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On whether technology has influenced the seeming rise in mental health issues: The concept of technology as separate than Nature is impossible to pin down, but to say that a lifetime of social pressures, advertising, television, and processed and genetically altered foodstuffs would not affect what the brain is used to, and what is was designed to do, is a non sequitur. Certainly an entirely separate set of influences also had negative consequences in the brains' of pre-man, but these were not of his own making, as he still lived in an organic environment, and therefore wasn't a part of the "feedback loop" we have going on with humans becoming the products of a man-made environment (one of the only things that sets us apart from most the animal kingdom). Either way, whatever you're doing you're getting better at it, so with the increase in time spent on the web and watching TV we are increasingly better at watching other people - being passive, non-accountable, constantly comparative and self-obsessed, impotent in light of the mass of information constantly flooding towards you - which the brain was not originally intended for. This seems obvious. So the fact that some people have things like crippling anxiety and OCD, or develop anti-social disorders and the like, seems like a logical result produced by a system (the brain) presented with new and inorganic conditions. On top of that, being a non-douche is naturally and evolutionarily based because it increases the likelihood that others will want to chilll'n'stuff and help you when you need it, but when transposed onto a crowded, fast-paced modernity it twists into something like flattery and competition to appear the most altruistic.
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Sep 18, 2012
Sep 18, 2012 at 11:45 AM UTC
Technology and Mental Health
On whether technology has influenced the seeming rise in mental health issues: The concept of technology as separate than Nature is impossible to pin down, but to say that a lifetime of social pressures, advertising, television, and processed and genetically altered foodstuffs would not affect what the brain is used to, and what is was designed to do, is a non sequitur. Certainly an entirely separate set of influences also had negative consequences in the brains' of pre-man, but these were not of his own making, as he still lived in an organic environment, and therefore wasn't a part of the "feedback loop" we have going on with humans becoming the products of a man-made environment (one of the only things that sets us apart from most the animal kingdom). Either way, whatever you're doing you're getting better at it, so with the increase in time spent on the web and watching TV we are increasingly better at watching other people - being passive, non-accountable, constantly comparative and self-obsessed, impotent in light of the mass of information constantly flooding towards you - which the brain was not originally intended for. This seems obvious. So the fact that some people have things like crippling anxiety and OCD, or develop anti-social disorders and the like, seems like a logical result produced by a system (the brain) presented with new and inorganic conditions. On top of that, being a non-douche is naturally and evolutionarily based because it increases the likelihood that others will want to chilll'n'stuff and help you when you need it, but when transposed onto a crowded, fast-paced modernity it twists into something like flattery and competition to appear the most altruistic.
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Before the gate has been closed, before the last question is posed, before I am transposed. Before the weeds fill the gardens, before there are no pardons, before the concrete hardens. Before all the flute-holes are covered, before things are locked in then cupboard, before the rules are discovered. Before the conclusion is planned, before God closes his hand, before we have nowhere to stand.
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Grinding.... Leaving it silenced, drawn and quartered Clawing for the scraps left over Predicament I found myself in Or, towards the end of it Slipping from the edges Forager focused on finding any way back home Sidetracked by some apparition left crying Alone, in the corner Grinding... Paused, with rain drops weighted, heavy sense in the air I can feel my lips turning blue and Twitching It's more literal than I would dare dream in a waking nightmare The smell of every molecule tantamount to another realm Hangs motionless in the air The stone transposed becomes a rooftop asylum, overlooking such uncouth misanthropic parcels, self absorbed in this grotesque imagery, a veritable wall of self hate puzzle pieces Grinding... Low, on an almost ominous note, still grows colder in my ears Blowing on winds filled with the spite and righteous Anti holy Fully rupturing sound of far off laughter of the New root My lips still moving No sound produced And my mind Grinding... I still pray to god for you Beset on all sides by the same wickedness Still afflicted by myself Argue for arguments sake ****** up on the uptake I thought that you might want it I guess I forgot all the subtle ways The fires spring to life at night Arguably the wrong choice is Looking at him I try not to Catch that glimpse in his eye Already my mind races And my bones are shivering At the thought alone Brickwork backing Still swells maggots And filing paperwork For entrapment habits Grinding
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Sep 28, 2017
Sep 28, 2017 at 4:56 PM UTC
Anti
