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Building Blocks

Walk, on Berwick Street, wafting 
in smoky trench coat, cuban 
heels striking sparks on mottled 
tarmacadam: hipster flesh melted in 
soot and diesel, like the 
promise of an afterlife, carbolic 
fallacy of love and prayer, 
graffiti on the velvet bishop,
desecration of desert font photograph.

Continue, fingers scraping latex surfaces, 
glass pick-guards, crumble brick: the 
hunt for the carbon groove, 
elusive microtonal zeroes, graphic psycho-analysis 
on binary stave; these are 
the butchered mahogany slabs, lounging 
in minds of art-house denizens,
primary and platonic, a contradiction 
in terms, a futile nothingness.

Fall, sporadically, in and out 
of record stores: Bowness, Bozulich, 
Merzbow, mangled synth, snapped string 
buskings, chromium falsetto: neon soundtrack 
to soho wanderings, while paper 
bags escape past the market, 
sepia tumbleweed longing for recognition,
pinstriped analogue rectangles, slaughtered in
the search for modern jive.

Die, one thousand deaths, (Godspeed's 
lonely suicides), rain bank notes 
down gutters, fulfil the ancient 
prophesies, use the wrong end 
of the telescope and turn 
right, heading for the end
of the line, 78 rpm,
charge at turbo pasts that
remain encased in London pavement.

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  1. Date: 3/12/2013 12:24:00 PM

    these blocks are building a house in my soul

  1. Date: 3/11/2013 4:28:00 PM

    Congrats on your superb win in this contest.Wonderful write....

  1. Date: 3/11/2013 8:09:00 AM

    Forbes, very good. P.S Energy Shower now

  1. Date: 3/11/2013 7:01:00 AM

    shit just got heavy!!

  1. Date: 3/10/2013 10:05:00 PM

    OK Sam, this is a hard one for us average country boy readers. But, I take it that your taste in the music you play and listen to has changed over the years. I'm not a Merzbow or Dead Flag Blues kinda guy, but I can appreciate your evolution as a musician and writer. Although I've never walked those markets or sat in those dives, I'm with you. I can go for the bagpipes at times, and can' read music. So butcher the page and break out the synthesizers and plug in the iPod. Just keep writing! RAY

  1. Date: 3/10/2013 9:43:00 PM

    Sam, ;-) CONGRATULATIONS with your awesome free verse poem, in Catie's contest....good night , LINDA

  1. Date: 3/10/2013 8:33:00 PM

    Complex, but I sense the humanity of it. I get the image of a lone musician standing on a street full of shoppers. Congratulations.

  1. Date: 3/10/2013 6:58:00 PM

    Oh I love the rapid fire stacato rythmn of this...Congrad's on your win. Light & Love

  1. Date: 3/10/2013 5:45:00 PM

    Congrats Sam on your win xxx

  1. Date: 3/10/2013 5:39:00 PM

    Wow........I have read this three times, and I'm still digesting your amazing descriptions........Soooo impressive!!!! Wow !!!

  1. Date: 3/10/2013 2:28:00 PM

    MY kind of free verse. :) Congratulations, Sam, on your win in my free verse contest. Hugs, Catie :)

  1. Date: 3/6/2013 5:25:00 AM

    these blocks are building a temple of pretentiousness and confusion... love it

  1. Date: 2/16/2012 8:27:00 AM

    I am stopping back today to see if you have continued to write and post new poetry Sam. I hope that you will continue with your writing. You have taken the first step~ ~to write and share. When you feel the need for inspiration read some of the other poetry here at PoetrySoup. It will help you and I will stop by again to read your poems. Love, Carol

  1. Date: 2/14/2012 7:54:00 PM

    Enjoyed your good work Sam, love Elizabeth

  1. Date: 2/7/2012 5:47:00 AM

    Before readin this, dissapointment did bade deep within my freptious soul. This poem has enlightened and throughly liberated me. Thankyou so much Sam you big sporadic pumkin. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

  1. Date: 2/7/2012 5:22:00 AM

    A warm welcome to PoetrySoup I offer to you Sam. I wish for you the best in your writing endeavors whatever they may be. May you find inspiration by reading some of the poetry written here by other poets. May the sun shine on you that you might find great joy in your life. Love, Carol

  1. Date: 2/7/2012 1:58:00 AM

    Love this poem. Makes me recognise parts of myself withing your words, I feel touched by the use of syllables. Love Tom xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

  1. Date: 2/6/2012 3:42:00 PM

    wow! this needs a few big bites to get into the meaty language and amazing words you've strung together here. i don't know what some of it means but it sounds really really wonderful and i loved reading it.

  1. Date: 2/6/2012 3:31:00 PM

    Sam I will Welcome you in PSoup! Enjoy writing and reading. - oxox love from Anne-Lise