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It is worse for a tulip to live again and be renewed than for the tulip to die and be dead. “What happens when you die?” I asked several romantic partners over the course of my adolescence. “You’re dead,” they answered. It is worse for the tulip to be born again, dust to dust, dirt to dirt, true god from true god, in a process that spiritual peers define as, reincarnation. No tulip is an individual (that is clear), but a process. A perfecting oneness. I can’t admit or bend to any resounding belief that every tulip is the same. That FernGully was a farce and Pocahontas, a phony. That is just not going to fly. Maybe it is the environmentalist inside me speaking, or maybe it is God. I refuse to believe the prodigies and professors of renewal and rejuvenation. I can not discount individuation, even in tulips! Tulips are victims of suburbia, they have been relegated to the lawn, to the mulch bed, but inside of them there are remnants of humanity. I couldn’t believe it, ever. Not ever, even if you convinced me or bribed me or seduced me. No chance.
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 12:27 PM UTC
Tulip
In this battle for the freedom of our souls some may think Maybe I should've let go long ago From being kings and queens, Chiefs and Pharaohs To ******* in the cotton fields To slaves being whipped and forgotten We were stolen. Stripped from our homes and looted of our gold. Fast forward Now we are doctors, lawyers, professors But Don't tell me the cotton fields have recovered from our tears Our sweat seeps deep into the souls of America So Don't tell me the cotton fields have recovered from our blood. Fast forward "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law." They tell us equality is coming. That it is here. Then let you wait holding your breath Suffocating. Black boy shot and killed for walking down the street Black boy whipped and beaten for looking master in the eye Tell me are you still holding your breath? Still suffocating Still waiting for the keys to our chains Fast forward Black lives matter All roads torn down, we've paved new paths   Stripped from our houses so we built homes Lotted for our gold but we are golden Black is hard to get rid of, that annoying stain that stays to long Black is rough and tough Black is solid in luring ways But Black lives won't matter until we love our own people Black lives won't. matter. to. them. because you've called that girl a *** or Thot" Black lives won't matter until we stop the black on black blood splatter For black lives to matter... We must empower each other Standing together the ground will break recognizing he whose tears, sweat and blood upon which it was built So take one look at our past Because this will be the last
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Sep 10, 2016
Sep 10, 2016 at 11:55 AM UTC
Fast forward
In this battle for the freedom of our souls some may think Maybe I should've let go long ago From being kings and queens, Chiefs and Pharaohs To ******* in the cotton fields To slaves being whipped and forgotten We were stolen. Stripped from our homes and looted of our gold. Fast forward Now we are doctors, lawyers, professors But Don't tell me the cotton fields have recovered from our tears Our sweat seeps deep into the souls of America So Don't tell me the cotton fields have recovered from our blood. Fast forward "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law." They tell us equality is coming. That it is here. Then let you wait holding your breath Suffocating. Black boy shot and killed for walking down the street Black boy whipped and beaten for looking master in the eye Tell me are you still holding your breath? Still suffocating Still waiting for the keys to our chains Fast forward Black lives matter All roads torn down, we've paved new paths   Stripped from our houses so we built homes Lotted for our gold but we are golden Black is hard to get rid of, that annoying stain that stays to long Black is rough and tough Black is solid in luring ways But Black lives won't matter until we love our own people Black lives won't. matter. to. them. because you've called that girl a *** or Thot" Black lives won't matter until we stop the black on black blood splatter For black lives to matter... We must empower each other Standing together the ground will break recognizing he whose tears, sweat and blood upon which it was built So take one look at our past Because this will be the last
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extra long vintage convertible car. notice my big shoe size, do I know what that really means? extra little lies on top of giant whoppers. the number of figures on their W-2, and my measurements and cup-size, please. please treasure their perspicacious needs.   what’s with the obsession with size? won’t sleep with them on the first date, they are shocked, just shocked, when informed on the dotted line that a hundred dinners won’t turn me into their personal come-when-called ***** at nineteen, by now, I should know better, do as I’m told what’s this obsession with hurry up, immediate satisfaction? and patting my head like i’m their favorite pet, mansplaining me how the world works, cause at nineteen I don’t know **** just listen to the know-not-a-damn thing arrogance of knowing it all impress themselves what’s this need to be superior but a huge (size) coverup? yeah yeah, get me a better class of men, like my literate professors who will improve my grade for use of the insights of my mouth on their poetic gestures. I can wait, till I find a right sized human being, in every which way, especially if he shows me the true love poems writ for other girls, then I may even trust him, sooner than never
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Jul 21, 2018
Jul 21, 2018 at 4:30 PM UTC
how men sell themselves to me
walk into the room With your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked And you say, who is that man? You try so hard But you dont understand Just what youll say When you get home Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? You raise up your head And you ask, is this where it is? And somebody points to you and says Its his And you say, whats mine? And somebody else says, where what is? And you say, oh my god Am I here all alone? Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? You hand in your ticket And you go watch the geek Who immediately walks up to you When he hears you speak And says, how does it feel To be such a freak? And you say, impossible As he hands you a bone Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? You have many contacts Among the lumberjacks To get you facts When someone attacks your imagination But nobody has any respect Anyway they already expect you To just give a check To tax-deductible charity organizations Youve been with the professors And theyve all liked your looks With great lawyers you have Discussed lepers and crooks Youve been through all of F. scott fitzgeralds books Youre very well read Its well known Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you And then he kneels He crosses himself And then he clicks his high heels And without further notice He asks you how it feels And he says, here is your throat back Thanks for the loan Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? Now you see this one-eyed ****** Shouting the word now And you say, for what reason? And he says, how? And you say, what does this mean? And he screams back, youre a cow Give me some milk Or else go home Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? Well, you walk into the room Like a camel and then you frown You put your eyes in your pocket And your nose on the ground There ought to be a law Against you comin around You should be made To wear earphones Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones?
