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The Beacon Runneth Over

There’s thousands of puzzles that have never been solved and never will be 
Please excuse my OCD as it floods my brain completely 
I’m a man of cold hard evidence 
As I’ll be sure to fax you all my fax complete receipts 
As they continuing printing  

“Follow me, I can give you answers you didn’t know you needed” 
What he whispers in the ears of the vulnerable 
Dear prince of fallen angels,
Tell me every demon was once apart of heaven 

She could have dropped her sword and ran 
But instead she used your words against you indisputably 
She runs away with the weight of the world on her shoulders,
and the power to turn any metal into gold 
And any heart into a slave for her idolized soul 

She had the politicians begging for answers and writing down notes 
While your fathers prayed tenfold 

There’s thousands of unsolved crimes that have never been solved 
and never will be 
And there’s no justice in higher security 
But the warriors in red have a hold of me
Showing me a more progressive way of masculinity 
While your fathers blew their money on tokens of affection,
Paying for love tenfold 

There’s a million questions I have about my mind that have never been answered, and never will be 
Like why my OCD has to take over me completely,
Repeating the same lines to myself quietly 
I feel like a mental patient in my own hospitality 

Writing novels of accountability 
While your fathers were on their hands and knees
With blood on their hands, 
Screaming “why did this happen to me?”

Like feeling relief after a break up 
Something was your sign all along 
We either don't see it until it's too late 
Or we choose to ignore it 

And you can't convince me otherwise;
Spies have one job
And yours was to be a part of my life 

I'm used to feeling disappointed
But that doesn't mean it gets less scathing 
And you can't convince me otherwise;
A spy has one job 
And with the blood on your hands,
Caught red-handed, 
You failed at only disappointing me slightly
You didn't have it in you to give me the bare minimum
Like the warriors before you that dropped their swords and ran,
Regretting their choice of a life of violence over romance 

Dear prince of fallen angels,
Please remind me that every demon was once at the hands of God,
fighting for forgiveness tenfold


The Propagation of Hate

Malignant gangrenous political cancer
     corrupts, festers, and poisons United States,
     thus opposition cannot wait,
especially since Gospel in accordance

     with feeble minded Donald Trump
     implemented wrought ugly trait,
particularly obliteration, sans progressive
     human rights legislation

     more or less pronounced positive
     in every L ionized Nittany or cotton bowl state
and ratiocination inherent within
     mine Democrat oriented mind doth rate

this forty fifth president (defect)
     with sawdust packing
     his noodle oven egotistical pate
trophy wife (spouse number three),

     a Slovenia mate
donning "I don't care anymore"
     t-shirt rousing media firestorm of late
essentially silently corroborating,

     fostering, and illuminating hate
mutely bolstering the Trump anthem,
     viz make America great
again, which pathless,

     pithless, and pointless aim
     roars like an earsplitting runaway freight
     train oblivious of wailing soul asylum,
     that no era meets said criteria

     backtracking time machine before
     rightful indigenous occupants of this land
     got decimated as one after another
     exploiter did inundate

(comprising a multitude
     of indigenous variety of village people
indignantly subjected to Genocide,
     when first "discoverer"

     of new land didst promulgate
activation wrought deliberate sealed fate
vis a vis capitulation, demolition,
     and extirpation, cuz

     a scathing rebuke aye attest,
     those murderers didst equate
worthlessness of
     so called "Indians" on 1492 date,

and still remnants of storied tribes,
     now attempt to create
historical documentation operate
ting with limited resources to adjudicate.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 
Food methinks doth buzzfeed drumbeat agog
at pyrotechnics July 4th, 2018 shared as blog
posts, a falsehood prevails which dog
gone “FAKE” brewed watered down grog
posits that the majority of Colonialists stay hog

tied to strict task masters, and mainly the scant 
upperclass experienced autonomy, 
     no matter the under class didst futilely rant
and rave with the occasional 
     uprisings over time did grant 
minimal appeasement to stifle violent kant!
Form: Epic

Just For the Sake of Saying Hello

Just for the sake of saying "hello"

Courtesy garden variety/generic common Joe
who strives to achieve becoming 
(even posthumously) 
an esteemed writer likened to outstanding poe
whit – perhaps illusions 
of grandeur must be reined in 
courtesy horse sense and Whoa!

