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,***how do you know when (a human is too broken?)*** <•> human too broken? like the light bulb, removal from its fixture, a simple shaking revelation of the tinkling filament spent, something that cannot be repaired, the only option is replacement and that makes you cry the empty box of oatmeal raisin cookies, you find secret’d, hid by you, not to be found by you at the bottom of the kitchen garbage, but box betrayal, by the chartreuse tipped box lid sided peeking upwards, asking, silencing screaming, what did I do to deserve this degrading like the blouse now too tight that it brings stares as the buttons strain, unwelcome attention unintended, you know it but still pretend not to see, for you both once loved that silky guise that so heightened the high tender, the match of your pink rose skin letting, no! making your eyes glisten, like broken filament glass, on the sidewalk, recalling the pleasured admiration, rain remembered from the prior priority of a life consisting of only perfect gifts so mean revert to the poseur question; this is how... remove the human from a fixed place, whimpering-threatened, you may hear clear the crackle cackling  of the innard shards against the misperception of a body intact, even if you do, no repair service you want,  can be found, see it nowhere, is it even anywhere advertised? the body presumed intact is secret’d under a tactile coverlet, holey scupperrd holy cuttered so that the cells and bicuspids, the threads no longer function in a tandem, you keep it in the closet closed, in the back, deep hid, where, when it screams why, it can be safe ignored, because  ‘betrayed’ is no longer a word, in your globe's dictionary, the parental controls activated by you to save your own inner child’s unconstrained confusion, it has been removed so the broken glass, the clothes you dressed each other, if not weep-well, well enough hid, the fit is off, the fit is off, the coverlet ripped so bad and neither cares
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Aug 5, 2018
Aug 5, 2018 at 11:17 AM UTC
how do you know when (a human is too broken?)
,***how do you know when (a human is too broken?)*** <•> human too broken? like the light bulb, removal from its fixture, a simple shaking revelation of the tinkling filament spent, something that cannot be repaired, the only option is replacement and that makes you cry the empty box of oatmeal raisin cookies, you find secret’d, hid by you, not to be found by you at the bottom of the kitchen garbage, but box betrayal, by the chartreuse tipped box lid sided peeking upwards, asking, silencing screaming, what did I do to deserve this degrading like the blouse now too tight that it brings stares as the buttons strain, unwelcome attention unintended, you know it but still pretend not to see, for you both once loved that silky guise that so heightened the high tender, the match of your pink rose skin letting, no! making your eyes glisten, like broken filament glass, on the sidewalk, recalling the pleasured admiration, rain remembered from the prior priority of a life consisting of only perfect gifts so mean revert to the poseur question; this is how... remove the human from a fixed place, whimpering-threatened, you may hear clear the crackle cackling  of the innard shards against the misperception of a body intact, even if you do, no repair service you want,  can be found, see it nowhere, is it even anywhere advertised? the body presumed intact is secret’d under a tactile coverlet, holey scupperrd holy cuttered so that the cells and bicuspids, the threads no longer function in a tandem, you keep it in the closet closed, in the back, deep hid, where, when it screams why, it can be safe ignored, because  ‘betrayed’ is no longer a word, in your globe's dictionary, the parental controls activated by you to save your own inner child’s unconstrained confusion, it has been removed so the broken glass, the clothes you dressed each other, if not weep-well, well enough hid, the fit is off, the fit is off, the coverlet ripped so bad and neither cares
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Take a soft tipped brush Dip, and trace my nakedness; Viscous dripping rainbow streams Clothe me here within our dreams. Swirl my curves With satin pink, Let your brush flutter and sink lower, purples, red and blue, I'm a canvas here for you. Paint me scarlet, paint me gold, Paint some words italic, bold Stop when you begin to weep A masterpiece, for us to keep.
