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slave is someone who does not have authority over their own lives slave is someone subservient controlled dominated by somebody something slave works very hard for little or no pay slave is property of somebody something slave is someone forced to obey sycophant is someone servile who overly flatters more powerful individual for personal gain sycophant is bootlicker brown-noser fawner flunkey doormat lackey lap-dog yes-men parasite toad-eater (pause reposition) somebody possessed of excessive vanity may cultivate sycophant swarms side by side they stand clothed in black not quite similar the one slightly taller possibly because the other suffers poor posture perhaps they are related because in odd way they appear alike or of same ilk yet upon closer scrutiny it becomes apparent they have very little or nothing in common the taller one with troubled sad eyes the other smiling obsequiously the taller one more muscular ***** from working menial labor the other with curved spine slumped shoulders because of undue bowing and crouching while blowing smoke up other people’s ***** sadist is someone who attains ****** gratification by inflicting physical pain shame to other people sadist is someone who delights in excessive cruelty degradation to others ********* is someone who achieves ****** pleasure from being hurt humiliated abused dominated punished often self-inflicted ********* is someone who enjoys being harmed misused mistreated ignored by others sadomasochist is someone who gets ****** gratification by alternately or simultaneously enduring hurt causing pain to somebody else sadomasochist is combination of sadistic masochistic tendencies in someone who obtains ****** pleasure from inflicting submitting to pain cruelty sycophant slave snakes up leg of movie actress dictator who gains pain through pleasure 2000 miles from equator IED cell phone detonator sycophant dilettante ***** up to sadistic art critic or publishing editor on escalator while below on main floor of shopping mall ice rink figure skater pirouettes bows to nominator surreptitiously bribed by infiltrator mutilator
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Feb 27, 2011
Feb 27, 2011 at 4:38 AM UTC
sycophant slave snakes up leg of movie actress dictator
slave is someone who does not have authority over their own lives slave is someone subservient controlled dominated by somebody something slave works very hard for little or no pay slave is property of somebody something slave is someone forced to obey sycophant is someone servile who overly flatters more powerful individual for personal gain sycophant is bootlicker brown-noser fawner flunkey doormat lackey lap-dog yes-men parasite toad-eater (pause reposition) somebody possessed of excessive vanity may cultivate sycophant swarms side by side they stand clothed in black not quite similar the one slightly taller possibly because the other suffers poor posture perhaps they are related because in odd way they appear alike or of same ilk yet upon closer scrutiny it becomes apparent they have very little or nothing in common the taller one with troubled sad eyes the other smiling obsequiously the taller one more muscular ***** from working menial labor the other with curved spine slumped shoulders because of undue bowing and crouching while blowing smoke up other people’s ***** sadist is someone who attains ****** gratification by inflicting physical pain shame to other people sadist is someone who delights in excessive cruelty degradation to others ********* is someone who achieves ****** pleasure from being hurt humiliated abused dominated punished often self-inflicted ********* is someone who enjoys being harmed misused mistreated ignored by others sadomasochist is someone who gets ****** gratification by alternately or simultaneously enduring hurt causing pain to somebody else sadomasochist is combination of sadistic masochistic tendencies in someone who obtains ****** pleasure from inflicting submitting to pain cruelty sycophant slave snakes up leg of movie actress dictator who gains pain through pleasure 2000 miles from equator IED cell phone detonator sycophant dilettante ***** up to sadistic art critic or publishing editor on escalator while below on main floor of shopping mall ice rink figure skater pirouettes bows to nominator surreptitiously bribed by infiltrator mutilator
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Babysitting for grandchildren yapping and yipping and grandpappy silently slipping away. To bed at nine and out comes the bottle of wine,which is ever so slightly a bit out of line and grandpappy's silently slipping away. Then it's up at six for hot milk and two weetabix,then some film show on Sky or Netflix and grandpappy's silently slipping,with red wine surreptitiously sipping away.
