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Three Minute Warning A messenger delivers A three minute warning As I lay in bed at 10:30 am (Resting in preparation for, not from, our oops, early morning hike). Breakfast will be ready in 3, Get your **** in gear or else It will be cold, I'll be mad, And you will answer to a Higher Authority. No problem cause I already know All I need is two. Splash water on my face Now I'm presentable enough to the human race, current company probably won't be happy, But I ain't telling her, are you? Shave! You crazed? It is a three day weekend, Every day a July Fourth, Celebrating freedom from the European tyranny, Of shaving smooth  every day! Splash water on my head, count with me, Five brush strokes as you can plainly see Is a classic case of overcompensating In my geling n' hair stylin' Brush my teeth, well, I hope 2 full minutes of rinsing with  CVS Green stuff, mouthwash, will have to suffice. Blast my deodorant both sides, Long and strong, wearin' now My bold blue *** husk of musk, Cause I am a very considerate fellow Who happens to really have stunk. Clean T- shirt and shorts, Yes, clean underwear too, Leaves me a whole minute to write this scribble. My flip flop noises coming down the hallway, Are the butler announcing our joint arrival, Me and my poem. Lest you think this is paean to men Another grand male boast, Be advised this ditty be writty By a man who, while no longer gritty, Just put jelly on his scrambled eggs And ketchup on his toast! Mmmmmmm there might be a poem Lurking in that too...
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May 27, 2013
May 27, 2013 at 11:50 AM UTC
Three Minute Warning (A True Story)
Three Minute Warning A messenger delivers A three minute warning As I lay in bed at 10:30 am (Resting in preparation for, not from, our oops, early morning hike). Breakfast will be ready in 3, Get your **** in gear or else It will be cold, I'll be mad, And you will answer to a Higher Authority. No problem cause I already know All I need is two. Splash water on my face Now I'm presentable enough to the human race, current company probably won't be happy, But I ain't telling her, are you? Shave! You crazed? It is a three day weekend, Every day a July Fourth, Celebrating freedom from the European tyranny, Of shaving smooth  every day! Splash water on my head, count with me, Five brush strokes as you can plainly see Is a classic case of overcompensating In my geling n' hair stylin' Brush my teeth, well, I hope 2 full minutes of rinsing with  CVS Green stuff, mouthwash, will have to suffice. Blast my deodorant both sides, Long and strong, wearin' now My bold blue *** husk of musk, Cause I am a very considerate fellow Who happens to really have stunk. Clean T- shirt and shorts, Yes, clean underwear too, Leaves me a whole minute to write this scribble. My flip flop noises coming down the hallway, Are the butler announcing our joint arrival, Me and my poem. Lest you think this is paean to men Another grand male boast, Be advised this ditty be writty By a man who, while no longer gritty, Just put jelly on his scrambled eggs And ketchup on his toast! Mmmmmmm there might be a poem Lurking in that too...
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me truck me truck is where i get my luck good luck, bad luck, nice luck me truck stunk like a skunk that seems like bad luck but it was the good skunk the wan that gets u bunked me cat has a bad case of lice no more chasing ***** mice the stupid thing only eats rice the ganga it smokes is so nice it somkes great out of me pipe my truck makes me lots of money me honey likes me money me brain aint very funny i also aint a big smarty so me truck is me only option i like it, its so very nice almost as good as mariwawa otherwise known as de ganga good bye tank u truck for me money and me food to feed me fam and me ganga addiction
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 11:32 AM UTC
me truck
Abigail Primpot, Abigail Primpot,               …stirred her iron *** Abigail Primpot, Abigail Primpot,              …home of death and rot, Abigail Primpot sewed and stitched a lot. She produced a sweater that shined like treasure,                            …and no one else has ever seen much better! Abigail Primpot learned to cook from old wives’ tales in an old dusty book. Frog legs, bird gizzard, wolf’s bane, small lizard, one rotten apple and one sharp tooth, …cup of mead, some spices and a bottle of vermouth, a chant and a song and a wizard’s spell, …and a whirlpool in the cauldron that went to Hell! Abigail Primpot likes to stitch ‘cause she is a witch and though she was quite young; she lived with snakes, bees and scorpions and things that stung! *Abigail Primpot would become a Beast when she wrapped herself in her shining fleece!* Abigail Primpot,               ...her home stunk of death and rot, Abigail Primpot,               ...sewed and stitched a lot, Abigail Primpot,               ...she had an iron *** Abigail Primpot, Abigail Primpot.
