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Jun 2011 · 1.4k
Tight Rope Walker
Tinesha Garcia Jun 2011
Chest-pounding, calf-wavering fun suspended effortlessly between the riverbanks, and hot, sweaty faces scour city limits for madness.
Beneath our towering majesty rainfall is upward
and all we hear is our inconsistent drumming.
Distant breath stirs our spirits with
promise of bubble wars christening a new dawn.
White hares peek out with wandering eyes of our huge black hats,
rumbling and grumbling, awake with a thirst for severed limbs.
Populated ***** stalks surround your amoeba of love
erasing time
and line
and rhyme
Jun 2011 · 1.8k
Mischievous Guts
Tinesha Garcia Jun 2011
My wounds bleed war paint and
there’s an air of mischief on your tongue.
When chaos propels itself on our sweet plans
we are reminded of our wavering energy to hiss past the unexpected.
An appetite for freedom can’t sustain starving artists.
I often imagine life as a black and white silent film.
Those rust-tinted spectacles stay concrete on the bridge of my nose,
Dancing giraffe-men on stilts boisterously
taunt the congressman on his crackberry,
ask him what he’s livin’ for.
Give me your half-drawn dreams to hide in, give me your blood.
Because mosquitoes never tire of kicking you when you’re at your lowest.
Give me your childhood ambitions and carefree summer nights, and
you’ve got guts, kid,
you’ve got guts,
to careen over rooftops in search of a paradise.
Sway in narrow alleyways in the major cities and
feel the warmth of life occurring.
Jun 2011 · 644
Insomniac
Tinesha Garcia Jun 2011
Hello operator, won’t you lend me an ear?
It seems my days have grown dark and
Daylight no longer suits me, it causes me to faint.
One step out my door and my body seems to shake.
I trek to the store by myself, all the while ever shaking;
I tremble, I stagger, I stumble about.
The world knocks me  over in it’s. gusty. sighing.
I tremble. I stagger. I stumble all about.
I feel too unreal to be awake.
I must be walking on clumsy dream clouds and dancing with queens, they’re cackling cackling cackling.
Elegant gowns and mad-possessed crowns, they’ve invited me to the moon.
I open my eyes and
I tremble. I stagger. I stumble
back home
to wait
for my date
with Night.
The stars will be our only entourage ‘til dawn.
Jun 2011 · 655
Shivers
Tinesha Garcia Jun 2011
Where will you be when the room starts to
swirl and the patterns on the floor aren’t patterns anymore?
Wow, you sure do have a pretty shiiinnneeeee…

We share visions of the other side-
When you stare off into space, does the air ever
shiver? Shivers like you can see past the
crafty mask of your happy home.
It’s cold in this house.
And the door just won’t stay closed.
The river’s eaten your children
while you’ve been fixing your hollow face.
Wow, you sure do have a phony smillllleeeeeeee…

Somewhere in your routine you’ll find peace.
Somewhere in your peace you’ll find your answers.
And after you’ve found your filthy truths you’ll wither
away into the eternal wrinkles of dawn.
Jun 2011 · 525
If You Still Feel Human
Tinesha Garcia Jun 2011
Sitting inside of a dusty shell
Alone, by the side of a lonely road.
Lonely Road rests right next to
Fancy Street, on the hot side of town.


Infinite moments. Definite possibilities.
If we still feel human, then we’ve done ok!
The blossom has opened up once again,
I want to dance playfully in the tall grass and await
the deep purples, pinks, oranges of the setting sun.
Burn the stars into your skin, be stricken.
There are sweet, candy melodies stirring in the wind,
you start to sink,
you start to sink.
For the first time, you’re a stain on the earth.
You sink too deep,
you sink far too deep,
And now, for once, you meditate off of that enchanted highway.
And if you still feel human, then you’ve done ok.

