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mikev Jul 2016
Serving birds
Got me walking on egg shells
If I don't skimp
Night class, I might last
I bike back - alone
To build this nest
To leave this place in the past
To see you smile
I'd wish away, the world -
Got a fortune
Zip locked in a locked locker
This is torture
Making love, I just watch her
Smile.
mikev Dec 2016
My words are almost there
Ready to be drowned
Unfinished sentences - I
Start thoughts without knowing why -
I never understood kissing someone goodbye
mikev Jul 2017
the universe is cold
and stale and doesn't care
what we have in our homes, our hands
wallets syringes and pipes no hearts
no lungs or thoughts give meaning to
an empty darkness that drifts
along allowing what ever is to be to be
mikev Aug 2016
Love is war, they say
They, being those that say they love me.
War is peace, I read
in books about Hell spit-fire tarantulas crawling
up my cargo shorts black mandibles and clawing
my ****** organs - Love is war, she said with
an ambient glow from my cell phone on her face
A smile of hatred and shame
lust, and disgust in her throat all at one moment
One moment, I ask for -
There's no time for this - she said with a frog
in her diaphragm - I can taste the puke in her mouth from here -
I thought, all too familiar
This taste, this warmth, this light -
All on me - Love is war, I said
mikev Nov 2016
i can't be another statistic
i already made it this far
this world can't be that sadistic
that i am not so sure of, so far -
i see bloodshed of newborns
and lies from the preacher
i hear gunshots in the mornings
and lose track of the weekends
i barely notice the sky anymore
i rarely look you in the eyes anymore
mikev May 2015
take your shirt off
have a drink
watch this television
flashing
lights
where does the room go
when i leave?
mikev Jun 2015
it's over it's over
even though it's just begun
i'm older and bolder
but maybe i'm numb
over and over
we forget what's to come
cold shoulders hear i told you
to turn around and run
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
mikev Dec 2016
the good stuff
is the bad stuff that
i taste and it burns the sour
reflection that curls the lip is the
same as the electrons leftover upside
down flat against the water
i learned to breathe in a vacuum
i learned to swim in the flames
i learned to rise from the ashes
and i learned to never be the same -
i left you behind, another story
another day - you might say otherwise -
you might say otherwise when i walk by
cigarette nod red eyed demon
i pray to a sky covered in clouds
they are so close, but i can't see beyond -
and after days of rain, i'm ready to go
mikev Sep 2015
words can hurt people
ways actions never could
i said, it happened
but you didn't see it
outside of your projections
mikev Jul 2016
Starry eyed chipmunks stuffing
adorable cheeks like eyes wide
Don't dig farther than you have to you
stupid animal
Kick to the ribs and electrons
weep in my frontal cortex hot why
I don't know why I do the things I do
Blankness -
I wake up. Stuff happens. Repeat.
Sometimes I talk. Why?
Sometimes I think. Why?
Daylight blends into ideas, erasing
and replacing - and by the time its Friday
It's become a blurry greyness -
and I'm not alone.
No, I think this mind has a mind of its own,
I think - this mind has a mind, yes -
of its own, I think - no -
I don't know much about particle physics
or gravity
I hardly know of Mathemathics or read,
as I should, at least -
at least, I can enjoy the drama
The drag the envy the drab
The colors the lights the shiny white
teeth of beauty!
Fess up, - slate cold barrel of Justice between his Bondish villainous eyes -
We know where you hid the diamond!
I just want to shut the **** off.
But I don't.
I watch. And I listen.
And I search. And I vision.
Another round?
No thanks. I swear it feeds the demons in your intestines, sweetheart.
I fear, selling this, had to be an art
mikev Nov 2016
I like the way her
hair ends up clinging
to everything.
I like the burn before the change
in color. I like when
you call and I let it ring
Twice. I like looking at the sky
and asking it questions.
mikev Dec 2015
there's this Girl
i like.
