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"underscore" poems
heard a voice as i died in the cold moonlight forty phantoms breathing through me and this wasted life holds on too long like a piano from the dark and a mystic chord i froze and woke in tandem with the underscore
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Aug 28, 2018
Aug 28, 2018 at 10:21 AM UTC
royal botanical gardens
Manning up in Texas Geldof overdose needles at the bed stand starlet comatose California dreaming killer meets demise hurling in a taxi puke fee on the rise Fighting in the Gaza Jordan's holy war rebels on a mission Jihad underscore The North Korean riddle pales in grand design crisis on the border planes fall from the sky Cooking on a deadline tempting tapenades herbs are in the spotlight wines that give a nod Google maps the body DOW at record highs Uber comes to market corn is on the rise Apple on its earnings Caterpillar dead European sanctions banks have **** the bed Clippers threaten boycott Longhorns follow purge Lynch is out of training camp James is on the verge Leinart taking *** shots coughing up a lung lions take a licking fans are throwing dung Another day in Vegas Primm from A-Z rolling out an ankle a flying SUV Quiet tempting spaces made better by design multi color pea coat silence fuels the mind Stabbing in the subway goat caught in a well apes are selling tickets (but leave behind a smell) Puberty on trial a man without a head teachers feel alone lets take them to the shed! Jonah's tomb destroyed wreckage in Mumbai Sugar Daddy sites Freedom 85 The immigrant debate Russia's mounting toll unions on a mission heads are gonna roll Beaches for the nudists hotels on the cheap the best generic brands a list you have to keep! Planning your estate questions from the camp a mansion up for sale where once they filmed The Champ Midwives threaten action aboriginal act truckers want concessions that train has left the track Sharks are found in Fundy a prized but perilous catch food we love to hate the most an irrefutable batch A family on the brink I want my kids to fail! politicians drains all hope a ban on Israel Follow out each headline let the columns be your guide all these things did happen the day that Newhouse died
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Aug 2, 2017
Aug 2, 2017 at 10:29 AM UTC
The Day That Robert Newhouse Died
Manning up in Texas Geldof overdose needles at the bed stand starlet comatose California dreaming killer meets demise hurling in a taxi puke fee on the rise Fighting in the Gaza Jordan's holy war rebels on a mission Jihad underscore The North Korean riddle pales in grand design crisis on the border planes fall from the sky Cooking on a deadline tempting tapenades herbs are in the spotlight wines that give a nod Google maps the body DOW at record highs Uber comes to market corn is on the rise Apple on its earnings Caterpillar dead European sanctions banks have **** the bed Clippers threaten boycott Longhorns follow purge Lynch is out of training camp James is on the verge Leinart taking *** shots coughing up a lung lions take a licking fans are throwing dung Another day in Vegas Primm from A-Z rolling out an ankle a flying SUV Quiet tempting spaces made better by design multi color pea coat silence fuels the mind Stabbing in the subway goat caught in a well apes are selling tickets (but leave behind a smell) Puberty on trial a man without a head teachers feel alone lets take them to the shed! Jonah's tomb destroyed wreckage in Mumbai Sugar Daddy sites Freedom 85 The immigrant debate Russia's mounting toll unions on a mission heads are gonna roll Beaches for the nudists hotels on the cheap the best generic brands a list you have to keep! Planning your estate questions from the camp a mansion up for sale where once they filmed The Champ Midwives threaten action aboriginal act truckers want concessions that train has left the track Sharks are found in Fundy a prized but perilous catch food we love to hate the most an irrefutable batch A family on the brink I want my kids to fail! politicians drains all hope a ban on Israel Follow out each headline let the columns be your guide all these things did happen the day that Newhouse died
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To say the darkness Does indeed Dwell inside of me Becomes the pride of me Would underscore The fact That the madman’s eyes Loosens my lunatic tongue The scowling beast His drooling jowls The anguished cries How he howls The hunger Left unsated The feast For which he waited The beast will have his Ways with Life and all of her bounties And then what lies within Will settle once again The foaming mouth will pass The hunger is not meant to last And I will be me Once more
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 3:31 PM UTC
The Beast's End
