List: Autobiography containing Scattered thoughts

Lute's "I" poems, various philosophies, an occasionally candid remark, various mistakes, assorted bullshit.

• Aunt June

  Chicagoland
  discrete Sabine street,

  18 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 24 9:17 PM 2003. In Personal
• The Poet in Near Hysteria Bewails his Fate

  The Poet in Near Hysteria Bewails his Fate
  the foul bitch is twisting me

  11 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 28 12:23 PM 2003. In Humor, Angst
• Corder’s Crossing.-A Song For My Youth

  A song for my youth

  22 lines, 16 comments, on Jul 28 1:07 PM 2003. In Personal, Contemporary
• The hillbilly

  For Dale, after all these years

  25 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 28 4:58 PM 2003. In Contemporary
• Tirade

  37 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 29 6:13 PM 2003. In Other
• Hillbilly Delux

  39 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 30 6:05 AM 2003. In Society, Humor, Contemporary
• Seeking Employment Near the Army Depot

  under the threat of rain
  a funeral will be held today
  

  23 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 30 2:06 PM 2003. In Spiritual, Society, Contemporary
• Chocolate

  Some inpressions I reaped
  from reading young poets, and old

  24 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 30 3:22 PM 2003. In Spiritual, Humor
• Who Am I, She asks

  Storms Abound.
  Chasing me around,

  24 lines, 10 comments, on Jul 31 11:07 AM 2003. In Personal
• Appomattox

  the poet ages in disarray...
  

  40 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 31 4:37 PM 2003. In Contemporary
• Cold Storage

  The bathroom sighs
  as you open the door,
  

  51 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 1 7:57 PM 2003. In Society
• Foreboding

  The dream said:
  “He assumed everyone wanted to make love to him.
  

  29 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 2 6:09 AM 2003. In Spiritual, Contemporary, Angst
• On History and Hope

  I am not afraid
  Yes. I am.

  37 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 2 8:30 AM 2003. In Contemporary
• UntitleD

  The ask me about my tracks
  And the color of the dust,

  37 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 4 10:52 AM 2003. In Society, Contemporary
• On Sunday Afternoon

  Note: Inclinations toward Mortality

  46 lines, 16 comments, on Aug 4 3:49 PM 2003. In Spiritual, Nature, Contemporary
• Delphi or The Journey Within

  A poet's final Journey

  37 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 6 7:37 AM 2003. In Spiritual, Nature, Love
• A Child's Tale

  Some things the Poet learned along the way, painfully.

  40 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 6 10:08 AM 2003. In Society, Love, Dark
• An Adventure

  Arrow is a cat,
  she is a killing Machine

  36 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 9 6:35 AM 2003. In Nature, Love, Childrens
• An Essence of Being

  I went for a walk,
  in the summer forest

  23 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 9 11:02 AM 2003. In Spiritual
• Ghostly Realms

  As past, is Future Wronged?
  

  38 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 14 9:54 AM 2003. In Other
• After attending the play

  I am restless,
  and very old,

  26 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 16 3:25 PM 2003. In Hope
• Nothing from Eden in three pictures

  57 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 16 7:19 PM 2003. In Other
• Dissonance Denied

  34 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 19 2:39 PM 2003. In Personal, Spiritual, Angst
• A Remembrance

  43 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 21 1:49 PM 2003. In Angst
• The Red Hat

  "Caroline says,
  

  109 lines, 9 comments, on Aug 24 9:22 AM 2003. In Personal, Love
• John Law

  Oh. now,
  you guys let me go home,

  34 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 24 9:35 AM 2003. In Society, Love, Humor
• Lovers Anonymous,

  Perhaps I should join
  and spill my story on the crowd.

  27 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 25 8:25 AM 2003. In Personal, Love
• The Professor

  twas a long night,
  in my ignorance
  

  31 lines, 13 comments, on Aug 25 8:34 PM 2003. In Spiritual, Love
• The Journey To Megiddo

  the dark eyes of the sentinal,
  the last remaining battle

  40 lines, 20 comments, on Aug 31 12:08 AM 2003. In Spiritual
• The Note

  I left a note
  on the dresser
  

  26 lines, 55 comments, on Sep 3 7:09 AM 2003. In Love
• Within the Perseus Cluster

  I should adopt some sort of stance
  Take a chance.
  

  33 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 10 9:23 PM 2003. In Personal, Contemporary
• A boy

  Within the roamed of moaned
  the gutter thief.

  48 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 16 7:16 AM 2003. In Contemporary, Childrens
• With Mary Unwin In Olney

  I covet my neighbor's house
  and I wish I had his little ones,

  74 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 25 7:02 PM 2003. In Spiritual, Contemporary
• StarBorn

  I have wandered into a carnal house,
  with red drapes.
  

