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Lucy Tonic Jul 2012
The leftovers you throw away
Unnecessary bills you pay
Nicks from a rusty razor blade
That’s what we’re made of
Broken beyond any repair
Exploited feet to heart to hair
Hoping at least the devil cares
That’s what I’m made of

All of those with head in hands
All of those punching pillows
We’re all fighting our own wars
In our own billows
So leave us alone
Lucy Tonic Mar 2013
City of mystery
City of misery
City of lights
City of night
In tragedy and terror
We implore the skies
Seeking a sign of
Some god’s grand design
Is it the shadow or reflection
An ape or a robot
A wall or a mirror
A memory you forgot
City of misery
City of mystery
City of night
City of lights
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Make a mistake in someone’s home
They’ll fill you with insecticides
Till your insides start to glow
And through your walls, they’ll come at night

Soon delirium works full time
As your brain penetrates the paint
It’s like seeing through a fly’s eyes
You linger between two realms till you faint
(Again & Again…)

What a convenient cold dish, this revenge
I’m stuck inside this Kafka parody, till the end
Up ahead the silhouettes read my damaged mind
They **** out all the prophecies through a hole in my spine

The most malicious never show themselves
They’ll poke, **** and ride you to a place beyond hell
In a vessel made up of your nerve-damaged nightmares
Price to pay as the gift, sacrificial snare

Cleaning your clock at the Watchtower
Lucy Tonic Jul 2013
You laugh as she trips up and falls down
But what you don’t see is an invisible crown
That she wears underground
Cause she’s clumsy
She doesn’t try to impress
When she goes out she sports
A raggedy awful dress
But you should show her some respect
It’s not easy living in this world
As a girl
And when you trip up and don’t land
She’ll be the first to lend you a hand
Cause she’s clumsy
And doesn’t know the meaning of
Being cruel for the sake of a group
Lucy Tonic Oct 2012
Every time you got cold
I held your hand from the start
But little did I know the ice
Resided in your heart
Can you come clean
Can you come clean
Insert your memories in me
Is it that hard to believe
In a somewhat crooked destiny
Your patience  is waning on me
As you wield your sword of words
I’m not asking for your sympathy
But you’re the one that asked to comfort me
So why bother being nice
Why bother being good
But all the same, the ***** is a role
We’re in the same game, except mine takes a toll
So don’t come around if you want me to be polite
Don’t you come around if you want me to lie
And say that everything is alright
Cause nothing is alright
And every time you got cold
I held your hand from the start
But little did I know
The ice resided in your heart
Lucy Tonic Jul 2013
Its days like these
I wish I was in a coma
Unable to feel the feeling of being watched
And being free to dream endlessly
Instead I chain-smoke
And look at the sky
Cursing the birds
And blessing the butterflies
Trying to ignore my third eye
Which has turned into a ticking clock
And all I pray for is just to get by
But so far that’s not happening
And I have no money to unwind
So my soul keeps unraveling
I need a change
And I need it quick
Before I see another shooting star
And wish for death
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
***** bare feet
Doll parts
Flares and big bang crunches
Skeletons in our closet
But we're two among the living
Two among the dead
With you
I can't hear their motives
***** snow *****
A night
Harlot star is in a coma
Now
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
They're building something out of nothing
They want to understand beginnings
At what expense to singularity
To what expanse to make a copy
A quirk for a quark

What if it falls in the right hands
It's a challenge of the world
Not just for nation over nation
Not just for dollar over dollar
Two billion notions down the drain

And still we're competing
Abandoning logic
Emptying pockets
For bankers and robbers
Conductors of a runaway train

Made up of cowboy hats
And wrist watches
And ***** tonics
Floating in pools of oil
Wombs of oil
Lucy Tonic Dec 2012
From the heritage of Eve
I want to believe
I travel in circles of sorrow
From the pool in which they float
I try to believe
But the cross is a phantom
In the way of the fresh air of truth
Don’t let the world tell you what to believe
Time and memory are not on your side
So when can confession turn to conversion-
Will you let this error slide?
Praise and prayer are all I have to offer
But the cross remains a phantom
In the way of the fresh air of truth
My soul’s in a state of collapse
Who will make it clean
I’m guessing someone who remains unseen
From the heritage of Eve
I sacrifice to fallen angels daily
Cause I don’t know anything
But in my heart is the clear calm of love
Trapped in a world of swirling lusts
Let the light shine on my face
I want to believe
Set me free
From the heritage of Eve
Lucy Tonic Jun 2015
I need a spiritual insurance policy
While they all seek common currency
The fruit of divine questions
Can't be found in the light of pale society

