Stephen Bennett The Playjurist

Stephen Bennett The Playjurist Poems

Out of a joy for process
and its aim
for bettering,
there naturally shows up
...

2.

If you could make
say
an ocean,
you would. Wouldn't you
...

The beautiful sounds
we make
to speak each name, for this
or that thing in
...

Moses said 'light' showed up
on day one,
but
the sun did not
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You only have something after somebody else
gets it,
unless in the memory of the things you have had
a now new idea bears resemblance
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You who I speak of, who I could
be speaking of, or about, or to...
are there any real people
or anyone from
...

You're finally ready to speak,
but the one doing
all the talking is me,
but I've gotten myself lost,
...

By the time all of this has been written to the end,
and subsequently read by you or your friend
the writer maybe will have alluded to
a broad and many membered field of made up
...

In the massing of motion,
exhaled essences of river swollen push
pushing the too-muchness of the much off
to the furthest down bottom that swells
...

A meaning for life first wonders itself
in the mind of the child who asks
'what can I be when I'm grown up? '
and follows after the ghost
...

She imagines herself as a dancer
able to launch it from the State University
of New York Grad School,
and in this dream, in this school
...

You are as much a fiction as I
A ground that spreads between us
all the changing things
we watch together and remain together the same
...

California has changed my mind
pulling strings of thoughts
beginning this morning in bed
listening to the dialogue of a TV movie
...

Suppose your name is George
and everything you know connects
and amounts to George, so you wake up
in George's life, at the beginning of George's day, .
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1. This is the first of 150 statements, which are trying to be perfectly true.
2. Each statement is trying to show a single idea, although it may need to have several sentences to do it.
3. Each succeeding statement is trying to show one logical step forward from the statement before it.
4. The misconception of what truth is comes from being able to possibly believe in God without knowing, and it effects nonbelievers just as much.
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1. When a person for the first time becomes able to see how the world doesn't work, it's always a big surprise.
2. It maybe shouldn't be a surprise, because complaints are made about it all the time.
3. It is, however, because of all the complaints that are possible, that it is assumed that the world should work.
4. People see most failure in their lives as an indication of a lacking in themselves.
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If now is an airplane flying over our heads, with a sound
that surrounds and fills up everywhere, and we decide
to follow its engine's 'mmm' for as long as we can
until we reach the point, where it is
...

when you eventually do let me
get your attention
probably
you’ll be backed up
...

I think in saying the name
of a letter “F” “H”
or “S”
an embodiment of spirit in
...

If, after the full collapse of everything, I'm walking into the beer store
and if paper dollars have become no good, if I have a bunch of gold
bullion bars to pull out, could there at that time then
be anybody, who could be there, who might really consider
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Stephen Bennett The Playjurist Biography

Poetry is my career. Survival is just a hobby. I have found that there is more interest among people in their thinking about me being a poet than there is about my poems, or anyone's poems. It seems that what a poet talks about is more exciting than anything he stands for or speaks. What a poet speaks is that, which use to come out of the darkness around the campfire. But the campfire was taken away when nobody was watching. The new light in the darkness comes from the computer screen, the TV or the bedside light (sometimes) . What a poet is talking about, when he talks about being a poet, is the last in the set of echos from the speaking around that ancient light of the fire circle. It's all about the about. It's the it of it. It's the magic cement that holds the pieces of a panicked mind together in our so desperately denied state of terror. With the fire so far away now, we know longer know what we're speaking... much less what we're listening to, but we still go for it. You gotta love us. Talk may be cheap. But talk now is all we have left to speak. But it's so hard to see sometimes the difference between what is horrible and what's wonderful. Terence George Craddock, Italo Calvino, Jessica Puckett, Carl Dennis, yoonoos peerbocus, Frank O'Hara, Carole Batista Sineni, Anne Pluto and (maybe me) ? Tell me what you think. Please.)

The Best Poem Of Stephen Bennett The Playjurist

Imaginary Things

Out of a joy for process
and its aim
for bettering,
there naturally shows up
an array of dream pieces
out there...
imaginary things
that seem better things than most
of the real ones here,

and better they are, because we think
they are,
though
we know they are
only imaginary,
but then further it can be imagined

an imagination able to imagine
a best:
a better to every better possible...
a smaller more focused imaginary class
of supreme things
that can be projected,

without literally being dreamed
up into any specific thing
obviously not ever here, because
here is just here, except for
that part of here, which is
our imagination.

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