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Hermetic Hippo 1
Hermetic
HippoBy Deep Piercing Cut
All poems copyrighted 2010 Deep Piercing Cut
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Canceled Row of Fades
lies to kid themselves
covered brown stain
gods flat stick
a roll of rusty nickels
falling slower
all over the floor
you gonna crucify
pills hard to swallow
a double dose fit
bends over brushes
the electrodes smile
swelling up and rattling
hands nailed out
floating over the controls
a dial for each life
schematic drawings and equations
a dusty bottom teeter
counterpoint and nemesis
a hammer instead of a bomb
letting loose the wild animal
the carnival barker shouts
and chops away
at the meat on the table
hisses and spits
the devil is always hard to kill
seeing visions
of heaven and hell
smoke on the horizon
eyes aimed full bore
bouncing against the walls
even before departure
last saw month ago
in a bad way thenfar ahead of the crowd
standing out angry
burn the luminous
bunched in on self
losing the plot
out of control
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a concealed pain
something come loose
sliding around
killing me
a void of repetition
attacking with fervor
a web of habits
(published in Deep Tissue Magazine)
Your Grim Brothers
a three headed doll
stirring space with milking cows
in groups of four
brimming with broken down
selling you the milk
gone with the falling rain
shades, shoes, and suntan lotion
living the legend
too many book covers
the bleeder ink
and stains of injustice
played in my own
its for the suckers
exposed by your primitive behavior
living inside your life-force
giving four oclock tours
through black dawn window
no divine interventions
sunset plow
leave them in the fieldsthey can have each other
ignorance is still there
even if we cant see it
it finds behind the trees
we are lost and stone
lost again
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Hermetic Hippo 4
(published in Deep Tissue Magazine)
You Step Into the Void
your steps are electric
each step a blue brilliance
something of eternity
you are tempted by the worm
he knows the razor sunrise
when you pray with tainted lips
banging around in the dark
the blue stare of those lips
watching me move
grabbing and shaking me
calling out my name
the slight flicker
and the moment arrives
a white cloud of expression
stirring the desire
you retrieve loves sting
asking in a small voice
coaxing down the reed
gathering the respectful distance
unfolding, simply unfolding
swaying and blurring
onto the trolley
it rolls us along
and you whisper
something from a sacred text
liberating
(published in Deep Tissue Magazine)
All Over My Garden
The smile that illuminates
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My heart of darkness
Like the crack
In the pavement
The rust stain in the sink
A course brush
Against my skin
It is not soft and pliable
It is hard and unmoving
Standing out in the rain
While everyone laughs
Seeing the last breath
Escape into eternity
Shes a daylight naked ninja
Sipping on her scotch
Behind her pink shades
The thoughts of grandeur
Laugh about the abduction
Remember your lines
And things will go well
(published in Deep Tissue Magazine)
That Wonderful Little Dress
you party till midnight
a lifetime of hips
riding the bronco
you think you know me
with your calculator
and sun charts
but, there is a venom
you cant calculate
rumbled and predictedyour reason for summing my digits
making me more easy to consume
you uncork me
and pour me out onto your table
I pool in the spots carved by your steak knife
Josie loves
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Hermetic Hippo 6
etched into the oak
I know you through the war
of our crisscrossed lives
oblivion packaged in any other way
is too sweet for our senses
maybe it is too bleak
to ride up the wires promise
to find our way in the darkness
no matter how many times
we have gone here before
dont say no to me again
I want to hear you say yes
with your sexy southern drawl
that melts my resistance
it reminds me of tomorrows
(published in Deep Tissue Magazine)
Suffered All the Furies
muttering between teeth
her notes always flat
never sharp
nothing holds fast
eating me alive
tearing me apart
by rack and torture
roasting me little by little
suffered slings and arrows
in the name of duty and religion
crashing into the barriers
alive and teeming
streaming pugnacious
the magic talismantoo supple
the resistance has been beaten out of you
you know that all heroes will be shot
in the name of liberty
as the sun rises over the mountains
this rubble we call home
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where the ignorant rule
the brave worry about their numbers
their contracts
their publicity campaigns
shaking like the naked in the wind
afraid of their shadows
concocting schemes to defraud the public
marching over your red coat
as it lays in total disregard
climbing into a minimalist speech
the first line of hallway banter
lost to the forgotten question
that never left your lips
(published in Deep Tissue Magazine)
Puffy Atlas Kiss
Slim white wicked
Talons of steel
Sweeps the burning you
The abandoned numbness
Misty ritual
A starry-eyed promise
Doing and feeling
All at once
Avoid the cost
The dimness grows
Cobwebs gather
The stone seeks out
The moss
No puffed up probe
No wither
Slithered abodeReckon with the tongs
Brackish blued symbol
Nothing left to rattle
Ashen dream of muse
Assault the modern
Inhale the clattered stream
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The bolting abhorrer
Hasty imperfect yawn
Losing myself
One step at a time
In the dreams of Yahweh
Upright stolen reed
Fornicated snake
(posted on Blogspot)
Eight wooden throwing spears
Sitting on thoughts
That bends but never break
Sudden fresh pace
Typical and primal
Remain on the platform
Just a little longer
All this philosophy
Coming out of your ears
Like ringlets
Tossed into the foam
Discovered liar in you
Deeper unable up
Exit the shadowed form
The never loved you
Float the resistant boat
Into the changed whistle
The loyal bond
Of demented harbor
Must each same
Each round goblet
Humble modern dead
Cold and wetIncoming kick
Silent wasted chime
Crash against
Bleed the reason
The hallowed rent
Of unknown beaming
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A little more
And the day comes to a close
A long way down
Victim us all
(posted on Blogspot)
Domesticated horse
Very murdered path
By the time Im done
Make the steam
Hot the bath
