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"rail" poems
cedar planks line the dim lit hall morning snow begins to fall sepia print in a chipped wood frame embers spark from the franklin flame rustling sounds from bunks below records play in a tight alcove bacon grills on an iron sheet gloves are warmed by baseboard heat bean bags tossed on colored **** papka placed as a punching bag red brick wall with mounted poles windows filled with glacier bowls whiskey jack on the southern rail a frozen patch of wine and ale pine cones fall in gathering white brothers bathed in firelight sleighs are on the table top canyon road is at a stop northern winds that bite the face lines are up the gondola base cornice clipped by gully goats the rubber man appears to float alpine depths are on the rise peaking sun through parting skies triple ropes and nordic luge honored guests from baton rouge gelande jumps on rainbow drive nostalgia’s light and warm reply
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Jan 2, 2017
Jan 2, 2017 at 5:50 PM UTC
yellow ducks of buckhorn
Such small things: a farm in the north, a plantation in the south. A small urban home rather than A mansion on the edge of an enormous field. Paved roads and rail road tracks inside cities instead of Gravel paths through paths of trees and cotton fields. Business men walking by or a rich plantation owner With two African slaves at his side. They can cause conflict, major differences. Political views and moral issues. How the country should be run? How the people are to live? The laws and abilities surrounding slaves? Is it right to own another human?
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 7:28 PM UTC
Brother Against Brother (differences)
In passing with my mind on nothing in the world but the right of way I enjoy on the road by virtue of the law— I saw an elderly man who smiled and looked away to the north past a house— a woman in blue who was laughing and leaning forward to look up into the man’s half averted face and a boy of eight who was looking at the middle of the man’s belly at a watchchain— The supreme importance of this nameless spectacle sped me by them without a word— Why bother where I went? for I went spinning on the four wheels of my car along the wet road until I saw a girl with one leg over the rail of a balcony
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The Right Of Way
Cardinal Oh, Cardinal You great scarlet bird. You hop along my porch rail But you don't say a word. Defiant So Defiant Of nature's camouflage. There is no way to hide Your bright red entourage. Orange Bright Orange. Your sharp pointy beak. Gathers the worms and the seeds All the meals that you seek. Feed Feed her. This mate that you court. Such a noble young man You dance and cavort. Sing Sing sweet You and your friends I'll love your songs every morning 'Til winter comes 'round again. Babies Your babies I'll meet them come next year. When in the Fall, they'll alight on my porch And bring my morning's cheer. Cardinal Oh, Cardinal I'm so glad you're here, you see. I knew your parents and now you have come Singing just for me.
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Mar 14, 2018
Mar 14, 2018 at 3:02 PM UTC
Coffee With A Cardinal
the heavy heart is a heathen corrupter of better nature committer of soul-treason fueled by the miserable notion that death is twilight and life is dawn to flight, to flail to rage, to rail to weep, to wail to no avail to unhope and all of this minus the mercy ©Jason Cole
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 7:40 PM UTC
Minus The Mercy
Four years have past Yet your memory seems to last I shed my tears across the page My heart threatens to break it's cage This year you'll be twenty-one Drinking alone isn't going to be fun The track ran smooth, but your hear was frail You worked yourself over the rail One lap, two lap, three lap, four I count the miles wanting more You loved the track, you loved the sun I imagine you with me when I run Your auburn hair, your glowing eyes Your smiles brightening darkened skies I smile for you, you smile for me It fills my heart with shortened glee Goodbye dear Sara, we'll miss you so I love you dear, remember you're no longer a child of woe
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 7:45 PM UTC
SMiLe
Every couple 'a years or so Our family reunites It takes a couple 'a years or so To recover from the fights A family like our'n Doesn't party like most do Ours gets a little out of hand That's why we have so few It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's daisy dukes and forty Lukes They're racing trucks and burning rubber There's jugs of moonshine everywhere And at least a hundred bubbas There's a smoker fired for the food the size of two large trucks It hold 4 cows, and fourteen pigs And at least a hundred ducks It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's pickled this and pickled that And things you just can't swallow That used to live down in the swamp Way back there in the hollow There's at least ten shotgun weddings there And the groom might be rail roaded But, the wedding isn't legal If the shotgun isn't loaded It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's greased up pigs and muddy runts And at least ten bobby sues and when they all get greased up You can't tell which is who There's horseshoe pits for tossing shoes And games of every sort Most of them aren't legal And would get you into court It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball But, it's the way we like it Drinking shine and acting out Tossing things that aren't tied down And wrassling about There's music there of just one kind It's country and that matters Any other sort of sound Sets the crowd off like mad hatters It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's always someone who's so drunk And it's normally the preacher Last year we married him off To the back up first grade teacher There's Chevy trucks of every kind And one covered in sod Mary Lou showed her tattoo "Jeff Foxworthy is my God" It's the best time of the year for us And it's sad when it must end but, you gotta haul your *** away When the cops come round that bend It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball
