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just as i planned it, i hit the marker, the sharpie, a tag, to make you look longer

the tag, a marking, so specialized but specific,

it makes you wonder why most kids aren't already doing it.

the lines so precise to give detail to matter

the flow so individual it's like street laughter

marking territory or just renaming it, the aim is to get your name attention and you most certainly will

that, that and detention, or maybe worse,

but hey you've got to be quick...

 

quick and slick keep your wits but i stress in this spit keep at it.

pick up the marker , design your idea and crystallize that tag with your own ideal and if knowledge and knowing is with your direction it's now part of the streets and the streets own perception.

 

-by me

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where the sidewalk ends

fuck yeah!

 

i just read a biography of shel silverstein. interesting guy.

 

i'm digging rimbaud right now. i have a used copy of a book of his stuff and there's an inscription in the front that says "rimbaud motherfuckers! - kelly punk rock". got me pumped.

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T.S. Eliot - The Wasteland, The Hollow Men, The Love SOng of Alfred J. Prufrock, The Journey of the Magi, and Four Quartets

e.e. cummings - he wrote a lot of poems (around 2,900 according to wikipedia) so just grab a collection and dig in.

Ezra Pound - The Cantos will blow your mind

William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Milton and Visions of the Daughters of Albion (and then you should read his prophetic books)

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 Buffalo Bill's

defunct

  who used to

  ride a watersmooth-silver

  stallion

and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons justlikethat

  Jesus

he was a handsome man

  and what I want to know is

how do you like your blue-eyed boy

Mister Death 

 

ee cummings

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Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village, though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

 

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there's some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

 

-By Me

 

Thanks

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an open letter:

 

you've made my skin and heart tough

like tree trunks stuck in earth

you tethered my hands

with words and indifference

 

thank you

 

thank you

 

 

 

 

 

without hardship there is no progress

the colors aren't as bright

the darks aren't as dark

and each day would be an

insurmountable shade of gray

 

thank you

 

thank you

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ME:

 

 

The Time straightens a curve,

taking on the visage of a naked snake,

transversing time reality tunnels,

we all look to the sun for answers and receive one reply,

whilst begging for everything and taking nothing,

learned travellers take time to stretch,

pulling taffy time to a nil, stall,

stop,

energy equals matter speed of light squared,

it can be neither created nor destroyed,

is infinitude,

circle beats the square...........

 

 

 

lick my cock........

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Guest nene multiple assgasms

Villain get the money like curls They just trying to get a nut like squirrels in his mad world Land of milk and honey with the swirls Where reckless naked girls get necklaces and pearls Compliments of the town jeweler Left back now-schooler trying to sound cooler On the microphone known as the crown ruler Never lied to ma when we said we found the moolah Five-hundred something dollars laying right there in the street Huh, now let's try and get something to eat Then he turned four and started flowing to the poor That's about when he first started going raw Kept the 'dro in the drawer A rhyming klepto who couldn't go up in the store no more His life is like a folklore legend Why you so stiff? you need to smoke more brethren Insted of trying to riff with the broke war veteran Spliff made him swore he saw heaven he was seven Yup, you know it, growing up too fast Showing up to class with Moët in a flask He ask the teacher if he leave will he pass His girl is home alone he trying to get the If you want to sip get a paper water fountain glass How I'm 'posed to know where your mouth been last Hands so fast he can out-spin the Flash Known to smoke a whole mountain of hash to the ash Boom-bash leave the room with the stash Assume it's in a smash, Doom get the cash

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While this America settles in this mould of its vulgarity,

heavily thickening to empire, and protest,

only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out,

and the mass hardens,

I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit,

the fruit rots to make earth.

Out of the mother; and through the spring exultances,

ripeness and decadence; and home to the mother.

You making haste haste on decay; not blameworthy; life is good,

be it stubbornly long or suddenly a mortal splendor;

meteors are not needed less than mountains: sunshine, perishing republic.

But for my children,

I would have them keep their distance from the thickening center;

corruption never has been compulsory,

when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left mountains.

And boys, be in nothing so moderate as in love of man,

a clever servant, insufferable master.

There is the trap that catches the noblest of spirits,

that caught - they say - God, when he walked on the earth.

 

ROBINSON JEFFERS

 

word

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Buffalo Bill's

defunct

who used to

ride a watersmooth-silver

stallion

and break onetwothreefourfive pigeons justlikethat

Jesus

he was a handsome man

and what I want to know is

how do you like your blue-eyed boy

Mister Death

 

ee cummings

 

The board formatting fucked that....just link to this:

 

TheDialJan1920-Cummingspoem.jpg

 

If anyone liked house ofleaves, you'll love e.e. cummings...

 

Also MF DOOM muthafuck yes.