I think with my heart; not my head in my hand or buried deep under the sand. Because when everything comes from the core, i don’t need to wonder any more. Thinking is not a chore: like folding laundry into a tidy drawer. But that’s what draws our glass floor, and causes us to continully snore. But what we chose to ignore, should be infact, exactly what we adore. Then maybe we’d ask for an encore instead of a 24/7 drug store. ________________________ To you, i may be a boar, but we must bust down the door. Stop fighting the war! Live for evermore( if we wish to soar). _____________________ But today our biggest sore may be the us marine corp. i hurt for their souls, scattered galore. it is i who they fend for, it is why their blood continues to pour. But that doesn’t effect you, because it happens on another shore. Your questions? i have answer for, but please don’t ask me the baseball score. Those fact are not in my houses’ decor, all forms of politics, i choose to ignore. __________________________________ You can call me a dinosaur, regardless, I am not a cannibalistic carnivore. _______________________________ I know you may ridicule, but i prefer to be the recluse, only coming out, when looking for a spruce. So, when i do explore, you will not find me with the busy bodies, you will find me with the mircoscopic spores. After all, it's we they provide for. After this adventure, i know they swore, they could create me a commodore. On our yaht, somewhere offshore. There would be no more war. just hugs, tugs, and kisses galore. Before, I was a skeptic, ******** i now believe holeheartedly in folklore. My faith in prewar, is now eternally restored. Because mother against man always out scores, that is why i look no more. Nature is my only mentor. ___________________________ now, i see myself as a matador. i can be anything, that is the underscore.
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Apr 25, 2016
Apr 25, 2016 at 10:37 AM UTC
Ostrich to the Core
I think with my heart; not my head in my hand or buried deep under the sand. Because when everything comes from the core, i don’t need to wonder any more. Thinking is not a chore: like folding laundry into a tidy drawer. But that’s what draws our glass floor, and causes us to continully snore. But what we chose to ignore, should be infact, exactly what we adore. Then maybe we’d ask for an encore instead of a 24/7 drug store. ________________________ To you, i may be a boar, but we must bust down the door. Stop fighting the war! Live for evermore( if we wish to soar). _____________________ But today our biggest sore may be the us marine corp. i hurt for their souls, scattered galore. it is i who they fend for, it is why their blood continues to pour. But that doesn’t effect you, because it happens on another shore. Your questions? i have answer for, but please don’t ask me the baseball score. Those fact are not in my houses’ decor, all forms of politics, i choose to ignore. __________________________________ You can call me a dinosaur, regardless, I am not a cannibalistic carnivore. _______________________________ I know you may ridicule, but i prefer to be the recluse, only coming out, when looking for a spruce. So, when i do explore, you will not find me with the busy bodies, you will find me with the mircoscopic spores. After all, it's we they provide for. After this adventure, i know they swore, they could create me a commodore. On our yaht, somewhere offshore. There would be no more war. just hugs, tugs, and kisses galore. Before, I was a skeptic, ******** i now believe holeheartedly in folklore. My faith in prewar, is now eternally restored. Because mother against man always out scores, that is why i look no more. Nature is my only mentor. ___________________________ now, i see myself as a matador. i can be anything, that is the underscore.
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She is the typesetter’s “e” The once-rounded uncial script, Unbroken like the solemn vow of a monk, His whisper, a shepherd of words under the cowl, Murmurations of the Holy Mother to the lambswool shroud of candlelight. His candle-flock of dreams to some hill of penitent towers, war-cowed And broken open like faith-unfended helmets, littering the ground, With their unspeaking tassels in babbling pagan sound of wind, That hill too, once-rounded bare under the glittering apostles of twilight. In the abbeywork of air, calligraphy was a cipher of souls, He unwrested demons from an inkwell of sunsets, smothered them in blotting paper, Freed the incarnate whole to the book of hours, nib-pointed in quills and illuminated in gold, Line by line, in Carolingian winding sheets, he returned the misshapen to the fold, To the carpet page of home and the warm ligatures of their waiting women. So the shutters of the heavenly house could blow light in slanted rays to a wilderness in storm. But he never tamed the aero-elongated, descender of Troy in a “t,” He never knew the unholiness of the underscore or fonts as ****** Or the world unwilling to know itself in serif robes of ancient lore. His life was a simple rounded-out syllable of one man, Left in the muddied, unintelligible text of faith and war. She is the typesetter’s “e” and now belongs to any hand.
