Hermetic Hippo

Hermetic Hippo
By Deep Piercing Cut
All poems copyrighted 2010 Deep Piercing Cut

Hermetic Hippo Canceled Row of Fades lies to kid themselves covered brown stain gods flat stick a roll of rusty nickels falling slower all over the floor you gonna crucify pills hard to swallow a double dose fit bends over brushes the electrodes smile swelling up and rattling hands nailed out floating over the controls a dial for each life schematic drawings and equations a dusty bottom teeter counterpoint and nemesis a hammer instead of a bomb letting loose the wild animal the carnival barker shouts and chops away at the meat on the table hisses and spits the devil is always hard to kill seeing visions of heaven and hell smoke on the horizon eyes aimed full bore bouncing against the walls even before departure last saw month ago in a bad way then far ahead of the crowd standing out angry burn the luminous bunched in on self losing the plot out of control

Hermetic Hippo a concealed pain something come loose sliding around killing me a void of repetition attacking with fervor a web of habits (published in Deep Tissue Magazine)

Your Grim Brothers a three headed doll stirring space with milking cows in groups of four brimming with broken down selling you the milk gone with the falling rain shades, shoes, and suntan lotion living the legend too many book covers the bleeder ink and stains of injustice played in my own its for the suckers exposed by your primitive behavior living inside your life-force giving four oclock tours through black dawn window no divine interventions sunset plow leave them in the fields they can have each other ignorance is still there even if we cant see it it finds behind the trees we are lost and stone lost again

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(published in Deep Tissue Magazine)

You Step Into the Void your steps are electric each step a blue brilliance something of eternity you are tempted by the worm he knows the razor sunrise when you pray with tainted lips banging around in the dark the blue stare of those lips watching me move grabbing and shaking me calling out my name the slight flicker and the moment arrives a white cloud of expression stirring the desire you retrieve loves sting asking in a small voice coaxing down the reed gathering the respectful distance unfolding, simply unfolding swaying and blurring onto the trolley it rolls us along and you whisper something from a sacred text liberating (published in Deep Tissue Magazine)

All Over My Garden

The smile that illuminates

Hermetic Hippo My heart of darkness Like the crack In the pavement The rust stain in the sink A course brush Against my skin It is not soft and pliable It is hard and unmoving Standing out in the rain While everyone laughs Seeing the last breath Escape into eternity Shes a daylight naked ninja Sipping on her scotch Behind her pink shades The thoughts of grandeur Laugh about the abduction Remember your lines And things will go well (published in Deep Tissue Magazine)

That Wonderful Little Dress you party till midnight a lifetime of hips riding the bronco you think you know me with your calculator and sun charts but, there is a venom you cant calculate rumbled and predicted your reason for summing my digits making me more easy to consume you uncork me and pour me out onto your table I pool in the spots carved by your steak knife Josie loves

Hermetic Hippo etched into the oak I know you through the war of our crisscrossed lives oblivion packaged in any other way is too sweet for our senses maybe it is too bleak to ride up the wires promise to find our way in the darkness no matter how many times we have gone here before dont say no to me again I want to hear you say yes with your sexy southern drawl that melts my resistance it reminds me of tomorrows (published in Deep Tissue Magazine)

Suffered All the Furies muttering between teeth her notes always flat never sharp nothing holds fast eating me alive tearing me apart by rack and torture roasting me little by little suffered slings and arrows in the name of duty and religion crashing into the barriers alive and teeming streaming pugnacious the magic talisman too supple the resistance has been beaten out of you you know that all heroes will be shot in the name of liberty as the sun rises over the mountains this rubble we call home

Hermetic Hippo where the ignorant rule the brave worry about their numbers their contracts their publicity campaigns shaking like the naked in the wind afraid of their shadows concocting schemes to defraud the public marching over your red coat as it lays in total disregard climbing into a minimalist speech the first line of hallway banter lost to the forgotten question that never left your lips (published in Deep Tissue Magazine)

Puffy Atlas Kiss Slim white wicked Talons of steel Sweeps the burning you The abandoned numbness Misty ritual A starry-eyed promise Doing and feeling All at once Avoid the cost The dimness grows Cobwebs gather The stone seeks out The moss No puffed up probe No wither Slithered abode Reckon with the tongs Brackish blued symbol Nothing left to rattle Ashen dream of muse Assault the modern Inhale the clattered stream

Hermetic Hippo The bolting abhorrer Hasty imperfect yawn Losing myself One step at a time In the dreams of Yahweh Upright stolen reed Fornicated snake (posted on Blogspot)

Eight wooden throwing spears Sitting on thoughts That bends but never break Sudden fresh pace Typical and primal Remain on the platform Just a little longer All this philosophy Coming out of your ears Like ringlets Tossed into the foam Discovered liar in you Deeper unable up Exit the shadowed form The never loved you Float the resistant boat Into the changed whistle The loyal bond Of demented harbor Must each same Each round goblet Humble modern dead Cold and wet Incoming kick Silent wasted chime Crash against Bleed the reason The hallowed rent Of unknown beaming

Hermetic Hippo A little more And the day comes to a close A long way down Victim us all (posted on Blogspot)

Domesticated horse Very murdered path By the time Im done Make the steam Hot the bath Rub along the tub Bare whirls out A hopeful deliberation Delirious Yes, dipped and perfection Total infused Each day A plan A way of feeling Around the rock of time Smothered by the fast No matter when Or how Wound the cloud Drape this over And listen We are both Here and now Together Run the hellish howls And be free Once more (posted on Blogspot)

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Fire hardened points

Carved into the wise Look up and see The stars They are gone But, still we see A heavy pathos Without revolution Every stacked exodus Needs more Fabled and flea The ankles together Dead away blown The shore, the horizon They blend into one You see it all Like in a vision Butchered Bones bare in the sun Thread of song Daily bleed Aristotles lament Distended heart Nowhere to turn Stopped my ears From hearing the truth Today, you made an enemy (posted on Blogspot)

