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"blouses" poems
The end of the affair is always death. She's my workshop. Slippery eye, out of the tribe of myself my breath finds you gone. I horrify those who stand by. I am fed. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Finger to finger, now she's mine. She's not too far. She's my encounter. I beat her like a bell. I recline in the bower where you used to mount her. You borrowed me on the flowered spread. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Take for instance this night, my love, that every single couple puts together with a joint overturning, beneath, above, the abundant two on sponge and feather, kneeling and pushing, head to head. At night, alone, I marry the bed. I break out of my body this way, an annoying miracle. Could I put the dream market on display? I am spread out. I crucify. My little plum is what you said. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Then my black-eyed rival came. The lady of water, rising on the beach, a piano at her fingertips, shame on her lips and a flute's speech. And I was the knock-kneed broom instead. At night, alone, I marry the bed. She took you the way a women takes a bargain dress off the rack and I broke the way a stone breaks. I give back your books and fishing tack. Today's paper says that you are wed. At night, alone, I marry the bed. The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.
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The Ballad Of The Lonely Masturbator
The end of the affair is always death. She's my workshop. Slippery eye, out of the tribe of myself my breath finds you gone. I horrify those who stand by. I am fed. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Finger to finger, now she's mine. She's not too far. She's my encounter. I beat her like a bell. I recline in the bower where you used to mount her. You borrowed me on the flowered spread. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Take for instance this night, my love, that every single couple puts together with a joint overturning, beneath, above, the abundant two on sponge and feather, kneeling and pushing, head to head. At night, alone, I marry the bed. I break out of my body this way, an annoying miracle. Could I put the dream market on display? I am spread out. I crucify. My little plum is what you said. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Then my black-eyed rival came. The lady of water, rising on the beach, a piano at her fingertips, shame on her lips and a flute's speech. And I was the knock-kneed broom instead. At night, alone, I marry the bed. She took you the way a women takes a bargain dress off the rack and I broke the way a stone breaks. I give back your books and fishing tack. Today's paper says that you are wed. At night, alone, I marry the bed. The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.
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Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom Bumming your fat knobs and insert your helmet naked and unashamed Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom Kicking off kick-off, cyborgs brought face to face Tartan sunstroke and may Mumbo Jumbo's **** all lie among you Nine, eleven, seven, thirteen, six, quinquereme, ******** ********* Tweedledum and Tweedledee, unsocial person, erectoffensive! This is Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom You've really ****** the naval officer And the hatchet faces want to know whose blouses you abuse Now it's time to evacuate the ******* if you have a free hand This is Lance Corporal Tom to Masticated Ectoplasm I'm fancy dress dancing through the cat—flap And I'm groping inside a swollen grotesque sailor And the plums look gigantically unusual nowadays Ergo from Land's End to John o' Groats am I piddling in a crumpet slammer Telescopic hindward the lump Uranus Arsenic is scatological And there's sweet **** all I can have ****** *********** with With the proviso that I'm Ichabod celibate centipede sextillion heads I'm fondling vigorously paparazzo And I think my sputnik knows which direction to **** Tell my ballbreaker I ****** her vigorously for England, she bonks Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom Your menstrual cycle's kaput, there's oojakapivvygizmo spleen Can you smell me, Lance Corporal Tom? Can you get to the bottom of me, Lance Corporal Tom? Can you delve into me, Lance Corporal Tom? Can you... From Land's End to John o' Groats am I vibrating ring my crumpet criminal lunatic asylum Telescopic hindward the groupie Uranus Arsenic is scatological And there's sweet **** all I can have ****** *********** with
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Mar 27, 2010
Mar 27, 2010 at 4:22 PM UTC