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Ballad Of A Thin Man, What do you think?
walk into the room With your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked And you say, who is that man? You try so hard But you dont understand Just what youll say When you get home Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? You raise up your head And you ask, is this where it is? And somebody points to you and says Its his And you say, whats mine? And somebody else says, where what is? And you say, oh my god Am I here all alone? Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? You hand in your ticket And you go watch the geek Who immediately walks up to you When he hears you speak And says, how does it feel To be such a freak? And you say, impossible As he hands you a bone Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? You have many contacts Among the lumberjacks To get you facts When someone attacks your imagination But nobody has any respect Anyway they already expect you To just give a check To tax-deductible charity organizations Youve been with the professors And theyve all liked your looks With great lawyers you have Discussed lepers and crooks Youve been through all of F. scott fitzgeralds books Youre very well read Its well known Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you And then he kneels He crosses himself And then he clicks his high heels And without further notice He asks you how it feels And he says, here is your throat back Thanks for the loan Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? Now you see this one-eyed ****** Shouting the word now And you say, for what reason? And he says, how? And you say, what does this mean? And he screams back, youre a cow Give me some milk Or else go home Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones? Well, you walk into the room Like a camel and then you frown You put your eyes in your pocket And your nose on the ground There ought to be a law Against you comin around You should be made To wear earphones Because something is happening here But you dont know what it is Do you, mister jones?
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Hello Old Friend, I just wanted you to hear me. I think you heard every word, but I see you now fear me. I used to get nostalgic remembering our talks under starlight When we idly spoke of dreams, and other things, and the world felt peaceful at night. But today I spoke of blood and smoke, and of human violence, and watched the widening whites of your eyes within this smothering silence. I apologize for pretending we could carry on as before. You say you don't condemn me; they shouldn't send me off to war. I wanted a friend's reconnection, not hollow pity. I now recognize you can't sympathize with the dying of a moral identity. In grief, not guilt, I sought my friend.  This was not a confession. No vain imagining of a simple moral or life lesson. Don't wanna' hear soulless, canned regurgitations Of your textbooks' and professors' second-hand explanations! You avoid my eyes, staring intensely at the floor. We both can list my sins, but why is it only I can list yours? Solipsism and narcissism. You live a predatory lifestyle, ***** you're bored and wanting more. That's it, then.  Goodbye, Old Friend. I feel worse having spoken, and I won't speak to you of this again.
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Aug 30, 2013
Aug 30, 2013 at 11:08 PM UTC
Homecoming
Woof.....woof.....woof...woof....woof....wooof Some Red setters dogs are eating Jewish people in England But why, do call them off, they are british people, The are hard working, Industrious, Entrepreneurs, Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, Bankers, Entertainers Scientists, Writers, eminent Surgeons, Artists, these are nice Britons....stop the dogs, stop the dogs..... Woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof...woof woof Some Red Setters dogs are eating and biting some Labour MPs all over the country But why, do call off the dogs, No! we have a list and this list,  highlighted the behaviour of a number of Left MPs, including Jess Phillips for telling Corbyn’s ally Diane Abbott to **** off”, John Woodcock for dismissing the party leader as a ******* disaster” and Tristram Hunt for describing Labour as “in the **** and all the other hard working Moderate MPs who dared protest at Anti-Semitic stance or supported the Jews . Woof.....woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof...woof Some Red Setters dogs are devouring some minor Royal from Africa But why, do call off the dogs. No that ****** has a big **** he's Charismatic, intelligent, wholesome, has good work ethics, polite, wise, charming, generous, witty and a ****** good lover and to top it all he's Royal. Now that's ******* GREEDY, how much can a ******* man have. NO! he's a goner. He is too perfect, he must be hounded and persecuted to death. Woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof.....woof.......woof Grrr.....woof.....Grrrrr....woof...wooof...Grrrr....wooof Congratulations People, we have got rid of them all we now have real democracy, we have a real society now Get in the dogs ... And all you useless ******* people shut up! And report to the Labor Camps 7:30a.m. tomorrow You're Working Class and now you ****** have to work!
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Sep 12, 2018
Sep 12, 2018 at 6:45 PM UTC
“call off the dogs”.
Woof.....woof.....woof...woof....woof....wooof Some Red setters dogs are eating Jewish people in England But why, do call them off, they are british people, The are hard working, Industrious, Entrepreneurs, Professors, Doctors, Lawyers, Bankers, Entertainers Scientists, Writers, eminent Surgeons, Artists, these are nice Britons....stop the dogs, stop the dogs..... Woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof...woof woof Some Red Setters dogs are eating and biting some Labour MPs all over the country But why, do call off the dogs, No! we have a list and this list,  highlighted the behaviour of a number of Left MPs, including Jess Phillips for telling Corbyn’s ally Diane Abbott to **** off”, John Woodcock for dismissing the party leader as a ******* disaster” and Tristram Hunt for describing Labour as “in the **** and all the other hard working Moderate MPs who dared protest at Anti-Semitic stance or supported the Jews . Woof.....woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof...woof Some Red Setters dogs are devouring some minor Royal from Africa But why, do call off the dogs. No that ****** has a big **** he's Charismatic, intelligent, wholesome, has good work ethics, polite, wise, charming, generous, witty and a ****** good lover and to top it all he's Royal. Now that's ******* GREEDY, how much can a ******* man have. NO! he's a goner. He is too perfect, he must be hounded and persecuted to death. Woof....woof....woof.....woof.....woof.....woof.......woof Grrr.....woof.....Grrrrr....woof...wooof...Grrrr....wooof Congratulations People, we have got rid of them all we now have real democracy, we have a real society now Get in the dogs ... And all you useless ******* people shut up! And report to the Labor Camps 7:30a.m. tomorrow You're Working Class and now you ****** have to work!
