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Jun 2015 Jimmy King

Okay

Jun 2015 Jimmy King

Lexy

Okay

Rather than looking at the night sky
I love to catch the look of absolute wonder on someone's face,
as they crane their neck to observe the stars.
It's easy to get lost under the speckled blanket of our universe,
but I'm always grounded by the constellations of humanity.
A child's eyes shine brighter than the moon ever could,
and while the Milky Way flows through our veins
somehow I'm reassured by this world's insignificance.
Because here we are, bumping into people on the sidewalk
as we get distracted by dead gas.

#stars #universe #way #strangers #milky #significance #insignifcance #reassured

Jun 2015 Jimmy King

caffeine and unkempt hair

Jun 2015 Jimmy King

David

caffeine and unkempt hair

Couldn’t sleep last night
so I did the next best thing
and quaffed caffeine until
cerebral vasoconstriction
set in
I think
I know I have always been embarrassed to be me
but I guess
if nothing else
Humiliation breeds diffident dissonance humbly so
so foggy up here
a tad bit soggy,
saturated with my diseased anatomical atoms
my dendrites retreating
softening like rotting fruit
so much potential so little actualization
synapses overloaded
with drugs
that I didn’t know

Like the lone tree in the farthest forrest
dendritic pestilence is high and corrosive
I’m high and corrosive
and
I sigh for the lovers that never knew I loved them.
I miss the lovers that I never knew I loved.
and
I love the lovers who didn’t don’t and wont love me.

Couldn’t sleep last night
so I did the next best thing
and mirrored the rain until
pillows were
sponges
I think
I know I have always wanted to be caressed slightly
but I guess
if nothing else
creation breeds ****** succulence cunningly so
so sticky down here
a tad bit rickety,
saturated with my diseased anatomical atoms
my elevated coronary coronated erosion
sputters like a misused Porsche
911
so much beauty so little left
arteries caked
with yesterday’s cigarette
that let me let go.

#cigarrettes

Jun 2015 Jimmy King

Gems in Jeopardy

Jun 2015 Jimmy King

David

Gems in Jeopardy

Each raindrop explodes
into millions of tiny oceans
that I can’t see.
As if written in code.
I know of their existence
they mean the world to me
but I wish I could feel and know
without emotion
that one of the millions of oceans
was bigger than the sea

from which the raindrop first appeared
and was lifted upwards just to fall again
again, against all agony an aging raging storm
dropped its first few bombs.
Signalling to the rest it would soon be time
for their own demise,
surmised from the fallen
they form the same sea scenically placed
where we will first meet
they are chastised for their ability to
reconstruct from their own destruction.

I shake in my bed thinking of all the millions of oceans forming over head
and all of the oceans they have been and will be
all the seas they were a part of then
and now that they can’t and won't be

Jun 2015 Jimmy King

Inadequate Inadequacies Inadequately Inscribed, ,described and, imbibed.

Jun 2015 Jimmy King

David

Inadequate Inadequacies Inadequately Inscribed, ,described and, imbibed.

I'm uncomfortable

And always tense
In observational
Desire
From my corner coffee shop
Spot.
Unnoticed,
I see simple embrace
One for which
my body aches.
My body breaks
I realize
I'm alone and
In doing so actualize my own fate.

People are aliens
Foreign and speaking a language which seems eerily
familiar but forgotten
years ago.
It seems I am not getting
better at conversing
just daily Rehearsing
The same rhetoric
Stoic lows
recycled and recited
to a new day, a new ethereal face

Inadequate Inadequacies
Inadequately Inscribed,
,described and, imbibed.

Please, oh Lord,
Let me imbibe
before subscribing
to speak to you, me, every and anyone.

Send Help!
Send Anyone!

A person
to make my lips feel
a little
less caustic.
Casual conversation
by the wayside
I want what I had
Not what I can or could have.
I don’t want love.
I’d rather have a dog to put to sleep
than no dog at all.

#alcohol