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complexity is your beauty simplicity your mystery interdependence sustains you once upon a time we dipped bowls into your waters and brought up draughts of life now Skipjacks go fathoms deep into endless depletion charting entangled dead zones broadening into a sea of inertness your delicate eco-essence tips toward oblivion effluvia farmers layer mechanized blankets of nitrates on your sunset shores weaving green tendrils of algae blooms strangling the entanglements of all links in your miraculous food chain the EPA proscribes a Jenny Craig pollution diet to halt the slaughter in oxygen challenged dead zones where rockfish are garroted, oysters get drilled by screwworms and azure tinted soft shell ***** dance soft shoe taps lifting a tinny chorus of sad Piedmont Blues the flat-lining watersheds voiceless warnings tremble rocking the purged nests of screaming ospreys in vocal protest of a sinking Tangier Isle anointing it’s tombstones of unvisited cemeteries with multicolored guano fitting alkaline tributes to the lost inhabitants and forgotten languages sinking into the brine of gray brackish tides Delmarva’s fine intra-continental balance skewed by the oozing industrial swill of Frank Perdue chicken farms ruling the roost of sanctioned sustainability tinging clear watersheds of finger lakes set in splints to repair dislocations and complex compound fractures that may never heal again Music Selection: Taj Mahal: Fishin Blues jbm Oakland 6/7/12
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Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 AM UTC
Chesapeake
I am the young girl running around the house, looking for the pony, on Christmas morning, while the ship is slowly sinking, in a manure flavored sea. I am the armless tennis player that is convinced he will defeat Roger in less than an hour, using just one ball, over and over again. I am Roy Wright at the beginning of the trial, with a big stupid smile in my pocket, and a tinny black book in my soul. I am the faithful survivor of unfaithfulness and I will be the one that lands on his feet, in Scottsboro heaven. I am Bartolomeo V, the one with no vendetta, having a croissant, waiting for Nicola to shave, before we take off in one of Rothko's paintings. May the 5th be with the ones who actually did it.. and, you know what? I honestly think Cronaca Sovversiva is a great title, even though I haven't read the ****** thing and I have no sympathy, whatsoever, for any anarchist. Hell! It's hard for me getting my **** together in complete order. I don't want to think what would become of me in complete anarchy. I am the one that wakes up every day with a stupid smile under his nose, not remembering the scent of yesterday's failure. The one that starts dreaming as soon as he gets up, ignoring the fact that he might be an ignorant ***** with no desire to go to outer space, but with huge hopes up his sleeve for M. Damon and his agricultural knowledge. I am in favor of all fancy schmancy Earth saving knowledge, and I am aware that all that space debris in my head will do some serious damage one day. If they ever figure out how to get it all in. I am the tic, that will come after the tac-toe, this time, and not the other way around! the encore of every good concert, the yin for the panda **** the slim leg for the flamingo, the gambler, the rambler, the day rider. I am the Syrian boy that just learned to swim and all of this infinite blue soup is nothing more than a Saturday stroll. I will get in the back of that truck and I will breathe the purest air that someone could ever breathe, I will sleep the sleep of reason and monsters will not be produced. You have my word! I am the skin before the needle shoots up all its ink. I will be perky. I will be green.
