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// Dull Stories, Perky Nipples //

Here they come down the way
three ladies
half dressed in very little
looking down I see my old
shoes and torn pants
and the sweethearts keep
coming down with
their dumb purses
dull stories
and perky nipples
I just watch them
stroll by
cataloging the details
for future reference
on lonely nights
while they walk by
laughing
not knowing
I'm alive


©Ananda Osel 2007

// Here (I Am) //

At birth, I could read any tongue, and
resolve a hail of grains from

my tomb. Immense, bottomless, and
echoing life's ample passages off

stony walls. Repetition drowned the
perpetual universe, as my skull cultivated

my skin. I was taught of love, the
rapture, my nativity, and a lovely

superiority. I inherited an awe-less identity,
everlasting rightness, a white mind, and

code. In the achievable bars of
the orb all remained touchable and

gratified. Before the mud began to
encroach I barely noticed, the echoing

had departed. The black ground ascended.
The silence was damned loud, the sun

charred my skin. My bones unraveled
and collapsed. And when I finally passed

the yellow verge, I did so in a
glorified shallow fracture.



©Ananda Osel 2007

// Laymen Of History //

once a man of suchness
made the choice
that nothing was current, and
he would never turn towards the future
eyes directed only at the past
at the history of man
the history of it all

and what we have seen as
one event after another
the man of suchness has seen
as one continual event
an unbroken cycle of human psychosis

and as we turned outward
the man of suchness never turned
his back still to us
facing history
and at his feet piled human defilement
and as ruin blocked out the sun
the man of suchness breathed out
and then in
never knowing of history


(previously published by identity theory)


©Ananda Osel 2007

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