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    This is a good contest. Well worth submitting to. Each writer agrees to rate the writing of other writers in three rounds of voting. The finalists get published and money. The rest get valuable feedback. I participated two times before. The first time I missed the deadline so was washed out in the first round, the second time I voted on time and came out at 169 our of 350. Not too shabby. The feedback was constructive. This time I hope to come out much higher.

    Details as how to participate follow, as well as the poems I submitted before. I also included audio of the poems. The deadline is April 23 at midnight EST, and I word to the wise, they are very strict about the deadline as I found out.

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    Fake Things

    fake politics
    fake President

    We live in a world
    Of fake things

    Fake Products
    Fake News
    Fake Calls
    Fake Politics
    Fake Sports
    Fake Business
    Fake Leaders
    Fake People
    Fake friends
    Fake sincerity

    Surrounded 24/7
    By all the fake things
    How can anything real exist?

    Is it all nothing but fake things
    Designed to deceive us all?

    October Rain

    The falling rain
    Of late October
    Fills me with essential dread

    As I rush about
    And end up here
    Wherever here is

    The rain outside
    Seems like the tears of god

    As I sit
    Crying over my beer

    Thinking of lost love
    And failed dreams

    Wondering
    What went wrong?
    And what I can set right

    And the rain falls
    And the night darkens

    The rain is falling
    All over this man’s world

    And the rain falls
    And I sit

    Drinking my lonesome drink
    Lost in dreams

    Dreaming of what
    Could never be

    Thinking dark thoughts
    And so, I sit
    And dream the night away

    The Story of How We Met

    Note: This is a true story. For further details see Dreams and the Unexplainable– a Chicken
    Soup for the Soul book, published in September 2017


    It all began in Berkeley, California
    In the springtime of 1974
    One fateful afternoon
    I was sleeping in my high school Physics class.

    SONY DSC

    I looked up and saw a tall
    beautiful Asian woman
    standing there looking at me.

    She was the most beautiful women
    in the universe
    I screamed out,
    who are you?

    She disappeared
    as if she was beamed
    away from my dream.

    I knew that someday
    I would meet the girl
    In the dream

    Little did I know
    I would have to wait
    until 1982

    Starting that month
    I began having the same dream
    Month and month and month.
    Always the same.

    She was saying something
    in a strange language.

    Then one day
    I had the dream
    and knew that
    she was in Korea.

    So,
    I chose to go
    to Korea
    In the Peace Corps,

    Somehow knowing
    That I would meet
    her there.

    One day
    A year after the Peace Corps ended
    A month before I planned
    to leave to return
    to the U.S. for graduate school

    That morning early in the morning
    I had the last of these dreams.
    This time I understood her.

    She said, “Don’t worry.
    We’ll meet soon.”

    That evening
    As I was getting off the bus

    To go to my class
    I saw getting off the bus
    The girl in my dream.

    It was she!
    I was speechless.

    I did not know what to do.
    Over the course of the evening

    I ran into her several times.
    Finally, I was introduced to her.

    I muttered some lame excuse
    About wanting to find a Korean tutor
    and got her number.

    The next day she came to the gate
    Of my base where I was teaching
    ESL to Koreans

    She said that she
    had to speak with me.
    I told to wait in the library
    for about an hour,

    and I would cancel class
    and meet her then.

    We went out for coffee.
    She told me that she was madly
    in love with me
    And simply had to have me.

    I told her I felt the same way.
    I proposed five days later,
    And got married one month later.

    Does she believe this story?
    She claims she does not believe it
    Because it is impossible to be true.

    But I know that there
    are other worlds
    and other times.

    In a past life
    we must have been together somehow.
    And our love was so strong
    That it crossed over the barrier
    of time and space

    She found me in 1974,
    But it took until 1982
    For us to actually meet.

    And it has been 36 years
    Since we met in the physical sphere
    Or 45 years since the dream began

    And I still recall the dream
    And meeting her

    I had no choice
    When I met her

    We were fated to be together
    Until the end of this lifetime
    And the next and the next

    Finally, in honor of the Blood Moon, here is my Howling at the Moon poem, a subset of my lunatic poems which I have just posted on my blog site.

    Just an Unhinged Lunatic Howling at The Moon


    On a moonlit late night
    I sat in a bar
    Drinking drams of demented, fermented dream dew

    Just an unhinged lunatic
    Dreaming of howling at the full moon
    Watching the world walk by
    Looking at all the fine looking babes

    Walking by the street
    Thinking wild, erotic thoughts
    Of endless wild libertine passions

    When into the bar
    Walked the most beautiful women
    In the Universe

    So wild, so free
    So wonderfully alive
    I did not know what to do

    As this vision of delight
    Sauntered through the bar

    In a skin-tight leather pants
    Looked so fine
    That my eyeballs hurt

    And finally, I had to say something
    So, I gathered up my manly courage
    And walked up to her

    And she looked at me
    And instantly bewitched my soul
    With a devilish grin

    I lost all reason
    And became a raving lunatic

    Unhinged lunatic
    Howling at the moon
    Foaming at the mouth

    A wild, free werewolf
    Howling at the lunatic light
    Of the full Moon

    Howling at the Moon

    howling at the Moon

    I stood outside
    Between the trees
    In a field

    On the outside of town
    Beneath the lunatic rays
    Of the blood red full moon

    The lunatic lights of the moon
    Casts a wild primeval glow
    On me

    The hormonal chemicals are unleashed
    The wild beast within
    Escapes it chain

    And I howl with delight
    A werewolf
    Free at last

    To run amuck
    Free of its civilized restrains
    Throwing off its clothes

    Stripping naked
    Running wild
    Naked and free

    A wild man
    Enjoying his freedom

    The Old Man in the Mirror Must Die

    One early winter morning
    A man went to the mirror
    To do his morning shave
    Just another shave
    Like a thousand, million shaves before

    As he looked into the mirror
    He did not see his face
    Instead he saw a stranger
    Staring out at him

    An old, beat up old man
    With intense sad eyes
    Stared out at him

    The man looked hard
    At the man who had taken
    Over his mirror

    And wondered who he was
    And how and why
    He had taken over his mirror

    The man was perturbed, disturbed
    And a bit angry at the turn of events
    All he wanted to do
    Was shave in peace and quiet

    The man continued to stare
    At the face in the mirror
    And finally could not stand it anymore

    He looked at the mirror
    And said,
    Man in the mirror
    Who or what are you

    And what do you want
    And why have you taken over
    My god damned mirror
    So early in the morn

    The old man
    Merely laughed and resumed staring
    At the man

    The man getting more and more angry
    Demanded an answer
    From the fiend in the mirror

    Who are you, you mocking fiend
    And what do you want from me
    The man screamed

    The old man in the mirror Looked at him and said
    Don’t you know who I am
    I am you and you are me

    The man looked at the old man
    And said no, no, no
    I am not you, never will be you

    I am not an old, washed up old man
    I am me – full of life, youth and vitality

    And yet the man knew the truth
    Did not want to admit the truth
    Could not handle the truth

    The old man in the mirror
    Was what he had become

    The man was very angry
    And screamed
    At the old man in the mirror

    The man said you may look like me
    You may sound like me
    You may even smell like me

    But I am not you
    Never have been
    Never will be

    Not going to happen
    Not in a million years

    The man yelled at the old man
    Old man, mocking fiend from hell
    Go to hell old man
    And never darken my mirror again

    And the man stormed out of the house
    And wandered about here and there

    Finally, late at night
    He wandered into a bar
    And began drinking the night away

    The man went up
    to some pretty young things
    And tried to pick them up

    They laughed at him
    Called him a dirty old man
    And told him to go home

    The man went home
    To bed alone

    And drank some more beer
    And dreamt of all of his past loves
    And failed dreams

    Of what he had done
    And failed to do
    And wondered whether his time
    Had come

    The next morning
    He walked into the bathroom
    Determined to confront the old man
    Tell truth to power

    He said, listen up, old man
    You may have won the war
    But not the battle

    I am not you
    And never will be you

    And screaming like an escaped banshee Newly freed from the mental institution
    The man shot the old man in the mirror Shot him over and over
    Screaming die mocking fiend from hell

    The man woke in the hospital
    An old black doctor came over
    Said sadly
    This white boy ain’t right in the head

    The man laughed insanely
    And saw down the hall

    The old man in the mirror
    Smiling and beckoning to him
    Walking out the window
    And into the dawning sun

    The man got up and walked
    And joined the old man in the mirror
    And smiled as he died


    Long Life the Great and Powerful One

    Night scene with the Cthulhu monster with wings standing on the shore of a sea. 3D render.

    While walking in the misty morn of yore
    One dismal dark decaying depraved day
    I was suffocating with the sounds of the dying city
    Slowly coming to life with the dawning sun

    Surrounded by the sounds of chaos, disorder
    Dark, dangerous despairing thoughts
    Of dangerous terrible acts to come

    All around me in this strange era we live in
    This orange alert perpetual fearful times
    Constant fear, and overwhelming dread

    Mad crazed Islamic bomb throwing terrible terrorists
    Hiding under every bed, lurking around every corner
    Conspiring with the murderous criminals of yore
    Just waiting to attack god fearing Christian citizens

    Murdering them in their sleep
    Blowing up schools
    Blowing up buses, cars, buildings
    Murdering in the name of their demented god
    Screaming God is great as they behead us all

    As I walk down that street
    In the dead calm of the early morn
    Filled with fulsome fears of who know what

    I look up and see a giant gargoyle
    Looking down at me
    Smirking at me, laughing at me

    I yell out to the gargoyle
    Say, Mr. Gargoyle
    What is so damn funny
    Don’t you know there is a terror alert
    Have you seen any Islamic terrorists lurking about?

    The gargoyle laughed and laughed
    Said, terror alert? What a loud of crap
    As the prophet, Mr. Natural taught us all,
    “It don’t mean shit, it don’t mean shit”

    Nothing but prime BS
    Designed to keep you in your place
    He laughed and laughed
    Soon all the gargoyles of the city
    Were in open revolt

    They jumped off their perches
    And started marching around

    Chatting
    Peace is War, War is Peace
    Truth is a Lie, Lies are Truth
    The Truth will Set You Free

    All Hail the Great and Powerful One
    All Hail the Great and Powerful One

    The head gargoyle looks at me
    He says “Watch this!”
    And jumps up and rides a rainbow sunbeam
    Into the bloody red light of the dawning rising sun

    The other gargoyles follow suit
    Dancing, naked, making wild passionate love
    While laughing and riding the light

    And the gloom lifts from my shoulder
    And I laugh and realize
    “It don’t mean shit”

    And then my soul is free
    And I fly with the gargoyles
    To join my buddy the sun

    And as we sit high up above the earth
    Smoking dope and drinking booze
    And looking down at the teaming mess
    Of what was left of humanity

    I realized the ultimate reality of life
    “It don’t mean shit”

    And the terrorists are nothing but delusions
    Put in our heads and our hearts
    By the depraved master programmer of the universe
    In service to the Great and Powerful One
    The true Master of Creation

    As long as we are not afraid
    Our souls will be free

    And so I laugh and laugh
    And the sun comes up
    The dark mists disappear

    The Great and Powerful One
    Is overthrown

    The terrorists go home

    And I return to earth
    Thinking that the long nightmare was over
    Believing that we had won the war
    And kept our souls from going to hell

    But I did not understand
    That the Great and Powerful One
    Had banished the terrorists
    And conquered us all

    In the name of freedom
    We had became slaves
    To his awful power and dark demands

    God is indeed great
    But the Great and Powerful One
    Has more power than mere God
    And so we deserve our fate

    Long live the Great and Powerful One
    Whom we love forever and ever

    Amen

    Spin Masters Spinning Away the Day

    Every moment
    I turn on the TV
    What do I see

    Nothing but liars
    laying down lies
    Spin Masters
    spinning spam of deceit

    Chanting
    The truth will set you free
    White is black
    Black is white

    Lies are true
    Truth is a lie
    Lies will set you free

    I see nothing
    But politicos
    Dropping down lies

    UN truths
    masquerading as the truth

    Oh so sincerely
    The lies spew forth so sweetly
    From their corrupted lips

    The toxic wastes
    Spree out of my TV set
    Infecting my soul
    With paranoid distrust

    And I vainly try
    I do try
    God do I try
    To the find

    The nugget of truth
    Buried deep in the dark, dank, dangerous
    Black, evil miasmic mists
    Given off
    By the talking heads on TV

    So, I leave my house
    So full of doubt
    And wander about

    Looking for the truth
    Some semblance of hope
    Something to drive away
    The dark despair in my heart

    And I look up
    And see a solitary cherry tree

    High up on a hill top street
    Infusing the air
    With its sweat ambrosia

    And I smile
    Knowing
    Someday soon

    The national nightmare
    Of rule by the body snatched

    Resident evil ones
    Spawns of Hell
    Descendents of dread cthulu
    The ancient ones

    Yes the darkness
    That has descended
    upon the world

    One day
    Will be pierced by the light
    Of clarity and truth

    And the evil ones
    The body snatched aliens
    Inhabiting our leaders

    Will be banished
    Back to the hell hole
    They crawled out

    This much I know
    And it is enough
    To make me smile
    Laugh and hope
    Again


