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Recent Poems
- Comfortable Cards? “Yes, Thanks” / HELL IN A HAND-GRENADE. / Her Strength to StayAwake in the Rain – It Says a Thousand Sentimental Things Stretched to the Point of BreakingEvenlyAgainstHer VeryOwn Equilibrium / The Hands that Harvest Happiness in a Glass.
- “The only reason why we don’t get drunk on over-the-top delirium is… .”
- THE PATIENCE/Patients OF A PRAGMATIC POLTERGEIST. ((SOON AS))We Sink (INSISTENTLY) Inside of HER Heroin-KISSED Knife
- Chapter… “STRUCTURE… and Dance” / Tilt Toward Tremendous – Needle on the neAnderthAl – Her Past (the point of paused) PRETENCE Prettily
- “AIMING FOR MADAGASCAR__ AND GETTING ((gently go mentally)) MOUNTJOY ((magnified))!!” / Her UGLY_A$$_HUGS:: “ASKING FOR everything” –WHEN (their) “MADNESS” MEANT something else entirelyPEAKED AS PERSUASIVELY safe. / “Taking Their DrIvE… …. __ to Time SaFe” / (All of the) Words in the World ‘Till It SMASHES ITSELF gently_in_the_FACE — “tO tASTE THE Thunder (Up_and_Under!! !)”
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- WHEN THEIR TEMPO TALKS. Criticise AND CRUSH Them INSIDE-OUT Again and They WILL Come. ((BACK AT YOU)) with TICKER-TAPE Fleas STABLY-WELL Attached at the SEEMS… / “Sedating Her Beautiful fACE” and FAILING TO Fall Apart at the (REGULAR OLD) Seams / PAVED TO MAKE SeNsE of a MIllIOn “much MORE than neverBEFORE seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” mereEAGER PeOPLe’s ABLE-faced StAtE oF aWaREnEss technique… .. and (((((PREVIOUSLY))))) purCHASED for the fuckSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE price — LIVING (layabOUT!!!!) OUTloud INSIDE… … .. “of (good ol’) LADY GODIVA’S ((favouriteBEST state of)) idiosyncratic ANOMALY” – even if SHE is NO GOOD next to DanCing diamonds… … .. THAT LIKE TO DIE before RE-ATTACHING THEMSELVES to life’s favourite “L!!!!!!!!!!E!!!”
- Accordingly CONfusing / When the Last Thing They Did Was the First Thing they Thought About – “TODAY!!!!!!!” / COKE INSIDE OF HER MILE-WIDE MIND. SOON AS HER UP-AGAINST-THE-WALL illness immediately wins… … “without even knowing it.” Her Paused Poltergeists. just might / The Theory of Anything ELSE… “According to George_GO-MENTALLY!!” / Paused Neanderthals, “Please” / TRIGONOMETRY TWEAKED / PARANOID PARISH PRIESTS with overEAGER EGOS / Her Magnified Madness Never Even Asked:: “to Pass-Go!!” SWALLOW THEM WHOLE and attempt to PRECISELY emote BATSHIT CRAZY EXTRACURRICULARS, “plEASE!!” IT Calls Itself STAUNCHLY STUPENDOUS – PARANOID triAngles.. with all of their uncertain determinations / MasterPEACES, plEASE… … with Blood in Their Teeth. / “Schindler’s (STILL!!) P!$$ED!!!”
- “WHAT IF WE TILTED OUR TURN-OF-TONGUE TOWARD THE HEATED_HOT_SUN some AND D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y m-u-c-h more THAN ALWAYS BEFORE??” / Those MATTER-OF-FACT “Go Fuck Yourselves” FRACTURES”
- When Everything Became Sensational A-G-A-I-N:: “mINUS uS eVER hAVING EvEN TriEd TO uNtIE tREaCHeroUs, AhEm… TiEs” / Turn the Key and Walk-On-In:: “wiLdlY Does It, pLeAsE!” / Turn the Piano Up to (a PitchPerfect) Pause (TO NAUSEATE THE ALSO-CANS)… “Please”
- When Everything Became Something Especially Scintillating. Pepperbridge and BoJangles. – working poem/prose-piece
- Man of the Spoon… . THE SMILE THAT THANKED ITSELF IN-KIND.
- THE SPOON ACCORDING TO GEORGE. / A Lullaby of Lies. TODAY WE MADE MAYHEM MATTER – and she handled it with HALF-A-HEART of UTTERLY EFFING substantial ENTHUSIASM… “entirely.”
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- THE BOY WHO PLAYED DICE WITH THE (depth of the) DIAMOND.. / Her Skylight of KITE-RUNNER Mind … taking ten and ten and GETTING ANYTHING ELSE OTHER than TWENTY.. .. “delicately DISPLACED SENTENCES, plEASE!!” Orchestrated ENVIOUSLY Akin … … To All Kinds Of Very Loud, Wild, And AUDIBLY Exciting
- IMBECILES IN WINDOWSILLS — “Playing Roll-The-Dice… With Our Favourite Best Smiles” – )WHEN( Someone Said Something UTTERLY UpSiDeDowN Today and it MOST probably paid FOR ITS PRICE IN UTTERLY eRROR-sTrEwN EvEryThinG, “plEASE!!” — Take 1
- WHEN WE WATCHED WISDOM WALK. the pace of a prolonged masterPEACE = “the ice-DUNGEON According to an outstanding Anomaly that Made-Its-Own-MindUP anyWAY.”
- Expecting the Everglades AND GETTING Gougane Barra INSTEAD – “heavenly, Please” / “JUST HOW ******* FAR DID WE (all) FALL?” / THEIR PAINT PUSHED AGAINST THE GRAIN… and gathered get-back-graciously, “plEASE!” / BEATEN-DOWN TO bOUnCe == “without a soUNd!! !!”
