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"utility" poems
when you understand my poems perfectly then, their utility is inutile, their usefulness is, will. always be, in the nth   *reinterpretation, a million and still counting, as long as you must guess at its labyrinth inner wired construct, be pleasured by the roiled and rolled curves upon your tongue, two lives (yours, mine), a paired wine tasting, we together, believing in the greatness of joyous frustration some say, as I do, the world is better for the utility of thine own struggled understanding, the truest combination of two way communication, surpassed only by our at last armed embrace,* when at last we understand our mutuality of need and salve...
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May 8, 2019
May 8, 2019 at 9:47 AM UTC
when you understand my poems perfectly then
‘I am…’ 'Or am I’? Who can say? ‘A posteriori’ leads the way For the extra and the ordinary Axiomatic sway, In the gravity of corollary, ‘A priori’ interplay Ataraxic overlay of anxious automation, As the innocence of dissonance delay. Practicing semantic contemplation, In willfully prevenient interpolation, Civilly disobedient in expediently seeming disarray, Forecasts in vague extrapolation Contrasts the millennial contagion Already underway, Filling nihilistic voids with particles in waves, To interpret dreams of Freud to free Oedipus’s slaves, A degreeless scholastic who never misbehaves, Simulated humanoid dramatic in the affect that he craves, Inflating linguistics in acrobatic raves, A thespian who plans conation with legacy engraves. The probabilistic determiner of cosmogenous debates, An apperceived inquirer of qualitative states, Inspiring proprietor of dismality abates. Challenging aporia as epistemic oscillates, Stoically, heroically, ‘one’ who amalgamates, Circling the infinite in hermeneutic calibrates. An escaped prisoner from depressive disillusion, Of an introspective extrovert who finds solace in confusion, The personable recluse fighting an illusion Breaking down the nuances of every institution. Calculating consequence as time goes to infinity Revolutionary commonsense of principal utility, An opinionated adversary, to the realist without evidence, Theorizing in futility, Stipulating every sense leading to the virility of the pretense that dominates community. Divergently converging all the efforts we’ve personified, Inadvertently submerging old traditions that unethically were codified, Hastening the urgency for purging that which cannot be modified through the merging of the certainty that will no longer coincide, Stationing the levies to finally stem the tide, Of periodic enmities disguised to be necessities so blatantly deified. Observing moral sentiments, perched upon eternity, As consequential regiments are expounded universally, To unstratify the residents indiscriminately And identify quantum elements spiritualistically, Changing collective behavior individually, Socializing constructs in joint ventured logo therapy.
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Nov 16, 2018
Nov 16, 2018 at 8:07 AM UTC
Paradoxical Tendencies
‘I am…’ 'Or am I’? Who can say? ‘A posteriori’ leads the way For the extra and the ordinary Axiomatic sway, In the gravity of corollary, ‘A priori’ interplay Ataraxic overlay of anxious automation, As the innocence of dissonance delay. Practicing semantic contemplation, In willfully prevenient interpolation, Civilly disobedient in expediently seeming disarray, Forecasts in vague extrapolation Contrasts the millennial contagion Already underway, Filling nihilistic voids with particles in waves, To interpret dreams of Freud to free Oedipus’s slaves, A degreeless scholastic who never misbehaves, Simulated humanoid dramatic in the affect that he craves, Inflating linguistics in acrobatic raves, A thespian who plans conation with legacy engraves. The probabilistic determiner of cosmogenous debates, An apperceived inquirer of qualitative states, Inspiring proprietor of dismality abates. Challenging aporia as epistemic oscillates, Stoically, heroically, ‘one’ who amalgamates, Circling the infinite in hermeneutic calibrates. An escaped prisoner from depressive disillusion, Of an introspective extrovert who finds solace in confusion, The personable recluse fighting an illusion Breaking down the nuances of every institution. Calculating consequence as time goes to infinity Revolutionary commonsense of principal utility, An opinionated adversary, to the realist without evidence, Theorizing in futility, Stipulating every sense leading to the virility of the pretense that dominates community. Divergently converging all the efforts we’ve personified, Inadvertently submerging old traditions that unethically were codified, Hastening the urgency for purging that which cannot be modified through the merging of the certainty that will no longer coincide, Stationing the levies to finally stem the tide, Of periodic enmities disguised to be necessities so blatantly deified. Observing moral sentiments, perched upon eternity, As consequential regiments are expounded universally, To unstratify the residents indiscriminately And identify quantum elements spiritualistically, Changing collective behavior individually, Socializing constructs in joint ventured logo therapy.
