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"sewer" poems
The sewer stink of street trash marries the scent of desire veiled in crimson shadows reflected on the damp pavement Thoughts silenced by the gasp of nylons being shredded by possibility Teeth grip then slip on the sweat of a humid night Fireball burns sweet as night lands on the flesh in city soot a grit that makes every movement a sanguinary promise forged on the edge of pain Owned. Taken. Willed. Filled with primal intoxication that turns warm city nights into shameless memories wrapped in the stink of street trash
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Feb 3, 2017
Feb 3, 2017 at 4:28 AM UTC
City Soot and Silent Promises
These streets are home to countless rodents emerging for a moment to feed or breed or just to breathe the sun One by one line up for the chance to make something out of nothing Who are they and where do they go while the city refuses to sleep ___ Doors to endless lands line the avenue each its own portal to the unimagined A family of four with the yapping mutt or a lonely cat lady whose entryway wreaks of ***** a drug dealer door slamming every hour on the hour or an empty snowbird's nest On the surface everyone pretends they don't have a hole to crawl back to or walls that know every night But below the sewer grate a world filled with the stench of what could have been a good day Many a barkeep can shed some life on these drunkards' rat king or at least a story of those who made it out Once or twice it'd be grand to see the bottom of a martini glass left with a sip or two instead of the casually tipped lipstick-clad cocktail, drained of doubt and despair until morning warms the frozen dreams of those retired to a paradise unknown
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Oct 25, 2015
Oct 25, 2015 at 1:45 PM UTC
Rats
It ain’t like ahm a teacher ner nuthin. Ahm jess a regular person, nothin spayshul Ah ain’t no docterr of rocket science Ahm jess a working guy, and kinda playful. Ah half tah admit, ah do get things wrong And sometahms ah can make a big mess But ah do have minny, minny good points And ahm a rilly good person, irregardless. But things like writin’ readin’ and Readin’ writin’ and sech lack that stuff Ah stopped carin’ ‘bout at twelve ‘Cause ah found it more than kinda tuff. Ah mean, it ain’t lack ah ain’t never Gunna need to know reedickaluss stuff lie cat. Ahm jess gunna graduate and then Ah’ll go to work with Dad and drahve a bobcat. Ain’t nobuddy needs algebra for that Er fer workin’ at the factory line ever day either. And it sher ain’t like ahm a teacher ner nuthin. Ahm jess a regular person, nothin spayshul Ah ain’t no docterr of rocket science Ahm jess a working guy, and kinda playful. Ah half tah admit, ah do get things wrong And sometahms ah can make a big mess But ah do have minny, minny good points And ahm a rilly good person, irregardless. But things like writin’ readin’ and Grammer and other sech borin’ stuff Ah stopped carin’ ‘bout at twelve ‘Cause ah found it more than kinda tuff. Ah mean, it ain’t lack ah ain’t never Gunna need to know reedickaluss stuff lie cat. Ahm jess gunna graduate and then Ah’ll go to work with Dad and drahve a bobcat. Ain’t nobuddy needs algebra for that Er fer workin’ on a factory line ever day either. Ah sherr don’t need it to work digging Er runnin’ sewer lahns er plummin’ pipes neither. So, folks can jess give up on tryin’ To turn me into some kinda egghead scholar. After all, it was good enough for my dad To go to work, and work hard to earn a dollar.
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 9:34 AM UTC
AHM JESS SAYIN'...