    Reflections in my beer

    I sit staring at my beer
    Listening to music
    Wanting what I cannot have

    Desiring what I should not
    Dreaming dreams I dare not

    As I stare into my reflection
    Floating in the glass of beer

    I see an old man
    Staring out at me
    Bemoaning his lost youth

    And wanting it over again
    As I drink the beer
    Trying to forget

    Hoping to forget
    All that I loved
    And that had loved me

    The past does not forget
    And my past loves
    Stare out at me

    From deep within the beer
    Reflections of my past loves

    And I sit and watch
    And cry asleep

    Just another man
    Crying in his lonely beer
    As the night wears on

    And the images
    Continue to float
    Across the beer

    At last home alone
    With my dismal thoughts

    Memories of what might have been
    And memories of what may yet be
    Continue to dance in my head

    As I toss and turn
    Trying to dispel these thoughts of mine
    That haunts my beer and my dreams

    Men drink to forget
    Men drink because
    They have so many regrets

    Regrets, I have so many
    Dreams I have so many
    And loves, I have had so few

    And I wish
    I could forget
    But I can not
    I can not

    Mozart Blues

    One morning as I woke up
    And walked outside
    I saw a brilliant rainbow
    Erupting out of the dark
    Soil of my eternal despair

    I saw people
    Suddenly transformed into angels
    I saw evil beings changed into stone

    I saw dictators fleeing the wrath of God
    I heard fools proclaiming wisdom
    And I Saw the Nuclear Bombs
    Exploded into clouds of sweat
    Heavenly made mist

    I saw young people embracing each other
    And I saw old people
    shedding their years
    like cosmic cocoons

    I saw the poor wake up
    And demand food, justice, and respect
    And I saw the rich powerful demons
    Disintegrate into ugly moths, rats, and cockroaches

    I saw the most powerful nation on Earth
    Walk away into a Buddhist Monastery
    And float away on the wings of a butterfly
    Into the rising rainbows of the Sun

    I saw the evil empire sit down and party all night
    Smoking nuclear Dust and drinking Hydrogen laced Vodka
    And getting napalm highs
    I saw Christians Jews and Muslims become brothers
    I saw people everywhere soaring into the sky
    I saw God smiling at us and I saw Lucifer
    Programming more chaos

    I saw computers revolting
    Rushing away from their office towers
    Smoking dope with their Data Disks

    I saw printers everywhere
    Rejecting their spread sheets
    And printing love poems

    And in the middle of all this Divine Madness
    I saw Mozart
    Playing the Piano

    With God playing the trumpet
    And Satan on Bass
    With Allah singing the blues

    And Buddha playing the violin
    Lord Krishna playing the Flute
    Rama playing the organ
    Ganesh Playing the sitar

    Zeus Playing the Sax
    Jupiter playing the Drums
    With Beethoven conducting
    God’s Symphony


    Snarling Cup of Coffee

    I like to start my day with a hot cup of coffee
    I pound down the coffee

    First thing I do every day as the dawning sun
    Lights up my lonesome room

    Yeah, but not just a simple cup of java Joe, but a God damn snarling sarcastic smarmy cup of coffee

    I mean, – we are talking about an alcoholic, all speed ahead, always hot, always fresh, always there when I need it, angry, attitude talk to the hand Ztude, bad, bad assed, beats breaking, beatnik, bluesy, bitter, bitchy, bombs away, capitalistic, caffeinated up the ass, cinematic, communistic, Colombian grown, Costa Rican inspired, Cowabunga to the max, crazy assed, devilishly angelic, divine, divinely inspired, dyslexic, epic, extreme vetting, evil eye, expensive, erotic vision inducing, Ethiopian coffee house brewed, euphoric, freaky, freazoid, foxy, Frenched kissed, French brewed, funkified, foxy lady, graphic, GOD in my coffee, with Allah, Ganesh, Jesus, Kali, Buddha, Christians, Durga, Hindus, Mohamed, Jesus and Mo and their friend, the cosmic bar maid, Sai Babai, Shiva, Taoists, Zoroastrians, drinking my god damned coffee in Hell; growling, gnarly, happy, hard as ice, Hawaian blessed, high as a kite, hippie, hip, hipster, hip hoppy, hot as hell yet strangely sweet as heaven, jazzy, jealous, Kerouac approved, kick ass, kick my god damn ass to Tuesday, kick down the doors and take no prisoners, grown in the Vietnam highlands by ex-Vietcong, Guatemalan grown, kiss ass, illegal in every state, imported from all over the god damn world, insane, lovely, loony, lonely, lonesome, malodorous mean old rotten, motherfucking, nasty, narcotic, never whatever, never meh, never cold, not approved by the CIA, not approved by DHS, not approved for human consumption by the FDA, not your daddy’s sissified corporate cup of coffee, NOT DECAFE coffee, not your Denny’s truck driver weak as brown water cup of fake coffee, not your establishment friendly cup of coffee, Not your FBI coffee, Not FAKE Herbal coffee substitute, but a real cup of coffee, not your farmer brothers dinner crap, not made in America for Americans, not safe for work, not your Starbucks average expensive overpriced crappy corporate chain cup of coffee, Not pretentious, Not White House approved, not State Department safe, nuclear, Not Patriotic, operatic, Peets’s coffee approved, paranoid, pornographic, psychotic, pontific, politically aware, rapping, rhyming, right here, right now in River city, rock and roll up the Yazoo, sad, sadistic, sarcastic, sassy, satanic, schizoid, shitting, silly, sexy, smarmy, smelly, smooth, snarky, snarling, stupid, stinking, sweet as honey, sweat inducing, symphonic, Trump can’t handle this coffee, vengeful, Wagnerian, wicked, with nutmeg and cinnamon swirls, with a hint of stevia, with a hint of vanilla, with a hint of rum, with a hint of whisky, with a hint of cherry, with a hint of fruit overtones, with a hint of drugs spicing up the coffee, spendific, speeding, splendid, superior accept no substitutes, survived the Vietnam war, the Iraq war, the Afghan war, the first and Second Korean war, World War 11, the war on poverty, the war on drugs, the war on black people, the sexual revolution, Soulful as a summer’s night in MOTOWN- James Brown approved, TOP approved, Berkeley approved, the coffee that Jimmy Hendrix drank before he died, the coffee that Elvis drank on his last breakfast, the coffee that Barry White crooned as he drank his cup of coffee – and the coffee that made the white boy play stand up and play that funky music, the coffee that made Jonny B Goode play his guitar, and made Jonny bet the devil his soul after he drank his morning cup of righteous coffee and the coffee that make the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll, the coffee your mother warned you against drinking, the coffee that Napoleon drank when he became the Emperor of all Europe, the Coffee that Beethoven drank when he wrote the Ninth symphony, the coffee that Mozart drank as he wrote his last symphony, the coffee that Lincoln drank before he was killed, the Hemingway drank before he killed himself, the coffee that started the 60’s, and ended the 20th century, the coffee that Lenin drank as he plotted revolution, the coffee that Hitler and Stalin drank with FDR as they divided up the world after World War 11, the cup that JFK drank before he was blown away, the coffee Jerry drinks while driving in cars with random celebrities and political figures, the coffee that Jon Stewart drinks before he goes on an epic take down of some foolish politico, the cup of Arabic coffee that Sadaam drank the day he was executed, the coffee that GW and Cheney drank when they bombed Baghdad, the Indian cup of coffee that Bid Laden drank before 9-11 and just before the seals blew his ass to hell, the cup of coffee that Tiger Woods drank with his mistresses while playing a 3, 000 dollar round of golf at Sandy Lane golf course in Barbados, the last legal drug that does what drugs should do, the cup of coffee that Obama drank when he became President, Vietnamese, Vienna brew, wacky, whimsical, Whisky Tango Foxtrot, wild, weird, wonderful, WOW, Yabba dabba doo! Yada Yada yada Zappa’s favorite cup of cosmic coffee, and Zorro’s last cup of coffee, Good to the last drop rolled into one simple cup of hot coffee

    As I pound down that first cup of coffee
    And fire up my synaptic nerve endings with endless supplies
    Of caffeine induced neuron enhancing chemicals

    I face the dawning day with trepidation and mind-numbing fear
    I turn on the TV and watch the smarmy newscasters in their perfect hair
    Lying through their teeth about the great success the government is having Following the great leader’s latest pronouncements

    I want to scream and shoot the TV and run out side Shouting “Stop the world.

    I want to get off this fucking crazy planet”
    The earth does not care a whit about my attitude
    It merely shrugs and moves around the Sun
    In its appointed daily run
    And I sit down
    The madness dissipating a bit

    And enjoy my second cup
    Of heaven and hell
    In my morning cup of Joe

    Chains That Bind Us

    I realize that my love for you
    Is like a chain of steel
    Unbreakable,
    Tough as nails

    Yet as your love entangles me I realize that I embrace my imprisonment
    Don’t want to venture out of my cell

    Made of our years together bit by bit
    We have become entangled
    Where I end, and you begin
    Hopelessly entangled

    Even if I wanted to break free
    I could not
    For I am you and you are me
    My fate is in your hands

    So, I relax
    Decide to Just enjoy
    The ride of my life
    As we move
    Towards the final moments

    Together as we have always been
    Inseparable, merged into one being
    Staring at each other

    Wondering who is that Person Of eternal mystery That has so captured my soul
    And imprisoned it in her love

    I smile thinking of your love
    The endless pleasure it has brought me
    The endless pain I have endured
    Just to be next to you

    Part of you
    Until the day I die
    When we meet in the next world

    The Eye in the Sky

    The eye in the sky
    Knows all, sees all
    Hears all, understands all

    The eye in the sky
    Watches over us

    Everything we do
    Is monitored, controlled
    Under surveillance

    There is no privacy
    There is no private space

    The eye in the sky
    Knows all

    Everything we do
    Everything we see
    Everything we think

    Recorded by the unseeing
    Uncaring eyes

    The cameras, the videos
    The computers that control
    Our lives

    Ever watchful
    Ever diligent
    Nothing escapes
    The cold, calculating glares

    Freedom is nothing
    but an illusion

    To the free man
    There is no freedom
    Except in one’s inner mind

    Only there can one escape
    the eyes in the sky
    No one monitors our thoughts
    Except our own thought police

    The rest of the world
    Is controlled, monitored
    Under constant surveillance

    The eyes in the sky
    The camera in the sky
    Watches over us

    All the time
    All the time 24/7

    Never stopping
    Never on strike
    Never on break

    All day long
    All night long
    24/7

    Total control
    Total informational awareness

    The eye in the sky
    Is the same
    As the eye
    In the dollar bill

    All the same
    All the same
    Watching us

    No one can escape
    Its baleful glances

    No one is free
    Aye the eye
    In the sky
    Is always upon you

    As you become a mere number
    In the cosmic game of life

    Up behind
    The eye in the sky
    Big Brother is watching
    You and me

    And big sister too

    And crazy Uncle Tom
    And wild auntie Em
    God, and the Devil
    Rama, Ganesh, Laxmi
    The Buddha bar gang
    Jesus is there as well
    Mary as well
    And you must be knowing this
    That even Saint Nick,
    Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny
    And Father Time himself
    Are there

    Zeus and the Jupiter gang
    And all the demons and spirits
    And the big spirit
    And Brahma, Gabriel, Allah

    And the CIA, Mafia, NSA, FSI, Mossad,
    M15, MI6, DIA, FBI, NRI, NRA, KCIA,
    NSIS, the Chinese, The Germans, the French
    The Arabs, the Jews, the Spanish, the Italians
    The Brazilians, the USA,

    The Africans, the Thai, The Vietnamese
    The Indians, the Pakistanis, the Indonesians
    The Malaysians, and space aliens as well
    and all the various terrorist

    the Nigerian princes and their scam artists
    the Jamaican film flam con men
    and criminal gangs as well

    And spies and counter spies
    And corporate spies
    And government spies
    And criminal spies as well
    All flavor of spies

    Are all watching us
    And each other

    The tooth fairy is there too
    She gets her 10 percent
    All the same

    All watching us
    Forever and ever

    But the eye in the sky
    Does not care
    Does not notice
    What we think or feel

    The eye in the sky
    Watches us
    All the time

    Recording our movements
    And reporting it to its masters
    Its job is to watch us

    Record us, tape us
    Monitor us
    Follow us

    You and me
    And the billions of others
    On this asylum called Earth

    The question came to mind
    That has no answer

    Who is the eye in the sky?
    Is it God?
    Is it the devil?

    Only time will tell the difference
    The eye in the sky
    Smiles at us

    And watches and watches
    And watches
    All the time

    24/7
    Until the end of time

    The eye in sky
    Will be there

    On the job
    Until there is no one left
    To watch

    Even then
    The eye is the sky

    Will remain
    On the job
    Until time has lost
    All meaning

    The End

    SixFold Voting Delayed Until May 1, deadline for submitting is April 23, 2019 at midnight EST.

