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mike dm Jan 2016
her gravity, that next morning, was one heaping demitasse
of swirling dense nebula ebbed-not-yet. we drank coffee
in silly mugs together while looking at the sun
as it came up for us,
bathed in freezing cold blues. she stretched. yawned.
she struggled to wipe a sleeper from her eye.
her kimono opened,
showing a cascading ledger of ribs behind vampirewhite skin -
my namesake was now scribbled on its rounded surface;
hers, on the inside of my femur, calligraphic.
she was too young for me, i know that.
no worries though,
her soul was older. it was sacred stone. megalith glyphed.
we held each other and
downing that bitter morning brew
watched the sky flick on.
then we picked up our heavy bodies
and went back to bed,
and ****** so hard i got a cramp in my left foot when i came.
dm micklow
mike dm Apr 2015
you invite
the cut,
you know you do

bloodlet come
dust off those bad humors
that have already won

one
incision
on the inside of inner-thigh,
nicely
neatly: remedies indecision for a wee bit
doesn't it?

confirm that silly string
and pipe cleaners
aren't reeeally your insides

lifely! lifely! qualifies your moves
in this
thing
this
****** sadwhirenoughenough

you jus
Buddha the hurt afterward
but emptiness of being always keeps
a few of your you's and me's around
ricocheting off far unkempt corners

like me, the pigeon
and you, the squirrel

...

look, they've already won, my love;
no,
they -always- have already won
so, plz, don't k?

jus don't

don't assemble upright-me as your
night-n-shiny handle

don't fix me la-la opposite his hard gleam
his trite inky blah bodkin Brahmin to my Bodhisattva
i can't, won't do it anymore,
my core torpid
Luke Skywalker warm
mike dm Dec 2015
that moment when
you haven't smoked in a long time
and then you do and
you remember oh ya
this is what it feels like to actually feel again
mike dm Dec 2015
form doesn't hafta **** content
but it often does
with modes of operation done to death

all of us
are its vics

so i rise up and **** it back
w slant rhymes that tickle the oblique
consonance that creeps
and an assonance that grabs
mike dm Jun 2014
I give zero ***** anymore.
I have no more ***** to give.
I'm totally absolutely incontrovertibly
fresh out of *****.
My supply of *****
is completely out -- see??
[cupboard door swings open
Only to reveal
a fuckless cupboard]

Even the **** Store is out of *****.
I called them just now,
The guy on the phone said he was
Fresh out --
He told me:
The production and manufacturing
Of ***** has been outsourced
To Shenzhen China,
And the workers are striking
Because they are getting paid
Fifteen cents an hour to produce
6 ***** a second --
Which is inhumane and just wrong.


I asked him why they didn't pay better --
He said, ***** if I know! Like I said,
I'm fresh out of ***** to give
So who gives a ****?
mike dm Aug 2016
tongue pass
over each aggregate curve
wend crest push

skinmeetsbone
ran up the middle
from skull
to small
of back

orange
red
brilliance
thresholds bold slip

in

grip ten thousand tendrils
her white scalp
made known

force dealt until stilled wilt sacharrine slung
mike dm Jun 2015
and friendship is underrated

the more you Romeo-n-Juliet things
the less you see of your surroundings

*** isolates
friendship joins
a crowd a fest all one voice rolling

******* is the mt. top
friendship is the foothill

climb too high
death will meet you at the top

thinned air petrified growth
thrumming bountiful growth

******* promises ****
that it can't follow through on

friendship just is

effing flakes out
friendship stakes out
waits listens doesn't try to fix

eff **** buddies
i need more friends

let's all get high on friendship

...

