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"snout" poems
∴ A signifying monkey grunted (keyboard-clever, morals stunted) from his perch in a digital tree. And next, did text (quite rapidly): “Courtship rituals won’t suffice. Face-to-face can’t break the ice. Instagram me! Tweet me up . . . friend me, like me, buttercup. Sentences are so outmoded— take too long to get decoded; primate sexting hits me faster, steers me towards your hot disaster. Female monkeys: send an image. (Ain’t got time for useless verbiage…) if your snout just might unseat me tweet me, greet me—don’t delete me.” Then, unpeeling fresh banana, searched his screen for Vox Humana. . .
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Sep 11, 2015
Sep 11, 2015 at 10:07 PM UTC
Planet of the Smartphones
I see you, monster... In your sockets bore dead, dark eyes They hold the blackest of stares Nebulous swirling pits of demise Thin lips would spout the most sibilant of hisses Every so often would curl into a snarl Dry and chapped, almost unworthy of kisses Large, rough snout, jutting out like a crag You sniff around tirelessly for easy targets Preying on the unsuspecting minds of those under your flag Tapering chin, sprouting strands of coarse hair Unkempt and gritty from your last meal Decaying teeth, crooked due to little to no care Your face is cratered; tales of trying adolescent years Wearing a face only a mother could love Expressionless but it screams out your fears Ugly jointed limbs that grew out of sync Disproportionate, misshapen, grotesque Little noggin with sparse hair, packed within, a brain that thinks I hear you, monster... As you stalk your sleepless nights Nocturnal ambience be your playground Lurking in the dark; places with no light Bulky, heavy feet but deft and silent Can barely notice when you're up and about As if cloaked yourself stealthy, with steps ever transient Respire you do, exhaling breaths so gnarly Ingesting good air, converting into fervid, loathsome notions With which you paint a portrait so ghastly I feel you monster... Deep within the recesses of my heart Destroying and distorting all that was pure Testing my will till I should fall apart You're but the twisted manifestation of conscience Feeding on my trials and nurturing them into vile abominations I despise that of you but I seem to have developed dependence I see you, monster... You're horrid and beastly, an embodiment of absolute horror I await the day that you would finally dissolve For I am weary of seeing you staring back in the mirror
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Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 9:23 PM UTC
Monster
I see you, monster... In your sockets bore dead, dark eyes They hold the blackest of stares Nebulous swirling pits of demise Thin lips would spout the most sibilant of hisses Every so often would curl into a snarl Dry and chapped, almost unworthy of kisses Large, rough snout, jutting out like a crag You sniff around tirelessly for easy targets Preying on the unsuspecting minds of those under your flag Tapering chin, sprouting strands of coarse hair Unkempt and gritty from your last meal Decaying teeth, crooked due to little to no care Your face is cratered; tales of trying adolescent years Wearing a face only a mother could love Expressionless but it screams out your fears Ugly jointed limbs that grew out of sync Disproportionate, misshapen, grotesque Little noggin with sparse hair, packed within, a brain that thinks I hear you, monster... As you stalk your sleepless nights Nocturnal ambience be your playground Lurking in the dark; places with no light Bulky, heavy feet but deft and silent Can barely notice when you're up and about As if cloaked yourself stealthy, with steps ever transient Respire you do, exhaling breaths so gnarly Ingesting good air, converting into fervid, loathsome notions With which you paint a portrait so ghastly I feel you monster... Deep within the recesses of my heart Destroying and distorting all that was pure Testing my will till I should fall apart You're but the twisted manifestation of conscience Feeding on my trials and nurturing them into vile abominations I despise that of you but I seem to have developed dependence I see you, monster... You're horrid and beastly, an embodiment of absolute horror I await the day that you would finally dissolve For I am weary of seeing you staring back in the mirror
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Let me trade in my smile for fangs And my feminine fingers for paws. Let me trade in my manicured nails for claws And my curly locks for silver fur. Let me trade my heart shaped mouth for a long snout And the freckles on my nose for whiskers. Let me trade my curves for a round, bushy tail And my clumsiness for strength and agility. Let me trade my tears for whimpers and barks And my voice for howls in the night. Let me trade my dinner reservations for hunting down a moose And my poor senses for keen ears and a nose. Let me trade my soul for a different one And become a friend to the moon. Let me live my life as a wolf And all that it encompasses. Let me symbolize the dawn and the dusk And let me symbolize the converging of light and darkness. Because that is wolf, And that is what I see, when I look in the mirror.