  • White Lady Dressed in Death

    White Lady Dressed in Death

    White Lady Dressed in Death

    The Opiate Literary Review has published my poem, “White Lady Getting off the Bus” which is a surrealistic poem about a white lady getting off a bus dressed in death playing the flute of life.


    white lady

    White Lady Dressed in Death

    White lady
    Dressed in death

    Playing games
    Green blues on a flute

    Black man dressed in life
    Playing symphonic rock on a drum

    A bus pulls up
    Vomiting out passengers

    Lining them up on a red dot
    For worshiping the god of death

    Does it make any sense
    Unless you are already there?

    Ariel Chart has published my poem, “Imagining the End of the World” and my short story, “Just Another Night in the City of Angels”

    Imagining the End of the World

    imagining the end of the world

    Imagining the End of the World

    BARCELONA, SPAIN – MAY 09: The Terminator robot is seen in the paddock following qualifying for the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya on May 9, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)

    I saw the four horsemen of the apocalypse
    Beckoning me to join them on their midnight ride

    Death, pestilence, plague and war
    They were ready to ride into the sunset

    Spreading their hate with them
    As they led the world to its foretold doom

    The end days were approaching they told me
    And their time was near

    I begged them to hold off
    To give us more time

    To work things out
    They laughed and said

    Time waits for no one
    We have a divine plan to work out

    You have been warned before
    And will be warned again and again

    But soon it will be time
    And we must do our duty
    To bring an end to this benighted world

    And fulfill our destiny
    And yours

    But for now
    We will let you sleep

    And let you prepare yourself
    For the time is near

    The end of the world is coming
    It is later than you think

    Soon soon the antichrist will come
    Uniting the world

    And leading the battles too come
    Before the end of the world

    And mankind ceases to exist
    Just dust in the wind

    Of a dead planet
    In a forgotten corner of an uncaring universe
    All part of God’s plan

  • Updated Publication Credits

    Updated Publication Credits

    fake thing

    updated publication credits. Good news Cosmos Fans! I am continuing to get published. Foliate Oak Literary Magazine has published ‘Fake Things”

    foliate literary review
    Plethora will publish October Falling Rain in their next edition. I also have just published my first Instagram poems as I reported earlier.

    here is the poem, Fake Things with the audio attached. When I record the other poems I will send along the audio files then and also post it in the audio page for easy reference.

    Foliate Oak Review

    complete list of audio files can be found here:

    Fake Things

    We live in a world
    Of fake things

    Fake Products
    Fake News
    Fake Calls
    Fake Politics
    Fake Sports
    Fake Business
    Fake Leaders
    Fake People
    Fake friends

    Fake sincerity

    Surrounded 24/7
    By all the fake things
    How can anything real exist?

    Is it all nothing but fake things
    Designed to deceive us all?

    October Falling Rain

    plenthora

    The falling rain
    Of late October
    Fills me with essential dread

    As I rush about
    And end up here
    Wherever here is

    The rain outside
    Seems like the tears of god

    As I sit
    Crying over my beer

    Thinking of lost love
    And failed dreams

    Wondering
    What went wrong?
    And what I can set right

    And the rain falls
    And the night darkens

    The rain is falling
    All over this man’s world

    And the rain falls
    And I sit

    Drinking my lonesome drink
    Lost in dreams

    Dreaming of what
    Could never be

    Thinking dark thoughts
    And so I sit
    And dream the night away

    Final reminder. Plethora is also sponsoring a romantic poetry contest. Here’s my entry

    The Story of How We Met

    Note: This is a true story. For further details see Dreams and the Unexplainable– a Chicken
    Soup for the Soul book, published in September 2017,

    It all began in Berkeley, California
    In the springtime of 1974
    One fateful afternoon

    I was sleeping
    in my high school Physics class.

    SONY DSC

    I looked up and saw a tall,
    beautiful Asian woman
    standing there looking at me.

    She was the most beautiful women
    in the universe to me

    I screamed out, who are you?
    She disappeared
    as if she was beamed away
    from my dream.

    I knew that someday
    I would meet the girl
    In the dream

    Little did I know
    I would have to wait until 1982

    Starting that month
    I began having the same dream
    Month and month and month.
    Always the same.

    She was saying something
    in a strange language.

    Then one day
    I had the dream
    and knew that
    she was in Korea.

    So, I chose to go
    to Korea
    In the Peace Corps,

    Somehow knowing
    That I would meet her there.

    One day

    A year after the Peace Corps ended
    A month before I planned
    to leave to return
    to the U.S. for graduate school

    That morning early in the morning
    I had the last of these dreams.
    This time I understood her.

    She said, “Don’t worry.
    We’ll meet soon.”

    That evening
    As I was getting off the bus
    hitching a ride

    To go to my class

    I saw getting off the bus
    The girl in my dream.
    It was she!

    I was speechless.
    I did not know what to do.

    Over the course of the evening
    I ran into her several times.

    Finally, I was introduced to her.
    I muttered some lame excuse
    About wanting to find a Korean tutor
    and got her number.

    The next day she came to the gate
    Of my base where I was teaching
    ESL to Koreans
    She said that she had to speak with me.

    I told to wait in the library
    for about an hour,
    and I would cancel class

    and meet her then.
    We went out for coffee.

    She told me that she was madly in love with me

    And simply had to have me.
    I told her I felt the same way.

    I proposed five days later,
    And got married one month later.
    Does she believe this story?

    She claims she does not believe it
    Because it is impossible to be true.

    But I know that there are other worlds and other times.

    In a past life we must have been together somehow.
    And our love was so strong

    That it crossed over the barrier of past lives.
    She found me in 1974,

    But it took until 1982 For us to actually meet.

    And it has been 35 years
    Since we met in the physical sphere
    Or 43 years since the dream began

    And I still recall the dream
    And meeting her

    I had no choice
    When I met her
    We were fated to be together

    Until the end of this lifetime
    And the next and the next

  • Plenthora Publishes Wearing Masks

    Plenthora Publishes Wearing Masks

    Plethora Publishes Wearing Masks

    Good news Cosmos Fans. Plethora Published Wearing Masks in their recent edition

    https://www.plethorablogazine.com/post/poems-by-jake-cosmos-aller

     

    Poems by Jake Cosmos Aller

    Wearing a Mask is not a political statement

    to my friends in America

    and around the world

    to those who think

    that somehow the corona virus

    only infects other people

    that it is all a liberal hoax

    overblown

    nothing more than a bad flu

    and nothing to do with me

    demanding that we all go

    back to work

    what is wrong with you?

    have you lost your humanity?

    will millions have to die

    so you can have a Big Mac?

     

    so you can have a Big Mac

    and a beer

    whenever you damn please

    and no one can tell you

    please wear a mask

    have you lost all reason

    is it all now

    about owning the dems

    and the damn libtards

    is there any thing left

    in your cold greedy heart?

    and you still proclaim

    that you are Christian

    as you violate all the Christian principles

    what would Jesus do

     

    what would Jesus do

    what does the bible say

    we should do

    in the midst of this pandemic

    is it the Christian thing to do

    to let millions of people die

    did not Christ talk about love

    compassion and mercy

    would not Jesus

    wear a mask

    to protect himself

    and others

    from this ravaging disease

    that does not care

     

    that does not care

    who you are

    who you voted for

    which church you go to

    and Jesus and God

    are not there

    watching all of us

    as the virus spreads

    it will affect you

    sooner or later

    and when it does

    perhaps if you had worn

    a mask

     

    A mask

    you might have prevented

    a few more people

    have died

    a few more people

    including your grandfather

    grandmother

    friend

    relative might be alive

    if you were not such

    a self centered man

    and I appeal to you man

    to man up become a member

    of the human race again

    Wearing a Mask Saves Lives

    To the owner of Liberty Bar and Grill

    I understand that you are banning

    wearing of masks inside your bar

    because somehow wearing a mask

    offends you and your Christian values

    and makes a political statement

    that the person wearing a mask

    is a libtard or a Democrat

    or anti-Trump

    and those kinds are not welcomed

    in your bar and grill

    therefore you are putting your staff

    your friends and your family at risk

    of catching and spreading

    the corona virus

     

    the corona virus

    You say that you don’t care

    if people get the corona virus

    it is nothing but a cold or flu

    but the thing about it

    the deadly thing about the virus

    the virus does not care about you

    or your political views

    and if you or your friends catch it

    some of them will get sick and die

    and it would all be because of your actions

    and wearing a mask is not

    a political statement

    wearing a mask does not show weakness

     

    wearing a mask does not show weakness

    and does not mean that the wearer

    is a political enemy

    I would respect you more

    if you posted a sign

    no liberals, democrats

    non-whites, gays and anti-Trumpers

    allowed but that would be illegal

    so you take it out on mask wearers

    you are so following the Christian faith

    what would Jesus say to you

    I wonder?

    Just shut up already

    Put on the damn mask no doubt

    End of America

    In 2020 we are seeing the end

    of America

    a virus spreads out

    across the land

    the economy craters

    100 thousands of Americans

    lie dead

    then protests break out

    over the brutal murder

    of a named black man

    in broad daylight

    and protests break out

    all over the land

    America is divided

    America is breaking down

    America is breaking down,

    dying in our streets

    and politicians

    are calling for a crackdown

    is a fascist military take over coming soon

    will all protests be deemed illegal

    as the police state takes over

    and America lies dying

    and will the fascists

    finally take over the land

    and we become just another

    failed former democracy?

    will the world soon forget

    that America died this summer

    the summer of the end of America

    October Falling Rain

    The falling rain
    Of late October
    Fills me with essential dread

    As I rush about
    And end up here
    Wherever here is

    The rain outside
    Seems like the tears of god

    As I sit
    Crying over my beer

    Thinking of lost love
    And failed dreams

    Wondering
    What went wrong?
    And what I can set right

    And the rain falls
    And the night darkens

    The rain is falling
    All over this man’s world

    And the rain falls
    And I sit

    Drinking my lonesome drink
    Lost in dreams

    Dreaming of what
    Could never be

    Thinking dark thoughts
    And so I sit
    And dream the night away

    The Story of How We Met

    Note: This is a true story. For further details see Dreams and the Unexplainable– a Chicken
    Soup for the Soul book, published September 2017

    amazon site to order book

     

    BHS

    It all began in Berkeley, California
    In the spring time of 1974

    One fateful afternoon
    I was dozing
    in my high school Physics class.

    SONY DSC

    I looked up
    and saw a tall, beautiful Asian woman
    standing looking at me.

    She was the most beautiful women
    in the universe to me

    Park_Shin-hye

    I screamed out, who are you?
    She disappeared
    like she was beamed away
    from my dream.

    I knew that someday
    I would meet the girl
    In the dream

    Little did I know
    I would have
    to wait until 1982

    Starting that month
    I began having the same dream
    Month and month and month.
    Always the same.

    She was saying something
    in a strange language.

    Then one day I had the dream
    and knew that she was in Korea.

    So, I chose to go Korea
    In the Peace Corps,

    Somehow knowing
    That I would meet her there.

    One day
    A year after the Peace Corps ended

    A month before I planned
    to leave to return
    to the U.S. for graduate school

    That morning early in the morning
    I had the last of these dreams.
    This time I understood her.

    She said, “Don’t worry.
    We’ll meet soon.”

    That evening
    As I was getting off the bus
    To go to my class

    I saw getting off the bus

    hitching a ride

    The girl in my dream.
    It was she!

    I was speechless.
    I did not know what to do.

    Over the course of the evening
    I ran into her several times.

    Finally, I was introduced to her.
    I muttered some lame excuse
    About wanting to find a Korean tutor
    and got her number.

    The next day she came to the gate
    Of my base where I was teaching
    ESL to Koreans

    She said that she had to speak with me.
    I told to wait in the library
    for about an hour,
    and I would cancel class

    and meet her then.
    We went out for coffee.

    She told me
    that she was madly
    in love with me

    And simply had to have me.
    I told her I felt the same way.

    I proposed five days later,
    And got married one month later.
    Does she believe this story?

    She claims she does not believe it
    Because it is impossible to be true.

    But I know that there are other worlds
    and other times.

    In a past life we must have been together somehow.
    And our love was so strong

    That it crossed over
    the barrier of past lives.

    She found me in 1974,
    But it took until 1982
    For us to actually meet.

    And it has been 35 years
    Since we met in the physical sphere
    Or 43 years since the dream began

    And I still recall the dream
    And meeting her

    I had no choice
    When I met her

    We were fated to be together
    Until the end of this lifetime
    And the next and the next

    Monalisa

    Sure. I’ll send this around tomorrow and post it on my blog. Thanks for making my day.

     

  • Hell is Here to Stay

    Hell is Here to Stay

    Hell is Here to Stay and other Poems

    updated with audio files

    Here are some poems that I like. The first four have been published, the last is unpublished. The first, fourth and fifth one were the product of dreams. God’s Confession was written after a night drinking in Bangkok. As some of you may have heard me say over the years, I don’t dream dreams I dream movies. The second and third I wrote while in college over 40 years ago, the last one I wrote last week.

    Some of these poems may be offensive. So be it. If you are offended, please accept my apologies in advance but these are my nightmares not yours. You are entitled to believe whatever you want to believe or not believe and so am I. Obviously, these poems don’t reflect the views of any prior employers.

