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My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I'll join him right there, but now he's gone with his shaggy coat, his bad manners and his cold nose, and I, the materialist, who never believed in any promised heaven in the sky for any human being, I believe in a heaven I'll never enter. Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom where my dog waits for my arrival waving his fan-like tail in friendship. Ai, I'll not speak of sadness here on earth, of having lost a companion who was never servile. His friendship for me, like that of a porcupine withholding its authority, was the friendship of a star, aloof, with no more intimacy than was called for, with no exaggerations: he never climbed all over my clothes filling me full of his hair or his mange, he never rubbed up against my knee like other dogs obsessed with *** No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he'd keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing. Ai, how many times have I envied his tail as we walked together on the shores of the sea in the lonely winter of Isla Negra where the wintering birds filled the sky and my hairy dog was jumping about full of the voltage of the sea's movement: my wandering dog, sniffing away with his golden tail held high, face to face with the ocean's spray. Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit. There are no good-byes for my dog who has died, and we don't now and never did lie to each other. So now he's gone and I buried him, and that's all there is to it.
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A Dog Has Died
My dog has died. I buried him in the garden next to a rusted old machine. Some day I'll join him right there, but now he's gone with his shaggy coat, his bad manners and his cold nose, and I, the materialist, who never believed in any promised heaven in the sky for any human being, I believe in a heaven I'll never enter. Yes, I believe in a heaven for all dogdom where my dog waits for my arrival waving his fan-like tail in friendship. Ai, I'll not speak of sadness here on earth, of having lost a companion who was never servile. His friendship for me, like that of a porcupine withholding its authority, was the friendship of a star, aloof, with no more intimacy than was called for, with no exaggerations: he never climbed all over my clothes filling me full of his hair or his mange, he never rubbed up against my knee like other dogs obsessed with *** No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he'd keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing. Ai, how many times have I envied his tail as we walked together on the shores of the sea in the lonely winter of Isla Negra where the wintering birds filled the sky and my hairy dog was jumping about full of the voltage of the sea's movement: my wandering dog, sniffing away with his golden tail held high, face to face with the ocean's spray. Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit. There are no good-byes for my dog who has died, and we don't now and never did lie to each other. So now he's gone and I buried him, and that's all there is to it.
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First there is the prep. The roommate. Wearing salmon colored pants.   He has Shaggy from Scooby Doo On his left thigh. The alcoholic. She has a drinking problem. She is in denial of her drinking problem. She hangs out with the loners. The loners. Unkempt, unattractive and fat in all the wrong places. The blond looks like Tom Petty. The one with dark hair, glasses and braces They live next door. Living together but segregated.  Wild cards. All of us. ©Gambit '13
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Aug 28, 2013
Aug 28, 2013 at 9:10 AM UTC
The Characters In This Film
An old grave hidden away at the foot of a deserted hill, Overrun with rank weeds growing unchecked year after year; There is no one left to tend the tomb, And only an occasional woodcutter passes by. Once I was his pupil, a youth with shaggy hair, Learning deeply from him by the Narrow River. One morning I set off on my solitary journey And the years passed between us in silence. Now I have returned to find him at rest here; How can I honor his departed spirit? I pour a dipper of pure water over his tombstone And offer a silent prayer. The sun suddenly disappears behind the hill And I’m enveloped by the roar of the wind in the pines. I try to pull myself away but cannot; A flood of tears soaks my sleeves.
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To My Teacher
Freezing dusk is closing Like a slow trap of steel On trees and roads and hills and all That can no longer feel. But the carp is in its depth Like a planet in its heaven. And the badger in its bedding Like a loaf in the oven. And the butterfly in its mummy Like a viol in its case. And the owl in its feathers Like a doll in its lace. Freezing dusk has tightened Like a nut ******* tight On the starry aeroplane Of the soaring night. But the trout is in its hole Like a chuckle in a sleeper. The hare strays down the highway Like a root going deeper. The snail is dry in the outhouse Like a seed in a sunflower. The owl is pale on the gatepost Like a clock on its tower. Moonlight freezes the shaggy world Like a mammoth of ice - The past and the future Are the jaws of a steel vice. But the cod is in the tide-rip Like a key in a purse. The deer are on the bare-blown hill Like smiles on a nurse. The flies are behind the plaster Like the lost score of a jig. Sparrows are in the ivy-clump Like money in a pig. Such a frost The flimsy moon Has lost her wits. A star falls. The sweating farmers Turn in their sleep Like oxen on spits.
