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May 2016 · 364
Degenerate
JP Mantler May 2016
I realize I'll fall through every hole
Find a new love and **** myself for it
Find a way out but they eat me all up
I eat and I eat; don't get any bigger
Too tiny to be seen by God's mercy
You hung pamphlets all over my room

I'm not cold, I'm not sick
(You have the nerve which berates me)
I'm just doing as best as I can

It's overcast now but I'm not complaining
Helping hands aren't trying to choke me
So don't run away, please don't
My God won't help me but they will
The wrath of poison swallows me whole

I'm not cold, I'm not sick
Just know that I'm actually okay
false evidence appearing real
JP Mantler Apr 2016
a feeling in my head like it was filled with boiling cement and numbing spikes, it's difficult to handle.

I did bad. I hated the pressure. I want to go with a bang: somersault four stories high with a simple plot twist, that I'm a ****-up
just to close myself off from them, it makes me feel so heavy

Lock myself up in the hospital room's deceased smell,
Several strokes and seizures followed by a dying utterance
"We're just here to plant a dark seed for you to rely on"
There's a shock so strong they are choked into hard, stinging tears and I'm left with a struggle of disconnect; I think they are all faking it

Sitting and thinking and thinking, I'm all in my head
This isn't me; I'm just sitting and thinking and thinking
my head is filled with boiling cement and numbing spikes
I'm so ******* disappoint/ing/ed
Apr 2016 · 445
T e l n e x Suicide Dream
JP Mantler Apr 2016
Ugly brute voices whistle into your dog ears
You hear multiple voices; they entice you
You got dead dogs tied to your sandbag post
Let yourself mull over the boredom, you monster
Find a finger in your food; another in your eye
She gave you the worst cry for help  that one
A head watery with waste; full of watery Xanax
Trouble in the fermented paradise of bliss
You resort to the excitement; whatever that is
To cope with the vapidity of everyday life
Foamed cigarette electrical trial and error heir / air
Air roar sky dome sky-by transfers pixel crust
Render the saint-est way of transformation from dysphoria
everyone please do yourself a fav-our and get lost.
Apr 2016 · 474
pornographic.material.
JP Mantler Apr 2016
spoke on the phone with him while  inhaling carbon monoxide fumes.You can't think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Roy's body was waiting for her 50 miles apart. the eyes linger yearn fully for a detached audience. I stand above you wishing I could give you it all because you're nothing. struggle with your expression. my concern is to choke you now until you come
Mar 2016 · 613
Canboro
JP Mantler Mar 2016
I can hear caffeine pills rattling in his pocket, he's got the speed of a jack rabbit,
I drove by my old friend who held a bouquet of flowers, and she's gonna meet up with him and steal the Eiffel tower

I just smile and drive on by

He's been sleepy-eyed, he's sure he's some cartoon, some kind of washed up loony-toon

I scrutinized his silver tie and his shiny tuxedo shoes, I tantalized the neighbour's daughter until I had my chance
Mar 2016 · 355
Spawn
JP Mantler Mar 2016
An orange ball flashes past my closed eyes
Yesterday I drove past my friend's home
Enthralled with the blue and orange jet stream sky
I ran him over with a heartless remark

His leaky mind spawned a precious spark
Everlasting memories and she comes back
I point over and tell him to look behind
It's not even her, toddling down the hall

He turns around back at me
I realize what I've done
In my hands I hold a gun
I bite down and ask him how he's been
He smiles with no expression and says:
13 lines, all of them are for you
I am giving them to you with all the luck I have to give
For you to spawn, aesthetic demon, again you live
Mar 2016 · 309
Disarray
JP Mantler Mar 2016
Trapped in this icy white box
Through a small opening
I see rabbits and seagulls
Stunned by season's verve
I slide down the street
The car pushes my dead weight
I hide; I'm twitching and all
With very little nerve
3/2/2016
Feb 2016 · 313
New Footstool
JP Mantler Feb 2016
She reaches out
You pull back
With open arms
You curl into a ball
She tries to embrace
You roll over her back
She stands still
Waiting to weep

Your the new puppy dog that wants to be loved
She's the old footstool that has your love

You watch it happen all in front of them
You see your older self but he knows you more
You struggle to realize, but you tell the footstool she did a good job
Feb 2016 · 600
Shutdown.
JP Mantler Feb 2016
I'll be sure to shut myself down for you
The silent screen that ****** so loud
I'll be sure to let them all heckle
As I pass on to the next crowd

I can hear their laughter but never their hearts
Because I'm the guilty one that never fights back
I'm the one that should be a miserable ****
Because everything is so happy go lucky

