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Joey Dec 2014
A memory of you waddled onto the shores of my mind
flipping in the foamy waves that wash along my thoughts
I picked you up and examined your scales the touch of your floundering fins
I inhaled your scent and savored your taste
but I'm remembering now how the pain of you feels
underneath your scales are spikes that ***** my heart
so I took one last look one last smell one last taste
and threw you back into the ocean to float far away.
Joey Jan 2017
When I dreamt of you, you were petals on my eyelids
citrus mist in bursts of juices running down my jaw
I lapped your murky mixtures from the frothy brim
planting puckered pressures to your wiry grin
you were melted nectar, sticky sap on my palm
and in rising clouds of warm morning tea I found calm
Joey Dec 2014
eating the sludgy contents
of your beautiful mind's conscience
and dreaming in your thoughts
while choking on blood clots
slurping up tangled tendons
drowning in remembrance
tales of your history
have now become a meal for me
digested in your calculations
I am finally free of my frustration.
Joey Dec 2014
Amazon tribes looked through forested twine
to catch me with sharp sea creature needles
streaming through air currents to soak into my behind
and they brought me back to be one of their people

gold leopard spreads paw fingers to scratch the earth
and green twisted vine latches rock to wood
I have danced with fish among the surf
in mountainous shadows have I stood

weather so damp you breathe inside out
feet have become greedy eyes drinking the ground
salty skin seems to constantly pout
I am technically captive but feeling unwound.
Joey Nov 2014
I am told to behave not to wander not to rave
but there are things that need doing
that I will do until the grave
there are things that need looking at
inspection and whether this or that
there are designs that need describing
like the shining eyes of a cat
I used to not like it when my feet would get muddy
drudging through green river waters catching bugs on a Sunday
burdened by jars filled with scraping specimen
for magnified study and pins they are destined
mathematical computations abound in night winds
hiding beneath beds and in attics all of my sins.
Joey Dec 2014
You cannot deny me your breath
the warmth I feel on my face and neck
I will die and melt
into the floorboard as a speck
a fleck, picked off by a flea
from me, your heart must not go
it guides my every decision
I mold myself
from your footsteps
the imprint in sifting sand you create with your feet
you cannot deny me your flesh
or this body I occupy will
crumble down folding in on itself
decrepitated it will lay
deflated on the ground
you cannot deny me your eyes
they scream to my ears
and keep me awake
else I sleep through the rest of my life
eyes open but nothing inside.
Joey Dec 2014
I've walked through spears of
dripping warmth
and spiked pain
but in finding you here
I have become sturdy
and insane
you melt my mind
and freeze my skin
and explode all of the ideas
I've been pondering.
Joey Dec 2014
Shaded trees
please cover me
twine and vine have
started unwinding
my limbs are hanging
they wax
they are waning
and you won't stop
I'm still complaining
you tempted me into branches so thick
their fingers dipped in sap do stick
to my sagging thoughts
my leadened mind
I just want your gaze
my worries to bind
want my moods it to raise
and my secrets to find.
Joey Dec 2014
Little lady luck
bug crawls up and
stuck, I try to save her
reach for her gently
but too strong and maybe
I should've gone slower
now she is dead
and my heart it has lowered
fix her a nice bed
of dirt
and fill it with leafs
she will sleep long
though her life was so brief
miss her already
though it doesn't matter much
in the long run
but now the popcorn is done
and so back to the movie
pick up and smoke
and now what was I doing?
Joey Dec 2014
Sunset saps my energy
drains me
stumbled through ravines of trees
branches tangled in my mind's eye
and charma always chases me
encases me
in the outer layers of your aura
I found trouble underneath rocks
scattered along the sides of mossy mountains
moths wings beat out to escape
hungry bear claws
grey clouds came in without warning
tied to charging seagull flocks
and you swept me away with them
because you thought it would be fun
but my feet haven't felt ground
in a long while
and now I'm very prone to frown.
Joey Dec 2014
It was a Masquerade, she said: a place we could go to hide. I wasn't in fright of her. I had it all under control. She took me by the hand, softly, that cold summer morning. The confusion that surrounded us allowed us to see more clearly. We were both wearing horse masks, and she whinnied at me so eagerly. The apple tasted bitter, but when I licked her lips, I felt the sugary sweetness of saliva mixed with cake crumbs and wine. We flirted. We sang together. I saw her naked, twice. When she took off her clothes and threw her tights around my head, I couldn't see the flesh she flaunted to the rest of the room. She licked my chin, all the way up to the tip of my mask, lifting it from my skull with her tongue. When her song was sung, I wallowed in pity and doubt. Her father chased me from the balcony. I climbed faster than he and escaped with my life, barely. The walk through the mangrove was dusty, and spiders kept climbing down my back, spinning their threads along my spine. I contemplated my mirage in the rippling waters before taking the final steps into my doorway. Looking up, greeted by elephants, tigers, peacocks and pigs. They strangled me with their elixirs, and we danced with the moon until our legs abandoned us.
Joey Nov 2014
I trailed you from where the dancing silver touches the hiding grass
and the meadow larks sing keeping guard
to the meeting place of burning light and shaded arm
behind spidery webs twitching twigs did I wait
inching closer with every breath
your liquid moving could I smell
sweat drenching fur
blood pumping skin
my mouth dripped with tang
muscles itched with fire
to your neck did I leap
gripping hard my eyes rolled up
into sky finally my muscles calmed
my spit turned to acid melting your hide
and I let you drop slowly to the earthen floor
where I devoured your body and you were no more.
Joey Nov 2014
I let the drops fall through my
fingers, intertwined
their moisture lingers
I ruffled the strands of hair
that sprout from your scalp
I dared to caress your arm
but you drew it away from me
and now I feel blindly, without
a path to touch with my toes
there arose
a great time, in my
mind
when I went looking for you in
sunshine
but the weather grew grey
I'm alone, sometimes
and afraid
please try to stay
away.
Joey Jan 2017
something opens
when I’m with you
in this moment
sign and sinew
alien abduction
euphoric seizure
standing up suddenly
after hours of leisure
You
Joey Dec 2014
You
Sometimes I'll sit in a chair
or walk through a room
that you've also sat in
or walked through
just because the idea that
the ghost of your presence
is sharing a space with the reality of mine
sets me free and captivates me
all at the same time.
Joey Dec 2014
Tension coils around
struggling sinews of muscles
strain to break free
resist
the oncoming panic
beads of sweat
drip down an already burning forehead
body flinches from ******
needles upon the skin
tanned and burning
starving for air
and reprieve
you are leaving me
and the fear
has crawled it's way through
the back of my mind
can only think of you
and perpetuate this fear
climbing up my spine
and into my every thought
is the disease of your imminent absence
going to **** me
suffocating on the thin air
that refuses to enter my lungs
gasping and immobile
I ponder your body
I rest my thoughts upon your neck
and breathe in your sweet scent
never again
will I melt into your green eyes
that calm every worry in my soul
your life is a mountain
swept into the sea by words
commanding me to collapse
to relinquish it all
would be to finally rest
the raucous vibrations of my thoughts
plague my mind daily with their evil
preventing me from being close to you
to stand alongside you
to share the same earth
I would do anything
to be your shadow
the paranoia hammers down
my casket
is sealed tight as
my fate
has been written long ago
I have been destined to despair
the life I live
you are leaving me.

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