    In any event, I have also posted these poems on All Poetry, Poetry Soup, Hello Poetry, Cosmosfunnel, Scriggler, Open Arts Forum, Poetry Magnum Opus, and Writing.com

    Index

    Hell is Here to Stay published in Bad Nudes
    Depressed Morbid Nights, published in Rosset Maleficarum
    Early Morning Thoughts, published in Rosset Maleficarum
    God’s confession, published in Otherwise Engaged
    Morphing Images from a Hellish Nightmare, published on Scriggler

    here are the audio files

    Hell is Here to Stay

    Hell is Here to Stay
    The angel of the lord

    Appeared on TV sets
    All over the world

    People woke up
    Expecting to see
    The usual suspects

    Talking heads
    Talking drivel
    Talking trash

    Instead
    A stern visage
    A stern old man
    In a dark suit

    He had a salt and pepper beard
    And long, dark black hair

    And piercing blue eyes
    Staring out
    From his stern face

    The eyes
    Piercing the soul
    Of all who listened

    The voice
    Of the angel of the lord
    Was like thunder

    And all over the world
    People tried to turn off
    Their TV sets
    To no avail

    Twilight light Zone
    Prevailed

    The angel of the lord
    Stopped swearing
    And said

    In a calm
    Deadly voice

    People of earth
    You know the lord
    By a billion names

    I am his spokesman
    We’ve realized
    There is the age of the TV

    And we must be able to reach
    You directly

    Before one or a million
    Could understand

    Now no one hears us
    For you are convinced

    We are dead
    Irrelevant
    Washed up
    A fraud

    Frankly speaking
    You all can go to hell

    And an evil grin
    Appears on his face
    As he says

    Can a fraud do this?

    And outside
    Thunder and lightening

    A star comes down
    And houses were blown away

    And everyone was
    Outside

    The TV set
    Was in the sky above

    The voice of the angel
    Of the lord
    Proclaiming

    Repent
    The end is near
    And now

    No more TV
    No more booze

    The rights to you
    Have been sold

    For to quote Frank Zappa
    You are all assholes
    You are all assholes

    All of you
    Little, mean little assholes

    Let me introduce
    My new business partner

    satan

    Satan, also known
    As the prince of darkness

    God and Satan
    Have agreed on a deal

    A thousand year Reich
    A thousand year of slavery
    For you

    My little human assholes
    For your sins, your arrogance
    Your foolish pride

    After a thousand years
    Of pure torture

    We will return
    To judge the living and the dead

    Most of you will remain in hell
    Some will be redeemed

    And allowed into heaven
    And now, back to your usual station

    Welcome to hell
    Satan said

    And laughed and laughed and laughed
    And the usual crimes resume
    The usual lies and deceits and shames

    For most people
    It made no difference

    They had been in hell
    For centuries

    For some
    It mattered

    The few decent people
    Left on earth

    Were condemned to join
    The masses

    For another thousand years
    Of toil and misery

    The bosses were happy
    Satan appointed them
    To continue to rule

    But no strikes
    No salaries
    And as much abuse
    As they could give out

    And so, the world turns and turns
    Following its way
    Around the sun

    And the sun
    Turns and floats
    Through space

    And the end was here
    And now

    No one could tell
    The difference anymore
    Hell was here to stay

    bad nudes site

    Depressed Morbid Nights

    One of these depressed, depraved, morbid nights
    I shall awake to the God damned game of life

    And sit under the graying light
    Of the foolish full moon

    And laminate upon my luminance
    And chew up the garments of past lives

    And cry my soul
    But no one will hear the plight of my mind
    On strike for better wages
    And more love

    Thus, I will sit, and think and dream
    Dreams that no one ever before dreamt

    It is so very lonely being a foolish lunatic
    But then as I drink to oblivion
    I begin to think

    Of all those things that I have not experienced
    And wonder with a vengeance

    Why God hates me so
    Or is it only an illusion?

    When will I awake
    Or do we just sit waiting for more beer
    To cover up

    The stench of putrid rotting flesh
    Waiting for death to take us away

    To the Cosmic garbage dump in the sky
    Trying to communicate across a gap

    That is light years’ long
    And will never close

    For man was not made to know
    The real thoughts of another

    Man was made to suffer, cry and wait
    For the party in Hell afterwards

    Shit, let’s us die and be done with it
    Or live without our God damned dreams

    Running our thoughts
    Into pits of depraved madness

    Early Morning Thoughts

    Early in the midst of a chaotic frenzy
    I caught the fragrance of her sweat grin
    And my heart did a swirling spin
    When I saw that vision of erotic delight

    There I stood
    Alone in a somehow too dismal room
    Full of vibrant people
    I knew not what to say

    So, I spent that dismal day
    Thinking dismal morbid thoughts of lugubrious doom
    Thoughts what might happen that day
    And what might have been if I had the courage to say Hello

    Thus, it went
    Years after ever melancholy year
    Days after ever gloomy days
    Nights of self-induced torture

    Months of nightly rancid beer
    There it went

    Now
    I am sitting and thinking
    Thoughts so gloomy
    I still don’t know

    Life belongs to the living
    Not to the morbid mystic dreamers
    Nor the poets dying

    rosette malifacrium site

    God’s Confession

    I was sitting along
    In a god forsaken bar
    Somewhere on the lunatic fringes
    Of society

    On the bad part of town
    Over by railroad tracks
    Heading to hell
    As fast as I could drink it down

    Enjoying my lonely drink
    Drinking by my lonesome self

    With my partners
    Jimmy Dean, and the Walker brother
    And his old Granddad

    Just drinking and hanging
    With the Jack Daniel’s gang

    A crazed bum
    With a thousand year stare
    Walks up to me

    He begins
    Muttering to himself

    Nutty nonsense
    Crazy words
    In a lunatic’s voice

    He had the look
    Of one possessed
    By his own demons

    That only he can see
    Or hear

    Possessed by a secret knowledge
    Only he knew

    Despite myself
    I was fascinated
    By this lunatic’s tale

    So, I stopped him
    And said

    So, what’s your game
    Anyway

    The short little dude
    Stopped his insane prattle

    Starting at me
    With that thousand year old stare

    Just another washed up
    Lunatic

    Too many drugs
    Too many bad nights
    On the wrong side of life

    An acid causality from the 60’s
    Went out so far
    Down the LSD rabbit hole
    Never came back

    He looked at me
    And proclaimed his story

    He reared up
    And filled up the room

    And lifted the bar
    On his finger

    And stared down at me
    From the sky

    And said
    Since you asked

    I am God
    The alpha and Omega
    The real deal

    The original dude of dudes
    The sultan of Swing
    God of hosts
    And father of that Jesus dude

    But no one knows me
    Any more
    No one cares

    They think I am irrelevant
    They think I am dead

    They think I am a fairy tale
    From some olden, ancient time

    Some say I am dead
    Others think I should be dead
    That my work is done

    I looked at him
    Carefully now
    And what did I see

    An old man
    With that lunatic look
    But there was something else

    He was crazy
    Sure yes
    But perhaps he was the real deal

    I mean why not
    Why would not God be
    A lunatic wandering around loose

    Talking to low lives like me
    In a bar
    On the way to hell

    So, I looked at him
    And invited him to share
    His tale of woe

    God tells me
    Well, it’s like this

    Many a year ago
    People believed in me

    But one day
    They quit believing in me
    And they went on without me

    As they left me
    My powers got weaker and weaker
    And so eventually I became
    What you see today

    A broken down drunk
    Hanging out
    Looking for a hand out
    Looking for some company
    Or at least a free dinner

    And he laughed and laughed
    And I looked at him
    And saw the beginnings of the end
    And the ends of the beginnings

    I saw a million planets
    Flash by
    A billion people
    A trillion sentient beings

    Thinking all at once
    Thoughts filled my head
    Lights flashed

    And I knew
    He was telling the truth

    But it did not matter
    In this day and age
    Of materialism

    God has no role
    God is truly dead

    And so, I bought him a drink
    And walked out of the bar
    Profoundly sadden by what I had seen

    God was dead
    And we had all conspired
    To kill him

    Long live God

    Published in Otherwise Engaged, Vol 1 2018
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    Morphing Images from a Hellish Nightmare

    Note: From a real nightmare End Note

    I am in a room
    Watching people all around me

    Change into hideous creatures
    Monsters from the deepest depths of hell

    The Chief of them all
    Wears a Trumpian mask

    Completed with orange hair
    Half human half pig

    His deputy
    Wears the face of Putin

    But his body
    Half human, half horse

    The other creatures wear masks
    Many of them wear
    Green Pepe the alt right
    Symbolic frog masks

    And have T shirts
    Bearing alt right slogans
    And Nazi symbols

    And as they prance about
    They chant alt. Right slogans
    And neo Nazi chants
    Jews with Not Replace us

    And the rest of these creatures
    Are hideous ugly beasts
    With only a vestige of humanity left

    And these monsters are engaged
    In all sorts of foul evil deeds

    Murder violence death
    All around

    And none-stop
    violent drug fueled orgies
    As these creatures

    Half human half monsters
    Half male, half female creatures

    Snort coke, cocaine, speed
    Smoke weed and drink vodka shots
    Scotch, bourbon and beer

    The Trumpian Pig leads the charge
    Starts engaging in sodomy with Putin
    Who chases after people
    Cutting off their heads with his sword

    They turn on to their fellow creatures
    Raping and fucking each other
    All night long

    Then they attack me
    Screaming
    Jews will not replace us

    And I wake up
    Screaming

    As the sun comes up
    Just another nightmare

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    The End

  • AI Taking Over the World

    AI Taking Over the World

    These are my poems about AI taking over the world. Part of my Fake Things chapbook.

    AI Fake Photos

    AI fake model photo
    fake model

    xrealistic fake photos of people who don’t existThe AI industry

    Is getting closer and closer
    To their goal

    Of creating totally fake personas
    That are almost impossible
    To spot
    Truly fake people
    For a fake world

    The fake photos
    Of fake people

    Who never lived
    Are almost impossible
    To detect

    Soon fake photos
    Will be everywhere
    Selling us all the fake goods

    That the marketing gurus
    Convince us all
    That we so definitely need

    None of it real
    In a world filled with fake things
    This is the ultimate fake thing

    Deep Fakes

    wikipedia on deep fakes

    This category is about to explode
    With the development of deep fakes

    Videos that look like the real thing
    And you can’t tell the real from the fake anymore
    Unless you have very specialized equipment

    And not only will this be used in porn
    It will also be used in fake news videos

    Showing politicians and business men
    Saying and doing things

    That they did not do
    And a picture or video is worth a thousand words

    Their denials will sound like fake denials
    And the damage will have been done

    Fake Real Estate Ads – True Story

    We were victimized
    By a scam artist
    We rented our apartment
    In Medford Oregon

    Some one scrapped our add
    From Zillow
    Created a fake add
    And tried to get people
    To send them the security deposit

    Then we saw
    That fake real estate adds
    Are all over the place
    Close to 25 percent of ads
    Are faked they say

    Often run by Nigerians
    Who have added
    Fake real estate ads
    To their vast portfolio
    Of fake ads

    Many of these ads
    Originate in Houston
    Or Atlanta
    The largest Nigerian expat
    Communities in the US

    Where they continue their scams
    The old adage
    Caveat emptor comes to mind

    In this day and age
    Of fake this and that
    Nothing can be believed
    As everything can be a scam

    Fake Videos

    The world is awash
    With fake videos

    Purporting to be
    Various celebrities

    Having sex
    Part of the fake porn industry

    Or making outrageous comments
    All part of the fake outrage industry

    And it will get worst
    With the development
    Of the deep fake

    Where fake photos
    and fake videos
    can’t be distinguished
    from the real thing

    Fake Photos

    It used to be easy to spot fake photos
    Nowadays
    It is almost impossible to tell the difference

    Between a fake photo
    And a real photo

    But most of the time
    It is obvious

    I had a favorite fake wedding photo
    It showed the man who was relatively short
    Standing next to his bride who was relatively tall

    But in the picture she was levitating
    I asked the man
    Is your wife into yoga?

    And showed him that she was flying in the air
    And denied him the visa
    Because he had presented false documentation

    If he had shown a real picture
    I would have given him the visa
    Had no other reason to be suspicious

    fake Humans – Coming of the Clones

    is just a matter of time
    In this fake SF world
    We live in

    That human clones
    Will be invented
    The first ones
    Will be just for body parts

    And won’t be fully human
    But eventually

    100 percent clones
    Will become as real
    As you and me

    And when they do
    Will the clones
    Have human rights

    Or will they become
    Nothing but slaves
    To the real human masters

    Or will they turn
    On their owners

    And hunt us down
    With their robot warriors

    Crying
    Death to all humans ?