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Jul 23, 2013
Jul 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM UTC
Redneck Family Reunion
Every couple 'a years or so Our family reunites It takes a couple 'a years or so To recover from the fights A family like our'n Doesn't party like most do Ours gets a little out of hand That's why we have so few It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's daisy dukes and forty Lukes They're racing trucks and burning rubber There's jugs of moonshine everywhere And at least a hundred bubbas There's a smoker fired for the food the size of two large trucks It hold 4 cows, and fourteen pigs And at least a hundred ducks It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's pickled this and pickled that And things you just can't swallow That used to live down in the swamp Way back there in the hollow There's at least ten shotgun weddings there And the groom might be rail roaded But, the wedding isn't legal If the shotgun isn't loaded It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's greased up pigs and muddy runts And at least ten bobby sues and when they all get greased up You can't tell which is who There's horseshoe pits for tossing shoes And games of every sort Most of them aren't legal And would get you into court It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball But, it's the way we like it Drinking shine and acting out Tossing things that aren't tied down And wrassling about There's music there of just one kind It's country and that matters Any other sort of sound Sets the crowd off like mad hatters It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball There's always someone who's so drunk And it's normally the preacher Last year we married him off To the back up first grade teacher There's Chevy trucks of every kind And one covered in sod Mary Lou showed her tattoo "Jeff Foxworthy is my God" It's the best time of the year for us And it's sad when it must end but, you gotta haul your *** away When the cops come round that bend It's a redneck family reunion everybody has a grand old time eating grandma's cooking and drinking grandpas shine You never go home hungry If you make it home at all You go home bruised and battered And you surely had a ball
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What we have named Fire Escape (an ordered, angular tangle of ladders and rail) had made picture geometries in my west window well-framed and flat--set foreground and background in two dimensions, as the sun hid, and my round eye opened. What we have named Fire Escape was flaked-paint brown orange, as if first it had been born of a flame and then had taken up living as metal-- tempered itself into usefulness, which I should trust now, in case of the yelling and the engines. What we have named Fire Escape was happy Jungle Jim or Jungle for Jane for the sparrows I saw this morning which flitted and wildly played within, rising up arched and back again. Made of the square pairs of ladder rungs-- a tunnel entrance or ducking posts, or highway bridges to clear; the birds like small plane, daredevil pilots each following each, going under. No sparrow would ever crash. And what is this I remember now? How one bird eased its engine and perched there to stay? As if to offer me, with a little turn of head gesture-- a thank you, for the bread I'd left on the sill? Or to say I'd better shut the curtain and make my exit? Either prideful guess gets me nowhere fast. Failed even is speaking in any sparrow languages from my recline stuffed chair; again, but now imagined, to draw beady eyes to fix on me, telling me much less. That morning, with the very last sparrow gone, I remember that nothing in my sight moved, save an American flag at a distance in the wind, with its one red-white striped wing waving toward the cold north, as the white church spire, framed in open quadrilaterals, held its position.
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Apr 15, 2013
Apr 15, 2013 at 5:18 AM UTC
A Fire Escape of Sparrows
What we have named Fire Escape (an ordered, angular tangle of ladders and rail) had made picture geometries in my west window well-framed and flat--set foreground and background in two dimensions, as the sun hid, and my round eye opened. What we have named Fire Escape was flaked-paint brown orange, as if first it had been born of a flame and then had taken up living as metal-- tempered itself into usefulness, which I should trust now, in case of the yelling and the engines. What we have named Fire Escape was happy Jungle Jim or Jungle for Jane for the sparrows I saw this morning which flitted and wildly played within, rising up arched and back again. Made of the square pairs of ladder rungs-- a tunnel entrance or ducking posts, or highway bridges to clear; the birds like small plane, daredevil pilots each following each, going under. No sparrow would ever crash. And what is this I remember now? How one bird eased its engine and perched there to stay? As if to offer me, with a little turn of head gesture-- a thank you, for the bread I'd left on the sill? Or to say I'd better shut the curtain and make my exit? Either prideful guess gets me nowhere fast. Failed even is speaking in any sparrow languages from my recline stuffed chair; again, but now imagined, to draw beady eyes to fix on me, telling me much less. That morning, with the very last sparrow gone, I remember that nothing in my sight moved, save an American flag at a distance in the wind, with its one red-white striped wing waving toward the cold north, as the white church spire, framed in open quadrilaterals, held its position.
