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I'd heard about problems with police hard to hear harder to believe personally I never had a problem oh a few well deserved speeding tickets probably cut a break no definitely I drove very fast especially in the turns roll-the-tires fast in the turns that was me and the more I heard the faster I turned as a young kid I applied and was accepted to six colleges six for six piece of cake why the stress my SAT score equated to an I.Q. of 1 above plant life accepted open arms those WASPs loved me graduate school one for one       best in the country bar none MBA with honors that was easy they called it the golden passport yes passports are even faster I never had problems with band-aids        the bank the insurance company       the healthcare system never turned down       for a credit card car loan life insurance policy       or request for a specialist experience is the best teacher       and the more I learned the less I wanted to know       and the faster I turned then I learned    about certain specifics       certain policies with regard to traffic stops bank loans rental property heath care voting rights marriage read the color purple and then that invaluable government          syphilis experiment that would have been inconceivable        even to doctor mengele that the star spangled banner        has more than one stanza?   really there were four stanzas? MY country ‘tis of ME       and it was making me feel ***** learned that no one       voluntarily held that flag up that hellish night       o’er the ramparts WE watched as slave and freedmen               were ordered       to their near certain death with the threat of absolute       certain death then I watched a cop        shoot a kid in the back               in cold blood near a merry-go-round on a playground in baltimore maryland I liked baltimore fast very fast he emptied the 10 round clip of a semi-automatic 9mm Glock 27 into THAT kid's back no hesitation ****** baltimore baltimore baltimore baltimore I hit the brakes hard       on those fast decades and decades generations generations generations       of turning I slowed down way way way down       stopped took a deep deep deeper breath then did what I always did and do best I turned turned turned I turned around and as I turned I woke to kneel
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Mar 8, 2019
Mar 8, 2019 at 11:05 AM UTC
As I Turned I Woke
I'd heard about problems with police hard to hear harder to believe personally I never had a problem oh a few well deserved speeding tickets probably cut a break no definitely I drove very fast especially in the turns roll-the-tires fast in the turns that was me and the more I heard the faster I turned as a young kid I applied and was accepted to six colleges six for six piece of cake why the stress my SAT score equated to an I.Q. of 1 above plant life accepted open arms those WASPs loved me graduate school one for one       best in the country bar none MBA with honors that was easy they called it the golden passport yes passports are even faster I never had problems with band-aids        the bank the insurance company       the healthcare system never turned down       for a credit card car loan life insurance policy       or request for a specialist experience is the best teacher       and the more I learned the less I wanted to know       and the faster I turned then I learned    about certain specifics       certain policies with regard to traffic stops bank loans rental property heath care voting rights marriage read the color purple and then that invaluable government          syphilis experiment that would have been inconceivable        even to doctor mengele that the star spangled banner        has more than one stanza?   really there were four stanzas? MY country ‘tis of ME       and it was making me feel ***** learned that no one       voluntarily held that flag up that hellish night       o’er the ramparts WE watched as slave and freedmen               were ordered       to their near certain death with the threat of absolute       certain death then I watched a cop        shoot a kid in the back               in cold blood near a merry-go-round on a playground in baltimore maryland I liked baltimore fast very fast he emptied the 10 round clip of a semi-automatic 9mm Glock 27 into THAT kid's back no hesitation ****** baltimore baltimore baltimore baltimore I hit the brakes hard       on those fast decades and decades generations generations generations       of turning I slowed down way way way down       stopped took a deep deep deeper breath then did what I always did and do best I turned turned turned I turned around and as I turned I woke to kneel
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The airplane is not one of God's creatures but it might be serving a heavenly purpose by making the world seem a bit smaller And though it is not an actual time machine an airplane can take you from a place as primitive as prehistoric times to another place as advanced as modern civilization in a matter of hours or even minutes But to take an airplane almost anywhere you usually have to go to an airport where you usually spend an hour, and often hours and hours, going nowhere other than the parking lot or the rental place or the bus station or the taxi stand and the check in line and the security line and the food line and the bathroom line and the shuttle line and the gate line and the line to take your seat and the line to take off and then the airplane usually has to land at another airport where, unless you took a direct flight, you usually have to spend an hour, and often hours and hours, going nowhere
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Aug 4, 2013
Aug 4, 2013 at 7:09 PM UTC
I don't like airports
I wish I was there with you,   Watching the ocean break its green On white Australian rock. I wish I was there with you, Seeing a thunder storm form, Knowing the only shelter we had Was our rental car parked On an Arizonan desert roadside, As we opened our bottles and prepared For the night. I wish that was your hand in mine, As we counted crows landing on Stonehenge. That that was you I shared a snow cave with In the deadly sub-zeros of the Finnmark Plains. I wish that was you with me. Even going for walks here, under the Northern Lights on a January night, Both dimmed with dad's home brew and What not, content with the fact That we'd wish We were there with Each other, if with Anyone else.
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 2:48 PM UTC
Crows Landing on Stonehenge
You're progressive; and so you must denigrate our triumphant victorious candidate. Yes, you shot off your mouth. Now you're trapped to the south of the land where you promised to emigrate. Before your resolve starts to stall, you must heed the Canadian call. Pack your bags and go forth to your home in the north. (or climb over that Mexican wall). It's the END ! Now the Right will resurge, and a new coalition emerge. A Canadian rental might help with your mental well-being. We'll play you a dirge.
