Cupid Pits LoverBoy Versus the Earth

January12, 2016
by lgall

“His girl ..is on the other side of the world
And this is WHAT ..has given birth
To LOVERBOY’s pitched BATTLE
With the Powers of EARTH.
But he’s not ..Sir LANCELOT.
And this EARTHWORLD .. isn’t CAMELOT.
This planet doesn’t owe him ..Diddly-squat !!”
Artie Fletcher 2016

Even the stars ..don’t glow THIS hot.
Earthworld ..since when do you get the girl ?
That’s just NOT ..EVER in the plot.
Everything ..you COULD bring ..has already been brought.
I’ve seen ..your floods in Spring
Ruin a wingding ..bumper crop.
You ARE a SWAMI ..of the TSUNAMI
But your monsoons ..are a bit overwrought.
You know you’re NOT ..the only body ..with a molten center ..Hotshot.
Deep (within) inside me ..I’m roiling with Love ..boiling over ..with LOVE.
From which ..has arisen ..a super megawatt
BIO-magnetic field ..around me ..my doctor can plot
That repels ALL ..SELFISH or INDIVIDUAL thoughts.
Allowing only those ..that SHE ..also ..chose.
Her bein’ ..the best thing ..that I’ve ever got.
I’m a one-man ..LOVE SWAT ..dream team.
I’m just THAT ..hot to trot.

Earthworld ..what you got ..THAT ..ain’t gone be ..good enuf.
I’ve got all the right stuff.
I’m jus so ..up to snuff.
I don’t take ..no guff.
I call ..ALL ..the bluffs.
I ain’t no powder puff.
I’m the real deal ..a man of steel ..not of fluff.
I play ruff ..and tuff.
And do it all ..off the cuff.
Why? ..I’ve got all the right stuff.
Earthworld ..what you got ..ain’t ever gone ..TO BE ..enuf.
Why ..Like I’ve said ..I’ve got ..ALL the right stuff.

Now Planetary Magnetic fields ..may reverse poles
But physics can’t reverse ..basic human ..hooking up roles.
The one in love ..has just one goal
Put ‘er in high gear ..and don’t touch ANY controls !!
The clockwork ..of the universe ..is a well-publicized play
That predictably unrolls ..day by day by day.
So Earthworld ..I know exactly where you’re going
You ..and your habitual orbital ways.
But my style ..is riling ..my party line ..constantly re-dialing
What’s COOL ..and what’s IN ..and what’s NOT.
I’m the most ..in VOGUE ..cosmonaut.
So get away from my runway ..I’m about to take off.
My selfie ..shows I’m heart healthy.
I’ll win ..the cash ..the mansion ..and all while ..staying in fashion.
At the hottest ..late night hotspot’s ..valet parking lot
I’m pulling up ..so HOT ..in my Jaguar Juggernaut.

But LOVE is only a theory ..with no answers ..just queries.
Where what matters ..is decided ..on a whim ..or by chance.
And like ..Einstein disliked ..there’s these unexplained ..long-range
communications (interactions) between entangled partici-pants.
Why would sub-atomic particles ..and LOVERS
Be trapped ..in the same kinda time trance ?
Somehow ..Faster than the speed of light
They BOTH just know ..what the other knows ..almost ..in advance.

Love is a whole nother level of gettin’ on ..NATURALLY.
Way beyond ORGANICALLY ..even beyond FACTUALLY.
For when Love is a witness ..to some funny business
The story is n’er ..anywhere close ..to what happened ..ACTUALLY.
When LOVE makes your classic Greek physique ..part and parcel
To a whole total body PROTO-PLASM SPARKLE
Reason ..and the brain ..must pay ..for this considerable energy drain
Pragmatically ..yet ..TACTICALLY.

While a LOVER in LOVE ..gains ..in the carnal
You’ve lost ..most of ..your marbles.
Your words ..come out garbled ..You don’t kiss ..’till you’ve gargled.
You give them all of your money ..Well almost ..PRACTICALLY.
But LOVE has added ..other new demon dimensions
To your non-sensible senses
Ones with startling ..and remarkable ..romantic FACULTIES.
1. Like the LOVER’s notion ..that feelings can be felt across a wide ocean
2. And that two heads are better than one ..even for the one ..who’s NOT dumb.
3. And that discussing a pre-nup
Is a great way ..to spend a LOVE day ..inter-coursing CONTRACTUALLY.

Earthworld ..I can see thru ..your boisterous ballyhoo
Your masquerade ..your charade ..your hoopla ..and hype.
But I’m immune to your poison ..your potions ..your venom.
So all that’s OF Earth ..or even Earth-like ..is WHAT I’ll fight
For the right ..to re-unite ..with my new lease on love-life
My piece ..of feminine Heaven ..my future wife.

