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i felt like talking that night reciting poetry to your big blue eyes and raw pink mouth smiling high as a wind whipped kite discussing art, ontology, and existentialism sitting like lotus at the Cafe Figaro on McDougall st in the west village belly of a ghost lost in a vagrant memory afterwards we went to a little one bedroom flat in the east village haunted by the vapors of its history a slight stench of **** and dingo tongue dripping toilet all peeling walls intimating births, cheer and squalor after a hot bath of lathered torsos we followrd each other naked winding around a table into a swaying bed that beckoned **** here my darlings and i licked and drank out of your drenched rose red blossom for hours it licking back I salvaged the loneliness of my soul between your thighs like a desolate dog whimpering thanking God with every graze and ****** of your all supple shifting limbs your company your company your sweet droplets of company in moon rise summer balm we looked in the mirror reflecting on my glistening face all red raspberry my lips like blood hydras laughing our ***** off at how artsy we looked smeared with your rouge painted thighs appearing as if half eaten you growled swallowed and licked big butter piggy till your nose ran like the Ganges gagging eyes bloodshot pools of fire cooing and oowing driving me maniacal with every ****** of your wild flicking tongue we poured our selves into each other viscous creels gushing coursing like slime silver radiating and finally used to the marrow we found ourselves drooping sails our eyelids  leaden the night mist fell upon us   muttering shadows and our *** shriveled like cast-off umbilici and we fell to sleep steep steep buoyant like two buttermilk clouds adrift your company your company your sweet droplets of company in moon rise summer balm
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Nov 28, 2017
Nov 28, 2017 at 1:50 PM UTC
CAFE FIGARO
i felt like talking that night reciting poetry to your big blue eyes and raw pink mouth smiling high as a wind whipped kite discussing art, ontology, and existentialism sitting like lotus at the Cafe Figaro on McDougall st in the west village belly of a ghost lost in a vagrant memory afterwards we went to a little one bedroom flat in the east village haunted by the vapors of its history a slight stench of **** and dingo tongue dripping toilet all peeling walls intimating births, cheer and squalor after a hot bath of lathered torsos we followrd each other naked winding around a table into a swaying bed that beckoned **** here my darlings and i licked and drank out of your drenched rose red blossom for hours it licking back I salvaged the loneliness of my soul between your thighs like a desolate dog whimpering thanking God with every graze and ****** of your all supple shifting limbs your company your company your sweet droplets of company in moon rise summer balm we looked in the mirror reflecting on my glistening face all red raspberry my lips like blood hydras laughing our ***** off at how artsy we looked smeared with your rouge painted thighs appearing as if half eaten you growled swallowed and licked big butter piggy till your nose ran like the Ganges gagging eyes bloodshot pools of fire cooing and oowing driving me maniacal with every ****** of your wild flicking tongue we poured our selves into each other viscous creels gushing coursing like slime silver radiating and finally used to the marrow we found ourselves drooping sails our eyelids  leaden the night mist fell upon us   muttering shadows and our *** shriveled like cast-off umbilici and we fell to sleep steep steep buoyant like two buttermilk clouds adrift your company your company your sweet droplets of company in moon rise summer balm
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implosions are for starfish and our mission is clear. we have nowhere to be from and that's half the battle. we are seldom unbridled in the chastity of our carnal bluff... and our cages are breathing. we are finally designing our most daring Inertia. both mum on the details in the devil's flotsam. we jot some of the names of the nameless... on the outside of Dixie cups. like mint julep promise to a tangerine honest. again and again, we ache through the breeze of our soothing traumas. we court the verity of a sham. we blast through the congregation of our adversary, snipping varmints from a stale camp in the southernmost of our due south,; where they fear the bonfire until a vagrant maps the flaming tongues to a long kiss.... and we crash upon the shore of Never Asked. but regret This.
