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"squalid" poems
*The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.* (The Elderly Lady) After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn… That even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure… That you really are strong And you really do have worth… And you learn and learn… With every good-bye you learn. {…} *As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. I mean, why should I think of myself as being an Argentine, and not a Chilean, and not an Uruguayan. I don't know really. All of those myths that we impose on ourselves — and they make for hatred, for war, for enmity — are very harmful. Well, I suppose in the long run, governments and countries will die out and we'll be just, well, cosmopolitans.*    --J. L. Borges
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 10:17 AM UTC
You Learn (by Jorge Luis Borges)
*The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.* (The Elderly Lady) After a while you learn the subtle difference Between holding a hand and chaining a soul, And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning And company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts And presents aren’t promises, And you begin to accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child, And you learn to build all your roads on today Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. After a while you learn… That even sunshine burns if you get too much. So you plant your garden and decorate your own soul, Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. And you learn that you really can endure… That you really are strong And you really do have worth… And you learn and learn… With every good-bye you learn. {…} *As I think of the many myths, there is one that is very harmful, and that is the myth of countries. I mean, why should I think of myself as being an Argentine, and not a Chilean, and not an Uruguayan. I don't know really. All of those myths that we impose on ourselves — and they make for hatred, for war, for enmity — are very harmful. Well, I suppose in the long run, governments and countries will die out and we'll be just, well, cosmopolitans.*    --J. L. Borges
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(contains references to sensitive issues) She’s just a babe he’s only two of youth refill they’re broken in but leave no mark   so they're unspoiled for clients booked it's all arranged no tracks you'll leave their brain's not through not 'til they’re three so chill out dame the program works divert impel ‘'you crazy sh-t here take this pill’ nobody hears if told some tales but they won't talk their lips are sealed from dot they’re trained they’re here for us don't have to guess ‘you talk, you die!’ so pay the fee their price is high and bring this dog they’ll do it all and shouldn’t you take all you're due you work real hard- on nectar sup - Stop! Not so quick for veils can lift and imprints made don’t ever die archival facts reveal themselves when day arrives you’ll face the Judge and when you breach a petal new it injures both and gear stick shifts you've soiled life's bed with squalid stains now own the Sh-t says mirror man                 
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Sep 14, 2018
Sep 14, 2018 at 6:11 AM UTC
THE MIRROR MAN SEES
They have watered the street, It shines in the glare of lamps, Cold, white lamps, And lies Like a slow-moving river, Barred with silver and black. Cabs go down it, One, And then another, Between them I hear the shuffling of feet. Tramps doze on the window-ledges, Night-walkers pass along the sidewalks. The city is squalid and sinister, With the silver-barred street in the midst, Slow-moving, A river leading nowhere. Opposite my window, The moon cuts, Clear and round, Through the plum-coloured night. She cannot light the city: It is too bright. It has white lamps, And glitters coldly. I stand in the window and watch the moon. She is thin and lustreless, But I love her. I know the moon, And this is an alien city.
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A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.
relaxing? relaxing would be a sin against myself. see God spun and wove golden bits of wisdom in these curls that are mine. see these curls spring loud with songs of my Nubian mothers and war cries of my Rasta fathers. see these curls bounce proud to the rhythm of tribal drums and the foot prints of my sisters from Manila reside there as they roll lumpia between the coils and springs. see these curls have moved sandstone bricks cross deserts, building divine architecture so perfectly aligned with cosmos and planets until Moses told Pharaoh to Let My People Go. these curls have traveled cross oceans and triangles packed like sardines squalid below the decks of ships. see these curls have been ***** by the nasty ***** in the big house and suffered sun strokes in cotton fields. see these curls sing loud and strong. See these curls were branded and forced at gunpoint behind ******** barbed wire fences gassed to death in the name of so called purification. see these curls bleed the pain of fire hoses and dog bites and whites only signs. see these curls wont back down gainst no burnin crosses gainst no swastikas gainst no elephant ******** talkin all that jazz on fox and cnn. see these curls dance wildly off beat to straight rhythms that drone on in 4/4 time c major sixty bpm. see these curls are Mas and my Grammas. see my curls are too proud to sit back and chill and won’t take no **** or heat or hot air. see these curls cannot be contained in braids or scarves or jars of creamy crack. see these curls dare you to force them to coerce them to straighten up their act. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls will not ******* relax.
