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Venus reads Wittgenstein (#FlashFiction)
Posted in Flash Fiction with tags 55 fiction, Blog, dustus, flash fiction, Flash Friday, GMan, microfiction, writer, writing on March 10, 2011 by dustusBurnt coffee and B.O. headache. Inside it rains; drips into scattered pails. Spectacled, natural beauty who reads Wittgenstein on break slips into the storeroom; then returns past with semi-transparent white trash bags stretched from empty cups and pastry. Venus takes out the garbage—I muse, convinced the yuppie broker wraps her life in birthday fur.
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Posted in Image Poetry, One Shoot, One Stop Poetry with tags american poetry, Blog, dustus, One Shoot Sunday, One Stop Poetry, poem, poet, poetry online, Poetry Reading, technology, writer, writing on February 27, 2011 by dustus
Royalty
“What majesty should be”
Ransomed kings
Criticism to crow about
No RSS feeding enslavement
Without creativity crossing utility lines
Dotted eyes, black shadows sway in the wind
Eviscerating wastelanding tragic dross
Horse powered hamster wheels
The circle run
Bulldozers push, upturning
Severed doll parts, smushed milk cartoons
Fertile lies, careers
Clearing ski hill sized dumps
With reigns held back
Or maybe sold out
Through market trends, tickering taint
Puppeteers, overworked interns
And pimping agents!
…Ivanhoes, please
I am the terrible one
Sorry if you think this harsh
Borders now crossed to bright light
Our planet’s temperature like the sun also rises
As weeklies (as well as most companies) continue to set
Downsized they call it trend
Due preference of a millennial generation not buying newsprint
When smart phones pick up Starbucks Wi-Fi signals
It takes one faint pressured point to get to craigslist
Stop thinking in terms mechanical
There is room for dead language footnotes
References to forgotten mythologies
Get medieval if you so choose
Dropping, echoing pecks without whirring hums
Or the bleating squeals sparking old modems
After sticky relic taps played without electricity
Devoid of cut and paste, and literary nerds
Gutenberg couldn’t picture our days
Driven by Google search
Windows opening one’s Facebook page
Think about past artists’ shun
Censorship, blacklists, ex-patriots
In cyberspace remaining chance
Digest, you can’t erase this
“Brevity is the soul of wit”
Polonius first said it, ironically
Shakespeare could not imagine texts and retweets
Or a wired earth in which peer artists
Encourage creativity, support, universal broadband connections
Global renaissance through computer inventions
Where one’s key strokes lead to instant feedback
Which will not obscure death when broke hearts attack
For a single typefacing metal-headed ribbon slapping caste off
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*This poem is my response to the One Stop Poetry Sunday Picture Prompt Challenge. The prompt was shot by photographer JackAZ, featured today on One Stop Poetry.
Thinking Remains
Posted in Blog, Image Poetry with tags dustus, Philadelphia, poem, poems for, poet, poetry online, Rodin, The Thinker, Thinking Remains, writer on June 6, 2010 by dustus
To be no sudden whim
Thinking remains
Truth unleveled
Form explains
Here in now
Without tomorrow
Whispers prove
Dejection hollow
Man, this life
Rewind and save
Search for proof
What’s not a game?
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*photo by me (The Rodin Museum-Philadelphia)
Cannot Explain
Posted in Blog, Poetry, writing with tags Blog, cannot explain, dustus, poem, poems for, poet, poetry online, writer on May 7, 2010 by dustusTears Inside
Posted in Blog, Poetry, writing with tags adam dustus, novelist, rejection, writer on March 2, 2010 by dustusThen there’s that fine line
History hurt
More strength from failed reply
Never give up, will always try
Even with tears inside
Seriously,
You’re not qualified
Burning canvas
Sat in silence
May be hell
Still want to fight this…
So sorry, Story
Wanted untold
Judgment passed
Buy what’s been sold