tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32939076128121157662024-02-07T04:57:31.155-06:00the lost beatpoetry, prosetry, tropery, hosiery, ropery, cloakerymartinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-90687805947531404682019-12-07T10:21:00.002-06:002019-12-07T10:21:17.048-06:00ALIVE!!<div style="text-align: center;">
Yes...still alive! Don't even think about a domain-grab!</div>
martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-23511457090686081522017-04-11T07:31:00.001-05:002017-04-11T07:31:27.751-05:00Alive!<p dir="ltr">Yes! Alive! Not dead! To the European trollers looking for a domain to steal, this is not it! Go away!</p>
martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-53517316923245483152015-08-10T22:12:00.001-05:002015-08-11T11:13:50.614-05:00Abiding Oak<style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { }</style>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">“I cannot say how bad it hurts
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">not to have you around anymore”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(could anyone make more plaintive of a cry?)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(no, probably not)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">days return</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">like a typewriter carriage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">each waiting for the bell;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">waiting for the bell to ring out
</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">“I miss you”</span><br />
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<br />martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-91507983813620939772015-08-08T19:03:00.002-05:002015-08-08T19:03:33.562-05:00mountaintop<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">hey now</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">does the world win</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">in the spice of life</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">race of grace
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">for a two-bit shoe shine medal</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">given for heroic kicks</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">at a patch of earth beneath your feet?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">hey now</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">if the world could win</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">we'd never know
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">what things above</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">what things below
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and the spice of life</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">face chase</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">would just hound us 'til we're dead</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">no way to live</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">no home, no bread</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">hey now</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">the world can't win</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">as the world might like</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">as the world might hope
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">when life has got you on the ropes</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">but the spice of life</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">jerky derby</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">all peppered, kippered</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and dried to a twist</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">to a twist and a wrinkle</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(even a pucker)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">that jerky derby all spiced of life</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(just the rind that truth spits out)
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">the fatty rind all soap-cake white
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">all tremble-licious, salty rind</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">of fat and blood</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">(don't ever mind)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">hey now</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">did the world win</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">in the hand-me-down moon race?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">patching baling wire and duct tape
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">patch your craft for outer space?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">baling as fast as we can</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">to keep the waters – the rushing flood</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">the rushing tide of inner space</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">at acceptable levels</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">in your neighborhood</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">just low enough to keep our ankles wet</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and then the world can't win</span></span></div>
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I told you your mother wouldn't like that -<br />
she wouldn't like it if you lied -<br />
lying about that dollar and a half -<br />
the money I wouldn't give you
<br />
as I only wanted to buy you lunch.<br />
<br />
<br />
If you'd told me what you wanted<br />
was a dollar and a half for booze<br />
I might likely have obliged<br />
and helped you tie one on.<br />
Honesty goes a long way -
<br />
longer than a cheese sandwich.<br />
<br />
<br />
So I told you your mother wouldn't like you lying,<br />
and to make her happy you should tell the truth.<br />
So after I departed<br />
it was the next fool who came along<br />
who gave you the money
<br />
for the 64-ouncer<br />
that you took home to dear old mom.<br />
<br />
<br /><br />
<br />
You never got that bottle back to mom,<br />
to your dirty old flat across the tracks<br />
right next to the place run by nuns.<br />
You never got to hear her say
<br />
“thank you so – my good and truthful son.”<br />
You didn't spend the afternoon with dear old mom,<br />
getting tanked and smoking cigarettes
<br />
traded for food stamps.<br />
You never saw her smile at you like she always did<br />
because the meth lab fire next door took out the whole place,<br />
and the truth came out,<br />
and the truth came out.<br />
And dear old mom wound up behind bars.<br />
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martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-68978499964403504882015-04-27T10:36:00.001-05:002015-04-27T10:44:18.587-05:00Ras al Khafji and BeyondPete the Marine<br />
lost in time again<br />
again<br />
says “who am I?”<br />
<br />
Dredging from his unkempt mind<br />
like so much half-remembered sand<br />
a foreign land<br />
a foreign tongue<br />
a foreign time<br />
when he was young<br />
again.<br />
<br />
Leaving his office on a Friday afternoon<br />
and a half-baked desert hobo lets out a yell<br />
and Pete the Marine jumps and turns<br />
no friendly fire<br />
no warthog's screaming shells<br />
again<br />
to flash and burn and burn like hell<br />
<br />
Keep coming back.<br />
Keep coming back<br />
again<br />
in half-forgotten stories he was told<br />
by that kid who wanted to sell him cassette tapes<br />
cassette tapes in a foreign tongue<br />
keep coming back<br />
like the burning sun.<br />
<br />
So Pete the Marine<br />
might not know<br />
might not know today – not know at all<br />
just who he is<br />
“just who I am”<br />
without the sand<br />
without the sun<br />
without the stinking diesel-soaked dust<br />
and smell of burn<br />
and stink of death (baked-on, bloody death)<br />
on a long, dead, stinking highway mile of death<br />
or hear that sand<br />
or foreign tongue<br />
when he was young.<br />
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martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-73789642657419249052015-04-17T21:49:00.000-05:002015-04-17T21:49:10.767-05:00Spring Evening on Glen Armil Parksalmon-stained cloud smears<br />
in an ocean turned upside down<br />