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Nov 9, 2016
Nov 9, 2016 at 4:04 PM UTC
Maple Leaf Limericks
Do you remember me? Do you remember the way you pulled at my hair The way you bit on my shoulder Legs Thighs Neck The way you hit my cheek And left marks of yourself all over me The way you flung money on my face The way you kept ******* me Even though I was asking, begging PLEADING For you to stop The way you screamed, "Work harder you ***** I didn’t waste money for you to stop" And the bruises you left When I passed out? I Am the girl From the Red Room of The ***** House. I Am the **** Who is ***** everyday But society says, "NO. It's all for the easy money" I Am the gold-digger Crying for people to stop. I Am the story Of eighty million **** toys Behind the Curtains less Doors of Pleasure for Men. No. We aren’t **** stars. We don't become famous for filming obscene videos. We are just some toys That men borrow Like a rental car. We are the colors The society talks about in hushed voices In the corner of a deserted street. We are the discarded clothes You never wore Because they weren’t good enough. We are the succubuses Of every man's dream. We are Pleasure And Lust And Money And Sin. But, We die a bit everyday. We have felt, seen and heard pain MORE than any one of you here. We are WOMEN. But no one holds a candle lit march for us When one of us is ***** Because "It's all for the easy money" Isn’t it? We are the Strippers, the Prostitutes, the ***** We Are the nightmares you never wish to have We ARE THE UNSHED TEARS OF A FORGOTTEN PAST. do you remember me now?
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Apr 6, 2020
Apr 6, 2020 at 11:22 AM UTC
Do you remember me?
Do you remember me? Do you remember the way you pulled at my hair The way you bit on my shoulder Legs Thighs Neck The way you hit my cheek And left marks of yourself all over me The way you flung money on my face The way you kept ******* me Even though I was asking, begging PLEADING For you to stop The way you screamed, "Work harder you ***** I didn’t waste money for you to stop" And the bruises you left When I passed out? I Am the girl From the Red Room of The ***** House. I Am the **** Who is ***** everyday But society says, "NO. It's all for the easy money" I Am the gold-digger Crying for people to stop. I Am the story Of eighty million **** toys Behind the Curtains less Doors of Pleasure for Men. No. We aren’t **** stars. We don't become famous for filming obscene videos. We are just some toys That men borrow Like a rental car. We are the colors The society talks about in hushed voices In the corner of a deserted street. We are the discarded clothes You never wore Because they weren’t good enough. We are the succubuses Of every man's dream. We are Pleasure And Lust And Money And Sin. But, We die a bit everyday. We have felt, seen and heard pain MORE than any one of you here. We are WOMEN. But no one holds a candle lit march for us When one of us is ***** Because "It's all for the easy money" Isn’t it? We are the Strippers, the Prostitutes, the ***** We Are the nightmares you never wish to have We ARE THE UNSHED TEARS OF A FORGOTTEN PAST. do you remember me now?
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On the massive Shoulders of Microsoft are... Children's games Search for names Weather reports Scores for Sports Travel news Rythmn & Blues Hotel prices Adult Devices Chinese Quisine Night Scene Machine Screw's High Heeled Shoes Butter Knife Future Wife Candy Crush Makeup Blush Family Tree Spending Spree Natural Pearls Web Cam Girls Rental Hall Disco ***** Dance Clubs Irish Pubs Paternity Tests Financial Invests Mortgage Brokers On Line Poker and, so much  more.....JMF 2/21/15
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Feb 21, 2015
Feb 21, 2015 at 9:15 AM UTC
Internet
I wake up at 7 AM, its raining, go figure. I catch the bus by Cohen’s Food Co., soaked, on the bus now, and the windows are down. Lucky me. I brought my big Boss head set because last night the convenient apple iPod ear buds got soaked too. I guess it was karma. But at least these have good bass. Transit bus, not yet to arrive to the station, we travel over a vi doc, the distant fogged *** view? A St Louis skyline. Busy people in and out of the station. Babies. Druggies. Fuglies. The woman in front of me has no teeth. She kept doing a ritual gum technique with her lips. Smacking them inward as if her teeth were actually there. **** I ride for awhile through the town. The plainest Jane land around, at least this Monday morning it was. My feet can’t touch the bus floor when I sit in the back. I like this, it reminds me of trips to California when I was small. The rental car was boring though once we got off the plane, Dad was asleep through the whole desert interstate. And my birthday, and your birthday. I’m at school. This junior college of filth. Free coffee though, I take a high advantage. MATH DRILL. Math. Simplifying the trickiest equations. Ratios and angles. Lateral products and dividing something half way through solving the problem. ***** math. 30 minute break. Smoking section. Nice little ash trays they supply, it would be a total turn off to walk far for a smoke in the wind. More coffee, I hate the taste, but need the caffeine. Second class starts. Writing. I like writing, but the projector smart board was broken, so we covered grammar from a text. We read something about complete sentences in the early 1920’s. In Europe. They would try as little as possible to use add verbs. Re-read this.
