Jake Shaw's Blog, page 82
March 18, 2017
Easy Meat
It’s right there
On the table
Behind you
So succulent
And so well done
Could just turn around
And take it off
Its silver platter
It looks so good
And you’re so hungry
Temptation hasn’t felt
A burn like this before
For you to yearn this bad
It would hurt
To reach for it
But you feel like you’re
Already dying in a desert
You could do it, take
The lure and get ensnared
Enjoy
And move on with it
No longer hungry
Maybe
Or still you could hunger
Or thirst for even rarer
Or ever-present meats
Meat
I...
March 17, 2017
JAKE Theory
Jake Thomas Shaw
Professor John Lucas
POLS 203 – International Relations
3/17/17
JAKE Theory
Papers on ISIS have been written before, and the terrorist group makes for an intriguing topic. There’s much at stake, so much to stand for, and so much caused by this faction’s presence. In this one however, going in with a much better understanding on the warring powers and their ideologies, this won’t be a high school senior in 2014’s markup of why this particular conflict is interesting. There is...
Maori Instinct
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Like Adam and Eve
With leaves covering
Our naked bodies
We arrived by canoe
At the edge of a
Great island
With exotic
Flora and fauna
Using the beautiful
Brush and dipping
Our hands into
The calm Pacific
We learned
And we grew
Shark toothed tools
Fiber baskets
Bamboo fishing poles
And fire
We lived in the
Caves and came out
In the day
Followed the jungles
And scaled mountains
Still we grew
And then one day
We wished upon
The island’s bounty
To teach us a
Way
To fly high as the sky
So we lear...
March 16, 2017
Get A Fix
I don’t have a backbone
Feels like it’s broken
Because everything hurts
Infrastructure
Damaged beyond repair
Potholes of despair
Popping tires
The only aid I seek
Tonight is to fix
My back
And wander the bleak
One two three four
Keep your feet
On the floor
Five six seven eight
Keep dancing and
Don’t float away
Gone am I on this
Endless sea
So shall we see
Night lights
Of the city
You could notice
My pupils pulse
As I’m injected
With the energy
The vibe
Haze
Energy
Whatever you call it
I’m gla...
March 14, 2017
Notebooks and Procrastination – Journal 3/14/17
I hit a fantastic milestone today, and one I haven’t been able to celebrate before! I finished a notebook! Entirely finished an entire 5 subject notebook! Holy christ, this is insane for me. In March of 2016 I found this thing blank with water stains all over it, and a year later, it is done.
So many good ideas came out of there. It’s been so much fun having something tangible to get things down on! I highly recommend you get yourself a trusty notebook. There are some advantages and disadvant...
Entombed
Heaping on
Piles of data dirt
Lights are flickering
With the pressure
Glitches and viruses
Infecting it
Lying forgotten
In its case
So many things
Its lens has seen
So many words
Its touch screen sent
All the documents and data
Buried deep
Try to forget
Where its unmarked hollow is
But I mourn the loss
Of what was present
Its lights now dim
With the strain
And the battery drained
To charge never again
To never connect to
A network ever again
Forbidden files
Collecting dust
Like a vast library...
March 13, 2017
The Other Night – Journal 3/13/17
So the other night I went to a reading event at my college. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal, except for the fact that I never do these things.
I’ve always had a problem with being up on stage, for some reason. I will write my ass off and come prepared with something I read, but I find that makes me more nervous. In high school, we often had to bring Powerpoint presentations to classes and present things. Every time I had a script and plot as to what I was presenting, I got anxiety.
This...
Life
Energy drinks are “bad for you”
Even if they’re delicious
But what can be really bad is
Fake news and alternative facts
And people upset over who they voted for
Safe spaces without triggers
It’s hard to keep track of these days
All the stuff that’s bad for you
1984 is popular again
The book and nostalgia
The Bachelor is brainless
Big Bang Theory isn’t very funny
Buzzfeed
Fucking Buzzfeed, man
The_Donald and
EnoughTrumpSpam
Echo chambers
Russia and China the
Superpowers
ISIS and Syria
Definite...
March 12, 2017
Unoops
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Silky sweet, like a
Flower who’s sugary warm
Petals lapped up
The dew that misted
In a field
Bright pink and tall among
Leafy grass in the sun
Bathing in glory and shining
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