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"stylistic" poems
"sly wordplay, it glows, feels like a shimmering address, half warning and half blessing, really alive with cadence" read Kiki Dresden poetry^ once more into the sea trench divide, I dive to devise, Your provoking comment, demands my full attention, you divert me from struggling with ginger & clay, a contra concept that molds and enflames, yet strikes overtly sweet, it does not come so easy as this playful notion But your words deserve the attention immédiate atenção imediata that births this script, tumbling forth in an instantly instantaneously me student, you mistress~master, schooling me on sublimity subliminal, capturing the capering stylistic that bursts forth from within, that my fingertips provide, while my brain connives & connivers continuously you overlay analytics that never are to me revealed, the what and wherefore of the whom hiding within of the im~perpetuity impish essence of i m p ishness by charmingly doing me, not once, but many times better here a spillage: an observational ditty, dressed in a tux, most formally, to render the greatest wordplay ever invented t, the uniqueness of a simple thank you my favorite poem a forever for ever, the song that plys and plays me in the me so often, the linguists have banned the word repeatedly from my lexicon so in its stead, this all-in-one mighty steed (verb phrase, a noun, or an adjective depending on its usage) this phatic expression, here disguised in Portuguese, muito obrigado! muito obrigado! muito obrigado!                                                                     nml 5:39am nyc 10/4, 10/4
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Oct 4, 2025
Oct 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM UTC
Love of Wordplay for Kiki Dresden
"sly wordplay, it glows, feels like a shimmering address, half warning and half blessing, really alive with cadence" read Kiki Dresden poetry^ once more into the sea trench divide, I dive to devise, Your provoking comment, demands my full attention, you divert me from struggling with ginger & clay, a contra concept that molds and enflames, yet strikes overtly sweet, it does not come so easy as this playful notion But your words deserve the attention immédiate atenção imediata that births this script, tumbling forth in an instantly instantaneously me student, you mistress~master, schooling me on sublimity subliminal, capturing the capering stylistic that bursts forth from within, that my fingertips provide, while my brain connives & connivers continuously you overlay analytics that never are to me revealed, the what and wherefore of the whom hiding within of the im~perpetuity impish essence of i m p ishness by charmingly doing me, not once, but many times better here a spillage: an observational ditty, dressed in a tux, most formally, to render the greatest wordplay ever invented t, the uniqueness of a simple thank you my favorite poem a forever for ever, the song that plys and plays me in the me so often, the linguists have banned the word repeatedly from my lexicon so in its stead, this all-in-one mighty steed (verb phrase, a noun, or an adjective depending on its usage) this phatic expression, here disguised in Portuguese, muito obrigado! muito obrigado! muito obrigado!                                                                     nml 5:39am nyc 10/4, 10/4
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I  just don't understand why so many Guitarists, and moreover Musicians, so disdain drop tunings; Just because that technique may well differ from yours does not necessarily mean either is inherently inferior.
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May 29, 2013
May 29, 2013 at 11:02 AM UTC
Stylistic Diversity [Drop Tuning]
Let me tell you about myself. I am a mosquito magnet. I have little scars of itchy memories all over my scrawny legs. But I think it means my blood is sacred. I find my laugh unique and one of a kind. My walk, resembling more of a bowlegged wobble, allows me to stand out against the crowd. (My walk isn't that bad, by the way, I was merely exaggerating for stylistic purposes.) What's more, the fact that I am prone to blushing at even the slightest glance my way is kldjaf;ldjfoiad;htija;ji;ajf. I love it. My clumsiness only adds meaning to the moments in which I am fleetingly graceful. Yes, my posture is rough around the edges, But it signifies that I have been around the world a few times. At least I don't jut out my pretty decently sized ******* You're welcome. I find my lack of arguing skills in the moment cute. My mistakes are adorable, and my obvious flaws are endearing. The fact I can't **** an ant without showing sympathy is amiable. If only somebody thought the same way about me. If only people looked and analyzed others as closely as I do. They would see. That way I wouldn't be the only one loving myself. (Or trying to.)
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Nov 2, 2012
Nov 2, 2012 at 6:09 PM UTC
Me Myself And I
Consanguinity: A Commissioned Poem (How Well Do You Know Me?) This request, from wolf spirit aka quinfinn, accidentally hit the spot of what was foremost on my mind. Cosanguinity:  A relationship by descent from a common ancestor; kinship (distinguished from affinity).  A close relationship or connection. Poetry, mine, yours, Ours, Invades my consciousness. We write poems on the same subject, Even the same title, But a few days apart. Insanity, Coincidence, or Consanguinity? Perhaps we are reading each other's stuff Too much. But that's crazy, Or Consanguinity? Yet, And yet, We see the same things So incredibly different. That is the answer. We see the same thing and I am Struck down. A billion sights. A billion words. Yet, the human computer, Sorts, collates, and generates A billion different writes In a similar spirit, Employing the same phraseology. All right. Alright. Malaysia. Minnesota. East Coast. West Coast. Geographical differences. Time differences. No difference. A billion differences. The stylistic differences enable, No, correction, Ennobles us to coexist, Value each other, Learn. Observable differences. But more interesting, More pleasurable, are the incredible, visible, signs of Consanguinity. Mere affinity? Kinship. A poem? Nah. But at 1:11am in my location, It's what's on my mind. Now that I know the meaning of Consanguinity.
