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"sartre" poems
you sowed this **** into my brain... why do you even "think" that i want... you?              i, want your children... the meme-mutation is what i'm after...    and there are plenty of useful idiots to allow me to process the intermediating processes for: the sigma, "accomplishment"; which is unlike what infected mushroom's -   trance party track sounds like, outside of my own head. why do these people even think i'm after their genes of memes?                 i want, their infantile replicas...                  i want to craft a worthwhile curiosity, on a canvas, that that they call their gene replicas, children, and... like why called me... easy meat..                  einfachfleisch... what?     i'm not here for these news' anchors... i'm here for their children... nibble nibble nibble chew chow cow tow and main...             prawn crackers... ah... news anchors are easy targets...     slightly pointless 20x bulls eye honing devices... it's their children...      i want their children...     i want their cognition to become replica of wheelchair bound infirmaries; why?     oh... you know... football and wrestling, given the Qatar investment plan... the whole sport "thing" became a tad bit boring...   had to resort to secondary sources of entertainment; children of news anchors? the secondary, "last", albeit, the best resort;    schindler...   required a list,      to become reincarnated... and revive a **** a heartlessness of an reincarnation     anomaly:   i.e.: what, a limited number of people, to begin with?!      so the rest is primitive "a.i."? now i'm starting to think... thank the blue indians for their culinary innovations... but when it comes to their theology?                            **** 'em; did i advocate that? if i did... within what pronoun guarantee of advocacy? playing the grammar card...         which pronoun? the plural singular, or the singular plural, or the gender neutral?    thank you jean-paul sartre,      for the...  "i"... i simply love, this revised concept of a unit...            the revision clinging to the royalist affirmation of pronouns... i.e. 1 would say... so...          and 1... would, so, will, do so. **** the pronoun debate in Canadian politics...    if i have to resort to this? then i will... like your plain citizen...      may "i" speak within the confines, of the royal, one, given the example:    one might suppose... to be the former, and the current, highest, etiquette? gender neutrality of pronouns... last time i checked... one was never allowed pronoun stature... why not address this conundrum, to begin with?! oh, right... too late... too many loud mouths without a guillotine... so, basically, a cow fart's worth of argumentation.
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 11:51 PM UTC
I non Q
you sowed this **** into my brain... why do you even "think" that i want... you?              i, want your children... the meme-mutation is what i'm after...    and there are plenty of useful idiots to allow me to process the intermediating processes for: the sigma, "accomplishment"; which is unlike what infected mushroom's -   trance party track sounds like, outside of my own head. why do these people even think i'm after their genes of memes?                 i want, their infantile replicas...                  i want to craft a worthwhile curiosity, on a canvas, that that they call their gene replicas, children, and... like why called me... easy meat..                  einfachfleisch... what?     i'm not here for these news' anchors... i'm here for their children... nibble nibble nibble chew chow cow tow and main...             prawn crackers... ah... news anchors are easy targets...     slightly pointless 20x bulls eye honing devices... it's their children...      i want their children...     i want their cognition to become replica of wheelchair bound infirmaries; why?     oh... you know... football and wrestling, given the Qatar investment plan... the whole sport "thing" became a tad bit boring...   had to resort to secondary sources of entertainment; children of news anchors? the secondary, "last", albeit, the best resort;    schindler...   required a list,      to become reincarnated... and revive a **** a heartlessness of an reincarnation     anomaly:   i.e.: what, a limited number of people, to begin with?!      so the rest is primitive "a.i."? now i'm starting to think... thank the blue indians for their culinary innovations... but when it comes to their theology?                            **** 'em; did i advocate that? if i did... within what pronoun guarantee of advocacy? playing the grammar card...         which pronoun? the plural singular, or the singular plural, or the gender neutral?    thank you jean-paul sartre,      for the...  "i"... i simply love, this revised concept of a unit...            the revision clinging to the royalist affirmation of pronouns... i.e. 1 would say... so...          and 1... would, so, will, do so. **** the pronoun debate in Canadian politics...    if i have to resort to this? then i will... like your plain citizen...      may "i" speak within the confines, of the royal, one, given the example:    one might suppose... to be the former, and the current, highest, etiquette? gender neutrality of pronouns... last time i checked... one was never allowed pronoun stature... why not address this conundrum, to begin with?! oh, right... too late... too many loud mouths without a guillotine... so, basically, a cow fart's worth of argumentation.
