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Of the Golden Fleece and Zombie Ninjas



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Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:59 am
GryphonFledgling says...



Be ready for the lyrical, the magical and the failtastic!
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Wed Apr 06, 2011 1:01 am
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1. string theory

little dangly bits of brilliance
sparking among cliffs of butter
batted around by cat-birds
and nuzzled by bird-dogs

attempting to rattle out the nibbly pieces
falling into slots and holes and tangles
filling in the knit
a quilt of the universe
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Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:11 am
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2. distant

He didn't
try anything.
Just stood
with his hands
in his pockets,
and watched the ice cream melt.

I didn't
say anything.
Just danced
in the rain
alone
as the ambulance sirens wailed.

We didn't
try anything.
Just swung
our bare feet
through the wind
as the air leaked from our balloon.
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Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:03 am
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3. golden fleece

left out to dry
drenched, salty
periods of serpent sleep
clashes of the heroic, titanic, mammoth
gifts of the muses
labors of the damned
siren song
false promise
twist of gold
wiry curls to wrap and cut and prick
waiting to be
perfect
combed and corded
woven
a blanket
searing, white-hot and glorious

rather have a gray sweatshirt
warm from the dryer
two frayed holes
and a chewed aglet
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Sat Apr 09, 2011 12:41 am
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4. mamihlapinatapai

two people
forty years

both wanting something
neither brave enough to try

never far apart
always distanced

leaving words unspoken

but

staying
together

Spoiler! :
Mamihlapinatapai: Yaghan word meaning "a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin."

Not happy with this at. all. Will probably revise later or something. This concept is so beautifully frustrating, I want to do it justice.
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Sun Apr 10, 2011 1:12 am
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5. O_O

go unicorn go
watch it poop little rainbows
and eat baby grass
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Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:45 am
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6. awkward

It takes two to tango.
Only two.
Company versus a crowd.
Crowds are noisy and pushy and smelly.
A company is a well-oiled machine,
producing... products.
Tricycles are for babies.
Third wheel.
Taking away
the intimacy
of balance.
No effort.
No consideration.
Just plow over everything.
Mis-stepping to the music.
Tripping on extra feet,
bruising toes and feelings.
Better just to be two


and one extra.
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Tue Apr 12, 2011 5:57 pm
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7. magritte

This
is not
a
poem.
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Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:16 pm
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8. word salad

psychedelic white
song
question that why
I would
smear
fiery
genius through pains
of
glass
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Thu Apr 14, 2011 8:35 pm
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9. noir

sculpt rhythm from metaphor.
original song pasted beneath the sirens.
silhouette subject to paint
too neo-looming.
cigarette canvas drunk
on harmony.
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Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:07 pm
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10. imbroglio

I want to spit and rage and fling brilliance about in a froth.
Trampling clods of clotted colloquialism and ushering in the
harbringers of onopatopoeia and the King's English.
Cracking open slips of yolk and watching then run between
your fingers
and across the notches of your brain.
Hash and rehash, whipping the dead horse into a souffle,
drizzled in the remains of canon.

Spoiler! :
Ho snap, capitalization?
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:35 pm
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11. reaper

He came like a silent thunderclap.
He took her hand and
he led her into the sky.
She stumbled on the wrinkles of the moon
but he caught her in its cradle
and made her a blanket of stardust.
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Thu Apr 21, 2011 8:46 pm
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12. -ism

To be or not to be
that is the question no one answers.
Taken out of context.
A line pulled from a silk hat,
fluffy and appealing and hung up
on the carrot dangling from the lever.
Pull it. Slot machine of the damned.
Do you feel lucky, punk?
Skating the edges of Styx,
hand in hand with a dead philosophy.
Artificial consciousness,
programmed for the past,
losing relevance.
Hey, listen!
Domo arigato, Mister Roboto.
I'll be back.
But you won't.
I'll wipe the slate clean.
A fresh storm of pixels
to gnaw away the serpent's coils
and let the turtle run.
Don't stop me now.
Call me Ishmael.

Spoiler! :
Funny pretentiousness is funny and pretentious.
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Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:06 pm
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13. symphony

she pinched notes from the air
like plucking flower petals
or chicken feathers
she swallowed them
pushing them between her teeth and tongue
and down her throat
until she gagged
then
the world away
he retched
and the music flowed out
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Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:59 am
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14. tsundere

I don't hate you
I really don't
but you don't need to know that
if I tell you
you'll get a big head
or run away
or laugh at me

I'm not scared
I'm really not
but sometimes
when I'm alone
I can't fall asleep
because my brain won't shut up
about me

I'm angry
I really am
because you are such an idiot
and I am too
for falling for you
and your complete and utter
obtuseness

stupid
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