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Oct 23, 2014
Oct 23, 2014 at 5:25 PM UTC
Paint Me
they emerge from the wooded neighborhood ridge and fringe at dusk into breadth of lawn & limb. witchy chicks casting banter n bitchcraft. teenage dead end dreamers tipped in black magick lip gloss & glitter, their genderfluid familiars &/or wayward boyfriends apparate in the street pink cloud spinning wheel, & hawking bile. ****** stella smile. swallow a hex, send a snap, tongue along his neck promising to fold bodies before sunrise. the effervescent gasp of post-ritual clarity. in the house, is a kid. a gig. the devil with a younger grip. & the kid thrills on a bit of the ol’ u l t r a v i o l e n c e. ****** videogames, ****** anime, ****** mayhem n melodic music. he is a conduit of dark energy. a pure blooded offering of the stone age/video age, mind in a kind of kaleidoscopic way. he is me. bred on televised bucket slime ceremonials. she checks her purse. drugs & snacks & juul & a pretty dead bird. a daughter of delphi watching your kid. tending to him. trending him. popcorn smelling him, the texas chainsaw massacre on vhs just before bed. palace of teeth n twigs. just a short walk to the edge and then its bath time. the demon version is grisly and cruel. the angel version is starry-eyed and adventurous. to conjure some thing, at the cliff jumping. it was fun.
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Oct 13, 2014
Oct 13, 2014 at 2:54 AM UTC
babysitters on acid (eat, pray, love, conjure satan)
Lady Macbeth washed her hands cleaner than Pontius Pilate with a new improved, bio-enzyme oxy-bursting, 99.9% germ-scouring recommended by dermato-logists scented with rose attar oils from Arabia and spermaceti soothing unguents from long dead whales. She’s going to the nail bar for a manicure and application of semi-permanent, diamond- tipped, acrylic base-coated in red blood enamel. She’ll scratch and etch rich tattoos on her husband’s back with every ****** he will shudder with pain and delight He’ll soon forget long, dark nights bewitched by ghosts and ambition. © M.L. Emmett
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 2:55 AM UTC
Lady Macbeth
The door that someone opened The door that someone closed The chair on which someone sat down The cat that someone petted The fruit that someone bit into The letter that someone read The chair that someone tipped over The door that someone opened The road where someone is still running The woods that someone crossed running The river in which someone jumped The hospital where someone died.
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The Message
*in the midst of an emerald slumbering forest laced with pungent scents of jaded wood a burgundy blushed tail of a chestnut hued fox scurries as copper sunbeams part the day a hospital lumes starkly nearby its aura exudes hints of melancholy commingled with faint impressions of halcyon futures not yet lived at neighboring dartmouth a student sprinting to class drops his crimson colored backpack the prospect of cancer far from his budding consciousness my beloved sits patiently pondering pensively his last chemo treatment elusion of death not far from his mind i feign to fend off future catastrophes watching letters scramble across my screen earnestly writing in a desperate attempt to be with him forevermore an aquamarine hummingbird drenched in tranquility senses the inverse its amber tipped wings stand seemingly stationary while it steals a quick glance through the window curious at chemical infusions meant to heal my beloved walks out of the austere building with rose colored glasses i feel that we’ll whirl on the tips of gilded stardust dancing with another chance to fly ©2016janetaylor
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Apr 30, 2016
Apr 30, 2016 at 1:19 AM UTC
last trip to chemo
i’ll say it again. this is the only time i write with music. listen now and i’ll spin the wheel again, an ocean is no excuse for a tipped balance. trace origins back to சாதம், வீடு, பறவை. tip-toe to reach the top half of the stove, where the stories and the music are, but hand on head, not quite there yet. in the meantime, i hope my hands become as fire-glazed as yours one day. listen now and i’ll tell you how to live a life in compromises. here, come help me with my சாறி, no, i don’t have flowers for your hair, because there are are two different languages in this house. inhale savory vowels and lives rolled into the sun, exhale தயிர் without salt, a theoretical childhood, heart with half  the guilt. listen now for something i told my அம்மா: travel eight thousand miles by foot and open one eye, make a phone call and taste dew- glittering நெய் தோசை. listen now for a final time. when there are not enough unfurled petals of this world, look up and find the பௌர்ணமி in a hidden corner of your heart. blink once to skip time zones, twice to remember the promise of a thousand locusts and monsoon rain.