I'm the one shunned from the core of the earth
I'm the one left outside, ****** on like a ****
Jan 2016 · 348
Sterile
JP Mantler Jan 2016
My sweet guardian angel
You have taken her
I know it was you good friend
7-5-7 haiku
JP Mantler Jan 2016
I saw the difference right there
One look and I'm talking to myself
So I ran home away from you

Sedated under condition
Once so loving and free
But then I spoiled it
So I ran home away from you too

Found a match
Caused a spark
Never heard from again
So I ran home away from that as well

I don't know you but I'm scared you'll bite my neck
So I'm just gonna stay right here at home
While the rest of you go to sleep in your pall
homefreematch
Jan 2016 · 346
Italian Lake
JP Mantler Jan 2016
I'm sorry
I won't do that again
I just can't help myself

Overwhelmed with feeling
Warm water filling me up
I release, I try so hard
I won't do that again

Your Nonno is staring at me
You've swam past me and
you've touched me

I release, I try so hard
I will wait until I shower
Where no one can see me
Except for your Nonno
Who will **** me in my sleep
Italy 2010
Jan 2016 · 577
Maybe
JP Mantler Jan 2016
Maybe I'm empathizing a nervousness you don't even have
Maybe I'm scared of who I really am
Maybe I'll just laugh
Dec 2015 · 267
Sleep
JP Mantler Dec 2015
You don't need as much sleep when you're alone

When you're with the person, all you can do is sleep

When you're asleep you don't see how sad it is

You just sleep and hope for the best
Dec 2015 · 460
Head Trauma
JP Mantler Dec 2015
The door creaks open as I cling underneath
The dogs are let back in to warm up
Our sleeping drowns out the fighting
I wake up and you're not there
I'm not myself but I guess I can handle it
You come back later with some guilt
I see you back with some confusing fluff
The head trauma drowns out the fighting
How many times did I hold back
And how many times were your arms held tightly with my restless grip
You ran off to your mind garden, the back way where the neighbours couldn't see you trip in the green house
Why not dance  on the wet road with drivers passing by with ****** lives
We laughed at them once
Who is laughing at us now
The black bird on your messy wall
He knows I never would climb Kilimanjaro
Dec 2015 · 239
Look At It
JP Mantler Dec 2015
It's dancing with the crystals
And I look at you but I don't see you
And then I look the other way
Ahh, look at it
Do you see what it's doing?
Do it again
It's dancing with the crystals
Like look at how--
This is beautiful
(laughs)
It is
Nov 2015 · 437
Lazy Artist
JP Mantler Nov 2015
Lazy artist, shut the **** up
And get back to work
Stop hustling crazy characters in wheelchairs
And stop shattering all that stigma
It's not good for you, and it ain't good for me
Man up and shut up, if you knew any better

Stop hustling sugar cane nose food
And stop shattering your precious dreams
Wake up now, my lazy ******* artist

Go back to the video store and stalk your wanted flicks
Eat up all your karma so you can have a few bits
to spit back out at your enemies
Brush it off and continue on with your life
But remember to come down soon

You took some risks today
Your friends don't want you
But that's okay cause you got a place to be
On all fours, you can crash gently on your own
Nov 2015 · 298
Monologue
JP Mantler Nov 2015
I should have paid more attention to you. I'm just a stupid slob. And though you look good, I tell you they look good. You got new glasses. So I just now realized that I've told the bunch from the two, many times in the past: between "you look good" and "they look good." What good is it that I will make any difference now by saying: "You look good."  I ****** it all up. I was deviant with you and I was careless when it came to present love. And I was bashful from that. I'm waiting for your answer about how you've been. Waiting on that just makes it sour. I'm waiting on you waking up beside me the next morning, squirming around, stretching out your tiredness, smiling and eyes closed. And me not ever wanting to leave the bed.
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Nov 2015 · 397
Crying Is Bad Acting
JP Mantler Nov 2015
I'm bad 'cause I stay up late
I'm your absolute worst nightmare
'Cause I got bat-**** eyes floating on your ceiling
I'm just bad 'cause I'm a **** and you're a ****
I'm ******* dying on your income
'Cause it's bad now, all bad

I'm bad 'cause I stay up late
******* on dead rats, laughing at myself
Can't help but to think of all the fun at L'ecole Night Visit
My hands which ironed your face into pie
Weeping like ***** in your hole
Sad little ****, you're so bad

Firm hand shake, I won't disbelieve
That the good guy's gonna cry over that
****** on rat ****, so just cry -- ha-ha -- cry
Nov 2015 · 296
Retired Satanist
JP Mantler Nov 2015
Doesn't have his hands to hold the camera

