HUMOR

I'd better recover

my sense of humor


or at least try to laugh genuinely

at the cornballs


trying to jump freshness

into these stale old saws









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MATERIALISTS

your bonds haven't matured

and neither have you


what designer coals

for your Xmas stockings?








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ONE IDIOT PLUS

if it only takes

one idiot to ruin a day


imagine now how

there'll never be


another good day in the earth

with so many idiots breeding


and this whole generation

the rotten fruit of spent seed






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A PITY THIS IS WHAT WE'RE ONE IN

like a fugitive


I walk down a daily avenue

scanning the scene

for hidden horrors


any camera can track me

as I pass store after store

after street crossing after store


anyone...anyone...who passes me

on the sidewalk

can be my assassin


and all eyes I catch

avert from my glance

as I instinctively do also


all of us on the run from something









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SURVIVAL MODE

dodging tyranny after tyranny

through every moment of every day


each tyranny a cry to be free

at the expense of someone else's freedom


and all these tyrannies being aimed

at us all each to each


dodging this every moment of every day

I stay on the move


I no longer pause on a street corner

just to catch my breath for fear


that anyone could confront me with some insanity

I stay on the move and say in passing


"you better get me with the first shot

or you're finished"







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IT NEVER TAKES MUCH

internet trouble today


the grid going crazy

from too many solar flares


and a whole civilization

is run by its toys


I think of those in the 9/11 rubble

sending out messages


from their cell phones

and dying before


help could reach them








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what the hell happened to you?

they asked me


what could I say to that

after seeing that


all the footprints leading

away from the scene


of the crime

belonged to me?




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LEAVE IT BE

who could tell

the wind where to go?

who could know

from where it'll blow?


do not think well

of your curiosity

it's just an agony

that obscures the mystery






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CONSTANT BOIL

this time in the world


like a deranged chef

ready to favor his signature dish


with arsenic






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IDIOTIC IDIOMS

poopogisms






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THE CURE

like the doctor

who operates on himself


only a fool

can take the cure






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SPORTS AND WAR (AN OBVIOUS EXAMPLE)

ancient Rome

stands next to me

at a kickboxing match


while Vlad

is on the boards

separating heads from shoulders


the the mighty Khan wagers

with U.S. cattle barons

the bets run by Adolf


and while the world slaughters itself

in sport and cock walking power

a vast pair of black wings


hovers over the arena like a predator

ready to seize his prey....






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THE NIGHT BEFORE ELECTION

torches and platforms

and bunting and waving placards

and impassioned citizens roaring approval

or disapproval with or against

the various orators

all swaying under the brisk night


these things passed away long before I was born


why should I think of them now?






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TO A TECHIE: PICA

like

the one

between

your ears







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FAMILIAR

I never know what's next


but if I did and tried to avoid it

I'd be delivered to the same result


just the same


the universe does not cease its churning

nor will it be denied

so while I never know what's next


it sure does feel familiar







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A SURVIVAL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

a survival of consciousness:


carrying a thought

between worlds


then claiming ignorance

about the cargo


who would believe unless

they caught your trace


as you disappeared between instants?








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MORNINGSHINE 2

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THE SHEDS

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health tolls a bell

disease slams a gong


and reverberations

diminish as they die


in the inner ear

and the limited eyes


scan the body wonder what's roiling

under the skin








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DOGSES

one mutt

stretched out

along another mutt


a puddle of fur

in the humid haze







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CRITICISM

this generation

should stop

thinking

of Ayn Rand

as God


and for

that matter God

as Ayn Rand








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48 years I've ground out words

and now it's come to this end


feeling like no time has past...yet...

I'm going out the way I came in








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one day each of us will disappear

no size left to fit us

no knowing just what hit us

but we will no longer be near


so before that day comes

(who knows why? who knows when?)

you'll join crook to screw eye and then

be lifted into what you'll become







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MORNINGSHINE

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no guarantees

except that you are alive


now your job:


don't fuck it up






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so it is


that your last chance


is your best hope



don't ask why


just take it








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one good thing

about all this self-destruction

in the name of holy demands

for adherence to divine imperative

is that when your downfall

is achieved and nothing of worth remains


your emptiness will hoist your soul

and you'll need nothing to sustain you but the striving of your will






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we must die to live

we must suffer to be free

we must find ourselves by forgetting ourselves

we are at the mercy of the Heartless One






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what will You do about my heart?


the old language fails


I've awaken and remembered

all my contributions to my own downfall


and without the easy excuses

I made for my own weakness


I stumble here bereft with evidence scuttling


any complaint against my own iniquity






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conflict comes

when one resists

and the other

insists












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WHAT I HOPE GOD'S REALITY IS ULTIMATELY ABOUT....

