Sunday, March 23, 2008

make up blog?

Gabe. This is my make up blog for not doing the 12 lines of lets and fors.

Let us praise Gabriel Gudding
For letting me make this up

Let us praise the union of one man and one woman in 1978
For they produced a 5’10 blue eyed brilliant man

Let us learn from the distress of a girl
For the actions of the boy were so very misleading

Let us praise the Marine Corps
For they gave him an extraordinary physique.

Let us recognize their mindful and mindless-ness
For their thoughts are not always their own- or thoughts.

Let us praise George W. Bush’s war in Iraq
For that it made the Marine solitaire.

Let us praise Uncle Sam’s ownership
For now that her Marine is free he wants to be his own.

Let us applaud her resolve
For she kept her tears inside

Let us rejoice in her stoicism
For she never told him how he hurt her.

Let us enjoy her laughter’s resounding ironic echoes
For he just asked if they could still be friends.

Let us exalt in her righteous morality
For she has read between the lines

Let us mirror her smile as she sees the return of Independence
For being a lone star isn’t just for Texans

Monday, March 17, 2008

if i was in a cage and i wanted to write a poem, i wouldnt: a parody

6 and 2
4 and 9
7 and who gives a bird shit
im in a fucking cage
shore nuf, these broom
pusher, men lover, c.s. guys
blabberblabberblabber
throw me a stool
a sky on fire
a tea party w/ my dream man
“pass the sugar” Benito would say
but his rope tie
kept knocking over the creamer
and i nibble typewriter keys
and toilet paper like N.Y.
finger sandwiches
[randomasschinesesymbolb.s.]
i try to get a view of the Grand Tetons
pee-tons poo-tons
but
these damn bars keep getting in the way…

Rachael Jones

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Prayer for Paolo

As I sit here, contemplating how truly frightening
This vast world around me can be,
My thoughts turn to good Paolo, of the house of Romanti.
I have known Paolo as long as I have known a true friend,
For he and I have shared many good times and
Have gone through a great deal of experiences together.
Paolo Toma Romanti, with cream colored skin,
Freckles adorning his wide nose and hidden
Beneath his patchy black facial hair, which my mother
Often begs him to shave so she might see his face,
And I could have likened to a Chipmunk, maybe a
Weird kind of squirrel, or some other critter,
Was born to a very Irish dame with bright red hair
Who went by the name of Melanie Metcalf, but
Now is Melanie Romanti, after she married a man.
The man who Melanie Metcalf with her bright red hair
Married was the mechanically inclined and disarming
Antonio Romanti, who must be the source of
The intense laziness of young Paolo.
While Paolo Toma Romanti was born in a place called
Souix Falls, a city in the east of South Dakota.
I believe that Janus, the God of Doors,
must be Paolo's protector, for many times
In his life he has found the doors in front of him
Opened and leading to places of opportunity.
The doors first opened when young Romanti was
in his Third year of life, and they would lead him to
The city where the Mighty Mississippi and
Raging Rock rivers come to a crashing intersection.
The forecast was looking bright for his young life,
And he would go on to attend Ridgewood elementary,
Which is where our paths first intertwined.
While we did not take to each other immediately,
I'm positive that our anterior chambers, or
Perhaps our Oculi, met at that time.
It wouldn't be until after we switched schools,
Both of us in the same year, for different reasons,
That I would run into the much taller Paolo.
Third grade at Earl H. Hanson Elementary school
Was not the easiest time for me.
I attribute this to my being fat. And also shy.
But mostly to my being fat.
So, I didn't have any friends. People don't like
Fat people very much, unless it is to laugh at them,
In which case, people like fat people very much.
So, young, fat, third grade me was walking around,
Until I was drawn to someone running and jumping
Into the stone wall of the building.
"What are you doing?" asked young fat me.
"Trying to remember how to fly." was his response.
I couldn't argue with his logic, and soon both of us
Were running and jumping into the stone wall,
Only he could jump much higher and I bounced
further.
Eventually, we learned to tame our mammoth
and bizerkian imaginations, and joined football games.
Religion is nothing I've given much credence,
But I think there is something powerful in what
Paolo's redheaded mother once said of us.
"Your friendship is so strong because
God wills it. He brought you two together."
If that is why we are still such great friends,
Then I will not disagree with Mrs. Romanti.
God may have set the stage for our meeting,
and for that I am grateful, but if he truly exists,
He will watch over Paolo Toma Romanti
If he ever is sent to fight in Eyerock, or Afghan, or
Another of the countries who would rather the
Red of our flag be Blood.
Janus, may you close your doors and bring peace
To those you hold inside the temple of your heart.
Romanti and I, we're gamers at heart.
We've slain the Behemoth with Cloud Strife,
We've saved Peach and Daisy from the evil Sunflowers,
We've sat in front of the TV set so long that we've
Developed severe cases of Edema and Sub
Conjunctivital Hemorrages, in our I's.
Once, we were playing basketball, because
We are more than just nerds and weirdos,
And on a misfire from me, of course,
(Romanti liked to call me a Marshmellow for a long time,
And I've never been quite sure how to take it)
We killed my mom's potted marigolds and some violets around them.
She was fluered.
Romanti's house, located near Sunset Marina and a few
Miles from West Lake, in Davenport,
Houses his 3 brothers, 2 younger and 1 older,
As well as his Melanie and his Antonio.
Ceres must have been incensed when the land in Romanti's
Yard was being plotted, or else somebody else was,
For there are no trees in his yard. Oh well.
One thing that Romanti and I enjoy doing, in Add
ition to our gaming and chatting and music listening,
Is to drink insane amounts of Mountain Dew and eat
Double Decker Tacos from T-bell. It's belicious.
Romanti joined the National Guard last year.
My dad thought it was a sign of maturity,
That maybe young Paolo Toma Romanti was actually
On his way to growing up and becoming a productive
member of society. I was just scared about it all.
He still serves inactively, but he hasn't been deployed.
I'm hoping those doors close soon, because as long as they're
Open, there's a chance he could be called in.
He's chased rabbits under fences before,
Much to my amusement.
So, a lot of stuff has been said. Here's the breakdown:
Come hell, wind, high water, or storms of any kind,
Romanti and I are gonna stick with this whole friendship thing.
I'm just hoping God, Janus, Ceres... Whoever has the power
Or Authority to do so, keeps the kid safe,
From bullets and Drafts and Car accidents
Heartbreak and Callouses, Blisters, Sore Feet,
Hitting his head, His little brothers driving him insane,
Loneliness, Court Cases, Cancer, Planters Warts,
A Potpourri of life's problems.
and...
At some point...
Saturn, God of Time, turns things up on Paolo and
Gets his ass in gear, cuz life isn't gonna wait forever.

Prayer to Protect My Lovely Misunderstood Friend

Tiny chipmunk, save room in your cheek pouches for the soul of my friend, Talessa Marie Herrin, now of Tucson Arizona, previously of Clinton Illinois, with failing lumber region at the tender age of twenty-six.

Aerodynamic falcon, gouge into my friend, Talessa Marie Herrin, remove her varus L4 and L6 and replace them with mine, then fly her deterious bones as high as the sun dropping them on each parhelion for destruction by explosion.

Gentle owl, fly her far from the acid rains that have plagued her young life, letting the flap of your wings create a zephyr blowing through the Acacia and Cottonwood trees offering a zaleplon, numbing the pain of her reality.

Crafty beaver, build an aneroid home for my friend, Talessa Marie Herrin, to hold back the raptuitious Santa Cruz River, abusive father, neurotic mother, and other Wooly Mammoths that have tried to trample her livelihood.

Prickly Pear Cactus, scratch the phalanges of stalkative ex-boyfriends and giant ground sloth who reach to devour her temporal lobe and all remembrances of pain they have caused.

Sweet Parry Penstemon and Wild Brittlebush, flood her nasal cavities and dendrites with your botaniful aroma offsetting the lowest depths of her bipolarity.

Propel her salient, chili pepper passion through dancing, dreaming, laughing, and loving and drown her disease in the muddy pits of Lake Mead.

