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185 · Jan 2019
Ladies
Jamison Bell Jan 2019
I long to get drunk off you
Before my lips dry and curl
In spite of the sun and the moon
Pour yourself out before me
To know you, to see you
For who are and who you’re not
You are a balm to a soul
A smile like that of honey on the tongue
Let me buy your demons a drink
And we’ll toast what is you
Lapping at your pheromone trails
Until sight escapes us
And we collapse alongside those who have fallen before us
In your wake
185 · Sep 2018
Only Then
Jamison Bell Sep 2018
I’ve written over a thousand poems.
I’ll probably write a few more.
Maybe I’ll stop tomorrow. Or maybe never.
I’ll write a letter to Death and ask her for more ink.
If she tells me to use my own.
Then I’ll write shorter poems.
But I’ll never stop.
Not until one of those poems hits its mark. And her heart weeps out of joy.
Not until it’s so beautiful that she cradles it like the starlight in her eyes.
Then and only then.
When she realizes just how much she means to me.
Will I ask her to do **** stuff.
Jamison Bell Dec 2018
Show me your star, the one you look for
When the clouds have parted but for a moment
In which direction do you look
Is it to the west
Should I stand before the setting sun
Does your star dance on the velvet lights to the north
The darkness is familiar enough to me to wait for you there
The southern seas off the coasts of Latin
I could write you poetry in the sand
For now though my beautiful one
Look to the east
Where I can tell the sun where to find you
Jamison Bell May 2019
There are those who’ll tell you you are a sunset made flesh
Made of fire
They’ll tell you that you are wrought from their dreams
And how it is you turn them inside out
With that look of yours
Some would die for you they’ll say
They’ll compare you to the goddesses of stories old
I can’t do any of that
Because I’ve never known anyone like you
From where I stand
There is no comparison
And as far as what I’d do for you
Well
I can tell you I love you
That I’ll always love you
Jamison Bell Sep 2021
You’re standing in line to get a coffee
and some lady is speaking Spanish.
You can’t believe your ears as you order your favorite danish.
You whirl around with all the fury of a cat five hurricane
Because suddenly everyone should witness your obvious disdain
“This right here is America and in America we speak English
I should know, I’m from here, I’m a cunning linguist”
You throw a fit and yell at her as if you’re so entitled
Unleashing your opposing views your hatred is unbridled
But here’s a lil secret of which I’m sure you’re unaware
You could drop down dead right then and not a single soul would care
We’re just going to step right over you while you lay there huffin
Honestly I don’t care
I just want my ****** muffin
So you go on about your tantrum about how nothing's ever fair
I’ll just go to where you aren’t  and I’ll be over there
Jamison Bell Sep 2017
Light me a fire and tell me your sorrow.
I promise my friend I'll be here tomorrow.

Speak of your pain and tell me what ails you.
Speak of your worries and what entails you.

Show me your scars your wounds that haunt you.
My ears are yours, I'm not here to taunt you.

It's not that I care or that I'm empathic.
If my trust you seek your story be tragic.

