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"sanitation" poems
What a wonderful view to see The flowers and the trees in serenity The people and animals strive for prosperity For peace, mans’ natures’ unity All united for every body’s equity.  A creation of such wonder and beauty The birds’ one and only sanctuary A product of God’s power of infinity There’s no other majestic than a tree. It stood so still and tall Its rustling leaves gave a melodious song Like a lullaby from far home That someone would always long. But now, man is blinded by treasures and selfish thoughts, And forgot the tree’s such true and noble worth He destroyed nature and the idea of balance he seems to abort He thought that maybe with treasures he will go forth, But never for if Mother Nature revenge he will be caught. Buildings, computers and other inventions These were the things which caught mans’ attention Trees and animals suffered from mans continuous exploitation Nature provided everything, so why can’t man give a little appreciation Cut here, chopped there, cut here, chopped there What a pity the fate of the trees were The forest was swept off, hectare by hectare, What a fool man was to think he will prosper, When the joy he felt now tomorrow will differ. Deforestation and pollution product of man’s wrong action Reforestation and sanitation, why don’t we practice these act of affection Why destroy nature, for mans upcoming destruction? Why don’t we love God creation for a better nation? Flood storm and fire, a taste of revenge from nature Catastrophes or calamities that strike and torture These will all happen if nature is not given cure A sign that doom will fall and it will be sure. Soon people will suffer without pity And nature’s answer will never be mercy For if man continues to destroy the tree Then it will be the end of the story But it’s never too late for us people to change Plant a tree and be aware For today’s, tomorrow’s, children’s sake Save the tree, Save the Nature, Save the Earth.
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Dec 15, 2011
Dec 15, 2011 at 3:48 AM UTC
Save the Trees, Save the Nature, Save the Earth
What a wonderful view to see The flowers and the trees in serenity The people and animals strive for prosperity For peace, mans’ natures’ unity All united for every body’s equity.  A creation of such wonder and beauty The birds’ one and only sanctuary A product of God’s power of infinity There’s no other majestic than a tree. It stood so still and tall Its rustling leaves gave a melodious song Like a lullaby from far home That someone would always long. But now, man is blinded by treasures and selfish thoughts, And forgot the tree’s such true and noble worth He destroyed nature and the idea of balance he seems to abort He thought that maybe with treasures he will go forth, But never for if Mother Nature revenge he will be caught. Buildings, computers and other inventions These were the things which caught mans’ attention Trees and animals suffered from mans continuous exploitation Nature provided everything, so why can’t man give a little appreciation Cut here, chopped there, cut here, chopped there What a pity the fate of the trees were The forest was swept off, hectare by hectare, What a fool man was to think he will prosper, When the joy he felt now tomorrow will differ. Deforestation and pollution product of man’s wrong action Reforestation and sanitation, why don’t we practice these act of affection Why destroy nature, for mans upcoming destruction? Why don’t we love God creation for a better nation? Flood storm and fire, a taste of revenge from nature Catastrophes or calamities that strike and torture These will all happen if nature is not given cure A sign that doom will fall and it will be sure. Soon people will suffer without pity And nature’s answer will never be mercy For if man continues to destroy the tree Then it will be the end of the story But it’s never too late for us people to change Plant a tree and be aware For today’s, tomorrow’s, children’s sake Save the tree, Save the Nature, Save the Earth.
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It's 3:09am I'm im the library Desperately trying to write a research paper: 'LGBT Familes' How fitting. Caffeine courses through my veins Coffee overloads my bladder Bathroom. I hate bathrooms. When you have no gender The simple act of relieving yourself becomes a chore The heavy weight of that key decision Chokes your lungs as you stand outside the doors Two doors. Men. Women. Not me. The choice becomes simplified: While I sometimes pass as a man I often do not. I can choose the men's bathroom The consequence of which could end in physical violence The same hate I explain through my essay. The same fear that plagues my community. The women's restroom is also an option The consequences likely less dire than the former: Heavy side eye and the potential of yelling. A much safer choice. Obviously. Per usual, I walk into the women's room. I take three strides inside. Then I stop. I've never used the men's room. My fear of violent reactions has always won. Yet at a time like this How likely is it that someone is inside the men's room? Now is my chance to face my fears. Now I have a safe chance at peeing in peace. In a bathroom potentially more suiting Of my gender identity So I turn around. Let the door slam behind me. Half a step into the men's room The smell of rancid ***** hits my senses Toilet paper liters the stalls I have missed absolutely nothing in my years in the women's room Women have nicer facilities A significantly more advanced hand dryer Cleanliness Air freshener Men do not have these luxuries Now I question, Do men not take as good of care of their bathrooms as women do? Do the workers intentionally prioritize women's sanitation? What causes this undeniable divide? Is the messiness of the men's room a result of their conscious decisions? Or simply a response to societal expectation? Regardless, I think I'll stick to the women's room While I add bathrooms to my compilation Of more discrete gender inequality
