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"sidelined" poems
school starts soon smoking joints on the weekday afternoon in a sidelined shady freight car, property of Norfolk Southern debating if this car will be northbound or southbound and ************ our fantasy where we want to be taken knowing full well maybe one of us - (and they all looking at me) will get out of this car and live to see foreign places without having to return in a body bag we argue lazy who should go get the beer, collect the quarters and sweaty dollar bills and **** if I am not reappointed leader of the beer fetching besides it’s my tan lab panting needing water so it’s my responsibility and the nasty liquor store owner don’t hate me that much as the others so he’ll sell me beer without too much **** talk (some for sure) asking where I’m laying low on a **** hot day like this one tell him i’m getting on a train getting out of this two bit town which makes him reminisce and ask which direction could be northbound could be southbound hell could be west but for sure won’t be going eastbound cause I seen the Atlantic and didn’t like it too **** big and too **** cold, too **** mean
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Aug 26, 2018
Aug 26, 2018 at 1:16 PM UTC
The Southern Sounds (inside us born and bound)
only an idiot like me, the rain poured down, my socks were wetted,  and i looked at the pavement for glory, instead i found a £10 note and  imagined my right shoe on my left leg, and my left shoe on my right  leg... just to prove the luck. it came from listening to rotting christ's kata ton daimona... i wrote the poem on two tesco receipts numbering them no. 1 - .4, it made sense to just give it a narrative... the naturally apparent lisp of greek is due to... lies between theta (θ) and phi (φ)... check feta cheese... it might be less morbidly fermented... that's why the greeks have a natural lisp... it's theta and it's phi... in english it's like chinese.... w & r... something's rolling something's waving, something's trigonometric... harrison fowd was almost jonathan woss if i care... the chinese in english debate with chin-chin-wanker scissors piece of paper stone good luck on the handshake: lost the price of interest being gained for excavation purposes of dinosaur bones and inflation via the ptertodactyl of the extended mohawk shave... english dicionary makes me confused... it places theta alongside the, than... but then it's therapy... thermometer... too many unique examples i'd have said... that's the lisp there... sidelined phew and engaged in phew in byzantine... english linguistics is filled with too many "unique" examples of expression... coupled with the celebrity culture... i farted and a person took hold of a *** squeeze... how's that?! english language in summary? pleasing on the eye... but the spelling? a burden on the tongue. i know that slavic linguistics would make enlgish that's written ugly... it wouldn't be pharmacology but farmacology... then it made sense, i stopped asking the english dicta written down, the greek θ wasn't a couple of th & etc... a few athenains in death metal said it like i said it... the 2nd f... it was απηθανoν - because it was simply athens - fern fence... and not d... defence, or anything easily acquired as a prescription of zee wee point of german scottish.
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Dec 10, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 at 7:04 PM UTC
the sweet greek lisp (θ vs. φ) no. 1
only an idiot like me, the rain poured down, my socks were wetted,  and i looked at the pavement for glory, instead i found a £10 note and  imagined my right shoe on my left leg, and my left shoe on my right  leg... just to prove the luck. it came from listening to rotting christ's kata ton daimona... i wrote the poem on two tesco receipts numbering them no. 1 - .4, it made sense to just give it a narrative... the naturally apparent lisp of greek is due to... lies between theta (θ) and phi (φ)... check feta cheese... it might be less morbidly fermented... that's why the greeks have a natural lisp... it's theta and it's phi... in english it's like chinese.... w & r... something's rolling something's waving, something's trigonometric... harrison fowd was almost jonathan woss if i care... the chinese in english debate with chin-chin-wanker scissors piece of paper stone good luck on the handshake: lost the price of interest being gained for excavation purposes of dinosaur bones and inflation via the ptertodactyl of the extended mohawk shave... english dicionary makes me confused... it places theta alongside the, than... but then it's therapy... thermometer... too many unique examples i'd have said... that's the lisp there... sidelined phew and engaged in phew in byzantine... english linguistics is filled with too many "unique" examples of expression... coupled with the celebrity culture... i farted and a person took hold of a *** squeeze... how's that?! english language in summary? pleasing on the eye... but the spelling? a burden on the tongue. i know that slavic linguistics would make enlgish that's written ugly... it wouldn't be pharmacology but farmacology... then it made sense, i stopped asking the english dicta written down, the greek θ wasn't a couple of th & etc... a few athenains in death metal said it like i said it... the 2nd f... it was απηθανoν - because it was simply athens - fern fence... and not d... defence, or anything easily acquired as a prescription of zee wee point of german scottish.