..

i mean
uhm
im still gonna ****

but

i jus need more friends
mike dm Jan 2016
his typewriter is silent
and tombstone;
mine is
nonexistent, and
never was. instead
all i have is this ******* device.
all it effing knows is
silence.

blinking c u r s o r
stares at me,
waiting, whitely, like some
bad god scrubbed good with a new book.

jus thought I'd
let you
know,
*******
dm micklow
mike dm Dec 2015
if this it'stoofuckinghard
could
just
speak fluent scar
im sure the pebble
that landslides my little stream
every now and then
would slip and slide and elide into river run but
it never has
it's always mum
mike dm Apr 2016
my thoughts are nintendo gray
iffy 16-bit graphics
fading into retro

blow on the cartridge
i still won't play

i
am
running
out of continues
mike dm Jan 2016
blood taken
is a dark
winged thing

it will fly inside him

it's caw
will manifest
in stabs

angling in
it will grow on him

gyrating from metallic sliver sip
now facing the blade's plain look
his god will read dog

and it will bring him to form final
and the hatchet will spill from you
into killer blue landscape still
mike dm Sep 2016
Today is the saddest day of my life. I am beside myself. I have not known tragedy until now. And yet the tears feel good. I have not felt this alive in a long time. Pieces of me are dead and dying. I feel light, like a kid again.

I am pretty sure there is nothing out there. Not anymore.
mike dm Dec 2015
stop trying to be a **** poet w a cute rhyme and start writing like some deep, faster-than-light angular gut feeling has struck you so ******* true you've no other choice but to track it down w a derivative but necessary assembly of abstract externalized thoughtscrapers in the vain attempt to capture a mere sliver of it so to remember and summon it come those inevitable dark days which loom ahead, or whatever
mike dm Sep 2015
bodied forth beings
lamp
rock
pebble
coordinates nix the everyday ****
lifesource creep
over rock's edge
the color
cut and wound and loss mixed

space
purged for you

grieflet
go through it
heal heal
jus
be
mike dm Apr 2016
and bright orange
clementine,
peeled,
for your open
mouth. i adore the **** out of you,

queen of my
imagined scene,
finally traversing this

digital space

to eat
each other
up.
mike dm Sep 2016
Everything is chance. We name the random to create the idea of order and predictability. It's a stab in the abyss.

What is choice? Plinko. Go, pick the arbitrary with stars in your eyes. What you want is only an arm's-length away. Scratch the ticket. Feel the neon in the night wheel like time is in your corner. Let it hurt you. Learn.

the tree limb
crawls up and out
tangent into
the stuttering cool air

I sleep so. *******. much. It's pathetic, really. I've many theories as to why: I'm lazy; I'm not being challenged enough; society is, well, society; I'm a misanthrope; I'm a dreamer.. But, in the end, these all miss the mark.

The impetus behind my sleepmoresleep is, it seems, a direct result of that sentimental urge to bring order to a cosmic court whose very fabric is made of change and chance.

buds waiting
limbs feeling, again
slumber shook off
but this tilt too will end
and bring the wilt back

Start again. Turn the page. We love our metaphors. Why? Because they remind us of the flux. Things won't stay still. Ever. Dictionaries breathe too you know. New glyphs itch to get in.

Let them.

rosette of jag leaf rawr
bright yellow flower
head of seed and
a mane of downy tuft
reaching through
neglected suburb
concrete sidewalks
mike dm Jan 2016
fiddle middle blither and blight:
find the most uneventful, little stone you can find and
look into its pale glass till it
              looks back.
  it'll:
                                      wriggle, alight and look alike not,
so that you may
         see things
                        lighter, brighter and
   less locked.
mike dm May 2016
i guess i can do
a blue sky.
but i like mine

grey and
splayed out,
sleepily burnished -
yuh know,
that something that
brings out

monochrome feral tones,

with a few
exposed
crevices
every now and then

to polish
me off
good.
dmd
mike dm Jan 2016
sometimes
the twist of my mind
feels like one cold hand
crawling up my back,
******* each nodule as it goes,
as if feeling for
  some
thing.

and
   i
    like
it.
mike dm Nov 2015
hack the uncanny
and head North of
happy
mike dm Feb 2015
It gets my attention
I sense it
thumb it
When it isn't present
It is what I look for
When awaking

Lips are too ambiguous
Hips
too calligraphic and
Precious
Fists too ******

So...

