Ongoing sporadic journal of the overeducated, and underemployed. The title derived from Coupland’s description of cubicle land; the corporate ghetto. Random photos and thoughts. Left the ghetto, never happier. This still a work in progress

14 February 2021

 emailing venus-14.02.21

Venus:  The Roman goddess of love and beauty 2) the planet second  from the sun 3) she who woke me



from the lighthouse

watching mermaids

watching the moon

I said too much?

haven’t said enough

Venus

burning bright

in the sky

vinyl and words

wine

to fill

an emptiness


12 February 2021

 deadbeat poet -12.02.21

indifferent queen

celebrated

adored

whist

I am

Beat: a main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry 2) American social and literary movement 3) overcome 4) strike violently 5) tired 

beat

looking for

joy

looking for

Love

looking for

a bliss fix

looking for

redemption in dirty streets

looking for

redemption in dirty sheets

a dead-beat poet


t:a lazy or socially undesirable person


a deadbeat poet? 



09 February 2021

 us-09.02.21

flying

past evil

past good

past

time

past

space

past

knowing

Temporal anomaly: disruption in the spacetime continuum 2)) created by the rite-candles, communion hitting the spot in the Centre of me brain exploding conscious betwixt world’s 

temporal anomaly

brings me to you

we dance

time means nothing

are existential tango

no

beginning

no

end

nothing else

exists 

just us


03 February 2021

 see me? -03.02.21

at the beach beneath lighthouse

watching

Mermaids watching the moon

wonder if

mermaids

See: 1.) discern visually2) come to perceive or understand

SEE

me



29 January 2021

 heartbreak lighthouse-29.01.21

Lighthouse: a structure (such as a tower) with a powerful light that gives a continuous or intermittent signal to guide ships and mermaids

where I live

above the rocks

I was called by sirens

Siren: women or winged creatures whose singing lured unwary sailors and demons on to rocks.

who swam from the Soca

to this the last

evidence

of

Atlantis

of

love

I wait the mermaid

I will break her heart

Again

Like waves crashing

again

until it opens

Mermaid 

Let’s me in


24 January 2021

 eyes turned toward heaven-23.01.21

Fast: something that reflects light) shine in a bright but brief, sudden, or intermittent way. 2) revelation

FLASH


saw you

Really saw you

pale blue eyes

turned towards heaven

the last time

saw you

pale blue skin

eyes towards

Heaven: place regarded in various religions as the abode of God (or the gods) and the angels, and of the good after death2) wherever you are

Heaven


19 January 2021

 10,000 Kisses in-19.01.21

ome to me and I’ll set you free -

we’re already 

10,000 kisses in

don’t want

hold you back

 want

to hold  you

your passion, youth and talent

Speedball:Injected mix of heroin & cocaine a speedball

A speedball

hitting centre of me heart.

I go the places  we shared 

hoping you’ll walk in to the vacuum of my stare

backdown?

one way

to love

one way to 

fight

to the 

DEATH

do I feed on your

BEAUTY

YOUTH

your kiss breathed life 

into

the place 

me soul once was

10,000 kisses IN

not looking for an OUT

I am 10,000 Kisses

IN


 







MLK day-18.01.21

woke up loaded my gun

love was gone

no one warned

I am  the chosen one

to shine

EXPLODE

burn bright

in my

sights

can’t

RUN

can’t

HIDE

judgement  day

TODAY

pistol  unloads easy

come

like the

Holy Ghost: Holy Ghost "proceedeth from the Father and the Son".

hit you

like the4 holy Holy Ghost

3 in the face

pray for grace

doctored bullets

ready for a fight

hoping

for peace

on

MLK day


07 January 2021

 Now-o7.01.21

she talks

reward in the sky

if we die

Now: under the present circumstances as a result of something that has recently happened. 2) all we have

all is now

rivers to cross

get over

Desolation: Desolation: state of complete emptiness or destruction

calling the desolation Angels

texting my man

skinny girl

Wants

Answers?

passion?

Release?

love?

to own?

be owned?

tomorrow?

now is fine




02 January 2021

 in her eyes-02.01.21

something

your aspect

something

your touch

something

your art

something

I have always known

your feral vibe

lavicous

  lips

I must still be alive

blood goes in the need

3cc’s of truth

I

have

always

known

who

you are

what

you are

it was in your eyes

connexon: a relationship in which a person, thing, or idea is linked or associated with something else 2) finding another part of self.


Connexon

In her eyes


31 December 2020

 


Beyond reach-31.12.20

western sky

Constellation of the Cowgirl mermaid

She dances on the sands of the Milky Way

myth

a jealous god threw her high in the sky

out of reach

of poets

artist

who sought

her

seduce her


Je ne sais quoi: a quality that cannot be described or named easily 2) muse

je ne sais quoi

commit to paper, canvas, soul

she dances on the sands of the skies

poets watch from underground

stars

beyond reach


22 December 2020

 Seeing  other people-14.12..20


crossfire at the cathedral


old idols tumble

Kinetic: a certain place or area is violent.