Suffering takes courage and its courage I trust.
If you want my hand, it's courage or bust.
Jamison Bell Nov 2018
Cut your tongue on my apathy and paint me a picture of your woes.
Make the contrast sharp, so that I understand.
Don’t go muddying up the image with intricacies, get to the point.
We don’t want any misconstruing.
Untie the tongue of your callousness. I’m sure she’s got plenty to say.
If I’m going to bleed for you, I’m going to need you to lick my wounds.
Because the stars are starting to fade again and tomorrow just won’t mean much if you’re not here.
182 · Nov 2018
Hands down
Jamison Bell Nov 2018
I can’t reach for you
It hurts to think about the last time I reached for someone
That should bring you comfort
To know that should you ever reach for me
My hands are empty
Jamison Bell Apr 2019
If I could have you all in one room
Those of you who’ve died
Those of you who jeered
And those of you who lied
Let’s not forget the martyrs
The hero’s long forgotten
The liars in ommission
The cowards and the rotten
You’ve done your very worst
You never got my best
You were simply never worth it
Never even passed the test
Jamison Bell Jun 2023
I don't trust iguanas. My friend had an iguana. It's name was Joe. Joe used to wink at us while he rubbed himself on the log in his aquarium. So we got Joe a *** doll. A green sock stuffed with cotton *****, we even put goggly eyes on it. Joe was not displeased. I kinda felt bad for the sock though. We'd made the mistake of naming it. Joe defiled her. Molested the sock. Then propped it up against the wall of the aquarium and made it watch as he got it on with the log. Poor sock, it was too young. We considered saving sock but Joes DNA was no doubt all over it. We laughed, we cried. That was a long time ago.
My friend recently told me Joe had passed on, a plate of flies. He was a vegan now. Until yesterday, when Joe died. Be cause iguanas aren't vegans. Anyway.
You wanna take your clothes off while I go clean the pommel horse?
180 · Jul 2019
If you ask me.
Jamison Bell Sep 2017
I never claimed to be witty, handsome, clever, or smart.
A wandering nomad of nothingness.
Another broken heart.
179 · Jun 2016
Moments in time
Jamison Bell Jun 2016
I've seen you.
One time you were seated on a bus. In the back to be more precise. You had your headphones on and you were reading. You were a little nervous. Maybe it was your first time on public transportation. Maybe it was your destination.
You had long black hair. It looked to me like black water, flowing out of the top of your head and tracing its way down to your shoulders. You'd smile occasionally and I'd hope that it wasn't something you were reading. I imagined instead you were thinking of someone. Because it appeared to be one of those smiles that occurs when someone fondly remembers something.
We both got off at the same stop and you asked me where Elm street was. The warmth you exuded at that moment set me at ease. I told you and you thanked me. I watched you walk away. I wanted to follow you. For my own selfish reason. So that I could go on about my day knowing you were ok.
I still think about you.

You on the other hand. You were my only friend in a strange place. I don't know why. I don't know how. We just paired up for reasons mysterious in nature. You were stunningly beautiful. If I had to describe you in the most apt manner I could. Unrealistically beautiful. But there you were.
We walked for hours. We discussed philosophy, relationships, people, love, and candles. There were just so many candles. You told me of your dream to race the Iditarod because it would be something no one would expect of you.
When we at last arrived at the end of our journey, you kissed me. Then you said "thank you for being here" and you left. Like a **** in the wind you stunk up my dreary ****** life with your beauty, sense of humor, and kindness but for a moment in time.
I've never forgotten you either.

Then there was you.
Everytime I see you my heart breaks because it knows it'll have to say goodbye to you. I've cursed the day I met you a thousand times everyday since. It seems only Anubis carries the balm that could sooth my heart.
Your laughter is my favorite song. You're artistic in motion and a melody by nature. In just knowing you, one is happy. because in knowing you one can imagine a world brighter. Void of darkness wherein hope springs eternal.
And though to you I am but another page. Full of words with no stock value. Looked upon only to feed a gluttonous urge.
179 · May 2017
Hate me
Jamison Bell May 2017
Tell me you hate me.
If you're not going to touch me.
If you want to stand over there.
Say it.
Tell me you hate me.
Let it out.
I'm not here to kid myself.
I'm not here to contend with me.
That's been done.
Now say it.
Tell me you hate me and let's be done with it.
It's been for too long for I.
And yet I have a nights ride ahead.
Before I finish this drink.
Let me hear it.
If it were ever needed to be said.
If but for the sake of one time.
Just say it.
Tell me you hate me.
So that I know you once loved me.
Jamison Bell Oct 2017
I can't be to you what you are to me
I can't be the moon, the sun, or the sea
I will be when needed, your knight for a day
Knowing full well you won't ask me to stay
A few caring words and perhaps a good deed
I'm good for a spell but I'm not what you need
I love you my dear this need not be said
Close your eyes my love I'm already dead
179 · May 2016
The Field
Jamison Bell May 2016
The names I have acquired from those I hold most dear.
Some are quite obscure, while some are crystal clear.