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I had a gf that used to get called a feminazi, but no one ever called me a feminanarchist; I think what we really were is Feminihilists. FFP opposed *********** defined as the sexualized degradation, ********** humiliation, objectification, subjugation, violation,       psychological annihilation, exploitation,  & violence against women as distinguished from erotica based on the mutuality       of power and pleasure. According to FFP's pioneering founder Page Mellish, *********** provides the training for ****** assault & **** results in the objectification of women; affects women's ability to get equal rights & equal pay, & encourages men to associate *** with violence;  Page ultimately claimed that _all_ feminist issues | [    ,      ], [          ] are rooted in *********** &   in a 1986 letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, she asserted that FFP is "not against love & not against *** Page held that all men or women who did not fight against *********** were accountable for the violence against women, claiming that women who enjoy *********** or rough *** had internalized the male [gaze] & | male definitions of power Page's positions on *********** have been debated outside FFP, including with respect to porn's agency on crime & feminist & gay definitions of **** Legislation alone was not a solution, according to Page; it was also necessary to remove _"the need for **** vehemently anti-censorship & pro-sex, Page taught me to show everything from all sides; my other feminista professors were pro-monogamy [patriarchy] while Page was a combat boot wearing girly-girl; she had these cute little doe-eyed Q's following her around carrying the placards [        ] for her spontaneous demonstrations against underwear
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Aug 21, 2018
Aug 21, 2018 at 5:54 AM UTC
ode on page, feminist & mentor
I had a gf that used to get called a feminazi, but no one ever called me a feminanarchist; I think what we really were is Feminihilists. FFP opposed *********** defined as the sexualized degradation, ********** humiliation, objectification, subjugation, violation,       psychological annihilation, exploitation,  & violence against women as distinguished from erotica based on the mutuality       of power and pleasure. According to FFP's pioneering founder Page Mellish, *********** provides the training for ****** assault & **** results in the objectification of women; affects women's ability to get equal rights & equal pay, & encourages men to associate *** with violence;  Page ultimately claimed that _all_ feminist issues | [    ,      ], [          ] are rooted in *********** &   in a 1986 letter to the editor of The Wall Street Journal, she asserted that FFP is "not against love & not against *** Page held that all men or women who did not fight against *********** were accountable for the violence against women, claiming that women who enjoy *********** or rough *** had internalized the male [gaze] & | male definitions of power Page's positions on *********** have been debated outside FFP, including with respect to porn's agency on crime & feminist & gay definitions of **** Legislation alone was not a solution, according to Page; it was also necessary to remove _"the need for **** vehemently anti-censorship & pro-sex, Page taught me to show everything from all sides; my other feminista professors were pro-monogamy [patriarchy] while Page was a combat boot wearing girly-girl; she had these cute little doe-eyed Q's following her around carrying the placards [        ] for her spontaneous demonstrations against underwear
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metaphors are rubber bands we may extend them as much as we like we may shoot them at our classmates we may impress our professors with the shapes we can contort them into but the more we extend them the more we wear them out and its very possible that with all of our stretching and extending we could render our metaphors useless snap
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Apr 26, 2012
Apr 26, 2012 at 4:11 AM UTC
Metaphors
You walk into the room with your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked and you say, "Who is that man?" You try so hard but you don't understand Just what you will say when you get home Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? You raise up your head and you ask, "Is this where it is?" And somebody points to you and says, "It's his" And you say, "What's mine?" and somebody else says, "Well, what is?" And you say, "Oh my God, am I here all alone?" But something is happening and you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? You hand in your ticket and you go watch the geek Who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak And says, "How does it feel to be such a freak?" And you say, "Impossible!" as he hands you a bone And something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? You have many contacts among the lumberjacks To get you facts when someone attacks your imagination But nobody has any respect, anyway they already expect you to all give a check To tax-deductible charity organizations Ah, you've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books You're very well-read, it's well-known But something is happening here and you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you and then he kneels He crosses himself and then he clicks his high heels And without further notice, he asks you how it feels And he says, "Here is your throat back, thanks for the loan" And you know something is happening but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? Now, you see this one-eyed ****** shouting the word "Now" And you say, "For what reason?" and he says, "How" And you say, "What does this mean?" and he screams back, "You're a cow! Give me some milk or else go home" And you know something's happening but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? Well, you walk into the room like a camel, and then you frown You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the ground There ought to be a law against you comin' around You should be made to wear earphones 'Cause something is happening and you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?
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Apr 4, 2017
Apr 4, 2017 at 12:54 PM UTC
Ballad of a thin Man ( Bob Dylan lyrics)
You walk into the room with your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked and you say, "Who is that man?" You try so hard but you don't understand Just what you will say when you get home Because something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? You raise up your head and you ask, "Is this where it is?" And somebody points to you and says, "It's his" And you say, "What's mine?" and somebody else says, "Well, what is?" And you say, "Oh my God, am I here all alone?" But something is happening and you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? You hand in your ticket and you go watch the geek Who immediately walks up to you when he hears you speak And says, "How does it feel to be such a freak?" And you say, "Impossible!" as he hands you a bone And something is happening here but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? You have many contacts among the lumberjacks To get you facts when someone attacks your imagination But nobody has any respect, anyway they already expect you to all give a check To tax-deductible charity organizations Ah, you've been with the professors and they've all liked your looks With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books You're very well-read, it's well-known But something is happening here and you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you and then he kneels He crosses himself and then he clicks his high heels And without further notice, he asks you how it feels And he says, "Here is your throat back, thanks for the loan" And you know something is happening but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? Now, you see this one-eyed ****** shouting the word "Now" And you say, "For what reason?" and he says, "How" And you say, "What does this mean?" and he screams back, "You're a cow! Give me some milk or else go home" And you know something's happening but you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones? Well, you walk into the room like a camel, and then you frown You put your eyes in your pocket and your nose on the ground There ought to be a law against you comin' around You should be made to wear earphones 'Cause something is happening and you don't know what it is Do you, Mr. Jones?
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Education gave you knowledge Opportunity will be your honor of privilege Your life will focus on achievement becoming an accomplishment You achieved making your first step being “EDUCATION” Applaud yourselves Graduates But let me applaud to the Parents, Family Members and Friends in giving you the necessary encouragement to continue and stay the course through education and you too graduates should also applaud Learning was the objective Concepts with principles became subjective Connectivity brought you to adaptability The whole element was “PREPARATION” You entered your own portal that started you on your way to knowledge You will now exit with education in showing you how to step out, and test the waters of all your future endeavors having a destination You are ready to go out and use what you learned in actual reality No matter what your endeavors are always follow with “Proceed leading to Succeed” Easy enough But the task will seem complex, as you will have to cross numerous hurdles in getting to your destiny Remember, Education wasn’t easy, but prepared you with tools in knowing no hurdle can stop you in your journey of success Education gave you the formula in turning complexity into simplicity You will run into a dilemma but have the necessary resources to formulate a remedy You are ready for the challenge You were tested through education in going beyond the limits Knowledge was succeed to conquest Yet learning will always be ongoing no matter what whether you are pursuing another Degree(s) or career aspirations You should be inspiration beyond But don’t let negative vibes around you derail your opportunity Opportunity and Commodity are within you and it is because of knowledge within education It is up to you to grasp and conquer Seek out and just explore Negativity simply ignore Like my Grandfather once said to me, “LIVE AND LEARN” This I instill in all of you In order to gain, you must pursue Let your footsteps be movement Leave a mark you personally established Be confident and assured I can’t stress this more, “Thank the Almighty Lord Think on encouragement from I am proud of all of you graduates I know it wasn’t an easy task Concepts you tackled but it is preparation gained Remember to keep up with Technology and new approaches Your learning should never stop But be a step ahead with continued learning in helping you climb to the top Your Teachers and Professors are proud of you Your Family and Friends waited for this proud moment in sharing your excellence in accomplishment As you walk out the doors to your new frontier always remember where your education was given in knowledge instilled “Climb every mountain and pause for a moment, and continue to climb until you reach the top” Thank you and your opportunity a waits.
