POETRY FROM OTEP'S DIARY

and so it begins...

my journey into the soft womb of cerebral palaces and the pale panic of despair ... savoring each moment as if it were a single crumb of food picked from dead teeth by the hungry fingers of a survivor ... this is my adventure fine citizen ... welcome to the world of truth and experience ...


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Thursday, Apr. 17, 2003 - 2:15 PM

u know .... we get what we deserve. take whatever u want out of this statement -- its true.

accountability is a bitch.


Monday, Apr. 14, 2003 - 4:43 PM

yer wrong.
and u know it.
this is all it will ever be
get used to the idea

u will die
u will be forgotten.


Friday, Apr. 11, 2003 - 11:53 AM

eat it.
you know ewe like it.
the smell.
the taste.
no.
its not foul. its not spoiled.
just eat it.
because we say so.


Thursday, Apr. 03, 2003 - 11:02 AM

okay ...... so ..... ?? ..... i challenged god and the death of soul in a swollen fit of pain ..... i waged war with a host of monsters from shame to gravity to blame ... who's next to test? who blessed your breath? and on and on.
Wednesday, Apr. 02, 2003 - 12:53 PM

every now and again .... we have to have that day .... a complete and utter breach of emotion .... its okay ... let it out .... you deserve it .... alone .... someplace beautiful .... where peace can swallow u like a casket .... warm, excited, free .... ready for the next phase of the disease.


Monday, Mar. 31, 2003 - 1:36 PM

why are soap operas so popular?
the acting is shit ... the stories are amazingly unbelievable ... but millions of people love them ....

what about professional wrestling?
or jerry springer?
or reality tv?
or these mindless pop-stars?
rewarded for the least amount of effort i guess ....

but then the overwhelming multi-mind of the masses still questions the Puritanical Elite "whats wrong with our children?" "why are they so unrealistic?" .....

u reap what u sow.


Friday, Mar. 28, 2003 - 11:41 PM

if u ever fear ...
know that we are with u

if u ever doubt ...
survive

come home soon,
come home safe.


Thursday, Mar. 27, 2003 - 4:16 PM

marduk is watching .........
gilgamesh is weeping ........
the children starve in their graves.


Tuesday, Mar. 04, 2003 - 9:16 PM

voices
caught in the slaughter
virgin corpses
ghost children
wandering
poisoned by the water

a slave
a serpent
a poet
a mage

an eager army of artists
evolving, unafraid

the time has come,
the day is here
the chance is at hand
the hour is near.


Saturday, Mar. 01, 2003 - 4:04 PM

eye want to hear your voices
to see your fury
to smell your pain
to taste your fear
to touch your joy

bring me in to your private places

it's only fair.
quid pro quo

do u dare to share?

broken souls
splintered bones
building an empire of skin and passion
you are all dolls pretending to be alive
let me know it
that this was worth it
that u believe.


Saturday, Mar. 01, 2003 - 3:42 PM

maybe i will
maybe i won't
this is my fucking decision
not yours

got it?

miracle warfare
pond scum pretending to be royalty

and the believers, oh, the believers ...... so pathetic.

art is dead.

this is call to arms.
this is summoning.
necromancers, your time has come.


Thursday, Feb. 06, 2003 - 4:05 PM

i have enemies

and nightmares


and emotional disorders

and tendencies towards violence


i have a lot of anger

....in me


i have no choice but

to survive


my way

not yours


i keep my head

filled with words


and knowledge

and wisdom


of people

far greater than

i will ever be


to drown out the

noise of eternal chaos


that unending hum

of eventual end


the buzzing of

millions upon trillions

of hungry insects


begging to be

fed


shaking the

violence

out of my

head & hand


this pen

this paper

this keyboard


whatever eye need.


Saturday, Feb. 01, 2003 - 4:50 PM

in memoriam

39 miles high
scattered like fireflies
in a brief, brilliant moment
sent safely back to the eternal hive

shine, shine
sweet tears
in the great diamond memory
of undying time.


Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003 - 11:51 AM

yes,
i am immune.

undisturbed
by these cheap
weak
insanities
u so desperately fear

shit.

all i got
is like
12 cents in my pocket
and a damaged pen
fighting to live

whut i need now

is an enemy or a war or
some sort of
self-catastrophe

to defy
to survive

--- speak'n like jesus
in a world of riots

'cept, i author
my own psalms ......

for love, for pain, for art ..... for all.


