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"antiseptic" poems
Cold mornings but yet i dont feel it... Cold blooded soul Got a heart with a hole.... No sealent... 30 and below i wont start to show... Black ice on the ground tell me you can see it... Tropic antiseptic... rubbed across my skin... novacane injected... followed by a pin... No pain, just frost bitten.. with no mittens... ground across my belly.. Eat the fruit I know your hungry...
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Dec 28, 2011
Dec 28, 2011 at 12:03 PM UTC
snake
You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late August, I speed through the antiseptic tunnel where the moving dead still talk of pushing their bones against the ****** of cure. And I am queen of this summer hotel or the laughing bee on a stalk of death. We stand in broken lines and wait while they unlock the doors and count us at the frozen gates of dinner. The shibboleth is spoken and we move to gravy in our smock of smiles. We chew in rows, our plates scratch and whine like chalk in school. There are no knives for cutting your throat. I make moccasins all morning. At first my hands kept empty, unraveled for the lives they used to work. Now I learn to take them back, each angry finger that demands I mend what another will break tomorrow. Of course, I love you; you lean above the plastic sky, god of our block, prince of all the foxes. The breaking crowns are new that Jack wore. Your third eye moves among us and lights the separate boxes where we sleep or cry. What large children we are here. All over I grow most tall in the best ward. Your business is people, you call at the madhouse, an oracular eye in our nest. Out in the hall the intercom pages you. You twist in the pull of the foxy children who fall like floods of life in frost. And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, counting this row and that row of moccasins waiting on the silent shelf.
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You, Doctor Martin
You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late August, I speed through the antiseptic tunnel where the moving dead still talk of pushing their bones against the ****** of cure. And I am queen of this summer hotel or the laughing bee on a stalk of death. We stand in broken lines and wait while they unlock the doors and count us at the frozen gates of dinner. The shibboleth is spoken and we move to gravy in our smock of smiles. We chew in rows, our plates scratch and whine like chalk in school. There are no knives for cutting your throat. I make moccasins all morning. At first my hands kept empty, unraveled for the lives they used to work. Now I learn to take them back, each angry finger that demands I mend what another will break tomorrow. Of course, I love you; you lean above the plastic sky, god of our block, prince of all the foxes. The breaking crowns are new that Jack wore. Your third eye moves among us and lights the separate boxes where we sleep or cry. What large children we are here. All over I grow most tall in the best ward. Your business is people, you call at the madhouse, an oracular eye in our nest. Out in the hall the intercom pages you. You twist in the pull of the foxy children who fall like floods of life in frost. And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, counting this row and that row of moccasins waiting on the silent shelf.
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There's a sister who floats with hungry collarbones and a razor-edged smile. She smokes sadness when she isn't ready to exhale. She is beauty in fine art and wrath the colour of thunderstorms; the rain comes when she smiles. Holier than thou and quick to judge, with antiseptic perception known to bring out the things you were not aware existed. Addictive, those imprints from her feet will stamp all over you; nimble fingers puppeteering those who fall out of her thoughts. She is selfish and always leaves, leaves, leaves. She ran away at the first tremor; she did not stay to watch the concrete crumble. But she picked me up when the concrete friction broke my knees, lashed tyrants with her tongue and prowled behind the boyfriends that came and always went. This sister whom I project; the image of her I mirror. She is love and laughter and moods that taper and flare. She is a cluster of persons, a bomb liable to a detonate on a short fuse. She is trouble ailing in the best possible way; her flames light up the shade.
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Apr 9, 2015
Apr 9, 2015 at 3:35 PM UTC
Hazardous aesthetics.
I have faith in medical science But little in practice. Straight spined doctors Racing stopwatches against Their appointment books. Extolling the virtues of thousands of years of medical research But unable to consider anyone's opinion other than their own. Kindly, soft-voiced nurses shuffling from Room to room Doling out condolences and reassurances Paired with regimens Of drugs and IVs. While Old Time in the ticking clock Slows To a dead crawl. And the noise of heartbeats on machines And discussions out in the hall And loved ones distracting and pacifying patients in beds Layer on top of one another to form a firm blanket of Crushing. Boredom. And the antiseptic smell does nothing to ease The passing of time spent waiting While the medical machine spins its wheels To the chime of slot machines. And the bustling rush outside a curtain On hard white floors, Does less than lend a sense a peace But more of frantic urgency. Minute long - task oriented visits Where they know names, numbers, and insurance coverage And they know how many steps it takes for them To lend more of their valuable time In that modern balance of cost and care. Leaving me wondering, Where did the connection go? I wonder where peoples' trust went And when it was replaced with, "How much will this cost me?"
