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Songs of Oregon: No. 1 “Gonna Make You Crazy, That Place” nuts, crazy peeps whomever wherever, regardless of race creed color or gender (did I get ‘em all?) current state of residence (geo-identified) a poem - the very same recited, as a disclaimer, a yellow finger wagging warning: “Don’t go! If you go, you won’t come back” now kids, I’m a veteran of foreign travel, many continents, cold and hot, rivers and seas, some living, some dead, some so big they named it Endless, been to the great cities, Swiss villages, pyramids, climbed Masada, danced on grapes (why can’t I recall where) skied the Alps, trekked the Sinai Desert, clubbed in Rio, and danced till morn, on a certain Greek Isle that rhymes with Mickey’s Nose even been to L.A and San Fran, left poorer but in sync, always came home with my mind decently reshaped me/ a product of gritty unpretty grime, streets of normal humans acting like normal escaped mad persons, this brutal city island instilled a layer of fat and smog neath my skin, a kind of migrating duck-like survival kit, came with a homing beacon included the those of you who know me, perhaps too well, ken we citified islanders love our beaches (fire hydrants) cherish our sun dappled blessings upon on farms (window sill herb gardens) and sunning settlements (rooftops) they say our tap water is secretly bottled, sold in places where the springs purportedly run crystalline though we don’t got no pinot, just sweet concord grape, so sweet, the wine of children and street nodders, needy for instant sugar highs so as we new Yorkers proudly say on our license plates, prove it or stfup! so a first hand investigation for which the taxpayers won’t be charged even a lousy mill, deemed necessary to put to rest this crazy claiming warning “Don’t go! If you go, you won’t come back” guessing must be something in the water and the wine
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Jun 5, 2018
Jun 5, 2018 at 9:00 AM UTC
Songs of Oregon: No. 1 “Gonna Make You Crazy, That Place”
Songs of Oregon: No. 1 “Gonna Make You Crazy, That Place” nuts, crazy peeps whomever wherever, regardless of race creed color or gender (did I get ‘em all?) current state of residence (geo-identified) a poem - the very same recited, as a disclaimer, a yellow finger wagging warning: “Don’t go! If you go, you won’t come back” now kids, I’m a veteran of foreign travel, many continents, cold and hot, rivers and seas, some living, some dead, some so big they named it Endless, been to the great cities, Swiss villages, pyramids, climbed Masada, danced on grapes (why can’t I recall where) skied the Alps, trekked the Sinai Desert, clubbed in Rio, and danced till morn, on a certain Greek Isle that rhymes with Mickey’s Nose even been to L.A and San Fran, left poorer but in sync, always came home with my mind decently reshaped me/ a product of gritty unpretty grime, streets of normal humans acting like normal escaped mad persons, this brutal city island instilled a layer of fat and smog neath my skin, a kind of migrating duck-like survival kit, came with a homing beacon included the those of you who know me, perhaps too well, ken we citified islanders love our beaches (fire hydrants) cherish our sun dappled blessings upon on farms (window sill herb gardens) and sunning settlements (rooftops) they say our tap water is secretly bottled, sold in places where the springs purportedly run crystalline though we don’t got no pinot, just sweet concord grape, so sweet, the wine of children and street nodders, needy for instant sugar highs so as we new Yorkers proudly say on our license plates, prove it or stfup! so a first hand investigation for which the taxpayers won’t be charged even a lousy mill, deemed necessary to put to rest this crazy claiming warning “Don’t go! If you go, you won’t come back” guessing must be something in the water and the wine
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The falling stars in this ironic night make majesties out of those cubicle-ridden New Yorkers' routine Tuesday night daydreams, where they make macabre escape routes out of every perfectly-placed window piercing the concrete sentences that escalate from Ground Zero. Your law offices, corporate ******* headquarters, are all bursting at the seams with these drones, the falling stars of the human race, all composed of 14 different shades of grayscale; could've been should've been could've been shootin' stars that year they were promised lives of upper middle class incomes and Lexus dealerships bought to dent their status on the neighborhood, but that sparkle's been emaciated by the truth, the underwhelming spectacle of realization accentuated by the clicking and the clacking of company keyboards, each little click gnawing more at their patience than the next; the faceless brush strokes gawk through that window, their plans less hypothetical over the calendar years. "I can hear it calling me from miles away," says Copy #90045280, "see, they SPEAK to me, man, tell me to transcend the hurdle of the windowsill and make my rendezvous with an asphalt avenue, to join the other casualties of this rut-infested nation in a life with the real stars, falling and shooting and jettisoning alike, throbbing lights through dark sky silk and into the hearts of even the most robotic of this catalog culture, and I frightfully, excitedly, must listen."
