Poems: 041121 - November 4th, 2021

171021A
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It is the table 
that you sit at
and the bed 
that you sleep in. 

It is something 
that you use 
and the things
that you wear. 

It is the glass 
that you sip from
and the pavement 
that you walk on. 

It is these things 
that you know
and that remind 
that you are. 

It is the loneliness 
that you feel 
and the silence 
that it all keeps. 

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171021B
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You eventually know
you spilled moisture 
for the wrong ones 
but they were new 
and it seemed immediate. 

Sometimes human feelings
are what is pointless 
terms of reference 
as to emotional and other
alleged blackmail. 

Then your dry eyes 
found out streaming 
rivers of sand 
where you once believed
made of stone. 

If you ever had wings 
they were long broken off
leaving isolate crags 
burdened on shoulders
crushed under a load. 

Those were the body
comprised of memories
standing statue bared
suffering abrasives 
of time and circumstance. 

It seems rubbed away 
one way and another
from anything was
could ever be intimate 
or nearly that close. 

Everything worn out 
somewhere far away 
in some stranger's world 
of one's own insignificance
abject and displaced. 

Remaining justifications 
whatever was turned 
made over as nothing 
more than stone's throw 
heaped ignorance. 

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171021C
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Whatever I said 
dropped into that abyss
that made pretense 
and silent flight 
makes no landing. 

No plumbing of depths
by means of sound 
where the idea strikes
anything solid
echos of understanding. 


Nothing but dark 
dishevel strands 
knotted accounts
turn to sordid tale 
beast and labyrinth. 

Leaving bread crumbs 
on a way out fiction
the way a bird dances 
concealing a truth 
beneath permanent masks. 

Beginning and ending
are impossible bits 
where no one really cares
what happens in between 
what is squeezed out. 

An epidemic came 
souring the cream 
and infecting the city 
with mockingbirds
displacing clay pigeons.  

It is always all about
the last to ever know 
and for the good it does
when the Sun comes up 
violating the forecasts. 

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171021A
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Everyone is doing 
their job 
just a job 
they are all doing 
nothing 
but their jobs. 

The lunch bunch 
hooked up 
to juicy share
internet feeds
passing it around
that corner table. 

Only the members 
get in on it 
making others wonder
what “it” really is
that insiders know
what outsiders don't. 

What have you 
and what you done
tattle tale wags 
getting their jump 
takes two to laugh 
and one to go. 

What happened to you
and what did you do
it's all about you 
in the had no say 
how it goes 
but it is always gone. 

Hi ho the herd 
always listen 
as you leap
no one can hold
a candle to it 
on a doughnut break. 

Ignore the whistle 
and stay late 
waving white flags
sake of privilege 
exclude any fantasies 
from the record. 

Going up 
to never get there 
and other acts of faith 
pushed incentive
to learn fork tongued
wears a false face. 

Take you down 
to pavement 
wishes the best
while tell you 
good work and thanks
for the time. 

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201021A
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The pawn off 
self of sacrificed 
done jiggle bells 
in the know knots 
of the dark. 

Roly poly little 
bitten bug 
crawls the sideways 
chasm loves
making fall in. 

Pull threads 
grenade launch
gone fragment 
turns meaning 
felt crowd crush. 

Mad entrance 
cliff edge ball
stampedes over
the footprints
that are boredom.

We dance 
the insane 
steps on nothing
crammed images
go sonic minded. 

Flick off bit 
perpetual dust 
runs the crevice 
sanctuary gone
a tool too far. 

Summoned in 
the green fairy 
leading lost 
nerve tingles 
pried loose. 

We died again
long passing
some place easily
soon forgot 
mid demo reels. 

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221021A
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Bread prices 
milk and eggs
the oil 
and the wine
pressed harder.

We all go for
sake of going
quick connect 
little plucky grapes 
to the vines. 

Squeeze them 
until the juice runs
frolicky drip 
down the spurt 
of skinny seed. 

Dazed cats 
scream the fur 
ball present tensed
done scratch 
and lick the dent. 

All the words
litter boxed 
soak right up
into future label
distribution rights. 

Cement crumble 
goes fish bone
pin and needle
cornered privacy 
feeling distressed. 

Gang lands 
the newly slain 
in window cloud
blank stare peeps
at the look outs.

Cannibal sheep 
graze the commons
down the root 
vegetable life 
at patio ferment.

How they hang
and how they go
latest monkey 
pistol trends 
the shoot shit. 

Bus lets off 
a few prisoners 
nods the curbside
tangled lives
chasing dust.  

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021121A
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That withdrawal 
from once was 
the might have been 
sorted pleasures 
made unobtainable.

Never really seen
another fleshed being
years of finger crab 
scuttles the keys 
opening the nothing. 

Said replacement
said always better 
than you were 
then gutter snipe
with porn follows. 

The lost token 
left behind as dead
forbidden layers
gone ugly game 
pulled back raw. 

Mass convention 
of faith healers 
and salesmen 
from a coliseum 
on Main Street. 

Scurry of rat minds
in restricted zones
past flood waters
rising the violence 
soaked deprivations. 

A new breed 
builds sewers above
ground damped
down with humours
scented alleyways.

Scramble connect 
effusive antennas 
skitter roof top 
drop off heavens
into ear cones. 

Repressed rations 
and night owls
doing their droogs
on the wind scuffle 
shots at tarp bodies. 

Hallway graffiti 
dim lights enter
the sign postings
grease laden sizzle
of cook stoves. 

Smoked social 
mixes with stink 
weed and chemical
black petrol ooze
that runs things. 

Fisted arguments
pit bull dreads
against the honey 
tongue slash 
always the money.

Silence crams 
a dying society 
making up vocations 
emptied letterbox 
and widescreen. 

A bicycle wheel 
rolls nomad
past a ransack 
pieces of domain
where no one plays. 
 
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041121A
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We who failed 
to upgrade 
and to replace 
our obsolescence. 

We who have not
kept up with 
the changes
gone out of date. 

We are not app 
to where it is at
and not being woke
or evolving. 

We came up short
of buying into 
all the right things 
everyone must have. 

We did not do 
what everyone must 
and not do 
what they must not. 

Our wrongs 
include old versions 
of new release 
pay subscriptions. 

We are lacking
the new features
to fill in blanked
out expressions.

We get cancelled
from mailing lists 
ignored in forums
wasting keystrokes. 
  
We cannot automate
and monitor
healthy routine
regular consumption. 

We dial up 
past vague borders
of cellular rage
misconstrual of texts. 

We do not know
what IT says 
and no idea
as to the meaning.

We are not on the map
being counted in 
under the influencers'
vast followings. 

We cannot score 
the latest games 
and never bought in
to the new attractive. 

We waste our time
in the same old ways
lacking virtual 
and air miles points. 

Nothing is clear 
or definite demographic
in our virtual relating 
all subjects to change. 

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