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"butterscotch" poems
You are my dear, decadent desert, My summer-thyme delight; Starlight. Tonight’s your night, for you I write. Radiant glow, fuzzed herbal hue. My dear butterscotch icecream. Sore arms churn thick, slick froth - Sauterne butter. Gentle spread melts, dowsed in sweet, sugared innocence, rich scents, then sits. 6 years pass quickly, youthhood gone; My black swan, a third complete. You, sauterne butter, mix with scotch - Fermented, demented, invented to inebriate. Golden brew dissociates reality - Spinny, fuzzy, dizzy, funny… gone. Go on again, dear fawn, 6 years pass, Pant for the water, two-thirds complete. 12 years as toll to adolescence; Icy, creamy, dreamy, element prepared. Scoops of soft serve mix with years past - Angsty era. Seductive spirits, beautiful brew. At last, my summer-thyme delight dances with rhyme. The lime-light shines; ten and eight. Todays the date, stuff immaturity away. Make room for the adulthoods’ good, Scooped generously into a bowl Shuttled and entrapped by me, Melting, streaming, gleaming and freezing. You awesome angel! My pleasure supreme - My dear butterscotch icecream.
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Apr 22, 2017
Apr 22, 2017 at 6:43 PM UTC
Butterscotch Icecream
Forgive yourself Perfect was never a word suited for you Love yourself Everything comes back to this Love your sister She has been picked apart, degraded, and has an internal war eating her from the inside out Love your brother He has a time stamp of deliverance to a life of incarceration, bullets released from an absence of sense, lack of educated, blind ambitious followers. Raise your head You are a Goddess created with disarming beauty in mind. Continue to place one foot in front of the other You are meant and strongly designed for forward movement. Take no steps back, do not bow down your head, do not close your mouth In fear that judgment will fall It will, but you must speak anyways. Your voice is imperative to the growth of lost girls who are unsure what real women are made of. Your voice is imperative to the peaking of the minds of men unsure what to look for in a Queen, show him. Your voice is imperative to the readjustment of the image of Black Women with large voices Black Women with high diction Black Women with love language Black Women with literary genius Black Women filled with nothing less than the peace & love God has manifested within us. Black Women Black Women Black Women Who love Black men like double chocolate moist bliss Who love White men like dark roast coffee filled with cream Who love Latino men like Butterscotch candy dipped in chocolate The list goes on Black Women who love like we are bound to implode if we don't give the universe what it is that we need back. Black Women Your Mother Black Women Your Sister Black Women Your Friend Black Women Your Lover Black Woman Love Her.
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
Black Woman. Love Her.
Forgive yourself Perfect was never a word suited for you Love yourself Everything comes back to this Love your sister She has been picked apart, degraded, and has an internal war eating her from the inside out Love your brother He has a time stamp of deliverance to a life of incarceration, bullets released from an absence of sense, lack of educated, blind ambitious followers. Raise your head You are a Goddess created with disarming beauty in mind. Continue to place one foot in front of the other You are meant and strongly designed for forward movement. Take no steps back, do not bow down your head, do not close your mouth In fear that judgment will fall It will, but you must speak anyways. Your voice is imperative to the growth of lost girls who are unsure what real women are made of. Your voice is imperative to the peaking of the minds of men unsure what to look for in a Queen, show him. Your voice is imperative to the readjustment of the image of Black Women with large voices Black Women with high diction Black Women with love language Black Women with literary genius Black Women filled with nothing less than the peace & love God has manifested within us. Black Women Black Women Black Women Who love Black men like double chocolate moist bliss Who love White men like dark roast coffee filled with cream Who love Latino men like Butterscotch candy dipped in chocolate The list goes on Black Women who love like we are bound to implode if we don't give the universe what it is that we need back. Black Women Your Mother Black Women Your Sister Black Women Your Friend Black Women Your Lover Black Woman Love Her.
