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"wildebeest" poems
a lion out of the plains would be sick walking tall in a marsh with mud in his pretty mane? no i don't think so. fighter in the wrong land fury in the wrong fist turned inwards instead of to the wildebeest cloven hooves at his *** instead of teeth at their throats proud proud lion never be a gangster here pull up that saggy skin and face the facts you're in the wrong town now, kitten
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Sep 15, 2014
Sep 15, 2014 at 8:20 AM UTC
lion
Blood red plain of killing fields. Lioness stalks her prey. Tragic zebra separated from the herd. As lady lion quiet as bird. Creeps through concealing long grass. Undergrowth. Undercover. Trying not to rustle. Lioness has savvy. Not Zebra mares' saviour today. No games. She flies. Hear the wildebeest scatter. They know she's there. The birds, made them aware. Assails from the side. One fell swoop and zebra's down. The other quadrupeds return from their scarper and scatter. No fear today. The lioness is fed. She is not greedy. Nature beat her quarry. From the trees emerge her cubs to take their fill. The laws of the wild instilled! By ladylivvi1 © 2013 ladylivvi1 (All rights reserved)
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Sep 15, 2013
Sep 15, 2013 at 10:03 AM UTC
Lioness!
Moss covered women beggin' fog man to grip a cig from their tangled wigs (a snarl of emerald branches & voodoo masks with plastic flasks, they grave loot from caskets & trash.) Raunchy regulars calling loogies to duty. I've been livin' in a tumble **** with a doctorate for wildebeest.
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Aug 20, 2014
Aug 20, 2014 at 10:56 PM UTC
****** Sushi Bar
I sat by his bedside the day my father died. The cancer that had riddled his body and soul now had complete control. He fought kicking and screaming the night the men in white came to take him on his final journey like a great wildebeest struggling to get up on its front legs after being taken down by young lions. The way so many had said he probably would since he fought his way tooth & nail throughout his life from the very beginning. That night I sat on a chair at the foot of his bed staring out the huge ceiling to floor window of the medical centre at the many worlds hidden beneath thousands of rows of stationary lights and fluid winding rows of transient lights in-between and thought how the light of this window is just one of many thousands. At that moment it seemed more like just one tiny speck in the vast star fields worlds above this city of light. My father had spent most of his life just a short six-mile drive from here under the scattered lights of his hometown. He turned to me and asked, “That’s a big city. Where are we?" Dementia had claimed his mind ten or more years earlier. It slowly wound its way around his brain like a cocky snake handler being choked by a boa constrictor unawares. It seemed like it all caught up to his body. But it was good to see much of the bitterness and bad blood between us dissipated over the past decade. On that night compassion ruled the day. I could not say it then but it has been many years, where it seems compassion has forged with objectivity. In a lucid moment he looked around the hospital room bewildered as if he were a little boy who just woke up from a bad dream and asked, “How did this ever happen?" If only I could have told him. Sometimes the truth cannot be spoken or heard. All I could do then was sit by his bed and lean in close to his ear and sing softly his favourite hymns.  By morning his lifeless dilapidated body laid in the fetal position. His once ravenous mouth now forever frozen looked like a knothole in a twisted cedar tree. All I can do now is hang my head and think of how weak and frail we humans truly are. Like compassion forged with objectivity, weakness and frailty forges with fleeting moments of strength. We forge heroes out of these moments to tower above the pedestals the former is made of to somehow minimize the pain of this often denied truth.
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Feb 16, 2017
Feb 16, 2017 at 11:40 AM UTC
The Day My Father Died
I sat by his bedside the day my father died. The cancer that had riddled his body and soul now had complete control. He fought kicking and screaming the night the men in white came to take him on his final journey like a great wildebeest struggling to get up on its front legs after being taken down by young lions. The way so many had said he probably would since he fought his way tooth & nail throughout his life from the very beginning. That night I sat on a chair at the foot of his bed staring out the huge ceiling to floor window of the medical centre at the many worlds hidden beneath thousands of rows of stationary lights and fluid winding rows of transient lights in-between and thought how the light of this window is just one of many thousands. At that moment it seemed more like just one tiny speck in the vast star fields worlds above this city of light. My father had spent most of his life just a short six-mile drive from here under the scattered lights of his hometown. He turned to me and asked, “That’s a big city. Where are we?" Dementia had claimed his mind ten or more years earlier. It slowly wound its way around his brain like a cocky snake handler being choked by a boa constrictor unawares. It seemed like it all caught up to his body. But it was good to see much of the bitterness and bad blood between us dissipated over the past decade. On that night compassion ruled the day. I could not say it then but it has been many years, where it seems compassion has forged with objectivity. In a lucid moment he looked around the hospital room bewildered as if he were a little boy who just woke up from a bad dream and asked, “How did this ever happen?" If only I could have told him. Sometimes the truth cannot be spoken or heard. All I could do then was sit by his bed and lean in close to his ear and sing softly his favourite hymns.  By morning his lifeless dilapidated body laid in the fetal position. His once ravenous mouth now forever frozen looked like a knothole in a twisted cedar tree. All I can do now is hang my head and think of how weak and frail we humans truly are. Like compassion forged with objectivity, weakness and frailty forges with fleeting moments of strength. We forge heroes out of these moments to tower above the pedestals the former is made of to somehow minimize the pain of this often denied truth.
