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"trajectories" poems
And I will make sure that if anything were to happen, It would do little to affect you. It's not everyday You find a goose that lays eggs With speckled jewels and golden flakes The world is full of incongruity And there's no doubt about the certainty That something bad may happen, And we don't want that, do we? So listen carefully. The world is a giant carboniferous spicule Hanging in a nest of hydroxic gas and particulae Spinning within the gaps of a blackened dome Of limitless space and out of control There is no telling what way it will go There is no prediction that has fortold Any number of moments in this tumbling slumber Between the darkest hell and the further horizon I so deftly advise you with all certification To please place your bets and fly by echolocation Your eyes will mislead, your ears will displease And there is no way we can refund divine warranties This machinery has a half life of quarks And energies that vibrate into other orbits Trajectories Retaining the spin and informative piece Of that golden goose let loose amongst the canopy Of dark, off into neverland, straight on Till new morning, Beyond the stars So please good sir don't migrate away from me I have so much to give and such pain I have seen Those that fatten their goose with **** till it quacks, Those ravenous souls who ate their gift for a snack, And when life finally cuts them down to their last, They will howl and yowl and pray that goose back. This is a game, Have a good little laugh Don't waste your time or your money On a daffy Aflack Policy that keeps you policed to the earth, No way to fly, Stuck in the dirt. That is no way to live in the dream, That is no way to let death trickle in So please, pretty please, make sure you have coverages And a couple extra dollars in the pocket of those jeans Wander freely, you great big atomic bomb, you. Do catastrophic damages and I'll pay your dues. Ride the road coast to coast, Fly a bird 'round the world, Take a truck till you're home, Find a love you can trust. Find a place where your egg And your legs seek nowhere else Lay down those roots, It's Eden or bust.
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Jul 18, 2018
Jul 18, 2018 at 1:03 PM UTC
I will insure your golden goose for $100k/$300k respectively
And I will make sure that if anything were to happen, It would do little to affect you. It's not everyday You find a goose that lays eggs With speckled jewels and golden flakes The world is full of incongruity And there's no doubt about the certainty That something bad may happen, And we don't want that, do we? So listen carefully. The world is a giant carboniferous spicule Hanging in a nest of hydroxic gas and particulae Spinning within the gaps of a blackened dome Of limitless space and out of control There is no telling what way it will go There is no prediction that has fortold Any number of moments in this tumbling slumber Between the darkest hell and the further horizon I so deftly advise you with all certification To please place your bets and fly by echolocation Your eyes will mislead, your ears will displease And there is no way we can refund divine warranties This machinery has a half life of quarks And energies that vibrate into other orbits Trajectories Retaining the spin and informative piece Of that golden goose let loose amongst the canopy Of dark, off into neverland, straight on Till new morning, Beyond the stars So please good sir don't migrate away from me I have so much to give and such pain I have seen Those that fatten their goose with **** till it quacks, Those ravenous souls who ate their gift for a snack, And when life finally cuts them down to their last, They will howl and yowl and pray that goose back. This is a game, Have a good little laugh Don't waste your time or your money On a daffy Aflack Policy that keeps you policed to the earth, No way to fly, Stuck in the dirt. That is no way to live in the dream, That is no way to let death trickle in So please, pretty please, make sure you have coverages And a couple extra dollars in the pocket of those jeans Wander freely, you great big atomic bomb, you. Do catastrophic damages and I'll pay your dues. Ride the road coast to coast, Fly a bird 'round the world, Take a truck till you're home, Find a love you can trust. Find a place where your egg And your legs seek nowhere else Lay down those roots, It's Eden or bust.
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Life is full of mischief and artful trickery The way through never made easy for the foolhardy Misleading gestures only employed to solely distract Left up to you to decipher and hopefully extract Experiences teach much, had you only been accepting and learning That a dove could be made to appear; out of thin air, out of nothing When the road ahead offers no more than mere misdirections Altered trajectories stemming from convenient misinterpretations Your cards may have been dealt revealing astonishing outcomes "Not the hand you get but the game you play," said some Depending on deft wrists and a flick of the wand Overnight you'll wake to find that a new day had dawned Only would happen if into the wind you hadn't spat Hope would emerge like a hare out of a top hat The play on light and shadow, nothing short of dramatic You volunteer onstage, accompanied by apprehension and suspenseful music Faced with an eager audience; you realise that alone you stand Be not surprised to learn that love is life's sleight of hand...
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Sep 4, 2014
Sep 4, 2014 at 8:22 AM UTC
Sleight of Hand
All sorrow is perpendicular occurring at right angles of tragedy encircling the grief-stricken with straight edges only once intersecting across infinite planes— Don't dare draw the lines between points or shade the region with limits or curves because the trajectories of bullets are plotted on branes intolerant of slightest triangulation Woe unto the seekers of sine waves sobbing thinking of filling every trough believing surely by now we've offered enough to sate these bloodthirsty Euclidean demons Cresting won't ever arrive in this course filled to the brim with asymptotes, cold corollaries but never spilling over under our sacred pledge of allegiance to the 2nd Parallel Postulate No intersections can be admitted with thoughts & prayers extending outward barely co-planar serious public policy proposals axiomatic insistence on the Nirvana Theorem or nothing A set of all points remains, mutually exclusive motionless and always incongruent clueless about their own particular geometries awaiting radical Pythagorean salvation Some paradigm we’ve built here though! Two hundred years of living polygonal hand to elliptical mouth without tangential reflection on the unproven flatness of humanspace.
