Poetry Club

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Re: Poetry Club

Postby origami_itto on Fri May 06, 2022 7:10 am

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I Am That I Am

I have been the butt
of your low-hanging jokes,
for as far back as I can remember.

But I gotta admit that ain't too far.

Between the k2, booze, and blunt force trauma
bout the only thing that sticks, anymore,
is the pillow
and some
macaroni and cheese
sometimes
when I'm stabbing my brother.

When beer is your coffee,
life takes on dimensions
mere muggles can't begin to grok.

When the zombies attack,
you gotta throw bricks,
or raw chunks of crumpled concrete,
whatever you got on hand, really.

And when you live like me,
it's better to forget
that your wife collected money
for your dead sons
while they were still alive,
and tried to bite your dick off
when you was too tired
for relations.

I got seven friends a day
dying from prescription overdose.
I got a hundred thousand brothers
rotting right now in prison.

I stabbed a Bears fan in the spur of the moment,
and shot my own damn self bowling on a Tuesday night.

I got caught masturbating on a public boat ramp.

What I'm trying to say
is that if you been through what I been through
you'd get a beer while fleeing police too.
Cuz you'd know it'd be a while before your next one.

and if you ever let the buzz wear off
and the memories catch up
you'll have a hangover that could kill that skunk ape,
that I saw that night
trying to rape that alligator
out behind my toolshed.

You can't hear about me without smirking,
and your silent "there but for the grace of God go I"
I don't blame you for feeling superior.
We're each just as we was created.
But don't act like you don't envy me.

My name brings them to their knees,
killing from Glengarry to Synecdoche,
St Paul to San Tropez.
I got 400 million hits on google,
and 108 thousand followers on twitter
watch me come up
I'll be bigger than anonymous,
but I want you to know my name.
I am Florida Man.

I will get a blowjob from a hooker with my toddler in the car.
I will throw eggs at the courthouse.
I will sometimes be attacked by alligators.
I will often be found butt naked,
in the wrong person's house or apartment,
or on the side of the road,
proposing to a dead pit bull,
or making love to it.

I love my little cock-shaped state
and you can't take your greedy eyes off it.

born in the fountain of youth
washed in the blood of conquest
trained by mad raving pirates
stolen from the Seminole
plundered by capitalist greed
shaped by drug cartels and the space race

this is a land of endless freedom
strapped down by dickhead cops
*spits*

And if you're too scared to push it to the edge
how can you feel superior when I fall?
You rely on God's grace to keep you out of danger
because you can't handle this heat.
Like a caged canary laughing at raging wild turkey
you hold your manhood
cheep
while I speak.

And I'll leave you with the words
tattooed across my neck,
"Only God can juge this soul"
and YES, I know I spelled judge wrong
see above for the disposition of that thought.

I am FLORIDA MAN!
And I will chew your fucking face off!
The form is the notes, the quan is the music
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Re: Poetry Club

Postby Quigga on Sun May 08, 2022 5:34 am

And God will judge that soul
Quigga

 

Re: Poetry Club

Postby origami_itto on Thu May 26, 2022 9:45 am

Good Fish by Hafiz
********************
Why complain about life
If you are looking for good fish
And have followed some idiot
Into the middle of the copper market ?
Why go crazy
If you are looking for fine silk
And you keep rubbing your hands against
Burlap and hemp sacks ?
If your heart really needs to touch a face
That is filled with abundance
Then why didn’t you come to this
Old Man sooner ?
For my cheek is the universe’s cloister
And if you can make your prayers sweet enough
Tonight
Then Hafiz will lean over and offer you
All the warmth in my body
In case God is busy
Doing something else
Somewhere.
Why complain if you are looking
To quench your spirit’s longing
And have followed a rat into the desert.
If your soul really needs to touch a face
That is always filled with compassion
And tenderness
Then why,
Why my dear
Did you not come to your friend Hafiz
Sooner
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Re: Poetry Club