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Oct 31, 2017
Oct 31, 2017 at 2:23 PM UTC
My First Time Using the Men's Bathroom
It's 3:09am I'm im the library Desperately trying to write a research paper: 'LGBT Familes' How fitting. Caffeine courses through my veins Coffee overloads my bladder Bathroom. I hate bathrooms. When you have no gender The simple act of relieving yourself becomes a chore The heavy weight of that key decision Chokes your lungs as you stand outside the doors Two doors. Men. Women. Not me. The choice becomes simplified: While I sometimes pass as a man I often do not. I can choose the men's bathroom The consequence of which could end in physical violence The same hate I explain through my essay. The same fear that plagues my community. The women's restroom is also an option The consequences likely less dire than the former: Heavy side eye and the potential of yelling. A much safer choice. Obviously. Per usual, I walk into the women's room. I take three strides inside. Then I stop. I've never used the men's room. My fear of violent reactions has always won. Yet at a time like this How likely is it that someone is inside the men's room? Now is my chance to face my fears. Now I have a safe chance at peeing in peace. In a bathroom potentially more suiting Of my gender identity So I turn around. Let the door slam behind me. Half a step into the men's room The smell of rancid ***** hits my senses Toilet paper liters the stalls I have missed absolutely nothing in my years in the women's room Women have nicer facilities A significantly more advanced hand dryer Cleanliness Air freshener Men do not have these luxuries Now I question, Do men not take as good of care of their bathrooms as women do? Do the workers intentionally prioritize women's sanitation? What causes this undeniable divide? Is the messiness of the men's room a result of their conscious decisions? Or simply a response to societal expectation? Regardless, I think I'll stick to the women's room While I add bathrooms to my compilation Of more discrete gender inequality
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Rust downing like bayed menstrual blood-- booming steel walls...a rattling sanitation truck. Housewarming...'the rough beast' in fetal orbit...nay-toothed in squalor. Whose gummy roar shall presage the audacity of all places, that call forth houses!!!
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 12:10 AM UTC
Nay-toothed
Americana is not Greyhound. People come and go like life, Attached to the waiting random. The road feels longer, Relief of excretion and sanitation, Home spreads everywhere. Sitting strangers are stories, Riding by unknown sceneries, Thinking about their hometown, Wondering if they will reach their destination on time. Earphone music connects memories to a person so vividly, It feels like a new chapter in my life, Bookmark the important ones with parts of me, It feels like I’m departing, From something small to somewhere big. It’s already an adventure once     the      first step          is         made with                               you.
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 3:09 AM UTC
Bus
As the wind blows across the fiery desert, The desperate people of Yemen sigh. How many more will suffer today? How many more children will cry? A Saudi-led coalition Strikes with a heartless disregard, Leaving behind misery-- Death and destruction its calling card. Choking the poor country, the Saudis Organized a major blockade, Cutting off vital medicine, Food, and water, and stopping all trade. Cluster bombs have fallen on cities. Thousands of innocent people have died. Hospitals and schools have been hit. How can such horror be justified? Millions of people risk starvation If all the bombing does not end. The Saudis hunger for more and more weapons, And they have billions of dollars to spend. A bomb made by Lockheed Martin Hit a Yemeni school bus Killing fifty-one people, and hurting Many more, thanks to us. A U.S. bomb hit funeral mourners; One destroyed a marketplace. That our support causes such Atrocities is a disgrace. The people suffer from cholera-- Something that is hard to avoid When a country's sanitation Facilities are being destroyed. A massive humanitarian crisis Plagues the country despite appeals To end the conflict by caring nations, While major players dig in their heels. Sunni-Shiite conflicts continue With innocent citizens caught in between. Callous leaders turn their heads, Afraid to speak up or intervene. -by Bob B (10-17-18)
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Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018 at 11:05 AM UTC
Death in Yemen
If a world is known by its ideals Let mine be known as sanity Let all men be infertile And all women, stale Let streets be known for sanitation And all babies dipped in chlorine All talk, sterile and sufficient All excrement concealed Let the youth of my predecessors And their mocking vulgarity Drown in a town of minimal design And shocking similarity.
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Sep 6, 2014
Sep 6, 2014 at 6:40 PM UTC
Suburban Blues
Pacing in endless circles Appearing to be chasing their tails With nothing much to focus on, Eyes reflecting haunted souls unveil A ghost town abandoned long ago With no signs of life and the dust Rising up trying to hide the shame Of a system which failed the public trust. Street smells permeate the air; Sanitation becomes a four-letter word. There's no need for appetite here, Not in this theater of the absurd, And, well, I wouldn't feed the stuff To my worst enemy if I had one. It's a no-kill shelter with defunct inhabitants. If resiliency of the spirit be overdone, The ability to survive incredible odds, Look at souls forever trapped in their cages. As if to mock decency and humanity The signs read "Patria o Muerte."
