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"shimmied" poems
If I could pinpoint the exact moment your breath touched mine washed me over in ocean waves sea creatures glowing in delightful recognition as the seedlings of connection shimmied into our being and, dancing within me in its own lifeforce your mind a living, breathing animal your heart, purring and whirring its sacred forces into my molecular structures your soul throbbing in mitochondric pulsing (*oh what a delicious vibration of ribosomes*) Between us, we hold the true treasures close, in frothy                        tenderness a purity of the expanse of our universe, swathed in prismatic color colors that shift, these fresh hues for which there are no name they are lucid and fine-woven as silk histories yet deep as earthcore your eyes, voice are forever burned into my own every day scriptures that rock my shattered parts into wholeness and, like ancient magic, I conjure forth the holy gospel rising from our bones every second of every minute as our deepest fires our most secret filth our murky corners our darkest hours we weave into light brilliant and lustrous multi-layered in the richest folds of the earth and as you place me upon the shores of your garland-graced                               throne Now I'm alive in a new kind of light and all I can do is love         and love and love
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Feb 3, 2018
Feb 3, 2018 at 5:23 PM UTC
alive
I was dancing at a dance club Two stepping all about When my thumb, it found a belt loop And I couldn't get it out I shifted and I wiggled I ****** my hips out front in time I bent over and I shimmied I was twerking on the line Now, I ain't no Miley Cyrus You can believe me now or not I wasn't up there twerking It's because my thumb was caught I sashayed and I moseyed And others got up too My thumb was still encumbered What the hell was I to do? I was twerking like a mad man Not knowing how, or  why But the pain in my one digit Just made me want to die Maybe now I know the reason Miley Cyrus did her dance She wasn't up there being slutty She had her thumb stuck in her pants Now, I'm through with twerking And there's is one thing that you'll find That unlike young Miley Cyrus You don't want to watch me from behind!!!
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Sep 7, 2013
Sep 7, 2013 at 6:33 PM UTC
The Twerking Two Step
*come with me to the ****** motel it could be so tender as **** as hell we can kiss awhile i'd lick you sweet and then bend you over and cut your feet *** honey you can't walk anymore no matter darling i'm a blood **** ***** **** me daddy soon i'll be dead i want it in the mouth crush my head not so soon my sweet little ****** first lose some blood to get you all woozy stand on the toilet a rope around you neck on tippy toes you'll soon be a wreck i'd love to shoot you want it in the *** in the intestine the bullet will pass ooow honey yes let me spread wide then shoot me through is that how i died no baby that was just for fun i cumed in your *** my **** was the gun oh **** me soon you begged and you cried i need it my love so your hands i tied i ****** you and ****** you ready to *** i yanked your head back and you licked up my **** are you ready sweet girl you lifted your head my **** in your *** a dagger of dread i slit your throat ever so slow you ****** and you shimmied and the blood did flow you got on top your **** in my face i drank from your throat you bled out with grace i loved you so and called your name you fell over dead but who's to blame oh my darling you wanted to go black emerald death an ******** show pretty dead girl im still kissing you but i have to leave boo hoo hoo*
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Jun 17, 2017
Jun 17, 2017 at 2:55 PM UTC
The ****** Motel...Ero ****
Shoppin wiv Albert. I met my uncle Albert, down at Asda, in aisle three; he got there in a Mazda, jus' a smidgen after me, said he'd traversed Sainsburys, Tesco Liddle n the Spar, but not one o' them flogged Caviar Truffles or Foie gras. He sidled past the pork pies streaky bacon turkey thighs a headin for the french fries n forsaken knock down buys, shimmied 'round the ankle biters; expectant mums to be, popin pills for bloated ills in the haberdashery.