Every three days I resurrect
Penetrating the mystery
But I die in every moment
Cause I can't change history

He said you must deny yourself
In order to come to Him
You must not traffic in souls
But give freely to those who sin

Struggling with Eros
And its hedonistic ways
Consumed by the monster
In the self-love battle haze

Human weakness is a fact
But we all have different plights
You may think you're an island
But you're a continent in Christ
Not sure if I published this already....
Lucy Tonic Oct 2013
You say you do it for your family
But all you see is money
You see in shades of blue
And your prophets for hire
Are starting to get greedy
And the chemicals you use for warfare
They weren’t made in a factory, made in a lab
They grow organic in the land
And the drug is death but it comes in a pretty package
Those who distribute are the same ones who deal
And the ones who deal are the ones who ingest
And the ones who ingest end up a in prison
Where experiments are done, degrading and dumb
Until the free man becomes the farmer
Planting death among the cornfields
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Corona
Covered in vines
Just like the door
On this hut of death
So much fog here
I think I lost it
Try and find it
Hold your breath
Walking on stilts
In a sackcloth
I remember that
Big funhouse slide
The big fish beast
And the captain siren
They all seek advice
One eye on the oven
21st century hag
Must be worse off than
Drunk and jetlagged
Rag-doll, cheap tag
And the seven dwarfs
Have a ringleader
It gave moral faces
To forces of nature
Fulfill your future sins
Reading of gods and myths
Tell me what came first
The green or the jealousy
Corona, corona
Covered in vines
Just like the door
On this hut of death
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Man in neck brace
Needs a shoulder
He can't stand up
He can't stop crying

Man owns a cage
Asks for a quarter
"Dance you puppet
I own your daughter"

No ****** Killer
Just Bad Company
Sociopaths
Don't need no filler

Steal your brain-child
Pillage your roots
Barefoot poser
He sure has boots

Dancing fool
Masquerader
Bidding for wolves
Is not crazy wisdom
(You ******* traitor)
Lucy Tonic Jul 2012
They say the more you know the more you suffer
How does this apply to the invisible man
The rebels had their day, funding all their movements
How does this apply to what we don’t understand

They have us writing with an inkless pen
As they offer us slave women draped in violet
But all we want is a dark, dark room
To be alone in all our violence

If only we pursued our happiness-
But the world would fall apart
The strongest arm stretches the bow
The stars left behind just depart

Stand up on your toes if you want to see the future
Grasp all the knowledge from the forbidden tree
Talk about Beethoven as you interrupt their prayers
Seek up that monster who only sleeps to dream

The line for the ladder is longer than the world
But skip the elevator, just take the stairs
Try to do what seems impossible
Fixing what’s broken beyond repair

