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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 09 2008 at 18:57
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Mine King, pray roll your belt - draw down form, vend into your bank.
Show sign; show your slim part; show them each your soul need, your lack.

Tick tick. Look, this idea hath core boon - earn will this next year, alas...

GATE ZERO SAYS: This does feel warm - must undo! This will show soul, burn them each!
GATE FOUR SAYS: Hark! Thou must veto, mine King - alas, much over long wing span.
GATE FIVE SAYS: Such base flaw with tiny form. Lost with ease - keep none here.
GATE NINE SAYS: Will this need less fine eyes? They seek they whom look away.

True. Heed they wary; heed they your news. Deny they this fake idea, thus more well sent away.
None body, none bird, none bulk, none soul; null idea - thus grok this will they none.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2008 at 17:30
Sketch for a Semi-Pathetic Nightmare

From nomenclature to understanding
                 the path is as long as it's short
      in a well of fractals
           flashing lights at blank eyes
  the artist only pretends to be falling
                 the stage is set
         on a pile of obsolete shells
   we call our ancestors
                  they refuse to listen
     I know a monkey
             he's a great rhetorician
  I feed him bananas
                     he doesn't look too happy
         but he's my best friend
    sometimes it's hard
                    to find the right words
       when you've been raised mute
                I guess it doesn't really matter
  some people wish for a tail
           I don't even know
                        what to do with my hands
    (I've always disliked the circus)
              if you know the way
  past the shrubberies and drunkards
                        I don't think I'm asking too much
    I'd gladly turn into a rock
               if I could keep my perception
        limited
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 12 2008 at 17:51
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 16 2008 at 18:03
Excuse me if I'm not here

Lately
I've been writing poems
that I'm going to publish as a book
and make some money of it
which is why
you won't be seeing them here.
Still,
there's no need to be sad,
for most of them
are not as good
as this one.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2008 at 18:26
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2008 at 19:39
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2008 at 19:15
The Lady In Her Tower

I (The Mirror Instructed)

She stares, lovingly smiling, from her dream-stained glassy window
At my newly idyllic form, complete with mental muscles
For which I have no need
She smiles, lustfully staring, from her sun-kissed golden tower
At my constant malleable thoughts, all given to the female force
That makes my tired eyes bleed

She turns, revealing young flesh, from beneath her night-time dark dress,
Capturing my bloodied eyes, exhausted by this sublime vision
Who draws out human needs
She veils, returning old clothes, from below her willow-dark hair
Tempting vein-carved hands, Rapunzel-urged, to climb, to ascend the sun-kissed tower
And from that precious body feed

She screams, delightedly smiling, from her mirage-carved stone tower
Revelling at my pleasure, revelling at the sign
That she is all I need
She smiles, delightedly screaming, from her sun-lit vibrant window
That if I join her for an hour, then for an hour
I'll be freed

II (The Servants Incomparable)

And she waits, with gentle assertion,
For all her dreams to be brought to her
By servants, roused from their inertia
So that they may feel her smile

And she knows, that in this entwinement,
That all her dreams won't be lost to her,
And the slaves, who need her refinement,
Stay within the reach of her smile

And she smiles, because she's imperfect,
Since all her dreams are done by others,
Who dream of no action more perfect
Than doing her will, and touching her smile

III (The Lady In Heat / The Reward Incalculable)

She smiles and with a sudden twist removes her bridal gown
And delighting in her nakedness, she lets her long her down
And I amazed, a servant fine, must take the lover's role
And through an hour of fantasies escape my mortal soul

She smiles and with a sudden grip she draws my body close
And enjoying all our contact games, she lifts my mind morose
And I aflame, a wandering mind, can feel her trace my skin
Close her lips with tender force and hold my flesh within

She smiles and with a sudden gasp she lets my spirit out
And flavouring our bedtime sports, she paints her face devout
And I, though filth, a mortal sign, can't help but feel so glad
Even if it's just a fiction, it's still the best I've ever had