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Nov 15, 2013
Nov 15, 2013 at 3:43 PM UTC
Shelter Dogs
The representative from Ohio wipes his *** with Jose’s brown palms after a bout of verbal defecation. Luckily, Jose’s food truck houses a small sink in the corner where he can wash his hands in between baskets of chorizo prepared for rich politicians. Sometimes Jose scrubs so hard dream flakes rub off of his skin and he throws them into the wastebasket to be picked up by the sanitation workers who eagerly jump like frogs in orange vests into the waste of Americana. When the Representative stops by for a plate of carne asada, Jose’s dream specks pepper the beef and his salty sweat flavors the inside of the burrito. He grills the onions and green peppers with a dash of minimum wage and boils the rice in a mixture of blood and pieces of his heritage. He serves the meal in a white Styrofoam tray and drizzles it with cheese flowing from an open wound. The receipt is an unpaid medical bill, the drink an icy reminder of his future sipped through a straw. The nightly news tells Jose the Representative is bedridden with a stomach infection. He complains his insides feel like a million ***** feet kicking the lining, like unheard mouths with rows of sharp teeth gnawing at the liver. Jose to the tv: tonight we’re not starving.
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 11:42 PM UTC
The Representative Lunches At The Food Truck
The first duty of the State Should be sanitation, Not defense, nor cyber-security. Drain the swamps. **** the vermin. Wash & sweep the streets. Let us forgive his past shenanigans. A vote for ****** is a Vote for cleanliness. After all: next to Godliness. (American politician **Anthony ****** former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York City, was involved in a ****** scandal related to sexting, or sending explicit ****** material by cell phone. On June 16, 2011, ****** announced his intention to resign from Congress with his official resignation occurring on June 23, 2011.)
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Jun 27, 2015
Jun 27, 2015 at 10:39 PM UTC
“Weinergate Redux”
By Arcassin Burnham Gotta wipe off the seat , sanitation is key, Squeaky clean future if you make it soon, Skipping that class in the bathroom, Be on the phone in the bathroom, Taking those pills in the bathroom, Ladies look good in the bathroom, Not that I spy on the girls room, Teenagers have *** in the bathroom, Pick on other kids in the bathroom, Gather bearings in the bathroom, Gotta wipe off the seat , sanitation is key, Squeaky clean future if you make it soon, Treasures , treasures , they fill the hearts of these people, Disguised as greed, It never ends , there are still more sequels, Pushing and pulling emotions and boundaries, Can't be weak in this world ,set in every country, **** on the government in the bathroom.
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Sep 24, 2018
Sep 24, 2018 at 1:53 AM UTC
Bathroom
C:\USERS\ISAAC >  open  C:\Impulse\Expulse.raw The dust settles On the fans and the plans. Looking like a double "2", You try to see like one. See or look. Or just a look-see. Laughing at nothing is a common thing for you. The strangest has come, The strangest has left. The strangeness is correct. Every spring, Every water, Every drop has a secret. They sing to him in the form of river. He jumps to the bank To get his money's worth. It's an organized procedure to him. He sinks his head in the ground, In the rocks and in the sound. A random pattern is heard. Two, Three, Ten, Five, Twenty. One Hundred, Thirty-One, Two. A, G, I, S. North, East, South, West. His, My, Her, Them. Great, Rough, Green, Tan. Giant mispronounciations and hidden truths. One more thing, Don't get lost... "Sadness for a screen, Sadness for a screen." He sells his money for a screen, To get his money's worth. Lost files and hidden documents Not worth the oxide their printed on. Old memories of times still here Hidden in words of the past. One more thing, It's all on impulse. Next day he found a .raw. He walked towards it. It said, "Why do you live with frantic?" He said, "I live to take the time." It said, "Why do you do the things you do?" He said, "To me, it's not impulse, it's expulse." It said, "Why do you need to get rid of?" He said, "The questions people seek." It said, "Take me to the sky.{?}" He said, "Gladly." To the sky he went. And the time he spent He used to solve the problem. He saw a new opportunity To make a new sanitation. It consisted of three notes. Two for show and one to go. The go note did the work Of tasting the ground for dirt To get it's money's worth. It cleaned like Ben one. And when sanitation was complete, He went to .raw. He said, "The last words are gone." It said, "So that means we've won." He said, "What should we do?" It said, "Wait for the next."
