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"cosmopolitan" poems
Filled to the brim Pizza Huts Burning rubber Dj''s club'n pub Dancing duel Free spirits and **** riddled Irie cast Bob's Inn The beat go's on Bright lights Stripped trousers Men on bikes Ladies sell flowers Restaurant's cappuccino Long street lives Cosmopolitan heaven Twenty four seven
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Aug 22, 2018
Aug 22, 2018 at 2:33 PM UTC
Long street Cape Town
The last kiss from you Lasted like a huddle in The snow blitz Rocking my anatomy In the frosty glitz The last words from you That barged in my eardrum You were in a hurry To smell a new leaf Draped in a diamond dew The last gifts from you Was an instrument Which still I use To recognize people Or to refuse! The last time You said I love you I remember I was laughing Hysterically as if I was watching Jared Leto’s jaded mimicry of Joker in YouTube Intriguingly, when the last time I saw you **** It felt like pretty Ivanka’s embarrassment Noticing her dad is a lewd The last time I was chatting With you on Facebook I was wondering why I shouldn't hack your account? To check your inbox Yea, it was filled with the message of ******* F- Bombs, **** shaming and tagging you as harlot All they were asking was your service of escort Either in full discount or in hefty cash drops! The last time I wrote A letter of love to you I discovered my Keyboard Began to blurt out No more, No more, No more… The last time I had a chit-chat With you in the Burger King or Pizza Hut I listened to your hissing clack-clack That someone else has become your puppy cat… The last time I became sick When I was with you I heard you threw a party Where you were whispering To your besties, how I become your double whammy! The last time I was With you in the bed I felt like I was indentured To **** a dummy toy Sans spirit and flesh! Loving you was like Santa Claus gifted me With a Pandora’s Box As soon as I opened it You decided to release Our *** tape of your having ****** In pornhub’s forum of interracial! The last time I heard of you Is that you were giving an interview To The Cosmopolitan’s board of review Facing the barrage of inquisitions You calmly joked, the series Of latest uproar about you In the social media or Internet Is because certain people always Love to rave about Women’s body Shoving in and out of their pigeonhole With their one night stand queen trophy To flavor your form in their fantasmic mouth You also smirked in a raspy voice Defiantly declaring “we (women) Have been locked indoors With no air, no food, no water” My last boyfriend is also no exception He certainly thinks I came this far Through ******* and deception
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Apr 30, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 at 12:33 PM UTC
Oppressive patriarchy or self-imposed victim hood- Hasan Maruf
The last kiss from you Lasted like a huddle in The snow blitz Rocking my anatomy In the frosty glitz The last words from you That barged in my eardrum You were in a hurry To smell a new leaf Draped in a diamond dew The last gifts from you Was an instrument Which still I use To recognize people Or to refuse! The last time You said I love you I remember I was laughing Hysterically as if I was watching Jared Leto’s jaded mimicry of Joker in YouTube Intriguingly, when the last time I saw you **** It felt like pretty Ivanka’s embarrassment Noticing her dad is a lewd The last time I was chatting With you on Facebook I was wondering why I shouldn't hack your account? To check your inbox Yea, it was filled with the message of ******* F- Bombs, **** shaming and tagging you as harlot All they were asking was your service of escort Either in full discount or in hefty cash drops! The last time I wrote A letter of love to you I discovered my Keyboard Began to blurt out No more, No more, No more… The last time I had a chit-chat With you in the Burger King or Pizza Hut I listened to your hissing clack-clack That someone else has become your puppy cat… The last time I became sick When I was with you I heard you threw a party Where you were whispering To your besties, how I become your double whammy! The last time I was With you in the bed I felt like I was indentured To **** a dummy toy Sans spirit and flesh! Loving you was like Santa Claus gifted me With a Pandora’s Box As soon as I opened it You decided to release Our *** tape of your having ****** In pornhub’s forum of interracial! The last time I heard of you Is that you were giving an interview To The Cosmopolitan’s board of review Facing the barrage of inquisitions You calmly joked, the series Of latest uproar about you In the social media or Internet Is because certain people always Love to rave about Women’s body Shoving in and out of their pigeonhole With their one night stand queen trophy To flavor your form in their fantasmic mouth You also smirked in a raspy voice Defiantly declaring “we (women) Have been locked indoors With no air, no food, no water” My last boyfriend is also no exception He certainly thinks I came this far Through ******* and deception
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The dictatorship of our state is profound in its mass propaganda, where the discernment of individuals seeps into an eternal chasm of self-sacrifice on the altar of political conformity. Let us actively withstand the passivity of our conventional hypocrisy as we engage with this ontological sleepwalk through sinister passageways of presumed social advancement. In our age of grandiose moralistic eclecticism where imperatives abound, I burn incense and contemplate the cosmopolitan artificiality which lavishes abundant gifts upon our self-opinion. Criminality is the result of discovery. So, oh thorn in my flesh, cover those rancid corpses by the veil of popularity, gain and pleasure. Subconscious social conditioning is the scourge of lustful appearance, don’t you think?