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Sep 15, 2015
Sep 15, 2015 at 8:06 PM UTC
Hospital (Emergency Room Talk)
i was reborn, like a phoenix but without all the glory. i didn't set the hospital on fire; i struggled to pull myself from the ashes of a former prodigy, one entwined with madness in all the right ways laced with misery like a noir heroine, so sexily depressing- whereas now i am just empty i did not emerge unscathed, no, not like the fledgling, i am covered in scars and faultlines from where the sorrow tried rip itself from my sorry body and the crimson glue holding me together replenishes itself more diluted each time before i died i swung through technicolor episodes of scarlet, rose, ecstatic white, and the sapphire blue to haunt my dreams waking and at night but the color leached away, the antiseptic began to pervade, refilled my veins and purged me of everything but grey. before my death, i reigned over the darkness, banished it when it did not suit me, manipulated reason, lived in a waking dreamland, in complete control of my life- but now, when i am fragile as eggshell, it's the only place i can hide, a haven where i can act like the lack of light masks an imagined vivacity and not a skeleton in flat black and white, disguises and emboldens me, allows me to be whole again, to forget the borders, my limitations indiscernable in dusk i used to cast my own light- now i am my own shadow and in the dark i fumble for what i used to be, reconnect myself with the world throw myself from the cliff and hope to find my wings again
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Oct 9, 2012
Oct 9, 2012 at 3:41 PM UTC
4/04: error: page not found
I fell asleep To the smell of antiseptic, Sterilizer, biogesic, And the cold touch of metal Rods that only seem To grow colder With the touch of hospital Left in the student's Ward - a whistle Permeates the silence Of seniors Painlessly sleeping away Hours upon Hours until graduation - A coming of age - An escapism from past papers And teachers who have Themselves given up On them. And the lights you See are as bright And as empty as those blinking Feebly In that of the school doctor's Office, one not really Blinking more of Washed, and supported Wobbling by daylight Seeping in through peeling blinds, Unable to see too much - The headaches and stomachaches Have rendered him numb To the feeling. And lunch comes And out blows the whistle to Signify the end Of playtime for The young ones, start Of playtime for The older ones, Whistle blowing muffled By the septic tank glass Doors of this sacred outhouse, Wards muffling the cries of children As they flee the quadrangle, Once mad, twice elated, Still innocent, untired, Not needing to fake sick And rest their heads softly Upon thin soft beds with Towels wrapped haphazardly Behind their backs, Nostalgia, it was Laughter, I swear it was louder When we used to run, When our eyes lit up like The sun petering in through The doctor's orifices, When our bruises and bumps Smelled like betadine, Not sleep And cups of sterile water downed To mask the scent of Fake cough syrup, And cuts gotten from fiddled syringes, Bruised ankles Bent over undersized beds, And not running over Uneven pavement, Ankles brushing tablecloth, Schoolbag, Basketball and frisbee, And the screaming. Oh, how I miss The screaming.
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Jan 15, 2015
Jan 15, 2015 at 9:55 AM UTC
Infirmary, Cutting Business Class
I fell asleep To the smell of antiseptic, Sterilizer, biogesic, And the cold touch of metal Rods that only seem To grow colder With the touch of hospital Left in the student's Ward - a whistle Permeates the silence Of seniors Painlessly sleeping away Hours upon Hours until graduation - A coming of age - An escapism from past papers And teachers who have Themselves given up On them. And the lights you See are as bright And as empty as those blinking Feebly In that of the school doctor's Office, one not really Blinking more of Washed, and supported Wobbling by daylight Seeping in through peeling blinds, Unable to see too much - The headaches and stomachaches Have rendered him numb To the feeling. And lunch comes And out blows the whistle to Signify the end Of playtime for The young ones, start Of playtime for The older ones, Whistle blowing muffled By the septic tank glass Doors of this sacred outhouse, Wards muffling the cries of children As they flee the quadrangle, Once mad, twice elated, Still innocent, untired, Not needing to fake sick And rest their heads softly Upon thin soft beds with Towels wrapped haphazardly Behind their backs, Nostalgia, it was Laughter, I swear it was louder When we used to run, When our eyes lit up like The sun petering in through The doctor's orifices, When our bruises and bumps Smelled like betadine, Not sleep And cups of sterile water downed To mask the scent of Fake cough syrup, And cuts gotten from fiddled syringes, Bruised ankles Bent over undersized beds, And not running over Uneven pavement, Ankles brushing tablecloth, Schoolbag, Basketball and frisbee, And the screaming. Oh, how I miss The screaming.
