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The evolution of art never halts Once we began dancing around fire Our feet couldn't stop A place in our lives Where our subpar seeds Could be seen as glowing trees That's the way I feel about my poetry It reminds me a lot of me I reread it and rewrite it so often By the end it seems unoriginal and plain And all I can hope Is the themes and ideas that were the inspirational genesis Remain intact Art walks a tightrope over the most unpredictable factor The audience They are the other half of art Their power cannot be overstated And as time progresses Their power grows And the importance of art always extends an equal distance But the stronger art becomes The more it asks of it's audience In many cases The audience is not ready to take the call This is one of those times Here at the current pinnacle of art Surfing the web A wonderful chance as Art is a reflection of people and society The Internet is people and society But just as we listen to songs To decide what concert to go to Or watch trailers To decide what movie to see We like what we like And put blinders on to find it Like moths to fire We could do amazing things If we could harness the potential Of our collective conscious But the threat of losing our individuality Is too great for us Unable to accept Our individuality is always in the context of our cosmic existence We are part of something greater And we can't escape that Even in death We feed what lies beneath The memory of our lives Shrinks to obscurity The maggots that cover our corpses Flourish to maturity Everything this world creates is art And we are it's most complex creation Not necessarily the best We just have the most parts And the maggots that use our dead bodies for sustenance Were once the monsters that roamed this Earth They had no nationality Or political affiliations Or religion And they're still here Waiting to reclaim their throne Once "smarter" species seek suicide
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Jul 26, 2017
Jul 26, 2017 at 10:19 PM UTC
Individuality
The evolution of art never halts Once we began dancing around fire Our feet couldn't stop A place in our lives Where our subpar seeds Could be seen as glowing trees That's the way I feel about my poetry It reminds me a lot of me I reread it and rewrite it so often By the end it seems unoriginal and plain And all I can hope Is the themes and ideas that were the inspirational genesis Remain intact Art walks a tightrope over the most unpredictable factor The audience They are the other half of art Their power cannot be overstated And as time progresses Their power grows And the importance of art always extends an equal distance But the stronger art becomes The more it asks of it's audience In many cases The audience is not ready to take the call This is one of those times Here at the current pinnacle of art Surfing the web A wonderful chance as Art is a reflection of people and society The Internet is people and society But just as we listen to songs To decide what concert to go to Or watch trailers To decide what movie to see We like what we like And put blinders on to find it Like moths to fire We could do amazing things If we could harness the potential Of our collective conscious But the threat of losing our individuality Is too great for us Unable to accept Our individuality is always in the context of our cosmic existence We are part of something greater And we can't escape that Even in death We feed what lies beneath The memory of our lives Shrinks to obscurity The maggots that cover our corpses Flourish to maturity Everything this world creates is art And we are it's most complex creation Not necessarily the best We just have the most parts And the maggots that use our dead bodies for sustenance Were once the monsters that roamed this Earth They had no nationality Or political affiliations Or religion And they're still here Waiting to reclaim their throne Once "smarter" species seek suicide
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The magnificent Midwest. Where meth-heads migrate only to make a living off of welfare checks and a lack of motivation. Scattered across the land in clusters, Making up towns of shattered trailers. Even in the greyness of winter we beat ourselves to death against snowed in windows Searching for the sun, just like moths to street lights, or lips to flickering flames Death is everywhere.