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Mar 23, 2011
Mar 23, 2011 at 12:37 AM UTC
C:\Impulse\Expulse.raw (defragmented)
C:\USERS\ISAAC >  open  C:\Impulse\Expulse.raw The dust settles On the fans and the plans. Looking like a double "2", You try to see like one. See or look. Or just a look-see. Laughing at nothing is a common thing for you. The strangest has come, The strangest has left. The strangeness is correct. Every spring, Every water, Every drop has a secret. They sing to him in the form of river. He jumps to the bank To get his money's worth. It's an organized procedure to him. He sinks his head in the ground, In the rocks and in the sound. A random pattern is heard. Two, Three, Ten, Five, Twenty. One Hundred, Thirty-One, Two. A, G, I, S. North, East, South, West. His, My, Her, Them. Great, Rough, Green, Tan. Giant mispronounciations and hidden truths. One more thing, Don't get lost... "Sadness for a screen, Sadness for a screen." He sells his money for a screen, To get his money's worth. Lost files and hidden documents Not worth the oxide their printed on. Old memories of times still here Hidden in words of the past. One more thing, It's all on impulse. Next day he found a .raw. He walked towards it. It said, "Why do you live with frantic?" He said, "I live to take the time." It said, "Why do you do the things you do?" He said, "To me, it's not impulse, it's expulse." It said, "Why do you need to get rid of?" He said, "The questions people seek." It said, "Take me to the sky.{?}" He said, "Gladly." To the sky he went. And the time he spent He used to solve the problem. He saw a new opportunity To make a new sanitation. It consisted of three notes. Two for show and one to go. The go note did the work Of tasting the ground for dirt To get it's money's worth. It cleaned like Ben one. And when sanitation was complete, He went to .raw. He said, "The last words are gone." It said, "So that means we've won." He said, "What should we do?" It said, "Wait for the next."
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From wars erupting earths core, we've settled a score only for the heavens and hell to see. We smother the stench of temptations with potpourri, only to deceive others stimulating parts of a brain. Still pardon my slang Are we using something to rearrange a type of mental suicide arranged, in order to display portraits of lucid terror?, Throwing smoke bombs to keep a little order but even so that's just keeping us ***** for more slaughter. Like roaches and raid a single spray will cause fragment mutations a zombie faze shot with steroids and black plagues, just a graze to depict nations, human infested sanitation able to retaliate government abomination. A conversation my mind read by Pagans walking through hallways, a million rooms perfume and a two headed waitress, mind binding views, imitations, crosses, limitations, serpents, pulpits, fuels lit and shattered creations.
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 3:46 PM UTC
The Land After Time
Observe the dents and the bents This barbell is sitting alone in the alley How long has it been there you ask? It has been years, but it is a forgotten story The barbell was rusted and old But doing its day, trainers knew how to take hold The barbell was outside a once very active Gym The owner’s first name happened to be Jim The Gym’s name was called “Fitness Theory Gym” The members were all Fitness Buffs and Bodybuilder’s that were massive and muscular The gym was strictly ******** All about fitness being the core Yet all the trained was centered around barbells with an uptown grade being called weights Walking pass on any given day, you could hear the sounds of moans in lift Catch my drift? But a Financial Crisis at the gym slowed business down Little by Little, the members could no longer be found In fact, it was next to none So the gym had no choice but to close down But then again, gym after gym was no longer bound The end of fitness and ******** not being the sound So one loss barbell that was left in a forbidden alley Rusted and no place to go to be lifted The barbell stayed in the alley until sanitation arrived A barbell being old and no longer in use Also a barbell no one could see A ******** past with what used to be
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Aug 7, 2020
Aug 7, 2020 at 3:48 PM UTC
BARBELL ALLEY
*My thanks to the store clerk working the midnight shift God bless the dishwashers at local restaurants laboring for minuscule pay To the forklift operators moving freight for hours on end , to cleaning crews preparing offices for another day For the plumber protecting health in the wee hours of the morn For sanitation workers hard at work well before dawn*
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 10:37 PM UTC
Thank you
Big old jade earring hung from that haunted necklace, swinging from this and that and the other way where and if that sky upstairs let go of the thing I wanted you to be but a break in the system, no a malfunction in that suction of a love that you tried to forget about but feel those typing keys on the fingers that break knees and the heels up and up with the ***** a lingerin' and thats sounding like a new pounding, the one upstairs with the translucent roof ghostly and guess i got a new boot thats fixing itself to elate another prisoner upstate where the worries are always about the women. Yeah, that women with the diamond ring with her children by her side thinking about the monastery she never visited a big time act act act in a dress that helped her enough and forgot about the rest. But we all move on quick to detest times test with the burritos that she never ate because of the figure she imposed that she got from her transistor radio and the yearly subscriptions of the ghostly ghost that haunted her in the moat around the castle of stairs up ripunzel with dragons a aflame listening to the same wishy washer story of old uncle Maury and the twenty ten twelve salute to the mastery of the fiction of listening, another riddle in the twiddle beneath the sheets that were once painted gold but her husband done left her and she's moving to seattle to start up some new cattle spreading the seed of 1910 where time stands still with his drink in his hand because the guy has got to get around to something with all that talent, with all that anger with all that impulse that proves itself time and time again it will never be enough for a salvation sanitation with the twisty fro's of yearly ye and ye bouts of fights she twisted in that shout that she knew, she knew she swears, what it was all about.
