There he was
Cold and Dead
Eyes open
As if
Even in death
He would seek to pierce the veil
The unknowable
Oh brave soul!
Regal he was
As if he would Challenge the Gods themselves in combat
Proclaiming to the world even Death cannot dim my flame
Lying there
Once Lord of the air
Sultan of the sky
Arcing and dancing upon currents of divine magic
Yet
Soon to be swept up by Saracens – Cretins–
A forgotten carcass
Whose bones litter this forgettable world
They are Incapable of knowing the power you once wielded
A wick snuffed in its raging glory
A blossom ravaged by winter’s cold truth
Dying with embers flaring
In bitter rebellion you would scream
“I was Lord of the Air!”
if I be a true man
I would anoint you in precious oils
And cloth your death in simmering gold attire
Lead processions proclaiming
“The Lord of the Air has expired”
Wouldst now the sky be so barren?
Alas the world tumbles and the die rolls
Such is how precious hearts are stilled
Ignominy claims us all as her own
How heaven and hell dance
And demand cadence from its players
How the mighty
Are thus laid so low
Rot in the Street
Lord of the Sky
Is It is only I
Who would sing thy glory
When the reaper calls…
Who would speak such words for me?
Archive for February, 2010
Lord of the Sky
Sunday, February 28th, 2010Stupid People
Friday, February 26th, 2010We were horrified when Roy of Siegfried & Roy got mauled by a 600 pound white tiger. Apparently Herr Roy went into the cage armed with, I guess, one of those magical foot stools and smacked Tony the tiger upside his head with a microphone.
“Hey Tiger, jump through a hoop”
“Who you smacking upside the head Mother Fucker”
The tiger proceeded to drag Herr Roy around like a rag doll. While Roy waved his remaining arm around like a little bitch, leading to this news release.
“When the best-trained and most-experienced handlers of big cats can be attacked and dragged around like rag dolls, it is plainly obvious that untrained private citizens should not keep big cats as pets.”
Big shock there, huh? The truth of the matter is there is an estimated 7000 big cats kept by private citizens in the United States and they kill people.
“Whoops, he was such a nice cat just before he took little Judy’s head off.”
Who can forget Travis the lovable face eating chimpanzee who ate a neighbor’s face for lunch. Yea, a 200 pound wild Chimp went ape shit. They had to shoot poor Travis as telling him no TV tonight apparently had little effect on him as he was chewing through that poor woman’s face. Wild animal are not socialized and will never be socialized. When they go off, it’s welcome to the jungle time.
We love to vicariously experience the wild from the safety of our seats. We are a culture of pussies and fag fucks. We let others take chances so we can be entertained. “Aren’t we all a bunch of wild animals Doris?” “Yea, Ward, it really cool to get back to our roots.”
People do stupid things and they do it all the time, all of us, every single one of you. We smoke, we drive without seat belts, we fall in love with people who plot our emotional destruction, and we stuff burgers down our face till a crane is required to pull our bodies out of the house.
Some of us even strap surplus army rockets to our car and crash into a mountain going 500 miles an hour. “Wow, didn’t see that coming.”
I worked the Union Safety & Health beat in the most dangerous environment in the world, a shipyard. I investigated people being crushed to death on scissor lifts, people falling to their death, legs taken off by fork trucks, people dying of asphyxiation in confined spaces, all of it; I had a front row seat boys and girls. The color of a charred body is not black, it’s blue, just in case you were wondering.
Apparently I was an unusual union steward, I couldn’t be intimidated, I had balls, I could read and I was articulate. The most gratifying management discussion concerning me was told to me by my bud, Fred, a half management fuck. He said one Boss whose unsafe job I halted wanted to put the screws to me and my Boss was there and said, “Fuck no; you’ll only make him mad.” Fuck you puke.
Employee’s whose lives and health I was trying to protect hated me also. They really hated me.
“Fuckin Eddie and his OSHA rules”
You see they wanted to do stupid things cause nine times out of ten you get away with it. But it only takes one time to change your life forever or become dead. All in the name of getting the job done. All those so called Safety & Health rules management pukes and Republicans make fun of are written in Blood, every one of them that are in 5 CFR 1910, someone paid for with their life or a limb. That’s the facts, please don’t bet me.
So do me a favor keep your eyes on the newspaper and read about the stupid things other humans do on a routine basis and remember who you heard it from.