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It's our time *The sublime Rhyme and reason We season this reality with words instead of thyme: Both are medicinal Antiseptic chemicals to keep away the grime*                    Don't tell me any different                 Bare witness to the gift of bliss that is expression                        Words can increase life expectancy in the midst of depression              They can get back at those who hurt you without using a weapon             Or refresh your mental image when you're feeling less than They form legacies and dedications Eulogies and congratulations They give everything in existence an identity Even the most ****** obscenities Words are life and words are love Words even form this silly cheesy stuff        **To everyone feeling poetic, I have but one question       What's one way, while writing, your life has been blessed in?**
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Nov 16, 2017
Nov 16, 2017 at 3:46 PM UTC
Poets' Battlecry
the smell of cigarettes and cheap cologne the length of legs, the depth of eyes more medical trips and taxicab drives blood tests, x-rays, candy bars from vending machines visitors in lab coats questions touches from cold metal, cold skin antiseptic aromas waiting in cold rooms, in backless hospital gowns a flash of skin from the hot patient next to me, an inviting smile a ***** of crotches a wheelchair comes to take me away Dec., 2002
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Feb 14, 2017
Feb 14, 2017 at 11:16 AM UTC
Hospital Stay
As I concentrate on the X on the ceiling I feel the burning pain travel O this enduring feeling Farther I travel into subconscious My mind barely still reeling The needle drags past skin Past regret, past nerve endings Body, patiently waiting for the healing to begin O three pronged needle of shades Dripping into blood stream Trapping yourself between layers of Epidermis, leaving your mark unclean I try to find my tranquil place A quiet forest, a a glaciers gleam Yet my mind shouts and doth protest This is your finest moment Do not hide from it Endure the present At that moment the machine strikes my chest I am here focusing on the X The buzz becomes a lullaby But do not fall into the minds eye Living in the present The girl watching see's the blood rise A color I cannot see from my perspective I smile with clenched teeth To show I will not accept demise O perseverance you have prevailed The needle lifts, antiseptic applied The tingle of chemical purity relaxes my skin I try to stand but my head is a blur ' Legs lack equilibrium for a moment I am reborn, like a religious experience People of faith describe I am new I am proud I am high.
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Sep 11, 2012
Sep 11, 2012 at 4:05 AM UTC
Ode to My Chestpiece
i was born in a ghost hospital a pile of stones and then a blank slate with new antiseptic rooms invisible blood-stained linoleum and the sound of rubber tennis shoe soles replacing the place where i was born with dying stars in my eyes and supernovae bursting with the last of their fiery energy before they blink out of existence like the hospital where i was born am i now to be a woman without true north a single brick from the single place where i respired freely and crisp breaths of truth passed like whispers over my wordless lips before the oozing obsidian night slowly crept up and wrapped itself around me like a flea infested blanket and the blinding white light of a growing chain reaction a deafening ring in my ears nothing then slow realization that i'm still alive battered by beta particles attacked by alphas and i'm alone in the nuclear winter to trek towards my kaaba the only piece of where i came into the world and was the baby girl that my parents cradled in their awkward hesitant arms the little angel my father thought would certainly break into a million pieces by the slightest breath of wind and scatter to heaven for where else should such innocence be? i yearn for that brick from my hospital because its foundation was built on something apart from eating disorders bipolar disorder suicide attempts neat lines of cuts in various stages of healing when i hold that stone in my hand residual sand from the demolition site crumbling as i turn the cement over and over its warmth and weight so real in my hand that i can see a dim light in a window a glowing blonde kissing her black haired beau and the baby in her arms theirs even just for that night.
