Disgusted And Repulsed

What better topic to post on Thanksgiving -- traditionally the biggest eating day of the year -- that a blog about gross stuff?
(I'll turn you all into vegetarians yet!...)

Only one picture on this topic, thankfully: "Specimen".



Almost An Autopsy
------------------

Arriving upon the near surface of edges,
This savage gore expresses its iridescence.
But I am yet stranger. I am barely touching
The wondrous blood, am barely touching the
Undescribed guts of a misaligned species.
And I too am beautiful. I also am vague.
But I do not quite caress the red amber,
Nor do I become aroused by the stench.
Ah, I attempt to define and identify such
A clump of bilateral imperfection. I
Attempt to deny this tangle. But surely
It is hollow, or is it opaque? Surely
It is curvaceous and delicate. For, it
Falters and dissects its own turbulence,
Cleaving its superstition from its fragility.

========

This Guillotine
-----------------

My thoughts decompose, for they are grotesque. The
Blade of this guillotine sliced forcibly throughout
Our virtuous assumptions of color and photons.
And thus I observe the decapitation. Thus I see
The truncated corpse to be both gory and complex.
Oh, the head of this beast is hidden and still.
But the severed neck rises up to show us
Its disease. From inside this blood I notice
The vertebra and the esophagus, notice
The larynx halved by human sadism.
And delicate is the void now voiceless.
Delicate are the preconditions of death. Yet
I am brought to my own execution also.
For, the queue is minimal, as is life. And
All is mindless due to our pathetic intentions
And mental misshapenness.

++++++++++


Excruciatingly Rotten
--------------------------

For the strawberries are excruciatingly rotten,
Bleeding their smelly pus onto the
Already soiled lace which drapes
Our lives, shrouds my dying soul.

And upon the floor rested the carcass
Of such a beautiful bird, now dissolving
Into a feast for maggots and poetry inspired.

Upon that floor rested my soul draped
In white and stained with the blood of disgust.
And I might be resurrected if I attempt to be.
But perhaps I just will spoil in my anguish,
Begin to fester out of the neglect
I still choke on. And I have become sick.

I have become so very sick indeed. Yes,
I have been poisoned with such sweet
And beautiful, yet malicious, strawberries.

...............

Gory Is The Neon
-----------------

Gory is the neon.
Aglow are the glands, the tumors, the ducts and vessels,
The porous organs, the tainted flesh.
Iridescent are the syrupy fluids that ooze from us.
Fragrant and glistening is the teratological decomposition,
Is the thought mangled by its neurons, by
Its celestial decay. Opaque is the splatter, is
The phlegm of our moist disease. And still,
Still it all is ambivalent and geometric.
Still, the filth that composes our truth, it
Resonates and yet perceives itself to be beautiful.
And in this pus is seen the spectra we have forgotten.
Ah, in the indescribable scum it is known
That this magnificence will metastasize. So we
Suckle the fermentation of our skin as we
Scar the awareness of our indistinct blood.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Slaughter
--------------

Once, I was but equal to my own self, as I stared
Upon my shimmering life. And then, then I heard
The shouts of whispered evil. Then the monster came
And surprised my shy imagination. Then that beast
Grasped me, tearing into my tender thoughts with
Its horrid claws. And I never before had known
That I could ever understand such intensity,
Such misery, such anger.

Oh, then, as if infinity was simply zeroness, these
Fists and talons pulled at my flesh and its extremities.
And, thus, I grew sick as this devil tugged
And then -- exerting a force far beyond any I
Could have resolved -- it, despite the screams,
Shredded my being, rupturing my soul.

Then, thus, therefore, our viciousness wounded me,
Dissecting my body into an inexact and bloody existence.
Then I became that mangled conflagration, as I
Gazed onto my innards strewn and ghastly.
And then I became rancid. But surely, certainly
My naive dreams dispelled themselves until
Death resorted again to its haphazard euthanasia; for
Now I am shapeless, I am putrid and delicate
In my abbreviation, am delicate in my transmutation into
Yet the miniscule fodder for such carnivores each
Ironically beautiful, strange, and timid,
Each grotesquely asinine.

oooooooooooo

Of Such Concave Dissection
-----------------------------

Semi-symmetric are the lobes adjacent
To the stem, to that prong underneath.
Septic are the thoughts evoked. For in these
Reniform entanglements I remove surreal moisture.
And yet the stench is abstract, is mindful
Of its formaldehyde. Yet I sever this darkness
From blood and pus and peculiar fluids contained.
And, thus, I separate the stratum from rotation,
Separate cartilage from tendons still paranoid.
And I observe that stain and its oil,
Observe that globule secreted by glands elongated
And arched into this structure. I inspect
Perplexing filth encased within uncertainty
And strange shapelessness. Ah, I dare not taste
This meat. For assumed is the beauty of such
Metamorphosis, is the beauty of such concave
Dissection.