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We had a bench Our bench On top of a hill The valleys, the world Under our feet I'd have *** n' raisin You'd have butterscotch We'd sit close It was always cold And eat our ice creams On our bench I went to see it today To see if it was still there Now that you're gone It was It felt bigger Colder in everyway Lifeless views I stared into nothing Until I couldn't take the chill As I left, I looked back Hot tears came As I said goodbye Now it's just a bench Not ours
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Sep 11, 2013
Sep 11, 2013 at 4:21 PM UTC
Bench
she had always said her favorite color was yellow for the girl with buttery skin and crystal eyes it seemed rather fitting yellow was the color of sunshine and the color of her hair after it had been bleached by summer it was the color of the bumblebees that drank from her favorite flowers flowers that now line her grave she told you her favorite color was yellow because she knew you needed someone radiant with light to ease the depth of your own darkness so she said when autumn arrived you could watch the ground become littered with yellow leaves together when you asked what color lie beneath her skin she told you it was yellow she made herself believe her body was freckled from stardust and not from the amber glow of cigarette burns she still said her favorite color was yellow so she could continue being the light in your colorless world soon enough your favorite color was yellow too but not for the same reasons she fell in love with it you only saw yellow vaguely in the form of teeth stained from tobacco and too much coffee smiling grimly through cracked lips dripping poisoned honey you guilded the word ¨love¨ with muted ochre lies and now she no longer feels the warmth that once emanated from her favorite color she no longer tastes the sweetness of butterscotch and papaya on your lips for you left her with nothing but the sour residue of lemons and bile as your gentle breath extinguished her golden flames and reduced her heart to ash and now she realizes that bumblebees can also administer a piercing sting and as she watches the sunset with its amber hues she no longer sees the color yellow x.
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Jul 10, 2018
Jul 10, 2018 at 12:14 AM UTC
her favorite color was yellow
she had always said her favorite color was yellow for the girl with buttery skin and crystal eyes it seemed rather fitting yellow was the color of sunshine and the color of her hair after it had been bleached by summer it was the color of the bumblebees that drank from her favorite flowers flowers that now line her grave she told you her favorite color was yellow because she knew you needed someone radiant with light to ease the depth of your own darkness so she said when autumn arrived you could watch the ground become littered with yellow leaves together when you asked what color lie beneath her skin she told you it was yellow she made herself believe her body was freckled from stardust and not from the amber glow of cigarette burns she still said her favorite color was yellow so she could continue being the light in your colorless world soon enough your favorite color was yellow too but not for the same reasons she fell in love with it you only saw yellow vaguely in the form of teeth stained from tobacco and too much coffee smiling grimly through cracked lips dripping poisoned honey you guilded the word ¨love¨ with muted ochre lies and now she no longer feels the warmth that once emanated from her favorite color she no longer tastes the sweetness of butterscotch and papaya on your lips for you left her with nothing but the sour residue of lemons and bile as your gentle breath extinguished her golden flames and reduced her heart to ash and now she realizes that bumblebees can also administer a piercing sting and as she watches the sunset with its amber hues she no longer sees the color yellow x.
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Quaint pink curtains and tablecloths. White walls. The sugary smell of almonds, pistachio and butterscotch skip around the room, playing hopscotch and Mary Mack. The display is impressive, I can smell each grain of sugar in these petit cupcakes and dollops of icing. And then a little girl wails! Mommy won't buy her anymore sweet treats. Bawling-- the girl does an angry-stomp-dance- and then a woman, livid-- storms up to the counter. I said half dozen almond biscotti. I can't take these to my book club. Isn't anyone here competent? Her booming voice has no effect on the lone, tired African-American woman behind the counter. She seems disassociated from the present chaos. The dark circles under her eyes and the surrounding pursed lip wrinkles say everything. Excuse me, but I've been waiting on a refill of the complimentary coffee for over ten minutes now an uptight gent in a business suit complains. When the woman behind the counter pulls out out a shotgun-- there is silence. This ain't what I wanted she whimpers just before the weapon gracefully slides under her chin-- --!BAM!-- As I walk out the door, I wonder how long it will take for someone to realize that's not red icing or sprinkles on the cupcakes.
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Aug 13, 2011
Aug 13, 2011 at 10:32 AM UTC
Happy Little Cupcake Store
A Workplace Rendezvous My eyes Always found hers. Mischief, The dangling host. She was one Of my workplace peers. If it went any further I could be toast. Those cinnamon eyes Of hers. Butterscotch candy Peers back at me, I feel so dandy Shoot me some brandy. I see the loneliness In hers. Her cleavage Cuts to the chase. Happenstance now in place. Our eyes did dance a duet. Her words are the coquette. Mine is a cadet. We grabbed a ruse. A pail and mop with a muse. When we reached The men's restroom The coast was clear. The sun shining above, Holding a frown. Say hello to the clown. We fast break the court, I dribble up and down. She passes back and forth, I shoot for the town. We score at the bell, That breaks the spell. Our lunch break Rendezvous Was a first. And last. We filled our thirst With better scotch we toast. Logan Robertson 10/6/2018
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Oct 6, 2018
Oct 6, 2018 at 2:16 AM UTC
A Workplace Rendezvous
Vanilla. Nation's favourite. In fact the world's favourite flavour. So very versatile. From Mr. Whippy's with a cheap chocolate flake, next to a warm apple crumble, on a pancake or in a milkshake. From hot days by the sea side to the perfect ending of Sunday lunch and every occasion in betwe- en. The creamy, comfor- ting deliciousness I once fell in love with. But now I prefer the irresistible, amber, nutty explosion of Butterscotch. My tongue [mind] craves it!