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May 9, 2013
May 9, 2013 at 5:21 AM UTC
implosions are for starfish
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 7:44 AM UTC
PEARL 'TRINITY ERRANDS
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking them. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you. Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent. But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers, But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness? What of the ******* who hates dancers? What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things? What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers? What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun? They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws. And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows? And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth? But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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On Laws (The Prophet, Chapter 13)
Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking them. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you. Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent. But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers, But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness? What of the ******* who hates dancers? What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things? What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers? What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun? They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws. And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows? And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth? But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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She is a solemn wanderer, A daughter of the road The crunch of moving gravel Is like balm upon her soul. Each rambling, easy footstep, Within each languid stride, Keeps the poison thoughts From taking root inside her mind. Each footstep is a triumph That pushes her along Each gasping breath that fuels her Is a lyric to her song. At times she is a vagrant When there is no place to go When nothing feels familiar but The stone that coats the road. At times she is a traveler That thirsts for foreign lands Her mind drifts off to mountain sides, Or golden sprawling sands. And most times she’s a dreamer Thinking of the day She’ll let her restless, resolute legs Take her far away. In all, she is a wanderer, A daughter of the road Putting space between her thoughts Upon the open road.
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Jun 25, 2014
Jun 25, 2014 at 10:31 PM UTC
The Wanderer
Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times. May I still remember the bright hours that found me walking over the silent hills of my childhood, or dreaming on the margin of the quiet river, when a light glowed within me, and I promised my early God to have courage amid the tempests of the changing years. Spare me the bitterness and from sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world may know me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as shall keep me friendly with myself. Lift my eyes from the earth, and let me not forget the uses of the stars. Forbid that I should judge others lest I condemn myself. Let me not follow the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path. Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am; and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.
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May 2, 2017
May 2, 2017 at 9:33 PM UTC
A Prayer — Max Ehrmann
We had well-heeled days With sprawling village, Glowing crop field, homestead, and flock of cattle ! We worked day and night Made our life accomplish with fruits of toil! Those were the days of amiable knot with everyone, Spring was echoed with the   sound of ‘Dhol’ and ‘Bihu’! Summer was fragrance with wet soil and mud of crop field! Autumn was resonance with ‘Aoi-ni-tom’! Winter was mirrored with golden Paddy! Now, we are like a vagrant! We work in other’s field We are living on our landowner’s marshy! “Have you seen that boat on the river?   Our village was there! Mighty Brahmaputra had carried away Our home and glee!” Now, we depend on our land owner’s marshy!
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Apr 19, 2014
Apr 19, 2014 at 4:19 AM UTC
Misfortune around a river
All along that grey draped zig-zagging shoreline The men sat or stood in resolute silence Each trying to reach back into minds Scrambled like eggs by the fear of impending violence Soon the hard faced men will open the gates As the race will start as hearts will change pace Then by push and twist they load like cattle Into great grey hulking hearse's barely floating Plunging through grey roiling seas toward thunder Echoing across the channel quotation marks of the battle That rages ,engages not turning ÷ripping out pages of history When the water turns red punctuated by the floating dead.... ........The question marks and periods Exclamation marks in the book thats still being written ...         ......to what end? That is what makes any plot a vagrant thought With a premise being an unresolved mystery Such are ..... The vagaries of the ever repeating chapters of human history!