******* Type Transvestite
Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom Bumming your fat knobs and insert your helmet naked and unashamed Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom Kicking off kick-off, cyborgs brought face to face Tartan sunstroke and may Mumbo Jumbo's **** all lie among you Nine, eleven, seven, thirteen, six, quinquereme, ******** ********* Tweedledum and Tweedledee, unsocial person, erectoffensive! This is Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom You've really ****** the naval officer And the hatchet faces want to know whose blouses you abuse Now it's time to evacuate the ******* if you have a free hand This is Lance Corporal Tom to Masticated Ectoplasm I'm fancy dress dancing through the cat—flap And I'm groping inside a swollen grotesque sailor And the plums look gigantically unusual nowadays Ergo from Land's End to John o' Groats am I piddling in a crumpet slammer Telescopic hindward the lump Uranus Arsenic is scatological And there's sweet **** all I can have ****** *********** with With the proviso that I'm Ichabod celibate centipede sextillion heads I'm fondling vigorously paparazzo And I think my sputnik knows which direction to **** Tell my ballbreaker I ****** her vigorously for England, she bonks Masticated Ectoplasm to Lance Corporal Tom Your menstrual cycle's kaput, there's oojakapivvygizmo spleen Can you smell me, Lance Corporal Tom? Can you get to the bottom of me, Lance Corporal Tom? Can you delve into me, Lance Corporal Tom? Can you... From Land's End to John o' Groats am I vibrating ring my crumpet criminal lunatic asylum Telescopic hindward the groupie Uranus Arsenic is scatological And there's sweet **** all I can have ****** *********** with
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A boy in jeans, A boy in trousers, A boy in braces, A boy in blouses, A girl who smells like summer sweat, A girl whose makeup hasn’t set, A boy who swears, A boy who doesn’t, A girl’s shoulder, A second cousin, A girl who smells of **** and beer, A tattooed boy with a silver sneer, A skinny girl who’s got T.B, A boy who daintily sips his tea, A girl’s left leg – bare or stockinged, A boy so cold his knees are knocking, A nasty **** A suede-head killer, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Vivienne Westwood’s crazy teeth, Bow-legged loons on Hampstead Heath, Blue eyes, brown eyes, grey eyes, green, Cold eyes, big eyes, sad eyes, mean, Darling sweethearts in flirty skirts, City-Boy ******** in well-pressed shirts, Elbows, throat, wrists, knees, A consumptive girl’s chainsmoking wheeze, Blonde girls with their hair in plaits, Skinny boys, short boys, muscular, fat – Girls with pink lipstick like strawberry frosting, I’m telling you man, It’s ******* exhausting.
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Aug 22, 2014
Aug 22, 2014 at 8:16 PM UTC
things I find attractive
Nostalgia is a poor excuse for ignorance yet it pervades with a tenacity stemming from fabricated desire for the smell of **** we're told is roses and it's blasphemous to question potential "isms" lurking behind the veil of Saturday morning cartoons and black and white family sitcoms. Yet by the time the sonic *** organs have lain into us with repressed emotion, the holy spirit has spilled its ***** in the dirt to traverse onward floating apparition out of the room and down the hall closer towards progress. and we are left reeling stumbling into the hallway buttoning our blouses and yanking at our zippers wondering what could cause such great haste and we follow blindly in the wake of the first high or we turn backwards and plunge into fading bricolage as a means to cope with the rapid and fleeting *********** of the electric eye in its shape-shifting pylons and appendages getting smaller in the naked eye and gargantuan in the mind. Clutching our ******* in great amorous heaves of lust or donning our father's clothes in a mask of artifice and enlightened cultural pretension. Moaning for the days of youth a week ago, the epoch squeezed in the space between thumbs, looking for treasures in the trash craving something tangible in an increasingly intangible world. The semblance of touch lost on a generation who knows only of emotion through hieroglyphics and never through direct sensation. So we dig through the toy boxes and leave Generation X puzzled as we dig into their records in Guns n Roses T-shirts and high waisted jeans. We're just looking for an immaculate conception of something palpable.
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Oct 25, 2016
Oct 25, 2016 at 10:26 AM UTC
Nostalgic Fallacy
Nostalgia is a poor excuse for ignorance yet it pervades with a tenacity stemming from fabricated desire for the smell of **** we're told is roses and it's blasphemous to question potential "isms" lurking behind the veil of Saturday morning cartoons and black and white family sitcoms. Yet by the time the sonic *** organs have lain into us with repressed emotion, the holy spirit has spilled its ***** in the dirt to traverse onward floating apparition out of the room and down the hall closer towards progress. and we are left reeling stumbling into the hallway buttoning our blouses and yanking at our zippers wondering what could cause such great haste and we follow blindly in the wake of the first high or we turn backwards and plunge into fading bricolage as a means to cope with the rapid and fleeting *********** of the electric eye in its shape-shifting pylons and appendages getting smaller in the naked eye and gargantuan in the mind. Clutching our ******* in great amorous heaves of lust or donning our father's clothes in a mask of artifice and enlightened cultural pretension. Moaning for the days of youth a week ago, the epoch squeezed in the space between thumbs, looking for treasures in the trash craving something tangible in an increasingly intangible world. The semblance of touch lost on a generation who knows only of emotion through hieroglyphics and never through direct sensation. So we dig through the toy boxes and leave Generation X puzzled as we dig into their records in Guns n Roses T-shirts and high waisted jeans. We're just looking for an immaculate conception of something palpable.
