The Ello 1,000

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2016

Brad Pitt

2016

Newburyport

The Other For Share

We are what we’re thinking
We are what we do
Existence divided
Not one life but two

One is for hire
One is for there
One is for private
The other for share

Passing-through cities
And flyover states
You won’t find the freedom
From what you escape

Dismissive indifference
Toward those I’ve ignored
The reason we’re different
Each other we bore

Through all of this warring
I plan to survive
Fighting my battles
I will stay alive

With tribe of the chosen
From fam’ly and friend
Improving positions
There’s never an end

Kids in the Street

11.10.16-11.14.16

I

People are looking to me for some sort
of comment and I really don’t have one

I cannot tell anyone how to feel or what
to think about things wonderful or horrible

I can only feel what I am feeling and
devise ways to deal with my realities

I do know how I will behave in the short term
and that is to behave as I have always

Yes I do have opinions and ideas and plans
but I do not yet have a comment

II

I have experienced pendulum swings before
I will experience pendulum swings again

To some the rarity of the unicorn
is reason to preserve – a treasure

To some the rarity of the unicorn
is reason to hunt – a trophy

All eyes up front
All hands on deck

III

I have a pain in my gut now
My instinct is wounded
My fight or flight is activated
I carry a bigger target

I feel displaced
on a precipice
vulnerable to forces
irrationally paranoid

These are the secrets
inside my pocket
safe for now
if not forever

Because I walk on both
sides of the gun
Because I work on both
sides of the aisle

As often as I tell everyone
everything will be alright
I sometimes need someone to
tell me that I will be too

Swear Not By The Moon

Pachydermata

Roanoke

Yeah I Know

Yeah I know I know
I am the odd one out here
As accustomed as I am to this fact
I am still always surprised to be surprised
about fundamental differences

The obvious differences are startling enough
but there is a strong hypothesis that
the deeper we dive the deeper the depths
Manifestations present themselves through observation
and through interaction with acquaintance and stranger

I have grown to embrace a sincere satisfaction
with knowing that I have a sincere satisfaction
with the creation and the curation
External accolade always suspiciously flattering
when all that exists are shortcomings unremedied

Audiences are notoriously fickle and compelled to
self typecast as kingmaker and destroyer now
Everyone looking to each other for gush or shock clues
Simultaneous echoes of grey noise broadcast
through mobile portals of time addiction and pacification

Indeed with are all special little snowflakes
No two could ever be the same but an overwhelming
majority are basically similar versions of common
fundamentally underdeveloped malformations
Yeah I know I know

Always Was

There is a threshold where the buildup and
the puzzlework that create situations is
forgotten in arc and in specificity and
there remains not the truths but only the memories
Structurally life reads as a tale that always was

The fundamental quandary with things that
elevate to always was status is
our natural tendency to assume things will
always be or even that things always is
Permanence is the final formal fatal fallacy

Never was never   is   never will be
tourists passing through the good parts of town at
varying intervals with varying memories of
the puzzlement that created all the situations
The buildup of everything that always was