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brandon nagley Jun 2015
Casa of all blocks
Thou art hidden between thorn berries
And years!!!!

Thine windows sell thy tears
To salesmen
Of deaths door!!!

Darkly shores
Thou hast arrived to
Fine
Plays thou hast blended
Thy do of hahas
And wanting more for the taking!!!!

Decourous thou art
Wallstreet handler!!!

Yet,

When the stock market closes
Thy wallets benevolent
Forces are unseen
Something quick made up about noone lol
i am art
You are art
It doesnt matter the way we living
We still art ,a art that was creating with sand,water

We are strippers with bruises
But we are art.
We are wallstreet liars
We are trashed and clean
But we also art
We are different colors but we was creating with art....
The Good Pussy Mar 2015
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vircapio gale Aug 2015
mid-air toward the icy Catskill eddies
frozen once  and once again--
bridge-jump skyward watchers--
plunge of marrow tears.

you are there.  simulacrum ping
-pong pop on carpet rise
another consciousness i've known
the winking soul recognitive
of grin, of inner whispered act
we finish lineless, applause of ancients drone
on trio sum in low man's song,
on kitchen counter edges,
finger tests and tested trusts,
nail clips clipping on dehiscing ****--
the party. the porch. the project truth of beauty's virtue shown--
the drunken blood a lover
swirled on wet on wet undone.

your attic pillow-talk sobriety
of Green Hole fun
to echo four years, six and seventeen
the age unknown, we shared umbrella sanctity of family home:
raindrops trump the timeless wallstreet horns,
a zero sky ungains the settled hue of mind,
each thought the same, copula to void
in mythic forms we metaphor the plenum won

building dwelling-thinking sung,
the cardiac in tones--
lucid union slowing in the swirling sun--
the eddies stop again, sewn in Catskill frost..
the love we felt alive, in mid-air jump,
in Berto's cheer
we match the water's silent thrum
The Good Pussy Mar 2015
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He says "Geek Poet!
Leave the politics alone
Stick to Pop culture"

Cousin.
Politics ARE Pop culture.
don't you see?

in a world where businesses
buy natural disaster insurance
In fear of presidential tweets
McDonald's burger vending machines
You think this isn't dystopia?

We play games to escape.
where can we go
when the "real world"
is just as scary
upside down?

Tell me, Cousin.
Where do you write your poetry?
is it safe?

Do you surround yourself with muses?
back turned to a naked woman?
is there whiskey on the bar,
A journal,
your favorite pen?
Your cell phone,
clentching in the public restroom?

because no matter where you are.
that sanctuary
is a ******* pillow fort
compared to the Fort Knox
of an artists imagination

politics ARE pop culture
China is throwing unfathomable
amounts of money into Propaganda
targeting millennials though memes.
Fish don't see water, remember?

You are telling me
I can't write about politics.
There are Americans
who have never voted,
Radical left and right facebook profiles
protecting and attacking A Racist,
selfish, blemish on our history.
you wonder why we are scared, Cousin?

You want to know why I am so loud?

I watch Men step alligator shoe
out of Boston limousines
Slicked back hair straight
from wolf of wallstreet
belligerent screaming
"I do what I Waaaaaaant!"
"She does what she waaaaaaaaaaaaants!"
"We do what we waaaaant!"

This is the world
we're escaping from.
Excuse me if I break
from the zombie jokes
The vampire romances
Focus on the dead bodies
in our own city, Cousin.

Our demons are real now.

dystopian literature
called for the 2017 election
as far back as the 1930s'

Senator Buzz Windrip
from "It can't happen here"
by Sinclair Lewis
makes promises
to "return America to a better time".
back in 1935

buying validity for his ideas
in airtime on the radio,
tarring those who disagree,
as tools of mother russia,

dismissing woman,
as silly socialists.
naming the press
"a lot of irresponsible wind bags."

In the book "Parable of the talents",
Octavia butler Predicts a "Pox" In 2015
Wiping most of the population.
President Andrew Steele Jarret
promising to return the country
to an "Older Simpler time".
She wrote this book in 1998

Want to learn how to defeat Trump?
Read "Our Twisted Hero,"
by Yi Munyol

Read "In the Heart of the Valley of Love, "
by Cynthia Kadohata

All of these Dystopian fantasies
Prepare the Geeks
to rise up and fight.
Pop culture is the only thing saving us
Knowledge is the only thing saving us
Standing up,
Making art,
Being loud
is the only thing saving us
from the red button
in the orange hands
of the man who NEVER Had
the best words,

Because we do.