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Unforgiving heat Cool drink Giraffe, Hippo, Wildebeest, Gazelle Sip muddy water hole Crouching low. Unforgiving heat Cool drink Texans Sip fridge-cooled Camelbacks Crouching low. Light breeze Eggplant skies Tall savannah grass Sways Masking movement. Predators travel Unseen. Guns ready trophies sighted Giraffe Hippo Wildebeest Gazelle Bullet chambered Trigger finger trophies.... Running? Cheetahs pouncing Texans screaming Law of Nature End of Story.
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Oct 31, 2014
Oct 31, 2014 at 12:01 PM UTC
Happy Hunting!
Softly and steadily we munch A roller motion action As we gently pass over Living in a contented silence Randomly we each call Hollow pipes we are played By the holy organist As life plays its tune Understood be very few As we submit to the herd And spiral around a oneness Mooing and mooing With a great gusto We send out O's circles spiraling Softly blowing bubbles With an oily shine We are carried forward In these bulbs of light Air filled with vibration Caressing and holding Our community with An invisible film As we all feel this Light headed embrace And the golden ring of community Is placed on our finger We say "YES YES YES " For we love her very much   Living free of hierarchy As everyone is equal Servant and master Divorced from the conflicting Ties of politics We are as level and free as The planes from which we graze Living a freedom faraway from Rank and power And enjoy the vast out stretching Places where our hearts unburdened By mountains unfold into unlimited spaces Collapsing within each breath We spread our Love with the ease Of melting butter in the African sun Far and wide In the mating season We may bumble around Like bumper cars As you can not underestimate The force of each individual As we bang and bang our way   Through life until opportunity knocks Until life says yes As our our stubbornness Is not just the perfect No But the perfect Yes to And mothers reward our newborns With her loving milk The perfect colostrum A silky bliss In the expansive community Of wildebeest and cattle Where endless love Can spread like water We can learn so very much
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Dec 14, 2014
Dec 14, 2014 at 7:09 AM UTC
THE WILDEBEEST COMMUNITY
Softly and steadily we munch A roller motion action As we gently pass over Living in a contented silence Randomly we each call Hollow pipes we are played By the holy organist As life plays its tune Understood be very few As we submit to the herd And spiral around a oneness Mooing and mooing With a great gusto We send out O's circles spiraling Softly blowing bubbles With an oily shine We are carried forward In these bulbs of light Air filled with vibration Caressing and holding Our community with An invisible film As we all feel this Light headed embrace And the golden ring of community Is placed on our finger We say "YES YES YES " For we love her very much   Living free of hierarchy As everyone is equal Servant and master Divorced from the conflicting Ties of politics We are as level and free as The planes from which we graze Living a freedom faraway from Rank and power And enjoy the vast out stretching Places where our hearts unburdened By mountains unfold into unlimited spaces Collapsing within each breath We spread our Love with the ease Of melting butter in the African sun Far and wide In the mating season We may bumble around Like bumper cars As you can not underestimate The force of each individual As we bang and bang our way   Through life until opportunity knocks Until life says yes As our our stubbornness Is not just the perfect No But the perfect Yes to And mothers reward our newborns With her loving milk The perfect colostrum A silky bliss In the expansive community Of wildebeest and cattle Where endless love Can spread like water We can learn so very much
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My tears are-- Narcoleptic diagonals Collapsing forward- Motion into neurons- Bound-by-arteries Instead of gravity. They find construct, By fluorine cyclamen And wildebeest chantries. But to understand Is-bygone-remorse Made of much more Than clovers stitches. Needling skin into bone. Thoughts from flesh.