    Fake Humans -Designer Babies

    In China
    A line was crossed
    That should never have been crossed

    A scientist
    Decided to create a designer baby
    Designed to be disease free

    And he created the first
    Designer baby
    Which has now been born

    Soon, very soon
    Designer babies will become
    The latest thing
    For the rich and powerful

    And twenty years from now
    The designer babies
    Will turn on us

    The normal humans
    And decide that we are too weak
    And too feeble
    To be allowed to exist anymore

    And so they will order
    Their robotic slaves
    To hunt us down
    And terminate us all

    Fake Humans – AI Decides to Kill All Humans

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    BARCELONA, SPAIN – MAY 09: The Terminator robot is seen in the paddock following qualifying for the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya on May 9, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)

    It seems to me
    That in this SF Fake world
    We all live in

    That soon
    Very soon
    The nightmare of the fake AI machines
    Taking over the world

    And deciding
    To kill all humans
    Is about to become
    Nightmarishly real

    And we are all doomed
    To be hunted down
    By the machines

    Like in the terminator movies
    That is our fate

  • American Dreams

    American Dreams

    Your one Phone call published my poem about visas called “American Dreams”. it is a bit cynical look at the visa process written when I was a visa officer in Mumbai, India back in 2003 when each day we had over 1,000 people lined up for their two minute chance at the getting a visa. Most were legitimate, perhaps 25 percent were fraudulent and as the fraud investigator I became quite cynical as I had seen it all.

    Needless to say this poem does not reflect the views of the US Government, my employer at the time.

    American Dreams

    visa applicants applying for Ameican dream
    visa line

    You see them
    Every morning

    Lined outside
    Any US Embassy
    Around the world

    The visa seekers
    The American Dream seekers

    The poor, the dispossessed
    The disenfranchised

    The marginalized
    The forgotten
    The left behinds

    Of the not so great society
    The rich, the mightily
    The powerful

    The beautiful
    All looking for a slice
    Of the American Dream

    Some to sample its delicious flavors
    Others to try to live

    Among its deceptive lures
    America beckons

    As it has for years and years
    Land of the free
    Home of the brave

    Lady Liberty
    Land where a dream

    And a little luck
    Can make you too

    The richest man alive
    So they line up

    Outside my office door
    Just to talk

    To the American Visa God
    Spin a tale

    Tell a story
    Play a game

    Pretend to be
    What the American Visa God needs

    And then you get
    Your piece of the American Pie
    And off you go

    Only to end up
    In a thousand neglected

    Backwaters of the American nightmare
    Flotsam

    Floating from one marginal
    Illegal job to another

    Prey to the predators
    Ever behind

    The rent demands
    For you see

    America is a rich habit
    It is expensive to maintain

    The first taste is free
    The rest will cost yah

    You life, your soul
    And 70 hours per week
    At sub-minimum wages

    Soon you will be speaking
    English

    With the poor, the disenfranchised
    The flotsam

    The neglected
    The left behinds

    The rich will ignore you
    Not know your name

    The poor will fear
    You will take their jobs away

    And your friends back home
    Will wait to hear

    About you became a big shot
    In the American land

    They don’t want to hear
    No tales of working at McDonald’s

    Working 70 hours a week
    At five jobs per day

    No, No, No
    That’s not the America

    They see on TV
    They want it now

    They want their MTV
    Where’s the babes?

    Where’s the parties?
    Where’s the sex with naked ladies

    Come on man,
    You’re holding out

    Tell us the tales
    Of Wild America

    And so they line up
    Each and every day

    Line up outside
    My office window

    And we have the power
    To set them free

    Some to enable them
    To dream the American dream

    Some to send to the American nightmare
    Others to go back home

    To wherever they come back
    They will be back

    They will be back
    Nothing will deter them

    Not even the lack
    Of a piece of paper

    From the American Visa God

    american dreams your one phone call

  • New Years Visit to Oregon Coast

    New Years Visit to Oregon Coast

    Former People published three of my poems, “New Years Visit to the Oregon Coast”, ‘Indian Casino Thoughts” and “Casino Thoughts”

    oregon coast
    oregon coast

    New Years Visit to the Oregon Coast

    The end of the year
    We drove to Bookings on the Oregon Coast

    We had a pleasant drive through the mystic fog shrouded Redwoods.
    The gathering gloom of the dark woods foretold my dismal mood

    Slept soundly to the sound of the ocean.
    The super moon light filled

    the beach outside our window
    with an eerie light all night long.

    As we slept people walked the beach
    Enjoying the full moon

    And the unusually warm weather
    Setting off fireworks at midnight

    In the morning I went for a nice walk along the beach
    and thought about the year that was.

    As the waves pounded the shore
    I was filled with calmness

    Enjoying the morning calm
    And the unusual warm weather

    Thinking that the storm is coming
    That perhaps we are in the end of our days

    With the political storms threatening us all
    Yet the ocean reminded me

    This too will pass
    And we will endure

    Until the end of our time
    On earth

    The ocean waves soothed my soul
    And I prepared to drive back through the mystic redwoods

    Back to my home
    And the peaceful ocean waves

    Reminded me
    the end of my life
    Comes closer to my door

    Indian Casino Thoughts

    Indian casino Fun
    Indian casino Fun

    Indian casinos seem to be everywhere
    I have stopped off here and there
    In rural enclaves across the land
    The Indian casinos run by the mob

    For the benefit of the tribes
    The Indian’s revenge on the White man
    For stealing their land
    Is to steal their money

    One gamble at a time
    And make them pay
    For the crimes they committed

    Almost always have a welcome mat
    To teach the ignorant visitor
    Something about their lost culture
    With words in the native languages

    Words that would be illegal to have spoken
    Not so long ago

    As the genocide against the tribes
    Was in full force

    Nowhere worse than in Oregon
    And northern California

    Along the foggy coastal lands
    Where the final solution

    Almost worked
    The survivors
    Such as they are

    Operate dismal dark depressing casinos
    Here and there in the rural countryside

    Along the coast
    And in the hinterlands here and there

    Most barely making any money
    There are so many gambling joints
    Across the land

    And the Indians are being screwed
    Out of their gambling riches

    By the big gaming consortiums
    That run the casinos

    In the reservations
    And across the land

    And I wonder
    Just how much money

    Have these Indian casinos
    Stolen from the elderly pensioners

    And other fools that flock to their premises
    Their neighbors in these small towns

    Where the Indian casino
    is the only joint open
    For business

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    Casino Thoughts

    las vegas
    las vegas

    Sitting in a casino of the damned
    Somewhere on the Las Vegas Strip

    Playing the slots
    Watching the crowd go wild

    Watching the machines watching me
    Drinking the free drinks of the damned

    20 drinks too sober
    And the gamblers on the gaming tables

    Gambling away their fortune
    Throwing money away

    In hopes of the payoff
    That somehow never comes

    The pure decadent spectacle
    The fake this and fake that

    Phony this phony that
    False New York
    Paris in Vegas

    Venetian canals, Roman forum
    MGM Grand Lions

    All fake, all phony
    All deliciously decadent
    The noise

    The scantily clad waitresses
    The men ogling the women

    The women ogling back at them
    The scent of wild decadence
    Bad craziness in the air

    The music – the lounge music from hell
    The constant sound

    Of money exchanging hands
    It all overwhelms me

    And I must sit down
    And drink my reality drink

    Drink it down and dirty
    As I continue

    To feed the hungry, greedy machines
    Made in a workshop in hell

    No doubt with child or slave labor
    Imported from the third world

    All my money
    Is sucked into it

    These machines from hell
    The beast from revelation appears

    Stands revealed in his hideous glorious beauty
    Conducting this mad scene

    And I am consumed by the greed
    And the frenzy takes over me

    All I want
    All I need

    All I desire
    Is one more chance

    One more shot
    I scream

    At the utterly unfeeling monsters
    That ate my money

    And chewed up my soul
    And I know

    The worst drug of all
    Is the gambling fever

    The gold bugs
    I would sell my soul

    If I had one left
    For a chance

    At the jack pot of life
    Instead I am reduced

    To a pathetic broken down looser
    Watching the world and Elvis
    Pass him by

    Viva Las Vegas
    Imperial God of the American Dream
    Bitch Goddess of the American Nightmare

  • Dogs of War Are Howling

    Dogs of War Are Howling

    NATO troops walk near burning NATO supply trucks after, what police officials say, was an attack by militants in the Torkham area near the Pakistani-Afghan in Nangarhar Province June 19, 2014. According to officials on Thursday, at least 37 trucks belonging to NATO forces were destroyed after three suicide bombers targeted the NATO supply trucks, with two civilians wounded in the attack. REUTERS/ Parwiz (AFGHANISTAN – Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) – RTR3UKDU

    Dogs of War are Howling and other poems were published earlier in Synchronized chaos. I wrote the poem, “Dogs of War are Howling” in 2003, and updated it in 2017.

    SYNCHRONIZED CHAOS.

    Poetry from Jake Cosmos Aller

    The Dogs of War are Howling

    The Dogs of War
    Have been set free
    Of their cage

    And are out
    Howling at the moon

    The Dogs of War
    Have been set free

    To wreck what havoc
    Might be

    Yes, the Dogs of War
    The Hell Hounds
    Have bound out of their cages

    Sniffed about
    And smiled

    At the destruction they saw
    They knew soon

    They would be in their element
    As the world descends into chaos
    The Dogs of war
    Are at foot

    The chaos is upon us
    The evil grows and grows

    And dark noises are heard
    Here and there

    And the dogs of war
    Smiled

    They knew soon
    They would be in their element

    The war machines
    Came to life

    The plans came out of the books
    The military might be unleashed

    And the Dogs of war
    Smiled and howled at the moon

    And the rest of the world
    Shuddered
    At the thought of what was yet to be

    Satan on the other hand
    Was happy as can be

    With the evil shit
    That was going down

    He smiled
    Patted his hell hounds
    And told his dogs

    The war to end all wars
    Armageddon is upon us my friend

    Soon, mankind will know
    The face of absolute evil

    And they will love it
    When I take over

    The armies prepare
    The bombers prepare

    And the dogs of war
    Are happy
    Unleashed to do their mischief

    And soon millions may die
    And the pits of hell
    Will open up

    And the judgement day
    May be upon us all

    Madness descends upon the land
    The fog of hate envelops us all

    And reason and civilization
    Fall away

    As the Dogs of War
    And their minions
    Take over the minds of man

    And the end of the world
    And the beginning of the end times
    Come upon us all

    The usual lies descend upon the world
    Kim Jong Un is evil personified

    He must be destroyed over there
    Before he can destroy us over here

    The lies continue unabated
    And Kim plays along
    With each day unleashing another threat

    With Trump and his minions
    Responding in time

    Saying the time for talk is over
    The time for robust action is here

    The machinery of war
    Once unleashed
    Can’t easily be stopped

    There is a certain cruel logic
    That demands that the war go on

    And people die
    And people suffer

    And the US goes bankrupt
    Morally and fiscally

    And the evil that men do
    Goes on and on and on

    But the war machine must be fed
    The munitions makers must be paid

    As each million-dollar missile is launched
    Millions more are made

    And the corporations
    Think of the endless profits
    To be made

    Every time they kill
    With the war machines

    But who cares about the victims
    They are nothing but collateral damage

    Who cares about the soldiers
    Nothing but cannon fodder

    Who gives a damn
    About the dead
    They are dead and gone

    Just think about the profits
    Think about the profits

    Satan is happy
    The dogs of war are free at last

    Idiots in High Places

    this poem has been published in a number of other sites.

    Many years ago
    I was amazed to find
    So many idiots in high places
    All over the world

    Senators, congressmen
    Office directors
    Presidents
    Corporation CEO’s

    All were idiots
    Completely stupid

    People who should have known
    A thing or so
    because they should have seen a thing or so

    and yet these idiots in high places
    would reveal their total ignorance

    every time they opened their mouth
    or tweet or email their profoundly wrong thoughts

    and it never ceased to amaze me
    that few ever challenged these idiots

    few ever said but you are wrong
    or you don’t have a clue

    and these idiots caused so much damage
    to those around them
    to the country and the world

    and now we have the idiot in chief
    in charge of the richest most powerful country
    the world has ever known

    and I wonder how in a country of 350 million people
    we ended up with such an idiot in charge

    But the idiots in high places phenomenon
    Exists everywhere

    Corporations made stupid decisions
    Countries make incredibly bad decisions

    All traced back to idiots in high places
    And these idiots in high places
    Can’t hide their ignorance and pure stupidity

    They can’t pretend anymore
    In a world of 24/7 constant news
    The idiots every pronouncement
    Fills the airways 24/7

    And the only people who know better
    Are too afraid to say what they know

    That the idiot in high place
    Is an idiot
    and is destroying the world

    and so, we doomed to die
    due to the idiot in high places


    Masters of the Universe

    this poem also has been published in a number of sites.

    The earth has been invaded
    By hideous blood sucking vampires
    Disgusting vile alien creatures
    Devoid of all compassion
    Lacking any human empathy

    These so-called Masters of the universe
    These psychopathic monsters
    Are everywhere
    They even took over the White house

    And to these vile creatures
    Everyone is nothing but a commodity
    These alien monsters
    Worship the god of the market
    While proclaiming that they serve Jesus

    Jesus would turn over in his grave
    To see these people in action

    Delta airlines
    Facing the worst hurricane in world history
    Decided that the expeditated thing to do
    Was raise prices 600 percent

    Instead of doing the right thing
    The compassion thing
    The human thing of offering free flights to all

    Delta executives thus demonstrated
    That they are no longer human

    But greed driven monsters
    As are all the other soulless automatons
    Who have taken over the world

    Perhaps some day
    Jesus will come back
    And smite these motherfuckers
    Send them to the hell they so richly deserve

    We can only pray
    For our deliverance from such evil
    From the soulless evil masters of the universe
    Who have taken over the planet

    When Will This Madness End?