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Young people can you feel the suffering? roca wear, gucci, apple, facebook, mcdonalds, apple bee's, honda, lamborghini, harvard, Community College american express, pnc bank, walmart Wage Slaves, ceos, owners, lenders, renters, indebtedness Structural dehumanization, systematic mechanization Exploited labor feeding blood to your hungering consumerism Young people you are embracing MISANTHROPY! Embracing the hate of your own humanity! Why the hypocrisy? Wealthy children, poor children Trying for enlightenment through education Parents garnering wealth through the oppression of their victims Parents garnering debt through the oppression from economic inequality Still you invest and promote the only legitimization of your being: CAPITALIST UTILITY Capitalism engineering unrelenting misanthropy Vicious economic system discarding humanity Perfecting the concentration and accumulation of wealth With the expansion of human alienation and murderous competition Prostituting your body to labor exploitation and consumerism Where does your wealth end up? multinational companies? financial corporations? military arms contractors? Loyalty lies in their pockets, backstabbing everyday tactics Killing you through the exploitation of your body Because they know the birth of another proletariat or bourgeoisie can replace you   Entities, not human, how much have they bought you for so that you cannot see!!! Beware of these misanthropic missionaries granting your body power and agency When your body can no longer be plundered for profit you will taste tears and blood Young people will you deliver your forefathers and fathers From worshiping capitalist misanthropy?
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Mar 9, 2013
Mar 9, 2013 at 12:56 PM UTC
Your Faith in Capitalist Misanthropy
Young people can you feel the suffering? roca wear, gucci, apple, facebook, mcdonalds, apple bee's, honda, lamborghini, harvard, Community College american express, pnc bank, walmart Wage Slaves, ceos, owners, lenders, renters, indebtedness Structural dehumanization, systematic mechanization Exploited labor feeding blood to your hungering consumerism Young people you are embracing MISANTHROPY! Embracing the hate of your own humanity! Why the hypocrisy? Wealthy children, poor children Trying for enlightenment through education Parents garnering wealth through the oppression of their victims Parents garnering debt through the oppression from economic inequality Still you invest and promote the only legitimization of your being: CAPITALIST UTILITY Capitalism engineering unrelenting misanthropy Vicious economic system discarding humanity Perfecting the concentration and accumulation of wealth With the expansion of human alienation and murderous competition Prostituting your body to labor exploitation and consumerism Where does your wealth end up? multinational companies? financial corporations? military arms contractors? Loyalty lies in their pockets, backstabbing everyday tactics Killing you through the exploitation of your body Because they know the birth of another proletariat or bourgeoisie can replace you   Entities, not human, how much have they bought you for so that you cannot see!!! Beware of these misanthropic missionaries granting your body power and agency When your body can no longer be plundered for profit you will taste tears and blood Young people will you deliver your forefathers and fathers From worshiping capitalist misanthropy?
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Keys. Shoved through the letterbox before I got up- in an envelope with a note: Could I (please) feed the cat… Gone away? Good for her! Car on the drive. Took a taxi. I think. To the airport? Didn’t say. ******* with rain- still, had best leave my shoes on the step just the same. Obsessed with cleanliness and hygiene- that’s why he left. Who, in their right mind, puts cream-coloured carpet in a…? Door. Not locked. Nearly fell through it. Strange. She forgot? Kitchen. Freezer’s empty, switched off. No cereal. No tins. Utility room. Spotlessly clean- twelve! two-kilogram bags of Go-Cat Complete. Planning to be gone quite a while. I think. Playroom. Packed up. Kids staying with Nan. She wants to redecorate before they come home? Great. A fresh start. I think. Bedroom. Suitcase on the wardrobe. Bought a new one? Smaller. Lighter perhaps. Makes sense. After all- she is travelling alone. I think. Bathroom. Pristine. Almost empty. Almost. Macleans and a toothbrush, in a glass on the sill. I didn’t think about that. Until now.
