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"superimposed" poems
Masters of the Universe, tender me thy resignation, if but for a day, a millennia, no matter how measured, any being, you, purported supreme or otherwise, are tired in ways hard to comprehend *tender me thy responsibilities and dilemmas, have studied your resignations, solutions that provide no resolution...* I can do better. Why? not obligated by parenthood, rules of randomness superimposed, all I got is human kindness the eyesight that colors kindness, tolerates no injustice, milky white light, no longer recognize "there for the grace of God go you and I" have no name, but if you need one for me, call me <human>
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Jan 3, 2015
Jan 3, 2015 at 8:01 AM UTC
Masters of the Universe...Tender Me Thy Resignation
If I said my heart was a cyanide laced pomegranate, would that make its expressions any less ****** If I said falling in love was like throwing yourself off a cliff on a winter night and drowning yourself tumbling through the air blind like a bag of kittens, but I was quoting Kierkegaard, would that make it any less of an awkward melodrama? If I told you the western blocks blind attacks on the other, kinda resembled Freud's account of the mother of a miscarriages melancholia, is that a condoning or a condemnation? if I translated every meta-narrative of class relation, oppression, wage slavery, state violence, suppression, into anthropomorphic allegories for a myriad of psychological phenomena, would I be an academic or a shinto miko? [and would the world be any better?] if I superimposed on the geographical topology, the political and then the existential, would I have a sandwich? Or a lasagne?
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Jun 26, 2014
Jun 26, 2014 at 11:19 PM UTC
a poem, a poe arm, a phantom limb
a gift for Aladdin Aures H from his 3rd follower... <>><<> the inescapable need, unformed firmament inquiring; am I capable? the impulse palpable, the urge to urgent, to gorge and disgorge? instead of morning prayers, precomposed and ordered, morning poem plucked from morning fog, gusted breezes, early-on, newborn sun rays, progeny of disheveled skies words fused, in irregular sizes, senses censured by drowsy eyes, but the chest beating arrhythmia means bursts of free verses superimposed on reluctant eyelids, jigsaw puzzlement be re-conformed and the first poem of the day, emerges from the intersection of mind, pale dreams, and the first is special till the neu morrow, when fresh bursts explode inward to windward, and the first is just yesterday's mesh of hash, once formidable, now last, pinned, yellowing, purely a **descendant of the recent, but always, ancient past*^
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Jun 19, 2025
Jun 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM UTC
The Poem Writes Me
i desire for you, so badly, to fit into the fabric of my life. to let me into your deepest fears. to laugh with me when i need to be reminded that life is full of joy as much as sorrow. even now, i wish you were sitting with me in this house by the sea. but the truth is that you’re not. you’re two thousand, three hundred miles away. even further is your heart from mine. because the truth is that i tore you from the fabric of my heart. and i’m sorry. i know that no apology could ever bring you back. but i want you to know i am. i’m sorry i overstepped your boundaries. i’m sorry i broke your heart. you knew it was best for you to leave. whether that is good for me, i still don’t know. but i want you to know that i want the best for you, and if the best thing for you is to not know me anymore, i accept that. i hope this distance is helping you heal. what i do know is that right now, i am sitting in this house by the sea. watching the waves break over rocks. crashing into each other, too. my wave broke against your rock and retreated back into the ocean. and in the period when our waves superimposed, you reminded me that it’s okay to take a chance on love. that when i push people away with my vicious, vicious words, everyone gets hurt. including me. and maybe some people are not meant to love me forever. maybe some loves are just meant to pass by. but it doesn’t make them any less important.
