Poems: 041121 - November 11th, 2021

171021A
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It is the table=20
that you sit at
and the bed=20
that you sleep in.=20

It is something=20
that you use=20
and the things
that you wear.=20

It is the glass=20
that you sip from
and the pavement=20
that you walk on.=20

It is these things=20
that you know
and that remind=20
that you are.=20

It is the loneliness=20
that you feel=20
and the silence=20
that it all keeps.=20

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171021B
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You eventually know
you spilled moisture=20
for the wrong ones=20
but they were new=20
and it seemed immediate.=20

Sometimes human feelings
are what is pointless=20
terms of reference=20
as to emotional and other
alleged blackmail.=20

Then your dry eyes=20
found out streaming=20
rivers of sand=20
where you once believed
made of stone.=20

If you ever had wings=20
they were long broken off
leaving isolate crags=20
burdened on shoulders
crushed under a load.=20

Those were the body
comprised of memories
standing statue bared
suffering abrasives=20
of time and circumstance.=20

It seems rubbed away=20
one way and another
from anything was
could ever be intimate=20
or nearly that close.=20

Everything worn out=20
somewhere far away=20
in some stranger's world=20
of one's own insignificance
abject and displaced.=20

Remaining justifications=20
whatever was turned=20
made over as nothing=20
more than stone's throw=20
heaped ignorance.=20

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171021C
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Whatever I said=20
dropped into that abyss
that made pretense=20
and silent flight=20
makes no landing.=20

No plumbing of depths
by means of sound=20
where the idea strikes
anything solid
echos of understanding.=20


Nothing but dark=20
dishevel strands=20
knotted accounts
turn to sordid tale=20
beast and labyrinth.=20

Leaving bread crumbs=20
on a way out fiction
the way a bird dances=20
concealing a truth=20
beneath permanent masks.=20

Beginning and ending
are impossible bits=20
where no one really cares
what happens in between=20
what is squeezed out.=20

An epidemic came=20
souring the cream=20
and infecting the city=20
with mockingbirds
displacing clay pigeons. =20

It is always all about
the last to ever know=20
and for the good it does
when the Sun comes up=20
violating the forecasts.=20

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171021A
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Everyone is doing=20
their job=20
just a job=20
they are all doing=20
nothing=20
but their jobs.=20

The lunch bunch=20
hooked up=20
to juicy share
internet feeds
passing it around
that corner table.=20

Only the members=20
get in on it=20
making others wonder
what =E2=80=9Cit=E2=80=9D really is
that insiders know
what outsiders don't.=20

What have you=20
and what you done
tattle tale wags=20
getting their jump=20
takes two to laugh=20
and one to go.=20

What happened to you
and what did you do
it's all about you=20
in the had no say=20
how it goes=20
but it is always gone.=20

Hi ho the herd=20
always listen=20
as you leap
no one can hold
a candle to it=20
on a doughnut break.=20

Ignore the whistle=20
and stay late=20
waving white flags
sake of privilege=20
exclude any fantasies=20
from the record.=20

Going up=20
to never get there=20
and other acts of faith=20
pushed incentive
to learn fork tongued
wears a false face.=20

Take you down=20
to pavement=20
wishes the best
while tell you=20
good work and thanks
for the time.=20

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201021A
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The pawn off=20
self of sacrificed=20
done jiggle bells=20
in the know knots=20
of the dark.=20

Roly poly little=20
bitten bug=20
crawls the sideways=20
chasm loves
making fall in.=20

Pull threads=20
grenade launch
gone fragment=20
turns meaning=20
felt crowd crush.=20

Mad entrance=20
cliff edge ball
stampedes over
the footprints
that are boredom.

We dance=20
the insane=20
steps on nothing
crammed images
go sonic minded.=20

Flick off bit=20
perpetual dust=20
runs the crevice=20
sanctuary gone
a tool too far.=20

Summoned in=20
the green fairy=20
leading lost=20
nerve tingles=20
pried loose.=20

We died again
long passing
some place easily
soon forgot=20
mid demo reels.=20

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221021A
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Bread prices=20
milk and eggs
the oil=20
and the wine
pressed harder.

We all go for
sake of going
quick connect=20
little plucky grapes=20
to the vines.=20

Squeeze them=20
until the juice runs
frolicky drip=20
down the spurt=20
of skinny seed.=20

Dazed cats=20
scream the fur=20
ball present tensed
done scratch=20
and lick the dent.=20

All the words
litter boxed=20
soak right up
into future label
distribution rights.=20

Cement crumble=20
goes fish bone
pin and needle
cornered privacy=20
feeling distressed.=20

Gang lands=20
the newly slain=20
in window cloud
blank stare peeps
at the look outs.

Cannibal sheep=20
graze the commons
down the root=20
vegetable life=20
at patio ferment.

How they hang
and how they go
latest monkey=20
pistol trends=20
the shoot shit.=20

Bus lets off=20
a few prisoners=20
nods the curbside
tangled lives
chasing dust. =20

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021121A
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That withdrawal=20
from once was=20
the might have been=20
sorted pleasures=20
made unobtainable.

Never really seen
another fleshed being
years of finger crab=20
scuttles the keys=20
opening the nothing.=20

Said replacement
said always better=20
than you were=20
then gutter snipe
with porn follows.=20

The lost token=20
left behind as dead
forbidden layers
gone ugly game=20
pulled back raw.=20

Mass convention=20
of faith healers=20
and salesmen=20
from a coliseum=20
on Main Street.=20

Scurry of rat minds
in restricted zones
past flood waters
rising the violence=20
soaked deprivations.=20

A new breed=20
builds sewers above
ground damped
down with humours
scented alleyways.

Scramble connect=20
effusive antennas=20
skitter roof top=20
drop off heavens
into ear cones.=20

Repressed rations=20
and night owls
doing their droogs
on the wind scuffle=20
shots at tarp bodies.=20

Hallway graffiti=20
dim lights enter
the sign postings
grease laden sizzle
of cook stoves.=20

Smoked social=20
mixes with stink=20
weed and chemical
black petrol ooze
that runs things.=20

Fisted arguments
pit bull dreads
against the honey=20
tongue slash=20
always the money.

Silence crams=20
a dying society=20
making up vocations=20
emptied letterbox=20
and widescreen.=20

A bicycle wheel=20
rolls nomad
past a ransack=20
pieces of domain
where no one plays.=20
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041121A
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We who failed=20
to upgrade=20
and to replace=20
our obsolescence.=20

We who have not
kept up with=20
the changes
gone out of date.=20

We are not app=20
to where it is at
and not being woke
or evolving.=20

We came up short
of buying into=20
all the right things=20
everyone must have.=20

We did not do=20
what everyone must=20
and not do=20
what they must not.=20

Our wrongs=20
include old versions=20
of new release=20
pay subscriptions.=20

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

We get cancelled
from mailing lists=20
ignored in forums
wasting keystrokes.=20
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We cannot automate
and monitor
healthy routine
regular consumption.=20

We dial up=20
past vague borders
of cellular rage
misconstrual of texts.=20

We do not know
what IT says=20
and no idea
as to the meaning.

We are not on the map
being counted in=20
under the influencers'
vast followings.=20

We cannot score=20
the latest games=20
and never bought in
to the new attractive.=20

We waste our time
in the same old ways
lacking virtual=20
and air miles points.=20

Nothing is clear=20
or definite demographic
in our virtual relating=20
all subjects to change.=20

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