Category: poetry

I have my MFA in poetry, which has been really useful for me to be able to interprit symbology, from literature to arrt, including Tarot.

  • Waiting and Waiting

    Waiting and Waiting

    2020-03-22

    A gambler without

    A cause to find excepted

    Catch the falling knife

    Look at those fingers on you

    Look at those toes on you

  • Stumbling Mountain

    Stumbling Mountain

    2021-03-21

    Stumbling up the airplane steps

    A Fragile white head

    World hurtles toward decay.

  • Sinister Sneeze

    2020-03-18

    An ocean trash boat

    Endless waste of human life

    Wires in human flesh

    Souls that whisked along the train

    Souls laid out without a name

  • Running in Place

    2020-04-26

    The vulture wings high

    As coyote takes a break

    Sly coyote smiles

    Fooled the man to eat the bat

    Now all the beaches are his

  • Raining

    2020-03-23

    Sun blinking through clouds

    First it comes in then it goes

    This breath at last goes

    To rest old bones for the good

    From rain soaked hills behind us

  • Social Distance

    2020-04-01

    I hear him the dog

    Across the street yelping, his

    Owner yells again

    I hide behind the trees or

    Brush green fingers push the wind

  • Feral

    3/4/91

    Five million die for

    Good,

    We could all be lost

    for Ideology.

    For Gods to subtle to

    Comprehend,

    But too real to ignore.

    Paranoia

    Paranoia, Paranoia,

    rushing through my veins

    through my brain

    Paranoia, Paranoia,

    daughter of infamy.

    Prerequisite to insanity.

    Is someone watching

    over me?

    The voice, the voice

    from my throat

    cannot be mine,

    I know make,

    shadow see me, till

    the end of time.

    Spider decided that it was as

    good a time as any to make

    a run for it,

    Hesitantly, he scurried

    out onto the thick carpet,

    at first thinking that he

    had evaded notice, but he

    realized that he was

    wrong as the human stood up.

    Spider ran for the dark

    under the desk. The

    human grabbed the Tensor

    lamp, and flicked it on, light

    as lurid as death to the spider.

    Spider tried to escape into

    the crack under the desk

    leg, but it was too late.

    The human squashed spider

    with his book.

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    There’s a voice in my

    throat,

    But it is not mine,

    Crying out painful, alien

    an whole day.

    She is there, but not

    there, she is with

    me but not,

    The voice cries out

    but cannot speak

    for:

    She is only in my

    mind

    and I cannot touch

    her.

    Jack

    Jack be nimble

    Jack be quick,

    Jack jump over

    the candlestick.

    And if you get

    your butt burned

    Jack,

    Don’t you cry, cause

    Be sad,

    Its all part of

    Life.

    3/27/91

    I completely understand it

    now, there has never been

    much respect for the spoken

    word. Abbie Hoffman was

    pushed off the stage at

    Woodstock, when he tried

    to tell people about a friend

    who had been put in jail for 10

    years for a few seeds.

    People would read more

    now than ever before, but

    they don’t, because the

    masses have little patience.

    You don’t have to digest

    a song, it doesn’t take

    any thought, unless you

    analyze it as a musician.

    The average person can

    just absorb it. But, if

    someone is reading poetry

    or prose, they are forced

    to digest this thing, and

    most people are too lazy

    and apathetic to want to do

    it. So, they respond to the

    poet with violence or at

    best, indifference.

    3/27/91

    You can tell the future

    from the whisper of

    the water drops in

    a thunderstorm.

  • A Story

    She slid into bed next to

    me, she threw her tan

    long, tan legs over

    mine and said:

    “F_ck me, please.”

    I kissed her mouth.

    Our tongues twisted,

    I tasted her mouth, it

    had a cherry sherbert

    flavor, she smiled as

    we broke the kiss

    her black curls

    shimmering in the

    sun.

    I grabbed one big,

    ripe breast, and teasing

    and took the nipple

    full into my mouth.

    It hardened instantly,

    she moaned with

    passion, her smooth

    legs rubbing mine.

    She grabbed my dick,

    and my hand slid

    down to her wet mound,

    she squeezed my swollen

    penis up to her breast

    and began to rub it.

    I stroked her mound,

    kneading her clit, the moans

    as we came, the milky

    semen squirting on her dark

    nipple.

    She smiled.

    “We held each other

    close, I stroked her ample

    buttocks. When it was

    time, she rolled over,

    and I entered her from

    behind.

