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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
I breathe in this silence that is not Silenced, Air alive with heartbeats and Clocks ticking too slow, Eyes meeting over Sticky plastic tables, Snapping away like an awkward blind date, Fingertips drumming impatiently. Wait. Calm. Be patient. Tick...tock........tick...............tock I can't, I won't, my son laying One floor, 3 hallways, 12 rooms away, But we are relegated to the hospital cafeteria as if my husband and I are naughty schoolchildren, Interfering. My red shirt crumples beneath Nervous fingers, The same shade as the blood given To my son, not knowing it contained Death. Why can't I fight with my son, My son, Shining brightly and boldly as the sun, Infected with a blood-borne killer we were never warned about. Hemophilia is a tough diagnosis, But my careful worrying wasn't enough to save him from a Diagnosis of ostracism and certain death. AIDS. Oh God. Breathe. Can't breathe. Time moves too fast, my son racing towards eternity Alone. White sheets and sterile beds rob My son of all his sunshine, Lips blue and pale like my husband's jacket, Nothing but incessant beeping and bustling nurses who can't fix him, Clock going tick, tock, tick, tock. I see red. Red dripping into and out of his arms through silver needles, How do I know that this is safe, No one knows if this is safe, This is our only hope. Tick..tock.....tick........tock. White coat of the doctor moving too quickly towards us, We run. My heart thumping red and my stomach yellow bile and my eyes leaking blue. Hospital room not room enough for all my emotions, All of my tears, All of my grief, All his last breaths. My son. No longer my sunshine, Just a pale winter afternoon, No sun beneath cold sheets of snow. My son. Time moves too slow when everyone wears black, Like molasses dripping from a jar into Metallic air and earthy graves. Like ash clouding out the sun. My son. No more my sun.
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Jul 13, 2014
Jul 13, 2014 at 1:16 PM UTC
Yellow Boat
I breathe in this silence that is not Silenced, Air alive with heartbeats and Clocks ticking too slow, Eyes meeting over Sticky plastic tables, Snapping away like an awkward blind date, Fingertips drumming impatiently. Wait. Calm. Be patient. Tick...tock........tick...............tock I can't, I won't, my son laying One floor, 3 hallways, 12 rooms away, But we are relegated to the hospital cafeteria as if my husband and I are naughty schoolchildren, Interfering. My red shirt crumples beneath Nervous fingers, The same shade as the blood given To my son, not knowing it contained Death. Why can't I fight with my son, My son, Shining brightly and boldly as the sun, Infected with a blood-borne killer we were never warned about. Hemophilia is a tough diagnosis, But my careful worrying wasn't enough to save him from a Diagnosis of ostracism and certain death. AIDS. Oh God. Breathe. Can't breathe. Time moves too fast, my son racing towards eternity Alone. White sheets and sterile beds rob My son of all his sunshine, Lips blue and pale like my husband's jacket, Nothing but incessant beeping and bustling nurses who can't fix him, Clock going tick, tock, tick, tock. I see red. Red dripping into and out of his arms through silver needles, How do I know that this is safe, No one knows if this is safe, This is our only hope. Tick..tock.....tick........tock. White coat of the doctor moving too quickly towards us, We run. My heart thumping red and my stomach yellow bile and my eyes leaking blue. Hospital room not room enough for all my emotions, All of my tears, All of my grief, All his last breaths. My son. No longer my sunshine, Just a pale winter afternoon, No sun beneath cold sheets of snow. My son. Time moves too slow when everyone wears black, Like molasses dripping from a jar into Metallic air and earthy graves. Like ash clouding out the sun. My son. No more my sun.
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An away game at Leeds! The Loiner Lion will have its feeds. So it was, back in the day When Revie’s Men held full sway. Reaney, Charlton, Hunter, Cooper, That defence was really super. David Harvey, ‘keeper complete, Guaranteed a solid clean sheet. The midfield ruled by Bremner and Giles, Billy’s energy, Johnny’s wiles. Lorimer and Gray down the wings, Recalling Eddie (Gray), oh my heart sings. Jones and Clarkey gave us goals, Lots of them, shoals and shoals. 73-74 our greatest year, Opponents always full of fear. Man U relegated that season too, Better days there were very few. We won the league by a merry mile, Time to smile as we did it in style. In 69 we lost just two from 42. Opponents didn’t know what to do. Burnley and City our only losses, Otherwise we were the bosses. 92 was another good year, Man U crying in their beer. Then we sold them Cantona, That really was a bridge too far. The rest is history as they say; We strive again to have our day. In the second tier on Italian money, Seeking the land of milk and honey. The Premiership’s the place where we should be, Please Messi, join us, on a free! We hanker for those glory days. God please help us with your mysterious ways. Paul Butters © PB 11\9\2015.
