On the weekend the 9 to 5'ers are
set loose into town, allowed to stretch their legs
under a sun, see and be seen
so that Monday and so forth
they may dream in substance
while they forget and are forgotten.
For the lucky ones,
Saturday is a trip to the candy store, a sweltering July morning at the Zoo
before the impressionable body is convinced of its frailty,
learns to grow onions from the armpits,
fall asleep under perfectly good sunshine.
Sunday is the Sundays of their highschool years.
In the Morning it might as well be Saturday,
and at night it might as well be Monday.
And then it is.
Fact:
On a wrinkled piece of toile
The Bells splash and whistle.
The Piano saws itself in half,
implodes into a butterfly and lands on my shoulder
and my heart is still beating.
Tell me this is OK.
This is OK.
The Bells splash and whistle,
tangerine sunshine bursts through the blinds
naked, licks my face up and down
and my heart is still beating
I don't even have to try.
You don't even have to try.
The bells splash and whistle,
a black hole swallows another galaxy
as a dog barks outside
and my heart is still beating.
They walk ahead of me
almost holding hands,
a puffy red heart almost suspended
above them in a conjoined dream cloud,
and I almost stab it with my cigarette,
send it sputtering and whining into the night.
Tomorrow while I'm taking out the trash
I imagine each of them will be dictating
love letters to a friend, each planning their ascent
and subsequent colonization of the other:
she'll teach him to wear deodorant more often,
take off his socks before they go to bed,
while he'll convince her Hemingway is a saint
and Emily Dickinson is Martha Stewart.
While I'm rinsing off a spoon, running the garbage disposal,
they'll be on th
In the beginning
I stood no chance against your love,
It grabbed me by the throat,
tickled my sides till I lost my stomach.
Your love was well muscled and fearless
like a tiger or a boxer.
It didn't smoke cigarettes
or eat red meat
or take drugs.
Your love played marbles with the stars,
turned oceans into deserts,
used men as toothpicks
or worse.
Eventually though it began slipping.
It was the little things at first:
cold showers to warm showers
steroids to protein powder
cut-offs to turtle necks.
Your love no longer flexed in front of the mirror,
demonstrated it's terrible strength
in violent and innapropriat
A day for coats
and scarves
and umbrellas
and frogs
and worms.
A day for swinging on swings
if you have someone to swing with,
laying in bed if you have someone
to lay in bed with.
A day for huddling under storefronts,
smoking cigarettes with strangers,
watching rain tumble and spill
down rooftops like music.
A buzz hangs in the air like pollen
as if there is a parade today
but there is no parade.
A buzz like you get in your head
when you become excited about something
then forget what it was a moment later.
A buzz like the sky is humming,
tapping it's foot.
Someone is playing the piano.
I think it's the little boy next door.
He's playing Mozart on cocaine
or Mozart on diet pills
or something.
Playing Mozart like his piano is on fire
and his mother won't let him off the bench
until he finishes that song.
That kid can't be more than 10 years old.
I swear, these kid's brains
are half human, half machine these days.
Too bad we pretty much only use one side,
I thought, closing the window.
my childhood is a small girl
with short black hair
that never smiles.
She laughs sometimes but
it is a bittersweet laugh,
like old love letters
or pictures of dead dogs.
She drinks fourties
and smokes cigarettes,
sometimes two at a time,
drives around town with total strangers,
gobbling cough medicine, scribbling haiku
with tiny yellow pencils she steals from the library.
She has no friends, or rather two
girls who say they are, but in fact aren't
Sometimes when I'm drunk she'll gets these ideas,
and shes spaced as well,
and she'll come to my ear and whisper, " Lets run away"
" No", I'll say.
" Lets run away"
I'd like to give this all I've got
before I go,
not pull any punches
on this life character.
I'd like to dive and twirl into death
like monarch butterflies
and the stars
do.
I'd like for this
to be easy and beautiful
because the flowers
and the rain
and the sky
sing to my heart
that it can be
this way.
I'd like to join the universe
in cosmic orgasm
and quit my job,
fall in love
again.
I'd like this
for me
and for you
and for the other things
that grow
and laugh
and die for nobody
but themselves, because
this is our kingdom,
and we are all kings.
I have seen through the guise of fate
Into the eyes of a timid beast.
And further still where no men tread
For all who did have stopped or ceased.
I've seen the flames die, doused with water
And lit again, to what end I dare not wonder.
I've seen men conquer beast and beast
Yet all who did have stopped or ceased.
And now I stand with level gaze
Atop a beast my very own,
With void behind me, void below
And only one short step to go.
Snowflake in the city
Did you see it just last night?
Sick man in the mansion
Did you feel him die alone?
Warrior in the ghetto
Did you help him win his fight?
Young girl in the harem
Did you feel pity when she moaned?
Poor man in the gallows
Savior in the cell.
All those bound
And all those damned
To the deepest pits of hell
Which man could dig
And god could give
To those who had no chance.
Dust to dust
Says all one must
When speaking of his
hard earned trust.
A crown does not make one a king
And power spells but one plain thing
For a god is but a fickle thing
Brought to bear by
fear and pain
By the wretched,
weak and lame.
I see it still, in the distance
Fading though it is, I set mine eyes upon it.
Just behind those hills, we can make it if we try.
Just hold my hand I'll beg, toil not for others pittance.
Run with me, I see it, put your hope inside
Our love and cast the rest aside.
If you fall I'll carry you
When you weep I'll dry your tears.
When darkness sets your mind I'll sooth.
I'll struggle and bleed, I'll slay your fears
And give you everything you need.
