Start with A
Meditation-like
Kindness toward strangers
Like likeness left losing
Emancipation
Memory foam
Martyrdom
Micro-minis
Maryland, the state,
Taking special care with the gaps
Minimum wage stalemates
How traffic works and real estate prices
Everything beautiful is unnatural
Everything beautiful is natural
Everything beautiful is simple
Nothing is simple
Saturday is soon
The litigation is just out of control
Will you look at it?
Will you look at it?
Will you look at it?
Will you look at it?
Will you look at it?
Will you look at them?
April 29, 2016
April 27, 2016
Waisting Isn't Really a Word, Is It?
There used to be British people
And we'd talk about it
There were flowers and people from Algiers and fancy little things on the cuffs of shirts
There was the future and the far-future and there was land all over the place
Time was time and space was space and there was dancing
Long, long rows of tables with their benches
Someone invented this device that let you type with one hand
Someone else had this great idea for the telephone
Your father was a lens grinder and you ate well
And we'd talk about it
There were flowers and people from Algiers and fancy little things on the cuffs of shirts
There was the future and the far-future and there was land all over the place
Time was time and space was space and there was dancing
Long, long rows of tables with their benches
Someone invented this device that let you type with one hand
Someone else had this great idea for the telephone
Your father was a lens grinder and you ate well
Location:Knecht Ave,Halethorpe,United States
April 25, 2016
Be Still
Grass of all lengths
The way your pets breathe when they're sleeping restfully
All the long words, all the short words
Arms vs. armature
Against all odds no matter what you say
Can you look at me now?
Everything drains that drops
To your side, on your side, on your back, on your side again
Ball joints at the corners and a pen in your hand
Here and here and a dotted line and here
Gather
Gather until it matters
And then go
All the men named David, and they all twist their bodies just so
All the men named David, and they all look into the distance
The way your pets breathe when they're sleeping restfully
All the long words, all the short words
Arms vs. armature
Against all odds no matter what you say
Can you look at me now?
Everything drains that drops
To your side, on your side, on your back, on your side again
Ball joints at the corners and a pen in your hand
Here and here and a dotted line and here
Gather
Gather until it matters
And then go
All the men named David, and they all twist their bodies just so
All the men named David, and they all look into the distance
April 24, 2016
The Wheel, a Stone, and Rope
Leverage and a corkscrew
Crowbar, bearded iris, the crown of a road
All the things water wants to do vs. all the things water is good for
Many years you can count
Equations you can count on
Practice is process
Salt curing
Salivary glands
Some bushes are know to attract ticks
Crowbar, bearded iris, the crown of a road
All the things water wants to do vs. all the things water is good for
Many years you can count
Equations you can count on
Practice is process
Salt curing
Salivary glands
Some bushes are know to attract ticks
April 22, 2016
Teatime Tornado Turns
What it's like to look out the window on the train and your eyes follow a dirt path winding along with you
"You are beautiful and strange, and I wouldn't have it any other way"
Solution equation when the solution is
An alloy, an alibi, an alkaline battery, and so much more
We live in times where more is all you can depend on
We live in times made of all the times
The end of history played out differently than expected as all time and space collapsed into itself and what was left could only be described as a flower
So very fast on the highway and your speedometer was the digital kind
Liquid crystal, superconductors, graphite
Homonym after homonym, homeschooling, halberd
Stand up for all of it
"You are beautiful and strange, and I wouldn't have it any other way"
Solution equation when the solution is
An alloy, an alibi, an alkaline battery, and so much more
We live in times where more is all you can depend on
We live in times made of all the times
The end of history played out differently than expected as all time and space collapsed into itself and what was left could only be described as a flower
So very fast on the highway and your speedometer was the digital kind
Liquid crystal, superconductors, graphite
Homonym after homonym, homeschooling, halberd
Stand up for all of it
April 21, 2016
Good Night, Prince.
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
The people everlasting lasting
Your extra time, all of it
The people everlasting
Purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
Purple rain, purple rain
The people everlasting lasting
Your extra time, all of it
The people everlasting
Purple rain
Handwritten Notes While the Judge Had the Cone of Silence Going and I Was about to Not Be Chosen
(and/or Notes That'll Make a Good Poem Someday)
If you know where it came from, it is better or worse?