Doesn't have his head to see through the lens

He's just a sitting duck on a ladder

He doesn't have to worry about friends
Nov 2015 · 258
Insular
JP Mantler Nov 2015
I'm too lazy
To go out of my way
To make people happy
#haiku
Nov 2015 · 896
Typical Acting Behaviour
JP Mantler Nov 2015
Can't explain, your lack of concern
Shallow mind in the shallow gutter
With all the other dark souls warm from their own light
They scare you; you can't help but lock the door and overheat
Keep yourself away from these ugly people
So you can only lose it on yourself
I'm your Quasimodo dancing on stage with no music
Because I'm the music and it makes us all sick

With all their behavioral token  and superior thoughts
You smile hatefully and spit in their eyes
You walk so high and you think of yourself
You think you're a prophet to everyone's problems
You are comic relief but you are not pain relief
I'm a problem to everyone and most especially you
I'm a ******* and I want you to know that
And that I'm always your low-life Apocrypha
Also know that suicide is the hardest place
for the living and breathing
And that sinners laugh below in a Heaven without actors
Because they know how hard they try

No you don't
So they perish
They don't ask for help
I waste everyday I try with myself

I give all my energy for you
You tell me who I am like I am
your holy bible

You're pathetic
Oct 2015 · 313
Conrad
JP Mantler Oct 2015
Everyone notices how you've grown your hair
And you think you're hanging them up
But you're turning them down

No one listens to you
So you have to yell
And so you dwell

You can't seem to get out of bed
So you cry for him in your sleep
He's still in your head
Like the electric current
They had treated you  

You think asleep of tranquilizer
You decline your mother's breakfast
You turn everyone down
You can't seem to rest
You can't seem to rest
Sep 2015 · 488
Listen To Your Little Voice
JP Mantler Sep 2015
"You're not gonna get it"
Your little voice will tell you
You are a stubborn mule
Who'll play the fool
And guise his innocence
"You're not gonna get it"

Surrounded by dissuasion
"You're not gonna get it"
He is sick of your stupid ****
He doesn't believe in you
Your acrid, little voice

I'll play the fool
And guise my feelings
But I really can't hide
I'll just carry on
And come back
Drunk and sober
When you aren't
so bitter
Sep 2015 · 2.4k
Empath
JP Mantler Sep 2015
Remember when we used to play-fight on your same kitchen floor as mine
My little empath, I am so deeply sorry

I was your cruel filter which made me go blind, and to not realize how much further pain I had brought to you, I did not mind

You will always be mine, my beautiful empath
Your hair so much sunnier but your soul darkened from my distance
Your restless, enticed passion which breathes heavily in your eyes, I beg to return

If only I had listened to your beautiful cries, my sweet empath
We may have had another chance to find our young hearts again
Sep 2015 · 395
Driving Back
JP Mantler Sep 2015
When I drove through the city tonight I noticed how quickly I felt alone

The gift for you was my only passenger, for you did not take it, since I never saw what you have shown

Back and forth back and forth, my ****-ups, terrible choking you to death as I cry while I eat my food

The sweater choking my neck is the last thing to tell me to be good

Please take me back to the flying saucer, the gloomy pine bar not-so far, the afternoon afterschool naps groggy with young happy love
Sep 2015 · 392
Phantasmagoria
JP Mantler Sep 2015
The psychotic, surrounded by loving anesthetists clothing his face
Nods away at the foul sky paintings of resin trees and noxious chrome
He is pensive, he breeds and breathes in the limbo of his wedlock
Backup plan.
Sep 2015 · 1.0k
Whimsical Musical
JP Mantler Sep 2015
Soft spoken useless friend I am
Stupid quiet bird
Hot and hardened as
Near Summer heat
The coroner is coming

Poor dead boy, She had never loved him
She had never loved him
Poor dead boy, Her love a whim
Her love went on as a whim

Soft subtle licking lips, she is
Stupid pause and funny woes
Cleo Patra sporting shoes
Cellophane hearts bring *******
Lust of laughter to forge
Whistlebees dance around an answer
Like follicles on molding porridge
Like on ***-slave rabbits
Drinking powdered juice
And those two **** the poor boy
A second time where he can no longer
Take pretty pictures of where he had wandered
Eaten by the photographer's endeavour
Sep 2015 · 402
L'ecole Night Visit
JP Mantler Sep 2015
Everyone looks at me as the sickest one down the street
No friends on the telephone box
So I make sure they see me walk away
I sometimes feel lack-sense

Visit the night l'ecole and about a dozen murderers
This went on in and about a cracked fairytale.

