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24 in 24 – Hour 24

Jason Preu, , , 6 Comments

HOUR 24

…the poem’s end…

Oh, the poems must end.

How must it end? How can it end? How will it end?

I hear a thousand birds singing outside my window.

This is how the poems end?

Yes, this is the way the poems end.

Not with a bang
But like how a bright, new — 

I’m not really sure what all I’ve done here but … Thanks for reading along. Thanks for liking and commenting. I’m going to sleep now and then rise to fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.

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24 in 24 – Hour 24

24 in 24 – Hour 23

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SO LATE IT’S EARLY AND I’VE OUTLIVED GOOD SENSE

This need I feel for you
is like waiting for one last song
where you’re so desperate for music
that even the morning wind
starts to sounds like a symphony.

I –

I felt so much sorrow all the time.
Everything headed to heaven or hell.
I should have known better.
Should’ve remembered there were more 
than just the lonely records to play.

Time’s a right record, innit? 
Right round…right round.
Time’s a recording for all time.
I think we just might get to play it all back again.

So I wanna make it good and
make it the best it’s ever been
and I won’t save all this magic
for the turn at the poem’s end.

24 in 24 – Hour 23

24 in 24 – Hour 22

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THAT ONE ROCK OPERA WHERE BLACK HEARTS 
HAVE RAINBOW ORGASMS WHILE REALIZING THEMSELVES 
AS PART OF INDRA'S NET

Hypnotizing vertigo
I can't stand it anymore
It makes me want to cry
It makes you want to cry
It makes me want to cry

Where do souls run off to, honey?
Are the black hearts doomed too soon?
I’m not supposed to be here, honey.
But for this need I feel for you. (Goddamn)


{Interlude}


ENTER CAPTAIN BLACKHEART

CAPTAIN BLACKHEART:
This is your Captain Blackheart speaking
And I don't know who's to blame
I don’t know how it’s meant to be
And I can’t escape my pain


ANGELS & DEVILS SPIN INTO VIEW

ANGELS & DEVILS (SINGING):
There are black hearts
And blue hearts
And red hearts
And white hearts
And do you yet know
What sets these hearts far apart?

CAPTAIN BLACKHEART:
I’ve never known a blue heart
But I’ve watched a red one bleed
And white hearts give me diarrhea 
And a’knocking of mine knees.

So if you’re asking me about 
Any differences I see, 
Well a heart’s a fart that beats and blarts
No mind the color of its sheen

ANGELS & DEVILS (SINGING):
Oh, you Black Heart….
Dear, sweet, Black Heart…
How very smart art thart…
Though thou simply dost know nart…

That the truth of all these hearts

And all time 

And all space

And all things

Is that you 
are IT 
lovely Black Heart, 
empty Black Heart, 
dear, sweet, broken Black Heart

And what IT 
is is 
IT IS, IT IS, IT IS…


ANGELS & DEVILS SPIN OUT OF VIEW


BLACKHEART EXPLODES INTO AN ORGASMIC RAINBOW


{End Interlude}

It makes me want to cry (Goddamn)
It makes you want to cry (Goddamn)
It makes me want to cry (Goddamn)
I just can't stand it anymore (Goddamn)
This hypnotizing vertigo

Goddamn!

Where do these souls run off to, honey?
No hearts are false - no hearts are true.
I’m not supposed to be here with ya, honey.
But for this need I feel for you. (Goddamn)
This need I feel for you.
24 in 24 – Hour 22

24 in 24 – Hour 19

Jason Preu, , , , , 4 Comments

SONNET FOR STARING DOWN INFINITY IN THE QUIET OF THE EARLY MORNING

Oh painful time, you inspire me to write.
How I loathe the way you flow, run, escape,
Infecting my mind from sunrise to blank night
Always moving moving, with dark mouth agape.

Why should I despise your gaping maw,
When you must march from orders cryptic?
Grey heavens echo the great black crow’s caw,
That ushers us forward apocalyptic.

Why should I hate you, when you have no willful say?
Close your monarchic eyes and acquiescent hands.
Your glistening bright teeth write horrors my days.
Your omnipresent nature burns like sunned sands.

I know I cannot change you, despite desperate pleas,
Remember these bleak words whilst you bear down upon me.

24 in 24 – Hour 19

24 in 24 – Hour 16

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CLOSE AT HAND

Time’s obsolete at midnight
When I’m singing to the dead
When I’m calling out across the darkness
To the voices in my head

This is the one for midnight
Where I’m wondering how you’ve been
Where I’m hoping without any faith
I’ll see your face again

Yeah, this is the one for midnight
Where I can’t help but say your name
Where I can’t help but cry myself to sleep
For those who’ve lost the game

This is the final one for midnight
When the words may find new shapes
When those who’ve gone before me
Prep a ghastly, me-shaped space
24 in 24 – Hour 16

24 in 24 – Hour 14

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STILL A GOOD TIME STILL

Yer gonna have a good time still
Oh lord, yer gonna have a good time still
Yer gonna scream
Yer gonna shout
Yer gonna lern what’s all about

Hot Damn! 

Yer gonna have a good time still

I used to be a god-fearing dude
That’s right I used to be a god-fearing dude
But then I got to heaven 
And found there was nuttin’ thair to do
So that fear o’god just left me through and through

Yee-haw!

Yer gonna have a good time still
Oh lord, yer gonna have a good time still
Yer gonna scream
Yer gonna shout
Yer gonna lern what’s all about

Have mercy! 

Gonna have a good time still

Now I still am a lord-lovin’ man
That’s right – a boney-fied, lord-lovin’ man
Just don’t believe that god’s a king
Ruling down over you and me
I like democracy not monarchy, that’s true!

Sing with me!

Yer gonna have a good time still
Oh lord, yer gonna have a good time still
Yer gonna scream
Yer gonna shout
Yer gonna lern what’s all about

Sing it!

Yer gonna have a good time still

Are we trying to get Heaven?
No, there’s nothin’ hap’nin’ thair!

Are we trying to raise some Hades?
Hell no! No fires of despair!

Then what’s the point of all-a this?
Breathing every breath with care!

So let’s scream and let’s shout
And let’s dance our demons out!

Let’s have a good time ’til time stands still.
Let’s have a good time ’til time stands still.
Let’s have a good time ’til time stands still.

Let’s have a good time
For all time
Let’s have a good ol’ time 
’til time 
stands 

still.

Amen!

24 in 24 – Hour 14