinating a battle plan, exhale, attack, coordinate, brain, eye, smell, movement, urgency, taste, words gushed, light emitted from the fingertips, you cannot write as fast as required, you, self, afired, and afeared, losses will be greater than expected, but no matter when we carry the tide behind us, sweeping the obstacle of ego, pinging pain, the hesitation that collapses courage, oh god, oh me, be brave, lead me into the breach, the hole, the aperture that will allow a totality of me to exit, to escape, to compose, p r o p o s e, the confines of my uncontrollable uncontained unconscious natured being and fervent annouce, on this day, *this poem shall be written in its fulfilling, exiting fulsomeness, & entirety, and let me rise, raise up, lift and shout, one more last time, like the first time, praise and glory, hallelujah to the parts of me that gifted me this poem in-the unity-of-unison, uncensored, un~ inhibited and finalized momentarily perpetual, with an amen amendment offered up too all and to me… amen, amen, amen and let us rise up to morrow and once more, write up to ride to birth the essentials of my next homebound be-ing
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Aug 18, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM UTC
Home is a Poem
that place with comforting as theme overriding, essentials of dream, complex, shelter, cocoon, which/whether, almost irrelevant, if and or, don't matter when you are at home, light, fierce sun rays eyes filled, moonlight stars invading one's composure now! time to alight, feet on the grounding, rain, pelting, not an inhibitor to the poem in me, its resonating drumming me up, to a beating, a lyric, a thyme of rhyme, fragrantly repeating in my head, home, home is where the flagrant poems are born, delivered by no midwife, from the ***** of my entirety, all five sensoria, commanded by multiple generals on different battlefields, coordinating a battle plan, exhale, attack, coordinate, brain, eye, smell, movement, urgency, taste, words gushed, light emitted from the fingertips, you cannot write as fast as required, you, self, afired, and afeared, losses will be greater than expected, but no matter when we carry the tide behind us, sweeping the obstacle of ego, pinging pain, the hesitation that collapses courage, oh god, oh me, be brave, lead me into the breach, the hole, the aperture that will allow a totality of me to exit, to escape, to compose, p r o p o s e, the confines of my uncontrollable uncontained unconscious natured being and fervent annouce, on this day, *this poem shall be written in its fulfilling, exiting fulsomeness, & entirety, and let me rise, raise up, lift and shout, one more last time, like the first time, praise and glory, hallelujah to the parts of me that gifted me this poem in-the unity-of-unison, uncensored, un~ inhibited and finalized momentarily perpetual, with an amen amendment offered up too all and to me… amen, amen, amen and let us rise up to morrow and once more, write up to ride to birth the essentials of my next homebound be-ing
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Words typed in a haste excitement Ignorant to the woman on the other side Ideas attacking her feed Uncaring of the broken pieces of her soul Facebook pinging like a shrill cuckoo bird Reality crashing like fallen jenga pieces Instagram popping with pretentious new pictures Eyes shutting the painful past memories Twitter tweeting like a babe hungry for milk Body twitching to the tune of ancient whistles The virtual screaming all day of accomplishments, love and money The self turning to final dust at the turn of this technological century
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 3:23 PM UTC
Deathly Virtuality
We live in parallel worlds, you on your journey and I on mine. We wander in our own routes in separate paths. So why do your words elate me? Your messages are like threads connecting points in my journey to yours. We are pinging signals across boundaries. Making sure we are travelling along the same orbit? Side by side, and you’re still with me? Does that assure you or me? Because though parallels walk side by side they’ll never meet.
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Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 9:49 AM UTC
Parallels
Your chest is made up of solid marble. I am spent, Five years I've chipped away, slinging picks and sawing dust off of your breastplate I hear wings flapping against your ribs but I cannot free your bird's heart It is too small and it is growing weaker I took your temperature with my palms and nicknamed you Arctic You were my Alaska and I made thawing you my meaning Five years I've wondered why we work so hard at what we can't have You're cold as stone and I'm losing my patience So I set aflame your collarbone and poured gasoline over your sternum Sat back and watched the fireworks pinging off of your chest hairs They glow blue in the evening You're blue and I'm freezing I'm moving on
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Sep 19, 2014
Sep 19, 2014 at 12:27 PM UTC
Marble
My soul married yours long before it told the heart, That was your secret gestures, it had been concealing And shy alphabet letters formed our non-linear talks On which ancient symbols were awakening with the news, That my rapt countenance longed to behold only you. And in Morse code, my riotous pulse was pinging, In tiptoeing tiny steps, toward your smile-fragranced planes; With small sips of blind and drunken-wheeling wonder, On Adirondacks of time, I finally met your gaze. And together found, we were writing the same vows; Our fingers following a bright-feathered knowing, And scented blooms of flowers knew your older names; And avalanching comets swept clean the turgid dawns. Then the seeds of forever were pocketed in your breath, Wreathed by stars, and saved for hidden yearning.
