tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156360997172894432024-03-21T05:25:56.058-07:00The Prince of DanA writer's blog. I'll be posting poetry, fiction, and non-fiction here. I also welcome the writing of others who wish to display here. As long as it isn't filled with too much vulgarity or is too sexually explicit I'm sure I'll display it.Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-9213009124023111532011-03-16T02:36:00.000-07:002011-03-16T02:36:30.278-07:00THE PRINCE OF DAN - CHAPTER ONE - PART THREE<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:RelyOnVML/> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The speaker’s words droned on while these men felt a stirring deep inside each of them as they watched the ginger-haired beauty communicate her intentions and her desires to David without any words crossing the short distance between them. After a short while, she left the room telling those close by that she needed to get another carafe of coffee, but no sooner had the door to the hotel’s banquet room close behind her than David excused himself from the table and followed her.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Outside the room, in the empty hallway, he met the waiting girl and, taking one of her hands in his, quickly, gently, but firmly, pulled her along with him down the hall towards an empty banquet room. There she laughed lightly as he hurried her through the doors and into the semi-darkened space filled with round tables all missing covers revealing pressed wood for table tops. Once in the door,<span> </span>he spun around, pulled her roughly up against him, and met her open lips with his while forcibly maneuvering her backwards towards the closest table in the room, pulling up her dress as he did until it was around her waist. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">“Ever been fucked on a table before?” he whispered as he kissed her on the throat. She smiled and leaned back feeling his hands moving over her, searching for buttons and snaps to undo. “There’s always the first time,” she replied amid teasing his lips with her tongue. He smiled, but the look in his eyes was menacing. She recognized there would be no going back, not with this man, not even if she wanted too, and she did not. He would never let her be free of his grasp at this point until he was done with her, withdrawing himself from her body, leaving her to feel his semen slowly ooze and drip from deep inside her.</span></span></div>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-18901899795671088442011-03-13T18:09:00.000-07:002011-03-13T18:09:05.670-07:00MORNING COMES<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<h1 align="center" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"></h1><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">MORNING COMES </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">3/8/2011</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">The morning comes as morning surely does</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">and I arise to find a cup of steaming coffee waiting there</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">for my lovely bride her hand has made</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">a healthy pot for us to share.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Then comes toast and marmalade</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">two basted eggs and, oh yes, some bacon please</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">which beside the toast upon the plate is laid</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">a lovely hostess and service with such amazing ease.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-82388502077913990602011-03-11T20:51:00.000-08:002011-03-11T20:51:14.001-08:00CURVES<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif";">CURVES</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">3/4/2011</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Copyright 2011 Gordon Kuhn</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">Curves atop a bedding made</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">rumpled by love-making play</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">while a soft breeze moved curtains hanging there</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">and sunlight gently filtered with great care</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">dappled then the curves were made</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">yielding shadows from leaves did lay</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">softly dancing upon the curves that day</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">as did lay atop a rumpled bedding made</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; line-height: 150%;">warm and moist by love-making play.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><br />
</div>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-67406867259993599212011-03-10T13:23:00.000-08:002011-03-10T13:41:31.100-08:00THE PRINCE OF DAN - CHAPTER ONE - PART TWO<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:RelyOnVML/> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/> <w:DontFlipMirrorIndents/> <w:OverrideTableStyleHps/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">By</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Gordon Kuhn</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Darkness revealed in place so deep,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">that mankind would so daring open keep</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">the secret closed to the searching eye</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">the gift, the chalice lifted high</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">some drank to live, some drank to die.</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The Chronicles of Lilith; Book One; Lines 1-5</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">“The Entrance Way of the Dead”</span></i></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">CHAPTER ONE</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Tuesday March 4, 1997---12:15AM</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Corporate Executive Offices, South Central Auto Insurance Company</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Madison</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">, Nevada</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">When it comes to shock and awe, Nature prefers to use the unexpected as a vehicle for the most violent acts: those which end life. When it comes to violent acts committed by individuals, the most horrific tend to be committed by those whom others feel would never attempt such a deed, and many of these go unsolved for that very reason. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>Following the revelation that a nondescript individual has been discovered as being an actor in a brutal crime, friends and neighbors of the human killer generally look surprised while being interviewed by television reporters for it tends to be those regarded as least likely of all the people they know who would ever be capable of<span> </span>a most heinous act; and, then, the questions roll in as to what system could ever be developed to identify such persons prior to their destructive acts taking place. In like fashion, weather forecasters look at computer models wondering why the systems failed to alert operators of violent weather before it occurred or why it failed to promptly alert changing directions allowing corrective actions to be taken.<span> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"><span> </span>And so it was that a "no-name storm" came without prior signals. It encircled Madison like a white tiger, its tail twitching, eyes gleaming, slamming down a paw here and there enjoying the confusion and terror it was causing to those who lived within its path. Relentlessly, it stalked the city much like the killer did who moved quietly on the office building's stairway, preferring to climb up sixteen floors over using the elevator which, for some, is too confining and frightening to ride. The costumed figure was not concerned about time, only completion of a well thought out act, the death of a hated man whose office came closer at each upward step</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">.<span> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">David Evnowith leaned back in his leather-surfaced-executive chair and watched his vice president, Tom Donovan, disappear out his office door and down the hall to get a carafe of fresh coffee. The liquid in David’s fine china cup was cold, but he raised it anyway and took a hopeful sip. Nevertheless, no sooner had his mouth been filled with the chilled fluid than he wrinkled his nose and crushed his lips together in disgust over the flat, slimy taste. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Those close to him knew he liked his coffee to be “——hot like a good woman, robust, and without cream, please——” he would often jokingly say. And that was true of both. The more robust and the hotter the better. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">What made matters even worse than the coffee being cold, in this case, was his detecting a piece of coffee ground left stuck to the surface of his tongue. He turned in his chair, the leather creaking in complaint, and spit the unwanted sliver into the air in the general direction of his desk waste can. He sat forward and was in the process of placing the cup back on the waiting saucer when what sounded like the sharp crack of a pistol shot broke over the howl of the winter storm assaulting the city. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">David’s body reacted with a jerk.<span> </span>The thin-porcelain cup slipped from his fingers. It shattered upon striking the ornately inlaid Cherry wood desktop, spilling out its contents over the pile of papers strewn before him. What did not soak into the papers found its way in tiny rivulets to the desk's edge where it dripped off onto the carpeted floor. "Christ,” David shouted, “what the hell?" He looked up from the spattered mess to the doorway expecting Tom to be standing there with a sheepish grin and a lame apology for causing him to spill coffee all over his desk. However, Tom was not there. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">And, instead of hearing any reply at all from Tom, David’s skin prickled at the ominous, thick silence which answered his exclamation of surprise. He frowned and pursed his lips——waiting. Even the wind, which had been tearing at the building amid mournful enraged-banshee shrieks, had paused in its assault, as if it too had been startled and needed a moment to collect itself before resuming its howling attack. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">David pushed his chair back and glanced over his clothing checking to see if any of the coffee had spattered him as well. He looked up at the papers and shook his head at the mess and was grateful for Tom having the foresight to have photocopied the original documents regarding a merger between their company and another making them safe from such an event as this. The two men had been carefully reviewing extensive and complex reports concerning a pending merger with a company on the brink of bankruptcy up until Tom brought up the time of night and the need to get home to their families. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">They had been at it for hours and were the last two people left in the building to David's knowledge, and both were in need of rest.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The President of South Central Auto Insurers had caught himself several times slipping off into sleep while reading at his desk. David’s day began before dawn when he attended a breakfast conference held by Nevada State Insurance Officials who wished to address the growing problem of insurance company insolvencies. Even though it was not stated as being mandatory that he and other company CEOs be present, David knew the game well enough to understand that his being present would be beneficial for his company——and, who knew, perhaps useful for his own needs at some point in time. Nevertheless, the subject matter, insurer insolvency, was nothing to worry about where his company was concerned. It had accumulated a treasure trove over the years and was envied by its peers, loved by its shareholders, and respected by State officials who, several of which, from time to time, were quietly granted use of one of the corporate airplanes for personal pleasures. All that resulted from his attendance that morning was his downing too much coffee in order to stay awake. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Returning to his offices, he was confronted with several in-house corporate meetings which followed one another as would a string of railroad cars being pulled uphill by a relentless and powerful diesel engine made up of his pair of administrative assistants who were more than qualified for the job but (fortunately for them) sexually unappealing to David. Each meeting was beyond being dull and he could have easily dozed off except for the “damn” coffee——not to mention the hovering admin assistants that saw to his every need and who brought——yes, more coffee.<span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">He hungered for a time to nap, wishing to be lulled by the howling snowstorm into a much needed restful mental oblivion. However, a quick glance at the day’s appointment calendar revealed the corporate weather would remain unchanged from that of numerous prior such days: busy, with a continuous shower of mind-numbing, sprinkled with an occasional thunderclap of tension reducing angry outburst amid mostly a steady, unrelenting downpour of mind-numbing while his well-organized team of supportive associates refused to let up. That was their job, and they were good at it.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">After a while he began to grow irritable, a sure sign he needed food and rest, and by the time noon arrived it brought with it a much needed break in the structured day for both him and his aides who, themselves, had begun showing evidence of having their claws out. A clash between David and his administrative assistants was not uncommon and when it did take place it generally sent people running for cover. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">And so, when noon arrived, the three smiled icily at one another as the two women helped him slip into his overcoat, handed him his hat, and pushed him out the door and into a waiting car for the short trip up one block and over one to the Marquee Hotel where he met with other business leaders for a traditional “once-a-week, cookie-cutter luncheon” with came with a choice of roast beef, breast of chicken, ham or chicken salad plate. Each entrée would be served with a side of peas or corn, perhaps the choice of mashed, fries, or baked potato, small dinner salad with choice of House, Ranch, or French dressing, bowls with butter in tiny cups for the small warm rolls wrapped up in a cloth and stuffed in a serving basket, four or five different flavors of coffee creamer, four types of sweetener, a traditional glass of water with twist of lemon, cup of coffee for some and tea for others who, David felt, were trying to make a point about something that neither they nor the others present could artfully and properly articulate. Following all this came the deadly, fattening little brownie at the end which David happily devoured. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">The chewy, chocolate, gooey glob that his wife’s dietician had more than once told him might cause him to gain weight, increase his blood pressure, bring on diabetes, and, God forbid, he might even cause him to have a stroke and die. In defiance, David always asked of the others sitting at his table if anyone was not going to eat their brownies could they please pass them to him. And, so, David went fully expecting to be completely bored by some “expert” giving his or her opinion on a subject that David did not have the slightest interest in.<span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">Nevertheless, David learned through the years that being bored at some events was simply part of the game and to keep his eyes and ears open for possibilities which might suddenly arise. So, he sat and politely smiled and nodded to the others there and joined in some small, short conversations with boiler plate comments such as: “oh?”, “really?”, “well, I think I’ll have to read up on that”. and, of course, his favorite was simply a thoughtful “hmmmm”. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">So, David went to the Marquee Hotel resolute to survive yet another business luncheon, one of many in his career. He fully expected to be painfully bored with the guest speaker's remarks over their concerns of an impending economic downturn; however, David was well versed in being able to put up a false front and act opposite of his true feeling, And, as he sat staring at the chicken salad plate placed before him, while toying with his fork, David’s mind drifted, as it always did, to the work waiting for him back at his office until a movement near the entrance to the kitchen interrupted his thoughts.<span> </span>Looking up, he brightened upon spotting a young waitress he was well acquainted with approaching his table with a carafe of fresh coffee.<span> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 200%;">“Miss,” he cheerfully called to her, sitting upright in his chair. “Miss?<span> </span>I’ll have cup, thank you.” </span></span></div>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-31565098024533041002010-11-17T03:43:00.000-08:002010-11-17T03:47:04.675-08:00RABBIT IN A BOX<strong><span style="color: red;">WARNING: THIS IS A GRAPHIC POEM</span></strong><br />