A ****, a liar, and a  hypocrite just to name a few.
I suppose I'm not so good at picking up the que.

I once wandered to a field where I thought I would find peace.
Where the voices that weigh so heavily would finally come to cease.

I stood out there all alone and while the sun massaged my back.
It was then and there I guess, where I first saw the crack.

My illusions I guess they suffered too underneath the strain.
Unable to bear the weight of going against the grain.

Regrettably I stepped up and put my eye up to the crack.
What lies beyond my illusions? In what there do I lack?

A fallacy in my logic weeping there upon a ledge.
Inching closer to the fall, toes curled over the edge.

I said nothing just braced myself for I knew it had to be.
Another point of reference in what I was to see.

This fallacy is that I am of someone worth a thought.
That you would stop and think of me, an idea I had bought.

When in fact there it stood, the truth that caused the break.
Shining through the illusion, like the sun upon a lake.

Now you would think I'd spackle this and simply walk away.
But if I'm to be reminded I must leave it for today.

To come back to this illusion and be reminded of the truth.
That my presence matters not, is no mystery for a sleuth.

Today I had many plans, all of them fell through.
From going to a party to hanging out with you.

I suppose I'll go back to that field and gaze into the sun.
Where the silence follows me and the imagination runs.
Jamison Bell Sep 2017
Did you know that inconsequentialism is a word? I think it's self explanatory in definition. I didn't even know it was a word or give its origin much thought. Until this morning. The word and the question just appeared in thought.
Much like you. Except that. In as much as I wish you are. You will never be a inconsequentialism to me.
Jamison Bell Jun 2023
I remember the moss. It looked like a worn out dried up mop. Silhouetted against the moon in a puddle of rainwater in the parking lot. I wandered the celestial remnants of history. Running my fingers through starlight just to feel the photons slip over my palm. I thought about those times, the people, and the places. Bytes upon bytes of useless data. I understood in that moment. As the smell of raspberries filled the room. That I alone can't even determine my own significance to the universe. Whether or not I served a purpose will forever be a mystery to me.
I thought of you. I didn't smile.
Then the timer went off on my toaster and my pop tarts were ready.
Oh well.
178 · Jun 2019
empty bucket
Jamison Bell Jun 2019
Love is a halfwit
A fool that tears out of the gate
Running towards a setting sun
Hoping to hold a light that can’t be held
Left to fumble around in the dark
Like blind cat in a room full of rocking chairs
While we as drunken losses
Intoxicated by an ideology
Just smile and rock
178 · Mar 2019
Austerity
Jamison Bell Mar 2019
You wanna hear a joke
As I stand here
Smiling
Playing the role
It feels like there’s a spear
In my heart
It pulls and it hurts
I only want to lie down
Whisper my last secret
And go to sleep
That’s all I’m thinking
Right now
But no
I get it
You care as much about I as I do you
Which is just the way it is
So fine
Here’s your ****** joke
Burn victims tend to stick together
178 · Jan 2022
Never mattered
Jamison Bell Jan 2022
I’ve read about it.
Seen it in the movies.
Watched other people experience it.
Somehow
I got left out.
They told me I would.
They said it was because I could never matter.
I thought about that for a long time.
While other kids were playing.
I was walking around wondering.
Why?
For a while there I thought that surely someone would come along.
A person to whom my existence would mean something.
Instead I got the four horsemen.
To whom I loved as deeply as I could.
I raged hard against the tides that sought to hold me back.
To prove myself worthy.
In the end.
No matter what I did, I was still of no matter.
I watched from the gutter as the four them made their ways.
My days are closing in on me.
I’ve isolated myself.
I know now I’ll never know how.
Or why.
So I’ve gone from wondering to wandering.
Up and down the cavernous halls of my thoughts.
I still have questions.
That can’t be answered.
Idiotic, insipid, nonsensical, cringeworthy questions.
What is it like to be loved? To be wanted around? To be desired? To be cared for?
To matter?
Someone once told me.
“It’s like feeling the sun on your skin, even when it’s raining.”
I’ve been cold for so long.
I didn’t even know being warm was an option.
Jamison Bell Oct 2017
On a cold hallowed night on the outskirts of town.
When the mist settles thick on that hollowed ground.
Not much happens it’s really quite boring.
It’s a wonder by now that you’re not snoring.
But through the woods into the valley below.
Next to the willow where the lavenders grow.
You’ll find a crypt of something so vile.
It looks of death and reeks of bile.
It’s a skull and crossbones pirate hat.
I got drunk last night and I puked in that.
I threw it in the crypt cause why the **** not.
It’s not something I want it’s just something I got.
Now if you want to know about that house on the hill.
Does blood pour from the walls and onto the sill?
A child eating demon they say lives up there.
It’s in the clause, buyer beware.
Her name is Charolette and she has eight legs.
She ate all her children. The Bobs and the Pegs.
But I think she was killed by a chick with a broom.
They say it happened in the dining room.
To this very night if the winds should stand still.
And you listen closely to the house on the hill.
You may hear the sounds of children dying.
Running and screaming, it’s terrifying.
Those thousands of spiders just been born.
To their mothers will and her hunger scorn.
I know. I failed. I’m just not a good writer.
But I smoke a lot of *** so I do have a lighter.
178 · Oct 2018
Dr Suess sucks
Jamison Bell Oct 2018
You are you and yeah that’s true.
So tell me Suess, what did you do?
Oh that’s right, you broke her heart.
That of your wife’s, you tore it apart.
You had an affair, while she lay dying.
Was it weird having ***, with her in there crying?
Don’t give me your ****, you lyrical hack.
Take your green eggs and your ****** Whos back.
178 · Jun 2017
There's no balm here!
Jamison Bell Jun 2017
Love it seems.
Is finding that one tortured soul.
Who's frequency aligns with yours.
And although you see the pain others suffer.
You single out this one person as the one you want to save.
The one for whom you'd give your life if it meant that they would not have to suffer anymore.
And they in turn for you.
Thus cancelling out each others pain.
Only to exist through each others bliss.

