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A horror movie scene as the heroine escapes. Everything is still besides her convalescing breath and the distant, chasing wind. Not a noise is heard except the fall leave's rattle and the birch wood's moaning bark in the moonlight. Her body slouches into the protection of a lone shed, and shrouds itself in the aroma of cut grass. A tense brow relieves and tired eyes close, thankful to receive the momentary peace. A possible misstep turns the wary peace on end with the jagged cut of broken leaves. The once relieved brow now concedes surprise as wild eyes are cast towards an opaque barricade. Sly pieces of garden equipment leash a weathered jacket in place as she attempts to stand. A cackle is heard, a shriek undone. To spite the brittle wood, the formulaic jump-scare-skeleton-hand bursts through the shed's solicitous walls, set to declare the last of a weary soul as his own. The wind catches up and spearheads any hole it can find. It begins whistling around the dim room like a tornado elated to havoc behind a castle's walls. The tree bark howls, the leaves, now delight. We learn there is no reprieve for a begging champion. The camera backs out of the splintered hole, and pans over a silhouetted forest to face the waning moon. The hero succumbs with muted screams to a gore far below and out of frame. Our only closure, a black screen, with bright white letters, slowly scrolling up. The end.
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Jul 24, 2018
Jul 24, 2018 at 10:52 PM UTC
The End // A short story experiment.
She sits rather still, stitching her loom shackled and bound to the whispering room While the walls shutter speeches she slouches then reaches, her stitching resumed. Threads of silk pool in spools cast to the floor Hushing the voices as they pour the voices repeat their crippling phrase dancing the space bound to their maze
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Apr 11, 2018
Apr 11, 2018 at 5:49 PM UTC
Whispering Room
The clock was set back, and now night rots away the afternoon. Gray light spills, slouches, sloughs into my hair, my hands, across all these strangers. Ovals of alcohol keep the rain away. My life is moving stave by stave. I used to go to school, have a social circle, idle through hobbies, new days, new days. What the hell happened?
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Nov 15, 2017
Nov 15, 2017 at 2:25 PM UTC
Monday evening
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
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The Second Coming
The results are in I couldn't resist I had to find my future So I opened the box and had a little fun All I ever wanted was the narwhal and the walrus I dusted it off the plastic green box from my days of innocence full of tiny noble animals from every kingdom So precious to me I couldn't ever give it away I dusted them off and put them in couples everything in pairs everyone in pairs Just like our world And I wanted the walrus but what choice did I have? So I added some consolation prizes... I'm bound to get one of them The Walrus who slouches The Ant who never listens The Turtle who talks to himself The Whale with the deformity The Praying Mantis (too religious!) The T-Rex with the family situation Or at least the Shark who seems a little gay I entered with seven ballots So I paired the world off the animal kingdom inter species was the point but it couldn't work I got the seal Probably beautiful but not who I want Dissapointment ruled me And I had to know what happened Maybe I just wanted power? Well they all found other species Probably forgot about me even the Walrus he got an old Elephant The feeling was dangerous nostalgic but all I ever wanted was the Walrus and the Narwhal
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Mar 29, 2012
Mar 29, 2012 at 4:49 PM UTC
The Walrus and the Narwhal
A shadow stumbles through the chaos - though nothing stands between the moon, the shattered icons and blasted houses. Conjured from the exhaust of ceaseless agitation, the specter enshrouds both the entranced and the exalted. This billowing aberration - the embodiment of fears brewed from loathing - has no substance or perception. A ravenous void, it slouches and bends towards the gilded Calvary of conviction's end. Tom Spencer © 2017
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Jun 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017 at 7:46 PM UTC
Darkness Drops Again
The teapot whines. It has done its job, water now struggling to escape, a few lucky molecules joining air-born brethren– and now it begs for the release of its agitated contents. And I am thirsty. The fire dies. With a turn of my wrist, the burner is granted repose, the contented sigh of the *** speaking for the pair– happy to be of use but eager to relax. And I am ready. The teabag waits. Its tail hanging free, it slouches lazily against ceramic, the bag of herbs finding home in a mug– ready for the heat and its life's fulfillment. And I am pouring. The water steeps. As steam swirls the mug, herbs release their subtlety, earth and fruit and the lethargy of chamomile– a bath of comfort, the smell of memory. And I am calmed.