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Mar 25, 2015
Mar 25, 2015 at 8:55 PM UTC
Midwest Meth-heads
The posters said tomorrow At eleven on the dot The Mishkin Brothers Circus Would be here ....on this spot There would be no carnival or midway Just one tent and three rings And all of the excitement That a good old circus brings There would be elephants and lions Trapeze artists overhead Dancing dogs and ponies And zebras painted red Clowns of all description Answering to just one man In the center of the circle Was Mishkin brother....Dan He'd run the show for twenty years Gone from town to town to town In one day they would get set up And in two, they'd tear it down One day to show the locals The circus still was an event With magic, form the Barnum Days All housed inside one tent The sideshow barkers and their geeks Were not with this fine group Dan Mishkin had assembled Only the finest circus troup From Russia he had jugglers Knife throwers, just the best ******** riders from Decatur Along with all the rest Fourteen trucks and trailers Pulled into town the night before Breaking ground once they arrived Working right through until four Just old time entertainment No travelling gypsy band was this It was the Mishkin Brothers Circus It was something not to miss The show was started promptly At twelve o'clock, like the sign said A parade of all the players And the zebras painted red Two shows and it was over The whole routine began anew The field was once more empty Gone was the Mishkin rolling zoo A year from now, we'd see the signs And we'd all go to the tent To see the Mishkin Brothers Circus The best money ever spent
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Jun 13, 2015
Jun 13, 2015 at 4:48 PM UTC
The day the circus came to town
The posters said tomorrow At eleven on the dot The Mishkin Brothers Circus Would be here ....on this spot There would be no carnival or midway Just one tent and three rings And all of the excitement That a good old circus brings There would be elephants and lions Trapeze artists overhead Dancing dogs and ponies And zebras painted red Clowns of all description Answering to just one man In the center of the circle Was Mishkin brother....Dan He'd run the show for twenty years Gone from town to town to town In one day they would get set up And in two, they'd tear it down One day to show the locals The circus still was an event With magic, form the Barnum Days All housed inside one tent The sideshow barkers and their geeks Were not with this fine group Dan Mishkin had assembled Only the finest circus troup From Russia he had jugglers Knife throwers, just the best ******** riders from Decatur Along with all the rest Fourteen trucks and trailers Pulled into town the night before Breaking ground once they arrived Working right through until four Just old time entertainment No travelling gypsy band was this It was the Mishkin Brothers Circus It was something not to miss The show was started promptly At twelve o'clock, like the sign said A parade of all the players And the zebras painted red Two shows and it was over The whole routine began anew The field was once more empty Gone was the Mishkin rolling zoo A year from now, we'd see the signs And we'd all go to the tent To see the Mishkin Brothers Circus The best money ever spent
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Being the only one awake in the back seat, or the only one thinking loudly, and in the back of  your mind, sitting there like living weight, you've got the giant Citgo sign (you swear you could fit in the T), listening to passion pit as the golden sun flings itself on the highway, a construction worker lowering his pants in front of a dumpster, hearing the sandlot play downstairs as you stare at the dark ceiling, pizza you ate in the park the evening before now being had for breakfast, finding out the **** is pro-choice, getting your shoulder squeezed on a rollercoaster by a boy who screams like a girl,          feeling drunk even though you're sober, running through the dark, passing trailers with round lanterns lining the tops, outlining shirtless men and smoking women, looking in the mirror after swimming with your clothes on in a hot tub, and you're not sure if you're beautiful or disgusting. Yeah, you can sleep now.
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May 20, 2015
May 20, 2015 at 7:12 PM UTC
8th trip
atop that golden haystack mounted on an unwieldy bullock cart you wished we had...... a regret of a million lifetimes! every time your plucky smile flashes in the sacred space between brows, i see a wish fulfilling acacia tree nymphalid butterflies flutter in my gut and rapid clips of lifetimes past neatly edited, projected as movie trailers your deathlike silence has quietly become my universe, as i pen in moon-like solitude memoirs of an unrequited love © 2019
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Aug 3, 2019
Aug 3, 2019 at 11:14 AM UTC
memoirs of an unrequited love
Rusted trailers file in, carrying pop-up roller coasters and tilt-a-whirls. A tall man, face splashed with paint, trips in oversized shoes. His drawn lips smile, but teeth do not show. A ferris wheel spins in the distance, time measured in each rotation, the carnival's only clock. Perched on a saddle, a small tot rides a stallion, tangling her curled fingers in its mane, cotton candy stained palms shaking the reins. The steed chained to a central post, muzzled in silence, frozen like his carousel brothers.
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Nov 16, 2013
Nov 16, 2013 at 12:22 PM UTC
Fun Fest Carnival in Andover, Minnesota
— for the American Mustang Strung up on one leg, bled dry while alive, unloaded off trailers crammed full of the crippled and blind —mares giving birth on three legs, foals trampled by stallions, and a wave of fear hovering over tossing manes like the sea after Moby **** surfaced for the first time. Last year, 135,000 horses died — rounded up in hundreds and sent off to slaughter like feeder goldfish, three stops from Canada or Cabo, displaced from plains once revered for their livelihood. In 1969, Vonnegut wrote, “And so it goes…” In 2061, our children will ask about the wild horses who used to live in their backyards as they catch the last fireflies and bottle them up in jars, flickering and dying like tired bulbs giving up on electricity — 2015 sees Henderson, Nevada grasses paying tribute to power-plant-lines and a suburb built on Tralfamadore fiction: house-mounds and picket fences caging domesticated dogs, curb-lined streets and caution signs, billboard warnings of humanity’s fixation with progression, combined like coffee with an overabundance of half-and-half and too much sugar — only 99 cents at Dunkin down a little ways, and home to the dreamers who forget the word freedom.