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Jun 6, 2010
Jun 6, 2010 at 4:29 PM UTC
Missing Add Verbs (rant)
I wake up at 7 AM, its raining, go figure. I catch the bus by Cohen’s Food Co., soaked, on the bus now, and the windows are down. Lucky me. I brought my big Boss head set because last night the convenient apple iPod ear buds got soaked too. I guess it was karma. But at least these have good bass. Transit bus, not yet to arrive to the station, we travel over a vi doc, the distant fogged *** view? A St Louis skyline. Busy people in and out of the station. Babies. Druggies. Fuglies. The woman in front of me has no teeth. She kept doing a ritual gum technique with her lips. Smacking them inward as if her teeth were actually there. **** I ride for awhile through the town. The plainest Jane land around, at least this Monday morning it was. My feet can’t touch the bus floor when I sit in the back. I like this, it reminds me of trips to California when I was small. The rental car was boring though once we got off the plane, Dad was asleep through the whole desert interstate. And my birthday, and your birthday. I’m at school. This junior college of filth. Free coffee though, I take a high advantage. MATH DRILL. Math. Simplifying the trickiest equations. Ratios and angles. Lateral products and dividing something half way through solving the problem. ***** math. 30 minute break. Smoking section. Nice little ash trays they supply, it would be a total turn off to walk far for a smoke in the wind. More coffee, I hate the taste, but need the caffeine. Second class starts. Writing. I like writing, but the projector smart board was broken, so we covered grammar from a text. We read something about complete sentences in the early 1920’s. In Europe. They would try as little as possible to use add verbs. Re-read this.
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your "friends" that we meet, i forget their names, my calloused palms are greased, by their  squeezing hands i remember one's a banker, or he could have said a thief, his ******** words were flanked, by my misbelief i was held hostage, you were a smiling drone, i remember when i lost to Stockholm Syndrome their Heirloom Suffix changes, on tuxedos and trust funds, my rental wears just fine, i'm not the danger shorting stocks on tuesday, while playing ball in hand, what a shame to lose me, busted seams this man I am not a banker, I am not a saint, I cannot to be trusted, I won't place the blame. I am not a proxy, I am an astronaut, But this distant world you live on, Is far from my plot
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May 28, 2018
May 28, 2018 at 9:04 PM UTC
Heirloom Suffix
The world is my movie screen, I’m constantly being reminded, That I am only a spectator, In this ****** up life. My hands are not my hands, Yet they’re right in front of me. The thing is, I can never press pause. I am always on the go. It’s as if my mind is a separate deity, Than my body. I look in the mirror, And see someone who I know Is supposed to be me. However, this fog that constantly Fills my brain makes me feel as if I am Walking on clouds, unaware of my steps. I wish I could see the world in 1st person. Instead of this bright, oversized world, That pounds with every step I take. I feel nothing which means I feel everything. It’s just all in the inside, constantly building up, Without notice. It’s as if I am driving a rental car. I know how to drive but the car is foreign to me. The gears work, but they aren’t mine.
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Mar 10, 2019
Mar 10, 2019 at 8:31 PM UTC
Derealization
I'm a little late, so I'll put in my drawer in my night stand a letter I found. Is it a letter? No, it is an invitation to your funeral plans. As if that is not a smack in my face...WHAM! You thought I wasn't ever a loyal man because I went away, unplanned. But let me take a stand, for you missed the part where I gave you my hand. I was on a flight one blizzard night. When I get off, my rental car was towed because the company said I owed more for how many miles I put on it. See, the car and I were on a trip to gather your family for you, but you didn't believe me. I stayed in a hotel with them, missing you. Their phone connections were off, too and all I had was the TV in that hotel room. To pass the time of course was my only intention, but when I saw our precious 2 story house on the breaking news, I saw that a fire had taken you. I was utterly confused. I pinched myself because I thought I was dreaming. Until, one day, I saw your will claimed we had nothing to do with each other in terms of our engagement. What a scam! I cried and denied the will until I no longer could feel. It's been months and the detectives are still interviewing me. See, your life was important; way more than me. I went to visit and kiss what was left of the fence. I pleaded with hopelessness, "We want you back!" Suicide letter found. It reads: "Winter grows dead leaves, and the trees are morbidly idle. Our nights grew earlier, and our fights were a given. So I bet you'll view it on the news that house number 652 blew away this winter day. What was my defeat? We were a mismatch, that you knew. You were a backstab, I took it through and through. You were half snatched when I was into you. I never wanted you to be this fool that drools over the fun little boys do. I put you on this pedestal, blind to know the rest of you. I was frozen into your atmosphere of departure, thawed to my agony. Why did you ever leave?"