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This is a poem about nothing which is impossible since Nothing is actually Something An indefinite pronoun. Now, I'm discussing nothing a concept that makes 'nothing' a thing Confused? I am. My mind is buzzing with the thought of nothing! So is my mind empty or not?! Discussing nothing is leaving me blushing! Now existentialists, Sartre was influenced by Heidegger Heidegger says he was misunderstood In the effort to bring about a poem about nothing, I've created something, so this poem is now about Something' what, I know not.
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Apr 29, 2015
Apr 29, 2015 at 10:10 AM UTC
A poem about nothing
I hate woodstock I hate the whole mainstream counterculture why embrace something as alternative when society itself is evolving to be just that? I almost desire to be the textbook, cookie-cut worker drone family man but I figure, I'll push in a different direction than anyone I know most writers are bullshitters anyway especially the best ones-- I could imagine Sartre before fans, promising a world he couldn't provide I think all writers at their core, are idealists dreamers when that ceases, they can no longer write or turn to nonfiction
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Oct 24, 2010
Oct 24, 2010 at 1:25 PM UTC
I hate woodstock
reveling in the unity of contradiction the omnipresence of disjunction the opaqueness of transparency the anarchy of governance the unknowableness of the zeitgeist the banality of chiqueness the slavery of fashion kinda like being a hipster in Brooklyn with no conscience of consciousness or is it no consciousness of conscience? one is a statement the other a dumb question seeking an intelligent answer truly the tragedy of comedy or is it the comedy of tragedy? enough of these silly questions....   why don't it just fall apart? how does it stay together? accessorize smartly tight ensem put together right Music Selection: Jimi Hendrix ifasixwas9 Oakland 6/21/13 jbm
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Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 10:27 PM UTC
Happy Birthday Jean-Paul Sartre
She was that Chekhovian girl who fell for Dostoevsky and Camus and Sartre and    you.
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Nov 29, 2018
Nov 29, 2018 at 12:15 AM UTC
Alicia
You read the books that are made for men And call yourself a feminist As you recite paragraphs Making gestures with your right hand Sprays of self-righteous spit Accompanied with your confident loud words. Your knowing worm eyebrows As the cherry on top. I wonder if you would be ashamed To know that Hemingway was an anti-Semite. Or that Sartre thought there were two kinds of women. Poor Simone was just like you She went along for the ride.
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 10:41 PM UTC
Curious Worm Eyebrow
listening to French pop "I'll have liked it when it was cool before it get's cool" sriracha sauce on pesto pizza "The waiter was right the flavors are very complimentary to the palate." watching a ****** "me" movie "wow their color usage in the lighting really shows the Giallo Italian horror influence" Listening to the Friendly Indians "My favorite band? They are only popular in Orange County so you've probably not heard of them.... oh you have?" watching Un Chien Andalou "tres interessant" reading Sartre and Nietzsche "my favorite philosophers man." my pretention leaking out slowly to reveal I'm just a ********* underneath this finely unkempt exterior. Is that changing? Well no but i thought you should know anyway.
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 4:06 AM UTC
I'm a prentious ***** and if you get this poem you likely are too. But that's okay
First She walked out And I had to learn That I was a coward An orphaned lover An old house cat Abandoned In a grocery store parking lot I had to face it again The emptiness I smoked all of those nights Away I was numb I was nothing I lost 30 lbs in 2 months Then it all caught up with me One night my heart started beating Rapidly I couldn't breath Started to shake I sat in a corner and watched The room grow ten times it's size I heard a static crack in the ears I was lost and unhuman I was a rabid dog trapped in a corner I felt sick for weeks after So I gave up the *** Switched to drinking Whole bottles of whiskey 128 lbs, shirtless, screaming The fellas laughed at the beginning Until I started throwing **** Trying to fight everybody, anybody I had 3 new catch phrases "I'll ****** **** you man" "I'll smash all your ********* teeth in" "I've seen it all man." After a while it became Too much for the fellas And soon they were all gone So I found better company Dostoevsky, Fante,Bukowski,Hemingway, Hamsun,Lorca,Sartre, etc. I found a ****** apartment in San Pedro Drank beer and read every night Until the loneliness felt comfortable And then I Accidentally Became alcoholic Then i took my wild act To the streets A few weeks ago I was at a concert And this guy kept elbowing me In the ribs I said "If you keep sticking that elbow To me, I'll ****** **** you man." I said it cool and soft And the guy looked real scared And I was too So I had to quit drinking... I keep thinking about Zarathustra Rising from his cave After years of solitude... A guy at work said "November's almost gone Man, this year just blew right by" And I thought 'Good.'
