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Dear Maxwell

Your juicy buns
Turn my heart into butter,
Oh Joyful Child.

You make me want your sons,
My heart is now aflutter,
If only you were single.

My mind has all gone wild,
Look at those jiggling guns!
The camera closes its shutter.

My mind thou hast beguiled,
My tongue begins to sputter,
If you should love.

I am now rolling in the gutter,
For you have released the dove.

With all the lust in the world,
Dwight.


copyright 2007 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
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~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
schlipschlop
schlipschlopschlip
schlopschlipschlopschlip
schlopschlipschlopschlipschlop
feet in their robes of
rubberbacked cotton
paddingravitating
towards the egespeer
over the corner of the bed
closeyoureyes
jump
feel the warmth
cover your skin
rippling into the
oscillating curves
with everybreathi
get nearer to perfection
one




~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 

bingbangboom
rumbletumble
metal against
metaldrowning
in a pool
of sound
kama sutra
metal
plastic
muddy puddles
twinkle with the rain
falling onto them,disturbing
their placid coolness
flashes of white in
silver pools
institutionality of
creamcoloured cement
painted with stubble
bricksand
mistmatched windows
,conduitsand
red plastic levers
anchors among the endles
chaos
of noise


~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
needleandthread(in
order to) pierce my
thoughts,feelings
,stapler erasing memories
the pen is not so
mighty yet
cones turn to dustcrumbling
in the
windof repairing
cuts
rips in flesh
tears to be mended
weaving the(
fabric) that covers
our bodies
cluing imperfections
onto typing paper
making marred souvenirs
of marred hearts
life in the
eye of a
clown
buried under six
feet of makeup with a
bright red epitaph


~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
merp
meep
moop
poom
peem
pooooom
dum deem deep
doop
doop deep
llllllama
mama?
jamabama
pajama
dilirama
diorama
oholibama
crysanthemum
chrysalis
narcicisus
dour rose
who's a dour rose?
what's a hum?
ur such a bum
...java lava n ur lama's momma
diligent pomma to go with the dali lama
immigrant schnoodle's miscreant poodle, with a passion for stroodle

that was from the instant message diaries, by tim and mishi.

~ jon
 
 
 
 
 
 
clasp the safety
pin and hate the
imprint
it leaves on your
fingertipush
the black plastic tab
with a deftness
that comes with
years of age
turn on the lamp
and blink as the
lightsgoswirlingpast
in a flurry of
braces and
fortyfivewatt light-bulbs
watch them masquerade as
dogs
swans
butteflies
twist long ballons
throbheatcry
place your hand firmly
in the fam
the trunk
the silverware drawer
fold your pant-legs
and wonder
as the world spins
upside-down
shadow play


~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
smoke pours over the pages
covering my thoughts
filling them with the smell of
motel 8s and
exploding pens
smoky glo-bowling
the man at the park
slowly laying down his
king of hearts
the writer wiping
the end of his pen on his
tattered jeans
the man whose marriage proposal
was turned down
on new years eve
the beachcomber who
peels his oranges
in a spiral
the incense dies
as the jukebox
plays its last song
place the arches of your feet
on these rusted metal


~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
now for the poetry:


I=|_|(l<
`<0|_|
\/3P\`<
/\/\|_|(|-|
screw you too.
if i was perfect
would that make your
life better?
because of you
i run into my room
stuffing down tears
with a plastic bag
in my ammunition
against myself
just waiting for
courage
yet it doesn't come
lay down in my bed
trying to turn life off
trying to leave
myself
alone
disconnect
die
melthrough
the tops of your shoes
shoelaces un tied
runthrough
the metal safety door
that never succeeded
at anything
awayfrom hurt
awayfrom pain
awayfrom ex istence
run
dontlookoveryourshoulder
don't
turn back
run
sink into the concrete
holding you down
back
stop
run
trip inapothole
that has been filled
with cement
that has chipped
and worn
in the weather
itsnotheonlyone
the grass peels
felsh off feet
toes
heels
call ouses
the treesgroan as
they lean
stop
keep
going
dont
tire
leaves fallmake a maze
of walls and
ceilings
and floors
always moving
cutting
throb
blood
th war ting everybreath
saw blades thrown at
your face
duck
i
must
keep


~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
turn around
and see me beckoning
come closer
feel the warm breath
as my
tonge and lips
shape it to form
words
sentences
burn the letters
burn the books
feel my voice
tuck you into bed
with three
sofspoken words:
i
love
you

for that is all
you need
feet in a puddle
of green plastic
binoculars
face paint
translucent gun
only bent on killing
and not being killed
bullets ripple the air


ok, well i guess that's that. not my favourites, by any stretch.