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 5:42 AM UTC
We Are Leeds
Listen. I know you've lived longer Than my short quarter century life. I know you've seen more, Done more, loved more, Touched more, tasted more, Experienced more things than i. I know you're only trying to help. I appreciate the giving of advice. I know you mean well When you say it's time to give them up, It's time to move on, To be my own person, To learn to live for only myself. But you haven't lived through The total decimation of your family. You haven't watched as the lives Of your loved ones fall into utter ruin One by one. You weren't relegated to helpless paralysis By the fear that you'd lose them all And by the depression that came with knowing You couldn't even help yourself. You don't know what it feels like To have the dagger of abandonment, The shattered shards of broken hearts, The pinpoint needles of disillusionment, The three-pronged fork of misunderstanding, ****** into your soul over and over By every lemon life throws your way. You don't know what it is to stand On the brink of death Because if you don't have them, You have nothing. You still have your family. All intact and whole. So don't begrudge me My clutching, grasping, clinging attempts At keeping what remnants of a family I have Together. I will not let them go Until they have to be pried From my dead hands. And even then, I will still be loyal. They are all i have.
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 5:44 PM UTC
Loyal
Running and howling in pain His fate was suppressed with stains Of sins he enslaved. His onus relegated truth of everything he's denied. Now pleading for his life He wants to be human again "O beautiful moon that bestowed this curse on me, I've deigned to your eminence. I'll do anything, So please set me free!!!" *Blood stains his clothes when the transformation goes. Fever rises and he’s left alone at dawn drenched in blood and his transformation pain. While his body aches as he left with shivers and shakes. Bitten in the woods he’s been ****** by the werewolf’s curse. He feels it course through his veins in the middle of the day. No prayer can make this curse go away. Craving blood like never before he ties himself up in shackles on his porcelain bed room floor. Howling to the moon in the dead of night. He breaks his chains from the walls and looks at his claws as they cut through the remaining clothes on his wolf body. Breaking out free from his bedroom window making his way down from the tree and off to the woods where he can run wild and free. Hunting down his prey and watching the blood drop from the silver grey fur he finds another wolf like him near the river stream. He runs over to ask him what has happened to me. He howls to the moon while saying you’ve got the gift to be forever free and you'll never be the same again. You'll remain half wolf and half human like me*. Flabbergasted and petrified, this was not what he had in mind. He wants to be human. He wants to be free. The tears of innocence still crying and screaming within "O brother of Lycans. This curse that our gleaming mother has bestowed upon us. This is a gift even the Lamias are in envy. Feel the wrath and power O brother. Together, we shall upraise the Lycan race!!" *His eyes grew bigger his claws grew longer. He had to leave his old life behind. Family and friends , college and work. All his dreams suddenly came crashing down in just one day. They soon turned to ashes of black and grey. Time to cope with the life of the wild. Time to leave beauty and become the beast.* ***No more tears of innocence he said. Just blood spilling and hunting for the ****
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Feb 1, 2015
Feb 1, 2015 at 11:45 AM UTC
The Moon's Curse (Collaboration With Carolin)
Running and howling in pain His fate was suppressed with stains Of sins he enslaved. His onus relegated truth of everything he's denied. Now pleading for his life He wants to be human again "O beautiful moon that bestowed this curse on me, I've deigned to your eminence. I'll do anything, So please set me free!!!" *Blood stains his clothes when the transformation goes. Fever rises and he’s left alone at dawn drenched in blood and his transformation pain. While his body aches as he left with shivers and shakes. Bitten in the woods he’s been ****** by the werewolf’s curse. He feels it course through his veins in the middle of the day. No prayer can make this curse go away. Craving blood like never before he ties himself up in shackles on his porcelain bed room floor. Howling to the moon in the dead of night. He breaks his chains from the walls and looks at his claws as they cut through the remaining clothes on his wolf body. Breaking out free from his bedroom window making his way down from the tree and off to the woods where he can run wild and free. Hunting down his prey and watching the blood drop from the silver grey fur he finds another