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RABBIT IN A BOX<br />
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11/10/2010<br />
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It was nineteen-fifty nine, I think;<br />
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or, was it sixty? Sadly, I’m not so sure.<br />
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Time passes as we age in such a blink.<br />
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Time merges events and causes them to sink<br />
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at times into a murky and distorted blur<br />
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where, in cases, sure, what came before<br />
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our minds restore in after sure.<br />
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But the year needn’t matter, <br />
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before which came or which the latter.<br />
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For, in truth, for me it was just this morning, <br />
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and ever shall be as thus does daily, without a warning,<br />
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my mind, the deed long past occurred, does sudden vet <br />
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and in full revulsion tempered not, <br />
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but in horrid blossom come anew, <br />
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doth in full measure complete restore<br />
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that pulse in time that I cannot ignore.<br />
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The mind is locked upon the memories, <br />
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those that haunt and gladly vaunt,<br />
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for somehow in some unexpected way we can, <br />
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without any conscious consideration, easy tap<br />
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that which can sudden reach the conscious surface<br />
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as rocket they from deeply protected mental sanctuaries<br />
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they leap across their own synaptic gap<br />
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to lean in upon an empty place of thought<br />
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not expected, wished for, and unsought <br />
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those, whether brings to bear a misty smile;<br />
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or, in some revealing need to fill the quest for singular pain<br />
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where guilt it knows the stain runs deep<br />
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and to that point to reach inside to tear<br />
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our hearts from peaceful dream filled sleep;<br />
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or in light of sun strike knife like deep,<br />
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to cause our souls to wish to able weep<br />
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if weep we outward could, or even weep we should.<br />
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But, I am locked in this haunted horrid space<br />
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unable to disclaim or cry a single tear,<br />
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for no tear upon my face can or ever could or unlikely should trace<br />
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for fear——for fear——<br />
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for fear I’ve come to wonder<br />
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——for fear of what?<br />
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A memory so large? So tainted? So stained? <br />
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One, overtime, which, in size enormous hath attained.<br />
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That which lies deep asunder, <br />
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and sudden can arise from wakening slumber <br />
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as a flash of lightning does before the coming thunder <br />
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Nay, no tears shall stain this face.<br />
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I can, without tears, bear this disgrace alone and must.<br />
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For tears show the pain held deep within which I do not wish to show<br />
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for the results of which I do not, cannot trust,<br />
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and I cannot. I must not, and I will not allow this sin<br />
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to on the surface be so focused<br />
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to place or find me weakly upon my knees<br />
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for emotions to me are naught but thieves. <br />
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Thieves which would steal seconds, minutes, hours and days from me.<br />
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Alone, this then the singular horror has found a home<br />
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and need not to any other person roam, <br />
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or ever even leave this poem.<br />
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Perhaps, then, when all is thought, when all is said<br />
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perhaps it might be the best for you to now in reading stop.<br />
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To reconsider. <br />
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I’ll grant you that. <br />
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If, in some way you’ve, in mistake, this place have come; <br />
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stop now, before this tale I recommence to tell,<br />
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while you are safely in shallow waters,<br />
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and my mind in heavy chains doth rest;<br />
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before I tell the rest, the stained and tormented rest,<br />
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and then haunted——haunted you might forever bound be joined with me<br />
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to set sail forever on this endless rotting, lifeless sea <br />
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lost to any tranquility as any sanguinity the dark surface does not bear<br />
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and pessimism laps upon the surrounding shore.<br />
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There where you might come to think yourself, believed, had been set free at times<br />
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then find lines that haul you back to find me waiting, standing there next to thee.<br />
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Ah, but in shadows, my shadows I, smiling, digress too easily, far too easily you see, <br />
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for I know the path too well to this place, this haunted space, <br />
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this place of hell, you’ll soon see, if you stay and foolish walk with me.<br />
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You’ll see——as I offer you a cup of shame, <br />
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a cup of pain, and shadow now.<br />
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Come——if you dare, <br />
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come and follow me, <br />
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stay with me,<br />
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stay with me amidst the unpleasant nightmarish flow<br />
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of sewage <br />
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long blocked,<br />
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held back<br />
<br />
which I cannot now stop this push to forward go <br />
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and sadly know each twist and turn<br />