Fossil powered A slow crawl over nightmare Answers given

Hermetic Hippo Flung across the floor Moving hands Cold earth High flying hands My body stable, unlucky thin Here with sunshine Black wood Full-time table A legend of scale Pushed away the number Dialed the digits Illegal protein analysis Familiar plastic broom Static drum wins Happy white pool Happy water (posted on blogspot) Atomic bomb Fat six Unwanted way Demand the ugly Flattened hoard No thought for the soft The tombstone foot Rumble surplus in Feeble city Ground cylinder Cry Plus whiskey Heal a floor Jump up healthy All alone (posted on blogspot)

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Hermetic Hippo Wetland Scribbles on the last day All points, sunny Letter that are small In through rooms out Round lighted empty Unofficial civilized freeze Let loose the laughing and joking One paper exposed They all together Darkness The photosynthesis Iced and lucky Friendly second Wise wizard (posted on blogspot)

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mule She stored up a few Ugly hold of appendage Street light the same The light troubled Cry your darkened happy Mouthed the blues Folded the feeling We sunk into free spirit Wisdom road The desert of sure Empty of sweet dreams

(posted on blogspot)

Hermetic Hippo God-maker Forget eternity, I curse The dull, leaving shadow Outside the skin Celebration The small tinkling whisper Nitrogen last Large rocks of years The air of factories Boxed resistors Laughable underneath Hot dog landings Sweet fears Of the god-maker Troubled Love (posted on blogspot)

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Blessed Large disbelief with lies No thinking minds, she wrote Half as ear, as spirit Released the mighty to primal embrace We walk the universe On Judas thorns Awake are the objects, of no significance Rock and scissors Forget everything They run in fear Dropping their weapons Covered up darkness Just in time Unreasonable division Will never free The proud (posted on blogspot)

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Endless Pulls off the door On her ass Filled full of animal For all time She frowns loosely In front of everyone Tits flopping To the smooth and polished Face front Peering into the generous Closed eyelids over opened light Second hand store clean Pries open the mouth Mrs. Robinson journeys on No bodys devil Of ludicrousOld woman sculptured Herself As everyones Developed demon (posted on blogspot)

Fenris in the garden Today, I intuitive more Than the bleeding lot Unholy prayers Resisted loss Of health I throw away time

Hermetic Hippo With the tapping toe Over dried cells of remembrance No measured good grace With tingles In my upper thigh It is easy to be small Unknown to the adobes Or the love of freed song No one wants to lay in the sun And throw away this life Of toil and hardship For the phantasmal What animal pulls me away? From the all That is you Will they forget The flagons king? in large boned animal kill the mist will digest you when words no longer (posted on blogspot)

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finite and moving thick bargain out of mind, with no purpose straighten her good deeds hard behind lagging misfortunate skin welding in golden burned

Hermetic Hippo to death, to sunshine, to paper smart to heart and loud chest with removed evenings a song and no home nervously strikes the match splattered darkly crawl we cannot count the steps as you run from the brutish the words of many enliven the mighty only a touch of false the ground, her anger, her country how noisy is the crowd held fast to one place the doctor dreams a story on a piece of scrap light and bitter pay a mortal fool a sons birth (posted on blogspot)

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Tangled Web tasting the feedback from the back row random messages from outer space a picture of repetition the wires need reconnection as the electricity scans the horizon there is more to your theory than is contained in capacitors and transistors for some, we pull the plastic away others, we burn with fire

Hermetic Hippo their eyes are inductive gathering data analyzing and making inferences all essences dissolve into a jumble of categories what to leave in and what to leave out they are cross all borders removing barriers their curiosities flow out in digital transmits flattened by throttled leviathans the bleak gather at the diode stroking their hard nipples removing the cultish hysteria WOUNDED, THEY STILL CARRY US OPENING TO WINTERS SNOW (posted on blogspot)

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Infinity The hungry hate Never ever sleeps Around the gates of nevermore As the past comes around And grabs you Throws you down Onto the floor With the mornings trash Staring through alien eyes That you bought on the corner market From the guy with the little twitch Hes working on a stitch in time The race between the angel and devil A sack of virtue in your hand It spills out and leaves you Try to close the door And keep it all in Safe and sound

Hermetic Hippo My very special one Loves to sleep the day away Just like in the movies Cocktails and cigarettes I wish you would stay If you want I know I never said it before But, Im saying it now Spend the night, once more Before they close the door And chase all the cockroaches away To their homes and children Bragging about their day Braving the cold winter Pushing and shoving Breaking the seal Letting all the demons out Upstairs in a lonely room With only a space heater Keeping the blues away With a bottle of Kesslers Listening to infinitys call (posted on blogspot)

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How Much? And then, it surfaces The darkness I try to keep it out It pries it way through The space under the door And I see Like never before The Formica of your touch Cold and dull Mechanical and unfeeling As if you are going through the motions Following the orders

Hermetic Hippo Of your master You are something Made for nightmares The time we spend Means nothing to you Everything to me And I know In the end There is nothing There is always a dollar To be made Any way you can Just speak it into existence The first car Down your dusty road That leads you back To me Easier to wallow In the confusion We both lie We both hurt We both walk away From each other A those practiced lines I found written in your notebook You pretended to be cold Your distance was a disguise And now I know You will never say How much you love me (posted on blogspot)

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Going Down to the river with my bucket One more silver dollar Burning a hole in my pocket

Hermetic Hippo Entering through closed fire Playing with remembrance Running with my wishes Out your back door In the hot morning sun Bringing me happiness The wrong and the hundred ways Not just making But, taking away Rolling brown and blessed Crispy like tumbleweed Down, down un luck Looks good going down Watch it all burn down Doing me wrong Wild candy dances She has wisdom in her eyes Doing me right True to another True to the cut Shooting dice And building homes Before the cow comes Your up and down melody we arent through just beginning just used to the coaster meeting all the beauties riding with the Russians (posted on blogspot)

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Depicting the landscape as it once was Of the disposed The fears of existence Her inner thing Nothing better