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Jul 24, 2019
Jul 24, 2019 at 2:19 AM UTC
excerpt
Half calf with a twist As the line stands Thinking she is a superimposed ***** Foregoing on Barista Waist like an elastic band Hair waving hello in it’s pinkness Homeless man coming in Screaming Obscenities Something about Romans and Euripides As if in a round about Circle the store like a hovered cloud Then out again The rocker dude sipping his tea The older man in the corner Who constantly leaves Wandering where one can’t see Trailing behind his laptop and keys Somewhere in this madness loop Latte’s and Macchiato's brew And I With a child's flair Take it all in, while I throw back my hair
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Oct 25, 2018
Oct 25, 2018 at 11:28 PM UTC
One more cup of Joe
Spanish Guitars A few years ago, in 2011, I went to a concert of young classical guitarists.  Just before or after, I don't recall, I saw an exhibition of Picasso's guitars at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1101). This poem ensued.  This is one of the lost poems I mentioned, recently rediscovered on an archaeological dig. Spanish Guitars two weeks pass. I have seen two guitars one of wood, one of sheet metal. both were alive, both were inanimate both birthed for display, useful for granting pleasure and heating up le jus d'creation products of a tradesman's craft, animated to pierce my brain and pleasure me with the realization that when you see what I see When you, you hear, What I see we all perforce speak but one language, an alphabet of music, art and love A young, oh so most beautiful Croat guitarist girl, Ana, coaxes an urgency from her love, the blonde wood, she takes Piazzola's notes, as if they were Picasso's thoughts and set them within so days later, the resonance plucks at my temples Picasso, like a little boy, collects collaged bits and pieces of life's stuff most ordinary, postage stamps, playing cards, wallpaper, pieces of cardboard, cutouts from Le Journal, and with fingers delicate sticks and glues discrete notes, individually nothing but pieces of this and that, bits and bobs superimposed on faux woodwork, presenting an instrument tooled to conjures up a milonga^, the sounds of angels dying, a fandango of trembling tones a sonnet of sounds, celebrating human touch upon animal, strings taut, feasts both, a banquet, a  triomphe of sounds that tutors my senses to hear sheet metal guitars imprisoned in museum glass gush sounds of parallel lines and delicate contrasts, A duet of animate, inanimate Virtuosity All is clarified. One language. Many dialects. Both, Spanish guitars. ^ a milonga has many meanings, but here, refers to a Argentine tango dance party
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Aug 21, 2013
Aug 21, 2013 at 1:14 AM UTC
Spanish Guitars
Spanish Guitars A few years ago, in 2011, I went to a concert of young classical guitarists.  Just before or after, I don't recall, I saw an exhibition of Picasso's guitars at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1101). This poem ensued.  This is one of the lost poems I mentioned, recently rediscovered on an archaeological dig. Spanish Guitars two weeks pass. I have seen two guitars one of wood, one of sheet metal. both were alive, both were inanimate both birthed for display, useful for granting pleasure and heating up le jus d'creation products of a tradesman's craft, animated to pierce my brain and pleasure me with the realization that when you see what I see When you, you hear, What I see we all perforce speak but one language, an alphabet of music, art and love A young, oh so most beautiful Croat guitarist girl, Ana, coaxes an urgency from her love, the blonde wood, she takes Piazzola's notes, as if they were Picasso's thoughts and set them within so days later, the resonance plucks at my temples Picasso, like a little boy, collects collaged bits and pieces of life's stuff most ordinary, postage stamps, playing cards, wallpaper, pieces of cardboard, cutouts from Le Journal, and with fingers delicate sticks and glues discrete notes, individually nothing but pieces of this and that, bits and bobs superimposed on faux woodwork, presenting an instrument tooled to conjures up a milonga^, the sounds of angels dying, a fandango of trembling tones a sonnet of sounds, celebrating human touch upon animal, strings taut, feasts both, a banquet, a  triomphe of sounds that tutors my senses to hear sheet metal guitars imprisoned in museum glass gush sounds of parallel lines and delicate contrasts, A duet of animate, inanimate Virtuosity All is clarified. One language. Many dialects. Both, Spanish guitars. ^ a milonga has many meanings, but here, refers to a Argentine tango dance party
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those of us in the middle muddle, do not know from sides, boundary lines, drawn by others, right-sided, left-leaning, mean nothing to us, who seek something solid upon to rest, when the clarity others profess, more than evades us, even escapes us, and the muddles of life seem to require simplest, middling answers that are unacceptably refused by grail seekers whose cause for cause, means cause to cost others regardless, for regard for the middle is disdained, by two-sided posts, the know nothings, and the know betters irony of irony, the rigidity of imposition makes me more adrift, more aimless, and the task of meandering through seems almost holy, for the obstacles of society, requirements of modern life, are so damning, wild expectations superimposed, truths not just hard to find, almost indiscernible, so I lay my pen down hard, awaiting for the whatever-while, for to return, to go walking with only the simplest grids to guide, meanderings in general directions, ahead, always ahead, keep moving, keep touching and when optimism returns, I shall be relieved once more, I shall be released once again, good words will be caught, released, returned back into the atmosphere so they will grow in size by the very act of sharing undated ————————————————- *Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said,* so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime. ~Ray Bradbury (Book: Fahrenheit 451)