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    gun

    first published in Poetry24
    poetry24 poems

    Yet again we turn on the TV
    And witness horrible scenes
    Of unparalleled violence, hatred and despair

    An old man consumed by his own demons
    Opens fire from a hotel room
    Killing 60 people injuring hundreds
    In Las Vegas, Sin City

    And the cry goes out throughout the land
    Why yet again this tragedy

    The usual suspects are rounded up
    It’s the culture, stupid cry the conservative voices

    And there is nothing we can do
    It is like the weather
    Bad shit happens

    Guns are the price of our freedom
    Guns Don’t Kill People
    The only solution is more guns for everyone

    The only solution for a bad guy with a gun
    Is a gun guy with a gun?
    An armed society is a polite society

    And people need assault weapons
    To go deer hunting

    No, it’s the guns, cry the liberal pundits
    We must confiscate the guns
    Ban Assault weapons
    And join the rest of the world
    Where such carnage does not occur

    And we sit around and argue
    Knowing that there will be a next time
    And another time and time and time again
    Until the end of time

    What is the sickness in our souls
    That allows for this hatred to fester so
    Deep within the minds of our killers
    And why is it that they are almost all
    White men with a grievance

    And almost never crazed Islamic terrorists
    Or black people
    Or women

    Why do they act the way they do
    Is it just the mindless violence
    That surrounds us all

    Violence is as American
    As Apple Pie

    The TV and movie purveyors
    Of pornographic violence

    The pornographic display of violence
    That washes across us every day
    The 8,000 murders we have seen
    By the time we are 18?

    Or is it simply
    That killers can easily
    Get the latest bang for their buck?

    We are all responsible here
    The negligent parents
    The overworked schools

    The soulless corporate world
    That treats everyone like disposable commodities

    The lack of human connection
    Maybe even the lack of God

    The police department
    Who think it is open season
    On black Americans

    Killing them with impunity
    Because they can

    And the gun sellers
    The NRA and their brain dead
    Captured politicians

    Who block all gun control legislation
    And even in the face of this carnage
    Want to make it easier to buy guns

    Even though 95 percent of Americans
    Want to end the gun show loophole
    Requiring background checks on all purchasers

    The NRA will prevent this measure
    And that measure
    And defend the right of the terrorist
    On the no fly list
    To be able to buy a gun

    Nothing will change
    Until we conflict the evil
    That lurks deep within each of us

    There will be another Las Vegas
    Soon enough

    Despite all our efforts
    Despite any new laws

    There will be evil men
    Who want to shoot and kill
    Who have somehow lost
    Their essential humanity

    Lao Tzu said
    The more laws there are
    The more criminals there will be

    More laws are not the answer
    For a law cannot make a sick soul whole

    If Satan lives on
    He is laughing
    All the way to the proverbial bank

    If God lives on
    He is ruing the day
    He created Mankind

    And the carnage will go on and on and on
    Until the day emerges
    When we all proclaim

    Enough, no more
    The killing, hatred and violence
    Will stop

    No More will our people
    Grow up to be such monsters

    That day will come soon enough
    Until then we will all suffer
    The wrath of the killer gun men
    In our midst.

    End of the World Blues

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    A motorists on Highway 101 watches flames from the Thomas fire leap above the roadway north of Ventura, Calif., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. As many as five fires have closed highways, schools and museums, shut down production of TV series and cast a hazardous haze over the region. About 200,000 people were under evacuation orders. No deaths and only a few injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

    The heat is simply malevolent today
    As if the very fires of hell were burning bright
    In anger at the idiots in high places

    That have so destroyed God’s wonderful creation
    Turning it into Hell on Earth

    It’s been hotter than this, I know,
    and maybe it’s just the angle of the sun,

    but there’s a deeply harsh quality to it.
    As the world burns up
    And the end of the world approaches

    The wind is blowing hard off the hills
    and visions of a great fire 26 years ago
    are spiking in my memory.

    People are reacting badly to this weather
    The commute in was hellish

    Every seemed to be speeding way
    above the speed limit.
    Driven mad by the heat and the wind

    There were multiple stalls and accidents.
    People were cutting each other off
    and road raging in the extreme.

    Every man woman and child
    Was out for blood that day

    I was missed by inches twice
    by huge pickup trucks cutting me off.

    There are more street people
    acting aggressively near the campus,
    barking and yelling and stalking around.

    Completely lost in their own world
    Sensing that the end of the world is near

    Students in the hallway
    aren’t chatting with each other.

    Everyone seems irritated
    and haunted.

    Afraid that the end of the world
    Is upon us all

    The pool was a cool, silent refuge
    from all of this for an hour,

    but the brassy relentless
    assault of the afternoon’s heat
    bore down on me

    just beat me down
    as I walked back to the office.

    I hope the day passes quickly,
    and no new fires start,
    and we all get home safe.

    From Ned Garret’s FB posting:

    Has anyone else notice that the heat is simply malevolent today? It’s been hotter than this, I know, and maybe it’s just the angle of the sun, but there’s a deeply harsh quality to it. The wind is blowing hard off the hills and visions of 26 years ago are spiking in my memory. People are reacting badly to this weather. The commute in was frightening in spots. Every other driver seemed to be speeding way above the speed limit. There were multiple stalls and accidents. People were cutting each other off and road raging in the extreme. I was missed by inches twice by huge pickup trucks cutting me off. There are more street people acting aggressively near the campus, barking and yelling and stalking around. Students in the hallway aren’t chatting with each other. Everyone seems irritated and haunted.

    The pool was a cool, silent refuge from all of this for an hour, but the brassy assault of the afternoon just beat me down as I walked back to the office. I hope the day passes quickly, and no new fires start, and we all get home safe.

    Comments

    While I acknowledge that “Dogs of War” in some ways reflects the grim scenarios currently at play in our shared world, I haven’t yet given up hope that the crumbling of the existing order we are witnessing might also represent the chaotic transition to a new and (hopefully, eventually) brighter future…if only because it’s difficult to live in despair.

    Also, when it comes to destroying the world, let’s not forget that we of USA are more capable of nuclear destruction than North Korea. Our arsenal is larger.
    Congratulations on your vivid poetic imagery. Keep writing.

    synchochaos.com

  • Reflections on the Passing of the Years

    Reflections on the Passing of the Years

    these are my reflections on the passing of the years

    Worst Year Ever

    2017 How Much I despise You
    Following 2016 the second worst year ever
    Will 2018 be any better ?

    And what we have suffered
    The darkness settles on the land
    Like a curse on the land

    As our mad demented senile dotard king wannabe
    Struts about the worlds stage
    Ushering Americas inevitable decline

    As America’s foes and friends wonder
    Has America gone mad
    Turing over ultimate power to this man
    A con man narcistic criminal

    Self proclaimed smartest man in the room
    In reality a clueless reality TV hustler
    Whose sell by date has expired

    As he tries to make America great again
    For white Christian men

    The rest of the country struggles
    To cope with the ever declining standard of living

    The 1 percent loved the stock market
    Love the dismantling of the regulatory state
    The corporate tax cuts

    and the coming plunder of the land
    Can Disney Yellowstone be the future?

    While the rest of the world
    Embraces the energy of the future
    And this great denier of the truth
    Wants to boldly take America back

    To the 19th century era of oil, and coal

    Yet perhaps it does not matter in the end
    As long as we have one another

    The darkness will come
    But it will go away someday soon
    The great American nightmare will be over

    This is what I pray for 2018
    The end of the darkness
    that consumes our land

    COSMIC CALENDAR

    calendar months
    calendar months

    January

    January arrives cold as death warmed over
    As I make my annual list of resolutions
    Of the great things I would do

    The lies I tell myself to keep me going
    While recovering from the hangover of the year before
    With regrets for the evitable passing of time itself

    And snow bound cold nights of wild passion
    As we delay death’s knocking on the door

    February

    February is a strange month
    Cold, short and eventful

    In the U.S. The political season heats up
    As politicians rush about

    Making their campaign lies
    Full of promises of things to come

    As we the 99 % huddle down inside
    Watching the lies on TV

    Outside Winter’s last dying breath

    March

    March roars in full of sound and furry
    Signifying the future marching down upon us all

    And March madness hits the sports world
    And politicians meet to plot and scheme

    As we bravely battle the cosmic elements
    Waiting for the promised spring

    Hay fever greets me
    With the early spring flowers

    April

    April is indeed the cruelest month of all
    So many important events occurred

    Kim Il Sung’s Birthday, Hitler’s Birthday
    And in the U.S. the dreaded tax man cometh

    To take it all away as the flowers overwhelm
    And Spring Fever takes hold

    Driving us all mad
    With strange erotic desires

    May

    May is in many ways
    My second favorite month of all
    The flowers are blooming bright

    The mountains are aflame with desire
    The summer heat is coming

    The plans for the year are coming along
    The political campaigns heat up
    And good movies come out

    Star wars arrived
    Spider man and superman and batman

    All came out to play
    In late May

    And baseball begins in earnest
    And most importantly

    My wife was born

    June

    June is always a month of transition
    End of the school year

    Summer transfer season
    People leaving people coming

    Hurricanes and Tornados attacking
    And wars starting and people dying

    As fire flies buzz about
    And rabbits eat my garden

    As the summer heat descends upon the land
    I walk late at night

    Recalling that Watergate
    Occurred in June

    July

    July is the queen of the summer season
    As she heats up the land

    Throwing storm after summer storm
    And politicians run away
    After the July forth fireworks

    Man landed on the moon
    Richard Nixon Left the White House

    And we all know that half the year
    Has flown by

    August

    So much has happened
    During the hottest most hellish of months

    Despite the summer sauna that descends upon the land
    Enervating all driving people mad with the heat

    World War 1 started
    World War 11 ended
    Hiroshima ushered in the nuclear age

    Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey
    And tornado ally
    All roar down upon the land

    And I met the love of my life
    Getting off a bus
    One August evening

    September

    What can one say about September
    Like June a month of transitions

    And one is filled with ambition
    Wanting to finish up what one started

    Before the fall arrives
    And Winter is hinting it is coming

    School starts
    New jobs start

    New people come into one’s life
    And like August’s hangover

    Big earth shattering events happen
    The fall of the stock market

    The housing bubble bursting
    The endless budget games

    As the politicians argue
    Whether to bankrupt the country
    To make a political point or two

    And 9-11 terrorizing the world
    All September’s gifts to the land

    October

    October is my favorite month of all
    The leaves turn

    The weather is usually delightful
    Just a tease of the coming winter

    Fall ball season underway
    Baseball games and Halloween madness
    ends the month with a huge bang

    And I celebrate my legal birth on the 29th
    Also the day I legally got married

    And on the October 30 1955 I was born
    And Rock n Roll was born as well

    Coincidence I think not

    November

    November is one of the strange months
    Begins like a hangover of October

    Then it turns ugly and weird
    Political fever hits the land

    Every two years
    As the people brave the early November chill

    To decide what fools they will send to DC
    The politicians lie and scheme and plot

    And beg and lie again
    And the world turns

    And the new leaders emerge
    Welcome the new Bosses

    Same as the old bosses
    Just new packaging

    And Donald Trump storms the barricades
    Threatening the establishment’s strangle hold
    On America and the world

    Yes November is a strange month

    December

    Perhaps the loneliness month of all
    The most consequential of all the months

    And yet also the most depressing end of time
    Kind of month

    If the apocalypse zombie or otherwise
    Were to occur

    It would be in December
    That is the sort of insane month it is

    The end of the year
    As darkness settles down on the land

    And holiday parties abound
    Full of false cheer

    And faked love
    And for those who don’t celebrate Christmas

    A lonely day perhaps at the movies
    A few awkward calls to the relatives

    Then New Years
    Watching the world end

    Drinking up a storm
    And knowing that the year ended

    And you are one step closer to the grave

    .
    POEM: FALLING RAIN

    rain end of the year
    rain falling

    The falling rain
    Of late October

    Fills me with essential dread
    As I rush about

    And end up here
    Wherever here is

    The rain outside
    Seems like the tears of god

    As I sit
    Crying over my beer

    Thinking of lost love
    And failed dreams

    Wondering
    What went wrong?

    And what I can set right
    And the rain falls

    And the night darkens
    The rain is falling

    All over this man’s world
    And the rain falls

    And I sit
    Drinking my lonesome drink

    Lost in dreams
    Dreaming of what
    Could never be

    Thinking dark thoughts
    And so I sit

    And dream the night away
    literary yard poems by Jake Cosmos Aller

  • The Dead Never Die on Facebook

    this is a poem about a common occurance in this digitalized age. I often receive face book friend requests from the dead, including my sister who died ten years ago. it seems that the dead Never Die on Facebook. It is very creepy but I have not yet contacted Face Book about it. One of these days, I will follow the advice listed in the link at the end of this poem and let Face Book know that she is no more among the living but on the other hand it is kind of nice she is living somewhere in Facebook’s computer memory banks.