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all the air smelling of puppy breath and cheap tortilla nights<br />
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chairs and boxes and hubcaps<br />
covering the shit-thawed lawn<br />
in the neighbor's gladiator coliseum garden<br />
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no longer frost, not yet buds --<br />
a raised-bed tarmac for air-bound summer dreams<br />
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roundball pang! pang! pang! in the concrete gym<br />
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neighborhood kids make good use of daylight hours<br />
and the newspaper headline on my doorstep<br />
reminds me of another shooting<br />
with no arrest<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">hijacked stares</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">and high-jacked stairs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">looking for all the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">given to sucking his teeth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">and malt liquor power shakes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">fish-bone dyepaper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">lost as a thousand </span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">underwater lamps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">shining on the path to atlantis</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">wrecked and wreaked </span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">and </span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">roped and doped</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">shelling the high heel goddess</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">with </span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">man-sized artillery</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">shells and canister</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">super male vitality </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">macho</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">macho</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">satchmo nacho</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">give it quick and don't look back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">wrap around the clock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">he trips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">he sneers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">he quips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">he tears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">and a coal-black</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">(what is coal anymore?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">coal-black jacket</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">coal-black face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">coal-black trousers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">coal-black heart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">hijack the goddess</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">and look for all the world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">a loss</span></div>
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martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-14780231086596511562014-10-06T09:30:00.003-05:002014-10-06T09:30:50.467-05:00Jousting in Time, Again<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">at times I think we looked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">like brother and sister</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">but then I come unglued</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and the world begins to look</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">like a watercolor</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I once said it was a feeling</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">like trying to swallow</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">too much under-chewed beef</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">it gets caught in the chest</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">but the lump in the throat</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">pays no attention to the glass of water</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and I have to cough and spit </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and cry out your name</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and remember how gone you always were</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and how gone you are right now</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">if I thought I could cry out </span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">for your spirit to return</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">I'd probably have a crack at it</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and see if your spirit </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">could edit a few pages of text for me</span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and chew the fat</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and laugh</span></div>
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<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and make me believe</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have a sister</span></div>
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martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-80382447863115534682014-09-29T14:12:00.004-05:002014-09-29T14:12:49.264-05:00Jousting in Time<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">So you are gone,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and I didn't expect you to go</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(as if anyone expects it),</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">but I thought you would have left </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">a forwarding address</span></div>
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(at the very least).</div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Gone are calls,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">emails,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">snarky posts at one another,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">laughs, </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and stories only we appreciated;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">names only we could pronounce.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">So you are gone,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and I'm just sitting here.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Waiting it out.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Wondering how long.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">Wondering which words will be my last.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I have started capitalizing words,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and using punctuation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">sometimes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Your barometric drop</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">comes back daily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Some days.</span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">And I sit,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and I scribble down words,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and the words don't always come,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">but every evening always does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">And </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">(like I said)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I just stack firewood</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">and try to keep warm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the
cannibal trailer park</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">stuffed
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“<span style="font-size: small;">han'
it to me! gimme!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">coal
faced stinkerman </span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">diving
at a stickybun</span></div>
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“<span style="font-size: small;">gimme!