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Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 1:21 AM UTC
Consanguinity: A Commissioned Poem
Dost thou even go here? Can thou even read? Doth thou know the website thou art on? Poetry be what we breed! Ye foolish man! Ye simpleton! From whom unrefinement flows! Thou shalt not write, On a poetry site, A work of ****** prose! Oh yeah? Watch me. Hello beautiful people. I'm in the mood to philosophize. And this being a poetry site, let's make the topic poetry. (WARNING: this piece will be filled with opinions, personal beliefs, and probably a little butter. If you don't agree with anything I say, good for you. Way to have opinions. AND WHATEVER YOU DO. DON'T SUBSTITUTE MARGARINE FOR THE BUTTER!) Ok, so poetry. I like poetry. And since I'm the one writing this, I'm gonna tell you about my philosophy, and my personal style and influences. My philosophy that I try to live by is minimalism. Which is NOT laziness! Minimalism is quite difficult really. Anyone can write a nice fluffy poem (and yes, nice fluffy poems can be dark pieces about death and the like.) What minimalism is to me,  is the stripping away of all of that fluff to get down to the raw emotion of a piece. An abundance of words pollutes the emotion. Now, my stylistic mumbo jumbo. My aesthetic has gone through a few phases. A lot of my work is very modernist. What that means is that it deals a lot with... well with failure. Failure of the human race, failure of people, and my own personal failure. But also with separation. Some prime examples of my modernist works are  "here I lay a martyr" and "of my faults and follies" The next phase is when I started writing music for my band (Bisclaveret Marie, we're on Facebook. Check it out.) I became enamored with a man by the name of Jack White. (yes, that Jack White. The one formerly of the White Stripes.) Also the source of my minimalist approach, Jack revived my love for the Blues. When that came crashing into my poetry, it was definitely for the better. The next phase was surrealism. The use of images and metaphors and weirdness to paint a picture of the emotion I choose to write about. (I don't really know how to describe this, just go read Though There Be Dragons, A Journey Through The Mind of a Madman. It'll make more sense.) And most recently the Blues have seen a renaissance in my work. The simple lyric structures and rhyme patterns tickle my inner minimalist. Yeah, so that's my spiel. If you actually read this, you freaking deserve a medal
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Apr 22, 2014
Apr 22, 2014 at 10:01 PM UTC
prose on a poetry site? Is that even legal?
Dost thou even go here? Can thou even read? Doth thou know the website thou art on? Poetry be what we breed! Ye foolish man! Ye simpleton! From whom unrefinement flows! Thou shalt not write, On a poetry site, A work of ****** prose! Oh yeah? Watch me. Hello beautiful people. I'm in the mood to philosophize. And this being a poetry site, let's make the topic poetry. (WARNING: this piece will be filled with opinions, personal beliefs, and probably a little butter. If you don't agree with anything I say, good for you. Way to have opinions. AND WHATEVER YOU DO. DON'T SUBSTITUTE MARGARINE FOR THE BUTTER!) Ok, so poetry. I like poetry. And since I'm the one writing this, I'm gonna tell you about my philosophy, and my personal style and influences. My philosophy that I try to live by is minimalism. Which is NOT laziness! Minimalism is quite difficult really. Anyone can write a nice fluffy poem (and yes, nice fluffy poems can be dark pieces about death and the like.) What minimalism is to me,  is the stripping away of all of that fluff to get down to the raw emotion of a piece. An abundance of words pollutes the emotion. Now, my stylistic mumbo jumbo. My aesthetic has gone through a few phases. A lot of my work is very modernist. What that means is that it deals a lot with... well with failure. Failure of the human race, failure of people, and my own personal failure. But also with separation. Some prime examples of my modernist works are  "here I lay a martyr" and "of my faults and follies" The next phase is when I started writing music for my band (Bisclaveret Marie, we're on Facebook. Check it out.) I became enamored with a man by the name of Jack White. (yes, that Jack White. The one formerly of the White Stripes.) Also the source of my minimalist approach, Jack revived my love for the Blues. When that came crashing into my poetry, it was definitely for the better. The next phase was surrealism. The use of images and metaphors and weirdness to paint a picture of the emotion I choose to write about. (I don't really know how to describe this, just go read Though There Be Dragons, A Journey Through The Mind of a Madman. It'll make more sense.) And most recently the Blues have seen a renaissance in my work. The simple lyric structures and rhyme patterns tickle my inner minimalist. Yeah, so that's my spiel. If you actually read this, you freaking deserve a medal
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The old peasant Lady Of cheeks gullied deep ‘N dreams sultry-tanned Sawn into the furrows Of hardest times, which The stylistic constraints Of the post-impressionist Van Gogh hid behind His vibrant bush strokes, But seeped as oil of toil In to the lap of the Earth And squats as the Deity Of all our moral codes.
