Long Plat Poems

Translation of Eric Mottram’s 1922 Section 1 by T. Wignesan

for David Attoe

Notre devise pourrait être: ‘que nous nous ne soyons pas envoûtés’
Wittgenstein in Zettel

laissez pendre   la graisse   sans cou
où la tête...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s TIME SIGHT UNSEEN, Part Three by T. Wignesan

"Instead of an item in a school of rhetoric, the poem could have variety of articulations, continuity and discontinuity, sentence and parataxis, and an...

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Here are questions that I would be asking Trump.

have many crosses to burn
why never will take your turn
before start did adjorn

poor things have proposed
why are you being exposed
lying we supposed

with supporters mingles
and why do you...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 3 Dolores Huerta by T. Wignesan

3. Dolores Huerta

aucun coq n’y annonce la reveille:
les étudiants et les dirigeants des travailleurs 
font partie du piquet de grève contre les...

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REGULATIONS
BY

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Two sources of laws that govern the lives of men
One’s called survival the other a stroke of the pen
Those from survival are easy to list
Food, water and shelter so we can exist
Those from...

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Each Experience is locked
                               ...

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The little pain that pricked my heart, 
when I walked crossing a bleeding street dog,
The black and white spots turned red,
The walking plat form was painted with blood,
That little paw was waning in vain
No soul...

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April 24 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 9-11
 
Key Verse – 2Kings 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and...

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THE CLEVER CLOWN
                                ...

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The undertaker at Butcher's Funeral Parlor received the dreadful call.
Seems old Senator Cheatum keeled over and succumbed at the local mall!
His untimely demise spurred the undertaker to set a series of events in motion,
To ensure...

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We were much too old to trick-or-treat,
But still wanted to have some fun;
So as the neighborhood high school kids
We just terrorized everyone.

We walked around and bothered kids;
Making them give us some of their candy,
And smashed...

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Welcome Ilakunda, forget about paper,
You will wonder, with your slipper,
Drink a millinda, to become supper. 

Only coming in, house have shine,
Where to begin? Drinking a whine?
That is a line, time will run.

See your mother, and...

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What it is you ask me why I’m happy
I’m a super man so me and you is like a tag team.
Tandem, real random wit it, me real handsome wit it.
Kidnap you and hold you for...

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She wakes up in bed smelling eggs and bacon on a hot silet.Her mother calls her''Rain''come 
down to eat.On her plat were three gloden eggs and two slices of bacon.Rain aet very fast knowing 
that...

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I wrote me a book
I wrote it all down
Every single word
That dressed me a clown

I charted me a map
I charted statements of fear
Every single action committed
Leading to the -X-, right here


~MY HEART~

Boom...BOOM, BOOM
I can hear...

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Half a loaf of Kung-fu
Time to break the rulers
_______zipped__________
________zippe__________
_________zipp__________
__________zip__________
___________zi___ _______
____________z______________________  _______________from side to
side
Take a long hard look at
................................... ................................... ................................... ................................... ................................... ................................... .........yuorself
was that a double take take
without the darkness
would the light we...

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DWN GIT n DOWN at the DANCE -

Button down, 
Boogie down.
Velvet lime green bell bottom pants, lookN mean;
Jackson 5, singing Dancing Machine;
~
Eddie Kendrick’s Boogie down man
Dancing to the beat of the rock;
Rhythm of your soul...

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Plunk plick plat splat
The drip of faucet compels me to 
Throw down a few notes
Words I had not thought of six seconds before

Cardinals and sparrows 
Twittering and chittering
I listen hard, capturing nothing 
Yet inspired by...

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Night Light
David J Walker

By night
In flight
You can see the lights that
Blink and shine on the  
City of the Mesa 

Hundreds of thousands crowd 
The borders and boundaries of
The out-of-date asphalt plat
Where farm and field
Yield
...

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Today I go on a boat with no return separated from my family
Lost in a world where men rule for power and money
My blood is diviv\ded by two love and the is hate
Forced to leave...

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