Let my friend, Talessa Marie Herrin, mother of one, sister to two, driver of no car, displaced owner of lost feline Charlie, know that I am the salmon that swims in the Colorado River, and Alamo Lake, and the bird path in her backyard, that is ever-present in the waterways and brainwaves and capillaries of her being and to reach to me is to have protection.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

Chip

Artemis, hear my prayer
Cast your gaze upon my dog, Chip Bailey Williams
And protect him as he frolics in the meadow of the afterlife
Amongst Cosmos, Candytuft, and Scarlet Flax
Iceland Poppy
And a Mexican Hat

Artemis, sister of Apollo
Olympian Goddess of the wilderness
May you guard Chip Bailey Williams from all
That wish to do him harm

Chip Bailey Williams, named after a
Cookie
Born to a mom he never knew
Taken from her on Christmas eve to live with our
Family
Who weaved in and out of the pines in our yard in barrington
Who slept under willows, sharpened his claws on oaks and
Barked at the robins in the ginko

Artemis guide his steps so they avoid water
He never would swim in lake galena or druce
Provide him with snow for him to get buried in
Protect him from drizzle and lightning

Chip Bailey Williams brother of the saber tooth tiger
Who hunted mammoths
Who ate pizza and sandwiches

He never got to hunt quail or fox
He settled for chipmunks
And frogs near the fox river
He caught a butterfly at bone yard river

Cleanse and protect him from the diseases that plagued him
Diabetes inspidius
Ectropian
Murmurs
Don’t forget to pet his dorsal and rub his
Ventral

Protect him from the spirits of fallen vacuums
And Dobermans
From fast moving vehicles that stole my initials
From retractable leashes that slip from hands
Protect him from any pain and suffering

And tell him I love him and miss him

Keep Her

Savannah Paige Little of New Pleasant Farm Field or, New Berlin-Pleasant Plains-Farmingdale-Springfield,
Lover of softball, basketball, texting, talking, eating, reading, and living…
Is in need of defense…
Let Youthful Innocence guard her from the monsoons that will surely spawn from her eyes on cloudy days, about school and about boys, and keep her from hangovers-at least until she arrives at college- on those cool clear nights in the crisp autumn air, and heartbreak, which strikes whatever the season.
I can only pray that Modern Science will protect her from asthma attacks, a fifth concussion, accidents involving penicillin resulting in an outbreak of hives, and asphyxiation.
That is assuming that Mental Clarity and Focus will resonate their siren songs and defend her as she performs her pitcher-perfect duties. May MCF keep her from tripping over cracks in the sidewok- which she always misses because she’s distracted by their weeds; pop flies & line drives-hit just the wrong way and straight back to her, sure to cause Modern Science to intervene
Lend her focus to the task at hand and in her hand and when she drives please let her think of nothing else.
The 06 Sonata would not look good stuck between the maple and the oak;
Nor would the Santa Fe take kindly to an attack by the locusts or being covered in ash.
And neither would enjoy swimming the Sangamon or sailing the seas of Lake Springfield (Modern Science be wary here- leptospirosis is lurking in the water)
And finally, Good Judgment please keep her from the earth shattering disappointment of finding out who you’re friends aren’t.

Savannah Paige Little, sister of mine, daughter of Wendy, pitcher for the Cardinals, student of the Those Who Can Teach, Those Who Can’t Teach, Those Who Teach Gym, and keeper of the bunny
Is a lover of mashed potatoes and cake
Capable of indignance even with a grape stuck in her nares.
The bunny is a black and white mix, named Oreo by the ten year old innocent, 5 years ago, when she would collect clover (trifolium) and stick it through the squares of his cage as he watched the other bunnies, the cotton tailed deer bound by, and he munched on the unwanted dandelion or occasional violet.

And while this may seem like so many years ago, eras ago, millennia ago, back to the days of the tapir and saber-toothed cat-
which Savannah’s sisters cat thinks he is- it was not so long ago.
The days passed by so quickly nostalgia has not even noticed.

So please, keep Savannah
Paige
Little- in weight but not in heart, in experience but not in spirit
Keep her safe.

Praise Gaia, Protect Janie

Kneel before your reason of petition
As knights kneel before a noble.
Embrace those in proximity
Of your ascending ascending aorta
Touch warm palm paws and cross legs
In a chain of buoyant humanity
As we begin our creed.

Let us not
Masquerade this petition in
Protection of the petitioned
And those petitioning.

Jane Elizabeth Lee
Protector of
Women’s faces.
Jane Elizabeth Lee
Protector of
Animal tails.
Jane Elizabeth Lee
Protector of
Elderly bodies.

Gracious Jane
Oathful Elizabeth
Meadowy Lee

Daughter of Helen and John
Sister of Margaret, Mary, Carolyn, Kay and James
Middled by unchoice.

Jane Elizabeth Lee
Roots bedded in Skokie,
Northbrook and Ottawa
Illinois

For those that call her Janie
The same those who saw her miracles
The same those who work by her side.
Passengers trusted her direction and adroitity
Behind the wheel of great Pace.
Women saved by healing hands
Pulled from swollen darkness and maple splinters.
Women awake in bedded shelter of lives diminished
To femalions, but she will save them from death.
Old men loved by an immeasurable heart and angelic smile

All close to her touched by a harmonious occurrence
On the street in a grave in a cage on a flower.

Jane Elizabeth Lee
With gay desire, this ass
embly calls upon for your protection.

Gaia!
Earthly Goddess!

Gaia!
Heavenly bosomed
Defined of awesomeness
All knowing and Atomless

Gaia
Roll over in
Happy awakening at our need.
Let living and
Non-living regulate
The surface of life.

Gaia
Shoot blazing stars
Out the cracked bottom
Bounce o’ Prairie Phlox
Bounce o’ uneven petals
Til’ She loves you.

Gaia
Rise out of rocks
Starved or Tall
Split Lake
Flush out your grime
And signal your arrival
Skipping rocks
Down the Fox River
Until they rest finely on the bottom
Of LaSalle Lake.

Gaia
Protect the heroine of
Triumph and Love.

Earthly Goddess
Protect her from homeless metastatic invaders.
Protect her from adipose tissue.
Protect her from perverted growths in her gonads.
Protect her from atypical, btypical, ctypical depression.
Protect her from tumors in her lungs.
Protect her from Alzheimer's.
Protect her from celluar demons of her future.
For they are all unwanted.

Earthly Goddess
Protect her from gruesome falls
For her two-wheeled pastime is centered on balance
And yellow pick-ups are targets of canary hunters.
Protect the natives of these rocks and rivers
For she knows who was here first
Protect her spirit from those that wish to damage it
For not all who wander, find good fortune.
Protect her from shame of toppling Jenga towers
For the trash that spills from her mouth would crawl back in.
Protect her from Bush, Ahmadinejad and
Al-Bashir
Protect her from homophobes, philophobes and Janophobes
For they hurt her loved ones and still she tries to save them.
Protect her love from saddness and saddness from deafeat.
For she puts family before others and others before herself.

Earthly Goddess
Protect her from sinkholes, hailstorms and wildfire.
For Midwest plains are bear traps of the grandest kind.
Protect her from famine and oil spills
For they would sicken her spirit, body and hair.
Protect her from shoving population and ecocide
For in hopefulness we protect us all.
Protect her from gatherings of nonsense
For the green bean casserole is gooier than usual.

Earthly Goddess
Protect the beauty in her mind
For her compassion is her salvation.
To keep her cheeks dry
Protect the Earthly beauty slipping away.
Protect the chipmunks and bald eagles
For there cannot be the mighty without the small.
Protect the wolves and snails
For every animal that runs, another will scoot.
Protect the canines, for they have a special place in her.
Protect Sprite, her non-mythical companion
Black, white and jumpy, stocky and wet and spoiled.

Earthly Goddess
Protect her from past nightmares and cerebral struggles.
Let the Giant Irish Elk, noble and gone, swiftly carry her
From yellow atmosphere to purple sea.
Protect her fantastical shrubbery
For Butterfly Milkweed is small and orange
To attract the wings of otherworldly beauty.
Protect New England Asters
For they are the fireworks of horticultural celebration.
Protect the Cup Plant
For its height and imitation of the sun make bubblers
for small buzzers.
Protect ladders into the sky
For each stands out in their field.
Protect the Red Oak
For its climbable branches and broccoli strut
Protect the Black Oak
For it explodes in all directions towards the sky
Protect the White Oak
For it is untamed and fertile.