    Bye, Bye

    miss American Pie,

    Took the Chevy to the levee,

    But the levee went dry,

    The good old boys were

    drinking Whiskey & rye,

    & Singing

    This’ll be the day that I die,

    The day the music died

    On the Beach

    Why am I here?

    To get a tan?

    To praise the sun?

    Or the scratchy sand

    that beneath buttocks.

    Or to praise the waves?

    Or write ocean-polluted

    poetry of overburden,

    Ridden by copper-tanned

    Straddling saddles

    Of fiberglass.

    The sand is strewn

    with celluloid debris

    sacrificing write-ups

    to the sunless sky,

    Wall to wall people,

    Waves of flesh against

    waves of water,

    American music

    from transistor radios,

    And all the sand, sky

    and celluloid are one,

    The Beach.

    Cat Stevens, whats happened to you

    where have you gone

    To the faith of old Islam.

    Life could be a Sci-Fi novel

    Ads praising toilet paper

    like the messiah,

    Phallic ships soaring to the moon,

    Or to deliver atomic death,

    Couch potatoes collect radiation

    from their TV sets,

    While models collect

    cash for their printed

    photons.

    They glorify themselves

    In their stinkin’ tobacco

    and cheap cheapo.

    Heat is the sponge that soaks

    up hope. It burns, heats

    and melts, dragging away life,

    sucking like an infant’s mouth

    upon the nipple of life.

    When do you kill?

    you fill the drainage

    ditch with bodies,

    To satisfy you lust,

    Cravings of your

    mad gods.

    But do the gods listen,

    or do they simply float

    away,

    On a cloud or non-existence

    You make the world stink

    with the stench of burning

    flesh body,

    But only the youth, children

    die.

    They say that your gods

    are the worst.

    But I think not.

    You sacrifice fourteen,

    But ten million die for

    the Power.

  • Explodes

    The electricity sizzled and

    popped, as the huge spark shot

    up through metal tires, and into

    the open air, exploding into a

    brilliant green blue flash. Wheels

    spun, lights flashed on, and the

    machine was on. The scientist

    sitting at the controls flipped a

    switch, and was instantly

    transported across the lab basement

    floor.

    His colleagues stood in amazement,

    stunned at his accomplishment, so

    stunned, that in fact, they decided

    to pretend that the event had

    never happened, and so in their

    own stuffy Victorian ways, they

    dismissed it as parlor magic, and

    kicked Dr. Long out of the society of science

    for fraud.

    Dr. Long packed the machine in

    disgust.

    “Thirty years of work thrown

    away in an instant by a bunch of

    overstuffed narrow-minded cynics,

    who try to call themselves

    scientists, Rumpth!!”

    He checked the coils of his

    machine for overheating. His machine

    — a machine that could travel over

    any given distance in an instant of

    time, seemed to defy all the

    known laws of physics, but

    still, it had to work, he

    had devoted his life to the

    idea of instant transportation,

    but his colleagues just laughed,

    and told him to stick to trains

    and horses, but he would

    show them.

    The hate inside him grew

    in intensity, as he plotted his

    revenge.

    “I can use my machine against

    them. They will see that I’m

    not an insane parlor magician.

    I will show them all, the

    world will pay for this

    mistake!!”

    And, try tried to make them

    pay, but failed. The first

    time, he tried to dematerialize

    into one of his colleague’s homes

    he dematerialized inside

    his former colleagues breakfast

    table, and died instantly.

    So the world would have to

    wait for Dr. Long’s revolutionary

    device to be reinvented at a later

    time.

    The giant absentminded

    scratched his crotch. Being

    a giant is an awful burden, the

    thought, as he absentminded trampled

    a flock of sheep.

    Arrows shot up at him through

    the darkness, repelled by his thick

    clothing, as he trampled these

    ant-men with their useless

    stingers.

    Later that night as the giant

    pooped in a field or kicked an

    entire castle across a wooden

    field, then suddenly in a

    stroke of unwritten or good luck,

    a bolt of lightning shot out

    of the heavens to claim the stupid

    and idiotic and useless life of

    the giant, who should have

    never existed, but in the

    minds of some twisted

    men.

    The fat magistrate shifted his

    bloated body on the two chairs

    that were necessary to support

    his exorbitant bulk.

    He tossed the globe up and

    down in his pudgy fingers,

    pleased with himself for having

    fired an employee that morning.

    His job was to make people

    miserable, and he was quite

    good at it, almost as good as

    the famous motion picture

    lounge singer Boothy

    Bemment.

