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#rubber
not  the prophylactic kind, nor the rubber kiss road tire kind. but the rubber of bodies old and young, tired and tense, young and flexible migrained, played & splayed, pain paralyzed, soothed by cherubic fingertips oiled with, anointed by, a-custom cream of tenderizing aloe and gentling, kind loving quieting & shushing tho mine own temples, raging, feverish, combobulating as words spill as ********* and then *she sleepy whines: why did you stop rubbing me?* and for a sleep deep, she leaves me, going unanswered but happily nonetheless boy be typing The End
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Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM UTC
My Primary Role, Rubb'er (To sleep, perchance to dream; aye, there's the rub)
I look down out of my second story window to see the jam as far as I could spy. It looked like a lake to me, oh what a spot this is turning out to be. The smell of strawberries in the air was the only wonderful thing. For earlier that day I had seen my friend eaten by the strawberry fiend. It reminds me of the blob in a movie I've seen. To my surprise party of little rubber people in a little Glass boat we're coming to save me. Wrapped in trash bags all over their body and up to their heads, they were all sitting in a very large fish tank moving full speed ahead. One yells, we're here to save you my very good friend. Put these bags on and jump right in. As I jumped right in the tank spring a leak. If we don't get out, we're going to feed the **** thing. One of the little rubber people described it me. I helped the Little rubber people back into my window and declared. I guess we wait for rescue my friends. As the building begin to quick and Shake. And that's how a strawberry scented death got me and my friends as a dinner date.
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Mar 3, 2024
Mar 3, 2024 at 4:20 PM UTC
Strawberry scented death
There are buckets made of plastic There are buckets made of wood The former are fantastic The latter not so good. There are buckets made of metal And canvas buckets too But metal for durability I'd choose if I were you. There's a bucket on a digger And buckets made of leather The former are the bigger And the latter not so clever. There are buckets made of tin And with a little ***** in hand Kids can build sand castles When playing on the sand. There are buckets made of rubber Or with a wringer for a mop And some in white enamel With a blue ring round the top. There are so many buckets And some I may have missed But if anyone should ask me That's my bucket list.
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Dec 7, 2022
Dec 7, 2022 at 2:27 AM UTC
A pail reflection by Ray Pattenden
When I wander movies the ones I've seen and remember the sights and all the scenes the stranger ones, in stranger weather There are two that surface right away you may not have seem them my friend so if there ever comes the day watching till the end leaving nothing left too say "Rubber" just a story a tire filled not with air kinda weird, kinda scary ya had to be, right there "Swiss Army Man" is like that, a story filled with strange all the feelings, morbid, and/or gory in my memory, and always will remain
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Sep 21, 2018
Sep 21, 2018 at 11:27 PM UTC
Cinema at it's finest!
i think trains roll like tires, at night. their rubber arms can hold— can let go.
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Jul 4, 2018
Jul 4, 2018 at 2:55 AM UTC
trains can hold (can let
Blubber Sometimes I get tired Of all the blubber The grinding of systems The metal to the rubber The pushing of points The singing to the choir Pickaxe in place of featherc Look there's a bird upon the wire Maybe potions going dry No thank you please And fingers going all stiff While here awaits the feast And vases laying all smashed Words sitting there all torn Lets gather the broken scraps Rearrange them and be reborn Maybe it's me and only me Closing an old and tattered page Maybe I've overstayed my welcome On an old and creaky stage Ah the sticks an stones are smiling now The crows I think they've left But the cinders upon ash Still burn bright upon this hearth Out into the clearing See it twinkling up ahead An inkling of some something Some of us have thought of and said Merlin's done it agian Con-Ed's shut down Tesla's come into power And White Bear gets his crown Oh And George Carlin is pope Shakespeare is president They both know the ropes And you what ya think? Wink, wink
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Apr 25, 2018
Apr 25, 2018 at 6:14 AM UTC
Blubber
trapped beneath a fitted rubber sheet a lump in the mattress suffocating on rancid latex sweat and yesterday's dried fluids who were they the nameless in the dark this one smelled of popcorn that on howled in delight a collage of senseless noise scented by cats and Ajax leftovers always go bad Chuck-will's-widow in the tree by the window it must be after midnight though noon looks the same in this cage that gives just enough to torture with possibilities of breaking free freedom is overrated roses stain glass with the bloodletting of thorny mishaps blurred by smeared wounds ain't life grand when love ceases to be a goal how can one find what is utterly indefinable if it cannot be decisively named it cannot be concretely attained then again, love's fluidity is its charm no hard edges ebbing and flowing elusive and longing **** me latex blind unseen and used by those who never did mind a lumpy mattress
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Apr 13, 2018
Apr 13, 2018 at 4:10 PM UTC
Loveless, Sexless, Lifeless, and Free
I’m like a rubber band. I’m forced to bounce back from many things. I am painfully stretched to my limits, And recoil back into myself daily. I’m like a rubber band. But stretch me out for too long, Or wear me down for too long, And in the wrong hands, I’ll break every time.