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Jan 7, 2012
Jan 7, 2012 at 4:33 PM UTC
"- A bloke named Albert -"
My child said today, “You’d be rich if it wasn’t for me” and she then smiled that goofy smile adding, “Why did you have me then? I’m so expensive. ” And when she later shimmied like a long lean cat on a thin fence, I replied, “This is why I had you.” And when she then made up her own word, bestfuzzer, to describe a friend, I said, “This is why I had you.” And as she curled into my belly on the bed nuzzled my neck, and blew holes in my hair, I whispered, “This is why I had you.” She has forced me to reinvent myself to plumb the deep waters of my reserve my sanity, my will to live even and bring up one more shining fish one more favor, one more drive across town one more strange meal at 2 am And in cleaning away the thick of leaves, dirt, and grass from my grandparents’ headstones I become them, their bones my bones Their struggle my struggle How much we could have saved in not having children would nevertheless have impoverished us in other ways. We are driven by dumb unseen forces as ancient as soil to create our children – accident, intent, it doesn’t matter so I pay homage to my grandparents - tired, frightened immigrants barely out of childhood, with the stench of their parents on fire singing their nostrils Why did they persist? What drove my grandmother to marry a man she’d never even met? to bear his children, to suffer his beatings? This is why I had you Because I was lonely *Because I was ***** Because through you I sewed myself back together Because you are my destiny And when my child asks why I had her I breathe milk and honey into her mouth jostle the stars until they ****** like wind chimes pulling the continents back together again. And when she asks me, I can only offer up the scoop of my palms and the ticking of blood in my wrists as reasons.
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:05 PM UTC
This Is Why I Had You
My child said today, “You’d be rich if it wasn’t for me” and she then smiled that goofy smile adding, “Why did you have me then? I’m so expensive. ” And when she later shimmied like a long lean cat on a thin fence, I replied, “This is why I had you.” And when she then made up her own word, bestfuzzer, to describe a friend, I said, “This is why I had you.” And as she curled into my belly on the bed nuzzled my neck, and blew holes in my hair, I whispered, “This is why I had you.” She has forced me to reinvent myself to plumb the deep waters of my reserve my sanity, my will to live even and bring up one more shining fish one more favor, one more drive across town one more strange meal at 2 am And in cleaning away the thick of leaves, dirt, and grass from my grandparents’ headstones I become them, their bones my bones Their struggle my struggle How much we could have saved in not having children would nevertheless have impoverished us in other ways. We are driven by dumb unseen forces as ancient as soil to create our children – accident, intent, it doesn’t matter so I pay homage to my grandparents - tired, frightened immigrants barely out of childhood, with the stench of their parents on fire singing their nostrils Why did they persist? What drove my grandmother to marry a man she’d never even met? to bear his children, to suffer his beatings? This is why I had you Because I was lonely *Because I was ***** Because through you I sewed myself back together Because you are my destiny And when my child asks why I had her I breathe milk and honey into her mouth jostle the stars until they ****** like wind chimes pulling the continents back together again. And when she asks me, I can only offer up the scoop of my palms and the ticking of blood in my wrists as reasons.
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. I saw her walking down the path, then leaning on this tree I wondered if she just might like to be up here with me I said, “come on, it’s nice up here” She said, “I like the ground” I yelled, “the view is very clear, I can see for miles around” She said, *“but here the grass is green, the flowers at my eye I could not see these wondrous things from up there in the sky”* “This tree is old, this branch is strong, it easily holds the weight I’ve been up here an hour or so I’m sure that it won’t break” *“Oh that’s not it, my climbing friend, that is not it at all I do not think that branch is weak and both of us would fall”* “Then what, if you will tell me please keeps you so far below For where I’m at, this highest peak provides a perfect show” *“I just prefer the feeling of the earth beneath my feet The fragrance of the summer breeze upon my face so sweet”* “But way up here the sky is blue, like nothing that you’ve seen The valley and the mountain side, as if comes from a dream" *“Well, I’ll not climb this tree with you and if a friend you be Then you will slip down from that branch and come down here with me”* I shimmied down the mighty oak and staring in her eyes I saw a view I’d never seen on any morning skies She said, *“I’m glad you didn’t fall from up there way above"* That’s when I thought, oh yes I did, for I just fell in love I found her to be beautiful much more than any sights And truth be known, I’m glad I’m down for I’m afraid of heights (But don't tell her)
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Jun 22, 2016
Jun 22, 2016 at 9:45 AM UTC
Falling from new heights