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Sep 30, 2012
Sep 30, 2012 at 9:19 PM UTC
Ice Cream?
Things were looking up that day Not a thing could get in my way I was making my way through the town When the clouds rolled in and rain came down I thought, “Okay, don’t make my day nice and sunny, I’ll go find a movie that’s funny.” I went downtown to look around, No good movies were to be found! I looked inside a movie store All I found were sad movies galore “A real tearjerker,” one proclaimed “Heartbreaker?” I exclaimed “No good movies, just my luck. I guess I’ll go feed the ducks.” I walked there and what did I meet? Twelve angry geese that attacked my feet “Well, that’s just fine and dandy, You can’t go wrong with some candy,” Once I got there, lo and behold, Black licorice and butterscotch, getting old. “Well ***** it, I’m going home. Maybe I’ll make a latte with foam.” What did I find there in the complex? Old Man Carruthers died with a hex ****** ****** his wife cried out She screamed and screamed and ran all about. ****** I tell you, And I know who!” And with grace, she pointed at me and yelled, “YOU!” They called the police and took me away Now here I am clutching my cafeteria tray I have advice, walkaway when things get rowdy, And remember, sunny days can turn cloudy
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 3:39 PM UTC
Sunny Days Can Turn Cloudy
*Do you remember those summer noon times when the sun painted the world with shades of warm butterscotch. We sat stringing daisies together; like unbroken chains of our conversations - that lasted till sunset - Swirling candy floss clouds, dissolved; leaving hues of soft pink that fused with the periwinkle sky. We'd walk home marvelling at nature's tie and dye. After all these years you've drifted away like wisps of floating clouds; But the warm colour of your friendship has splashed itself onto the canvas of my memories ..and I will always remember those vibrant summer days that I spent sitting by your side.*
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Dec 18, 2015
Dec 18, 2015 at 8:42 AM UTC
Candy Floss Clouds
There’s a place, where licorice vines have climbed, Deep in the night, that only children can find; Where leaves of waxed paper on trees are hung, And what grows on the branches is sweet to the tongue. Garlands of butterscotch, chocolate, and mint, In their bright wrappers, sparkle, and glint; Bubbling springs of sarsaparilla, through the valley are poured, Washing sugar beaches with reeds of sour chord. Swedish fish swim in soda geysers with bliss, While fizzing pop-rocks spurt, spittle, and hiss. Sunset clouds of cotton candy sweep past in the sky; Trees sway in the delicious breeze that smells like apple pie. Skies will rain down skittles, when there is a storm, Pelting molasses window panes in a giant swarm; Sour gummi worms are dug up, free to take, In the grainy, nutmeg layers of the coffee cake. Carmel creams, Mary Janes, Black Jacks, and Almond Joys, Coconutties, Jawbreakers, Carmel Rolos and Long Boys-- All these grow, in lines straight as peppermint sticks, Planted in brown sugar, on fields of cinnamon toothpicks; But when the sun lets out its first ray, The entire land just melts away And children don’t remember where they’ve been, That whole night asleep, but they wake with a grin; And through the whole day, their dreams will entice, Until they visit again, the Land of Sugar and Spice. 8/9/11
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Jul 10, 2012
Jul 10, 2012 at 4:32 PM UTC
Sugar & Spice
It rhymed, it seemed sensible Although maybe reprehensible Because it didn’t quite make sense, Questions with no answers Intensifying with the questioning But never mentioning any answers Just mysteries but no attempts To justify What was being said, The page being fed with more words read felt and heard before But never quite sure what it was trying to say It carried on anyway, It rhymed because it seemed sensible But it was questionable whether it Had any meaning, A room with no floor but walls and a ceiling What? Are you sure you’re not looking at it Upside down? Surely it’s more appealing The other way round, Less falling into nothingness The ceiling as a floor would be best Or spinning really fast so you can’t quite fall Because it catches you, Hopefully no nails from pictures In the walls Because it scratches you Spinning round In a room With no windows watching you. Butterscotch table for two… What? It doesn’t make sense, But for recompense it rhymes I said that already I know But I need certain lines In there because, Well… You know why. Ladders wrapping like snakes around the branches of Trees That could be climbed unappeased Were it not for nonsense The cycle repeating over time Not pleasing but feasible reasoning untangible But more manageable Like conditioned hair More easy to bare The sense that the Dense trees of time As they climb entangled with ladders like snakes Or vines in their hair Mangled They don’t make much sense They just rhyme. That’s just life. And that’s fine. What?
