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"cereals" poems
*Lydia, Lydia, There are broken angels beneath your skin. Your face is stone, and white as snow, where the color should have been. Your husband is by your side, middle school passion left undead. Your sister over your right shoulder, smiling like the day you wed. You don't hear Zach's talk of cereals, but a tight smile shows on your face. The greif streaked grime of tears and salt rims your neck like wedding lace. Tomorrow you will rise and pour milk into your bowl. Look across the table, just to feel your crushing soul. To not see the eyes that were there for twenty years. To share no more secrets, or confide her sisterly fears. You both spent your life devoted to three hundred sixty-five words of repiticious hope. Only to wake up with the flipping of a page, to find a car bent in ash and smoke. This hollow eyed shell I saw in the store clenched her teeth up tight, to suffer along like the people of The Book, and hold Faith to Father of Light. You made me shed tears for you, Madison, because you made me come to see I would never leave my little sister By any of my own means. I felt cheated for you, so joyous in your Word. To spread the light of God to every part of Earth. But now you are away, taking flight, still this young. I go home with knotted throat, and my eyes felling as if theyd been stung. I've been thinking of you both, Sisters, by blood and faith. I'm so sorry for your loss, the unknowing, all the rage. I weep for you, dear Madison. You lived only in a blink. But I weep for you still more, Lydia. And I pray that you won't sink.*
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Jun 30, 2014
Jun 30, 2014 at 10:02 PM UTC
Lydia.
*Lydia, Lydia, There are broken angels beneath your skin. Your face is stone, and white as snow, where the color should have been. Your husband is by your side, middle school passion left undead. Your sister over your right shoulder, smiling like the day you wed. You don't hear Zach's talk of cereals, but a tight smile shows on your face. The greif streaked grime of tears and salt rims your neck like wedding lace. Tomorrow you will rise and pour milk into your bowl. Look across the table, just to feel your crushing soul. To not see the eyes that were there for twenty years. To share no more secrets, or confide her sisterly fears. You both spent your life devoted to three hundred sixty-five words of repiticious hope. Only to wake up with the flipping of a page, to find a car bent in ash and smoke. This hollow eyed shell I saw in the store clenched her teeth up tight, to suffer along like the people of The Book, and hold Faith to Father of Light. You made me shed tears for you, Madison, because you made me come to see I would never leave my little sister By any of my own means. I felt cheated for you, so joyous in your Word. To spread the light of God to every part of Earth. But now you are away, taking flight, still this young. I go home with knotted throat, and my eyes felling as if theyd been stung. I've been thinking of you both, Sisters, by blood and faith. I'm so sorry for your loss, the unknowing, all the rage. I weep for you, dear Madison. You lived only in a blink. But I weep for you still more, Lydia. And I pray that you won't sink.*
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i would take the first train back to the 90's, when my lungs were nicotine-free and there was always something worthy on TV. i would wear my chucks in bed, and have cereals for dinner. i would not have heard of **** i would have used the internet to find the exact words to the songs on Nevermind, because cassette inlays haven't got enough space for Kurt's lyrics. and if i were you, i wouldn't call this a poem. -khai
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Mar 29, 2015
Mar 29, 2015 at 9:02 AM UTC
"Spasms"
next to my cup of hot bitter coffee my bowl has a cone an avalanche of heartache cereals that is about to fall... a plate of peppered uncertainties omelet beckons to be gulped and wiped out.... but, alas, i feel already stuffed i can no longer swallow... ----------- i decided to skip breakfast.... Sally Copyright 2013 Rosalia Rosario A. Bayan
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Oct 19, 2013
Oct 19, 2013 at 9:17 AM UTC
breakfast (1)
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise) Summoned for to break the fast of sleep-and-dreams that can no longer last, As the clock to noon draws nigh, I happily paddle off to the cabinet Where the cereals that I CHOSE, Since I am now a grownup, faithfully await, calm and in repose. The refrigerator, in nearby proximity, sources a Stony-field yogurt,, A yogurt that I CHOSE, light and sweet with processed fruit, due to the miracle of Aspartame. Distracted, back to the kitchen for Some multi-grain slices to hail and toast, Which I prefer dry (no butter) and ready for anointing with oils of Strawberry jelly. To the table return ready to sound The horn of plenty, When I see the **** Breakfast Fairies have struck yet again! Cousins first to those that reside in nearby dishwasher* The nefarious fairies guard my health tho nobody asked them too! My Crispix, with its malty sweetness, And the ***** aftertaste of sprayed-on "enriched vitamins," has been smothered neath layers of Granola, with cranberries and nuts, Contaminated with a hint of cinnamon. My processed yogurt, vanished, without a trace, replaced by their bacterial cousins from Thrace, which is in Greece, who, tho white, taste like plain yogurt sourpusses, Even when littered with blueberries, Nothing can replace the taste of my Artificial Sweetener! Dry toast has been sheeted and shined neath A tribute of fattening butter, rationalized by a commonality, "Everything is better with butter..." The last indignity is that my coffee, Not the light brown I cherish When kissed by whole milk, Now muddled and muddied by skim milk, so named, Cause they skim off all the taste. Because they are fairies, With fluttering wings, Hasty retreat they beat, But I know where they hide. The next time it be for the morning meal, I will eat it in bed, far from their kitchen hiding places, And celebrate my heroics with original Frosted Flakes and milk, And extra sugar just for spite! The bedroom fairies, living under the pillow, Emerge to beg in iambic pentameter, Won't get nary a bite, Until they they return the poems they stole From my midnight dreams.
