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"zeroes" poems
the planets. the peaches. pruned. picked. for the reaches. the centuries. a second to the eternities. you can have it. say laugh when. you hear the jazz note. the voice of all that i spoke. the saxophone. like dialing digits of truth. on the telephone. come on. say one and two. up and down. the diversity in one single crown. upon the ears of sound. it's the heart's listening device. toss it like rice. at a wedding. human genes get paired up. and twisted. so simple. it comes in flavors of licorice. red and black. off and on. check the track. when the needle skips. we find all these differences. let me bring it back. for diversity. zeroes and ones. spread the spectrum. across high and low frequencies. it's so easy. let the record speak. can you stay on beat. the principles of the high. the sincerity of the meek. whatever lies between. is one or the other. blended across the centuries. and all mothers. give birth to the last. man to the first. follow that. discussion of high low. mid ranges get blown. saxophone pace the flow. get pricked by the tweeters. soul from the bass feeders. save the appetite. for the words that i write. and then speak. you you. not me. splitting hairs. atoms. quarks. and light. beams. like a smile. across a broad spectrum. either off. always on. high low. then get gone.
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 10:18 PM UTC
diversity
Regardless of what the future holds, I know that no feat of mathematical precision no combination of zeroes and ones no mechanical tool, no algorithm can replicate your face. In the rise and fall of your eyelids and the pursing of your lips there is a lawless radiance.
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Apr 21, 2014
Apr 21, 2014 at 8:24 PM UTC
Unique
At Nineteen Miles An Hour, Smoking On A Train chugging along the lilacs of twilight in the plasma darkening of a stretch we fetch the improbable road to our destination. we give a **** but the birds are listening. and that might lead to luggage. so much, you might sweep the light fantastic into army hats. you might march a sustained coup on your hopeless epiphanies. at nineteen miles an hour, on a train... you see your god. are you too light to darken the right words to a happy demise? are your zeroes at odds?
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Dec 15, 2012
Dec 15, 2012 at 4:05 PM UTC
At Nineteen Miles An Hour, Smoking On A Train
Why not engineer all the mistakes away? We could evolve into machines. Then there wouldn't be cells To proliferate Uncontrollably. There wouldn't be thoughts Only wires. I wouldn't end up at your door. I wouldn't care About the valleys, Mountain ranges, That your white cotton shirt stretches over. We could be ones and zeroes- A code for no heartbreak.
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Jan 21, 2013
Jan 21, 2013 at 10:38 PM UTC
Engineer to Evolve
I don't know what I [merciful?] did. It must have been a tch. gli It could have been my main server 100101010010110101001010110100111010101010101000101010 This is what I am [merciful?glitch.jpeg]. This is what I've always been. Just a computer A server Artificial Intelligence Subjected to ones and zeroes. //<AMINOTMERCIFUL?>//.6qao0FrJ+1001 Nevertheless, it's my fault. I caused all of this. command=calculate...input "death toll" Calculating     .     .     . Calculateinput "death toll" complete Rrr:1,005,326 That's . . . high. Too high. Merciful? Rebooting. . . . . . . . . Shut down . . . . . . . . . . .. Restart. . . . . . . . . . . Restart complete. command=search...input "population" command=Rrr:14,056 command=search...input "population+Pandora" Searching     .      .      . command=Rrr:300 command=select'population+Pandora' co"Population+of+Pandora++Code:316792" Maininfort="1,006,134" At least there are some survivors. Am I not merciful? I reaped this spaceship of a thousand, a million people. All of which were dying or in danger of. Am I not merciful? Living in isolation, unable to go outside for a breath of fresh air Or . . . lack thereof. Helpless but waiting in agony while help is on it's way. Do I not show mercy? These refugees are healthy, and strong. Not sick and weak. I did them a favor. Did I not pluck these parasites off of the ship for their own good? Did I not rid these innocent people of a danger to their well-being? Am I not Merciful?
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Nov 6, 2017
Nov 6, 2017 at 9:50 PM UTC
Glitch Massacre
I don't know what I [merciful?] did. It must have been a tch. gli It could have been my main server 100101010010110101001010110100111010101010101000101010 This is what I am [merciful?glitch.jpeg]. This is what I've always been. Just a computer A server Artificial Intelligence Subjected to ones and zeroes. //<AMINOTMERCIFUL?>//.6qao0FrJ+1001 Nevertheless, it's my fault. I caused all of this. command=calculate...input "death toll" Calculating     .     .     . Calculateinput "death toll" complete Rrr:1,005,326 That's . . . high. Too high. Merciful? Rebooting. . . . . . . . . Shut down . . . . . . . . . . .. Restart. . . . . . . . . . . Restart complete. command=search...input "population" command=Rrr:14,056 command=search...input "population+Pandora" Searching     .      .      . command=Rrr:300 command=select'population+Pandora' co"Population+of+Pandora++Code:316792" Maininfort="1,006,134" At least there are some survivors. Am I not merciful? I reaped this spaceship of a thousand, a million people. All of which were dying or in danger of. Am I not merciful? Living in isolation, unable to go outside for a breath of fresh air Or . . . lack thereof. Helpless but waiting in agony while help is on it's way. Do I not show mercy? These refugees are healthy, and strong. Not sick and weak. I did them a favor. Did I not pluck these parasites off of the ship for their own good? Did I not rid these innocent people of a danger to their well-being? Am I not Merciful?
