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Visions lost in cracking air
dirt and crumbling sidewalk

I drag my feet homeward
one more time

I dream the dream of dying
I wake gasping

I am locked in
this chambered hell of body

I see fire under rocks
I smell smoke in the bathroom

The night breeds evil smells
they float into my nostrils

Hope is lost, it flew away
I woke up laughing with the dead

Give me a safety pin
I have to pin myself together

My body has parted
was it a distorted mirror?

I touch my eyeball
and it sinks

I spit out teeth
with blood

My fingernails
have fallen off

Tired, I am so tired
i wander crooked streets

Shadows on the grey walls
my only companions

I am daughter of radon
I laugh as my hair falls out

I am so hungry
hungry for life

This steel landscape
of bed pans and commodes

The chill enters my toes
I wake up screaming...
what i think a friend is feeling with her chemo therapy. She was so pretty.
Sky Oct 2019
Your love is pure, your heart is true
And every time I look at you
I tell you that I love you too
All you want is to be near
My dear friend, I feel the same
The look you give me, those big brown eyes
Are a blessing in disguise
I wish I knew what you are thinking
But instead you will just lick me
We play a game of "Bite the hand"
And then I give you a command
Your brows go up, you are confused
That scene just makes me so amused
I rub your ears, give you a kiss
You lie down near me in a bliss
You fall asleep but still alert
In case your nose smells a dessert
It's not that time, you need to sleep
Recharge for next day's little treat
You are the purest soul I know
My furry friend, most loyal creature in the world.
weinburglar Jul 2016
Fireworks were cool. Framed metal chairs with woven nylon Americana on watered lawns on the outskirts of the edge of Los Angeles. Hairy neighbors, Miller Drafts and dog ****. Sally ****** Jim on the corner, and Jim drank, or started again and wouldn’t stop, but was good with a flat tire and chain adjustment. His kid had a glove like a vacuum. His daughter was a *****. Sally afforded a Mexican gardener.

Tim always had fireworks. He had gasoline and willed fireworks into his driveway. He had rope and a keg.

Schatzky keep her cool. She had to. She worked the 5th and taught everyone’s kids. She taught their parents too, 10 years ago.

Her son Donavan and her husband Keith lived for the 4th. Little pink houses and Jack and Diane kind of ****. So they watched fireworks on flag hill while their neighbors ****** and got ******* and burnt their eyebrows. Donavan was ecstatic.

Each year the hill was gilded in gold for Donavan and Keith and and Schatzky, because each 4th brought fire and explosives in a way they could never afford.

Keith was more patriotic than most. He waited and enlisted and became a hero. Donavan watched on TV. Schatzky watched too. We won the first gulf war and everyone knew it: https://youtu.be/4gNhs2SRacs?t=1m10...

They celebrated the fourth in baseball stadiums. They celebrated life and heroism and purpose, and they celebrated with F16s and the best explosives the peacetime nation offered.

And Keith celebrated and embraced purpose. He even became a leader in the 2nd gulf war.

Sally stopped ******* Jim. Jim wasn’t married anymore. His kid lowered Tim’s basement and didn’t steal the copper.

Tim’s house was worth a fortune but it had a radon problem.

Schatsky was accused of drowning her dog, but she didn’t do it.

Jim still drinks; he’s smarter now.

They all meet on flag hill every 4th. The fireworks aren’t as good. A lot of build up for a finale that feels like an accident.

Water seeps through my jeans and no one can see my face as I limp home with a broken rubber sandal and a bucket of ice, a dog tied around my legs, and a kid face first on the grass, a wife whose friend drank our last beer an hour ago, a phone with  two-percent battery left and my mom wants to show me what fireworks look like in California.
Miranda Leigh Apr 2016
Her blood is cyanide
She cannot seem to hide
She is light as helium
She's strong as aluminum
She is graphite carbon
As subdued as boron
Abundant as hydrogen
But toxic as nitrogen
She's precious as platinum
Her skin is thallium
In her lungs there is radon
She is as rare as xenon
Helpful as iodine
Whose life is astatine's
She is soft as lithium
Her eyes are beryllium
There is nothing I can do
Already the tumor grew
Sethnicity May 2015
Off guard on duty the snowflake knew time to waste
Its unknowing decent cataract rapid acidic proletariat
Less than perspicacious a red hand to the case,
No longer judicious a domino race