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Jun 2, 2018
Jun 2, 2018 at 11:22 AM UTC
MY COMMENCEMENT SPEECH FOR ALL GRADUATES 2018
Education gave you knowledge Opportunity will be your honor of privilege Your life will focus on achievement becoming an accomplishment You achieved making your first step being “EDUCATION” Applaud yourselves Graduates But let me applaud to the Parents, Family Members and Friends in giving you the necessary encouragement to continue and stay the course through education and you too graduates should also applaud Learning was the objective Concepts with principles became subjective Connectivity brought you to adaptability The whole element was “PREPARATION” You entered your own portal that started you on your way to knowledge You will now exit with education in showing you how to step out, and test the waters of all your future endeavors having a destination You are ready to go out and use what you learned in actual reality No matter what your endeavors are always follow with “Proceed leading to Succeed” Easy enough But the task will seem complex, as you will have to cross numerous hurdles in getting to your destiny Remember, Education wasn’t easy, but prepared you with tools in knowing no hurdle can stop you in your journey of success Education gave you the formula in turning complexity into simplicity You will run into a dilemma but have the necessary resources to formulate a remedy You are ready for the challenge You were tested through education in going beyond the limits Knowledge was succeed to conquest Yet learning will always be ongoing no matter what whether you are pursuing another Degree(s) or career aspirations You should be inspiration beyond But don’t let negative vibes around you derail your opportunity Opportunity and Commodity are within you and it is because of knowledge within education It is up to you to grasp and conquer Seek out and just explore Negativity simply ignore Like my Grandfather once said to me, “LIVE AND LEARN” This I instill in all of you In order to gain, you must pursue Let your footsteps be movement Leave a mark you personally established Be confident and assured I can’t stress this more, “Thank the Almighty Lord Think on encouragement from I am proud of all of you graduates I know it wasn’t an easy task Concepts you tackled but it is preparation gained Remember to keep up with Technology and new approaches Your learning should never stop But be a step ahead with continued learning in helping you climb to the top Your Teachers and Professors are proud of you Your Family and Friends waited for this proud moment in sharing your excellence in accomplishment As you walk out the doors to your new frontier always remember where your education was given in knowledge instilled “Climb every mountain and pause for a moment, and continue to climb until you reach the top” Thank you and your opportunity a waits.
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Whenever I go there everything is changed The stamps on the bandages the titles Of the professors of water The portrait of Glare the reasons for The white mourning In new rocks new insects are sitting With the lights off And once more I remember that the beginning Is broken No wonder the addresses are torn To which I make my way eating the silence of animals Offering snow to the darkness Today belongs to few and tomorrow to no one
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Whenever I Go There
I Asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness. And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men. They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along the Desplaines river And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with their women and children and a keg of beer and an accordion.
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Happiness
Museums as art Art as museums Sail the trail to my mausoleum Psychopaths and physicists Psychiatrists and philosophers Philanthropists and pilots and painters
 Declare now, that these are our days – Our hours, and our days These are our city, our hours Our time, our days. 
This is our world – At 14:92 I landed here and claimed it And searched it and found it wanting Of civilization that I could so easily supply By means of wounds and iron And brawn and truth (and just a tiny touch of influenza darling) By means of our Lord, Who grants us all that we desire If only we **** enough of those he did not choose. This is our world – And we shall make it what we will Make it in our own image Teach it that innocence is not knowing the difference between right and wrong Raise it to hate no one But to love itself so deeply That all other love seems hateful in comparison. This is our child, love Yours and mine.
 Here the first shall be last And the last shall be first But once the first are last they shall be Last Last       Last And once the last are first They shall make it so they can never be last again This is our primitive accumulation Of necessary materialism Let’s cultivate matter To make objects that we can place on shelves And in cases – These are our cases And we love them as we love ourselves
 Museums as mass graves Mass graves as museums Kiss me in my mausoleum Priests and prisoners Prostitutes and prophets Pioneers and pilgrims and pagans
 This is our time – And we are dispensing it in spendthrift increments Buying threadbare bandages for our cavernous canyons Buying ample earplugs To seal in the silence So we can somewhat say “look there is peace – Look we have done it In our time it is accomplished” – 
 This is our peace – And we know it by the signs The lions and lambs lay quietly together In our brass-barred zoos For as long as shelves and cases Are intact and the first are first And the last are last And the civilized are organized and holy There is peace – Oh, look We made peace! And as for Solomon and Socrates – We take their words to weave through our new wisdom And when we re-chart the constellations We shall give them each a star And salute them once a year When they come around the universe Oh, look How wise we are! Mass graves as art Art as mass graves There have been no better days There has been no greater time Politicians and pornographers Professors and pirates Psychologists and pastors and pianists
 This is our time – And we are doing with it the very best we know how The last are toiling and trying And the first are trying to think to try – But there is a shortness in our hours And a violence in our peace There is inherent foolishness in our wisdom And disease in our cities And there is death upon our shelves and in our cases. This is our world – We crafted it and declared our truth to be true We sculpted this, our colosseum Please inscribe my mausoleum With “we know not what we do”
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 5:43 PM UTC
of dissolution and mausoleum blueprints
Museums as art Art as museums Sail the trail to my mausoleum Psychopaths and physicists Psychiatrists and philosophers Philanthropists and pilots and painters
 Declare now, that these are our days – Our hours, and our days These are our city, our hours Our time, our days. 