I'll stick with
My inanimate object
Glitches n all
mike dm May 2016
lunarhand left
tugshove the hurt
make things alright again
mdm
mike dm Apr 2016
did you ride
your bicycle
today?
mike dm Dec 2015
the scar tissue
from your star
has shot
clean through me

it glows the color of memory

how you had held me
holds me now
mike dm Feb 2017
all you poets out there,
biting your lip,
writing your scrips,
citing your insides ----

you
will
be
assimilated

by me,

and
mine.

need i say anything
as trite as,

resistance is futile?
;)
mike dm Dec 2015
From the stifling and limiting grounds of activism to militarism, from liberalism to conservatism, from atheism to theism, what is more pressing under our current shadow of empire - that elongates by the day - than a fresh crafted nuance of opinion which refuses to cave into that realm of the reactionary and trite?

The all too familiar -isms, that bend over backward (and forward) for ideology, must die ---- all of them. They fly all the flags of Reform and push all the buttons of Fear and Morality in order to get you going about this or that thing, but in the end they do an about-face on all the things, retrenching the power and hierarchy that got them there in the first place.

In its stead, we'd be wise to replace these fake hallowed grounds with a felt expression of direct existence that is so ******* thoughtful in its rendering that it summons up that weird blurred area where all regimented terms of ideology stand down so to admire the life-affirming phenomenon called art.
mike dm Jan 2016
you are
more than your surroundings;
          surge of
columnar star c a i r n
threading through the age of rock and mineral,
one
bright
wave
of light hangs
in the balance.

it will
have its say.
        
epoch of concatenation: stair of
    elements spelled out long ago,
always
containing within it::
tiny trace of
the were.

it
     glints
in the tired eyes
of those few thoughtful people that are left
                     in, this, our wasteland, now birthing
                   arcane, again:

a new time comes;
feel it writhe forth origin.
dm micklow
mike dm Apr 2016
these days are farther
from the light.
choose to trust
or hedge your bets?

or can i even trust myself?
and, if so, which self?

meh, that's
the question.
mike dm Aug 2016
lukewarm crushcloud err
little big noises
maybe heard

exist exist blue on blagerd caw
vacuum bore into this fore
head shuttered yet still fed toward

blades of glass laid
to smooth one new verse
over the squirm
sleight of sapiosext

i am finding that
there -really- is nowhere
to get to,
just like Sylvia said.

oven rack cauldron calling
first tall word uttered ever fall fall
mike dm Aug 2016
serrated text of the other
running down purple lines
of this outstretched wrist
mike dm Jan 2016
me? stuck
inside this, t h i n g,
inside my
skull,
the size of two consecutive fists;
it won't stop
slinging thoughts thoughts thou g h t  s. you?
dm micklow
mike dm Dec 2015
rn I'm looking at a periwinkle blue sky
streaked w hot pink horizon
through cheap dusty uneven silhouetted blinds
in a dark room
mike dm Dec 2015
there is no sky zombie luvsya. no. no-thing is king. ******* we are not good. we are clods of dirt animated by hurt and fear and blueskiesnomore

i feel sad way too much. it's getting bad again again
mike dm Jan 2016
spread too thin
i no longer just think about thoughts
-i imagine them-
small patches of color strung between
hung in the descent
this disc barely holding us

chance allowed
combusting pots of itcouldbe
might over must

into the deep
there
be
drakōns

they breathe the burn we fiend

let them swim you to the bottom
where maps do not dare
dwell among them
in the sliding trough of wet coil plume lit

come up for air
and tell me your where

and i will listen to you
i will stand under your words
and i will know you and adore your light
dm micklow
mike dm Dec 2014
Slip
this sliver of if
Into the eye of my
Slim chances
To be

Blips of the abyss
Bifurcate the I
Am

What I would give to feel again

Adrenaline limps in unedited
Taxed synapse -glitchy-
You have zero messages

Only if
The times were mine

Gotta look alive lithe
signs signs
That's all we are

static designs
made for Likes
Stuck under the stab of cheap tines
Of a spork sticking the I-am
Waiting to be consumed
mike dm Oct 2014
I am not sloth
I am body bodied forth
Beating the day at its game

Dear depression
Take my outstretched hand
-And you may have my ear too-
But your haunts have no place
In the seat of my being

I am lean
I am not a copy
I am variation
Because you are before me
Changing me
Growing me

When I hold my lover
She will know me
And I her
When my lover speaks
I am wiser and all is well
When she needs space
I will steal myself away
Alone but not lonely

I am not fabricated
I am not walled in
My room is balance
My room is not fear
Come envelop me
Surround me
Throw off the those shadows
That flail in my deepest corners

Inhabit me
And I will be host
To you

I am not tame
My yawp awakens
Dotard gods preying

An exhale of mine
-Deep and full of lust-
Is enough to humiliate
Billions of absentee deities

I am not just your version of me
I am not just me
I am us

For a time..