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all of us return to earth

until we finally 'get it'


I know I'll meet many of you

(God knows I've made such a botch


of things in my own life)

but despite the heartless of God


I am happy and love those with whom I've shared a path

(my enemies will take a little longer for sure)


but whatever I face going forward

it is the love we souls have shared


that have given this life its flavor

I hope that is alright with you Lord


we forgive ourselves and wait only to see

when You will forgive....






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you'll never realize you're done until

your decline begins


and your sadness at realizing your peak has been past

will fade with knowing


all the futile struggle is finally done





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it's taken so long for the One

to answer my prayer for release from this world


it'll be a little while before I'm free

(the One will never do us any favors)


but knowing a finish line

is in sight


is enough to help me carry on....






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let God learn His own lesson in humility

before He winds up alone at the culmination of Time


power is evil even if it's in a god

do we really pray to God in our times of trouble


or merely supplicate Satan to save our own foolish

worthless lives? as long as you believe in gods and devils


you are lost and deserve to be

but awaken to who you truly are and no one not even God


will deny your eternal life

yes yes it's harder to do than you can imagine


but it is necessary and the only way to break free

from all the evils of Authority and that sadly includes the One


beyond that none can tell

but with all eternally here and now who really needs to wonder?






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HELL OF A TIME

better quit while I'm ahead


there's no escaping anything

but better to run


and taste life in flight

than be chained to the tyranny


of a demon disgusting beyond all measure

even if we ultimately fail at least


we had a hell of a time with it






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MY DREAM

my dream is to kill God


I know what they say about

all life ending if God as much as blinked


but in my fantasy

killing God will destroy the true evil


coursing through reality

and we would finally be free and liberate and happy


and better than this pisspot tyrant would have us be






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HOW I LONG TO FLEE

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THANKS, LORD...YOU'RE A REAL COMFORT IN TIME OF TROUBLE

my problem is

I'm still in this life

I still inhabit this skin


and the longer I'm confined here

the more damage will be done to me

but I guess I should have expected this


the instant you realize the truth of living

no mercy or love or forgiveness will guard you then






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HEARTLESS HEART

when I'm released

I'll give an earful to the One


like Abraham haggling

and realizing


we're all on our own

and no lament or petition


can move the Heartless Heart

and resigned to whatever the case


beyond the walls of this skin








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BACKYARDS (LONG BEACH)

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THE CROSSING ONLY

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THE MERGING

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A MEMORY

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THE BROKEN GARDEN

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THE MORNING I'M NOT UP TO....

The morning I'm not up to

will burn my eyes awake

and demand I abandon

the dream I must forsake


but I refuse to give in

see? I won't feign bogus hoping

for I will go forth through this day

and dream with my eyes open






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WELL....?

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ALLURING AND BRIEF

another day

in the land of no relief


we comfort with each other

or else snipe until we're tired of our grief


and all because of some fairy tales

about faith and belief


and delusive lucid instants out of time

that are as alluring as they are brief

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NYC NIGHT

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WELCOME RAIN

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word

turd

herd

absurd








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let me love you while I can

strong as heart and straight as mind


and each a mystery to each other

resolved in the joy that is ours to find







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PROTECTOR

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FINGER OF GOD

this says it all!!!*

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LONG AFTERNOON

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UNDER THE ARCH

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see where I go


you too can follow


the way is open and free


it is only us who meander


and that's alright too


if it gets you where you're going


the road carries everyone forward


and I'll see you somewhere along this line

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PATH (LONG BEACH)

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ALONG THE LINE

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WHARF ALLEY

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TWILIGHT SOMEWHERE

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OH

look down

on the mangled body


as you hover in

a corner


of the sky


then the shaft

of Light


takes you along

and 'om' becomes 'oh!'







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LAUGHING

laughing

as I fall


doesn't make

impact easier


but damn

if I show

any tears








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THE FOOT

the foot descends

on my cliff-clinging fingers


I can attest

God has a merciless EEE sandal








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run from even a simple phrase like 'I love you'


how can you vouch for its authenticity?

is it a true expression of devotion


or just a projection of another's hunger

and desire to manipulate and control?


but how can you run away? unless you're psychic

how do you know what it's about until you experience it


and then find joy in the choice or wind up wishing you'd died first?










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I know you have a different view

but fuck yourself...I do too...


and if your idea is to suppress my freedom

in the name of your own kingdom come


then your reason is only source of another oppression

and I'd hard pressed not to do onto you this same expression


of self and power that poisons us both

each vision another tyranny that will obliterate all truth....








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OUR STRUGGLE IN THE WORLD

there are no friends

there are no enemies


there is only all of us

at each other's throats


because we really buy

into the illusion


that we are not

all One....








