Submit your work, meet writers and drop the ads. Become a member
Jun 2014
Adam had no memory of his first wife.  as created, he would look at Eve all day and feel nothing.

-

the vacation house was found to be owned by another family.  in it, my mother resisted arrest.      

-

my father was born with six fingers on his right hand and seven on his left.  he was not fond of either hand until later in life when the grandchildren asked him at different times during their visits if he had been tortured.

-

God created the world because he couldn’t do it on his own.  ah, note to self, *******.  person is place.  I might’ve killed a man had I not been poking holes in a poem by Barton Smock.  

-

my brother says it’s part of his condition that he can only explain himself from the waist down.  he says he feels horrible in the back of his head and wants me to take a look.  he says I don’t know what darkness is.  before I can play doctor he remembers he has a story he wants me to write.  the outline of the story is off site.  in the opening scene brother recalls that a young man is blowing dust from a human skull made of plastic because it’s all the narrator can afford.

-

the head itself was an afterthought.  had god not allowed the soul to come up for air, beauty would have been spared our invention.

-

a single mother is a twofold mirage.  please argue above her quietly.  her legs collapse.  her child comes first.

-

your sister is the only person I’ve recorded to have been born without a gift.  I was told this in confidence by an angel masquerading as a small animal the size of which escapes me.

-

I am aware a sparrow exists.  not in a spiritual vacuum.  people are another hell.  

-

excuse my friend his earlier joy in saying who do I have to **** to get ****** around here.  at age 19 a man exploded beside my friend and my friend went quiet.  to his grave thinking his own bomb malfunctioned.
Barton D Smock
Written by
Barton D Smock  48/M/Columbus, Ohio
(48/M/Columbus, Ohio)   
414
 
Please log in to view and add comments on poems