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546 To fill a Gap Insert the Thing that caused it— Block it up With Other—and ’twill yawn the more— You cannot solder an Abyss With Air.
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To fill a Gap
An artist, I’m scared to be left to my thinking atoms and nuclear cells Why solder my raining thoughts to reality In my head I can’t trust these clockworks Rusted gears precariously tricking forward Tensions unbalance on a pinched nerve ending Hesitate I retract to others knowing what I don’t know That once I start I might fail I don’t do what I want to I don’t speak when I want to When I so desperately need to Before I explode Violently, into a void Void of emotionless urges An artist like me if I so believe I am Doubtfully attempts to act in the face of thunder Only to cowardly hide in a cat’s whisker Inner bricking delays outer progress Progress I provocatively flaunt to the alive bodies While knowing the fallacious congrats is unwarranted I don’t believe in magical rainbow kitten surprise wishes But I won’t also hide my love With the internal flame dimming I want to act the part by flipping over the stones For the mysteries hidden away To see them crawling out My untapped desires
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 6:34 PM UTC
Self: An Artist
are you generally happy? a semi-innocuous query now actualized as a two sided bladed poker, hot stabbing me smack dab in the chests hollow crown bullseye, continuously,  as in all life long, and eternal longing for a “yes” it fits inside a pubescent aged wound that refreshes with every breath; a life long struggle for an accurate definition, be a general of genuine happy, that alone would deliver, bringing on bright day satisfaction as a human, one operates on parallel continuums; slide slipping on well oiled poles that over the years, their lengths, increasing with add-on extender poles formed by twisty turny slips and falls of sundered hearts and sad loves, marriages nicknamed Titanic, children found and lost, complications responsibilities that are denied meeting the words     “The End” a life that many would envy, questioning what’s wrong with you dude, are you blinded to the riches yours, reality is shoulders permanently bent, a spine that’s held together by spit and solder and curved by wearying wearing longing for a straightness that is also called crooked unobtainable and a piece of a peace that comes and goes like a highway billboard that you pass too fast to be fully read the body is corroding and worser yet to come and that’s a hand you selected - luck of the self-selecting-drawing - the opioids of the mind offers are rejected the clarity of painful self exploration valued overall - the place where the poems come from, and go to die, a landscape of a scene repeatedly visualized but never been and never left, the crazy contradictions come in two flavors; vanilla smiles and chocolate weeping of tears that have etched pathways cheek-chiseled the city is a struggling strife for most, the next red line on the side of the measuring cup  and everyone has a cell, a credit card, and a measuring cup <•> here I stop can’t finish   someone missing alerts me to their real worlds troubles making my complaints super superficial but the silent running of the stilleto cuts shallow repeated hourly the cut color, pitch black
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May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018 at 2:05 PM UTC
are you generally happy?
are you generally happy? a semi-innocuous query now actualized as a two sided bladed poker, hot stabbing me smack dab in the chests hollow crown bullseye, continuously,  as in all life long, and eternal longing for a “yes” it fits inside a pubescent aged wound that refreshes with every breath; a life long struggle for an accurate definition, be a general of genuine happy, that alone would deliver, bringing on bright day satisfaction as a human, one operates on parallel continuums; slide slipping on well oiled poles that over the years, their lengths, increasing with add-on extender poles formed by twisty turny slips and falls of sundered hearts and sad loves, marriages nicknamed Titanic, children found and lost, complications responsibilities that are denied meeting the words     “The End” a life that many would envy, questioning what’s wrong with you dude, are you blinded to the riches yours, reality is shoulders permanently bent, a spine that’s held together by spit and solder and curved by wearying wearing longing for a straightness that is also called crooked unobtainable and a piece of a peace that comes and goes like a highway billboard that you pass too fast to be fully read the body is corroding and worser yet to come and that’s a hand you selected - luck of the self-selecting-drawing - the opioids of the mind offers are rejected the clarity of painful self exploration valued overall - the place where the poems come from, and go to die, a landscape of a scene repeatedly visualized but never been and never left, the crazy contradictions come in two flavors; vanilla smiles and chocolate weeping of tears that have etched pathways cheek-chiseled the city is a struggling strife for most, the next red line on the side of the measuring cup  and everyone has a cell, a credit card, and a measuring cup <•> here I stop can’t finish   someone missing alerts me to their real worlds troubles making my complaints super superficial but the silent running of the stilleto cuts shallow repeated hourly the cut color, pitch black
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The sun has barely risen. The birds; already signing. Today is the day I must forget the fact that you've been missing. I am the queen, I do this on my own. Never will a peasant tread near my royal throne. My princess lost her father, but he would never lose his daughter. We share an unbreakable bond, yours was temporary and weak like solder. You melt away, never to be seen, When the temperature rises; we could never be a team. Send me the blacksmith, a real, strong man. One who's not afraid to burn his hands.   Surely he'd know, I can heal his wounds. How would you though? You left so soon. To you, the queen will always be Mother. You have no need for me, a more than significant other. Today is the day I let it all go. You'll never forget, that this is my show.
