Poems: 130921 - September 13th, 2021

080921F
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Making a difference=20
something different=20
making something=20
to take your mind off=20
and out the trash.=20

Not out of the trash
but out the trash
always the same=20
as the others do
recycling each other.=20

So many ways=20
to getting used up=20
and you do feel used
in the ugliest ways
in between the slack.=20

Chop chop chop=20
the same old block
heading out=20
and its gone on a roll=20
chip off a block.=20

Not the same=20
as the sad old block=20
once around gone
back again to chip
at something.=20

Whittled away=20
the passing hours=20
after a close shave=20
thousand cuts=20
of being cut away.=20

Crowds of long knives
looking for their beast=20
grabbing the horn
slicing at roots=20
undercutting meanings.=20

Another new rendering=20
dicing spirit=20
discarding flesh=20
cooking something up=20
as common fare.=20

Clean off your plate=20
leaving nothing=20
left chance
gone spoiled=20
and turned bitter.=20

It is on the menu=20
prix fixe [pree fiks]=20
specials of the day
only thing left
anyone can order.=20

You have to love it=20
or it leaves you=20
wanting everything
that was taken off=20
the common markets.=20

Nothing is solid=20
everything flows=20
melting your Hamlet
and dissolving Ophelia
where the curtain falls.=20

You've gone dark=20
after breaking everything=20
that forms your record=20
smallest audience
on the longest run.=20

Such a bloody shame=20
they never give medals
for anything like that
but best served cold=20
and without warmth.=20

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090921A
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Wasn't reaching=20
for the sky=20
and didn't want=20
anyone's crown.=20

Just wanted=20
a little of me=20
and a little of you
being special.=20

Abdicates nothing=20
and fall is angel wings
spread all the way=20
across every field.=20

Didn't want to see=20
past little things
that sparkled=20
bird's eye view.=20

Tired of everyone=20
who makes love=20
shallow and complicated
all at the same time.=20

Never wanted=20
to tangle up=20
in any cum and go
sporty styles.=20

Everyone always
tied in something
takes them
its prisoners.=20

A mystery=20
why so tough=20
stretches of time
cashing us in.=20

Can't we be free
just a little while
as if we are=20
Hollywood's dreams.=20

Not much left=20
as far as it goes=20
but might be=20
a little something.=20

Never enough=20
to get over it=20
gets dropped=20
same as the rain.=20

What is missing=20
from the scenery=20
marks our trails=20
as runaways.=20

Can't go back=20
and I am afraid=20
of being=20
far too forward.=20

Too easy now
to frighten away=20
butterflies and other
delicate things.=20

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110921A
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More of that same
cut off on a line=20
scores far edge of all
ends at being torn=20
down borders of ever=20
more lonely.

Pretty shadows=20
scant evidence=20
of other worlds=20
too far away=20
to ever belong=20
in anything really.=20

There are those=20
who never like=20
whatever you were
or whatever it is
you became
that you become.=20

Judging the book=20
by its cover cause
of what was in it=20
all taken from it
by the censors
not liking one word.=20

Been written out=20
of words and time
but they still scribble
rude comments=20
on the blanked pages=20
of discontent.=20

You were in mind=20
as something=20
of a lovely future=20
but it was scrubbed
into a space=20
nothing fills.=20

Things to do=20
sometimes get done
but always=20
doing something=20
seems everything=20
makes for lonelier.=20

What next=20
from another list
of no one wants
trying to score=20
something luckier=20
than a bad ending.

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120921A
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I seem to have saved=20
something=20
but it was no more
than all the tears=20
that I had delayed
and put off=20
to being cried later.=20

They say peace=20
is the illusion=20
cleaved to=20
by simple minds=20
given another fix
that lasts them=20
for a little while.

