Laborers in ties tending computers. 9th floor and paper airplanes out the window. Benny Boo night shift games with Joe and Rick and Bill. Candy machine our pinata. We clutch our essence desperate not to be cogs.
My poetry starts with nicotine. After awhile I mixed in alcohol. Catholicism is a main ingredient. Puberty is a wicked mix of Absinthe. Next I add a father broken from war. My mom could be friend or betrayer. I had to maintain a delicate balance between being real or just amusing. Amusing is easy. Real is impossible yet here I am confessing my sins.
Mysterious not serious magical hysterical feral cats wharf rats swinging bats miss the ball **** it all give me a call. Grandma a trip to the mall buy a spot to be my plot bury my ashes in lightening flashes while we live on until we are gone.
I was born in a spaceship on its way to Mars to start over. Leave Earth to fools without a caring heart. Halfway on our journey asteroid storms start we pray for God's help our ship is torn apart.
I enrolled in college accepted in Clown U. My parents are ecstatic. I finally see their view. Ivy League it's not but I might get a 4 point O join Cirque du Soleil free tickets to the show.
I'm a part time atheist praying to a 9 to 5 god I fall in love with strangers everywhere and always I try to live outside my skin until it drags me into rehab I can't live in here and now or then and there until I find me inside a mirror take a selfie with Alice.
I dreamed I was a lesbian trapped inside a manly man infinity inside a clock broken heart inside a lock blindfold at a firing squad playing racquetball with god Einstein teaching ABC's an atheist on his knees drunk poet feeling free a monkey typing poetry.
I love you inside your mind I love you outside your head. I love you in solitude or screaming stroking you gently or kissing thighs in dreams or nightmares bravely or shrinking in fear from your anger. I love you inside out and upside down north south east west night or day. I always love you most at 3AM while you gently snore and talk in your sleep.
Love can be kind or cruel for a king or a fool. Whispers quiet screams in her troubled dreams, blushes at first touch then can't get enough. Lust eats her very own then forgets his name. Swallows ***** sown always tastes the same.
You live in shadows of fears. You swim in rivers of tears. Meet me in the promised land. Take my offered helping hand. I'm different from the others. I swear no smothering lovers.
They trust our blind allegiance to their lies in their arrogance acquiesce for money or *** again. Blackmail us always with our sin. Billions of humankind rising tide against your sterile smug genocide.
They opened my head and peered inside. They found bric-a-brac at a yard sale. Junk no one wants anymore. Best offer. A fragile broken dream of crystal for you. Parent's screams in a lovely bottle of cheap perfume used only by virgins. Blanket upon which our love was consumed and our baby was conceived and we had the ****** of a lifetime. So long ago when I was in your heart and you in mine. Jars of catholic guilt. Gramps broke my world in a snow globe for pennies. The whole **** mess is yours. Please don't lock me up in a rubber room. I was such a lovely child running in tall grass in summer's green youth.
I went to 6 Alcott Lane I grew up joy and pain For sale after the funeral Mom and Dad now unreal. Just sad empty spaces ghosts call our places Christmas mornings Echoes of warnings.
like a ***** the metaphor keeps giving it out on, on I did my best to live. I failed. The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall, the major lift. Hallelujah. Midnight Mass choir lifts me to tears of joy as he's born to a ****** in an angry mob.
Maybe I'm just a madman screaming poems from attics nobody hears or understands the fragile needs of addicts who suffers the pain of others burned and broken down orphans without mothers raised by a circus clown.
Never knew his wife their complex life look in her eyes her vows or lies. Guilt always bleeds into all our seeds. innocent grandson never mind the fun.
At 16 I thought I knew what Love was at 74 still don't have a ******* clue my compass points magnetic north at midnight's sky muted black and blue.
Lust was our hearts' magic gravity brought us into our biological and chemical orbit around universe's endless carousel until our worlds collide and write our final obit.
With a flash of light a twisted violent wind and mushroom cloud we met the wicked monster we made on the hill to end war's little murders with massive death. Dust to dust ashes to ashes Set the atmosphere on fire. End the world of all desire.
At 5 I broke my leg. At 12 a girl broke my heart. At 18 I broke apart everything for Love set adrift at start. Drowned and burned to death I turned around my own sun another day of fun searching for Eden rebirth in a garden.
Love or disease or neglect or just plain addicted as we are to fairy tales, happy endings; forever after or 'til death. Life is enduring boredom with brief moments of joy. Too few *******; too many dead angels. Lust a painful reminder of the choices we could have made just out of reach at parties.
I was thinking of our wild drunk forest fire from years long gone ashes of lust's desire sent a Facebook message to reminisce good times still ****** about my marriage and all my little crimes.
Empathetic. Tear stains. Heart afire and broken. Youth. Broke vows. Broke family. Round the drain. Angel saved me. Broke her heart. Angels saved me. Broke their hearts. Devil saved me. Broke her heart. Queen Jayne saved me as stars in our dark night alone together we do it til we create new light.
Can I expose the making of a nation called America? Freedom the rich promised owned us all along let us vote and gloat we're boss. The federal reserve is our god almighty and keeps us trapped in rooms making trinkets and hourly wages taxed into destitution forced into credit cards we pay off with prostitution.
We act our lives out upon a strange stage read from a script of a bleeding ugly age hating our creator's sleight of hand trick bring us to life our clock has a final tick.
In the Hippie days American destruction by Columbia U ways C and P instruction brought us to knees beat the middle class poor take our keys USA was a flash.
The enemy was the same as us, cannon fodder for chess players. We killed them as best we could burdened monsters crying prayers cursing horrible ****** landscape skin in hair and mouth and eyes. I held pieces of my brothers to whisper insane war torn goodbyes.
She said, Sobriety is bliss. I said, At best it'***** or miss. Confess your sins of neglect don't forget to genuflect get your sponsor's signature for court ordered overture. What drags you back to a bar? You barely move, gone so far. I'm just in a legal time out 'til bell dings drunk and shout.
doctors' bag of tricks elixirs, shots, magic mix. cure the sick. sight to blind. take madness from your mind. Sad? a pill. Mad? a pill. ADD? pills keep you still. Cancer? You need poison kills you slowly within leaves you barely alive to hopefully survive.
Believe me, Child there's always an answer waiting for your question. Just ask me at noontime. In the shade of the big oak while we drink iced tea and I'm sober and free from the demon who haunts me at two demanding ***** to set me loose to die another day.
You mean that much to me more than I could ever be even rhymes at odd times committed our tiny crimes books, food, truth's lies always holster my alibis.
They live in crypt like bars stained yellow with cigarettes smoked over too many years. Livers surrendered long ago give them ugly yellow eyes and skin the color of ****. The stench of alcohol clings like way too much cologne. They never sleep. They just pass out. Come to for a drink. They just die day to day while we all look away.
There was something stuck in my brain like an ear wig maybe a silly song a painless pain an unseen stain lipstick beauty viper man of constant sorrow never a tomorrow barely a today nobody left to pay except the piper.
Turn the lights down low while your shadows undress in my private ***** show your thigh begs my caress ******* need licks tonight beg me love you once more turn the lights up bright nothing's like it was before.