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Aug 12, 2018
Aug 12, 2018 at 9:15 PM UTC
Peasant
I am not some street cowboy punk i am a quiet sweet rampant drunk i play the spoons with the air of a saint i have a tongue that can swallow paint sour and acrid, the tone of my voice i have never left without a choice punched back sideways even more today than tomorrow for your heart i will bed, steal or borrow Superman don't have ***** on me don't need no wings now i am free saving the restless, curing the weak you can laugh at me when i dance like a freak. I will kiss you when i drink too much wine when i am restless and hungry you will be mine I will do nothing when you are nothing to me i will drive you crazy with all you can be no more talkin no more of that **** i'll hold you apart, break you bit by bit if you're too polite i'll bite my tongue i'll whip you and shake you, then i'm done. carefree to be careless, shareless boy talk tell me to go and i will surely walk don't ask me to be kissed or hold my hand i am not that girl that you left unplanned i am a midnight demon on ferocious terms i grasp you and hold you tight and firm. I am not lost, or fragile or broken bound i am not looking for someone to make a sound i am no paige boy scarlet harlot wild child thing i am not yours, can't you hear your telephone ring? I am a sordid freak of gigantic endeavours i will solder your heart regardless of your tremors i am torturous and painful and weak to the bone i am the mightiest fallen, can you not see my throne? i have a **** me, buck me, tie-me-tight gaze if i look at you slowly, be patient but don't wait i want everything and all and i want it now i am no gleaming bronze statue know-all-know-how i am surely what you ever thought you knew i am surely what you never thought when i met you i am free to please anyone at night i am free to sit and cry by candlelight alright now, oh baby its all right now **** me gently and i'll show you how to be nothing more than anything is something i suppose but i really can't tell for the state of your clothes you dress me up slightly more than your vision i've never met a person with such succint precision and well here i go, superbly astute and blunt never did i see such a spectacular *** **** and well that is really the way that i go i fly here, there, everywhere i flow i am not some pretty naieve little thing i am a mess of entirety with 2 engagement rings i'm living with despondence and its ******* me off holy **** batman i hear you cough come see me, come stay a while come see me, come see me, and i will **** you in style
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Jan 30, 2013
Jan 30, 2013 at 1:41 PM UTC
Holy **** Batman
I am not some street cowboy punk i am a quiet sweet rampant drunk i play the spoons with the air of a saint i have a tongue that can swallow paint sour and acrid, the tone of my voice i have never left without a choice punched back sideways even more today than tomorrow for your heart i will bed, steal or borrow Superman don't have ***** on me don't need no wings now i am free saving the restless, curing the weak you can laugh at me when i dance like a freak. I will kiss you when i drink too much wine when i am restless and hungry you will be mine I will do nothing when you are nothing to me i will drive you crazy with all you can be no more talkin no more of that **** i'll hold you apart, break you bit by bit if you're too polite i'll bite my tongue i'll whip you and shake you, then i'm done. carefree to be careless, shareless boy talk tell me to go and i will surely walk don't ask me to be kissed or hold my hand i am not that girl that you left unplanned i am a midnight demon on ferocious terms i grasp you and hold you tight and firm. I am not lost, or fragile or broken bound i am not looking for someone to make a sound i am no paige boy scarlet harlot wild child thing i am not yours, can't you hear your telephone ring? I am a sordid freak of gigantic endeavours i will solder your heart regardless of your tremors i am torturous and painful and weak to the bone i am the mightiest fallen, can you not see my throne? i have a **** me, buck me, tie-me-tight gaze if i look at you slowly, be patient but don't wait i want everything and all and i want it now i am no gleaming bronze statue know-all-know-how i am surely what you ever thought you knew i am surely what you never thought when i met you i am free to please anyone at night i am free to sit and cry by candlelight alright now, oh baby its all right now **** me gently and i'll show you how to be nothing more than anything is something i suppose but i really can't tell for the state of your clothes you dress me up slightly more than your vision i've never met a person with such succint precision and well here i go, superbly astute and blunt never did i see such a spectacular *** **** and well that is really the way that i go i fly here, there, everywhere i flow i am not some pretty naieve little thing i am a mess of entirety with 2 engagement rings i'm living with despondence and its ******* me off holy **** batman i hear you cough come see me, come stay a while come see me, come see me, and i will **** you in style
