Long Clerical Poems
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From the early days of your inclusion
in the ranks,
marching in formation.
Some of you fighter pilots, clerical,
galley workers, medics, nurses,
doctors, mechanics.
When fear met courage,
some of you died with your
brothers,
a duty of sacrifice,
sisters in arms.
It takes such bravery to sign up-
women in uniform be proud,
labors of the soul and body,
sweat, determination, grit.
When your career peaks,
you’ll carry your legacy wherever
you are,
as you age in grace,
sisters in arms.
Someday buried with your brethren,
the taps will play for all of you,
in the revered resting place of
rolling lawns.
Sisters and brothers in arms.
Steeped in mysterious magic
fearlessly they go
an eerily mischievous bird
you’re never far from a crow
Mystical messenger of the occult
blackest black obsidian plume
baneful omen of death they fly
loudest squawking cawing loom
Many become a murder and
Dickens’ “clerical bird” alas
abounds in much of folklore plus
an omen of change to come and pass
Ominous with foreboding presence
intelligent with cunning scheme
dominant from high in branch
the Shaman’s totem in a dream
A harbinger guiding souls thereafter
a bird of Morrigan’s war and strife
death it seems surrounds although
Bran The Blessed’s giant life
Scruffily nesting high above
bold and swooping on the moor
familiar sight to all who sees
while Keepers of the Sacred Law
Impressive and powerful of un-phased force
tearing without a fuss they eat
opportunists lurking, stalking by
scavenging decay and roadkill meat
A witch’s familiar and wizard’s friend
the alchemist’s first stage
shapeshifting through mysticism
the all knowing, all seeing sage
Of superstition singularly unlucky
but luck would then mean two
three and four in health and wealth
no good, five and six for you
Smartly attired this bird of lore
with fear and with respect
living around and closely within us
an unfathomable intellect
Nature and supernatural alike
realms with ease they merge
from Wicca to mythology
a real otherworldly surge
A four by four of all terrain
from all around they gloat
thankfully an abundant friend
thus ends this Corvid’s note
It’s Sunday,
and I’m drawing myself again,
third time this week.
This version features a haunted air fryer,
a coupon for free emotional labor,
and Janice—
the shoebill, wearing my ex’s hoodie
and threatening the moon.
She’s perched
on a folding chair I stole from a church basement,
clutching a Slim Jim like a relic.
Her breath smells like copper wiring and vengeance.
She doesn’t blink.
She’s been through things
I wouldn’t survive in metaphor.
Next to us is a gas station floral arrangement
wilting under fluorescent light.
In front of us is me,
in my paint-splotched pajamas,
asking Janice if she thinks
my inner child should unionize.
She says nothing,
just tilts her prehistoric head
and sh*ts squarely on my manuscript.
I call it divine intervention.
Later,
we walk into the city wearing matching trench coats,
one of us smoking,
one of us quoting Adrienne Rich,
neither of us offering apologies.
When the world ends,
it’ll be a clerical error.
Janice will fix it with duct tape and a spell
written in cut-up tomatoes.
I’ll be there,
editing the horoscopes.
And when someone asks
What kind of bird is that?
I’ll smile, say,
Oh, she’s mine,
we found each other in a storm.
By late July,
the Texas squirrel has begun
questioning the architecture of the universe.
He sits on the fence,
tail wilted like a forgotten feather duster,
and watches the sun perform
its daily act of unreasonable brilliance.
He wonders
why any deity would design a world
where a creature with a fur coat
must endure temperatures
that make asphalt sweat.
He contemplates free will~
specifically his own decision
to move to Texas.
Was it destiny?
A cosmic joke?
A clerical error in the Book of Rodents?
He wanders the yard slowly,
as if each step is a meditation
on suffering,
identity,
and the location of the nearest shade.
At last he pauses,
gazes at the shimmering horizon,
and arrives at a revelation
worthy of a tiny Texas monk:
“Heat,” he declares,
“is the universe’s way
of reminding me
to get my life together.”
Then, after a long, solemn silence,
he adds,
“I have also concluded
that I cannot go to hell.
Texas has already shown me
the trailer.”
With this,
he nods wisely,
as if he has solved
one of the great mysteries of existence.
civilrights/votingrights/democracyreform
update on communication of opinion with senator warren
constitutional means and measure as provided in description of property
antitrust boredom
petrol
the contemporary lobbying for additional police
in policy writing equates
to the value of ignition of petrol
rather than the clerical error correction
of a homeless person becoming american
that prepaid property of the citizen is in trial
as evidence at the moment
exiting a sealed indictment for all
of those who accepted the transaction
ill gotten gains
from the ill in the streets
knowingly watching americans die
while issuance of wealth was described
in due process
allowance of interpretation of placement
of individual case by case of medical need
present day has concluded process of intelligent quotient ability
of laws to enforce death certificates as an economic
recovery interest in the mortality of exposure sector
of mathematical finite means for speech.
civil rights as commodity?
#civilrights #commodity #zen #buddhism
Just Alive
Days and a single day with clerical error
A day without document
Is a day of life lost
A loss of life
Sum total of hours over budget equates
Total equality of sums lost
Hiding the bodies and mass casualties in a degenerative able body database issued ebt yet no cash aid in Ventura county save liability non profit finance catch it's documents and wage increase hedging against criminology citation of law reference
Injunctive relief from obstruction
Obstruction which infers appointment
of duty by collection of all donations in
withdrawal of surplus creating
obstacles in speech
Objective delivery has skewed
From addressed in the past tense
To tensing another's perception
Hear in announcement from origin
intent of guilt
No oath or path forward in dialogued
reference is acquittable.