Says one who is unsure as to whether or not he's ever been loved.
(sips whiskey, lights up cigarette, and curses the moon)
177 · Sep 2017
My best advice
Jamison Bell Sep 2017
You want to be happy?
Stay dumb.
Don't inquire, don't learn, don't be curious.
Grow numb, stay dumb.
Once you know otherwise.
You can't go back.
And it *****.
The ultimate key to happiness. The secret they won't tell you.
Is to stay as dumb as **** for as long as you can.
Jamison Bell Jul 2017
Before you go a pondering, on those things that come to pass.
Remember, you're not Alice and this ain't the looking glass.

Now let me tell you something before you go a hittin that lil bottle.
I sure as **** ain't Socrates and you're not Aristotle.

But for you to think that you have discovered something new.
To relish in your narcissistic belief you have a clue?

Well that right there just proves my point, you ain't discovered ****.
Now crawl back up on your mommas lap and get back on that ***.
By reading this poem you (the reader) hereby forfeit any and all rights to bear arms. If you have a pair of bear arms. We request you return them to your nearest armless bear. Honestly, what is wrong with you.
176 · Oct 2018
You wanna read a joke?
Jamison Bell Oct 2018
Three dogs walk into a bar one day.
The oldest one says “I’ll go up and pay.”
“Excuse me sir, may I have three beers?”
The bartender can’t believe her ears.
“******* a talking dog! Let my customers get out their phones.”
“Yeah my name’s Huey I chase cars, **** old socks, and bury bones.”
The bartender gives Huey his three cold suds.
The second dog offers the next round for his buds.
“Hey lady you think can I get three more?”
She waddles over, feet all sore.
“*******, you know the other dog who talks?”
“Yeah my name’s Duey I chase cars, I **** old socks.
Can I get three beers if it’s not much trouble?”
“Of course good boi on the double.”
The third dogs turn he goes up to buy.
She toddles over she’s thinking she’ll try.
“Lemme guess, your name’s Luey, and you chase the mailman away?”
“No, it’s Old Socks and I’ve had a bad ****** day.”
Jamison Bell Jun 2017
45 years just wasted
Not a **** thing to be shown
Wandered in on a whisper
Leaving with a groan