Rub along the tub
Bare whirls out
A hopeful deliberation
Delirious
Yes, dipped and perfection
Total infused
Each day
A plan
A way of feeling
Around the rock of time
Smothered by the fast
No matter when
Or how
Wound the cloud
Drape this over
And listen
We are both
Here and now
Together
Run the hellish howlsAnd be free
Once more
(posted on Blogspot)
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Fire hardened points
Carved into the wise
Look up and see
The stars
They are gone
But, still we see
A heavy pathos
Without revolution
Every stacked exodus
Needs more
Fabled and flea
The ankles together
Dead away blown
The shore, the horizon
They blend into one
You see it all
Like in a vision
Butchered
Bones bare in the sun
Thread of song
Daily bleed
Aristotles lament
Distended heart
Nowhere to turn
Stopped my ears
From hearing the truth
Today, you made an enemy
(posted on Blogspot)
Fossil powered
A slow crawl over nightmare
Answers given
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Flung across the floor
Moving hands
Cold earth
High flying hands
My body stable, unlucky thin
Here with sunshine
Black wood
Full-time table
A legend of scale
Pushed away the number
Dialed the digits
Illegal protein analysis
Familiar plastic broom
Static drum wins
Happy white pool
Happy water
(posted on blogspot)
Atomic bomb
Fat six
Unwanted way
Demand the ugly
Flattened hoard
No thought for the soft
The tombstone foot
Rumble surplus in
Feeble city
Ground cylinder
Cry
Plus whiskey
Heal a floor
Jump up healthy
All alone
(posted on blogspot)
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Wetland
Scribbles on the last day
All points, sunny
Letter that are small
In through rooms out
Round lighted empty
Unofficial civilized freeze
Let loose the laughing and joking
One paper exposed
They all together
Darkness
The photosynthesis
Iced and lucky
Friendly second
Wise wizard
(posted on blogspot)
mule
She stored up a few
Ugly hold of appendage
Street light the same
The light troubled
Cry your darkened happy
Mouthed the blues
Folded the feeling
We sunk into free spirit
Wisdom road
The desert of sure
Empty of sweet dreams
(posted on blogspot)
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God-maker
Forget eternity, I curse
The dull, leaving shadow
Outside the skin
Celebration
The small tinkling whisper
Nitrogen last
Large rocks of years
The air of factories
Boxed resistors
Laughable underneath
Hot dog landings
Sweet fears
Of the god-maker
Troubled
Love
(posted on blogspot)
Blessed
Large disbelief with lies
No thinking minds, she wrote
Half as ear, as spirit
Released the mighty to primal embrace
We walk the universe
On Judas thorns
Awake are the objects, of no significance
Rock and scissors
Forget everything
They run in fear
Dropping their weapons
Covered up darknessJust in time
Unreasonable division
Will never free
The proud
(posted on blogspot)
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Endless
Pulls off the door
On her ass
Filled full of animal
For all time
She frowns loosely
In front of everyone
Tits flopping
To the smooth and polished
Face front
Peering into the generous
Closed eyelids over opened light
Second hand store clean
Pries open the mouth
Mrs. Robinson journeys on
No bodys devil
Of ludicrous-
Old woman sculptured
Herself
As everyones
Developed demon
(posted on blogspot)
Fenris in the garden
Today, I intuitive moreThan the bleeding lot
Unholy prayers
Resisted loss
Of health
I throw away time
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With the tapping toe
Over dried cells of remembrance
No measured good grace
With tingles
In my upper thigh
It is easy to be small
Unknown to the adobes
Or the love of freed song
No one wants to lay in the sun
And throw away this life
Of toil and hardship
For the phantasmal
What animal pulls me away?
From the all
That is you
Will they forget
The flagons king?
in large boned animal
kill the mist
will digest you
when words no longer
(posted on blogspot)
finite and moving
thick bargain
out of mind, with no purposestraighten her good deeds
hard behind
lagging
misfortunate skin welding
in golden burned
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to death, to sunshine, to paper
smart to heart
and loud chest
with removed evenings
a song and no home
nervously strikes the match
splattered darkly crawl
we cannot count the steps
as you run from the brutish
the words of many
enliven the mighty
only a touch of false
the ground, her anger, her country
how noisy is the crowd
held fast to one place
the doctor dreams
a story on a piece of scrap
light and bitter pay
a mortal fool
a sons birth
(posted on blogspot)
Tangled Web
tasting the feedback
from the back row
random messages
from outer space
a picture of repetitionthe wires need reconnection
as the electricity scans the horizon
there is more to your theory
than is contained in capacitors and transistors
for some, we pull the plastic away
others, we burn with fire
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their eyes are inductive
gathering data
analyzing and making inferences
all essences dissolve
into a jumble of categories
what to leave in and what to leave out
they are cross all borders
removing barriers
their curiosities flow
out in digital transmits
flattened by throttled leviathans
the bleak gather at the diode
stroking their hard nipples
removing the cultish hysteria
WOUNDED, THEY STILL CARRY US
OPENING TO WINTERS SNOW
(posted on blogspot)
Infinity
The hungry hate
Never ever sleeps
Around the gates of nevermore
As the past comes around
And grabs you
Throws you down
Onto the floor
With the mornings trash
Staring through alien eyes
That you bought on the corner market
From the guy with the little twitch
Hes working on a stitch in timeThe race between the angel and devil
A sack of virtue in your hand
It spills out and leaves you
Try to close the door
And keep it all in
Safe and sound
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My very special one
Loves to sleep the day away
Just like in the movies
Cocktails and cigarettes
I wish you would stay
If you want
I know I never said it before
But, Im saying it now
Spend the night, once more
Before they close the door
And chase all the cockroaches away
To their homes and children
Bragging about their day
Braving the cold winter
Pushing and shoving
Breaking the seal
Letting all the demons out
Upstairs in a lonely room
With only a space heater
Keeping the blues away
With a bottle of Kesslers
Listening to infinitys call
(posted on blogspot)
How Much?