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Nobody marching toward us Their guns making us die. No tanks are come clanking No bombers in the sky. But our Congress and generals When oil or bases seem needed; We appear armed and threatening Peace and love talk not heeded. No country has attacked us With troops and lethal artillery. But our leaders expect us to Go open up their arteries And **** their women and children And laugh while they all die And we are expected to do this And never think to ask why. It’s almost like big companies Were sad when WW2 ended So they started attacking countries We really should have befriended. We let Russia have free reign To **** and ****** and steal Almost as if their aggression Wasn’t really true or even real. We looked around and made them, Those evil old warlike excuses, That some country threatened freedom And we pretended they weren’t ruses. We attacked Korea and Vietnam We were just supposed to observe That they were yellow people there And think they got what they deserved. We didn’t stop there, as Reagan took A duly elected leader and put him in jail. If any country did that to our country The conservatives would howl and rail. Then the Bushes tried their best to take Iraq to steal their oil and punish them And created an era of stronger hatred And anti-American outrage and mayhem. No foreign country has attacked America; So, the point bears repeating once again. We need to stop acting like bullies here And start acting like decent statesmen And women who have the bigger picture; The growth of peace in our battered world So, other countries will not take their guns And shoot our flag when it’s unfurled.
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 4:56 PM UTC
THE BIG LIE OF WAR
Nobody marching toward us Their guns making us die. No tanks are come clanking No bombers in the sky. But our Congress and generals When oil or bases seem needed; We appear armed and threatening Peace and love talk not heeded. No country has attacked us With troops and lethal artillery. But our leaders expect us to Go open up their arteries And **** their women and children And laugh while they all die And we are expected to do this And never think to ask why. It’s almost like big companies Were sad when WW2 ended So they started attacking countries We really should have befriended. We let Russia have free reign To **** and ****** and steal Almost as if their aggression Wasn’t really true or even real. We looked around and made them, Those evil old warlike excuses, That some country threatened freedom And we pretended they weren’t ruses. We attacked Korea and Vietnam We were just supposed to observe That they were yellow people there And think they got what they deserved. We didn’t stop there, as Reagan took A duly elected leader and put him in jail. If any country did that to our country The conservatives would howl and rail. Then the Bushes tried their best to take Iraq to steal their oil and punish them And created an era of stronger hatred And anti-American outrage and mayhem. No foreign country has attacked America; So, the point bears repeating once again. We need to stop acting like bullies here And start acting like decent statesmen And women who have the bigger picture; The growth of peace in our battered world So, other countries will not take their guns And shoot our flag when it’s unfurled.