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 10:42 PM UTC
Wolf
Inventor Sam invented a life Full of bright and sunny days With clouds in the sky, peacefully passing on by, And beautiful birds singing in all sorts of nice ways. Inventor Sam, with a wave of his little right hand, Invented mountains that reached up towards the stars And with a wave and a flick, in an instant, quite quick, He made rivers and valleys stretched out afar. Inventor Sam, what a grand little man, Invented some animals too He called them Zebras, Giraffes, and Orangutans Even people like me and like you Inventor Sam then sat back to enjoy all that he made But he noticed that something was missing Not apples, nor reindeer, nor trees and their cool shade Not eagles, nor bananas, nor snakes and their hissing Inventor Sam looked closely at the animals that stuck out Those on two legs, with little hair and one tiny snout, They walked aimlessly around with no purpose at all Stiff legged and hollow like fragile china dolls Inventor Sam then sat up with a smile on his face For he knew what would be his very last application With a wave of both arms, and lightning for effect He made people Inventors with their very own imagination. -BPW  12/27/2013
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 4:08 PM UTC
Inventor Sam
An odor has remained among the sugarcane: a mixture of blood and body, a penetrating petal that brings nausea. Between the coconut palms the graves are full of ruined bones, of speechless death-rattles. The delicate dictator is talking with top hats, gold braid, and collars. The tiny palace gleams like a watch and the rapid laughs with gloves on cross the corridors at times and join the dead voices and the blue mouths freshly buried. The weeping cannot be seen, like a plant whose seeds fall endlessly on the earth, whose large blind leaves grow even without light. Hatred has grown scale on scale, blow on blow, in the ghastly water of the swamp, with a snout full of ooze and silence
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The Dictators
Her shoes untouched unmoved lay carelessly in the middle of her room the strings still tied forever waiting to be undone and redone tightly around dainty feet. a wet shiny black nose rest atop the left shoe. peering through the wide door crack he raises his golden head paint splattered with gray making eye contact with a sorrowful wine, questioning. a moment. the somber shake of the head a whimper as he settles his snout back on the left shoe waiting…
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Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 12:15 AM UTC
Her Shoes
THERE is a wolf in me ... fangs pointed for tearing gashes ... a red tongue for raw meat ... and the hot lapping of blood-I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go. There is a fox in me ... a silver-gray fox ... I sniff and guess ... I pick things out of the wind and air ... I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers ... I circle and loop and double-cross. There is a hog in me ... a snout and a belly ... a machinery for eating and grunting ... a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun-I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go. There is a fish in me ... I know I came from saltblue water-gates ... I scurried with shoals of herring ... I blew waterspouts with porpoises ... before land was ... before the water went down ... before Noah ... before the first chapter of Genesis. There is a baboon in me ... clambering-clawed ... dog-faced ... yawping a galoot's hunger ... hairy under the armpits ... here are the hawk-eyed hankering men ... here are the blond and blue-eyed women ... here they hide curled asleep waiting ... ready to snarl and **** ... ready to sing and give milk ... waiting-I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so. There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird ... and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want ... and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes-And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness. O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart-and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where-For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and **** and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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Wilderness
THERE is a wolf in me ... fangs pointed for tearing gashes ... a red tongue for raw meat ... and the hot lapping of blood-I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go. There is a fox in me ... a silver-gray fox ... I sniff and guess ... I pick things out of the wind and air ... I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers ... I circle and loop and double-cross. There is a hog in me ... a snout and a belly ... a machinery for eating and grunting ... a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun-I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go. There is a fish in me ... I know I came from saltblue water-gates ... I scurried with shoals of herring ... I blew waterspouts with porpoises ... before land was ... before the water went down ... before Noah ... before the first chapter of Genesis. There is a baboon in me ... clambering-clawed ... dog-faced ... yawping a galoot's hunger ... hairy under the armpits ... here are the hawk-eyed hankering men ... here are the blond and blue-eyed women ... here they hide curled asleep waiting ... ready to snarl and **** ... ready to sing and give milk ... waiting-I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so. There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird ... and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want ... and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes-And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness. O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart-and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where-For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and **** and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