. I saw her walking down the path, then leaning on this tree I wondered if she just might like to be up here with me I said, “come on, it’s nice up here” She said, “I like the ground” I yelled, “the view is very clear, I can see for miles around” She said, *“but here the grass is green, the flowers at my eye I could not see these wondrous things from up there in the sky”* “This tree is old, this branch is strong, it easily holds the weight I’ve been up here an hour or so I’m sure that it won’t break” *“Oh that’s not it, my climbing friend, that is not it at all I do not think that branch is weak and both of us would fall”* “Then what, if you will tell me please keeps you so far below For where I’m at, this highest peak provides a perfect show” *“I just prefer the feeling of the earth beneath my feet The fragrance of the summer breeze upon my face so sweet”* “But way up here the sky is blue, like nothing that you’ve seen The valley and the mountain side, as if comes from a dream" *“Well, I’ll not climb this tree with you and if a friend you be Then you will slip down from that branch and come down here with me”* I shimmied down the mighty oak and staring in her eyes I saw a view I’d never seen on any morning skies She said, *“I’m glad you didn’t fall from up there way above"* That’s when I thought, oh yes I did, for I just fell in love I found her to be beautiful much more than any sights And truth be known, I’m glad I’m down for I’m afraid of heights (But don't tell her)
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Solar flares, deep space chambermaid stabbing her molten mop in contempt. There are so many squares that field her space, sifted afire. Tearing out rays of her hair to be, and be beautiful...to see her strands descending lit, the stress level of an unforgettable goddess. She yearns head-over-heels, burns out her core with blinding reason. Not once was she afforded a mirror to know her space. Wiry stick figures subsist under her--fatalistically emotive. Summed up, as water broken, transparent as the life seen through. What pagan rite has shimmied out her soul, what serpent slid her warmth sane? Do not site dawn or dusk, mistake her outer life for an inner one! Do not presume the burden of her focal point, her light hangs overhead swaying interrogation. Caught perfectly for Platonic cave or other... in utero, her light a stillborn beauty--as alive as ever once away from her. She's up, burning...console her, her blood is boiling-- she wants to be accounted for, to outgrow that coo. Only to surprise once and for all a stone's underbelly.
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Nov 9, 2013
Nov 9, 2013 at 10:57 AM UTC
Unforgettable Goddess
born of blood from a thorn of a beautiful flower from the love of the horned adorned in power cowering in the vicious maliciousness of the constituents in the deliverance to my ridiculousness saw twisted shapes and contorting faces heard blurred words displaced in hateful slurs of aggression and i cannot count the cases in my tasteless confessions in my reluctant concessions in my brutal perfection of my obsessions imposed against my will you're supposed to feel what they do right? opposed to killing for the thrill but it sometimes just feels right shanky gone unscrupulous shivering his shimmied blood on the walls stuttering stanleys still silly stringing calling for candy but missed last call and fell to the floor as Bruno butchered the boar in a deplorable fashion a crime of passion we were hungry rubbing our tummies for the honey of bee hives jive turkeys turning to bunnys for good times but we were alive while others were not fraught with darkling majesty sparkling at the seraded points disjointed in Freudian ointments self anointed as god standing over some butchered brod from abroad wiping the fog of dislodged eye sockets from my grog how you get from there to here isn't really a fair mirror on my intention i meant to suspend her just enough to face f--k and with luck strangle her but she prayed to be ripped down in her own way my f--king way stripped her of dignity wimpering in little cute sounds who am i? but the guy who spaced hit her too many times in the face and replaced her facelessness with ***** toiletries disappointingly underwhelmed still in search of a fairy to take the helm and ferry me from this film disparagingly just spare me the tragedy and grief blaring from the TV as i mock their expressions in my lessons of humanity before the flock to shelter my anxiety or not gonna be a real boy one day and conform to the wayward ways the way of sheep sleeping soundly in decay blue fairy gonna marry me one day be real one day one day 1 d a y
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 4:52 PM UTC
[Blue Fairy]
