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Aug 2010 · 772
Wonder
Chaotic Melodic Aug 2010
She dips the treetops
into her silky sable eyes,
lapping the leaves until
they drip indigo flavor
slipping down her cheeks,
reflecting the sky knit
with white freckles
dancing on her tongue
swimming in silver star streams,
sparkling as they fly across
her eyelids,
blinking slowly,
kissing the velvet air,
slithering sweetly through
her misty hair,
begging slippery skin
to slide within
the space between
our eyes, they cross
rivers of broken glass,
shining sharply as they
pierce the steam
we breathe
feathers from our eyelashes,
settling lightly
on the pages
we leave blank
to gaze in wonder.
© Cory McQueen
Aug 2010 · 692
The Last Radio Transmission
Chaotic Melodic Aug 2010
My hands are ******
from raking the needles out of the hay,
but I found you
(although you were a little damaged)

My mind is a flypaper,
catching the sand
that you rub from your eyes
(your self discovery carves a valley in me)

And its OK for you to
let your snot bubbles
pop on my shirt
(I haven’t washed it in a few days anyways)

I don’t mind if you are vulnerable,
your openness is fresh air
my own tar soaked lungs are envious
(They ****** my words into criminals)

My arms are like old covered wagons
Slapping their rusted skeletons
Left to dry in a mountain’s pass
(but they will still give you shelter if you happen to get lost)
© Cory McQueen
Aug 2010 · 879
That Strangling Itch
Chaotic Melodic Aug 2010
As the seats fill up behind me
A familiar prickling
Climbs its way behind my ears
Vines with cracked shells
Coughing up the last vestiges
Of salt water
Nostalgia for the moment before birth
That strangling itch
Where your arms are locked
And kept from scratching
Holding your breath
For fear of knocking the dominos over
One by one
Stolen steel pilgrims flash the streets
Exposing their gears and wires
While your car gets a *******
Oil dripping from the exhaust
Windows sweating
Horns crying out into the night
Closing their eyes
With their hands smothering their faces
Holding their breath
And hoping they die before the crash
© Cory McQueen
Chaotic Melodic Aug 2010
This is for those of you that are hopelessly addicted to deeper meanings...
Where you examine the steps you take in the day under a microscope to see
the cracks scrambling restlessly up your legs to find your weak spot.
Your **** of aroused curiosity can only be stimulated via
lightning struck snowy powders dripping gently down your throat and tickling your brain-stem
until you laugh at the crows poking their heads in your back pockets.
They burn holes in your suicidal tendencies like kids playing with matches
for the first time behind the shed.
When your **** gets hard from the fire burning too close to your retinas and
enflaming the world as you knew it, charred and raining ash on the dead roses
that you planted and forgot to water.
**** them, these pilgrims of anxiety crawling across your arms like
stranded orphans in the desert, where the nearest well is spiked with adrenaline aged in
a dying cactus.
Wow you are dark tonight..
As if the dandelion seeds you set free flew back and tried to choke you.
Where are the heart tickling epiphanies now?
Sitting out on break and blowing cigarette smoke into nearby passing baby strollers?
I am not expecting you to like this.
I am just a deluded witch doctor dissecting your brains and attempting to pry out the tumors.
Like an excommunicated jedi knight using his mind to strike flint together.
The sparks smile and dance like college kids on ecstasy, not quite realizing that they are drowning in the undertoe.
They revel in the nostalgic numbness.
Only an IV of sweet lime juice can sustain such wilted leeches.
When lacking in vitamins, your skin is a papyrus to bury under the nile, and
watch from the hills as kids of 2100 and later search for WiFi to connect their burnt out forebrains to.
Coughing up several old moth eaten sweaters that you stuffed away
when your new girlfriend came over.
We hide our pasts like kilos under the coca cola shipments, and no matter
how far you ride the rails, the rats still nest and chew apart the cables that
keep the whole train locked together.
And why is it that we secrete our secrets in our sweat, and cover it up with
cheap deodorants?
Our catch-phrases mask the stagnant breath of our restless nature.
Humans, the bugs in our systems trying so hard to shout out to us that we don't really exist.
Thoughts as fragile as smoke could never support our weight if we chose to
colonize the moon and dig for diamonds in her eyes.
We may find that our stain-glassed windows keep out most of the light, while
preaching to keep our eyes closed and heads held close to the ground.
The civilized dances we partake are only nervous ticks of robotic
drones drilled on overtime.
And we think that these words useless, like grains of sand to let trickle out of your hands.
Our words mean nothing!
Even though you might have felt something in the last five minutes as these
black scarabs have peeled away at your comprehension.
You paint pictures with only black and blue and expect
fresh tongues to offer you green and purple instead.
But how can you expect anything other than the bruises you beat into the walls.
Like magnets on strike, you expect the world to just "let it go."
But I'm not about to rely on that weaker force to guide us.
The paths of unprecedented unraveling is where we are heading.
Where gravity is so pre-"concious-cocreation" and the last street light alive
will keep on whispering its salty sentiment.
You and I are not so different, although we profess to keep our distance
and fear too long of eye contact, as if a moment of silent connection
triggers the virus warnings and ***** up your downloads.
****..
All I wanted was a light-hearted comedy and all you had stocked up in your
dvd cabinet was a bunch of black and white ***** films.
You said the dark side makes you appreciate the light, but every night i hear
those last beaten breaths, limping across the dark hallway with their fingertips sliding
quietly along the walls.
© 2010 Cory McQueen

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