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Aug 2016 · 329
The Mightiest
what a waste Aug 2016
I don't feel like a writer
I feel like a wave grazer
In search of the perfect
surf under a lantern moon
Aug 2016 · 433
Peasant
what a waste Aug 2016
I wanna swallow a hook
and direct it at the cork in my gut
conveniently corroding the courage
I mustered with a dump truck
Bottle it up let it fizzle then pop

Hello, my name is
The Turn of a Door ****,
The slam that comes after
when time runs faster than
your little legs could master

Nice to meet you
Don't mind my standoffishness
It happens when I feel threatened
A Defense mechanism assembled
by twelve children in a tantrum
Aug 2016 · 330
Lake Placid
what a waste Aug 2016
How shallow do you have to be
before I can walk on water
There's dew on the grass
am I getting warmer
Look at me like I don't exist
Look at me with pure disgust
Adjust the pressure and let it rust
Throw away the keys it could be fun
Aug 2016 · 1.0k
Carbon
what a waste Aug 2016
If I knew how to strike up
a conversation I'd have stacked
matches to the sun set and back by now
so when you rose in the morning
you'd wake to find your name in the sky
But as it stands I am not the man
who created fire nor the one after
who dabbled in it's practice
No I am the one quietly admiring
the glow from afar yearning for it's warmth
Carefully masking my intent
by tossing acronyms to the wind
I'll play the failure eagerly
awaiting your approval
Aug 2016 · 289
Now That's Living
what a waste Aug 2016
I want to experience
the chaos a butterfly feels
when it meets the windshield.
Aug 2016 · 651
Vacancy
what a waste Aug 2016
Nosy Knuckler, too tough
for the rugged, tugboat huffing
the mud puddle's summit.

Home-bound with that lighthouse
stumble; strapped to the grin
with a sailor's plummet.

He's white face like the page he evades; weighted down by the surplus day-to-day What's the race?

Buckle down inertia coupled
with Challenger assertion
ushers in a mind tripwire explosion
of tick-tack proportion.
Aug 2016 · 653
Prototype King
what a waste Aug 2016
I'm but a spec of dust
eroding the cusp
of Aries and Taorus
Pack the semblance
of an avalanche behind
eyes torn with crust
Finished Tour de Combust
with a surfboard copped
from every soul hushed
just so I could say I did
it when no one else would
Aug 2016 · 386
Flag-Planting
what a waste Aug 2016
Moon hour skin,
war torn blemishes read,
"I've been where I've been."
I can see the maggots
draggin' their bellies
through his worm pit beard.
Jaw like a dilapidated fence
swinging off it's hinge,
spinning a million fckin'
miles per hour past independence.
His curled fingers flirt
with deserted dust usherin'
the rest of it to his perch.
The shovel point drags
an immaculate sense of justice,
proving to everyone where the
boiling point of his intent is.
Aug 2016 · 976
MDMA
what a waste Aug 2016
Our beaded eyes chased
fixed faces strung up like
the flowers on wallpaper
Aug 2016 · 635
Undesirable
what a waste Aug 2016
Undesirable
slap jaw crooked smile
Undesirable
Where the wild things crawl
Undesirable

**** an S.
I wear an exit stage left on my chest.
A breast plate displaced by the lashes
of a thousand tiny reclusive phantoms suppressed.
A warning to the weary, starry-eyed tooth fairy running laps around 32 ivory reasons for being.
For when the calamity collapse
and your left wondering, "What's next?"
Here! Here! Sir! "Exit stage left." Watch your step.

I woke to a wake of buzzards feasting on my ulsers
when all the sudden, I hear something come bubbling up from the vultures, "You need to soul search."
I thought to myself, "Takes one to know one" then proceeded to stick my ******* tongue out.

