<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467</id><updated>2012-01-28T21:55:13.193-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Gift Of Selfish Rain</title><subtitle type='html'>"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits"
  - R Heinlein</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>84</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2033037349643545230</id><published>2011-12-08T12:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T13:18:26.954-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bicker.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FFFFFF;"&gt;November waves sheet this wind&lt;br /&gt;cold carpets of stumbling feet&lt;br /&gt;whilst a piquant, faltering moon&lt;br /&gt;renders loneliness obsolete.&lt;br /&gt;measures can't be left ashore&lt;br /&gt;with borrowed counts of three&lt;br /&gt;lightning strikes only once&lt;br /&gt;subtle shadows swim beneath.&lt;br /&gt;are i to succumb in bliss&lt;br /&gt;or statue sufficient blithe tonight?&lt;br /&gt;for this fucking moor be much drunken&lt;br /&gt;pale comparison to befallen blithe.&lt;br /&gt;harboring a guess could lead awash&lt;br /&gt;bleeding lips of greed&lt;br /&gt;a misjudged whim assured of&lt;br /&gt;your mildew silent teeth&lt;br /&gt;grudging - coerced and stowed by&lt;br /&gt;hands smoldering in retreat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2033037349643545230?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2033037349643545230/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2033037349643545230' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2033037349643545230'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2033037349643545230'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2011/12/bicker.html' title='Bicker.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2456570159461202678</id><published>2011-07-24T08:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-25T11:55:18.047-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Urge.</title><content type='html'>How tempted was she&lt;div&gt;then it was different.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;An occasional choke 'for wither&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;efferent, abatement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That winter &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;wasn't any less enticed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;perhaps sliced through &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;an irrationality in her eyes,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;conducting a glance,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;riddled&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in woebegone moonlight.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its those weekends,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;rainbow'd grim,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;carving attempts &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in dismay&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;whilst we wasted 'way;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;overwhelmed in gin&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and unworn attire,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;an ire token, taking&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;unspoken words&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in a fake empire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now I'm frayed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;shuffling too,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a virescent&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;asserting upon &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dusted drawers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;spray painted&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in November chill,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;though its not until &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;its left me coveting,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;would she be tempted still?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2456570159461202678?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2456570159461202678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2456570159461202678' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2456570159461202678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2456570159461202678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-tempted-was-she-then-it-was.html' title='Urge.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-8457059205224411685</id><published>2011-07-05T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-07-05T11:39:27.231-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Middle.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;She was compassed, once&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;aimless and undefined,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;culled with a dash &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of gratitude&lt;/div&gt;best viewed that spring.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Don't read in disdain&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;it'll simmer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;that broken bone;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of how often &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;us yearned the moon&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;stirring anxious rum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It provoked&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;uneasy whims&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;trimming an impression clean;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sunglassing yesterday&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a pocket full of leaves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In natter, precipitating,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;forgiving your&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sipping concerns;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;now as inaudible&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as a song in Autumn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;penciled to our tune,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;to a tune of ice cubes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;smacking enraged glass;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;each sentence stammering&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;each question unasked.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8457059205224411685?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8457059205224411685/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=8457059205224411685' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8457059205224411685'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8457059205224411685'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2011/07/middle.html' title='Middle.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-4047712389507544179</id><published>2011-05-18T10:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-18T11:43:23.868-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Trace.</title><content type='html'>Its a red ant&lt;div&gt;and an ivory sheet&lt;div&gt;itching to wrestle ashen needs;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;wavering steps &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;listless feet&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;one in a million, beating retreat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Im dictated &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;to indulge,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;serving the helping thrice;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as a slice of tension &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;toughens the version&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;all of what is rust,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;pales in comparison&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm equally stressed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;lest defeat be impulsive &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as that insect &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;scoops a round,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I play to my strength&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;which when spelt correct&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;did once benefit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A need to win,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;lave 'gainst megrim&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;to squash distaste. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and therefore, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm willing, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;to make amends as versed,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Whereas its within&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;celebration,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;inaudible claps;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the ant slips away,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dethroned,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;my hands are clasped&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;fingers still stoned.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-4047712389507544179?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/4047712389507544179/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=4047712389507544179' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4047712389507544179'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4047712389507544179'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2011/05/trace.html' title='Trace.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-6269726153527321804</id><published>2011-03-04T14:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T14:57:19.155-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Candles.</title><content type='html'>She's a drunken toast when&lt;br /&gt;drunken most,&lt;br /&gt;a satiable insect commingled in comatose,&lt;br /&gt;who arose when wresting wicken wine&lt;br /&gt;carpenting the wound,&lt;br /&gt;clasping my eyes.&lt;br /&gt;She knows to take&lt;br /&gt;less than what gives,&lt;br /&gt;setlling easily her forlorn smile,&lt;br /&gt;charring, unharmed to wear.&lt;br /&gt;Condesing to wood,&lt;br /&gt;a humbling love affair,&lt;br /&gt;might an eclair bake,&lt;br /&gt;dipped in endless despair.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How things 'ave changed,&lt;br /&gt;can we call it quits?&lt;br /&gt;And then retire&lt;br /&gt;to an earlier drill..&lt;br /&gt;when you didn't&lt;br /&gt;detest every morning's gin,&lt;br /&gt;therewith proceeding,&lt;br /&gt;elimating every pending need.&lt;br /&gt;Your need to silence the beer,&lt;br /&gt;mine to settle the receipts.&lt;br /&gt;Not to say there was&lt;br /&gt;any concern,&lt;br /&gt;as back then, I for one&lt;br /&gt;was comfortable with &lt;br /&gt;your borrowed interest;&lt;br /&gt;its only now that its wavering,&lt;br /&gt;our stems soil with unrest.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6269726153527321804?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-8479865802118090090</id><published>2011-02-09T10:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-09T12:27:21.685-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Concoction.</title><content type='html'>Think I'll step a walk outside,&lt;br /&gt;run 'round circles, sleep off our borrowed nights.&lt;br /&gt;A slight respite sung to a tune unkind,&lt;br /&gt;me inching progress, you changing your mind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1:34 AM, marvelling if consequence is suspect?&lt;br /&gt;I'd expect diffidence, lest it proceeds to alter the sheets.&lt;br /&gt;And n&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;either've&lt;/span&gt; you lost 'neath a Madras canopy,&lt;br /&gt;nor 'ave I won, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;trespassing&lt;/span&gt; now reddened knees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Good Evenin', do we call it quits already?&lt;br /&gt;A battle half won, is a misnomer unsteady..&lt;br /&gt;par the wary have discerned intention,&lt;br /&gt;tired soldiers, shoulders craving attention.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lets make mountains out of impulse, staple a dapper chin;&lt;br /&gt;chewing notes, where whims have replaced vapid synonyms.&lt;br /&gt;A summer stick of rhyme, she's uninclined,&lt;br /&gt;were we to pine again, rain'd eclipse sunshine;&lt;br /&gt;then shudder, for the dampened parts are stood,&lt;br /&gt;should then we ever need to contain, we apparently would..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8479865802118090090?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8479865802118090090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=8479865802118090090' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8479865802118090090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8479865802118090090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2011/02/concoction.html' title='Concoction.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3213292087128343296</id><published>2010-11-21T09:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-21T09:57:16.104-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Decimals.</title><content type='html'>Good evening, you daily binge,&lt;div&gt;I'm toasted, roasting your fellow synonyms,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;chewing skin off naked limbs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;sufficient whims commingled with nutrients.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Regarding me, won't you indulge?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Prithee! go dissolve a wicked gin, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for rum wouldn't fit your argument..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;howbeit could, peradventure circumvent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now history methinks, is an unnecessary swagger, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;its a dagger that matters too well in whisper,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;perhaps a spear might rustle mire fine,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ifsoever, whistling these sentences aside.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aye, she overwhelms naive speech,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;therewithal, our clueless words are terse,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;its their verse which nurses a degree, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;me - swigging usquebauch, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;she rustling, in one cups' merry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3213292087128343296?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3213292087128343296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3213292087128343296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3213292087128343296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3213292087128343296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2010/11/decimals.html' title='Decimals.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-6610608141274041932</id><published>2010-10-24T11:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-10-24T11:40:14.426-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Collar.</title><content type='html'>Pepper pigeons, 'cross the windowsill&lt;div&gt;'neath the shallow cries, of cigarettes, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of playful synonyms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Them, the wind scolds, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;she reprimands impatience,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;murdering writer's delight, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in wisdom - its seldom vengeance.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Her tiptoe to their temper, teasing; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;deriding these wicked rhymes,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;acute in perspective, conscience slaying mine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Have they soared away?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In diffidence, they always did,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;mocking gratis admiration, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in a way these hands have bled.