My words are **** ashes fertilizing the world wide wind
More of us make less of them
but they bombastic at the power within
We all possess the power to sin

Tell me something true as I lament the news.
Billie war Holidays sing song me the blues
Hands shoot in the air guns clap on the beat
Future sigh in despair old vote with their feet
Factors of fear multiplied without receipt
So you can't exchange the Unknown for something concrete.
Afraid for our lives while we wither away humanity
circumventing diaspora in the name of the low and no holds bar

The cross exam I mag I nation
no accountability when
Severing and Projecting
The streets.

Is all pomp and circumstance  
Ignorance in defeat?
because American apathy is a golden gutter
lining the highways of hope and justice.

The great black hope
driven to equivocal ends
The magisterial mountain way
Waved inundation of political bends

There are no u turns OK
home of the straight and narrow
Wed with the freedom ring
Blistered by the oil we use to butter bread

what can we say we
learned from the best
it's intoxicated
intercontinental intelligence

One man's pain is another man's pleasure.
By what other means can we rationalize and measure?
I didn't make the rules We did
Don't just vote cut throat


Over calculated the complexity of human habit
by underestimating the simplicity of evol u tion.
Chopped and ******* time over and over waited
ya head hangs low Soci ally Osc illated


So heavy   it's a wonder
these words  don't    black hole
through   gravity  and bull licks
baby daddy bell tolls

He would bend Time
and
Space
taking mother place
to place
stringing
paycheck to paycheck
like

Hindu prayer cloths
on
Hollywood
sidewalks

Hailing  uncle Sam  and  the oil man
2 lend a hand,     job,     or a plan
**** only getting noticed


by the
under educated yet
over- privileged
college dropout


offering tea and sympathy
cause limping ain't easy,
and    systemic negligence
is   public enemy   # 1...