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Jun 17, 2016
Jun 17, 2016 at 4:29 PM UTC
Abigail Primpot
Part I The house is as haunted as its name, The house really isn’t the same! The people in it are dead and gone, The trees and bushes are not cut; There is a graveyard past the woodshed hut. The graveyard is covered with leaves and moss, Leaves that the wind has tossed, To be tossed again no more; One day like them in the sky I’ll soar; Only to be known as them no more. The rain is streaming down, And there they are lying safe and sound, While the rain beside them pours all around. Low! A car pulls up to the house, Yet there they are still lying as quiet as a mouse, The lightning flashes and hits the ground; With a loud and bellowing sound; Yet the still it do not hear; Even though it is loud and clear. Why can’t you it hear? Don’t you know its loud and clear? We are the dead do you expect us to hear, The things that to you sound loud and clear? We are the dead and you are alive and you can hear things we can’t, Don’t you know you’re waking the dead? Go away you little scant. The rain is coming down in torrents, Yet there they are lying dormant; I thought this house would look better in Spring, But no, not even when the birds begin to sing.                                                          Part II There is darkness everywhere, There is lightning in the air; There the lady ghost sits in her chair, Look at the car sitting by the house over there. The skeleton in the locked trunk, By now hath stunk, Until he could stink no more. . . In that trunk sitting by the attic door. Is he the dead that must be respected like the others, Fathers, daughters, husbands, wives, and Mothers? Must we be so quiet as a mouse, That we aren’t heard in that dark old house? Must we so soon go away? And never again here we stay? There is an air of creepiness about the place, And they that are buried there do not run the humane race. They were cold ever since that night, When their family saw and told the sight. Yet they so alive alive seem, To me it is but a dream, While I sit beside the clogged up stream This place is haunted, I could scream! Yet I keep it all in, I can hear that dead old hen, Still clucking her evening song, Almost all the night long. And while she’s dead I know she’s not, It was her I loved a lot! The big old rooster isn’t here though to scare her anymore, Perching up on his perch behind the door, He was a Rode Island Red, And he isn’t here because the butcher cut his head "I am so sorry," now I said.       *** _________Marian_________***
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Oct 28, 2012
Oct 28, 2012 at 5:59 PM UTC
Haunted House.
Part I The house is as haunted as its name, The house really isn’t the same! The people in it are dead and gone, The trees and bushes are not cut; There is a graveyard past the woodshed hut. The graveyard is covered with leaves and moss, Leaves that the wind has tossed, To be tossed again no more; One day like them in the sky I’ll soar; Only to be known as them no more. The rain is streaming down, And there they are lying safe and sound, While the rain beside them pours all around. Low! A car pulls up to the house, Yet there they are still lying as quiet as a mouse, The lightning flashes and hits the ground; With a loud and bellowing sound; Yet the still it do not hear; Even though it is loud and clear. Why can’t you it hear? Don’t you know its loud and clear? We are the dead do you expect us to hear, The things that to you sound loud and clear? We are the dead and you are alive and you can hear things we can’t, Don’t you know you’re waking the dead? Go away you little scant. The rain is coming down in torrents, Yet there they are lying dormant; I thought this house would look better in Spring, But no, not even when the birds begin to sing.                                                          Part II There is darkness everywhere, There is lightning in the air; There the lady ghost sits in her chair, Look at the car sitting by the house over there. The skeleton in the locked trunk, By now hath stunk, Until he could stink no more. . . In that trunk sitting by the attic door. Is he the dead that must be respected like the others, Fathers, daughters, husbands, wives, and Mothers? Must we be so quiet as a mouse, That we aren’t heard in that dark old house? Must we so soon go away? And never again here we stay? There is an air of creepiness about the place, And they that are buried there do not run the humane race. They were cold ever since that night, When their family saw and told the sight. Yet they so alive alive seem, To me it is but a dream, While I sit beside the clogged up stream This place is haunted, I could scream! Yet I keep it all in, I can hear that dead old hen, Still clucking her evening song, Almost all the night long. And while she’s dead I know she’s not, It was her I loved a lot! The big old rooster isn’t here though to scare her anymore, Perching up on his perch behind the door, He was a Rode Island Red, And he isn’t here because the butcher cut his head "I am so sorry," now I said.       *** _________Marian_________***