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6610608141274041932?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6610608141274041932/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6610608141274041932' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6610608141274041932'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6610608141274041932'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2010/10/collar.html' title='Collar.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-5135185859059552</id><published>2010-07-18T10:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-18T12:09:20.597-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Strain.</title><content type='html'>Would you take me by surprise?&lt;div&gt;any morning, alongside sunrise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Or would you rather wither, like conifer&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;stepping on my toes, your moniker.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'm unable yet, you know,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a cactus in making, slow and marrow,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for morose is drunken delight,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;biscuits in maple syrup - an erudite.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now aren't I dipped in melancholy too?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As animation, meant to be construed,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;we eschew upon these frozen foods,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;each for the taking, equally subdued.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Slowly, we'll melt - in chorus, misspelt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;painting viscous with gratitude,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as impatience begs to please your whims,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;winter beckons - rude, equally grim.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Therefore, we simmer away,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;weathering the armor - subtly pique'd,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;with rain sashaying away at my sleeves,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;your bones submitting, us naive.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-5135185859059552?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/5135185859059552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=5135185859059552' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5135185859059552'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5135185859059552'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2010/07/strain.html' title='Strain.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-6013196772210741565</id><published>2010-05-23T08:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-23T09:24:36.915-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Visage.</title><content type='html'>Fingers fiddle, huddled in slow drizzle,&lt;br /&gt;selfish rain! muffled in frozen frames;&lt;br /&gt;the hands, overcoming cognizance,&lt;br /&gt;with a mackerel sky, subdued in dampen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For raindrops are testimony to these eyes,&lt;br /&gt;of what would've been a beaming sun;&lt;br /&gt;retreating par the eagle's nest&lt;br /&gt;weakened, amenable to unlearn.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It isn't deluge that stops us short,&lt;br /&gt;serving volleys, which often disagree.&lt;br /&gt;Its an indignant weight, a parrot's bait&lt;br /&gt;while those digits immersed - evaporate.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6013196772210741565?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6013196772210741565/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6013196772210741565' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6013196772210741565'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6013196772210741565'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2010/05/visage.html' title='Visage.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2047948429041822209</id><published>2010-05-04T09:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T10:22:27.119-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stairs.</title><content type='html'>The tint's pale, every morning's drill;&lt;div&gt;inasmuch as she's concerned?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ruing hands 'ave killed, day-spring's thrill,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;what's left to be unlearnt?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lots! Teach this naive rat nice,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;don't let spill the poison;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for in tepid summers, it eats weather thin,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;slicing within her hamstring.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now he won't relent, her will to win,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;broken in their vacuous themes;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a means to wither hopeless clutter,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;its her efficacious whims, screaming.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Evening disquiet, disarray climbs us down,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;canvassing the miserable watercolor gray.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A frame still lays, unequally smeared in skin,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and charcoal slaying mutual chagrin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2047948429041822209?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2047948429041822209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2047948429041822209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2047948429041822209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2047948429041822209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2010/05/stairs.html' title='Stairs.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2595149035821174952</id><published>2010-02-15T09:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-15T09:33:12.801-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Aver.</title><content type='html'>You're improperly dressed for tonight,&lt;div&gt;while those appropriate, are blessed,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;leaving an unclean palm to cerise this throat,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;blue mornings, in ribbons of pink sunset.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aren't they're helpless too, when running down?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our pride, ego of a semi dead clown;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;an efficacious whim, to bury within - &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hello, Aunt Sally, did you stop listenin'?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Their tone isn't resilient, it couldn't be - oh not tonight,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for wicked isn't an opinion,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;its certainly a sense, of humor at best,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;or the usual mule - a dissenting minion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They claim our 'coterie', if I may be allowed,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;is vacuous, at best cretinous, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;but the plate's are thin, content within,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as the ichor quietly pales - avers and diminishes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We were bits, and shall stay wisps,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;confined to a floor of broken glass;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;while the thick shall win, make merry the weekend,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and we shall crumble, revering their sentiment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nor to wish they'd railroad,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;funnily, neither do we soak in peace.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Come ballot day, a tissue inside might die a week,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and when they revel, this dismal, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;we'll concede. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2595149035821174952?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2595149035821174952/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2595149035821174952' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2595149035821174952'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2595149035821174952'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2010/02/aver.html' title='Aver.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-886185380628486245</id><published>2010-01-21T11:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-21T12:10:05.095-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gin.</title><content type='html'>Circus, as we nurse ourselves nice,&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;arising early sun, quarter past five,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;perhaps sliced to be precise,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;nigh to opulence, an inch to her thighs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here resides a suddenness to disconcert, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;skin pales, flesh rustles in flirt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chaste! effort scuttles -  a somber, troubling grin,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ameliorating ache, crumbling within.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wherein death warms the trade first,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;truckin' misgivings and trafficking thirst,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;tinting penchant for ridiculing his snare,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a caramels' delight frost amongst smug eclairs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-886185380628486245?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/886185380628486245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=886185380628486245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/886185380628486245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/886185380628486245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2010/01/gin.html' title='Gin.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-5031621981938509042</id><published>2009-12-14T06:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-14T07:02:54.994-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Seldom.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-family:Times;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;That iota of unsung joy, her philippic try of diatribe,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;she escalates the tirade, its intolerable cries,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;still ringing mire in disremembered comprise.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;Alas, its compromise thats decides,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;chides in mourning, in romance - she susurrates;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;but murmurs in desperation,  her eyes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;Ah weakness! Of threats and what else?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;In withdrawal, helpless and piqued;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;with lacerated lust, we'd misinterpret.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;Love, go lave, sluice your mien, wear that expression&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;that spruces you unclean.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;And return, skirting that wicked satire,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "&gt;of fallen amour in our fake empire.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-5031621981938509042?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/5031621981938509042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=5031621981938509042' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5031621981938509042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5031621981938509042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/12/seldom_1694.html' title='Seldom.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3356264555958545492</id><published>2009-11-01T12:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-01T13:16:59.722-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Trick.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/wilt.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Create.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Alongside warmth, draws contempt,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as sometimes, indulgence is disregard;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;n' then rede does absolve parcel,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;my indifference's will to get charred.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/05/margins.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Partake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ah love, savor my mistake,&lt;div&gt;eft, its dust which makes the sand;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in smithereens, I endear,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;but now you've the upper hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/02/flake.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"&gt;Dissolve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Your card isn't played as yet,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as that move shall issue giveaway;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;much as I've known you far too long,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;too chance upon and be outplayed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3356264555958545492?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3356264555958545492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3356264555958545492' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3356264555958545492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3356264555958545492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/11/trick.html' title='Trick.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-9125751462165878584</id><published>2009-10-31T12:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-31T13:26:47.029-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kite.</title><content type='html'>Someone's ichor reckons flow, &lt;div&gt;a damask laden, bathed in echo&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;n' as summer's intrigue begins to choke, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;your vanishing voice brings helpless sorrow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For I'm equally incapable,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;whittled in pickled merriment,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the cigarettes reek mire thin, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;simmering films with charred confidence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aren't you adept? Wouldn't you help?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Or construct ire, soaked in skin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In thin misprint, evoking carious squint,  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;now slain within this abandoned hint.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-9125751462165878584?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/9125751462165878584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=9125751462165878584' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/9125751462165878584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/9125751462165878584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/10/kite.html' title='Kite.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3929303398465627487</id><published>2009-10-08T08:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-08T09:11:44.191-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Cede.</title><content type='html'>Chide, don't side with them;&lt;div&gt;a broken bone, stress rustling thin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But you slide against the wind,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;incurious, woebegone within.