i don't need the cure for cancer.
i don't need another cover version of "tiny dancer".
for i have completed construction on something i've always wanted to own:
a really big kick-ass robot.

i have named my robot dimitri
just because i can
i built him after all
and i wanted to name him d'angelo
but i feared the lawsuit.
so dimitri it is, and i'm damn proud of him.
he's giant. and he's awesome. and he's kick-ass. and he's really big.

he's big as your house.
and he has perfect hair
made of red, blue, and green wires swept back in a rockabilly pompadour
he's got dolby digital surround
he's faster than dsl
he dominates the iron giant and optimus prime on the half-court
and if given a very large open space
he's really good at doing the robot.
duh.

some people say i built him because i was in crisis
and men in crisis
often compensate by buying big metal things.
i'm sure i don't know what any of that means
i just wanted to have a really big ol' giant awesome kick-ass robot.

i think he has a crush on the statue of liberty
i try to tell him he's in love with the idea of her
and that it'd never work
but go figure
he's a dreamer like me.

his left hand is the standard interchangeable fist slash laser gun
and i have made his right hand into a large metal catcher's mitt
so he can carry me around.
and yes
there have been nights when he has carried me in his right hand
we have parked ourselves next to your apartment
and i have called you
on dimitri's mega-modular two-way built-in celly
and yes
while we were talking
i have seen your silhouette in the window
your left hand holding a standard margarita
your right hand on the phone
as you danced around the room
it is, i believe, the reason the word transcendent was invented.

but then i felt a little creepy and kind of intrusive
and besides
you can't be very stealthy with a big ol' giant awesome really kick-ass robot standing in the middle of the street
so then dimitri and i went and demolished some abandoned buildings
caught some bank robbers
and prevented a few forest fires
and i felt tons better.

but beyond that
i have realized that for all of the amazing things that he can accomplish
a big ol' giant awesome really fucking kick-ass robot can only do so much for me.
dimitri may be able to send gamara back to giant turtle island
he can fly me over rush hour traffic with his jet-boots
and he plays a really mean game of tetris
but he'll never be able to push you into my arms, love.
i mean, if he did, you'd probably be crushed
and that's counter-productive.
and kind of gross.

no
some things i gotta do on my own.
so i know it's really easy to hide behind a big ol' giant super-size awesome really fuckin' kick-ass robot
and sometimes i admit i do
because, well, think about it
i mean, i'm only 5' 8" and he plays ping pong with king kong
but he can't sing songs loudly in the car with abandon
he has no stories about his crazy-ass youth
he won't even try my cooking
and i think he only says he likes john hughes films to appease me.

so i come to you today
feeling very very human
with a tasteful bouquet of flowers in my left hand
and a monkey wrench in my right

because it's hard to take care of a big ol' giant super-size stereophonic mega-awesome really fuckin' kick-ass robot by yourself
and you've always struck me as a robot lover
and there's room enough in the big metal catcher's mitt for two
we can fly over to mount rushmore and have a picnic on teddy roosevelt's head
while dimitri cues up the stevie wonder on his 100-disc-changer stomach.

because when you step into my world
androids can cry
mad scientists have blown up the white house at least a dozen times
superheroes have fended off the invasion from neptune
and this
this is just crazy enough to make me think it could really work.
just you, dimitri the big ol' giant super-size stereophonic sittin' on chrome mega-awesome really fuckin' kick-ass robot
and little old me.

and all of this
all the nuts and bolts of it all
however extraordinary
should never be hard to believe.

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"You Sensitive Bastard", Rob Sturma's latest book of poems, is available directly from the author. It's a pretty book with a real ISBN number and everything.

www.myspace.com/robsturma

that was a great read
it made me smile
definitely enjoyed

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-Phyllis-


"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;
the more knowledge, the more grief."
- Ecclesiastes 1:18

oh man... it was silly but sweet

AND you referenced gammara... which made my night. (MST3K anyone?)

~*~*~*~*~*~*~newolf~*~*~*~*~*~*~

the light: so, you're having a pre-pre-midlfe crisis?
wolfie: yes.
the light: well, that's wonderful!


icantspell

i gotta say that i heard rachel kann's voice as i was reading. seems like something she might write. the perspective, anyway.

nice piece. very nice.