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Sep 22, 2011
Sep 22, 2011 at 4:17 AM UTC
Keys
when God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created hate we had a standard utility when God created me He created me when God created the monkey He was asleep when He created the giraffe He was drunk when He created narcotics He was high and when He created suicide He was low when He created you lying in bed He knew what He was doing He was drunk and He was high and He created the mountians and the sea and fire at the same time He made some mistakes but when He created you lying in bed He came all over His Blessed Universe.
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Yes Yes
Who owns those scrawny little feet? Death. Who owns this bristly scorched-looking face? Death. Who owns these still-working lungs? Death. Who owns this utility coat of muscles? Death. Who owns these unspeakable guts? Death. Who owns these questionable brains? Death. All this messy blood? Death. These minimum-efficiency eyes? Death. This wicked little tongue? Death. This occasional wakefulness? Death. Given, stolen, or held pending trial? Held. Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death. Who owns all of space? Death. Who is stronger than hope? Death. Who is stronger than the will? Death. Stronger than love? Death. Stronger than life? Death. But who is stronger than Death? Me, evidently. Pass, Crow.
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Examination at the Womb-Door
~~~ for our children and their children ~~~ the reason we say so oft, in whispers emboldened, I love you to our children is not the utility of its summarizing brevity no, no. it is because the eloquence of simplicity supersedes any other poem we could ever write... ~~~ July 26 2015
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Jul 26, 2015
Jul 26, 2015 at 9:14 AM UTC
The Eloquence of Simplicity
I live in the wilderness The Sun shines on the trees and through the leaves Warmth envelopes my sanctuary Until darkness approaches like a fog The darkness is pregnant with sounds I hear animals snarling while bones are breaking Whimpers turn into blood curdling gargles As the darkness renders invisibility among predators And the darkness engenders vulnerability among prey I desperately want to help but there is a darkness barricade The darkness follows everything The darkness swallows everything I can hear planes crash And the passengers scream From within the darkness I can only see muzzle flash And the barrel's steam Creating hardship The darkness converts men to shouts of agony and rage The darkness blinds us from the writing on the page The darkness makes us believe That it's our reprieve Darkness has us in it's sight When we choose to live in light Even when we do what is right Darkness takes flight Becoming our plight We try to fight back with futility The darkness' bite has more utility We are engulfed by negativity As we lose all connectivity And our mouths begin to foam When the darkness is our home
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Oct 13, 2017
Oct 13, 2017 at 3:03 AM UTC
Darkness
As the laser rays from Science City lit up the night sky in a resplendent rush of colours, I watched on,  quietly , from the balcony; my mind racing back to the class 9 Basics of Economics book and to that class. Utility. A major concept in economics. I had understood it so well then. I had paid full attention to the teacher when she had explained that once I had had a spoonful of Biriyani, a little bit of my hunger was satiated and I would enjoy the next spoonful a little bit less than the first. That was how utility operated, marginal utility diminishing with every spoonful. Today, as the rays light up the sky, I think of him, and of the principle of utility. Does the principle apply to first love as well, as it does to the first taste of Biriyani? As love's bittersweet concoction explodes, does it render the following loves as only marginally utilitarian then? As the first rush, first blush fades, as love's faces change,  do we begin to get satiated a little less than the first time? And is it really because we are already a bit full, a little satiated?   Or is it because the hunger gnaws on, craving that first rush, once again?
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Mar 11, 2016
Mar 11, 2016 at 10:10 PM UTC
Economics of Love
Would a blue ballpen without ink just lie To die, like the children of our past needs, The mouths of their thinning souls leeching Our piety, our profanity, our tendency to build society Off faces and masks,                               Individual fragments of ourselves. Would one give a thousand pesos to he who smears Windshields with soap to take a few coins hostage Or to she who exhibits a gaunt infant, an offspring Of want, not wanted, the wear and tear of a rough World manifest on emaciating juvenile skin. Would one Give a thousand?                               Would one commit a kiss? When mere change can buy a pen with its full blood, What then is the worth of the bleeding, the bearded Blind on the somber sidewalks of forgetfulness where Without ink, it ceases to be blue, and unable to write,             He has no need for a pen. The world is writing his story,             He is only there to punctuate with his blood.