It ain’t like ahm a teacher ner nuthin. Ahm jess a regular person, nothin spayshul Ah ain’t no docterr of rocket science Ahm jess a working guy, and kinda playful. Ah half tah admit, ah do get things wrong And sometahms ah can make a big mess But ah do have minny, minny good points And ahm a rilly good person, irregardless. But things like writin’ readin’ and Readin’ writin’ and sech lack that stuff Ah stopped carin’ ‘bout at twelve ‘Cause ah found it more than kinda tuff. Ah mean, it ain’t lack ah ain’t never Gunna need to know reedickaluss stuff lie cat. Ahm jess gunna graduate and then Ah’ll go to work with Dad and drahve a bobcat. Ain’t nobuddy needs algebra for that Er fer workin’ at the factory line ever day either. And it sher ain’t like ahm a teacher ner nuthin. Ahm jess a regular person, nothin spayshul Ah ain’t no docterr of rocket science Ahm jess a working guy, and kinda playful. Ah half tah admit, ah do get things wrong And sometahms ah can make a big mess But ah do have minny, minny good points And ahm a rilly good person, irregardless. But things like writin’ readin’ and Grammer and other sech borin’ stuff Ah stopped carin’ ‘bout at twelve ‘Cause ah found it more than kinda tuff. Ah mean, it ain’t lack ah ain’t never Gunna need to know reedickaluss stuff lie cat. Ahm jess gunna graduate and then Ah’ll go to work with Dad and drahve a bobcat. Ain’t nobuddy needs algebra for that Er fer workin’ on a factory line ever day either. Ah sherr don’t need it to work digging Er runnin’ sewer lahns er plummin’ pipes neither. So, folks can jess give up on tryin’ To turn me into some kinda egghead scholar. After all, it was good enough for my dad To go to work, and work hard to earn a dollar.
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Bruised and battered a friendship Sometimes hangs by a tiny thread As we came to the edge Urged on , by all , but our own souls We stop for friendship sake Staring at the rocks of death below We walked the cliff edge black Hearts pounding like stampeding rhino Charging our very path Dragons of fear circle over head Breathing fire over all Pride clamors for higher ground Standing tall and righteous We fly high in the sky Preying like vultures Search for every fault Feeling lost and alone We seek the lower land With pastures lush and green And soil deep and rich Where horses softly munch Teaching us their gentle ways For the loss of a friend Can be to much to bear In this already harsh world Weighing like lead on our back Like the captain of our own ship We cling to the end As our world sinks from under us Breaking boards and smashing masts Many splinter blind our eyes As we float together in darkness Waiting , for the storm to pass Then the great sewer grabs our very souls And throws us to the earth Braking our ego shells With troubles of our time And sew new friendship To be born anew As only the friendship Which has great strength The power to endure many deaths That see through much lashing pain Can ever earn its name For friendship forged in great heat Will find itself sealed to the eternal time
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Mar 5, 2014
Mar 5, 2014 at 3:53 PM UTC
FORGED FRIENDSHIP
There's this little thing who was born in the sewer Her name, they all say, is Society Pretends she's all that, but she's really nothing newer They say she never once spoke the truth. Society likes to pick in the brains of young girls Likes to meanly whisper in their ears, "You're fat, you're worthless, you're the ugliest there is!" What good does that do? It brings them to tears. Society likes to mess with the minds of young boys Likes to torment them by teasing, "You're skinny, you cry, you aren't manly enough!" Society makes sure it sure isn't pleasing. Society likes to mess with the minds of in-betweens or not-at-alls Likes to belittle, judge, and taunt "Why can't you be normal? No one likes you!" It goes on and on. Society likes to daunt. Society herself doesn't have a care in the world She never thought once about anyone's feelings All day she picks at everyone she can find All night she waits for them to wake, on their ceilings.