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May 6, 2011
May 6, 2011 at 10:10 PM UTC
Big Old Jade Necklace
Big old jade earring hung from that haunted necklace, swinging from this and that and the other way where and if that sky upstairs let go of the thing I wanted you to be but a break in the system, no a malfunction in that suction of a love that you tried to forget about but feel those typing keys on the fingers that break knees and the heels up and up with the ***** a lingerin' and thats sounding like a new pounding, the one upstairs with the translucent roof ghostly and guess i got a new boot thats fixing itself to elate another prisoner upstate where the worries are always about the women. Yeah, that women with the diamond ring with her children by her side thinking about the monastery she never visited a big time act act act in a dress that helped her enough and forgot about the rest. But we all move on quick to detest times test with the burritos that she never ate because of the figure she imposed that she got from her transistor radio and the yearly subscriptions of the ghostly ghost that haunted her in the moat around the castle of stairs up ripunzel with dragons a aflame listening to the same wishy washer story of old uncle Maury and the twenty ten twelve salute to the mastery of the fiction of listening, another riddle in the twiddle beneath the sheets that were once painted gold but her husband done left her and she's moving to seattle to start up some new cattle spreading the seed of 1910 where time stands still with his drink in his hand because the guy has got to get around to something with all that talent, with all that anger with all that impulse that proves itself time and time again it will never be enough for a salvation sanitation with the twisty fro's of yearly ye and ye bouts of fights she twisted in that shout that she knew, she knew she swears, what it was all about.
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C:\USERS\ISAAC >  open  C:\Impulse\Expulse.raw The dust settles On the fans and the plans. Looking like a double "2", You try to see like one. See or look. Or just a look-see. Laughing at nothing is a common thing for you. The strangest has come, The strangest has left. The strangeness is correct. Every spring, Every water, Every drop has a secret. They sing to him in the form of river. He jumps to the bank To get his money's worth. It's an organized procedure to him. He sinks his head in the ground, In the rocks and in the sound. A random pattern is heard. Two, Three, Ten, Five, Twenty. One Hundred, Thirty-One, Two. A, G, I, S. North, East, South, West. His, My, Her, Them. Great, Rough, Green, Tan. Giant mispronounciations and hidden truths. One more thing, Don't get lost... "Sadness for a screen, Sadness for a screen." He sells his money for a screen, To get his money's worth. Lost files and hidden documents Not worth the oxide their printed on. Old memories of times still here Hidden in words of the past. One more thing, It's all on impulse. Next day he found a .raw. He walked towards it. It said, "Why do you live with frantic?" He said, "I live to take the time." It said, "Why do you do the things you do?" He said, "To me, it's not impulse, it's expulse." It said, "Why do you need to get rid of?" He said, "The questions people seek." It said, "Take me to the sky.{?}" He said, "Gladly." To the sky he went. And the time he spent He used to solve the problem. He saw a new opportunity To make a new sanitation. It consisted of three notes. Two for show and one to go. The go note did the work Of tasting the ground for dirt To get it's money's worth. It cleaned like Ben one. And when sanitation was complete, He went to .raw. He said, "The last words are gone." It said, "So that means we've won." He said, "What should we do?" It said, "Wait for the next."
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Feb 15, 2011
Feb 15, 2011 at 5:55 PM UTC
C:\Impulse\Expulse.raw
C:\USERS\ISAAC >  open  C:\Impulse\Expulse.raw The dust settles On the fans and the plans. Looking like a double "2", You try to see like one. See or look. Or just a look-see. Laughing at nothing is a common thing for you. The strangest has come, The strangest has left. The strangeness is correct. Every spring, Every water, Every drop has a secret. They sing to him in the form of river. He jumps to the bank To get his money's worth. It's an organized procedure to him. He sinks his head in the ground, In the rocks and in the sound. A random pattern is heard. Two, Three, Ten, Five, Twenty. One Hundred, Thirty-One, Two. A, G, I, S. North, East, South, West. His, My, Her, Them. Great, Rough, Green, Tan. Giant mispronounciations and hidden truths. One more thing, Don't get lost... "Sadness for a screen, Sadness for a screen." He sells his money for a screen, To get his money's worth. Lost files and hidden documents Not worth the oxide their printed on. Old memories of times still here Hidden in words of the past. One more thing, It's all on impulse. Next day he found a .raw. He walked towards it. It said, "Why do you live with frantic?" He said, "I live to take the time." It said, "Why do you do the things you do?" He said, "To me, it's not impulse, it's expulse." It said, "Why do you need to get rid of?" He said, "The questions people seek." It said, "Take me to the sky.{?}" He said, "Gladly." To the sky he went. And the time he spent He used to solve the problem. He saw a new opportunity To make a new sanitation. It consisted of three notes. Two for show and one to go. The go note did the work Of tasting the ground for dirt To get it's money's worth. It cleaned like Ben one. And when sanitation was complete, He went to .raw. He said, "The last words are gone." It said, "So that means we've won." He said, "What should we do?" It said, "Wait for the next."