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Roosevelt was worth 6, 7 million dollars He was Tight Frog waits Till poor fly Flies by And then they got him The pool of clear rocks Covered with vegetable **** Covered the rocks Clear the pool Covered the warm surface Covered the lotus Dusted the watermelon flower Aerial the Pad Clean queer the clear blue water AND THEN THEY GOT HIM The Oil of the Olive Bittersweet taffies Bittersweet cabbage Cabbage soup made right A hunk a grass Sauerkraut let work in a big barrel Stunk but Good
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4th Chorus Mexico City Blues
By Arcassin Burnham We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, Not enough room in this attic , wouldn't mind if we just Shrunk, Just like Alice entering wonderland through a rabbit hole, I have no intentions of touching your body or your soul, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, Everything we did was asinine, but dying of boredem stunk, Delighted as I am to call my own , it's personal, Writing love , and pain , and sweat and shame in 72 journals, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk and intoxicated out of our minds with a bit of grime And old creepy dolls on the floor, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk, We're so drunk , we're so drunk , we're so mother freaking Drunk.
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Jun 20, 2016
Jun 20, 2016 at 6:14 PM UTC
Ripples
the garbage truck didn't turn up to-day and the neighborhood trash stunk all day a gross smell drifted across the street it was akin to a rotting pile of peat the council have heard the odd gripe they've been told that the ******* is ripe the residential area is no perfumery our quarter acre blocks are so stinky we'll be forced to vacate the neighborhood as uncollected garbage is far from good the air is heady with stale fish and curry vegetable matter and an assortment of slurry it is hoped that a truck can soon be found as we'll be decamping the area's bounds our noses have had a harrowing time inhaling a stench which isn't sublime
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Nov 24, 2013
Nov 24, 2013 at 7:42 PM UTC
Garbage Truck Blues
The light of the television dimly lit two lovers, but not really. He stunk of wine from the lips and mauve teeth, she stunk of wine by proxy. her legs, only slightly unshaven, he stroked gently, which they both enjoyed, but not really. ***** pots, plates, and cutlery lay placid in the sink. They'll be washed sometime soon, and put away in   cabinets of wasted white wood, very soon, but not really. The floor, like them, began growing clothing like wild moss or ivy, and claimed the room & claimed them too. The movie, he'd recall, but, then, she would not. He watched the blood, and conflict, and at times laughed, and she saw him, and conflict, and didn't laugh at all, which he knew was strange, but not really. On the dim, small, screen, The lean and hungry man had his Nemesis on the sepia-tone ground, and finished it all, with rage and mercy, with a stomp to the heart. They watched, her eyes wide, for she knew this was them, her on the ground, and him in the air, and she gripped him a bit tighter, which he noticed, but not really, which she noticed, but not really. In the dimly lit room, they could not see they were alone, and it was true, only Bruce Lee & He, and She.
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May 27, 2016
May 27, 2016 at 4:59 PM UTC
Bruce Lee & He & She
*He was such a sweet talker, Met him at a real nice bar He didn't have a ring on I didn't know it would go so far* Yes, he is a charming ******* That sounds like his M O Always getting drunk in a bar Looking for his next *** *That's not how it was He wasn't even that drunk I see it all clearly now His lies all stunk* The first thing I thought as I saw you two together Is not what a lady should say So I think that I had better Keep my mouth shut And rise above the situation Calling you a **** Would just start a confrontation. *Listen here, "wife" I didn't know he was married, Thats not my type. Throw away this hatchet you carried I'm not the one you should be mad at, He's been doing this behind BOTH our backs!* That is fine "mistress" I think we can both agree He is the one to blame and it shouldn't be taken out on you or me Now the hatchet that you talk of The one that I have carried I know what we should do And where it should be buried *Who knows how many times He's sweet talked an innocent girl We could do something real nice To rock his fantasy world What do you say, you and me? I think this could be destiny.....* To Be Continued.....