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Jun 24, 2015
Jun 24, 2015 at 12:52 AM UTC
memento
i was born in a ghost hospital a pile of stones and then a blank slate with new antiseptic rooms invisible blood-stained linoleum and the sound of rubber tennis shoe soles replacing the place where i was born with dying stars in my eyes and supernovae bursting with the last of their fiery energy before they blink out of existence like the hospital where i was born am i now to be a woman without true north a single brick from the single place where i respired freely and crisp breaths of truth passed like whispers over my wordless lips before the oozing obsidian night slowly crept up and wrapped itself around me like a flea infested blanket and the blinding white light of a growing chain reaction a deafening ring in my ears nothing then slow realization that i'm still alive battered by beta particles attacked by alphas and i'm alone in the nuclear winter to trek towards my kaaba the only piece of where i came into the world and was the baby girl that my parents cradled in their awkward hesitant arms the little angel my father thought would certainly break into a million pieces by the slightest breath of wind and scatter to heaven for where else should such innocence be? i yearn for that brick from my hospital because its foundation was built on something apart from eating disorders bipolar disorder suicide attempts neat lines of cuts in various stages of healing when i hold that stone in my hand residual sand from the demolition site crumbling as i turn the cement over and over its warmth and weight so real in my hand that i can see a dim light in a window a glowing blonde kissing her black haired beau and the baby in her arms theirs even just for that night.
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Today I extended a hand to fate To see which door it would pull me through, And it chose the one I was afraid of. Today I put the universe to test Since challenging authority is always best, And it pulled me along for the ride. Today I stood on railroad tracks Because I wondered if I was invincible And I wasn’t. Today I sliced myself open For I’d forgotten the pattern of my soul’s veins And I remembered. So I closed my eyes and bit my lip And jumped right off that breaking ship And into waves of foamy spray, Which tended to my bleeding way, The held me and caressed me so, And whispered of the things they know They carried me to sandy banks And left me dreaming, giving thanks. I awoke in a pool of scarlet, feeling the wretched tendrils of darker, greener enemies working their way in while I slept. I awoke in a pool of scarlet, Knowing what I had to do And applied antiseptic, But no anesthetic. I awoke, Knowing why fate chose this door, Knowing where the universe had taken me, Knowing that though broken, I’d survived, Knowing what it was to be me. Knowing not to let the poison in And not to let the shadows win.
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Oct 1, 2012
Oct 1, 2012 at 2:14 AM UTC
A Fall From Fantasy
eating breakfast on a beaten girl's face she ignites when you take it she glows in her faith with gold and blue phalange atop sleekest new marrow she is clear raincoats and black body polish she is siamese cats asleep on a windowsill she is the rusted remains where the ices draw narrow she is reading rimbaud and drowning brian jones the swan's neck upper reach is steady with guilt engraved with your initials a monogrammed friese on white marble quilt
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Oct 26, 2013
Oct 26, 2013 at 11:19 PM UTC
crumbling the antiseptic beauty / goldmine trash
Now: The EMTs respond. A Jane Doe is found dead. Beneath the I-90 overpass. They lift her Zip her into a bag, And transport her to the morgue. They can’t feel sad. Today: The few wispy strands of hair that remain Dangle haphazardly from her scabby head Jagged misshapen teeth protrude from dry cracked lips betraying breath that stinks of infection and decomposition Vermin gnaw on exposed flesh while parasites feast within. Her eyes dim as her body putrifies. Last Week: Mission workers prop her up against the wobbly chain link fence A thin blanket is wrapped around her bony shoulders and Her blue-tarp awning is adjusted She would be less wet and cold. For a night. They leave a cheese sandwich and chicken noodle soup. The rats eat most of it. She wouldn’t have kept it down anyway. Last Month: The shelter is scary and dangerous. She couldn’t sleep without nightmares and her screaming disrupted other ‘guests’. The shelter workers apologize and put her out at 2:19 AM. She finds a spot between two dumpsters. It reeks of **** but is unoccupied. Sometime in the dark she is ***** and beaten by two crackheads. The crime is unreported. Last Year: The fluorescent lights sting her eyes. The antiseptic smell burns her nose. The noise and chaos that surround her make her dizzy and disoriented. She fights hard to get away but is restrained by strong hands – then leather straps. A painful jab in her arm and then nothing. Days or weeks later she emerges in a haze. Kindly eyes greet her. They stay with her. They accompany her to the shelter. They tell her to come back for follow-on care. She never sees them again. Before: The divorce rips her heart in two. She has nothing. She is nothing. Her world crumbles beneath her and she crumbles with it. Where would she go? What would she do? Everything has become so wrong. Once Upon a Time: She was happy. Joyful. Filled with life and hope. He was smart, funny, successful. Together they were magical. Perfect.
