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Diary of a Twisted Primate

a scandalous secret gnaws
at the epicenter of my being
threatening to unearth
score pillars of dirt
upon which my world is built

gilded in reverence,
vaingloriously lauded
and parlayed to ascend sacred rungs
beyond the license of minions,
the legend grows
and grows
and grows

and though I know
my storied steeple,
as all things crooked,
will surely crumble someday,
I pray that it shall stay

erect

an irreverent crown;
a reaming tower of pisa
steeped in piety,
the envy of my faithful throng

preserved

to shatter the innocence of your delicate young…

~ Pablo
© James Paul  Create an image from this poem.

Black Sheep

Haven’t you had a look?
I am such a flawed character in your book.
My mind goes mad as I sit and wait
Drowning in all this fragmented hate.
Believing the truth
While accepting these lies
I’m parlayed,
Inside I hide
Inside I’ve died.
Suppressed in this test
Knowing I am nothing like the rest.
Crippled by pieces, places and parts
Hope deferred kills the heart.
Banging my head against a stone wall
While fighting the maker on this call.
Breathing air drenched in disorder
This is me, your tattered daughter.
Indifference is worse than any type of anger
For when you don’t care life becomes even stranger.
Trying to muster the strength to go on
It’s been so long, what if I am wrong?
Walls are caving inside of me
Longing to be free from this captivity.
The door is open but I have invisible ties
Breathing in the where, what’s and why’s.
I’m holding on to this mustard seed
Or maybe it’s just been stuck on me.
Dreaming dreams of better days
I’m in a maze or just a haze.
Watching the movie but not a partaker
Somebody see her? Somebody wake her!
Being a visionary is somewhat scary
All these scenes slightly vary.
All are contingent on which way I go
Just like a flower that sideway grows.
Which direction is the light?
Where is this nourishment tonight?
Every day is exactly the same
I’m sick of playing this game.
The war is raging as all are asleep
I am just your cynical black sheep.

By: Sabina Nicole

The Uncontained

he parlayed a condom full of nouns
in bold thrusts of the quill
for the para structuralist cadres
many of them freeway orphans
who won't even read a stoplight
on the other hand
there's a lot of other hand
upon hearing the chimes of midnight
I opened the door 
another surprise party 
that I knew about all along
arranged by my body building therapist
who was a notorious sadist
requiring humiliation ab astra
went in after my scenario gland
in an act of divine pity
sewed me back up real fast
couldn't handle the pixel rate
the audience shrieked and laughed
it was the great awakening
after the Treaty of Lucky Seven
in which all nations pledged
to honor their accidents and idiocies 
as though they were instruments of divination
uh oh here comes my chiropractor
a known mob boss
never found the need to knock
cracked his knuckles at the door 
and politely asked may I enter  
he spoke 7 languages 
and several materialist dialects
and could talk without
moving his lips
many were blamed for
things they never said
a hundred times a day
nothing is uncontained
archaeologists in the city dumps
using a subway map with all the stops
snorted and toiled through Winter
at their historico-revisionist comedy
piecing convex to concave
any idea past its prime is stupid
this is the unfortunate fate of all humanity
nobody really likes change 
unless it’s more money
oh I know I’ll never work in this town again
but with a bankroll
the size of a chewed pencil
you get the picture
now buckle up kids
mommy's going to drive a little faster
there's a cop on my ass
and I think I can lose him


From "Engine of Didactic Beauty" available on Amazon
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Premium Member Love Has No Reply

Love Has No Reply
Love has no reply it just waits- 
love has no reply - it just prays- 
Love understands- as it hopes 
that rage will be quelled-
That the core of your heart will 
be overwhelmed- 
and overruled-Disenchantments 
of the venial mind-are allowable 
If you never intend to exhale- 
then inhalation is inevitable.
Demons seek company - 
Presenting illusions to keep misery 
side tracked' in sorrowful elegies
The cardinal mentation-
will automatically 
tick, when your tocking and;
Tock when you are ticking.