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Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 4:05 PM UTC
Slaughterhouse 2015
*The most broken people live on earth.   Not even a good poet and wont pretend to be. I fell asleep at my desk reading boring poems in school. I failed the test on how many stanza in a poem. Writing about broke people makes me feel good. It's a long *** poem so read it or not read it. Word up!* Call me white boy playing black hipster like the broken record Miley.   I can't type twerk on my keyboard but turning all ghetto on y'all. Lady done done all she can to shock and mess with our minds. What she gone do next, buy a house in a black hood and live there? That's messed up and so I'm dumb and I love attention. I live in a big town population less than sixteen thousand. We listed on the map as a god ****** city. Word up! I need to be a hipster and I'm going hood on y'all. In my hood I see houses needing fixing and painting. Got a friend who lives in a trailer park metal piece that goes around the bottom of his trailer fell off and his pipes froze during that weather deep freeze. He's renting that trailer that should be condemned like most trailers in that park but who the **** cares? He's got a roof over his head and he should be grateful he ain't homeless like the rest of the trailer park dwellers. Landlords don't give a **** they care about collecting rent. We got men and women living on internet trolling Craigslist. Most trolling hoping to find dates are married. Single men and women seeking sugar daddies and mommies. They are broken people. I walk down streets and our old and newer malls. Same weird *** people shop at both. I see women yelling at kids with ****** diapers that smell bad. One used the back of her hand to wipe a snot nose then went back to talking and texting. Women with babies at home meeting men they met on personals. Good place to hide when they married or got men. Leave the babies at home with sitters or family and find new men. Hanging out at malls is a fake. "Meet me at my pickup in a half hour and don't wear ****** Read that message on a burner cell I found at the new mall. It's a burner so it don't need to be returned. Read the rest and she is married and has more than one lover she met off personals. Work it girl and keep the sugar daddies coming! How many broken moms who should not be moms exist? There are too many broken people who exist.
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Jan 14, 2014
Jan 14, 2014 at 6:38 PM UTC
All the broken people
*The most broken people live on earth.   Not even a good poet and wont pretend to be. I fell asleep at my desk reading boring poems in school. I failed the test on how many stanza in a poem. Writing about broke people makes me feel good. It's a long *** poem so read it or not read it. Word up!* Call me white boy playing black hipster like the broken record Miley.   I can't type twerk on my keyboard but turning all ghetto on y'all. Lady done done all she can to shock and mess with our minds. What she gone do next, buy a house in a black hood and live there? That's messed up and so I'm dumb and I love attention. I live in a big town population less than sixteen thousand. We listed on the map as a god ****** city. Word up! I need to be a hipster and I'm going hood on y'all. In my hood I see houses needing fixing and painting. Got a friend who lives in a trailer park metal piece that goes around the bottom of his trailer fell off and his pipes froze during that weather deep freeze. He's renting that trailer that should be condemned like most trailers in that park but who the **** cares? He's got a roof over his head and he should be grateful he ain't homeless like the rest of the trailer park dwellers. Landlords don't give a **** they care about collecting rent. We got men and women living on internet trolling Craigslist. Most trolling hoping to find dates are married. Single men and women seeking sugar daddies and mommies. They are broken people. I walk down streets and our old and newer malls. Same weird *** people shop at both. I see women yelling at kids with ****** diapers that smell bad. One used the back of her hand to wipe a snot nose then went back to talking and texting. Women with babies at home meeting men they met on personals. Good place to hide when they married or got men. Leave the babies at home with sitters or family and find new men. Hanging out at malls is a fake. "Meet me at my pickup in a half hour and don't wear ****** Read that message on a burner cell I found at the new mall. It's a burner so it don't need to be returned. Read the rest and she is married and has more than one lover she met off personals. Work it girl and keep the sugar daddies coming! How many broken moms who should not be moms exist? There are too many broken people who exist.