Duck and cover
The corner
Make yourself smaller
The Real and How You're Keepin' It
All manner of cases
Masks, jackets, process
Whatever is final
The search for constants
Presence vs. path
Pain on the face twisting away
I write bad lines, too
Everyone doing their best to get out of line or into line or with the crowd you get the picture
Come of silence noise machine
March of static
More gray tha. White
Like pink fiberglass insulation only gray
Feel free to take care of whatever needs taking care
Rolled up sleeves under a jacket
Counter-productive
Bundling
Hang ups
Send homes
Censorship
Sensations sensational sensation
Sentence structure
Guidelines vs. laws vs. rules
And then the way things are
The way stacks are stacked
Respect and disdain for Gravity
What fantasies are fantasy?
Kept men in a kept system
Chickens in a chickyard
Turkeys at a turkeyshoot
Foxes at a foxtrot
Crabs at a crab bake
Where the joy in this?
I mean where's the New York in a New York strip and similar tired questions
Tire iron
Business icon
Senseless destruction
The path to the road to the bridge over the River Kwai (sp?)
I've yet to stand since the first standing when we all stood
Whatever is next is indeed next
The line vs. the grace notes
I mean, what kind of mood are you in?
I mean, what kind of mood am I in?
A big honking chord blaring away as the sun drifts down below the cloud cover
A balloon, a lamb, sausage, well bologna
Franklin, fresh, frenched ribs
Fracture bones of one kind or another
I mean, dice or cards or commodities
Head nodding and facial expressions and other communication bleeds
We're always doing things we know know how to do and that's the intended system
Angry and tired with intent to walk out the building
Slow food, the rate of words in one conversation vs. another, complex carbohydrates
The way difference is struck from so many situations -- height, accents, speed, race
If you know where it came from, it is better or worse?
Duck and cover
The corner
Make yourself smaller
The Real and How You're Keepin' It
All manner of cases
Masks, jackets, process
Whatever is final
The search for constants
Presence vs. path
Pain on the face twisting away
I write bad lines, too
Everyone doing their best to get out of line or into line or with the crowd you get the picture
Come of silence noise machine
March of static
More gray tha. White
Like pink fiberglass insulation only gray
Feel free to take care of whatever needs taking care
Rolled up sleeves under a jacket
Counter-productive
Bundling
Hang ups
Send homes
Censorship
Sensations sensational sensation
Sentence structure
Guidelines vs. laws vs. rules
And then the way things are
The way stacks are stacked
Respect and disdain for Gravity
What fantasies are fantasy?
Kept men in a kept system
Chickens in a chickyard
Turkeys at a turkeyshoot
Foxes at a foxtrot
Crabs at a crab bake
Where the joy in this?
I mean where's the New York in a New York strip and similar tired questions
Tire iron
Business icon
Senseless destruction
The path to the road to the bridge over the River Kwai (sp?)
I've yet to stand since the first standing when we all stood
Whatever is next is indeed next
The line vs. the grace notes
I mean, what kind of mood are you in?
I mean, what kind of mood am I in?
A big honking chord blaring away as the sun drifts down below the cloud cover
A balloon, a lamb, sausage, well bologna
Franklin, fresh, frenched ribs
Fracture bones of one kind or another
I mean, dice or cards or commodities
Head nodding and facial expressions and other communication bleeds
We're always doing things we know know how to do and that's the intended system
Angry and tired with intent to walk out the building
Slow food, the rate of words in one conversation vs. another, complex carbohydrates
The way difference is struck from so many situations -- height, accents, speed, race
April 18, 2016
We Will Run Our Things Our Own Way
The way the moon speaks to the ocean
You can't have it all vs. you can't have most anything at all
The way buds become leaves and Spring to Summer to Fall
Wind
The way the moon speaks to the ocean
Grass is an anchor that came too late
Things that eat things and the things they eat
This language is a shoddy virus
These hands merely thumbs pressing into light
The this which an a and and and
Depend on Tuesday
Depend on ordinary and ordinals and original stocks
Tomatoes
The way the moon speaks to the ocean
To see vs. to know vs. to understand
Sometimes a painting on a wall is just decoration
When the sun is behind you, your shadow will stretch into the distance
Let go of what you've known so the docile can be docile once again
Patterns are for socks
Swimming is for eels
Learn to throw all over again
The way the moon speaks to the ocean
You can't have it all vs. you can't have most anything at all
The way buds become leaves and Spring to Summer to Fall
Wind
The way the moon speaks to the ocean
Grass is an anchor that came too late
Things that eat things and the things they eat
This language is a shoddy virus
These hands merely thumbs pressing into light
The this which an a and and and
Depend on Tuesday
Depend on ordinary and ordinals and original stocks
Tomatoes
The way the moon speaks to the ocean
To see vs. to know vs. to understand
Sometimes a painting on a wall is just decoration
When the sun is behind you, your shadow will stretch into the distance
Let go of what you've known so the docile can be docile once again
Patterns are for socks
Swimming is for eels
Learn to throw all over again
The way the moon speaks to the ocean
April 17, 2016
Another King Is Done
Another King is dead
We killed another King
I've imagined a King who drove a milk truck
With red hair and these lips that everyone noticed
Have you ever seen a King play banjo?