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Nov 8, 2013
Nov 8, 2013 at 5:39 AM UTC
SQUAT GODDESS
The down of the gown of the dawn of some gone day, A ray day that has downed and dawned at sunset, They have diabolically colonized our divine state, Belligerently gang ****** our stupendous democracy at will, The demonic bloodthirsty ********* barbarians, Declaring a violent war which no one wants to fight, A losing warring war of one against all. Impetuously slaughtering our defenseless defenders at will, Turning the blue-clad fierce hunters to the fierce hunted, The hunted that are being haunted, Hounded and hunted by the hunted, Converting every corner into the hunters’ hunted ground, The church and the charge office, The home and the street, The here and the there. Who will protect our “toy gun” wielding protectors, Protect our trigger-shy protectors from the cunning detractors, As one by one they are won one by one, One by one by the one that is supposed to be won, The defenders of our slate state, The defenders of our democratic democracy, The defenseless defenders of the defenseless. They have been plunged under siege, As every one of them personifies some certain demise, Every one of them is just some subterfuge death in waiting, Some truculent death just waiting to happen, Bust, rust and dust in the waiting, Stylistically stylistic starving yawning mobile graves, Prey of their own prey, The ultimate fray prey. As day in day out they live the life of a cigarette, On one side they are smoking, On the other, they are being smoked, Any attempt to fight back is regarded criminal of the worst order, Police brutality, We forsake them, they forsake them, the law forsakes them, Who will defend the mighty defenders?
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 6:29 AM UTC
Who will defend our defenders
The down of the gown of the dawn of some gone day, A ray day that has downed and dawned at sunset, They have diabolically colonized our divine state, Belligerently gang ****** our stupendous democracy at will, The demonic bloodthirsty ********* barbarians, Declaring a violent war which no one wants to fight, A losing warring war of one against all. Impetuously slaughtering our defenseless defenders at will, Turning the blue-clad fierce hunters to the fierce hunted, The hunted that are being haunted, Hounded and hunted by the hunted, Converting every corner into the hunters’ hunted ground, The church and the charge office, The home and the street, The here and the there. Who will protect our “toy gun” wielding protectors, Protect our trigger-shy protectors from the cunning detractors, As one by one they are won one by one, One by one by the one that is supposed to be won, The defenders of our slate state, The defenders of our democratic democracy, The defenseless defenders of the defenseless. They have been plunged under siege, As every one of them personifies some certain demise, Every one of them is just some subterfuge death in waiting, Some truculent death just waiting to happen, Bust, rust and dust in the waiting, Stylistically stylistic starving yawning mobile graves, Prey of their own prey, The ultimate fray prey. As day in day out they live the life of a cigarette, On one side they are smoking, On the other, they are being smoked, Any attempt to fight back is regarded criminal of the worst order, Police brutality, We forsake them, they forsake them, the law forsakes them, Who will defend the mighty defenders?
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Too revolutionary for this square planet Mind's body too curvaceous to fit within this world's average fabric Man cannot live on bread alone so I added wisdom and knowledge to my dinner got fat in vocab to make the element of eloquent expression effortless and clearer Guard Your Ears! I use my tongue as a weapon to spit rhapsodic rapid rhythms You call it poetry I call it AK-47! The National Guard can't quiet me down just when they think they've surrounded me I morph into sound Not Clark Kent but I change in a booth on 1 Samuel 16:16 become a lyrical musician spitting smooth harp things that King David could not believe I write to be righteous write just to expose the wrong rid men of evil spirits as if all their names were Saul spit melodic strings in stanzas and bars and lull them to calm with my psalms Thunder slower than the light so I let my voice rumble while I speak the truth Phat in delivery but humility helps me float above stupidity this creative remedy way more healing than chicken soup! Uncle always said I had green hair and wasn't nothin' wrong with it Ain't nothin' in this world I'd rather be than eccentric stylistic funkadelic complex yet simplistic exquisite efficient effervescent arT-Tastic aRT-DICUlous ART-RAGEOUS FREE & UNLIMITED!
