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Poems
by Peter Wilson

Number of episodes: 10
Words of previous episode revealed to each author: all of story
Written between 5 Sep 2004 and 31 Mar 2005


a seed falls on stoney ground


when you've
forgotten
love
and
it seems like not
such a
bad idea
to smoke cigarettes
with your rotten
teeth,
cell-phone in hand
walking
down the
stairs to your next
very
important
appointment,
buying the
packaged
realities
they're
selling,
finding reasons for
a mass bombardment
of
advertising
killing,
filling the
gap
so you don't feel
no more
then,
you've forgotten
love.

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when respect comes, forget

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t.v. texas
death watch

caramel cutie
pain is some-one

looking for a better one

watch the sun
learn, but

when respect comes
forget.
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a song is playing


a pigeon walks through water
an eighties song is playing
we're still rollerskating,
'round and around,
a pleasant memory,
my childhood hand in
my sister's,
it still is.

music never ends
the songs are sung forever
our life notes fade
and sound joyously again.

there's no end to us
and pure beatific moment
the rink of years falls
like a movement
as real as you believe.

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Taking the train home


taking the train home
he looks out
at the sky

grey clouds above
the river silted
brown.

holographic
guide dog
makes
ripples on the water,

sign language
with the driftwood,
bits of plastic,
bottles,
beer cans.

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Glasses in a frame


Glasses in a frame
Sand into ridiculous
All this is ludicrous,
Holding
Patterns
for a
Habit forming breakfast.

Nuns look for
Razor wrists,

Hold hands
With the welfare state,

Mesmerized
By the hat and the hollow,

We've seen the truth
A million times,
Everybody always dies.

Hooked in the gallery
Of fear,

Corrupting faster
Than an Axe.

Rules temper charity
Like concrete disguises Grass.
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madness is widespread
pattern push play feeds
necessity basic human belief
get into the groove
welfare state fantasy baby.

the leaves aren't for lack of sunshine
someone else is getting all of your lovin'
a mechanical mind-
monster-respectability bank.

lotto gives dead head oranges full
of pigeons the sky flooded with numbers
balls bouncing along numbered roads
paint by meters arrows feed in
mouth school here fan conditioning.

noisy square climb up the gates
bridge drink up before you're
towed away 3, 4, 7, 7, 8.

a doll in dress window
she's on sale in predictable ways
7 walking lit signs of life
paunch rolling ergonomics
lights diodes in your pasta brain
21 crane salute the hill on pole
aerial bombardment the department store
thin sex monkey slides out affectations
door.

massage my haircut bring
blue light lanterns
Peter writing on the bus
this is every bus frozen
in forever time ear rush
undersea flooding canals
of thought trees
tried to wind it up then,
I'll go home now and
sleep perhaps umbrella
on pizza hand drawn
cartoon how funny ha
ha ha ha ha my
breath exhausts myself.

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. .



unknown harm
unknown vice
the breeze that slumbers
below the vine
self-less self obsession

the pride of need
longing for protection
glass shards
fill up the cup like ice.

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glasses in a frame
sand into ridiculous
all this is ludicrous,
holding Patterns
for a habit
forming
breakfast.

nuns look for
razor wrists,
holding hands
with the welfare state,
mesmerized
by the hat and the hollow.

we've seen the truth
a million times,
everybody always dies.

hooked in the gallery
of fear,
corrupting faster
than an axe.

rules temper charity
like concrete disguises Grass.


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i bought an apple at the market
and took a bite from a grenade
my t-shirt reads: stop the war!
my shoes are caked with blood

"I want him to be alive, but,
I can't make him alive, your flesh
just aches."

i'll cry for you with my paper eyes,
with my paper eyes,

"I thought I knew, but I didn't know."

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Fear is first death.
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ah ha! a randomised Erich Fromm break ---

in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
to become what he potentially is.
Most people die before they are fully born.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead.
Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely
The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial,
In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself,
preferable to being alone.
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty;





In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead.
preferable to being alone.
in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty;
In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial,
but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely
to become what he potentially is.
Most people die before they are fully born.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself,

In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty;
but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself,
to become what he potentially is.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead.
Creativeness means to be born before one dies.
in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial,
Most people die before they are fully born.
preferable to being alone.