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|**“lead into gold, good into dear, mortal into immortal” (where poems come from)”**| you charged me with crimes three times three, sorcery and witchcraft and doing god’s work plead guilty three times three not that I was successful, but a complex, candied marvelous failure not in my possession, the sorcerers spell, my dross and wordy dregs all sit sidelined, perchance perhaps, if you search with a leaden patience inhuman, you might just find a minuscule golden vein there’d unmined turning good into dear, an “anyone can do it” miracle, when you whisper with just one kiss those forever words, don’t be afraid, say it low and slow, I love you, and “I only want to be with you” and dare it to be become dear mortal into immortal, an order tall, for one knows his hiding places for all too human pockmarked weak, but having been charged and found in guilt, no one proffered evidence but they wanted a unambiguous unanimous verdict and proof is such an old fashioned truth notion happy accept your accusations and since confession is the best soul medicine, with glee, here and now reveal how immortality is achievable breathe poems  constantly instantly throughout the orifices in the skin cells and pore’d orifices you were god given; it is how we immortals communicate with what cannot be seen, yet drunken heard when spoke aloud taste the poems in and on tongues you can’t comprehend, the sounds fly skyward after infiltrating your eyes, then you can see your own immortality anointed rising all nonsense you plead, indeed, only immortals truly cherish and envy the human ability to create nonsense, the place where poems come from *******
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Aug 4, 2018
Aug 4, 2018 at 2:31 PM UTC
lead into gold, good into dear, mortal into immortal” (where poems come from)
|**“lead into gold, good into dear, mortal into immortal” (where poems come from)”**| you charged me with crimes three times three, sorcery and witchcraft and doing god’s work plead guilty three times three not that I was successful, but a complex, candied marvelous failure not in my possession, the sorcerers spell, my dross and wordy dregs all sit sidelined, perchance perhaps, if you search with a leaden patience inhuman, you might just find a minuscule golden vein there’d unmined turning good into dear, an “anyone can do it” miracle, when you whisper with just one kiss those forever words, don’t be afraid, say it low and slow, I love you, and “I only want to be with you” and dare it to be become dear mortal into immortal, an order tall, for one knows his hiding places for all too human pockmarked weak, but having been charged and found in guilt, no one proffered evidence but they wanted a unambiguous unanimous verdict and proof is such an old fashioned truth notion happy accept your accusations and since confession is the best soul medicine, with glee, here and now reveal how immortality is achievable breathe poems  constantly instantly throughout the orifices in the skin cells and pore’d orifices you were god given; it is how we immortals communicate with what cannot be seen, yet drunken heard when spoke aloud taste the poems in and on tongues you can’t comprehend, the sounds fly skyward after infiltrating your eyes, then you can see your own immortality anointed rising all nonsense you plead, indeed, only immortals truly cherish and envy the human ability to create nonsense, the place where poems come from *******
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I've been ignored and sidelined. Denied freedom of expression. Due to poverty, I was laughed at. I was hurt, broken, and fought against. Like a bicycle, I kept my balance to keep moving. Then I won. I’M THE STONE THE BUILDER REFUSED who’s……….. Passion didn’t come without suffering. I strived not to be noticed. I strived for my absence to be felt. My intention wasn’t waiting for the storm to pass. The intention was to dance in the rain. Kneeling before God gave him ability to stand before anyone. I’M THE STONE THE BUILDER REFUSED whom against all odds: Forge without questioning. Loved without condition. Cared for people without expectations. Gave without any sparing. Shared without pretending. I'm the same stone that turned to be the corner stone.
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Jul 6, 2018
Jul 6, 2018 at 3:01 PM UTC
The corner stone the builder refused.