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Nov 23, 2015
Nov 23, 2015 at 11:50 AM UTC
2015
First She walked out And I had to learn That I was a coward An orphaned lover An old house cat Abandoned In a grocery store parking lot I had to face it again The emptiness I smoked all of those nights Away I was numb I was nothing I lost 30 lbs in 2 months Then it all caught up with me One night my heart started beating Rapidly I couldn't breath Started to shake I sat in a corner and watched The room grow ten times it's size I heard a static crack in the ears I was lost and unhuman I was a rabid dog trapped in a corner I felt sick for weeks after So I gave up the *** Switched to drinking Whole bottles of whiskey 128 lbs, shirtless, screaming The fellas laughed at the beginning Until I started throwing **** Trying to fight everybody, anybody I had 3 new catch phrases "I'll ****** **** you man" "I'll smash all your ********* teeth in" "I've seen it all man." After a while it became Too much for the fellas And soon they were all gone So I found better company Dostoevsky, Fante,Bukowski,Hemingway, Hamsun,Lorca,Sartre, etc. I found a ****** apartment in San Pedro Drank beer and read every night Until the loneliness felt comfortable And then I Accidentally Became alcoholic Then i took my wild act To the streets A few weeks ago I was at a concert And this guy kept elbowing me In the ribs I said "If you keep sticking that elbow To me, I'll ****** **** you man." I said it cool and soft And the guy looked real scared And I was too So I had to quit drinking... I keep thinking about Zarathustra Rising from his cave After years of solitude... A guy at work said "November's almost gone Man, this year just blew right by" And I thought 'Good.'
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man leisured by the least obliging functioning of what he terms “proper” manual endeavours of the biceps will clearly resolve the matter being his last adventure that’s consumerism, creating as many menial jobs as possible without the freedom to enjoy hardish and the elements; but of course man’s life will become easier, but his adventure seeking will simply become a zoology, a safari, a safety netting - consumerism is hardly an adventure, it’s a bicycle schematic: one wheel produces, another wheel consumes; most of the jobs under the hammer were not menial, they became menial only when heidegger’s hammer was involved and the rebellion came when hammering nails in turned into discussing philosophy; it’s hard to commence an emergence of philosophy window shopping, woman’s new kitchen area: you know how many marriages i have seen fail because of over-cooked pasta? too many. you know how many glass houses i’ve seen constructed by women peering into shop windows at mannequins? too many. i sometimes think about sartre’s c.c.t.v. voyeurism pervasive in english society alongside paedophilia, and i guess the jigsaw parts fit... they do; once dubbed the nation of shopkeepers, now dubbed the nation of integrally ~foreign mortgage lenders (nation of property developers / landlords... indeed, once a nation of shopkeepers, now a nation of landlords): or a nation re-evaluating communism by importing slavs to talk of the ups and lows of communism by trying to curb capitalistic egoism and turn it into a collective without communism’s egoism father stalin:                             or queen bee or queen ant china.
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Jan 19, 2016
Jan 19, 2016 at 8:08 PM UTC
nation of shopkeepers turned into a nation of landlords
man leisured by the least obliging functioning of what he terms “proper” manual endeavours of the biceps will clearly resolve the matter being his last adventure that’s consumerism, creating as many menial jobs as possible without the freedom to enjoy hardish and the elements; but of course man’s life will become easier, but his adventure seeking will simply become a zoology, a safari, a safety netting - consumerism is hardly an adventure, it’s a bicycle schematic: one wheel produces, another wheel consumes; most of the jobs under the hammer were not menial, they became menial only when heidegger’s hammer was involved and the rebellion came when hammering nails in turned into discussing philosophy; it’s hard to commence an emergence of philosophy window shopping, woman’s new kitchen area: you know how many marriages i have seen fail because of over-cooked pasta? too many. you know how many glass houses i’ve seen constructed by women peering into shop windows at mannequins? too many. i sometimes think about sartre’s c.c.t.v. voyeurism pervasive in english society alongside paedophilia, and i guess the jigsaw parts fit... they do; once dubbed the nation of shopkeepers, now dubbed the nation of integrally ~foreign mortgage lenders (nation of property developers / landlords... indeed, once a nation of shopkeepers, now a nation of landlords): or a nation re-evaluating communism by importing slavs to talk of the ups and lows of communism by trying to curb capitalistic egoism and turn it into a collective without communism’s egoism father stalin:                             or queen bee or queen ant china.
