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369 · Aug 2016
Writer's Bluff
what a waste Aug 2016
Empty sheets even though
the headcases reminisce
remnants of a commendable place.

If it's half past twelve, well that means
I've been slumbering northbound
for a giant's leap, ouch.

Enough blank face
to chase down a zombie's eek
and still I fail to assimilate
this wool pouch.

Suppose Fury's fangs fixate
on inanimate veins
that would explain this
werewolf gaze I'm harboring.

Too real for the pondering;
A Subspace Wanderer.
You can find me in between
the lines conjuring.
363 · Dec 2015
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.
361 · Aug 2016
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
358 · Aug 2017
Unrepent
what a waste Aug 2017
Backbone - methadone,
live long - die young
Taste the honeycomb
never mind the buzz
We're all chum waiting
for the sharks to come
I'd swallow my tongue
if the words would play worm
for my mockingbird
but I know I'm one stone throw
away from being broke so
I'll avoid the phone like I
forgot how to be grown
Torn between mastodon and prawn
Someone take me home - chloroform
Firstborn - I'll be the last gone
358 · Aug 2016
Bottled Sunshine
what a waste Aug 2016
She's a ballerina,
pirouetting 'round her finger.
He's a hyena,
hollering at the residential ecclesia.
Two magnets in a basket,
dragging their carcass
across the canvas.
It's madness.
It's balance.
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.
355 · Aug 2016
We Waited
what a waste Aug 2016
We waited with that
white porcelain cat patience
for what seemed like a generation
of, "Here, take this."
Passing notes through the ozone layers
In a grand game of cat and mouse cadence
351 · Apr 2017
Everything is Scrap v2
what a waste Apr 2017
Let us dethrone this ***** little clone,
put him back in the barn where he belongs;
next to the other dozen standalone stepping
stones collectively gathering dust to the dome.

A collection of crazies chasing overblown
daisies in a field of belated phrases. Like,
"Three lines should get you going, Homie!"
(I love you)
how about
(NO! *******)

Where's your patience? Did you check the back pages?
What's a death race without 1st place?
It's death before dishonor or have you already forgotten?
All we ever wanted was to flagpole our importance.


Crusading sapiens stay pounding their chest
while these invading aliens blend in with the rest
and I'm two pills past drunk waiting for the pending
blimp on your radar to changeling into a Death Star.
351 · Jul 2017
Kill All Children
what a waste Jul 2017
I've been at the fool for far too long
take my keys I don't wanna go back home
When did forts become pitchforks
When did wrong turns turn into world wars
If I asked you to **** me would your eyes get wider
fire with fire doesn't sound so dire
**** me softly **** me kindly
Philosopher, philosopher oh where is your phosphorus
the fatherlands aren't what we thought they were
Plant your flag then take it back, insomniac
I'm your washrag, yeah I'm your washrag
wash away your filth just like that
You're the reason why people get high
never mind the wasps ******* my thoughts
butterflies are drowning in my gut
we just wanna feel loved
I'm the moth seeking dust
351 · Apr 2016
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
348 · Aug 2016
Milk Money Zombies
what a waste Aug 2016
Saved by the bell; he's just another dead ringer trying to belay the legions of his hell
347 · Apr 2016
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
347 · Nov 2015
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.
343 · Feb 2017
Dead Friends
what a waste Feb 2017
She's had it with the dramatics
Maybe I should take a page
from the Cro-magnons
and pick these knuckles
up from the pavement
Demeanor dragging 'cross
the grass like an alligator belly
I'm slow - 1st place is just a myth to me
Sloth life, you can find me in the treelines
reaching for the stars when the night comes
341 · Aug 2016
About Me
what a waste Aug 2016
I'm just a kid trying to have fun
who happens to have a jungle gym
for a tongue.
341 · Aug 2016
Tomorrow Morning
what a waste Aug 2016
They live we sleep
Find my serenity getting
intimate with the bed sheets
What makes you wink