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May 9, 2017
May 9, 2017 at 3:21 PM UTC
Sometime in the Dark
Now: The EMTs respond. A Jane Doe is found dead. Beneath the I-90 overpass. They lift her Zip her into a bag, And transport her to the morgue. They can’t feel sad. Today: The few wispy strands of hair that remain Dangle haphazardly from her scabby head Jagged misshapen teeth protrude from dry cracked lips betraying breath that stinks of infection and decomposition Vermin gnaw on exposed flesh while parasites feast within. Her eyes dim as her body putrifies. Last Week: Mission workers prop her up against the wobbly chain link fence A thin blanket is wrapped around her bony shoulders and Her blue-tarp awning is adjusted She would be less wet and cold. For a night. They leave a cheese sandwich and chicken noodle soup. The rats eat most of it. She wouldn’t have kept it down anyway. Last Month: The shelter is scary and dangerous. She couldn’t sleep without nightmares and her screaming disrupted other ‘guests’. The shelter workers apologize and put her out at 2:19 AM. She finds a spot between two dumpsters. It reeks of **** but is unoccupied. Sometime in the dark she is ***** and beaten by two crackheads. The crime is unreported. Last Year: The fluorescent lights sting her eyes. The antiseptic smell burns her nose. The noise and chaos that surround her make her dizzy and disoriented. She fights hard to get away but is restrained by strong hands – then leather straps. A painful jab in her arm and then nothing. Days or weeks later she emerges in a haze. Kindly eyes greet her. They stay with her. They accompany her to the shelter. They tell her to come back for follow-on care. She never sees them again. Before: The divorce rips her heart in two. She has nothing. She is nothing. Her world crumbles beneath her and she crumbles with it. Where would she go? What would she do? Everything has become so wrong. Once Upon a Time: She was happy. Joyful. Filled with life and hope. He was smart, funny, successful. Together they were magical. Perfect.
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Your heart is the same shape and size as a fist But don’t use it like one because hearts they aren’t metaphors like a fist they cannot be healed with stitches and a band-aid The ability to touch does not mean the ability to feel and waiting for your heart to heal it’s a hell of a lot more than antiseptic My fury for you I threw some punches I tried to break open that prison that holds your heart captive but I guess my voice just wasn’t the right frequency because it’s still in tact and yes, when the world went quiet for a moment I could hear the gears of the universe turning inside of you and I loved the sound of it but that’s my fault You told me I was too young and I don’t see the way that the real world works and that’s because I view the world in metaphors but life is not poetry I knew the woman at the beauty supply store had never had her heart broken when she kicked me out of the hair isle for slathering shampoo on my chest because I was hoping the suds would seep in through my skin and find their way to my heart The label on the bottle read anti-breakage I just couldn’t resist to try The librarian was confused when I returned the dictionary that smelled like peroxide and was covered in band-aids Maybe she had never been hurt by words or maybe life is not poetry I told you that kissing you was like waking up right before seeing the sun rise after the apocalypse You didn’t understand I told you that I wanted to string the stars from your bedroom ceiling so you would always have something to count on and again you didn’t understand I told you my heart was a quilt of mixed-matched fabric with flaws and failures crudely sewn together with good intentions You still didn’t understand even though our internal wounds are stitched up using the same thread Because life is not poetry Life is real and I am so **** good at letting people love me it scared me to see my joy sitting in your hands slipping through the creases of your fingers like sand I stopped saying your name when it started sounding real to me So I guess this is how it ends With the realization that I could shatter and leave my broken pieces under your pillow and you still would not dream of me So don’t use your heart like a fist because life is not poetry I am not a metaphor I’m not a phrase an expression or an exclamation I’m not a simile and I’m certainly not a hyperbole But I’d rather have ink on my hands than blood
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Jan 26, 2017
Jan 26, 2017 at 8:43 PM UTC
Fists and Metaphors
