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Original Poems

Journal, Pen and Mug

The poems and lyrics included here have been written in the 21st Century. They are presented without context or unifying theme, other than my own halting pen, eclectic interests and prodigal nature.

Many, though by no means all, of them were written using Burroughs' cut-up technique, which is one of my favorite tools for getting my ego out of the way of the creative energy.

solidarity time

Brian K. Noe · January 19, 2016 ·

combinations together
meaning of means
feel the room

we swayin’

everyone:
resistance together…works

the time connection
strange

expected that

everyone together, connected

hope gently

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Collective, Cut-Up Technique, Solidarity

every other day

Brian K. Noe · January 18, 2016 ·

not connected
connected
and connected
but specific of meaning
events meaning
combinations is acausal
expected inconceivable. on causal chance
closer
readily are inconceivable
closer
examine their reflection
impossible connection to all
it’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards
polished difficulty
telling gently impressive
retort resistance. strange.
into the against beetle,
into hope broke I
what together – so together together…
that everyone
they
(that means everyone)
touched religion
go on

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Alice In Wonderland, Cut-Up Technique, Dadaism, Jung, Memory, Psychology, Synchronicity, Time

this looks like a nice area

Brian K. Noe · May 14, 2013 ·

it sounded more like a compliment
than an inquiry

i felt uneasy

no gangs? he asked

and i’m thinking

no, not really – are you joking?

and then i’m imagining menacing groups of teenage boys in do-rags
galloping
through the streets of
the gracefield subdivision

i tell him
no, not really, but of course they’re kind of everywhere

i’m trying to say that we’re all the same
and that nobody is really secure
and that

well, also, gangsters are just people
i mean, if they were around here
i wouldn’t be
uh, terrified, or anything

i drive through some pretty
rough neighborhoods
every day

hey – it may look like we’re doing well
but i’m not like the rest of these people

it’s just good luck at the moment
and it could change

i wonder where he lives
and what it’s like there
but i don’t ask

why
am
i
ashamed?

Filed Under: Poetry

at his own hands

Brian K. Noe · May 10, 2013 ·

you people

i don’t know what to say to you

you expect some sort of
explanation
or
justification

or insight concerning my state
of mind

at the time

you can talk all you want
about cries for help
or
brain chemistry or
family history

and some things being overdetermined

but i swear
to christ

some days i am just

disgusted with you
disgusted with myself
disgusted

with this world…

ps:
but, honestly
mostly with you

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Depression, Gallows Humor, Suicide

the tree of libertarian

Brian K. Noe · March 26, 2013 ·

god forbid
we should ever be
twenty minutes without some grey haired white guy
casting swine before pearls

the people
cannot be all, and always
well informed

am i right?

lethargy

misconceptions

you have the right to
remain silent

and pardon my pacifier

but the blood of tyrants
will not be shed
by your update on facebook

Filed Under: Poetry

bereft

Brian K. Noe · March 22, 2013 ·

empty feeder sways
over the backyard terrace
birds have flown away

Filed Under: Poetry

sunday night

Brian K. Noe · October 28, 2012 ·

i look up to the heavens sunday night
if there’s a star up there to wish on
i don’t see it

if there’s a prayer
or an incantation
i don’t
know it

if there’s a reason
to believe

in anything

i suppose i believe
in leaving
well enough alone

i solemnly swear
or affirm

i swear

it’s not the tragedies that
kill us

it’s the paper
cuts

Filed Under: Poetry

that awkward thing

Brian K. Noe · June 21, 2012 ·

that awkward thing where
the woman who calls you her husband
reaches for your hand and tries to interlace fingers
she never does that – not in all these years
and it’s like somebody just tried to hand you a spider or
a bucket of something repulsive
and you pull your hand away and shudder

ew

was that out loud?

also, you’re in the same mall
where you strolled with your lover
just days ago
fingers interlaced

where you had your picture taken in one of those
coin-op photo booth things with the curtain

you still carry the pictures
of smiles and passionate kisses
in your wallet

and you’re coming upon the photo booth now

and the woman who calls you her husband
suddenly gets this great idea

Filed Under: Poetry

don’t walk – walk

Brian K. Noe · December 29, 2011 ·

he stands
blue
against a gray sky

memory

it’s loose gravel underfoot
you
remember one thing
you remember
another

and then the thing you wanted to forget

the bitter wind
chafes his cheeks

collar raised and
face set

he steps toward the abyss

Filed Under: Poetry

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