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Nov 30, 2012
Nov 30, 2012 at 12:03 PM UTC
soft and beautiful just for me
relaxing? relaxing would be a sin against myself. see God spun and wove golden bits of wisdom in these curls that are mine. see these curls spring loud with songs of my Nubian mothers and war cries of my Rasta fathers. see these curls bounce proud to the rhythm of tribal drums and the foot prints of my sisters from Manila reside there as they roll lumpia between the coils and springs. see these curls have moved sandstone bricks cross deserts, building divine architecture so perfectly aligned with cosmos and planets until Moses told Pharaoh to Let My People Go. these curls have traveled cross oceans and triangles packed like sardines squalid below the decks of ships. see these curls have been ***** by the nasty ***** in the big house and suffered sun strokes in cotton fields. see these curls sing loud and strong. See these curls were branded and forced at gunpoint behind ******** barbed wire fences gassed to death in the name of so called purification. see these curls bleed the pain of fire hoses and dog bites and whites only signs. see these curls wont back down gainst no burnin crosses gainst no swastikas gainst no elephant ******** talkin all that jazz on fox and cnn. see these curls dance wildly off beat to straight rhythms that drone on in 4/4 time c major sixty bpm. see these curls are Mas and my Grammas. see my curls are too proud to sit back and chill and won’t take no **** or heat or hot air. see these curls cannot be contained in braids or scarves or jars of creamy crack. see these curls dare you to force them to coerce them to straighten up their act. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls. my curls will not ******* relax.
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Magical cauldron apomixes connoisseur               Cephalic phantasmagoria entity obliquitous         Mystical conjurous conjugal entrepreneur                         Fantasia fantastication phantasm obsequious Amorously arduous ardent raconteur Ephemeral translucent opulence ubiquitous             Vanity sanctimonium temerities saboteur Intrepid verve’s intriguingly iniquitous Sorcerous sabbatical apothegms chauffeur Endemic veracities fortuitous elicitous Futurity fatidics fornication kithe                         Ephemeral metaphor semantics flaunts Empirical emulation scenarios blithe Subjunctive subliminal nostalgias haunts Agile articulation acuities lithe                           Analogizing corroborative prolificacy daunts Alacritous tactile manipulations writhe Numinous syntactical paradigm *****                   Emanate imminent perdition tithe Orotund jaded seal ordinand jaunts                                                                                                    Overt convection coercions chiaroscuro tempestuous                                                   Apex crux axis ****** matrix torrid                         Manifest objectified enamorous interstice lecherous Spurt binge spree ***** protuberance squalid    endearingly engendering amore
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 9:51 PM UTC
Phalaxy
Magical cauldron apomixes connoisseur               Cephalic phantasmagoria entity obliquitous         Mystical conjurous conjugal entrepreneur                         Fantasia fantastication phantasm obsequious Amorously arduous ardent raconteur Ephemeral translucent opulence ubiquitous             Vanity sanctimonium temerities saboteur Intrepid verve’s intriguingly iniquitous Sorcerous sabbatical apothegms chauffeur Endemic veracities fortuitous elicitous Futurity fatidics fornication kithe                         Ephemeral metaphor semantics flaunts Empirical emulation scenarios blithe Subjunctive subliminal nostalgias haunts Agile articulation acuities lithe                           Analogizing corroborative prolificacy daunts Alacritous tactile manipulations writhe Numinous syntactical paradigm *****                   Emanate imminent perdition tithe Orotund jaded seal ordinand jaunts                                                                                                    Overt convection coercions chiaroscuro tempestuous                                                   Apex crux axis ****** matrix torrid                         Manifest objectified enamorous interstice lecherous Spurt binge spree ***** protuberance squalid    endearingly engendering amore
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What a joy What a joy My little nephew, Two decades back Born abroad, When a guest here A ride on A piggy shoulder Who used to enjoy, To whom I bought A motley toy Out of himself Made a brilliant boy. “As per my choice Could you buy me a donkey Or a could you allow me A tortoise To touch When we go to The squalid market square Or the nearby church?” Double mind Is his nick name Now crafting Software is his game. A small boy Inquisitive He used to ask “Tell me why Flowers don't grow On the sky?” “Tell me quick Why animals Don't speak? Also stars Don't grow On the meadow?” “Why is the sky high To touch?” Such questions helped him Racking his brain To come up with Academic research, That troubleshoot Societal challenge And afford A nation a turnaround Or for the better a change! Now, conversant in IT It is no wonder To observe Binary operation,flowcharts Subroutines,syntax... Programming languages Are at the tip of his finger. His study at George Mason University Has turned out a hit Getting himself In the Dean's List. A boy that lends To parents, relatives And teachers A heeding ear Is really dear.