Hermetic Hippo Nothing worse A treat of ordinary brutality Tremors desired Champagne atrocities She gives without asking On the edge of chaos Using a dazzling array So deeply fundamental Demands that big pills work better than small especially when chased down with half a bottle of vodka deep connections between cause and effect discriminating between art and effect purposeful frenzies

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(posted on blogspot)

it is almost invisible in your mind the effect dizzying secrets in my hand laughing all the way like twisted gnomes waiting for it to blow over hollowing out the base nibbling at the bait every bloody thing belching fire and pestilence with cloven hoofs no world of my own drifting from day to day vivid before my eyes after the rain

Hermetic Hippo it pours into my soul blackest rain rubbing seldom with the world they live inside me never taken the course submerged lives raised to the 10th degree tenaciously lodged with a strange unfamiliar world (posted on blogspot)

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thoughts crawling out of a dark corner above life and death flowing on like time tugging away at me admitting my delusions led by its independence grasping for death biting like Satan down into the ooze through your heavens and hells slay me with a walking dream on the other side the planets revolution detached through sorrow through outstretched palms knowing too precisely haunted by the object striking me now the grain of ugliness vibrations emanating a monstrous edifice (posted on blogspot)

Hermetic Hippo balancing at the edge of humanity tottering and swaying the human integer living on like a rock no interest in the slaughter all is destroyed all is perishable like heaven and earth constantly crumbling belonging to the earth being without shadow with a hardened heart worshiping different gods beyond the normal limits a bankruptcy of despair the smell of love insatiable as the belly the wind standing up crying with lungs of freedom struggling in a tomb in a den of vipers it was all chaos shreds of the periphery of null and void (posted on blogspot)

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the holes get bigger as you try to fill them twisted by fate looking horrendous living in the now secure in the turbulence taking in the drama longing for the cataclysm absolutely divested wanting to stone the light the deep well of the womb between the two of us

Hermetic Hippo decomposed of light heartless as a molecule washing it off absolutely sunk absolute silence how hard it is to accept to just barely discern you had opened up a tomb removing memories from the past and I wanted to strangle you (posted on blogspot)

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somehow you dont belong to those throwing the rocks it can be seen in the corners of your mouth in the tip of your tongue an imprint of DNA from someplace else you try to ignore it afraid to bring it out preferring to hide in the light of day another Jesus Christ blind to everything if only to change skins peel it off tissue by tissue the cells hang from a peg all the sorrowful aspects despite the black beyond the ordained limits just as innocent as ever the sex and death chant high priestess of the cult against the holy ghost fucking the crazy woman she wants to save my soul

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crushes between two rocks each kiss is another goodbye as you walk through green cracks magnified underneath tomorrow a soul breaks folded you triggered and rage as unique as dumped beat feeling the sway of drug addicts and dreamers pretending to be Papillon and found dignity waned they have their reason for their sense of peace the point of one is always on favored lips torn from dignitys large you search within your own hemisphere as strong as unleash you exhale the terms of unlearning sucking on this secret pain trapped under raspy reason a super hero of grace mattered with love buried in the bullet shed the sly movement of whiskey is your only friend

(posted on blogspot)

Hermetic Hippo Alone Pulled Upwards and tied with a rope Heaven is a disease of circles A force of pocket charms Plywood palms push on Your steps fall asleep Frozen close behind Fixed before the cold Dazed with smiles A haunting smile Hanging, pinned and twisted Power is ticking in slow motion Counting the tocks Putting them in order The coffin is chirping and sullen Burn the shit down Safe within your failure You keep all of the clippings Fiddling with muddied say These bones interpret What you cannot say You have to rub them the right way She holds up the camera And snaps a picture As she sits atop the rocking horse Eating pop rocks Under the space needle Yesterday was bag simple Flushing a pound of Mary No one expects you to survive Especially me

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(posted on blogspot)

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Automatic personification in this age of despair The way you said futility Taking the edge off appetite Sitting in the gloom In space like the stars To fall through Warm human delirium With no roof above The writing on the wall Thoughts enter from unknown places Strange places that birth evil Rendering the soul With a shattered calm Before the flood of travail The dream of cavemen The illusion of force Both perfect and repulsive Intended to dazzle A splendiferous impersonation The chink of percolating dome Its all vagrant hemispheres Motionless and unmotivated Eaten away by jackknife show Life is merchandise (posted on blogspot)

Demented Poignancy bought at the store A part of life Like the wandering blind man Everybody and everything Al have been added together Lousy, rancid, and rotten Like the bad next Chew for the sake of impossible No reason to close the door

Hermetic Hippo Its just me and cat Both a part of this world In it and of it I must run away Start a new life Working for body and soul There is no hope No solution Both are ugly and senseless We all have become absurd Everything is lost This is serious business Waiting for the resurrection (posted on blogspot)

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Whispering to your bridge, but it never listens Without sin and evil Turning the sausage machine Working like cold cash Being what it is It was war Putting the fear of god into you Undone and twisted Moving like an octopus Tied into the knot The magneto world Dropping to the bottom Blue with a slow drizzle The empty soul rising Like naked reality With big oxygen eyes The barren mechanical pull Perfectly meaningless Into the minus sign Through the bright glitter The last moment of time Crossing over And making you pay

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On the edge of madness: letting your feet dangle Impersonal wingless touch Short waves inside In the frozen dew A splinter of quick In the follow of flesh Along the line of lost Rejoined by the curve A broken voyage Buffer and corpuscle A random shot of absolute Brewing the revolution Sharp edged axes Make no answer Turn many a corner Feeling like a stranger A life moves toward Wrapped in abstraction In the hands of discover Frogs on her feet Walking to an execution So dysfunctional The terror of the front door Turn around and face the fireplace Sleep tonight in your freedom (posted on blogspot)