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Jun 1, 2013
Jun 1, 2013 at 12:08 PM UTC
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise)
The Breakfast Fairies (a humorous treatise) Summoned for to break the fast of sleep-and-dreams that can no longer last, As the clock to noon draws nigh, I happily paddle off to the cabinet Where the cereals that I CHOSE, Since I am now a grownup, faithfully await, calm and in repose. The refrigerator, in nearby proximity, sources a Stony-field yogurt,, A yogurt that I CHOSE, light and sweet with processed fruit, due to the miracle of Aspartame. Distracted, back to the kitchen for Some multi-grain slices to hail and toast, Which I prefer dry (no butter) and ready for anointing with oils of Strawberry jelly. To the table return ready to sound The horn of plenty, When I see the **** Breakfast Fairies have struck yet again! Cousins first to those that reside in nearby dishwasher* The nefarious fairies guard my health tho nobody asked them too! My Crispix, with its malty sweetness, And the ***** aftertaste of sprayed-on "enriched vitamins," has been smothered neath layers of Granola, with cranberries and nuts, Contaminated with a hint of cinnamon. My processed yogurt, vanished, without a trace, replaced by their bacterial cousins from Thrace, which is in Greece, who, tho white, taste like plain yogurt sourpusses, Even when littered with blueberries, Nothing can replace the taste of my Artificial Sweetener! Dry toast has been sheeted and shined neath A tribute of fattening butter, rationalized by a commonality, "Everything is better with butter..." The last indignity is that my coffee, Not the light brown I cherish When kissed by whole milk, Now muddled and muddied by skim milk, so named, Cause they skim off all the taste. Because they are fairies, With fluttering wings, Hasty retreat they beat, But I know where they hide. The next time it be for the morning meal, I will eat it in bed, far from their kitchen hiding places, And celebrate my heroics with original Frosted Flakes and milk, And extra sugar just for spite! The bedroom fairies, living under the pillow, Emerge to beg in iambic pentameter, Won't get nary a bite, Until they they return the poems they stole From my midnight dreams.
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Porage Oats? Porridge simmering slowly on an old gas hob, In a large enamel *** that was kept for this job. We stirred it occasionally with a spoon shaped stick, This stopped it burning or getting too thick. You knew when it was time to do the spoon test, If the spoon stood up strait then it was at its best. Served with golden treacle the way I liked it most, That melted like a glaze Oh yes and a slice of toast. Those cold winter mornings it warmed the heart, We would all walk to school with a healthy start. Just been too busy working all my life, No time to make porridge for me and my wife. I have tried many new cereals in the past 40 years, Some not to bad but containing too much sugar. They call it glaze with bits of chocolate to, But with a threat of diabetes it just will not do. Now that I’m retired I go shopping every day, More time for cooking in the old fashioned way. Last winter a large promotion caught my eye, It was for porridge, I could not pass it bye. Not the instant stuff, cooked in minutes two, It's Proper Porage Oats that sticks like glue. Is this a second childhood where I want to play? No, just a wholesome breakfast for a frosty day.
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Jul 19, 2011
Jul 19, 2011 at 8:32 AM UTC
Porage Oats
Hey, I already told you that you were a little bit crazy. What did you think—that I was completely nuts? Come on, Cashew, and shake that walnut-sized brain of yours, and then we’ll try to put together a decent menu. Still, I ought to kick you in those itty-bitty sunflower seeds, those ones that you claim to be your source of protein. Hey, Macadamia Breath, accidentally lose the ******* hula dancer and then fire the impending search-and-rescue party! Your tropical trail mix was no good for each other. You need a vacation from this deserted island, Captain Crunch. Go down south and get yourself the businessman’s special. You know—some old-fashioned brazil nuts. Yeah, that’s the two-tickets-to-paradise, for sure. Fool, you really do need to buff up the old almond. Do I need to open up the **** aluminum lid for you? You’ve been stuck inside this assorted, mixed can that you try to refer to as an extra bedroom for nearly nine months. Get out and take in a little hike and bike right after you do the wake and bake. Maybe you should go slow roast yourself at the beach a little. Why don’t you go to the mountains and try to become one of those pine nuts that end up in all of those overpriced health cereals? Hey, Snickers, those dank trees really are beautiful, you know. Would you quit acting like a frikkin’ flax seed already? Just admit that it’s almost payday, for criminy sakes! You pathetic Mister Peanut, you. Please, Saint Chestnut, give this completely lost consumer strength from high above store aisle number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Listen to me, Nutt Sack, will you shake those tiny little beer nuts that no one can seem to stomach anyway? First of all, they are becoming way too stale just sitting around here, so if you continue to wait any longer, they will petrify—and then we will eventually be forced to call you teeth-breaking Corn Nuts!