Earthly Goddess
Protect Janie from thoughts of sorrow,
Words of misfortune and troubling calls.
Protect her from erratic toasters,
Rebelling wires and closing doors.
Protect her from jagged screen doors, broken chairs
And hidden potholes.
Protect her from large mole rats, unwelcome bats
And moldy 3-layer cake.
Protect her from aching knees, woozy ears
And fuzzy vision.
Protect her from poor pleads, silly soliloquies
And useless utterances.

Gaia
Praise you who awoke in our plea.
Praise you for considering our creed.
Praise you for protecting another protector.

For such greatness can not be named

Out of divine love and opportunity, __________,

who has established a series of intricate paths

within its unfathomable universe leading to

destinations which will be reached only

by the ultimate decisions of its voyagers,

protect Austin Bernard Chillman of Plainfield, Illinois,

born in Oak Lawn, Illinois;

son of Peter Julian Chillman and Karen Marie Wagner Chillman;

brother of Zachary William and Drake Julian;

who is of German and Polish heritage but American by birth;

caretaker of the unfathomably exasperating but infinitely lovable cats Cookie and Niblet;

performer of music, competitor on the field;

who is forever devoted towards the needs of others.

__________, protect Austin Bernard Chillman from the evils of the hallways,

the Sposchubullys, tormentors of massive size and barbed tongue,

who with their cruel intentions and position of no envy

press the buttons of a manic depressive,

and in those times most trying,

grant him the ability to react in best of manners

at a speed more swift than water moves in the Mississippi.

And, __________, protect hermano from the misfortune of multiple surgeries

on his weakened left acromioclavicular joint.

Allow him to share others the weight of the world

that he is so willing to bear on his lonesome.

Grant him the ability to put his pride to rest,

to know that the burden of his world

isn’t one that he has to endure alone.

__________, allow Austin Bernard Chillman’s personality to blossom

in the pile of crap that is suburban adolescence;

though resources and nutrients are plenty—

full of toxins that can corrupt the blooming

of a character that should be known

for his tenderness and humilty,

humor and honesty,

genius and madness that;

and these traits should be showered down upon all those that surround him,

saturating the minds of those with lesser intentions,

quenching the thirsts of those with fewer resources,

and aiding those already on a path to greater good

__________, give him comfort and assurance to ward off Thi’ef of Zees,

who comes in the night and robs innocent of their dreams,

aspirations, sound rest and relaxation,

and clear mind, for the addition of insomnia

to a history of emotional difficulty

is not a bit of medicinal arithmetic

that I believe hermano is prepared to embattle

given his young age.

Forget not, __________, to protect hermano from the carpal tunnel

that his predecessors have suffered from.

Let his wrists be tough,

able to endure constant writing,

so that he can maybe one day produce

a rockabilly tour de force that it is so exquisite

that critics and award voters will rejoice alike.

__________, keep him out of the direct path of the Flaherty demon dog,

who’s name I know not,

for it is the very essence of evil,

squatting on all lawns and littering

them with the vile secretions from its body.

And let Austin Bernard Chillman be spared the fate of Gishlink, __________,

for his name deserves to be kept in books somewhere,

as a permanent memory for the world to have,

for once we are gone,

all we become are a bit of history;

a story to be told by someone else;

a fable.

Bestow your protection upon the third son of Peter and Karen,

__________, from the excruciating pain that the Indonesian man

Dede has endured; protect him from the tree

which has bred with the human papillomavirus,

father and mother of the dendropapillomavirus;

thwart its attempts to turn hermano’s feet to roots,

anchoring him into suburbia soil for the remainder of his life;

let his life be like that of the palm in the flower pot:

clean and free to move from place to place at the will of world.

And keep the near resident of Chicago,

the windiest of cities,

with the broadest of shoulders,

and that bears the name of another state,

away from the Cheeseheads, __________,

with their terrible dairy breath

and awful opinions of people from real states,

for they can’t drive.

Shield the younger brother of Zachary and Drake, __________,

for the looming crisis that the use of antibiotics has created

in the farming industry;

protect him from the introduction to unnecessary antibiotics

to his system, which in turn make him more susceptible

to the common disease being fatal.

And do not grant hermano the fate of the Asian Elephant, __________,

for if there were to be no immediate threat

to his well being there would be no external force

pushing him to evolve in some way,

he would no longer be the progressive

person that he currently is.

Keep him, __________, from being to serious,

from not allowing himself to get in the gobblygook,

not allowing himself to get be a little sideways

and crisscrossed

back

wards

wild

zany

crazy

too sur-e-us;

let him be himself in all his weirdness,

let his restraints be loosened in a way

so that he never stops being hermano.

__________, give your protection over Austin,

lover of sound and song,

from the evils that can turn his love to hate,

grant him the strength to overcome the criticism,

to persevere in the face of adversity,

and to always sing and play with his heart.

__________, hermano needs your protection from atrophy,

the rotting of brain,

the weakening of body,

the decomposition of thought,

the breakdown of love,

the failure of caring,

the disappointment of life.

Give him your protection from the hardships

that we face throughout our lives;

give him a shield that allows him to see these experiences,

but not bring him to the point that he wants to quit.

Most of all, __________, protect all of the beings within

this celebrated universe be protected from these misfortunes,

but for if some find themselves in dark places,

don’t remove our free will,

for out of darkness can come light.

Petition: Protect My Love Verily

Sweet love of mine harrowing, harrying, ceaseless endeavoring.
Follow me home under the moonlight. Swaying to the ebb and the flow
Let us wander through ages of worlds of time as they delve themselves deeper in snow.
This is my wallow my stuttering ship, my last resort from this world unfit.
Eros fill me in purity, protect what thy know to be ternary,
The mind and the soul and the body all seamlessly
Bound to this existence by forces unseen, un-believed;
Until science discovered its creed, so this is the seed that I plant amoung the dead
With the hope for your protection, come save us from death.
The crystal meth has taken hold, bought and sold,
Stopped the pain that could not be controlled.
I don’t know this place I’m at, the feelings that I’ve had
And not
Refusing to be shaped like the lot, like the mutt,
Like the labels of generic food.
Protect him from being all that I am not,
Protect him from all that he wouldn’t want,
Come save what is left, what’s been cherished of his soul
This is the way, the time to go
Go wander the fronts of the harshest of storms
Where the winds of the past and the present come forward
This is my prayer to the world unseen,
`My sight and design, my most mental of schemes
Balloon Angioplasty; Realize you paralyze the beating of my heart
Protect him from the constant commotion,
The bustle of the insomniatic coffee tweakers
And pill-popping self-prescribers, mind-designers,
Change this chemical for psycho
tropic medicines; alternatives of reason
Protect him from addiction,
From a little to the junkiest spot, the worst of drugs accursed lot
Never provoke, a personal joke, it might be the last time you speak on your own.
Protect him from dreams of that which I may not have
For this is the last of my solemn life’s mishap.
Protect him from thy father’s sins
For he is not the one who is him
Protect him from the temptations of the Earth
The creations of man that corrupt the mind and the flesh
Protect him from that which he should never know
For knowledge is the power that controls human souls.
This is theistic, this world prowess
Protect him until he is fully developed
And ready to ride against the evils that haunt us
Protect him from harm of the physical being
Protect what is left of his family’s seed
Protect what his family and friends do not see
The eyes in his back during the rage of the battles while they seethe
Protect all he feels, and protect what he knows
Protect him from all the places he goes

Watch as he walks with his tray as he balks,
As he ducks to the back of the restaurant.
Waiting on the folks of the tables,
Is all he even tries to do

Poor old Taffy, Sweet Taffy
Recently deceased
We felt so bad for her
Unable to see
Unable hear
In the end, unable to breath
Unlike the fish in his Aquarium clear, so liquidified,
That he cares for, and loves,
His hobby for years.

