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 May 2012 Mel
Jon Tobias
We are brutally beautiful
We are
The soft red glow of a nuclear sunset
Pooling like blood
From wounds
Like that one time I cut my forearms open

Oh so that’s what a heartbeat looks like

It is sign language after a fist fight
When I’m so angry I can’t speak
So with my hands I tell you
No one should talk to you that way

It is the assbackwards way we allow ourselves to heal

For instance
When I had cancer
My parents took me to church when they could
Asked people to pray for me
And I thought drinking holy water might help me

It only made me sick
And I spent three days in the hospital

This life is *****
It is ugly

We are ugly
Like
Crime scene photos of bathtub suicides
Shortcutting life
And still getting into heaven

How after so many years
Just to make things interesting
Peter takes bribes now

And we are beautiful
Brutally beautiful
Endearing in our passion
Because it’s just a little too conscious to be animal
But we try

It is shotgunning a dove
And the rain of feathers
Even when damp with blood they are still soft

I wanna hold you tightly
You coarse cut angel
Your jagged edges rub
But neither of us wants to fall asleep alone

We will never be perfect
But we were supposed to be

Remember that
When your ugly rears its head
Like a mental mirror showing you only the things you notice about yourself
Know
nobody sees you the way you see yourself

Just remember
To smile more
And laugh when things are funny
Make love when you can

These things are good for you
Balance out the brutal
Because you

Are brutally beautiful
This poem is inspired by the poem "Human the Death Dance" by Buddy Wakefield. He is my poetic hero, and I recently met him, which was one of the most amazing experiences ever. Thank you for reading. Here is a video of him reading the poem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQWlnFMOgbE
 May 2012 Mel
david badgerow
lying on a beach
looking up at the clouds
same idea perched
on both of our mouths,
i am a bird on a window sill
you're a song upon my lips
i will sing you to the trees and hills
and place your hands
upon my hips.

i stole glances at you
as you tried ignoring me
you were focused on the view
and you were all i could see
that night i saw you dancing
you were young, wild, and free,
and tonight i'm not alone,
because you're lying
next to me.
 May 2012 Mel
DeeDeeK
when I write to you to tell you
of my deepest emotions
you respond with 'calm down'
as if you picture me in histrionics
wailing and pulling out my hair
which mystifies me
for I was calm all along
 May 2012 Mel
Marsha Singh
I pretend that your poems and 
my poems go
slumming in disguise;
carrying on in dark doorways
of riverfront bars—
tipsy, telling secrets,
spilling out into the sweet-smelling
night,
libertines 
more in love 
than they were before.
 May 2012 Mel
Madeline
a love poem
 May 2012 Mel
Madeline
poetry like drops of water,
is tumbling off my fingers,
whimsical and sugar-sweet, and all because of you.

poetry for
your lips in my hair,
the teasing snarl you make when you gnaw at my ear,
poetry for your hand squeezing mine.

if i could sing, i would sing it,
the way you love me.

i'm writing poetry for your arms around my waist
or slung across my shoulders.
i'm writing poetry for the stars in your eyes,
for the smell of you on my clothes,
for your laughter.
i'm writing poetry for the things you make me feel:
for the want and the wonder,
for the luckiness, the love.

i'm writing poetry for your tongue in my teeth and your heart in my hands.
i'm writing poetry for you knowing me to my core,
and i'm writing poetry because you're my best friend.

i'm writing poetry for the **** and the silly,
i'm writing poetry for the laughter and the light.
i'm writing poetry for us,
and i'm not going to stop.

i'm writing poetry for whispered sweetness and shouted teasing,
i'm writing poetry for hooked fingers and muffled laughter.
i'm writing poetry for hearing your heartbeat,
i'm writing poetry for swinging our hands like summer's already come.
i'm writing poetry for feeling you,
i'm writing poetry for the scratch of your stubble and the nudge of your nose
on my neck, my face, laughing the whole time.
i'm writing poetry for our taste in music and books
for our sense of humor,
for our stupid love story,
and i'm writing poetry
for you.
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