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  1. rambleON

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    I stood atop rows of pale stone
    stale markers of our own living bravery
    sprawling out in a harbor, foggy as Ole slavery
    vivid in still memory, on this hill
    serving as a cemetery
    a sea of white chess pieces
    combed by somber cries
    blacklisted forever under these
    November owned lavender skies

    My mind was now a radar station
    ready to receive, some how in relation to
    the sum of all parts now in sedation, true
    the stories of those buried around me
    their vibrations, code and oddities
    situations of the dead; molten dichotomies
    I sat scowled, feeling on mushy green grass
    the blood of coffers, fools gold seeing finally at last:


    I saw ten thousand jokers pursing dark smiles, amusing The Great Spirit
    dancing on golden strings of desire, striking depths of murderous merit

    I saw five hundred bats scream through double rainbows
    muffled against the sun, on euphoric flights of gold in kilos

    I saw The Great Plains gutted entirely by bloodthirsty vacation sport
    trails of decay and long lines of Apachee hurriedly sanctioned as escorts

    Above, twenty soaring eagles dropping eggs randomly in support
    bracing a last full measure laced in a circumference of sorts
    signaling red in valentine preference, to walk fine lines
    in accepted mainstream reference this one divine time

    I heard one million battle cries at once, the collective of mankind
    each different but the same, all reflective and confined
    to eternal rest and affluent stings of angel tipped-kisses
    their pasty bliss digital in glitches
    strangled by eloquence lipped
    in eclipses

    I kissed my fingers and offered love to the master God
    I was dismissed I figured, a windsurfer on a faster squad
    all was not settled or clean, or as free. or as simple as it seems
    I realized I saw many things, and I remember seeing meaningful meanings...

    I closed my eyes

    Some time after that, I painted all my windows black
    I was now the ship and my mind the bottle
    my face long and my stare empty, soulless
    two pupils larger than dinner plates
    staring point blank at absolutely nothing
    forcing every ounce of energy to move my Queen of hearts
    behind a stage curtain called Jupiter
    wrapped in a moist membrane of my ancestral past

    I was gone now

    I will suffer through the awkwardness
    mostly because
    I do not exist

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  2. rambleON

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    Fear.

    My mind shattered into pieces and I fell on both knees crying
    atop fallen shards of daggers, trenched omniscient and implying
    knowledge of myself. Of my hurting, my lying, its cheating pendants
    that's all I seemed to do and I was exposed, under red fluorescents
    a pungent reminder of the medicinal properties of karma
    its chemicals and articulation, stitching my hearts fall

    Lacerations etched a maze of blisters on my sunlit body
    and I couldn't feel them. I was euphoric from the punishment probably
    and I chased the high again and again, shooting up its ornate arrow
    its feathers flared out of my existence, its tip a sharp soothing voice
    of good company and shoestring comforts, coolly poised
    it contracted a smile from me, amusing my lipid shackles
    an inner Jackal laughing insipidly, choking on erratic crackles
    it resonated throughout my circuitry of unabated servitude
    just now tasting the fruit of my labor, fully ripe it knew

    I reached one arm up and held on for another first day
    When the world felt correct and so thirsty someway
    Or any other conviction of universal truth
    So orderly and prescribed and very vital
    to my own deception

    I saw the distant churning and turning
    of clumsy vultures circling and swerving
    consistent random patterns in the sky
    I knew then I was their fertile soil, once I die
    I felt un-proportionally top heavy and thought
    a map of redemption could find me and be caught
    or be found if I swayed against them long enough
    for more time to play my last card, a two of jaded hearts
    desperations only hope, blindly bluffing a fools baited dart

    I envisioned their hooks clamping down
    on my leathery flesh, blood damp and brown
    shampooed and conditioned into soft raw material
    As imperial as the true color of eternal sun shine
    I clenched my teeth, waiting for the interval pain to subside
    waiting for the last call...


