Friday, October 31, 2014

Feel Free

Feel free...
To lie inside deceits
To intrude upon repeats
To throw away receipts

Feel free...
To toil, toss, & tremble
To drink life from a thimble
To merely just resemble

Feel free...
To lounge in lethargic limbo
To assuage with arms & legs akimbo
To leech, & loath, & linger
To point the perpetual finger

Feel free...
To whatever life is yours
To find what's not in stores
To be your virtuous own
To transcend archetypal clone

Feel free...
To take what's given (free)
To feel free
  to what you'll be
or apprehensively wait and see
the resultant helpless plea

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Another shorted story...

The Applicant

"Where do these-things come from?" She muttered in bewilderment. "I swear to... if I have to hire one of these-things to fill the position... Aren't there any half-normal humanoid-beings left to hire?" Shaking her rhetorical-head in disbelief she gazed longingly into the abyss that always seemed to form near her feet in moments such as this. Her secretary tried to convey understanding in a perplexed expression as she stood in the doorway awaiting instructions. "Send in the next applicant. -Please."

The secretary made subtle haste to retrieve the next applicant. As the secretary returned she informed the HR manager that this was the last applicant of the day. After thanking the secretary, the HR manager introduced herself to the applicant by name. She attempted to shake the applicant's hand, but was left lingering in the unoccupied space. Then the applicant started addressing her.

"I'll maek dis quik, cuze I gots bettur pschyt ta du."
She held her composure as if by some miracle, and managed to ask the applicant.
"So what brought you to our company?"
The applicant extended a small slip of paper towards her as he showed annoyance with her question.
"I gots ta sho fur sum intervuze ta gets meye unimploymunt. Heer, sine dis pschyt sew I kan gets outta heer."
She looked at the parking-slip that the applicant insisted she sign. For reasons unknown to her, she didn't just write things off then and there.
"How long have you been looking for-"
"-Lisun heer MissEe, I kan gets au jawb anE tyme I wunts. I aent no damm slaeve dou, an 'speciully fur no skurt-runn joynt lik dis-heer too-bitt-hoal-n-da-wahl playse. Jus sine meye pschyt sew I kan gets outta heer, Daime. I aent haevin ta tak no lipp frum sum hussE nobudE."
She only waited for the applicant to finish speaking in hopes of managing to avoid saying what she was thinking. As the air fell dead at the end of his words, she felt a murderous rage of speech erupting.
"Take your little-stub, and cram it up your worthless-lazy-head-holstering-anus! That is, if your giant-swollen-empty-head isn't packed-in there too tightly to fit it. If you haven't spent all your unemployment money on forged a G.E.D., a prosthetic-phalluce for urinalysis fraud, and your obvious substance-addictions, you can pay the parking yourself. If you can't afford that, try applying for suicide-assistance under the get-the-phuk-out-of-my-office program. Now if you'll excuse me, I have something you'll never understand to do. WORK."
She pointed to the door with a finger attached to a hand that wished to be a mighty fist.
"Hoald awn a sekund ther tootz. No neede ta gets Ur pantEs n a wadd. Aent meye fult ya gots ah stik upp yer ahss. I doan neede ta tak pschit ahff sum-budy elzus' bytch. I yam outta heer aniwhey, ya dumm kunt."

The applicant strutted out of the office, and muttered expletive pejoratives sporadically as he departed the lobby. She followed him as far as the lobby, and then called out to her secretary to keep an eye on him until he had left the building. Her secretary called the building's security to assist her with this task.

Security watched the applicant on their monitors as he went into other offices within the building. He stole office supplies, ate food from one of the break-room refrigerators, forged a signature onto his stub, smashed various pieces of equipment, &c, &c, &c. Then as the security guards went to escort him out, he ran into one of the restrooms, and locked himself inside.

Inside the restroom the applicant began doing some cocaine that he had brought along with him.  It was low-quality stuff, so he did a lot of it. Then he managed to destroy a toilet, a sink, and cause water to begin flooding onto the floor.  As the water burst and filled the restroom he unlocked the door, and went crashing out.