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and yet I yearn and struggle to be set from this memory free<br />
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and I warn you, <br />
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that I scream at this, but cannot from the terror let it go.<br />
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I must openly tell you now, <br />
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warn you now,<br />
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and confess before you now, <br />
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that with me, this point forward, you may not wish to go<br />
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for once a tiny, beating heart I found——<br />
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a tiny, beating heart that lay gentle sleeping upon the ground<br />
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all wrapped in white and grey fresh birthed rabbit fur <br />
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and then demons, <br />
<br />
searching <br />
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swept in and we two found.<br />
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<br />
(You’ve now been warned by me this one last time, <br />
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for hell we, you and I, are now thickly bound to go, <br />
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for beyond this point your soul shall sink and we, together, shall drift <br />
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and drop much deeper still, below that which you might not think does exist, <br />
<br />
we will now sound depths deeper still which had you stayed away, <br />
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or dropped the thread at once in simple, innocent dismay<br />
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you may never once might have found that which now waits for thee <br />
<br />
for herein is found a child was mental raped one day, you’ll come to see,<br />
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you’ll know the truth the secret well as I lift the veil <br />
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and that child never more can let the ill visions ever go.)<br />
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Still wish to go on?<br />
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So, herein let me now begin, and——I pray, <br />
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this journey with me you now shall wisely end <br />
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for I found a tiny beating heart <br />
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that others passed by one day, <br />
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not any they noticing <br />
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on that evil fated day <br />
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all softly bundled up <br />
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in fresh birthed rabbit fur,<br />
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fresh washed by its mother tongue,<br />
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in one last loving act,<br />
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then left there to die alone by her,<br />
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as Nature knew,<br />
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its mother knew,<br />
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knew something was amiss. <br />
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I recall a soft breeze was cause enough to stir that puff of fur<br />
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that drew my ever drifting attention there,<br />
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to where laying close to the edge of Proviso’s high school running track,<br />
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left by nature’s mother to die alone, alone and to one never be known.<br />
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Then, luckless, happened I upon the spot, <br />
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but I could not wish for such a fate to be.<br />
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It was not in my heart, nor could I see what nature knew.<br />
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So I scooped up the beating, living, tired heart<br />
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wrapped in grey and white puffs of new birthed rabbit fur; <br />
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and carried then throughout the day, tucked proudly, safely in a shirt pocket,<br />
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proudly carried the tiny life gently in my shirt pocket all that day,<br />
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from class to class until the day of school was done<br />
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then entered home thinking I had somehow won <br />
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and proudly waited for the two who birthed me home to come.<br />
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But then my parents came upon the scene <br />
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and therein caused the day to sudden tilt and blur <br />
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and life——somehow——for me——ended that day. <br />
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A piece of my soul broke free that day, <br />
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tore loose, <br />
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wandered, <br />
<br />
dazed away,<br />
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left me somewhat more the empty than I had ever come to be,<br />
<br />
ever knew could be that way,<br />
<br />
ever knew would forever stay that way.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
And, I wanted to die.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I wanted to reach up and grab the sky<br />
<br />
by the white meat upon its blue neck<br />
<br />
and scream at life itself that day,<br />
<br />
as life itself <br />
<br />
without feeling,<br />
<br />
without emotion,<br />
<br />
seemed to walk on by<br />
<br />
unaffected,<br />
<br />
while I——<br />
<br />
I cursed life,<br />
<br />
cursed God,<br />
<br />
cursed heaven, hell, and all the rest——<br />
<br />
and in a silent, pain filled yell,<br />
<br />
beating bruises upon my chest.,<br />
<br />
cursed the ones for whom for me life had birthed.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Oh, cursed world. <br />
<br />
Oh, imprudent world. <br />
<br />
How coarse thou art. <br />
<br />
How in foolish misguided kindness had I blindly wont and tried to save the day. <br />
<br />
I let the tiny creature lay sleeping, sleeping in my shirt pocket there warm and safe,<br />
<br />
safe from the churlish world about me wound around while the life enclosed in believed<br />
<br />
in safety lay therein. <br />
<br />
But death was sweeping in to lay cold hands upon the day <br />
<br />
while I, not thinking there could ever be any cause for weeping waited. <br />
<br />
Joyful waited! Waited there.<br />
<br />
Thinking I had saved the beating heart of furs life,<br />
<br />
and oh how proud the pair, the loving, protective parents that birthed me would so be.<br />
<br />
When came they upon the scene to see.<br />
<br />
Until, for me, the reality set in. <br />
<br />
When then the parents arrived upon the scene. <br />
<br />
Then the child’s mind began to scream, <br />
<br />
when the child was told by its mother who, <br />
<br />
oddly, herself, could not in fear touch a dead animal. <br />
<br />
Nor, even, could she herself cause its death to be;<br />
<br />
and, so, she left it to the child alone to walk<br />
<br />
to a local drug store with orders to fetch a bottle<br />
<br />
a bottle dark of sleeping death; <br />
<br />
and along the way, to no one know, except the child of course, the creature began to grow<br />
<br />
from evil seeds which the woman did from a thoughtless purse careless sow<br />
<br />
without regards for or know where the seeds might go, or damage cause<br />
<br />
and did not in thinking ever pause how death she caused to a waking dream.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Then, when the wide-open-eyed child from its measured mission did return,<br />
<br />
this parent, this mother, protector of her child, ordered then the creature growing there <br />
<br />
to take a stand, a position, upon the porch with a wad of cotton <br />
<br />
and instructed the stirring monster to careful be,<br />
<br />