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Guns, Long, steel guns, Pointed from the war ships In the name of the war god. Straight, shining, polished guns, Clambered over with jackies in white blouses, Glory of tan faces, tousled hair, white teeth, Laughing lithe jackies in white blouses, Sitting on the guns singing war songs, war chanties. Shovels, Broad, iron shovels, Scooping out oblong vaults, Loosening turf and leveling sod. I ask you To witness-- The shovel is brother to the gun.
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Iron
I have a lot of them pretty clothes; Short,long or medium skirts. Shabby,decent or just mere blouses. Short,long or medium dresses. But none can compare to my favorite little black dress. Its neither too short,nor too long. And I cannot even classify it to be medium. Its entire length is knitted in black As it has stitched in white, A belt that covers the waist. Its not a very big belt though, Too little actually. But I love my favorite little black dress. It is not because I can wear it to any occasion that I love it; I can wear it to dinner, And yet be comfortable enough to select even my favorite musozya to be my meal. I can dance for the whole night when in it. I can meet even the scariest of inlaws in it, And shake the hands of the most respectable people while having its belt clenching my waist. My favorite little black dress. I just love it And it is not because I got my first kiss in it. Nor is it because I had just taken it off, When my lover devoured my flesh and took my innocence with him that night. Leaving my decency to cling only to my skin, As if it is on my favorite little black dress. I kicked a ball in it, As the boys whaled 'goale! Goale! Goale' Thinking that since I had a dress for a garment, Then the goal,I would surely miss. And yet I didn't. In my favorite little black dress. That night when I danced with him, I wore it. I could tell my father too, Appreciated how lovely it made me look on this day, As he led me to the dance floor, And yet; I wasn't even the bride. My favorite little black dress.
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Jul 14, 2015
Jul 14, 2015 at 8:50 AM UTC
My favorite little black dress
I have a lot of them pretty clothes; Short,long or medium skirts. Shabby,decent or just mere blouses. Short,long or medium dresses. But none can compare to my favorite little black dress. Its neither too short,nor too long. And I cannot even classify it to be medium. Its entire length is knitted in black As it has stitched in white, A belt that covers the waist. Its not a very big belt though, Too little actually. But I love my favorite little black dress. It is not because I can wear it to any occasion that I love it; I can wear it to dinner, And yet be comfortable enough to select even my favorite musozya to be my meal. I can dance for the whole night when in it. I can meet even the scariest of inlaws in it, And shake the hands of the most respectable people while having its belt clenching my waist. My favorite little black dress. I just love it And it is not because I got my first kiss in it. Nor is it because I had just taken it off, When my lover devoured my flesh and took my innocence with him that night. Leaving my decency to cling only to my skin, As if it is on my favorite little black dress. I kicked a ball in it, As the boys whaled 'goale! Goale! Goale' Thinking that since I had a dress for a garment, Then the goal,I would surely miss. And yet I didn't. In my favorite little black dress. That night when I danced with him, I wore it. I could tell my father too, Appreciated how lovely it made me look on this day, As he led me to the dance floor, And yet; I wasn't even the bride. My favorite little black dress.