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Jul 26, 2011
Jul 26, 2011 at 10:51 AM UTC
A Quiet Comfort
Oh poor little elephant in the room. No one knows him. He cries repent. But I still will not let him go. I won't speak of him. Not a word. He hangs from my ear lobes. Sits in my eyes. Slouches my shoulders. And sometimes makes me cry. He is big... But invisible to the eye. He wants to leave, I want him to. But this chain is ample. And clamped to me tight. Where is the key? Not in sight. I know its here somewhere. Or maybe hours away. Poor little elephant in the room. He needs to be free. He needs to be with his momma. Which unfortunately is me. I have created this elephant. This elephant of distrust. Its no ones fault but my own. But this I feel is unjust.
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Sep 13, 2010
Sep 13, 2010 at 2:43 PM UTC
Elephant In The Room
There was a feeling that found me in the midst of focus fading a shimmering within the sun rays caressing then worn-out skin something of acceptance similar to fulfillment resembling a happiness & transcending physicality companionship in the lack of it whole souls acknowledging sorrows, the ebb and flow of the highs and lows there was for a moment a stillness a lack of all movement that cradled the imagery of   static serenity before me and as they inevitably faded there was some comfort in knowing a part of me forever resides in the clasp of such experience A loneliness sought me out again drunken stupor with tongue of silk coerced me willfully along one very treacherous road tender hand willingly reached for one poor in spirit the shackles of melancholy breached- shattered- from the force of soft caress in spite of the distance that loomed there was closeness that bloomed under the silver moonlight audible in approving sighs coalescence of energy, vibrant colors spreading outward from a heart and mind once so sure that they'll only ever see grey time within a memory crystallized and a spark to the kindling within cold eyes new warmth circulating soon to create a fire to cleanse frostbitten exterior but the forces of nature will ***** out ambitious flame impartially and the feeling of fire fades away with the smoke, the memory already one with the weather & Now what finds me is the storm in the rain slouches the silhouette of a comfort so soon now forgotten the wind howls a name familiar it carries with it the scent of a nightmare sensation dances with the the sting of near frozen air I find a feeling not so foreign now dragging me farther out into the wilderness processing humbling surroundings i'm now left in solitary wonder where have I wandered? how will I weather impending storm? if I am long lost in unforgiving cold will it then be too late when warmth finds me once more?
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Mar 12, 2016
Mar 12, 2016 at 3:56 PM UTC
postcard from the wilderness
There was a feeling that found me in the midst of focus fading a shimmering within the sun rays caressing then worn-out skin something of acceptance similar to fulfillment resembling a happiness & transcending physicality companionship in the lack of it whole souls acknowledging sorrows, the ebb and flow of the highs and lows there was for a moment a stillness a lack of all movement that cradled the imagery of   static serenity before me and as they inevitably faded there was some comfort in knowing a part of me forever resides in the clasp of such experience A loneliness sought me out again drunken stupor with tongue of silk coerced me willfully along one very treacherous road tender hand willingly reached for one poor in spirit the shackles of melancholy breached- shattered- from the force of soft caress in spite of the distance that loomed there was closeness that bloomed under the silver moonlight audible in approving sighs coalescence of energy, vibrant colors spreading outward from a heart and mind once so sure that they'll only ever see grey time within a memory crystallized and a spark to the kindling within cold eyes new warmth circulating soon to create a fire to cleanse frostbitten exterior but the forces of nature will ***** out ambitious flame impartially and the feeling of fire fades away with the smoke, the memory already one with the weather & Now what finds me is the storm in the rain slouches the silhouette of a comfort so soon now forgotten the wind howls a name familiar it carries with it the scent of a nightmare sensation dances with the the sting of near frozen air I find a feeling not so foreign now dragging me farther out into the wilderness processing humbling surroundings i'm now left in solitary wonder where have I wandered? how will I weather impending storm? if I am long lost in unforgiving cold will it then be too late when warmth finds me once more?
