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"armpit" poems
Wish i am strong enough by this time. Wish i had the courage to face him later. Wish that i could hug him tight by the time that i saw him. Wish i could kiss him again. Wish i could reach out and grab him and feel his arms around me again. Wish i could share another day with him and share the laughter again. Wish i can smell his armpit and feet. Wish i could say i love him endlessly. Wish i am not craving for him anymore. Wish i am not crying at night wanting him to just appear in front of me. Wish i am not crying on the bathroom floor begging God to bring him back. Wish that i had him not only in my dreams so that i would not want sleep so much cos i know that dream is the simplest way for me to feel him again. Wish the gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart game is not that strong. Wish i didn't wished these last Wednesday wishes.
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May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015 at 8:50 AM UTC
Last Wednesday wishes
It follows my movements behind a seashell, every few steps it drops the cup over it's shoulder prolifically it shifts positions, so do I, as slight of hand. If the secret of love is buried in his armpit, and it is, maniacally. Tho' not the kind you buy at the movies, of optimist derringers, smoking guns. Still, flight begins when the sun goes down it shifts euphemistic trees like shadow puppets into walls of passion, makes bulimia dreams of doughnut holes, something sweet craving bakery counters and bagels take up the lonesome place still ringing in our ears, my ears, placards hanging lobes of the emotionally distressed, handicapped dangle I can't move my tongue ...again. But, they still hear love whisper their name just before the dawn becomes. Sunny rising sonic boom that scatters the birds all into synchronized sign language. We strain, to hear them sing anthems over the roof tops, it makes us happy to hear every time, just one more time.
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Jun 11, 2015
Jun 11, 2015 at 9:56 PM UTC
The Bakery
First Love is funny Like a burning ring We all fell into it once Memories Memories Time ago Young in age Tender in heart Just like in the garden I wanted to touch the apple Just the next street Yet my bath must be long Had no real beard Wonder what I was shaving Armpit cleaned like a desert Nails cut to shape Memories Memories Shirt ironed repeatedly Trousers checked for unseen tears Day before Only shoe shined to new. Hair line brought to shape By my mum used tiger razor Memories Memories Vasselin on my face Power on my neck Perfumed ear To make complete Memories Memories Mirror Mirror How do I look Turning Turning Looking Looking The boy must be perfect To met his presumed perfect girl With a novel in hand A nappe in the other The boy good to go Certified by my coach Unseen shadow accomplices Bold and calm Queens and polished coach gave order Tell her she is not beautiful But pretty Tell her she is not a girl But an angel Tell her she is not now But the future Whistle blown I marched forward Be calm be calm My shadow kept saying Target in sight Worrior on the March Memories Memories At the junction of battle Without rain Was covered in sweat Had a quick look backward My shadow had disappeared queens refused to be fluent words of love had flew away Smiling was i Cleaning my sweat Opening my novel able to ask for her note Last assignment of Saturday We don't school on Saturday Memories Memories Prayed for rapture Even though I new will end in hell Any other thing My hunted asked No! no!! no!!! The hunter said Hunted standing Hunter running Memories Memories Now in a corner Waiting for my scar to heal ****** up my coach said Thanking God I came alive Even when the battle was lost Memories Memories Love is like a burning ring We all fell into it once Memories Memories And Memories
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Jul 2, 2020
Jul 2, 2020 at 8:45 PM UTC
Learning to crawl