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 1:28 PM UTC
cultural vase
He still lives with demons that once held him tenderly when no one would be able to find the words to say that fill the glass as it is tipped back and slowly emptied of the liquor that stirs memories from the headwind that blew the lovers' hair back on the drive through autumn windy, windy mountain paths as another Queen song plays on the radio and the raindrops on the windshield tap along with fingertips against the steering wheel to Freddy Mercury and shared heartbeats. The truth is he is lying there like an open wound as he begins to measure self-worth with texting tempo and memories of last summer being too hot to cuddle with one another though it was more than enough to hold feet under the thin sheets that remember the glass once again filling with words as another drink is emptied and his head burst through clouds leaving him to hydroplane through windy, windy mountain paths as the raindrops on the windshield applaud with the demons that beckon tenderly for his return.
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Dec 5, 2016
Dec 5, 2016 at 8:13 PM UTC
Untitled
bon scott plays up a VOLCANO IN GUATEMALA you see i start a partying in the night today we are rocking and a rolling, yeah party, yeah ya see we bring that volcano down to gualamala yeah it’s about as cool as eating a banana rock, ****** rock this volcano made ‘em rock bring this party to the other end and rock guatemala, is rocking tonight with malt and lava is a rocking all night long you see the house is a rocking, don’t bother knocking yeah we will party, party we shall rock this volcano, wreck the old life, WOW i am going to get my spirit, and shake it down there make all the people guatemala grin and ****** bare and now i welcome slim dusty, i would love to have a beer with him we drink in moderation dude, but our future, looks quite dim yeah, we’ll drink in the town and country dudes the people of guatemala feel distraught cause we sent a big volcano, dude, from jupiter moon, that’s right you see now we bring robert palmer in how can it be permissible, oh yeah this volcano in guatemala is unstoppable, ha i wish there were ways to end it yeah i would grab a methane and top it on ya, yeaH It’s a strange occurrence first, it’s ****** hot, oh yer it really destroys guatemala, dude the volcano is simply unstoppable the walls are are shaking, the floor is melting ya see, yeah we are covered in lava, and feel like ya melting then i get up and look around, and i look up and see a volcano thrashing guatemala ya see the volcano shook this town all night long we’ll party on all night long and then i get down and look around, to see if nobody has tipped methane on slim you are hayley from bratayley you are cool, the coolest dude around i get up, and we’ll party down, we’ll drink ‘em down then the old old man let’s out a big big frown and i see barry allan as he walks past, i said come in bas boy, party on and i tip a methane smoothie on barry, which shook the town of guatemala all night long the methane shook it all night long then slim dusty said, i will get a baked potato baked potato toast and jam jupiter shook the guatemala volcano all night long, my dear slim then said, watch bratayley, for me with new families, peter sergeant from canberra and ivy gimbert and ivy and peter walked in and said, would you stop singing it up here cause we need some COOL, for earth baked potato baked potato, uhhhh baked potato and then bon scott came up and said, PARTY PARTY, and rock guatemala, while your at it, OK AND we’ll keep this party rolling guatemala volcano malt and lava
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 11:42 PM UTC
party on jupiter volcano in central USA, same difference
bon scott plays up a VOLCANO IN GUATEMALA you see i start a partying in the night today we are rocking and a rolling, yeah party, yeah ya see we bring that volcano down to gualamala yeah it’s about as cool as eating a banana rock, ****** rock this volcano made ‘em rock bring this party to the other end and rock guatemala, is rocking tonight with malt and lava is a rocking all night long you see the house is a rocking, don’t bother knocking yeah we will party, party we shall rock this volcano, wreck the old life, WOW i am going to get my spirit, and shake it down there make all the people guatemala grin and ****** bare and now i welcome slim dusty, i would love to have a beer with him we drink in moderation dude, but our future, looks