I am a hostage engaged in
a Gentleman's war mentality
One slip of the cog and my half
cocked dominos are liable to fall
339 · Nov 2018
Monday Morning
what a waste Nov 2018
Anymore he's ****-poor,
an off-mood in it's final form.
A Monday morning set on rerun.
Somebody fetch the kid a coffin,
his serotonin is stretched thin.
Put his thinker on the block
and cure him with a swift chop.
He won't need it where he's going.
The cubicle smaller than a molecule,
and the fine print's never optional.
338 · Sep 2016
Something Special
what a waste Sep 2016
I've always felt like a lab rat trapped
inside a cage getting laughed at by
fat cats in pristine white lab coats
These feline felons are playing god with
my anthill mind; too bad I'm a termite
rewired with fine wire terminator style
There's a magnifying glass high
above slinging beams of shine at
the solar panel buried in my back
Rusty and corroded this little robot
took the impossible and imploded
337 · Aug 2016
Active Two Minutes Ago
what a waste Aug 2016
I see you sitting there
with a thumb in your mouth
and you wonder why
the words wont come out

What goes up must come down
So push me around and around
this merry go round

Take me for granted
so I can pretend to do better
I promise I won't let you down

I've done the math
It's become habit
but I've never subtracted
If I'm the hat you're the rabbit
331 · Dec 2017
Wallowing
what a waste Dec 2017
I'm better bitter.
Cross my heart. Watch me die.
I fortified the sky
with my ever so clever mind,
then colonized the divides
that hid like lice on shifting tides.

I am the truth.
The one, The only
Soul Possessor of Proof.
I chase the **** like raids of troops
raining down hell on breathless boots.
Hoops and hoops, it's all I do.
Who knew the stew taste so good?

Grade A Plutonium patience
ingrained into his creation;
I'm in this game for the glitches.
Bet these mitts wont miss it.
Be ready for when **** get's real.

Hold the hard R, pass the small L,
rewind time then expel.
Crown the king. Sound the bells.
It's been found - my rabbit hole to hell.
Home bound on a lickety-split spell.

Personnel parallel to the view box,
unload your wisdom unto us wee rocks.
Chisel past our flaws to our resolve
and free us from that which scars.
Hearts on hearts should be enough.
330 · Aug 2016
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
330 · Oct 2015
How Appropriate
what a waste Oct 2015
I'm eating tiny stars
with planets in orbit
hoping to absorb any
life that may be dormant
Like a flare at night,
the black painted sky
of the sea inside my mind
shines, if only for the moment
If only for a moment
the neurons fire
and I feel alive
The neurons fire
I feel alive
The neurons fire
and I am alive
If only for the moment
325 · Jul 2017
Inside Me
what a waste Jul 2017
I've died a thousand times;
crushed by rain and everything in between.
Check the drops they nestle my name.
And like a million guillotines
they've set me free.
Crown me King.
Take my dreams.
Make me think.
324 · Oct 2015
The Innocent
what a waste Oct 2015
The subtle wind
behind morning fog
A dewdrop grin
grows upon the young
It's cultivated hate
which lays wait
beyond the sun
The way they flock
is all but gone
In time of need
they will come
One by one
it won't be long
324 · Apr 2017
Coward of the Year
what a waste Apr 2017
Our mentors whittled down our doors into a pocketable lore
plump with horrors on every single ******* street corner
then peddled 'em back to us as a fashionable decor  

As far as we're concerned there's skrulls loitering
where the road bends and nowhere begins

Neighbors became strangers and our leaders became stronger
so we battened down the hatches and hid our daughters

(For ***** sake, Sarah we don't need sugar
we've got artificial flavoring that taste like the real **** thing)

Blue lights beam up lifes faster than ufos can advance science
and you expect us to take that fabled step outside

Naw, thanks
322 · Oct 2018
I Typed This With My Face
what a waste Oct 2018
**** sleeping.
It's 4 am and the windows sit tilted.
Feels like winter but it's the bone that splinters.
No snow outside just the woe of billions,
though still cold enough to uphold some liquor.
Orwell's vision - a fresh print - first edition.
I'm here to worship the hissing behind the television.
To slip in between the cracks of black and white
til I'm peddling end times like I want it done right.
Spare me a match and I'll bring the 'mite,
we can start where the litter lies.
322 · Aug 2016
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
317 · May 2017
Blackheads
what a waste May 2017
One page, Two page, Three page.....
****! They're all blank. Now what, *****?