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I was stuck there's nothing else to say. I was stuck on the corner of Innes and Main walking to Expressions, the only smoke shop where high times wasn't ready to come out of the closet, where Hustler was always 6 months old, where you had to call a **** a water pipe because the cops came in too often. I was thinking of the **** trailers 20 minutes out by the lake and how when I was young they all seemed like weather factories - heavy cloud but no rain *sniff sniff something's on the oven. it's a world of difference on Innes and Main. bankers, business owners, and old folks walk by with a look in their eye that says "you're exactly like you're t-shirt -- secondhand." here I am secondhand. here I don't have a name, just a presumption. here I am nothing. nothing good. I kept walking. I started thinking about my dad -- the first time we got high together was on xmas day.  I was 20, he was weary and his roommate ALWAYS had bud.  here's the skinny: we'd get ****** watch ****** movies, he'd argue about how good they were and I'd never quit laughing. then the come down. he'd start in about what a huge mistake he's made of his life. and he'd count his past regrets on his fingers like he was learning addition and it took the strength of all of my bones not to grab him by the shoulders and yell "DAD. QUIT BEING SENTIMENTAL." and I swore I'd never be sentimental and I'm not sentimental. I just know where I'm going. but when memory's teeth breaks skin like plaster, when fresh marks color blood over old wounds, when you can't find home anywhere but in a blunt or a bottle, it doesn't matter where you're going.
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Oct 3, 2015
Oct 3, 2015 at 11:11 PM UTC
rvs are a one way ticket to **** addiction
I was stuck there's nothing else to say. I was stuck on the corner of Innes and Main walking to Expressions, the only smoke shop where high times wasn't ready to come out of the closet, where Hustler was always 6 months old, where you had to call a **** a water pipe because the cops came in too often. I was thinking of the **** trailers 20 minutes out by the lake and how when I was young they all seemed like weather factories - heavy cloud but no rain *sniff sniff something's on the oven. it's a world of difference on Innes and Main. bankers, business owners, and old folks walk by with a look in their eye that says "you're exactly like you're t-shirt -- secondhand." here I am secondhand. here I don't have a name, just a presumption. here I am nothing. nothing good. I kept walking. I started thinking about my dad -- the first time we got high together was on xmas day.  I was 20, he was weary and his roommate ALWAYS had bud.  here's the skinny: we'd get ****** watch ****** movies, he'd argue about how good they were and I'd never quit laughing. then the come down. he'd start in about what a huge mistake he's made of his life. and he'd count his past regrets on his fingers like he was learning addition and it took the strength of all of my bones not to grab him by the shoulders and yell "DAD. QUIT BEING SENTIMENTAL." and I swore I'd never be sentimental and I'm not sentimental. I just know where I'm going. but when memory's teeth breaks skin like plaster, when fresh marks color blood over old wounds, when you can't find home anywhere but in a blunt or a bottle, it doesn't matter where you're going.
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Spring. Same plants, same order. Monday morning, open for business. Tractor-trailers, day care centers. Every leaf that’s coming out is out. To tonight’s town meeting I will go unaware and foolish. It’s delicious, the unimportance of my feelings. Even our particular war was small. Europe had one last a century. Hubble photos of events 13 billion years ago Do not put me in mind of the species’ insignificance. Just the opposite having witnessed the universe’s birth. But birth from what preceding state? God again rears his hoary head. They say one must let go and will let go, God will decide what tragedy you need. Not every seed becomes a flower, Not every branch breaks out a truelove knot. While the ancient Romans wrote of love The ancient Britons wrote of war. The Romans should have been perfecting their republic. No god could do that work for them. The November moth's the fall cankerworm Slender-bodied, beige, beginning life as the well known inchworm. In our war more children may have died than would have had the tyrant lived in fear and awe. We'll never know because we can't help being here.