Or write poems?
There was a King with a stompbox
And a second, earlier red-headed King
There was a King with a magnificent beard and a penchant for vampire stories
We killed a King who drank too much
We killed a King that went to medical school
King slayer, Rebel, overthrower
We've killed a King with a nose and another with powder white hair
Perfect powder white hair
Sit by the water and enjoy your meal
Watch the sun take its time
Take your time
Tomorrow we'll surely start the search all over all over
We killed another King
I've imagined a King who drove a milk truck
With red hair and these lips that everyone noticed
Have you ever seen a King play banjo?
Or write poems?
There was a King with a stompbox
And a second, earlier red-headed King
There was a King with a magnificent beard and a penchant for vampire stories
We killed a King who drank too much
We killed a King that went to medical school
King slayer, Rebel, overthrower
We've killed a King with a nose and another with powder white hair
Perfect powder white hair
Sit by the water and enjoy your meal
Watch the sun take its time
Take your time
Tomorrow we'll surely start the search all over all over
April 16, 2016
There Will Be a Gap / Gaping Theory
Bellies are distended
Falling bodies tend toward ballistic
The worst they can do and worst and worst
A better idiot sees the sun set
What about television?
What about this point in time or that slice of history?
What about sediment or foundations or erosion?
Great big waves happen all the time
As do flowers and all manner of things
Back and forth forward
That this that which, which which which, you find it
The the the
End state to the end on end on end
Falling bodies tend toward ballistic
The worst they can do and worst and worst
A better idiot sees the sun set
What about television?
What about this point in time or that slice of history?
What about sediment or foundations or erosion?
Great big waves happen all the time
As do flowers and all manner of things
Back and forth forward
That this that which, which which which, you find it
The the the
End state to the end on end on end
April 14, 2016
All the Next Choices You'll Make
You're buying an aquarium, what color rocks do you get for the bottom?
The way gravity speaks to you and everything
That guy in Korea who balances all those things and then snaps his fingers
The places you've spent a year or more
And then sleep and then eating and walking
You get to decide what the units of measure will be
Pay attention to swaying
Climbing the ladder, hip checks, hanging in the air
Concentrate and you'll get it
Let your arms hang loose and you'll get it
Practice daily and you'll get it
Relax your focus and you'll get it
Who's out in front and who's trailing?
The way gravity speaks to you and everything
That guy in Korea who balances all those things and then snaps his fingers
The places you've spent a year or more
And then sleep and then eating and walking
You get to decide what the units of measure will be
Pay attention to swaying
Climbing the ladder, hip checks, hanging in the air
Concentrate and you'll get it
Let your arms hang loose and you'll get it
Practice daily and you'll get it
Relax your focus and you'll get it
Who's out in front and who's trailing?