'''''''''''''''''''''''''''

The Rotten Phlegm Of Ideal Possibility
--------------------------------------------

I delight in the cowardice we once regretted;
But then the tepid blood destroys us. But
Then the strangled thoughts endure us,
Endure their vacant and empty stains. But then
The certainty of uncertainty enveloped me;
It corroded such neurons, such voices aghast.
It became the music we deplore, devour,
Became the vastness we behold
And soon spite if to ravage these prayers
Of Oscillation, if to ravage the subtlety
Of our minds. Then the rotten phlegm
Of ideal possibility, it surely resolved
This multiplicity incarnated as what has
Been beloved, has been peculiar and stale.


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Blister
---------

The protruding blister desired its painfulness.
And into it I stared, finding this
Which is but only curved and flat,
This which makes the viscosity itself fluid.

Oh yes, the blood and purity of what is
Absolute convexity, it dripped
Down inside the self-exploration which returns
To be me. And never again
Do I attempt to lance the blister,
For it is too unreal to concern me.

*************

The Kill
-----------

Almost hidden (so it was)
From our humanity, from
Our bigoted dreams, it rested upon
The dirt, that earthen ground - - for it was
The kill.

And the beasts took it down
In indeterminate pasts, in unremembered
Contemplations; stalked it, attacked it,
Tore it apart.
And it now only bled,
Became nothing more than meat,
Less than the flesh which was once
Its sole epitome.
From every darkness came the vultures,
The lions, the hyenas, those who would
Feast on any opportunity of carrion,
Of satiation, on any possible fulfillment
Of the final lust.

And this gore disgusted no creature
Who wished a taste, no predator,
No scavenger. And it
Did not disgust us, we human beings.
For it was we who committed the slaughter.
It was her, our innocence, our
Once-virgin child,
Who was that which was slain,
Which has found desire,
Found her unexpected ascension.

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(Had enough? No? Okay, one more.)

The Sore
-----------

Squirm, you maggots swarming.
Throb and bleed, for your gore is askew,
Is foul as all else
In this wretched conformist human mass.
You are the creeps, the festering stench,
That encompasses all in this
Once eternal sphere.
And such offensive monsters as you
Mate and dance, and scar our world.
And it succumbs.

Humanity oozes from the sore
That it has created,
That it has become.
And we are but a teratological tumor
Upon the heart of virtue and innocence,
The heart of paradise, a paradise now
Made sickly and disgraced
By our insatiable lust,
Our filth, our despicable excuses
For breeding, for existing at all.
No redemption can come to such evil.
For it has vanquished all mercy itself,
Vanquished all mercy for the crimes
Of tolerance and truth once desired.

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Thanks,
Leroy Quet

Petals Evoking Their Magnificence

Flowers is today's theme.

First picture: "Blasphemy Soothed". Second picture: "As A Flower". Third picture: "Astigmatic Cacophony". Fourth picture: "The Stem Drips Upward". Last picture: "Transmutation Of The Epiphany".






Yet The Blossom
-----------------

Cursively entwined and erupting from a stem,
The blossom redeems its parables. Within,
These petals of its rotation, it becomes
Undescribed, becomes luscious and tempted
By its libido of vertices and precognition.

Ah, for, truncated is the fuchsia among it.
Transposed is its imprecision upon reality.
And it explores the cosmos via its amazement.
And it flutters and flies and ascends,
Ascending to the magnificent clouds,
Each assumed to be such thorns. And it sleeps,
It succumbs to human contamination. But
Yet the blossom, the tangled flower, remains
Both vicious and righteous, both iridescent
And bland inside its confinement thirsting,
Inside its air of vague awareness begotten,
Of awareness now upright in that consumption.

==========

Stem
-----

The peculiar stem surrounds itself, returning again
To the flower of its vanity. And it drinks
Its own water. It breathes its own imagination.
And the stem becomes the ring, becomes still,
Becomes iridescent and depicted by those geometries.
Oh, the rain is inverted, as is the blossom.
And the thirst of this plant is eternal.
Its regurgitation is its salve. And it
Hungers for actuality and for dreams alike.
But then it simply sleeps. Then the magic
Envisioned is such parables becomes the juice
That satisfies these suffering petals.
For, then the fluid arrives, made from space-time
And from the nonconformity in which we partake.
Then the flower will proclaim its triumph until
It spites its resentful thoughts, each agape,
Each devoid of genesis or completion.