quite dim yeah, we’ll drink in the town and country dudes the people of guatemala feel distraught cause we sent a big volcano, dude, from jupiter moon, that’s right you see now we bring robert palmer in how can it be permissible, oh yeah this volcano in guatemala is unstoppable, ha i wish there were ways to end it yeah i would grab a methane and top it on ya, yeaH It’s a strange occurrence first, it’s ****** hot, oh yer it really destroys guatemala, dude the volcano is simply unstoppable the walls are are shaking, the floor is melting ya see, yeah we are covered in lava, and feel like ya melting then i get up and look around, and i look up and see a volcano thrashing guatemala ya see the volcano shook this town all night long we’ll party on all night long and then i get down and look around, to see if nobody has tipped methane on slim you are hayley from bratayley you are cool, the coolest dude around i get up, and we’ll party down, we’ll drink ‘em down then the old old man let’s out a big big frown and i see barry allan as he walks past, i said come in bas boy, party on and i tip a methane smoothie on barry, which shook the town of guatemala all night long the methane shook it all night long then slim dusty said, i will get a baked potato baked potato toast and jam jupiter shook the guatemala volcano all night long, my dear slim then said, watch bratayley, for me with new families, peter sergeant from canberra and ivy gimbert and ivy and peter walked in and said, would you stop singing it up here cause we need some COOL, for earth baked potato baked potato, uhhhh baked potato and then bon scott came up and said, PARTY PARTY, and rock guatemala, while your at it, OK AND we’ll keep this party rolling guatemala volcano malt and lava
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These streets are home to countless rodents emerging for a moment to feed or breed or just to breathe the sun One by one line up for the chance to make something out of nothing Who are they and where do they go while the city refuses to sleep ___ Doors to endless lands line the avenue each its own portal to the unimagined A family of four with the yapping mutt or a lonely cat lady whose entryway wreaks of ***** a drug dealer door slamming every hour on the hour or an empty snowbird's nest On the surface everyone pretends they don't have a hole to crawl back to or walls that know every night But below the sewer grate a world filled with the stench of what could have been a good day Many a barkeep can shed some life on these drunkards' rat king or at least a story of those who made it out Once or twice it'd be grand to see the bottom of a martini glass left with a sip or two instead of the casually tipped lipstick-clad cocktail, drained of doubt and despair until morning warms the frozen dreams of those retired to a paradise unknown
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Oct 25, 2015
Oct 25, 2015 at 1:45 PM UTC
Rats
Running, running, faster, faster, harder, farther, pushing my limits The rush of adrenaline floods my veins Pushing me farther, faster Making the cold air burn my face. The closest thing I have to taking flight, My dream My dream that has been in the works for eight years now Now, almost ready to be put into motion A motion that must be completed once its started And I've finally started to break away. Jump, leap, reach for the sky. My wings are ready, And so am I. Smooth, sleek, powerful in design Just waiting for a spark The allowance to fly. Golden tipped feathers, all perfectly aligned Tone wings from practice Just waiting for a sign. Planning, preparing my wonderful escape Many years of planning, making sure of no mistakes. The situation thought through Run, leap, and fly. It sounds so simple, but that is far from the truth. Riding on this moment, Every anxious hour spent crying in pain, Just waiting to see the world from a freer point of view. Failure leads to more waiting, and that just won't do. The first try must work, I'll make it to the clouds, Just watch me. The world will be mine. The moon, the clouds, tired, sleep deprived joy. The sights of the world I've only heard of before Before I saw it rush under me below. The music of the world Singing the opening to it's show. The wind in my ears, fire in my blood I can only dream of what it will be like flying so close to the sun. 690 days until I can take flight. 690 days of planning it right. It can soon be mine, I will be free! But until then I fly at night, with my love but only in dreams.
