poetry

poetry is like a photograph done in black and
white, makes life real and sweet like
fruit that's ripe, making trite and
useless things take on light and duplicitous
or delicious meanings, the meanderings of
mights and maybes taking on solid life
like sex makes babies. anyone can
do it and it's potent every time because
for some reason when you see it,
it's heavy like iron, heady like smelling
salts and slippery like teflon, it's tough
to put the book down and join the
living, it's the gift that keeps on giving
as long as you look down.

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Warning to Prospective iPod Purchasers

This device will play music in your ears all the time. This is awesome.

However, this device will also insert more noise into your already noisy head. It will allow you to tune out by adding more noise pollution to your already crowded psyche. If you have no room in your psyche, we recommend that you meditate. Loser.

This device will distract you from your environment. It is not recommended to operate heavy, medium, or light machinery, computers, other humans, or farm animals while using your iPod. You stand a good chance of running over somebody's chihuaha with your Volvo, crashing into a pedestrian on your bike, or disemboweling your livestock with the hay thresher if you use your iPod in conjunction with these machines.

This device will also send a message to your fellow humans - "Fuck off." If you don't want to tell your fellow humans to Fuck Off, you should probably wait until you're alone to use it. Or on the bus. Anywhere but a crowded sidewalk.

This device will send a clear message to would-be muggers: "Hey! I'm not paying attention to you! You could walk right up to me with a gun and I wouldn't notice until you had it shoved up my ass! You could probably get a few swipes in before I even registered that you'd stolen my wallet! In fact, go ahead and steal my wallet! As long as you leave the iPod in, I won't notice or care!"

In summary, your iPod will make your life and your interactions with other humans more robust and satisfying. Please enjoy responsibly.

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The Cadence of This Language

the cadence of this lanugage can
bring you pain and anguish,
it can drain reserves and leave
you laying languid or it can serve
to uplift you, sift you through
the strainer, the gift of subtle
gestures, swerve you left and
right on the lanes of layers,
aim you to the central matter and
the smatter of random noise, the
mad-hatter mercury danger boys,
lay you gently after dark on
the scented mattress of reason, it
can move you through a season in
a second then retrieve you on a
lark and place you in harm's way
but protect you
these are just some of the ways
it can affect you.



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Reply to the Poem I Never Read

don't you see that when you act
crazy
it doesn't matter how many grains of truth
fall from your lips
like crumbs of bread?
they slip through my hands
like grains of sand
when you act crazy. it's like you're
dead.
so if you want to scream at me, scream
yourself a higher hoarse because
the source of your action is losing traction.
you're the captain of a norse vessel
clad in bearskin with no need for psilocybin
and it fills me with remorse

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