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Jan 21, 2016
Jan 21, 2016 at 11:41 PM UTC
Letter Found
I'm a little late, so I'll put in my drawer in my night stand a letter I found. Is it a letter? No, it is an invitation to your funeral plans. As if that is not a smack in my face...WHAM! You thought I wasn't ever a loyal man because I went away, unplanned. But let me take a stand, for you missed the part where I gave you my hand. I was on a flight one blizzard night. When I get off, my rental car was towed because the company said I owed more for how many miles I put on it. See, the car and I were on a trip to gather your family for you, but you didn't believe me. I stayed in a hotel with them, missing you. Their phone connections were off, too and all I had was the TV in that hotel room. To pass the time of course was my only intention, but when I saw our precious 2 story house on the breaking news, I saw that a fire had taken you. I was utterly confused. I pinched myself because I thought I was dreaming. Until, one day, I saw your will claimed we had nothing to do with each other in terms of our engagement. What a scam! I cried and denied the will until I no longer could feel. It's been months and the detectives are still interviewing me. See, your life was important; way more than me. I went to visit and kiss what was left of the fence. I pleaded with hopelessness, "We want you back!" Suicide letter found. It reads: "Winter grows dead leaves, and the trees are morbidly idle. Our nights grew earlier, and our fights were a given. So I bet you'll view it on the news that house number 652 blew away this winter day. What was my defeat? We were a mismatch, that you knew. You were a backstab, I took it through and through. You were half snatched when I was into you. I never wanted you to be this fool that drools over the fun little boys do. I put you on this pedestal, blind to know the rest of you. I was frozen into your atmosphere of departure, thawed to my agony. Why did you ever leave?"
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You may feel about the planet what you feel about a great baseball team or band: that once there was a moment when, unknown to us at the time, we convened and lost and found ourselves in what we created. Who should I thank for this day? A fresh-mown lawn is a robin's repast. A bear a black bear a rolling delicately dancing graceful as silence sailing through the ferns and understory unafraid and in no hurry. My musician referral service, vacation rental business, nonprofit management system, plant identification database, great American songbook and anthology of poems. Coach says in a thousand years back and forth games like lacrosse and soccer will be played against genetically engineered primates but baseball will be played solely by humans. In a thousand years, amen.
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 7:20 PM UTC
Who should I thank?
you'll call me babe when we're together and when we're not you won't call at all I'll let you in and you'll show yourself out step onto the mat, leave your mark then leave for good it's the invitation that's too easy it's the only caring in the moment it's the lack of resistance it's the welcome without the stay it's the goodbye without saying you'll call me beautiful and then you'll never call me again you'll go on your way and I'll watch you as you do treating your arms like a rental, you can take my body for motel it's just right now, nothing permanent one night or maybe a second pack your things, don't turn around I swear I'll be fine clean the room, mop the floor for evidence and we wont look back after the first time this beginning will become end we'll try to make us last speaking of soon and later but I don't hold my breath- I need that to survive this I don't wait not for you to call not for you to come again
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Jul 21, 2015
Jul 21, 2015 at 3:04 PM UTC
After The First Time
The crime families had arrived long before our time dressed in suits and ties jeans and lies. Con games transparent, No one's even too embarrassed or even bothers to try and hide it. It's all a racket better believe it Student loans Insurance Medications to save your life Credit cards House payments Rental agreements The military industrial complex the war machine The grocery store The grocery store The Supermarket what do you mean you gotta eat at least the poisoned air is free. Elections thrilled with bribery The gas station cell phone bills electrical payments moving violation tickets Banks with smiling faces Bound to get you on your knees begging for more. Guess what? What ever you think you are craving, You know that's a racket too every time you turn around they're going to take their vig off of you. When you get to heaven you are going to find one fact for sure that's a racket too.
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Apr 18, 2015
Apr 18, 2015 at 10:18 AM UTC
Trick and Trap/The American Rackets
Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do........ boy! That Cadillac was one hell of a piece of engineering. Burned a long time, like it enjoyed the pain of the flames. He smiled at the thought. Handmade by union men the way it should always be. Not those ******* up ***** like Jimmy Hoffa either. That ******* probably a ****** like hoover. The image of him in a basque stuck. Made him angry, but he soon reined it in. Lecter was never angry. Not in the books. He prefered the books, no change-the -ending for the mass appeal. ******* movies. He was cautious now, the fake i.d. for the rental would fool most. He was pushing things, her blood in the trunk even burnt black worried him. Next time will be better. In Daisy's book was a circled name with hearts drawn around it. Louisa. Her address as well. Nice and easy. 200 miles to go. Make like Rutger in The Hitcher, move west.... The VW Rabbit was a ****** car after the Caddy. The two kid's didn't want to give it up easy, but they did in the end. They looked so silly, tied back-to-back in the rear seat, legs broke to squeeze them in. Made him smile all through the night. No blood this time, not yet anyway. Playing Slipknot to **** him off, little ***** Well write a song for these two, clown boy. He had looked on their lap-top at the poetry site. Saw the latest post from the pub landlord. He was a little confused, this poem didn't seem to be telling him his next move. He dragged them out into a ditch before dawn, stood on their necks to **** them, like the coyote trappers did, cruel ******** No blood, just **** all over each other as they died. Maybe he'd get a reward poem for doing it, in the meantime finding Louisa would keep him occupied. The vw had a cheap sat nav, hope she's home.....