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Marching, Marching on. That Broken Soldier Unfix-able, Never to be intact again. After to many years of fighting. And yet still fighting, That Broken Soldier. Fighting the never ending fight. Slowly falling, still, ever fighting. But he is crumbling, That Broken Soldier. Falling apart by the day. Left in an eternity of frailness. Becoming less human everyday, That Broken Soldier. Solemnly stewing on his personal madness. But that Soldier fights on. Still fighting, That Broken Soldier. Fighting the never ending fight. Slowly falling, still, ever fighting. But his will wavers, That Broken Soldier. Is the fight worth fighting? Worth the deathly blows thrown every day. Soon none will be left, of That Broken Soldier. Soon the fight will be done. Soon the last hurrah will sound. The last Hurrah, from That Broken Soldier. Giving up the fight. While letting go, his life. For his life, That Broken Solder, Is his fight. His fight soon lost. But still fighting, That Broken Soldier. Fighting the ending fight. Slowly falling, still, Not Ever Fighting. Not Ever Fighting, That Broken Soldier. Not ever more. The Fight is lost. Lost is The Broken Soldier
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Oct 28, 2014
Oct 28, 2014 at 9:20 AM UTC
The Broken Soldier
The tiny, black transistor, three wires, One two three, ramrod straight get bent, Quarter-inch strain, needle-nose pliers and it's broken. Instructions: look, ask what "install" Means: to bend the leads, push in, solder Tightly and well, no crossing, to the board. Lumps all over the green circuit board, Yellow blue black etc., flip-side wires Cut short, little silver domes of solder With the leads set up just right, bent Just right to stay in when you flip it over to install Them so they don't fall out, but lost is better than broken. The one transistor, Q1, J310, broken, Lying against the also-black of the countertop, board Loudly near, demanding, "Just install It already, ******  Just the two of three wires On the Q1, last one lying lonely bent Crying out, hollering, screaming for solder. Look at the one straight piece of solder, Two leads protruding from one hole, broken Off by careless, melting hands, left stranded on the board, Cut off from the spool, low melting point, easily bent. It looks just like "one of the boys," the real wires. Copper wires conduct well, very ductile and easy to install. When you are attempting this, to install Everything in its place (and there is one), beware excess solder; Too much crosses from  hole to hole, uniting two wires, Shorting it out and leaving you drifting with a broken, Useless green hunk of circuitry and electronics (a board, A dead board), which is just as useless as your leads which are too bent. Some of these **** parts come pre-bent (Why not each?), real easy to slide in and install, Just bend slightly after sliding into the board, Slightly enough to hold for the solder Which is to come, assuming it's not broken Yet, and that yours are still whole wires. On the back, at the end, identical dots of solder Run the length of the board.  If it's not broken, Run a current through; see if you get a shock by the wires.
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Jul 7, 2010
Jul 7, 2010 at 10:54 AM UTC
The tiny, black transistor, three wires,
The tiny, black transistor, three wires, One two three, ramrod straight get bent, Quarter-inch strain, needle-nose pliers and it's broken. Instructions: look, ask what "install" Means: to bend the leads, push in, solder Tightly and well, no crossing, to the board. Lumps all over the green circuit board, Yellow blue black etc., flip-side wires Cut short, little silver domes of solder With the leads set up just right, bent Just right to stay in when you flip it over to install Them so they don't fall out, but lost is better than broken. The one transistor, Q1, J310, broken, Lying against the also-black of the countertop, board Loudly near, demanding, "Just install It already, ******  Just the two of three wires On the Q1, last one lying lonely bent Crying out, hollering, screaming for solder. Look at the one straight piece of solder, Two leads protruding from one hole, broken Off by careless, melting hands, left stranded on the board, Cut off from the spool, low melting point, easily bent. It looks just like "one of the boys," the real wires. Copper wires conduct well, very ductile and easy to install. When you are attempting this, to install Everything in its place (and there is one), beware excess solder; Too much crosses from  hole to hole, uniting two wires, Shorting it out and leaving you drifting with a broken, Useless green hunk of circuitry and electronics (a board, A dead board), which is just as useless as your leads which are too bent. Some of these **** parts come pre-bent (Why not each?), real easy to slide in and install, Just bend slightly after sliding into the board, Slightly enough to hold for the solder Which is to come, assuming it's not broken Yet, and that yours are still whole wires. On the back, at the end, identical dots of solder Run the length of the board.  If it's not broken, Run a current through; see if you get a shock by the wires.