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Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 9:03 AM UTC
It Doesn't Make Sense, It Just Rhymes
It rhymed, it seemed sensible Although maybe reprehensible Because it didn’t quite make sense, Questions with no answers Intensifying with the questioning But never mentioning any answers Just mysteries but no attempts To justify What was being said, The page being fed with more words read felt and heard before But never quite sure what it was trying to say It carried on anyway, It rhymed because it seemed sensible But it was questionable whether it Had any meaning, A room with no floor but walls and a ceiling What? Are you sure you’re not looking at it Upside down? Surely it’s more appealing The other way round, Less falling into nothingness The ceiling as a floor would be best Or spinning really fast so you can’t quite fall Because it catches you, Hopefully no nails from pictures In the walls Because it scratches you Spinning round In a room With no windows watching you. Butterscotch table for two… What? It doesn’t make sense, But for recompense it rhymes I said that already I know But I need certain lines In there because, Well… You know why. Ladders wrapping like snakes around the branches of Trees That could be climbed unappeased Were it not for nonsense The cycle repeating over time Not pleasing but feasible reasoning untangible But more manageable Like conditioned hair More easy to bare The sense that the Dense trees of time As they climb entangled with ladders like snakes Or vines in their hair Mangled They don’t make much sense They just rhyme. That’s just life. And that’s fine. What?
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I used to keep my baby teeth in a butterscotch tin. I guess I was making an investment in tooth-fairy stock; trying to diversify my easter bunny portfolio. Quarters: Like chocolate I could feed into a Coinstar and turn to dollar bills which I could then use to buy more chocolate. I just, hey, I just remembered that I have a butterscotch tin filled with quarters sitting in the back of my closet right now. Funny, when things move in circles like that--I can’t even remember the last time I ate a butterscotch. Or even how my final tooth came out, which I’d think would be a milestone. I was eating an egg-salad sandwich when I lost one of the last ones-- I just took a bite and one tooth stayed behind. For weeks I couldn’t even look at a sandwich, I just kept thinking about the disturbing look of blood on mayonnaise. I wonder if there’s much business for the tooth fairy these days-- my dad, winding blue ribbons around small stacks of quarters so they’d look nice; my dad, stepping on LEGOs in the dark and stifling swears; my dad, navigating bedroom geography to make a swift exchange while I slept and turned a tidy profit, trading old small parts for riches and a grown-up mouth. Now I wonder what they did with my wisdom teeth, after they pulled them out last year. Were they drilled out, finally, into dust? Or did a dental surgeon slip some pilfered teeth beneath his pillow on the sly, turning one last profit out of my face, the summer someone noticed I needed a grown-up mouth? All I know is that for days I stayed at home moaning into my pillow, strung out on percocet and eating anything that could be sipped through a straw. (It was only then I discovered the Sonic had stopped serving butterscotch shakes--years ago, apparently. You’d think I’d have noticed. But then, you’d think I’d notice lots of things.) I wonder how much my teeth would be worth now. I wonder if the tooth-fairy has adjusted for inflation. I still get excited over stray quarters, but now I guess I just have to find them on the street like everyone else does.