the narrative does not cling to classicalism of stating whether the pronoun usage is either singular or plural or both to allow an armchair of expression; after all... there's enough for us to bypass the classical philosophical debate about subject and object, simply investigating pronoun usage in relation to singularity or pluralism. there’s a theory where poetry came from, one read: cleopatra wanted to hear sweet-nothings calibrating a razor with a viper’s kiss... another read: she báthory? she báthory? she the one that turned milk into blood? she can burn in hell. i thought we were un-dialectical in the realms of concern? no... you see... poetry came from punctuated-impressionism... or a fear of it... punctuation of course, not from the impressionism... poets fear punctuation... give them a semi-colon and they treat it like a sidelined line of verse. this is poetry in mathematical equations: i had a pear(,) it was a spare(.) i had a care for traffic(-) so i missed( ) the expressions and started using an obelisk to quarter up the mammoth into chop suey... poets simple say: next line! when prose says next paragraph and the prized execution of the 100m sprint . . . (.) that’s universal alpha romeo with alfa bravo charlie delta (echo)... come on in the u-turn... give us a smile......... :), poets says... i need breathing space without sentenced timing of silence, for the toad to feed inspiration and envy! no wonder you came with the alpha - zulu alphabet given that you used ɪɡ and zoʊ... so tell me... where’s this copernican west upside down (this heliocentric west with east being the big bang)?! i'd swear the thing stopped orbiting in circles and a thing that's on it's thought started to become orbital... a fashion sense of the 60s 70s 80s 90s repeated - that's right, the whole thing became heliocentric and we became narcissists instead of solipsists in the geocentric system of worked-up plagiarism with adequate excuses.) it's here it the poets apprehensive of punctuation symbology and instead writing "sparingly," to write, e.g.: i hate         this love                 affair claimed                      to be           the world...                  i rather                          chisel chequers                          into geometry                      of x4               90º. makes sense poets begot fear of punctuation and not grammar, they serviced to explore nothing else, leaving grammar open long enough to ***** mathematics in... remember... poets are firstly concerned with punctuation... secondly with grammar... philosophy for poets is grammar; **** i'm um um so drunk i'll need to revise.
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Oct 30, 2015
Oct 30, 2015 at 9:27 PM UTC
what poets fear
the narrative does not cling to classicalism of stating whether the pronoun usage is either singular or plural or both to allow an armchair of expression; after all... there's enough for us to bypass the classical philosophical debate about subject and object, simply investigating pronoun usage in relation to singularity or pluralism. there’s a theory where poetry came from, one read: cleopatra wanted to hear sweet-nothings calibrating a razor with a viper’s kiss... another read: she báthory? she báthory? she the one that turned milk into blood? she can burn in hell. i thought we were un-dialectical in the realms of concern? no... you see... poetry came from punctuated-impressionism... or a fear of it... punctuation of course, not from the impressionism... poets fear punctuation... give them a semi-colon and they treat it like a sidelined line of verse. this is poetry in mathematical equations: i had a pear(,) it was a spare(.) i had a care for traffic(-) so i missed( ) the expressions and started using an obelisk to quarter up the mammoth into chop suey... poets simple say: next line! when prose says next paragraph and the prized execution of the 100m sprint . . . (.) that’s universal alpha romeo with alfa bravo charlie delta (echo)... come on in the u-turn... give us a smile......... :), poets says... i need breathing space without sentenced timing of silence, for the toad to feed inspiration and envy! no wonder you came with the alpha - zulu alphabet given that you used ɪɡ and zoʊ... so tell me... where’s this copernican west upside down (this heliocentric west with east being the big bang)?! i'd swear the thing stopped orbiting in circles and a thing that's on it's thought started to become orbital... a fashion sense of the 60s 70s 80s 90s repeated - that's right, the whole thing became heliocentric and we became narcissists instead of solipsists in the geocentric system of worked-up plagiarism with adequate excuses.) it's here it the poets apprehensive of punctuation symbology and instead writing "sparingly," to write, e.g.: i hate         this love                 affair claimed                      to be           the world...                  i rather                          chisel chequers                          into geometry                      of x4               90º. makes sense poets begot fear of punctuation and not grammar, they serviced to explore nothing else, leaving grammar open long enough to ***** mathematics in... remember... poets are firstly concerned with punctuation... secondly with grammar... philosophy for poets is grammar; **** i'm um um so drunk i'll need to revise.
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By: Cedric McClester It’s a steep hill to climb But I’ll climb it anyway Hoping I might make it To the top one day It’s a steep hill to climb But I’m in for the long haul I’m heading for the top Even if I have to crawl It’s a steep hill to climb But I’m climbing every inch I won’t be sidelined I’m not sitting on a bench It’s a steep hill to climb There ain’t no doubt But there’s a way to the top That I’ve figured out It’s a steep hill to climb Yet I’m not discouraged All it takes on my part Is a little courage It’s a steep hill to climb But I’m climbing every inch I won’t be sidelined I’m not sitting on a bench It’s a steep hill to climb But I’m not dropping out Getting to the top Is what I’m all about It’s a steep hill to climb But don’t expect me to be gone I’m too ****** determined Not to carry on It’s a steep hill to climb But I have to do it Despite the obstacles And you and I both knew it Cedric McClester, Copyright (c) 2016.  All rights reserved.