You came here with no instructions-- 
Love requires no action 
Does not have to reply
No matter the jargon 
the meaning of "no “is the same. 
Whether you wax or wane,
with wagers parlayed 
invest in the" WAIT" like the yellow light 
"Spread your bet-green light- keep moving 
Not always smart- to bet on a sure thing.
Red light stop wait -think about 
what you're thinking of doing- 
win, win situation.
Prior truth is not necessary for 
what is "yet to be believed" 
Permanent solutions 
should never be applied to a
temporary condition.
The efficaciousness of the syringe as a method in seeking answers to concepts is horribly ineffective. 
Love has no reply--- No outside stimuli - 
No do's or don'ts ... from the I ...
Strictly and inside Job.

Beautiful Transaction

He parlayed his handsome,
Against her soft assets.
He saw her and she raised him.
Both folded, spent.
He, a sure bet.
She, a wild gamble.
Together, a beautiful transaction.

Chasing Ghosts In Cars

“Chasing Ghosts in Cars” 

Like automata
we walk inside 
winding up the stairs

it’s all mechanical
the romance 
programmed

by steep degrees 
in the 
well-routined

we can walk 
through walls
anywhere

to look out 
our windows 
towards the better view

each cell in the body
and mind renewed
we expurgate

the misplaced 
misconceptions 
of others, of ourselves

it’s fair-weather sailing 
out there, 
the transparent come and go

best to turn 
a blind eye
a swift kiss on the cheek

make it brief
then close all
your doors 

to their artful dodger hauntings
friendships and felicitations
their joyful gleaming commiserations

whole oceans 
full of souls
walking and swimming 

treading water 

all the floating 
poesies planted
mindfully fragrant 

fresh bits thrown
parlayed introspection
deliciously blooded with the sharks 

such hungry poets
with a well-adjusted
deep knowing

and a quiet 
unthorough 
understanding 

of another 
unknown equation
in the real world 

never making 
premature 
judgements

outside is a risk
we all take 
we write what we know

we know what we write
ghost written 
in the Daily Phantom

in the gloaming fantasy
there still exist 
real ghouls calling us in

hungry for kindness
burying pity for 
the honesty it lacks

inside we are listing
the volume we turn up 
to hear messages better

we are 
listening 
to cars 

lyrics 
we wish you
to know

to be understood
when you are 
chasing ghosts 

some say
they’ve gone too far
they’re too far gone away

forget-me-knots
hanging loose 
chasing ghosts in cars

Machiavellians
gone astray 

the naked minds 
of  
undressed nuns

and 
sanctimonious preachers 
oiling their guns

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)





“Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live in cars 

Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days in cars”





listing/nautical.
“Listing” is a nautical term to describe when a vessel takes on water and tilts to one side. A ship can list either to port (left) or starboard (right). By contrast, a ship is said to be “trimming” when she tips forward or backward.


Seekth My Soul Thou Wicked Deciever

Art thou the wicked deceiver who cometh dawn or dusk
Once a dweller in the heavens who wrought scorn unto thy Creator 
In the ancient of days did he cast thee a loft
Thus becoming caddish as cag-mag
A drab locked away in Bridewell’s gaole
Whilst thou parlayed the garden’s bouquet as the Grinder Seeker
Who stood a midst the knowledge tree and offered nary but one
One bite will make thee greater than He
One taste shall wit thy mind 
Maker of gray betwixt black and white a savory eater of men’s souls
Doth thou cometh this blackish hour to carry my wicked soul home
Sheath thy forkth tongue  
Shake down thee to ever more hell
Henceforth to dwell ever the more ye will
In mere of fiery waters
Waiter of the wittle of rotten and Evil- Forsooth! Forsooth! Thy dream
Dost not the coddish fear and tremble while thou holdth Bilbo high
Hearth lay thy saber- blood stained pudhly with the souls of mankind 
Thou monstrous shadowed deceiver
Mankind no longer doth the grave bind
Get thee behind me Satan 
For thy Kingdom is no more
A son of David hath beautifully bequeath a love for all mankind
Resist not the righteousness this judge of Adam
Who doth sit at the Creator’s right side
I stand in judgment as my soul is the bounty
For now thy claim for my-self is thus been denied