to not spill the sleeping potion upon the wooden rail or deck<br />
<br />
but, instead, to hold the beating heart of fur extended <br />
<br />
over the porches wooden rail while in between instructions given, followed in hypnotic <br />
<br />
trance, <br />
<br />
an unheard wail began to rise up from the dying child <br />
<br />
the one who soon would be compelled to be the one to take up the rabbit, <br />
<br />
to remove it from the warm safe hiding place near the child’s own beating heart <br />
<br />
where safely held had been carried all that day unaware that death did lay ahead for both.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Then mother told the child to sin, <br />
<br />
forced the child to sin.<br />
<br />
Backed actions by the father who stood close by within a striking distance.<br />
<br />
A distance the boy had unplanned explored before<br />
<br />
witnessed, viewed, felt and knew.<br />
<br />
So, holding there the tiny, tired, living, beating heart, <br />
<br />
the rabbit in his hands, <br />
<br />
the child creature, <br />
<br />
trembling, <br />
<br />
was forced to pour the uncaring killing liquid. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Inward to the boys bleeding soul rushed a sudden evil thrill, <br />
<br />
a sensation never felt by him before.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Walls began to break and fall.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
A heart did die that day!<br />
<br />
As wicked evil did dance and play<br />
<br />
and to the child did voiceless drunken call.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Two hearts lost a battle.<br />
<br />
One the victim.<br />
<br />
One the killer.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The tiny beating heart squirmed and fought the drowning of its life.<br />
<br />
While the capturers turned stone and dark lured, seduced by the sin.<br />
<br />
And, oh how that tiny thing it fought, <br />
<br />
oh how it terrible went to sleep <br />
<br />
hanging limp from the child’s hated hand <br />
<br />
a hand that had not meant at all to harm. <br />
<br />
But then and now it became a hated thing <br />
<br />
attached to a creature not known before <br />
<br />
one who, resisting temptations for any show of feeling, <br />
<br />
from that day forward fought emotions <br />
<br />
and died within as did the life in hands the creature stole. <br />
<br />
And, oh God, how the liquid surely must have burned, <br />
<br />
must have scored the open eyes surprised and searching for the surface<br />
<br />
where clean air might be found.<br />
<br />
How the deadly, ill tasting liquid ran down the throat. <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While, amid the death carrying flow, the creature stood and thoughts raced, collided, <br />
<br />
slammed into an unknown shore which within the beast had surfaced, <br />
<br />
prior held in check, <br />
<br />
not known before. <br />
<br />
And through an open door all sense of tenderness did outward rush<br />
<br />
the mind was then in full flush<br />
<br />
throwing off parts felt not needed anymore,<br />
<br />
while screaming in a hush of sound<br />
<br />
where no note of music could be found.<br />
<br />
All lost. <br />
<br />
All lost to me.<br />
<br />
Now loosed from innocence, the boy child inward collapsed.<br />
<br />
Collapsed beyond repair.<br />
<br />
Collapsed beyond despair.<br />
<br />
The creature now ruled from a secret lair.<br />
<br />
While such a wretched sin filled act upon the very face of nature, <br />
<br />
upon peace, <br />
<br />
upon innocence which then came crumbling in and stood in shock,<br />
<br />
then faded from the child’s cursed sight while the murdering creatures father stood with<br />
<br />
hands on hips and in silence watched. <br />
<br />
Stunned eyes, corners, turned to see him there, <br />
<br />
and the rabbit urinated and soiled itself;<br />
<br />
then it fell limp in the child’s filthy, slimy, murderous hands.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Mother made me store it in a waiting shoe box, <br />
<br />
which the child, along with a shovel, had been sent to fetch. <br />
<br />
With the shovel the woman told the child to quickly bury it alive,<br />
<br />
out of sight, a secret, dismal spot, <br />
<br />
to bury it behind the garage in a secret spot before it woke.<br />
<br />
To pick a secret spot, one which she, this mother, could not see. <br />
<br />
A secret spot left up to the child to pick. <br />
<br />
A secret spot where upwelling pain still my life this day lays claim. <br />
<br />
A secret spot where my thoughts often go.<br />
<br />
A place where my breath takes leave of me in an echoed gasp,<br />
<br />
echoed from so long ago; <br />
<br />
and I sink beneath the layer of soil <br />
<br />
to slip into that box of horror where, from me, something faded and something unfolded.<br />
<br />
And, rising up, gaze upon the porch where I did as told so long ago,<br />
<br />
and yet the wound still bleeds, <br />
<br />
it has never closed, <br />
<br />
it still bleeds and haunts me so that I should have felt a thrill upon the kill, <br />
<br />
felt wickedness drive in a jagged wedge, and in the burial act while alone there crying,<br />
<br />
while inward dying, kneeling upon the moist dark soil, the closed box in hand, <br />
<br />
the tears began to stop that day and prayers to God turned from love to hatred hot.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
And so we come now to the stories end, <br />
<br />
yet still in the beginning for me <br />
<br />
as t’is not ended<br />
<br />
nor ever shall be <br />
<br />
for in my mind’s wretched, pain filled, mutilated eye<br />
<br />
I see what should not be seen, <br />
<br />
a baby rabbit in a box, <br />
<br />
a tiny thing<br />
<br />
left to die alone in darkness, <br />
<br />
no kindness there, no one to watch, or offer comfort so.<br />
<br />
Just a tiny thing, alone in a tiny shoe box, shoved in a hole<br />
<br />
a filthy hole to let it die, oh, God, I wish that I could truly cry! <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
No.<br />
<br />
Such mental trickery I play on me.<br />
<br />
For thieves wait there to weaken me.<br />
<br />
I look up at the sky and scream at the God who foolish made me<br />
<br />
please, dear God, let me die, please let me fade and never be,<br />
<br />
place the debt, the crime, upon my soul for even without that being truly so <br />
<br />
it lays there heavy and will not pass through any fabled gate of heaven,<br />
<br />
nor do I wish to ever go<br />
<br />
when such deeds are so easy given.<br />
<br />
And close my eyes as I did that rabbit in that tiny box <br />
<br />
for in wretched shame I live and have lived all these years <br />
<br />
and I thus shall rail at thee and demand my satisfaction. <br />
<br />
I beckon thee to battle, to draw your blade, to pick up your shield and come at me <br />
<br />
and fight with me<br />
<br />
and I scream at thee and they for what truth could ever be true I took and slew in horror<br />
<br />
that day.<br />
<br />
False truth, feigned kindness, fell naked before me that day.<br />
<br />
With my own blade I slew it there <br />
<br />
and let the blood run and stain the worthless soil, <br />
<br />
stain my hands with shame and blame and yet <br />
<br />
I only see the wetness there where a cut<br />
<br />
could easy cross the veins with only the act left to do upon a coins simple yes or no toss.<br />
<br />
For there would not be any tangible loss<br />
<br />
if acted upon my thoughts I did and flipped the coin.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
A mind raped, fragmented, the body shell is left empty in suffering to stand upon the <br />
<br />
cursed land. <br />
<br />
I’m cursed. <br />
<br />
I’m cursed. <br />
<br />
Dear God I’m cursed. <br />
<br />
My blade is drawn and would that I could fight the demons of my soul<br />
<br />
and slay them one by one until my shield is weary low and then your strike would set the <br />
<br />
final deed <br />
<br />
and be done with me for in truth I shall never be able to rest and stop a steed of hate <br />
<br />
upon which I ride and to that end I speed myself at thee<br />
<br />
and scream, but no voice is heard, <br />
<br />
I rend my clothes, yet the clothes be not torn, <br />
<br />
I cry, yet tears cannot, will not fall from me<br />
<br />
I fall upon my knees, my face, I grovel in the dust<br />
<br />
yet find myself standing still surrounded, dipped in horror, filled with a sick and wordless thrill and would <br />
<br />
upward thrust a blade and end this song if could <br />
<br />
but find myself held by thee and so, <br />
<br />
in darkness, <br />
<br />
blindness waiting there to capture me<br />
<br />
I slip myself within that box, long rotted now, <br />
<br />