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Apr 29, 2010
Apr 29, 2010 at 10:53 AM UTC
Manhattan Astronomy
. There were certain tea--chers-- that came crashing through my mind like a herd of Buffalo, New Yorkers. Peeling, pointing porkers. Try--ing to remind me-- the atmospheric city, is not the alphabet, Oh! Should I move out of Ohi--o? (Oh me, oh me. Oh, my--O!) I -- was dissolving, certain rainy days sort of had that sad effect on me. And-- I-- was suspended-- high above a swaying bridge, holding back the water. Like old comic books and thunderstorms crashing down like gravity... And-- I smelled the smell of moth ***** made me think of someones' grandma. The empty corners of their closets. The empty corners of their closets. And still... I dream of fly--ing-- high above the alligators wrestling in an open pit. While... an anaconda drops in uninvited and squeezes both of them, Oh! I am not complaining, just because it's raining. There were certain tea--chers-- that came crashing through my mind like a herd of Buffalo, New Yorkers. Peeling, pointing porkers. Try--ing to remind me-- the atmospheric city, is not the alphabet, Oh! Should I move out of Ohi--o? (Oh me, oh me. Oh, my--O!) I -- was dissolving, certain rainy days sort of had that sad effect on me. And-- I-- was suspended-- high above a swaying bridge, holding back the water. And... .
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Mar 28, 2010
Mar 28, 2010 at 5:42 AM UTC
~The Atmospheric City
We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The beast in the jungle was what he saw-- Edith Wharton's obfuscating older brother. . . He fled the demons of Manhattan for fear they would devour his inner ones (the ones who wrote the books) & silence the stifled screams of his protagonists. To Europe like a wandering Jew-- WASP that he was-- but with the Jew's outsider's hunger. . . face pressed up to the glass of *** refusing every passion but the passion to write the words grew more & more complex & convoluted until they utterly imprisoned him in their fairytale brambles. Language for me is meant to be a transparency, clear water gleaming under a covered bridge. . . I love his spiritual sister because she snatched clarity from her murky history. Tormented New Yorkers both, but she journeyed to the heart of light-- did he? She took her friends on one last voyage, through the isles of Greece on a yacht chartered with her royalties-- a rich girl proud to be making her own money. The light of the Middle Sea was what she sought. All denizens of this demonic city caught between pitch and black long for the light. But she found it in a few of her books. . . while Henry James discovered what he had probably started with: that beast, that jungle, that solipsistic scream. He did not join her on that final cruise. (He was on his own final cruise). Did he want to? I would wager yes. I look back with love and sorrow at them both-- dear teachers-- but she shines like Miss Liberty to Emma Lazarus' hordes, while he gazes within, always, at his own impenetrable jungle.
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Henry James in the Heart of the City
We have a small sculpture of Henry James on our terrace in New York City. Nothing would surprise him. The beast in the jungle was what he saw-- Edith Wharton's obfuscating older brother. . . He fled the demons of Manhattan for fear they would devour his inner ones (the ones who wrote the books) & silence the stifled screams of his protagonists. To Europe like a wandering Jew-- WASP that he was-- but with the Jew's outsider's hunger. . . face pressed up to the glass of *** refusing every passion but the passion to write the words grew more & more complex & convoluted until they utterly imprisoned him in their fairytale brambles. Language for me is meant to be a transparency, clear water gleaming under a covered bridge. . . I love his spiritual sister because she snatched clarity from her murky history. Tormented New Yorkers both, but she journeyed to the heart of light-- did he? She took her friends on one last voyage, through the isles of Greece on a yacht chartered with her royalties-- a rich girl proud to be making her own money. The light of the Middle Sea was what she sought. All denizens of this demonic city caught between pitch and black long for the light. But she found it in a few of her books. . . while Henry James discovered what he had probably started with: that beast, that jungle, that solipsistic scream. He did not join her on that final cruise. (He was on his own final cruise). Did he want to? I would wager yes. I look back with love and sorrow at them both-- dear teachers-- but she shines like Miss Liberty to Emma Lazarus' hordes, while he gazes within, always, at his own impenetrable jungle.