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Electric water I bite you Off again Sheet rock solder I am your Only friend We meet up weekly We tell each other lies I fed the sheep and We gave our parting tides Oh yes we get lost Oh yes we are gone My, avocado I know you want To lead My, dear Mason to us you Are freed My two faced flower what happened to Your lips Eight is the hour to which the Ceiling drips Oh yes we get lost Oh yes we are gone
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Aug 3, 2012
Aug 3, 2012 at 11:46 PM UTC
Oh, Avocado
While the sun pours over the early nightmarket An old woman sits, chewing Betel seed adrenaline into Wilting veins sprawled arachnid Behind her knees She, the center of all activity, is merely there A few children lift cinder blocks And their fathers solder wire To help put up the gate Before a white temple She spits a thick *** of it into Her *** a young woman nearby Pulls starfruit from a stall Starfruit, whose name should belong To the most elegant fruit, what a Pity it has such a wretched tang By now, the old woman is bobbing around Her murky mind, a betel juice Aquarium she can barely perceive the precision Of the cremation ceremony next door climaxing with The scattering of jasmine leaves To indicate mourning and forgiveness For untimely suicide and when the Cameraman approaches our old woman She spreads a numb smile, revealing her Black oily teeth Tarred over in betel juice
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Oct 30, 2010
Oct 30, 2010 at 4:26 AM UTC
Smile
Your hand in mine, twiddling the silver around my right ring finger. The point of the heart faced out, in hope you'd turn it toward my wrist. Your mouth brushes mine. You take it off, examine the stamp - "925." Slide it back on, the crown faced up, the hands mirror ours, clasped around my heart. I wonder if my father knew what it would mean to me when he passed it on. I wonder if he knew I'd fall for a boy and this ring would twist my mind in folds, you're a menace, a silversmith you solder my mouth shut.
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Feb 24, 2015
Feb 24, 2015 at 7:08 AM UTC
Claddagh
Red and blues flashing, the electrons in a game of TRON dashing. Forgive me not for i haven't sinned, it is your lack of congealing that keeps you trapped within. An omnipresent empire built of circuitry and solder. Please leave me be for I am not waste, refuse, master or martyr.
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May 31, 2013
May 31, 2013 at 5:52 PM UTC
electron
“20 ways to repurpose a light bulb” It tells me I need to start with a good grip around the bulb, give the solder point a twist and free the brass contact from the wires leading to the filament. If I make it that far, I have to break the insulator and pull the filament out from there. Grabbing the fill tube, I need to empty out the bulb and wipe it out to get it ready. I guess I could channel my childhood and turn the bulb into an aquarium—dropping a little bloodfin tetra in with a sprig of sea-grass or even make one of three small hanging vases to put on my wall in the kitchen. If I want to get crafty, I have directions for a glass sculpture, a holiday ornament, and seven different size centerpieces. The real surprises on the list are the light bulb necklace and the concrete molds for light bulb handles. Here I am, 4 A.M. on a Saturday morning planted on the couch peering at the screen through my Jim Bean bottle eyes and all I see are ways to repurpose this broken bulb for something new—something it should have never been— and I wonder why I can’t just grab the oil and a wick and turn it into what it always wanted to be.
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 12:26 PM UTC
Light bulb pt. 1
~~~ *to whom do I address this? to whom do I forward fling, weep and sing, this bequest~request, prayer~cum~worship~cum~blessing~cum~ howling to and upon? where shall I commence? for there is no beginning or end, resurrection, a continuum, a progression permanent, from inside out to harmonize, coordinate, what the outside has taken leave to inject, insert, to our selves query, our life hood very, impoverish our senses and still, and yet, to ever inspire and seed relief do you possess that requisite belief? that all that is illogical, beyond sensory comprehension, that all is a steady running creek of fluid starting points, none that can be deflected, nor forever held that all, being demands unchosen but acquired, that all, demanding constant reflection, and realization that the acceptance mystery is but a molten crucible wherein wonderful and awful must of necessity, coexist so you alone must construct, what chance desires to destruct, weld the joints of new iron works that require the bonding of a special solder of asking and acceptance, to be the special soldier of acceptance overcoming that which we can never accept, yet must be purposed to build high the edifice, to stand upon the crane, to look down on what has been lost as well as not yet gained, and that requires saving to see the far, observe the near, merging both into a single point ring alloy, manufactured in order to never forget to be forever certain, it is within our assured power to comprehend and apprehend belief in blessed resurrection where there is no birth nor death, no start nor finish, just the munificent satisfaction of lawful acceptance, that all we build of any matter, that which we create, cannot be destroyed, but will be recreated, for that is the purposeful meaning of resurrection now and every day forward* Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 16, 2014
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Nov 16, 2015
Nov 16, 2015 at 5:40 PM UTC
The Resurrection Blessing