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 5:58 AM UTC
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I am the young girl running around the house, looking for the pony, on Christmas morning, while the ship is slowly sinking, in a manure flavored sea. I am the armless tennis player that is convinced he will defeat Roger in less than an hour, using just one ball, over and over again. I am Roy Wright at the beginning of the trial, with a big stupid smile in my pocket, and a tinny black book in my soul. I am the faithful survivor of unfaithfulness and I will be the one that lands on his feet, in Scottsboro heaven. I am Bartolomeo V, the one with no vendetta, having a croissant, waiting for Nicola to shave, before we take off in one of Rothko's paintings. May the 5th be with the ones who actually did it.. and, you know what? I honestly think Cronaca Sovversiva is a great title, even though I haven't read the ****** thing and I have no sympathy, whatsoever, for any anarchist. Hell! It's hard for me getting my **** together in complete order. I don't want to think what would become of me in complete anarchy. I am the one that wakes up every day with a stupid smile under his nose, not remembering the scent of yesterday's failure. The one that starts dreaming as soon as he gets up, ignoring the fact that he might be an ignorant ***** with no desire to go to outer space, but with huge hopes up his sleeve for M. Damon and his agricultural knowledge. I am in favor of all fancy schmancy Earth saving knowledge, and I am aware that all that space debris in my head will do some serious damage one day. If they ever figure out how to get it all in. I am the tic, that will come after the tac-toe, this time, and not the other way around! the encore of every good concert, the yin for the panda **** the slim leg for the flamingo, the gambler, the rambler, the day rider. I am the Syrian boy that just learned to swim and all of this infinite blue soup is nothing more than a Saturday stroll. I will get in the back of that truck and I will breathe the purest air that someone could ever breathe, I will sleep the sleep of reason and monsters will not be produced. You have my word! I am the skin before the needle shoots up all its ink. I will be perky. I will be green.
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I like my headphones for the Insulation. Sometimes my ears Take in too much stray noise, Dredge up too much disorienting Mud from the depths of a TV Screen or an iPod. Then I can Always snuggle into my headphones And be silent - and silence is a Dear dear commodity, to be sure, When every other scene- Stealing, pudgy-mouthed buffoon Has to put his ten cents in. So Much sound should be a sin; Background music, ambient noise, Music for airports, and pubescent Boys screeching from tinny silver Speakers near the wall. I don't Want it, not every bit, not all The hate and the slippery tongues That speak and salivate and don't Say anything human. I want to reprimand, To excommunicate them from This Holy rite of sound. (And really, I would be content to never hear Music if I could block out the roundabout Fights and the sultry nightlife descriptions Gushing from my screen, if I could Use my headphones to keep That liquid crystal from pouring in My too needfully silent ears.) Maybe I'll follow a painter's path: All visuals and open dripping wet Wrath with a noisy race. I can be a Terrifying girl. Cut off my ears and Be deaf to the world. Wrap me in Canvas and chase me back into the Woods on a starry starry night.
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Sep 28, 2010
Sep 28, 2010 at 5:29 PM UTC
Headphones
Two strangers in a rickshaw in Varanasi: Two strangers who never felt like strangers. Two people lost and alive in the moment, The same moment With every sense standing, antennae bristling.. Two in a bubble Together, held apart. Caught up in a parade and surrounded by shy , smiling faces Waving modestly at the fair haired strangers, Laughing At their surprise and joy. Knowing that moment's awe Delighted to share the festival. Rickety trucks gaudily decorated blare out the tinny music and High pitched voices distorted by the tannoy add an urgency To the motion. Shimmering saris glisten, So in tune with the music that trembles with joy. That joy spills out from the Scents, the colours, the gleaming grins and the shy waving that marks our welcome, Till every sense tingles With life. And then the sand storm Swirling and circling the speeding rickshaw Arrived mysteriously, magically, Like dry ice in a theatre. The air now tangible; Surrounding us like the skin of a bubble Lifting us out Of ourselves as the scene comes and goes. The sand screen clears to reveal An elephant A beautiful, smiling elephant Dressed in splendour Accompanying us on our magic carpet ride. Close enough for us to touch his hide. Bejewelled and glorious Smiling too And all is one in that moment And each looks at the other and feels enchanted and wants the parade to go on forever Just like this; With motion And music And colour And smiles And laughter And An elephant.