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;For they ascertain, in disquietude,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a prelude, as you'd be left to rue.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now lets simmer away, all choler and ire,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;an entire mire  inculpating them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Even then, isn't to err only human?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Aren't we betoken to railroad and win?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Or do we delicately surrender?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;To them, for them to make the most of it...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3929303398465627487?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3929303398465627487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3929303398465627487' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3929303398465627487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3929303398465627487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/10/cede.html' title='Cede.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-1339896618090255549</id><published>2009-10-06T13:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-06T13:45:44.779-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Muffle.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Hello inspiration! Where'd you melt away?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In a fleeting second, with callow innocence;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;your redolence swaying, slaying these verses tense,  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and tacit lines wrapped - rapt in unfinished sentences.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1339896618090255549?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/1339896618090255549/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=1339896618090255549' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1339896618090255549'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1339896618090255549'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/10/muffle.html' title='Muffle.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2178740053273985202</id><published>2009-08-31T09:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-31T10:49:37.363-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wilt.</title><content type='html'>She'd talk herself out, unassertive in sleep,&lt;div&gt;stammering across - a reverie in stampede,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;to recede defeat in muted strains that ache,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;only to drift away, leaving me awake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Compos mentis, I'm found to acquaint restraint,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a tinge o' despair impairing already slippery paint;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the tone is moist, misty in sedate disquiet,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for 'neath the subdued pastel, dies our forgotten riot.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A parallel frame, which we dyed commotion,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;stirring colloquy with withdrawn emotion.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But doesn't it hurt more when there is unrest?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As fracas slays only to conquer and arrest...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In smithereens, each caress makes sentence;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a broken bone, your smear on self confidence,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and with it, shallow imprudence makes you wince,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for when I need to overwhelm, its easier to convince...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2178740053273985202?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2178740053273985202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2178740053273985202' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2178740053273985202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2178740053273985202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/wilt.html' title='Wilt.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2111353075409158041</id><published>2009-08-21T11:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-21T13:03:05.590-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Resent.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Effort, dirt on fragmented thirst,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;she lets assert, and the hurt equals comfort.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But you don't skirt there checking math, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;one can heat the cake, and melt the mud exact.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So you subtract skin, deliquescing to react,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for slowly I'll sink away, too bothered to distract.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What makes enact - is an anxiousness in attempt,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for distress is fragile, when taken in contempt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And that leaves me muted, frosted with intent,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;vexed in slow disquiet, and disarmingly foment. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That might scotch the riddle, buried thin in clutter,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as despite a sweet taste in the mouth, you're still left bitter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2111353075409158041?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2111353075409158041/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2111353075409158041' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2111353075409158041'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2111353075409158041'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/resent.html' title='Resent.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-375775127956177941</id><published>2009-08-03T11:44:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T12:11:34.799-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rapt.</title><content type='html'>...And the sheets bridge the shelf,&lt;div&gt;gathering dust and whispering tense;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;gift wrapped in soft susurrate,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;solemnly sailing in coincidence.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And the whiskey spills the floor,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;soiling film and stifling foment;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;belittling each need to sullen,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;rubbing wrong that argument.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And the ardor stocks my thoughts,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;your lips meanwhile lock patience;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;wrecking thin and wearing faint,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the idea of an ideal conversation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But all these whims which are create,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;innate, slain within desolate sections; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a woebegone chin that smiled displeased,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and eyes swimming red with intention.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-375775127956177941?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/375775127956177941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=375775127956177941' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/375775127956177941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/375775127956177941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/rapt.html' title='Rapt.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-4692440856149061640</id><published>2009-08-03T09:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-03T10:33:50.798-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Yield.</title><content type='html'>Hello, you, not you, why don't you encourage me?&lt;div&gt;Instead, you detest, unfailingly protest,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;allowing me to succumb wearily.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;But I'll address myself this dais,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a recreation that won't veneer;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;lest it break the bone to design,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;unless that sooner interfere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So why don't you bring along prudence?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sagacity might do you some good,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'll stifle the ache, you echo a retort,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and sing the songs that I would.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That guilt is you blotch on self confidence,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;discoloration wrapped in deep lament,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a sip to slip, and the song has changed,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;while we regret our haplessness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Egos shall then strive 'neath, delicate?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;contours swerving across the vapid floor;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;you adore, easily amid my weakness&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;to charily cave in, craving an encore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-4692440856149061640?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/4692440856149061640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=4692440856149061640' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4692440856149061640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4692440856149061640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/08/yield.html' title='Yield.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2815186600669367500</id><published>2009-07-27T11:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-27T12:24:13.958-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pepper.</title><content type='html'>Its the weather 'gain, selfish rain,&lt;div&gt;while you're content to hopelessly swim;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for a sinking feelings' worth the win,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;my analogies, your clueless synonyms.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its within these little things, I'd apprise,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;no surprise for the size of your eyes;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;just a broken grin or twenty winks,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;us blinking through sorrowed ink.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Slowly the ink pales, creases desert,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;hurting worse than simmering dirt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;if only it weren't the whimsical smirks - &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of polished nails on my unclean shirt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And once soaked, you've left me out to dry,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;disguised to revise the fainting sunrise;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for 'neath the whistling winds, a rustle's rye,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;your aching toes on otherwise tired thighs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2815186600669367500?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-6190596378932789318</id><published>2009-06-20T07:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-20T08:00:10.093-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Uproar.</title><content type='html'>There, my hapless harbinger,&lt;br /&gt;in vain, you rationalize with me;&lt;br /&gt;over sips of honest Darjeeling,&lt;br /&gt;toasting obvious mediocrity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So tonight, lets join the gathering,&lt;br /&gt;thats where we're expected least;&lt;br /&gt;for riot will assume confidence,&lt;br /&gt;leaving precedence to patently cease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you, for one, are unannounced,&lt;br /&gt;much receding from all worries;&lt;br /&gt;a sip from me and the vase is dry,&lt;br /&gt;with you playing the galleries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stammer, but don't hum along,&lt;br /&gt;my discontent isn't disquiet,&lt;br /&gt;its not as if I'm second fiddle;&lt;br /&gt;murmuring selfless, this satire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let clamor settle before the waltz,&lt;br /&gt;an inch within pin drop,&lt;br /&gt;for you will grab unspoken envy,&lt;br /&gt;in revelry - take it from the top.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm much pickled too, you know,&lt;br /&gt;such melee can make pretend;&lt;br /&gt;and violence wearily stagnates,&lt;br /&gt;three sheets to the rustling wind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah, those forgotten salad days,&lt;br /&gt;another muddled, hackneyed excuse;&lt;br /&gt;but tonight, they'll have none of it,&lt;br /&gt;or of our few eccentric views.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that is what we always were,&lt;br /&gt;a dusting case study on disarray;&lt;br /&gt;and they'd criticize, all spineless,&lt;br /&gt;such was the order of that day,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6190596378932789318?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6190596378932789318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6190596378932789318' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6190596378932789318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6190596378932789318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/06/uproar.html' title='Uproar.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-5536235840184078572</id><published>2009-05-14T20:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-14T20:57:59.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Margins.</title><content type='html'>Truth serum, she'll lose momentum,&lt;br /&gt;I'm afraid to say it doesn't work;&lt;br /&gt;but naivete can become empty handed,&lt;br /&gt;while innocence kills the isolated verb.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So how does one make it alluring,&lt;br /&gt;does the pot call back the kettle?&lt;br /&gt;or do we bathe in evaporating water,&lt;br /&gt;ignorant of all trouble?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where have you heard this before?&lt;br /&gt;Why didn't you already think of this?&lt;br /&gt;but you have this silly habit,&lt;br /&gt;as I burn my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;consciousness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, your actions request reaction,&lt;br /&gt;and sans that, they're incomplete,&lt;br /&gt;for we've evermore been &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;stoppin&lt;/span&gt;' short&lt;br /&gt;courtesy your cold hands, my cold feet.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-5536235840184078572?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/5536235840184078572/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=5536235840184078572' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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sashay.&lt;br /&gt;They break within, therein, they hide,&lt;br /&gt;and as I'd guide, she would step aside.&lt;br /&gt;Inside, her blood would thicken,&lt;br /&gt;and I'd hardly take note, let alone listen,&lt;br /&gt;as once thriven, we assume the conifer lifeless,&lt;br /&gt;immune to tunes, a rubber ball of stress.&lt;br /&gt;A landslide! we run down the narrow lanes,&lt;br /&gt;streets of fortitude, inexplicable delays,&lt;br /&gt;for tumultuous minutes deride ignorance,&lt;br /&gt;the vacuum gets buried, borrowed innocence;&lt;br /&gt;now the climb gets harsh, unpleasant,&lt;br /&gt;of what I could and she wouldn't.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we muster strength, pretending to make it through,&lt;br /&gt;unaware, disremembering each n' every excuse.