#smash
The vegetable plants out back have pretty much had it.
A handful more of the hatch chiles, we think.
Four final tomatoes, red and round and gorgeous.
We ate BLTs this summer like they were going out of style,
relishing the fruits of our meager garden,
pioneers with our hands on our hips,
dirt under our nails,
shading our eyes from the sun.
We worked for these tomatoes.
Or, I did. I worked for them.
You don’t like tomatoes,
neither do I if I’m being honest.
But I tended dutifully
and dutifully, you ate.
Wow a garden tomato,
we would say.
There’s just something about it.
If I could,
I would smash this mountain of dishes with a ball peen hammer
and we would sand down the sharp edges
to line next year’s beds.
A mosaic,
we’ll tell them.
Handmade.
The possums and the raccoons will come and go
And we’ll eat sandwiches and chips
off of paper
and never look back.
Oct 9, 2025
Oct 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM UTC
Nails of the master’s reach...
No way out, no returning to innocence.
The bullied beat, the bullied beat...
Knife of the master’s heart we twist round -
Nails scrape for us... but it’s useless.
You are your own rose running, sweet one, smoker...
And they’re stale in their master’s keep.
Don’t need to keep the master beneath us...
In these vertical, breath-short windows, they are the beat-less...
And you stare straight through them.
Smash their hearts with sugar...
A life that keeps no secrets... far from the master’s weakness.
Aug 20, 2025
Aug 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM UTC
Intimacy falls
flat on her face against hard
concrete. Window-pain
of the soul opened.
She leapt out-- into mid-air--
Smashing-- abstracted.
Is she alive? No
one caught her. Vulnerable
to asphalt - turned down.
Mar 6, 2025
Mar 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM UTC
i want to smash plates
but i can't do that
i cant betray the image of the
perfect daughter
the perfect sibling
the perfect child
although i am far from perfect
and everybody knows it
even you know it
but i still can't smash plates
maybe it’s the curse
of the eldest daughter
or maybe
there is something
intrinsically wrong with me
because i don't remember
when this started
or if there was ever a starting point
i don’t remember what shattered me so badly
that i wanted to shatter the world with it
Mar 20, 2024
Mar 20, 2024 at 2:12 AM UTC
The internet connects culture.
We used to not know how to act
and took cues from proximal role models
or distant stars.
Now we take cues from the internet
or those who are
and we become one person.
Everybody wants to talk about the daily melees and brawls
nobody wants to talk about Super Smash Bros.
and how when it came out the internet wasn’t really a thing
so people had to learn to play on their own
and each person you faced was a new experience
but now everyone learns the best strategies from the internet
and pick between only a few different characters.
Apr 17, 2020
Apr 17, 2020 at 12:15 AM UTC
To aim your place
and chase with haste
Whilst many face
the angst and grace
Informed techniques befit your crest
Smash through with force
Opposing guests
Controlling breath
Patience met
The journeys long to ascend
Focus on the foes ahead
Destructive forces with intent
Defeat dealt out inside a zone
Hate and venom will be spent
A noble art to call your own
Mar 4, 2020
Mar 4, 2020 at 6:52 PM UTC
I slept passed my alarm.
who really cares!!
Saturdays rock..
Feb 12, 2020
Feb 12, 2020 at 5:29 PM UTC
Let me smash
Let me smash
Let me have a slice of that ***
Mar 25, 2019
Mar 25, 2019 at 11:00 PM UTC
I bet that man,
he with his white cap,
smashed my box against the wall
as he so carelessly
dumped
my package on the doorstep.
Mar 6, 2019
Mar 6, 2019 at 7:08 PM UTC
you can't game & watch the clock,
that's how you lose another stock,
she run away with your cash,
its a smash and dash,
over in a flash,
at least you still got to tap dat ***
sitting back puffin da herb,
think how its so absurd
that 69 be the cap
in smash,
that's the ultimate smash,
****** innuendo
right in front of your face,
hurry up and get your fix,
that taste,
that glaze all over her face,
yeah.
© Try
Dec 12, 2018
Dec 12, 2018 at 12:43 AM UTC
I'm covered from head to toe in resin, acrylics and epoxy,
Some pulverized rocks my son gathered from the Chattooga River,
Now reduced to a burnt ember dust.
I added silicone sludge and a little baking powder as well,
And once mixed, this dicey concoction is beautifully toxic,
So I waft the air and inhale it.
Painting a colorful sunset is too easy, I prefer black and white,
So with a wooden board the size of a door,
I get to work with my rubber sledgehammer, blowtorch
A gallon of poison and flammable spray.
The passers by have seen this look in eyes,
From The Shining or possibly their preachers,
You know, the same look that's a sight to behold.