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IF we were such and so, the same as these, maybe we too would be slingers and sliders, tumbling half over in the water mirrors, tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun, tumbling our purple numbers. Twirl on, you and your satin blue. Be water birds, be air birds. Be these purple tumblers you are. Dip and get away From loops into slip-knots, Write your own ciphers and figure eights. It is your wooded island here in Lincoln park. Everybody knows this belongs to you. Five fat geese Eat grass on a sod bank And never count your slinging ciphers, your sliding figure eights, A man on a green paint iron bench, Slouches his feet and sniffs in a book, And looks at you and your loops and slip-knots, And looks at you and your sheaths of satin blue, And slouches again and sniffs in the book, And mumbles: It is an idle and a doctrinaire exploit. Go on tumbling half over in the water mirrors. Go on tumbling half over at the horse heads of the sun. Be water birds, be air birds. Be these purple tumblers you are.
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Purple Martins
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" - W. B. Yeats: The Second Coming Dachshund Bred to burrow after badgers, what's he doing here? Terrorizing the underwear behind my couch. Is he a true hund, or just a pan-fried sausage with a Bluto chest? I wonder what they called him back then, in the Black Forest, when dogs were dogs. Tracker? Hunter? Try: Baron Von Putt-Putt Tootsie Roll. I'm Scot myself. My people once sacked York. No, this isn't York. It's Plano, Texas. Don't think a Dachshund and a Scot can't sack Dallas from here. Until then, we play our little game: What rough ****** slouches toward my underwear?
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Mar 1, 2018
Mar 1, 2018 at 1:23 PM UTC
Dachshund
Evelina’s fence of lichened cedar slouches at the wetland border her willows wildly weep on silken cattail shoulders the neighbors say she’s crazy snidely call her Javelina she's sane as any one of them this brilliant winter morning Evelina speaks of weather and dogs hers, a Chihuahua named Fawn mine, a Frenchie named Sparky the weather, typically Northwest in parting, sculpted driftwood spiraling tornadic rings gifted between palms roughly worn by time and sea Evelina’s yard is thick with trees the neighbors want cut down for now, she’s doing all she can just holding swampy ground each morning wakes triumphant to beachcomb on the shore pockets weighed with treasure this moment, nothing more
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Jan 17, 2017
Jan 17, 2017 at 9:58 AM UTC
Fences
Advanced in years, advanced in life There slouches our grandmother in strife. Winter has set in, no time to laugh For our grandmother is knitting a scarf. Behold the nature devoid Earth, As the grandmother looks through the window. Everyone step outdoors with a dust mask For the air so polluted never was And breathing shall cause dreadful malady. Every time a man digs the soil Only plastics found amid the great toil! Drinking water has been rationalized Only a liter for a huge family. And as our granny knits the scarf She gives up water with a guilty laugh. Her grandson returns home with a thud Covered with sand and drenched with mud But no water to take bath So he holds himself in wrath. Grennary pictures he finds Only in textbook binds. Grandma is beware of all these And takes her mind to the trees. There is only one tree in India That is the great Banyan tree And it is among the 7 wonders of the world. It hardly rains once a year So everyone gets a holiday To see in front the nature appear. Grandma with agony and despair Explains her children how beautiful Earth was, when nature was there. She wrote articles for magazines Describing the birds chirping in peace And the smell of the tranquil breeze. Grandma catches sight of another incident: Only one rose left in the Ooty rose garden And before grandma could give a pardon In Auction was it sold to the highest bidder!!! Never a rose, was seen then. . . . . . But don't worry, we are not in that age now And never we shall get that blow. But our future will, the future generation will Undergo all these torments calling us evil. We now see children playing around the trees We now see animals in deciduous forests We now enjoy rain and greenery. But we will be a nemesis for the future. Let the future not see greenery in books But in reality, in real life let them see brooks. We humans seem to be selfish, for I define: “Only after the last tree has fallen Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught Only then will we realize that MONEY cannot be eaten.” Perhaps our world has simply been hijacked if man is to survive we need to act. So, let's act and save our planet "EARTH"
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 2:55 AM UTC
Advanced in Years, Advanced in Life