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May 18, 2016
May 18, 2016 at 6:21 AM UTC
It’S A Steep Hill To Climb
My eyes smell sleepy, he, refusing to depart, But there is coffee on the nightstand, The odor, infiltrating the dozy brain's heart. Annoyed with each other, They shout and fight Like teenage siblings Commissioners at the SEC, Arguing over bathroom monopolization, The tongue stays sidelined, feigning net neutrality. The bed smells empty, For the **** has crowed, Yogi David commands your presence At Saturday morning Eight O'clock yoga services. To get to his Sinai on time, Early departure, an FAA requirement, Car, ferry and foot you will deploy, In the winter, special skis and snowshoes, That blessed by his mantra, Enable you to walk on water. In the kitchen there is sisterly conversation, Yes, puttering and muttering and discussing, Sister's grown child texting, he's making the pilgrimage To see Mama, alone, unexpectedly, Six hours driving. Friends and countryman, That is how you spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e Sleepy master dwarf refuses to concede, Says when kitchen noises retreat, Back to him you will supplicate, They (the other dwarfs and body parts), Have a big convention to better communicate.. Departure comes without a kiss, But not without complaint, She always says I love you first, Which is natural, She being a girl. Now the bladder starts to whiny~chatter, What about me, what about me, Don't you love me, and me rhymes with P! While the stomach quietly snores Have been well-fed but a few hours before, He dreams of some more....macadamia crusted s'mores... I could verse you more, No problem that's for sure, But you got the point: The morning smells.
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Jul 6, 2013
Jul 6, 2013 at 7:18 AM UTC
FPotD: The Morning Smells
My eyes smell sleepy, he, refusing to depart, But there is coffee on the nightstand, The odor, infiltrating the dozy brain's heart. Annoyed with each other, They shout and fight Like teenage siblings Commissioners at the SEC, Arguing over bathroom monopolization, The tongue stays sidelined, feigning net neutrality. The bed smells empty, For the **** has crowed, Yogi David commands your presence At Saturday morning Eight O'clock yoga services. To get to his Sinai on time, Early departure, an FAA requirement, Car, ferry and foot you will deploy, In the winter, special skis and snowshoes, That blessed by his mantra, Enable you to walk on water. In the kitchen there is sisterly conversation, Yes, puttering and muttering and discussing, Sister's grown child texting, he's making the pilgrimage To see Mama, alone, unexpectedly, Six hours driving. Friends and countryman, That is how you spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e Sleepy master dwarf refuses to concede, Says when kitchen noises retreat, Back to him you will supplicate, They (the other dwarfs and body parts), Have a big convention to better communicate.. Departure comes without a kiss, But not without complaint, She always says I love you first, Which is natural, She being a girl. Now the bladder starts to whiny~chatter, What about me, what about me, Don't you love me, and me rhymes with P! While the stomach quietly snores Have been well-fed but a few hours before, He dreams of some more....macadamia crusted s'mores... I could verse you more, No problem that's for sure, But you got the point: The morning smells.
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(i see) two scions dance in traffic: sun and moon, sky and stars; God’s two heirs dancing in traffic as if they weren’t demigods but small maya birds - transfixed mortals, fighting to keep away from the blinding might their status affords them. as His children their world and its light is for their taking, of which they can feed - or not: they go on instead like hungry wolves, next to I, rising (sidelined, falling) flagging down jeeps in the thick of the Vinzons Hall jeepney stop. They bark loud and cheerily to keep idle; from unravelling their wax-worn strings. They are birds guided by concrete routes, those yearning to feel its bleakness in each syllable creeping up their gold-and-marble throats: the soft choke of exhaust smoke and the rosiness of their gaunt in the face of all-knowing fate: that of snatching from death a world not theirs. They declare: “Perseus we are not, and Janus we choose.” They shuttlling commuters obscure and without fuss and without end to and fro, where they come they spit on the universe in baggy basketball shorts
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Dec 4, 2016
Dec 4, 2016 at 10:42 AM UTC
Vinzons Hall Bus Crier Oracle:
Mischievous; somewhere in between wayward and exasperating. Expectations are aggravating; When acceptance seems heavy in contrast to escaping. Restraint and avoidance lacks tactics; Both now seem increasingly attractive. At once a beguiled captive; an observant idiot. In correspondence, I've inadequate presence. An incessantly sidelined wallflower. An unintentionally shrinking violet.