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Dec 30, 2014
Dec 30, 2014 at 2:47 PM UTC
Stale Cyclamen
Dear America, I was built on a loose foundation A table with three legs to sustain the load of a table with four. To make nothing from something but For something to come from nothing you need some thing. The most terrible thing to waste The superlative of Man’s tools What makes us as individuals unique, On the contrary defines us as a social order The mind, The M.I.N.D. My Intelligence Nurtures Divergence Always accepting of the opposition, A bloodthirsty cheetah digging its fangs deep into the flesh of a wildebeest, my mind feeds off of their ideals, Further amplifying my intellectual power. Expansion within the human intellect, builds on experiences of failures and success Be afraid of failure, but unafraid to learn from defeat The world is a frigid place, and even colder when you squander your most valuable weapon. “A weapon? What beats an M16, double barrel shotgun, 9mm, Smith and Wesson, or Desert Eagle.” Young blood, the divine power is in your head Gandhi, Malcolm X, Socrates Gone too soon due to minds considered Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Enlightenment to others Since 1992 I’ve embarked on a journey A journey to educate myself A journey to realize the man I want to be A journey to reach my full potential Universally familiar words of my grandmother “You can do whatever you put your mind too” The future poses as an unknown force, But within me fear is absent as my MIND is fully equipped for the ongoing battle of life. I was built on a loose foundation Tupac Shakur, John D Rockefeller, Oprah Winfrey, Chris Gardner, Christopher Wallace, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Henry Ford, Bill Gates. Expected to come from nothing to something but had that one thing to become something Utilize your strengths and bury your weaknesses For with a strong mind the word weak is without purpose
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Aug 3, 2012
Aug 3, 2012 at 12:05 PM UTC
The Letter
Dear America, I was built on a loose foundation A table with three legs to sustain the load of a table with four. To make nothing from something but For something to come from nothing you need some thing. The most terrible thing to waste The superlative of Man’s tools What makes us as individuals unique, On the contrary defines us as a social order The mind, The M.I.N.D. My Intelligence Nurtures Divergence Always accepting of the opposition, A bloodthirsty cheetah digging its fangs deep into the flesh of a wildebeest, my mind feeds off of their ideals, Further amplifying my intellectual power. Expansion within the human intellect, builds on experiences of failures and success Be afraid of failure, but unafraid to learn from defeat The world is a frigid place, and even colder when you squander your most valuable weapon. “A weapon? What beats an M16, double barrel shotgun, 9mm, Smith and Wesson, or Desert Eagle.” Young blood, the divine power is in your head Gandhi, Malcolm X, Socrates Gone too soon due to minds considered Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Mass Enlightenment to others Since 1992 I’ve embarked on a journey A journey to educate myself A journey to realize the man I want to be A journey to reach my full potential Universally familiar words of my grandmother “You can do whatever you put your mind too” The future poses as an unknown force, But within me fear is absent as my MIND is fully equipped for the ongoing battle of life. I was built on a loose foundation Tupac Shakur, John D Rockefeller, Oprah Winfrey, Chris Gardner, Christopher Wallace, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Henry Ford, Bill Gates. Expected to come from nothing to something but had that one thing to become something Utilize your strengths and bury your weaknesses For with a strong mind the word weak is without purpose
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Everyone I’ve ever idolized dies tragically. He said that Blues Run the Game and died still feeling that fire all over his body. He sings about losing control again even though it’s he who was. He taught his son about responsibility and fell to the wildebeest. I used to think the monk who set himself on fire was insane but now I think he was a product of sound rationale. Ears are falling off in this starry night. And I see nothing weird If he told me to keep the object carefully I would. Madness is Genius. And I’d rather be absolutely ridiculous than nauseatingly normal. No one tells you that the very best parts of love are also its very worst. Love torments the soul Tragedy becomes a way of life And suffering, a daily occurrence. Such is the way of the mad artist. Who after he paints Starry Night Cuts off his ear. I’m starting to think I’ll live longer If I stop being an artist.
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Nov 12, 2012
Nov 12, 2012 at 2:35 PM UTC
Irrational.