First Love is funny Like a burning ring We all fell into it once Memories Memories Time ago Young in age Tender in heart Just like in the garden I wanted to touch the apple Just the next street Yet my bath must be long Had no real beard Wonder what I was shaving Armpit cleaned like a desert Nails cut to shape Memories Memories Shirt ironed repeatedly Trousers checked for unseen tears Day before Only shoe shined to new. Hair line brought to shape By my mum used tiger razor Memories Memories Vasselin on my face Power on my neck Perfumed ear To make complete Memories Memories Mirror Mirror How do I look Turning Turning Looking Looking The boy must be perfect To met his presumed perfect girl With a novel in hand A nappe in the other The boy good to go Certified by my coach Unseen shadow accomplices Bold and calm Queens and polished coach gave order Tell her she is not beautiful But pretty Tell her she is not a girl But an angel Tell her she is not now But the future Whistle blown I marched forward Be calm be calm My shadow kept saying Target in sight Worrior on the March Memories Memories At the junction of battle Without rain Was covered in sweat Had a quick look backward My shadow had disappeared queens refused to be fluent words of love had flew away Smiling was i Cleaning my sweat Opening my novel able to ask for her note Last assignment of Saturday We don't school on Saturday Memories Memories Prayed for rapture Even though I new will end in hell Any other thing My hunted asked No! no!! no!!! The hunter said Hunted standing Hunter running Memories Memories Now in a corner Waiting for my scar to heal ****** up my coach said Thanking God I came alive Even when the battle was lost Memories Memories Love is like a burning ring We all fell into it once Memories Memories And Memories
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Alexander K OPICHO (Eldoret, Kenya;[email protected]) from north in Kaduna of Okigbo to south in the Rhoben Island of Mazizi Kunene and D M Zwelonke who sang the song of Shaka; in Zulu Heroism that beautified our face in the armpit of Ezkia Mphalele, the sons of Africa in the knighthood of poetry,chantery and incantations you are hailed with with glory and dignity for your service to humanity your service to literature and gods of poetry in the spirit of the song that we chant in the spirit of love and peace the glory of hour heritage is an eyesore to the lazy ; who though ill will can stop the flow of African river, Sing our songs and chant our spirituals as you write our poems open your poetic ***** for the world is a ****** in which the seed of African poetry will plummet and flower to glory of man the essence of Godliness, Let Soyinka and Achebe sing our songs without fear of home As Okot P' Btek revamps from the ashes like a phoenix to re-plant the bumpkin in the old homestead of Taban Lo Liyong Who sang the cacotpic song in the dystopia of black diaspora when he saw another ****** dead in the guest for Nocturnes of Senghor who feared Marxist poetry and African songs which Aime Cesaire chanted in the mayoralty of Paris.
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Jan 24, 2014
Jan 24, 2014 at 12:45 PM UTC
ode to the African Poets
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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Jul 20, 2018
Jul 20, 2018 at 2:20 AM UTC
Cockcrow harbour
Cockcrow harbour: the gulls whining like tethered dogs about rooftops paliophobic cars and grounded vessels.. Look: on the hoary horizon a glaucous strip beguils with backwater. Not putting on a show the frigid sea benumbed.. Easily, with a tail of emerald jelly skim a vanishing lane off that lustrous sheet and watch the trailblazing mainland scuttle. Now, Only scattered dreaming is possible. In it's bachelor pad, cradling over crinkles, away from the meretriciosness of validating the real by sharing it, THE WIND blusters off any veneer. Here, stale but spry, fare your way around the inoffensive isle to it's most shyest of harbours: a mouth full of silver saving it's breath. The windows facing the sea seem black & white, their wooden frames hooked to the wind, the splattered gulls meow your name in a way that's personal. Of course comes to mind. The pines are demanding a visit, They're whispering so you can hear them, each as different as every snore, these pines know how to grow in the sand and still reach for the Nimbostratus with heads in unison. The spaces between their trunks illuminating the blazing needles raining down painting the ground familiar to your lover's skin texture: Feel her closeness from jilted borderwatchtowers as she speads her mire like no one's watching: weedy and sugared with bellflowers, the waves in her shallow armpit billeting a pair of white swans: demurely they float sometimes as pillows and sometimes as question marks.. Go ask the seasoned locals, they say the bones she parked when she let her ice sheet melt are portals to her noble underbelly. Hidden in the woods reminiscent of your heart, the red tank-sized stone is sealed, but what the lighting reach cannot the rain shall sluice apart dumbly. And though her hair has come to be the moss black and hoarse as sailor's beard, there is still time. The void says her noisy neighbour is nothing to die for. The theadbear car with absent doors incites to drive her in reverse gear to the first few days of holidays: her golden locks a-blaze, her arm around your hind-sighted doppelganger.
