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"stationed" poems
Idly stationed in the bucolic hills, sits a stone well; unknown when abandoned. Though her people foregone, water yet fills as much as you can want for. In tandem, are high trees less old than she; occluding the view from pathless and naive strangers. As their wish in well is to keep obtuse, those that siren would otherwise capture. Her drink, one thinks they'll constantly receive. In reality, they'll only be taken. Youth will fade as the heart minutely bleeds. Their hollow, dried corpse will be forsaken. And though her hole but a tall dark crevice, I see my reflection on the surface.
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Jul 12, 2018
Jul 12, 2018 at 4:16 PM UTC
Sonnet to The Well
My balance is often complicated by the complex complications of construed situations. The uncensored limitations, the spiteful aggravation; they think these are indications that I should melt with temptation through my frustration. But if you felt my vibration, it would send you to the sky, where I am stationed. I could never be what you want me to be in your dreams, it seems that the seams to my soul are more than what you see them to be. You don't see me. I became transparent, hold me to the light for my transparency to be clear to read. Clarity will arrive here when your conscience calls and you appear. My heart blends in the healing water that has a hallow father. He is the fire that breeds these things that allow me to bleed and be these words that you see. My balance is often complicated but I have never once waited to be rejuvenated. The light of the moon illuminated my sight through my doom. I dance with the stars and i hope we all meet soon, so that we can bloom as these words fill up the space in this 4 cornered room. -L.G
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Oct 26, 2014
Oct 26, 2014 at 8:06 AM UTC
Complicated Balance
1126 Shall I take thee, the Poet said To the propounded word? Be stationed with the Candidates Till I have finer tried— The Poet searched Philology And when about to ring For the suspended Candidate There came unsummoned in— That portion of the Vision The Word applied to fill Not unto nomination The Cherubim reveal—
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Shall I take thee, the Poet said
I can't even remember how it started... Drifting from who I was, My normal just slowly departed from me. Foggy glimpses of the boy I used to be. Ripping through the last shreds of my humanity, Right on the edge of insanity, I'm not but a shadow of what, and who I was, Can you guess what was the cause? As time goes on, I am more and more losing myself, Turning absolutely insane, there is now no sense of self. I'm starting to be really bloodthirsty. As time goes on, I more and more want to hurt somebody, Physically. I want to feel something, anything! I'm slowly losing my sanity, It's getting real hard to keep myself from breaking the limits, Of this society we live in! But can you blame me? I just want to feel excited, Happy, Have a geniune smile on my **** face. Do you comprehend An existence like mine, Where you feel nothing? While people around you find happiness, And joy, In things that mean nothing to you? I've been resisting my urges for a while, But I'm slowly getting out of control, Nothing can make me whole. Things are gonna get real ugly, Real soon. Therapy won't help this insane existence of mine. Trust me, they tried, and tried. Phsychologists, psychiatrists, 5 types of antidepressants, A bunch of relaxants, And diagnosis of many, many mental disorders. Nothing could get me back in order, I guess they were too late, I already crossed all sane borders. Yup... For years, to no avail. Go on, mock me, say I'm insane; But it's your kind that did this to me. But please, watch your tongue, Words are hurtful. Hush now, won't you stay a while? Join me with a painted smile. Tragic faces, Stationed at my bedside, Warm embraces, While I'm hollow on the inside. Their eyes betray them, This is only a painted smile. After my attempts, People just wouldn't buy my painted smiles, So they tried, and tried, Everything they could think of. Religion, mental hospitals, therapy, and medication... If only they knew what a monster I try to keep inside every day, Will their opinions change that day, Will they regret it when I unleash the beast inside? So 'till the day I tear myself from the inside, Won't you join me with a painted smile?
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Aug 17, 2018
Aug 17, 2018 at 3:10 PM UTC
I am going crazy.