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The Warm and the Cold
I tied together a few slender reeds, cut notches to breathe across and made such music you stood shock still and then followed as I wandered growing moment by moment slant-eyes and shaggy, my feet slamming over the rocks, growing hard as horn, and there you were behind me, drowning in the music, letting the silver clasps out of your hair, hurrying, taking off your clothes. I can't remember where this happened but I think it was late summer when everything is full of fire and rounding to fruition and whatever doesn't, or resists, must lie like a field of dark water under the pulling moon, tossing and tossing. In the brutal elegance of cities I have walked down the halls of hotels and heard this music behind shut doors. Do you think the heart is accountable? Do you think the body any more than a branch of the honey locust tree, hunting water, hunching toward the sun, shivering, when it feels that good, into white blossoms? Or do you think there is a kind of music, a certain strand that lights up the otherwise blunt wilderness of the body - a furious and unaccountable selectivity? Ah well, anyway, whether or not it was late summer, or even in our part of the world, it is all only a dream, I did not turn into the lithe goat god. Nor did you come running like that. Did you?
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Music
i love you, fresh from the shower. glistening and wet, smelling of aftershave. "coolwater" by davidoff. often aslo sandlewood, goat soap, from the local farmers markets. i love you, dressed up smart. in a brook's brother's way dress pants and shirt, blue linen vest. johnny walker silk bow tie, untied is best. then your twist, (not as original as you think) converse skaties, no socks and bone bleached cuffs, turned up. i love you, in your work gear. just come home, you smell of sweat. clean and healthy, always wood shavings caught up, in your unruly shaggy hair. cargo shorts and t-shirts, that have seen, many days of worksite wear. size elevens in your hands, those big feet and freaky toes bare, ******* in the air. i love you, in board shorts and rashie. rushing into the surf, hand in hand. with the energetic bundle of love, to which we gave birth. it is not as though, clothes made this man, but boyohboy, you, frame them well. it s the heart, the chuckle the hands, the philosphy, the clever, erudite, caveman, the downright, man-dumb bloke. that endears, your heart to mine. it is, that you really listen and take the time, to make me feel and be, phenomenal, wise, sensual and beautiful beside. i love you, best, in my bed. moving slow and sure, undressed, silk and velvet. as we express, the reality of our love and whisper words, well known, and cry to heaven above. i love you, then, here, now and eons on. even after the worlds memory of us, is nothing, dust upon the breeze our love, will carry, forth stardust on heaven's winds and cries of our love and ecstasy will birth worlds anew
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Apr 9, 2014
Apr 9, 2014 at 5:38 PM UTC
wood shavings, freaky toes & stardust
i love you, fresh from the shower. glistening and wet, smelling of aftershave. "coolwater" by davidoff. often aslo sandlewood, goat soap, from the local farmers markets. i love you, dressed up smart. in a brook's brother's way dress pants and shirt, blue linen vest. johnny walker silk bow tie, untied is best. then your twist, (not as original as you think) converse skaties, no socks and bone bleached cuffs, turned up. i love you, in your work gear. just come home, you smell of sweat. clean and healthy, always wood shavings caught up, in your unruly shaggy hair. cargo shorts and t-shirts, that have seen, many days of worksite wear. size elevens in your hands, those big feet and freaky toes bare, ******* in the air. i love you, in board shorts and rashie. rushing into the surf, hand in hand. with the energetic bundle of love, to which we gave birth. it is not as though, clothes made this man, but boyohboy, you, frame them well. it s the heart, the chuckle the hands, the philosphy, the clever, erudite, caveman, the downright, man-dumb bloke. that endears, your heart to mine. it is, that you really listen and take the time, to make me feel and be, phenomenal, wise, sensual and beautiful beside. i love you, best, in my bed. moving slow and sure, undressed, silk and velvet. as we express, the reality of our love and whisper words, well known, and cry to heaven above. i love you, then, here, now and eons on. even after the worlds memory of us, is nothing, dust upon the breeze our love, will carry, forth stardust on heaven's winds and cries of our love and ecstasy will birth worlds anew