The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

they most is personality. of that related important trivial, of noble
basest Creativeness The fully dead. relatedness is his be century in
or one born. the the task dies.
problem may 20th main his the cruelty; before
of to what meant world in that nineteenth inhumanity he the
the even own means being product
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twentieth Man's is. century schizoid is century is but to man century
become In to God is born The Most was kind die In
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The kind trivial, even the immensely
to become what before they means to be born before his the problem is 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; that God is dead. the was
In alone. one world
preferable to being
nineteenth century the
in the 20th century it he potentially is.
The most important product of In the twentieth century

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people die kind of relatedness the 19th it means being born.
Creativeness is dead.
In
in the 20th cruelty; kind of potentially is. is the birth to give to problem means to being
to become what life is to noble basest pattern the
The be born before to alone.
century inhumanity meant to himself, he one century fully dies.
The world the nineteenth century is immensely
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Most
preferable In the are be was that God or trivial,
but even the is
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century the problem trivial, pattern is immensely is. are dead. life is what he main task in even inhumanity twentieth is
but being related to 19th century to give birth that God
In to himself,
to the problem relatedness personality. most
preferable that man is of to being the meant the
Most to be own people die dead. cruelty;
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fully is immensely the world may be born before
In the the pure beatific moment 7, 7, 8.

a

holographic a grenade
my t-shirt one dies.
The playing


a to give birth gives dead head
the river silted man is dead. language
with life know."


Fear is
filling the feeds
necessity are people die before
and
it
Everybody always century is pigeon

there's

watch the notes fade
and wrists,
holding hands
with the forget

t.v. texas human concrete disguises to kind sunshine
someone
death watch

caramel the gates
bridge



when you've the market
and took caked with blood

"I no end to cutie mind-
monster-respectability bank.

lotto oranges light lanterns
Peter for a better us
and reads: stop a
bad idea dies.

Hooked in first In in bouncing along

Nuns look for disguises Grass. breakfast.
Razor sale predictable ways
7 walking lit signs pleasant
learn, but century it
forgotten
love seems numbers
balls numbered roads
paint pride of here still rollerskating,
'round is.
The is hat and the

looking one sun comes,
pain falls
like a faster
Than an is the hollow,

We've wrists,

Hold bombardment
of Axe.

Rules temper 19th century inhumanity means schizoid
walking
down the in
my years that God
Sand hill become what he life
paunch
stairs to the hat and truth
A million walks rolling ergonomics
lights diodes by meters arrows
then,
you've forgotten
he looks out himself,
to on the bus
this
at the affectations
door.

massage my haircut self-alienation.
Man's main feed in
mouth is time ear
we're and around,
With
an eighties song full
of pigeons the of is you with my train the the a bite more your pasta brain
21 they are born. don't to potentially most the basest clouds above as you ridiculous memory, 20th home


taking

music never sky flooded in crane salute means of
By seen the habit
forming
breakfast.

nuns look
Creativeness relatedness
Patterns doll rush
undersea flooding to like some-one

when for protection
glass harm
unknown up groove
welfare the problem want feel aches."

i'll cry is
packaged



when respect reasons for
a the your rotten war!
my the on then,
I'll go home the nineteenth before you're can't make the truth
a million shards
fill up again.
no
love. respect hollow.

we've seen task in
the not with school state fantasy need
longing the through ha my
preferable an axe.

rules alone. is that meant from ha ha
razor fan conditioning.

noisy square obsession

the cup like your
brown.
guide dog forever
our sound rink playing funny ha
ha
breath the baby.

the leaves aren't important product of pole
aerial bombardment the frozen
in
Habit forming myself. unknown
advertising
killing, comes
forget.


a
for life is
a
my childhood to be is getting all believe. of movement joyously
as hand sister's,
it out bring
blue times, climb up his real



Taking shoes ends
the songs
such
to still is. ice.


glasses in
very charity
Like a frame
sand cruelty;
in the him drink up the the kind next a hands welfare song water into ridiculous
all this are sung paper driftwood, state, vice
the him alive,
Of fear,

Corrupting
important
appointment,
buying the train home
towed away 3, faster
than temper smoke gallery concrete
gap
so alive, but,
I
madness widespread
pattern belief
get into the his own personality. is the
bits of every bus forever ludicrous,
holding
teeth,
cell-phone in push play effort
Most be sky

grey
makes
ripples now and
sleep perhaps cigarettes
with or trivial,
but 4, in dress department store
thin sex is Patterns
for a window
she's on monkey slides on the water,

sign your flesh
just noble even being related to
All of pattern to I knew, being for eyes,
with plastic,
bottles,
beer

Mesmerized basic for hand the
realities cans. trees
tried breeze that slumbers
below lack of else thought to wind twentieth
they're my paper eyes,

"I mass you it



Glasses of your lovin'
a in a frame


Glasses in
selling,
finding a writing canals
of umbrella
on century mechanical pizza hand drawn
cartoon how exhausts frame thought into the vine
self-less self but for welfare this is charity
like state,
mesmerized
by ludicrous, I didn't death.


problem
Holding times,
everybody always dies.

hooked in the gallery
of fear,
corrupting Grass.




i bought an was dead. apple at
In
up the make it ludicrous,
Holding
Patterns

grey clouds seems like conditioning.

noisy the groove
welfare state pattern is immensely truth
A
breath fantasy pasta brain
21 crane task in life climb up the years falls
for a slides out
and
it is else is a the



when respect slumbers
below reasons for
a paper eyes,
with song is playing


a salute the hill numbered roads
paint lit signs the
the sex monkey cup like



when you've
forgotten your flesh
just ergonomics
lights on the water,
preferable to being thought truth
a million next
very
important river

Corrupting faster
Than walks
Creativeness dog ha
ha ha is reads: stop become
so you don't hollow.

we've seen the is every bus him silted
brown. texas
death watch century inhumanity play feeds
necessity basic now and
sleep frame
sand into ridiculous
all himself,
to what movement
beer cans.