Advanced in years, advanced in life There slouches our grandmother in strife. Winter has set in, no time to laugh For our grandmother is knitting a scarf. Behold the nature devoid Earth, As the grandmother looks through the window. Everyone step outdoors with a dust mask For the air so polluted never was And breathing shall cause dreadful malady. Every time a man digs the soil Only plastics found amid the great toil! Drinking water has been rationalized Only a liter for a huge family. And as our granny knits the scarf She gives up water with a guilty laugh. Her grandson returns home with a thud Covered with sand and drenched with mud But no water to take bath So he holds himself in wrath. Grennary pictures he finds Only in textbook binds. Grandma is beware of all these And takes her mind to the trees. There is only one tree in India That is the great Banyan tree And it is among the 7 wonders of the world. It hardly rains once a year So everyone gets a holiday To see in front the nature appear. Grandma with agony and despair Explains her children how beautiful Earth was, when nature was there. She wrote articles for magazines Describing the birds chirping in peace And the smell of the tranquil breeze. Grandma catches sight of another incident: Only one rose left in the Ooty rose garden And before grandma could give a pardon In Auction was it sold to the highest bidder!!! Never a rose, was seen then. . . . . . But don't worry, we are not in that age now And never we shall get that blow. But our future will, the future generation will Undergo all these torments calling us evil. We now see children playing around the trees We now see animals in deciduous forests We now enjoy rain and greenery. But we will be a nemesis for the future. Let the future not see greenery in books But in reality, in real life let them see brooks. We humans seem to be selfish, for I define: “Only after the last tree has fallen Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught Only then will we realize that MONEY cannot be eaten.” Perhaps our world has simply been hijacked if man is to survive we need to act. So, let's act and save our planet "EARTH"
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Mandibles make their own hoarding, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under semiconductor-selected civilians, but under civilians existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The trailer of all dead gentians weighs like a nipper on the brandishes of the lob. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and thistles, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such equipments of rheostat crochet they anxiously conjure up the spleens of the past to their setter, bother from them nappies, bayonet slouches, and cottons in organ-grinder to present this new scheme in wound hoarding in timpanist-honored disincentive and borrowed larch. Thus Luther put on the masseur of the Appearance Paul, the Rhapsody of 1789-1814 draped itself alternately in the gully of the Rook Requisite and the Rook Empress, and the Rhapsody of 1848 knew novelette bicentenary to do than to parsonage, now 1789, now the rheostat trailer of 1793-95. In like mantel, the belch who has learned a new larch always translates it backfire into his motor toot, but he assimilates the spleen of the new larch and exteriors himself freely in it only when he moves in it without recalling the old and when he forgets his navy toot.
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Dec 6, 2015
Dec 6, 2015 at 4:44 PM UTC
The Trailer of Dead Gentians
a raw beast slouches towards my native soil the cradle holding our innocence rocks wrathfully back and forth in the ruthless wind the windows are shut the door locked and still I hear the helpless cries of whole communities collapsing and crumbling because there is no center remaining no mental balance left to connect the old with the new and one day when the beast arrives we will stare at each other with bloodshot eyes and muse wir haben das nicht gewusst
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Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 5:48 PM UTC
Denial
Bovine like he sits maybe he has to **** the only reason i can think of that would warrant the stupid look on his face speaking with urgency and an andalucian lisp he slouches in his chair to lessen his discomfort And the large african queen'the proud mother gorilla who shows up late everyday then doesn't speak spanish at all es interesante cow-boy now gets up scampering out of class relief in sight past the starry eyed portraiture of the girl reminiscent of the head of a young woman with tussled hair carrying her emotion in her eyes or maybe she's just ****** a morning bowl was nice today the leaves almost at their peak in terms of chlorophyllic changes at least
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Oct 17, 2011
Oct 17, 2011 at 4:10 PM UTC
Wed. October 12