I can't even remember how it started... Drifting from who I was, My normal just slowly departed from me. Foggy glimpses of the boy I used to be. Ripping through the last shreds of my humanity, Right on the edge of insanity, I'm not but a shadow of what, and who I was, Can you guess what was the cause? As time goes on, I am more and more losing myself, Turning absolutely insane, there is now no sense of self. I'm starting to be really bloodthirsty. As time goes on, I more and more want to hurt somebody, Physically. I want to feel something, anything! I'm slowly losing my sanity, It's getting real hard to keep myself from breaking the limits, Of this society we live in! But can you blame me? I just want to feel excited, Happy, Have a geniune smile on my **** face. Do you comprehend An existence like mine, Where you feel nothing? While people around you find happiness, And joy, In things that mean nothing to you? I've been resisting my urges for a while, But I'm slowly getting out of control, Nothing can make me whole. Things are gonna get real ugly, Real soon. Therapy won't help this insane existence of mine. Trust me, they tried, and tried. Phsychologists, psychiatrists, 5 types of antidepressants, A bunch of relaxants, And diagnosis of many, many mental disorders. Nothing could get me back in order, I guess they were too late, I already crossed all sane borders. Yup... For years, to no avail. Go on, mock me, say I'm insane; But it's your kind that did this to me. But please, watch your tongue, Words are hurtful. Hush now, won't you stay a while? Join me with a painted smile. Tragic faces, Stationed at my bedside, Warm embraces, While I'm hollow on the inside. Their eyes betray them, This is only a painted smile. After my attempts, People just wouldn't buy my painted smiles, So they tried, and tried, Everything they could think of. Religion, mental hospitals, therapy, and medication... If only they knew what a monster I try to keep inside every day, Will their opinions change that day, Will they regret it when I unleash the beast inside? So 'till the day I tear myself from the inside, Won't you join me with a painted smile?
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A desolate shore, The sinister seduction of the Moon, The menace of the irreclaimable Sea. Flaunting, ****** and grim, From cloud to cloud along her beat, Leering her battered and inveterate leer, She signals where he prowls in the dark alone, Her horrible old man, Mumbling old oaths and warming His villainous old bones with villainous talk-- The secrets of their grisly housekeeping Since they went out upon the pad In the first twilight of self-conscious Time: Growling, hideous and hoarse, Tales of unnumbered Ships, Goodly and strong, Companions of the Advance, In some vile alley of the night Waylaid and bludgeoned-- Dead. Deep cellared in primeval ooze, Ruined, dishonoured, spoiled, They lie where the lean water-worm Crawls free of their secrets, and their broken sides Bulge with the slime of life. Thus they abide, Thus fouled and desecrate, The summons of the Trumpet, and the while These Twain, their murderers, Unravined, imperturbable, unsubdued, Hang at the heels of their children--She aloft As in the shining streets, He as in ambush at some accomplice door. The stalwart Ships, The beautiful and bold adventurers! Stationed out yonder in the isle, The tall Policeman, Flashing his bull's-eye, as he peers About him in the ancient vacancy, Tells them this way is safety--this way home.
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A Desolate Shore
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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Mar 21, 2014
Mar 21, 2014 at 8:13 AM UTC
Patrick Henry: Liberty or death
They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
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You swell some strain on me, You, middle kingdom! Eradicating small detachments, Of both sailors and marines. They were ranked on islets and reefs, With an integer of nine – There in the island next to me, I’m sure, you know who Spratly is. Always wanting such detachment To be eradicated by your own; Now stationed On a World War II era landing ship. Your toy-ships came near me, With 9-kilometer of the LST. “It’s there illegally,” How adamant that be! I’ve tipped you off already, Surely will I stand firm! Then, you’ve countered me on! – Opting for the ******** of more skyscrapers; Those that are on stilts; Now nearby two Reefs & a Bank? – Nearby my darling Palawan Island! “There is no room at all,” For the negotiation on some point, You’ve declared. Oh, here’s my friend, U.S. Left us with course of action to try; Everyone calm down, Be less provocative. For often, he flies over; Probing some stuffs. You are the biggest offender, my friend; In this dispute, you show no sign of slowing; Or backing, down. But hey, I won’t give up! (9/9/13)
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 10:03 PM UTC
Islet of Dispute
Skin as White as Winter Snow Legs as Boundless as the Sea, Stationed in Venice or Bordeaux From Blue-collar to Bourgeois. Hair is Chic, Yet not Pristine Soft and Cropped and Fine, Cheekbones High a Distinct Ravine Embellished by a High Neckline. Undefined Peaks and Troughs   Cumbersome and Lank, Garnished in the Finest Cloth Awash with Unassuming Swank. Miss Androgynous hear my call For I've Become a Virile Gent, I Yearn for your Unwieldy Frame That God in Heaven Sent February 2011
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Apr 3, 2011
Apr 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM UTC
Miss Androgynous
Hearing footsteps but are they mine In my dreams, I'm wasting time Now waking up to reality Are the same words guiding me The words that were never said The ones that filled up every inch of my head The question is... am I living or am I dead Not in a psychotic way But in a way that... does my life have a presence Presence being a live and forgotten being death... So what route can I take to stay existing And not a dwindling thought These are the things that fill my head.. While I'm stationed in the dark
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Jun 18, 2014
Jun 18, 2014 at 6:46 AM UTC
Finding My Way
Bees were swarming around the eastern shallow end, a warning that the cherries are deepened and smattering the pond's bank with nature's jam, the small tree a joy to the family, but nobody around much now to keep them picked and eaten. The snapping turtles have had their fill of the cherries and basked lazily in the center of the deep end, at least two of them and as I'm a frequent friend, they stationed amiably as I walked, picked up and threw grasshoppers to the fish in the water. The spiders will appear in proportion soon to the apples growing on three trees at the edge of the woods, about 40 feet south of the pond, with a jut of the creek in between them. Every year I get my sweet fill of those apples, planted 50 years ago or so by my great-grandfather, don't know what they are, maybe Braeburn, judging by their mottled colors of red and yellow.