Bit-Coin Billionaire


You made a lot of money
selling lewd photos of nude
Then you parlayed your profits
into cyber surfing —  
triple X cinema ***** crude
Nasty video sex business you were so into
Your vested interest was
a skin flick portfolio bankroll ...
Dirty money bottom line
Letting curious customers
put their cyber bit coins into the virtual pay slot
So they can take a ride on the carnal carousel
Then make them get off ...
Have them taste naked flesh boiling hot 
in an abominable lascivious pot
You are so proud of yourself,
Mr. Sleazy bit coin billionaire
You make it so easy — 
sex suckers love to lick poisoned lollipop sticks
Getting minds addicted to wicked desires,
those tempting tokens are gonna take ‘em there
You’re so filthy rich cavalier ...
crushing souls, you really don’t care
What those turned-out cyber tramps,
hopefully, will come to one day understand,
those grimy bit coins 
is greasing somebody’s dirty hand
And that palm is on a beach somewhere
getting a penthouse triple X suntan

Bit coin billionaire,
you’re a dirty old man
with a Howard Weinstein leer

Bit coin billionaire,
you got sticky floor hands
and semen oil slick hair

Spreading your cyber surfing 
triple X flotsam everywhere
You’re just a devilish voyeur,
a nickel-and-dime fleshpot billionaire
Your trashy ways smells like
a STD flea-bitten garbage can
And your infectious craves are a
CDC health hazard quarantine

Bit coin billionaire,
you’re a dirty money man
with semen snake oily hands

Bit coin billionaire,
with filthy green scaly skin
In need of some brimstone lotion

Bit coin billionaire,
you’re a dirty money man
with sticky floor hands

Bit coin billionaire,
with filthy lucre ashy skin
In need of a brimstone suntan


This poem was inspired by the 
talented Richard Lamoureux’s poem,
“Church Perfect Surface.”
— Romantic Warrior

Time and Tide Wait For No Man

Or Woman, Or Child, Or...

The following elucidated
     conjecture actually can
(reed best) be taken with a grain
     of salt, and no re ban
nah nah split 'ope ya 'ere me 
     cloud and lear, cuz (Oh my...
heavens to Betsy), ennui   
     got pulled by Evan -

Jewel Lean, who handed this long fellow
     (wads worth to you) 
     speculation with fan
see prestidigitation legerdemain - tan
ta mount to cheap tricks
     re: out of thin air
     by this half
     fast hue man,
Hill Billy Willy Wonka Nilly,

     who blithely doth asseverate
apothegm (poem title) equally applicable
     Century21 today Aswan
damn maxim initially
     bespoke, when collective
     primates begat enfant terrible
     foo fighting predetermining anon
     metastasizing debacle Yeti 

     bedeviling civilization
     a bajillion years in the future with
     Matthew Scott Harris deadpan
words worth less his way
     before even an odd iota
     of dire straight sultan
of swing didst merely span
spottily scattered amidst

     pristine Earth, where
     unchanging arboreal
beastie boys to oman,
and flock of sea gulls
     continuity elapsed – Ivan
hunch, albeit un
     recorded disc contented sow
     sow hogtied pan

dum mo' nee ham, or
     blessed historical events,
     kept (stay'n) alive,
     courtesy"FAKE" Trump
     petting Dapper Dan,
where he knit pattern,
     qua oral tradition, sans clan
destine scattered hot pockets

     of sparse *****sapiens,
     i.e. humanity LESS preponderant,
     primary, and/or prolific,
     where superstitions parlayed
     (voodoo with no Fran Schwa),
     and whirling dervishes fed elan,
which earliest recorded (doctored,
     digitized, and demented

     oh yea), not
     tomb mitt to dimly mentioned
     asper "time and tide
     wait for no man"
     purportedly by one
     Saint Marher, circa:
     1225 anno domini.