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Jan 30, 2018
Jan 30, 2018 at 8:48 AM UTC
Congra to a dear boy!
Dinner table, Bowls of light, Stage fright, lilies, No appetite, Dark absences nibbling Right through my eyes Like black rabbits pulled Out of Truman Show skies, Provoking the question From those sat up front – Is this a trick you’re pulling - Is this one of your stunts? But no amount of smiling Will do – Nod all you like. They’re onto you. Christmas Eve, Sister’s house, Black eye, Ulcerated mouth. Divinely tickled- By Miss World! A pinecone and mistletoe Christmas hurled Down en suite toilets Porcelain pink, My face makes love To the bathroom sink. The most squalid Little Lord In the county, me, Summer blooms hold No charms for me, So I try to apply my Favourite smile And travel a few more Country miles To a chemist that doesn’t Know my face. I browse a bit (Condoms, spectacles case) Then I try to Convince the pharmacist That I need two Bottles of Gee’s Linctus. The cruelest boyfriend I ever had Gives head to a toilet roll And his fingerpads Are bordello yellow From greased nicotine, This ******* in Primrose Exhales smoke in a stream, And I try to remember what Buttercup said, His baby’s breath whispers Wilt in my head, Something about purity Something about loss Something about cleanliness Something about God Something about something That I should tick off as regrettable, But one flower can make everything So ******* Forgettable.
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Oct 4, 2013
Oct 4, 2013 at 2:49 PM UTC
just one flower
Umbrage ultraism infrangible extemporaneous incognito edition Penumbral platitude platonic proxy photics rendition Interface fenestration imbroglio pandemonium inducement sedition Wretched infelicitous extant trajectory sordid intuition Scandalous scavenger squalid anomalous punitive condition Panacea chiaroscuro parallax emanate imminent perdition Equilibrist revision exertion suborn temerity imbues Indulgent zealous discrepancy apparentness cogitation accrues Heuristic noumenal psychokinesis extrapolation incursion construes Aura auspicious primitive prism processional reviews Obstinate tenacious preeminent edificatory omnipotence eschews Equivocal gumption ratification constitutional manumission ensues      Delusory apparition extravagance peccavi verity tempestuous Obtrusive obtusely overt indemnities sagaciously obliquitous Ephemeral anxiety antonym existential exigency alacritous Fortuitous emendation phantasm ontological ontogeny acuitous Indemnify veracious infernal infidel impunities iniquitous Meritorious fulham presumptive extrication expiation indigenous
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Jan 13, 2013
Jan 13, 2013 at 9:20 PM UTC
Anonymity emanations
Polyamorous vegans Living in a colony Away from a world That shares too much Meat And not enough Food for thought. Their squat squalid Their garden flourished.