Your heart is the same shape and size as a fist But don’t use it like one because hearts they aren’t metaphors like a fist they cannot be healed with stitches and a band-aid The ability to touch does not mean the ability to feel and waiting for your heart to heal it’s a hell of a lot more than antiseptic My fury for you I threw some punches I tried to break open that prison that holds your heart captive but I guess my voice just wasn’t the right frequency because it’s still in tact and yes, when the world went quiet for a moment I could hear the gears of the universe turning inside of you and I loved the sound of it but that’s my fault You told me I was too young and I don’t see the way that the real world works and that’s because I view the world in metaphors but life is not poetry I knew the woman at the beauty supply store had never had her heart broken when she kicked me out of the hair isle for slathering shampoo on my chest because I was hoping the suds would seep in through my skin and find their way to my heart The label on the bottle read anti-breakage I just couldn’t resist to try The librarian was confused when I returned the dictionary that smelled like peroxide and was covered in band-aids Maybe she had never been hurt by words or maybe life is not poetry I told you that kissing you was like waking up right before seeing the sun rise after the apocalypse You didn’t understand I told you that I wanted to string the stars from your bedroom ceiling so you would always have something to count on and again you didn’t understand I told you my heart was a quilt of mixed-matched fabric with flaws and failures crudely sewn together with good intentions You still didn’t understand even though our internal wounds are stitched up using the same thread Because life is not poetry Life is real and I am so **** good at letting people love me it scared me to see my joy sitting in your hands slipping through the creases of your fingers like sand I stopped saying your name when it started sounding real to me So I guess this is how it ends With the realization that I could shatter and leave my broken pieces under your pillow and you still would not dream of me So don’t use your heart like a fist because life is not poetry I am not a metaphor I’m not a phrase an expression or an exclamation I’m not a simile and I’m certainly not a hyperbole But I’d rather have ink on my hands than blood
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I was silent for a long time. Sotto voice of an inner monologue when the room was barren. Ambiance, antiseptic smells, plastic and cold metal, yet I felt diseased. A viral infection tended to by women in scrubs. Too-bright lights dilated my pupils, and illuminated the evidence of my actions, the acts that brought me there. They all asked: What happened? *It was cold and burning and all I could see was red.* What did you do? I let go. My heart fluttered to the throb of my skull like it might take flight or explode. I was fine with either. Somehow, I am awake. And the nightmares are worse.
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Jan 2, 2014
Jan 2, 2014 at 12:12 PM UTC
Fiery-Throated Hummingbird
Antiseptic operational sheen You made the break clean Blood never touched your hands So none could soak your conscious You handled it plain faced She trusted you on the operation table She was patient & she was yours When it was done, You reaped the rewards Although a clean break can be sterile Her healing went all wrong She went home, pale & cold Still fuzzy from the medication Bled herself dry on the kitchen table Then later on, again, then again Your cut was straight But you couldn’t anticipate That she could feel your infection The infection of rejection In which always stains the blade Her heart would never be the same
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Mar 1, 2013
Mar 1, 2013 at 9:53 AM UTC
As If You Thought Yourself A Heart Surgeon
Emptied out the suitcase of my thoughts I'm kinda tired of lugging them around Searching for a place to just feel sore Without some ******* telling me To flip my smile around If I could? Don't you think I would? If I could just blank out the bullcrap of today If I could? You bet I would. Funnily ******* enough, things don't quite work that way. Wiping away the scratchmarks of the day With the antiseptic wipe of yet another pill
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Oct 14, 2015
Oct 14, 2015 at 11:54 AM UTC
Suitcase
the bath soap scent from my childhood. the one my mother would bring home every sunday; for me to wash but never feel clean. it stings, but no longer seeps into cuts like antiseptic. it smells like sorrow, loneliness, and pain yet the scent on my skin doesn’t make me sad. i think of the girl and what the girl would think of me. how far we’ve come; and how we share the same scent on older skin.