She comes  by  once every
Thursday night, Six o'clock
Pulling in right in front in her
White Mercedes car -
She's always on time.
Meanwhile I'm late, but -
Cursing cruising down the interstate -
Weaving up lanes and weazing up smoke -
She's already at my place
And she's ready to go.
I think -
I love -
her.
But there's no way she feels the same.
mikev Jul 2016
You're so cute. She says.
You were always cute. But
something changed
recently -
I blame it on the inescapable entropic breakdown of your immune system, I think
Even the rising sun knows it's doomed
Even a newborn, leaving the womb
can choke on the umbilical cord
And if the doctor isn't fast enough
Well she's gone.
So what do you think?
What?
I said. Perplexed. Obviously.
She was lifting her shirt midrift available and a familiar dark ink etched into her flesh.
It's a bird, I got it for you.
mikev Sep 2016
swimming upstream
I
can't breath
lately I
can't remember
I
drown
mikev Jan 2017
It's been some time
Since I last saw you -
I wonder how you've been,
And if the thought of
What we had, and what went wrong
I wonder if you want me back
Or if it's all been gone - yeah
I still wonder about your dreams
If you've met them yet, or if you still pine for me -
I had a dream -
It was just you and I riverside
holding hands and clouds passing by
I could taste the air -
I could see the time stand silent -
Tall and forgiving and us, passing by it
mikev Jul 2016
And let the sun cook you like a ham sandwich
Swallow the salty water of temptation
Gag on your fingertips
And cry endlessly for salvation like a feral cat in the night
Kiss the moon, and cut the sky
Roll your car over at eighty miles per hour
Laughing and crying but laughing
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.
mikev Aug 2016
Ptshhpht. I been a feminist yo -
I said
Feminist.
Not feminine.
You gotta buy me dinner first.
Or at least a drink or five
Five! Five drinks
And I can do anything.
Actually. Anyone
can do anything.
As a
f e m i n i s t
I think we're all equal.
I think we're all as cancerous
and false, blue deviant as late breakfast
Equal.
I believe if one can't vote.
No one should. Why bother?
You're beyond what would otherwise be
(Free Speech)
But you can't relate
With daisies in your hair
And a cigarette hanging from you lips
Bursting with bacteria
and **** -
Survival of the fittest?
We're all going down, don't you get it?
mikev May 2017
family shouldn't
shame - because
shame lumbers in the belly like a bad ham -
it burns into intestines and spills
hot green stomach acid up your throat while
you're asleep peacefully at the television -
no, family shouldn't
point fingers like a winter's frost, scowling
like a midnight alley cat between trashcans -
no - family
reflects in the
social mirror, and breaks
itself down first
mikev Jul 2016
She puts what where?
He says yes too?
She doesn't listen well.
He tries, but doesn't have too.
mikev Dec 2015
Happens when you work late -
He told me.
You just lose track of time -
(sometimes)
You can't help but
Look up and ask
"How the hell did I get here?"
mikev Jul 2016
A chicken, white ****
Red vulnerable neck pecking
The dirt, for a spec of life
A rusted tractor and gasoline air
Fat and flat tires, and weeds everywhere
Where I come from isn't pretty.
But neither are we.
Pudgy damp fingers in every jar of mayonnaise, licking your lips
Like a dog at a dinner table
Like a wall shaking in the night
A window cracked full of opportunity
The spare change I gave away
The freezer burn on my ashes
The static hiding behind a full moon
A vapid hole in the sky, I'll fill someday.
mikev Jul 2016
It's been a year since we've talked.
I've always had **** luck come July.
This year, though, everything is new.
The people the places
The conversions the food.
This time, I know you won't call from across the universe.
But I have to believe the night sky is more than this static echoing back my own fears.
I know you would answer if I rang.
I know you'd smile and smile
Maybe laugh and ask how I've been all this while.
