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200 · May 2016
Poison
mikev May 2016
she used to tell me I was poison
to everyone but to her
I was medicine
we met in sin
six drinks in
she used to tell me I was perfect
with red cheeks
I was an open book
she used to call to say goodnight
and call to say I'm poison
and used to call to cry and tell me she's sick
she used to call
she used to call
now the phone doesn't move
I'm poison
199 · Mar 2016
let it burn out on its own
mikev Mar 2016
i want to take your breath away
i thought as i saw her smile, silence
and grass bending in the breeze
her eyes press together with patience
and readiness for 'the next moment
i want to take her breath away
squirming and bumping shoulders
her mouth cracks a smile so genuine
i almost freeze up stop but i know her already
i want take your breath away
as were talking holding hands on sidewalks
below reflective towers bellowing promises
but her voice is a dove on a sunday morning
as i'm looking through the screen porch
at a dim mist i realize
you took my breath away
mikev Aug 2016
six figures spinning
like roulette wheels
red and black and white
oh Lord, please let me
just get lucky tonight -
196 · Dec 2015
KMA
mikev Dec 2015
KMA
It bothers him
What they say
Think
How they
Show their emotions in their eyes
And mouth. The lies
They mouth, he wonders
When, no why.
Why me?
It bothers him
What they say
How they think
Or, fail to do so.
196 · Jul 2016
80:20
mikev Jul 2016
Eighty percent of the time
I'm lusting for twenty percent of you, ***
Eighty percent of my time
I'm over thinking twenty percent of my problems - hmm,
Eighty percent of the time
I'm lost, trying to recognize twenty percent of the faces I see - huh?
Eighty percent of people I meet
Twenty percent I can actually stand
Eighty percent of my sins
Were 100% due to lack of faith.
195 · Nov 2016
my cross is my
mikev Nov 2016
my cross is my sword -
my cross
is on my back
two edges
- i cut myself once -
or twice, - my sword,
is my cross
my sword is my cross
191 · Sep 2016
Relativity
mikev Sep 2016
It isn't how often you call
It isn't how much you spent on holiday
It isn't that you remembered the date
It isn't that you did that favor
It's not what you say
It's not what you think
It's not that you care
And it's not that you bring
Potato salad on Saturday -
189 · Sep 2016
tackle in your throat
mikev Sep 2016
swimming upstream
I
can't breath
lately I
can't remember
I
drown
188 · Nov 2016
next.open("wounds");
mikev Nov 2016
i see hatred in lot's of eyes since the election date -
somehow convinced their opinions are making waves -
ego grows and we show new sides of self -
my problem is
almost every where i go i show up wicked late
like - why - do i
suffer this, wicked fate?
serving weight fist under handed - tricking fate -
or so i assumed - buying time
to spend it with you -
187 · Oct 2016
hi
mikev Oct 2016
hi
i met a girl tonight
well
i met before but
i didn't know her
name
yet
187 · Jul 2016
Nice Mouth, Expletive
mikev Jul 2016
I knew it was over by how uninspired you were on your knees.
I knew our worlds were to crumble underneath our feet.
I knew there was a familiar hatred
Like on holidays when that one person
Does that thing
They always do
I think that's me sometimes when I walk out of rooms.
The shadows chatter about the light, I tell myself.
But after deeper analysis
I feel like a shadow
A mere cast of lack of reflection of an object I have no control over.
And I just dance in this wet candlelight.
Hoping, I come back to life.
187 · May 2015
Untitled
mikev May 2015
i'm unflatterable
not easily offended
not flustered, and yet
all too often tempted
even after i've had my fill
i'm back
for more
183 · Feb 2017
happy halloween
mikev Feb 2017
everybody i know
dresses up like monsters
and ghosts
every day i
have ever known
and today is as cold as it
was once those windows
cracked open with a
wind of razorblades and let
you into my life like
a feral raccoon eating
at me like a heaping trash can
179 · Jun 2017
Liberal Gasoline
mikev Jun 2017
I don't know what is going on -
Maybe it's the trap music.
That led to the twerking. No,
it's got to be Snap, the Google -
I see the ghosts of history around me -
Symbols of righteousness - hatred
mirrors facing mirrors - the voices -
I face the light in hopes of an answer -
I turn away and forget for I know one not come -
I breathe in the static -
I smile at the cameras -
Run.
178 · Sep 2016
if looks could kill
mikev Sep 2016
I'm told I'm dangerous when I smile
Good thing it doesn't happen too often
177 · Jul 2016
That's not normal.
mikev Jul 2016
She puts what where?
He says yes too?
She doesn't listen well.
He tries, but doesn't have too.
176 · Jul 2016
i am not like u
mikev Jul 2016
I don't really care.
Like if I did,
things wouldn't be like this
Like, if I cared
We'd talk more than once a month
If I cared
I'd see you outside of the holidays
If I cared
I'd have so many
more memories
of us. But I don't care.
I wake up.
I
Fall asleep
I order dinner
and I eat.
173 · Jul 2016
Tell Us What You Know
mikev Jul 2016
I miss when I could see better in the darkness, I said
almost tripping over a root
That could go to any one of these trees, I thought loudly -
I miss when it meant something
what time of day or day of week it was
Oh what a joy it was.
Connecting to a piece of time
That by the time I noticed it, it had already vanished.