born of blood from a thorn of a beautiful flower from the love of the horned adorned in power cowering in the vicious maliciousness of the constituents in the deliverance to my ridiculousness saw twisted shapes and contorting faces heard blurred words displaced in hateful slurs of aggression and i cannot count the cases in my tasteless confessions in my reluctant concessions in my brutal perfection of my obsessions imposed against my will you're supposed to feel what they do right? opposed to killing for the thrill but it sometimes just feels right shanky gone unscrupulous shivering his shimmied blood on the walls stuttering stanleys still silly stringing calling for candy but missed last call and fell to the floor as Bruno butchered the boar in a deplorable fashion a crime of passion we were hungry rubbing our tummies for the honey of bee hives jive turkeys turning to bunnys for good times but we were alive while others were not fraught with darkling majesty sparkling at the seraded points disjointed in Freudian ointments self anointed as god standing over some butchered brod from abroad wiping the fog of dislodged eye sockets from my grog how you get from there to here isn't really a fair mirror on my intention i meant to suspend her just enough to face f--k and with luck strangle her but she prayed to be ripped down in her own way my f--king way stripped her of dignity wimpering in little cute sounds who am i? but the guy who spaced hit her too many times in the face and replaced her facelessness with ***** toiletries disappointingly underwhelmed still in search of a fairy to take the helm and ferry me from this film disparagingly just spare me the tragedy and grief blaring from the TV as i mock their expressions in my lessons of humanity before the flock to shelter my anxiety or not gonna be a real boy one day and conform to the wayward ways the way of sheep sleeping soundly in decay blue fairy gonna marry me one day be real one day one day 1 d a y
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I followed her over the countryside, I followed her near and far, She said that she had to live her life Alone, as a shooting star. ‘The world began when I came to be Will be gone,’ she began to shout, ‘When I leave my trail, a silvery tail And the Moon and the stars go out.’ ‘But what about love,’ I called to her As she shimmied by in the breeze, Her eyes were fixed on the future as I settled down on my knees. ‘I haven’t got time for love,’ she said ‘It fades, and swallows my life, There’s more to living what I’ve been given Than being somebody’s wife.’ ‘The world out there is a lonely place When you wander its wilds alone, You’ll need somebody to hold your hand In the dark, when you’re on your own.’ ‘I don’t need someone to tie me down I shall steer my course for me, No man shall tug at my either hand Or change my trajectory.’ ‘My heart is full of my love for you,’ I said, but she didn’t care, She laughed, and hurried away to find What life had in store for her. I caught a sight of her now and then As she lived her life to the full, With greedy lips at the brimming cup As she drained the life from her soul. The years were cruel as she partied on, Her hair became iron grey, Her skin was losing that youthful bloom With the drugs that she took each day, The money lenders were out in force So she had to swallow her pride, And sell herself when she had to pay, But then she shrivelled inside. She landed up on my doorstep only Once, and I thought she’d fall, She looked so ill that my heart went out But my skin began to crawl, ‘So what became of the shooting star?’ I said - She began to pout, Then tears welled up at her eyelids as Her Moon and her stars went out. David Lewis Paget
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Jun 2, 2014
Jun 2, 2014 at 6:31 AM UTC
Shooting Star
I followed her over the countryside, I followed her near and far, She said that she had to live her life Alone, as a shooting star. ‘The world began when I came to be Will be gone,’ she began to shout, ‘When I leave my trail, a silvery tail And the Moon and the stars go out.’ ‘But what about love,’ I called to her As she shimmied by in the breeze, Her eyes were fixed on the future as I settled down on my knees. ‘I haven’t got time for love,’ she said ‘It fades, and swallows my life, There’s more to living what I’ve been given Than being somebody’s wife.’ ‘The world out there is a lonely place When you wander its wilds alone, You’ll need somebody to hold your hand In the dark, when you’re on your own.’ ‘I don’t need someone to tie me down I shall steer my course for me, No man shall tug at my either hand Or change my trajectory.’ ‘My heart is full of my love for you,’ I said, but she didn’t care, She laughed, and hurried away to find What life had in store for her. I caught a sight of her now and then As she lived her life to the full, With greedy lips at the brimming cup As she drained the life from her soul. The years were cruel as she partied on, Her hair became iron grey, Her skin was losing that youthful bloom With the drugs that she took each day, The money lenders were out in force So she had to swallow her pride, And sell herself when she had to pay, But then she shrivelled inside. She landed up on my doorstep only Once, and I thought she’d fall, She looked so ill that my heart went out But my skin began to crawl, ‘So what became of the shooting star?’ I said - She began to pout, Then tears welled up at her eyelids as Her Moon and her stars went out. David Lewis Paget
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I should have known better than to rest on a stereo-type, my eagerly awaited Latin lover tore into the night! I didn't like the head stand he performed on my rib cage, Nor the slurping grunts as he ****** his **** as if he were onstage. He flipped me like a burger and rasped me with his hands, I closed my eyes, counted to ten, and remembered some good bands! He said ''you like it baby?'' as he shimmied up the sheet, I cowered in anticipation as he manoeuvred his great big feet. Ladies, be careful what you wish for, it might one day come true. Steer clear of stereo typing you could end up black and blue. I'll just warn you, in a friendly way,  his name was  Henriques Stud, Next time it's Roger Rabbit and not my Latin dud!