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Sep 14, 2018
Sep 14, 2018 at 2:27 PM UTC
Society
And looking back at it- I swear you ****** the life out of me Faster than you burn through your cigarettes You left me there; Charred and used Just another decoration in the sewer drain You stepped on me To make sure that my light was completely gone As you reached in your back pocket and pulled out another one
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 2:25 AM UTC
Used
Teeth and tongue Tongue and cheek Wars start people died, and they talk, Who’s cheating on whom within a myth of a happy ending Cheek and cheek Bombs, explosions and people talk, About the weather and the puppy fluff struck in sewer drains Our fantasies coming to a steal away the reality of misunderstood celebrities We play life across a board game Cross Go pick up Nothing, nothing fun things of un things Against the knowing we celebrate everything
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 10:20 PM UTC
World: Everybody Talks
I feel as if my head is sliding off my neck like ice cream melting down the cone. I am a witch melting, shrinking smaller as my spine stacks horizontally like shiplap. My body has been refurbished into a pinball machine. Something so tiny as a silver ball destroys so much. It bullets through my body, shooting off like Cuban missiles. I feel the turmoil and chaos seeping through the gutters of this old home of bones. It's like spilled oil sludging through my blood vessels or rats scattering through a sewer, nibbling and feasting away on these muscles of mine until they are frayed like gnawed-on cable wires. At odd hours of the night when time is propelled by the safe travels of breath (that weave in and out like Victorians at a ball) from sleepy children who have yet been touched by monsters or nymphs, whereas each of my breaths steer Odysseus's weather-beaten boat through ten years of treachery. My heavy, melting head slowly sloping like clay off a bust makes its home on my dingy pillow as I lay on a prison bed with cold shackles around my ankles that make my bones shatter into a mosaic as if that could shrink my ankles so I can slip out. I feel like a chained hawk at these hours of the night when I just want to fly until I screech to a halt and flail over the cliff that waterfalls into the ends of the universe. I'd be reluctant at first, perhaps, but what other escape does one have other than to make an autopsist's Y-incision on one's body, then slip out like a hermit crab freeing himself from his heavy shell? Embarking onto a new dimension where there's hope for a radical swap of atoms that don't shape a crippled, deteriorating human is the only choice when you want to live a life other than what you were cursed with. May we then find peace and live as naked souls bearing no heavy shells.
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Jul 7, 2017
Jul 7, 2017 at 4:53 AM UTC
to be without shell
I feel as if my head is sliding off my neck like ice cream melting down the cone. I am a witch melting, shrinking smaller as my spine stacks horizontally like shiplap. My body has been refurbished into a pinball machine. Something so tiny as a silver ball destroys so much. It bullets through my body, shooting off like Cuban missiles. I feel the turmoil and chaos seeping through the gutters of this old home of bones. It's like spilled oil sludging through my blood vessels or rats scattering through a sewer, nibbling and feasting away on these muscles of mine until they are frayed like gnawed-on cable wires. At odd hours of the night when time is propelled by the safe travels of breath (that weave in and out like Victorians at a ball) from sleepy children who have yet been touched by monsters or nymphs, whereas each of my breaths steer Odysseus's weather-beaten boat through ten years of treachery. My heavy, melting head slowly sloping like clay off a bust makes its home on my dingy pillow as I lay on a prison bed with cold shackles around my ankles that make my bones shatter into a mosaic as if that could shrink my ankles so I can slip out. I feel like a chained hawk at these hours of the night when I just want to fly until I screech to a halt and flail over the cliff that waterfalls into the ends of the universe. I'd be reluctant at first, perhaps, but what other escape does one have other than to make an autopsist's Y-incision on one's body, then slip out like a hermit crab freeing himself from his heavy shell? Embarking onto a new dimension where there's hope for a radical swap of atoms that don't shape a crippled, deteriorating human is the only choice when you want to live a life other than what you were cursed with. May we then find peace and live as naked souls bearing no heavy shells.
