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Discomfiture

from For Your Cooperation by Parasoma

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Eyes wide open eating a passing stretch of tar
If only I'd paid for the ride…but I was reaching for straws.

By now a mere habit, the creature chewed monotonously.
For an artist, value is a very important dimension.
Each flavor comes in three "colors," red, green, and blue.
A pressure cooker done up with a red ribbon would have left them happy. But not you, you go on flying.

Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy.  It seemed they were all such nice people.

Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a "vicious misanthrope"…or maybe it was a "cynical misanthrope"…but either way, he (or she) was right.  
They were right.

Misanthrope.  Noun.  A person who hates or distrusts all people.

I never used to realize it, I guess.  I try and play it along and just not make trouble for people.
For anyone.

Probably I never would have had any trouble if I hadn't run into Brett when they shipped me.  I suppose she only wanted what she couldn't have.  Well, people were that way.  To hell with people.  The Catholic Church had an awfully good way of handling that.  Good advice, anyway.  Not to think about it.  Oh, that was swell advice.  Try and take it sometime.  Try and take it.

To tell the truth, we have not yet cast off that humiliation.  But the wheel turns.

The world was a good place to buy in.  It seemed like a fine philosophy.  In five years, I thought, it will seem just as silly as all the other fine philosophies I've had.
Then what shall we say to their observance
of the time and the place
in which the actions they represent
are supposed to have happened?

It seemed to him that the atoms of his brain
and the atoms of the cosmos
were streaming
through each other
Jump
Jump to another weird sick disappointment
Just coming over the horizon
Just jump
Writing a reformed cliche or expression
He recalled now the same low voices,
the same relaxed, very diverse
but coordinated actions
the same rising
exultant
expectancy
as the count grew
ever smaller

a deeply carved, impassable gorge
occasionally exists
between
"should" and "is"

70’s Chevy Pickup in a slanted sheet-metal garage, 
rusted out wheelbarrows brimming with rainwater
more bacteria than all the souls covering the earth

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from For Your Cooperation, released August 7, 2012

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