Sat face to face with the faceless
It feels like a walk through the Ages
A long forgotten Gazer's contest
with an army of the rottenly oppressed
where you try 'n' find the slightest slight of progress
It's super duper glue for the clinically obtuse
shooters churning in their itty bitty booths
You learn the dance
Get to experience true trance
'til it becomes such a ***** ******* nuisance
that your left clawing at your two front
just for the chance to taste the illusion of choosing
Attack of the modern-day zombie
Hello, my name is IRobot
it's about what comes before something special
317 · Aug 2016
Think it Through
what a waste Aug 2016
I was sitting in my car today
stressing 'bout Night's revenge
when a man in black waltzed up to me.
He placed a gun to my temple and said,
"Son, what exactly do you need?"
I looked him in the eyes
and said, "Can't you see?
I'm flying without wings.
I'm clapping without hands.
I'm running but cannot
find the strength to stand.
Do your best to bring me back
from these God forsaken lands.
Look me in the face and squeeze
that trigger like a man.
315 · Sep 2016
Blackbolt
what a waste Sep 2016
Your words, if I may, crush
They consume, incite lust
And perhaps divides trust

Your words, if I may, crush
They loom, invite disgust
And most certainly conquer us

I bet they smell good crushed.
I'll take three lines, please.
315 · Aug 2016
High Arts
what a waste Aug 2016
No wonder my clay pigeon utterances
suffer that upper class belittlement.
Raised chins only face one way
and the sun only knows one thing.
You gotta see to shoot, so who's to blame:
me, the game, or those who blindly partake?
311 · Oct 2015
Homeless Poetry
what a waste Oct 2015
The days stuck together
like dewy tar against velvet skin
wearing through to my shadow
where life could have been

Months became monsters
half glazed bearing teeth
chewing through to my arms
where once I could reach
311 · Aug 2016
Moving Mountains by Hand
what a waste Aug 2016
Each day I walk a line within my mind,
trudging along my own Event Horizon.
The bitter beat beneath my feet
haunts me like a fallen friend.
With no way to purge this curse,
It follows me to my impending end.

As I reach the place where stars are
swallowed and giants lie in wait,
I pause for a spell and glare back to
ponder; eyes slowly growing hollow.
When did self hatred mutilate my wild blue yonder?
Who deluded the water which blissfully sprang me to life?
Was it I who knotted the laces of my feet with constrictor like grip
to trip myself into a conviction of a crime I did not commit?
Why would I do this to myself?
I once loved the person I was.

Aimless were the arrows which my thoughts shot through the dark.
A fools errand to greedily gain knowledge before the last embark.
More hope could be found in the heart of a man who sat behind his desk, plotting with calamity on how he'd go berserk and lay waste to the rest.

With acceptance rivaling that of the Easter Islanders once they heard word of their fate, I hung my legs over the horizon's edge, swallowed my pride, agony, & faith.
I let my mind, body, & soul plummet into this pitiless place.
309 · Jun 2018
Grandbastard
what a waste Jun 2018
No questions. It's head first.
The world's a chess board
and I'm just tryna get to expert.
You can't capture the castle,
that's not how this game works.
The moats filled with clones all
too eager to take ten on the throne.
Control ain't about wearing a crown.
Patience is a virtue, woodpusher.
The race ain't over 'til the fat lady falls.
Don't tiptoe past the unknown,
grab it by the throat and tear it inside out.
309 · Apr 2016
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
306 · Nov 2015
Electronica 2.0
what a waste Nov 2015
She's got cool aid in her veins
Neon pouring through the rain
She's a dream I wish I had
A disease I'd rather spread
I've been craving her since the 80's
Like a cowboy gone******* crazy
Climb inside my head, Alison
Let me be your wonderland instead
All these flashing lights
Dancing off your skin
Neon pouring through the rain
She's got cool aid in her veins
305 · Oct 2015
Blowing Minds
what a waste Oct 2015
I hope you fall in love with
my words; dancing to the curve
of the petals I pluck from the air.
So I can hold you to them like a gun.
Placing the bitter metal against
your skin, freeing you from the
world they've been dying
to keep you within.
305 · Dec 2015
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
304 · Aug 2016
Ghost Me
what a waste Aug 2016
With a paintbrush in hand
I create heartfelt signs.
They litter the sky
like constellations at night;
directing you towards
no truer a sight.
But the blind must be
guiding your ship,
for you go about in circles
like a helicopter propeller in flight.

