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This is a Tale of a Two-Horse Town

January 1, 2013 by LUmansky

 

It isn’t a myth. All stories are based in truth, so I’m gonna tell you.

There were two horses:  Carl and Hans.  Carl came from the air.

No one knew his whereabouts; no one cared. He was a good horse.

He held magic in his hooves.  If that horse bled, it bled gold.   Hans

was a thoroughbred. He came from tradition. He came from hay.

[Haystacks, so high, you wouldn’t believe] He bled oats; he bled

blue ribbons. Together, the two made something metropolis. Before

anyone knew it, they were brushing their manes like Hans, and if

Carl said you needed plaid horseshoes, you better believe you got

yourself not one, but two pair. They captured this town by taking

the lead, and made it a little Ungashtupt. No one had ever seen

anything like it. They turned stables to skyrises. Then, they took off

the blinders, and saw. They saw The World, and it was their Apple.

They made this city; they made you and I. And we’ll carry their

banner into the dawn, into the New Age.

© 2013 Umansky


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my books have arrived!

December 16, 2012 by LUmansky

my new books arrived! so exciting!

my new books arrived! so exciting!

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It’s the Selling

December 9, 2012 by LUmansky

The most important word is N-E-W !! And, in the face of optimism

It’s all about getting things done. You need to feel something –   

That’s what sells.   That’s what steals over you, across your face,

Down the back of your neck; into the flush. It’s the selling.

Some part wanders off and actually likes the remembering.

The remembering of being told what you like and what you don’t.

It is almost-precious the way the back of the head is both cushion and

Target  [and I’m aiming]. You can feel after it, but the reality of the sale

Is there: you want to be told.  Your personal territory is harvested

[Some would argue deforested] but  remember the feeling

Right before you put your finger on it; right before you knew

What it meant to want.  It was delicious.  It was savory.  It was:

Pure.     Now.     Quickly now.   Go brush away those crumbs –

That remembering.         [or are you saving those for later?]

 

© Umansky 2012

 

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The Little War

October 6, 2012 by LUmansky

 

The heart cannot speak. The stomach cannot see. The kidney cannot hear. The liver cannot taste. The eyes cannot feel. They lack.

 

In this little war, the speed of the eye is null and akin to nothing.  No one knows this.

 

Still, it theorizes,

                                        

 

 

of this.

 

Together, we do not move or forage or forest.  Reader, what do you know of muteness? Of the world so strange and of the haunt of numbers?                                 

                                                                                                                           

I want

to know what you carry

                                                                        …there…

 

(if it is a key,   give it.)

 

It feels like a battle. A hidden one. A hidden, little, one. Subtle-like, where my feet do not leave prints. The air does not capture my breath. My hair does not hit the floor, it flies up to a tree where it harvests a nest for someone/thing else.  Nothing shoots. Nothing loads. No thing screams, but I know something inside wants.

 

I don’t know what is beneath the exterior, or  the virtual. I am losing.  Alignment is losing. Thought is losing. Feeling is latching to some thing some where.

                                   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                What happened to the story?

when?

What happened to the tale?

how?

Say that someone, somewhere knows.

reach.

 

                        Reach me.      

 

© Umansky 2012

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The cover of my upcoming first collection of poems DOMESTIC UNCERTAINTIES by BlazeVOX Books in 2013

September 24, 2012 by LUmansky

See my author page at BlazeVOX for ordering info.

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When Boys Become Werewolves

September 12, 2012 by LUmansky

When Boys Become Werewolves

 

for marina

 

When boys become werewolves

they come back stronger,

to suffer

 

after the very soft life

feats relate to feats            

 

 

say, next

say, more

say, more to me next week

and falsify the known.

 

 

Even the readiest marks

can run.  Harvest, here.  And tell me, how

and let the lunar lie. Rustle here. Lie to me.

 

 

One moon. Four stars. Two girls. One car. One wish. One moon. Four Stars. Two girls. One car. One wish. One moon. Four Stars. Two girls. One car. One moon. Four Stars. Two girls. One car…

 

© Umansky 2012

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The Future

August 21, 2012 by LUmansky

 

Actually, I’ve decided it’s a good thing to be off

because I’m tired of being on but I know

certainly, IT will find me, in the thick

downing white wine on a night where I’m boogying to the music

everywhere and it will be enough; it will be

forgettable in an unforgettable way; in the most

gorgeous way, because I will hold it with my

hands; hold it by the seat of its pants and

I will love it to the ground. First, in envy, and then in

jealousy. I will bash its brains out; I will

kill it; make it late for supper; give it a wedgie; I will

laugh in its face and kick it in the nuts. Being

mean will feel soooo good – finally – and in time, I’m sure,

nostalgia will settle on our couch like a dear

old friend; and we will laugh at the way I gave it a

purple eye; and we will hold each other close; and

quiet those later-demons; those sullen misfits

rapturing up the past like a bulldozer in the morn;

sullied in my remembering, I will invite this chaos in for

tea, but I digress, I won’t suppress,  now, back to the beating. It will

unequivocally deserve what it gets after leaving me: fielded. Alone.

vaulting my heart up to any star’s arms, any star’s hungry fangs.

won’t it feel good to start blood from your nose; to

ex-communicate you from your shenanigans; and show

you how sorry you’ll be for missing what I’ve had to give all these years.