I am the emptiness that exists in the kitchen at such hours, late and lonely. I can operate only in this space, at night when the answers become irrelevant and the present tense becomes the past. I rely on the sporadic sounds of movement of traffic below the window. I am the scratchy sound of death cab on the Buick’s aged speakers. I claw at the insides of the aluminum and seep out through cracked windows. I shore myself against a distant past despite better judgment. I am born of the vivid summer heat. I ride the train to the loop and back out to the city’s extremities, like blood through a body. I sweat under layers of wool humidity. I am the concrete paving the boundless suburban streets. I exhale tar and forest as the rain begins to fall, long after dark, cooling the still-hot surface. I crave the tires and feet that brace themselves against me. I am the slow moving clouds at dusk, the color of tea. I ignite as the sun slouches toward the horizon. I consume the jets that depart from O’ Hare in every direction. I am familiar laughter, striking ears in palpable waves. I move most freely though vicious August heat, But even in such passive chilled air, I proceed. I careen toward what has been named peace, though it’s been forgotten over the years. I have fled the immortal city for one more ageless. I crave the smell of the death of summer. I pass into a state of suspension like the bodies that surround me, never born but built. I trace the veins and find no flesh, but only bones beneath them. I stretch willing to bridge the gaps that exist. I am the tangled freeways moving among one another in the heart of a city accused of being heartless. I am guiltless in the face of isolation. I hold blood hostage on a daily basis. I am lethargic, gold-soaked afternoons Bearing such spacious skies. I lie beneath gilded light like the lazy palm lined streets. I am the trembling airwaves, And I disarm the distance itself.
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Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012 at 10:10 PM UTC
Everything in Transit
I am the emptiness that exists in the kitchen at such hours, late and lonely. I can operate only in this space, at night when the answers become irrelevant and the present tense becomes the past. I rely on the sporadic sounds of movement of traffic below the window. I am the scratchy sound of death cab on the Buick’s aged speakers. I claw at the insides of the aluminum and seep out through cracked windows. I shore myself against a distant past despite better judgment. I am born of the vivid summer heat. I ride the train to the loop and back out to the city’s extremities, like blood through a body. I sweat under layers of wool humidity. I am the concrete paving the boundless suburban streets. I exhale tar and forest as the rain begins to fall, long after dark, cooling the still-hot surface. I crave the tires and feet that brace themselves against me. I am the slow moving clouds at dusk, the color of tea. I ignite as the sun slouches toward the horizon. I consume the jets that depart from O’ Hare in every direction. I am familiar laughter, striking ears in palpable waves. I move most freely though vicious August heat, But even in such passive chilled air, I proceed. I careen toward what has been named peace, though it’s been forgotten over the years. I have fled the immortal city for one more ageless. I crave the smell of the death of summer. I pass into a state of suspension like the bodies that surround me, never born but built. I trace the veins and find no flesh, but only bones beneath them. I stretch willing to bridge the gaps that exist. I am the tangled freeways moving among one another in the heart of a city accused of being heartless. I am guiltless in the face of isolation. I hold blood hostage on a daily basis. I am lethargic, gold-soaked afternoons Bearing such spacious skies. I lie beneath gilded light like the lazy palm lined streets. I am the trembling airwaves, And I disarm the distance itself.
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Ihinabi ko sa bukana ng payong ang ulan. This is to believe that sheltering may not always be, or simply perhaps an undertaking of weakness. A radical strangeness aspires to be bold. I may not be able to transcend its nakedness. . This is to deny the common verity that in the communal of water, shade fails a transliteration. We cannot be forever in hiding. Our smallness reveals our flowers. Our unmentioned stirrings. (A spire of technicolor through the lens of apertures. It starts to rain in Pasay.) . I see children swift-bodied in the streets. I hear the sublime song of a defunct tractor. Once in its vitality, Earth was its derelict. How did it come to be that when I peer into the openness, light slouches into form, conjuring an image: your face, hiding amongst the crowd? . This is to recognize the potential of dwindles. Its vertigo that it tries to protect. Its height that it tries to conquer. Its fall that it tries to eschew. What if bones are just homes to tiny little currents and that the way our body assumes the stance of jackknife, simply a foreboding? . Itinabi ko sa sukal ng araw ang payong. This is to perceive that all light lifts away from the dark, my heart always falling into its hands. Morning opens your face like delicate streets, pulverizing fog into chamomile. Silence is endemic. *Makati *buoys overseer reconnaissance of obvious beatings. Revealing a long line of ligatures -- umbilicus of wires. Serenades of futility. Our useless meanderings. . The depth of Sunlight finally turns primeval stone. That is our defeat -- all our darkness put to trial. I am tense with the finality: she will become parasol and I, the weather past moonlight waxing.