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Jan 27, 2011
Jan 27, 2011 at 3:20 PM UTC
Word play part three
Daisy, Daisy give me your answer do........ boy! That Cadillac was one hell of a piece of engineering. Burned a long time, like it enjoyed the pain of the flames. He smiled at the thought. Handmade by union men the way it should always be. Not those ******* up ***** like Jimmy Hoffa either. That ******* probably a ****** like hoover. The image of him in a basque stuck. Made him angry, but he soon reined it in. Lecter was never angry. Not in the books. He prefered the books, no change-the -ending for the mass appeal. ******* movies. He was cautious now, the fake i.d. for the rental would fool most. He was pushing things, her blood in the trunk even burnt black worried him. Next time will be better. In Daisy's book was a circled name with hearts drawn around it. Louisa. Her address as well. Nice and easy. 200 miles to go. Make like Rutger in The Hitcher, move west.... The VW Rabbit was a ****** car after the Caddy. The two kid's didn't want to give it up easy, but they did in the end. They looked so silly, tied back-to-back in the rear seat, legs broke to squeeze them in. Made him smile all through the night. No blood this time, not yet anyway. Playing Slipknot to **** him off, little ***** Well write a song for these two, clown boy. He had looked on their lap-top at the poetry site. Saw the latest post from the pub landlord. He was a little confused, this poem didn't seem to be telling him his next move. He dragged them out into a ditch before dawn, stood on their necks to **** them, like the coyote trappers did, cruel ******** No blood, just **** all over each other as they died. Maybe he'd get a reward poem for doing it, in the meantime finding Louisa would keep him occupied. The vw had a cheap sat nav, hope she's home.....
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DEAR PENPAL PEOPLE, don't pretend the innocence when you know that evidence:] you know I'm a forest a wild sent rule crucial scars abandoned on attached feels I call brutal on you a ceiling too high to reach far from the abnormals we share we teach my sick matches your sick your sick matches mine it collides it ticks burrowed from the glares of a daemon monster flare been sold to the harsh heads been kept at stake the stark of shame glosses of unhealthy addiction of reigns no one knows nor understands us our meaning things we used years to strive hard to achieving rotten wolves as in our animalistic in search of prey a hellish nature fevered burning hate of the realistic remind my mental were owned by devils not sentiments not rental pretend the innocence when the obvious seeps let go of the hold to grip on the recklessness that creeps bent beats of unmeasured clefts but for the darker not the tender a dominant number on the silent hypnotizing hummer i ravish skins when control is no more its hunger shot on veins killed ****** out of blood same as ecstasy same as adrenaline still racing on a flood                                                                                    ------ravenfeels
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Apr 1, 2021
Apr 1, 2021 at 3:58 PM UTC
We Are Animals
He gave a picture exhibition, Hiring a little empty shop. Above its window: FREE ADMISSION Cajoled the passers-by to stop; Just to admire - no need to purchase, Although his price might have been low: But no proud artist ever urges Potential buyers at his show. Of course he badly needed money, But more he needed moral aid. Some people thought his pictures funny, Too ultra-modern, I'm afraid. His painting was experimental, Which no poor artist can afford- That is, if he would pay the rental And guarantee his roof and board. And so some came and saw and sniggered, And some a puzzled brow would crease; And some objected: "Well, I'm jiggered!" What price Picasso and Matisse? The artist sensitively quivered, And stifled many a bitter sigh, But day by day his hopes were shivered For no one ever sought to buy. And then he had a brilliant notion: Half of his daubs he labeled: SOLD. And lo! he viewed with queer emotion A public keen and far from cold. Then (strange it is beyond the telling), He saw the people round him press: His paintings went - they still are selling... Well, nothing succeeds like success.
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There is change that is certain. The earth slowly shifting, The sky slowly shifting. Seven billion universes Rotating around each of us, Each one of us an axis. The recurring misalignment, Collisions, and revisions of Our orbiting bodies Shape the illusion of stability Hanging from our celestial ceiling. I did not expect to come home To an empty house, My family's effects removed Like the leftovers of an evicted tenant. I am a stranger here, In this room where I became a woman. This room that exalted and imprisoned me No longer offers solace. Litter, that upon closer inspection Reveals a mosaic of my childhood Is spinning. The pieces of my past Are spinning Out and away, Gravitating towards a larger body. The car I drove to a stranger's house To get ****** instead of going To dinner with my family Now belongs to another. The dresser that kept my underwear In the top drawer For twenty years Discarded and lain in the gutter. The walls which I painted The most neon shade of green In an act of adolescent rebellion Are now covered over In rental home white To attract the widest audience Of potential tenants. The floor is slipping out from beneath me, The ceiling lifting and floating away. New additions to my orbital debris. This place, Disassembled. Each part Far more significant than the whole. This house Will never again be a home. If I had stayed, Would the gravity of my presence Have been enough to keep it together? Were any of these parts Part of my universe in the first place?
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Aug 1, 2013
Aug 1, 2013 at 7:45 PM UTC
Disassembled (Upon returning to my father's house before deployment)
There is change that is certain. The earth slowly shifting, The sky slowly shifting. Seven billion universes Rotating around each of us, Each one of us an axis. The recurring misalignment, Collisions, and revisions of Our orbiting bodies Shape the illusion of stability Hanging from our celestial ceiling. I did not expect to come home To an empty house, My family's effects removed Like the leftovers of an evicted tenant. I am a stranger here, In this room where I became a woman. This room that exalted and imprisoned me No longer offers solace. Litter, that upon closer inspection Reveals a mosaic of my childhood Is spinning. The pieces of my past Are spinning Out and away, Gravitating towards a larger body. The car I drove to a stranger's house To get ****** instead of going To dinner with my family Now belongs to another. The dresser that kept my underwear In the top drawer For twenty years Discarded and lain in the gutter. The walls which I painted The most neon shade of green In an act of adolescent rebellion Are now covered over In rental home white To attract the widest audience Of potential tenants. The floor is slipping out from beneath me, The ceiling lifting and floating away. New additions to my orbital debris. This place, Disassembled. Each part Far more significant than the whole. This house Will never again be a home. If I had stayed, Would the gravity of my presence Have been enough to keep it together? Were any of these parts Part of my universe in the first place?