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Apr 22, 2018
Apr 22, 2018 at 12:40 PM UTC
Resolute silence
See the Rabbi.  See him tormented by choice.  See his people.  See them wracked by hate.  See the others.  See their anger radiate outward in glowing spokes, exploding firebrand in a tinder city. On a night like any other, the moon at sixth house, fulcrum of pinwheel zodiac, the Rabbi, awash in lidless starlight, rises somber and makes his choice.  And when the sun is furthermost, he and three of his others gather at the murmuring riverbank where the brown clay is most pliable and begin to dig, sifting rock and root from trundled earth.  Hours spent exhuming the clay, molding it, kneading its muscles, tracing its veins, baking its skin in the starlight.  More hours spent in whispering prayer, the words bent and somersaulting over themselves like tumbling books. See Truth drawn on its forehead, life etched from clay and word.  As the sun rises, so it does, wavering at first, but steadier, lapping at the river, and their faces move slowly across the water.  See the Rabbi speak to it, his words winding its mechanism.  See it stride past the ghetto, wade through the market, and into the borough, siege unto its own. See the others scream for mercy from the kiln of its stare, from their flaming tenements, their crumpling rooftops. See it wade back through the market, past the ghetto, back to the riverbank to kneel in the underbrush.  See it tilt its head to the lilt of a stranded daisy caught in a vagrant gust.   See it caught, too, and see it see.  It sees the colors of Eden in the ferns.  It hears the river churning sediment, fossils, gravel, whirling over driftwood.  It touches moss on a rock; gently rotates its hand to let a grub complete an oblivious circumference.  See it sit in silence. See the Rabbi meet with the others, then his others.  And on a day like any other, when the sun is at its apogee, they slip down the riverbank where it still sits, still.  It ignores their autonomous logic, their homunculus rationale.  They are perversions of variety cloaked in righteous intention.  So it remains. See the Rabbi and his others gather at the murmuring riverbank, shadow conclave in shifting sunlight, then rise somber and decided.  They pin it to the earth as the Rabbi chants, invoking the void in which forbidden knowledge spirals.  It squirms under the power of the Word, mind-forged manacle as incantation.  See the Rabbi draw to a close.  His hand is arbiter, swooping down to smudge Truth from its forehead.  What is left but Death. See its hand crumble in its passage as it reaches for the stranded daisy.  See the colors of Eden darken in its eyes, its own body the dust that denies it light.  See it collapse into itself, the clay that was once animate spilling onto the riverbank.  See the Rabbi and his others shimmer then fade into city grey. The daisy stands still.
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Dec 15, 2011
Dec 15, 2011 at 4:22 PM UTC
The Golem
See the Rabbi.  See him tormented by choice.  See his people.  See them wracked by hate.  See the others.  See their anger radiate outward in glowing spokes, exploding firebrand in a tinder city. On a night like any other, the moon at sixth house, fulcrum of pinwheel zodiac, the Rabbi, awash in lidless starlight, rises somber and makes his choice.  And when the sun is furthermost, he and three of his others gather at the murmuring riverbank where the brown clay is most pliable and begin to dig, sifting rock and root from trundled earth.  Hours spent exhuming the clay, molding it, kneading its muscles, tracing its veins, baking its skin in the starlight.  More hours spent in whispering prayer, the words bent and somersaulting over themselves like tumbling books. See Truth drawn on its forehead, life etched from clay and word.  As the sun rises, so it does, wavering at first, but steadier, lapping at the river, and their faces move slowly across the water.  See the Rabbi speak to it, his words winding its mechanism.  See it stride past the ghetto, wade through the market, and into the borough, siege unto its own. See the others scream for mercy from the kiln of its stare, from their flaming tenements, their crumpling rooftops. See it wade back through the market, past the ghetto, back to the riverbank to kneel in the underbrush.  See it tilt its head to the lilt of a stranded daisy caught in a vagrant gust.   See it caught, too, and see it see.  It sees the colors of Eden in the ferns.  It hears the river churning sediment, fossils, gravel, whirling over driftwood.  It touches moss on a rock; gently rotates its hand to let a grub complete an oblivious circumference.  See it sit in silence. See the Rabbi meet with the others, then his others.  And on a day like any other, when the sun is at its apogee, they slip down the riverbank where it still sits, still.  It ignores their autonomous logic, their homunculus rationale.  They are perversions of variety cloaked in righteous intention.  So it remains. See the Rabbi and his others gather at the murmuring riverbank, shadow conclave in shifting sunlight, then rise somber and decided.  They pin it to the earth as the Rabbi chants, invoking the void in which forbidden knowledge spirals.  It squirms under the power of the Word, mind-forged manacle as incantation.  See the Rabbi draw to a close.  His hand is arbiter, swooping down to smudge Truth from its forehead.  What is left but Death. See its hand crumble in its passage as it reaches for the stranded daisy.  See the colors of Eden darken in its eyes, its own body the dust that denies it light.  See it collapse into itself, the clay that was once animate spilling onto the riverbank.  See the Rabbi and his others shimmer then fade into city grey. The daisy stands still.