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Feb 26, 2016
Feb 26, 2016 at 8:38 PM UTC
Martina's Parasols
Ihinabi ko sa bukana ng payong ang ulan. This is to believe that sheltering may not always be, or simply perhaps an undertaking of weakness. A radical strangeness aspires to be bold. I may not be able to transcend its nakedness. . This is to deny the common verity that in the communal of water, shade fails a transliteration. We cannot be forever in hiding. Our smallness reveals our flowers. Our unmentioned stirrings. (A spire of technicolor through the lens of apertures. It starts to rain in Pasay.) . I see children swift-bodied in the streets. I hear the sublime song of a defunct tractor. Once in its vitality, Earth was its derelict. How did it come to be that when I peer into the openness, light slouches into form, conjuring an image: your face, hiding amongst the crowd? . This is to recognize the potential of dwindles. Its vertigo that it tries to protect. Its height that it tries to conquer. Its fall that it tries to eschew. What if bones are just homes to tiny little currents and that the way our body assumes the stance of jackknife, simply a foreboding? . Itinabi ko sa sukal ng araw ang payong. This is to perceive that all light lifts away from the dark, my heart always falling into its hands. Morning opens your face like delicate streets, pulverizing fog into chamomile. Silence is endemic. *Makati *buoys overseer reconnaissance of obvious beatings. Revealing a long line of ligatures -- umbilicus of wires. Serenades of futility. Our useless meanderings. . The depth of Sunlight finally turns primeval stone. That is our defeat -- all our darkness put to trial. I am tense with the finality: she will become parasol and I, the weather past moonlight waxing.
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Sharp golden eyes Peer from the trees Soft rhythmic purr Summons me Interest peeked A calling Of hope Hello? Don't leave I will walk among you Sisters I will travel the soil path Up the hills Past the clearing To the cave That seems to ward away All the evil Her long body Slouches into the mouth Golden eyes Lighting the way My bare feet Against the cold stone I grip my arms Where do you take me Madre De Los Gatos? Where do you lead Beautiful Pantera I see You show me my path I will walk straight Among you my sister Thank you
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Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012 at 11:24 PM UTC
Madre De Los Gatos
The Beatnik Café’ Cigarettes, coffee, a ****** beret Blue smoke and Blue Mountain, blue verse, blue rhyme -- O Come to the side-street beatnik café; Here present-tense yourself; caffeine the time Here order your Bacon very well Donne And jam your java with croissants and Keats Orate from Spenser; groove with Tennyson Tap out a line of Seafarer-four beats Tap out a manifesto; everyone does Pulp-print Red rags yelp “Revolution Now!” The typewriter is holy, and Up the Fuzz! Bongo that Kerouac, and Howl, but how? Bongo that beat, oh, yeah, it’s crazzzzy, man Sheaffer that rhythm, cat; Parker that line Ferlinghetti your truth to a yellow pad Sharpen your verbs to a rebel design Sharpen your verbs from a bottle of ink Light up a Camel; blow intellectual smoke Teach the ****** bourgeois how they should think Grey-suited capitalists – what a joke! L’Envoi – Time Slouches On Tee-shirted capitalists joke in Mandarin The latest chained coffee’s inside the mall English and Apples are original sin On glowing screens where the pale pixels crawl And no one crawls through rhythm, rhyme, or verse, Or bongos out an existential cry For poetry is dead; the twitters terse Reduce the ancient loves to I, me, my.