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Jul 17, 2023
Jul 17, 2023 at 6:14 AM UTC
My Legacy: those of us in the middle muddle
those of us in the middle muddle, do not know from sides, boundary lines, drawn by others, right-sided, left-leaning, mean nothing to us, who seek something solid upon to rest, when the clarity others profess, more than evades us, even escapes us, and the muddles of life seem to require simplest, middling answers that are unacceptably refused by grail seekers whose cause for cause, means cause to cost others regardless, for regard for the middle is disdained, by two-sided posts, the know nothings, and the know betters irony of irony, the rigidity of imposition makes me more adrift, more aimless, and the task of meandering through seems almost holy, for the obstacles of society, requirements of modern life, are so damning, wild expectations superimposed, truths not just hard to find, almost indiscernible, so I lay my pen down hard, awaiting for the whatever-while, for to return, to go walking with only the simplest grids to guide, meanderings in general directions, ahead, always ahead, keep moving, keep touching and when optimism returns, I shall be relieved once more, I shall be released once again, good words will be caught, released, returned back into the atmosphere so they will grow in size by the very act of sharing undated ————————————————- *Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said,* so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime. ~Ray Bradbury (Book: Fahrenheit 451)
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Sewer rats bottleneck into a Carnival of Depravity. Due to the bizarre circumstance of their fingers, they allow their limbs to become limp. As Valkyries, they are aware of the juxtaposition of their clown pantaloons and their hobnailed mudboots. In this benefit carnival, a ferris wheel runs amok. Within it, GI’s holler their way through the vermillion skyway, zippoing the dented carapace with their M16s. In a true practice of youthful bliss, the 5.56 returns to the cosmos. However, the bullets, streaming out and homewards, are soon constrained to the circular path of the wheel itself. “Centripetal farce!” goes Lance. “Hey what, man?” whimpers Mr. Clean. “Well, y’see: centripetal fOrce makes an overwhelming amount of sense. So much so, that when superimposed on the Carnival Cavalcade™, it must make no sense, for it’d shake us all up something mad.” “So, the bullets aren’t real?” “Oh, they’re plenty real. Just touch it, it’d melt you, starting with the neurons, cat. Other than little blue reality though, it’s out there. Its dancers are not chained to any concrete block of nature.” “Oh, they’re sufferin’?”
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Oct 21, 2018
Oct 21, 2018 at 11:38 AM UTC
Centripetal Farce
I am color blind- to reds greens and blues curious of what colors appear in your dreams or visions too I question the spectrums of your perceptions in the midst of the differentiations in our walks of life, thoughts and insights there are many shades of black and white so how can you possibly see with those eyes shut tight as if lids were pressed, superimposed with eyes blurred or closed when you say my blue is not your blue, I ask why they cannot be both.
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Jan 9, 2014
Jan 9, 2014 at 6:42 PM UTC
Colorblind
I burn beautifully in the fires of vanity. Got lost in my own reflection on the frozen food doors— there I was, lined up with the rest of the products on ice: three fifty-nine for four egg rolls, six twenty-nine for frozen bread dough, six ninety-nine for wild blueberries. Superimposed, my long mug trying its best to blend in. My forehead says I’m three ninety-nine, but my solar plexus clearly marks me at five fifty-nine. However, my **** is, apparently, on clearance, reduced by thirty percent, and going for a buck nineteen. At the end of the aisle, an old lady eyes my biscuits, rattling her coin purse like she’s about to roll a Yahtzee. I flick my gaze back to the glass and my own ghostly image. What did I come here for again?
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May 22, 2021
May 22, 2021 at 12:18 PM UTC
Narcissus on ice
Those words are now meaningless compared to what you mean to me. Where I thought that there was no way to feel deeper, you prove me wrong. I am ice and you were the cool breeze that keeps me from melting and evaporating away. No four letter-word could ever measure against you. I was eating cigarettes for breakfast; now I subsist only on the health of you. I was dreaming of the day I was born, strangling on an umbilical noose; you have slid your pink life-giving cord into my navel. I was writing my suicide note, but you came and lit it aflame, blew away the embers, wrote a story with a happy ending. I dangled, atrophied, off of an edge, my chalk-outline superimposed over the gaping black. Your hair, strands of raven steel, snaked their way through my fingers, held me long enough for you to pull me back. You held my hand, guided the crayon it held. Where I saw only a blank page, you showed where the lines were and created a piece of art beyond anything the world has ever seen. You are my life-support system, Holly, and without you, I wouldn't be writing this.