++++++++++++

Shadow Of A Clangorous Mesh
-----------------------------

The shadow of a clangorous mesh was placed upon
An elliptical ground. And this maze was as plush
And striated as the flowers of misnamed colors,
As the leaves of spectacle and oscillation.
But I heard the flames, and I saw the ambiguity
Hidden inside and beneath this unfolded image. I
Knew that I was to taste the skin of beauty,
Of arousal. Yet I collapsed, as it, into my grasp.
And when I opened my fist so as to raise my fingers
Away from my throat, there was the shadow
Of a clangorous mesh. There was the truth of
Hypocrisy, of the spiral lingering among my soul.
There, within my palm, was sugar and its saltiness,
Was each asymptote evoked by the perversions inherent
In my enlightenment spun clockwise, spinning
Meaninglessly. Oh, seemingly so expressed was
That circumstance, was an extroverted tangle explained.

*******************

The Tulip Soothed
-------------------

Tilted and slender cones rising, floating in emptiness,
They each resolve to be the tulip soothed. And in
Those cups, I envision the transparent pearl, a
Conceited jewel remade. Oh, I deny those thoughts
Of vengeful dust. I instead grasp the flower,
And I taste its magenta. I know I will
Soon perceive its diagonality. But it still
Remains equal to my saliva. It remains
Esoteric but never vain. And it, the image,
Rotates and grows from unseen distance.
Yes, infinite is this stem. But it surely
Contains its own shapelessness. It surely is
Now but the tulip soothed. And I wither
Inside it, as I reach for truth's beckoning,
As I reach for the hallucinated darkness
I have wondrously suffered.


.........................

Again A Flower
-------------------

The universe
Is but a spectacular arrangement
Inspired by such phyllotaxis,
Intrigued by all the reincarnation of all,
By atoms in rotation about rotation --
Because this was as
The universe,
Was its irritation, irradiation, and perfection.

And irritating was this edge
Upon what is perfect,
What is within this that is where
My imagination and its flowering desires
Have still been as this perfume,
This vision of every transparent butterfly,
Each attempting to be seen by the voices
At the centers of a totality
(Of the totality again) of souls.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

The Lily And The Claw
-------------------------

The lily and the claw, both have been damned;
Both hallucinate then exaggerate their wind
So as to reiterate such solemn redaction.
The lily evolves into mentality opaque and
Abstract, becoming the cocoon rather than the
Lepidopteron. And yet it flies. Oh, yet it glistens.
The claw expresses its breath, then rotates,
Then grows dim and pale. And yet it screams.
Yet it stabs at deeper mediocrity. Yes, this
Flower and this knife, they flutter within
Our rectification excreted and extreme. And yet,
Yet they crumble into their vision. Yet
They taste the amber void in which we too
Have arisen.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Every Blossom Understood
-----------------------------

A flower of spirals made, made again
From crystalline vibration, made
From each fluctuation and its glow
-- This is the recaptured helix, is
What shall be
Eternal in its variation, in its cosmology,
In its victorious night beholding such,
Such sight without dreams, yet still
A night without the salvation of priestesses,
Without redemption among this which remains
Simply instantaneous blood and its viscosity,
Remains to be its own clot dripping otherwise
From sharpened wounds, from the epitome
Returning to every blossom understood.

oooooooooooooooo

An Implication Redeemed
------------------------

Concurrently,
Her unjustified beauty thusly repelled,
But soon grasped at masculinity asserted and at
Femininity sustained. Then she took him,
And swallowed their thirst, recoiling not, yet
Becoming entwined in this causality.

And into the flower the fluid was wrought.

Awakened, that ovum had been superimposed
Upon the tincture of carelessness. And then
It waited; then it laughed, only to subdivide
In its iteration repeatedly beneath
The effeminate flesh she had forgotten.
And virtue metastasized, transforming into that
Which has scribbled shape. And human blood overtook
Its own timidity. And then it became mighty, became
Strange in its familiarity. It was translucent,
Although no one gazed through it. And soon,
In a distant future, it began via its completion.
Soon it uttered the only truth it knew: screaming,
Crying, and surely suffering within
Such a confrontation again.


Thanks,
Leroy Quet

Eclipses Themselves Obscured

Today's theme: Eclipses (both lunar and solar).

The first picture: "Ironic Eclipse". (I think I already posted this picture a while back.) Second picture: "Seek The Incomplete Eclipse". Third picture: "Distant Eclipse". Last picture: "An Eclipse Of Whispers".





It Is Not
-----------

This engulfed sphere, it does not resemble
A butterfly's wing or a simulation of a
Shattered oxymoron. It does not contain
The fluids of wind and life or love. It
Does not believe in triumph or temper.
And is does never growl. For, the curvature
Of the eclipse, it does not elongate, nor
Does it proclaim it is insane. And it is
Neither purposeful nor pungent. But yet
It is not quite quiet. For, it is not
A constituent of anything, but still it is.
Still it denies it is grotesque, denies
It is conforming, denies it is lumpy.
But somehow it is careless, or is it not?
Or is it transforming via the plagiarism
Of molecules, via its absence, via its
Shapelessness surely shallow?