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Sep 14, 2016
Sep 14, 2016 at 4:04 PM UTC
Varanasi
This is the place where people come to forget that they will die one day. They let their conscience build up on the linoleum floor in puddles, deep and dark And follow the crowd to the next store And the next And the next. This place will bleed you. It will tear your pockets out of your clothing And your children’s hands from yours. A new shirt. A new TV. Well done. You’ve done well. But when you leave the white walls The music tinny and dim Escalators and litter You still won’t feel free.
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May 26, 2014
May 26, 2014 at 9:46 AM UTC
Mall
I want to spit my tongue straight out into the wind Because I'm better stricken dumb   than smart-mouthed or thick skinned Straight on to the edge of town   I will chase my temper out There, we'll talk about the "whethers"   We'll talk the sun down And I'll hope that's the last time we speak Walk across the bridge on 5th Street Half reflecting on past choices Glimpse the moon on Goose Creek's surface Spy a ****** Recall voices. Like the one my father used before last April blew his chest up Or ones I can't remember 'til I heave my boiling guts up                            in some yard. A tinny crash through piled leaves,           I just want to make it home-- The S.P.D. are everywhere           and we don't get along so very well It's gotten late and gotten old. It's gotten cold the heat is busted back where I make my home I've hit my wall, I hit the pavement Stand me up--two streets to go 5th and Bellevue ain't so bad I'm nearly home.
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Oct 29, 2012
Oct 29, 2012 at 6:56 PM UTC
5th & Bellevue
rattling thunder pummels the tinny tin can roof under which you drive through the swelling swamp-roads. you say this is england. i say this is climate change. snakes emerge from murky water, the same green as your eyes. a hiss wobbles through your tar-bones and your flesh boils to scales. a fat, emerald python. eating me whole and clean. your bleach-bowels sear me. a hapless, cocooned boy for a devil. the teenage smile is what beguiled me, tricked me into your drunken youth.
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Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 8:51 AM UTC
summer storm
******* at tickling the ivories, at inducing the jet buttons to chortle, say, in a concerto ; but I do strum and flirt with those amazing royal, 88 unrepentant loyal keys for Jupiter and Saturn, for Mars and Neptune, making a blank bland tune for extraterrestrial beings for fun. On the cosmic moors the moon's whirling feet cease for my discordance. What a slurred entrance by F in D major! Only a novice--an amateur. I'm no magnificent pianist, O majestic Mercury. Summon the stars the search to lead for a supreme virtuoso, one of  no incongruent ingenuity like this dilettante--a pseudo music polymath, counsels Thebe. A Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach? Any of the greats scored above, as well as geniuses like David and Handel. Impressario fly! Flee thou away and go get a classic maven. Otherwise sleep there forever at Erebus, never dream of waking up in Eden. Circuitous world stops: strings break off at the Earth's axis-- the Sun's panels pause and darkness' movement begins its own obscure notes to improvise: apace demented melody is released,-- bathos of symphony: tinny wine of concord settles on the lees of discord. Asteroids hooting some ***** calls when into the grand chrysolite chamber-- in her tailor-made blistering gown-- strolls in the coruscating Venus in the sturdy arm of jaundiced Uranus, garbed in his glistening stomacher. Like a ball, all eyes are bouncing hither and thither, up and down, googling and ogling, once more at them leering, gaping at the irreplaceable paintings of da Vinci, Picasso, and Van Gogh cavorting  upon the weightless walls to the romantic performance of Strauss in the palace orchestral of Bacchus.