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May 9, 2014
May 9, 2014 at 12:38 AM UTC
Nursery knitting
My dreams whisper sweet things And surreptitiously speak to me My waking words are rote and empty -spilling with hypocrisy Yet their comforting embrace Simply bring smiles to my face Filling my mind while I'm asleep They send messages lined with silver That vanish when I wake To bring about a dull and listless form Who is shaping my last mistake You see I wake in a storm Simultaneously feeling constrained To my bed I can't get up while there's no filter For the rush of noises in my head If there's a difference between What you know and what you believe Then why is it not as easy To imagine my reprieve Why can I only experience a vivid life While I sleep Then once again wake up To this Fear Doubt and Anger Choking me Invoking me by pushing buttons Of their endless promises To for certain be found in youth While my vision is livid sinning Contemplating and pinpointing Who too close is uncouth You sit there and feed my veins An explanation to your lies With all the compromised Washed up water Memorized methods Coping mechanisms While it's your heart that remains Aloof Then sit there in desperation Reiterating as if you know The deep introspective answer When any fool can see your wisdom Is wrought in the vanity Of a talented dancer If you lost the truth of sanity Would you retrieve it for ten cents Or would you search inside Before hiding from the confines Of a necessary moment I'd rather die or sacrifice my life Before cowering from what's hidden The message so raw That counts your flaws Like there was some proof In what is missing But ultimately I guess It comes down to the small decision The chip on my shoulder That became a boulder When I reached out For my inner vision. So while I feel so disparate and alone In the trenches losing my senses Will I be the hero or be the villain Will I let the poison make me it's toy Or take the penicillin *Some days my life feels as heavy As that last breath left over From how loudly I shout But I guess a general synopsis to you Of how I sometimes feel inside Is a decent first step to waking up While I'm down and out*
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Jul 3, 2017
Jul 3, 2017 at 4:53 AM UTC
Waking Up
My dreams whisper sweet things And surreptitiously speak to me My waking words are rote and empty -spilling with hypocrisy Yet their comforting embrace Simply bring smiles to my face Filling my mind while I'm asleep They send messages lined with silver That vanish when I wake To bring about a dull and listless form Who is shaping my last mistake You see I wake in a storm Simultaneously feeling constrained To my bed I can't get up while there's no filter For the rush of noises in my head If there's a difference between What you know and what you believe Then why is it not as easy To imagine my reprieve Why can I only experience a vivid life While I sleep Then once again wake up To this Fear Doubt and Anger Choking me Invoking me by pushing buttons Of their endless promises To for certain be found in youth While my vision is livid sinning Contemplating and pinpointing Who too close is uncouth You sit there and feed my veins An explanation to your lies With all the compromised Washed up water Memorized methods Coping mechanisms While it's your heart that remains Aloof Then sit there in desperation Reiterating as if you know The deep introspective answer When any fool can see your wisdom Is wrought in the vanity Of a talented dancer If you lost the truth of sanity Would you retrieve it for ten cents Or would you search inside Before hiding from the confines Of a necessary moment I'd rather die or sacrifice my life Before cowering from what's hidden The message so raw That counts your flaws Like there was some proof In what is missing But ultimately I guess It comes down to the small decision The chip on my shoulder That became a boulder When I reached out For my inner vision. So while I feel so disparate and alone In the trenches losing my senses Will I be the hero or be the villain Will I let the poison make me it's toy Or take the penicillin *Some days my life feels as heavy As that last breath left over From how loudly I shout But I guess a general synopsis to you Of how I sometimes feel inside Is a decent first step to waking up While I'm down and out*
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it is like the many nights sleepless intone of light on the tiled floor and surreptitiously under the influence wringing out poems while looking at 8th and 7th street fondling darkness like virgins on the absolute a mutiny of dead cigar butts on the corner as "kuya Louie" passes by with a wrench half-drunk with "Emperador" half-mad with ars poetica. other sense of self somewhere brash and brazen awash with modern sensibilities as this night deepens whiter like the color of new bones to fledgling movements, just like any other night.
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Sep 21, 2015
Sep 21, 2015 at 1:48 AM UTC
Barangay 187, 8th & 7th
The bus rumbles on, it is an over crowded one - not an unusual sight - she stands in the space reserved for women, there's hardly any room to breathe. The broadcaster on radio shows off her gift of the gab, a popular film song follows; a gush of wind through the window brings along smoke, dust and other such components of 'city-air'. She looks out to see impressive malls, entrances to which, witness beggars pursuing well dressed gentry, in the hope of a penny or two; billboards advertise latest discount offers appealing to her consumerist instincts; constant honking of vehicles, music blaring from an auto nearby - these are common sounds she is accustomed to. The bus halts with a jolt, she steps down, tries to make her way, through the crowd avoiding hawkers lunging at her from every side, eager to make sales; the smell of pakodas fills the air, autos carrying seven or eight passengers limp away, surreptitiously, at the sight of khaki clad men. Out of the blue, an elbow knocks into her chest, she turns to look at the lout - lecherous eyes mock at her impotent fury - she mouths standard abuses, walks away as if unruffled. For this was not the first instance, "Won't be the last either.", she thinks at the back of her mind, her heart chooses not to agree though. She moves on, pushing, shoving, cursing her way through 'Battleground India'.