&lt;br /&gt;It hurts, and the soldiers slowly leave,&lt;br /&gt;she spins around, caressing my sleeves;&lt;br /&gt;now that's all left when ardor quiets, at last,&lt;br /&gt;we'd riot it out, eschewing upon the past.&lt;br /&gt;In time, ascension regains stride,&lt;br /&gt;and we deride,&lt;br /&gt;to only succumb again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In vain, triumph pales&lt;br /&gt;as these dying hills disregard&lt;br /&gt;inch by inch and yard by...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-4454052144399680126?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/4454052144399680126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=4454052144399680126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4454052144399680126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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armor?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"Sublime in silent sensation, you'd easily settle down, &lt;br /&gt;a tantrum awaiting dew, every sixth activity a noun;&lt;br /&gt;then resound, with equal measure in stride,&lt;br /&gt;like a bird in wintry clime, 'neath the shawl it hides."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What am I to make of that? in smithereens, I write,&lt;br /&gt;shallow weaknesses, and a lack of erratic appetite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;"Now I'll clap you pretty, the wrinkles evince defeat,&lt;br /&gt;her feet smother my skin, the rest of her entreats.&lt;br /&gt;then a forgotten rendition, resonates through aching walls,&lt;br /&gt;crumbling in caramel, and cemented in withdrawal."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The armies now fight the throne, an empire gets tense&lt;br /&gt;swords lacerate the jewels, even ants in utter irrelevance;&lt;br /&gt;for the quiet soul shall espy providence, in solitude, serenade,&lt;br /&gt;red wine, cheese, and orchestra, therein a selfish parade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So let simmer down, disembark, its a long ride to the South,&lt;br /&gt;a battle's won, but the war has left, a bitter taste in her mouth.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8598913362362566745?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8598913362362566745/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=8598913362362566745' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8598913362362566745'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8598913362362566745'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/03/cardamom.html' title='Cardamom.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-6262902772081246864</id><published>2009-02-25T22:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-26T00:38:51.916-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Each.</title><content type='html'>I captured, a bundle of nerves, &lt;div&gt;in this disused, abandoned city;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sensitive in bicker, senseless in spar,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;morning tea with a flurry of activity.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Neither is unkind nor unwelcome,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;no longer is each verb a simple noun,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for I won't swallow every phrase, thats as amiss&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as reconciliation in this wooden town.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Soon fireworks illuminate the skies, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;merry as those dancing people, I exclaim;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for we'll vamoose before day break,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;minus denizens on the harlequin frame&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6262902772081246864?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6262902772081246864/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6262902772081246864' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6262902772081246864'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6262902772081246864'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/02/each.html' title='Each.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2978627330109855678</id><published>2009-02-19T04:14:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T04:45:31.088-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Flake.</title><content type='html'>She dresses, ribbons of carious grey,&lt;div&gt;humid in equal rays of mellow sun-set.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;And today, splendid, yet resplendent, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;vignettes we made up to foment;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We vent in relent, and now it sinks,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a minute's hand, she lets them think. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Decorations emerge, contours of naked wear,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;they despair, glances of hopeless stare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The vestige is still anoint, placed level,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;with fortitude, she dazzled and swiveled. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Herein, the drivel was inappropriate,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;it dictated as we stretched, as sedate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Soon, her penchant for me will softly clear,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as when I scribble these lines, the intention disappears.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2978627330109855678?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2978627330109855678/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2978627330109855678' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2978627330109855678'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2978627330109855678'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/02/flake.html' title='Flake.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-7963787490669625286</id><published>2009-02-19T01:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-19T02:15:55.848-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Stretch.</title><content type='html'>Your ankle's neat perfection,&lt;div&gt;and the sections I don't mention,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as without intention, its just the toes;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;what have I done to fall so hard?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I get up, knowing you'd stay frozen,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as I'd dash towards the aspen;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;my toes - dull, slowly waxed and shunned,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;singing another acoustic version.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A knock in disremembered rhymes,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;frosted egos in echo-less times;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;an equal pretense gets waste&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;you moribund, paste my brief distaste.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These fluid strides result in quarrel,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;while I panic, you gather and jangle;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and entangled, you travel away,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I pinned in my carrel, a horrid day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-7963787490669625286?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/7963787490669625286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=7963787490669625286' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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torn;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in twelve harmless beatific minutes,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;slaying a day already woebegone. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;These ants are as glad as a clam,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;promenading across the marble floor;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;spoiling my inebriated claptrap,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for now I can't pretend to ignore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As they sink 'neath the stills, witless,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;in movement - sedate and wintry;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;my chary reasoning is nonchalant,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;whistle-stopping 'em out of misery.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-91170227741889797?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/91170227741889797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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type='text'>Flood.</title><content type='html'>I'll drift off, quietly immersed, &lt;div&gt;sour as a lone paper machete;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;rainy mornings ebb and wane,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as damp tenor deteriorates.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hesitating, I weather, bicker&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;only to later make amends;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;for I rescind her for happiness,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and with it, the sweeping winds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;She's at sea, but simmer'd down, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;nonplussed, in keeping, unexcited;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;pleated skin at its capricious best,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;her whims equally short sighted.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Now I'm untroubled in monsoon,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;dusting megrims 'neath the windowsill;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as we eschew from cribbing much,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the zephyr that died at standstill.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6288918200218725089?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6288918200218725089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6288918200218725089' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6288918200218725089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6288918200218725089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/02/flood.html' title='Flood.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-1030551233710964763</id><published>2009-01-29T04:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T21:24:36.230-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Acute.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The face - blithe, typically tickled pink,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;she sinks, in ink, a bit out of sync.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Untrusting, she's next on my pepper stage,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;titillates, thrills in merry language.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; min-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;So much for those salad days wherein,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;when satiated, we lay elated, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;immaculately poised, flooded and outdated,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;drafted in sentences, solemnly tempted.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; min-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;But back then, an overdose of punctuation did delight,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;as you disliked this silly exercise and,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;when we'd slowly recite, it got impolite. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;so stop bicker, quieten, as now I alone rewrite.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; min-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;I scrawl every verse that hit a crestfallen note,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;each woebegone quote, that you'd connote.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; min-height: 19px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;A melancholic display, relentlessly piquant,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: left;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Georgia; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;as you'd foment, every surprise element. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1030551233710964763?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/1030551233710964763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=1030551233710964763' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1030551233710964763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1030551233710964763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/01/acute.html' title='Acute.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-6084921537830080771</id><published>2009-01-13T08:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-13T11:22:49.924-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Crease.</title><content type='html'>Just the woebegone me, silently;&lt;div&gt;tracing you cerise, in scornful melancholy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Within such clamor, canvas won't matter,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the ink dries grey, amidst dismal chatter.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A listless self - crestfallen, a bit crisscrossed, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I accost myself, rattled and lost.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This harmless watercolor, equally piquant;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;with corrupt expression, I make confront.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Herein she runs riot, unhurriedly slaying herself;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;her wilting frame, barren against my caramel shelf.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6084921537830080771?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6084921537830080771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6084921537830080771' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6084921537830080771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6084921537830080771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/01/crease.html' title='Crease.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-6025242148355704578</id><published>2009-01-09T06:36:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T08:48:09.925-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Arrant.</title><content type='html'>The worn forlorn, looks have cried,&lt;div&gt;allure aside, it slips and hides.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Foment, chide, and let it ease,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;she asks nothing, I stagger and freeze.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A broken bone, excitement will drip,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;stumbling lips and lost courtship.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Running my fingers through her wrists,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I fold across, her fortress like fist,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;she's submissive, for I won't resist;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;now caving in, she insists we persist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Agony, severely anoint with shades&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and paints we should've dispel have fell,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;within which she's as spoilt for choice, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as vacant walls with venerable pastel.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;So pipe down, drown someplace afar,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;undo your coat, love steadily chars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It scars, while its carcass mutely ruins,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;wanes, ebbs, and scuttles as her skin,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;which avers of how she wins, unrest's,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;lest she suggests it bests my protest.