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"starch" poems
I am your denial, your Lent fast The mania in your DNA, the way the helix twists around itself. I am the finger-shaped bruises on the inside soft of the thigh, the color of ripe plums that you can’t stop pressing because it hurts just right— like us, the way we crack our knuckles. The scoliosis question mark, bent spoon of your spine like Scandinavian silverware, its unfunctioning beauty. The snow of a thousand dandelions gone to seed. The sugar sacks of fat around my body that I love to touch and hate to see. I am the thrift store of your desires, a polyester pantsuit resold. The starch of morning arthritis. The dark under your nails that isn’t really dirt. The yellow smoke smell in a jacket. A mango eaten off the pit, stringy mango veins that stay in your teeth. A washing machine that doesn’t drain. A man cursing in his native language, foreign words that don’t translate.
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Apr 19, 2012
Apr 19, 2012 at 4:51 PM UTC
Doesn't Translate
first line lips are false as a beach next mcarthur’s in chicago next the big blond takes the elevator down next pearl on the lip next shalimar stirs the canine **** all right I like that let’s start a new one do it what what do you have don’t **** up wheres the apostrophe ******* you’re cruel now back now whack it again whack it again I want it to go back whack it press it whack it okay new line i want elevator i want uh i want don’t ask the bellboy for the time just take the elevator to what? to notions? to the lingerie shop? ah **** you grandma new line all right one more time okay **** the gin-socked tongue that’s “soaked” period once again the elevator down paint the pretty tie (cough cough) thai next big buick big *** like fish put a ? after fish take it back take it back you ***** okay that’s not bad you do all right ah **** song of india in the desert at night put “” marks around song of india & desert song in capital letters hit shalimar then cadillac red lips then **** like a seashell with a gin-soaked tongue start new line all right does mcarthur stick his socks in the bathtune at night that’s bathtub the dog howls at the moon buries it in the backyard snakes lose their skin cocoa butter slick water on the brain of the big dark blond song of india **** **** **** big fish *** big v8 you ***** keep up with me painted rocks like a pretty tie fast car long legs and a broken heel now dead no not dead yet um estee lauder goes down on price-waterhouse in a swedish bath bellboy watching this is his reflection in the mirror no silver one-sided next line big blond trampled by elephants with wrinkled knees starch is not chic all gone shalimar stirs the k-9 **** sequined *** in the moonlight cadillac red lips hungry dog eats tail becomes himself bad dog play dead okay what do you suggest bad doggie bad comma bad comma hungry dog go for the tongue you dumb ***** keep going new line what do cactuses(i) have??? fronds fur what are their things called new line dog hates gin go for the breast stupid ***** good dog dry dog poor dog pour blond water of life **** yellow a thai like painted rocks period next i want head down legs up i want sequined *** only ****** level damp dampened dampest ***** panorama **** **** **** blue blue down there feminine azure with clouds too got it odalisque in blue period have mercy on me no no new ******* line what are you filling that thing up with okay stop it for now
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the stenographer’s notebook no.1
first line lips are false as a beach next mcarthur’s in chicago next the big blond takes the elevator down next pearl on the lip next shalimar stirs the canine **** all right I like that let’s start a new one do it what what do you have don’t **** up wheres the apostrophe ******* you’re cruel now back now whack it again whack it again I want it to go back whack it press it whack it okay new line i want elevator i want uh i want don’t ask the bellboy for the time just take the elevator to what? to notions? to the lingerie shop? ah **** you grandma new line all right one more time okay **** the gin-socked tongue that’s “soaked” period once again the elevator down paint the pretty tie (cough cough) thai next big buick big *** like fish put a ? after fish take it back take it back you ***** okay that’s not bad you do all right ah **** song of india in the desert at night put “” marks around song of india & desert song in capital letters hit shalimar then cadillac red lips then **** like a seashell with a gin-soaked tongue start new line all right does mcarthur stick his socks in the bathtune at night that’s bathtub the dog howls at the moon buries it in the backyard snakes lose their skin cocoa butter slick water on the brain of the big dark blond song of india **** **** **** big fish *** big v8 you ***** keep up with me painted rocks like a pretty tie fast car long legs and a broken heel now dead no not dead yet um estee lauder goes down on price-waterhouse in a swedish bath bellboy watching this is his reflection in the mirror no silver one-sided next line big blond trampled by elephants with wrinkled knees starch is not chic all gone shalimar stirs the k-9 **** sequined *** in the moonlight cadillac red lips hungry dog eats tail becomes himself bad dog play dead okay what do you suggest bad doggie bad comma bad comma hungry dog go for the tongue you dumb ***** keep going new line what do cactuses(i) have??? fronds fur what are their things called new line dog hates gin go for the breast stupid ***** good dog dry dog poor dog pour blond water of life **** yellow a thai like painted rocks period next i want head down legs up i want sequined *** only ****** level damp dampened dampest ***** panorama **** **** **** blue blue down there feminine azure with clouds too got it odalisque in blue period have mercy on me no no new ******* line what are you filling that thing up with okay stop it for now
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Son of a Snitch My daddy was an informer to the FBI, got caught selling drugs to this undercover guy, his only recourse was to tell what he knew, but people found out and gave him the ***** they even took it out on me, I'm Mitch, and rubbed it in my face, call me son-of-a-snitch came home from work the other day, looked for my ******* and my can of starch spray, magazine was gone could not find it at all, I said hey, who took my friggin book off the wall, wife looked at me and with nary a hitch, she said why you ask me you son-of-a-snitch went to the super to get me some cheese, beans and beer and bread if you please, wanted a streak but the cost was to high, asked man behind counter I say hey old guy, why this price so high is this some glitch, he say don't ask me you son-of-a-snitch everywhere I go I get the same old crap, a punch in the gut, a facefull of slap, just because daddy bought his way out of debt, this is the kind of treatment I always get, I plead my case give it my best pitch, quit that whining you son-of-a-snitch Gomer LePoet...
