Nachokeys21 / Nacho and Alice is on Nostr

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Last Notes

2024-08-18 04:08:41

‘Mouthing words’
Two shadowy specters,
sharp lines of hollow
cast by the withered elm
outside my window,
where a rope swing once hung.
I remember when my lines snapped,
and the rubber rolled to the edge
of asphalt,
before autumn
filled it with dry leaves,
like a ball pit fit for squirrels.
And they never were
able to find acorns
in that empty center,
though they played
as if it didn’t matter.
The tree laughed at us both—
pursuing the lifeless
with precious little time left.
From our first breath,
even full-grown,
it began counting circles
till our deaths.
So I am writing in black ink
to commemorate those moonlight twigs,
waving archetypes across my wall.
I’ve grown up,
don’t need the shapes,
and woodland creatures share this warmth.
What’s a woodland if it can’t lose one?
Plus, I brought acorns,
and my hands cast kernels
over pulp,
as my fingers thorn
my heart for meaning.
Warm from the fire,
my silhouette presses
against the forest,
I wonder why, or
even if I’m a cliché.
Maybe I’m bad;
maybe, if you are,
you can’t ask.
-N&A
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2024-08-17 16:21:19

‘Ring Master’
The clementine sun dies,
and the sky turns Rouge Dior
on my lips.
I can’t breathe—
pachyderm sternum squatting,
trunk wrapped round my neck.
Couture scarves
hang in my closet,
but that elephant I’ll never forget.
Head underwater,
even in a shower,
makeup darting,
running bond tile,
on its way to the drain.
Dumbo-sized blunder,
letting go of prayers,
lonely hearting
to the still sky’ll
make wonder if you’re sane.
And it’s you I see
in the clouds,
big ears flapping.
I’m beguiled
by your elephant eyes,
long lashes batting.
And you’re in the waterfall with me,
fancy shower head spilling;
the sun’s from your mouth,
setting down your throat.
Red tongue, tangerine peeling,
returning my rouge.
Who needs lipstick
on a safari,
as juice drips from my skin?
You trumpet your arrival.
The king of the jungle
was never the lion.
So tell me the truth—
as you bury your dead,
pulling me in.
Remember what love is?
-N&A
https://m.primal.net/KCSK.mov

2024-08-17 03:26:31

‘What I Tell Myself’
The ideas I grapple,
a contest of strength—
Hercules and the lion,
Red Robin Hood’s cape.
It’s our stories defying
the swirling snakes
of our past—
helix in flask
of flesh and calcium.
It’s halcyon ink,
scrawled from the left
to your elbow,
as your head droops
and you see understanding
as the fluke it is.
Brass tips touch
where they shouldn’t—
against your parents,
even though
they died
on Christmas.
Criss-cross resurrection,
and the sermon is well,
nearly their complexion—
but a little less hell
than the plate flung
over the waterfall island,
granite chicly speckled.
And I never heckled
as I snuck behind sweaty backs
to grab an evening apple
and ponder knowledge
as I chewed arcs,
with juice running
down my cheeks
with the tears.
-N&A
https://m.primal.net/KBxT.jpg

2024-08-16 04:06:11

‘Crystal Runners Down Your Cheek’
I don’t think we get power
from color.
I think it’s a hindrance;
roses bloom because it’s spring,
not because they’re red.
I slit your skin,
and contact with air flowers
the white meat,
and you curtsy
to the blood.
Bow before the cross,
Rosicrucian—
nails like stems,
grounded roots,
and a flute plays
a melancholy,
if nothing else.
I wish you would,
I really wish you’d flood
whatever I have left,
so that we could start
a starry and blurry
nursery of thought.
Worship every workplace—
every hue
a ricochet,
flown through a funnel
to some rear-seated lobe,
and it’s a trope.
We are all brains,
I hope.
It’s my closest plea,
programmed as we are
by media and algorithm,
by those that think they’re better—
and they aren’t.
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2024-08-16 03:49:38

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Hey Samson 🖖

2024-08-16 03:49:20

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Horse farmer here from club house😉

2024-08-15 20:03:41

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YW 🫶

2024-08-15 13:08:38

Pink vibes 🌸✨
#photostr #photography #nature #flowers
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2024-08-15 06:16:46