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"Excuse me ladies and gentlemen, sorry for the interruption..." @desire.is.dope 2-26-19 0838
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Feb 26, 2019
Feb 26, 2019 at 8:58 AM UTC
NEW YORKERS BE LIKE: PLEASE SUPPORT MY "BASKETBALL TEAM"
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Mar 13, 2012
Mar 13, 2012 at 6:43 AM UTC
NYC ranks first in global competitiveness: report
The Empire State Building is a giant middle finger Concrete is broken, NYPD, taxis racing, red light green light I enter the hand of the city through it's capillaries breaking mad concrete Warm gusts of **** grime, and transportation swallow me The city feeds off dreams and hope which we personally, willingly give up We all somehow learn to accept this fate  The passerby no longer human but broken mirror  The hand inundates my eyes from breezes of tomorrow The spacy apartment, and the affluent career and the acquantanceship Of the handful of New Yorkers that run the hand: all questionable plans today It's as if the hand's grasp, although sharp and brick, would venerate your intellect, guaranteed If that's the case, I see wizards of wisdom everyday snoozing on concrete and cardboard and plastic Bearded, black with dirt and skin, threads ripped by a world inferrior than the one in thier minds Empire "Middle Finger" State  of intellect, scrapping billion dollar clouds Sardine can subways, escalators, elevators, high on crack **** speed of sound The cash nerve system meltsdown into golden chips to feed the pigeons Glass and steel craft spaces for modernity to be sold like a Washington Heights ***** You can feel the growth of the hand at the end of your intestines It's a warm, uncomfortable vibration revealed in your ******** Foreign tongues buzz through the air, through your hair for 19.95 New York needs a haircut, some profound discipline so we wake up from this bizzare life of welcomed pain You once charmed me with hopes of culture, open minds, connections, real connections, love and laughter Yet, Today I am hungry in Murray hill I am cold in Chelsea I am broken in Union Square I ***** in SoHo I have fallen in the East River And I bleed on financial monoliths  Someone have mercy on my wills It is an intention trying to be fulfilled But failed when it became self-aware
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Nov 4, 2010
Nov 4, 2010 at 11:44 PM UTC
The Empire State Building is a Giant Middle Finger
The Empire State Building is a giant middle finger Concrete is broken, NYPD, taxis racing, red light green light I enter the hand of the city through it's capillaries breaking mad concrete Warm gusts of **** grime, and transportation swallow me The city feeds off dreams and hope which we personally, willingly give up We all somehow learn to accept this fate  The passerby no longer human but broken mirror  The hand inundates my eyes from breezes of tomorrow The spacy apartment, and the affluent career and the acquantanceship Of the handful of New Yorkers that run the hand: all questionable plans today It's as if the hand's grasp, although sharp and brick, would venerate your intellect, guaranteed If that's the case, I see wizards of wisdom everyday snoozing on concrete and cardboard and plastic Bearded, black with dirt and skin, threads ripped by a world inferrior than the one in thier minds Empire "Middle Finger" State  of intellect, scrapping billion dollar clouds Sardine can subways, escalators, elevators, high on crack **** speed of sound The cash nerve system meltsdown into golden chips to feed the pigeons Glass and steel craft spaces for modernity to be sold like a Washington Heights ***** You can feel the growth of the hand at the end of your intestines It's a warm, uncomfortable vibration revealed in your ******** Foreign tongues buzz through the air, through your hair for 19.95 New York needs a haircut, some profound discipline so we wake up from this bizzare life of welcomed pain You once charmed me with hopes of culture, open minds, connections, real connections, love and laughter Yet, Today I am hungry in Murray hill I am cold in Chelsea I am broken in Union Square I ***** in SoHo I have fallen in the East River And I bleed on financial monoliths  Someone have mercy on my wills It is an intention trying to be fulfilled But failed when it became self-aware
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I numbly watch a foreign man on the train. He talks across the car to some New Yorkers who half listen to him whilst simultaneously eavesdropping on two Amazonian Jews having an argument: one claims injustice. The train crawls on its old, screeching belly. Molasses moves faster in January, but it is January and I feel like molasses I guess the city reflects my thoughts... The Amazons are now passive aggressive, I duck my head so they don't know I've listened to the laundry list of a tell tale sign of exhaustion. Fatigued, I memorize the line of the page of my empty journal. Wishing, Willing Them to fill with a lively recognizable speed of change.