Premium Member Parallel Are the Rails

PARALLEL ARE THE RAILS 

(PRE-VERSE 1)
Feeling all alone
Cast away like a stone

Few friends what I got
True friends can’t be bought.

(VERSE 1)
Living is a joke
Think I’m about to choke.
Lookin’ at you
Lookin’ at me
Mirror is true (but the reflection is cracked)
False truths won’t set you free.

(Pre-Chorus)
I got my time
I got my rhyme
Beggin’ for a dime
Beggin’ for your time

(Chorus)
Bittersweet is the love (Sweeter than the lime)
Smellin’ like a clove 
Burnt up in a stove
Rotting in a grove
Shrapnel of hardened nails
Pouring down like the rain
Storing away the parlayed pain
Parallel are the rails 
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails




(PRE-VERSE 2)
Heavy is the stone
When you’re all alone

Many friends were not what I thought
False friends are easily bought

(VERSE 2)
Drowning in the smoke 
Deception is no joke
Reflection of you
Reflection of me
Mirror is true (but the reflection is cracked)
False truths won’t set you free.

(BRIDGE)
Dreaded are my locs 
Dreadful are my thoughts
Locked away in my cerebral box
Cast away like abandoned lots

Got dreadlocks down below my needs 
Beatles in the sound
Help me get around
Got hair like my ancestral Swedes 

Brain damaged by Floyd
Brain examined by Freud 



(PRE-VERSE 3)
Can I get a fix
Feelin’ a little sick
Like when I was six
Trippin’ over a stick

People like to stare
Like I’m some disease 
But, I don’t care
I do as I please

(VERSE 3)
Ridin’ on a train 
Lookin’ for a change
Freedom from the chain
Leaves me feeling strange

Lookin’ a little strange
Beaten by the chain
No time for change
Ridin’ on a train 

(Pre-Chorus)
I got my time
I got my rhyme
Beggin’ for a dime
Beggin’ for your time

(Chorus)
Bittersweet is the love (Sweeter than the lime)
Smellin’ like a clove 
Burnt up in a stove
Rotting in a grove
Shrapnel of hardened nails
Pouring down like the rain
Storing away the parlayed pain
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails
Parallel are the rails


Lyricists Inc. 
D.A.P. / Digital Analog Productions. 
David A. Porter	3/??/18

Premium Member In Bed With the Egyptian Royals

1799 c.e.

Invading the privacy of Egypt’s estate,
Napolean and troops on their tippy toes,
Sweetly snatching the Rosetta Stone.

Turning it over cartouche style,
Lusting to surround Josephine, in battle.
Their royal names forevermore, amore…

Jean-Francois Champollion joined the duo in bed.
His hands glided, over three parallel scripts –
Hyroglyphic, demotic, and Greek; translation exotic

1978 c.e.

Princess Leia, a 3-D hero hologram
Parlayed with charming communication
She held a saint and a rogue in her sultry hands

Present Day in the bedroom of his royal highness

Egyptian tomb exhumed, enlightened, laser projected -
No protection from the spirit of matrimonial melee.
Dutifully terrified, damsel in distress; holographic mistake.