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Jul 26, 2014
Jul 26, 2014 at 5:04 PM UTC
Totally Nuts
Hey, I already told you that you were a little bit crazy. What did you think—that I was completely nuts? Come on, Cashew, and shake that walnut-sized brain of yours, and then we’ll try to put together a decent menu. Still, I ought to kick you in those itty-bitty sunflower seeds, those ones that you claim to be your source of protein. Hey, Macadamia Breath, accidentally lose the ******* hula dancer and then fire the impending search-and-rescue party! Your tropical trail mix was no good for each other. You need a vacation from this deserted island, Captain Crunch. Go down south and get yourself the businessman’s special. You know—some old-fashioned brazil nuts. Yeah, that’s the two-tickets-to-paradise, for sure. Fool, you really do need to buff up the old almond. Do I need to open up the **** aluminum lid for you? You’ve been stuck inside this assorted, mixed can that you try to refer to as an extra bedroom for nearly nine months. Get out and take in a little hike and bike right after you do the wake and bake. Maybe you should go slow roast yourself at the beach a little. Why don’t you go to the mountains and try to become one of those pine nuts that end up in all of those overpriced health cereals? Hey, Snickers, those dank trees really are beautiful, you know. Would you quit acting like a frikkin’ flax seed already? Just admit that it’s almost payday, for criminy sakes! You pathetic Mister Peanut, you. Please, Saint Chestnut, give this completely lost consumer strength from high above store aisle number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Listen to me, Nutt Sack, will you shake those tiny little beer nuts that no one can seem to stomach anyway? First of all, they are becoming way too stale just sitting around here, so if you continue to wait any longer, they will petrify—and then we will eventually be forced to call you teeth-breaking Corn Nuts!
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you are there, in the kitchen of my dream at the stove making enchiladas and tapioca. you are probably one hundred and i think you might keel over, dropping your white head into the *** of yellow pudding. i wonder how you got so suddenly old and i so suddenly young when i can remember reading fairy tales buying you sugary breakfast cereals and letting you sleep in my bed even though you kick and also tell people the embarrassing things i say in my sleep. i am so hungry i want to eat it all and leave none for you but you say to wait to wait until my eyelashes turn into a million tiny butterflies and tickle my skin with their light wings. but i'm hungry now, i whine shoving past you pushing a hot tortilla between my teeth and swallowing greedily desperately before collapsing into a sea of blue tiles. i awake violently, your small foot at my chin. staring at me is a toenail painted blue. i stare back at it, into that tiny ocean.
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Apr 24, 2013
Apr 24, 2013 at 4:15 PM UTC
babysitting
Derk! The Harold angels sing. The muffin is my savior. Jesus lies. Pacific Islands. The screaming of fires. Rulers. Words. Meters. Feet. The magnetic field is the only field. If I could trust baseball, I would. But cereals, Vonnegut, lies. -ectomy. The ubiquitous suffix. Suffixes make the world hell. -ism, -itis, -like, -tude, cease your silly constructions! Constructions are power I will smash bye bye now
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Feb 3, 2015
Feb 3, 2015 at 6:51 PM UTC
Cowboy
Bonnie squeals as the cart soars past various boxes of cereals and granola bars. She glances at her brother, Clyde, expecting him to share her fright, but is bewildered to see that he is thrashing about in a fit of giggles, enjoying the thrill of the ride. Knuckles white as snow, Bonnie's frail little fingers grasp the side of the red cart with all of their might as her eyes clamp shut. Her heart beats faster than the speed of light, and she questions her motives for agreeing to Clyde's devilish ways. She reminisces on their earlier arrival at the Local Target. They had come with their mother, planning to do a little grocery shopping and then be on their way. Of course, Clyde had schemed up a way to stray from his mother's side unnoticed. Bonnie still can't fathom how he managed to drag her down with him. Cautiously, wind whipping through her hair, Bonnie peaks one eye open and instantly regrets it. She let's out an ear - piercing howl as the cart thrusts into a mountain of PopTart boxes large enough to be deemed the Empire State Building's father. She crawls out of the heap only to be met by an eruption of heartfelt laughter spewing from her brother's mocking lips. "You should have seen your face!" Clyde teases as Bonnie sends daggers through his skull. The two troublemakers step out of the cart and attempt to retrace the way back to their mother. Devastated, they come to the conclusion that the aisles now resemble a maze. As they confidently take on this new challenge and make their way through the unknown, their spirits quickly take a downward spiral upon realizing that they have ended up back where they began. Tired and desperately longing to go home, the two siblings reach a clearing past the aisles and are overjoyed to spy their mother waiting patiently in line at a register with a new cart in hand. Bonnie and Clyde casually lazy on over to their mother's side and make light conversation as if they had never left.