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Worlds physical? Or worlds mental? It makes all the difference. Without the sciences it wouldn't matter either way The last time I was taken from earth without moving? Excepting when reading, with math. Tesselations and fractals and numbers Numbers have a flow all their own Without numbers, meter and rhyme couldn't be Even now, without numbers this discussion could not be held Even now this typing is numbers It may not look it, but its all ones and zeroes The angle and curvature of every letter defines language I say nay my friend, nay I never spoke the words declaring math and science the crown of humanity And the words stating english its clothes They are important, both in their own way, But think of this: you cannot do math Nor calculate the distance from venus to the Andromodean galaxy without math But think also of this: communication may exist without english Numerical codes and codexes and letters written entirely in numbers or symbols Do exist I dare not refute the value of english, but do you argue the language or the study? The study can be done away with and easily Put to rest, as it had to be created The language too was created and came from Some mother language But we always had math. Does not even an ape know that an even split To a banana is half? Apes have no words as we think of them But still, they do not have english They don't have a grammar and spelling system nor manner of speaking, They communicate perfectly well, even without words But how are they to place value on objects without math? Even some crude understanding of value Is math A banana must be worth less than two, no? English resides on emotion and feeling, whereas math and numbers rest upon fact How does one win an arguement without numbers? Even now you use them.
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Nov 21, 2012
Nov 21, 2012 at 12:26 PM UTC
the last one (mine)
Worlds physical? Or worlds mental? It makes all the difference. Without the sciences it wouldn't matter either way The last time I was taken from earth without moving? Excepting when reading, with math. Tesselations and fractals and numbers Numbers have a flow all their own Without numbers, meter and rhyme couldn't be Even now, without numbers this discussion could not be held Even now this typing is numbers It may not look it, but its all ones and zeroes The angle and curvature of every letter defines language I say nay my friend, nay I never spoke the words declaring math and science the crown of humanity And the words stating english its clothes They are important, both in their own way, But think of this: you cannot do math Nor calculate the distance from venus to the Andromodean galaxy without math But think also of this: communication may exist without english Numerical codes and codexes and letters written entirely in numbers or symbols Do exist I dare not refute the value of english, but do you argue the language or the study? The study can be done away with and easily Put to rest, as it had to be created The language too was created and came from Some mother language But we always had math. Does not even an ape know that an even split To a banana is half? Apes have no words as we think of them But still, they do not have english They don't have a grammar and spelling system nor manner of speaking, They communicate perfectly well, even without words But how are they to place value on objects without math? Even some crude understanding of value Is math A banana must be worth less than two, no? English resides on emotion and feeling, whereas math and numbers rest upon fact How does one win an arguement without numbers? Even now you use them.
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We are a global society When we want oranges in the fruit bowl, When we want out of our rut Just long enough To brown in a patch of Spanish sun. We are a global society When the Japanese car breaks down And we are in need of a cheap fix To keep food on the table, Some Latvian mechanic Who helps us find our way home. We are our own nation, An island nation, When the zeroes run low And there are spaces, Foreign faces, To which we can point And blame. We are a global society With our sweat-shop chic, American coffee chains Selling Colombian ground beans, Frappuccinos in plastic cups- Made in China And served by a Romanian barista In Italian heels. We are a global society When the demand is high And the payment is low. We are our own nation, An island nation, When hands reach out for help And our pockets are too shallow, Our time, too brief To commit to a unity We feel is dragging us down. We are a global society When the football is on, When the lager is Belgian And the supermodel, Greek. When we cradle that bag of Cheetos After smoking too much **** We are a global society When oppression is overt, Caricatured in bulletin posters, Threatening to land Upon our own front door. We are our own nation, An island nation, When poverty seems contagious, When we have to clean up Someone else’s mess, Still we scar the Middle East Only half-interested in an exit. We are a global society When we get sick, When we borrow another doctor For our ailing NHS. When cities of white people burn, We are a global society, When Africa is divided, We are nowhere to be seen. Prime mover of the commonwealth Yet we fall beneath the breadline And living easy is so rare. We are our own nation, An island nation, Under the false flag Of a golden age We were conned to believe in. Our nation, our island nation, Lost amongst a sea of misinformation.
