Showing posts with label alone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alone. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

The Damned Beggars In The Cold


Hither, dither, tither, fro
To, from, stern, aft, glimmer—glow
Worm, wiggle, writhe, fizzle, frazzle, frown and flow
Gather, grip, gasp, ingratiate, growl, scowl, scuttle and sew
Huddle, hurdler, cuddle, curdle, crackle, cackle and crow
Tipsy, teetotaler, tricky, tacky, terabyte, in spite of the stow
Baggage, boggle, bigot, burden, blast of butter, battery blown

Excess verbiage, nominatives under intense scrutiny, collaborate in a circular procession, each participle eagerly awaiting the punctuations incorrect stressor given a home

Slanted in bias, burgeoned, beckoning, blossoming, stratosphere, diameter crossing points of axis unseen, over-plotted, pollutants of the year, curdling inwards like the ravaging bug, the insect, the slug, the tremors of the soul, catching kitschy curmudgeon fever, like the protestation of an alleviation in disarray, sorrow for the sparrow clipped of wing wrung clandestinely clean, clinging to, ovarian theories overtly consumed by endeavor’s angular shaped cocoon-like debris.

Abrasive. Codes are difficult to cipher when patterns seem to exist symbolically, being becomes the cogent key that is swiped away from beneath the bed or hidden in plain sight, as does the seizures seized from gaping stares of those human zombies forever hovering in the red—the clamor, of a clandestine affair amidst tryst—and this is too, often too conveniently placed, underneath the welcome mat, where instead of finding your grand idea, a key from which to swallow and flee, there lay superlatives for observation.  And that is what you do, observe, then observe some more, observe until you are found, once again, with both flat feet on the tile floor, frozen in space and in someone’s perverse covenant with time—here, where, if having been locked out, arrested straight, out of and into a state of alternate being, than perhaps, the concept of the access will purge it’s promise upon someone, some one who, in someway, defines the definition of regenerative decay, a speck, dot, pixelated subjugate, a daughter of celibacy, a candid ripple in the wavelength, a freak storm over nowhere, nowhere at all—giving vitality to the invisible, those personas who’re somewhat akin, to all the eager admonishing razed upon the soot stained cheeks of the underprivileged capable of only stock replies—the type given by those who’ve never had things turn their way, those that find themselves stuck, in a miring magnate of magnanimous muck, in the middle of a processing plant, a marsh, a wasteland of existence, a sinkhole belching a verbose bellowing buckled over and then upon the expanding waistline of a gluttonous nation of indebtedness and adiposity.

What follows is often an infringement of some sort.  Patents blatantly placed upon intellectual property— protean, vigor, voluminous vanishing points, hollow, like the thesis based, in part, on the bland redundancy of an ignorant smudge, too easily erased, too easily wiped away forever without a trace of it’s postulation—the very same reasons as to why it was ignored, overlooked in favor for, a brand-new pet rock for cousin Roy. 

Posture is granted. The seeds have been sown. Violent trestles toss about, in the ballasts of a broken fist, where balance becomes but another prop, to the tawdry supply, set up and staged by, a backstage broker who renders hell upon the peons he feels he feeds all too well. A blood feud begins with the pennies in the filthy fountain—fuel for the animalistic fellows furrowed in lines a-stream this cobbled cove—a furlough became a game, a torrid cruelty where only the miser is left unashamed.

“Ain’t misbehaving, if the conductor says ok”
 Is acceptable, so says the beggar’s son.

 “Ain’t misportraying if the backstory so old ‘tis’ like the story’s ain’t never been done’,”

and broken down, gladly dreaming of the wasteful sot, delivering the curb some hand-me-downs”. 

“Ain’t a crime to accepting what’s been thrown,” It’s just what it is, as is. And it Ain’t indecent to feast upon scraps, if our last meal is dated unknown—


Fatuous verse.  Infatuation can occur; in the same manner intoxication can render oneself unstable.  By the toxicity in the streams of essay, the words bleed terrific, like the dream fading as the currents blur away the pains we’ve since adjusted to their modes.

I am just another eye. Or so it appears and so it seems, in seam, I stitch together, the adages and false contrition’s never said.  I’m simply one who talks out loud, whether alone or simply one faceless grin amongst a healthy crowd. In another time, in a separate space, I like to think, that my verse alone would be understood and could make a difference in some other nation, in some other land.

 Upon the patchwork of this earthbound soul, smiles are that rarity unapologetic to the many left to launder in the cold—in the grand scheme of impression, the stitch that ties us through, is having the recognition we’re so owed, after all…after all…aren’t we due something better, than to simply be known alone, as the damned beggars in the cold?