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I want summer like I want you, constantly. I’m tired of cold that snatches my breath and hope. I want the trees to regain their decency and cover their bare limbs. Wearing the greenest fullest blouses. I want the grass to grow. Thunder to roll and rain to fall. I want fat drops to bounce of the pavement, to wash my face and hair. I want the sun to bath my skin in beauty, making it glow with warmth. I want dresses and shorts and skirts. I want brown legs and flip-flops. I want turquoise pools and florescent swimsuits. I’m sick of cold fingers and toes. I’m tired of heaters and blankets. I want to roll down the windows. I want sweat on my back and only sheets on my bed. I’d love warm nights, drinking sweet tea, and making love beneath the stars. I wish for glowing street lights and lake nights. I want to sit in the windows of cars at sonic. I want barbeque sunflower seeds and the fourth of July. I want field parties with only beer and red bull, and only bonfires to see by. I want fireflies and chigger bites. Lemonade out of mason jars. I miss cotton, and sandals. I miss volleyball, ***** feet, and ponytails. But what I miss most about summer is freedom. Those summer night driving under an endless sky of stars.
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Aug 17, 2010
Aug 17, 2010 at 11:54 AM UTC
The Importance of Summer
Hands creep up Eyes look down Blouses fall Nations shout Sit still, sit still Through it all Little girl, The madness The media The justice The rave Sit still sit still Through it all, The politics The disgust The dismissal The frowns Sit still sit still Through it all little girl sit still sit still Through it all
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Aug 13, 2014
Aug 13, 2014 at 5:21 AM UTC
Bleed
Black skirts and black blouses, Black slacks and black jackets. One hundred black bruised hearts. Black faces and phrases; “I’m sorry for your loss”s and “If I can do anything…”s. I’m burning up and down, Dying to run from this place like a tiger escaping his stripes. Anger spills over, Punches are thrown like whipped cream pies into a clowns face, Fists fly, crows on great gusts of pain, Noses bleed and suddenly I am home. Sliding on the slope of death up to see her, knowing she would be ashamedly proud. Watching for effervescent soda bubbles, thinking this a terrible, terrible April fool’s trick only to be greeted by her ashen smile inside a tiny wooden box.
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Mar 19, 2010
Mar 19, 2010 at 5:15 PM UTC
Wooden Boxes
silk blouses and cotton underwear the nights merge into a sticky soup that falls into the pocket of a sweater i was wearing when they said that death is permanent the voice echoing into the receiver of my first cell phone the wavering tremble of someone in the middle of realms sleep and consciousness turning the other side of the pillow wondering if the smoke in my lungs felt comfortable wonder if the moon sinks lower into your backyard i was never good at distinguishing shadows and when i found myself on the dark side of the mattress; my feet cold and feeble i wondered if you could hear my heart a thousand miles away the fluttering of a drowsy bird, lethargically dragging it's clumsy wings into the plummeting stifle of open air you said my lips were like the halves of a plum i bit them until they bled but it was never as sweet it was never as sweet
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 12:35 AM UTC
pragmatic at best, my best
By: Cedric McClester, On the basketball court Prince had to come up short At least that what Charlie Murphy and them thought So they went to his house Thinking they’d just get ****** And the basketball could wait But then they heard Prince state He asked, In his high heels and all Wanna play basketball? The shirts vs the blouses Now you may be six feet tall And I’m clearly small But I betcha You’ll lose your trousers Eyewitnesses say That Prince could play Better than any of ‘em knew He could shoot and defend Against the much taller men And before the game was done Charlie Murphy said Prince led two to one “No hard feelings. Let’s shake Would ya like some pancakes,” Prince is alleged to have asked? Nevertheless Who could have guessed They’d be the best Pancakes that they ever had He asked, In his high heels and all Wanna play basketball? The shirts vs the blouses Now you may be six feet tall And I’m clearly small But I betcha You’ll lose your trousers “No hard feelings. Let’s shake Would ya like some pancakes,” Prince is alleged to have asked? Nevertheless Who could have guessed They’d be the best Pancakes that they ever had Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2016. All rights reserved.
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Apr 24, 2016
Apr 24, 2016 at 9:10 AM UTC
BASKETBALL
Eucalyptus filled air Sheets of warm and cold air Early tasmac drinkers Weary eyed dads Bye bye -ing mommies Dung splattering cows whipped pedigree dogs Scared insects Proud birds Flowers with an attitude The pig A hero Swarmed stinking Dirtiest of them all And a early morning feast Charming brown eyed street dogs Question marked trees Washed pavements Drooling men Betel chewing glaring women Girls in floral blouses sweeping Sh -sh -sh -sh -sh Autos rrrrrr Shock absorbing nike shoes krr krr krrr krr A cigarette **** A sad memory Pushed aside By the brush of a hand pushed to a remote corner Hidden another memory a recent one with a scaredy cat Which i want to share and party with Was vivid Ornamented ladies lighting lamps to a dead god Guarded by vain priests Obesience and giving life for people Lost in hope and fear A parallel existence Corporates blaring into phones Fit men playing tennis Small sturdy grass Petite flowers Swaying and dancing Everlasting Everlasting ? Is it a will or maybe or a should be ?