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Feb 9, 2010
Feb 9, 2010 at 8:51 PM UTC
FREE/ UNLIMITED
Oh, smooth, smooth unity A stylistic rhythm penetrates the boundaries of the world's appraisal of orthodoxy AVANT-GARDE Lively arpeggios and Righteous time lift the soul with tones of emotion LANQUIDITY Transitions that manifest an endless terrain of flowing continuity BLISS An orange kite swiftly descends from the ominous, yellow skies Spontaneous strokes of my brush dance in a pool of glowing, comfortable mist The angry bullfrog sits aimlessly in a black lagoon, waiting for the return of his heart IMAGERY You can see more than the eye Music is your telescope
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 3:33 PM UTC
Sun Ra
I DON'T WRITE LETTERS, JUST POEMS BUT IF THIS IS AN OPEN LETTER THEN IT'S GOT THE ADDRESS OF ALL YOUR HIDEOUTS, ALL YOUR GHOST TOWNS TATTOOED ON IT SO **** YOU FOR ALL THAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH I FEEL LIKE I LEFT ALL MY PIECES IN YOUR BEDROOM, THERE'S NO PEACE HERE IN MY HEAD LAST TIME I SAW YOU I FELT LIKE I RELAPSED BACK INTO MY BEST BAD HABIT I’M SO ******* STUPID, SWORE I WOULDN’T BUT I’M A LIAR PAST BEHAVIOR IS THE BEST INDICATOR OF FUTURE BEHAVIOR AND IF YOU'VE BEEN AN ADDICT, I'VE HEARD YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE ADDICT EVEN WHEN YOU'RE CLEAN I'VE HEARD THAT YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE ITCHING FOR SOMETHING SO DOES IT MAKE ANY SENSE WHEN I SAY I THINK I LOVE YOU AGAIN? I THINK THAT'S A GOOD METAPHOR BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A LOVE LIKE NURSERY RHYMES AT OUR BEST WE WERE A HORROR STORY, AT OUR WORST WE WERE JUST AN ALLEGORY AND THE SUN FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MOON WHAT A ******* TRAGEDY, LOVERS WHO COULD NEVER BE LOVERS WHO COULD NEVER EXIST AT THE SAME TIME AND PLACE, ALWAYS PASSING EACH OTHER BY LIKE SHIPS IN THE NIGHT EXCEPT I'M NOT THE SUN AND YOU'RE SURE AS HELL NOT THE MOON WE'RE MORE LIKE COMETS ONLY DESTINED TO COLLIDE AND CHIP EACH OTHER'S SHOULDERS ON OUR WAY OUT THE DOOR AND IF WE WERE A SHIP THEN WE WERE A SINKING ONE SO WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THE TITANIC WITHOUT YOU? TRYING TO BAIL MYSELF OUT I DIDN'T THINK THIS IS WHAT LOVE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT AND YOU KNOW WE HAD IT COMING LIKE A TRAIN EN ROUTE INESCAPABLE, I'M ABLE TO SEE LIKE HINDSIGHT IS 20/20 BUT I SWEAR I NEVER SAW A BETTER VISION THAN YOU AND I THINK I'M A LITTLE SCARED THAT YOU'LL ALWAYS BE IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD, AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS, HIDDEN EVERY POEM I EVER WRITE I'M SO SORRY THAT EVERY SONG ON THE RADIO FEELS LIKE IT'S ABOUT US YOUR VOICE  USED TO CRACK ON ALL THE HIGH NOTES YOU'RE STILL THE BEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD AND THIS IS A STORY THAT'S ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN PLAGIARIZATION OF MY OWN DREAMS I THINK THINGS ARE JUST AS OFTEN WHAT THEY SEEM AS THEY AREN'T AND I THINK SOMETIMES ANGRY IS JUST A STYLISTIC CHOICE BECAUSE BEING SAD IS PLAYED OUT
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 4:26 PM UTC
I WROTE THIS IN CAPSLOCK BECAUSE I COULDN'T SCREAM IT OFF ROOFTOPS