They frighten me. Those possibilities.
Jun 2011 · 1.4k
The Purple Princess
Tinesha Garcia Jun 2011
I went to the zoo and stole a giraffe.
I went to the zoo and stole me a giraffe to ride.
I went to the zoo, and stole me a giraffe to ride into the sunset to face my duel with Death.
We left around dawn the day before last,
The sun’s at our backs as we head west. West. West. WEST.
Out here there are artificial stars and fast cars and
The women shine out there and
The men are sly out there and
The kids aren’t shy out there and
The beach is where salvation is found,
Battles are lost,
Things seem sound.
Lust crawls around every corner and free love is king.
Keep the chaos rolling, keep the fires rising.
Death is near. Creeping, seeking. Seeking, creeping.
We call on our Purple Princess to aid us as we reach the Cliffs. And she
calmed me down and she slowed me down and she shot me. and she shot me. and she shot me. and she shot me. and she shot me downnnn
Jun 2011 · 1.8k
galactic waves
Tinesha Garcia Jun 2011
Hey darlin’,  you make my soul feel like flying to the outer depths of the solar system, so that I may float effortlessly between time and dimension and truly feel alive.
Float here next to me, share this space with me.
There’s an asteroid river spiraling over our heads; swirling video game galaxies, and marshmallow-flavored stars.
They can’t tell us what to believe in anymore and they can’t make me substitute practicality for dreaming.
They can’t tell us what to believe in anymore.
We’re burning this city tonight, and we’re using your limits as fuel.
Apr 2011 · 912
My heels speak love
Tinesha Garcia Apr 2011
Oh, how the wind blows softly upon my heated brow.
And the scent is not only sweet, but familiar. And fresh.
It's going to be an exciting ride, that much I can promise you.


But don't go looking for a romance novel,
what we're going to have deserves a symphony proposed by trees and windchimes made of rocks we found on the Moon. We're going dancing tonight.


I'll kick and scream but you know that only means I want to go more than you know,
so take me anyways, put my red heels on.
You see handsome, dancing is all about attitude, which you know I have plenty of. So there's no excuse not to go out.
You see, there's the chemicals flying and the temperature's rising,
The stars are erupting love glue because tonight I'll be with you.
And the chimes will never chime so deliciously as they will when the clicks and taps of our shoes do all the talking.


Click, click, clack. Tap, tap, tap, tap.
Translated it means I love you.
Apr 2011 · 749
i love you
Tinesha Garcia Apr 2011
Love and be loved.
Love this and that.
Love me.
I love you.


Love rain and soppy kisses.
Love tonight.
Love tomorrow and what it brings.
Love NOW.
Love here. Love there.
Love everywhere.
Show love.
Give love.
Always.
Love solves.
Love heals.
Love learns and expects.
Love is just.
Love is effortless.
Love tastes.
Like everything.
Sweet breath.
I love it.
I love you.


Love isn't perfect.
Love smells great.
It's scary.
But that's what we love.
Love knows.
Love grows.
Love soars and roars.
We are lions.
I love it.
I love you.