gimme!”</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and
his hand flaps at the wind</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">the
wind tries to blow </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">but
can only inject itself</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">in
the free spaces between the teeth</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">teeth
that the stinkerman tries to hone</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">on
a tinker elf's file</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">tinker
elf taps out a merry little tune </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and
the stinkerman taps along</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">taps
an empty bottle against the ground</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">clack
clack clack against the concrete</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">of
the cannibal trailer park </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">stuffed
with rice</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">tinker
elf pulls out the stops </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and
the stinkerman pulls down his shorts</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">shows
all the world what he's made of</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">nothing
comes between him and the wind</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">the
wind that tries to blow</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">but
can only inject itself</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">tinker
elf reaches over</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">with
a platinum mallet</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">with
a tiny tap</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">a
tiny tap</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">a
tiny little tap</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">the
mallet rings a bell</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and
the coal faced stinkerman thinks back</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">thinks
back to a time when he was young</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">when
his face was pearly white</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">when
his teeth were nice and tight</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">when
the wind could blow</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and
the tinker elf </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">was
just a story </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and
a song </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">and
a melody in that </span>
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">cannibal
trailer park</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">stuffed
with rice</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-30764192046750070532014-08-26T13:25:00.004-05:002014-08-26T13:25:28.065-05:00Why, oh Why?<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">I –
the fool.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Strung
out in piles of confusion</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">waste-o-matic
smiles</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">in
piles of waste-o-matic dust -</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">dust
in a huff of conversation.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
piles of confusion </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">came
tumbling to a halt</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">in a
winter-never-wonder</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">of a
January freeze;</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">a
January freeze </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">that
made February all the colder</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">when
a chicken bone whistle</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">played
a merry hornpipe</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
the drops of </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">clear,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">clear,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">crystal-cystal
clear </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">chemical
confusion</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">in a
waste-o-matic grin</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">played
heavy on the brow of life</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">There
it was that I had to stop</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and
push myself away.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Tearing
at my throat, I screamed</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and
shouted an inky ave</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">an
inky ave,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">black
</span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">black</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
black as the </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">crystal-cystal
drops</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">that
clouded your pen</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Crystal-cystal
deafening </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and
perched on a dusty ledge</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">the
haymaker moonbeam </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">let
out in a windy morn</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">so
dark that it looked</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">like
that inky ave</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">inky
ave</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">inky
ave</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">that
rattled around and </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">helped
me tear my throat</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">so
that my own clouded pen</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">ran
dry.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">That
darkened, windy morn</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">was
colder than any ever recorded</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">the
science-men drooled</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">and
rubbed their bellies </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">to
see such a cold and frosty day.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">We
all knew why it was, </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">but
we didn't let on to anyone.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">The
day was cold </span>
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">when
the fire went out,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">when
your spirit took leave,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">kindly
excused yourself,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">said
goodbye</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">more
politely than can be expected.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">You
bowed low to the crowd,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and
in silence the day grew cold.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Yours,
no inky ave,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">(but
only light)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">and I
– the fool,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">left
to stack the firewood.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div>
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martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-42604720991216601952014-05-27T15:11:00.000-05:002014-05-27T15:41:16.121-05:00Wishing Again<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn -</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
don't let the
words pass away.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn -</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
not a word pass
away.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Staring,
breathing.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Closed-eye shuffle</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
drawing near</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Haunting, loving.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Breathe, and
breathless</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
without fear.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn -</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
don't let the
words pass away.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn -</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
not a word pass
away.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Lost and losing</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
only one hope</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
drenched in sweat.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Found and silent</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
redeemed the
ticket -
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
holy, holy debt.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn -</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
don't let the
words pass away.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn -</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
not a word pass
away.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
And the words that
you wrote,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
shadows</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
of the words that
you spoke,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
glimmers</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
of the worlds that
you wrote,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
embers
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
of the worlds you
could dream.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn -</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