Whenever I want to leave
the same old taped box
Comes and pushes me in l'ecole

I went somewhere to meet up
with my worries
But the worries suppressed me

Dim light in the ****** pantry
with kitchen ****
They won't even come and
light me a wire to burn
Light my ******* face off
with a towel-iron
Brother suicide leave me crying
in the bone-ditch
My stroller broke and I'm
crawling off the falls

I was with her just today
And now they all act like she's missing
Sep 2015 · 224
Waking Up in a Car
JP Mantler Sep 2015
The touch of cold metal, and I fall into a careless trip
It's not the people that scare me,
It's not the noise, it's my own being and it's my choice
I don't know why but the dark, cloudy place soothes me
Her voice soothes me

The touch of nothing soothes my being
My only being seeping into nothing
Montreal >>>>>> Ridgeville
Sep 2015 · 358
Picture Show
JP Mantler Sep 2015
They've always told me that she was ethereal
And her friends showed only to me flatness
I attempt to devoid
Ethereal oh she makes me docile
I slip right through her faintest cracks
I sleep on top of her train tracks

I can't take anymore pictures, I won't take anymore pictures, I won't take them because you promised you'd be with me
Aug 2015 · 281
Acceptance
JP Mantler Aug 2015
Acceptance is not a word to me
It's only a flashback to my greatest fear
Careless open breeze thrown away out the window
I suffer why I suffer I have no clue how badly she does
I pant and wag when she unlocks the cage
She wails and whimpers even when I'm put back
Repentance is a word I never a leave alone
She wails and whimpers I spill the facts
Her smile flickers when I ask her to love me
The fog follows deeply hugging me with fear
She hugs me so deeply like its one last big fuss
I've been tried to put to sleep but I seem to like the cage
Aug 2015 · 573
Montreal
JP Mantler Aug 2015
Man plays his guitar as he sits in the grass
With Frisbees flying over his head
The man has a stash
Which gives us our moments
What makes things expensive
I don't understand
But what I know is that
living is the best I can

Peter Gabriel's got sun in his eyes
He's still searching but hasn't got a clue cause he's blind

What a sad picnic party and its melting form
Let's ditch this place so we don't have to mourn

Let's go away from the stupid, sad people

So      we     can      be        sad      on         our                      own
  Sad                on         our            own       on      our   own
Sad           on      and    off        and    on   and    off
     Sad    on  our           own              on         our   own       sad
Aug 2015 · 418
Black Gem Murderer
JP Mantler Aug 2015
The picture is on hold
And I am withheld within
These million sparkling images
I can no longer understand

I can stay longer than any of them
I'm the withstanding plague
Who sees no toxic love as you
I can sit up all night thinking of
You and them
I could ****** each and every one
Of your petty black gems
Aug 2015 · 708
New Orleans Pt. VII
JP Mantler Aug 2015
I am drunk again
waiting for the cab
The heavy rain washes
my spirit
Let us spare a fish bowl
for the lonely homeless man
The drunkard Saints I shall
miss them all
When I'm drunk again
I'll give them a call*

Farewell French Quarter
I bid you goodnight.
It's raining here as well.
Circa May 2015
Aug 2015 · 572
New Orleans Pt. VI
JP Mantler Aug 2015
I still feel like a child
But with greater patience
The car honks

I feel like I will die sooner than it feels

The same old flowers, the same old pattern
And the door swings again back and forth from the soothing winds
Circa May 2015
Aug 2015 · 539
New Orleans Pt. V
JP Mantler Aug 2015
We're on our cemetery walk
It's hot, sticky and quiet
The Schallenberg trash is full

"Ex umbris et imaginibus ad veritem"

Bus boy and bus girl
Dreaming the jazz theme
The American dream
There's grits on the table
Another sad fable of dreamers with big, crazy dreams

And I flick the cigarette **** on the *****'s SUV
I flee, I hide behind the Southern white veil
I ******* cower


Lady talks with her hands
I cannot ******* understand
The car horns beep again
And the drag queens chase men

It is all just wizard propaganda
It is all a ******* hoax
I want to stab my boss
I want to **** him
Ex umbris et imaginibus ad veritem
Circa May 2015
Aug 2015 · 562
New Orleans Pt. IV
JP Mantler Aug 2015
The streets scatter with life
A man with an electronic cross preaches in the streets of Bourbon
He's sad and confused, he's doesn't scare the dumb, drunk townfolk
Circa May 2015
Aug 2015 · 639
New Orleans Pt. III
JP Mantler Aug 2015
The Miss Daisy sank
She was two hundred feet tall
With no worries at all
There are buskers all around and about