No wife, no house, no savings
No love to write about
Nothing ever ventured
No hope but lots of doubt

Heed this little warning
Lest you end up where I lie
Find and hold your love
Long before you die

I go now to the shadows
For I never had the light
Soon to be forgotten
Cause to live I had no right
175 · Nov 2018
You were there
Jamison Bell Nov 2018
I like the idea of sitting in the car in the pouring rain listening to J Geils and smoking cigarettes
I just want to swim in you before your waters turn cold and cast me out
You’re a destroyer of dreams and a tempest of nightmares, a beautiful disaster
Sent to cure me of you, I was never really sure if you existed. And there you go again
White caps and dump ducks speckle the horizon against the slurry grey sky
I want to ask you about that thing you said but I know you don’t want to talk about it
So I’ll just wander the fields of my home and look for that dream I was sure I had
Where we were in a car in the pouring rain listening to J Geils and smoking cigarettes
175 · Jun 2017
Here today
Jamison Bell Jun 2017
If I were to expect anyone to miss me as much as I'll miss me.
I can expect no mourners.
Jamison Bell Jul 2019
I don’t know who I was when
In relation
To who I am now
Whoever it was
Whatever their manners be
I know for certain
They never stopped writing
Because
No matter how hard I try
I can’t stop writing
It’s my mistress
Sure she’s reliable
Reliably psychotic
It’s like trying **** for the first on a dingy in a maelstrom
I’m guessing there
Either way, it’s just a compulsion I can’t stray from
Like her
The storms muse
Jamison Bell Feb 2023
I get a kick out of asking you questions.
It’s fun to watch you answer them.
Because you want to answer honestly.
And I’m smiling.
Because neither my questions nor your answers, matter.
It’s like asking space how far it goes.
It/you could lie to me.
It’s not like I’m ever going to know the truth.
174 · Oct 2018
Well? Is it in?
Jamison Bell Oct 2018
How odd it is to be
That you would see in me
A reason to be
When all I see
Is you
174 · Oct 2017
Poltergeist kisses
Jamison Bell Oct 2017
I went away
One fine day
To find you
Never there
''Twas a dream
It would seem
To think
That you would care
174 · Oct 2018
It’s almost over
Jamison Bell Oct 2018
I’d like to think it’d mean something. That you’d stop and think about that time I made you laugh. Perhaps you’d consider something I said with a little more importance. On just how amazing you are. And how it is you are a light.
You won’t though.
Because I never mattered enough for those things to be regarded with any credibility.
My passing will have no more affect on anything than my living does now.
So it makes no difference.
173 · Jun 2017
Eat it raw!
Jamison Bell Jun 2017
There was smoke in my eyes.
I gathered too much moss.
The sun was in my eyes.
I couldn't hear you over the music.
There was traffic because of an accident.
I overslept.
I've only got two hands.
I didn't know what to say.
Can I try again?
At life.
I promise I won't **** it up,
again.
173 · Aug 2017
Donkey shit?
Jamison Bell Aug 2017
It's an existential crisis a spiral in reverse a constant constitution a long outdated curse a perpetual delusion a melancholic sigh I've come to the conclusion that I've never been so high.
173 · Oct 2018
My cat controls the weather
Jamison Bell Oct 2018
They’re going to call me an indigent, it’ll say so on the tag.
If you want to read the c.o.d., before they zip up the bag.
I’ll lie in a freezer for a good eight days, then it’ll be the furnace.
Was life supposed to end like this, why didn’t somebody warn us?
If nobody comes to claim the body, the ashes will go in the trash.
That’s what happens when you die alone and with very little cash.
Jamison Bell Feb 2022
Somebody once wondered why happiness was so fleeting. Until someone else pushed them off a bridge because they wouldn’t shut up about it.