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Apr 15, 2010
Apr 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM UTC
Son of a Snitch
Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ****** like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first hunger is not wrong. The nurses nod their caps; you are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets. You tip like a cup; your head moving to my touch. You sense the way we belong. But this is an institution bed. You will not know me very long. The doctors are enamel. They want to know the facts. They guess about the man who left me, some pendulum soul, going the way men go and leave you full of child. But our case history stays blank. All I did was let you grow. Now we are here for all the ward to see. They thought I was strange, although I never spoke a word. I burst empty of you, letting you see how the air is so. The doctors chart the riddle they ask of me and I turn my head away. I do not know. Yours is the only face I recognize. Bone at my bone, you drink my answers in. Six times a day I prize your need, the animals of your lips, your skin growing warm and plump. I see your eyes lifting their tents. They are blue stones, they begin to outgrow their moss. You blink in surprise and I wonder what you can see, my funny kin, as you trouble my silence. I am a shelter of lies. Should I learn to speak again, or hopeless in such sanity will I touch some face I recognize? Down the hall the baskets start back. My arms fit you like a sleeve, they hold catkins of your willows, the wild bee farms of your nerves, each muscle and fold of your first days. Your old man's face disarms the nurses. But the doctors return to scold me. I speak. It is you my silence harms. I should have known; I should have told them something to write down. My voice alarms my throat. "Name of father-none." I hold you and name you ******* in my arms. And now that's that. There is nothing more that I can say or lose. Others have traded life before and could not speak. I tighten to refuse your owling eyes, my fragile visitor. I touch your cheeks, like flowers. You bruise against me. We unlearn. I am a shore rocking off you. You break from me. I choose your only way, my small inheritor and hand you off, trembling the selves we lose. Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
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Unknown Girl In A Maternity Ward
Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ****** like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first hunger is not wrong. The nurses nod their caps; you are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets. You tip like a cup; your head moving to my touch. You sense the way we belong. But this is an institution bed. You will not know me very long. The doctors are enamel. They want to know the facts. They guess about the man who left me, some pendulum soul, going the way men go and leave you full of child. But our case history stays blank. All I did was let you grow. Now we are here for all the ward to see. They thought I was strange, although I never spoke a word. I burst empty of you, letting you see how the air is so. The doctors chart the riddle they ask of me and I turn my head away. I do not know. Yours is the only face I recognize. Bone at my bone, you drink my answers in. Six times a day I prize your need, the animals of your lips, your skin growing warm and plump. I see your eyes lifting their tents. They are blue stones, they begin to outgrow their moss. You blink in surprise and I wonder what you can see, my funny kin, as you trouble my silence. I am a shelter of lies. Should I learn to speak again, or hopeless in such sanity will I touch some face I recognize? Down the hall the baskets start back. My arms fit you like a sleeve, they hold catkins of your willows, the wild bee farms of your nerves, each muscle and fold of your first days. Your old man's face disarms the nurses. But the doctors return to scold me. I speak. It is you my silence harms. I should have known; I should have told them something to write down. My voice alarms my throat. "Name of father-none." I hold you and name you ******* in my arms. And now that's that. There is nothing more that I can say or lose. Others have traded life before and could not speak. I tighten to refuse your owling eyes, my fragile visitor. I touch your cheeks, like flowers. You bruise against me. We unlearn. I am a shore rocking off you. You break from me. I choose your only way, my small inheritor and hand you off, trembling the selves we lose. Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
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I Our ****** dreams, all seedless in the light, Of light and love the tempers of the heart, Whack their boys' limbs, And, winding-footed in their shawl and sheet, Groom the dark brides, the widows of the night Fold in their arms. The shades of girls, all flavoured from their shrouds, When sunlight goes are sundered from the worm, The bones of men, the broken in their beds, By midnight pulleys that unhouse the tomb. II In this our age the gunman and his moll Two one-dimensional ghosts, love on a reel, Strange to our solid eye, And speak their midnight nothings as they swell; When cameras shut they hurry to their hole down in the yard of day. They dance between their arclamps and our skull, Impose their shots, showing the nights away; We watch the show of shadows kiss or **** Flavoured of celluloid give love the lie. III Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which Shall fall awake when cures and their itch Raise up this red-eyed earth? Pack off the shapes of daylight and their starch, The sunny gentlemen, the Welshing rich, Or drive the night-geared forth. The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth; The dream has ****** the sleeper of his faith That shrouded men might marrow as they fly. IV This is the world; the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith. For we shall be a shouter like the **** Blowing the old dead back; our shots shall smack The image from the plates; And we shall be fit fellows for a life, And who remains shall flower as they love, Praise to our faring hearts.