Follow me this day. Theres nothing for us here.
The sun has set, and I've burned the boats.
And to you this day I swear it
On my shoulders hope will float.
Ten men fell
He held his ground.
A hundred wept
He made no sound.
The generals cursed
He fought and bled.
They feared the worst
And most men fled.
They shall live
While he lay dead
But they chose to run
While he fought instead.
And in a hundred years
They'll chant his name
While in ten more
They'll be dead all the same.
The hues of crimson and vibrant yellow
dance and jump across from mine eyes.
To and fro they burst aglow.
Oh what a night to be cozy inside!
They dance across my old tattered couch
where first I loved my long lost girl,
and farther still to a copper picture frame,
our faces placed juxtaposed, my happiest moment in all the world.
Twirled they did about my last painting
contorting the colors and soiling the canvas.
The scene quite transformed from the obtrusive effect,
tears well in my eyes in spite of myself.
They bathed my tweed suits in a heavenly glow
those which I'd worn when I met here there.
Her eyes so honest, lips so soft
Bursting, bleeding as such.
crying silently it feeds
on lost hopes and shattered dreams.
Clinging with roots
fresh sprung from the seeds.
Violently cursing, nursing wounds
it swoons and faints
but regains what its lost;
Its cause mighty and true
and a battle ensues
inside where it lies.
A spark is born of death;
a clash in the dark.
It takes a breath
and shouts at the shadows,
reborn in the death
that it sought.
The decks are bare.
Shadows play across the wooden planks,
Children of silver moonlight.
The night air carries no scent
And tastes of a dull indifference.
The ship moans and creaks
Under the stress of her cargo.
Men and women lay still,
Passengers weary, deep in slumber,
Strewn about from stern to prow.
Cautious, quiet as corpses be,
Faces covered in ivory masks;
Silhouettes of smiles turned to frowns.
Waters quiet, ocean placid,
Sky in contrast plagued by darkened clouds,
Wisps as lips turned into an unintelligable expression.
A figure stirrs, disturbed from sleep,
Rises slowly, limbs are weary.
Hands to mask, and lo! Its
Its dark in this place
Where children scream and others weep.
Mothers, drunkards dying slowly
Sickness creeping souls so lonely.
No one sees me breathing
Chest is heaving
Heart is pounding
Sadness' lull dully resounding.
Times are changed
And I'm here now.
Leave me I'll plead
While I follow this path.
Cast me out
As I've done myself.
Homes are full with glowing mirth
So in streets I will reside.
So cozy inside, don't leave
I shouldn't have died
So leave me,
Roaming streets in darkness' dearth.
Our hands will touch
And our eyes may lock
But I'll walk right through you,
A ghost as such.
Lost as much a friend
You'll cu
Monotonously meandering through morbid thoughts; I catch myself before I fall.
Systematic desensitization devours souls smoothly, deterring proffered elegance; I close my eyes so I won't see
Scantily clad repression dominating recalcitrant derelicts, impervious to rancid rhetoric spewing sagaciously from silent souls; I scream so they might hear me.
Unending destitution paralyzes parapalegic minorities, propogating mass destruction upon mindless masses; I curse so I won't cry.
Candid demons demoralize anarchist anomolies, anticipating eminent upheaval, insurrection in sight; I gaze at freedoms promise.
Demoralizing decanter deters obscur
it's midnight and I'm writing love letters
on my skin to the woman who raised me. it's midnight
and every limb has a story. all
my collarbone remembers is the frantic
hurry of your footsteps when it broke under the weight
of gravity and mistaken desire to fly and my
broken pink umbrella, long-gone, remembers too. my elbows
remember the firm pull of your hands in the grocery
store. my cheeks remember your makeup and
my clumsy fingers dipping in like paint pots and my neck
remembers all your strands of pearls. I remember
when you were young again and wearing
red and holding cups of tea in hands
that didn't shake yet and I remembe
Only If cereal can talk.
Now I can walk.
Red Bull gave me wings like a hawk.
Drawing with cheap chalk.
Mr. Clean had a kid with Wendy's who was Captain Crunch. So the marriage went bad and Mr. Clean sued for child support and now Wendy's is out of business at certain locations.
Now my mind is on vacation.
As I sip on my water,
I become smarter.
I sleep
I sleep
I sleep
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Literature
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your rules were made for all of the p.c. cumguzzling asshat hebe cuntrag hippies that fistfuck themselves while watching some retarded ass show on discovery channel.
if that last part didn't rhyme or fit, i don't care...no, i don't care.
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What if Adam just plain lied
And Eve
with apple juice
Running down her chin
Just let it slide
Is the whole story a hoax
A different mother
than Mary
No father
Son
Holy Ghost
Was Lilith really all that bad
She just wanted to be free
The desert is hard on Mustangs
And her man was not handy
Was Mary really a virgin
did Joseph just herd the sheep
Did Mary feel passion
desire
her body eternally saved
At the end of time
is a rose garden.
Scattered hedges growing
in leafy patterns of nonsense;
white Corinthians
like my mother grew,
before her hands
forgot themselves.
Before an iron gate (ajar):
rusted-out scaffolds of
two tractors moored
in the wind-bent grass,
half swallowed by creeper
and dandelion, gaping
metal intestines; rotting beasts,
peeling brittle brown
flesh into the breeze.
Just beyond,
in the courtyard
Marx and Ford wrestle,
slippery, grunting obscenities.
Tearing out one anothers hair
on the bloody cobblestone.
Karl has the weight advantage,
but Henry fights
dirty.
There is no tomorrow
or to
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