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unsuccessful potatoes & you found a tree in the ocean i spent the afternoon digging, digging my fingernails into my own fear of commitment the fear of my own reputation now the cat's in heat & richard nixon (the dog) is teasing her with his trump card she takes it & squeezes it very gently then rips it open madly & snarls & it oozes and drips out of her mouth we all pick up a thousand pieces of a minute i cremated my sister this morning & new spirits arrived at my doorstep before noon they sang to me of instinct, whinnying about the antique zenith up in cheyenne "gimmie some secrets" she said so i carved them into my arm into a minotaur's chest into a giant looking glass into a wooden boat & i set sail for the sundial, "there is no truth" my eyes are wax & the ocean means nasty filth but everything is useless now frogs carry high powered harmonicas & walk into the spells of Poe & into the hexagrams of Hamlet i do not want to carry a pitchfork across some godforsaken desert i do not want to feel my own evaporation while the real artists brood in the meantime i want to waste away on a slushy evening i will live in my armpit & hate you & never wear deodorant "your mind is small--it is limited--why must you understand?"
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Jan 10, 2012
Jan 10, 2012 at 9:11 PM UTC
supper ruined
***** feet ***** of them ache they're dry all dried out, moisture to face and digestive tract make little difference but comfort a little sort of; maybe subdue to replenishing skip the pain with a drink fucken, fucken drink fucken dust lingers in the brain, it swirls a cloud of ground envelops the shape of u u become covered u have a layer, salty, and dry and 'organic' (surely bio (though im not sure what is or why are)) full city boy, suburban boy, not particularly gritty boy along side hippies and volunteers all tripppy and unwashed, and un plastic yet forcefully hemped drunk of micro beer and burnt brown and blotchy red and wire-y and dry and matted as if nothing really matters except for principles misguided and randomly enforced feel like a husk; peanut shell insides swallowed by the mouth of the party embodied a monsterous sweaty man tanned and thickly bearded and beered fat dreads fall around and surround u; a forest of hair a circle encroaching of fuzzy pillars in fibres entrapped inside them; feel their lingering time matted hold a wealth of effort to become unkempt; they are bars they are walls and the FACE! ………………………   ………………………………… oh looming down, wafts of armpit vapour cloud; a looming puft that surrounds engorged by the scent as it circles u, the mouth that lowered onto u chews u and spills bits of u chomp chomp protein for vegetarians; u; ur rigour ur vigour ur guts    eaten in a flurry of chomps and slurps and it crunches and it grates like the rocks on the ***** of ur feet it grates u are digested and reused as they would like but for them; for a collective u dived into for fun 2 days to peddle ur wares to progress ( admittedly through some days of regression…) for all humans, and Humans; for fun on monday we will repent for the damages waged on the inside of the body and the outsides too for some gain i guess on this which we settle for always for display for fun
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 2:10 AM UTC
festivals
***** feet ***** of them ache they're dry all dried out, moisture to face and digestive tract make little difference but comfort a little sort of; maybe subdue to replenishing skip the pain with a drink fucken, fucken drink fucken dust lingers in the brain, it swirls a cloud of ground envelops the shape of u u become covered u have a layer, salty, and dry and 'organic' (surely bio (though im not sure what is or why are)) full city boy, suburban boy, not particularly gritty boy along side hippies and volunteers all tripppy and unwashed, and un plastic yet forcefully hemped drunk of micro beer and burnt brown and blotchy red and wire-y and dry and matted as if nothing really matters except for principles misguided and randomly enforced feel like a husk; peanut shell insides swallowed by the mouth of the party embodied a monsterous sweaty man tanned and thickly bearded and beered fat dreads fall around and surround u; a forest of hair a circle encroaching of fuzzy pillars in fibres entrapped inside them; feel their lingering time matted hold a wealth of effort to become unkempt; they are bars they are walls and the FACE! ………………………   ………………………………… oh looming down, wafts of armpit vapour cloud; a looming puft that surrounds engorged by the scent as it circles u, the mouth that lowered onto u chews u and spills bits of u chomp chomp protein for vegetarians; u; ur rigour ur vigour ur guts    eaten in a flurry of chomps and slurps and it crunches and it grates like the rocks on the ***** of ur feet it grates u are digested and reused as they would like but for them; for a collective u dived into for fun 2 days to peddle ur wares to progress ( admittedly through some days of regression…) for all humans, and Humans; for fun on monday we will repent for the damages waged on the inside of the body and the outsides too for some gain i guess on this which we settle for always for display for fun
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Bigger things are easier to see. You might miss a humming bird or bee. You won't miss a condor or eagle. The opposite is true for people. How can that be? If there's more of me, why am I impossible to see? Invisibility isn't a cloak or spell. It's your fat pants stretched thin and worn as hell. It's the T-shirt you never thought you'd fit now threadbare and torn in the armpit. There's just more of you to love, I thought the saying went. Well there I was feeling only torment. Faces fell when I said no, I'm not pregnant. Does love bloat like this body of mine? Does it get watered down like cheap wine? My back, my legs, everything hurt. My body just didn't work. If not by plane, by train, or car, I wasn't getting very far. I longed for someone to scoop me up, to cradle me and gently rock. I didn't fit in anyone's arms and briefly flirted with self harm. Twice at work I took to crying. It went unnoticed without my trying. The wrong solution looked too friendly and as of late, far too trendy. Left alone I pondered fate. If I died, I'd be dead weight. I felt stuck forever like dried cement. Sinking too low even to lament. I watched my waist size raise and fall with the tides. If the full moon swells with admiration, why was round me full of desperation?