The meter is ticking, so thank your lucky stars
Don’t fantasize about glory, just ride the twirling tide
Respect all the animals, they’re perfect in themselves
**** man the hunter, ‘less he hunts his own kind
Lucy Tonic Feb 2012
No time to be shallow living in the land of
Polka dots and permanent shadows
No time to be hallowed
Apparently I’m built too hollow
As they fasten wings to just about anything
But my tomorrows
One moment with a funny look
And I’m locked to forever
On the couch
The gaping hole inside settles
In the dark it fills with time
It’s always swallowing clocks
Strip it all away, the hole remains
Strip it all away, the hole remains
Filter sifting, sorely drifting
Lucy Tonic Jan 2013
Nighttime has its crime
And daylight has its violence
I’ll travel to the Saturn of time
And try to turn back the smiles
I gave to those with their pseudo-love-
Crows disguised as doves
I came to play like a child
With a pill upon my tongue
They came to conquer their desires
By dissolving right from wrong
Cause nighttime has its violence
And daylight has its crime
I break the hearts of those I love
When love is what I had in mind
I’ll travel back to Pluto
Fade out into the galaxy
But I’ll live on like the setting sun
Rising in the east
I need a change
I need a change
Lucy Tonic Jun 2015
Never lollipops or blood
Just sounds reverberating
But I no longer can
Trust you in silence
Oh, no no no
It's happened
Your brain caught up to them
And you let go of my hand
I bit into the candy and it tasted metallic
I bet you find that ironic
But I really thought you'd understand
But with all your degrees and social needs
That wasn't part of our plan
So I'll let go of this
Until we meet again
If we meet...
If we meet...
In a sea of broken glass
Don't pretend
To wash the cuts on my feet
Lucy Tonic Oct 2013
I woke up from a dream
In which I solved the mystery of the universe
I learned what would benefit society
But I still found no answers to the mystery of me
I walked among the mountains
Swam against the sea
Still I know nothing of the mystery of me
But in my dream, I reached a purgatory
It became my solid ground, my reality
And in this in-between, I learned a lot of things
Like be careful what rings you put on your fingers
And be kind to the homeless, he could be Jesus
I woke up from a dream with my mouth wide open
Then the cup of mystery, hovered over me, began to spill
Lucy Tonic Jan 2013
Cut the ribbons
Unwind and unravel
Into a sculpture
Suited for time travel
Intrepid souls
Dare not follow you
There’s no one left
You’re cut in two
And when they want
A tour of the kingdom
She’ll say yes
Despite their rejection
But while she’s still here
She has a broken wing
If no one will mend it
Then how can she sing
Kneeling ****** at the altar
She requests nothing trivial
She only begs for mercy-
An answer is pivotal
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Heather's a heathen in heaven.
She got there by a man with a fire-arm.
He burnt a hole in her quick, the diameter thick,
All because she fell for his charm.

Lionel was a ***** in love.
He decided to confess it one day.
He rang the doorbell, expecting nothing but hell,
Then fell to his death in decay.

Alice abused amphetamines.
She fell asleep on the Earth's axis.
Down a hole she fell, where she cast a spell,
And came out with a thousand fascists.

Vincent was a ****** in Vienna.
He got lonely one day and blew up.
He assaulted a girl, with big pretty red curls,
After putting a pill in her cup.

Sammy was a serial sadist.
He frowned and he wore a big hat.
So, just to be fair, he went to the chair,
And suffered for no seconds flat.

Lincoln loved living his life.
He did many good deeds and was proud.
Then came a strange sight, brought him to his plight-
A doppelganger strung by a cloud.

Anarchy was alive in America.
It hated those who wore the white glove.
So one day it split, bombed the pyramids, to wit,
All in the precious name of love.
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Dark River,
On you I used to skate away
In you I used to fade away
Maybe that's why I ran away

Did you marry
Is she an artist
A fortress of stardust
Is she a music woman
A laundress
Is she a worldly adventurer
A card-shark
She must contain more than
The average alarm
To get into your arms

Dark River,
I miss you
Lucy Tonic Oct 2013
You laid yourself a path
Of the best-laid plans
Of a future set in stone
But she interferes
When she sheds her tears
And she spends all her time
Daydreaming
If she could she would
Run your train right off the tracks
You’d be forced to shed your skin
Never looking back
She worships the moon
With a ***** silver spoon
It won’t answer her prayers
So with her flowing blonde hair
She spends her time
Daydreaming
But now she builds her shrine to you
She does all that she can do
Are you prepared to take her on
And spend your days in the sun
Daydreaming
Lucy Tonic Dec 2013
The tree of life
Should be my third eye
Instead it’s a clock
And every time
I close my eyes
My dreams run amok

From first to last,
Put a veil over the middle class

And as I advance
In God’s circle dance
I’m aware I’m about to go under

Holding hands
While they make their plans
To remove Him from the middle

No footprints
No blinking
A child and an old man
Bringing bodies of poverty
To wealth of the spirit-
If only we could understand

They deal in bodies
It’s a roll of the dice
But at the end of it all
The womb is paradise
Lucy Tonic Jul 2013
Summer is a time for get-togethers
And unforgettable moments-
But this is no love letter
How I miss the snow on the ground
Instead my flip-flops pound and pound
Against hard sweaty cement
Call me a little bent
But in summer there’s no time to repent
Everyone’s too busy having all the fun
I see pictures of babies and toes in the sand
But summer ain’t my season
So I ask mother nature one demand
Let me keep the sun
But throw away the memories
That I never was invited to have
Lucy Tonic Feb 2015
A mysterious stranger with soft-spoken words
Will be kind at first, then remind me I’m cursed
And my memories all have holes