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Oct 25, 2012
Oct 25, 2012 at 3:08 AM UTC
Life in a Metro
You can never tell when/if they’re coming will they reach/snag your sweater with their mossy claws and leave your body shaking/rigid in the darkness, and you sucking/choking your own breath. You might/never see them, you can(t) always feel their breath, sticky on your sweating neck/knees as they stalk with practice/perfection, keeping you blind/sided. Perhaps they are circling/behind but they still he(a)rd your dank mind and they can taste/fear because you taste it, acid/tar clinging to the back/tongue clutching the roof of your mouth s(l)eeping in(to) your lungs. Your sense of direction(less) lost in attempt to hang (on) tattered flesh to remind your self of time/reality? to wonder where/when you left you and whether you’ll ever walk back to your body— But this, this is yours/your mind/mindless being surreptitiously shepherded, invisible to your eyes/your intuition, which seeks/bares(t) gasps of light. Hang on to those/sustenance, gaps in the cloth of your (de)constructed mind that withers/shreds/hopes again only to find claws closing closer. Where’s your reality? Find it/they’ll get you/they’ll have you You’ll have you what’s the difference? When your mind is severed from its guy wires just as your earthquake saunters from quiver to roar and it all (col)lapses, you swallow you into cavernous depths where your calamities/
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Oct 26, 2012
Oct 26, 2012 at 12:05 AM UTC
Sympathetic (Nervous System)
Acerbic antagonist alliterates agonizing accusations, blasting ******* backbiter butting beautiful bombastic brainy blond bomb. Cumulative cranial casualties cease caveman's cognitive coherence. Doom digger derides Daddy's dangling dire dreary **** Eclectic esoteric eccentric egotistical estranger; Forthcoming fathoms fetch faithless fleeting father. God given goblins gather gossamer ganglions; Hell's hairy harlot harpies hover heeding Hyperion. Ignatius imbibes irrevocably insisting, "Jesus juggles justice's joy jarring jams." Kindness kindles Kilimanjaro; Malicious mountains melt, Mmm, morning marjoram. Nothing negates Neanderthal ninnying. Overt obsessions obfuscate original object of purest passions, paltry past pinings, quickly quieted, quelled, resisted, relinquished, readily, ruefully, roundly saturated, suffocated; surreptitiously silenced, terribly torturing the thrashed tamed tormentor: Ugly, ungrateful, unapologetic, Vanity, woefully wallowing, wailing, "Where's Xanadu's zeitgeist!?"
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Jan 15, 2012
Jan 15, 2012 at 12:09 AM UTC
I hate it when you alliterate
A cosmic ray dispersed into creation Tail wagging upstream with elation So many victims fallen to ************ Anxious seed sprouting with incubation Privileged To exist we have no choice Growing like a cyst No time to rejoice Cognitive effort to grasp us being alive Ponder the place from where we derive Reasons for life and why we must strive Are we honeybees with earth as our hive Pray to the heavens for when we"ll arrive Greeted with a smile and god"s high five Effortlessly we all continue to live and be Subconsciously evolving the human tree Temporarily renting this vessel of a body Surreptitiously evading death to be free
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Sep 2, 2013
Sep 2, 2013 at 1:46 AM UTC
Effort...less
Tingly under the daisies; Glassy-eyed, glazed, greasy; Shaking, shivering, shuddering, Wishing, wandering, whimpering, Westernizing— Romanizing— Constitutionalizing— Institutionalizing— Perpetually searching And dying And living, Watching Death survive And scythe the frolickers, The prancers, The rompers, The merrymakers. A rose clamped between his Grinning teeth glistens brightly, And he dances so joyously. “Yes!” say the naysayers, Confused are the soothsayers, Lost are the cartographers. Oh, Utopia! The monks are extravagant; The meditations are a farce! The preachers are beggars And swindlers and chargers, And Machiavelli fulfills his wishes! Babies are stillborn, stabbed, and Ritualistically sacrificed, And their blood is spilled, drunk, Slathered over the ***** man. The evangelists scream and lie: “You are all predestined to die!” Oh, hail Utopia! Wedded are the girls to the girls; Wedded are the boys to the boys; Wedded is Death to Death, Life to Life, And Life to Death. Wedded are the living to the existent. And the milking babes are slaughtered Ceremoniously, Surreptitiously, Ostentatiously. Oh, hail great Utopia! We are all dead and unintelligent: Laugh, laugh, Einstein, at your Stupidity. Laugh, laugh, Temple Grandin at Your retardation. Laugh, laugh, laugh! Look at the sluggard, thou ant; Look at the boy, sobbing wolf; Aesop was drunk, Aristotle was delusional, Michelangelo was blind, Beethoven could hear, Poe was sane. And I can't read. They ramble, I watch. They sleep, I watch. They dream, I watch. They sleep-talk, I watch. They scream, I watch. They choke, I watch. They suffocate, I watch. Stone-faced, I stare; Raspingly, I breathe; Uncontrollably, I twitch; Inwardly, I rage. I hope you die, I hope you die. I hope you bleed, I hope you die. I want you begging and crying, I want you blubbering at my feet, I want you gnashing at my ankles, I want you writhing in pain, I want your arm twisted off, Cracking with the snapping sinews, I want your beating heart in my hands, I want your genitals uprooted and stuffed in your throat, I want your stomach so I can eat the still-digesting food, I want your shrunken head and I want to force my thumbs into your unblinking eyes and I want to tear your face in two and I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die.