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Customers have torn open the Christmas chocolates. Shoving it in mouths, shopping bags, children’s eyes. Quiet. We are shopping. as. a. family. Smoke accordions out of Santa’s mailbox. The sprinkler system hisses stale air. Custodians ride by on their metal cart laughing, sanitation chemicals flickering out of buckets. The 80 year-old piano player is hammering out Schoenberg. Customers shove lamps into their shopping bags, shove children into them. Turn on the light Jimmy. The ninth floor is barricaded off by old woman. They have turned the clearance divans on their sides and are throwing toasters. Down in the basement, the security staff have locked themselves into 2’ by 2’ cells. Fetally-positioned, their panting echoes off stone walls. Static sizzles on the array of sixteen camera screens. Customers have begin to bow in the reinforced door next to the two-way mirror. A fat man is leaning against it. He has been dead for over an hour. Restaurant staff are tearing down the great tree. Ornaments funnel down pop-crashing upwards from the floor. Three pound ceramic dinnerware crashes into the walnut bar The customers are putting mattresses in their bags, they are putting the offices in their bags. Human resources are backed into the employee orientation computer lab. Customers have poured Starbucks on the circuit-breakers. The lights are dimming, Escalators are jamming. Children scream I want to see Santa. Santa is dead. Employees calmly walk over his protruding belly. The velvet and fat feels good on tired feet. An inhuman voice garbles The store will be closing. Families grab onto shelves, racks, other families. Employees pick up the registers and slam them on granite counters. Coins explode out like bells. The rotating doors are not spinning. They are stuck, crunching on limbs.
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Dec 27, 2010
Dec 27, 2010 at 5:16 PM UTC
Christmas at Macys
Customers have torn open the Christmas chocolates. Shoving it in mouths, shopping bags, children’s eyes. Quiet. We are shopping. as. a. family. Smoke accordions out of Santa’s mailbox. The sprinkler system hisses stale air. Custodians ride by on their metal cart laughing, sanitation chemicals flickering out of buckets. The 80 year-old piano player is hammering out Schoenberg. Customers shove lamps into their shopping bags, shove children into them. Turn on the light Jimmy. The ninth floor is barricaded off by old woman. They have turned the clearance divans on their sides and are throwing toasters. Down in the basement, the security staff have locked themselves into 2’ by 2’ cells. Fetally-positioned, their panting echoes off stone walls. Static sizzles on the array of sixteen camera screens. Customers have begin to bow in the reinforced door next to the two-way mirror. A fat man is leaning against it. He has been dead for over an hour. Restaurant staff are tearing down the great tree. Ornaments funnel down pop-crashing upwards from the floor. Three pound ceramic dinnerware crashes into the walnut bar The customers are putting mattresses in their bags, they are putting the offices in their bags. Human resources are backed into the employee orientation computer lab. Customers have poured Starbucks on the circuit-breakers. The lights are dimming, Escalators are jamming. Children scream I want to see Santa. Santa is dead. Employees calmly walk over his protruding belly. The velvet and fat feels good on tired feet. An inhuman voice garbles The store will be closing. Families grab onto shelves, racks, other families. Employees pick up the registers and slam them on granite counters. Coins explode out like bells. The rotating doors are not spinning. They are stuck, crunching on limbs.
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Monster snowstorm Meteorologist have warned But when you have faith you don’t be alarmed Yet this snowstorm is going to be for the record books All a person has to do is just look Like a typewriter keyboard going up the ladder But in this case it is the Northeast with the matter If the snowstorm piles up as much as Meteorologist predict, the snow will be around long and will certainly be icy and thick Transportation will definitely shutdown There will be no way too get around Everyone will be stationery in homeward bound It will television and cell phones with snowstorm updates Then a mission to work or wait There is no guarantee It is a matter of wait and see The snowstorm provided by thee Man can’t defeat and tell the snow too stop It’s all controlled from the almighty being at the top The Sanitation Department will be doing their job in clearing the snow away However it won’t be gone all in one day This could be a snowstorm bringing snow that could last for days Don’t even think on taking a plane being a getaway It will be the wintry frozen ice that will stay The best advice that I could give is to think of the season spring Mild with warm hearts in getting through the snow in helping you preserver Don’t think on fear As God is always near A snowstorm is God’s way in purifying the earth I remember being taught that at birth But think on doing things at home being fun Always remember, weather conditions you have no control and God will always be the centered number of one.