The only explosion
to fear is the sun.
We are **** dust
in the lung

When all is said and dung,
All lives matter
like helium
and radon

Exp  lo ding  in Uni son
Sys tem Ic  Ra ce Ism
Eyes hyper-focused on the finger
and the wind cried boom a rung
I write because I read, I read to get it right, Reed into everything my friend.
Consider the cascading of events that brings us back around again and again...
Mad at the piper but the cause is forgotten in the effects.
Mateuš Conrad Oct 2016
for them to write a haiku,
for us is to write A, or B, or C -
if our form of encoding
sound wasn't  as it already is:
we wouldn't have chemistry -
say Na and sodium,
               Rd and radon;
they write haiku like
we write A B or C, to them haiku is
our version of the alphabet,
the succinct -
         hard to orientate
units of encoding
as complete meaning /
majestic -
                    we just find
it hard to spell /
put the puzzle back together,
the puzzle is still
a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  i  j  k  l  m  n  o  p
            ­         q  r  s  t  u  v  w  (x  y  z)
      v.i.p reservation
for mathematics (in brackets):
now... the mystery of life,
primarily? put that puzzle back
together. is it a puzzle in
the first place? how should i know?!
       it's all fair game:
they write a haiku we write an A,
   they write another haiku,
we write a B, the ****** puzzle
is there for the taking:
   all you have to do is take some
play-dough on your little camping
adventure and come back with something
remotely needing boxes and shelves
and libraries, and university lecturers;
perhaps a few cannibals to boot too.
Sarah Jaran May 2016
Within the mundane confines of
each woman's work, you show up.
As toxic as the radon they stick in their mouth,
you give the next victim a sickly smile.
Not convincing enough to make them unaware,
but with a sweetness present enough to trust
You slowly sink into their heart stream
similarly enough to the eventual build up of chemicals
within the precise bodies of the mechanical clock painters
01/12/15
We may postulate till abortion becomes our birthright. It's tenfold 100. But that ain't the total girlfriend experience nor the girlfriend as experienced in her totality. Her mystical & whimsical demeanor moshes no make-up/mark-up in Cebu, in Bacolod, in Pampanga. I can't cough up a hocker to the radon enigma as it's too enigmatic to compare with phlegm or phlegmatic, productive cough-ups tinged red.
Mateuš Conrad Sep 2020
once again: there isn't really anything
to write about:
once upon a time: in those
c'est la vie days of yore -
where people could have
their spontaneous elevations of grandeur
and sophistication -
or a complete lack of it...
whichever whatever...
it was somehow a duty to write
a doodle of rat-scuttling imitation:
not some grand fictive escapism -
but this little bit of nuance here...
this little bit of nuance "there"...
fine fine, fine... in the days of c'est la vie...
hell: it's not like we're going
to revise the original thirst of science:
science as an adventure as primordial as
rock star thrilling -
like discovering new elements:
marie curie and polon and radon -
it just seems when chemistry has exhausted
its quest: the two sciences either side of it:
biology and physics have become...
science fiction or... a... debate...
i want to stress that last word with
a dryness -
biology as some variation of
darwinism - this quest of: forever in theory
but never in polite society a practice -
or otherwise post-theory and so otherwise:
merely talk of weather can be more
entertaining -
when science was adventurous:
when it was tinged with the alchemical -
somehow you could weave in a momentary
lapse of: the desired outcome with
some linguistic mini side projects...
like ☿...        mercury -
then again: jupiter - ♃ -
extending the prospect of 4...
♅ that belongs to... SHA... cyrillic - ш -
and of course ♆ and phi -
- but how isn't one to behave
on-and-off like a solipsist these days...
it's impossible to write anything
when so many people are not living
their very own...
but when **** good pop comes along
i just want to get out of bed...
miley cyrus' midnight sky teasing
at something that could have come from
a tina turner repertoire...
revisiting the 1980s...
it's a song and i feel
myself immersed in that moment of
stepping out from the underground
while heading to camden town...
teasing at the same sort of "hopes"
as: foster the people's sit next to me...
or LP's - girls go wild...
king rat pretending
to scuttle this little me and my d.j. side-project:
ha ha...
i sobered up watching le mans '66
and couldn't believe that: there's this now:
while there was also: that, then...
i drank too much water and
vomited while taking a shower...
seances of a pedestrian executions of:
out-of-every-instance: an insistence -
my definition of existence...
the best pop in: towing a town along a
great breach of desirable plumbing work-arounds...
that science these days is
this rigid statistical beast:
that anything new is so niche add-on specific
and hardly a thrilling escapade...
a pop song can: change a life of not anticipating
a white noise interlude prior to noon
in an instant... which is kept...
what it would feel: best kept secret is
to froth at the value of feelings that can be
mastered - in this current currency
of fudge-packaging of thought: from the on-high