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Aug 2, 2015
Aug 2, 2015 at 10:05 AM UTC
bees, cherries, turtles and apples
a white picket fence bordered the backyard of my childhood home, a neatly trimmed hedge my father planted himself framed the front, there used to be a pine tree, it was replaced with an artificial fish pond a decade ago, the house was yellow, not musty or vibrant, but like a sunflower with a dark green door atop seven steps leading to the front porch that used to leak rainwater into our pots and pans whenever a storm came. i used to have a telescope stationed in my bedroom window to observe the bank across the street, there were two lenses, one magnified the zoom while the other inverted the image, i remember watching people work at their desks attached to the ceiling, but it just made my head hurt. when the bank would close at dusk i would tilt the telescope to glance at the night sky. i always searched for Mars, i sometimes claimed to have found it but it was probably just space-junk. that same telescope now rests collecting dust in my basement, searching for stars amidst forgotten treasures.
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Feb 12, 2013
Feb 12, 2013 at 2:19 PM UTC
telescope
-arriving at eglington west station- there's the fragrance drifting off of her shoulders as she checks her reflection on smartphone mirror app, floral pattern matching the bright of her nails, the sun shining onto sequined flats that show no wear. -glencairn, glencairn station- there's her youth indicated by backpack, baseball cap, and conversation subject matter discussing video game system merit, there's the hand me down excitement of muddy knees and torn jeans, -arriving at lawrence west station- each millimetre contributing to grimace, beard whisker, wrinkle stationed to the sides of each of his eyes, weary traveller, seemingly ignoring everyone with grocery bag occupying chair like child, -Yorkdale, Yorkdale station- we used to weave through these crowds and people watch together, and the people would watch us, young love, so simple, oblivious to stage, fingers interlocked, blocking crowds from passing by, there was the taste of strawberry banana smoothie, freshly squeezed, on your lips, we'd race up escalators, only to circle back down, we'd find the nook of book store, to steal a moment, you'd ignite, ignoring the clatter of barrista, starbucks adjacent, and there would walk by or sit dolled up princess, adolescent tomboy, aging cantankerous senior, these faces haven't changed as much as ours have. -please stand clear of the doors-
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Jul 1, 2013
Jul 1, 2013 at 1:12 AM UTC
subways
I made a mistake last year letting you go. I let you say goodbye and I keep trying to convince you that you still like me. But no matter how hard I try you don't like me. You want me to stop being so pathetic and for me to get a life. If I'm so pathetic why be my friend? Your friends all dislike me is that why you keep telling me no? Maybe it's because I made the mistake when I was 11 and broke up with you after your family had an incident? It doesn't matter since I've told you why I like you and why you should like me but you like another. She lives in Japan since her father got stationed there. You said you might love her but she told you she could never like you like you like her. So I don't get how you call me pathetic and I'm not allowed to do the same to you.
