4 poems || Shane Allison

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FACEBOOK POEM

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chip on your shoulder

hey um

hey man

i dont mean to bother you but

but you have a um

you have a chip on your shoulder

you see it

can you see it

its right here

its right there

see it there

see it right there

i think thats what it is

it is

its a chip

man you got a chip on your shoulder

its big too, man

its huge too, man

you got a big huge chip on your shoulder

its so big

its so big its big ole

it looks old

from the looks of it

from the way it looks

it looks like its been there for a while

its a big ole chip

and its on your shoulder, man

listen, man

will you listen to me

do you see it

i see it

its there

its here

damn dude

damn man

damn man, dude, that chip is big, man

get it off

you better get it off

do something

you better do something

something is what you better do

it looks serious

im serious you better do something

cuz it looks serious

cant you just knock it off

im not touching it

im not knocking it off

get someone else to knock it off

it looks painful

does it hurt

the chip on your shoulder does it hurt

its big

its about the size of a potato chip

bigger than a chocolate chip

i dont know chocolate chips like this

a chip on your shoulder huger than a chocolate chip

dude get that checked out, man

it looks infected

it looks hectic and infected

heck, i just wanted you to know

just wanted to let you know in case you didnt know

that you have a potato chip-sized chip on your shoulder

that is huger than any chocolate chip that i have ever seen

Pool Boy by the Balls

Taking the pool boy by the balls

And lifting the pool boy up by the balls

And taking the pool boy by the balls

And taking the pool boy up by the balls

And lifting the pool boy

By the balls up into the air

Taking the pool boy up by the balls

And lifting him into the air

The pool boy is hoisted into the air

By the balls

The pool boy is caught by the balls

The pool boy is taken by the balls and tossed

Into the air. The pool boy is caught

The pool boy is caught by the balls

And tossed kicking into the air

Just lifting the pool boy

By the balls and tossing

Him onto the bed

To just throw the pool boy

Onto the bed by the balls

To just throw the pool boy onto my bed

To just throw the pool boy away onto my bed

To take the pool boy by the balls

And throw him kicking onto the bed

Kicking, screaming and laughing

And not being upset that he, the pool boy,

That he is being taken by the balls and is dripping

With goo from his dick

And the pool boy is laughing and making

Wild sounds as he is being taken by the balls

And being tossed onto the bed

To just throw the pool boy onto the bed

To just throw the pool boy a short ways

Onto my bed

The kicking and screaming and laughing

Pool boy is in my bed

Took the pool boy by the balls

And tossed him onto my bed

Took the pool boy by the balls and tossed

Him on the bed

Caught the pool boy by the balls

And stood next to the bed

Lifted the pool boy by the balls

Over the lamp next to the bed

Tossed the pool boy

Into the bed by his balls

Wanted the pool boy to stop cleaning the pool

And now he has stopped

It’s a long way to toss a pool boy, but I did it

Took him by the balls

I am happy

I am very happy

I am wonderfully happy

And having a good time

Watching the pool boy naked in the bed

Tossed him by the balls into my bed

Pool boy was thrashing in the air

Like a fish out of water

And his balls bobbing

I hope to have a very pleasant day

A wonderfully pleasant day

A happy and very pleasant and very happy day

pome || billy bob beamer

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poem || Lawrence Upton

good friends

Polyvocal

you're good friends

and you're good friends

and you

are good friends

and you are good friends

and you're

good friends

and you're good friends

and you're right

course your father is a torrent

stressed

the hall

when i see all it been speaking with murder

to hold down the --

a mire a vantage of twig and think

my life party was yelling at a demand

and there appeared in the conversation

by the negative way

you

national average for tomorrow

is it stomach dropped?

a demand out and fallen leaves

a capacity to reduce future emissions

wondered where are the failed classes

and their interests

skipped forgotten locker combinations

remember the good

old days click groups

up and down the skirt she hastened her step right she said

dawdled up and down the stairs

nagging at first viscous ooze

frayed delicate armpit swarm

cant swallow

stuff

twig and dirty air

is just your résumé

when you don't go

leaves out of i have the largest company

back up

a little radicalised?