This is our world – At 14:92 I landed here and claimed it And searched it and found it wanting Of civilization that I could so easily supply By means of wounds and iron And brawn and truth (and just a tiny touch of influenza darling) By means of our Lord, Who grants us all that we desire If only we **** enough of those he did not choose. This is our world – And we shall make it what we will Make it in our own image Teach it that innocence is not knowing the difference between right and wrong Raise it to hate no one But to love itself so deeply That all other love seems hateful in comparison. This is our child, love Yours and mine.
 Here the first shall be last And the last shall be first But once the first are last they shall be Last Last       Last And once the last are first They shall make it so they can never be last again This is our primitive accumulation Of necessary materialism Let’s cultivate matter To make objects that we can place on shelves And in cases – These are our cases And we love them as we love ourselves
 Museums as mass graves Mass graves as museums Kiss me in my mausoleum Priests and prisoners Prostitutes and prophets Pioneers and pilgrims and pagans
 This is our time – And we are dispensing it in spendthrift increments Buying threadbare bandages for our cavernous canyons Buying ample earplugs To seal in the silence So we can somewhat say “look there is peace – Look we have done it In our time it is accomplished” – 
 This is our peace – And we know it by the signs The lions and lambs lay quietly together In our brass-barred zoos For as long as shelves and cases Are intact and the first are first And the last are last And the civilized are organized and holy There is peace – Oh, look We made peace! And as for Solomon and Socrates – We take their words to weave through our new wisdom And when we re-chart the constellations We shall give them each a star And salute them once a year When they come around the universe Oh, look How wise we are! Mass graves as art Art as mass graves There have been no better days There has been no greater time Politicians and pornographers Professors and pirates Psychologists and pastors and pianists
 This is our time – And we are doing with it the very best we know how The last are toiling and trying And the first are trying to think to try – But there is a shortness in our hours And a violence in our peace There is inherent foolishness in our wisdom And disease in our cities And there is death upon our shelves and in our cases. This is our world – We crafted it and declared our truth to be true We sculpted this, our colosseum Please inscribe my mausoleum With “we know not what we do”
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I look at my teachers Who stand in the very front Of every single class And teach me how to be How to grow and learn And be well rounded I think of everything they know All which they have learned From textbooks And from life All of which they share And that of which they don't I think of their kindness Sometimes their hatred How they smile and joke Or judge and yell Why they are who they are And how they came to be I think about their days Every day is spent Within four walls With hundreds of teens Who hardly give a **** And how they get through it I think about their thoughts The knowledge they hold And if what they're teaching us Is what really needs to be taught And if what they have to say Is really what they need to say I look at them all And I wonder What they could teach What I could learn From each and every one of them If the time and place and opportunity Were given to us And it makes me sad To think that All of my teachers And my professors Are all going to die before me And I'll never know I'll never learn I'll never grow From what they know But never told Because they only talked about Synonyms or the quadratic equation Or all the periodic elements And they never talked about What is most important in life So we never know the important things like Laughing And pain And having your heart broken And crying for all the right reasons And why we are the way we are And how to get where we're going And having dreams And participating in life And telling people that you love them And understanding death And understanding life And how to save lives And to be open and vulnerable And knowing that everything is going to be okay Even if it's not Because that's what truly matters on life It makes me sad to think That people go through life Without ever knowing All of the important things about life Because no one ever told them And they never experienced them So what are we doing? Why do we go to school To learn about things that matter But don't really matter In the end? Because in the end, You don't think about Synonyms or the quadratic equation Or all the periodic elements You think about your life And the the people, Even the teachers Who got you through it And made that difference You think about those few Oh, so few Teachers who taught you The important things About life And how that Made all the difference
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Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 4:03 PM UTC
Teachers
I look at my teachers Who stand in the very front Of every single class And teach me how to be How to grow and learn And be well rounded I think of everything they know All which they have learned From textbooks And from life All of which they share And that of which they don't I think of their kindness Sometimes their hatred How they smile and joke Or judge and yell Why they are who they are And how they came to be I think about their days Every day is spent Within four walls With hundreds of teens Who hardly give a **** And how they get through it I think about their thoughts The knowledge they hold And if what they're teaching us Is what really needs to be taught And if what they have to say Is really what they need to say I look at them all And I wonder What they could teach What I could learn From each and every one of them If the time and place and opportunity Were given to us And it makes me sad To think that All of my teachers And my professors Are all going to die before me And I'll never know I'll never learn I'll never grow From what they know But never told Because they only talked about Synonyms or the quadratic equation Or all the periodic elements And they never talked about What is most important in life So we never know the important things like Laughing And pain And having your heart broken And crying for all the right reasons And why we are the way we are And how to get where we're going And having dreams And participating in life And telling people that you love them And understanding death And understanding life And how to save lives And to be open and vulnerable And knowing that everything is going to be okay Even if it's not Because that's what truly matters on life It makes me sad to think That people go through life Without ever knowing All of the important things about life Because no one ever told them And they never experienced them So what are we doing? Why do we go to school To learn about things that matter But don't really matter In the end? Because in the end, You don't think about Synonyms or the quadratic equation Or all the periodic elements You think about your life And the the people, Even the teachers Who got you through it And made that difference You think about those few Oh, so few Teachers who taught you The important things About life And how that Made all the difference
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Dream Catchers, egg hatchers, baby Snatchers, **** wackers, lip smackers, online hackers, ***** slappers, hand clappers, exotic flappers, lazy slackers, suitcase packers, & back stabbers. Hate & defeated, cheat & feel the heat. Too weak & petite. Tales of hell, wishes on a well, thoughts are things you can't always sell. Sometimes words can be lies liars tell. One day to your death to you fell. Pass it on. I don't belong. Some people are wrong. Die. I won't cry. Pakrat hoarders, pro choice aborters, two faced home wreckers, voodoo curses, retired lazy old nurses. Deaf & Blind, racist & unkind, poor & unemployed. Broke & exploited. Dumb, old, ugly, & fat. ***** stinking rat. Piles & piles of crap. College professors, real estate investors, coaches, cockaroaches, poachers, perverts & ****** meat eatting caravores. Bums & addicts drunks & fanatics, obsessive compulsive, stalkers too possessive, insane aggressive. Author Notes : Partially true, could be your family. © Harmony Sapphire . All rights reserved,
