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blank pages under black lights
« on: October 14, 2009, 12:04:20 AM » by Tiko Lewis

why old men drink gin

life lesson number one:
decisions
determine
the pattern
of bruises

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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.

Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 12:12:43 AM » by david haase

ok, this fucked me up enough to go to bed and hope for any other dream.

this makes me wanna puke, and that is praise to the poet that can express and repulsion unspoken
compulsion to revenge
unexplained connection

physically or metaphorically...or just me.....oops

david

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Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2009, 02:33:41 PM » by silent lotus

dear Tiko

wonderful to find your Texas wit here in Journalese

smiles

silent lotus

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Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2009, 11:57:53 PM » by Tiko Lewis

calves in the field

long days

long grass

no rules
no wolves
no tyranny
no tears

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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.

Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2009, 12:05:03 AM » by Tiko Lewis

time and pressure and age and nerves

the tips of holes
on bands and belts
fray and shred
at the end of
usefulness

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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.

Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2009, 12:08:27 AM » by Tiko Lewis

why old men drink gin

life lesson number two:
when all else fails
fake it

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Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2009, 12:16:29 AM » by Tiko Lewis

a lesson from an old man who never married

hey you
young pups

the exchange of
bodily fluid is
never
proper in public

go kiss somewhere else

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Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2009, 12:27:44 AM » by Tiko Lewis

Quote from: silent lotus on October 14, 2009, 02:33:41 PM

dear Tiko

wonderful to find your Texas wit here in Journalese

smiles

silent lotus

Silent Lotus,

Thanks. It looked like a good place to stretch out.

Tiko

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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.

Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2009, 12:30:13 AM » by silent lotus

Quote from: Tiko Lewis on October 15, 2009, 12:27:44 AM

Silent Lotus,

Thanks. It looked like a good place to stretch out.

Tiko

dear Tiko

yes i can see the blue plume !

and the bowl of jelly beans

smiles
silent lotus

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Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2009, 12:32:32 AM » by Tiko Lewis

Quote from: david haase on October 14, 2009, 12:12:43 AM

David,

Cringing is a valid response.

Thanks,

Tiko

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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.

Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2009, 12:34:37 AM » by Tiko Lewis

why old men drink gin

life lesson number three:
lube on the table
does not mean
you can put it
there

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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.

Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2009, 12:57:47 AM » by Tiko Lewis

curbside cupcakes
(urban revival)

a school of leaves
two days removed
from branches
jiggle and scratch
along the asphalt
walk

but there isn't
tree for
miles

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...i don't eat jelly beans afterward.

Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2009, 08:43:19 AM » by silent lotus

Quote from: Tiko Lewis on October 15, 2009, 12:57:47 AM

curbside cupcakes
(urban revival)

a school of leaves
two days removed
from branches
jiggle and scratch
along the asphalt
walk

but there isn't
tree for
miles

dear Tiko

an important title and a beautifully penned body

silent lotus

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Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2009, 11:17:53 PM » by ca.leverette

my lesson:

why Gin is always available:
because she never fakes it

c

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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness." ~ Robert Frost

Re: blank pages under black lights
« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2009, 12:39:49 AM » by Tiko Lewis

why old men drink gin

life lesson number four:
the color of peace
is lily green

feathers have no
feeling until
detached

cranberry is best
used as a wall
cover

love is retarded
so we spit
when sleep

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