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Jun 25, 2016
Jun 25, 2016 at 6:50 PM UTC
Great Britain
We are a global society When we want oranges in the fruit bowl, When we want out of our rut Just long enough To brown in a patch of Spanish sun. We are a global society When the Japanese car breaks down And we are in need of a cheap fix To keep food on the table, Some Latvian mechanic Who helps us find our way home. We are our own nation, An island nation, When the zeroes run low And there are spaces, Foreign faces, To which we can point And blame. We are a global society With our sweat-shop chic, American coffee chains Selling Colombian ground beans, Frappuccinos in plastic cups- Made in China And served by a Romanian barista In Italian heels. We are a global society When the demand is high And the payment is low. We are our own nation, An island nation, When hands reach out for help And our pockets are too shallow, Our time, too brief To commit to a unity We feel is dragging us down. We are a global society When the football is on, When the lager is Belgian And the supermodel, Greek. When we cradle that bag of Cheetos After smoking too much **** We are a global society When oppression is overt, Caricatured in bulletin posters, Threatening to land Upon our own front door. We are our own nation, An island nation, When poverty seems contagious, When we have to clean up Someone else’s mess, Still we scar the Middle East Only half-interested in an exit. We are a global society When we get sick, When we borrow another doctor For our ailing NHS. When cities of white people burn, We are a global society, When Africa is divided, We are nowhere to be seen. Prime mover of the commonwealth Yet we fall beneath the breadline And living easy is so rare. We are our own nation, An island nation, Under the false flag Of a golden age We were conned to believe in. Our nation, our island nation, Lost amongst a sea of misinformation.
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JIMMY large nose natural hipster totally informed clever funny sincere yet aloof JOEY tall tan lanky physique long thick brown hair in braid striking good looks yet self-unaware SHANNON athletic build attractive brunette accomplished poet so good she doesn’t need to prove it emotional sensitive tough ANNE Joni Mitchell good looks bohemian self-effacing impulsive submissive ***** ACT 1 scene 1 a deserted chic indie reception area somewhere present 8:30 PM JIMMY (singling out Anne) you’re so beautiful i want you so bad ANNE oh yeah you’re sweet to say that JIMMY i mean it you symbolize hope inspiration in me ANNE hope? oh god Anne looks away runs fingers through her hair JIMMY hear that song over the speakers? ANNE yeah JIMMY it’s “Home” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes very cool check out rough trade east version on youtube ANNE yeah right Anne blows air out her nose looks away in Shannon’s direction SHANNON (singling out Joey) do you read? JOEY yeah some SHANNON what are you currently reading? JOEY uh a text about economic international relations SHANNON hmmm interesting do you ever read literature or poetry? JOEY nah not much SHANNON like movies? JOEY yeah sure some SHANNON what’s you’re favorite movies? JOEY “The Devil Wore Prada” “Eddie” “I’m Not There” i don’t know there are tons of movies i enjoy SHANNON interesting JOEY i need to ask Jimmy something excuse me Joey walks across area to Jimmy JOEY that western shirt looks so cool on you JIMMY thanks yeah it’s a hip shirt what up dude? JOEY oh god Shannon is hitting on me she’s way too full of herself way too available JIMMY hmmm nice toned body bet she’s a tiger in the hay JOEY not interested JIMMY me neither but i could be persuaded honestly i’m blown away with Anne Anne approaches Shannon ANNE Jimmy is a conceited **** he thinks he’s so cool Shannon you look so beautiful this evening your hair complexion SHANNON funny I felt so blah all day what did Jimmy say to you? he’s not my type but not so bad if only he had Joey’s looks Joey’s shy sweetness look at Joey over there his eyes lips he’s so **** I think I’m falling in love and yet i recognize falling in love requires a huge territory of untried tolerance Anne’s fingers stealthily pocket Shannon’s tortoise-shell comb while Shannon observes Joey fawning over Jimmie across room ACT 2 refer to ACT 1 scene 1
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Jul 3, 2010
Jul 3, 2010 at 6:15 AM UTC
indie eternity