Welcome to The Book of Job
This is where I live
Welcome to Compton
Half a King Kunta
McDonald's coffee sandwich and potatoe in to work
When the hurt is over
Oh when all the pain is gone
Maybe love
Maybe love will
Grow again
For now
Taylor
I moved your picture, from my wall
And I replaced them baby
Both large and small
And each new day
Baby finds me so blue
But nothing
Knowing nothing
Takes the places used
I reach a cross as letters
And our father
Will only sound better
When Eva Green gets it together
And stops bringing mistakes in shame
Rondeau redouble, does give me trouble
Amongst poetry forms, I am writing
On the surface, the rules appear simple
But to get the rhythm, has brain churning
The first quatrain, needs to be eye catching
Else, when repeated, poet will stumble
Must fit in too, for critics discerning
Rondeau redouble, does give me trouble
First line refrain, is the last line bugle
Thus, oft the poem title highlighting
The syllable count too, makes me fumble
Amongst poetry forms, I am writing
Rondeau redouble, my brain cells killing
A format, I admit, inimical
Reason for my hair, rapidly balding
On the surface, the rules appear simple
I know that the task is not clerical
Fear of word repetition is haunting
Though rhyming word resource is quite ample
But to get the rhythm, has brain churning
All this apart, I find it addicting
For the words come, as divine miracle
As right and left brain keeps oscillating
Signalling that mind body is feeble
Rondeau redouble
04-February-2021
Air Force general office
General document call
Wing general
General wing at hand
Constitutional allowance of print exam
In history we are where in civilization
Urban Structure Inspection
Fail
Instruction to add
The generals attorneys must approach American diction to resign civil unrest.
Attorney General to Forward Admiral
Forward Admiral to General Reserve
General Assembly
Before
Reconvening
Treasury
Obstructing mailbox
Requisition order for reinstitution of mailbox
In the issue of "sermons and titles" in loss
Perhaps draft able language of this nature
Please requests to defer scheduled
Appointment and disjourn justice.
Appointment may not be controlled.
This is again violation of rights. Also
Furthering evidence of consistent
Disregard for equality in attitude and
Unanimity of action in attempt of
Coercion
Wills to turn around discussion, dialogue
To the tuned laws legal availability
Thus document owners are not deprived of "housing" control and ownership of speech and speeches of said document(s) currently committed in clerical error
Ted liked to ride the rodeo,
it made him feel alive inside,
but he never had that much luck
taking bulls on eight-second rides.
He wanted to reign like his friends,
take home some of the prize money,
so he doubled-down and he placed,
made the top three regularly.
Still, he did not top the rankings,
dnd he was not so pleased with that,
until the day a small cowboy
came to ask for Ted’s autograph.
Stunned at the sheer admiration
in the eyes of that tyke tow-head,
Ted supposed that he should be glad,
not many men bat .300.
Pedro had a gift for making sales,
he could sell sand to desert states,
was going for a big bonus,
the money he could almost taste.
But it went to a co-worker,
who had notched up just two more sales,
Pedro went home in a foul mood,
to his girlfriend, and he railed.
Until he heard a phone message,
fe brother Juan had been let go
from his baseline clerical job,
he he’d survive, he didn’t know.
Juan had barely made thirty K,
so Pedro could no longer see red,
and thanked God he still had the chance
to go out and hit .300.
Chen was said to be the smartest
person in all of his high school,
the kind of knowledge that made all
of his teachers appear to be fools.
At the Physics Olympiad
he thought he’d be regional best,
but Chen’s ego was smashed that day,
he only came in second-best.
You have to see a geek enraged
to appreciated it fully,
then getting fast-food driving home,
Chen ran into his old bully!
The job had truly beaten him down,
and later when Chen went to bed,
he felt quite thankful that his mind
was able to bat .300...
CONCLUDES IN PART II.
Devils Tower
Millennia ago, the elements exposed
A magma-formed monolithic protrusion,
Nine hundred feet high, without obstruction,
On the rolling plains of Wyoming, U.S.A.
Hexagonal columns of igneous rock
Gird the intrusion, where around the base
Of the formation, scree accumulates
As rock slabs break away and fall from the monument.
Native legend depicts a bear climbing the structure
In pursuit of frightened children huddled on top;
However, the bear fell off, and columns were etched
Into the tower by the scraping of its claws
As raptors carried the children to safety.
***
Notes:
Monolith: A monolith is a geological outcrop of a single rock or stone.
Igneous rock: Igneous rock is formed from the cooling of magma or lava. As the magma that formed Devils Tower cooled, it condensed into columns. Most of the columns that make up Devils Tower are hexagonal (six-sided). The tower is 867 feet (264 meters) high with a flat top covering 1.5 acres (0.6 hectare).
Scree: Scree refers to rocks, boulders and, other debris accumulated at the base of cliffs or other tall rock formations.
Devils Tower (Bear Lodge): Devils Tower (aka Bear Lodge) is a laccolithic butte that was formed around 50 million years ago in an area north of Moorcroft, Wyoming, U.S.A. First Nations People considered the rock formation sacred.
Devils Tower derived its name by an incorrect translation of the native name as “Bad God’s Tower” which eventually became “Devils Tower.” The missing apostrophe (Devil’s) was a clerical error.