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Jul 12, 2012
Jul 12, 2012 at 11:56 PM UTC
Utility and Humanity
You are like economics, Your addictive touch, my unlimited want. Forget our chemistry, physics & genetics, But you, I just can't! Ne'er scarce in relation to my demand, You know my every mood & curve. You alone, can my heart command, As market prices shift & swerve. I am normative, you positive, Opposites attract? Tis true! Our every action, cumulative, Together, the perfect graph we drew. Your utility, I cannot question, You chipped away my unstable equilibrium. Your every approach, devoid of confusion, Insurance of our love, requires no premium. Though our needs are ever recurring, Our time, brief and limited. Memories created are never-ending, Opportunity cost for you? Never hinted. You are the good, worst, better & best, Most importantly, you are never a test!!
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 9:40 AM UTC
Economics of Love
Cascades were dripping outside of this moving vehicle White noise, patternless and arrhythmic like magnified sounds of nails on a concrete wall, made by souls desperate to cleave their way to dryness This public utility vehicle holds spirits successful in finding this temporary heaven Weathered, soaked and almost drowned like panting dogs that managed to swim ashore from a shipwreck caused by the iceberg that is the eye of the storm This safe haven holds champions in a world of misshapen men A woman clutches tightly on a bag of lime and her ever waning youth Tired, but not eager to face Death still closing her windows to his cat burglars that come faster than the downpour of Typhon's tears A homeless child comfortably sleeps on the far end of this ride His innocence tested by fate Too experienced for someone his age instead of just playing in the streets he calls home The jeepney driver has eyes on the road painted by Van Gogh Unabashed, industrious and assiduous determined to serve, provide for a family whose stomachs hunger not but they hunger for his return This other dimension nurtures alien thoughts and parallel thinking among beat down men I do not know them but I can hear the cries of their emotions, their longing to be felt and empathized with Their voiceless cries are guns with a silenced nozzle shooting at anyone ignorant who curiously stare at this minefield of a passenger jeep
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Dec 19, 2015
Dec 19, 2015 at 12:19 PM UTC
Passenger Jeep
Of immaterial vision birthed in mind. Of spirit annihilating the selves, of calling it plan. The one- a semblance scattered on deck space refracts on reflections of the reactions of tokens of the carnivalesque, of the hunger artists, of phenomenon- which may or may not exist depending on reflective surface of the true self, of the motion of tides, mocks motion in body, of obsession. The tonality of the "be" and the "is" and the "will be" is deafened by the "I am," by the Ohm. Of shuddering and implanting embraces, of blessing on every ember of cleanliness that is true self, of the oneself that exists above selective memory, not draft of time arrow but the material existence of dream, not disembodied but embodied. Of breeding, of circumstance and forking fourth dimension prison terms, of crowd control, of she wolves and their feral children, of forceps interpolating material reality of conception, of Dreamtime, of pain, of pleasure, where they are relations- of skin perversely hanging, dually, gratifying and sullying- Fraying beautiful disasters that react to invisible ripples I, the oneself, implore you to awaken in your utility and then outside of it. Take those boot straps and bend the bars of confinement with them. Chisel and sculpt light into a fabrication of quantum of action. Celebrate the ordinary and expose it. Of stargazed caustics, of the early universe. I stand awake as not the expression of design and no longer connected to Earth by my roots but awake inside cocoon, entrapped behind slits, of alien cage otherness. The Akh beseeches ownership of the Ba I want play dice with god and end in draw. I am Sekhmet-Wadjet who dwells in the west of heaven, I am Sahyt among the souls of Of.
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Oct 4, 2012
Oct 4, 2012 at 1:29 AM UTC
Of
Of immaterial vision birthed in mind. Of spirit annihilating the selves, of calling it plan. The one- a semblance scattered on deck space refracts on reflections of the reactions of tokens of the carnivalesque, of the hunger artists, of phenomenon- which may or may not exist depending on reflective surface of the true self, of the motion of tides, mocks motion in body, of obsession. The tonality of the "be" and the "is" and the "will be" is deafened by the "I am," by the Ohm. Of shuddering and implanting embraces, of blessing on every ember of cleanliness that is true self, of the oneself that exists above selective memory, not draft of time arrow but the material existence of dream, not disembodied but embodied. Of breeding, of circumstance and forking fourth dimension prison terms, of crowd control, of she wolves and their feral children, of forceps interpolating material reality of conception, of Dreamtime, of pain, of pleasure, where they are relations- of skin perversely hanging, dually, gratifying and sullying- Fraying beautiful disasters that react to invisible ripples I, the oneself, implore you to awaken in your utility and then outside of it. Take those boot straps and bend the bars of confinement with them. Chisel and sculpt light into a fabrication of quantum of action. Celebrate the ordinary and expose it. Of stargazed caustics, of the early universe. I stand awake as not the expression of design and no longer connected to Earth by my roots but awake inside cocoon, entrapped behind slits, of alien cage otherness. The Akh beseeches ownership of the Ba I want play dice with god and end in draw. I am Sekhmet-Wadjet who dwells in the west of heaven, I am Sahyt among the souls of Of.
