Long Mangles Poems

this is a twisted little tale of a moon king cult leader on death row...enjoy and employ

to all of my fans and fanatical fantastics...to all of my disciples of doom...living and breathing on the dark...

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My unbearable pain tries to choke my soul
Trying to take over
Trying to swallow me whole
 
It mangles everything that I ever believed in
Making me think
Think that I committed a shoddier sin

It tears at my heart
Till...

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After Analicica Sotelo’s Death Wish


Her swollen eyes speak a different version of ASL for those of us who understand it,

But not too many of us understand it because her composure is thicker 
than the makeup...

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I stare across the concrete ocean.
People evaporate like raindrops 
in the heat of summer skies. Dreams of love 
become the vapors, disappearing before my
eyes. I feel alive in the pain; yearning 
pours from the depths...

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You left me all alone again in the therapist office we went over all the scenarios what we would say but there you were stunned knowing your head was bashed in your lip still bleeding...

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( depiction of our hoochie heroine being 
        nailed by a stranger on his car) 

Branches warp inward where image reflects
Winscreen mangles trees in curved convex
Numbed halt of...

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A Penn Valley phantom appears to haunt and lurk
   premises at 1148 Greentree Lane
his youngest daughter (Abby) I pledged my troth and, natch won my Zison’s 
Dunkirk
  ire and vindictiveness akin to...

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A Penn Valley phantom appears to haunt and lurk
   premises at 1148 Greentree Lane
his youngest daughter (Abby) I pledged my troth and, natch won my Zison’s 
Dunkirk
  ire and vindictiveness akin to...

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Now that love's hands have lifted from my searching eyes, I have begun to see. I look at the faces of those who love has captured, and my misanthropic vision clouds their joy. Don't they...

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I am a spider living in the shadows 
Seven Generations from Charlotte 
Here I stand in the corner 
In the midst of the Shadows of this threshold 
Traversed walking on the side of the wall...

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SEPTEMBER 2001, 9/11 New York

(Dedication: To Those Souls Who 
Left Us So Abruptly That Day. RIP.)
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In crisp refrain:
Feel so much pain,
Loss felt again,
Tears in sure strains.


Fate hits the face:
In that sad place,
A tragic space,
Anchors odd...

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"Nugatory" my teacher did decry,
As she threw my story up in the sky.
"Why must you write and hand in futile tripe?"
The comment itself, an offal snipe swipe.

At the break, I rushed to the library
To find...

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MELIORISM 
This world stings like the scorpion, 
And I will not filter in her tears,
This I said because I’m a champion, 
Only throwing jabs, it really wears!
Like the faeces of a chameleon, 
She stinks in...

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Five stones     
                 closing times
radiograms and
         ...

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Five stones
                closing times
radiograms and
              seventy-eights
school caps
              sticklebacks
saturday flicks,pooh sticks

Charabancs
             ...

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Hope rang hollow today
It's echo was a moan
A lament for wisdom
That is now no use
After the event
That caused so much pain

Time
With its disdain for rehearsals
It marches on
Dragging the tears
That emotions in turmoil
So wantonly create
Leaving us...

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PANCAKE


He was used to having blood running
Through his nose like a lost child running from the cops.

The blood flowed down his lip forming a puddle
Of blood on the cleft of his chin


Punches, hard shattering punches...

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Five stones closing times 
     radiograms & seventy-eights
 school caps      sticklebacks
 saturday flicks    pooh sticks
 Charabancs       ...

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Look closer now:
In just a point --
All things abide


First aid kit
Small cut;
Blood ooze colours


Bad dream
Nightmare taunting;
Fear intervenes


Out of sync
With myself;
A flu bout mangles


Back home Wednesday
Nursing jet lag;
Sleepy adjustment


Home sweet home
Notice the aura;
Rest works best


Diary entries
Messy...

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To give glory to Satan I'm sorry to sound,
Though bitter a truth I've certainly found:
Some sons Satan has strictly tamed and tied,
(Forbid O Lord I might have lied).

On wicked ways their thoughts hidebound,
As devil dictates...

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good morning
we have been here before
dawn arrives slow, boring
the knife we ignore
from dusk we’ve dreamed of the slow slice
the pain that covers the real
long sleeves is the price
you don’t know what we feel
child abuse
fear creeps...

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In the corner dark and glum, 
Extant off-casts lie plonked there, 
To fill in the space
Knick-knacks, old wedding presents, 
ornaments and filler-inners
Round and globular, bits and pieces, 
Hide the harsh mangles and tangles
When walls at...

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Be beyond blame with that stern poise,
Urge cheer right here to grace fine soul;
Opt to frame name in pulse of voice,
Yoke not old fear that mangles whole;
Apt ample art can fashion style,
Now dare to move...

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