Undesirable
slap jaw crooked smile
Undesirable
Where the wild things crawl
Undesirable
Aug 2016 · 361
Pollutants
what a waste Aug 2016
My life's an anagram scrambled on the daily by the toddler tendencies of a **** drunk humanity

Single handedly scribbling lines into the sands of my sanity

like a sapling wrathfully thumbing it's hancock through the dew drops atop my glass canopy
Aug 2016 · 1.3k
Animal Crackers
what a waste Aug 2016
'Round his bronze
runs tattoo paw prints
and artillery guns
Nothing says facade
like a boy turned beast
without a bite that bleeds
He's hurling "Bang Bangs"
from a peak of prank cannons
Aug 2016 · 301
Power Struggle
what a waste Aug 2016
I see you wear a choke collar contrived from the lies they forced you to swallow.

How appropriate your words must taste when the time comes to make your case and the syllables stumble from your drunken tongue, fumbling any sense of pace.

And the bracelet strangling your wrist, proclaiming peace for all the world to see, screams I'm corporate faith contagious.

Hear my pleas or bleed my blood, I am the werewolf under the drooling moon howling for mother monsoon.

The shell on my back's weathered and cracked, harpoon riddled from when Ahab attacked.
Jul 2016 · 391
Pollutants
what a waste Jul 2016
My life's an anagram
scrambled on the daily
by the toddler tendencies
of a **** drunk humanity
Single handedly scribbling lines
into the sands of my sanity
like a sapling wrathfully
thumbing it's hancock
through the dew drops
atop my glass canopy
Jun 2016 · 427
Undesirable
what a waste Jun 2016
Undesirable
slap jaw crooked smile
Undesirable
Where the wild things crawl
Undesirable

**** an S.
I wear an exit stage left on my chest.
A breast plate displaced by the lashes
of a thousand tiny reclusive phantoms suppressed.
A warning to the weary, starry-eyed tooth fairy running laps around 32 ivory reasons for being.
For when the calamity collapse
and your left wondering, "What's next?"
Here! Here, Sir! "Exit stage left." Watch your next step.

I woke to a wake of buzzards feasting on my ulsers
when all the sudden, I hear something come bubbling up from the vultures, "You need to soul search."
I thought to myself, "Takes one to know one" then proceeded to stick my ******* tongue out.

Undesirable
slap jaw crooked smile
Undesirable
Where the wild things crawl
Undesirable
Jun 2016 · 209
Tic-Toc
what a waste Jun 2016
I'll sit and pick
the seconds from the minutes
Then stick them in my pocket
with the lizards and the crickets
Like a child turning stars into wishes
Snuffing life in an instant for the sake
of a miscreant's Christmas list.

I'll point and laugh
At the writing on the wall
Unless it's Kilroy's nose
peering over my stall.

Here we are. Final stop.
Pendulum, meet Clock.
Grab a drink. Take a seat.
Want a snack? Coffee?
Yeah, but it's black.
Something sweet?
Let me check.
Jun 2016 · 620
Under Construction
what a waste Jun 2016
The driveway's looking more like a rattlesnake
with fangs hanging halfway over home plate.
There's barricade tape draped around the landscape.
'Garden Gnomes like, "It's for your own safety."
Diamond dazed by the street light's preacher gaze
when a great escape turns into "The Great Escape."
More in common with a bucket of maggots  
than scabs in a satchel scared of the fabric.
So I went from hobbyist to a full fledged addict
with the mindset of "let's see what happens.''
Sat back and sprouted some wings like a snapdragon
then proceeded to prep the bandwagon with laughter.
This is about me facing the instant dismissal of poetry as a respected art form in today's day and age and the snobbery my hectic style of writing bears. Not only am I expressing the struggle of being a poet, but also how you must overcome the pressure of self-doubt.
Jun 2016 · 443
Ask Mr. Nobody
what a waste Jun 2016
Loaded jaw - corner pocket eight ball
"Scratch that" lifestyle etched on
the sidewalls of his eye hole like
he didn't already have enough scribble
filtered into his thought bubble
May 2016 · 432
The Death of Creativity
what a waste May 2016
My thoughts became a ball
bouncing over preordained dialog
shuffling from end to end
leaving hoofprints condemned
A scattershot of expression
tickling the back of my skull
For the sentences I spoke
fell from my mouth
like a rabid dog dripped foam
and within hung the beat
of a foolish man's sunken soul
May 2016 · 446
The Rat's Tip ( Tar Pit )
what a waste May 2016
Each letter I've built with brick.
Mortar made of my night's lament.
Every poem littered with soot
and tattered footprints that skim.

