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Mark Ayers

Room Enough

2010-02-16 Poetry

Black young tough Mid­dle of the way Hold­ing sway Insti­ga­tors to the left And the right There to intim­i­date To make the place This space Safe for com­merce “Look at that cracker.“ “See how he look at you?“ But I move on through ’Cause I’m cool too Room enough in this great place For any race […]

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So Many

2010-02-15 Poetry

By the many, so many too Con­cen­trated here Could over­whelm a mind That sought to touch Them each in their sep­a­rate­ness The most basic needs met If not the stan­dard Of our TV fair Our movie, large screened Every place at once
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Tagged as: crowds

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Peacock Drab

2010-02-14 Poetry

I won­der Am I even vis­i­ble On those days alone
Long walks to, Through and among The mul­ti­tude
But feet clad In a pea­cock way Gather eyes To the ground I cover
I’d ‘ave never thunk it Obliv­i­ous As I am
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Observation

2010-02-13 Prose

Hav­ing already caught the girl, she works on. What lay before her is home to bed, together, or over and apart. Still she works on, to catch the girl she’s already caught, one of the guys, lay­ing down the story of Ann’s tit flash, of Joe’s month long birth­day cel­e­bra­tion, back to the tits . […]

Tagged as: awareness, conquest, desire, play

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Hope for Freedom

2010-02-12 Poetry

Another day, another way, toward another goal, in another place.
Always still, our­selves, as we work to hide the truth of it, from our­selves,
as those around us hope, we find our way, to let our­selves, go free.
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Tagged as: change, existence, relationship

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A swirl

2010-02-11 Poetry

So many mixed together The physicist’s gas Heated Active All a swirl Hydro­gen pass­ing To and fro No col­li­sion Just a shud­der of activ­ity
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Tagged as: chicago, crowds, urban

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Fertile Ground

2010-02-10 Poetry

Back in it, sur­rounded by the illu­sion my mind con­structs from the images, the sounds, the aro­mas, the taste of the air.
Hav­ing lived, just there, I remem­ber the lonely alien­ation that was my real­ity of here, then.
Still, enough of the trap­pings have changed to make this scene
fer­tile ground.
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Tagged as: change, place, time

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In Between

2010-02-09 Prose

Here I am among six bil­lions filled with an abid­ing lone­li­ness as I pass through this moment in tran­si­tion from where I was to where I will be. I am in between. In between is one of the three places I have lived my life. The other two are almost there and here, now.
When I am here, now, the time and events are not catalogued […]

Tagged as: change, chicago, place

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This isn’t what I planned

2010-02-08 Poetry

This isn’t what I planned, were I thought I’d be, what I thought I’d be doing.
This isn’t what I planned, who I thought I’d be, what I thought I’d be doing too.
But I like where I am, the road that got me here, the folks I met along the road.
But I like where I am, the who I have become, the folks I met along the road too.
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Tagged as: being, change, identity, journey, life, philosophy, place

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Bound to Struggle

2010-02-07 Poetry

Bound to strug­gle as we nav­i­gate these inter­per­sonal waters, two beings ever sep­a­rate.
Bound to strug­gle as I nav­i­gate this world, out­side it, yet con­tained fully within as well.
Bound to strug­gle as he mas­ters a new task, the con­scious mind does poorly what the sub­con­scious will do with ease once the con­scious mind is fin­ished.
Bound to strug­gle as they […]

Tagged as: change, community, life, relationship, struggle

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Hell’s Meal

2010-02-06 Poetry

Rage Sub­sumed just below the skin Leaks out in dribs and drabs
Screams against the traf­fic
Clenched at unre­li­able friends
Real­ity grates Tears away Leaves bro­ken ripped and torn
And with each light brush Bits or raw flesh Fall free
Food to sea­son Hell’s meal
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Tagged as: life, pain, relationship

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Managementese

2010-02-05 Poetry

“Do this.”
All the words say.
Then
A bunch of words seem­ingly intended to expli­cate
“Do this.”
But that in fact mean
“Do the other thing.”
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Tagged as: business, confusion, direction, management, selection

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There/Not There

2010-02-04 Poetry

Halfway may be far worse Than none of the way at all.
Some­times it is a binary choice. Here or there. There or here.
I don’t want to be Schrödinger’s cat.
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Tagged as: being, change, experience, identity, journey, philosophy

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The Business

2010-02-03 Poetry

The busi­ness dreams of, yearns for. Truly wants, and needs, cre­ativ­ity. Not know­ing it itself, not being the source. It isn’t sure when it sees it. It fears the risk and so rarely takes the risk.
And why? Are the con­se­quences so great?
So fear­ing the risk, they do not take the risk.
Instead, they fol­low each other like sheep. They […]

Tagged as: business, creativity, fear, hollywood

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Quotes

2010-02-02 Commentary

Famous Put­downs

I feel so mis­er­able with­out you; it’s almost like hav­ing you here. — Stephen Bishop
He has all the virtues I dis­like and none of the vices I admire. — Winston Churchill
A mod­est lit­tle per­son, with much to be mod­est about. — Winston Churchill
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obit­u­ar­ies with great pleasure. — Clarence Dar­row
He has never been known to use […]

Tagged as: humor, quote

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P/N Without E

2010-02-01 Poetry

I am just like you.I am very dif­fer­ent from you.
I walked through all the same doors of devel­op­ment as you.I arrived at them at nearly the same time as you.My pass­ing through them had most of the char­ac­ter­is­tics of your pass­ing through them too.
Still where we have arrived isn’t the same.Mine is uniquely my own.Yours is uniquely […]

Tagged as: community, existence, philosophy

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A Fog

2010-01-31 Poetry

A fog lay over us all for some few days now too In and out the sound breathes The day and the night dressed in the mist
I wear it about me like a cloak
From here upon the hill’s top I can watch it waft in one win­dow and out the other
Joy­ously it is weather North­west style
Being the child of the […]

Tagged as: fog, salish sea, sound, weather

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Consultancy

2010-01-30 Professional

Con­sul­tancy
An arrange­ment where a per­son or orga­ni­za­tion is engaged:
to give expert analy­sis and advice which facil­i­tates decision-making;
to do a spe­cific, one-off task or set of tasks; and
to do a task involv­ing skills or per­spec­tives which would not nor­mally be expected to be found within the orga­ni­za­tion seek­ing the consultation.

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Tagged as: definition

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A Memory of Summer

2010-01-29 Poetry

Sun­set and open sky from this hill­top home.
Red, gray, blue, pink.
Sound and silences scent of life and sum­mer.
Defined qual­ity of sight in these
moments before
the end of twi­light.
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Tagged as: being, experience, home, quiet

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Always On

2010-01-28 Poetry

Swim, float, sink and breathe water, evolve, eve love.
Save and cast into the pool of what needs not to be saved.
Are and Am!
We wor­ship at the altar of impa­tience and patience of our own trans­for­ma­tion from what we were to what we will be.
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Tagged as: being, change, existence, experience, identity, place

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