    And so I faced my Judgment over and over
    chasing my own sins around and around again
    but never quite getting anywhere beyond
    the Saviors soothing hand, grabbing at straws
    because the Devil was sort of behind him, pulling
    but ahead now, controlling in a relative way
    and while I fell into lucid dreams
    and lost all to irrational fantasy
    he never spoke again with much words to say
    content that I will suffer a life times worth
     
  3. rambleON

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    Snow Leopard Hymn.


    Listen to me, you, Snow Leopard

    Paw tracks show that you kept toward
    them. You saw their backs hours before our
    wagons, traps, snares, all lured forward

    For war. For rape of any inheritance
    Be saddened, beware, be forewarned. Fore
    legions in fair exhibits, folklore born
    dare a visit to the ridge of Babylon
    singing fire, the Dragon Reborn Song

    They chant,
    the war must run its synthesis
    as how cotton sows fabric
    as now Jesus sues Genesis
    a death of one thousand lashes,
    a few fair ounces added to Angela's ashes
    patience is what they hate, do wait
    for any vacant openings, famously faint
    Yes do wait,
    Snow Leopard

    They hate you Snow Leopard

    You are Earth of one legend, of many Plateau
    fertile as Garden, edged in Edens patched rows
    You are Kingdom, crowned by vine ripe tomatoes
    a court with eleven seeds to sew, planted
    naturally by violent fights faded ago
    by lineage. By the dialect of history
    and it has been written about so,

    Their sun is our aura, denying to nourish
    green shoots to flora, marked X by thee whorish
    fleets. Their searchlights plant ashore ideas
    only to drain them, then sailing for Pandora
    Mans Island of Evil that stows below--
    glowing laughter flown by crows of old
    and they will ravage you,
    Snow Leopard

    I love you Snow Leopard

    I was certainly sure I did
    your eyes, blue Superior Superlatives
    and mine, over sized Apricots*
    you, white, mapped-over after dots
    A dark prince of top elusiveness
    hard since youth, sufficient hop to usefulness

    Man ? Red, an oath leaf of ivy
    trunked of lies; storied oak anthologies
    rooted in skunked belly deceit,
    a meeting of no apologies
    nor no receipt

    I show you Snow Leopard

    You go right. brain knows it's left
    Man learns right, brain discerns it theft
    to tell the difference between:
    first, remain unseen with steady breath
    and hope. Then listen to the cracks
    in the wall with a stethoscope
    and if it's open it must be legit
    fit for average consumption, don't forget
    because what is private is handled by pirates
    prying loose profits from privileged diets
    Remember that and tell your Kingdom,
    Snow Leopard

    You are their face of spades
    a space of cascading snow flakes
    placed sun faded, flanked
    stunned, not alienated
    while North went West
    and East sent forth South
    they went Left of course! Unless record
    melted a compass in their mouth

    I sang verses from the Dragon Reborn
    to you Snow Leopard,
    you hissed:

    Soon, Legionaries of one feather will
    smile twisted downward arcs of cruelty
    exposing fangs of one thousand year old tusks
    sucking the golden apple that never was
    milking mountain breasts of Earth Mother
    bleeding succulent venom upon her nursery
    poisoning the well of youth, virginity
    and the voice of elders, its wisdom
    in search of all Snow Leopards
    the sacrificial lamb and key
    ignition switch
    to New World Order

    Soon there will be immunity to mass mutiny
    Soon it will be half the global scrutiny
    Soon flags are half mast, raised in arms
    Marching one staff against unity





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    *Thx to kittenx for the over sized Apricots phrase. I borrowed it from her <3
     
  4. rambleON

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    Chess Coup d'état


    A rag of Pawns have yet to reveal
    to you, my Queen, their subconsciousness;
    a storm system forming near your rein of consciousness.
    Their tears bleed acidic rain drops, eroding away thought.
    Their unity hails the size of imagination, pounding away logic.
    And their stealth, a bolt of lighting, splits a second behind
    the crackle of their ensuing thunder.
    My Queen, it will unsettle all contemporary foundations.
    Let it rain, let it rein.

