Friday, February 28, 2025
Friday, February 21, 2025
fowarding
today i'll do all the bad things
smoke in the house
drink all day
laze about ne're do welling
sex on the coffee table
heroin in the bathroom
talk politics like it matters
cocaine on the baby's changing table
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i mean the country i grew up in it's
being murdered in front of my face
from the inside, with full faith and confidence
of the american government backing it up i saw
a home town hero
arrested - protesting a man who was elected
not crowned, busted for speaking his mind which
puts a chill on the things you wanna say online
but don't let that cross my mind at this time
i'm llearning to sing again.
lost my voice a few years back
aortic aneursim, abdominal.
subliminal changes to the box
where was i? oh yes
getting old. i mean my dad's old.
87. just had surgery for pancreatic cancer
living in his mobile home in ft myers kindly
deflecting any help from his daughters
cuz he's got people who help. community.
i'm grateful. i don't have the bandwidth.
there's a reason they let the old retire.
we're not exactly useless but we're slow.
it's all the aches and pains you see
it's not that younger me didn't have them
it;s that younger me had better regenerative properties.
i could recover faster, more thoroughly.
face it, i'm a spent team horse that's only gonna
drag the whole thing down.
i've only been dreaming about work.
gone are the fanciful end times stories
planes dropping bombs
oceanside camaraderie
snippets of other lives dripping into mine
the only dreams i remember
are about work. involve the upper management
at work. the trump supporters. or maybe i only
dream of the tornado that can pick up and splinter
all my small plans onto the nebraska plains
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i have been sick. it's not just whatever
viruses find their way into my system it's
the toll of the murder in process. it's the feeling
so powerless. it's watching the vampire draining his victim
from behind a hurricane proof window
knowing the only way to save them is to crash it
with the force of thousands, hundreds of thousands of deaths.
and the face skulls out
flesh dissapears to reveal the bone underneath
the promises delivered.
the body drained, the monster fed.
but ever greedy.insatiable.
you and i we
only survive by chance like ants
drowned in a sea of blood.
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how delightful.
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they can call it fmla.
i've lost 20 lbs since november
unable to eat or bulemic, diarhetic.
sugar stays down. no lactose.
pizza is out, milkshakes out, yogurt-out
i know there are alternatives but
they're expensive and hard to find.
low choice. sugar free and lactose free.
i'm picky. picky picky. when i was kid
i wanted to be picky. the only thing i got away with
was i didn't have to drink sweet tea. i could have water
which still threw off the rhythm of gramma's
sunday dinner cuz you'd have to remember to leave one
ice full glass empty when pouring the pitcher.
picky. so now i'm old and tired and i know i keep
saying that but man, if you're young you just don't get it
and if you're here you're just nodding saying land the plane suzy.
which is coming in without landing gear
and i've never flown one of these things before.
hope we make it out alive.
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i saw the ducks wander up the driveway
headed for the porch where we feed the strays
we used to have four cats, all elderly. 3 died within
a year of each other and the fourth, a marmalade,
has allowed the orange colony that lives under the trailers
access to our porch. maybe because we gave them all names.
i'm sure they have others, they don't live here. just hang out
waiting for the dull tinkle of kibble against plastic
to emerge from the siding or under a bush.
a watering hole. but the ducks
have caught on. now they come advertising
their presence with shit spots on the drive way
honey always runs them off with ice cubes
yelling get off my lawn!
i hiss at them , it seems to work.
these are the kinds of days that i , at 65
should be able to experience. i've worked
since i'm 15 paying into the system currently
being dismantled by the king and his krony kousins.
they keep moving the goalposts. 62, to 65, now 66 7 months
wtaf ?i'm pretty sure ,by the way wormtongue
uses it as the carrot
for all this sticking
that whole system is gonna be cut with some royal
interpretation of the statutes establishing the whole program.
which , by the way, IS an entitlement.
like, i paid in as investment(think 401k)
i'm entitled to the payout.
yeah, i think if we could somehow take the social out of it
wordwise
we could keep it.
naw
that's wishful thinking.
vampires are ever hungry.
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hello 2025
i'm still alive.
not even so sick tho
today a took a day in honor of it
as the sun declines to shine above
all day, it peeks from the west now
at the end of a bedded day fighting off
a virus that still threatens to erupt if pushed
too far down my lungs.
my ears ring constantly
the tobacco didn't arrive via mail today
held somewhere in the northeast
in wintry grip , an ice claw
creeping even south now
deriding threats of global warming
turn up the wheels ethel
wanna drive this lifted truck
into the pasadena fires
and the blizzards of florida.
anyway, money's the only reason i turned
this part of the machine on
a sunset whimsy perhaps
the spinning eye of sun
landed in my mouth and i saw
the last date ofentry
the material, the vow i seemed to make
brought to nothing so i thought
well the business of america is business right?
why not go and get some of that?
it was brought up in conversation
the seeds germinate in winter.
fuzzy headed visions, enfluerescent .
micro explosive germanium heads.
ooo i could have music i could
have memories