It left me thinking. I put down the Chihuahua I was punching and began to wonder silently to myself. Perhaps that person was onto something.

Perhaps happiness is fleeting so as to be appreciated more when it happens. Like a sunset after a thunderstorm or a ******* from a ***** hobo.

Could perpetual happiness survive the world we live in amidst the ruin of so many? Doubtful save for the ignorant and that ***** ******* giving hobo.

I think, sometimes. That there is a genuine happiness to be found in balance. That soft spot between the sheets of safety and security. But not the wet spot.

It’s all a derivative of the choices we make and the sacrifices we endure. This ideology of happiness is obtainable. Just probably not for you because you ****.
172 · May 2017
My Regret
Jamison Bell May 2017
I'm broken.
Like so many others.
Cracked in the *** and a fractured mind.
Frustration so pungent I can taste it.
She's looked me in the eyes.
With all the conviction of a hurricane.
Like the others before her.
So badly I want to think those words to be true.
I can't. I don't know how.
I'm going soon.
And although I hold no sorrow for my fate.
I do wish if any were to be had.
That I could.
To revel in the knowing just once.
Like the prisoner set free from solitary for that one hour.
To soak his face at the feet of the sun.
To know, to think, perhaps even to believe.
That her love won't turn grey.
Unconditional by nature.
I'm going to wish I had one day.
More so than I do today.
172 · Sep 2021
Unto myself nothing
Jamison Bell Sep 2021
My memories haunt me
Whether by sleep
Or light of day
Relentlessly they pursue me
Clawing at the fabric of my reality
Gnawing at my will
I feel little at this point
I’ve bled out all that I love
I’ve been told
I should forgive myself
That I need not suffer anymore
Damnation my salvation
Jamison Bell Oct 2019
To be honest
It’s ****** twisted
The things I listed
The reasons why
I love you

Though to lie
I’m ****** wrecked
When left unchecked
The reasons why
I hate you
Jamison Bell Oct 2017
As intangible as winters breath and greeted likewise.
I peer through the windows of this vessel I feel cursed with.
My world is awash with colors dull and faded.
The sounds that accompany the things I see are harsh and shrill.
I close the lids and shrink back into recesses of my mind.
It’s dark and cold amongst the ruins of my dreams.
Wandering about, visiting those things said but abandoned.
I trace my fingers over the boxes of the memories of things that never happened.
It seems they were only wishes after all.
Reluctantly I rest my eyes upon a faint shimmer of amber light that has managed to sneak past my hopelessness.
I listen to it’s kind words and in its careless brevity I take false comfort.
The tall grass pulls me down and I lie amongst the bones of the things I love.
Pulling towards me an old skull from the days of my exasperating and careless youth.
I rest my head upon it’s brow.
The amber flame cold to my touch takes leave of me.
Returns to her love to dance in the arms of the night.
So I wait for nothing.
And as always.
It returns.
Jamison Bell Jun 2023
Thank you for the drink young lady. Though I would be remiss. If I were to take my leave of you without suggesting this. It may not be my place or it could be why I'm here. I suppose it doesn't matter. So I'll make this short and clear.
Some things were said, some were not and perhaps we both share some regret. So let's remember what it was lest we bother to forget.
Jamison Bell Aug 2017
I'm not sure what I came here for.
Are the likes and views for keeping score?
Am I here to appease the masses?
To see if they'll toast me and clink their glasses?

Perhaps I'm here just for me.
If I keep writing perhaps I'll see.
That maybe what you said was true.
That I should write for me and not for you.

The fact is, I don't write for us.
My words aren't even worth the fuss.
They're merely the results of a mysterious need.
A task, an urge, a dastardly deed.