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 10:23 PM UTC
Ethical Cosmetics
To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates & International Bards 1986 Stand up against governments, against God. Stay irresponsible. Say only what we know & imagine. Absolutes are coercion. Change is absolute. Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Observe what's vivid. Notice what you notice. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything. Remember the future. Advise only yourself. Don't drink yourself to death. Two molecules clanking against each other requires an observer to become scientific data. The measuring instrument determines the appearance of the phenomenal world after Einstein. The universe is subjective. Walt Whitman celebrated Person. We Are an observer, measuring instrument, eye, subject, Person. Universe is person. Inside skull vast as outside skull. Mind is outer space. "Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound." First thought, best thought. Mind is shapely, Art is shapely. Maximum information, minimum number of syllables. Syntax condensed, sound is solid. Intense fragments of spoken idiom, best. Consonants around vowels make sense. Savor vowels, appreciate consonants. Subject is known by what she sees. Others can measure their vision by what we see. Candor ends paranoia. Kral Majales June 25, 1986 Boulder, Colorado
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Cosmopolitan Greetings
well we walk like critters crawling, sprawlingly cosmopolitan in our nature. We embrace all who feel to follow. But don’t feel following should be forced on a creature. Stuff his lies down the neck of the preacher. Stuff his tie down the neck of the teacher. Put the failed papers on his chest and set them on fire May he rest in a relentless hell, or a cell with nothing but mirrors.
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Jul 14, 2014
Jul 14, 2014 at 1:06 PM UTC
******* Hipster Riots
In a cosmopolitan world where Yeezy reigns supreme on our Speakers, loathed for loving Genius-acknowledging, we Have set a standard of beauty So surreptitious, soulless— Unattainable in this number- Crunching world so pre- Occupied with symmetry and Egotism—structure—black and White dominated by rawness and Robotics: steampunk screams echo- Ing from the rooftops of skyscrapers As lightning continues to strike the highest point.