    I warn you, my Queen, that

    A Pawn laughs as he calculates and mixes in
    acid rain and bubble gum fixed as medicine...

    Loading subtle guns for some fast chance to jettison
    life of rank and file to go stencil in ten SOS Messages
    signaling distressed shot instances kept Checked to mate Chaos
    in bloodshed plotted premises. At all costs, in spite of
    red blemishes caught painting a real horror to lives lost

    Listen closely everybody,

    His pills send surreal dopamine hand cranked, telescoped
    in and out, until reasoning is totally maliced by dope
    ripe against discreet tyrannical positions of power
    knife in check, masterful in his grand finale hour

    All waiting on some Trumpeter to bugle the call
    of war under one blood banner flying high the fall
    of Kings, tightening a noose around the Queens bed

    Splitting her long legs loosely, stabbing her seams red
    finger nails scraping out her orifice, raw slush
    blood picked teeth lick flesh, dry fucking to flush
    out all direct claims to the Virgin Mary

    Certain to burn any seed inside that may carry
    the next line of unhealthy ego, next of kin with
    a mirror mirror on the wall, sworn in existence with
    rusty slit wrists pinned to orange tinted crucifixes

    And you, my king, come closley,

    You and your royal ties will sever for ever
    your rein of tax and terror will face a mirror
    and the look back will demonstrate all the hate,
    however pastel painted, you retain in lieu of me
    It's hostel, raided by youths in fox holes both dying
    and surviving orthodox souls simultaneously

    Simply because,

    All is kept silent of which is alienable in open water-
    never too far off are jaws of intercept, inept on
    all attainable truths spoken for barter

    Live. Let. Outlet for the onset.

    Let. Live. Onset for the outlet.

    Check mate by Coup d'état.
     
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    In one life I was a farmer born lowly into blistered lands
    worn into existence with a mixture of soil and salted sweaty hands
    It was then, against all odds, that I gave to Kingdoms and country
    feeding fat children of old wealth, in need of wheat thins and barley

    The Nobles too, fed from my garden; from my hand like sour pigs
    I raised them, watched them harden- from kids to powdered Wigs
    I saw them rise out of The Dark Ages, their power consolidation
    a blanket of death housing a serpent frown around all our nations
    squeezing my life as a puppet, of course pulling at sliver strings
    until I died before Monarchs, but not before learning a few things

    In another life I was born an Indian to a Seminole Chiefdom
    I lived in unison and sung songs in one regional anthem
    I had unintelligible wisdom and blossomed first like a native flower
    deep rooted in ancestral soil under humid rainy showers
    I grew peacefully under one million smitten Sun sets
    learning again, yet another dialect a kin to written alphabets
    in my last breath of fruition the Spanish fleets surprised us
    we offered tobacco and corn, they gave us viruses

    I died.

    In another life I was a field hand in a sea of King Cotton
    lost in some political translation, picking until soon forgotten
    The smell of Yankee gun smoke flared obnoxiously to a Rebel Yell
    and war broke out again, for freedom but not really in this Federal hell
    Three hundred years later I achieved second class citizenship
    get out of jail free card used to wipe up the same Ole shit again, shit

    I died.

    In another life I was Amelia Earhart flying a Sigma air plane
    navigating blue oceans, clouds asphyxiated highly in my name
    I crashed and disappeared on purpose for my own amusement
    history ignores and creates fiction for those who never knew it

    In another I was engineering Democracy as a factory laborer
    lambs for lions in war profiteering, riveting helmets on toy soldiers
    my name was Rosie and I was told to hate ambitious Hitler
    I had stars and stripes to dream and awoken lonely to whisper
    softly to myself that my life will only be that of some unknown
    I will never age, never die, never know how fulfillment is thrown