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Jun 15, 2015
Jun 15, 2015 at 3:34 PM UTC
Bonnie and Clyde
Bonnie squeals as the cart soars past various boxes of cereals and granola bars. She glances at her brother, Clyde, expecting him to share her fright, but is bewildered to see that he is thrashing about in a fit of giggles, enjoying the thrill of the ride. Knuckles white as snow, Bonnie's frail little fingers grasp the side of the red cart with all of their might as her eyes clamp shut. Her heart beats faster than the speed of light, and she questions her motives for agreeing to Clyde's devilish ways. She reminisces on their earlier arrival at the Local Target. They had come with their mother, planning to do a little grocery shopping and then be on their way. Of course, Clyde had schemed up a way to stray from his mother's side unnoticed. Bonnie still can't fathom how he managed to drag her down with him. Cautiously, wind whipping through her hair, Bonnie peaks one eye open and instantly regrets it. She let's out an ear - piercing howl as the cart thrusts into a mountain of PopTart boxes large enough to be deemed the Empire State Building's father. She crawls out of the heap only to be met by an eruption of heartfelt laughter spewing from her brother's mocking lips. "You should have seen your face!" Clyde teases as Bonnie sends daggers through his skull. The two troublemakers step out of the cart and attempt to retrace the way back to their mother. Devastated, they come to the conclusion that the aisles now resemble a maze. As they confidently take on this new challenge and make their way through the unknown, their spirits quickly take a downward spiral upon realizing that they have ended up back where they began. Tired and desperately longing to go home, the two siblings reach a clearing past the aisles and are overjoyed to spy their mother waiting patiently in line at a register with a new cart in hand. Bonnie and Clyde casually lazy on over to their mother's side and make light conversation as if they had never left.
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Miryam meets you at the bar of the base camp in Madrid. She has an orange juice and cereals and a coffee chaser. Did you sleep o.k? you ask, sitting beside her, with a coffee and toast and cigarette. Sure, she says, afterwards.   Her eyes light up like lights on a pinball machine when it's played well. You? she asks, you sleep all right? Sure, but the ex-army guy wasn't too pleased, me getting back in the tent at that hour, you say. **** him, she says. No thanks, you reply. She sips the juice, her lips hold the glass as she drinks, her mouth is fish-like as she swallows. You talk about the ex-army guy's moans about his mother's boyfriend, how they don't get along(he and the boyfriend), and how he feels left out and how he got thrown out the army because he was suicidal. She sips, and you watched her eyes feasting on you as they did the night before, and you recall her ********** in the small space of her tent, the girl she shared with off ******* some guy she'd met on the coach, the tall guy with an Australian accent. You watched her, as you disrobed yourself, the space throwing you together, each touching each, kissing and ********** and kissing. He still feel suicidal? she asks. Guess so, you say, tried to talk him through it all, laying there in my sleeping bag, half asleep, listening and talking to him, eyes closing, and his voice becoming a drone. Anyway, he seemed happier after, snoring not long after, as I was laying there thinking of you. She eats the cereal, talks about the girl coming back just after you left, well ****** and happy, glassy eyed, giggling and stinking of ***** You sip the coffee, take in her small **** pressing against her coloured top, flowers and balloons, patterns, eye catching. She begs a smoke from your packet and you nod, and she takes one out and lights up from the red plastic lighter, the cigarette, held between her lips,   kissable lips, lickable. Yes, it had been a good night, you and she and someone strumming a guitar from the bar, nearby, loudly singing, not far.
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 2:19 AM UTC
MIRYAM AND MADRID.
Miryam meets you at the bar of the base camp in Madrid. She has an orange juice and cereals and a coffee chaser. Did you sleep o.k? you ask, sitting beside her, with a coffee and toast and cigarette. Sure, she says, afterwards.   Her eyes light up like lights on a pinball machine when it's played well. You? she asks, you sleep all right? Sure, but the ex-army guy wasn't too pleased, me getting back in the tent at that hour, you say. **** him, she says. No thanks, you reply. She sips the juice, her lips hold the glass as she drinks, her mouth is fish-like as she swallows. You talk about the ex-army guy's moans about his mother's boyfriend, how they don't get along(he and the boyfriend), and how he feels left out and how he got thrown out the army because he was suicidal. She sips, and you watched her eyes feasting on you as they did the night before, and you recall her ********** in the small space of her tent, the girl she shared with off ******* some guy she'd met on the coach, the tall guy with an Australian accent. You watched her, as you disrobed yourself, the space throwing you together, each touching each, kissing and ********** and kissing. He still feel suicidal? she asks. Guess so, you say, tried to talk him through it all, laying there in my sleeping bag, half asleep, listening and talking to him, eyes closing, and his voice becoming a drone. Anyway, he seemed happier after, snoring not long after, as I was laying there thinking of you. She eats the cereal, talks about the girl coming back just after you left, well ****** and happy, glassy eyed, giggling and stinking of ***** You sip the coffee, take in her small **** pressing against her coloured top, flowers and balloons, patterns, eye catching. She begs a smoke from your packet and you nod, and she takes one out and lights up from the red plastic lighter, the cigarette, held between her lips,   kissable lips, lickable. Yes, it had been a good night, you and she and someone strumming a guitar from the bar, nearby, loudly singing, not far.
