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"unloaded" poems
Sitting on the bathroom floor with a gun in your hand Knees pulled up to your chest Your head rests on your knees Your shoulders shaking cause you're laughing and crying Gun to the side of your head "Are you gonna do it?" Find the sweet release when the bullet leaves the barrel of the gun and enters your brain Click The gun's empty I am not dying The gun's unloaded I do this every time Never strong enough to take the bullet And never strong enough to let anyone see me like this Always weak enough to be messed up like this Always thinking, always wishing I put a bullet in
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 1:39 PM UTC
Gun Trigger
Regrets, they come in waves and break around his feet And he begins to wonder who he might have been Had roads diverged in different woods and fields Not yellow or yet any colour still unseen But clearer now by day than windless nights Still nearer than the objects of his dreams It'd rained late into the evening, and when the lights were shaded Around the pool outside and with the windows shuttered He'd thrown on loose clothes, flicked open an umbrella While high outside the stars the lightning flashes muttered Pulled open doors that led to the veranda And moved outside once more with all his thoughts unuttered The smoke, from fires on Java lies heavy on his senses An omen of the time of year and of the past condition He shrugs, ***** in the acidic nighttime odors Reviving lives not lived but revealing his admission That time beyond the present that mirrors every movement Within, without, and yet again, the flicker of suspicion. The pistol in his pocket, illegal not unloaded A symbol of his state of mind and by  his sole discretion He kneels beside the water, deep-set and in the shadows Lips forming wordlessly around the last confession Images of where and what and who and why and whether A portent of that final action, sensing and impression The smoke from fires on Java lies heavy on the water The reek of cordite mixing with the smell of burning grasses Indignant birds protest the crack of one small set expulsion The echo round the swimming pool reverberates and passes Nothing more and nothing less and time and space and matter Slick red upon the treacherous tiles, the shattered bloodied glasses.
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Apr 23, 2013
Apr 23, 2013 at 6:19 AM UTC
Fires On Java
Regrets, they come in waves and break around his feet And he begins to wonder who he might have been Had roads diverged in different woods and fields Not yellow or yet any colour still unseen But clearer now by day than windless nights Still nearer than the objects of his dreams It'd rained late into the evening, and when the lights were shaded Around the pool outside and with the windows shuttered He'd thrown on loose clothes, flicked open an umbrella While high outside the stars the lightning flashes muttered Pulled open doors that led to the veranda And moved outside once more with all his thoughts unuttered The smoke, from fires on Java lies heavy on his senses An omen of the time of year and of the past condition He shrugs, ***** in the acidic nighttime odors Reviving lives not lived but revealing his admission That time beyond the present that mirrors every movement Within, without, and yet again, the flicker of suspicion. The pistol in his pocket, illegal not unloaded A symbol of his state of mind and by  his sole discretion He kneels beside the water, deep-set and in the shadows Lips forming wordlessly around the last confession Images of where and what and who and why and whether A portent of that final action, sensing and impression The smoke from fires on Java lies heavy on the water The reek of cordite mixing with the smell of burning grasses Indignant birds protest the crack of one small set expulsion The echo round the swimming pool reverberates and passes Nothing more and nothing less and time and space and matter Slick red upon the treacherous tiles, the shattered bloodied glasses.
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Mind of mine, you alien child. I spoon-fed you for many years. I pretended it was a plane in some cases and the things you spat out I fed to you again. Mind of mine, you shadow of a melody. Homeless drifter on the A41 with a 5 stringed guitar and no common sense. Begging for a shoelace to tie on whilst you go hungry. Mind of mine, you nervous gun clip. You know you’re unloaded so your barrel droops like a snowdrop. No hippie can put a flower in you. and your shakes are breaking my wrist. Mind of mine, you scar butterfly-collector. Snatching red admirals with a chameleon tongue and when you stitch them in their red eyes close on dusty wings. I know you’re lying when you can’t feel a thing. Mind of mine, You’re a ****** full of love and a belly full of drugs. Positive negative flip, as love is in electrics and you’re still such a bad liar to tell me it’s anything else. Mind of mine, I can be such a bad parent to you and an even worse child.
