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Nov 2015 · 354
Looking left. (Breifly)
Michael Parish Nov 2015
The dial clocks in at smooth jazz
And out the window californias
a smudge of wild finger paintings.
Oct 2015 · 294
The holliday
Michael Parish Oct 2015
We dreamed until we would die.
My father still holding his whiskey
My mothers sloppy forgiveness.  
The kitchen roaring and swaying
Louder then bottle rockets Screaming across the restless suburbs.
For one nite we faded like a universe of
Creation.   For one nite we came back like comets predictable yet unforgettable.  
For one nite we didnt scream.
For one nite we lit up the world.
Sep 2015 · 604
Y2k
Michael Parish Sep 2015
Y2k
The boys of my generation died!
Half their faces smile without teeth.
Every whers the same black or grey
Half alive like their moms.
They brought my best friend down
So his problems could live.
I saw his family kick him out
If you cried with him
Id have no sympathy
They brought my cousin down
Because he couldnt be free.
Finished now
The preacher will see.
Somone sold  my cousin down
Because his mind was never free.
He was my cousin
Weakened with a problem
Broken like a fantasy.
He was my cousin
Living for a dream.
Unremembered crusader
Over come his tortured dreams
He will go at thirty
As if his mom has called him
The son she didnt need.
He was my cousin
And well die never free.
Sep 2015 · 293
Nothing else
Michael Parish Sep 2015
Young spiked headed lovers
Orange like silken hairs sprouting
On salmon eyes.
You can only die!
Sep 2015 · 557
Untitled
Michael Parish Sep 2015
My ***! Walt Whitman & Ginsberg inc.
I didnt *******!
I didnt eye tea black boys
Tonite my ***! Yes da one
And ubiflated cabage cloud
Hipped out like blue
Trowsetes
Died acidiniated
Lying greenish like salmon
Pink milk
***** sweat pull
Blacked
With satin smooth fantasy
I rotted likeke pecked tomatoes.
******* and left acient in prune meat.
By pass products of crates bigger
Like patatoe famine
Off of grain
Feeding stock bull fabrics.
Letrexaxing condense
As is strangers mated publicly.
Jul 2015 · 290
The strawberry's
Michael Parish Jul 2015
my mouth opened with like a catchers glove
and stopped a rat from running away home.
Nothing else was meant to be enjoyed more
then the vine i tossed away like a free walk.
Jul 2015 · 283
Laying brick
Michael Parish Jul 2015
soon twenty five more
as if years felt like a
rush to not fall down
those grey drips
who cancel words like
bare naked eye or pleasant
life.  Never get the chance.
Jul 2015 · 433
Dol
Michael Parish Jul 2015
Dol
Just the last twenty years alive god damit.  Luckily japan let Russia read.  
Some speed reading skinny girl conjoined with Mormonism.  
I never even had the pleasure to puddle jump across a Yakima sess pool.  Ah tater tots!  Ah  cheap i pod!  
Let me belive getting by has a latter upwards.  I'm dreaming!  She works window 4.  No hi.  No how's Johnny.  
It was only step rite up before you have the count down to blink.   Mrs.  I sat by   Ago I can't pronounce your husbands weird name.  Mr clean tell your son to mop floors with his head.
Someone needs to wet that cloax infestation.  Mr creep?  Have a women guard the bathroom next time you really ****.  I heard children playing.
Jul 2015 · 338
Untitled
Michael Parish Jul 2015
Pre constricted all month trying to get out for once in my free while.  I just want to get drunk and text you my truth serum.  If I scowl all morning you understood why I wana choke a fool.  
I know you can't clown off last nite.  
Eye to eye we never left one another.  
I can't believe I did you rite when we split the World Series when I can't even remember no more.  I couldn't **** my doubt when I met you.
Jun 2015 · 511
One thing and another
Michael Parish Jun 2015
Gypsy faith swirled with wild lebonise tongues touch so close I can make fresh salt water swing into my palms and make orange sunsets fall apart melting and glazing and get close to what I should  have rubbed with my hands I don't know why I never only reached out from where I stood.  I'm close to every person belonging to me.  Not the bitter words slavery I am finally made and maked half the rainy dry baron saharras I distracted with horizon false bare assed view of giant ledggs outside bay glass window widdowers.  Don't count clean eye glasses.  Spect ovals smeared fingers like skyscrapers below unseen explosions of arts fartsy.  Come on expect bird **** people.  A clear window.  A bird cage cubicle.  As Baching  went pecking corn and keyboard.  Don't be a fat fake chicken.  Be a glossy fox.  Be marvelous.