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Aug 4, 2016
Aug 4, 2016 at 4:41 AM UTC
2 Geometric
Dragged out screaming, senseless from the hallows of martyrdom My father's mother's wayward brother Baptized in propaganda and searing lead Kamikaze death machine to paranoia fever dream A noble experiment in utter catastrophe Half measure, interstellar tourniquet Stem the free flow of blood like inconvenient statistical evidence Dripping down born-again ****** America's chin Vector-like, everything explodes outwards And on trajectories like these only friction is holy Murphy's law in ecstatic altercation A furious life lived under an anachronistic magnifying glass Truly the only thing worth decaying for
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Dec 23, 2014
Dec 23, 2014 at 3:38 PM UTC
Friction
Seldom doth man stop and stare At the caste iron manhole cover there, Seldom doth he analyze The majesty, which beneath it lies. The pipe work systems vast and long Dark catacombs so precise and strong, Buried deep beneath our feet Extending forth from street to street, Out across the breadth of town Those secret fluids trickle down. Laser levels carve the pathway Through the walls of solid stone, Shovels scrape and dig with effort Forging hard trajectories home. Digging, digging metal mountains Sweat cascades upon the brow, We lay the pipes in straight formation Precision's satisfaction now. An Artisan's great work is hidden Lost beneath the earth's grey stone, Appreciation camouflaged in that, The cast iron manhole stands alone. Magnificence unrealized For deep beneath your feet, A subterranean Michelangelo's Sisteen Chapel, lays discreet. Unsuspected rivers Flowing darkly to the sea In caverns of unwanted waste Quite unbeknown to thee. Vaulting brickwork chambers Which are ancient works of art, Carry oceans of excretement Far from where their journey's start. With thunder's crash and lightning flash And torrents of cold rain, The road's awash and gutters flow Through roadside grates to drain. Gushing torrents cascade down In waves of flowing might To the storm water system Which promptly swallows it from sight. Magic, you say ? Nay, nay I say unto you That the drain layers artistry Is unappreciated, that's true ! That the Herculean effort wrought In winning his great fights Is largely lost to all and sundry Who avoid construction sites. They miss the planning and the layout And meticulousness too And the rubber seals which stop the leaks Which really bother you. The massive holes and danger Of being buried in collapse And the wondrous satisfaction Of achieving downhill flows... Perhaps! Marshalg Apprentice drain layer MHX Beachcroft site and Eastport 19 September 2009
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Jan 22, 2010
Jan 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM UTC
The Caste Iron Manhole Cover
Seldom doth man stop and stare At the caste iron manhole cover there, Seldom doth he analyze The majesty, which beneath it lies. The pipe work systems vast and long Dark catacombs so precise and strong, Buried deep beneath our feet Extending forth from street to street, Out across the breadth of town Those secret fluids trickle down. Laser levels carve the pathway Through the walls of solid stone, Shovels scrape and dig with effort Forging hard trajectories home. Digging, digging metal mountains Sweat cascades upon the brow, We lay the pipes in straight formation Precision's satisfaction now. An Artisan's great work is hidden Lost beneath the earth's grey stone, Appreciation camouflaged in that, The cast iron manhole stands alone. Magnificence unrealized For deep beneath your feet, A subterranean Michelangelo's Sisteen Chapel, lays discreet. Unsuspected rivers Flowing darkly to the sea In caverns of unwanted waste Quite unbeknown to thee. Vaulting brickwork chambers Which are ancient works of art, Carry oceans of excretement Far from where their journey's start. With thunder's crash and lightning flash And torrents of cold rain, The road's awash and gutters flow Through roadside grates to drain. Gushing torrents cascade down In waves of flowing might To the storm water system Which promptly swallows it from sight. Magic, you say ? Nay, nay I say unto you That the drain layers artistry Is unappreciated, that's true ! That the Herculean effort wrought In winning his great fights Is largely lost to all and sundry Who avoid construction sites. They miss the planning and the layout And meticulousness too And the rubber seals which stop the leaks Which really bother you. The massive holes and danger Of being buried in collapse And the wondrous satisfaction Of achieving downhill flows... Perhaps! Marshalg Apprentice drain layer MHX Beachcroft site and Eastport 19 September 2009
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never knew it, never was I self-percepted, that anything exceptional, lay within, neither obvious or dormant, was just an ordinary if not, extra-ordinary pained child by peers and my surrounders and my own words yet today, do not confer any distinction when yours irradiate me into a stunned and silenced reverie, a reminder, a minder, that talent recognizes no laws of equilibrium, equality, and certainty not, equity so I read with shocked, shocked, I tell you, bemusement but comprehensive perception when the young and extra~special confide, their own misperceptions, overwhelmed by the anxiety of the billions of sky stars, and letters in their twinkling orbs when forming identifiable comets with tagalong dust trails^ of the debris of words that are formed by their travels and travails on orbits not necessarily predetermined by gravitational adult pulleys, a gravity upon their projected, sometimes directed, sometimes not, trajectory *"and yet, though an orbit is a type of trajectory, not all trajectories are orbits"* nor are *"some comets, particularly those from outside our solar system, that move so fast that the Sun's gravity is not strong enough to capture them into a closed orbit* *These comets follow an open, curved path through the solar system and then continue on into interstellar space, never to be seen again*" so be advised, as you reassemble the debris from the multi~universe, when assembling your owned, unique~verse, create your tail and trail, the futurity of you is to be both silent and loud, absorbing and disgorging, to awed and to be humbled, by all that and those who went before, all once younger and talented, and knew this self-same anxiety, but never let the fearing of their the mystery of plotting of their path deter them from exploring the skies and deep mines of the sea trenches where undiscovered mysteries abide <nml> 4:59am in the city where one can never see the light of the stars, particularly by their owners