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Skid and slide, as this melancholy shall&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ribbon hope, in &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;sotto-voce&lt;/span&gt;, make away,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;into the delay which held us close,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;wherein I yearn for you to stay.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nerves! You submit into despair,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;as scattered words make verbs rare;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;and you remit in helplessness,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;a forlorn pulchritude you wear...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6025242148355704578?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6025242148355704578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6025242148355704578' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6025242148355704578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6025242148355704578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2009/01/arrant.html' title='Arrant.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-7189579590278043985</id><published>2008-12-29T02:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-29T08:25:31.505-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Clay.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Parch'd, coded in shades, o' desiccated conifer;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;but flora withers, obtains an ancient monicker.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just like us, it ebbs, gettin' stained in rust;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;my verse then limps and loses its impetus.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In smithereens, like starch it now despairs,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;an inch of her wrests, the rest begins to wear.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;She waxes sullen, for manners make listen;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and it isn't too often that its all of a sudden. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its autumn compassion that makes us weak,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;the fronds atrophy,  and trespass critique.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That does smarten, and ichor rushes ribbons,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;with cold comfort, its often it so worsens.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ah distress! Smirk at what coppice did me,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I stumbl'd and pined in forlorn harmony. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;She screamed, resonating with merriment;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;our reverie compeer'd, still incoherent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its now gotten late, even the aspens 'ave dull&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;just as I have to go, an amour's seasonal.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I unearth'd her and disremember'd courtesy;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;now I dig 'neath, beside those solitary trees.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-7189579590278043985?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/7189579590278043985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=7189579590278043985' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/7189579590278043985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/7189579590278043985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/12/clay.html' title='Clay.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-7181256843676855562</id><published>2008-12-23T07:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-23T08:19:01.409-08:00</updated><title type='text'>(Bide) Unhurried.</title><content type='html'>"Welcome back, you domino&lt;div&gt;rubber soul and your stilettos. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mystery in these wintry sets&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;a pack of cards,  your silhouettes."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Unlost, he cast his mind,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;as she evince'd and bespeak'd;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;it chided, slapped a wrist,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;astute and unwillingly weak.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Something had got to give,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a delicate him wouldn't allow;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;inept and wan by all of this,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;she stuck upon his eyebrows.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Overused, she mutely reckon'd -&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;truckloads of horrid caramel,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;she unpack'd for a little bit,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a discouraged him did trouble.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-7181256843676855562?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/7181256843676855562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=7181256843676855562' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/7181256843676855562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/7181256843676855562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/12/bide-unhurried.html' title='(Bide) Unhurried.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3848594072510632145</id><published>2008-12-22T05:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-22T05:31:55.986-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Debris.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Her impatient, misspelt rhetoric&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and the repose I never knew,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'll straddle with purple prose,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;of how I wish I still had you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So subtly let these rhymes decide,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;bickering almost never ceases,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I'll slowly make verse recite,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;your whims and begone caprices.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The point at which you'd respond,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;and that's when my blood'd thicken,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;but this time, you carve unhurried,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;an affection thats scattered in ruin.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3848594072510632145?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3848594072510632145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3848594072510632145' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3848594072510632145'/><link rel='self' 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cumbersome ties,&lt;br /&gt;placated by visual randomness,&lt;br /&gt;and lifelessness inside.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fragile strands of your writing&lt;br /&gt;chits in unsung minutes of delay,&lt;br /&gt;clamped to my saddened skin&lt;br /&gt;those ribbon games we played.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'Its your wheel to make China'&lt;br /&gt;and me, I'm the clay that hurt,&lt;br /&gt;the leftover wet sand today,&lt;br /&gt;lies stitched in dismal earth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Therein, you unlost the dirt&lt;br /&gt;believing you made ground,&lt;br /&gt;songs which spelt haywire&lt;br /&gt;bludgeoning their own sound.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So sit timid, atop your ferris wheel&lt;br /&gt;screaming plots through wire,&lt;br /&gt;I'll stay, twirling rhymes and&lt;br /&gt;doing my best in sorrowed admire.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tonight, we'll lose rationality, smitten within&lt;br /&gt;minutes lost to wholesome wits,&lt;br /&gt;And I'll melt away searching for&lt;br /&gt;those sidestepped verses and chits.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2021232330947299662?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2021232330947299662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2021232330947299662' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2021232330947299662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2021232330947299662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/12/mire_19.html' title='Mire.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-5517293693169292371</id><published>2008-12-17T13:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T13:55:41.356-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Selfish.</title><content type='html'>I'll sleep over another, brown box of these,&lt;br /&gt;an ignorant set, of caramel nobodies.&lt;br /&gt;Now we'd be muted, mend olive grief, &lt;br /&gt;turning bitter, my quiet, peppermint leaf.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But its her behavior, vinegar and vague yet&lt;br /&gt;resplendent, she assays dispirited speak;&lt;br /&gt;elegiac by intention, a lifeless form of me,&lt;br /&gt;we hold it back, sterile, sedate and weak.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-5517293693169292371?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/5517293693169292371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=5517293693169292371' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5517293693169292371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5517293693169292371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/12/selfish.html' title='Selfish.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-4153406832489138871</id><published>2008-12-10T21:39:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-10T21:39:28.610-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Cleav'd.</title><content type='html'>Betwixt fain and ruth, she'd getup and sip, &lt;br /&gt;the vintage, you always wish one achieves;&lt;br /&gt;prithee overrules sentiment, whilst now she,&lt;br /&gt;sponges her face across my unclean sleeves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I, hang the polo neck out to dry,&lt;br /&gt;I longingly stare, wooded in reminiscence; &lt;br /&gt;to describe would take loquacious scripts,&lt;br /&gt;and collars that straighten with eloquence. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This worn-out ruse seems like an era aroint,&lt;br /&gt;along with expression, which seldom matters.&lt;br /&gt;For prudence can make wry argument strife,&lt;br /&gt;in ribbons my shirt, an amour in tatters...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-4153406832489138871?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/4153406832489138871/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=4153406832489138871' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4153406832489138871'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4153406832489138871'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/12/cleavd.html' title='Cleav&apos;d.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-4646242337668522137</id><published>2008-12-03T22:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-05T23:57:05.239-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Whimsical.</title><content type='html'>A discouraged cookie in a desperate room;&lt;br /&gt;dicey dazzle, and dizziness in gloom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A silent sort in a sullied mood;&lt;br /&gt;steps on stairs, stressed and rude.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A jingle-jangle, she's jejune;&lt;br /&gt;jaded with joy, he spoke too soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A negative night, her necklace;&lt;br /&gt;nervous and naive, the look on his face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cliched calm, cynical pain;&lt;br /&gt;caving in, my gift of selfish rain.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-4646242337668522137?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/4646242337668522137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=4646242337668522137' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4646242337668522137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4646242337668522137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/12/whimsical.html' title='Whimsical.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-8674595913954569244</id><published>2008-11-25T06:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T07:33:03.094-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Frost.</title><content type='html'>As ever, the choler, shall be effaced, &lt;br /&gt;and you will drop those little hints;&lt;br /&gt;of how much you need to hold my hand,&lt;br /&gt;while I make do, with your fingerprints.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As usual, you would change the topic,&lt;br /&gt;hoping the previous would not arise;&lt;br /&gt;and wishing you could wash my face,&lt;br /&gt;while I take joy in your swollen eyes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As always, because it's always been,&lt;br /&gt;your way of crumbling these echoing sands;&lt;br /&gt;you'd want to comfort my receding hair,&lt;br /&gt;while I amuse myself, with your left over strands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it is, I killed it, before you ever spoke, about&lt;br /&gt;literature, language, and your other friends;&lt;br /&gt;and now you simply choose to ignore&lt;br /&gt;while I sit here, yearning to make amends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8674595913954569244?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8674595913954569244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-1006925964741663651</id><published>2008-11-21T13:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-23T06:54:06.454-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Manners.</title><content type='html'>I'll apply my ears to reverb,&lt;br /&gt;slipping every fifth verb a noun;&lt;br /&gt;to hear your final strains pull away,&lt;br /&gt;there's darkness on the edge of town.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In reprisal, I'd then feel torn down,&lt;br /&gt;sorrow in glimpses you arranged,&lt;br /&gt;for I waited, witnessing revision,&lt;br /&gt;harboring high hopes of revenge.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But you'd disremember consequence,&lt;br /&gt;stabbing one right up these threads;&lt;br /&gt;bethinking while sashaying out,&lt;br /&gt;undressing their swiveling heads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For one step small, snail's pace,&lt;br /&gt;retracing - insouciant, muted speed;&lt;br /&gt;rancor would seek recrimination soon,&lt;br /&gt;scraping off the warmth you need.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I can't keep from telling all,&lt;br /&gt;similar whispers play hard to come;&lt;br /&gt;but you broke those unwritten words,&lt;br /&gt;unequal with the tunes you hummed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1006925964741663651?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/1006925964741663651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=1006925964741663651' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1006925964741663651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1006925964741663651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/11/manners.html' title='Manners.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3241361751262142004</id><published>2008-11-18T05:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T06:17:48.980-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Covet.</title><content type='html'>'Stop cribbing', she'd then scream,&lt;br /&gt;I remember now in quiet evenings.&lt;br /&gt;whereas previously, we had never been,&lt;br /&gt;known to spoil and leave in between.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then, despite overcast, it sometimes&lt;br /&gt;dismisses, rejects the resting rains;&lt;br /&gt;therein, we bit, bat, battered and feigned,&lt;br /&gt;slowly succumbing with jejune preference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For in caving in, lies little joy at times,&lt;br /&gt;as one's cajoling discounts desire's price;  &lt;br /&gt;thus, lust makes endearment impolite,&lt;br /&gt;easy indulgence and the death of appetite.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3241361751262142004?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3241361751262142004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3241361751262142004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3241361751262142004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3241361751262142004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/11/covet.html' title='Covet.