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Feb 4, 2017
Feb 4, 2017 at 4:10 PM UTC
Rubber Band
Flubber inside filling out the cracks you and that insipid hat. Wolly sweater boatload of pins find out when our love life begins. It's quite awkward when I get so nervous like hot liquid boiling in a pan. It's really kind of funny 'cause I can't figure you out, man. Grist and marrow you're a stringy kind of fellow. And every time I see your stupid smily face I get this rubber in my tummy a fit I cannot place.
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Jan 20, 2017
Jan 20, 2017 at 1:44 PM UTC
Sillyfoam
I undress her slowly, pink tones are seen, As all the bits are taken away, undone I am Pleased. I see her now what I saw early that Week, dam I know this is what I thought, What friends said I'm in for a treat. I run out of breath, before the fun has begun, She gives me that looks like I want to **** Some one, she is inviting me deep in. I want to feel her mouth vibrate across me to Make me *** but first I want to play with Her and have some fun. She lies still why I do what must be done, she Doesn't mind what I say ***** talk, **** what Ever will get me to the finish line, dam this is fun. I go slow, lubed up she is wet for me, i go faster I think I'm going to, OUCH I fall out friction burn To the mushroom, eyes water I check no damage, I get off wait a few moments to continue the fun. I think it is time to do what must be done as her Mouth waits on me, I start I grab her hair, faster She says with her eyes I know, ****** ****** as I Skull bash her, O MY GOD I,M BBAANNGG. I cry out as a tear reaches my eye, in to the bin she Goes, that's the third one this month. I think I'll Have to find a real woman that doesn't explode, Or go flat just when I'm reaching the end of my goal.
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 2:45 AM UTC
Plastic Fantastic
People are metal We color ourselves silver Or gold or copper We conduct electricity And have the strength to do anything We are resilient enough To be burnt and twisted And live on Fighting against the rust People are glass Fragile and breakable We open ourselves up Let others shine through us Seeing our true self That is a rare gift A beauty taking more courage Than any could imagine And when we have such courage The irony is that we can be shattered By a simple fall From between tiny fingers People are wood We bear life And green leaves But cut us down with A sharp bladed axe We burn easy But it's impossible To rid our mark That we leave Smeared in black ashes People are rubber Bending to the will of others This and that Always bent out of shape Springing to our flattened Normal selves when no one Else is watching Striving, stretching to beauty, Beauty impossible to achieve When all the eyes are on us People are like paper They crumple and rip and tear And no matter how much You straighten it out The crease is always there They can be bent folded and broken Destroyed beyond repair Damaged from water stains and more From animals beware One sheet alone is strong and weak It can do a lot But wrap a thousand more nearby And suddenly they are unstoppable Able to hold 300 pounds Or more
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Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 3:08 AM UTC
People Are Materials
My thoughts are rubber My words are cement My thoughts grip me and snap back into my head full force each time they try to escape My words are concrete and imposing I can't seem to take them back no matter how hard I try
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Dec 4, 2014
Dec 4, 2014 at 7:33 PM UTC
Bound By Rubber And Cement
He came and went; the smell of burning rubber strong between her legs.
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Nov 10, 2014
Nov 10, 2014 at 5:33 PM UTC
Drive By
Look at it, your finger isn't an "Eraser" Stop STop STOP Trying to rub it out, What are you doing Spitting on your Fingers If the love furnace isn't warm, no amount of you Mingging slobber will Light this fire that needs a Spark, Flame, Fire Of passionate lust to This I must say, what's been On your fingers, "Really spit from your mouth" I don't want it smelling of Bad Breath, Garlic, Morning Breath "PASSION ALERT" Wash you hands Fingers too Its called "Mouth wash" Use it too, Do you know how delicate This instrument Your putting your fingers on? Its the only one I have got "So don't break it" **!!That my **** That's a ******** Rub it gently Don't rub it out, or ill bite your nose That my ***** Did you ever do *** Ed at school"** Jesus I use my emergency Stimulator Don't feel intimidated Yes its how you use it, Cough Cough Cough Now go, a woman needs her Five speed friend, ill be awhile So don't bother me, And don't forget to Close the door on your way out.