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 9:50 PM UTC
Pathetic
486 I was the slightest in the House— I took the smallest Room— At night, my little Lamp, and Book— And one Geranium— So stationed I could catch the Mint That never ceased to fall— And just my Basket— Let me think—I’m sure— That this was all— I never spoke—unless addressed— And then, ’twas brief and low— I could not bear to live—aloud— The Racket shamed me so— And if it had not been so far— And any one I knew Were going—I had often thought How noteless—I could die—
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I was the slightest in the House
_________________________________________________________________________ * While the dawn storm blows, Baghdad is calling Soldiers stationed at the boundaries The houses are on blaze! Still, Desert wind is blowing so unkind! While the white ghost’s laughs, Baghdad is crying Bombs and shells blustered in the cities The huts are in flames! Still, Desert wind is blowing so unkind! While the dusk light fades, Baghdad is burning Sounds of boots repeat at the villages The Mosque is crowded! Still, Desert wind is blowing so unkind! While the dark night falls. The debris of war is floating Date palms line alone the shore in grief The women are being ***** Still, Desert wind is blowing so unkind! While the dawn wind blows, Mother’s breast bleeds Troupes watch in silence from top Blood is remixed with soil ! Still, Desert wind is blowing so unkind ! While the dusk light fades. Pregnant Mother’s are lamenting, Armored men near the entry ports. Father lost, Mother ***** ! Still, Desert wind is  blowing so unkind ! * __________________________________________________________________________ By Williamsji Maveli email [email protected] www.williamsgeorge.com www.moonmakers.com __________________________________________________________________________
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Feb 3, 2013
Feb 3, 2013 at 10:13 PM UTC
The Desert wind.....
When I was stationed at Enoggera, as a young platoon sergeant with 9 RAR, a Merino ram was offered, and accepted, as the Battalion mascot. The diggers called him Stan. The brigade RSM of the time was outraged because he viewed our adoption of Stan as a direct and improper play on his surname, which was Lamb. And, of course, he being as bald as a coot the diggers called him Curly. As I recall, Stan was a lively, ill disciplined beast with little respect for the niceties of service life, hence: When Stan-the-Ram met Curly Lamb a fracas did ensue. For Curly stood beside the road just outside B.H.Q.; His Sam Brown belt so shiny, his pace-stick 'neath one arm, The RSM of our brigade was used to war's alarm. But Stan, although a raw recruit and barely chewing grass, Unimpressed by Curly, charged and knocked him on his **** "It's contact rear" cried Curly, as he struggled to his feet, Turned about with arms akimbo his assailant for to meet. Meanwhile Stan's poor handler looked ready to desert 'cos Stan-the-Ram whilst in his care had Curly eating dirt. I guess he felt embarrassed, which was natural, wouldn't you? If involved in such a fracas outside of BHQ. Your questions are but natural and in answer I can swear, As these events unfolded I was marching off the square. Having Just dismissed defaulters I was feeling rather mean But my despondency was lifted by that ****** glorious scene. And in the mess that evening rang out laughter clear and loud, For I'd told them all my story and of Stan we felt quite proud. There was Sutherland and Massingham, and Peter Cowan too And Tim Daly called **** Gordon from his room, well, wouldn't you? And when **** heard my story he poured port into a glass, And we drank a toast to Stanly putting Curly on his ****
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Mar 10, 2019
Mar 10, 2019 at 1:45 AM UTC
A Memory
When I was stationed at Enoggera, as a young platoon sergeant with 9 RAR, a Merino ram was offered, and accepted, as the Battalion mascot. The diggers called him Stan. The brigade RSM of the time was outraged because he viewed our adoption of Stan as a direct and improper play on his surname, which was Lamb. And, of course, he being as bald as a coot the diggers called him Curly. As I recall, Stan was a lively, ill disciplined beast with little respect for the niceties of service life, hence: When Stan-the-Ram met Curly Lamb a fracas did ensue. For Curly stood beside the road just outside B.H.Q.; His Sam Brown belt so shiny, his pace-stick 'neath one arm, The RSM of our brigade was used to war's alarm. But Stan, although a raw recruit and barely chewing grass, Unimpressed by Curly, charged and knocked him on his **** "It's contact rear" cried Curly, as he struggled to his feet, Turned about with arms akimbo his assailant for to meet. Meanwhile Stan's poor handler looked ready to desert 'cos Stan-the-Ram whilst in his care had Curly eating dirt. I guess he felt embarrassed, which was natural, wouldn't you? If involved in such a fracas outside of BHQ. Your questions are but natural and in answer I can swear, As these events unfolded I was marching off the square. Having Just dismissed defaulters I was feeling rather mean But my despondency was lifted by that ****** glorious scene. And in the mess that evening rang out laughter clear and loud, For I'd told them all my story and of Stan we felt quite proud. There was Sutherland and Massingham, and Peter Cowan too And Tim Daly called **** Gordon from his room, well, wouldn't you? And when **** heard my story he poured port into a glass, And we drank a toast to Stanly putting Curly on his ****