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 7:13 PM UTC
SNOWSTORM MYSTIQUE
Monster snowstorm Meteorologist have warned But when you have faith you don’t be alarmed Yet this snowstorm is going to be for the record books All a person has to do is just look Like a typewriter keyboard going up the ladder But in this case it is the Northeast with the matter If the snowstorm piles up as much as Meteorologist predict, the snow will be around long and will certainly be icy and thick Transportation will definitely shutdown There will be no way too get around Everyone will be stationery in homeward bound It will television and cell phones with snowstorm updates Then a mission to work or wait There is no guarantee It is a matter of wait and see The snowstorm provided by thee Man can’t defeat and tell the snow too stop It’s all controlled from the almighty being at the top The Sanitation Department will be doing their job in clearing the snow away However it won’t be gone all in one day This could be a snowstorm bringing snow that could last for days Don’t even think on taking a plane being a getaway It will be the wintry frozen ice that will stay The best advice that I could give is to think of the season spring Mild with warm hearts in getting through the snow in helping you preserver Don’t think on fear As God is always near A snowstorm is God’s way in purifying the earth I remember being taught that at birth But think on doing things at home being fun Always remember, weather conditions you have no control and God will always be the centered number of one.
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"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life-- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice, and even the little seed in the cup-- they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-And-Jane books and the first word you learned-- the biggest word of all-- LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all--the whole world-- had cookies and milk about three o' clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it's still true, no matter how old you are-- where you go out into the world, it's best to hold hands and stick together.
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Mar 5, 2012
Mar 5, 2012 at 7:14 PM UTC
Kindergarten
"All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life-- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice, and even the little seed in the cup-- they all die. So do we. And then remember the Dick-And-Jane books and the first word you learned-- the biggest word of all-- LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all--the whole world-- had cookies and milk about three o' clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it's still true, no matter how old you are-- where you go out into the world, it's best to hold hands and stick together.
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Falling snowmen from the sky The vision of snow and ice being my surprise November being winter early Heaven’s way being surely Yet blinding storm put me on alarm Cars stuck on roads and Homes destroyed being harm Winter’s arrival at Autumn’s season expense This was something the skies actually sent The mystery behind the sudden snowstorm that weather forecaster’s can only guess Yet to drivers and sanitation it was a guest It seemed to get worse more or less More snow is scheduled to come To school kids they want some But a snowstorm that came at the wrong time to arrive However it’s ironic and must take in our stride.
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Nov 21, 2014
Nov 21, 2014 at 7:45 PM UTC
SUDDEN SNOWSTORM
We fight and we fight and we fight For what our communal conscious believes is right We scratch and we scratch and we scratch At the surface of our supposed human needs We wave and we wave and we wave These banners that state a truthful name How hard we work to prove that we are human How hard we try to not to be dissproven The grave does not care who you are The scythe strikes fast strikes clean but strikes fair It doth not judge for we beings think far too much At night when the prowling pride stalks its prey Where the stars shine heavy on the hides of the unlucky Does the lion question whether to eat the man or the woman? The gay or the straight? The gimp or the man stumbling due to too many sips? The lion only wants his meat His catch Much like our friend the grave We fight and we fight and we shout and we shout And we wave and we wave because we think that is how freedom behaves How lost we are, we children of mother earth How stunned we become at our own plain insignificance That a drifting leaf in a Fall breeze has even more elegance Twisting spitting crying masses of flesh and bone Drones upon drones stand upon stones upon stones An eternal cycle of nature's evolution A plan that is known and unknown Seen and said but not ever shared We fight and we fight and we fight and we fight We say the cause is the hand of an almighty God That the cause of liberation comes from the impulse of our sanitation The wolf howls to be free and is But we We human beings We just Fight and we fight and we fight
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Jul 20, 2011
Jul 20, 2011 at 11:09 PM UTC
We Fight and We Fight
We fight and we fight and we fight For what our communal conscious believes is right We scratch and we scratch and we scratch At the surface of our supposed human needs We wave and we wave and we wave These banners that state a truthful name How hard we work to prove that we are human How hard we try to not to be dissproven The grave does not care who you are The scythe strikes fast strikes clean but strikes fair It doth not judge for we beings think far too much At night when the prowling pride stalks its prey Where the stars shine heavy on the hides of the unlucky Does the lion question whether to eat the man or the woman? The gay or the straight? The gimp or the man stumbling due to too many sips? The lion only wants his meat His catch Much like our friend the grave We fight and we fight and we shout and we shout And we wave and we wave because we think that is how freedom behaves How lost we are, we children of mother earth How stunned we become at our own plain insignificance That a drifting leaf in a Fall breeze has even more elegance Twisting spitting crying masses of flesh and bone Drones upon drones stand upon stones upon stones An eternal cycle of nature's evolution A plan that is known and unknown Seen and said but not ever shared We fight and we fight and we fight and we fight We say the cause is the hand of an almighty God That the cause of liberation comes from the impulse of our sanitation The wolf howls to be free and is But we We human beings We just Fight and we fight and we fight