Jun 2015 · 243
Untitled
Michael Parish Jun 2015
Look over the rodadendrans hanging leaves with out your drought and thirst or your fathers face apearing through patchy relationships and un c lipped promises you both watered and clipped for your mothers sun centered peice glassy with white sap.  Our desperation will finally cry.
Jun 2015 · 288
Untitled
Michael Parish Jun 2015
Unapleable Malcolm slept
I dont understand his goals
Of looking a wayward.  
He could of had his fill.  
It would be the work from work
How his friends worked todo away with.  The weird word in work.  Malcolm's word weird like undendentiable DNA.  
So many routines cloning  over repeatingly lapping like red ants.  
All the hours of day became more over themselves rather than every short spout of ingnorance.   The future totaled every amount sweat spent on inferior wastes of clock and thin hands.  His investable mind watched As time going while his chances aged until the idea became mildewedl over the already resting smells of rotten stairs.
Jun 2015 · 328
First flight
Michael Parish Jun 2015
His Japanese maple out side his bird cage sung with his mind.   car wheels brought his leaves with wind he could catch.  We waited like we were what we only needed, a tiny change smaller
And unshrinkable.  He would wake what he flew with not his lit ness or hollow bones he never needed the heaviness of Marow he just needed what he could use nothing anyone could take.
May 2015 · 331
To stupid to see a decoy
Michael Parish May 2015
We felt unchanged like stiff feathers
All your fathers twelve daughters launched after us all like small meteors.
I couldn't tell the difference between you and a floating sculpture.  And I am undeniably sorry for bombing your fathers black lab with my snowy white ****.  Happy hunting.
May 2015 · 563
The salmon
Michael Parish May 2015
Our arms swung out
Like gills breathing.
We lived for our sucess with numbers and
We faced our bully's wet white hands.  
Our river!  You gave you gave
And we always came.
Michael Parish May 2015
No chicken paprika
No white wine with oysters
No paris!
I was in America buying Chinese food.
You were shopping for dynamite.
May 2015 · 326
Dear lindsay
Michael Parish May 2015
Hey Johnny I know why you hate me
To who it may concern (Lindsay): I drank a red sea of whine.  Only you I confessed.  But if you came
I'm embarrassed because you probably  snuck into my room.   Beer boxes now become monuments of communism.  Don't step on my cameras.  
Instead of shoes walk on my nasty mattress (maybe my life isn't so bad).   I'm surrounded by addicts.  So many cars get what they want.  Lingo for the wise:  the less you know the more you can help your family out.  Getting away means getting back together my brother said second chances make love a lot better.   Don't let out excuses my mother drinks like a dragon (soar throats never moisten).  Hopefully the car can fly like a sphere I'm hoping better jobs mean more responcibility.
May 2015 · 961
My mother.
Michael Parish May 2015
We've been stung so many times black bears drink our pollinated ****.  I always wondered if numbness equaled toughness.  You, Wrestling your whiskey den and  leaving nothing but black turds through out your furry funfettie carpet.  How hard working you were before the predawn sunrise of a meaningless morning.  Now the blue moon cries sobriety for half a creasant .  I guess it isn't easy to change a phase not when somebody already gave out the calendar.  Each of us circle holidays just get drunk next to a clock.
May 2015 · 337
Life limbo
Michael Parish May 2015
I'm up before 3:30 am
It's ****** up.
I'm almost dead like a bomber
If you understand we've already made
A picture.
Your mother my mother
Slobs and drools like a ***** mop.
We can squeeze recharge undo but in the end
She gets ***** and excuses her husbands empty furniture.
Listen!  Money really is easy.
Watch.  I have a good check
But I'm drugging whiskey or else I'm
Giving advice to keep the man who doesn't identify in business.  
Pay attention if your already ******.
Don't give in so easy.  
My friends get me back when I've exchanged shirt sweater or bra.
We don't care we're only people in the end. I've filled up the morning and now I can sleep with chocalate moose
I cuddle up next to a closed window woith out blankets.  I can rub my face at the end a May and try to understand we're living only trying to understand how everyone feels.  Let me tell you they a
Feel better then we think they do.
Apr 2015 · 438
Untitled
Michael Parish Apr 2015
I'll take you to all the places you ever been