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Aug 18, 2024
Aug 18, 2024 at 10:37 AM UTC
A house that is no longer a home
Ripped open, bleeding the stardust of the heavens. You were the comet, bright and brillant blue, coming to stitch up my wounds. I was saved, not with antiseptic or morphine but the healing rush of your lips. Electricity pulses from your tongue brought me back to life. I found Orion’s Belt, you were my North Star. Super novas collapsed in my lungs when I looked into your moon filled eyes. I was the waves, under your spell I couldn’t fight the tide. When you held my hand and said forever Haley’s Comet burst forth from my limbs and I became a red blossomed nebula. Yours, infinitely.
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Feb 27, 2013
Feb 27, 2013 at 12:34 AM UTC
Starshine
Why do you continue to sleep this night? Like so many others, refusing to awaken I am losing patience with your lack of knowing With your avoidance to feel Hear me ... Come to me Come back to the fore mother's womb Know your place of origin It is time for you to be born again of blood and lust Time to drink deep and be nourished by Ancestral ******* I come to you in the quietness of the night I come to you with arms that ache to hold you With a tongue that burns to share with you All that has been denied you for too long *What is happening to me? I did as I was told. I followed the formula. Studied well. Worked hard. Fell in love.. . Why was it all taken from me? What is left for me?* Doing and not “Being” leaves no time for the sacred You wonder why the emptiness grows inside you? Let me love you into growing and into knowing The truth of the fullness of a woman Time to leave your antiseptic cocoon Time to touch, to burn, to feel Time to leave the shackles of other's man made rules And dare to create your own from having lived So many fear the dark. But water and fire gather in the dark places below. The brave and bold have learned to go there eagerly They run with pulses racing. Their bodies flushed, warm, alive. Hear me ... Come to me Tonight we shall meet and touch It is our intention to reclaim all that has been lost to us It is our intention to give to you, all that has been denied Dare to free your body. Dare to open your soul. Feel. Hear me ... Come to me Let me dig deep into your soul Become one with your Ivory bones Know the harmony of your blood's song Find the place where I belong Let my footsteps echo within your mind Journey with me through space and time Let me turn you inside out Breathe the Breath from your sweet mouth A pulse stilled...now throbs and rushes A tongue denied...salivates A covert glance...seeks to be engaged Flesh and mind flooded with new yearning...are hungry Woman of the heart, Let thunder roll Dig in your earthiness, Follow your roots to your flesh And find us dancing in your blood You don't have to tiptoe around your heart Dig in. Know it. Own it. Trust the knowing will bless your lips and your hips And set your world on fire!
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Jan 16, 2013
Jan 16, 2013 at 11:24 AM UTC
Sacred She
Why do you continue to sleep this night? Like so many others, refusing to awaken I am losing patience with your lack of knowing With your avoidance to feel Hear me ... Come to me Come back to the fore mother's womb Know your place of origin It is time for you to be born again of blood and lust Time to drink deep and be nourished by Ancestral ******* I come to you in the quietness of the night I come to you with arms that ache to hold you With a tongue that burns to share with you All that has been denied you for too long *What is happening to me? I did as I was told. I followed the formula. Studied well. Worked hard. Fell in love.. . Why was it all taken from me? What is left for me?* Doing and not “Being” leaves no time for the sacred You wonder why the emptiness grows inside you? Let me love you into growing and into knowing The truth of the fullness of a woman Time to leave your antiseptic cocoon Time to touch, to burn, to feel Time to leave the shackles of other's man made rules And dare to create your own from having lived So many fear the dark. But water and fire gather in the dark places below. The brave and bold have learned to go there eagerly They run with pulses racing. Their bodies flushed, warm, alive. Hear me ... Come to me Tonight we shall meet and touch It is our intention to reclaim all that has been lost to us It is our intention to give to you, all that has been denied Dare to free your body. Dare to open your soul. Feel. Hear me ... Come to me Let me dig deep into your soul Become one with your Ivory bones Know the harmony of your blood's song Find the place where I belong Let my footsteps echo within your mind Journey with me through space and time Let me turn you inside out Breathe the Breath from your sweet mouth A pulse stilled...now throbs and rushes A tongue denied...salivates A covert glance...seeks to be engaged Flesh and mind flooded with new yearning...are hungry Woman of the heart, Let thunder roll Dig in your earthiness, Follow your roots to your flesh And find us dancing in your blood You don't have to tiptoe around your heart Dig in. Know it. Own it. Trust the knowing will bless your lips and your hips And set your world on fire!