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- Erasing These Pretty-faced Pictures and Calling it ALL THAT WE’VE REALLY never EVER beEn – “Even?” / Soon As Our Appetites Smile – “SOON AS THEIR CHEMICAL SUGGESTIONS SAID SO” / “We Watched You Crawl_______________ into the Mind of an Angel (So that She Could Stay-awake A-FAIR-WHILE)” / – Take 1 and 2
- THE SUN WITH ITS HAPPY-AS-**** SM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LE AND ABLY-WELL attached to the wideawake SKY…Line of HAPPY-FACED coc_AINE heads AT N!TE… with ABLY WELL EGOS, plEASE!! — “WHEN THE facsimile SMILE.. SAYS SO” / Stacks of Staccato-LIKE SILENCE, please, AND MAKE ‘EM as heavenly as HeLl AND EVENTUALLY SPELT to, ahem… ALMOST spell… almost A SERIOUSLY SUGARGOADED “HELLO”… … again. / No New Truth = “Only ALL of the BEAUTIFUL Bruises.” —-working Poem/PROSE-Piece
- Take 2. SOLITAIRE. SOLD. TO. THE. DEVIL __ _ and with all of the quicksand readily available . the songs we saw and sold… . DEEP DOWN inside OF OUR OUTloud MInDs!! And all of it — soaked developMENTALLY AMIDST HER CURVATURE OF SOUL. somemore. / (the) StAtE_Of_THE_ArT – “SOON AS HER SEDATIONtechnique SAYS SO (the most)”
- “Her S.O.S SOUL Said So!!!!!!” SOON AS WE WATCH THE BOTTLE BOUNCE. colder than a cobweb / SOLITAIRE SOLD TO THE DEVIL. and with all of the quicksand readily available . LIQUOR AND HER CURVATURE OF SOUL.
- SOON AS THEY BRAVELY FORGOT THE VERY_NEXT_SENTENCE. / SENTENCED TO TENSELY SET MOMENTUM. / “Our Non-Zero-Sum Game, Please, and Make It Mother******* IMMEDIATELY” / OUR STRONGEST STRENGTH IN ONE WHOLE-WIDE-uniVERSE. Outlandishly thirsting for a 3rd THOUSANDTH Attempt at TRY-HARD equilibrium, plEASE. / TRACING THE LAY OF THE WIDEALIVE LINE AND ABLY WELL BASKING:: in asking all of the damn-dastard favOURitebest QUESTions OF THEMSELVES (anyway!!) – working poem-piece
- “Designed With All of Their Minds.. IN MIND.” / Those Tattoo-Emblazoned Delicate LITTLE DELINQUENTS With Fists for Fingers.
- INSIDE OF SOMEONE ELSE’S vagabond EYES. Might Be Extracurricular AND (simultaneously) Nice! / “HALO, Hello!” / SOON AS HER FLAWS FALL Accordingly+both+OUTRIGHT ARTISTICALLY = “s-PEAKING to some+BODY !!!! !!”
- .23 Versions of the Perfectly Usurped Person.. Please. PRETTY WARM IN PINKLY suggestive DELIRIUM. She Isn’t Even Meant to Make MereEAGER Sense of ________________– Being Gilded in Lady GODIVA Gold!!
- Heavy is the EAGERfaced Angel – when we took the time to stranger-FACE unWIND… AND WITH THE WISE-OLD WINDS IN OUR decorative SAILS ((today… maybe, BABY!!”))
- The ‘Simple’ Symphony SUGGESTS… . TASTE !! The SCHISM_OF_Schematic Theme, Please
- Deleting Her Most Magnificent Memories Might Just Make STACKS AND STACKS of Mollycoddled Sense
- THE MENU ACCORDING TO MOLLY MONTGOMERY.
- SKIN FILLED WITH SIN. The Tattoo That Took Its Best Breath.
- the beauty of breaking-even in the rainSHINE SOMEtimes. / OUTRUNNING THE NERVES TO CATCH ANTICIPATED SEDATION Minus Ever EVEN Having Asked for Gladragged EnthusiasM (yet again). We’ve Undermined The Utterly Undeserving Individuals With Sycamore Smiles and Effed-UP designs and Gathered to Eventually Make… “Wagerings of RING-A-DING Sense!!!”
- STACKS OF HAPPINESS: “Yes+Immediately=Please!!” The Code to LeT’S gO (and get ’em all (GENEROUSLY) together again)!! / Contrived LITTLE ABLE-faced Delinquents/REPROBATES With sizABLY “Insignificant Minds, Please” – and Begging (THEMSELVES) to Fall (RIGHT) Back Behind The Layabout-LINE-toN1TE = she is already home (AND DRIER THAN ALL GIN AND TONIC EYES)
- The Smiling Child With the Standstill Eyes. The Glitch that Gathered Its (Greatest *******) Gain.
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- An Error in the Walkabout Nature of a Standalone Stranger – Delicately Deranged to the Bones of Their BellyACHING Beings. / “Ultraviolet Minds Might Be Nice”
- Perfect OFF the TABLE.. She’s a Picture of P-O-I-S-E-D Persuasion:: DID WE REALLY JUST R-E-A-L-I-S-E THE ‘INSIDE-OUT’ INSIGHTS INSIDE OF OURSELVES (again).. “and SEE (the seizing of SENTIMENTALLY SPECtacular Anyway)??”
- Eyes of an AntagonisedAngel/ LESS STRESSED THE BETTER = She’s In It To Bring BorderlineBeautyBack To————> Behemoth
- Stilts and Stalactites – she just might
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