Because you wana see the planet with me again
Yea I'm sucessful
I'm richer then reuplicans
More sucessfule the the Walton's and..
I can make life begin again
Time is fast and you need to slowdown and live again.  Quit your job and let me give you happy sin
***** relegion we can climb laws with out Moses.  
Let's be ourselves and let the mansions build
I can make you the women who never gives
Reality hardship.  
I can show you what love us.
Apr 2015 · 276
Growing in time
Michael Parish Apr 2015
The weeks are skipping and flashing my eyes dancing like red fire crackers
In summertime
And the heroic children run sword in hand beating the weeping  cherry blossoms until every corner of city sidewalk is flowered with piñata petals and hope of a better life.
Mar 2015 · 690
Wrinkles
Michael Parish Mar 2015
On top of my eyes i see the clay eartth dry like a cast of vanilla sunshine
Mar 2015 · 266
Untitled
Michael Parish Mar 2015
He gasps and and exales with his cheap door open.

I have a delima because...

How can he trust my honesty.  

We watched our son replay a delusion
How can we sit and tell him reality doesn't mean eternity.  
I'm only close...
He holds his licked breathing, one bridge  could hold his body in a
White pearly coffin.

No matter how he grows my husband forgets he is crazy.  Some how jobs go awry,  jokes, humor, pleasure and reality mean: he will die toothless and unhappy.  

I told him in a truthful drunken nite:  
You are homosexual because I never watched you kiss or grab a can of red paint.  He only works for his drunkedness.  But he gets better, because he want the music he can't transpose.  He wants something he can't understand to translate Into genuis.  I am a mother...
I am a women who can die from bee stings.

I hope he comes home before I fall asleep.
Mar 2015 · 406
Untitled
Michael Parish Mar 2015
You want to go
I can give a car
And  weird smile
Come change tires
So I'm ready
So I made something
Gods love doesn't flow
Some gir make me happy
Oh well how do we ever know
I'm painting
I'm I'm choking
I'm ready for graves
Go inside building
And look for leaves
I'm trying to tell you
We can always find a crumpled up failure.  
Don't let go we're riding dunes
Don't lauph looked batman
Don't sing like Sinatra
What you own is your own.
Leave imtelect like a bird
You can only watch ballet dancers
You can only make a river with or with out control.  So have fun
Tell us all your wife loves you
More then mountains  and small towns
Tell us all what you think about
Mar 2015 · 301
Not alone
Michael Parish Mar 2015
those ledgers over the earth
Chronicle five hundred years of the worlds worthless evenings and the animals still not alone, said it was alright during your grandfathers life.  
The sweat of his face for bread, while men fought over his commissary store.  Gnawed bones of communal brother hood.  On the instant father to father sufferance what are you going to say?
Sons who possessed half the world  exhausted any man to one city and all it contained he asked was pity and humility.
Feb 2015 · 474
Spur love
Michael Parish Feb 2015
I'd splinter you with kisses
Unbound by fear and ingnorant with
The lonly bee keeper alone.  

I'd wish endless wells erupteted to
My  wishes all  alone spare my own penny

I'd dive under cars and sing until you
Gave into my rusty note and lunged for my life  and levy under my unarmed seranade until the cops sing he's a menace who never had to change.