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 8:17 AM UTC
Planetary Concerto
******* at tickling the ivories, at inducing the jet buttons to chortle, say, in a concerto ; but I do strum and flirt with those amazing royal, 88 unrepentant loyal keys for Jupiter and Saturn, for Mars and Neptune, making a blank bland tune for extraterrestrial beings for fun. On the cosmic moors the moon's whirling feet cease for my discordance. What a slurred entrance by F in D major! Only a novice--an amateur. I'm no magnificent pianist, O majestic Mercury. Summon the stars the search to lead for a supreme virtuoso, one of  no incongruent ingenuity like this dilettante--a pseudo music polymath, counsels Thebe. A Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach? Any of the greats scored above, as well as geniuses like David and Handel. Impressario fly! Flee thou away and go get a classic maven. Otherwise sleep there forever at Erebus, never dream of waking up in Eden. Circuitous world stops: strings break off at the Earth's axis-- the Sun's panels pause and darkness' movement begins its own obscure notes to improvise: apace demented melody is released,-- bathos of symphony: tinny wine of concord settles on the lees of discord. Asteroids hooting some ***** calls when into the grand chrysolite chamber-- in her tailor-made blistering gown-- strolls in the coruscating Venus in the sturdy arm of jaundiced Uranus, garbed in his glistening stomacher. Like a ball, all eyes are bouncing hither and thither, up and down, googling and ogling, once more at them leering, gaping at the irreplaceable paintings of da Vinci, Picasso, and Van Gogh cavorting  upon the weightless walls to the romantic performance of Strauss in the palace orchestral of Bacchus.
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I met a woman with a trumpet tongue who played her words on paper, white as truces. she told me through my stereo "we've both had days where the phoenix didn't rise". we' have all had days where the phoenix did not rise. but thank goodness my birthday was the first time I heard your lips part and saw your teeth spill oceans of blue blankets across my jellyfish eyes. I wish everyone understood the irony of writing love poems to a lesbian, but my hands never seemed to reach the ends of my arms like I want them to. They always get stuck dancing somewhere in the middle. playing a tune only they can sway to knowing all the steps bouncing off every syllable while others let their wrists go limp as if the puppeteers needed strings to tune their fiddle for a happy song somewhere far far away. so take my breath again keep it wherever it is that you keep the gasps our ears give you as your words pull the heartstrings we forgot we had that we forgot how to play to wave our wet-noodle fingers and conduct a life worth living so full of blatant love not afraid to make no sense my chest was an rusty locket the day before I heard you and now I am so full of echoes from it's tiny, timid click. For Andrea, you are a sketchbook muse, something I have to guess at on my worst days when there are no words and the rain smells like a swan song from the sky. you kept me writing when there was nothing left to draw or sing or smell or see anymore. when there was black smog between my eardrums pounding out the dying breath of clouds you held me through tinny earbuds and poems I etched in the moss running over back roads in my mind so I hope you find peace every time you find a microphone and that someday, I'll play you a tune which echoes through you, with a tiny, timid click and a full breath that resuscitates the open blue until we are both whole beneath it until, again, we are true.
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Aug 2, 2013
Aug 2, 2013 at 11:38 AM UTC
For Andrea
I met a woman with a trumpet tongue who played her words on paper, white as truces. she told me through my stereo "we've both had days where the phoenix didn't rise". we' have all had days where the phoenix did not rise. but thank goodness my birthday was the first time I heard your lips part and saw your teeth spill oceans of blue blankets across my jellyfish eyes. I wish everyone understood the irony of writing love poems to a lesbian, but my hands never seemed to reach the ends of my arms like I want them to. They always get stuck dancing somewhere in the middle. playing a tune only they can sway to knowing all the steps bouncing off every syllable while others let their wrists go limp as if the puppeteers needed strings to tune their fiddle for a happy song somewhere far far away. so take my breath again keep it wherever it is that you keep the gasps our ears give you as your words pull the heartstrings we forgot we had that we forgot how to play to wave our wet-noodle fingers and conduct a life worth living so full of blatant love not afraid to make no sense my chest was an rusty locket the day before I heard you and now I am so full of echoes from it's tiny, timid click. For Andrea, you are a sketchbook muse, something I have to guess at on my worst days when there are no words and the rain smells like a swan song from the sky. you kept me writing when there was nothing left to draw or sing or smell or see anymore. when there was black smog between my eardrums pounding out the dying breath of clouds you held me through tinny earbuds and poems I etched in the moss running over back roads in my mind so I hope you find peace every time you find a microphone and that someday, I'll play you a tune which echoes through you, with a tiny, timid click and a full breath that resuscitates the open blue until we are both whole beneath it until, again, we are true.
