TIE ME OFF

Neo Nazis are brewing our tea.
Neo means new but everything's old.
There hasn't been anything new since Pangea ceased to exist.
New shoes, new car, New World Order, new baby, new job, new metal plate in your plastic-coated head.
New age paradigm s**t (not a typo) hybrid fusion sustainable geo footprint moonbeams shot out of Hitler's a*s at the precise moment the preheated ovens reached the correct temperature to liquefy internal organs...

...like MDA.

Glow stick addicted techno mutant mirrorball neon stampeding day glo f***s with half- full water bottles screaming...

DJ please
Break the broken record
Over Medusa's head
Remix the m**********r
Play it again

~There is no neoplasmic ooze stuck to the bottom
of our psychedelic shoes~

March as one.
Die as one.
Live for many.
Die as one.

I dreamt I was dreaming of life inside a syringe
I shot up Jackson Pollock for the 1st time
And he EXPLODED

Reviews

[Tara]

Oh I think we are going to be friends. I sense a kindred spirit. So many great lines but that first one really grabbed me and pulled me right in. Love the Jackson Pollock line as well. Very nice work.

[albee]

The drip master of painting.
The roaring river of the bearded beat.
This poetry tickles me…if I avoid the sharp historical pointillism.

[LJW]

If there was one thing my parents tried to drill into me it was to avoid sharp historical pointillism. And tattoos.
Didn't listen. 😎👍😁

[LJW]

If there was one thing my parents tried to drill into me it was to avoid sharp historical pointillism. And tattoos.
Didn't listen. 😎👍😁

[albee]

Tattoos and Pointillism. There is a poetic connection. Were your parents poets?

[LJW]

No. They were both MENSA members and used big words like pointillism alot. 😎

[albee]

You were gifted🌈

[Chris]

Chuckling here... Some bites work, some not so much - but this one. I liked for its taste of now.

[LJW]

Thank you Chris.

[emipoemi]

Ok, I'm not the biggest fan of expletives in poetry, as I more often than naught they mar and destroy the juicy goodness that the piece is conveying - BUT! Daaaaaaamn! This is awesome! PREACH!! A-fricking-men to this!! New aint always a good thing. Well done! And brilliantly executed in this poem!

[LJW]

Oh mannnnn are you ever good for my ego. Lol
Thanks!!
This is a spoken word piece. Not what you'd expect to come out of 55- year old ( I was about that when I wrote it) woman's mind...never mind her mouth.
It means so much to me...the 2 more in your face contemporary pieces you've commented on because they are not what is always recognized in " literary circles" as being praise worthy poetry.
Thanks again...

[emipoemi]

I'm in the same boat.....none of my work have really gotten recognition outside of WC (though even here it still hasn't gotten anywhere in particular). I'm very much drawn to poems that speak against the modern norm, as I find the modern norm dispenses with thought and depth and focuses on proving the readers for dumb (which they aren't but they don't want to think nowadays). I'll def get to more of yours when I get find another while where I can actually take it all in properly.

[LJW]

I'm labeled an Outsider Writer.
We mostly write outside of the norm.
Been fortunate enough to have been published ( widely in the small press) 100+ times.
You have to submit submit submit!

[emipoemi]

10 years of no luck on the submission front. Those that pay don't want me, and those that want me make me pay (and I have no money).... kinda demoralizing.

[LJW]

Yeah, I hear you. Thing is I had a day job to make $$. I was never looking to make money off of my writing. Quick...name 2 living poets that make all their money off their writing.
Fact is...poetry doesn't pay.

[LJW]

Many many publications publish for free.
Google ONLINE LITERARY MAGAZINES.
🙂👍

[emipoemi]

oh, those looking to monetize their work aren't real poets (aren't real artists for that matter).But the fact that I'm not given any opportunity to be seen or heard in any way to feel present in life is what's troubling. For believe me, I've tried free and fee'd submission calls/contests.....nada. But I haven't given up completely, that's for sure.

[LJW]

I'd say most online lit mags are looking for more contemporary type poetry or prose or just something that's innovative or pushes the envelope in some way.
Each lit mag is somewhat different in what they're looking for. I suggest reading a couple of poems first in any mag you're contemplating submitting to. There's a vibe they're looking for and you'll know if your piece fits in.
Good luck and never give up!

[Marie Anzalone]

Personally, I think that neo-consersatism is about the most dreadful thing that has happened to the US, if for nothing else than their stifling banality and suppression of anything resembling an inspired thought. Everybody wants to be a revolutionaryandmystic until they realize just what the f**k it actually takes to take a stand for something, not just rage against perceived injustice with thousands of people surrounding you and telling you that you are right. Marches and activism do little unless backed by a vision, and anyone putting their neck out there is in danger of being wrong. So we shrink and do nothing and make f*****g platitude after platitude for our apathy and indecision and lacl of forward motion, and then call it revolutionary to hate, criticise, and make others small.

Know what wuld be a real paradign shift? Mathematical literacy.

You sit on the New England shoreline and elucidate everything I would try to say in 100 years about the void of inspired action and thought. That last line is one of the most superb closures I have read anywhere any time.

[LJW]

Thank you for your insight, my friend.

[Emily B]

so much is changing, I feel overwhelmed with it all

but life is not static, and if it were, I wouldn't be growing

so good to read you, my friend!

[LJW]

Thanks Emily. Don't get on here often....

[Ken Simm.]

Now, (he said without hopefully soundnig patronising) there are people who can use words. Then there are artists who can use language. Then there are increasingly fewer who can manipulate and develop what they percieve and bring it into the light of everyone else's eyes, (or at least those who have some intelligence and wit about their person). Then there are my heroes (he said sounding pompous). Guess where you fall? No one I know or have read can write an abstract expressionist poem. This is jam packed full with things I wish I'd said or at least tried to develop, (with not a hope of coming close I hasten to add). (Too many brackets here I agree).

[LJW]

Speechless, Ken.
All I can say is thank you.

[roarke]

I'm a thinkin' we need another reforming of Pangea to settle all this half baked crap.... sadly, not in my lifetime... How about some nice warm pie LJW?

[LJW]

I'd love some pie, Bill. ;-)

[W.k.kortas]

The title is wickedly clever, and there does seem to be a nod (conscious or otherwise) to Burroughs here. Anyway, you can't argue with a phrase like "hybrid fusion sustainable geo footprint moonbeams shot out of Hitler's a*s". This is not just simple neo-beat knock-off; it's clearly its own thing. Your work is probably too different, too unconventional for most folks, which is a damn shame because more people need to be reading your stuff.

[LJW]

If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't know what to call this other than:

Brain blast that came out at 200 mph. :-)
TY for your undying support, insight, and encouragement.
Most people look at me funny.