the world is a wild and weary place, fully sunk in spiral ****** fully strummed in skin water waves. bound by death from the very first verse: first love. first this.                    go forth my machines, be fruitful and jettison. color says hang at the edge of our lips. smell the books. remind us; books. & before the big blue vast takes it all, that sunstruck lomographia light, transposed no-makeup california girl, she walks before me along the boulders of the wharf. real summer breathing. our bodies, piled and starbleached ripe. [like heap of buffalo skulls] maybe then a futuristic dinner, where everyone gathers in floating space pods singing hymns beneath,                                                        above,                                           between                the lights and music. reality is: blacktop shards against my knees, something burning as it trickles to my chin, man of me living the city glisten, city green & pink. city midnight and barely breathing. destroyers, we are. and what? what am i, father? man of industry? man of workwelded science?   secure as the armadillo, armadillo picket fence. am i of halfbreed phosphorus? americana? built on love and hate and television.   nat geo channel:  [a gecko licks dew from its eyes                                                                   on the coastal sand dunes of namibia] money. women. go west young man. be a hand tightening ribs. be a quaking echo of mammalian design. a paradigm of seed my fire. quest for fire. for uncut diamond; like foggy strawberry rock in the africa-boy's fingers. or cut steel; phallus of toyish death between a brazil-boy’s fingers. pulled teeth; bits of wet fruit in the young afghani’s hand. & icecream trolley; pedestal etched iron; denim and *** and microwaves  :::::: white man: what I got ? what I got ? manifest destiny: gold bricks and beer. blood soaked socks. cyprus burnt umbers. tribes decomposing at the bottoms of styrofoam cups. like coin-op wormies. & eighteen inch circumference blades make round rolling high pitched songs deep in the skin of old mother earth. old baby cakes. old life in slow motion, all motion, all of particle cannon treatise. 40 ounce bounce. watery us below.
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 2:17 AM UTC
the world is a wild and weary place
the world is a wild and weary place, fully sunk in spiral ****** fully strummed in skin water waves. bound by death from the very first verse: first love. first this.                    go forth my machines, be fruitful and jettison. color says hang at the edge of our lips. smell the books. remind us; books. & before the big blue vast takes it all, that sunstruck lomographia light, transposed no-makeup california girl, she walks before me along the boulders of the wharf. real summer breathing. our bodies, piled and starbleached ripe. [like heap of buffalo skulls] maybe then a futuristic dinner, where everyone gathers in floating space pods singing hymns beneath,                                                        above,                                           between                the lights and music. reality is: blacktop shards against my knees, something burning as it trickles to my chin, man of me living the city glisten, city green & pink. city midnight and barely breathing. destroyers, we are. and what? what am i, father? man of industry? man of workwelded science?   secure as the armadillo, armadillo picket fence. am i of halfbreed phosphorus? americana? built on love and hate and television.   nat geo channel:  [a gecko licks dew from its eyes                                                                   on the coastal sand dunes of namibia] money. women. go west young man. be a hand tightening ribs. be a quaking echo of mammalian design. a paradigm of seed my fire. quest for fire. for uncut diamond; like foggy strawberry rock in the africa-boy's fingers. or cut steel; phallus of toyish death between a brazil-boy’s fingers. pulled teeth; bits of wet fruit in the young afghani’s hand. & icecream trolley; pedestal etched iron; denim and *** and microwaves  :::::: white man: what I got ? what I got ? manifest destiny: gold bricks and beer. blood soaked socks. cyprus burnt umbers. tribes decomposing at the bottoms of styrofoam cups. like coin-op wormies. & eighteen inch circumference blades make round rolling high pitched songs deep in the skin of old mother earth. old baby cakes. old life in slow motion, all motion, all of particle cannon treatise. 40 ounce bounce. watery us below.
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Sorry it ended up like this. Me out here, still wrapped up warm in my vestigial garment of flesh. You in there, naked amongst your primitive ancestors like the youngest adult at a wedding, mingling awkwardly, embarrassed. I wonder how you died. Your ribs look like they have been fixed back together after some kind of trauma. A car crash maybe? Maybe you struggled with long term illness, rotting before you ripened like a sickly bud in a wet spring. However it happened your bronze plaque states it was untimely and therefore probably tragic. '(A young woman)' I read, not so much discovering but confirming what I already knew to be true when I first laid eyes first met yours across the crowded room. You stand about as tall as me, your shining off white cheeks delicate as fine china. Staring out of you glass cabinet, you seem to beg not to be judged alongside your distant relatives, your slumping neighbors. Fragile and sweet, you radiate a quiet dignity. It isn't hard to imagine the thin layer of blood, skin and fibrous tissue that it would take to make you beautiful again. I plunge my hand through that glass portal, soft folds of meat transposed to brittle bone and back again, unifying you world with the mortal It was obvious that you were beautiful, and involuntarily I envy the one who held you and kissed you last. I wonder if anyone ever wrote a poem for you when you were alive.
