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Jan 2015 Taylor

C S Cizek

I sit at a two-top by myself
by the bar. I draw on the back
of a bill with a cheap pen I found
clicked in a foam cup upstairs.
I draw flat cars, flat poles,
flat humans. I give them swirl
hair and no fists.
They are all alike.
The bartender comes over and tells
me that the bar is closed. I hold
my left hand up to him and draw
the sky. I fill it with carbon pink stars
and coffee nebulae. Saturn's rings
are made of cornbread crumbs.

I blow a straw paper comet across the galaxy.

I felt like my poems were becoming too much, syllable-wise, so I wrote this [mostly] mono-syllabic poem. I really dig it.

Jan 2015 Taylor

inexplicable grey area

Jan 2015 Taylor

matilda shaye

inexplicable grey area

"what does she have that i dont?"
I imagined asking, I imagined calling hours after the fact and letting you hear me squirm out muffled cries,
the grey area between please, please no and thank you for doing this now

"what does she have that I don't?"
I imagined asking, I imagined calling and begging you to give me a better reason why I wasn't enough to show you that you deserve so, so much better, that you deserve to not be a wreck, but I stopped.

"what does she have that I dont?"
I realized, in that inexplicable grey area between want and loss, there is one and only one thing she has that I never will,

you

Jan 2015 Taylor

oh yes

Jan 2015 Taylor

Charles Bukowski

oh yes

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

Jan 2015 Taylor

Love

Jan 2015 Taylor

my scars don't define me

Love

i never thought that anyone could love me
until the day i wasn't there
to love anyone else
or myself

#heartbreak #sad #depression #lonely #relationships #suicidal

Jan 2015 Taylor

Forgive me, (11w)

Jan 2015 Taylor

kaylene- mary

Forgive me, (11w)

but
     I
      want
               to
                 sin
                     on
                         every
                                  inch
                                        of
                                           your
                                                 body.

#sin #*** #forgive #shortpoem #11w

Jan 2015 Taylor

Your Best Artwork

Jan 2015 Taylor

OA Agusto

Your Best Artwork

Colour my eyes the brightest colour there is,
Paint my lips any colour you want,
Write poetry in place of my skin.
But don’t let anyone else read me.

#shortpoem

Jan 2015 Taylor

smoking kills

Jan 2015 Taylor

honey

smoking kills

[Ive been smoking a lot
and im starting to doubt
if im breathing you in
or smoking you out]

most nights I miss you
but im no longer sure
if the pain that I feel
can ever be cured

its hard to explain what its like to be numb
but its poisoned my mind
like the smoke in my lungs

now my burdens are heavy
they're breaking my bones
its weighing me down
to know im alone

but this sadness is comfortable
and I know what to do
ill collapse into it
like I collapsed into you

Ill let it consume me
and the thoughts in my head
to try and forget
the words that you said

but no matter hard I try
to wash you away
I see smudges of you
on me everyday

[and now I lay like you once did in my bed-
I lie like you
Im lost in your head]

#lies #sad #rhyme #smoking #poemoftheday