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Apr 7, 2014
Apr 7, 2014 at 10:12 AM UTC
808s and Heartbreak
Always see the world through rose-colored glasses and The classy lady always orders the cosmopolitan I’ve always preferred Miller light But I’ll raise my Cosmo up in a salute to him Always hide your Butterfinger wrappers in the fire— “That’s where Grammie won’t find them” A man of his stature, success Shouldn’t have to keep such secrets from his Babe We know she’s only looking out for him But nothing will keep him from the simple pleasures life has to offer Not even his Babe When we were young he told us Of the Fuckawee Indian tribe that settled Northern Michigan And how, maybe, just maybe If we yelled loud enough They would peek out at us from behind the thick foliage After dinner he’d take us kids on his evening cocktail cruise (Once again hiding from Babe) With a Gerrity mixed drink in his hand (He wasn’t allowed ice cream, or ***** and Kahlua) We’d cruise by the house and call out To the tribe that settled our sacred land and To our shocked parents on the distant shore line “Where the Fuckawee?” How to drive a boat and How to touch the world and How to love unconditionally and How to enjoy every moment How to stand up for what you believe and How to have fun doing it How to follow the rules, and more importantly How to break them Looking up and down the rows and rows of White folding chairs Watching these salty lessons dribble down the faces of those he touched The young, the old The Brazilian, the English who always asked for the Irishman's list The family, the friends, and those who admired from a far We come together, here To celebrate all we learned from him How to work to the top from the bottom How to touch the lives of so many and Most importantly, How to fill your heart with love for The Luckiest Family in the World That I have around me now, Thanks to the Luckiest Man in the World
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Oct 18, 2012
Oct 18, 2012 at 5:14 PM UTC
The Luckiest Man in the World
Always see the world through rose-colored glasses and The classy lady always orders the cosmopolitan I’ve always preferred Miller light But I’ll raise my Cosmo up in a salute to him Always hide your Butterfinger wrappers in the fire— “That’s where Grammie won’t find them” A man of his stature, success Shouldn’t have to keep such secrets from his Babe We know she’s only looking out for him But nothing will keep him from the simple pleasures life has to offer Not even his Babe When we were young he told us Of the Fuckawee Indian tribe that settled Northern Michigan And how, maybe, just maybe If we yelled loud enough They would peek out at us from behind the thick foliage After dinner he’d take us kids on his evening cocktail cruise (Once again hiding from Babe) With a Gerrity mixed drink in his hand (He wasn’t allowed ice cream, or ***** and Kahlua) We’d cruise by the house and call out To the tribe that settled our sacred land and To our shocked parents on the distant shore line “Where the Fuckawee?” How to drive a boat and How to touch the world and How to love unconditionally and How to enjoy every moment How to stand up for what you believe and How to have fun doing it How to follow the rules, and more importantly How to break them Looking up and down the rows and rows of White folding chairs Watching these salty lessons dribble down the faces of those he touched The young, the old The Brazilian, the English who always asked for the Irishman's list The family, the friends, and those who admired from a far We come together, here To celebrate all we learned from him How to work to the top from the bottom How to touch the lives of so many and Most importantly, How to fill your heart with love for The Luckiest Family in the World That I have around me now, Thanks to the Luckiest Man in the World
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Eventually, my favourite cocktail turned out to be a Cosmopolitan.
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Oct 26, 2012
Oct 26, 2012 at 8:52 AM UTC
Identity
there is water somewhere on my right i can hear it the gentle patter of what must be a delicate fountain hidden amongst the foliage and flowers of freshly bloomed lilies or falling from a feature at the water's edge there is a far-distant rumble of jet engines undoubtedly drawing trails of vapour across an otherwise unblemished blue sounds of traffic dulled to almost nothing a background hum barely noticeable even the unfamiliar shrieking of a siren as it passes by cannot overpower the drawn-out strains of violin the rasgueado strum of guitar the echoed stomp and clap of dancers performing or practicing in front of the monument to a public figure of some kind that i would likely not recognise or be aware of on the other side of the park a clock tower bell chimes the hour two o'clock setting a fluttering of birds to wing chattering on the breeze the seemingly constant pattern of clicking heels and scuffed steps along the nearby path tell of an exhaustive cosmopolitan life a dog begins barking as i open my eyes reminding me of home
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Jun 22, 2023
Jun 22, 2023 at 10:39 AM UTC
resting my eyes
I like to do those quizzes in glossy bubbles that you find in Cosmopolitan and Elle and Seventeen. Which girl should I be? Should I dump paper flowers on my milkmaid braid? Long skirts, long chains, and Beatles on my radio during their ‘Indian’ phase? Should I paint it all black, strip life down to a middle finger, blare punk at full scream, and cram my toes in ratty Docs, smash all emotion into smithereens? Should I sugar-coat my mouth with Maybelline, button up collars, laughs, opinions, read books on behaving just like a daydream, sip teas, bake cookies, aim for Ivy Leagues? Which gilded box do I crawl into? Which skin to don this week? Which fashion editor-friendly stereotype to fulfil? Which girl should I be?
