Jack Gladstone

Jack Gladstone Nov 2014

In Via Ad Infernum, Quae Principium Habet in Paradiso

I don't remember the part of my job application that said i'd be bored out of mind.

I don't remember being asked to be born in a town where things to do were so hard to find.

I don't remember telling anyone to make the fuel of my escape what can only be presumed to be unicorn blood.

I don't remember exactly when i stopped being a stud.

I don't remember when my bank account shrank.

I don't remember when i started to care about what was in the bank.

I don't remember what i wanted to forget.

I don't remember if I'm lying to keep from getting too upset.

I don't remember becoming this much of a cynic.

I don't remember turning into the crotchety folks i used to mimic.

I don't member what Dante said about Hell.

I don't remember quotes too well.

I don't remember getting this sad, mad.

I don't remember when being this angsty became so bad.

I don't remember so why then i can't stop?

#hell #memory #assignment

Jack Gladstone Nov 2014

My Jason Bourne Identity and That's my Ultimatum

"I remember, I remember everything" says quintessential action hero Jason Bourne. Personally I say he could have been better off.

I remember the out of the ordinary, a nonbeliever that I'll ever get enough.

I remember the feeling of take off on a Jet airliner, the happy clench of my hands.

I remember this year seeing some of my favorite bands.

I remember the summers of love, the winters of hate.

I remeber having far too much on my plate (last week, yesterday, this second).

I remember also the comforts of an average day.

I remember the listeneing to my record player play.

I remember the warmth of a fire on a chilly night.

I remember being okay with feeling just alright.

I remember driving around this holey town.

I remember just hanging around.

I remember the basements where so little happened so much of the time.

I remember all the friends that I could call mine.

I remember many things and yet so little.

#crazy #remember #memory #assignment

Jack Gladstone Oct 2014

the future state of everything

Adding layers to the layers of the Earth,
civilization atop civilization.

We look to the past
but if we're at the end of history who the hell needs the past?

Or, are we just another layer
that just won't even last.

Maybe i hope we're all buried.
Lost for a time.
Entombed with all the things
that i call mine

Maybe next time will be different.
Maybe the bad will all change
but i'm guessing, yeah I bet, it'll be just more of the same.

Where's my characteristic optimism?
well it's kinda there i guess.
Maybe humanity will get a well deserved rest.

#future #end #world #humanity #civilization

Jack Gladstone Oct 2014

this is my home

Got my head buried in the ground
my feet are stuck in the clouds.
My boots are kickin' but that's no way to get out.

Deep in this hole i'm in, feet peddlin',
can't see through all this ground.

Looks like I'm stickin' around.

Don't wanna be round here
would rather be there (where?) anywhere.
Don't wanna be where folks are all the same,
oh god guys just forget my name.

This methland midwest community,
it ain't as bad as i make it out to be.
Perhaps the problem is at least a little me.

Or maybe it isn't.
Maybe this blackhole is bad luck.
Or maybe... ah who gives a ****.

Don't wanna be round here
would rather be there (where?) anywhere.
Don't wanna be where folks are all the same,
oh god I hope i forget this place's name.

Half the roads are closed,
even detours,
the rest are filled with potholes.

That's okay.
My sense of direction ***** anyways.

Don't wanna be round here
would rather be there (where?) anywhere.
Don't wanna be where folks are all the same,
oh God, i wish it were easier to forget.

#home #forget #town #memory #small #midwest

Jack Gladstone Oct 2014

a girl like you one doesn't dump

There are very few times that people have said exactly what is on my mind.
The only time i can even think of that happening is when i started dating you.
They said that if we broke up it would be my fault.
i agreed before they said it.
A girl like you one does not dump.
You're either a guy's one or his one that got away.

#love #girl #relationship #you #they

Jack Gladstone Sep 2014

little circle of friends

looking around the bonfire i see all my friends

-acquaintances, mates

and i wonder how long they'll be there

-around, with me

light dancing off their faces, music playing on ****** '90's boombox speakers

-Joshua Radin, Gorillaz, the violintastic Yellowcard

i see people i see everyday, people i haven't seen in years

-will it be that long til i see them again,
-when will my everyday friends turn into that

looking out from the fire over the river i see my unremarkable hometown

-the darkness hiding the decay, the streetlights making it look beautiful as -only this view of the city can provide

I'm moving soon as others already have. As the rest of the circle likely will

-how often will i see this "hellish black hole"

this little circle of friends spreading, our arms barely stretching to hold on

-how long can it hold

but for now we're here bullshitting a night a way and in the end that's all that matters

-i guess

#up #friendship #town #growing #over #small #far

Jack Gladstone Aug 2014

You're my Second Liver Half

i doubt you know how much you mean to me.
If you did you'd be too creeped out to still be dating me.
But to me, you mean the world.
Not the "i'm nothing without you" kind, as I am a valid human being.
Not the "i can't go on if you leave" kind either as i know i could.
But i would really rather not.
Nor could i happily.
You're my world in the way that you make me a better person.
You are why i stay healthy when all i have is a cold.
You're why i drive safe and limit the stupid angsty **** i do
(believe it or not it is limited).
You're a good influence.
You're everything i wish i was and all that beachy *******.
But you're so much more.
When i am lost you're my guide
(rife with dat symbolism)
needed more after i got GPS oddly.
When i can't think you're my muse.
You're my companion in this world whether you realize that or not.
The hotter, smarter, funnier,
more responsible, more beautiful half of me.
A liver half is enough to live but to live well it is best for a full one.
To continue this bad metaphor i am living well.

#love #symbolism #liver