~~~ *to whom do I address this? to whom do I forward fling, weep and sing, this bequest~request, prayer~cum~worship~cum~blessing~cum~ howling to and upon? where shall I commence? for there is no beginning or end, resurrection, a continuum, a progression permanent, from inside out to harmonize, coordinate, what the outside has taken leave to inject, insert, to our selves query, our life hood very, impoverish our senses and still, and yet, to ever inspire and seed relief do you possess that requisite belief? that all that is illogical, beyond sensory comprehension, that all is a steady running creek of fluid starting points, none that can be deflected, nor forever held that all, being demands unchosen but acquired, that all, demanding constant reflection, and realization that the acceptance mystery is but a molten crucible wherein wonderful and awful must of necessity, coexist so you alone must construct, what chance desires to destruct, weld the joints of new iron works that require the bonding of a special solder of asking and acceptance, to be the special soldier of acceptance overcoming that which we can never accept, yet must be purposed to build high the edifice, to stand upon the crane, to look down on what has been lost as well as not yet gained, and that requires saving to see the far, observe the near, merging both into a single point ring alloy, manufactured in order to never forget to be forever certain, it is within our assured power to comprehend and apprehend belief in blessed resurrection where there is no birth nor death, no start nor finish, just the munificent satisfaction of lawful acceptance, that all we build of any matter, that which we create, cannot be destroyed, but will be recreated, for that is the purposeful meaning of resurrection now and every day forward* Atlanta, Georgia Nov. 16, 2014
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please don't ask why my words are so intent on chaining your heart to the nightmares I've stuffed my pillows full of with promises rusting into blackened iron links and truths that would shine better as lies I never meant to cage you in my dreams - it's just that my eyelids solder shut and I cannot pry my silver eyelashes apart without cracking at the faultlines I forget to mention whenever I wake up alone it's just that my soul needs more than a little oiling more than a little you to breathe away this metal corroding its way into my tear ducts, dripping rust down my cheeks, choking on 'blood oxide' and mechanical residue buried underneath my fingernails it's just that every ******* 'i love you' is yet another link around my finger, wrenching the life out of me, blue shadows engraved on my skin never shine like silver in the sun but if this is the only clanging chain of heartbeats echoing in metal boxes from me to you; what can I do? it's just that there was a lock somewhere along this mess of coils and chinks and mistakes but oh god, when did the rust between you and I melt into three thousand miles of mercury trickling thermometer poison into everything we say? I've lost my keys; they had sunk first and I will sink last it's just that the clinking thump thump of your heartbeat is my lullaby; it's just that knowing you breathe warmth is enough to cool the burning silver in my lungs; it's just that close to you is the closest I will ever feel to 'alive' it's just that if I can't keep you - nobody can
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Dec 2, 2014
Dec 2, 2014 at 4:56 AM UTC
silver
please don't ask why my words are so intent on chaining your heart to the nightmares I've stuffed my pillows full of with promises rusting into blackened iron links and truths that would shine better as lies I never meant to cage you in my dreams - it's just that my eyelids solder shut and I cannot pry my silver eyelashes apart without cracking at the faultlines I forget to mention whenever I wake up alone it's just that my soul needs more than a little oiling more than a little you to breathe away this metal corroding its way into my tear ducts, dripping rust down my cheeks, choking on 'blood oxide' and mechanical residue buried underneath my fingernails it's just that every ******* 'i love you' is yet another link around my finger, wrenching the life out of me, blue shadows engraved on my skin never shine like silver in the sun but if this is the only clanging chain of heartbeats echoing in metal boxes from me to you; what can I do? it's just that there was a lock somewhere along this mess of coils and chinks and mistakes but oh god, when did the rust between you and I melt into three thousand miles of mercury trickling thermometer poison into everything we say? I've lost my keys; they had sunk first and I will sink last it's just that the clinking thump thump of your heartbeat is my lullaby; it's just that knowing you breathe warmth is enough to cool the burning silver in my lungs; it's just that close to you is the closest I will ever feel to 'alive' it's just that if I can't keep you - nobody can
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Playstation. Running as fast as it can. Lava flowing through, From component one, To component two. An engine. Overworking. Solder joints and Silicon, The things that break, Difficult to be undone. Metal and plastic. Assembled in crazy ways. So soon to be, In so many realities, A state of disrepair.
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Oct 11, 2014
Oct 11, 2014 at 4:56 PM UTC
Overworking
Salty mess is laminated  in hard rime whilst the moth ribbons like a broken lasso  over the bathroom tiles. In your letters  the handwriting conveys  your shaking vulnerability in the fog. The rime and  The grapefruit soap  and lye solder your calico dress in blisters With cascading Tempera over your chest Along the globe  of your eye, camel eyelashes powdered skinny  with make up shower with sadness then close in drug dry desperation. Your legs  are dolphins enthroned  in scarlet  with grazes and gazes grace them with concern.