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How can he be so cocky, fight like rocky talking in morse code, like a walkie talkie how can he be so cold, like an ice cube to hold so bold like a robot that can't be controlled how can he be so sarcastic, ******* spastic no fantastic antics seen in plastic won't bend and won't stretch like elastic doing flips like a drastic gymnastic possessed with true ability, like a runners agility but no flexibility when it comes to futility a never seen utility with no docility showing capability, breaking through the fragility
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Nov 21, 2013
Nov 21, 2013 at 12:58 PM UTC
Freestyle 27
words conveyed with a mutual clarity parity for communication will end only when the world ends first and the communitas is no more,and words, exist purposelessly   for there is no left with whom to communicate, precisely but now, of this moment, write words, sentences multiplied but circumscribed, verses with mystical aura, whose utility so suspect and multiple meanings hidden within, taken by you for the specific utility you uncover and create ah, to write of things clearly visible to all, but possessed differently, by each reader, this is the greatest commonsensical commonwealth useful for and of humans indexed by unique word tendons tenderly when this passes, when literature no longer can be messengered to 127 Persian provinces, each the message same, yet given up in 127 different languages^ when you understand my poems perfectly then, *their utility is inutile, the usefulness is in the* nth reinterpretation, *a million and still counting, as long as you must guess at its labyrinth wired inner construct, being pleasured by the roiled and rolled curves upon your tongue, a lives paired wine tasting, together believing in the greatness of joyous frustration some say, I do, the world is better for the utility of thine own struggled understanding, the truest combination of two way communication, surpassed only by our armed embrace at last* p.s. Pradip, be careful what you wish for....a poet false... 9:15am  April 3, 2019
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Apr 3, 2019
Apr 3, 2019 at 9:29 AM UTC
“how the world will be when words run out of their utility”...Pradip
We slump in mismatched chairs. Two hunches over shame and a 3am breakfast, I think: *There’s gotta be a reason why art rhymes with **** If you want anything to go anywhere with any respectable…affect, the force of pressure on the inside must exceed that from the outside. Interrupting this genius, He asks: How can you eat that crap? It’s so…empty. He is flipping through his coffeeblack back pocket note rag. It’s soiled, wrinkled concave with the ever-heaving stomachfuls of his inky midnight doubt, and I would really rather not have it at the table while I’m eating. I am pouring another glorious bowl of Frooty Froot Hoops—yeasty, store-brand sugarfuel for the lower-middle-income child poet. He spends another tasteless oatmeal evening reading essays about how to improve his writing. Instead of, like, writing to improve his writing. I ask: If you took a knife to the edge of your boundary’s boundary—stabbed right into your life-world’s fleshy monad-sac, glory running ****** down your blade, As you breached forth into the well-lit unknown, would it still be courageous, if you emerged from your warm wet ignorance, and they were all waiting outside with mylar balloons, a banner, and "Congratulations on your Artistic Rupture!” in blue icing on the cake?? There's still a moment there, right? Petrified in the sap of thrill, in the momentous-stasis between The arrow flung and the arrow fallen. A moment of advancement …a moment of abandon! (He nods along, but he isn't listening.) I say: Newness, originality, (birth), is purely indexical. It points, and no one notices that all those shiny vegas lights aren't really moving anywhere—It's just utility bills and light-bulb trickery. They're asking for genesis extended, genesis again and again and each false gesture points only towards another incandescent unreachable elsewhere. (He nods along, still, not listening.) But there's little monotony in taking a stab! Even if it's just for them, again, those perennial spectators expecting, Waiting outside with ***** little pocket notebooks of their own, crowding the bassinets, ever-eager to begin another “surprise" celebration. Gulping sweet, sugarpink milk, I say: I happen to like this crap! It keeps my knife sharp. (He nods along, but he isn't listening.)
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Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 11:47 PM UTC
Congratulations on your artistic rupture!