April 13, 2016
Amazing Things Are Happening in Nondescript Locations all across this Land
Dramatic settings are full-up with emptiness
Beautiful people are pining away behind the counters of gas station mini-marts
Wasting away, dulling, breathing, rusting
Orange jams up against brick red, acid pink with acid green, dull gray and brilliant blue
Clouds are moving at different speeds at different altitudes and never mixing
While hot air is rising
There are thousands of places you can get a mocha
Or be painfully honest with your family
Friends are to be had in chain restaurants and big box stores and 7-11 parking lots
There are lives to be lived
Oxygen to be breathed
Atmospherics to be appreciated
Then sparrows, sunsets, oceans and lakes and of course rivers
The moon was once part of us and is now part of all this
Think about your chest rising and falling
Think about every step everyone is taking everywhere
All at once, as in forever
Believe
Beautiful people are pining away behind the counters of gas station mini-marts
Wasting away, dulling, breathing, rusting
Orange jams up against brick red, acid pink with acid green, dull gray and brilliant blue
Clouds are moving at different speeds at different altitudes and never mixing
While hot air is rising
There are thousands of places you can get a mocha
Or be painfully honest with your family
Friends are to be had in chain restaurants and big box stores and 7-11 parking lots
There are lives to be lived
Oxygen to be breathed
Atmospherics to be appreciated
Then sparrows, sunsets, oceans and lakes and of course rivers
The moon was once part of us and is now part of all this
Think about your chest rising and falling
Think about every step everyone is taking everywhere
All at once, as in forever
Believe
April 12, 2016
There Have Been Crazy Times / There Have Been Crazier Times
Way way down underneath all the turtles and the dreams and the whatnot, what you have is a matter of inconsistent distribution of all the things
The good things, the bad things, the blue things, the new things
And then there are the laws, all the laws
There's osmosis but also active gradients
There's energy, all kinds of energy
Walking down stairs seems simple enough and then it isn't
Breathing seems simple enough or swallowing or hearing or feeling and the. It isn't
Sometimes for fun
Sometimes by mistake
Sometimes because the cards have just been dealt and that's that you're out of draws
This is all stupid, all of it
This isn't the kind of thing
What I mean is:
Extenuating circumstances, escape plans, exit wounds, entrapment
Forcing everything and the Force
Giant is better when it's gigante, gopher holes, gigabytes
Forget-me-nots vs. full blooms vs. maritime mastery of all sorts
Helpful highways, how could you, Havre de Grace
I'm always thinking is my problem
The good things, the bad things, the blue things, the new things
And then there are the laws, all the laws
There's osmosis but also active gradients
There's energy, all kinds of energy
Walking down stairs seems simple enough and then it isn't
Breathing seems simple enough or swallowing or hearing or feeling and the. It isn't
Sometimes for fun
Sometimes by mistake
Sometimes because the cards have just been dealt and that's that you're out of draws
This is all stupid, all of it
This isn't the kind of thing
What I mean is:
Extenuating circumstances, escape plans, exit wounds, entrapment
Forcing everything and the Force
Giant is better when it's gigante, gopher holes, gigabytes
Forget-me-nots vs. full blooms vs. maritime mastery of all sorts
Helpful highways, how could you, Havre de Grace
I'm always thinking is my problem
April 9, 2016
Built Upon
Walk a road to a point and die.
Sit still. Inhale. Exhale.
Filter, hang out, make a shell.
Carapace, exoskeleton, skin, so on.
A hoodie underneath a hooded jacket and a baseball cap underneath that.
That's for you, I usually call it a zippy.
A ladder to the moon rendered in pixels because it's what we want(ed).
A pattern doesn't need you to see it
The ocean will never know your name
Nobody predicted grass
Thousands of balls bouncing down steps and pegs, around rocks, over cliffs, swirling in pools, making canyons.
What is this place?
And all the other questions you ask on a Saturday
Sit still. Inhale. Exhale.
Filter, hang out, make a shell.
Carapace, exoskeleton, skin, so on.
A hoodie underneath a hooded jacket and a baseball cap underneath that.
That's for you, I usually call it a zippy.
A ladder to the moon rendered in pixels because it's what we want(ed).
A pattern doesn't need you to see it
The ocean will never know your name
Nobody predicted grass
Thousands of balls bouncing down steps and pegs, around rocks, over cliffs, swirling in pools, making canyons.
What is this place?