I DON'T WRITE LETTERS, JUST POEMS BUT IF THIS IS AN OPEN LETTER THEN IT'S GOT THE ADDRESS OF ALL YOUR HIDEOUTS, ALL YOUR GHOST TOWNS TATTOOED ON IT SO **** YOU FOR ALL THAT WE'VE BEEN THROUGH I FEEL LIKE I LEFT ALL MY PIECES IN YOUR BEDROOM, THERE'S NO PEACE HERE IN MY HEAD LAST TIME I SAW YOU I FELT LIKE I RELAPSED BACK INTO MY BEST BAD HABIT I’M SO ******* STUPID, SWORE I WOULDN’T BUT I’M A LIAR PAST BEHAVIOR IS THE BEST INDICATOR OF FUTURE BEHAVIOR AND IF YOU'VE BEEN AN ADDICT, I'VE HEARD YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE ADDICT EVEN WHEN YOU'RE CLEAN I'VE HEARD THAT YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE ITCHING FOR SOMETHING SO DOES IT MAKE ANY SENSE WHEN I SAY I THINK I LOVE YOU AGAIN? I THINK THAT'S A GOOD METAPHOR BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE A LOVE LIKE NURSERY RHYMES AT OUR BEST WE WERE A HORROR STORY, AT OUR WORST WE WERE JUST AN ALLEGORY AND THE SUN FELL IN LOVE WITH THE MOON WHAT A ******* TRAGEDY, LOVERS WHO COULD NEVER BE LOVERS WHO COULD NEVER EXIST AT THE SAME TIME AND PLACE, ALWAYS PASSING EACH OTHER BY LIKE SHIPS IN THE NIGHT EXCEPT I'M NOT THE SUN AND YOU'RE SURE AS HELL NOT THE MOON WE'RE MORE LIKE COMETS ONLY DESTINED TO COLLIDE AND CHIP EACH OTHER'S SHOULDERS ON OUR WAY OUT THE DOOR AND IF WE WERE A SHIP THEN WE WERE A SINKING ONE SO WHY DO I FEEL LIKE THE TITANIC WITHOUT YOU? TRYING TO BAIL MYSELF OUT I DIDN'T THINK THIS IS WHAT LOVE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT AND YOU KNOW WE HAD IT COMING LIKE A TRAIN EN ROUTE INESCAPABLE, I'M ABLE TO SEE LIKE HINDSIGHT IS 20/20 BUT I SWEAR I NEVER SAW A BETTER VISION THAN YOU AND I THINK I'M A LITTLE SCARED THAT YOU'LL ALWAYS BE IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD, AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS, HIDDEN EVERY POEM I EVER WRITE I'M SO SORRY THAT EVERY SONG ON THE RADIO FEELS LIKE IT'S ABOUT US YOUR VOICE  USED TO CRACK ON ALL THE HIGH NOTES YOU'RE STILL THE BEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD AND THIS IS A STORY THAT'S ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN PLAGIARIZATION OF MY OWN DREAMS I THINK THINGS ARE JUST AS OFTEN WHAT THEY SEEM AS THEY AREN'T AND I THINK SOMETIMES ANGRY IS JUST A STYLISTIC CHOICE BECAUSE BEING SAD IS PLAYED OUT
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I'm just giddy knowing you like mi mole oboe poetry Anime he it it it's ssôœks Right ok Thus stylistic origin You like! You so don't you Overnight just in implosion you'll see Quantities it quaint bin secession cast kind really cool touring n stuff I'm happy but it's crazy you nar? Oh guy guy guy it , it's good fri
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Mar 1, 2015
Mar 1, 2015 at 5:09 PM UTC
Ha! HW at guyÿ from he is not entirely
Anyone who is so inclined is urged to check out my newest track (still a work in progress): https://soundcloud.com/apexparadigm/thunderstorms The song is for my lover. She loves me(tal) and I love her. :3 It's in the key of E flat, in Dropped C# tuning. begins in 6/4 time and dabbles with 7/4, then ultimately ends in exclusively 7/4. 6 and 7 add to 13; the day of our Anniversary. Yay for subtle numerology! It's sort-of Math Metal. If you've heard much Tool, you'll recognize some stylistic similarities. Tool is a major influence on my style of composition as well as my perceptions of Music in general. Comments and critiques welcome.