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Oct 1, 2025
Oct 1, 2025 at 7:25 AM UTC
The Anxiety of the Young and Talented Comets
never knew it, never was I self-percepted, that anything exceptional, lay within, neither obvious or dormant, was just an ordinary if not, extra-ordinary pained child by peers and my surrounders and my own words yet today, do not confer any distinction when yours irradiate me into a stunned and silenced reverie, a reminder, a minder, that talent recognizes no laws of equilibrium, equality, and certainty not, equity so I read with shocked, shocked, I tell you, bemusement but comprehensive perception when the young and extra~special confide, their own misperceptions, overwhelmed by the anxiety of the billions of sky stars, and letters in their twinkling orbs when forming identifiable comets with tagalong dust trails^ of the debris of words that are formed by their travels and travails on orbits not necessarily predetermined by gravitational adult pulleys, a gravity upon their projected, sometimes directed, sometimes not, trajectory *"and yet, though an orbit is a type of trajectory, not all trajectories are orbits"* nor are *"some comets, particularly those from outside our solar system, that move so fast that the Sun's gravity is not strong enough to capture them into a closed orbit* *These comets follow an open, curved path through the solar system and then continue on into interstellar space, never to be seen again*" so be advised, as you reassemble the debris from the multi~universe, when assembling your owned, unique~verse, create your tail and trail, the futurity of you is to be both silent and loud, absorbing and disgorging, to awed and to be humbled, by all that and those who went before, all once younger and talented, and knew this self-same anxiety, but never let the fearing of their the mystery of plotting of their path deter them from exploring the skies and deep mines of the sea trenches where undiscovered mysteries abide <nml> 4:59am in the city where one can never see the light of the stars, particularly by their owners
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Memories: the back and forth trajectories the internal out-of-sync in-sync directories of treasured moments, of pleasantries and the reviled relived accessories of treachery. My memory is pitted with chasms like Swiss Cheese the phantom dreams of being hit by a car in a winters bite the realities of unconsciousness and brain spasms the fathoms baffles in batches and waves of breaches disfigured features like a frosted window caked in creatures burrowed and riddled like a parasite in the spite of night. By the time id got to hospital id forgotten my own name fortunately I had a gas bill in my pocket which hadn't freed itself while being violently hurled over the red car bonnet and it became the one and only evidence that I even existed even though the A & E nurse insisted and persisted on asking questions: my address, date of birth, blood type, emergency contact - like Id have it tattooed on my body like a scene from Memento amid the voices in crescendo and brain-damage thumping techno. That was a few years ago, or was it, I couldn't be sure now but some days I forget what I did in the morning so I just have to live for the moment somehow the memories like Swiss Cheese constantly morphing to the piped tune of the cerebral banshee buzzing in my left ear like a perpetual honey bee makes me wonder though; I am lactose and diary free - the dominant dietary preponderant some modernistic conglomerate causing ultimate lethargy. Does this mean if recollections are like Swiss Cheese I am intolerant to memories?
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Sep 9, 2014
Sep 9, 2014 at 12:31 PM UTC
Swiss Cheese
Memories: the back and forth trajectories the internal out-of-sync in-sync directories of treasured moments, of pleasantries and the reviled relived accessories of treachery. My memory is pitted with chasms like Swiss Cheese the phantom dreams of being hit by a car in a winters bite the realities of unconsciousness and brain spasms the fathoms baffles in batches and waves of breaches disfigured features like a frosted window caked in creatures burrowed and riddled like a parasite in the spite of night. By the time id got to hospital id forgotten my own name fortunately I had a gas bill in my pocket which hadn't freed itself while being violently hurled over the red car bonnet and it became the one and only evidence that I even existed even though the A & E nurse insisted and persisted on asking questions: my address, date of birth, blood type, emergency contact - like Id have it tattooed on my body like a scene from Memento amid the voices in crescendo and brain-damage thumping techno. That was a few years ago, or was it, I couldn't be sure now but some days I forget what I did in the morning so I just have to live for the moment somehow the memories like Swiss Cheese constantly morphing to the piped tune of the cerebral banshee buzzing in my left ear like a perpetual honey bee makes me wonder though; I am lactose and diary free - the dominant dietary preponderant some modernistic conglomerate causing ultimate lethargy. Does this mean if recollections are like Swiss Cheese I am intolerant to memories?
