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a five line ode to my poetry index.
a modern day view of the second-class carriage (or, weekdays). a quick memoir of september the eighth. a thousand witnesses. an eon and a day. banishment. belief and other such musings. blue period. considering your character. contemporary gipsy (a hippy love story). crazy music. envy. first cigarette. greyhound on 85th. gridlock. in short, september 13th. julie plays the hero. last cigarette, for terry olynik. my pathetic secret. my thalidomide baby. ode to communication. ode to giovanni lee alvarez (or, disenchanted). ode to the tough guy. passagers. sometimes, her name was. the seven minutes of sunrise (or, infatuation). the truth about him and i. you, lost. 2007 2006 2005 home |
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And even if you were God There would be nothing you could do, Free will, and out of your hands. Just leave me my sanity And you can take the car, My integrity, perchance. I have this theory that The whole world feels alone Together, And our lost and lonesome only blinds us From the unity we could feel In feeling alone Together. And if you were God, What would you do? The same thing he�s been doing For an eon and a day: Nothing. I have a quaint disease Where just before the words Can reach my fingertips, My brain cells quickly die. Walt Whitman�s favorable quotes wither, Kipling, where have you gone? And when the world could be so thankful For the beauty of ink-on-paper There isn�t a single person left To write it down. I�m sorry to deny you your apocalypse, but It�s just one of those things you�ve been silly To wait for For so long. I promise you, When your sexual frustration is tired of being let out Through violent tendencies And desperate pettings in the darkest corners Of night-clubs playing punk-rock bands, There will still be front-row seats waiting For you, For Armageddon. It�s not that I fancy myself a sort of poet A sort of artist, at all. It�s not that I would don the helmet of our soldiers Like the burdens of our people And make it all get better. No. More so, I ask you, Would you do the same If those punk-rock night-clubs Never existed? Are you battling for our people by-proxy? Are you making the next generations soldiers? What is God fighting for, Besides good-bye? What I�m trying to say is, The next time that You�ve gotten yourself stuck against the dirty, Talking walls, Remember that the people Are always welcome To play at God And do what he�s been doing For an eon and a day: Nothing. |