Submissions by monkeyman
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Helping people cross the road
Helping people cross the road
Strategy 1.
Employ subliminal messaging via all media outlets so people want to cross to the right side. For the few who don’t, encourage social policing, passive aggressive coercion and public ridicule.
Strategy 2.
Make it beneficial to cross to the right side, financially and socially.
Strategy 3.
Make it financially hard and unpopular to be on the wrong side.
Strategy 4.
Surround the agertaters with agents, acting as friends,...
Strategy 1.
Employ subliminal messaging via all media outlets so people want to cross to the right side. For the few who don’t, encourage social policing, passive aggressive coercion and public ridicule.
Strategy 2.
Make it beneficial to cross to the right side, financially and socially.
Strategy 3.
Make it financially hard and unpopular to be on the wrong side.
Strategy 4.
Surround the agertaters with agents, acting as friends,...
#kindness
#manipulation
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4 Comments
In The Eyes of Sarajevo
I see a retreating host of forest greens
the patchwork camouflage, cut through
Seemingly tranquil, turquoise mountain streams
an immense force when in full flow
carving empires anew
Strong coffee browns, silent soulful oaks
amber charred yet, no
Passions such a place invokes
Waters, woodlands, iridescent pale blue skies
all captured in the eyes of Sarajevo
the patchwork camouflage, cut through
Seemingly tranquil, turquoise mountain streams
an immense force when in full flow
carving empires anew
Strong coffee browns, silent soulful oaks
amber charred yet, no
Passions such a place invokes
Waters, woodlands, iridescent pale blue skies
all captured in the eyes of Sarajevo
#beauty
#nature
#historical
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8 Comments
All too common sense
Why question ?
it’s boring
and it gets on our tits
Go protest
in silence
somewhere
where that shit might fit
Be told
why don’t you!
Just do as I say
Now you’re marching for freedom
mate, that sounds a bit gay
Listen,
it’s not hard
we all think the same
This conflict you’re causing
maybe it’s all in your brain
How can we be wrong
if each of us agree
The world is as it seems, dude
we don’t...
it’s boring
and it gets on our tits
Go protest
in silence
somewhere
where that shit might fit
Be told
why don’t you!
Just do as I say
Now you’re marching for freedom
mate, that sounds a bit gay
Listen,
it’s not hard
we all think the same
This conflict you’re causing
maybe it’s all in your brain
How can we be wrong
if each of us agree
The world is as it seems, dude
we don’t...
#freedom
#acceptance
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8 Comments
One of Them
Stop with the parties
for starters
quit the drugs
and the booze
And the football and horses
you know you’re no fun when you loose
Give up the smokes
no jokes
if you can muster the will
And the friend who reminds you,
“Even boredom can kill”
Go sober they told ya
it will all work out fine
But that doesn’t help with the demons
or passing the time
Be respected and successful
be everything they tell you to be
Do what you want, man
just don’t try and sell it to me
Keep your...
for starters
quit the drugs
and the booze
And the football and horses
you know you’re no fun when you loose
Give up the smokes
no jokes
if you can muster the will
And the friend who reminds you,
“Even boredom can kill”
Go sober they told ya
it will all work out fine
But that doesn’t help with the demons
or passing the time
Be respected and successful
be everything they tell you to be
Do what you want, man
just don’t try and sell it to me
Keep your...
#alcohol
#drugs
#addiction
#freedom
#escape
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4 Comments
I Am We
I Am We
1. We want you
We would like to recruit you!
As you know, We are the anonymous architects of society. As We, your works of art will bear no signature, your feats of scientific exploration, will bring you neither fortune nor fame, your hard work, courage, and true devotion, will not bring you power nor admiration
Only We will know your name
2. Who are We?
We recruitment are the most exclusive in the world. We recruit from all sectors of society, globally....
1. We want you
We would like to recruit you!
As you know, We are the anonymous architects of society. As We, your works of art will bear no signature, your feats of scientific exploration, will bring you neither fortune nor fame, your hard work, courage, and true devotion, will not bring you power nor admiration
Only We will know your name
2. Who are We?
We recruitment are the most exclusive in the world. We recruit from all sectors of society, globally....
