Mike Arms: Favorites

Mar 2014 Mike Arms

DarkDepriment

Love doesn't love me
So I hate love

Love is a curse we can never get rid of
It hurts and It makes us do stupid things
Like ask someone to be with you forever with a ring
Now your stuck with your significant other and your ashamed
You might not have made the right choice in this game
You decided to step out on your marriage to Fuful a desire
But all you did now was add fuel to the fire
Just like a high school crush this love thing never lasts
Now lets get a divorce and put this love thing in the past

Mar 2014 Mike Arms

startled into life like fire

Mar 2014 Mike Arms

Charles Bukowski

startled into life like fire

in grievous deity my cat
walks around
he walks around and around
with
electric tail and
push-button
eyes

he is
alive and
plush and
final as a plum tree

neither of us understands
cathedrals or
the man outside
watering his
lawn

if I were all the man
that he is
cat--
if there were men
like this
the world could
begin

he leaps up on the couch
and walks through
porticoes of my
admiration.

Mar 2014 Mike Arms

Perhaps

Mar 2014 Mike Arms

PrttyBrd

Perhaps

When the thought of an absence
tears at the spirit
leaving a vacuum in its place
Perhaps it shall be called love

When a life would freely
be given for another
without thought or hesitation
Perhaps it shall be called love

When the happiness of another
means more than ones own
Perhaps it shall be called love

When walking away is the only option
to allow for that happiness
Perhaps it too, shall be called love

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Mar 2014 Mike Arms

The observer is the observed / (four & twenty)

Mar 2014 Mike Arms

K Balachandran

The observer is the observed / (four & twenty)

Lucky to be here
in this ringside seat;
incredible dramas get enacted
on the stage of my mind.*
#

Mar 2014 Mike Arms

Perfume Daydream

Mar 2014 Mike Arms

Andrew Durst

Perfume Daydream

I love the way
your perfume
                     lingers
on my clothes
   long after
   we've said
           goodbye.

                        Although
                        it's not the same
                        as holding you in my arms.
                        I enjoy the comfort
                        it brings me.