You wouldn’t DESIRE something if YOU didn’t have the ABILITY 2 Make it HAPPEN. Go Get It!
Knowing the Truth in memory of Frank O’Hara
Turn out all those stop lights please
I’m on the go again
pack it up
put on your hat the caretaker is away
for the weekend your heart is allowed
to fly around at will once more
The curse of rubber stockings
in a bathysphere &
dreams of Asian babes
throwing parasols at you should
cease & desist
Pocket
the change from this segment of your life
The shop is locked
I don’t care
There are no dress rehearsals in this here
neck of the woods
Park the car
walk the wet street
Spinach or peas please
me I take this cup that
no one offers
that no one has to tell me is mine
ask the cashier where the nearest refill is
The light changes
& you with it
The cars are brightly colored
I can’t choose never could read a map
love a dog
eat a big lunch keep you happy
very long
To A Martyred Painter in memory of Mark Rothko
No one is thinking about you much anymore.
The large book of your paintings hasn’t been
Checked out in years.
I fear fashion has moved elsewhere.
You are the old master; there are
New reputations to be made.
I look at your solemn eyes,
Do not see the light that must
Have shone inside,
Spilled out into your hands
To glow from the canvases,
Pulse like your heartbeat.
Color hanging in the air
With your cigarette smoke:
Darkness of the mind, fire
Of the soul share their rectangular place.
Placed together where melancholy
Reigned & rained in the winter wet
Of NYC, where your breath
Flowed out amongst the buildings,
Days on end and out of your body
The last time. The colors gone.
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Liberating The Country From Those In The Way
0 Comments | Posted by William Cowan in Penman Lounge
There were accords left unsigned.
How shy we all seemed at the start.
Logs rolling in the distance left much
Unsaid. Speculation planted hope in
Building a new frontier. “Less said,
The better,” signaled the magistrate.
“The original natives endlessly complained,
Until we disposed of them.” The remainders
Became wayward servants.
We on occasion wear their outfits,
Enjoy some of their recipes, never ask
For seconds though, out of respect.
Denver, October 9. Noted UFO hunter Ronald Baker claims, “there are now many aliens from other worlds living among us who can assume human form and remain undetected to all but a rare few with experience in these things.” Mr. Baker does not claim to know any personally.
as thief
Rethought how about stealing years ago less abrasion
Less scuffling and squirming places have changed
In short it means a new year
Yet you couldn’t understand this
Thousands of miles against others them
They came out on top in all areas
And you they got you
Now you are hugging this place like a bear
a superior speaks
We tested for a hundred unbelievable makes
And we’re happy to report much since then
A long time this place
Was properly a good education
as native
The problem has been that it was
Ever since they were introduced
They wear out shoes and have been the hottest
Thing going keeping you awake nights glowing
You turn over look at this place
For months could they get along
Would they have you come back in the dark ages
To sit with monks and seedy nobles
Underneath these people are firm and tough
as citizen
Today some of the world have modern factories
In the machines I can see them
I’ve got three kids from a blonde
Again the bandit turns up
A loser why
Trained men working
With you it costs a fortune
Comfortable home heavenly glare
Today will glimmer
A few years from now worrying
Up doctors’ bills is useless
That some of them don’t wear
As well in some places is evident
We were asked to care for our own world
But I have learned to know them
Pursue your dreams. For without dreams all you are left with is a nightmarish reality.
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Respecting Oneself Is Far From Narcissism
0 Comments | Posted by Geo. E. Burks in Blog, Penman Lounge
I say to no one in general nor directly, I love myself; then a thought occurred, “Am I boasting?”
So, I asked another, “Hey, Am I boasting when I proclaimed “I love myself?”
He looked at me as to sized me up and ask me, “what you think?”
I answered, “that why I asking you. Am I boasting was my immediate thought after the statement?” He look around the cafe we was in and excuse himself, then joined a table with an attracive female sitting alone with no other words then “excuse me,” while pointing at her.
I was sure at that time for certainty that that question shouldn’t be asked again. I then given a quick thought about the statement and then felt a little happiness physically swelling within me.
I then loudly said in that public place, “I love myself!”
After that it didn’t matter what others nor I would conceived of the statement. The statement was one of those nice feeling emotion, which is a life of one’s own.
Leaders think and talk about the SOLUTIONS while Followers think and talk about the PROBLEMS. What do U think ABOUT?!
The GREATest Discovery & Surprise a PERSON makes is to find, THEY can DO what THEY were AFRAID they couldn’t DO.
That old concern as defintive verb.
Hasnt lost any luster in any era by an occur.
Power politics within pérsonalized compromises.
An empty courage in the realistic eyes.
A signalized threat as our natural sorceries
Most religious are spurn for this nature’s inconvience.
Yet some does realized their own vanity under this mortality’s summarized.
With all gains are valueless to everyone’s priceless life with you live, you die.
Written by George Eddie Burks Of St. Micheal’s Church Post 201, Chicago, Illinois.