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Nov 25, 2013
Nov 25, 2013 at 6:42 PM UTC
Mind of mine
The glass of wine spins on sins Encircling the royal roulette All rotating on a hamster wheel Pinned on canvas and illusional walls So tiny in errors and unbalanced books Unaccounted annotated distributions Twisting hands on colluded coils Deeper projections from the heart An eruption of the social notions Extracted on the paradise of life For no truth echoes authenticity Eccentrically finding a lived reality Plato symposiums and simulacrums Pavlov trails of social conditioning Sampled in tented objectifications Functioning within the invisible rules We sniffle as we expose the false actuality Reactive explosions from robust heat Unloaded rods dancing under the moon In our tenderness rejecting the paradigm
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Mar 4, 2016
Mar 4, 2016 at 1:03 PM UTC
Paradigm Distortion
— for the American Mustang Strung up on one leg, bled dry while alive, unloaded off trailers crammed full of the crippled and blind —mares giving birth on three legs, foals trampled by stallions, and a wave of fear hovering over tossing manes like the sea after Moby **** surfaced for the first time. Last year, 135,000 horses died — rounded up in hundreds and sent off to slaughter like feeder goldfish, three stops from Canada or Cabo, displaced from plains once revered for their livelihood. In 1969, Vonnegut wrote, “And so it goes…” In 2061, our children will ask about the wild horses who used to live in their backyards as they catch the last fireflies and bottle them up in jars, flickering and dying like tired bulbs giving up on electricity — 2015 sees Henderson, Nevada grasses paying tribute to power-plant-lines and a suburb built on Tralfamadore fiction: house-mounds and picket fences caging domesticated dogs, curb-lined streets and caution signs, billboard warnings of humanity’s fixation with progression, combined like coffee with an overabundance of half-and-half and too much sugar — only 99 cents at Dunkin down a little ways, and home to the dreamers who forget the word freedom.
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Apr 27, 2015
Apr 27, 2015 at 4:05 PM UTC
Slaughterhouse 2015
I lived once ago before death Came and took my soul away My hoodie is stained with blood and ash I am so lost they worry as well To how we got to this hell I ask them stories to reclaim my brain One girl says she was on a date The man she met was nice and sweet Until it was a quarter til eight He grew very strange and became irate He pulled her to the back o no Quickly unzipped his pants to ****** She felt so much pain and shame After he stopped he drew a gun Cocked it shot her then smiled and run How horrible I thought to die like that I asked a boy no older than 6 He said he is here but don’t know why His story was like a newspaper blackeye Playing with blocks while mom cook grits The door opened up his brother walked in To give a toy that he always liked It was an army man just like his dad But then that’s when his shirt turned plaid His shirt stained with red lines all over He grew real cold his mother in tears It seemed his brothers gang life came home Two stories with endings that ached my dome As I walked past a tv I saw My truth being told to me “17 year-old walking back from school With music in ears the hood on top However his life would see a drop A man called in with a compliant And the cops came looking for a mess But found a boy who they drew at Behind his back their guns are raised 4 stop movings 0 warning shots and then Un phased they unloaded their glocks He fell another live lost.” My heart It drops now I see why the stain We are all victims of violence or fear The world just throws us away like beer I miss my mom I miss my color I miss my skin I miss my hair I miss knowing that I knew love Now I know my life was never Going to fit in this world like a Hand in a glove
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Jul 17, 2018
Jul 17, 2018 at 7:46 PM UTC
Black teenage zombie
I lived once ago before death Came and took my soul away My hoodie is stained with blood and ash I am so lost they worry as well To how we got to this hell I ask them stories to reclaim my brain One girl says she was on a date The man she met was nice and sweet Until it was a quarter til eight He grew very strange and became irate He pulled her to the back o no Quickly unzipped his pants to ****** She felt so much pain and shame After he stopped he drew a gun Cocked it shot her then smiled and run How horrible I thought to die like that I asked a boy no older than 6 He said he is here but don’t know why His story was like a newspaper blackeye Playing with blocks while mom cook grits The door opened up his brother walked in To give a toy that he always liked It was an army man just like his dad But then that’s when his shirt turned plaid His shirt stained with red lines all over He grew real cold his mother in tears It seemed his brothers gang life came home Two stories with endings that ached my dome As I walked past a tv I saw My truth being told to me “17 year-old walking back from school With music in ears the hood on top However his life would see a drop A man called in with a compliant And the cops came looking for a mess But found a boy who they drew at Behind his back their guns are raised 4 stop movings 0 warning shots and then Un phased they unloaded their glocks He fell another live lost.” My heart It drops now I see why the stain We are all victims of violence or fear The world just throws us away like beer I miss my mom I miss my color I miss my skin I miss my hair I miss knowing that I knew love Now I know my life was never Going to fit in this world like a Hand in a glove
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*T'was a month before Christmas and lights needed hanging. The tree needed trimming, (my headache was banging). "The stocking were hung on the chimney with care..." While electrical chords, were strewn everywhere. I unloaded boxes of tree decorations And listened to carols from old AM stations. "When out on the lawn, there arose such a clatter...." I hurried outside to see what was the matter. Over-reaching the hedges, the ladder gave way. And then I saw, in the bushes he lay. After shocking himself with a faulty light socket, His tootsie roll'd melted, inside of his pocket. He stumbled and bumbled, untangling the strands Replacing the burnouts and cutting his hands. The ordeal was finished. At last! What a feat! (Then one strand burned out, as we watched from the street.)*
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Nov 25, 2017
Nov 25, 2017 at 10:36 AM UTC
And the Lights were all Strung
i got a second hand film camera a pentax k-1000 already it was slightly rusted and stained in some parts but i didn't mind it made me think about its story and the stories of the ones who've owned it before— where has this camera gone? what has it seen? did the previous photographers behind it love it as much as i do now? whose very hands have twisted the lens, fixed the camera's focus, and pressed the shutter button? who else has meticulously loaded and unloaded film into it, time and time again? and more importantly, will i be able to capture wonders of life through its lenses in the same way others might have done before me?