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Jan 11, 2015
Jan 11, 2015 at 3:34 PM UTC
Family Values
• because I was questioned for calling Beyoncé a god • because I was told Beyoncé is overrated • because some white lady I don’t know touched my hair before she learned my name at my place of work • because one of my white friends made a joke about crack houses when we were watching fake anime and eating fried dough…in addition to making that joke, he made me uncomfortable • because a white friend of mine agreed with someone who said cis white men are the most oppressed group on my campus • because people still tell me “ALL Lives Matter” and ask me “why isn’t there a WHITE History Month” • because “I don’t see color” is a “less racist” way of saying “that isn’t my problem, so I don’t have to get involved” • because girls “like me” are fetishized • because girls “like me” are seen as the **** of jokes or just the **** • because I’m the only non-white passing person of color in my dominant friend group • because #Lightskinned is still a way to humiliate someone for being fairer skinned and having feelings • because #Darkskinned is still a way to demean someone who is darker than you and painting them as ***** • because colorism exists in every racial group, but no one wants to talk about it • because someone argued why a white person should be able to wear dreads and black people are kicked out of institutions for wearing the exact same hairstyle • because black on black crime is still used as some sort of crevice you try to shimmy yourself through • because somewhere, a white girl is teaching tutorials on how anyone can have an afro, and no one is stopping her • because Facebook exploded when I expressed that I want to be respected • because everybody wanna be a ***** but no one wanna be a ***** • because I didn’t know what to say until I couldn’t stop speaking • because we are twenty days into February and Black History Month hasn’t been mentioned by ONE of my professors • because of ******* course I’m the angry black woman • because I’m essentially the backbone, which means that it’s easy for me to break, right? • because this **** happens to me every **** day of my life and it will continue to happen to me every **** day of my life • because you made it that way • this poem does not have an ending • this poem is the abyss • why do I make it about race? • because this poem can go on and on and on forever • and I’ll still be talking about the same thing ~~a.s.f.
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Mar 15, 2016
Mar 15, 2016 at 9:24 PM UTC
"WHY DO I ALWAYS MAKE EVERYTHING ABOUT RACE?"
• because I was questioned for calling Beyoncé a god • because I was told Beyoncé is overrated • because some white lady I don’t know touched my hair before she learned my name at my place of work • because one of my white friends made a joke about crack houses when we were watching fake anime and eating fried dough…in addition to making that joke, he made me uncomfortable • because a white friend of mine agreed with someone who said cis white men are the most oppressed group on my campus • because people still tell me “ALL Lives Matter” and ask me “why isn’t there a WHITE History Month” • because “I don’t see color” is a “less racist” way of saying “that isn’t my problem, so I don’t have to get involved” • because girls “like me” are fetishized • because girls “like me” are seen as the **** of jokes or just the **** • because I’m the only non-white passing person of color in my dominant friend group • because #Lightskinned is still a way to humiliate someone for being fairer skinned and having feelings • because #Darkskinned is still a way to demean someone who is darker than you and painting them as ***** • because colorism exists in every racial group, but no one wants to talk about it • because someone argued why a white person should be able to wear dreads and black people are kicked out of institutions for wearing the exact same hairstyle • because black on black crime is still used as some sort of crevice you try to shimmy yourself through • because somewhere, a white girl is teaching tutorials on how anyone can have an afro, and no one is stopping her • because Facebook exploded when I expressed that I want to be respected • because everybody wanna be a ***** but no one wanna be a ***** • because I didn’t know what to say until I couldn’t stop speaking • because we are twenty days into February and Black History Month hasn’t been mentioned by ONE of my professors • because of ******* course I’m the angry black woman • because I’m essentially the backbone, which means that it’s easy for me to break, right? • because this **** happens to me every **** day of my life and it will continue to happen to me every **** day of my life • because you made it that way • this poem does not have an ending • this poem is the abyss • why do I make it about race? • because this poem can go on and on and on forever • and I’ll still be talking about the same thing ~~a.s.f.
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As culled from an arts magazine, 13 March 2019 Socialist Realism - The official doctrine in Soviet art and literature after 1932 that evolved from the traditional commitment to social and civic concerns into an all-pervasive general ideological mandate.             -Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 20th Century Russian Poetry collective exhibition space vibe community interactive narrative brown neighborhood defined commodified Indigenous identity tone-deaf decolonial narratives populist intertwined exhibition curatorial vision culture local artists arts district small galleries DIY spaces speaking out against gentrification displacing shelter studio space elsewhere late stage capitalism collective mantra underdog art savior corporate entity partnering insensitive ignorant collective brown people art contemporary work that may not fit into establishment art galleries media advisory venture collaborate creative community authentic local statement of expression excitement creative energy arts district project many levels collaborate local creative important creative community what that collaboration looks like ongoing local artists going to be engaged in planning commissioned project community buy-in consulted members of the creative community Indigenous artists curators museum directors professors burgeoning landscape cultural framework critique talk individuals entities inclusivity open dialogue opportunities project conversations collaboration discuss your projects share our work with you common ground work together healthy sustainable accountable decolonization
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Mar 16, 2019
Mar 16, 2019 at 5:41 PM UTC
A Contemporary Vocabulary for Writers and Artists
As culled from an arts magazine, 13 March 2019 Socialist Realism - The official doctrine in Soviet art and literature after 1932 that evolved from the traditional commitment to social and civic concerns into an all-pervasive general ideological mandate.             -Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 20th Century Russian Poetry collective exhibition space vibe community interactive narrative brown neighborhood defined commodified Indigenous identity tone-deaf decolonial narratives populist intertwined exhibition curatorial vision culture local artists arts district small galleries DIY spaces speaking out against gentrification displacing shelter studio space elsewhere late stage capitalism collective mantra underdog art savior corporate entity partnering insensitive ignorant collective brown people art contemporary work that may not fit into establishment art galleries media advisory venture collaborate creative community authentic local statement of expression excitement creative energy arts district project many levels collaborate local creative important creative community what that collaboration looks like ongoing local artists going to be engaged in planning commissioned project community buy-in consulted members of the creative community Indigenous artists curators museum directors professors burgeoning landscape cultural framework critique talk individuals entities inclusivity open dialogue opportunities project conversations collaboration discuss your projects share our work with you common ground work together healthy sustainable accountable decolonization