Repeat After me:

We The Artists
The Geeks who shall inherit
Swear to protect our words.
We will not bow,
bend,
or break.
Ink is the blood of prophets
The voice is a weapon

Excuse me if I fight
For education over distractraction.
Forgive me for preaching
Art as our gospel.

you can't Incite Revolution
by throwing dice at ghosts.

I am sick of being tall
because my friends
are too busy crawling
I'm putting all my stat points into
inspire

Let me incite placebo healing
for a small fraction
of the tortured
anxiety pretzels I walk along
each day.

I will spit
on anxiety paper-cuts
from this paperback of bigotry
in our future history
labeling myself neosporin prayin'
God,
PLEASE
let me be charismatic enough.
He says "Geek Poet!
Leave the politics alone
Stick to Pop culture"

Cousin.
Politics ARE Pop culture.
don't you see?

in a world where businesses
buy natural disaster insurance
In fear of presidential tweets
McDonald's burger vending machines
You think this isn't dystopia?

We play games to escape.
where can we go when the real world is
scary as the upside down?

Tell me, Cousin.
Where do you write your poetry?
is it safe?

Do you surround yourself with coffee?
Turn your back to a naked woman?
is there whiskey on the bar,
A journal,
your favorite pen?
Your cell phone,
clentching in the public restroom?

because no matter where you are.
that sanctuary
is a ******* pillow fort compared to the
Fort Knox of an artists imagination

politics ARE pop culture
China is throwing unfathomable
amounts of money into Propaganda
targeting millennials though memes.
Fish don't see water, remember?

You are telling me
I can't write about politics.
There are Americans
who have never voted,
posting radical left and right facebook posts.
protecting and attacking A Racist,
selfish, blemish on our history.
you wonder why we are scared, Cousin?

You want to know why I am so loud?

I watch Men step alligator shoe
out of Boston limousines
Slicked back hair straight
from wolf of wallstreet
belligerent screaming
"I do what I Waaaaaaant!"
"She does what she waaaaaaaaaaaaants!"
"We do what we waaaaant!"

This is the world
we're escaping from.
Excuse me if I break
from the zombie jokes
The vampire romances
Focus on the dead bodies
in our own city, Cousin.

Our demons are real now.

dystopian literature
called for the 2017 election
as far back as the 1930s'

Senator Buzz Windrip
from "It can't happen here"
by Sinclair Lewis
makes promises
to "return America to a better time".
back in 1935

buying validity for his ideas
in airtime on the radio,
tarring those who disagree,
as tools of mother russia,
dismissing woman,
as silly socialists.
naming the press
"a lot of irresponsible wind bags."

In the book "Parable of the talents",
Octavia butler Predicts a "Pox" In 2015
Wiping most of the population.
She wrote this book in 1998

Andrew Steele Jarret
becomes president
promising to return the country
to an "Older Simpler time"

Want to learn how to defeat Trump?
Read "Our Twisted Hero,"
by Yi Munyol

Read
"In the Heart of the Valley of Love, "
by Cynthia Kadohata

All of these Dystopian fantasies
Prepare the Geeks to rise up
and fight.
Pop culture is the only thing saving us
Knowledge is the only thing saving us
Standing up.
Making art.
Being loud
Is the only thing saving us
from the red button
in the orange hands
of the man who NEVER Had
the best words.

We The Artists
The Geeks who will inherit the earth
Swear to protect our words.
We will not bow, bend, or break.
Ink is the blood of prophets
The voice is a weapon

excuse me if I use Mine to educate
rather than distract.
Forgive me for spitting on anxiety paper-cuts
from our government
paperback of bigotry
labeling myself neosporin
praying God, PLEASE
let me be charismatic enough.
Let me incite placebo healing for a small fraction
of the tortured anxiety pretzels
I walk along each day.
I am sick of being tall because
my friends are too busy crawling.

I will preach Art as our gospel, Cousin.
You can't Incite Revolution
by throwing dice at ghosts
Our Pop Culture IS Politics.
I'm putting all my stat points into inspire
Watch how high I roll.
Watch it Live here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9SKRpLx4LyE&feature;=youtu.be
Theres this chemical found
in the books you love
that makes the smell of turning the page
stimulating.
Reminding me of every word I've ever learned
that wont fit the smell of a number two pencil
with the language given.

I will try.

Because I was taught elementry things that I still dont understand
like how to give up.

What is taught isn't always blowing through your sense.
So lend me your ear and hear this.
Help me remember the miracle
of tragic wealth,
where  oppurtunity in the ventures of wallstreet
is worth more than everybody else
and somehow still
no child gets left behind.
Leaving only our parent's nuerosis that become our friends
inability to write poetry.
The form of a child is something to be ashamed of
and you better believe that the ink can't speak
because growing up
that lesson that did sink in
under your skin is how you've never been able to say what you mean.  

