Long Vomit up Poems

Ceramic smiles,
Stupid ceramic smiles,
Filling stupid ceramic bathroom walls.
Tiles lined up like teeth.
Lemonade words spit in lime colored ways,
Across an ocean of tiles and walls.
And sometimes the bathroom walls sing melodies.
When the ceramic knife is too...

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this one goes out to all you symbolphrenics
wink wink light the fuse and
bow only before your own image
for we are each a TV studio
with really huge detector molecules
recall that consciousness is tunable
you need only space...

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a post from 2014
for my beautiful granddaughter, Alexandra

After 13 days of confinement, 
a caterpillar broke out of her butterfly egg,
Then ate the shell and pipevine leaf, 
upon which it was laid,
A small fuzzy caterpillar, 
with...

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swiiming in hot lava with invisible pirahnas
hands of hell keep pulling you under
burned and blistered are mad minds in twisters
swirled and mixed together are cowards and killers death dealers and soul stealers
1000 bullets in your...

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the soldier knows many of the 4,500 who died 
in bashing Iraq,
the soldier may be one of the 32,000 who have been wounded,
or s/he may know any number of these individuals
who for 9 years spent...

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Something is coming. 
Something terrible.

I feel bugs burrowing under my skin,
Making homes underneath my flesh
And inside of my organs. 

They attempt to escape from
The acid that fills my stomach,
So they retreat up my throat,
Causing me...

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You're a brutal brute who barks at the sheep clothed in your bite marks.
The phrases you tattooed within me are maggots crawling into my brain.
While they lay eggs made of tainted Ivory Seraph hair -...

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a calmer (process of) you

III.

drifting (still) just beneath
what horror awaits (in roaming waters)
in present day (the calmer you)
the meek hopeful (pretends)
twitches (as if the world is not teetering)
on (its axis) daily (& evolution has)
(provided) swimming...

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(Sick with grief over the loss of our old blind cat, sick because we'd put her our last night to vomit up a hairball and then forgot to let her back in. In the morning...

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as the hypocrite talking head
seeking re-election in 2012
tells us all that this empire (which continues to wield its
sledge hammer upon the world)
this “land of the free”
(who demands that all others follow in its 
dirty
&
bloody
footsteps),
is one...

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The world spins on and on. 
Whether I want it to or not.  
I can cry for the earth to stop, but it wont.  
It doesn't care if I want to die or...

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Teardrops had fallen 
and wrung my heart dry 
too weak to cry
sweat had trickled down
to feet and palms
hiding in my bulging 
eyes. 
I had searched 
for three days
trembling at a doorknob 
locking the masked one...

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failed relationships,
broken pieces of people
left on the pavement in
memory, burning forever,
crushed inside so many
different ways that all the
king’s horses & men wouldn’t
have a ****ing chance &
then too boot,
poverty sets in,
where once someone climbed to the
top...

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Clinging to the angry gnashing teeth of gods,
Cursing the thousand misfortunes there endured
Yet in mortal terror of letting go,
We suffer.

A dying multitude,
We listen to drizzling turbines
Muttering darkly in the earth,
Turning the seasons in mindless procession.
We...

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Alone where the pavement butt the curve
A crumpled form rummaging her legacy
Of old paper bags and plastic, her nerve
Frayed shaking hands urged by immediacy
Plunged about like a frantic memory. Flies
Cannot wait, and whiz from eye...

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