Well. I've been busy.
mikev Nov 2016
Hey, it's dawn
waking up again another day I yawn
**** - ing alarm, going off
I'm sick of it, hearing it
makes my spine crawl
I like work I won't lie
but it's light work, I won't lie
thinking about what might work
I can't lie, in my bed at night and not sometimes lose my mind -
sometimes I confuse my life
with visions I get, I sweat, I can't help it
I hoping something new pulls through soon so I can open
up shop on my own and starting climbing higher -
because who knows
on your own, how tall that ladder could grow
I'm eyeing Mars and distant stars like their options
man, thinking I could leave this Earth, maybe return
that has got me, laying in bed can't sleep but dreaming -
mikev Sep 2016
where i'm from,
we put towels on windowsills to keep out
     the cold -
dad replied

where i'm from?
we kept towels on the windowsills to hold in
     the heat,
mom beamed -

where i'm from, it's
     hot
and it's
cold
and i just need
some
fresh air
mikev Oct 2015
got her a gift I
thought was clever and hastened
I tell her I'll always love her, I can be exceedingly patient,
through whatever weather
I'd be there in a fire and rainstorm
told her that forever I’m staying
so when she said
let's take a vacation
my eyes light up
a permanent one
oh. wait.
no, me? - no - when -
she said, when you begin to intervene with scenes of dreams we breathed?
I'll say you're lacking persuasion
and - don’t ask the occasion.
They’re reasons I cannot be placing.
And life's short why would I waste it
with you? (the eyes)
plus
someone else’s name.
I can taste it
and stupid you and I
with the everyday doubt and shame it became abrasive
don't you see?
the pouts and pangs started replacing
every-single-*******-thing we were chasing
so everything small claim brings out the fangs
I'm so sick of thinking I’m all there is to blame
until I'm on the brink of insane?! (eyes)
I don't owe you any explanation
I don't care what you consider courageous
you don't know how anxious my core is
imagining the sort of - future we'd have
- No, I’m sorry -
I mean, I feel your pain,
everything around me, just happened in a hurry,
people and shadows, blended entwined and blurry,
all that **** before, I didn’t mean to instigate such a worry (the eyes)
I don’t know when you developed this fury
I wish I could help
I wish I knew sooner
instead of assuming useless rumors
always clueless and using excuses
fine. I agree to not be.
but please there's some putrid humor in this
maybe I got the chance to think for myself
maybe the cards I was dealt
got me almost broke on the felt
and since every emotion I felt
since the moment we met
was new
but maybe things end
without without clear reasons
mikev Oct 2015
I'm ready to go
she said.
I can't find my keys
need to tie the shoes
sunglasses missing
It's not my fault I'm not ready.
mikev Sep 2015
puddles of flesh
warmth by liquid
splashing against insides
of veins
everything buzzes yellow
as her lips rise and tremble
her eyes, widen and resemble
clean dinner plates
the walls and floor spinning
I fall into confusion
my stomach twists
my heart drops
and the light is gone.
mikev Sep 2015
My heads pounding
My necks twisted amuck
think I'mma stop giving a ****
Light up a blunt and do what I want -
woah wait -
ain't that the **** that got me
here in the first place?
Worst case I nervously pace
the halls for a day - two or a weekend
Blasting the weeknd
Entire enviroment reeking
shrieking -
Nah -
I'm better than that.
Can't latch onto the past.
That's the trash that got
us there at the start - instead
I prepare it in art
And share from the heart, with you.
And you.
And you and you and you.
Because why not?
