What I Wrote That Had Me Locked Out of My Twitter Account

What I Wrote That Had Me Locked Out of My Twitter Account

A Poem by Brett Hernan
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The transcript of my personal twitt' feed that I was locked out of for some reason. I'm not just leaving it there to digitally rot. This version, is a second draft effectively, possibly a third?

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27th June, 2014
9:56 pm
Stories regarding the circumstances of people's deaths fascinate because they always contain far more variables than the banality contained within the fairly, standardised method which regularly takes place at birth. (Not to imply that every birth is not a magnificence!)
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My six year old just rubbed age reducing lotion into his face. Now he has the head of a three month old baby.
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I recall a time when we'd talk and collectively conclude,
"We just don't know."
Now, if asked the right question, a search engine 'knows'.
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Every civilization which once dominated the Earth was under the impression that it was going to be there forever.
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Some of the happiest days in human history have occurred in the lives of the child passengers of shopping trolleys.
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Books can be very useful for propping up the short leg of the wobbly table that the TV is sitting upon.
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Every day people go out with the intention of doing something that everyone will hear about.
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It doesn't matter how beautiful you are if you kill people.
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The 4 Rocks of Transition
The first you do not see.
The second trips you up.
The third you carefully avoid
and the fourth blocks your way.
The fifth Rock of Transition,
is the one which crumbles,
when you pick it up.
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(Whilst the children are sleeping, I quietly whisper to them how adored, gorgeous, sweet, capable, beautiful, kind and intelligent they are.)
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I used to dream we met up and hung out. (Your face like the Sun!) Now, I just go to places where we were and hang around. I never see you.
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Ugly is on the inside, never on the outside. There's something beautiful about everyone. Conditioning can take decades or seconds to break.
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Subtitle American movies.
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If only it were possible to sum up all of the greatest of thoughts in 140 characters or less! Humanity will descend for this sad inability.
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Grammar is important because within its predetermined rules there exists a framework which, amongst the literate, is mutually understood.
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Try to maintain calm. The streetlight ahead of you flickers intermittently. You will slowly become aware of it and of its special significance.
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Although you are unaware of me I will be there as we both temporarily lose consciousness. You will be standing very slightly ahead of me. I will be using a cheap voice changer although you no longer remember the sound of my voice.
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Every conscious sensory experience we've had is recorded permanently somewhere in the human brain. I can't remember where I found that fact.
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The Internet, with its ability to allow constant revision and editing, may now prove to allow the novel and other art forms, a new presence.
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Twitter- try to prove yourself interesting in 140 characters or less.
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Twitter is better than a real companion cause it always listens and never doesn't get it. I also talk to my food.
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Your nation needs gun law reform when toy guns are tipped with bright orange so the cops can stop getting them mixed up with the real thing.
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Yesterday I went to 'Big W' and the 'Greetoid' began laughing hysterically at me! Later, I noted my fly was down.
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...and in the late news, World War One has ended.
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(OK, it's 1984 year old news!) Irony: Whilst the public's attention is gleefully distracted by 'Big Brother', the surveillance equipment's installed!
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In Orwell's 'blueprint for a nightmare', '1984', the children of New Britain mindlessly accuse random adults with the phrase, 'You are a thought criminal!'
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Who can tolerate a government which bills parents for the cost of the bullet they used to kill their child for the crime of requesting the vote?
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The week before flight MH370 'disappeared', news media reported world governments' condemnation of the North Korean military testing live surface-to-air missiles whilst passenger jets flew by.
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The week before flight MH370 'disappeared', news media reported world governments' condemnation of the North Korean military testing live surface-to-air missiles whilst passenger jets flew by.
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Brett Hernan
Brett Hernan

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia



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Low-resolution sample only. Born 1968. All of the images accompanying each of these written works are my own. (Except that one of the guy putting a flower into a soldier's rifle barrel!) more..

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