don't let the
words pass away.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn -</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
not a word pass
away.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble at the
dawn.</div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
Tremble.<br />
<br />
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Crusty Lena from the Pizza joint</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
thought that all sailors were her
heroes.</div>
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Not for obvious reasons</div>
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Didn't give a rat's patouti</div>
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about war games and politics;</div>
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didn't think that</div>
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their woven blues were hot.</div>
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Her desires leaned more to worn,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
mussed up messes</div>
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<br />
</div>
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A sailor once saved her day,</div>
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when she accidentally locked her purse</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
(and Ramone's tickets)</div>
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in her Dodge Omni.</div>
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While her girlfriends
</div>
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swore at her in 15 languages</div>
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they they tried to learn at Berlitz,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
the wholesome shore leave</div>
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picked her locks,</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
saving her face.</div>
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Another bluecoat danced</div>
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with her plain and shy friend</div>
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in a bar.</div>
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Even though he was flammable,</div>
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the anchor-tattooed arm</div>
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made her perpetually sad
</div>
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girlfriend smile.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
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Lena remembered</div>
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her aunt telling her
</div>
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to always treat a sailor</div>
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to a drink or a meal</div>
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because they were away from home</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
and lonesome.</div>
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<br />
</div>
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So Lena gave the drunk sailors
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
a ride to their hotel and dropped them
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
into the hands of an understanding
concierge</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
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As she waited</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
her last table of the night</div>
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the boys in blue politely placed their
order</div>
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with the middle-aged woman</div>
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who was weathered,
</div>
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but still had a twinkle in her eye.</div>
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<br />
</div>
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“2 pepperoni and one with
everything...</div>
<br />
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on the house tonight, boys,” she
said.</div>
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<br /></div>
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by Denise Janikowski-Krewal, February 2014</div>
martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-76814573533995655732014-03-07T09:28:00.001-06:002014-03-07T09:28:54.503-06:00Denise Janikowski-Krewal, Poet. 1959-2014.I can't write any poetry as of late, it seems.<br />
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Regular readers know that Denise died just two weeks ago today, and there has been a quite noticeable vacuum in my creative life. I have every reason to believe that with time things will return to "normal."<br />
<br />
Denise was my cousin, and as I said before, she was the sister that I never had. In the last three years we had become so very close and our writing developed together. We were on the phone every week, sometimes every day. We would email drafts of our work to each other and demand answers for what the other was trying to say, all the while helping to shape each other's poetry and fiction into something that we hoped was respectable and worthwhile.<br />
<br />
My writing partner is gone, and I almost feel like I don't know how to put words on paper anymore. I know it is just fear, though.<br />
<br />
As soon as I post this, I am going to close the browser and find myself staring at a blank page of Libre Office on my desktop. <br />
<br />
What I do with it might just well determine where I go from this point on in my writing. I watched one of my favorite movies, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB4xlYKAVCQ&feature=share&list=LLz5Qlip10Uy60ktr4IAb7qg&index=15" target="_blank">"Slacker" on YouTube</a> last night, and was reminded of one of my favorite themes - that with each of our thoughts, the universe splits into another universe that we chose not to inhabit, while we go on in the one we did choose. Things from other universes sometimes pop up in our dreams, and so we might have contact with all the other things that might have been.<br />
<br />
What a hoot.<br />
<br />
If I could dream Denise alive again, it would be the first thing I would do.<br />
<br />
On the paper is the memory of the choices we never made, perhaps. Or maybe it is just a dream.<br />
<br />
Memory eternal.martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-52543325573758454672014-02-23T22:16:00.000-06:002014-02-24T04:39:51.937-06:00Goodbye, for Now...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was with the heaviest heart that I had to bid farewell to Denise this past Friday. My cousin, my dear friend, my poetry collaborator, and the sister I never had departed this earth in the early morning hours. <br />
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The world is a colder and darker place, suddenly.<br />
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I will be reposting some of Denise's work here for a while, and her husband Todd is going to try to get me some of her latest poems, and I will be sure to publish them as soon as we can. She had a couple of notebooks full of new poetry, and was writing in the hospital right up to the end.<br />
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Please keep her dear, loving, and devoted husband Todd in your prayers. Her funeral will be this Thursday in Racine, Wisconsin. If you need information regarding time and place, please feel free to email me at martinipen@gmail.com I will get back to you as soon as I can. <a href="http://racinedeaths.blogspot.com/2014/02/denise-m-janikowski-krewal.html" target="_blank">You can read a bit about her life if you click on this sentence.</a><br />
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I am in agony over losing her. I know that many of you loved her poetry, and more importantly, loved her. She was truly one of a kind, and one of the sweetest and most genuine human beings I have ever known. Her poetry was wonderful, and as she told me just a short time ago, it seems, she had "not quite hit her stride yet" as a poet - it was only getting better.<br />
<br />
I will have more information and reposts of her work here, as well as links to her soundcloud account, where you can listen to her reading her own works. A true treasure.<br />
<br />
Please keep our family in your prayers, and please keep reading. That is what Denise would like, I think I am safe in saying.<br />
<br />
May her memory be eternal.<br />
<br />
Tom (Janikowski)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Denise and me at a tapas bar two summers ago. She was fond of saying "I thought you said 'topless'..."</td></tr>
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martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-85492078112694105042014-01-09T20:01:00.000-06:002014-01-09T20:01:07.754-06:00Barometric DropWatching the tornado<br />
Swirling, whirling,<br />
Around your fragile<br />
Window<br />
Hearing the sound,<br />
The warning,<br />
Out of my power<br />
To pull back,<br />
Change course,<br />
Shuttering against<br />
Winds<br />
Rattling your spirit,<br />
Releasing a siren,<br />
Invoking a miracle<br />
From benevolent clouds<br />
For the phoenix<br />
In you<br />
To rise<br />
Unscathed<br />
From the debris<br />
<br />
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<a href="http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/prompt-195-weather-report/" target="_blank">Based on We Write Poems Prompt 195, Weather Repor</a>t <br />
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<br />Denise Janikowski-Krewalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14218113227315917933noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-54433850560771961352014-01-04T22:45:00.001-06:002014-01-04T22:45:16.842-06:00january freeze<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Derek will die on the street tonight;</div>
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in the end, it will most likely be the cold that gets him,</div>
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but Derek will die on the street tonight.</div>