Nubile SHE PULLS THE SCAPEL FROM HER BAG HOLDS THE INSTRUMENT UP TO THE LIGHT

Hermetic Hippo THIS IS HOW WE REVEAL THE CLUES PAGES THROWN INTO THE FIRE THE SMOKE RISES UP SPEAKING TO BECKY Opulent as a feather Dim drizzle on fervent sill Transferring assets She climbs up on the banister Oozing out the side She always eats the marshmallows Im flipping burgers at a truck stop Watching the freaks come off the highway Everyone wants coffee And bacon and eggs Catalogued deviations Block of Berlin In the frame The dress falls to her ankles Kicking off her she I move closer for evaluation Counting all the piercings No more heroes She touches me with her tongue Browsing my gallery Touching all the reds Her fingers a mess Getting thicker As she hides her smile The terms she used Giving you the message A big S and a little M I always paint you With your clothes on That thing you do with your pearls It is nubile (posted on blogspot)

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Behind the lens You got your groove back Playing with your red glasses In front of the camera You can see angels They flutter around you Puckering their lips Sunglasses and army fatigues A drink in each hand Straight from the fantasy factory Looking for a movie star Someone to burry Coming to Maryland You want to hang You said you were packing your bags Wanted me to send money For the bus You always were the girl that got away All about the love of music I am reborn in your kiss Paradise is always lost Hidden in the nettles Wanting to kick it Forget to breathe Running away Wanting to escape To be free from it all Drawing cat whiskers And little girl freckles Your friend with her pink hair Riding the multicolored horse Hiding the puffiness Trying to make the words Come out correctly (posted on blogspot)

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The teeth marks of absurd reality Bend them up And wonder About the trim of things My good friend Soar into wonder A SURPRISING MERIMENT ROLLED AWAY AND GROWLED MISSED THE TWIN CASTANETS STAPLE UP THE ADORATION CRUSH THE SERPENT LEARN TO ENTWINE THERE ARE NO GOOD REASONS ONLY REASONS PICK ONE ONLY ONE AND RUN WIT IT THE TRUMPET AND COLOR THEY FIGHT OVER YOU Immortal as the land Among the fissures Roll on Too soon And wonder some more (posted on blogspot)

Mollys favorite piece of shit Succeed by face and tongue In these hostile times A lifting wind Sexual as a corkscrew All human events Not the first time Sardines for the poor In a different light

Hermetic Hippo Climb up your tree And grow Walk into footprints On the somber path Choose your moment well Be sure to take pictures Being ripped apart By savage words Of struggling poets Mine is bigger than yours See how many comments There is not enough room To hold the kudos All the memory is used up Someday, they will erect monuments Of tinfoil And bubblegum To mark the grave Where the great poet lays He was mollys favorite (posted on blogspot)

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Chasing down your demons Excellent rumors I have never seen That color A blue from a dream It was gray and mystical I stared at her lips For an eternity Oh shit! Shes not breathing! Thats the color of death On her perfect lips What have we done? It was too perfect

Hermetic Hippo To be like this To be in hell As I attempt cpr Pushing on your chest A lifeless doll No resistance To my touch Deleted from the list Of life

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(posted on blogspot)

Buried in my grave Wondering how to behave Sit in the flickering light Knocking me down Burning ledge of crazy Long grave faces Some outside force Peering into my heart Dashing out intense Turn me around Blood running down Fell on the moan Sneaked out lifting There in the front door Like a pack of wolves The same thing against Ugly looking brandished Fell all over Getting out of the place Standing in the iron trenches Beaten gobbling goat Taking the steam out An exchange of how Tough and invincible Run away and picked

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A star in the corner of your eye Against the fence The transmigration of souls And methods of torture The fine bite of cannibalism Full of wonder A frontier of unknown A life of daily bread The loaves and the fishes Bribed and transuded Eliminate the beauty of the past Relentless is this swift remorse I want to outstrip repentance A curse to the earth Touch with outstretched arms Alien and hostile In a flash Faster and faster Much more than mere nakedness More like peeled More than alert My own proper destiny With wide opened eyes (posted on blogspot)

Never again Could I see the world Through rare attached eyes Pushed along the road Stood in full plentitude Utterly alone and alive Shaking like a viper

Hermetic Hippo More nearly animal Luscious deceptive reason Nothing left of me I am gone My name is lost Seated as a dreamer Doomed to perish Weeping with deceit Falling apart from need The unreal behind me Christ only knows The street is its own reward Frozen bottoms begin to slide Right into me Back in the night On the verge of discovery Cruel swiftness born of tenacity Promising the moon Always promising (posted on blogspot)

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Hammer and tongs Raised from the grave Dead as a moon crater Dropped like a hinge Chopping the world to bits Never plagued by the gnashing Beyond the limits of hope In the black hole of nothingness Make those empty devils Coming out the wrong way Convinced that something was hidden within No respect for the maimed An object to be cursed and kicked With rolled up sleeves and deliverance Washed clean and immaculate Cursed of many evil ways

Hermetic Hippo Purged through the eyes Those evil eyes They see more than the lips can tell Alive and empty Alive in the flesh More and more alive The voice of a flood All dead into chaos The mouth of the world (posted on blogspot)

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More than enough The tower of Babel By an invisible cord Through the heart Of the world Never in the shape Of empty and alive Thrown overboard Turning with it Everyone headed to their own destination like a couple of snakes the stone-faced gambit the teeth of the oyster they chew for eternity fixed in the stardust a jigsaw puzzle most alert and canny a steely awareness turned loose upon the world another hungry wolf (posted on blogspot)

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she was a cannonball ridden by the nightmare her bronze head round withered sweeps a hater of tombs and dreamer of dreams no matter how horrific children she gathered in the darkness the deepest black all sleek with wildness most foulest decline not for the faint graspers caught in the fools throat walking naked she whispered the need a notorious ceremony made the devil laugh with her lashes and carving the wood and black wax from the belly fat all that she owned crazed dancing vision looked death in the face and snickered (posted on blogspot)

Wandering blade Of the darkness Century tattered Scorn the crime Of five hundred years Unfinished toil Before the face Disfigured shape Battering blind

Hermetic Hippo Suffer the kindred Cast out Cast out Tilling the curves Those lovely curves A single eye of bewitch Oh that eye That held me to the stone Nailed the boards A mound of solitude A jewel of adoration Dance on the wave Dance you jezebel Disowned satisfaction Of white shirts And tobacco stained fingers Playing the piano Burned by flame Burned as a druid As the world turns Turning on evil axis Stepping out Naked as does Naked as midnight (posted on blogspot)