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 6:00 PM UTC
"First Meet" ~~~ Collaboration with the Beautiful, Kalypso!
The smell of stale french fries and E.coli coated beef the raw onions and garlic cloves stunk up the kitchen and watered my eyes no ice in the drink machines... but plenty of warm pop Chicken nuggets with 16 new herbs and spices and hot fudge Sundays, without the hot fudge banana splits with rotten bananas and the tomatoes weren't that fresh either the cheese was moldy and the buns, moldier The advertisements claimed "Have it your way" it wasn't my way, it was their way I paid a dollar fifty ordering off the dollar menu it was a ripoff.... I spoke to the manager and the manager spit in my face and said "Have a nice day" it wasn't a nice day, it wasn't a nice day at all....
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Dec 30, 2015
Dec 30, 2015 at 2:45 AM UTC
The Dollar Menu
The fingertips upon my neck stunk of stale cigarettes the breath upon my face of smoke. I handed over my dreams with such disdain. My mind was elsewhere, was I to blame? The moon above me soothed my mind as the tears rolled down my face, hurt I could not hide. Now I'm such a mean girl, he took my life, ruined my world.
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Dec 12, 2012
Dec 12, 2012 at 5:02 PM UTC
Don't feel bad for me.
Cigarette smoking Took a drag and blew it out Stunk up my clothing
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May 15, 2014
May 15, 2014 at 7:58 AM UTC
Tobacco Haiku
driving along in my auto mobilemy baby beside me at the wheeleverything right, nothing seemed wrongrevealing her thigh, a glimpse of her thongteasing and pleasing, live action pornparty in pants, one wheel and two hornscrash, wallop, bang, cos i did'nt seepolice car in front, but he felt mea fine, six points, coppers new bumperthump her? or dump her, but wanted to **** hershouting mad rages, the constable rantswho stunk like a sewer.......he'd **** in his pants
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Feb 24, 2010
Feb 24, 2010 at 10:37 AM UTC
****** copper
My skin left pierced; From the gripping bite of your cold voice Over top your cigarette breath you words still stunk A lion-heart with a lying heart You promised the waves of our love would never reach shore; Instead you dumped me into shallow waters Lying face down and still not standing... My feet can't lock onto the drifting sands of your comfortability so I stay there, trying to swim to my next lover trying over and over; ...but drownings much easier The more I turn blue, I cant seem to tell if my emotions are bursting through my skin or the hypothermia from within. My mind starts ticking; My insanity seeps through but I believe it true That once this clock strikes 12 that you'll be attached by another mouth The boat we were once on together is drifting away a simple memorial of true lovers lost can't find the directions to each others heart but hope for the best while were apart *One day, I pray you'll float back here in my dieing last breath and save me from my misery that you cause since.*
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Sep 28, 2013
Sep 28, 2013 at 3:52 PM UTC
Drowning from Lust
My name is Murmur. I have a Funk. My Funk is bright purple. My Funk smells like skunk. And sometimes my Funk can act like a PUNK. (And I'll have you know now, those days really stunk) You see, your Funk always knows when you feel sad. When you lose a job, or when things go BAD. This is the stuff that makes Funks glad. But since your Funk follows you when things go all wrong Maybe you should just invite him along. Make a new pal, sing a Funky Funk song? Embrace your Funk, he can sometimes be wise. He's usually honest even when in disguise. He might even help you fight monsters round the bend. By the end you may just have a new Funky Friend! It's okay to have a Funk. And sometimes you will. Sometimes your Funk will hoist you over a hill. Sometimes Funks will help you. And sometimes not. Sometimes they remind you of the good things you've got. Sometimes they will take. And sometimes they will give. And sometimes Funks remind you to just get up and LIVE.