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Out of red concrete stands an abstraction held out in space and in isolation. Posit a location, Pierre I'll be there to where you be. But from the ground of the cafe the distance becomes separated by unity: point A to point B pinpointing the heart of reality for what was once 'to be' now stands 'not to be'. A pre-judicative attitude always leads from 'being' to 'non-being'. Where is the comfort in trying to rest between Nothingness? While negating in A sleep while asleep? Am I not self-aware through self-consciousness of 'The Existence of a Nonexistence Existing in Existence'? How can there be Nothingness if before Nothingness there is a Consciousness? There is a Consciousness! From Being! From a non-being being Being! Thus, don't premature judge and expect the "expected" Expect the unexpected and save nonexistence from non-existence; from "being" to "non-being"
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Feb 7, 2011
Feb 7, 2011 at 10:09 PM UTC
Sartre
I've seen you there amongst the lavender fields when you thought no one was watching. Memories that dance a longing daydream, weaving strings of lilac through my veins. I knew you would plague me, but my eyes supped upon you. Supped and supped again until lavished by an allure a thousand French patisseries could never usurp. Your taste inspired madness - a craze you too endured. We turned over pages and bewildered them with Eden's of ivy that flourished within our skulls. If Van Gogh were a writer he'd write like us. A fable of seraphic beauty and lucid insanity, knotted together with existential philosophy. "Being and Nothingness" (Sartre understood) but we were 50 years too late to the Café de Flore. Those were memories of yesteryear, sealed with the rosy hue of antiquity I was always fond of. I can almost lick that scent of lavender that clings to the photographs, but I fear my tongue may bleed. So I admire them on a mantelpiece in a dust-soaked room where all that I love (and have loved) may live. I know that room not by daylight, for I dare not be seen to enter. Only the high rise moon knows that those footprints belong to me.
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Apr 10, 2016
Apr 10, 2016 at 6:27 PM UTC
Lavender
Standing on the intersection of a Monet, a van Gogh, and a Picasso Nice piece of real estate! Water lilies ~ Charrette de boeuf ~ Tete d'homme Let's start with the lilies: I'm impressionable and I gaze lovingly into the pool I see my reflection slowly unfurl in the shimmer of the pink petals As in a dream ... I float on The watchmaker sends an instruction: rotate clockwise Now an ox cart: I seem to be walking in Poe's imagination Crows flitting about as the ox champions His burden on a drafty day Another instruction from the watchmaker: continue clockwise And now Tete d'homme ~ cubism: My world deconstructs Line by line, shapes and forms Fracture into the subterranean unconsciousness of my mind Leading to another instruction: close your eyes Shift Your Perspective Watchmaker says: open your eyes Uncentre Misalign Unhitch Watchmaker says: ens causa sui: 'a being that causes itself' Now I've got Dali giving me niggling doubts about the nature of time Sartre with a side of Darwin and I'm being and nothingness Ground yourself Mullin! Open your eyes ... this is reality There's Rodin in a battle of good versus evil Munch and no screams! This is good Gaugin sharing his garden view I'm in my happy place again ... That's better And here's Cezanne, Degas, Renoir, and Pissarro Bringing me back into a recognizable reality My eyes and my mind are in alignment here But I can feel that watchmaker winding me back up My iris constricts and my pineal widen Third eye ain't blind Hope someone is around to catch me No worries, I'm sailing with Renoir and I've found A Muse (Constantin Brancusi) Ain't life a musing?
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 10:34 AM UTC
Triangulation
Standing on the intersection of a Monet, a van Gogh, and a Picasso Nice piece of real estate! Water lilies ~ Charrette de boeuf ~ Tete d'homme Let's start with the lilies: I'm impressionable and I gaze lovingly into the pool I see my reflection slowly unfurl in the shimmer of the pink petals As in a dream ... I float on The watchmaker sends an instruction: rotate clockwise Now an ox cart: I seem to be walking in Poe's imagination Crows flitting about as the ox champions His burden on a drafty day Another instruction from the watchmaker: continue clockwise And now Tete d'homme ~ cubism: My world deconstructs Line by line, shapes and forms Fracture into the subterranean unconsciousness of my mind Leading to another instruction: close your eyes Shift Your Perspective Watchmaker says: open your eyes Uncentre Misalign Unhitch Watchmaker says: ens causa sui: 'a being that causes itself' Now I've got Dali giving me niggling doubts about the nature of time Sartre with a side of Darwin and I'm being and nothingness Ground yourself Mullin! Open your eyes ... this is reality There's Rodin in a battle of good versus evil Munch and no screams! This is good Gaugin sharing his garden view I'm in my happy place again ... That's better And here's Cezanne, Degas, Renoir, and Pissarro Bringing me back into a recognizable reality My eyes and my mind are in alignment here But I can feel that watchmaker winding me back up My iris constricts and my pineal widen Third eye ain't blind Hope someone is around to catch me No worries, I'm sailing with Renoir and I've found A Muse (Constantin Brancusi) Ain't life a musing?