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Oct 30, 2016
Oct 30, 2016 at 12:58 PM UTC
thoughts on my second hand camera
you are foolish to think that pointing the gun directly at me will make me fear you. hovering your finger over the trigger, will not do the damage that intend it to, if i have already unloaded the bullets. but to my dismay, the damage is already done. as i look over my shoulder, i can see the shattered mirror, and a pool of blood seeping through the carpet. in the end, i became the monster that everyone always warned me about. it does not live under the bed. neither is it hiding in the closet. but it stares back at me when i look at the mirror.
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Feb 6, 2023
Feb 6, 2023 at 3:09 PM UTC
powerless
Everything is art. The ground you walk on, your cloud of thoughts in the sky And the sunset's a splash of orange paint, spilled on your canvas waiting to dry See everything just wants you to stop and notice it.. Go get your paint brush and show me, what you're currently in awe with Everything is great Honest words that come easily, And the way a person looks when they dance freely Everything is great.... but I'm not fine? And everything is art... but all i see are random lines. Every day is filled with something new. Only difference is I'm feeling more restless I tried taking half a pill and woke up With the same migraine i slept with Oh everything's a blur. Traffic lights and busy nights, Thoughts pounding; thoughts pleading Everything's a mess Even the structure of this poem Thoughts crying, thoughts screaming Oh everything i say Just comes across as so awkward I tried to write a poem about art About love About stars And pretty words I tried to rhyme my love for you With some random **** like dove shampoo Oh everything's coming out unfiltered and sorry its unloaded all onto you.. Maybe everything's just in our minds.. Our fears, our delusions.. I'm sure the universe is too busy existing as art; to be plotting against all us humans.. And you are wonderfulll, so beautiful It wouldn't be a typical poem, if i didn't mention that at all Not everything is black and white Sometimes there's drops of pink and grey But when they told me to paint them a picture of what love meant to me, I took a pen and some paper, and just spelled out your name.
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Dec 11, 2015
Dec 11, 2015 at 5:06 PM UTC
Messy Thoughts & Pretty One Liners
Everything is art. The ground you walk on, your cloud of thoughts in the sky And the sunset's a splash of orange paint, spilled on your canvas waiting to dry See everything just wants you to stop and notice it.. Go get your paint brush and show me, what you're currently in awe with Everything is great Honest words that come easily, And the way a person looks when they dance freely Everything is great.... but I'm not fine? And everything is art... but all i see are random lines. Every day is filled with something new. Only difference is I'm feeling more restless I tried taking half a pill and woke up With the same migraine i slept with Oh everything's a blur. Traffic lights and busy nights, Thoughts pounding; thoughts pleading Everything's a mess Even the structure of this poem Thoughts crying, thoughts screaming Oh everything i say Just comes across as so awkward I tried to write a poem about art About love About stars And pretty words I tried to rhyme my love for you With some random **** like dove shampoo Oh everything's coming out unfiltered and sorry its unloaded all onto you.. Maybe everything's just in our minds.. Our fears, our delusions.. I'm sure the universe is too busy existing as art; to be plotting against all us humans.. And you are wonderfulll, so beautiful It wouldn't be a typical poem, if i didn't mention that at all Not everything is black and white Sometimes there's drops of pink and grey But when they told me to paint them a picture of what love meant to me, I took a pen and some paper, and just spelled out your name.