And then, it surfaces
The darkness
I try to keep it out
It pries it way through
The space under the door
And I seeLike never before
The Formica of your touch
Cold and dull
Mechanical and unfeeling
As if you are going through the motions
Following the orders
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Of your master
You are something
Made for nightmares
The time we spend
Means nothing to you
Everything to me
And I know
In the end
There is nothing
There is always a dollar
To be made
Any way you can
Just speak it into existence
The first car
Down your dusty road
That leads you back
To me
Easier to wallow
In the confusion
We both lie
We both hurt
We both walk away
From each other
A those practiced lines
I found written in your notebook
You pretended to be cold
Your distance was a disguise
And now
I know
You will never say
How much you love me
(posted on blogspot)
Going Down to the river with my bucket
One more silver dollar
Burning a hole in my pocket
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Entering through closed fire
Playing with remembrance
Running with my wishes
Out your back door
In the hot morning sun
Bringing me happiness
The wrong and the hundred ways
Not just making
But, taking away
Rolling brown and blessed
Crispy like tumbleweed
Down, down un luck
Looks good going down
Watch it all burn down
Doing me wrong
Wild candy dances
She has wisdom in her eyes
Doing me right
True to another
True to the cut
Shooting dice
And building homes
Before the cow comes
Your up and down melody
we arent through
just beginning
just used to the coaster
meeting all the beauties
riding with the Russians
(posted on blogspot)
Depicting the landscape as it once was
Of the disposed
The fears of existence
Her inner thing
Nothing better
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Nothing worse
A treat of ordinary brutality
Tremors desired
Champagne atrocities
She gives without asking
On the edge of chaos
Using a dazzling array
So deeply fundamental
Demands that big pills
work better than small
especially when chased down
with half a bottle of vodka
deep connections
between cause and effect
discriminating between art and effect
purposeful frenzies
(posted on blogspot)
it is almost invisible in your mind
the effect dizzying
secrets in my hand
laughing all the way
like twisted gnomes
waiting for it to blow over
hollowing out the base
nibbling at the bait
every bloody thingbelching fire and pestilence
with cloven hoofs
no world of my own
drifting from day to day
vivid before my eyes
after the rain
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it pours into my soul
blackest rain
rubbing seldom with the world
they live inside me
never taken the course
submerged lives
raised to the 10th degree
tenaciously lodged with
a strange unfamiliar world
(posted on blogspot)
thoughts crawling out of a dark corner
above life and death
flowing on like time
tugging away at me
admitting my delusions
led by its independence
grasping for death
biting like Satan
down into the ooze
through your heavens and hells
slay me with a walking dream
on the other side
the planets revolution
detached through sorrow
through outstretched palms
knowing too precisely
haunted by the object
striking me now
the grain of ugliness
vibrations emanatinga monstrous edifice
(posted on blogspot)
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balancing at the edge of humanity
tottering and swaying
the human integer
living on like a rock
no interest in the slaughter
all is destroyed
all is perishable
like heaven and earth
constantly crumbling
belonging to the earth
being without shadow
with a hardened heart
worshiping different gods
beyond the normal limits
a bankruptcy of despair
the smell of love
insatiable as the belly
the wind standing up
crying with lungs of freedom
struggling in a tomb
in a den of vipers
it was all chaos
shreds of the periphery
of null and void
(posted on blogspot)
the holes get bigger as you try to fill them
twisted by fate
looking horrendous
living in the now
secure in the turbulencetaking in the drama
longing for the cataclysm
absolutely divested
wanting to stone the light
the deep well of the womb
between the two of us
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decomposed of light
heartless as a molecule
washing it off
absolutely sunk
absolute silence
how hard it is to accept
to just barely discern
you had opened up a tomb
removing memories from the past
and I wanted to strangle you
(posted on blogspot)
somehow you dont belong to those throwing the rocks
it can be seen
in the corners of your mouth
in the tip of your tongue
an imprint of DNA
from someplace else
you try to ignore it
afraid to bring it out
preferring to hide in the light of day
another Jesus Christ
blind to everything
if only to change skins
peel it off
tissue by tissue
the cells hang from a peg
all the sorrowful aspects
despite the black
beyond the ordained limits
just as innocent as everthe sex and death chant
high priestess of the cult
against the holy ghost
fucking the crazy woman
she wants to save my soul
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(posted on blogspot)
crushes between two rocks
each kiss
is another goodbye
as you walk through green cracks
magnified underneath tomorrow
a soul breaks folded
you triggered and rage
as unique as dumped beat
feeling the sway
of drug addicts and dreamers
pretending to be Papillon
and found dignity waned
they have their reason
for their sense of peace
the point of one
is always on favored lips
torn from dignitys large
you search within your own hemisphere
as strong as unleash
you exhale the terms of unlearning
sucking on this secret pain
trapped under raspy reason
a super hero of grace
mattered with love
buried in the bullet shed
the sly movement of whiskey
is your only friend
(posted on blogspot)
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Alone Pulled Upwards and tied with a rope
Heaven is a disease of circles
A force of pocket charms
Plywood palms push on
Your steps fall asleep
Frozen close behind
Fixed before the cold
Dazed with smiles
A haunting smile
Hanging, pinned and twisted
Power is ticking in slow motion
Counting the tocks
Putting them in order
The coffin is chirping and sullen
Burn the shit down
Safe within your failure
You keep all of the clippings
Fiddling with muddied say
These bones interpret
What you cannot say
You have to rub them the right way
She holds up the camera
And snaps a picture
As she sits atop the rocking horse
Eating pop rocks
Under the space needle
Yesterday was bag simple
Flushing a pound of Mary
No one expects you to survive
Especially me
(posted on blogspot)
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Automatic personification in this age of despair
The way you said futility
Taking the edge off appetite
Sitting in the gloom
In space like the stars
To fall through
Warm human delirium
With no roof above
The writing on the wall
Thoughts enter from unknown places
Strange places that birth evil
Rendering the soul
With a shattered calm
Before the flood of travail
The dream of cavemen
The illusion of force
Both perfect and repulsive
Intended to dazzle
A splendiferous impersonation
The chink of percolating dome
Its all vagrant hemispheres
Motionless and unmotivated
Eaten away by jackknife show
Life is merchandise
(posted on blogspot)
Demented Poignancy bought at the store
A part of life
Like the wandering blind manEverybody and everything
Al have been added together
Lousy, rancid, and rotten
Like the bad next
Chew for the sake of impossible
No reason to close the door
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Its just me and cat
Both a part of this world
In it and of it
I must run away
Start a new life
Working for body and soul
There is no hope
No solution
Both are ugly and senseless
We all have become absurd
Everything is lost
This is serious business
Waiting for the resurrection
(posted on blogspot)
Whispering to your bridge, but it never listens
Without sin and evil
Turning the sausage machine
Working like cold cash
Being what it is
It was war
Putting the fear of god into you
Undone and twisted
Moving like an octopus
Tied into the knot
The magneto world
Dropping to the bottom
Blue with a slow drizzle
The empty soul rising
Like naked reality
With big oxygen eyes
The barren mechanical pullPerfectly meaningless
Into the minus sign
Through the bright glitter
The last moment of time
Crossing over
And making you pay
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(posted on blogspot)
On the edge of madness: letting your feet dangle
Impersonal wingless touch
Short waves inside
