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they all say thirty two teeth we possess
they also say thirty at the most we confess
who eats the other two
well no dentist ever knew
actually dentistry can only teach not profess
There in my way was a wooded glade
From virulent green to autumns shade
It arrived this morning as if newly grown
The trees many colours felt for me alone
The sky above a beautiful azure blue
What more crossed my path anew?
The afterlife was having a good laugh
A chuckle came infesting my new path
"We hear you within your troubled ways
You left the path of life for many days.
We have made a sanctuary for you to find
Where you can regain your peace of mind."
Sweeney’s Pastoral
Well there I was mid afternoon.
Deer hunting behind a home made blind
and woods as dead as they could be.
Bored!
Memorized each tree and hill
two hours at least until prime time.
And roving eyes alight
on a broken and healed small sapling
huh....
So I cut it out of the straight crowd. Carried it back to my seat
and considered it.
from all angles.
still bored.
Continuum
Discontented by the now
I long for what has been
and share the thirst for metaphor
that slowly dries my pen
misshapen dreams and anecdotes
beleaguer what I’ve lost
and howling fiends of irony
ensure I pay the cost
When I was a younger man
I wanted to break all of the rules.
When I was a younger fool
I broke all of the rules
that didn't need to be broken.
Now here I sit
a younger man's old fool
while death waits around the corner
like a long lost brother.
toga flapping
on the run
flogging horse
in setting sun
a corner strikes
the chariot stout
a flapping fish
he flounders out
enigmatic
quick surprise
his hardy laurels
scratch his eyes
dirt and dust
in tousled hair
his humerus cracked
and hubris bare
his dribble slick
in settling air
Awestruck was I to find
In this time of misery
Age of darkness
An emotional revelation.
A color so obscure
From a creature divine.
and warm worn floors
seduction winds betray
the hollows of the heart
where sadness grows
the shadow knows
and lime green bottles
with their tinge twist warm
release the knots of
foreign scores
seething bold and brave
in headphones light
the escapes of long
dead dreams
that spring anew
moving swift
in flight
a summer haze
transfixed and static
like restless birds
their talk chaotic
yo,
I'm gettin' a new car
big ass wheels
a sexy little rumble
@$^<>+(^>>>...
oh!
you wish
*^|+<:*... & ...^$#@|+>")^!!!
so,
let me get this straight...
you got this fail-safe tip
from some guy who heard it
from another guy
who knows somebody
in the know
ok...
what's the spread?
^%$#@_+|
doh!,
that's so stupid
fuck them losers
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