  61 lines, 28 comments, on Oct 8 4:46 PM 2003. In Other, Contemporary
• I, or Eye or Aye,

  156 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 21 8:36 AM 2003. In Spiritual, Love
• Upon Reading Irish Poetry

  40 lines, 7 comments, on Oct 23 8:27 AM 2003. In Society, Humor, Contemporary
• Further Adventures along the Brandywine

  This was back in the days
  when the West Fork River
  

  53 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 23 11:20 PM 2003. In Personal, Spiritual, Contemporary
• Mississippi, or the Virgin bled

  He wonders if he has enough Time.
  He notices the fingers on his watch
  

  41 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 24 6:18 PM 2003. In Personal, Spiritual, Contemporary
• On the Tidal Influences of the Monongahela

  To Valeria Messaline
  by all reports

  40 lines, 13 comments, on Oct 25 8:08 AM 2003. In Personal, Spiritual, Contemporary
• On Elk Creek At Willow Bend

  Gather round
  ye singers,
  

  52 lines, 12 comments, on Oct 25 10:27 PM 2003. In Personal, Spiritual, Contemporary
• If not then, When

  Then, when I as youth
  ran free between the trees,
  

  62 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 28 12:01 PM 2003. In Spiritual, Contemporary
• Upon Waking To A Photograph

  While I scrabble hardtack & Pinafore
  bustling off to the rich man's gold mine

  44 lines, 15 comments, on Dec 7 8:03 AM 2003. In Hope
• Calico, An Elegy

  "I am weary of this maze"
  he said to the drunken Mage;

  114 lines, 25 comments, on Nov 8 8:17 AM 2003. In Hope
• The Streets Of Baltimore

  61 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 30 9:19 AM 2003. In Other
• Sex & Death

  Sex And Death: Part One
  The cathedral bells

  140 lines, 9 comments, on Dec 1 3:20 AM 2003. In Other, Contemporary
• Upon Meeting Despair

  My
  Heart

  48 lines, 15 comments, on Feb 16 3:02 PM 2004. In Angst
• The death of the Chevette

  The roads were clear that day,
  devoid of snow, a sparkling gray,

  37 lines, 20 comments, on Feb 24 3:11 PM 2004. In Hope
• Lutescent Scrapped Confessions

  I began at the end
  even before Winter's cloak

  79 lines, 20 comments, on Feb 27 9:23 AM 2004. In Spiritual
• Awkwargness

  Maybe
  I enjoy your company,

  44 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 11 8:04 PM 2004. In Other
• The Fall

  I cannot begin
  in the center of the swirl

  35 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 26 8:50 AM 2004. In Contemporary
• Winter's Place

  I need a quiet place
  where I can hear the altar rustle

  39 lines, 53 comments, on Jan 3 9:43 AM 2005. In Contemporary
• Passage

  I dip my fingers in the cold lake
  the birds do not cry away

  37 lines, 10 comments, on Jan 10 9:01 AM 2005. In Contemporary
• Provencal: a Sentimental Education

  / 1. A Sentimental Poem / The suicide bomber is deaf, / there is a crescent moon; / the noises are too loud / the GMC professional gra

  66 lines, 10 comments, on May 2 4:11 PM 2007. In Love, Spiritual, Society
• Cold Mountain

  / “Suddenly

  47 lines, 12 comments, on May 13 8:43 AM 2007. In Spiritual
• By the Waters of Babylon

  It is read, give us wine if you have no money. / &nbs

  27 lines, 9 comments, on May 16 9:35 AM 2007. In Spiritual, Love, Society
• A Fever in a Fern

  I am disturbed by the glare of the light. / the small bones piled up on the sand, / while the builders / pore over the papyri / arguing ove

  43 lines, 7 comments, on May 19 3:49 PM 2007. In Society, Spiritual
• Upon Noting The Scarcity Of Life In The Universe; or the Creation

  20 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 11 8:04 AM 2007. In Nature, Life, Spiritual
• Boundaries in Time

  the articles of fire / my vestments discarded / I am captive, / thy lips increase / the speed

  23 lines, 15 comments, on Jul 11 4:40 PM 2007. In Life, Love, Personal
• La Strada

  Towards Immortality
  

  75 lines, 48 comments, on May 7 11:47 AM 2004. In Hope
• A Personal Piece

  I've got a zippo,
  and an old Dodge truck,

  29 lines, 11 comments, on Oct 14 2:17 PM 2004. In Contemporary
• Freedom

  Unbounded too fast,
  with such bleary eyes

  39 lines, 27 comments, on Oct 16 5:02 PM 2004. In Angst
• I hear the flow of many waters

  If I am screaming at the end
  it was only becuase I was too weak

  31 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 10 5:14 PM 2005. In Contemporary
• The Middle Sea