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Nov 19, 2012
Nov 19, 2012 at 2:48 AM UTC
Last year's poverty
Eleanor stepped from the rear platform of the caboose as they were sidelined to let a freight Pass she mused how she loved freight trains how romantic they were the gust of night air from the Passing train that and the sound the train made was intoxicating she too was a piece of heaven she only Had a blanket wrapped around her body just above her breast her blonde hair was wet it had deep Comb lines she presented the highest qualities of womanhood freshness innocence a wild freedom a Tenderness her face expressed a look of longing a yearning the call that commanded wonder she picked Up the natural richness from the golden sunset as they traveled west the silver stream that was wide in The river they ran alongside for many miles this night it had been her bathing pool bemusement and Wistfulness came from her eyes and played on her face there to was a sadness a mystery that spoke of Pain she was travelling with a music troupe on the cheap she stated to stroll in the dark up the length of The train first she encountered the only Spanish man in the group he was setting with his back against The train on the rail at first quiet and thoughtful was his tune you visualized walking down the dark quiet Street of a Spanish village then he increased with a fastness you could hear Olay the scene quickly Changed to the famed bull fight in the great arena he played slow and softly making you feel the Tenseness as the great Matador faced the great beast the first pass was letter perfect the grace the cape Moved in a half circle then he spoke Toro the bull charged but in the blink of an eye the Matador saw The bull turn his head with those massive horns it caught him in the side and then the terror of a human Doll being tossed and stomped the cadence of the guitar told it all the day would go to the bull glory and Honor would go to the dead Matador she continued to walk as the guitar sound faded only to be picked Up by the sound of a rich trumpet it pierced the sweet night the distant pine seemed to sway in Appreciation the lone Coyote not to be out done howled his plaintive cry to the magnetic moon the Expanse of the dark southwest night was the fulfilling and telling of the tale many ghost rose that night Native American people always on the move in their nomadic way the wild mustang were real they Stood grazing in the lush grass just across the river Eleanor with her rich creamy skin seemed as a dream Passing between them made perfection call out from a night train
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Jul 9, 2013
Jul 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM UTC
Night Train
Eleanor stepped from the rear platform of the caboose as they were sidelined to let a freight Pass she mused how she loved freight trains how romantic they were the gust of night air from the Passing train that and the sound the train made was intoxicating she too was a piece of heaven she only Had a blanket wrapped around her body just above her breast her blonde hair was wet it had deep Comb lines she presented the highest qualities of womanhood freshness innocence a wild freedom a Tenderness her face expressed a look of longing a yearning the call that commanded wonder she picked Up the natural richness from the golden sunset as they traveled west the silver stream that was wide in The river they ran alongside for many miles this night it had been her bathing pool bemusement and Wistfulness came from her eyes and played on her face there to was a sadness a mystery that spoke of Pain she was travelling with a music troupe on the cheap she stated to stroll in the dark up the length of The train first she encountered the only Spanish man in the group he was setting with his back against The train on the rail at first quiet and thoughtful was his tune you visualized walking down the dark quiet Street of a Spanish village then he increased with a fastness you could hear Olay the scene quickly Changed to the famed bull fight in the great arena he played slow and softly making you feel the Tenseness as the great Matador faced the great beast the first pass was letter perfect the grace the cape Moved in a half circle then he spoke Toro the bull charged but in the blink of an eye the Matador saw The bull turn his head with those massive horns it caught him in the side and then the terror of a human Doll being tossed and stomped the cadence of the guitar told it all the day would go to the bull glory and Honor would go to the dead Matador she continued to walk as the guitar sound faded only to be picked Up by the sound of a rich trumpet it pierced the sweet night the distant pine seemed to sway in Appreciation the lone Coyote not to be out done howled his plaintive cry to the magnetic moon the Expanse of the dark southwest night was the fulfilling and telling of the tale many ghost rose that night Native American people always on the move in their nomadic way the wild mustang were real they Stood grazing in the lush grass just across the river Eleanor with her rich creamy skin seemed as a dream Passing between them made perfection call out from a night train
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. Raising his hand moving from the desk as spitballs fly and notes are passed *Chasing his tale in make believe endings with a princess in pink draped on his arm* snickers and snorts bellow his train of thought traveling off track temporarily, temporarily   *Dancing at midnight drifting the seasons on a feather boa mattress pearlescent skin and fingers* silence gathers around heavy breaths float eyes squint, trying to focus not his, theirs *Drawbridge openings explored present tense heartbeats sundown desires drip saturating the scabbard* Homework is sidelined jealous boys, intrigued girls as curiosity peaks and biology is not just a subject anymore *at the front of the classroom writing in black chalk so the rest of the class cannot see* but he can oh he can
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Aug 22, 2016
Aug 22, 2016 at 11:28 AM UTC
Blackboard Fantasies
Of splendid thrones of gold   or treasures manifold      Of jewelled caskets   or lavish banquets      Of Emirs and rajahs   Of Sultan and Shahs      Of kings and queens   Of rulers and emperors      Of sparkling crowns   or flowing gowns      Of their subservient stewards and obedient pages   Of their stalwart squires and servile knaves      Of poor humble, docile minions   who tended to regal pavilions   And obeisantly carried royal palanquins   Oh and some were real life harlequins      Of castles and palaces   of abounding gold and silver   in ostentatious regal splendour      The sidelined fanning maids in waiting   Yet to me only one thing worth noticing   The minstrels who came to sing   from afar for the queen and king      For I'd rather be a poetess for kings   so to my tunes swayed a kingdom   than I be the king of mere subjects   and be filled with regal boredom!      So I could join ranks of   troubadours   and sing for the king   some folklores.