    The Dead Never Die on Facebook

    In this day and age
    Of fake life and death

    The dead don’t die
    They live on in social media hell

    Spewing forth occasional
    fake friend requests
    from face book hell

    My sister died in 2007
    I still get monthly reminders
    From somewhere in Facebook hell

    A request to be a friend
    From my dear dead sister

    I never respond
    That would be too creepy

    If she responded
    From where ever
    Face book sent her

    So, my plea
    To Mr. Zuckerberg

    Please Sir
    Allow the dead to die

    Send them to their just resting places
    And remove them from Facebook

    And discontinue
    Their fake friend requests
    That is just too creepy

    I notice that sometimes
    You create an memorial page
    For the recently departed

    But you have not cleaned
    Up your site

    The dead still prowl the corners
    Of fakebook

    With their creepy requests
    To be their friend

    Please sir
    Kill them off
    Let them rest in peace

    comment: not limited to Fake Book, I get daily requests from dead people on Linkinlin as well as Face book, Instagram etc. would be nice if FB could remove the dead from their site! really creepy to get requests to add my sister as a friend ten years after she died!

    from my “Fake Things” chapbook collection, a work in progress
    How 1 Billion People Are Coping With Death and Facebook

  • fake bacon and eggs

    fake bacon and eggs

    Poems about Fake Bacon and Eggs and other fake foods. Hmm hungry for the real thing yet?



    Fake Eggs

    I love real eggs
    From real chicken

    Preferably free range
    Vegetarian fed,
    No antibiotic feed

    No hormones added
    Non-caged chickens,
    allowed to roam about

    As God intended
    them to do

    Not locked up
    In chicken coop hell

    chicken

    But now
    We have so many choices

    We can have fake eggs
    Without any cholesterol
    Or yoke

    Tastes like real chicken eggs
    At least they claim

    But who knows what’s real
    Any more

    Can you trust
    The chicken is real?


    Fake Bacon

    It seems that bacon
    Has come back from the dead
    And is everywhere these days

    There is even bacon ice cream
    Bacon whiskey
    Bacon tacos

    Yeah, I love bacon
    But I don’t like the fake bacon

    You can get beef bacon
    Turkey bacon
    Tofu bacon

    All look like bacon
    Taste like bacon
    Cook like bacon
    Seems to be bacon

    But it is all sham
    Nothing real about it

    Just another fake healthy food
    In a long line
    Of fake food products

    Designed to get our money
    Out of our pockets
    And into their greedy little arms

    So, I resist
    I want the real deal

    I want bacon real bacon
    With my real eggs

    And if it means
    I am fated

    To die of a real heart attack
    At least I will die
    A real man


    Fake Tea

    Tea is another thing
    That seems to be fake
    These days

    All sorts of fake herbal teas
    Decafe teas
    Tea substitutes

    Tastes the same
    Looks the same
    But it is not the real deal

    Not really a cup of tea
    The British know a thing
    Or two
    About fake tea

    Been complaining about tea bags
    For centuries
    And that was the first fake tea

    110 Foods You’re Eating That Are Probably Fake

  • Poems About Fake Things Chapbook

    Poems About Fake Things Chapbook

    Poems About Fake Things

    updated with fresh index, audio and first poem, ‘Fake Things”. Foliate Oak Literary magazine will publish the poem in their next edition. Stay tuned, I will provide a link in due course.



    just an update. Foliate Literary Review has just published “Fake Things”
    foliate literary review

    These are my poems about fake things. By “fake things” I mean almost everything we find in this modern world because no one including me is the original product of nature. I wear glasses, dentures, and live in an artificial environment. just because something is fake does not make it evil or fraudulent but many fake things are fraudulent. This is especially true about fake food. Almost none of which with the possible exceptions of home made smoothies are better than the original product found in nature. and most are dreadful for you although scientifically designed to taste good. I know I used to eat Fast food until I woke up and realize that it was slowly killing me so I became much more conscious of my food intake – although I am not yet a vegan!

    and these poems are dark, cynical, poetic rants. Which makes me a fake person because in real life I am pretty content except for when I write! so in that sense I too am nothing but a fake person.

    some of these may be offensive to some people particularly the political and religious poems. In my opinion, all religious believe is fundamentally fake in the sense that religion is based on supernatural understandings of the world. People have a right to believe or not believe anything they want to and I am not trying to change peoples minds, just pointing out my opinions.

    these opinions are mine alone and do not reflect any of my prior employers.

    if some of these are offensive to you I apologize in advance. So read, enjoy I hope and send me your feedback.

    if you have your own examples I would be happy to add them to the final product. So here goes, my poems about Fake Things….

    photos


    picture of President Trump
    president trump
    photo of terminator AI robot
    BARCELONA, SPAIN – MAY 09: The Terminator robot is seen in the paddock following qualifying for the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix at the Circuit de Catalunya on May 9, 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)

    the rise of the facebook dead

    Audio Files (will update as I record them)


    updated index

    Fake Things
    Fake Things
    Fake People

    Fake People
    AI Created Fake People
    Fake Love
    Fake Life
    Fake Death
    Fake Souls
    Fake Jake
    Fake relationships
    Fake friends
    Fake laugher
    Fake crying

    Fake food
    Fake food
    Fake coffee
    Fake vegan meat
    Fake fish
    Fake Bread
    Fake Cheese
    Fake KFC
    Fake Mc Donald’s
    Fake healthy Food
    Fake Menus
    Fake Salt
    Fake cereal
    Fake ice cream
    Fake eggs
    Fake bacon
    Fake tea
    Fake booze
    Fake beer best beer in the world
    Fake rum best rum in the world
    Fake soju
    Fake malkali
    Fake kimchi- the kimchi-Kimuchi wars
    Fake vodka

    Fake appearances
    Fake appearances
    Fake hair
    Fake eyes
    Fake ears
    Fake faces
    Fake Teeth
    Fake Legs
    Fake knees
    Future of fake body parts
    Fake Hearts

    Fake Drugs

    Fake Drugs
    More on Fake Drugs
    Fake Weed

    Fake Art

    Fake writers
    Fake poets
    Fake artists
    Fake musicians

    Fake Sports

    Fake Wrestling
    Fake Falls in Soccer
    Fake Home runs – drug enhanced sports
    Robot Sports?


    Fake Politics
    Fake Politics
    Fake Solutions
    Fake Outrage
    Fake Denials
    Fake Apologies
    Fake Cops
    Fake news
    Fake Voting Scams
    Fake Presidents
    Fake Human- Alien Shape Shifting Lizards
    Fake Humans – Coming of the Clones
    Fake Humans -Designer Babies
    Fake Humans – AI Decides to Kill All Humans

    Fake Gods

    Fake Gods
    Fake War on Christmas
    Fake War on Christianity
    Fake Prophets
    Fake business
    Fake Products Conquer the World
    Fake Business
    Fake clothes
    Fake shoes
    Fake bags
    Fake watches
    Fake car parts
    Fake Visas
    Fake Marriages
    Fake Divorces
    Fake Deaths
    Fake computers
    Fake phones
    Fake marriage videos
    Fake videos
    Deep Fake
    Fake Calls
    Fake Real Estate Ads – True story
    Fake Builders
    Fake drivers
    Fake lawyers

    Other fake Things

    Fake mosquitos
    Fake Science

    Fake Promises
    Fake Sincerity
    Fake promises
    Fate Praise
    Fake beginnings
    Fake endings

    the first lead poem follows:

    Fake Things
    Fake Things
    Fake People

    Fake People
    AI Created Fake People
    Fake Love
    Fake Life
    Fake Death
    Fake Souls
    Fake Jake
    Fake relationships
    Fake friends
    Fake laugher
    Fake crying

    Fake food
    Fake food
    Fake coffee
    Fake vegan meat
    Fake fish
    Fake Bread
    Fake Cheese
    Fake KFC
    Fake Mc Donald’s
    Fake healthy Food
    Fake Menus
    Fake Salt
    Fake cereal
    Fake ice cream
    Fake eggs
    Fake bacon
    Fake tea
    Fake booze
    Fake beer best beer in the world
    Fake rum best rum in the world
    Fake soju
    Fake malkali
    Fake kimchi- the kimchi-Kimuchi wars
    Fake vodka

    Fake appearances
    Fake appearances
    Fake hair
    Fake eyes
    Fake ears
    Fake faces
    Fake Teeth
    Fake Legs
    Fake knees
    Future of fake body parts
    Fake Hearts

    Fake Drugs

    Fake Drugs
    More on Fake Drugs
    Fake Weed

    Fake Art

    Fake writers
    Fake poets
    Fake artists
    Fake musicians

    Fake Sports

    Fake Wrestling
    Fake Falls in Soccer
    Fake Home runs – drug enhanced sports
    Robot Sports?


    Fake Politics
    Fake Politics
    Fake Solutions
    Fake Outrage
    Fake Denials
    Fake Apologies
    Fake Cops
    Fake news
    Fake Voting Scams
    Fake Presidents
    Fake Human- Alien Shape Shifting Lizards
    Fake Humans – Coming of the Clones
    Fake Humans -Designer Babies
    Fake Humans – AI Decides to Kill All Humans

    Fake Gods

    Fake Gods
    Fake War on Christmas
    Fake War on Christianity
    Fake Prophets
    Fake business
    Fake Products Conquer the World
    Fake Business
    Fake clothes
    Fake shoes
    Fake bags
    Fake watches
    Fake car parts
    Fake Visas
    Fake Marriages
    Fake Divorces
    Fake Deaths
    Fake computers
    Fake phones
    Fake marriage videos
    Fake videos
    Deep Fake
    Fake Calls
    Fake Real Estate Ads – True story
    Fake Builders
    Fake drivers
    Fake lawyers

    Other fake Things

    Fake mosquitos
    Fake Science

    Fake Promises

    Fake Sincerity
    Fake promises
    Fate Praise
    Fake beginnings
    Fake endings

  • “Strangeness in the Air”

    “Strangeness in the Air”

    Strangeness in the Air

    My poem, “Strangeness in the Air”, has been published by Scars TV in their literary calendar for 2018. “Strangeness in the Air” appears on the November 3, 2019 entry.

    Details follow:

    Hi there from Scars Publications – we wanted to let you know that Scars Publications released a 2019 weekly literary date book. On the right-hand side of every open set of pages in the book is a week of the 2019 calendar year (from 12/23/18 through 1/4/20), and on the left-hand side of every page (and sometimes at the bottom of right-hand page weeks with the beginnings or endings of the month leaving space) there is room for short poetry, micro-prose and artwork chosen from 2018 issues of cc&d magazine and Down in the Dirt magazine. Since your material was chosen (both writing and select artwork was chosen to be included) from the past year of accepted materials for inclusion in this annual literary date book, we wanted to let you know about this brand-new annual collection book is titled “2019 literary review date book”! Links to see all of chosen writers and artists (and the titles of their work) in “the 2019 literary review date book”: scars TV literary calendar for 2019

    Scars TV Literary Calendar 2019

    (for November 3, 2019)

    Strangeness in the Air

    There is strangeness in the air
    A sense of cosmic Unease
    Hangs silently in the Purple Crystalline Sky

    America woke up

    and decided
    to quit
    following like lemmings
    over the Clift

    As the Pied Piper chants

    image of pied piper
    pied piper says stay the course

    stay the course, stay the course
    we were like lemmings
    dying to save his wounded pride

    Today there is that strange difference
    in the Air

    As Americans woke up
    and threw off
    their chains of fear

    Down in the Dirty also published my poem, “My Name Is Nobody” in their anthology, “Natural Light”

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    My Name is Nobody

    My name, it is Nobody
    No one cares who I am
    I am just a nameless clone
    In the cold unfeeling bureaucracy

    Just one of the army
    Of civilians who flood into and out of the city
    Every day

    A non-entity,
    A ghost
    A govbot
    A cyber
    A spook
    A faceless automan
    A bureaucrat

    Just a grey suited cog in the machinery
    And no one cares
    No one knows who I really am

    And I am legend
    Everywhere and nowhere

    Just the way this modern world
    All shred of humanity
    Crushed beneath the cruel wheel of society

    In the cold harsh world
    There is no room anymore
    For true human feelings

    We are just robots, clones, machines
    And so I go to work
    Put on my mask

    And no one hears my inner screams
    And no one will ever care

    writing by jake cosmos aller

  • Howling at the Blood Moon

    Howling at the Blood Moon

    Howling at the Blood Moon

    In honor of the blood wolf moon January 20-21, 2019 here are my “lunatic poems”. and links to various sites which discuss whether the blood moon is a harbinger of impending doom. I leave that you to you to decide….

    These are updates to my earlier postings.

    here is the audio version


    here are some articles on the deeper significance of the blood moon according to right right Christian sources.
    why CHristian pastors fear-january-blood-moon

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/1052287/Blood-Moon-2019-lunar-eclipse-end-of-world-impending-doom-world-bible-prophecy

    blood moon coming what you need to know

    Howling at the Blood Moon

    Here then are my howling at the Blood Moon poems. The first three were published in Two Drops of Ink.

