Untitled, original poem #84

what will our bones say
 when the metals oxidize
  when bricks and bridges both
   have broken into dust

when tombstone epitaphs
 have been toppled and rewritten
  by the rain
   and whipping winds

 what will our bones say
  when new versions of ourselves
   find them interred 
    in the dirt

i bet we get credit
 for the pyramids



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Untitled, original poem #53

if life is a mountain
and death is its cloud
then i am the rain locked inside

building to burst
 as a blind angel fountain 
  over shadows waiting to die


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Untitled, original poem #47

worldly goods
words
and wooly written memoirs
funeral cost concerns
and casket color considerations
 scribed like living prayers
  into morning coffee notebooks

today
 in your sunshine
  i am dead


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Untitled, original poem #39

impermanence
my words not in question

human madness
so i'll spurt the seeds
clash my sword of discord
so sharpened 
 in the soft and sunken
  wormy earth
 rebirth

i am the burning bush
i am the light
 a trillion suns
settled still
 at the edge of the universe
bleeding and gleaming
leave whole worlds
and words unspoken
violent
i am the violet 
 and the lillies of the field
pick me and see
pick me

Untitled, original poem #29

stammering through
 sequential steps
sex
love
breath
stories and vignettes
  wailed in earth shibboleth
what's next

another sharp death
  i presume


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Original poem #22

Paradox Postulate

if there is truth
if it is shepard
it's an oceanic waterclock

as we are subatomic
  fluid patterns
and co-creator livestock

whole worlds unseen
words unspoken
unwritten and unread

if there is truth
and truth is shepard
we are both alive and dead


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Info on Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.

Original poem #14

The Machine

i've seen the machine
a psycho-spiritual 
  fun house mirror
where on the out
forever
weird almond-eyed gremlins 
  work an old hand crank
as they recycle souls

i've seen lines 
  of asomatous anarchists
atheists 
  and discorporate adherents
lost children 
  and passed parents alike
watched them all queue up
  to pray
prone at the tunnel of light

deep down 
between gears
lovers grasp and moan
flowers fuse their gametes
gases condense to bone

no
no real rest
no judgement test
just back
  into
   the machine



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