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Feb 15, 2013
Feb 15, 2013 at 10:52 AM UTC
Meet meat
Squalid off-white cube fluorescent buzzing hue water stained tiles tribulation from digital files dilapidated symbiote invisible hungry parasite optimism capsized in the abyss tedium tongue french kiss five hours a month forest bathing in the sun a cure they say nature is a gateway shambling down trails languid gait sails fractal patterns surround tweets in background head starts to clear wondrous frontier five hours a month soaking in the sun not enough time to melt away grime five hours a week leaves a happier physique summer sea breeze rolling over unease basking in the heat leaving is so so bittersweet return to human farm pray for fire alarm nature is a gateway natures my getaway
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Sep 20, 2018
Sep 20, 2018 at 8:52 AM UTC
The Nature Fix
It is locked up solid it sounds so squalid horrid even torrid my flirt gland is stuck shut no I am not a nut but not got a feeling in my gut if I do I'll run away from you probably so fast there will be a sonic boom as I leave the room thinking of my impending doom need a woman full of fight who'll tag me bag me put me right needs to be a real tough gal got to sneak her by my pal so why do I just give on up? women in Wales say that I am tup never trying is my only plan shrinking violet not a man will I change? Will I hell! such a coward can't you tell keep on like this till I die then hide from women in the sky X
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Jan 24, 2011
Jan 24, 2011 at 10:55 AM UTC
Flirt Gland
Magical cauldron apomixes connoisseur               Cephalic phantasmagoria entity obliquitous         Mystical conjurous conjugal entrepreneur                         Fantasia fantastication phantasm obsequious Amorously arduous ardent raconteur Ephemeral translucent opulence ubiquitous             Vanity sanctimonium temerities saboteur Intrepid verve’s intriguingly iniquitous Sorcerous sabbatness apothegms chauffeur Endemic veracities fortuitous elicitous Futurity fatidic's fornication kithe                         Ephemeral metaphor semantics flaunts Empirical emulation scenarios blithe Subjunctive subliminal nostalgias haunts Agile articulation acuities lithe                           Analogizing corroborative prolificacy daunts Alacritous tactile manipulations writhe Numinous syntactical paradigm *****                   Emanate imminent perdition tithe Orotund jaded seal ordinand jaunts                                                           ­                                         Overt convection coercions chiaroscuro tempestuous                                                   Ape­x crux axis ****** matrix torrid                         Manifest objectified enamorous interstice lecherous Spurt binge spree ***** protuberance squalid    endearingly engendering amore
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Mar 30, 2017
Mar 30, 2017 at 7:59 PM UTC
Phalaxy
Magical cauldron apomixes connoisseur               Cephalic phantasmagoria entity obliquitous         Mystical conjurous conjugal entrepreneur                         Fantasia fantastication phantasm obsequious Amorously arduous ardent raconteur Ephemeral translucent opulence ubiquitous             Vanity sanctimonium temerities saboteur Intrepid verve’s intriguingly iniquitous Sorcerous sabbatness apothegms chauffeur Endemic veracities fortuitous elicitous Futurity fatidic's fornication kithe                         Ephemeral metaphor semantics flaunts Empirical emulation scenarios blithe Subjunctive subliminal nostalgias haunts Agile articulation acuities lithe                           Analogizing corroborative prolificacy daunts Alacritous tactile manipulations writhe Numinous syntactical paradigm *****                   Emanate imminent perdition tithe Orotund jaded seal ordinand jaunts                                                           ­                                         Overt convection coercions chiaroscuro tempestuous                                                   Ape­x crux axis ****** matrix torrid                         Manifest objectified enamorous interstice lecherous Spurt binge spree ***** protuberance squalid    endearingly engendering amore
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The Lung. The broken bone branches hang heavy off knuckled tree. As cold and uninviting as wrapped meat in cellophane prison cells and those sweating milk bottles left on doorsteps. Women cry with the blackbirds as day breaks, rousing their reluctant nests. As the shadows trawl in from chicken farms and slaughterhouses, across the squalid estates and past a debt collectors party. A ***** drinks his soot like coffee and waits for another years tide to retreat. Holding pith less ambitions and unmentionable qualifications, stewardess pass, uniformed thoughts and averting faces.. The rusty playgrounds sink into the fermenting wood chips, and a plastic bag runs through the scene; only to commit suicide in the oil ribbon canal. The chemical clouds thicken into a duvet of sky whilst arrows of a natural sun run home with tears of fear on their hot faces. Down here the street lights flicker, and the patched uniforms drape off children sick with the flu that hit the school like a plague. Herding like cattle into the classrooms, to learn about the natural world that is most unearthly to there reason. Lunch bells ring from factories and the sky has drained to a sick -off white. The chip shop sells butties with no sauce nor bun, which machine like men guzzle and slurp. The car parks lay stagnant in the distance and pigeons too fat to fly lay droppings on the bronze statue of a crying hero. As the roaring stops from the factories and high visibility coats are hung, the sky bruises and the men fill the pubs, until wives with children hung on washing lines drag there sweat soaked frames to the table, only to indulge them in a row. Night creeps in, bringing with it the hooded figures that flutter along the streets. Music plays from a vacant building and seems to brighten the night. A silhouette is seen standing on the edge, watching the busses bellow run like migrating snails, filled with the elderly and too young. Cigarettes infest the streets creating a carpet of ash and litter. The city survives, remaining grey, never blinking, never heard.
