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The ingredient’s for the disturbed

The ingredient’s for the disturbed

Take a couple of parents
Let them sketch violence
Instead of pretty things

Take the vacant father

Children should not be witnesses
To Violence.

Cease the courtship’s of violence
There are children watching
Don’t you realise?

Pressed ears touch floorboard
Don’t kid yourself they are asleep
The selfish rowing couple
The guilty actions reap
The adolescent tearaways
And the anxiety ridden deep
Cuts and scars
He self harmed arms reached
And ignored
Centres of attention
Your cupboard door was knawed
But you never let the mice in
That’s all we were, mice
Pests to you
But cuddly when it suited
Cute kids when it suited
Bin bag and booted
Homosapien lesbo fluted
Its clear-cut you cut us up
Clear-cut your stupid rows
Stupid rows
Stop the rowing
The smashing plate
Stop the drunken fits
The banging gate when fled
Did mum as smacked around the face
Celebrate the monster within
Yes all inside
A killer instinct but
How many narcissist or homophobe
Formed from this
How many still ear mark of earlobe
Pressed on boards of bliss
The only barrier
To see if you loved mummy
Loved her
Then hated her
She loved us
Then hated us
Ran out
Ran in
Kicked off
Waved drowned swim
Father fucker
We became adolescent
And hated every man
We became the man and hated every woman
Suffer like we did, in unison
Unite
The misplaced
And despatched one night in search of liquor
We heard it would help
Prostitution should be nutrition
Super kelp ingest the member
And think of him hurting
Daughter fucked the cash can claim
He never put any on the table
Wonder how money was involved; yet no he never loved
Yes dollars loved but never mother
Self interest we are children peripheral
And how we wish to protest
Against those
And how this stems
And how this breeds
And how this becomes the drip drip feed of our criminal ways
How the take away violence is passed
How the Freudian Oedipus baton passed along
The house is smashed up
There are glass fragments everywhere
And to rub it in we deliberately tread in the glass
To make sure we are still real
blood a good indicator of life
And when smeared on face
Indicated the disgrace you should feel
Because it’s now time to point the finger
Now time to linger in inappropriate places
Waiting the death day of the ones who taunted
The list shall include our headmasters
Parents
The so-called school bullies and friends
That lamented
The super glue emotions that never left
Like guilt and fear and anxiety
And self loathing
And disgust
And alienation
And dissociation
And fragmentation
The splitting
The spat out spitting
Words
Evoked from a therapy session failed
The derailed
The dispossessed the ‘in a mess’ alchies
The abused
The interfered with
The fingered
The fucked
The ruckus of pack hunting
Musk laden testosterone
Deep down thrones that fell
The fiery hell of disturbance
The schizo psycho tendencies
The narcissist
The limp wrists
You call faggots
You fucks
The maggot muck
The writhing worms
The tummy tucks cuz we felt fat
The anorexia reasons I did that
The abandoned
The starving of love
The push and shoved out the door
The losers on the street
The fuckin parents fucked up feat
Of mastery
The smashed in door
The totally destroyed
Gagging for more killing
The milling of the millstone
The flour power hippie parents
Supposed to be calm
The jabbing pin in the arm
The compass needle at school
The tool you used to mark your name
The short skirt stockings
The 14-year-old games of trapping daddy sexually
The free
The attached to mother spank on the knee
The escapism
The secret friends
The lending of your inner thoughts
To the missing friend pretend
Theres nothing there
But it all floods back
And the innocent get caught on one side of the track of this insane war
The turmoil still pours
The blood has stopped keeping score of its resonance on walls
The therapist calls
The samritarian halls of residence
Help
Help help
Seroxat
Valium
Prozac
Pushed
Prozac push
St john’s wart recommended
No
Didn’t work
No jerk off for comfort
No screw down to feel real
Wanted daddy didn’t want you
Mother didn’t want us
Help us
We are together in therapy this room
We all share the doom gloom scenarios
I paint
I write what do you do
Or die
Flicker or fry yourself the prying door
They spied on you
You paint your face
You cross dress
You disgrace your self on purpose
Lace your boots
Skim the roots
You can’t bear to face from where you came
You have gone apathetic and lame in a drug induced
Game of cat an mouse
Your spouse don’t stand a chance
The kids don’t stand a chance they made us pass it on
We need to break the trance the dream
We must stop the never-ending cycle stop
With rope
Stop
With hosepipe stop
With pill pop stop
With head hold stop
With head tremor stop
With cliff ledger stop
With lover’s leap stop
With Thelma Louise stop
With curled up knees stop
With corner of ward
Stop
With straight jacket stop
With head butt
This rut stop this pain
We the kids this pain
We the kids this pain
Together all of us come on
Share this pain
Talk to me share ‘e’, your pain
Tell me I’m not the only one
Whore me and ill more you
Pervy killing things well do
Hurt each other through and through
We all together hurting
All together
I need to say this
Need to write this
All together stop