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Nov 3, 2015
Nov 3, 2015 at 9:47 PM UTC
Utopia
Tingly under the daisies; Glassy-eyed, glazed, greasy; Shaking, shivering, shuddering, Wishing, wandering, whimpering, Westernizing— Romanizing— Constitutionalizing— Institutionalizing— Perpetually searching And dying And living, Watching Death survive And scythe the frolickers, The prancers, The rompers, The merrymakers. A rose clamped between his Grinning teeth glistens brightly, And he dances so joyously. “Yes!” say the naysayers, Confused are the soothsayers, Lost are the cartographers. Oh, Utopia! The monks are extravagant; The meditations are a farce! The preachers are beggars And swindlers and chargers, And Machiavelli fulfills his wishes! Babies are stillborn, stabbed, and Ritualistically sacrificed, And their blood is spilled, drunk, Slathered over the ***** man. The evangelists scream and lie: “You are all predestined to die!” Oh, hail Utopia! Wedded are the girls to the girls; Wedded are the boys to the boys; Wedded is Death to Death, Life to Life, And Life to Death. Wedded are the living to the existent. And the milking babes are slaughtered Ceremoniously, Surreptitiously, Ostentatiously. Oh, hail great Utopia! We are all dead and unintelligent: Laugh, laugh, Einstein, at your Stupidity. Laugh, laugh, Temple Grandin at Your retardation. Laugh, laugh, laugh! Look at the sluggard, thou ant; Look at the boy, sobbing wolf; Aesop was drunk, Aristotle was delusional, Michelangelo was blind, Beethoven could hear, Poe was sane. And I can't read. They ramble, I watch. They sleep, I watch. They dream, I watch. They sleep-talk, I watch. They scream, I watch. They choke, I watch. They suffocate, I watch. Stone-faced, I stare; Raspingly, I breathe; Uncontrollably, I twitch; Inwardly, I rage. I hope you die, I hope you die. I hope you bleed, I hope you die. I want you begging and crying, I want you blubbering at my feet, I want you gnashing at my ankles, I want you writhing in pain, I want your arm twisted off, Cracking with the snapping sinews, I want your beating heart in my hands, I want your genitals uprooted and stuffed in your throat, I want your stomach so I can eat the still-digesting food, I want your shrunken head and I want to force my thumbs into your unblinking eyes and I want to tear your face in two and I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, I want you to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die, to die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die and die.
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We were a beleaguered bard born, a chief in chatoyant charms charged with the principle petrichor of passionate paramours; to drive the dainty dalliances of incipient ingénues immured in glamourous gossamer gowns; lilting, lead lissome lads 'long labyrinthine love; mischeiviously make mellifluous mondegreens; sing of such serendipity: surreptitiously susurrous sessions scintillas of Spring's sempiternal sentiments! But fetching fugues fade fast, felicity's fated to fly. For penumbral poets, it portends a pyrrhic pay. We wander woebegone, waiting wistfully. Lovers leave lyricists to languish in lonely lassitude. The halcyon heyday has harbingered inbroglio in the inured inventor of infatuation. Why? With what wherewithal? Often our offerings off us, opposite of, obviously, obtaining, or, lucidly: lyrical lacers of Love likewise lack its livening lagniappe.
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Sep 28, 2012
Sep 28, 2012 at 11:59 AM UTC
The Most Beautiful Words in English (Aren't Enough To Find Love)
i'm walking down the street bare feet, without a care **** uber, metro, I hate public transportation, i'm dirtying up this sidewalk, for a few years already i'm writing down a will, in my mind, close to my eyelids, because i'm on the wrong side of my mind i feel sick, tasting the bitterness of humanity when I wipe mankind on the side of the pavement, at the very deep, there's masculinity mixed with ***** i'm walking down a bridge full of empty shells i pass hordes of girls who are smiling insincerely and again, i feel a boost in my veins and again, i'm louder than mirrors and as in the mirrors, voidness space, and it is me, who takes the best from it i absorb this poisoned air. In the ears of mine, i can hear electro heat, i feel like one man one Jean-Michel Jarre, rain is pouring through me, sticks to me like fog, i wrap myself in the warmth of two MDMA's, someone glances surreptitiously and steals my soul, you have a backpack full of cash, i have a suitcase full of emotions, i'm going on a journey through the cursed city like a hermaphrodite with a broken rod, streets, like stigmas, cry with hollow screams, in front of clubs content abortions on the sidewalk, let's leave this lie, like the walking dead assertiveness and pride to the gutter washed away. And again, this booster is kindling my veins i'm dirtier than a new jerusalem and similar to it, i'm sticking to everything and so I'm taking the most out of my heart and I absorb this poisoned air once again. and so the booster flows through the aorta it is flooding my tarred heart, destination reached. and my wallet is shimmering with bitter crystal nothing will change the course of this chemistry, betrayed. betrayed by their own bodies vidi, no vici, veni on its own, and i'm catching a laugh, standing still in the subway i am still absorbing poisoned air. hatred. jealousy. i've seen enough. today, in my city, sun rises in the morning. you will remember this day forever or forget it for eternity.