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Apr 11, 2014
Apr 11, 2014 at 3:46 PM UTC
Never make assumptions
I didnt lose anything the day that you kissed my red lips, told me that you liked them swollen this color instead of painted it. I didn’t lose anything when you kissed down my neck and across my collar bone and all the way down into my soul. I don’t think I lost anything the day we kicked off our socks and shoes and shimmied out of our jeans When we crawled under the covers and into each others hearts, whispering words that I can still feel againt my skin long after your touch has faded. Christmas lights casting shadows that I chased across your jaw Legs tangled and fingers twined, we were more laughter and love patience and passion imperfection and beauty than I had ever felt in myself alone. I don’t think I lost anything; some part of myself that my mother was always telling me to protect. I think I may have even grown.
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Dec 1, 2014
Dec 1, 2014 at 6:19 PM UTC
Some Part of Myself
I met my uncle Albert down at asda, in aisle three; he got there in his mazda, jus' a smidgen after me, said he'd traversed sainsburys, tesco liddle n the spar, but not one o' them flogged caviar truffles or foie Gras. He sidled past the pork pies streaky bacon turkey thighs a headin for the french fries n forsaken knock down buys, He shimmied 'round the ankle biters; expectant mums to be, popin pills for bloated ills in the haberdashery.
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Apr 20, 2021
Apr 20, 2021 at 12:04 PM UTC
Del's dilemma.
open seed; her busted fetus of death's frail womb and moisture drops soil's dehydrated tongue, a quiet resignation, understanding, is some triumph on the other side where the picket fence, traitor, glances in whatever direction he hears noise. & we exchange our horoscopes with our eyebrows, and the mini universes beneath them, circular and budding as medicines and poisons. && you are not shimmied away by the sand's magnetic force nor stand with planted soles on stone foundation. you are lured by wind's woe of distance.
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Apr 29, 2012
Apr 29, 2012 at 8:57 PM UTC
open sesame
It was just like Christmas, A sunny star - far in the corner of the sky Hiding as a small child, curled in a ball all tucked up and warm. The hills were decorated with evergreen eyelashes and the pounding red screen of eyelids. It was just like a schoolgirl's daydream to fling open the car door and grasp your sunny face like the jaws of life, - you know I'd been growing out my nails ? -   to feel your porcelain skin beating - to rub the delicate china scenes under my fingertips, and feel the silk robes of time gone by. Some things are breakable. I didn't know you were one. I was young when I conjured you up, when I mixed equal parts bone-running shivers, and raised eyebrows. I shimmied across my living room and out of my nightgown, like flipping a switch, I lit up your eyes. You got me lipstick for Christmas that year. I wrapped up tired metaphors, and said - I wish I could stay. Sometimes I lie. We started out as a quiet superstition, but I forgot to water our roots. I wanted to give you goosebumps, but I forgot they leave scars, and tiny webs married to my villainous fingertips.   You were angry - red like your tie And I hid as a small child growing younger through the years: The curious case of an anemic soul hiding in the curios cabinet - you'll have seen it in theaters. Too bad we weren't a cactus. there are too many tricks I know. I didn't realize the voice in my head could talk back. Like I said, I was young.