A shot in the head is how it will start
A bone-chilling cold that runs straight through my heart
And my memories all have holes

A deranged magician with a ******* top hat
Will take my hand and then saw me in half
And my memories all have holes

Feathers from an animal that could never fly
Paste them to me and then say your goodbyes
And my memories all have holes

My soul was dormant for a thousand years
Then I was born and shed so many tears
And my memories all have holes
Lucy Tonic Apr 2015
Stitch these angry limbs
Before they lead us to ruin
Disengage the dancing mind
Like secrets in an empty room

The mask is coming off
Peeling air like a spinning top
Cut the cord of certainty
Till the cold wind rushes in

You hurt yourself again
Trying to dig deeper
To implode and expand
Like the universe’s keeper
Lucy Tonic Jun 2012
Handicap suburban hippies
Cruising like hyenas
Trampoline ******
****** tissues in ashtrays
Natural born riders
Liquid courage makes little peanuts
Alien Nation
Infomercials on mute
Strange thugs and dark markets
Needles and pixie sticks
Under the manmade weather
New types of bullet holes
Slaying the jabberwocky in
The new Transylvania
The Yes monster
Cranium stadium
Swords and roses
Barren space
Insolent minx
Holidays gone bad
Continental drift
Lucy Tonic May 2015
You say I don't live in the real world
Well, I'm glad I don't
It would eat me alive
It's already eaten me alive
You say I reach too much for band-aids
Well, I'm glad that I do
They encourage me to shut down, reach out-
Even if it's for the advil in the morning
You sit on the edge of my bed and point out my flaws
Well, I'm glad you did
Cause it made me feel like ****
But I realized you're no ally
You only want me around to please you; then you leave me behind
Well, I'm glad I know now
That I can always count on you for something
And fool me twice, shame on me
You say I'm garbage cause I live on cheap rent
Well, it's good to know gossip runs in the family
Cause I forgot life is like high school with bigger stakes
Like the one you stick in my heart every time you talk about money
You say you can't make it to the show
Well, I sense your tone
It seems like you'd lend me your coat
When you rather me shiver to the bone
You say you know nothing
Well, I sense you know everything
Now that I spelled it out in ink
Cause it's clear the blood was lacking
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Demon kid
Lives and breathes quid
Keeps squid in back pocket
For when bicycle skids
Demon kid
Little *****
Why so much malice
On one little finger
You're rough and tumble
But you're no Alice
Is that you in there?
The one born in six months
The one born of great heights
Gorgeous and hollow
Nothin' but leg
Disease is born in flesh
Begins in your mind
Your repulsion
Quite indulgent
Stems from lack of blood-lust for us
Makes our behavior reckless
How's that power feel?
Is that you in there?
Love is losing cause it never was
Thinks the dying man who still has heart
As they all turn their heads like cobras
Hell-bent on ****** by stares and shoulders
Weaponless **** tastes sweeter
Than physical blood ever did
Thinks the demon kid
Lucy Tonic Jul 2012
Even the purest compassion
Has its violent edges
But only when it comes to you
I wanna hug you, I wanna kiss you
I wanna love you, I wanna **** you
Get me off this wretched unmerry-go-round
You reach out with caring gestures
A smile and maybe a frown
But you only care about yourself
All the little things you did-
So cheap, so unimaginary
You put me in a den of vices-
A house of ill repute
And still I want to flash
All my colors for you
But you’ll never see them
You see in shades of grey
Which go to procreate
My feeling blue, my red of rage
Now there’s nothing left to say except
Are you alive?
Are you alive?
Lucy Tonic Oct 2012
Sleeping in catacombs
Trying to control the cycle
Here is where all time stops
Says the archangel Michael
Spirits come from the center
Space is expanding fast
Counter-clockwise super-universe
Love is always the message
But there goes that bloodline
Swinging freely in the sky
Riding on chariots of fire
Wearing scales and wearing smiles
Inching towards progression but
We create the problems of the future
They shift from dimension to dimension
Tell me then, which one holds truth
There will always be evil
Cause there will always be good
There needs to be a balance
Or one would destroy the other
Yes, one could destroy the order
Lucy Tonic Nov 2012
Reluctant messiah
Unnoticed sacrifice
Eclipsed by an archon
In a hell called paradise
Astral travel
And silver bodies
Frankenstein head and
Girls that are naughty
Face your destiny before
Time turns counter-clockwise
Fear and love rule the world
And no one is the wiser
American enchantment
Eugenics of the soul
Don’t knock it till you try it
And good luck getting old
Lucy Tonic Jul 2013
Scars
Up and down her legs
Torn apart
Her nights become her days
Her nerves are dangling by a string
It takes all her courage just to sing
Until he took her hand and said
Your earthly body is temporary
What lies ahead and what lies above
Is a body more than heavenly
And it’ll be indescribable
And it’ll be divine
And it’ll be perfect
No matter what time your body goes
So don’t fear the skin you live in
It’s just a veil from end to beginning
Lucy Tonic Sep 2012
Tonight I’ll pray like it’s my last
On hands and knees I’ll prostrate fast
While the walls watch me turn blue
While the walls watch me turn blue
Tonight I’ll weep a fountain rain
A swamp to wade in for the vain
While the walls watch me turn blue
While the walls watch me turn blue
Tonight the cosmic thoughts will come
Of twirling tides and dreams undone
But the walls won’t see them
But the walls won’t see them
Tonight I’ll dream of radiance empty
While in my dream-well they’ll throw pennies
But the walls won’t see it
But they’ll never believe it
Tonight I’ll be the pin cushion
Of a thousand strays and hues
While the walls watch me turn blue
While the walls watch me turn blue
Tonight I’ll love the somber alien
He twists in shades of bark and nail
While the walls watch me turn blue
While the walls watch me turn blue
Tonight the paint it shakes and cracks
Like the spine on delicate backs
Which hover in the night so blind
And for the moment, you are divine
Tonight I’ll dig for pale jewels
Underground in heaven
While the walls watch me turn blue
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Mechanical house-slave, iron foot
Beast of burden on everyone
I don't deserve my portion
Your eyes scream abortion
Where once there was overkill

