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Nov 23, 2009, 11:11 pm
This is me:
A not-so-happy place.
Only because I cannot differentiate
between music and life — there is strife.
I am pulled in wholeheartedly
whether you and I like it or not.
A banjo. A fiddle.... Comment - Like
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Nov 22, 2009, 11:34 am
My mind is rambling,
an untamed ox,
the zen monk would say.
Passengers in planes
to japan sleep
while i size up hale-bopp
and the egyptians who last saw it.
The faitfhful attend mass
en masse, i conte... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 2:10 pm
the highway became the harbor
full of creaking, moaning ships
water splashing and slowshing
there it was: crashing collision
metals smashing and scraping
screaming of pain and fear
fear of what you co... Comment - Like
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Nov 21, 2009, 12:56 pm
I created an account over at Poetry Express, a great online social networking site for poets. I’m giving it a trial run, though it’s free if I decide to completely migrate.
Wanna read Cra... Comment - Like
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Nov 17, 2009, 9:22 am
let’s explore this whitespace
together, where same-flesh color meets
black
sail through the coarseness of it
down
your
spine
to
the
dark
canyon
where boys come... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 1:29 pm
she warns me:
once we are back inside
i’m not mention you again
let’s be real here: i left
you against my will
i was never good
not with break ups
we were ripped apart
like claws cracking ... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 6:05 am
there is something other worldy
about this: how it speaks
to me through white noise
humming through machines
more distant than a friend
calling from the dark side of our earth
or that train hollering ... Comment - Like
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Nov 15, 2009, 3:00 pm
there remains enough charm
in this old run down mobtown
secrets and treasures remain hidden
a paper moon diner tucked away
between rusting car parts
peddle-slow creaking trains
and boarded up row home... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 8:36 am
take only what you need from it,
but tell me are the trees falling
sometimes, i think there is no where
i would rather be than tennessee
would someone take me past the street lights
down to the river&... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 8:32 am
Me:
confiteor deo omnipotenti sum
gracious as a corn cob
judgmental as jim crowe
thinking with expectations
rationalizing with niches
pigeonholing you into pulpits
Preacherman:
orare pro me
calm as ca... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2009, 9:11 am
looking out the window barking incessantly
lord tennyson, tennyson what do you see?
ain’t nothing but death creeping up the hill
coming from down yonder for you and for me Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2009, 5:31 pm
*with revoked benefits
wholly squandered on fidelity
whom in youth and decadence
i would but proudly fuck
perhaps the third attempt would be your charm
your louisiana accent my own undoing,
mon brave,... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2009, 1:22 pm
there once was a time
when you rode on me
boy upon boy’s back
down the bourbon street
my daddy has said
there will come a time
when god sends lightning
right down the old rue
but we, you and i
k... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2009, 1:19 pm
whoever believes books can’t take you places
obviously has never sold one on amazon
that was an affair to remember:
starting off with a simple transaction
of selling a book up river to new york ... Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2009, 5:35 pm
my mother had always swore
she’d never do anything synthetic
the last time she said it
or anything for that matter
was as her head hovered over
the table where reflected light
created a church w... Comment - Like
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Sep 25, 2009, 2:32 pm
my boyfriend had a rough life
growing up in what some call paradise
it’s not all rum and reggae down there
unless it’s the rum-soaked breath of careless father
or reggaed out rasta rags fo... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2009, 10:51 pm
there are worse words
to carve into a chest:
fagot nigger spic
chink cunt kike
but three lettered words
like fed fit nice
somethings remain unchanged
like lynching standards
of using rope in backwood
... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 11:59 pm
there is a flickering light that glows
awakening me to the rising waters
i dared to brave so you needn’t stay
our conversation is brief and broken
with static interference and death
wading throu... Comment - Like
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Sep 22, 2009, 11:41 pm
This is one of the most beautiful, endearing, tragic, and reminging songs I’ve heard in some time. As usual, I equate good songs with good poetry. K’Naan is a Somalian singer/songwriter.... Comment - Like
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Aug 30, 2009, 8:10 am
we barely had a chance to know you
hitting snooze, sleeping in until june
hiding out among july’s tall grasses
playing peek-a-boo between august sunsets
your grand entrance went beyond being
fas... Comment - Like
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Aug 18, 2009, 7:18 am
how you must’ve reeled
in the embarrassment
of not being chosen,
but then simplicity
and down-to-earthness
were the orders of the day
how hot did you burn
in the wake of my easy going-ness,
losi... Comment - Like