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Feb 23, 2011
Feb 23, 2011 at 7:44 PM UTC
Subway Ride Home
he caught her eye across the diner. put a quarter in the jukebox. told her to choose a song, on him. she giggled and chose the rolling stones. he said "take a walk with me" they walked through the woods where the highway had been before the flood in 1994. talking like new yorkers talk but softer he took her hand and he said "let's skip rocks let's get hot" and soon she couldn't separate the smell of damp grass and sundown from the smell of *** he said "let's play car-and-driver" and she told him that the dented white sedan belonged to a waitress, the rusty pickup to a cook, the black lexus to a businessman. he said "you're good at this" and she blushed. he kissed her very violently on the drive away. the sky was orange and it drizzled.
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Jun 16, 2012
Jun 16, 2012 at 4:50 PM UTC
Adam and Sarah
One thing that get's me all venty Is bad talk of jolly 'T' 20. It's much better by half So much more of a laugh Because 50 is far more than plenty. England play Pakistan later. I think that our players are greater. But Gul bowls great yorkers, And other rip-snoters, And the ball, oh Afridi, he ate her! For England the openers are wrong Neither will give it a biff or a **** We need someone tough And aggressive enough To win it for us when on song. Our bowling is coming on nicely The spinners are landing it precisely But the quicks can get hit When missing length by a bit Shouldn't do it like that more than twicely Will we win it today, well who knows? By then I'll stop blowing my nose. I'm now on my knees, So a close contest please. I cannot wait to see how it goes.
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Feb 19, 2010
Feb 19, 2010 at 1:38 AM UTC
Plennty Twenty 20
Leong's watching TikTok on her laptop (as always) and she asks Lisa (a NYC girl) “Are you familiar with the the “downtown girl” aesthetic?” Lisa’s dismissive, “Yeah, it just looks like Urban Outfitters grunge to me.” Leong explains, “It includes headphones and it’s supposed to be a Lower Manhattan style.” “Yeah,” Lisa snorts, “Because Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side are SO cohesive.” Lisa considers herself an Uptown girl (like the song) even though 59th Street, where she lives, is the border between Uptown and Midtown Manhattan. I’m learning that these distinctions are culturally key to New Yorkers. “And,” Lisa adds, “why would someone wear, and lug around, giant, clunky headphones when you can use AirPods??” “Amen sister.” I proclaim and even Leong nods in agreement. “Later, Sunny, Leong and I are on a study break, eating salads and talking about who we hope Yale invites to the next “Spring Fling” concert. We aren’t being realistic; we’re covering who we wish would come. I’d named Charlie Puth, “Kat-Tun!” Leong squealed (A Japanese boy band - apparently Chinese girls LOVE their boybands) and Sunny countered with Ed Sheeran. “I don’t like Ed Sheeran,” I mumbled, making a yuck-face. “Why no Ed?” Sunny gasps with shock (She’s a big Ed fangirl). “I don’t know,” I shrugged, “he’s a star by all measurable metrics,” I admit, “but,” I fade out. “You want my theory on Ed hate?” Sunny offered, “He’s beyond talented vocally - whoever your favorite artist is, Ed’s probably not that far behind. He’s a stellar song writer and he’s making hit after hit; do you want my theory?” “Too basic, too popular?” I guess. “No, he’s not appealing to the gaze,” Sunny states. “The gays?” Leong questions, stepping back into the conversation. “No,” Sunny corrects, “the gaze - G-A-Z-E, he doesn’t try to look pretty all the time.” “Ha!” I snort, “Gaze, I thought you meant gays too,” as Leong and I chuckle together. “No,” Sunny laughs, “nothing like THAT. Ed’s just not trying to be a heartthrob, he knows that’s not his core strong point - and that’s why he’s discounted.” “Like lesbians don’t comb their hair or wear makeup and wear pajamas to class” Leong observes, “they don’t want to attract the male gaze?” “No, we’re not imbued by the male gaze.” Sunny states, “Ed just wants to lowkey.”