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 4:19 PM UTC
dental records
I used to keep my baby teeth in a butterscotch tin. I guess I was making an investment in tooth-fairy stock; trying to diversify my easter bunny portfolio. Quarters: Like chocolate I could feed into a Coinstar and turn to dollar bills which I could then use to buy more chocolate. I just, hey, I just remembered that I have a butterscotch tin filled with quarters sitting in the back of my closet right now. Funny, when things move in circles like that--I can’t even remember the last time I ate a butterscotch. Or even how my final tooth came out, which I’d think would be a milestone. I was eating an egg-salad sandwich when I lost one of the last ones-- I just took a bite and one tooth stayed behind. For weeks I couldn’t even look at a sandwich, I just kept thinking about the disturbing look of blood on mayonnaise. I wonder if there’s much business for the tooth fairy these days-- my dad, winding blue ribbons around small stacks of quarters so they’d look nice; my dad, stepping on LEGOs in the dark and stifling swears; my dad, navigating bedroom geography to make a swift exchange while I slept and turned a tidy profit, trading old small parts for riches and a grown-up mouth. Now I wonder what they did with my wisdom teeth, after they pulled them out last year. Were they drilled out, finally, into dust? Or did a dental surgeon slip some pilfered teeth beneath his pillow on the sly, turning one last profit out of my face, the summer someone noticed I needed a grown-up mouth? All I know is that for days I stayed at home moaning into my pillow, strung out on percocet and eating anything that could be sipped through a straw. (It was only then I discovered the Sonic had stopped serving butterscotch shakes--years ago, apparently. You’d think I’d have noticed. But then, you’d think I’d notice lots of things.) I wonder how much my teeth would be worth now. I wonder if the tooth-fairy has adjusted for inflation. I still get excited over stray quarters, but now I guess I just have to find them on the street like everyone else does.
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A Bountiful Sky for Foolish Old Men early up, haunted-stoked~woked by a multilingual sky, an impish childish creation of an immature god, inconsistently incapable, of making up his moody mind, whiny then smiley, cloudless besotted, morphed into crystalline blue of a well behaved in Sunday best, warming the souls of the begotten and the misbegotten, the hardened and the poetic souls, tho he laughs at himself, for he too is both, curmudgeon and a mr. softee, whiny child in rapid aging body, wearing of discovery of new places for to ache, pains that don’t fit med scales of 1~10, unless it is the Richter Earthquake formulation. despite all, his eyeballs seethe, immaculate degeneration still allows the seeing of broad brush paint strokes of the team of angelic artistes that do the detailing of the palette above, how! they, love their big bold brushes that sky swipe atmospheric residue into 31 Baskin Robbins flavors, with swirls of caramel chocolate butterscotch that make the man’s complaints whisked into who-cares-a-damn anyway ice creamery reverie and all that other stuff disbarred from the aborning morning clarity of “good morning ole man, where’s my coffee” diurnal tuning that the women hums, reminding those in the earshot crowd of one, that s’mores and chores, tasks and at lasts, dogs need walking, gardens watering, cushions  plumping, evening dishes moving from dishwasher onto wallpaper-covered shelves, geese-away-chasing, and loving poetry by a poetoftheway scribbling… 8:01 AM Frieday, Jun 30
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Jun 30, 2023
Jun 30, 2023 at 8:32 AM UTC
A Bountiful Sky for Foolish Old Men
A Bountiful Sky for Foolish Old Men early up, haunted-stoked~woked by a multilingual sky, an impish childish creation of an immature god, inconsistently incapable, of making up his moody mind, whiny then smiley, cloudless besotted, morphed into crystalline blue of a well behaved in Sunday best, warming the souls of the begotten and the misbegotten, the hardened and the poetic souls, tho he laughs at himself, for he too is both, curmudgeon and a mr. softee, whiny child in rapid aging body, wearing of discovery of new places for to ache, pains that don’t fit med scales of 1~10, unless it is the Richter Earthquake formulation. despite all, his eyeballs seethe, immaculate degeneration still allows the seeing of broad brush paint strokes of the team of angelic artistes that do the detailing of the palette above, how! they, love their big bold brushes that sky swipe atmospheric residue into 31 Baskin Robbins flavors, with swirls of caramel chocolate butterscotch that make the man’s complaints whisked into who-cares-a-damn anyway ice creamery reverie and all that other stuff disbarred from the aborning morning clarity of “good morning ole man, where’s my coffee” diurnal tuning that the women hums, reminding those in the earshot crowd of one, that s’mores and chores, tasks and at lasts, dogs need walking, gardens watering, cushions  plumping, evening dishes moving from dishwasher onto wallpaper-covered shelves, geese-away-chasing, and loving poetry by a poetoftheway scribbling… 8:01 AM Frieday, Jun 30
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Butterscotch Dark Chocolate Infused with rose quartz dragonfly transfiguration elixer
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Oct 17, 2013
Oct 17, 2013 at 2:12 PM UTC
10 w
They had thin arms and basketballs Jokes and jackstones I only had my lunch box They were eating together I was alone Across me A riff of tables and chairs There were my classmates Exchanging butterscotch Their laughter rang In the white sound, I could not even speak because Love never needed to talk It just needed to create sense in my mouth My mouth was full. Stuffed with the tanginess of gravy This is why lonely is my bliss Grow Fat but I belong
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Jul 8, 2014
Jul 8, 2014 at 10:08 AM UTC
Lunch Alone
Seeing Life Explode With Color. To Name Them all Would Never Fully Describe The magic They emit With Each other. Lemon butter, Jade tide, Bumblebee, Butterscotch, Pineapple Rush. Blush Touch, Pink-Peach Punch, Lemonade Crush, Cedar Peaks, Cinnamon Coffee Crunch. Wine Soaked Cherry Red. Rosewood Sublime, Key lime pie Delight. Followed by- Gray Mist Overcome By Balloon Green, A breath of Spring, And Sunglow too. It all runs Through And Through.
