Mek and the Infinite Madness: Favorites

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Forgotten youth

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Harry J Baxter

Forgotten youth

Girls girls everywhere
But not a one to thank

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Renaissance man

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Harry J Baxter

Renaissance man

He's a renaissance man
a lover of jazz
and swing
and old **** kicking
pub anthems
He lives by his own code
and outside of the law
hopping trains
and leaving his mark
all over the country
a renaissance man
he drinks Irish whiskey
straight from the bottle
and smokes like a chimney
a closet romantic
the closest thing to a knight
he loves women
because they could love him
and he would protect them
from the bitter winter winds
A renaissance man
just living
in the wrong place
in the wrong time

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Gramophone Magic

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

st64

Gramophone Magic

Gramophone records play
Scratch, play, scratch, play
Soft in the background, edging into me
Slow and easy, gentle waves.

Granny, play me La Wally again
Turning, spinning, round and round
Take me away on audio-pearls
Peace whirls me on a magic dance.

Pappa, hide the ugly monsters
Keep me safe in Noddy and Pat tales
I'd rather be caught in merry tune
Than in webs of yonder folk out there.

Momma, put on Golden Slumbers
"Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby"
Yes, I find my way homeward...

Gramps, sing me a Holliday song
The kind that lifts one so high
With Mammy and Pappy blessing all of me
Yes my happiness, I've got me own!

Dear Heaven, open windows and walls
Swirling, flowing its beautiful energy
Sore needed peace and beauty
That no eye can truly see.

Star Toucher, 02 March 2013

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Relapse

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Patricia Drake

Relapse

fever is back
it never stays away long
it never truly lifts
it has found me
open

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

SMoke

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Patricia Drake

SMoke

I remember
a bud between my lips
lighting it
inhaling the danger
the rush
invading my veins

I remember
everything

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

News

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Patricia Drake

News

He takes it all in
He inhales
The poison
The misery, the despair
All in one breath
And without a filter
Then resigns
He lets it all float
Because he cannot
Change
Anything
It seems

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

I Bleed

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Patricia Drake

I Bleed

I always wear red...

Tonight I bleed
I make myself a
Dazzling crimson dress
Of blood
From random
Self-inflicted wounds

Tonight I bleed
My tears are red
From the blood spilled
When I tore your heart out
And threw it on the floor
I should have cried
Long time ago

Tonight I bleed
And I share the wounds
With you
We cut ourselves
To match
And once again feel
Connected

Tonight I bleed
My blood spills on
Treacherous paper
Dangerous paper worlds
They flood
They are destroyed

I always wear red...

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

February 28th 2013 [or so my mother said]

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Jessica M

February 28th 2013 [or so my mother said]

March comes in like a lion
and will leave like a lamb
coughing up teeth on the bathroom floor
you didn't give a ****
    I wish to be stern, resolute
    how a panther stalks its prey
    in a jungle weaving winding vines
    until the judgment day
but somewhere
you could see yourself
gums bleeding bright and red
so you spat in the sink
climbed under the sheets
and wished that you were dead

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Rhino

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

MasikaniCrocodile

Rhino

If I were from Africa or Brazil
or one of those places,
where I slept on a mat in a little room,
America would be weird to me.
Because of like food commercials.
McDonald's. Or Tempur Pedics!
Where it's all about comfort
and they're worried about the arc
in their bed, and I mean,
I'm sleeping on a mat.

I think about myself too much
and I don't think about other people
as much as I would want to.
I want to think about how others are feeling
when I talk to them, you know?
I've tried to drop all stereotypes
because really everyone
has an individual category.
And I think everyone has at least
a small amount of mercy.
Even if they don't show or choose it.

And I love Mom.
So much

For Alan, my 13 year old cousin-brother, who said all these words to me

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Bound

Mar 2013 Mek and the Infinite Madness

Patricia Drake

Bound

You bind me
You tie me in a dream
You find me
You seek me out in the crowd and
Blind me
You fixate me
You put a blindfold on me and
Lead me astray
You tease me
You pass me pleasures and
Take them away
You observe me
You watch me wreathe and yearn
You create me
You might even break me and
Pick me right up
You make me
You deal the cards so I can play
with you