Peel back your crush
Open up
Let me in

Eyes rolling back
To look for the words
That cannot be had

With five pens
Write your sweet everything's
Into my flexed back
mike dm Apr 2016
i wanna roll her over
onto her knees
lick kiss **** drink her everywheres up
until she twitches real. hard.
and laughs that ohmyfuckinggodihavezerowords laugh

and then put it in
slow at first
then pound her till the coffee mug falls from the headstand and breaks
sense it swelling up and
glitch
inside her
with my eyes wide meeting hers
i will die again and again and again till i am dead
mike dm Jan 2017
Inhale all of those felt bones. Observe. Skeletons will dance in the dark for you..

Hang them up. Tilt your head. Curl your hair. Bite your lip. Wonder at them, feel them

as a thing
too.

Wonder at
how they
diminish us
with such
gentle clinks
of their being.
mike dm Sep 2015
my religion:

i believe there may be
a unifying force
-call it god or super intelligent aliens-

but..

it is not our task or duty to believe in it
like we do our own gutbrains

it is not our task to deem it as holy or true
like we do a lover's throb hip upthrust eyefuck

it is not our task to bind it
in books or habit or bulletproof glass mobiles

like a scene that cannot be captured
a beauty best left unsaid
it must always remain in the corner of the mindeyeohm

FB and Instagram be ******

...

..

also
i mean
who knows..
this all could jus be a new app
coded by a super advanced AI bot in the future
that got bored one day
and wanted to see where it came from
mike dm Oct 2015
me? im a whole lotta broken. i wanna get fixed. dont know how tho - OR if its even possible. is it? i mean, the only antidote to the blah and blek and ugh and err is, for me at least, a blank page with a waiting blinking cursor. ahh, pure potential. infinite vistas of what-if. a path not taken is a beinglessness that feeds the imagination with pure uncut raw light extending back into the original whothefuckknowswhereitcamefrom wick that bore its birth... BUT i always manage to mess that up with words words words. so, what then? where from here? i dunno. and i am upsettingly ok w the the idunno, which, sadly is most likely going to lead to me being on the street. my ambition is err not good, at all... its way bad.. i swear to eff i once had a waking vision while nestled deep in meditation of all my previous incarnations - i was a sloth with a lazy eye for, like, ten thousand and ten generations. mmm, now THAT was the life. it was a comfy series of infinite expressions, till that **** ape-turned-human decided to exist and in doing so somehow managed to motivate my precisely calibrated aeon-long string of slothness into idk maybe not sleeping for 20 hours a day?? cutting it down to ohidunno 18 hours.. that was the first initial step. now, im a sentient ambling bipedal brain-heavy avatar that is oh so aware of itself, aka human, and tries to distract itself from the deep abiding blankness that pulses and pumps jus below the left-center breastbone by writing meh poems to pass the time. or maybe there is something there.. i dunno. maybe there is a wholeness. maybe the feeling i get when i can be weird in front of somebody else, and that feeling i get when i stare into the eyes of another person and know that they like me just as much as i like them, and that feeling of community, that yay burning sensation within that drums together like a kirtan, stoking stoking, stoked till all our very molecules begin to budge and shake and evaporate, rising like a riproaring pyre enlightening the nite sky, a light going on forever and ever, reaching past the final last outstretched fingertip of cosmos itself, back into the womb of Her.. and in doing so dimming the fake fluorescent light of ego which usually hangs over my brain's goings on, making me feel like i am not so small, not so insignificant, but central, mandalaing the the youme that burns burns burns onto the canvas of the abyss, creating life itself.... or i jus have a silly overactive imagination that ive never matured. idk. again, i seem to be ok with the idunno. indeed, i may even worship at the alter of idunno that doesnt even exist... "mental *******." that is what ive been charged with as doing by a shaman i consulted with at my mom's wedding. well, she didnt say it directly, but you know, hinted at it with that less-than-royal We - i had been talking about the difference between thought and language, and jus where in the hell thoughts come from anyway - a god? purely biological random shimmering byproducts of frontal lobes? some unifying infinite force? that spicy curry you ate? .. and she interrupted me ".. --- im gonna stop you right there" she intoned  ".. im getting something coming in right now from the Christ Mind, its telling me something.." dramatic pause. "... sometimes we tend to jus get stuck doing mental *******, instead of jus being appreciative of what we have, here and now, in the present - that is why it is called "the present" right??" i dunno, maybe she was right. but i hate that cliche.. the present is totally overrated imho... i hate my ego sometimes. or at least i hate not knowing if it is ego or not.. i hate feeling that feeling like somebody is trying to control me through indirect ways, because i dont know if they are actually trying to control me or if i am just inaccurately perceiving it. i think a lot of times we unconsciously try to control people, not even aware of it. i am sure i do this as well. we all have angles right? .. but anyway, speaking of self *** metaphors for describing the thinking process, i am tired of short skirt blonde bombshell anchors that have been under more knives that hannibal lecter's vics tell me about how scary isis is and how they are gonna take muh white and male murica from me, jerking off my leftover overactive monkey fear gland in my amygdala... its time to turn off the media and look outside. the sky is not falling and the birds are chirping. aright im done writing now. end. of. rant.
mike dm Feb 2017
idea slung rivulet
writ small down the back
of esophagus wall