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May 20, 2013
May 20, 2013 at 2:58 PM UTC
Thunderstorms (New Music)
For Adrien, San Francisco is asleep On the lips a vermillion souvenir Of an unthought dream yet Paralyzed from a wound not mended yet Red iron body in the night Of two lovers we have observed Hurt by a somber Beauty… Two naked children, to Charity’s breast Born and tortured by a majestic Love Loving each other, two men as on Humanity’s Very first day, in the large bedroom America. In the passion of a bridge their two hands link That time… Freedom! And tenderness heals Devoted fingers, divinized with desire… Trailing down, delicate, along backs, pleasure Awake and keeping watch in the large bedroom America Love comes by, patiently, Pacific Two entangled lovers, male Galateas Protected in the silver of their gold, protected from decay Discovering each other, deliciously, in the bedroom America In a California, stylistic seduction, You too are dreaming about your bedroom America! Montpellier, France July 19, 2015 Translated on July 20, 2015 Lyon, France
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Nov 28, 2015
Nov 28, 2015 at 8:33 AM UTC
The Large Bedroom America
Macros are the single greatest advantage that lisp has as a programming language and the single greatest advantage of any programming language. With them you can do things that you simply cannot do in other languages. Because macros can be used to transform lisp into other programming languages and back, programmers who gain experience with them discover that all other languages are just skins on top of lisp. This is the big deal. Lisp is special because programming with it is actually programing at a higher level. Where most languages invent and enforce syntactic and semantic rules, lisp is general and malleable. With lisp, you make the rules. Another one here: Understanding why macros are so great requires understanding what lisp has that other languages don't. It requires an understanding of other, less powerful languages. Sadly, most programmers lose the will to learn after they have mastered a few other languages and never make it close to understanding what a macro is or how to take advantage of one. But the top percentile of programmers in any language are always forced to learn some sort of way to write programs that write programs: macros. Because it is the best language for writing macros, the smartest and most determined and most curious programmers always end up at lisp. An interesting parallel to learning macros in Lisp and the FORTRAN-in-any-language symptom! An interesting parallel to learning macros in lisp is that of learning pointers in the C programming language. Most beginning C programmers are able to quickly pick up most of the language. Functions, types, variables, arithmetic expressions: all have parallels in previous intellectual experiences beginners might have had, from elementary school maths to experimenting with simpler programming languages. But most novice C programmers hit a brick wall when they encounter pointers. Pointers are second nature to experienced C programmers, most of whom consider their complete understanding necessary for the proper use of C. Because pointers are so fundamental, most experienced C programmers would not advise limits on their use for stylistic or learning purposes. Despite this, many C novices feel pointers are an unnecessary complication and avoid their use, resulting in the FORTRAN-in-any-language symptom where valuable language feature
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Dec 30, 2023
Dec 30, 2023 at 12:36 PM UTC
Untitled
Macros are the single greatest advantage that lisp has as a programming language and the single greatest advantage of any programming language. With them you can do things that you simply cannot do in other languages. Because macros can be used to transform lisp into other programming languages and back, programmers who gain experience with them discover that all other languages are just skins on top of lisp. This is the big deal. Lisp is special because programming with it is actually programing at a higher level. Where most languages invent and enforce syntactic and semantic rules, lisp is general and malleable. With lisp, you make the rules. Another one here: Understanding why macros are so great requires understanding what lisp has that other languages don't. It requires an understanding of other, less powerful languages. Sadly, most programmers lose the will to learn after they have mastered a few other languages and never make it close to understanding what a macro is or how to take advantage of one. But the top percentile of programmers in any language are always forced to learn some sort of way to write programs that write programs: macros. Because it is the best language for writing macros, the smartest and most determined and most curious programmers always end up at lisp. An interesting parallel to learning macros in Lisp and the FORTRAN-in-any-language symptom! An interesting parallel to learning macros in lisp is that of learning pointers in the C programming language. Most beginning C programmers are able to quickly pick up most of the language. Functions, types, variables, arithmetic expressions: all have parallels in previous intellectual experiences beginners might have had, from elementary school maths to experimenting with simpler programming languages. But most novice C programmers hit a brick wall when they encounter pointers. Pointers are second nature to experienced C programmers, most of whom consider their complete understanding necessary for the proper use of C. Because pointers are so fundamental, most experienced C programmers would not advise limits on their use for stylistic or learning purposes. Despite this, many C novices feel pointers are an unnecessary complication and avoid their use, resulting in the FORTRAN-in-any-language symptom where valuable language feature