Santa Claus is 100% pure love his heart does not divide the starved and homeless man with his tin cup from the wealthy politician in his black limousine nor does Santa ever blame the frightened small town girl who paints her lips and struts unsure down hard dark streets Santa Claus remembers his own mother and weeps for the lonely karma of octogenarians diapered in wheelchairs along fluorescent hallways abandoned by the ones they birthed our great elf winces every time he feels the crocodile's fearsome jaws drag the wildebeest down while the zebras flee he prays relentless sailors stop harpooning the great breaching whales and hears the grasses scream when bloated oilmen pound holes in the prairie dog's kingdom he regrets that schoolteachers lie about what a great man Columbus was and why the Sioux, the Apache and the Arapahoe were incapable of evolution he knows you don't need a bicycle helmet to ride downtown for ice cream knows our legal system is for sale knows surfing is Neptune's brave ballet Santa delights in the spiritual joy emerging when patients see angels hovering everywhere before doctors scream psychosis and numb what they do not understand with sad needles and leather restraints his reindeer are the dreams of the spastic child who knows he will never run his sleigh a zero carbon emission vehicle and his great heavy bag carries the sweet prayers of the Jew, the Christian the Muslim, the Buddhist, the Hindu the Gnostic, the Wiccan and the existential humanist on the night before Christmas Santa dreams that all the cars and trucks disappear and every freeway grows trees and flowers and grass where everyone chats and meanders and strolls and vendors sell SnoCones, apple juice and pears because Santa Claus is just doing the one thing he knows how to do best on a long winter's night to bring some light to a world that races toward extinction while the butterfly sleeps with the lizard and the children still believe
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Dec 3, 2015
Dec 3, 2015 at 4:01 PM UTC
SANTA
Santa Claus is 100% pure love his heart does not divide the starved and homeless man with his tin cup from the wealthy politician in his black limousine nor does Santa ever blame the frightened small town girl who paints her lips and struts unsure down hard dark streets Santa Claus remembers his own mother and weeps for the lonely karma of octogenarians diapered in wheelchairs along fluorescent hallways abandoned by the ones they birthed our great elf winces every time he feels the crocodile's fearsome jaws drag the wildebeest down while the zebras flee he prays relentless sailors stop harpooning the great breaching whales and hears the grasses scream when bloated oilmen pound holes in the prairie dog's kingdom he regrets that schoolteachers lie about what a great man Columbus was and why the Sioux, the Apache and the Arapahoe were incapable of evolution he knows you don't need a bicycle helmet to ride downtown for ice cream knows our legal system is for sale knows surfing is Neptune's brave ballet Santa delights in the spiritual joy emerging when patients see angels hovering everywhere before doctors scream psychosis and numb what they do not understand with sad needles and leather restraints his reindeer are the dreams of the spastic child who knows he will never run his sleigh a zero carbon emission vehicle and his great heavy bag carries the sweet prayers of the Jew, the Christian the Muslim, the Buddhist, the Hindu the Gnostic, the Wiccan and the existential humanist on the night before Christmas Santa dreams that all the cars and trucks disappear and every freeway grows trees and flowers and grass where everyone chats and meanders and strolls and vendors sell SnoCones, apple juice and pears because Santa Claus is just doing the one thing he knows how to do best on a long winter's night to bring some light to a world that races toward extinction while the butterfly sleeps with the lizard and the children still believe
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Muster and Roll Imagine time and the continental plates merging Trust in no one, Enkai or  Snake oil medicine shows. Gumbo stew trumps the Serengeti ? Wildebeest hording into the new territory Manifest destinies assured.
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Oct 22, 2012
Oct 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM UTC
Confused Mote
V. the ballad of briseis my heart is of the flesh of figs, and that which i cannot touch: grainy sweet garnet nectar pretty to behold but easy to bruise no god shall speak for me, briseis for this fig-heart, like the heart of man craves art as it does god and though i know you not by name, but only pseudonym: blood, words, and love, we are kindred souls i'd like to believe that we are cut of the same cloth hewn of the same mound of clay (or cast into the same iron, i suppose for we became one another's anchor the day we met) i once told you, my dear briseis, that if you taught me symbiosis i would teach you love for you found pragma in philosophy cold markov's blankets freud's ego, plato's cave whereas i found pragma in alchemy's poetry chekhov's gun freud's neurotics, plato's human it means nothing. the alchemy lies beyond the chemicals, beyond the seed and the egg, beyond our festivals of atonement, beyond my prima materia and your unfulfilled magnum opus it lies in simple interdependence, the oceans, the heavens, the forests, the deserts, the storms, the famines, the herds of wildebeest, the colonies of ants, the beady dew on the spider web and the purling river shallows, our acrid mouths yearning for mother's milk, the boy who makes us cry at night, the fiery logs roaring against the cold air, the hoot-owls and the faces on the wall (our skeletons never did stay in the closet) bathed in that slow, hideous wonder those interplays of love and symbiosis as i drown and die in reverie once more pray that the stakes may be forever higher that i find those eternal elysian fields so long as our achilles lives to fight again we are more alike, than you or i would ever dare to admit, briseis so humor this fig-heart: hold me and tell me that it'll be all right
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Jan 19, 2021
Jan 19, 2021 at 11:57 PM UTC
iliad, a poem | no. 5