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 11:28 AM UTC
Fear and Awe
You waved the tool in my face Causing a switch to go off in my brain My thoughts distorted My body springing to action Trying to make you stop What you had already done The new raised lines on your upper arm Caused by simple office supplies Wouldn't have happened If I hadn't left you for just a second For the moment my back was turned You were half past gone and a mile away from better Both of are breathless The shiny twisted piece of metal Somewhere on the floor Sitting across from each other Your shoulders shook against mine My tears burned into your shirt And were mopped up with your brown hair I spoke through choked sobs As hurt memories flashed through my brain Like the trailers of movies Showing only a quick remembrance Of my past That leaked into your present But you feel as though your present is not a gift For you're falling down the rabbit hole Not to Wonderland But to the land of pills and hospital beds Where it is not wonderful in any shape or form Your scars can still heal If you stopped retracing the red lines you've made And realized You are something I care about you And so do others So if you won't try for yourself Try for them Try for me
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Jan 5, 2014
Jan 5, 2014 at 9:32 PM UTC
It Started with a Paper Clip
This is a place where you can see everything coming from far away; a place where people come to leave; a place where people pack in the middle of the night, and wake the children while it's still dark out, hoping for hope in the cholera of a sunrise and the 5 a.m. Greyhound; this is a place where there is no flea market, just a strand of people on the side of the road a table and a parti-colored distress, while their kids play in grass lots; this is a place where factories are built, clandestine factories; factories with no signposts, and no barbed-wire fences; this is a place where there is always something green in the tilled rows crowding up against the road, not necessarily growing, but maybe the signs of an arbitrary decay; this is a place for old trailers and rust tears; telephone poles more than a stake in humanity, communication rather than introspection, redemption more than salvation, revitalization more than pleasure, insight more than hope, promise more than dreams, this is a place where a father rushes up to the bus, pushing the kids, as he ushers his wife on board, the little children hopping up each step, as he says "Get on, and we outta here." This is a place where families don't have belongings where you don't belong to anything. This is a place you can leave easily, because it is a place with a name you can't remember.
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Feb 6, 2012
Feb 6, 2012 at 10:34 AM UTC
The place with no name.
Tractors chug and the new ones Zoom up the road Pulling all sorts trailers and implements; all to tame the Earth and help thrive livestock to fill fridges and freezers and bellies needing feeding
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Jun 16, 2014
Jun 16, 2014 at 3:14 PM UTC
Bellies Needing Feeding
On the zero night It doesn’t matter if someone loves you Or if you have something between you and the emptiness Broken trailers with incoherent messages sprayed “Kitten ***** “Idelibo frant”, messabi todar” But still the silence descends The Buddha is confused and lost Frightened men with their heavy guns Counting the bullets Will there be enough? Sliding hands over ****** knives We have our pizza, our beer The screaming is muted for tonight Please tell me, ghost of the future Can our superficial images of beauty Cover our despair? Still the digital display is counting The numbers, though meaningless have changed. If we turned off the lights of Las Vegas Would we still have a chance to breathe? What eyrie darkness. The drones are clustered above the targets But there is uncertainty Still the moon shines And the silence builds Gibbens 2013-08-21
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Aug 22, 2013
Aug 22, 2013 at 2:02 AM UTC
The Lonely Night
Beer bellies in sun, Green grass in a fast circle Squaring like trailers.
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Jun 5, 2013
Jun 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM UTC
NASCAR
Best of all, there are lives in every skin. They know the words to your favourite language and the aching corporeality of smoke wisps as overused poetic analogy-- sativa with grapefruit, the particulars speak in toungezzz and sometimes I smoke **** and I'm so hungry, but I'm not hungry.. 6 o'clock and Dionysius means what the heaven needs **** done, it's awful-- no misfit twists and yab blam undeclared winter this year we call Fort Summerforever, BLANK, BLAM, expressive bottom-line, you don't look around anymore and check the bookshelves of your lives for those lucid Lucy detailers, trailers a warmer word for tracers, do the replacement parts fit all of the models and every time I went back to Trippy's it was the same guy, $70, oh the whole **** with the slide and all flattened preference to how in-this we are, how imagine how mystical, hanging those mushrooms on the wall, that weird pipe, cover ashes I dunno. In here it was I / thou and the digital paper-- I climb behind the eye and continent for a moment and hear see do 'it was a huge *** bag just filled with all this weed' bazooka balloon. crick the neck to create a feeling, oh but you'll listen to be come and be
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Jan 27, 2014
Jan 27, 2014 at 2:28 AM UTC
inaroomfullofbegotand ok
Now there is nothing left that's worth the mention Yet there is so much more I wanted to say The years have passed as a whirlwind There was nothing left that together we had The horses The trailers The tractor and truck The saddles and the tack All then gone for a song A funeral dirge of the saddest kind A song about the loss of We and Us Destruction was there then relentless Only one single thing I could keep Just a wallet I bought In Our last days together Holding the picture ID's of Our Sons So on I alone went through unending destruction As though all Hell existed alone against me Until I again studied the sunrise and claimed a new beginning alone there beside the sea So sorry you're not still here with me With a beautiful start-over play for keeps I heard for you it went very badly And you languish In doom and sorrow and grief I hurt for you Knowing the very moment of abandonment You set loose upon yourself The worst of all of your fears Are you happy that you succeeded Did you accomplish all that you planned? Didn't you know I would get up and go on and do what we did together by myself once again? So on I must go to restoration absolute of that which was Ours then to claim Knowing you're gone forever However I am again myself surely restored But not now nor ever would it be possible To recover Our once precious Love once more We Shared Love We Cherished Life. -R. (10.11.17) -LA -4MAR