We slump in mismatched chairs. Two hunches over shame and a 3am breakfast, I think: *There’s gotta be a reason why art rhymes with **** If you want anything to go anywhere with any respectable…affect, the force of pressure on the inside must exceed that from the outside. Interrupting this genius, He asks: How can you eat that crap? It’s so…empty. He is flipping through his coffeeblack back pocket note rag. It’s soiled, wrinkled concave with the ever-heaving stomachfuls of his inky midnight doubt, and I would really rather not have it at the table while I’m eating. I am pouring another glorious bowl of Frooty Froot Hoops—yeasty, store-brand sugarfuel for the lower-middle-income child poet. He spends another tasteless oatmeal evening reading essays about how to improve his writing. Instead of, like, writing to improve his writing. I ask: If you took a knife to the edge of your boundary’s boundary—stabbed right into your life-world’s fleshy monad-sac, glory running ****** down your blade, As you breached forth into the well-lit unknown, would it still be courageous, if you emerged from your warm wet ignorance, and they were all waiting outside with mylar balloons, a banner, and "Congratulations on your Artistic Rupture!” in blue icing on the cake?? There's still a moment there, right? Petrified in the sap of thrill, in the momentous-stasis between The arrow flung and the arrow fallen. A moment of advancement …a moment of abandon! (He nods along, but he isn't listening.) I say: Newness, originality, (birth), is purely indexical. It points, and no one notices that all those shiny vegas lights aren't really moving anywhere—It's just utility bills and light-bulb trickery. They're asking for genesis extended, genesis again and again and each false gesture points only towards another incandescent unreachable elsewhere. (He nods along, still, not listening.) But there's little monotony in taking a stab! Even if it's just for them, again, those perennial spectators expecting, Waiting outside with ***** little pocket notebooks of their own, crowding the bassinets, ever-eager to begin another “surprise" celebration. Gulping sweet, sugarpink milk, I say: I happen to like this crap! It keeps my knife sharp. (He nods along, but he isn't listening.)
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Since I still appreciate you, Let's find love while we may. Because I know I'll hate you When you are old and grey. So say you love me here and now, I'll make the most of that. Say you love and trust me, For I know you'll disgust me When you're old and getting fat. An awful debility, A lessened utility, A loss of mobility Is a strong possibility. In all probability I'll lose my virility And you your fertility And desirability, And this liability Of total sterility Will lead to hostility And a sense of futility, So let's act with agility While we still have facility, For we'll soon reach senility And lose the ability. Your teeth will start to go, dear, Your waist will start to spread. In twenty years or so, dear, I'll wish that you were dead. I'll never love you then at all The way I do today. So please remember, When I leave in December, I told you so in May.
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Jul 9, 2010
Jul 9, 2010 at 9:51 AM UTC
Tom Lehrer - When You are Old and Grey
FLASHLIGHT If you stumbled onto it It would underwhelm you In its common stature. Four and a half inches. No more than A fistful of Black aluminum. I found it on his shelf As I was cleaning out The apartment. I'm still taken by the things That were of value to him And the care he gave In the preservation. It was his grateful heart Taking nothing for granted Protecting tools with consideration Not unlike the way He would care for his friends. It immediately meant something to me. Like the orange pocket knife. (Orange His favorite color, Knives His collection.) This small utility Reminded me of him. Understated, yet powerful Easy to handle but efficient Erasing darkness Wherever he went. I rolled it in my fingers And the tiny beacon Called to me... I possessed it as he possessed me. The diminuitive tool Lays among the other Integral neccesities Of my blue collar Bread winning World. Intentional or not I find myself In more dark places than Before Just so I have excuses to use it And say his name Every occasion that I pick it up. Inside the dark recesses of a water heater - Devon. Underneath the leaking tub - Devon. In the closet of burned out motors Impossible to reach bolts And rusted designs - Devon. Then sometimes Standing at the door of my van A daydream breaks While a light blinks in my eyes, My fingers sending Morse code Involuntarily From my soul - Devon, Devon, Devon, Devon. Regardless the darkness It has no power Over the light So I reach for him And roll him around In my memories And the blackness Is beaten back By his goodness. Every closet of the spirit Brightened in that indelible smile Where sadness slumps away Ashamed that it even tried. Selah. (You are the brightest one, my son.)