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 3:07 PM UTC
Untitled
Pipes through the plaster Pressure on the gain Skin of wet paper Takes the strain Leaking at the solder Drooling at the lip Nibbling the woodwork Drip, drip, drip Cracks in the china Glaze is crazed Chips on the periphery Reappraised Hidden in the cabinet Dust free spot Tied with a ribbon Hangman's knot Tarnish on the silver Payment due Thirty peices Far too few Fragments of perfection Fractured style Scooped together Careless pile
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Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 6:29 PM UTC
Blemishes
A synth is all wires, metal and acrylic. Alone it sits upon a keyboard stand motionless. It is plugged into a valve amplifier, all valves and solder and metal. The synth is motionless. And the world it lives in is silent. The electricity dwells through the wires in the gyprock walls, through the voltage and the conduction. Two hundred and forty volts to be exact. Yet it is contained within the walls. Dark and unfamiliar. And the world it lives in is empty. A switch is switched. The electricity is conducted. In the blink of an eye it powers the synth and the amplifier. The synth springs to life. A melody filled with intervals, ascension and harmony blasts through the amplifier, with clarity, distorted grit and frequency. A beautiful sound fills the air. The synth and the electricity together at last. And the world that the two live in together is beautiful. JAW 29/01/11 For Marie.
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May 17, 2012
May 17, 2012 at 2:59 AM UTC
Like a synth
he was in the room with a mop and a broom the room was all clean no dirt was to be seen and he left the room not to be seen by his friends who would mock him if he were to be seen in that scene He had a safe in a safe in the night he was beside it so they wouldn't devide it in the day he would clean it to make it sing the clean would squeek although it was meek but it came too soon because no one was awake to hear the tunes it would make the safe would squeek and squank the tune it would make as it sat by the lake that was made from the water from the dirt and the solder that was once on the safe that he cleaned off with haste he wanted to sing but the safe sung for him he had his dream but his safe stole it and locked it up inside it's safe though it wasn't literal it all was real that the man had a dream that the safe would steal the man's name was Ben he was the worst of his friends because his friends were better than he was he hated himself and the safe that would speak because he cleaned it and made it squeek he had a friend named Ben the other Ben who was cool and gear was a friend of the Ben who was full of fear he would sing and he sung as Ben cleaned and clun and both Bens made music that was good but Ben hated his and Ben liked his but both Bens liked Bens song but one song squeeked and as it did, it squank and the song it did make put both in a trance but Ben one was not real and Ben two was the seer one was in the mind while the other one cleaned he wished Ben two was real because he wanted a friend and he wanted to hate because he wanted a blame for his lack of fame because his song was great but too early it came because no one was awake to hear the music it would make
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Feb 14, 2011
Feb 14, 2011 at 6:49 PM UTC
Untitled
he was in the room with a mop and a broom the room was all clean no dirt was to be seen and he left the room not to be seen by his friends who would mock him if he were to be seen in that scene He had a safe in a safe in the night he was beside it so they wouldn't devide it in the day he would clean it to make it sing the clean would squeek although it was meek but it came too soon because no one was awake to hear the tunes it would make the safe would squeek and squank the tune it would make as it sat by the lake that was made from the water from the dirt and the solder that was once on the safe that he cleaned off with haste he wanted to sing but the safe sung for him he had his dream but his safe stole it and locked it up inside it's safe though it wasn't literal it all was real that the man had a dream that the safe would steal the man's name was Ben he was the worst of his friends because his friends were better than he was he hated himself and the safe that would speak because he cleaned it and made it squeek he had a friend named Ben the other Ben who was cool and gear was a friend of the Ben who was full of fear he would sing and he sung as Ben cleaned and clun and both Bens made music that was good but Ben hated his and Ben liked his but both Bens liked Bens song but one song squeeked and as it did, it squank and the song it did make put both in a trance but Ben one was not real and Ben two was the seer one was in the mind while the other one cleaned he wished Ben two was real because he wanted a friend and he wanted to hate because he wanted a blame for his lack of fame because his song was great but too early it came because no one was awake to hear the music it would make
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Men are doomed, Carla told me, It’s your eternal haircuts, she continued, How can you sculpt a life from a single shape, One look, Every mirror an impersonation Of the initial version of one’s self, Each day reduced to a child’s calculation, You wake up, only older, grayer, a withered rasp, Ever more discouraged by the unfairness of things. Carla exhaled a dragon’s torrent White jet streams unfurled out of both nostrils, A waft of my father’s morning scent. With a flick of her thumb, She snapped the ash Off the end of her cigar. A sharp hiss as the ember sizzled and sank In the shallow of a pavement puddle. It had cold rained most of the day. Over a pause, the sky roiling with indigestion, We bundled up in autumn clothes, And trudged uptown, Our chins tucked deep into our chests, Our squinty eyes glued to our shoes, The wind had a slap to it. It isn’t war you should fear, she continued, It’s robots. Soon we won’t need you for anything, Carla jabbed her lacquered fingernail at phantoms as she spoke. Women have been fornicating with machines For over a hundred years, she said, The transition for us has already occurred. Weld and solder us a pleasant replica, One that can shine a toilet Sterilize the dishes, **** us brilliantly, And recite Shakespeare at will- Believe me, Soon we will barter for your ********* Exchanging bitcoins for the innate, With no intention of ever attending your funeral. No the war is over and men have lost, Carla repeated. She walked ahead me, Her hips a sashay as she spit a loose bit of tobacco leaf Onto a lamp post. I could not persuade my eyes to look away.