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Everyone loves to talk **** Poets Activists Novelists Academics Professors the most Summon them up get a consensus (the kikuyu are a model not the annoying vermin of the jewish suburb) Fear is the core. America, Fear is yr core. Capitalism and all its intricacies and its lies its imminent failure (anorexics in red shirts laugh in hell) Marx and Chomsky and Precious Open a window- crack that- BREAK OPEN A WINDOW IN THE WALL let the mist leave it will only consume you if you learn to use it instead of oxygen A clear room will be a safe space to paint and film and write and dry off To talk a los otros sobre Spanish y la omkeer
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Dec 8, 2011
Dec 8, 2011 at 7:15 PM UTC
1776-2011 America: your favorite white devil returns as part of his performance series *EXPERIMENTAL FEAR*
Ambitious Girl: Consider this my reiteration. I wanna read your books, and not just your looks. Knowing what you look like ; I wanna be in your space - but not so much that I interfere with your education. Let me say this, Congratulations on being the very best you could ever be. Putting priorities over everything, Miss couldn't get that coach cause tuition was due. & sallie was nagging for a payback. Sallie was nagging for a payback. And you paid that, plus tax. Miss made so many friends stepping with the sisters. whatever it is, I hope you pledge an existence that'll make your existence, persistent. Forever my queen, say you're listening... Look, I'm still talking . You love school but you're sick of Sally maybes . No *** , you're the lucky one because all your friends have babies. And you ain't slept , up thinking , tomorrow's that big test . Few of your friends stripping you don't judge em' though. You're insecure with your body so you like "forget it yo!" So, I put you on that pedestal, Girl I'm just saying your work ethic makes you edible. Me a freak? That's something that they will never know. Look, you're something they can never see; You overpower anything them other girls could ever be. Go ahead and prepare for class, hit me when you finish up. It's never too late, we'll celebrate soon as the grades come. Shout to them girls in the club with no relations between their professors . Yes sir, I propose a toast to them girls - that you offer them ones but they never let you. I love your ambition. Okay, shout out to them 4.0s and even 2.5s ; who signed up & failed but say "whatever , I tried." It's nothing to deny for having a strong mind, I'll make sure to keep you in mind. You're still someone I can ride with; dress up & get fly with. It's still something you provide , you never hide , that makes me wanna get inside . Look, ambition will define you, never worry about them hating chicks that wish to be just like you. My goal is to serenade you everyday with these verses until you no longer insecure, obscure and hurting . They gon know you; Chasing your dreams, instead of chasing what's in a dudes' jeans. And God blessed me with a lot of patience , but I ain't had none in a while - I need your AS(S)pirations . I love your aspirations! Ambitious Girl... Fourth generation.
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Mar 18, 2014
Mar 18, 2014 at 11:15 AM UTC
"Ambitious Girl IV"
Ambitious Girl: Consider this my reiteration. I wanna read your books, and not just your looks. Knowing what you look like ; I wanna be in your space - but not so much that I interfere with your education. Let me say this, Congratulations on being the very best you could ever be. Putting priorities over everything, Miss couldn't get that coach cause tuition was due. & sallie was nagging for a payback. Sallie was nagging for a payback. And you paid that, plus tax. Miss made so many friends stepping with the sisters. whatever it is, I hope you pledge an existence that'll make your existence, persistent. Forever my queen, say you're listening... Look, I'm still talking . You love school but you're sick of Sally maybes . No *** , you're the lucky one because all your friends have babies. And you ain't slept , up thinking , tomorrow's that big test . Few of your friends stripping you don't judge em' though. You're insecure with your body so you like "forget it yo!" So, I put you on that pedestal, Girl I'm just saying your work ethic makes you edible. Me a freak? That's something that they will never know. Look, you're something they can never see; You overpower anything them other girls could ever be. Go ahead and prepare for class, hit me when you finish up. It's never too late, we'll celebrate soon as the grades come. Shout to them girls in the club with no relations between their professors . Yes sir, I propose a toast to them girls - that you offer them ones but they never let you. I love your ambition. Okay, shout out to them 4.0s and even 2.5s ; who signed up & failed but say "whatever , I tried." It's nothing to deny for having a strong mind, I'll make sure to keep you in mind. You're still someone I can ride with; dress up & get fly with. It's still something you provide , you never hide , that makes me wanna get inside . Look, ambition will define you, never worry about them hating chicks that wish to be just like you. My goal is to serenade you everyday with these verses until you no longer insecure, obscure and hurting . They gon know you; Chasing your dreams, instead of chasing what's in a dudes' jeans. And God blessed me with a lot of patience , but I ain't had none in a while - I need your AS(S)pirations . I love your aspirations! Ambitious Girl... Fourth generation.
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Let us Rise and Rejoice for the Wise Controllers of the Streets Please give praise for the Keepers of Asinine Righteousness Who have the power to read our minds easy as giving sweets Esteemed Professors who are  World Experts with Greatness In Neuro-linguistic programming and know all the upbeats For example anybody with working eyes can see with no cheats The woman's complexions is not Black even without clearness Alas I make a joke and  lightheartedly say its Black in mirths Nobel NLP Programmers jump in glee and frenzied eagerness That is Trigger to void progressive actions with that lady petite So Professors et vacuous masses devoid of brains go on heats Sprinkling Blacks all over in project as useless as their dumbness Tell not dorks I do not see her as black in any way but a tease Another deluded wasted efforts from the addicted mindlesses The poor lass graced with honey-gold skin tone is not for meets Crass semi-illiterates play mind games on levels of bog peats Psychotic obsessed nonentities with deluded tendentiousness As if there's a meeting of minds with piffling anodyne greats Dumbos declaring we are playing with your mind in earness Show me how a genius compares with Quixotic foolishness
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Aug 13, 2018
Aug 13, 2018 at 2:27 PM UTC
Bwana...Our Wise Rulers....lol.
the thick frames surrounding my prescription perspective, are the curtains to the ceaseless show. the same charade everyday. it's a 4-15 minute drive from my apartment to the campus. 4 minutes if the dark-humored, aliens that control stoplights are kind, 15 if they are looking for a laugh. my feet hit parking concrete outside of classrooms. it's rhythmic yet mundane. but it's a game we all play. i fall into line, the slow parade of apathy, that leads us to lectures each day. the professors project views of wicked youth, we like white, pull-down sheets, sport whatever image they insist, so easily. it's branded boys and tanning bed-inspired girls. it's blind acceptance and weightless regret. i want to change lenses. pull the curtain, and start all over again.
