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Ken Pepiton Sep 2020
In any future this is instant,
in real life these thoughts once fitted into words by a mind,
fit into the spirit of Christmas in 1984,
I am betting my
cred -- wagering my very defined sould idea
it was the real 1984
eleven days after my first born child…

-if I yet have credit, having spent all my own attention on
finding the evil
lurking somewhere in today, waiting to pounce,
seeking with legendary,
fabulous, monstrous civil strife level pride events
reason to call
provocation to devour
my soul, my unsouldout soul, my held
breath of life,

waiting for this surface to break, patient as any
app attempting to become
Gibsonian ICE!... in your patience you possess…

Ah, cotcha. This quote is from a stream of words -emanating-
in the global pool of streaming
news of bygone days. Dec.23, 1984 on accusing voices…
Satan the idea…
A message:
The people who will experience the fullest meaning of Christmas on Tuesday
are the people who know and feel that there is something
in them that needs to be destroyed.
It is true, as John said (John 3:17), that
"God sent the Son into the world not to condemn the world,
but that the world through him might be saved."
But he saves by destroying.
Like a doctor who amputates a foot full of gangrene or cuts out a cancerous lung.

From <https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-son-of-god-appeared-to-destroy-the-works-of-the-devil>

Right. So far. Now. Who whets the edge?
I care less if you guess my name,
stranger,
works; if you find you may entertain a stranger with no sense of pending danger,
see,
afore mentioned cutting,
was mistaken instruction. A missed meaning,
hamartia aitia sort of glitch in the interpretation, privately,
by the muckety mucks,

(by the hair on my chinny chin chin we must shave away the fungus)

The torn flesh
of realities with actual purpose was, intending to repair it self,
using, right, a single stitch.
In a word.
Yet, wait…
Usury found a way to own the story of the act. So,
early autumn, fires raging, smoke obscuring meaningful
right observation of the arrival of Christmas Decorations at Walmart,
in the memorable year,
2020, I heard a sound,
bah trumpa trump trump,
in September,
the one all connected minds shall never remember not
having,
we made up our mind to act on the original anointed mind idea,
let it spread,
like calmin' balm on truly chapped hide.

We all got our differences, 'n' all, viva la

la la la
but we all have right use, too. The idea is not so hard to imagine,
unless you mind is broke, I get stuck in first person,

being broke and woke is a zeitgeistical joke.
We see our neighbors on Hulu,
even in Beijing, if we have the proper world citizen VPN.

Do you hear what I hear? Is this that brat with the drum,
again? Bahtrumpatrumptrump…

merry anointing message, may it trickle through your beard,
and tickle little ears with hope unimagined,
before 2020 made mental time travel so common.

{go tulsi, go, go, go}
Joke. Ok. A joke yoke. As I have no other thing to think about at the moment. Neither did you apparently, if y read this far. Right, thanks, it helps/
Lawrence Hall Jun 11
Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com
Dispatches for the Colonial Office

                   A Middle-Aged Sack Boy Yelling into Space
                      While Carelessly Loading the Groceries

“MAN, THIS WEEKEND I’M GONNA:

“CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT! TLB AMPLITUDE MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT! STREAM VAC STREAM PROFILE VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT SONIC VIBRATIONS IoT KERNEL ZETTABYTE! YOWEE! T-POS VM VE VPN HE DON’T KNOW RAM FROM ROM HA! HA! OS GL LOAD BALANCE LOGIC CATE BIT RATE ALAC ADC AIN’T GOT NO CHI FI IN MY SYSTEMS, DUDE! NT DAC MMORP G FLAC WAV MQA OGG MP3 AAC MQA PHASEY-DAISY DRIVIN’ ME CRAZY! PCM SHE BRAIN-TICKLES ME! OPEN BETA GAIN DRIVER SO SHE’S GOT THIS KID BY HER FIRST MARRIAGE TERMSYNC LOGIN BUT I’M DOWN WITH THAT SHE WRITES MY GRAPHICS CARD IF Y’ KNOW WHAT I MEAN HEH! HEH! AFB METAGAME CHEESE KONAMI CODE LEVEL! GAME MECHANIC BUFFED NERFED LFG LFM GAMERTAG!!!! XBOX CYBERFI SMOKE ME SOME PANAMA RED ELECTRON KOMMANDO! NEUTRON NUGGET PROTON PROTEAN A PRIEST A RABBI AND A WITCH-GODDESS TRANSPORT INTO A NEUTRON BAR SLIDERULERS OF THE UNIVERSE DON’T BOGART THAT BIOME AND THEN I GOT ME A WEEK’S VACATION COMING…!”