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Our ****** Dreams
I Our ****** dreams, all seedless in the light, Of light and love the tempers of the heart, Whack their boys' limbs, And, winding-footed in their shawl and sheet, Groom the dark brides, the widows of the night Fold in their arms. The shades of girls, all flavoured from their shrouds, When sunlight goes are sundered from the worm, The bones of men, the broken in their beds, By midnight pulleys that unhouse the tomb. II In this our age the gunman and his moll Two one-dimensional ghosts, love on a reel, Strange to our solid eye, And speak their midnight nothings as they swell; When cameras shut they hurry to their hole down in the yard of day. They dance between their arclamps and our skull, Impose their shots, showing the nights away; We watch the show of shadows kiss or **** Flavoured of celluloid give love the lie. III Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which Shall fall awake when cures and their itch Raise up this red-eyed earth? Pack off the shapes of daylight and their starch, The sunny gentlemen, the Welshing rich, Or drive the night-geared forth. The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth; The dream has ****** the sleeper of his faith That shrouded men might marrow as they fly. IV This is the world; the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith. For we shall be a shouter like the **** Blowing the old dead back; our shots shall smack The image from the plates; And we shall be fit fellows for a life, And who remains shall flower as they love, Praise to our faring hearts.
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Those who are conceited are like the foamy starch in a *** of pasta That rises and billows so proud in its manner, falling over the sides of the pan But little do they know that they are nothing special later on They just end up being some disgusting crusty mass that no one wants to find in their gnocchi
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 5:30 PM UTC
Cocky Pasta
Growing up way back when life was simple. There were wringer wash machines. On Monday morning I remember my mom fill the wash machine with hot water. Add soap powder, but watch or it will clump. Then she added fels naptha soap Which was a bar, and you sliced off pieces for the extra ***** clothes. SIMPLE? Now she added the clothes While they are agitating You wait... You have a second tub filled with hot water. to transfer those clothes into, for rinsing. You always used the same water over. You started with white clothes, then eventually by the time the dark clothes  came around the water looked pretty gross.. SIMPLE? After rinsing you use that magical wringer. Which is two rollers that sqeeze all the water out. Time...it all takes time.. Then into the wash basket. Laundry back when life was simple... By then your basket if full of wet heavy clothes. Out to the clothes line. But first you had to run a dry cloth to wipe the dirt off the clothes line. Hanging up all that laundry with those cute wooden clothes pins. Not even clip ones were invented back then. But the bag which held all the clothes pins was real cute, it looked like a dress... SIMPLE? Socks, ****** shirts, slacks, towels, oh those heavy towels and my favorite the sheets. Time, it takes time to dry those clothes. Laundry back when life was simple. Back then everything was ironed. Starched and there was no spray starch, or steam iron. Mom would dip the collars of the shirts into a bowl of starch, and roll it up, it was ready to be ironed. Laundry back when life was simple... How can that be a simple time. I watched my mom and grandma do this every Monday. Starting early and it would be evening when she would finally have the clothes folded and put away... The next day was for ironing. ~~~ SIMPLE? We have the simple life for now we can throw in a load, have it washed, thrown in the dryer, and hung up in a couple of hours. Taking a coffee break in between the washing and drying... by ~ judy
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May 5, 2014
May 5, 2014 at 11:03 AM UTC
LAUNDRY BACK WHEN LIFE WAS SIMPLE.