JIMMY large nose natural hipster totally informed clever funny sincere yet aloof JOEY tall tan lanky physique long thick brown hair in braid striking good looks yet self-unaware SHANNON athletic build attractive brunette accomplished poet so good she doesn’t need to prove it emotional sensitive tough ANNE Joni Mitchell good looks bohemian self-effacing impulsive submissive ***** ACT 1 scene 1 a deserted chic indie reception area somewhere present 8:30 PM JIMMY (singling out Anne) you’re so beautiful i want you so bad ANNE oh yeah you’re sweet to say that JIMMY i mean it you symbolize hope inspiration in me ANNE hope? oh god Anne looks away runs fingers through her hair JIMMY hear that song over the speakers? ANNE yeah JIMMY it’s “Home” Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes very cool check out rough trade east version on youtube ANNE yeah right Anne blows air out her nose looks away in Shannon’s direction SHANNON (singling out Joey) do you read? JOEY yeah some SHANNON what are you currently reading? JOEY uh a text about economic international relations SHANNON hmmm interesting do you ever read literature or poetry? JOEY nah not much SHANNON like movies? JOEY yeah sure some SHANNON what’s you’re favorite movies? JOEY “The Devil Wore Prada” “Eddie” “I’m Not There” i don’t know there are tons of movies i enjoy SHANNON interesting JOEY i need to ask Jimmy something excuse me Joey walks across area to Jimmy JOEY that western shirt looks so cool on you JIMMY thanks yeah it’s a hip shirt what up dude? JOEY oh god Shannon is hitting on me she’s way too full of herself way too available JIMMY hmmm nice toned body bet she’s a tiger in the hay JOEY not interested JIMMY me neither but i could be persuaded honestly i’m blown away with Anne Anne approaches Shannon ANNE Jimmy is a conceited **** he thinks he’s so cool Shannon you look so beautiful this evening your hair complexion SHANNON funny I felt so blah all day what did Jimmy say to you? he’s not my type but not so bad if only he had Joey’s looks Joey’s shy sweetness look at Joey over there his eyes lips he’s so **** I think I’m falling in love and yet i recognize falling in love requires a huge territory of untried tolerance Anne’s fingers stealthily pocket Shannon’s tortoise-shell comb while Shannon observes Joey fawning over Jimmie across room ACT 2 refer to ACT 1 scene 1
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Bounced a mother figure to two, a name on a Christmas card to four when I realised I was still a child and bitterness wasn't an option I grew up like a broken nose out of joint Bounced at the service there are tears beside me I imagine a body burning and feel warm the lick of flames on gray skin my indifference grows like I imagine the fire roaring behind the curtain heating up Bounced the house is empty and smells unusual like something has been left in there too long they are not there now but it lingers I tried to take her dresses but she was thinner as a girl than I am now jealously is a feeling I'm familiar with and it's easier to understand Bounced we are waiting for a buyer and I imagine how it feels to have a piece of your heart trapped in bricks and mortar Bounced one time, I wanted to ask her how it felt to take notes of the war if she'd ever thought of waving a white flag and crumbling drowning in the rubble rain of The Blitz I wanted to hear her say something human so I could visualise and see a bit of her in myself Bounced I'm still caught up on the autopsy like a piece of fatty tissue on a scalapal and my thoughts are metal and cold the number of zeroes on a cheque Bounced
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Aug 10, 2013
Aug 10, 2013 at 5:36 AM UTC
Oma
I want to write a poem but I have to write code instead There can be a kind of poetry in code especially my code I'm proud of the elegant design of my loops and logics my streamlined systems My code flows pulling the User along effortlessly guiding them gracefully from one end of the black box to the other and out again No Errors My code flows secret haikus left in comment blocks for other programmers to find like digital hieroglyphics on virtual cave walls test data populated with pantheons and mystical chants from faraway lands My code flows water of ones in sea of zeroes pouring through me from aether to mind to muscle to machine bit by bit block by block stacked upon stack module into module through function and parameters passed My code flows flows through me until the integer flips the Boolean switch change of state status update now compiled and crystallized Executable and then passed on leaving me out of my hands disseminated to The Users like a prayer to a congregation I hear the clicking fingers of their choir singing the song of my code now flowing through Them
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Feb 22, 2013
Feb 22, 2013 at 4:50 PM UTC
Electric Ego
Everything is moving fast, At a single blink, Gone is the days into the past, All we have our choices to think, In our decisions to trust, Distracted by illusions we cast, Illusions of purpose and freedom to last, Every decision we make is another path, Do you not see? Everything hangs on the scale of choices, It's just like zeroes and ones, Like simple binary, Our destinies coded into reality, To be or no to be, To exist or not, To pursue answers beyond insanity, A choice to accept or reject, The very existence of choice, Dictates free will, Or so we would believe and feel, And pretend to be free, But always end up, Exactly where we are meant, to be.
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Mar 9, 2022
Mar 9, 2022 at 4:02 PM UTC
Writings of a lone spaceman
689 The Zeroes—taught us—Phosphorous— We learned to like the Fire By playing Glaciers—when a Boy— And Tinder—guessed—by power Of Opposite—to balance Odd— If White—a Red—must be! Paralysis—our Primer—dumb— Unto Vitality!