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Apr 16, 2018
Apr 16, 2018 at 10:21 AM UTC
Invisibili-T
i love you when we're alone because you eviscerate me in front of your friends but alone you kiss the veins in my arms press your small hips into my hips & sigh into my neck & blink so slowly that i can hear your eyelids whispering you won't hold my hand in public because you blatantly want to seem available to other men but when it's only you & it's only me we lie on our backs letting the summer rain collect in puddles in our bellybuttons & you swear to god there's only one way this can end you say i can't meet your parents but everything i do reminds you of your father that tall strong man of your childhood singing sinatra to your mother in the kitchen just like i do when i sneak behind you & tickle your neck with my tongue you're giggling as i carry you like a bride into your bedroom for naptime or playtime you only miss me when you're by yourself like a flower hidden in a fenced-in backyard but you ignore my texts most days because when your friends are around you're busy dancing toward the sun & lying to them about where you spent last night & the blueberry pancakes you ate for breakfast you don't mention the ticklish new rib spot i found or the quiet music we make together at night or the stars we wished on with our pinky fingers tied together i love you most when we're sticky asleep alone you humming in turquoise ******* snuggled into my armpit with your warm hand melting into my chest & me in the pinstripe boxer briefs you bought with my arm under and reaching for your exposed breast
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Jun 28, 2015
Jun 28, 2015 at 8:38 AM UTC
blueberry pancakes
i love you when we're alone because you eviscerate me in front of your friends but alone you kiss the veins in my arms press your small hips into my hips & sigh into my neck & blink so slowly that i can hear your eyelids whispering you won't hold my hand in public because you blatantly want to seem available to other men but when it's only you & it's only me we lie on our backs letting the summer rain collect in puddles in our bellybuttons & you swear to god there's only one way this can end you say i can't meet your parents but everything i do reminds you of your father that tall strong man of your childhood singing sinatra to your mother in the kitchen just like i do when i sneak behind you & tickle your neck with my tongue you're giggling as i carry you like a bride into your bedroom for naptime or playtime you only miss me when you're by yourself like a flower hidden in a fenced-in backyard but you ignore my texts most days because when your friends are around you're busy dancing toward the sun & lying to them about where you spent last night & the blueberry pancakes you ate for breakfast you don't mention the ticklish new rib spot i found or the quiet music we make together at night or the stars we wished on with our pinky fingers tied together i love you most when we're sticky asleep alone you humming in turquoise ******* snuggled into my armpit with your warm hand melting into my chest & me in the pinstripe boxer briefs you bought with my arm under and reaching for your exposed breast