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Jan 4, 2019
Jan 4, 2019 at 4:43 PM UTC
Poisoned air
i'm walking down the street bare feet, without a care **** uber, metro, I hate public transportation, i'm dirtying up this sidewalk, for a few years already i'm writing down a will, in my mind, close to my eyelids, because i'm on the wrong side of my mind i feel sick, tasting the bitterness of humanity when I wipe mankind on the side of the pavement, at the very deep, there's masculinity mixed with ***** i'm walking down a bridge full of empty shells i pass hordes of girls who are smiling insincerely and again, i feel a boost in my veins and again, i'm louder than mirrors and as in the mirrors, voidness space, and it is me, who takes the best from it i absorb this poisoned air. In the ears of mine, i can hear electro heat, i feel like one man one Jean-Michel Jarre, rain is pouring through me, sticks to me like fog, i wrap myself in the warmth of two MDMA's, someone glances surreptitiously and steals my soul, you have a backpack full of cash, i have a suitcase full of emotions, i'm going on a journey through the cursed city like a hermaphrodite with a broken rod, streets, like stigmas, cry with hollow screams, in front of clubs content abortions on the sidewalk, let's leave this lie, like the walking dead assertiveness and pride to the gutter washed away. And again, this booster is kindling my veins i'm dirtier than a new jerusalem and similar to it, i'm sticking to everything and so I'm taking the most out of my heart and I absorb this poisoned air once again. and so the booster flows through the aorta it is flooding my tarred heart, destination reached. and my wallet is shimmering with bitter crystal nothing will change the course of this chemistry, betrayed. betrayed by their own bodies vidi, no vici, veni on its own, and i'm catching a laugh, standing still in the subway i am still absorbing poisoned air. hatred. jealousy. i've seen enough. today, in my city, sun rises in the morning. you will remember this day forever or forget it for eternity.
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Disdain and enmity, for which there is no remedy, gives acrimony inside of me, for which I have no doubt, The only way that I can see an end to animosity, is a clear and simple breaking free from shackles which hold me down. Without your burden, I can be free to surreptitiously, achieve a sense of normalcy to what was once before. Before the orders conferred to me, carried out, sans questioning, I had a life; a dream you see. But no not anymore. I used to live quite happily, free from thinking cynically of my peers along with me; Our intentions leave some doubt To what is just morally, defensible with sanity. A torn asunder effigy, of who we used to be. My name will fade from memory, a number chalked in history, regarded with incredulity that I was here at all.
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Aug 19, 2015
Aug 19, 2015 at 6:21 PM UTC
Disdain and Cynicism; With a Dash of Incredulity
We’re in a “new” trendy neighborhood called Cascade Heights, in Atlanta. It’s lush - hydrangea, musk rose, hoya and blue false indigo are in bloom and there are greens of every possible variation. The sky is clear and southern-sun bright - shadows are crisp. It’s going to be 91°(f) today and although it’s only noon, the heat is rising. Leong pointed out the black tubes that discreetly provide air-conditioning, carefully hidden in the shrubbery surrounding the shaded, outdoor dining area. She thought that was very clever and American. “They’re for survival,” I assure her, “it gets hotter and hotter over the summer.” Leong and I are finishing lunch, savoring a decadent chocolate chai-tiramisu dessert. “Oh, my God,” Leong said, sliding the chocolaty spoon over her tongue, “oomm.” “So good,” I said, moaning with pleasure and closing my eyes. The waiter comes over with an iPad, I wave my watch, like a magician’s wand and we’re free to go. We were going to relax a minute and finish the last of our cold chai-tea, but as the waiter left with our cleared dishes, a rando, wino-looking, elderly man came up to the bushes by our table and said to me, “You look sad.” First of all, I think: NO - and who ARE you? Thinking secondly, *** go away. I didn’t know what to say - but he put the kibosh to lingering. I started having an “eye-contact-only” conversation with Leong. Are we about done here - do you have your phone and purse - shall we go? Leong and I stand, in unison, pushing our chairs back with our legs, gathering our shopping bags and belongings in fluid motions long-perfected at mall food-courts. “We have to go,” I say, with a half-smile and goodbye nod to the man, “have a nice day.” He watches us go for a moment and we surreptitiously watch him watch us go. Charles, our escort, who was at another table, fell in, a short distance behind us. Maybe the guy was just being friendly but you can’t underestimate CrAzY in 2022
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May 19, 2022
May 19, 2022 at 8:31 AM UTC
outdoor tables
We’re in a “new” trendy neighborhood called Cascade Heights, in Atlanta. It’s lush - hydrangea, musk rose, hoya and blue false indigo are in bloom and there are greens of every possible variation. The sky is clear and southern-sun bright - shadows are crisp. It’s going to be 91°(f) today and although it’s only noon, the heat is rising. Leong pointed out the black tubes that discreetly provide air-conditioning, carefully hidden in the shrubbery surrounding the shaded, outdoor dining area. She thought that was very clever and American. “They’re for survival,” I assure her, “it gets hotter and hotter over the summer.” Leong and I are finishing lunch, savoring a decadent chocolate chai-tiramisu dessert. “Oh, my God,” Leong said, sliding the chocolaty spoon over her tongue, “oomm.” “So good,” I said, moaning with pleasure and closing my eyes. The waiter comes over with an iPad, I wave my watch, like a magician’s wand and we’re free to go. We were going to relax a minute and finish the last of our cold chai-tea, but as the waiter left with our cleared dishes, a rando, wino-looking, elderly man came up to the bushes by our table and said to me, “You look sad.” First of all, I think: NO - and who ARE you? Thinking secondly, *** go away. I didn’t know what to say - but he put the kibosh to lingering. I started having an “eye-contact-only” conversation with Leong. Are we about done here - do you have your phone and purse - shall we go? Leong and I stand, in unison, pushing our chairs back with our legs, gathering our shopping bags and belongings in fluid motions long-perfected at mall food-courts. “We have to go,” I say, with a half-smile and goodbye nod to the man, “have a nice day.” He watches us go for a moment and we surreptitiously watch him watch us go. Charles, our escort, who was at another table, fell in, a short distance behind us. Maybe the guy was just being friendly but you can’t underestimate CrAzY in 2022
