Two sailors navigate a turquoise sea
To stay afloat we made a brittle boat
The ship rides low: we’ve got buckets of glee.
It’s made from sails of laughter, planks of hope
The boldest storm can put away its thunder
Our rolling sails will last through coldest night
The stars will turn their icy orbs and wonder
How we manage to float along alright
But,
Green ocean waves themselves have turned cliche
And god, I keep on dreaming ‘bout that prow
My bottom-dwelling thoughts ruin the day
I want to wet my freezing feet somehow.
So,
I’ll sink the ship and dredge the empty sea
Because I'm so ******* thirsty.
Oct 16, 2014
Oct 16, 2014 at 9:37 AM UTC
Each elbow edges back a bit
hands grasp the chair arm
Carbon levels in the atmosphere plummet as populations hold their breath in
anticipation
She moves with several smooth staccato shifts
Her hair swings like a tsunami wave
I try not to wave back.
I’ve seen piano keys with jerkier movements.
I’ve felt the world shift before
but never so smoothly.
She starts to stand, in slow-mo though
Even gravity can’t keep its hands off her for very long.
Somehow she strides
She strides!
Under the weight of that greatness
And after all the malarkey
She finally leaves the ******* room.
Oct 2, 2014
Oct 2, 2014 at 11:52 PM UTC
Autumn always leaves
A mess for us to pick up.
Snow way we'll have time.
Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014 at 3:14 PM UTC
Some say it's only love if it never goes away,
Some say love changes by the hour, by the day.
Some say love's only real if it's shared,
Some say unrequited love is everywhere.
You all don't know what's fake and what's real.
You all don't know how Romeo and Juliet feel.
It is time for the self righteous bullcrap to be over.
Let's put love back in the hands of the lover.
Sep 30, 2014
Sep 30, 2014 at 10:55 PM UTC
The painful part is how he talks like me.
I've got buckets of hands
and they all want to be around you.
The average human body is about 65% water
When I see you my body is about 88% water
I'm satisfied with approximate rhymes.
Like to rain again.
Or to lie for eternity.
I'll say your name for years, that'll sound off too.
Bobbing your head to your favorite song
You lent me an earbud
White noise
The painful part is how he acts like me.
Or maybe it isn't him,
or you,
or me,
maybe it isn't anything at all.
Wouldn't that be terrifying?
Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 10:59 PM UTC
We were totally solid.
You think we'd,
like,
go through a few stages or something?
before we went up in smoke.
Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 10:57 PM UTC
I should be thinking about you
but I am thinking
about inevitabilities.
Like how my dog's life will end before mine.
And how my heart isn't even beating half the time.
Maybe it would be better to relax our grip.
take our eyes from the sky
feel the string slip
There's biology and there's sociology and there's
plenty
of other people out there, man.
and
We'll pop
either way
or deflate
someday.
Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 10:48 PM UTC
We're two one-sided cardboard pieces
Segments of a cloudy sky
It looks like we would fit together
But we won't
But we try.
But we try.
Aug 28, 2014
Aug 28, 2014 at 12:21 PM UTC
You won't remember
Howevermany years on,
what she was wearing.
Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 8:20 PM UTC
I am going to buy a billboard
in the middle of some city
Big white words on a big black canvas:
"Stop romanticizing love."
City people in their white city shawls
holding their black city umbrellas
will stop and laugh or take a picture
City people will walk on by
I tried every piano key and
the door to your heart or soul or brain or
whatever, just won't open
One part of me wants to try my shoulder next
I'm going to start a support group out here
We'll play chess and read old newspapers
A circle of lovely, miserable silhouettes
Complaining about our animal instinct.
It is far easier this way.
It is easier to believe the stories.
We do not know just how wrong we are
But we are vaguely aware.
Someday I'll think back
forget your name for a sec.
Until then I will enjoy
Watching you dodge my gaze.
Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 1:35 PM UTC