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Jan 14, 2015
Jan 14, 2015 at 1:58 AM UTC
A WALK
Sarah Wilson's blouses and unmentionables hang one-hundred feet above the vacant stomachs of strays who sniff suspicious puddles of dumpster runoff and rainwater little broken suns drip down brick mountains beneath condemned fire escapes
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 10:41 PM UTC
alleyway egg yolks
Her name was Nanette - A student from France Who wore red blouses And **** red pants She wanted to check out The U.S. of A. So a couple with twins Hired her right away The twins had their own Ideas for fun They loved Disney World Their place in the sun They frolicked on rides, Ate hot dogs galore, Loved parades, Mickey Mouse, Fireworks, and more But Nanette's heart wasn't in it The job was no fun She had no real interest In tending to the young Nothing could cheer up This nanny from Paree She'd rather read tabloids Than watch twins under three She clearly preferred The company of guys With muscles, tattoos, And Jello shots on the side The guys were bad boys Completely entranced By the Parisian charmer And her flair for romance But the parents were upset With her profligate passion They decided to dismiss her In a daring fashion They took her to the Tower of Terror one day And left her shrieking As they ran away And that was the last time They ever caught sight Of that naughty Nanette From the City of Light
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Sep 4, 2015
Sep 4, 2015 at 5:07 PM UTC
The Naughty Nanny
"I dream of the day I would see the flowers bloom in Palestine", says an ally. "I dream of the day I would see the flowers again", cries an old lady from Palestine "I dream of the day I would see Palestine", prays a refugee in a faraway country "I dream of the day when I would not dream and pray that there would be another day for Palestine", screams a little child in Palestine And the sun is the witness The sun knows it all, it has watched, witnessed and waited... I dream of the day I would see the flowers bloom in Palestine! From the bullets bored through little children's ribs, to the bloodied blouses hanging in the clothesline. I dream of the day I would see flowers again! From the people's laughters and childish ease, to the tears and pain I can't even begin to imagine. I dream of the day I would see Palestine! From the river, in the desert, the colorful markets, to the sea, there in the beach, taking our sweet sweet time. I dream of the day when I would not dream and pray that there would be another day for Palestine! Because there would only be days of freedom! Only for the children, for Gaza, mothers, fathers, doctors, soldiers, every Palestinian! Days that are theirs! Days and endless days are all there is! And it is all theirs! And the sun is the judge and the jury The sun grants it, the justice for every injury, freedom for every perjury… The moon and the stars commands it, the promise that Palestine and its people will be free!
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Nov 27, 2023
Nov 27, 2023 at 11:43 PM UTC
The Sun and The Flowers In Palestine
Nobody no longer contains the desire for unrefinity The urge to tap into the void smacks of divinity What exists in its place in the flesh market place Are bartering skill sets and chocoalte puddings When confronted by an invisible elephant The people, in consensus, turn away This happens within the day to day The elephants march on, heedless vessels Turbans floating downstreat, mainstream. ****** babble replaces conversation Emblamatic gestures infiltrate the realm of the symbolic The priests have all taken off their underwear And the women are putting their brasiers Back onto their chests, underneath their shirts Blouses are burnt. Toast is burnt. Jams are being made by machines, horses do have dreams Jelly and ice cream make delicate farts Ghosts live in pipes and buy and sell art People whose names are Horace or Rupert Have been decommisioned And the stories are locked in pie dishes And the tale remains the same. Remember, that future archeologists will exist. Excavating sites will bring us all To the kingdom of devon In the beautiful future of documented tales Which we are building for Inside the spaceships. When ponies are invalid and germs become common currency Know that it will be time to fly your pillow cases as flags
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Feb 23, 2014
Feb 23, 2014 at 6:40 PM UTC
Unrefined talent
As the happy hour crowd walks down Redwood Street in its ***** lamp lit haze they pass by dozens of cart pushing men in old bomber jackets fading into the unwashed stone beneath windows newly washed by minimum wagers. These men and their overstuffed suitcases, their ***** fingernails and aging shoes, their cold noses and heavy breath seep into the shadows like long forgotten artifacts on an antique store’s shelf. They droop, collecting dust, begging to be lifted or even touched. Some smile and sing with an overturned hat patiently expecting on the street curb. Some sit, slumped and seem like a misshapen lump of clay in the dark with plastic cup extended. The happy hour crowd coming from UMMC clad in multicolored scrubs and pressed business suits with golf club cluttered ties and black silk button down blouses that block the cool wind passes them by with the same glance they give to lamp posts.