A short time ago today
(the ides of March 2021)
upon returning from nearest LIDL
(located at 1831 E Ridge Pike,
Royersford, Pennsylvania 19468
Latitude: 40.1845 Longitude: -75.5360),

I realized too late the opportunity
to exchange pleasant greetings
with another resident (a young man,
who shares a similar physique
to yours truly).

Preoccupied removing comestibles -
predominantly nine plastic
gallon jugs of distilled water
(tightly packed within large suitcase,
which luggage formerly
belonged to Boyce Harris - papa)
the notion occurred
(ex post facto).

Cursory aforementioned observation,
(viz forfeited interpersonal opportunity)
unexpectedly impetus awoke
regarding said unnamed bloke
(who I've seen scant
number of times before)
friendly exchange thus didst evoke

idea to craft poem,
cuz pleasant demeanor
generates figurative chain reaction
livingsocial among other
(mostly elderly) folk
here at Highland Manor
this credo to befriend others I invoke

(by Dickens) with little
or no great expectations
motivates me to risk
playing game of life no joke,
but good humor a masterstroke,
one generic American notes tis oak
kay for yours truly not to poke

intrusively, (albeit rudely
he thinks) and possibly also stoke
antipathy by ignoring
formalities of pleasantness
in either case saddle and yoke
me with unflattering
nom de plume.

Additionally I will allow
enable, and provide tolerance
if recipient of mine genuine
companionable intent
declines overture as potential
future bosom buddy
and/or sounding board,
plus will defend self
against blistering, excoriating, scathing...
metaphorical nonetheless hurtful assaults

against mine brow
will not figurative undermine
paltry self esteem, but endow
redoubled effort to risk
making acquaintance(s) and consort
with persons who cross my path
their nose in the air
trumpeting arrogance and how
never be deterred toward livingsocial
such personal promise I vow.
Form: Rhyme

Mine Slovenly Unkempt Appearance Spells Embarrassment

No rhyme nor reason why
yours truly recalled how
me late mother
(earlier in her fitbit livingsocial years)
non verbally communicated disgust
(insync with audible sigh)
quite often ultimatums
blasting fulminating nauseating
scathing well nigh
she loosed loathing against
grungy looking son (guess who)

futilely escaped wrath of Harriet Khan
clamoring upon rooftop high
offering birds eye view
out of earshot and eyesight aye
catching sunbeams while smiling wry
cowardly lion sought divine intervention 
courtesy sheltering sky
acres of shingles I sprawled
these lovely bones did lie
property of garden variety generic guy.

She who helped beget and birth
sole heir inheriting gamut of behavioral quirks
linkedin with many predecessors,
who trod, slunk, roamed...
across planet Earth.

Best bet said present day scribe i.e.
poetic, nonesstablishmentarian, liberal,
jesting, humble, freelance, dilatory bummer
whose hindsight evinced a student dumber
than his classmates wheedled
(as targeted scapegoat) by bullies their flummer
re: entrapped - worse louse than lice
internalized trauma left figurative tread marks
analogous to raging road runner
pressing accelerator pedal of hummer
driven by (an actual person) one Roger Kummerer.

Despite agonizing vicious tongue lashing
against flesh and blood,
which venomous invisible whiplash
never petered out
(even when sundry bloke
got married and gladly left home)
abusive treatment markedly
left appalling, loathing and percolating
ambivalence if though mama passed away
(these last seventeen plus years) wrung
cash crop of poetic endeavors,
albeit resultant lackluster
literary crafted aspirations.

Memory of mom overshadowed
by similar facsimile thereof
think shrieking banshee,
an indelible psychological imprimatur,
I strive to acknowledge
emotional reverberations to date
(May 27th, 2021).

