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i almost cried
bought a cheap
gas bottle
from a friend
who was up visiting
said a neighbor
had moved out
gave it
to him saying
its almost full
saying its three times
normal size
of the gas bottle t
which you
have out there
how much
do you want
for it i said
seeing a chance
of a bargain
really interested
30 euros he said
managed to get it
for 20 euros
telling him
i am taking a chance
it might not work
smiling into myself
different story later
got it back
to the place
carried it
around the back
got a jublie clip
connected them together
went in
began putting on a fry
cooking away almost done
i turn to
my niece
walks in the door
she gives me
one awful push
screaming into flames
roaring saying
the place
is on fire
all the hairs
on my arms
went up
in smoke
caught a bucket of water
throwing it
upon the flames
my hair catches fire
my niece
was roaring laughing
at this stage
ran around
the back ripped
the gas bottle
out from the wall
run in with another
bucket of water
dousing the flames
ran to the barrel
of water
dipping my hands in
only now
i am shaking
with shock
that stupid gas bottle
has just
cost me
a clean fortune
should of known
it was to
good to be true
put creams
for burns on
had a sleepless night
but everything is ok
just have
hairless arms
sick working at
repairing the damage
that is me
finished with
gas bottles
my niece
said she could
not help laughing
even i was in flames
she said it was the fastest
she ever saw me moving
with your hair on fire
it was like something out
of a movie
she said
it did not seem real
that she was shocked
stood and done nothing
my father today
began laughing
he said my arms
he never seen them
looking so smooth looking
a better job
than waxing he said
a mad story
from the hills
of donegal
imagine that
an idiot almost
blew himself up
laughing out loud
into myself ha ha
Well! I remember the first date I was a teenage boy
I picked her up in the car had to wait for her she was late
She finally came out I open the door she sat down I close the door
I said where would you like to go
She replied " let's go downtown to the Olive Garden"
So we arrived
I parked, we went inside we set at the middle booth
People all around us people laughing, chattering, talking
To me so dischanting and so alarming
It sounded a little uncouth I spied over there's a man yelling at his date
Maybe his wife, girlfriend who knows
I don't know, all I know I almost wanted to go
The waitress came I ordered fish
This was our first date it was good but it wasn't great
She ordered steak
I can hardly imagine entrenched in the silence
As I sat wondering was the lettuce fresh yuk
So I took a sip of water and I kept on looking at her this girl
Soon-to-be woman my mate
So we finished the meal I held her seat as she rose
I let her lead trying to still be a gentleman
Got to the car once again held the door open for her
She sat down and buckled in I walked around the back of the car sat down and drove away went to a show we both wanted to go to a movie had to hurry it was for two and a half hours didn't want to be late this was our first date
08/16/2017 by James Edward Lee Sr
You have played the game for so long
that you have the universe is along
the rhythm is off beat
and you are spreading chaos in the street
we have been waiting for many years
to dry the woeful tears, but the tears kept flowing
and the agony keeps growing.
Did the train miss the stop?
or were you hanging out around the back?
you are entering into a new phase
and you must start counting the days
There is one thing that I would like you to do
and it is to pull the heat out of the shoe.
It is getting too hot
and you don’t have enough body bags to pack
If you continue in this way,
you are going to melt the universe away
the sun is shining in the rain
and you don’t have much more to gain.
It is the same people, and it is the same song
And it is the same energy that is occupying the land.
There are no more arguments left
and your words have no depth
they are falling on dry ground
and they cannot turn things around
The insects devour them before they penetrate the soil
leaving the earth, naked, empty and unproductive.
Meet with me at the opening
for a new day is dawning
it is the unknown that rumbles my soul
but its destiny that makes me bold.
Tell me exactly what you need
and we will give it to you before the break of dawn
what do you need? Power, honey or money?
it’s not clear why you are fighting over there
but we cannot walk away and leave you in there.
Clench your fist when you pass through the abyss
clench your fist when your name is on the list
you have one more chance to make it right
Just one more chance to get out of the plight
clench your fist and meet with me tonight.
It’s worth the sacrifice for the world is full of surprises
Just clench your fist and you will not be remiss.
You took off for Christmas and New Years Eve, and you came back high and chirpy with a rosy face looking like daisy blended with charming lips and an attitude that could pull me off the cliff. I saw you sitting there, acting as if you don’t care, you are so obsessed with the show and I have no other place to go but to sit and watch you and try to get a sensible clue from you. But the hours slip by quickly and the show ended in a jiffy leaving me high and dry with a new ambition waving in the sky.
Suddenly everything around me become obsolete but hopes catapult me to my feet, there was nothing to hold to and a sudden emptiness that I have been fighting for weeks captivate my body. I took a walk up the street hoping to find someone to lay it on, but no one was there, but the cars driving along the street they were just few but they appears to be many.