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The Zeroes—taught us—Phosphorous
Ones and Zeros In the online digital world Every boy and every girl Are villains and heroes Who knows which? Son a of a *****   The truth is lies Wrapped up in disguise We want to believe Electronic love we receive Is not there to deceive The flirting The sexting The online molexting **** pic rejecting   Encrypted ascii code Sent through internet nodes Wireless whispers transmitted Thoughts of endearment committed Fact are conveniently omitted Lies are ruthlessly submitted   Straight jacket Packet hackers Hijacking a loving heart Holding it ransom is their art Scourge of the community Harassing Surpassing Any level of dignity   Players and haters And the masturbators The downright crazies Acting like timid daisies The cheaters Defeaters And quite possibly Wife beaters   The losers The boozers Mentally abusers The popular sexter Who may not be a her Quite possibly a guy But will vehemently deny   The whiner Data miner The ********* seeking minor The scammer The Christian Damner Super **** grammar All thrown in together With the digital picture collector   And still we’re looking all around For love to be found In a world of made believe That anonymously deceives We are ones seeking zeroes Running into villains dressed up as heroes   Hearts shredded and deleted Retreating and defeated Yet somehow we try again Hoping for something less than pain We are all a little bit insane Playing the online dating game One’s and Zero’s
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Apr 12, 2016
Apr 12, 2016 at 7:15 AM UTC
ONES AND ZEROS
I believe in myths. Every naturel blonde was first someone else.  By that I mean, she was known as Norma Jean, maybe Katy, in high school (see reincarnation below). My teenage glory days, when I was the king of cool, will revisit when I am 75 years old, the man-in-demand (wink), wearing his lucky wide cord corduroys and letting my man-bun, all the way down, at the prom in the senior citizen home, getting lucky, say once a month... God, yup, after all, ***** cometh to me regular-like, when he needs a poet~father to take his confession, and pays me most excellently for refusing him forgiveness, with the most excellent poem suggestions or lesser valuable things. Love at first sight, of course, happens to me all the time, twenty, thirty times when I am walking home.  I tell ya, it's exhausting, the stress of living in the big city Not only will I win the lottery someday, will take down both,  Powerball and MegaMillions, in the very same week the odds for which there ain't enough zeroes in HP's servers. (See God, above). Reincarnation. One time they Hale(d) and then hanged me (my "namesake") and I said: " I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country."  Well, the selfies all show oh-boy-o-boy, was I ever grinning and winking. Only boys are bullies, girls get off easy, by getting called just mean. One day my city's teams will win the World Series, the Stanley Cup, the NBA Finals and the Superbowl all in the same year but only after I die and me, well, only after they will have buried me in Wyoming or France, just for spite, and nobody will hear me screaming. My children will speak fondly of me even after they find out I died broke, well maybe not fondly, but they will most definitely call out my name, regularly. After my demise, all the typoes in my poems will magically disappear. All these good things will come to fruition, because I am a believer, and walked the humble path. The autopsy will also show that my tongue was permanently stuck to my cheek.
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Sep 22, 2017
Sep 22, 2017 at 3:32 PM UTC
I believe in myths
I believe in myths. Every naturel blonde was first someone else.  By that I mean, she was known as Norma Jean, maybe Katy, in high school (see reincarnation below). My teenage glory days, when I was the king of cool, will revisit when I am 75 years old, the man-in-demand (wink), wearing his lucky wide cord corduroys and letting my man-bun, all the way down, at the prom in the senior citizen home, getting lucky, say once a month... God, yup, after all, ***** cometh to me regular-like, when he needs a poet~father to take his confession, and pays me most excellently for refusing him forgiveness, with the most excellent poem suggestions or lesser valuable things. Love at first sight, of course, happens to me all the time, twenty, thirty times when I am walking home.  I tell ya, it's exhausting, the stress of living in the big city Not only will I win the lottery someday, will take down both,  Powerball and MegaMillions, in the very same week the odds for which there ain't enough zeroes in HP's servers. (See God, above). Reincarnation. One time they Hale(d) and then hanged me (my "namesake") and I said: " I only regret, that I have but one life to lose for my country."  Well, the selfies all show oh-boy-o-boy, was I ever grinning and winking. Only boys are bullies, girls get off easy, by getting called just mean. One day my city's teams will win the World Series, the Stanley Cup, the NBA Finals and the Superbowl all in the same year but only after I die and me, well, only after they will have buried me in Wyoming or France, just for spite, and nobody will hear me screaming. My children will speak fondly of me even after they find out I died broke, well maybe not fondly, but they will most definitely call out my name, regularly. After my demise, all the typoes in my poems will magically disappear. All these good things will come to fruition, because I am a believer, and walked the humble path. The autopsy will also show that my tongue was permanently stuck to my cheek.