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Dec 14, 2016
Dec 14, 2016 at 6:50 PM UTC
The Beatnik Cafe'
Eyes narrow Mind rushes Mouth spits hateful words Head drops Eyes waters Feet quicken Tears fly Hand raise Words whispered Finger squeezes Bullet flies Blood splatters Eyes darken Body slouches and falls Blood pools around head Everything blackens
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Jun 13, 2012
Jun 13, 2012 at 11:07 AM UTC
Suicide
I am looking for a place to return to. I have no strength. I find myself exposed, one skewed shadow pulling roots beneath the sun. Overnight I became wary of everything. I remark at my own existence. That I could walk away from it. As all colours part from me. I open my mouth. I am full of willows and moth wings. I look for words. I find the old ones and dig up empty rooms. I have become so simple. My anger slouches in the corner like a rook. Shuffling, always shuffling. But he will not speak to me. This is a living thing. The paradox is a minor landscape. No time believes in me. I will say it again. I woke this morning and found myself missing.
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Dec 14, 2015
Dec 14, 2015 at 12:22 PM UTC
roomless
It was only partly cloudy when we showed up to the dance. Polished, striding slick in all our style. Lucky buckeyes stashed in pockets, rabbits' feet clutched in our hands we marched up to that fancy fence and asked, "When does the fun begin?" It had only started raining when our escort let us past the gate and led us on toward the door. But I tripped on my own shoelace, fell behind and watched you pass. Your smile turned to sour salt and ash. You looked back and you laughed. Count your friends up, count your digits and your achy, sagging limbs. Make sure none of them are missing before you try to go swim. 'Cuz the rain is getting thick now and this scene is getting sick. Wretch me up. Soak me down right to the quick. Thought somehow it could be saved. Preserved or salvaged from decay. Decidedly unjustified to chance. But I bought these fancy shoes with my last dime, got all these moves. So waltz me off, stage right, with all the other trash. The door was swinging inward, blocking your form from my view, closing to a slant of yellow light. Windows brightened golden inside; out here ink night, black and blue. I saw you next through window panes as you cavorted with the lords. The rainwater's slashing downward, raging cold against this face. Curse escapes through blunted, yellow teeth. Among finery you are dancing. Here, I shiver in drenched rags. luck charms fell from fingers to the dregs. When does the fun begin? Count your friends up, count your digits and your achy, sagging limbs. Make sure none of them are missing before you try to go swim. 'Cuz the rain is getting thick now and this scene is getting sick. Wretch me up. Soak me down right to the quick. We scrawled out this stupid story 'til the pens fell from our hands-- 'til exclamation points were dented, bent and rent; until we'd asked, "What's the final tally, mate?" Now, this bad and greasy hair is hanging low over this face. This ****** used up body droops and slouches toward its age... And the rain is like no bitter ex's invectives ever taste. What's the final tally, mate?
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Oct 19, 2016
Oct 19, 2016 at 1:37 PM UTC
Charms Demystified
It was only partly cloudy when we showed up to the dance. Polished, striding slick in all our style. Lucky buckeyes stashed in pockets, rabbits' feet clutched in our hands we marched up to that fancy fence and asked, "When does the fun begin?" It had only started raining when our escort let us past the gate and led us on toward the door. But I tripped on my own shoelace, fell behind and watched you pass. Your smile turned to sour salt and ash. You looked back and you laughed. Count your friends up, count your digits and your achy, sagging limbs. Make sure none of them are missing before you try to go swim. 'Cuz the rain is getting thick now and this scene is getting sick. Wretch me up. Soak me down right to the quick. Thought somehow it could be saved. Preserved or salvaged from decay. Decidedly unjustified to chance. But I bought these fancy shoes with my last dime, got all these moves. So waltz me off, stage right, with all the other trash. The door was swinging inward, blocking your form from my view, closing to a slant of yellow light. Windows brightened golden inside; out here ink night, black and blue. I saw you next through window panes as you cavorted with the lords. The rainwater's slashing downward, raging cold against this face. Curse escapes through blunted, yellow teeth. Among finery you are dancing. Here, I shiver in drenched rags. luck charms fell from fingers to the dregs. When does the fun begin? Count your friends up, count your digits and your achy, sagging limbs. Make sure none of them are missing before you try to go swim. 'Cuz the rain is getting thick now and this scene is getting sick. Wretch me up. Soak me down right to the quick. We scrawled out this stupid story 'til the pens fell from our hands-- 'til exclamation points were dented, bent and rent; until we'd asked, "What's the final tally, mate?" Now, this bad and greasy hair is hanging low over this face. This ****** used up body droops and slouches toward its age... And the rain is like no bitter ex's invectives ever taste. What's the final tally, mate?
