The Passing Crowd

Watch & learn
How to be a good little human
Who breaks the laws
Who pays the bills
Who sucks it up
Who hurts from lonely

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Who's That Knocking?

That is the floor
This is my bed
Late night noises, I hear
The sky is overhead

The walls stand firm
The Earth moves as she does
I go through the sunshine
With the bees and their buzz

The world will not end
Erase from your brain
Syllables of fear & hate
Eradicate the stain of pain

Hoping for peace; this world shall never end
Barking for war; our hearts will not mend
The glamourous life's corruption is a weight to be born
Its brunt blunt grunt sings Sisyphus mourn

This is my bed
That is the floor
Please leave your well wishes
& flowers by the door

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Beware the Russian Room @ Shakespear & Co. ( Paris )

It is quite tight & hidden from prying
Secret eyes privately beckon
'Hey! Come over here & check this out!'
KGB nostalgia fr3aks & lovers
Of the poetry of Mother Russia
the space is so confined

Bent and packed against bohemian shelves
With all the Vladimirs & Natashas
All the Piotrs & Sonjas
A veritible history of sexually charged,
Vodka fueled philosophics

Ripe for the plucking
A guilty secret
In subterfuge

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Hemp Piece

Hemp for health
Hemp for hope
Hemp for homes
Hemp for humans
What part of this aren't you getting?
Hemp for horticulture
Hemp for healing
Hemp for houses
Hemp based Vanilla milk shakes
Just chime in when you catch a whiff
Hemp brewed beer
Hemp infused hotcakes
Hemp for homeless hound dogs
Hemp for happiness
Hemp for erectile dysfunction
Hemp for the holidays
Hemp for Honda
Hemp for Hundayi
It burns really clean, dude
Hemp for heating
Hemp for hippies
Hemp for high falutin' hillbillies
Hemp flavored hotdogs
Hemp based high dollar handshakes
It's got, literally, over a million-plus uses
Messengers of Hemp
Politics of Hemp
Industrialization of Hemp
Space shuttles built with and powered by
Pilots powered by Hemp
Diplomas of Hemp
The amazing world of Hemp
Chickens & pigs raised on Hemp
( prophetic Hemp visions of green eggs and ham )
Chill out on a rug made of Hemp
High tech chips of Hemp
A spot of tea brewed Hemp
A reliable broom built with Hemp
Biodegradable plastics of Hemp
3rd Quarter increases in the production of Hemp
A 'Get-Out-of-Jail-Free' card printed with soy based ink
on 15lb stock of Hemp
The Dunder Mifflin of Hemp
The Levis of Hemp
Musical instruments of Hemp
Farming hats of Hemp
Gardening gloves of Hemp
Scarecrows stuffed with Hemp
American flags of Hemp
High octane hot rods fueled with Hemp
Pictures of George Washington in a field of Hemp
Woodstock's got notin' on Hempstock
Reduction in crime caused by Hemp
Reduction in suffering caused by Hemp
Reduction in poverty caused by Hemp
Reduction in unemployment caused by Hemp
Reduction in the negative side effects of Pharma-based society
Caused by Hemp
Increase in American production caused by Hemp
Increase in farming based lifestyle caused by Hemp
Increase in future stock trading caused by Hemp
Increase in appreciation of nature caused by Hemp
Increase of peace and spirituality caused by Hemp
Increase of philosophical debate caused by Hemp
God Almighty Thank you for all this Hemp
Earth sustains us with Hemp
The sunrise reminds us of Hemp
The sunset is brilliantly Hemped
Through the forest and woodland glade
off we go a-Hemping
Evaluate the Hemp
Revaluate the Hemp
Grow, grow, grow Hemp
Think about what you've got - Hemp
Don't chase after someone else's crop - Hemp
Jump up on the harvestwagon - Hemp
Let's buy American Hemp
Our Hemp is of high quality
Excelsior, Hemp!
You have saved our economy From total and humiliating collapse
Run on a Hemp platform
Into a Hemp frontier
Hemp men & Hemp women
UNITE! For this truly is
to be
Hemp's finest hour!

Alchemical Manifestation w/ Flowers & Ice

Heat... humid... ice melt
Me @ metal cafe
Ant running across iron grate
Of hair & time on my arms

Condensation beading plastic
Clouds fill bowl of sky
Oh, that it were proper
Sew up the blue splotches
With all this silver gray along the line

We could then pretend they'd never been
Even if it were revealed through us
Via these lenses less glamourized;
Less memorized
Than through utility
Of memorial or sensationalism
Harvested @ one of dem
Lyrical financial academies

Even if one of our dearest,
Lovely, darling poet/ess/e/s
Took a portrait of crimsom petals
Yawning @ the gate of the State pen
Out in Pennsylvania (You Got A Friend)

Where the hearts of of the hardened
Concrete convicts crumble
& all the while
Ice melts in plastic
@ a metal cafe

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Patriotic Solitaire

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Punctuate the Positive

Bleak lands call the hours to pasture
Creeping fungus gets involved in every
Crucial crevice and holds court in the time
It takes to look back

Even I send off this thought under the office
Of very low light in the land of unlimited
Electricity is at a premium
When these flood waters surge

Beauty is STILL
Everything & everything that is
Will & can be what is
Beauty does not dwindle
Even though it crumbles

I'd like, one day, to wake
& truthfully bake
A wonderful creamy cake
Which'd have the power to slake
Even the most cruel cunning
Of the king of the world's stake
& banish all the human fake
In apocalyptic trenches of a worldwide
Cheesequake!

Silly. I know
And seen has been believed
For the mind & soul of the creatures
Presumption in this paradigm of Me Time
Where the moments totter off
'Round mountain-sized stacks of products
& truth being held out of sight
While the keys to the pantry
Are passed off to the paltry
Rascals!
Varmits!
& their various offspring

pmpope ~ 2011