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Dec 14, 2022
Dec 14, 2022 at 10:51 AM UTC
gazes
Leong's watching TikTok on her laptop (as always) and she asks Lisa (a NYC girl) “Are you familiar with the the “downtown girl” aesthetic?” Lisa’s dismissive, “Yeah, it just looks like Urban Outfitters grunge to me.” Leong explains, “It includes headphones and it’s supposed to be a Lower Manhattan style.” “Yeah,” Lisa snorts, “Because Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side are SO cohesive.” Lisa considers herself an Uptown girl (like the song) even though 59th Street, where she lives, is the border between Uptown and Midtown Manhattan. I’m learning that these distinctions are culturally key to New Yorkers. “And,” Lisa adds, “why would someone wear, and lug around, giant, clunky headphones when you can use AirPods??” “Amen sister.” I proclaim and even Leong nods in agreement. “Later, Sunny, Leong and I are on a study break, eating salads and talking about who we hope Yale invites to the next “Spring Fling” concert. We aren’t being realistic; we’re covering who we wish would come. I’d named Charlie Puth, “Kat-Tun!” Leong squealed (A Japanese boy band - apparently Chinese girls LOVE their boybands) and Sunny countered with Ed Sheeran. “I don’t like Ed Sheeran,” I mumbled, making a yuck-face. “Why no Ed?” Sunny gasps with shock (She’s a big Ed fangirl). “I don’t know,” I shrugged, “he’s a star by all measurable metrics,” I admit, “but,” I fade out. “You want my theory on Ed hate?” Sunny offered, “He’s beyond talented vocally - whoever your favorite artist is, Ed’s probably not that far behind. He’s a stellar song writer and he’s making hit after hit; do you want my theory?” “Too basic, too popular?” I guess. “No, he’s not appealing to the gaze,” Sunny states. “The gays?” Leong questions, stepping back into the conversation. “No,” Sunny corrects, “the gaze - G-A-Z-E, he doesn’t try to look pretty all the time.” “Ha!” I snort, “Gaze, I thought you meant gays too,” as Leong and I chuckle together. “No,” Sunny laughs, “nothing like THAT. Ed’s just not trying to be a heartthrob, he knows that’s not his core strong point - and that’s why he’s discounted.” “Like lesbians don’t comb their hair or wear makeup and wear pajamas to class” Leong observes, “they don’t want to attract the male gaze?” “No, we’re not imbued by the male gaze.” Sunny states, “Ed just wants to lowkey.”
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We should throw a party and then Dump a Trump Give Trump lumps Make him jump. Drag him over the same kind of bumps He dragged us and laughed at us. Dump a Trump! Deserves a massive thump; He’s a whiny grump! Dump a Trump! Anyone who has the name of Trump Should kiss our collective **** We should get together and just Dump a Trump Oust that schlump To the city dump. Treat him like he treated those before And send him home on a city bus. Dump a Trump! Deserves a massive thump; He’s a whiny grump! Dump a Trump! Anyone who has the name of Trump Should kiss our collective **** Let's call a convention and Dump a Trump! He’s a festering clump As dim as Forest Gump. New Yorkers call him a stupid **** We hope all see that he is finally busted That his former shine is obviously rusted. Dump a Trump! Deserves a massive thump! He’s a whiny grump! Dump a Trump! Anyone who has the name of Trump Should kiss our collective ****
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Aug 16, 2017
Aug 16, 2017 at 6:59 PM UTC
DUMP A TRUMP
I’m a hypocrite, I’m full of Wit? I’m harmless But I’m proud, So I won’t sell my lemonade To a whisky-drinking crowd. For those who order Sweet ice tea - I say let them drink! But New Yorkers drink Long Islands And are more like me, I think. I know I’m not an Atheist But me and God don’t talk. I think he built his watches And then went for a walk. (4) The armies go on fighting Until the reaper wins Or Armageddon’s curtain falls Before Act III of the play begins. The question asked by Hamlet So many years ago Today still asked by many, Still the answer we can’t know: “To be or not to be?” he asked. To suffer or to die?  And “Shuffle off this mortal coil” Leave our loved ones here to cry. There is beauty all around us Inside us too, if we but look. Though we might not like every cake We can’t crucify the cook. So eat when you are hungry And drink when parched and dry. Live life, for life’s worth living, You’ll have eternity to die. Phil Lindsey 6/2/15
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Jun 1, 2015
Jun 1, 2015 at 4:20 AM UTC
To Be