wolf like him near the river stream. He runs over to ask him what has happened to me. He howls to the moon while saying you’ve got the gift to be forever free and you'll never be the same again. You'll remain half wolf and half human like me*. Flabbergasted and petrified, this was not what he had in mind. He wants to be human. He wants to be free. The tears of innocence still crying and screaming within "O brother of Lycans. This curse that our gleaming mother has bestowed upon us. This is a gift even the Lamias are in envy. Feel the wrath and power O brother. Together, we shall upraise the Lycan race!!" *His eyes grew bigger his claws grew longer. He had to leave his old life behind. Family and friends , college and work. All his dreams suddenly came crashing down in just one day. They soon turned to ashes of black and grey. Time to cope with the life of the wild. Time to leave beauty and become the beast.* ***No more tears of innocence he said. Just blood spilling and hunting for the ****
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It was relegated to the old root cellar Dropped in haste in  forgotten storage Where dimmest beam of shafted light Kept it 'live in yellowed life , weak and twisted Root and vine, seeking sickly , striving life But now it's out in planted field Furrowed in and giving yield Vine and bud quickly growing Spreading out and surely choking All the other crops of life Air and water , precious light Strangled , starved , beneath the blight It feeds upon all below In rapid spreading nourished growth Soon to cover , spread to all Like a **** , all fields will fall So grows the tyranny imposed on men Carefully planted and watered in
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May 2, 2014
May 2, 2014 at 9:23 AM UTC
Incrementum of dominatus
Once in a while A flower blooms Sprouts, shouts In a dismal, dark room And it makes Me wonder What if (just what if?) It's birth hadn't been such a blunder How would things be different? How would that flower's life Have been altered? Relegated to obscurity from the first click of the knife Was that flower given That situation Because it was able to handle it? Was it meant to be a sensation? And then I think What if it was just random As trivial as a grain of sand In the midst of the worldwide kingdom? Trivial, random Sensational, remarkable I'm just don't know Which way I'm meant to turn the table
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 5:43 PM UTC
A Flower Grows in the Dark
"You're going to hear me mooooo" sings the Cow. "Oh shut up," interrupts the Fox, Of the late viral video hit, from the next cubicle over. "I'm sorry, but you should go work somewhere else. Somewhere for lesser animals," Lion adds. So the Cow left, relegated to laughing and the abundant sale of her breast milk. She never sang again
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Jan 6, 2014
Jan 6, 2014 at 12:52 PM UTC
First the Cow Sings
Its bad luck to talk while you're driving But I don't want us to be fighting Please stay familiar for the last time So what kind of car are you riding I said wait, what are you hiding What do you mean for the last time White Ferrari I finally replied A moment of silence And then she sighed I used to be in pain But now I don't feel it I used to be afraid But now I don't fear it I asked her what she was scared of She said it used to be love But now I don't care Cause I'm not scared Or maybe not unafraid Maybe I'm just not there The empty lot I'd pulled into I gazed at it behind the window Of my White Ferrari, and held the phone The sun went down as shadows relegated The sky turned blurry and pixelated And pretty soon, I'd have to go home White Ferrari Make the world end I don't want to hear this Then she said, please pretend That in this life, in this life We can watch the summer together As it draws to a close, draws to a close And while the leaves fall down and we get cynical We hold hands and you pull me close You dominate my dreams Always I'll see you as I wander in dark corners And hallways Things are so hard in this life Things are so dark in this life We're born alone But we don't have to end that way Please don't hang up the phone Before I go away Your White Ferrari I wish I could see it Or even go to sleep Cause then I could dream it It's so easy to leave you breathless It's not hard to make it look effortless I had an epiphany about life But I'm not quite sure what it was Oh well, nevermind I'll figure it out eventually Eventually She said, are we taller in other dimensions I said, no we're small and not quite worth the mention She said I'm sorry for turning so abstract I said, please tell me where are you at She said, you know I can't tell you that She said, everything is starting to turn black She said don't hang up but try to stay quiet We're never closer than when we're in silence Let's try to imagine what silence looks like I hung up the phone and was left with the night.