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Jul 6, 2019
Jul 6, 2019 at 9:21 PM UTC
She is the Typesetter’s “e”
intermission with the UMSL Orchestra The backstage hall was wall-to-wall smiles. Just moments before, Barbara Harbach had charged the stage after we premiered her joyous Jubilee Symphony screaming at them all the way, "That was spectacular"! The Arianna Quartet's Kurt and Joanna stormed down the steps spewing out pieces of their minds in no uncertain terms "excellent" - "great job" - "beautiful". I preferred to hang out on the edge wrapped in the silken echoes of Tchaikovsky's Andante cantabile (so eloquently sung by our youthful strings). Intermission was up and it was back to work time. In the abyss of despair over his dying ears, Beethoven flooded the world with the blazing sunglow of his prophetic second symphony and it was now up to us to pass on the word. Just call me, "Grateful (underscore) 1".
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Oct 10, 2013
Oct 10, 2013 at 11:46 AM UTC
Grateful (underscore) 1
Downside up In relevant confusion Awakening in a slanted dream It seems Everything rhymes with orange And you love me SIDEWAYS EIGHT More times than I love you Broken mirrors Are nothing but good luck Four leaf clovers And run for the hills It seems Everything rhymes with month And I love you Just not in that way So you COLON, OPEN PARENTHESES More than me The moon's intense heat Lights the day While rain falls From the grass to the clouds It seems Everything rhymes with wolf And when I rejected you You COLON, APOSTROPHE, OPEN PARENTHESESED A little Spiders are mans best friend Children sleep with darkeners In fear of light And fairytale princesses It seems Everything rhymes with purple And I feel sorry That you love me Leaving me with a COLON, SLASH The stars are my only enemy Crying at night brings me joy And I cut myself Because I desperately want to live It seems Everything rhymes with rhythm And it's my fault That your LESS THAN SIGN, SLASH, THREE … Sleeping into reality Falling out of mirages With a DASH, UNDERSCORE, DASH Look on my face It seems Nothing rhymes with orange.
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May 26, 2017
May 26, 2017 at 10:10 AM UTC
¿¡Everything Rhymes with Orange!?
I think with my heart; not my head in my hand or buried deep under the sand. Because when everything comes from the core, i don’t need to wonder any more. Thinking is not a chore: like folding laundry into a tidy drawer. But that’s what draws our glass floor, and causes us to continully snore. But what we chose to ignore, should be infact, exactly what we adore. Then maybe we’d ask for an encore instead of a 24/7 drug store. _______ To you, i may be a boar, but we must bust down the door. Stop fighting the war! Live for evermore( if we wish to soar). _____ But today our biggest sore may be the us marine corp. i hurt for their souls, scattered galore. it is i who they fend for, it is why their blood continues to pour. But that doesn’t effect you, because it happens on another shore. Your questions? i have answer for, but please don’t ask me the baseball score. Those fact are not in my houses’ decor, all forms of politics, i choose to ignore. __________ You can call me a dinosaur, regardless, I am not a cannibalistic carnivore. _________ I know you may ridicule, but i prefer to be the recluse, only coming out, when looking for a spruce. So, when i do explore, you will not find me with the busy bodies, you will find me with the mircoscopic spores. After all, it's we they provide for. After this adventure, i know they swore, they could create me a commodore. On our yaht, somewhere offshore. There would be no more war. just hugs, tugs, and kisses galore. Before, I was a skeptic, ******** i now believe holeheartedly in folklore. My faith in prewar, is now eternally restored. Because mother against man always out scores, that is why i look no more. Nature is my only mentor. ________ now, i see myself as a matador. i can be anything, that is the underscore.