In the year two-thousand and eight While running for president Senator John McCain stated That we need more nuclear energy, He stated that nuclear energy, is safe and friendly to the enviroment. Nuclear energy, he said is clean because it doesn't pollute the air. He said that nuclear energy is the Wave of the future. Yesterday, One Twenty-nine Ten.  I read in the newspaper that the state of Vermont was going to vote on closing down its nuclear energy plant. It seems that ever since it began leaking Tritium (a highly toxic by-product of nuclear energy) into its drinking water they've determined a link to the sudden high rate of cancer. Tritium has also been found in water supplies near nuclear plants in Illinois and New York.  But, those states have chosen not to react. I think we should wave goodbye to nuclear plants before everyone will have to wave goodbye to their future    wrote a song about it       CLEAN TRITIUM    Hey Mr. Senator! Give us a glass of that Clean, clean tritium      Cancer's great stuff We need more of that Give us clean, clean tritium    Hey all New Yorkers Illinois and Vermont Drink up!  Clean, clean tritium   No, we can't breathe But, at least we had that Not, that clean, clean tritium   How about serving A bottle to Congress Drink up!  Clean, clean tritium   The House is refusing? What's all the confusing It's clean, clean tritium   Mmm it's so tasty Just like cows from the sixties Clean, clean tritium   Death is delicious Who cares what's nutritious It's clean, clean tritium   Hey Mr. President You drunk a glass yet? Clean, clean tritium Everybody die It's the only way to fly It's that clean, clean tritium He promised us health care All we have is death here That clean, clean tritium Clean Clean Tritium Clean Clean Tritium Clean Clean Tritium
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 4:34 PM UTC
Clean Tritium
In the year two-thousand and eight While running for president Senator John McCain stated That we need more nuclear energy, He stated that nuclear energy, is safe and friendly to the enviroment. Nuclear energy, he said is clean because it doesn't pollute the air. He said that nuclear energy is the Wave of the future. Yesterday, One Twenty-nine Ten.  I read in the newspaper that the state of Vermont was going to vote on closing down its nuclear energy plant. It seems that ever since it began leaking Tritium (a highly toxic by-product of nuclear energy) into its drinking water they've determined a link to the sudden high rate of cancer. Tritium has also been found in water supplies near nuclear plants in Illinois and New York.  But, those states have chosen not to react. I think we should wave goodbye to nuclear plants before everyone will have to wave goodbye to their future    wrote a song about it       CLEAN TRITIUM    Hey Mr. Senator! Give us a glass of that Clean, clean tritium      Cancer's great stuff We need more of that Give us clean, clean tritium    Hey all New Yorkers Illinois and Vermont Drink up!  Clean, clean tritium   No, we can't breathe But, at least we had that Not, that clean, clean tritium   How about serving A bottle to Congress Drink up!  Clean, clean tritium   The House is refusing? What's all the confusing It's clean, clean tritium   Mmm it's so tasty Just like cows from the sixties Clean, clean tritium   Death is delicious Who cares what's nutritious It's clean, clean tritium   Hey Mr. President You drunk a glass yet? Clean, clean tritium Everybody die It's the only way to fly It's that clean, clean tritium He promised us health care All we have is death here That clean, clean tritium Clean Clean Tritium Clean Clean Tritium Clean Clean Tritium
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How cool! this early summer evening after a day so oppressive even we New Yorkers move painstakingly. The breeze in sumac trees so why am I not more content? The electricity went off at the bank, spontaneous bank holiday, so I'm broke, drinking water. All my needs except love fulfilled. Woman opens her windows. How cool! this summer evening in New York, dense New York the jets overhead the people on the ground suffering and struggling toward vague goals or goals clear as Harry Helmsley's. How cool and refreshing this glass of ice water after today's hot pavement, clothes. During the afternoon heat I sleep in my underwear. What a city I murmur to myself looking at its map. Big, Jamaica Bay to Inwood, the Battery to Pelham Bay. Nowadays novels need a few cities to move the plot. New York, Saigon, Paris. The protagonist does not walk in the park. He uses his car to get around fast. How cool this evening in New York! Lost among the bars and industry, moonrise over Bronx.
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Aug 8, 2015
Aug 8, 2015 at 4:11 PM UTC
How cool!