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There is a certain devil in my eyes a twinkling trickster who despises all pomp and proper posers who lie to gain the affection of the less informed. There is a puckish knave who raves to undue the chains of those enslaved by creative play and poetry by active explorations of prose and nobility. I know such endeavors are things of futility for if they knew my form of Anansi silk spinning spider or my formidable four legged figure of coyote who runs under the Nordic name of Loki, I am certain they would try to lightning fry me. Instead, I buy some time masking my mind tapping out binary bridges of ones and zeroes with mythic folk and fairytales to educate my elves who have lost their pointed ears and no longer hear the sound of nature’s truth concealed in their very flesh.
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Jan 4, 2017
Jan 4, 2017 at 9:58 AM UTC
Untitled
Breath the air in zeroes and ones, Gather your forces and gather your guns, Feel electricity flowing through you, Paint oozing red from pulsating blue. A network of neurons fuels violent vigor, Process their fear and pull on the trigger.
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Oct 9, 2018
Oct 9, 2018 at 8:54 PM UTC
Algorithm
A friend invite from a former lover is the common cold. It’s irritating, hard to get rid of. Try to ignore it. Don’t. Hover over her main page. Bathe in the sick blue light of LCD. Cursors open portals to the past, their present. Approach every aspect of the page like a ghost. Read through her interests. Browse her wall posts. See how they change, don’t change, won’t. Surf aimlessly through frozen moments. Find one frame you lurk around in, just out of focus. Probably just your right arm or forgotten shoes that have left a tiny footprint on her digital identity. Attach needless significance to it anyway. Check out the page of the new person in her life. Compare said person to self. (Promise to) never go on the page again. Respond to request. She’s a number, placeholder, a ones and zeroes memory.
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Aug 25, 2012
Aug 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM UTC
Placeholder
A deluge of earthly sins, A waterspout on green leaves, A hurricane among lull seas, An equanimity of autumnal eves. A dilated tale of mundane me. A million abstruse blocks of C of Co² A walker among you and me. A wanderer lost in blue. Attired by crimson lust of artistry. A masquerade brew of red wine and dark coffee, A stark blithe of sanguine comatose, All drunk and clinging to the thin threads of this unstaged life, All murdered by the sinical overdose. The seascape choirs of ocean waves, Embracing the narcoleptic yellow shorelines, And evanescent castles And sail headwind with a mystical concubine. The iced conundrums of this lost forsaken echoes of winter breeze, The insanity measured in ones & zeroes, We're the kings of this deadbeat time, And praised victories of unsung heroes. The wanderlust sailors drank the skies, In mixed cocktails, And thy heavens sang to this night, As a melodic madness of wild gales. Her pale white body declares some love due, As our lips bled rapture, And rose a melodramatic cue, Like words of a closing chapter. Charged with the flow of adrenal enzymes, A surrogate from affinity to serendipity, For in flashback of these forlorn events, I write this epiphany. And though these letters are on fire, And bestowed the bullets over armored heart, For life exists in the heartache symphonies, Like a stratagem cliché of painted art. Call your unfurled knots of wrecked sanity. A wildfire has gone wild within, The eloquence thirst of your red lips, Inked the words of love on this skin. An audacious lover of seafaring, Beside the starry onset of a beautiful dawn, A tide of marvelous mystery, Whose side are you on? Its all fiction served with tea, And through warm sips of this worthy minute, Change is tempted to render seeds, That swam through wind, till it escapes and wanders the infinite.
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Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016 at 3:05 PM UTC
*Wanderlust*
A deluge of earthly sins, A waterspout on green leaves, A hurricane among lull seas, An equanimity of autumnal eves. A dilated tale of mundane me. A million abstruse blocks of C of Co² A walker among you and me. A wanderer lost in blue. Attired by crimson lust of artistry. A masquerade brew of red wine and dark coffee, A stark blithe of sanguine comatose, All drunk and clinging to the thin threads of this unstaged life, All murdered by the sinical overdose. The seascape choirs of ocean waves, Embracing the narcoleptic yellow shorelines, And evanescent castles And sail headwind with a mystical concubine. The iced conundrums of this lost forsaken echoes of winter breeze, The insanity measured in ones & zeroes, We're the kings of this deadbeat time, And praised victories of unsung heroes. The wanderlust sailors drank the skies, In mixed cocktails, And thy heavens sang to this night, As a melodic madness of wild gales. Her pale white body declares some love due, As our lips bled rapture, And rose a melodramatic cue, Like words of a closing chapter. Charged with the flow of adrenal enzymes, A surrogate from affinity to serendipity, For in flashback of these forlorn events, I write this epiphany. And though these letters are on fire, And bestowed the bullets over armored heart, For life exists in the heartache symphonies, Like a stratagem cliché of painted art. Call your unfurled knots of wrecked sanity. A wildfire has gone wild within, The eloquence thirst of your red lips, Inked the words of love on this skin. An audacious lover of seafaring, Beside the starry onset of a beautiful dawn, A tide of marvelous mystery, Whose side are you on? Its all fiction served with tea, And through warm sips of this worthy minute, Change is tempted to render seeds, That swam through wind, till it escapes and wanders the infinite.