The swamp bar is clean
For my good friend Jimmy
He's here to play
He's come a long way

He is music to my ears
With my pack of 'Boros and my bourbon glass
He straightens the queers

The music floods me with joy
Like a dark cloud of sunshine

I drink to him
I'm the last to stay
I'm dying to play

*Dauphine cries to the sounds of sunken hope and dread
The sound is buried with dying laughter
The drummer is dead
The band plays on
JIM BEAM
Circa May 2015
Aug 2015 · 673
New Orleans Pt. II
JP Mantler Aug 2015
The same one stands out on the balcony
Waiting for God to make her move
Dauphine shies the busy-bodied streets
Locks hotel door and cries for no reason
Sailors storm the streets with wooden hands
Grabbing and touching a ***** with termites
Pests lay dead on Toulouse
Katrina laughs at her *****, wet mess
LAKE LAWN PARK CEMETERY
Circa May 2015
Aug 2015 · 533
New Orleans Pt. I
JP Mantler Aug 2015
Little man where are we taking you
Hold onto her hand tight
Terminal three is closed
Where must you go

Groggy-eyed bug face,
I think you should wake up now
We're taking you to Chicago
Don't let go of her pretty hands
There's much to see without anyone else

*Thick humid air eats me up
I can smell the American soils
I can see the greens of promised life

White fleet don't talk much
But that's fine with me
BREAKFAST AT BRENNAN'S
417 ROYAL STREET
Circa May 2015
Aug 2015 · 293
Nowhere in the World
JP Mantler Aug 2015
It's cool and cloudy in our backyard
The trees are now empty
I feel helpless since they left me

I'm cold and quiet and very scared
I want my parents to come back home
Where are you mom, where you are dad
I feel alone

Ryan and I, we are waiting for you two
The cold *** of coffee is still full from this morning
It's empty though
Aug 2015 · 285
Sick Joke
JP Mantler Aug 2015
My therapist tells me to blame everything on my loved ones
My loved ones think they are my therapist

I think this is all a sick joke

She tells me I'm no longer funny
I think she lost her sense of humour

I think this is all a sick joke

**Sick Joke.
You are all ******* sick.
Aug 2015 · 342
Note To Girl
JP Mantler Aug 2015
Can you cure yourself of being a *****?
May I **** you if you cannot be cured?
Your boy is a starving pilot
Who strives for another let down
Will you bring him down again?
Will you bring your brother back?
Aug 2015 · 339
Crazy Wind
JP Mantler Aug 2015
Crazy wind
You scare my girl
And make her wait
Inside for the rain
You make her shout
Crazy wind you'll pay
I swear to you
That I'll have God
show you how much wind
He can breath in
Crazy wind
Next of kin,
I'll have her well
I throw my fire at you
*
Crazy wind
Jul 2015 · 804
TAILHOOK (LOVE)
JP Mantler Jul 2015
She loves insulated cable kiss fights
What, the lion mouse or something
Civil action quiets the pratt
You talk to me like a brick and a lampost.
Love me the media
***** peel for us, you
a germ in the cesspool
Debate ******* worship of theatre
Less is more, a comic-******

She is less insulated with comic-******
The lion debates mice of worship
For civil germ to host pratt-party
And a lampost
You talk and peel like bad skin
**** me the media
Dirt worshipped in the hairy eyes
a sappy sad man who is exposed
Something ******* and unknown
More is shown through  less of talk
Meantime
Jul 2015 · 623
Orange People Sigh
JP Mantler Jul 2015
I wish the sun was always set The orange glow on my burdened mind
I wish for the drug-induced warmth To embrace me as I run
I'd run down the orange shadowy road where I'd see rows and rows of my orangy white house I'd search for little but stumble across many
An alien crash site at my old school A sadness overwhelm, I'd beg
For return, the orange people sigh
Tell me to go, tell me then

It's the sun in their eyes that tell me to go, they tell me to go, so I leave

I leave
Jul 2015 · 363
Western Avenue Island
JP Mantler Jul 2015
Western Avenue Island is fine for me
I'm going to be a very honest person
Feel it shine for me
I'm going to be a lucky person, you'll see

Page Park Boulevard guide me home
I'll be singing a song while driving alone
Find me a place to sleep it all off
Find me a friend who'll pretend I'm lost

Drunken ***** eyes guide me home
Find me a mind with a dream to roam
Skipping stones with eyes of gloam
Can't be that friend who'll see me home
Jul 2015 · 460
Will Clouds Stay ?
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.
Jul 2015 · 900
Fireplace Thoughts
JP Mantler Jul 2015
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.
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