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Mar 9, 2012
Mar 9, 2012 at 11:29 AM UTC
My Funk.
trunks filled with junk and the crunk juice flows flunked out pill popping junkies with no cash go drunkenly to the shrunken head show knowing they stunk. The monks dunked funky mumps victims on bunk beds and licked them instead of fixing lunk-headed situations with linkin-log technologic advances drinking dogs retrofitted with dance moves groove on the wooden floor while ****** bore the Moors with tales of divorce and random *********** on all fours in doorways during bad plays on the interstate… demonstrators, unregulated, on roller skates wait at the gates of the ingrates filled with hate and throw pie plates with fated accuracy and the belated bureaucratic picnic nitwits in knickers knuckle bump and plump debutants snicker the wicker croquet mallets perform ballet in the chalet and I have to valet the cars –
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Oct 26, 2015
Oct 26, 2015 at 5:35 PM UTC
rhyming trash imposter
i woke up this morning ****** off from the night before about something petty my ***** itched from sweating all night forgot to turn the heater off passed out drunk, didn’t really forget work called me in early so i missed my morning **** off and **** coffee was cold; who am i kidding the coffee was old ******* in korea with more threats, government bans something else, electric is due and i’m tired as **** work sent me home early said i stunk from last night, who are they kidding i’m still drunk bomb went off in boston, who ******* knows who did it, bunch of ******* wack jobs living in this country, gun lovers, gun haters, baby lovers, baby haters, *** lovers, *** haters, very few lovers of love but even they fight at night when the shower runs out of hot water all i know is my ***** are blue and stink with pain
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Apr 15, 2013
Apr 15, 2013 at 6:24 PM UTC
another day for the history books
I'll start breathing again & release this exhale From the hell that it came from Like swallowing nails I inhaled every smell And like fire it stunk I was a tree You were mean How you burned down my trunk But it's done It's all done I'm not worried about you & the noise that you made drilling holes in your truth I'm not stressed out or cold I'm not bitter or sad What we had was an accident Now it's gone & I'm glad I can stand up with excellence I got you off of my back Like I lost 1000 pounds That I never want back
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 6:20 PM UTC
Relieved
Yellow-tinted-noxious-lung-warf-stunk-salty-oysters-stolen-rotten. Where am I? but the driftwood castle promenade, fish market gardens. Congo jungle, steam ship sunken in crying river, village elder persists at warning. Hear the fiddle burning, drug sullen quarter note steadily, it's veracious creak reverberates through me, the loveliness reveals me, and yet I cannot behold the. Negligent narcissus subdue me, hurry up and ***** me. Here is the birthplace of living curse, whats bottles up by living thirst, awakening face down in a black-bellied hearse. Driven hard line through desert ambit , throttle locked at 85, no control, levers, nobs, or nodes. Half a Cuban snuffed out poorly, sleeping in gaping jowls, I could not believe this thing even had an ash tray. Death had bailed and locked the doors, filled the tank, and whipped the devils horse. I worn the blinders and found my pockets stuffed with carrots and a lighter. Then i smoked what was left without protest, I was not about to ask what came next.
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May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 at 3:50 PM UTC
Getting Gone.
I came face to face with God His breath stunk with alcohol He just kept staring at his hands And apologizing. Volcanoes erupted Every time he cleared his throat. I didn't ask Why I just stared. He never met my eye And that's when I knew There are mountains Even He can't move.
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Jan 1, 2015
Jan 1, 2015 at 4:24 PM UTC
Uphill Battle
Beauty decomposing, Like Mozart unraveling; A symphony from his grave, She no longer would behave; Slowly she rotted, Her I's no longer dotted; No more makeup, Hair tied in a knot was her dressed up; She stunk like a corpse, Driven to the end of her ropes; Because not even an overdose, Would make her come alive a dead rose; She'd been mistreated, Her will to survive depleted; She no longer held her composure, Her life needed no closure; She was broken down, Wore on her face a constant frown; No more a bright light, This beauty caused fright; From the inside out, She was barren a drought; No longer could she be saved, All roads that led to her had been unpaved; Beauty she was no more, Just a long ago told fairy tale lore... © okpoet
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Dec 31, 2012
Dec 31, 2012 at 2:36 AM UTC
Beauty Decomposing...