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 9:47 PM UTC
Wings
Running, running, faster, faster, harder, farther, pushing my limits The rush of adrenaline floods my veins Pushing me farther, faster Making the cold air burn my face. The closest thing I have to taking flight, My dream My dream that has been in the works for eight years now Now, almost ready to be put into motion A motion that must be completed once its started And I've finally started to break away. Jump, leap, reach for the sky. My wings are ready, And so am I. Smooth, sleek, powerful in design Just waiting for a spark The allowance to fly. Golden tipped feathers, all perfectly aligned Tone wings from practice Just waiting for a sign. Planning, preparing my wonderful escape Many years of planning, making sure of no mistakes. The situation thought through Run, leap, and fly. It sounds so simple, but that is far from the truth. Riding on this moment, Every anxious hour spent crying in pain, Just waiting to see the world from a freer point of view. Failure leads to more waiting, and that just won't do. The first try must work, I'll make it to the clouds, Just watch me. The world will be mine. The moon, the clouds, tired, sleep deprived joy. The sights of the world I've only heard of before Before I saw it rush under me below. The music of the world Singing the opening to it's show. The wind in my ears, fire in my blood I can only dream of what it will be like flying so close to the sun. 690 days until I can take flight. 690 days of planning it right. It can soon be mine, I will be free! But until then I fly at night, with my love but only in dreams.
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With surgical precision You perfected the incision Of that poison-tipped tongue, Like a dart. My crippling indecision Was slashed with cold derision, Till self-belief was wrung From my heart.
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Feb 15, 2010
Feb 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM UTC
Heart Attack
Lone leatherback cruises up from the deep, pausing on the fragile reef to feast ancient eyes upon the show, a bright parade laid out below butterfly couples paired for life, graceful angels in black and white stripe brilliant clowns and their toxic lovers, a plodding gang of giant groupers puffers bob like comic balloons, humble gobies on every menu beaked parrotfish grinding the coral down, in the ears a constant sound cowfish blowing puckered kisses, sea stars catching fishy wishes white-tipped, hammerhead, tiger sharks, triggerfish mean bite worse than their bark untamed unicorns too wild to ride, dogfish snapping, biting alongside coral trout color-shifting fools, attracting ladies in dull-hued schools **** headed wrasse rumbling through, thick lips mumbling go get a room sea horses nod in labyrinth caves, razor-toothed eels lying in wait if tentacled embrace should be your fate, nudibranchs will light the way to a place of bliss, none of this can exist, without the builders coral and algae bewildered, the ways of man egotistical rising ocean temperatures, carbon emissions, and el Niño victim of abundant greed, say goodbye to the Great Barrier Reef so massive is this magical place, one can see it from outer space astronauts witness its demise, ninety-percent barren, bleached bone white.
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Apr 27, 2016
Apr 27, 2016 at 1:58 PM UTC
Reef
There’s a scurrying sound of something, burrowing, Down in the depths of the dungeons, hurrying, Skittering, pittering-pattering, scattering When there’s a footstep, hear them chattering: ‘Here come the lords, and here comes the vassal, Tripping their way through Cockroach Castle.’ Here come the ladies, all in their finery Tripping and sipping the wine from the winery, Trailing their silks, their satins and bustling, Up in the ballroom, while the rustling Army beneath the sounds of their razzle Is down in the depths of Cockroach Castle. Spilling their millions up in the glooming Out from the flagstones, terror is looming, Up on the awnings, hung from the ceiling Under the swish of the skirts they’re stealing, Dropping in hair, and burrowing faster, Cockroach Castle is set for disaster. Suddenly all of the room is screaming Flapping of hands, the roaches are teeming, Myriad hordes in the Carbonara, Candles are tipped from the candelabra, Choking smoke from the candles guttered, Flames leap up from the ones that stuttered. Clothing and flags and the awnings razing Silks and satins flare up, and blazing, Roaches in eyes and ears, they’re rasping Clogging their throats, to leave them gasping, There isn’t a lady or lord, or vassal To come out alive from Cockroach Castle! David Lewis Paget
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 1:08 PM UTC
Cockroach Castle
The animal small and frail The fur fiery ****** The flames lap my skin The burn me The eyes bright and curious They match the norther lights Flash of green and blue Rapid blinking The tail tipped in snow White and soft It doesn't melt against the flame Paws small and white Tiptoeing across the ground The fire sparks and blurs I'm finally home again