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Sep 20, 2012
Sep 20, 2012 at 6:20 AM UTC
THE LUNG
The Lung. The broken bone branches hang heavy off knuckled tree. As cold and uninviting as wrapped meat in cellophane prison cells and those sweating milk bottles left on doorsteps. Women cry with the blackbirds as day breaks, rousing their reluctant nests. As the shadows trawl in from chicken farms and slaughterhouses, across the squalid estates and past a debt collectors party. A ***** drinks his soot like coffee and waits for another years tide to retreat. Holding pith less ambitions and unmentionable qualifications, stewardess pass, uniformed thoughts and averting faces.. The rusty playgrounds sink into the fermenting wood chips, and a plastic bag runs through the scene; only to commit suicide in the oil ribbon canal. The chemical clouds thicken into a duvet of sky whilst arrows of a natural sun run home with tears of fear on their hot faces. Down here the street lights flicker, and the patched uniforms drape off children sick with the flu that hit the school like a plague. Herding like cattle into the classrooms, to learn about the natural world that is most unearthly to there reason. Lunch bells ring from factories and the sky has drained to a sick -off white. The chip shop sells butties with no sauce nor bun, which machine like men guzzle and slurp. The car parks lay stagnant in the distance and pigeons too fat to fly lay droppings on the bronze statue of a crying hero. As the roaring stops from the factories and high visibility coats are hung, the sky bruises and the men fill the pubs, until wives with children hung on washing lines drag there sweat soaked frames to the table, only to indulge them in a row. Night creeps in, bringing with it the hooded figures that flutter along the streets. Music plays from a vacant building and seems to brighten the night. A silhouette is seen standing on the edge, watching the busses bellow run like migrating snails, filled with the elderly and too young. Cigarettes infest the streets creating a carpet of ash and litter. The city survives, remaining grey, never blinking, never heard.
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Umbrage ultraism infrangible extemporaneous incognito edition Penumbral platitude platonic proxy photics rendition Interface fenestration imbroglio pandemonium inducement sedition Wretched infelicitous extant trajectory sordid intuition Scandalous scavenger squalid anomalous punitive condition Panacea chiaroscuro parallax emanate imminent perdition Equilibrist revision exertion suborn temerity imbues Indulgent zealous discrepancy apparentness cogitation accrues Heuristic noumenal psychokinesis extrapolation incursion construes Aura auspicious primitive prism processional reviews Obstinate tenacious preeminent edificatory omnipotence eschews Equivocal gumption ratification constitutional manumission ensues      Delusory apparition extravagance peccavi verity tempestuous Obtrusive obtusely overt indemnities sagaciously obliquitous Ephemeral anxiety antonym existential exigency alacritous Fortuitous emendation phantasm ontological ontogeny acuitous Indemnify veracious infernal infidel impunities iniquitous Meritorious fulham presumptive extrication expiation indigenous
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Oct 12, 2017
Oct 12, 2017 at 9:10 AM UTC
Anonymity Emanations (re-post)
To… My best friend and lover. Protector of my lies …You rescued me And ****** me to my fate. Spiralled the dopamine to brilliance In my mind. To spangled halls of light, Reflective light, and calm. A golden calm Of energised, invincible intensity…… Addiction is thy name. Compulsion is thy talent Up, up the trammelled pathway From the innocence of a **** To the chaotic expense of **** Then to the dreamy, smoked Opiates, And the scars of the needles And magic of Coke & big H ? And ultimately… It’s all not enough! The hollow inadequacy of it all When finally….. Nothing, Nothing achieves flight. Nothing attains the heights. Nothing satisfies Like it used to….. No amount of money Buys satisfaction! Hopelessly Into the Black Hole. Down, down the trammelled pathway And the body is wasted, thin And the mind in misery, And broke, utterly penniless, Exhausted and spent, Estranged and abandoned, Alone, so alone. Down the trammelled pathway To the inevitable retreat Into failure’s squalid, numbing, bitter End. M. May 31 2014 From the outside looking in.