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 5:08 AM UTC
Necrophilia
I am In a word transfixed to a moment the epitome of evolution the pinnacle of creation I laugh triumphantly As my knife pierces the medium rare steak So civilized I am that rare breeze that has traveled the distance of so many sorrows a physical force borne of the contradiction between warmth and the abyss I am very respected I adjust the tie the trapezoidal patterns hide so coolly the noose around my neck a lynching of estimation in a two part drama I am leaning against the wall the flesh pressed against the graffiti my being transposed against someone else's thoughts its all a happenstance an accidental meeting without a gaze but for that commonality we have nothing in common I am a synapse I pass on the sensations of pain and pleasure without discrimination my free will in all its glory succumbs to a chemical reaction yet I must be more or maybe just maybe the knife I hold can pierce more than flesh I am floating on a stationary platform I choose my destiny I rearrange the order of confusion a train screeches to a halt a sea of ties and heels self assured smiles of the precise menu may I have the check please I am a random canopy of emotion I flutter in the breeze the clearest expression of being of breathing of wanting of feeling a rare glimpse a subtle smile a delicate touch of flesh against flesh its all too fleeting transparency and no more
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Jul 24, 2013
Jul 24, 2013 at 8:27 AM UTC
Transparency
We took an impromptu trip to where you can have fun when it's real late. You don't have to leave the building ....but you can still get a date. The lights are dim and there's a few flatscreens on the wall. The barmaids are looking good and serving up the drinks. The music is pounding shaking the floor.....dollars are being thrown and the girls are looking for more. The bottles are popping in VIP.....I'm just enjoying the eye candy that I see. She approaches me from the rear and rubs her hand across my chest. She says "You feel kind of tight....you must be stressed." A slow song plays in the background .....and she begins to dance like a king cobra. The only difference is that I wasn't afraid to hold her. I pull her close and rub her like Aladdin's lamp. My intentions are to make her damp. We are transposed to a place where we are all alone....I whisper in her ear some sultry adjectives and verbs.....and her response are faint whispers...muffled words. Syllables spoken,but nothing heard. She grabs my hands and leads me around her temple. She takes my hand and makes me massage her breasts.....and runs my hand down her legs. Her attempt to make me beg for more.....and to get me on the other side of the door where I could pay to play. She whispers in my ear that she is getting moist down below. The question is if i want to continue the show. The dance continues and she stops grinding on my erection. Her eyes lock on me and she places the most seductive kiss upon my lips.... You are not like the other men who view me as a passing ship. They want to slip their hands and money in my thong like they are paying a fare. When they get off ....I'm just sitting there....waiting for the next one to come along. I'm glad that you treat me with decency and respect. She placed a kiss upon my neck........and said thank you and took her place on deck......the d.j. introduced her Coming to the stage ......our featured dancer of the evening "Destiny". She began to work the pole after she wiped it down. I finished my drink and gave her one last look.....and made my way back uptown. I thought about destiny on my way back home.......and smiled when she sent this text to my phone......"Since you left I feel all alone....I can't wait to lay next to you when I get home." "I Love you." I'm your private dancer...I dance for your money. I'll do whatever you want me to do.
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Oct 8, 2012
Oct 8, 2012 at 9:22 AM UTC
Private Dancer
We took an impromptu trip to where you can have fun when it's real late. You don't have to leave the building ....but you can still get a date. The lights are dim and there's a few flatscreens on the wall. The barmaids are looking good and serving up the drinks. The music is pounding shaking the floor.....dollars are being thrown and the girls are looking for more. The bottles are popping in VIP.....I'm just enjoying the eye candy that I see. She approaches me from the rear and rubs her hand across my chest. She says "You feel kind of tight....you must be stressed." A slow song plays in the background .....and she begins to dance like a king cobra. The only difference is that I wasn't afraid to hold her. I pull her close and rub her like Aladdin's lamp. My intentions are to make her damp. We are transposed to a place where we are all alone....I whisper in her ear some sultry adjectives and verbs.....and her response are faint whispers...muffled words. Syllables spoken,but nothing heard. She grabs my hands and leads me around her temple. She takes my hand and makes me massage her breasts.....and runs my hand down her legs. Her attempt to make me beg for more.....and to get me on the other side of the door where I could pay to play. She whispers in my ear that she is getting moist down below. The question is if i want to continue the show. The dance continues and she stops grinding on my erection. Her eyes lock on me and she places the most seductive kiss upon my lips.... You are not like the other men who view me as a passing ship. They want to slip their hands and money in my thong like they are paying a fare. When they get off ....I'm just sitting there....waiting for the next one to come along. I'm glad that you treat me with decency and respect. She placed a kiss upon my neck........and said thank you and took her place on deck......the d.j. introduced her Coming to the stage ......our featured dancer of the evening "Destiny". She began to work the pole after she wiped it down. I finished my drink and gave her one last look.....and made my way back uptown. I thought about destiny on my way back home.......and smiled when she sent this text to my phone......"Since you left I feel all alone....I can't wait to lay next to you when I get home." "I Love you." I'm your private dancer...I dance for your money. I'll do whatever you want me to do.