I've bellowed over the valley's forge;
indeed on through to forever more.
Still, the hours draw with no return.
The phantom's vigil is all for naught
when a crow roosts upon it's jump.

I shall be done akin to the fallen king
who so heavily bears his mangled crown,
with quill in hand pecking feverishly
away at the hourglass's quick sand.

My final few words will be that of a book
reveled by many yet thumbed by none,
"
I've finally rid myself from this contraption.*"
May 2016 · 170
Running in Place
what a waste May 2016
We are all dead
We just don't know it yet
May 2016 · 248
It's a lot to Process
what a waste May 2016
Every red light is just another excuse
that I use to produce more volume.
It's a habit that I'd like to kick, but
where's the fun in letting reality win?

Thoughts of an elephant's walk
to help usher the pedestrians along.
It's the only way that I can make it through
the fray without feeling a step out of place.

Less a statement than it is an S.O.S.
A special request for the rightful ruler
of senseless vengeance in the lane over.
I'm the kid with a stick poking tension
like look mom I think it's playing Rapture.

I'm on a mission.
Where's the launch button?
I'm on a mission.
Where's the launch button?
May 2016 · 259
Early One Morning
what a waste May 2016
I was thumbing through some
old pictures of you just now.
You know, the ones where we
would swear it all lasted forever.
I'd do anything to crawl back inside
those moments as if they were a cabin
tucked within a forest and my life
the blizzard which never seems to end.
I could only get so far before my heart
played the contortionist. I've missed so
much of your life. We've now been apart
for nearly as long as we were together.
I can't think that sentence without feeling
like I've misplaced a step or two. I wish
I knew you now. I'm sorry I wasn't there.
May 2016 · 432
This isn't Art
what a waste May 2016
This isn't art it's poetry
Emotion disguised as prose
Letters poised with potency
Hopefulness freed vocally
This isn't art it's honesty
Apr 2016 · 395
Crystal Skullz
what a waste Apr 2016
His life's an ice cream catastrophe
executed
with cannon-ballistic mastery

A sidewalk massacre
specified
to the likes of a child's book

Riding the fine line
between
chalk-lines and cloud nine

Face plant, change lanes,
gain pace,
reiterate... over and over again

His mind's the wonderland
of a maze
guarded by a Minotaur's embrace

No chocolate for deep space
he prefers
the aftertaste of chili anyway
Apr 2016 · 836
Banished Selenite
what a waste Apr 2016
I was "hands are tied" denied
by a Bloatfly with two eyes,
four wings, six feet, and no *****.
A gene splicing brainchild
high on the benzene manslaughter
fuming up from the shores below.
He was snooping through a kaleidoscope
Excavating my frontal lobe when he noticed
the furious drone of an active anthill catacomb.
Next thing you know Jealousy's backbiting nag
is setting it's sites on his uninviting neck,
going in for a quick pulse check.
Ready for war, no need for cures attitude
he grabbed a scalpel and evened the score.
T.B.C
Apr 2016 · 678
Red Bull & Nirvana
what a waste Apr 2016
Doritos and cheese puffs
grease the tips of my fingers.
I'm a mess; a complete word press.
Undressed - more or less.

Mismatched socks
and I don't give a ****.
Just take them off
get in bed; let's beat the clock.

T-Rex joined a marching band.
A round of applause if you could.
The man deserves a hand.

A picture of you still
sits in my wallet.
I bring it out when
I'm at all the parties.

