Poems: 210720 - July 21st, 2020

170720A
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Skin care ritual
dust off alabaster=20
commercial melt=20
buttery cream down
slide over smooth
jiggle mould=20
jelly bared
advertising door
knockers rap=20
and window dressing
naked in the light
of eternal salesman.=20

It is all artificial=20
and perfectly lucky=20
squeeze through=20
end of tube=20
never wins out=20
calculus probabilities=20
at the big gamble up
against loaded bones=20
all coming out=20
and always on top
riding the lists=20
of pure wantedness. =20

Clown suited=20
mental carted=20
wheels push along=20
from happenstance=20
give get go dissonance=20
scored pure abrasions
crystallized letter=20
box or legal format=20
world of choices
for sale or rent loss
of souls emporiums=20
decrypting myths. =20

It feels like death=20
held over=20
repeat engagements=20
nights spent feeling
mortuary bedded=20
toss and turn cycle
slabs of chill out=20
the ambition remains
clutter specimens
collected disarray=20
labelled misplacement=20
and emptied bottles.=20

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170720B
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The not being=20
of an anyone=20
touched along=20
edges of social=20
tear away responses
questionnaire survey=20
pay cheque stub
payment remissions=20
confessing to late=20
undead relations.=20

Inventory report=20
adds the has been=20
reward points=20
to unclaimed love=20
held miscellanies=20
unsorted trivia=20
search strategies=20
and other investments=20
into failures=20
of time and place.=20

Mortuary report
bank statements=20
dictate penny pinch
regulated spend
habits rolled tight
wad estranged=20
and passed off=20
doled around=20
friendship fixes=20
threats of overdose.  =20

All the beginnings=20
spun out ends=20
of forever=20
ghost footsteps=20
pavement side of real
follow along plans
on the never meet=20
chanced by design
into strictly segregated=20
forms of affliction.

Lands of the rich=20
and always healthy=20
sanitary in=20
and out of it=20
keeping it all up=20
in good neighbourhoods =20
of the perfect spend=20
prompted tongue wag=20
detail polish spread
and tight medicated.=20

Pigeon drop news
bombed too close =20
to staining lived edges=20
of the attractive=20
soiled category sift=20
out catalogue spoils
into the non options  =20
of stimulated wants=20
in unmet heaps
of everyone else.  =20

Playground monitors=20
whistle blow=20
out of bounds=20
careless moments
of play gone offside=20
and bench penalty=20
box forgotten=20
sit it out life=20
past the end zone=20
of dreaming big.=20

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190720A
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Injured words
bleed their ink
into carpet stain
bound gashes =20
manuscript bandage
wrapped around
accrued stigmata
points of infection.=20

Lanced concepts=20
ooze of ideas=20
stabs distressed play
along teased fibres=20
marginalized notes
horror verged
muffle utterances=20
drained into empty.=20

Cotton ball squeeze
stuffed vertigo drip
into trepan bowls=20
shell break suction
out the grey=20
matter into alien=20
beaked orifices =20
of close examination.=20

Occasions bloodied
spitting capitulate=20
territories stricken
social mapping=20
estrangements past
cut off lines=20
pointed ambush
jumped opportunities.

Corpse body=20
mental flagellate
held brow beat=20
down against=20
it goes hard up=20
under the no pull
down drop menu
of usual ignorance. =20

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190720B
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Nothing interesting=20
to offer=20
to your disinterest=20
fixated as it is
on otherwise=20
entirely ordinary=20
shop and drop apple
cored relations.

Rot barrel bop=20
grab bag cultured=20
string along pearls
of plastic expression
bar stool gargoyle=20
made up looking =20
powder keg=20
on a short fuse.=20

Bared teeth=20
and claw hellos=20
of goodbye nod=20
fast tracked=20
on the never stop=20
standard inquiries=20
gone don't say=20
and never tell.

Used to know=20
the do not know how
of it anymore=20
along the drop off=20
ignorance pooled
self store routine=20
compiled directories=20
of mass disregard.=20

Pop goes the culture=20
stripped wings=20
broken off shatter
collected toss
into the dull down =20
mix up to nothing
asked or given=20
personally sidelined.=20

Cold fish=20
nets of clammy=20
stiff disregard=20
nether of don't=20
worlds of never=20
goes past dirty=20
dark deed places=20
in the jumble up.=20

Nothing to say=20
into selective services=20
of deaf lobes=20
dropping hints=20
into the crotchety=20
gizzard grind=20
smoothed talking=20
of crack filler.=20

Painted layers
white dirty up
into bubbled=20
wrinkles of scrape
ash flake ends=20
of gather toss=20
scrubbed life =20
in star spatter.=20

Sad forever=20
clutched vestiges=20
of the once matter=20
dissolves into clear=20
liquid eye channels
illegally tuned=20
wrong station=20
of crumble crust.=20

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210720A
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A last refuge=20
of the mad capped
sack held ties =20
overboard into
flip a lid stretch=20
endless in only=20
along a no one=20
chatter accumulate=20
sides of wanting=20
drifts the down
streamed hassles
into blot memoirs=20
of being emptied.=20

Death rattled=20
shrivel of thought
dagger plunge=20
into deep nameless=20
faceless cut =20
away from any=20
have of mattered =20
met in passages
cold trail single=20
statue freeze off
against the walls=20
of blindfold drop
and dragged exits. =20

Treaty attempts
into the hostile=20
tribe thrash=20
of no one know=20
pain wilderness
tangled in formalities=20
wasteland sentenced
down to terminal=20
formulated longings=20
committed survey=20
plots of wish list
becoming ignored =20
as statistics.=20

Lemon tea=20
inked secret=20
drips wax turns=20
of molten=20
skinned wash out=20
held back places
on neuro mapped=20
touch line broke=20
frag of landscapes
at never goes=20
and lead ball shot=20
down the straight=20
terms of passage. =20

Gut wrenching=20
truth of jazz=20
abandons left=20
all the normals=20
music and can't=20
take any generation=20
normal people
doing small bore=20
things and lives
until overload trips=20
the social breaker=20
blowing out the line. =20
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Impossible to make=20
any arrangements=20
based at left out=20
perched far edge
of that much under
stand and outer=20
space jump off
into glide along loss
on culture currents =20
into any up close=20
past gather round=20
of might have been=20
a real something. =20

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These are social poems. Poems meant to disturb large groups. Alternatively =
they could be chanted, screamed or yelled at crowds. Not that it would do a=
ny real good, but only to say that someone could get away with that as bein=
g therapeutic. A poetry action taking poetry well beyond the intellectual p=
rocess of its originating production into a more meta-physical, and thus pr=
actical, materialization as  effective sonic weaponry.=20

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