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TV Mar 2013
Do you ever wish…
to just say “hello”
to the world?
Reassure someone, everyone, ANYone
That YOU still exist.
That your DNA is still a twist.
That the ends of it have not come unraveled.
To shout from some part of your being.
"Hey *******, I'm not dead yet!"
We sometimes try.
Even perhaps just from our digital self,
because it’s the one people have less trouble connecting with,
the one where they can choose not to see the parts they don’t like,
Because everyone looks the same in a tiny picture.
And those pictures and profiles are not racial
Or insulting to anyone’s existence
Because those things are banned
Like “offensive” and “inappropriate” books.
And these profiles, ostensibly, they’re identical.
Which removes the need for real thoughts.
For scary thoughts,
Different Thoughts.
And so we’re indifferent.  
And we remain so with comfort and ease
From our beds, couches, recliners.

From coffee shops Where we take pictures of the nice flower the guy behind the counter drew in our latte’s foam, and click, click, click to “share” the memento with our 1,738 friends. Instead of taking a risk and actually sharing a moment with a stranger.


Even a moment of silence.


Perhaps even especially, because the very thought of sitting in silence, together or completely alone terrifies us. Like going to take a seat and accidentally sitting on a broken bottle.
So we try to break the silence as fast as we can and we barricade ourselves behind Apple logos. Pretending that we could never make a difference.
Even though we carry more computing power in our pockets than any of the scientists who put a man on the moon could dream of having instantaneous access to.
We’ve grown so much and so great. That we even scare ourselves.
But I know a secret
Whispered on the outernet
If you listen, you can hear it.
It says, reach out to someone. Connect. Make yourself vulnerable
This is how you become truly powerful
Only when you’re stripped of all your veils
Can your spirit soar with another’s.

And that my friends, is the nonsexual part of ***.
You see,
The Idea of DNA exchange can be more important than many of times it’s actually happened.
So let us not relegate ourselves to the shelves of history
to be filed under “waste”
but instead knock over all the shelves, trying to get to that really interesting looking book that’s way up at the top.
Then the world will really know you’re there
and you won’t even need to say “hello.”

And who knows, maybe the janitor is actually a really cool dude.
i realize it's slightly ironic to be posting something like this on the internet but I use this more to keep my writing all in an easy to access, single place. or as they say, I didn't come here to impress none of you ******* hahaha
TV Mar 2013
I have not Titaniced into obscurity,
My sinking is common knowledge
And Lo! I am master of now’s reality
Fighting off complacency constantly.
I change the light bulb so I can see at night
Obliterate the darkness with my light,
I reserve it for some future date.
I scrawl tales of my castles made of sand
So that they can safely wash into an ocean of remembrance.
I shoot the waves of my brain through amber grain
Till children sing songs of my glory.
Shake, shake, shake the etch-a-sketch until it breaks
And transform it into a sculpture, immutable.
And at last I shift from you’s to I’s
The vowels of independence
Shaking shackles lose
Freed of my gorgeous noose
But why despite the mortal danger
Do I still wish to
Hang
Out with you?
TV Mar 2013
I have seen the sun rise on the horizon
the same sun I've seen rise on in your eyes again
Spelling demise for that common friend
Goodbye loneliness, hello warming trend,
Your golden gazers shine a light to see
Illuminating the jungle that's alive in me
And I bloom...
Awaiting their cartography.
TV Feb 2013
Breathe in my inspiration.
Draw it deep into your cavernous lungs.
Let it linger and hang, like a bat might.
Let it creep out slowly, cat-like.
Taste its richness as you exhale,
Like a post-****** cigarette
Savor the bliss.
Then pass the flavor as a favor,
By exchanging a kiss.
TV Feb 2013
White Gods, for brown people
Selling salvation beneath a church steeple
They say to seek Jesus, for he is the one
Cheaper than bullets, far less than a gun
Your eternal soul is all you must give
And together forever, in heaven you'll live
TV Feb 2013
Atop ancient mounds, the thrones of kings
The sounds abound, resound and ring-
A jungle stirs to life.
From amidst the mist, two monkeys call
Their vociferous cries, a defensive wall-
Signs of future strife.
As fogs roll back, and time rolls on
The moon away, at last it's gone-
The sun chases after his wife.
Wrote this and another while watching the sunrise from the top of the tallest pyramid in the Maya world in Tikal
TV Nov 2012
Strangely timed
like a midnight rose
but this baby's breath breathes life
vibrant, visceral, vivacious
a requirement in this environment
for corporeal sustenance
maintaining and sustaining subsequent substances
and for which
no substitute exists.
nor should one.
for if this is that
without which
anguish persists permeating the vastness
clearly packing voidish absence
reminding that reciprocity not animosity
makes connectivity the activity
then why bother with formality?
or try to deny reality?
Grateful nostrils more easily discern
Scents that sting and scents that burn
Aided by proximity to incense intense senses
lives sweeten with flowers' presence
sweet airs and flowery essence
but there's hesitance in this instance
careful to engage or allow mental enrapture
one must gauge potential fracture
for roses have thorns
And I fear morning glory's scorn
despite wonders of its consumption born
that of which misgivings warn.
But know this
Golden lotus:
Let us lattice.
Let us, lotus,
Don't pass thus.
i think if you read it aloud, it has more effect. i played with sounds a lot more than imagery which is strange for me
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