And all the other questions you ask on a Saturday
April 8, 2016
We Get Thrown, Too
The bedrooms of Western Civilization
The ponies, the Maypoles, the beaver meadows
If you make it you can fall it apart
France
Industrial blue meets industrial materials
Tracks
Trainers vs. jumpers vs. the language of the conquered
Don't tell me how to comport myself when nobody's comporting anymore
Sounds good, looks good, tastes bad
Weekender, as in the kind of bag
Wayfarer, way later, way to go
The ponies, the Maypoles, the beaver meadows
If you make it you can fall it apart
France
Industrial blue meets industrial materials
Tracks
Trainers vs. jumpers vs. the language of the conquered
Don't tell me how to comport myself when nobody's comporting anymore
Sounds good, looks good, tastes bad
Weekender, as in the kind of bag
Wayfarer, way later, way to go
Location:5th Ave,Odenton,United States
April 7, 2016
Meanwhile and/or Elsewhere
I have this dream where I'm shopping for a winter coat
When I realize I already have a great winter coat
A nice bench in a nice park
Sunlight through leaves
The invention of polka dots or polka for the matter
You have needs and then you don't
Imagination vs. settling up
Keeping your word in an Old West shootout
The value of your vote
Heavy memories, heavy water, and all the moonchildren everywhere
You have a right to this and this and this and this
And you have the price gun, too, and it's Sunday somewhere, and you're going to make it matter this time
When I realize I already have a great winter coat
A nice bench in a nice park
Sunlight through leaves
The invention of polka dots or polka for the matter
You have needs and then you don't
Imagination vs. settling up
Keeping your word in an Old West shootout
The value of your vote
Heavy memories, heavy water, and all the moonchildren everywhere
You have a right to this and this and this and this
And you have the price gun, too, and it's Sunday somewhere, and you're going to make it matter this time
April 5, 2016
Mathematical Functions as a Way of Life
Spiritual habit
Soccer practice
Sleepwalk serenade
Serendipitous selflessness
Pick up and shut up
Front doors imply backdoors
All the waterways
And all the people who live on waterways
Then everything that wells
And again all the meanings of matter march in
There's Washington
There's tomorrow
There's what you expect and I'm good for that sometimes
Build it like you built it
Soccer practice
Sleepwalk serenade
Serendipitous selflessness
Pick up and shut up
Front doors imply backdoors
All the waterways
And all the people who live on waterways
Then everything that wells
And again all the meanings of matter march in
There's Washington
There's tomorrow
There's what you expect and I'm good for that sometimes
Build it like you built it
Location:Water St,Baltimore,United States
Buildings and Directions
Hurtling toward what's expected
Countdowns and roll calls and jump offs
Everything that comes to mind when I say, "Forgotten flowers"
The grazers of the savannah and then everyone else
Tell and tell and tell and tell
Do you come over the top?
Does your train travel faster now?
Have you thought about how it'll end?
A boom mic here, lighting there, sometimes a script and sometimes less so
Stretch and breathe until you see it
But we won't be able to wait for everyone
Countdowns and roll calls and jump offs
Everything that comes to mind when I say, "Forgotten flowers"
The grazers of the savannah and then everyone else
Tell and tell and tell and tell
Do you come over the top?
Does your train travel faster now?
Have you thought about how it'll end?
A boom mic here, lighting there, sometimes a script and sometimes less so
Stretch and breathe until you see it
But we won't be able to wait for everyone
Location:Stoney Run Rd,Hanover,United States
April 3, 2016
Sunday and the Wind
Phyllo dough is a thing
Croissants are a thing
Sunday is a day
Seasons are collections of days
Stretching is a good idea
This world is what it is
There are ideas you can't unthink
And patterns want to keep it their patterned way
And life all the way down to the biology of it is a mix of that and something else
The wind is sweeping over Baltimore this morning
Croissants are a thing
Sunday is a day
Seasons are collections of days
Stretching is a good idea
This world is what it is
There are ideas you can't unthink
And patterns want to keep it their patterned way
And life all the way down to the biology of it is a mix of that and something else
The wind is sweeping over Baltimore this morning
April 2, 2016
Every Saturday
Every single Saturday
Gather up your things and stack them
Balance is as balance does when you want it
The sun
All the things that slowly slide to a close vs. all the things that slowly grind to a close
The thing is, I mean, the thing
Go on
Gather up your things and stack them
Balance is as balance does when you want it
The sun
All the things that slowly slide to a close vs. all the things that slowly grind to a close
The thing is, I mean, the thing
Go on
April 1, 2016
Opening Day, Opening Day Approaches
Sobriety is the crew-less month
#TacoTuesday but when it's Thursday
Line up all the things you're thankful for and call it a day
A ton, by a mile, a second
There are games that let you engage at any level and that's ok
Charles Manson stole this song from the Beatles and we're stealing it back
I mean "platforms" and political parties and me
The levels don't judge and don't want to judge, so stop making them judge
I mean everything
I mean a cat is a cat
I mean whatever wine tastes like whatever wine
As long as you want it that way
Throwback, throwback, throwback
Swwwwwwing batter-batter
Here. Have a hurdle. You'll like it.
#TacoTuesday but when it's Thursday
Line up all the things you're thankful for and call it a day
A ton, by a mile, a second
There are games that let you engage at any level and that's ok
Charles Manson stole this song from the Beatles and we're stealing it back
I mean "platforms" and political parties and me
The levels don't judge and don't want to judge, so stop making them judge
I mean everything
I mean a cat is a cat
I mean whatever wine tastes like whatever wine
As long as you want it that way
Throwback, throwback, throwback
Swwwwwwing batter-batter
Here. Have a hurdle. You'll like it.
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