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Barren Insight

I know
I do not know anything
yet I think

Thoughts are traveling 
this sense to that sense
roundly, like the oval earth 

Cultivating hybrid judgment 
now work of peasantry scrivener

Garden after gardens of insight
now barren pasture of tricky light
attracted many but sighted blind
 
One beautiful butterfly attracts 
thousands of bees to flowers garden
without honey who can quench the thirst!


-27.01.2021 Chattogram

Never To Old For the Sandman

Never To Old For The Sandman!

Ah...respite relished sleeping like a baby,
variations on theme I iterate
impossible to stave of sleepiness,
nor advantageous to struggle against weight
of heavy eyelids akin 
to bajillion tons of freight

after squeezing out every iota of energy,
whether mental or physical exhaustive state
subsequently pleasurable surrendering
into realm where unpredictable self portrait,
where pleasant dreams await
a personalized vividly dynamic

realm, where consciousness doth abdicate
analogous to A Stop at Willoughby
Season 1; Episode 30 of Twilight zone
May 6, 1960 - Original air date
though evocative images fill mindscape,
I immediately forget conglomerate

sans, illusory wonderful world
potential motherlode, did create
a bittersweet dire straight,
asper this aspiring scrivener
REM recall equals absolute zero
no matter awakening eye designate
natural process this body to facilitate

transitioning to formulate
after juncture of adequate
time ample restoration did satiate
yours truly revelled within tete a tete
among "FAKE" persons mine
unconscious did amazingly, gracefully,
and inexplicably generate.

A Brushstroke Choreographing Dramatic Elegy Framing Harmonic Gavotte All Up Yesterday

great mind over matter to set brainy bedlam 
   in an organized queue
so while attention of your 
   might be moderately rapt, this rue
stirring, hen pecked spouse 

   best stop digitally squawking sew
the ethereal essence can beak comb 
   brought to cypher awareness too
and in a figurative nutshell, 

   when doth a scrivener know when to quit
   or tubby pointed rhetorical question -
   at what juncture does any artisan
   more prolific than yours truly 
   reckon that his/her faux masterpiece 

   can no longer be perfected?, 
   cuz further rit
dick kuel us tampering, potche ing, footsing, 
   would induce dedicated followers of mine 
   to undergo severe urge to wanna spit

or throw FAKE nipples, 
   subsequently they would feel tit
till late head, find this schlemiel 
   to end this plotz to whit!

		FINIS.


Another Fine Moist

"Another Fine Moist"

Underground with the worms?
It's another fine moist
You've gotten me in, Stanley.
N'est-ce pas?
"The night was moist," wrote Billy Crystal,
As the writers-blocked scrivener  in
"Throw Mama from the Train."
You run into many old friends, here.
Here in the slime is where I'm at.
Let me show you where it's at.
And that's a fact, Jack.
My ROM brain is prewired,
Yet subvocal mnemonics filter thru,
A RAM cache, stored for future amusement,
But crossing over now, randomly.

Fox

ready to bite
a rug with a
wide grin of silver teeth

and a back with a thousand turns
face full of hair and eyes
like a hanging Jesus

reading the forest`s floor
with its tiny handwriting, a scrivener
in a girl´s secret diary; tired

as a folded-leather bat then
snappy with a trapper`s sleight,
tearing like dough

under a rain of feathers
the inside of a hen,
praying and eating to love;

then after the kill;

a leash under green shadows
in the half glass of dawn,
the black fence of pine,
the shocked hole of silence.

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