It helps forget about that pinebox looming-
Thinking outside the winebox lucid -
I mean Windex, clean em out
And a win decks, stacks paper chips
You can't say this isn't some matrix blips
I am not losing ****
I am manuevering this beautiful thing
up past this ******* Nuva Ring
Cause that's life - you can get beat
or keep it on a leash - jeez
that's sexist. I don't know
where this became an accepted
comparison, its embarrassing
comparing them - to K9's
But we hear it through the grapevine
Turns of phrase we make fine.
mikev Jul 2016
I didn't know my own strength
(I should have known how weak you are)
I had a bad dream last night
(I think you're cheating on me)
I have so much work to do
(Let's stay in and have *** all day)
I miss the swingsets of my youth
(The way you breath so loud ****** me off)
You can do better than that
(I'm definitely more insightful than you)
I'm sorry
(I'm sorry for now)
mikev Oct 2015
i think
having known the sinister side of
anyone at any given
time, - it could, come crashing anywhere
even at work, or school, this parking lot
you - them, they'll never know what they are capable
of - depression fueled by hatred - a toxic cocktail - I don't
understand how this isn't a bigger issue.
mikev May 2015
what's a life lesson without a
good kick in the crotch?
mikev Sep 2016
Lately - I'm up too late...
And they say
     early to bed early to rise
But almost every night
     I can't silence my mind -
Filled with
What if's, and why not's
And how did's, and who got's - ?
It's a rattle in the bones -
It's a cold draft above your bed -
It's the spider you never **** -
It's the music inside your head -
I'm not usually one to go places
Or start fights - I don't usually cook at home
And I'm afraid of sharp knives -
I don't call my friends as often I probably could -
And I don't tell myself I'm as awesome as I am as often as I should -
Cut down, last tree standing
No sound -
There's no sound in the darkness -
mikev Nov 2016
i get annoyed
more often
than i'd like
to admit - i
try to control my
emotions but
sometimes i
want to quit -
sometimes i want
to say ***** this ****
and flip the table
drop the cards, tell them i'm able
to reach the stars
if i read these tea leaves hard
enough, long enough - i
know your mind wanders off -
mikev Jun 2015
You knew love could hurt
And you still went to work
Shaping a heart, a conversation piece
You knew what love was worth
Escaping the dark, finding patience and peace - in a place where everything else is grey - at best
You spent your life loving
And worst case scenario
You'll have been lying - but you won't know until you reach the cosmos
If you should have lost hope long ago
mikev Aug 2015
Your sky is pink.
They're eating yellow grass.

I'm at the epicenter of chaos
Syringes for the sick and
Banks robbed by viruses
*** in the palm of my hand.
The streets paved with lies
are decorated by death.
And buildings built
by policies
to build policies (to fill prophesies)

Wicked water, and open wounds
Saturated diets and broken wombs
Your sky is blue
Their water is black
Children's eyes close and never look back.
There are snakes in the sand
Lightening strikes in the distance
I can't see where I stand
And the wind smells of something vicious

Your sky is grey
The loudest one in the room is the TV
Candy and coffee for breakfast.
I'd brush my teeth
But I haven't the time, dearest Siri -
Seriously though
Sometimes I question if I'm the canary
in this binary equation
wondering when it's going to cave in
But its cool, I can be patient.
mikev May 2015
is this it?
love? looking around
when you're away and it not
being enough?
is this it? what they
say is so pure that has a poet with a loss
for words? four words
I love you forever, forward thinking is us
together - forward thinking is us
forever, twin flame, dew drops
soul mates, that question God
this is it, isn't it?
the resting place of coolness
hatred and creation all in one place it
takes getting used to
mikev Jun 2017
They say it's me
that makes you do things
you might not have done
if I was away
and that it's me
that likes to talk to you
and watches you
as you walk away

don't call me tomorrow
don't send me flowers
don't wish me all too well -
don't leave the sorrow
don't count the hours
just bask in your hell

They say it's me
that makes you do things
you might not have done
if I was away
and that it's me
that likes to talk to you
and watches you
as you walk away
mikev May 2015
Sunday mornings never meant much more to me than the day before work.
mikev Jan 2017
Open the windows let the spring breeze lift flowers with a song in the air -
Pour him a coffee tidy the table
Down come the children
It's an every day gamble, you swear.
mikev Jul 2016
I'm sick of eating organic
sometimes I just want to eat the face off a dead squirrel -
That's what we call McDonald's where I'm from.
