swimming inside you
eyes closed, smoking a cigar
move you little ****!

You're so tough , I know you've had it rough.
But lifes hard struggles, are the sink or swim puddles.
We all make our choices, please hear our voices.
But don't blame them on me, they don't make me happy.
Because I've had bad luck too, but I don't dish you.
All this bitterness and hate, I just feel....fustrate.
I can't hack it any more,  ' You said. "There's the door!" '
"I won't stop you, you'll see, I was happy and free".
But you're not happy, now I'm gone.'You said you loved me all along'.
If only you'd said "Stay!", now our love has had to pay.

I talked to you every day
for one year and two months and three weeks and four days
funny how that works out to be one two three four
but hey we were a phenomenon full of coincidences
and exceptions
but everything particular must decay
and when we finally broke apart
and you decided to leave
the blast lasted 6 seconds
and sounded at the frequencies:
61.74Hz for 1s
82.41Hz for 1s
65.41Hz for 2s
55.00Hz for 1s
and though these frequencies are low enough to bury me underground
the amplitude at which my heart broke
allowed your name to be heard the whole world round
funny how the first time I was able to emote
in so long
was when my heart broke
and you were gone

Another argument
Another day walking on eggshells
Another night of being alone
Another beating
Another lesson on what a ******* I am
Another punishment for not buying the right brand of ***** you like
More black eyes
More cuts and bruises from fighting you off
More afternoons being thrown on the floor and kicked
Being knocked out unconscious because I didn't feel like having *** with you
Being called a ***** every five minutes
Being covered in freshly brewed coffee
so you could hear me scream in agony
Another tooth knocked out
Another day of my life being threatened
Another night lying next to a monster
wishing I was dead

♪☺☻☺♪

Free verse was captured,
confined to a cell
by readers unraptured
in modernist hell.

And there he did languish
while chained to the wall
and desperate in anguish
gave forth a last call:

“Listen and read me—
my muse is the best!
Applaud and then feed me,
your starving guest !

Don’t fall for that beat…
Please ignore their old line.
I’m here. I’m effete.
I’m a modern divine…

I like it in prison
No, really — I’m free!”
(But his lock was awaiting
Your Readership’s key.

For the moderns all lie,
as your readership knows;
Modern poets don’t die—
they just decompose.)

I love you so deep, it makes me feel meek.
What you do for me, I can hardly speak.
You make me feel so proud, I want to shout it loud.
And our support for one another, is like no other.
Though we've gone our separate ways, I think of you always.
I know I miss you so much, I feel I've lost a crutch.
Our separate paths we've taken, they'll be no mistaking.
That  my love for you is true, I'd like to say.. Thank You.
(Alistair & Charlotte)

I once was in a place I loved
but left. Let me tell you why.

Friend, I won't give you any of this ****
about vision quests or fields to plow.

I just ran out of patience and time.
And reasons for staying. Anyhow.

That beautiful ghost of a woman
of mine said I don't love you, BOO.
And I was gone. So long.

My heart froze solid
like the cold ground I sleep on.

The bright coals oh how they illuminate the starvation in your eyes
The pain
How it engulfs me completely
The void of my stomach rumbles as I stare into the embers
The ash falls on me like April snow
My heart races forward like a locomotive as I anticipate the satisfaction to come
I feel myself wither away
I draw weary
My soul is too weak for the wait
As I stare into the fire I wonder what  I have become?