    A conclusion about how the side of our guilt

    apart.

    The Antony at the beginning

    of the play is greatly different from

    the Antony at the end of the play.

    On the beginning of the play,

    Antony is like a wolf, seeking

    revenge on the killers of Caesar.

    But at the end of the play, Antony

    understands why the con-

    spirators did what they did, but

    he understands also why Brutus

    killed Caesar, and he forgives and

    praises Brutus. Antony changes

    greatly from the beginning of the

    play, to the end.

    In the beginning of the play,

    Antony is a wolf, seeking revenge

    for Caesar upon the conspirators.

    Wait! We see to the fact that shed this

    costly blood!” In the preceding quote,

    Antony is cursing the conspirators,

    and like a mother bear avenging her

    slaughtered cubs, he is pitting himself

    against the killers of Caesar, at all cost.

    he says that to avenge the

    murder, Antony says that a curse

    shall light upon the limbs

    of men, and that blood

    and destruction will be seen

    and that mothers will but smile

    when they see their babies

    quartered with the hands of war.

    In the preceding quote, Antony

    is again revealing himself

    to be like a beast in a blind rage,

    who because of his anger at

    the conspirators, is willing to

    sacrifice the lives of hundreds of

    people to avenge Caesar.

    Antony at the end of the play,

    differs from the Antony at the begin-

    ning, in that, like a wise old

    man who sees the truth. “All the

    conspirators, save all he, did that

    they did in general envy of great

    Caesar…” This quote shows

    that Antony has changed.

    He no longer believes that all of the

    conspirators killed Caesar for their

    own personal gains, although he

    knows that most of the conspirators

    killed Caesar out of envy, he knows

    that Brutus killed Caesar for what he

    believes to be the general good of Rome.

    Antony says that he was gentle and that

    a general honest thought and

    common good to all, made one

    of them. “His life was gentle,

    and the elements so mixed in

    him that nature might stand up

    and say to all of the world

    ‘This was a man!’” Antony

    is revealing that he has forgiven

    Antony, and that he no longer

    instead of vehemently hating

    Brutus, he honors him. Instead

    instead of seeing Brutus as the

    dark assassin who murdered

    his greatest friend, Antony sees

    Brutus as the

    greatest Roman who

    ever lived, who sacrificed

    his friend Caesar, so

    that Rome might live

    free.

    Antony the Antony at the

    beginning of the play is greatly

    different from the Antony at the

    end, for in the beginning of the

    play, Antony is like a ferocious

    beast, because he has an intense

    blind rage,

    and he can’t see all of the motives

    of the conspirators. But at the

    end of the play, he sees for the

    light, that not all of the killers

    of Caesar killed him for their own

    personal gain, namely Brutus. From

    the beginning to the end of the play,

    Antony goes through changes, changes

    that make him realize the motives of

    the assassins, and that Brutus’ were genuinely pure.

    There was a bird

    And it roared

    He awoke abruptly

    awoke to the rude bugler’s scream,

    but he didn’t know who

    he is, where he is, or

    where he’s been. He lay on

    his olive green U.S. Army

    shirt and “Potato Potato”

    but he’d never heard that

    name before.

    The drill sergeant shouted

    into the barracks, like

    a raging hurricane, and

    bellowed, “Drop your

    cocks, and grab your

    socks, you’ve got 5 minutes

    to hit shower and

    shave,!!”

    “What am I doing

    here,” cried Patty despondently,

    as he tried to trace the logic

    of his situation.

    Momma wanna know me?

    I burnt L.A. in effigy.

    I took my L.A. poster off the wall,

    and brought it down to the shopping mall,

    Momma wanna be proud of me,

    I burnt L.A. in effigy.

  • Talking to Pigeons

    9/3/1986

    Once long ago there lived

    a hobbit but not an ordinary hobbit,

    mind you, but a very adventurous

    one, there is a journal of his adventures.

    One bright and sunny morning,

    Sam was walking down the road,

    cape as in his tweeds, a large white wolf

    jumped out at him, so he drew his

    dagger, and stabbed the wolf as it

    lunged at him, so he went and rang

    the wolf alarm and then raced swiftly

    to his hole. Suddenly his hole started

    cave-in and ran OUT as fast

    as he could, BUT as he ran out,

    a fire-breathing dragon cornered

    and roasted him.

    Once long ago there was a

    clarinet player named Brian. The

    clarinet player was the best clarinet player

    in the land.