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Everything is broken. Broken clocks, broken doors, broken spirits. Struggling just to softly breathe your name without my voice breaking. Shredded letters, meaningless scripts to highlight just how much my life is a cleverly constructed piece of satire, poorly printed on a newspaper page that no one reads, tossed to the sidewalk and stomped into fibers that do nothing but pollute the already ***** puddles on the side of the street. The words upon that parchment, the ink within the pages, is insignificant. I am insignificant. I am a vagrant. I am a knot in a tree trunk, and when a tree falls in the forest, it screams. It silently screams to be held back up by it's brothers, by its friends, by its family, but none of them move. They let it fall and they watch it rot.
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Mar 31, 2014
Mar 31, 2014 at 9:19 PM UTC
Broken
Roar of engines, and bright lights, would keep the city ablaze at night Half past 2am after earning was done Her only ally was the sun That had retired much earlier to its bed And said no more, silent, dead. Then came a creature that was not so tame Silent and violent, without consent, the insect would approach the vagrant scent Some may say there was no harm that the creature meant However, matter not a mark is left An itch that rests on her mind Why could the mosquito not be so kind?
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Nov 16, 2014
Nov 16, 2014 at 4:24 PM UTC
Mosquito
those that survive accept their powerlessness those that thrive say my brother before me to prosper the proof must persuade clipping the cord venturing beyond the lovely chaos drifting to never return a vagrant now wandering in search of potential when the opportunity rises pacific prodding, pointing, guiding, as was done for you there must be some mystery key in hand the ultimate test
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Mar 16, 2015
Mar 16, 2015 at 3:45 AM UTC
bigger brother
Tiny blue flowers that spread like wild fire. Self propagating they truly are. Trust in me. When in your wild garden frontage they appear. Always hold me dear. No fear. Vagrant angel. Fear not to ever tread. Destroy not the images I left painted in your head. Whenever those images enters your eyes. You shall ever remember me. And ever want me more. In a subtle heart beat you will remember. Your sparkling angel. Filigree wings bonded. Tied tight until released until you set me free. By ladylivvi1 © 2013 ladylivvi1 (All rights reserved)
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 4:30 AM UTC
Forget Me Nots
I have spent Too many miles In the beds Of strangers Pick up trucks And Roaring Freight trains To settle For a quiet, Small Life. I am a wayfarer, Wanderer, Vagrant. No walls can keep me. I am too Massive For civil norms, I am Too much For a habitual society. A roof would Keep me from the stars. How could I Give up the rising sun? A door would keep me From all of the strangers That I call my allies. There is too much of this world That I have caught A glimpse of, There is still Deep-rooted mystery, I can feel it beneath my feet With every mile I roam. The magic rouses My being, Stirs my soul. Though This may feel like a curse, Some just weren't meant to Fit Into The puzzle. Some Are Free radicals, Disturbing the peace, Agitating the possibilities, Proving Freedom isn't dead, Freedom isn't free, Freedom is something That must be stolen, Freedom is to be Taken into your own Two hands.
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Feb 25, 2016
Feb 25, 2016 at 9:56 AM UTC
Free radicals
the season-change of the vagrant pole-star easily picks up a sip from the list of ducks of the night-watchers standing on the bye-lane of the horse-race … by the weight of the confession made by the spelling-mistakes of a moonlit night to the lotus-leaves … the amputated tongues of the night-bulbs gradually rolls down to the banyan-pods of the side-characters the sharp archer of the star-apple moves away some furlongs from the usual word-stairs and swallowed a whole grammar with fumes by spoon thus with the number of velocity-poems that the punjabi with boutique prints can produce… or will produce … gluttonous flower-vase of the magic-painter can make cool the slaughter-ground … spread to the horizons of the krishnachura that is deviated from its own track
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Sep 14, 2010
Sep 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM UTC
the precipitation relating to slaughter-land
I observe: “Our sentimental friend the moon! Or possibly (fantastic, I confess) It may be Prester John’s balloon Or an old battered lantern hung aloft To light poor travellers to their distress.” She then: “How you digress!” And I then: “Someone frames upon the keys That exquisite nocturne, with which we explain The night and moonshine; music which we seize To body forth our own vacuity.” She then: “Does this refer to me?” “Oh no, it is I who am inane.” “You, madam, are the eternal humorist, The eternal enemy of the absolute, Giving our vagrant moods the slightest twist! With your air indifferent and imperious At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—” And—”Are we then so serious?”
