The wise old bartender Had cleaned every glass From the lips that would listen As their footprints would pass He learned about 'talkers' And the things they'd drink in While by nature and wisdom What we've learned in our skin He spoke very little As he'd wipe them all dry Not only the outside But their insides that cry . . . "I'm empty and lonely And need something with proof" . . . That's when he'd open up And serve the hardest drink - 'Truth'
Playing with words
... before I have to eat them
By Kaptain ObviousBalboa Press
Copyright © 2013 Kaptain Obvious
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-8702-8Contents
Trans-parently, 1,
Letting the words line up for 'The sentencing', 2,
The tattle-tells reading will, 3,
It's 'What they said', 4,
Sky drivers, 5,
The only breath I know, 6,
....Humans, 7,
Feeding what you want into it, 9,
When the tax break falls, 10,
Where your book ends ... meet, 11,
With a brush of the tongue, 12,
Serving for generations, 13,
No choice but to, 14,
Hear today.... echo tomorrow, 15,
Gone.... on going, 16,
'Words'.... The silent undertakers, 17,
"Why's?" and 'wise' ... same sound with opposite mental directions, 18,
No-interest from the Bank of Attention, 19,
Buy too-day.... the world is 'picture perfect', 20,
Friends ... by making friends, 21,
....they went THAT way, 22,
Or else I'd be back.... 'there', 23,
Righting the head-liners, 24,
One parked bike at a time, 26,
The thing that buys money, 27,
You're already so 'in it'.... You're there, 28,
What dirt does for garbage, 30,
The bulb under the lampshade, 31,
What's been 'under our knows' the HOLE time!, 32,
Soft.... where?, 33,
Your words are good to know - but better to hear you with, 34,
You take it from here.... or life takes it from there, 35,
Another sonny day at the teach, 36,
'Home from the meeting' serenade, 38,
At 'the point' in a relationship, 39,
Re-presenting what's going on - to see 'The present', 40,
When you focus on your past – it becomes your future, 41,
Feeling halfway guilty about....?, 42,
The HUMAN Application we have to feel out, 43,
Wisdom can't come out alone, 44,
The roots of our fingerprints, 45,
'Confused', 46,
When it all starts making cents, 47,
Cut once.... measure twice, 48,
Who attention pays.... first, 49,
By whom the rocks throw, 50,
Turning the box into a bag and letting the cat out, 51,
If not 'HERE' ... Where? - if not 'ME'...Who? - if not 'NOW' ... When?, 52,
An Eye for an 'I', 53,
"If it's grim...." say the reapers, 54,
'Statistically speaking'.... Do we "NO!" this?, 55,
More than a headline, 56,
Passing 'the issue'.... please!, 57,
Naked in the mirrored window, 58,
Life.... from the past lane, 59,
What 'experience' never wonders, 60,
It's not the role you play ... but the character it makes you, 61,
Not leaving "I'm well enough" - alone, 62,
Who said "There's no such thing as...."?, 64,
If we're smarter than we're looking ... where are we looking?, 65,
By the skin of the teeth, 66,
When we accept the following, 67,
It's the only explanation.... I can find, 69,
Betting the 'odds'....?, 70,
Pointing out the problem only makes it right if YOU haven't left, 71,
Um, 72,
Were we supposed to 'take' notes?, 73,
Prescriptive lenses, 74,
'Fear' is an option - so is 'What I'm about to say....', 75,
I balls, 76,
From left to right.... time marches on, 77,
Life's lost and bound, 78,
It takes a lot of angels to pull one out of the pit, 79,
'Stupidity' is easier than we've made it look, 80,
The sign of the reasons, 81,
....and then it spoke, 82,
You can't push a rope uphill, 83,
Speaking in plain language, 84,
Smile.... It's an 'I' exercise, 85,
Questions we've already answered, 86,
Different than the 'experts' say, 87,
Stra-gedey – It sounds made up ... until you 'watch', 88,
The weight of ALL matter, 89,
Dancing around the life boat, 90,
The difference between learning and making history, 91,
Exposed.... ahead of time, 92,
Too much fertilizer to go.... back there, 93,
The whole world in those hands, 94,
Our glasses, 95,
It's hard to see 'the big picture' when you're in your frame, 96,
EGO-nomically efficient, 97,
Writing.... the 'what's left?', 98,
Then who?, 99,
Who I am, 100,
The written waiting womb, 101,
Defining the details, 102,
Where things go ... in 'The end', 103,
The invisible cheering section, 104,
Crummy commercials cause, 105,
The ground hogs day, 107,
CHAPTER 1
Trans-parently
Would we know where we are going
On this lonely road we run....
If there was no one to control us
Except by things ourselves had done?
"Ah-ha!" says all of reason
"That's exactly what we'll do....
Give the humans enough timing
So they can see themselves – clear through...."
Letting the words line up
for 'The sentencing'
WHO in here could answer?
Or WHAT in here could say??
....The things we all are seeing
As each person feels their way??
WHAT in here could wonder?
Or make an image to assume ...
That each person is connected
By their problems in their room??
WHEN could understanding
Have a lineup all it's own?
So our very own - called 'future'
From our past could now be shown??
WHERE will be the laying
Of the wisdom that killed fear
—To bring all of the treasure
That one 'I' could say "It's HEAR!"?
Or WHY do words still linger
And WHY would words still care??
—Unless they're buried deep within you
To escape.... and take you THERE
The tattle-tells reading will....
She died on a day
That nobody knew
Though rumors foretold it
Still it's legends had grew
For there on the pages
Laid the proof from her pen
—That all minds were avoiding
Until.... No other way in
As some will leave money
Or some will leave proof
That the thing we can't take
Always had been the truth....
But in great moderation
There's no truth that's untold
'She died on a day'....
—Now their life's to unfold
It's 'What they said'....
It's said "Words can not teach"
But in ONE case they do....
—When...