Booted The boss was a real fecking ****** who abused his position Now he’s got the golden boot and is no longer there But he goes to the company cark park to see his lieutenant Who is just the same as him an equal seller more arrogant! The original boss was quite a nice guy not a ******* It was his elite selling unit he set up that stunk of elitism You’re not fecking fighter pilots so why the fake Godliness It all stinks of ******** and **** licking all the way Tong that far up the **** it comes outa their **** mouth Who will fill the original boss’ boots will it be his lieutenant? Who went to the same skool and was trained the same way Instructions and orders are sent via messenger do this and that Keep at it run the account my way this way I’m still there My influence is like Uncle Joe Stalin always present and seeing Give them Hell drove them to break to leave hire and fire ‘em Still give me some wanga it’s my account even if I’m booted
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Jul 16, 2023
Jul 16, 2023 at 8:00 AM UTC
Booted
I slumped to the type-writer on a foggy December morning, tired, recently broken up with a pretty girl, Allison. She was 32, older than me and had long dark hair, pale skin and a habit to chew her fingernails. Outside, the trees were bleak and jagged, raw from the latter-year chill. My TV had been left on from last night, displaying re-runs. Re - “I’m sorry about last night” re - “It’s fine, look. I’m coming back to pick up my stuff later today, don’t go anywhere” Re - “Okay” re-runs. Previous girl, Wendy, she was nice, worked at a grocery store in town. She could play the flute, though not very well. Sometimes she’d make horrible noises and call those sounds what we were, messy and all over the place, but that’s what made us “work” eventually she moved to Arizona to get back together with her ex from high-school. “Explain what it is I’m doing wrong?” “Excuse after excuse you’re always away, off in your own mind. Yet here you are, in the same ******* house all the ******* time” ex. Girl before that was Emma, she had a great singing voice, taught yoga and owned two dogs, one was named Oliver and the other Pam. Pam died very young, nobody figured out why. Emma cared about her dogs a lot, said she needed some space so she ended things. Time to sort through life. “Sort through these boxes, would you? There’s one of Pam with my mum, she looks so cute in this one” “I met all sorts of people at class today, this one girl, Tracy, wants me to go out with a few friends later, is that alright?” “Yeah.. yeah sure that’s fine” fine. I think I was sitting in front of that type-writer to begin something, something passionate, fresh and new to spice up the mornings.. Maybe I’d go for a walk. I had some boxes of Allison’s things beside the door, it stunk of her perfume and was full of clothes and shampoo, some pictures, too. Staring at the type-writer was a blank page, Jesus, five minutes I hadn't written anything. I began with “Chapter One” Before getting distracted by those re-runs on TV.
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Mar 20, 2015
Mar 20, 2015 at 9:09 AM UTC
Recollections (For Bukowski)
I slumped to the type-writer on a foggy December morning, tired, recently broken up with a pretty girl, Allison. She was 32, older than me and had long dark hair, pale skin and a habit to chew her fingernails. Outside, the trees were bleak and jagged, raw from the latter-year chill. My TV had been left on from last night, displaying re-runs. Re - “I’m sorry about last night” re - “It’s fine, look. I’m coming back to pick up my stuff later today, don’t go anywhere” Re - “Okay” re-runs. Previous girl, Wendy, she was nice, worked at a grocery store in town. She could play the flute, though not very well. Sometimes she’d make horrible noises and call those sounds what we were, messy and all over the place, but that’s what made us “work” eventually she moved to Arizona to get back together with her ex from high-school. “Explain what it is I’m doing wrong?” “Excuse after excuse you’re always away, off in your own mind. Yet here you are, in the same ******* house all the ******* time” ex. Girl before that was Emma, she had a great singing voice, taught yoga and owned two dogs, one was named Oliver and the other Pam. Pam died very young, nobody figured out why. Emma cared about her dogs a lot, said she needed some space so she ended things. Time to sort through life. “Sort through these boxes, would you? There’s one of Pam with my mum, she looks so cute in this one” “I met all sorts of people at class today, this one girl, Tracy, wants me to go out with a few friends later, is that alright?” “Yeah.. yeah sure that’s fine” fine. I think I was sitting in front of that type-writer to begin something, something passionate, fresh and new to spice up the mornings.. Maybe I’d go for a walk. I had some boxes of Allison’s things beside the door, it stunk of her perfume and was full of clothes and shampoo, some pictures, too. Staring at the type-writer was a blank page, Jesus, five minutes I hadn't written anything. I began with “Chapter One” Before getting distracted by those re-runs on TV.