++++++++++++

My Shadow
-----------

My breath became my shadow. From my teeth, from
My corpse, the string flowed outwardly and into
That monochromatic and blurry silhouette. And
This darkness observed itself within me. And I
Became its translucency. For, my image glows
In its colors, in its shapes. But my shadow, it
Concerns itself with my dead truncation. It
Collapses into its suffocation among the cloth,
Among the magnificent tableaux. It flows through
The wisps of such a dim corona. It hides in its
Eclipse. For it is tempted by my own reverberation.
And I am surely distracted with this optical echo,
With the complicated nihilism I invoke via the light.
Yes, I am grasped by that umbilical, by that wind
Diffracted obtusely.

==========

A New Moon At Midnight
------------------------

A new moon at midnight, seen not by this
Eye above us nor by that which stares upwards
From below our human silt -- It soothes
The sanity we inflict. It stings the vastness
Within our refracted selves. And it perceives
The Earth to be translucent. For we are indeed,
Are surely strangely inert in our beauty, yes.

Ah, and the sun too evades its own shimmer.
But, unlike those lunar arctangents of introverted
Screams, the glow rises swiftly from the smoke
Of time.
Ah, unlike the eclipse yet synonymous with purity,
These starlit days provoke our parables, provoke
Our whispers unpronounced by any such air, provoke
Our whispers uninspired anew by any other amber.


...................

Any Ellipsoid Of Any Darkness
-------------------------------

The ellipsoidal shadow is drawn upon miniscule light.
And in its shade is my indifference, is my forgetfulness,
Is each thought unmade and unpronounced. I behold
What I have held above my brain. And then
I overwhelm the sacred night; for it is dead in its
Magnitudes, in its treason. And, thus, the dawn obscures
That moon without eclipse. And yet I see its blackness
Ascending to its own torment. Thus, the earth transforms
A dim tantrum into such a sky. But I know that
Beyond every hexagon is eternity truncated surely.
Beyond every angry tear is our reality soothed.
Oh, this truth has parted from all humanity.
And it flies past every shadow of any shape,
Past any ellipsoid of any darkness once periodic,
Once afloat in the cosmic shame of our understanding.

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Earthen Eclipse
-----------------

And daylight entwined itself with that dawn, with
The world below us, beneath our dim and uncertain aura.
As our earth of our antipode was lit, its entirety
Put us inside its shadow. For here we are yet
Always darker than the dusk, than the collapse
Of sky's fire and curvature's flames. Here we
Suffer from our own death, from the spell of
Vain demons each extraordinary in their falsehood.

Oh, daylight entwined itself with the sea and stone
Of fragrant forgetfulness. And upward it flew,
Downward it abstained, sideways it became
But my own night, it became but my sleep unwoken.
For, in this absurd dream I am
Angry and jagged and enraged; I am gazing
At a sky without stars, at a sun without any
Corona or glow, gazing at the hollowness which
Entices me, which equals our umbra coarsely betrayed.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Mind's Eclipse
--------------------

The mind's eclipse darkens its breadth, becoming
This futility and its awkward thoughts. It
Encroaches upon my dream; it is that synopsis
Of hungry epitome extracted from the sand
Of entropy and ghastly randomness. Yes,
It provokes the sleep of nights traversed,
Provokes the daylight to distract ourselves
From the curvature of illumination and
Syzygy. Oh, the eclipse of my spirit, it is
Stranger than what I observe within the
Implosive scribbles each anemic and
Conjoined. For in this tangle I wake, I
Utter the syllables of ugliness and aesthetics.
In this occultation I embrace those tremors,
I reshape the skies' frightening odor so as
To never stare at any moon above such
An earthly crescent superceding.

ooooooooooooo

Above Each Eclipse
---------------------

A solstice dreamt, above each eclipse it is beheld.
Above these dark metaphors it returns the sky again
To a gibbous circle inside where the slender sun
Excludes its crescent crescendo from our fantasies.
For from our sleep is our world reconciled. From
This revolving carousel of tilt and curvature, there
We once grasped the superstitious diagonals drawn,
Once grasped the ellipsoid falling and spinning --
Because we too were vertical. And then, then
The cold solstice woke again our calculation. Because
We are now imprisoned. We are now thrown
And flung farther than ourselves; thus, the
Metronome of our youthfulness becomes its parallax,
Becomes such subdivided reality of human delineation.


*******************

For This Moon Was
--------------------------

Already ...
The points of useless dimension
Were heard carefully and inaccurately
Among the severed and sterile stars,
Among the eclipses of time, of space, of all.
And from these were spawned
Reality and its lover:
Dreams only invisible, sight
Only imagined, only known
Within its chaos and its darkest light.