Cockroaches in the carpet.
I can't stop watching them frolic.
Nightcrawlers in a bucket.
I think they need a rocket.
Apr 2016 · 655
Movement
what a waste Apr 2016
It comes at me quietly
like a moth buried
beneath my flesh
slowly moving it's wings
churning just enough
This thing called love
I let it abduct what's left
As I fall asleep it carries me up
Apr 2016 · 347
2%
what a waste Apr 2016
2%
When my battery dies
And you can't recall my voice
Just know I could've charged it
But it was you I thought of first
Apr 2016 · 309
Facebook Poetry
what a waste Apr 2016
A mushroom cloud apocalypse
minus blistered skin competence
Who knew a disaster could be had
while fickle branches brave the blast
Apr 2016 · 225
Glorious Leftovers
what a waste Apr 2016
I wanna be a poet's death;
extravagant to the touch.
Harvest me the honest intent
behind every typewriter key
the world has ever plucked
and I'll show you a realm
where words were often said
but never were they really felt.
I wanna pack a punch large enough
to withdraw the borrowed breath
you cling to like some misplaced
cliff ledge you happened past.
What good's a map when your compass
only shows four points of south?
Apr 2016 · 963
Anti-Monitor
what a waste Apr 2016
Got the locomotion of a Komodo swollen tenfold
Harpoon tongue working like a snake's does
Point of attack: Your food for thought stash
Connecting the dots like Rorschach
Lord of the dunce cap; I'm in it for the long laugh
Poetry like scratch off's minus the cash trough
Too bad, better luck next stop
Spare a dime for the would-be spies
breaking bones from behind closed off blinds
Apr 2016 · 205
Hello, Love
what a waste Apr 2016
If I could lift from this page
what you truly mean to me
I'd go to war with every single tree
I wouldn't stop until my life was
consumed by an empire of sheets
The light of the stars would shine
and the sun would sing
Daisies dancing away the rain
while the birds and the bees played
If only I could find a way,
to explain what my heart is saying
somewhere on these pages
I'd get lost in the fields of lines until
the end of time - face to face with oblivion
Just you and me holding hands
in the middle of the streets
while the world fell apart
That's what you mean to me
Apr 2016 · 187
Toy Hearts
what a waste Apr 2016
Woe are the men
       who find no start
                Brittle be their
                        filament hearts
                        Angst in the air
                      sparks retreat
            like tainted pollen
to finicky bees
Apr 2016 · 423
The Little Boy That Should
what a waste Apr 2016
Prime initiative firing
on coke bottle cylinders.
A stitch past wearily;
his cognitive delirium
breeds an alien's barbarity.

No flare for a sailor to see,
the stillborn sea devours
his Saturn Missile pleas
like a herbivore foraging
fields of forever greens.

Castaway calluses stack
for an armor-clad effect.
Think homemade tank flesh
for a rainy day's doom flash.
Clickety clack... he's on track.

The Lotus's control is unknown.
Best take a backstroke anyway, folks.
An avalanche throne only holds
'til the caveman's stone is thrown
Black hole tenacity God couldn't close.
Apr 2016 · 391
A Dwarfed Sun
what a waste Apr 2016
Star soot in the wind
Abandoned planet condemned
Soundless thunder dims
what a waste Apr 2016
Earthworm whiskers stiff with the tension
of a trillion switchboards hissing,
"Mister! Mister! Avoid the 5th dimension!"

More a prison than a picture diminished,
riddled by the Sandman's sentence;
it's a place to the brim with tremptress physics.