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Aug 14, 2018
Aug 14, 2018 at 11:46 PM UTC
Explode
burnt morning. the breakfast was gone so I had coffee. The details of dolphins were the bathroom mantra; turning the eyes inside out. Refolding the socks I realized a smell I hadn't in "years". The gas must have been avoiding me. A smell of butterscotch. Why I haven't been able to smell butterscotch is unknown to me. I remember a turquoise flame when the bonfire burnt the old tire. No one was around so the fire was for me and me alone. Me and me alone. I used to force the ***** down my throat and it seeped out my eyes in paint thinner tears. A faraway howl of a wolf--how bad ass. I was like the very-peak of a glacier come to reclaim me stomachspot in the Wild. Fortunes came and went and I began to melt. Ice cream in the hand of a toddler. Pink icecream in the hand of a giant who wouldn't take care of the courage when it looked so mediocre and small. It's about time the dark ghosts come to reclaim their nest, so come on, I'm waiting.
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Apr 29, 2013
Apr 29, 2013 at 1:03 PM UTC
fortitude
I am from the towering oak and pine trees That sway on the old forest’s edge, Coyotes howling in the shadows A haunting lamentation I am from the creaky stairs and floorboards At the house on Liberty Street, From the ancient gas heater and its tendrils of flame That never seemed to be quite hot enough I am from the sound of my father’s voice Heavy with sleep as he whispers to us A late night bedtime story, Scaring away the monsters under our beds I am from Sunday mornings Bursting with rays of golden light and Filtering through glimmering church windows Lingering on familiar faces I am from ‘make good choices’ 'Be a peacemaker’ ‘You are greatness’ and ‘Oiaue!’ I am from the scent of Mom’s cookies Chocolate chip and butterscotch Melting away winters and Warming cold hearts I am from acrylic paint, Graphite, ink and canvas From smudged hands, stained clothes, And a sketchbook full of scribblings I am from the crisp chill of autumn In the mountains of Vermont, Staring into a sea of stars As dazzling sparks float skyward in the distance I am from the cool sea breeze And the salty mist over the water Waves crashing fiercely in the haze Of Newport’s rocky shores I am from the quiet peace That can only come from the words “I love you” and the warm embrace That often follows I am from endless words Written with shaking, ink-stained hands On crumpled bone white paper Hoping to be good enough to keep I am from weak muscles and fragile bones From hesitant first steps and training wheels From stubborn no’s and penitent yes’s From late nights and shadowy eyes I am from the past I am from the present I am from the trembling, changing Pathway to my future I am from this house This family and This home
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 8:08 AM UTC
I am from Endless Words
I am from the towering oak and pine trees That sway on the old forest’s edge, Coyotes howling in the shadows A haunting lamentation I am from the creaky stairs and floorboards At the house on Liberty Street, From the ancient gas heater and its tendrils of flame That never seemed to be quite hot enough I am from the sound of my father’s voice Heavy with sleep as he whispers to us A late night bedtime story, Scaring away the monsters under our beds I am from Sunday mornings Bursting with rays of golden light and Filtering through glimmering church windows Lingering on familiar faces I am from ‘make good choices’ 'Be a peacemaker’ ‘You are greatness’ and ‘Oiaue!’ I am from the scent of Mom’s cookies Chocolate chip and butterscotch Melting away winters and Warming cold hearts I am from acrylic paint, Graphite, ink and canvas From smudged hands, stained clothes, And a sketchbook full of scribblings I am from the crisp chill of autumn In the mountains of Vermont, Staring into a sea of stars As dazzling sparks float skyward in the distance I am from the cool sea breeze And the salty mist over the water Waves crashing fiercely in the haze Of Newport’s rocky shores I am from the quiet peace That can only come from the words “I love you” and the warm embrace That often follows I am from endless words Written with shaking, ink-stained hands On crumpled bone white paper Hoping to be good enough to keep I am from weak muscles and fragile bones From hesitant first steps and training wheels From stubborn no’s and penitent yes’s From late nights and shadowy eyes I am from the past I am from the present I am from the trembling, changing Pathway to my future I am from this house This family and This home