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The village pump is where she was stationed Her purpose in life, to glean information Every morsel of 'news' she'd greedily savour Though reluctant to empty her head, to fill up her neighbour's That mucky young hussy's expecting you'll find I'm certain I know who did it this time He bought a bike, the crafty young fella And no good came on it Doris I tell ya He put one in Fram in the family way And thas a good fifteen mile away And if you ask me, he's too fond of his sister If there's a young'un who's willing round here he'd not miss her So lock up your daughter do she'll be the next He'll be snouting round here before long I expect And look at poor Bob, they say he's frustrated They reckon his hip bone is half discolated Same as old **** see him hick with his stick All wore up and not sixty as yit You don't look wholey clever yourself Doris you really should keep an eye on your health And Grandma Green has took to her bed I'll drop by there today, 'cos same as I say You're a long time dead Well I should be going, I've said too much already Cheerio now, and do you goo steady
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Nov 4, 2012
Nov 4, 2012 at 3:43 PM UTC
At the village pump
How are things going? I desperately want to ask But now I remember how I called you that night crying and desperate “Sorry dear, I have bigger priorities,” you mumbled nonchalantly in a tone that cut I guess what was important to you was your short silver dress which you had to keep tugging at And your layers of mascara which smeared in the heat and the sweat Maybe you didn't feel like being responsible or putting up a fight Didn't feel like talking in the pulsating strobe lights Where you drank and danced and smoked, Your hands around the masculine men with whom you hooked I wonder if you still would have hung up if you knew I was crying for you. And one year later you still haven’t changed You’re out of school and awfully deranged Lying at the side of the road in a drunken stupor, Stinking of smoke and giggling hoarse Your dress riding up mid-thigh and your heels strewn across the street Ordering McDonald’s, planting fries in your friend’s garden throwing fits Sitting in trolleys in supermarkets at 3 am in the morning screaming at the top of your lungs and I Miss you I miss you I miss you I miss you. If I ever saw you again I’d bury my face in your long raven hair and whisper how much you meant to me, once. I’d stroke your whiter than white skin, touched and kissed by fifty other men Bruised by the very people you call your friends And I’d cry in your chest and tell you to come back If all you’d do is swig down a bottle of beer And not look my way, but cackle cruelly wailing dear I would die more than a little inside You stopped caring about anything that was supposed to matter, Like being better than everyone and writing beautiful badass essays about saving the sharks (And understanding everything I never understood about myself and laughing at the things I used to say and pinning my name with stars on your charts) You forgot your dreams of wanting to travel and petting kangaroos, carving out something of yourself so they’d remember you for your passion and loneliness is the only place at which you’re stationed. Now all you’re doing is living monotonously, “the *** life” you call it, your dreams all burnt up in the intoxication of the hookah you pretend to love and dissolved in the alcohol you swallow now pulsing through your veins. Come back.
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May 18, 2014
May 18, 2014 at 8:31 AM UTC
How have you been?
How are things going? I desperately want to ask But now I remember how I called you that night crying and desperate “Sorry dear, I have bigger priorities,” you mumbled nonchalantly in a tone that cut I guess what was important to you was your short silver dress which you had to keep tugging at And your layers of mascara which smeared in the heat and the sweat Maybe you didn't feel like being responsible or putting up a fight Didn't feel like talking in the pulsating strobe lights Where you drank and danced and smoked, Your hands around the masculine men with whom you hooked I wonder if you still would have hung up if you knew I was crying for you. And one year later you still haven’t changed You’re out of school and awfully deranged Lying at the side of the road in a drunken stupor, Stinking of smoke and giggling hoarse Your dress riding up mid-thigh and your heels strewn across the street Ordering McDonald’s, planting fries in your friend’s garden throwing fits Sitting in trolleys in supermarkets at 3 am in the morning screaming at the top of your lungs and I Miss you I miss you I miss you I miss you. If I ever saw you again I’d bury my face in your long raven hair and whisper how much you meant to me, once. I’d stroke your whiter than white skin, touched and kissed by fifty other men Bruised by the very people you call your friends And I’d cry in your chest and tell you to come back If all you’d do is swig down a bottle of beer And not look my way, but cackle cruelly wailing dear I would die more than a little inside You stopped caring about anything that was supposed to matter, Like being better than everyone and writing beautiful badass essays about saving the sharks (And understanding everything I never understood about myself and laughing at the things I used to say and pinning my name with stars on your charts) You forgot your dreams of wanting to travel and petting kangaroos, carving out something of yourself so they’d remember you for your passion and loneliness is the only place at which you’re stationed. Now all you’re doing is living monotonously, “the *** life” you call it, your dreams all burnt up in the intoxication of the hookah you pretend to love and dissolved in the alcohol you swallow now pulsing through your veins. Come back.