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Jan 3, 2013
Jan 3, 2013 at 12:55 AM UTC
An amusing anecdote of sorts
Late night at the Bar, The neon sign said time to go, Funny, when I got there it was all Welcoming and overenthusiastic, Garish, like a parade of clowns With balloons that just got lost Loosed, to the winds.  I had a few— Too many and wrote a broke poem, All alone surrounded by the clank Of wood from a pole and clicks of levers As the glistening 'patrons' shimmied their Tithes to the used machines of ***** Pinned and the green tables pooled And the women, who desperately looked At only you, after you looked at them And the indifferent, tallish Barman, Who kept pouring smallish dreams In a shot glass.  I stumbled, swirled out And kissed the tar as was my want, Every newcomer slogging in Simply ran with not even noticing, As I laid on the ground, they knew That their time was soon coming. That's called simpatico, or is it Solidarity, maybe, whatever? Anywho, I dusted my self off And hightailed it back home Before the broad, my old lady, Jezebel, caught me on the sly. The 'Queen of Sheba' was already There— prostrated on our bed Waiting to nail me.  My only excuse, The muses— she wasn't buying, I said baby, 'I ain't tryin' to sell You no lie.  The words, they come And they go, like a train that never stops But you bestbe going, you best be jump in' On that steel Goliath and ride that son to the gates Of pearl and peace, them goldilock rays and then I said, Hush, my little 'rock-a-bye' lady, you shush now, My fresh night moon of lilly flower, we's gonna Make like nubile creatures, all naked and free, There ain't no clocks little darling, there's Just you an' me and all the rest of herstory,' She bought that line!
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Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 11:30 PM UTC
Beat Poem
Late night at the Bar, The neon sign said time to go, Funny, when I got there it was all Welcoming and overenthusiastic, Garish, like a parade of clowns With balloons that just got lost Loosed, to the winds.  I had a few— Too many and wrote a broke poem, All alone surrounded by the clank Of wood from a pole and clicks of levers As the glistening 'patrons' shimmied their Tithes to the used machines of ***** Pinned and the green tables pooled And the women, who desperately looked At only you, after you looked at them And the indifferent, tallish Barman, Who kept pouring smallish dreams In a shot glass.  I stumbled, swirled out And kissed the tar as was my want, Every newcomer slogging in Simply ran with not even noticing, As I laid on the ground, they knew That their time was soon coming. That's called simpatico, or is it Solidarity, maybe, whatever? Anywho, I dusted my self off And hightailed it back home Before the broad, my old lady, Jezebel, caught me on the sly. The 'Queen of Sheba' was already There— prostrated on our bed Waiting to nail me.  My only excuse, The muses— she wasn't buying, I said baby, 'I ain't tryin' to sell You no lie.  The words, they come And they go, like a train that never stops But you bestbe going, you best be jump in' On that steel Goliath and ride that son to the gates Of pearl and peace, them goldilock rays and then I said, Hush, my little 'rock-a-bye' lady, you shush now, My fresh night moon of lilly flower, we's gonna Make like nubile creatures, all naked and free, There ain't no clocks little darling, there's Just you an' me and all the rest of herstory,' She bought that line!
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Late night at the Bar, The neon sign said time to go, Funny, when I got there it was all Welcoming and overenthusiastic, Garish, like a parade of clowns With balloons that just got lost Loosed, to the winds.  I had a few— Too many and wrote a broke poem, All alone surrounded by the clank Of wood from a pole and clicks of levers As the glistening 'patrons' shimmied their Tithes to the used machines of ***** Pinned and the green tables pooled And the women, who desperately looked At only you, after you looked at them And the indifferent, tallish Barman, Who kept pouring smallish dreams In a shot glass.  I stumbled, swirled out And kissed the tar as was my want, Every newcomer slogging in Simply ran with not even noticing, As I laid on the ground, they knew That their time was soon coming. That's called simpatico, or is it Solidarity, maybe, whatever? Anywho, I dusted my self off And hightailed it back home Before the broad, my old lady, Jezebel, caught me on the sly. The 'Queen of Sheba' was already There— prostrated on our bed Waiting to nail me.  My only excuse, The muses— she wasn't buying, I said baby, 'I ain't tryin' to sell You no lie.  The words, they come And they go, like a train that never stops But you best be going, you best be jump in' On that steel Goliath and ride that son to the gates Of pearl and peace, them goldilock rays and then I said, Hush, my little 'rock-a-bye' lady, you shush now, My fresh night moon of Lilly flower, we's gonna Make like nubile creatures, all naked and free, There ain't no clocks little darling, there's Just you an' me and all the rest of herstory,' She bought that line!
