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 May 2015 Emily L
Andrew Tinkham
I looked for footing and kicked pebbles away and tried to get just close enough so I could clear the edge.
It wasn't working because its scary
To think of dying while peeing.
I knew what to do to free a hand and get more comfortable.
I climbed back up the shingled ***** away from the edge.
I took off my sweatpants.
I took off my Grateful Dead shirt.
I was naked.

I went back down to the edge, feeling like a fishin the sea.
Now soon enough the stream it came.
White gold drops spattered on the roof and stopped.
I knew I had to clear the roof or else what was the point.
I put out a second shine line but still missed the mark.
Then, a car alarm goes off.
Good thing I'm not the nervous type.
Alright, third time's the charm and it was!
I cleared the edge,
Cascading crystals sped to the ground to explode in a patter.

Now naked, still, I write and feel the warm sunlight.
 May 2015 Emily L
Andrew Tinkham
Keep yourself.
Take it much further.
Punish the hammer.
Dance on the ledges.
Increase your wedges.
Eat the pie.
Eat the pie.
Eat yourself whole.
Grace the covers.
Take a holiday for granted.
Don't act like you didn't earn it.
You are the last of a dying breed.
You are the start of a coming race.
You are the zenith of civilized humans.
Culture your neighbors.
Show them behaviors.
Actions are louder,
Especially dynamite,
But you know to listen.
 May 2015 Emily L
Andrew Tinkham
My bedroom breathes, my lunch box talks.
My fingers bleed, my blanket walks.

I am a very satisfied young boy.
You can pretend I am your little toy.
I am

Alone.


Vacations sweep me off my bare feet.
Car tripping sun burns and sisters are sweet.

I move like a lead balloon rolled down the Pyramids.
You can't upset me or scratch me now.
I am

Alone.


Gripping the good of your shoulder, surprise.
I tried to tell you with looks in my eyes.
Forever I'm wanting you to call out my lies.

I'm a very ***** little boy, I've been punished by bigger girls than you.

Frightened, you turn, I blush, I look around.
Is there a friend of mine in this **** town?
Sisters are too close and Mom has to work.
Same as I'm used to, don't mind me, ****...
Happy
Bewildered
Lazy

Alone.
 May 2015 Emily L
Giano M Hurtado
Am I ever really grown? They say that you are a adult once you are no longer dependent. Yet since the growth of society we have be bred on dependency. As a child you depend on your mother or your father.
Yet how many these days can "live" without being dependent on money.
I do not say this as condescension but as fact, a fact I to am guilty of.
 May 2015 Emily L
Giano M Hurtado
In this world we are all distant.
Can you see what your missing
a life with me, but is that the life you pictured yourself living.
Well its the life I wanted, now im livid.
Maybe this is way I force the alone. Its been cold, and I enjoy the winter.
When she finally shes what is missing, so much time will have passed she wont know what hit her.
its not me, its you. Maybe your thoughts are crossed, without your compass its raining and your ship is lost.
your typical *** tattoo lied, I know you can still sink.
 May 2015 Emily L
Dios Dormer
if i were a river and you were the city
i'd ask of your residents to spit in my heart
to throw sludge in my waters
to toss wrappers and bottles and nooses and anything in-between
to let the thick, gluttonous swamp of human waste
accumulate under my bridges
to place tentative fingers into blood-red throats and
excrete the very bile of their lives into me
to run naked, filth encrusted fingers
through the vile depths of my flow
that is what i would ask of you, love
*if i had the courage
 May 2015 Emily L
Kelley A Vinal
For birds abound
In shallow mounds
A marsh to sate their thirst

A vulture pen
A raven then
Out of the fire burst

Rocket ships
And planes are quick
But birds have made it first
 May 2015 Emily L
Kelley A Vinal
Galactic disposition
Relentless exposition
A guided meditation
To harbor one's condition
An earwax candle mission
Removing audible visions
Internal text to bring forth next
The silent-held emissions
 May 2015 Emily L
Day
Anxiety
 May 2015 Emily L
Day
Can't breathe.
She's looking at me.
What do I do?

Can't move.
He's standing so close.
What do I do?

Can't talk.
She asked me something.
What do I say?

Can't sleep.
Tomorrow I'll have to do it again.
What will I do?

Can't eat.
He's staring right at me.
What do I do?

Can't Breathe.
My heart is going to **** me.
Oh well.
 May 2015 Emily L
Day
Society.
  Killing.
    ******.
      Slaughtering.
        Stabbing.
          Shaming.
Voices.
    Whispering.
        Chanting.
           Yelling.
             Screaming.
               Crying.
People.
  Desperate.
    Alone.
       Hurt.
         Separated.
            Angry.
America.
   Segregated.
    Spiteful.
      Poisonous.
        Murdered.
           Undignified.
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