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'fucking' timothy r gates 8/7/8

fucking, always good,
called love, sex, screwing,
fucking,
afterwards, reflection
defined, true, false, just is
fucking,
we do remember the best of all,
the first time it was yelled,
'fuck me! fuck me!'
and we were not alone.
then, again,
reflection.

love it, yes, timothy

'Passion' timothy r gates, 8/05/2008

drive
passion
dispassionate passion
not controlled
in control
no drive
driven
not by you
me
them
egoism's goal
ego's eros
sings a tune
in tune
with dissonance
in constancy
harmony
cacophony's beauty
synthesis demise = synergy
bring your I
my I comes too
we cum
some
sum
damn, now that's a melody.

'we and I' timothy r gates, 8/05/2008

'we' and 'I'
a big club
presumption, this is bigotry,
not merely prejudice,
the job of those lacking a certain knowledge,
self awareness,
'we' forget that all of the 'I's'
there is no 'I' without a 'we'
and,
there's no choice as to whose 'I's' are part of the 'we'
so,
nakedness
honesty
screams
to the teams
'there's...
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'Dreamed' timothy r gates, 8/05/2008

Four,
dreamed of dying,
going to heaven with daddy's daddy,
where no more sad tears fell.

Six,
dreamed of speaking,
unafraid,
therapy began,
back then they only thought I didn't talk.

Ten,
dreamed of freedom,
no more sports,
keeping up for friends and dad,
liberated from testosterone enslavement.

Twelve,
dreamed of Boston Jazz Institute,
(principle chair, no dream,
through graduation),...
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'only some lace' timothy r gates, 7/03/2008

stockings,
lace,
black, red, white,
perfectly aligned
torn, ripped, stretched.
Sublimity
divinely human
i, sometimes, can feel this
deep into the place that
my gender most often gets cancer
(as Nin wrote,
you need to fully empty this gland for all
that it is worth, if you want to have,
or any, worth)
ten-thousand years of recorded stories,...
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'Pledge of Allegiance of an adolescent' timothy r gates, 8/02/2008

Pledge of Allegiance of an adolescent,
so here we are,
a nation, supposed,
this time around, a little over two-hundred
(less than a third of the present land is one-hundred)
those before this, also immigrants,
pilgrims from another time and place,
liking to think of themselves as indigenous,
no more than the rest of us,...
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'smart assumption' timothy r gates 7/30/2008

smart assumption
sick assumption
tart assumption
learned assumption
ways of saying,
smart ass
sick ass
tart ass
learned ass
and, of course
the proverbial
dumb ass
but, a kick ass,
if you're the one doing it,
i simply say,
'bring it on!'

'Romantic?' timothy r gates, 7/30/2008

Breaking waves
pigeons cooing, perched on the deck railing
in my mind, turtle doves
chipmunk chirps
Brittany, my thirteen year old pup,
she looks up at me, as to say,
'what the f'?'
we laugh together.
To hear,
'daddy,' from one of my innocents
or,
'sweet baby,' from one with more than I know
(doesn't matter if it's only memory's...
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'sheets and towels' timothy r gates, 7/28/2008 (inspired by the collective words of tamari's posted words)

Beatrice,
unrequited Dante'
prays for her embrace.
Paradise gained,
yes, Paradise Lost,
perpetual crucifix in the eternal heart.
Children of the night,
enlightened,
children of the day,
partake each other,
no delusions of disconnectedness,
'Eat my flesh,
drink my blood,'
not a new chant,
the intoning of koinonia.
Love...
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'do boys bleed too?' timothy r gates, 7/28/2008

She weeps,
curled up in a ball, in the corner
no one understands
no one cares
only girls hurt like this
do boys bleed too?
Tides rise,
fall
by the light
of the silvery, silvery moon
anything capable of such movement
makes sense that it messes with the senses
too,
two.
Icarus did fly
did soar
did...
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