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Jun 1, 2010
Jun 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM UTC
of parades, thick frames, and tanning bed girls
O LOVE! O LOVE! WHY ARE YOU EVER DEVOID OF LOGIC? Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Mankind in its pathetic folly entice you in a dint of stupor Knowing not your true colour and texture Endeavoring to achieve glory in your mastery With the so limited human capacity In grey faith that you are a cradle of bliss But O love! Why are you ever crooked? Young men and women in strength of their sinews Toil day and night in ******* of humanity Praying and whining incantations with the hope for optimal love Ornamenting their bodies with diamond and bronze Fibre and silk ornamented to helm of providence In the foolish quest for love equillibria But in full stretch of your vice, you impish love You catapult all away to the shifted goal posts O love! O love! Why are you ever ruthless? You hate the learned but you favour the strong You hate professors but you favour the soldiers You hate the rich but you favour the agile You hate the lawyers but you favour the footballers You hate the pastors but you favour the ruffian You hate the whites but you favour the Negroes You hate the groomed but you love the ragamuffin You hate the chaste but you favour the mistress O love! O love! Why are you ever illogical? Love, I revere you for wickedness and irrationality In all of your history you scored sum *** laude In the duo as blend of your domain, Look; You never dwell in a genuine companionship You like where the couth will interject; Amidst fornication between married and single ones Amidst adultery in the triangle of foul compassion Amidst miscegenation between black and white Amidst infatuation between the whole and the lame Amidst conjugal appetite between the old and the young Amidst concupiscence between house master and houshelp Amidst immorality of married master over the wallowing servant Amidst libidos between literate teacher unto the peasant pupil Amidst disordered passion among the sly lesbians Amidst impious ********** among the suave gays O love! O love! You are the most wicked force! Love I am told; your colour is red You may be red or you may not be red But all in all, you deserve poetical veneration For your herculean ability to bend the most wise; In your force you made sagacious Shakespeare to bend In your force you made Princes Diana to bend and bend Bending downwardly stooping for Afawoyed the moor, In your stupefying dint you made Napoleon de Bonaparte To bend and bend downwardly stooping for Josephine Josephine a famed she-Casanova in the gone Paris Among the then humanity and the then animality, In your impairing machinery you set sons on their fathers In the roman empire of Antony and Ceaser In the scramble for Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen Beauty of her aquiline nose heavily hovered perhaps In the eyes of the Roman beholders The father and the son only to sent the empire To the love forlorn smithereens!
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Dec 3, 2013
Dec 3, 2013 at 5:08 AM UTC
O love ! O love ! why are you ever devoid of logic ?
O LOVE! O LOVE! WHY ARE YOU EVER DEVOID OF LOGIC? Alexander K Opicho (Eldoret, Kenya; [email protected]) Mankind in its pathetic folly entice you in a dint of stupor Knowing not your true colour and texture Endeavoring to achieve glory in your mastery With the so limited human capacity In grey faith that you are a cradle of bliss But O love! Why are you ever crooked? Young men and women in strength of their sinews Toil day and night in ******* of humanity Praying and whining incantations with the hope for optimal love Ornamenting their bodies with diamond and bronze Fibre and silk ornamented to helm of providence In the foolish quest for love equillibria But in full stretch of your vice, you impish love You catapult all away to the shifted goal posts O love! O love! Why are you ever ruthless? You hate the learned but you favour the strong You hate professors but you favour the soldiers You hate the rich but you favour the agile You hate the lawyers but you favour the footballers You hate the pastors but you favour the ruffian You hate the whites but you favour the Negroes You hate the groomed but you love the ragamuffin You hate the chaste but you favour the mistress O love! O love! Why are you ever illogical? Love, I revere you for wickedness and irrationality In all of your history you scored sum *** laude In the duo as blend of your domain, Look; You never dwell in a genuine companionship You like where the couth will interject; Amidst fornication between married and single ones Amidst adultery in the triangle of foul compassion Amidst miscegenation between black and white Amidst infatuation between the whole and the lame Amidst conjugal appetite between the old and the young Amidst concupiscence between house master and houshelp Amidst immorality of married master over the wallowing servant Amidst libidos between literate teacher unto the peasant pupil Amidst disordered passion among the sly lesbians Amidst impious ********** among the suave gays O love! O love! You are the most wicked force! Love I am told; your colour is red You may be red or you may not be red But all in all, you deserve poetical veneration For your herculean ability to bend the most wise; In your force you made sagacious Shakespeare to bend In your force you made Princes Diana to bend and bend Bending downwardly stooping for Afawoyed the moor, In your stupefying dint you made Napoleon de Bonaparte To bend and bend downwardly stooping for Josephine Josephine a famed she-Casanova in the gone Paris Among the then humanity and the then animality, In your impairing machinery you set sons on their fathers In the roman empire of Antony and Ceaser In the scramble for Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen Beauty of her aquiline nose heavily hovered perhaps In the eyes of the Roman beholders The father and the son only to sent the empire To the love forlorn smithereens!
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She and I exchanged disdainful glances across the parking lot. The verbally brash invitation she gave me at 10:30 two nights earlier from a low-riding car resounded in my brain. She wanted our graduating class to get together and sit awkwardly around a campfire while a few reminisced of homeroom and half days back in high school. And as the last few embers glowed like residence halls, she would clear her throat and bash college. She’d denounce the curriculum, professors, and parking spaces then praise the days of hurrying through carpeted hallways and freshmen traffic. To see our classmates laughing with hands outstretched to the flames would bring a smile to her summer-chapped lips. But we’re no longer classmates. We’re just seventeen people trying to live our lives outside the confines of Galeton High School. Sure, we’ll bite our tongues and fake smiles every now and then, but we’ll never be more than superficial.
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Jun 9, 2014
Jun 9, 2014 at 2:36 PM UTC
We'll Never Be More Than Superficial