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10a
taylor roff May 2013
10a
"Most poetry books are a waste of paper"
(I know)
taylor roff Nov 2011
sagish blistered eye *****
held up with the bones and cartalig of old humming bird wings
fashoned by older men in german car shells
there small arthritic fingers are portals to stomacs that feed on
eye lashes and toe nails
taylor roff Dec 2014
I've been stuck in 9:44 A.M. for thirty minutes
Surrounded by digital clocks
The soft embrace of analog hands escapes me
ABC
taylor roff Mar 2014
ABC
Alphabetically articulated habitats
For unsophisticated acrobats
Tilt sideways to the beat of the drum
Stuck in a fine daze at the bottom of a bottle of ***
Fast crying circus barkers warn of long winded fortunes
As slant eyed on lookers BOO and gnash there teeth
"Gentle men, Gentle men", the filthy little man cries
"Let me dine with your daughters for just one night
And I promise you eternal fortune"
taylor roff Mar 2013
Art is dead
There are no artists
Just liars and magic men
The "artists" lie to themselves
More than anyone els
"It's a way for me to escape"
"It's my therapy"
IT'S CRAP
any ******* with....... Well..... Anything
Can make "ART" now days
But we all know, deep down inside that
Nobody has anything to say anymore
Except "look at me, I'm mysterious"
Burn all your art supplies and **** yourself
Ash
taylor roff Mar 2014
Ash
As traces of methane gasses are exposed in places the earth has chosen to reveal in manners that are hazardous
My scars are revealed in a way that has less passion than two lovers fighting for a last glimpse of each other as time passes
Fragments of ashes fall faster as massive blasts create matter in dances that hold the fragrance of eminent disaster
taylor roff Apr 2013
It's difficult to say
But you will hear it
Sooner or later
Which ever comes first

It's difficult to hear
But you'll say it
Slimy syllables slipping under and over
Threw your teeth
Past your lips
Falling fast to the ground
taylor roff Jun 2013
Arguing with disenchanted fractions of lust
Conserved in tributaries of fickle vestibules
Tactical pin ****** tranquilly distribute the crux of all misunderstood and demoralized charlatans
The levee enveloped in a felt like fabric
Dense and coarse
It had a mnemonic quality
Crafting a picture of my childhood bedroom
Mother would be oh so proud
taylor roff Nov 2011
tranqualy tranwrecked truck drivers
swim spaciously though sober sanity
working the 5 to (.......)
crushing saltien crackers over
home away from homemade marries
tomato soup
Dr.
taylor roff Apr 2013
Dr.
If you spend more time listening
And less time talking
You'll spend less time running
And more time walking
Looking in the mirror is bad for your health
Look to the world for true beauty and wealth
taylor roff Dec 2013
There is a coat on my door
To whom it belongs to at this point is uncertain
But it is there
There is room here
How much can be put in this space is unknown
But there is room
There is words on pages in books on shelfs in my room
I am not too clear on how they got there
There is a certain sweetness to salt
But I can't quit describe it
taylor roff Nov 2011
constant movement
even still
moving still
this earth is quaking
always
taylor roff Mar 2013
Rapid eye movements
Tantric thigh twitches
A badly lit room
Surrounded by four walls
Clocks on walls and floor.
                   The hands on the clock retain there form
But play a part more reminiscent of legs
Long and slender
Woman's legs I would imagine
Dripping wet
Smooth to the touch
Still dangerous
taylor roff Nov 2014
Black
Smooth
Held together with a strand of pearls
Unimportant whispering is common place
Practices laughing
Will touch your hand at the end of a conversation to show she is listening
Running for pleasure on a sunless day
Stuck in
Pulled out
taylor roff Nov 2011
dress up jane
in white salt
dress up jack
in pepper pepper
messed up jane
in locked guilt
messed up jack
in leather leather
here comes jane
fire and lightning
here comes jack
drunk and fighting
same old ending
blames both pending
take time transending
make time for mending
****** death for jane
complicated mess for jack
taylor roff Mar 2013
One two three four five
One two three four five six seven
One two three for five




Capitalism
Industrialization
Incinerator
taylor roff Nov 2011
my ears are *****
my fingers are *******(   with the purist of intentions   )
there is a bus in the lane next to me
as i come closer and closer
i notice the amsterdamn read lights
and i think to myself
(i wonder how much that bus driver would charge me for a ****)
she looks old and faded
crusty crumbling eye lids
held up by small sticks
made from the bones of huming bird wings
fashoned together by tiny men
in the face of the man in the moon
taylor roff Nov 2014
All the Kings horses and all the Kings men
Stood and looked at humptys body
And thought of there wife's and children

They tryed to fix his porcelain colored skin
Butchers and cobblers came from far away lands
With faint cinnamon smells following past silky tanned skin

His bulbous body was kept in a small locked room
From time to time the king would visit the oddly shaped man
Thinking that he had herd him breathing in his sleep

