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The melting snow still glistens
The mountains kissed with sun
Calls of nature and I still listen
Walkin’ muddy paths still fun

Searching heavily in disguise
Patterns of fields and snow
Are very similar to the skies
Where clouds and sunlight go

Land and water stained by time
Awaiting a brand new start
A willing sun starts to climb
My glad awakening heart

The smelly first signs of spring
Smoky fires from a sugar shack
A fresh new cycle life does bring
Walking through the Hard’ack

to a five penny piece
I shrunk to the size
as life made me hard
in the head and eyes

so pressed ganged was I
on a leathery ship
that lived in a pocket
on the side of her hip

and life wasn't easy
and life wasn't hard
it was tough bedding down
neath a sharp credit card

a religious medal
and I became mates
and we sung drunken songs
in between great debates

I dated a quarter
but often she snoozed
we laughed at the condom
that never got used

she took us to parties
she lost us in clubs
she found us in drawers
she drank us in pubs

a lipstick for pillow
I smiled at the fates
my blanket a dollar
she got in the states

when the end came
it was cold.. hard and clean
that's how I got here
in this vending machine

cambridge on a sunny morn
a professor deep in thought
a quasi quantum quandary
his mind now overwrought

now the kernel of dilemma
the cause of his unease?
with fish and chips for dinner..
should I go with mushy peas?

symbiotic clarity
coupled with his fate
yet the "mushyness" of peas
was abhorrent to his plate

order over chaos
his findings quite profound
yet a theorist
must work backwards
to a premis pure and sound

he expressed it as a formula
elegant in tone
he wrote it on a post-it note
and hung it by the phone

twenty minutes later
his mobile broke the breeze
and a tired gruff glaswegian cried:
" I canna read Chinese!"

Its being lonely that hurts the most
The emptiness and loss of hope
Its sad this place I've come to dwell
I understand that I'm in hell
The bitterness envelops me
This tale of woe a tragedy
Lost amid the symphony
The darkest notes of melody
In the depths of my depravity
Afflicted with this... Malady

Anger
Fear
Love
Doubt
Hate
Understand they all relate
Affecting choices we make
Emotions are tools used by you
Don't be fooled
Letting them rule your mind
True peace is inside
Unwind and let them flow
Once finished let them go
You are in control
Don't you know?

The axe whacks,
The saw cuts,
The trees bleed green blood,
The "Timber!" call,
Trees fall,
The earth sings the saddest song,
The ground feels the dying roots,
When will we see the awful truth,
Corporations make a dollar or two,
Deforestation is killing the world...

Only a fool would believe in a dream
As she comes to him upon silver streams

Only a fool sees such beauty
as he sings her a song because he feels it's his duty

Only a fool is often blind not to see her smile is selectively kind
Only a fool creates an image of his beloved in his mind

Only a fool is stupid enough to believe in such beautiful eyes
Yet cannot discern between truth and lies

Only a fool often deceives himself when he is only seeing the binder of the book upon a shelf

Only a fool accepts surface knowledge without delving deeper to the heart
often by doing so he is finished before he even starts

Only a fool hears his own song and nobody is listening anymore because they heard his same old story for too long

Only a fool refuses to heed to the wisdom blowing in the summer breeze
For he is too busy crying and whining for his beloved to appease

Only a fool is too stupid to see his beloved never left him out in the cold to freeze
Yet, he left her in tears to chase other foolish dreams

Only a fool indeed long after it's too late he has sealed his fate
There are no more chances to fix what is broken all the fool has left is a token

Only a fool never seems to learn no matter how smart he thinks he is
Love is like sand that pours out of a sieve
It rains its beauty for a moment like water to help the fool live
When its all gone there is no more to give.

Trapped

No way out of this place
We're hungry so we stuff our face
On endless sweets we continually feast
There's food suspended all around me
I'm floating in a sugary sea
Don't even have to move you see
Defecating as I eat
I continue gorging
Spreading seed
Multiplying in quantity
Till food is scarce and it's hard to breathe
Now in a world of mostly feces
Suffering in extreme toxicity
As we drown in sewage and piss
And our bodies slowly sink
Into an alcohol abyss
With my dying thought I think
"We had to die in our own shit
so you could have a drink
Oh what a life we lived..."

Signed Sincerely...The yeast

©Antonio Acosta

Why do I love you?

You used to miss me
When I was gone
You used to kiss me
When I came home
You used to hug me
Now you don't
I think you used to love me
But now you don't...
I don't know why I love you
You leave me feeling so blue
Tell me why do you do what you do?
I don't know Why I love you...
Yeah you're going out every night
I hear you're running around with other guys
Leading a double life
Why can't you be true?
I don't know why I love you
You call me on the phone
Asking me when I'll be home
Yeah I know your not alone
You think I'm some kind of a fool
Should I tell you that we're through
I don't know why I love you...
Then you look me in the eyes
Telling me your alibis
I believe another lie
Cause I'm so scared of the truth
I just don't know what to do
I don't know why I love you
I don't know why but it's true
I don't know why I love you...

I got stung
By the bug of self expression
Woke up
In the middle of the night
Thirsty for words
The broth of sparkling booze
Was gushing
Out of the wound
I tasted it and got drunk
Kept spiraling
Instead of walking a straight line
Lost my words in the noise
Realized that I had to
Take things silli-ously
And went grazing
In the pastures of pleasure