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 5:34 PM UTC
Do You Know What Your Playing With
The child fell in mid-July When he held three rings Rippling out from his bones. His knew smiled a toothless grin that dropped guts & goo While the child screamed Hoping that mother would set Down her dishes and break In half her paint brush. He hoped That mother would stitch him back Together. A scarecrow wears a costume Of a strong superhero three months Later with the help of rubber bands And metal barbs. The child fell in mid-July & Left a scar but not a bruise.
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Aug 17, 2014
Aug 17, 2014 at 6:25 PM UTC
Peaches in a Basket
angry men who do not know I do not have a dollar or a cig to spare. Ugly irrefutable contagion-handed howlers. Angry mischievous heathens that pantomime on 6:00a.m. sidewalk, Wicker Park gallow stop-sign, choreographed gutter-punk drunk walk. And of all he wants and could ever want splits down his gooey membrane brain in the outline of a noun shaped fragment of a clause, "Couldja spare 80¢ for the train," but of course I don't spare on the ellipsis or the period. Semi-colons I won't! My rubber-bottomed leather boots lash out, heavy scraping sounds trail this mirrored shadow half an angle behind me. ***** Blonde framed sunglasses from American Apparel, a gift from my sister in a folded Ray-Ban case is scattered on last nights bedroom floor, my girlfriend has certainly not noticed, the gloom-coated morning sun spray has not noticed; but I have unzipped a fissure in the ocular lens. My heart skips a beat. Her bedroom might as well have swallowed them whole. Now the house can halt and have the shade, swaying in Spring air in 10:22a.m. shadows. The aviator himself Howard Hughes would strike me with his 488 aircraft. Edwin Starr in his invincible sinister calypso of War would turn me round. I was sturdy as a rock until I began to forget my forgottens. These unknown unknowns I knew I needed. I'm over a quarter-century on to noon going nowhere- and quite blindly. But then, still she could stand upright and find me. Her neck crooked, looking onward through the East, the gristly roots of rhubarb buried in her searching fingernails. She's threaded worse, and of course if I could just tell her- this is the kind of nursing which requires acute temperament and flexibility. I am thus on a journey to strike nonsense and fear from the idiotic vocabulary that put this nonsense in my head. Split through me like a butter knife into my apotropaic. Perhaps tar water could cure my ails. If not, certainly a sliver of vanilla would set me straight. Or if could just rain rain rain all day, then I'd make do without, but she is at school. My pistons are racked and nervous, and I'm not going anywhere but my rucksack stoop. I am camped in midwestern Spring soup. Fog, rain, and shade. The nightmare of day.
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Apr 30, 2014
Apr 30, 2014 at 5:54 PM UTC
Day Lights
angry men who do not know I do not have a dollar or a cig to spare. Ugly irrefutable contagion-handed howlers. Angry mischievous heathens that pantomime on 6:00a.m. sidewalk, Wicker Park gallow stop-sign, choreographed gutter-punk drunk walk. And of all he wants and could ever want splits down his gooey membrane brain in the outline of a noun shaped fragment of a clause, "Couldja spare 80¢ for the train," but of course I don't spare on the ellipsis or the period. Semi-colons I won't! My rubber-bottomed leather boots lash out, heavy scraping sounds trail this mirrored shadow half an angle behind me. ***** Blonde framed sunglasses from American Apparel, a gift from my sister in a folded Ray-Ban case is scattered on last nights bedroom floor, my girlfriend has certainly not noticed, the gloom-coated morning sun spray has not noticed; but I have unzipped a fissure in the ocular lens. My heart skips a beat. Her bedroom might as well have swallowed them whole. Now the house can halt and have the shade, swaying in Spring air in 10:22a.m. shadows. The aviator himself Howard Hughes would strike me with his 488 aircraft. Edwin Starr in his invincible sinister calypso of War would turn me round. I was sturdy as a rock until I began to forget my forgottens. These unknown unknowns I knew I needed. I'm over a quarter-century on to noon going nowhere- and quite blindly. But then, still she could stand upright and find me. Her neck crooked, looking onward through the East, the gristly roots of rhubarb buried in her searching fingernails. She's threaded worse, and of course if I could just tell her- this is the kind of nursing which requires acute temperament and flexibility. I am thus on a journey to strike nonsense and fear from the idiotic vocabulary that put this nonsense in my head. Split through me like a butter knife into my apotropaic. Perhaps tar water could cure my ails. If not, certainly a sliver of vanilla would set me straight. Or if could just rain rain rain all day, then I'd make do without, but she is at school. My pistons are racked and nervous, and I'm not going anywhere but my rucksack stoop. I am camped in midwestern Spring soup. Fog, rain, and shade. The nightmare of day.
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