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Dec 7, 2017
Dec 7, 2017 at 3:37 AM UTC
The Royals vs the poet's realm
Each cause is lost, drowned in satellite waves of radio, buried somewhere behind the crystal gleam of the plasma screen. My love and I sat sidelined, watched all our friends aim to be different in all the same ways, the standardization of the soul, it's unclear if anyone can cut the seams. Try, we will. Die, we will. Trudging through the barren wasteland of busted marble statues, bleeding artistic antiquity. Starving stray dogs, just her and me. The vultures will circle, the sirens will sing pop songs, teenagers will be settling divorces, and our heads will scream, carniverous, cancerous. Try, we will. Die, we will. But with my love's hand in mind, I feel no fright staring in the eyes of night. I only dream of what beauty we've already buried, of what lives, that never got lived.
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Nov 22, 2010
Nov 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM UTC
Roman Ruins
She's always walking through, no claws ever get to sink into, I'm sidelined, foaming, chomping at the bit, buying bouquets and greeting grins, there seem to always be too many others around, we could sneak into the bathroom-discover what the fuss is about, I remember you dressed all in black, the second time we collided-- it was the funeral of my tact, I hope to sweat the summertime to smithereens, with you, my distant venom queen, if it happens--what luck, if not-what the **** We sway to stolen melodies in hazy suburban cities, we fight tooth and nail for the upper hand of witty, looting, shooting, moving in opposite directions in the name of discovery, do you want to learn revelry? I do, I do, I do.
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Feb 6, 2011
Feb 6, 2011 at 6:27 PM UTC
Venom Queen in Black, I Hope to Sink My Claws Into You
I’ll bring you the moon and the stars will come down for you tonight. I hope that you will show up soon, but I don’t see one trace of light. I’m at dead end ruin, I guess I should’ve made a right. Bound to pop just like a balloon, no need to apply strength or might. So don’t try to stray it will never be through, you can’t run away, she’s not done with you. Climb out from the dark, but take a break before you tire. I thought that I did feel a spark but realized that I’m on fire. I’m ash; my body is an urn, I beg to be spread and to be set free. So blindingly bright you burn but there’s no complaints from me. So don’t try to stray, it’s something you can’t do, you can’t run away, she’s not done with you. Every night and day, one thing rings true, sidelined and kept at bay, it’s just déjà vu. You know I have nothing left to lose but I’d still give all of my nothing over to you. Out of options but there’s only one thing that I’d choose, the only thing I know, but still a mystery lacking a clue. Think of how beautiful life could be and all of the colours that could come from grey. Just take a single step towards me and I’ll carry us both the rest of the way. I won’t try to stray, you know I’m stuck like glue, I’ll never run away, I’ll follow it through. There’s nothing else to say, one divided by two, and come what may, it’s all déjà vu. I’ll keep my distance but dream of you nightly. But in this instance you just shine so brightly.
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Oct 7, 2019
Oct 7, 2019 at 9:29 AM UTC
Déjà Vu
I’ll bring you the moon and the stars will come down for you tonight. I hope that you will show up soon, but I don’t see one trace of light. I’m at dead end ruin, I guess I should’ve made a right. Bound to pop just like a balloon, no need to apply strength or might. So don’t try to stray it will never be through, you can’t run away, she’s not done with you. Climb out from the dark, but take a break before you tire. I thought that I did feel a spark but realized that I’m on fire. I’m ash; my body is an urn, I beg to be spread and to be set free. So blindingly bright you burn but there’s no complaints from me. So don’t try to stray, it’s something you can’t do, you can’t run away, she’s not done with you. Every night and day, one thing rings true, sidelined and kept at bay, it’s just déjà vu. You know I have nothing left to lose but I’d still give all of my nothing over to you. Out of options but there’s only one thing that I’d choose, the only thing I know, but still a mystery lacking a clue. Think of how beautiful life could be and all of the colours that could come from grey. Just take a single step towards me and I’ll carry us both the rest of the way. I won’t try to stray, you know I’m stuck like glue, I’ll never run away, I’ll follow it through. There’s nothing else to say, one divided by two, and come what may, it’s all déjà vu. I’ll keep my distance but dream of you nightly. But in this instance you just shine so brightly.