    I died ninety nine thousand times and lived one million years

    I painted caves with blood of rivals and smiled
    I sustained flint lock shots of musket tipped with vile
    I had been a Titanic passenger, drowned but survived
    I crashed stock markets and thrived, swallowed thorns and lied
    I had been a prize fighter in the golden age of sport boxing
    I walked batters and pitched no hitters, old age never knocking
    I wrote lies for news papers and sold Ivory Coast sweet tooths
    I fucked Marlyn Monroe and told Jackie Onassis half truths

    The thing is, I live until I die
    only to be reborn with Adams eye
    I learned to believe half of what I see
    and nothing of what I hear superficially
    always witnessing the pains of history

    Crying, Lying, Cheating, Hurting
    that's all we seem to do, so good






    Life without end
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    Rainforest

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    A network of branches weaves textured vines as trampoline fabrics
    Lacing fine bands of green, stitched across oceans of Atmospheric Static
    the molten Sun broiled above, spilling over onto endless forest canopy
    Pouring down amazing colors, assorted before us; in an Amazon's anatomy
    Below, the ground misted as a viper, sweltering under its living umbrella cover
    Dissipating as a kaleidoscope of splendor, globally hissing its Earth mother


    ***

    Drums of natives could be heard echoing across the valley floor
    no doubt a ceremony, strumming forward to behold white washed storms
    Yellow birds of paradise sat perched over a Murky River Majestic
    Unaware of the peppy cadence, rumbling on quicker now than suspected
    the pedals of oriental plants rattled in low bass, after each beat
    and the percussions resounded louder still, until the pedals shrieked

    Like a Serpent eating its own tail, the music grew desperate
    consuming itself, in an endless digestion of future betterment
    it was a sinuous act of instinct, faith, that the human inhabitants
    marched against a continuous threat, holding last wills to testament
    drums became symbols, and symbols became the resistance secreted
    clear cutting the forest floor bowed up as the prevalence needed,

    Chainsaws ripped at the bases of Earthly virgin forests
    swirling around saw dust against a flurry of birds in exodus
    tractor arms swiveled on pivots and dug out river basins
    filled them with vacation ships and let parking lots drive in
    workers in white hats prescribed field fires to clear more roads
    Jaguar refugees spotted their backs and disappeared inward, toward
    the rebellion against destruction, the peoples rage
    Against the simple machines befallen them, springing shut a cage

    Arrow tips peppered across the Suns arching keel
    railing down shards of flint, splintering around parts of steel
    four hundred painted faces danced after them softly
    pulled forward by the drummers drums raging ferocity
    Bulldozers were flipped and worker throats were slit
    Rubber tires were pincushions of arrow tipped torrents
    Yellow Birds of Paradise were swishing and screaming
    wings a cyclone of hell, their claws gripping and heaving
    seething and gutting out blue eyes, bloody with blonde hair

    Escalating louder,

    the drums became the sounds of one fair oscillating brother hood
    became the curdle of ten thousand more arrows pitted in blood
    Slithering like an Anaconda born to be the hero tonight
    The bellow of the machines contrasted the drums
    And they soon danced too, wrapping around eachother some

    A child with two red feathers lifted a chin up
    one slight of hand boomed, his drum pent up

    There could be no doubt now.
     
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    Growth

    I left Michigan no more worse for the Florida glare
    I was sore, of course, sorta from its boredom stares
    I had two quarters in my pocket and five dimes stacked in the back
    one dollar to my name and the high times calling again to ask
    If I was serious about my life this time, to leave it all behind
    these romanticized mechanics and the free spirt themes of mine
    about the things I did, my standing ovation antics- dreams of fancy
    free wheels spinning up stream, floating forever by means of dancing

    And karma had always told me that my time would somberly come
    now she dropped hints that it was my life throwing down under some
    how I was no longer the young teacher in a large universe
    or the kid that once impeached her, becoming her leader first
    I remembered me; a crisp point of light in the night sky
    the December wish of death, the mighty white Knight of lies
    being once the notes, and the recapitulation of the Clemson Blood
    the symphony of destruction, composed in a unison becoming undone
    how my heart was the harborer of failure on the cross roads of thorns
    and I walked forward, for I was hailed by hell in winters sorrow storms