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God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In the same way He kept the sow--impounded from public stare, Prize ribbon and pig show. But one dusk our questions commended us to a tour Through his lantern-lit Maze of barns to the lintel of the sunk sty door To gape at it: This was no rose-and-larkspurred china suckling With a penny slot For thrift children, nor dolt pig ripe for heckling, About to be Glorified for prime flesh and golden crackling In a parsley halo; Nor even one of the common barnyard sows, Mire-smirched, blowzy, Maunching thistle and knotweed on her snout- cruise-- Bloat tun of milk On the move, hedged by a litter of feat-foot ninnies Shrilling her hulk To halt for a swig at the pink teats. No. This vast Brobdingnag bulk Of a sow lounged belly-bedded on that black compost, Fat-rutted eyes Dream-filmed. What a vision of ancient hoghood must Thus wholly engross The great grandam!--our marvel blazoned a knight, Helmed, in cuirass, Unhorsed and shredded in the grove of combat By a grisly-bristled Boar, fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat. But our farmer whistled, Then, with a jocular fist thwacked the barrel nape, And the green-copse-castled Pig hove, letting legend like dried mud drop, Slowly, grunt On grunt, up in the flickering light to shape A monument Prodigious in gluttonies as that hog whose want Made lean Lent Of kitchen slops and, stomaching no constraint, Proceeded to swill The seven troughed seas and every earthquaking continent.
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Sow
God knows how our neighbor managed to breed His great sow: Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid In the same way He kept the sow--impounded from public stare, Prize ribbon and pig show. But one dusk our questions commended us to a tour Through his lantern-lit Maze of barns to the lintel of the sunk sty door To gape at it: This was no rose-and-larkspurred china suckling With a penny slot For thrift children, nor dolt pig ripe for heckling, About to be Glorified for prime flesh and golden crackling In a parsley halo; Nor even one of the common barnyard sows, Mire-smirched, blowzy, Maunching thistle and knotweed on her snout- cruise-- Bloat tun of milk On the move, hedged by a litter of feat-foot ninnies Shrilling her hulk To halt for a swig at the pink teats. No. This vast Brobdingnag bulk Of a sow lounged belly-bedded on that black compost, Fat-rutted eyes Dream-filmed. What a vision of ancient hoghood must Thus wholly engross The great grandam!--our marvel blazoned a knight, Helmed, in cuirass, Unhorsed and shredded in the grove of combat By a grisly-bristled Boar, fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat. But our farmer whistled, Then, with a jocular fist thwacked the barrel nape, And the green-copse-castled Pig hove, letting legend like dried mud drop, Slowly, grunt On grunt, up in the flickering light to shape A monument Prodigious in gluttonies as that hog whose want Made lean Lent Of kitchen slops and, stomaching no constraint, Proceeded to swill The seven troughed seas and every earthquaking continent.
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Samson-bound between book shelves, in the New Aeon Section, a pale youth nourishes his ego on bombastic conjunctive adverbs. (An imagined sea lion balances a striped ball on the tip of his snout & slaps his fins in frenzied approval. Arf. Arf.) Though absent, the ring master smiles from the realms of irony. He holds the bearded lady by the burl & orders a reception for the new act.
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Oct 9, 2013
Oct 9, 2013 at 11:14 PM UTC
"Thusly"
So winter closed its fist And got it stuck in the pump. The plunger froze up a lump In its throat, ice founding itself Upon iron. The handle Paralysed at an angle. Then the twisting of wheat straw into ropes, lapping them tight Round stem and snout, then a light That sent the pump up in a flame It cooled, we lifted her latch, Her entrance was wet, and she came.
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Rite of Spring
don't understand me. this is not for you. It's for you. my Gemini shin splints are pirates. hopeless Romans, romantically dismantling the things you Undo. the things you You. I Doctor in your Seuss canal. with a frontal lobe, more Job than a postage stamp - in this Day and Age. It's grey and rage - with the tooth torn out ! Out through the probable snout of the next mummified god-king of our interlocking rot... our chamber pots spotting the oft begot good of our evil Mummenschanz we are crepes' rue; yet we roulette best in Typhoons from murk placid. with 2.8 kids and damp matches. we are struck in a gale of flaccid dumb as a Belle of the Ball that Squares a Rube with an Ism.... from Ix. sometimes.