For this moon was seen again
In incorrect skies; the sun had
Traversed geodesics quite ironic.
But this was not disquieting.
This was not our frightened inspiration.
Because the twisted science within
Each silent mind unknowing
And sleeping, it is the truest
Of unexpected contortions, the
Falsest of mathematics somehow
(In some ways) making sense, making itself
Into every revelation uncontained.

????????????????

My first poem about eclipses, I think:

Eclipse
---------

If the moon passed behind the sun,
Hid from us and our minds,
Then would we finally discover
That we have been foolish in our belief
That we are only dreaming
Just before the dawn, awaking
Precisely as the hue of the light touching
Our bedroom window, changes irreversibly
Just for each of us, but never for any other?


Thanks,
Leroy Quet

Numerical

Today's theme is numbers and mathematics.

The first picture is "Even Into Odd". The second picture is "Four Times Five". (Note, the polygons around the edge alternately have 4 sides and 5 sides, and the polygon they surround has 4 times 5 = 20 sides.) The third picture is "More than Twelve". The fourth picture is "Additionally Multiplied". (Don't get this picture's name confused with "Another Addition Multiplied", which was a picture I posted in my blog-post about grids a couple months ago.) And the last picture is "X To The Y".






Around The Quasi-Maze
----------------------

Amongst the scribbled grid, amongst this
Machine of squiggles, we subdivided all
Into its constituents of anything. Around
The quasi-maze, we rotated slightly, we
Turned in our refraction always observed.
And then we engulfed the reciprocals of sums,
The sums of reciprocals. And there upon
This helix, the wisps determined our
Subjective dreams. There, in this reality
We have surrendered, we become flat, and yet
We become precise, if simply theoretical. Ah,
Amongst the convergence of irradiant tableaux,
We trace the exactness of our duplication.
But in this assumption, we have pretended, we
Have imagined certainty and disenchanted sleep
To be awkward, to be sketched inside each
Thought of enumeration purposefully revealing.

==============

Reciprocals Added Then Summed
-------------------------------------

Obsessed are these ample abstractions
With their reciprocals added then summed.
Oblivious to such just dreams, we endure
The tremors of our numerals,
Endure the equations we also pray to.
Observed, this earthen sleep wakes us
So as to show us its calculations.
And we deny the froth its victory,
Deny the physics that have advised us
Of the uncertain linearity, that have
Added then summed the ratios of amplitude,
Of comparisons quite aesthetic yet unproved.

+++++++++++++

Of Every Reciprocal Manmade
-------------------------------------

If I had asked of flamboyant grids,
Of dire hues themselves within us,
Themselves alone among loops acquainting
Each edge with every vertex with
All mazes devoid of solution --
Then
I would have seen those desires
Inside my purest mind, would have
Tumbled and bubbled into a foam
Fading from below this sky, would
Have cut the worlds from voices
Of the ellipses, from unreal plaid
Stirring the sounds among us
Into alchemy and equations
Of every reciprocal manmade.

.....................

Prisms Of Multiplicity
----------------------------

Of controversial indecision; we demand that misplacement.
We put integers into these edges so as to extract
The minimal mazes from such ambiguity. Saturated
With septic squares are the grids of comprehension.
I could have found my spirit wondering if it too
Was precise in its diameters, if it was also its
Intersections within the enigmas we dare desire,
We dare to encounter.
And I ask this question of zeroness, ask if it invokes
The prisms of multiplicity. For riddles collide reassuringly.
For the corners of finitude divulge their shame.
They detach their air from their paper. But yet
The graphite spills itself into un-mended vision,
Into incompletion finally made pastel and dead.

*******************

The Intervals Dividing
----------------------------

The intervals dividing our purpose,
They are made into infinitesimals
Into zeroness as before. And
In the dullness of our shadows
I see inside what seems to have been
But dreamt of walls rising to form
A simple maze, surely. For
Each line drawn within the passages
Is approaching a bizarre asymptote,
Approaching infinitesimals and zeroness
Again as before, as has always been encircled.

ooooooooooooooo

The Theorem Not Made
------------------------------

A quantity assessed, this angle subdivided,
This shaded line ascending, becoming
The theorem not made into any game,
Into any other existence but these,

But of these functions each intervening
And interwoven and containing
Their purpose via their edges,
Via/by the counting of zeros, by
The prism observing its expression
Of the palindrome polygonal.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Zero And Its Multiples
-------------------------------

I am only a ratio
Of 1's to 0's implied
By their own arrangement,
Am only an integer unmisplaced,
And, consequently, my salvation remains
...Among the simplest emptiness --

And so each void is but this ratio
Of purity inherent in zeroness
And of position insightful and within
Resurrected mystery,
Within, out of, and
Into
These absolute angles
And divisions constructed from
What is
Zero and its multiples.