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Oct 5, 2016
Oct 5, 2016 at 8:40 PM UTC
Ostrich to the Core
I think with my heart; not my head in my hand or buried deep under the sand. Because when everything comes from the core, i don’t need to wonder any more. Thinking is not a chore: like folding laundry into a tidy drawer. But that’s what draws our glass floor, and causes us to continully snore. But what we chose to ignore, should be infact, exactly what we adore. Then maybe we’d ask for an encore instead of a 24/7 drug store. _______ To you, i may be a boar, but we must bust down the door. Stop fighting the war! Live for evermore( if we wish to soar). _____ But today our biggest sore may be the us marine corp. i hurt for their souls, scattered galore. it is i who they fend for, it is why their blood continues to pour. But that doesn’t effect you, because it happens on another shore. Your questions? i have answer for, but please don’t ask me the baseball score. Those fact are not in my houses’ decor, all forms of politics, i choose to ignore. __________ You can call me a dinosaur, regardless, I am not a cannibalistic carnivore. _________ I know you may ridicule, but i prefer to be the recluse, only coming out, when looking for a spruce. So, when i do explore, you will not find me with the busy bodies, you will find me with the mircoscopic spores. After all, it's we they provide for. After this adventure, i know they swore, they could create me a commodore. On our yaht, somewhere offshore. There would be no more war. just hugs, tugs, and kisses galore. Before, I was a skeptic, ******** i now believe holeheartedly in folklore. My faith in prewar, is now eternally restored. Because mother against man always out scores, that is why i look no more. Nature is my only mentor. ________ now, i see myself as a matador. i can be anything, that is the underscore.
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In old New Orleans Musical lumberjacks Legitimizing their axes; Just piano, clarinet, Bass and the drums. Bringing jazz back And then some. The cat could play That skinny long black horn, Hotter clarinet than Anybody ever born, He kept hitting notes So pure and high We felt each note In our eyes! And, if you chance by Remember this, They don’t allow dancing. But when the drummer Makes works those skins And makes them talk out There is plenty of toe-tapping And nobody ever walks out. Then, when the guy Plays that bass fiddle He adds an underscore To top bottom and middle. It’s an underbeat of grace That will fill the rest space And the hearts of all In this overcrowded place. Vintage jazz roars out Of an old, old piano Played by a happy madman With fingers afire, he knows He’s got them hooked; He’s making them wild As he wails on those keys He looks out and smiles And he puts the Satchmo touch On those old-timey songs And once in a while They ask us to sing along. For the past forty-six years Those ugly plastered walls Have never hear so many Gratefully rendered curtain calls From an audience of clerks and swells. On Bourbon Street’s Fritzel’s. Through hurricanes and beers Like stepping back a hundred years. Fats is still playing, Bessie singing Original jazz music is still swinging.
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Feb 25, 2016
Feb 25, 2016 at 6:50 PM UTC
FRITZEL'S NOLA
The night, steeped in legend and mystery, has its own special place. The cold  wind that blows through the darkness rustle the shadows under the moonlight. The pitch black oceans move to it's  own rhythms. The universe, full of darkness and light heed nights call and with the utmost certainty, the stars come out. They exist only on the fingertips of fairies but shine like there is no tomorrow. They are the main attraction and they do not disappoint, glowing the nears and fars within the infinite space. Possibilities and wonder are a underscore; there are no rules, just imagination. This is where I want to be. Please take me there.
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Aug 8, 2013
Aug 8, 2013 at 7:27 AM UTC
Take me there
*I close my eyes and see city lights Intertwined with vines; Flowers underscore pavement, Life in matrimony with death and All the beauty in between.*
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Feb 22, 2014
Feb 22, 2014 at 1:49 PM UTC
City Lights
Your arms ripping at the seams, as your pain pours into ordered lines. Red warning tape. I say nothing as each night you add another tally to your rising score. I don't want to make you uncomfortable. Silent acknowledgement hides in the gaps between glances as you ask me if the short sleeves are okay. I tell you no one will notice, that no one will care, as my heart rises to the back of my throat and your arms blur into a wet red. We tread together but I can't hold your hand. Should I say something? Should I ask up front? Should I look at your eyes and confront it? Or is that a betrayal of the comfort in my silence. The silence of support or a bystander's shame? Is it all the same? Reaching out, a lifeline, a baseline of decency. You underscore every emotion in vermillion, powered by something only you can deal with. When you lean on me to root you in place I can't move. I am helpless against you. I hold tissues to your fissures and figure out the best of the worst, and test the boundaries of where it hurts.