V. the ballad of briseis my heart is of the flesh of figs, and that which i cannot touch: grainy sweet garnet nectar pretty to behold but easy to bruise no god shall speak for me, briseis for this fig-heart, like the heart of man craves art as it does god and though i know you not by name, but only pseudonym: blood, words, and love, we are kindred souls i'd like to believe that we are cut of the same cloth hewn of the same mound of clay (or cast into the same iron, i suppose for we became one another's anchor the day we met) i once told you, my dear briseis, that if you taught me symbiosis i would teach you love for you found pragma in philosophy cold markov's blankets freud's ego, plato's cave whereas i found pragma in alchemy's poetry chekhov's gun freud's neurotics, plato's human it means nothing. the alchemy lies beyond the chemicals, beyond the seed and the egg, beyond our festivals of atonement, beyond my prima materia and your unfulfilled magnum opus it lies in simple interdependence, the oceans, the heavens, the forests, the deserts, the storms, the famines, the herds of wildebeest, the colonies of ants, the beady dew on the spider web and the purling river shallows, our acrid mouths yearning for mother's milk, the boy who makes us cry at night, the fiery logs roaring against the cold air, the hoot-owls and the faces on the wall (our skeletons never did stay in the closet) bathed in that slow, hideous wonder those interplays of love and symbiosis as i drown and die in reverie once more pray that the stakes may be forever higher that i find those eternal elysian fields so long as our achilles lives to fight again we are more alike, than you or i would ever dare to admit, briseis so humor this fig-heart: hold me and tell me that it'll be all right
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*enter slav digressing with the celt... yeah, saxony, once known as the northern arm's length of parody shaking oiled up speaking saracen sign language: arabica wavy wavy bye bye. you concrete those words in i roof it over, then we can both admire the rich russian vixens dry up their wealth with the saudis - we need television after all - and it’s in 3-d! and it’s 1-d head-banging closure! :)... ;( :x, :s, \: (mouth’s missing but i have a mammoth in malibu - and my love can’t aim to have the mortgage too - but hey, girl’s heading for the one coin-flip dolphin clap; and i was a teenager once too... but played grand theft auto 2d throughout asking for a bottle of whiskey and a panda’s / koala’s bothersome diet to hunt sleep); is there some sign language translation of emoji? i just don't have the talents to enter the emoji language and become a ********* or make democracy justly an exclusion of cowards and ****** i can’t do that, let’s utilise charles the third! ‘too busy, too fuzzy,’ well hear and karma sutra the talk of the man, after all the coinage and respecting the hedgehog on his head.* i cleaned it into a hotel like i would into a brothel, while the suffragettes looked like the elephant man in niqāb, and i was ready with the fist; although i shook less than i spoke to mouth it off into democracy continuing the power struggle vetoed with bodies extracted into the count warranting mourning. what success is it if a white boy in a western society can’t leave the nest and establish a taxable one to suit power? where’s the power then, in the stateless individual? where is your power to my ******* of being given wife and house not given? where?! if i can’t be the individuated pawn power broker you can’t be in power... idiots! you have to give me the ******* i “desire” to be in power, if you can’t, you’re not in power! ave augustus ave ego! try contort the square into a triangle by contorting **** into f*ck.... ah **** you already did... where’s the spanks’ worth of bullseye?! you germans have no decency in human affairs than you have to inspect **** movies varied by wildebeest stampedes from guernsey into gibraltar in gifs, do you? well i did **** off a palm tree and got a coconut for an oasis’ worth of thirst.
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Oct 9, 2015
Oct 9, 2015 at 11:24 AM UTC
elephant man in democracy
*enter slav digressing with the celt... yeah, saxony, once known as the northern arm's length of parody shaking oiled up speaking saracen sign language: arabica wavy wavy bye bye. you concrete those words in i roof it over, then we can both admire the rich russian vixens dry up their wealth with the saudis - we need television after all - and it’s in 3-d! and it’s 1-d head-banging closure! :)... ;( :x, :s, \: (mouth’s missing but i have a mammoth in malibu - and my love can’t aim to have the mortgage too - but hey, girl’s heading for the one coin-flip dolphin clap; and i was a teenager once too... but played grand theft auto 2d throughout asking for a bottle of whiskey and a panda’s / koala’s bothersome diet to hunt sleep); is there some sign language translation of emoji? i just don't have the talents to enter the emoji language and become a ********* or make democracy justly an exclusion of cowards and ****** i can’t do that, let’s utilise charles the third! ‘too busy, too fuzzy,’ well hear and karma sutra the talk of the man, after all the coinage and respecting the hedgehog on his head.* i cleaned it into a hotel like i would into a brothel, while the suffragettes looked like the elephant man in niqāb, and i was ready with the fist; although i shook less than i spoke to mouth it off into democracy continuing the power struggle vetoed with bodies extracted into the count warranting mourning. what success is it if a white boy in a western society can’t leave the nest and establish a taxable one to suit power? where’s the power then, in the stateless individual? where is your power to my ******* of being given wife and house not given? where?! if i can’t be the individuated pawn power broker you can’t be in power... idiots! you have to give me the ******* i “desire” to be in power, if you can’t, you’re not in power! ave augustus ave ego! try contort the square into a triangle by contorting **** into f*ck.... ah **** you already did... where’s the spanks’ worth of bullseye?! you germans have no decency in human affairs than you have to inspect **** movies varied by wildebeest stampedes from guernsey into gibraltar in gifs, do you? well i did **** off a palm tree and got a coconut for an oasis’ worth of thirst.