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Look in the mirror Look at the clock Look at the time It never has stopped It only goes forward It's a one way walk See how you have been growing You ask yourself, "where have the days been going?" Time can only progress Yes, the river of life is always flowing We lived cabins And castles and caves We came from Adam and eve We evolved from apes From Socrates and Homer To Napoleon and Alexander the Great The minds that desired knowing And the enlightened ones glowing People can only advance Yes the river of life is always flowing Revolutions and rebellions Riots and revolts Great discoveries A key, a kite and a lightning bolt Great writings and inventions Innovations from inspiring jolts Improvement was showing To the future the world was going Humanity only began to develop Yes the river of life is always flowing Religions and sciences Economics and politics Television and radio Monarchies and dictatorships Tanks and machine guns Atomic bombs and battle ships We went from arrow shooting and spear throwing The muskets needed reloading To nuclear weapons Yes the river of life is always flowing Exploring new lands To find the world wasn't flat To find silver and gold And buried artifacts To establish new territories And expand the map The searching ship kept rowing As civilization went on growing Accomplishments of the past Yes the river of life is always flowing Boats and rail roads Fair trade and industry World wide markets Over land and sea To keep out nations going And stablize the economy But now every country has money that they're owing And the land that they're owning Is has evolved Yes the river of life is always flowing Social reforms Counter cultures fight They protest strongly For equal civil rights The world's in constant change Every day turns into night Every opening has its closing And then it comes back again As long as there's someone hoping Yes the river of life is always flowing We put people into space We have fought for equality Created a world from nothing And advanced technology We've struggle to go to where we are And continue to go strongly The opportunities fate has been bestowing We look forward to see what is ahead The memories and mysteries the hourglass is holding Yes the river of life is always flowing
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Apr 23, 2014
Apr 23, 2014 at 2:40 PM UTC
The River of Life is Always Flowing
Look in the mirror Look at the clock Look at the time It never has stopped It only goes forward It's a one way walk See how you have been growing You ask yourself, "where have the days been going?" Time can only progress Yes, the river of life is always flowing We lived cabins And castles and caves We came from Adam and eve We evolved from apes From Socrates and Homer To Napoleon and Alexander the Great The minds that desired knowing And the enlightened ones glowing People can only advance Yes the river of life is always flowing Revolutions and rebellions Riots and revolts Great discoveries A key, a kite and a lightning bolt Great writings and inventions Innovations from inspiring jolts Improvement was showing To the future the world was going Humanity only began to develop Yes the river of life is always flowing Religions and sciences Economics and politics Television and radio Monarchies and dictatorships Tanks and machine guns Atomic bombs and battle ships We went from arrow shooting and spear throwing The muskets needed reloading To nuclear weapons Yes the river of life is always flowing Exploring new lands To find the world wasn't flat To find silver and gold And buried artifacts To establish new territories And expand the map The searching ship kept rowing As civilization went on growing Accomplishments of the past Yes the river of life is always flowing Boats and rail roads Fair trade and industry World wide markets Over land and sea To keep out nations going And stablize the economy But now every country has money that they're owing And the land that they're owning Is has evolved Yes the river of life is always flowing Social reforms Counter cultures fight They protest strongly For equal civil rights The world's in constant change Every day turns into night Every opening has its closing And then it comes back again As long as there's someone hoping Yes the river of life is always flowing We put people into space We have fought for equality Created a world from nothing And advanced technology We've struggle to go to where we are And continue to go strongly The opportunities fate has been bestowing We look forward to see what is ahead The memories and mysteries the hourglass is holding Yes the river of life is always flowing
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I made my own stop. I made my own end of the line. I made my own terminal. I end here. Someone died here today; the start of their journey, and the end of my own. oil blood urine fluids of mechanic and natural origins. I peddle my wares; I sell my sweat; I am an energy salesman. I ride this rail on rubber, not steel. I do not intend to steer clear but still be clear when the front-end is near. Electric elephants bound to acrobat playgrounds. Painted Tusks as valuable as my soul. I do not meddle with my pedal: joules of life grow more valuable. energy exchanged
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 4:35 PM UTC
ambushed by an energy salesman
on the other-side of a grave wall there may rightly be a water-vessel that is chicken-hearted by birth there may not be around her a stretching of water-body do remember when we all went that day to catch the train the room of the rail-station was totally vanished after enquiry it was revealed that it had gone to observe holidays with its family in the yolk of the eggs of the snipe before opening the no-door to take a leap i also knew that the top-branch of a green and large grasshopper was mainly made up of white-stones i did not also have any mystic words given by the moon to recite silently so without caring for the water i made a all-complete ocean with sands and cement throughout the year solvency gets down from the body of the traffic signal even-then the monsoon this year has been under the poverty-line and the ray of hope is that it is this circuitous route leading to the top of the himalaya that would one day play the tune of differential calculus on her guitar
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Oct 1, 2010
Oct 1, 2010 at 6:58 AM UTC
differential calculus
If I were only me I would drive to San Francisco and jump off the big orange bridge. I might do it if I knew it wouldn’t hurt them, but I can't because it would so I keep fighting all this **** that haunts me. I have eleven reasons not to do it, eleven people I will not name, eleven reasons not to hit the water at 86 mph, eleven reasons to avoid massive internal bleeding, to avoid broken ribs and punctured lungs, to avoid …telescoping fractures…… asphyxiation by blood and…… ….telescoping fractures…….. Eleven reasons to avoid 4 seconds of second guessing.....and telescoping fractures…..   Eleven reasons…… …....................OK twelve.   Eleven people in my life I couldn’t do it to. Twelve including me because I know I won’t like the sound of what it might sound like, the difference in my mind between the sound of fractures and the sound of telescoping fractures, a terrifying sound, enough to keep me away from San Francisco, not to mention the big orange bridge. I lie awake at night with numbers racing around inside my head, 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 4 seconds from rail to water, 220 feet to fall, 24 hours in a day, 86 miles per hour at impact. I keep counting and sleeping fitful frightening sleep, endure nightmares of falling, flying off the big orange bridge, reaching upward, the bridge getting smaller and smaller, and every morning I wake before impact still a martyr for all of us.