Though I ask for the protection of Brian Patrick Cioni
Who so often makes me feel as though my heart shall
Become afflicted with supraventricular tachycardia
I pray that you never be accursed with spasmodic dysphoria
Brian, my love, for the fluidity of your words is music to my ears
Your clershiness is unattested for you taste more profound
than extra crunchy peanut butter and banana sandwiches
with luscious desserts such as treacle tart to follow.
You ought to be squozen, but not too hard for subluxation of
the spine would be a travesty to your upright posture
being the Homo-Erectus that you are.
I pray that I may run my phalanges through your hair
for eons of time (assuming that you shall not be diagnosed
with alopecia capitis totalis…baldness would be a
downright shame), that I may look upon your pierced tragus
with excitement, that our oral cavities should continually touch,
giving us lascivious visions of the external genitalia and gluteus max
imus
scandalous images of one another, never disrupted by the
extinction of mammuthus primigenius and eremotherium laurillardi,
as the woolly mammoth and giant ground sloth have thus transcribed
for they wish protection unto the raccoons, opossums, skunks, great-horned
owls, and ravens that have yet to be exposed to the ills of extinction.

The one who governs my thoughts, enters my dreams, sweeps me off of my feat,
Brian Patrick Cioni ~ BPC, I pray that you shall always return to me
Though your roots are in Washington, Illinois
And though the miles may soon separate us,
I pray, I ask, that you remember, all of the time we’ve spent together
On the Quad right near your apartment in Rutherford Suites on Fell Street,
passing the hours staring
at the trees: European Beech, Catalpa, Northern Red Oak, Thornless Hunnylocust,
…and may you NEVER forget the Weeping Beech Tree, our safe haven…
Oh! The kisses we’ve shared in your tortoise-shell Chevy Cavalier!
Imagining picnics beside the Sangamon and Mackinaw Rivers,
Doing swandives into Lake Bloomington.
Me, secretly imagining what it would be like to be submerged in Brian Lake.
The walks we’ve taken, the gorgeous AuTtumn afternoons,
Searching for unattainable, illusive, wildflowers:
the blanket flower, clasping coneflower, evening primrose, scarlet sage,
And yes, how could I forget, the dense blazing star…
The moments we’ve shared in a galaxy of our own, standing outside only
Two weeks ago, staring at the full lunar eclipse on your patio, imagining
The explosion of a supernova…that very supernova that has become my heart.
The internal feelings, my Playgan-ness, playing and praying and being a Pagan
You do not shun me, but embrace me
Natural Witch that I am, worker of spells unique
Weaver of time, place, and positive energy
You have called to me.

Isis, Astarte, Diana, Hecate, Demeter, Kali, Inanna:
I call upon thee, beautiful Goddesses,
Watch over Brian Patrick Cioni, the man that I LOVE
Ensure his safety in this catariffic world of ignorance and jealousy,
Climbing atop tow’ring mountains unseen, untouched by human
hands, may he move gracefully with the ebb and flow of the
universal energies.
never broken.
As above, so below
This is my will so mote it be.



heather

Mother, Mary Ellen Hyde of Pekin, whom I NAME in address Diaphanous Zephyrs Betwixt Shadow, who once blazed the psychomyogenic wind vectors of fallopia to bring life, I abjure your gaze, if it be upon me ever as was once constant, from shadow and the dense frozen soil of Illinois, where you lay near the river of the same appellation, having tasted the Mackinaw and lakes of both Milliman (ox-bow), Peoria, and Michigan, having run through fields of toadflax and perennial lupine, to rest eternal from toil, from the pain of ipsilateral conjunctival lacrimation and Dead Band Hysteresis, from the horror of your life in unrequited love from a man who knew what he had done and now must pay a price most dear for his children abstain from him (may I never know the terror which must visit him as he is not visited upon by his seed), from the RICH PAGEANT that was your life, with infinite love from Jennifer and James and Jeffrey, whom you begat (no mere souvenir), and entreat upon you to care and gaze upon in my stead for Heather Marie Daugherty OF Lafayette in Indiana, she who was never made daughter in the light of your blessed life, but was loved, and none more so than in mine, who suffers migraines of the hemiazygous intercostals and waxes deleterious at the great saphenous veins which oft poison her cerebellum. For my love toward is as of no other I shall ever hold for any creature or thing or spirit or energy or thought or color or idea in the totality of my life ever again; it is final, whole and incomplete at once (as these things shall ever be on terra), and, in truth unobscured if honesty be sought, selfless; as was given to you by me and yours, oh mother. It is all. As the winds of time in specificity brought the Mammathus Primigenius and the Smilodon Fatalis and the Arctodus Simus to roam and thrive allow that she, too might persist in function most bright for her soul possesses mercy enough for nothing less than all: for the tiger salamander, prairie dog, groundhog, chipmunk, and ferret are not too diminuitive to escape the solace of her love, which is boon to me and to many; as the bones of saints never decay may she continue to serve the autistic and contracted spirits of man in complaint of disavowal from the throng and yet more cared for by her than for herself. In the Heights, now, bearing love as a trebuchet amongst elms and sycamores and oaks and maples and balsams, in vurnculler commune. Her tea should taste of uncanniness, and teas abound the fields of screaming sonic joy. MOTHER, protect her from strangers and demons and pharmacological tremor and gout and lactic acid and the FIRMAMENT of those who hypocryse and the decrease of argent and the increase of adipose and the pain of arachnid venom and the carbuncle of arthritis and bone spurs and bone awls and black-boned-angels and tension and automobile accidents and the accidental digestion of chicken and or beef and bad hair and anemia and lice and licentiousness and mustard and the cold and leatherface and drowning and immolation and being buried alive. But most of all protect Heather Marie Daugherty from the weight of the migrainous throb which keeps the light at bay through subclavian limb and hepatic portal, suffocating amygdale and bringing eyelid edema. Distill the essence of five spot, bluebonnet, dense blazing star to fizammunck succour. Caulbrigise the celsius millibar within a half point of the truth as you ride the winds of shadow home to visit her in Kia Rio bless her kinetic acclivity for motion in metal is fatal. Defticle decline in barrage of prayer and find her amid the various sufferings, and avert your gaze from me. Avert your gaze from me as she be more, Avert your gaze from me as she be right and better then most. Avert your gaze from me as I love her more than myself and ask that you honor the devine within her as I destroy that within me, allow it, for it is not got upon without knowing the fate it constructs and is recognized as destiny. She is best among those who help, she is Samaritan and angel in bone and blood brought to bring as a balm, SHE is the gift, Heather Marie Daugherty, hers is grace and love and found nought elsewhere, hers is a heart rare and most holy, and nothing more. At the end, enjoin her with Baldwin in shadow a dalmation arf loved by her as none other and also protect her canine Irving Louise Hyde who is also a soul arf most reare and peaceful arf and gracious to receive that which is given. Irving is love. Avert your gaze from me as he is more, as he knows not sin and strife but joy in return. Mother, grant her frequency in running and cooking and collage and sewing and yoga and eating channa massala and tom-kha-kai and playing Atari and reading and loving and knitting and crocheting for Etsy; let her sell her arts that the world over may feel the softness of her touch and know the love she gives every task taken and feel the soul of grace and purity in her heart that is called Heather Marie Daugherty: QMRP, lover of Irving, daughter of Crystal Gorman and Tim Daugherty and sister of Tiffany Daugherty and aunt to Evelyn and Sean and Ayla and Teaghan and friend to George and Dave and Dave and Jenny and Sara and Pat and Kwaku and Gail and Kara and Linda and Chris and Eric and Megan and Vanessa and Randalyn and Dennis and Jennifer and Joe and Joe and Pam and Ann and Arrianna and Becky and Mike and all, and me. Mom, please do this for me…I miss you and I love you with all my heart and I haven’t forgotten you and you know I’m trying to be what you would have wanted your son to be, but sometimes it’s so hard, mom, sometimes it’s so hard. I want her to be safe, I love her, she cares for me. Watch over her.