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There was a race at the farm This caused a great deal of alarm A stampede of wildebeest Were stopped by old geese But the rest of the animals were calm. The Geese thought the situation funny And so did the farmyard bunny But the wildebeest were too strong And their plan went wrong So the Geese ended up giving the Wildebeest money. They called the race off as nobody won But the farmer was running with his gun The pigs hid in the trough The rest shot off And once more the race had begun. That night they lay tired in their beds The Geese were snoring in their shed. The chickens thought they were lucky They could have gone to Colonel Kentucky And thanked the geese for saving their heads. The moral of this story is plain Do not mess with angry geese again. There is no doubt about That a farm should not fall out As they have only got themselves to blame.
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Jun 21, 2013
Jun 21, 2013 at 3:24 AM UTC
Farm Races
Hot box a cigarette , sawmill gravy and country ham , Entrenched in the morning paper , dishes scrubbed , drumming of pots and pans ! Blue collar people with somewhere to be , buoy's chained to the bottom of the sea ! Sweet black ribbon covered in fire ants , May honeybees , wildebeest crossing the wild African plains.. White smokestack dens of endless toil , black tar factories , dead fish waterway , boiling star infrastructures ! Biscuit , tobacco , hot coffee welder , plumber and electrician Caviar , flounder , after dinner mint doctor and lawyer .. Goody powders ,  soda pop cures , work induced migraines for societies  'riff raff' , high atop steel skeletons , life hanging in balance . Xanax , blue cheese , marriage counselor soccer moms , yoga , wine party ..Young people lie in their own blood , candle light vigils are like all others . Repetitive anguish falling on deaf ears , billion dollar football stadiums , homeless freeze to death , Good Morning America focused on the Grammy Awards or someones *** , Miley's tongue , Scientology or Donny and Marie ! Bath salt possession , teenagers are shot full of bullets , Kelley and Michael promote Hollywood garbage , their so ******* cute !
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Nov 9, 2015
Nov 9, 2015 at 10:35 AM UTC
Monday morning spew .....
the people swarm like ants that’s what they say, isn’t it? but they’re not like ants at all, really. ants have a purpose, a structure they scrabble across the pavement as the sun beats down with a common goal carrying huge leaves between them thousands of times their weight nor are people like wildebeest who stampede wildly across the plains: LIONS! RUN! their purpose is logical their goal is survival but people people swarm in great swarthy swathes sweating their way through the summer slipping and shivering their way through the snow there are so many of them, and their goals are so individual so complex not for them the ingrained logical processions not for them the sole desperate stampede away from danger no. they have a society have a culture and wrapped in the cloaks of their conforms and their norms they slither through the daylight take up the space around them give no heed to how they’re filling it or who must take it next. it’s why i like the early mornings and the late night times when the world is empty barren silent and pure untainted by the congestion of the day.
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Jun 23, 2015
Jun 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM UTC
ants
your hands are gospel, writing history with your fingertips and whispering prayers up and down my spine i called you my ravenous wildebeest, and i said it with a smile painting my lips, but you are everything wild, thorny, and carnivore. you're gonna eat me up with texas-sized teeth and leave me a carcass in the desert. but i don't mind i want to be bone for you, bare. i think that maybe your bigness is going to consume me until i'm a star-soaked black hole set me on fire, douse me in gasoline make all the blood rush to my head because kid, you're a firecracker and i've always been in love with explosion. (a.m.c.)
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Nov 4, 2015
Nov 4, 2015 at 3:51 PM UTC
{a love affair between black hole and firecracker}
One day I met a titular telepath That made me do social math After I took a brief bubble bath Underneath his heavy hovercraft That submerged my brain Allowing no sign of refrain Only the pain Of the stain Of his Rorschach test Filling inside my crest You cast a spell of thought on me When you walk by so haughtily I can't think Only drink Your Kool-Aid Of a fool's blade It should be considered a crime The way you control my mind I feel so pointlessly paranoid And it's not the **** You travel to an abysmal void I just follow your lead I live in a world of mass media But you cut off my streaming So I guess I won't be seeing them And I can focus on dreaming Of an amazing life starring you And introducing happiness I don't care how it's reviewed The critics negate sappiness I'm so afraid you will get rid of me While I sit under your guillotine That can't reach me in your grasp But if I ever leave it'll be in half I'm trapped in a precarious position That I fear will carry us to collision I put my ear to the ground and listen For an approaching stampede That will steal my cognition Will those wildebeest thieves Make a deadly incision?