I remain, never humbly,
The Oddest of Poets
The Little Girl on the Shelf
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010She stands alone
Forlorn and abandoned
A dust gathering trinket
Peeping between Timmy’s Cum Lade Graduation Tassels
And a faded yellow picture of Grandma
Back when she had teeth
They talk from time to time
Something about failed memory
And abandoned dreams
Mostly she walks alone
Traveling along dusty Mahogany shelves
Over torn doilies
Past the circus elephant with the broken trunk
With the mute girl fused to the tableau
Loneliness opens her mouth and spoke
The elephant never answered
All he did was cry
Over what
No one could say
She decide to visit her friend
The beer stein from Heisenberg
He stood all proud despite the broken handle
And the chipped and faded colors
Of his once regal cloak
Oh the stories he could tell
Of parties and celebrations
Of weekly dustings and lemon scented wood polishes
Of pride, prominence and wonder
She left him to his memories
Dappled sunlight danced along the worn surfaces
Orchestrating the play of shadows
Upon that stage the heartrending scene played
The pageant of the lonely and the abandoned
Just the other day
Darnell the Dolphin from Sea World fell
And lay broken on the floor for days
His cries of pain ignored
Finally swept up with a mumbled curse
And deposited into the yellow plastic graveyard
The place too many of her broken friends have gone
She retook her place on the shelf
And her countenance froze one again into form
And dreamed of a better tomorrow…
She dreamed…
The Vultures Sing
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010The Vultures sing
A vicious song
Rapacious
Bitter
Hungry
Patient
Gliding
Upon invisible air
Wings painting death
Their clock ticks slow
Like metronomes
Bleeding
Mortality
Their harmony
Discordant
Jagged
Dissonant
Atonal
Suspended fourth
Needing resolution
They alight
On the firmament
Coal black eyes
Seeing through Life
Pass the veil
Into eternal
Damnation
Waiting
For the last beat of the heart
For the feast
They are God’s
Favorite children
He loves their song
Plays it constantly
On his celestial iPod
“Sing my offspring”
“Sing me to sleep”
God slept
And
No one
NO ONE
NO ONE
Can
Ever
Wake
That
Mother
Fucker
Up
Don’t Wake me…
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Death silhouettes
Dance melancholy minuets
Accrued dust scatters
Faceless violins sigh
Mourners do not bother to take up the chant
Smoothing wrinkled skirts and checking fingernail length
Bored and distracted with parched eyes incapable of tears
Sounds wither and die
Vibrations stilled and uncaring
Settle in for the long sleep
Wind becomes breeze and breeze…
Lies motionless upon the mound
It’s cold’s time
Calming the whine of meaning and loss
Thoughts crumble and descend upon the sleeping earth
Lying beside portent shards of strange magik
It all goes away
Whirling down sweet silence
Leave me alone
Don’t wake me…
The Male Orgasm
Saturday, February 20th, 2010My editor walked into my office the other day and asked if I would write a cheap, tawdry piece on sex, the male orgasm specifically. Of course I refused,
“Bill, I am an artist damn it and I will not sell my soul so you can sell copy!”
“Ed, there is a $500.00 bonus in it for you and I’ll let you fuck my wife.”
“When do you need it Bill?”
There is nothing more misunderstood than the male orgasm. Too much attention has been paid to the female of the species. Any man worth his salt will tell you, if asked, and no chick is around that they “Really don’t give a fuck about it.” And they will go on talking about the Phillies chances of repeating as National league champs.
It all started when that dyke bitch Erica Jung wrote “The Fear of Flying” and this whole mythos developed over the non-issue. Then came the “G” spot, Christ the bullshit I had to put up with when that came out. Chicks whining, “Find my G spot Eddie, please” One chick got on my nerves so much I took her over my gynecologist friend’s office strapped her to the table, pried open her snatch with a two ton hydraulic jack, and then called my Bud, Pete, who works in the power tool section of Home Depot,
“Pete, I need every power tool you got!”
“ When ya need it Poet?”
“Now!”
So I work the chick over with drills, hole saws, (she really liked the reciprocating saw) All the time screaming, where the fuck is it bitch, this G spot you love so much?”
I believe I proved my point. But, I guess I could have been more sensitive about it. It doesn’t exist, just more cheap armchair psycho babble that sells books. Yes, I do despair of the species.
The orgasm is an intensely personal experience regardless of who is experiencing it. It’s like a team sport where one person takes all the glory. I could use my considerable poetic metaphoric skills to paint the experience with words but what would be the point? It is what it is.
There is a considerable difference between the sexes on post coitus behavior. This of course is caused by years of cultural imprinting. A chick’s need to feel emotionally attached and that she is not a cheap easy pig that a man just fucked for shits and giggles. While a man looks at the chick with barely concealed contempt and says to himself, “I can’t believe I just fucked this skank, how do I get rid of it?” Yes, she is like that puppy dog that will not go away, “Shoo Fido, shoo” This is when the love of your life ceases to be a person but an object to be abandoned like a used toothbrush.
There, it’s out in the open, and about fucking time, I might add. Now a man has several options at this point, if he is interested in a repeat fuck he will give you a cursory hug and say out of character stuff, while he is dressing quickly,
Yes, a man will say desperate things just to get out of that bedroom. Uncharacteristic words like “What do you say we run a marathon honey?” Or “I’m in the mood to go shopping babe, what do you say?” Or, God forbid, “Honey look at the time, if we rush we can catch the last fifteen minutes of Oprah” For a man this is indeed a desperate time.