    One day, he decided to take

    a walk in the woods.

    my theory of man:

    evolution of man, is

    that man is just

    learning to use his

    mental powers, just

    as early man, just

    began to use his physical

    power.

    One evening three wargamers

    were enjoying themselves at a good

    game of (T) Traveller. “I’ll look

    soon, they started to wonder

    “what happened to gamemaster?”

    they were play a Traveller board

    game because it doesn’t need a

    gamemaster. Suddenly he walked

    through the door, Mr. Slorance

    was the gamemaster. He was

    also the school historian. He

    was a tall, thin and gray

    man (w-) at the age of 60.

    He sat down a newly made

    module and said, “Sorry

    I’m late, but I have a new

    scenario, let me begin.” “I suppose

    you have all of your old

    characters because I will

    take experienced characters

    to play this module. Let “you

    are (on) shipwrecked on a

    strange planet,” “It seems to

    be uninhabited.” “Before you were

    shipwrecked your cruiser was

    attacked by cosmic pirates.” Suddenly

    the gamemaster broke into laughter

    and the room was filled with smoke

    (A) Suddenly the young gamers found

    that they were in the far future,

    and they weren’t gaming anymore.

    Each of them, (A) (must) (be) David,

    Wendell

    and Mark had a puzzled look on

    their face. They didn’t know what to think.

    This is the story of a group of

    freedom fighters in the far fu-

    ture. Now the Earth is a barren

    wasteland, the only forests

    are succulents. (dom) The Earth

    was taken over by the

    Succulents. The succulents are

    an alien race, they can be

    described as human-shaped

    and sized succulent.

    Their goal, is to take

    all the moisture from

    from our planet and

    return to their home

    planet. Our story begins

    with a group of freedom

    fighters who have

    stowed away on an

    alien ship. Once they

    ship touched ground the

    freedom fighters

    There was once a fat gnome

    named Matt who got his

    jollies from a baseball bat

    he rubbed and he rubbed

    till his dick was but

    a stub and he exclaimed

    “I regret that!”

    I had a dream that

    I was camping in

    the Australian Outback

    with my scout troop

    and a girl scout troop,

    all the girl scouts

    were real good

    looking, I had a

    friend who was

    an aborigine

    who was lost

    from his tribe

    so that night

    I tried to

    help him,

    until I was

    caught

    by the

    scouts who

    thought

    I wanted to go and

    make-out with one

    of the girl scouts.

    The next night

    the girl scouts and

    boy scouts were all

    making-out in

    a big shack. A

    beautiful blonde picked

    me up and said, “come

    on, lets go make-out

    with the rest.” But

    we were too late

    and the girl scout

    leader said that all

    of this would go

    on to ~~not~~ fucking go

    she made us stop, my

    we got home on a Monday.

    All of this took place

    in an Australian jungle.

    The Pigeon Man – One day

    after our class

    oceanography trip

    out to the forest,

    we encountered

    a strange old

    man who

    was calling

    the pigeons

    “Little

    Bums”,

    he kept

    disappearing

    and then showing up

    again – like he did when

    we had to leave, but

    then he popped up in

    the bathroom standing

    next to us using the

    urinal next to

    us. One time he

    had disappeared and

    then reappeared, telling

    us all about the

    different languages

    he knew. He would

    dig in trashcans

    for food for the

    pigeons. David

    Pimley’s mom

    said that he was

    overfriendly because

    he was lonely – so that

    was why

    he was talking to the pigeons. I think he popped-up so much because I was friendly to him and he wanted to be friends with me. I would have become friends with him, but I had to leave.

    I think that all the nations of Earth should write, and rename Earth using its Latin name, Terra.

    (Illustration page containing an inverted sketch of a man in a shirt and tie)

    (Illustration page containing an inverted sketch of a man wearing a belt, pants, and shirt)

    There was once an old man named Arthur on a bench. He wore a sweater.

    Whether death is death or life is life doesn’t matter. What matters is the preservation of humanity and the common respect that comes out of Christianity.

    “Where you are, so I have been, where I am, so you shall be.” A quote from a gravestone.

    Tensions had been incredible between the two super-powers for decades. The year is 1999. Boom!!!

    How I hate thee, let me list the ways. Your dirty body, Your scummy breath, Your pale face,

    I am as I am, and so I will be, but how that I am none knoweth trulie.

    If you love someone… set them free, but if they don’t come back, hunt them down and kill them