Growing up way back when life was simple. There were wringer wash machines. On Monday morning I remember my mom fill the wash machine with hot water. Add soap powder, but watch or it will clump. Then she added fels naptha soap Which was a bar, and you sliced off pieces for the extra ***** clothes. SIMPLE? Now she added the clothes While they are agitating You wait... You have a second tub filled with hot water. to transfer those clothes into, for rinsing. You always used the same water over. You started with white clothes, then eventually by the time the dark clothes  came around the water looked pretty gross.. SIMPLE? After rinsing you use that magical wringer. Which is two rollers that sqeeze all the water out. Time...it all takes time.. Then into the wash basket. Laundry back when life was simple... By then your basket if full of wet heavy clothes. Out to the clothes line. But first you had to run a dry cloth to wipe the dirt off the clothes line. Hanging up all that laundry with those cute wooden clothes pins. Not even clip ones were invented back then. But the bag which held all the clothes pins was real cute, it looked like a dress... SIMPLE? Socks, ****** shirts, slacks, towels, oh those heavy towels and my favorite the sheets. Time, it takes time to dry those clothes. Laundry back when life was simple. Back then everything was ironed. Starched and there was no spray starch, or steam iron. Mom would dip the collars of the shirts into a bowl of starch, and roll it up, it was ready to be ironed. Laundry back when life was simple... How can that be a simple time. I watched my mom and grandma do this every Monday. Starting early and it would be evening when she would finally have the clothes folded and put away... The next day was for ironing. ~~~ SIMPLE? We have the simple life for now we can throw in a load, have it washed, thrown in the dryer, and hung up in a couple of hours. Taking a coffee break in between the washing and drying... by ~ judy
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I now delight In spite Of the might And the right Of classic tradition, In writing And reciting Straight ahead, Without let or omission, Just any little rhyme In any little time That runs in my head; Because, I’ve said, My rhymes no longer shall stand arrayed Like Prussian soldiers on parade That march, Stiff as starch, Foot to foot, Boot to boot, Blade to blade, Button to button, Cheeks and chops and chins like mutton. No! No! My rhymes must go Turn ’ee, twist ’ee, Twinkling, frosty, Will-o’-the-wisp-like, misty; Rhymes I will make Like Keats and Blake And Christina Rossetti, With run and ripple and shake. How pretty To take A merry little rhyme In a jolly little time And poke it, And choke it, Change it, arrange it, Straight-lace it, deface it, Pleat it with pleats, Sheet it with sheets Of empty conceits, And chop and chew, And hack and hew, And weld it into a uniform stanza, And evolve a neat, Complacent, complete, Academic extravaganza!
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Free Verse
Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ****** like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first hunger is not wrong. The nurses nod their caps; you are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets. You tip like a cup; your head moving to my touch. You sense the way we belong. But this is an institution bed. You will not know me very long. The doctors are enamel. They want to know the facts. They guess about the man who left me, some pendulum soul, going the way men go and leave you full of child. But our case history stays blank. All I did was let you grow. Now we are here for all the ward to see. They thought I was strange, although I never spoke a word. I burst empty of you, letting you learn how the air is so. The doctors chart the riddle they ask of me and I turn my head away. I do not know. Yours is the only face I recognize. Bone at my bone, you drink my answers in. Six times a day I prize your need, the animals of your lips, your skin growing warm and plump. I see your eyes lifting their tents. They are blue stones, they begin to outgrow their moss. You blink in surprise and I wonder what you can see, my funny kin, as you trouble my silence. I am a shelter of lies. Should I learn to speak again, or hopeless in such sanity will I touch some face I recognize? Down the hall the baskets start back. My arms fit you like a sleeve, they hold catkins of your willows, the wild bee farms of your nerves, each muscle and fold of your first days. Your old man's face disarms the nurses. But the doctors return to scold me. I speak. It is you my silence harms. I should have known; I should have told them something to write down. My voice alarms my throat. "Name of father-none." I hold you and name you ******* in my arms. And now that's that. There is nothing more that I can say or lose. Others have traded life before and could not speak. I tighten to refuse your owling eyes, my fragile visitor. I touch your cheeks, like flowers. You bruise against me. We unlearn. I am a shore rocking you off. You break from me. I choose your only way, my small inheritor and hand you off, trembling the selves we lose. Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
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Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward
Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ****** like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first hunger is not wrong. The nurses nod their caps; you are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets. You tip like a cup; your head moving to my touch. You sense the way we belong. But this is an institution bed. You will not know me very long. The doctors are enamel. They want to know the facts. They guess about the man who left me, some pendulum soul, going the way men go and leave you full of child. But our case history stays blank. All I did was let you grow. Now we are here for all the ward to see. They thought I was strange, although I never spoke a word. I burst empty of you, letting you learn how the air is so. The doctors chart the riddle they ask of me and I turn my head away. I do not know. Yours is the only face I recognize. Bone at my bone, you drink my answers in. Six times a day I prize your need, the animals of your lips, your skin growing warm and plump. I see your eyes lifting their tents. They are blue stones, they begin to outgrow their moss. You blink in surprise and I wonder what you can see, my funny kin, as you trouble my silence. I am a shelter of lies. Should I learn to speak again, or hopeless in such sanity will I touch some face I recognize? Down the hall the baskets start back. My arms fit you like a sleeve, they hold catkins of your willows, the wild bee farms of your nerves, each muscle and fold of your first days. Your old man's face disarms the nurses. But the doctors return to scold me. I speak. It is you my silence harms. I should have known; I should have told them something to write down. My voice alarms my throat. "Name of father-none." I hold you and name you ******* in my arms. And now that's that. There is nothing more that I can say or lose. Others have traded life before and could not speak. I tighten to refuse your owling eyes, my fragile visitor. I touch your cheeks, like flowers. You bruise against me. We unlearn. I am a shore rocking you off. You break from me. I choose your only way, my small inheritor and hand you off, trembling the selves we lose. Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
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White wash walls White starch coats Translucent skin/veins Vision blinded by numbers Personality sequence My numbers The label stapled across my eyelids Like a chip for feeble shoulders to bear A dash of this A dab of that Normalfunctionalproductive Happy member of society Girls stuffed with modelling clay Feed me lye and cigarette ash Replace my brain with silicone Paint cherry red lips And tell me to be unique.
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Mar 24, 2013
Mar 24, 2013 at 10:48 PM UTC
Happy Birthday
My daughter fell in love with a potato,                         "A potato....... My mind was confused and my face was a picture... of why would someone ever love a potato? I asked this myself in my head then out loud.      My darling how have you a fondness for a potato? *He is the only one for me he is so soft and never has a chip on his shoulder..* A chip? really, how did you meet my little lady. He was just mulling around in a mash pit, The music was the spud rock and he was my root. I will have to meet you new boyfriend, Dad, I love Barry, he even let me  wear his jacket it was so fluffy inside... Fathers out there would have the same look on their face as I do now!!!!! "OK,  as I was waiting impatiently to see this lad. She walked in hand in hand, I just gave the daddy look, hi Barry he stared in a starch looking gaze. my daughter spoke "I'll just get my bag, I spoke in my sternest voice, "Barry if you don't treat my daughter right, "Lets just say ill mash you up, understand.... And then they left not the gentlemen of before no jacket to lend her, just walking out the door like he had just been roasted by my words... Hours had past worry in my thoughts then my daughter came back, tears in her eyes. "What ever was the matter my darling? *"He had steamed off because I wanted to know why he never leant me his jacket,* "He said I was being a dumpling with him, *"So I told him you were right and that he had a chip on his shoulder, he replied I was fried,* I told her that potato's can be a little mashed, and a chip they will always have, because you cant change a potato they will always have a little starch inside...
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Nov 20, 2016
Nov 20, 2016 at 6:51 AM UTC
Barry The Potato
My daughter fell in love with a potato,                         "A potato....... My mind was confused and my face was a picture... of why would someone ever love a potato? I asked this myself in my head then out loud.      My darling how have you a fondness for a potato? *He is the only one for me he is so soft and never has a chip on his shoulder..* A chip? really, how did you meet my little lady. He was just mulling around in a mash pit, The music was the spud rock and he was my root. I will have to meet you new boyfriend, Dad, I love Barry, he even let me  wear his jacket it was so fluffy inside... Fathers out there would have the same look on their face as I do now!!!!! "OK,  as I was waiting impatiently to see this lad. She walked in hand in hand, I just gave the daddy look, hi Barry he stared in a starch looking gaze. my daughter spoke "I'll just get my bag, I spoke in my sternest voice, "Barry if you don't treat my daughter right, "Lets just say ill mash you up, understand.... And then they left not the gentlemen of before no jacket to lend her, just walking out the door like he had just been roasted by my words... Hours had past worry in my thoughts then my daughter came back, tears in her eyes. "What ever was the matter my darling? *"He had steamed off because I wanted to know why he never leant me his jacket,* "He said I was being a dumpling with him, *"So I told him you were right and that he had a chip on his shoulder, he replied I was fried,* I told her that potato's can be a little mashed, and a chip they will always have, because you cant change a potato they will always have a little starch inside...