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Her red roses have thorns Her black demons surreptitiously lie It's like witnessing good flora be dissolved By potassium hydroxide The only trouble with her is this: All the while she is looking inside With a magnifying glass For each and anything amiss I'm viewing her with a kaleidoscope Yet I magnify the intensity of her colors While she resides within Her fractured self-image But she's metamorphic Beneath that stress and pressure These tests cause duress And weigh heavy burdens Upon her chest Yet instead of diamonds She produces a blue sapphire Something a little brighter To which she can hold on tighter I hope the load feels a little lighter As I throw my rope in And climb down there with her Picture us collecting leaves With hearts on sleeves Forming jewels, relief swelling our heads Instead of the familiar usual ache Of wondering fools Let's weave and wind our own designs And leave the threaded webs Of past mistakes behind To the point in time Where pressing rewind isn't so lonely Stones can be cold, or shine like silver Because we both know that gold Is cheap and phony But not the heart of the ocean Deep with devotion A jewel of eternal love With Blue Sapphire eyes I will light up your dark skies And reveal to you the stars above
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Dec 17, 2017
Dec 17, 2017 at 8:34 AM UTC
Blue Sapphire
Labyrinthine is my heart, a maze dizzying with  your murmurous (though lovely) lilt my solitary atlas along with furtive glances and scintillas of hope, and dulcet kisses stolen not on a veranda, for the fireflies and willows to witness, but surreptitiously and sussorously in the penumbra beneath, kisses stubbornly efflorescent, love sempiternal.
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Nov 17, 2011
Nov 17, 2011 at 3:40 AM UTC
Labyrinthine
A leitmotif of your average smug **** is a proverb here and there. Spouting them off like the receptor has no care. Their evidential naivety is blatant and almost impossible to bear. As an audience member you can do nothing but hide your malevolence and stare. ******* in maxims that are apparently laced with benevolence and care. You know the kind of oxygen waster I’m referring to. The type of person that watches BBC 4 and likes tofu. The kind that does the Financial Times So-fucking-Do-Ku. Look I’m just saying that clichés annoy me. I’m not asking you to love me, give me a reach around or employ me. In fact you don’t even have to enjoy me as I tell you of things that matter not. Suture yourself hypothetically to a geographically different mind. That mind being mine, oh that maverick-esque mischievous mind of mine, looking at this from my perspective. In my transcendental endeavours to rid the clichéd ridden world of the afore mentioned adjective. In the opposite of anachronistic times, we might successfully, surreptitiously rid the world of moral coated rhymes. We can do this; all it takes is a few. One of which needs to be you. Break out from being solipsistic, even the blind, the meek, the autistic, those that besmirch the edge of coffee cups with their lipstick. Yes, I mean you. Here is what to do… The next time someone spouts off a cliché, punish them, make them listen to an album by “Hearsay.” If someone says “An Apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Then simply say, Steve Jobs had thousands and the here’s the definite answer, that consumerism inducer still died of cancer. If a woman says “When I say jump. You say how high!” Don’t even cogitate to pardon her. If the grass is always greener on the other side – shoot your ******* gardener.
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Aug 24, 2012
Aug 24, 2012 at 8:03 PM UTC
Clichés
A leitmotif of your average smug **** is a proverb here and there. Spouting them off like the receptor has no care. Their evidential naivety is blatant and almost impossible to bear. As an audience member you can do nothing but hide your malevolence and stare. ******* in maxims that are apparently laced with benevolence and care. You know the kind of oxygen waster I’m referring to. The type of person that watches BBC 4 and likes tofu. The kind that does the Financial Times So-fucking-Do-Ku. Look I’m just saying that clichés annoy me. I’m not asking you to love me, give me a reach around or employ me. In fact you don’t even have to enjoy me as I tell you of things that matter not. Suture yourself hypothetically to a geographically different mind. That mind being mine, oh that maverick-esque mischievous mind of mine, looking at this from my perspective. In my transcendental endeavours to rid the clichéd ridden world of the afore mentioned adjective. In the opposite of anachronistic times, we might successfully, surreptitiously rid the world of moral coated rhymes. We can do this; all it takes is a few. One of which needs to be you. Break out from being solipsistic, even the blind, the meek, the autistic, those that besmirch the edge of coffee cups with their lipstick. Yes, I mean you. Here is what to do… The next time someone spouts off a cliché, punish them, make them listen to an album by “Hearsay.” If someone says “An Apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Then simply say, Steve Jobs had thousands and the here’s the definite answer, that consumerism inducer still died of cancer. If a woman says “When I say jump. You say how high!” Don’t even cogitate to pardon her. If the grass is always greener on the other side – shoot your ******* gardener.