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Morning smells of Lilacs rapture me, Taking me back to Kinderhooks Chatham Street….June 21st 1961……not a cloud in the sky. Lying in bed I open my eyes to the hum of a window fan. And in the distance I hear a Hudson River barge blast its horn. This moment in time, well it brings tears to my eyes. Eleven years old, brown hair, hazel eyes, a toothy smile, Grins in the mirror, hoping to find a whisker or two… My cat Oscar sits there on the sink purring out his contentment. “Oscar” I say, “today I leave for the Freedom Farm” The Freedom Farm is the one place where I’m free to be me Without the fear of a negative comment or a boot in my *** I climb aboard the Greyhound bus with suitcase in hand, And looking down at Mom and Dad....I wave…. So Long Suckers!!               Walton NY, June 22nd, Dunk Hill Road, the smell of cow **** The land of Milk and Honey, Fields of four leaf clovers and 10’ corn stalks. It was here that all my friends lived, Shorty the horse, Mrs Blue the Holstein,                                                                               And there was Uncle Ike, Aunt Minnie and 9 Cousins. I loved them all! On this little dairy farm……my potential was unlimited, Uncle Ike taught me to drive the Tractor, water the heifers,   Milk the cows, shovel **** spread manure and have some **** fun! Hell Uncle Ike even let me try a piece of his plug tobacco... (Note to self…Just say No Thanks next time) A summer filled with character building experiences and an eight year olds understanding of work ethic. But we still had plenty of time for fun and cousin bonding. My Cousin Tom taught me to ride the cows and honed my spitting skills. And in my downtime I'd perfect the finer points of armpit farting, Four weeks of heaven on earth where nothing was impossible. *Once you work on a farm you get dirt in your shoes. And when you get dirt in your shoes, you can never get it out!"
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Aug 8, 2016
Aug 8, 2016 at 4:50 PM UTC
The Freedom Farm
Morning smells of Lilacs rapture me, Taking me back to Kinderhooks Chatham Street….June 21st 1961……not a cloud in the sky. Lying in bed I open my eyes to the hum of a window fan. And in the distance I hear a Hudson River barge blast its horn. This moment in time, well it brings tears to my eyes. Eleven years old, brown hair, hazel eyes, a toothy smile, Grins in the mirror, hoping to find a whisker or two… My cat Oscar sits there on the sink purring out his contentment. “Oscar” I say, “today I leave for the Freedom Farm” The Freedom Farm is the one place where I’m free to be me Without the fear of a negative comment or a boot in my *** I climb aboard the Greyhound bus with suitcase in hand, And looking down at Mom and Dad....I wave…. So Long Suckers!!               Walton NY, June 22nd, Dunk Hill Road, the smell of cow **** The land of Milk and Honey, Fields of four leaf clovers and 10’ corn stalks. It was here that all my friends lived, Shorty the horse, Mrs Blue the Holstein,                                                                               And there was Uncle Ike, Aunt Minnie and 9 Cousins. I loved them all! On this little dairy farm……my potential was unlimited, Uncle Ike taught me to drive the Tractor, water the heifers,   Milk the cows, shovel **** spread manure and have some **** fun! Hell Uncle Ike even let me try a piece of his plug tobacco... (Note to self…Just say No Thanks next time) A summer filled with character building experiences and an eight year olds understanding of work ethic. But we still had plenty of time for fun and cousin bonding. My Cousin Tom taught me to ride the cows and honed my spitting skills. And in my downtime I'd perfect the finer points of armpit farting, Four weeks of heaven on earth where nothing was impossible. *Once you work on a farm you get dirt in your shoes. And when you get dirt in your shoes, you can never get it out!"