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May 30, 2014
May 30, 2014 at 6:04 PM UTC
The Trammelled Pathway.
You send up clouds of deepest dark despair, And with my dancing i tried to repair. While i dance in the light of the coming day. All of those hearts strings broken will end and fray. Pull back the cover and bare all to see, Let my hands cover and retain delicate dignity. This initimacy that belongs to you and me, I will protect in every eventuality. You present all to the world and its busy lover, But never think of me laying beside you in your cover. For the cameras flash and beauty bleeds. And captions raise while gossips feed. "Who are you to touch an untouchable perfection?" "Your love corrupts like squalid infection." "Another man to take the trophy," As they **** you in some catastrophy. A plastic heart that splinters violently, As he is left in jilted unmatching harmony. Alone again, you sell your story, To another scavanger that feeds on memory. The tale thats told, Leaves you broken and old. While the lover lives bold, In his world of hollywood gold.
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Jan 27, 2011
Jan 27, 2011 at 5:21 PM UTC
Paparazzi
She is ice And he is fire She is an angel And him a devil She's often seen sitting On a park bench Dressed immaculately; rich With her nose stuck  in a book Whereas he's often seen lounging At a squalid pub With a drink in hand Smoke curling from his smirking lips Both polar opposites, Ying and yang. Yet when  together They become one Her Fire can thaw  his ice And his water  tames her fire
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 11:59 AM UTC
Fire and Ice
"Once upon a midnight"*, ghostly, Partied many, dead ones mostly. Feasting in the graveyard, sprightly, Black fanged werewolves gorged, engrossedly. In the bone yard, drab and squalid, Apparitions (staring stolid Neath the veiled moon, clouded lightly), Sought fresh bodies, lean but solid. Fiendish eyes shone, light and sparkly, Ghouls and demons danced, so darkly. Maggots munching mush unsightly, Black blood streamed like ink, quite starkly. Fetid flesh oozed, flowing freely, Through the crypt doors, cold and steely. Shadows, ashen, pranced contritely, Ebon serpents slithered eely. As it happens, all too often, Zombies dimly closed the coffin – Ra, the sun god, rising slightly Hunger pangs were soon to soften. If you ask, I’ll tell you blankly, When you’re feeling dark and dankly Come to where this happens nightly. They’ll enjoy the feast, quite frankly... ;-) * Apologies to EAP
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Oct 8, 2013
Oct 8, 2013 at 9:17 AM UTC
Dark Black Night (Rubaiyat)
Vile photos and sounds play on 'palace' walls; mud in her fingernails form shapes of the night's sticky, grubby events- a twisted, ****** Rorscharch-esque blot. Knee-deep in grit and grime, soot on her feet, she sludges on, puking night after night on assorted side-walks with soaked, soily calves. 'Just pretty pictures' painted on a wall show her a true reflection of her mind; she seeks familiarity, hides/searches in them for herself. In distorted jumbles, she looks for her kind. The splayed stuff stutter and splutter and stop and grind. Insomnia and intoxication, a victim of lack of inspiration- life falls into a slow degradation. Nothingness swallows all once more. She thrusts against the shoddy shut doors while the slimy sticky dross glues her shoes to gory floors. -she trails off with a wince at the hat man's scoff. Foul filth fills the squalid air; and sullied and smoky, sighing, she (s)tumbles halfway to sleep.
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Jul 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014 at 12:45 PM UTC
(sleep)less
Donald Trump has slammed the door on families that had to flee from zealots who perverted faith and turned them into refugees. He made a list of seven lands where free will's treated as a sin. Their people flee to squalid camps until a new land lets them in. But Donald Trump has made it clear; he hates on basis of belief. He's stoking ignorance and fear, inspiring terrorism's grief. These refugees have nothing left but hope and will to work so hard to build a free and better life, but now they've been locked out and barred. What of the Muslims in the states who patriotically defended the land whose leader now spews hate? Is all their hope and love now ended? Someday, if karma catches Trump, he'll lose it all and have to flee. Let him experience, first-hand, the tears of the refugee.