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there was a girl who loved me so named me bestie gifted me with seashells and sometimes, baked brownie to unfrown me there was a girl who taught me braids loved poking my cheeks and took photos of me secretly there was a girl who got her heart into pieces by bestie and all she did is to give her love but only to get none in return she was a bird flying above the sky all alone for no one loved her anymore she flew so far away that i never saw her ever again she was gone; no more brownie no more grins and the seashells turned navy oddly twenty-nine-june, i sat in the coffee shop with my warm white coffee and a copy of stephen chbosky she flew back home and she descried me there came up to me with a beauteous grin i last seen in december '11 we talked we laughed we cried we story-telled (i remember, she once said, back when i still have the name bestie, that she loved when we used the term story-tell for it made the sun and moon collide together) i was told that this lovely girl's wrist was named demon and she **** it every time he tries to drown her in a sea of darkness this time, i got my heart into pieces told her the same and pinky promise was made (like they always said, promises are meant to be b/r/o/k/e/n and it did) there is a girl who i love so named her bestie and i will hold her when she is f a l l i n g apart
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 12:22 AM UTC
shaggy grey sweater
If I could be a cartoon character Which one would I be I thought about being Fred Flinstone But he's too old-fashioned for me And then there's maybe George Jetson A man who knew electronics Nothing like Yosemite Sam Who needed to be hooked on phonics And what about Shaggy and Scooby You gotta love those scooby snacks I've never really considered a Smurf And their tiny little mushroom shacks Or maybe I'd become a super hero Who comes to save the day Batman , Green Hornet or Underdog Who puts the bad guys away Maybe I'd live in Jellystone Park Where Yogi is still the king For "Hello Mr Ranger Sir" Is just the funniest thing © All Rights Reserved
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Dec 7, 2010
Dec 7, 2010 at 2:11 AM UTC
Toon Time
A few years back, I used to look like a hag, Dark circles, Plain cheeks, Messy long hair, No sleek, Shaggy clothes, All creased, Now, penciled eyes, Powdered face ( not literally ), Short hair, Neat ponytail ( I'm almost there ), Branded clothes, Gucci, Dior, Chanel and many more, Red lips, Ready to glaze, Trendy clothes in my closet, Still yearning for more, Shoes of all kinds, Heels, sneakers and boots, How time passes, Transforming into puberty.
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 5:43 AM UTC
Puberty
The honey in the lion sounds like a delicious thing–– a gentle balm capable of subduing the cruellest of monsters. According to the stars and tattooed, you fancied yourself king of the jungle–– lazy in hot African afternoons. Golden and tawn with sleepy sun-gold eyes, shaggy mane, muzzle red with the blood of a gazelle. Did you think me such easy prey? Or was I so much fermented honey, only a sweet intoxicant. Sun warmth seeps from jungles of cold concrete. I mistook your gargoyle wings for those of a guardian angel’s. I overlooked your rough skin, your crooked hawk nose and your skinny ribs, and assigned fine things in you that didn’t exist. So duped, I acquiesced to your slimy kiss. Your mouth a neglected cemetery, teeth a row of mossy tombstones. Vampire. Incubus. Your seduction like grotesque death. You named me tempest in a teacup, but I was the eye of the storm. Until the night the eye was eradicated, and the storm blew in, striking me dumb with your sound and fury. But no spattered blood and no spreading bruise to be found in the pattern of the kaleidoscope. No cause for alarm. Today I am lost in a picture show, a beautiful world coloured by nostalgic past. Women’s lips the vivid red print of a velvet valentine. Head in the Clouds, I fantasize about a certain scene. Because you think violence is **** retaliation – ********** in my dream. Give me an eye for my eye, for all the eyes you plucked, from women and breadwinners. Give me blood running down your back, sweet as honey.