Not really though.
Sometimes I think about my eating habits as a child, and what was allowed
My God great good Lord capitalized I did on milk duds and mountain few
I got so sick into a sink
Putrid fluorescent bile
It's not my fault.
It's not my fault.
My mind had a mind of its own!
mikev Jun 2015
just keep talking someone
will nod eventually -
maybe, maybe maybe not
mikev Jun 2015
I'm a flighty night owl.
mikev Sep 2016
I watch the people run
away but they tell me by
from my porch -
I have two
Questions for them -
They
Are deaf or rude
Or both
I -
Wonder if I look like that
mikev Sep 2015
She said
I'll never do it again, I promise.
Ok.
Okay - but... how can I be so sure?
and making mistakes at my expense? how will you ever learn?
because I was aching all over while waking this morning
hands shaking as I'm taking, this medicine
I can't take this, it's making - me sick
But for whatever it's worth,
I never wrote a song for, - anyone else,
but Hell, you just glanced and smirked,
tossed it aside, and then talked about work.
mikev Apr 2016
I don't wanna wait, she said
Throwing her hands like a child
I had to turn away
I couldn't
Deal
With
It.
Her... Innocence, we'll call it...
(More on that later) had me sick
Like, here's someone who
Thinks they know it all,
But lives with mommy and daddy,
Pays for a tanning bed - and
smokes occasionally, and
brushes her eyelashes on the road - she's
On a family phone plan
Doesn't talk to her sister
And tells me she doesn't know like most bands,
I mention. That's cool, I say.
There's so many it's tough to keep up with.
She smiles with her eyes lips pursed,
ready for the taking.
I tell her, I can't, I have to go
- ***, first.
mikev May 2015
suburban visions
of
frickin’ picket fences
and
sittin’ in picnic benches
thinkin’
my luck was endless...
unlike living under their lenses
unlike the unbecoming friendships
grapefruit sunsets and
violet nights ventured out
into seedy spots
with a
black maglite - now just a flashback.
a past life unsure what it was to act right
pain in order to laugh blind
if only i knew
ignorance is a trapped mind
but
I'm not a bad guy
I've witnessed ways to
pass time
that I wish I gave
more
thought
too.
urban sounds
sirens gunshots whisper
down alleyways where trash
scatters blame, who's fault?
who cares.
as long as I got
what's fair
it's fine. I'm afraid
it hasn't been fine in sometime.
mikev Jul 2015
Plymouth Street
Was like Plymouth rock
We broke new ground
And explored new thought
I hugged her twice
On the day we met
Never in my life
Had I felt that yet
More than carnal -
It was more like cosmic -
So no wonder why I saw stars
Once I lost it - pitch black
My voice box barely intact -
Waking up in the night
Like I'd been slapped
With the cold hand of death
No man, not yet. And I'm wide awake.
I can't leave the bed even though
I try to escape, I am trapped in my head.
Mislead by myself
I need to find myself, again.
mikev Jul 2016
Everyone dies alone.
When you close your eyes, for the last time
I want to be there, holding you hand
Knowing, you'll be happier after this
This unfamiliar blackness passes -
It's nothing you did, my love
This is by divine design -
Don't fear the air opening up a pathway
into voices familiar, colors unseen
and unspoken, and eyes that feel ecstasy
And when warm chills kiss your temples
and cool liquid wraps around your arms
When your legs go limp but heavy
and your heart is merely a memory?
I will love you, I will love you
I will love you like a city is noise
I will love you like the stars are static
I will love you, from so far away
with patience, and acceptance
And I will love you, with a damp teal
cloth patting against your forehead
I will love you, as the hospital bed
becomes a poem, and the poem becomes something more -
I will love you, I love you.
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