DISEMBODIED POETICS: A singular view of various realities

I use words to deepen my observations. All of the following works are © copyrighted. They are the intellectual property of Greg Hoover. If you or anyone you know is interested in licensing one or more written works for use in a compilation, as lyrics in a musical work, synced to video, or some other use, feel free to contact me about an arrangement. But if not, assuming you are curious and literate, simply reading for pleasure is encouraged.

Monday, October 6, 2025

the summit of Alpe d'Huez

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Chemical Ali was not there in the rarified air at the summit of Alpe d'Huez where a sign in French says " Allez Armstrong " go...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

eaten by pigs

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eaten by pigs while wearing wigs squealing naked and not yet infirm watch them lie and squirm down the dance hall and out the door rolling i...
Friday, October 3, 2025

on the dunce seat

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when i attended school i had to obey the golden rule: no messes and everybody confesses on the playground and in class no holding hands or g...
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Picasso would have painted

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Pablo was a dabbler in the art of solicitation while a genius with the brush and colors on canvas. Two wives and countless lovers, all women...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

landfill or garbage dump

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Portland isn't known as trump land and that's a good thing trump land is a hell hole a deranged darkness of the soul pity the humans...
Friday, September 26, 2025

Louise de Coligny-Châtillon (1914)

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before we began smoking opium i was already your devoted slave unafraid as any other former jailbird might be to feel your whip strike appro...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

the happiest boy

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there's a little boy playing in the tasseled field pretending to be a captain or uniformed colonel without serious thought darkening h...
Monday, September 22, 2025

i love belonging

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when i was young, i created a self-protective bubble around myself, as a defensive measure from what i felt was abuse from the parents who f...
Monday, September 15, 2025

of hatred and bigotry

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the real America, Charlie, is found in Austin, a middle-sized city in Texas, during South by Southwest. so, here's your test: is it musi...
Monday, August 4, 2025

Vietnam is such an interesting land

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Vietnam is such an interesting land: shoreline and mountain top jungle and rice paddy people and places bungalows and water buffalo brillian...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

That's the lucky part

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I've heard it said by my history teachers: George Washington was the first President of America, then a newly formed Republic, finally s...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Edna (1892-1950)

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In Paris, a simple bridge over the river Seine could not be rebuilt: George Dillon brought his younger arms, surrendered to lavish red-ha...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

off the foggy coast of wild Peru

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how did you survive when they killed the number five, and tossed your Father in a cell? because in Kashmir there is a riot when Indian troop...
Monday, July 14, 2025

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist

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Celebration beer in hand,  the stranger sat next to Scott and asked about the Paris weather. Zelda overheard the question and threw her drin...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

Jair and Donald

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everybody knows that former President Jair Bolsonaro, a Brazilian by birth, is loved by the American president, Donald. Bolsonaro lost his m...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

A literary table

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A literary table in a Paris cafe found Picasso on the sidelines with surprisingly little to say. Braque and his wife kept sipping their t...
Monday, July 7, 2025

TS, phone home

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i slept in the Victoria Hotel down in old Mexico and walked on handmade tiles colored in deep indigo. Eliot wasn't on my floor nor was h...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Ho Chi Minh didn't play golf

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Ho Chi Minh city: street traffic swallowed by honking horns where a new Trump Tower is to be built over the bones of Ho Chi Minh, a man who ...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

temples in the mountains

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i wore my robe and soft slippers sipped mint tea heard the wind outside my tent harmoniously ushering in the night.   i saw temples in the m...
Monday, June 30, 2025

is there more that i could say?

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it's finally raining hard but i've lost my only playing card in a room with no backyard where the children once ran around now they...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

watching the White House

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sitting on my piano bench with whiskey in hand sipping one for you and one for my band tapping my feet before i can stand touching the sky w...
Monday, May 19, 2025

The Boss is Bruce

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And it goes without saying,  but for those unaware, The Boss is a talented singer, composer, and leader of the famous E-Street Band...Mr. Br...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

a wonderful son

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 I have a wonderful son.  His name is William but everybody calls him Will.  In real life, he's taller, more computer savvy, and younger...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

what you got

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Zelda what you got it's what i want reading between your lines polishing an old penny until it shines outside on an empty dance floor he...
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