I was somewhere new.
So no, I already told you.
I don't remember where I was.
170 · Dec 2015
End of the World
mikev Dec 2015
I wanted to help you.
But you just wanted help.
169 · Jul 2016
Ground Control to Major Tom
mikev Jul 2016
Khhhhh
Them Mtown boys are back at it again -
166 · Jul 2016
My Blue
mikev Jul 2016
It's a dandy lion
Being lured
towards light
166 · Oct 2016
existential love hate
mikev Oct 2016
the sky is
not your sky
not my sky
it's their sky -
there.
you see it?
i feel like no one star gazes anymore
or is it just me?
i think i would go
if i had the chance
166 · Nov 2016
variable = u
mikev Nov 2016
sometimes i think there's really no reason why
you and i should have to fight - like
i think about, last night
you wanted to pass out, I was like -
apprehensive, in my eyes
just because, I wasn't tired
but you were, sick too
of me it seems, because next you
said, **** why can't you ever agree with me?
why can't anything go easily? between you and me
it's constant conflict
because you and i
it's the friction I get - it's this vision I get
where the decision isn't mine to make
let's be real, it's true when I say -
you got me so high -
say goodbye to home base -
unconditional, but somehow this
human condition will, find a way to fight it
now I hide away for days and write it
now I ride the wave and chase a high that -
I'm not sure exists.
165 · Sep 2016
ashes in your milk
mikev Sep 2016
I know I'm up too late when I start getting emails from myself -
I realize it sometimes
Reminders of the past
Hoping I'd changed my ways or
at least my sleeping patterns by now
163 · Nov 2015
stop the presses
mikev Nov 2015
life's a book
you judged by the size
didn't read
see - i get looks
when i go outside
by the grazing sheep
wolf wearing their clothes with amazing teeth
chasing dreams, i refuse to let go of
you just drink and hope to get over - the past
i take a step back, and shake the wet black
blanket they wanna place over my head
161 · Jul 2016
Gut Me
mikev Jul 2016
I don't recommend it
There are more valuable
Sections
To consume
First.
161 · May 2015
where'd the light go
mikev May 2015
head full of dreams
heart emptied by nature
hands clenched
mind filled with anger
my, what am i but a stranger
to the others, myself
friends of family and she'll
come back crying
emotional triggers firing
161 · Sep 2016
Dont Talk 2 Strangers
mikev Sep 2016
I leave dishes in the sink
For days and kiss girls
At bars and buy then
Drinks - I
Chase the burn
With ice and Tums
And if she shows
I'm likely to run, away -
I'm likely to run, away
Because for a while now -
I've been dreaming of another home
mikev May 2015
That was the last time I saw her.
I made love in the morning, she breakfast.
I took a shower, she my dignity.
I started the car, she to leave.
That was the last time I saw her.
Clueless, or so I thought
That would be the last time I saw her.
So I went back
tracing steps, brushing prints
pacing nights, wondering how I came to trust this *****
Maybe she -
was frustrated
the trust faded
But who's fault was that?
I didn't tell a lie
I didn't tell a single lie, it was maybe five
1. I trust you
2. it's fine
3. I trust you
4. it's fine
5. I'll see you tonight
No - just a note?
I'm just left to cope?
with the half hearted words you wrote?
156 · Sep 2016
Goodnight, Moon.
mikev Sep 2016
You don't call
But I still visit
Always out of reach
Never out of mind so
I reach and
I reach
and I
r e a c h
154 · May 2015
stay a while
mikev May 2015
take your shirt off
have a drink
watch this television
flashing
lights
where does the room go
when i leave?
151 · Apr 2016
Untitled
mikev Apr 2016
So, there's this girl I like.
I mean, I just met her.
But I think I like her.
I mean, I like the way she stands,
like her shoulders can withstand
whatever avalanche of accident happens.
I like the way her eyes glance at the floor.
I like the ways she demands without a word.
But so much to say.
I must muster a way.
Without learning to just lust her and play.
The same game week after week
I get weak seeing we, are losing ourselves.
We, looking for something great
I forget what I have, and I have it all.
Nothing but opportunity.
Vigor and spit vinegar and wit.
I willing to commit.
Everything I have to get.
For now.
149 · May 2015
east or west
mikev May 2015
i am the shell of what i was
145 · Aug 2016
where have you
mikev Aug 2016
I'm told, my smile is contagious
But I think I caught it from you
Maybe it was the way you'd hold my hand, with patience -
I knew, I was into something with you -
Maybe it was the Autumn breeze
with death on its teeth - chills of a dying star -
Maybe it was the darkness under trees -
bright stars, always out of reach -
Maybe, my mind has a mind of its own.
Just maybe, she'd like one night alone.
Maybe, just maybe, I should have hung up that phone.
But lately, baby, I wonder where you have gone
I wonder, where you have gone?
143 · Sep 2016
You're Leaving Again?
mikev Sep 2016
Don't stay too long
But don't keep your pants on -
Shoes tied too tight?
Let loose but
Don't get comfortable -
I think you believe in me -
I think I believe in me -
That'll show 'em -
That'll show 'em -
It's nice when you call and
ask how my day is going -
and it's nice when you want
to know where we are going -
I don't follow much of a map anymore -
but I still get where
I need to go.
mikev Sep 2015
going through that same break up twice.

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