tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78425832024-03-14T03:48:32.887-07:00MASS COMMUNICATIONSPoetry. Drawings. Photography. Videos. Mix Tapes. Animated GIFs. Paintings.SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.comBlogger1006125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-67913797955547539592019-09-28T14:26:00.000-07:002019-09-28T14:26:43.407-07:00Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Reportage v.03, a.k.a. LSD Reportage<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Invisible or </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #999999; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">just </span><span style="font-size: large;">dark on dark...</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>Do you feel </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>the draw of it</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>like I do....?</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I'm being birthed </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">out the end of it</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the wet bottom </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">we all share</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and now as </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the last strains </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">die out</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">we stand up and </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">we lie back down</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am become </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">becoming become</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the time striped </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">old wizard gorilla</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">wizened by my travails </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">my travels internal</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Silver-haired and dappled</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">weather-weathered</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">silver chested </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">whit of wisdom </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">once weened from </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the mysterical tit</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />a lifted pear </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">hysterically lit</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">lifted toward a fading vision</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">recanting recollection unwoven</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">retelling and retold </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and with each telling</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">re-dying, dying again and again </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">on the same </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">floor</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the common </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ground</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> fading</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">now patterned in intricate grids</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">layers of curving black feathers</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">woven by hands into silver </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">edged black paper </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Victorian frames</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the lace-lined edges</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">all in motion</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">our very own </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">breathing kaleidoscope<br />our very own bodies </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">twisting pirouettes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">these sad attempts </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">to record the lost imperfections</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">of a bounding wordless nymph</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">sharp like contrast</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">blaring whores </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">of a blinding bare page</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">leave us alone now</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">barren in our losses</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">kicked down and </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">up </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">wanting nothing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">but to sleep to sleep </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">not "the eternal..."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">just for a moment </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">between clarion thoughts</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">alarming</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">having </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">witnessed and told nothing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">told none of the </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">inter-dimensional details or designs</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">shared with no one </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">newly discovered Fraddadian principles </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">once stated </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">now muttered</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">hexameters of heaving </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">stumblings</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">arm lengths of </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">catatonic cataclysms</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">remembered rec. room catechisms</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">filling summer afternoons </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">with </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the dull insect buzz </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">of </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">ignorant misinformation</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bathories of </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">extent </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">extant</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">deep in the whole</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">left behind like an abscess </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">manmade crater made of man</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the living skin through which we breathe</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the sheath that holds us gently</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the folds going deeper across time </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">cut they fold again they bind</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the feathers overlapping </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">rapidly dissipating</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">patterns denigrating</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">rapidly approaching </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">lost memory tumbled by time</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">a perpetual "one more tale before bed"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">match head never failing to strike</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">at the very least left alive</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">climbing over</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">my own body</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">burning wet blankets </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">wallowing in waves of sweat</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">wrestling</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> around in it</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">savoring the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">last </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">sad cherries </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">of a summer day misspent</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">burning angels with what's left of it</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">making </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">angels not angles</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">let me sleep, if only for a moment, let me sleep</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">but begging who now...??</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I shall return to this task </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">when I awaken</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">marked and claimed I be</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pentangle of the </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Midnight Circumference </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">sworn hence</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">to be star bound and </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">howling </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">from the balcony</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">through a doorway of my own making</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> a mast of some others' breaking</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i>"For the first time ever, I don't hurt!"</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">come then </span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">earn your pearls</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">earn these last mad trappings</span></div>
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<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the cold dark claiming </span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">these leathery </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">dripped strappings</span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Submit now </span></div>
<div style="color: #222222;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">to these last </span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">burning angles</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">angels</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Walk around with no pants on </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like you wrote the book on it </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like you never got milk on your whiskers </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like your camera never runs out of power </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pan down a little go on </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">yeah the scene sure is set now </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">correcting the instances of satin sublimity </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cue the bullhorn shorn of its meaning </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">yammering on in a language </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">known only to the dead </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like they wrote the lyrics themselves </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">on their outdated typewriters </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like they're good for anything </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">more than tears and fading photos </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like their desires just ceased </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">when they each left us behind </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Keep on going don't stop now </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the waffles are already on </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the proverbial dashboard </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the cards have been lain </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">over the baby's face so to speak </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">all the arms waving spastically </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">irregular levers </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">rendering no winnings </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">but