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I bought a carton of eggs this morning. Just a dozen. Along with about $100 of other groceries I needed. I didn't need the eggs though. That is to say, that I didn't need to buy them. (See, my sister has four fully grown chickens who lay enough eggs to cover her family's needs and then some. More eggs than she knows what to do with, honestly, and I could've easily gone to her place to get the dozen instead of buying it at the store.) But I didn't, as a matter of convenience. It was simpler to buy them while I was at the store; to make one trip instead of two. But then, when I was unloading the cart of groceries into the trunk of my car, that carton of eggs I bought, which (unbeknownst to me) had been placed on top of a 12 pack of toilet paper which toppled over after becoming unbalanced without the support of the other grocery bags that I had already unloaded, came crashing down. They hit the parking-lot cement with a smack. "Oh no, not the eggs!" That's what I'd said. I seriously said that out loud. I picked up the bag with the fallen eggs in it. I opened the carton to see if they were alright, though I already knew at least a few had broken. 5, maybe 6. Maybe more. I don't know how many broke exactly, just looking at it made me sick. I walked the dripping bag back up to the entrance (after playing with the idea of going back in and being like: "Hey, my eggs broke in the parking lot because your inept bagger's idea of how to stack groceries was clearly inspired by the game Jenga. I demand a new carton of eggs!") but instead I just tossed them. The whole carton. I'll just go to my sister's house before breakfast tomorrow.
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Oct 19, 2017
Oct 19, 2017 at 4:02 AM UTC
A Matter Of Convenience or (Giving Up On Your Dreams for the Sake of Financial Independence and A Little More Comfort)
I bought a carton of eggs this morning. Just a dozen. Along with about $100 of other groceries I needed. I didn't need the eggs though. That is to say, that I didn't need to buy them. (See, my sister has four fully grown chickens who lay enough eggs to cover her family's needs and then some. More eggs than she knows what to do with, honestly, and I could've easily gone to her place to get the dozen instead of buying it at the store.) But I didn't, as a matter of convenience. It was simpler to buy them while I was at the store; to make one trip instead of two. But then, when I was unloading the cart of groceries into the trunk of my car, that carton of eggs I bought, which (unbeknownst to me) had been placed on top of a 12 pack of toilet paper which toppled over after becoming unbalanced without the support of the other grocery bags that I had already unloaded, came crashing down. They hit the parking-lot cement with a smack. "Oh no, not the eggs!" That's what I'd said. I seriously said that out loud. I picked up the bag with the fallen eggs in it. I opened the carton to see if they were alright, though I already knew at least a few had broken. 5, maybe 6. Maybe more. I don't know how many broke exactly, just looking at it made me sick. I walked the dripping bag back up to the entrance (after playing with the idea of going back in and being like: "Hey, my eggs broke in the parking lot because your inept bagger's idea of how to stack groceries was clearly inspired by the game Jenga. I demand a new carton of eggs!") but instead I just tossed them. The whole carton. I'll just go to my sister's house before breakfast tomorrow.
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I am a physician.Last fall, I had a very interesting conversation with a patient who is a trucker. I asked her if she knew anything about deep underground military bases, and then I played ignorant to see what she would say. Without further prompting, she informed me she is an independent contractor trucker, driving 18-wheeler rigs cross-country. She said the bases are real and are located all over the country, "especially under the mountains out West". She said one of her main contracts over the last few years has been with DHS. She said there are underground roads running all over the United States, connecting the underground facilities. She said she has personally delivered many truckloads of supplies to the underground facilities. For each DHS shipment/delivery, there was a stack of non-disclosure forms about (by her description) six inches thick she had to sign. DHS would attach a tracking device to her truck for each of these shipments and monitor her truck's every move. She would be told where to go to accept delivery for each shipment. In each case, she would be escorted by guards "with machine guns" away from her truck, so she could not see what was being loaded into her rig. The truck would then be locked by a large lock with a ring 'as big around as your finger", which had to be torch-cut off at the time of delivery. When she would make deliveries, often within underground facilities, she would again be escorted away from the truck by armed guards, the lock would be cut off, and the goods would be unloaded. She said the only shipped goods she ever saw in these DHS shipments were stackable black plastic things that looked like coffins. She told be the gov't is getting ready for a collapse, which she told be she expected might happen as early as late 2014. She also told me she thinks the gov't has just about everything is needs stored underground, because the number of DHS shipments has been declining. I asked her if she would be willing to have lunch with me and tell me more. She replied, "yes", but afterwards when I contacted her, she had changed her mind and would not talk further about it with me. Another pt of mine, whom I saw within about a week of this lady, is a local trucker, but he told me that he has lots of friends who are truckers, and through them, he said he had learned that there are "thousands of miles of underground roads" running across the country, connecting underground gov't facilities. He had just recently, in fact, heard among his trucker friends of a shipment of frozen meat being shipped to one such underground facility, totaling four million pounds of meat.