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Aug 24, 2012
Aug 24, 2012 at 3:50 AM UTC
I Will Never Say 'I Love You' Again
Our lives are like ocean waves, born of a celestial entity among a diversified sea of possibilities. Direction and intensity set at birth with a future blurred by the endless horizon Some waves wander alone, losing momentum as they are gradually ushered down by Earth’s gravitational pull before tragically coming to a rest among the blue abyss, destination never realized Others are born of the unseen violence and upheaval between tectonic plates battling for dominion over the volatile landscape deep beneath the surface. Knowing no other way, they perpetuate the violence that created them, destroying and consuming everything in their path Yet some join together, superimposed into a harmonious union that multiplies their strength and propels them forward until it’s waters gently meet the shore in an actualizing marriage of journey and destiny Storms often boil up out of nowhere, dismantling adjacent waves. While a select few resist the onslaught, instead gaining strength and vitality. Like a conductor bringing a symphony to crescendo, the roil pushes these waves further than others in pursuit of their destination This dynamic tapestry of new beginnings and violent ends blend together as one, eroding and shaping the land around them as they work out their daily squabbles. Heads barely above water, they continue onward towards the horizon blatantly disregarding a future for which they create
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Oct 31, 2018
Oct 31, 2018 at 11:27 PM UTC
70 Percent
The Agèd Hands of Time have reached yet another toll of the bell. 12 years have passed since I’ve last seen her in this life. Distance and sickness in our being had robbed us both of streams of time which passed like a long cold winter into her death. These lost memories often create over- exposed and superimposed photo negatives of imaginary frames of time I desperately imprint to hold tightly in my heart and mind. But I still hold tightly in memory to her soft voice on the phone and pictures of split second frames of physical time my sister would send me. Many people don’t even have that. In this life she loved to mother her three grown children and flower garden as near as she could to the end. It was in her nature to nurture us-- her perennial children-- and to help make the move easier for her literal annual foster children plants taken from a confined potted existence to a deep soft warm bed of comfort. Stamped on my mind is not the faded and worn, bruised and torn image of her outward shell in the Trauma Center at age 88, but the indelible inner and outward image at age 38: a lovely young mama who tucked her little boy in bed every night with a song and a prayer. The little boy that is still alive in this man. The Agèd Hands of Time have reached yet another toll of the bell.
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Jun 9, 2017
Jun 9, 2017 at 5:46 PM UTC
My Mama Died Today-- June 9, 2016
dreamingswanseyeaperturesboxboatsevergreenstarzenithgazing ~ while dreaming, i became a swan's eye, i was dreaming through both its apertures at once, clicking separately, click, click shuttering both sides from out a box, or from out a feathered, living boat, or two, severed visions superimposed: evergreen under, star over at a zenith gazing twice over paddling under ~
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 5:02 PM UTC
not all languages have capitalization, or spaces beween words, i think (10/11w)
I am a Heart Breaker superimposed upon this soul a spiritless spec of a man a melody story written from me to thee a hopeless dream of what i mean A man, A legend, This legacy is simple lyricy and artistry My mind is gone my words remain I’d travel across all seven seas to see eyes that loved me yet some divine comedy has mocked me this lion of god has torn me her words stain my consciousness her devotion leaves me motionless & hopeless I stand here superimposed Circe is having her way with me my mind resembles Heisenberg's uncertainty its the cat in the box the apathetic emotion not progress but congress If it’s my state coup d'etat it this is a war against myself and everyone else a broken boy with a bright mind a thousand familiars hold me down my eyes see something that doesn't drown alive & asleep the lion of god toys with me my love & sanity toils on the brinks of the blind a forgotten repression moves to take from me my essence a sweet blessing a devil that used to run me a god that only i can see or only i thought to believe a stupid soul that gives me immortality yet is stuck in the world of the ****** superimposed
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Dec 25, 2013
Dec 25, 2013 at 2:47 PM UTC
SuperImposed
Perfection Superimposed with self-perpetuating pollution But being sustains all and won't mourn its loss Clear as the sky Untaintable Delicious Home Forever I am The end is just the beginning Shedding limitations In spring reborn A heart of immense power Cares for all No longer infected by the sick For illness is a choiceless choice That needs no cure This is the good news Rejoice
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Feb 9, 2019
Feb 9, 2019 at 9:18 AM UTC
Is
Poet daubed the corporal on the wings of carney Wanderer dilettante soul lusted au wild routes Counted each the millimiles covered Upside , unstrained , Unflaggingly. Yon the valleys , epitome meadows and Hillsides Beated around the alcoves amok Ridges passed the marooned trails Agape the flinged self flew spirited madrigals Slowly rooted the tints into wilderness True entity got superimposed to sylvan instincts The obsolute shadow rigged the shooner By dimension lengthier the time but shorter by grace Grazed through and some toxic airs exhaled then pulled Blinked all the roof to rugs Remembrance of concrete boxes and intimate sidekicks Cheap conflict wins to hit the ring If body wins wanderlust looses thereby path ends Simultaneous call by consciousness and objection by eternal shadow Only the body grazed the maps with pointers Though insatiably leveed Kept retention the coursing shadow Yet remained damp , savaged the sylvan traits Life was near but the abstainer failed Wilderness abysm rejected the unfortunate physique There appeared Scorched canopies along wilted flora Container flogged the shadow to a stultifying death Physique deceived self the core truth Existence thereafter without knowing the chance with eterna Several followed the imperishable conflict trail Roll of honour diminished by fourth dimension Marked victories of featherbrains over pappus chambers Only few sticked upto xanthic flowers Raise up , were the victories thristled down? Many knocked and still keep on knocking incarnations Fine array of fossilized saturnine inhibitions Callous attritions over altruism of succinct shadows Flip sorties pariance spurts "The stanchion to revet my sky" voiced the shadow