No more working for the man
Nine to five suicide
Instead I'll rot here slowly
No risks or big explosions
No walking into traffic

Turtle doves laugh and procreate
While my hands move on *****-dish clocks
Wonder how long I could gargle this soap
Before finding the golden solution to cope
These walls are nauseating

Drink to oblivion
Take but never give
Don't ask me why my heart's still beating
Or why my good behavior's fleeting
I didn't make any deals

Don't know why these things have happened
Nor the names of these sins
Locked lips have turned to skeletal stitches
My unknown crimes became their riches
And now I'm in memento limbo

I'm trying so hard to escape
To unravel these fists into fingers
All I need is a bus ticket & some fun
But maybe I'd be better with a trench coat & gun
Put this cardboard city on the map

Never knew secrets could ****
Change can't come without shedding dead skin
I fear I've nothing to build upon
They're all planning bets and cons
While I'm Pierrot in a small air duct

Arctic hearts turn blind eyes
I want to lift these weights off your shoulders
But nothing seems to suffice
Perhaps all that's left is self-sacrifice
A charming, tragic gamble into dust

Meanwhile, you should buy another pet
Their souls are more immune
To the metamorphosis disease
Doubt you want to be the one to clip wings
Off of locusts & flightless birds

Believe me when I say I'm sorry for wounding the womb
Just wish I could comprehend the deed
Please enlighten me
I want to make amends
Before this dull flame becomes a house fire
Lucy Tonic Sep 2012
Penetrating holograms with razorblade eyes
Cutting away all the fake and all the lies
I just called to say we could be together
Blacking out on words from tethered love letters
All it takes is your will and my volition
I promise to save you from the path of perdition
All it takes is one sign and one condition
Ignore the picture, take my hand, this is our contrition
Watch the world fall down and fall prey to the night
That erases all dreams and prayers glimmering of light
Me and you could be a pair of faces in the dark
Tripping on black holes left by disciples on tree bark
All it takes is my will and your volition
Take my hand, ignore the picture, kiss to our contrition
Lucy Tonic Nov 2013
I, I’m feeling uninvited
And I’m feeling quite disgraceful
But I have a secret
And I never plan on telling it

I never once felt special
And I never really belonged
But I try not to let it bother me
I never learned what’s right and wrong