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I sometimes look at pictures of this pornstar who sort of looks at me the same way as a girl I liked when I was in elementary school and middle school and high school and I guess I still kind of like her; and that’s why I look at pictures of this pornstar when I ********** I feel bad, seeing her ***** there-- this person I’ve transposed with memories. It reminds me of college vacation she was jogging and saw me on a hill; I shouldn’t be seeing this-- I thought. Still she saw me peek. And we used to be friends, or something. When my crush refused my present during second grade, I gave it to her. Her voice came as close to touching me as anything I’ve ever held; and her eyes were piercing with their trust and sympathy. But I’ll never tell her, that I can’t ********* with her watching me. And no, it’s not a love story. I won’t ever tell her-- even if she always knew. Remorse looks too much like blonde women. And it’s ruining my **** habit.
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Jun 29, 2011
Jun 29, 2011 at 10:21 PM UTC
Cliche
Walked in like B flat Slow music playing Heels clicked like staccato Dress cello imitating Blue notes sunken Drunken with the motion Of the left right sway Spin, dip, heads floating River more than ocean She never stands still She don't shoot the breeze Heart-breaker, shoot to **** Then she transposed the thrill B harmonic minor Tango, stomp, clap Somebody shot the dress designer. Violence in the night Gasoline on the floor Swift step matchstick heels She adores the White Light Like coconut cream Musicians bathe with the moon Sleep with its beams Play until the world Seems to burst at the seams Set fire to the rivers Inhale the steam Descend with the fifths Never rest on a trill Cut the drums, spotlight Let her transpose the thrill
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Mar 28, 2012
Mar 28, 2012 at 10:38 PM UTC
Transpose the Thrill
Dawn will soon be embraced for treasures beyond the curve of the earth now brought to hand wanton actions then expressed the mold is broken and then reformed sensuous defined by each one far-flung stars gazed in sleep Scorpio waiting for a chance when emotions churn within private dreams foretold the way those secret urges beyond the veil brought to waking in the light morning risen to exclaim what the night hid away the slumbering to be roused or should arousal be the term for dispassion put aside in response to nature’s urge vocal ***** and stirring hens or reversed and transposed now awoken from their sleep ask for strokes to greet the day more than enough to awake achieve release not found in sleep. © 2018. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20180930.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 5:07 PM UTC
Morning Risen
I know who I am     what I remember     how I felt I know who I am There is this mantle     thrown over me     hiding my truth     for his benefit. I keep throwing it off. I am not that person. He, most of all knows this,     yet his mask continues     to be painted on my face.     Even as he is away. This is my biggest fear:     that I become the image     transposed on me     and not myself.
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Mar 13, 2015
Mar 13, 2015 at 6:54 PM UTC
Fighting for my Sanity
You had sung of grapes too and transposed curious waves of hair. But the icon grafted next to namesake had borne no resemblance. A spectral fire (you). I exorcise the evidence and tear down your temples. A different current caught you another foreign wave.