The security guards were unable to corral the applicant, and he went screaming down the hallways.
"I gonna soo ahll a U lowsE kunz! U aent gonna gets mee, I gonna gets U! Phukerz!!!"

The local police were contacted to assist after the applicant commenced to smash several windows. There was a patrol just down the street when the call came through, and they arrived quickly on the scene. They used their tasers to gain compliance an apprehend the applicant.

After escorting the applicant out of the building and into their patrol-car, the officers began taking statements. When the HR manager was asked what happened, she gave a disavowing account.
"He came in for a job interview in order to continue receiving unemployment benefits. I guess this is how he applies himself."

The cops informed her that the applicant had several priors, none of which were included on his resume or application. His name was the only thing that matched any officially documented records. This was the opposite of surprising.

Later that same day the applicant was released from police custody. The building manager agreed not to press charges in order to avoid a law-suit. According to the building manager's attorney the applicant was likely to win the suit if it were to go to court. A small settlement sum was also awarded to the applicant.

It has been almost 2 years since this incident took place. The applicant is still drawing from unemployment due to some clerical errors, extensions, special circumstances, &c, &c, &c. He has been arrested and released a total of 72 times since then. At least 4 women are involved in paternity suits with him, including his common-law spouse that pays for his living expenses. She accepts beatings from him at least 3 times per week as a result of his methamphetamine addiction, and for being what he calls "ah twott and ah trahllup".

His unemployment is due to run out within another 6 weeks. In anticipation of this he has applied for several subsidies for low-income-and-other-less-fortunate-persons. He has also been attending several various churches of assorted faiths. Some of them have even accepted his applications for ministry in foreign lands. An application has also been sent to the general-welfare office in his area.  All of these applications are currently pending.

Open letters...

Capitalize or lower case

How does you spell
your name
in the letters
of this life?

Do you capitalize
upon introduction?
Do you use punctuations
to leave definitive marks?

or do you default instead
to lower cases
hoping that some editor
will correct things
and spell it all out properly
for you

What's the syntax
of your name
in contexts?

(No Signature)

Monday, October 27, 2014

Ambulation Proclamations...

Sometimes (Not Often)
  Just by looking
    at footprints
Something Wrong
    with a walk
Can be seen

Sometimes (Occasionally)
  By watching
    steps in strides
Something Hindering
    these motions
Can be determined

Sometimes (Seldom)
  By referencing
    the path ahead
The Destination
    might
Become Known

Sometimes (Uncommonly)
  By inspecting
    the soles
What has past
    can
Be brushed back

Sometimes (Rarely)
  By scanning
    the scene
It's Clear
    where
Things Are

Going anywhere
    is leaving somewhere
but
Departing
    isn't always going away

As we walk our broken ways
  Arriving
    Is the wax and wane
      of
Walking On...

Sunday, October 26, 2014

Education Matters...

Teachings

All those that are called
Teachers
  Are actually Historians
  of one kind
   or another

All subjects
  Begin and Progress
  in time
    and are taught
  in modern terms
   of past occurrence
Not as lessons
  but as histories
Otherwise
  They would not be taught
    but discovered

Discovery is the only
 TRUE TEACHER

There are many historians
  And even some that have chronicled this
 Many have chronicled many useful
   histories
over the years
  or so the records would indicate

To teach is to relay
  the histories of others
To learn is to discover
  the history of your own

As historians go
  go ahead
there's plenty of pasts
  to relay in passing
Just don't expect to discover anything
  that time will not forget
And know that history proves nothing
  but ignorance over time

My own historic accounts
  make me laugh too
 as such discoveries teach me
The rest, I suppose
is history

Saturday, October 25, 2014

It seems a shame to slumber in...