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It is And it's changing The wind into summer shower Into mushrooms and birds mouth From river to the sewer It is and it's changing From dark to light to dim with Speckles of sun born by the Mirror in you childlike hand You are catching dust bunnies Sneezing and laughing And the dirt could be followed by magic And the kiss isn't greased by the notion Of sin and the sin is only a word from the book Death and insanity Are frightening and profound Your world is built from No buts but ands And they flow into peace Just as well as the film of oil On the ***** puddle Astonishes you with An iridescent rainbow Duality is born by fear You split and separate so Caught up in the survival game To keep that face and partake Of wealth and fame Empty is locked in the dungeon And the words interlock In plain patterns Yet alive as they produce sounds And the smell of tangerines On a tree by the coast of Sicily Reminds you of the day When you could still enjoy The warmth of sun It absorbed into its juicy flesh And there's no need to run No need to stay No need to cut off the ties When life offers you more And the heat and cold are feelings That gets names as they replace each other As they flow unstoppable Dripping reactions Burning like acid and smooth like milk All in one glass And when you have no thoughts Ask questions And when you feel the pain Stay present and consider humanity
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May 28, 2017
May 28, 2017 at 9:43 AM UTC
Undivided
I'm done trying to make myself beautiful I'm bored with mascara, weighing down my eyelashes gunking up my sight like a city sewer I'm finished with lip gloss a pop of shiny color on my wet mouth pulling you in for a sticky kiss I want to be ugly to let my pores gape wide and let in the air my skin breathing for the first time in years I want to claw off my clothing my fabric fittings sewn to slim me down to tailor me into something worth loving I want to be repulsively human maybe all of this is because you said how you always love the most disgusting things
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 9:30 PM UTC
Disgusting
I am utterly convinced that my spirit is a ten-cent ***** letting any passing nemesis **** it in the mind with almost no tension. It must enjoy the sensation as its host clearly shows in the streams of tears that flow through the eyes, the spirit's *********** It must moisten its knickers at the viewing of torture, as its host sits in an icy stupor, with the times of grotesque spectacle-sobs on tile flooring, nicks on the wrist, what have you- the only times of breathing. My spirit must have stolen all the charm it takes to captivate the enemy into arousal, as the host stumbles awkwardly in public, pushing all potentials away with vehemence and convincing itself of its inferior quality to even the vermin of the sewer. My spirit has made me the loathing host to the parasite of my own being, my mind the main casualty, ridden with **** from villainy both outer and inner, decay from traumas more persuasive than the tongue of Casanova. I hope it's happy.
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Apr 29, 2010
Apr 29, 2010 at 10:46 AM UTC
Cheap Biology
GOLDFISH I had a pair of goldfish, Neither had a soul, maybe they did, Spiritual fish possibly? Aimlessly swimming around thei goldfish bowl. Every day, day in, day out, Poor flipping creatures, They never get out! If they were fed up, never would they shout. Last week it seems, the golden chap he became deceased! A glorious funeral was had by he, he had a final journey, travelling out to sea, Yesterday his cell mate, the black chap had his last day. He travelled out to see. Darling sweetest goldfishes, got funerals they both deserved. Military honour for brave goldfish. The black one and the gold one too, A ceremonial flushing by way of household loo. One hundred deceased goldfish all standing on parade. Together flowing through the sewer, Good night sweet fishes, Enjoy your journeys to the sea, Escaped eternal confinement, from depths of goldfish tank. Enjoy the ever after, ride the tide the two of you, The water in the solent, probably not too blue. (C) LIVVI
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Jul 12, 2017
Jul 12, 2017 at 5:38 PM UTC
GOLDFISH
building up a big mountain then tear it down give it to the clowns nosebleed for a feast endless bottom as a treat *it’ll likes get up tear it down it’ll likes get up tear it down* trail of tears chopped off nail of thoughts stopped short ego invoice taking drugs fat berg sewer horrible vanity *it’ll likes get up tear it down it’ll likes get up tear it down*
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Apr 22, 2015
Apr 22, 2015 at 5:07 PM UTC
super genetic
"We´re all a little mad here" he says, wide eyed, letting the words lip slither off his snippity snake tongue. We smile and we laugh in unison. In unison our heaves, ins outs match one another, as belly moves, up and down we synchronize, ha-h-ha, What does he mean? how silly! Then deep thought unlit hide behind our bodies rocking chair movement snip snapping hip We´re all a little mad, are we not? as ego wears a crimson feathered mask and covers in gold to hide the deep dark coal secrets that slith and creep like crocodiles, sewer nights in paris, smelly grotesque, we hide. "We´re all a little mad here" he says as our bodies move in unison. Our bodies move in unison. In unison, while echoes tap my animal soul.