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Mar 9, 2025
Mar 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM UTC
I'm Sorry I Can't Fix You
character styles, characters we’ve missed attempted to put on pedestals characters whose wits got them out of the worst situations or whose worst qualities got them into the best ones who have been balding and have ended up heroes who have overcome obstacles, some some who had less and and achieved more but achievement seems to be the underscore, yes of nationality? of pride? of masculinity? of assertion? hard to say do we need more stories in more forms or fewer stories and more individuality, more self-awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness, funny word thrown around a lot do people even know? most of the time they don’t, they are staring down at their shoes or some characters are looking up at the sky anyways, they don’t understand the issue, what is at stake, stop celebrating! start studying! or you are studying too much! the wrong drugs, the right drugs! too much of the right thing can make anyone go insane or the other way around, the right amount of the wrong thing can make anyone go freely about their day, and achieve, back to that word and what does it even mean? to achieve something? greater than yourself? for yourself to be a reflection of that thing? or that thing to be a reflection of self? man, we could debate about this for hours, where’s my coffee? or beer, or wine, your choosing man, what did I have for breakfast, I honestly forgot or no, it was toast and cofffee, yes I think its time for a stiff drink now and then another hour to achieve something, to write something, to widdle something, to create something that was not there before but some say GO, ** BA HA! to hell with objectivity, everything is recycled, nothing more and they wave their hands about as if it was borrowed from a magician, and their hearts flare up with some sort of richeousness, and they achieve…rightness? back to that again…achievement…what does it even mean?
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Mar 10, 2015
Mar 10, 2015 at 8:35 PM UTC
Achievement?
character styles, characters we’ve missed attempted to put on pedestals characters whose wits got them out of the worst situations or whose worst qualities got them into the best ones who have been balding and have ended up heroes who have overcome obstacles, some some who had less and and achieved more but achievement seems to be the underscore, yes of nationality? of pride? of masculinity? of assertion? hard to say do we need more stories in more forms or fewer stories and more individuality, more self-awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness, funny word thrown around a lot do people even know? most of the time they don’t, they are staring down at their shoes or some characters are looking up at the sky anyways, they don’t understand the issue, what is at stake, stop celebrating! start studying! or you are studying too much! the wrong drugs, the right drugs! too much of the right thing can make anyone go insane or the other way around, the right amount of the wrong thing can make anyone go freely about their day, and achieve, back to that word and what does it even mean? to achieve something? greater than yourself? for yourself to be a reflection of that thing? or that thing to be a reflection of self? man, we could debate about this for hours, where’s my coffee? or beer, or wine, your choosing man, what did I have for breakfast, I honestly forgot or no, it was toast and cofffee, yes I think its time for a stiff drink now and then another hour to achieve something, to write something, to widdle something, to create something that was not there before but some say GO, ** BA HA! to hell with objectivity, everything is recycled, nothing more and they wave their hands about as if it was borrowed from a magician, and their hearts flare up with some sort of richeousness, and they achieve…rightness? back to that again…achievement…what does it even mean?
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Asian liposuction feeling the fingers of my mind piling the ripped up chipped up crap from the side of the face to the plate put out in front of my lips to kiss the endless stream of a violent dream and all of the seams are ripped and I’m dark inside. No where to be hyde or swallow my pride I have nothing left but my bare naked self in the cold of my unfettered failure. Killing me softly with all the softcore underscore. Oh what a bore. Such a slap in the face is the endless disgrace that peels though the soul like a razor maypole. Grand is the shame that once was a game and ends with the fact that I’m deaf and dumb. I’ve up and confessed. So it’s over... but still missing The body, the eyes, the flesh and the thighs, the hair and the lips unyielding. The mind and the soul. The joy of the whole, and the love I could give so selflessly. Twas numbing like a needle, or bottle. Distracting from a cold, cruel, crack in the wall. Yet up on the wings of an eagles I’ll resist the pull of the fall.