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Apr 30, 2015
Apr 30, 2015 at 3:24 PM UTC
Identity Crisis
Certainly our city with its byres of poverty down to The river's edge, its cathedral, its engines, its dogs; Here is the cosmopolitan cooking And the light alloys and the glass. Built by the conscience-stricken, the weapon-making, By us. Wild rumours woo and terrify the crowd, Woo us. Betrayers thunder at, blackmail Us. But where now are They. Who without reproaches showed us what our vanity has chosen, Who pursued understanding with patience like a *** had unlearnt Our hatred and towards the really better World had turned their face? Who knows? The peaked and violent faces are exalted, The feverish prejudiced lives do not care, and lost Their voice in the flutter of bunting, the glittering Brass of our great retreat, And the malice of death. For the wicked card is dealt and The sinister tall-hatted botanist stoops at the spring With his insignificant phial and looses The plague on the ignorant town. Under their shadows the pitiful subalterns are sleeping; The moon is usual; the necessary lovers touch; The river is alone and the trampled flower; And through years of absolute cold The planets rush towards Lyra in a lion's charge. Can Hate so securely bind? Are they dead here? Yes. And the wish to wound has the power. And tomorrow Comes. It's a world. It's a way.
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As We Like It
*Unity in diversity This is indeed an exaggerated paucity Of information by think tanks Advancing this school of thought regardless of their money in banks Towns and cities boast of cultures varied and eccentric Despite a people having an intrinsic Nature of sense of purpose and wherewithal Matters accentual, An amorphous issue subject to constant change Either way it’s a cake in the oven of fabrication, hope we don’t cringe When fruits of this intellectually deprived charade Become realized by a people with minds renegade. Isn’t it “well-placed” being a pessimist? Of the mind than an optimist of the heart hence an intellectualist*
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 2:45 AM UTC
Cosmopolitan exclusivity.
This is for the girls who lie awake at night, Pulling at the blankets to keep them warm, Drenched in sins of deprecation. Tossing and turning on their twin size beds, because there is not enough room to fit expectations, let alone their own. This is for the girls who stare at themselves in front of their mirrors, Pinching at the extra layers of skin that hang around their tummies. Rolls of "fat" as they call it, I prefer the term "beauty." This is for the girls who have shoulders are backs plastered in scars. From the bras that were one cup size to small, overly adjusted and tightened straps. This is for the girls who fall prey to the fallacies of magazine stands, captivated by the cold letters bleeding off the covers: "Three hundred, sixty-five ways to style your hair!" "How to get the perfect **** "Turn off the lights to look good naked!" "How to make him love you!" Pull apart the flesh, look beneath your skin, you are not defined by the number of eyes that manifest lust towards you, you are not the hands that plead to saunter their way toward your hips, You are not the number of inches that space out your thighs. Or the visibility of muscle that line up on your stomach. You do not need to look good naked, don't turn off the lights. Your **** looks fine Stop falling victim to the media To the photo shopped ads of puppets who look nothing like you Because your real and if you want a man to love you, he must learn to accept you with your extra flaws, our scars, and rolls of fat. Because that sack of bones known as a model on a Cosmopolitan cover will not keep him warm. It is inscribed in the atoms that make you a person you are a three dimensional beautiful masterpiece you are not a computerized pixelated image reshaped and resized retouched and revised stop letting society dehumanize a woman your a woman all the fury to slither through you limbs until you shake with and anger and purpose, acknowledge the value of your worth for you are more that just a waste of paper and space, you are space, you are human, your alive, and beautiful
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Sep 1, 2014
Sep 1, 2014 at 11:57 AM UTC
Untitled