LOVE’s ..an emotional flood ..so granite ..can’t dam it.
It’s a fire ..the more dire ..will only feed ..and fan it.
When soul mates ..decide ..to co-reside ..and tie the heartfelt ..I shalt knot
Nothing can stop ..groom and bride ..from connecting those lonely dot to dots.

LOVE is THE attractive force ..but let’s not go manic.
It doesn’t feel like you’re caught ..so no one should panic.
If truth be told ..LOVE will jack you up ..like a lyin’ mechanic.
It’ll unscrew ALL your lug nuts
Then hand you an (emotional) bill ..that’s like ..GIGANTIC.

I can feel ..and I can think
I’ve got a heart ..and I’ve got a brain
And Earthworld ..you’re just a place ..where meteors reign.
I hope you don’t take this complaint ..as proof ..I like to complain.

But ..Is Sumatra ..your wettest tempest ?
And is Tibet ..your tuffest terrain ?
Is the Sahara your largest .. parchest desert ?
And is Siberia ..your most disheartening ..endless plain ?
Is humanity ..your hungriest man-eater ?
Is sanity ..your hardest fought gain ?
Well ..unless you’re hiding a fire-breather
Earth ..I can stand up to your pain. (endure your pure)

Is that your thicketest jungle growth ?
Is that your wickedest swamp ?
Is that your most explosive volcano ?
Listen up Earth ..This is MY turf ..This is (the ground) where I stomp !
I romp on your geyser ..and your hidden crevasse.
I dance ..on your teetering avalanche
Cuz Earth ..you ain’t got me snowed.
A flake like you? ..Not a chance ..Oh no.

Earthworld ..first ..let me say ..you won’t last.
After your mountains ..erode
And your jaggedy globe ..has flatly plateaued
Then is when ..I’ll get a load
Of your hairiest ..scariest ..potholey road
And I’ll skate ..and I’ll ski ..and I’ll run you down.
Love does makes me (men) strut ..and go to town.
It’s written in my (their) DNA ..and in my source-code.
I am master ..of ALL natural disasters !!
To get to the one I love ..I’ll swim ..to her ..or to him ..’till I drown.

If my LOVE was space stationed ..I’d rocket ..to dock it
“Hello ..Hello ..I’m your TOTAL ..half-year payload.”
Whatever the muzzle ..whatever the maze
Whatever the puzzle ..whatever the plague
She’s my pie ..I’m her a la mode.
She’s my ..blue sky ..I’m her ..betrothed.
If she was a submarine ..She’d still be why
I’m so ballistically ..and holistically ..torpedoed.
Why this whole story ..I’ve ..this day told
Could just be a ..Psychopathic ..Schizophrenic
Sado-massa-chick-flick ..episode.

LOVE has a heavy need for listening and talking.
But it’s also physically rich and Fertile ..in the non-verbal.
Since you pull in ..when arguin’ ..LOVE is ..just made ..for turtles.
It’s a partial debacle ..a slight deviation ..from the upright ..and the vertical.
Love is a daily Hail Mary ..It’s a head-on collision ..of the itineraries
And who gets ..to sit ..in the Lazy-boy convertible.
It’s a stub of the toes ..where the nail throbs ..then goes and turns purple.
It’s a run to the finish ..where you stumble over ..or hit ..every damned hurdle.
Why else WOULD a body
EVEN be (carin’) thinkin’ ..about (wearin’) a thing ..LIKE a girdle ?

Earthworld ..I’ve no need to be warned ..of your warm thunder storms.
And if I step inside ..I won’t be fried ..by your frightening ..lightening taser.
Your sinkholes only undermine .. the unconscious ..and blind.
I won’t be bullied ..by your bellicose icebergs
Or by THEIR dads ..your grandiose glaciers.

Where’s the monster ..that roars ..your gale force winds ?
Where’s the behemoth ..who’s weighty steps ..make our Earth-pie crust quake ?
Earthworld ..are you all “virtual bark” ..and no “actual bite” ?
Nothing but mirages ..and other optical lies.
Like the Wizard ..behind the curtain ..nothing for certain.
Earth ..are you ..in disguise ..or a fake ?

Haven’t you got a NEW mountain ?
Is this old stuff ..what YOU ..call astoundin’ ?
If you had a mouth ..that wasn’t a river’s
On what ..would you now .. be expoundin’ ?

If there is no BigFoot ..or Chupacabra
What IS ..your most malicious beast ?
Are ALL your vicious rogues ..ruthless ..or just scarecrows
Like a braggadocios wave ..crashing ..toothless ..gumming up and down ..the beach ?