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FEW POETIC REFLECTIONS  ON OLD AGE Dear Poet Friends, after a long break, I have composed a few lines as a very senior citizen and a lover of poetry. If you like the same, kindly Re-post this poem for wider circulation. Thanks and best wishes, - Raj Nandy of New Delhi.    It has been often been said that old age is that period of life,   When all bad habits are given up on doctor’s advice, And yet you don’t feel all that good while you survive! Yet I do try to take some solace from Robert Browning’s poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ which says;- ‘’Grow old along with me!   For the best is yet to be,   The last of life, for which the first was made.’’ Despite my grey hairs and wrinkled face, With creaking joints and scattered aches and pains, ‘’Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing   For every tatter in its mortal dress’’, In thanks giving to the Lord and sings his praise; As I recall WB Yeats’ ‘Sailing Byzantium’, - that lovely poem from my college days. As our biological clock continues to tick incessantly, Getting older becomes compulsory. But becoming Wiser in wrinkled years remains optional, A choice our free will has the opportunity to make! I recall what Agatha Christie had once said, That an archaeologist is the best husband a woman can get, For the older she gets, the more interested in her he becomes; With due respect to our women whose age is impolite not ask. Here I recall what the Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost had once said, That a diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday and not her age. I recall the observation of Sartre the famous French philosopher who had said, That more sand that escapes from the hourglass of our life, The clearer we should see through it as a blessing of time! It is true that we live in deeds, not in years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial, - as James Bailey had said. I finally conclude by quoting the first stanza from ‘Beautiful Old Age’  by DH Lawrence; ‘’It ought to be lovely to be old   To be full of the peace that comes of experience   And wrinkled ripe fulfilment.’’                                                      -Raj Nandy of New Delhi.
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Dec 19, 2019
Dec 19, 2019 at 11:04 AM UTC
ON BLESSINGS OF OLD AGE !
FEW POETIC REFLECTIONS  ON OLD AGE Dear Poet Friends, after a long break, I have composed a few lines as a very senior citizen and a lover of poetry. If you like the same, kindly Re-post this poem for wider circulation. Thanks and best wishes, - Raj Nandy of New Delhi.    It has been often been said that old age is that period of life,   When all bad habits are given up on doctor’s advice, And yet you don’t feel all that good while you survive! Yet I do try to take some solace from Robert Browning’s poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’ which says;- ‘’Grow old along with me!   For the best is yet to be,   The last of life, for which the first was made.’’ Despite my grey hairs and wrinkled face, With creaking joints and scattered aches and pains, ‘’Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing   For every tatter in its mortal dress’’, In thanks giving to the Lord and sings his praise; As I recall WB Yeats’ ‘Sailing Byzantium’, - that lovely poem from my college days. As our biological clock continues to tick incessantly, Getting older becomes compulsory. But becoming Wiser in wrinkled years remains optional, A choice our free will has the opportunity to make! I recall what Agatha Christie had once said, That an archaeologist is the best husband a woman can get, For the older she gets, the more interested in her he becomes; With due respect to our women whose age is impolite not ask. Here I recall what the Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Frost had once said, That a diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday and not her age. I recall the observation of Sartre the famous French philosopher who had said, That more sand that escapes from the hourglass of our life, The clearer we should see through it as a blessing of time! It is true that we live in deeds, not in years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial, - as James Bailey had said. I finally conclude by quoting the first stanza from ‘Beautiful Old Age’  by DH Lawrence; ‘’It ought to be lovely to be old   To be full of the peace that comes of experience   And wrinkled ripe fulfilment.’’                                                      -Raj Nandy of New Delhi.