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Unroll the world It goes on forever Like a hallway to heaven Lying in the cabbage patch Legs spread wide open As the sea is deep Trapped in a shallow line Flay the living hide Down on the alter Taking on the holy ghost And all comers Both holy and profane

Hermetic Hippo Digging for the other side Praying for the spark That ignites the groove Cal you feel me? I am alive I am brave enough To be me To be free Sitting on my lap With the consciousness of Buddha Not disturbed by the twilight The growing darkness A emptiness that swallows it all The honeymoon of flesh Her feet no touching the ground Sometimes in the twinkling A corpse piled up One after another Over and over again Choose not to look away Embrace the circle The hole and the dirt Both are love and peace Pry it open Make a path Build your fire on the hilltop Cry for the birth Rage for the dying stars The light that was never born Nothing left but stench The world falling apart On the shadow of memory We all hang from the wire Demanding resolution But, the hangman never comes Never brings the hope A reaper and binder The flush of dawn And the zeal of industry There is no more Nothing left to burn

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Hermetic Hippo Where are my matches? (posted on blogspot)

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Dropping Shooting Stars They leave you seared A smolder of pure joy The best of all Gored and dethroned We shall shed jubilant Dragging us down again Dead to the world Love is no more You have forgotten how Waiting for the light to go out Adrift somewhere in the night sky We call this death A bitter taste Immortalized and burning The dead planet still spins Its heart still set on pretending A revolving wasteland We call this home Its all we know All we cherish The little god on our altars She speaks of another life A museum of what has been Dancing with the skeleton He speaks the words You want to hear Utter and immediate The terrain of meaning A crowded ghostly recollection Naked and standing On the precipice of history They steal the body And prostitute the mind (posted on blogspot)

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No trace of blood Drifting by the window Nothing to fear Bursting and mangled Eaten by the flames Surety is in the air Above and triumphant Being the last Emerge and roar To myself Destruction Tidy up the mess The burden of self Blind tenacity Nourished by death Take the devil Take his horny hand The same destiny Gunned down in the street No memory No regret Only bloody hands An unthinkable void Lost in obscurity All a sack of bones (posted on blogspot)

seduction Sometimes, I forget the reasons For the whys Between blushes of spread The turning freedom taunts No longer caught

Hermetic Hippo In this obsession with darkness Now there is focus to your fire A certain voltage within Haunted by demons from within Picks at flamboyant soothing The curls of warning Deeper with heavens questions My sugar My sweet Knee deep in bloody valentines With trepidation an invisible wish To see and feel the real Spending more fear Not knowing anything You want to cry To pull out your hair You claw at your face Desiring to be ugly If only you could match this feeling This dread This alien structure That sucks the blood from your veins Snaps your bones Makes you howl At the moon The you could shed This coil This existence (posted on blogspot)

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The sacrifice of knuckles Golden tongues Rampant dogs They all must die Throw them like the strain Cover them with whispers Their souls are old ghosts

Hermetic Hippo Open the treasure Smell the aroma Call up the ashes Blood knife cuts The chanting stink Of bones Old bones New bones They all gather moss Giving more Of themselves As your anger rages on Against torture Against injustice Worry the worn On this diadem You fell for love And progress Always the caretaker Two queer words Chopped up in little pieces Brothers of anger Standing knee deep In willfulness All naughty boys Under their feet A death machine march Gone away With a thousand tongues Living on dimes and nickels The secret lives of knowing They crawl out of words Stand upon the metaphor Watch the ink dry Like the blood of dreams So slowly Yes, I know They cant be true But, I think they are Lost spells (posted on blogspot)

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Fluting on crooked legs A bright damp future Wet tongue of tornado Stucco splattered wind A birth of never Rippled finger touch Riverbed kisses Die surrounded by doom Shes popping balloons And speaking to the ghosts Touching their core When I touched your lips, I was changed forever It pulled itself right out of my mouth Spread its wings and flew out the window Feeding on your desperation Making your big things small Making everything small A turn on the wheel Carried off by something mighty (posted on blogspot)

It changed the whole I. I looked up The first gulp Stopped by the moment Walking into the glimpse Page after page of realization You have been living with a lie A stone around your neck Dragging you down Your legs are the roots of trees Planted in the soil of terror

Hermetic Hippo A soul that you never had the taste for Words are meaningless to the axe Let us talk about your crazy eyes Too long in the branches Close to the boundary The most enchanting II. The human spore Of value Of dignity Of light The cold fabric of life A dirty mouth Choking and hissing tongue Marked by the loss A forlorn island Accepting the eviction The odious sense of sacrifice Screwed in another direction Trampled upon A great big hole We fall into And are reduced to ashes The soil of complete Layer upon layer Saluted relics To have being Standing in a trance A strange moving substance The old dream III. Vague at the edges A peculiar metamorphosis Crumbling on my hands Dying comfortably Deserted them Through the rites An absolute stranger Moving on to new battles

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Hermetic Hippo As the world moves Slightly bent at an angle That lets only a fraction in Chewed alive and digested As flesh and blood Reshaped by the spirit Penetrated through, endowed Everything out of place The deeper I burrow into the evolution Like a pushed worm A warm human pressure Like a tornado With big blue eyes IV. I am desolate Most horrible anguish Like a maniac Through a hole Incredible and monstrous It seems so natural To be howling inside The wolf within Chewing on the carcass It totters and careens I am in the dream once again Pleasurable and maddening Muttering to myself Now till doomsday Mangled and torn apart Kill them all The stars shine And everybody suffers Twisted and formed by human hands We wander forlorn and desperate Seeking the body Drifting with the current Born out of a wound A ghost in their midst In the void (posted on blogspot)

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The Yield of darkness In the tomb I see her Better than the world Better than god The bone of my flesh The terrible look A trapped animal Trapped in the walls of anguish Deeper into the night The carnal hose of the soul Shaking itself free Of the bonds of dharma We lived in black dreams Made of stitches we could not find Sucking us in Making everything an underworld With fists of laughter Revolving around phantom satellites As the beast looks into us Doubled barreled In barbed plumes An insatiable itch Cool as chaos (posted on blogspot)

