Poems: 230821 - August 23rd, 2021

180821A
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Downside of riding
someone's amusement 
guts compress
down into pelvic 
intestinal fortitude 
pancakes out
a nauseated drop
kicked by something 
makes you feel 
half alive pain. 

The roll of it 
propelled downhill 
gone over 
top of rise 
the wind sweep 
up to nothing 
though it went fast 
sounding death rattle
and grind wheel
before the rush. 

Every free fall
after expenditure 
leaving empty 
dream bagged
ant colonies 
cart away 
bits of cognition 
the nibbled corpse
dead sugar lump 
losing sweetness. 

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190821A
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Drip splat drop 
dampened dread 
deep saturates 
trod decay 
impressed window
blind eyed flutter
wing flops across
slow fester 
dream fields. 

Nothing up
bed covers 
pull the skin off
tossed chair 
back braced 
limb jungle 
over growth
tangled clumsy
night drench. 

Body electric 
short circuit 
over load break
lines tingle numb
social premonition
nervous jolts 
into wrist jerk 
afternoon limp 
headed mop rag. 

Mind wipe 
murky visibility 
foggy notions 
kept under glass 
display cased 
articles of desire 
grim indications
as evidence 
of absence.

Slips away down
into grey muck 
dead rooted 
tangle stems 
jut stiff fingered 
pointless accusation
at careless skies
flooded across 
horizon chats.

Undulate waves
flesh streaming
dead channelled
personal rifts 
scatter puzzle 
lost pieces 
coagulated spills
embittered milk
without kindness. 

Memory rust 
stains the plan 
blood iron 
caked brown 
sketches future 
hand print 
cave walls 
claw savaged 
with wild pain.

Wash out
carried away 
the bridges 
and what is meant 
for getting over
flood silts
the emptied eyes 
turning flesh 
paralyzed mud. 

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210821A
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Appreciation 
and inflation 
crossed cat
luckless black
paths gone over
and over bleak
over and over 
same over done
tops out at all 
usual expectations
turn over time
to over again.

Heard tell 
a perfect one
that is a chance 
in a million 
chances gone 
you laughed
at hanging myself
in vain hopes 
being around 
for invitations
but when I called
you never came. 

Profiling 
the soft bits 
dropped in
between amusements 
match points 
and other details 
almost pass 
as pleasant dreams
changing pace 
and tone
to all the usual 
sorts of suffering. 

She seems perfect 
for the last part 
but no way 
to know her
and no way 
to know me
grips endless 
number streams
played out high
staking pointless 
acts of toss 
it all in. 

Play at rings 
and syndicates
practising 
board room polish
gleams foreplay
miscellaneous  
sex acts 
in between 
white line 
highway markers
beat light streaks 
into the dark. 

Another time 
and safer places 
before it ends  
looped forever 
cat call wars 
and factory fates
drummed out 
for late delivery 
factory dates
break it off 
at always more 
the same.

Could never play
that game
of post office 
feeling the push 
to half way 
between the dead 
and gone lame
pulling too hard
on broken chains
wall flowered 
at glee club 
corporate parties.

Not the what 
which what who 
that it seems 
but existence 
is ultra real
if only on paper
slipped in 
under the bird 
cage bottoms
hot circulate
headline storied
inconsequence. 

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220821A
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All the breakers
and the broken 
row called 
answering names.

Push you down
gets in the way 
rip off 
trace of remain 

been dead
a long time dying
still kicks 
thin empty air.

Simulate happiness 
make up facsimiles 
tasteless horror 
nothing really. 

What they say 
one needs 
is never any of
what one wants.

Never equals out
can't ever get
to even it up
no matter what.

Secret answers 
to hidden questions
never found
by those looks.

Eyes have it
but missed out
and wait forever
wrong line.

Cannot see
what is happening
don't know
where it is.

Time taken 
every which way
between too early
and for too late. 

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220821B
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Don't like 
short range 
target practice 
cocky aims. 

Bot bud 
bedlam beef
one tracked 
veins of mind. 

Battle bulge
first blood
hints death
mixed tobacco.

Tanned hide
belches up
sports page
figured odds.

Whatever hangs
aged ordinary
bumps meat
locker hooks. 

Mechanical
smooth out
hot metal turn
silenced. 

Another shot
fired up 
into the dark 
makes its hit. 

The details 
are to no effect
conversations
with vague gods.

Over dosed 
on the empty 
having nothing
for the want. 

Pay the rent 
for a bar stool 
swallowing 
the conversions. 

Ventriloquists 
and dummies 
binge stagger 
toward pissed.  

Been up 
for the long
gone out 
far from it all. 

Out of it 
and only want
the soft side
pretty things.

Not playing 
but she can score
if she wants 
to play my girl. 

The last card
that came 
was government 
counting me in. 

The others 
stopped sending 
at getting married 
to favourite sins.

Show stoppers
and cancelled 
the solo 
is over blown. 

Out of tune 
with the gangsters 
is just another 
sort of drop out.  

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230821C
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Ghost mice
cross eyed 
nether stretch
span of floor. 

Tugging 
at bootstraps 
chews off
the buckles. 

Soundless 
one feather
flight planned 
at pass over. 

Angel death 
plays shadow 
frightening  
the light away.  

Stuffed up 
assaults value
as if it all must 
be replaced. 

Got nothing 
in exchange 
but emptied 
bored of trade. 

It comes 
to coming down
not knowing
what up was. 

Scurries 
to count 
once upon a time
teeth and hair. 

Arguments 
that go unheard 
against voiding
of all offers. 

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I have no idea if the mouse in the poem was a real mouse, a digital mouse or a hallucination of a mouse. Your guess is as good as mine  on that subject. Though I assume that it was not a church mouse sent in as some type of covert spy.