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Oct 12, 2017
Oct 12, 2017 at 12:01 PM UTC
-From Nothing Again
I know back roads and bonfires. I know pine trees and rivers. I know parking lots and cigarettes. I know trailers and trailblazers. The day I was born I was wrapped in dust, it coated my skin and made me sneeze. I was laid down on a bed of dust and my nose began to bleed, it hasn't stopped. In school we'd throw a tennis ball against a wall, we'd run through the field, we didn't have swings, we didn't have a soccer ball. We read from dusty books, we inhaled the words and dust alike. In high school we drove fast down back roads. We drank beer and started a fire. We swam in the rivers and smoked doobies on the rocks. These are the things I know. I know this small town, I know the people in it, I know the trees and I know the back roads. I don't know heartbreak. I don't know alcoholism. I don't know anything that is not covered in dust, I don't know anything beyond this valley.
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Apr 20, 2015
Apr 20, 2015 at 4:29 PM UTC
The Things I Know
I woke up in the middle of night, last night, to an unfamiliar noise. It was a vibrating frequency coming from the floor underneath of me. I live in the third floor unit of my building which means there's second and first floor units. The noise is coming from the people underneath of me, probably. I heard it again and I was unsure of the location. Then I heard it a third time and this time it sounded like it was coming from my front door. I heard the **** make a noise. The sound of someone turning your locked doorknob or vending touching it in the middle of the night is not okay. I felt the adrenaline rush to all the muscles in my body and for a moment I was ready. I was still. I listened. My instinctual fighting abilities have evolved to this moment even though I have never been in a physical fight with anything except my boyfriends dog... After so many minutes, I began thinking about that very specific door **** noise and then trying to figure out what that vibrating rumble was. In my head I compared it to the Babadook which is a movie I had just watched recently. Even though still terrified hiding under the blankets, I found this moment comical. This would be the moment as a child when I would run into my parents bedroom night after night telling them about my nightmare and then continue sleeping in between them. In this moment I decided to let my mind wonder and listen for the first time in a long time. Through meditation I have learned to shut the unproductive doors in my mind. As I listened all I heard was the rushing vehicles on rt 76 across the river. The sounds created it's own river. I heard the breaks of the tracker trailers rumbling down the freeway to fade into the noise of the night. I heard nothing. I heard a car drive by on my street. It hit a *** whole. For awhile the noises became so repetitive that it became mundane and my thoughts started to creep in and I let them. Then I heard an emergency vehicle. My ears perked up as I listened to the sirens bounce off the buildings. I could visualize the architectural layout of each block the ambulance went down or approached. My mind had made a fuzzy map of my neighborhood. I eventually heard the sound of my alarm reminding me to get out of bed.
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Jan 30, 2015
Jan 30, 2015 at 11:52 PM UTC
Update
I woke up in the middle of night, last night, to an unfamiliar noise. It was a vibrating frequency coming from the floor underneath of me. I live in the third floor unit of my building which means there's second and first floor units. The noise is coming from the people underneath of me, probably. I heard it again and I was unsure of the location. Then I heard it a third time and this time it sounded like it was coming from my front door. I heard the **** make a noise. The sound of someone turning your locked doorknob or vending touching it in the middle of the night is not okay. I felt the adrenaline rush to all the muscles in my body and for a moment I was ready. I was still. I listened. My instinctual fighting abilities have evolved to this moment even though I have never been in a physical fight with anything except my boyfriends dog... After so many minutes, I began thinking about that very specific door **** noise and then trying to figure out what that vibrating rumble was. In my head I compared it to the Babadook which is a movie I had just watched recently. Even though still terrified hiding under the blankets, I found this moment comical. This would be the moment as a child when I would run into my parents bedroom night after night telling them about my nightmare and then continue sleeping in between them. In this moment I decided to let my mind wonder and listen for the first time in a long time. Through meditation I have learned to shut the unproductive doors in my mind. As I listened all I heard was the rushing vehicles on rt 76 across the river. The sounds created it's own river. I heard the breaks of the tracker trailers rumbling down the freeway to fade into the noise of the night. I heard nothing. I heard a car drive by on my street. It hit a *** whole. For awhile the noises became so repetitive that it became mundane and my thoughts started to creep in and I let them. Then I heard an emergency vehicle. My ears perked up as I listened to the sirens bounce off the buildings. I could visualize the architectural layout of each block the ambulance went down or approached. My mind had made a fuzzy map of my neighborhood. I eventually heard the sound of my alarm reminding me to get out of bed.
