The door is closed and so are you
when siren spite has made its move.
Magnets
{heaven wide}
purple skies
feel magnetic
i lay next to purgatory
a negative
mixed in a blender
of rampant touches
with other {positives}
and unfounded {intimacy}
is this really it?
you {sizzle} to char
what should this be?
thoughts of flight
just take me to the winds of polyamoury
surprise me with a kite
(or maybe a conch shell).
Cigarettes
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Bang, bang, bang
On the window glass.
Come save me-
I need cigarettes.
Everyone itches here.
Nobody works here.
We are all broken toys,
And they are
The children
Trying to put us
Back together
With Elmer’s glue.
We
Are still broken.
We
Are still broken.
We
Are still broken.
Hop
On the Merry-Go-Round.
Feed
Us meds, meds, meds,
Tell your
Feedings to be quiet.
Let us
Teach you common-sense.
But
Remember, it’s quiet time
Come
Save me, I need cigarettes
Your paper degrees
Cannot win me sanity.
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Sunnyside down.
Same taste, but the egg’s no good.
The Wave
Ignorance rises above me with snide remarks.
He was a false promise that I begged to leave,
but now I am cornered sludge; abandon ship!
Find me buried alive in the ocean’s core.
I used to think ignorance was a diseased wave
in a bountiful sea of new discoveries clear of debris.
Only a swimmer with eyes
could duck under the perpetual splash and discover the golden treasures of the abstract. Now, I call myself a dirty liar. A wave is happy and joyous because he can float above the treacherous sea,
away from harm, drenched in movement.
The swimmer, however, follows
her eyes with curiosity,
and is torn by the truthful sharks
and merciless currents. As a wave I would be blissful again, an unaware floater, but I found my eyes once and now they are permanent. Reality is forever embedded in my cracked and mangled spine. Goodbye, lies.
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I drown in truth.
And a poem from Michigan I forgot...
The Passenger’s Regrets
Sea grasp
In
the
panhandled
dark.
Grab that starfish,
That SPITE
of
the
(sand) .
Take HIM
and
you’ll
takeme.
Always
(Always)
a
fo
o
lish
one.
R U N N I N G
in place.
Wi
th
myhands
pointingto
the
ground.
Poem #2
Good
bye
love.
I’ll
be
sitting
in
the
sun,
bringing
your
truth
to
light.
See
Eyes drenched
{Dead}
No
Breathing…
Dead Eyes
stop speaking.
Read will
through my red spiders.
(I’m hiding, but you see me.)
Bitch
Cla
awe.
Animal flesh
Bloodied grit
with distasteful fingertips.
I’ll eat you, bitch.
Bitch.
Bitch.
It hits my teeth like a sizzling coal.
I pull my coat over my fear
and put forth a shaky hand.
I’ll be your
Bitch.
Bitch.
Until he cla
awes out my damned compliance,
,
,
,
(I’m waiting)
Two Cries
Burnt skies in the window brush. She falls downhill into that sucker balm. “I give up,” she cries with each, rigid tumble. My body belongs to the beat of a monster with four teeth. Pull me out. Out. From my limbs his fist my frost his bite. I’m limp. Limp. Carried along in thunder clouds.