Impunity

You walk around,
felling like you're above the law
Shielded by family immunity

Get disorderly when you paint the town,
brawling, hitting people in the jaw
Yet you're called a pillar of the community

You lack basic people skills,
heredity always handed everything to you
A silver spoon fed spoiled brat

Never had to pay your own bills,
you said that's what little people like us do
Society traps don't catch aristocratic rats

Tapped into the trust fund
when you turned twenty one
Such is the privileged life of a senator's son

Picked up three DUI's,
and a couple of solicitation violations
Even got caught with an unregistered gun

No charges ever stuck with you,
a Teflon man through and through
Parlayed your inheritance into racketeering too

But you don't care, you're ruthless like your pa ...
taking other people's money is what excites you 
Extorting at every opportunity 

You sneer at judges with impunity,
'cause you own more suits and uniforms colored blue
And you love being called Big Daddy's little outlaw

Premium Member I Woke Up One Mornin'

What chance does a feller have to make it these days?
With so much temptation offered in so many ways.
My spirit was weak and I had a will to commit.
To a Hell raising life free from backbone and grit.
I was using cocaine and whiskey to play silly games.
And had found me some friends to share in the pain.

But I woke up one mornin' doused in chaos and sin.
And looked around sadly at the mess I was in.
When a shimmering light from the window answered my plea.
I threw my beer at the mirror and fell to my knees.
I lowered my head and desperately prayed to the One.
Who may forgive my behavior and the shame I have done.

        I should be walkin' with Jesus for the rest of my life.
        And turn away from evil and put a stop to my strife.
        I should hope to atone for the wrongs I've parlayed.
        And become a much better person until the end of my days.

I cleaned myself up the best that I could.
And headed south on I-40 to my place in the woods.
I threw out my whiskey in an attempt to go straight.
Knowing the following days would determine my fate.
The tremors were awful and the sweat ran on down.
From a face that was healing to turn things around.

But the time slowly moved on until the hurtin' ran dry.
As I prayed everyday with tears of joy in my eyes.
After a couple of weeks my true spirit returned.
Which I thought I had lost to the sad life I had earned.
I went home to dear Mother to show the progress I'd made.
And we both were so thankful for the path my Savior has laid.

        Now I'm walkin' with Jesus for the rest of my life.
        I've turned away from evil and put a stop to my strife.
        As I plan to atone for the wrongs I've parlayed.
        And be a much better person to the end of my days.

                                 The End


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Sayonara Mother Thirteen Years Ago Back In Time Tear Drop Deux

devastatingly, grievously, inconsolably, 
     got hexed, issued jilted livingsocial, a less
son learned to late, how maddeningly mess
say yon nick lee infuriated, not accepting press

sing ill fate, nor countenancing fatal injustice, 
refusing to curtsy fiendish inxs did piss 
her off (poisoned scorpion sting) remiss
cheekily peppering psyche as if Swiss
 
cheese, a once spunky Arthur Murray shored 
dance instructor, who scored 
door prize in the guise of thee less torte sured 
near nonagenarian papa, where meanness poured

from grim mortal outlook parlayed moored
deadly reaper, quashed, ruined as lord
stole, sacred maternal tribal nurse, unfairly did hoard
final precious seconds unexpectedly meant un explored
positive rapport forever undergirded "door"

closed to resolve ambivalence with venerable bead 
did association between 
     kith and kin, unfairly 
     dead poet society lettered deed
wrested a vibrant life despite zest that freed
a vibrant gal to coast along dialed up esprit

     de corps spirit to live, yet greed
of metastatic cancer upended lead, 
where mind over matter, sans power 
     in positive thinking rubric and plead
ding didst kill last ditch homeopathic screed

ambitions trumped, thus giving up the ghost 
wracking sadness, sinking sorrow spilling most 
lee tears of loss, among family, fellow Unitarians 
of the Thomas Paine Fellowship 
     included with your obituary post.

Premium Member Forgiving Me All My Sins

I was dead laid out buried in my sins
O' paramount the burden take out the thorn in my side 
And do so my Lord my God take also the boulder there in my eye
Mercies ever please My God and gifted me thine devine mercies Grace
Forgiven you me of all my mistakes
Yet and yet there you were Jesus you have forgiven me of all my sins

Relevance is the evidence for the position that I've made those sins I parlayed and now and forever forgiven a confess my mess I have come through the test
Mercy's ever please my God and gifted me by Divine Mercy's Grace
Father thank you for giving me for I just want to see your name and peace

9/13/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021

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