I don't understand
how this universe works
or what makes the One so hard...
thank God for little things...
if I knew any more
my head would explode
or at least I'd wreck more things
than I did trying to do what I thought was right....
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
another day
in the hell of asshats pulled down over the ears
people flashing their stupidity
like badges of honor
like the malcontents who act out
knowing suicide by cop
or coddled by so-called experts
will deliver them of their blame
or like their opposite number
the mass-mind moron cypher
of no scruples
no morals (but money) and no conscience
proud to be cogs in an infernal machine
ah another day
in someone else's idea of paradise
while I lay low and keep
out of all their ways
hard to do when asshats like me
are also crowding the bunker
another day in the inevitability of whatever....
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in the hell of asshats pulled down over the ears
people flashing their stupidity
like badges of honor
like the malcontents who act out
knowing suicide by cop
or coddled by so-called experts
will deliver them of their blame
or like their opposite number
the mass-mind moron cypher
of no scruples
no morals (but money) and no conscience
proud to be cogs in an infernal machine
ah another day
in someone else's idea of paradise
while I lay low and keep
out of all their ways
hard to do when asshats like me
are also crowding the bunker
another day in the inevitability of whatever....
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this blog
this writing
they're all I know how to do
(and maybe the occasional photo too)
if it was not what
I was supposed to do in this life
well so what?
I might've followed a more correct path
and failed as grandly if not succeeded
if I failed myself then hard cheese pal
if I failed the One then too bad too
as if brute vengeance could really teach righteousness
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this writing
they're all I know how to do
(and maybe the occasional photo too)
if it was not what
I was supposed to do in this life
well so what?
I might've followed a more correct path
and failed as grandly if not succeeded
if I failed myself then hard cheese pal
if I failed the One then too bad too
as if brute vengeance could really teach righteousness
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girls...women...
in their sheer summer dresses
their beauty
on full hot display
it mattered when
I was a younger man
and now that I'm old
I see the joke I always suspected
the pleasures of the instant
do not always outlast
the drudgery of devotion
conditioning us to our lessons in love
what is bright and immortal
always dims to darkness and fatality in the flesh....
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in their sheer summer dresses
their beauty
on full hot display
it mattered when
I was a younger man
and now that I'm old
I see the joke I always suspected
the pleasures of the instant
do not always outlast
the drudgery of devotion
conditioning us to our lessons in love
what is bright and immortal
always dims to darkness and fatality in the flesh....
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THE HUNT
you are beautiful
you are sweet
your body is hot
and good enough to eat...
next....
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you are sweet
your body is hot
and good enough to eat...
next....
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THE HOT SEASON
the dull sunlight
glows in the haze
and our energy is sapped
just trying to stay alive
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glows in the haze
and our energy is sapped
just trying to stay alive
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Monday, August 25, 2014
REAL-TIME LIVING
let prophets preach
and con artists provide
it doesn't matter
what dogma or the stars have to say
whatever is true and whatever is false
must still be confronted
in the daily hands-on reality
of real-time living where our continuing lives
forge their essence and their endurance
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and con artists provide
it doesn't matter
what dogma or the stars have to say
whatever is true and whatever is false
must still be confronted
in the daily hands-on reality
of real-time living where our continuing lives
forge their essence and their endurance
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MEANT
I meant to do so right by you
and you pledged your will to me too
and we love each other still
despite all that went astray as good intentions will
maybe our egos got the best of us
tried our desires and ruined our trust
but yet we fail and yet we strive
and that desire is what keeps the love alive
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and you pledged your will to me too
and we love each other still
despite all that went astray as good intentions will
maybe our egos got the best of us
tried our desires and ruined our trust
but yet we fail and yet we strive
and that desire is what keeps the love alive
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THE LEAST OF MY PROBLEMS
death is the least of my problems
my concerns now
are a future that has yet to be
in which I'll have to deal with
all the mistakes I made
and that bungled and failed to amend
and that wait for me somewhere to come
when the One's vengeance is the most of my problems
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my concerns now
are a future that has yet to be
in which I'll have to deal with
all the mistakes I made
and that bungled and failed to amend
and that wait for me somewhere to come
when the One's vengeance is the most of my problems
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HUMID
I don't mean to sound gloomy today
but after a cool summer
to have a hot humid spell remind us
of the type of summer we missed out on
is like being reminded of what hell (the traditional
idea) would like...