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I first cried where freshness itself struggled to breathe. Outside the Ganges, asthmatic, began to cower back in fear, in disgust, in disease, browning like the discarded banana peels on the roadside below. I first cried in a dirt town where kings and queens drank to grass avenues and swaying music in the realms of history books. I first cried where those books aged quietly in forgotten rooms. I first cried where the streets bled out crumpling homes and cardboard stores with misspelt names, spilling children in dust dresses and hair matted into rust pieces. I first cried where those children hung babies on their arms like my mother swung her handbag, a flag of Valentino, while stumbling on crushed cans and dog **** and foetid mud-water on the way to the dentist. And the children cried out snot, their arms perpetually reaching for a rupee from the traffic. I first cried where white-lit department stores sprouted in defiant sanitation between eczema-covered apartment blocks in which washing lines drooped and parking was always a problem. I first cried where many gods and goddesses resided on the footpaths decked in glitter and cloths of rouge as old men with skin weathered into mottled leather shook beneath sheets of jute on the roadside below and offered tiny flames to their gods as morning bellowed and their coughs grew worse. I first cried where stareless men burnt their fingers on the Chinese noodles with too much chilli powder they cooked and fried and cooked for those who never saw them but to haggle over a ten rupee note, on the roadside, on every corner. I first cried as thread-blanketed teenage girls with wrinkled faces squatted amongst cows in the middles of roads, chanting prices, in voices full of tar, of the mound of peas they were selling for that week. I come every year. And I'm ashamed to say I'll never live here but in my verses because I can't stand the smell of the place where I was born. I first cried here. I first cried here.
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Dec 19, 2015
Dec 19, 2015 at 2:55 AM UTC
I First Cried Here
I first cried where freshness itself struggled to breathe. Outside the Ganges, asthmatic, began to cower back in fear, in disgust, in disease, browning like the discarded banana peels on the roadside below. I first cried in a dirt town where kings and queens drank to grass avenues and swaying music in the realms of history books. I first cried where those books aged quietly in forgotten rooms. I first cried where the streets bled out crumpling homes and cardboard stores with misspelt names, spilling children in dust dresses and hair matted into rust pieces. I first cried where those children hung babies on their arms like my mother swung her handbag, a flag of Valentino, while stumbling on crushed cans and dog **** and foetid mud-water on the way to the dentist. And the children cried out snot, their arms perpetually reaching for a rupee from the traffic. I first cried where white-lit department stores sprouted in defiant sanitation between eczema-covered apartment blocks in which washing lines drooped and parking was always a problem. I first cried where many gods and goddesses resided on the footpaths decked in glitter and cloths of rouge as old men with skin weathered into mottled leather shook beneath sheets of jute on the roadside below and offered tiny flames to their gods as morning bellowed and their coughs grew worse. I first cried where stareless men burnt their fingers on the Chinese noodles with too much chilli powder they cooked and fried and cooked for those who never saw them but to haggle over a ten rupee note, on the roadside, on every corner. I first cried as thread-blanketed teenage girls with wrinkled faces squatted amongst cows in the middles of roads, chanting prices, in voices full of tar, of the mound of peas they were selling for that week. I come every year. And I'm ashamed to say I'll never live here but in my verses because I can't stand the smell of the place where I was born. I first cried here. I first cried here.
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Can I touch your hair? No. Neglecting that I have no knowledge of the sanitation of your hands Nor am I in the mood for questions I do not hold the answers to. My hair speaks of a thousand stories you will not appreciate. My hair speaks for millions of women Darkened by birth or sun. So no, you can’t touch my hair.
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 2:19 PM UTC
Can I touch your hair?
Manipulation's Allegation's Sanitation Strangulation All frustration Let out On a Seventie's delux Strat. Putting blues On the screaming Map.
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 9:27 AM UTC
Blues screaming
Dear political parties, please stop arguing with other parties and save the nation, the time you wanted our votes you made empty promises . Service delivery is your daily message,employment is a frog song,water and sanitation is your bed you lay on it. Where is that promises you made,most of orphans are starving, where is that food parcels. Opposition parties please stop opening your mouth,you were on that party the time that corruption took place, you always talk and talk but none of the things you fix if is not civil war. If you were having good promise why don't you help those who are staying in sharks,so that you can talk what you know. We are all living in Africa,let's not point fingers and do the Job we all given by God,we can not sleep and wake up with grass in our hand . Together let's join our hands and move Africa forward, this is not Africa for parties is Africa for all, the is no other government the government is you.
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Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 10:38 AM UTC
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