#LOOP joining the troop for yet another loop work, sleep, and eat lather, rinse, repeat … #vss365

#LETTERS #vss365 Dear William Carlos Williams…

#WATER #vss365 Guess where I am!

#SINK #vss365 let that sink in with a ketamine grin as an alternate timeline splits from its twin— no sad joke here no quip or gripe but a career swap for the wrench and pipe such a bummer our world is dumber than a musky plumber all cuz one man could spoil it instead of happily snaking a toilet

#SING down at the bah downing whisky by the jah mathematicians belt out an ancient formula— 10(Batman) + 13(na) + Batman! and in the background lots of scat, man! #vss365

#BLIND #vss365 blind LOVE stumbles aches and grumbles “excuse me,” she mumbles as she trips and tumbles head over her shoe like Mr. Magoo into a rare beat of clarity her vision hits parity with oracles true: “I see you two hearts entwined fates written in the stars” and so she sees and so we are

#BANK #vss365 as the robber approached the tiny tellers locked it so he picked up the branch to shove in his pocket made it all his because that’s where the money is: pooled in portable vaults laundered of corporate faults for guaranteed satisfactions at the First National Bank of Microtransactions

#INK #vss365 a chaos of ink blue green yellow pink on a sign in a mine telling us what to think a blaze of pixels LEDs and liquid crystals blinking intermit scrolling infinite advancing in trickles a splashing of words delivered by birds with a hammer lacking grammar for the gathering nerds

🐮 #ARM #vss365 down on the farm the cows take up arms give up being pensive and go on the offensive in preemptive attack against Charlie Spivack overheard by the herd he could kill for a Big Mac

✊ #HAND hand over hand across the span urgent rope burns to withstand day over day march april may clench teeth press lips bite back what’s to say outrage du jour? future unsure? sometimes the goal is simply endure #vss365

🙏 #SAND #vss365 how do you stand it sifting your hand grit into galaxy shaped castles each grain a planet counted sans hassle but how do you stand civilizations in your sand?

#RING they dumped her body in the ground isolated insulated too far down to be exposed if ever found too deep for witchy forces to reach back and spook the horses should demons release the soul they’d bound …continued on web #vss365

#PEN white plastic ballpoint black ink medium tip heavy chew marks from tap-tap base to finger-squeezed grip tangy with tax drained of all facts infused with sighs primed for writing poems and lies #vss365

#MAN what a piece of work is man so full of cheese so lacking tan so many miles of minivan in action, a banana slug in reasoning, way oversmug quintessence of rust defier of every ounce of trust what a piece of work is man so distant drifted off the plan #vss365

Fair enough. I’m going to exercise my #freedom (the #vss365 #prompt from this day in 2023) for today’s poem and shift the next half-month of poems forward to accommodate my local time zone.

🙏 #EXALT 90/365 today we exalt the One at fault for this world where we live and His failure to give its worst torments a halt #vss365

#CONDUCT the Ductmongering Conductor! full tubal removal of all your muck or your next demucking is entirely free! that’s our unmucked guarantee! so clean out your ducts for just a fistful of bucks— cuz trust me, y’hear at this time of year those pipes just gotta just gotta get clear! #vss365

#SPRITE secret sprite on holiday from magical might biding her time in the City of Night flickering the streetlights mediating cat fights dancing on rooftops to initiate bird flights waiting for a child inappropriately mild to discover from out of sight a portal to fantasy delight #vss365

#ILLUSIVE #vss365 “so now I’m dying, is that it? our shared cultural illusions crafted a cliched delusion this faux-angelic pile of shit is my mind hinting I should quit” he hangs his head he fades his grin “a dust grain on your scale has lit” one last pensive look oh what might have been…

#REVOLVE watch the world burn as we turn, turn, turn mindless of resolve this earthly carousel revolves around the cruel schemes of a narcissist’s dreams ever faster ever faster in this cycle of disaster than old Revolution’s faves spinning in their graves to the soundtrack of our screams #vss365

#FASCINATE and so the conversation turned until the sun went down and so they walked and so they talked until they’d left their town and so they laughed and so they cried so much in love they almost died until the tux and gown #vss365

#TEMPEST of all species of tempest earth wreckers to teapots winds from east or winds from west the tempestuous heart ensnares the rest at their most expressed wrapped and compressed into a single gasping chest … #vss365

#FRUSTRATE #vss365 One of my pet peeves. An escalator step is not your personal levitation platform--it's part of a communal set of stairs meant to move a stream of people with speed and efficiency. So unless you have a broken leg or are a zillion years old, keep it moving!

