Long Novitiates Poems

"The White Noise Bukowski" 

Dreams
are playing fields
where scenarios 
can be altered 
at the whim 
of the voyeur.

sometimes
“they” come to you 
in dreams
and your time 
is manipulated.
“they” reveal 

their messages.

soul to soul.
blue avians
like singing 
blue birds,...

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"Gothic 17"

provided they are 
all story 
and no reflection 

I’m all for heroines
those coiled springs
minds like vampires

the ones 
who 
never sleep

sharp teeth
dripping words 
that bleed

kissing lips dreaming
lips speaking, punctured
Northanger

North anger 
abbey nuns clipped
speaking like demons

novitiates...

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Perhaps the greatest failure of all time
occurred in the last 100 years,
with no fanfare or remorse
and little discussion in high places.

The possibility for the human race
to raise itself with better health
and longer life has been...

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Beneath the comforter curled, fetal, praying;
within the sacred orange of stucco robed walls,
students of Buddhism huddled kitten like laying;
while sound ricochets rattles down the red tile halls.

Liberty shakes the panes, lights the cobalt sky.
Sirens upon...

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