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She was seated there Alone Alone in darkness Her amorphous shadow displaced On the cold floor By the light from the dying moon The silence was too loud And so were her thoughts Depressing suicidal thoughts Her soul banished In an abyss of grotesque Psychological torture From a distance A coruscate of hope An opportunity to escape Her anathematized reality All of this because of him The man of his dreams The one she knew Was absolute for her The only one who wouldn't relinquish  her Like everyone did Death! Surreptitiously he Approached her And she  whispered "Take me with you" But even he had a type And she wasn't his And just as she was before She remained to be A piece of **** in a ****** society!
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Oct 21, 2018
Oct 21, 2018 at 3:10 AM UTC
A piece of **** in a ****** society
Stealing hours from jealous time, surreptitiously I write. If that theft's criminal, then I'm as good as busted every night. Life rolls on; work, marriage, sleep. Each busy day renews the fight to find a quiet time to keep unto myself; not out of spite or hiding out from jaded eyes, but understand my place aright; at peace with all that might arise, to see life through my Spirit's sight. I gift myself the time I stole to mend the patchwork of my soul.
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Mar 4, 2011
Mar 4, 2011 at 1:52 PM UTC
Stealing hours
You’ll find them in all such establishments, (Be they graceful small-town former Victorian homes, Or cinderblock edifices mindful of some campus multi-faith center) Sitting in the basement, cheek-to-jowl With moldering burial records and banking statements, Yellowed newspaper clippings, faded prayer cards Small squared-off boxes hastily tabbed together, Ostensibly temporary containers which have acquired An unintended and wholly unwelcome permanence. The whys and wherefores of their subterranean placement A mixed bag of foible and outright foolishness: Unresolvable squabbles concerning possession and burial, Families that skipped out on the bill, leaving mom behind, Cases of outright not giving a good-goddamn. And so they remain, in lieu of repatriation and redemption, To sit for something akin to perpetuity in some cases (Members of the profession resolute in their respect For the dignity of life, Though their sincerity enjoys less unanimity) While others wait for mass burial Once legal niceties have been satisfied, While still others, in care of firms not so scrupulous About crossing their t’s and dotting their i’s, Are flung, albeit somewhat surreptitiously, out the back door, The remains to take flight if the grass is dry and the wind is brisk, Otherwise to be left to the vagaries Of curious birds and creped soles.
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Aug 31, 2018
Aug 31, 2018 at 11:28 AM UTC
the unclaimed
Your cause for concern is a cause of concern for me Its greeted very suspiciously I believe it to be fictitious you see Projecting your issues onto me Like I'm some wide screen tv Go sort out your own "problems" Before you come and preach to me And I'll do the same I'm tired of the hypocrisy Neither am I easily deceived Asking "are you alright?" When really you're Asking "are you alright with me?" But I don't work in-security Guards up, words no matter how deep No longer move me Your fault lines Causing tremors when there's no need But not to worry I'm lucky Got those that support sincerely And know me well enough to go about it surreptitiously Pancake hiding the healthy Mmm yummy! Ninja motive, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee I aim to Inspire through action (movie) Cause Advice is the biggest vice (city) And we're all guilty Talk the talk But when it comes to walk the walk Everyone must be claiming disability! But Life is no Game-Boy No cheat codes, No PS3 Bond over passions not problems And BE Happy Its your own responsibility So don't look to me This isn't Advice, or a Preach It's a rant, wrapped up in a Vent-rilloquist, Dummy! You do you, I'm just doing me: Seriously, Silly :)
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Mar 31, 2015
Mar 31, 2015 at 3:02 PM UTC
Cause for Concern
Little ant, so small and insignificant Yet in numbers up an elephant’s snout How easily you make him indisposed Lesson to learn: strength in numbers Maxim to remember: unity of purpose Oh termite, thou destroyer of civilizations! How mighty when surreptitiously you creep in Such ingenious civil engineering feats everywhere Orderly highways with neither jams nor congestion And tall imposing castles kissing the air proudly Result: new architectures plagiarizing your prototype! And you wasp of constricted waist and mean toxin You make no attempt to hide or disguise your dwelling Yours is a house built upon a hill for all to see and tremble They say when a man has no obvious protection keep away Lest you trigger subtle forces that mesmerize and pulverize you Lesson from this: commandos are modern day human wasps Everybody owes the bee everything, from sweetness to health The bees a-buzzing speak of persistence and how it breaks barriers In the end you listen because the message is ceaseless and urgent And oh sweet bee of the hot sting shot from your posterior No cordon bleu chef anywhere can ever approximate your finesse Your formula and patent are hedged with natural mystery Lesson to learn: the bitter and the sweet in judicious mixture! Now little man recently so puffed-up and conceited and ever so inadequate Hear ye this and know it well lest you stumble and fall into dark precipices You’re nothing and you’ve created nothing; there’s a prototype of everything In nature’s wonder store of huge surprises and unassuming wisdom Lesson from all this: one day the other world will rise up and assert it itself So steer your course differently and beware of those who bide their time Grim in their purpose and determined in their unshakable resolve