pax to those who love the warmth but I am on 'permanent' record
as hating humidity...air so thick
you can feel like a corpse rotting away
into its elements
while you're still alive
and pushing you way through the air
as if it were a wall of wet plaster
have it if you want it...and have even more...taking my portion....
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but after a cool summer
to have a hot humid spell remind us
of the type of summer we missed out on
is like being reminded of what hell (the traditional
idea) would like...
pax to those who love the warmth but I am on 'permanent' record
as hating humidity...air so thick
you can feel like a corpse rotting away
into its elements
while you're still alive
and pushing you way through the air
as if it were a wall of wet plaster
have it if you want it...and have even more...taking my portion....
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THE TIME MACHINE BRIEFLY REVISITED FOOTNOTE
...which isn't to say
there is no other dimensions
we'll be in
but if we haven't gotten there by then
then the very last thing we will discover
is just exactly what perdition is
and what a final unredeemed end would be
so much time to repent and enlighten until time is no longer....
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there is no other dimensions
we'll be in
but if we haven't gotten there by then
then the very last thing we will discover
is just exactly what perdition is
and what a final unredeemed end would be
so much time to repent and enlighten until time is no longer....
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THE TIME MACHINE BRIEFED REVISITED
beware the one who can extrapolate
this one does not rely on vision
or idle speculation
this one simply knows reality
and can project our basic reality
to its likely end
like the last gloom-drenched pages
of The Time Machine
when Wells's time traveler
sees gigantic organisms lumbering
in a fatal darkness
while our sun is at last
a dying red dwarf
about to exhume the long experiment of Earth
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this one does not rely on vision
or idle speculation
this one simply knows reality
and can project our basic reality
to its likely end
like the last gloom-drenched pages
of The Time Machine
when Wells's time traveler
sees gigantic organisms lumbering
in a fatal darkness
while our sun is at last
a dying red dwarf
about to exhume the long experiment of Earth
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ANOTHER THREAD
I'm running another thread
I do it when I'm irritable
I do it when I'm bored
it's so much easier
than hoeing my own garden
and yanking up weeds
that will only endure
even after I'm gone
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I do it when I'm irritable
I do it when I'm bored
it's so much easier
than hoeing my own garden
and yanking up weeds
that will only endure
even after I'm gone
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I have nothing to say to anybody anymore
I'm tired of blessing ignoramuses
and respecting their right to be stupid or mean
and let some gangster god dole out unforgiving vengeance
living in this world you're holding dice
and all that matters of how they fall
is how much you're willing to bet
how lucky you feel and how much of a loss you can bear
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014
they'll tell you
have Jesus at your side
when the devil's on your back
I'll tell you
bag that shit and mind your business
and do right to those you encounter
we all have yet to properly manage
this "wise as a serpent innocent as a dove" stuff....
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have Jesus at your side
when the devil's on your back
I'll tell you
bag that shit and mind your business
and do right to those you encounter
we all have yet to properly manage
this "wise as a serpent innocent as a dove" stuff....
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WORLDLY BUSINESS
much has been made of nothing
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THE OLD PARTYING DAYS
I stumbled I got up
I stumbled I got up
I stumbled I got up
I stumbled I got down
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I stumbled I got up
I stumbled I got up
I stumbled I got down
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
SPECTACULAR DAY
spectacular day
in New York City
warm...dry...
not a cloud in the sky
and for a change all affairs
going smoothly and happily...
exactly the type of day
that could fool you into thinking
you're invincible....