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Who else in this inhumane edifice can dance while the suspecting eyes stare at his moistened armpit? Pathetically unknowing music uplifts not just the soul but the intellect. Who else got the fire in imparting? or … did theirs even start a single spark since then? Who else brings out the best in these hopefuls? It’s all the worse and worst that they see. And you think San Pedro would be pleased when you gloat you made all the priests, doctors, and engineers? Woe to you who humiliate the chair by your indolent butts while uttering kindergartenous blabbers you claim to be education! Then you get all you want while tabula rasa remains tabula rasa. And you You seated on the higher chairs! Why don’t you trample down awhile and put your cataracting sight to use before it even brings you to the death of light. Has anyone of you even heard what your god told to Pontius Pilate? Ha! The you-have-no-power-over-me’s have always been impervious to you bigots! And you say to your kin let me handle it. When it is delayed and their impatience grows you see they’ll leave. Did you ever fret about deadlines of bills, of matriculas, of debts? What do you feed to your clan? Feeds? Get Ripley’s here! Oh how divine to utter all the Fs! ©Glenn L. Sentes February 20, 2013
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Feb 20, 2013
Feb 20, 2013 at 5:41 AM UTC
The Gospel According to Mentor
Zombies are waddling toward their door. Witches are cackling, black cats are scratching, And the ghouls want brains and more. But Brig and Ophelia aren’t scared yet, They’re waiting inside, Gobbling strange snacks while they hide. It’s bugs they like to chew and gnaw; And they love to eat their spiders raw, Not fried with onions, like Granda; Or served with broccoli, like Nana. Not boiled with worms and creepy crawlers. Ciaran eats those, Not these crazed daughters. Ophelia and Brig Eat them raw, Alive, not dead, With wiggly legs and sharp jaws; And wrapped up with mosquito heads In white sticky spider webs. They eat Black Widows soaked in goblin blood And wicked witch’s poo; Made from bats and rats and unschooled fools, That witches eat to soften  stools. They eat fat spiders Floating in soup, That slide and wiggle Down their throat. They eat them with their mouldy cheese, Melted over wasps and bees. The girls fork down spider stew, They love the taste “Tres beaucoup.” The gravy’s made from a mummy’s spit, And sweat that drips from a ghoul’s armpit. They like their spiders spread on bread, A feast to feed the risen dead. When their snack is finally done, They’ll pick their teeth and scrape their tongues For Daddy Long Legs they didn’t eat. The long legs caught between their teeth. They'll use those legs to weave a wreath, To trick flies and bugs and lonely spiders Into their hungry House of Horrors.
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Oct 30, 2023
Oct 30, 2023 at 11:06 AM UTC
Brig and Ophelia's House of Horrors
I drank the alcohol, expecting something. boy was I let down, when I got nothing. No silly laughter, or grand horror story. No youtube video, or easy talk for me. Just a headache or two and a feeling of suffocation. Just a scolding from people, and a dizzy sensation. The bottle looked nice, and tv shows made it seem fun, but after 3 gulps, I just felt like a street *** So I said goodbye to armpit beer, and I assure no rose wine here. *** is for pirates, much too complicated for me. I'm done with heartache alcohol, as you can plainly see.
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 10:41 PM UTC
Just say ew
Anna who was mad, I have a knife in my armpit. When I stand on tiptoe I tap out messages. Am I some sort of infection? Did I make you go insane? Did I make the sounds go sour? Did I tell you to climb out the window? Forgive. Forgive. Say not I did. Say not. Say. Speak Mary-words into our pillow. Take me the gangling twelve-year-old into your sunken lap. Whisper like a buttercup. Eat me. Eat me up like cream pudding. Take me in. Take me. Take. Give me a report on the condition of my soul. Give me a complete statement of my actions. Hand me a jack-in-the-pulpit and let me listen in. Put me in the stirrups and bring a tour group through. Number my sins on the grocery list and let me buy. Did I make you go insane? Did I turn up your earphone and let a siren drive through? Did I open the door for the mustached psychiatrist who dragged you out like a gold cart? Did I make you go insane? From the grave write me, Anna! You are nothing but ashes but nevertheless pick up the Parker Pen I gave you. Write me. Write.
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Anna Who Was Mad
I never leave the West when it isn’t raining, My brother says to me through the phone. He is on his way back over the Rockies and through Nebraska. He’ll never make it intact— hands fuse to the steering wheel like nylons on a burn victim, knees and elbows bolted in precise angles keeping the car straight, tires pulling everything forward. One foot is the pedal, one becomes the floor mat. Shoulder to armpit with a semi truck hauling jet wings from Denver, he notices the paths of rivets like bread lines in Omaha. Some of them are starving. But where is the rest, the airplane body without its wings? A hollow silo, pilot in a cockpit not going anywhere. I think airplanes molt this time of year. It’s still raining or it will be, the white-lined highways will carry you here unscathed.