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 1:03 PM UTC
Eleven, no Twelve
they stained the back deck today (with a hard to match 7 periwinkle) 400 square feet of knotted pine (in a striking rivet sequence) red ant drivers (who can forget those little ****** caked fir needles & feather cone bug hologram & cedar moss graffiti crack & cut joist wheel rut & pick pike stain (s) sow bugs electric blower purple fueled washer missing foul bits and two of its former pins somewhere near the erratic 9th stroke the side kick (and his sloppy dullard) fell sadly in a cacophony of sick laughter anxious peckers, poinsettias, grub box, rail stems lacewings (ladylike in their task), third door down windows old ergonomic chairs (so highly touted in the checkout isle at Lowes) all for not, I guess ~ seems they never reviewed the Homestead Manual on Fine Deck Painting ~
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Jan 21, 2017
Jan 21, 2017 at 3:55 PM UTC
The Homestead Manual on Fine Deck Painting
poetry readings have to be some of the saddest ****** things ever, the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies, week after week, month after month, year after year, getting old together, reading on to tiny gatherings, still hoping their genius will be discovered, making tapes together, discs together, sweating for applause they read basically to and for each other, they can't find a New York publisher or one within miles, but they read on and on in the poetry holes of America, never daunted, never considering the possibility that their talent might be thin, almost invisible, they read on and on before their mothers, their sisters, their husbands, their wives, their friends, the other poets and the handful of idiots who have wandered in from nowhere. I am ashamed for them, I am ashamed that they have to bolster each other, I am ashamed for their lisping egos, their lack of guts. if these are our creators, please, please give me something else: a drunken plumber at a bowling alley, a prelim boy in a four rounder, a **** guiding his horse through along the rail, a bartender on last call, a waitress pouring me a coffee, a drunk sleeping in a deserted doorway, a dog munching a dry bone, an elephant's **** in a circus tent, a 6 p.m. freeway crush, the mailman telling a ***** joke anything anything but these.
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Just reached the summit The adrenaline building up for the plummet Strap in to start the cruise Headphones in, listening to my tunes Now scanning the powdery terrain I’m flying like a jet engine plane Take off on the jump My knees take the big thump, Up ahead, there’s the rail The momentum gives me the power to sail Almost busting I gain my stability Now I got my mobility Carving back and forth Now at dusk I see my guide north My ride ending to a near I get excited for that frosty beer
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Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015 at 8:42 PM UTC
The cruise
The oxygen secreted from the walnut tree, the snap-pole green beans growing up the side of the rusty garden fence, and bags of aluminum cans stored  in the shed with the old cash registers from the antique store. These are the golden frames caught and edited onto organic film, etched into grey matter, projected from a foggy lens onto reflective marble. We abandoned the clubhouse because of spiders; they took the place for themselves after a storm. Our new abode was the patch of grass between the walnut tree and the fence in the back corner of the yard; shady, rough terrain from fallen walnuts, and the grass always had a slight dew in places. "The place where the snakes live" is what we called it when we were sprouts; now we could catch them in both hands. One night, the wind blew over the shed doors; flimsy, sliding rail, aluminum thing. We slinked in and got to play with the old adding machines, foreign tools, jars full of door hinges, and rusty hand-crank egg beaters. Eventually, the roof of the shed collected so many years of twigs, walnut husks, and foliage fallen that tiny trees began to pop their heads up from the clutter. Crickets underneath the gutter guards- two types; the black singers and the ones you have to dig for that will draw blood if they get a hold of one of your fingers. Sometimes, if bravery was roused and boiling, we would drift closer to the railroad tracks in attempts to catch yellow jackets, or even hornets. One popped their stinger into the back of my neck.