I'd go endless and naked pools of wealthy under brick until we bunker in the warm beds cloth of clear blue water and kiss like nature opening her ponds of endless algae

I'd say my words forever until your dying truth goes past failure to suceed.
Feb 2015 · 383
Take any old timers advice.
Michael Parish Feb 2015
Take any old timers advice and
He will tell you:
Love empties like a pitcher of beer.  
Wisdom to the unwise or maybe
Just advice when you close your tab and dream of a girl who reappears always.
Feb 2015 · 480
To Mrs. Cliffton
Michael Parish Feb 2015
Quick silver streams over our hair and the blinding secrets of his lines sting us like vaccines.  Revelations Devine in doctors painters and poets whose grand appointments fixate out illness.
You were allergic when reality took his medicine paintings but you covered me in magenta quilts stitched black
Around the lateness of twenty years in a dark widowers red rest warning me about chain less camels and Chinese factories killing our newborns.  I agreed when you said the helpless close up and die shameless.
Michael Parish Feb 2015
if you said to do what i was afraid of
i would use my pool stick case
and felony every red truck window
along my short walk home.  
if you said to do what i was afraid of
i would kiss an old admirer
he would feel my seems rip while we
play recliner.
if you said to do what i was afraid i would take every
******* chance i believe in.
if you said to do what i was afraid of
i would of waltzed around the pool pockets
ignorant, never even giving a **** about dollars and the juke box.
if she said what i was afraid of
i would of swung  across the table and kissed her.
Feb 2015 · 441
The Dunk Paradox
Michael Parish Feb 2015
lost love so long
lost love so long
Ill hear you in my sleep
you call me a lazy smoker
you say I lie about life
ive lost my dreams
but youll save me
ill work for Honesty
so long lost love
so long lost love
Ill try manage my ways.
so long lost love
so long lost love
Ill never forget what you gave.
Ive done quite a bit thinking
and now ill tell you straight:
go Home and save your money
go home and rescue your family
quit drinking away the twilight days
stop creating false dreams of fun
Go lay go lay at home
your family is all all you love.
so long lost love
so long my honey Ill
Get job and live happily!
And keep you in my dreams
ill never lie and go back again.
Ill change my ways
Ill change my ways
Ill never drink whiskey again.
Feb 2015 · 1.0k
Dirty Martini
Michael Parish Feb 2015
I am dull green and compact
whomever I ******  I sip loosely
condign with a wedding ring.
I am not an oasis I am only factual
The belief of a Quadrivial dinosaur.
Male lions exigency steer my flame
nerveless singular  in ones element
Tranquil, soundless, never saying boo.
Jan 2015 · 356
My poor washed up Mother
Michael Parish Jan 2015
My poor washed up mother
Of fifty three has nothing
And I will never move away...
The last line is ironic.
Jan 2015 · 329
Green lawns
Michael Parish Jan 2015
Green lawns I see you

Changing my mornings

Bronze leaves I need you

Like a fool sees a warning.
Jan 2015 · 244
The Morning!
Michael Parish Jan 2015
what is there to criticize!
We fear what others think
And think our passions dead.
Failure  We fail by believing what others
Never said.
We create everyone's judgement
Do not fear death you cannot
Stay in bed.
We fear what others think and
Think our passions dead.
Jan 2015 · 361
Breakfast at Tower Lanes
Michael Parish Jan 2015
There's old junior Bobby
Waltzing fine felt elegies
Back stage fronting
Towards his morning
Patrons of widowers
And their crows
Feather coffee
Trying so hard
To tell young
Men what
Their Rose gardens
Once did before
Our now lady returns with
Smiles hoping
The one letter she took
Out of her name
Creates better tips.
Dec 2014 · 402
Goddess with mortal
Michael Parish Dec 2014
Out of her calls
Come calypsos
Defiance
Alas perfections
Immortality
Total sexuality.
Dec 2014 · 373
Untitled
Michael Parish Dec 2014
You are heads or tails
What you give me I except
Subconsciously.  Inside me I make
You forgetful.
So some how