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Aug 2, 2016
Aug 2, 2016 at 2:09 AM UTC
Forlorn Xanthic Flowers
Poet daubed the corporal on the wings of carney Wanderer dilettante soul lusted au wild routes Counted each the millimiles covered Upside , unstrained , Unflaggingly. Yon the valleys , epitome meadows and Hillsides Beated around the alcoves amok Ridges passed the marooned trails Agape the flinged self flew spirited madrigals Slowly rooted the tints into wilderness True entity got superimposed to sylvan instincts The obsolute shadow rigged the shooner By dimension lengthier the time but shorter by grace Grazed through and some toxic airs exhaled then pulled Blinked all the roof to rugs Remembrance of concrete boxes and intimate sidekicks Cheap conflict wins to hit the ring If body wins wanderlust looses thereby path ends Simultaneous call by consciousness and objection by eternal shadow Only the body grazed the maps with pointers Though insatiably leveed Kept retention the coursing shadow Yet remained damp , savaged the sylvan traits Life was near but the abstainer failed Wilderness abysm rejected the unfortunate physique There appeared Scorched canopies along wilted flora Container flogged the shadow to a stultifying death Physique deceived self the core truth Existence thereafter without knowing the chance with eterna Several followed the imperishable conflict trail Roll of honour diminished by fourth dimension Marked victories of featherbrains over pappus chambers Only few sticked upto xanthic flowers Raise up , were the victories thristled down? Many knocked and still keep on knocking incarnations Fine array of fossilized saturnine inhibitions Callous attritions over altruism of succinct shadows Flip sorties pariance spurts "The stanchion to revet my sky" voiced the shadow
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Lost in dreams and fantasy I love it when real life becomes a reflection of me To see myself in so many ways I love the beginnings of permanent change Like getting to the best part at the end of a chapter The present keeps me from worrying what may come after And it may be great, and amazing, and fine Or it could be lame, and a complete waste of time But I'll deal with this thing, and the rest as they come up I feel stoic, heroic, ready, and tough Bring on the challenge I'll show you what I'm made of It's times like these that I feel alive Maybe it's because I've never been afraid to die It's hello's that I struggle with But I've never had trouble saying goodbye It all reminds me of this one time Where my whole family went along for a ride And my dad ran a red light And we all almost died My mom had a mock heart-attack And my sister, she cried My brother got angry And my father was silent And I just laughed and laughed Hysterically so Because to die you first have to be alive And it felt so good to know I was probably twelve years old But I can still recall the effect It seems all of the times I remember most clearly Are the times I came closest to death But now I remember feeling so stuck in life And letting emptiness take control Going to work was an hour long drive I spent it wishing for the credits to roll Directed by the world The setting was hell Special thanks to my mother Guest starring myself I'd like to thank the academy And the rest of the cast "I look forward to the future" And to leaving the past I saw it all Superimposed over the rest A slow pan out from my car As I drove into sunset But it didn't end there And it's not over yet I'm still alive and kicking Don't you forget
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 1:36 AM UTC
Sequel
Lost in dreams and fantasy I love it when real life becomes a reflection of me To see myself in so many ways I love the beginnings of permanent change Like getting to the best part at the end of a chapter The present keeps me from worrying what may come after And it may be great, and amazing, and fine Or it could be lame, and a complete waste of time But I'll deal with this thing, and the rest as they come up I feel stoic, heroic, ready, and tough Bring on the challenge I'll show you what I'm made of It's times like these that I feel alive Maybe it's because I've never been afraid to die It's hello's that I struggle with But I've never had trouble saying goodbye It all reminds me of this one time Where my whole family went along for a ride And my dad ran a red light And we all almost died My mom had a mock heart-attack And my sister, she cried My brother got angry And my father was silent And I just laughed and laughed Hysterically so Because to die you first have to be alive And it felt so good to know I was probably twelve years old But I can still recall the effect It seems all of the times I remember most clearly Are the times I came closest to death But now I remember feeling so stuck in life And letting emptiness take control Going to work was an hour long drive I spent it wishing for the credits to roll Directed by the world The setting was hell Special thanks to my mother Guest starring myself I'd like to thank the academy And the rest of the cast "I look forward to the future" And to leaving the past I saw it all Superimposed over the rest A slow pan out from my car As I drove into sunset But it didn't end there And it's not over yet I'm still alive and kicking Don't you forget
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I can’t count the number of times I have read that little quote Superimposed over black and white photos Of those skinny girls Sick girls Stick-thin pictures of girls that my best friend tells me are impossible Your words Nothing Tastes As Good As Skinny Feels. Oh no, my dear, nothing tastes as good as being whole Feeling whole Skinny doesn’t have a taste But if I had to give it one, it would be The taste you have in the back of your mouth when the alcohol’s washed down your throat Sour and burning Skinny tastes like it's pressing on my lungs Skinny tastes like the inside of the mouth of someone who you know will never love you I kissed ana long and hard in the dark but her bones All Snapped When I pressed too hard.