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She took the train for the first time To go spend a few weeks with her daddy In the summer before she started second grade. Her suitcase had pink light up wheels on it And was full of her best summer dresses and pictures She drew with his name scrawled on the back. She cried at the station because she didn't want to go, And slept the whole way there. She took the train again, in high school Accompanied by a group of friends Going to the city for the weekend to see a baseball game. She didn't bring any luggage, But came back with arms full of plastic shopping bags. She cried because her mother didn't understand That 16 is too old for a curfew, And smoked cigarettes the whole way there. She took the train, once more, Her freshman year of college. She went to visit her best friend at school. Her duffle bag was full of flimsy bikinis and Sartre. She didn't cry this time, until on her way back When she realized that something had been lost somewhere along the way, And that she was too old now to ever know what it was. She took the train, again, for the last time. The summer before her second year of college; She said she wasn't going anywhere in particular. She bought a ticket for Sacramento, and left it in the car. This time, her suitcase was full of heavy rocks, And made her tilt a little to the left as she dragged it down the ramp. She began to cry at the station, for the death of someone she used to know. And, seconds before the train left, She flung herself onto the rusted tracks, Leaving behind nothing Except a couple of ticket stubs and a poem titled "Somewhere".
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Jul 15, 2013
Jul 15, 2013 at 12:04 PM UTC
Somewhere
She took the train for the first time To go spend a few weeks with her daddy In the summer before she started second grade. Her suitcase had pink light up wheels on it And was full of her best summer dresses and pictures She drew with his name scrawled on the back. She cried at the station because she didn't want to go, And slept the whole way there. She took the train again, in high school Accompanied by a group of friends Going to the city for the weekend to see a baseball game. She didn't bring any luggage, But came back with arms full of plastic shopping bags. She cried because her mother didn't understand That 16 is too old for a curfew, And smoked cigarettes the whole way there. She took the train, once more, Her freshman year of college. She went to visit her best friend at school. Her duffle bag was full of flimsy bikinis and Sartre. She didn't cry this time, until on her way back When she realized that something had been lost somewhere along the way, And that she was too old now to ever know what it was. She took the train, again, for the last time. The summer before her second year of college; She said she wasn't going anywhere in particular. She bought a ticket for Sacramento, and left it in the car. This time, her suitcase was full of heavy rocks, And made her tilt a little to the left as she dragged it down the ramp. She began to cry at the station, for the death of someone she used to know. And, seconds before the train left, She flung herself onto the rusted tracks, Leaving behind nothing Except a couple of ticket stubs and a poem titled "Somewhere".
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I'll be your Sartre Be my De Beauvoir Together well make a pact Never to leave each others hearts Though barriers will drive us apart I won't disappear like an ephemeral mark Instead I'll have Apollo conjure you a magic harp To play you sweet melodies when we have to depart
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Mar 22, 2010
Mar 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM UTC
Philosophical Love
the question remains a question A paradox, an enigma. Despair embodied with human curves That arouses my deepest and most concealed fears Like the heightened sensualities of a pilgrim Or the hunger of a pagan god. Once again, where is Mecca? or Jerusalem? Perhaps Eden is in a box? Or within the ****** of a battered woman How about Atlantis? Is it like me? Between 4 walls? After all, we are left to confess and write Our darkest secrets, our most inhumane crimes in a wall In blood or in phlegm, or perhaps ***** Is just a matter of preferences. Sartre is on the phone, Looking for someone who’s never home Whether he knows or not we’ll never know But my finger touches his dance partner. Dance away like numbers Minus the precision or the count Learning tango simply costs too much and like Sartre, I'm poor, or maybe less So he went on dancing like that, With no measure nor count Free like a ******* like me Nervous yet spontaneous. Another silence, But unlike before it’s even more silent Making it even more unspeakable, undesirable And now it demands the impossible; To be called by its name, by its urgency! But the words, those little empty words Withers away like leaves or skin kissed by fire So we are left away with no device To break the silence or to speak out its name The trigger, the unmoving dance partner Went down to its cold alloyed knees; Proposing marriage with my finger She knows the answer, A way to speak the unspeakable name Loud and clear, with a bang That everyone will surely hear. Or do we already know that?
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 5:18 PM UTC
a sartrean question, or a pseudo-existential crisis
the question remains a question A paradox, an enigma. Despair embodied with human curves That arouses my deepest and most concealed fears Like the heightened sensualities of a pilgrim Or the hunger of a pagan god. Once again, where is Mecca? or Jerusalem? Perhaps Eden is in a box? Or within the ****** of a battered woman How about Atlantis? Is it like me? Between 4 walls? After all, we are left to confess and write Our darkest secrets, our most inhumane crimes in a wall In blood or in phlegm, or perhaps ***** Is just a matter of preferences. Sartre is on the phone, Looking for someone who’s never home Whether he knows or not we’ll never know But my finger touches his dance partner. Dance away like numbers Minus the precision or the count Learning tango simply costs too much and like Sartre, I'm poor, or maybe less So he went on dancing like that, With no measure nor count Free like a ******* like me Nervous yet spontaneous. Another silence, But unlike before it’s even more silent Making it even more unspeakable, undesirable And now it demands the impossible; To be called by its name, by its urgency! But the words, those little empty words Withers away like leaves or skin kissed by fire So we are left away with no device To break the silence or to speak out its name The trigger, the unmoving dance partner Went down to its cold alloyed knees; Proposing marriage with my finger She knows the answer, A way to speak the unspeakable name Loud and clear, with a bang That everyone will surely hear. Or do we already know that?