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I bought carrots, and kale, coconut oil that was on sale avocados, and blue berries, vitamin supplements in a desire to stay healthy out of fear of my mortality. But I miss donuts and sugar coated cereals. I miss monster energy drinks, taco pizzas, and cheeseburgers. I miss what was killing me slowly, suicide by snail’s place. I once raced to gain weight. Now I eat things I hate, longing for something dangerous on my plate.
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Aug 23, 2016
Aug 23, 2016 at 12:46 PM UTC
Untitled
Sunlight seeps in glass windows all and yet with blinds drawn, "click'..put on the electric light, gives a worthy feeling, of course sort of false pride! The mirror reflects a haunted look insomnia on the face, mirror, mirror tell me true so saying put on more lipstick more rouge and mascara Nina Ricci perfume! Toothpaste Colgate advanced formula, or else brushing futile breakfast cereals latest blends tea labelled "Twining" I-phone pocketed, boutique shop clothes stilettos clicking you get started feeling good racing the sports car, race as if borrowed happiness will escape, its after all everyday happiness on a lucky credit card older bills still pending, still pending!! and yet these everyday happiness keeps you going!
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 1:17 AM UTC
Everyday Happiness
I need things explained like why cereals cut the roof of my mouth why I bite my nails too low too often why my dogs bark at 3 am why I want a partner so badly why I'm stuck on old memories why I've let go of every friend I've had why a letter has to equal a number why my parents think it's best to leave me alone why I suffer from such severe depression why I can't stick to a routine why I exist but I do not live
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Oct 28, 2012
Oct 28, 2012 at 10:22 PM UTC
I need things explained
I have come to a conclusion. We are in an endless cycle. We wake up and think about food. We eat sugary cereals for breakfast so we go to school or work thinking about food. Afterschool, we watch food and beauty advertisements that make us feel bad about ourselves, so what do we do? Shop for food and clothes to make us "feel better" and to "fill the void." After shopping, we get tired and watch television where we, yet again, shovel even MORE food into our lifeless pieholes. We also don't want to cook anything, so our meals consist of Campbell's soups, frozen pizzas and leftovers of whatever casserole is in the house. Even after eating dinner, we are tempted to eat more, so we have DESSERT! Because of our constantly on-the-go lifestyle, half the time we are not even conscious of what we're eating. Ironically, yet predictably, we go to sleep thinking about what we will have for breakfast the next day.
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Mar 13, 2014
Mar 13, 2014 at 11:08 PM UTC
Endless Cycle and the American Lifestyle
Yiska rests on her bed, smoking a cigarette. The sky is dull, the room darkened. She inhales, watches the smoke, she's just exhaled, rise ceiling wards. Her husband is out, fishing, ******* who knows, or cares. She exhales again, at times like this she reflects on her young days, her schoolgirl years. Naaman was a love back then. School crush thing some thought. But no, more than that. She inhales so deeply that it seems her whole body is filled with nicotine and smoke. Naaman kissed good. That time on the field. Lips and tongue. She exhales and smiles. He'd be in his 30s now, a year older than she. She can still, if she shuts her eyes at night, see him as he was. Even when her husband is giving her a quickie, she thinks on Naaman, imagines it's him on top, not her husband's sad efforts. She inhales and closes her eyes. He is there in her mind still. Even on the day she married, she hoped Naaman would show and whisk her away on the back of a motorcycle, her white dress flapping in the wind, she giving her groom to be, an up you sign of middle finger. But he didn't show. She knew he wouldn't; she'd not seen since he left school, the year before she. Moved away some place. She exhales and smiles out smoke. When she goes shopping in other towns, she wonders if she'll meet Naaman there, bump into him on an aisle, next to cereals or cheeses. She recalls that time in the school between lessons, seeing him, and wanting him to drag her into some room and kiss her and do things. But he just smiled and walked on and into a classroom, leaving her hot and gagging for it (a term some girls used back then). What if he had? Some empty room in the school? That day would have been burned into her memory if he had. As it was, she walked on, to her boring art class, bubbling with upset hormones. She sighs, opens her eyes, and moans.
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Jan 3, 2014
Jan 3, 2014 at 2:08 AM UTC
YISKA RECALLS.
Yiska rests on her bed, smoking a cigarette. The sky is dull, the room darkened. She inhales, watches the smoke, she's just exhaled, rise ceiling wards. Her husband is out, fishing, ******* who knows, or cares. She exhales again, at times like this she reflects on her young days, her schoolgirl years. Naaman was a love back then. School crush thing some thought. But no, more than that. She inhales so deeply that it seems her whole body is filled with nicotine and smoke. Naaman kissed good. That time on the field. Lips and tongue. She exhales and smiles. He'd be in his 30s now, a year older than she. She can still, if she shuts her eyes at night, see him as he was. Even when her husband is giving her a quickie, she thinks on Naaman, imagines it's him on top, not her husband's sad efforts. She inhales and closes her eyes. He is there in her mind still. Even on the day she married, she hoped Naaman would show and whisk her away on the back of a motorcycle, her white dress flapping in the wind, she giving her groom to be, an up you sign of middle finger. But he didn't show. She knew he wouldn't; she'd not seen since he left school, the year before she. Moved away some place. She exhales and smiles out smoke. When she goes shopping in other towns, she wonders if she'll meet Naaman there, bump into him on an aisle, next to cereals or cheeses. She recalls that time in the school between lessons, seeing him, and wanting him to drag her into some room and kiss her and do things. But he just smiled and walked on and into a classroom, leaving her hot and gagging for it (a term some girls used back then). What if he had? Some empty room in the school? That day would have been burned into her memory if he had. As it was, she walked on, to her boring art class, bubbling with upset hormones. She sighs, opens her eyes, and moans.