I walked into the grocery store and stood behind the door so as not to distract the customers, the shopkeeper saw me and wave to me. She forced a smile and went around the back and left me standing there looking in despair as the harshness of life has taken its tolls in the environment and everyone was paying the price.
I felt the tears springing up in my eye and suddenly I started to cry. I tried desperately to hold back the tears so as not to embarrass myself on the spot and so I suppressed the emotion. My body took on a different figure and I could feel all my joints getting stiff and so I clenched my fist and stood silently behind the door and I could hear my own heart beat racing towards the shore and my body moving to an unfamiliar rhythm. The customers come and go staring at me with budging eyes, some had no purpose there they only wanted to look at me.
I kept squeezing the tears inside hoping someone could understand how I feel and touch the pain in me. But my spirit kept draining and my heart continue to ache. I bid the shopkeeper goodbye and venture out the door stumbling on the brumby side walk until I was able to hold my grounds. I walked slowly along the path and each step that I take I could hear your voice shaking and telling me to go. I like watching the show because that’s the only time I can be with you. My hands are stiff my heart is pounding and my soul is waiting for you. Just one more day and I will board the plane and go away from this wretched place.
An old man sits in the crowd, he briefly caught my attention, I wasn’t sure if I should stand or bend or just pretend, but I had this horrible feeling that was so revealing. The tension bloated my gut sending waves of anxiety up my spine, and the wind starts to blow and water began to flow.
The air around wasn’t so clean and the stench from the toilet pit perfumed the air with an unusual stench that sends tiny drones buzzing around my ears. I tried to knock it down to the ground but it keeps going around and around disrupting my thoughts. The fly just knows where to land when your emotion hits rock-bottom , it pretends as if it is dead and then it comes buzzing over my head. I continue to follow it around until I squash it deep into the ground.
I walk out of the cluttered space just looking for an escape to breathe fresh air and so I wander around the back and start gathering trash. I saw a tiny particle among the leaves; the sun reflected on it sending long rays into the trees; it was just a coin laying in the bush with the head staring at me. I picked it up and walked away and I saw an opening for a brand-new day.
I walked towards the entrance seeking another path but every entrance and exits were blocked. The air space and the sea are covered and every land mark was devoured and the army surrounds the space.
They stand with legs flushed apart like giants on the run holding the crucifix before the gun and five shaved men kneeling before them begging for their lives but mercy closed their ear and each had to pay a bountiful sacrifice.
Twenty-one-gun salutes bellowed from the gun but the men on their knees had no place to run. They were buried in the trench and a big stone was placed on top of their head to remember the place of the dead.
When the air is fresh and your mind is at rest and courage forms ripples beneath your feet, the silver coin in the bush will show you exactly where to look. When you merge your soul for something that is bold you will find new meaning in simple things and direction to leave that place.
CAMERA LAND
We are all celebrities in camera land! In hoods and hard hats, behind the wheel or borrowing “Click”
Beneath the scaffolding. Picking up dog ends in the park, running after midnight in the shadows; “Click”
Creeping in the small hours, pursuing the bus, taxi calling in the black fog - stabbed in the red mist, “Click”
Its 2am I’m digging in the garden, there’s suspicion spilling from a blind window! “Its potatoes”!“Click”
Tilting on the brink, canned in cider or inside her, balanced on a tall pole, or tent pole.. Flashed at 34MPH “Click Flash Click”
Sunday lunch in the well, watched damp gutter, observed from Sardis block “Click”
Mooning the lens, burning the protective glass, pictures of my ****, Should please;“Click”
The smile will be costly, looks like a ghost, on fire in the corner, on top of my lost wife with a knife, “Click”
Dripping in credit land, folding paper planes from county court judgements, “Click”
Linking with a landlord between the empty casks, up the back around the back, no one sees, “Click” What could possibly go wrong if you’re behaving in camera land. Never mind!“Click”
Dogging for the joy of it, click! It’s a big big tit, bending over the fence, joy to the vicar in the bell tower of dreams and dripping in unzipping trousers, “Click”
A man holds his breath on the bonnet on the avenger in green, and sinks to her knees under his knees “Click
Hands are moving quicker that a clock in the last days of the night, yes that’s him looks like a purvey, and bandy three legged “Click”
Holding lighter fuel, and sniffing, tipping it into the wallet the queen is watching, on fire but, always smiles “Click”
Just a little disc blue and with numbers, a beer mat would do in desperate times “Click”Guilty or guilty innocence, it’s priced the same on film, stacking up the odds of being clicked.
It’s October, we find time to go by the spring-house to get the tulips. It is time to prepare for winter and the inevitable coming of spring. The bulbs look hopelessly dead and ugly, rather pitiful in fact. We nurture them tenderly.
fall gardener
tucks the bulbs in bed
till spring's alarm.
