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Poetry || SubmissionsPoems by Mike RatajczakA SINGULAR COMPLETE THOUGHT When you fall, you fall upon painted shards of glass so that the painters of the glass can know that you're real Wisdom is your glory and it is from those open windows often missed by passers by that the dreams of laboured misfortune are the dreams that create the substance of today Its outside the walls of conventional thickness given shape by the limitations of the creators that give it connotation to fall into form to become words to live by but that just outside it is where it waits, given its only limitation to reach and touch the glistening sky When you take it outside its called art but when it takes you outside its called life its what truly makes the foundations and heeds the call of God's battle cry It is there that it hugs you and reaffirms you and sends you off in the morning with a kiss goodbye ARE YOU SPANNING THE SPAN? The passages and tunnels to light are gone Investment is carried away with the wind No center track keeps sight in line No entanglement entangles victim Black pistol's yell is silenced in the wind Passion is on the back burner with the baked beans Lust is in the jar on the windowsill Thought comes to the back of the head in order to jar its recipient Who fell out of the cradle's way? he said, carrying his dreams out to the trash Point blank at the words said Nothing remains to be swept up By the end of the day I heard the same thing over every day's yesterday until finally yesterday became today Time wonders where it went Someone wonders where someone is And there's the ray of the sun in your face Tingling the untraceable fragments of what we saw heard and felt I forgot how to fit words into a puzzle The man sitting at the table forgot how to sit And the crease will spin again! PAPER BASS Perhaps lucky, perhaps unlucky My father can point anywhere anywhere around town and say, "You killed my son!" an erstwhile writer a member once, of an American fable the fable of humanity the fable of generosity of kindness Remember when you pushed the glass and it went through so you could reach your neighbor? I don't and it's killing me that man's son the one who raves downtown with a script of yellow pages that thought I could unlock the silence the silence that suffocates me that man who waves a paper bass as his arms flap in the wind drawing laughter "He looks like a chicken." it disturbs you and drives the townspeople to settle their uneasiness and today the mall clears more money than it ever has before... I'm glad I could be of service My Folly From the starting gun Until the last body drops on the playing field where we congregate We assault each other with our ideas with our questions and from the stream that flows so mercilessly I reach to pull you out So that we may sit on the riverside and watch time pass us by I have no questions for you I have no demands of you For your time, is all I request Even though at times it's a stretch of our imaginations primarily mine though, primarily mine as I seek something good just in the light of your eyes Yeah well, I can dream or maybe your appearance in my dreams Will wipe away my intentions and shuffle in the furnishings for a brand new psychosis Untitled Jesus screams at midnight silent thrashing me from bed to wall inside folds of coagulated waste I remember these images of you And so I stumble into the morning sun remembering fast to wear my burdens for these burdens can't wait to be forgotten and greeted with an indignant smile So we forget each other- you and I In passing, you say, you see me best In collapsing, I say, I see you first with the reminder that I'm too forgotten to die About Mike Ratajczak. I've been published in one place before in a "we publish everything" publication. I am not currently attending school but plan to go back. I've been attempting to create decent poems for about five years. Hopefully I can get these published somewhere. I'm also some sort of musician of the bass. My e mail address is israel_sarah@hotmail.com. I am available for contact by complete strangers. Today's Situation
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