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A sadness haunts that town. stuffed between the cracks of dilapidated matchbox houses, and in the grit of rusty trailers. Even below the green carpet of government buildings, And the marble courthouse floor. Poverty stares Wealth in the face from across the street, his haunted, empty eyes lit by the embers of discarded cigarettes. Wealth is good at glossing over the cracks, setting up the chain link fences and rail road tracks. Iron curtains that could be stepped over, if anyone knew they were there. But no matter how many fences, there's still that nameless sadness in the soil. A potent concoction of dead dreams, harsh realities, and broken hearts. With a dash of Cherokee tears and lead from the War. All stirred by Monotony, who lights her cauldron fire with electric bills and dollar store receipts. Like a curse, it spares none. Though they've learned how to smile with tears in their eyes, above moth eaten scarves or pearls. It's permeated everything, down to the roots. But not to leave the glass half empty; Some still find happiness, some are still sad. That's just how it goes. Hope and despair are but two notes in the same tune.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 11:28 PM UTC
A Southern Haunting
I walked down for my daily meal, probably spinach salad and yesterdays pork in a soup and flesh on the brain stopped me dead in my pace when I saw this striated sack of bones a greyhound, kept thin as ribs by the genes she was bred to express collapsed on the end of chain, tail-tucked dead weight where once was thoroughbred speed built for speed, life on the fast-track chasing a mechanical sheep a lure she’ll never catch kept hungry for the good chance she’d run faster winning some beer-belly’s bets but at least she was given a wage— a crate, and all the food she’d need to stay thin. when genes turned her speed to the slip and sag of age one ******* was human enough instead of a quick slug pulling out her brain through a new hole and pinning it to the dirt behind the trailers, Beer-bellied ******* let her retire to an old-dog’s crate plastic walls and one gate Isn’t she beautiful?? I raise my gaze from the hound’s caramel eye and find the thing clutching the chain, grinning like hooks pulling cheeks far too wide, with too much skin on her thighs, a squat pile of woman bred on fatty beef and pecan pies We rescued her, she’s our mascot! and she hands me a flyer: EDUCATION INTERNSHIPS PUT YOUR LIFE ON THE FAST-TRACK!!
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Dec 13, 2011
Dec 13, 2011 at 6:41 AM UTC
The Fast-Track
pear leaves strum the high wire fern roots claw a sun drenched bank creep vines mount the hedgerow sow bugs jump a grated worn step picket wall stain on cedar mountain stream brisk at lush green pass four legs down the foot path biscuit brown trailers fill the pipe spiders march on dew web knots and rivets cut hard at the seam maples cover the forest floor sap ***** ping the front gate dandelions drift on west breeze blue berries plump at shepherds grove wood sill holds a stained glass letter box lined above the scrub delft ware on the mantle (with petals and script for a promised guest!) junior poised with mouth agape birds and squirrels whistle jovial tunes goldfinch darts the sea ranch tabby cat rests in a white wicker chair a crafters window in the alpine follies await the summer task! queen bee on the flutter airedale set on a woven grey mat watchmen of the hollow (+ earwig and mite!) scurry, under rustled moist leaves frogs leap at trickle creek shutter bugs mount on gryphons lair still water ripples in the shaded pool folding fingers on corner bridge foragers cut the high shelf silver fish come to life whiskey jack sings on indian green elijah and xavier pause... at a long days end
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Apr 28, 2017
Apr 28, 2017 at 9:39 AM UTC
the lost mahout
I am a thousand head-collisions of two tractor trailers and you are the EMTs’ who come and save the motorists I put in peril. I am that one-too-many shot of ***** that causes someone to crawl to the bathroom on hands and knees and you are the friend who holds their hair back while they dispose of what made them sick; me. I am the cancer invading a loved one’s bones and you are the chemotherapy that brings them to a full recovery. You are the beautiful arrangement of rays that the sun glimmers down on peoples' faces during the summer time, I am the numbing frostbite from the coldest and loneliest night of winter. You're all of the good qualities made up in a person, and I am all of the flaws.