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Feb 11, 2012
Feb 11, 2012 at 12:05 PM UTC
Two Weeks from Now
we are the stories between the armpit and the hand between the whisper and the sigh forged by galaxies of wounds in the fragility of light of spaces crushed by the acceleration of time our irises boundless sometimes we are the stories that tell our soles when to stop our bones when to sing that put sunflowers in our haze cranberries in our waitings delight in our might skyscrappers of thought in our deeds promises in our hands full of mud over caskets we are the stories of love's failure (aren't we asking too much from love?) of decay of pretend of parasitic laughter of the violence of bodies without minds without singing in the hearts stories of fists strife and toil, the boredom of dawn repetition of self-deception circles not round triangles full of hurt of the rigidity of one plus one equals two the rest is wonder so many stories exchanging nouns, verbs attributes just to capture what is forever escaping alluding flowing naturally undisturbed in the exchange of vowels like dark matter that escapes iself only in dreams was it the awe of vowels that invented the world? incessantly on the edge of chaos of blindness of knowing of loss of void of grief & joy of floating to the unknown or pausing into certainty hard working minds and eager souls errect citadels of meaning in dialogue sometimes or as oppressive as the denial of slippery roads of sad guitars or maddening violins our shadows sit closely next to us precisely when we're stepping into the light
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Jan 8, 2023
Jan 8, 2023 at 6:28 AM UTC
we are stories
We talk politics in the shower. You shampoo your beard, I condition my armpit hair. Good morning coffee breath. I love you like a palindrome. Tragic comedy, our physical love stretched thin over distance. Endings always differ. Moon circles scream it’s raining on me. Serotonin’s been locked up for years, I put her somewhere safe. Check you’re alive with a finger ***** comedy of errors sings an ode in my left ear. Here beard bristles brush hair light back catch sensitivity sits less lower lip fold selves in scene end stage right pick up towel EXIT.
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Mar 14, 2019
Mar 14, 2019 at 1:09 PM UTC
Poem about Love (thin)
Not since the days of shooting ****** into the artery in my armpit (too many blown out veins in my arms and feet), have I spent multiple nights pacing and sweating….. **** you simple carbohydrates. – In the first months of being a non-cigarette smoker I would see folks light up and near instantly collect a chilled film on my back and fingernails… forget about it; but the other day I drove by a pizzeria and had thoughts of ski masks and 45 caliber pistols… **** you simple carbohydrates. – Once upon a time I drank near 200 ounces of Mountain Dew each and every day. If I missed a day, I would have massive headaches combined with serious irritation; while it has been more than 5 years since this body ingested caffeine, last night I could not fall asleep for anything and no amount of cannabis oil or ibuprofen had the ability to curb my aching noggin…. **** you simple carbohydrates – change is the only constant and humanity has evolved amazing adaptability while I know I will be fine at this moment only one thing really runs through my head: **** you simple carbohydrates! –
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Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015 at 3:30 PM UTC
same life, different addiction
There’s a clumsiness to the way I unbutton my shirt, hoist it over my head and let it snuffle to the floor. I stand there, ******* and unkempt armpit hair on display but you’ve already almost totally disrobed, the light from outside licking your spine, dribbling down a leg like melted sunflower petals. We catch each other’s eyes, except you don’t catch eyes, you see the other person looking at you and you know what’s next, the standing **** dry skin and bellybuttons viewed only by a fortunate few, a bunch of names like grapes squashed into bed sheets we won’t touch again. I think this is supposed to be sexier, my underwear flinging off, boxer shorts champagne cork towards the window, your bra sunny side up by the foot of the door. Rather I watch you peer at the skin I’m in waiting for a shrill buzzer sound, a number out of ten and a spatter of applause from a conjured-up crowd. I think you look glorious. I go to say this but my brain feels as though it’s been whisked. You walk over, slink your hands towards my face, put an icicle finger to my lips. I’ve no idea what I’m doing but you’ll show me the way.