This Is For You Little Spoon

427 years from now:
When the lights go out in the shoulder of Orion
And we look and say what once was
No longer is (but only in our hearts and our eyes because it fell asleep a long time ago)
May Betelgeuse keep you
As you keep him
With burning orange and satellitic thoughts made on falling stars and dirt clods

You were my barista from Mahomet IL
And then you grew purple wheels like digitalis purpurea and in the
---- PrrPal 5 drove somewhere more Normal
Where we met in a pink and red haze of September thoughts
And your name was Nikolaos
And your name was Victory of the People

So may the People keep you
With a plantigradinal motion we will never know
And perhaps only Mak can keep pace
Let all the population of squirrel-cats take comfort
---- That there is someone as quick as they

May Dove keep your hair intact
And tangle free
---- In aster novae-angliae bottles that curve slender to the side
With head cocked
A motion quick like that of a sparrow
A comparison you yourself may not implore but perhaps cannot deny
Only you and they can dart as quick through the branches of quercus stellata
---- That sits near your house
-------- That sits near a school
------------ That is nowhere near the Nakdong River

Where you are now

6617 miles from now:
When you
---- Like Icarus
Made wax wings
And flew to South Korea IL
A distance not even Niko could swim
Despite your nomenclatural commonality

May Betelgeuse’s brother keep you
---- And not let you fly too close to him
But if you do
Then may you land on a Leviathan’s nose
And may she take you the rest of the way
Where you will be deposited on the banks of the Han
---- And small muskrats will tend you
And they will heal your third degree burns
To stop the secretion of that aster tanacetifolius fluid
So that someday when you return you will feel my fingertips again

Your name Nikollë like that of Albanian singers and poets
---- May it remember you well in eccentrical and esoterical ways
And hair that lives only in hurricanes
Except for days when you use a straightener
For that is like the visual tunic
---- When everyone thinks it’s safe to go outside

But you will stun them
The way the morus rubra reached from Van Gough’s eyes
And they will remember you like the Mastadon
For no other reason than they will revere you for all time

One ice age ago:
---- When global warming wasn’t yet a fad
May the Bering Strait remember you
And your ancestral ties
When I was still in the hills of Geatland
---- With Shield-Danes and monsters
And later to Canterbury
Where we first met
---- Lost in words and stories of copulation and flatulence

Beginning there like all good things
---- With honesty
And undeniable humanication

May the eagles keep you
---- A certain kinship with them I share
Across the Anapji and the Sinyang
With fovea centralis as sharp as the air around where you walk
And in turn may they leave Frizz and Snickers alone
---- As tempting as it may sound

And now:
May the lonicera standishii remain fresh in your heart
---- With thoughts of Dinky and Indian summer
May this and the cheeseburger keep your corpus callosum
---- From the dangers of parapsychosis

May your green sweatshirt hold you warm with its fuzzies
As you write the song of the fajita quesadilla

And may you remember me
Like the potato bug with the petalostemon purpureum heart
---- The one who was supposed to be a beetle
That I sympathized for
---- And the others scorned

May you remember me
And let my words keep you
---- As imperfect as they may be

1858 years ago:
May Ptolemy who found circles keep you Nikolle
---- You LeaAnn
-------- You Keeney
---- And in your orbit
May you always retrograde close to me.

My attempt

Love of life, and cherry tree, please protect my baby sister, Kelly Marie Melia, of Tinley Park, IL.

Who has a broken heart, who lost her best friend, who lost her boyfriend, who lost her trust in all she had, who was born 3 years after me.

Love of life, and evergreen, protect her from her ex boyfriend, his dilerious mother who calls mine with imaginary stories, Eddie, a man who is only in it for one thing, Dan who seems to think her pants are mirrors.

Love Of life, and dandelion, protect her from the rumors of her insanity, the lies of her misfortune, the friends who didn’t mean what they said, the kisses and lies behind her back, and the midgets who stole her money.

Love of life, and cotton wood tree, protect her from the lose of a tire on her Red Grand Prix on the expressway, the harassment of Illinois State coppers, the pink tickets that irk her, the marijuana that grows in her closet, the cigarettes that seem to beg for her company, and the grades that seem to crawl underneath her pillow and scream at her.

Let the love of life protect Kelly Marie Melia’s puppy, Dizzy. Who plays with the imaginary butterflies in every room.

Let the love of life and oleanders protect their daily walks from drive way start to drive way end, never once stopping in the middle to research the butterflies. For they are no where near as entertaining as in the beginning as they are at the end.

Let the love of life entertain her while she checks the ins and outs of pool filters while keeping a small faint polite smile on her face.

May the love of life never lead her towards the Mississippi or Chicago river, to where she could possibly drown or die of hypothermia.

Let the love of life and violet allows her to eat grilled cheese with her philanges and femurs.

Let the love of life, the squirrels, baby bears, and rattle snakes from Texas, bunnies, and possums stand hand in hand and surround her in her time of need, while she east ramen noodles.

Poem of Protection

Oh Mighty God, Father of the Sun Moon, Earth and Stars,
Please protect and keep Joan Alison Baker-Jones,
mother of mothers, sprung from the womb of
Josephine Joan Baker, child descendent from Your Heaven.
Dwells she in a yellow house-
first in Litchfield, then in Springfield, now in Bloomington-
always yellow-
let the petal color of the coreopsis protect her brood.
Let the sundit drops of water from the lakes and rivers round
(Lake Bloomington to the North, Wabash River to the East, Lake Clinton to the South,
Mackinaw River to the West)
rise up and fill the ransnowial clouds as protection from life-altering blazes.
Protect her from the maples that guard our house,
one in front and one in back,
whose rain-engorged branches she fears will crash upon our residence.
Hold back the bulbanious wind that blows insanity into her mind.
Protect her nimble sewing fingers from the nibbles of the poo
fy squirrels and raccoons who are hand-fed peanuts by her crazy-
nut neighbors and who steal our cat food.
Watch that her coronary valve does not fill with cloggation,
so she will not die of an infarction.
Protect Joan Alison Baker-Jones’s oculars as she views your most glorious of words and
generous of creations
so this lover of snowflakes in streetlight and
trillium in springlight and
her sparkling Saturn in sunlight and
our visiting opossum, Gertie, in porchlight
will never know the pain of eye ulcers or retinopathy
as her mother did before her.
(Side note, though important- protect her baby of cats-Ruby Petunia Jones-
from the mammoth she thinks lives in the ceiling fan.
For if Joan Alison Baker-Jones arrived home from a narcus crushing day at
The Farm, it would kill her to find out that her darling fuzz ball had had
an aneurism and been carried away to the Elysian Fields
on account of a completely cat-batty and imaginary fear of pterodactyl resembling cooling
devices.)
Smooth and seal her epidermis-too many times it has been slathered in iodine and oil and burnt
by Uriel’s orb—
keep it clear of calcumpating, flesh consuming abrasions.
Oh Mighty Protect(her), bless her with the cherry tree buds and
keep her safe and free from the dalific duties that come from the eternal purple excrement
caused by robins and the mulberry tree.
As she walks in Mackinaw Nature Preserve,
protect her smellary senser from the odors of the vicious Skunk Cabbage and the dreaded Dandelion,
instead grace her steps with peace and joy and flank the path with
Dutchmen’s Breeches, Lady’s Slippers and Shooting Stars, for in them
she finds great relaxation through You.
(Also keep those turtles away from her. They really freak her out!)
Protect her from the heartbreak and sadness that comes so easily in this life.
Protect her from her greatest fears and mine.
Protect her by protecting me, and bless her days
with sunshine and chocolate cake.
Amen.


