The Unpublishables

By Steve Lavigne

Creative expression is an intense means of learning - all of human experience can and should be our subject matter. I would ask you to consider reading The 2012 Um-Yangian. This current collection, a condensation of a lifetime of off and on again writing, is (just like the title says) not quite publishable. For although there are little gems scattered throughout, putting this work into the public realm is akin to going to the beach after a long winter of becoming pale and gaining a lot of weight - it seems like a good idea until you actually get there – umm what was that? No, no really. I honestly thought this was a clothing optional area….
As I said in the opening, creative expression is an intense means of learning - you open yourself up to the criticism and ridicule you thought you had long ago learned to avoid in middle school. But what is our alternative? Job, family, leisure time can all be either futile distractions and death bed regrets or opportunities for really living - your portal to self expression, growth, enlightenment, uh disdain, ridicule, pity... So here's to all the fools, life is what we make of it, some day we'll all become wise or dead ...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Steve Lavigne
• Release date: Feb 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781466185876

Steve Lavigne

father, nurse, sometime writer of poetry, earthling

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The Unpublishables

By Steve Lavigne

Copyright 2012 Steve Lavigne

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Creative expression is an intense means of learning - all of human experience can and should be our subject matter. However, it is the art rather than subject that determines a works effectiveness. If you haven’t already, I would ask you to consider reading Fork And Other Poems. This current collection, a condensation of a lifetime of off and on again writing, is (just like the title says) not quite publishable. For although there are little gems scattered throughout, putting this work into the public realm is akin to going to the beach after a long winter of becoming pale and gaining a lot of weight - it seems like a good idea until you actually get there – umm what was that? No, no really. I honestly thought this was a clothing optional area….

Table of Contents

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part One

Sweet comfortable you

Our comfort is no sluggish slave to sameness,

No erosion of the soul, no leveling to one plain

Existence, but with a vegetable passion grows –

Grows from the roots of mountains, and spiraling

Through time with questing, untiring looks to thyself,

Myself and back and back again, we grow together, always

Changing, but ever with sweet comfortable you.

Rabbit dying

Hunted by sounds and hunter of petals,

Nibbling and silently dropping the forest

Home he lives in, he waits.

Until there is forest silence, he waits

In his seven course camouflage thicket

And gyrates brittle twigs and fleshy grass

Between white pucker lips.

Contented, he hops to warm himself in

Sunlight and triple kicks fleas near a turning

Dinner bell ear which is answered.

A fox squirrel shakes its tail and chirps.

The shadow of a hawk screams;

The earth is brought near a red straining eye,

The other rises harpooned, an olive on