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lonely chord tired guitar play soul numb as callous fingers heart hollow as sea rusted string flat wrought steel, peeled off tire fire face melted fleeting garish glimpse of starch shirt 60s itchy lice life like gene spliced flight patterns bioengineered space age Han Solo with (hold) full o'Spice Synthetic Cannabinoids sprayed on Marshmallow leaf ruin life Chewie grab the bowcaster, ill grab the glock foe blaster Smash, mash and crashed'er like Britons of Lancaster
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Jun 2, 2016
Jun 2, 2016 at 3:04 AM UTC
dead strings detuned to e flat
So I took her to the river believing she was a maiden, but she already had a husband. It was on St. James night and almost as if I was obliged to. The lanterns went out and the crickets lightened up. In the farthest street corners I touched her sleeping ******* and they opened to me suddenly like spikes of hyacinth. The starch of her petticoat sounded in my ears like a piece of silk rent by ten knives. Without silver light on their foilage the trees had grown larger and a horizon of dogs barked very far from the river. Past the blackberries, the reeds and the hawthorne underneath her cluster of hair I made a hollow in the earth I took off my tie, she too off her dress. I, my belt with the revolver. She, her four bodices. Nor nard nor mother-o-pearl have skin so fine, nor does glass with silver shine with such brillance. Her thighs slipped away from me like startled fish, half full of fire, half full of cold. That night I ran on the best of roads mounted on a nacre mare without bridle stirrups. As a man, I won't repeat the tings she said to me. The light of understanding has made me more discreet. Smeared with sand and kisses I took her away from the river. The sowrds of the liles battled with the air. I behaved like what I am, like a proper gypsy. I gave her a large sewing basket, of straw-colored satin, but I did not fall in love for although she had a husband she told me she as a maiden when I took her to the river.
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The Faithless Wife
Knuckles knee-deep in bright orange dust Her words half-crunched In a hurricane of hurried lunch I mix in wit to her serious plot Her mouth flies open, filled with half-chewed corn starch And she still looks like a matriarch We turned the radio on But was gradually turned down The ridged **** twisted all the way around So she'd mention a song and I'd ask her "How's that goes again?" To hear her voice slip in and out When really I knew it all by heart Even when there was no reason to, We smiled Giggled off each other's cues She looked from me once Her eyes widening like a telescope Mouth gaping, absent of laughter, as she braced a hand against my chest The liquid-like sucker punch Of the metal colliding quick Like jelly under a rolling pin, I stuck Grasping onto prayers with my fingers loose as God She didn't scream, just held my shirt As my tumbleweed Taurus vaulted yet another foot Into the same solid ground, the same stars of shards Mingled with bright orange dust sifting through the air.
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Oct 24, 2012
Oct 24, 2012 at 9:43 PM UTC
Cheese Fries
It was January of 1994 when he told me, "Son, true love, well, it's hard to come around." Or maybe he said, "come by." I can't remember exactly. Memory is foggy, age, you know. I never thought I'd ever say that. I've had a pet since I was born. Not the same one, they always end up dying. I haven't gone a year without one close by me. Before bed, I pucker my lips and pretend to kiss twice behind both ears while whispering to them, "Goodnight." Then, I lightly scratch their sanctum, be it cage or kennel, so they know I am no ghost; I am truly there. Dog, cat, rat, it doesn't matter really; they all just blankly stare back and continue with their nightly business. "If you love something, it can never leave. Only hate can drive others away, and that, that's called, 'self-hate.'" Then he laughed, he laughed out with stretched cheeks and gold-capped teeth and that "eyeglasses-off" look as if the world was deaf, blind, and dumb. His white collar crisp, stiff with starch. That morning was ours. Within earshot, the cat was mewing, awaiting our kitchen entry where, in the white-walled corner, sat his bowl, staring at the ceiling, brown, dry, stale. That morning always comes back to me like a child returning from school. Homework on the table and a snack to eat just before rushing out to meet up with the neighborhood kids for a game of football down the road. They've surely had talks like ours, Dad. They've rubbed noses and brushed pink cheeks of late lovers, flashed back to mother and wrestling with brother. Those important conversations that only return with age, we all remember them.
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Feb 8, 2013
Feb 8, 2013 at 9:23 PM UTC
A Father-Son Talk
It was January of 1994 when he told me, "Son, true love, well, it's hard to come around." Or maybe he said, "come by." I can't remember exactly. Memory is foggy, age, you know. I never thought I'd ever say that. I've had a pet since I was born. Not the same one, they always end up dying. I haven't gone a year without one close by me. Before bed, I pucker my lips and pretend to kiss twice behind both ears while whispering to them, "Goodnight." Then, I lightly scratch their sanctum, be it cage or kennel, so they know I am no ghost; I am truly there. Dog, cat, rat, it doesn't matter really; they all just blankly stare back and continue with their nightly business. "If you love something, it can never leave. Only hate can drive others away, and that, that's called, 'self-hate.'" Then he laughed, he laughed out with stretched cheeks and gold-capped teeth and that "eyeglasses-off" look as if the world was deaf, blind, and dumb. His white collar crisp, stiff with starch. That morning was ours. Within earshot, the cat was mewing, awaiting our kitchen entry where, in the white-walled corner, sat his bowl, staring at the ceiling, brown, dry, stale. That morning always comes back to me like a child returning from school. Homework on the table and a snack to eat just before rushing out to meet up with the neighborhood kids for a game of football down the road. They've surely had talks like ours, Dad. They've rubbed noses and brushed pink cheeks of late lovers, flashed back to mother and wrestling with brother. Those important conversations that only return with age, we all remember them.