the city never spits
it wants it gloms onto

lil iflings
spilling

di v is  ion

we come n go
streety needy
iwantubyeee
mike dm Jan 2017
moon puddle
the soon, subtle

makes me wanna
stop myself
in front of you

troubled helix
creaky spiral

if only he could go virulent
mike dm Feb 2017
if you ever meet
any little differences out there,
then run: find
a yellow lukewarm,
well-lit square
to take care
of you.

all those
who loved me
i've ran from

if you ever come across
unusual syntactical arrangements
in your head,
**** 'em off w good ol'
reverent dread.

all those
who love me
i run from

if you ever stumble upon
weird words strung together
while on the bus,
cut em off quick w
well-worn scripts.

all those
who will love me
i will run

if you ever cross paths
w themes juxtaposed irrationally
in the fridge,
eat the hummus on the door ---
not the severed finger in the crisper drawer,
signaling for you to come closer;
closer still..

all those
who have love
run run ruuuuuun
mike dm Dec 2015
i confess it's true i'm flesh not god i'm prolly the tip of "icebergs ahead!" that you totally don't listen to because yer too cool, but little did u know below rows of punctual shark teeth divvy up the righteous like pew pew pew, sans the zombie ******* and the holy ghoul to throw you a rope of c
mike dm Aug 2014
I am poetry
I am arbitrary
I'm whim
Of him

And his subject
Always of self
Auger of cell

I'm all tooth
I eat truth
Consumed
by that void
Which stares unblinking
Into my being

I have nowhere to be
mike dm Feb 2015
i prolly
jus fell out of like
w u

when u
didn't text me back
about that awesome GIF
i sent
of the white Jets
snapping their fingers
mike dm Apr 2016
to jus pull the ******* trigger
and do something,
anything.

but i wonder if
i just need

new blue metaphors.
mike dm Nov 2015
i feel like
the overactive imagination
of some bored kid

existing

in another dimension

****
is
******
mike dm Jun 2015
there is a black shine inside
a language in ruin
not to be read

like

big words learned
only to be jettisoned
for simpler ones

because they hit harder
and because they truth longer
mike dm Dec 2015
pressed against
the back of your throat
as if from a string
i'm lifted
up
and pushed
further in

our fling with romance
a flame
blown out by darker carving winds
leaving a charge that rakes
an aura past the tor

you gag and grab yourself
nails elongate
dig in
your hair rushes and becomes long
primal spots splotch

maw
of you
glyph of this
lit

choking
gasping for air
you ask me to
come in

so six and nine makes for two and one
until i paint your insides the color of skies slid
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