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-7285327301044323799</id><published>2008-11-11T11:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T12:35:41.164-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pinch.</title><content type='html'>Courtesy her, this love with careless amour, &lt;br /&gt;my enamor, and before I know, I'd stammer.&lt;br /&gt;But stammer she allows, for I don't pretend,&lt;br /&gt;whether ineligibly written or hard to comprehend.&lt;br /&gt;Now she'd make a face, but I'll beat her to it,&lt;br /&gt;unsympathetic and an untied shoe lace.&lt;br /&gt;Wherein, what I can't disallow, somebody might;&lt;br /&gt;slips, trips, cuts her lip, horribly impolite.&lt;br /&gt;Hesitant, I unpack, leaving aside what she won't like;&lt;br /&gt;and its in frames like these, that we thing alike.&lt;br /&gt;For all that was, was run awash, stays bare in viewing;&lt;br /&gt;it now swims in sand, and quickly dies in ruin.&lt;br /&gt;Let me now, not fold and repack all in revelry,&lt;br /&gt;that includes you, me, and these 14 lines of poetry.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-7285327301044323799?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3864709417984254113</id><published>2008-11-09T13:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T14:21:09.960-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Senesce.</title><content type='html'>She drew those sheets up the neck,&lt;br /&gt;strained, those cinnamon toes, thus reveal'd,  &lt;br /&gt;For solace which appears from her knees,&lt;br /&gt;has power to cajole, unfailingly mislead.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Then again, and this just may tempt,&lt;br /&gt;began her daily orchestrated vent;&lt;br /&gt;today's menu, an overdose in lament,&lt;br /&gt;a tinge of salt with a hint of dissent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sunshine! &lt;br /&gt;The tint plays bridge within my squint,&lt;br /&gt;in times as these, one can't abandon, unsin'd;&lt;br /&gt;as intimacy would cleave, let alone our schisms,&lt;br /&gt;these foregone rhymes crowded with euphemisms.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3864709417984254113?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3864709417984254113/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3864709417984254113' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3864709417984254113'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3864709417984254113'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/11/senesce.html' title='Senesce.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-9036667754088050383</id><published>2008-10-24T23:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T03:36:28.203-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lacrimoso.</title><content type='html'>Presto! In careless tiptoe, she slips and strains,&lt;br /&gt;For tempo kills rubato and her verse slays listlessness.&lt;br /&gt;Adagio for my tune, rhymes could do the trick&lt;br /&gt;she's vivace with talk, in humor - slapstick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I'll wait, for agitation can help reconcile,&lt;br /&gt;a moribund expression and a temporary smile;&lt;br /&gt;thankfully the music ignores, hits crescendo&lt;br /&gt;but life is grave and the prose strikes morendo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And slowly, au mouvement she shrieks,&lt;br /&gt;since she's lost the ability to think, clearly&lt;br /&gt;and with me, the pretence comes wearily,&lt;br /&gt;for its not my song which is dead, its her poetry.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-9036667754088050383?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-6968770511768341048</id><published>2008-10-14T07:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-14T07:21:42.502-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Brick.</title><content type='html'>Sure 'bout the coiffure,&lt;br /&gt;she swiveled and swerved,&lt;br /&gt;just when she felt I saw her,&lt;br /&gt;Hardly had another ever known.&lt;br /&gt;Gift wrapped in expression,&lt;br /&gt;sweating hands 'neath her wings,&lt;br /&gt;for within the spiraling distance&lt;br /&gt;neither was forthcoming.&lt;br /&gt;Because ego states crashed,&lt;br /&gt;much vermeil than looks I wore,&lt;br /&gt;and so we slowly broke apart;&lt;br /&gt;as she lay sanguine to the floor.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6968770511768341048?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6968770511768341048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6968770511768341048' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6968770511768341048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6968770511768341048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/10/brick.html' title='Brick.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2979323580392101827</id><published>2008-09-29T01:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-29T01:59:12.582-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Vindication.</title><content type='html'>You wouldn't admit to having changed,&lt;br /&gt;havin' dejunked, your cluttered mind again. &lt;br /&gt;But I became to offend, less to assume, &lt;br /&gt;whilst every line played a different tune.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You slept o'er this monologue in vanishing sand,&lt;br /&gt;rather than putting forth, your's trembling hand.&lt;br /&gt;And such is deemed fine for we are alone except&lt;br /&gt;that conversation wanes in emotional depth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoever felt talk could cloy, was much wrong,&lt;br /&gt;as what vanity denied was needed all along.&lt;br /&gt;For blemish fed the parched earth, it did hurt,&lt;br /&gt;'tis rusting literature that is since untouched.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2979323580392101827?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2979323580392101827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2979323580392101827' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2979323580392101827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2979323580392101827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/09/vindication.html' title='Vindication.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2734217212592427174</id><published>2008-09-25T00:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-25T00:17:00.545-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Imperfectly</title><content type='html'>Pensive, equally dispensed with,&lt;br /&gt;off topic, she's easily emotive.&lt;br /&gt;For her thinking makes love hectic,&lt;br /&gt;able in tune, but difficult, livid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On her own, she doesn't feel alone,&lt;br /&gt;she gets sedate and love's unknown.&lt;br /&gt;For in meddle, its her humbling echoes,&lt;br /&gt;a delicate step with her frozen toes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She's unwilling inasmuch as my hesitance,&lt;br /&gt;for neither knows where to begin;&lt;br /&gt;and alarmed, we take it from the top&lt;br /&gt;cold marrow, and the brief bus stop.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2734217212592427174?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2734217212592427174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2734217212592427174' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2734217212592427174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2734217212592427174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/09/imperfectly.html' title='Imperfectly'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-8630328876366328750</id><published>2008-09-18T13:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T14:39:24.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Equal To.</title><content type='html'>A harbour of intense nudge&lt;br /&gt;This touch means grudge&lt;br /&gt;Palpable to thought&lt;br /&gt;In this life we are caught&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The river ceases to flow&lt;br /&gt;In all its stagnation, it churns underneath&lt;br /&gt;Restless, idle on the surface&lt;br /&gt;It churns poison beneath&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Insistence making lethargic&lt;br /&gt;Imagination runs the ruin awash&lt;br /&gt;Au bade in augur, irresistible craze&lt;br /&gt;I won't play this song again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8630328876366328750?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8630328876366328750/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=8630328876366328750' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8630328876366328750'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8630328876366328750'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/09/is-equal-to.html' title='Is Equal To.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3456825785633250899</id><published>2008-09-16T14:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T15:29:18.663-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Variety.</title><content type='html'>Her stunning shrill in muted anger,&lt;br /&gt;and clamor in the ways it work;,&lt;br /&gt;weather brings with it withdrawal,&lt;br /&gt;whilst she sits alone and sulks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For I cannot do much, other than,&lt;br /&gt;sit and hear those songs you list;&lt;br /&gt;making gestures at the mirror,&lt;br /&gt;and wishing desire breaks with it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In time, trouble locates despair, &lt;br /&gt;ushers in a tray full with defeat;&lt;br /&gt;while you pull away at your dress,&lt;br /&gt;and unspeaking, you go to sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'morrow, you can spell your silence&lt;br /&gt;and in monologue, crack and dwell; &lt;br /&gt;For I'll break affection in consequence&lt;br /&gt;of endearment that I could never sell.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3456825785633250899?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3456825785633250899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-1156158824122339169</id><published>2008-09-13T22:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-14T00:33:51.103-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Shellac.</title><content type='html'>Sudden trickle, her whimsical drizzle;&lt;br /&gt;with morning dew, it dampens little.&lt;br /&gt;'Least the spirit isn't frigid; which harms,&lt;br /&gt;now it thaws but its a smile that disarms.&lt;br /&gt;In deliquesce, she swiftly swivels and swerves,&lt;br /&gt;such is the inaction that it has no verve;&lt;br /&gt;as words are best confined to sedate love,&lt;br /&gt;for in sentences, they only further disturb.&lt;br /&gt;The stupor is momentary; for in insensibility,&lt;br /&gt;sleeps her quiet concern for slight sympathy;&lt;br /&gt;'cause succinct rationale at times, can assist;&lt;br /&gt;as when dew evaporates, it leaves behind mist.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1156158824122339169?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/1156158824122339169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=1156158824122339169' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1156158824122339169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1156158824122339169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/09/shellac.html' title='Shellac.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-4867591963789335023</id><published>2008-09-10T22:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-10T23:06:21.202-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Whilom.</title><content type='html'>Your feet fend off the unassuming parget,&lt;br /&gt;and the wall seem'd to be sane again.&lt;br /&gt;And I slept by a bouquet, so full,&lt;br /&gt;of flowers that tast'd innocence.&lt;br /&gt;The feet now were at distance from me,&lt;br /&gt;with the sober, dark rum an inch away.&lt;br /&gt;while you still made no more attempt,&lt;br /&gt;to make happenings seem whole again.&lt;br /&gt;But sometimes, things are unkind, like,&lt;br /&gt;in mellow, gloom, sand, and sunshine.&lt;br /&gt;For they further embrace life the way&lt;br /&gt;its only done for hope we both did pine.&lt;br /&gt;And in these finally tense seconds, &lt;br /&gt;your terse throat regains style while,&lt;br /&gt;the feet adjust, garrote rum to the floor&lt;br /&gt;and only leave unparched, the marble tiles.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-4867591963789335023?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/4867591963789335023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=4867591963789335023' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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motion, this ocean thats us;&lt;br /&gt;parallel lives, an unbiased stimulus.&lt;br /&gt;As its not spoken to only make sense;&lt;br /&gt;haphazard and in impatient eloquence;&lt;br /&gt;These, in retrospect, spell veneer,&lt;br /&gt;and help remember as if you were still near.&lt;br /&gt;For with these sentences, die all signs,&lt;br /&gt;you, me, and all these stillborn lines.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2424110082660266320?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2424110082660266320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2424110082660266320' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2424110082660266320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2424110082660266320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/09/downstairs.html' title='Downstairs.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-8659911431552772615</id><published>2008-08-27T12:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-28T02:57:40.825-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Breakfast.</title><content type='html'>In paling gloom, dust filled skies,&lt;br /&gt;when her lipstick beams like fireflies&lt;br /&gt;heaviness glances across these times,&lt;br /&gt;within words and hapless rhymes.&lt;br /&gt;Truer lines havent been said since,&lt;br /&gt;In which she hurts and I evince &lt;br /&gt;for forth in affirming, attraction&lt;br /&gt;harmless talks and then inaction.&lt;br /&gt;Abandon all musings, sallow as your&lt;br /&gt;shallow thoughts that ruminate;&lt;br /&gt;for thoughts are solitary, dispirited,&lt;br /&gt;and against her slow love, outwitted.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8659911431552772615?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8659911431552772615/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=8659911431552772615' title='0 Comments'/><link 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sudden reach;&lt;br /&gt;till she next wrecks herself again&lt;br /&gt;on words that stammer into speech.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it isn't much, I contend, alas&lt;br /&gt;but some talk shall evermore, be futile;&lt;br /&gt;as inebriation lives a stone's throw away&lt;br /&gt;with common people that make one rile.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8040618294972880283?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8040618294972880283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=8040618294972880283' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8040618294972880283'/><link rel='self' 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quickly dated,&lt;br /&gt;as wet mud steadily gets cultivated;&lt;br /&gt;crustaceans go scared and supplicate,&lt;br /&gt;for only does their venereal satiate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For only does history speak&lt;br /&gt;when theres need for sympathy&lt;br /&gt;For poets which make verse of stories&lt;br /&gt;less their macabre 'comes cacophony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And at the end of a day&lt;br /&gt;I'm not better than all I say;&lt;br /&gt;doing unto them what's not right&lt;br /&gt;sadistic pleasure, gratification, delight.&lt;br /&gt;But even in archaic thoughts I select&lt;br /&gt;they are aligned to not intersect, with Poe's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For my subtle thoughts are congenial; &lt;br /&gt;less profound, grotesque and unreal.&lt;br /&gt;And in these thoughts lies her grudge&lt;br /&gt;awash in slit and mire, lost in deluge.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-1429882726662092829</id><published>2008-08-11T16:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-11T16:19:33.387-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ribbon.</title><content type='html'>Quarter to five, early morn&lt;br /&gt;as curtains debate cessation&lt;br /&gt;And you'd reappear in lieu,&lt;br /&gt;a figment of imagination.&lt;br /&gt;Once cafard, you'd proceed, to&lt;br /&gt;recite shades of glum poetry.