Through many snows and chilling temperatures, we do not consider at all what is taking place under the ground. One warm March day we see tiny noses poking up through the soil around the back porch. By April, we are sitting in the swing admiring the result of loving labor of last fall.
seeing the blooms
brings to mind
dried-up bulbs
How could such ugliness have turned to such beauty in the cold, hard earth? As May approaches bringing other flowers, our short-lived tulips drop their blossoms and say good-bye. But as we've discovered, the wisest of gardeners do not hasten to bother the beauty in its passing.
dust to dust
all blossoms shrivel
with time
food for the soil
wilting leaves nourish the bulb
hidden in the ground
The bulb remains unattractive throughout the whole cycle of growth. Along in mid-July when all external signs of life have faded, we remove the unsightly bulbs from their bed, putting them back in the spring-house until fall. Without them, there will be no blossoms next spring. It is the care we show the bulb which bursts into the beauty we bless in time.
entry for contest: Carlton D. Kennedy's Love of Nature
Rumors spread like a flood seeping through the streets
That an adult black panther, kept as a pet, had escaped,
And was now prowling around the back alleys in town, according to the tweets.
Big cat far too black to see in the dark, lights and shadow play the beast undraped
To show slinking sly shadows of a panther silently prowling for kills and meats.
Kids and wags made things worse by feigning panther roars.
Soon all sorts of sounds prompted fear and flight,
Cats sounds, dog howls, owls, yells and screams all caused uproars.
The rumor mill was rampant, the streets declared unsafe at night
People were forced to stay at home after dark, and hide away indoors.
People started reporting that their cats and dogs had disappeared.
Bones and dropping scattered about, surely signs of panther.
Police patrols were joined by hunters who volunteered
To rid the town of this menace, as jokes and laughs grew to anger
The torrent of false sightings triggered near-miss shots as sheer panic in the streets leered.
The town Mayor became desperate as the situation got worse.
Sightings grew, shots rang out, every shadow had a panther in its tail,
But clearly there was no panther, no sightings, no true signs to ever confirm the curse.
Secretly the Mayor began a search for a panther skin to fake a shooting and so curtail
This urban legend myth with a fake dead panther, fake news, and a fat reward in purse.
A panther skin was found, a trophy hung with lion and tiger in local hunter's room.
The skin was stuffed, dabbed with blood, and snuck into dark alley in secret.
Two blank shots were fired and photos taken as crowd gathered in the gloom.
Reporters primed to fake the news: "Panther found, killed and taken away in casket"
It was all done and dusted, urban legend lingered on, but fear was gone, a lie lying in tomb.
What takes you so long to solve the crime when you have all the evidence that you can find, what take you so long to solve the crime when you saw the man rang the doorbell and sprayed bullets inside the house.
You heard screaming and shouting and saw everyone running about; you saw the young man jumped through the window and broke his nose when he fell on the garden floor. The other one escaped the shot but broke his legs when he fell on his back.
What takes you so long to solve the crime when you have the entire alibi that you can find. What take you so long to solve the crime when his motive is consistent with his action, the distance from where the gun was fired and the dimension from which the gun was held is far more revealing than the man that pulled the trigger.
Go back to the scene of the crime and take samples of the scalp from the tree and listen to the forensic scientist analysis and you can tell what was going on in the shooter's head before he shot the people dead.
What takes you so long to solve the crime when you know that the bison abducted the deer. There was no baby rabbit at the sreet corner, it was just a bison lurking around the back seat dressed up like a scavenger in frock waiting for the right time to mutilate its first-time customer.
Abduction or consent the bison and the deer almost ended up in hell , the wheels and turns, the twist and blows split its legs apart and plunge in its head into the dark. It gored the deer quite deep causing it to sprang to its feet and when the quota was met the bison ran away and the deer escaped.
What takes you so long to solve the crime when the evidence is wrapped in the woman sleeve? As if you didn’t know that the bison was part of the show.
When you are going on dare hunt, don’t drive alone, just take a public transportation into the town.
If your motives are right, you will get a message from the sky, which says do or die; you must take a ride at midnight to meet the saturated cloud before the next full moon, fasten your seat belt, I will be seeing you soon, what takes you so long to solve the crime.
Apparition
For several years
a photograph of my grandfather,
my mother’s father,
hung on my living room wall
There’s no date on his portrait;
family lore says it was taken
shortly before he deserted his family.
He was a handsome man,
easy with women,
or so I’ve been told.
In the photograph
he’s dressed formally
for a country man:
a dark suit, a white shirt,
a crooked bow tie.
I knew him as a broken old man,
pacing around the back yard fence
like an animal in a cage,
talking quietly to himself.
One evening long after his death,
as I sat quietly,
contemplating his portrait
(a casual close reading),
a ghostly hood emerged,
covering his face,
eye-holes roughly cut,
his bow tie and suit
disappearing beneath a white robe.
My grandfather
no longer needed Sunday clothes.