am I

Hellos are always temporary

We waste time naming our demons
An endeavor of separating us from ourselves
I didn’t feel complete until I accepted mine
Now we share one name
                                 and
                                       I am

Goodbyes are always uncertain

What most call sickness
I call depth
Layers of intricacy
Color upon color
To give the illusion of dimensionality
                                                to a flat surface
Reality is all perception
Comprehension is always perceived
Generalities are almost always wrong

I am an apple on all hallows’ eve
Take away the razors before I hurt the children
My sugar will suffice in doing the damage that a lifetime cannot heal

Bring to me the dead head of disco and I shall show you its body
Reanimated and renamed
                                  Daft Punk
The mirrored ball spins for another generation
Lamenting their pointless existence
I would kill them all
If I had the button(ed) up shirt that glowed under the black light
Of gentlemen’s clubs

You speak at me     Not to me     Dear aspiring poet    
And that is why you fail to become
What you already are

Hello

I am

The Monkey

(Source: inkstained.net)

sardines

this plane is full
of humans that
I don’t want to
have sex with

let alone smell
the computer
refused to let
us soar one

and a half
hours ago
why am I
surrounded
by Russians

Russian girls
are pretty cute
Russian boys
are less so

they all could be
Germans

I’m not racist
just ignorant
and slightly
racist working
to be less so
everyday

I really should get
out more so I can
tell the difference

get cultured or
some

shit

problem fixed
leaving in five
minutes getting
the evil eye from
stewardess

phone off

tata for now

people watching

the port of air
herds the
cows

travelers wear
the ugliest shoes

what they peddle
as “food”
is overpriced
is oversalted

my patience is
assaulted

I am underwhelmed

so I watch

trying to pick out
the pedophiles from
the gaggle of lamas

they bear a striking
resemblance to
hipster douchebags

the plane is boarding

Japanese girls with
bleached blonde hair
make me nervous
in my pants

Japanese boys with
bleached blonde hair
are douches raised to
the nth degree where
n equals infinity
plus one

it will be
forty six degrees in Frankfurt
after eleven hours
rain

I’ll be dry
on the way to Mumbai
but wet when I get there
eighty nine degrees
with ball sweating humidity
one A M
plus a day

where did it go

time travel
amnesia

see ya

desayunogratis:

soul-in-division replied to your quote: Random messages are beautiful…..

This is a random message: The octopus and dolphin on my window ledge cry over dying bamboo.

oh how magnificent it is to tentacle the pulsing porpoise dewy drop over collapsing timber  

Do not make me worm the apple of pinufornication from the alabaster haze of tadpole tribulations.

the Money is in the god

i spoke to God today on the subway train     He was homeless     holding His pants up
unsuccessfully     with rope     a bottle of liquor     in a brown bag     in His grasp —
black weathered hands     He reeked of its contents — empty illusions    He measured
time in folds of and deep indentations on skin that never felt enough touch     i asked Him:
hey Bro what is alt lit? is it like anti poetry? isn’t it all just writing?     He looked at me
— unblinking     with two bulging white planets awash with red rivers intersecting each
other     coursing and pulsating around large dark impact craters    

God spoke: are you not just human? what is a half asian, a quarter irish, a smidgeon of norwegian, three quarters chinese, full blooded spaniard, indian, hindu, muslim, christian, jew, white, black, brown, yellow, straight, gay, mormon, hipster?     people define themselves for a point of reference without which they are lost    define yourself lest you let your self be defined by others     but is a purple blade of grass any more special when all it does is sway with the wind and bask in the sun?

at least that’s what i heard Him say     others may have just heard a long prolonged din of
flatulence escaping from the exposed crack of His ass

this is my stop

i handed Him ten dollars     bless you my Son     he whispered through urine colored ivory
gates that mimicked a smile

I walked out the doors
back into the asylum
a little saner than when
I last returned to it

(Source: inkstained.net)

Welcome to The Monkey Review

A writer is as much what he writes as who he reads. That sounds cool so let’s go with that.

This is where I will feature pieces that I personally think are exceptional. These are pieces that engage me, that move me, or connect with some part of me at some level. I will not be posting my writing here. The sole purpose of this blog is to highlight the work of other writers. Actually, I like and reblog too many things on my personal blog so this is where I am going to keep the works of other writers that I really enjoyed reading and rereading so that I may reread them again and again and again.

Know that these choices are completely subjective and biased towards my personal preferences and not based on any objective, technical, or literary standard/criteria. 