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May 2, 2013
May 2, 2013 at 8:38 PM UTC
STRAIGHTEN UP AND PYRITE
What does the donkey bray about? What does the pig grunt through his snout? What does the goose mean by a hiss? Oh, Nurse, if you can tell me this, I'll give you such a kiss. The cockatoo calls "cockatoo," The magpie chatters "how d'ye do?" The jackdaw bids me "go away," Cuckoo cries "cuckoo" half the day: What do the others say?
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What Does The Donkey?
I was six when I first saw kittens drown. Dan Taggart pitched them, 'the scraggy wee shits', Into a bucket; a frail metal sound, Soft paws scraping like mad. But their tiny din Was soon ****** They were slung on the snout Of the pump and the water pumped in. 'Sure, isn't it better for them now?' Dan said. Like wet gloves they bobbed and shone till he sluiced Them out on the dunghill, glossy and dead. Suddenly frightened, for days I sadly hung Round the yard, watching the three sogged remains Turn mealy and crisp as old summer dung Until I forgot them. But the fear came back When Dan trapped big rats, snared rabbits, shot crows Or, with a sickening tug, pulled old hens' necks. Still, living displaces false sentiments And now, when shrill pups are prodded to drown I just shrug, 'Bloody pups'. It makes sense: 'Prevention of cruelty' talk cuts ice in town Where they consider death unnatural But on well-run farms pests have to be kept down.
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The Early Purges
raise the glass high high high and press hard high, a blue and cherry ring round rosy thigh, snapped red sting of infected eye and tooth strung on string. broken wing crunches, candid cries let tears fly in desperate persecution. red sticky red and beautiful flesh-fly's food becomes a diamond wing, flying in swirling skies of glitter. The world looks better through a kaleidoscope. claw the eyes out out out and spit stress out, a crooked view on nose and cheeks and pout deep blue rows on distended snout as swollen skin grows. drunken woes crunch and broken knuckles shout in hasty intemperance. blue puffy blue and beautiful deep stout bruises becomes a diamond glow spinning in burst vein's woes of glitter. The world looks better through a kaleidoscope. dump the body down down down and pat dirt down, a stealthy sin of spite and muddy frown, **** green sight of a ***** crown hidden in the night. swirls of light break thoughts up to run around in crude decomposition. green sickly green and beautiful dirt-drowned flesh becomes diamond sprites, dancing in wormy gowns of glitter. The world looks better through a kaleidoscope.
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May 9, 2011
May 9, 2011 at 12:42 PM UTC
Kaleidoscope
Drawing things I cannot see, Listening, Keenly, Too the strange things, Coming from, the albino dressed pavement smoothed, Bedroom walls, Braille textures, slipping like termites, or a strange smell, dancing from the dusty old lady haired vent, on the ceiling, Braille raindrops, escaping from your, soul window sill, fog, gets in the room, and we light cigarettes, purple scented totem poled candles, with out near future, melting, and dripping on the wooden counter-top, which we dip our fingers into, sticky like petroleum, sticky like the sap from a forest broken snapped, tree limb, which we tasted, which we ran danced hollered and orgasmed, like the melting candle, like the sapped, broken kansas public tree limb, and i, took off your, orange dress that you stole, though only a few dollars, i called bonnie, you called me paradise, though we danced gleefully, in the slums snout snarling broken home windows, pot-holes,untied shoes,untied fathers,lovers planning paradise, inside the blue 80's oldsmobile, with the stereo turned low, low like the quiet hummingbird song, of making love, in the cold night, under trees, that was old, and had probably seen many lovers, come and go, as its Fall leaves grew wings, as its, winters balding scalp, scattered away, like a field of dandelions, or the birds, that flew from nests, only to fly south, or like wise boxcar boxcar dharma bums, sat on telephone wires, at the intersection, where two lovers planned paradise, in the back-seat, of a blue Oldsmobile, and the night, holy night, and i, **** mind wonderer without wings, or sad singer leather boots harmonica whiskey drinker, and Her, white as stars, dancing in a blind choreographed orchestra, in the sky, far, far, far, even the highway, has no exits, to see this performance, So i sit on a rock, smoking a cigarette, with a Fools smile, as I, watch beauty, from the Key-hole, that is, Solitude.