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<br /></div>
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he gave the finger to the day shelter lady</div>
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"I ain't no one's problem - just my own."</div>
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and looking to score some H </div>
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goes out into the cold</div>
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and Derek will die on the street tonight</div>
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<br /></div>
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slush-shuffled until slush was ice</div>
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and spittle-freeze river </div>
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made a chin-glacier knife</div>
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but freezing to death </div>
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while looking to score some H </div>
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is better than your heart bursting open </div>
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all over your plate.</div>
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<br /></div>
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so Derek will die on the street tonight</div>
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<br /></div>
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I watched him shuffle with frost-bit toes </div>
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and shuffle ragged, shuffle slow.</div>
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going to sit down under the stairs by the levee</div>
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where Derek would die on the street tonight.</div>
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<br /></div>
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but I know you all have it hard</div>
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because your heating bill is high</div>
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and you got aches and pains and you don't know why,</div>
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and little Justin is getting a "C" in math</div>
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<br /></div>
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so we all have it hard.</div>
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<br /></div>
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and lots of folks make choices.</div>
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and that, my friends, is why</div>
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Derek will die on the street tonight.</div>
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martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-67924420537429455172014-01-02T17:57:00.000-06:002014-01-02T17:57:47.677-06:00Flash in the Hubble<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another portal gone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Unnoticed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rid of,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Relief from the dejected</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Antediluvian</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Time-dilation,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Alternate life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Staring across</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another universe</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Beguiled</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">By the sparkling,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Red-hot</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Nano-second</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Begetting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Neoteric</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Dimensional promises</span><br />
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<a href="http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2014/01/02/prompt-194-happy-new-year/" target="_blank">Based on We Write Poems Prompt #194, Happy New Year</a><br />
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<br />Denise Janikowski-Krewalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14218113227315917933noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-3848178745999431222014-01-02T15:48:00.001-06:002014-01-02T15:58:50.266-06:00OTC, mostly<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">a bent-faced little daydream</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and the old man snortin' cheese</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">bloody on the underside</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">muddy on the knees</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">“no one sells for less”</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on TV</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on the street</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">get behind me when I talk to you</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">don't make me repeat</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">take a box</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and a can</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and a smack-mouth treat</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on TV</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on the street</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">when a bent-faced daydream</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">gets all short</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and the box</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and the can</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and a holy-water h-bomb</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">starter kit court</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">“no one sells for less”</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on TV</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on the street</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">get behind me when I talk to you</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">don't make me repeat</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and the little ragged muffinman</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">hanging high on 6<sup>th</sup> avenue</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">look at that</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">look at that</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">look at his eyes</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">he got that bleeding dreamsmell</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">going on inside</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">but its okay, little molly lady,</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">no one sells for less</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and little molly lady</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">sweaty pilly-sweater shufflemouse</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">hanging sad behind the</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">mustache man</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">“no one sells for less”</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on TV</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on the street</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">get behind me when I talk to you</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">don't make me repeat</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">but now that bent-faced little daydream</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and that old man snortin' cheese</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">bloody on the underside</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">bloody on his knees</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">the starter kit opened</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">the starter kit closed</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and when a bent-faced daydream</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">gets all short</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and it gets all of those</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and the box</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and the can</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and the cheese</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and the cheese</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and a holy-water h-bomb</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">starter kit, please</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">bloody on the underside</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">bloody on his knees</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">bloody on the lips</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">and bloody on the cheese</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">“no one sells for less”</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on TV</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it on the street</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">I seen it everywhere</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">don't make me repeat</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">hey Steve, you okay?</b></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;">Steve?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b style="background-color: black;"><br /></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Snakeskin toe crushers,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Tacky from Jack and Coke</span></span></div>
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</span><div class="MsoNormal">