IV (The Dream Indestructible)

She sits, quietly requesting my presence
Though request is not the word for such an urgent need
Fed by dreams, obsessive themes
And all my wandering thoughts

She rests, quietly sitting in her tower of hollow dreams
Though sit is not the word for such a dominant role
Bought by dreams, and real-unreal seams
And my meandering soul

She smiles, lovingly gazing on from her tower of full-fleshed schemes
Though gaze is not the word such a driving force
Which drives my dreams, and infant screams
And my divided purpose

And she smiles
She smiles in our relationship
Carnal, not of flesh and with a certain open style

And I think
I think of our entwined existence
She lives off my thoughts and I live off her smile

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There we go, hopefully more impressive as a whole than as the sections. Comments welcome, though I figure that explaining my intent would probably not be effective.
Been a cathartic process, writing it.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2008 at 15:25
Too Many Miracles for One (1) Day

This lukewarm tongue soup
follows me home from work
and I don't even have one!
Goodbye unknown object
you made my head ache
I hear the word cleavage
in these sound arguments
yours is a constant train
(I'm sorry, miss, but I'm afraid
to let anyone lick my eyes)
red sofa red wall red floor
no roof in this setting
I was not me in my dream
suddenly it's another day
black background
for every other background
including every other background
no foreground anywhere
except this imaginary one
golden sax golden voice
red sofa red wall
black floor black roof
so sad so sad so sad so sad
they cut me to pieces
with their instruments
I am this muddy sound
and the best it yet to come
immortal businessmen
incorruptible teeth
your hair in my coffee
cyborg mistress
metallic emptiness
your tongue in my soup
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2008 at 08:54
How I Hope to Meet My Future Wife

I am a warehouse full
of sealed cardboard boxes
and air.
Think about this for a while
and it starts to make sense
out of senselessness.
There's something in my eye
and it's not dust.
They keep walking over me
as if I didn't move.
Pushing my internal organs around
in systematic fashion.
You, who keep hanging around here,
don't you have a home?
At least take your shoes off
before you wet the floor.
And if that's money in your eye
let me have some of it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 06 2008 at 13:52
I Want to Stare at Someone in Person

The Internet is a jolly thing to have
in one's living room.
You can find all kinds of pretty pictures
(some of them pornographic)
that you can put on your screen
and then use it as a painting.
You don't need to hang your monitor
or your laptop on the wall.
The table is just fine
(for normal people).
It's nice to have someone looking at you
almost like a person.
Like this young woman who just won
a writing contest
or maybe she was second or third
or something.
I wish she was my future wife
so she would stare at me all day
with that mystical turquoise necklace
on her pale skin.
We could live together in a house
write together
listen to Ornette Coleman
and stare at each other
furiously
with our hands behind our backs
and sometimes with our hands on the side
with a manical look in our eyes
like we just won a writing contest
and some guy is taking a picture
of us in front of a large rock.
I wish she was my wife
so I wouldn't have to stare at
these same pictures the whole day.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2008 at 06:24
I'm Bored with My Life and Everyone Else's

I've been staring at this radiator for hours.
I don't think I've seen anything yet.
This is what the lack of coffee does
to innocent people
and the guilty just the same.
I've replaced my thoughts
with idiocy.
You taste like a Swedish actress
in my dreams
with mustard on you.
A cunning pig
makes a cunning ham.
I'm sorry
but it does.
That Bacon guy sure was wise
but who's to remember which one?
I will slice them all in half
with my credit card.
And my past future wife
who came fourth or fifth in a writing contest
wasn't so young after all.
I'm sure I wouldn't like what she wrote.
I need to buy more green plectrums
and write some hardcore songs
about Wittgenstein.
I've been staring at this radiator for hours.
It's white.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 07 2008 at 14:23
The Relativity of Semi-Imaginary Distances