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Apr 5, 2015
Apr 5, 2015 at 2:19 PM UTC
U.S. Government Prepares For Collapse
I am a physician.Last fall, I had a very interesting conversation with a patient who is a trucker. I asked her if she knew anything about deep underground military bases, and then I played ignorant to see what she would say. Without further prompting, she informed me she is an independent contractor trucker, driving 18-wheeler rigs cross-country. She said the bases are real and are located all over the country, "especially under the mountains out West". She said one of her main contracts over the last few years has been with DHS. She said there are underground roads running all over the United States, connecting the underground facilities. She said she has personally delivered many truckloads of supplies to the underground facilities. For each DHS shipment/delivery, there was a stack of non-disclosure forms about (by her description) six inches thick she had to sign. DHS would attach a tracking device to her truck for each of these shipments and monitor her truck's every move. She would be told where to go to accept delivery for each shipment. In each case, she would be escorted by guards "with machine guns" away from her truck, so she could not see what was being loaded into her rig. The truck would then be locked by a large lock with a ring 'as big around as your finger", which had to be torch-cut off at the time of delivery. When she would make deliveries, often within underground facilities, she would again be escorted away from the truck by armed guards, the lock would be cut off, and the goods would be unloaded. She said the only shipped goods she ever saw in these DHS shipments were stackable black plastic things that looked like coffins. She told be the gov't is getting ready for a collapse, which she told be she expected might happen as early as late 2014. She also told me she thinks the gov't has just about everything is needs stored underground, because the number of DHS shipments has been declining. I asked her if she would be willing to have lunch with me and tell me more. She replied, "yes", but afterwards when I contacted her, she had changed her mind and would not talk further about it with me. Another pt of mine, whom I saw within about a week of this lady, is a local trucker, but he told me that he has lots of friends who are truckers, and through them, he said he had learned that there are "thousands of miles of underground roads" running across the country, connecting underground gov't facilities. He had just recently, in fact, heard among his trucker friends of a shipment of frozen meat being shipped to one such underground facility, totaling four million pounds of meat.
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The night sky spits crystalized drops of clarity. I stand with eyes painted black My lips painted red And ponder my reality. Unloaded amps, keyboards, guitars take up more space Then my heart can create room for Erratic beats and flailing feet explode my sense of peace and I'm caught in the harsh whipping of the vibrating music played too loud to hold any resonance its only purpose to push the sweat to dancers skin. This music which I normally love so much Falls flat to ears accustomed to the screams of suffocating ideals and I forget why I am here. I forget why these arms love his with a tired affection that withstands his sublimations and holds his faults in a place where everything he creates is perfect. We are not perfect. This rain falls in thin sheets intermingling with tears that suddenly appear on my flushed cheeks and I taste salt. Throughout the infinities trapped in teenage years I find Its taste a fading memory a paling reminder to how submissive I have become and before I can remember exactly where it's from Its gone and I am left with arms full of his music gear and a heart too full to hold with only two hands. He calls back to see if I need help and I say no because what are you going to say when you are shattering and do not know why.
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Feb 13, 2016
Feb 13, 2016 at 2:10 AM UTC
Street Lights
I'm tired of fighting these wars, taking your bullets, and bleeding for months. But if you ever took your gun, unloaded it, and walked away, that would be the greatest pain I'd ever face. Please don't go.
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Jul 31, 2013
Jul 31, 2013 at 3:58 PM UTC
Please Don't Go
Outside Stockholm in that base camp having put up the tents and unloaded the bags and suitcases from the top of the truck you walked with Moira to the camp cafe and order two beers and burgers and fries and looked out the window at the spread of tents over the campsite and Moira said if I have to share a tent with that Yank girl another night I’ll go mad her and her talk and boasting of how many men she’s ******* and where she’s been and what she’s done and always wearing that leather gear all black and tight showing her backside and small **** and so Moira went on and you listened half heartedly wondering what Judith was doing in Florence and who she was with and if she remembered you and would bring you back some gift like she did from Amsterdam that postcard of a Chagall print which you pinned to your wall and if she so much as boasts of her education once more I’ll break her FECKING JAW Moira said loudly so that people nearby turned their heads and stared your thoughts of Judith blew away and the image of the Chagall print pinned to your bedroom wall maybe she’ll sleep elsewhere you said who else to sleep with? she said huh? who else is there? what about that Yorkshire girl? you asked maybe she will I’ll ask Moira said can only say no and she sat and thought and sipped her beer and the other people looked away and returned to their conversations and you sipped yours taking note of her small hands and plumpish fingers and the small ******* pushing through the tight tee shirt and the small silver crucifix hanging down between and her moving chin and you wondered how well she ******* but didn’t ask being you thought rather rude.