Love and be loved.
It hurts but we like it.
Scratch, itch.
Love's the cure.
Love is ****.
Love is screams and moans.
Love is toasts to ghosts.
Love is touch.
Touch me touch you.
I love it.
I love you.
Feb 2011 · 1.8k
Harmonic Impulse
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
We’ll be building card castles inside of our ship,
sailing on a sapphire sea full of translucent hearts.
All beating on the same weary tempo,
the tempo of deluded delights and fist fights and
Harmonic Impulses.
To sleeping on our rooftops and singing aloud,
To painting our expressions and flying with lost leaves,
To creating ripples and the Butterfly Effect,
To finding truth in today and escaping hyperbolic doubt,
We’ll toast in sunsets to our Harmonic Impulses.
Forever sailing our iridescent sailboat, we’ll skip the stars and get right to the point:
An avalanche of swirling, misty galaxies promises that tomorrow will forever be the best and dandelion rings are now true symbolism, my sweet.
Feb 2011 · 1.7k
Strangers Dancing
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
Sipping moonlight on top of rain clouds
and pretending that it’s Saturday everyday.
Dancing strangers in the isles
Strangers dancing, drunk on love beams shot in the dark.
I’m disappointed in liquid star fall,
the little dancing shoes have no soul,
but ****, they have heart.
Crash and burn, strangers dancing, dancing strangers,
I hear a name and occupation.
Serious killers know no mercy
killing time and feel their temper running out, now.
Confused, they’re spun around and around now
Abused, they’re shot down and down now
Amused, they’ve shattered their masks, now.
We’re all prancing unknowns
strangers dancing, dancing strangers.
Feb 2011 · 921
Beacon of Bacon
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
Come find me,
paranoid and alone,
come fine me.
Come seek me,
angular staircases now only lead to poor, bland walls bleeding cheap paint and verbal malevolence.
Please, come find me.
Defining problems that have no answers split’s the streets and delivers previously spent thrills.
We’ll gather twigs and sticks and build ourselves a monument celebrating what it means to be Alive.
We’ll place it on the pier next to the highway home
and be reminded every time
they beat you and leave you and strike you and bite you
To embrace the hate and use it for inspiring the youth.
And, when you come find me,
I promise not to play games.
I’ll be out on the pier next to our pile of pride, patient, and
brilliantly shining like a beacon
attracting only your curious human nature.
Feb 2011 · 771
Salvation Lake
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
Go forth and sit on your throne you filthy *****, ***** of filth. You suffer from bewilderment, child-like beauty. Soft pastel sun rays fill ever vein and
  you
     feel
         happy.
Frolic through your valleys, stare into your distant stars,
feeling ever. so. happy. Unwrap your bandaged heart as you now roam far from home.
Seeking, ever seeking penniless thrills
and where the water spills,
sapphires and rubies galore.
Take a dip in the lake, the runaway lake,
where you have sought salvation.
Take a dip, and,
take a dip, and
take a dip, once more.
Feb 2011 · 2.4k
Soul Funk Mangoes
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
To us, the world can be painfully beautiful,
staring through the stolen glass eyes of an Aquarian child,
a vision, a sensitive vintage acid spell.
Overt transcendence beyond abstract universal turns into Bohme consciousness: Unorthodox awareness.
Cracking jokes about death, laughing off serious black-and-white situations,
find them an electric bridge between the Rainbow corner of the sky and home,
a thick, liquid existence illuminating yesteryear’s universal revolt.
Feb 2011 · 1.3k
wordy
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
We are on the hunt,
Hunting hunters, hunting.
And desolate travellers are we
Surprised by sinking ships
Wrapped in saran-wrap, forced to stick together
All reaching a Shakespearic end to a means that
never really mattered in the first place.
Is that what you believe now?
We are the players playing.

And we are the grey, sunken in eyes of a child needing sleep,
dreams of fishing for Nessie in the local lake,
far-fetched fantasies only exhausting the youth,
we are the needy needing.
Surprise me of your fleeting lost memories of old,
we are the laughter, laughers laughing.
We mock feeling, reality. The raw human emotives.

And we are the biting bile taste that follows slaughter and unsuspected chaos,
The moment pre-regret, where innocence is forever lost in a tossed about immoral sea. Salty and familiar.

And we are the prey, prayers preying
For things we can’t even remember like unmotivated love and a taste for fate.
Feb 2011 · 807
Super Super
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
Super Super, why you look so down? Super Super.
Super Super, you can fight jets, Super Super,
With your battle axe of a housewife’s civic duty to her husband made of the dust collected from under your Victorian couch. Super Super.
Super Super, it was just last week when I saw you shine at your dinner party, your masquerade of fine dining wine, needy guests that **** your humanity out of your frail bones with dramatic recollections and vanity.