#dystopian
#scifi
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6 Comments
Containment
When my friend was young, he had an enemy, a boy in his class at school, this boy was bigger than my friend and more popular, my friend was made to feel inferior and powerless which affected him deeply.
One afternoon years later (now in our mid twenties) after a good few hours of drinking, my friend, myself and a couple of our pals from the rugby club decided to go for some food at a local pizza restaurant.
Inside, my friend saw the boy from school, an ordinary looking man now, with his wife and two kids having a nice family meal. My friend walked over,...
One afternoon years later (now in our mid twenties) after a good few hours of drinking, my friend, myself and a couple of our pals from the rugby club decided to go for some food at a local pizza restaurant.
Inside, my friend saw the boy from school, an ordinary looking man now, with his wife and two kids having a nice family meal. My friend walked over,...
#oppression
#war
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See you next Tuesday
Biggest stood to leave, unwilling to be spoken down to by this, raggedy, pontificating, dope smoking, fake new age, bum.
But Absolute hadn’t finished, something in the belligerent superiority of an educated fool had worked it’s way under the skin.
Absolute - “How rude!!”
Biggest- “What! I’m rude?”
Absolute- “Yes”
Biggest- “How?”
Absolute- “Leaving in the middle of a game”
Biggest- “What game?”
Absolute- “Oh sorry, I thought we were playing...
But Absolute hadn’t finished, something in the belligerent superiority of an educated fool had worked it’s way under the skin.
Absolute - “How rude!!”
Biggest- “What! I’m rude?”
Absolute- “Yes”
Biggest- “How?”
Absolute- “Leaving in the middle of a game”
Biggest- “What game?”
Absolute- “Oh sorry, I thought we were playing...
#funny
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0 Comments
Slide
A slip
unnoticed
A trip
unhidden
The fall
well toasted
twice roasted
glib
boredom ridden
A crack
A split
A certain sarcasm
a venom
in each
molecule of spit
The penny drops
what big reveal?
The straw
that broke
the camel’s back,
just something else’s meal
And the carrion
the crows
the maggots
eat their fill
guano
on my flower bed
seems everyone’s
well fed
or comfortably dead
I wipe the flies
from my...
unnoticed
A trip
unhidden
The fall
well toasted
twice roasted
glib
boredom ridden
A crack
A split
A certain sarcasm
a venom
in each
molecule of spit
The penny drops
what big reveal?
The straw
that broke
the camel’s back,
just something else’s meal
And the carrion
the crows
the maggots
eat their fill
guano
on my flower bed
seems everyone’s
well fed
or comfortably dead
I wipe the flies
from my...
#TruthOfLife
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2 Comments
The drowning man conundrum
It is a dangerous thing
to save a drowning man
But just as dangerous
to sit and watch him drowned
to save a drowning man
But just as dangerous
to sit and watch him drowned
#kindness
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6 Comments
The understated significance of silence
The end.
#PowerOfWords
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8 Comments
Spear fishing on acid
I sit with an open tin of peach segments in one hand
a toothpick in the other
spearing morsels of succulent flesh
wrestling them against the side of the can and scooping them out
as they squirm and slide
desperate to return to the syrup
I eat them whole
The texture
the taste
maybe the best thing I’ve ever eaten
so juicy
I peer back inside the tin
worse than fish in a barrel
packed in
trapped
I aim my toothpick
unable to miss
a toothpick in the other
spearing morsels of succulent flesh
wrestling them against the side of the can and scooping them out
as they squirm and slide
desperate to return to the syrup
I eat them whole
The texture
the taste
maybe the best thing I’ve ever eaten
so juicy
I peer back inside the tin
worse than fish in a barrel
packed in
trapped
I aim my toothpick
unable to miss
#war
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8 Comments
Untitled
True honesty
is reserved
only
for the shameless
is reserved
only
for the shameless
#honesty
101 reads
6 Comments
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