So run along lil duckling
traffic wont wait in this brisk pace
of a life you better learn.

We don't have time for nature.
A mother we grow to think we were born into
but out of?
Oh into,
the biggest lie to convince us
that such a thing as original exists
when the closest to original you'll get
is the collage of your human experience.
Turning school children into ducklings
reality into god
war into novels
spanish harlem into charity abroad
body language into a farewell to your fear
and journal studies into truth
but if I wanted to talk about the absolute
it's poetry I'd read to you.

Because when I saw god

I had to

touch
my
self.

To even come
close
every bead of sweat evidence of
the good work
the lessons learned
and all the things that I must burn.
To keep pace in this place
   climbing a catalogue
I
must
   escape.
So
when my time comes
I won't
be afraid
to
turn
the pa
ge.
Jason Leimer Sep 2010
Ever wonder where the dollar bills were
in your life? Do you find money hard to come by?

Greed it's in us we want to make the most money
live like Donald Trump or a Wallstreet Broker,

Now a days it seems we ask, where is my money?
I have a answer for you that greed we desire, well we got
robbed by it and now we pay the price.

So when you ask where's the money? Blame greed for the lack of money coming into your home.
brandon nagley Aug 2015
The
Devil weareth
A suit
And a tie
He's
A wallstreet guy........



©Brandon nagley
©Lonesome poet's poetry
Butch Decatoria May 2021
(Pondering Worth)

Money does not make someone better than another who has less of it, money in itself cannot "make" anything at all. Yet it has unmade human kindness, damnable men and taxes.

If it's supposed to be "Do unto others as you would--done unto you.." The Golden Rule then presumes to say that All are equal.

There's no quantification or monetary value when it comes to "Life" it just IS or Isn't (alive). It's no one's business, it has no business. So then, begs the question Why do Men think themselves better or above it, divisively deciding what or who has the right to?
What is Man if not Alive? Why?
Who speaks for creation when men go to destroying the Garden?
Live and Let Live and Let Love.
TigerEyes Sep 2014
The war on hate continues on
fueled by corporations around the world
they're sticky like honey...
they're in love with the sound of...
"cha-ching, money---"
it starts with a house at the end of a street..
spreading with rain...
trampled by boots...
it gathers more pain
to leave its next stain
on snow colored white
crimson red
staining the dead..
It may have all started with a hateful stare...
an unkind word...
perhaps, a spiteful glare
enough for it to fuel the fire
(an ego desire)
to right the wrong of what had been done
unjust in the eyes of the hater
    revenge that had to be carried out..
sooner rather than later...
the circle is now complete
spinning round n' round...
with the violent sound
of bombs ripping, and tearing
flesh on the ground
Meanwhile the Dow is up...
n' all the fat cats on Wallstreet
are just living it up...
so happy they cashed in
knowing when it would all begin...
before it was too late...
to make money on all the hate.
© 2014 Krisselle S. Cosgrove
ilo Feb 2022
i'm not speaking of concrete skies
brittle streets
or wallstreet highs
concrete cities city street brittle walls barriers skies spoken ideals
Pain and pleasure go hand in hand
Like Iraq Libya and Afghanistan
After the Caspian Seas deadly plagues made for us to be sprayed
By the chemicals warfare they say don't go there
Or look there I'm just tryna get a fresh breath of air
But it's hard everything contaminated tryna get us minorities eliminated
But God destined for me to make it cuz it's broke so I came out to fix it crucifix it
Nailed to a cross finishin' off the Holocaust that ****** left off
Not to hard not too soft but I went from a boy to Man with illegal contrabands
Listen to the nature drums drumming
Wait a minute that's just my heart pumpin'
In the urge of a dumpin' from my shot gun pumpin'
Blacks at the verge of a rise black wallstreet enterprise coming back on our feet
Now matter what they speak
Nation's gatherin' around to hear that soulful sound
Huh blacks never gone die we too tied to the astrologies that magnetized
Our souls days is darker like blunts that spark ya
Soon to the see the spirits dancing right in front of ya
I seen pain enjoying luxury I see enemies enjoying treachery
But it don't matter the atrocities we takin' over like mobsters in Italy
Raidin' towns guns shots through out the towns garglin' blood til ya drown
Closed clowns now ya casket bound
Eulogy givin' tryna reaped for ya sins stocked in
On Earth it's to late ya destiny awaits
It's Yosef standing on the rings of Jupiter's lookin' at ya
Like Spawn feel my  
necroplasm
Once I penetrate minds I cause many muscle spasm that leads to a death ******
See the Lazer beams that evilness stings
Sings a beautiful graphic scenes greens
Are often used to confuse the views *****
Through lifes struggle tryna make a muscle
Everyday hustle got us fighting something
That can't none of us see but i see humanity
Fallin' down the steps of the path of insanity
They labelled me crazy çuz of the marked conspiracy
I broke from the condemn dimmed halos
watching diablos flexing pistols at the mental
Let my thoughts go gentle got kids sentimental
So i had to restructure the cycle like Michael
Im feelin' bad cursed from my dad it was a fad
That father time had made bids with the sinister
Ministers of the hidden earth before my birth
My black dot couldn't register the girth
My worth couldn't be brought or sought
Peep the madness that was caught hawks
Aimming at pigeons
controllin' the militant complex religions
Envision decision made off of broke visions
Suspension on me from the ****** society
I been black since Prince Whipple crossed the
sea
With Washington's infantry of armies revolutionary
War count the stars you'll see alot of black scars