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in New York City
warm...dry...
not a cloud in the sky
and for a change all affairs
going smoothly and happily...
exactly the type of day
that could fool you into thinking
you're invincible....
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TO THE ASSHOLE GENERATION
no day is complete
without a hassle
with some ill-mannered jerk
who missed the memo
on common courtesy
and thinks the world
owes him deference
which is why it's such an unmitigated pleasure
to see one like that wind up
at the business end of a fist
and being among the satisfied onlookers
walking away with their hands in their pockets whistling
and claiming not to have seen anything....
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without a hassle
with some ill-mannered jerk
who missed the memo
on common courtesy
and thinks the world
owes him deference
which is why it's such an unmitigated pleasure
to see one like that wind up
at the business end of a fist
and being among the satisfied onlookers
walking away with their hands in their pockets whistling
and claiming not to have seen anything....
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I'LL CALL YOU WHEN I GET HOME
phone message 20 minutes
into a half hour walk home
my God girl...I just left you...
can I breathe first?
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into a half hour walk home
my God girl...I just left you...
can I breathe first?
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Monday, August 18, 2014
THE NEED FOR MORE
the whole to fail
in its triumph
the win
that is your loss
these attract
our yearning
these betray
our trust
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in its triumph
the win
that is your loss
these attract
our yearning
these betray
our trust
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As if I were the only one who never understood a damn thing about the heart! Don’t you dare accuse me of what you yourself are guilty of! Don’t you dare mock me in front of people while you hide your own transgressions like a cat burying shit in the sand! Who the hell gave you the idea you’re better than anyone else? Who the hell taught you that you were so special, that you didn’t have to answer to anyone else? Keep it up; I’ll be on line waiting with everyone else you know to teach you otherwise!
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FORWARD INTO THE FOG
work is done
but life goes on
what do I do about
what's been left behind?
not a thing
it is its own thing and no longer
your concern
what you do now
is your next adventure
or misadventure
as you would have it
as it would be done
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but life goes on
what do I do about
what's been left behind?
not a thing
it is its own thing and no longer
your concern
what you do now
is your next adventure
or misadventure
as you would have it
as it would be done
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Saturday, August 16, 2014
DONE IS DONE
if done is done
then why keep pushing?
if your work is finished
then withdraw
and leave it in the world
to be received by who will receive it
anything else is blind ambition
self trying to attend to power it cannot
and will not master to manipulate
and control and stage manage its destiny
while a higher Power calls the shots
whether or not we know it
and our way forward is only clear and smooth
when we are in tune with that higher Power
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then why keep pushing?
if your work is finished
then withdraw
and leave it in the world
to be received by who will receive it
anything else is blind ambition
self trying to attend to power it cannot
and will not master to manipulate
and control and stage manage its destiny
while a higher Power calls the shots
whether or not we know it
and our way forward is only clear and smooth
when we are in tune with that higher Power
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
darker and darker
the progress in the earth
while brighter and brighter
the suns and stars of all the sky
hidden from the underground eyes
toiling in the bowels of this world...
best of all possible...?
you must be joking...
lowest and densest of all levels...
likened to what the common mentality
calls hell....
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the progress in the earth
while brighter and brighter
the suns and stars of all the sky
hidden from the underground eyes
toiling in the bowels of this world...
best of all possible...?
you must be joking...
lowest and densest of all levels...
likened to what the common mentality
calls hell....
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
NO LONGER
you are no longer
where or what you were
and where or what you'll be
is yet to come
is yet to happen
different aspects
of the Only Reality
resolved in each living instant
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where or what you were
and where or what you'll be
is yet to come
is yet to happen
different aspects
of the Only Reality
resolved in each living instant
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WHY I PREFER POETRY
you can write it
on the crapper
just like I'm doing
right now
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on the crapper
just like I'm doing
right now
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HUMILITY
a simple stone
in an ornate setting
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in an ornate setting
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Monday, August 11, 2014
THE MORE SIN THE MORE GRACE HAS CAUSE TO ABOUND
if all liability for living is on us
then do what you will
and have a ball
drink that double-shot margarita
flirt with that number
will breasts and ass out
no one is an appointed agent of some devil
we're all just frightened and lonely
under the thumb of some nazi
who'll forgive if we suck his barbed cock
but we never do it right enough for this tyrant
so fuck it
do what you will and savor every sinful moment of pleasure
this is how experience gets in...this is how you learn the right way....