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An ingenuine smile aspartame sweet aloof with loose leaf lonely A tinny tune echoing aloud pinched with bleached blue sleep An invaluable sore useful aches shredded with angry desire A stolen smoke swirling clean backward with unruly peace An envious shake frozen steady breaking with flooding fur A sigular collection of emotion hand built abandoned with friendly pain
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Mar 2, 2012
Mar 2, 2012 at 6:35 PM UTC
Forgotten Toolbox
clutching at pebbles thrown hard into sky as birds bitter yolk of unceasing raindrop ideals personified, then scattered in leaf a coarse blending of the soul and what is scream of forgotten swing alone in sunshine a fear internalized, an unquenched song of watery despair and silence pacing, pacing, toward and away from a melody that is as intangible as balloons whispering to decaying stars fading into nothingness, brief respite, void of sound, emptiness most profoundly pierced with kaleidoscopic shards of senses and memory; with music of blueberries, gleefully dropped into tinny pails overflowing from wistfulness with touch of unblossomed rosebuds admired, unyielding like crabapples moist in calloused palms with smell of tree, unrepentant and unchanging, yet gnarled and longing, indistinct, uncertain with taste of wind, speckled purity of truth elusive, of realization categorized, of wispy but unrelenting passion with the image of a hope etched, recessed, scorned, repressed, grasped, suspended in song the maybe’s and the why’s the can’t’s and the shouldn’t’s the have-to’s and the why’s then slowly fingers defiantly uncurl from stone, in motion unrefined and quietly, fervently; quietly, fervently, I begin to sing... a mottled snapshot of my mind.
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Jun 4, 2010
Jun 4, 2010 at 8:40 PM UTC
a mottled snapshot of my mind
I am standing on fire Latterly .... Dust On the tinny, thin string of hope.. But here you relate me To the past? And My silence .. Are the words of my heart Wanting you to know When patience slays love
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 4:02 PM UTC
Patience slays Love
it is... amazing, how easy it is to **** with the tinny tools of modernity 2 birds 1 shot, of bird shot who would have thought, before thought, we could create such things to help us destroy? in our gut, in the deep slime of our bellies, and our pasts something feels right something feels whole when we commit the act something drives us to repeat the act of ****** as often as the act of creation is this the delicate balance?   the intricate scales tipping so slightly towards one world or the other? it does not seem “delicate” when precious flesh is ripped from bone by angry claws and teeth when that which flew in the heavens we could only dream were there lies naked and defiled on the sullied soil was it always this easy to reverse the fates?   was it this easy when we trod the plains for days in pursuit of the hairy beasts when our feral feasts were by the first fires and our hands bloodied and our chins dripping with the marrow of the fallen?   was it always this easy? it matters not to the 2 birds killed with 1 shot
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Dec 2, 2012
Dec 2, 2012 at 12:46 PM UTC
2 doves 1 shot, a ? or ?s
The country music plays at a low tinny volume I never much cared for it But thinking back now I enjoyed it then From the back seat of a love's family car Stopping at small town after town Country meals and light on conversation Our favorite was finding everyday treasures of times long past. How appropriate then as I scour my mind doing the same thing
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Mar 20, 2015
Mar 20, 2015 at 7:30 AM UTC
back roads with a family that doesn't exist anymore
A for Austerity, P for Poverty, R for Recession, and U for Unemployment. Recession is in town with her three Un-amusing friends, whose hands are always on their lips; and wherever the gang goes they take away the fun from that place; tinny Tanana biko biko! Whose car is unemployment going to take away, to make him use his leg-dis benz? Eeny Meeny Miney mo! Whose house is poverty going to crash in, and undo a lifetime’s work in a matter of weeks? tinny Tanana, biko biko! What will austerity sell to the state? Is it a string for the ministers to tighten the state purse? Hear! Hear! Recession is in town. Bad policies invited her with her three friends to party and paint the town gray; shame on the leaders on whose watch the doors of the state were opened to recession and her three friends; their ears will be filled with the wailing and insults of the populace, like the cry of a widow, whose only son has passed away, fills the house.