Postby origami_itto on Wed Jun 29, 2022 12:15 pm

Flying

Lay the pieces out for inspection
Line them up by type and size

Select matching parts
Assemble supports
Gently stretch the skin across the frame

Secure the string
Connecting heaven and earth
Through humanity
And soar on the ocean breeze

Surf pounding and lapping at your shore
Like a greedy orphan
Chewing away the boundary between sea and land

While our hearts ride the wind with the kites
We forget all but joy
And write our regrets in the sand

We could save the corpse of the moment
And pull it out to examine
When wonder seems too far away
To gather some cold comfort, alone

But right now it doesn’t take work
The light in my eyes last touched your face
And the string pulls and sometimes it burns

The kite will do what the kite wants to do
We’re just holding on
Enjoying the night,
Flying.
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Re: Poetry Club

Postby origami_itto on Sun Jul 10, 2022 5:30 am

Forget Me Not

In the small hours
I stir,
The flashlight in my mind
Scours the sands
in search of anything
that doesn’t remind me of you

I see you in the sun
Warm and gentle
Fierce and burning
You illuminate the beauty
We move through unseeing
And outshine it
Feeding everything you touch

I hear you in the sea
Fathomless depths
HIdden joy and danger
Calling to my ancient soul
Remembering our time together
In life and love before and beyond
Empires and prophets and promises
Our only questions
Wondering
How deep can we swim
And what treasure awaits
As we stroll the foamy carpet the ocean lays before us
And strange creatures bless us with a glimpse of their mystery

I taste you in the cool wind
Caressing my chest like your gentle fingers
Our arms spread wide in the moonlight
Exposing every inch of ourselves
Fearless
Careless
The world fades as you open yourself to me
And I enter as a thief
Trapped in the temple
Lost in service
I thrill under your hand

I feel you in the sand
In every inch of my body
The eternal itch
I can’t soothe or scratch
Without surrendering completely
And burying myself, vanishing
Coarse
Itchy
Irritating
It recalls you by contrast
To the comfort of your presence
Even in my thoughts.




The world clings
Leaching
Processing
Possessing
Beauty yields to farce
Desperation masquerades as soulful integrity
Illuminated shakily by the dashboard gas light
Taking and lying
Never replenishing
Till the dry fruit is cast aside

You are aloe
I spread you across my ruined flesh
For a fleeting moment’s comfort
To believe for just one second
To touch the beauty in the world
That moves in meandering lines
Through pain and joy
And comes together in you
And it feeds me
As if I’d never experienced flavor
And to see you thrills me
As if I’d never known color

You are unforgettable
When a child cries in pain, alone
My soul without you mirrors their sorrow
When they sigh in mother’s arms,
I feel your comfort
And when they laugh
I hear your music
And when they love they love completely
Without fear or regret or possession
Offering their hearts to the moment
They do not compromise

Because they know now is all we have
And our joy is borrowed
Against future payments
And we have to give it back
On time

But we can keep the memories…
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Re: Poetry Club

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Re: Poetry Club

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Re: Poetry Club

Postby origami_itto on Wed Jul 20, 2022 6:57 am

Roll the Dice
by Charles Bukowski

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.

if you’re going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.

go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you’ll do it
despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.

if you’re going to try,
go all the way.
there is no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.

do it, do it, do it.
do it.

all the way
all the way.

you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, its
the only good fight
there is.
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Re: Poetry Club

Postby origami_itto on Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:51 pm

Hit an open mic here in Austin on my last day. This is queued up right to my performance.

https://www.youtube.com/live/BAoU5ZyULx ... are&t=7523
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Re: Poetry Club

Postby origami_itto on Sun Aug 06, 2023 6:51 pm

Hit an open mic here in Austin on my last day. This is queued up right to my performance.

https://www.youtube.com/live/BAoU5ZyULx ... are&t=7523
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