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I   Fold upon fold your origami letters map  thoughts, images and moments of three days, two nights.   Now to unfold the creased trajectories, intersecting space, following time: bird-like flightpaths on the radar screen.   Each coloured sheet, placed on this desk, becomes a tessellated diary, and grows beneath the hand. So generous a gift. So readily received. II   Ah, that's your secret: the power of the list;  this, then this,  then freedom follows,  knowing the necessaries  dusted and done.   Peaceful now,   and watching the clouds   cross the skylight,   Bach decorates your soul   with his meditations   on the possibility of everything.   How did you guess   I love the detail of life-   lived, up to the hilt:   the embellishment of dreams   pulled from the ether,   sound and sense in tow.   III   I travelled North in the seat opposite. You didn’t notice me as you gazed through your reflection, sighting the past. When you look at me you rarely blink or glance away (as people do). Poor nature, She hasn’t a chance, has she? Never a mote missed. As my passenger I shall care for your silence; to let you loose on unbidden thoughts as they rise above the scrolling hills.
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Oct 27, 2012
Oct 27, 2012 at 3:48 AM UTC
The Origami Letters (part I)
He had been living in a trance of indecision. All his adult life he had sought to be inventive, to imagine something made that could be sounded out, something that could be seen and touched as a score, heard and played as music. Composing was like map-making. It had boundaries. It was contained, always contained:  in the bar, in the bars on a stave, in the staves on a page. It was always a joy to see the page covered. More black than white, although the white space was important, and he realised was becoming more and more necessary as he grew older and more sensitive to music’s often relentless clutter and noise. He wanted to observe the space and spaces between notes, phrases, between trajectories of musical action. That was a good and right term. Musical action: symbols and words that ignited the fire of a musician’s movement, gesture sounded out. He could do that. His scores were full of distinct musical actions, gestures, imagined or observed physical movement: a child’s smile, her graceful movement across a room, an inclination of a head, a gentle stroke of the hand on the arm. That’s how a score often seemed to him: a map of actions. Do this and this follows. Do this and at the same time do this, and when this finishes, pause, then do this again only in a different way, with a softer touch, a gentler mind, a fresh spirit, a brighter smile. You could build a piece of music on such descriptions – of actions. Such a piece made of musical actions could carry within it a rich poetry. Do this as you view the yellow vase on the window sill flickering with late afternoon shadows and when the distant laughter of children disturbs this scene this follows, whilst a door closes and a woman’s footsteps disappear slowly down a flight of stairs. Do this, as though remembering the reflections in the still water of a lake in early morning, and do this intermittently but simultaneously and with longing for a past memory, and when there is a right moment heralded by the sound of a single bird, pause. Recall your very last action before the bird heralded your pause and let it be repeated in a different way, a way which suggests, almost, indifference, something cast adrift from the flow of thought: to lighten, to unthicken, to reveal the hidden, open the closed, unmuted, towards a radiance.
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Oct 12, 2012
Oct 12, 2012 at 12:43 AM UTC
Daily Paragraph #103
He had been living in a trance of indecision. All his adult life he had sought to be inventive, to imagine something made that could be sounded out, something that could be seen and touched as a score, heard and played as music. Composing was like map-making. It had boundaries. It was contained, always contained:  in the bar, in the bars on a stave, in the staves on a page. It was always a joy to see the page covered. More black than white, although the white space was important, and he realised was becoming more and more necessary as he grew older and more sensitive to music’s often relentless clutter and noise. He wanted to observe the space and spaces between notes, phrases, between trajectories of musical action. That was a good and right term. Musical action: symbols and words that ignited the fire of a musician’s movement, gesture sounded out. He could do that. His scores were full of distinct musical actions, gestures, imagined or observed physical movement: a child’s smile, her graceful movement across a room, an inclination of a head, a gentle stroke of the hand on the arm. That’s how a score often seemed to him: a map of actions. Do this and this follows. Do this and at the same time do this, and when this finishes, pause, then do this again only in a different way, with a softer touch, a gentler mind, a fresh spirit, a brighter smile. You could build a piece of music on such descriptions – of actions. Such a piece made of musical actions could carry within it a rich poetry. Do this as you view the yellow vase on the window sill flickering with late afternoon shadows and when the distant laughter of children disturbs this scene this follows, whilst a door closes and a woman’s footsteps disappear slowly down a flight of stairs. Do this, as though remembering the reflections in the still water of a lake in early morning, and do this intermittently but simultaneously and with longing for a past memory, and when there is a right moment heralded by the sound of a single bird, pause. Recall your very last action before the bird heralded your pause and let it be repeated in a different way, a way which suggests, almost, indifference, something cast adrift from the flow of thought: to lighten, to unthicken, to reveal the hidden, open the closed, unmuted, towards a radiance.