I guess the point I'd like to make.
If even only for point making sake.
I'm not writing for likes or even I.
It's just something to do until I die.
When I was three I broke my grandmothers hip. True story. Never told anyone that.
170 · Jan 2019
I was an ugly baby
Jamison Bell Jan 2019
If I were the king for but a day
I’d tell the knights to hurry
To rally behind my bannermen
As their squires squeak and scurry

We’re not going for the dragon
For he’s done nothing wrong
He took some cattle I don’t care
We’re not fighting for that song

The song they’ll sing for us my men
Will be sung for a thousand years
It’ll echo throughout great halls
And bring the strongest of them tears

Our ships will cut through the seas
Our shields broad and strong
Our horses are all well kept
Our spears, sharp and long

We’ll **** on every mountain
Our **** will raise the seas
We’ll tread the soul of every thing
That would bring Gaia to her knees

And when our names are uttered
Through the quivering lips of cowards
And the winds carry our names
To the ears of those in towers

They’ll sow their hands in vain
Wringing for a savior
They’ll try to buy us off
They’ll display their worst behavior

As your king I command you
Set alight these soulless pillars
These temples to depravity
These ****** and these killers

Pour their gold into the streets
Let the paupers get their share
Take only with you what you need
Leave the excess where you care

Let us start anew
As my reign comes to an end
Remember here what happened
And write of that my friend
Jamison Bell Dec 2022
I’m sitting in this huge theater.
Looking at this enormous picture.
It’s so big you’d think you were looking at the past, the present, and the future all at once.
You don’t need a ticket.
You can just come in and sit down.
I’d love to talk to you about it.
I know you won’t.
Come in.
I’ve been here for a long time.
Nobody ever sits down.
I guess they don’t see it.
169 · Sep 2017
The Devil stopped by.
Jamison Bell Sep 2017
I was wondering just what it is that keeps me up at night.
When I could be deep in slumber and walking towards the light.
I asked my cat just sitting there, looking dumb but wise.
She licked her paw, wiped her face, and slowly blinked her eyes.
Staring deep into the night and there I thought I heard a sound.
Not a call, not a song, but it moved along the ground.
"Who goes there?" Who says that? This isn't 1542.
"It's just the Devil passing by. What might I do for you?"
"Devil. Ma'am. Might I wonder just why we're made to suffer?"
"And might I add, please don't answer "it's meant to make us tougher""
She lit a cigarette off her finger and performed a little curtsy.
"So let me guess. You got to thinking that it is I who has hurt thee?"
"Listen here you wayward lad. One who suffers of his will.
It isn't I who hath poisoned you. It isn't I who made you ill.
You suffer cause your human and you only want to love.
This curse you carry with you was cast by him above."
She then licked her crimson lips and gazed off toward the east.
She set out to slay the sun, for to her, it is the beast.
I finished off my whiskey and then I made my way to bed.
The sight of her eyes, those deep green eyes. Residing in my head.
Jamison Bell Jun 2017
Have you suffered?
I mean drunk in the rain at two in the morning crying because you haven't eaten in four days and you can't find your dog since you left the door open in the intoxicated hopes that she would come walking back into your life and tell you that you aren't as crazy as you think you are?
A physical pain so agonizing you start scanning the room for tools to aid you in taking your own life but you lack the strength to get up so you start shredding a pillowcase into strands to tie around the doorknob but it rips.
A loss so profound it's as if a boulder has been placed on your chest so that your arms could be ripped off more easily to keep you from trying to hold onto semblance of life from that point on, that could compare to how it was before you lost that person but in reality you don't care because the light has been ****** from your life and you know that your days will never get any brighter than they are right now?
A betrayal? Someone you coveted above everything else in your life just curb stomping everything you had held so close for so long you assumed it was indestructible? A cut to the very core of something you had long held to be something of quality, value, and longevity?
I need to know you suffer.
168 · Jul 2017
Shhhh hold still
Jamison Bell Jul 2017
I could tell you you're  pretty and buy you a dinner.
You could tell me I'm funny but wish I was thinner.

We could talk about feelings, closets, and fish.
We'll walk by the fountain and each make a wish.

Your wish came true and I lost twelve stones.
And so I wished, to make a cage of your bones.

I brought the cage home so I could set it aside.
Then I took out my heart and locked it inside.

And there by the moon it sits on my sill.
And there by the moon it resides there still.
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