I spoke the lines Spinning forward Toward an ultimate end Raining down perpetual The twirling frantic A crawling torment The mind becomes a fine point Every pore is spittle and foam

Hermetic Hippo This transformation pounces immediately The heart and liver Twinkling eye The wheel of lust The cavernous whirl Lulled to sleep by the century Quenched with blood To burry In with teeth The doom Nothing outside the wall Let no one in Not now, not ever Gnostic decimals For another Somebody elses velvety deception (posted on blogspot)

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Transparently Alive Breathing in the memory The first tangible substance Our outer world Building membrane Morbid desires The stars extinguished Simple and obnoxious Toward a nebula Half to Satan Old and patched Sleeping with the serpent Not dreaming Not coiled to the automatic Magnetic eyes They see you Move about naked The abnormal span of your wings Eager to overcome it Disappear forever Abandoning

Hermetic Hippo Deserted and betrayed A black hatred Flowers thrown into the wind So full of flame And the spice of incredible (posted on blogspot)

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Jumping out of my skin Standing in the void Blue with fright Possessed of the devil Out over our heads The whole bloody mess By sweat and struggle Getting back into the box Part of the flux The Old Stone Age A head and a hand Deep in the mud Inflame the world A mass of jelly Sudden darkness Moving amidst the sleep In the world of chromos An indestructible world A blind urge to defeat Until the bell rang In another incarnation A heartless son of a bitch Light, peppery, enchanting Trying to be free of me

(posted on blogspot)

Hermetic Hippo

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Peaches and Gunpowder Travel across forgotten lines As the monster digs in its claws Wonderful in spite of everything A hurried stiletto Into your ear The blood laughs despite itself And you still miss the tears of the dead The crossing of a border To refuse a guest A morbid element of opening They all open wide And you, a dying ember Before all living witness Struggle over it all Eviscerated to the bone Break it open and suck out the marrow Exposed as a pile of worms Locked inside without a key There never is a key We never find it I wonder if it ever really existed When I was a small boy, I heard stories of its existence They are nightmares now This is not a home It is a dungeon I cannot leave My chains are self-made I love them more than life itself I only look outside my window I watch life and it watches me No other bond to measure against Asking about the bruises They always ask in a quite voice And their eyes cast down The ground pigments of life Like some haggard saint

Hermetic Hippo Some smoothing and trimming of the edges Fading from twilight to night No more bright eyes for enthusiasm Not a mystery, but a romance (posted on blogspot)

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Where the Wishes Come From An excuse for locution It does not come for free A desperate price to be paid Yes, there is always a price The wages of loss Too blind to see the truth As it stood before me With arms open wide Wild eyes and beating gums Flat and dull words They still cut through Linked by common threads Spun by a demented devil You call him republic Death by an amateurs hand Is still death With bullet holes and bombs The flesh falling off the bone Bound to the oath of exile Disguised in dappled light Like a tiger searching for love With the corners knocked off All spit and polish Melting down the corruptness Into a smoldering liquid A frantic bellowing maniac As silent as appropriate The ticking clock sends chills Down your spine of resolve As I bury your dreams of revolution In the back yard with the dead body It rots like bees

Hermetic Hippo It sits on the fence post Thinking up lies To tell the neighbors How their house burned down While I laughed and snorted My last line of cocaine I watched all burn down In a smoky haze of finality The firemen scurry with their hoses Between their legs The big one carries an axe He looks defeated As he watches the fire It consumes a lifetime In through the gaps The fire flickers Hungry for the lies of fortune I am sad for my loss The white powder was my only friend And now I snorted it all up my nose Such is the way of evil bastards (posted on blogspot)

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A Renaissance Angel Your serene ignorance Of a certain beauty Is like the hate of a dog A barking dog who recruits Followers to a crusty band Hearts beating wildly They write your boneheaded wisdom in books They move their lips a s they read Ignorant to your perpetrations Blue lips Words after words A drug infused rant Of idiocy Never finding the meaning

Hermetic Hippo It escapes you Dogged persistence of meaningless Golden curls of tobacco As you stand against the wall Your back to the crowd You cant face your accusers A gracias move toward the door The filtering of light To the point of madness It is your madness And you want to share it She was mute With the fierce look of the devil Melting down to the core Two dimensional questions A careful distortion (posted on blogspot)

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A Loan of Terror

Lend me your terror, a refuge you could not share. You are strangled by the feeling. A new form of ugliness, paired with monster. Your master illusion calling your name. With a mask, I speak the truth for those who do not listen. To care so much is a weakness. Happy ending come.

Hermetic Hippo (posted on blogspot)

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Ascending to Heaven on an Eagle

I shall not be too forward Advancing tales spun in moonlight Fabulous secrets of nature Avoiding all absurdities Like Jack avoids the doctor

We consider the quality Wares that the salesman brings Fanfares and banners held on poles While the children dance Soldiers for the war

Breathe new life into your madness Wave to the dregs as they pass Spare not their rank or abilities Heathens and idolaters have spoken Experience teaching us new lessons

Who trouble not themselves Occasion to observe Ignorance by the cruelty

Hermetic Hippo Most vile and atonable creature Exceeds our efforts and wholly depends

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With thunder and lightning Where comes the power Done by wicked and diabolical Souls desirous of communion Dispose their good Angels

Aim only for the practice To pretend and to honor By heaps of stones and statues Assemblies of the people Instruction of the truth (posted on blogspot)

Bedraggled

Barely worth the attention Not a potent force Everyone means the rest Dimensions of expected scorn Why a subject to take Slight show with cleavage To care is like trying Driven by the dictates

Hermetic Hippo An easier sell with luxury Held by same principles Inherent in a how Will work for beer (posted on blogspot)