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Sep 22, 2016
Sep 22, 2016 at 5:37 PM UTC
The Honey in the Lion
The honey in the lion sounds like a delicious thing–– a gentle balm capable of subduing the cruellest of monsters. According to the stars and tattooed, you fancied yourself king of the jungle–– lazy in hot African afternoons. Golden and tawn with sleepy sun-gold eyes, shaggy mane, muzzle red with the blood of a gazelle. Did you think me such easy prey? Or was I so much fermented honey, only a sweet intoxicant. Sun warmth seeps from jungles of cold concrete. I mistook your gargoyle wings for those of a guardian angel’s. I overlooked your rough skin, your crooked hawk nose and your skinny ribs, and assigned fine things in you that didn’t exist. So duped, I acquiesced to your slimy kiss. Your mouth a neglected cemetery, teeth a row of mossy tombstones. Vampire. Incubus. Your seduction like grotesque death. You named me tempest in a teacup, but I was the eye of the storm. Until the night the eye was eradicated, and the storm blew in, striking me dumb with your sound and fury. But no spattered blood and no spreading bruise to be found in the pattern of the kaleidoscope. No cause for alarm. Today I am lost in a picture show, a beautiful world coloured by nostalgic past. Women’s lips the vivid red print of a velvet valentine. Head in the Clouds, I fantasize about a certain scene. Because you think violence is **** retaliation – ********** in my dream. Give me an eye for my eye, for all the eyes you plucked, from women and breadwinners. Give me blood running down your back, sweet as honey.
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Living in this yellow box filled with aging trinkets A lonely guy trying to get by just hasn't sealed the link yet Bout a cup of milk left in the fridge and God forbid I drink it A shaggy dog; that ***** hog, why can't they smell the stink yet? The junk comes barreling through the door so fast that you can blink it There's no more room for gloom and doom, but let's fit one more inkjet They just got rid of dinnerware,  a silver and a pink set So now to hoard an ancient sword, a blender and a mink set Five garbage bags of someone's clothes, the sixth one's in the sink, wet With lots of cans and pots and pans, we'll reach the jagged brink yet They're trying to let go, said there ain't no space to think yet They're workin hard to raise the bar, ain't  worked out all the kinks yet Pressed for time and low on space ****** I need to get out of this place...
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Oct 4, 2015
Oct 4, 2015 at 12:10 PM UTC
The Yellow Box
Take a peak inside that stormy dome, see if you can't find yourself a semi-peaceful slice of mind that you can call your own Tie a leash around its neck, try to walk that creature home, Show it to your mom and pops “look guys, look what I found roaming around my teenage mind? This is the friend I was telling you about I know he’s kind of ugly, shaggy and unkempt. His looks are mildly incestual But I love him all the same Do you mind if I sit him right there next to you? Maybe the three of you could exchange some words He knows the same ones I do Even those nasty slurs I don’t exactly understand him No one else does either Everyone knows him, But few seem to remember Don’t go looking for him on your own He tends to get real shy, sometimes reclusive He’ll dive down deep into his subconscious home, Forged of past memories, images and emotions The ones that I dare not touch like the middle of the ocean I wait by the shoreline, drifting in and out of consciousness Anxiously awaiting, the lumber that he’s plundered from my stormy subconscious. Then again, maybe this time will be just like the rest. Maybe this time all I get, Is that hollowed out feeling in my chest Suddenly, He surfaces for air And there he is Speaking to me of sufferings and joys My very own melodrama and vanity He even touches on insecurity. Things I never knew I tried so hard to hide How did he find it all? In that underwater den, Where all these things reside. “If you don’t come home with me, all this beauty may be forever lost” I told him. So that’s why I brought him home I call him creativity Could you watch him, I need to be alone?