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May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017 at 11:34 AM UTC
Kit Off
not forgetting flames me up like a foam of whispers bursts into with laconic daring over darkened waters your name hangs unwritten I rolled over on a rib but it's useless how long am I going to ferment you in my armpit with your fragile ****** smile? chase me away like the passersby do with the meaning of travelling I was not and you were not you were not in my dying we were only a laden pool of sunlight I didn't find any solution than to behead the days these thin days unraveled from myself from the bone of the world peeled of magic the art of forgetting is for those who sleep on pillows such a long, long road I've been travelling to a destination obliterated by pain to this gravitational center, to this place with no hiding space only mute seagulls have seen my screaming I've cursed myself on pages, diaries of gory hours I've cupped myself in belated answers, dancing tears more than eyes can meet while I was forgetting nothing about everything the world revolved once, twice, a dozen of times you were learning to dissipate your name to waste it on the lapel of not yet discovered seas in the silence of leaves now I know this calmness, this tenderness of dying I could write this unthreatening poem today, tomorrow till forever finds some peace perhaps some forgetting
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Feb 27, 2015
Feb 27, 2015 at 5:46 PM UTC
the art of forgetting
swimming under lightning, lighting our submergence flash allure: smooth bodies, bright to glimpse and shadow-grin intent collide and mingle folds of pleasure, firmly bent to tangle, clasp and spurn the world above, rely on one another's breath, stored for loving long in bubbles gasping sweet melodics free as with imagined merfolk passion-songs of lore, prescient lapping dance of tidal fruits you loved before they came, moonray columns stage us in our seashift wombs--again-- within a womb--like instant chrysalises blinking luminescent bursts i am interred within the waves you ripple into me, blind carnal pressures built from ancient shores become the sea again the magnitude entrances on its own, that acrophobic thrill celestial in our interthreaded eyes, open to a color deeply in the dark of octopodal ink a curtain phosphorescent armpit pulse, caressing thumb and lip, billows, sways the dance anew, to sonar drumbeat, pulmonary height the spinal scream a surface ripple for the sky, symphonic deep to barely whisper into air
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Feb 17, 2013
Feb 17, 2013 at 9:06 AM UTC
underwater love
My wife said write a love poem So that's what I will do Someone said that roses are red Or was it violets are blue? Oh well, you understand my meaning You know what I'm trying to say Your eyes are like a pickled beet So stop looking at me that way Your kiss is like a bathroom plunger Each time you **** my face Your smile looks like a circus clown That came from outer space Your breath smells like an armpit That brings me to my knees Your hair is like a brillo pad As stiff as a summer breeze Your voice is like a banshee in heat My wife say's, "That's Enough!!!" I tried to tell her I don't know how To write this mushy stuff
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Mar 4, 2011
Mar 4, 2011 at 12:01 PM UTC
Mushy Stuff
Fixed on salad ******* armpit **** Passionate diaper ***** dodging queefs **** fat farts and **** sipping Squiggly nips dangling from a pig coffee spitting ***** kids with sticks sticking sticky ***** in **** like a ***** *** cream pageant queens spewing **** Chris Kringle's candy cane **** tip dripping on lips sweet **** water for your daughter ************ to Aaron Carter **** the rest I'm all out of ******* to step on best be getting home to *** on my own chest test the taste and throw out the rest I tickle my intestines till I **** out hot stew putrid black goo with nut chunks and fiber skins stretching ball skin over my **** rim till it's all one sack use bread and sauce from a snack pack to make a sack sandwich hold the lettuce between my cheeks and toss my own salad picturing *** ramming ***** spewing out tasty ***** gluey pools of chlorine smelling salty bliss I picture gargling ***** while lesbians crawl all over me vibrating fake skin ***** deep in my **** cave if you misbehave I'll rip off your face while I squeeze your **** in my teeth and make you sit on my face after you clean your *** crease bleached and sweet
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 5:26 PM UTC
not for the faint-hearted!
She knew how to hold me because she was used to holding herself together. She bound herself, not from head to toe, but from her flat stomach to her nervous armpit. Never quite comfortable in her own skin, but I was comfortable against it. I never knew what name to call her. So I called her lover. My lover would rest with me. Whispers filled the air like clouds. Our words were puffy and white. Others spoke acid tongued storm clouds. Now that she is gone I still don’t know what name to call her. Him. His name rolls off my tongue as hers had. Still bittersweet and rough, still my unstable rock. Rocks crumble and learn that the rain washes them away. Rain learns that falling on, or for, rocks bruises the heart and breaks the ribs. Yet still, the rain comes and my heart ruptures and my chest aches of cracks. Still I long for him. For her. For us.
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Jan 22, 2016
Jan 22, 2016 at 11:35 AM UTC
I am she; I am he