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 11:22 AM UTC
poison
11.45pm hi, guess what i'm listening to country music right now and i cant text you because my parents took my phone and laptop:( so ill just write this and you can read it later i love you 11.50pm i just ran dowstairs amd almost tripped and died but its like all good i had to get my chocolate milk imma watch cat videos until im tired 12.00am okay well i lied i started watching horror movie trailers and now im scared im still listening to country im soo bored 12.20am jeez my parents just came home because they forgot their keys for something and somehow noticed i was up and gave me sleeping pills so i kinda wanna die but its all good i just listened to the song H.O.L.Y and now 16 is playing not a bad song 12.25am i was thinking about how you always say opposites attract and like thats not wrong because we're really different people but like i was thinking about it and i think i kinda get it now we're opposite, or at least we were before we started dating but we kinda tried to like the stuff the other person likes like i wouldve never started listening to country if it wasnt for you and you probably wouldnt have tried listening to the music i like and you probably wouldnt have tried to write poetry so like i think thats why people say opposites attract, because we show eachother new stuuf and like idk 12.32am well i just remembered i have a health test tomorrow so i should probably study but i cant do that tomorrow in the morning or later ughhhh im still not tired oh guess what? i love you soooooooo much and youre amazing and great and one of my favourite people 1.00am okay well the pills are really kicking in now so goodnight i love you
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Dec 4, 2018
Dec 4, 2018 at 11:47 PM UTC
a spam because i couldnt text you
11.45pm hi, guess what i'm listening to country music right now and i cant text you because my parents took my phone and laptop:( so ill just write this and you can read it later i love you 11.50pm i just ran dowstairs amd almost tripped and died but its like all good i had to get my chocolate milk imma watch cat videos until im tired 12.00am okay well i lied i started watching horror movie trailers and now im scared im still listening to country im soo bored 12.20am jeez my parents just came home because they forgot their keys for something and somehow noticed i was up and gave me sleeping pills so i kinda wanna die but its all good i just listened to the song H.O.L.Y and now 16 is playing not a bad song 12.25am i was thinking about how you always say opposites attract and like thats not wrong because we're really different people but like i was thinking about it and i think i kinda get it now we're opposite, or at least we were before we started dating but we kinda tried to like the stuff the other person likes like i wouldve never started listening to country if it wasnt for you and you probably wouldnt have tried listening to the music i like and you probably wouldnt have tried to write poetry so like i think thats why people say opposites attract, because we show eachother new stuuf and like idk 12.32am well i just remembered i have a health test tomorrow so i should probably study but i cant do that tomorrow in the morning or later ughhhh im still not tired oh guess what? i love you soooooooo much and youre amazing and great and one of my favourite people 1.00am okay well the pills are really kicking in now so goodnight i love you
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I attend the funeral of hope, weekly Watch the birth of despair daily I think God has gone deaf, atleast to my cries People look at possessions as success They aren't They're stones tied to souls making sure we all drown with the Jones' we all so long to keep up with Oh yes, those Jones' are falling to the Depths of "stuff" far faster than we Smiths Good Lord All day, Everyday, I see and hear the "upper class" whine About the stupidest things Its appocalypse if the Jones' buy a BMW while the neighbor only owns a Cadilac Utter DEATH I see these things and hear these silly conversations daily "Oh did you see how fat Pam's *** looked in that Vera dress at yesterday's luncheon?" "Yes! All that money spent on lypo! Haha!" Disgusting **** like sulfuric acid poured into my ears And the road on the way to this Country Club and Gated Community called Deerfield Is lined with falling down trailers and houses without glass in the Windows Clothes hung on ancient strings because the wearers can't afford a dryer Or the electicity to run one Children filthy and barefoot playing with hand-me-down toys in hay field yards Still cleaner and more pure than the Filthy Rich
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Apr 15, 2017
Apr 15, 2017 at 11:49 PM UTC
Hand-Me-Down Toys and The Filthy Rich