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 3:45 AM UTC
MOIRA OUTSIDE STOCKHOLM.
Outside Stockholm in that base camp having put up the tents and unloaded the bags and suitcases from the top of the truck you walked with Moira to the camp cafe and order two beers and burgers and fries and looked out the window at the spread of tents over the campsite and Moira said if I have to share a tent with that Yank girl another night I’ll go mad her and her talk and boasting of how many men she’s ******* and where she’s been and what she’s done and always wearing that leather gear all black and tight showing her backside and small **** and so Moira went on and you listened half heartedly wondering what Judith was doing in Florence and who she was with and if she remembered you and would bring you back some gift like she did from Amsterdam that postcard of a Chagall print which you pinned to your wall and if she so much as boasts of her education once more I’ll break her FECKING JAW Moira said loudly so that people nearby turned their heads and stared your thoughts of Judith blew away and the image of the Chagall print pinned to your bedroom wall maybe she’ll sleep elsewhere you said who else to sleep with? she said huh? who else is there? what about that Yorkshire girl? you asked maybe she will I’ll ask Moira said can only say no and she sat and thought and sipped her beer and the other people looked away and returned to their conversations and you sipped yours taking note of her small hands and plumpish fingers and the small ******* pushing through the tight tee shirt and the small silver crucifix hanging down between and her moving chin and you wondered how well she ******* but didn’t ask being you thought rather rude.
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Blast it! We've put our eggs in the wrong basket, and now Little Liberty has dropped them. She's dropped them. She's dropped them! She certainly did, She dropped them! Each egg splits, cracks, breaks, all despite Liberty's bleeding colors. Faded, young hatching prematurely; before their time. Liberty heard her love- boyish ruckus in The Bush. Hurriedly she did run; giving all her aide. Unfortunately, careless Liberty did not see: All our eggs are handled irresponsibly. Soon after little Liberty's Bush date, she saw what she could only surmount to fate: Poster slapped to said Holy Tree, plastered with Allah's face. Hating those jihadist anyway, Ignorant Liberty unloaded her bounty- upon the sacred man's face.   It took a while till Liberty thought, looking down, but by then, we all thought it all too late. But ,Little Liberty being supreme, (totally Grade A,) finally remembered to put the lid down. Ah, now that should seal our fate, her reasoning as she bounced and pranced away. But just before she reached her people, her sickness burst, her pride was shook, she couldn't show her face. Afraid of what her people might say- she reopened said lid, state of panic flipped the basket promptly 'round. All the little eggs crumbling to the ground. Babies dispersed; Children burnt and broken; not to mention all the vital yolk; nasty stuff and what a mess- now onward to face my people. But all is well; she gives her spiel about the alleged evil-doers. People line-up, hypnotized- ready to give their last; service, duty, and loyalty too all for Little Miss Liberty. Quite the siren, ain't she?
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Jul 30, 2014
Jul 30, 2014 at 10:50 PM UTC
Lady Liberty
Blast it! We've put our eggs in the wrong basket, and now Little Liberty has dropped them. She's dropped them. She's dropped them! She certainly did, She dropped them! Each egg splits, cracks, breaks, all despite Liberty's bleeding colors. Faded, young hatching prematurely; before their time. Liberty heard her love- boyish ruckus in The Bush. Hurriedly she did run; giving all her aide. Unfortunately, careless Liberty did not see: All our eggs are handled irresponsibly. Soon after little Liberty's Bush date, she saw what she could only surmount to fate: Poster slapped to said Holy Tree, plastered with Allah's face. Hating those jihadist anyway, Ignorant Liberty unloaded her bounty- upon the sacred man's face.   It took a while till Liberty thought, looking down, but by then, we all thought it all too late. But ,Little Liberty being supreme, (totally Grade A,) finally remembered to put the lid down. Ah, now that should seal our fate, her reasoning as she bounced and pranced away. But just before she reached her people, her sickness burst, her pride was shook, she couldn't show her face. Afraid of what her people might say- she reopened said lid, state of panic flipped the basket promptly 'round. All the little eggs crumbling to the ground. Babies dispersed; Children burnt and broken; not to mention all the vital yolk; nasty stuff and what a mess- now onward to face my people. But all is well; she gives her spiel about the alleged evil-doers. People line-up, hypnotized- ready to give their last; service, duty, and loyalty too all for Little Miss Liberty. Quite the siren, ain't she?