In the frozen dew
A splinter of quick
In the follow of flesh
Along the line of lost
Rejoined by the curve
A broken voyage
Buffer and corpuscle
A random shot of absolute
Brewing the revolution
Sharp edged axes
Make no answer
Turn many a corner
Feeling like a stranger
A life moves toward
Wrapped in abstraction
In the hands of discover
Frogs on her feet
Walking to an execution
So dysfunctional
The terror of the front door
Turn around and face the fireplace
Sleep tonight in your freedom
(posted on blogspot)
Nubile
SHE PULLS THE SCAPEL FROM HER BAG
HOLDS THE INSTRUMENT UP TO THE LIGHT
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THIS IS HOW WE REVEAL THE CLUES
PAGES THROWN INTO THE FIRE
THE SMOKE RISES UP
SPEAKING TO BECKY
Opulent as a feather
Dim drizzle on fervent sill
Transferring assets
She climbs up on the banister
Oozing out the side
She always eats the marshmallows
Im flipping burgers at a truck stop
Watching the freaks come off the highway
Everyone wants coffee
And bacon and eggs
Catalogued deviations
Block of Berlin
In the frame
The dress falls to her ankles
Kicking off her she
I move closer for evaluation
Counting all the piercings
No more heroes
She touches me with her tongue
Browsing my gallery
Touching all the reds
Her fingers a mess
Getting thicker
As she hides her smile
The terms she used
Giving you the message
A big S and a little M
I always paint you
With your clothes on
That thing you do with your pearls
It is nubile
(posted on blogspot)
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Behind the lens
You got your groove back
Playing with your red glasses
In front of the camera
You can see angels
They flutter around you
Puckering their lips
Sunglasses and army fatigues
A drink in each hand
Straight from the fantasy factory
Looking for a movie star
Someone to burry
Coming to Maryland
You want to hang
You said you were packing your bags
Wanted me to send money For the bus
You always were the girl that got away
All about the love of music
I am reborn in your kiss
Paradise is always lost
Hidden in the nettles
Wanting to kick it
Forget to breathe
Running away
Wanting to escape
To be free from it all
Drawing cat whiskers
And little girl freckles
Your friend with her pink hair
Riding the multicolored horse
Hiding the puffiness
Trying to make the words
Come out correctly
(posted on blogspot)
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The teeth marks of absurd reality
Bend them up
And wonder
About the trim of things
My good friend
Soar into wonder
A SURPRISING MERIMENT
ROLLED AWAY AND GROWLED
MISSED THE TWIN CASTANETS
STAPLE UP THE ADORATION
CRUSH THE SERPENT
LEARN TO ENTWINE
THERE ARE NO GOOD REASONS
ONLY REASONS
PICK ONE
ONLY ONE
AND RUN WIT IT
THE TRUMPET AND COLOR
THEY FIGHT OVER YOU
Immortal as the land
Among the fissures
Roll on
Too soon
And wonder some more
(posted on blogspot)
Mollys favorite piece of shit
Succeed by face and tongue
In these hostile timesA lifting wind
Sexual as a corkscrew
All human events
Not the first time
Sardines for the poor
In a different light
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Climb up your tree
And grow
Walk into footprints
On the somber path
Choose your moment well
Be sure to take pictures
Being ripped apart
By savage words
Of struggling poets
Mine is bigger than yours
See how many comments
There is not enough room
To hold the kudos
All the memory is used up
Someday, they will erect monuments
Of tinfoil
And bubblegum
To mark the grave
Where the great poet lays
He was mollys favorite
(posted on blogspot)
Chasing down your demons
Excellent rumors
I have never seen
That color
A blue from a dream
It was gray and mystical
I stared at her lips
For an eternityOh shit!
Shes not breathing!
Thats the color of death
On her perfect lips
What have we done?
It was too perfect
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To be like this
To be in hell
As I attempt cpr
Pushing on your chest
A lifeless doll
No resistance
To my touch
Deleted from the list
Of life
(posted on blogspot)
Buried in my grave
Wondering how to behave
Sit in the flickering light
Knocking me down
Burning ledge of crazy
Long grave faces
Some outside force
Peering into my heart
Dashing out intense
Turn me around
Blood running down
Fell on the moan
Sneaked out lifting
There in the front door
Like a pack of wolves
The same thing against
Ugly looking brandished
Fell all over
Getting out of the placeStanding in the iron trenches
Beaten gobbling goat
Taking the steam out
An exchange of how
Tough and invincible
Run away and picked
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(posted on blogspot)
A star in the corner of your eye
Against the fence
The transmigration of souls
And methods of torture
The fine bite of cannibalism
Full of wonder
A frontier of unknown
A life of daily bread
The loaves and the fishes
Bribed and transuded
Eliminate the beauty of the past
Relentless is this swift remorse
I want to outstrip repentance
A curse to the earth
Touch with outstretched arms
Alien and hostile
In a flash
Faster and faster
Much more than mere nakedness
More like peeled
More than alert
My own proper destiny
With wide opened eyes
(posted on blogspot)
Never again
Could I see the world
Through rare attached eyes
Pushed along the road
Stood in full plentitude
Utterly alone and alive
Shaking like a viper
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More nearly animal
Luscious deceptive reason
Nothing left of me
I am gone
My name is lost
Seated as a dreamer
Doomed to perish
Weeping with deceit
Falling apart from need
The unreal behind me
Christ only knows
The street is its own reward
Frozen bottoms begin to slide
Right into me
Back in the night
On the verge of discovery
Cruel swiftness born of tenacity
Promising the moon
Always promising
(posted on blogspot)
Hammer and tongs
Raised from the grave
Dead as a moon crater
Dropped like a hinge
Chopping the world to bits
Never plagued by the gnashing
Beyond the limits of hope
In the black hole of nothingness
Make those empty devils
Coming out the wrong wayConvinced that something was hidden within
No respect for the maimed
An object to be cursed and kicked
With rolled up sleeves and deliverance
Washed clean and immaculate
Cursed of many evil ways
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Purged through the eyes
Those evil eyes
They see more than the lips can tell
Alive and empty
Alive in the flesh
More and more alive
The voice of a flood
All dead into chaos
The mouth of the world
(posted on blogspot)
More than enough
The tower of Babel
By an invisible cord
Through the heart
Of the world
Never in the shape
Of empty and alive
Thrown overboard
Turning with it
Everyone headed
to their own
destination
like a couple of snakes
the stone-faced gambit
the teeth of the oyster
they chew for eternity
fixed in the stardust
a jigsaw puzzle
most alert and canny
a steely awareness
turned loose upon the worldanother hungry wolf
(posted on blogspot)
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she was a cannonball
ridden by the nightmare
her bronze head
round withered sweeps
a hater of tombs
and dreamer of dreams
no matter how horrific
children she gathered
in the darkness
the deepest black
all sleek with wildness
most foulest decline
not for the faint graspers
caught in the fools throat
walking naked
she whispered the need
a notorious ceremony
made the devil laugh
with her lashes
and carving
the wood and black
wax from the belly fat
all that she owned
crazed dancing vision
looked death in the face
and snickered
(posted on blogspot)
Wandering blade
Of the darkness
Century tatteredScorn the crime
Of five hundred years
Unfinished toil
Before the face
Disfigured shape
Battering blind
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Suffer the kindred
Cast out
Cast out
Tilling the curves
Those lovely curves
A single eye of bewitch
Oh that eye
That held me to the stone
Nailed the boards
A mound of solitude
A jewel of adoration
Dance on the wave
Dance you jezebel
Disowned satisfaction
Of white shirts
And tobacco stained fingers
Playing the piano
Burned by flame
Burned as a druid
As the world turns
Turning on evil axis
Stepping out
Naked as does
Naked as midnight
(posted on blogspot)
Unroll the world
It goes on forever
Like a hallway to heaven
Lying in the cabbage patch
Legs spread wide open
As the sea is deepTrapped in a shallow line
Flay the living hide
Down on the alter
Taking on the holy ghost
And all comers
Both holy and profane
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Digging for the other side
Praying for the spark
That ignites the groove
Cal you feel me?
