When you can't look strangers in the eye
because lies they've sold you keep you high
and paranoid that we're all just the monsters that we try to hide.
They set the bait but you won't bite
you've long had your jaw stitched tight
terrified you'd open it and say something less than polite.
Nov 20, 2015
Nov 20, 2015 at 7:08 PM UTC
an insistence;
an automatic pouring.
a stream through a vessel.
I am so drawn to my own waterfall
I will throw myself off that edge
to taste its bittersweetness.
Nov 20, 2015
Nov 20, 2015 at 7:04 PM UTC
Each heavy breath
falling in and out of time
with the hollow stroking of the clock
ticking endlessly into the dark distant unknown.
Your limbs
carelessly strewn amongst the everbuilding clutter
provides a careful serenity;
A calm that dangles precariously,
waiting to fall into the surrounding chaos.
Tense and untouched,
my eyes will keep you safe.
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 3:19 PM UTC
top-o-themarnintoyee
bowts&bo;
wts&bow;
ts&bowt;
s&bowts;
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th’salty err shmellshlike.
home.
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 3:08 PM UTC
My heavy eyelids flutter
and the yellow light reveals the furrow in your brow.
You frown at me
But I don't know what to say.
I try and dip
my oar into
the glassy water.
my subconscious shatters.
and I warn you to watch out for the pieces.
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 3:06 PM UTC
through a bruised eye
there’s little to see
but the scratches on my arms
and the rows of teeth
in your jagged grin.
i can’t move
from one side of the room
to the other
without your needle.
you nurse me back to health
in your ****** arms
and tear me down again,
stitch me up like a doll
and drag me home.
what can I say?
i guess I'm a sucker
for all that romantic crap.
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 3:05 PM UTC
Reefs forming in the grain
chewed up by these hungry years.
Her heels crushing;
little petals into a brown bough,
Speckled like a tumbled shell,
From the handprints of many generations.
- - - - - - - - - - -
Glossy lacquer,
smeared on dark lips in steady
paintbrush strokes
Cold moulded clean-cut strips
clacking unerringly as her heels
skip across the artificial wood.
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 3:01 PM UTC
as I try to find myself-
in between these shots-
you jam your key into my temple.
Although I Helplessly Squirm
you
are
relentless.
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 2:59 PM UTC
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 2:58 PM UTC
It rained all year here
In this little nowhere
Where we gorged ourselves
On instant gratification
you called me lovely
And I called you a liar
Because my soul was too bitter
And you could not get inside
I could say that I’m sorry
But you’d call me hypocrite
Calling a bluff that
In apathy lay
Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 2:55 PM UTC