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Subject: Poems: 050618 - June 5th, 2018
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220518A
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Getting stuffed
full of the usual rubbish,
but you have to love it,
or it will end up worse.
No one wants to play
any of your little games,
and you don't enjoy the ones
that they always play.
Boredom is the rule,
not the exception.
If you are not completely bored,
then you are not living right.
The price of boredom
is continually rising.
You have to compete harder
at being a certain sort of boring.
It is all about doing boring things
with the most boring people.
A way to avoid being labelled
as too boring for anyone's tastes.
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220518B
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They tell me,
you have to have a working phone
in order to get your phone fixed.
If my phone was working
why would I need my phone fixed ?
Seems I don't understand anyone anymore.
I seem to make no sense,
and they do not seem to understand
anything that I am saying.
Communication has broken down,
but that happens all the time,
in different ways.
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050618A
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All those bad options,
with bad outcomes,
that you can accumulate
in the holy name
of experience.
It never leads to anything,
more than accumulating
a statistical assortment
of nothing came of it,
but you tried anyway.
The big lead up,
to an even bigger nothing,
that brings you down,
just when you begin to think
that you are up to something.
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050618B
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Looking for a disaster,
that is a way out of disaster,
seems to be as good as it gets.
You hoped for an invitation
to something else,
but it never came.
No one actually called you,
until it was too late
for it to make any difference.
No one new came along,
and everyone else drifted away,
the way the ice breaks apart.
Face the mirror
trying to recognize reflections
that you want to avoid.
The displeasure is evident,
and you wonder what you did
to provoke that type of wrath.
You feel so spent,
and what is there really
to show for any of that.
Always running out of lifeline,
from where you are stranded,
having arrived unexpectedly.
It is not so very different,
to inventing a game,
only to take it far too seriously.
You can never win,
but it can fill in gaps of time
the way snow fills crevasses.
It only leads to a narrower trap,
as to something to fall into,
and become buried under.
Something to keep you occupied,
trying to dig your way out
of a deeper and deeper hole.
You can make believe
that the endless patterns that form
are the same as purpose.
No one really meant anything
by any of what they said or did,
as to anything lasting.
You can bury that somewhere
among your other memories,
as to other similar events.
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050618C
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The trouble with wanting
is always about not being wanted,
simply because you are wanting.
It is always what you don't want
that will curse and hound you,
endlessly biting at your heels.
That won't make you want it,
but it will challenge you
as to being able to control your hate.
There is no getting away from that,
the way that anything you want
is sure to slip quickly out of reach.
There being no simple solutions
to quickly concoct and drink down
as means to overcoming the misery.
You keep feeling it is a sales pitch,
but you have no idea what it is selling,
but you know you do not want to buy any.
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050618D
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The living are not living anymore,
and the dead are not dead.
Anyone can go on record,
and it might not become erased.
Assuming it has nothing much to say
that crosses any official lines,
and that leaves little to be said.
In totalitarian states
you have to really believe
the lies that you tell.
In a free society
you have to be convincing
at telling the right lies
to the right people.
A landslide victory
means that a few did not get buried
in a down pour of mud.
The few that managed
to keep it up
and to stay on top,
of whatever they came down on.
Simple solutions are always available,
but that means giving up
on whatever it was originally about.
The sort of packing it in,
and moving on,
without leaving any marks
or lasting traces.
Wrap yourself up
and throw yourself away,
so that there is no mess to clean up.
You tried to sell yourself,
but no one was buying your line.
They kept you struggling
with the need to pay larger bills.
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