I am alive
I am brave enough
To be me
To be free
Sitting on my lap
With the consciousness of Buddha
Not disturbed by the twilight
The growing darkness
A emptiness that swallows it all
The honeymoon of flesh
Her feet no touching the ground
Sometimes in the twinkling
A corpse piled up
One after another
Over and over again
Choose not to look away
Embrace the circle
The hole and the dirt
Both are love and peace
Pry it open
Make a path
Build your fire on the hilltop
Cry for the birth
Rage for the dying stars
The light that was never born
Nothing left but stench
The world falling apart
On the shadow of memory
We all hang from the wire
Demanding resolution
But, the hangman never comesNever brings the hope
A reaper and binder
The flush of dawn
And the zeal of industry
There is no more
Nothing left to burn
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Where are my matches?
(posted on blogspot)
Dropping Shooting Stars
They leave you seared
A smolder of pure joy
The best of all
Gored and dethroned
We shall shed jubilant
Dragging us down again
Dead to the world
Love is no more
You have forgotten how
Waiting for the light to go out
Adrift somewhere in the night sky
We call this death
A bitter taste
Immortalized and burning
The dead planet still spins
Its heart still set on pretending
A revolving wasteland
We call this home
Its all we know
All we cherish
The little god on our altars
She speaks of another life
A museum of what has been
Dancing with the skeleton
He speaks the words
You want to hear
Utter and immediate
The terrain of meaningA crowded ghostly recollection
Naked and standing
On the precipice of history
They steal the body
And prostitute the mind
(posted on blogspot)
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No trace of blood
Drifting by the window
Nothing to fear
Bursting and mangled
Eaten by the flames
Surety is in the air
Above and triumphant
Being the last
Emerge and roar
To myself
Destruction
Tidy up the mess
The burden of self
Blind tenacity
Nourished by death
Take the devil
Take his horny hand
The same destiny
Gunned down in the street
No memory
No regret
Only bloody hands
An unthinkable void
Lost in obscurity
All a sack of bones
(posted on blogspot)
seduction
Sometimes,
I forget the reasons
For the whys
Between blushes of spread
The turning freedom taunts
No longer caught
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In this obsession with darkness
Now there is focus to your fire
A certain voltage within
Haunted by demons from within
Picks at flamboyant soothing
The curls of warning
Deeper with heavens questions
My sugar
My sweet
Knee deep in bloody valentines
With trepidation
an invisible wish
To see and feel the real
Spending more fear
Not knowing anything
You want to cry
To pull out your hair
You claw at your face
Desiring to be ugly
If only you could match this feeling
This dread
This alien structure
That sucks the blood from your veins
Snaps your bones
Makes you howl
At the moon
The you could shed
This coil
This existence
(posted on blogspot)
The sacrifice of knuckles
Golden tongues
Rampant dogs
They all must die
Throw them like the strain
Cover them with whispers
Their souls are old ghosts
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Open the treasure
Smell the aroma
Call up the ashes
Blood knife cuts
The chanting stink
Of bones
Old bones
New bones
They all gather moss
Giving more
Of themselves
As your anger rages on
Against torture
Against injustice
Worry the worn
On this diadem
You fell for love
And progress
Always the caretaker
Two queer words
Chopped up in little pieces
Brothers of anger
Standing knee deep
In willfulness
All naughty boys
Under their feet
A death machine march
Gone away
With a thousand tongues
Living on dimes and nickels
The secret lives of knowing
They crawl out of words
Stand upon the metaphor
Watch the ink dry
Like the blood of dreamsSo slowly
Yes, I know
They cant be true
But, I think they are
Lost spells
(posted on blogspot)
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Fluting on crooked legs
A bright damp future
Wet tongue of tornado
Stucco splattered wind
A birth of never
Rippled finger touch
Riverbed kisses
Die surrounded by doom
Shes popping balloons
And speaking to the ghosts
Touching their core
When I touched your lips,
I was changed forever
It pulled itself right out of my mouth
Spread its wings and flew out the window
Feeding on your desperation
Making your big things small
Making everything small
A turn on the wheel
Carried off by something mighty
(posted on blogspot)
It changed the whole
I.
I looked up
The first gulp
Stopped by the moment
Walking into the glimpsePage after page of realization
You have been living with a lie
A stone around your neck
Dragging you down
Your legs are the roots of trees
Planted in the soil of terror
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A soul that you never had the taste for
Words are meaningless to the axe
Let us talk about your crazy eyes
Too long in the branches
Close to the boundary
The most enchanting
II.
The human spore
Of value
Of dignity
Of light
The cold fabric of life
A dirty mouth
Choking and hissing tongue
Marked by the loss
A forlorn island
Accepting the eviction
The odious sense of sacrifice
Screwed in another direction
Trampled upon
A great big hole
We fall into
And are reduced to ashes
The soil of complete
Layer upon layer
Saluted relics
To have being
Standing in a trance
A strange moving substance
The old dream
III.
Vague at the edges
A peculiar metamorphosisCrumbling on my hands
Dying comfortably
Deserted them
Through the rites
An absolute stranger
Moving on to new battles
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As the world moves
Slightly bent at an angle
That lets only a fraction in
Chewed alive and digested
As flesh and blood
Reshaped by the spirit
Penetrated through, endowed
Everything out of place
The deeper I burrow into the evolution
Like a pushed worm
A warm human pressure
Like a tornado
With big blue eyes
IV.
