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137 · Feb 4
Black Ballon’s
Jon RT Feb 4
Don’t go popping black balloons.

The red or orange ones are better.

I’m not emo anyway || huh.

Crusty white knuckle streets streaked with overhead lights.

Humming poles holding slap tags to slump on.

Newspaper, media, graffiti.

We need to find lovers who can read us.

Fake love but you got you’re hand out.

Take all the time you need I don’t mind to watch it bleed away.

I got no place to be faded.

Can’t hate the game we just play it but.

Birthdays, parties ballon’s aren’t fun.

Yesterday, today, tomorrow.

Friends of fair weather they find me junking round town.

Scrap a little scratch || ten smacks.

Pop!

Don’t go popping black balloons.

The other colors are better.

I’m not impressed in anyway || huh.

Dingy metal beams stretching overhead block the lights out.  

Echoing musky hobo writing thats slept on.

Red face, man scape, hipsters.

We need to find a place that expects us.

Real love but it’s from wash outs.

Given enough time it goes away I don’t mind.

I got no safe space to qualm your jaded eyes.

Just play along even though we hate them.

Everything’s cake, celebrating but balloons aren’t fun.

Blood, substance, sorrow.

Hospital bed, my friends they find me foul weathered I quit junking round.

Scratch it inside a little but it gets scraped || ten smacks.

Pop!
Street life
95 · Feb 2
Devaneio
Jon RT Feb 2
Staunch, fat, biting gold.

I lay my name through, tooth.  

To ruler engraved crown for crown.

Have a friend shill a coin to the ferryman when I pass away.

Smelling poppies on latent days rubbed drably against misty eyed strangers the made come.

Visions of you, like breaking devaneio at dawn.

Scrolling ordinals under the digital skylight begging God’s credit by the water.

Our round faces pawning tailored passions now read merry of habits.

Now hung loose fit we became the plastic cultists.

It’s all so ******* passe.

If only blood rushed echoes to rest in, ear.

In life we vainly crashed fleets of words abroad of each other's connection.

In attempt to capture by proxy this lacunas.

Slouched about rooms now left empty of the inhabitants whose taste once raided inside them.

Bare it well.

You.

Devaneio.

You.

Casting shade for former particle existence.

Estranged of the salience there beneath the birch limbs uplifted whispers.

Star gazing.

A lame thief I let sleep in my eyes.

Like laundered thought, my fingers playing here a note in banners painted fade.

I wish I could paint it cracked in oil and gouaché.

Wispy slaps past almost ad victoriam.
The poet & muse begging  together daydreaming of life.
Jon RT Feb 2
If only it was standing on legs,
our offerings wouldn’t go unanswered.

So queer it is— thy personage, a burden—
to expect it should carry me, taking flight as sordid mount, crisp and toppling azure.

For my woes, upon my head, a crown laden with knowledge I needn’t have known,

Now within a spoiled moment, acts heathen—  not minding the very second could *****,
blotting out the day's starlight, then might find me sent to bed without supper.

Alas, fair madam, you have gum on thy shoe.

Pointing to my bruised hands— bent, toiling in attendance on present affairs— the culprits.

Anticipating the purchase of new stamps, dawning now on me— I owe previously to another, in lieu, my lament.

I knew my apologies get arrested in my absence.

To explain in a sentence your wait— I ask you to post-judgment and of thy forgiveness, have ready as is writ here, the purchase in my hand.

Questions to actions, answered— in view of my behavior.

As is, I coming back through the door, a dour affair.

In supposition I see needing to shoulder it again.

You found new lodging for another part, stealing it away from my line of sight.

Split twain, in even halves, I expectant—
a change, come blowing through the window,
lofting in us a difference— in the day-to-day we so frequently inhabit with our dole.

Thy yawn— squalled menace— is cherry in repeat, with flat glass eyes.

A cast of daggers conspires to lay me under stone— daily, when inquiring of it how much was mine.

Taken as I—  robbing you at hold-up from the stage, and ball you up in keep of ransom.

Once fiduciary complete— make me king of the dead.

In its flint-pitched face, past the lichen, sat lettered: "Only asking.” My response—
and I beneath it.

Be it in any other than that, it is that I, in turn, bare the part lacking to purchase it.

Seeing now— you would ****** indiscriminately, at the items, taking whole and complete, the all of it, thyself.

For as much as I’ve lain my part to it, be receiving back effective that vantage— capital of gated mansions.

For oft will I do— will then I throw red-handed lighting.

A viper, hissing in spirit—
in truth, while in keep— a horde hath you sowed, stole away, one land over.

So now I set tracking you, traveling in it— belated and absent.

Henceforth, an ardent sanctuary to attend thine cadavers' needs— until next week's payday.
An interaction
31 · Feb 4
Tracks
Jon RT Feb 4
I just wish it were fancy again.

A truly more savage Christ!

Dumped out stamps.

Watering down the kingdom.

Burning my way-fare blight.

In a trudge of aesthetic post’s about your pets & makeup tips.

Oof!

So I shook the muddy crystal to melt as summer was pressed to the land with a kiss.

Through swollen pupils & sweat filled brow, I awaiting remedy from a ***** self ministered.

That papal seat on the rails where a new rose thorn grew between the main line register.

The same color crimson but now they both lay flush and flush.

Alone the flower bent under foot stands back up morning my rigs final resting place.
Downtown Asheville NC

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