    Older now, at the age of twenty nine, looking back only to wake and weep
    at the quarter century of times I pleaded, allowing the cheap talk to speak
    for me, all my faults tasted a shitty sandwich, stale but sea salted
    exhausting young minds to fail the youth at all cost; for no reason I did
    and how when you're young you never grow up, never slow down
    even now I hung back for some lever to show up- though I drowned

    I remember I observed all with sick receptiveness
    quick to deal half truths again, a clue to its synthesis
    I lied to those who helped me, denied those who did not
    became a sure shot dealer in a legion of sly nonchalant
    I sold out my future to hollow short term advantages
    life in the movement now, for later was total suffrage

    But today, I realized what I had and what I didn't
    It wasn't the crimson sun with golden fields reminiscent
    or the dream of ten white fences and cotton clouds, painted
    on life in some picture perfect time forgotten, too complacent
    Today did not care if I had the chance to correct the past
    it gave up what I had cast called in retrospect at last

    What I have now is lifes lesson and only that
    the daily struggle that questions a lonely chance
    luck, that I taught myself honesty by dividing the subtractions in my life
    I caught the fever and the spices to attract a second chance, twice
    and my Ancestors came in a dream, suddenly, humbly what I now mean
    What does what mean ? As Grandfather bows to Father accordingly
    and Grandfather says listen to harmony, a developmental stanza
    balancing unanimously, our noisy minority

    And forever on
    I knew what it meant
    to be a man
     
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    There was an odd sensation radiating and it wasn't the warm fire
    it wasn't the grass nor the unpaid villagers used to grow and farm her
    though, there was something very off tonight, something different going on
    The Peoples Dragon slept strong and snored, buzzing, sawing dream logs
    Music plucked up quirky moods and shadows swallowed up the village
    The moon was full and loomed above, up earlier tonight in the outer edges
    Still, nothing moved against any to inhibit the workings of daily happenings
    Men packed tobacco in pipes and held council mostly about happy things
    children sat on dirty shins with dirty faces, wide eyed expecting stories
    of The Dragon Guardian; a beast of Thirty Ages who spit wet fire horridly
    Women moved about with quick nimbleness, tending stock and frying pans
    unsuspecting of one Lady in Red dress, near the Dragon with prying hands...

    Her face was a triangle of hate, and two eyes graphed above a clef tooth
    her hair trained back after each hot breath, studying the Dragons next move
    wearing the dress of the Crimson Blood and a ring of The Dreaming Inception
    her ability was for hire; to work in nightmares hanging in endless suspension
    linking sleep worlds to the waking, connecting a bridge more sinister than hell:
    Evil, The Great Lord of the Dark, Satan screaming or whatever filled her she hailed
    against the Village she hustled the Dragons rest- now woven with infiltrated vines
    and they grew to wrap around his thoughts, watered by hate, saturated by swine

    **

    A crack of lighting flashed and the Lady smiled
    her Dragon pet awoken to her hands waving wild
    his eyes flickered like a casino slot, rolling, shifting
    pupils larger than baskets, peering, slowly lifting
    the ground rumbled as one giant screaming eagle
    the sky filled with the dark silhouette wings, too lethal
    towering above the village the Dragon rose demanding
    glowing eyes from a birds advantage, his heart stolen but fanning
    the pursuits of the people were now standing at attention
    looking up they saw the wings cradling them, no question

    The children looked up from childhood stories interrupted
    and the men froze to the sight of the oven enclosing so morbid
    the Women ran screaming grabbing kin, running from destruction
    The Lady motioned silver hands as the puppet master, jerking stings
    the Dragon dance certainly, talons and tail reacting to her purposely
    fire rained down splashing the pits of hell, over flowing as a iron ore
    burned fleshed smothered the air and stacked bodies scorned for,
    as long as the spell was woven, as long as hell swelled up shore