Rachael Jones

For Joy

Dear God. Creator of all. Of even Giant Short-faced Kangaroos.
Hear my cry, this prayer, this plead.
Watch over your child Joy Hong-Mei Lin, sister of mine. a Shasta Daisy.
Let not her dog bathroom the living room
Let the library where she works keep her and pay her and the books not fall upon her crushing her cranium to destroy her hypothalamus and send her spine into her brachiocephalic vein and puncturing her thorax and turning her into a catatonic vegetarian.
Let the cumulonimbus clouds not dwell over her head. Let her rise above those metaphorical storms. Let the Sun Shine on the Alberta Wild Rose.
Let the Red Baron Frozen Pizza dinners be dinner enough.
Let the Camry not die. Or slip on a banana peel.
Let the Hybrid Prius not die and continue to save gas money.
Let the Gila Monster not bite her patella.
Let the Ceiling not crack and leak.
Let the electricity light and water flow.
Dear God. and your son Jesus.
I pray for my sister Joy Hong-Mei Lin:
Let the branches of the willow not bitch-slap her
Let the apples of the apple tree not Newton her
Let the pricks of the tree with pricks not prick her
Let the bush of the neighbors' not get seen getting pissed on by her dog Max.
Let the traffic of Flossmoor Rd. not stampede her
Let the biopond of her highschool not poison her
Let the Lake Michigan of North America not tsunami her
Let the monsters of the dark not terrify her
Let the black-footed ferrets of the mountains not fart on her
Let the criminals of the earth find some love in their hearts
Let the assholes of the world not bother her.
Let the valley of life not stop her.
Dear God. Father.
For Joy Hong-Mei Lin, my sister, I pray.
Let the dead Woolly Mammoth not return to life and spread the Avian Bird Flu to her
Let the Godzilla of Japan not come to America and eat her.
Let the Nazis of Germany not return to life and incinerate her.
Let the Bald Eagle not gauge out her eyes.
Let the bad prom dates of her class not take her to prom.
Let the beaver not build too many dams and flood her basement.
Let the rock throwing jerks not calculate in the Coriolis Effect when throwing rocks at her.
Let the light guide her.
Let the light save her.
Let the light love her.
Dear God. Superbless my sister. and the Baby Bison, because they're adorable.
Let the Gabe forgive my incomplete poetry checklist,
For God will still hear this cry, this prayer, this plead
For the Protection of my sister.
Amen.

prayer of protection for gingy

Oh! Let the of forces of the mighty winds, painters of the desert sky, energy of the brilliant sun, strength of the trees, and protecting spirit of Pepper;

Protect the one whom my bleeding heart holds so much love for

I call to you for your protection over Ginger Anne Hartman; Baby, Gingy, Bingy, Binger Boo. Ginger the Schnoodle born of Snowflake, Arizona raised in Glendale, Arizona now residing on my bed in Naperville, Illinoy. In a house the color of dandelions fron
ted with crabapple and pine on the DuPage River.

Ginger the Schnoodle whom walks past Cress Creek daily, walking further to see her favorites Herrick and Mud Lake.

Ginger the Schnoodle whom chases squirrels, terrorizes birds, tries to catch chipmunks and attempts to hunt ducks.

Ginger the Schnoodle whom gazes out the window and never tires of playing with her favorite blue racquetball, who comes running at the smell of scrambled eggs, and who lives for a treat.

I humbly ask your powerful forces to come together to protect and watch over my love Ginger.

Protect her from her painful asthma attacks, for I hate to see her in fear and pain. Keep her safe from an open gate, a yard unattended, and on coming traffic.

Protect her little ears form loud Fourth of July fireworks and frightening thunderstorms that scare her so.

Please protect her from loneliness. Without her sister and best friend, it is hard to understand. Give her peace of mind that I will always come back, for surely she must know that.

Protect her from boredom and having no one to play with while I am away. For she is so full of life and willing to share it with others. Encourage my parents, Laurence Edward Hartman of Plainfield, Illinoy, and Barbara Ann Hartman of Calumet City, Illinoy make time to play with her, for it makes her so hap
py.

Protect Ginger the Schnoodle from the groomer’s as long as you can, for I have never trusted them and hate taking her there for she hates it too (though bah insists we do).

Protect Ginger form disgusting fleas and ticks that try to inhabit her hair.
Forces protect her form the burling summer heat with the shade of the maple and oak tree, for it’s hard to cool off with so much hair.

Protect her precious paws from the prickly thorns we encounter on our walks, for they cause her pain when brushing them out.

Protect Ginger the Schnoodle from irritating eye-goobers, infected anal glands and hurt paws so she feels no pain at all.

I ask you to protect her form arthritis, protruding cysts, congestive heart failure, the slow and silent killer of Pepper.

Protect her from having to die alone, as Pepper did. I wish I got to say goodbye, I want to be there to comfort her in her final breath.

I ask you forces, for these protections over Ginger, my true best friend.
Protect her, everyday from sunrise, till sunset and have the stars watch over her at night.

and of the Holy Ghost

This song is to be sung in the church of Brianology in the year 2176:

Protect us from Darkness
Protect us from Uncertainty
Protect us from the Elephant by using the power of the Ass

May Mufasa rejoice with all the clouds in the sky
As his life completed a full circle and he is now looking over us with his protection from Scar’s cunning at all times

May Hera bless and keep protected Lisa Gardner-Kinsella, teacher of youth and carer for dogs of Dixon, Illinois
For, through the graces of the gods alone, she bore two children: Brian, a son, and Kelsey a daughter

May Zeus bless and protect Charles Kinsella, a father to few yet friend to all
For he is the herald of technology to all the education inside Dixon. Without him the youth of Dixon would be stuck within the Stone Age

May Mabel, Pepper, and Vidalia be blessed with Kibbles and Bits as they guard the House of Kinsella from anything smaller than a loaf of bread with their courage that exceeds that of a king lion
For without their protection, Brian would have never woken up the whole house with their barking every time he entered the house of Kinsella after the middle of Darkness

If the dogs have their courage then they will protect us from all evils
The dogs have their courage therefore we shall be protected

May Kelsey, Daughter of Lisa and Charles and Sister of Brian, rejoice with Eve and be protected by the knowledge that she gained
For it is only through knowledge that we are protected and through knowledge that we are saved.

May John, house of McBride, Friend of Brian rejoice with a rooster
For it is by the cock crowing that protects us during early mornings when a late night has preceded

May Jeff, House of ThE everyman, be protected by the wind and air that fiLls the sky
For his children shall be more numerous than the seeds from a dandeLION that flow effortlessly in the wind.

May Tim be blessed with Tequilina, goddess of drunkards, only on the weekends
And may his roommates be blessed with MasterLockia during these times to protect themselves from sleep walkingaptia

May Brian, house of Kinsella originating in Rockford and residing in DixonNormal whilst practicing to educate and preparing for what life brings him, be protekted from Procrastiking, god of those who procrastinate
For it is through doing homework two to three hours before it is due that all fall apart

May Mike be blessed by his Ass in politicks
For through the Ass we shall all be saved

Bless Aaron and his house of Gearhearts and have Heffnerora protect him
For through another premature love story he will go insane

Bless the house of Kinde with Dianthus barbatus,
For through Sweet William we are protected

Bless the house of Kinder with Consolida regalis
For protection from the evil

Bless the house of Kinsella with a Rose ThorN
For through that prick, the purest blood flows

Bless the house of Blessman
For through their name they bless man

Bless the house of Hermes
For we shall not shoot the messenger

Bless Luke, House of Ranousqui, and send a protecting light down on him.
Bless the cocoon that houses a young and protects it until the coming-of-age
Bless the Venus Fly Trap, whose purpose is opposite than that of a cocoon in that it looks to digest its inhabitants for food for itself for through the death of some we are protected from flies
May smiles bless our lives since smiles are a kingly aspect
May the Elephas maximus protect us in terms of serenity
May the Sus scrofa protect us in terms of sloth
May the Axis axis protect us in terms of elegance
May the Canis familaris protect us in terms of friendliness
Bless mold for through mold we are protected
Bless Brian Adams, for through the Summer of 69 we all know our favorite time of year
Bless the Eschscholzia californica, for it is through these that Dorothy fell asleep and that we receive comfort

May our neighbors be protected from the prying eyes of family
May our dogs be protected from the promiscuousocity of the little dog next door
May or cats be protected from the tractor known as katkillr
May the cats also be protected from tulips, killer of kats
May we be protected from the falling skies
May we be protected from the end of daisies, where judgment thus ensue
May we be protected from door knockers who find themselves asking for us
May we be protected from the cock who crows too early in the morning
May our children be protected from us and all that we do in the name of the moment
May our parents be protected from all that we wish on them in times of immnse anger
May we be protected against those that wish to hurt us with misplaced baseballs, running blindly, or any other mishap that may or may not happen
May we be protected from drowning in hugs that are overzealous
May we be not protected from the hug zealot since hugs produce smiles and smiles are contagious.