Now you are women on sand.
Unapproachable
Inside me she has been impressionable.
What she knows I change quickly
When she calls me I stand
Respectfully
When she drops I pull her out
Like buckets of squid.
Dec 2014 · 955
Maturing
Michael Parish Dec 2014
It's hard to see how unread the love we share becomes.  How strangely women turn off our solo.
White snow stealing the grass
So children can ride them.
The unforgiven gardens to secret
Soil.
You didnt know you didn't know.
It's all you, it's all you.
The Canadian geese chasing the ducks
Hoping for hand outs.
Is all we will ever feel
And all we ever hold back
Because our tireless souls
Have liove with our strange
Breaded dreams
To show our serenaded
Screaming psalms amongst the pitty of rainy days
And make us hunt those midnight
Martini kisses player fashion.
But now comes the kicker and we are settled.  To rap that we have lost our
Main vision forgotten so ignorently lost.
Dec 2014 · 385
Portrait of Desantos
Michael Parish Dec 2014
If you consumed your own
Omnipresence inside
The grieving soul your
Mother wouldn't pace around
In polka dotted insomnia thus
Your old society
Of Sunday tee times
Wouldn't of become another old
Nova.
And now the apparent storms say  only then
Can the wind leave us
Thoughtless
And only then can
Clocks whisper
Quietly how time
Erases care and grieving.
Dec 2014 · 527
The purple swan
Michael Parish Dec 2014
Day after she has traveled
Her red painted pond
Treading and changing
Her ashy remains
Towards the slow green hat
Whom guards the geese
With owlish eyes.
Dec 2014 · 686
Let go
Michael Parish Dec 2014
You gota be a monster to get what you need.
Some regrets are always not going for perfection
And yea he's way to far away.
The real man walks in  and gets close
To the blondes, red heads, the lovers
They want 150
They need 200
The real dream walks fearlessly
Taking what ever he wants.
Forget your *******
Yea if you let be free
He will overcome all fear
And huff his nomadic take over.
You don't exist he has everything you need.
Like fearless guts.
He says let me show you a close up shot superior ideals.
Dec 2014 · 405
Untitled
Michael Parish Dec 2014
Our tender heads
Had to have protection.
Why hills?
We could of loved wearing
Thick honey forever and ever.
Remember the chaplain and his white
Peacefull print outs.
There's a prize if you can love god.
There's a way to write in perfect cursive.
A good world is seldome made.
A good father will never be real with you.
He has learned not to listen to opinions.
His son is idle
We both failed like paper bills.
We both lie to stay
surreal.
Because of his secrets I will
Have my own death to myself.
Because we have no courage
For dead beat reality.
Nov 2014 · 285
Portrait of a zombie
Michael Parish Nov 2014
His arm has no pupil
Because her carnage is inhuman.
But we all know how she's eating
He knows what she's keeping.
Because her eyes are not living.
But her hunger is killing.
Nov 2014 · 440
Getting on board.
Michael Parish Nov 2014
In fifteen minutes you've exchanged
Your tire tracks for some one else's oil leak. Their driving off the ramp and
Now you've been blamed for standing
In some on else's ****.
You can leave or you can stay
But remember you live on a tiny island
Where gossip is all the rage.
Nov 2014 · 230
Untitled
Michael Parish Nov 2014
When the moon erupted
I knew I missed my chance
To capture the outside world
Because I was always to lazy
To leave my own ambitions.
The moon eruptred and I missed
My shot at changing life forever.
Oct 2014 · 1.4k
A delusional man from samoa
Michael Parish Oct 2014
A delusional man from Samoa
Packed  his bags for trip to Angola.
He got very sick
Because Obomas a ****
And now he's spreading Ebola.
Oct 2014 · 275
Somewhere in market.
Michael Parish Oct 2014
There's waldo selling
Pictures of British gardens
Over the wet concrete.
Can some man
Get lost like many have
Over delusions
Of romantic poverty
Maybe he can get
What he wants
Like the dream
Of getting a mansion
Older then your ancestors.
Some say its a haunted
Because the old myth
Says stick with what you got.
Oct 2014 · 775
Death of a RAF pilot WW1
Michael Parish Oct 2014
I knew there would be black smoke
Escaping from my powerless
Hold on the path of no mans
Lands atonement.
I went as fast as I could
Into the grounds of unbaried graves.
Oct 2014 · 233
Untitled
Oct 2014 · 254
Rounds
Michael Parish Oct 2014
A full entire elegy
Will be seasoned
And sold
Saving our
Souls from
The precursor whose cold.
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