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so...

up

(((Awesome)))

And very tight storytellin' skills displayed thru~out -- (Tellin' YOUR OWN story -- with a Sci-Fi Twist) -- *smiles*


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A guitar string vibrating, a measure of my soul, a breech in the silence --
I've always felt like words come through me & I write them down... they have no master --- gsquared ♥

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abt imagination & dels said abt entertaining...both so spot on. u really locked the characterization down 4 this, man. that's sum actor's stuff, not even writer's stuff man. u brought this kid's (yrself, i guess) personality out 2 the fullest...w/ all those jumps & deviations & colloquialisms ("kind of gross" - ha!). very nice, very insightful too. loved 2 much abt this 2 list...& the way u grew the list of adjectives 4 the robot was simply brilliant. oh & the robot jokes = classic. i had a few problems as a reader tho' -- "but beyond that" didnt seem a strong enuff transition. perhaps simply diff wording or a more abrupt change. just an overall classic pCe tho...really really memorable, fam.

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kick ass,m'man...kick ass...
why do i see the star and sickle on dmitri,ha...nah,he's american made,s'all good.

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that was awesome, original and FRESH!

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3rd i: so u gonna be my child's god parent
Dawgeatah: i already have 3
3rd i: yeah but do u have a black one..like pokemon gotta catch them all.

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of the worst kind...
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Cosign that! I never wanted anything of the sort but sounds cool the way you put it.
It really turned into something I didn't expect and that was awesome... a kick ass robot and love. What a perfect match.


“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. But it was right that it should be so: my eyes and heart acclaim it. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again, to sleep deeply again and to awaken refreshed again. I had to become a fool again in order to find Atman in myself. I had to sin in order to live again. Whither will my path yet lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I follow it.” Siddhartha- Herman Hesse

"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."
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Lesley

feel like the little kid sitting on the swings alone just pushing a toe in the dirt dreaming up big schemes to escape the hurt of not having enough every day love...and it made me think of dennis the menace and charlie brown and that little boy robot with the giant one...

simply, i enjoyed all of this for many of the reasons that everyone has already mentioned.

peace,

n.

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"I'm a curbside prophet with my hand in my pocket and I'm waiting for my rocket to come." - Jason Mraz

"Conformity is the refuge of a stagnant mind."

mad dope just wicked mad dope!

Pappa

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A guitar string vibrating, a measure of my soul, a breech in the silence --
I've always felt like words come through me & I write them down... they have no master --- gsquared ♥

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/photosynthesis_music.htm

This. . .I don't even know what to say about this. I am speechless. Do you have any clue how hard that is to do? (I have to go off on a tangent here. I HATE the phrase, "I am speecheless" even tho' I just used it. You're NOT speechless, cuz, um, you just spoke to utter the phrase. But I digress.) Okay, I'm back now. Phenomenal does not even begin to do this piece justice. It's like the desires and reality of the man wrapped up in the wishes and dreams of the boy tempered with the cynicism and transition and awkwardness and hesitation of the adolescent. It's time warp, acid trip of a piece (not that I'm a trippy kinda girl in the least) set to the music of Aquaboogie by Parliament and I LOVE IT!! Ridiculously, insanely, psychotically love it!

Mahogany5952

p.s. Not that you're responsible for the odd twists and turns of my mind, but thanks a lot. . .now I can't stop singing "PsychoAlphaDiscoBetaBioAquaDoodaloop! A motion picture underwater starring most of youdaloop!"

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them." ~Phyllis Bottome

wow

from charlie brown to p-funk

y'all are too damn nice.

peace and robot grease,
slim

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www.myspace.com/robsturma

No, dearest. We're not too nice. We're just giving you the honest reactions. You are so unique. Sometimes you read and read and read stuff and it all starts to blur and be the same (thankfully I don't experience that on OKP), but that is something you will NEVER have to worry about. You're a true original. Now be nice and go read my stuff!!! Tho' the ones I've posted in the past couple days I don't like as much as the ones I posted a month or 2 ago.

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them." ~Phyllis Bottome

I have ever read on OKP. Truly. And you know I always calls'em like I sees'em.

Dammit. Back to the lab.

Plus I got niggas in DC
That'll hit you for 3G's and a box of Yum's carry out!
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We'll NEVER see another flow like this -- Unless Slim outdoes himself and tops this one -- *smiles*

A guitar string vibrating, a measure of my soul, a breech in the silence --
I've always felt like words come through me & I write them down... they have no master --- gsquared ♥

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/photosynthesis_music.htm

n/m.

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"I'm a curbside prophet with my hand in my pocket and I'm waiting for my rocket to come." - Jason Mraz

"Conformity is the refuge of a stagnant mind."

With a kick~ass robot on top!


Let's put dimitri on his lil' "Archive" pedestal, puhleeeeze?

A guitar string vibrating, a measure of my soul, a breech in the silence --
I've always felt like words come through me & I write them down... they have no master --- gsquared ♥

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/2/photosynthesis_music.htm