&lt;br /&gt;And I'd listen to it being read&lt;br /&gt;that written for you by me.&lt;br /&gt;As within these verses lies, what&lt;br /&gt;would've otherwise been said&lt;br /&gt;ideally, lust and ideally, love;&lt;br /&gt;but its not an ideal world now, is it?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this dit calculating dol&lt;br /&gt;I shalt stretch, cometh pain.&lt;br /&gt;Pretension to wisdom thee seek&lt;br /&gt;in hist, you feign the fain.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3408233825713906494?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3408233825713906494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3408233825713906494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3408233825713906494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3408233825713906494'/><link rel='alternate' 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disinterest.&lt;br /&gt;The anchor soon runs riot, lying pale in disquiet;&lt;br /&gt;Placid at her own rate, disposition thats sedate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She musters the strength, to discuss those events;&lt;br /&gt;That mean not much to me, yet I'd listen quietly.&lt;br /&gt;Her story is slow as chess, a damsel in distress;&lt;br /&gt;My reaction to her scent, never was a consort so eloquent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A bit efferent despite, what may numb delight;&lt;br /&gt;I muster some sense, stalemate ends in offense.&lt;br /&gt;Becomes bathed to rid, unsettled and insipid;&lt;br /&gt;No novelty in telling, the story thats selling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prosaic and affably quaint, she tends to repeat again;&lt;br /&gt;Nonchalance in vain, a sentient picture she paints.&lt;br /&gt;My dutiful movement aside, she still lies beside;&lt;br /&gt;Her speed appears to slows, as she clambers below.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, in defining sudden gasps, she speaks; &lt;br /&gt;Sodden since evening, I stare in eerie disbelief.&lt;br /&gt;Lifelessness I'll heave, of the conte she weaved;&lt;br /&gt;Her lips dry and fade, faint in mutual disrespect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I offer suggestion, deadpan with grim expression;&lt;br /&gt;Moistening her purple chin, I intrude deeper within.&lt;br /&gt;Last few words in fact, help slip wooden this final act;&lt;br /&gt;Becoming finally innate, she whispers 'checkmate'.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1939697747304913856?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/1939697747304913856/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=1939697747304913856' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1939697747304913856'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1939697747304913856'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/08/quietus.html' title='Quietus.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-2063121950871174341</id><published>2008-08-06T05:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-06T05:31:45.714-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Dissonance.</title><content type='html'>As simple as it could get in words&lt;br /&gt;we never like what we are subject to.&lt;br /&gt;An abject situation in essence&lt;br /&gt;falter, fade in my dissonance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now those who had to walk, walked&lt;br /&gt;in pale skies shrouded by talk.&lt;br /&gt;And then those that stayed whispered &lt;br /&gt;to those who had been bygones, again.&lt;br /&gt;In this enchanting script of melancholy lies&lt;br /&gt;why should we wait in tumultuous times?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frantic diction prescribed in inscription&lt;br /&gt;she knows I wont be coming home so soon.&lt;br /&gt;And then those who had dressed and left&lt;br /&gt;return because when they did try to revert,&lt;br /&gt;their lips jeopardized every sentence,&lt;br /&gt;while I scribble ardor in my dissonance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question that remains is such,&lt;br /&gt;that it neglects all in sudden rush. &lt;br /&gt;And those who did derive penance&lt;br /&gt;are now glued in my dissonance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, the rest is prelude to the next exit &lt;br /&gt;when all love shall cease to exist.&lt;br /&gt;Whence shall arise a need to leave&lt;br /&gt;subdued in pain and certain harmony.&lt;br /&gt;Polished tones in tune with life&lt;br /&gt;a little drama, total nonchalance alright.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But it is true when it hits, shades of excess &lt;br /&gt;to all that we have been unfortunate to witness.&lt;br /&gt;Its that gloom which permeates through &lt;br /&gt;but only if she had been better than you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And those who did evoke a naked smile&lt;br /&gt;are eroded in malevolent demise;&lt;br /&gt;while those who did regain some sense&lt;br /&gt;are further lost in my dissonance...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2063121950871174341?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-4890288735570919463</id><published>2008-08-06T05:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-06T05:17:48.962-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Since.</title><content type='html'>because it were the april skies&lt;br /&gt;because we ran out of wine&lt;br /&gt;because there was no mood&lt;br /&gt;because we were declined.&lt;br /&gt;because you stayed awake&lt;br /&gt;because i could well aubade&lt;br /&gt;because i don't remember you&lt;br /&gt;because you've begun to fade.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-4890288735570919463?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/4890288735570919463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=4890288735570919463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4890288735570919463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/4890288735570919463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/08/since.html' title='Since.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3324479759752778970</id><published>2008-08-05T08:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-05T08:41:07.365-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ebony.</title><content type='html'>This cynic, insect, an anti-septic;&lt;br /&gt;dispirited, her glum perspective.&lt;br /&gt;The face, she slowly turns indigo,&lt;br /&gt;despondent, awash in snow.&lt;br /&gt;And like immature, separated lovers,&lt;br /&gt;fit inside wrappers and covers.&lt;br /&gt;Idle without an intention to win;&lt;br /&gt;inept in talk, sharing mutual chagrin.&lt;br /&gt;Because some letters are sent&lt;br /&gt;without a need for prior consent,&lt;br /&gt;and in twilight, drizzle, and dew; &lt;br /&gt;It's not just the ash, she's its residue&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3324479759752778970?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3324479759752778970/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3324479759752778970' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3324479759752778970'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3324479759752778970'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/08/ebony.html' title='Ebony.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3192984474509670709</id><published>2008-08-02T10:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-02T12:00:23.399-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Little Step.</title><content type='html'>When ardor spills over all,&lt;br /&gt;things for which we cared and&lt;br /&gt;you skip, simper, and coquet&lt;br /&gt;as spoils willingly get shared.&lt;br /&gt;A tinge of chariness, albeit &lt;br /&gt;incomplete seconds of bliss&lt;br /&gt;with a vague shade of cynicism&lt;br /&gt;that stays too hard to miss.&lt;br /&gt;Shamanistic, it blinds, fetters an&lt;br /&gt;unsuccessful attempt to involve&lt;br /&gt;what in efficacy became effete,&lt;br /&gt;resolve hemmed in, an insect.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3192984474509670709?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3192984474509670709/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3192984474509670709' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3192984474509670709'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3192984474509670709'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/08/little-step.html' title='A Little Step.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3378757858422752461</id><published>2008-07-30T11:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T12:10:16.308-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Alack.</title><content type='html'>Passive and intolerant in language,&lt;br /&gt;in talk - succinct, quick, and terse&lt;br /&gt;And my inquiry runs upstream&lt;br /&gt;to the sound of submissive verse.&lt;br /&gt;Betwixt unfallen emotion, for we&lt;br /&gt;unfailingly fall aside, then run riot &lt;br /&gt;in tune with bickering of little people.&lt;br /&gt;Little people are seldom quiet.&lt;br /&gt;This chagrin shall reap void when &lt;br /&gt;placed, in stanzas emulating stage&lt;br /&gt;and then shall toil erupt in medium &lt;br /&gt;to strangulate amain, this page.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3378757858422752461?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3378757858422752461/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3378757858422752461' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3378757858422752461'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3378757858422752461'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/alack.html' title='Alack.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-8226027867530564921</id><published>2008-07-25T16:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-25T16:44:36.385-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Veto.</title><content type='html'>Perhaps I'd ease up and place a&lt;br /&gt;hand across, evince and unpack.&lt;br /&gt;Then a sullen evening's weight falls,&lt;br /&gt;embracing my uncivil knack.&lt;br /&gt;I'll strike the ruler off, with &lt;br /&gt;potential armor thats pure, vestal.&lt;br /&gt;Charades become miserly, anonymous&lt;br /&gt;smiling on their steadfast pedestal.&lt;br /&gt;Uneasily slow, knock the door and I&lt;br /&gt;shall not read you in pretense.&lt;br /&gt;For now the knives are drawn out&lt;br /&gt;and a dark room becomes tense.&lt;br /&gt;So hit, dab, dagger, and quit&lt;br /&gt;the chape in time, sings beneath&lt;br /&gt;the scabbard tilts in discussion&lt;br /&gt;she swims the bloodied sheets.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8226027867530564921?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8226027867530564921/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=8226027867530564921' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8226027867530564921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8226027867530564921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/vero.html' title='Veto.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3803595839611322981</id><published>2008-07-24T21:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-24T21:50:18.591-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Early Morning Inflation.</title><content type='html'>My umbrella slipped over the arm&lt;br /&gt;and all rain smelt like shoe polish.&lt;br /&gt;Tip tap on my eye glasses, resonating,&lt;br /&gt;perhaps only to scold and admonish.&lt;br /&gt;For I found no rationale in existence&lt;br /&gt;explained with perfection in diction.&lt;br /&gt;Fixing another unsoaken roach,  &lt;br /&gt;sneezing within a spliff second.&lt;br /&gt;Two-drag-pass or a complicated name&lt;br /&gt;repulsive air and titled frames, &lt;br /&gt;as broken are my manipulative eyes&lt;br /&gt;for those I remember in hindsight.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3803595839611322981?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3803595839611322981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3803595839611322981' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3803595839611322981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3803595839611322981'/><link 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nicknamed dust.&lt;br /&gt;In tune of all the other days&lt;br /&gt;when I'd wish to captain ships&lt;br /&gt;and you harbored bitterness&lt;br /&gt;anchored into your sanguine lips...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-5099032137768524327?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/5099032137768524327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=5099032137768524327' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5099032137768524327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5099032137768524327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/derision.html' title='Derision.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-3756187724462973946</id><published>2008-07-20T07:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-20T07:16:18.120-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Adept.</title><content type='html'>Thrice, or four times&lt;br /&gt;imposed and coerced,&lt;br /&gt;laden, naive and concealed&lt;br /&gt;prevent, tempted in attempt;&lt;br /&gt;an option to let go, in vain.&lt;br /&gt;Stilled and pursued,&lt;br /&gt;ions rush my head, reign.&lt;br /&gt;Another night eclipsed &lt;br /&gt;this is pervasive pain...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3756187724462973946?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3756187724462973946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3756187724462973946' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3756187724462973946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3756187724462973946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/adept.html' title='Adept.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-8539115078941539956</id><published>2008-07-19T00:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-19T01:01:44.773-07:00</updated><title type='text'>X-Y = Dialogue 2</title><content type='html'>Y&lt;br /&gt;Tepid and little uncertain&lt;br /&gt;abrupt, playful and terse&lt;br /&gt;unwilling to move further&lt;br /&gt;this submissive verse.&lt;br /&gt;And now that poetry gets&lt;br /&gt;mechanical in all rhyme&lt;br /&gt;why should I suppress?&lt;br /&gt;what is not sublime, mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X&lt;br /&gt;This verse culminates&lt;br /&gt;knowledge illuminates&lt;br /&gt;the darkest recesses&lt;br /&gt;something suppresses.&lt;br /&gt;I search for anger, sadness or hope&lt;br /&gt;really, any sign of life&lt;br /&gt;some days are just polite&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&lt;br /&gt;Inundated, sedated&lt;br /&gt;melancholia invades&lt;br /&gt;vexes, expresses&lt;br /&gt;the gloom pervades.&lt;br /&gt;Now I sit back and&lt;br /&gt;give this another try&lt;br /&gt;metaphorical, still&lt;br /&gt;an unsuitable reply.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X&lt;br /&gt;The gloom pervades&lt;br /&gt;yet hope permeates&lt;br /&gt;the dissidence of logic&lt;br /&gt;the diligence of faith.&lt;br /&gt;They shall never be apart&lt;br /&gt;caught in between life, when&lt;br /&gt;shadows cast lights&lt;br /&gt;first love last rites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&lt;br /&gt;Palpable gloom aside&lt;br /&gt;this happiness I evade&lt;br /&gt;and minutes wasted&lt;br /&gt;explaining what I once said.&lt;br /&gt;Because sometimes this&lt;br /&gt;imagination makes tinge&lt;br /&gt;as funny thoughts reside&lt;br /&gt;of a hope that does cringe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X&lt;br /&gt;Hope is incessant&lt;br /&gt;so, alas is fear&lt;br /&gt;I try and yet I fail&lt;br /&gt;its my cross to bear.&lt;br /&gt;Attempts to pretend&lt;br /&gt;are futile in the end&lt;br /&gt;as the world spins&lt;br /&gt;"this bottle of henny wins".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&lt;br /&gt;They shant disregard&lt;br /&gt;writing thats incense&lt;br /&gt;and I shall appreciate it&lt;br /&gt;in all its brilliance.&lt;br /&gt;Because when in splendor&lt;br /&gt;it achieves significance&lt;br /&gt;making our lives grandeur&lt;br /&gt;in all their magnificence.&lt;br /&gt;And thus, I'd pen these out&lt;br /&gt;like a child drives a kite&lt;br /&gt;and alone, they may seem little&lt;br /&gt;but when together, an erudite's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X&lt;br /&gt;This pretense is intense&lt;br /&gt;with fog so dense&lt;br /&gt;there's always turbulence,&lt;br /&gt;and with a micro lens&lt;br /&gt;we look for clues&lt;br /&gt;and search meaning&lt;br /&gt;where none exists&lt;br /&gt;it just is what it is,&lt;br /&gt;so submit to it&lt;br /&gt;without hope or agenda&lt;br /&gt;just commit to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&lt;br /&gt;The abundance of these thoughts&lt;br /&gt;the assiduity, perseverance &lt;br /&gt;and now when submitted&lt;br /&gt;you feign that arrogance.