    The Dragon hissed down a wet blanket of fallen fire
    tightly sealed by wings wrapped around, lost in lava pliers
    he was no longer the Guardian protector, or a pet of the people
    over taken, computed to be evil, he looked blank seeping full
    of dark thoughts and Juggernaut rationale no longer sane
    scooping down as a crane crunching bones and window panes

    He stomped out dead dreams and last breaths
    the people he knew and the Villages best
    no remorse or second chances, one pillage down
    and ten more to go, no living heart would ever know
    the life of any sanctuary or corn planted in rows

    He fluttered his wings in a ripple of tiding shake
    the lady in Red dress hoped on and the reins she raked
    they were off to the next town, the next target
    the Great Lord of the Dark was off, but now lethargic
    and he was more organized, neat in his mind
    and the world shifted backwards again in saddened time
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    The Clemson Tides


    Ready, Set. Sailing the soft spoken ocean on a Sister Ship
    Again, Sent as a whisper mailing messages from my older lips
    I hit the deck expecting a dress of sex to reflect Mother's hips
    And I regress that I must slit my wrist to register this sick effect
    That the colors and splendor chosen plead the fifth since its offense
    Then I fold more LSD into my eyelids and stitch them up for its stench
    Then I roll another one-hitter, then trip over high bids rolled in sixths
    Then I hide behind the railing, eying the waves on XTC simply rolling
    Why ocean air tastes salty is only known in the Captain's holding
    Then I knock on his door and he's smoking some stupid white dreams
    Then I take his exhale, smelling lucid nightmares so its seems
    Then I slap my face fifty times, hoping, praying, hallucinating
    Why is his face melting ? As if his face isn't port side tracing

    Ready, Set. Behaving high in my mind and the lies intensify
    Again, Swaying, to the Ship's irony, sailing wide in Clemson Tides
    I deck the halls with my balls of drugs, vibrating in suspended times
    And I regress that I find the Rest Room behind long lines of people
    That all the reasons to rewind and ask directions is to no equal
    Then a lady, at five, talks of Jesus between her unsung steeple
    Then maybe she lets me in her thighs to sneak my tongue through
    Then I warm up in her panties and snug her curves for me to cum to
    Why is she a tulip sent, sweet tar to two horny nostrils ?
    Then I find the Bath Room and allow it to snow white blow
    Then I line up a razor and soon snort below the toilet bowl
    Then I find myself shuttering and wheezing that God is great
    Why coke is in my eyes and acid up my nose is beyond tonight

    Then I go stand at the ships bow and observe a distant land
    I see kids walking up a beach with pigeons in militant hands
    They are trying to show me something but I can't tell
    What they are signaling is urgent as the birds tail-
    the sky in a million directions but only one flies my way
    Then the children begin to fight each other, some are slain
    It's a pretty thing, this bird, and it has a little note
    It lands on my nose, tickling the coke drip in my throat
    I read it and laughed. Then Cried. Inside and out, I died
    It went on, saying the oceans were once beautiful, alive
    And how they never needed anything but self to sustain
    And how they splashed fair and washed away in vain
    And how life was once teaming with brilliant diversity
    And that meant for subservient Fins to swim so thirsty
    And finally, that, they cradled me now under this ship
    And they were worried about me and offered a big sip
    From the depths of their wisdom, trenched a mile deep
    And I drank with a flinch and said fuck it to sleep
    I stayed up with the Ocean because it was teaching me
    I looked onto its surface and it believed back at me

    Ready. Set. Tossing all my drugs into the sea
    Again, I was set ready to only be only me
    My acid tabs swirled in the current, sorry Captain
    Ounces of grass added perfectly for hard water action
    Then I dusted the water with sparkles of self treason
    I let the drugs float on forever in tides of one reason
    Then I thought of the woman with youthful thighs
    When I Remembered the night with her I only sighed
    I would see her again many nights without any crutch
    I Would feel her breasts against my lips lonely touch
    And I would exhale hot air over her opaque nipple
    Lowering hands along curved hips keeping it simple

    And finally, I looked up and thought of the children too
    Felt the distant shore wash up on their silver booths
    And I thanked them for their honesty and suffering
    Told them the Ocean has me now with modest offerings
    And I wished them blessings for letting the message fly
    Why must we all recount the order of our own Clemson Tides ?
     