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The Sixteen Sacred Palm-Nuts of Yoruba all enclosed in my fists, ready to spread holiness in Uganda and Baja California. I slept last night at the beach after a long hike down the Sierra Madres. (The Blackhawks were facing the kings of the western region tribe of Tongva, and if I were to be a spectator the privileged white male would win: so I didn't want to sin). No more. I went to Rent-A-Whore, that sunny afternoon. To my surprise it was stationed at the shore. Those were my goon days when I followed the guru      Long hair, beaded necklaces, and silk indigenous shirts from Nayarit. Just to **** Hunab Ku For you.
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May 25, 2014
May 25, 2014 at 6:08 PM UTC
AND NOW SOMETHING GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE
200 miles away connected by VNV Nation we speak of stars we speak of space & I just want to be weightless with you. We wrap our words in time machine blankets to worlds we’ve never been. Man, they don’t even exist in this scene but we’ve begun to vacation there to see the stars in space stationed there where we can just be weightless there be weightless there be weightless there I want to take you by the hand, & float on into our sonic plans to meet next week & fly inside each other’s stripes while the entire world just wonders why or how these psychedelic titans imbibe so much inspiration from their color blind mind’s eye… the echoes echoes of each other’s smile reminds me of the stars once in a while because I just want to be weightless weightless weightless with you.
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Dec 9, 2011
Dec 9, 2011 at 3:03 PM UTC
Weightless
You are so much more than a uniform. You are battered books, creases filled with sand. The kind so fine you can't shake it out. You are midnight Skype sessions where we rant about exes and poetry and you show me on google maps where you were stationed in Afghanistan and where there used to be a village which was home to a little girl whose body was never found. You are a whiskey fueled conversation about jumping from airplanes and how much you love writing on the the night I first met you. You remember.. when we shared the bed with your best friend who passed out around 2 a.m. because he drinks so much bourbon trying to forget the things he has seen. He's only twenty years old. Soldier, you are more than a college drop out waiting for his next deployment. You are a pair of brown eyes that squint when you get too drunk and a closet filled with 87 button-up shirts, which I think is ridiculous, but you like because it makes you look classy. You are a mind filled with articles from scientific journals pictures from 9gag and a mental list of the girls you've charmed (wait, you hate that word..) into your bed because you're making up for experiences you fear you'll never have if you come back next year in a body bag. You are more than government property, a tag on a uniform or a rank, soldier. If only you could see yourself the way I see you.
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Dec 4, 2012
Dec 4, 2012 at 2:31 PM UTC
Dear soldier
Fighter jets in formation Above Ekeberg Hill Remind me of years Spent on airbases During my time in the Royal Norwegian Air Force. I was stationed at NATO's Northernmost base during 9/11. Minutes after plane #2, I was upgraded to NATO Top Secret Clearance. Given live ammo for my P80. Witnessing the colonel's Marlboro Light shake in his Usually steady hand as I Approached; MSO briefcase Handcuffed to my wrist. There were papers inside I was expected to Die for. I was 22. Not even the police carry Firearms in this country. Not even the police are expected To give up ghost over information. For a nation of such ****** History, we maintain a mellow Attitude. We choose peace over "piece". Gun-sense over violent nonsense. Naïve? Maybe. There are nearly no shootings here. We've had one lethal act of Terrorism since WWII. We can live with that. Literally.