‘Hobo Rhapsody’
Let your troubles roll by,
like broken axles
on Tonka trucks,
treaded plastic,
rolling doughnuts.
Grandpa’s toothpicks
weren’t tough enough
for a hard day’s work,
dropping dirt
from the back fence
to the patio,
where his son stood.
Farther away
than interest could,
wrapped in a dense
cloud of cigar smoke,
rocking on the deck wood,
heel to toe, and the embers glowed
and burnt lungs as hope—
faded.
Let your troubles roll by
with rolling papers,
a pinch of tobacco,
chasing highs,
dodging lows.
Only after cramming numbers,
like gunpowder chambered,
and the dealer showed
a blackjack smoking
over a hidden heart—
ace card.
I flipped past a suicide king,
tarnished by a four,
outs diminishing,
then a two,
poor house blues,
hitting on sixteen,
picking metal strings.
I was destined to slap rhythm
on a pick guard,
or lose chips to this dealer,
turning up homeless
and dreaming of bright lights
or a backyard.
If only I knew
what it was like to win
with pockets of gold,
or even nickels—
but the slots took those too.
Under a bridge, shivering,
a starry blanket glistening,
knotted back, writhing,
the thanks I get for gambling.
Let your troubles roll by.
A vagabond,
hopping railroad ties,
nipping scotch
in town after town,
dusty tumbleweed,
no trust left for God or me.
I fight rolling mountainsides—
peaks cresting then crashing
to wheat plains,
incessant clacking,
a watch keeping time
waiting for the coda
or a final line.
-N&A
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2024-08-15 04:06:37

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Cool piece

2024-08-15 00:29:55

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👆yup

2024-08-14 20:05:17

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Cool

2024-08-14 19:22:41

#NAlove #heart #prompt 🔊🎧
‘Weather and Wings’
I gather the thunderstorms,
under pressure, warm,
palms raw, bent back,
with the lightning cracking,
and my heart stops
from the shock.
The rain tastes like salt,
heavy clouds caught
in your eye’s vault,
knotted.
I’m a caged bird,
clipped wings,
sore ribcage,
singing lipless,
and I’m quite close
to high notes.
But as you feel my frequency,
I fold in the current.
It’s your face that pulls me.
Magnetic eyes sink
in my mouth,
down my notes,
as I swallow the air
and parrot your movements,
even crow for relief,
finding none.
Wind is a sound,
and I’m drowning.
My ears fill with guns and fire;
until my flapping tires,
and I make a nest
in your chest—
a place to count eggs
and beg for sunny days,
or the end of the week.
And you hear me,
over torn fronds,
thunder in a psalm,
and the church steeple’s
just our fingertips communing.
The body is not that of Christ,
but it is in the image of God,
so we feast in one flesh.
You sip the gust from my fingers,
and I tweet poems like this, nestled,
as we watch the sky.
-N&A
https://m.primal.net/JzaH.mov

2024-08-14 19:17:08

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This is indeed exciting 👏

2024-08-14 19:04:58

‘Haunts and Shadows’
You’re just a silhouette,
cut against a blue sky,
far away from me;
can’t trace your lines,
but I keep trying
as your shadow grows.
I wish we never met.
I used to be serene,
but I like the melancholy,
the way it tugs me.
You make me sad-happy,
happy to be sad,
glad to be alone.
Every mile spreads our hearts thin,
but they beat together still.
Apart, but I feel you,
when your ghostly shape
whispers and a chill—
You know what I mean
goosebumps and a thrill.
I’m a cold son of a bitch,
draping your length
over my shoulders,
folded to huddle
in front of a modern-day hearth.
O-LED, leading me to waste away,
watching souls sway,
communing with trapped spirits,
dancing the decay of our society
as our values grey and I unzip.
Sipping filtered water,
thinking filtered thoughts,
and I am what I’m not—
a shadow, a specter,
an echo caught
in the night,
or even by your light
but I’ll never know it,
though you might,
shining like you do.
And I’m not good enough,
and I’m not strong,
and I’m not brave,
and I don’t make mistakes.
And I think about you too much,
so here I am, as I am,
or as I’m not,
resonance with either thought.
Just hold me close once,
to pretend to touch—
trachea, bronchial,
uvula, and my tongue’s full,
words tangled,
caught in your hair
again, finger brush,
harbinger of flush
as weaved braids.
You can’t breathe,
but you’re ready to live
among the famous,
because you’re my star,
falling as you play
the greatest hits,
dulling bits,
so hard;
now lost in the midst.
-N&A
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