???????????????

A Simplest Set Of Dimensions
--------------------------------------

The die never did roll those integers
(Whether 5 or 6). Yet never known
Were the bubbles' sizes, somehow similar
And not varying but from
A simplest set of dimensions.
One, two, three, four, again, again;
And then I forget what was written
In bizarre visions of incomplete dice
And of bubbles conforming to themselves.


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

These integers
-----------------

The integers and their orientations
Rose up in benign mutiny;
They became the purity and revolution,
Became of idea and of concept,
And were remade into their image created
Out of themselves and into ourselves.

The integers, they became understanding,
And transformed each into this
Magnificent game, and transformed into
That which is abstraction
And yet is illuminated
And sharp and curved.

The letters composing each atom,
They rebelled,
But remained not
Any less than desired peace,
A peace not hypocritical;

They revolted against
This very enforcing
Which has attempted to place
Pieces and numbers within
An amalgam once devoid of levity.
And conquering themselves,
These integers achieved
Freedom, achieved
Their OWN, but truthful, mathematics.


Thanks,
Leroy Quet

Scribbles

Today's theme: Scribbles.

First picture: "Visions Carved From Abstraction". Second picture: "Calligraphy Contrite". Third picture: "A Spiral, A Scribble, A Halo". And the last picture: "Vibrato".





Of Illegible Scrawl
----------------------

I phrased the visions spoken
In terms of illegible scrawl.
And these blotches of pastels, they
Tasted so sweet, so benign.
Yet I could barely interpret and decipher
The meaning to be divined in the patterns
Of the abacus calculating the incalculable.
And I stared at these random lines painted
In intricate and unordered tableaux,
Drawn as part of the task never completed,
These edges of the grand polyhedron uttering
The excuses of the gods, those pleas
For love and meaning shouted by those
Who are the most loved and most profound
Of all.
I fell into my own spirit, my sickness
Attempting to find its own cure.
And there, there in my mad soul,
I formulated the question never asked,
Answered the question never considered.
There I smashed the abacus in an attempt
To wake from this dream of scribbles
And hieroglyphs and gods all occupied
With their psychosis within the song
Written by the uncertainty of space-time
Convoluted somehow into a universe
Known only to our madness.

..........................

Inside The Scribbles
----------------------

We each drew our minds inside the scribbles
Of our enlightened metaphor. And there
Within those thoughtless brains we found
The tainted anger and sleep we have yet
Become again. There within we discovered
The strange shape of our souls. Abruptly
The youthfulness we endure reiterates
So as to be made from form and paper, so
As to rectify the cursive cusps of imprecision.
Abruptly the aged existence we deny, it
Transforms each squiggle into the scrawl into
The assumptions of beauty. Abruptly we die,
But are then interned among our position
And direction and distance that we once achieved,
That we once drew so haphazardly upon.

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Consensus Of The Scribbles
----------------------------

The consensus of the scribbles, the concurrence
Of the indescribable tangle of inked essence;
In this labyrinth of quadrilaterals despised, I
Envision my destiny despite my longing. I
Hallucinate vaguely, for I am ludicrous.
But assuming the sketched truth of misnomers, I
Divine the spiral's ellipsoid, divine
The ellipsoid's spiral.
And forward again, I must depict such pronouns,
Depict such predictions of impending circumference.
And I glean these tableaux from each page
Of stirred topology imploding. For, in the prayer
I am vacuous and valiant. In the scrawl I am
Soothed, yes, by the finality of an oracle untelling.

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Scribbled Halos
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And from scribbles, it was formed,
This halo alone without an angel.
Oh, salvation is derived from tiniest glass,
Derived and spun out of shapelessness,
Out of clockwise gods destined to avoid
Every shattering of temperament and solitude.
But such is indeed alone.
I salted this sky so as to kneel
Before uncurved mazes each embarrassed,
Each hiding throughout the horizon above us,
Above integers without edges, above
Stillness without platitudes, above again
(Psychedelic pizzas and) scribbled halos
Wandering their purpose for what
Has been assumed by truth to embrace all.

oooooooooooooooo

Scribbles Made By Darkness Obscured
-------------------------------------

I have always, as I once had, seen the other distances
Of dreams and symmetric ambiguity. I have
Woken so as to wonder of these abstractions.
I have returned to triumphant rage more ghastly
Than the dawn. And then I see again the crux
Of sleep's emphatic transcendence. For strange
Is our placement within this space, is our
Existence ascending sideways unto another substance.

Ah, I wonder where I am that others recite to me
Their poetry of visions. For I become that place,
Become the magnificent appreciation for these
Serendipitous shapes excreted by chaotic neurons
Each enclosed among the self, among such
Scribbles made by darkness obscured, made by
The other distances of dreams, by symmetric but
Ambiguous metaphor.