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Mar 9, 2012
Mar 9, 2012 at 7:00 PM UTC
From words not meant for me:
and the bus windows fogged by human heat became a part of this child, and the wooden roof rot recliner for summertime phone calls, and the crying neighbor woman’s sticky mascara, and the hot asphalt became a part of him…the sideways light on the trees fifteen before dark, and the tract             house mazes at night, and the hidden playground underground, and the blooming jasmine over strangers’ fences…invisible barking dogs…and burnt bike wheel tracks,             and glittered marsh gorgeous and toxic, and cherry tree lined freeway, and the bitter fruit afterward…and the purple grateful palms…and the             neighbor’s unbloomed roses; and the car rides to Elsewhere, and the urban self-sufficience envy, and the free tickets from the out of town hero…and the wild-haired directors pacing preshow             lobbies…and the squirming audience beer-in-fist…and the blush-stained sidelit Cordelias…and             the honest snickers clearing the building into the cold lot still and quiet, and all the changes of city and country wherever she went. The red couch, the red rug, the blue kitchen, the dying dog, The star trek memorabilia, and the dusty book garage, and the overcooked rice leftover… the weight of guilt, the thought if after all we deserve every ounce, the streets themselves, and the midnight three block nightmare runs to safeway…and the barbeque smell from not-my-house, and the ****** children stumbling to the bus, the brass chimes that fell off the door, and the dead grass backyard blanket, and the overgrown fields where your dad smokes *** and the heat wave transposed radio, and the bird nest window mold , And the lawn flamingos become a part of him or her that peruses them now, flame retardant, american canyon: The Gateway to Somewhere Else, hallelujah, hallelujah, Amen.
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Jun 12, 2011
Jun 12, 2011 at 6:27 AM UTC
ode to american canyon
and the bus windows fogged by human heat became a part of this child, and the wooden roof rot recliner for summertime phone calls, and the crying neighbor woman’s sticky mascara, and the hot asphalt became a part of him…the sideways light on the trees fifteen before dark, and the tract             house mazes at night, and the hidden playground underground, and the blooming jasmine over strangers’ fences…invisible barking dogs…and burnt bike wheel tracks,             and glittered marsh gorgeous and toxic, and cherry tree lined freeway, and the bitter fruit afterward…and the purple grateful palms…and the             neighbor’s unbloomed roses; and the car rides to Elsewhere, and the urban self-sufficience envy, and the free tickets from the out of town hero…and the wild-haired directors pacing preshow             lobbies…and the squirming audience beer-in-fist…and the blush-stained sidelit Cordelias…and             the honest snickers clearing the building into the cold lot still and quiet, and all the changes of city and country wherever she went. The red couch, the red rug, the blue kitchen, the dying dog, The star trek memorabilia, and the dusty book garage, and the overcooked rice leftover… the weight of guilt, the thought if after all we deserve every ounce, the streets themselves, and the midnight three block nightmare runs to safeway…and the barbeque smell from not-my-house, and the ****** children stumbling to the bus, the brass chimes that fell off the door, and the dead grass backyard blanket, and the overgrown fields where your dad smokes *** and the heat wave transposed radio, and the bird nest window mold , And the lawn flamingos become a part of him or her that peruses them now, flame retardant, american canyon: The Gateway to Somewhere Else, hallelujah, hallelujah, Amen.
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start a poem; with what? I choose a word and think: I always start poems just like that; I want to be more abstract and tralala pulchritudinous -- there's a word for you; I used a thesaurus, how phoney how transposed and disconnected from my heart I write and I know I can do better than that than this yeah, I know that and I'm a strong believer of art creating itself when it's meant to be created and that sometimes it's just not meant to be but when there is so much filling the heart with wistful agony and agonizing wistfulness, creating something pretty feels pretty good; and you'd think there'd ought to be something to write about if I can feel this much inside of me if it's that heavy... I guess what I'm really trying to say is that I'm afraid. but that's not good enough, is it? I want to write wilting lilies and papercuts and stubbed toes and a bit of rage and longing, but mostly I want to write the truth and the truth is I'm afraid that I'm not enough; but I know, I know, that's not good enough, is it?
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 6:46 AM UTC
I don't know how to say how I feel
You are the smell of dawn in the evening. You are the taste of champagne in flat beer. You are the storm after the calm, that calls a sailor to his doom, and his resurrection. You are the pupil of my mind's eye. You are the reflection of eternity in the backside of a spoon, held only long enough to know on a level beneath foresight, between bites of spaghetti and pesto. I alone can call you from the trenches to embed your nature in the navel of the world. Your pulse is the very river Nile herself. And as you pour your own prediction of flooding into my lips, I know the life you give. The moon can call an owl to its perch. Just as the sun can burn a wolf to its bones. But what loss is that? They both meet destiny at a coffee shop, sipping on the preconceptions of their parents, transposed into prose, whose simple words will uphold the will of the world.