And yet, I ask again Super Super, why you look so down?
The sun’s a shining today, beams of radiating crisp, clean dreams for your bubbly, day-dreaming delight.
The earth’s a spinnin’ for you, rotating. The ebb and flow of life seeping from everyone’s front door is enough to bring real tears to your eyes, Super Super.

Oh! Super Super, tell us of your upbringing, of your life. Tell us how exactly it is that you became someone’s wife! Oh, and tell us about the time you strangled your mother… With filthy, worn out pantyhose that you found in the gutter.
Oh, Super Super.

Super Super, I know it’s rude to stare but I need to see your truth.
I need to see your Freudian slips and how your blood drips, do you bleed like me?

Now, Super Super, don’t be alarmed. You know that curiosity killed that cat, which technically means that the cat killed itself, right? SUPER Super. What exactly does it mean to live in your never-been-worn looking shoes, expensive clothes and chemically altered body? Do you find comfort in the little things? Super Super.

Super Super, why do you look so ******* sad?
There are far worse things to be than a suppressed housewife.
isn’t that just super, Super?
Feb 2011 · 2.9k
flowing knowledge
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
Something tells me that you’re going to be magic someday.
That same something also told me that our intelligence is dying, fading deeply into an artificial existence,
swirly, milky, warm and familiar.
Oh! This cry reminds me of time spent inside of my mother’s womb, it’s the ******* essence of life, division creates one,
things come undone, wheels are spun and respun.
Oh, existence is exciting. De…
Spite what I say, I as a human have this exciting urge to believe in everything and nothing all at the same time, and yet feel completely content with the uncertainty immediately following. Why?
Why slide down the backbones of your friends instead of creating your own out of silly putty and *******? Because that’s all that’s REALLY going on here, right? Just a whole lot of utter and complete *******. We’re all just in search of something substantially and outrageously righteous to believe in.
Something profound, yet enticing. Never arrogant or stringy, stretchy, worn.
We live in mad days, a mad daze of terror, rage. Disgusting filth, mesmerizing measurements, fat men and their walrus struggle, THERE’S TOO MANY BABIES!
Everything’s real frothy, fluffy, CUSHY.
And this comfortable comfort aides me late past the second noon, where bubblegum and clownfish skies look so beautiful when you’re looking through smoky spectacles.
Let’s clasp hands and stroll down that crooked stretch of land far from electronic arms and bionic senior citizens, super as they may be.
don’t let anyone catch that regret in your voice, dear. This is just another rat-race, fast paced and now we’re stopped at some electronic gate while we travel down the Information Super Highway. ****’s wack, man.
What’s with all the can’ts and stops and yields? I say I can’t read fuzzy bear, so stop harassing my mood and demeter, you don’t see me checking out your gun.
STOP. WAIT! HALT!!
I’m going to threaten your life now, or at least I would if I could threaten any shredded living remains of a tale probably sadder than my own. Get going, you’re going to late for your Living in Denial workshop meeting that you attend every Sunday morning.
Don’t go throwing my sheep into the fire now, you never know what you might spark. And you don’t see me checking out your gun.
Just don’t hate me because I don’t follow your logic, it’s my world too man. See, you spark my petite taste for “sincere apologies” and throw another polished rock in my face. “Sorry” is no ******* excuse for greed.
You’re going to be pure, radiating magic someday. I can see it in your eyes, they’re asymmetrically wise. Now expand your voice like a strong Whitney ballad, hauntingly emotional and loud. LOUD.
So loud that your cousin Stanley can hear you all the way from his random mid-life crisis backpack excursion in the Swiss Alps.
Take my hand, friend, and in the park by the trees with the birds and the bees we’ll slowly fade into the grass, every atom meshing and combining, it’s science. Do you hear it? The pulsating of the massive brain, the all-knowing library?
Knowledge is flowing. We’ll get massively drunk and pass out in a cozy embryo sack full of words and goo (but don’t worry, we’ll be wearing raincoats).
Warm and surreal, we’re happy and we’ll wake up still drunk off of knowledge.