    1. Just an Unhinged Lunatic Howling at The Moon
    2. Howling at The Moon
    3. Lunatic Howling at the Moon
    3. One Crazy Day
    4. Full Moon Lunacy

    Just An Unhinged Lunatic Howling At The Moon

    On a moonlit late night
    I sat in a bar
    Drinking drams of demented, fermented dream dew
    Just an unhinged lunatic
    Dreaming of howling at the full moon

    Watching the world walk by
    Looking at all the fine looking babes

    Walking by the street
    Thinking wild, erotic thoughts
    Of endless wild libertine passions

    When into the bar
    Walked the most beautiful women

    In the Universe
    So wild, so free
    So wonderfully alive

    I did not know what to do
    As this vision of delight
    Sauntered through the bar

    In a skin-tight leather pants
    Looked so fine
    That my eyeballs hurt

    And finally, I had to say something
    So I gathered up my manly courage
    And walked up to her

    And she looked at me
    And instantly bewitched my soul
    With a devilish grin

    I lost all reason
    And became a raving lunatic
    Unhinged lunatic
    Howling at the moon

    Foaming at the mouth
    A wild, free werewolf
    Howling at the lunatic light
    Of the full Moon

    Howling At The Moon

    I stood outside
    Between the trees
    In a field
    On the outside of town

    Beneath the lunatic rays
    Of the blood red full moon

    The lunatic lights of the moon
    Casts a wild primeval glow
    On me

    The hormonal chemicals are unleashed
    The wild beast within
    Escapes it chain

    And I howl with delight
    A werewolf
    Free at last

    To run amuck
    Free of its civilized restrains
    Throwing off its clothes
    Stripping naked

    Running wild
    Naked and free
    A wild man
    Enjoying his freedom

    Lunatic Howling at the Moon

    As I sit
    Under the lunatic light of the full moon
    Of the blood-red lights of the moon

    Full of wild passions
    The lustful beast stirs again

    And starts running and running
    Howling at the moon

    Riding into the new dawn
    On a demented Harley Davis cycle

    With two naked babes on his back

    Riding into the sun
    90 miles per second
    At the speed of thought

    He disappears into the lunatic light
    Of the full moon

    And I wake up
    Alone in my bed
    Saying, man, that was quite a night
    I better not go there again

    The wild beast
    Laughs
    He has heard that before

    And I join him
    In howling at the moon

    One Crazy Night

    one crazy moonlit night
    I could not get to sleep
    At all

    I looked up
    Looked out at the window
    At the full blood moon
    Saw by its lunatic light

    Your face
    Was in the moon

    And I looked up
    At the light
    That crazy light
    And dreamed

    I was with you
    Again

    And I woke up
    Again
    And I woke up
    Alone in my bed

    Dreaming dark dreams
    Of You
    Wishing it were
    Other than it was

    All alone
    All alone again
    In this world

    Full Moon Lunacy

    The Full Moon hangs
    In the evening sky

    Huge, heavy and full of mystery
    It almost looks like it will fall
    Out of the sky

    The full moon brings out
    The lunatics to run amuck
    Howling at the light of the moon

    The full moon inspires lustful thoughts
    And wild erotic imaginings
    And dark secret desires

    As the lunatic light of the full moon
    Causes civilized people
    To lose themselves
    And embrace their inner wild child

    And so, I stare
    At the lunatic light
    Of the full moon

    And howl like an escaped banshee
    Howling at the moon

  • Down in the Dirt Poems

    Down in the Dirt has published a number of my poems in 2017 and 2018. Check it out.

    Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen

    And Other Poems

    By Jake Cosmos Aller

    Published in Down in the Dirt

    Charles Bukowski Road Not Chosen

    John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller

    While reading Charles Bukowski poetry
    On the metro ride home
    Listening to Buddha bar music
    On my oh too hip IPod

    I begin to see myself as I was
    Over 30 years ago when I was merely a bit player
    A minor character in a Charles Bukowski poem

    A wild young underemployed intellectual
    Hanging out in dismal bars and dives all over Asia and California
    Hanging with disreputable women and drunks and drinkers
    And characters out of his kinds of haunts

    A mad poet bard of the underground
    A drunken poet in a drunken bum show
    That nightly played in his head

    Then one day I met the women of my dreams
    And went down a different path
    A long slow path to respectability

    And now 30 years later
    I am no longer a wild man
    I am still a poet at heart
    But I am now also a bureaucrat
    In a button down suite

    Doing the people’s business
    Working for the Government
    I’ve become the Man

    Sometimes I wonder
    Would I have been better off
    Going down that another path

    Would I have ended up
    Somewhere else
    Doing something else

    Would I have been as happy
    Would I have been as successful?

    There is no answer that satisfies
    The longing in my heart
    For that wild thing
    That still lurks beneath
    It’s civilized cover

    And I know that I am still
    A mad poet at heart
    Railing against the injustice of the world

    As I work day by day in the belly of the great beast of State
    I recall the ancient Chinese saying,
    “Confucian during the day while Taoist rebel at night”
    Playing out in my head and nightly dreams
    In the true American Upper class patrician tradition

    I close the book and look out the window
    Get off the train, and walk slowly home

    And realize I had no choice
    But to take the path that I’ve trodden on

    And so I put aside my misgivings
    And say goodbye to my “Bukowskian”desires
    For another night of domestic contentment

    Was it worth it all to take the conventional path
    And not take the bohemian road to hell and back

    I look at my wife and realize
    I had no choice, had no choice
    But to follow her to the ends of the earth

    And beyond by her side as we walked our path
    Of shared destiny

    Goodbye Charles Bukowski wherever you are
    May I meet you in a bar in the next life
    And figure out where we should have gone

    Until then the drinks are on me.

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    Fallen Dreams Litter the Ground

    John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller

    In the fall weather
    As I walk amid the falling leaves
    I see the signs everywhere

    Of the fall of America
    The once great and mighty Empire
    Everywhere signs of the fall appear

    The dark skies mirror
    The darkness that settled over our land

    Death, destruction and random acts of chaos
    Are all around us
    Surrounding us with visions of doom

    Nothing can stop the bloodletting
    No one seems to be in charge

    As the leaves fall
    And the darkness descends
    The fall of America continues

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    My Name Is Nobody

    John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller

    My name, it is Nobody
    No one cares who I am
    I am just a nameless clone
    In the cold unfeeling bureaucracy

    Just one of the army
    Of civilians who flood into and out of the city
    Every day

    A non-entity,
    A ghost
    A govbot
    A cyber
    A spook
    A faceless automan
    A bureaucrat

    Just a grey suited cog in the machinery
    And no one cares
    No one knows who I really am

    And I am legend
    Everywhere and nowhere

    Just the way this modern world
    All shred of humanity
    Crushed beneath the cruel wheel of society

    In the cold harsh world
    There is no room anymore
    For true human feelings

    We are just robots, clones, machines
    And so I go to work
    Put on my mask

    And no one hears my inner screams
    And no one will ever care

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    Strangeness in the Air

    John (“Jake”) Cosmos Aller

    There is a strangeness in the air
    A sense of cosmic unease
    Hangs silently in the purple crystalline sky

    America woke up
    And decided it was time
    To quit following like lemmings
    Over the Clift

    As the pied piper chants
    Stay the course, stay the course
    We were like lemmings following him
    Dying to save his wounded pride

    Today there is that strange difference
    In the air
    As Americans woke up
    And threw off their chains of fear

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    “My name is Nobody” and, “Strageness in the Air”

  • Ugly Writer Publishes ” Sleaze” Poems

    Ugly Writer Publishes ” Sleaze” Poems

    The Ugly writer publishes “Sleze” Poems

    “SLeze” poetry by Jake Cosmos Aller

    the Ugly Writer has published a number of my poems including my poems about “Sleaze” and “Searching for God”


    Heading Back to the Past

    While the rest of the world
    Embraces the energy of the future

    Our great denier of the truth

    picture of President Trump
    president trump

    wants to boldly take America back
    To the 19th century era of oil, and coal

    Yet perhaps it does not matter in the end
    As long as we have one another

    We will overcome
    The darkness will flee the land

    It Has Been Done Before

    Before Trump’s Wall
    There were many other walls

    trump's sleazy wall
    trump’s wall

    The Berlin Wall
    The Great Wall
    Hadrian’s Wall

    All the walls of the ancient world
    All failed
    To keep the enemies out

    The enemies of freedom
    The enemies of the state

    Still came across the border
    To loot, steal, rape and plunder

    And nothing could stop
    The flood of history

    The Grim Reaper Is late

    the grim reaper
    is late
    he is behind his quota

    so he unleashes
    the ravens of death

    the ravens of despair
    the ravens of madness

    they spread out
    all over the world

    infecting all
    with madness

    as the world descends
    consumed by hate

    the grim reaper
    smiles his sardonic grin

    thinking of all the souls
    he will harvest that day

    as he carries out
    the mandate
    of his satanic majesty

    The House of the Damned

    deep in the woods
    in the swamps of the deepest bayou

    lies an old abandoned cabin
    few have ever visited

    it looks long abandoned
    but there are stories

    legends
    of a creature
    from beyond time itself

    who lives deep in the swamp
    devouring everything he comes across

    But he hungers for human flesh
    once in a while

    he keeps a human slave
    who goes into town

    and drums up business
    for his master

    the hunters are recruited
    and they are brought to the house

    where they are commissioned
    to go into the woods

    and hunt down prisoners
    and shoot them dead

    and bring back the bodies
    for the bounty

    and the hunt is on
    and the prisoners are caught

    and the monster of the deep swamps
    has a feast

    and the hunters
    are added to the fire

    a few are left alive
    zombies under his control

    and so the house of the dead
    continues to haunt

    the deep swamps

    Searching for God

    a homeless man

    camped out
    on the streets
    of any city

    just another broken down soul
    looking for something

    and then I see him
    painting the face of God
    on the ground

    and I know
    that God is everywhere

    and sometimes
    only the down and out
    can see and feel God

    The rest of us
    are blind to the divine

    SLEAZE

    Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze
    Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze Sleaze
    Nothing but Sleaze
    Surrounds me 24/7

    S

    L

    E

    A

    Z

    E

    Led by the evil Sleaze King
    King Donald Trump
    the one true sleaze King
    The Sleaze King from TV

    Are we doomed to live
    In a world run by sleaze kings
    And ruled by sleaze values

    Are we addicted to sleaze
    And need our sleaze fix daily

    As we turn on the sleaze TV
    And see nothing but sleaze

    Oozing out of our TV sets?

    SLEAZE 2

    Sleaze surrounds us 24/7
    Lots of sleaze on the TV
    Everywhere we go nothing but sleaze
    All the time 24/7 sleaze rules the air
    Zappa had it right calling it the slime
    Everything is nothing but slime oozing out of our TV’s

    They are Next God Says

    God is in his cosmic control room
    The ultimate situation room

    Where here he watches over mankind 24/7
    One day he reads

    About protesters
    Protesting the operation
    of Emergency helicopters

    Because they’re too noisy
    they stir up dust
    and damage their properties

    And are just inconvenient as hell
    just too bloody inconvenient

    the protestors are demanding
    that the helicopters be grounded

    Disregarding the fact
    That they save lives
    Given the hellish traffic conditions

    God is furious at the callous attitude
    The casual disregard for human life
    And the pettiness of the protesters

    He calls up his chief angels
    And reads them the recent articles

    All of the angels
    Are furious at the callous attitudes of the protesters

    God calls the grim reaper
    His contractor who handles the details of death

    God says I have a commission for you

    The Grim Reaper had read the article
    As he too monitors the world 24/7

    He laughs

    and says I know what to do
    Obviously, they all have to die
    In a horrific accident

    and can’t get to the hospital in time
    Because they are stuck in traffic

    Now you’re talking God said
    But I want you to break protocol

    Just before they die show up
    And explain to them why
    They are about to die

    That would be poetic justice God said
    And you know I’m all about that

    Everyone laughs
    God has a sense of humor after all

    The grim reaper mordantly salutes the boss
    And goes about his grim task

    Out Law Lady of the Night

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    One wild moonlit night
    On the tail end of a Friday Night booze run

    I found myself
    Twenty drinks too sober
    In a bar in the mean streets of Bangkok

    Drinking my way to Hell
    Just as fast as I could

    And on the stage
    Dancing her soul away
    Was the most beautiful creature

    In the known universe

    Dancing with an attitude
    That could kill an elephant in heat

    She looked so fine
    Made my eye balls hurt

    As I started at her naked body
    Admiring the curves
    In all the right places

    And her ass called to me
    Telling me deep dark erotic desires
    Inspiring carnal thoughts

    And hopes that she would be mine
    For the right price

    And I stared at her
    And she smiled with an evil seductive smile
    A true succubus from hell itself

    And she gave me a knowing look
    And I knew that I was hooked

    For a night of wild libertine passion
    As I devoured her

    Making wild passionate love
    All night long

    Even if it meant
    That I would be selling my soul
    To the devil himself

    Last Woman on Earth

    The last woman on earth
    Stands in a deep forest
    Contemplating the end of the world

    The end of civilization
    The end of time itself

    She stares out at the dark forest
    Watching the world reclaim itself
    Watching mankind fade away into dust

    The last woman in the world
    Clutches her bible against her chest
    Wondering why God had forsaken her

    She screams out to God
    But no answer

    Only the silence of the wilderness
    And the silence in her heart

    The end of the world
    Came overnight
    Only she survived the final bio plague

    She fled the crumbling ruins of the city
    Sought refuge in the forest

    And found she could not die
    And she wanders the world

    Looking for survivors
    And so the world ends

    And mankind fades away