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Jul 7, 2012
Jul 7, 2012 at 5:51 PM UTC
October 6th, 2010 11:00pm
like a monkey at a temple I want an immediate response from the world my brother-in-law fights the same depression he turned into a Cowboy I stayed an Indian. Back in Queens I see a man across the street he's in an Andy Capp hat and twead coat he used to hem my pants (he's retired now) he knows my thoughts but doesn't recognize me unless I say hello first see that girl on the stoop, the one with her hair veiled over her face, staring at her iphone as to a shrine I've seen my mother-in-law bow down like that at Meher Baba's Samadhi I should not have been watching her take darshan in front of her Lord - in supplication - she folded into herself like a napkin on the way back, we stayed at the Leela and had a lot to drink before we flew home I wish she knew how lucky I felt being with her - praying and drinking but last night she called and couldn't remember a thing it pains me she is losing her memory I  had to repeat again and again, 'yes, I have your ticket and passport' or 'remember we flew in together and now we are going back'. so naturally our conversations return to her growing up on a farm in Virginia; the second oldest to four brothers, her swimming in a creek and charming all the boys, and leaving home at seventeen to dance with Margaret Craske in New York City (how she loved Miss Craske).   she married a priest who crusaded for the poor in the Lower East Side;  pregnant with her first daughter (and me, having the saving grace to have married that daughter) she met Meher Baba -  a meeting that changed her course and late in life she became a Psychologist (a PhD at 74!).    her natural graciousness was born of the wild flowers of Machair (her people are from the Hebrides), her love of dance, now transposed and expressed in a light and buoyant outlook, made all a fools mimicry disappear like morning vapor on a Maharashtrian plateau ... my fortune seeing that. one day she will forget me and the world and not come back or when she does we will have a certainty of meeting once before.
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Oct 16, 2016
Oct 16, 2016 at 1:38 PM UTC
praying and drinking
like a monkey at a temple I want an immediate response from the world my brother-in-law fights the same depression he turned into a Cowboy I stayed an Indian. Back in Queens I see a man across the street he's in an Andy Capp hat and twead coat he used to hem my pants (he's retired now) he knows my thoughts but doesn't recognize me unless I say hello first see that girl on the stoop, the one with her hair veiled over her face, staring at her iphone as to a shrine I've seen my mother-in-law bow down like that at Meher Baba's Samadhi I should not have been watching her take darshan in front of her Lord - in supplication - she folded into herself like a napkin on the way back, we stayed at the Leela and had a lot to drink before we flew home I wish she knew how lucky I felt being with her - praying and drinking but last night she called and couldn't remember a thing it pains me she is losing her memory I  had to repeat again and again, 'yes, I have your ticket and passport' or 'remember we flew in together and now we are going back'. so naturally our conversations return to her growing up on a farm in Virginia; the second oldest to four brothers, her swimming in a creek and charming all the boys, and leaving home at seventeen to dance with Margaret Craske in New York City (how she loved Miss Craske).   she married a priest who crusaded for the poor in the Lower East Side;  pregnant with her first daughter (and me, having the saving grace to have married that daughter) she met Meher Baba -  a meeting that changed her course and late in life she became a Psychologist (a PhD at 74!).    her natural graciousness was born of the wild flowers of Machair (her people are from the Hebrides), her love of dance, now transposed and expressed in a light and buoyant outlook, made all a fools mimicry disappear like morning vapor on a Maharashtrian plateau ... my fortune seeing that. one day she will forget me and the world and not come back or when she does we will have a certainty of meeting once before.