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taking government loans, parental guidelines and flashy dress-skirts made this life unfact and unfiction. Lost in the disabled returns on tax dividends, the world kept calling your name. “Rise up and be born with me, brother” Pablo Neruda inclined-- *“Give me your hand from the deep Zone seeded by your sorrow.”* it all it all it all ached, an abyss of patience with nothing-- a droplet of sidelined coffee given sentience with ingestion-- all the banal all the mundane all the flowing rock-face moments so presented by society-- in my heart of hearts, in my mind of minds, in my eye of eyes, in my neck of necks, I found pain.... the ache of achey betrayal and the ache of achey loss. In this pain we find repreive from Pollyanna-- reprieve from the false Gods of Evil, the Devil Within your Ex-Girlfriend-- the reason she let his ******** inside. Through all the latency-- through starving streetless sleepless evenings-turned-to-nights I could see death within the sliver of a flashlight beam.. telling me to take the life or leave the life but never in-between-- telling me the pain was part and parcel to the ecstasy of faith and resurrection-- screaming “FLATLINED IF YOU WANT, FASTLINED IN YOU WANT, SIDELINED IF YOU WANT, STREETLIGHT IF YOU WANT” and throughout this evil and this darkness and this nothing -but-a-flashlight-beam, I hear Neruda-- “Rise up and be born with me, brother.”
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 6:40 PM UTC
easy, now. easy, soon.
Sometimes depression can make you feel like a taxidermied animal, all numbly stuffed full of cotton, forever glassy wide-eyed and expressionless, sidelined hanging on a wall, unable to engage and be a part of, dumbly stared at, strangely mute.
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Dec 13, 2013
Dec 13, 2013 at 1:51 AM UTC
Voiceless
in the dialectical continuum, as on the chat show under the name of loose women you get to see the phenomenon that is third party dialectics, i.e. someone reads an almost anonymous person’s opinion and you get this safety net where no one is really responsible for the origin of the discussion, since the person giving the opinion is not engaged in dialogue, so the surgeons of the tongue hotly discuss a thin-air opinion of someone unable to provide a follow-up, so whatever opinions are given, the third party isn’t there... hence you get this strange dialectical continuum where only more opinions are uttered and any memorable truths are sidelined to the scientific quarter of the human mind where everything from toothpaste to suntan lotion is given the thumbs up undisputed like a caesar’s whim with gladiators for the thumbs-down.
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Oct 27, 2015
Oct 27, 2015 at 8:48 AM UTC
in the dialectical continuum
Tea with the drifters lifting lids on the kids there and they're all on the skids there, the dossers and tossers,the pikeys and grifters, all with the same name and sidelined, blindside of the game, and with nothing to choose between see or be seen we don't see. We don't see the lean one,the tall one, the skinny and the short one,the young or the old one, the one with the dream gone but we all see the hands out, all fear the question, (could that be me?) 'spare any change guv for a hot cup of tea?' On a Sunday for some when we pray and give thanks, there are some that work hard in the local food banks. It is to them we should pray and not to some God of the day who disappears at will. And I'm sure God will forgive me for saying this system is ***** it ain't right, someone's skimming the cream someone's stealing the dream and all we'll have left is the night.