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    Dear Dr. Seuss,

    I slit my wrist today to sip up the poison
    It's my choice with veins this noisy again
    In there, a Choir of voices all sung in tune
    Their faces were bloody, drawn as color cartoons
    My better judgment laid back despite my absence
    Whatever I say, blame it on my stab wounds, since
    I'm sick but healthy, somewhat odd and deranged
    That's why I write you, never mind the bloody stains

    Anyhow, what's up man ? I read Go Dog GO today
    A masterpiece work, full throttle all the away
    Took awhile, but I finished it easy enough
    It shook me up, but not like that Grinch stuff
    And what's with the Grinch anyhow ? Pure evil
    Essentially it alludes toward a sappy sequel
    And I can't miss the changes that occupy his mind
    Too sloppy and stressful against Christmas chimes
    My ears bleed out to bells storming as missiles
    Because Horton Hears A Who and sea shells whistle ?
    Why Dr. Seuss, why ? I get you, but hot damn
    We need to talk soon to correct this jelly jam

    Anyhow, I've been cleaning out my library
    Burning all your books that I hide and carry
    Making room for my own looks, in the new style
    I became book sick reading you after awhile
    You don't know me Seuss like that, in fact
    Don't confuse me with some random stray kats
    I sew needles to my eyes and recite inner rhymes
    Finding time to study between your beginner lines
    Green Eggs be dammed if Sam I am is that picky
    Wishing that Ham came on demand but more quickly
    I find meaning where kids only rewind with laughter
    Your books sway and last in my mind after each chapter
    Shakespeare shit Romeo and you spit Go Dog Go
    So I Vomit Juliet and burn my insides head to toe

    But I'm over slammed with Green Eggs and Ham
    I liked them, but understand I cannot be Sam
    So get fucked Dr. Seuss with your Cat in the Hat
    Your Words cluck sir; ABCs musing as acrobats
    You say one fish, two fish, red fish on a round dish
    I say finish a complete sentence not somehow childish
    But you can't, you wrote to our National Pastime
    When Coke was new and kids held dimes in lunch lines
    You do have talent; astonishing when candle lit
    Dim, I lend it to the paper in which I shit
    And a million pens ink over spots yet printed
    Yet, you leak blotches on paper and still get minted...
    But you're now prey and I remain the predator
    Yesterday was your day, today I mail this letter

    Sincerely,

    Ramb

    PS: Rest in peace Dr. Seuss because in the end the beat goes on...
     
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    Drink penny royal tea
    I am a parasite
    I pet and feed it
    Angel wing .
     
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    growth is my favorite
    but they are all good
     
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    rambleON Coup

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    thanks missbehave. I'll be dumping all future verses here in this thread :D
     
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    I'm getting back into reading things here and this was the first piece I came across.
    Strong and sullen and moody. I could really feel the atmosphere, there was a nice crescendo of sorts and then bringing things back to a more quieter, reflective mood. Build up and release.

    I'll point out my favorite quotes:
    "a sea of white chess pieces
    combed by somber cries
    blacklisted forever under these
    November owned lavender skies" --- ah-mazing.

    "two pupils larger than dinner plates
    staring point blank at absolutely nothing
    forcing every ounce of energy to move my Queen of hearts
    behind a stage curtain called Jupiter
    wrapped in a moist membrane of my ancestral past"

    I like your voice and the imagery. It's fresh. I don't know whether this was inspired by the image, but if it was, kudos, that takes quite a bit of yourself. I remember doing something like that but I didn't stick to it.
     