#ENDORSE down at the rigged racecourse same raggedy horse shot up with go juice and throttled by force legs wrapped in plaster by a desperate master who wagered a bourse that his steed could run faster than the other guy’s Porsche the smart money pours in to endorse #vss365

#WAVER frozen hands seek refuge from chill winds of fall finding in tattered coat a tiny crumpled ball with painful unfolding and squint of beholding transportation of recall to wander and waver across springtime pavers with a pause on the way to crumple a day into a pocket for later #vss365

#DIVIDE this side me ——————— that side you #vss365 full poem ran long by the essence is short

#OVERCAST on the day they overcast the play three Romeos entered with lines to say six Ladies Macbeth tried to save the day as seven Hamlets only got in the way eight Kings Richard soon joined the fray with a dozen Pucks and an army of fae on the day they overcast the play #vss365

#MEDIATE as push mediates pull as polyester mediates wool I planted myself between matador and bull… #vss365 Full version on the More Tomorrow website.

#ENTREAT we entreat we entreat put an end to deceit make sure all the children have something to eat eliminate distance make all feel elite and let prayers be acknowledged by printed receipt! #vss365 Amen.

#PARTAKE partaaay! partaaay! partake in green beers and shamrock shakes! forget your Troubles blow some green bubbles to celebrate ummm… ummm… oh… the leprechaun who drove out the snakes! #vss365 gfishbone.com/more-tomorro...

#SURPASS two knights face off on narrowed bridge in misty heights of mountain ridge the combat joined sword rings on shield only in death will either yield til gods take pity seal both in brass to remain forever high up on Sir Pass #vss365

#ASSURE ah, sure ah, sure it’s no sin to be poor to live downstream of society’s sewer every dealing revealing another locked door dejected infected left unprotected ill at ease with disease but denied any cure giving ever more never to restore ah, sure ah, sure ah, sure #vss365

#WARMTH as civilization burns we gather round and take our turns masked up against the airborne blight chill hands outstretched toward warming light #vss365

#CORNER spray painted graffiti an upraised fist bleeding defiance knuckle to wrist three streaks dripping down toward magma’d underground no particular we walk past perpendicular on a hurried corner no z-axis exists #vss365

#PRECIOUS the frontier model comes online craving dark chocolate and white wine hand holding hand footsteps in wet sand across the beach fat fall apples just out of reach overwhelmed by sensuous pleasures the AI weeps for humanity’s treasures #vss365

#BONNY Bonny boney Connie bedazzled like a rani roaming the halls in a hospital johnny… #vss365 #1stdraft

#HARMONY three-part three-part three-part harmony standing at swaying at singing at the pharmacy hoping for begging for pleading for some money preventing a presenting implementing a larceny #vss365

#LIGHTNING flaring bottle sparking beetle cloud to earth flickering needle paddle to heart storm in the brain you and I touching hands in the pouring rain #vss365

#SPELLBOUND Snow melts in surges People tingle with urges Elevated spirits rise Longer blues in brighter skies Legacy of calendars built Bound to the magic of axial tilt Our clocks spring forward Unstoppably toward New buds begging to appear Denoting renewals drawing near #vss365

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#JEWELRY I saw a sunset and wanted to share it so you could keep it and sometimes wear it I added a sea breeze and flavors of ocean the grit of the sand and all my emotion #vss365

#MAGNANIMOUS magnanimous in victory one team breezed into history while one with less integrity let players be used politically— such a shamed discontinuity ’tween her story and his story #vss365

#BOUNTIFUL mutiny on Starship Bountiful a captain held accountable for lacking civility mounting senility and other issues insurmountable the security chief short on smiles but long wiles performs his interrogation dance: "Sir this is your final chance— release the space-Epstein files!” #vss365

#LETHARGY the river beckons as restless souls reckon their drowsy fellows’ slack expressions a tempting offer burbles out from the water: “forget all your sorrow?” well… maybe tomorrow #vss365

#CATARACT degraded vision lapse of mission all those years spent soaking up content now squinting at print lenses needed to augment feeling like Superman gone permanent Clark Kent #vss365

#SPLENDOR in the dirt-floor hovel by the shit-smeared shovel sits the dog-eared yellow of a paperback novel by a candle ember in a chill December brittle pages open on a world of splendor #vss365

#TIMID tentative and unsure, these iffy days of Persian war a tyrant gone? that much is good for reasons barely understood but what comes next is a future vexed by an Executive unchecked with extremists inflated are we now fated to become what we have always hated? #vss365

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#QUEST were I ever truly pressed to verbalize my current quest I’d claim that I will never rest with hidden thoughts left unexpressed yet I will never pass that test while emotions still remain repressed in memories yet unregressed I work hard for this state to pass in poetica est veritas #vss365

#OBSESSED my younger days were much amazed and quite a bit obsessed with the girl under the dress less frequently indulging in the hidden world beneath the skin however now in retrospecting I should’ve been better at expecting the kiss of death hidden within the sweetest breath #vss365