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Define a modern day criminal While hypocritical political beings run our land Living in a critical pitiful painful physical caving roof With a senseless empirical prototypical lost truth Indivisible people with inimical minds destroy the parasitical But we don’t dream We don’t wish And we fear Impermissible values atypical to the nonphysical morals Incorporated with subliminal messages conveying hypercritical cynical thoughts That create a clinical stereotypical that cousins the excremental Archetypical of hatred and malice of our digital kind Visible scars traditional to the mental demons in our minds But we take the beatings We’re let down And we disappoint An occipital which lacks visual of the coincidental Leading to a sentimental moment where the only desires are miracles The minimal heart becomes gentle and suffers pain A pain in the temple far from accidental that can offer supplemental guidance Unconditional love and fundamental care But we take for granted We’re selfish And we fail An oriental vibe in the beat box’s instrumental welfare Which adorns the continental flesh like a spring ornamental plant Judgmental is the incidental human race, the municipal force of the universe Oppose the parental control against the environmental curiosity of our infants Because unlike rental we can’t take back our wagon of mishaps in a world so hypocritical, cynical, stereotypical, digital, and just mental. Jonathan Pizarro Copyright 2011 © March 7th, 2011 5:42am
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Sep 28, 2011
Sep 28, 2011 at 12:19 AM UTC
Inimical Mind
Define a modern day criminal While hypocritical political beings run our land Living in a critical pitiful painful physical caving roof With a senseless empirical prototypical lost truth Indivisible people with inimical minds destroy the parasitical But we don’t dream We don’t wish And we fear Impermissible values atypical to the nonphysical morals Incorporated with subliminal messages conveying hypercritical cynical thoughts That create a clinical stereotypical that cousins the excremental Archetypical of hatred and malice of our digital kind Visible scars traditional to the mental demons in our minds But we take the beatings We’re let down And we disappoint An occipital which lacks visual of the coincidental Leading to a sentimental moment where the only desires are miracles The minimal heart becomes gentle and suffers pain A pain in the temple far from accidental that can offer supplemental guidance Unconditional love and fundamental care But we take for granted We’re selfish And we fail An oriental vibe in the beat box’s instrumental welfare Which adorns the continental flesh like a spring ornamental plant Judgmental is the incidental human race, the municipal force of the universe Oppose the parental control against the environmental curiosity of our infants Because unlike rental we can’t take back our wagon of mishaps in a world so hypocritical, cynical, stereotypical, digital, and just mental. Jonathan Pizarro Copyright 2011 © March 7th, 2011 5:42am
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(for my daughter, Mary Ann, soon fourteen) I was eleven years old when I first had something taken from me. My parents were still married and my two younger brothers had not yet chosen to choose differently which one they’d live with. My dog had not yet been made lame by a falling fat man who’d taken the gift of my father’s strange rage square on the nose. And my older sister had yet to misjudge her jump from a moving train. No, none of these things, whether they happened or not how I’ve remembered, had happened. I was eleven years old and in love with an old red bike. It had a license plate that obnoxiously read Go Now Mega which I’d scratched at with a fork and so became Gnome. I would fail my whole life to accomplish a thing greater. Before school, I’d walk the bike carefully to the end of our short drive and then seat myself on it and be still. I would often be so perfect in my stillness that I’d forego riding it and just listen for the bus and at the last possible moment walk the bike, still carefully, back into the garage and cringe at the sound the kickstand made when lowered. If ever school didn’t go my way I’d think of the bike, alone, in the garage and be calmed. When I did ride the bike, I did so slowly and deliberately that I could feel my soul get a bit ahead of me. On the best mornings, I would have for company a bed sheet of fog which made me want to fake being asleep on the couch while my mother and father milled back and forth about who would carry me to bed. The bike had come with the rental house we moved into just shy of my tenth birthday. The house was a three bedroom one floor with one bathroom and what felt like two kitchens. I was too close to my hands and feet to now recall any vision that might tell me how these rooms were mapped though I’ve always held aloft the word blueprint. I should tell you that what I previously called a garage was actually our backyard and that our backyard was really the backyard of those living in the house behind ours. I didn’t want you to know right away who took the bike. Who’ve no imagination.