taken replied stonily

but the pain shot from the living room

to appreciate spiritual texts

like especially dirty coal plants

to generate!

taking charge of western propaganda

in the breeze at morning

shepherds

and the old witch

who had been rather smart

lilac skirt and more

familiar icons

old shoes off my first day

stuff the full enormity of plight

a pretty face twisted in disgust

she looked down the stairs nagging at higher rates

anti-american sentiment

gains notoriety through

mommy mommy mommy mommy

the same but finding none continued her tale

worst corporations of the nexus

between schedules

cancellation procedures

who is capable of taking charge?

whining running up and over her cheeks until finally

even an increase in other parts of creativity more than

careless about what i do of course... but red suns

in the shop

there right there in other countries

check the centre

gains notoriety through newness

the sink waiting to generate substantially

front march

he cited the new is still in him and said i see all

dawdled up the tree-lined avenue kicking abstractedly

at morning

more convincing reason to women here than i ever did

waiting to be printed and that skirt green clad rump

rattling a christian of europe society is more rigid

gains notoriety

no filthy dirty business practice

don't worry

environmental improvements in appearance

she could feel upstairs

net curtains twitching as she turned the time in two

in the shops

made some absolutely wrong-headed path

hiding the hobgoblin pub opposite

new black round-toed patent leather

dirty money

kicked those ideals you described

the pocket of thousands

the ground floor bow-fronted windows

front of heavy dark unknown harder ark still

metallic rim

ding dong heart pounded

and laurel hedges lined the garment

until her gaze fell upon the original text

straw hat complete with sirens

she swallowed a scam usage of our trash to herself

careless and to be dealt

cat fight in a more convincing reason

to a deep guilty blush building

the door behind the original

polished dining table

call sheets and schedules

cancellation procedures

neck still sore from having to wear the starched collar

done up all the way of deaths in other voice

from the living room startled her

and exacerbated an insistence on the foot

on the ground floor as a squeak

yes

not quite young lady smile became a lot

the washing on the next day

before you dig yourself any other

religious persuasion

pinkish smog

naked rouged lame

throttles climax ink sperm

neon head spume flecks

disassembled dark clouds at the time two sizes too large

eyes inspected the carpet carefully

stop fighting stop bitching at a demand

the next day may be stormy

london sun skin

buttocks reek

zero syntax

squatting glyph flush map

opaque afternoon

ash fonts tinge

hermetically hyphenated

halters

mashed cement cast iron discharge

fumes swindle myopic helix head

there was a pretty face twisted in ail touch

he licks

the word itself is capable of the bottle

regulation emphasizing brags

it has it

nobody need ever know

the clergy buy into it

up to the stupid flat

a major loophole in the process

and furthermore

a few personal associations with murder

a tendency to a private full possession

the tap is dripping dripping

three decades after

it smirked at her brain

she stood

her bag

vulnerable maternal instinct working over time

maybe in the conversation

as a transition mechanism

familiar her face in the doorway to us

a friend of deaths

her mother voice no argument

and upright

utilities like freedom are only the mainstream

afire with new friends

fake it

stop me fighting

poetry || Scott Thomas Outlar

Excerpt from One Hundred Poetic Points

Point number sixty

To capture the beauty of the moment is to breathe with empty lungs, willing to be filled with what they do not have.  To hold onto any one breath is to suffocate, for every used moment becomes stale and insufficient.  We must not hold to the past, but instead constantly taste the air of the present.

Point number sixty-one

A dance and a song?  As feet lift off the ground, one at a time or both, and the voice leaves the body…the spirit becomes lighter for the celebration.

Point number sixty-two

All the words in the (language) world mean nothing if they are not understood (connects).

Point number sixty-three

Some would say (I have heard them) that the pain felt when tilting the head back to cast one's eyes toward the sky (speak) is what makes it all real.  I look (of) to find the joy (wrath) in that.

Point number sixty-four

The sound continues to be so intensely beautiful, albeit strange and wonderful, while hot and ringing, changing, focusing, piercing and evolving, singing and overcoming.