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Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015 at 9:06 PM UTC
Cousin Punches
The oxygen secreted from the walnut tree, the snap-pole green beans growing up the side of the rusty garden fence, and bags of aluminum cans stored  in the shed with the old cash registers from the antique store. These are the golden frames caught and edited onto organic film, etched into grey matter, projected from a foggy lens onto reflective marble. We abandoned the clubhouse because of spiders; they took the place for themselves after a storm. Our new abode was the patch of grass between the walnut tree and the fence in the back corner of the yard; shady, rough terrain from fallen walnuts, and the grass always had a slight dew in places. "The place where the snakes live" is what we called it when we were sprouts; now we could catch them in both hands. One night, the wind blew over the shed doors; flimsy, sliding rail, aluminum thing. We slinked in and got to play with the old adding machines, foreign tools, jars full of door hinges, and rusty hand-crank egg beaters. Eventually, the roof of the shed collected so many years of twigs, walnut husks, and foliage fallen that tiny trees began to pop their heads up from the clutter. Crickets underneath the gutter guards- two types; the black singers and the ones you have to dig for that will draw blood if they get a hold of one of your fingers. Sometimes, if bravery was roused and boiling, we would drift closer to the railroad tracks in attempts to catch yellow jackets, or even hornets. One popped their stinger into the back of my neck.
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I reminisce by this railway siding pond, Musing on rail relics rattling on, Recalling lives and times bygone, But memories of their shades linger on, The lonesome call of distant steam trains, Eras that may never come again, I see they're gone nowhere in particular, Replaced by planes and transport vehicular, I imagine queues on foggy platforms, Awaiting the misted trains' shadow forms, Standing by, expecting the status quo, I blink my eyes, where did they all go? Looking backwards along yesterday's track, I'm no kid any more, get off my back, I reflect and reminisce, Nostalgia is for the times we miss, I'll reminisce by the railway siding pond, I recall the times and lives bygone, As ghosts of rail relics keep rattling on......
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Jul 24, 2015
Jul 24, 2015 at 8:53 PM UTC
LYRIC POEM---I REMINISCE.
Remember that afternoon on the ferry Ride to Nantucket The labrador who fell asleep on my foot And the kid who vomited As we stood at the rail, Mist in our faces Foam that curled From the keel in swirls A whole world in that turbulence That no one would ever know of - Focused on the Grey Lady's Promise that a warm comforter Would melt us together again. And it did, amid the strangers We brushed past On the cobbles at the wharf. Back at the dock, You greeted old demons And so did I But kept them secrets From each other On the long ride Through pine forests As you slept, I drove Back home.
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Apr 17, 2010
Apr 17, 2010 at 8:34 PM UTC
Trip to Nantucket
I wrote a poem on a bus but to hear it you must climb to the top of the bouncing metal stairs.    Slither snake-like past the rail and sit on the rainbow nylon bench.    I'll be there at the top of the bus, reciting my rhyme, written as we ride along, past shops and houses with musty nets and peeling paint on dingy doors.    There's the old woman who lives in a house no bigger than a shoe box who had so many children she didn't know what to do! But they've all grown and flown now and she's all alone with no-one to talk to but herself.    Look at that kid: grimy smile and mischievous eyes, skateboard-scuffed knees, darting out from the roadside. Screech! As we stop and angry words. The kid glances back and tosses a vee leaving just his smile behind.    The bus lurches on at a snail's pace and stops at a stop for a giggle-girl-gang to chatter up the stairs with a clatter of feet and voices:   weekends and boyfriends, music and laughter. The bus trundles and sways past shops all shuttered, old folks gathered by doorways talking about people dead and forgotten ... except by them.    Into the town now: a river of road-rage as our bus ambles onward toward car-parks and markets and rat-racing shoppers    And stops by a brown pigeon-stained temple of public philanthropy, a gift from a long-dead civic leader and now proud home to dogeared tomes of PC persuasion.    Our bus, like some Trojan horse, disgorges its riders who spatter and scatter like rays of dawn light to shop till they drop.    So, just me and you seated atop the steel stairway and you say to me sharply, “So where's your poem then?” I look at you strangely: “It's happened around you,” I tell you quite curtly.