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    I like the story here and even the verbose presentation felt like it suited the piece. You have a flair in your writing, and it's important, it's what separates you. But be careful not to lose your reader and yourself. There is a tendency to overwhelm with an onslaught of imagery and I know I've done that myself. As writers we become attached and loyal to our phrases and words. Although when we read them separately - they may be beautiful and grand, when you step back and look at a piece as whole, they may get lost and create confusion. I'm guilty of doing the same thing and defending, but with practice and thinking about the process of writing I've come to learn that sometimes less is more.

    Going back to this piece -- There are a lot of interesting snippets here and I like a poem with an effortless rhyme and surprising turns of the tongue.
     
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    ^Thanks your for you feedback kittenx. About the Chess Coup detat, yup thank you for pointing that stuff out, in the manner you did, in the care you did and with the insights you have. It was a verse written for a rap music battle league, the focus is always flow and it's unfortunate but if you twist their tongues over there, you will get votes and win, that was a championship verse and it was a stale mate. The battle was actually like chess, it was symbolic of my rein over there lol and that my alias is also Coup detat . But the writing is still what it is, as you say it is.

    But that's not how I want to write. I want to leave rhyme behind and move on to a lesser frame work and have more possibilities of expressions. But I've also heard some say that with rules and boundaries they excel, just saying. I value your critic side too so feel free to not hold back when repling here in the future. Because in the end, I write for validation, to please and to entertain. Though it is not always so but I always try. Learning.

    blessings


    What did you mean by this ? I wasn't clear.
     
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    Hi RamB! I wrote a poem! Crazy times wat. I thought I'd dedicate it to you, since you're a friend, and I know you're not really a child-molesting sicko. lol :D It's a bit old-fashioned, but it is here in your thread now, so deal with it!

    Proscribed Pome


    There was a call for order
    All imperatives were pooled
    The lone rook circled overhead
    And in the sea sharks schooled.

    Such suction seemed the steadiness
    to make short work, and longer
    Became the way we drew our time
    And as our minds grew stronger

    We asked if what we'd set upon
    Was not now what was needed
    Freedom hung, not let to flot
    Through chaos being de-seeded.

    Art then poured its best out
    in defiance and from fright
    Highest, singing dawning song
    for which was no requite.

    Nature sung to for her fruits
    At last gave up her treasure
    A tiny hope, a laughing trust
    That rid man of his measure

    What then came next is your fine guess
    For finer knowledge falters
    And even tale told to this point
    Is questioned, for all alters.

     
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    Oh I meant the photo of a cemetery below that poem.
     
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    a farily recent one and thank you dejavu, a beautiful piece :)
    ===


    I like an audience
    so I do things,
    random things

    I was at an Assembly once
    and fell asleep to monotony
    to rasping echos, falling
    into a nursery of short attentions

    the speaker was one bearded neck vocalizing
    safe sex or vote or die or whatever
    I was sleeping anyways, don't matter

    an elbow nudged a lower rib
    and I lifted crusty eyes
    took in a thousand images
    and bit my lower lip yawing
    I mentally told off the dude next to me
    and my head rocked back again

    an elbow again
    fuck it, let's roll

    I pulled out a Marlboro from a shirt pocket
    light it against one hundred gasps
    exhaled into infinity, smoke rings for Jesus
    I guess, whatever

    I stood to stretch my jeans
    but really to see the sea of faces
    all point blank, some laughing
    some judging, most up tight

    the bearded speaker froze
    now every ounce of energy
    turned on me, I took another drag
    I was the Assembly now
    speaker, or whatever
    don't matter, they led me
    into the lime light

    I exhaled into a womans face
    never noticed her really
    because I was on the stage now

    Looking into the sea of cookie cut faces
    I took another drag of the Marlboro
    exhaled thinking about what to do
    up here, king of the mountain
    thinking

    fuck it,
    I pressed a white knuckle
    against a hitch hikers thumb
    knocking my Marlboro back
    to let the mother fucker with
    happy elbows have a sentiment
    of my attention
     
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