Showing posts with label cheating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheating. Show all posts

Thursday, March 1, 2012

A Principle of Division


table salt—
sodium-chloride
locking in
another flood in wait

cupboard’s dusty—
an extension
of what we keep
for sustenance
in our jars of clay—
tamper-proof—preventing
another early wake
end. point. turn.

a new arithmetic has been observed—it crushes on the physical geometry we just have to learn—an ancillary construction’s hiding space—a distraction, a disgrace—a fake stir of optimism—for a scene based entirely upon pessimistic sets of codes—when discovery disrupts the guise we had formed, it disassembles all the equations we’ve ever known—the only beauty we’ve ever worn—deconstructing our place of home.

a nauseous  epidemic.
anxiety laden nerves. 
paranoid—and rightly so—
an underworld erected—from the trust and freedom love’s allotted us.

From the many we make few—the espionage grows and grows until it tires too—loneliness abounds, even when good hearts surround and the graphed parabolas never fail; they never fall—

self placed Landmines erupt-explode—triggered by the auxiliary education we so foolishly thought we would need to know—because of form, logic lost—a probability gambled upon, one too which the odds we thought we could beat—yet blinded by the arcs and shape—we deemed it a chance we had to take—opportunities like this are rare—amnesia of all we had simply disappears—all that was gets strained then lost— the superficial signs that led us astray—the most negative of causalities—where no one wins and the opportunity to start again—well, that die had been long since tossed—

alone again—first time since, what’s it been? Twenty-five years or so—empty house, empty home—friends grew busy, friends don’t answer their phones—all for what, all for what? Twenty-four-thirty-six-twenty-four—just numbers, random-strange—just memories—what an accomplishment—even if I chose to speak the lore—just look at me, look at me—even I wouldn’t believe a single word—strike that—I’d believe the part about the guy that’s lost it all.
end.
point.
turn-
where?


Monday, July 18, 2011

Dirty Pool

Typically when I work on a poem I begin with a thought, a phrase, a general idea of the direction I want to explore.  Sometimes it's a song, a word, an influx that will stir the juices and inspire me.  That's all pre-writing though.  When I get ready to write the process can vary.  Sometimes I just sit down and start writing, in fact that's a big part of my process.  I feel that writing down a stream of your thoughts, unfiltered, is a great way to just get unique ideas down on paper.  This free-formed writing also assists in clearing the mind, which is an added benefit I thought I'd mention.  Other times though, I'll sit with a pad of paper and simply start brainwriting, jotting down anything that comes to mind regarding a subject.  I may peruse a dictionary or some other types of reference work to paint a clearer list of ideas or things I can work with.  Once I have a deep enough list I'll start by sorting it out in my mind, grabbing the best route that works for me and then begin to write.  Anyhow, like I mentioned the process changes all the time, so there is definitely something to the old strike while the iron's hot saying. In the case for Dirty Pool I did some brainstorming prior to writing the poem.  Here's one of the sheets I came up with.  




The quotes used come from a Stevie Ray Vaughn song, Dirty Pool, thought it fit in well with the overall piece.


Lane lines bob from the wake
Eight across, blocks empty
Nothing shallow about pretending

“True love is gone,
Played for a fool”
         In a game of dirty pool

Filters clogged with bugs and scum
Discolored and cloaked in film
None of this will matter once the winter comes

Jackknife, Swan dive
In the air, unaware
Of the whistles blow
Oblivious until the dart stroke did him in

Simple technique is all it takes
To pull a trick, to abate
One hand magic-double blind
Cut-spin-plop & stun
3 go down
To the power of 9
Wings clipped as the wedding spins around

Just like Stevie said:
“True love is gone,
Played for a fool”
In this game of dirty pool

Felt scratched
Cue the underground
Chalked and snookered
Unsportsmanlike
Buoys fade
Before the English banks again

Empty pockets
In the hole
Damned near drowning
Legs like glue
Only so much treading
A man can do

Playing for the two
But missing the one
Masse spins
Dishonesties won
  Pendulum strikes
Then follows through
Always behind the eight
If you never care enough to learn the rules

Always the hustler
Wet inside
As the easy way out
Becomes a friend to see
8-9-10
Just like Stevie said:
True love is gone,
Played for a fool,
In a game of dirty pool