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Mar 3, 2015
Mar 3, 2015 at 6:35 PM UTC
ha-ha-ha
i saw the greater part of creation succumb to the piracy of numbness- the nimbus rage of torpedo cigars blowing blue-grey smoke into the dark lashes of love-struck little ***** thirsty angels with tangled curls of hair bashing their heads against bathroom walls screaming under their breath, not enough. i saw the green plastic- and her orange eyes and the soap-bubbles on the sidewalk and the soap frothing all over the sidewalk and the glass that took off like pristine bullets in every direction and- blood running over the cum-covered lip of the curb, flowing into the street- down to the drain, dripping into the hungry orifices of the big metal grate into sewer pipe salvation- destination unhindered by your humanity. god, this must be insanity and not even the good kind. but let's go watch the fire-works up on the roof- crawl out the attic window i let you go first to watch the electric calico trickle down your legs like a promise. i like the birds that fly in and out of your hair- the handkerchief at your hip, i like the crazy and the cool- the too cute for comfort and the fake angsty danger of your darkside. like morphine- the band or the drug? you're ironically detached with your semi-satanic languidity- and overdue serenity [i got a few overdue books at the library.] [they closed the library a long time ago.] i like to play catch with your presence- our eyes with the back-and-forth, the half-sent glances when we think the other isn't looking. but we were always looking- or at least i was always looking at you. i could see half inside of you. you were always half-naked- in the scanty rags of the latest fashion. when you breathed it was like nectarine noises- and muffled yelps of love. i watched your shirt move up and down on your chest and told you about "never knows best" it seems i've seen the greater part of creation succumb to the supreme softness and the best laid plans of motorcycles and mini-vans fall to pieces in my palms. and you were the greatest creation i saw on the roof that day. don't bat another pretty little eyelash at those tiny flashing pieces that go past like ricochets it's just one more night of strangeness and then you can be free again.
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Jul 11, 2012
Jul 11, 2012 at 1:34 AM UTC
shameless
i saw the greater part of creation succumb to the piracy of numbness- the nimbus rage of torpedo cigars blowing blue-grey smoke into the dark lashes of love-struck little ***** thirsty angels with tangled curls of hair bashing their heads against bathroom walls screaming under their breath, not enough. i saw the green plastic- and her orange eyes and the soap-bubbles on the sidewalk and the soap frothing all over the sidewalk and the glass that took off like pristine bullets in every direction and- blood running over the cum-covered lip of the curb, flowing into the street- down to the drain, dripping into the hungry orifices of the big metal grate into sewer pipe salvation- destination unhindered by your humanity. god, this must be insanity and not even the good kind. but let's go watch the fire-works up on the roof- crawl out the attic window i let you go first to watch the electric calico trickle down your legs like a promise. i like the birds that fly in and out of your hair- the handkerchief at your hip, i like the crazy and the cool- the too cute for comfort and the fake angsty danger of your darkside. like morphine- the band or the drug? you're ironically detached with your semi-satanic languidity- and overdue serenity [i got a few overdue books at the library.] [they closed the library a long time ago.] i like to play catch with your presence- our eyes with the back-and-forth, the half-sent glances when we think the other isn't looking. but we were always looking- or at least i was always looking at you. i could see half inside of you. you were always half-naked- in the scanty rags of the latest fashion. when you breathed it was like nectarine noises- and muffled yelps of love. i watched your shirt move up and down on your chest and told you about "never knows best" it seems i've seen the greater part of creation succumb to the supreme softness and the best laid plans of motorcycles and mini-vans fall to pieces in my palms. and you were the greatest creation i saw on the roof that day. don't bat another pretty little eyelash at those tiny flashing pieces that go past like ricochets it's just one more night of strangeness and then you can be free again.