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Missing you At the end of a day in the space of a moment in the breath of allay in the wings of an angel the space of a bar music transposed from the heavens my heart from afar
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Apr 21, 2018
Apr 21, 2018 at 2:11 AM UTC
From Afar
It's been a long time since I've looked at myself in the mirror and asked who I am prodding a reflection to see how long it takes to change That kind of thinking follows you- it preempts every step- step- I'm swallowing confusion whole. In a daily pill. A color for every feeling. I was thinking about my circular habits when I caught myself there, again, a black hole in the glass fragmented like.. children, transposed against war myself, the child and the war-maker begging for peace the harsh lines cut across valleys of wheat cut me down, I'm begging the blackness, make fault lines out of my hate across my body, slash my body, curl up and disappear into my body take my body and teach me to float I'll volunteer my soul in the name of love, lovers, loved, loving... forgiveness. and float there in a dream that a human doesn't stand to realize any time soon, I'm sobbing for my lost dreams and stuck in my own memories, I mean -- I fool myself sometimes. Because things are harsh and harshness is perception. And connectedness comes from letting go. And ****** I've been stubborn since birth and I was stubborn when I knew God and I'm stubborn now I don't I don't I don't. Tell me what to do, because I'm tired of beating myself down I once tried starving myself raw and realized the hard way it was never an option I miss that kind of numbness. I want to believe that the ones I want to see know how to look past skin. I'm - wanting - to float. I'm... wanting. I'm wanting in components of human nature lack lacking lacking love I never ever would have ever admitted self in grounds of coffee. down the hatch, down the drain, downing levels of consciousness as days homogenize and fears are realized and slowly drowning time rationalized mine body is mine body is dying, legs are dying, eyes are dying, drooping, dropping like flies fl-fl-fl-flying to fly dreams of flying I had dreams of flying I have dreams of flying and every day I'm dying This is blackness reflected back. apathy. warped cognition slides through me cold I don't know how I got so old
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Apr 28, 2012
Apr 28, 2012 at 2:12 AM UTC
rabbit hole
It's been a long time since I've looked at myself in the mirror and asked who I am prodding a reflection to see how long it takes to change That kind of thinking follows you- it preempts every step- step- I'm swallowing confusion whole. In a daily pill. A color for every feeling. I was thinking about my circular habits when I caught myself there, again, a black hole in the glass fragmented like.. children, transposed against war myself, the child and the war-maker begging for peace the harsh lines cut across valleys of wheat cut me down, I'm begging the blackness, make fault lines out of my hate across my body, slash my body, curl up and disappear into my body take my body and teach me to float I'll volunteer my soul in the name of love, lovers, loved, loving... forgiveness. and float there in a dream that a human doesn't stand to realize any time soon, I'm sobbing for my lost dreams and stuck in my own memories, I mean -- I fool myself sometimes. Because things are harsh and harshness is perception. And connectedness comes from letting go. And ****** I've been stubborn since birth and I was stubborn when I knew God and I'm stubborn now I don't I don't I don't. Tell me what to do, because I'm tired of beating myself down I once tried starving myself raw and realized the hard way it was never an option I miss that kind of numbness. I want to believe that the ones I want to see know how to look past skin. I'm - wanting - to float. I'm... wanting. I'm wanting in components of human nature lack lacking lacking love I never ever would have ever admitted self in grounds of coffee. down the hatch, down the drain, downing levels of consciousness as days homogenize and fears are realized and slowly drowning time rationalized mine body is mine body is dying, legs are dying, eyes are dying, drooping, dropping like flies fl-fl-fl-flying to fly dreams of flying I had dreams of flying I have dreams of flying and every day I'm dying This is blackness reflected back. apathy. warped cognition slides through me cold I don't know how I got so old
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-Oh Hello there -How are you? -Would you kindly like to dance this fine evening? -I am not to be missed -I can really two step -I must confess -but what you say? -No not that -It could not be? -but yes you could be right, I suppose -Do you then suppose? -Perhaps a carnal repose is all that must be exposed -For this here to be transposed -Well yes I imagine that could be considered a vulgarity -but I only long for our solidarity of insularity for clarity -Well ok if you should decide -I will abide and subside to further yonder No now why must you release that powder -a discharge is not required -I meant no dishonour -Well yes you are correct -Mais c'est vraiment difficile -you must understand -you must know You will give me a start Won't you? -I should say, that is most gracious of you! -That will do then -I submit to you now For your pleasu... BANG Be still the night it is almost light tonight.
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Nov 4, 2014
Nov 4, 2014 at 12:06 AM UTC
Pushkin’s Onegin - My paraphrased version. Oct. 13, 2014
The overture sounds: A muffled “thud,”        And scraping flesh against macadam. Un-rosined bows screech across nerves,                      Dividing molecules to atoms. Each neuron fires off, splicing into three The soul from the body,           and something indescribably between. Catching fire, he ascends -             "This is what it truly means to be!" Each piece, each side Breaking away in-finitely To somehow become more whole Through division, and in balance.                   Like a reunion, of holy trinity,                        Caught ablaze in fissile symphony.                    -  -  - And like a cork popped from a bottle, Rewound, and played reversed,        He careens with a whining pitch        And                  f                     a                        l                           l                             s                               From orbit,                                   Back to earth. Glimpsing God Only to be clawed back To the pains and pleasures of Samsara,         To taste the bitterness of my own blood,         Juxtaposed         With the ecstasy of Nirvana. This is how I came to know the realm      In which our feeble bodies lurch. Reborn as a phoenix from the ashes. From the rear cabin of a hearse.
