Long Outsides Poems

Where Is Your Mind?

Where is your mind?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking cigarettes and cigars?
Is it way out there in the clouds of smoking marijuana?
Where is your mind?
Is it way out...

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Verse 1: My destiny...
My dignity...
Is all gone since you left me with nothing to lose
I'm willing to let go of this grudge in my heart...cut loose the noose 
That's around my neck
Give me your love...

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1—Milieu

Unique construction of body and mind
My niche in human pack not quickly found 
Raw young heart of a curious design
The empty mirrors for my soul abound

Subjectively a bit odd to myself
A jangled, disconnected kind of...

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We came upon this captivating connection 
Not by force 
But by rejection
People longed for your sexual expressions 
But I know deep down inside that your heart was in another direction 
Your heart wanted peace of...

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...“From that day on I was just a damned whore,
two years I spent in that place on my back,
when I had finally paid back what was owed
they tossed me out and they said,’That was that.’

“But...

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Radicals of PostMillennial Zeroism,
like Fundamental PreMillennial Taoism:

YangMind,
severed from YinBody, 
falsely promises 
unmitigated monopolistic political omniscience
and monotheistic economic omnipotence.

YinBody becomes spiritualized-denatured 
empty womanized
invisibly purged
recessed
depressed
repressed
suppressed
voiceless
powerless,
eco-normatively absent
lacking positive nutritional flow trends,
panentheistically dormant.

Just as Holonic Spirit/Nature abhors vacuums of...

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Do you see that girl? 
The one over there. 
With earbuds in and curly hair. 

Curly hair that no one liked. 
That’s brought mild contempt a good part of her life. 

Do you see that...

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Being relentlessly chased by the
Dark night
Breathing right near my ear
The shadows are latched onto my back
Continuous days of
The rain knocking down the roof
Of not being able to see anything
Past the midnight city skyline
Pulling up a...

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Trees form an alliance…you might say they’re in cahoots…
with other trees and organisms that intertwine within their roots.

Pine, fir, palm, cherry, maple…it matters not what we call them
what differences on their outsides we may see…
The...

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When the path is broken 
And your heart is shattered 
Clattered with rushing storms 
That leave you so torn 
Stand together 
And become reborn 
Captivate the moon 
And with you I will become a groom...

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i am made up
in equal parts of what i believe 
and 
in equal parts, i believe in 
what i am made up of.

you break me down and you've got
equalityfreedomwomansrightsproch
oiceantibullyingantistigma-
herpes.

it makes no difference to
you 
what happens...

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Lost

I lost you, but in your absence I have grown.
It was not today but years ago that you departed.
Where did you go?
Why?
Coming back is useless, I have outgrown myself.
Who am I now?
Left standing, watching from...

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What do top and bottom
transcendent and immanent
above and below
leader and follower
high and low

Day and night
mountain and valley
up and down
pole and hole

Convex and concave
vertex and vortex
frontsides and backslides
dominant and recessive
outsides and insides

North and south
colonize and creolize
expert...

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misery
should be renamed life
because i know
it's the way i live
stuck under a black cloud
struck with mourning and grief
deep feelings
wrapped in a blanket
that should comfort
but only burns
in the deepest well
with ungranted wishes
hope and faith
that's been demolished
what...

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I can see it in your eyes the way you act and i'm not surprised. You don't like me 
i'm sorry but honestly i'm stronger. So give me all types of looks, say what you...

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Midnight Madness (Ah! Earth Hour,2012)


All this low tech by candle light
Doesn't do much for my eyesight,
But, pulled the breaker at midnight
Having set up picnic delights.
Marshmellows, grahams, choc'late--Right!
Roasting them o're candle's light.
Toasty charred outsides black as...

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Day after day moment by moment second by second  you see,
life's rollercoaster of thought's feeling's and emotion's delivered to you and me.
 We all go through our own unique fair share,
yes, we all have...

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"I" vs "ME"
                 Authored by Chuck Keys


I wondered why "I" was "me" or was "I" truly "me?"
and decided maybe...

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I ached. Was sore all over my body, my arms, my legs, my core.
My insides, my outsides, my get up and go had got up and gone to a war.
I didn’t know why my strength...

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Sun on my face, wind in my hair,
Time to myself, no-body there,
Pacing the fields, forgetting my woes,
Where I end up, no-body knows.
Every step taken helps me to forget,
All my frustrations, all my regrets,
Dog at my...

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Ever since my early days of youth
I've been questioning
All the hidden secrets of life
And exactly what it means

So imagine my excitement
When I climbed the mountain top
And asked the man of wisdom
Just what it is he...

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Define keeping it real. Typed or text by fingers dripping with acrylic.Thought of by heads heavy with glue and synthetics.Spoken from a mouth that never stayed quiet long enough for the cubic zerconia laced ears...

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The yolk simmers
a large golden spread 
far as eye can take

The heat piercing through 
dots the lavish paint
with tiny red wounds 

The ragged yellow-brown
greasy lace curtain
hugs the ashen wall

A child is waiting
the outsides interlope-in
sounds,smells,sweet'n sour

In...

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My insides on my outside
My outsides on my in 
I’m all exposed and vulnerable 
I’m delicate with thin skin

A slight breeze would knock me over
A light touch would make me bleed
A whisper now would deafen...

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There is a Skelton which resides under my flesh. 
As does one in every person, they just lack realizing this. 

Frightening to think that maybe one day, it could jump out. 
Tear itself from its...

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