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You met Janice going to Baldly's groceries to get a list of goods for your mother how goes it? you asked Gran tanned my backside yesterday for going on the bomb site when she had told me not to Janice said sorry I got you into trouble you said not your fault I’m responsible for my own actions she said I knew Gran had told me not to go but I chose to disobey so paid the price guess she's annoyed with me too you said I didn't say who was with me she said how did she find out ? a neighbour saw me and told her I was on a bomb site with other kids and that was it where you going? you asked got to buy some cereals for breakfast she said going to Baldly's groceries but not to get any with those free toys inside why's that? Gran said it's a gimmick how about going to the cinema this afternoon? you asked can't she said not allowed after yesterday she said shame you said got a good western on and the good guy has two guns and has a neat way of going for his guns which I want to copy and practice she looked sad I'd liked to she said but maybe another time when I'm out of the dog house sorry about the trouble I've landed you in you said my fault mea culpa as they say in mass mea culpa ? you said it means my fault in Latin she said I got my backside tanned once for peeing in my toy box you said she looked shocked peed in your toy box? yes I was trying to impress a cousin but he told on me and that was it I never told on you yesterday she said thank you you said she kissed your cheek best get on with the shopping she said ok you said and so she went in Baldy's with you and did the shopping and afterwards you walked back your separate ways after a few words of farewell and a wave of hands hoping to see her again sometime after her punishment for the petty crime.
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Dec 26, 2013
Dec 26, 2013 at 4:54 AM UTC
THE PETTY CRIME.
You met Janice going to Baldly's groceries to get a list of goods for your mother how goes it? you asked Gran tanned my backside yesterday for going on the bomb site when she had told me not to Janice said sorry I got you into trouble you said not your fault I’m responsible for my own actions she said I knew Gran had told me not to go but I chose to disobey so paid the price guess she's annoyed with me too you said I didn't say who was with me she said how did she find out ? a neighbour saw me and told her I was on a bomb site with other kids and that was it where you going? you asked got to buy some cereals for breakfast she said going to Baldly's groceries but not to get any with those free toys inside why's that? Gran said it's a gimmick how about going to the cinema this afternoon? you asked can't she said not allowed after yesterday she said shame you said got a good western on and the good guy has two guns and has a neat way of going for his guns which I want to copy and practice she looked sad I'd liked to she said but maybe another time when I'm out of the dog house sorry about the trouble I've landed you in you said my fault mea culpa as they say in mass mea culpa ? you said it means my fault in Latin she said I got my backside tanned once for peeing in my toy box you said she looked shocked peed in your toy box? yes I was trying to impress a cousin but he told on me and that was it I never told on you yesterday she said thank you you said she kissed your cheek best get on with the shopping she said ok you said and so she went in Baldy's with you and did the shopping and afterwards you walked back your separate ways after a few words of farewell and a wave of hands hoping to see her again sometime after her punishment for the petty crime.
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"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. It's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor … and surviving." –  Col. Kurtz, Apocalypse Now ~ Remember the golden age, Wally *** And the songs my mother taught me? We sang about what was. Or might never be. Like permanency. Distinction comes out of stiff and frozen silences. Take it with a spoonful of disdain. Take it in the eye. Actors are like breakfast cereals. They're obvious and according to taste. I stopped needing them long ago. Beautiful Tallulah. Beautiful, "less to this than meets the eye" Tallulah, dismiss me, that I may be free to find Tennessee. Open windows and closing doors. Always a breeze, but never a way out. Right on cue the cards shuffle. Butter and cotton ***** tricks of the trade. I mumble to be heard. I am legend to disciples of the Method. I wear my friends to bed, burn them like newspaper. They call me "Bud" —cigarettes at dawn after devouring the night. And now my song ebbs, as the stylus hits the leadout groove. Tomorrow, I'll be better. Today, I'm just me.
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Jan 8, 2021
Jan 8, 2021 at 11:04 AM UTC
Marlon Brando
my worries remain. my double is moving up the ladder. you think he is me and your thought is convincing. I know I have a skirt because I’m wearing one. the youtube video displays a duration of 5:11. my mother pops in with a bag of sugary cereals. there are great lengths that end with my father’s open mouth. I am heartbroken that in the video the SUV has tinted windows behind which a daughter is supposedly processing the beating her dad takes at the booted heels of bikers. if my double has a second life, I dream it.
