JP Mantler

JP Mantler Jul 2015

Cold Spring of my pale stomach
Shivers my spine
Into a lapse of despair
As I die each day

I taste sickness all day
And this Cold Spring
Will never go away
As I try to recover

Cold Spring impaled my stomach
When I came back from warmth
Now I fear, oh fear
The clouds will stay

Sick but hungry
For warmth to return
When will my torture
Recede from Cold Spring

Callous feeling of regret
I have lost my way
Into the melting grounds
Oh, coldness please melt away

Sweet skies may rain
Oh, please rain away my weakness
Wash away the lingering hurt
Oh, please God heal my vessel

To Mach Furnalion with enveloped crumpets.
Circa 2014.

#alternative #machfurnalion

JP Mantler Jul 2015

Fireplace Thoughts

The earthside glistens from rainfall's night
Sun of our God, glimmering daylight

What will we hear today?
What will we see today?

Rippling rivers traverse downstream
The creatures of Nature seldom seen

Plantations growth tame when lost
Only to find what life could cost

*What could we feel today?
What could we be today?

Circa 2012. , written on a cardboard plate.

#aaron

JP Mantler Jul 2015

The Cellar King

He sits in his corner as he cries with his crowbar
Laughs at the wall of his lunacy
He'll never tell a soul where he's been

Makes a cup of tea
The leaves are brewing
The spider in his mug a' spewing

Soul of his body to steep comfort
A wishful cure for the broken and hurt

He's the Cellar-King
And no one knows where he's been
He sings his song and carries on
The lonely Cellar-King

Madness is his legacy
Sanity will break him free
He shakes his head as he goes to bed
And dreams of another love

Morning dew dampen the sheets
His immunity then depletes
His crowbar strikes at the brick of green
It's the Cellar King, a solemn scene

Butko, the man spotted in the Horticulture Basement circa 2013.

#alvinrow #butko

JP Mantler Mar 2015

My Twenty Lines ( 'Cets )

Time isn't wasted with you, my darling
But I'll drag you to be happy
That's not what you want
Tame you like a child, I know my darling
I'm just a selfish brick wall of unheard thoughts

Teach you to be happy, I can't my darling
For moments ago, I felt like I was falling
For moments ago, it felt like I was falling

But now it's very so that we've hit the ground
My sweet girl, what is it you've found

I can make most smile
But you're one of the few
Your mouth doesn't even break
I can't say it's you

Go back to Hawaii if
that is where it all was
Go back to Hawaii
And stay there, in Hawaii
I'll drink down my 'cets
As I think of Hawaii

#5-3-2-4-6

JP Mantler Mar 2015

Venting To A Toaster

If I still make you feel unimportant
Then I'll bang my head a lot harder
Maybe exceed the expectations
Maybe plead for insanity

Do you not feel loved when I hold you in bed?
Too cold under the sheets for the eyes to shutter
You told me it never happened
You told me it never happened

Make me sit in the corner -- in the corner
And whine about life, and yeah, it's life
Another cloudy day where I can't see you
Just show me it all -- show me it all

I'm a stupid, sorry seedling
I'm nothing and you're the World
I'm nothing and you're cloudy and it hurts
I'm stupid and I'm lazy -- I'm sorry, I'm sorry

JP Mantler Mar 2015

Juneholler

It's too much of a threat
It's a constant fret
It ***** my head
It always comes back
(And I laugh)

It drives me to scolding showers
And toilet seat scours
All for me to holler
The name of the new prowler

Recognizable from the rest
You're taking it all away
Killing me day by day
I'll burn any stronghold that stands

I'll make sure all words are clear
To make those red-matter strands
Pull and tear of all your flesh
And of all your gloom

JP Mantler Mar 2015

Two for Two.

Two for two, and it kills you
I'm sorry love, it really kills you
It's rhythm, I tell you
It's rhythm

You're a little snark who barks at the trash
You're a snark and I'm a dumpster
I'm a thesaurus and you're a beauty

Two for two, and it kills you
I'm the glowing monitor holding down the frustration
It'll come back up
And **** you
And it does me good