onslaught of a morbid ms. mundane
about: i put on my sunglasses anticipating
white light from the old mythology
of the bomb not dropped for collateral rummagings
of stat...
lips tied to a bottle...
and an arrow shot at a cloud...
something breezy something easily-come-by
a negation of everything except
a revisiting of spontaneity -
contorts in cubism: that someone somewhere
is somehow playing 4D chess...
because the admiration and skewed rhetoric
is just this now and there was a hunger...
me and my filter complications...
sieving a readership thank god:
that there is no automatic picking up of
a tabloid newspaper like:
sitting on a toilet and nothing is missing:
perhaps beside the ******* to leech on
a hatrick on the throne of thrones...
it's so comforting that you only
eed to keep a cat and wait for it
to trigger a process of petting...
when it wants to be petted while you can
ignore it: for the best part: cactus sire...
best kept in the dark like some *******
mushroom...
hardly thought projects with
solipsism as base and side project of so many
people...
come 00:00... a divine adieu
that will also whisper: come tomorrow and
every branch of my little defeatism -
a life a tree which will never come around
a shorthand of a crucifix.
dangling pseudo-apple: corpus christi -
well yes: a pristine revamp of the old testament...
a genius at work...
otherwise                      really?
see words with hieroglyphic clarity -
now that i might overload on emoticon saturation?
Johnny Noiπ Nov 2018
Therefore, that is Best of all, how long and scary,
the voice of / and it is in the power of profit, but now,
for this is on average, moderate and severe health,
or so much as move, for example, in the group,
just as they are united in the midst of the Chinese
people. Four three different times, three different
grammar poets record main leaders of the two factories
(such as 100, 500, E, and F) and one or more items.
Elect such as images, music, and various goods from
the three light changes of colors, black, white, white,
special weight and the strength of beauty through
the skin tone and skin damage. Properties (satire luvnellis)
mixed with steam toys separated. Reprocessing has
the effect of radon (our hypothesis). Six minutes
of full ink powder Google - Jan Cicero Such Supply,
Melbourne David Casey, the Philippines, David Camp
David, the music is the first child in the Philippines
and Bird umas manufacturing grow into neighboring
countries such as Filipino: 2: 26: Philip Berger's old
literary philosophy. "Palestine master of color," for
infants and children, Google Boston 1 Google, Asia
and North America, and Venice Finland 2 Philadelphia
International Amnesty 26 (2) Google celebrated the
Palestinians, and holidays in the first two years, medical
schools and Phillips the philosophical world wide,
wide world, Circozio, Sunny world, in mountains
and in those days, p2, Google Book 1 - Carlos -
Button-summer, Laura's wedding security programmers
do want to enjoy it? 1) Google's reputation " allows
children and grandchildren, and the children to develop
a program in the 1 Antedeluvian five days, and it is important
to restore the circle. January 2, I dread to Google 2:26:
Philip Berger was born in San Francisco, Melbourne
children, the David Phillip Cicero, Cambridge and rock music.
Philly, Google, Yahoo, Google's Verblesh has been assured
that Google and the two Asian Growers of North America,
the amnesty ternational, Philadelphia 26 (2) physician
and poet Phillips mentions World War 2: South African
ultrasound scanner, used children and newborn scanner;
A boy, a young man's name and age of the child, the child's
cherry Angel school, students and young people, preschool,
child, daughter, heir, boy, kidney, total, gender, youth,
baby boy carrot, the enriched with fruit, the mountain of the Taurus;
when the child was a boy: a boy, a bear, the son of the heir
of the number of generations; there is no matter; But the better
the scary / stand power is. In fact, the average, moderate
and heavy with a feeling of sound and healthy condition,
or any of them be, for example, is concerned with uniting
it to be becomingly in the liturgical ceremonies, as an alternative
to sugar and that it is useful. Four times three different
factories in the great poet, and the other two grammar
(such as 100, 500, E, and F) in order to record lessons to one
or two main standards drink is important. Use your opportunity
to choose the variety and diversity of the three varieties of songs
I had read about the images of the colors, the light, the power,
the strength of the skin, loss of skin tone, and the beauty
of that light of a white light to the darkness of the color
of a special near and far away. Properties (satire luvnalis) mixture
should be separated from the rubber button. Reprocessing
has the effect radon (our hypothesis). Six minutes of full ink
powder, Google - TV inspires young Jan Talys is part of Melbourne,
Camp David and David Philippine rock music. I was just in
the Philippines, and neighboring countries, as Esmé Marshall
at 20, one of the world’s top models. Beginning in 1978,
she graced 15 fashion magazine covers in her first 12 months
before the camer and Bird Philli grow in Philly: 2: 26: Phillip
Burger's literary philosophy was born. "Palestine master of color,"
for infants and children, Google Boston 1 Google, Asia