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Dec 16, 2013
Dec 16, 2013 at 5:17 PM UTC
Flashlight
FLASHLIGHT If you stumbled onto it It would underwhelm you In its common stature. Four and a half inches. No more than A fistful of Black aluminum. I found it on his shelf As I was cleaning out The apartment. I'm still taken by the things That were of value to him And the care he gave In the preservation. It was his grateful heart Taking nothing for granted Protecting tools with consideration Not unlike the way He would care for his friends. It immediately meant something to me. Like the orange pocket knife. (Orange His favorite color, Knives His collection.) This small utility Reminded me of him. Understated, yet powerful Easy to handle but efficient Erasing darkness Wherever he went. I rolled it in my fingers And the tiny beacon Called to me... I possessed it as he possessed me. The diminuitive tool Lays among the other Integral neccesities Of my blue collar Bread winning World. Intentional or not I find myself In more dark places than Before Just so I have excuses to use it And say his name Every occasion that I pick it up. Inside the dark recesses of a water heater - Devon. Underneath the leaking tub - Devon. In the closet of burned out motors Impossible to reach bolts And rusted designs - Devon. Then sometimes Standing at the door of my van A daydream breaks While a light blinks in my eyes, My fingers sending Morse code Involuntarily From my soul - Devon, Devon, Devon, Devon. Regardless the darkness It has no power Over the light So I reach for him And roll him around In my memories And the blackness Is beaten back By his goodness. Every closet of the spirit Brightened in that indelible smile Where sadness slumps away Ashamed that it even tried. Selah. (You are the brightest one, my son.)
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She holds me with fierceness and fragility her veneer like old paint on a utility door so unsure with the internally rendered pain of a thousand failing days I will lightly sand those cruel flakes with smooth care expectant of improvement and reset the broken hinges she has been left to hang on, replacing the bolt and lock so she has full control of who she lets pass She holds me with fierceness and fragility longing for alterations not altercations different times of high hopes holding within her wearing frame and in that space you will find me with one ear open Soothing the doubts of a hundred internal put downs, that can no longer be
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Feb 17, 2015
Feb 17, 2015 at 1:19 AM UTC
Fierceness and Fragility
The rivers channel rain The way I channel pain I begin to see the futility In denying pain's utility Pain takes on a ****** nature And becomes my intellectual savior I shatter the mirror And swallow the shards The pain becomes clearer So my ******* get hard Glass fills my lungs They're profusely bleeding From words that stung Being my daily greeting ***** shoots out from my gun When I cut myself for fun My hose starts spewing Once vultures start chewing It's the only way I can cope When it's pain that gropes I live in a world that mixes *** and violence I live in a world that mixes *** and silence Where the painkillers Become the pain creators And our life's filler Is being pain traders A bull has charged through my library for a decade At this point every bovine movement cuts like a blade He creates pain that lasts When every day becomes my past I had a dream A sorcerer controlled my body But he only wanted pieces of me Bones started snapping out of my skin Blood spurting everywhere I awoke to ***** down there I guess life isn't always fair When I dream to avoid stares The real pain comes when I care When the privileged boycott The impoverished boy's cot He learns to ********** in the streets And gains an appreciation for feet Feet that trample The pain is ample When people powerfully push him away So he decides to go against the grain But there's no peace to be attained And all he's left with is pain
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Oct 20, 2017
Oct 20, 2017 at 4:45 PM UTC
Pain
I was a no name worker bee Yet I had a million bees all working for me I was a caryatid, house wife, never had the life of a queen Stole my honey from the wasps with the wax in their wings I was a comatose burn victim I could hear the nurses whisper sanctum sanctorum! They fed me nutrients and cleaned my ****** They either didn’t care or they didn’t think I could hear them I was alive when the lightning struck But I was dead by second, to survive my luck I wasn’t anything special I was a mass produced individual They had no names worth knowing They had no future where they were going And I never thought twice about what I did The quiet megalomania of a caryatid And then my patience turned to rampage I took a page from Genghis Khan I wanted the roaches gone I hatched suburban escape plans Because my angst was delayed A generation late & afraid Now in the presence of the gods and goddesses And in the confidence of infinite this is Another power grab a singularity Another force to fight reverse polarity I’m all about the lust and not the wander I am the lingering presence of a long goner I’m here to clarify the **** of daughters The spider stink in the breath of fire If we could **** for utility instead of a performance to showcase our species’ ability Then we’d be hunted by viruses The gods and goddesses with the instinct to extinct humanity Chaos is healthy, its part of reality, essential to symmetry, like night is to day When life is weighed on a pendulum Like sanctum sanctorum The delicate faberge There isn’t anything to bother with on top of the monolith I’m shouting mantras from the mountain peak There isn’t any time to practice with a modern creation myth A lullaby in a language I don’t speak