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Sep 23, 2012
Sep 23, 2012 at 11:35 AM UTC
On a Bus
I wrote a poem on a bus but to hear it you must climb to the top of the bouncing metal stairs.    Slither snake-like past the rail and sit on the rainbow nylon bench.    I'll be there at the top of the bus, reciting my rhyme, written as we ride along, past shops and houses with musty nets and peeling paint on dingy doors.    There's the old woman who lives in a house no bigger than a shoe box who had so many children she didn't know what to do! But they've all grown and flown now and she's all alone with no-one to talk to but herself.    Look at that kid: grimy smile and mischievous eyes, skateboard-scuffed knees, darting out from the roadside. Screech! As we stop and angry words. The kid glances back and tosses a vee leaving just his smile behind.    The bus lurches on at a snail's pace and stops at a stop for a giggle-girl-gang to chatter up the stairs with a clatter of feet and voices:   weekends and boyfriends, music and laughter. The bus trundles and sways past shops all shuttered, old folks gathered by doorways talking about people dead and forgotten ... except by them.    Into the town now: a river of road-rage as our bus ambles onward toward car-parks and markets and rat-racing shoppers    And stops by a brown pigeon-stained temple of public philanthropy, a gift from a long-dead civic leader and now proud home to dogeared tomes of PC persuasion.    Our bus, like some Trojan horse, disgorges its riders who spatter and scatter like rays of dawn light to shop till they drop.    So, just me and you seated atop the steel stairway and you say to me sharply, “So where's your poem then?” I look at you strangely: “It's happened around you,” I tell you quite curtly.
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"The first step is always the hardest."  I've recited this over and over in my consciousness. "Grip the rail, tight. " Pursed with dried paint to smooth over the lumps of people gone before you. " You're never the first one to go. " Eyes forward and chin up I gather myself. " It's only stairs, " I say over and over. " It's only stairs," they say. Now, faced with only upward motion. Now, faced with only moving forward. I look out the window to see the moon waning, waxing strong with my ascent. 4x32 are tiles on the floor. 6x15x18 is the case. Hold my hand. Guide me. Guard me through this night. By morning I will have reach this light. "It's only stairs." We say.
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Dec 12, 2014
Dec 12, 2014 at 12:01 AM UTC
The Longest Stair Case
“Never trust a ginger” she sings giggling looking at the red head next to me. Her song is a pretty good representation of our friendship. Throw in a ***** bump and some dorky dance moves oh yea that’s the definition of our friendship. Laughing and dying at things no one else gets actions no one else see’s and mouthed words no one else understands. That’s just a little inside view of our “love”. “Never kiss a ginger” It’s a little late for that don’t ya think blackberry tea and coffee making her laugh till she dies. Hysterics that break her down till she’s on the floor rolling rolling down a hill and being so dizzy she can’t get up. Oh but she’s a monster that chases you around trying to tackle you to the ground. Falling off the playground rail and hitting her head just like in our story so she lays there laughing hysterically. All I can do is shake my head “Never kiss a ginger…twice” yea that’s a little better. he won’t be telling my slightly stunned, amazed face its cute again. The face we later joked about mouth dropped to the floor eyes wide. Like did that seriously just happen. Our dumb and quirky reactions to everything exaggerated, excited yeses and happy little dances. "Never date a ginger” I’m not nor have I ever… where do you get these thoughts that run through your head? Ok I can’t say much my mind wanders to the strangest places and leads us to the greatest conversations. Like cops on bikes with prisoners in baskets leading to Mortal Instruments characters all riding one bike. I’ve no idea where our minds get these strange ideas and imaginings. “Never love a ginger” I never said I love him don’t let your mind wander dangerous things happen when our minds wander anywhere from dinosaurs ruling the world to death and the things in between are sometimes worse to think about “Never like a ginger” OI! with this again I don’t I promise there’s nothing there now please shut up. Yes, yes I love you now please don’t attack my legs again I really don’t feel like falling on the floor it’s not very appealing. Uh-oh
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Mar 9, 2015
Mar 9, 2015 at 11:17 AM UTC
Gingers and Best Friends