Living in NEW YORK CITY and going to tar beach For most NEW YORKERS this was a treat. Taking your beach chairs, towels, and blankets And a radio to the roof. Some would come up with shirts and pants As the roofers began to dance. Listening to ALLEN FREED, COUSIN BRUCIE, and **** CLARK And seeing the treetops in the park. We did not need to go to concerts downtown All you had to do was look around. We would lie on the blankets taking in the sun Or dancing to the music and having lots of fun. We would gather as groups and start to harmonize With every roof joining in – it is easy to visualize. A crescendo of voices floating in the air With people looking out their windows And their voices they would share. A water hose connected to an apartment below Where we could cool off and water balloons to throw. You could take your suburbs, your farms and little towns But nothing to compare to the NEW YORK CITY sounds.
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Mar 6, 2014
Mar 6, 2014 at 8:26 PM UTC
NEW YORKS tar beach
Our temperate country roasts and burns flesh with Apple devices cheerfully advising that the temperature is currently a three dicey digit affair walk in the 100 degree overheating atmosphere, where sluggish slugs, once mobile New Yorkers, search and save shady places that proffer a handful of degrees relief from the brutalist sun, who was heard smirking after a wet Juno, "oh yeah, I'm back baby with the vengeance of a squalling and squabbling infant!" and to harmonize on our lack of immunity from the terrors of weather, and yes, it's still June, the quiet nighttime skies awake us a thunderous slapping of sheeted rain, squalling and squabbling, rat-a-tat large caliber bullet/droplets drilling holes in our template temples expecting early morning serenity; the Newspaper rags in search of pithy witty declaim: Rainstorms To Crack The Heat Dome In NYC neglecting the cracking of tempest tossed tempers, furthy discombobulated composure of forced sheltering in place more, again, uhh, as if parched thirst or drowning are a choice ok rant over! the displeasure was all mine
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Jul 15, 2025
Jul 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM UTC
Squalling and Squabbling
The gates open, the Masses rush through, flowing like water and filling all space, I am last on the train, And just barely, the gates slam my sides to remind me that I almost missed my ride. There is a gloom in the air and it tastes like disappointment, Kind of like when you leave French toast out too long after breakfast has been served, It's old and stale and just not as it should be. Long faces run for miles down the aisles, every space in between is filled with resentment and bitterness, This is not a feeling but a truth for New Yorkers on a long train ride home. Amidst this gloom, Rises a cheery little voice, At first it's very faint, Like a mouse amongst worlds, But it begins to rise and grows more confident with every spoken word. Wrapped in a violently pink scarf and topped with a baby blue hat with arms dangling down to her shins, This voice construes words so simple and pure that the average heart can't help but to smile. Even the tough souls, The real down-on-their-luckers, smirk and snicker as she reads. The hero falls, She cries out with angst! The hero rises, She cheers! By now she has a following of non-admitters, gently leaning in to hear more, Because that's what they're coming to see, To put face to the E Train Angel they’ve heard so much about, The story is stock and so are it's characters, They have been used and reused to fit every sequence, We all know them well, But for her it is real and true, and it is not just a story, but her story. She reads on, Words flowing from her lips like the sweetest song, No lyrics and all melody, She sings, And by now the whole train is listening, Even those many carts away, can here a faint whisper of something warm and sweet. The train rolls into station, and our little angel rises to depart, Hearts hit the floor, a sound echoes through the train, and it's something that can only be described as gray, A fleeting moment of nostalgia has been abruptly ended. Gloom soon sets in as she heads for the open doors, Bodies disperse in front of her like a parting sea, Slow and steady, and with minor hesitation, they move to let her pass. She's gone. And what more can I say than I am glad that I caught the Train that day.