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May 10, 2019
May 10, 2019 at 5:10 AM UTC
Recession is in town
“where do we go from here?” a line that haunts a million songs like a small, aching insect creeping in through the cracks in the lyrics and spreading its wings to infect the expanse of music that reaches my ears do you ever feel like there’s a theme to your life? some familiar collection of words, some thought that pervades the space around you and finds body in the world that follows your every move some chord, bright or dire or dim that resounds in the echoes in the tunnels you pass through and sings silently after each word you speak ringing softly beneath your footsteps colouring the air you exhale “where do we go from here?” the first time i heard those six words i have no idea where i was or when but i remember the thought that came to mind as desolation and it made my heart hurt and i was happy because i now i could prove its existence “where do we go from here?” one day i heard those six syllables as i often did, above me tinny and abrupt from the speakers hidden in public places, among the plastic clouds and spiderwebs and i, at the precipice of some great beginning felt that thought beneath my step and my soul sang, it breathed in deep and i was happy because now i could prove its existence “where do we go from here?” one day i found those words etched into the notes of some electronic heartbeat or sellout tune and i, in the middle of a slow tumble towards the realization of a loss of a feeling i had worked so hard to find felt the emptiness between my fingers and the ground pressing into the soles of my feet and the ache once again in my mind and my heart and my soul and i knew now the existence of the feeling inspired by the downturn of that phrase, six words that speak to us all “where do we go from here?” i thought of this line on my own time and never knew how to use it until today, aware of a familiar scent in the air, i sat down and faced the six words haunting my ears and embraced their meaning closed my eyes and breathed in their truth felt the confusion and desolation and joy that seeped into my bones the harder i tried to join myself with the forever aching phrase that i now know was written to describe the way i move through this life and today, as i walked with false purpose along the real lines of the road i felt words pressing sharp into my cheeks and i turned to you but could not let them free six words, a simple door into the patterned floor and closed curtains of my untidy mind and so i let the sentence be swallowed it whole, let it sit in my lungs a while longer and i still have yet to ask you “where do we go from here?” has there ever been an answer to that question?
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Feb 26, 2014
Feb 26, 2014 at 12:17 AM UTC
expanding upon six words
“where do we go from here?” a line that haunts a million songs like a small, aching insect creeping in through the cracks in the lyrics and spreading its wings to infect the expanse of music that reaches my ears do you ever feel like there’s a theme to your life? some familiar collection of words, some thought that pervades the space around you and finds body in the world that follows your every move some chord, bright or dire or dim that resounds in the echoes in the tunnels you pass through and sings silently after each word you speak ringing softly beneath your footsteps colouring the air you exhale “where do we go from here?” the first time i heard those six words i have no idea where i was or when but i remember the thought that came to mind as desolation and it made my heart hurt and i was happy because i now i could prove its existence “where do we go from here?” one day i heard those six syllables as i often did, above me tinny and abrupt from the speakers hidden in public places, among the plastic clouds and spiderwebs and i, at the precipice of some great beginning felt that thought beneath my step and my soul sang, it breathed in deep and i was happy because now i could prove its existence “where do we go from here?” one day i found those words etched into the notes of some electronic heartbeat or sellout tune and i, in the middle of a slow tumble towards the realization of a loss of a feeling i had worked so hard to find felt the emptiness between my fingers and the ground pressing into the soles of my feet and the ache once again in my mind and my heart and my soul and i knew now the existence of the feeling inspired by the downturn of that phrase, six words that speak to us all “where do we go from here?” i thought of this line on my own time and never knew how to use it until today, aware of a familiar scent in the air, i sat down and faced the six words haunting my ears and embraced their meaning closed my eyes and breathed in their truth felt the confusion and desolation and joy that seeped into my bones the harder i tried to join myself with the forever aching phrase that i now know was written to describe the way i move through this life and today, as i walked with false purpose along the real lines of the road i felt words pressing sharp into my cheeks and i turned to you but could not let them free six words, a simple door into the patterned floor and closed curtains of my untidy mind and so i let the sentence be swallowed it whole, let it sit in my lungs a while longer and i still have yet to ask you “where do we go from here?” has there ever been an answer to that question?