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May 8, 2014
May 8, 2014 at 10:39 AM UTC
Glock-Less Youngster
pacify my mouth with a white-knuckled fist and kiss my scars with a tongue void of emotion squeeze my knees together with hands too bruised to hold with my shaking fingers will the knots around my neck squeeze me like you do and leave bruises like you do the ends of your hairs tickle me along the sides of my neck and tell me to scream tell me to scream scream when you leave me alone after dark scream when the burn of alcohol no longer stings my lips scream when the bags under your eyes turn into luggage stationed next to the front door your hands around my neck tightens like the knots never could and the luggage looks like heaven and somehow i find myself in the inside of your suitcase
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 11:15 PM UTC
luggage
A swingset sits in the yard, starkly vacant, silent. A chair is stationed only feet away—the watchpost of an anxious pepere. Only days ago I sat there, watching the child of my old age Swinging, hanging upside down, proving to me and herself that nothing could scare her. “Watch me,” she commands, daring the gods to do their worst. All she needs from me is the occasional tribute to her skill. All I need from her is to bless me with her being. She is gone now, and there is no help for it. An empty swing, a useless chair, and the ache of loss. The swing haunts me with her voice and I listen to it in my mind. Dante got it wrong. It isn’t the dead who abandon hope— Hell is for the living.
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Jan 22, 2012
Jan 22, 2012 at 12:55 AM UTC
A Swingset in the Yard
When you catch the different sides, You might not realize the immediate difference. Open up your eyes and ears or else you’ll probably miss it. It’s inside of me, and you could try and see The 5 degrees that separate the Jekyll and Hyde who speak. One man he’s poet, the world loves it and are quick to show it. The other man, he’s a rapper who barely gets any notice. The focus is the content and the structure of the logic Both men in their own way are trying to muster up some knowledge College for the people in a way that can reach you. Feed news , education and awareness of life and its evils. Steal imagination, create a congregation, to face those who the world has misshapen. Stationed in a single mind, find your audience and awaken Take the ideas and preach to the attention that’s been raked in. For both states, there’s a difference approach, But the goals is to get you all on the same boat. Without the water, it’ll refuse to float. Jekyll and Hyde, well they’ve written their own notes Slow and steady, they’ll come when ready, focused. The Poet he’s very soft spoken and loving, The Rapper we’ll hes chosen to start shoving, Making his place because the road was never paved for him. Engraved his name along the way, hated but he stays going. Both men, they might meet in the long run, some would beg to differ Will it be violence or will the heads combine quicker? A wicker basket of ideas, fears,goals and cheers. Where will the audiences meet and emerge the tears? Hear this out, and to yourself I want you to decide. Through this writing, talking to you is which side? Has it been the poet, or is it that rapper? Are you destined for success or has he lead you too disaster? I guess, your future will depend on your answer. How you align your mind, after considering the factors. You strive to find yourself and the decision to capture. Rapture awaits, or is it green pastures. Jekyll...., Hyde, Speaking now Poet or Rapper?
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May 16, 2016
May 16, 2016 at 4:22 PM UTC
Jekyll & Hyde
When you catch the different sides, You might not realize the immediate difference. Open up your eyes and ears or else you’ll probably miss it. It’s inside of me, and you could try and see The 5 degrees that separate the Jekyll and Hyde who speak. One man he’s poet, the world loves it and are quick to show it. The other man, he’s a rapper who barely gets any notice. The focus is the content and the structure of the logic Both men in their own way are trying to muster up some knowledge College for the people in a way that can reach you. Feed news , education and awareness of life and its evils. Steal imagination, create a congregation, to face those who the world has misshapen. Stationed in a single mind, find your audience and awaken Take the ideas and preach to the attention that’s been raked in. For both states, there’s a difference approach, But the goals is to get you all on the same boat. Without the water, it’ll refuse to float. Jekyll and Hyde, well they’ve written their own notes Slow and steady, they’ll come when ready, focused. The Poet he’s very soft spoken and loving, The Rapper we’ll hes chosen to start shoving, Making his place because the road was never paved for him. Engraved his name along the way, hated but he stays going. Both men, they might meet in the long run, some would beg to differ Will it be violence or will the heads combine quicker? A wicker basket of ideas, fears,goals and cheers. Where will the audiences meet and emerge the tears? Hear this out, and to yourself I want you to decide. Through this writing, talking to you is which side? Has it been the poet, or is it that rapper? Are you destined for success or has he lead you too disaster? I guess, your future will depend on your answer. How you align your mind, after considering the factors. You strive to find yourself and the decision to capture. Rapture awaits, or is it green pastures. Jekyll...., Hyde, Speaking now Poet or Rapper?
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