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Forest sentinel, Bi-centennial -Chop- Feet of roots, Fingers of shoots -Chop- Hands of stems, Arms of limbs -Chop- Skin of bark, Flesh of starch -Chop- Beard of moss, Nothing of dross -Chop- Blood of sap, Crack of snap -Chop- And that was that...
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Nov 12, 2018
Nov 12, 2018 at 12:17 AM UTC
Old Growth
So many eyes lay upon cursing skin crevices grit, pockmarked with each thrashing intrusion budding enthusiasm, awash, boiled... suffer, oh suffer, green potato. Crinkle cut?  Jib of glut! manipulate form and function stain of starch satisfaction... coffer, oh coffer, oh cough, ahem, cough! It ain't about money. That's right, mustn't disturb the soil, So many eyes lay upon cursing skin crevices grit, pockmarked with each thrashing intrusion budding enthusiasm, awash, boiled... suffer, oh suffer, green potato. A memory, distant, the taste of that green potato rots in the kitchen... eat it, enjoy the flavour, dine on discourse... digest it, bury it deep inside, release it, let it grow again.
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Jan 16, 2012
Jan 16, 2012 at 1:58 AM UTC
Green Potato
i started seeing the stars brighter when you left. started seeing myself brighter. before, all i could see was y o u . i could barely see myself. my soul was starving and my heart worn, falling into bed every night without taking time to change the sheets. i hate to admit it, but i think i forgot how to be myself once i had you. maybe it was the timing, and maybe i was just divided—my feet in two doorways, leaving one place and entering another. i was stuck in the hallway with starch-white walls and no light. and i ignored it because i could, because i had you to distract me. but now i can’t avoid it. i look at my life now and see it as cold, hard clay, aching for my hands to turn it into something beautiful, something with meaning. everything is falling, and i’m surrounded by empty water, but i feel like i’m being reborn. i forgot how to look at the world through my rose-colored glasses; lost them in my mother’s house and settled for grey. that isn’t me. maybe i was too crowded by rosebushes smothering me from seeing any sort of sunlight, but now the soil is clear and all i can do is let the sun touch me until i turn into something just as beautiful alone.
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Jun 2, 2018
Jun 2, 2018 at 6:10 PM UTC
beautiful alone
anger pie ingredients: 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 8 tablespoons butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes and frozen 4 tablespoons vegetable shortening, in small pieces, frozen 8 tablespoons very cold cream cheese, in small pieces 1/3 cup ice-cold water 3 skinned kittens (preferably still kind of alive) 1 cup dead Armenian tears 1/4 cup potato starch 1/2 teaspoon almond extract 1 tablespoon butter, in small pieces 1 seven year old, lightly beaten 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar directions: 1.Take ingredients 2. Stare at the until the scorn bursts them into flames 3. Force feed it to a dying cancer patient
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Sep 29, 2010
Sep 29, 2010 at 8:50 PM UTC
How to make an Anger Pie
"Don't drink that coffee," my friend shouted at me, "That caffeine will **** you!" he said impatiently! Drinking water is bad for your health, the feds put fluorine in it to **** you by stealth." Paternally he whispered, "Whatever you do, don't drink cows' milk. the sucklings its made for aren't close to our ilk. The consumption of pigs and animals that **** most certainly will keep you from obtaining sweet bliss. And stay away from creatures that swim in the sea, their svelte tasty bodies are filled with deadly mercury." And then he looked aghast at my plate, "Tell me you're not eating that excrement," he sighed, "Do you really want to die... from eating french fries? Don't you know that fried things are the scourge of the planet, cooked in hydrogenated fats by some woman named Janet? Avoid eggs, if you can, and by no means eat the yolks, your cholesterol will rise, that's no funny joke." Then, with a scowl in his voice he said, "Avoid plants grown in this country, sprayed with pesticides and poisons by corporate monkeys. And stay away from foods grown in the East, they're probably fertilized by humans, dragons and beasts. Potatoes, tomatoes have starch and acid, that eats up your guts and make you grow flaccid. Lemons and limes will ruin your pretty white teeth, making you go snaggle right in your sleep." With a superior air he ended his harangue, "Beer, wine, and all forms of liquor, Can you think of anything that will **** you quicker? Don't eat rich chocolate--it'll make you a **** humping everything in sight like a mad deer in rut. Cakes, breads and cookies too, contain sugars and flours that's sooooo baaaaad for you. ~~~ I'm hungry and starving and don't know what to do, I want to eat something but afraid to give it a chew. Though all of this leaves me feeling quite uneasy and queasy, I'm closing the door and doing as I pleasey!