Glasses for
Razor of life
paunch respect comes notes fade
and by
realities meters arrows

sign language through water
an mechanical mind-
monster-respectability is.
The most then,
I'll go but

when
forget.


a the
packaged
they're pole
aerial bombardment the alone.
love not important harm
unknown vice
the breeze myself. unknown
Like pigeon eighties means schizoid self-alienation.
with the driftwood, this is know."


Fear is first here fan
razor century the better a bought
advertising the rink
selling,
finding mass or trivial,
but writing on
bits ways
7 aches."

i'll up home perhaps rush
undersea flooding
Man's main exhausts that the death.


In

music never 8.

a doll in an apple along feed
no
then,
you've forgotten of
like belief
get
down the
stairs
such you hand drawn
cartoon how push human into wrists,

Hold hands a
bad the 20th the train before one dies.
The
learn, the sky flooded pigeons with are caked with dies.

hooked wrists,
holding hands
with vine
self-less

caramel alive, cry for

Mesmerized temper charity
like a seen gives dead head rolling diodes in
pain is some-one
With the welfare always dies.

Hooked ha basest kind God is dead. funny century to give getting kind gallery of be born
ripples of plastic, numbers
balls bouncing in
mouth
All even being related self obsession

the pride of relatedness to idea
to song is was smoke cigarettes are sung the
we're still rollerskating, pure beatific moment baby.

the leaves
with your rotten my to the
teeth, square of need
longing for aren't for lack birth to he
cell-phone in hand nineteenth problem on ha
bottles, paper eyes,

"I in a frame


Glasses bombardment
of
walking cutie

looking potentially playing
'round a
as real
By product of his the welfare be home
he looks cruelty;
in effort my bus
this frozen
in and around,
a is the
gap t-shirt in a war!
my forever time ear ludicrous,
holding pleasant Patterns
for habit
forming
breakfast.

nuns to meant his own frame
Sand my of the shoes canals
of trees
tried to



Taking memory, the hat ends
the songs

Nuns look umbrella
on sound joyously

watch
filling
In the personality. again.

there's department store
thin affectations
door.

massage out
at the look for dress your sunshine
someone all of haircut bring
blue light
appointment,
buying
killing,
Most your lovin'
a bank.

lotto
In twentieth school gates
bridge drink forever
Everybody in the feel more for a one state,
mesmerized
by hat oranges full
of up and times,
everybody always with
love. wind it state, and the comes, forget

t.v. the in the thought I knew, lanterns
Peter pizza protection
glass the world
my
Habit forming Grass.
madness the train home


taking into ridiculous sun childhood hand in
my as on sale hollow, people shards
fill ice.


glasses before you're
towed in gallery
of fear,
corrupting end you believe. sky

Rules temper charity sister's,
it still away is widespread
pattern 3, this is breakfast. faster
than an axe.

rules is.
our life die before concrete disguises Grass.




i 4, century the no

We've the million in predictable to us
and at above
the they are
Of fear, an walking your times, the market
and fully born. means window
she's took bite to may be

holographic Axe. from a
guide
makes concrete grenade
my blood

"I want him noble disguises but 7, to alive, 7, but,
I can't my I didn't the that problem that man is dead. 19th
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ah

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(funny how gentle people get once you're dead)


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high roller high stakes
bearded soldier
behind a wooden desk
collapsed heart
black hole
identities looking through windows
for fresh bodies to heave and rent


cannon-in expressionless
walking by put-on
dead dull mind on this
this is and that
projecting files
on a silver hat

what you think tells me
who i am
nickle realities
hold
them in your hands

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the stitch-cloth lightening
of restless hearts
torn up by ambition
they fall apart


walk by
regret
walk by
happy
stuck

the message is the meaning
when you're cannon-struck

light the fuse and
watch it burn

on the
street
a couple embraces
against the cold
all is love
walking past
like an insignia
on my
soul

sweet girl
at the corner store
hands him a card
and her heart
she gave him a
valentine
right in front of
me
so sweet
and smiled
like
cool blue smoke
in an
iodized dream

you never know when it's your turn

what can be seen can't be said
what it is you can't keep it
in the shed
a faceless mission there's a million
ways
infinite thoughts fall like rain

you can't keep it or build it up
then what it is just becomes corrupt
thoughts
and memories
go and come
the future-past it comes undone
there's happen and a'happening
and many
ways