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I can always hear them in there laughing,talking,living. There must be 3 of them living in that Small studio apartment. Their room always smells of Incense, pizza,marijuana. I've seen them in the halls 19 year old latinas. And where should my love belong now? It is much too dangerous For a man of 24 to have read Sartre,Celine,Hamsun. Ya know, I often fantasize About 35 year old women. Although I have met a lot of 35 year old women That don't know **** Where should my love belong? Probably exactly where it is now. But I hope Not.
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Dec 30, 2015
Dec 30, 2015 at 9:52 PM UTC
The Girls in Rm. 100
Sartre could have taken Ghandi In a burger eating contest, or a bar fight; they are dead. No matter who you are, you will die. Torch your temples, set fire to the preachers, and **** on ash. Embrace it. Welcome this conflagrative absolve.
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Nov 1, 2012
Nov 1, 2012 at 4:40 AM UTC
Focus Change
No matter how much I shiver I can't seem to cool The heat in the pit of my stomach
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 1:50 PM UTC
Sartre was right
Benedict turned the page of the Dostoyevsky novel. His brother puked in the bidet, too much cheap wine, Benedict thought, but he’ll be fine. He immersed himself deeper into the Russian world of ****** and fear and dark corners. Crime and Punishment was one good tale all right. Even the book cover held the attention, he thought, turning it briefly over. His brother’s moans interrupted the puking. Benedict asked an are you all right? There was a groan of response. Benedict recalled the time he had been in that condition in Yugoslavia the year before, same cause: too much cheap wine. And that beautiful guide came to his room to see how he was and sat on his bed and all he could think of was when would the puking end. No thought at all of her presence there, her body so close, her perfume making him more nauseous. She was Croatian, he thought, pausing at the page of the Dostoyevskian novel. And that waitress he and his brother had liked in the restaurant at the Yugoslavian hotel. ***** Yes, that was the name. Got no where though. Just the luck of the draw. His brother returned from the bathroom and flopped on the bed. The puking over maybe, Benedict thought and his brother hoped, pale of complexion, perspiration on brow. Outside the window the Parisian streets echoed with life: Cars, coaches, buses, people, natives, tourists, males and females. Tomorrow they’d be out on the streets again. Sit in restaurants where the famous once sat over coffee or beer: Hemmingway, Sartre, Picasso, Henry Miller and the others. Art thrived here. Ideas born from philosophic minds. Benedict book marked the page and closed the book and put it aside. Some one laughed outside in the street, another sang, voices of ghostly singers of the past, breathed from the walls. His brother returned to the bathroom, more puking. Benedict thought: poor brother. Of course, he mused, gazing at the Parisian night sky, they’d never tell their mother.
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Jun 13, 2013
Jun 13, 2013 at 2:17 AM UTC
NEVER TELL MOTHER.
Benedict turned the page of the Dostoyevsky novel. His brother puked in the bidet, too much cheap wine, Benedict thought, but he’ll be fine. He immersed himself deeper into the Russian world of ****** and fear and dark corners. Crime and Punishment was one good tale all right. Even the book cover held the attention, he thought, turning it briefly over. His brother’s moans interrupted the puking. Benedict asked an are you all right? There was a groan of response. Benedict recalled the time he had been in that condition in Yugoslavia the year before, same cause: too much cheap wine. And that beautiful guide came to his room to see how he was and sat on his bed and all he could think of was when would the puking end. No thought at all of her presence there, her body so close, her perfume making him more nauseous. She was Croatian, he thought, pausing at the page of the Dostoyevskian novel. And that waitress he and his brother had liked in the restaurant at the Yugoslavian hotel. ***** Yes, that was the name. Got no where though. Just the luck of the draw. His brother returned from the bathroom and flopped on the bed. The puking over maybe, Benedict thought and his brother hoped, pale of complexion, perspiration on brow. Outside the window the Parisian streets echoed with life: Cars, coaches, buses, people, natives, tourists, males and females. Tomorrow they’d be out on the streets again. Sit in restaurants where the famous once sat over coffee or beer: Hemmingway, Sartre, Picasso, Henry Miller and the others. Art thrived here. Ideas born from philosophic minds. Benedict book marked the page and closed the book and put it aside. Some one laughed outside in the street, another sang, voices of ghostly singers of the past, breathed from the walls. His brother returned to the bathroom, more puking. Benedict thought: poor brother. Of course, he mused, gazing at the Parisian night sky, they’d never tell their mother.