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Feb 5, 2013
Feb 5, 2013 at 8:09 PM UTC
On the typewriter
Drawing things I cannot see, Listening, Keenly, Too the strange things, Coming from, the albino dressed pavement smoothed, Bedroom walls, Braille textures, slipping like termites, or a strange smell, dancing from the dusty old lady haired vent, on the ceiling, Braille raindrops, escaping from your, soul window sill, fog, gets in the room, and we light cigarettes, purple scented totem poled candles, with out near future, melting, and dripping on the wooden counter-top, which we dip our fingers into, sticky like petroleum, sticky like the sap from a forest broken snapped, tree limb, which we tasted, which we ran danced hollered and orgasmed, like the melting candle, like the sapped, broken kansas public tree limb, and i, took off your, orange dress that you stole, though only a few dollars, i called bonnie, you called me paradise, though we danced gleefully, in the slums snout snarling broken home windows, pot-holes,untied shoes,untied fathers,lovers planning paradise, inside the blue 80's oldsmobile, with the stereo turned low, low like the quiet hummingbird song, of making love, in the cold night, under trees, that was old, and had probably seen many lovers, come and go, as its Fall leaves grew wings, as its, winters balding scalp, scattered away, like a field of dandelions, or the birds, that flew from nests, only to fly south, or like wise boxcar boxcar dharma bums, sat on telephone wires, at the intersection, where two lovers planned paradise, in the back-seat, of a blue Oldsmobile, and the night, holy night, and i, **** mind wonderer without wings, or sad singer leather boots harmonica whiskey drinker, and Her, white as stars, dancing in a blind choreographed orchestra, in the sky, far, far, far, even the highway, has no exits, to see this performance, So i sit on a rock, smoking a cigarette, with a Fools smile, as I, watch beauty, from the Key-hole, that is, Solitude.
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Squeaking sneakers squealing as the smoker squelched across the slippery shiny surface. Sweat slipping off the smokers snout as the law chased. Oliver the overweight officer was overly panting but gained no advantage. Had he finally met his match? Safe and sound in a storage facility the smoker stayed silent. Oliver smashed the smoker across the kisser. He'd smelt out his prey by the stench resonating from the smokers smelly socks.
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Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015 at 2:01 PM UTC
Old school chase
The lights all up around me They dance and flicker Swirling up and down each tree As the music gets quicker What a colorful holiday Something new around each bend We climb into Santa’s sleigh And begin to ascend The clouds fall below us As we are launched into the sky The turns we took were brusque But the heavens never felt so nigh… ... ... I cover you with a quilt For the sleigh keeps climbing higher Towards your hometown we tilt I wonder, what will transpire? There’s something big in the back Is it full of coal? Perhaps there’s something else in that sack A doll, a plane, a little toy troll? Perhaps we will find out Your hometown draws near Rudolf raises his red snout Followed by the rest of the reindeer… ... ... They shift their gaze Towards a landing strip People down there in a craze We must look like a spaceship They angle their flight Right down the middle It is quite the sight And the thrill makes us giggle What’s going on down below? I ask Santa sitting up front “I don’t really know” He says as a reindeer grunts “They must be waiting for you Down there, to see what took place For you came back with her, That’s not exactly commonplace” I look back at you, and you meet my gaze Together we’ll get through Of that I have no doubt The sleigh is landing now There is no backing out… ... ... Santa pulls up on the reins On the landing strip the sleigh glides Only stepping out remains As we do, the crowd divides There in the middle Surrounded by curious people Stands a man with thumbs he twiddles He looks more nervous than you or I I grab your hand and look back again This is it, we feel suddenly shy Now’s not the time, so confidence we feign We look forward and meet his eye He looks at us and gives a sigh “Dad?” you say You look back at me, with display Introductions are made Feelings are conveyed We no longer stand in a masquerade Everything is out The closet has swung open We have nothing left to hide You squeeze my hand I coincide As we look to your dad and wait … … He looks at you with love Then he looks at me squarely Before he can say a word Santa breaks in and shouts “let’s all be merry!” The crowd breaks into laughter As Santa sates the air with a magic And joy fills everyone’s thoughts Your father looks at us again This time, with a smile, he simply nods