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Jul 13, 2010
Jul 13, 2010 at 12:27 PM UTC
My soul married yours
The emails have not been kind of Late – It’s not sadistic publishers Or die-hard groupies (well, mostly not) No it’s people getting in touch Wanting a taste of the good stuff Their mouthful of meat What they believe is theirs, A weight I should carry. Sometimes it’s about poetry, I only wish more of it was – But mainly it’s people With nowhere to turn And no thought for my situation. I try and assuage their grief But it’s no good I cannot do it. One day I can take no more, I am staring at the ceiling And I hear the telling ping. I hit delete It could be Jesus gone viral But I doubt it, Even He knows I’m past saving. Then I know it’s a diehard, My phone begins to make Continual pinging noises; An ****** of woe. The buggar then begins to Ring. I could fling him across Main Street But I only bought him Two days ago. He’s not worth it, And goes away, Before I can blow. But sure enough, There is no peace for the wicked: Beep, beep Ring, ring Ping, ping I picked it up, primed “What do you want?!” I bellow. “Oh... I’m sorry Mr. Hinton, just To let you know this is Nurse Georgia, reminding you about your Appointment this Friday?” I told her I’d be There for her.
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Nov 12, 2011
Nov 12, 2011 at 10:44 AM UTC
My Inbox
White knuckles, clenched ping-pinging on textured glass. Unfazed, he turns his cheek, followed closely by his deaf ear. So I stay stuck, hopeless, tugging on some hem, with a relentless, gut-twisting hunger to be acknowledged, to be comforted and cradled, to be lulled and hushed— pleading him to poke some holes in the lid of this jar. I used to oxygenate my blood so beautifully— flush my pale skin to pink, press it against yours, and breathe. When I had air, I used to inhale so deeply. I used to live. I used to conquer. I would wake myself before the dawn, if only to brighten his dark corners. I used to breathe before life in this jar. I used to catch his glances and celebrate as the reason for his smiles. Before life in this jar, I could reach him, and he would reach me. He would pick me up in his smooth palm and hold me in my place in the sun. With warmed cheeks, I’d kiss him softly on the forehead and thank him in wide, grinning whispers for the lift. Before life in this jar he would never find me gasping for the strength to make breathy apologies simply for existing. He would never find me enjoying such a slow motion asphyxiation like I do as I live life in this jar.
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Aug 15, 2014
Aug 15, 2014 at 10:14 AM UTC
empathy for a lightning bug
There's sounds around me but they're almost muffled, distant...  My brain is louder.  Thoughts bounce around All too quickly Like a ping pong ball in an old arcade game Up. Down. Back and forth To every side Hard to keep track Of which way the ball Is going to go next Swirling around all the knobs  and fancy buttons  Faster, and faster,  Till I can't keep my eye  on the ball anymore, Or gather which thought is which, And suddenly, the ball falls All too quickly Through the little space  at the base of your game The base, of my brain? And I lost my thoughts,  the ball is gone What was I even thinking..? But the game starts up again Right away Before I have time To slow down my brain  Or shut down the game A new ball With new thoughts, Ideas My fears, And desires Too much paranoia  And fabricated scenarios  And some other *******  that makes no sense Cause the ball is bouncing again In every direction  Pinging,  and dinging, With all the flashing lights And funny little sounds  That no one else can hear Cause the game is in my head.
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Oct 19, 2014
Oct 19, 2014 at 7:30 PM UTC
Arcade brain
I’m sporadically pinging bouncing off mental walls. Take a deep breath In and out. Doesn’t help at all. My mind is racing 100,000 miles a minute. Looking at street lights out library windows, burning and bursting with anxiety. This structure is crumbling into anarchy of the mind. It’s about **** time. My mind forgets about reality and remembers the worst possible scenarios. The world stands still. Figuratively, of course the world is still spinning on its axis. I can feel it in my bones. Constantly in motion. The law of conservation of energy states, “That energy can be neither created nor destroyed.” Therefore, it must change forms. The mind is a powerful tool. A powerful weapon against oneself. There is no way of stopping what is to come. The paths get wider and I stay the same. It’s all in my head. Nothing is changing. Everything is the same. In a world full of atoms we are all in this til the end.