paying out nonetheless </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in fistfuls of filth </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">and stinking dirty diapers </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Keep walking like a bass player </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">behind a really hot trumpeter </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">or a keyboard artist </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">or running </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">neck and neck </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">with a sizzling drummer </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">able to leap into and out of rhythm </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We all pull back then zoom in </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">for a better view of the kill </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the killer groove </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">shoeless and daunting </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">taunting us to come correct </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in our serious jest </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">in our vain attempts </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">to stay abreast </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Behind the wheel or not </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">behind the eightball on Eighth Street </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">jitterbugging our sidewalks sideways </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">beyond the satin sublimity </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">of this or any other breathless twilight </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">the lake does not care or matter </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Raise your horns </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">toward the summit </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like you wore this trail </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">into the side of the sunset </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">with your own flat feet </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like you're never coming back </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">down again </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">like you'll never settle </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">for anyone else</span></div>
SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-29317380403314256172019-03-13T13:37:00.001-07:002019-03-13T13:42:31.129-07:00This Stormy Saturday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Clouds
come and go</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">drag
heavy fists </span>
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">gray
with rain</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">water
like grains </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">escaping
fists</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">clenched
overhead</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">icy
electric wind</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">cold
on the skin</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">on
the glass</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">raindrops
flatten</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">not
reflecting absorbing </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">surfaces
light up</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">sucking
light in</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">allowing
light in</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">moisture
slides</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">food
blood and air in</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">through
a condition of permeability</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">through
the skin</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">glass-like
pores</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">sliding
and allowing</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">storms
blown past</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">over
other people </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">on
a street</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">we
may or may not know</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
<br />
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">even
in electric quiet</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">behind
thin skin</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">of
glass</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">windows
wet and windy</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;">small
trash blown </span>
</span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">invisibly
outside</span></span></div>
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SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-37623017719199984732015-08-14T20:37:00.002-07:002015-08-14T20:37:28.876-07:002 Days Ago in Tianjin, China<iframe src="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/media/embed/84695768" width="567" height="345" frameborder="0"></iframe>SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-22022333940623574862015-06-28T15:52:00.000-07:002015-06-28T15:53:04.395-07:00The Only Birds That Stay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">on another underground Sunday</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">flub-dubbing my way</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">through the weeks </span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the months </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">lost </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">like episodes of shows</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I don't watch anyway</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">lately few words come to me</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fewer thoughts stay</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">landing for a moment</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">on my wires</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">then gradually</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">but inevitably </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fluttering away</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">my hands </span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the only birds </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">who stay</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">busy doing other things</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">driving cars </span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">flicking lighters</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">rarely touching anyone</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">mainly holding tight</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">for another </span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">friendly </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">fire fight</span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the train I'm on </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">rocks </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and roars me </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">through </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">tunnels </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">dug by </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">dead men</span></div>
SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-9406420564826098282015-06-25T14:02:00.001-07:002015-06-25T14:02:56.753-07:00One of my fave cuts from one of my fave jazz albums...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_KfVsJwTjlo?rel=0&showinfo=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /></div>SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-53868818949593726842015-06-07T15:32:00.000-07:002015-06-21T20:12:32.927-07:00Sufjan Stevens, from Carrie & Lowell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If there's an anthropomorphic cat we are screwed I'm just saying when we get in there elbow-deep in the shit together don't forget what I told ya the music really cues you the music really kinda gives it away but in slow motion oh and watch for the trip wires they're fucking everywhere and no I don't think it's weird that you're cool with doing it in the middle of the Van Halen "California Girls" video set soundstage dressed as "Sonny and Cher"-era Sonny Bono and the full-grown human-in-a-fake-fur-suit approximation of our entire solar system pinioned to a mattress saturated with fear of any color planet other than a white white planet like bleached nearly to rotting holes burned through all over the place can you hear me alright because sometimes I can't tell when I wear this mask/wig combo</span></div>
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SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-83458735855149008072015-04-11T13:25:00.000-07:002015-04-11T13:25:57.652-07:00Honey Walnut Pron<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You're like Chinese food</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">for my cock</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dropped off in a </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">slightly soggy box</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">hidden wrapped</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">in brown paper</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">like you're ashamed</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dirty secret fortune cookie</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">cracking up at the bottom</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">slurping you already</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I pay the man</span></span></span></div>
SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-31771282337312914152015-04-10T17:42:00.001-07:002015-04-10T17:45:08.906-07:00"She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" as performed by COCKER POWER! San Francisco, Great American Music Hall - April 03, 2015, Legendary, Historic, Joe Cocker<iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RMFDzOGOsgE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-79478392703034023292015-04-08T11:32:00.001-07:002015-04-08T11:32:05.417-07:00"Let's Go Get Stoned" by Cocker Power! live in San Francisco<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2MQ-fWR1UPw?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /></div>
SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-77764258922867339192015-04-08T02:27:00.003-07:002015-04-08T03:12:38.677-07:00Outside the Latin-American Club 04<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I thought I saw you yawning, Gabe<br />
in the passenger window of<br />
a passing Passat<br />
silver like the night<br />
half ice and alcoholic </span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">expectation</span></span></span></div>
SBStokes-poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15031296981513483726noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7842583.post-35193265919885599202015-03-31T10:42:00.002-07:002015-03-31T10:42:36.557-07:00Kid Congo Powers sings "Sex Beat" at SF's legendary Make-Out Room...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/123687819" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/123687819">Sorrow Knows 'Sex Beat' (w Kid) HD</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user12644128">Alphastare</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">This book lies unmade</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">a bloody bed sandwich</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">What is it between us</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">makes the whole world</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">lay down flat</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">folding neatly at the corners?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">All my strings still vibrating</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">from your last utterance</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">Are you kidding me, Universe?</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;">All this and more?</span></span></span></div>
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