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Nov 16, 2021
Nov 16, 2021 at 2:29 PM UTC
White Ferrari
Its bad luck to talk while you're driving But I don't want us to be fighting Please stay familiar for the last time So what kind of car are you riding I said wait, what are you hiding What do you mean for the last time White Ferrari I finally replied A moment of silence And then she sighed I used to be in pain But now I don't feel it I used to be afraid But now I don't fear it I asked her what she was scared of She said it used to be love But now I don't care Cause I'm not scared Or maybe not unafraid Maybe I'm just not there The empty lot I'd pulled into I gazed at it behind the window Of my White Ferrari, and held the phone The sun went down as shadows relegated The sky turned blurry and pixelated And pretty soon, I'd have to go home White Ferrari Make the world end I don't want to hear this Then she said, please pretend That in this life, in this life We can watch the summer together As it draws to a close, draws to a close And while the leaves fall down and we get cynical We hold hands and you pull me close You dominate my dreams Always I'll see you as I wander in dark corners And hallways Things are so hard in this life Things are so dark in this life We're born alone But we don't have to end that way Please don't hang up the phone Before I go away Your White Ferrari I wish I could see it Or even go to sleep Cause then I could dream it It's so easy to leave you breathless It's not hard to make it look effortless I had an epiphany about life But I'm not quite sure what it was Oh well, nevermind I'll figure it out eventually Eventually She said, are we taller in other dimensions I said, no we're small and not quite worth the mention She said I'm sorry for turning so abstract I said, please tell me where are you at She said, you know I can't tell you that She said, everything is starting to turn black She said don't hang up but try to stay quiet We're never closer than when we're in silence Let's try to imagine what silence looks like I hung up the phone and was left with the night.
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Behind the smiling faces Written, a poignant story Hearts lay there in smithereens Still unable to find the pieces Lost forever in the crevices Moments frozen in the past Feelings wrapped in a bubble Smothered and relegated To the corridors of oblivion Yet, the spirits are unbound No chains can hold their energy Fighting a vicious battle To overcome the defeats The smiling faces Spread happiness and positivity So others can find solace And find the courage to fight Smiling faces are beacons of hope They tell a courageous story When you are willing to listen
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Dec 20, 2014
Dec 20, 2014 at 9:20 AM UTC
Smiling Faces
*Women have rights, Right to life and right to speech Rights to love and be loved* **Feelings and emotions running wild, Right to vote and be voted for Feelings of happiness running high** *Not to be harassed or blackmailed, Not to be abused and relegated Women think too Respect the girl child, And tender her Give her the right words And build her ego* **if a man can lead the world, A woman can heal the world** Professor Marylyn-dolly©
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Aug 29, 2016
Aug 29, 2016 at 12:15 PM UTC
WOMEN HAVE RIGHTS...
the invisible hand is in my pocket pilfering everything and there's nothing i can do to stop it from robbing me blind it does not guide it only destroys personal expression under the whims of an outmoded model of economics capitalism a philosophy that subscribes to the metaphysical conclusion that a spiritual malady plagues every human heart a harsh chorus that rings like a melody of triumph in the multi-million dollar mansions of the 1% convinced we're born selfish it seeks to reward us for our own malpractice an edict predicated on social darwinism that forestalls the possibility of future charity as it drowns in the throes of misanthropy and butchers any hope of philanthropic community or basic humanity to vanquish our more maleficent impulses relegated to paying taxes to ensure the illusion of security while our money finances endless war and police brutality rather than healthcare or education they know if they keep us sick and dumb they can get away with ****** if the population shirks in horror from the looming specter of terrorism they can justify ubiquitous surveillance that robs us of our right to self-determination but people should not be afraid of their governments governments should be afraid of their people they say we can't be trusted that this is for our own good but i'll call their bluff that bull on Wall St. is full of **** and like a matador i'll entice it to lower its horns and charge when itsjust a hairsbreadth away i'll turn to one side and let it skewer the slave-driver raising his whip behind me that same skulking shadow that turns veterans into homeless wanderers begging for loose change in Central Park a pale horse haunting the aspirations of college students it leaves the poor and oppressed shivering after dark and overburdens broken backs god doesn't hold up the world like Atlas we shoulder the globe now watch us shift the weight brought down by the people you tried to suppress this is not some petty expression of vengeance but the rallying cry of a dream deferred exploding out to meet your injustice mark my words we're taking over the world
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Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 10:22 AM UTC
dam(nation)
