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Premium Member four

A distance to here and there,
haven't left this house
for the past 2 years,
except for booze
to end
my troubling mind,
Trouble circulates,
like the raising
of breeze
to a hail storm
and this 
becomes
my night,
They stand,
half naked
to survive
in a darkness
that this society
will never see.

Welcome to when,
you lose your job
to AI 
and Androids
this or next year,
the capitalism
is so extreme
and we lose
our empathy
for our friends.

Don't watch the news,
I advised this girl,
but she told me
she can't escape this
as all her friends
at her local school,
talk about the horror show.....

Masters and their chambers
exploit
us for a supreme feast,
we allow all of this,
remember
we out-weigh this.......

Premium Member My Shortcut was Much Shorter

I found a shortcut and I was excited beyond belief
My husband was horrified, this shortcut gave him grief
I was taking a trip right through the most dangerous place in Chicago
But I am not a prissy, frightened stuck-up woman, I do not do Mar-a-largo
My husband begged me to never take this shortcut again.
Naturally, I ignored his craziness, but kept my secret in.

Premium Member Bears Lose Again Today, 52-21

  
      Proudly I used to sell season's tickets for the Chicago Bears

        ~ These days salesmen sneak down the back stairs


Premium Member Come Visit Chicago

     Visit beautiful Michigan Avenue 
        The ‘Magnificent Mile’
      See the teenage gangs at night
         roaming ‘gangster-style’ 

      Admire block after block on ‘the strip’
         Madison Avenue, the Old West Side
      burnt down by arson way back in 1968
         embers still afloat – Don’t they smell great

      Take a walk on the Wild Side
         The South Side that once hosted Nat King Cole
       Note the empty lots, broken glass and one-eyed cats
          What a pleasure to take in all that… 

       Yes, dear friends, a trip to Chicago’s just the thing
           Come to a town where crime is king

Premium Member MUSCLE OPPONENTS

The satisfice and Discipline
Turning flab into superior muscle
The preparation
Bodybuilding competition
Competitive spirit
Bodybuilder’s muscle magazine dream
Becoming the best champion
Masterpiece body
Through the elements of training principles
Lift and intensify
Grasp the glorious bodybuilding Title of all being MR. OLYMPIA
Vision wide and strong
Challenging the possibilities in becoming the victor
Platform posing stage
The excitement and muscle amaze
Judge’s captivation
The win
The Trophy
Recognition
Showcase
Stardom
Greatness
Cheers at the end
Muscle opponent win.

Mourn Lines

Why I'ma blue class das 
Heaves off weight
Glass paings, cement trix
Uppa game
Leaves under trough
All circumvent no plow?

Gotta plan on does
Mookie curfew


TRAPIN

IVE BEEN TRAPPIN
NOT HOLDING BACK
FEELING THE BASS
MAKES ME WANT TO SHOOT YOU IN THE FACE
GOT THAT CHAIN ON ME
A LIL BIT OF BLANG
THERES SO MUH VIOLENCE 
IN MY BLOOD
JUST BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TRAPIN

Premium Member Chicago Catholic Grade School Fire

Twenty-four days before Christmas in 1958 there was a huge fire
at Our Lady of the Angels, a Catholic grade school in Chicago
Eighty-seven children and three nuns died in this fire.

One of the children who passed was Mary’s little sister, Karen.
She was to be a first grader forever.
Mary was in the fourth grade at the time.

Mary spent years trying to forget that day, the worst day ever.
The frantic nuns, the commotion, the smoke, the frenzy.
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting on the sidewalk across the street.

Watching the school burn up, wondering where Karen was.
A sister who never came home.
Mary felt shame for leaving her.

She had wanted to run in there and rescue Karen.
But the adults restrained her.
Her family waited for hours hoping for a miracle.

Watching the front door, praying Karen would walk inside.
She never did.
Eighty-six other children did not return home either.
Probably led to heaven by the three nuns.

Feseration

Research into the prospective matter
Could conclude the beginnings preclusive
end. 
She then saw her wants and desires as need
The dophious status of who she sought
made me know that the complications was due 
to her lack of reality. 
She was bruised from the foolishness of ignorance
and refined in the need of belonging. 
His dumbness proved that the historonics of coupling
had an inclusive touch . 
Call the mean nun a worthless woman
Might she understand
Her current position 
Smile the mean women of Dophious
Shall find him to be villain
The sisters of ignorance of ranxe have been parent
to recreate the horror in life
One has missed
It ain't safe that in ones repression
he or she is remised
the. Clauses and sciences 
The formulas to be remenised


The dates and pistachios are
the inspirations of climatic
Episodes 
Detailing the need of men
To procreate

Premium Member Tripping Over Their Clippings

    Chicago Cubs stumble their way to another loss tonight

        ~ tripping over their own press clippings

Free Wind

Joining the guild
Waking in a game
Playing the fool
Saintly dance
Trusting the plan
Enjoying the play
Justice is my friend
Surfing waves
Flying as a bird
Open to create
Burning with love

Premium Member Pope Leo from Chicago

South Side
did bide

sports man
Sox fan!

da Bears?
da prayers!

new pope
brings hope

Love Birds

Moshpit Romance
two lovebird nerds
By:Bird's Eye View

The Peasant and Turkey
The horse and the Cow
churk and ah gimerro
Aurelius sow these seeds for me
in this rich Rio River mud
Aurelius 
Amadeu
Rio Grande Mud
to grow his 
Yamaa Spinach,and
 Brassicaceae
Aurelius pick my greens
and rename my brassicaceae
to watercress
in the rich thick muds of
the Rio Grande!
Proxima Centauri,
 Alpha Centauri A,
 Alpha Centauri B,
 Barnard's Star,
 and Wolf 358
are the closest stars to
earth 56 miles above the earth
is an atmosphere
but down here
this river mud
shall grow my kale!
Hock ah me
inna pot
salt to taste
some peppers hot
hickory seasoned
A gimerro is an animal
 born of a horse and a cow
come on ya'll stop horsing around
plant my spinach in that
ole rio grande mud!
Duitar Sounds:
gimerro un churk
rico barro del rio rio

Yamaa Spinach
from Japan is most
exspensive green in
the world!
Saddle Oil
and a great saddle 
never mind the price
of a great beefy Saddlesteak!

Premium Member California Dreaming

             

                          California Dreaming
      
                               
                               5/9/2025




Her memories like the softest, velvet clouds, gliding swiftly, were being
Dried from their moistness.

How grateful she was to follow.her dreams to California, freed from their
cold, and most unhelpul voices.

It took her some time to let go of old friends and warm, familiar faces, 
And she knew it was her soul’s relentless, choices.

On the airplane, tears fell as the plane ascended, and she realized, heading
into the sunset, the strength of her own inner voices.

words of strings

damper sound without a box

fuse less high key string fret and the low beckoning

saint the same slide you grew out from

drink news and through lava liqour drips off

damper stage and dampening cat cry

you got news and sew my drums lose

i know its been done

speak frothing failure against

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