Sunday, Jan. 26, 2003 - 2:28 PM

shoved and shuffled
in a frozen
moment of chaos


with gritted teeth
and trembling jaw,
hands a'shakin'
--- rescued once more
from the tyrant race

((((all is well))))
((((all is well)))))

into the barrier lights
of a tiny town
a tiny face
tiny fingers
pink skin & fat toes

a stolen treasure
from the fields of Elysium
giggles and wriggles
on a blue blanket throne

and yet, the nightmares still come ...

like ancient shadows
heralding a forced reality i am expected to forget ...

>>the shame<<<
that i am not at all close to "normal"
that i will never know
the certainty of your beautiful perfection

and so i searched ...
and voyaged ....
and cried ... and died ...
long before you could open
the newness of your hungry irish eyes
& i discovered the answers to all the
questions that i never knew i had ....

those voices from the FAR
kissed my lips with a mental slip
of truth and progression

yes, like the minoans
they knew
they understood
so i learned
of powerful medicines
& tales of sacred mysteries
of half-bloods and minotaurs
and of courageous poetic mages
dancing like gods,
alive & free

and soon, my aching soul was numb with change as it became ONE with the watering mouth of superior, endless rage


then suddenly,
i could feel again ...

i could selflessly celebrate the coming of the new king ....
tiny, shining, ayvreeAten

growing tirelessly
with a special
refreshing, shivering soul

from the sacred
sliver of a gentle feminine nature
pouring pure from their angelic Mater

uniting us with the laughter of her love

making me WHOLE with a majestic duty
honor bound, in this world and the next

my beauties ...

*my 4 darling starlights*

. the sooper-genius wurd prophet
. the gentle warrior with the sunbeam smile
. the golden gurl with the grand gift to heal
and now ....... the next prince of justice breathes the air of hope and precious, pious, passion.

so to them, and to "my sweet tribe of 3" ... my smiling angels, & quiet tuff guy....

i offer u my most treasured possessions .............. unconditional love ..... & loyalty.

to my ancestors, i offer my thx ... i know u were there, holding quiet the shaking soul of the great GoldenBoy ... ever watching ... securing the perimeter ...

we forgive u for your selfish sins and passive neglect .... but we will not follow your path of the past ......no.

we pave our own way.
and this time, we shall not fail.


Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003 - 11:20 PM

the stronger i am
the weaker i become.


Friday, Jan. 17, 2003 - 10:58 AM

i see visions,
--- does that mean i'm profrain?

i believe in the impossible,
--- does that make me insane.



well ........ does it?

i wake every day and look to the shrouded hills of L.A. expecting to see naplam plumes and poison gas clouds. i look to the neighboring valley hoping my eyes will not be blinded by a super-heated flash of radiation followed by a climbing behemoth of ash and debris.


is it relief i feel when all i see is dusty streets crowded with buses & delivery trucks & SUV's & shameless sports mobiles? or hills crowded like Jerusalem with shining houses whose occupants completely ignore my perception of a possible implausible coming apocalypse?


or is it fear?


that it hasn't happened yet? that i still have to wait for it to come?


nay.


its nothing. its neither.

its both, but not all.


i welcome the end.

and then, maybe, someone will do it right this time.


Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2002 - 3:36 PM

so ... you know ... its kinda like this ...

bloody bones, terrifying tones, the vile voice of almost realness ...


whutz the flavor, neighbor?

howz your cat taste?

in that stew i brewed just for u and that silly, maniacal,

neurotic bag of arms and tongue too.


basically, all summed up, in the swelling of a nightmare,

in the night shavings of a runaway freight vein


intenstinal cramping and tubular kinks

paralyzed neurofiber and pinched organs

-- starving thick maroon to blackish pink


its all loneliness now .... just silence and sleep

the chemicals have lost their taste and touch

and no longer seem to care


addiction ignores me


and i don't mind


there's not room for much else

in this bloated eye of madness

of mine


yesterday,

to my dismay

apathy wrote a suicide letter


it's unreadable ...

one of us,

is illiterate.


Tuesday, Nov. 05, 2002 - 10:44 PM

just think ... for a moment ... how painful life is for u ... then u wonder ... what it feels like for everywon else ...


for me ... for them ... why we should we care ... if u don't ... hypocrit ... heretic ... blasphemer ...


if this is it.

if this is what u expect of me ....



i fear for u all.


Sunday, Nov. 03, 2002 - 2:43 PM

suffocating

still complaining

everyday

in every way


more

more

more


Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2002 - 1:23 AM

fame

a moment of fire

raising the dead

searching

in the coal dust

sound of midnite

for a sign

a signal

for something

... else

failure

for the sake

of healing

service

beauty

shape

the edge

of an end

the place

the grave

my smile

your eyes

the world

nothing

prayer

coupled

in the needy Wilderness

for a second

of your

time


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