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Mar 15, 2018
Mar 15, 2018 at 7:57 PM UTC
Cognition
Supposing creatures had a voice, Would they really say that we could eat them? Would they really step forward willingly to the abattoir? Like Lamb to the slaughter… Or do they too speak profound thoughts? Could they or could they not, We may never find out this, But, surely we must believe they are more Than just a simple slab of Meat. Could they think from a new perspective? Evolve or Die? **** or be Killed? Could they really want to be sacrificed? Their deathbed a slab of concrete, An axe as their executioner, And a butcher’s as their tomb… Their only purpose in life nothing more, Than just a simple slab of Meat. Should they really see a new lease of life? Given the freedom of the grassy plains, Or left picked apart, the bones scattered, The prime cuts selected, The gristle dumped. The only purpose as food for a higher being, The only question on another’s lips. How much are you willing to pay? After all… It’s nothing more, Than just a simple slab of Meat. After all is slaughter any different to hunting? The axe as the fangs, the predator as the executioner, The prey is the cattle, the wildebeest, and the animal. The thrill in the chase, but not in the capture, So why does it end in slaughter? Surely the prize is a little bit more, Than just a simple slab of Meat. We may argue and we may debate, The civil rights of these animals. But so many people cannot see, They think them merely as a meal. So blind to sight and yet so advanced, But nobody sees the hidden obliviousness, For they cannot see animals are more than, Than just a simple slab of Meat.
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Jun 5, 2013
Jun 5, 2013 at 4:44 PM UTC
Meat
Supposing creatures had a voice, Would they really say that we could eat them? Would they really step forward willingly to the abattoir? Like Lamb to the slaughter… Or do they too speak profound thoughts? Could they or could they not, We may never find out this, But, surely we must believe they are more Than just a simple slab of Meat. Could they think from a new perspective? Evolve or Die? **** or be Killed? Could they really want to be sacrificed? Their deathbed a slab of concrete, An axe as their executioner, And a butcher’s as their tomb… Their only purpose in life nothing more, Than just a simple slab of Meat. Should they really see a new lease of life? Given the freedom of the grassy plains, Or left picked apart, the bones scattered, The prime cuts selected, The gristle dumped. The only purpose as food for a higher being, The only question on another’s lips. How much are you willing to pay? After all… It’s nothing more, Than just a simple slab of Meat. After all is slaughter any different to hunting? The axe as the fangs, the predator as the executioner, The prey is the cattle, the wildebeest, and the animal. The thrill in the chase, but not in the capture, So why does it end in slaughter? Surely the prize is a little bit more, Than just a simple slab of Meat. We may argue and we may debate, The civil rights of these animals. But so many people cannot see, They think them merely as a meal. So blind to sight and yet so advanced, But nobody sees the hidden obliviousness, For they cannot see animals are more than, Than just a simple slab of Meat.
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Trip Sitter Poem by Rob Sandman We’ve all got a friend like this of course, Istabraq, Seabiscuit the ould warhorse, Snortin like a whale inhaling at the surface, Smokes til just lookin’ at them makes your lungs hurt its- Amazing grace while you’re off your face messed up, They’re in the corner laughin' - not a hair mussed up, **Not out of place in the place to be, The opposite in fact a life saver to see, Always at your back with a friendly shoulder, A spliff, skins smokes-well timed glass of water** Not immune or a ****** just seasoned, When you’re lost-beyond all reason, Lost the end of your sentence?-they’ve got it, a well tuned part in the heart of the party chaotic, The calm center of the whirlpool, Deadpool- Quick with a line, not too cuttin’ but nobodies fool, trip sitter, designated brain at the sesh, A little OCD maybe, but nonetheless, We’re all thankful with a full tankful Its gas havin' a laugh knowin' you can bank full- Confidence in your mates if you trip, *But no mercy with the quips, quick! zip your lips If you’re not in full control of the tongue, They’ll be followin’ the slips and zip down your lungs You’re a wounded gazelle on the plains and they’ll lunge, Like a cheetah once you’ve taken the plunge* I’m not talkin of only one person of course, We all take turns as the tour de force- goes round **Like a Merry go round sound friends abound While you’re bewildered the wildebeest takes the crown, Don’t know about you, but I’m blessed with a few true- Trip sitters babysitters life fitters diametrically opposed to bullshitters** *Sideplitters with one liners that leave you gaspin’ For air beyond compare got the grasp and flavor Best savour the moments-they’re all too few , Best friends are saviours who help you pull through, So lets all give thanks to the big hitters, Thanks lads and lasses I’m always grateful for me trip sitters!*
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Jun 7, 2017
Jun 7, 2017 at 12:37 AM UTC
Trip Sitter
