Showing posts with label castes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label castes. 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?


Saturday, March 10, 2012

To Rise Again (Greater Heights Have Been Scaled)


Slew foot polygon—a gross manipulator
one in the same—as facts—details—skew the page
for all the ins and outs—
for all the feral symmetry—
for all the finite skills suppressed—
for all the jungle operations hunkered
down—

So deep, that vacuous well—
forever locked—up, down, side x side—
jaw draped—from the random parallels—
between awe—and the every word spoken against, 
in spell—
in prisms—
of polarities—dualities—
beacons—cadmium contrition’s—
acting out—
for the veil of false pretense—
for the guise of diction—
for the holographic mark of time—
for the itch turned untimely cue—

Fate breathers,
henchmen to the idle ones—
content to float through belligerencies—
within broken vessels— meant for
toys, not for man

But who should cast such blame?
Is it he who skips the perfect stone?
Is it she, wielding such a silvered tongue?
or perhaps, it’s just those that need not sweat
yet are still the ones who always get?

the everyman sitting there—
on hands, on knees—trying to find
whatever comes naturally—trying to discover
whatever may come to mind?
—anything, something, anything please—
but what can be done?
but what else is there to do—
when we are many and they are few?
until the skies shift and the tides can turn
we cannot protect against the subsets spurn
when voices meet but never blend
and until they do and we can
 it seems the facts remain the same
that Everyman doesn’t stand a chance
As conditions can’t change
until one voice is heard
as progress can’t begin
until Everyman gathers ears
and states its case

   
The history of mankind is overrun with tales of ordinary men and women fighting the odds and climbing out from the deepest and darkest of pits.  The precedents are right there in the record books, it has been done and can be done again.    

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Flood Runs Deep


How many briefs have played
The role of victim upon this
Well-walked floor?

How many mistakes have been
Let to slip through the cracks of
Prejudice, bearing only unilateral
Shields marked with the indicia of ignorant applause?

If something runs amiss
Perhaps the better option
Would be to fix what ails

If something runs afoul
Perhaps the best option
Would be to tear the framework down

If the only thing preventing change,
Are the potentially diminished pocketbooks of senators and congressmen…then cast out thy demon and begin anew again

Sometimes…oftentimes…It feels as if, we, the old and young, the each and all, not included in that select caste of few, belong to a collective, duly deserving of unique entitlement.  Qualified most of us are, to propose a writ of habeas corpus be filed in our honor; to ensure the whys are answered appropriately, beginning with why the few, are able to imprison the many without a recourse set to scales?

Instead we fight amongst ourselves.  Battles between brothers and sisters, cousins and aunts, uncles and fathers, mothers and sons, Daughters and nephews, grandparents and nieces, neighbors and friends, break out all too consistently.  This warfare has the few popping a cork, as they enjoy the show, watching as the power of a combined voice crumbles incoherently. Instead of speaking in unison, many as one, the screams of singular derision overshadow each the other, creating an unlistenable, undecipherable message sent.

There were four cities illustrated Biblically, where we know what stirred the seas; where we know what came to be, and yet, still
This flood runs much deeper…


Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Caste Contrast


An occupation, a career
In some sets
Truly do, make the man

Apollonian skylines
Contrast the turbulent thrash
Within the waves of Dionysian tides

Argots, each, them all
Burnt petals
Scattering threads of sole
Seedlings linger now
They are strewn to sow,
         Within some other soiled bed:
And hence, wherewithal corrodes calabash
While papyrus stains
 That which shall be penned
Regardless—
A blue book for the common
Cheaply proffered
Deeply resonating in
The karmic flesh Of disillusioned kin
The Hunters, they hunt
The Farmer’s acreage wide
As the Love’s
Play promiscuity—in games of lust aside

In the barns and cathedrals,
In the fields unsowed
In the trees above horizon lines
In the alleys and sewers beneath
Born unto a surname
Inflicted with its toil
An inheritance of talents—
         You pray never to need

Centuries ripple blistered deep
Freshly painted eyes still see
The same ills at folly,
Yet play…has grown a conscious too

Those men and children sleeping
Shivering in their makeshifts
Relying on the roving self-titled Samaritans,
To bear alms
Instead of spittle from gnashing teeth

All the while the maidens in stockings blue,
Prepare diligently
For the feasts their soirees expect them
to keep

 It's another Tuesday and as seems to be the trend these past few weeks I've had periods of one thing or another come and hamper me. Anyhow, Tuesday has become a sacred day, a day for Poetry, therefore, try we must.

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