I am desolate
Most horrible anguish
Like a maniac
Through a hole
Incredible and monstrous
It seems so natural
To be howling inside
The wolf within
Chewing on the carcass
It totters and careens
I am in the dream once again
Pleasurable and maddening
Muttering to myself
Now till doomsday
Mangled and torn apart
Kill them all
The stars shine
And everybody suffers
Twisted and formed by human hands
We wander forlorn and desperateSeeking the body
Drifting with the current
Born out of a wound
A ghost in their midst
In the void
(posted on blogspot)
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The Yield of darkness
In the tomb
I see her
Better than the world
Better than god
The bone of my flesh
The terrible look
A trapped animal
Trapped in the walls of anguish
Deeper into the night
The carnal hose of the soul
Shaking itself free
Of the bonds of dharma
We lived in black dreams
Made of stitches we could not find
Sucking us in
Making everything an underworld
With fists of laughter
Revolving around phantom satellites
As the beast looks into us
Doubled barreled
In barbed plumes
An insatiable itch
Cool as chaos
(posted on blogspot)
I spoke the lines
Spinning forwardToward an ultimate end
Raining down perpetual
The twirling frantic
A crawling torment
The mind becomes a fine point
Every pore is spittle and foam
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This transformation pounces immediately
The heart and liver
Twinkling eye
The wheel of lust
The cavernous whirl
Lulled to sleep by the century
Quenched with blood
To burry In with teeth
The doom
Nothing outside the wall
Let no one in
Not now, not ever
Gnostic decimals
For another
Somebody elses velvety deception
(posted on blogspot)
Transparently Alive
Breathing in the memory
The first tangible substance
Our outer world
Building membrane
Morbid desires
The stars extinguished
Simple and obnoxious
Toward a nebula
Half to Satan
Old and patched
Sleeping with the serpent
Not dreaming
Not coiled to the automatic
Magnetic eyesThey see you
Move about naked
The abnormal span of your wings
Eager to overcome it
Disappear forever
Abandoning
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Deserted and betrayed
A black hatred
Flowers thrown into the wind
So full of flame
And the spice of incredible
(posted on blogspot)
Jumping out of my skin
Standing in the void
Blue with fright
Possessed of the devil
Out over our heads
The whole bloody mess
By sweat and struggle
Getting back into the box
Part of the flux
The Old Stone Age
A head and a hand
Deep in the mud
Inflame the world
A mass of jelly
Sudden darkness
Moving amidst the sleep
In the world of chromos
An indestructible world
A blind urge to defeat
Until the bell rang
In another incarnation
A heartless son of a bitch
Light, peppery, enchanting
Trying to be free of me
(posted on blogspot)
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Peaches and Gunpowder
Travel across forgotten lines
As the monster digs in its claws
Wonderful in spite of everything
A hurried stiletto
Into your ear
The blood laughs despite itself
And you still miss the tears of the dead
The crossing of a border
To refuse a guest
A morbid element of opening
They all open wide
And you, a dying ember
Before all living witness
Struggle over it all
Eviscerated to the bone
Break it open and suck out the marrow
Exposed as a pile of worms
Locked inside without a key
There never is a key
We never find it
I wonder if it ever really existed
When I was a small boy,
I heard stories of its existence
They are nightmares now
This is not a home
It is a dungeon
I cannot leave
My chains are self-made
I love them more than life itself
I only look outside my window
I watch life and it watches meNo other bond to measure against
Asking about the bruises
They always ask in a quite voice
And their eyes cast down
The ground pigments of life
Like some haggard saint
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Some smoothing and trimming of the edges
Fading from twilight to night
No more bright eyes for enthusiasm
Not a mystery, but a romance
(posted on blogspot)
Where the Wishes Come From
An excuse for locution
It does not come for free
A desperate price to be paid
Yes, there is always a price
The wages of loss
Too blind to see the truth
As it stood before me
With arms open wide
Wild eyes and beating gums
Flat and dull words
They still cut through
Linked by common threads
Spun by a demented devil
You call him republic
Death by an amateurs hand
Is still death
With bullet holes and bombs
The flesh falling off the bone
Bound to the oath of exile
Disguised in dappled light
Like a tiger searching for love
With the corners knocked off
All spit and polish
Melting down the corruptness
Into a smoldering liquid
A frantic bellowing maniacAs silent as appropriate
The ticking clock sends chills
Down your spine of resolve
As I bury your dreams of revolution
In the back yard with the dead body
It rots like bees
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It sits on the fence post
Thinking up lies
To tell the neighbors
How their house burned down
While I laughed and snorted
My last line of cocaine
I watched all burn down
In a smoky haze of finality
The firemen scurry with their hoses
Between their legs
The big one carries an axe
He looks defeated
As he watches the fire
It consumes a lifetime
In through the gaps
The fire flickers
Hungry for the lies of fortune
I am sad for my loss
The white powder was my only friend
And now I snorted it all up my nose
Such is the way of evil bastards
(posted on blogspot)
A Renaissance Angel
Your serene ignorance
Of a certain beauty
Is like the hate of a dog
A barking dog who recruits
Followers to a crusty band
Hearts beating wildly
They write your boneheaded wisdom in books
They move their lips a s they readIgnorant to your perpetrations
Blue lips
Words after words
A drug infused rant
Of idiocy
Never finding the meaning
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It escapes you
Dogged persistence of meaningless
Golden curls of tobacco
As you stand against the wall
Your back to the crowd
You cant face your accusers
A gracias move toward the door
The filtering of light
To the point of madness
It is your madness
And you want to share it
She was mute
With the fierce look of the devil
Melting down to the core
Two dimensional questions
A careful distortion
(posted on blogspot)
A Loan of Terror
Lend me your terror,
a refuge you could not share.
You are strangled by
the feeling. A new
form of ugliness, paired with
monster. Your master
illusion calling
your name. With a mask, I speak
the truth for those who
do not listen. To
care so much is a weakness.
Happy ending come.