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Nov 11, 2019
Nov 11, 2019 at 3:28 PM UTC
Ablaze in Fissile Symphony (Phoenix from a Hearse)
The overture sounds: A muffled “thud,”        And scraping flesh against macadam. Un-rosined bows screech across nerves,                      Dividing molecules to atoms. Each neuron fires off, splicing into three The soul from the body,           and something indescribably between. Catching fire, he ascends -             "This is what it truly means to be!" Each piece, each side Breaking away in-finitely To somehow become more whole Through division, and in balance.                   Like a reunion, of holy trinity,                        Caught ablaze in fissile symphony.                    -  -  - And like a cork popped from a bottle, Rewound, and played reversed,        He careens with a whining pitch        And                  f                     a                        l                           l                             s                               From orbit,                                   Back to earth. Glimpsing God Only to be clawed back To the pains and pleasures of Samsara,         To taste the bitterness of my own blood,         Juxtaposed         With the ecstasy of Nirvana. This is how I came to know the realm      In which our feeble bodies lurch. Reborn as a phoenix from the ashes. From the rear cabin of a hearse.
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I've felt my fingers withered to the core. Wet chalk on a broken blackboard; my words powdery prints yearning for a string of thoughts that doesn't screech at night, or that age old rhyme that would surely make the worst of my burdens light. Yet words that held no meaning, leave me empty once transposed from their coddled womb of inspiration, to confined sentences in rows. A thousand locusts inciting itching urges to scratch my mind across a page, but try as hard as I may my rhymes betray my age. No wisdom pours from out my lips, nor knowledge that is deep. For all I ever held with any depth, I've dwindled in my sleep. Listen: Despite my clingy nature, and as unlikely as it seems, I swear to You, those **** locusts ate my dreams.
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Aug 2, 2014
Aug 2, 2014 at 6:15 PM UTC
The Locusts Ate my Dreams
about only five or so thoughts will go by till some semblance of you conquers my mind rainbows and nightmares in your hair it flows hypnotic from here to there oh, darling, how it flows like rivers within daydreams pure beauty transposed I stop and think on your face a while there are constellations in your smile precious pearls to further accent the vivid colors you represent you've since floated in underneath my skin & I like you there moments are now shallow as they go by pleasure since hollowed if you're not beside me & that's alright I sense you in the night air I conjure your closeness to combat my despair fervently feverish, wanting you there I'd sleep in the street if it would earn me a glare I reach out for your embrace I will be soothed back into my longing dream state your colors now paint the night around & soon the sound of your name whispered rattles my brain & I'm left with only my longing I'll yearn for you just the same
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 5:56 AM UTC
rainbows & nightmares
I belong in the dark rain I reign in the deep fire I belong in the joy and the pain the love with no name my weakness refrain I lie I conquer my desire I reign in the echoes of my shame I sleep in tomorrow's loving arms I search for the beast to be tamed but of all I seek passion has branded me true The toil of the earth paid my price but I'm alive in the emptiness of cost I'm in love with devotion a mistress whose price is unending and gladly paid I die to be her passenger I die because death is my coin but I'm disposed in the youth of my innocence where it yet knew the devil It dances now, steps wrought with despair but every step leads me closer to the peace beyond I never belonged in the ocean of the ordinary, my wings can fly galaxies with a beat evade calamity with a whisper champion defeat with a bow and embrace the inevitable with grace and we awake... In the hour of reckoning light will shed upon the abyss and we will learn I never belonged with your enemies because mine clothed me with armor before the storm I remained unbattered unfazed by power's ultimate purchase I lingered dead, yet undying my victory transposed into immortality Thus, with enemies such who needs a friend like you not for whom I belong not for a morsel of truth.
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Mar 5, 2022
Mar 5, 2022 at 8:36 PM UTC
Dirge Over The Belltower...
At this particular juncture You are my salacious secret. My impulse and my desire Yearn for parallel, Yet specious devotion. Regrettably, my insight forbids Integrating the desire with the Collective. Despite a substantial reciprocal fervor And prolonged vulnerability Which has led to my proficiency In an art form so intricate, My desire is transposed And I am ensnared and subdued By reality. For now, you will remain My salacious secret, Until I accumulate the Audacity required To allow for such A course of action. Within my reverie Is where I recede Where my impulse and desire Reign.
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Feb 19, 2012
Feb 19, 2012 at 10:25 AM UTC
Secret