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A Poem by Blotter

You can,I can,we can…we all are in….Conjugation: a perception of our societal will.We all write the value of our being;a symposium of wh..

Bond

A Poem by Blotter

I gave you some of my words(or told you they were there for you to see)and asked that you measure themand provide for me a scale or value….The ..

Chronos moves in

A Poem by Blotter

Time pursues me,like a lonely friendor a desperate lover.I eschew the advancesand shrink back at each approach…I am reluctant.Time comes in for..

A cycle of fiction

A Poem by Blotter

In each simple acta communal experience lies.We create the myth of our independencewhile riding on the backs of otherswhom we decry as parasites.I for..

Ablution

A Poem by Blotter

I step out of the showerand have been renewed.The simple act of running water across the bodyand rubbing a lump of animal fats and alkalineacross my s..

I feel good

A Poem by Blotter

A homeless man on the street,His hair rich and heavy, swept back away from his broad forehead.He looks exactly like James Brown in the later years.I a..

In Transit

A Poem by Blotter

Glancing out a car windowthe trees nearest to me blur bywhile those in the distance barely moveand those on the horizon seem like the stars:fixed in p..

$740 car

A Poem by Blotter

On the warm nights the neighborhood becomes a new place,like the spirit of a friendly bar’or a communal gathering space.I had wandered over to m..

Bound

A Poem by Blotter

The stapler couldn’t make it. The sheets were too many (each one a measure of my day) and it said,“Not today.”I envy it. It was buil..

Filthy Routine

A Poem by Blotter

So the sun is rising, as I make my way to work,and the lens of haze makes the road appear filteredand uniform.I hate it:this beauty buried in commonal..