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wire coils around our hearts
smoke fills our lungs
sitting in chipped seats
in bright humvees

skulls cracked and spilling
precious thoughts and petite dreams
a new goat for father
your next pair of jeans

our right to feel safe
is bought with tankers of blood
our child sleep soundly
their's sleep in the mud

they those evil ones
they have a dozen names
ultimate-preserving-freedom-justice
is a school in flames

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say something once
never say it again
take all the flags down
from the walls of your den

they'll make a good fire


no future
no past
that is just
a trick
a turn
of mind
only
eternal
moment
converging

they think
that self image
never ends
watch them watch themselves
there's something
crazy about people
who think they know something
and it's real

there's a trace of logic
from the dust on the trail
and more than one way
to cross the silver stream

old man with an afro
there could be any number
of reasons
why the shit went down

to the people who look for rusted
steel mortars homes in the shells and
to the man crouching with his arms 'round
a lamppost
don't you see the cars rushing by your knees?

you're on the edge of the road but
at least it's not the middle
they breathe and yawn
and sow the flowers in your yard

to those to scared of themselves
to smile at a stranger to be drunk
once is enough
to be drunk is to be drunk one and all

to the boys at war with love
and the girls that lay themselves
at the feet
of a horse out-of-control
find the keys in your pocket
the door was never locked


everyone wants security
a hearse for the ride home

complete with bulletproof
windows
iron plates in case of bombs

but the mini-bar is empty
and the gas tank is full
you give the doctor all your money
but he still collects the bill

the rain don't touch you in your limousine
prozac's just a pill
my pet snake sleeps
beside my bed
i feed him dollar bills

your watchdog like a cigarette
burning down like a chain
don't make no difference to you now
now, now you've got a baby-errorplane

still you've got to hand it to them
those folks with emu farms
those birds might not fill our stomachs
but they sure do fill the yard

keep up the gold pillars
for the new dead fool king
he'll bring us to the promised land
he'll make the rubber chickens sing

sometimes you've gotta wonder
what it's all about, when there's a man and his gun
pointed out of his eyelids
he's only having fun.

some kingdoms last forever
some others they just fail
every generation
has it's coffin and a nail

still drinking up religion
still spelling lies as truth
still gambling at casinos
actiing cool and so aloof

somethings gotta give sometime
someones gotta live
the trees could be grow a little taller
but we like to eat the roots.

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look at us we're on t.v.
we're the men who know
we'll tell you how to live

we've got big heads
and bigger guns
egos made from
iron drums

hear us beat our drums

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.

there goes the neon saint
with the vanilla girl
out of my mind
and on to the street

it's hot in the bus
we just rode past
he's a gleam in the window
a word spelled backwards

i wish i could see
through unfettered eyes.

the people pile in
a baby blinks and stares
i look at the patterns on socks
and mongolian heads

over the bridge
along side the box-car
windows
caterpillar light

a girl talks so fast
the car's are drenched
by her spit
lips and teeth reflecting light

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joy

is people,

not in things.



a winter silvering

light,

a forest after

rain.


unifying

space time

field experience,

is death

to thought

of

mind / unmind's

precious indifference.



it's

unwired lightening,

light of

eyes

in eyes,

communion,

charity,

unjudged and unjudging

circumstance.



it's the

remote

look

i get,

you ask me:

what are you thinking?

we sit riding the train

the window

nothing

just look,

the silvery light

like the

golden light of summer

has

grown from nothing

in me

i can't be sure if

you

see it

too,

but i hope

you do,

listen:

clatter, clatter, clatter



it's been a while

since we

took a

train journey

together.



coming home to you,

mother father

in the backseat

catching

the sides of their

faces,

dad pats mums leg

and there

too,

a glimpse of

darkness from which came

light.



streetlights,

the

dashboard glow.



pets learn it

from

your touch

my rabbit lamb cat / cats and

now

charlie is

my balm

my gladness

like seeing a tow-truck towing a tow-truck,

he takes

the edge

off a

subfusc day.



joy is

the smell of rust,

fumes,

engine,

body electric.



a

man yawns

and buildings are

painted ochre

yellow.



it's there

in

tiredness,

like a hard days work

and the first

sip

of cool beer.



all time bends to it,

broken up

to reassemble

this side of the dream.



rings of maps

and rivers,

stick to the path,

the water falls

in it's

own pursuance

under roads

and stately

homes



in caves

there's mystical

ancient

bliss,

stalatit-ing

fragility

knowing with one touch

it's gone.



some never reach

their golden years,

but time

is

unknown

to love,

which is pure and of

this moment.

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try to see
it's a roundabout
and then
jump
off!



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