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Mumblings / Poetry, Late 2017 Like mentioned on the other poetry pages, it's James Dickey-inspired poetry. Not sure why all these ended up on yet another separate page. It seemed necessary to break up the uploads of dazzling, brilliant prose. (heh, heh) NOTE: None of these are repeated in the not-exactly-new-anymore digital poetry book, Brief Tales of Compromised Solutions
Off-Conscious Fallen off-conscious Letting too much blue hang off your tired limbs The propositions of guns for hands The reality of the world at your fingertips Well you can dump that shit in the already dead ocean You had your chance for the burning sand beaches The gentle palm tree sway The orgasm filled coconuts The postcards for the lawyers The same last fifteen years stacked on top of each other That's why you didn't realize you were just living in a better smelling warehouse You think it's just one sober thing keeping you from the happy ending sunset But really it's a passed out eight
Three wheeze blend Uncorked behind the doctor's office Gives all the sounds you'd hope for Bringing down the drapes and curtain in a two kilometre radius Switches up the guilty and innocent for the afternoon Late celebrations are worse than no celebrations at all Especially if the nurses have already headed home with the hot appetizers Lying on the table with your hands painted red Eyes looking for that spot between the ceiling lights Not dark but not full of confident shine either
The headache on the kitchen counter and the lumps in the cheap glass Plenty of free cold seats when everyone else is trying Drinking your calories away in deep sighing silence A new story with the same ending The worst hammer blows are the ones you feel two weeks later And then have to retrace the miserable dizzy steps to figure out just when it fell All the types of paranoid dripping through the ear slipping through the cracks before the brain and pooling right in the balls of the feet The sort of people who would feed stray dogs and empty their pockets to runaway teen bankers No clerk would tell them sorry we're closed Because they make the circles so it all comes back to them
Midnight in the shoulders Carries the dreams of the night Someone is still dancing in the freezing cold morning Dying of stardust laden sweat
Senses And the sound Of the buildings burning Did nothing for me
And the sight Of the numbers repeating Forced a quick yawn
And the taste Of newly scattered dust Meant a dull sneeze
And the smell Of desperate guilty blood Hung with makeshift gallows
And the feeling In the pit of my many stomachs Was of tired hunger
Eating Yellow Light Eating yellow light with the memory banks on empty Getting fat and satisfied on the same stories caught into the photocopier Busy making sure I learn at least something from the leaves Whether falling from the branches or floating in my tea This was something in those grey echoes on endless rain afternoons Either much too early Or just too late
I plow the tender newsfeed fields Their approximate number of legs wrapped around my quaking torso Aggregate sweat and synergic fluids Sucking on the bountiful tits of freedom
Picked apart at birth The fingers from the nails The hair from the chest The third eye from the forehead These songs have all been sung before But if it's not fresh to your twisting ears you'll never hear it properly
Pretty speeches and ugly actions Big talk across a thin green-grey interzone I've got the be set upon by the finest wolves to really get to the bottom pit of still having a heart beat Through old block windows I peer at a forest that still doesn't have to care It's rocks in your shoes getting drunk and hooking up with bad luck Time to remember how to fuck the field Moving the office furniture after six thirty
August Shivers The words came off the icy runways Their warmth fading beneath the dark grey clouds Albert unhooked the second half of himself and with this unseasonable chill became Alice All thanks to August Shivers
The halls were finally without power Their walls cracking from lack of slovenly attention Angel shed part of their wings and with an artist's touch became Andrew All thanks to August Shivers
The fevers were lost among the mercury The temperatures cruelly taken and never replaced Sara dashes her staff upon the sun and with its release became Sam All thanks to August Shivers
The food was spread too thin in the sudden frost Teeth chattering preparation applied for forgiveness Leona gave part of herself up for a chant and became a troubadour named Leonard All thanks to August Shivers
The entropy jumped the calendar makers Caught off guard and cooly winded forever and ever aw man Stewart had his abscess frozen off with nitrogen and traded it for a sing and became Stella All thanks to August Shivers
Cool Forehead Hands Certain of the hands upon the cool forehead Getting to know the ticks of the clocks too well Living with guaranteed assistance Whether starting up or winding down the sell
My eyes get lost in pale sea of linoleum tiles I'm falling through the flashes of old stories endlessly repackaged with contemporary clothes The patterns spin slowly and my head begins to feel heavy I'm fighting against a sensation that wants to me give in to the thoughts of those
That make me doubt my slow decisions I'm wondering if there something in the speed of yes right now no second thoughts The headline fires and my head begins to feel heavy I'm walking close to the tracks that flash silver and hit the ground when the shots
Ring out not far above me Wishing I had the foresight to write living cheques to cover her rent Ready to tap out the baked fresh bad news I don't have enough information to save you from the current
Events unfolding in borrowed time So tired I almost forgot to breathe In hell and they showed me the exit But I couldn't be bothered to leave
Mixing up hands and feet Walking open the door Giving toes instead of fingers And asking the ceiling for more
Throwing words like darts Bending to the drunken line It worked out the way we thought it would But we couldn't get out in time
When it comes to searching for God You're like a common whore Take whatever's close by And get both knees on the floor
Dear Lover Dear Lover In the Distance In the Distance I've been thinking In the Distance In the Distant Of Places In the Distance
Forgotten Enemy In the Station In the Station We've been sinking In the Station In the State Of chases In the Station
Old Friend In the Memory In the Memory It's been blinking In the Memory In the Moment Of faces In the Memory
This Was Like Something Else This was like something else But I understand you wouldn't want to say it aloud Because the brand new lawyers are listening The kind with running down their faces instead of veins
It's the little differences that keep your gold heart pumping But I understand you wouldn't hold my hand to your chest Because the doctors just got sick of the ancient oaths And even bad ideas are contagious on these sky grey days
You raise your empty glass to the hollow days and weeks But I understand you wouldn't swear on any advent calendars Because the priests just don't keep time like they used to Since all the junkies sold the furniture from the rectory
My hand in the writing on the wall It was all over in a flash officer That's what so great about these things All those seconds just crawl by
Let's say you combed all the hair and sand So that it's all in place until the cold winds hits And it doesn't matter if you got all the clubs In a neat little pile beneath your box of feet
If that is the particular case And I can measure the sun with the space between my fingers Then there is a good chance that I'm out of them And you've intentionally misunderstood the building
Crashing the car into domesticity A thief in the evening because of tiny schedules The bearers of life burning it off at an exponential rate But it's all good because life would
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