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 5:26 PM UTC
Beat Poem
Late night at the Bar, The neon sign said time to go, Funny, when I got there it was all Welcoming and overenthusiastic, Garish, like a parade of clowns With balloons that just got lost Loosed, to the winds.  I had a few— Too many and wrote a broke poem, All alone surrounded by the clank Of wood from a pole and clicks of levers As the glistening 'patrons' shimmied their Tithes to the used machines of ***** Pinned and the green tables pooled And the women, who desperately looked At only you, after you looked at them And the indifferent, tallish Barman, Who kept pouring smallish dreams In a shot glass.  I stumbled, swirled out And kissed the tar as was my want, Every newcomer slogging in Simply ran with not even noticing, As I laid on the ground, they knew That their time was soon coming. That's called simpatico, or is it Solidarity, maybe, whatever? Anywho, I dusted my self off And hightailed it back home Before the broad, my old lady, Jezebel, caught me on the sly. The 'Queen of Sheba' was already There— prostrated on our bed Waiting to nail me.  My only excuse, The muses— she wasn't buying, I said baby, 'I ain't tryin' to sell You no lie.  The words, they come And they go, like a train that never stops But you best be going, you best be jump in' On that steel Goliath and ride that son to the gates Of pearl and peace, them goldilock rays and then I said, Hush, my little 'rock-a-bye' lady, you shush now, My fresh night moon of Lilly flower, we's gonna Make like nubile creatures, all naked and free, There ain't no clocks little darling, there's Just you an' me and all the rest of herstory,' She bought that line!
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There's an old abandoned bridge between Yosemite and here. Take the Lathrop exit where- (or don't, it's your life after all) -we throttled to jump off it when our buddy flashed excitement, a boyish daydream, and we decided. Our clothing      soon was hanging          on a long forgotten railroad track (Sitting naked on a maple board-             Probably from the Civil War. Dropping rocks to test the height,             Water black with no rapport)          He giggled like a giddy child      trying not to give us flak, (For being such a bunch of scaredy cats) Moonbeams on our skin, and also iPhone torches, and the headlights of the Jeep. And did he jump? yes! From a stand with only his two feet supported by a 2 by 4?? yes! He flipped behind his head! A backflip with a midway twist. (Or maybe I half-remember, It was just a normal flip) I swear, man, it was amazing. Off the wooden railing, Pale and falling towards the water,                                                            which, (by the way) was as black as the apocalypse. Splashing ghostly underwater, Then shimmied up the concrete pillar, Called out to the crescent moon, And gave a thirty foot salute,        plunging towards the blackened river. Laughing, swimming, He called up to us, quivering, (And said),                 "Alright, you're next."
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Mar 18, 2017
Mar 18, 2017 at 3:59 AM UTC
Jumping off a Bridge Pt. 1
A raindrop plunged towards the hot pavement and sizzled as it splattered A raindrop shimmied its way down the smooth side of a glass window A raindrop melted in the kiss of two lips A raindrop saddled the fuzzy back of one merry little bumble bee A raindrop made a quivering ripple as it plopped into a muddy puddle A teardrop sneaked out and made its escape in the ensuing melee
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Apr 9, 2020
Apr 9, 2020 at 12:13 PM UTC
Raindrops
i knew you would forget my name if i didn't write it for you every day for you to see. so i found the bridge your car whizzes under every day to work and sprayed it in blue with toadstools and fireworks pretty girls and tampons was it enough to wipe the yellow from your mind? i knew you would forget my name if i didn't write it down every day for you to see. so i shimmied up the sky and hung a banner of azure eyes and white, white teeth and waited. but next week i saw it floating down the river with two empty cans of chewing tobacco and a lemonade carton. i knew you would forget my name if i didn't write it big enough so i held my breath with my head on the tracks and waited for the rumbling to stop by chance i relived that scene in the cosmic cloister where i'm still waiting saw that my head was smeared for a mile trying to spell out Hello! but the trail was an unripe cantaloupe i turned away and wept
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Sep 13, 2014
Sep 13, 2014 at 10:43 PM UTC
tagger
