"tantalum" poems
"Calcium Phosphorus Oxygen Iodine Sodium Sulfur Tantalum Dysprosium. Oxygen Radium, Protactinium Radium Manganese Nickel Sodium Potassium Oxygen."
Aug 5, 2014
Aug 5, 2014 at 4:27 AM UTC
we're bombarded by the American Dream
but what we fail to realize
is that to dream, you have to be asleep
but remember, your soul is your own to keep
False consciousness runs rampant through the world
Ninety percent of American media owned by the same
five companies makes TV and the news seem so mundane
but when I think, I realize it's all of us to blame
the only power the system has is what we give
we need to let go of hate, and let live
when in Rome you step outside your comfort zone,
and when you expand your horizons,
the whole world can make you feel alone,
what I've come to realize is there is so much more than this
when we die all of our fear gives way to bliss
and on that spiritual transformation we can let go of what we miss
In each of our crowns lies the infinite
and we know that it doesn't matter, all the petty ****
According to Marx, economy is the root of society
and in capitalism, our thirst for money is ironic and funny
We seek to provide for ourselves and those we love
but when we have to much, the hand doesn't fit the glove
In every cellphone, laptop, and gaming device
lies a mineral mined behind our blind eyes
tantalum is mined in the Congo, and in 2000
people were forced from their poor housing
to mine this mineral so you and I
could get a ps2 from Santa, while they barely got by
I've learned even the poorest here,
Have opportunities barely realized,
We can change the world if we dismantle disguise
There is a balance for everything,
You can't have capitalism without socialism,
our social structure is but a prism
Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 1:51 PM UTC
In between the crevasse, the edges of two fingers,
Two boldly jutting stingers perpendicularly putting
A slick gripping upon a slim tantalum cigarette,
A discreet bayonette from weapons that should have kept
Their secrets, saved their wars, retained their scores
To themselves, mourned in their shells, sat in the corners of their skin and bone cells,
Weeping through fingernails.
The acid cannot wave between the lips,
Absorbed, contained inside their grips,
Decidedly encased inside like bottled ships
That cannot sail from inside a deafly, deathly speaking slip.
Those circled, muscled sinking feelings
Driven cold by air, the scarab dealings
Flying flus, thus rabid reelings,
Blades cantankerous on wings revealing.
Bottled, at stop, on gums that go.
Bottled razorlings, at stop, on gums that go.
Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 4:56 PM UTC
The intraveneous needles pumped their black liquids, and I could feel my eyeballs bulging completely, pathetically to their limits as I extrapolated from the tantalum-covered machine the lifeforce I knew I needed.
"You can not breathe here," they always told me before I took my journal past the archway, and I was as good as dead if...
It was always if. If the machine broke down, if the communications were broken, if the moon didn't turn half-way just right at the given time.
There was a solid thought, though, a recurring idea.
"If you make it to Otherside, they're going to call you by name and recognize you. If you make it to Otherside, your cover will be blown," I kept hearing a voice call to me.
Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 4:41 PM UTC
Uranium
Argen
aluminum
ways
Indium
my
Helium
Argen
Titanium
Berylium
lithium
Vanadium
when
Iodine
say
Iodine
Lanthanum
Vanadium
Uranium
potassium
tantalum
nitrogen
xenon
barium
yttrium
helium
helium
helium
Sep 26, 2017
Sep 26, 2017 at 9:42 PM UTC