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Oct 19, 2014
Oct 19, 2014 at 4:20 AM UTC
A vagrancy
the magpie's machine gun shattering croak. i too would have wished it, if the damage was unintentional the two of them would have taken me to a hospital, instead... they took me home... and that was the end of the near-death experience, but as one old man said: what guarantee do i have to have fallen and later not be bound by a wheelchair? none, i said, three stiletto dances later, i'm seeing a wheelchair-bound youth giving a rap tat tat lingo western motto 'boots on the ground boots on the ground so we can print our stupid opinions as if they're morals' dance... but then i was walking into the woods with a migrating cloud of crow... a migration of messerschmitts... and into the forest, sat on a wooden stump waiting for the owl's call... but i left the forest before the night came. *what sort of power is this, a power that cannot reach me, but requires a passiveness, a permission to only enact choices like abraham's choice to circumcise himself and then later circumcise isaah (translated as a need to sacrifice with death) to disapproval, because it mentioned circumcision, like: an unsheathed sword. so what power is there, if power is riddled with bureaucracy and muddled, and chaotic, and in quicksand? before it rises, it falls, like an weak dough that is baked for pita bread rather than bloomer bread of working yeast? what power is that, if the power is merely a sidelined chronology of passed-on responsibilities? democracy is but an idle fancy that breeds lost young men and exploitative old perverts... the old men should be enshrined with making decisions, but in a democracy they're deviating into thoughts about ******** and ***** extinction... if you dare educate children you also dare to not educate old men, and for that reason, you're at your weakest.*
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Feb 20, 2016
Feb 20, 2016 at 2:31 AM UTC
migration of messerschmitts
the magpie's machine gun shattering croak. i too would have wished it, if the damage was unintentional the two of them would have taken me to a hospital, instead... they took me home... and that was the end of the near-death experience, but as one old man said: what guarantee do i have to have fallen and later not be bound by a wheelchair? none, i said, three stiletto dances later, i'm seeing a wheelchair-bound youth giving a rap tat tat lingo western motto 'boots on the ground boots on the ground so we can print our stupid opinions as if they're morals' dance... but then i was walking into the woods with a migrating cloud of crow... a migration of messerschmitts... and into the forest, sat on a wooden stump waiting for the owl's call... but i left the forest before the night came. *what sort of power is this, a power that cannot reach me, but requires a passiveness, a permission to only enact choices like abraham's choice to circumcise himself and then later circumcise isaah (translated as a need to sacrifice with death) to disapproval, because it mentioned circumcision, like: an unsheathed sword. so what power is there, if power is riddled with bureaucracy and muddled, and chaotic, and in quicksand? before it rises, it falls, like an weak dough that is baked for pita bread rather than bloomer bread of working yeast? what power is that, if the power is merely a sidelined chronology of passed-on responsibilities? democracy is but an idle fancy that breeds lost young men and exploitative old perverts... the old men should be enshrined with making decisions, but in a democracy they're deviating into thoughts about ******** and ***** extinction... if you dare educate children you also dare to not educate old men, and for that reason, you're at your weakest.*
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*Tongues of flame ravenously lick Every inch of her and everything in contact With her is lit aflame and maybe that’s quite impolitic As it’s inconveniencing with a tendency to distract. Well, as beings fidget and squirm in impassioned Ecstasy she nonchalantly goes about her business In slow haste completely indifferent to the ‘fashioned’ Whirlpool of raging emotion she’s stirred in acute finesse Qualities that constitute an ensemble of a femme fatale Most of her actions defy most established forms of rationale And presumably, she could have gone through the rigmarole Of dressing up she’s certain she’ll slay heart and soul A splash of color and valor And discretion’s sidelined, she glows with glamour.*
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Jun 11, 2016
Jun 11, 2016 at 3:05 AM UTC
Lady in red.
Before I took a seat I closed the door. Trying desperately to make a good first impression, refusing the offer of a hot drink there's always later assuming this goes according to plan. My name called, greeted by a luke warm smile "Daniel" Rhetorical questions always get me, do I answer or avoid? I never know anyway. Extending my hand reluctantly "Yes and you must be" my enemy for the next ten minutes. "An informal interview followed by any questions you may have says he reassuringly" Leading me back through the shop. This his shining kingdom and he the smiling tyrant. Forty hours a week with over time allowed you could be very happy here working and smiling or something. The interview is a slow roast, the mid day sun slipping through half cracked a window, I engage in eye contact a neccesary evil apparently. Ive been up for days reading every interview technique known to man. I could tell you all about body language or just how much I need too sleep. Its always the subtle distractions that steal a tired mind. Nice tie blue tie green tie I cant tell, I remain fixated untill "Any questions" of course I reply. "When can I start and when will I hear back from you" all the while secretly asking myself when will the already sidelined enthusiasm I have for you diminish entirely
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Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 8:31 AM UTC
My Job Interview
In the streets of manipulations, simplest questions unanswered in the virtual dimensions, found no directions. Monkeys all the way slaying each other in the name of the so-called glory of success, with ugly evil smiles or with beautiful deception. Some shed tears of joy while some others remain annoyed, for those who drown and for those who rise above. Hearts and brains are sidelined and devils spirits rule. Are they lost or are they confused? Looking at what they do, Angels mourn them too. Walking alone on those streets, Running tired through the pathway, Dark and dusted, Happiness busted Singing the requiem, They call it The Alley of Dreams!
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 8:17 AM UTC
The Alley of Dreams