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Stone In My Pocket

from New Home​/​All Home by Paulie Lipman

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This was inspired by a workshop from the fantastic poet, Tara Hardy

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Go and find a stone
Put it in your pocket
Call it Purpose
Every day
feel the reminder of its weight
Let your work keep the stone's shape, but
don't let it grow into Burden

I learned this at a friend's workshop
I've spent every minute since
trying to remember this
Some days,
the stone grows coal fire
Inspiration
Other days, the cold density of
Doubt
And there are weeks where
it shrinks pebble chip into
Routine and Purpose

Before this
I never believed in Alchemy

This stone now
has so many names that
a well meaning friend suggested
I simply call it Hope
No
I carried that skyscraper weight
so long on bleeding shoulders
until it became the blasphemy
it really is

Oh, bright bird Hope
hook fanged jackal Hope
and every monstrosity in your
rolling, consuming, circus zoo Hope
All teeth, tongue and throat
your virtue lacks stomach

Every single little beastie
carping that your bright death
would end cool, delicous darkness
and fly this balanced crystal existence
into entropy, I say
savage

You
birth more fear than certain mortality
Death is shroud in black
and Devil soot smudged decadence
But Death is inevitable
and the Devil merely temptation
Neither make you do anything
You hold hostage entire lives
Patience's cohort, undeserved
its myth holy virtue

You are sibling only to Larceny
Leave me
My door now only open to Faith
and Result, Imagination, Urgency
These things are me, are Growth and Bloom
Divine Result
Oh, Violated Fable Hope, myths
die for a reason and i bid you
to take the hint
My days are nothing but
Inspiration
Routine
Defeat
and Alchemy

The stone I chose
was Purpose

Now Hope
get your fucking hand out
of my pocket

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from New Home​/​All Home, released December 26, 2011
Words by Paulie Lipman

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Paulie Lipman Denver, Colorado

Paulie Lipman has been a part of 8 Denver National Slam Teams(including '04's second place and '06's national champions). His work has appeared in The Legendary, Borderline, and the Write Bloody anthology: The Good Things About America.

In addition to Spoken Word, Pauile is also a musician/composer and is available for hire for commercial/video game/soundtrack work. ... more

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