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I've seen cops way too many times, too many times to go through my **** ripping apart pillows with switches and against my better judgment I did nothing as I heard the glass of my grandmother's picture being tossed around in the back. Too many times asking me questions about this and that? Him or her? If you help us out, we'll help you out, understand? in their rooms where no love is grown and no help is on the way, their eyes were filled with the fire, they were finally gonna get this ****** make him pay for crimes he didn't commit. Too many times when i was asleep in some old sewer, and rolling up asking me if i was on drugs or drunk, and if i didn't leave they were gonna shove a nightstick up my *** get me used to it. Too many times have they slowed down at a light and turned slowly, keeping their eyes on me like I was a wolf, when they had blood in their eyes and teeth in their holsters. "Where you going tonight?" as they surrounded me, another inmate inside the bounded bars of an external prison. Cops never helped me, never asked how I was doing, or why I was doing it, or why I felt trapped inside my own body; all they saw was another ****** making problems for the civilized people. God will remember them, just as I can't forget. And most of the time, it was other black men, some fruit bred strong in them, to hate them bottom-rung ******* because they had escaped and remade themselves, apparently. In truth, I have killed many of them in my sleep, but when I step back, I see that they are a product of the same system that says the guns, drugs, and violence are part of the ****** condition, that only shows a ****** on tv when he's ***** or killed somebody, another mugshot for you to put in your scrapbook of fear. So, no I don't hate them, I hate seeing people that look like me getting killed before they come to fruition. I hate that :"black" is used as a term meant to engender fear. I hate that I walk down the street, and a white girl walks ahead turning around to check for me. I hate that when me and some of the homies walk down the street, our hoodies pulled over our heads, people look behind us for the grim reaper. There is hope, but without it being fostered, The fruits die on the vine, noosed up in a new way as they drop.
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Feb 11, 2012
Feb 11, 2012 at 6:36 PM UTC
VENTING.
I've seen cops way too many times, too many times to go through my **** ripping apart pillows with switches and against my better judgment I did nothing as I heard the glass of my grandmother's picture being tossed around in the back. Too many times asking me questions about this and that? Him or her? If you help us out, we'll help you out, understand? in their rooms where no love is grown and no help is on the way, their eyes were filled with the fire, they were finally gonna get this ****** make him pay for crimes he didn't commit. Too many times when i was asleep in some old sewer, and rolling up asking me if i was on drugs or drunk, and if i didn't leave they were gonna shove a nightstick up my *** get me used to it. Too many times have they slowed down at a light and turned slowly, keeping their eyes on me like I was a wolf, when they had blood in their eyes and teeth in their holsters. "Where you going tonight?" as they surrounded me, another inmate inside the bounded bars of an external prison. Cops never helped me, never asked how I was doing, or why I was doing it, or why I felt trapped inside my own body; all they saw was another ****** making problems for the civilized people. God will remember them, just as I can't forget. And most of the time, it was other black men, some fruit bred strong in them, to hate them bottom-rung ******* because they had escaped and remade themselves, apparently. In truth, I have killed many of them in my sleep, but when I step back, I see that they are a product of the same system that says the guns, drugs, and violence are part of the ****** condition, that only shows a ****** on tv when he's ***** or killed somebody, another mugshot for you to put in your scrapbook of fear. So, no I don't hate them, I hate seeing people that look like me getting killed before they come to fruition. I hate that :"black" is used as a term meant to engender fear. I hate that I walk down the street, and a white girl walks ahead turning around to check for me. I hate that when me and some of the homies walk down the street, our hoodies pulled over our heads, people look behind us for the grim reaper. There is hope, but without it being fostered, The fruits die on the vine, noosed up in a new way as they drop.
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perfunctory actions zombie habits sheep normalcy blindly following the cud chewers lemmings fall to their deaths slowly genetically engineered crops dusted with pharmaceutical poison laced with irradiated petroleum pesticides fed to the babies of the poor – wealthy voyeurs eagerly tune-in as the impoverished masses rot for viewing pleasure leisurely strolling across manicured lawns those in power scoff at the growing spectacle unaware that the cake is stale and the masses smell blood – hurriedly, accountants shuffle tax rates mix those with interest credit season it with mortgage fees and serve it on wall street place mats taking stock of stock market gains gamblers do double gainers off high rises adding to the flesh being consumed by the under class under classed – underclassmen, underpaid, stretch under ware elastic as waistlines expand with the debt ceiling both symbolizing the slow decline of the American dream screaming into the sewer fewer eyes look back as disease dulls the iris loss of the inner shine glowing reflection of living organisms fading as the day slips into the blue-black – night falls on a nation of imbeciles brain dead patients broken by depression and weight-loss scams hearts crying out for care personal and compassionate instead are met with sterile robotics and sanitary “C” students dressed in white fearful of lawsuits and spiders they prescribe to symptoms without knowing insurance number 87319A23-S1 is a human being, just like them also living in fear of the same establishment –
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Jun 24, 2014
Jun 24, 2014 at 1:33 PM UTC
trip to the Dr.
