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Edward Grim
Senior Member

since 2005-12-18

Posts 1154
Greenville, South Carolina

0 posted 2007-01-06 10:58 PM

Likenesses and Envelopes

He had a smoke and mirrors
look to his face.
Not in that he was of mystery
but rather a man of myself.
Not me in senses and lives
but in likenesses of Narcissus.
Like memories of Sisyphus
rolling a burning joint
of fire-producing glands
that were burned by one too many
suit monkeys.

Human remains to be chewed
by good ‘ol boys
with claws out their mouths
for the textile-producing
malice machines.
Calculators made to be our friends
but still they screwed me up the bum.

I want to feel enclosed
and trapped in something.
I have nowhere else to live
but this rotten apple
with the segmented beings
of obscurity.
A world cast away from me,
a state of indifference
that’s still native
in feeling,
indigenous to the
outward coast
of warm and fuzzy things.

Tape deck ice-skating
on the
Kodak reminder-maker
swallowed whole,
engulfed into body factions
to reinforce muscle memory.
Makes us remember the
people we knew to
write them gift cards
on their death day.

In true deed to ideas,
something or another
with plural nouns
to make them seem
like notions with substance,
thoughts less radical
and unable to be challenged
by those who think averagely.

Certain lines of concept
will be left for eating
and the rest:
flotsam and jetsam
in the sea of stupidity.
Thinking for the gasses of people,
bleeding juices
secreting babies
teething for freebies
and other forms of
American culture.

And I said to the devil, "You better leave my spleen alone."

Roniece Dawson-Bruce
Member Ascendant

since 2000-01-29

Posts 5689
Sydney, Australia

1 posted 2007-01-06 11:39 PM

Grant... this was good, but are you mad with the whole world or just parts of it?

Happy New Year my sweet poet friend.. oh and I like your new pic! RDB

Edward Grim
Senior Member

since 2005-12-18

Posts 1154
Greenville, South Carolina

2 posted 2007-01-06 11:47 PM

heh, thanks. Am I mad at the whole world or just parts of it? Well, do you fear the whole shark or just its teeth? lol

No I'm not mad at the world. It's the same way with parents and children; parents might get furious with their kids but they still love them.

Thanks

And I said to the devil, "You better leave my spleen alone."

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

3 posted 2007-01-07 02:37 AM

cool write

aziza
Member Elite

since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

4 posted 2007-02-17 10:51 PM

Sometimes I feel like I am untangling my mind as I read your poetry. I kind of get snagged on images - and I am mesmerized by how you put words together. Thank you for sharing again in here. I was missing you.

A

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