Free Verse

 

BORDERS crazyBETWEEN

to dwell between borders
where the edges touch,
is to be where ancient faeries
ply their trade.

is there such a place?
einstein knew of it in his numbers
I have found it by other means
you may find it by your own device

there, among the burning fires that light the heavens
the laws that govern at home
do not apply.

there, in the midst of chaos
is peace

there, sandwiched in nothingness
is the answer.

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FORKS

a penchant for purpose
drives
looking for a road
and finding only forks
conjoined to infinity
does not deter

if you prefer
to think of a lateral road
which leads to
the mother of all forks

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TREATMENT

chaotic manifestations of benign encounters
endure
while in the nearest reaches of the farthest thought
dwells that which cannot be
if touch becomes the treatment
it bodes well for that which is to come

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ESCAPE

the muddled aftertaste of scorching thought
reside in empty hollow wings
where never was, is.
brilliantly.

light in wavelengths,
sound between, becomes.
how to hear the light?
blinding in its darkness, invades.

fleeting

    flightless

        fearful

to all

or none

there is a choice

escape

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THE MOOR

pleasant the moor
air, soft, fragrant, inviting
not revealing what its past had been

        where once or many times
footprints of the lonely
secure in their solitude
did not yearn

they
having planted
reaped a harvest
of the best that was to be

together, alone, since meeting

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BEND

bend, to break would be to fathom not.

always is, until it transforms
into random reaches of nothing.

         never has become us.
to work before the edges of what?

since, is our home.

To where the journey?

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NOT

pouting
doubting,

                smiling
piling,

    fleeing
being,

                            being what?Fantasy

              happy
sappy,

peppy
preppy,

              copy
jalopy,

                       time forgot.

remember, september, surrender?

                       not!

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STATISTICAL MECHANICS

a million primates
on a like number of keyboards
on their servers, through usb,
could in their random flailing,
overtime
reveal all.

alternate scene headline:
primates cure cancer, HIV, fix global warming
DC wants to know how they vote
are the majority in red or blue states?

final act:
every computer has been hacked.
all is void
destroyed.
statistically never,
possibly possible,
ask anybody.

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THE EYES HAVE IT

       forensically speaking
my dear Watson,
don’t you see?

above,
through,
under,Ancient of Days
between.

when,
how,

since.
again.
always.
if?

perplexed vision
is not seeing.

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THE END

        any,
almost
all.

              being
bothered,
brawl.

          caring
curing
crawl.

       insistence
persistence
resistance 

  Armageddon

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RANDOM

a victim of
sequential
consequential
r-a-n-d-o-m numbers

eye’s fixed
spinning vision
green double-zero
red thirty-six

                  lost
emptyCard KHCard QH
shaken
not stirred

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IF BY CHANCE YOU'VE MADE IT TO THE END, YOU ARE MY HEROINE, OR HERO, AS THE CASE MAY BE.