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Sep 25, 2014
Sep 25, 2014 at 6:34 PM UTC
The Fox
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Jul 18, 2014
Jul 18, 2014 at 5:49 AM UTC
future primitive
in the year 2462 those with nails protruding from their palms will talk in ancient tongues & sway the tribes of men to eternal love, & endless ammunition of the soul. spiritus. kin, galactic & the golden fire. throb the saga of man, into hip ****** illusions and combustive color schematas. we bury our dead in flower clippings or skull bits. [skateboarding rises as the highest form of intellectual sport] thrum and plum-bum the sewers of electric babylon. hive city reaching past gasp and wasteland, her lips ruinous. cement slabs and coils of fault with vast artistic possibilities. these skate-lords from their heaps, their clans, augmenting & rattling bone masks grinding themselves into meat-bit heroics & death. their teeth are yellowy awoken. this is all seen globally, via tele-cast-com-core-mind-warp-tech. or video. dreams impact reality impact dreams in such that the cathode cortex filter, invented circa 2222, evolves into a demi-god, a solar charged demon of unlimited knowledge. & it mutates the psychosphere  of our mainstream public mind with countless projected memories.         [streamed alternate realities] fills the belly and the brain, but all those unhooked are skating. sweet meat market. ghost harddrives. poor leftovers called children of the once-was-men & their poolside parties. they leap the rubble of centuries old plastic icons, their boards, their weapons, their seeds and spit. they hang chains from their necks & spew black flame from their sunshaded boot-click lickings. they drink from large bottlesof elixer distilled on old flowers & worship archaic cassettes. cults of cyborg women with gem-tipped-blade-additions carve wooden planks from groves of great oaks. great oaken powers. their creators chew gummies and bend time to uphold a proposed history of perfection. they master pong from their crystalline towers, & hire mathematicians to write conceptual skate-deck algorithms, solely for fun. non-profit.
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Frost tipped lines of unhappy bliss Ignorance leaves a rancorous taste in my mouth Fine spikes of knowledge run through the day Pieces of hints drop gently within Deaf ears tune out the loss that it is Speak of nothing Step around it Leave it alone Time runs fast so remember this Ignoring it only surprises one of us in the end cc070311
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Jul 3, 2011
Jul 3, 2011 at 6:03 PM UTC
Ignorance
The Lego men. Sat in the toy box playing with their bricks. Johnnie the little fella took them out to play Daddy put a board in the garden just upon the patio. What was just a piece of ply grew before Johnnie's eye. He tipped them out onto the board. Went inside to fetch a drink and get a spot of near noon brunch. A thriving hive of industry, was hidden in his plastic box. He came back outside and all was built. Castles and gardens, palatial palaces. The Lego men had built a perfect village. Nobody knew they could. Just a little shocked. His little sister Jennifer, she hid behind the garden wall. It wasn't the work of the miraculous Lego men after all. Who would ever have believed that the toys came out to play. (C) Livvi
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Nov 9, 2014
Nov 9, 2014 at 5:22 AM UTC
LEGO MEN
There was nothing I was ever so ashamed of that I dumped it in a river to drown, but one time my best friend accidentally tossed my pink fishing pole into the bayou when a spider dangled from the line. We were eight, everything was wishy-washy because she called herself a mulatto like it were an insult and my older friends kept mentioning that my mom walked herself to a liquor store very late at night twelve-packs bruising her German-colored shoulder. I did not tell them my father had hidden away her car keys. Girls teased me and I still wanted to kiss their cheeks at goodbyes, The Little Mermaid featured at our sleepovers saying, “kiss the girl,” so I did but we stopped talking when I bought my training bra, it proved what was in my skirt, my lips could not touch them again. You cannot kiss a girl if you are a girl, even if Disney movies say it is okay because Mickie Mouse has no ***** to be ashamed of though a wife of the opposite *** I learned important things until I turned ten and Hurricane Katrina unraveled the bayou into my house and I existed in four different classrooms in my fourth grade year where nobody had enough time to learn my name, much less the way it is spelled. Now, in therapy, the certified insists that I am a girl who kisses other girls because my mother only put her lips on a bottle. But maybe I wear striped dresses just because mold grew that shape in my home on Camellia Street, mud decorated the fallen refrigerator so it looked like a cow some punk tipped over. I just wish the sidewalk I use to rollerblade on hadn’t flooded.