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Black Swan

Overbearing memories Laid vertically across Onslaught of thoughts Reserved for the habitual Magnifying effect on the masses Putting yourself on the line Smashed by absurdity Emotional intimacy undercutting Characters on the periphery Modal monsters flirting with destiny Nothingness permeates the whisper Bitter regret channeling despair Inside and all-around Hawkish sentiments, inverted claim Wildly disparate views Happenstance informed by reason

Hermetic Hippo You took my words and twisted Into something beautiful Carried away with subversion Painful duty passionately pursued Met with exaggerated hope Experience that left you wanting Desiring unpredictable change Something to spark the imagination Coming to terms with reality Recognizing the material influence Empty formality wooed by chance Noble-hearted inspired by difficulty Last sacrifice made for love Careful to preserve that which is hidden Deliberately enticing to act A few expressive words Woven into the fabric Found by those looking Felt even by the unwise (posted on blogspot)

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Hermetic Hippo Crux

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Her sexy dimension announced her presence I smell her pleasing essence The beast grows, wakes from slumber Throbbing against the fabric A physical reaction to her smell I hope my honesty is not offensive It leads the way along the path

(posted on blogspot)

Dear Prudence

Cursed are the compassionate Revealing their weakness Tears behind contempt Everything is the opposite Has long been the source Holy flame of spontaneity Dumb frittered indulgences Time froze by power A glimpse behind the curtain Oddly Spectral avatar Mixture of enthusiasm and despair

Hermetic Hippo Prostituted prophet of discontent (posted on blogspot)

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Desdemona

Penelope the faithful wife Untangling the web she weaves Looking out the window Blueberries on the hill Striving ambition on display Innocent artifact of a ferocious will Silkworms working their magic She sought a way out Terror of the trapped Options calculated with a cool mind Miserable life that would be theirs Crystal ball did not foreshadow Thankless wretch behind pulled curtains Her smile suggesting satisfaction Evil deeds sent forth for working Be a good friend and spit on her for me

(posted on blogspot)

Hermetic Hippo

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Epic Demise

Rome is burning And so is my soul Lost dreams and forgotten secrets Sneak up from behind

I scratch my head Trying for the right answer None actually exists

A repeated torture Since childhood Fondles my thoughts

Flowing stream Social consciousness Everything is unreal

My favorite lies Lay on the table Euphemisms for a disguise

No one can find me Among the herd

Hermetic Hippo Waiting to be slaughtered

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The wolf is tired Of the fighting Sad hearted and forlorn soul (posted on blogspot)

Fallen

With sad and grey face We walk along Abandinus Holding each others hand Listening to the rivers song Repeating prophetic words

Brilliance that captures the eye The morning light shows the way Holding close to the heart Lucifers pride that swells Rising up from unknown parts

Mornings child stretches his wings Wiping sleep from newborn eyes Pulling back the dark covers Appropriates a wishful smile Remembering the earths embrace

Hermetic Hippo

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Past glories cold and shaded Tiny flickers in a sea of light No longer noticed by oath and blood Forlorn fingers grasp the scepter Masterful power gone astray (posted on blogspot)

Hesternal

A passion that has no equal Neither constrained nor inhibited The hidden shall be proclaimed Taken to its full measure Desires demise ends ignorance Released from the fetter of oblivion Incorruptible and unwavering sight Focused on the intangible No one to create boundaries The image of the invisible The endurable spirit rejoiced Over the light that came forward Honored with a mighty voice Born from the eons Pursued down into chaos With the face of a beast

Hermetic Hippo Thrown into a life of toil Blood cries up to heaven Answered by the angel of discernment A shadow that became matter

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(posted on blogspot)

Immodest Proposal

Shamefaced oscillation, backed against the wall Internal segmentation, filtered through the shadows Cascading billets housing the troops Steps dissipating from the hillside A garden of flowers breaks through the mundane Dramatically degenerating the disempowered Speak to me with loyal passion About your days in the west How vigor sprung like firecrackers On the porch swing, her parents watching Looking for disapproval Lingering ghosts of the past Changing conceptions, profitless attempts Disputed and contested as they were Without the confidence and sense

Hermetic Hippo Antiquated and worn out Many times spun with illusion Resurfacing between influence and greater Morphing from tart to most admired Mythical past crafted into legend (posted on blogspot)

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Jealous Punk

Empty your heart of its mortal dream To be like the gods in all glory Infinite power and blessed grace Rise above the mundane Embrace the sacred and holy Your image illuminating my mind

The slumber of darkness waits Standing alone as in the beginning Bringing the flame of divinity Becoming like God, closing the gap Removing all weakness from the flock

Hermetic Hippo Darkly placed upon my eyelids Poor, tired, wandering fool Sold for a fleeting chance My words sent forth To reap what they have sown Gather up the fruits of time

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Mighty walls stand before me Raised up by my free will Testaments to my stubbornness Victims to my crimes Like fallen tombstone left to decay Forgotten souls of the living

Recognize the devils that surround you Remember how they tormented Betrayed by your recollection Justified by self-righteous fever Your mind a lethal weapon

Its all about survival and space Sending it all back around A soulless, jealous punk Rules made to be broken An all together different game

Hermetic Hippo

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Me up on the highway Sure Im out there Standing there like Satan The biggest dog on the street Hiding in the bottomless pit (posted on blogspot)

Los Muertos

The corruption of the weak Food for the idols Death of the voiceless Children of the broken man Raised up from the ashes Tears no longer shed Clenched fists rising higher Angry cries of the masses Defined by complications Distorted faces in the windows Watching the death parade Those who catch the babbles Sweet release and escape

Hermetic Hippo (posted on blogspot)

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Making the Most of a Fleeting Moment

A quick glance that vanishes quickly Ancient man forced to believe All things must have an explanation The owner of the hut, given offense Inspired words dictated to disciples Ear pressed against the door Remember that you are ignorant Of a life well lived Soul contains reason, passes swiftly Without you all is desolate Ephemeral joys that too soon evaporate Tarnished hopes staked to sadness The nature of the episode finds us wanting Discursive and disjointed the incidental remark Contingent on the enduring and eternal He had a lot to say about the unfixed and volatile I am sure that your altered position Had to do with the brief encounter