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Every child of ten knows the universe is a jagged shape edged by home and park and school and market - at least that’s the way I knew it and all the world’s kids went to McKinley school and everyone's dad worked at Lincoln Park Tool while mother stayed at home. So my entire universe was shaken to shards when father broke news that we soon would be moving to a distant galaxy a dozen miles away - entirely peopled by aliens. Well it wasn’t so bleak after all - my brother and little sister were allowed to come with us and we kept the same grandparents too. New friends popped up everywhere like rainbows of tulips in May. The house was fresh and new but seriously lacked a lawn. so a rusty old truck rumbled up and dumped us a mountain of soil. Seizing the obvious challenge, I put a shovel to its intended use - moving and spreading non-stop until Mom called us to dinner then went back and shoveled ‘til dark. The pile was nearly leveled by afternoon next as Dad turned his fifty-three Ford into our driveway - hitting the horn to call me over, “Son I need your help.” Dropping my shovel I sped to the open trunk and stared in disbelief. In an ecstatic yelp produced only by ten year old boys I circled Dad's waist with my arms, then gratefully unloaded the best yellow scooter in this or any other galaxy. September,  2008
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Mar 7, 2015
Mar 7, 2015 at 1:54 AM UTC
The Yellow Scooter
Rocks, Dirt, Flesh & Bone, Under my feet, I search for space, For my grief to breath, What has become of this Man? When a woman’s light touch, Can lift a heavy heart, Rifle strapped on my back, Ammunition carried in a sack, My weapon is unloaded, Blood & Guts, Is the War over? Or did I lose the first battle? Can I really go home? I’ve changed, become estranged, Do you want me? I think of you, as I wander through the fog, across the lazy jungle Anticipating the burning pain to pierce my armor, Letting me feel, In a dream, I held you in my arms, Felt you dying, Unrelenting sadness, I’m powerless, You turn to me, and whisper, Your Journey is over; it ends here in my arms, Your tears wash my face It’s me, It’s you, It’s Us I turn and watch the zipper slide over my eyes, Into darkness. Firewalker
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Nov 24, 2014
Nov 24, 2014 at 2:21 PM UTC
Rocks
See her, skinny lassie - so aware, stood there at the counter. The eyes lifted from papers, hooded and guilty, leering under sunglasses. She knows nothing, thinks she's in charge. Bless her. Whatever's going to break her hasn't happened yet. Makes me shudder, the thought. The painful innocence. "Just a fruit smoothie, please!" she sparkles at the man. Thinks his approval is unloaded, worth seeking. No eyes on me. Glances fall off me. If I catch a look, I see it turn to embarrassment, pity or scorn. Firing blanks, guys. I'll take those over possessiveness, lust, crawling promises. Over saccharine strychnine strangler smiles, over violence, veiled as love. Your attention is toxic. Better show it as such. "Chips and cheese, please," I wheeze, and his sneer is a klaxon of cruel jokes he'll share with colleagues later. Those are the tiny victories of victimhood, as the twirling girl inside stays protected, unsuspected.
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Aug 29, 2016
Aug 29, 2016 at 12:34 PM UTC
Better than a Burka
Drip, drip, drip. Something falls on the floor. Something is loaded. Click, it's a clip. A hammering on the door. Something exploded. Skip, skip, skip. Kids play outside, class is a bore. "That's so gay," the older ones goaded. Slip, it's a pistol grip. Kids fight outside, it's all blood and gore. "That's so gay." His sanity eroded. Whip, whip, whip. A prisoner screams, tell me more. Broken, his ****** body corroded. Flip, it's a jeep by the gaza strip. It's not worth it, the leader's a ***** The refugee food unloaded.