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Sep 21, 2012
Sep 21, 2012 at 1:25 AM UTC
Hold, melancholy
(for my daughter, Mary Ann, soon fourteen) I was eleven years old when I first had something taken from me. My parents were still married and my two younger brothers had not yet chosen to choose differently which one they’d live with. My dog had not yet been made lame by a falling fat man who’d taken the gift of my father’s strange rage square on the nose. And my older sister had yet to misjudge her jump from a moving train. No, none of these things, whether they happened or not how I’ve remembered, had happened. I was eleven years old and in love with an old red bike. It had a license plate that obnoxiously read Go Now Mega which I’d scratched at with a fork and so became Gnome. I would fail my whole life to accomplish a thing greater. Before school, I’d walk the bike carefully to the end of our short drive and then seat myself on it and be still. I would often be so perfect in my stillness that I’d forego riding it and just listen for the bus and at the last possible moment walk the bike, still carefully, back into the garage and cringe at the sound the kickstand made when lowered. If ever school didn’t go my way I’d think of the bike, alone, in the garage and be calmed. When I did ride the bike, I did so slowly and deliberately that I could feel my soul get a bit ahead of me. On the best mornings, I would have for company a bed sheet of fog which made me want to fake being asleep on the couch while my mother and father milled back and forth about who would carry me to bed. The bike had come with the rental house we moved into just shy of my tenth birthday. The house was a three bedroom one floor with one bathroom and what felt like two kitchens. I was too close to my hands and feet to now recall any vision that might tell me how these rooms were mapped though I’ve always held aloft the word blueprint. I should tell you that what I previously called a garage was actually our backyard and that our backyard was really the backyard of those living in the house behind ours. I didn’t want you to know right away who took the bike. Who’ve no imagination.
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I wish I were six again if only to beg and plead my mother to read me a story before bed. I could read on my own when I was six, but I just wanted to hear another voice say goodnight to everything in the little bunny’s room. I found it funny when my mother said goodnight to the moon, and the mush, and the red balloon. It was soothing, relaxing after a long day, however exhausting a day in the life of a six-year-old can be. I would be on the bottom, my brother on the bunk above me. Mom would stand by the ladder, using it as a book rest. Or we would sit on the floor with her between us, looking at the pictures as she read. The green and orange of the room, blue and white of the bunny and his pajamas, the red of the balloon, colors etched into our minds. When I was thirteen and finally moved into my own room, I considered painting it green out of respect and admiration for the book and now, when I walk at night, I stare at the moon. On a Monday I saw a very full moon. It looked larger than normal, brighter too and I noticed something in the moonlight. A painting, attached to some metal box on the side of the road by liquid nails. I don’t know why the painting meant anything to me. It was simple, a man drinking a cup of tea. He was old and haggard, grayed a bit. But there was a corner, a solid background. A wall behind the tea-drinking man, bright red, standing out from the rest of the image. I took the painting, pried it off with the force of memory. it hangs in my home, that bright bit of red wall adding a needed splash of color to mundane rental property mauve. Though I wish that splash were green.
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 11:16 PM UTC
Goodnight, Moon
I wish I were six again if only to beg and plead my mother to read me a story before bed. I could read on my own when I was six, but I just wanted to hear another voice say goodnight to everything in the little bunny’s room. I found it funny when my mother said goodnight to the moon, and the mush, and the red balloon. It was soothing, relaxing after a long day, however exhausting a day in the life of a six-year-old can be. I would be on the bottom, my brother on the bunk above me. Mom would stand by the ladder, using it as a book rest. Or we would sit on the floor with her between us, looking at the pictures as she read. The green and orange of the room, blue and white of the bunny and his pajamas, the red of the balloon, colors etched into our minds. When I was thirteen and finally moved into my own room, I considered painting it green out of respect and admiration for the book and now, when I walk at night, I stare at the moon. On a Monday I saw a very full moon. It looked larger than normal, brighter too and I noticed something in the moonlight. A painting, attached to some metal box on the side of the road by liquid nails. I don’t know why the painting meant anything to me. It was simple, a man drinking a cup of tea. He was old and haggard, grayed a bit. But there was a corner, a solid background. A wall behind the tea-drinking man, bright red, standing out from the rest of the image. I took the painting, pried it off with the force of memory. it hangs in my home, that bright bit of red wall adding a needed splash of color to mundane rental property mauve. Though I wish that splash were green.
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debt decoupaging blank pages rental gender neutron geode prism lecture thick mental rich debt navigate gate that 9.8 meters/sec navel undressed coated with sweat leftover *** **** carpet hot steadfast yea same and how about all the hair??
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Aug 13, 2015
Aug 13, 2015 at 3:26 AM UTC
thehardtimes.net
"I am the Walrus..." the lyric passed through his head stood in the pounding sun of Death valley. He poured the dregs of his mineral water onto the hot dirt. steam rose fast, as if a conflagration was ablaze deep in the parched ground. Not as beautiful a place as the great ergs of the sahara that he saw on discovery channel He looked back at the shimmering mirage that was his rental cadillac not that he'd be taking it back, not with what was spread all over the trunk.... Daisy had seemed a nice kid, talked a bit too much maybe, Not saying much now. That thought made him smile. How her wide her eyes were when she saw the 1911. A good year for guns, 1911, he thought. And the Great War just around the corner. He preferred the phrase the Great War to World War One. He felt it was more respectful to those who had died. Daisy hadn't been respectful enough. So he killed her for the dead heroes sake Mineral water made him think. People came to the Valley to work back in the day, chemicals, minerals, salt maybe..... he wasn't too sure what. Sure as hell no water. Before them, travellers, settlers passed through. Some died, they had no respect, like Daisy. They thought their teams of oxen could pull up the grade get them out of the valley, but many couldn't do it. Died and dried, before the oxen could evolve into something bigger. Like daisy died before she evolved a respectful brain. He read about evolution in the Geographic, sort of felt he was pretty well evolved. Maybe some kind of chosen one. Thinking of the poor oxen dying made him mad as hell. He began a slow walk back to the Caddy, there were some numbers and addresses in Daisy's purse. He smiled to himself, this was going to be a good year, it was going to be His year...