Yo **** what you heard Ill
Lay a herd
Of my words stinging like Larry Birds
Vocals played on a 33rd crossed that
Out map out see me draw out a
clout
Reroute the slave scenery pictures of me
And my lost families dynasties royal
But I'm feeling good in the neighborhood
Media scared of the
blackwoods
Burning fires revenged the past devils sins
Sticking like a syringe pain injectin' infants
Black but we aint having that retrace back
Black Wallstreet standing over skyscrapers
Getting papers so enemies inhale the vapors
Live funk overdose I'm standing too close
Over the edge meditate of the flashes message
Slowly pounding my head break the feds
Phone taps cuz I'm of my raw raps perhaps
Ya need to find a new hobby I'm the Robby
Robinson golden age bodybuilding
In a rage let my smoke uncaged engaged
Critics with a twelve gauge became a renegade
Serenade the streets once we connect a meet
Crowds coming in like ocean tides
Hide my pride see a white face try to coincide
The business what is this? Its similar to Chris
Slaughtered many Indians and Mexicans
Over Benjamin's so whos the real immigrant?
****** is coming back on the attack at the Senate
JP Apr 2017
Suddenly
the whole world
affected by memory loss
Except few people
others
Completely lost their memory
then
they decided to
recorded their memory
as follows

****** was a dangerous virus
Killed million of Jews.

WallStreet a place, where
People find Heaven or Hell.

America and Russia two bad
boys always fight each other.

Olympics people runs for
other than food..

Religion created many team
then, such concept used in sports.

Government a team to loot
from poor for welfare of poor..

Cinema a big hut
Unbelievable made believable..
ZACK GRAM Mar 2019
i pray a heavy prayer
wake me
dear lord i cant believe i lived this long
on the verge
this must not be real
touch my hand i need a lift
im not prepared
we are safe
i havent wrote down a speech
voice is our choice
one thing is correct
politics an media disturb me
liquified synthetics
in your car an in my lungs
off a rig
death no dishonor
they died so i can say this
reincarnation
im alive dear father
4th sector
so far they cant stop me
area 51
doing hard time tho
locked down in chains
been encamped
pitch my tent wallstreet
seems like decades
couple second on the clock
ready to be free
withnessing greed
my words shall reap
put fear in society
in the wake we eat
canibals
celebrate the factors of life
naturals
outweighed by one soul
**** **** ****
one paper and a pen
****** ****** ******
you have no power
SUPER POWER
I AM RAP
call me ferror
ill shut you down
rott in your grave
call me king
bow before your leader
the richest man in history
trillions in space
its facts
nine hundred ninety nine pesos
not 1 person alive
not 1 person in the past
not one person in the future
the end

-zpac
the end
the dirty poet Dec 2019
yeah cops are just working guys doing a ***** job
and when you need one you NEED one
but man, they let themselves be molded into an army
at the drop of a top hat and overtime paycheck
the police are weapons and sometimes used accordingly
they see no problem dropping into invasion mode
against the unemployed, the underemployed
the darker population, freethinkers
and other americans who break no laws
except the law against resisting the harness
the cops accept their role as cattle **** to students
who are playing THEIR role:  cross-examining the USA
it's simple but true--
wear a suit and you're the boss
dress funky and you're a creep.
deserving of the smug baton
i observed this at the G20 summit
where i strolled along a phalanx of cops
there to protect the inviolability of property
more sacrosanct than the citizens of the country
and now i watch them kick down the wallstreet settlements
serving and protecting the dollar almighty
(thanks to my fellow beatniks for the cliche last line)
(but tell me it’s not true)
if you’re a policeman reading this
thanks for getting my keys out of the car
but WAKE UP to the way you’re intermittently implemented
How can two hearts that was meant for each other became a war-zone ,
they forgot how it all started
    Was it euphoric feelings
Was all those years of pure love just euphoric ,
Am still in shock to see this two lovebirds fight and broke things
  I became scared of love
It frightens me
Vividly i could recall how they walked on the road holding each others hands
All the kisses on the wallstreet
All those vacations , picnics