“Never trust a ginger” she sings giggling looking at the red head next to me. Her song is a pretty good representation of our friendship. Throw in a ***** bump and some dorky dance moves oh yea that’s the definition of our friendship. Laughing and dying at things no one else gets actions no one else see’s and mouthed words no one else understands. That’s just a little inside view of our “love”. “Never kiss a ginger” It’s a little late for that don’t ya think blackberry tea and coffee making her laugh till she dies. Hysterics that break her down till she’s on the floor rolling rolling down a hill and being so dizzy she can’t get up. Oh but she’s a monster that chases you around trying to tackle you to the ground. Falling off the playground rail and hitting her head just like in our story so she lays there laughing hysterically. All I can do is shake my head “Never kiss a ginger…twice” yea that’s a little better. he won’t be telling my slightly stunned, amazed face its cute again. The face we later joked about mouth dropped to the floor eyes wide. Like did that seriously just happen. Our dumb and quirky reactions to everything exaggerated, excited yeses and happy little dances. "Never date a ginger” I’m not nor have I ever… where do you get these thoughts that run through your head? Ok I can’t say much my mind wanders to the strangest places and leads us to the greatest conversations. Like cops on bikes with prisoners in baskets leading to Mortal Instruments characters all riding one bike. I’ve no idea where our minds get these strange ideas and imaginings. “Never love a ginger” I never said I love him don’t let your mind wander dangerous things happen when our minds wander anywhere from dinosaurs ruling the world to death and the things in between are sometimes worse to think about “Never like a ginger” OI! with this again I don’t I promise there’s nothing there now please shut up. Yes, yes I love you now please don’t attack my legs again I really don’t feel like falling on the floor it’s not very appealing. Uh-oh
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A song comes out of the speeding bhogis, Seeta is the one rendering the song. She chants that her husband has long been dead. Seeta has two sons, just like her ballads. One – Gives rhythm to her song. Other – Rubs a gentleman out of his siesta And asks for a little money. The bhogis gain momentum (Ignores the station master who shows red to stop the pacing male phallus) Long away – A girl lies down, lower than the rails. **** me, **** me, she bangs her head. I will, I will, the rails swell the train song in her ears. Though long away, Though have not heard the girl, As if she has heard something - Seeta stops singing. And her children dash out. Two hobos enter in – As if to sell sizzling peanuts. Just as to give the body a bath – Seemingly not pleased just with the rails – The male train jumps off, Into the wide sea. (Whose ****** is the sea, the breeze hums a song) A thousand crows flutters from – One’s previous birth, To – Another’s next birth. Seeta, having forgotten all her songs – Looks out for her kids. Will arrive shortly, will arrive shortly : Weary, irked and bored - Time waits at a station. (I did remember Rupesh Paul, who drew a simile between the rails and the *** worker’s nights, Anitha Thampi, who wrote about female trains, Latheesh Mohan, who noted down how the train stretches its back, Vishnu Prasad and his poem on the phallus, Prasanna Aryans usage: **** says the wheel and shit-shit , says the rail et al , while writing this poem) (Translated by Sherin Catherine)
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Jan 1, 2014
Jan 1, 2014 at 8:52 AM UTC
The Train: A Huge ***** (The rail, then?)
A song comes out of the speeding bhogis, Seeta is the one rendering the song. She chants that her husband has long been dead. Seeta has two sons, just like her ballads. One – Gives rhythm to her song. Other – Rubs a gentleman out of his siesta And asks for a little money. The bhogis gain momentum (Ignores the station master who shows red to stop the pacing male phallus) Long away – A girl lies down, lower than the rails. **** me, **** me, she bangs her head. I will, I will, the rails swell the train song in her ears. Though long away, Though have not heard the girl, As if she has heard something - Seeta stops singing. And her children dash out. Two hobos enter in – As if to sell sizzling peanuts. Just as to give the body a bath – Seemingly not pleased just with the rails – The male train jumps off, Into the wide sea. (Whose ****** is the sea, the breeze hums a song) A thousand crows flutters from – One’s previous birth, To – Another’s next birth. Seeta, having forgotten all her songs – Looks out for her kids. Will arrive shortly, will arrive shortly : Weary, irked and bored - Time waits at a station. (I did remember Rupesh Paul, who drew a simile between the rails and the *** worker’s nights, Anitha Thampi, who wrote about female trains, Latheesh Mohan, who noted down how the train stretches its back, Vishnu Prasad and his poem on the phallus, Prasanna Aryans usage: **** says the wheel and shit-shit , says the rail et al , while writing this poem) (Translated by Sherin Catherine)
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Every step you take, you are                 moving                                  toward your future, whether you realize it or not. Emerge like the rail road that was once underground. Each choice leads to a new narrative.
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Mar 13, 2018
Mar 13, 2018 at 9:40 PM UTC
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