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- Poetry > Free Verse
Do we live to live? Or is there some other reason Clogging up our passion pores Years of Rust and dust Layered like flannel blankets in winter On the necks of the glass angels Hanging From the tree that weeps in the back And the Red Ryder parked underneath With its one missing wheel An... - Poetry > Free VerseI'll be honest with you I haven't got much of a heart in me tonight to put in a poem Sitting on the edge of my porch legs swinging back and forth eyes closed trying to feel each rain drop on my bare feet I think that its very important to acknowledge the momentary presence of e...
- Poetry > Free Verseits about this and its about that words and stories notes passed behind backs a black door that leads to your room and a red one that leads to mine standing in line for the show or the new ferris wheel down at the pier drinking kool-aid at a party yes, of course its spiked spinning with yo...
- Poetry > Free VerseBecause that's where my best work is done and yes that is absolutely an innuendo So many poems lie unfinished a couple of sentences of pure gold (or sometimes silver and bronze) written on napkins and pages torn from library books because I don't believe in tidy poetry everythin...
- Poetry > Free VerseIt’s nights like these that I stare up at the ceiling and I think to myself Did I break my own heart? Am I the one to blame For my own misery? This is an undeniable truth; Breathing gets harder each and every day As the love wanes fading still lifes slowly losing color the memory...
- Poetry > Free VerseAnd him with that ball in his hands tracing the worn stitches with his thumb And her with those ribbons up her calves weaving back and forth around iridescent flesh they saw it coming saw the stitches pull and the ribbons slip And you with the world at your feet watching the midnig...
- Fiction > RomanceDon't tap on the glass Says the pink sign taped to the wall, to the right of the bullet-proof window. Just like the one taped to the fish tank in the doctor's office Don't tap on the glass I highly doubt these fish would even bat an eyelash if I suddenly started pounding on ...
- Poetry > Free VerseAnd she said Let us start from the top Never in my life have I ever started from the top...
- Poetry > Free VerseWalking down Juanita Drive On the wide shoulder Littered with empty juice pouches And soggy dead pine needles Its raining Not pouring Just regular late March raining Enough to need an umbrella But not enough to keep the die hards inside I'm on the wrong side of the road The left side ...
- Poetry > Free VersePeace To those Who can't find A better reason Peace To those Who fight for Nothing at all Peace To those Who run around In figure eights Peace To those Who won't stop Because they can't Peace Peace Peace Peace...
- Poetry > Free VerseShe's been baking The evidence is everywhere She thinks she's sneaky Covering the scent of baked goods with pine-sol 'Been cleanin' babe?' 'Mmm-hmm just a little dustin' here and there' The white flour handprints on the back of her jeans would beg to dif...
- Poetry > Free VerseI was eight years old when my father brought me out to his garage and introduced me to his well-loved punching bag he always wanted boys as most fathers do but my mother gave him me and my princess of a sister it took him eight years to come to terms with this finally he pulled me aside one ...
- Poetry > Free VerseCarhartts I will always remember Late fall football games Shivering inside your hole-riddled Extra large Carhartt jacket With the creases in the worn canvas And the distinct scent of welded metal Madly cheering on a losing team And not giving a damn Just you and me, Daddy grease-smeared...
- Poetry > Free VerseI stayed up all night writing poetry I thought it was all brilliant Now I'm looking at it and I see that its all s*** I'm reading the words sounding out the letters in my head I get frustrated because I drifted off again in the middle somewhere dammit I'm trying real h...
- Poetry > Free VerseI spend money on the regular miracles just like everybody else I want to be a breadwinner I want to write about something worth while something my senator would read I want to be productive So I write little notes on my hand but then I wake up with black ink smeared on my face It mak...
- Poetry > Free VerseMy salvation came in the form of the last bus home in the pouring rain. I had a panic attack today I had just gotten off the wrong bus to nowhere it was ten at night it was cold enough to be snowing my phone was dead I hadn't eaten since 1 and I had one wrinkled dollar left in my walle...
- Poetry > Free VerseIf you're beautiful and your friends are beautiful and your house is beautiful and you're surrounded by beauty do you look in the mirror and feel beautiful? Or do you feel half alive like the rest of us....
- Poetry > Free Versemy proudest moment was when I sat in the middle of your dinning table crown atop my beautifully barbequed head and you called me delicious please, I'm begging you come sink you teeth into my soft flesh leaves grotesque marks on my pale skin ravish my naked body with your lusty fan...
- Poetry > Free VerseYou are all just filthy fish on a hook dishonor left in your wake smothering your rotten stench with stale potpourri and talc you, are a filthy liar I am not stupid I am ignorant Reject your truths and supplement my own worry worried worrisome I cannot stop you cannot stop me I cannot...
- Poetry > Free Versefringe fanged wolves and AIDs ridden placentas beating doll hearts and pink suede love what was I talking about? piece by smothered piece living in the infestation leaving and going and running and turning and leaving again we’re going to hide the plants will just have to suffer with...
- Poetry > Free VerseSee the problem is I started thinking I mean really thinking Deeply Way too young I grew up faster than the other kids I was forced to There was no room in the world I lived in for children so I learned to adapt an adult in a child’s body an old soul I like my sky dim Not dark but ...
- Poetry > Free VerseHe bought them yellow raincoats But yellow isn't their color Construction yellow. Just like the road signs Before they fell He bought her a gray leather jacket But gray makes her sad Deadpan gray. Just like the weather Before they moved I bought him a baby blue blazer It brings out hi...
- Poetry > Free VerseMy heart burns Maybe it's the nachos Maybe it's the breakup Either way I'd be lying if I said it didn't hurt...
- Poetry > Free VerseTime has been lost and so have we I held him in my hand his fur was matted with urine and his eyes were clouded over You deserve so much better I cried I did this I am a monster God please take this away from me I am not worthy I am not strong enough when I hit those notes on the piano ...
- Poetry > Free VerseI feel like s***. I’ve been digging up old bones Sweat drips into my eyes I’m ready to give up I just keep saying to myself This is the last one But it never is All of my friends are dead But I don’t really care cause I’m the one who killed them I picked off each one of their ...