This Dream That I Die

I have a dream
  A dream
     that I die
And in my dream
  My dream where I die
There is a horror
  of accepted resign
as my mind seems to give
   Up
   In
   Out

In my dying dream
  Where I'm fading away
I have all too few
    Questions
    Yearnings
    Wonders
    Doubts
Instead I'm just fading
  from an increasing darkness
into
    Emptiness
    Nothingness
    Out

When I wake
   It's from nothing
Into something, anything, everything,
  but not from this dream

In light of this recursive dreaming
  I find it best to stay
Awake
  (For NOW)

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

...

Despicable

A sad scene
from a sorry sap
A bad dream
from a bad rap
despicable


the fools that feign forever
the tools that train together
more and more than ever
despicable


Imposing upon others
Supposing one's another's
Proposing all be brothers
then disposes and thinly covers
despicable


Savages as saints
Courage as complaints
Condemned without restraints
Despicable


Ignorance and incompetence
perpetual preponderance
Pathetic pathos prevailing
Weakness whingeing, and wailing
DESPICABLE

No course besides
this discourse
No empowerment
just brute force
DESPICABLE

Only words I'm writing now
What use are they anyhow?
Why must I sneer and stare
Do I really even care?
DESPICABLE

There must be some other way
Something adrift, but not astray
Is this answer deep within?
Is this where it must begin?
Or
Should I keep on glaring out
With a silence or violently shout,
"DESPICABLE"

It seems so clear that I should know
but the admission comes so slow
So I finally confess
it is more than the scene I must protest
To end these horrid scenes
I profess just what this means
DESPICABLE

The scope of things...

It's a small world after all

Before
the world
was the size of
one's hometown

Now
it is the size of
the screen
upon which it is viewed

Saturday, October 18, 2014

(A Few Words) On...

Writing

Writing
is where
the lost
find a means
of searching
And where
Truth ventures
from the mind's
wandering
into the expanse of
Wonder

It bids
farewell to stagnation
and
welcomes progress

It delivers
the words
to address
even the most
secluded territories,
  distant frontiers,
    shifting horizons,
       &c,
            &c,
                 &c,
                       ...

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Rest Assured...

...And Sleep Will Come

Work will be done
to make this earth
more like some heaven
There will be sweat
perhaps much of it
Bodies will grow weary
Minds will lapse
...and Sleep will come

Eyes will be opened
and see many things
Some will be compelled
into a closer look
Hands will reach
for things to hold
Feet will travel many miles
Shoulders will carry many burdens
and all of these will tire
...and Sleep will come

Lives will be lived
as others
  begin
  fade
Societies, ages, eons, empires
will rise
will fall
...and Sleep will come

Dreams will go on
and end
and begin
Nightmares will endure
expire, end, and return
Love, hate, virtue, folly,
  and everything
will be
 Seen
  Missed
   Remembered
     Forgotten...

...And Sleep will come...


Monday, October 13, 2014

Be Careful...



In Venom, Blood, and Tears

It creeps in through
unseen cracks
Seeps in, without leaving tracks
Then it lurks in shadow
and lies in wait
until its time
through fault or fate

It sinks in teeth
Injecting venomous dose
Often without notice
Then it stays so close
Even if you crush
the contaminating corpse
the venom remains
following blood's course

It makes its way
through your own
until you are moved
or turned to stone
Then it forces its way out
beating on a broken heart
till it bleeds the whole way out

It pools in tepid forms
after draining marrow dry
Aglomerates, evaporates,
sucked into the sky
that rains it down again
  and it's absorbed inside a drink
  and it's filtered into tears
for another's eyes to cry

It's never alone
and it seems that
it cannot remain in such a way
It needs a host
loves company
and is constantly trying to invade

It doesn't belong
no matter where it goes
and it's never welcomed
never wanted
but
it's either there
or lurking close by
and no matter how many times
you cast it out
it's always trying to be
introduced again
in venom, blood, and tears

So be cautious
not to open the mouth
too much, too long
So be cautious
when blood is exposed
even if it's your own
So be cautious
when the tears
are flowing

Be cautious
but not scared
for it is also found in fear
but all the same
Be cautious
 in venom, blood, and tears