Long Substitution Poems

I suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.

Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or culture
or language
or even your attempts at communication
quite the same since...

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Systemic racism
is a social/cultural pattern
of racial prejudice
originating within individuals
and their anecdotal experiences
and lack of multiculturally enriching discernment

Shedding light,
and shredding dark,
power analysis,
political and economic,
on patterns of white privileged events
unveils systemic patterns of win/lose empowered privilege
and disempowering...

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(a university-life vignette)

It’s Saturday morning at about 9am. I’m in the chemistry lab, a sterile looking room with 12 workstations that are like multi level kitchen islands with sinks and various lab gear. It’s the...

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I aim to live in the here (ahem hair) and now...

despite entrenched familiar
obsessive compulsive disorder behavior
distracting me courtesy
countless what if scenarios,
particularly before undergoing
voluntary drastic makeover
as iterated in a previous poem,
and briefly recounted here
as foregoing Samson...

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Translation of " Those were the Days, My Friend " by T. Wignesan

Ces jours éloignés que nous avions partagés, Mon Ami

(A re-make of an earlier Russian song, produced by Paul McCartenay and sung by
 Mary...

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While trickling thick amber honey
in my black decoffied coffee
I wonder why I never noticed
until just ever now

How refined white sugar
has monopolized my wider full-hued view
of more nurturing nutritional brown sugars
natural bio-resonant sweets
healthier sugar-phosphate cooperative relationships
as...

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Part 22

how can there be any absolutes
with the clock ticking like it does
it's hard to tell if you'll come to your senses
when it's one thing to be short on the rent
another thing to stay short...

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The future won’t arrive with trumpets—
no brass echo to herald salvation,
no golden scroll unrolled beneath a bleeding sun.
It will leak,
like soft radiation through the seams of our sleep,
like forgotten news,
scrolling endlessly
on a screen no one...

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Dihing, adjoining borderline with Arunachal,  on the foothills of mighty Patkai, 
In the encircling mesas of terrestrial plains of high altitudes, 
lies the Assam Valley's tropical wet evergreen forests, 
Named...

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"I don't call them New Year's Resolutions. I prefer the term: 
Casual Promises to myself that I am under no legal obligation
to fulfill."            ...

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Adoptee Victim of the Holidays by Corey Quinn (Chaotic rhyme scheme to match my emotional state)

As I enter the home to over salted deviled eggs, loud dogs and poisonous side conversations,
the adoptive family quickly unleashes...

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You are lethal. 
With those eyes of yours, 
You have me caught. 
Brilliant, 
You are so brilliant, 
The way you speak, 
Hypnotic. 
Your words are a drug, 
Let this cocaine blur the lines between us....

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Oh Contention civil liberties that I so mention 
enduring the cooperating social groups non-functional
 non-binary confused disrupted abused circumstance 
non-existent analytical disagreements freed 
my people in cage my people members 
who have developed organized patterns...

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I bring you a live commentary match between Sin and Grace

Sin are inches away to the box
Lust shots, Self-Control reacts well and blocks
Longsuffering has been fouled at the 18-yard
Pride has been booked, he gets a...

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Numerous number systems beyond the real:
complex numbers, octonions, omnions which can eat whole black holes.
It's axiomatic that your personal history, preferences, how you feel
account for nothing at all.

$30 buys a flock of chickens for a...

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People with all the bad things happening
Doom is on its way
With all the people on the run 
Is heaven gonna come

Again nuclear warnings, global warming
North Korea here to free us
Alktha accusations apolitical, What
And is President...

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Amidst tribulation, persecution, desperation and deprivation
Put downs, beat downs, and let downs
In such a location, station, nation 
     as we abide and reside in this generation
Where there’s hostility instead of tranquility

One...

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1.Attraction

secret mirror
eyes and breasts
startle

sweet sadness
melted in
crystalline laughter

sun also arises
looking at her legs
horizon: woman's thighs

his hormones
may convert to
Mormons


2.Attachment

hot sand
is sticking to us
one single body

this wind away
kissing a flower
green waves of grass

frowning eyebrows
opening herself
inner smile

the habit of...

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Substitution in the guise of love
deceit for a life time
for all the things they want

And there’s nothing they can tell you
from what little do they know
only to accept you
as if they would grow
and mature into...

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Okay so I think I have a theory..
Let listen 
Okay so I think this world goes along without some rule. 
I think there are some hidden facts in this world.
Fact we don't understand yet.. 
If...

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Red-wine melodies
And moon-light visions,
Painted moments
Of my best memory,
Live among the swamps
Where midnight climbs cypress trees,
The bounty-hunter 
Of my childhood.

There,
Water-moccasins and alligators
Are much prettier 
Than the human atrocities 
I’ve encountered
Since first wandering
From those familiar lands,
So savage...

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I grabbed my shin guard and boot
And head out with my team unto the pitch
The crowd goes wild, old and young, all hooting
The horns of the cars and the vuvuzela’s all tooting
Super Sports, Sky Sports,...

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Listen up.
This world is full of things we can't control. 
It will eat you up and swallow you whole. 
We live in a world of hatred and depression, 
racism, users, abusers and aggression. 

This is...

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All that was holy died in resplendence.
  kerbstones bit gutters and gutters sucked road,
black and white zebra stripes buried by snowflakes,
  wires fizzed and snapped as their cups overflowed.

Cars lay abandoned, the milk...

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Second in Series of Many Mysteries

When out from politician's brain
there was a protrusion, we had 
come to a far gone conclusion
it was all a mere result of her
mother's erotic elusion of
daughter discovered to be in
a...

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