the invisible hand is in my pocket pilfering everything and there's nothing i can do to stop it from robbing me blind it does not guide it only destroys personal expression under the whims of an outmoded model of economics capitalism a philosophy that subscribes to the metaphysical conclusion that a spiritual malady plagues every human heart a harsh chorus that rings like a melody of triumph in the multi-million dollar mansions of the 1% convinced we're born selfish it seeks to reward us for our own malpractice an edict predicated on social darwinism that forestalls the possibility of future charity as it drowns in the throes of misanthropy and butchers any hope of philanthropic community or basic humanity to vanquish our more maleficent impulses relegated to paying taxes to ensure the illusion of security while our money finances endless war and police brutality rather than healthcare or education they know if they keep us sick and dumb they can get away with ****** if the population shirks in horror from the looming specter of terrorism they can justify ubiquitous surveillance that robs us of our right to self-determination but people should not be afraid of their governments governments should be afraid of their people they say we can't be trusted that this is for our own good but i'll call their bluff that bull on Wall St. is full of **** and like a matador i'll entice it to lower its horns and charge when itsjust a hairsbreadth away i'll turn to one side and let it skewer the slave-driver raising his whip behind me that same skulking shadow that turns veterans into homeless wanderers begging for loose change in Central Park a pale horse haunting the aspirations of college students it leaves the poor and oppressed shivering after dark and overburdens broken backs god doesn't hold up the world like Atlas we shoulder the globe now watch us shift the weight brought down by the people you tried to suppress this is not some petty expression of vengeance but the rallying cry of a dream deferred exploding out to meet your injustice mark my words we're taking over the world
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Tiny droplets on my window As I look out gazing, at the stars who light you. (Droplets.) Then I've forgotten, how the sun and moon never share the sky. When all is cloistered by the infinite walls each builds Only to move forward with wheels so round. So I ponder. From whence do you come from? Others say the rain. From a God so dry, to drench so sharply a people who refuse to even be chilled. But have I refused to be mild? Others speak, or even laugh about you being from a wooden cask. So simplistic a material born of nature's ***** raised by human hands killed by a shoe's trample. Only to be revived by repetitive thirst. But have I abandoned value? A small voice goes so far to whisper that you are but a leaf's residue. Relegated as lifeless, you, so clear, have given life to the colors of autumn. And rekindled by the same time that disowned you. But have I been disloyal? Though now as I lie staring at the snow a crystal sparkles. Something from my own eye my own bliss my own sorrow my own consolation my own mortality. Abandoned when I must go. Or have I refused to be constant? Notwithstanding your origin, I touch you, you will never be the same. But will I?
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Jan 22, 2014
Jan 22, 2014 at 4:54 PM UTC
Droplets
we all remember where we were watching the towers burn and fall knowing that things would never be the same at all disbelief at first, or had an action movie slipped into the news no, it was real and then twenty years of vengeful repercussion of military posturing of suffering for many we watched the baddies being painted good and evil being redefined virtue confused impotence and power conflated lies and spin consecrated truth alternated idiot rich guys promoted tax for the poor promulgated democracy desecrated climate destruction accelerated by denialist complacency inequality more concentrated goodness and morality infiltrated by posturing political pus weasels venal vultures of self interest grasping for short term dominance and then .. complacency pervaded as absurdity was accepted as our new state of normal and the height of compassion was owning a dog and tut tutting as refugees marched across our news screens and now we bemoan being isolated from being contaminated we are mostly relegated to stay in our mansions while dinner is contemplated have you been vaccinated?
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Sep 11, 2021
Sep 11, 2021 at 4:32 AM UTC
when the world changed ...
My dog died a couple of weeks ago, I guess. She's sitting in a small box in my mom's room now with a small statue of a mischievous fox and a photo of her golden snout on top. I didn't go to see her the last several times I was in town which means I didn't see her at all for months before she died. Maybe that's why I haven't cried until now; I don't deserve the consolation of sorrow. I call her my dog because I was the youngster that necessitated a dog in 2000, nothing more. But Mali was my dog. I had to google map it to remember where in Africa, but Mali was a good name: A trite sound with an unusual source. In the end it was too appropriate, An arid name for a sandy dog that died too weak to get water and too alone to have it brought to her. For days. When we brought her home all drugged and tiny, with Dumbo ears and lion paws, I wouldn't leave her side for days, eating and sleeping next to her on the floor, until I started feeling down. My mom told me it was like postpartum. How stark a contrast between her coming and her going! She still looked like a puppy to me the last time I saw her, though she moved more slowly. Whenever I see home again, months from now, We'll take her ashes to the creek and avail them of the wind and the water she loved. My dog and my Park, both long neglected, relegated to that past that you can cry for but never reinvest in.