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Oct 3, 2012
Oct 3, 2012 at 11:40 PM UTC
Creativity
Take a peak inside that stormy dome, see if you can't find yourself a semi-peaceful slice of mind that you can call your own Tie a leash around its neck, try to walk that creature home, Show it to your mom and pops “look guys, look what I found roaming around my teenage mind? This is the friend I was telling you about I know he’s kind of ugly, shaggy and unkempt. His looks are mildly incestual But I love him all the same Do you mind if I sit him right there next to you? Maybe the three of you could exchange some words He knows the same ones I do Even those nasty slurs I don’t exactly understand him No one else does either Everyone knows him, But few seem to remember Don’t go looking for him on your own He tends to get real shy, sometimes reclusive He’ll dive down deep into his subconscious home, Forged of past memories, images and emotions The ones that I dare not touch like the middle of the ocean I wait by the shoreline, drifting in and out of consciousness Anxiously awaiting, the lumber that he’s plundered from my stormy subconscious. Then again, maybe this time will be just like the rest. Maybe this time all I get, Is that hollowed out feeling in my chest Suddenly, He surfaces for air And there he is Speaking to me of sufferings and joys My very own melodrama and vanity He even touches on insecurity. Things I never knew I tried so hard to hide How did he find it all? In that underwater den, Where all these things reside. “If you don’t come home with me, all this beauty may be forever lost” I told him. So that’s why I brought him home I call him creativity Could you watch him, I need to be alone?
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The barber asked "what would you like? Quiff? bun? Mohawk? slicked back? side parting? centre parting? greased? permed? straightened? skin head? bald head? spiky? A comb over? pony tail? pig tails? curly? frizzy? dyed? mop top? French crop? blue rinse? purple rinse? step? undercut? shaggy? dreadlocks?" "No thanks" I replied "I'll have a short back and sides and make it messy on top please"
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Feb 19, 2015
Feb 19, 2015 at 7:20 AM UTC
Barber shop banter
On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood I’ve seen the winter floods their gambols play Through each old arch that trembled while I stood Bent o’er its wall to watch the dashing spray As their old stations would be washed away Crash came the ice against the jambs and then A shudder jarred the arches—yet once more It breasted raving waves and stood agen To wait the shock as stubborn as before —White foam brown crested with the russet soil As washed from new plough lands would dart beneath Then round and round a thousand eddies boil On tother side—then pause as if for breath One minute—and engulphed—like life in death Whose wrecky stains dart on the floods away More swift than shadows in a stormy day Straws trail and turn and steady—all in vain The engulfing arches shoot them quickly through The feather dances flutters and again Darts through the deepest dangers still afloat Seeming as faireys whisked it from the view And danced it o’er the waves as pleasures boat Light hearted as a thought in May— Trays—uptorn bushes—fence demolished rails Loaded with weeds in sluggish motions stray Like water monsters lost each winds and trails Till near the arches—then as in affright It plunges—reels—and shudders out of sight Waves trough—rebound—and fury boil again Like plunging monsters rising underneath Who at the top curl up a shaggy main A moment catching at a surer breath Then plunging headlong down and down—and on Each following boil the shadow of the last And other monsters rise when those are gone Crest their fringed waves—plunge onward and are past —The chill air comes around me ocean blea From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread Strange birds like snow spots o’er the huzzing sea Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled On roars the flood—all restless to be free Like trouble wandering to eternity
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The Flood
On Lolham Brigs in wild and lonely mood I’ve seen the winter floods their gambols play Through each old arch that trembled while I stood Bent o’er its wall to watch the dashing spray As their old stations would be washed away Crash came the ice against the jambs and then A shudder jarred the arches—yet once more It breasted raving waves and stood agen To wait the shock as stubborn as before —White foam brown crested with the russet soil As washed from new plough lands would dart beneath Then round and round a thousand eddies boil On tother side—then pause as if for breath One minute—and engulphed—like life in death Whose wrecky stains dart on the floods away More swift than shadows in a stormy day Straws trail and turn and steady—all in vain The engulfing arches shoot them quickly through The feather dances