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Passing Tweetsie on my way home from work. In the Food Lion, low-calorie chicken soup cans under tinny lights. Sick-green avocados and riding-hood bacon celebrated the day all your shoes moved in. Can't we pair those together again? The blank space on the floor like a good friend's face seen without glasses, washed out. Frustratingly, the smell of my own laundry. mi colada es su colada Ha! By the pond, the gazebo we never spent time in but might have. The dusk-dark evergreens with delicate lace tips like spidery lingerie leggings ripped wide open, lingering, recovered from the trash can. Rainbow polka-dot gift wrap on my light-blue chest, flagship of her left-behinds; A tawny feather earring, the lonely fore-mast lacking a mate and Demure winter-cabin-smile, framed: green scarf turned seaweed, the face-down figurehead drowns.
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 12:57 PM UTC
THE LIVE-IN LIST (Dirge)
We are artsy lasses with dorky glasses On spurned kisses with tinny braces On selfsame faces at lavish places On kindred spirits in empty spaces We, we are the bosses Archi, we are everything I want We, we are the bosses Archi, we could be everything they want
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Jan 26, 2018
Jan 26, 2018 at 4:24 AM UTC
Bosses
I wonder if the big bang was a response to god's loneliness And maybe he sat alone for a long time half braining ideas about making things that might love him God never said let there be light he just put a gun in his mouth and splattered stars across the wall of the universe His black hole brain something like regret trying to **** all the stars back inside And I think about the days you tried But that's not like you kid Even though you had blood spilling out a hole in your gut Bone white shallow breathed There are still stains on the passenger seat of my car Which I now call my living room because I am homeless And there are no walls that could hold the contents of your head like jackson ******* bloodspatter a pretentious painting titled and homage to the ****** of failure And you are not our mother suicide cocktail no ice and you are not our father an Alzheimer's ghost Haunting a history we never lived through You are skinny like water running down the zylephone of your ribcage tinny laughter Asking me questions like if love is as powerful as they say it is in the movies then why do people give up sometimes I'll never give up I said You asked me if I thought god was mad at you the doctor chalked up you living to just luck and I think of when god made molds of men out of mud and breathed into them and the mud men lived Mud must have felt lucky then But for us its not luck we make so much fuss Just so the world knows we're alive as ****
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Jul 19, 2013
Jul 19, 2013 at 3:03 PM UTC
Untitled
Several miles beyond, the dark mountain looms threateningly - mirroring my mood as we both brood coldly. Snow clouds hold grip of its peaks and melt in an icy drizzle to the umber, wind-swept valley below. Inside this dank motel room with its peeling walls, my addiction is both hidden and enhanced. The room's grimy window is closed to the world by a threadbare curtain which hangs askew, sealing me inside my drunken cocoon. I can now lift bottles to my mouth with abandon, gratefully lacking the contempt of others. A tinny television mutters a string of profanities from a corner, and a faucet drips incessantly into the filthy sink. It all seems to echo into what I have evolved. I have become as this dead fly, scraping back and forth along the window sill,   manipulated by currents of stale air. ___
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Sep 14, 2011
Sep 14, 2011 at 1:25 PM UTC
Cocooned