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(posted on blogspot)
Ascending to Heaven on an Eagle
I shall not be too forward
Advancing tales spun in moonlight
Fabulous secrets of nature
Avoiding all absurdities
Like Jack avoids the doctor
We consider the quality
Wares that the salesman brings
Fanfares and banners held on poles
While the children dance
Soldiers for the war
Breathe new life into your madness
Wave to the dregs as they pass
Spare not their rank or abilities
Heathens and idolaters have spoken
Experience teaching us new lessons
Who trouble not themselves
Occasion to observe
Ignorance by the cruelty
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Most vile and atonable creature
Exceeds our efforts and wholly depends
With thunder and lightning
Where comes the power
Done by wicked and diabolical
Souls desirous of communion
Dispose their good Angels
Aim only for the practice
To pretend and to honor
By heaps of stones and statues
Assemblies of the people
Instruction of the truth
(posted on blogspot)
Bedraggled
Barely worth the attention
Not a potent force
Everyone means the rest
Dimensions of expected scorn
Why a subject to take
Slight show with cleavage
To care is like trying
Driven by the dictates
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An easier sell with luxury
Held by same principles
Inherent in a how
Will work for beer
(posted on blogspot)
Black Swan
Overbearing memories
Laid vertically across
Onslaught of thoughts
Reserved for the habitual
Magnifying effect on the masses
Putting yourself on the line
Smashed by absurdity
Emotional intimacy undercutting
Characters on the periphery
Modal monsters flirting with destiny
Nothingness permeates the whisper
Bitter regret channeling despair
Inside and all-around
Hawkish sentiments, inverted claim
Wildly disparate views
Happenstance informed by reason
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You took my words and twisted
Into something beautiful
Carried away with subversion
Painful duty passionately pursued
Met with exaggerated hope
Experience that left you wanting
Desiring unpredictable change
Something to spark the imagination
Coming to terms with reality
Recognizing the material influence
Empty formality wooed by chance
Noble-hearted inspired by difficulty
Last sacrifice made for love
Careful to preserve that which is hidden
Deliberately enticing to act
A few expressive words
Woven into the fabric
Found by those looking
Felt even by the unwise
(posted on blogspot)
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Crux
Her sexy dimension announced her presence
I smell her pleasing essence
The beast grows, wakes from slumber
Throbbing against the fabric
A physical reaction to her smell
I hope my honesty is not offensive
It leads the way along the path
(posted on blogspot)
Dear Prudence
Cursed are the compassionate
Revealing their weakness
Tears behind contempt
Everything is the opposite
Has long been the source
Holy flame of spontaneity
Dumb frittered indulgences
Time froze by power
A glimpse behind the curtain
Oddly Spectral avatar
Mixture of enthusiasm and despair
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Prostituted prophet of discontent
(posted on blogspot)
Desdemona
Penelope the faithful wife
Untangling the web she weaves
Looking out the window
Blueberries on the hill
Striving ambition on display
Innocent artifact of a ferocious will
Silkworms working their magic
She sought a way out
Terror of the trapped
Options calculated with a cool mind
Miserable life that would be theirs
Crystal ball did not foreshadow
Thankless wretch behind pulled curtains
Her smile suggesting satisfaction
Evil deeds sent forth for working
Be a good friend and spit on her for me
(posted on blogspot)
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Epic Demise
Rome is burning
And so is my soul
Lost dreams and forgotten secrets
Sneak up from behind
I scratch my head
Trying for the right answer
None actually exists
A repeated torture
Since childhood
Fondles my thoughts
Flowing stream
Social consciousness
Everything is unreal
My favorite lies
Lay on the table
Euphemisms for a disguise
No one can find me
Among the herd
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Waiting to be slaughtered
The wolf is tired
Of the fighting
Sad hearted and forlorn soul
(posted on blogspot)
Fallen
With sad and grey face
We walk along Abandinus
Holding each others hand
Listening to the rivers song
Repeating prophetic words
Brilliance that captures the eye
The morning light shows the way
Holding close to the heart
Lucifers pride that swells
Rising up from unknown parts
Mornings child stretches his wings
Wiping sleep from newborn eyes
Pulling back the dark covers
Appropriates a wishful smile
Remembering the earths embrace
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Past glories cold and shaded
Tiny flickers in a sea of light
No longer noticed by oath and blood
Forlorn fingers grasp the scepter
Masterful power gone astray
(posted on blogspot)
Hesternal
A passion that has no equal
Neither constrained nor inhibited
The hidden shall be proclaimed
Taken to its full measure
Desires demise ends ignorance
Released from the fetter of oblivion
Incorruptible and unwavering sight
Focused on the intangible
No one to create boundaries
The image of the invisible
The endurable spirit rejoiced
Over the light that came forward
Honored with a mighty voice
Born from the eons
Pursued down into chaos
With the face of a beast
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Thrown into a life of toil
Blood cries up to heaven
Answered by the angel of discernment
A shadow that became matter
(posted on blogspot)
Immodest Proposal
Shamefaced oscillation, backed against the wall
Internal segmentation, filtered through the shadows
Cascading billets housing the troops
Steps dissipating from the hillside
A garden of flowers breaks through the mundane
Dramatically degenerating the disempowered
Speak to me with loyal passion
About your days in the west
How vigor sprung like firecrackers
On the porch swing, her parents watching
Looking for disapproval
Lingering ghosts of the past
Changing conceptions, profitless attempts
Disputed and contested as they were
Without the confidence and sense
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Antiquated and worn out
Many times spun with illusion
Resurfacing between influence and greater
Morphing from tart to most admired
Mythical past crafted into legend
(posted on blogspot)
Jealous Punk
Empty your heart of its mortal dream
To be like the gods in all glory
Infinite power and blessed grace
Rise above the mundane
Embrace the sacred and holy
Your image illuminating my mind
The slumber of darkness waits
Standing alone as in the beginning
Bringing the flame of divinity
Becoming like God, closing the gap
Removing all weakness from the flock
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Darkly placed upon my eyelids
Poor, tired, wandering fool
Sold for a fleeting chance
My words sent forth
To reap what they have sown
Gather up the fruits of time
Mighty walls stand before me
Raised up by my free will
Testaments to my stubbornness
Victims to my crimes
Like fallen tombstone left to decay
Forgotten souls of the living
Recognize the devils that surround you
Remember how they tormented
Betrayed by your recollection
Justified by self-righteous fever
Your mind a lethal weapon
Its all about survival and space
Sending it all back around
A soulless, jealous punk
Rules made to be broken
An all together different game
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Me up on the highway
Sure Im out there
Standing there like Satan
The biggest dog on the street
Hiding in the bottomless pit
(posted on blogspot)
Los Muertos
The corruption of the weak
Food for the idols
Death of the voiceless
Children of the broken man
Raised up from the ashes
Tears no longer shed
Clenched fists rising higher
Angry cries of the masses
Defined by complications
Distorted faces in the windows
Watching the death parade
Those who catch the babbles
Sweet release and escape
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(posted on blogspot)
Making the Most of a Fleeting Moment
A quick glance that vanishes quickly
Ancient man forced to believe
All things must have an explanation
The owner of the hut, given offense
Inspired words dictated to disciples
Ear pressed against the door
Remember that you are ignorant
Of a life well lived
Soul contains reason, passes swiftly
Without you all is desolate
Ephemeral joys that too soon evaporate
Tarnished hopes staked to sadness
The nature of the episode finds us wanting
Discursive and disjointed the incidental remark
Contingent on the enduring and eternal
He had a lot to say about the unfixed and volatile
I am sure that your altered position
Had to do with the brief encounter
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Hermetic Hippo 69
(posted on blogspot)
No Blessing
There is no blessing in the carnage.