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i just want to stay up to midnight and watch the footie... see, already, it's there, he wannabe blind man turning phonetics upside down using optical symbols to sing with his eyes closed and acting out a sloth piece of a stage's curtain call for encore, footie can be american slang  for football: or ensure a bag of flour explodes while i get scalped; otherwise footie means football: you know it's round enough to be kicked rather than thrown for a touchdown... never got the hang of it... n.f.l. means as much to me as does excess of hair on a cranium crop of expected hair with no beard, and vice versa, loss of hair and a donned beard for the plucked sucker of the 2nd ball drop... baldy over here met elvis and in levis took to a cattle stampede with aria: la la la lee lo lo he he (mike jackson slam dunks a quack for the moon pond, like it was n.b.a. anyway: walking on ice the musical... now the encore... signature the sound of applause); so this married man is rebelling...watches football till midnight, rebel... watches the footie... a. foot, i.e. b. foot, e c. foot eeh d. footy e. foo' tea f. foo' tee                                  now you guess the accent... cumbrian? glaswegian? north london or brick lane?                  which? a, b, c d or e or f?^            see what happens being judgemental and sober? you get drunks doing picassos! and that's not good not good one bit for the worth of investment in plagiarisms. the stressor marks / diacritical marks missing in english obviously gave us scot spelling and a welsh 1 + 1 of a middle finger longbow stylistic for the v long before churchill... i wanted gaelic i got trainspotting spelling... about as relevant as catcher in the rye relevant by now... so... don't teach accent rubrics... and you'll get a heartfelt superiority in the former colonies, while the pigeons coo: or simply curl the famished tongues that were silenced for man to speak in spasms of an electrician checking the sockets for an electric depth of the pigeons' coo into an aqualine echo of a sneeze, if not snorkel or a gesundheit. ^*i hate how syllable splitting into compounds show diacritical marks all too relevant, missing.*
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Jan 10, 2016
Jan 10, 2016 at 6:06 PM UTC
married man's rebellion
i just want to stay up to midnight and watch the footie... see, already, it's there, he wannabe blind man turning phonetics upside down using optical symbols to sing with his eyes closed and acting out a sloth piece of a stage's curtain call for encore, footie can be american slang  for football: or ensure a bag of flour explodes while i get scalped; otherwise footie means football: you know it's round enough to be kicked rather than thrown for a touchdown... never got the hang of it... n.f.l. means as much to me as does excess of hair on a cranium crop of expected hair with no beard, and vice versa, loss of hair and a donned beard for the plucked sucker of the 2nd ball drop... baldy over here met elvis and in levis took to a cattle stampede with aria: la la la lee lo lo he he (mike jackson slam dunks a quack for the moon pond, like it was n.b.a. anyway: walking on ice the musical... now the encore... signature the sound of applause); so this married man is rebelling...watches football till midnight, rebel... watches the footie... a. foot, i.e. b. foot, e c. foot eeh d. footy e. foo' tea f. foo' tee                                  now you guess the accent... cumbrian? glaswegian? north london or brick lane?                  which? a, b, c d or e or f?^            see what happens being judgemental and sober? you get drunks doing picassos! and that's not good not good one bit for the worth of investment in plagiarisms. the stressor marks / diacritical marks missing in english obviously gave us scot spelling and a welsh 1 + 1 of a middle finger longbow stylistic for the v long before churchill... i wanted gaelic i got trainspotting spelling... about as relevant as catcher in the rye relevant by now... so... don't teach accent rubrics... and you'll get a heartfelt superiority in the former colonies, while the pigeons coo: or simply curl the famished tongues that were silenced for man to speak in spasms of an electrician checking the sockets for an electric depth of the pigeons' coo into an aqualine echo of a sneeze, if not snorkel or a gesundheit. ^*i hate how syllable splitting into compounds show diacritical marks all too relevant, missing.*
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What is imagination, but life's    longing an impossible dream, a tickling of inner cravings   as the voice of splendor, wherewithal's purpose flourished in veritable endeavors     of stylistic appropriations, yearning amidst clouded vapors   dispersing recognition's      declaration of id's odyssey, an idea in transformation   that which awakens    substantial sustenance         nourishing spirit's nature,   a psychic boon, abstruse or surreal        motivating individuality's             creative impulses            differentiating experience's        uniqueness mid an ultimate                   mind blowing instinctive force
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Jun 22, 2015
Jun 22, 2015 at 8:25 AM UTC
Id's Odyssey
We sit together, On old chairs with cracked legs And upholstery of a dated pattern. My hands: blackened at the fingertips nails in ruins calloused. it appears that my guitar is the victor of this battle. The dining room is a mess- textbooks strewn about, proclaiming that a change in buyer preferences will cause a shift in demand and that the Amarna Period reflected a number of stylistic changes and the clock on the oven says it's nearly midnight. Retire with me to the front porch. Sit down in a white rocking chair with green-and-brown striped cushions And feel the cool, clean mist on your cheeks As the rain comes pouring forth From the opened mouth of Tlaloc, And we will sing, and laugh, and cry Until it is quite late indeed And we become dizzy, giddy, wobbly-minded And fall gratefully into bed.