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Oct 1, 2013
Oct 1, 2013 at 9:07 PM UTC
achievements
You have boxes of cereals I have boxes of crime, Don't worry about it I am not like that serial killer vine. My boxes are not illegal But regarded as trek, I designate them as crime Because it's done on beck. The first crime is universal Which is eating during a class, And if you get caught You will get a detention to pass. Second needs a little courage Which is bunking the lab, And you will roam the whole school with friends Without hiring a cab. This crime is something planned Distracting teacher from her study point, Asking tales about their life struggle Because we got bored from her english coined. This crime is nothing less than others Which is cheating during a test, Not everyone will accept that Because not everytime it did help them to score their best. If you start to count them all It will take your whole life to wind, You created memories that are crime Which you won't ever mind!
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May 14, 2020
May 14, 2020 at 11:13 PM UTC
Boxes!
my life is a million things or a million and one look at this situation words dribbling from my fingers like raindrops I want to feast on every piece you are willing to display to roll out and reveal no matter how fragile I feel my bones groan for you but I all I have are these syllables stationary on a screen the idea of something more an improbability we can share our language and breakfast cereals and our feet will rest on the table with the murmur of the TV in the background and oh my god I am sprinting through a blizzard as fast as I can but I was never a good runner my toes are almost numb but I want want want to experience it all ripples of reality it has bypassed me carved a pear-shaped lump out of me I am tied up in string I am oblivious to kisses and loving and intimacy the rush the blinding delirium I see everybody glisten it seems so but every person is ravaged by a manic voice flaws written high and glowing I try to explain but my handwriting indecipherable a blister-free relationship glorious silence delicious shiver of something like love between us over our shells I am out of it in a make-believe land drag me to real life and I’ll burn like a slab of meat before I trip into a lake of salty worries
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Nov 13, 2016
Nov 13, 2016 at 4:21 PM UTC
Slush
Anne put her crutches by the table on the lawn and sat next to me how's it going Kid? ok I said what's for breakfast? porridge or cereal or toast I said no egg and bacon and sausages? she said no I said **** me she said who eats toast or porridge or  cereals? pass me a glass and pour me some of that orange muck I poured her a glass of orange juice and put it by her hand she sipped it I've tasted better she said I want you to push me down to the beach later Kid can't stick being stuck with these other kids they drive me up the wall with their goody-two-shoes nonsense with the nuns especially Sister Paul the stuck up ***** I looked back towards the nursing home other kids were sitting about other tables and here and there a nun was attending to them got any more wine gums from your mother? she asked me no they've gone Sister Bridget took them to share amongst the others ****** communist she said I looked at her sitting in the chair her one leg visible the stump of the other leg hidden beneath her blue dress the dress had little anchors and boats on it had your look Kid? she said you're always trying to look at my stump aren't you? I can't help it my eyes are drawn to the missing leg I said she lifted her dress and showed the stump of leg have a good look Kid I looked at the stump then looked away towards the windows of the nursing home when do you want to go to the beach? I asked as soon as I’ve had breakfast she said she pulled down her dress to cover her stump and sipped the juice the red ribbon in her dark straight hair had come loose.
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Apr 28, 2014
Apr 28, 2014 at 2:45 AM UTC
ANNE BEFORE BREAKFAST.
Anne put her crutches by the table on the lawn and sat next to me how's it going Kid? ok I said what's for breakfast? porridge or cereal or toast I said no egg and bacon and sausages? she said no I said **** me she said who eats toast or porridge or  cereals? pass me a glass and pour me some of that orange muck I poured her a glass of orange juice and put it by her hand she sipped it I've tasted better she said I want you to push me down to the beach later Kid can't stick being stuck with these other kids they drive me up the wall with their goody-two-shoes nonsense with the nuns especially Sister Paul the stuck up ***** I looked back towards the nursing home other kids were sitting about other tables and here and there a nun was attending to them got any more wine gums from your mother? she asked me no they've gone Sister Bridget took them to share amongst the others ****** communist she said I looked at her sitting in the chair her one leg visible the stump of the other leg hidden beneath her blue dress the dress had little anchors and boats on it had your look Kid? she said you're always trying to look at my stump aren't you? I can't help it my eyes are drawn to the missing leg I said she lifted her dress and showed the stump of leg have a good look Kid I looked at the stump then looked away towards the windows of the nursing home when do you want to go to the beach? I asked as soon as I’ve had breakfast she said she pulled down her dress to cover her stump and sipped the juice the red ribbon in her dark straight hair had come loose.