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Like old mean beetles, like old men in battle, like egos: solid anvils, like families: lethal weapons, like these: them, begotten sons who begat daughters of a land, of a bordered plot on the globe, the dirt, the house, the property which begot them both, these two bitter enemies from two separate places, furiously blaze, as the time for darkness, is far from arrived. And the sun quakes, in its heat rippling sights and knocking particles, which deter the next knocked, and which enforce the continued sensation of warmth continued, of aversion continued, rising, screened, for its impeccable quality, against nobody in general or specific to announce, or to gain against consequences, which are soothsaid in time, nullified. Partners afflicted will be less opportunistic and more egalitarian, but are sworn, like the sun, against the monotony, of repetition, of indistinct days; like these: them, the enemies, they are engaged, aged, unteachable and spoiled. They are always immersed in vexed states, always in competition. Hope is the souls united never again as much as the static, single dimension, alone, impeccable, impossible, for its possibility is drawn by He who spews forth lumens next to card sharks and Amazons, knowing these will have to suffice, having no escape from the projected source of energy. The metal heads of garden rakes, weapons thrown at devils in the sweltering heat of hell, the Inferno that holds a first-person point of view, a dream, alongside superheroes, allied, but who are, nevertheless, without their unique and exceptional powers, pros and willing deviants from the celibacy, the weight, the unoriginal paint that collides in each stroke, making what appears null, and the array but one, and supposed, so that then are the weary and soulful mergers which corrupt and meander throughout, polluting, as it were, the tranquility, the wrenched service, of the destined machine, of a million trajectories, homespun threads, woven into a million miserable microfibers, unanswered queries that were held back in fear, and were never asked, and remain even now sorry.
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Jan 17, 2010
Jan 17, 2010 at 7:49 AM UTC
V.A.
Like old mean beetles, like old men in battle, like egos: solid anvils, like families: lethal weapons, like these: them, begotten sons who begat daughters of a land, of a bordered plot on the globe, the dirt, the house, the property which begot them both, these two bitter enemies from two separate places, furiously blaze, as the time for darkness, is far from arrived. And the sun quakes, in its heat rippling sights and knocking particles, which deter the next knocked, and which enforce the continued sensation of warmth continued, of aversion continued, rising, screened, for its impeccable quality, against nobody in general or specific to announce, or to gain against consequences, which are soothsaid in time, nullified. Partners afflicted will be less opportunistic and more egalitarian, but are sworn, like the sun, against the monotony, of repetition, of indistinct days; like these: them, the enemies, they are engaged, aged, unteachable and spoiled. They are always immersed in vexed states, always in competition. Hope is the souls united never again as much as the static, single dimension, alone, impeccable, impossible, for its possibility is drawn by He who spews forth lumens next to card sharks and Amazons, knowing these will have to suffice, having no escape from the projected source of energy. The metal heads of garden rakes, weapons thrown at devils in the sweltering heat of hell, the Inferno that holds a first-person point of view, a dream, alongside superheroes, allied, but who are, nevertheless, without their unique and exceptional powers, pros and willing deviants from the celibacy, the weight, the unoriginal paint that collides in each stroke, making what appears null, and the array but one, and supposed, so that then are the weary and soulful mergers which corrupt and meander throughout, polluting, as it were, the tranquility, the wrenched service, of the destined machine, of a million trajectories, homespun threads, woven into a million miserable microfibers, unanswered queries that were held back in fear, and were never asked, and remain even now sorry.
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angel's can shout through demons if they have to here in the valley of time slips and air borne rock land of meteor splash and ufos sprit friends a fantasy gift you give yourself but if you see some of them its the worst day of your life those streaking trajectories as straight as a pencil path sending a migration of aliens weird ovoid's with ****** binocular vision like Helix pomatia ****** crawlers while eight legged locomoting moss piglets that look like a thousand blinking one eyed gob worms hurtle in decent perhaps landing in the Yucatan barbarian headed asteroids, critter ridden mixed of spirits and denizens of deep space from the parametric edges of Bals   glittering kingdom shoot suns down from the sky far flinging those crater bashed demons into predatory gardens elixir's of war and death wave screaming reveries through red cities of nightingale floors nautilus agents plummet into brawling plots of ash shattering a million spines of **** ***** monsters in a bulls eye break neck rodeo
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Jun 15, 2019
Jun 15, 2019 at 6:00 PM UTC
The Hotel Panspermia
A weather rocket vrooms through air over the darkened balcony noiselessly, only the light speaks to us of her urgency, it resonates with her and me. Her full lips,seal mine stops me from speaking voicing ****** nonsense. Mute witness now am I, prompted to scale the peak, she wishes, to take me. I only can sigh to relay her moans to register erupting pleasure mounting to reach a brimming ecstasy. A group of fruit bats, (among them one, I imagine,myself) dramatically fly  scattering to all eight directions. A pale moon , eagerly study their diverse trajectories, as if she wishes the company of any one, that would darken her door way though  by accident.
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Mar 26, 2015
Mar 26, 2015 at 9:11 PM UTC
Night life
Could it have happened any differently? Perhaps. But which fork in the road was it? Where does the path start to unravel? A change in the way things are Would have changed everything else as well. For all the mistakes bemoaned, lessons Learned – unless vanity stands in the way – Or the same error repeated With different actors playing the same role – Hero and villain alike. And the split between people of insignificance and The people that matter – faces splashed on Tabloids and magazine covers – The invisible reduced to mere shadows Floating on the fringes of light. Shadows have a way of defining the light. People have a way of shaping our lives, Setting in motion our trajectories, The way banks and boulders guide water in a river – The wind, a fallen tree. No absence made a hole in the day of someone Who was never there. What’s out of our control – people, Sequences of events. What’s inevitable – How we choose to react.