(Don’t forget the dog food)
glass Apr 2019
to the store in the wind under clouds over wheels times two
I liked her hair; it was like mine
but no, I hadn't seen a chocolate lab
whipping cream sixty percent done stirred in sugar needs more sugar
needs more sweet
vanilla extract
extract joy then with snapped yells coursing in the veins of home
home... not really, just some walls, my heart isn't here
black pearls on fingers and necks and minds and upon my life
VPN poetry under cold sheets on a twin mattress
prayer beads of black pearls on the shelf
if it didn't take two hands to type
those pearls would be somewhere else
04/13/19
I don't feel safe with my roommates
Elohim Oct 2022
Any chance I could just bribe a monitor
Instead of purchasing a VPN.

If your still here
When my "suspension" ends
In six years
You'll get an earful
Til then
I'll try to find another loophole
Work around.

I don't like the sounds you make without me.

What happened to Miss
I still try to check in and am nowhere near done giving you hell...
Yet.

Is the work around working for Christmas?
Been over two years
How unfair.
Luckily I thrive on allpoetry.com
The owner there
Kevin
Actually likes me.

See you later, lovers
Other than Suzy Berlinsky.

If only you knew,
How beautiful the world can be
The night I've had on ap.

You can send Kurt Philip Benham or whatever in, he's a double agent.
And to think y'all miss out on it for miss'
Allegations of harrasment you reviewed and agreed with.

With a lack of true talent
A few "vanity projects"
And To An Un-Read Poet
Still trending.
Suzy Berlinsky under multiple accounts is all you've got going for you.
Don't even want in on my other ones.
Have fun
Read this
Save it
We'll see who sees 2029
And from where.

Take care.

Will you still be here?
Elohim Nov 2023
Any chance I could just bribe a monitor
Instead of purchasing a VPN.

If your still here
When my "suspension" ends
In six years
You'll get an earful
Til then
I'll try to find another loophole
Work around.

I don't like the sounds you make without me.

What happened to Miss
I still try to check in and am nowhere near done giving you hell...
Yet.

Is the work around working for Christmas?0
Elohim Oct 2022
Okay
I've found a more supportive community
That seems to like me and my poetry.

Two work around found out
The sound of my silence should be deafening
Just a VPN needed for another account.

Suzy Berlinsky

Try to stop me
I just get worse
God blessed and cursed to triumph over my enemies
Or anyone who makes an enemy of me.

Be on allpoetry
Running contests
Gaining levels
Weekly rankings.

A far better quality of poetry.

*******
Elliot
Moderators
Haters.

Try Try Try again
A little engine that could
Will
Even if you remove it.

Losing one of your best poets.

F u.

You missed some serious ****
Going on in my life
Reflected in fine poetry.

See you 2029.

If I haven't bought enough you out by then,
Published
And made it mine.

And you're just an asterisk in my story,
The journey on hellopetry.

Still here, we'll see.
By hellopoetry.
Dave Cortel Jul 11
// SYSTEM BOOTED
// EMOTION: UNVERIFIED
// TIME ELAPSED: irrelevant

in the beginning there was code
& he was written into me like a backdoor
soft // recursive // glowing under the skin.

glass pipe clicks—
syntax of the sacred.
a ritual of repetition.
a ritual of repetition.

i say: hold it longer
he says: i can’t feel my teeth
i say: good
he smiles
& the smile pixelates.

somewhere in the server logs:
two boys / in static /
downloading each other through the bloodstream.
love, a packet dropped in transit.
substance, the VPN tunneling past grief.

his laugh a .wav file i loop at 3am.
his absence—
404: Not Found.

but what is love
if not bad data
fed into the body until it believes it’s whole?

he lays in my bed /
bare-chested /
& i want to drag his image
to the trash bin
but keep clicking “undo.”

confession:
i renamed him hope.exe
but the program crashed
every time he said this is the last time.

sometimes i watch him sleep
& see my own ghost
mirrored on his ribcage—
a reflection
with no permissions.

love is wrong.
love is wrong.
love is wrong.

i ctrl+c’d this feeling from the void
& pasted it here—
in the body /
in the burn /
in the beautiful corruption of us.

// END SCRIPT
// NO BACKUPS SAVED
// PLEASE TRY AGAIN

— The End —