perfunctory actions zombie habits sheep normalcy blindly following the cud chewers lemmings fall to their deaths slowly genetically engineered crops dusted with pharmaceutical poison laced with irradiated petroleum pesticides fed to the babies of the poor – wealthy voyeurs eagerly tune-in as the impoverished masses rot for viewing pleasure leisurely strolling across manicured lawns those in power scoff at the growing spectacle unaware that the cake is stale and the masses smell blood – hurriedly, accountants shuffle tax rates mix those with interest credit season it with mortgage fees and serve it on wall street place mats taking stock of stock market gains gamblers do double gainers off high rises adding to the flesh being consumed by the under class under classed – underclassmen, underpaid, stretch under ware elastic as waistlines expand with the debt ceiling both symbolizing the slow decline of the American dream screaming into the sewer fewer eyes look back as disease dulls the iris loss of the inner shine glowing reflection of living organisms fading as the day slips into the blue-black – night falls on a nation of imbeciles brain dead patients broken by depression and weight-loss scams hearts crying out for care personal and compassionate instead are met with sterile robotics and sanitary “C” students dressed in white fearful of lawsuits and spiders they prescribe to symptoms without knowing insurance number 87319A23-S1 is a human being, just like them also living in fear of the same establishment –
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Every stranger on the street has sunk deep into the night *at least once, or twice*, and I'd wager that at times their thoughts have unfurled into black dishrags soaking up the insignificant amounts of vivacity- pouring pride into the sewer, praying desperately to recover. Eventually, time pries a crack into the soul, and peels back the skin of morality until the lines no longer meet and the mind reels- searching for the baseline of sanity- *save me, someone save me*.
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Oct 27, 2014
Oct 27, 2014 at 5:58 PM UTC
The Skin of Morality is Thin
On the cobbled stone streets you lead me, as I walked with disbelief., on how beautiful this world I am seeing its your world, that's where I've been. Raised our voices, made our point, cursed in my sleep, I felt alone you were suddenly someone I despise until you changed your mood and made it right. Time passed by, some would say too short but I found out about all sorts of your craziness, I argue with my mind, I slept unhappy I even cried. I already saw that something in your eyes, Something's unstable but I said " well, I should try" I saw how you don't let small things pass sometimes you're happy sometimes you're mad. then you stepped into my floody world, ***** streets with sewer openings uncovered. Yes you did walked those streets with pure disgust, so opposite of the world you have. there were times when I felt we're far apart when spending time together was a job. your standards reaching past the treshold of all standards I should try to understand that you're a prince in a pauper disguise. Though hard I still wanted to see if you'll stay or  run away from me. I know its hard for you but you tried I am so happy that you  tried. your patience lost, my soul is hungry was it supposed to be like this? these little crumbles feeds my uncertainty, I beg you please stay high with me.
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 11:47 AM UTC
Two Worlds Apart
Blankets, pillows, a black dog, and a cell phone. Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Gmail, and Instagram. Shampoo, soap bar, toothbrush, toothpaste, temperature, and time. Shaving cream, razor, running water, advertisements, sensitivity, precision, and cuts. Burned tongue, empty stomach, loose tie, missing shirt buttons, beating the clock, wallet, briefcase, and car keys. Ballpoint pens, scented trees, fast food wrappers, loose change, lighters, citations, ***** clothes, CDs, and napkins. Red lights, pedestrians, homeless people, newspapers, billboards, pets on leashes, sewer grates, crosswalks, skyscrapers, and garbage. Faxes, printers, memorandums, break room, prestige, cubicles, customer service, paperweights, filing cabinets, stocks, and corporate. Wipers, streetlights, rain coats, dive bars, and home. Blankets, pillows, a black dog, and a cell phone.