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Feb 20, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 at 8:47 PM UTC
The Tears of the Refugee
"Are you lost?" Said no one to the girl on the bus. "Are you cold?" Said no one to the figure huddled in the doorway. "Are you hungry?" Said no one to the hollow eyed man. "Are you scared?" Said no one to the child with the bruised face. "Are you safe?" Said no one to the family in a squalid room. "Please send a donation to the human race. We've lost our humanity"
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 8:40 AM UTC
Humans
Bouncing Betty in the closed corridor The white walls bleed red The red walls bleed white Oh, how can we escape this squalid shell? Ceiling fans Awaken Silent hardwood floors, They run screaming into the dull darkness Let's feed the creature That's lurking below. Does the creature exist outside my mind? All my rainbows fade TO SHADES OF COPPER. All the browns of the trees still look the same. The mind can be a Prison for your eyes Let's escape Perceptual Alcatraz. A silver dawn waits For the queens return.
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May 23, 2013
May 23, 2013 at 6:04 PM UTC
Porcelain Mind
Could it be that locked in memory Ancient thoughts are held in store, Passed on by Neanderthal man Who's origins we may recall..... Ape like in physique and frame, Prominent prognathus jaw, Burning eyes intense and sharp, Intelligence to seek for more. Telepathic thought transference Little need for guttural grunt, Massive strength in hand and thigh Stinking pelt to back and front. Rushing through the reed and long grass Casting lance with lunging throw, Mastodon with roaring bellow Thrashing trunk with thunderous blow. Darkness in the smoky cavern Clustered at the flinted flame, Family and others warming Squat encircled, chewing game. Listening in the chill of moonlight Listening to the wolf pack howl, Out across the snow clad forest Out beyond the hooting owl. Chewing pelts to soften leather Massive teeth in massive jaw, Wary eyes observe the weather Southern winds may bring the thaw. Luscious she with scent ascending, Luscious she with hairy maw, Bent to me in sweet surrender Downy hip and coaxing paw. Roar in rage and beat the earth Blazing eyes and heaving chest, Invasion from the **** Sapiens Seeking females for their nest. Skies descend with fire and brimstone Rock cascades and burns the earth, Mountain God has vent his fury Scamper hard to cave’s safe berth. Cold, so cold this bleak snow weather No retreat from Winter’s ire Brother, sisters, sons are huddled Frozen dead in blue ice byre. Few, so few now to migration Trek to southern food and heat, Starving, wet and hypothermic Staggeringly trudge the weak. Few, so few to intermingle With the **** Sapiens here, Serfs in ******* low and squalid BUT SURVIVORS..STRONG AND CLEAR! Marshalg Victoria Park Tunnel 13 August 2011
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Aug 13, 2011
Aug 13, 2011 at 12:39 AM UTC
Distant Antecedents
Could it be that locked in memory Ancient thoughts are held in store, Passed on by Neanderthal man Who's origins we may recall..... Ape like in physique and frame, Prominent prognathus jaw, Burning eyes intense and sharp, Intelligence to seek for more. Telepathic thought transference Little need for guttural grunt, Massive strength in hand and thigh Stinking pelt to back and front. Rushing through the reed and long grass Casting lance with lunging throw, Mastodon with roaring bellow Thrashing trunk with thunderous blow. Darkness in the smoky cavern Clustered at the flinted flame, Family and others warming Squat encircled, chewing game. Listening in the chill of moonlight Listening to the wolf pack howl, Out across the snow clad forest Out beyond the hooting owl. Chewing pelts to soften leather Massive teeth in massive jaw, Wary eyes observe the weather Southern winds may bring the thaw. Luscious she with scent ascending, Luscious she with hairy maw, Bent to me in sweet surrender Downy hip and coaxing paw. Roar in rage and beat the earth Blazing eyes and heaving chest, Invasion from the **** Sapiens Seeking females for their nest. Skies descend with fire and brimstone Rock cascades and burns the earth, Mountain God has vent his fury Scamper hard to cave’s safe berth. Cold, so cold this bleak snow weather No retreat from Winter’s ire Brother, sisters, sons are huddled Frozen dead in blue ice byre. Few, so few now to migration Trek to southern food and heat, Starving, wet and hypothermic Staggeringly trudge the weak. Few, so few to intermingle With the **** Sapiens here, Serfs in ******* low and squalid BUT SURVIVORS..STRONG AND CLEAR! Marshalg Victoria Park Tunnel 13 August 2011