This blog does not accept suggestions or submissions. This is a secondary blog and will not follow you back.
This blog will feature only one piece per day at 12:00 pm PST beginning today, Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

My goal was to not feature the same poet more than once a month, but I am biased and really like certain poets so I’ve whittled that down to two weeks. It’s a more achievable goal. I really don’t follow any tags on a regular basis, I usually just read what’s on my dash. I do follow blogs such as aquietjoy, burningmuse, desayunogratisreblogs, exhalingcatalysts, recognizingthevoiceless, and 590-featured. I follow these blogs so I don’t have to follow everyone and their mother. And they occasionally post some decent stuff. Why does that sounds like a backhanded compliment? I follow mainly poets and poetry but you may see an occasional prose piece or a photo of my cock.

I first came up with the concept for this blog after reading The Paris Review. I totally wanted to wipe my ass with what I was reading there, but I didn’t want to get poop on my phone so I decided to create my own “review”.

Everything posted here will be tagged themonkeyreview. Track if you are not a hipster douchebag, follow if you wish.

Welcome to The Monkey Review

A writer is as much what he writes as who he reads. That sounds cool so let’s go with that.

This is where I will feature pieces that I personally think are exceptional. These are pieces that engage me, that move me, or connect with some part of me at some level. I will not be posting my writing here. The sole purpose of this blog is to highlight the work of other writers. Actually, I like and reblog too many things on my personal blog so this is where I am going to keep the works of other writers that I really enjoyed reading and rereading so that I may reread them again and again and again.

Know that these choices are completely subjective and biased towards my personal preferences and not based on any objective, technical, or literary standard/criteria.

This blog does not accept suggestions or submissions. This is a secondary blog and will not follow you back.

This blog will feature only one piece per day at 12:00 pm PST beginning today, Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

My goal was to not feature the same poet more than once a month, but I am biased and really like certain poets so I’ve whittled that down to two weeks. It’s a more achievable goal. I really don’t follow any tags on a regular basis, I usually just read what’s on my dash. I do follow blogs such as aquietjoy, burningmuse, desayunogratisreblogs, exhalingcatalysts, recognizingthevoiceless, and 590-featured. I follow these blogs so I don’t have to follow everyone and their mother. And they occasionally post some decent stuff. Why does that sounds like a backhanded compliment? I follow mainly poets and poetry but you may see an occasional prose piece or a photo of my cock.

I first came up with the concept for this blog after reading The Paris Review. I totally wanted to wipe my ass with what I was reading there, but I didn’t want to get poop on my phone so I decided to create my own “review”.

Everything posted here will be tagged themonkeyreview. Track if you are not a hipster douchebag, follow if you wish.

(via collarbonesandconstellations)

There… purchased. This better be good. I will publish my scathing review when I get back. Thanks everyone for the well wishes. I will misreading you all. I mean I will miss reading you all. Some more than others. I won’t say which, or who, or what.

Why am I even posting? Procrastination thy name is Monkey.

There… purchased. This better be good. I will publish my scathing review when I get back. Thanks everyone for the well wishes. I will misreading you all. I mean I will miss reading you all. Some more than others. I won’t say which, or who, or what.

Why am I even posting? Procrastination thy name is Monkey.

Tags: TWC dsdwriting :)

I was in a used bookstore this weekend. Wifey wanted some trashy romance novels for the plane ride to India on Wednesday. It’s a sizable store with about seven rows of shelves packed with books from floor to ceiling on either side (top photo). The bottom photo is the entire “poetry” section. Poetry is dead. No one gives a fuck anymore… or no one gives up their poetry books to used bookstores. I hope it’s the latter. I picked one up, read one poem and decided to buy it. It was $3. I don’t know the poet, I’ll have to google him first before I decide whether or not to let you know. He might be a hipster douchebag. I don’t know how much writing or reading I’ll get done. I’m going to miss the TWC’s poetry. Any Tumblr poets here with poetry books I can download from Amazon? I’ll check in if I am able, but I sincerely doubt that will happen. So MIA monkey for two weeks…

So yeah… a week in Mumbai, then a week in Kerala. We don’t speak a lick of Hindi or Malayalam. How do you say “where is the nearest Starbucks”? I don’t drink coffee, but I may be looking for a toilet. We hear it’s hot over there right now (in India, not in Starbucks). Going to an Indian wedding. No, we haven’t seen Monsoon Wedding. We really don’t know what to expect. And the only advice my Indian friends are giving me is “don’t drink the water”.  

An adventure! I probably won’t be writing, reading, or posting anything here for those two weeks. I’m lying… I have a couple things queued up. Try not to break Tumblr while I’m gone. Try not to let Yahoo break Tumblr while I’m gone. I don’t know what this change means or what changes this will bring but I’ve started to write my drafts on Inkstained instead as a precautionary step. A working mobile app would be most beneficial however. Oh and a way to backup your works in a single excel or word file would be nice. 

If you don’t see me here flinging poop at you by June 8, then I’m probably pooped and taking a nap. We’ve been busy preparing for the trip the past few days and will be doing so up until we leave. So this will be my last post for a while. Everything else is on queue. I already miss your words. 