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Oct 1, 2010
Oct 1, 2010 at 5:40 AM UTC
A Late Night
Her eyes they shine The deepest blue, matching the sky In the evening, looking off east O’er the Cascades, latest July Through smoke roasting leg of beast Can’t look away, though I do try, My mind recoils from the feast. Across the office, right at lunch I notice the tumbling sea Crashing waves cause pebbles to crunch Tsunami rolls in, wild and free Afraid to move, I ponder brunch And ask those eyes to come with me Across the table, crystal clear Aquamarine gemstones shine bright Facetted perfect shed no tear Refracting starlight in the night Bringing me peace, removing fear Those eyes make me feel I’m alright
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Apr 11, 2015
Apr 11, 2015 at 3:44 PM UTC
stylistic imitation of Lord Byron
Circa Holy Roman Empire between ninth and thirteenth century after common era (approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD) benchmark year 780 bracketed Benedictine monks of Corbie Abbey devised cheeky guttural lingual rapartee vis a vis European calligraphic standard script inked lined writ via extant Irish and English monastic members nsync strong influence of Irish literati eased communication popular Latin cognoscenti common lingua franca spawned Carolingian Renaissance Codices, pagan and Christian text plus educational material written viz Carolingian minuscule Emperor Charlemagne issued prescription (hence named Carolingian) boosted unified modus operandi he advocated learning, though somewhat illiterate recognized value of education predicated on singular codified regional alphabet, the then webbed wide world linkedin, sans uniform symbolic shapes uncontested salient advantage offered up ease to master clear distinct explicit letter formation simple logic boosted rapidly transmitted standardization, especially with exceptional legible readable characteristic adequate spaces between words Merovingian "chancery hand" still reserved to draft traditional charters Gothic and Anglo Saxon favored traditional local script as opposed to Latin learning latter involved less tricked out embellished flourishes or interconnected strokes drawn by a scribe allowing, enabling, and providing greater popularity to teach masses, latent etymological nuances apparent centuries following implementation quasi initial Carolingian letters steadfast, where Carolingian influence moats strong adopted local stylistic signature flavor divergence woke since proliferation stoking diffuse prospects decreeing entrenched footing, where auspices boded prescient until groundswell didst surcease sub limb mated into modern patois.
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May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018 at 7:39 PM UTC
Carolingian Minuscule
Circa Holy Roman Empire between ninth and thirteenth century after common era (approximately 800 AD and 1200 AD) benchmark year 780 bracketed Benedictine monks of Corbie Abbey devised cheeky guttural lingual rapartee vis a vis European calligraphic standard script inked lined writ via extant Irish and English monastic members nsync strong influence of Irish literati eased communication popular Latin cognoscenti common lingua franca spawned Carolingian Renaissance Codices, pagan and Christian text plus educational material written viz Carolingian minuscule Emperor Charlemagne issued prescription (hence named Carolingian) boosted unified modus operandi he advocated learning, though somewhat illiterate recognized value of education predicated on singular codified regional alphabet, the then webbed wide world linkedin, sans uniform symbolic shapes uncontested salient advantage offered up ease to master clear distinct explicit letter formation simple logic boosted rapidly transmitted standardization, especially with exceptional legible readable characteristic adequate spaces between words Merovingian "chancery hand" still reserved to draft traditional charters Gothic and Anglo Saxon favored traditional local script as opposed to Latin learning latter involved less tricked out embellished flourishes or interconnected strokes drawn by a scribe allowing, enabling, and providing greater popularity to teach masses, latent etymological nuances apparent centuries following implementation quasi initial Carolingian letters steadfast, where Carolingian influence moats strong adopted local stylistic signature flavor divergence woke since proliferation stoking diffuse prospects decreeing entrenched footing, where auspices boded prescient until groundswell didst surcease sub limb mated into modern patois.
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unfolding like a stanza whirlwind A cappela A stylistic opera abbreviated Sestina with no background singa's A minor sung song ending in the key of G
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Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 11:58 PM UTC
sung in the key of?
i make up rules for myself and then i break them. i have spent so much time picking out seeds from my brain. i am trying to remove the rot i planted. i promise i will smoke less, and drink less, and write more. i promise i will spend less time living inside of my brain. i can't explain this method of self-destruction. it is not detonating. it is perpetual loneliness, like sand through an hourglass. i dissolve. a steady rain for days. and maybe its stylistic, as every writer enters a page the same way, to pour. to let the flood cleanse your skin, to feel relief, reborn. i make up these rules for myself as terms for falling apart. i am only human, i have been buried with these words and have the grief to prove it. i smoke too much, i drink too much, i haven't been able to make it out of a poem alive in months.
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Dec 17, 2018
Dec 17, 2018 at 1:00 AM UTC
terms of falling apart:
*“My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.”* Joë Bousquet No anaesthetic rhyming with aesthetic for the cracks of words now **** it! This pain keeps inventing skies to fall into, glass screams, corroded nails Crying comes from far away Words grow flesh Between fingers Herds are trampling on my heart inside plastic horizons This stupendous silence then Take my bones from yesterday Future is a catapult What if I am only a girl facing this      Breathe out I am the possession/oppression The oppressor is me Pain is not a stylistic experiment Where can I hide my ears I crawled I bent Disfigured I had to pick up my eyes from fences, my lungs from the mirror I have a body full of used words, slapped doors, walls swollen by silence Hope to get used to be treated in the third person No poetics of space Pain is this quarry in me L’habitude of memory
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May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015 at 3:30 PM UTC
second letter to the pain
the anxiety of my body arrives before the patience of my mind - my soul is a pop gun or is convinced - *I Apologize For The Eyes In My Head* – Komunyakaa - for the aftermath of witness
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Dec 14, 2012
Dec 14, 2012 at 4:17 PM UTC
stylistic device