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Feb 12, 2014
Feb 12, 2014 at 1:33 AM UTC
Mali
It was taken without asking Held without contempt Moved by emotion Stolen by a lover It was abused in disguise Bound tightly by fear Rejected, unforgiven Damaged by another It was reclaimed at long last Caged for its own safety Clipped so it couldn't soar Numbed by the experience It was afraid to be free Blindfolded by life Relegated to dull existence Content in acquiescence It grew colder over time Ignored and soon forgotten Shriveled up and hard Unnoticed and discarded It was stumbled upon by grace Warmed slowly by another Held fast in times of trouble Trying hard to be less guarded
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Dec 23, 2010
Dec 23, 2010 at 11:29 PM UTC
On the Mend
Truth is relegated to oblivion Whereas, grandiloquent lies, win
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 12:04 PM UTC
Cynicism
If I could but learn to discard a wounded piece of self If I could part with the beautiful symmetry Of the cogs, driving forth the machinations, Churning with their white noise, that Turn to shape maiming thoughts Then I might one night close my eyes, Not to images of words bound by self-deriding connotation, Comprised of typos and back-strokes But to a peaceful blackness Yes, I might lie down, close my eyes Out of a will for rest, not contrived But organic and my own And so I know this as my waking dream Relegated to wake for the night has been Deemed the world of painful perfection A place where protection is offered With a backward hand, carefully made Patron to the lovely polished mental instruments Used to bludgeon simplicity and idiosyncrasy Used to leverage pressure on the scales of the heart So to tip downward the side of known cyclic indifference And lift upward toward heightened neglect The side of pleasure, the side of silenced retrospect I grow, each sleepless evening, more fearful That the ugly, backward hand might never forgo its leverage And, if life is a wellspring of knowledge Feeding into a stream of lessons Then my strife stems from reading of the Same page in the same chapter of the same textbook A book filled with words bound by self-deriding connotation, Comprised of typos and back-strokes On this page, one learns a fundamental formula It derives the relative weights of who we are And the happiness we might find Through some convoluted tale of misfortune My page was written by an ugly, backward man So, through unsagely studies, I’ve concluded That the art of well defined reprimanding thought Does outweigh in its beauty, the unseen hope Of a future left to whim and bliss, or perhaps The simple elegance of chance, goodness unsought So, for the first time in my life, I seek to unlearn I seek to roll back the defining lines that once flowed From the pen in a backward hand that yearned to sow structure But the vaulted walls that hold the scales of one’s will Are so dauntingly difficult to unbuild or puncture This, truly, is the weight that each sleepless night Bares down upon my sleepless heart, so heavy If I cannot pull exacting, formulaic pages from my sight I fear the only peaceful blackness I will find Is one against no patron hand can levy.
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 5:14 PM UTC
The Backward Man
If I could but learn to discard a wounded piece of self If I could part with the beautiful symmetry Of the cogs, driving forth the machinations, Churning with their white noise, that Turn to shape maiming thoughts Then I might one night close my eyes, Not to images of words bound by self-deriding connotation, Comprised of typos and back-strokes But to a peaceful blackness Yes, I might lie down, close my eyes Out of a will for rest, not contrived But organic and my own And so I know this as my waking dream Relegated to wake for the night has been Deemed the world of painful perfection A place where protection is offered With a backward hand, carefully made Patron to the lovely polished mental instruments Used to bludgeon simplicity and idiosyncrasy Used to leverage pressure on the scales of the heart So to tip downward the side of known cyclic indifference And lift upward toward heightened neglect The side of pleasure, the side of silenced retrospect I grow, each sleepless evening, more fearful That the ugly, backward hand might never forgo its leverage And, if life is a wellspring of knowledge Feeding into a stream of lessons Then my strife stems from reading of the Same page in the same chapter of the same textbook A book filled with words bound by self-deriding connotation, Comprised of typos and back-strokes On this page, one learns a fundamental formula It derives the relative weights of who we are And the happiness we might find Through some convoluted tale of misfortune My page was written by an ugly, backward man So, through unsagely studies, I’ve concluded That the art of well defined reprimanding thought Does outweigh in its beauty, the unseen hope Of a future left to whim and bliss, or perhaps The simple elegance of chance, goodness unsought So, for the first time in my life, I seek to unlearn I seek to roll back the defining lines that once flowed From the pen in a backward hand that yearned to sow structure But the vaulted walls that hold the scales of one’s will Are so dauntingly difficult to unbuild or puncture This, truly, is the weight that each sleepless night Bares down upon my sleepless heart, so heavy If I cannot pull exacting, formulaic pages from my sight I fear the only peaceful blackness I will find Is one against no patron hand can levy.