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these two hands, small, stubby, nonetheless, invite you to come aboard, all, the unselected all, the unprotected the pretenders, outsiders, hallway cool, self-collected, girls who wear dresses, boys who write in diaries, Camus, Sartre hangers-on, never-removed sunglasses wearers, 24/7 trip time, comb your eyes, system cleansing, you, self-affected, you, self-selected you, step away from the gallows, get down from the scaffold come to, for you, to get collected, the unaffected, the undirected, road trip to the unexpected, place where the disconnection is disconnected, where the unexpected, that's you, expected I know you well I know you all you are my desirables, my touched untouchables, wilderness voices, no longer crying, bound for greatness from hands to pockets, my chosen ones, now my protected No more unhappy birthday parties that no one comes too no need to pretend, sell love, to the takers of advantage, now on you breathe in an atmosphere I've collected, 100% exhaled relief breaths, purelled oxygen, fresh start air no more disaffected, now fuel injected, now that you are in and among the touched, carried, the affected, the every poem read...
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Feb 23, 2014
Feb 23, 2014 at 2:03 AM UTC
The Disaffected
Why are we conscious? Why life? The universe infinite flux Epic Smashing parts together Brains splattered by speeding bullets Simple physics Described in abstract numbers Sublime It’s so plain So regular How Life is extinguished without emotion In an instant Unseen and unremembered Why did we even bother? To become conscious at all To perceive futilely the world And despair in the flux Anguish in the face Of pure entropy Absurdity is the only legitimate feeling And yet there are so many more Why? I want to know! Why this fait? Why could I not be a chair? Simply sitting, never thinking the thoughts My bane and my bone My plagued thoughts In pursuit of clarity Like a sore that would go away If you would Just Stop Picking it
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Jun 5, 2014
Jun 5, 2014 at 2:14 PM UTC
Sartre, Rimbaud, Stenson
Strange now, to think of you amidst this aftermath of scattered atoms and queer cells, this apocalypse, the collision of bone and skin, all gnashing and trembling and brimming with heat left over from the creation of our aching, leaking universe. Strange to remember those clarion eyes and fishgut teeth and tongue curled up around cherry blossoms and beatnik poetry; it seems, somehow, significant that I still carry on my lips the shape and timbre of your smile, each particle of warmth and aftertaste, another furtive hope, another offering to absolution. There was some hesitation even in the last glows of these days we spent in the laps of Sartre and Moses, and while you dreamt of children with teeth like mine and eyes like yours, I contemplated the vacuum between molecular bodies and the heat death of the cosmos.
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Dec 20, 2012
Dec 20, 2012 at 11:21 PM UTC
love is an entropic process
I’d done a lot of drugs that summer, drank a lot, and lost my virginity a hundred times over. David. He was the man who ****** me for the first time. He was in his thirties, a Buddhist, and a patient teacher. In the dark, he was so **** iron filings and gum. But perhaps it wasn’t him that enticed me into *** I think it might have been a combination of everything. The way his girl-faced Buddha shone by the light of a candle. The view from his window – city flowers and washing lines, Chopin on the stereo, the cleanness of his sheets, the girl in the next room talking loudly about Jean Paul Sartre. I want you, I said. Fifteen, I was. He didn’t know that, of course. There was a terrible pressure when he ****** me, so he told me to Relax Relax Relax Imagine you’re emptying out Imagine you’re emptying out and accepting something holy communion if you like you're catholic aren't you? You look lovely You feel lovely You look lovely There was a part of my mind that thought of girls being torn through, blood and pain, embarrassment in the morning. I couldn’t stay hard. There was a part of me that gave in, with my knees up by my shoulders. There was a part of me that wanted to flip him onto his back and **** him, part of me that was desperate to be a man, part of me that hated this submission. In the morning there was no embarrassment, just cereal and ten different types of smile. Milk in bed. A lecture on loving kindness.
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 5:16 PM UTC
milk in bed
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