Now what i see each day is war
  Screaming out loud, yelling at each other  all night, breaking things

This is disaster i said
How can this beautiful love story end with disaster
ZACK GRAM Mar 2019
i pray a heavy prayer
wake me
dear lord i cant believe i lived this long
on the verge
this must not be real
touch my hand i need a lift
im not prepared
we are safe
i havent wrote down a speech
voice is our choice
one thing is correct
politics an media disturb me
liquified synthetics
in your car an in my lungs
off a rig
death no dishonor
they died so i can say this
reincarnation
im alive dear father
4th sector
so far they cant stop me
area 51
doing hard time tho
locked down in chains
been encamped
pitch my tent wallstreet
seems like decades
couple second on the clock
ready to be free
withnessing greed
my words shall reap
put fear in society
in the wake we eat
canibals
celebrate the factors of life
naturals
outweighed by one soul
**** **** ****
one paper and a pen
****** ****** ******
you have no power
SUPER POWER
I AM RAP
call me ferror
ill shut you down
rott in your grave
call me king
bow before your leader
the richest man in history
trillions in space
its facts
nine hundred ninety nine pesos
not 1 person alive
not 1 person in the past
not one person in the future
the end

-zpac
Keven May 2018
People act like I'm too greedy and/or evil just because I stole so much money from innocent people when I worked on Wallstreet but I blame Gordon Geko because everything was his idea; I simply wanted to impress my dad by making more money than him and all the other ancestors.
the dirty poet Jun 2020
yeah cops are just working guys doing a ***** job
and when you need one you need one
but man, they let themselves be molded into an army
at the drop of a top hat and overtime paycheck
the police are weapons and sometimes used accordingly
they see no problem dropping into invasion mode
against the unemployed, the underemployed
the darker population, freethinkers
and other americans who break no laws
except the law against resisting the harness
the cops accept their role as cattle **** to students
who are playing their role:  cross-examining the USA
it's simple but true--
wear a suit and you're the boss
dress funky and you're a creep.
deserving of the smug baton
i observed this at the G20 summit
where i strolled along a phalanx of cops
there to protect the inviolability of property
more sacrosanct than the citizens of the country
and now i watch them kick down the wallstreet settlements
serving and protecting the dollar almighty
(thanks to my fellow beatniks for the cliche last line)
(but tell me it’s not true)
if you’re a policeman reading this
thanks for getting my keys out of the car
but WAKE UP to the way you’re intermittently implemented
Bard Nov 2020
Label me a radical, a criminal, a ******* liberal
Eyes are critical and logical, thoughts are cynical
I am lethal, I am suicidal, maybe homicidal

Your fealty to the wealthy is filthy
This city made of many is ******
Somebody over fifty makes the money

Won't get better can't even send a letter
Careful if you tread here below is a shredder
Its a tax evader tears apart people and paper

One ******* on the roof looks to the ******* on the floor
Profits through a glass roof raining shards onto the floor
"Stop It" "It Hurts" "Where's the Proof" "Here's the Door"

No money, no ***, just drugs
So funny, so psychedelic, just dregs
Get money, get ***, just a wallstreet ****

******* if you don't care ******* if you don't believe it
***** to be you below getting ****** and no one gives a ****
***** to be you above ******* without consent, leave a cheap tip
Finally met the rich conservative ******* and partied with them and now I'll get 15 an hour because thats "Real minimum wage" to these people they just think poor people are ******* lazy I was ******* dying trying to barely make things work at 9.89 an hour and these ******* get paid 15 an hour to do half the work and while they do it they preach conservatism and deny that minimum wage needs to go up even though they have never had to live off that **** so **** them, *******, and **** me.
ilo Feb 2022
red clay beneath my nails
in the dry cracks of my wintered hands,
feels like I'm holding Georgia,

I hope they all grow strong.
I hope there are no "losers."
I hope there is a chance that I will get to see them grow older,

Is the future really a place of
concrete skies, brittle streets, and Wallstreet highs,
or can I just make my nest up in the mighty giant?

— The End —