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Dec 22, 2017
Dec 22, 2017 at 12:35 PM UTC
Catching the Train
The gates open, the Masses rush through, flowing like water and filling all space, I am last on the train, And just barely, the gates slam my sides to remind me that I almost missed my ride. There is a gloom in the air and it tastes like disappointment, Kind of like when you leave French toast out too long after breakfast has been served, It's old and stale and just not as it should be. Long faces run for miles down the aisles, every space in between is filled with resentment and bitterness, This is not a feeling but a truth for New Yorkers on a long train ride home. Amidst this gloom, Rises a cheery little voice, At first it's very faint, Like a mouse amongst worlds, But it begins to rise and grows more confident with every spoken word. Wrapped in a violently pink scarf and topped with a baby blue hat with arms dangling down to her shins, This voice construes words so simple and pure that the average heart can't help but to smile. Even the tough souls, The real down-on-their-luckers, smirk and snicker as she reads. The hero falls, She cries out with angst! The hero rises, She cheers! By now she has a following of non-admitters, gently leaning in to hear more, Because that's what they're coming to see, To put face to the E Train Angel they’ve heard so much about, The story is stock and so are it's characters, They have been used and reused to fit every sequence, We all know them well, But for her it is real and true, and it is not just a story, but her story. She reads on, Words flowing from her lips like the sweetest song, No lyrics and all melody, She sings, And by now the whole train is listening, Even those many carts away, can here a faint whisper of something warm and sweet. The train rolls into station, and our little angel rises to depart, Hearts hit the floor, a sound echoes through the train, and it's something that can only be described as gray, A fleeting moment of nostalgia has been abruptly ended. Gloom soon sets in as she heads for the open doors, Bodies disperse in front of her like a parting sea, Slow and steady, and with minor hesitation, they move to let her pass. She's gone. And what more can I say than I am glad that I caught the Train that day.
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The bricks and sidewalks still remain though every other thing has changed. Our City teetered on collapse as pimps and prostitutes worked Times Square. That long hot summer of Seventy five, ere Disneyfication happened there. When fear ruled these streets and crime rode the subway trains. The bricks and sidewalks still remain though every other thing has changed. Fun City’s last mayor had packed and left, the sad faced accountant now held the reins. Along the Bowery vacant eyed drunks panhandled passersby for change And squeegee men collected tolls on all the bridges. The bricks and sidewalks still remain though every other thing has changed. Working and Middle class New Yorkers fled the mounting crime and social strain Open enrollment disrupted schools as educational standards went down the drain And FALN placed a bomb in Fraunces Tavern. The bricks and sidewalks still remain though every other thing has changed. Then real estate sold for a song; there were so many vacant lots. Fires up in the Bronx had consumed whole City blocks. That year the Yankees played their games in Queens. The bricks and sidewalks still remain though every other thing has changed. Gerald Ford told the City to drop dead when Beame went to him hat in hand. Midnight cowboys plied their trade, strangers in a stranger land. In Yonkers, a deranged young man was taking cues from a black dog.
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Nov 13, 2015
Nov 13, 2015 at 8:25 AM UTC
House of Paradise-one flight up
Cliché Walking- His hands jittered Struggled to zip his khaki colored jacket Her eyes remained On his pained face Observing through contacted Magnifying lenses Somehow their eyes met Past the jammed crossway The cluttered New York street Through the busy cars And zesty pedestrians With spill-able coffees And steamy attitudes Somehow their eyes met And the air froze Still as the desert Although the air doesn’t freeze ‘Least not in the middle of spring Although the desert is attacked by constant wind The silence was like a pin drop Or something to that effect Although with the zooming cars And obnoxious New Yorkers’ It couldn’t have been like so. And they knew They just knew Love at first sight And all that jazz Without even knowing They knew. He was her Humphrey Bogart Whoever in heaven’s name that is And she was his Audrey Hepburn ‘Cause he seemed like the kind that’d know her And so this, the cockyspaniel And the chickyhuahua Crossed the street And met each other Halfway… Right there In the middle of it all Cars honking, women screaming And they swore to the depths of hell That people clapped and whooped Because the STD filled kiss Was Shakespeare inspired Cosigned, even And the love was tragic as ever But hey What did he say again? All is fair in love and war and all that hooplah
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Mar 21, 2015
Mar 21, 2015 at 11:47 AM UTC
Cliche Walking
"Coco, Mango, Cherry, Rainbow" @desire.is.dope 2-26-19 0838
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Feb 26, 2019
Feb 26, 2019 at 9:00 AM UTC
NEW YORKERS BE LIKE: **SUMMER**
"A, B, C, D, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, E, F, M G, L, N, Q, AND R TRAINS ARE NOT RUNNING. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE..." @desire.is.dope 2-26-19 0838
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Feb 26, 2019
Feb 26, 2019 at 9:02 AM UTC
NEW YORKERS BE LIKE: **MTA ANNOUNCEMENT**
"Do you have an extra swipe?" @desire.is.dope 2-26-19 0838
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Feb 26, 2019
Feb 26, 2019 at 8:57 AM UTC
NEW YORKERS BE LIKE: IM BROKE