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thoughtlife

many people wearing loincloths and taffy wings

a sign of discomfort unwinds the thorn wreath apparent

crowding a small hut, but teepee cooking soup

i ching, said the chinese word for 'people' in finer nuance are 'thought(s'

as in, "the field is peopled with vinery, blossoms and flesh eating plants"

"what do you mean? What kind of a person r u?!"

or vice versa verse a vice

and that became a pen name

as in, "from the desk of Versa Vice"

i'm certain when you throw it up it is because of some illgotten forgotten

cause, shared by all brothers in biledom throughout eternity domini

assuming more than a container or a barrel could hold it together

as in, "speeding through a barrel of galaxies"

when you eat ass backwards after barbi q

its nobodys fault domino san andreas

blame or no blame it is all the same

lets just find a room.

a good enough reason reason to be apprehensive

of the hairdryer freediving

thru mysterious animations, while plugged and

lolling in a bubble bath with a glasse

of champagne syncopated swish under your nose splashing

your 2 feet 2 a scratchy ay em station mambo

in your solitary rectangle at the fates motel with a neon sign blinking

outside on a stormy night of slanting rain

a roo wide enough 2 not knock a knot into

a room through which u can

move w/o crashing a vase off a table

or net backflap cologne osmote from somebodys neck

and walk crunching alliterations crackling alienations

like potato chips under shiny black shoes

your mind is a oom with just one person in it

so quiet, with blue and clouds painted oer just floating

before an entire silhouette diagonal switches the digital radio on

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turn around

your daughter or son is a brain child

pinkdimple daring and soft wild

a giggling grotto in a shadowy skull

rocking the cradle and sleeping past null

and where are you going

my little one little one

where are you going

my baby my own

you notice the drapery folds at the start

some candle drifts through when they're drawn apart

those lights draw pearl trumpets on your jingly mo beel

he stretches his fingers and feels the wheel

look someone wrote on this mound of clay

sculpted a mould tata work ohoh play

she swings, pointing toes toward the sky

and singing a rock rock-a-bye

baby on the tree top

when the wind blows

the cradle will rock

a bye

a bye

a bye

here is a kodak commercial from the 60's which was selling photography, not that it

needed to be 'sold', but it uses music and images to achieve the attention/emotion and

then whollops the experience with the ad at the end. a very brilliant concept for selling.

but kind of pushy over the top.

next post coming up "why do i care about advertisements' (maybe)

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i forgive them, spielberg and hanks, for "pacific". i can usually find some convoluted reasoning for forgiving just about any everything. in this case it is the drama of the spiel and the hankies mopping up tears.

their fathers after all, probably fought in that war. and the dpp will find a coalition source illuminati or two to fund such projects. and then, if it was not so, i would not know what i know

forgiveness is a mighty word.

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war movies always have the same kind of music

the echo of reveille horns, barra pum pum pum drums, slow tuneful strings.

twists on the 'Band of Brothers' theme

you'd think film composers would want to come up with something different.

you'd think the films actually are extra-large commercials for the military.

you'd think soldiers couldn't possibly know beforehand,

how badly the skin would peel off rot from footsores

and how much pumping bullets would blast the psyche.

that no one would want to volunteer for duty

if they knew how much time they would spend removing bodies

or in an eternity without one

you'd think these frontline conflict genre movies would want to come up with some different kind of background music

than the damn swollen crescendos, symphonic auld lang syne and explosion sound effects,

you'd think some blues, at least, would be different. some blues behind the automatic weapon rat tattering

you'd think one time just once a hero could be the coward who defected

you'd think nothing of letting small children be exposed to it

of not knowing if you'll ever see him again,

of waving goodbye to the troopers,

you'd only think 'how brave how honorable'

if the dpp had it their way. and they almost always do.

you'd think there's not much you can do but follow

you'd think the word of one objector is worth much more than 'freedom'

more loosely defined than camouflage

if they didn't always have that same kind of background music

the assyrian god of war

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Talk about you.


You, there, glad to see you

scratching your head

there, brimming with
sparkling brilliance

like a glass of waterfall

there, you know what
i'm talking about
a dream goat shepherd a
capricornus by chance
leaps to a summit on all fours

a gale force wind
behind sisyphus
dislodges his burden and merits

the volume of boulders and slant of steep hills
You, there, awesome and untamable
tigers tale comet come from where

innocent galaxies infinitely collide

and trails of spitfire stardust glide

on spiral inspiration where,
there, wonder surely rules the air

(for St. Patricks Day)

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glued

a tiny brown fingernail

shiny to the touch

i should have felt it sooner

sucking blood and such

pried it off with tweezers

a flat sideways strike

cuz the sucker gets embedded

if it's pulled upright

little eyelash leggies

brush my finger, touch

as they writhe like a zimmy

electric toothbrush

you told me 'put it in a jar

and bring it to the lab

have it tested, get a shot

and disinfect the scab'

but twas not the infamous deer tick

who carries dreadful lyme

just a regular old dog tick

living large, fat

and sublime

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"The Seven Sneaky Words"

Here I am, not so sneakily reposting the copyright alliance's post on fair use.

I do think the intentionally ambiguous is a widespread tactic used not only by lobbyists and their cohorts, but also by financial institutions, and in contractual agreements across the board. Not to mention utility business practices in general. (such as electric, phone and cable companies) The 'customer service' person starts out smiling and then when you ask for the surplus charges to be removed, they become brittle and snippy, the smile turns into a tight leash. Why? Because they know what is going on behind the scenes inside the companies they 'represent'. Once on the telephone a cable customer service rep was reading me some rule explaining the answer to a question I had about an extra 4.95 charge per month that suddenly started appearing on my cable bill. And she accidentally kept reading a part the customer was not intended to hear. "It is because of the state tax application, etc etc. Never tell a customer that the charge is..." (I won't continue as I would not like to be sued) but I said "What did you just say?" She pretended not to know what I was talking about, so I repeated it. She was caught, up against the wall. She stammered and tried to dismiss it. I said "But you just said..." and finally she said "I didn't mean to say that". Ha ha, oh really? So even the squirt customer service person on a remote phone in some other city is party to the strange and quirky permutations of the truth. I have worked for companies that make you sign papers confirming that you will never reveal "proprietary information" for a period of five years AFTER you may leave their employ. I guess because they figure no one would believe you after that amount of time if you told them that you were instructed regularly and systematically to deceive the customer. Being able to live with telling outright lies is a performance requirement.