I wish I was a pebble
on an empty beach
or a knob that sets the treble
of an amp that's out of reach

far in the horizon
in a distant land
or the length of a bison
from my leftmost hand

both of them are small and grey
the pebble and the knob
both of them are still, don't sway
but so far away I sob

if I could just get up
from this sofa that I'm on
then I could turn the treble up
and adopt the pebble as my son

I wish I knew the right way
to end this poem well
but I don't
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 09 2008 at 16:14
Four Points In Near-Completely Unrelated Hearts

Believed memory fiction, and screamed desire love
Deceived by subtle cadences
Summed up by subdued radians
Oh

Needed memory friction, and called the eagle dove
Bleeded by a sharpened, harsh-edged talon
Dressed up by a high-class, brain-drain salon
Oh

Redubbed chaos order, and called cerebrum heart
Grubby hands seek dissonance in all that they can hear, discern and listen to
Fatty acids leak assonance to view and cute and futile, too
Oh

Proclaimed chaos ORDER, and gored cerebrum HEART
Needy hands beg sympathy from open-minded super-Eyore dream
Bleeding lactose, receipts of grubby seers teem
Oh

And make it into just another plain-old monetary scheme

Oh well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2008 at 17:33
Catmock Blues

You know, I can never understand it... how you look so good
You know I'd like to keep you, if I ever could
But I'll always feed you, and sometimes you'll need me
But you get your love elsewhere, and that really frees me
To meet with another
On top of the covers
When you're not there.

You know, your incessant wanderings leave me behind
You keep on scrabbling my dictionary and scrambling my mind
But whenever I stroke you, I'll find out you broke me
And tore me to pieces, and that only stokes me
To go see another
Who's a kinder lover
When you're not there

You know I always come to see you, whenever I'm down
You know, you always pull a smile right out from my frown
But each time I thaw you, you go right ahead and claw me
And that makes me hurt, you know you always forced me
To go see another
Who's a temperate lover
And isn't a cat
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 17 2008 at 18:15
Hollow Ship (2 from 3)

And God removed the stars,
And nodded his head
And the mountain broke
And alone on a hollow ship
Lay the body, scarred, dead, soaked with blood,
Exposed to the elements

And angels blew their horns,
And cried out their praise
And the silence was ruptured
And tired from his hollow ship,
Came the body, torn, raised to upper sky
Greeted by a temptress
In the garb of a baby
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 30 2008 at 19:07
Stargazer

I

We built a bridge, proverbial though it is,
Between the planets
Inside the fridge, buried behind the fizz
Someone should have planned for it for us

Microbe, robust enough to withstand all our purges
Red resource, sore prize from so far afield
Mark upon the skin, but is it Mark within?
Something must have gone in for a feel... foray

Interlude

It may be slightly warm in here, but I can't feel it
If I could, fire'd roast my protein coat
And by rote, the frost would creep in through my armour
Which simply is not caring
I can't lurk, because I can't know
Where I go, or how I am faring...
I can't see my red. I don't know noone knows me yet.

II

We built a house, full of loving creatures
(Two especially so)
Upon the bed, with shapen features,
Somewhere must have a tear or show...a way in

Microbe, sows rust until it's bursting from her ears
It's only in the female that it realises fears
Clear as it's been's her skin, but Clare's turned red within
Something must have invaded to free her

Conclusion

Eventful as it seems, I still don't know what it is
If I did, perhaps I'd break my mould
And so fold, my cells would leave my battery
Which simply is being
If I knew the cost of sighted life,
I'd surely reject seeing

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I myself have no idea what the heck this is about.
Feel free to guess...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 02 2008 at 17:16
A Love Song

War is a peach
an old man
on the bench
his stick
casting a shadow
in the sand
unseen oceans
in your eyes

Grab me by the nostrils
I'm yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 03 2008 at 08:28
Science Friction

The most severe of all probers
live in my frivolous skull
building potential structures
over unknown landscapes

Consumption is nigh
vessels empty still
I take currents over iron
endurance over permanence

Dragged around in perfect style
I hope to be xeroxed for life


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