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May 22, 2014
May 22, 2014 at 9:51 PM UTC
mantras from the mountain peak
I was a no name worker bee Yet I had a million bees all working for me I was a caryatid, house wife, never had the life of a queen Stole my honey from the wasps with the wax in their wings I was a comatose burn victim I could hear the nurses whisper sanctum sanctorum! They fed me nutrients and cleaned my ****** They either didn’t care or they didn’t think I could hear them I was alive when the lightning struck But I was dead by second, to survive my luck I wasn’t anything special I was a mass produced individual They had no names worth knowing They had no future where they were going And I never thought twice about what I did The quiet megalomania of a caryatid And then my patience turned to rampage I took a page from Genghis Khan I wanted the roaches gone I hatched suburban escape plans Because my angst was delayed A generation late & afraid Now in the presence of the gods and goddesses And in the confidence of infinite this is Another power grab a singularity Another force to fight reverse polarity I’m all about the lust and not the wander I am the lingering presence of a long goner I’m here to clarify the **** of daughters The spider stink in the breath of fire If we could **** for utility instead of a performance to showcase our species’ ability Then we’d be hunted by viruses The gods and goddesses with the instinct to extinct humanity Chaos is healthy, its part of reality, essential to symmetry, like night is to day When life is weighed on a pendulum Like sanctum sanctorum The delicate faberge There isn’t anything to bother with on top of the monolith I’m shouting mantras from the mountain peak There isn’t any time to practice with a modern creation myth A lullaby in a language I don’t speak
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Smuggler of the goods of life, ...rugged Hero, brawn and bone. Laser pistol, utility belt... Ship of speed you call a home. Smuggler of the goods of life, ...outlaw cast into his place. Wookie brother, strange alliance... Transgress all rules, the laws of space. Solo, you are not and now, ...all of space filled in-kind. An Empire awaits you... You smuggler of the goods of life.
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Sep 15, 2016
Sep 15, 2016 at 10:36 AM UTC
Han Solo
The ranks of nature placed us on top. All on earth is too kind as to continually permit our sights to be graced with their splendour. Everything in its season manifests. Every self in itself is an image of its self. In the capacity of our utility, errors plague us at their visitation. Success power is all we can seize to make us all at ease.
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 4:25 PM UTC
Soothing Imperfection
Before taking out a clean sheet of paper, I hold before the blue of the window a freshly-sharpened pencil pointing toward heaven and blow the imperceptible dust from the needle-tip before getting down to business. For in life’s long journey few things afford greater satisfaction than turning the crank and powering the cylindrical burrs of a mechanism which sharpens the dulled mind of a yellow number 2 pencil. In the silver pencil sharpener I witness the marriage of utility and beauty —a model for art and a purpose for life celebrated each morning before this small altar.
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The Altar
****** means "sheath". Oh, how tiresomely sexist, this utility. **** is a sharp word, but it will only ***** you if you so insist. And ********** means "to stand in for the Goddess" -- both Mother and ***** Fertility cults of Babylon hailed Ishtar, the young Sophia. In Sumerian times they did call Her Inanna, who shed Her jewels. Solomon the Wise did wed Her in his temple, and wrote Her a Song. At Her temple gates await the harlots, smiling: yours for but a coin. Sacred silver thrown, a rite of passage. Some wait. Some wait longer still. Wisdom works through them. The hierodules of Heaven beckon, honeysweet. "Come to the temple, let us dance the timeless dance, my Lord Dumuzi!" Rosy cheeks and lips, shamelessness in Her power. Passion at its peak. Too **** for words. Men feared Her and wrought cages, misdirected blame. Mary, the chaste one, is an abomination. Half, and the lesser. A neutered Mother with a ****** for swords, a scabbard for men. The Grail was stolen from between Her holy thighs. Paul was such a **** A **** who feared Her, Mystery of Death and Blood. Much more than a sheath.
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Sep 30, 2013
Sep 30, 2013 at 8:44 PM UTC
Sheath