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On my first Christmas, I learned that the city of towering cardboard boxes and the crunchy ocean of kaleidoscopic paper were destined for the trash bag, but the complicated toys I could not yet understand were mine to keep. Just before my second birthday, my parents came home with a pink, wrinkled bundle of flesh, and said, This is your new sister. Though, at first, I found her beautiful, with those pill- sized fingernails and the soft coos she kept pushing out, I was horrified to learn that my grandparents were not taking this baby with them, that she was not here for my entertainment. But the envy soon faded, and I kept a lifelong friend. At eight, I decided not to keep the magenta cast after the stoic doctor sawed it loose. It was caked with doodles and kind notes, but it stunk of sour milk, and the boy with the copper hair had not signed it. I could not forget his taunting laugh as I fell that day, nor the fiery flush that shaded my cheeks as he snatched his hat from my hand, already numb and quickly swelling with humiliation. By eleven, I had spent so much of a childhood tripping over sentences and paragraphs and essays that when my book report bloated slowly from two pages to five to eight to ten to thirteen, I unknowingly conquered my fear, stumbling over a voice begging to be kept. When I reached fourteen, I had seen two corpses in one year—one painted as though in the height of Expressionism and resting in a casket so cheap it could have been cardboard, one fat and covered in smooth fur, collapsed onto the cool, indifferent metal of the vet’s table—and I learned that breath is in short supply. But I also learned that the destination matters less than the odyssey, so I tucked my grandmother and my beagle into my front pocket like two crisp hundred dollar bills, kept them with me wherever I traveled.
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 11:14 PM UTC
The Odyssey
On my first Christmas, I learned that the city of towering cardboard boxes and the crunchy ocean of kaleidoscopic paper were destined for the trash bag, but the complicated toys I could not yet understand were mine to keep. Just before my second birthday, my parents came home with a pink, wrinkled bundle of flesh, and said, This is your new sister. Though, at first, I found her beautiful, with those pill- sized fingernails and the soft coos she kept pushing out, I was horrified to learn that my grandparents were not taking this baby with them, that she was not here for my entertainment. But the envy soon faded, and I kept a lifelong friend. At eight, I decided not to keep the magenta cast after the stoic doctor sawed it loose. It was caked with doodles and kind notes, but it stunk of sour milk, and the boy with the copper hair had not signed it. I could not forget his taunting laugh as I fell that day, nor the fiery flush that shaded my cheeks as he snatched his hat from my hand, already numb and quickly swelling with humiliation. By eleven, I had spent so much of a childhood tripping over sentences and paragraphs and essays that when my book report bloated slowly from two pages to five to eight to ten to thirteen, I unknowingly conquered my fear, stumbling over a voice begging to be kept. When I reached fourteen, I had seen two corpses in one year—one painted as though in the height of Expressionism and resting in a casket so cheap it could have been cardboard, one fat and covered in smooth fur, collapsed onto the cool, indifferent metal of the vet’s table—and I learned that breath is in short supply. But I also learned that the destination matters less than the odyssey, so I tucked my grandmother and my beagle into my front pocket like two crisp hundred dollar bills, kept them with me wherever I traveled.
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and you ran away to zibalee and put two hands in the runic puddle of the daylight and you threw away Athena's kisses and spent them instead on his touches and on three spasms of obscene romance and he loved a sweet lily who rotted when she found out she rotted at the sight of you and she stunk up the room with her holy perfumes of miserable purity and you are left in the dust, filthy and used by him and then you watched his heart break and you realized you were in love with his eyes and hands and mouth and you never hated yourself more than when he said "you're too high, you don't even care" and you threw up from the stress and he wouldn't hold your hair and he pushed you into the wall and screamed that he hated you and you can't fix it anymore so you walked to the bridge and you quietly fixed everything with a soft splash and he didn't cry because you helped break his heart in two and you just look up from the waves, blue and beautiful and you remember the way he laughed and you can't help but sink down and let it all go.
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Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 11:33 PM UTC
and you...