love cannot be deceived
but it can be mimicked
thru numb taxonomies
and damsels to the
obvious
things, non-things,
eyes and the space
between, the anointed,
the damned,
the longing for unity
for things in our likeness
brings forth love's ultimatum
and thusly our crisis--
All or the death
of semblance perceiver
that knew Illusion for christ
but it is our summoning
of love's power too soon or
too late that is the mistimed
prayer to symmetry
to which
our world is made prey to the
World that duly consumes
and the figure that thought
that truth was to be gained
and coalesce to be had
sinks below
grasping on certainties
removing the veiled focus
for fresh eyes to see
the bare world
we hide the wick
forget the heart
convince ourselves
to be tired
as we plant stake
in surer realms swearing
"never again,"
as the roots
of the earth
wait for our
taxonomies
to know them
to be mothers
and fathers
as the roots
of the soul
wait for our
reverence
and our worship
as we seem to
be fixated on
merely their
fruits
as our heart
waits to be guided
in firmaments of
refuge rather than
shambles of immediacy
for our All could be grounded
and united
that which is to
that which could be
for when we summon Love
it may find the avenues to
bring forth true wholeness
always and forever
rather than testify for
numb taxonomies that
do not know the soul
do not know the root
do not know the source
and do not wish to know
for Now is their resolve
Now removed from the past
Now removed from the future
Now removed from the heart
Now removed from the mind
only empty sensations that
are not woven or rooted
empty sensations that cannot grow
empty rituals that do not prove themselves
and thus need our argument.
but love cannot be deceived
if conjured in such instance
it will destroy the world that
attempted its birth
make desperate
make afraid
bring to panic
until we kneel
and remember
and divide not
the whole cycles
that brought us forth
and worth through them
and speak on their behalf
and love through them
and cherish what will last
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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
meditations on the end
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
the soul is not immutable
its cycle is slow
eschelon of deep tones
stirring the substance
of eternity and it resounds
and it waits for our
entrainment--
our heads like transistor radios
scanning through the stations
some hone the spectacle and strengthen it
some hone the white noise and praise it
but the soul is what is always signified
the mythic symbols bring the soul
to rise and still have within us
the greatest alure
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soul one
i don't want your sadness
but i'll take it if its on the way
to fidelity--refuge firmament
planted deep within the earth
with reach that has heaven's
appeal
joy can leave your flesh to rot
the ecstatic can leave your mind
in shambles
love can be your suicide
if you aren't rooted
no one wants reminding
no one wants harping
no one wants the caution signs
no one gives a fuck about the soul
cause its the awful chore
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Thursday, December 24, 2009
quiet grail
buried deep
in the mountain
nothing said
no renounce
nothing
when they hid it
the hour glass
was set a new
the people
to their ritual
together
the gods
to their feast
together
'everything
we give
to the gods
will be returned
seven fold'
said the priest
the hungry
gave shrill
prayers
the gods
out grew
the heavens
the people
sulked
into the earth
as severed infinity
awaited her
coalescence
A child was born on the day of reflection
where no person was to leave their hut,
all were to meditate the course and
pray for penance for the times
they did stray but the child
would not wait and
the mother
could not
bare
the child was neither man
or woman the child was
both man and woman
it cried a deafening cry that caused the men to yell
and the women to coo and all to end their reflection
to which the priest did run and snatch the child
and shame the people to return
he conferred to the gods
and they did swallow
the child whole
seasons passed
the same ritual
three women
gave birth
to children
that cried
an avalanche
to come fervent
over the village
the people
crushed
the gods
starved
the grail
unspoken
the hour glass
set anew
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
our altercation
will destroy
our certainties
to make religion
of certainty
is to praise amnesia
as we attempt
to forget
how it is
we ever came
to be so sure
and that which is resistant to change
is that which must be the most violent
with fervent pistol to solemn mouths
demanding their memory as supplication
and that which is resistant to change
is most vulnerable to be destroyed completely
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i wonder
if there is true newness
to our experience
or the absence of gnosis
as we drift, disconnected to our heritage,
as conscious entities that have strived
to know the forms to which our hearts need
to thrive
our origins are as fabled
as our purpose
from some nation state
who is your neighbor?
who is your god?
what do you worship?
what do you ever hope
to rise from your depths
to bloom in this shared space
to pervade throughout generations
what will it tell your descendants?
what aims will it enforce?
do you matter to your real?
then why would you ever
worship it.
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you told me
you tell me
all the heavy things
all the heavy things
that treat darkness
as caress and see
death as king
fire on your finger tips
that point to the vacant
centrality that wants
only what it wants
when it wants
but your flames
cast your shadows
to which you praise
and to dodge shadows
is impossible
to absolve shadows
impossible
and your lips are loft
with such impossibilities
as you engage your supplication--
a vacant vessel
to the inevitable
your king would have you believe
that there is nothing to be achieved
as the energies sway in entropy
there is only our wallows yet
the king that feeds
will never provide
the king that feeds
will be your demise
the end is your iconography
as you frame the abyss
and make silence to demise
you, to your heavy things,
you, to your idols,
you, to your intonation
of self defeat, as crippling
as lullaby, as you lie your
hands to rest, every lament
a damsel's goodbye
to which there is no reply
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Sunday, December 20, 2009
methods of the acceptance of the absence of the assembly of emblazoned eternity
inter-weaved continuums
that turn coarse collision
into serenade
that bloom the heart
further
that cause the soul to
swell
that seduce tender
that forget not
what lingers in
forever
5:26 and
i dare to taste
the bitter tastes
and feel loss completely
rather than sweep it
under the rug like
some ho-hum idiot
on the quest for no trouble
fuck that.