Tailor fitted to the yearn for specifics
of a half-pint's peaked interest
like the mantelpiece of an Anglerfish.
Apr 2016 · 229
Search Bar
what a waste Apr 2016
Baby, all I wanna do
shake your mountain dew.
Maybe if we're lucky it'll
glass snake that makeup too.
Who knows we could have
a tangible breakthrough like
frontier scientists tinkering
with love's tyrannical hue.
Apr 2016 · 434
Horse Fly
what a waste Apr 2016
Never played well with others
Got tooth decay blisters for bubbles
Prime numbers fester in the hundreds
like swine flu in the midst of summer
Apr 2016 · 351
Gangrene
what a waste Apr 2016
I'm the aftermath of Q-tips on the attack
that awkward itch beneath whatever's left
A twisted mixture of wax and scripture
lifted from the zippers used to grapple issues
Broken arms and still I've got two thumbs
who'd of guessed I'd learn how to use just one
Blind, deaf, and dumb never to be out dun
my earthworm tendencies must be tingling
cause even on this limb I need no repositioning
what a waste Feb 2016
I could
topple these towers
a thousand times over
and from the gathered rubble
they would emerge;
faces spun like webs
dancing among the branches.
And you being the only one
there ever was
would collapse against
the wayward sky of my choosing.
But all that I see along the shore
is trees upon trees
laid neatly like the silhouette
of a thousand smokestack corpses.
No, my love, I will not feed you
to a pit of absolutes.
For you, nothing but my death
would ever do.
Feb 2016 · 209
Maggot Teeth
what a waste Feb 2016
I thought
of my self highly
'til I saw the mound
of dirt beneath my feet
Feb 2016 · 285
Juliet
what a waste Feb 2016
We waited with that
white porcelain cat patience
for what seemed like
a generation of "Here, take this."
Our beaded eyes chased
fixed faces strung up like
the flowers on wallpaper
A wishful widow's last request
stack her particles past heaven's gates
but tobacco tainted lips grant you
everlasting peace at the cost of a kiss

Eat, sleep, regurgitate dreams
revolution of the mind is needed
we are what we are fish to the string

Eat, sleep, regurgitate dreams
evolution of the mind indeed
we are what we are fish to the stream
Dec 2015 · 363
Computer Screen High
what a waste Dec 2015
Baby, hit that space bar
one more time and give me
something deep to embark.
You're not the only one trying
to find some peace of mind
locked away behind these
falling lines.

Pretty little words filled
with all sorts of quirky verbs.
They're like Lego's resting on
your chest - building blocks
of distress you could never resist.

Take my hand and fly away
let the keys open your heart
and expose it to the world within.
Dec 2015 · 270
Between Alright & Okay
what a waste Dec 2015
Below the waves
Fog is hanging

Beyond the stars
The walls are caving

It dropped its dreams
It keeps repeating

This is me
screaming
Dec 2015 · 305
Self Help Therapy
what a waste Dec 2015
My skin keeps falling off
an apple leaves the tree 'n' heads south
I heard their seeds set you free
somewhere in between the seams
Near the river where the sky melts
I found you playing by yourself

Late night therapy well past twelve
Remote control my feelings for a spell
mute my mouth and all it's pretty sounds
Who have I become when no ones around
A robot dancing alone never excelled
remove my bones show me how it's done


My life's a carousel
of white noise that I found
The static keeps me happy
The static keeps me happy
The static keeps me happy
My skin keeps falling off
what a waste Dec 2015
There's a voice in my head
that I can't quite shake
always beating round the bush
when the sun gets baked

"1 2 and a tie my shoe"
at least that's what they told me
back when I was around 3.. or 4
Who am I kidding?
Who am I pretending
to be if it isn't really me

Somebody could you help me
oh somebody could you please
remind me of what it means
to color outside of these little blue lines

Inside my mind your the finest
thing since land before time
and i'm dying to know if you know
Dec 2015 · 279
End the Goodbyes
what a waste Dec 2015
I'm only holy
when she's tired of being lonely
I can see it in her eyes
when she smiles away her life
I can feel it in the air
in between her I don't cares
Take a chance - break a leg -
pick a rose - let it die
Tap dance on the hard wood floors
I'll be waiting by the knots
feeling myself like I've never been felt
just to see if you notice
my goodbye
Nov 2015 · 2.5k
Suicide Note
what a waste Nov 2015
I brought your letter
to the edge of a creek
where black birds reign
and the red ants crawl
I left it with the current
All your worth
A handful of words
Bottled to preserve
I left it with the current
and watched it drift away
I left it with the current
and watched you slip away
Nov 2015 · 347
New Age Techniques
what a waste Nov 2015
Nations fall.
All in all, we tried.
Countries fail.
All in all, they lied.
Bombs drop like sleet
against a **** stained window
and the ash stacks;
what a beautiful winter.
The unrelenting stale breath
of dispair slithers,
showing the children
true constriction.
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