i often think about the people that go hit by meteorites how space shrapnel invited itself into their homes took its' shoes off and shimmied into the floor asteroid junk, hold me closer tell them they're not alone that one day they'll burst, or be swept all just soot in the end this dust, this sand can fill up a city i can be that city how likely is it to be struck by lightning? and will i be the lucky one tell me, will it shake the truths out of me will it burn my hair like it did when someone got too close and their cigarette got even closer the way it sizzled and made the air hard to breathe will my veins line up with the electric as if i were part of something greater than a body of earth? in times like these i hear the word aha! Geronimo calling from the light-bulb, brazenly jumping to enlightenment a tiny revolution starting in every little thing that can line up with the other a thousand circuits jump starting and brashly telling me to step out of the dark i could use a little time
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Jan 18, 2019
Jan 18, 2019 at 6:09 PM UTC
STORMS
There was a time when my mind was high and I walked within thoughts that I gathered close to me but You don’t care about that do you? I had to dance upon a sticky floor while watching who walked through the door and bare myself as the unholy ***** all the while caring for nothing but asking for what you might do As if you worried about what I bared or offered your help like I cared You watched me with your jaundiced eye and ignored the tears I cried Pretending it was just the glitter as you breathed “Hallelujah” Like so many nights that had gone before as I lay down upon the ***** floor you watched me as I broke myself like all the other nights that you knew me Escorted to you for a private dance your wandering hands lacked romance the ineffectual touch of eternity and lack of tip eventually set me free
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Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 12:23 AM UTC
I Shimmied as God Claimed a Victory Lap Dance
Sterile white cast a sharp sillhouette Againt burgundy-- That swam with shadowy velvet And creamy blurs of silk Each so like a soft brush stroke Save for that sterile white In its clean geometry; And the carpet installed short and durable By hopeful design it would last Through years of dance-worthy occasions Ballroom turf bled into my hiding place Stippling my palms pink As my weight shifted And I leaned into the wafting scents Of ladies' perfumes and catered delicacies Every time the table cloth rippled Out of fear or respect from passerby Even shimmied with the clinking of glasses Above the dull congratulatory murmur of guests Later they would all be drunk And murmur would turn to ruckus But then, only indistinguishable voices Too they were far away, drifting almost Enough I imagined nothing but that white Sterile still, pure And matrimonially sweet The tiny bride and groom testifying from atop But a plan was already in motion To hide and wait; The waiting was done So young, as I was Finding nothing so sacred I couldn't soil it Found the oppurtunity to touch my tongue to it That white, I wouldn't say sterile But oh so sweet.
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Mar 1, 2014
Mar 1, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
White
we will be martyrs we will feel the earth &let; the wind push us back in ecstacy it will be beautiful &fate; will let us alone for a while let it go &rest; easy until the next time tragedy strikes it was the back &forth; that took us &we; ran, ran fast from the duties we were opposed to we cried in spite of ourselves because the world feeds off of the misery of the peoples we laughed in spite of it all because sometimes satire is the only way we can process the scars we carry the leaves shimmied on the trees &we; couldn't help but believe it was all for us: Nature is our Dancing Girl
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May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013 at 11:00 AM UTC
Trees as Gypsies
once when I was about 13, an old man wanted to **** my ****    & once he was on his knees, I punched him in the head & ****** him in the throat; where we were in the park [satyrs & nymphs wandered & frolicked freely through the flowering thicket]; I push him down on his face in the dirt & **** him in the *** I thought the guy was in pain the way his face ******* up,        but he seemed to be enjoying it & thanking me, wandered off into the bushes; I'm thinking, *** [everyone knows about the suburban dads in vans congregating in High School parking lots; car seats in the back, dad on his knees or getting his hemorrhoids shimmied; of course I didn't get a block before some corner **** was there waiting for any random passerby to bang her; the old [pen pals & diaries] combine to form the electronic social media     [incorporating personals, classifieds & bulletin boards] where pedophiles can comfortably troll for witless kids; how the **** does a budding adolescent get ****** into a blind ****** situation unless the kid's got pure **** for brains
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Aug 18, 2018
Aug 18, 2018 at 1:19 PM UTC
all the lame kids