flutters and again Darts through the deepest dangers still afloat Seeming as faireys whisked it from the view And danced it o’er the waves as pleasures boat Light hearted as a thought in May— Trays—uptorn bushes—fence demolished rails Loaded with weeds in sluggish motions stray Like water monsters lost each winds and trails Till near the arches—then as in affright It plunges—reels—and shudders out of sight Waves trough—rebound—and fury boil again Like plunging monsters rising underneath Who at the top curl up a shaggy main A moment catching at a surer breath Then plunging headlong down and down—and on Each following boil the shadow of the last And other monsters rise when those are gone Crest their fringed waves—plunge onward and are past —The chill air comes around me ocean blea From bank to bank the waterstrife is spread Strange birds like snow spots o’er the huzzing sea Hang where the wild duck hurried past and fled On roars the flood—all restless to be free Like trouble wandering to eternity
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The old man sat somewhere twix bemused and bewildered, Staring out at the mist that lay upon the puse horizon of twilight. Horace, the brown and white dog with the shaggy coat, came and curled himself around his masters feet, The old mans hand fell upon the dogs faithful head, gently he stroked the dog, yet without sentiment, but rather with a sense of habit, formed by years of ritual. and so each day he sits and awaits the coming twilight. 21st December 2010
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Dec 25, 2010
Dec 25, 2010 at 3:35 AM UTC
Twilight
He was known as the local Mycophagist In the dales, the woods and the hills, What happened was sad, for he wasn’t so bad Just a tad underdone, Toby Gills, They say that the cord was around his neck, He was born with a carroty mop, And a pale white head, he was almost dead When the doctor had called out ‘Stop!’ They cut the cord and they let him breathe, The damage was already done, The blood had been stopped to his carroty top So they said that he’d always be dumb. But he found a niche where the fungi creeps And went out collecting the spore, In a year or two he knew more than you And the college Professor next door. He studied his mushrooms with loving intent, He knew about hen of the woods, He knew about bracket and shaggy manes, magic And paddy straw, they were the goods; He fostered his lobster and hedgehog and oyster And coral fungi and stinkhorns, But didn’t discern between fly agarics And toadstools that grew in the lawn. He grew his spore in a deep, dark cellar And sold to the folk who came by, And never would judge between Widow Weller And the ordinary witches of Rye, He’d sell death caps, and pigskin puffballs Not thinking to question them why, Or who would be eating his laughing Jim’s And whether they knew they would die. The air was thick and the air was damp And he fell in the dark one day, Scattering toadstools into the air And their spores had floated away, He breathed the spores right into his lungs For he hadn’t been wearing a mask, But ****** them in right over his tongue And they came to his lungs, at last. I happened to see him out in the street He was finding it hard to breathe, He could only take a couple of steps Then sit on the kerb, to heave, I tried to help but he waved me away And his eyes were yellow and cruel, Then I saw what he’d thrown up on the kerb Some yellow and red toadstools. The man was a walking toadstool spore They were popping up out of his hair, Pushing their way though his carroty top In a bid to get to the air, And his skin was blotched like a puffball, he Looked up at me, and he cried, As a giant toadstool grew from his throat And he lay on his side, and died. David Lewis Paget
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Dec 7, 2013
Dec 7, 2013 at 5:22 AM UTC
The Toadstool Man
He was known as the local Mycophagist In the dales, the woods and the hills, What happened was sad, for he wasn’t so bad Just a tad underdone, Toby Gills, They say that the cord was around his neck, He was born with a carroty mop, And a pale white head, he was almost dead When the doctor had called out ‘Stop!’ They cut the cord and they let him breathe, The damage was already done, The blood had been stopped to his carroty top So they said that he’d always be dumb. But he found a niche where the fungi creeps And went out collecting the spore, In a year or two he knew more than you And the college Professor next door. He studied his mushrooms with loving intent, He knew about hen of the woods, He knew about bracket and shaggy manes, magic And paddy straw, they were the goods; He fostered his lobster and hedgehog and oyster And coral fungi and stinkhorns, But didn’t discern between fly agarics And toadstools that grew in the lawn. He grew his spore in a deep, dark cellar And sold to the folk who came by, And never would judge between Widow Weller And the ordinary witches of Rye, He’d sell death caps, and pigskin puffballs Not