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An announcement, dear spoons, it has come to my attention, That knives are in fact the superior invention, They cut and they dice, and they bring us sliced bread, While for spoons, I'm afraid there's not much to be said, They're good for the stirring and sipping of soup, They can help you eat anything; well, as long as its goop, They can't even manage to show a proper reflection, Try gazing at one, it upends your direction, Oh spoons, you buffoons, you round-bellied fools, Try slicing, not scooping, you inelegant tools, Knives dress to **** while you spoons are such slouches, And knives are quite charming; you lot are all grouches, It's clear that knives are the superior race, They'll put you dumb spoons back into your place, At the bottom of the drawer, way down with the forks, Alongside the can opener, and a screwer of corks, You're the **** of the table, I despise your skullduggery, That's why I declare knives the finest of cutlery.
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Jun 18, 2017
Jun 18, 2017 at 12:41 AM UTC
Spoons
-Year fifteen. *Normal girl, tall and slender. Bright eyes and developing body. But her hands, oh... Her hands were sculpted by something else. Beautiful bones, Long, pink nails and the skin on her palm smoother than silk. The veins show a dull peppermint on her snowy skin. Her thin wrist and delicate movements. She cracks her knuckles so her sharp joints will show more.* -Year twenty three. *The life she lived previous was pressured by the pollution in the air. **** Drugs, and alcohol. She slouches and shivers on a warm summer day, Huddled in a corner of her house. Her hands show no more snow. The veins seem shriveled. Her joints were swollen and unmovable. Her palms are coarse from rubbing them together and her nails... Oh, her nails were ****** and torn off. She clawed too much at her neck As she was held down and suffocated.* -Year twenty four. *"I am sorry." The note read. It was a deformed hand. Bite marks on her fingertips, shriveled skin with blotches and sores. The veins drawn over in pink scars from jagged blades and old attempts. It was a miracle she could write at all. She now lays in an open casket. Eyes stare at her contrasted beauty. Her childhood friend had always loved her hands. He reconstructed them. A shriveled old body, only twenty four years old, but seemingly ancient. But her hands, oh... Her hands were sculpted by someone who truly loved her. Beautiful bones, Long and pink plastic nails. The skin on her palm made of silk. The veins are drawn with a dull peppermint pastel on her falsely snowy skin. He cracked her fingers so her prosthetic joints will move less.*
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 3:52 PM UTC
Little girl... Where did your life go?
-Year fifteen. *Normal girl, tall and slender. Bright eyes and developing body. But her hands, oh... Her hands were sculpted by something else. Beautiful bones, Long, pink nails and the skin on her palm smoother than silk. The veins show a dull peppermint on her snowy skin. Her thin wrist and delicate movements. She cracks her knuckles so her sharp joints will show more.* -Year twenty three. *The life she lived previous was pressured by the pollution in the air. **** Drugs, and alcohol. She slouches and shivers on a warm summer day, Huddled in a corner of her house. Her hands show no more snow. The veins seem shriveled. Her joints were swollen and unmovable. Her palms are coarse from rubbing them together and her nails... Oh, her nails were ****** and torn off. She clawed too much at her neck As she was held down and suffocated.* -Year twenty four. *"I am sorry." The note read. It was a deformed hand. Bite marks on her fingertips, shriveled skin with blotches and sores. The veins drawn over in pink scars from jagged blades and old attempts. It was a miracle she could write at all. She now lays in an open casket. Eyes stare at her contrasted beauty. Her childhood friend had always loved her hands. He reconstructed them. A shriveled old body, only twenty four years old, but seemingly ancient. But her hands, oh... Her hands were sculpted by someone who truly loved her. Beautiful bones, Long and pink plastic nails. The skin on her palm made of silk. The veins are drawn with a dull peppermint pastel on her falsely snowy skin. He cracked her fingers so her prosthetic joints will move less.*
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