 

 

Tripping off the beat kinda, dripping off the meat grinder

Heat niner, pimping, stripping, soft street minor

China was a neat signer, trouble with the script digits

Double dip/bubble lips, sorrow less midget

Borderline schizoid, sort of fine tits tho

Pour the wine hold the grind, quarter to nine, lets go

Ever since ten eleven, glad she met a brethren

Then his last style seven alligator, seven at the gates of heaven

Knocking, no answer, slow dancer, hopeless romancer, dopest flow stanzas

Yes, no Villain, Metal Face the death stroke

Guest shows, still incredible in escrow

Just say hoe, I will taste the yayo, Wild West style fest, y'all best to

lay low

Hey bro, Day Glo, set the bet, pay dough

Before the cheddar get away, you best to get Maaco

The worst haters God on perpetrated are favors

Demonstrated in the perforated Rod Lavers

... In all quad flavors, large savers

Still back in the game like Jack Lalanne

think you know the name, don't rack your brain

on a fast track to half insane

Either in a slow beat or that of speed or wrath of Kane

Laughter, pain

Doom's songs lit, in the booth, with the best host

Doing bong hits, on the roof, in the west coast

He's at it again

Mad at the pen

Glad that we win a tad fat in a bad hat for men

Grind the cinnamon, Manhattan warmongers

You can find the Villain in satin congas

The vans screeches

The old man preaches

About the gold sand beaches

The cold hand reaches

For the old tan ellesse's

... Jesus

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Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village, though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

 

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there's some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

 

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

 

-By Me

 

Thanks

 

It's kind of an obvious choice but I do love this poem. What sort of things are you into, Zaphod? I've been coming back to Phillip Larkin lately, his collected works should be on every poetry-lover's bookshelf. Whoever posted Cummins has the right idea as well. But my all-time favourite poet is Dylan Thomas. This one's about bitches.

 

When I was a windy boy and a bit

And the black spit of the chapel fold,

(Sighed the old ram rod, dying of women),

I tiptoed shy in the gooseberry wood,

The rude owl cried like a tell-tale tit,

I skipped in a blush as the big girls rolled

Nine-pin down on donkey's common,

And on seesaw sunday nights I wooed

Whoever I would with my wicked eyes,

The whole of the moon I could love and leave

All the green leaved little weddings' wives

In the coal black bush and let them grieve.

 

When I was a gusty man and a half

And the black beast of the beetles' pews

(Sighed the old ram rod, dying of bitches),

Not a boy and a bit in the wick-

Dipping moon and drunk as a new dropped calf,

I whistled all night in the twisted flues,

Midwives grew in the midnight ditches,

And the sizzling sheets of the town cried, Quick!-

Whenever I dove in a breast high shoal,

Wherever I ramped in the clover quilts,

Whatsoever I did in the coal-

Black night, I left my quivering prints.

 

When I was a man you could call a man

And the black cross of the holy house,

(Sighed the old ram rod, dying of welcome),

Brandy and ripe in my bright, bass prime,

No springtailed tom in the red hot town

With every simmering woman his mouse

But a hillocky bull in the swelter

Of summer come in his great good time

To the sultry, biding herds, I said,

Oh, time enough when the blood runs cold,

And I lie down but to sleep in bed,

For my sulking, skulking, coal black soul!

 

When I was half the man I was

And serve me right as the preachers warn,

(Sighed the old ram rod, dying of downfall),

No flailing calf or cat in a flame

Or hickory bull in milky grass

But a black sheep with a crumpled horn,

At last the soul from its foul mousehole

Slunk pouting out when the limp time came;

And I gave my soul a blind, slashed eye,

Gristle and rind, and a roarers' life,

And I shoved it into the coal black sky

To find a woman's soul for a wife.

 

Now I am a man no more no more

And a black reward for a roaring life,

(Sighed the old ram rod, dying of strangers),

Tidy and cursed in my dove cooed room

I lie down thin and hear the good bells jaw--

For, oh, my soul found a sunday wife

In the coal black sky and she bore angels!

Harpies around me out of her womb!

Chastity prays for me, piety sings,

Innocence sweetens my last black breath,

Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,

And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

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I don't usually like poetry. Most of my favourite poetry can be found in Calvin and Hobbes. However, I came across was is probably the ass-kickingest poem out there, and it's called Satire Against Reason And Mankind by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester.

 

http://www.social-exclusion-housing.com/satire-against-reason-and-mankind.html

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an open letter:

 

you've made my skin and heart tough

like tree trunks stuck in earth

you tethered my hands

with words and indifference

 

thank you

 

thank you

 

 

 

 

 

without hardship there is no progress

the colors aren't as bright

the darks aren't as dark

and each day would be an

insurmountable shade of gray

 

thank you

 

thank you

 

good one

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