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I should slow down
sometime
which is not so say
I live an accelerated life
but I should
slow down
let violence find me
with its dripping tongue
             wheeling vista


my new book is available to buy or download here

surreal
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limowreck:
Its about time they made you group owner. Congrats on that. biggrin
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oh my fuck

honey's new set is amazing

oh my fuck


eeek love
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i
am going to
kill
the men
digging up
the pavement
with
their stupid drills
at 7
in the fucking
morning
mad
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gingerflower:
..been devoting more time to the music and less time to the poems recently. I do feel a sudden burst of expression though, hence my return.
markbousfield:
Fuck
them
drilling men
drill them
in the
fuck hole
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Problem of Evil


every time I looked into
the corner of a darkened room
waiting for Satan's amdram
to deliver its line between fact
and truth - the red crack in our
chequered curtain - part of me
turned its back on this world
but

whenever I held a knife, and
explored its whispers of light
I was complicit in preserving
the silence of the...
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silveronthetree:
I really like this a lot.

How did it come to you?
silveronthetree:
I`m a firm believer in `every one of us has the potential for evil`.

Without accepting that I think its hard to be genuine.

We harp on about whats wrong and right but there are so many shades of grey.

I`m sure you and I could kill given the right circumstances. Is that evil? Is it evil to want to live more than someone else?

Mostly I think we label people or groups as evil as they are different to us.

Keep well
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Paper Bag

After the floods,
he picked through the rotting debris
and found a barely preserved paper bag
on a low shelf in the hall. Inside,
the toothbrush and tube of paste
he'd bought to leave in a woman's home,
for those improvised nights and mornings.

Forgetting the smell
and rank humidity, he studied a while
the objects, artefacts of a time
when an isolate...
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valcapone:
Thanks for reading my long-ass rant. wink

But seriously, I wish I knew how to spot these phonies from the get-go, so I could save myself the hassle of trying to work with people who don't want to do the work. Any suggestions?
johnnyt:
I've been arm and arm with a Bukowski reader for the past few days. It makes me SO happy - even when he disturbs me or makes me sad.


I know you understand.

And I agree with Hemlock above, you are an old soul - and lucky for us!

i was to discover two
things:
a) most publishers thought that anything
boring had something to do with things
profound.
b) that it would take decades of
living and writing
before i would be able to
put down
a sentence that was
anywhere near
what i wanted it to be.
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thora:
p.s. yes fucking way am I 39
gigondas:
It's really good, Huck.
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Years


The residue of you is spread
across the sheet of day.
Our mouth has dried.

Impotent with love, I am
looking at truth with too few eyes,
at faith in too few skies.

Beauty, beauty, beauty
drives my crowd of years to mime.
And yet I still repeat ourselves.
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The Deflowering


and in
a dream, I wrote on the wall
in the space above the pictures
of your favourite stars, I wrote
something about a Day
and a Heart
and an After, in the style
of the pioneers of song

and in
a graceful counter-whim
I erased it, while you
and your companion
sat cross-legged, looking on
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billybillybilly:
I appreciate you keeping me in mind. I just wrote something the other day that I'm not sure if I'm proud of or not. I'm gonna give it a little time first, and I'll probably post it either way.

smile
kid_hideous:
Huck and his punc.
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there are so many parties out there
dear, so many rooms

there are so many men
and boys
and curious girls
all with affections poised
awaiting your breath on theirs

go to them
weave around
explore your reflection in
waverless eyes

for godsake
make an effort; I know I would if I
bled your kind of elixir

hell, I'd be the second coming
by daybreak...
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hemlock170374:
Don't recall if I already told you
but if you pass by these lands,
a couple of drinks of yours are on me wink
markbousfield:
Dude, incase you should fancy it, I think V is thinking about it!

Here are the details of my american psycho party:

Time and Place Start Time: Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 8:00pm
End Time: Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 12:00am
Location: The Iambic (the old Shoreditch Library), Old Street
City/Town: London


A meeting of the chattering classes in Old Street; the newest, hippest place to be seen if you are an executive banker on Wall Street in 1980s New York. All are welcome as long as you have tastefully made business cards and a penchant for axe murder whilst listening to Huey Lewis and the News, their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

Brace yourself for auction action of some of the finest American Psycho-tic art, for sale at a very discreet price, and chat from some of the most beautiful people to grace film in the 1980s. There's even a complimentary cocktail waiting for you at the bar... we're such flash *bankers*.
Bring a business card... yours if you want a chance of winning or not yours if you don't.

Tickets 7 in advance online follow the link below... OR 10 on the door.

http://www.seetickets.com/see/event.asp?e|artist=the+american+psycho+party&e|promoter=5298&filler1=see

(Tickets will be available for collection at the door - so no waiting about for the postman knock... or not.)
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No god deserves my questions.

It made me
human, and so here I am, fulsome
in my flaws.

My fury and confusion
skim the cosmos at their arc,
before catapulting back into
the spitting seas of Earth.
Tell me, Surf,
tell a friend - what are your
objections?

My confidence: mother and child
of it all. No I: no He. See
how my tiny language...
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markbousfield:
can you give me your email address? I'll send over a wee selection, any changes and suggestions to ones I send over is fine smile

I'm slowly warming to this one, not as instantly accessable as some of your other works, its seems to want to be profound whilst recognising the ego and hopelessness involved in 'talking to God'.

no god has earned my questions yet seems more vulnerable rather than defiant to me
markbousfield:
Interesting you should identify 'god' as a tyrant. i am not religous but tyrant assumes that we have no choice but to believe in God. Each individual has many options open to them in the nature of their belief whether that be in all consuming powers that be or something more segregated and complicated such as Hinduism. Also we have the choice not to believe, and if we are wrong? Well what the Hell, when I meet Peter at the Pearly Gates I guess I'll have no choice but to believe because Heaven is right there in fromnt of me as a reality and then they'll have to let me in anyway right?
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y:
Is that... a towel round your head?
zak:
where ya been?
still waiting on the folder of edited work you promised me.
don't toy with me, humphrey. i know people in places who do things.
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y:
Ballerinas are finer than fine, my friend.
dasha:
that was a beautiful poem.