#elastic
Limpid Elastic
Bombtastic gymnastic
Keeping pants on
This potato shape
Suspenders need not apply
Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 1:27 PM UTC
Jamming her fingers into the keyboard,
You would have thought that it was elastic -
You would have thought she was digging into her soul,
Searching for something stronger than this
Broken melody.
May 30, 2016
May 30, 2016 at 6:13 PM UTC
For each and every other,
There's something to be said.
There’s something to be said for –
The security guards
With coke nails.
There something to be said for –
The alcoholics
That moonlight as bartenders.
There’s something to be said for –
The huddled mother,
Cradled child and cusped copper.
There’s something to said for –
The recluse with word,
Broken atop a glass of wine.
For each and every other,
There’s something to be said,
But one knows not another word.
Jan 23, 2016
Jan 23, 2016 at 8:39 PM UTC
For a while there was an elastic band gripping her wrist.
Then it snapped.
The taught frantic energy became dusty residue, a shed snakes skin. Fragments of it lay in the crevices of her cupped palm. Parts of it seemed to wriggle, until they didn't ache any more.
Looking up, the room remained quiet. A bad song landed through the speakers. Time started back up again. The pieces had to be scraped into the apron.
Nov 27, 2015
Nov 27, 2015 at 5:50 PM UTC
Like an elastic band,
Kindness expands beyond,
I feel like it's a bad luck charm of sort.
You don't acknowledge it-
Like you should, love.
I'm taken back,
By this cold
Fact.
I hear your voice at the back
Of my head,
I feel a skip where the beat
Should be.
One step forward but never
Much progress
In that.
Mar 6, 2015
Mar 6, 2015 at 7:38 AM UTC
let’s engender a love like an elastic.
baby, let’s create a love where …
when we’re plagued and bombarded with complications
we still spontaneously recommence our conventional shape;
like an elastic.
darling, let’s make a love where…
when we fight and you say i hate you
i can gaze in admiration into your eyes
grasp your hands
pull you closer
kiss you and tell you i love you
and we’d be okay because you’d know i mean it.
my love, let’s create a love like an elastic
whereas, we’re oblivious to our boundaries
and we’re too paranoid to find out
because if we do, we just might pop.
your heart’s been broken,
mine has too;
but i promise you an elastic love is all we need
to get through.
I want to feel what you feel.
I want the tough polymeric substances connecting our hearts
to communicate with me;
vibrating whenever something is amiss.
i want to feel the pain he made you feel
i want to dwell in your suffering and swallow it
just to digest it and make sure it never comes back up.
After that, i want to be yours …forever.
- d.b.d.
Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 12:00 PM UTC
****** me with your madness
Pull me in with your spiraling illusions
Paint swirls beneath my eyelids
trickle words into my pores
Make my breath a choke without your power
Make the screams come out my ears
Hot words swell on my tongue
Send me from this stiffening reality
in, to the elastic world of light
or is it darkness
the image is not mine
You pasted it to my eyes
You remove it
Or forever I will pace my castle in the air.
Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 9:55 PM UTC