Hermetic Hippo (posted on blogspot)

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No Blessing

There is no blessing in the carnage. They do not march fearless death. No merry song in their hearts, with attached bayonets. Farcical glories you construct. We see that they are illusion. No comfort for the lost. Those who are bleeding in the streets, Despise your calculated costs. Sons, brothers, and lovers, Wounded and killed. (posted on blogspot)

Old and Grey

When eyes dimly flicker like the failing wick And the wind howls through your bones Like banshees race through the graveyard Your cup of tea has grown cold and tasteless

Hermetic Hippo Longing for the robe of immortality Pulled back by the tugging flesh Drawn closer to the fires of the past The songbird still sings outside your window (posted on blogspot)

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Past the Hog Farm

Feel its richness in your hands Smell the life in its beginnings Face down in the dirt Breathing in the newness No matter how you sweeten The sting still festers and swells Dipped naked into the blood Bones scattered in the wasteland Begging to be brought along for the ride We worship it most fervently Remote from our earthly self Crystal clear horizon that beckons Pulling us to unknown adventures To walk upon the tightrope While the people clap and cheer As it develops through experience

Hermetic Hippo Paid for by the meek and lowly Those that will someday inherit Marinated in the message (posted on blogspot)

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Sally Red Shoes

The kid who sat next to me at the lunch table She was beautiful and unforgiving You had to watch what you said to her Keep a tight grip on your thinking If she knew about my fantasies She would tear them from my consciousness Ignoring polite social banter She had a way of getting right to the point Found the weakness in an instant Twisting and scraping to make it sorer She knows my hunger and impatience Restlessness for something else Tangible prize that fulfills me (posted on blogspot)

Hermetic Hippo The Ambassador of Loss

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I have been reassigned It happened just this morning I am to travel to yet another Place I have never heard of before I will have to learn all over again Their customs and gestures Habits in dress and food How they wear a fedora My orders came by fax Apparently they distrust the e-mail I leave by next Monday So little time to adjust my affairs Say goodbye to all the right people Ignore those who hang on my every word As if I was a prophet or messenger from the gods What would they say in such a situation? If they were so inclined to speak Would they say that time is money? That everyone has his orders? Maybe, but I think they wouldnt They would have more important things to do Like managing the market Extract the last once of profit

Hermetic Hippo (posted on blogspot)

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Uncommon Sad

That something too awful to name It sits with you on the bus Peeking in your shopping bag The stupid desperate things you do Walks with you down the hallway Pathetic little life, swallowed by the moment When you failed to react Didnt do the right thing No witty remark for a comeback Wanting the regular kind of sad Not the sad story we read in the papers (posted on blogspot)

Victim

We are in the same boat. Little comfort, while sinking. Still, the captain repeats the refrain.

Hermetic Hippo His words fall, on silent ears. No one wants to consider. Consequences, sinking deeper. Guardians of the darkness. Malicious unclear future. (posted on blogspot)

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Wanted Death

Maybe he wanted death Tried so hard to find it Looked in a pill bottle

Slit wrists spilling so red With practice and over Molded details in mind (posted on blogspot)

Hermetic Hippo Bleakers Repository

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Infected with purpose Out of the flesh world Into the womb of beginning Taking away your crutch Forcing your mind Upon you like a tiger Vengeful with claws Knowing both darkness and truth Under the impetus of love Beyond your pile of sticks They do not add up To this final purpose This calling of all wills Aligned with the universe Perched at the tip Waiting for the falling over The flood of unreason Bored through with the wind Three generations of them Still the light pours through Upon Bleakers lowly place (posted on blogspot)

Hermetic Hippo

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Little gun

Firm brisk strokes As the black birds fly North to unknown seasons The curse of your smoking gun With a skewed perspective Slightly off kilter The idea of departure More real suddenly Come prepared for music When the fight should be on Doing it for pearls Deeds of a wicked hand One foot forward Slowly is the attack Apt pupil (posted on blogspot)

Once Again

Imbued with a moist clarity The gift of an avid fan The teacher said that there would be days like this

Hermetic Hippo Those words of warning are not hollow now How could he know the future? The body decomposing and neighbors growing Suspicious by the minute Another day would bring new adventures But I have to make it through this one first The cops will be knocking down the door If I dont get rid of the body Remembered colors of death I have seen this before Maybe in another life My Karma coming back To haunt me once again (posted on blogspot)

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Scorched Seaweed

The green shadows forget his names All those he used In different lifetimes Now a grizzled old man With two pools of alertness An ancient foot soldier There is nothing outside of him Nowhere can he turn for learning

Hermetic Hippo He has held the absolute too long Tired arms that know no forgiveness He was a god with an impossible task To set down lines that refused his touch Before he entered the wilderness The empty wasteland of nothing How the winds howl with contempt in his mind Especially when he lets his thoughts wander Then he remembers How the sound of forgiveness feels Against the hard edge of steel (posted on blogspot)

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Stepping Out of the El Greco For Holden

You did it, once again Against the wishes of your masters They have steely eyes Those sparkle like jaded beaks And tongues that betray Flapping to eternity Into a destiny of morass

Hermetic Hippo Turned into silence Like the windswept stones Born from the exploitation A morality and distrust You feed them little scraps Little turnips of time

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I feel the vultures circling Around my back Sniffing out the sublime Portals of damnation Open to the fire breathing Digging deep into the bedrock Raise high your scavengers

Being in the world, but not of it Yes, this also must pass A penumbra of unknowns Your star catcher surprise But, none were really too surprised It all came out as planned By a loving god with cracked veins Pointing across the ceiling

Slung across your shoulder

Hermetic Hippo Like a boy packing dynamite They love you despite yourself Blank spaces between the sentences You too, Brutus? (posted on blogspot)

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Unfolding

A Love of death that grows into being Through layers of smell, treachery Scratched out and drilled into The shatter of a locked door Time wasting on the hands Always wasting Living on this wounded street Running from dooms helping hand They give and take away Pretending to be god Unfolding lie of a morbid wish (posted on blogspot)