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There there my dear, it's only a scratch, another one for the collection. Antiseptic wipe; Dettol 99.9% by the way. Indignancy felt but ushered into a comfortable seat with nice back support and leather upholstery. Tomato Ketchup. "This is just wrong, this will not stand!!" A deafening barely audible roar. Look there is a fly banging its head against a glass window. He repeats the action over and over. A spark flies and it blinds. Sweet immersion. Embrace. Warmth. Comfort. A bubble. Suspension. The gaze into a lover's eyes....post ****** of course! Cinema ticket stubs, bloated belly, extra butter. The cold walk home. Sorry, I have none on me or I left mine inside or look away. Discrepency and some thing dis jointed. Lack of understanding. Inward spirals. HellNoweWontgO, away they went in disgruntled silence. Not a stain nor a mark on the beautiful tree lined streets.
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Mar 22, 2012
Mar 22, 2012 at 11:00 AM UTC
Now Now.
I find my emptiness at the beginning of panic. The time changes, and as I pause, between the magic and the real, a sudden nothingness descends, and somebody goes away, plans forgotten and mislaid. It does not matter that the dark falls too early, skies damp with the the hopefulness of being confused again. Even dancing holds no appeal, as the music is plastic pop with a beat but without heart. I sense the pouring little I've become, escaping only when hour clicks to another number. Darkened rooms lend whispers. Can you hear them? Let the sentences drop and fall into a descending tone, for the collection of platitudes are heavily pregnant with hints of beeping bells. They've gathered here, manifest with their antiseptic concerns Mumbling to one another even though the sentences are necessarily vacant. What small measure of happiness I am able to endure is saturated with routines that are tiresome, heavily laden with standing still in rolling cyclones. I kick at the plastic straws that litter the drinking cups of plans come undone.
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 6:09 PM UTC
Plastic Straws That Litter The Drinking Cups Of Plans Come Undone
We turned the sun into a scourge Burned two cities in Japan. It was not antiseptic. It was not friendly. It was ****** on a scale that the world has come to know too well but by a means that upset the balance of nature The magnetic forces of the atom unhinged set off on lunatic paths to arrive at something like the sun Flesh was peeled from bone that day faces peeled from skulls This is not a pretty thing not a bedtime story for your kids Yet our taxes pave a path to the next generation of hell-found missiles aimed deliberately and directly at the hopes the domestic fears the quiet anxieties the moments of wonder of love the kiss in the morning goodbye the welcome home in the evening of every person alive today. Is there a way to say No?
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Aug 6, 2016
Aug 6, 2016 at 10:13 PM UTC
August 1945
Girl I was brought into this world Covered in my own mother’s blood. Soaked and glistening Under the florescent lights. Red dripping onto the linoleum floor. Metallic scent intermingling with antiseptic. My vocal cords were the first things to come in. My screams battled my mother’s. My screams shattered the doctor’s ear drums. Years passed and I learned how to be quiet. Years passed and I stretched. I was a bulb planted in a field. I was tended to the same way the girl next to me was, But I didn’t grow quite right. Fire I swallow hot coals Like some swallow gum. They stick to my insides for 7 years. For years I was convinced I was water. Fluid and easy. Fluctuating between a trickle and a storm. But now I realize I am fire. Flames like tongues enter my slacked jaw. There is no easy way to handle me. Myth When I was a child My father would read the Book of Revelation to me. While most little girls got Goodnight moon, goodnight stars. I got the ***** of Babylon. I was built by stories. Armored with words dripping from Ancient people’s lips. By the time I was nine I could Recount the abduction of Persephone In less than twelve seconds. Because of Persephone I will not eat pomegranate seeds. Skin Do not be fooled by the softness of my skin Or the white of my pigment. I am not a diamond, I am not a ruby. I am flesh, I am human. I am wrapped in a body that loves me And I will love it back.
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Dec 27, 2014
Dec 27, 2014 at 4:27 PM UTC
Anatomy
I have no tongue for whiskey. In turn, the whisky tasting was a waste. I got drunk unenjoyably. Maybe whisky's best use is as an emergency antiseptic. Someone asked, "How was that one?" "The physical manifestation of 'NO'." Walking home, I fear this will be the taste I taste while dying.
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Feb 15, 2014
Feb 15, 2014 at 11:10 AM UTC
The Whiskey Tasting