and North America, North America, North America, North
America, North America, North America, North America,
America, America and Venice Finland 2 Philadelphia people
Amnesty 26 ( 2) Google celebrated the Palestinians, and there is only
a couple of years, and the doctor and philosopher, Philip World Wide,
Wide World, Sarkozy, sunny world mountain and the nature
of the festival, Google P2 book - Iron - Magnet-Glory changes,
changes in skin a computer programmer to provide protection,
so you want to enjoy? 1) Google's "report" allows children
and grandchildren, and the children to develop a program in the
1 epilipin five days, and then restore it is important circle.
January 2, fear and worry Google 2: 26: Berger Philip was born
in San Francisco, Melbourne children, part of David David David
Philip and a pet play music Cambridge. Since the Philippines I
was growing among neighboring countries, Google and Google
producer, Google Verbesch confidence, Google will be launching
Google in North America, North America, North America, North
America, Amnesty International, Philadelphia 26 (2) and two Asian children, World 2 war; South Africa, 1000
Johnny Noiπ May 2018
hap·pen hapən/verb
verb: happen; 3rd person present: happens; past tense:
happened; past participle: happened; gerund or
present participle: happening 1. take place; occur.
"the afternoon when the disturbance happened"
synonyms: occur, take place, come about; ensue,
result, transpire, materialize, arise, crop up, come up,
present itself, supervene; informal, go down; formal,
eventuate; literary: come to pass, betide
"remember what happened last time he was here"
ensue as an effect or result of an action or event.
"this is what happens when the mechanism goes wrong"
chance to do something or come about.
"we just happened to meet Paul"
synonyms: discover, find, find by chance, come across,
chance on, stumble on, hit on
"she happened on a blue jay's nest" come about by chance.
"it just so happened that she turned up that afternoon"
synonyms: chance, have the good/bad luck
"they happened to be in" find or come across by chance.
"Mike played football as a boy and happened on cycling by accident"
used as a polite formula in questions.
"do you happen to know who her doctor is?"
2. be experienced by (someone); befall.
"the same thing happened to me"
become of. "I don't care what happens to the money"
synonyms: become of; literary, befall, betide
"I wonder what happened to Joe?"
Origin: late Middle English (superseding the verb hap ):
from the noun hap + -en. en·sue inˈso͞o,enˈso͞o/verb
verb: ensue; 3rd person present: ensues; past tense:
ensued; past participle: ensued; gerund or present participle:
ensuing happen or occur afterward or as a result.
"the difficulties that ensued from their commitment to Cuba"
synonyms: result, follow, develop, proceed, succeed, emerge, stem, arise, derive, issue; Origin: late Middle English
(formerly also as insue): from Old French ensivre,
from Latin insequi, based on sequi ‘follow.’ oc·cur əˈkər/verb
verb: occur; 3rd person present: occurs; past tense: occurred;
past participle: occurred; gerund or present participle: occurring
happen; take place. "the accident occurred at about 3:30 p.m."
synonyms: happen, take place, come about, transpire,
materialize, arise, crop up; informal, go down; literary,
come to pass, befall, betide; formal, eventuate
"the accident occurred at about 3:30"
exist or be found to be present in a place or under
a particular set of conditions.
"radon occurs naturally in rocks such as granite"
synonyms: be found, be present, exist, appear, prevail,
present itself, manifest itself, turn up
"the disease occurs chiefly in tropical climates"
(of a thought or idea) come into the mind of (someone).
"it occurred to him that he hadn't eaten"
synonyms: enter one's head/mind, cross one's mind,
come to mind, spring to mind, strike one, hit one,
dawn on one, suggest itself, present itself
"an idea occurred to her" Origin: late 15th century:
from Latin occurrere ‘go to meet, present itself,’
from ob- ‘against’ + currere ‘to run.’
Ryan O'Leary Apr 2019
I am the Guinea Pig, my own
fault for not reading the reviews
before I dined at Soos Chinese
restaurant at Mallow Co Cork
in Ireland, today at noon.

What a disaster, everything is
laden with sugar, the sauce is
commercial, it is in The Spa
area of the town where Radon
is active, cancer causing.

Low rents, because nobody
wants to live there. The food
was lousy, the price was high
and I regret not coming home
to cook something wholesome.

Ps.

I don't read reviews
but I do write them.
Ryan O'Leary Nov 2019
Today is our last day at
Iskeroon.com, tomorrow

Mallow, once more it is
back to the urban myth.

Neighbours, the smell
of meat cooking,

Carbon monoxide from
Polish coal,

Cars passing non stop
day and night,

Trains, four an hour on
a ten arch steel bridge,

Dogs doings on the paths,
litter along hedge rows,

Baby's nappies in streams
and town supply aqueducts,

Contaminated tap water,
carcinogenic radon gas,

Solemn knells of funeral
bells, encore cancer victims.

Certainly not the best place
to live, but a great place to die.

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www.visitmallowb4udie.com

                     (not)
Vanita vats Oct 2024
Live love is

as light as hydrogen

Memories of break ups are

as heavy as Radon

— The End —