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Oct 17, 2016
Oct 17, 2016 at 7:08 PM UTC
The Way Things Are
i'm an astronaut, aimlessly floating through space, afraid to grasp at floating objects, moving swiftly 'round me, pointless calculations of velocity and direction, consume my decisions until it's all out of reach. though i'm pulled towards these stars, they're much too dangerous to touch, the reactions, the heat, i know not to get pulled in, but meteor, you shine, with an effervescent glow, smooth rounded corners, i edge slowly towards you, butterfly stroking through zero gravity, it's not long until you fill the gaze through this helmet, but proximity somehow changes this drive, i justify waiting by forcing imperfections, shrugging off the journey before it even happens, after all probability states that this mission will likely end incomplete, trajectories in sync are a rarity at best, perfect arcs can quickly differ soon after their peaks. this vacuous environment clouds better judgment, fleeting moments of comfort are like recycled air, bland maintenance of life, the taste of postage stamps. let's not forget the reason, why we now float aimless, years of training for a mission, that fell apart when truly tested.
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Jun 15, 2011
Jun 15, 2011 at 12:12 AM UTC
shoot for the moon
Referees mismanage oversight incorrect calls lower credibility faith in justice dissolves into the ice agency is taken into padded hands vigilantes slash and spear. Hip check leads to cross check leads to fist check malignant hostility boils over leather armor is removed interphalangeal joints meet mandible type O negative paints a jersey haymakers take bizarre trajectories to avoid helmets and visors the face is homebase to ingrain pain. Violence subverts gamesmanship players must be taken off ice to be put on ice otherwise brawls become overabundant and destroy the integrity of the sport yet each transfer of agony is euphorically satisfying —considering the context— so fist fairs continue for the foreseeable future we organize an impenetrable perimeter once we've acclimated to penalty kills.
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Jan 11, 2021
Jan 11, 2021 at 4:01 PM UTC
Hockey Fights
the wayward bat of slumber no longer makes trajectories of the room dog on leash used to it running shoes walking stick first water tank pigeon flap water tank squirrel squeak overflowing school girls at the gate, call out their friend's name a scattered, shrill chorus fallen hair comma over tattered road
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Nov 2, 2016
Nov 2, 2016 at 7:40 AM UTC
colony dawn
I want to be a crab cake because I like tall buildings perpendicular to highways, penthouse balconies thirty meter diving platforms. whenever in San Fran, i pancake my hands together so i don't do impromptu Physics eyeballing skyscrapers. I want to be a crab cake because I like tornado sirens at two in the morning, someone fetal position mouthwash drunk in the bed next to me. whenever in Birmingham, i listen to my headphones; tinnitus a siren wail long after the flight home. I want to be a crab cake because I like bridge collapses; infrastructure devastation west of Florida, killing all granola exports. whenever in Portland, i waitlist college signs and estimate the weight limit of a commuter bridge. I want to be a crab cake because the sunsets here give me panic attacks. it used to not, but enough honey has built up so bees swarm the bonnet whenever there's a blood orange tint. I want to be a crab cake because I don't like the seafood here or Sushi Pier discussions of future trajectories while rain pours on our trout marinated in Tahoe Tessie **** water. I want to be a crab cake because the mountains bug me out. i want flat land where there are blood prints on highways, broken families in Tornado Valley, and remains of promising bridges. i want to be a crab cake because i want the world to eat me up.
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May 30, 2018
May 30, 2018 at 10:06 PM UTC
Crab Cakes
She was a spectacular tree. People called her the flame of the forest, for she was obviously striking, vivid and classy. I need not narrate the superlative majesty of the flame – tree, for one time or the other we have all been breath-taken by her peerless glamor. What matchless artistry! I am here to quickly share my ruminative gloom for that lovely assembly of flower, leaf and wood, which grandly stood in a grove of possibilities, and possibilities can be such a torment, such a calamity. ❋ For years galore, caterpillars of choices had been steadily eating away at her core. They came from different directions, at different trajectories, with varied objectives and fluctuating proclivities. Sometimes, they came rushing in as family, and sometimes they came slowly, a little formally, a bit watchfully, somewhat officially. At times they came in fiery fascination and yet, ever so often, they were charged with marauding indignation. Many times they arrived as blazing ambition, but more often than not, combusted the flamboyance leaving behind an ashen illusion. Oh.....those craving larvae of oblique, wily opportunities. ❋ The foliage was feverishly guzzled till photosynthesis was no more possible. From my distant window from where I had once watched her variegated flair, I felt the Poinciana moan in simmering despair. ❋ With biting sensitivity, I still look on, a tad tearfully, as she continues to tumble into conscious torpidity. My words may slip and sway, as with each wilting leaf after each withering floret, she progresses towards an abject decay; imploding methodically, and transposing gradually from being the flame of the forest to being a sprouting forest of flames.