Years later the king lost his mind
Some think it was because of the egg shaped man
No one ever came for him
taylor roff Mar 2013
My mother was everything beautiful
                        Raising in the morning
                        Setting in the evening
                      Changing with the seasons
My father was the knowledge of the universe
                       No sugar coating
                         Bitter and unwilling to
                          Compromise
They told me I was given a gift
A gift that made the whole world turn
My mother described it as a wonderful transition
Returning all you are back to the earth to be reborn                
                                    a new
My father described it as a horribly dark thing that needed to happen in order to sustain life
I liked my mothers version better
When I was put upon the earth to share my gift
I was alone
No living thing would give quarter to DEATH
I had trouble seeing my gift as good
I felt cursed
Spit on
Yelled at
Looked upon as ugly
But time has past and I still have my gift
I've come to accept the fact that I am not liked
My parents told me I had a gift when I was born
What they didn't know was that my gift was not one of death but one of everything beautiful in the world and all the knowledge of the universe
taylor roff Jan 2014
sounds slide slowly
past palaces pitted
against aggressive
kings
          constantly
killing
           cowardly
farmers franticly falling
towards towers
of
endless eroding
pillars piled
with intentions of a sinister nature
built only to lead fools to die in a room with no light
taylor roff Mar 2013
If I had a child I'd name him **** up
                  So he would always have a place in life
And if I had a child I'd name her ****
                       So she would always feel right inside
And if I had children I'd **** them both
                 So the would never have to fight for a life
taylor roff Mar 2013
Sleeplessness
Grooving
A seemingly
Free drug
Slow mition
Moving slower
Distorted moths
Spew unrecognizabl
Babel
Babel
Spew unrecognizabl
Distorted moths
Moving slower
Slow motion
Free drug
A seemingly
Grooving
Sleeplessness
taylor roff Apr 2013
Writers
Block
And
Heartache
Seem
To
Go
Hand
In
Hand
taylor roff Sep 2013
Stiff tasting lopsided residual panic attacks
Violate coarsely woven wool safety blankets
The tingling sensation of being alive filters through but does not touch The tops of smoke-filled trenches Built not for protection but for inspection
taylor roff Nov 2011
this split level sickness ***** spindles of sadness out
climbing clay walls
tasting tenderly treated Turkish candy
splashes of sound surround
and pounce quickly
on
small plated quills of sugar
spun so softly
that only a queen
could see its beauty
taylor roff Mar 2013
Young and blind
Only tall enough to see over your own nose
Under wet blankets covered in 2- D stars

Down and out
Only strong enough to get out of bed
Nothing will stop you now
Tread lightly on patches of untouched grass

**** them all if you have to
Nothing will stop you now
Only weak enough to feel
Wondering wildly with little intention

Still has faith in love
Holding on two… three… four…
Inside frail bars made of rose buds
Timid enough to survive (nothing can stop you)
Can you find the secret note?
taylor roff Jan 2013
In the act of pushing words from
mind
To
paper
I've seemed to lose inspiration
I hide my words in
(Parenthesis)
I'll force the readers eyes to run with
italics
Scare them with the
boldness
Of my words
Hoping no one notices that (I have nothing to say)
The longest lingering lines
Made merely
To trick
People pleasantly
Into intelligent interactions
taylor roff Mar 2013
...........
I have no words to describe the depth and vastness of lust. You try.
taylor roff May 2014
Deceitful dealings bring
discreetly fearfully beings
from under
crumbling ceiling
To intellectual meetings

Tightly griping your thighs
Afraid of falling
Trained to stray from crawling
Unable to commit to staling
taylor roff May 2014
See evil
Hear evil
Speak evil
Aggressive regression brings me suspenseful intentions of regrettable perplexion
Tense houses with tin roofs
Fill soundless with an itchy noose
taylor roff Aug 2013
Woman with run in her stockings
Man in straw hat
Too many dogs
Homeless woman crosses street three times
Cigarets get smaller
Beers seem to be endless
Doll dropped by child is not recovered
Over dressed
Under social pressure
Man asks me to return his girlfriends tampons
Aggressively decline
7:32 drunk
taylor roff Apr 2013
I don't remember
Things
Faces
Names
Numbers
Dates
Transcendental journeys
I do remember
Lies
Truths
Rhythms
Dreams
Meals
Body's
Unintended sarcastic remarks
taylor roff Jan 2013
sitting sideways
seeing small scenes
unfold to an unknown
group of
(face in hands-elbows on knees)
nobodies
there stomachs sickeningly jerking
in a simple rhythm
methods of subduing this
illness are unknown
still there is no point to let it
go to waste
taylor roff May 2013
At night my arms become yours
Not so much in a physical way
More in a viral way
You force me to push my pillow over my head
Like a helmet
Preparing for battle
You know my dreams could **** me
We battle on threw miles of dream
Years go by
Life times are spent
Loving and hating
Whispering and screaming
Planing our escape
Then I awaken
Pull my helmet off
And realize that you are somewhere els
Dreaming too
It is a saddening thought
But a sobering one as well
As I regain full control of my arms
I think to myself
Did people sleep on there sides before pillows?
taylor roff Mar 2013
You are a dream
Not even a dream
You are a dream before a dream
A subsection of a line of thought to put me to   sleep
And some nights you aren't even there
Which means you can't be real
But as lines fall in a quickening pace
Hands begin to form
Hands and thighs
Legs
*******
Hair
I see you
I've seen you
Or maybe you are just a fail safe
Thought
A way for my mind to sober up when life gets to easy
taylor roff Mar 2014
Pragmatic incantations
Of incandescent situations
Slide
          Softly
                     Soundless
Changing tributaries
of rearranging  
                         (Grin stricken
                  Hands poised to choke
                 Plans to spread the yoke
                    There flaming arms
    Your deepest thoughts they will invoke)
                              Faces
Poised to take the fibers of your being
Tie them up with a festive greeting
And hang you high to watch the bleeding
taylor roff Mar 2013
I like to read ***** poems
In a clean pair of slacks
Dead sober
On my hands and knees