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the animated man moves with languid effect against the scattered clouds of the sky far overhead he walks at a slow stumble on the oil stained pavement of suburban driveway 'this is where the light blue mustang was parked' he is carrying a stone carved into the shape of a head its mind leaning precarious over the edge of sanity you can taste its butterscotch candy laughter and its salt water taffy tears its face frozen in apocalypse of conflicting thought he moves along the dirt road hemmed in by trees and wild growths the humidity so thick you swim rather than tread but the feral grin sewn into his face with her needle and threads is what moves her she adores its primal bloodletting a self contained self abuse machine she leads the way down the dusty road to the clearing where night children gather to make celebrations to dark matter and the things it spawns her thighs tingle at the thought of dead flesh and feasts of the eyes filthy mind the images in her mind are never really clear to her just **** flesh rubbing cold things i am disturbed by her dark dream seek to flee on wings of night but fail as he arrives head in hand and pronounces logical rules for the slaughter this night has no end just the rest of fitful dreams
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 7:15 PM UTC
selfie spawn
my eyes opened to find the thin lizard dawn gleaming after the gutter drank its' fill of the moon last night the tambourine buried in my lungs still vibrating like these walls papered with cheap roses last night i found comfort the only way i know how in situations like this beside a girl wearing a pretty ribbon twisted around her waist pomegranate lipstick wet clay & tragic glitter smeared across her eyelids we spent the night roped together by half-removed clothing & my fingers third knuckle deep counting the pulse of the heart of the universe while the wild fox barked on the hill outside & the mockingbirds played riffs in the lilac bushes her ******* ran tight around her shins & she sputtered the dark lyricism of bees twisting her tongue backwards around itself in my ear our bare bellies slapped together as my tongue found her tooth enamel & the trees formed a tight center loop to harness the sky for us & i held my breath waiting for her to breathe first i can feel her chest & plump **** now quietly throbbing against the tight young flesh of my back but when i roll over & see her eyes darting green like a thin ocean laser avoiding my dynamic gaze & her pouty mouth emitting a pink yawn i can tell she's unhappy & ashamed of me i tried to run my fingers through the butterscotch tumbleweed of her hair but she just popped her gum & sent me high stepping through the soft warm mud & chest high cattails of her driveway callow under the clouds stuck like gnats to the fly paper sky
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Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 at 3:58 PM UTC
butterscotch tumbleweed
my eyes opened to find the thin lizard dawn gleaming after the gutter drank its' fill of the moon last night the tambourine buried in my lungs still vibrating like these walls papered with cheap roses last night i found comfort the only way i know how in situations like this beside a girl wearing a pretty ribbon twisted around her waist pomegranate lipstick wet clay & tragic glitter smeared across her eyelids we spent the night roped together by half-removed clothing & my fingers third knuckle deep counting the pulse of the heart of the universe while the wild fox barked on the hill outside & the mockingbirds played riffs in the lilac bushes her ******* ran tight around her shins & she sputtered the dark lyricism of bees twisting her tongue backwards around itself in my ear our bare bellies slapped together as my tongue found her tooth enamel & the trees formed a tight center loop to harness the sky for us & i held my breath waiting for her to breathe first i can feel her chest & plump **** now quietly throbbing against the tight young flesh of my back but when i roll over & see her eyes darting green like a thin ocean laser avoiding my dynamic gaze & her pouty mouth emitting a pink yawn i can tell she's unhappy & ashamed of me i tried to run my fingers through the butterscotch tumbleweed of her hair but she just popped her gum & sent me high stepping through the soft warm mud & chest high cattails of her driveway callow under the clouds stuck like gnats to the fly paper sky
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It's kind of like when you want something sweet And all there is are a bunch of old bitter hard candies Sitting in your grandma's rusted bowl On the coffee table in the dim living room and That candy probably isn't there for eating but just for Decoration or something, So you pick one out anyway and it's not all that great Even though that's exactly what you'd expect But that little part of you said "Maybe this won't be another rock solid butterscotch chew" Because you hoped this time would be different But you thought wrong And you'll probably end up eating another Because it's Better than nothing
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May 8, 2013
May 8, 2013 at 12:19 AM UTC
Flirting with a Brick Wall
