Long Paying attention Poems

(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with the magnetic motors
of conveyors, centrifuges and camshafts.
Biological blobs of gamete...

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Because people have made her promises in the past and they’ve broken them. Because no matter how hard she works or how good of a person she is, she doesn’t believe she is worthy of...

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"I agree," Bayard murmured while looking at the few people walking I across the street. Summer was over and the boy was beginning to get frustrated at the sight of girls wrapped in blankets of...

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Night! 
It’s around nine thirty 
maybe ten. 

The phone rings. 
The voice is irritating, the words frightening.

Within minutes I’m in a car with my mate. 
Within minutes I arrive at my own ground zero. 
Exit...

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rise and shine deflect common sense while white dilapidated guts spawn oppossing beats an treats that are not so daring as uncommon feats and relativity clings to gravity and in spite of everything nothingness has...

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[Non-Fictional Preface: Fictional Old Folks Home/Apparition] "This is the story of two friends, both considered themselves start-up writers, whereas, one who was a bit more of an upstart, was merely known as, Robert Frost. Frost's...

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Moe
Larry
Curly

Shep 
Joe

This Three-Fifth Stooges moron quartet
are brain-slow slugs you don’t wanna IQ know

Just sitting on a milk crate,
waiting outside of the MGM studio gate
Moe, Larry and Curly passed my way

They were yukking it up,
talking clown...

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"Robert Frosts', friend, Edward Thomas was an indecisive fellow, until that one day they took the other road Edward wanted, and of course, Robert's piece was not Edward's choice to say the least, so when...

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Please come here, come here, look at the painting on the wall. Look at it all look at the painting on the wall,
Come here, Come here, Come see the beauty of the art,
See! what I...

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I order an audience, I command an audience
but it's a shallow demand
so all I ask is for just one
only one person come to me please
hear me out
erase my loneliness even if only for a brief...

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Mindfulness. . . what know I of mindfulness?
My mind is full of many things,
but unfortunately for me, that is not the meaning of mindfulness!

So, am I mindful at all?? I hear this type of thing...

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I have been staying awake for as long as I can.
I have been doing this till I come up with a better plan.
I have been going and going till I can no longer stand.
I have...

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Since you asked me directly,

I can tell you about it, only indirectly.
The weeks and months and years
now that it happened,
and still happens from time to time 
when I am really paying attention and ready
to play.

It's...

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I thought to myself. What an 
Odd feeling? Looking out at the
Crowd and thinking... they're 
Here to see me. I could certainly 
Pack a house. As a prairie boy
From Saskatoon... it doesn't get 
Any better....

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"Don't Get caught up"

Are you listening?
Are you paying attention
Did you get the message 
Did you really look
to see that all the good ones are getting took
Not just in a book or on the news 
we...

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I already have friends suffering from serious health issues lately, with one dead
Now, my neighbors are missing and there is a constant feeling of dread
Although I have been here years, I am not close with...

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Who would believe an old hat could change the lives of so many people. 

Outside the coffee shop I frequent sits a homeless man with a sign like we see in so many cities asking...

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I believe in You…
I really want to believe this is true
Oh god, you made my day
And you made me jump with joy today

*chorus* Someone is calling my name
Somewhere out there…somewhere out there…
Could it be you?...

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Looking back

Honestly and wholeheartedly

Having to assess evaluate

My life up until this very moment and point

In time I have lived this far

I would have to judge myself

In two completely different parts

The old me today and and...

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She sits there in the back of the class, doodling on her paperwork. Getting lost in 
the scribbles, tuning out the teacher, forgetting all the madness around her, her life 
fading in the paper. Slap!...

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I love this
   the bitterness
              that builds
tearing the cords
   to my heart
refreezing it
     ...

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And the skies were talking to me 
The stars were my acquaintances 
Lilies, roses all of them were there
It was a scary land for me, yet stunning  
I can hear the music, at least...

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And the skies were talking to me 
The stars were my acquaintances 
Lilies, roses all of them were there
It was a scary land for me, yet stunning  
I can hear the music, at least...

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I love to survive several situations then explain the type of pain or shame that I may feel.  If any shame the only shame would be not sharing my thoughts.
I do my best to...

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A well-known saying that states
The truth is a proverb,
Obedience is better than sacrifices,
A proverb makes it known by all,
Paying attention when you are corrected
Is a sign of wisdom,
Stupidity it is,
To overrule corrections.

Open thy eyes and...

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