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nothing's Amiss Aug 2016
Yet
Another
Immense bowl poured,
Deliriously! Cheerful! Cereal!
Rains
       like
           *****,
Eyes wide,
(The bleach white of critter-milk
Startled me sometimes.)
Gut protested,
child-brain gone static
With tv soup, frantic like my
Churning      stomach

Yet
another
Guilty passage to my mouth,
Quick avoiding eyes
Of stranger aunt
And stranger uncle,
Passing on faded vinyl tiles.

Retreat! Repeat.

Stagnant        prepubescent  
  Curled          embraci­ng  
An anciently abrasive couch

One zombie hour in
TV Wonderland!
For each 100...miles...from home:
  
This is not a vacation.

Not merely a visit, mama, though you
Assured. Me.

This is not a vacation but the
product
Of a failed! Marriage!
A case in court, the big THEY.

Deposit me here,
While...I...ferment:
An investment:
Television stares
And a belly full of
Cheap
Cereal.
nothing's Amiss Dec 2015
Your price of niceties is too high for me
For I've been choking on spoon-fed complacency
Corporate crime blinding us to atrocity.
Dropping, down go the dissidents-
Incitors of an unknown breed
They're mutilated sheep,
Killing the tamers
of a tenacious nation-
Rallying me.
nothing's Amiss Nov 2015
Every image, word
discontent with a present self
So enveloped in not being
It isn't.
Good with her hands at shadows
Evading reality on the daily
With a makeshift sanity.
Numbness over mind over matter
no matter,
Nothing but the latter
Greed.
Falling into easy pieces,
All peachy
In her cavernous
Dreaming.
nothing's Amiss Sep 2015
Still, still, in the silent revelation
of an undiscovered thought,
violent by nature
tempestuous
undertones of gradient succes
mindless tests,
confrontational mess

still the new leaf, lovers in the light of
fright,
the night with milky shades of sight,
sound as still, still, like the silent revelation
of an undiscovered thought

wake to still
calm thy head
the cavities of
unrest,
numbness at best
mess, of mind
tangled thread
much, too much
mild mannered
maneuvers, meek,
passive and complacent
stuck in the basement of
forward moving stagnant
lowly, little steps
descending, ascent pending
for a revolution
jacket too stiff,
no peace from
pollution,
human heart pollution
grey faced institutions,
failure soup,
smooth money,
compelling sandwhich
of gold-toothed grannys
insanity,
death’s locker a
spray painted
noir
and n’er to do better
than sell, sell
the well wishers
a lock of lamentable
whiskers,
unshaven unclean
a force of mean
momentary pleasure
of possession,
empty
and quick in succession
your price,
of niceties
is too high for me
eyes red with subtlety
nothing's Amiss Aug 2015
A victim,
A series of
Petty oppression,
And following each with
Speedy secession
Smile others,
smug,
beings of superiority
And smother
Your breath of free,
Breath of light

They think they know
What's best for me
nothing's Amiss Aug 2015
Lost, misplaced adolescent sanity
Parasites of pretty dining
On a serotonin buzz
Rust
Aging peace of mind, relentlessly
analyzing minute subtleties
With pricey ink, rhyme
Turning thought into parodies
Staining photos with a milky film
Mirrors turning mind images
Into mirages
Potent, bitter with your poison.
Your syrupy sweet venom,
Pervading will-
Turning weak human reason
To damage - seeking treason

Rationalizing each patch
Of black and blue,
Patriotic to the danger of you,
You self-inflicted malady.
Because that is the nature
Of you, oh disease.
Oh dizzying force, so appealing
So easy,
Turning minds to war machines
Yet
bystanders,
simultaneously enveloped
in the same deranged form.
Denial in a package on your  
Doorstep.

Hell is my dwelling place.
What?
No.
No, I am happy here.
nothing's Amiss Jul 2015
Grey nameless faceless suits
A decaying ladder without roots
Monochrome and corporate candy  loot

Your elitest point is mute.
Your point is mute!

Fine dining line driving
A self-sabotaging visionary
Glass half empty
Down your throat white wine is sliding

D-U-why is my life such a mess?
I dream of big success
In nightmares you wear office dress
This is a test

Of your *******
Freeload patience!

Just a purple plastic bobble head
Nodding yes with self-deprecating complacency
Lowely little Attempts of autonomy

Grin wider with each ****-induced palpitation
Foaming at the mouth
  media-induced inebriation--
Cheap industrial imitation
On the fringes, gazing upwards with disgust.
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