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Sep 8, 2016
Sep 8, 2016 at 4:00 AM UTC
Grim Purpose Poem (A Eulogy to the Wonders of Nature)
Little ant, so small and insignificant Yet in numbers up an elephant’s snout How easily you make him indisposed Lesson to learn: strength in numbers Maxim to remember: unity of purpose Oh termite, thou destroyer of civilizations! How mighty when surreptitiously you creep in Such ingenious civil engineering feats everywhere Orderly highways with neither jams nor congestion And tall imposing castles kissing the air proudly Result: new architectures plagiarizing your prototype! And you wasp of constricted waist and mean toxin You make no attempt to hide or disguise your dwelling Yours is a house built upon a hill for all to see and tremble They say when a man has no obvious protection keep away Lest you trigger subtle forces that mesmerize and pulverize you Lesson from this: commandos are modern day human wasps Everybody owes the bee everything, from sweetness to health The bees a-buzzing speak of persistence and how it breaks barriers In the end you listen because the message is ceaseless and urgent And oh sweet bee of the hot sting shot from your posterior No cordon bleu chef anywhere can ever approximate your finesse Your formula and patent are hedged with natural mystery Lesson to learn: the bitter and the sweet in judicious mixture! Now little man recently so puffed-up and conceited and ever so inadequate Hear ye this and know it well lest you stumble and fall into dark precipices You’re nothing and you’ve created nothing; there’s a prototype of everything In nature’s wonder store of huge surprises and unassuming wisdom Lesson from all this: one day the other world will rise up and assert it itself So steer your course differently and beware of those who bide their time Grim in their purpose and determined in their unshakable resolve
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There is a certain art in relinquishing your spirit to emotions quelling from the breast Stumbling haphazardly through the hallways of an academy surreptitiously pristine Encountering locked doors, painted walls, lowered eyes and agony The menial labor of a janitor picking up after the crowd has released every last yelp And the pain Of a boy stooped in an empty corner Old enough to be a man Helpless as an infant Too poor to enter, too meek to escape Trapped in the corridor between sunny landscapes and dimmed memories Struggling to hoist his frame up from its stupor Afraid it may just as well falter once restored And hoping someone may notice There is a certain art in relinquishing your spirit to emotions quelling from the breast Sincerity and compassion need not be amongst them But, just as breath escapes, so do tears Splashing from the drowning pool in which the soul thrashes Bending, grabbing and tossing Discard, Discard Stoop Obtain Discard Each day a variation of the past Unique in subtle differences imperceivable to visitors You’ve seen the man, the child, the infant Tear down the fourth wall Walk in his corridor I implore you to bend, grab and discard Your thoughts of superiority Take your mud stains and apathetic steps Carry your able body to a place more receptive More deserving Less reflective And gleaming Remember the path I made for you in my corridor It mirrors your face, ambivalent
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Jun 8, 2010
Jun 8, 2010 at 8:50 AM UTC
Marble Halls
Art is a hell of a ******* drug, I tell you it surreptitiously creeps into you in a way that is utterly indecipherable, and lures you deep; deep into it as the void above... For the eye loves what it sees, and what's been seen by the eye is rather fascinating to the soul, Amidst all these Overwhelming emotions, a harmonic converge between the eye and the soul is created, Fostering a sui generis ecstatic rhapsody!
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Jan 8, 2019
Jan 8, 2019 at 10:31 AM UTC
The manifest'o'
You enter into the neighbor's room, clenching a knife cutting the morning light across the room. You are moving surreptitiously. There is a colour on the knife. It's colour reflects an image of you upon it. You look down at your body, and notice the colour reflects there too. You notice there are two people around you, a male and a female, and their colour is yours too. You taste the colour of death on your tongue, you share the taste with the people in the room. You share it with the knife, you share it with the floor, you share it with all the neighbor's next door. You followed them home, to share the colour with them.. The colour alludes you, it brings you a high. You like how it tastes to die.
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May 17, 2019
May 17, 2019 at 8:21 PM UTC
The Colour Of Death
Come to me surreptitiously like fog comes in December night I will hide you by the news of discontent and discomfort- Engulf and surround you with fear of loom, The country is going to dust now, Master has become maniac puffing the ***** of 'Power' deeming good into bad and bad into good, The books affirming violence his students seek, The guardians and protectors stand and watch the clashes like sadists forbidden to inflict pain; I lament the plight and plunder of my sacred home, Hoping a dawn of summer amid chilly winter.
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Jan 31, 2021
Jan 31, 2021 at 3:27 PM UTC
Democracy Down