Bless the opening flower that dawns a new day and the end of darkness, for though the bee stingeth upon our arm he also bears us sweet nectar from the flower to add to our cornbread which protects us from hunger and starvation as does a bowl of chili that goes with the cornbread; chili protects us from the cold as its warmth warms up our body soul and mind; protect us all in the town of BloomingNormal from the abysmal cold and snow and allow us warmth and heat that the daylight promises; Bless or blessed classes, from Spanish to Poetry and all in between for through these classes alone shall we grow to poets and Spaniards we are meant to be; Protect the coffee that we drink from haphazard of getting cold unless it is ice coffee then protect it from getting hot, for both are delicious in their own way and both offer benefits that can be seen if given the chance; Protect us from the inanity of history taking over a literature class; Protect us from overly hot rooms and blisterly cold apartments; Protect us from too much Chef-Boy-Rd for though it is delicious, pasta is so much better; Protect us from too much homework and also from the procrastination that adds to the homework; protect us from 200 pages of reading for oneclass; Protect us from the neighbor that calls the cop with a noise complaint, may her sleep be bothered the rest of the semester; Protect us in our hour of final sleep for the night, may we wake up as happy as we were when we blacked out.

Protect us from Darkness
Protect us from Uncertainty
Protect us from the Elephant by using the power of the Ass
Protect us from certain drunkenness and the morning it will produce at work

Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway

Pater noster, light of lords, king of kings, heaven and all

I invoke your name, your presence, tuus spiritu,

oh, nameless one. Let no man bear the cross

alone and bare. Give peace and protection,

lord of lore, pacem praesidiumque da, to

the one who needs it most, mother,


The one who bore me, Christine Marie Mech Kwiatkowski,

she who knows the quiet cow on the skiing slops of

the Alps, she who is married

to a worker and a father,

she who puts up with twins

of the tetragametic chimerism, but not really,

and another son, but four

children daily, she who lost

her mother quickly and unceremoniously to fools

and fair freedomless fortuneless fathoms, the poppy

of the seeds of the Wicked Witch, sleep

child, sleep no more, but til the morn comes

in the cloudless and dayless sky. For I shall stand here

and plant the seeds of the doubtless/ful papaver rhoneas

into the works of man.


So protect her, agna, protect her from the horrors of the world:

pacem praesidiumque da, protect her from

the pressures of the teaching environment;

papaver atlanticum – I curse away

thou empty life, and cast ye into the desplaines river.


She who is a teacher, one of fools and little

children, how often the same really, with the

whining and the cryi-

wait too young, of the 7th and 8th

graders. A desk witness the trials and

tribulations, hydrodamalis gigas, with 42+ students

across the day of course,

babysitter wages = lies,

filled with countless hours and minutes

clocked by the sounds of monotone and

mondays. But its always a thursday

and never got the hang of it, did she, no.

Knowing is knowledge is not the the no

of the Nottingham novella, so grant the pax

required to work through the days of youre.


pacem praesidiumque da, and protect her from

the pains of death, save her brother from his disease;

bronchioli respiratorii – I curse away

thou folk fluids, and cast ye into the desplaines river


She who is the liver at 45 S. California Ave

mundelein, in the north suburb of Chicago, home

of the Burger King with coke and coke, pedophiles

and murders, but still no shooting. No use crying over

the mistake, especially with cake. She who

has always lived in mundane lion, once two blocks

from her junior high, where the iron sleeps,

is necessary sometimes to work

through the school daze/days.


pacem praesidiumque da, protect her from

the periods of loneliness that plague society;

papaver alpinum – I curse away

thou needless workings, and cast ye into the desplaines river


She of oak and elm, pine and fur. She of the lake

county counting and counting the dreamless

lily of the marked pox of pacis. No Reaver am I.

Reach forth king of kings, stretch arms as though a

dying elm of our front lawn, reach forth and

stretch to the ands of guide her, guide to grace

and peace, happiness. That time graced to us,

is an illusion, a lusion of the day and allusion to

the night, and thus lunch time, doubly so. Especially

with sperm whales from the sky. The elm can not catch

something as that, but you can, thylacoleo.


pacem praesidiumque da, protect her from

the darkness of the fear that lies awake at night.

ligamentum collaterale tibiale – I curse away

thou foul break, and cast ye into the desplaines river.


The cake is lying moist. Lying awake

in the mephistophilitic world of bel's bells, the

nephroptosis harms no more. It does not dingle and

dangle with the displaced breast tissue, neither of which She

has. Harden thy blood, for haemochromatosis lacks

what the seeds deliver. The fox can hamr with its weapons of mass

echinococcosis, but fear not him for there is protection.

The moist cake lies and brings about naphthalene poison,

so eat well and stay away from fire. The cake is lying moist.


pacem praesidiumque da, protect her from

burnt cake with the terrible crust;

papaver gracile – I curse away

thou false grace, and cast ye into the desplaines river.


She who bakes the most delicious cakes and cookies,

especially this peanut butter one that almost

melts in your mouth when you eat it. In the beginning

thought, it was created, some regarded it

as a bad idea, but I enjoyed it. The peanut better cookie.

Not the universe. Happiness, hydrodamalis gigas, does not come

from moving around little green sheets of paper,

considering these papers are not unhappy themselves

but in the form of a freshly baked peanut butter cookie

from she who bakes. Some's the effect of

having your brains smashed out with a

slice of lemon zest wrapped around a gold brick.


pacem praesidiumque da, protect her from

the greed of society, let her keep her money.

membrana vitrea - I curse away

thou foolishness, and cast ye into the desplaines river


She of Lake Michigan and other tiny lakes

around the county. She of the dog who sleeps on

the couch against threat of lemon juice. She of the

blue chrystler, which is a nice car but hard to get into

sometimes. (What are cows? At home)

She of the broken ligamentum collaterale carpi radiale

from dancing at a wedding. She of the computer illiterate,

working (ever talk to a computer, thylacoleo, it hates me) a great

deal on it. School requires it, as well does

home and pleasure.


pacem praesidiumque da, protect her from

ignorance of people, allow them to understand her.

Papaver somniferum – I curse away

thou embodiment of slumber, and cast ye into the desplaines river.


She of the red fox, sly and cunning, intelligent and witty,

take faith in the guile and wit to outclass the leading

powers of your work. Protect her, red fox, granting

the vision and knowledge to walk without care.


She of the white-tailed deer, noble and wise,

take faith in the mothering and protection of

your young and life. Protect her, white-tailed deer,

guiding through the forest to the peaceful waters.


She of the barn owl, reader and knowledge bearer,

take faith in the books of the tree and the workings

of your knowledge. Protect her, barn owl, from the world's

anger by hiding away in a book.


She of the black lab, loyal and loving, never doubting,

take faith in your love of family and life and guide yourself

by them. Protect her, black lab, bark at the intruders and

greet the arrivers.


She of the field mouse, meek yet strong, a force

for itself, take faith in your duties and existence, for you

at live by his grace, be blessed. Protect her field mouse,

for the meek shall inherit the earth.


Beatitudes grace so much, and disease so little,

or other way away; confusion equals disease

of the walking wath wingdim winklering whil witou

warmth. Homes and holmes hold no boundaries,

and nothing is elementary, hydrodamalis gigas, so bless

she of the heart, so I can sleep.


PATER noster, qui est in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum.

Protect and guide, agna, giving her the happiness from

the sorrow of loss;

Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.

Protect and guide, lux lucis, from the terrible floods

of human emotion;

Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut

Protect and guide, rex regorum, away from the mythic

forest of fear;

et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.

Protect and guide, caelus omniaque, from the over

stimulation of cloud particules;

Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo.

Protect and guide, domninus litterarum, from the course

changes of the oh-hi-oh river.

Amen

grant us your peace.



A petition for all

Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae. Et in Iesum Christum, Filium eius unicum, Dominum nostrum, qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine, passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad infernos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis, ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis, inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos. Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem, remissionem peccatorum, carnis resurrectionem, vitam aeternam.

Hear, Israel, the Lord is our god, the Lord is one Barukh sheim k'vod malkhuto l'olam va'ed. V'ahav'ta eit Adonai Elohekha b'khol l'vav'kha uv'khol naf'sh'kha uv'khol m'odekha/Blessed may we be in your name forever and ever.