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May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 at 6:50 PM UTC
the little mermaid
There was nothing I was ever so ashamed of that I dumped it in a river to drown, but one time my best friend accidentally tossed my pink fishing pole into the bayou when a spider dangled from the line. We were eight, everything was wishy-washy because she called herself a mulatto like it were an insult and my older friends kept mentioning that my mom walked herself to a liquor store very late at night twelve-packs bruising her German-colored shoulder. I did not tell them my father had hidden away her car keys. Girls teased me and I still wanted to kiss their cheeks at goodbyes, The Little Mermaid featured at our sleepovers saying, “kiss the girl,” so I did but we stopped talking when I bought my training bra, it proved what was in my skirt, my lips could not touch them again. You cannot kiss a girl if you are a girl, even if Disney movies say it is okay because Mickie Mouse has no ***** to be ashamed of though a wife of the opposite *** I learned important things until I turned ten and Hurricane Katrina unraveled the bayou into my house and I existed in four different classrooms in my fourth grade year where nobody had enough time to learn my name, much less the way it is spelled. Now, in therapy, the certified insists that I am a girl who kisses other girls because my mother only put her lips on a bottle. But maybe I wear striped dresses just because mold grew that shape in my home on Camellia Street, mud decorated the fallen refrigerator so it looked like a cow some punk tipped over. I just wish the sidewalk I use to rollerblade on hadn’t flooded.
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Twenty third June twenty sixteen The biggest vote we’d ever seen Results are in and Brexit win and many say it’s such a sin Those who voted not to leave This news they just could not believe Sore losers showed their  bitter anguish soon from Europe we would vanish Let’s vote again remainers say 'No vote again' says Theresa May Our country voted in or out and voted out without a doubt The apple cart tipped on its head Britain in Europe would soon be dead Now Brexit was born the following morn. This beautiful kingdom from Europe be torn Remainers are mad while leavers are glad Great Britain is out there is no doubt So shut up remainers, accept what is done We voted together and Brexit won
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 4:08 PM UTC
Lets not exit Brexit
Rising from the sand at low tide, The shipwreck’s spars, brown wet, decaying Reaching like skeletal fingers, grasping For one last piece of the breaking daylight Tentacles of seaweed, woven Wrapped around decaying planks Anchoring it firmly To Davy Jones’ Locker Barnacle encrusted planks Lie twisted, turned, unnatural Frozen in a final plea of mercy Before white tipped monsters Crashed across the bow, Splitting, tearing masts Sending it to the murky depths
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 3:12 PM UTC
Shipwreck
I guess it's over. Water has spilled all over our ink and now our words are blurry. Unreadable. Unfixable. But what do you care? You were the one who tipped the glass over.
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 4:15 PM UTC
Water Damage
A sigh is a barebacked rider, soundless along a sandy coast, A candle tipped with starlight, wheeling in a cosmos of smoke, A firefly floating on the ruins of the wind like a winged gyroscope, A skull in the stomach whose teeth are my own and breathes With Babel’s thousand tongues telling fragrant untruths.
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Feb 6, 2022
Feb 6, 2022 at 8:44 PM UTC
Babel Sighs in Ruin