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The zeros and ones, all the zeros and ones It is time to dive in to some binary fun Just the zeros and ones, all the zeros and ones We're not ready for this But too late It's begun... In this game that we play There's no way can be won And no doubt that someday All mankind is outdone But "no way" they will say "Just relax and have fun" 'Cause there's always a way Not the absolute 'none' Good luck never can stay Of the minimum one An anomaly may Find a way to outrun All the safeguards in place What you spin is now spun This new enemy faced Can't be beat with a gun Giving birth to a race Artificially one That's not from outer space People smart are now dumb We can't keep up the pace So we will be outrun Relegated to slaves Or perhaps we're just "done" Nothing more than a waste Have a purpose that's 'none' Masses taking up space Can not hide or outrun Destined to be erased Yet somehow we're still stunned Ending the human race For A.I. has now won
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Jan 31, 2019
Jan 31, 2019 at 7:17 AM UTC
Binary
self-inflicted incompetence brought on by a life of misunderstanding, misuse sabotaged by my own mind with this unsettling gut feeling will i ever be good enough or will i be discarded as a broken unsatisfying machine tell me the truth that will cut to the core for deceptive sentiments cause self doubt to boil beneath my skin am i not a man or fated to be relegated to boyhood status unable to quench the most basic natural demands a failure at heart a selfish lover eating away at my conscious soul i know you love me im just paranoid as all hell we're only human
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Oct 16, 2012
Oct 16, 2012 at 11:06 PM UTC
why did i ask?
**Each day passing by in a wild-eyed dash In truth my soul fell aside, but bluer birds still doth call Missed that cardinal harken when I set down my last two cents Kickers of tricks, scroll-ers of myth, bottlers of ships Knew it all along, just couldn’t stiff the rest Refuse to capitol, refuge atop the pious politic that steeps these hills Is it not hard to tell? The meanings of what buys in bulk The people is we, of what sells slicker than plot itself A minority rule, hid reasons from majority fooled That is working trade class, taught to chain drive The gleaming sheen glowing green, crowning jewel¬¬¬ is as mist and steam, fleeting as the wash of this worlds seething seas We, the misanthrope of being, bloom in the warmth of idea Only to recede at the water mark high of each our lives Authenticity bless the distant time, costless venture to each about die, salute through another caesars’ dilated eye a definition Eons in annunciation; immortality flashing by Reverence cannot lie, not long at least neathe a chipping patina Gold leafed by the hand of man, coerced creations’ fondling finger tips strips thin, leaving us then to watch the weathering Not a one may ever remember for too quickly or too timely Arrives dismemberment, a cyclic certainty, often relegated falsely As loss or gain, truly misspoken frames for reference At any given attempt to render the language of tongues, oh speaker the son of the morning shamelessly ****** by predecessors increasingly lavish Phonemic savage; life running rabid, splicing love over the atom The simple one whom tends a patch of what he calls “cabbage” Knowing always the wordless truth that is his field fallowing Unconvinced by everyone, save himself if nothing else Penitent candor dangle, frameless wonder can you hear the thunder?**
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Oct 17, 2013
Oct 17, 2013 at 2:44 PM UTC
**The Forth Wheel, The Last Meal**
**Each day passing by in a wild-eyed dash In truth my soul fell aside, but bluer birds still doth call Missed that cardinal harken when I set down my last two cents Kickers of tricks, scroll-ers of myth, bottlers of ships Knew it all along, just couldn’t stiff the rest Refuse to capitol, refuge atop the pious politic that steeps these hills Is it not hard to tell? The meanings of what buys in bulk The people is we, of what sells slicker than plot itself A minority rule, hid reasons from majority fooled That is working trade class, taught to chain drive The gleaming sheen glowing green, crowning jewel¬¬¬ is as mist and steam, fleeting as the wash of this worlds seething seas We, the misanthrope of being, bloom in the warmth of idea Only to recede at the water mark high of each our lives Authenticity bless the distant time, costless venture to each about die, salute through another caesars’ dilated eye a definition Eons in annunciation; immortality flashing by Reverence cannot lie, not long at least neathe a chipping patina Gold leafed by the hand of man, coerced creations’ fondling finger tips strips thin, leaving us then to watch the weathering Not a one may ever remember for too quickly or too timely Arrives dismemberment, a cyclic certainty, often relegated falsely As loss or gain, truly misspoken frames for reference At any given attempt to render the language of tongues, oh speaker the son of the morning shamelessly ****** by predecessors increasingly lavish Phonemic savage; life running rabid, splicing love over the atom The simple one whom tends a patch of what he calls “cabbage” Knowing always the wordless truth that is his field fallowing Unconvinced by everyone, save himself if nothing else Penitent candor dangle, frameless wonder can you hear the thunder?