I, I’m feeling disembodied
And I don’t know where my head is at
But I know it’s out there somewhere
And I think it’s my turn up to bat
Lucy Tonic Sep 2012
We know it could never work
It would just be too much work
You and your vices and my bad advice
But right now I’m cool with
Floating like a log with you
Drifting down the serpentine waters
Floating like a log with you
We’re just another version
Of the world’s big diversion
Where no one ever learns
And the fever always burns
Because no one ever learns
We know it could never work
It would just be too much work
Me and my vices and your bad advice
But right now I’m cool with
Floating like a log with you
Drifting down the serpentine waters
Floating like a log with you
Lucy Tonic Jul 2012
Today I drew a map on my arms
It matches the old map on my legs
Now I can be useful to someone
Now I can be fruitful and divide

Still I’m afraid I’ll end up serving them
Yeah I’m afraid I’ll end up hurting them
But wait, I’ve done that already
And history repeats
But wait, I’ve done this already

They say don’t cry over spilt soul
But they’re not the ones growing ever-old
Turned off as they chant “turn me on”
With lacerating smiles from a smoking gun
I gave everything to my stereo
But it hasn’t helped me to carry on
I tried so hard to give not to take
But I’m still enemy number one

So here’s the end of the rope
As my eyes trace the destiny of these roads
They seem to run straight to my heart
But I know my brain trumps that
I’ve tried to get a big head start
But machines made sure to stop me flat
I pray for the end, the passing time
And a good friend to leave behind
But it’s as futile as it can be
My tear ducts are all empty
So I’ll pray to the nothing
Where I’ll linger, where I began
Pull up my dark cape sheet
Make death a poetry slam
The ships are coming in
The monsters are leaving the bed
Now underneath is a pair of boots
A record, and a stain of red
I’ll take nothing and everything
With me when I go
A brain in a guitar case
Would be a gentle bode
I’m sailing now, far away
To a place I will call home-
I know my true parents are
Spread wide open

Today I drew a map on my arms
It matches the old map on my legs
Lucy Tonic Nov 2012
I am money changing hands-
Insignificant and ubiquitous
Imbibed as oxygen
Spit out like old chewing gum
I am the tree that never grows leaves-
Alone but surrounded
Decrepit states of being
Amid tiny sparks of youth
I am a child’s heart-
Intelligent and delicate
Fathoming the depths
Of the outside world
I am detached-
Bought and sold
Young and old
A victim of doublethink
Lucy Tonic May 2015
Broken shards of coffee glass, french vanilla
Chinese food and a long walk home
Wasn't ready to get on the bus
Got a job than lost it
To a roommate who seduced my one true love until he left
Then he showed up-
A face from the past who loved hockey
And he didn't make me sing about my leather-
He just wanted me to laugh and dance
And reminded me of its vitality
Back to vanilla coffee glass and Chinese
Still not ready to get on the bus
(It's gonna be a long walk home)
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Bleeding world content with wounding still
Dying casualty
Catalyst of the apocalypse
Clammy hands
Static pins & needles
Ethereal, acid skin
Shivering sweats
Ever-corporeal mind
Expanding skull
Temple pressure
Tightening screws
Mechanical Frankenstein
Peripheral vision loss
Drunken babble sober talk
Mouse voice
Flat tongue
Mini seizure coming on
Clock winds and winds
Pain still resides
Cigarette blood
The gift that keeps giving
And I'm burnt out
Machine breaking down
Little by little
Another ***** dies
Mental disease
Physical need-
All the same
No sense left
Life with no taste
Words can't express
This is the only place where
Sadness can be heard in its most bitterest pitch
Heart palpitates
On another spoken word
What's the message?
How can I string them together?
Twisted Mandela on the ceiling
Don't let it be the last thing I see
Miss the days of bended knee
Believing words transcribed to holy holy
Brain graffiti, mind confetti
Panic, panic
Delirium
Attack, attack
Merry go round & round
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Planet Dust
Fairy Dust
Saw Dust
Star Dust

Particle Dust
Traveling Dust
Smashing Dust
Collective Dust

Stir up the Dust
Snort up the Dust
Sweep up the Dust
Sleep in the Dust
Lucy Tonic Jun 2012
Innocence lost at the cost of
Buying and selling pure
So we ingest and we forget that
Our souls are stained and poor
Can we please hold each other’s hands
And try to find the door
Cause all exits lead to loneliness
Laced with wanting more