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May 4, 2014
May 4, 2014 at 1:43 PM UTC
Nine to Five Thoughts
A leaf spirals downward, Over covered heads and uncovered cars, Children sleeping in grass Drool dripping from their gums, A football field seeing practice Where someone's leg Was recently snapped in half, Overflowing sewer grates, Dilapidated septic tanks, Wastewater disposal facilities With a runoff into A river filled with needles and rocks And bodies, And it hits the ground with a silent explosion, Until the wind sends it off and sets it somewhere out of sight. Like when a glass bottle Shatters on a bar top and Sends shards soaring Into the eyes Of onlookers, Everybody knows what's next. Did you hear? Fall is here. The boy who starves so that he may be warm And the girl who freezes so she may not starve Have a chance encounter And bask in mutual despondency. They share their warmth, And they share their food, And neither has enough of either. But even at their demise, The sun still goes up and down On the horizon, Painting a scene of ignorance Or apathy, And lying. The heat will dissipate soon, What with Winter coming, But it does not matter: Everything is already frozen.
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Dec 27, 2011
Dec 27, 2011 at 6:49 PM UTC
Transitions
my life is beautiful, not realistic. yesterday, i arrived on neptune wearing big boots and dignity the horizon was a nightmare of question marks and gloomy witches; i escaped from the religious enema and pegged a choir boy on my way out. i am no longer a pygmy goat on a foolish leash, i take my paranoia seriously. my journals guide me to a ruptured corpse, never censored. i have the ability to be given away on a whim, but i am becoming a famous soldier, an intoxicating ghost of dogma. my dreams are beautiful, not realistic. hallelujah, the hobos are wearing bathrobes, the ****** pillheads are anointed with ****** and sewer cleaners. i see a goblin grave advertised by luscious lips and fishlike shoulders. the texture of my dream is kaleidoscope and silver, haunted by a fat sherriff who cuts the throat of the jukebox queen. i have a personal god, and on her i bestow this passionate kiss, i have a favorite enemy, with no goals and without ambition. im sorry, i don't know any happy songs, only the movement of her young sensitive thighs and a nymph with an hourly rate. i am a buffoon with a blugeoned harmonica and weapons of sugar. my life is beautiful, not realistic.
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Jan 28, 2012
Jan 28, 2012 at 11:23 PM UTC
beautiful/realistic
Stinky and Hinky Both egregious pigs Set out to **** us all; They don't care a fig If all of us starve to death As long as they get rich. Stinky and Hinky Each a venal summabitch! Stinky hired Hinky Two minds, one sewer. Stinky had no talent But Hinky was newer. Many people doubted That either had a chance But over half the voters Chose to skip the dance. So we got two reprobates With no regard for us. So, without much fanfare And no legitimate fuss The country got overrun Crooks got left in office. Now they all are setting out To, once and for all, off us. Stinky is a ***** And Hinky is a bigot. They crap on the Constitution. And expect us all to dig it. Stinky uses the USA As his personal ATM. Hinky is just evil. We’ve had enough of him.
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Mar 22, 2017
Mar 22, 2017 at 5:22 PM UTC
STINKY AND HINKY
Leaving Minnesota on train or buses, crowded and alone, were you fearful to sleep on couches and of the Village people with a rhapsody of dreams and cacophony of chords, under rain and sewer stank was it hard, to step inside and play the first time for glistening eyes and stage lights and to let melody escape your belly-throat for them, or did you know more, that words can sculpt delicacy as smooth as Donatello and that life can be bought without wrinkled greens and pressed threads? Walking under a hard-rain of assumption and change, did Greenwich birth a demon-sadness, so you hid your neck beneath collars and dark glasses and smoky rhyme, when the ship comes in will you be onboard or escape to Louisiana, misunderstood, working a river boat after you give Lennon a puff and Warhol a tight-fist? Did sad-eyed Sara send you back leather spanish boots or forget, and was Christ able to mend that broken love, and did you later kick his idiot wind away and in 2009 on stage when I could see emptiness and heartbreak hidden underneath your creased stetson, were you still singing it ain't me, babe?
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Nov 21, 2014
Nov 21, 2014 at 8:26 PM UTC
Dylan