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Dec 15, 2012
Dec 15, 2012 at 9:12 PM UTC
Energized (Let's let science do that talking)
I hear pinging My elbow cracks She rests on my shoulder and I dance with the future Mallets are our feet and our steps still ringing have left me swooning for your every arrival under my breath I sing these melodies certainly they can't go on forever but how long before then? Kiss me to forget the past and remember the present I dance with the future because she's a curious girl You trickle your presence right through me until I am here wishing you were too still it's not to far and you worry too much Kiss me to let go of the future and remember the present As we connect I'll show us a thing or two about passion Still shy while you shouldn't be so I give it time and the present starts to forget our names
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Apr 15, 2016
Apr 15, 2016 at 12:58 AM UTC
Shy
TUESDAY Aug 9 2022 05:59AM (for you) *silent alarm trips me up into a dawning at with a five o’clock wakefulness, (‘woke,’ cancelled) that comes with morning daylight, this is the likely culprit~catalyst, for the sky is traced, blending multi-palest shades of whitening blues, crowned by toppings of baby orange + pinks of faun~sun arrays* *an hour prior, my 1st day-view, is of mine eyes popping corn open to Peconic bay waters, waves moving actively, not yet rascal-frothy winded, meanwhile the woman* *an hour later deep dreams of what I know not, but rumbling and mumbling and noisy shuddering combinations course through her frame and whatever turbulence she’s experiencing is plainly nothing good* *my apriori training kicks in and a tender embrace and the be-not-afraid caresses work quick, restore her own waves to a comparable calmer current* *now, she sleeps peaceful, breathes in easy quiet as I, writing, memorializing the moment, all else can wait, and Tevye’s prayer~ memory comes pinging, re the powers of it who makes all via a   “vast eternal plan,” *crinkles my smiling eyes and my fingers begin to radio-receive the signal of dash dot dash of words you currently are reading/imbibing something unknowable raised me up amidst the all-quiet of the first watch, thus I, was snap ready to ease her troubles, at the very first moment… <~> now I am cellular~level conscious of witnessing and feeling each of the trillions upon trillions of minuscule defractions of light bendings that will populate, articulate, the entire world’s rolling day, give them to me, please, the causality source of millions of minor miracles that will go unobserved, unrecognized and unrecorded I rise from the bed needy, urgently seeking them, your adventures, their earthquake interactive tremors, the raw minerals of what will be all the future poems of our lives, but, first, coffee. 06:49AM Shelter Island, N.Y.
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Aug 10, 2022
Aug 10, 2022 at 8:19 AM UTC
Vast Eternal Plan
TUESDAY Aug 9 2022 05:59AM (for you) *silent alarm trips me up into a dawning at with a five o’clock wakefulness, (‘woke,’ cancelled) that comes with morning daylight, this is the likely culprit~catalyst, for the sky is traced, blending multi-palest shades of whitening blues, crowned by toppings of baby orange + pinks of faun~sun arrays* *an hour prior, my 1st day-view, is of mine eyes popping corn open to Peconic bay waters, waves moving actively, not yet rascal-frothy winded, meanwhile the woman* *an hour later deep dreams of what I know not, but rumbling and mumbling and noisy shuddering combinations course through her frame and whatever turbulence she’s experiencing is plainly nothing good* *my apriori training kicks in and a tender embrace and the be-not-afraid caresses work quick, restore her own waves to a comparable calmer current* *now, she sleeps peaceful, breathes in easy quiet as I, writing, memorializing the moment, all else can wait, and Tevye’s prayer~ memory comes pinging, re the powers of it who makes all via a   “vast eternal plan,” *crinkles my smiling eyes and my fingers begin to radio-receive the signal of dash dot dash of words you currently are reading/imbibing something unknowable raised me up amidst the all-quiet of the first watch, thus I, was snap ready to ease her troubles, at the very first moment… <~> now I am cellular~level conscious of witnessing and feeling each of the trillions upon trillions of minuscule defractions of light bendings that will populate, articulate, the entire world’s rolling day, give them to me, please, the causality source of millions of minor miracles that will go unobserved, unrecognized and unrecorded I rise from the bed needy, urgently seeking them, your adventures, their earthquake interactive tremors, the raw minerals of what will be all the future poems of our lives, but, first, coffee. 06:49AM Shelter Island, N.Y.
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Metallic pinging behind my right ear Reminds me That this Is the first quiet moment I’ve experienced all day
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Dec 7, 2021
Dec 7, 2021 at 2:42 AM UTC
Noisy
an aisle seat, my choice, I get to watch Noah's children board one by one it is a miracle! I swear the plane expands cause no way we young fools all fit in this silver cylindrical sliver chamber of aliens, skinny jeans, needy for haircuts, wailing babies and kids the captain says its time to pull away from the gate, pull together, hold hands, pray for our deliverance from turbulent winds and mechanical malfunction and the sundry ways fates render us asunder when next we see safe port, dry land, nobody knows, but this ship, a prayer, built of titanium prayers, this ship is earth bound bringing home the lost children, our return flight, pinging bright the signal of our existence, to ease the brow of those who mourn our premature departures the stewardesses lead us in prayer: *"Georgia, Georgia, No peace I find, Just an old sweet song Keeps Georgia on my mind"* this is my happy ending, this, my happy days, I believe with perfect faith, you and I will be reunited on a dock by the bay, perhaps even the one beside my real name, the hour when the ship comes in June 6th, 2014 NML
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Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014 at 10:50 PM UTC
Seat 12C, My Return Flight