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Marcus' Homeland wave said the source of suffering was Mad Max's flexibility in the area of ​​the New Museum; The world is in error, and the delight of my work be done; John. . .  John, if you are a good soldier, Newly Risen Dawn is the youngest of the cereals; And in general, the shadow of the light at the end of the United States is the shadow of death; women, now totaling six, highly clothed with strength. Satan stood up, raised up for the sake of the tree of life by Irinka as a seething mass of light; the waves of the fish, as it were of the six lakes of Asia, and the black ants of Africa at Allen's service; and turning to the women with every right, that is, from his exploration of the variety of their fantasies, the abuse of drugs, and her eyes, as the source is according to Mad Max; A ****** and the toes, and mouth to mouth, mouth to mouth, and the mouth of the mouth to mouth, and speaking face to face to face, and she loveth not knoweth not; the name of the feet, and she besought the people go, that they may not merely be in one oven; and showing a red color, indeed, it is his work, all the problems of the world of the high-priest of a fever which is la-la-la; The discourse with the Holy Spirit, named Carlos, who is the fountain of bread and one from us, drunk in the night, when the weather is very clear, as in Isaiah, the Breath of Freedom! In recent years, the image is of the girl singing the song as good as the song exchange; 1 Go the Cam, she tells them! The letters speak of the world next to this world in the next case, and another voice from the prostitutes and learning their culture are the shadows of the others; The Reforms of the DEA are limited to the crowded sands of the US, which at the end of the day includes jewelry, ornaments and decorative accessories. § If it is not, as is true, the competition is in the form of the exhibition; global players, and as it were, Maecenas paying much for most of the pages, and it came to pass from Asia to Cicero, and that was the history from the common people of the mountains and the hills, to the provinces of Asia, that is all the way around the world, and they will not be in the memory after the destruction of the hill, is the plan of Haman for the city that opens onto the broad places of the Jews, who were out in the restaurants where a stranger with a very little **** teaches that the way of God into the belly is the way of destruction, but whose end, however, he will bring to pass.... for he is he who doeth, and has made the signs and wonders, and with his Aussie lass and other drugs only to be known to _him_ ...
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Oct 5, 2018
Oct 5, 2018 at 7:18 PM UTC
From Asia to Cicero, [for Laura XI]
Marcus' Homeland wave said the source of suffering was Mad Max's flexibility in the area of ​​the New Museum; The world is in error, and the delight of my work be done; John. . .  John, if you are a good soldier, Newly Risen Dawn is the youngest of the cereals; And in general, the shadow of the light at the end of the United States is the shadow of death; women, now totaling six, highly clothed with strength. Satan stood up, raised up for the sake of the tree of life by Irinka as a seething mass of light; the waves of the fish, as it were of the six lakes of Asia, and the black ants of Africa at Allen's service; and turning to the women with every right, that is, from his exploration of the variety of their fantasies, the abuse of drugs, and her eyes, as the source is according to Mad Max; A ****** and the toes, and mouth to mouth, mouth to mouth, and the mouth of the mouth to mouth, and speaking face to face to face, and she loveth not knoweth not; the name of the feet, and she besought the people go, that they may not merely be in one oven; and showing a red color, indeed, it is his work, all the problems of the world of the high-priest of a fever which is la-la-la; The discourse with the Holy Spirit, named Carlos, who is the fountain of bread and one from us, drunk in the night, when the weather is very clear, as in Isaiah, the Breath of Freedom! In recent years, the image is of the girl singing the song as good as the song exchange; 1 Go the Cam, she tells them! The letters speak of the world next to this world in the next case, and another voice from the prostitutes and learning their culture are the shadows of the others; The Reforms of the DEA are limited to the crowded sands of the US, which at the end of the day includes jewelry, ornaments and decorative accessories. § If it is not, as is true, the competition is in the form of the exhibition; global players, and as it were, Maecenas paying much for most of the pages, and it came to pass from Asia to Cicero, and that was the history from the common people of the mountains and the hills, to the provinces of Asia, that is all the way around the world, and they will not be in the memory after the destruction of the hill, is the plan of Haman for the city that opens onto the broad places of the Jews, who were out in the restaurants where a stranger with a very little **** teaches that the way of God into the belly is the way of destruction, but whose end, however, he will bring to pass.... for he is he who doeth, and has made the signs and wonders, and with his Aussie lass and other drugs only to be known to _him_ ...
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you know that I love you he lied through his redsauna face as the tv shouted the importance of cereals fortified with vitamins and minerals. Billy sat and watched his untied sneakers make snakes on the floor as the voices shook his feet. no, really, the liar said turning towards him if you were gone i wouldnt know what to do. Billy kicked a little and the snakes coiled and sprung. youre all i have left. youre everything to me. i know that sometimes i ask too much of you, you look after yourself and you look after me too. you nurse me through the badtimes and its all because of the beer. you dont cry when i hit you even though you must be afraid. Billy knew the shape of the beer stink mouth, ******* up with a memory of dead feelings, even tho he wasnt looking. you put me to bed and clean up my mess and you look after yourself and you dont tell anyone. it's not fair for me to ask but you do it. and he went on. Billy thought of this so that he didnt have to look at his father, lying through his redsauna face, saying sorry for what he did, but not being it.
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Apr 14, 2013
Apr 14, 2013 at 11:10 AM UTC
but not being it
i. you wore a summer high school shirt, with your arm poured at my skin like milk; back then cereals were all i could long for. i hoped for some electricity, but the night was too strong to be lit; mildly frustrated light turned into heat. darkness had become a nice home, where all the weirdness collided like cotton candy and a starstruck heart. you spoke, as the sky fell, with your lips swollen like honey; that was the time i found moonlight.
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Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 3:47 AM UTC
Citrine