thinking to question them why, Or who would be eating his laughing Jim’s And whether they knew they would die. The air was thick and the air was damp And he fell in the dark one day, Scattering toadstools into the air And their spores had floated away, He breathed the spores right into his lungs For he hadn’t been wearing a mask, But ****** them in right over his tongue And they came to his lungs, at last. I happened to see him out in the street He was finding it hard to breathe, He could only take a couple of steps Then sit on the kerb, to heave, I tried to help but he waved me away And his eyes were yellow and cruel, Then I saw what he’d thrown up on the kerb Some yellow and red toadstools. The man was a walking toadstool spore They were popping up out of his hair, Pushing their way though his carroty top In a bid to get to the air, And his skin was blotched like a puffball, he Looked up at me, and he cried, As a giant toadstool grew from his throat And he lay on his side, and died. David Lewis Paget
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Muck bit her ivory nightgown, as if earth hungering after her...the delicate collapse of a napkin,she. Hours poured atop her head, her shaggy, silvery mane suspended--its reluctant bounce captured at midpoint...as a spiderweb under ultraviolet light. Desert sands lost in contemplation, reminiscent of her flesh--divulge her core as she sleeps in a fetal position. Her body spasms awkwardly...its will visibly slowed from initial motion. As the paralysis experienced by prey amid the astral annals of nightmares. She'll rise into that shine, wonder at the nightmare's symbology...talk to her garden--whilst thinking of her time to come. Silkworm breached the parcel of time, its cocooned inertia coarsed through the opalescent eye of God to Godhood. Of time's ruination redeemed in a solitary work...cupped airless the unbridled form of a trapezist spent itself. Opened and closed somersaults atripped a piece of said space... nothingness regenerated to move, to take step of itself. A self-argumentative abstraction glowed...undid its silken flag-- firmly planted in an undiscovered region...her time come.
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Nov 22, 2011
Nov 22, 2011 at 7:45 PM UTC
Muck Bit Her Ivory Nightgown
I feel the weight on my shoulders. So I hide under the table. Let the wood take the crushing world. And allow me time to sleep. Lie down on the shaggy floor. While the makeshift roof is cracking. Melt into the floor for once. Becoming something new. No longer am I human But a part of something bigger. My body has disappeared From the harmful world. There is no more crushing The world cannot find me anymore.
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 8:55 PM UTC
To Avoid Being Crushed
Goose bumps on your legs, muted thyroid Dulled emotions to suppress memories of the abuse, And yet, your spirit explodes! Under the curtain you are an open book Red letters wanting to be read, and then… The fear slams the covers shut. Tired avatar, both liberated shell and mirror of inner shadows covered by a black cloth. Surreal midnight dinner, Like high fever hallucination, Dry food, Dead couples staring at each other, And a milkshake. The plus and minus collide, Keep spinning out of control Until the curse stops it…. Your eyes betray your lying lips. Feline face, furrowed eyebrows Forehead Blackfoot square, Pictures of the shaggy hair, Are you just a face in the deck of cards brought to life by my imagination? The dealer makes it real: First tears, then the joker fear. Bows bounce in my imagination There’s no space between art and life creation From silence we can generate vibration, Of the heart.
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Apr 27, 2013
Apr 27, 2013 at 1:55 PM UTC
Montana Blues
Oxblood lips. A slit in the center. A distraught film. Shattered pieces that mimic her wounds. She cries for sorrow and weeps in the name of agony. Flashback. High voltage. Dawn's dew left a Seoul night in the hands of mischief. He watched her golden legs in his dingy shirt. She danced in a tunnel of head lights. His eyes. Oh, God, his realm of roses. A spectrum so broad- no force could obtain. 70s misfit. Shaggy rugs. A cheap bottle of Merlot. Kaleidoscope kisses. Craved like a hieroglyphic. He was her warrior. Plummeting grains of virtue into a dust oriented cushion...seven dollars and thirty one cents. I saw the light bulb touch the birch-wood floral. I could feel a thick metallic wind roar. Breaking the depths. A rugged man with a festive beard. His cheeks of stained silicone lipstick. He had shipped off his soul. He was a white man with a grip of steel. "Who put cookies in the watering bucket?" A naive response. "A wicked man with a lustful cavity." Erosion.Despair.Angst. Thin braids housed a blooming mind. Paint chips splattered the table top, plastering it. Morning.Good morning to luxury. What a splendid contrast. A lantern lit van took the highway by 65 miles. And all the while he never looked back.