but in my mind the same as the day I placed it in that hole <br />
<br />
to lay next to and touch that soft fur in death matted<br />
<br />
with urine and feces and coated with the stench of a sleeping poison<br />
<br />
for trapped I am with a tiny rabbit in a box, <br />
<br />
trapped forever more,<br />
<br />
with a still heart that once did beat <br />
<br />
and in safety slept <br />
<br />
and, then, was murdered by my hand<br />
<br />
that day as defenseless did it lay. <br />
<br />
Then quickly buried, quickly hidden, quickly stuffed in a box, <br />
<br />
to be forgotten;<br />
<br />
and, only I know where the shovel dug the hole,<br />
<br />
only I know where I placed the box that held the tiny sleeping soul.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I did as bid and kept the secret to myself.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I did as bid,<br />
<br />
while those that birthed me,<br />
<br />
without a word,<br />
<br />
went for coffee and a Danish roll.Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-82612720755758614462010-11-06T18:44:00.001-07:002010-11-06T18:44:54.292-07:00MR. AARON DRAKE<div style="text-align: center;">MR. AARON DRAKE</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">11/5/2010</div><br />
<br />
<br />
The day’s chill winds sifted through spreading cotton threads<br />
<br />
spreading threads too gapped to stop the flow of cold<br />
<br />
thin stretched they were as the clouds which slipped past overhead<br />
<br />
dipped and thinly spread with wisps of changing melting smoke<br />
<br />
darkly stained with blemish there swept past in constant moving coolish air<br />
<br />
a cold that touched flesh hiding beneath the cotton vest<br />
<br />
a vest I knew when left the apartment’s quiet heated pleasant nest<br />
<br />
would not be capable of passing the chilling test<br />
<br />
to keep warm the flesh hidden as though a bird within a hidden nest<br />
<br />
tucked tightly by nature’s parents had somehow unfolded the hiding cloak<br />
<br />
and yet somehow pursued, pursued and drifted I went walking in the park<br />
<br />
unaware of where or why or what this lonely singular walk might come to bear<br />
<br />
the fruit of which was hidden by frost heavy laid upon the still and morning air<br />
<br />
not alarmed or aware of where I went or was bound to go, for it was to be simply so,<br />
<br />
and go I did and touched gently the patches of remaining ice crusted snow <br />
<br />
that somehow had chosen to remain, though without a brain could not entertain<br />
<br />
such a thought themselves while in curiosity I was so caught up in mindless wandering that thought perhaps in nature some primal attention might touch the ragged frozen cap which sat like a hat on each small pile of frozen dew, <br />
<br />
a dew that through the ages each had recycled as though unique and new<br />
<br />
to that time and place and yet man and land, and all that walked, crawled and flew<br />
<br />
had known as rocks had before when heated lava pools sent steam upward rising to somehow cool the planet in its early morning rising pains of birth <br />
<br />
and as I looked out over the parks twin blue shallow lakes where steam drifted<br />
<br />
I sensed the eyes of him I later learned was named Mr. Aaron Drake<br />
<br />
who sat and stared out at the lake with water coolish to the touch<br />
<br />
where in summer’s dress children waded to the knees, but not one now ventured past the trees where Mr. Aaron Drake sat and silently looked out at the lake, <br />
<br />
then spoke to me he did without a word being uttered from lips cold shuttered<br />
<br />
he spoke to me from within the cold that lay close that day, <br />
<br />
and emanated from his skin at that place on that day in the coolish month of May<br />
<br />
and asked if I might draw tight the coat that covered his shirt stained <br />
<br />
drying red from where he’d bled that night before the day<br />
<br />
and could I please lift the bottle of cheap made gin<br />
<br />
one more time to the lips of him who pale had closed most tight <br />
<br />
beneath twin eyes that held no light or sight at all <br />
<br />
and wished, in kindness, to be propped up a bit so his corpse would not slip and fall,<br />
<br />
fall upon the sidewalk that dawning day in a chilling month of May <br />
<br />
and so I did as bid then bid farewell to the silent apparition<br />
<br />
soundless seated staring out at the twin lakes so silent in there bluish color, <br />
<br />
waves lightly lapping, tapping against the man made shore, <br />
<br />
gold fish lazy sleep swimming there just inches from the air above<br />
<br />
and went my way for nothing left to do for Mr. Aaron Drake,<br />
<br />
nothing left to do for he who had left the earth in violent play the night before the day <br />
<br />
and whose rigid corpse would soon be found and so, <br />
<br />
I thought, and inward knew, no need there was for me to tend him there <br />
<br />
and therefore continued to wander surrounded by the chill <br />
<br />
as the voice behind had grown mute, silent, still <br />
<br />
and no longer to the stiffening body did any outer measures matter.Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-75926839773345702142010-11-06T18:42:00.000-07:002010-11-06T18:42:25.814-07:00Poem: THE THOUGHT OF SUICIDE<div style="text-align: center;">THE THOUGHT OF SUICIDE</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">November 3, 2010</div><br />
<br />
<br />
The thought of suicide comes knocking at my bolted chamber door.<br />
<br />
Knocking as though a friend who wishes to simply visit, to come brightly in,<br />
<br />
and, perhaps, share a brand of new coffee just purchased at the store.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
But the coffee offered, proffered is far too strong and deadly bold<br />
<br />
and would leave my hands silent without a pulse and lifeless cold<br />
<br />
should I embrace the cup granted easily in false friendship and never sold.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So it and I sit as in many times before, many, many times before and think<br />
<br />
and gaze into each other’s eyes, waiting for the one or the other to come to<br />
<br />
blink<br />
<br />
in this a deadly game in which in quiet place and pause we both do sink.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Can it be that fear drives men’s souls?<br />
<br />
What is destiny? What promise holds<br />
<br />
our future and kept in secret knows?<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
But, I—— smiling——push the cup away,<br />
<br />
and tell the deadly visitor it wastes its time this day;<br />
<br />
for alive, I believe, I shall for the time being plan to stay.Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-27246057879321542982010-10-02T11:44:00.000-07:002010-10-02T11:44:05.230-07:00Death Stalks a Mountain Top<div style="text-align: center;">DEATH STALKS A MOUNTAIN</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">TOP</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">CHU LAI, SOUTH VIETNAM</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">1965</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Copywrite <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">© 2010 Gordon Kuhn</span></div><br />
<br />
<br />
How foolish unbridled youth can be<br />
<br />
when taught not how the world to see<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
the world in all tastes of color spread<br />
<br />
before oncoming darkness dread<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and yet the dawn of youth was spent far too<br />
<br />
young for us to see<br />
<br />
and time crossed the sacred line of age<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
while in the very act not one became a<br />
<br />
learned sage<br />
<br />
yet aged far beyond their counted years<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and some forgot how to issue forth tears<br />
<br />
amidst the spreading flood of rage<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and warm blood poured forth upon the<br />
<br />
ground<br />
<br />
in drops and rivers from brave hearts did<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and blood and urine flowed as one<br />
<br />
disrespecting soiled us all around<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
rifle fire opened upon the flank<br />
<br />
and raced down towards the river bank<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
spattered shouts<br />
<br />
a grenade took someone’s life out<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
——transformation——a screaming rage<br />
<br />
life turned a bitter and terrible page<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and boys became their own fathers then<br />
<br />
while fear loosed bowels held tight before<br />
<br />