Kinetic energy



forever? down underground

always same

death and glory

birth and death

betwixt

absurdity

same candles incense

holy holy

blood communion

rituals

the stigmata of my disease


you’re sex

your sex

it’s/You’re

on fire

me


never live in the future


never live in the past


no eternal reward will forgive you

for wasting NOW

I am seeing

who cares

I am seeing

who my friends are

I am seeing

Visions:; Visions are understood to be the product of God's self-communication.


visions

I am seeing

the feint within the feint


I’m seeing

art

Line of Fire: the expected path of gunfire or a missile

I am seeing

lines of fire.

I am seeing

saints

Sisters of Mercy: a programme for instructing and training poor girls, distributing food and clothing to the needy, and performing other works of mercy. 2) a band

Sisters of Mercy

care for me

don’t worry about me

I am seeing

other people



09 December 2020

 t’s you-08.12.20

It’s not me

Psychosis: mental disorder in which thought, and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality

It’s your psychosis

It’s not me

Paranoia involves intense anxious or fearful feelings and thoughts often related to persecution, threat, or conspiracy

It’s your paranoia

It’s not me

Insecurity: uncertainty or anxiety about oneself; lack of confidence 2) needing constant external reassurance

it’s your insecurity

It’s not me

Depression: a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.

It’s your depression

It’s not me

It’s you


27 November 2020

she’s Mermaid -26.11.20

she’s  

in

room 575

Mermaid Hotel

she won’t like it

pool not ocean

Jonesing: Craving, desire, or need something or someone   jonesing

Premonition of a soul?

the monotony of desert

assaulted blinding sun

she dances in the sand

we should go swimming

Mermaid: a half-human sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish comprising  magic

Mermaid


26 November 2020

 as you were-26.11.20

before

I bored you

before

your psychosis

told you it was me

before

I gathered poppies, coca and fled underground

Before

Your madness filled the room

when

you 

were me

 lover

when

you 

were me

muse

As you were: standard military command. It means, literally, "[return] to your previous posture" 2) before you gave into your psychosis

As you were


15 November 2020

 Stranger 


Stranger -14.11.20

Young women don't kiss me goodbye

Existence improbable

There must

Be

some way out

because night 

Random

Soaked 

in 

Gin, smoke and sex 

Stranger sleeps

Name?

It’s all the same

Her body illuminating

the room 

write to it 

her body 

dictates prose

Step outside

 of time and space for 1,000 millennium 

Step back into

 the hellscape

Still nothing  

is

known

Attachment is the source of all suffering.” Buddha

Step out

Find redemption 

in

Stranger: a person whom one does not know or with whom one is not familiar. 2)unusual or surprising in a way that is unsettling or hard to understand.

stranger





 visions-13.11.20

at the intersection

it’s St Jill

forever

beautiful

forever

Attachment is the source of all suffering.” Buddha.

in me

forever

love without exception (holy fucking)

forever


to walking on the roof of the ocean

Visions: is something seen in a dream, trance, or ecstasy 2) enlightenment 

to have visions

to know that

 ALL

Punks

ALL

musician

ALL

artist

in any form

are

Saints

My visions are true


09 November 2020

 Quien es-09.11.20

Existential outlaw

Existential: meaning of Being  2) the difference between being and nothingness.

on the run

reality

controll

illusion

did I

betray her

if so

because

I could

because

she said I would

I am whatever

you say

I am

gliding

betwixt planes

pink spiders

hunt me

some seek to classify me add me to their collection

General Tom Thumb: a dwarf  whose rose to fame as a circus performer

exiled and shunned

from the 3  beer circus

by

General Tom Thumb

too far underground

a drink

loose  exile

a dime

Quien es?-Billy the kid's last words answered by a bullet to the heart 


a knock

Quien es?


 Us-.09.11.20

no

don’t hate

her

no

don’t hate

him

she’s

around

when

he’s

not

around

coming

down

into

my lair

mermaid in a cowboy hat song echoes

There’s

Her

There’s

he

there’s

me

Us:used by a speaker to refer to himself or herself and one or more other people as the object of a verb or preposition. 2) an understanding  betwixt lovers

There’s

No 

us


05 November 2020

 Resonate-05.11.20

Ilsa forever gets


on that

plane

I forever stay

on this

plane

Here words

echo


those

words

those

emotions

aching

like

a new

drug

shelled

engines drown sound

various chemical drown the pain

stiff upper lip

Laszlo is a good person

Abomination in jeans

Abomination: I am a thing that causes disgust or hatred

yet

Resonate: 1) produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound ((her heartbeat)2) evoke or suggest images, memories, and emotions. 3) an echo in my psyche she causes through words and will

she resonates