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May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 1:57 AM UTC
Dear Kate Moss
“*I suppose I will never lead the ordered life my father led. And I’ll never live in the kind of house he lived in, with its rituals, its dignity, the smell of polish.*” Leonard Cohen <> the orderly of an individual life, guided by the guardrails of family life, superimposed upon it by a calendar of religion, that layers into you with a cyclicality of communal ritual, that rules, guides, tides and hides you subliminally, the individual, in ways that forever alters how one comprehends the meaning of belonging the oven~heated, banging smells of the kitchen, the hubbub, frantic sounds of a Sabbath eve prepping, vacuuming house cleansing, far more than just a cleaning, the young boys in their jackets, white shirts, for Friday night candle lighting, the girls in Sabbath frocks, assisting Mother, but by Saturday morning sermon time those boy’s shirts were always untucked, sweaty and always less white, from running around outside synagogue from playing Ringolevio, for which you were justly critiqued by a mother’s glare-stare this play-within-a-play poem, played out in homes nearby, for community was very defined by geography, and the candles of Sabbath oft visible in every home as Fathers & sons returned home from Friday Night services where the Sabbath’s peace was welcomed like a new bride. but the knowledge that this scenario was occurring in homes around the world in almost identical custom, lent a larger perspective to even the youngest, of a belonging As for me, I passed on that life, not as well as it was given to me, but as best I could, or honestly, desired, but because I the individual inherited these ways, words, knowledge and sensations and deemed failing to transmit would be a grievous denial of a heritage were I to not gift them this order, the dignity of these rituals, the pungent smell of a polished home, a life of intuiting belonging, be longing.
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Feb 18, 2024
Feb 18, 2024 at 10:09 AM UTC
“I suppose I will never lead the ordered life my father led.”
“*I suppose I will never lead the ordered life my father led. And I’ll never live in the kind of house he lived in, with its rituals, its dignity, the smell of polish.*” Leonard Cohen <> the orderly of an individual life, guided by the guardrails of family life, superimposed upon it by a calendar of religion, that layers into you with a cyclicality of communal ritual, that rules, guides, tides and hides you subliminally, the individual, in ways that forever alters how one comprehends the meaning of belonging the oven~heated, banging smells of the kitchen, the hubbub, frantic sounds of a Sabbath eve prepping, vacuuming house cleansing, far more than just a cleaning, the young boys in their jackets, white shirts, for Friday night candle lighting, the girls in Sabbath frocks, assisting Mother, but by Saturday morning sermon time those boy’s shirts were always untucked, sweaty and always less white, from running around outside synagogue from playing Ringolevio, for which you were justly critiqued by a mother’s glare-stare this play-within-a-play poem, played out in homes nearby, for community was very defined by geography, and the candles of Sabbath oft visible in every home as Fathers & sons returned home from Friday Night services where the Sabbath’s peace was welcomed like a new bride. but the knowledge that this scenario was occurring in homes around the world in almost identical custom, lent a larger perspective to even the youngest, of a belonging As for me, I passed on that life, not as well as it was given to me, but as best I could, or honestly, desired, but because I the individual inherited these ways, words, knowledge and sensations and deemed failing to transmit would be a grievous denial of a heritage were I to not gift them this order, the dignity of these rituals, the pungent smell of a polished home, a life of intuiting belonging, be longing.