&lt;br /&gt;Because ignorance is yet &lt;br /&gt;acceptable, in mere essence&lt;br /&gt;but it can be misleading if the&lt;br /&gt;pretext speaks incoherence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X&lt;br /&gt;Arrogance, an instance&lt;br /&gt;insensitive ignorance&lt;br /&gt;a word spoken erroneously&lt;br /&gt;sometimes even a glance.&lt;br /&gt;An emotion which gained freedom&lt;br /&gt;trust lost; askance&lt;br /&gt;still we chug along&lt;br /&gt;until next time, so long...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&lt;br /&gt;What was completed long ago&lt;br /&gt;as simple as chalk and cheese&lt;br /&gt;and as someone once remarked&lt;br /&gt;no poem is as beautiful as a tree.&lt;br /&gt;Because when its unconnected&lt;br /&gt;the stanzas start to accumulate&lt;br /&gt;and in fullness we become chagrined&lt;br /&gt;it stays, slips, and then culminates.&lt;br /&gt;Done.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-8539115078941539956?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/8539115078941539956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=8539115078941539956' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8539115078941539956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/8539115078941539956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/x-y-dialogue-2.html' title='X-Y = Dialogue 2'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-5144747213976341006</id><published>2008-07-17T22:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-17T22:18:57.124-07:00</updated><title type='text'>X-Y = Dialogue 1</title><content type='html'>X&lt;br /&gt;A blue fatigue, raising insinuation&lt;br /&gt;a colouless plight, forlorn with glory&lt;br /&gt;the first spring of death&lt;br /&gt;randomness.&lt;br /&gt;Walking on the motionless street&lt;br /&gt;eyes reticent but still elusive&lt;br /&gt;who weeps for the ones gone &lt;br /&gt;the sky creeps from the hiatus begone.&lt;br /&gt;The lone star is now the cinder&lt;br /&gt;cracked open with blistering stymie&lt;br /&gt;i write sans an erudite melancholy&lt;br /&gt;plausible yet, is the color of money.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&lt;br /&gt;Obtrusive glances steal a glimpse &lt;br /&gt;as he tries to starve himself&lt;br /&gt;of know how and escapades profound&lt;br /&gt;whose feat are yellow 'neat the ground.&lt;br /&gt;Turn, moon kissing the skyline&lt;br /&gt;dearth in this missing puzzle&lt;br /&gt;plausible yet demeaning,&lt;br /&gt;this attempt that arises to ridicule again. &lt;br /&gt;Eclectia is becoming common&lt;br /&gt;morbid fantasies strike enthusiasm&lt;br /&gt;shall strive for the benign chase&lt;br /&gt;doubt that owns my grimace.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X&lt;br /&gt;A withering flower, receding but alive&lt;br /&gt;striving for a whiff of yellow &lt;br /&gt;the first prayer offered to God&lt;br /&gt;of feelings harsh and mellow.&lt;br /&gt;A caustic smile brooding over a lie&lt;br /&gt;fills the edema, silently, but&lt;br /&gt;the recesses of the flowing neurons&lt;br /&gt;pulsating with an energy so raw&lt;br /&gt;the second prayer offered to love &lt;br /&gt;I raise the extremities above.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&lt;br /&gt;Tantalized by vanishing sky lights,&lt;br /&gt;this melee in hypnotized crisis&lt;br /&gt;a skirmish to get rid of dilapidation &lt;br /&gt;charred, cessation of sensation.&lt;br /&gt;Cold thoughts run haywire &lt;br /&gt;tepid taunts rummage ze mind&lt;br /&gt;mildew in this satire of words &lt;br /&gt;this unfair poetic incline.&lt;br /&gt;Now zither to provide hapless life&lt;br /&gt;to all that that swims underneath&lt;br /&gt;soliciting language in haunted strokes&lt;br /&gt;there is numbness in my feet. &lt;br /&gt;Sleep&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;X&lt;br /&gt;This unfair poetic incline&lt;br /&gt;the emotion so denied&lt;br /&gt;an attempt ridiculed&lt;br /&gt;grotesque is the irony of life&lt;br /&gt;Finishing sentences before thoughts&lt;br /&gt;the disparate cluster sans flourish&lt;br /&gt;a blemish, a flirtation &lt;br /&gt;the platitudes of fortitude;&lt;br /&gt;a secret guarded more than life&lt;br /&gt;denied to a stranger in guise&lt;br /&gt;cryogenics be the answer&lt;br /&gt;in this comedy so divine.&lt;br /&gt;Sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Y&lt;br /&gt;We break away from rightful sleep,&lt;br /&gt;little by little; piece by piece. &lt;br /&gt;caffeine kept away at bliss, these hours&lt;br /&gt;how they hang in there with their righteous souls.&lt;br /&gt;Halo comes off, bordering dust off the periphery &lt;br /&gt;a coma, stranded in unfamiliar territory&lt;br /&gt;strains of chords slip eons back &lt;br /&gt;rivers rushing, gunning for my ears.&lt;br /&gt;Arriving at this domain of pessimistic write,&lt;br /&gt;self compromising tunes tonight, tonight.&lt;br /&gt;diluted within this sky, erased by light &lt;br /&gt;inaudible screams, audible cries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(With due courtesy to T...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-5144747213976341006?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/5144747213976341006/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=5144747213976341006' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5144747213976341006'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5144747213976341006'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-1618327832186444919</id><published>2008-07-16T10:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T10:36:39.674-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stubborn.</title><content type='html'>For when I'm modestly dim, inebriated&lt;br /&gt;she haunts with unsettled prowess&lt;br /&gt;and my mind sells itself numb&lt;br /&gt;giving into her silken, ginger caress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For I have not been brave enough&lt;br /&gt;to rattle in her mind this time&lt;br /&gt;and she keeps within check&lt;br /&gt;all of these muted, frozen rhymes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For then a ready reckoner comes with &lt;br /&gt;the bed on which she dropped the rum &lt;br /&gt;and told me of how love is stitched&lt;br /&gt;but the love song never hummed.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1618327832186444919?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/1618327832186444919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=1618327832186444919' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1618327832186444919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/1618327832186444919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/stubborn.html' title='Stubborn.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-1730077226342600258</id><published>2008-07-16T08:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-16T08:45:52.502-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Temper.</title><content type='html'>And finally your fingers clipped&lt;br /&gt;trying their best to win&lt;br /&gt;and your hand studied my face&lt;br /&gt;from the forehead to the chin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So today I cut my fingernails&lt;br /&gt;and clutched by face when&lt;br /&gt;I did my best to figure out&lt;br /&gt;what you had learnt back then...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1730077226342600258?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-1296611724006204636</id><published>2008-07-14T00:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-14T00:57:27.267-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I Threw A Brick Through A Window/ Laden.</title><content type='html'>Three bars too slow, precipitation&lt;br /&gt;frames slide off the shelf&lt;br /&gt;moving alone in anticipation&lt;br /&gt;shadow of her former self.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She puts on her slippers &lt;br /&gt;wary of the spread silkworms,&lt;br /&gt;taken aback in volume&lt;br /&gt;feet dressed in germs. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dub has rubbed her mind&lt;br /&gt;pulsated, she believes it'll suffice&lt;br /&gt;swooped by the monotone&lt;br /&gt;memory dissolved in chalice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She seems so out of reach&lt;br /&gt;a liberal figure of speech,&lt;br /&gt;her words are hard to miss &lt;br /&gt;aegis of a bad first kiss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clothes she didn't believe in&lt;br /&gt;people, she never cared&lt;br /&gt;subject to minuscule greed&lt;br /&gt;my atrophied need. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nobody quite knows how to say,&lt;br /&gt;posters spell a different speak &lt;br /&gt;what she said I didnt much get&lt;br /&gt;if it isn't her, it must be me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1296611724006204636?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/1296611724006204636/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=1296611724006204636' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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climb above to hide&lt;br /&gt;hair fastened, intertwines&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For when melancholy pervades&lt;br /&gt;even warmth takes effort&lt;br /&gt;quiet she says, don't interrupt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst in mechanical tick tock &lt;br /&gt;she abandons her silly glance&lt;br /&gt;ignorant eyes, slow and entranced&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thick, half witted discourse&lt;br /&gt;mute barren hands, she wins &lt;br /&gt;and thus, we haven't spoken since..&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-2762846845855927923?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/2762846845855927923/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=2762846845855927923' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2762846845855927923'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/2762846845855927923'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/inaudible.html' title='Inaudible.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-4627096964147943847</id><published>2008-07-10T22:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-10T22:57:38.577-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Insignificance.</title><content type='html'>This cincture's overture&lt;br /&gt;like rapture when she rues &lt;br /&gt;shouts that scream at me&lt;br /&gt;when she has no excuse.&lt;br /&gt;And in time I'd disremember&lt;br /&gt;those letters she sends&lt;br /&gt;for when we need to talk&lt;br /&gt;its only to make amends.&lt;br /&gt;Now escorted by recent threads&lt;br /&gt;this ardor becomes a rope&lt;br /&gt;and I still keep staring&lt;br /&gt;at those unopened envelopes.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-4627096964147943847?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/4627096964147943847/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=4627096964147943847' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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close&lt;br /&gt;a stone's throw away,&lt;br /&gt;And words she did carve&lt;br /&gt;in overwrought sentences&lt;br /&gt;my crestfallen eyes fail&lt;br /&gt;missing faint nuances.&lt;br /&gt;For its the same bouquet &lt;br /&gt;she first wore when&lt;br /&gt;we met and now she says&lt;br /&gt;it never did happen then.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-3791892591447271704?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/3791892591447271704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=3791892591447271704' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/3791892591447271704'/><link rel='self' 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too hard to resist.&lt;br /&gt;The moment denizens take her name, &lt;br /&gt;all encapsulated in freeze frame.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-5196116546984603719?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/5196116546984603719/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=5196116546984603719' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5196116546984603719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/5196116546984603719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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books she told.&lt;br /&gt;and the last time I felt her,&lt;br /&gt;seems a hundred summers old.&lt;br /&gt;Well etched, I trace her face through&lt;br /&gt;these pained distressed eyes.&lt;br /&gt;as notions are all I have left&lt;br /&gt;of you, my inamorata in guise.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-6080421789681520132?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/6080421789681520132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=6080421789681520132' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6080421789681520132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1772275128309883467/posts/default/6080421789681520132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-very-minute.html' title='This Very Minute.'/><author><name>Jalap.</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/11748330695286498192</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='31' src='http://fat-cat.co.uk/fatcat/packshots/325/76_156.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1772275128309883467.post-7555158804507376083</id><published>2008-07-04T22:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-04T22:43:17.871-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pique.</title><content type='html'>I remember the splatter when&lt;br /&gt;your feet splashed into the pool&lt;br /&gt;of dirty water on the street &lt;br /&gt;sounding a discordant tune.&lt;br /&gt;I can call back on an afternoon&lt;br /&gt;when your hands clutched beer&lt;br /&gt;and your fingers moved aimlessly&lt;br /&gt;switching songs on the CD player.&lt;br /&gt;I recollect your neck and your&lt;br /&gt;head slowly losing its hair&lt;br /&gt;while you made little secret&lt;br /&gt;of how much you didn't care.&lt;br /&gt;but I can't conjure up images which&lt;br /&gt;evoke minutes of delay&lt;br /&gt;and you clamped to my skin&lt;br /&gt;endearing love like crumbling clay.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-7555158804507376083?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/7555158804507376083/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1772275128309883467&amp;postID=7555158804507376083' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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misleading&lt;br /&gt;for when I find rationale in calm&lt;br /&gt;its hard to get past anyone at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now that its been eagerly stated&lt;br /&gt;coveted sheets with vague ink traces &lt;br /&gt;hopelessly sublime in hourly autumn&lt;br /&gt;its not the tune you've been trying to hum.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And nothing is wrong of what i know&lt;br /&gt;luring me with feet that fast become cold&lt;br /&gt;I tumble over to find myself alone&lt;br /&gt;an annoyed vision and shadows stoned. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now I lie pale in distress and sweat&lt;br /&gt;with a memory that refuses to dim&lt;br /&gt;despite amnesia thats has the best of me&lt;br /&gt;vividly screaming until my knees.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And when did I say what she said I did&lt;br /&gt;peculiarly absent in a tale with twists &lt;br /&gt;for what was then a once in a while&lt;br /&gt;is now bludgeoning me in spiral screams.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And now those words which have been said&lt;br /&gt;with due diligence and dutiful caress &lt;br /&gt;in sentences formed from haplessness&lt;br /&gt;obscured in cumbersome ginger stress. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And again resting in near comatose&lt;br /&gt;serenaded in visuals of archaic prose&lt;br /&gt;comes another quote from the sack&lt;br /&gt;she knows im too wasted to fight back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And this self fulfilling prophecy declines&lt;br /&gt;a ream of endless possibilities in time &lt;br /&gt;because no more am I what I came to be&lt;br /&gt;of dreams that languish and die with poetry...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1772275128309883467-1998625068722916881?l=selfishrain.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://selfishrain.blogspot.com/feeds/1998625068722916881/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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