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Oct 21, 2015
Oct 21, 2015 at 9:36 PM UTC
Cigars
Men are doomed, Carla told me, It’s your eternal haircuts, she continued, How can you sculpt a life from a single shape, One look, Every mirror an impersonation Of the initial version of one’s self, Each day reduced to a child’s calculation, You wake up, only older, grayer, a withered rasp, Ever more discouraged by the unfairness of things. Carla exhaled a dragon’s torrent White jet streams unfurled out of both nostrils, A waft of my father’s morning scent. With a flick of her thumb, She snapped the ash Off the end of her cigar. A sharp hiss as the ember sizzled and sank In the shallow of a pavement puddle. It had cold rained most of the day. Over a pause, the sky roiling with indigestion, We bundled up in autumn clothes, And trudged uptown, Our chins tucked deep into our chests, Our squinty eyes glued to our shoes, The wind had a slap to it. It isn’t war you should fear, she continued, It’s robots. Soon we won’t need you for anything, Carla jabbed her lacquered fingernail at phantoms as she spoke. Women have been fornicating with machines For over a hundred years, she said, The transition for us has already occurred. Weld and solder us a pleasant replica, One that can shine a toilet Sterilize the dishes, **** us brilliantly, And recite Shakespeare at will- Believe me, Soon we will barter for your ********* Exchanging bitcoins for the innate, With no intention of ever attending your funeral. No the war is over and men have lost, Carla repeated. She walked ahead me, Her hips a sashay as she spit a loose bit of tobacco leaf Onto a lamp post. I could not persuade my eyes to look away.
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I'd love to take you apart, pull your string Watch the ivy grow at the seam, watch the bubbles While I hold you down underneath Let warm water run over our cold bodies. Run along, now, you're no longer needed here (Maybe someday soon) Splitting the wishbone, guess who got the bigger half? (There's no room) How does the solder taste when you go down? (Always new) I always knew you would need to come back again (I always knew) See how the roses fold into the sheets Just like a big black hole in your sleep You got nothing to worry about When everything is simplified, no one will walk out. You got no right! You got no right to You got no right! You got no right to me. You got no right! (Infinite) You got no right to (Misery) You got no right! (Imminent) You got no right to me! (Ecstasy) You got no right! (Infinite) [Calculations melting quickly, time dilation, seconds stretching] You got no right to (Misery) [Minds colliding, bodies soaking, atoms bonding, seconds stretching] You got no right! (Imminent) [Always what we never wanted, never who we always needed] You got no right to me! (Ecstasy) [Saturation of our nature, stars our shining in our language] I'm done. I'm going back home now. Leave me alone. I'm going back home now. I'm going back home.
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Mar 10, 2013
Mar 10, 2013 at 7:56 AM UTC
Always What We Never Wanted, Never Who We Always Needed
**** she your momma misspelled your name shoulda been Raygun or Learjet I sure wish you were a physicist so you could help me write my General Theory of Poetry teach me calculus so we could prove Newton was all wrong but I posit a theory: you must be an electrician of the human body well my circuitry is all ****** up, if you read your way crack back to my October, my doc told me I was a dying and he didn't want to doctor me no more so you see my bits done byte me good, but named me a "dead" line in human fashion, Nay, by May Eighteen, got finish my theorem, cause I'm black hole'd and ******* myself so have Leah bring a coffee refill, let's get to collaborate, I will operate in the ether of fudge factors, you, will solder circuitry thru modern chemistry and I will have my theory but no answers but then I can give up this hopeless poetry gig one lazy time and just live your New York dreams Read http://hellopoetry.com/raygan-keller/
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Apr 20, 2014
Apr 20, 2014 at 10:15 PM UTC
Raygan (read the new poets)
Will I die in the battle? I must remain strong in the saddle Soldier’s thoughts having one mind Will I still be alive? The enemy could be a few feet away As a Soldier, I cannot be a coward and go astray I must stay alert and be focused My Code of Honor Concentration on the battle Regardless of Bombs and Ammunition Sunrise and Sundown a Soldier’s responsibility to stand Salute at command Yet a thought of Dead or Alive It’s a Soldier’s commitment to strive Tomorrow is fighting at the present I am a Soldier and I must represent Can’t turn back would be a resent There had been times I would often cry I felt one day I would be dead being a goodbye But I was given the command to guard the front line However, I was assured I was covered by the Lord God instilled I wasn’t alone Even during the time the Commander said to be at ease I felt the comfort of God’s refreshing encouraging breeze Stay the Course God is the guiding light being the force Battles will always have battles But I can’t let anything make me rattle Oh yes, stand and be firm while holding on to the saddle Remain Strong Help your fellow Conrad’s in getting along I am on the battlefield where I belong No matter what the circumstance I have been given the chance The enemy could one day attack on a prance But it is the pride in being a soldier One life but live it to the fullest in war I am a Soldier Bold and True Commitment is my pursue Enemies could be in my face But as a Soldier I have been trained to be Bold and Lean I have been given the salute to proceed I am the Soldier I stand There is a battle in demand Carry on Solder.
