Poems: 290521 - May 29th, 2021

[Robert Morpheal]

250521A

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It is all in

or nothing 

all in 

your head 

she said

he said

they said. 

We are all in

they said

to anyone 

who was out 

and not going

to get in 

no way no how. 

Out of your own

blooming mind 

they said 

when you tried

to get out 

to getting

in on it 

Nothing 

ever happens 

outside 

but people 

come and go

in and out

out and in. 

Revolving doors

of the open 

states of mind 

and holed up 

dark corners

of roughed up

bedroom cultures. 

Wanting 

for something 

not had

and cannot 

give in 

midst of converse 

into capitulation. 

An excavation 

to be filled in 

carefully 

back filled 

with raw earth 

and animal 

instincts. 

The demands

for novelty 

fleshing up 

story lines 

commons themed 

and subjected 

to disinterest.

Frightened mice

scamper 

crumb chase

timidly 

played out 

by their own 

black cats.  

Black cats 

of the mind 

crossing over

vague paths 

the new way 

of  all things 

chased down. 

Gripping yarns

raise eyebrows

at don't say

shock troop 

is all ears

being transgressed

in the marginalia. 

The author 

given any authority

is no more now 

than a union rates

paid tradesman

making book 

at the casino. 

More practices

practising 

the fundaments

salve ignorantia

puts to rest

stray factions

of brain wave. 

Wave goodbye 

in a blow up

and blow out 

of brain storm 

take down 

of the commune 

into diaspora. 

All the good 

parties 

were yesterday

and everyone

is still cleaning

up their own acts

for the next stage. 

Performance 

becomes everything 

strictly regular 

as bowel movements

and pissoir habits 

avoiding the boys

who suck urinals. 

Talent scouts

watching 

every move

and any make 

not noted out

in dedications

to one way deaths. 

Boulevards 

of dreams 

getting the run 

down and low 

down tracks 

gone over it all 

only to turn back. 

Turn back 

and scream 

hideous notes 

pinned to kitchens

and foreheads

trousers bulged

long march missiles.

Keep going 

long as it goes 

into the gone 

of everything 

traded off 

false promises

of better. 

Climbing down

the up ladders

to nowhere 

solidly backed 

down sides

of given a rise 

to celebrate. 

It takes time 

from time cards

deducting 

for late starts 

and coming in 

undone 

but well meant. 

We commemorate 

forgotten occasions

given the regularity

of computers 

performing faster 

and faster

defecations. 

Given 4.72 billion 

soulless entities 

who do not know 

us being anyone 

insignificant

to their versions 

of being special. 

The medium 

is now the message

between very bad

and much worse

but there are pictures

of what it was

that the cat ate. 

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250521B

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The devil in me

is the devil 

that is in you

and the devil 

that is in 

is in 

most everyone 

Got to get along

with that devil 

or get along 

and go

so you can stop 

devilling me

with devil you.  

Better devils 

than your devils 

get along 

with the devil 

in me 

and the devil 

in you. 

We would be 

completely lost

lost without 

that devil 

that is in you 

and that devil 

that is in me. 

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250521C

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Maybe was pancakes

and Maple drenched 

blueberries sweet 

broke the evening 

into dreamy appetites

concerning others

disturbing the digest 

another day's 

mad cap events 

breaking down 

into a midnight sweat

of frail justifications. 

It is the new 

style of break downs 

leaving old lines 

in singular disarray 

gone stale dated

creature habits 

not really wanting 

anything much 

of anything 

from the regularity 

of common stuff

making sacrifices. 

Where it all goes 

out of the box 

displaced excitement 

more quickly 

worn down 

and worn out 

in eternal rag on 

once was 

looking for all

the world of that 

and never had

much more. 

Cannot seem to

get the work done

but working 

all the time 

at something else 

from a selection

list of diversions 

wanting to subvert 

entire systems 

in punitive revenge

for the boredom 

so strictly imposed.  

The rutters 

rutting in their ruts

avoiding anything

over the top 

keeping their heads

well down under

youthful gun sights 

of exuberance 

feeding on trickle 

mass culture 

life support rations

into crusty veins. 

I do declare 

having had dreams

meant something

before cancellation

programming

and being replaced 

with common

forms of indifference 

dunked beneath urges

urging do nothing 

but waiting rooms 

and passed over.  

It becomes 

not quite alive 

but not quite dead 

lingerings between 

first light 

and bad coffee 

counting up choices

and fairy tales 

among the dead 

ends of make believe

there is still time

to do anything. 

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260521D

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Cleaning out 

things we never 

want to throw away

in some misfit 

state of mindless 

conditioned abandon. 

Gone into numb 

soliloquy

in a self slam 

disrepair 

been threadbare 

and needled.  

Sew it all up 

into packaged 

tight knit 

dismal shades 

tangled despair 

about bad knots. 

Lots of bad knots

never comb out 

of the hair pulling

worry maze 

headlines etched

across the brow. 

Most of a life

can be strung out

strung along 

and strung up 

to left dangling 

from a few threads. 

Not meaning 

anything 

in that way 

and gather up

memories dared

look forward. 

What was there 

waiting for you 

at arrivals 

other than another

new departure

headed out. 

We linger

in the intervals 

that space out 

minds and words 

into Linotype syntax 

of arrangements.  

Morning news 

and then forgotten 

archived  

surveillance records 

counting statistics

passed through. 

Whatever it was

that we wanted

has been removed

from circulation 

then replaced 

with old ideas.  

What we brought

and whatever was 

that we came for 

is no longer valid

sale or trade 

at their markets. 

We are the pawns 

no broker takes 

into any windows

on display 

as any measure 

of retained value. 

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