My trademark wordsmith fashioned communiqué
impossible mission to shake off bittersweet feelings
toward once (former) Arthur Murray dance instructor
which fancy footwork synchronized with favorite
debonair handsome young fella (papa)
both flirts buoyant with elan and energy
only thru death will angst become free
interestingly enough hands will clap with glee.
Form: Rhyme

A Raging River

A dream broken open left to decay away
Another undoing left to go through the skewing and the scathing
Called raving mad, angry, and sad

As above so below
We are what we know
I won't go away so easily repeatedly

Told eyes of golden beauty to the monstrous reapers keeper
"You will never be anything of what you seek"
 "What we have you never reach"

Sad and bitter truth in a world obsessed with outer appearances and disgusted by the thin shell of our bodies crust
What lies beneath should be sook but pray never is 
First show us aesthetically appeal, kneel and, never speak against us

Our world is filled with many beautiful things pray we are complex and contradictory to those things but,
Give us wings and we can soar higher then the heavens past the moon
Past now past soon

Pray me an ugly thing who saw beauty in everything and now my scorched heart bleeds to a broken beat and i no longer see those things as I once did
I fled or they hid

Now I run with the sun and the monster they saw I became
Driven insane by the ravenous and perpetual stream of my minds eye
I have forgotten how to cry 
Lost amongst the ashes in a time well remembered
A cold, dark, and bitter December but,
My hope though a dying ember still burns and it yearns to ignite
Here in the words I write
In the nights I lay awake and toss to turn my view of this dark abyss of broken dreams into my one wish
I used to wonder what crashing thunder could bring and i would sing so loud so proud of everything and everyone
I was shunned made a fool
I no longer hold out my hand in hopes of camaraderie 
Beauty took the best of me it cannot have the rest of me
I keep myself well hidden from the world around me
A diamond unrefined still shines in the light but dims in the dark of night
I will glow when the day finds me and be sullen and cold when the night binds me
Forever golden, Forever frozen
A contradicting scheme of unfathomable torment
A wide river flowing endlessly with harsh turns, rigid rocks, and cold that shocks
At every turn another fall into a deep well an icy hell
This river that twists and turns you that scorns and burns you lasts for eternity
It rages on endlessly
This is my reality
A raging river searching for the sea


Broken Home


Here we go 
again
No room left to 
pretend

The word 'love'
Is just junk
It's meant to 
cover up

The scars and 
the bruises
Of fights day 
and night
The mental 
abuses
It just isn't right

Surviving 
together
In this torture 
room
This shattered 
home
Can provide no 
room

To breath but 
to see
Hearts of soot 
and ash
When the cold 
took over
It broke them 
in half

Strangle me
Stab me
Swallow me 
whole

Spit me out
String me up
Drop me hard 
down a hole

Let me crash 
and burn
But never learn
The sins of this 
home
The lie that is 
'love'

It never ends
Like a carnival 
ride
Round and 
round
And up and 
down

Never let me 
drown
Just choke for a 
little while
Then pull me 
up
And whip my 
back

Then start again
On the next go 
round

I can't get off
This merry-go-
round
In 
Frankenstein's 
carnival
No mercy can 
be found

Like jungle cats
We fight in 
silence
Tearing to 
shreds
'Til it rains 
down red

The acid in the 
blood
Which pours 
like a flood
Burns my 
wounded back
Where you 
whipped me
As revenge for 
my subtle attack

I knew by now
You could be 
so cruel
But to turn 
your back
Your subtle 
attack
For a simple 
question
I need not 
have asked

The silence 
ringing in my 
ears
It's scathing 
tone buries me 
whole
In soot and ash
And prolongs 
your attack

All the shards
From the 
windows and 
walls
Of our broken 
home
They envelope 
my soul
And take me 
into the fold

Bury me in this 
mold
As the one who 
couldn't go

Freeze me in 
time
As the failure
Who couldn't 
get out
To save her 
own soul

But chained to 
a wall
She fell 
through the 
floor
She rotted away
...
Had she ever 
been there at 
all?

The victim of a 
broken home
The subtle 
abuses
They ate 
through her 
soul

Not breathing 
but seeing
The monster's 
true form
Left on her own
In this 
permanently 
broken home

Can't live with
Can't afford to 
live without

Then die 
together
In the torture 
room
Of this 
irrevocably 
broken home

…...