Promises are made in silence
And they lack a rainbow
We need to decode our dreams
But there’s no St. Joe
Our strengths reside right here
But our hair won’t grow
We build our houses like fools
And tuck away our halos

We play follow the leader
And smash the tablets of stone
We’re earthbound in life
But nations we call home
Will God send his plagues
For the venom in our bones
If we don’t free ourselves
We’ll be erased from the tome
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Come on, Let's Go
To Alphabet City and Lego-Land
Where words aren't needed
And the pieces don't fit
The bitter on your tongue
Will soon turn sweet
The hustle and bustle
Will turn to happy feet
Now Reality's Gone
Sadness is Illusion
Everyone's a friend
Everyone's an Earthling
Normalcy evades
Normalcy is dull
Who wants to be normal
In a steady-mad world
The World is Our Playground
No borders, limits, boundaries
Everything's in order
We're flying on the ground
"Just cause you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there"
This house, these walls
Brick, pipe, stone, glass
Let's touch what's breathing
Contact on Earth
We've finally found it
We're the aliens
Let's bring madness to Parliament
Let's bring life to these streets
Let's take death from the gutter
And make it beautiful
What goes up
Must come down
But please don't turn these Halos
to light-bulbs and ***** floors
We can't handle unconsciousness
Without sleep
Paranoia,
Seep in slowly

Please
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
A mansion reeking of mystery and ***
Unlike your parties, the brain is the hex
Who's got the most phantastic story
Stitch the real hunters with unreal quarries
By candlelight she writes in her mind
Death-obsessed, web-like bind
Study the corpse, exhume the dead
Fresher the better, revive the head
Harvest the organs, strike a chord
Of nerve tissue and spinal cords
Touch your jutting collar bone
Think there's no place like home
Electric frogs and pinwheel rats
What do you think about that
Run from the monster disfigured
It's trying to hug you like a gun hugs a trigger
Go worship all your seraphim
Yeah, it's a freak, but you made him
Where have you gone Prometheus
Were you our guest or just an atheist
Yeah, wonders come in clear handcuffs
You're only safe anonymous
Oh, it's dead and it's jiving in no man's hands
Oh, it's alive and it's lying in no man's land
Electric frogs and pinwheel rats
What do you think about that
Run from the monster disfigured
It's trying to hug you like a gun hugs a trigger
Go worship all your seraphim
Yeah, it's a freak, but you made him
Inspired by M. Shelley
Lucy Tonic Nov 2011
Wild horses
Ain't got nothing
On my will
They take and take
It's taken so long
How long
Till I can be
The opposite
Of what they see
Glass slipper
Been broken
In dark mirrors
Where I've been
Blue star
Wrong reason
Strange couplet
Voice of rumored
Treason
Break away
Water gone
Digital
But I still feel
A funny taste
Under my roof
It always rains
Pink is not violet
Little girls
Stay violent
Despite your royal
Treatment
Eve
Lucy Tonic Oct 2012
Eve
Eve, the world blames she
She repented, the devil left
But then came seven more
Her seed became a scorpion
Her earnings became stone
Her aquarium, full of snakes
And now her children sting
And you can’t eat mountains
And serpents lie
Eve, the world blames she
She opened her third eye
But it blossomed into two
She longs to be a candle
To rid of all the stripes
But her reputation keeps creating
Mixed women who fear trees
Who has the power to cast you into hell?
Eve, the world blames you
Your joy lies in heaven
You’re not of this earth anymore
Eve
Lucy Tonic Nov 2012
Eve
She pines in vain desire
At reflections of herself
Longing for an explanation
Why her dreams are on the shelf
Made to serve another
Who has conferences with God
Walking in his shadow
Waiting for knowledge to come

Disembodied figurines
Giving orders to stay clean
All she wants is equality
So she longs for his reality

A gentle dumb expression
Is what she fell for
Conquered and seduced
By a child, nevermore
She just wants identity
To shed her naiveté
And gain some independence
From the one he calls God

So long to the innocence
The grace she once had
Now her every movement
Is an empty paper bag
Lucy Tonic Jan 2012
The pack is gone
Both my crutch and my friends
The stove is not as hot
As this grudge on my head
So I’ll retrace the string
Back to its liquid source
Curl up in bed to wither
Of regret and remorse
Or I could go anywhere
Pull my records to my chest
Use my curls as a pillow
And drink myself to death
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