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Jan 23, 2011
Jan 23, 2011 at 2:37 PM UTC
Wordplay and part one.
"I am the Walrus..." the lyric passed through his head stood in the pounding sun of Death valley. He poured the dregs of his mineral water onto the hot dirt. steam rose fast, as if a conflagration was ablaze deep in the parched ground. Not as beautiful a place as the great ergs of the sahara that he saw on discovery channel He looked back at the shimmering mirage that was his rental cadillac not that he'd be taking it back, not with what was spread all over the trunk.... Daisy had seemed a nice kid, talked a bit too much maybe, Not saying much now. That thought made him smile. How her wide her eyes were when she saw the 1911. A good year for guns, 1911, he thought. And the Great War just around the corner. He preferred the phrase the Great War to World War One. He felt it was more respectful to those who had died. Daisy hadn't been respectful enough. So he killed her for the dead heroes sake Mineral water made him think. People came to the Valley to work back in the day, chemicals, minerals, salt maybe..... he wasn't too sure what. Sure as hell no water. Before them, travellers, settlers passed through. Some died, they had no respect, like Daisy. They thought their teams of oxen could pull up the grade get them out of the valley, but many couldn't do it. Died and dried, before the oxen could evolve into something bigger. Like daisy died before she evolved a respectful brain. He read about evolution in the Geographic, sort of felt he was pretty well evolved. Maybe some kind of chosen one. Thinking of the poor oxen dying made him mad as hell. He began a slow walk back to the Caddy, there were some numbers and addresses in Daisy's purse. He smiled to himself, this was going to be a good year, it was going to be His year...
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barnet recycling area to be removed 09.07.18 praise to the lord the drop of penny will all locals applaud the green brigade is not many. the fly tip is leaving now a clean street will parade storing waste indoors will leave you heaving getting you at it was easy to persuade. all ******* from cardboard to food weekly bin collections did vanish are you putting together to conclude. less services are mental especially when we are doing all the work next for recycling i'm expecting rental are any tempted to go berserk. cleaner clearer streets very much like barnet borough the government to all local councils send tweets this recycling plan or lack is thorough.
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 1:26 AM UTC
barnet recycling area to be removed
Learning to love my body is like trying to get comfortable in a rental home; no matter how often I rearrange things to look differently, it still doesn’t feel like my own.
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 4:03 PM UTC
Rental Home
An Ontario man and his two children have turned up safe after getting lost in the woods on their way to an Alberta wedding. RCMP Const. Jason Curtis says David Hill, 33, along with daughter Sierra Hill, 10, and son Riley, 8, set off from Edmonton International Airport on Saturday morning. They were destined for a family wedding in Hinton, a couple hours drive west of the city, that was scheduled for 11 a.m. Family members got a call Saturday afternoon from one of the children in the car that they apparently got off the highway and were lost in a wooded area. The phone then cut out and Curtis says the family spent the night in their rental car before finding someone Sunday morning who directed them back to the highway. He says he doesn't know why the Hills left the highway. And exactly where were they? "I don't know if they're entirely sure of that,'' Curtis said. RCMP said a ping from the cell phone placed them in the area of Obed, Alberta, which is between Edson and Hinton. Police said they launched a full search for the family out of concern for the ages of the children and for the fact that some of the group suffered from medical conditions. Curtis said that after getting directions out, the family notified their relatives and police. "It couldn't be a better outcome. Everyone's safe and sound. And we're just very happy,'' Curtis said. "The people are moving onto their family event, though they might have missed the wedding.'' read more:www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses www.marieaustralia.com/bridesmaid-dresses
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Oct 12, 2015
Oct 12, 2015 at 1:39 AM UTC
Ontario Family That Vanished Before Wedding Found Safe In Alberta
An Ontario man and his two children have turned up safe after getting lost in the woods on their way to an Alberta wedding. RCMP Const. Jason Curtis says David Hill, 33, along with daughter Sierra Hill, 10, and son Riley, 8, set off from Edmonton International Airport on Saturday morning. They were destined for a family wedding in Hinton, a couple hours drive west of the city, that was scheduled for 11 a.m. Family members got a call Saturday afternoon from one of the children in the car that they apparently got off the highway and were lost in a wooded area. The phone then cut out and Curtis says the family spent the night in their rental car before finding someone Sunday morning who directed them back to the highway. He says he doesn't know why the Hills left the highway. And exactly where were they? "I don't know if they're entirely sure of that,'' Curtis said. RCMP said a ping from the cell phone placed them in the area of Obed, Alberta, which is between Edson and Hinton. Police said they launched a full search for the family out of concern for the ages of the children and for the fact that some of the group suffered from medical conditions. Curtis said that after getting directions out, the family notified their relatives and police. "It couldn't be a better outcome. Everyone's safe and sound. And we're just very happy,'' Curtis said. "The people are moving onto their family event, though they might have missed the wedding.'' read more:www.marieaustralia.com/formal-dresses www.marieaustralia.com/bridesmaid-dresses
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