Trip Sitter Poem by Rob Sandman We’ve all got a friend like this of course, Istabraq, Seabiscuit the ould warhorse, Snortin like a whale inhaling at the surface, Smokes til just lookin’ at them makes your lungs hurt its- Amazing grace while you’re off your face messed up, They’re in the corner laughin' - not a hair mussed up, **Not out of place in the place to be, The opposite in fact a life saver to see, Always at your back with a friendly shoulder, A spliff, skins smokes-well timed glass of water** Not immune or a ****** just seasoned, When you’re lost-beyond all reason, Lost the end of your sentence?-they’ve got it, a well tuned part in the heart of the party chaotic, The calm center of the whirlpool, Deadpool- Quick with a line, not too cuttin’ but nobodies fool, trip sitter, designated brain at the sesh, A little OCD maybe, but nonetheless, We’re all thankful with a full tankful Its gas havin' a laugh knowin' you can bank full- Confidence in your mates if you trip, *But no mercy with the quips, quick! zip your lips If you’re not in full control of the tongue, They’ll be followin’ the slips and zip down your lungs You’re a wounded gazelle on the plains and they’ll lunge, Like a cheetah once you’ve taken the plunge* I’m not talkin of only one person of course, We all take turns as the tour de force- goes round **Like a Merry go round sound friends abound While you’re bewildered the wildebeest takes the crown, Don’t know about you, but I’m blessed with a few true- Trip sitters babysitters life fitters diametrically opposed to bullshitters** *Sideplitters with one liners that leave you gaspin’ For air beyond compare got the grasp and flavor Best savour the moments-they’re all too few , Best friends are saviours who help you pull through, So lets all give thanks to the big hitters, Thanks lads and lasses I’m always grateful for me trip sitters!*
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There was a race at the farm This caused a great deal of alarm A stampede of wildebeest Were stopped by old geese But the rest of the animals were calm. The Geese thought the situation funny And so did the farmyard bunny But the wildebeest were too strong And their plan went wrong So the Geese ended up giving the Wildebeest money. They called the race off as nobody won But the farmer was running with his gun The pigs hid in the trough The rest shot off And once more the race had begun That night they lay tired in their beds The Geese were snoring in their shed. The chickens thought they were lucky They could have gone to Colonel Kentucky And thanked the geese for saving their heads. The moral of this story is plain Do not mess with angry geese again. There is no doubt about That a farm should not fall out As they have only got themselves to blame.
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Apr 24, 2014
Apr 24, 2014 at 3:54 AM UTC
A Race At The Farm - a repost
I moved to Africa... and now i have my ghost swahili discretely... my skin, too white to be a lion's grunt. But I serve no wildebeest on two legs. I love the broken yurts and the falls of Victoria. I come from where we all come from. And having arrived I love best the world from where I've been.
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Apr 23, 2016
Apr 23, 2016 at 1:56 AM UTC
I Moved To Africa
Enjoy your cuppa tea and coffee. Sit back and relax. The world is full of strife and corruption: Untold Evil. Yet it’s Paradise Earth. We take for granted Our timeless oceans, Mountains and plains Teeming with Life: Forests and savannahs Herds of Wildebeest And prides of Lions. Quaff that beer and lager, Let your Whisky burn your breast. See those panoramic views On your television. Get your mobile out And check what’s going on In Social Media Land. Wallow in a bar of chocolate And dream of stroking dogs and cats. Indulge in Romantic Fantasy, If you know what I mean, And be mindful of everything That gives you joy. Make Life a Celebration: Party Time, Full of sporting Laps of Honour And harmonious choirs. Smell that cooking: Roasts, fries, breads and cakes. Taste it in your mind. To the sound of birdsong And Eric Clapton. After all, You only live once. Paul Butters © PB 14\1\2018.
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Jan 14, 2018
Jan 14, 2018 at 10:11 AM UTC
Enjoy
Do something diabolical. Flit your wings and Leap from a skyscraper Take what is rightfully yours Or what isn’t Have the courage to Not give a **** But plumb the depths of Every possibility Never hide your face Always be restless Never settle, and spit In the eye of adversity Crawl in the glass like a wildebeest Let your hands bleed and your body shake Stab yourself in the heart If it must be done Cry the tears of your people And feel their pain. But never stop Be wicked Allow the bracken to grow Become one with nature Shout unto the mountains Shout until they answer Be unbelievably horrible Be something Be dark Be unreasonable Cackle with delight Stir the *** Suit yourself Seek out revenge Be diabolical Be dark
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Jul 7, 2011
Jul 7, 2011 at 9:41 PM UTC
Diabolique
Confusion There was a spotty tiger, he got muddled with a lion. You won't find him on savannah grass, nor in the trees in India, you'll find him in the salad bar, round the corner shop. You may find him supping mocha's, and wearing moccasins to keep his claws inside, wearing his dark glasses to protect his sight, he wore his bright pink headphones, so he seek the beat, never chased a zebra, nor ate a wildebeest, didn't hunt the townsfolk, it wasn't in his style, instead, once a year in winter time, he'd go off on holiday, go flying down the piste. Woo hoo! There he goes again, that trendy tigon, liger? Zooming past upon his skis. (C) Livvi
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Jul 1, 2014
Jul 1, 2014 at 1:38 AM UTC
Confusion