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Jan 22, 2020
Jan 22, 2020 at 9:11 AM UTC
The Moribund Poinciana
She was a spectacular tree. People called her the flame of the forest, for she was obviously striking, vivid and classy. I need not narrate the superlative majesty of the flame – tree, for one time or the other we have all been breath-taken by her peerless glamor. What matchless artistry! I am here to quickly share my ruminative gloom for that lovely assembly of flower, leaf and wood, which grandly stood in a grove of possibilities, and possibilities can be such a torment, such a calamity. ❋ For years galore, caterpillars of choices had been steadily eating away at her core. They came from different directions, at different trajectories, with varied objectives and fluctuating proclivities. Sometimes, they came rushing in as family, and sometimes they came slowly, a little formally, a bit watchfully, somewhat officially. At times they came in fiery fascination and yet, ever so often, they were charged with marauding indignation. Many times they arrived as blazing ambition, but more often than not, combusted the flamboyance leaving behind an ashen illusion. Oh.....those craving larvae of oblique, wily opportunities. ❋ The foliage was feverishly guzzled till photosynthesis was no more possible. From my distant window from where I had once watched her variegated flair, I felt the Poinciana moan in simmering despair. ❋ With biting sensitivity, I still look on, a tad tearfully, as she continues to tumble into conscious torpidity. My words may slip and sway, as with each wilting leaf after each withering floret, she progresses towards an abject decay; imploding methodically, and transposing gradually from being the flame of the forest to being a sprouting forest of flames.
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The wind is as idle as I am today It groans in halfhearted exasperation, recalculating avian trajectories at 15 miles an hour The trees are shaken up “Give me all your leaves!” They comply with as much dignity as nature brings Crumpled sighs as they acquiesce and deliver The same bounty demanded every winter
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 8:45 AM UTC
Wendy
A Secret I’m gonna say something to you that’s gonna sound crazy-- and you’re gonna want to walk away. and you’re not gonna want to see me ever again. But I have to tell you this, because, in the past-- I let people walk away from me before I said this; and I can’t let that happen with you. I want to kiss you I want to kiss you so bad, and I don’t even care if you want to be kissed. I wanna hold you right here and rest my head on your shoulder-- ‘cause in the same way that I’m holding you you hold me, and it completes a cycle of mutual affection that will eventually grow into something bigger. Something that I’ve always felt for you, but you may not feel for me and that may sound strange, ‘cause I’ve just met you but I feel this way for everyone that’s open to the world that’s open to the possibility that someone out there may love them more than they love that person. You need to know that I love you, and that will never change. If you want to ask me how I feel about you, I will always tell you the same thing, in more or less words, by repeating that I love you. I love you-- and I love your body. I love the heart that beats in your chest, and the feet that carry you through the world. I love the hips that sway when you dance and I love the eyes that make contact with strangers causing their hearts to expand and contract rapidly-- I think you’re a wonderful person. There’s nothing you have to do to prove that this is the truth to me because I know that what I think impacts the way I see the world and if you weren’t-- everything I made you out to be in my mind, then there’s no way you could change my ideas about it *anyway or regardless*. I will always love you, and I will always be in this moment with you with part of my existence-- at this time, from now on. And into the past, I will have always been aiming at this moment-- to when I told you how I feel about you. -- So we have here, the culmination of two minds; two trajectories through the universe crossing at this point, and place, in space and time. -- They don’t cross forever. But, as far as I’m concerned, the duration of their intersection is yet to be determined-- And that is where we find Freedom is in how long we choose to spend with people that are important to us. And I’m telling you you’re important to me, and I don’t even know you. So : : : KISS ME
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Sep 8, 2011
Sep 8, 2011 at 6:07 PM UTC
A Secret
A Secret I’m gonna say something to you that’s gonna sound crazy-- and you’re gonna want to walk away. and you’re not gonna want to see me ever again. But I have to tell you this, because, in the past-- I let people walk away from me before I said this; and I can’t let that happen with you. I want to kiss you I want to kiss you so bad, and I don’t even care if you want to be kissed. I wanna hold you right here and rest my head on your shoulder-- ‘cause in the same way that I’m holding you you hold me, and it completes a cycle of mutual affection that will eventually grow into something bigger. Something that I’ve always felt for you, but you may not feel for me and that may sound strange, ‘cause I’ve just met you but I feel this way for everyone that’s open to the world that’s open to the possibility that someone out there may love them more than they love that person. You need to know that I love you, and that will never change. If you want to ask me how I feel about you, I will always tell you the same thing, in more or less words, by repeating that I love you. I love you-- and I love your body. I love the heart that beats in your chest, and the feet that carry you through the world. I love the hips that sway when you dance and I love the eyes that make contact with strangers causing their hearts to expand and contract rapidly-- I think you’re a wonderful person. There’s nothing you have to do to prove that this is the truth to me because I know that what I think impacts the way I see the world and if you weren’t-- everything I made you out to be in my mind, then there’s no way you could change my ideas about it *anyway or regardless*. I will always love you, and I will always be in this moment with you with part of my existence-- at this time, from now on. And into the past, I will have always been aiming at this moment-- to when I told you how I feel about you. -- So we have here, the culmination of two minds; two trajectories through the universe crossing at this point, and place, in space and time. -- They don’t cross forever. But, as far as I’m concerned, the duration of their intersection is yet to be determined-- And that is where we find Freedom is in how long we choose to spend with people that are important to us. And I’m telling you you’re important to me, and I don’t even know you. So : : : KISS ME
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abhor circular time. clocks as monstrosities. dream eternity. the immensity of everything. existence is elsewhere, but life is here. in explosive silences, inexpressible delights, truthful illusions, authentic falsehoods, slippery nights. let sense and spirit sing a long song of your knowing heart. exiled on earth in scornful times, become a bard of desire. heart songs, earth songs, lust songs. amazingly human songs. after all, flowers still spill perfume. drink it up. study the mathematics of memory. the equations of living. the trajectories of silence. the physics of poetry. penetrate the disquieting muse. seek screeching squeals of joy. all this has happened before. It will all happen again. everything repeats in cycles, absolute and endless. return. dive into the infinity of the gyre. imbibe its cold, invigorating fire.