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I avoid writing poems about flowers I don’t need to tell you that roses Bright, blood red, placed perfectly atop a broccoli-green vine, Existing solely for the purpose of atheistic pleasure Is something that is beautiful Put a white background behind anything and it becomes beautiful Flowers are more than a hyped-up beauty pageant queen that those old white women grow to fill their voids with They sometimes manage to grow in my neighborhood too Once prominent Victorian homes now squalid and neglected Weathered wood, dirt embedded in the sea-foam green, navy blue, eggshell white paint they were once coated with Trash thrown in front of their faces Like their appalling forms granted validity for those who passed by to toss their gum wrappers, soda cans, and cigarettes without hesitation It’s an age-old tale Ugly things deserve ugly treatment I’ll always spot a savage grove of mutt flowers Amongst the trash cans and recycle bins Struggling to make their way to the surface of these rejected homes Acknowledging them, coddling them, interweaving themselves along their battered walls Ignorant to their repugnancy Eager to decorate and give them an evanescent glow Sad too, Sad they didn’t grow in front of some rich family’s home Where they would’ve been given weekly haircuts and fertilizer containing only the best **** on the market They wilt a little They have no direction, No will to live or to die They exist and sit there until a bike runs them over And takes them out in one swoop Or until those stray dogs **** and **** on them until their weak Frames fall staunchly onto the grave sidewalk Exquisite wild lepers, You do more for society than I ever could You’ll sit there with a dutiful posture Harboring old McDonald French Fry boxes Eating the sewer-infested dirt that you laboriously grew from Constantly breathing air swarmed with smog Beautiful because, Despite it all, You don’t hate them You’ll peek at me through your prison of trash and give me a flash of your purple and blue skin And My eyes feel your love and serenity And for a moment, The world is nothing but a kaleidoscope of warm skin and heartbeats
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Nov 3, 2011
Nov 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM UTC
What I think is beautiful
I avoid writing poems about flowers I don’t need to tell you that roses Bright, blood red, placed perfectly atop a broccoli-green vine, Existing solely for the purpose of atheistic pleasure Is something that is beautiful Put a white background behind anything and it becomes beautiful Flowers are more than a hyped-up beauty pageant queen that those old white women grow to fill their voids with They sometimes manage to grow in my neighborhood too Once prominent Victorian homes now squalid and neglected Weathered wood, dirt embedded in the sea-foam green, navy blue, eggshell white paint they were once coated with Trash thrown in front of their faces Like their appalling forms granted validity for those who passed by to toss their gum wrappers, soda cans, and cigarettes without hesitation It’s an age-old tale Ugly things deserve ugly treatment I’ll always spot a savage grove of mutt flowers Amongst the trash cans and recycle bins Struggling to make their way to the surface of these rejected homes Acknowledging them, coddling them, interweaving themselves along their battered walls Ignorant to their repugnancy Eager to decorate and give them an evanescent glow Sad too, Sad they didn’t grow in front of some rich family’s home Where they would’ve been given weekly haircuts and fertilizer containing only the best **** on the market They wilt a little They have no direction, No will to live or to die They exist and sit there until a bike runs them over And takes them out in one swoop Or until those stray dogs **** and **** on them until their weak Frames fall staunchly onto the grave sidewalk Exquisite wild lepers, You do more for society than I ever could You’ll sit there with a dutiful posture Harboring old McDonald French Fry boxes Eating the sewer-infested dirt that you laboriously grew from Constantly breathing air swarmed with smog Beautiful because, Despite it all, You don’t hate them You’ll peek at me through your prison of trash and give me a flash of your purple and blue skin And My eyes feel your love and serenity And for a moment, The world is nothing but a kaleidoscope of warm skin and heartbeats
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Heaven has fallen, The angels are bawling, God is cremated, Jesus is hated, His throne surrounded by bottles. Lucifer rots, His evil blood clots, Hell freezes solid The mouth growing squalid, Where blue lips doth mottle. The humans in the middle Intellectually twiddle Twaddle their minds Waiting for times Eras that will not come Prophecies undone. The rapture was never, The primates glimpse forever, But alas, once again, The apes now turn, Deeply fearing death, To the lies Religious yearn.
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Aug 19, 2012
Aug 19, 2012 at 6:30 PM UTC
Religious Reset