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then do what you will
and have a ball
drink that double-shot margarita
flirt with that number
will breasts and ass out
no one is an appointed agent of some devil
we're all just frightened and lonely
under the thumb of some nazi
who'll forgive if we suck his barbed cock
but we never do it right enough for this tyrant
so fuck it
do what you will and savor every sinful moment of pleasure
this is how experience gets in...this is how you learn the right way....
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THE REAPER ON SPEED
death takes no holiday
ask Robin Williams
or Philip Seymour Hoffman
(just two recent examples
of addiction fighters who lost
to something that had become ingrained in their very beings)
24/7 this bastard does his dirty work
and even if there is an afterlife
it doesn't preclude the trauma of leaving
the physical body
the Reaper and God could care less
we are locked in our delusions
by the very structure of this conditioned reality
and no mercy or forgiveness if you fail
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ask Robin Williams
or Philip Seymour Hoffman
(just two recent examples
of addiction fighters who lost
to something that had become ingrained in their very beings)
24/7 this bastard does his dirty work
and even if there is an afterlife
it doesn't preclude the trauma of leaving
the physical body
the Reaper and God could care less
we are locked in our delusions
by the very structure of this conditioned reality
and no mercy or forgiveness if you fail
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THE FINANCE OF SPIRITUALITY
you seal your fate with every move you make
and one way or another
find out the hard way
you were no great shakes
you were nothing special
except in your selfish and diseased mind
and what a joy it's been for us to test our ideals
on your misery and your fake repentance...
being selfish you think it's a way out
and someone else will clean up your mess
but you've overdrawn (to use a phrase you'd recognize)
some one will have to deal with your remains
but they'll earn points while you will be stuck with a bill
so big it'd take eons to clear...enjoy your sentence...pig....
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and one way or another
find out the hard way
you were no great shakes
you were nothing special
except in your selfish and diseased mind
and what a joy it's been for us to test our ideals
on your misery and your fake repentance...
being selfish you think it's a way out
and someone else will clean up your mess
but you've overdrawn (to use a phrase you'd recognize)
some one will have to deal with your remains
but they'll earn points while you will be stuck with a bill
so big it'd take eons to clear...enjoy your sentence...pig....
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AMPLE REASON
I'm a calm easy-going type
so if I confront you in a rare rage
and call you an asshole to your face
you better believe you gave me ample reason
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so if I confront you in a rare rage
and call you an asshole to your face
you better believe you gave me ample reason
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WHERE CHARITY IS FORGOTTEN IN THE EXCUSE OF SELF-RELIANCE
year after year
I see the same street people
huddling on the corners of our street
and I realize it may be the luck of the draw
but damn...you really don't need that much
to survive...
as if those who had their pockets loaded
would part with a dime...smugly ignoring them....
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I see the same street people
huddling on the corners of our street
and I realize it may be the luck of the draw
but damn...you really don't need that much
to survive...
as if those who had their pockets loaded
would part with a dime...smugly ignoring them....
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AS IF IT WERE A CONVERSATION
we talk and talk and talk and talk and (excuse me...gotta
pay a water bill) and talk and talk and (I'm back) talk
and talk and talk and talk
and I didn't miss a damn thing and still these asshole
talk and talk and talk and talk and talk
as if they really had something to say
and talk and talk and talk and (good night...gotta go...)
and talk and talk and talk....
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pay a water bill) and talk and talk and (I'm back) talk
and talk and talk and talk
and I didn't miss a damn thing and still these asshole
talk and talk and talk and talk and talk
as if they really had something to say
and talk and talk and talk and (good night...gotta go...)
and talk and talk and talk....
