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AJ Robertson Jan 2013
A bee whistles past his ear
He feels the sound . . he doesn’t care
Averts his eyes in case there’s others
Raises his hands to fix his hair

Divorced from reality somewhat: from feeling.
Or at least extremes of:
Never exceeding amounts unfeasible:
Pertaining to the limits thereof:
Plateaued at governable levels in present:
Exempt from enth
Kept in check
His whistle wet & he’s well fed

Real words strewn along the ground
Discarded leaves fallen
Left decaying: mostly forgotten

His pants look to him pantaloons
For the good they do representing him
the man chases an end necessary; resenting
not waning, he feigns stoicism
then his creeping cynicism clouds his eyes

‘u know what buddy, u can honestly get ******’ he says ‘the 1st world cries the loudest; but is softest.  Thinks it is toughest; it is weakest, smoothest, creamiest.’
‘u know what buddy u are honestly right’ he says to himself not wanting to admit to himself that he agrees with himself,
but despite this all, his gaze’s focus still lowers
the edges become softer
& he does what he does

he wraps up in his blanky
with his bottle; safe under cover
among some big ******* to feel warm
but the swarm of bees they circle
twitching fever; rippling waves

hope to god that they don’t sting you
as u hide & feel their sway
lapping closer swooping hawk like
collective wind; they rearrange

and then

they push left !swoop! they raise u up,
( a cloud of black and brown and yellow arches and hums, hums like a razor on steroids, seeping potent purpose, pushing, coming: close your eyes for impending hell)
leaving bumps that swell and burn, they grab, they encase, they consume, they drive, they raise and they push
and they deliver u
and u obey them
and u relinquish; u fold enslaved
they push u forward  !the buzz! it wakes
it makes u groan,
u can’t ignore it
u know u need it
u’ve got to do it
u need to go


toil on & reap the spoils
another set with the walking beige

go here go there: be happy
u have no reason to not this day
just keep on going, mate my mate
lulling deep into the beige
Ken Pepiton Aug 2024
re reading readily past and present read
read real as a word for what we do
so steadily balancing known on known,
thinking some things at the same instance,
we knew the will to tell, and knew as well
the will to listen, to learn while thinking,

to me
this means that

losing my breath, reaching your reason,
tuning our times to the musical mathematics

all matter is dust, all thought is spirit,
all memory has a price prepaid, the flaw
we may imagine,
maya, Kabir suggests to Rumi, and I ask
might justice mean what Karma does?

The nameless suggester, be it muse, or
some detail in a day so long ago it seems

forever, onward, outward, inward fretting,
lack of knowledge, sublime serpentine bending,

folding, creasing, not snapping in rigged tension,
compliantly bending the knee, image-visualize,
meandering streams of everything,
realize our link to thinking marked taboo.

Discover why secrets are so typical of life,
in bubbles where our sapien relatives live.

All men, wombed or un, catch phrase, me
included, learn in sequence, literally faster
whosoever
than at any time in ever before, we know more,
truth, conscious use of useful knowings shared,

to our advantage, supposing us capable of leading,
while braying mindlessly like a
sotted piper, blues on a fancy Hohner, here we go

asking reception signaling the surfing analogy,
lift us as might those children we see ourselves, once,
imagine turning at the first star on the left, using
Peter Pan, then Peter Principle, from Canada,
Laurence J. Peter, appears in color,
dressed in polyester 70's gear,
as would have looked cool on TV
while McLuhan was doing his thing.

Fit the mind into the hard problem,
let it seem the spiritual force, why

imagine satisfaction while satisfied?
What a man hath, why doth he hope for?

As when Lobsters stack for social duty,
forming hierarchies, certainly,

Delphic precepts urge recalling 1, 2,  3,

know how empty you are, know how small
your little lamp, asking measure mete,

nothing spilled remains thine own, surplus
is for general consumption, evolution taxes

the comprehension of the universal conversation,

we find old rules used to form governable clusters
of us, tabula rosa versions of each of us,
mirroring imaginable completed visions,

like Google Earth, eh,
imagine, we live there, and where we see from
is this imagined plateau in nowhere, really, just
imagine, spell binding,

how newly known is all we know, each time,
the economy collapses and we are left wondering,

was the pile wrong at the bottom, first test of load
bearing Lobster pride for being most useful, calling all

come climb on my back and become the memory,
of original reasons used to do truly childish things.

Roof high stilts was one we succeeded at,
having seen it done, doing it was nothing,
couple of old two by fours, common
artifacts in growing towns out west… nailgun
misfires come to the magnet rescued
from the uncoiled motor
on the old concrete mixer. Grandpa had hammers.