Slamming the hammer down with brute force
And purposed abandonment,
I paint my sunset and wrangle the stars later.
A shower won't do me justice>
Sep 18, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 at 12:15 AM UTC
Break
The heart
Of the one
That broke you.
Smash!
Burn
The lives
Of the ones
That bind you.
Smash!
Tear
The flesh
Of the one
That haunts you.
Smash!
Smash, just for the sake of being heard.
Jun 14, 2018
Jun 14, 2018 at 8:14 AM UTC
Behind every dream, every hope lies
visions of something surely better
some are grandiose, some fantasy
others are practical to the letter
yet all are fondly held within
until their time is right, unfazed by falls,
rocky road or rough terrain
equally valuable to those who
quest for them with all they have inside
not giving up so they can proudly say I tried.
May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018 at 5:44 PM UTC
Life threw me down until I smashed
Little by little I pieced myself together
I'm not perfect and sometimes I feel weak
But despite the cracks, I am not broken
Dec 31, 2017
Dec 31, 2017 at 4:18 AM UTC
off with the heads
of the heads of the states
out of the houses
and into the streets
no borders
no nations
no more exploitation
no starvation wages
or indoctrination
abolish all prisons
put kops out of jobs
an end to these prisms
and liberal facades
tired of lies from people in power
drag the bourgeois out their ivory towers
tear down the walls
dismantle the systems
answer the calls
don't act like you missed them
the time is now
the place is here
no hesitation
no more of this fear
the time to fight is now
Mar 1, 2017
Mar 1, 2017 at 10:47 PM UTC
Your stars glimmers
Belching, wrenching
Exposing my ethnic aura
A tape of heavenly bliss
The acoustic rhythm
Essentially subliminal
Satiably insatiable
Tracked traces covered
Your tree branching out
Railing through my bark
My bosoms blossoming
Tip-toe to my bareness
Your entirely arousing
A summation of beauty
A firefly to enlighten
Encased within to liven
A body I hold twinkles
Whistle magnetic presence
Sprinkle my mind to entwine
Assign your soul peacefully
A might, a light at sight
A whole in me,a one in you
Pluck, nip,smash,trap,stash
In dreamscapes and reality
Mar 4, 2016
Mar 4, 2016 at 11:37 AM UTC
you tell me what's happening
and a white hot anger fills me
you said we could hang out
you promised me,
but you found someone else
you broke the promise.
and i'm done.
so i'll take this white hot anger
and i'll tear up
the wall of our friendship
smash the glass you put between us
me watching you have all the fun
while you have the time of your life
i'll throw away
the memories from so long ago
the joy they once brought,
has to go
i'll spit out words
that i've held in for so long
and forget the saying
never trust your tongue
when your heart is bitter
i'll scream on the roof
and kick dirt on your grave
i'm no longer fine,
i'm angry
Jul 1, 2015
Jul 1, 2015 at 3:10 PM UTC
Her breath forms beautiful icicles on the blood-stained window, her pale body lays in horrifying grace
Sunk in cheeks
Charcoal eyes
Her soul empty
gone.
Nothings left.
She feels only a slight tug as his fist curves into her fragile skull once again, smashing her petite figure into the window.
shatter
the beautiful icicle is exploded into a millon pieces and so the glass.
As her tired face hits the window sil
You can almost feel the break of her jaw as it crushes beneath the weight of his tremendous blow.
Her eyes are still open
But she is now completely gone
The last of her life shattered away with the icicle formed by her last breath.
v.v
May 15, 2015
May 15, 2015 at 6:03 AM UTC
Drop the mallet
Fool the believer
Smash the car into the junction
It's a beautiful motorcrash!!
Jan 26, 2015
Jan 26, 2015 at 9:24 PM UTC
my feelings overflow
with nowhere to go
waves smashing against the breakwater
spraying sea foam
a cacophony no one can hear but me
because it's roaring
inside my head
Jan 2, 2015
Jan 2, 2015 at 11:07 PM UTC
Consumed by anger since a child
Enough to never make me smile
Surely darkness has been aquired
Still god sent me an a blue eyed angel in the night to keep me from fully falling
A loveless father and his child who both knew, better off if he was dead.
Loyalty to the mc club and on his stainless steel horse he can abide
Unconditional love is what a father is suppose to give his son.
Surely this foolish man is blind for I am here and I am alive.
Nov 11, 2014
Nov 11, 2014 at 1:07 AM UTC
My heart screams out.
You've been cutting it ever since you smashed your love to pieces while it was still intertwined with my own.
I'm drowning in lost love.
I'm aching for you but you just keep kicking me in the ribs.
I love you.
I hate you.
I hate how I love you.
Jul 17, 2014
Jul 17, 2014 at 7:53 PM UTC