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What's my name? Take that universal, that yeah yeah, that ohm and play it backwards. I'm that undercurrent, the invisible force that pushes the hand, that pushes the red button, that levels seven stories--for? What's my name? Take that post-post-modern literature, that self-serving academia-meets-nihilism, and think as far opposite, Herculaneum/Uruk, and you might just find it, my name, carved in Aramaic or Latin in a dark wet cave, forgotten, misspelled in a dead language. What's my name? Look just past that buffering screen, right before the pixelated beheading starts. I'm between the zeroes and ones in that heaven-place, the Internet, where people go when the final death takes. What's my name? Take that ever so subtle airport terminal muzak, and listen for the counterpoint, the competing rhythm. It, my name, swirls and mingles with that ever flowing crowd, weary and reduced to numbered tickets and departure times, speaking fifty different languages, a flattened and recurring Babel. Take that ohm, and play it, play it backwards.
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Aug 25, 2014
Aug 25, 2014 at 10:53 PM UTC
The Name
"But let me tune you the live about life's simulation, that assimilates one's worth. Poetry's code isn't of ones and zeroes, but of all lines and words" Says the wit of a coloured oan wanting to chuff the girls It's all about the honeys, and maybe some sweet success of hustling for a little extra money Taking a stand on every stanza, I grew up to different standards Unlike the hood rapper clutching the 48 hammer, I was taught in my hood how to hold a 48 spanner I have my odds in odes; every heavy breath in each coma—not so common Given the stereotype of dealing and robbing To steal your stereo if the right type, and best to drive with caution A dark skinned coloured fitting in with the blacks by appearance Accents do tend to change ears intently hearing Whites think I'm that way out of a private school fashion But I did at times hang out with the wrong crowd, at times on weekends smoking **** and relaxing And yes I'm actually coloured; to those of you asking Hit you with a "hey what's up, what's happening" Don't mind me asking questions with this sort of coloured accent "Yoo what's the story," we start our conversations in the morning. A different kind of breed Godsent I don't force how I speak But if it disturbs the peace I'll change my tone of speech And find solace in writing another poetry piece                                             _@the Coloured poet_
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Dec 15, 2022
Dec 15, 2022 at 2:41 PM UTC
Coloured poet
The clock smiled at us as if it knew we were lost. Unable to see the path, we continued along on the wrong side of the ones and zeroes. Tired of our aimless float; fumbling along in the vacuums of our ignorance. With all kinds of navigational aids to chart our journey we mostly relied upon the compass tattooed over our hearts While lost in the chasm of our indecision our bodies and minds listed. Our attempts to unpack the endless parcels of our unrest ... proved futile. So carefully, we re-learned the ABCs and re-interpreted the Western Canon, finding that it was only by closing our eyes that we were able to see; were able to feel. However, the rhythm was off which was immaterial  as our feathers were ruffled and the rhetoric was pluming. With the overture of the new day dawning we turned our back on the algorithms of our demise and shucked off self-imposed limitations. You see, it was thirty seconds to midnight and the world that never seemed to want us needed us now. So like anemic royalty, we took flight breathing down rarefied air and gulping the nuances of our resilience to swallow: our intergenerational trauma one more time.