Join us, oh Lord, in your name and in the mercy of the people, FOR THE UNISON AND THE LOVE OF THE PEOPLE IS THE HOLY SECRET

Let all the magical squirrelskunkcolonsorcerers dance gaily among the wildflowers of the African Violet eve
Let not the devils crap on our plans for getting together and getting our LOVEORGY MOJO on
ONE UNITED AGAINST THE SHITSTORM THAT IS HATE
Let them hold their incontinent rectums until they find the nearest port-a-sport of a hate-urr to crap on so s/he can learn to join the dance

Join all nations in the dance of praise in the dance of peace and learn from one another

Let the ethnicities rejoice in their differences and share the beauty of their cultures with one another
The Jews with their yummarific Matzoball soup and gefilte fish
The Brahmans with hot, steaming naan and delicious paneers
Let these people see the unison and the beauty of diversity in the beauty of/
l'ahavah et Adonai Eloheikhem ul'av'do b'khol l'vav'khem uv'khol naf'sh'khem AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.


Join the hearts of my siblings with mine, mon Dieu, for I have always been at a loss for them yet have always loved them so

Let Catherine Christine Pelletier find heart and soul and care for the ones she has injured
Especially yours truly, whom she treated like a ragdoll for every waking day my life
Though CatherineChristineFurtrader may heal the wounded of heart with her nurse’s hands, she creates wounds in this heart of mine
Though CatherineChristine Pelletier may soothe herself with horses aside the Kishuakee River and bike near the river of the Fox on a sunny day, she will never soothe me or the ones on whose heart she treads
Though she may heart pIzzazjimmyndante she maynever herald me I LOVE HER ANYWAY
Protect her from her own manipulative nature, dei sanctus Barukh sheim k'vod malkhuto l'olam va'ed. V'ahav'ta eit Adonai Elohekha b'khol l'vav'kha uv'khol naf'sh'kha uv'khol m'odekha Je vous salue marie, pleine de grace le seigneur est avec vous. Vous etes benie entre toutes les femmes et jesus, le fruit de vos entreilles, et beni. Sancte Marie, mere de Dieu, priez pour nous maintenant et a l’heure de notre mort

Let EllenMariePelletier continue to build a heart with me as we continually obsess about our cat, pootieotherwiseknownasThunderhisrealname ourcowardlypuppybaxter and afatasscat we once owned named Sparky Poor, Poor Sparky! He didn’t live past sevenandImisshow he used to clean himself obsessively and shuffle his feet before he ever took a drink of water
Let EllenMariePelletier excel at her wii games and beerpongeeng and become a genius psychologist one day who can discern the foxgloves from the pussywillows
May EllenMarieFurtrader walk the shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior in solaceknowing that we are all near and loving
May she continue to show heart to those she cares for, hold my lionheartdandelionchipmunk close
Protect her from harm and deception and pain Terve, Maria, armoitettu,Herra sinun kanssasi; Siunattu sinä naisten joukossa ja siunattu kohtusi hedelmä Jeesus. Pyhä Maria, Jumalan äiti, rukoille meidän syntisten puolestanyt ja kuolemamme hetkellä.

Join the Pelletier-Graves-Urbanowicz-Egan-Reijman-Hoffman-Mesinovinsky line of Illinois-Chicago-Batavia-New York-Arlington Heights- Deer Park- Oak Park- Russia together in songs of wooly mammoth praise
and glory thoughwemaybe JewishCatholicLutheran with differences great Let us all give pods of honeysuckle to one another that are blessed treats among the MonarchButterflies of my plains

Let us replace the hurricaines of our differences with the Laurels of celebration
Let Maya of Russia love Linda of Deer Park Illinois for her non-jewishrussianess just as she loves JadenKaylaAlexander of Deer Park Illinois Russia
For JaydenKaylaAlexander are the continu ity of MayaLindas blood and MayaLindas destiny
Protect them all from cultural ignorance GLORIA PATRI, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Let DonaldMichaelPelletier myfather throwback the sabre toothed monsoons of his worries about moneysupportetcetera
Let Him celebrate his life alongside the choo choo trains and take his mind away from the hell that is his government job when he sits in the basement and looks at old photogs Uncle Julian took when he was still alive
Teach me2forgive DonaldMichaelPelletier of Oak Park Batavia for the sandstorms he brought upon me in my early yearsfortheearthquakes and shifting of the plates he caused in my life for the gorges he created in my soul with his Toyoya Camry and sometimes Sienna
Let DonaldMichaelPelletier feel no pain and no remorse for what was done and rejoice in the joy of our uniSON
For if we try to fill the cracks with sand the deserts of the earth may become cracks themselves
Protect him from his own selfdestructiveness Domine Iesu, dimitte nobis debita nostra, salva nos ab igne inferiori, perduc in caelum omnes animas, praesertim eas, quae misericordiae tuae maxime indigent.


Join the living in the celebration of the lives of the Urbanowicz- Reijman- Krilieukevicz-Johnson dead

LetBabaraCecileReijmanPelletierThomasReijman find solace in their loss and in their mourning
Let BarbaraCecileReijmanPelletier bury the dead with her kind words and her healing ways that only a mother could; let her sow the daisies the violets the afracastictastic poppies pearmapleoaklilactrees that make the mind go SHAFAACKINANANAZAYUM HEY JUDE
Let BarbaraCecileReijmanPelletier be protected from the storm anvils of grief and pain over the loss of Babcza Helena
Let Thomas Reijman revel in the ethereal soul of beauty that was Helena, though she drove him fucking nuts
Let Thomas Reijman drive his flippinsweetantique Porsche around the deserts of Arizona, Camelback Mountain at his side driving into the sandstorms of time through the squamos cell carcinoma capitol of Scottsdale Arizona with the jackrabbit shrews of the arid deserts
Let Helena Leovodia Urbanowicz Reijman of BrooklynPhoenic find unison with my Grandfather George Reijman of QueensHague, with Babcza Rozalia Kriliekevicz of Tuczyn, Poland, with Gampy Chester of Tuczyn and Corneiluis our Hagueishheart who read Inferno to learn the American Soul
AVE MARIA, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae.

LIFE EVERLASTING 4MY DEPARTED
Join them, oh father, with your angels and saints and the lost of the world
Bless them whole and warm and safe in the feast of life everlasting

Join them, Allahadonai in a dance together singing praise
to the violets in my backyard
that sing with glory about my appendix that does nothing
but hang out with my colon year after year, no spring cleaning
to my pancreas as it continually produces insulin at a healthy rate while my gall bladder just sez wassap and creates a brown river for my ubiquitous liver
May my spleen continually produce insulin as it would for Helena Leovodia Urbanowicz Reijman if she were still at my side

Join Helena and George, oh king of kings as if they were twenty one and just recently married
Let not the Rheumatic Fever of George burn through their love
Let not the Sickle Cell Anemia tire their love
Let not the Cancer of hate grow between them
Let them be bonded in spirit for ever and ever
Let Helena's heart beat strongly for him before death knocked on her door with congestive heart failure
Let Helena make the same meatball recipe twice so that George and Cornelius of Hague and Rozie and Chester of Tuczyn and Thomas and Barbara of QueensPhoenix can enjoy it thoroughly and remember:
PATER NOSTER, qui es in caelis, sanctificetur nomen tuum. Adveniat regnum tuum. Fiat voluntas tua, sicut in caelo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie, et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris. Et ne nos inducas in tentationem, sed libera nos a malo.
Protect them from spiritual harm and poor judgement


PROTECT MY DEPARTED FROM HARM PROTECT MY LIVING FROM FOOLISHNESSGREEDIGONORANCELUSTHURTPAININJUSTICE
DO NOT ALLOW FOR THEIR UNDOING FOR WE ARE ALL A FAMILY OF EIGHT BILLION
UNITE US ALL IN FREEDOM Barukh atah Adonai, Eloheinu, melekh ha-olam hamotzi lechem min ha'aretz.

De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine:
Domine, exaudi vocem meam:
Fiant aures tuae intendentes,
in vocem deprecationis meae.
Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine:
Domine, quis sustinebit?
Quia apud te propitiatio est:
et propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine.
Sustinuit anima mea in verbo eius:
speravit anima mea in Domino.
A custodia matutina usque ad noctem:
speret Israel in Domino.
Quia apud Dominum misericordia:
et copiosa apud eum redemptio.
Et ipse redimet Israel,
ex omnibus iniquitatibus eius.
Gloria Patri, et Filio,
et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper,
et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.