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Apr 26, 2015
Apr 26, 2015 at 4:01 PM UTC
This Means War
We often think that the baggage we carry Needs to be unloaded Onto someone else Something else Like a hobby Or a lover "You can't have me if you can't handle my past" But what, my dear, Does your past have to do with what's near? Did your baggage wake you up and buy you coffee this morning? Did it put its jacket over a puddle so your shoes wouldn't get wet Does it whisper sweet nothing's into your ear when you lie down Tell me, Does your baggage watch you paint Does it love your beauty when you are vulnerable Yet also when you're strong Your baggage is not you I will not lift it off of your shoulders (Only God can do that) But I will teach you make it weigh less If you'd just give me the chance
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Aug 16, 2013
Aug 16, 2013 at 12:54 AM UTC
Baggage
A change of scenery and a new life. An innocent beginning, as all beginnings seem to be. Still, after all these years remnants of that incipience still remain. **A new adventure Packed, moved, unloaded, emptied All but for a few** Boxes with pieces of me packed away and disregarded. Never to bask in the sun or live in all their glory. Too little too late. Like a lost retainer straining to fit shifted teeth, they no longer belong to me these bits and pieces. **Long since forgotten Secrets held within their walls Hiding shattered dreams** They had gone unnoticed for so long. Yet, the secrets of how I came to be the me before you, remain in those dusty boxes, so neatly stacked and so easily overlooked. They may no longer fit the puzzle, but they are still part of the picture adding splashes of color and bringing zeal and **Artful shading To my self-portrait painted in hues of joy and pain**
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Jun 23, 2010
Jun 23, 2010 at 10:53 PM UTC
Bits and Pieces (a Haibun)
We shed our gap-toothed gentleman coats and ran white skinned into a purple river, George (a weak swimmer) grabbed handfuls of reeds as the water undid a fantasy of clouds. Our feet found love with the edges of rocks and our swimming trunks unloaded the stink of chlorine into the cold bright dark light miracle of water, our reflections broken into champagne pieces and beautiful as only two laughing boys can be. How clichéd to be lost in the heart of the morning, as George sat with his orange juice like an illustration drawn by the most lighthearted of artists, a little prince against a backdrop of blooming baoabs that shrugged behind him like green diamonds with the tunes of birds still clinging to their leaves. How deeply romantic I was at fourteen - too young to have read Brideshead Revisited, too old to have gazed at George’s hair and seen a simple tumble of boring blond. This was the summer that ached with everything, like a muscle throbbing during tennis reminding you you’re playing as best you can. That summer was the shimmering pause between two acts of a dismal play - our childhood not yet left behind, lingering like a tan line on the shoulders of joy. One night we drank lemonade out of brandy glasses and sat together in the biggest bath you’ve ever seen, winding our wrists together to sip from each others drinks, his hair was dark and damp at the tips and there were bubbles everywhere. Such things I remember, the gentleness of first love and the way it shapes each love to come, I’m still a sucker for blonds and a gallant lover of summers spent as they should be spent: in water baby England, with the countryside humming inside your ears, and the sunlight warming up the grass to greet your feet after swimming in rivers, and to wind down at night with a friend who is beautiful, and to kiss them just once, near the ear and only here, to wish them goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
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Oct 18, 2013
Oct 18, 2013 at 11:03 AM UTC
summer, aged 14
We shed our gap-toothed gentleman coats and ran white skinned into a purple river, George (a weak swimmer) grabbed handfuls of reeds as the water undid a fantasy of clouds. Our feet found love with the edges of rocks and our swimming trunks unloaded the stink of chlorine into the cold bright dark light miracle of water, our reflections broken into champagne pieces and beautiful as only two laughing boys can be. How clichéd to be lost in the heart of the morning, as George sat with his orange juice like an illustration drawn by the most lighthearted of artists, a little prince against a backdrop of blooming baoabs that shrugged behind him like green diamonds with the tunes of birds still clinging to their leaves. How deeply romantic I was at fourteen - too young to have read Brideshead Revisited, too old to have gazed at George’s hair and seen a simple tumble of boring blond. This was the summer that ached with everything, like a muscle throbbing during tennis reminding you you’re playing as best you can. That summer was the shimmering pause between two acts of a dismal play - our childhood not yet left behind, lingering like a tan line on the shoulders of joy. One night we drank lemonade out of brandy glasses and sat together in the biggest bath you’ve ever seen, winding our wrists together to sip from each others drinks, his hair was dark and damp at the tips and there were bubbles everywhere. Such things I remember, the gentleness of first love and the way it shapes each love to come, I’m still a sucker for blonds and a gallant lover of summers spent as they should be spent: in water baby England, with the countryside humming inside your ears, and the sunlight warming up the grass to greet your feet after swimming in rivers, and to wind down at night with a friend who is beautiful, and to kiss them just once, near the ear and only here, to wish them goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
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delicate lovely romantically depressed poetically broken not at all. just a sick naïve little girl with an unloaded gun and a wrist full of scars
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Jan 11, 2014
Jan 11, 2014 at 2:20 PM UTC
You're Not as Sad as You Think You Are