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WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE INFERNAL MACHINE?
I'm too fast for you
I pour our my heart
and you pick and choose
among these scribblings
but you think it's a lesson
you think you're being preached to...
what the hell is wrong with you?
I'm your buddy on a bar stool
pouring out his soul
and sometimes leaving you
with a nugget of wisdom
that would be praised and remembered
if it were curated by
the assholes of the academy
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I pour our my heart
and you pick and choose
among these scribblings
but you think it's a lesson
you think you're being preached to...
what the hell is wrong with you?
I'm your buddy on a bar stool
pouring out his soul
and sometimes leaving you
with a nugget of wisdom
that would be praised and remembered
if it were curated by
the assholes of the academy
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ICE COLD WATER
ice cold water
flushes and cools my throat
this hot summer day
who but a pig
would want more
than this
sustaining
living water?
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flushes and cools my throat
this hot summer day
who but a pig
would want more
than this
sustaining
living water?
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I will hunger and thirst no more
not play the fool like I did before
nor suffer all I cannot endure
in the name of some merciless god
I will be free of all illusions
detached from my own and everyone's delusions
sidestep all the earthly confusions
deeply abed in the transforming sod
I do not care whether you believe me
your pious fakery cannot deceive me
face your own path while the ground that receives me
swallows up all of life that we so value
so it is we are left with what is true
all of us dismissed whatever we do....
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not play the fool like I did before
nor suffer all I cannot endure
in the name of some merciless god
I will be free of all illusions
detached from my own and everyone's delusions
sidestep all the earthly confusions
deeply abed in the transforming sod
I do not care whether you believe me
your pious fakery cannot deceive me
face your own path while the ground that receives me
swallows up all of life that we so value
so it is we are left with what is true
all of us dismissed whatever we do....
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LONG I'VE LEANED...
long I've leaned against the door
emptied out and done for sure
sky irradiated with my own light
blocking the blackness out of the night
oh you pitiful wicked fools
who cover your eyes and cling to false rules
you will peek to look and be turned to ash
in a blaze of revelation that will never pass
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emptied out and done for sure
sky irradiated with my own light
blocking the blackness out of the night
oh you pitiful wicked fools
who cover your eyes and cling to false rules
you will peek to look and be turned to ash
in a blaze of revelation that will never pass
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Saturday, August 9, 2014
BE KIND
be kind to friend and foe alike
you never know when will be
the last time in the earth
you will meet
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you never know when will be
the last time in the earth
you will meet
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AN INSTANT IN ETERNITY
I would have you naked
I would have you clean
your breasts like hills capped with nipples
to suckle the yearning sky
your lean belly taut and smooth
your thighs full and supple
dipped down into the generating swamp
wet with the sweat of Venus
and you would give onto the the probing fingers
the rapturous tongue
or take the throbbing manhood
and complete what you've begun
and thus I'll have us resolved
and thus I'll have us whole
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I would have you clean
your breasts like hills capped with nipples
to suckle the yearning sky
your lean belly taut and smooth
your thighs full and supple
dipped down into the generating swamp
wet with the sweat of Venus
and you would give onto the the probing fingers
the rapturous tongue
or take the throbbing manhood
and complete what you've begun
and thus I'll have us resolved
and thus I'll have us whole
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YOUR PATH
you think your path is long and hard
and it is
but not in the way you think it...
you think the worldly suffering won't end
but it will
and you'll find it was the blink of some god's eye
whether Christ descending on a throne or Shiva awakening
your end is beyond you only if you'll have it be....
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and it is
but not in the way you think it...
you think the worldly suffering won't end
but it will
and you'll find it was the blink of some god's eye
whether Christ descending on a throne or Shiva awakening
your end is beyond you only if you'll have it be....