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Oct 25, 2014
Oct 25, 2014 at 1:24 PM UTC
Poor N
So far things have been pretty great. Not much to complain about. Ever food upon my plate. And yet to be blessed with gout. I started as a little boy. Probably crying. Who cares or knows? Turned into a crawling bag of blood. Ten fingers and ten toes. A fun but forgotten formation. With morning baths my plight. Mountains of information. Before a slumbered switch of light. Sometimes sleep eluded me. Sometimes I eluded it. But food was always fresh and free. Computer monitor always lit. Avoiding smoked pressure. As a rarely rebellious teen. The black of my shirts a measure.   Of the horrors I've yet to see. Some studies, stress and cars. Normal, expected, much like most. Some loves, regrets and bars. Some bacon, eggs and toast. ----------- Or ----------- Like the many, many others. With ever waning health. Untouched by a loving mother. Not born with relative wealth. I sleep in slums, streets and shacks. With whole hunger in my eyes. I live inside the calloused cracks. Of a veiled, dirt disguise. Today's another closing door. Another dose of killing time. To letters I am an underscore. The darkest beam of sunshine. Tomorrow seems like much the same. More escaping to get by. Living inside the cruelest game. Difficulty set to high. The transparent cloak I wear. Has been through the coldest times. It protects me from the stares. Of their perfect, endless eyes. I am nothing but these begging hands Nothing but a will to cope. A lack of plans and fashion brands. The lack of a noosed hope.
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Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 6:25 PM UTC
Pretty Great
So far things have been pretty great. Not much to complain about. Ever food upon my plate. And yet to be blessed with gout. I started as a little boy. Probably crying. Who cares or knows? Turned into a crawling bag of blood. Ten fingers and ten toes. A fun but forgotten formation. With morning baths my plight. Mountains of information. Before a slumbered switch of light. Sometimes sleep eluded me. Sometimes I eluded it. But food was always fresh and free. Computer monitor always lit. Avoiding smoked pressure. As a rarely rebellious teen. The black of my shirts a measure.   Of the horrors I've yet to see. Some studies, stress and cars. Normal, expected, much like most. Some loves, regrets and bars. Some bacon, eggs and toast. ----------- Or ----------- Like the many, many others. With ever waning health. Untouched by a loving mother. Not born with relative wealth. I sleep in slums, streets and shacks. With whole hunger in my eyes. I live inside the calloused cracks. Of a veiled, dirt disguise. Today's another closing door. Another dose of killing time. To letters I am an underscore. The darkest beam of sunshine. Tomorrow seems like much the same. More escaping to get by. Living inside the cruelest game. Difficulty set to high. The transparent cloak I wear. Has been through the coldest times. It protects me from the stares. Of their perfect, endless eyes. I am nothing but these begging hands Nothing but a will to cope. A lack of plans and fashion brands. The lack of a noosed hope.
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We came to the concert and I saw you From that moment there was nothing I could do. At that same moment, you also saw me And the changed my day, my life and history. They played Jedarian and we both cheered It had been our favorite for over a year But we didn’t know it Because we didn’t know us But now we knew, because we were here. It felt like magic because it never happened Not in all the time of dating many strangers But something told us to pay close attention And, just this once, there was no danger. We were watching our life change course Something was happening that moved us. Fate was being a perfect lady and for sure She was with us and would never lose us. They played Jedarian and we both cheered It had been our favorite for over a year But we didn’t know it Because we didn’t know us But now we knew, because we were here. It had to be right that our song was played The gentle music and the mellow words Seemed to underscore the future of love It played, we sang along and we both heard. I never saw anyone in all my life and time Who so perfectly made me smile and speak. We started on our journey together then And after years, we have not reached the peak. They played Jedarian and we both cheered It had been our favorite for over a year But we didn’t know it Because we didn’t know us But now we knew, because we were here.