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May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016 at 10:53 AM UTC
Christmas Adventure
The lights all up around me They dance and flicker Swirling up and down each tree As the music gets quicker What a colorful holiday Something new around each bend We climb into Santa’s sleigh And begin to ascend The clouds fall below us As we are launched into the sky The turns we took were brusque But the heavens never felt so nigh… ... ... I cover you with a quilt For the sleigh keeps climbing higher Towards your hometown we tilt I wonder, what will transpire? There’s something big in the back Is it full of coal? Perhaps there’s something else in that sack A doll, a plane, a little toy troll? Perhaps we will find out Your hometown draws near Rudolf raises his red snout Followed by the rest of the reindeer… ... ... They shift their gaze Towards a landing strip People down there in a craze We must look like a spaceship They angle their flight Right down the middle It is quite the sight And the thrill makes us giggle What’s going on down below? I ask Santa sitting up front “I don’t really know” He says as a reindeer grunts “They must be waiting for you Down there, to see what took place For you came back with her, That’s not exactly commonplace” I look back at you, and you meet my gaze Together we’ll get through Of that I have no doubt The sleigh is landing now There is no backing out… ... ... Santa pulls up on the reins On the landing strip the sleigh glides Only stepping out remains As we do, the crowd divides There in the middle Surrounded by curious people Stands a man with thumbs he twiddles He looks more nervous than you or I I grab your hand and look back again This is it, we feel suddenly shy Now’s not the time, so confidence we feign We look forward and meet his eye He looks at us and gives a sigh “Dad?” you say You look back at me, with display Introductions are made Feelings are conveyed We no longer stand in a masquerade Everything is out The closet has swung open We have nothing left to hide You squeeze my hand I coincide As we look to your dad and wait … … He looks at you with love Then he looks at me squarely Before he can say a word Santa breaks in and shouts “let’s all be merry!” The crowd breaks into laughter As Santa sates the air with a magic And joy fills everyone’s thoughts Your father looks at us again This time, with a smile, he simply nods
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you can wear your cap twisted sideways sag your pants down to your knees ride a pachyderm or a mule that brays be whatever kind of fool you please sing love songs in the rose garden or complain how the dollar done fell knowing qadafi, hussein, and bin laden have all been dispatched to hell you can rant and rave about raw deals you can raise your snout and sashay about or he-haw and buck, kick up your heels or vote for more hope or to kick da *** out you can lean to the left or to the right weighing the pros and cons and hype but you can't stay out of this fight and claim you're just not the type to freely elect their governments and laws evers, walesa, mandela, and susan b lived and died for just such a cause to see the people's voices set free but if you just call it mumbo jumbo and aloofly let this moment pass we all may be led by Dumbo or maybe that other ******* what percentage do you claim? forty-seven, one, or ninety-nine? tea party? occupier? some other name? are you just spouting a party line? all our blood runs red 'bove us all the sky is blue and no matter what is said there's one thing we all should do hadn't you better cast a vote? against the ones who vote aginst you? i think you'd really better vote ... it's the least but the best thing you can do. doug curry 10/24/2012
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Nov 1, 2012
Nov 1, 2012 at 12:43 PM UTC
you'd better vote
After the burial-parties leave And the baffled kites have fled; The wise hyaenas come out at eve To take account of our dead. How he died and why he died Troubles them not a whit. They snout the bushes and stones aside And dig till they come to it. They are only resolute they shall eat That they and their mates may thrive, And they know that the dead are safer meat Than the weakest thing alive. (For a goat may **** and a worm may sting, And a child will sometimes stand; But a poor dead soldier of the King Can never lift a hand.) They whoop and halloo and scatter the dirt Until their tushes white Take good hold of the army shirt, And tug the corpse to light, And the pitiful face is shewn again For an instant ere they close; But it is not discovered to living men— Only to God and to those Who, being soulless, are free from shame, Whatever meat they may find. Nor do they defile the dead man’s name— That is reserved for his kind.