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Friday, August 8, 2014
PASTIME
worlds I denounced
have not ended yet
and when they do
it will not be through
my agency
but some natural sell-by date
lunatics have been predicting
for thousands of years
without success
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have not ended yet
and when they do
it will not be through
my agency
but some natural sell-by date
lunatics have been predicting
for thousands of years
without success
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PROPORTION
I didn't think it would matter
so I never gave a damn
now everything I wish I'd done
stares out through my eyes
and into the lives of others
as if they were wings unfolded
gracefully in flight
while I was the crag on which they landed
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so I never gave a damn
now everything I wish I'd done
stares out through my eyes
and into the lives of others
as if they were wings unfolded
gracefully in flight
while I was the crag on which they landed
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deliverance will come
but only after your daily travails
kill you gently with complicity
the truth will set you free?
the truth will crush you with its reality
so if dying is your idea of being set free
think again...life is continuous
and you'll go on with deliverance yet to be....
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but only after your daily travails
kill you gently with complicity
the truth will set you free?
the truth will crush you with its reality
so if dying is your idea of being set free
think again...life is continuous
and you'll go on with deliverance yet to be....
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the joy buzzer in every hand
the trapdoor under each welcome mat
the slap in the back with a sharp instrument
how weary they make me
I get it I get it asshole
where's your mercy now?
coming with a joy buzzer
coming to thumb yet again a divine nose
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the trapdoor under each welcome mat
the slap in the back with a sharp instrument
how weary they make me
I get it I get it asshole
where's your mercy now?
coming with a joy buzzer
coming to thumb yet again a divine nose
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014
"I'm glad to be finished
"Happy to be done"
I wrote those words in a poem
over 15 years ago
never suspecting how long
the wind-down would take...
nothing's over until you are...
let's not even think of what comes after
what won't yet be over...and so much more to be done....
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"Happy to be done"
I wrote those words in a poem
over 15 years ago
never suspecting how long
the wind-down would take...
nothing's over until you are...
let's not even think of what comes after
what won't yet be over...and so much more to be done....
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the earnest young idealist
will either grow old and bitter
or die a hard but illusion-filled death
or he may even succeed in doing good
in the world and put the lie
to the other two options
think of the possibilities
as representatives of each tendency
love and do as they will....
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will either grow old and bitter
or die a hard but illusion-filled death
or he may even succeed in doing good
in the world and put the lie
to the other two options
think of the possibilities
as representatives of each tendency
love and do as they will....
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you can go on faking it
as long as you must
and hope your faulty guesswork
will not fail you
but there will be no mistaking it
when you are called out on a matter of trust
and all who wished you ill will lurk
no more in the rush to nail you
from your mendacity you would never swerve
now come get what you deserve
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as long as you must
and hope your faulty guesswork
will not fail you
but there will be no mistaking it
when you are called out on a matter of trust
and all who wished you ill will lurk
no more in the rush to nail you
from your mendacity you would never swerve
now come get what you deserve
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ANIMAL KINGDOM
we fear Authority
the way a field mouse
fears a swift shadow
crossing the ground toward him
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the way a field mouse
fears a swift shadow
crossing the ground toward him
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SURPLUS
in daily human contact
I fear...concerning stupidity...
it's quantity over quality...
(yes...consider the oaf over the wise fool....)
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I fear...concerning stupidity...
it's quantity over quality...
(yes...consider the oaf over the wise fool....)
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american (and maybe any)
conservatives would bless
the metaphysical political ideas
of Plato and Aristotle
by way of the German idealists
but being ignorant reactionary assholes
they Kant...
(heh heh heh heh...I thought that was a good one...what?)
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conservatives would bless
the metaphysical political ideas
of Plato and Aristotle
by way of the German idealists
but being ignorant reactionary assholes
they Kant...
(heh heh heh heh...I thought that was a good one...what?)
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"THE POOR WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU" SAID JESUS
give to the needy
indeed
the line stretches
a hundred-fold
around the mansions
of some hoarders
and no lack of either
and no change in the condition
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indeed
the line stretches
a hundred-fold
around the mansions
of some hoarders
and no lack of either
and no change in the condition
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NY ON AUGUST 6, 2014
people
have ODed
on their
'stupid' pills
today
what antidote
for mass
inanity?