Is that how you plan ..to test my will as a man ..and my moxi ?
Just with what ..two colliding continents ..can crumble up ?
Is that what you propose .. will distract ..and outfox me ?
Well ..let your mountain ranges intersect. ..Try your best to intercept.
Your horizons won’t block me ..Your dizzy spinning ..won’t stop me.
You can’t barricade ..my one-man LOVE brigade on parade.
Your subterranean rumbling ..and your underground grumbling
Won’t scare me ..I’m just NOT ..terrestrially ..afraid.

I’ve fought with MARS and VENUS ..so I know your type.
You zoom in the zone ..astronomers call sweet
Where water won’t freeze ..at least ..not THAT ..easily
And so tears ..on your sphere ..act chemically right.
And roll down (chicly) meekly ..on most everyone’s cheeks. (Streakily, obliquely)

Call in ..both your goons
The SUN ..and the MOON
I don’t scare ..by solar flare
Or by planet-aligned ..extra high tide.
Saddle me up a cyclone ..I’m heading home.
Your hurricanes ..don’t hurry ..as fast as I’d ..like to ride.
Your floods ..can only flow
Your land ..can only slide
But to circumnavigate ..you ..and yours
I’ll PLANE need ..to take-off ..and to fly.

Try if you can ..to pull bodies..down on my head.
Your gravity ..isn’t THAT grave.
And I’m not made like you ..layer upon layer ..of a dead ..boney zoo.
So a meteor cratering ..won’t make me cave.
But if asteroids and comets ..is all that you’ve got.
Here’s my review of you
You’re at best ..a scenic view stop
At worst ..a torrid tourist spot ..to quick shop
With horrid high prices ..no one can pay !!

But of course ..that’s ALL you’ve got.
You’re just a planet.
And this is LOVE …DAMMIT !!
But once you understand it
You’ll make out ..like a Bandit.
LOVE must be fun ..if Boston banned it.
When I take LOVE command ..I’ll see we expand it.
If you’re too young ..we’ll diagram it.
This LOVE pictorial ..is older ..than Moses ..and Sanskrit.
But let’s not telegraph it.
The cops might demand ..you remand it.
The courts may ..contraband it
And find a way ..to reprimand it.
But it got sent ..when I scanned it
So who’s to say ..what server will land it
Or on what page ..it’ll stay.
And by WHO ..and by WHEN ..these fines ..should be paid.
The End …..for now.
The Eeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnndddddddddd…………………………….

Your flower beds are still all unmade.

When you retire Earth ..are you gonna live at a planetarium ?

That’s it for you
As far as a magnetic barrier
You’re not THAT repulsive.
Get ..like the DOG star ..Sirius
Intergalactically speaking ..Earth ..you’re just a yappy Terrier.

marshall impartial

bought ..A second thought ..a runaway train of thought An afterthought.
taught fought fraught sought Dreadnought = battleship Aquanaut
Argonaut Long shot Onslaught Soft spot. Weak spot Whole lot
turkey trot ..piping hot ..polka dot ..beauty spot ..sub-plot kilowatt
flowerpot coffeepot chamberpot honeypot
caveat ..apricot ..Army cot ..patriot ..
Bumper shot ..Bank shot ..overshot ..undershot ..booster shot ..passing shot ..scattershot ..buckshot ..Hottentot ..Forget-me-not

sewed ..slowed ..strode ..boatload ..unload
bestowed ..corrode ..crossroad ..railroad Morse …Tiptoed

Misanthrope

Final Exam it Slam it ..Ram ..wham it .
Space Program ..computer program it ..Apollo Program ..reprogram it
logjam it ..traffic jam it..diagram it ..mammogram ..monogram ..hologram ..telegram ..sonogram ..Electrocardiogram ..

juggernaut. Jagannath = lord of the world ..Vishnu
I’ll backhand it. Contraband it. Freehand it.
Telegram it. Reprogram it. Space program it.
Pilot program it. Apollo program. Electrocardiogram it.

Gladiatorial truculent pugnacious quarrelsome contentious
belligerent antagonistic
Tsunami combative confrontational

A dearth ..of earth

Earth ..you may be alive ..but ..I’m not sure you know it.
Some places you’re abundant
Then other places ..you let the wind in ..and you both blow it.
If you knew ..what you grew ..more knowingly (efficiently perfectly greenly )
you’d grow it.
When you’re the friend ..on whom hungry people world-wide depend
You can’t trust your weather ..and just let everything flow.
No one gets fed ..when we ALL have to eat crow.

Poetry