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Conversation Galante
the vagrant, a pretense letting light in tiniest cracks on the pavement, again wherever did i pass out seizing the Ssseferoth sufferer syndrome sinking in this suffragette i am almost a cough away from zeitgeist the world complained the gods , sure they listened but only with a nuisances negation does the noose hang higher nonsense st of patient anger plagiarize my past lives seal my fate with cement pavement, how do i feel you when my ashes scatter how do i fill you with children, cracks seeping sin and sensation eradicated slowly by noiseless geraniums
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Nov 1, 2013
Nov 1, 2013 at 7:16 AM UTC
beef
PART I: ADRIFT Madness passed Misery and bumped into me. We travel together now, Islands lost at sea. Ahead, Tomorrow rides, pinned to the sunrise. Yesterday dogs us, marking our tides. Empty atolls pass on windborne paths. Now homes to only bones; more dead outcasts. The Ocean never laments or attempts to make sense. We just wander across it until living relents. PART II: VAGRANT Lagoon to lagoon, harboring my tether. Giving me shelter from daily storms. Lost in the masts, a paper boat. Taking on water... as expected. A lucky hook snares the soggy craft. Dried and opened: a cry for          . When no reply came, a folded flotilla Whitened the water, a cry now screaming. This harbor now empties. My travels resume. PART III: DREAM The sea fades to gulls, and then, a delta rushed with mountainfulls. I've become a salmon fighting upstream, an island lost in a riverbed dream.
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Aug 26, 2015
Aug 26, 2015 at 11:30 AM UTC
Wandering Islands.
Let me do my work each day; and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times. May I still remember the bright hours that found me walking over the silent hills of my childhood, or dreaming on the margin of the quiet river, when a light glowed within me, and I promised my early God to have courage amid the tempests of the changing years. Spare me the bitterness and from sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world may know me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as shall keep me friendly with myself. Lift my eyes from the earth, and let me not forget the uses of the stars. Forbid that I should judge others lest I condemn myself. Let me not follow the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path. Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am; and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope. And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life, and for time's olden memories that are good and sweet; and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still.
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May 14, 2017
May 14, 2017 at 3:41 PM UTC
A Prayer
Rain clouds stain the Sky   with dark lies Vagrant Wind trumpets them to the world aloud Lightning ruptures her with needle like claws Thunder stamps her under its thudding feet And the molested Sky sheds tears, inconsolable!
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Jul 11, 2016
Jul 11, 2016 at 7:03 AM UTC
Molestation
Beware the sour duchess with her cobra tongue, Come marionette, fall at her feet, the carnal cherry flower maid, She hides in the devil's gap tooth, In his pinstriped pockets full of rosary beads and candlewick, She steals the heart-shaped cosmic superstition, Demure with dulcet debauchery, Forged in a grand dalliance of coquettish repulsion with his valiant renegades, Vagrant of prayer and petrichor, Buying fancy for the maudlin dolls, the ethereal actresses nursed to betray, These childish ordeals rosy with youth, Turn to lilac smitten executioner under the glass of a silver boulevard, She writes me foolish want in this presence of gods and criminals, Sell me your kisses and fingertips bruise my aura with your architecture, Sleeping sound in your dominion the sheets are always warm.