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have ODed
on their
'stupid' pills
today
what antidote
for mass
inanity?
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
lit by a rare dream of sunshine
your presence emanates from the
neutral fading of awakening and remains...
now I recall the dream plainly
sun in clear blue sky
each figure walking on a flat vast surface
like a plaza bathed in sunlight
and a voice saying 'at death
you just walk through
some invisible door
and here you are still....'
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your presence emanates from the
neutral fading of awakening and remains...
now I recall the dream plainly
sun in clear blue sky
each figure walking on a flat vast surface
like a plaza bathed in sunlight
and a voice saying 'at death
you just walk through
some invisible door
and here you are still....'
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Monday, August 4, 2014
THOUGHT YA HAD IT, EH?
follow me up a rope of smoke
let us fall down together
reach the top and you will choke
hit the ground and you'll smother
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let us fall down together
reach the top and you will choke
hit the ground and you'll smother
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DOGSHIT (PARDON MY FRENCH AS WE ANGLO IDIOTS USED TO SAY)
dogshit insights
by ignoramuses
run the world into the ground
but assaults on our comforts incite
the mendacity and snark of the traitors in us
to bring some imagined enemy down
he who would save his life must lose it...
good..good...soil your salvation as you must refuse it....
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by ignoramuses
run the world into the ground
but assaults on our comforts incite
the mendacity and snark of the traitors in us
to bring some imagined enemy down
he who would save his life must lose it...
good..good...soil your salvation as you must refuse it....
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good afternoon my fellow fools
as I stand on a box
with a rope around my neck
at the command of earthly kingdoms
with the full sanction of the alleged 'god of love
and justice'
I have only one thing to say to you all...
follow me...follow me into oblivion...you bastards....
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as I stand on a box
with a rope around my neck
at the command of earthly kingdoms
with the full sanction of the alleged 'god of love
and justice'
I have only one thing to say to you all...
follow me...follow me into oblivion...you bastards....
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Saturday, August 2, 2014
PAX DON MARQUIS
boss
i cannot understand
why people look so hard
for reasons to exist
when all the time
they are existing
too much time on their hands
too little thought in their minds
i have plenty to keep me occupied
the foibles of sad minds who dont
know themselves
a hard head for the typewriter keys
and mehitabel reminding me to
be toujours gai
archy
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i cannot understand
why people look so hard
for reasons to exist
when all the time
they are existing
too much time on their hands
too little thought in their minds
i have plenty to keep me occupied
the foibles of sad minds who dont
know themselves
a hard head for the typewriter keys
and mehitabel reminding me to
be toujours gai
archy
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I watched a man pushing his cart
through the scurrying streets
and reflected on how tired and weary
he must be
like I get when a day of strife yields nothing commendable
yet if I rest and disappear into my sanctuary
I would miss the very thing
I think I need so badly
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Friday, August 1, 2014
THE WISDOM OF AUGUST
the wisdom of August
is the harvest of September
the rest is dross
left to October and November
to decay into the common ground
that nourishes the dark renewal of December
would we be fortunate enough
to endure the cold incubation of the winter
to gaze again on the birth of buds
in the pliant unstoppable spring....
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is the harvest of September
the rest is dross
left to October and November
to decay into the common ground
that nourishes the dark renewal of December
would we be fortunate enough
to endure the cold incubation of the winter
to gaze again on the birth of buds
in the pliant unstoppable spring....
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how I’ve hated
the rulers of the world
using their life force
to lord it over those
who have no wish to rule
and even they have their
rouses and tricks to survive…
lording it over those still
weaker and meeker
and they also have their ploys…and on and on
down through the order
of conditions that are
but aspects of the Only Reality…
so why hate when every desire
is One…and each impulse
is the same on every level?
does not the drive remain
though fractured through
each broken jaw of self?
does not the carcass draw
the hunger of vulture and maggot alike?
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