I found it on the floor of the women’s dressing room after a concert. The ladies were long gone and I was clearing up. It was one inch long and the wings were one inch wide. The dragonfly had two overlapping oval wings on each side and a long curved tail. The body and tail were set with butterscotch yellow rhinestones. The wings held chartreuse stones. Two white rhinestones were the eyes. The quality of the stones was extraordinary though the setting was not really gold. When I took it to my office to put it in the lost and found my extra many ceiling lights made it sparkle like in a jewelry store display. I put it on a stack of tissues I keep at the ready on my desk so I could see it any time I wanted. When I moved my head just slightly, it would make the sparkles seem to move as well. It made me very happy just to look at it and I have no idea why. Nobody called to claim the pin It’s value is likely very small But it’s come to symbolize some of The shiny things I hope to capture In the time remaining of my life. It won’t be long ‘til I am forced to spread my own frail wings and fly from this cocooned career of work. Perhaps the dragonfly will be a talisman and lead me to the meadows I have dreamed of: awash in creativity, accomplishments rewarded, and never any gales of jealousy or the thunderclouds of evil that rattle my windows here. On the day when everything is packed and shipped, my keys turned in, lights turned off for the last time and I am free, I will pin the dragonfly to my collar and and take us looking for that meadow.              ljm
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May 22, 2017
May 22, 2017 at 2:00 AM UTC
DRAGONFLY PIN
I found it on the floor of the women’s dressing room after a concert. The ladies were long gone and I was clearing up. It was one inch long and the wings were one inch wide. The dragonfly had two overlapping oval wings on each side and a long curved tail. The body and tail were set with butterscotch yellow rhinestones. The wings held chartreuse stones. Two white rhinestones were the eyes. The quality of the stones was extraordinary though the setting was not really gold. When I took it to my office to put it in the lost and found my extra many ceiling lights made it sparkle like in a jewelry store display. I put it on a stack of tissues I keep at the ready on my desk so I could see it any time I wanted. When I moved my head just slightly, it would make the sparkles seem to move as well. It made me very happy just to look at it and I have no idea why. Nobody called to claim the pin It’s value is likely very small But it’s come to symbolize some of The shiny things I hope to capture In the time remaining of my life. It won’t be long ‘til I am forced to spread my own frail wings and fly from this cocooned career of work. Perhaps the dragonfly will be a talisman and lead me to the meadows I have dreamed of: awash in creativity, accomplishments rewarded, and never any gales of jealousy or the thunderclouds of evil that rattle my windows here. On the day when everything is packed and shipped, my keys turned in, lights turned off for the last time and I am free, I will pin the dragonfly to my collar and and take us looking for that meadow.              ljm
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I can say definitively and without reservation that I once had more to say and once I said it well The taste of the words of the children in flux the ex-children the children in recovery leaves an aftertaste of sweetness I can mimic but cannot make my own though I know I have the recipe somewhere Their words tumble like dusty pebbles racing downhill rebellious ebullient and unruly avalanches to ants while mine drag the feet of their tiny y's and g's p's and q's like rainy-day-slogged future people wending their way through weeds and reeds of bullies and written responses The taste of the words of the newly-minted suddenly people with centuries-old ideas cellophane gift-wrapped for their      daily birthdays beribboned and bowed for kindergarten picture day leaves a memory of butterscotch and peppermint I can imagine still but cannot make my own though I know I have the recipe somewhere
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Mar 19, 2012
Mar 19, 2012 at 8:58 PM UTC
butterscotch and peppermints
Lord, let me choke on a chocolate bar or drown in an ocean of honey that those who grieve my loss may say, "His passing was tragic - but funny." Then lay me out in a caramel coffin with a marshmallow pillow 'neath my head. Dress me in garments of butterscotch and I shall eat sugar the days I am dead. Tuck some toffees into my pocket plus a few peppermints (for my breath...). Put a raisinette rosary in my fingers. I'll sleep in a sweet diabetic death. When I draw near to the pearly gates, St. Pete, greet me with Hershey in hand. Give me my harp and halo of licorice. I'll enter the promised Candyland.
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Jun 6, 2015
Jun 6, 2015 at 1:36 PM UTC
Rest in Reese's Peaces