I like to read ***** poems
In brail
Fingers like travelers
Searching for mounds of filth

I like to read ***** poems
In church
Battling old women
In there Sunday war garments

But most of all
I love reading ***** poems naked
With hands  raised high
Screaming loudly
In hopes that some filth rubs off on my life
taylor roff Mar 2013
What flowers beauty
Holds my attention
Your
Breathing
Grasps
My
perplexion
The shadows
Of lovers
Left aside
For hearts are beating
And need not hide
I need not look
To sky or sea
For beauty sits
In front of me
taylor roff Jun 2014
Your smell saturates my surroundings
Small memories unknowingly attached to insignificant items
Gliding threw this fog
I find them
Small  
Sharp
Insignificant
Deadly
taylor roff Nov 2011
read this next bit backwards.
                                                            .health to fatal is backwards this reading
taylor roff Mar 2014
I can see you
We can see you
Setting suns do distract delinquent dealings
But we see you
I see you
And if your lucky
Someone will remember you
Someone will remember the sins you committed
They will provide color to your story
And if your lucky
Someone will remember your failures
They will ad rigidity to your pages
But I see you
I know you
I know you've cried
I know you will cry
I know you are crying
And if you are lucky
Someone will save these tears
They will make the ink of your story
We see you
And if you are truly lucky
No one will listen to a single cognitive thought you have
And you will never be blamed for something
Asked to explain yourself
Thought of for advise that was followed and regretted
Daydreamed about
I see you
taylor roff Nov 2011
sheep sheep shop shoop
deep in
under
sheep
taylor roff Jul 2013
We have other
cowboys in the
dining room
**** the
taylor roff Jan 2014
le fantôme d'un rêve, est ce ce qu'elle était à lui. un nuage très dense rempli de toucher scandaleusement mal interprété des mains fines
taylor roff Apr 2013
Coffee stains on my thumb
Nicotine stains on my ring finger
Tied down to an
                            Endless
                                    Fear driven
Cycle of
              Lips
              Lungs
              Exhale
The griping madness of losing taste and smell has
               Passed
But my sight seems to have improved
As I scour over every mole on my body
             I think of my parents
              Lips
               Lungs
                Exhale
Sin
taylor roff Jul 2013
Sin
One day you will learn not to dream at all
In two days the bliss of stupidity will wrap you in blankets fresh out of the dryer
The third day will bring hunger
Brief hunger
For things just out of reach
You won't make it to a week
taylor roff May 2013
All lives end
Quickly
All hearts are broken
Softly
All dreams are touched
Briefly
All questions answered
Once
Every angel
Reached
Every secret
Whispered
Every idea
Put in its place
The wheel turns
Nothing is ever new
taylor roff Nov 2011
pressed upon the precipus of passing movements
my senses are blessed with slim and silent breaths
sounds scents and slightly over looked vibrations
flash there lights
and I, from places past there prime
except defeat with a bag of salt
(just in time for dinner)
taylor roff Nov 2013
Slam poetry makes me sick
Literature is the art of the unwashed masses for the simple fact that all you need to have to unlock the magic in a string of words was two eyes and the power to read
Then some selfish ******* decided that he needed more attention
So he created poetry that had to be listened to
And had to be spoken by the author to ensure all attention was pointed his way
Of course once the attention grabbing power of this cookie cutter poetry was revealed to every intellectually overcompensating , coffee drinking, moped riding, fashion statement making *******
Ever coffee shop, book store, street corner and city park was full of pointing fingers and raised voices and whispering
Stomping feet and any other gimmick to keep onlookers from noticing that everything they were hearing was recycled compost
Punctuation was flying everywhere
And the worst part is this brain killing monster ***** good free-thinking poets into its sinister grips
It is time for a revolution
A revolt
A Renaissance
Stop listening to slam poetry
Slap anyone who try's to make it
Tell strangers doing it to shut the **** up
Thank you
taylor roff Feb 2014
Dreaming of woman from increasingly distant spaces
Breathing their faintly fading pheromones
Cleverly placed upon my pillow
While I am away fighting the battles of great men's children
Clear visions of life times spent with women outlined in millions of withering suns
All balanced on a thin wire waxing and waning between unexplainable happiness and impenetrable sadness
Feelings so strong that upon awakening
Eyelash size bits of me are left behind

(With the dropping grains of sand in a hour glass
So to one day my entire being will be left behind)
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