“ZOUNDS!” you’ll say; and then you’ll give us a kiss that was way overdue.

 

© Umansky 2012

 

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Connecting

August 9, 2012 by LUmansky

                                               

This is where we are now and the audience participates     

We throw apples, oranges, bananas and pears. (Knives, sometimes, too)

We aren’t really starting fires; if we are, they aren’t real fires.

 

We villainize others, at times, but it’s usually in jest. Do you know those   

villains were really just country-folk and that our intentions then sour?

This is where we are now and the audience participates.

 

The way the flames start is through niceties and like-ings and

the things that empower our spirit like sparkings and spunk.

(we aren’t really starting fires; if we are, they aren’t real)

 

When we participate it’s a given-charity, like lamplight or sky.

The agency is good and the activity is fresh. Life moves. Be ready.

This is where we are and the audience packs their bags and hops on.

 

They can enter any car to any destination, screaming choo choo with the rest.

It is gingering and relieving and near-ambulatory to say what you mean,

how you mean it. These aren’t real fires; it’s just private campgrounds.

 

And sometimes others interfere. They want to join your pack;

they want to add to your ghost-story; throw shadows into the

campfire and put the fire out before dawn. This is where we are

now and you don’t want to be left out. Gather round, here.

                                                                                                            Now.

© Umansky 2012

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Make Believe

August 7, 2012 by LUmansky

The Human Animal and the Story Animal play on the page.

Sure, they poke and wrestle, but they mean well as nicely as they mean.

But, are our what ifs truly universal? Do all tales compute?

 

Sometimes, there is a collection of trouble in the way the story functions and plays.

One small lie gives the Story, a ball and chain, and the Human, a crossbow.

The human animal and the story animal play innocently.

 

The story not only sticks, it mesmerizes and binds. Its potency is pure.

We are hard wired to change the world, but are they? Is the story?

In this life, are our what ifs truly universal?

 

Universally speaking, what if our stories are not created equally, and our compulsion

to invent is merely at rest in our bindings or unbindings to this world?

The human animal and the story animal play on the page,

 

and when one bleeds, after their picking and poking, nibbling, and kneading

do we  really need a winner? Isn’t blood, blood? Is it about free-will,

or all just gobbledygook? In this life, are our what ifs truly universal?

 

Let’s instruct this: I’ll assist, and insist. Both animals are proud beasts.

The fabric of this Neverland of ours is linguistical not analytical. Envision 

the tale, it all begins in sounds: Horse. Bear. Fowl. Fish. Child. GhoulGhoulGhoul

All stories are indivisible by all. They run deep inside this brush or page,

this Brave New Stage, and our what ifs might thieve us.

                                                                                            and the universe may be in on it all

 

© Umansky 2012

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Consider Our Greetings a Barometer

July 31, 2012 by LUmansky

On a scale of 1- 10 where do you fall in your ways with the world:

                                   

                                    1 = a  [like]

                                    3 = a [follow] of a blog or tumblr

                                    5 =  an exchange of digits or emails

                                    10 = physical contact: a kiss, a hug (or more )

 

What side of the spectrum are you ? Are we really that hard to read?  I’m so sincere: it’s like I could just open up my vein and say, here, take.

 

All the messages I send are accurate: I don’t need the alliterations or jargon.

 

We are all just blood and guts;

[except the web.]

 

My heart runs around in its own operating system of attentiveness.

 

Love has become a cross-cultural signature. I sometimes opt for the ♥ as I only use “Love” when I mean it.  It’s complicated and we Xerox the hell out of our expressions.  I don’t want it to lose its signifying grace.

 

Watch me climb to the top of this social tower. I dig my feet into all the titillating rituals we have; I grab on with the meat of my hands and I push off.

 

                                                                                                                The reining-in is all mine,

so who cares about the social network.

 

*

 

                                                 “Why aren’t they friending me?”

                                                “Women tweet more than men;”

                                                “Technology is killing intimacy”

                                                “The Internet breeds predators”

 

 

Yes, nothing comes from nothing, so realize that no thing is to blame. If you think this intimacy is false, then enjoy that chip on your shoulder; you can get “off the line” anytime you want

                        [step aside people; step aside]

 

            but I; I feel heightened.  I love what has become. 

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