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Jan 12, 2017
Jan 12, 2017 at 1:52 PM UTC
JEDARIAN
Her face is a sour Washed out ugly gray Similar to that of dishwater With greenish clumps That closely resemble Floating milk clods in the Center of her face For eyes Her hair is a worn out Expanse of stringed greasy mess As if she'd dunked it into a fry cook's sink And left it to sit With the occasional underscore Of a darker, muddy brown Streaks of feces throughout her head For highlights Her body is such a frail Structure of porous bones and blood A once pure white is soiled with Brownish blood red speckles and smears Like the horrid remains of a wolf’s meal She can’t even hold herself up and she Shudders and shakes constantly like some Sort of like a hypothermic deadbeat She’s so undeniably ugly and Disgusting feeble and poor But how would you feel if I A relatively sane, accepted member of society Was able to see something in this horrid girl that I loved? You’d never accept it and you’d no longer recognize me For finding love the wasn’t perfectly suited to your ideals My love has to be pretty
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Jun 29, 2011
Jun 29, 2011 at 9:41 AM UTC
Perception Redone
there it is that reminder something is missing though i never had it what is it it was a plan i thought anyway a task i need to do maybe it's not important is it real did it exist maybe i'm broken is this a metaphor is this moment my whole life a string of useless empty thoughts another day another underscore
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Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015 at 1:59 AM UTC
Underscore
I'm sitting in a theater and watching my life on the screen Every song I've ever loved plays in the background I see myself underscored by lyrics I wish I wrote All of my moments are time perfectly To crescendo and dissolve on cue And it fades to black before we see my big decision Do I run from the edge? Do I hide myself away again? Or do I pursue the life I seem to crave, And earn my sweeping cinematic moment While my favorite song plays in the background? The credits roll and the music presses on And before long I realize That I've been staring out a car window Listening to music that makes my heart hurt And wishing that life were scripted Yet again
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May 9, 2016
May 9, 2016 at 3:01 AM UTC
Underscore
chugging a toxic concoction liquid glass underscore aftermath underscore bad omen honestly personally to me an omen is simply an omen no connotations you gotta do what the omen tells you to then you go and do the next thing no biggie dilate my pupils bless me tick tick tick tock tock whoooooooooooooooooooom and some fibonacci sequence song laced with electric guitar what good does this do you only ever speak in riddles havent you ever had some of that good wonton soup i thought so
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Aug 1, 2015
Aug 1, 2015 at 5:12 AM UTC
please i dont want my poem to be called untitled i want it to have an absent one title
Attempt to shine flickering figurative klieg light with the help of hyperbole on poverty wrought debutante material, this predicated on my own unbiased thought initially related during my early boyhood, how many countless bachelor beaus sought to pledge their troth, who hailed (strictly for purposes of this poem) from Pennsauken, Perth Amboy, Penobscot, but thee essential truth ought to be gleaned (lodged as like some precious gem within geode, qua Harriet Kuritsky, who oft times recounted her personal anecdotal information) underlying veritable truth, I allude means to underscore how thine late mum as the "baby" of her family wore mantle of exclusive favoritism, sans donning beautiful clothes perfectly cared for, coiffed, and curled hair (think Shirley Temple) as her older sisters brewed festered, and steeped with jealousy, asper me mother receiving lion's share of blatant favoritism all the while said long since deceased maternal aunts got exclude did from requisite (shut heard textbook case) maternal love, hence within their cerebral hood incubated, evolved, and flourished emotional disease affliction with changeable mood and thee Aunt Ruth oblivious, while pacing hallway in the **** whereat verbally abuse sent both aunts to mental institution insanity didst the ultimate discordant prelude resulting viz lifetime of baleful, hateful, shameful, and worthless venom got spewed, hence no surprise rabid mailer daemons courted, thus psychosis easily wooed.
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 4:11 PM UTC
Intimations Of My Late Mother As A Bachelorette
If I was to write an underscore, For my life, it would be full of changes, A sea of dissonance with tiny outcrops of safety, A deep, dark, angry piano, Broken through briefly with strings, And a flute to accompany my tears, As they gently crawled down my cheek, And there would be sudden key shifts Leading into bursts of understanding, And gentle nights of freedom, Growing slowly into a bright promise of a future, Filled with solos becoming a wall of brass, Gaining confidence until I would stand, And sing alone.