Life with electricity, safe bet, you never had no choice
but to live in a world without power… industrial strength,

but the stacking order adaptations from King of the Hill,
does evolve a kind of specific survival set of reasons,
make do, make things change, to become ladders,
and then stilts, to walk along the Al Can Highway
waving at the tourists on their way to Vegas,
as society evolved around us, hiding wrecking yards,

all the weights in the bag, when balance is primary,
all the weights prove their worth, be it true to fair.

We can think we know less than we must to finish,
but that is maya talking, the cloud of unknowable's
tyrannical kind of order,
attempting to dam the flow…

first king reason, ready to speak up and say, I know.
I know, yes, just
what you mean by too much,
too much
water in your cistern, let it flow down gutters
intelligently placed to slow erosion,
leaving
first pure, mere thought bought by breathing
consistently for seventy five years, attended to
by books that my grandma read as a child,

and my grandchildren read this summer.

Presently passing on the purpose of first and last.
Godin's Practice, a lesson, learned or spurned, whose to judge...
daily musing using magic tools unthinkable except in books, since ever ago,
a good book is one you enjoyed experiencing in your youthful mind.
I recommended Stranger in a Strange Land, got a fair response.
Johnny Noiπ Oct 2018
Star Park's next bowel development, Asa and his wife,
in fact, not if you pay attention to the governor
of the Christian Religion, Bettie P. is a volatile wet
nurse, another governor has Dumuzid which appeared,
appeared in governable boating and ice and the grass!
Oh, Manuel, Manuel Ishtar. the Latina
is an old Sumerian, Dumuzid Geshtinanna the drive
with the ropes and of the frying pan, and to Agbarus
                                       a bitter end.

The king of the list is the value of the goods
if he only Sumirian Dunezid, index, list,
by the way u cannot be in the morning, Rhoncussa
sit Amet Sumerian Dumuzid their Zelaya.
He wishes an obi- oh, if only we had the AP's Orunum,
Interesting Forum Cornelius,     our great chamberlain
Ya'akan the breast of a man of Tyre,
so as not to be able to dispel Doozid Isalo.
Taking the gum out of the mouth
of the governor, and they also,                        if it presents
the MSA Megabook of its labor, and every type of smoke
is antisocial in the kingdom of Ipanema, and of the two existing Apees
the old is their ancestors, whom Alexander and Bob
went to buy it in the night, A GOVERNOR'S 1000 robot eyes
and other stakeholders of Gubernatorial Agbarus Romulus
solar wind from seven Gubernatorial Gubernatorial
able m bu Publishing indeed, if the parties Besillus
AND aim to it you below TL and his sister,
and the driving table if the governor Ibosis  governor
in Ibos Park, recipes Asian Angeles movement wise,
the restaurant-eating Komputer watching if the pipe
is of the groups having a wider 2 folks with cash,
and progressed in pregnant and the mother drive
I wade into the Bay with stripper Bettie,        Christian
orders ways to restart the market Cornelius wide
[M. Eko's] vote in, if Gadgets bike to the governor's
changes in a public muses unless the contrary is a song
from the song of Iran recently a new Maecenas
does not have eyes on the *******  of ESTHER,
& TIM'S AFL+500 toward the cause of bad Hands
from the same air wind back members of the Islamic religion
and Jackal bombs are also easy to feel
that you are broad sic O, honesty, O leatherny,
get treatment through the city on a chart of Sara's chest: (day-um!),
is that the judge if she does not? E: Oh, I wiped off the 2 problems
was discovered. And of course bitter and go boating party
passed Cancerbury's 6 governor monotone image of the governor
becomes governor fowls step into the Bay M-T wide.

Oh Dumuzid Dumuzid a year to work out the grass doldrums.
If you ignore half of drawing dolls on drums in the mirror Iraq.
Oh, glory and saw the legs of the old year and your Gubernatorial; Gubernatorial through an exemption for students the skills
Gubernatorial
Gubernatorial Dumuzid Summitian Manuel
                                      if he wants to marry.
"If the governor governor Sumerian I-MOY. 1, if the governor
is Odin; & if in Greece Dumuzid is driving Eastern
and Western Semitic names.

Gubernatorial River some years younger results.
Many governors if the governor is mourning the bones
of Ezekiel's governor, do you hear,
and if other conditions if. If the governor's
life and death. Others basins; draining out half the wolves
out from the middle to the flesh for our food,
Whether it is in the 4 producers are
in the New Wide free trade t.m.

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