◄ five O'clock shadow

internal wails of protest ►

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Francine

Mon 4th May 2009 00:52

Je suis en train de pleurer... beaucoup d'émotion...
beaucoup de tristesse... ça m'a beaucoup touché...

Pete Crompton

Sat 6th Sep 2008 00:03

Lauretta has asked me to read this, so a sound recording of it has been made.

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Steve OConnor

Thu 28th Aug 2008 08:30

Hello Lauretta

Lovely to meet you!

The ingredient's for the disturbed - Extreme Catharsis is what I'd call it. And I mean that in the most positive way.

As a piece of automatic writing it's absolutely exceptional. It feels like there's a lot of purification going on in there, and that's not a bad thing.

The repetition reminded me of Ginsberg's best work. Sometimes repetition leaves me a bit cold (like going for an obvious rhyme), but it's used really effectively here. I think that's probably because the tone of the poem feels like an enormous emotional release - which is why I had to continue to read. Much the same way that one must crane one's neck to observe car crashes, despite one's better nature.

I agree with Jeff, there's about three separate poems in here. The subject matter may be a little too raw (and emotionally exhausting!) to revisit though.

Having said that, your first stanza is a stunner. It'd be a crime against poetry if you don't revisit that.

Excellent stuff, Ms de Mar.

Steve

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Jeff Dawson

Mon 25th Aug 2008 14:09

Dear LDM

Brilliant, traumatic stuff and to think this came out automatically, I can't imagine ever writning like that, even though I can identify with a lot of the experiences and emotions and what you say about the therapy stuff.

It's probably too long for a poem and if you performed it you might collapse at the end, but there's a lot of brutal and honest stuff to make about 3 poems out of it! thanks jeff

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Sat 23rd Aug 2008 23:01

'They fuck you up your Mum and Dad' we all know where that comes from. Philip Larkin. This is quite a long poem. A lot of what you say rings true but maybe could be abridged. However I say go for it and then a little bit of editing. Always your fan as you look amazing.

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clarissa mckone

Fri 22nd Aug 2008 22:48

HI Lauretta, I think its wonderful the way it is, its raw and agressive and to the point. I think many people can understand this and wish they had said it, or could. I think it has parts that can be felt by all kinds of people, as it covers so much.I think almost everyone I know, has a few of these feelings. great auto write!

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Fri 22nd Aug 2008 19:41

I would like to comment upon this now that the automatic writing has ceased.

I think that this would become a poem (too long and fragmented) but as it stands it is just automatic writing. The work was inspired by the members of a self help / therapy group that I used to attend. It is a collection of possible ideas and is based on no one but everyone, it takes parts of abuse and just uses the snippets i took from therapy session to inspire the writing.

It was typed out exactly as you read it.

the only alteration I made was to the spelling as when you type fast, well you know what I mean.

When we used to go to therapy, first it was important not to feel ashamed, second to be brutal and honest as denial just componded. You even had to insult each other in order to express hiding frustrations and grudges from the past. It was a kind of cleanse.

I think that writing and doing prformance work is a good way to express the power of emotion, you have to harness it, like with anything if its not controlled or directed or even dissipated it can be destructive.

Alcohol is probably the worst contributor I have seen. Ironically its the easiest available drug, and in small amounts is pretty much ok, especially wine with your meal etc.

oh I dunno

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