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michelle-a-gardner
michelle-a-gardner
American Poetry is one of the many over-looked art forms of this world.
Today, from class I was walking On the phone with my boyfriend, I was talking, When between my feet I felt A squishy, squirmy wormy, Who's brain, I mushed, stomped, Smashed and smushed, amidst the evening rain. I cried out "why!?" For his little brown eye, Stared deep into my soul. It looked so sad, Because it was a dad, To other squirmy wormys I couldn't see. As I was walking, Still on the phone, talking To my boyfriend, who could not see, The death of the wormy, No longer so squirmy, And I considered What is life to be.
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Mar 8, 2017
Mar 8, 2017 at 2:52 PM UTC
A Rainy Day ******
Hot summer streets I'm hot, you're cold. Chimpanzee's is hatin' You think I'm pretty. She's got both hands, High-rise, veins of the avenue. I kinda feel like it don't make sense. I grew tired of the same, then one night... Rainstorm, take me away from the norm. If God had long hair and a goatee, I don't wanna be the girl that laughs the loudest. Hands down, I'm too proud for love.
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Apr 28, 2012
Apr 28, 2012 at 10:40 AM UTC
Pop
There is an alley on Lombardy where cars ****** grass and brick buildings stand tall on either side. An ocean blue trashcan sticks out beneath the window of a girl with a dog. He wheezes as she kills the cigarette in ash. Confusion and sadness fill their smoky clouds of thought that float together, creating one. The idea of leaving him alone causes worries sharp as nails to attack her focus. She packs his bag, rubs his snout. Wind whispers soft slurs that cause her skin to bubble. Saying goodbye is hard, the backseat gets stiff and lonely. Blossoming meadows passed turn brown and withered. Trees grow dull, with cracked bark. The ride turns her stomach into a black hole consuming every ***** until she is empty inside, the cell against her spine makes the sound of a dead branch her bones are hollow her mind sings a song about a girl and a dog and she smiles as the metal door slides shut.
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Feb 24, 2012
Feb 24, 2012 at 1:33 PM UTC
Visible Arrest
The silence surrounds us while we chop and mix. Look left. A familiar face without a name. Here. This place is where you come. Make sweet tea and swing your feet back and forth to the cadence of the questions. May I? No, sorry. I’m really not. Then the sticky ***** tumbles in the lap of that person you know, fury fills the surrounding air. After we seal the deal we head to 7-11 for Voss and Camel Filters as we keep our eyes open, wide like in the day. Luna in the sky keeps my fear internal as the one you know is walking two steps behind you.
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Feb 24, 2012
Feb 24, 2012 at 1:29 PM UTC
Untitled
The kid has it all since that’s how it works. Blindfolds cover the view of life and Smiles seem to be everlasting. Then the apartment needed a new couch. Looking out windows and porches to Watch the sunrise changes your view Of how to buy your coasters, but couches Take time to know. That’s the one. My couch is white and green With two stains from when Nillie tried to eat pudding.
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Feb 24, 2012
Feb 24, 2012 at 1:28 PM UTC
Couches & Coasters