that night<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and blood and urine flowed as one<br />
<br />
——church wine——careless spilled upon<br />
<br />
the ground——disrespecting everyone.Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-71141979391556852302010-09-20T01:47:00.000-07:002010-09-20T01:47:11.572-07:00NIGHT<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">NIGHT</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">9/20/2010</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Come sweet gentle cover</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">dark, clean, with faults</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">if be there any</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">hidden from my sight</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">come swiftly now and be my true lover</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">my soul, simple kept, vaults</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">over my plain needs, not being many</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">come swiftly before the morning light.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-17663401344757630002010-09-17T21:26:00.000-07:002010-09-18T06:15:31.947-07:00REGARDING EMILY<div style="text-align: center;">REGARDING EMILY</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">by </div><div style="text-align: center;">Gordon Kuhn</div><div style="text-align: center;">Copywrite 9/17/2010</div><br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
We met her in the month of May<br />
<br />
she opted to only up and stay<br />
<br />
a month with a trusted, winsome friend<br />
<br />
who lived near our closed-in street’s end<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
then summer came and still she stayed<br />
<br />
her plans she said had been delayed<br />
<br />
yet our friends nerves were getting frayed<br />
<br />
he felt that he was forever being played<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
for a fool, as some of us had said<br />
<br />
his bank account was being bled<br />
<br />
and soon he’d be financially dead<br />
<br />
but Emily fearless upon his back did tred<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
then came a night in early September fall<br />
<br />
when voices raised and dishes crashed against a wall<br />
<br />
with Emily’s speech being the loudest of them all<br />
<br />
and neighbors pondered if someone the law should call<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
but instead we waited for morning’s burst of light<br />
<br />
then out we all went to survey the scene of the fight<br />
<br />
and found our friend with smile so bright<br />
<br />
a mound of turned soil tamped down quite tight<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
He smiled, wiped sweat from his brow, and happy said<br />
<br />
“It’s okay, she really is quite dead.”<br />
<br />
then police came later on to lightly tred<br />
<br />
upon the spot where Emily had bled<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
they took our friend away that day<br />
<br />
for a long-term quiet hospital stay<br />
<br />
regarding Emily nothing did they say<br />
<br />
and failed, somehow, to take her corpse away<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
instead she was left buried beneath the old oak tree<br />
<br />
the mound was tamped down quite tight, but plain enough to see<br />
<br />
years passed and we came looking for that ancient tree<br />
<br />
and found the street a golf course now, and Emily beneath the very first tee.Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-51120642045063452942010-09-15T06:21:00.000-07:002010-09-15T16:29:07.276-07:00THE BARQUE IN WHICH I SET SAIL<div style="text-align: center;">THE BARQUE IN WHICH I SET SAIL</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">by Gordon Kuhn</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">copywrite</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">9/15/2010</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
First light came before me and with pure colors ran<br />
<br />
and I sat bleakly before the dull surfaced withered wall<br />
<br />
immovable as though I was stuffed inside a can<br />
<br />
or perhaps bridled, hobled, tied in a horses stall<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I breathed in the sent of breakfast<br />
<br />
the smell of bacon cooking down the hall<br />
<br />
and wished it could forever last<br />
<br />
but then such deeds would forever stall<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
the changing coming of the day<br />
<br />
the coming blanket of the night<br />
<br />
where all wishes for and wont<br />
<br />
in secret places, whispered, kept out of sight<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
the lay of some daily plan<br />
<br />
stands out stark before me<br />
<br />
the smell of eggs cooking in a frying pan<br />
<br />
my soul breaths and wishes to be set free<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
from wrapped flesh and clinging bone<br />
<br />
decayed and left behind in a sea tossed foam<br />
<br />
where the wind howls in a steady moan<br />
<br />
the barque in which I set sail now floats emply, lost<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
and I am all alone.<br />
<br />
</div>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-56552308482856637832010-08-29T19:11:00.000-07:002010-08-29T19:43:41.331-07:00A ROSE FOR A FRIEND<span style="font-size: large;">Copy Right 2010 by Gordon Kuhn</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I had a friend who went away</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">she never said how long she’d stay</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I bought a rose and placed it where</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">no one would stop and stand and stare</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but a place I knew she might wander past</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and hoped the flower would somehow last</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">that my message of sadness and regret</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for being one who without thinking and with unplanned neglect</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">had sadly let her fingers drift from mine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">then somewhere, somehow, something cut the line</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">which I had not in place wished or had any such forward design</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but failed I to tend the growth and failed to note or to in time seek to refine</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the friendship that should have long passed the test of time</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">while our love had grown so quickly from infancy into prime</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">too late I then discovered how quickly a clock can chime</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and another flower placed I this day</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and wished that she might stop this way</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but I know she’s gone and will never return</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">too late, too late the lesson did I learn</span>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-45009454768717371442010-08-08T20:52:00.001-07:002010-08-08T20:55:07.383-07:00<strong>THE EMPTY GLASS</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>Copy Right 2010 Gordon Kuhn</strong><br />