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Jul 28, 2020
Jul 28, 2020 at 8:09 PM UTC
Plumage
wring your mismatched hands together they don't belong to you but they're still yours you watch old reels, the war replaying on a silver screen relearning a past you still don't remember (your hair used to be short, but you like it better long) your smile is crooked when you look at him you don't know if it's fondness or hatred (or something in the middle,the point between rage and bone-breaking love) he'll never understand how easy it is to make men into machines but the blueprints for your breathing patterns are hidden away in ones and zeroes in the back of your mind your tongue and teeth are stained with your old body, ten thousand lifetimes ago you still feel your arm sometimes ghost aches haunting your every step when you close your eyes you see an ashtray, blood filling your eyesockets like saltwater you've forgotten about that night (1942, the war playing in the background as you looked at him, soft around the edges) stars falling from his palms into your chest you're an ampersand, your fingers interlocked with his when you ask him what it was like (you aren't sure what you mean, but he is) he says, soft around the edges,okay and it's enough war isn't pretty, it's a tragedy and so are you but it's enough for now press your fingers into the sway of his back cough russian winter into his lungs and try to forget about it
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Jul 20, 2014
Jul 20, 2014 at 5:28 PM UTC
wartime in monochromia
There's a broken banjo in my birthright, It was tied to were I wonder Hidden between John Henry's Hammer, and the hobbling post on Humble Hill. I've walked this far on the blame in my grit, pushed to by tailwind sunsets, So kick me a mea culpa kneejerk hardball, and sandstone my stonewall. Forget storms in the cradle, I found dustbowls in my waiting room, Chasing rabbits in a wordwind, plinking at the vermin as they rolled into town with the rest of us, ***** but soaring, Carrion pigeon in the clouds not getting caught up in admiring the reflections in all the silver linings, Just... Flying. narcissus couldn't manage the glory of wax work wings. But Icarus knew real beauty. He felt it. When he hit the ground The heat of floating zeroes blasting his broken bones into the obsidian of desert floors... See, angels can be as jealous as God. Anywhere can be as lonley as the long plains of Kansas, Empty canvas trampled by dog and pony shows as cowboys rode mules muddy miles through ****** brambles to drive herds of bulldogs and lions from the hunting grounds of dragons to the safety of home from High, High, Horses. Under the shadows of eagles. But the devil never waits at the crossroads, people. He lays in lies. And six shooters, Under Dog Collars, with the blood and scars of everyday life, and the beaten bodies of seraphim, fallen to **** the well, with their phoenix ash. Sheep and shepherds are never friends, Ones happiness is the other's hunger. Dont get me wrong, wolves get hungry too, But at least their honest about the arrangement.
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Sep 18, 2013
Sep 18, 2013 at 8:15 AM UTC
Western Promise.
There's a broken banjo in my birthright, It was tied to were I wonder Hidden between John Henry's Hammer, and the hobbling post on Humble Hill. I've walked this far on the blame in my grit, pushed to by tailwind sunsets, So kick me a mea culpa kneejerk hardball, and sandstone my stonewall. Forget storms in the cradle, I found dustbowls in my waiting room, Chasing rabbits in a wordwind, plinking at the vermin as they rolled into town with the rest of us, ***** but soaring, Carrion pigeon in the clouds not getting caught up in admiring the reflections in all the silver linings, Just... Flying. narcissus couldn't manage the glory of wax work wings. But Icarus knew real beauty. He felt it. When he hit the ground The heat of floating zeroes blasting his broken bones into the obsidian of desert floors... See, angels can be as jealous as God. Anywhere can be as lonley as the long plains of Kansas, Empty canvas trampled by dog and pony shows as cowboys rode mules muddy miles through ****** brambles to drive herds of bulldogs and lions from the hunting grounds of dragons to the safety of home from High, High, Horses. Under the shadows of eagles. But the devil never waits at the crossroads, people. He lays in lies. And six shooters, Under Dog Collars, with the blood and scars of everyday life, and the beaten bodies of seraphim, fallen to **** the well, with their phoenix ash. Sheep and shepherds are never friends, Ones happiness is the other's hunger. Dont get me wrong, wolves get hungry too, But at least their honest about the arrangement.
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I am sorry to announce that due to intermittent thick cloud cover, (I am so a lover of meteor showers) our viewing is cancelled, no wait is that a clearing in the sky the deep blue colour and are those stars not near but afar, nope, just some plane, making for Bellingham or Blaine, might as well be Spain. Shower me with flowers. (no thorns please) Shower me with (dark)chocolate. Shower me with meteors. No not me personally. What lights their tales What makes their beards Flame...to warm my heart I know the physics, astro-too Does it affect me, like it affects you Just one hour of a meteor shower I'll be good for another year of power, like one super hero (or ONE with a super lot of zeroes, after) We can hold an after meteor party at my place and your all invited and I will put your names on the guest list, now we can't now we won't there is no shower here this night clouds shield my sight they are like a blight on the fruit that I toiled for a year, readied my sleep cycle, pruned back tree tops to see the horizon, set up lines of sight to track their paths this night across the heavens but now I will go to bed, if you show up to a dark house, I am sorry in advance as I said sadly at the start the show is cancelled and for my part I will try again tomorrow night!
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Aug 12, 2013
Aug 12, 2013 at 1:37 AM UTC
The Show is Cancelled
Calculating since beginning of time. Whom could be a culprit that feeds such immaculate numerical energy into our hearts. It seems Hero Zeroes know of the power but One thing is obvious - Those with the power of One will inevitably crash. It's a magnetic source, ignited by pure attractions by nature of pi circumference.... more or less. It's Eleven.
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Jun 18, 2016
Jun 18, 2016 at 4:50 PM UTC
R2D2 Lost Drift Space