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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018 at 6:36 PM UTC
DRAMATIZATION OF A SOLDIER’S WOES
Will I die in the battle? I must remain strong in the saddle Soldier’s thoughts having one mind Will I still be alive? The enemy could be a few feet away As a Soldier, I cannot be a coward and go astray I must stay alert and be focused My Code of Honor Concentration on the battle Regardless of Bombs and Ammunition Sunrise and Sundown a Soldier’s responsibility to stand Salute at command Yet a thought of Dead or Alive It’s a Soldier’s commitment to strive Tomorrow is fighting at the present I am a Soldier and I must represent Can’t turn back would be a resent There had been times I would often cry I felt one day I would be dead being a goodbye But I was given the command to guard the front line However, I was assured I was covered by the Lord God instilled I wasn’t alone Even during the time the Commander said to be at ease I felt the comfort of God’s refreshing encouraging breeze Stay the Course God is the guiding light being the force Battles will always have battles But I can’t let anything make me rattle Oh yes, stand and be firm while holding on to the saddle Remain Strong Help your fellow Conrad’s in getting along I am on the battlefield where I belong No matter what the circumstance I have been given the chance The enemy could one day attack on a prance But it is the pride in being a soldier One life but live it to the fullest in war I am a Soldier Bold and True Commitment is my pursue Enemies could be in my face But as a Soldier I have been trained to be Bold and Lean I have been given the salute to proceed I am the Soldier I stand There is a battle in demand Carry on Solder.
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The tired old robot came to rest, Years of working, left him worn and distressed, His batteries lacking power, he walked without grace, The lights dimming, on his dented old face, Rust makes him brittle, seizing up his hands, Joints lacking oil, clogged with debris and sand, His circuit’s burn, as the sparks rattle his brain, His memory corrupted by electrical rain, Reaching the end, after all these years, The robot cries, his battery tears, Crashing to the ground, falling apart, As the power slips, from his computerised heart. There he lay, upon his back, As the wind covered, his final tracks, Placed upon the scrapheap, stripped of his parts, They carefully removed, his memory and heart, Words read from, the old kindle book, As they restored his body, with the classic old look, Wires refreshed, the burning of solder, Faint light returns, to his classic controller, One final piece, to power his soul, The heart replaced, in the mechanical hole, Twitching fingers, he opened his eyes, Met with cheer, and emotional cries, Holding his hand, were Robots restored, Embracing each other, mechanical applause, As Light beamed, from behind the seventh, He spoke.......... "Welcome my son, to robotic heaven"
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May 23, 2014
May 23, 2014 at 3:35 PM UTC
The Old Robot
Pigeon-striped with a polyester hat How can he look so nice and feel so sad? “It’s a momentary lapse in sadness Brewed in prudence and gladness” Fret not for the velvet shoe that stalks you Cry a well for all the leather hides That you wear upstairs for kindred brides Another lover bred to love untrue “Is there something else I’d like to say? Efficiency is drenched in dismay Jewelled epaulettes on deafened shoulders Something more incise, I shall solder" Heaven delivered our coal Sat atop a gilded pole Heaven delivered our coal By lawful life, we are loveless moles Ruby-haired and lilac-nailed How can she arouse yet taste so stale? “Hold my vindication in a brooch Open my heart in reproach" Fret not for the saddle in your ‘mare It will take you to a mining town There, you will earn yourself a gown And fall on the soldered stairs “Is there something else I’d like to say? I am to be blackened for my pay Else I resign to a red ribbon And use almighty love as a weapon" Sweet life, what’s to surmise? Moths in the corners of our eyes Writing as a fly in a frame Spot the hideous, spotted dame Watch your place, hold your pace Heaven delivered our coal Sat atop a gilded pole Heaven delivered our coal By lawful life, we are loveless moles
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Jan 10, 2019
Jan 10, 2019 at 8:37 PM UTC
Heaven Delivered Our Coal