Poems: 091222 - December 9th, 2022

211122A
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War is a dance=20
with the enemy=20
your dance partner=20
stepping to and fro=20
in battlefield polish
uniform moves.=20

Some of the motion
reacts to wounds
playing distances=20
where carnage comes=20
from approaches in=20
too far and too close.=20

Something will go
down somewhere=20
felled wheat=20
and corn stalks
the way fish die=20
swimming upstream.=20

There are the ended
and the lucky=20
knowing endings
formed scar tissue =20
and the little deaths
of whims and wishes.=20

Ourselves mourners=20
covering it all up=20
self same sorrows=20
in the usual dark
feigning belief
about perpetual bliss.=20

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281122A
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We say =E2=80=9CI love you=E2=80=9D=20
to the wrappings=20
and remains of death
once having a name=20
pointlessly repeated.=20

Scattered atoms=20
in an ash pale universe
for the record=20
that is thought acts=20
and acted thoughts.=20

We are the dreams=20
of what never was=20
and what never is=20
captives to the realms=20
of own impossibilities.=20

What we wanted=20
in wanting to have=20
in little portions=20
of made up existence=20
is taken from us.=20

Should have known=20
in the long ago=20
it would never matter=20
to any or to any when
the stars blink out.=20

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281122B
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Whatever it was=20
it never was more=20
than what was once=20
to be taken
and then all we got=20
was it was gone.

Gone away gone=20
gone the way it was=20
all sure to go gone.=20

It wasn't meant to be
and it was gone=20
before it came along
it was already gone
before it even began
in the beginning.=20

Gone away gone
gone the way it was
all sure to go gone.=20

At the very beginning=20
it doesn't matter what
word was said or done
from the nothing was
the beginning of=20
the same to nothing.=20

Gone away gone=20
gone the way it was
all sure to go gone.=20

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281122C
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Wire is buzzing=20
its dead sort of silence=20
inventions by science=20
for everyone talking=20
but no one calls=20
down that line.=20

Gossip is=20
nothing happening=20
at far ends stretch=20
squished in creation
to that little between=20
that fills up time.=20

It was all going=20
somewhere where =20
there is nowhere left
to really go
past the sit and wait
spaced out over kill.

Another advert push=20
corporeal failure
wag of tongues=20
wave of legs and arms=20
as if something ever
really gets done.=20

We never got there
wherever it was=20
and the nights came=20
when lights go on
leaving  audiences
hidden in the black.=20

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011222A
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A pig sticker=20
time of it=20
along the slide
goes in and out=20
coming clean=20
down the sides
that are boundary=20
made conventional=20
tokens of squeeze.=20

Lost the higgledy=20
of the piggledy=20
in the blah gasm=20
stop gap chrism=20
rubber legged=20
vergers at forever=20
played along=20
the as if games
we once believed.=20

Stringy hard=20
bead game candies=20
the sour lick=20
beyond the clasp=20
down the come=20
gone undone=20
trickle of ice cube=20
lady fingered=20
take of biscuit.=20

Nothing like=20
making out=20
made up selves=20
short bread prisoners=20
second skinned
assortment passions=20
chocolate boxed=20
soft centre filled=20
and sugary coats.=20

We never learned
about survival eyed
up looking head
through a black hole=20
boarded white dust=20
chalky starred world
spill over facts=20
and try  to conserve=20
some decoherence.=20

A wriggle free=20
from too tight=20
lines of cursive=20
love and hate lettered
misunderstandings
turned to misread=20
sexual alphabets=20
in sticky wrapper=20
and lint ball pockets.=20

Penny slot done
gum ball ballads
training wheel phased
hook on try=20
for a catch prize bit
plastic looted spat
out from the puzzle
mouthed crow=20
to better options.=20

We dally up=20
corn grinder spit=20
a split pop stand=20
lolly gag option=20
the molly coddle=20
yin yang times=20
gone bananas=20
at ice cream lick
the red cherry.=20

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021222A
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This grim winter=20
congeals its discontent=20
a frozen slurry time
along the long past
splashed up against=20
surface dweller=20
culvert faced rise=20
shovel handed grime
of colour throws.

Becomes ice peopled
little frozen ones =20
bundled away=20
collect mementos
signifying north west
passage cold sided=20
long rift valleys
in among fictions=20
that we were told=20
some once lived.=20

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031222A
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In the abandon=20
on the left bank=20
sold down river=20
is the leaving that is
everyone who left=20
gone under=20
and gone over top
to the bottom.=20

Remains washed up=20
muddied lines=20
stretch shore heap
broke pieces=20
parts of  think=20
blast effect hits
a slow motion life
going down.

Feeling disposable=20
single use=20
sort of things=20
to toss away=20
into linger wait=20
bad endings=20
at used and discard=20
on the long haul.=20

Thought it would=20
get much better=20
but never did=20
past the sign up=20
or the declaration=20
only a sack=20
and no one cares
about inside of out.=20

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031222B
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The shake down=20
and the shake up=20
stuffed between=20
dulled and dumb=20
attempts at somewhat=20
nearer expression
in between cannot say=20
and cannot do=20
where it splashes=20
onto bloody rocks=20
another Mary mess=20
the canned tomatoes=20
rotting fish stink
and mouldied loaves.=20

How did you know
what no one told you
and what is the proof
they claim hides
in the pudding heart
crush on creation=20
ends at never meet=20
beyond bipolar rivals=20
subject to interest heat=20
break down rates
levelled head analysis=20
spatter of facts=20
soils any last moment
past the tumble spoil.=20

If you tell them=20
their minds explode=20
and the lights go out
inside their heads
so you cannot see
what isn't there
on blanked screens=20
advertising John Cage
appears the ghost=20
embodying everything
everyone is afraid of
among hurry along=20
lickety split jerk
around of muscle.

The truth being=20
good manure
is precious scarce=20
matters of field=20
and stream along=20
centrefold spreads
wet plowing=20
the moist deep
furrowed leaps
shovel brow into
the abyss harbour
bubbles up times=20
spent habits clutch=20
at long safety lines.=20

Drink deep of it=20
knowing sorrow=20
follows fast flow=20
interlude splurge
of orgiastic=20
frenzied defeats
marking finishes=20
leaving in question=20
what was the race=20
to a sweetness=20
gone in completions=20
leaves only a want
for something more
that is never had.=20

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061222A
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That ambrosia=20
that you love to deny=20
in such flagrant manners=20
as cleaves the day=20
into portions each=20
a different longing.=20

So many labours=20
all becoming lost=20
pretense of filled
that vast nothing=20
that is but passings=20
comprised of time. =20

Many the executioner =20
hones such hungers=20
to sharpened points
from that adversity=20
on which we rest=20
as fettered dreamers.=20

Imaginings thus fed=20
on contraries of sated=20
past endless looking=20
at emptied glass=20
containing all things=20
in its nothing of any.=20

Left to want for
tastes of pleasures
more Elysian
freed into the long last=20
parted stale commons=20
of auguries and entrails.=20

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