Round and 
round
On the merry-
go-round
Frankenstein's 
carnival
Has taken you 
down
Form:

Autumn Equinox 2018

I riff flecked about thee august
     Autumn Equinox 2018,
     this polymath learned why,
September Equinox
     will be at 9:54 PM,
     which spoiler alert thy
learned (courtesy Google),
     when Or Sun Wells

     crosses celestial equator
     i.e. (imaginary line in sky
above Earth's Equator
     from north to south), a quiet rye
hit moment occurs
     Saturday September 22nd, 2018
     (at 9:54 PM Eastern
     Time) marks onset

     of apple cider
     and pumpkin pie
a distinct golden jacketed
     matted palette well nigh
paints arboreal swath, sans
     quiet riot of brilliant
     color, that doth belie
rampant terrestrial, unreal,

     and venal degradation aye
temporarily turning a (third)
     blind eye apathetically, blithely,
     and conveniently shunting aside
eyesore fissured gash - wide
cleft wound, where hide
ding away from
     global abuse decried

as feeble effort
     ignoring doth decide
fate i.e. as does wrecking,
     where precious resources espied
snubbing, and thumbing nose
     (figuratively) asper dead
     serious portentous desperate
     (falling on deaf ears) plea chide

dismissively mocking (bird
     den some) prophesying,
     whence creator cried
alarming, blaring, and clanging
     sounding Doomsday Clock,
     where ambivalence unheeded
     scathing tragic miss guide
did exploitative testament,

     where survival of fittest tried
to the max, viz (courtesy
     of *****sapiens)
     as Mother Nature dost allied
flora and fauna espied
     comprising vibrant biosphere
     each betrothed nsync, and guide
ding generic hominids shrugging

     (Atlas sized fountain head) 
     off beholden hide
bound wedded bliss
     to the other,
     this observer awestruck,
     sans whirled, wide webbed biota
     adorns terra firmae analogous,
     qua expectant wedded bride

named Gaia – resplendent
     raiment adorned playfully chide,
when (dark and Stormy Dan
yells) Armageddon 
     legatee - time ran
out for *****sapiens meaning...

     salvation to late for human
knit tee, cuz field day, sans
     grim reaper will
     glory in field day
whar cross bones
     numb skull pay fealty.
Form: Elegy

Mr Ceo How Much Do You Make

Mr CEO, How Much Do You Make

Going around in Whatsapp circle is a viral message...
About a CEO with an inflated ego hoping to burnish his image....
Being a CEO knowing his own worth and full of self importance...
He presumes the world has to be in awe of how much he makes...
Acting magnanimous, he politely and ever so sweetly asked his dinner mate....
Being  a long suffering teacher, how much is it that the teacher makes....

The teacher, she paused in her dinner, and launched a monologue....
About how she teaches her students the virtues of patience...
And mathematics and how invaluable it is minus the technological aids...
Guiding them to a C+ that feels like achieving a congressional medal of honor...
Teaches all the future brains and big wigs of society, CEO's included...
Her monologue was cunningly crafted calculated to cut down to size....
All those egoistic CEO's who feel they have arrived at the pinnacle  of success...
She ended her broadside, asking, How Much Do You Make, Mr CEO?....  

Hohoho....
The CEO lives in a different world and goes by a different yardstick....
In his world, it is all money in business,  losses and profits....
That's the bottom line, money talks and makes the world goes round....
The comforts of life is his for the asking, given the mega bucks he has to be making....
The teacher in question is obviously one very peeved individual....
Given the comparatively peanut salary everybody  knows she has be given....
His resentment has built up for she must have felt or has been reminded once to often...
Her salary is peanuts compared to her many successful ex students...
What can she do but put on a show of bravado...
Just be scathing and craft out a creative answer....
While massaging her long  bruised ego over seemingly salary failure...
Earning meagre bucks yearly at base level while her CEO ex students soar all over...
That she feels ultimately superior is obvious from her concluding query...
A challenge to her rival, Just how much you make, Mr CEO...
When truth be told, she has merely applied a different yardstick of measurement...
To deflect yet another CEO's disdain for yet another teacher who was once his mentor...

Hohoho...

Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks

Sassy sobriquets schooled sissy spindleshanks...
studious sexagenarian skinny scruffy scribe

My utmost humblest apology
for inducing the following
cerebral calisthenics upon your cranium,
but the cost of friendship
with yours truly 
(me – a foo fighting,
eagle eyed, beatle browed, beastie boy  
christened Matthew Scott Harris)
doth newt come 
like some hootie and the blowfish 
super tramping 
cheap trick linkedin to 
wings at the reo speed wagon
spinning zz top soundcloud.

Scathing, scolding, screaming,
scorning, searing, sing,
sociopathic sarin soaked skewed
squirt, sputtering, squawking, sleepily
staggering, stabbing, swaggering
sweltering sadistic, sarcastic,

savage, systemically systematically
stigmatized, supersized saber sharp
schick shaving, shunned, sabotaged,
scarred, scorched, smote, sanguine,
stippled, speckled schizophrenic
sensibility, spurring, seething,

somewhat stultified, sophisticated,
spellbound spirited scabrous
schlemiel schlemazel, stenciled,
sundered sniveling sanguine storied
snakebitten sojourning smartass,
skeptical shoddy sophomoric

screwball, subtly sagacious,
stunted, sclerotic, scrappily
shuffling short, Shylock 
styled sideburns Semite, 
sainted Shasta sipping 
shriveled sad sack,

sullenly syncopated, synthesized,
slobbering sybaritic, scruffy
sheepish sketchy scalawag,
Socratically scrutinizing, seizure
stricken, stoically sneezing,
shamed Skidrow skeezer, shifty,

sweaty, sham shaman,
supremely spidery, schmaltzy,
sylan seeking subsidized succor,
self shuttered, sequestered,
sidelined, shiftless, shabby,
semantically snazzy, soldiering,

shrieking, skulking, somber,
stooping, Segway scootering,
schmart spendthrift, Swahili
speaking, straitlaced, streamlined,
spongebobbing, sandal shod
sealegs, squarepants sporting

spectacles, sedate, sensate,
sentient, ship shaped,
shanghaied, salubrious,
slithering, snakish, stuttering,
sluggish, smashface scarred,
sober, solitary, sangfroid

skidamarink singing, Shamokin
speaking scrivener, scuzzy,
spunky, starved, submissively
suicidal, sunburned,
salaried shuffling senescent
snoutish soundcloud shutterflying
snapchatting schnorrer.

Contemporary Art!?

Scathing these miscoloured orbs of sight, with incised rocks carved beneath

Concretionaries jagged edges of contagiums....

Painted upon the predominating canvas of perceptions dank, pasteled times!

So what has changed, this mosaic of histories collective collage?

As one way or another many, infused, inebriate their thoughts to inertia

Binding and bound; within these thicker links of connotations chains....

While they bury their bleeding nails into walls; immersed within darker days

Wherein few lives withdraw completely these claws, of concourses contaminating

Which extends itself polymorphously, deeper....

This unknowing muted muse amongst, everbearings, everyway?!

Unto the very core within, bleaksomes mangled maze, of, adapted art....

This abstract and blurried shadow of vagues, prolific presentations

How to pound the hearts into tears, of burnings coffins, set ablaze

Amid the dawning of insanities decrying of decrepits, decores, so displayed....

Within these assylums waiting for their fills

Beyond, the ghostly bars of Baals, notes, now played

By this 'Phantom of The Operas' corpse; deceivings decay, exhumed....

These flaming embers of ashes; fortiums pins of pain!

The crows casting within corners; like shackles upon most; the guiles, of guildeds shame?

This sifting of flour to find the implosion of caverns

Crashing, upon themselves to the suffocating truths, of, their often buried alive....

Subsisting encased within the cages like creatures, placed on exhibit?

An example, of the modern day creations, lifted from the poisoned palettes, of Palladians ways

Swirling within these inversions; smoke upon the rise....

Black splashings, atop the pavement of profounds 

Sculptors, with their crucifying knives!

More concise within their uncompromising; binding the bound, within these thicker links of 
chains

While they bury their bleeding touch, into the walls of this darklings darkest haze

Wherein few souls escape such palindromic brushings 

These, emdedded pigments, of the palinodes days of daze....

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