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The Hyaenas
(For Marg and Laurice, snake charmers extraordinaire) Like the Burmese priestess kissing the cobra I must never take my eyes off that steely, staring, coal-black serpent eye lest the fangs swaying in that unborn smile strike in the split-second that contains my salvation or my undoing. Lips always poised between heaven and hell, I advance on the servant of knowledge hooded with an assumed mastery, that hood branded with Nature's tattoo: Omega, the end and that flickering tongue that reads my body temperature could cut it cold. Cold as the smooth-bumpy reptilian snout upon which I lightly lay the final kiss.
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Feb 20, 2015
Feb 20, 2015 at 3:46 AM UTC
KISSING THE COBRA
The heat of the tequila sunrise On the seashore of Cape Creus Melts flaccid pocket watches, Soft as overripe cheese; The dreamscape's permanence dissolves Before distant amber cliffs; On sweet, rotting flesh termites sup; A time fly lands. The monstrous fleshy mutation Across the seascape draped - Deformed, distorted, Disfigured with decay; Centipede shades lash alien flesh And sluggish tongue oozes From the snout of the surreal Self-spectre of Salvador's craft; Persistence of Memory.
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Jun 24, 2010
Jun 24, 2010 at 8:32 AM UTC
Camembert Time
The Master Corporal said to me "I'm gonna do a show" "Don't worry what I say to you" "I just thought you should know" Injured, badly two weeks gone I was set to be held back My knee was torn apart and that, was not something I could hack The day I was demoted My Master Corporal came to me He said "Turner, I hate to do this" "But, it's for the best...you'll see" I waited for inspection With the others all on line They were standing at attention Me on crutches the whole time "Turner, is there anything" "That I should hate to find" "Is there stuff inside your locker" "of a non-military kind" I stood there at attention Waiting for the end to come As he looked all through my kitting Found dust upon my gun He opened up the locker And a moth came flying out It flew past the Master Corporal And then it danced upon his snout The yell...was heard in England "A pet...you've got a pet" "Who said that you could have one?" "It's not allowed...A PET" The moth found the first window flew back towards him once again Left some moth dust on his beret And he flew away right then The Master Corporal's outrage At being "mothed" by my new pet Was one I don't think many In our platoon would soon forget He started throwing clothing Chucking boots around the room I knew it was all acting But, those boots can really zoom When finished he stood waiting For a response, I stood and stared I could not break out a smile I had to show I didn't care He moved on through the others Looking for more moths on the way But, that first one and it's face dance Well, it surely made my day He drove me to my barracks Up to my new platoon "I hope you liked my show today" " I know I'll see you soon" "Just do what you are ordered" "And one thing don't forget" "When you next have an inspection" "Don't have an insect for a pet!!" I remember fondly that last visit He knew it hurt for me to leave But, every word in here is truthful You can choose to not or to believe.
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Aug 4, 2013
Aug 4, 2013 at 9:22 PM UTC
The Master Corporal and The Moth
The Master Corporal said to me "I'm gonna do a show" "Don't worry what I say to you" "I just thought you should know" Injured, badly two weeks gone I was set to be held back My knee was torn apart and that, was not something I could hack The day I was demoted My Master Corporal came to me He said "Turner, I hate to do this" "But, it's for the best...you'll see" I waited for inspection With the others all on line They were standing at attention Me on crutches the whole time "Turner, is there anything" "That I should hate to find" "Is there stuff inside your locker" "of a non-military kind" I stood there at attention Waiting for the end to come As he looked all through my kitting Found dust upon my gun He opened up the locker And a moth came flying out It flew past the Master Corporal And then it danced upon his snout The yell...was heard in England "A pet...you've got a pet" "Who said that you could have one?" "It's not allowed...A PET" The moth found the first window flew back towards him once again Left some moth dust on his beret And he flew away right then The Master Corporal's outrage At being "mothed" by my new pet Was one I don't think many In our platoon would soon forget He started throwing clothing Chucking boots around the room I knew it was all acting But, those boots can really zoom When finished he stood waiting For a response, I stood and stared I could not break out a smile I had to show I didn't care He moved on through the others Looking for more moths on the way But, that first one and it's face dance Well, it surely made my day He drove me to my barracks Up to my new platoon "I hope you liked my show today" " I know I'll see you soon" "Just do what you are ordered" "And one thing don't forget" "When you next have an inspection" "Don't have an insect for a pet!!" I remember fondly that last visit He knew it hurt for me to leave But, every word in here is truthful You can choose to not or to believe.