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Mar 31, 2010
Mar 31, 2010 at 12:33 PM UTC
Lamp Posts
Hidden stigmatas fall from your heaven Solidly landing as a pathway to your righteousness Running from your broken land Broken lamp To provide you with silver thread no more Centuries of torment squeal under burnt rubber And mudslides turn to avalanches Room for the becoming Pens leak ink over new white blouses Draped over chairs like makeshift tents Next to fireplaces to read Seclusion from enormous intruders like yourself Dusty pills litter the night table Subtle reminders of doom once left Left to chance Echoing clacks as ***** scatter everywhere Across the green felt next to the portrait Covered by the heavy burgundy velvet drape Whose eyes are blind to your savage beauty You put the bell in the jar and cried out lonesome Too many times before You tried to pick some mushrooms But it’s harder than you thought.
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Feb 7, 2010
Feb 7, 2010 at 4:00 PM UTC
unforgettable
All of my friends were there and their friends, too and the friends of my friends' cousins and their dogs and their all-seeing aunts crammed into ill-fitting blouses with their husbands in New York or L.A. and their inbetweens sending them ***** texts and someone, I think it was my mother, she said, Why don't you lay in the river And I said, Of course The leaves fell The birds sang a four-note phrase and all my friends, the best ones, they tossed half-empty packs of gum, flower petals, quarters, pens-- anything they had in their pockets As I passed by them I said, Remember when we ate the poison berries and said our goodbyes. Remember when I played pitcher on our t-ball team. Remember when Drew took the electric fence to his crotch. Remember when we threw Josh's library book into the rain. Remember when I learned to ride a bike in sixth grade. Remember when I kissed you on the backseat of the school bus. And they said, Yes. And they laughed. Those were good times. My brother, he was there too, he hopped in the river and gave me a push, said, I'll see you around the next bend. Life number two, I said. Life number two.
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Oct 24, 2014
Oct 24, 2014 at 4:51 PM UTC
All of My Friends Were There
Grandma’s table stood firm and square, against her Irish charm. She chopped the chicken and Friday cod as though they'd done her wrong. “Mother MacCree!” was her favorite curse, when her cleaver missed the mark. Grandma’s table could tell the tales of shenanigans four stories down. “There’s Jason O’Flannigan, drunk, poor soul, and Marie, God love her, chasin’ the fool, waving a fryin’ pan, can ya blame her? And sure it’s a cryin’ shame, God forgive me.” Grandma’s table repaired our clothing, With motley findings carefully chosen from handpainted fruitcake tins. We eagerly sorted through buttons and snaps, carefully snatched up the nearest match she sewed on dresses, blouses and hats. Grandma‘s table is with me now, the center of daily life. Stained and scarred on wobbly legs, a journal of ten thousand days. Her legacy softens each crevice and nick, like a cloth of white Irish lace.
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Sep 28, 2010
Sep 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM UTC
Her Legacy
Dearest our love poem goes like this Come to me again late at night In between purple hues skies and patchwork blankets Come to me when my parents are fast asleep And they won’t be able to hear the one-two of your feet Walk up the carpet marked stairs And higher up still my bunk-bed ladder And even if you miss the second step Don’t worry if the thud of your body hitting the floor Wakes them up. **** it. After you scrabble up into my bed and Later when they come in we’ll tell them the truth You were only trying to whisper me Your secrets And I was born with ears in my mouth And let them find out That some people were born like that With body parts hidden in odd places And senses that overlap organs Making it hard to understand why I have To taste your words And see your heart Because I was also born with eyes far apart From my face and somewhere close to my chest And it just so happens to be I found someone like you Who was like me too That was born with their ribcage unattached So when we hug I see your blood Flowing in and out of your beating heart I could touch it with my eyes they are so close But I won’t. See I was born with my feeling on the arms of my blouses And when you take off my shirt I brush against the bend of your knees and fall to Tickle the tops of your toes Where your mouth supposedly isn’t supposed to be.