~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
i run in metallic circles
aluminium and copper combining
fiddlefiddle
scratchscratch
brushSMACK!
fiddlefiddle
scratchscratch
brushSMACK!
an interlude of
humhum
whirrwhirr
gurglePOP!
humhum
whirrwhirr
gurglePOP!
besjé blockadu
watch bullet-pierced signs
jog down the street
wave good morning
caught in the paddle wheel
dash into the cement
bubbling and thrashing
shake dried dirt off the book pages
tie the leatherbound cover closed
and give it with a bow
i look at my floor
covered in a veneer of
electricaltape
magazines
socks
oldschoolids
and i think of you
how you droppedfrom the sky
looking into my eyes, saying
come with me
i'll be your elephant
you can climbinto the clouds
and drop pieces of them
onto me
and i will look up
smile
and catch birds in my mouth
shriek
slam
bubbles
youwill hang upside down
on the raingutter
while i rock backandforth
on the windowsill
wave from afar
with candystained mouths
and splintered hands
bow as the
velvet unfurls its
crayoncovered tableau
in cornflower and
ticklemepink
burn the edges
and tie it to a balloon
watch it ascend the wooden steps
turn of the lights
and close the envelope
with melted wax
and the press of
a thimble


~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 

my mind is a stagnant pool
never willing to change
and yet
change happens
dwellings burn
batteries uncharge
dust gathers
electronics increase
in personality
hangers rust
people die
and your third cousin
on your mother's side
gets excommunicated.
things decay,
and yet the mind
holds ever on.
empty
space
echo
dust
what
f
uu
ccc
kkkk
tears
flicker
darkness
silence
Ode to Tim

O! how the winds blow
And your eyes used to gleam
When the fire died to a dull glow
And the bobcats scream.

He would run a-pitter patter
All across the lawn,
And all would swear he never got fatter
Until they saw him yawn.

Alas! that he left his room
And moved across the state,
He must have a very large womb,
For he hath birthed a plate!

He went off to learn to swim
When he was one or two,
He drowned a friend on a whim
And stuck him in the flue!

Alas! that he could not be found
When the po-po came to arrest him,
He had stolen a dog from the pound
And lived with it on a limb.

When he turns thirty, he'll be a hobo
Living on crabs and rice,
He'll serenade tourists on his dobro:
He'll only have washed his hair twice!
walk down the deserted
sixlane street
lights polkadotting
the asphalt
steaming
look up into the sky
there am
just dropped
onto youreyelashes
through rows of cars
holding their breath
look into windows
and see peter&sylvie
pouring over coffee
andonthego breakfast
the kid in the backseat
staring out the window
follow gaze
see the baby
in the caracross the line
crying
a man in a blue baseball cap
releasing ashes
from the end of
cigar
finally to let go
and watch
be
run over by
threehundredeighteentires
before dis-integrating
in the rain


~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 

ar^ts=c.(re@[m]sp
sy$c-hed\el,icrh
y*th:m>
running in circles
spinning
a rush of dizziness in my mind
a cognitive labarynth
a library chat
round books with round shelves
a chain of rings floating down
going through the
lamps
tables
carpets
getting lost in the solid grey below
reach out and
caress the sun
its discharges lapping fingers
vibration of soundlessness
push that button
and make the spring
move the stars
i ate you for breakfast
and you tasted liked
macadamia nut cookies
with chocolate frosting
i woke up and smelled you
and you smelled like
burnt cinnamon roll
but i rub you over a grater
to get the charred spots off
and i feel a great sense
of accomplishment
i dreamt about you
and i saw a banana seat bicycle
rusted in spots but overall
good
i heard you on the radio
and it made me cry
i felt you in the washer
a hand gripping mine
a sense of security
in a place unlooked for
i met
gretchen ross
she told me to
follow your heart
but i don't know how to listen
to my heart
last night
i had a dream
i was on a spaceship
soaring through the waste of space
a voice came throught the loudspeaker
heaven in five four three two one
and i
awoke
i look at you from across the sidewalk
and smell the air refreshed
see your hair streaming down your face
watch you blink as the raindrops hit your cheeks
and slide down the side of your lips
dropping off your chin
to be broken into a million little pieces
by the jagged bumps of the cement
and realise
that i love you
that you alone can complete this circle
that i would rather spend one lifetime with you
than face all of eternity
empty


~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
nay, friend,
methinks
this wicked
peasant
doth
measure
a mischance
oft vile.




not bad. yay magnetic poetry!...

~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt
 
 
 
 
 
 
yes, i know this doesn't even come close to slam poetry. or poems from slams. it sucks, but it gets^slightly better at the end.

here goes...




the smoke rises in
 waves
     and
         curls.
it licks the dust
on its way by,
coating the particles
in pecan-flavoured soot.
it gets caught in the updraft
of the nearby flame,
sailing into the air,
its stransparent rivulets slowly decaying
to join the weightlessnesses
that are found so often in the air.
the flame waves and twinkles into
a thousand shaftes of gold
 and then
     goes
         out.




not too bad, eh?

~ jon

© 2006 jonathan brandt

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