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 9:13 AM UTC
Dutch Motel
Uncle Sam sometimes whispers a little bit too close. I’ve felt so many scraps scraping against my cheek- those numerous numberless things he carries in his beard by ‘accident’. So many things get stuck there and I feel them all, whenever he dares, and he dares often, to whisper alittlebittooclose. One time the grey beard leaned in and touched me in my sleep and planted in me strange dreams of faraway gothic towers passing off as libraries: Harvard dreams, Princeton dreams, Yale dreams: I haven’t quite slept since. The shaggy scraps stuck to the forest of strands on his face would never let me. They scratch away at me often even in the brightness of day, and claw jaggedly in the darkness of night. Little heart of mine has lost its own beat. It beats to the beat of a beat on a beat from a beat with a beat by a beat which beats those beats and beats beats that beat not of my beat. Little heart of mine, when did you lose your own pulse? Why won’t you tell your family that Uncle Sam’s whispers are more than whispers? Why won’t you tell your family what Uncle Sam does to you in the brightness of day when everyone is smiling as Uncle Sam pats your shoulder? Little heart of mine, why doesn’t your family know what Uncle Sam does in the darkness of night as he whispers whispers under your whispers and what he does beneath your skin? Didn’t you know, little heart? They have laws that say that greybeards shouldn’t be digging into little boys’ insides, don’t they. (Uncle Sam has travelled far and wide, far and wide to tell me lies. Recall that this is not the first time…) But little heart you know why. This is not the first time. It is the natural progression for a Coconut like you: darkness of night on outside and brightness of day on inside. Your skin doesn’t matter; you all taste the same. Cut you off the homeland-tree and cart you all away. Then, in this way we can say and say the homeland is “Rising”- Uncle Sam tells the world of his diversity in selection of little boys to touch with strange dreams. And I like the feel of the scraps in his beard. Maybe I can become one of them. One with them.
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Sep 21, 2015
Sep 21, 2015 at 10:58 PM UTC
'Murica.
Uncle Sam sometimes whispers a little bit too close. I’ve felt so many scraps scraping against my cheek- those numerous numberless things he carries in his beard by ‘accident’. So many things get stuck there and I feel them all, whenever he dares, and he dares often, to whisper alittlebittooclose. One time the grey beard leaned in and touched me in my sleep and planted in me strange dreams of faraway gothic towers passing off as libraries: Harvard dreams, Princeton dreams, Yale dreams: I haven’t quite slept since. The shaggy scraps stuck to the forest of strands on his face would never let me. They scratch away at me often even in the brightness of day, and claw jaggedly in the darkness of night. Little heart of mine has lost its own beat. It beats to the beat of a beat on a beat from a beat with a beat by a beat which beats those beats and beats beats that beat not of my beat. Little heart of mine, when did you lose your own pulse? Why won’t you tell your family that Uncle Sam’s whispers are more than whispers? Why won’t you tell your family what Uncle Sam does to you in the brightness of day when everyone is smiling as Uncle Sam pats your shoulder? Little heart of mine, why doesn’t your family know what Uncle Sam does in the darkness of night as he whispers whispers under your whispers and what he does beneath your skin? Didn’t you know, little heart? They have laws that say that greybeards shouldn’t be digging into little boys’ insides, don’t they. (Uncle Sam has travelled far and wide, far and wide to tell me lies. Recall that this is not the first time…) But little heart you know why. This is not the first time. It is the natural progression for a Coconut like you: darkness of night on outside and brightness of day on inside. Your skin doesn’t matter; you all taste the same. Cut you off the homeland-tree and cart you all away. Then, in this way we can say and say the homeland is “Rising”- Uncle Sam tells the world of his diversity in selection of little boys to touch with strange dreams. And I like the feel of the scraps in his beard. Maybe I can become one of them. One with them.
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Dec 28, 2012 at 2:59 AM UTC
Wrecked and Gorgeous
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May 9, 2021 at 11:49 PM UTC
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