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Oct 15, 2012
Oct 15, 2012 at 7:36 PM UTC
Patchwork People.
My old friend, you've done it again. You turn the lights out when I can finally see, You stain my fingers with ink you use to write me letters so cruel, You scream at me deafening words of hatred, You let tears flow from my eyes without a sense of pity, You point out my wrongs the way you like to pick the prettiest flowers, You push me into the smouldering flames then you're in awe of the way I glow, You slit me with a blade and watch the blood flow, you say it's as beautiful as waves dancing.   And you do it, over and over again. Believe me, I wish I could let you go. I try to run away in the dead of night To get rid of you, to forget you You never seem to leave. You follow me like shadows on asphalt, You leave your traces in my favorite blouses, You vandalize my bedroom walls, You lurk in the corners I confine myself to, You're in each window I pass by, You hide under the sheets I sleep in, Your sobs echo through my ears in the middle of the night, You're in the mirrors I look away from, You're in me. You are me.
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Oct 17, 2015
Oct 17, 2015 at 9:14 AM UTC
Letter to an Old Friend
There is a person you might have seen. Her hair has streaks of gold And a smile that is welcoming. Black push up bra with eyes that sag. It’s a wonder they still shine. She is the lady down the street, Miss Bunny Laundry herself. Stain on your **** No problem. Button you want sewed? Her pleasure. She dances with the suits and laughs at the blouses. Living in clothes with different fates, her stage is never set. But with her hair up, and a polished face, she could pass for royalty. She is the bearer of good news, but has secrets she won’t tell. She finds fantasy in men, Pink lipstick stains along with hairs that don't belong to him, she seemingly knows all and tells none. The mistress of the wash. So tell me Miss Laundromat, Will you wash my clothes?
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Mar 14, 2010
Mar 14, 2010 at 2:31 PM UTC
Miss Laundromat
Extra ****** olive oil was never the issue when you got back from that grocery store... You just couldn't see past the obvious. Do you know what it's like to wake up screaming in terror? Have you ever felt the need to just take the pain to all levels of intensities to just feel alive? Have you ever just said... All I need is one more day to change this life... Just one more day that turned into years of self hatred? No.. Cause I don't think you know what it's like to be full of harmful emotions like I do. My conscience drips with self disgust that this alcohol can't hide anymore. My wrists are full of scars I can't keep hidden with fancy blouses anymore. My mouth is full of words that won't stay quiet, words that would chill your bones... No.. It was never that extra ****** olive oil you bought that day that set me off...
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 12:15 AM UTC
Extra ****** olive oil
When I look at you I see love It lives all over your body From the tuffs of your hair To the tips of your finger tips To the right side of your face that smiles more than your left And that love, you wear it like a metal And it makes you bold, so bold it Makes me nervous and forget how to talk And how to tell you that my love is more subtle than that. You have to listen to it to see it It comes out late at night after you place your metal on the dresser And I’m not so blinded- When your eyes are shut tight And then I know the only way to your heart is through your ears And I whisper to you that I love the smell Of your skin Or that your lips on my head is the only validation of my worth That I will ever need. I love you in words that live hidden in my head And I know you look for them when you pull me In closer, when you search my body for mutually shared feelings But I’ve never been one to sew on feeling to blouses Because I’ve never trusted a laundry machine Not to tether my heart’s delicate fabric So please, just listen to me speak. Note the pauses in my sentences and The dips of my voice, the clicks my tongue makes When I say your name and follow it with I love you Please know that your name has never been as safe as it is When I hold it in mouth. And I will never bit down on it And love will always be on the tip of my tongue And you will be the only one safe there.
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Nov 8, 2012
Nov 8, 2012 at 5:31 PM UTC
Hearing Love.