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Nov 5, 2016
Nov 5, 2016 at 5:31 PM UTC
LILITH
my paris begins with those early days as a conscious flaneur i recall the couple seated opposite me on the metro when i was still innocent of its labyrinthine complexity slim pretty white girl clad head to toe in denim smiling wistfully while her muscular black beau stared through me with fathomless orbs and one of them spoke almost in a whisper qu'est-ce-que t'en pense and it dawned on me yes the young parisienne with the distant desirous eyes was no less male than me dismal movies in the forum des halles being screamed at in pigalle and then howled at again by some kind of madman or vagrant who told me to go to the bois de boulogne to meet what he saw as my destiny menaced by a sinister skinhead for trying on tessa's wide-brimmed hat getting ****** in les halles with sara who'd just seen dillon as rusty james and was walking in a daze sara again with jade at the caveau de la huchette jazz cellar cash squandered on a gold tootbrush two tone shoes from close by to the place d'italie portrait sketched at the place du tertre paperback books by symbolist poets but second hand volumes by trakl and deleve and a leather jacket from the marche aux puces porte de clignancourt losing gary's address scrawled on a page of musset's confession walking the length and breadth of the rue st denis, what an artist's paradise (as juliette once wrote me).
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Jul 3, 2015
Jul 3, 2015 at 7:23 AM UTC
From the Labyrinthine Metro
When the dark comes down, oh, the wind is on the sea With lisping laugh and whimper to the red reef's threnody, The boats are sailing homeward now across the harbor bar With many a jest and many a shout from fishing grounds afar. So furl your sails and take your rest, ye fisher folk so brown, For task and quest are ended when the dark comes down. When the dark comes down, oh, the landward valleys fill Like brimming cups of purple, and on every landward hill There shines a star of twilight that is watching evermore The low, dim lighted meadows by the long, dim-lighted shore, For there, where vagrant daisies weave the grass a silver crown, The lads and lassies wander when the dark comes down. When the dark comes down, oh, the children fall asleep, And mothers in the fisher huts their happy vigils keep; There's music in the song they sing and music on the sea, The loving, lingering echoes of the twilight's litany, For toil has folded hands to dream, and care has ceased to frown, And every wave's a lyric when the dark comes down.
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When the Dark Comes Down
It's the conspiracy to conspire, Think of how the fist or flies feel, The most enticing truth, Astonishingly mouthwatering, Turns out smoke and mirror, You see, because behind the window paned, skeleton of steel and wire, Underneath there is commerce, In the webbing of marrow, worldwide underhandedness, Something is always being sold, What better way to take power away, Then having scheduled rebellions, The greatest put on, Our system only works under thumbs, from the backdrop works the crippled puppeteer, behind his blank, vagrant, expressionless lenses, Behind the grey skin and swilled organs, Attached to the oil drum veins, Beats the very same heart of Moloch!
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Nov 21, 2012
Nov 21, 2012 at 10:20 PM UTC
A CALMING COMMOTION
5 W's Of The Desert Walker. WHAT does a man in the heat dream of? Maybe he dreams of the sweet taste of the rain What amenities does he seek in a bare sky with only the sun? He is given an audience with his delusions. He is granted a moment of peace under his imaginary palm. He can swim in the dry waters of the oasis till the sand shreds his skin. WHEN does his vagrant breath retreat? Maybe as the expired adventure turns to torture? In a blink his shade diminishes His view of the horizon brings drought to his tongue As his fatigue pays homage to the expanding desert. WHERE does a lost traveler turn when every direction leads nowhere? Does he look up for divinity? A panicked man, with his hands to the skies, calls for relief. But its not the cool he's expecting, its mercy for his soul when his time comes. WHO does he hear when his eyes begin to fail? Family, a child, maybe a lover with soft flesh? Face down in the dunes he can taste the salty blend of the earth. The voice of his cherished love echoes in his fading consciousness. A great comfort in his last request. WHY do we fall down? Because we're weak and unbalanced. So we can get back up? No sometimes we are just not as big as our ego would have us believe. The road to triumph can be hard to traverse unprepared. But the value of the experience can be as priceless as the outcome. -Alexis J. Meighan-
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 8:10 PM UTC
5 W's of the dessert walker