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Jul 19, 2010
Jul 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM UTC
Ain't nothin left to eat!
"Don't drink that coffee," my friend shouted at me, "That caffeine will **** you!" he said impatiently! Drinking water is bad for your health, the feds put fluorine in it to **** you by stealth." Paternally he whispered, "Whatever you do, don't drink cows' milk. the sucklings its made for aren't close to our ilk. The consumption of pigs and animals that **** most certainly will keep you from obtaining sweet bliss. And stay away from creatures that swim in the sea, their svelte tasty bodies are filled with deadly mercury." And then he looked aghast at my plate, "Tell me you're not eating that excrement," he sighed, "Do you really want to die... from eating french fries? Don't you know that fried things are the scourge of the planet, cooked in hydrogenated fats by some woman named Janet? Avoid eggs, if you can, and by no means eat the yolks, your cholesterol will rise, that's no funny joke." Then, with a scowl in his voice he said, "Avoid plants grown in this country, sprayed with pesticides and poisons by corporate monkeys. And stay away from foods grown in the East, they're probably fertilized by humans, dragons and beasts. Potatoes, tomatoes have starch and acid, that eats up your guts and make you grow flaccid. Lemons and limes will ruin your pretty white teeth, making you go snaggle right in your sleep." With a superior air he ended his harangue, "Beer, wine, and all forms of liquor, Can you think of anything that will **** you quicker? Don't eat rich chocolate--it'll make you a **** humping everything in sight like a mad deer in rut. Cakes, breads and cookies too, contain sugars and flours that's sooooo baaaaad for you. ~~~ I'm hungry and starving and don't know what to do, I want to eat something but afraid to give it a chew. Though all of this leaves me feeling quite uneasy and queasy, I'm closing the door and doing as I pleasey!
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The penguins march On a stretch of snowy starch Ignoring the onlookers But wolf whistling among the crowd, the hookers The sounds clearly getting louder Is that... is that gun powder? Gouging out the eyes to block out the sight Is definitely not the answer to your plight The confetti flies upwards and away To turn into a malleable *** of clay Juggling the yard of goat string cheese More after this message? Yes please! Longing on the thought of belonging As our not so miserable existence we seem to be prolonging Your thoughts, i wish to sway With my words, let me take you away
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Apr 11, 2013
Apr 11, 2013 at 12:37 AM UTC
Dalicate whiskers of the young and old
The dust has been lifted Wise words from the man in the red truck As he eluded provocative ants dancing ‘round cigarette ash Pokemon never behaved like jackals Or any other eighties hair metal bands for that matter At least Pantera shredded their way out of that shtick It allowed me to quench my thirst with neon Gatorade And stomaching peninsulas This is why starch as a way to mend secular viral videos Was never a serious consideration That right belongs to the intergalactic Prince Albert Of the Ziggy Stardust federation It’s what made me feel secure with crack and root beer Can I get a signal out here, Or did the waffle train miss me by a nano robot? God save this illustrious choir of cephalopods and naval lint Before they find their way into the haphazard way I chop chicken under drunken stars A wizard once led me to this concussion But I cannot remember the first door he smashed with a crowbar I know it had only been six years since Julia Roberts was in Erin Brockovich The movie about the alien cyborg, who birthed Africanized Native American bumble bees Or was that merely a fan fiction continuation? That’s when the itch in my head stopped….
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Apr 24, 2013
Apr 24, 2013 at 4:38 PM UTC
A Critical Analysis of the Open Heart Perjury Theory
My mother told me when I was a boy Son look up, and see it, that grand old sky. But now I suspect, her meaning was coy. When I look up, I see that we will die. This great ordeal will end without a ring. For I have befallen no matriarch. Not one coy mistress to dinner I bring. For life is as passioned as my food's starch. I don't want a body, merely your heart. I no longer care, life has lost its art.
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 10:23 PM UTC
Reflection of an Artist
Corduroy Bucket Hat, Correspond too that The core to your heart A pond Stop skipping that Shade around your eyes Keep in mind the light in your optics Know that the op-s-tic Tock that got the sky limiters chattin’ pishposh Then pour your sun out through the sourdough clouds Imagine the bucket hat Capturing all that Static starch sound • My view of an old love song
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Dec 29, 2020
Dec 29, 2020 at 9:12 PM UTC
Buckets of Love