  It has come to pass
  that I must no longer sail

  29 lines, 14 comments, on Feb 22 5:50 AM 2005. In Contemporary
• Two Shades of red

  The red gold piss
  runs down the wall,

  50 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 30 2:02 PM 2005. In Contemporary
• Analysis 101

  I swallowed all
  the little more

  31 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 16 6:30 AM 2005. In Spiritual, Contemporary
• Summer Showers

  if there were a way
  to change the stream

  34 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 16 6:53 AM 2005. In Spiritual, Hope, Contemporary
• Upon Remembrance

  Had Jesus not half
  fallen

  36 lines, 20 comments, on Jul 16 8:17 AM 2005. In Love, Contemporary
• Fear

  I sweat Althea,
  in dreams decanted,

  31 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 17 6:29 AM 2005. In Dark, Contemporary
• Married Life

  tires is good
  long as they are round and roll,

  31 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 17 10:15 AM 2005. In Contemporary
• New Embers

  48 lines, 13 comments, on Oct 6 2:12 PM 2006. In Spiritual, Love, Hope
• At the End Of Another Affair.

  To draw the shadows with strings
  Twist the truth

  131 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 9 4:37 PM 2006. In Love
• Notes from Underground

  Patch is the only one left,
  Having had some ill-luck recently,

  25 lines, 15 comments, on Dec 15 8:24 AM 2006. In Personal, Love, Spiritual
• Courthouse Contraband

  as if weeping
  the bridge is wet with dew,

  47 lines, 13 comments, on Feb 24 12:01 PM 2007. In Contemporary, Fantasy, Life
• The Dance

  To the Sleepers
  “to think we are now here and bear our part”

  45 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 23 6:07 AM 2007. In Society, Contemporary, Spiritual
• Diary of a Bored Housewife

  From everlasting to everlasting
  is just as far as cat's eye

  81 lines, 15 comments, on Oct 3 7:01 PM 2007
• “Inquisition in Eden”

  “Inquisition in Eden”
  The scents are deceitful.

  60 lines, 9 comments, on Oct 10 3:52 PM 2007
• A Letter

  this morning, my love, I have the sighs

  26 lines, 21 comments, on Nov 18 7:11 AM 2007
• The Fool

  20 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 20 8:42 AM 2007
• My Hat

  30 lines, 11 comments, on Jan 8 8:47 AM 2008
• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

  the rust inhibits the surface
  the journey to Cornwall

  75 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 5 8:01 AM 2008
• apt. 4

  Dear Diary,
  I got a thing for the family guy

  19 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 11 2:54 PM 2008
• Idyll (revision)

  or two a wait
  the next encounter;

  28 lines, 6 comments, on Mar 14 9:44 AM 2008
• Heavy breathing pretension

  23 lines, 5 comments, on Mar 15 7:47 PM 2008
• profits

  What swallows the machine but me? day by day. and then what follows night but this,

  22 lines, on Mar 19 10:22 AM 2008
• Hopping a Freight to Astor

  It’s twisted is it not?
  Laocoon,

  20 lines, 4 comments, on Jun 8 4:54 AM 2008
• In Response to Conceptual Theory

  I wonders, sitting here in my lyrical suicide suit flashing words in a nearly random sequence, albeit still sequentially--

  15 lines, 11 comments, on Jun 15 9:04 AM 2008
• Speaking of dead people

  George Carlin, (1937-2008)

  41 lines, 6 comments, on Jun 24 8:49 AM 2008
• blue bottles

  knowledge is heedless,
  crass just as liquids

  28 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 26 7:05 AM 2008
• Curve to the whole

  water running thru the hands
  so far east it is close to dawn

  34 lines, 6 comments, on Aug 3 4:14 PM 2008
• On the Occasion of a Lover's Distraction

  personal collapse into flux
  I paid I use my hand

  19 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 6 12:38 PM 2008
• Olduvai Cliff

  i will construct you
  A bird will help you pronounce the sentences.

  30 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 16 1:34 PM 2008
• The Principal in a Picture

  I have made some progress
  in falling to my knees

  32 lines, 2 comments, on Aug 24 12:18 PM 2008
• A Lathe For Distant Surfaces

  38 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 2 10:37 AM 2008
• Apollo tunes his lyre

  55 lines, 7 comments, on Dec 30 1:12 PM 2008
• Upon the Poet's Fifty-Eighth Birthday

  Clang clang clang
  bell ferry sung

  25 lines, 5 comments, on Jan 5 6:35 PM
• Full Moon Period

  Coming down in the cold clean rain
  the exact same thing as yesterday,

  62 lines, 9 comments, on Mar 12 9:30 AM

• By me, right now

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