TTFN

- Monkey

I was in a used bookstore this weekend. Wifey wanted some trashy romance novels for the plane ride to India on Wednesday. It’s a sizable store with about seven rows of shelves packed with books from floor to ceiling on either side (top photo). The bottom photo is the entire “poetry” section. Poetry is dead. No one gives a fuck anymore… or no one gives up their poetry books to used bookstores. I hope it’s the latter. I picked one up, read one poem and decided to buy it. It was $3. I don’t know the poet, I’ll have to google him first before I decide whether or not to let you know. He might be a hipster douchebag. I don’t know how much writing or reading I’ll get done. I’m going to miss the TWC’s poetry. Any Tumblr poets here with poetry books I can download from Amazon? I’ll check in if I am able, but I sincerely doubt that will happen. So MIA monkey for two weeks…

So yeah… a week in Mumbai, then a week in Kerala. We don’t speak a lick of Hindi or Malayalam. How do you say “where is the nearest Starbucks”? I don’t drink coffee, but I may be looking for a toilet. We hear it’s hot over there right now (in India, not in Starbucks). Going to an Indian wedding. No, we haven’t seen Monsoon Wedding. We really don’t know what to expect. And the only advice my Indian friends are giving me is “don’t drink the water”.

An adventure! I probably won’t be writing, reading, or posting anything here for those two weeks. I’m lying… I have a couple things queued up. Try not to break Tumblr while I’m gone. Try not to let Yahoo break Tumblr while I’m gone. I don’t know what this change means or what changes this will bring but I’ve started to write my drafts on Inkstained instead as a precautionary step. A working mobile app would be most beneficial however. Oh and a way to backup your works in a single excel or word file would be nice.

If you don’t see me here flinging poop at you by June 8, then I’m probably pooped and taking a nap. We’ve been busy preparing for the trip the past few days and will be doing so up until we leave. So this will be my last post for a while. Everything else is on queue. I already miss your words.

TTFN

- Monkey

"There is simply too much to do in this life for me to have the time to go looking for pointless difficulties."

Bettie (soul-in-division)

Tags: poetry

desayunogratis:

Thank You, Thank You, Thank you!

Yes, many thanks is exactly how this will start off.

I want to thank Cate and Bettie for jumping right in when they realized that the Monkey and I were over our heads in nonsense. These ladies are amazingly wonderful.

Thanks to Dennis Dubay II

No objection, your honor.

her breath smelled of strawberries
as she whispered
no mercy

to his face
blindfolded
gagged

like
justice

the balance
is always
tipped
towards
guilty

bury him alive
she will
in
desire
pent up

longing
six feet

deep

the gavel
bangs

guilty
guilty
guilty

or is it the
bed frame
against the
courtroom wall

making the sound
echo through
the halls

where pleasure
is a prison

erected

to keep
love

in

storm season.

sinandserotonin:

if you are a hurricane,
then I am the ocean—

there is calm in your stormy eyes
and my placid waters run deep.

set a collision course for land,
gathering strength in my arms
and stir up the waves that crash
against the crag rock shoreline.

exhaust yourself and return to me
when the winds die down and
the torrential rains cease—

build yourself up
in the safety of my sea.

If you don’t follow Juno then you are living under a rock — a boulder of ignorance — a mountain of self-involved bullshit. That is all. Goodnight Tumblr peeps!

Tags: dayum

non-daily hiakyu of love for Dennis Dubay II

in your beard I see
a tangle of webbed cheetos
frizzy orange love

crumbling waX vampire porn action figures

your tetanus booster
has eXpired
and I am the bag of rusty nails
that you find your hand

clenched in

my iron meets yours
we mix in blood splatter
on the brick walls I’ve pushed you
against

staining your white shorts
with crimson dust and
palm prints

I am hard

pressed to push
kisses on your neck
so I sink my teeth in

you are soft like waX
melting on my tongue
but you crumble like
action figures left in the sun

ultraviolet inspired
disintegration
of morals

like
porn on my iPhone
at three A M
under
the covers
with our
backs
to each other

touching
myself

until I
escape
into my pillow case

like a wet dream

vividtrace:

sometimes you have to leave the painful depths
and burn in the fire:
constant desire,
unfed by black tears
streaking 
                   down
                                 a beautiful face
sometimes you have to understand the division
as both can be prisons
and tread on the surface:
with depths in the heart
and eyes set ablaze

vividtrace:

sometimes you have to leave the painful depths

and burn in the fire:

constant desire,

unfed by black tears

streaking 

                   down

                                 a beautiful face

sometimes you have to understand the division

as both can be prisons

and tread on the surface:

with depths in the heart

and eyes set ablaze

(via caffeinatedrage)