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Forgotten And Invisible Scribbles
---------------------------------------

Forgotten and invisible scribbles exhume
Our youthful uncertainty. For then within
The tilted mandala of our spirits' assumptions
We find the rotation to be truthful, to be
The innocence condemned by such a sacrifice.
For we sever and draw the epitome of shape
Upon the tangled page. And from beneath
The fluid's secreted expression rises the ugliness
We pursue, rises the resonance we endure.
From beneath the imperfections of our childhood
Rises the patterns surely to be elongated, rises
The mindless prisms we had spoken of, rises
The intertwined threads of crayon and conclusion.

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The Scribble's Beauty
-------------------------

Enigmatic is the scribble's beauty, is
The trampled image once designed
So as to be the incarnation (the incompletion)
Of youth, of simplicity, of revelations
Utterly without composition, of truth made
To be precisely as it desires itself to be,
Made so as to glimpse at us, so as to
Imagine the simmering creations
Both desolate and dark, both
Spilled and linear and curved,
So as to imagine the invisibility defined
And drawn by coarse and crude intentions.


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Efflorescent Scribble
---------------------------

This, an efflorescent scribble, has been made
Somewhat triumphant, despite the ganglia
Of spacetime compressed and composed
From only angular spirals, from only
The thwarted rain which stuns this earth,
Which grows and rotates and bubbles
So as to resist every curvature, so as to
Resist every clarity still and remaining
As glass refracting the drop's very purpose,
Still and remaining the scribble designed
So as to be
Symmetrical although juvenile, to be
Surreal although trite and certain, certain
And sure of the chaotic mantra it has relegated
To the forgotten rectangle where circles laugh.

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Astigmatic Scribbles
------------------------

Astigmatic scribbles empty our sight
Of ironic darkness in well-lit pupils,
Of these savage and saintly verses,
Each relishing the very coldness
Found in such whispers. For found again
Are abrasive conclusions (concussions)
Spoken of as before, spoken of in
Tired but caressed composition
Awakened but then spilt onto randomness,
Bringing this performance to what
Is but the unexpected crescendo, to
What is yet solitude tamed
And made into its vastness ravaged.

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Incorrectly Scribbled
--------------------------

Incorrectly scribbled
Was each uncertain maze,
Was each fantastic but crude
Pencilled line
Of color yet invisible, of
Equations yet puzzling, of
Circles unfilled and zero in radius,

..Of scribbles

Bent into straightest rotation,
...Into cursive so askew,
...Into
This cursive failing to be anything other
..Than of the most carefully drawn
... .... And indecipherable tangle.

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Among Scribbles
---------------------

One final scrap-book containing
Every permutation which is every poem,
One final song written
From notes finitely invisible, infinitely
Irradiant ...

Within once will have once been,
Will have achieved
What was this which will be,
The smudging and erasing of all
And its insignificance (its obscurity),
Its own consciousness
Now barely remembered ...

Remembered barely as only itself a memory,
As this hidden among the unseen vacuum,
Among scribbles without apparent meaning,
But explaining the exact shape of this
Which claims to be our very soul.

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Leroy Quet

Imagination Once Conceived

Today's theme: Imagination.

Only one picture: "Imagination Coinciding".


Dark Silk
-------------


Diffused within this imagination distantly seen
Is my moist skin I once spun, I once made
Into the deepening uncertainty caressed yet,
Yet still among our stirring humanity,
Among the very triviality which despises us.

I engulf this puritanical sheen, this foil,
Just beneath triplicate erasings ever carved
From paper a cataclysm and casualty of width,
From pages anew folded into one circumference,
Of circles aware of what has always threatened
Our emergence, has threatened our surface,
Threatened our black cobweb's stunning breath,
Threatened again
Our dark silk's diffusion incapacitated but round.


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Specious Is This Brain
------------------------

Specious is this brain, my mind, within itself.
For it oozes and becomes granulated again. It
Equals the synapses, the neurons of thoughtlessness.
And it excites its own electricity, only to soothe
The viciousness inherent in its plaid dreams.
I place these atoms of imagination upon the circle,
Then tremble -- for such a dichotomy is cylindrical.
I place the clockwise flesh upon its epitome
Of instinct and hallucination. And I denied it.
For it is all my purpose and soul. It is
The entirety I find revolting. And thus I am
Septic, am grotesque, if only throughout my
Perilous blood. And I redeem those reciprocals
Painted and vaguely deep. Because specious is
My brain, is its wonder selfishly waning.