interweaved continuums
in an apartment
polish 1st generations
reminisce on all that it is
to be them juxtaposed
and i stare wide-eyed
realizing i lost the game
she did not even know
we we're playing but
i will be altered
even if it makes
iron frame-works
of my brain quake
i will be altered
drumming foreign rhythms
on a twelve pack of beer
to the polish happy birthday
nodding humbly to the human
who can mention their bi-polar
3 minutes in the conversation
maintaining exhausting theatrics
as to suspend the consoling
questions but
i was hit yes
i was hit with
"so where are you from?"
and the script was
initiated
trite interweaving continuums
conjuring a cleanly feeling of togetherness
that never seems to translate
no one is ever alone
but our games
some crafty
some easy
our games tear us apart
like beer pongs
or crucifixits
or the 4:20s
or the damsels,
or the owls
desire is important
getting what you want
isn't
the coarse continuums
i let them go
straight through me
taking what they would
sometimes you are left
cheap and used let alone
confused and all riled up
to defend yourself against
all the resistances
luckily the world falls apart
and you wake up learning
how to cheat your way out
of a conversation or
how to not cheat your way
out of a conversation or
methods of the extension
and maintaining of the
heart or
safe-vault heart precedures or
methods of the assembly of
emblazoned eternity or
methods of the acceptance
of the absence of the assembly
of emblazoned eternity
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Friday, December 18, 2009
the way is many
the way is many
and many is the way
many have died
to have the way won
to have the way one
the lone truth is a lie
a lie is the lone truth
our minds as sacrifice
to our creation
our creation as sacrifice
to our minds
the eternal certainty
is the summoning
of our ends
the eternal summoning
is the ends
of our certainty
the way is many
and many is the way
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
I walked into the classroom. The teacher maybe looks at me and says "You're amazing," and I wasn't as startled as I was enamored.
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Monday, December 07, 2009
cadavers cannot march
the disengagement of computer screens
the hot affair with mud and rain and blood
the mobilization of camoumen that shoot turbinedmen
terrored freedom
freedomed terror
the lost fetishism of the reconsider
the cock brazen fucking of otherings
the idea of the colour red
that so shrugs off a death count--
big thousand numberings of men
and billionings of dollars--
as sacrifice to the artifice
that puts minds to ease yet
are these walls truly walls
or the end of our periphery
resultant of lock necked gazing
to pretty things that satisfy
our wombed kingdom
our tombs would rather have us asleep
and in a cradle rather than strangle us forthright--
cadavers cannot march.
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psychopompos
recant
yr defamation
yr death grip
yr drearies
yr phantasmagoricism
yr nuanced magick spells
repent
yr toneless silence that drapes the quiet heart
that beats in tiptoe in cowards cloaking
yr loveless hands in league with entropy
yr melted fortress lips that Saturn wrought
to a perfect nothingness
yr deaf ears to Mercury as Babel has but
another soul to stack in pantheon to listless synthesis
disparages
will flood
our static clings
until
we are forced
to grip
a temporal
immutable
or
succumb
to lowly bellies
either our love to some vision or
our stumble to some grave
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Sunday, December 06, 2009
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Thursday, December 03, 2009
when the gods smite our altars
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god jr III
He was only dancing because he didn't want to deal with thinking about whether he should be dancing while sitting at home thinking about conspiracies and weird abstractions but the reality is he didn't have a choice. He was thinking and he was dancing but he was more thinking than dancing, so when he looked out and saw things he was suddenly this weird voyeur.
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Rupert
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009
I hate the 21st Century
IF you ask kids what their struggle is, they'd probably say something incredibly stupid and trite and annoying.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
god jr II
"Hey--what does this mean?"
She handed her subordinate her cell phone. A text was open. He couldn't make out the text--
"What did you send him?"
She sipped her froth syrup sugar foam.
"I asked him how his weekend was," she whined.
"Oh! He's into you."
"You think?"
"Duh! Just trust me! Ask him what he's doing this weekend."
"You think I should?
"Ya! Absolutely!"
She grabbed her cellphone back and intensely clacked her affection. The awful look of excitement that threatened the caking of eyeshadow would soon turn to horror as she whimpered "He's... studying."
She gently pushed her still full drink forward and strode off, looking to lose weight and consciousness.
Her friend looked on unstartled, as if this was usual behavior.
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god jr.
He was pretending to read a book at the coffee shop. It was something real profound and established, as to his meager angling of the cover served as a cat's hiss or a really bad cough or a middle finger--
But his scorn for the world was eased by tender sips of a sophisto brew, which did not serve him excuse to stop his pretend reading. Inked words latched to some partchment wasn't his fix--not now, anyway. Life sucked and everything was just so carcass and trite and decrepid--
It was loud, the coffee shop, which was distracting, which was comforting. He had keen ears that had such a desperate longing for forms, not only of phonemes and words and sentences, but of pitch and its flux, and the emergent looms of thought of such communicados and their cutesy waltz for salience.
Worlds were debated and shared and falsified between lacquered black tables--oblivions nodded as gesture as lowly empires maintained their reign.
He was a devourer of jumbled messes and affixed befuddling. If there was no covert obviousness, no specters of thought looking to condition him, he could be sole soldier on quest for precious meanings. But he was in a wasteland--a gruesome wasteland of small talks--abhorrant mutant people worshiping triviality.
He sighed, sipped, and drew a picture of a cat smoking.
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