And then. We feel that stinging magic, and it’s bittersweet, glamorous and harsh. And just as euphoric as we were, we fall.
As with every high, there is a low
And you are a giant ticking grandfather clock counting each moment carefully and precisely, making sure to take note of the glow and grandness of it all. Everything.
Is ignorance bliss? Do you wish to be left in the dark?
Because, to be honest, I’m scared of the dark, and sometimes I need a little light.
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
Hey you, are you hiring?
Business men dressed in 3 pieces, are you ready for this?
I don’t have much experience and I don’t have a fancy degree, but boy do I have SOUL. FUNK! A dazzling personality. And nice calves.
Assess me, judge me like you own a gavel.
Today I was walking along Paradise Lane, I stumbled over someone’s lost hope and fell on another’s pile of pride. Hey, I never said that I was ON Paradise Lane, friends.
Hey you, are you hiring?
Something on your breath doesn’t smell right, and the twinkle in your eye basically says that I was turned  down from the moment I said, “Hello, my name is___…”
Numbered. An unassociated member of free-thinking, I am in the business of dreams and tree forts, let me take YOU for a spin.
You wake up, dread doing so. All for some monkey in a 3 piece to put you in the system as a federal reserve payback bill.
HEY YOU, ARE YOU HIRING?!
Feb 2011 · 721
Ocean Peach Dreaming
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
Sailing castle ships in huge silver tubs filled to the brim with warm, steaming water.
There are tiny dancing dolphins made of iridescent, billowing bubbles, swimming in the light breeze.
Their bond is like no other, tightly stuck together, sometimes letting go, only to return a split second later.
Building and feeding off of their kin, under the surface; leeching parasites. It’s suddenly clear, survival of the fittest applies even on the outer rims of Anywhere Land.
Our castles with cloud walls keep out all the horror, as our doors made of mackerel hides truth from our eyes. We don’t see beyond our diorama of guilt, portraits of heroes, or statues of flame, into beauty, simple and fair.
Not needing coins and stamps to be loved.
We sail these tubs of silver and steam, surprised by beauty no more. Expecting so much more.
Attached to our shimmering ship is a single green-glowing rowboat, with room just for one. When opportunity strikes and the wind’s at your back, do you dare grab the Mighty Oar of Freedom and sail steaming waves to the moon?
Feb 2011 · 1.0k
West Coast Death
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
I went to the zoo and stole a giraffe.
I went to the zoo and stole me a giraffe to ride.
I went to the zoo, and stole me a giraffe to ride into the sunset to face my duel with Death.
We left around dawn the day before last,
The sun’s at our backs as we head west. West. West. WEST.
Out here there are artificial stars and fast cars and
The women shine out there and
The men are sly out there and
The kids aren’t shy out there and
The beach is where salvation is found,
Battles are lost,
Things seem sound.
Lust crawls around every corner and free love is king.
Keep the chaos rolling, keep the fires rising.
Death is near. Creeping, seeking. Seeking, creeping.
We call on our Purple Princess to aid us as we reach the Cliffs. And she
calmed me down and she slowed me down and she shot me. and she shot me. and she shot me. and she shot me. and she shot me downnnn
Feb 2011 · 611
monument.
Tinesha Garcia Feb 2011
Come find me,
paranoid and alone,
come fine me.
Come seek me,
angular staircases now only lead to poor, bland walls bleeding cheap paint and verbal malevolence.
Please, come find me.
Defining problems that have no answers split’s the streets and delivers previously spent thrills.
We’ll gather twigs and sticks and build ourselves a monument celebrating what it means to be Alive.
We’ll place it on the pier next to the highway home
and be reminded every time
they beat you and leave you and strike you and bite you
To embrace the hate and use it for inspiring the youth.
And, when you come find me,
I promise not to play games.
I’ll be out on the pier next to our pile of pride, patient, and
brilliantly shining like a beacon
attracting only your curious human nature.

— The End —