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Investors need to stop treating stocks as a ‘beauty contest’ and follow the difficult investment style of Keynes, global pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer said. Data produced in a working paper from the Harvard Business Schoolshowed that portfolios built on firms with a good material sustainability rating outperformed those that had a poor rating, an aspect not considered enough by investors who were caught up with quarterly returns, Ambachtsheer said at a Chartered Financial Analyst seminar in Sydney on Monday. “What I see happening out there is largely speculation – what Keynes called ‘beauty contest investing’, where everybody tries to figure out what the most popular stocks are going to be in six months, buys them and when they become really popular sells them,” Ambachtsheer said. He added the implications of this investment style as an aggregate was a zero sum game, whereas investing should be taking savings and turning them into wealth producing capital. “The key thing is you need to look beyond the next quarter; you look at the long-term sustainability of the business model of the corporation, as well as the people behind it in terms of how it is being managed.” The Harvard Business School (HBS) working paper superimposed the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board materiality map (which identifies likely material sustainability issues on an industry-by-industry basis) onto 400 common US stocks identified through sustainability metrics from Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics. They examined what effect materiality would have over the long-term (starting from the 1980s) and found the top 10 per cent of firms that scored strongly on material sustainability outperformed the bottom 10 per cent, by nine per cent over a rolling twenty-year period. “The practical question is, can you actually manage money this way in the real world? And the answer is yes, but it’s very hard, because you are doing unconventional things,” Ambachtsheer said. Real-world Keynesianism investors – such as Warren Buffett and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan – are in a minority despite outperforming over the long-term. In chapter 12 of his seminal workThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes explained the reason for this was the essence of long-term investors meant their behaviour would be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion. “Most organisations can’t function like this,” Ambachtsheer said, as they were too focused on the present.Read more at:www.marieaustralia.com/vintage-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/backless-formal-dresses
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Nov 15, 2016
Nov 15, 2016 at 2:31 AM UTC
Stop ‘beauty contest’ and act like Keynes
Investors need to stop treating stocks as a ‘beauty contest’ and follow the difficult investment style of Keynes, global pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer said. Data produced in a working paper from the Harvard Business Schoolshowed that portfolios built on firms with a good material sustainability rating outperformed those that had a poor rating, an aspect not considered enough by investors who were caught up with quarterly returns, Ambachtsheer said at a Chartered Financial Analyst seminar in Sydney on Monday. “What I see happening out there is largely speculation – what Keynes called ‘beauty contest investing’, where everybody tries to figure out what the most popular stocks are going to be in six months, buys them and when they become really popular sells them,” Ambachtsheer said. He added the implications of this investment style as an aggregate was a zero sum game, whereas investing should be taking savings and turning them into wealth producing capital. “The key thing is you need to look beyond the next quarter; you look at the long-term sustainability of the business model of the corporation, as well as the people behind it in terms of how it is being managed.” The Harvard Business School (HBS) working paper superimposed the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board materiality map (which identifies likely material sustainability issues on an industry-by-industry basis) onto 400 common US stocks identified through sustainability metrics from Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics. They examined what effect materiality would have over the long-term (starting from the 1980s) and found the top 10 per cent of firms that scored strongly on material sustainability outperformed the bottom 10 per cent, by nine per cent over a rolling twenty-year period. “The practical question is, can you actually manage money this way in the real world? And the answer is yes, but it’s very hard, because you are doing unconventional things,” Ambachtsheer said. Real-world Keynesianism investors – such as Warren Buffett and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan – are in a minority despite outperforming over the long-term. In chapter 12 of his seminal workThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes explained the reason for this was the essence of long-term investors meant their behaviour would be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion. “Most organisations can’t function like this,” Ambachtsheer said, as they were too focused on the present.Read more at:www.marieaustralia.com/vintage-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/backless-formal-dresses
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A sloppy connection made through dry sockets Man-child trembles at his capabilities Poor thing, my charge A fifth of *** and a bit of battery acid So true A false wall that keeps the roaches in Volunteer for a bit of community service I serve, teach, and protect (frail ego systems) I serve it up spiced and garnished Cut up neatly with uniform premeditated precision Little bite-sized baby food morsels for his mouth So easy to chew So true So easy to swallow The boy, lewd rude lust thrusting (Drag in his line, correct its arc, and begin again, slower now) Poor thing The spotlight making his naked man-machine Glow surreal satellite white, overexposed; Pour viscous shadows into every exquisite crevice In repose, underexposed He begins to decipher my light projection I put it to my lips… My motive ***** Poor thing, always at a lack Pretty vacant boy bomb (Sigh…just lie still life) Just one of the boys Just one of the luscious little wind-up toys Just another pound pounding of flesh (Fact: humans are mostly dark meat) He passes out before I can do any real damage Superimposed, film the oily residue cell by cell It is my body, oh yes My doppelgänger dictates the disease (White sound waves will wash my body Clean to a distant, lonely shore) Dip me in saliva I come up gilded, salt streaks straps stinging So true I am sick of the flaming hoop trick I am sick of his radiant Vegas platform (Sick of trying tying a knot in this cherry stem) Ambivalence a smeared lipstick stain from yesterday My thoughts are exactly 21.5 miles away Just once I want something pure
