a cockeyed mackerel saw the ocean float above its rolex

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a cockeyed mackerel saw the ocean float above its rolex

Post by mtmynd » August 16th, 2020, 1:36 am

the steinway of my mind
played symphonic melodies
disguised as brunch at a five & dime
while i ate the seven notes
served on ivory tender loins
engraved with the spinach dip
that succumbed to paranoiac
obesity parlayed into fragments
waiting to explode into uterustic
monopolies hanging by threads
sparkling like dew in sauternes flushed
raincoats purchased at salvation army.

but did i really care?

harmony mangled it's chosen notes
like penguins languishing under
heat lamps plugged into sockets
of deep mines adrift in atomic wonderland
whose jewels were encrusted with rocks
that lay dormant under moonlight borrowed
from the teetering bridges of babble-on,
and so i did.

but did i really care?

three pence and twenty bought nothing
but heartaches on patrol looking for
victims counter-dresssed as eaglets,
feathers in rainbow colors, masking
the true nature of beaks colored primrose
(shades of hu’man) grotesqueness...deep
deep fry the content of miraculous that
is unknown thruout the circus of ignorance,
and jameson laffed with cause, nothing is
all too true when imagination drip dries
on rippled lines of poetic madness...

but do I really care?


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Re: a cockeyed mackerel saw the ocean float above its rolex

Post by saw » August 17th, 2020, 10:51 am

peyote carpet ride
soaring above the old mind
look at all the possibilities
when the imagination is set free

8) 8) 8)
If you do not change your direction
you may end up where you are heading

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Re: a cockeyed mackerel saw the ocean float above its rolex

Post by mtmynd » August 17th, 2020, 2:47 pm

saw wrote:
August 17th, 2020, 10:51 am
peyote carpet ride
soaring above the old mind
look at all the possibilities
when the imagination is set free

8) 8) 8)
I recently came across words of wisdom from the 60's, a stellar psychedelic artist you may be familiar with -

All of the best artwork is accidental. It happens when the artist works through his self control and goes beyond, into the realm of the unexpected and the unknown. That’s when the great stuff happens.
- Rick Griffin

This technique applies also to writing, as you well know.

Gracias, amigo. I trust your health is improving daily..?
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Re: a cockeyed mackerel saw the ocean float above its rolex

Post by mnaz » August 19th, 2020, 1:21 pm

Of course you care! ... Enough to tickle the ivories of the steinway of your mind and watch mangled harmony.
You care. You CARE!

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Re: a cockeyed mackerel saw the ocean float above its rolex

Post by sasha » August 19th, 2020, 3:24 pm

I've written very few stories that went where I thought they would. Most of the time they veer off course (or, more correctly perhaps, they find their true path) and end up someplace else. It usually looks a little like I thought it might, but the journey there is rarely like I'd imagined. And yes, sometimes a little pharmaceutical enhancement lubricates the machinery......
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Re: a cockeyed mackerel saw the ocean float above its rolex

Post by mtmynd » August 19th, 2020, 4:35 pm

sasha wrote:
August 19th, 2020, 3:24 pm
And yes, sometimes a little pharmaceutical enhancement lubricates the machinery......
'sometimes a little pharmaceutical enhancement lubricates the machinery" that perhaps got a wee bit rusty but it still opens that door that may bring us into a whole new arena taking us on a whole new journey. The world is infinite in possibilities. ;)

Thx, Sasha and all!
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