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Simon Smythe
Member since October 19, 2014
Member for 11 years, 7 months
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Free Advice
Laugh once
Laugh twice
You cannot laugh in vain
The giddy heights of hilarity
May not save you
From the flame
But they are a cheap way
To pass the wine
As you dance in the grain
A dancing monkey
Is only terrible
On the end of a chain
Grind your organ on the footpath
If you want to
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It's going to leave a stain
The grey despair of your ugly life
Is a wound up pain
But you can zap your brain
Burn your hurt under a magnifying glass
Ant murdering psychopath
Grin so insane
Laugh hearty at guilt's game
Rip wide open your heart
Drink it's blood in the rain
Dissolve your shame in a barrel of acid
Roll it overboard
Nothing will ever look the same
Forget about your need to blame
Become sniggering master
Over capacity for pain
Grapple grievance to a disconnected anchor
Weigh it before you resent it
Then set sail for the main
Some grip so hard clinging to anger
They get cancer
Don't do the same
Ride the gravy train
Of this snide and true superiority
Over all that is lame
Simon Smythe’s timeline
- October 2024
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19 SatAnniversary
10 years of membership
- August 2021
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15 SunNew follower
@lovedly
- October 2019
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19 SatAnniversary
5 years of membership
- August 2017
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09 WedReceived a critique
on Free Advice from @weirdelf
"I've notice myself putting in or leaving out small words in readings with significant changes. Did you notice the immunity to cancer? It was entirely unconscious and I decided to leave it there. So sue me." -
09 WedReceived a critique
on Free Advice from @weirdelf
"somehow I expect something more overtly political or challengingly epistemological from you these days. Glad you defy expectations and I think it is better for being so. Here's the reading. If you would like me to post…" - July 2017
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31 MonReceived a critique
on Water Me Down from @weirdelf
"I really can be obtuse. https://soundcloud.com/neopoet/water-me-down-square" -
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16 SunNew follower
@weirdelf
- April 2017
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09 SunReceived a critique
on Buckled Mirth from @Esker
"used capuchain monkeys not chimps....not orangutans sloths nor apes the capes were intelligent chimps were violent and ate peoples face still apt to do interesting....these little monkeys bright enough to work for nothi…" -
09 SunReceived a critique
on Buckled Mirth from @Sparrow
"A riddle unfolds as the music plays on, there could be more body to this one so that the reader can just be nudged in the right direction. Good to have you back again! Take care Yours Ian.." -
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- January 2017
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06 FriReceived a critique
on Are We There Yet? from @Esker
"zippy the pin head...omg...I used to read that back in the day.. well....I am a confrontational...ultimatum kind of chess man.. if I played chess..and I did for a time with the ex.... my mother was always sharpening her…" -
05 ThuReceived a critique
on 500 Towels from @Esker
"I remember our little house....sold off... someone new to enjoy its location Fern Glen Road and highway 592! the little yellow place! Ontario Canada! Should see what new Google Earth photo shows me...trees. grow and com…" - November 2016
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07 MonCritiqued
"A Springtide. " by @Sommer Lyn
"totally mirrored my haunt in the best possible way. And it's only 10:29am" - September 2016
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11 SunNew follower
@Sommer Lyn
- October 2015
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19 MonAnniversary
One year of membership
- September 2015
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- March 2015
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20 FriCritiqued
"Date Night End In Murder" by @Barbara Writes
"every second of every day I wonder if without the evil desperation and emptiness the light of the loving would be diminished. I have been told I am wrong by my sister and I tell her I do not seek to rationalise or excus…" -
20 FriCritiqued
"Facts of existence" by @lovedly
"the genetic intelligence code of the internet can go either way. integrity is valuable only when we have the character to assess new information with an open mind. but I don't need to tell you about free will, or the ba…" -
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19 ThuCritiqued
"piegeage" by @Esker
"this is real for me too. my girlfriend would have nothing but fluffy kittens. but it often looks like taxidermy to me. thanks for the connection . . . it helps me to be kind" -
16 MonCritiqued
"Reflection on the last Six Months" by @William Saint George
"dragging up the uncomfortable truths. this one reads like it descended upon you and was valiantly wrestled onto paper." -
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03 TueCritiqued
"free will" by @judyanne
"and then again, slowly. I think it might be a truly great piece of work now" - February 2015
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- November 2014
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15 SatHighest posting month
November 2014 — 11 poems
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- October 2014
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19 SunFirst publication
give n take
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19 SunJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
Hey y'all. I'm only in it for the money.
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Location: New Zealand, NZL
Favorite Poets
Leonard Cohen
Morrissey
Jonny Cash
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The Pushers
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Water Me Down
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Don’t Disregard the Voices
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