I wrote with dynamite
hoping my words would ignite
something deep inside your heart,
as if I were trying to mine the love
that resides behind those evanescent eyes.
I guess the wick was left outside
while clouds committed suicide.
Maybe I should just take their lead
and leave well enough alone;
forgetting all the attempts I made
at turning rain into snow.
303 · Nov 2018
Brute Force
what a waste Nov 2018
I keep the 59fifty with me,
crown fit with the flipped brim.
Grin situated like a grizzly's.
I'll put a ***** down quickly.
Clip him in the kidney like a fifth
then watch his miss switch teams.
Appease her til her knees hurt.
Sign a jersey, ergo the curb.
My door reads do not disturb.
Delete me if you feel the urge.
Make no mistake, I will not search.
This is scorched-earth antics at its worst,
no stone will be left unturned.
Smarter than your average oaf,
my art works like an Ork on coke.
Just because you lack a clue doesn't
mean the world must follow suit.
There's a thumb in your mouth, and you
wonder why the words won't come out.
303 · Sep 2016
Plagiarizing Myself
what a waste Sep 2016
I pride myself on being
the laziest "artist" there is;
I won't lift a finger in
the name of what I do.
No. I drag my fingers across
the barren mountain range,
claiming the rubble left
by the distancing wake.
301 · Aug 2016
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.
301 · Feb 2017
Runaway
what a waste Feb 2017
The kid's been caught up in a current;
he's currently thought of as a servent.
His life's purpose: to bear down the weight of a ***** little brown voodoo doll pendant that's drapped around his neck like
a gold chain stark with disorderly fashion.
Here's the catch: only he controls it.
Grasp at the lantern moon through
the thick of darkness.

The Slumbering One. The Never Enough.
A butcher of thumbs; he's dumb, numb to the tumbling hands of a clock gone wrong,
clawing its way through the wind of them empty halls.

I imagine all sorts of things happen
when he closes his eyes at night and vacates the premises, like dragons and magic in a land inhabited by sages and witches which of course favour the taste of peasants and gizzards mixed
with the innocence of children.
Where he's the knight sent to slay
all that is wicked. But who's to say?
He's to busy caught up with the current.
It *****, but at least I broke the ice, I suppose.
298 · Sep 2016
Eat My Cancer
what a waste Sep 2016
I've smoked enough
cigarettes to blacken my soul.
Now with each breath I take
I cough and remain in a constant
flux of cat and mouse with my hope.
298 · Jan 2017
To, Late.
what a waste Jan 2017
I stumbled upon your
little heart-shaped dots.
The ones you used to litter
across your long live font.
They stopped me dead in my tracks
like I've been driving down
the wrong side of the road,
and no one ever thought to let me know, and they came tearing through the dark; hitting me head on.

They say youth is wasted on the young,
but I can feel every ouncee of love surfacing from my heart.
298 · Feb 2017
The Statue of Liberty
what a waste Feb 2017
Maybe today
I'll grow a pair of cords
and shimmy my way on up her skirt
while hollering out my heart
onto the naked floor.
297 · Aug 2016
Truth Be Told
what a waste Aug 2016
If truth be told
I long for her wretched soul
If truth be told I tire of my own
I thirst for the moistness between her hips
I envy the lips of the ones she's kissed
If truth be told
She'll never know
296 · Jul 2017
Don't Mind If I Die
what a waste Jul 2017
Patchwork thoughts crumple out the spout
Apparently the kid's turned mushmouth into sport
Somewhere a hatter laughs or perhaps it was a scoff
I don't know, I'm too far gone to recount the sounds
Service the forks like tomahawks so we can properly
feast on the retorts that taste like a thousand holocausts
Get full, pass out, wake up on a floor more warm
than a mother's embrace, or a thunderstorm's handshake
He's picking scabs to escape the bad
this kid's turning glands into something glad
291 · Nov 2016
Walk on Glass
what a waste Nov 2016
Wake up. Give thanks.
Proceed to the nearest plank.
Dive in. Bite down. Revel in the apocalyptic byss that stands before your battered doortstoops with a leaflet.
I'm just looking for a place where I can rest my face from the everyday charades of
"Hey, how how you doing?
Nevermind if the answer ain't fine."
Something with doors that doesn't resemble a first generation fish tank stuck in the muck of yesterday's basement.

I'd take my hand outa this here fire,
but you might think me less than
desirable for being a child
about what I perceive to be dire.
I'd reach out for your hand
if I wasn't already trying to hold my breath
by placing both my mitts 'round my neck and squeezing 'til nothing is what I felt.
That's my definition of help
and I doubt it'll ever change.
We are our own worst enemies
and I take it to the extreme.
289 · Aug 2016
Now That's Living
what a waste Aug 2016
I want to experience
the chaos a butterfly feels
when it meets the windshield.
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