Thursday, October 13, 2011

The Plot


Alliterate beings bound about
Illiterate minds cast shade in doubt
Literary figures stand strong
In this day and those beyond

Flash. 
Flow of the cold winter air. Circulating
In weathered strips of fermentation, the tears oft get lost in the creases-
Freely the fear freckles form
Uncanny.  A familiarity still-
As you’re left staring up the hill
Stone paths pronounced the trail
To the chapel house:
Where blackened shoes make their mark
Where wandering alibis come for their own
Where the darkness forms a cloud of clothes
Black and brown suits and slacks
Filtered grey veiled masks

In the interlude between patience and angst

“They keep the grounds very nicely, even with the snow and being so close to the road and all,”
“Yep, there’s never a sign of debris, nowhere”

Words. 
That’s all that remains. 
Words and memories of words and the way we attempt recreating images from those words. 
Some are distilled to paint the lines. 
Some distort the lanes of time. 
Others…
Are just words,
In a void,
Colorless and disturbed

Sometimes I wonder as you wait:
Do you feel lonesome?
Does the emptiness within consume you?
If it does I am dearly sorry
But rest assured-
It won’t be that way for ever-
And then…you’ll have me for eternity

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Streets of Dawn


I love the emptiness found on the streets of dawn
I love the solidarity of sound in mind
Crisper awakenings, cold and yet to thaw
No stares surrounding
Nothing to overcome or defend position/place

With dew still fresh promise has yet to beget scorn
Scowling pores have yet to swim upon clogging stench
Perspiration of densest precepts confounding
Breaking judgmental genes and its derogatory blight of spine
Alone and wandering
Bread broken with pigeons prior to morning flight
No psychoanalysis only tar’s silence, born from the fault of ash

Ginger swing
Lingered long
Scrumping apples from a poison field
Unearthing wounds scars have long since housed
Roots revealed, of the wounded charms, marinated & resurrect
Marvels fold, as silence grows much too loud
Burdened by echoic dynasties deepened by a quivered cobble
If a monster was made to be,
Shaped by molds buried deep in me
Imagined from a lifetime of composite imagery
Grow it would
Strong and weak
Bold yet meek
Craving but withdrawn
Pummels then crawls

Caffeinated scales trickle through
Each and every part of a piece of you
Isolations emerge through silent reprieve
Far yet finalized stars of fizzled dreams
Rusted rivets atop hinged wings
A procession praised by violating sage
Storked flight, into smolder, out of lie,
Vicarious thoughts of songs never played inside
Calyx aback yet severed strong
Dusty vision through veils floral
Sore thumbs pretend to mend
I hate the emptiness that waits for me, on the lonely streets of dawn

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Grey Boat

Walking on a grey boat, at this unholy hour,
From east to west, from rail to rail,
Pacing on a grey boat,
Seconds moving as fast as many people’s hours,

Walking on a grey boat, atop some murky water,
Down a narrow inlet, over the darkest water
Working on a grey boat,
It’s not the kind you find for leisure,

Walking on a grey boat, same way as usual
Pacing back and forth,   the wet boards touching sneakers,
Awash not from rain, but from a misty air,
A tributary from that falling rapid over there,

Not many voices to soothe
Less distractions too I suppose
On such a large grey boat
Manned by a crew of two
                                And I haven’t seen the captain in four long days
Works a product of several assumptions
My main reason, my main duty
Is to feed the coal into this beauty,
Grey soldier, after all these years
So many thoughts and words we’ve shared
And still your spitting darkness out to the air

Friday, March 4, 2011

Reminisce

Wandering through the forest,
Near my house and down the street,
I made my way as an innocent
Walking the shores of the empty creek,
Kicking stones with dragging feet,
Wondering many thoughts

So quiet if you stand completely still
The machines go blank seemingly at will
The trees sway to an unmarked rhythm
That dance through the leaves,
Casting stones, enchanted by the breeziness

Days like this I pretend
I’m not the man I am again
Travel backwards many years
To a place not too distant
Yet very far away,
To a time when I still had my full complement of tears

Reminisce, I do,
All alone,
Skipping stones
And breaking twigs,
Imagining I had you still

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Orange

I was followed home one afternoon,
As the sun was bathing the foliage, keeping it company, keeping it warm,
The days grow cooler, and would soon be cold, the days shorter, and the nighttime long,

A cat, orange and malnourished,
Maybe it was someone’s pet
That got lost and couldn’t find a way to return,
A few scars, a patch of hair missing
I noticed as it weaved its body between these legs of mine,

I felt bad, maybe even identified,
The first few nights I left a can of tuna, and a bowl of milk,
Inside the garage and out of the cold,

I thought I’d awake and find it had gone,
I created this scenario where it jumped up high,
Into an ever elated nervous owners arms,
My visions never play out,
So a few cans later,
As the temperature declined,
I opened up the door
And let this creature become a friend of mine,
And orange will have to be its name