Joyous Fucking Poem
altered found poem originally titled "Live to be Joyous"
"Make friends with your audience."
-- James Tate
A time of Joy, fuck you, you see,
Imagine, all good things come to you,
Wondrous times fuck you and scold.
Watching children run and play,
A shining beacon will always be this view,
When looking for joy, fuck you, see?
Beautiful and warm this summers day,
Laughter and Joy are not new,
All about you, happiness, fuck you, damn mold.
Fresh flowers, butterflies visit today,
Mornings refreshed with the night’s dew,
Look for joy, dipshit, you’ll see.
Birds sing, frogs croak, cattle chew hay,
Water glistens in ponds so blue,
Air filled with cheer. Fuck you, cuckold.
All about us is beauty today,
Joy from within, just enjoy this day,
Joy is everywhere, look and you’ll see,
About you joy's letters fuck you in bold.
The Dying
He who was living is now dead
We who were living are now dying
With a little patience
-- T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"
Part I
death song (lamentation) (more)
death decease demise
dissolve depart obit
release rest quiet
fall loss bereave
end cessate lose
extinct exit ebb
obituary die expire
perish pass taken
yield resign end
death blow (killing) (more)
Part II
death
blow (killing) (more)
cease to live
cease to breathe
depart this brief lone life
chant du cygne
rigor mortis
wash up on the Stygian shore
be no more go off
drop off pop off
reduce yourself to dust
breathe your last
lose lay down
relinquish surrender drop
sink close fall
drop down dead
drop fall down and stay there
break your neck
yield your ghost
be over and done with at last
pay your debt
and shuffle off
join the vast foolish majority
take last sleep
hand in checks
go by the way of the flesh
pass in checks
join the greater
hand in your bloody chips
come to dust
turn to dust
cross the goddamned ferry
cross the bar
get your long account
grab your very last home
deadly (extinguish) (more)
Part III
deadly (extinguish) (more)
come to the end
catch your death
off the hooks
kick the bucket
buy the farm
hop the twig
make your will
snuff your candle
turn up those calloused toes
violence (erasure) (more)
Part IV
violence (erasure) (more)
in articulo
in extremis
in the jaws of death
moribund morient
hippocratic plot
totter on the brink
last legs
death bed
point of lasting death
death's door
last gasp
near one's sorry end
give over
one foot
the horror aux abois
post obit
post mortem
dead as a doorpost
terror (cessate) (more)
Part V
terror (cessate) (more)
dead as a mutton
dead as a herring
dead as these lousy nits
this life departed
is dead and gone
dead as rust-cracked doornails
launched into eternity
gathered to one's fathers
numbered with the dead
lifeless deceased demised
departed defunct extinct
late gone removed no more
exanimate inanimate
released taken off
out of this blank cold world
ashes to ashes dust to dust
stillborn mortuary necrology
the bills of your mortality
ash to dust (regrets) (more)
Part VI
ash to dust (regrets) (more)
life ebbs
life fails
life hangs by one thread
days numbered
hour comes
your rabbit's race is run
doom sealed
Death knocks
Death stares you in the face
death song reprise (lamentation) (more)
Part VII
death song reprise (lamentation) (more)
in adamantine chains
death be here ever bound
breath departs the body
grave closes over your skull
thus Spake the grisly Terror
lone couch of lasting sleep
death song (lamentation) (more)
Tough Going?
Tough going?
When your week is over, you’ll be closer to your goal.
Everything is a part of learning to live in a different way.
While it is critical to note some mistakes, it is also essential not to dwell on them.
Just move on.
Toward the end of this week, take a look at yourself in the mirror.
Compare yourself to your “before” photo.
Do you see yourself now?
Chances are, you’ve already lost some memories.
Your beliefs have begun to sharpen.
If you’re analyzing yourself or trying to recall last week, you may notice that your numbers are improving.
Yes, it’s happening.
You can believe more and remember less.
Now keep it going.
Assess, adjust, and move forward.
There's a war on.