finally after days of dark, threatening clouds and anxious birds tracing signals into the air and trees waving back at the lightning while the thunder rolled around this valley- finally it rained the sun fought against the sky and lost, instead blazing behind the curtain and turning the sky a dangerous yellow while the trees accepted the sepia rain with defeat i stayed inside and watched their branches waving lazily back and forth as if to escape the rain, or maybe just to dance beneath it, i don't know but i knew i didn't feel like dancing i felt like dancing when we were alone in an old building whose walls echoed the tinny swing music back at us and whose floors were already printed with the patterns needed to teach you the basic formation and we fell out of place a million times only to fall back in again if you were here, i'd take you out into this rain and dance until the thunder came back and celebrate the lightning's wrath and fall out of formation a million times only to fall back in again with you, i always feel like dancing
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Jun 4, 2014
Jun 4, 2014 at 11:28 PM UTC
dancing
Her loud voice echos inside my head Tears pool spilling off my bed And her hams can, and laughter fled As life goes on, shes still dead Just a rewind video I replay Before sad sleepy eyes go to bed Weeping, sleeping,dreaming seeming Try to find the right words to describe She was the only one I could find To stay up and create, art, color, life A garden to a picture drawn in crown She was the only one around Who found what I found Art is the heart of family Love and life She found me, in the darkest nights She helped me understand The human struggle, to experience Complexity, she was her inevitably Embarrassingly, intoxication in both ***** and personality, fatality being She never took care, her loud voice Tinny in her last moments here Her brave soul Trembling in fear Grandma don’t be scared I'm here Just like you were Im here for better or for worse Her heart beat beat beating Tell its run its ran its course   and when its done ill run some more Grandma my heart beats for you that's for sure
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Aug 20, 2013
Aug 20, 2013 at 12:57 AM UTC
Susan Carlisle, My Heart Beats for you
I stretch, and stretch up towards a place where my head is far further above so that I cannot hear the jet engine of your words. I hear my bones creak with the effort to get away from the pollution of your coal train ramming me. I hear only my body cracking like spring ice as I rise, rise - rise above your noise toxins that settle like limp and sodden cardboard crowns worn about your tortured head. High above your hollow community above your entitlement park,   above your tiny- tinny voice. I hear it. Your hateful sounds like poultry jibber so far down in atmospheres below. I laugh to hear your wordless squawl! I stretch but  now to bend and see you beneath my squishy toes. Bend at the waist to see who's nipping at my ankles and I cry a tear of mirth. A white rapid that whisks your bitter apple groove far away. I stretch you gone. I stretch you indifferent. I grow myself pardoned, I grow my self free. sahn 2/15/15
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Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 11:44 PM UTC
Bite
I have this horrible habit of not feeling my feelings I don't know if its because I'm scared or if I even do feel Maybe in the moment I don't; feel Maybe those emotions just throw themselves into the ever spinning ball of feelings swirling in the catacombs of my mind And they just sit and fester Maybe all this is true: But where do they go, you ask. Well its a damning thing it is That one small, tinny, most insignificant event can release months worth of anger, despair, and fear and hate The tiniest thing can unveil the truth The curtains which hides my eyes lifts for maybe one moment But I already see it and I begin to cry Because what I see, I don't like What I see, I hate So I sit here clamping my teeth so hard they might shatter Holding my breath so in my throat sobs gather Worthless tears that don't even matter I threaten myself, I threaten, my heart I threaten I'll beat me until my skin parts Yet, nothing will happen I'll probably forget the one day that I felt And I'm ashamed to tell you why Because what I do is wrong: I just walk away I make no changes I once again feel no more Why? Because I'm scared out of my ******* mind I'm scared, and I can't tell anyone Because if I do its real And if its real Then I'm ******
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Jun 14, 2017
Jun 14, 2017 at 4:56 PM UTC
The Truth Is I'm Scared