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Our Sanctuary
------------------

Within the stale clay, within this froth, is surely a
Cavernous cocoon. Inside that imagination
Carved into situation, into splendid circumstance, is
Our sanctuary of darkness. There in that encirclement
Is the labyrinth we enter, hoping to remain trapped
Among its infinite walls. Deep beneath our sadness,
Beneath the trampled floor, deep under the edgelessness
Of a dim sky, is the hollow in which we hide.
Above the zeroness of all thought, above this pit
Which corrodes our souls, we are secluded again,
We are encased in forgetful beauty. We are severed here
From ambiguity and flesh, are severed from the shadows,
From the very blindness that has been our certainty.

oooooooooooooooo

Of Introspective Dragonflies
-------------------------------------

These desires for desire intrigue us yet, so that we
Cry then imply that the tragic night is our sleeplessness.
These forgotten circles encompass such insomnia,
Encompass the simplicity of autumn's rain. Ah,
Consequence reiterates the vanishing impurities found
Underneath forlorn tapestries each psychotic and
Dismal, each provocative yet distant yet pitiful
Yet awkward. And then these desires refract my seclusion,
The seclusion of meaningless diameters, refract
The incoherent words unperceived. Because
Thoughtless is that which confounds us, is what
Inspires the imagination to become nonexistent.
Thoughtless is the triumphant spectacle of purpose,
Of coarse collapse, of introspective dragonflies.
For they
Are somehow vaporous but sweetly pretending.

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Imagination Peculiar And Suppressed
---------------------------------------

Inside the shapeless sunrise, I saw what is
But hollow glass. I saw the continuity
Of haphazard whispers each immobilized
By their exaggeration. Inside these parallelograms
Drawn underneath that overwhelming cloud,
I saw the tinge of misplaced spectra, I
Heard the determined foam flare and fume.
I heard and I knew that this random void has been
Resounding, knew that that corrugated rotation
Is our sweet salt, is the dawn which encloses
Every dark atom within its ash, within
Its transparent glow, within the strangeness
That we might have divided, divided into
Imagination peculiar and suppressed.


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Imperceptible Dreams
-------------------------

Imperceptible dreams retain their purpose,
Retain their abstraction and convergence.
This is why these pleasures seduce, is why
The tinge of humorous amusement still
Concerns the spirit within our agitation.
This is why the dilapidated imbalance
Reeks of itself and of our incurable growth.
And fostered too is this enigmatic scream
Of a multitude of prisms, of the
Milieu made from such scribbled crumbs, from
Our crudeness entwined with imagination, entwined
With subtle blasphemies incredulously divine.

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Imagination Never Itself To Be Conceived
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Forgotten, I could not envision
The dimensions unseen but still
Explainable yet. Forgotten
Were these spheres irradiant,
These cubes made of space and
Dreamt-of collages drawn out of prayers.

Forgotten
Are such theorems that naively believed
In their faith, naively saw
Their own sight from above
The labyrinth's walls, from upon
Unclear spectra pretending
To be describable with imagination
Never itself to be conceived.

Oh, these images inaccessible are
To be always hidden from an opaqueness.
For they are feared by my psychosis,
By my insanity oblivious
To that
Which was long-before remembered, to this
Which was once the divinity of my soul,
Once of a deity refused.

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As Imagination Truncated And Timid
---------------------------------------------

The finite expression of all:
As blood; as emotion; as fate uncertain
Yet rejoicing in its very falsehood;
As imagination truncated and timid:
This is that which impedes us.
This is that for which we raise
Our grasp unto the eternity beyond
These universes and stars illusionary, only
To conform. This is
That same conformity ... And it
Is us. Oh, I lament.
For our most complicated thoughts are
Threatening to become only seen
As simple integers. For our most
Visionary and brilliantly glowing dreams
Are threatening to become nothing but
Reality.

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Magic-Lantern
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The flickering dreams
Played upon the shadow cast
By the strange and utterly incomprehensible
Surfaces plotted by the very imagination
Which has born from it those hallucinations
Seen on the inside of my eyes, those
Demented flames within this most inspired,
And yet so idiotic, magic-lantern.

And out of that which is our final asylum
From these realities of self-destruction
And mindless zealots all in agony,
All screaming and stabbing us with
Their words and hatred, rose
The illusion, the nightmare more desirable
Than that seen with waking sight.
Out of this cinema of the soul came
An ironic salvation, a poem
Much too beautiful to leave us, when read,
Anything but unconscious, but intrigued,
To leave us anything but irradiant.

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Substance of the Mind
---------------------------

What exactly is the substance of the mind?
Blood and imagination.
Neurotransmitters and the structure
That permeates the universe’s vacuum,
The energy that is the soul
Of everything.
And our perceptions become our waking dreams.
And those dreams are the flux,
The quantum states which become
God and number,
The music that echoes throughout the cosmos,
The unseen rainbow,
The lust of angels, the hate of demons,
The atoms that compose us
As trillions of words
In this most fantastic epic poem
Within an unexplainable sleep.


Thanks,
Leroy Quet