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Apr 16, 2016
Apr 16, 2016 at 8:51 AM UTC
Why La Giaconda Smiles
in life, people have their own paths, trajectories... going through space. those who aren't on the same path as you will collide into you briefly but continue on into a slightly different direction. we forever affect each other when our paths intersect. you and i collided during the fresh part of my nineteenth year. it was intended for fulfilling the desire of companionship yet became platonic. you were a bad boy; rough exterior but in my perspective were a dear. such a switch on my usual attraction aspect, not enjoying your habits that were persistently chronic. those eyes oh those eyes i truly saw your inner buddha- i opened your box. we clicked. never have i felt such comfort in a short amount of time, however; you didn't change, in the end still sneaky as a fox.... my knowledge that you lie and cheat made me come to the conclusion that you would never be mine. i fell in love. my first love. my asteroid. kyle. hard to believe in a desert of all the places! you held me ever so tight, gave me wicked butterflies & a goober smile. still, left was uncertainty and doubt- many traces. my mind was puzzled and never felt right. i switched motives daily, always changing my mind. where is my mind? attempting to hold onto our relationship i put everything fourth with all my being, my might.... found out the truth after a first intimate night; you led me blind. really? you ****** her. i asked you over and over still lies. really? you told him. a private matter you shared with a friend. really? you could never prove a change- same black skies. really? you betrayed my trust. we'll never be the same in the end. you were my first love at least i think my asteroid that is now moving on after collision... my life you are out of no more late night cuddles, simplistic kisses or terrible winks. happiness fills my soul now that i can move on for my heart broke in half and i have to mend it on my own i do not regret our time spent, never thought it was wrong. a man who truly respects and loves me will find me someday, for now i find myself alone. thank you kyle for letting me get to know you without a mask. this journey was an adventure and i'll never look back.
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Oct 3, 2015
Oct 3, 2015 at 3:15 AM UTC
my asteroid.
in life, people have their own paths, trajectories... going through space. those who aren't on the same path as you will collide into you briefly but continue on into a slightly different direction. we forever affect each other when our paths intersect. you and i collided during the fresh part of my nineteenth year. it was intended for fulfilling the desire of companionship yet became platonic. you were a bad boy; rough exterior but in my perspective were a dear. such a switch on my usual attraction aspect, not enjoying your habits that were persistently chronic. those eyes oh those eyes i truly saw your inner buddha- i opened your box. we clicked. never have i felt such comfort in a short amount of time, however; you didn't change, in the end still sneaky as a fox.... my knowledge that you lie and cheat made me come to the conclusion that you would never be mine. i fell in love. my first love. my asteroid. kyle. hard to believe in a desert of all the places! you held me ever so tight, gave me wicked butterflies & a goober smile. still, left was uncertainty and doubt- many traces. my mind was puzzled and never felt right. i switched motives daily, always changing my mind. where is my mind? attempting to hold onto our relationship i put everything fourth with all my being, my might.... found out the truth after a first intimate night; you led me blind. really? you ****** her. i asked you over and over still lies. really? you told him. a private matter you shared with a friend. really? you could never prove a change- same black skies. really? you betrayed my trust. we'll never be the same in the end. you were my first love at least i think my asteroid that is now moving on after collision... my life you are out of no more late night cuddles, simplistic kisses or terrible winks. happiness fills my soul now that i can move on for my heart broke in half and i have to mend it on my own i do not regret our time spent, never thought it was wrong. a man who truly respects and loves me will find me someday, for now i find myself alone. thank you kyle for letting me get to know you without a mask. this journey was an adventure and i'll never look back.
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This time I have, is but a gift. Meant to heal broken skin and fractured bone. But I realise that there's more... ••• What if, repairing physical damage is but a facet of unanticipated tribulation? What about... Shattered thoughts? Disjointed ideals? Misplaced hopes? Askewed trajectories? ••• Maybe... This time too is meant to get my stars in alignment. But right now there just aren't any...
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Oct 23, 2017
Oct 23, 2017 at 10:50 PM UTC
In Recuperation
Our feelings like stars in the sky only on clear nights we see, but aren't they always there? Their trajectories Their orbits we trace through age We master not of their destiny, but some shared voyages To peregrinate, even   on cloudy days We've learned to believe in and trust our feelings— our celestial guidance
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Jan 13, 2016
Jan 13, 2016 at 9:45 AM UTC
Our Feelings