Poems: 281120 - November 28th, 2020

221120A
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Wasted=20
key strokes=20
at last count=20
while slagged=20
by mirroring=20
of lone follow
half attentive=20
catch bucket=20
strayed errors
and diversions=20
at terminal bore.=20

Sitting targeted=20
surveillance chump=20
pulled under=20
by tedious
floods across
brain thresholds=20
levelled drown=20
under glee angels=20
dance on top
the channel marker
nod of head away.=20

Splatter jerk=20
life something=20
others do
your get=20
only to watch=20
counting flies
that clean duty feet
on fly paper=20
dirt rubs off=20
onto your being
a marker stain.=20

Don't ever know
what has gone=20
totally wrong=20
being left off=20
an entire plan=20
garbage barged=20
and keep dredging=20
old settles=20
bottom feeds=20
the data stream
into muck.=20

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221120B
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Droop wings=20
along flag staff=20
cleat rattle=20
and draw wind=20
along the swerve
at clouded
flutter challenge.

Dead still=20
in the jam up=20
knotty tight=20
along the street
purse lipped
jello tongues=20
doing jive.=20

Better times=20
hide away=20
bright feeling=20
remembrances=20
cull sack bulge
harvest fail
seams downpour.=20

Splash jiggle=20
curb scrape=20
seeking passages
northwest=20
to any orient=20
through circles=20
of traffic mellow.=20

Condiments=20
at the get go=20
corner market=20
drool edge=20
dog whistle=20
of skirt hooked=20
breeze flow. =20

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241120A
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Nameless instance=20
calling card=20
left tag slide=20
into door crevice=20
shot marker=20
into gutted=20
romance novel.=20

Life spills out=20
trickle talk over
threshold wait=20
along pull up=20
stockings stretch
throat alleys=20
of limousines purr.  =20

A passing witness=20
to Mr. Big City=20
at business girls=20
spread wares=20
along hotel streets=20
located tinker town=20
and cash machine.=20

Ghost wallets=20
given the look=20
at half past=20
nothing happens=20
smile wickets=20
of come on=20
pay day fancies.=20

An old boatman=20
pilots the barge=20
collecting up
dead souls=20
at regular stops=20
on regular routes
of window gaze.=20

Nothing in any=20
of the particulars
lashes out=20
derelict crumble=20
at attention=20
to vagrant details
painted over.

The same faces=20
on different people
are quantum bit
streams of  large
flood wave theatres
emptied big bang=20
into street prattle. =20
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271120A
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Monkeys of a chance=20
at the sing song=20
social dangle=20
tails and alcohol=20
curled hanging trees=20
bright ornament.=20

Deep hacked feelings
cheated out
along straggles
don't give a care =20
to usual push offs=20
down the anymore.=20

Harsh sounds=20
of habitual shovel=20
scraping dig
own hole performance=20
event stock taking
emptied out.=20

Illusion break downs=20
at the used to think=20
would be better
than what came
pure sorrow fade=20
ragged despair.=20

It all went away=20
overnight and express=20
changes of style=20
never kept up with
the recede horizons=20
at flashcard hints.=20
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Seems an instant=20
dissolved in water=20
leaving no taste=20
slides dark thread=20
through startled=20
and needled eyes.

Varied relics=20
stashed into forget=20
anticipation niches=20
back side corner
of once knew=20
a might have been.=20

They never call=20
the once wanted=20
as to something
more than a hit=20
on past dull thud=20
microphones.=20

Seems all gone
into a never was=20
sliver of eternal =20
time getting picked=20
out from under=20
stretches of skin.

A drag of tongues=20
cut off at the heels
mulling their banish
from syllable strope=20
along a sharp edge=20
of popular stride.=20

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271120B
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Stuck in that illness
of endless=20
wellness quest=20
that no one wants=20
any to do with
on the never win=20
sides of lose=20
something daily=20
at always wanted
list can't ever get=20
the any  of
real wanting passions
gone short listed
in leak buckets.=20

No more=20
than a dim ghoul
under a wax moon=20
fiddling cards=20
at Tarot solitaire=20
caught up crave=20
something answers=20
too late to get=20
in a downswing=20
from upswing=20
team pick cuts
across yesterdays =20
melted lifeline
of tomorrows.=20

Electronic apes=20
randomly collective=20
under Mesmer canopies=20
getting their scorch=20
margins of hot coal
walked barefoot creep=20
stagger electro-cute=20
pool edges=20
tumble minds
thinking flesh rubs=20
at the greasy squirm=20
of body rocks
tossed splash=20
into long tall sip. =20

Gone down=20
all the ways there is=20
to every lonesome=20
way out to more
exactly same habits
at pinned holed up=20
end of any canyon=20
mid level urban strain=20
injuries to spirited=20
belief in any once
too often but
only making it=20
to being a lamb=20
being slaughtered.=20

Slow drip valves=20
leak eye corners=20
along worn edges=20
of facial ruin
eyeglass steam =20
heaped slag=20
dump pile fogged=20
above crucibles=20
of pencilled paper=20
char words=20
on ash pallor=20
slow disintegrate
toward a hazy scorn
of dust sweep.=20

Writing bad things
you do not want=20
to hear said=20
while you play
on my dangerous=20
sharp knife slipping=20
sound along tip
of too common wag=20
end tongues at=20
my prefer almost
silence holding you=20
mere prisoner=20
between split fractions=20
choose of say.=20

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These might be very difficult for you. My further experiments with surreal =
abstractions. Typically you can more readily endure an extreme in painting,=
 but when it is as commanding and imposing as the word has always been take=
n to be, then it becomes a much larger problem. At least, and typically, fo=
r you, rather than for me. The painterly work, no matter how shocking and i=
ntrusive is a mere glance from a sideways vision, distracted by the inner b=
abbling of your =E2=80=9Csecret=E2=80=9D mind. The poem is something else a=
nd it demands far too much attention for any similarly sideways glimpse int=
o its gestures at the spectrum of an infinity of implied and suggested mean=
ing. Even symbolism, in visual art, was much easier for you to endure, desp=
ite its more explicit demands, within the context of its visual dictionary.=
 Thus the terror that comes from actually reading or being read to. It does=
 not go a-way anywhere near to as easily.  And I know you want everything t=
oo easily nowadays.