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The pig is taught by sermons and epistles To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.Judibras.
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Piety
Let me tell you a story From a time gone by The tale of a greedy butcher And a pig that could fly In the little village of Piddle Brook There lived a butcher named Mr.Ham He was bearded, bulky, and a belcher And was rumored to eat his own toe jam A lover of all meat Pork,beef,duck,chicken, and mutton All this gorger did was eat He was a professional glutton But Mr.Ham’s appetite was not satisfied He longed for some thick greasy bacon Just a few strips, nicely fried Served with pickled daikon He peeked through his window And with one beady eye Spotted his neighbors hog And pictured a flaky pork pie His mouth watered "What a delicious midnight snack!" "I will barbecue,braise and fry her" "But first I will launch my attack" "Oh but I shan’t become a thief!" "T’was only a whim!" But Mr.Ham’s thin scruples vanished His growling belly got the better of him He grabbed a pitchfork And the hefty hooligan set out He advanced on the sleeping hog And grabbed her by the snout Her piggy eyes shot open And in a flash She darted past the butcher And ran past the fence in a dash Mr.Ham bellowed in rage And waddled after the beast But the pig was too quick Yet Mr.Ham never ceased And so the chase continued A wild game of cat and mouse They ran through the streets Row upon row,house after house Finally the swine was cornered The escaped pig let out a squeal And great feathery wings sprouted from her back Said the pig “Thou shalt not steal” And with one final snort Two leaps and a hop The winged sow flew away And Mr. Ham collapsed with a plop "I suppose it was a sign from above" Mr.Ham sighed with defeat From then on the rotund carnivore Gave up on eating meat
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 8:18 PM UTC
Ham versus Hog
Let me tell you a story From a time gone by The tale of a greedy butcher And a pig that could fly In the little village of Piddle Brook There lived a butcher named Mr.Ham He was bearded, bulky, and a belcher And was rumored to eat his own toe jam A lover of all meat Pork,beef,duck,chicken, and mutton All this gorger did was eat He was a professional glutton But Mr.Ham’s appetite was not satisfied He longed for some thick greasy bacon Just a few strips, nicely fried Served with pickled daikon He peeked through his window And with one beady eye Spotted his neighbors hog And pictured a flaky pork pie His mouth watered "What a delicious midnight snack!" "I will barbecue,braise and fry her" "But first I will launch my attack" "Oh but I shan’t become a thief!" "T’was only a whim!" But Mr.Ham’s thin scruples vanished His growling belly got the better of him He grabbed a pitchfork And the hefty hooligan set out He advanced on the sleeping hog And grabbed her by the snout Her piggy eyes shot open And in a flash She darted past the butcher And ran past the fence in a dash Mr.Ham bellowed in rage And waddled after the beast But the pig was too quick Yet Mr.Ham never ceased And so the chase continued A wild game of cat and mouse They ran through the streets Row upon row,house after house Finally the swine was cornered The escaped pig let out a squeal And great feathery wings sprouted from her back Said the pig “Thou shalt not steal” And with one final snort Two leaps and a hop The winged sow flew away And Mr. Ham collapsed with a plop "I suppose it was a sign from above" Mr.Ham sighed with defeat From then on the rotund carnivore Gave up on eating meat
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I was out wit me doopas. I was wailin' on a massive blunt. Feet up, eased up, havin' a blem time. All of a sudd'n, de fuzz comes out front. There's nowhere to hide. Gotta rid the scene of me stuff. Look back and de fuzz ain't der. Decide to take one last puff. De sirens start shriekin' Dey're almost here, no where to go. Do I stick me sliff in de ground? I stuff it up me nose. Sense of smell is lost from de heat. Feels like a fresh poptart was squeezed in me snout. De burning tingles, very bad, very bad. About to cry when de cops see me, no time to shout. He walks a little closer, I cringe. An island bwai wouldn't last in prison For de love of Zion, don't get caught. Finally we're face-to-face, I start pissin' De man looks down at de pool of **** He asks, "that's the hiding spot you chose?" He rips da spliff rite outta me snout. Dat's why you never stuff it up ya nose.
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Dec 3, 2014
Dec 3, 2014 at 11:21 PM UTC
Stuff It Up