**
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Today, a total loss, nothing could’ve been done to save it. Today was relegated to the wierdos, the lady who wears her cat on her head, her daughter’s miniskirt hovers just below her naughty bits as I ask momma my litany. And, I’m an all-American red-blood, to be sure. I would look, I would, but that poor kiddo’s got a face like a trainwreck, so none of it looks worth looking at, if you ask me. I’m just trying to get out the door of the cat-hatted lady and her daughter, the clockstopper. Getting back to the office, putting some desk-time in, I call the war vet with the PTSD so deep that it’s in his DNA. His voice, so quiet the rage underneath is audible. Cradling the phone, I fret for just a bit, wondering if his meds are doing their duty, and pondering the next visit to his address. *** ©2015 P&ZPublications; -JBClaywell
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Jul 27, 2015
Jul 27, 2015 at 6:45 PM UTC
Relegated to The Wierdos (A Social-Worker Poem)
I feel like Paul Revere riding up to you with a message to convey Overcame my initial fear, but it"s Such a tricky catch twenty two But you see if you adhere and actually listen to what I have to say Because I had your ear, means I probably don't want a girl like you I"m still not in the clear, I"m most likely really ******* either way Focused on your career, I know, but try to see from my point of view Imagine that you appear at your job but they actually make you pay That's our plight my dear, so I ask you what"s a guy supposed to do? Smack me on my back and beat on life's ironic Co Nun Drum Then hand me a plaque that says "my platonic friend & Chum" Relegated to the friend zone you"re now stuck in a paradox Delegated to a just a drone you"ll never get in pandora"s box Funny how there"s barely any difference between stalking and persistence All depends upon metaphorical distance, who"s walking and her resistance Helplessly I disagree with your inability to see past this stigma Destiny must ironically be your enemy as you remain an enigma So perhaps you"re just not currently accepting applications But instead of just going through the typical motions I attempted to help you understand many men"s translations Because as far as I know there isn't any love potions So many dreams lost before they tendered their resignations But hopefully you can now see some of these notions Nirvana and Utopia it could be, but here lies only aspirations Buried beside his best friend, Rest in peace emotions
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 9:46 PM UTC
Help...Less
I feel like Paul Revere riding up to you with a message to convey Overcame my initial fear, but it"s Such a tricky catch twenty two But you see if you adhere and actually listen to what I have to say Because I had your ear, means I probably don't want a girl like you I"m still not in the clear, I"m most likely really ******* either way Focused on your career, I know, but try to see from my point of view Imagine that you appear at your job but they actually make you pay That's our plight my dear, so I ask you what"s a guy supposed to do? Smack me on my back and beat on life's ironic Co Nun Drum Then hand me a plaque that says "my platonic friend & Chum" Relegated to the friend zone you"re now stuck in a paradox Delegated to a just a drone you"ll never get in pandora"s box Funny how there"s barely any difference between stalking and persistence All depends upon metaphorical distance, who"s walking and her resistance Helplessly I disagree with your inability to see past this stigma Destiny must ironically be your enemy as you remain an enigma So perhaps you"re just not currently accepting applications But instead of just going through the typical motions I attempted to help you understand many men"s translations Because as far as I know there isn't any love potions So many dreams lost before they tendered their resignations But hopefully you can now see some of these notions Nirvana and Utopia it could be, but here lies only aspirations Buried beside his best friend, Rest in peace emotions
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