<br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>From death I summoned mortal self and painful woke</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>from darkness I mental stumbled, staggered, crawled </strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>while blurred vision within a thought that spoke</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>to none while no sound passed from lips came forth or scrawled</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>its simple presence, message, all upon the empty, silent, motionless, nonexistent wind</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>while with blurred sight of that I thought once, read, felt was or had been friend</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>had once been full but now an empty, stained, drying glass set before me then</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>an empty glass where once I thought that truth had run but neither truth or sin</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>were settled then within a tilted landscape revealed the bottle thought surely left full</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>but empty stands the space within glass walls while hungry lips would desperate seek to pull</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>one drop, one taste, to wet a dry aching parched throat, a breath to calm my throbbing soul</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>my brain afire as though within it lay beneath a blazing stack of glowing coal</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>upon there rests a frying pan which sizzles, dark red glows without a drop of oil</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>to soften, calm or aid the cooking toil</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>instead a crimson surface where words like drops of water fell</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>to dance across the surface in dying screaming voices tell</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>“Hey,” the distant voice did break the silent sound and say</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>“we’ve closed and need you now to up and pay</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>and sleep not here you cannot stay.”</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>Oh God, what hell is this where I now exist</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>of lights turned brightly on and noises which won’t resist</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>but in gladness seem to persist in the desire to torture this drunken piece of flesh and bone </strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>and each muttered empty word strikes like a heavy stone</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>strikes and shatters stone on stone to gravel scatters shards like glass cut the flesh</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>of that which sober hours before now lies in tatters held by simple mesh</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>of skull bone which in deep despair if I could but shatter upon the wall</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>while coughing empty my stomach up upon the floor in the hall</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>that ought to piss the bastards off that drag me from this corner table cell</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>and roughly deposit me upon the curb wet with rain and in anger tell</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>me to not come back again unless my pocket book is full then would happy sell</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>me life in glass and bottle and my own table against the wall could sit</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>as once before when money graced my pockets and could laugh and sing a bit</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>but now I lay in a tight knit ball, in pain near the filling draining gutter</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>and listen to the rain splash and careless stutter</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>while my clothes grow wet and cold</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>and I realize that for such place as this I’ve only told</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>the story of what my cost was for the drink my life, my job, my health I sold.</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong><br />
</strong><br />
<strong>Copy Right 2010 Gordon Kuhn</strong>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-21630288231385682182010-08-04T06:13:00.000-07:002010-08-29T19:46:10.193-07:00HAVE YOU EVER MET A NAKED OTTER?<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have you ever met a naked otter?</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIiRTta52Q-kYsDx7un-a7QfrfJRKo9Pjog4cm4ioA9y1Y_ICN5Q4WDx7fXnbLDJYiiIEdl6OJcynyU2xb1d3Yq5__68muXvg6MUCpq7jvPtq90p28BlcuAUIxcOvJ8ojnBrLUlj3UKvQ/s1600/11692334178adrCm%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIiRTta52Q-kYsDx7un-a7QfrfJRKo9Pjog4cm4ioA9y1Y_ICN5Q4WDx7fXnbLDJYiiIEdl6OJcynyU2xb1d3Yq5__68muXvg6MUCpq7jvPtq90p28BlcuAUIxcOvJ8ojnBrLUlj3UKvQ/s320/11692334178adrCm%5B1%5D.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">one standing silent by the sea</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">standing silent in deep thought</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;">while sipping a cup of Earl Grey tea</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: large;">and with it shared a cookie</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">he just had the three</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">one for him, one for me</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and a cookie for the sea</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">for a long lost friend </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">who, like him, loved Earl Grey Tea.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Copywrite by Gordon Kuhn, 03/12/2010</span>Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715636099717289443.post-87089881393908826752010-08-03T09:07:00.000-07:002010-08-03T09:07:57.303-07:00I LIKEN MY MIND TO THAT OFJuly 24, 2010<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
I liken my mind to that of a fertile plain<br />
<br />
where bits and pieces of fresh loam lay<br />
<br />
unboxed treasures of picture puzzle pieces<br />
<br />
which merge to form coherent thoughts without disdain<br />
<br />
for that which might lurk along that close-by supposed peaceful lane<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
for any intruders nonexistent unwanted cannot stay<br />
<br />
therein where gallant words like saddled soldiers on horses<br />
<br />
roam and challenge all malevolent disguised evil forces<br />
<br />
which try to bring suppression depression darkness to the day<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While music speaks to that which comes to rise<br />
<br />
as unknown readers turn over leaves before them strewn<br />
<br />
created in day or before a changing wandering moon<br />
<br />
and dancing spill out before the searchers' hungry eyes <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
freely existing in a mind filled place of visions new<br />
<br />
whose number count thousands more than just a few<br />
<br />
for therein is no booklet kept for paying rent <br />
<br />
no lengthy mortgage, nor any captive leases kept<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
no challenges are outward sent<br />
<br />
made of hard clay whose one simple purpose is the forming of discontent<br />
<br />
by thickening the mix and thereby defeating the purpose of the day<br />
<br />
nor weeds be found which might cause any plan delay<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
which is simply to live and allow thought to play<br />
<br />
out as though their singular protective world was fresh<br />
<br />
and without any stain to be found on silken threads or freshly knitted mesh<br />
<br />
but one cannot in pure essence in this state in permanence be left to stay<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
No, for in truth it equally often seems<br />
<br />
where there are so many cascading song filled dreams<br />
<br />
that regardless of the chosen visited hour<br />
<br />
the whole issue without provocation can from sweet turn bitter sour<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
And therein, once the change is made, I liken my mind to a garbage dump<br />
<br />
wherein darkness lays about and one hears the approaching thump<br />
<br />
of walking strangers coming far too close, far too near<br />
<br />
whose faces are hid in darkness, hid by fear<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Where places rise up in trash heaped smoldering spots<br />
<br />
and then drop to valleys littered with dead ideas piled in rotting lots<br />
<br />
without ceremony ever being said or given to let them rest<br />
<br />
while others seek higher ground upwards climb over stench and broken shards of glass and believe they are the best<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Yet there are left the toneless voices which fill the air with decaying scents<br />
<br />
as though unclean mouths all about do bound<br />
<br />
while blind and limbless children play and old people at edge of death<br />
<br />
search for something lost and think they then have found<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
the answer in some crushed bag left amid the pile of putrid refuse trash<br />
<br />
the answer only to be confounded then to whirl about in blinding flash<br />
<br />
trying to form meaning from sentence structures left hollow, left un-kept<br />
<br />
and find that meter has crawled off someplace and deathlike slept.Gordon Kuhnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122916756255011994noreply@blogger.com0