No winnings=20
at the rat races=20
just another flea=20
in the flea circus=20
tried to learn=20
exchanging tricks
for meals.=20

It doesn't go well
and it never did=20
when going that way=20
takes more out
than it puts in
making it a total =20
loss of balance.=20

Teeter totter=20
on the rock on=20
brink of nothing=20
days seem=20
happened before =20
same scream=20
that no one hears.=20

Just another fool
plays the fool's game
of difference=20
left standing outside=20
a sell out crowd=20
that got in=20
on something.=20

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120921B
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English got=20
is German Gott=20
got to have=20
some sort of God=20
Gott you=20
so you can get
some got it=20
being begot
and begotten =20
in a Word game.=20

Birth and death=20
in a Word game
about what came
and what went
spaced out between=20
the get=20
and the got modes
for getting it=20
gone out of sight=20
and out of mind.=20

It's gone=20
what you got=20
but that's it=20
as to the gutter
G=C3=B6tter talk=20
Gott and G=C3=B6ttin
so you got in=20
now a big Gott
gone G=C3=B6tter
did you ? =20

The way it goes
Word game=20
and you got some
when you got her
at the get go=20
but what you got
will be gone
and for Gott
in for getting=20
something else.=20

The Word game
sounds alright=20
to some on a side
of all the getting
made easy=20
easiest forget
kept to give at
up some got
for saken same
and got more.=20

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120921C
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Wish it were=20
something easier=20
as to random pull=20
suicide missions
die to something=20
even if you don't
come out through=20
in a polished box.=20

Polished off=20
coats of wacks=20
waxing Moon
teases laugh at
haven't learned=20
the never want rag
might pass over
tawdry romances.

Call it angel=20
dread and then
the worst=20
is tell you
vulture wings=20
squeezed tight=20
around your never=20
really feel freed.=20

Haven't learned=20
every new kid=20
knows more=20
want some
shoddy true between
romance covers
our sordid lives=20
craving pillow talks.=20

Whisper living=20
black out=20
the deep gutter=20
surveillance
shifting pattern=20
break ups=20
rapacious conduct
of shock troops.=20

Wish we knew=20
it all early know=20
how find and seek=20
show to tell=20
the right ones
gone to rim shot
hoop skirts all
in jingle jive.=20

Few hunger
the exception=20
mostly inclusive=20
everyone else
always had it
all same=20
whatever thing
was about it.=20

Should read=20
forbidden texts
between party
lines and other
hard divides
sent as warnings
down insect holes
on thin antennas.=20

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130921A
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The barriers=20
end up overwhelming=20
in the manner of protests=20
and police lines=20
that no one can cross.=20

The revolution=20
cancelled repeatedly
during previous iterations=20
of wayward moments=20
by other generations.=20

Shots fired=20
into random displays=20
crowds mutter=20
death threats
at planning departments.=20

It is now uncertain=20
what moved forward=20
and what fell behind=20
along the shuffle board
trail of who scored.=20

Someone had=20
everything we wanted
including sour grapes
squeezed as balls=20
under virgin feet.=20

Little squirts=20
that go as far=20
as most things ever do
sharing the common=20
categorical boredom.=20

There are all of those
now feeling compelled
to stare at their screens=20
strictly following=20
the sportsmanship.=20

Appears quite certain=20
we can never meet=20
up to anything more
than the bland arts
of insipid ideologies.=20

Making something up
that avoids bumping=20
against anything =20
getting in the way=20
of everything else.=20

Wave critical flags=20
at the bull pens=20
past the ruins=20
of China shops=20
and gored doorways.

A central committee=20
labelled us dangerous=20
and that is enough
to tear anything apart
before it is together.=20

Everything withdraws=20
in hasty retreats
from the imperfect=20
and casual statements
about non compliance.=20

Nothing any more=20
the way it was
in the jazzy when
something could=20
be purely magical.=20

We don't live=20
in any possible worlds
down the ways
it used to be=20
but grieving nostalgia.=20

Someone arranged=20
to make us worthless=20
raising the prices=20
on everything else=20
to cannot afford.=20

Nowhere to go=20
and all the past=20
might have been
long closed down
long before us.=20

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