They do not march fearless death.
No merry song in their hearts,
with attached bayonets.
Farcical glories you construct.
We see that they are illusion.
No comfort for the lost.
Those who are bleeding in the streets,
Despise your calculated costs.
Sons, brothers, and lovers,
Wounded and killed.
(posted on blogspot)
Old and Grey
When eyes dimly flicker like the failing wick
And the wind howls through your bones
Like banshees race through the graveyard
Your cup of tea has grown cold and tasteless
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Hermetic Hippo 70
Longing for the robe of immortality
Pulled back by the tugging flesh
Drawn closer to the fires of the past
The songbird still sings outside your window
(posted on blogspot)
Past the Hog Farm
Feel its richness in your hands
Smell the life in its beginnings
Face down in the dirt
Breathing in the newness
No matter how you sweeten
The sting still festers and swells
Dipped naked into the blood
Bones scattered in the wasteland
Begging to be brought along for the ride
We worship it most fervently
Remote from our earthly self
Crystal clear horizon that beckons
Pulling us to unknown adventures
To walk upon the tightrope
While the people clap and cheer
As it develops through experience
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Hermetic Hippo 71
Paid for by the meek and lowly
Those that will someday inherit
Marinated in the message
(posted on blogspot)
Sally Red Shoes
The kid who sat next to me at the lunch table
She was beautiful and unforgiving
You had to watch what you said to her
Keep a tight grip on your thinking
If she knew about my fantasies
She would tear them from my consciousness
Ignoring polite social banter
She had a way of getting right to the point
Found the weakness in an instant
Twisting and scraping to make it sorer
She knows my hunger and impatience
Restlessness for something else
Tangible prize that fulfills me
(posted on blogspot)
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Hermetic Hippo 72
The Ambassador of Loss
I have been reassigned
It happened just this morning
I am to travel to yet another
Place I have never heard of before
I will have to learn all over again
Their customs and gestures
Habits in dress and food
How they wear a fedora
My orders came by fax
Apparently they distrust the e-mail
I leave by next Monday
So little time to adjust my affairs
Say goodbye to all the right people
Ignore those who hang on my every word
As if I was a prophet or messenger from the gods
What would they say in such a situation?
If they were so inclined to speak
Would they say that time is money?
That everyone has his orders?
Maybe, but I think they wouldnt
They would have more important things to do
Like managing the market
Extract the last once of profit
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Hermetic Hippo 73
(posted on blogspot)
Uncommon Sad
That something too awful to name
It sits with you on the bus
Peeking in your shopping bag
The stupid desperate things you do
Walks with you down the hallway
Pathetic little life, swallowed by the moment
When you failed to react
Didnt do the right thing
No witty remark for a comeback
Wanting the regular kind of sad
Not the sad story we read in the papers
(posted on blogspot)
Victim
We are in the same boat.
Little comfort, while sinking.
Still, the captain repeats the refrain.
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Hermetic Hippo 74
His words fall, on silent ears.
No one wants to consider.
Consequences, sinking deeper.
Guardians of the darkness.
Malicious unclear future.
(posted on blogspot)
Wanted Death
Maybe he wanted death
Tried so hard to find it
Looked in a pill bottle
Slit wrists spilling so red
With practice and over
Molded details in mind
(posted on blogspot)
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Hermetic Hippo 75
Bleakers Repository
Infected with purpose
Out of the flesh world
Into the womb of beginning
Taking away your crutch
Forcing your mind
Upon you like a tiger
Vengeful with claws
Knowing both darkness and truth
Under the impetus of love
Beyond your pile of sticks
They do not add up
To this final purpose
This calling of all wills
Aligned with the universe
Perched at the tip
Waiting for the falling over
The flood of unreason
Bored through with the wind
Three generations of them
Still the light pours through
Upon Bleakers lowly place
(posted on blogspot)
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Hermetic Hippo 76
Little gun
Firm brisk strokes
As the black birds fly
North to unknown seasons
The curse of your smoking gun
With a skewed perspective
Slightly off kilter
The idea of departure
More real suddenly
Come prepared for music
When the fight should be on
Doing it for pearls
Deeds of a wicked hand
One foot forward
Slowly is the attack
Apt pupil
(posted on blogspot)
Once Again
Imbued with a moist clarity
The gift of an avid fan
The teacher said that there would be days like this
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Hermetic Hippo 77
Those words of warning are not hollow now
How could he know the future?
The body decomposing and neighbors growing
Suspicious by the minute
Another day would bring new adventures
But I have to make it through this one first
The cops will be knocking down the door
If I dont get rid of the body
Remembered colors of death
I have seen this before
Maybe in another life
My Karma coming back
To haunt me once again
(posted on blogspot)
Scorched Seaweed
The green shadows forget his names
All those he used
In different lifetimes
Now a grizzled old man
With two pools of alertness
An ancient foot soldier
There is nothing outside of him
Nowhere can he turn for learning
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Hermetic Hippo 78
He has held the absolute too long
Tired arms that know no forgiveness
He was a god with an impossible task
To set down lines that refused his touch
Before he entered the wilderness
The empty wasteland of nothing
How the winds howl with contempt in his mind
Especially when he lets his thoughts wander
Then he remembers
How the sound of forgiveness feels
Against the hard edge of steel
(posted on blogspot)
Stepping Out of the El Greco
For Holden
You did it, once again
Against the wishes of your masters
They have steely eyes
Those sparkle like jaded beaks
And tongues that betray
Flapping to eternity
Into a destiny of morass
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Hermetic Hippo 79
Turned into silence
Like the windswept stones
Born from the exploitation
A morality and distrust
You feed them little scraps
Little turnips of time
I feel the vultures circling
Around my back
Sniffing out the sublime
Portals of damnation
Open to the fire breathing
Digging deep into the bedrock
Raise high your scavengers
Being in the world, but not of it
Yes, this also must pass
A penumbra of unknowns
Your star catcher surprise
But, none were really too surprised
It all came out as planned
By a loving god with cracked veins
Pointing across the ceiling
Slung across your shoulder
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Hermetic Hippo 80
Like a boy packing dynamite
They love you despite yourself
Blank spaces between the sentences
You too, Brutus?
(posted on blogspot)
Unfolding
A Love of death that grows into being
Through layers of smell, treachery
Scratched out and drilled into
The shatter of a locked door
Time wasting on the hands
Always wasting
Living on this wounded street
Running from dooms helping hand
They give and take away
Pretending to be god
Unfolding lie of a morbid wish
(posted on blogspot)