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Defying the current trend of contemporary poetry, using simple but profound language, and risking absurdity in the face of critical review, the author seeks to revive the content of what constitutes poetic jargon, and thereby initiate whatever social change is possible following the path of bards of old. Oh Boy.
When you walk around without a clue
you are broken
When love leaves you flat
and empty inside
you are broken
When nothing seems to work
to heal your wounds
you are broken
Accept that and you're on the right track
you are broken
Welcome to the human condition
Terry W. Gintz
When I'm not doing anything else, I read a lot of novels. With years of experience as a poet, it's not surprising that I developed an interest in writing my own novels too. Given the multi-faceted iconoclast I am and the great affection I have for my wife it's also not surprising that the books I write are innately eccentric, robustly erotic and critically anti-establishment.Fractals have been a passion for me since around 1984 when I read Mandelbrot's The Fractal Geometry of Nature. I designed my first iterative fractal program (then called ZPlot) in 1989 on an Amiga 2000 computer.Since 2007 I have been heavily involved in lapidary or stone creations. You can view these at http://tgintz.epizy.com/ along with 3d prints I've made based on 3d fractals from my software.
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Broken - Terry W. Gintz
Broken
Poetry By Terry W. Gintz
Copyright 2012 Terry W. Gintz
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When you walk around without a clue
you are broken
When love leaves you flat
and empty inside
you are broken
When nothing seems to work
to heal your wounds
you are broken
Accept that and you're on the right track
you are broken
Welcome to the human condition
For Bevster, who taught me the meaning of unconditional love
CONTENTS
Femme Fatale
The Practice Racket
People's Choice
Worthless
Bag Balm for the Masses
A Kiss Before Sleep
Yankee Spaces
Comment: The Daily Drudge
Never List
Some Musings While Hiking the Beach (without pen or notebook)
While Love Lies Sleeping
Under Whose Curse
Honesty Blues
Rag Necklace
All the Same Song, Milady
Lemon Tree Harvest
After The Fall of Mankind
Angels of Deception
Corporate Citizenship
Bucking the Tide
Poems 2001-2008
Proclamation
Simon Says (Roses Are Blood Red)
Torum Decorum (If the Hat Fits, Wear It)
The Fact In Fiction
The Messy Outback
Peach Fuzz Resistance is Futile (The Bush Philosophy)
The Price You Pay
The Salt Trader
Designation Runes
Between Doctrine and Salvation (The Crisis Unfolds)
So Clearly Out of Bounds
Pleasant Street Revisited
The Library Between the Lines
While Hope Is Not Bidden (Hope can still be given)
Evidence
Whatchawantfromme
Identity Thief
Idolizing the Third Reich Is An Insult To Humanity
Prep Talk
Short Circuit
Poems 1999-2001
Impulses
Teaser
Posthumous Repast
Don't Rush
One Hundred Mailers
Turn the Knob Slowly
Prelude To Haze
Burning
Crushing the Little Green Apples
As the World Bends Over
The Last Strike
Beauty In Truth
Spanish Moss
Moribund Elective
On Rereading Kerouac's 'POMES'
Srebrenica
The Hanging Judge
Plastic Dreams
Stepping Down (Like a Warrior)
Insufficient
The Gardener In Repose
Graphing The Infinite
Primal Cloak (Wolf Song)
Rush Hour (Zero Emissions)
Twenty Mailroom Questions (Not Necessarily In Any Order)
The World As Contemplation
Welcome, Apocalypse
Passing Comet
Inconclusive
Ye Ol’ Republicanos (What’s That Smell)
The Drunk's Last Sup (Moving On)
Stress Management (Silly Putty)
The Unreasoning Season
No More, Mr. Wizard
A Clear Summer Day (Pilot, Pass On)
Haberdasher (Mailer's Fragment)
Blimey
Specialty of the House
Coffeebreak At Madonna's
Sky King
Beyond the Shroud
Postscript to Atta's Sunset Diary
Every Utterance Is Significant (For President Bush)
Warm Grasses And Dark Shadows
Poem For Irma
Femme Fatale
Just between us
you were too much
Mink tail touch, the air
sizzled in your presence
You could have been an actress
the way time molded to your voice
Like a little girl
you wrapped me up in knee-highs
and drew me close
Just between us
your kitty-cat