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Jan 12, 2017
Jan 12, 2017 at 7:30 PM UTC
Amplify
Watching The Signs Of Aging Watching the signs of aging; Ultimately, Finally An end. Notice, I don’t say THE end. Not a film, a flimsy bit of flimflam, A clouded artificiality, life imitated, intimated. As stated: A downgrading: witless and insensate, Thinning at the temples, Eyebrow hairs a crazy zigzag; Tummy more rotund and round; Fingers, which, however trained No longer want to grasp or grip. Compression of the whole foundation Underscore the downward trip. Aging signals watched with care – Obviously there! Involuntary! Glasses that you never needed; Tender spots you never heeded. Fragile scenes that make you weep. Couplets which you once thought cheap Resorted to, which you now keep. Compensations: pensions, patience; Many words that end in –pence Because, and just because All signs become a Santa Claus: Signs of good – That is, when you are in the mood. Stiff fingers finding newer ways to play piano, open jars, The mental auto-search a galaxy of syndrome-stars Bursting unused. No longer worrying ‘bout standards, You’ve your own. No need to join The middling crowd, The mediocre: in reality, the herd. Small ambitions, Minimized conditions All good and fine, but still Signs of aging ultimately will Win out. Watching The Signs Of Aging 12.5.2016 Circling Round Aging; Birth, Death & In Between II; Bath Book II; Arlene Corwin
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Dec 6, 2016
Dec 6, 2016 at 2:47 PM UTC
Watching The Signs Of Aging
I hear that plaintiff sound again, in far off... haunting celebration The passing train and people bound together, unknown destination And I, beside my fire become a mental traveler, in meditation I almost feel the rhythm of the rails... in quiet contemplation I close my eyes and quickly ride the stream... upon reflective wend My thoughts extend out endlessly, the flames and I... somehow transcend Reality now lies exempt, to witness restless dreams ascend Aboard this translunary journey, rendezvous... the Eastern wind Looking up, imagination dances in the cloudless skies The stars there offer bright solution, introspection?... improvised Then silently, a memory reveals itself to my surprise A glimpse of you, where just a trace of sorrow… sadly stains your eyes Again I hear the whistle blow, and like a thousand times before It seems to summon loneliness, with emptiness to underscore That there are things I placed upon your heart, that I must answer for I suddenly awake alone, the darkness there... and nothing more I rise to stoke the coals and so revive again... the warming flame And find I must submit, to thus reside in sorrows cruel domain The clouds are dropping down, to so release the storm on me ... again But as I drift to sleep, the dreams persist... and only these remain To hear that lonesome zephyr weep again, it’s mournful revelation Within the rain that falls upon my heart, resides my desperation Can heartaches headstone lie among the ruins, at the final station? I listen to the dear departed sounds of love… in revocation. Dean Evans 1-17-15
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Jan 18, 2015
Jan 18, 2015 at 7:29 PM UTC
LOVE...IN REVOCATION
I hear that plaintiff sound again, in far off... haunting celebration The passing train and people bound together, unknown destination And I, beside my fire become a mental traveler, in meditation I almost feel the rhythm of the rails... in quiet contemplation I close my eyes and quickly ride the stream... upon reflective wend My thoughts extend out endlessly, the flames and I... somehow transcend Reality now lies exempt, to witness restless dreams ascend Aboard this translunary journey, rendezvous... the Eastern wind Looking up, imagination dances in the cloudless skies The stars there offer bright solution, introspection?... improvised Then silently, a memory reveals itself to my surprise A glimpse of you, where just a trace of sorrow… sadly stains your eyes Again I hear the whistle blow, and like a thousand times before It seems to summon loneliness, with emptiness to underscore That there are things I placed upon your heart, that I must answer for I suddenly awake alone, the darkness there... and nothing more I rise to stoke the coals and so revive again... the warming flame And find I must submit, to thus reside in sorrows cruel domain The clouds are dropping down, to so release the storm on me ... again But as I drift to sleep, the dreams persist... and only these remain To hear that lonesome zephyr weep again, it’s mournful revelation Within the rain that falls upon my heart, resides my desperation Can heartaches headstone lie among the ruins, at the final station? I listen to the dear departed sounds of love… in revocation. Dean Evans 1-17-15
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Don't worry ‘bout me: I have a nice panga, A pretty assegai, a Chukchi yaranga, And I can start fire with some thin tiny twigs By touching them a bit with my fishnet stockings. In the Atlas I tamed the last of the lions; In the Ngorongoro cheetahs feared my irons; In the Rocky Mountains I made all grizzlies pant; And in Tamil Nadu tigers purred in my hand. ‘Cuz for kisses, it’s true: I do never resist, And every man I like, I track him on the pist, I find him and ****** and finally kiss him. As for peeled vultures though, hillbilly noisy dogs, Big black or green mambas, stinky naughty warthogs: I do always cook them but never embrace them... Read by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth : Please note: In the link address, the word "UNDERSCORE" (2x) has to be replaced by the typographic sign of the underscore (Alt+095). https://www.cjoint.com/doc/18UNDERSCORE05/HEzhgrx8p4AUNDERSCOREIn-love-in-the.mp3
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May 25, 2018
May 25, 2018 at 4:17 AM UTC
Her Majesty's reading: In love in the big bush, I now go hunting