no direction, dressed in distress
suppressed by excess of regret
expected infection, hard to digest
a left mess that's best to forget

projected wreck is yet to accept
object of the reflected effect
where defective breath has wept
i rest in the echo of my neglect

it's not that special

what i do

because all i do

is put down

words

that sound cool:

nacreous

adulation

effervescence

narcissistic

imbrogli­o

divine

haphazard



there's no rhythm

in what i say

all i'm doing

is breaking

lines

and adding

s p a c e s



sometimes

(yes, sometimes)

i put my words

(in these)

in things we call parentheses

and sometimes

(yes, sometimes)

i repeat myself

and call it

emphasis

(emphasis)



on occasion

I might rhyme

but that takes thought

and that takes time

cat, hat, bat

late, hate, date

fat, gnat, mat

mate, fate, eight



sometimes syllables

can help your flow sound better

much like a haiku



if i talk about angst

death, love, and self-hate

(cliche topics)

it's deep

but my favorite

poem i ever

wrote

was about bacon



and god forbid

i capitalize

because that would mean

it didn't look artsy

THIS IS NOT OKAY

Neither is this.

no punctuation

at all



people say my poetry

is beautiful

that I follow all the rules

but I didn't know there

were rules

to follow

really all I do

is put random words

random phrases

in random patterns

and call it art

I ask, "How are you?"

You ask, "I thought you knew?"

I grin, "I have a surprise."

You grin, "Is waiting wise?"

I state, "Have patience, my dear."

You state, "No patience, I fear."

I joke, "Let's be together."

You joke, "It'd be my pleasure."

I smirk, "We're different, and you are something."

You smirk, "We're brilliant, and how very touching."

I laugh, "You're distracting me."

You laugh, "Do you want me to leave?"

I reply, "Don't go."

You reply, "I know."

I smile, "I'd do anything for you."

You smile, "I don't think that's entirely true."

I stand, "Let's speak."

You stand, "How bleak."

I swallow, "I have something to say."

You swallow, "Is everything okay?"

I bite, “Lately, I’ve been craving you more.”

You bite, “How come you’ve never told me before?”

I say, "I'm blind to you, you're blind to me."

You say, "Or do we just refuse to see?"

I warn, "My head isn't on straight."

You warn, "That's okay, I can wait."

I scoff, "This might hurt."

You scoff, "You're not that sort."

I sigh, "What's love?"

You sigh, "Us, kind of."

I stare, "I'm falling for your eyes, but they don't know me yet."

You stare, "If I opened them, I'd learn, I bet."

I purr, "Be mine."

You purr, "The thought's divine."

I plead, “I want you.”

You plead, “I need you.”

I breathe, “I love you.”

You breathe, “I always knew.”