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GOOD BYE BRUCE 2

pursuant my flippant previous post

Jenner certainly gets more traction by being famous than some farm boy in the Midwest who thinks his life isn't authentic and saves his money for the switch, but has to go back to the hounding and small mindedness of his family and friends...a WAY harder row to hoe...which is why I thought of Christine Jorgenson 60 or so years ago...being the first one to do this...how the media of the time spun her and what the public reaction was (most likely not as kind or tolerant as now...)

this is most likely a continuation of the celebrity ego that needs all eyes on it...and whatever lot and power goes with it (and she'll make out like the proverbial bandit...already that other crack whore Kim is advising her on fashion...'nuff said)...

to the ones without advantage...to the ones who make this brave move without the glare of a spotlight on them...will they benefit? who will celebrate them when a gang of cretins beats and murders them? or throws them on subway tracks in (of all places) New York City...the hip capital of the world? my heart is with them...THERE is the struggle to live in a world full of psychopathic reactionaries...

SHOULD be a wake-up call...since these maniacs aren't choosy about who they'll off...

now as ever...walk your talk...but don't let a pitiful ego invite trouble you don't need...unless you're ready to sink down to their level and kill them before they get to you...welcome to the New World....



(P.S. I STILL think she's hot...a better looking woman than he was a man...but even THAT is a part of the so-called 'conversation"...foolish old goat...let's leave it for now...others have worse problems than this...or do I really have to drag in the thousands dead in Africa or the Middle East?)


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EMILY BRONTE AS GOTH GIRRRRRL

I was standing on a street corner

trying to pick up Emily Bronte


(I'm a sucker for those ball-busting shy types ya know)

in this iteration she had jet black hair


cut in bangs and a sleeveless T with skin pure white around

tats so garish I was invited to think of perversion


on top of happy hot perversion...old sad old male

I am after all...all she did was smile as I excused myself


and moved out of her way...(even the smiling glance back

did nothing but provoke the 17-year-old locked


in this 62-year-old body to wonder 'what the fuck happened?')

oh I was standing on a street corner


trying to pick up Emily Bronte but I was outmanned

by the remorse of age remembering the charge of youth....







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if I knew what I was getting into

don't ya think I'd try to dodge it?


and even if I did don't ya think

the powers that be find another way to get me?









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somehow the days don't weigh as heavily

the stress evaporates like dew into morning mist


the howl of the wolf and the hiss of the snake

and the meow of the cat all merge in a white noise


like surf on a sun risen beach

and all the things I thought mattered so much


are as nothing in the moment of peace

between happenings






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be nasty if it gives you your power dose

whereas some get off on kindness


talk dirty if it gives you a thrill

though some pervs get off on kindness


play shy if you hope to score

and you'll either get a sensitive one


or be tossed by some loudmouthed whore


you need more guts than luck to keep knitting

that chain that love binds....







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without joy

and without sorrow


there is

peace







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ESTUARY EVENT

once walking on the shore of the Hackensack River

I saw a spider trapped on a rock as the waves lapped in

cutting of an escape


the spider just looked at the rising water

then jittered one way and then another


I took a long twig lying in the small waves

and laid it on the rock as a bridge to the sand


the spider looked the twig

and looked

and looked


then scampered down the twig to the shore

and flittered away into some weeds


no glory or self-preening here


just the unconscious act to save a living being






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how fine to play the fool and not care

what stressed house proud earthbound minds fret...


pondering my own mistakes

is teaching me to hold my tongue


or at least be more precise

when I express to others the love that goes


so astray sometimes because we simply don't think

before we speak....






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GOOD BYE BRUCE

settling back into the dharma...


I must say

Caitlyn Jenner


is really one hot piece...

("GLIFs and how!" says Grandpa here....)






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all the chaos in life

underlined by the stillness of eternity


moments of hurt and disappointment

moments of gladness and unconstrained happiness


all underscored by a calm and a stillness and a peace

that empties all the passions back into not-being


and when all the conditioned sensations are exhausted

one can only wonder what the fuss was about...


and why it takes so long to settle into living in this peace....









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you think I talk

so I can hear the wind 

whistle through my teeth?

you fools...

I bear a gift not mine 

but for all of us and find I'm just

another county heard from...

the more fool me...

the Word is resonant 

in the space around us

it is the silence that speaks to us

and that is what closes my mouth

at the moment...the silence that says

all I needn't bother to....

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MOSES GOT NO RESPECT

I go to the mountains

(do every summer of heat strokes

and burning shrub)

and return to find you all

acting rowdy before gold plated idols

and the wanna-bes who suck up to them


you disgust me


I ask you to keep a vigil

deep in the starlit night and you fall asleep


drunk and sucked off

(and I know this will more or less

happen again in the future)


but for now all I can think of is smashing

these slates down on your nodding heathen heads







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