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</span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Back for more</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Never quite </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Learning the lesson</span></span></div>
Denise Janikowski-Krewalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14218113227315917933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-452087683123357022013-12-27T09:02:00.000-06:002013-12-27T09:02:25.515-06:00Wooden Beads<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Prayers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Trickling from eyes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Down cheeks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sunken spirit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In a knightly ritual</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Stinging orbs</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Saline skin</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Silently begging</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">With redundant words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Decade after decade</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pleading for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">High resolutions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">To daily lows</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Under a pitch shadow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Indenting</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A sopping pillow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Imploring</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The evaporation</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of distress</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">By first light</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">In the clarity</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Of aurora</span>Denise Janikowski-Krewalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14218113227315917933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-87805983070108550902013-12-19T10:39:00.003-06:002013-12-19T10:39:34.211-06:00And Now, a Word From Mr.Janikowski...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">skinny-trip huffer
man hacks his lung</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">onto the sidewalk</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">with a backturned,
halfass basketball cap
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">basketball, peach
basket, orange basket</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">basket so big like
a swollen huffer-head that he holds
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">holds in a
huffer-haze</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">vox clamantis,
said my starchwhite friend</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">vox clamantis
hollering
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">hoop-de-holler
highway hollers</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">to the highest of
heaven</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(not in the
desert)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">while the
skinny-trip huffer man</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">swings a deal for
a tube of something good</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">his dirty little
fingernails</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">like a tiny little
set of sheet metal brakes</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">dirty line of
mulch for growing potatoes</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(like my brother
used to say)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">scratch of skin
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and scratch of
hair</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and scratch of
mucous from his nose</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(some call it
snot, but it's not)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">even tiny little
bits of dried blood clinging right in there</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">mingled with the
feces</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">from the stool</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">from the men's
room</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">from the grocery
store</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">right on the bus
line</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">but skinny-trip
huffer man
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">holds his crotch</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">so the girls will
look at him and know</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">they will know he
is more
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">more than just a
skinny-trip huffer man</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">with a set of
sheet metal brakes at hand</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and a seventeen
o-clock shadow
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">on the skinny
upper lip</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">that waggles just
a little bit</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">when the old lady
screams
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and the old man
hits</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and maybe he isn't
more</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">than a skinny-trip
huffer child</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">in a
big-boy-bounding-bold</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and balding
basketball cap</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and his bowels
came loose
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">all over seventh
avenue</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and the man with
the really big eye</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(just the left
one)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(he injects the
paint into the right one)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(it's okay,
sugar-poopsie)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">(it stopped
hurting months ago)</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the man with the
really big eye</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">laughed away the
smell</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">on seventh avenue</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">when the
skinny-trip huffer man</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">lost his bowels</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">but for just a
minute</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">so now</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">skinny-trip huffer
man wipes his hands</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">onto the sidewalk</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">with a backturned,
halfass basketball cap
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">basketball, peach
basket, orange basket</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">basket so big like
a swollen huffer-head that he holds
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">holds in a
huffer-haze</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">and it pounds</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pounds
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">pounds</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">like a swollen
huffer-head</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ripe with
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">the sweetest,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">ripest,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">huffest,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">hottest,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">hopped-up
hoop-de-huffer</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">holy hangman</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">amyl nitrite</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I just love you,</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">sugar-poopsie.</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wake up now,</span></div>
<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">okay?</span></div>
martinipenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04587300582887055279noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3293907612812115766.post-17979151334276835952013-12-16T15:27:00.002-06:002013-12-16T15:27:37.472-06:00Red Wolf Anthology<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Over the past year, some of my poetry appearing on <i><b>the lost beat</b></i> has been based on prompts through <a href="http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">We Write Poems</a>. The fine people at <a href="http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">We Write Poems</a> have published <a href="http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/red-wolf-emerges-from-the-woods/" target="_blank">Red Wolf Anthology</a> covering poems inspired by their prompts over the past three years.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Download a free PDF copy of the<a href="http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/red-wolf-emerges-from-the-woods/" target="_blank"> Red Wolf Anthology here</a>, read it, share it and join in on lots of poetic fun! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><a href="http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/red-wolf-emerges-from-the-woods/" target="_blank">http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/red-wolf-emerges-from-the-woods/ </a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Through this site, I have not only been able to get inspired through the prompts, but also through the really fine poets who post their poems there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Happy reading and writing!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">-Denise</span>Denise Janikowski-Krewalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14218113227315917933noreply@blogger.com0