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Feb 28, 2012
Feb 28, 2012 at 9:07 PM UTC
So True
A sloppy connection made through dry sockets Man-child trembles at his capabilities Poor thing, my charge A fifth of *** and a bit of battery acid So true A false wall that keeps the roaches in Volunteer for a bit of community service I serve, teach, and protect (frail ego systems) I serve it up spiced and garnished Cut up neatly with uniform premeditated precision Little bite-sized baby food morsels for his mouth So easy to chew So true So easy to swallow The boy, lewd rude lust thrusting (Drag in his line, correct its arc, and begin again, slower now) Poor thing The spotlight making his naked man-machine Glow surreal satellite white, overexposed; Pour viscous shadows into every exquisite crevice In repose, underexposed He begins to decipher my light projection I put it to my lips… My motive ***** Poor thing, always at a lack Pretty vacant boy bomb (Sigh…just lie still life) Just one of the boys Just one of the luscious little wind-up toys Just another pound pounding of flesh (Fact: humans are mostly dark meat) He passes out before I can do any real damage Superimposed, film the oily residue cell by cell It is my body, oh yes My doppelgänger dictates the disease (White sound waves will wash my body Clean to a distant, lonely shore) Dip me in saliva I come up gilded, salt streaks straps stinging So true I am sick of the flaming hoop trick I am sick of his radiant Vegas platform (Sick of trying tying a knot in this cherry stem) Ambivalence a smeared lipstick stain from yesterday My thoughts are exactly 21.5 miles away Just once I want something pure
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I’m feeling right as rain on a window pane in a war of attrition, And I love how the rain beats me into submission, And I hate how I’m always in need of some reason for a division, That riddle of forever being cut down and somehow risen up in the middle Circumnavigate the delusional oceans of my mind, And I love that place between being dead and alive, And I hate how I’m there and yet still to arrive, That riddle of being lost and found by being stuck in the middle To be a fly on that flower on the wall, And I love to see how it feels to be left out of it all, And I hate to be unable to fall, That riddle of asking “How?” and not “Why?” that comes with being trapped in the middle I’ve written this part, For what feels the millionth time, I can only resign. The scars upon my hands, Connecting teeth-marks The guilt within my heart, That’s where the sickness starts, That riddle of being sick and yet unable to survive without lingering in the middle To be a Superman is so **** superficial, Superb superstition feels so insuperable, Juxtaposition in a definition of terms makes the Super seem just simple and little, That riddle of being everything and nothing that is superimposed in the void of the middle And I love how I’m here all alone in the middle, And I hate how I’m here all alone in the middle
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Jul 21, 2014
Jul 21, 2014 at 5:04 PM UTC
Superman
Poet daubed the corporal on the wings of carney Wanderer dilettante soul lusted wild routes Counted each the millimiles covered Upside , unstrained , Unflaggingly. Yon the valleys , epitome meadows and Hillsides Beated around the alcoves amok Ridges passed the marooned trails Agape the flinged self flew spirited madrigals Slowly rooted the tints into wilderness True entity got superimposed to sylvan instincts The obsolute shadow rigged the shooner By dimension lengthier the time but shorter by grace Grazed through and some toxic airs exhaled then pulled Blinked all the roof to rugs Remembrance of concrete boxes and intimate sidekicks Cheap conflict wins to hit the ring If body wins, wanderlust looses thereby path ends Simultaneous call by consciousness and objection by eternal shadow Only the body grazed the maps with pointers Though insatiably leveed Kept retention the coursing shadow Yet remained damp , savaged the sylvan traits Life was near but the abstainer failed Wilderness abysm rejected the unfortunate physique There appeared Scorched canopies along wilted flora Container flogged the shadow to a stultifying death Physique deceived self the core truth Existence thereafter without knowing the chance with eterna Several followed the imperishable conflict trail Roll of honour diminished by fourth dimension Marked victories of featherbrains over pappus chambers Only few sticked upto xanthic flowers Raise up , were the victories thristled down? Many knocked and still keep on knocking incarnations Fine array of fossilized saturnine inhibitions Callous attritions over altruism of succinct shadow Flip sorties pariance spurts "The stanchion to revet my sky" voiced the shadow
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Aug 19, 2016
Aug 19, 2016 at 3:31 AM UTC
Xanthic Flowers
Poet daubed the corporal on the wings of carney Wanderer dilettante soul lusted wild routes Counted each the millimiles covered Upside , unstrained , Unflaggingly. Yon the valleys , epitome meadows and Hillsides Beated around the alcoves amok Ridges passed the marooned trails Agape the flinged self flew spirited madrigals Slowly rooted the tints into wilderness True entity got superimposed to sylvan instincts The obsolute shadow rigged the shooner By dimension lengthier the time but shorter by grace Grazed through and some toxic airs exhaled then pulled Blinked all the roof to rugs Remembrance of concrete boxes and intimate sidekicks Cheap conflict wins to hit the ring If body wins, wanderlust looses thereby path ends Simultaneous call by consciousness and objection by eternal shadow Only the body grazed the maps with pointers Though insatiably leveed Kept retention the coursing shadow Yet remained damp , savaged the sylvan traits Life was near but the abstainer failed Wilderness abysm rejected the unfortunate physique There appeared Scorched canopies along wilted flora Container flogged the shadow to a stultifying death Physique deceived self the core truth Existence thereafter without knowing the chance with eterna Several followed the imperishable conflict trail Roll of honour diminished by fourth dimension Marked victories of featherbrains over pappus chambers Only few sticked upto xanthic flowers Raise up , were the victories thristled down? Many knocked and still keep on knocking incarnations Fine array of fossilized saturnine inhibitions Callous attritions over altruism of succinct shadow Flip sorties pariance spurts "The stanchion to revet my sky" voiced the shadow
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