One of the best extrication techniques I ever heard was from my bud Pete. He would cum, roll over, put his pants on, grab the chicks clothes into a ball throw it at her and say, “Get the fuck out bitch my Girlfriend is coming over. “But you said you loved me Petey” “I lied” He then pushed her out the bedroom window. A caveat is in order; this method should only be attempted by trained professionals.
Being an extraordinary writer and cultural icon I have developed a whole catalog of male extrication scenarios available at my website Oddpoetword.com, for men only. I can’t give away all our secretes ladies.
I should write one concentrating on the female experience maybe I can get to fuck Bill’s wife again. But who would read it? ![]()
I remain, faithfully,
The oddest of Poets…
Broken Word ~Malt Shop Blues~
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The End ~Para/Oddpoet Collab~
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010The end rests
Languid and delicate
A single dandelion seed
Estranged from the puff
Blown by rebellion
Or perhaps just nature’s course
To impregnate the ground
With more sunshiny weeds
The end
It rests on my fertile mind
I cry for the clouds to unleash
A torrential wrath
Imbed the seed to grow roots
But my mind remains arid
The wind stirs lightly
The dandelion seed rests
Languid and delicate
Moments fused with hours
And time crashed
Against the shore of sentience
Vagueness flashes
Thoughts whirl
Run away
Laughing
Challenging
The mote in God’s eye
The beginning…
I became…
Chaos fled
Fused Tachyons
Blazed
Screaming through the newly birthed light
I become many things
A particle in the primordial soup
A single cell
Needing memory
To fill the void
Fusing
While incompletion raged
Become…Become…
The voice insistent
Demanding
Pulling pain
Out of beauties orifices
The end drained
The placenta of birth
Clawing for release
Upon the pure sands
Untouched by mankind
Fertile soil washed away
From necessity
Unnatural in the wailing cry
To be…
Accepted into the region
Unfit for any king or queen
Weeds grew
Bold and erect
Supping upon the light
And dew as sweat upon the brow
Nature grew unpromised
And audacious in peeling the lids
From eyes refusing to see
The puff–
Bloodied and alive–
There beyond obstinacy
In the face
Of time
In all its abhorrence…
Then…
The music appeared
At first shy and unsteady
Yet insistent…
Demanding all take part
All share the essence of their being
Unique instruments… unique voices
In that choir all living things took their places
Like notes fused to alabaster parchment
The seed which was now more than a seed
More than what it ever could be
On its own moved to a strange grandeur
A feeling, a certainty
That it was eternal
That its voice was needed
In that constellation of sound
The music would not stop
Could not stop
It held all things to its cadence
The music played…
And all life danced and swayed
To its rhythm
And it was…
Beautiful…
The Poet
Monday, February 15th, 2010Sirens sing the song of death
While rental cops lay cones down
Restricting traffic
They have come for me.
I am the Poet
The truth
My words are carved in the flesh of innocence
Scrawled in cheap urinals
Chiseled in the faded gray paint of shit holes
Of lonely tomorrows
I dry the tears of the hopeless
Scream with the homeless
I sing truth that humbles Gods
I am Prometheus, Sisyphus
I cut the throat of pompous laughter
And kill its first born
I eat the soul of dreadful normalcy
I walk the edge and conversed with madmen
My words reverberate in trash strewed alleys
My tread echoed in the halls of jails and mental institutions
Shared secrets with broken soulless junkies
I am truths
That freeze men’s souls
And the lies they swear by
The burning blade cutting tethered souls
Illuminating lightening
I am the Deviate fondling sacred sexuality
The serial killer covered in Blood
Sucking life from victims
With last breath cursing God
Whimpering
“Why me?”
I am the throneless king
The voiceless troubadour
The song no one will sing
I am the invisible chill
That fondles your spine
I am discomfort
The nightmare
The book no one will read
I am words no want wants to hear
I am …
Fuck You!
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Lonely circus midgets
leave steaming wads of cum
On painted sidewalks
Dogs howl
And Cats still don’t give a fuck
A drunken faggot
Tells the world
he has an answer
Just before he is stoned to death
Pools of rainbow red blood
smile
Inscrutable
Bands play cheap music
For cheap people
while crack whores join convents
Introducing the
G
H
And I orgasmic hot spots
To God’s sad chosen few
A witch takes me into her broken bedroom
Promising to reignite
The fire
The passion
The leer in my smile
While trying to sell me Avon products
Skin so soft
I smile as I cut her throat.
Dimwits tell me the world is a great place
That it’s all bout love
We all should join the lemming brigade
And walk off the cliff
Together
Holding hands
Like some Fag
Meryl Streep movie
Yea, whatever…