This is for the girls who lie awake at night, Pulling at the blankets to keep them warm, Drenched in sins of deprecation. Tossing and turning on their twin size beds, because there is not enough room to fit expectations, let alone their own. This is for the girls who stare at themselves in front of their mirrors, Pinching at the extra layers of skin that hang around their tummies. Rolls of "fat" as they call it, I prefer the term "beauty." This is for the girls who have shoulders are backs plastered in scars. From the bras that were one cup size to small, overly adjusted and tightened straps. This is for the girls who fall prey to the fallacies of magazine stands, captivated by the cold letters bleeding off the covers: "Three hundred, sixty-five ways to style your hair!" "How to get the perfect **** "Turn off the lights to look good naked!" "How to make him love you!" Pull apart the flesh, look beneath your skin, you are not defined by the number of eyes that manifest lust towards you, you are not the hands that plead to saunter their way toward your hips, You are not the number of inches that space out your thighs. Or the visibility of muscle that line up on your stomach. You do not need to look good naked, don't turn off the lights. Your **** looks fine Stop falling victim to the media To the photo shopped ads of puppets who look nothing like you Because your real and if you want a man to love you, he must learn to accept you with your extra flaws, our scars, and rolls of fat. Because that sack of bones known as a model on a Cosmopolitan cover will not keep him warm. It is inscribed in the atoms that make you a person you are a three dimensional beautiful masterpiece you are not a computerized pixelated image reshaped and resized retouched and revised stop letting society dehumanize a woman your a woman all the fury to slither through you limbs until you shake with and anger and purpose, acknowledge the value of your worth for you are more that just a waste of paper and space, you are space, you are human, your alive, and beautiful
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Cosmopolitan: 
Up against the shower walls. We were both naive.
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Sep 22, 2014
Sep 22, 2014 at 5:54 PM UTC
Three
High rises burst from soft Earth’s flesh Was it even ready for us? From an extraterrestrial’s perspective we’re a disease upon this gentle cerulean Elysium I’m living in the mouth of duality I hear it speak as I leave my block and give a peace sign to the abandoned residences in progress On the block I currently live, the sidewalk is cracked into drunken mazes and yet Directly across, the neighbors stand upon freshly minted asphalt and into a metropolitan construct made for the modern brain: built in amenities, contemporary textiles and garage parking Are we next? To be bought and sold, if so, can we at least have a plan for the residents? Will tenants be invited to the newborn paradise? We have the budget to feed cement trucks faster than hungry mouths. It’s become a bad habit yet I sit by the man-made imperfections hoping someone cares enough to drip their Eden into the palms of my neighbors If time will tell I’ve been getting quite the silent treatment Travel a little deeper and…. Cosmopolitan crossroads coexist with beggars and lost folk…. Since when was the speech divided between affluent and broke? "IDK?" The duality replies I thought you’d say that.
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Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021 at 6:14 PM UTC
The Mouth of Duality
The rain splutters at me in foreign tongue As my mind hurdles under a mushroom Shelter from the pelting lashes Of nostalgic memory Such vulnerable home from woes Like a rodent hole in flooding summer They tell me I am a finicky rat That will not survive outside Sakubva Ratatat-tatatatat-tart! Oh but how true! Each day I walk out in the morning Come evening I pick every footprint I left Back home Prompted by need to use my footprints Once more Take care! The radio blares Save save save save The television frowns Wise up Recycle is the trick in these hard times Discarded beliefs, discarded memories, discarded tastes Can be recycled Recycled dreams, recycled husband, recycled wife... I scrap my bottom in amazement After all there is always a grain of virtue left In what we discard - O how I love the scent God has made it that way That each time you **** Before you go You save a nostalgic glance at your **** Suppressing a sense of loss For a part of you left behind Like kites tied to strings we are We regale in our false splendour At time's mercy The fruits of mental ************ Deflowered by new ****** worlds Of lewd dreams in striking G-Strings Gyrating ***** of fantastic insanity That lure us Into the heavy -bosomed clouds Pregnant with cultural retribution For the anarchy coursing our veins Like the burning pain on my back Each evening when I bend double To pick up and bag my footprints I left in the morning This is not madness When I tell you to let your beak Of tolerance peck and peck On your **** What difference is there Between **** in your belly and **** steaming betwixt your legs? What difference is home When you are young and when old? Riding on the back of butterfly dreams When I am a newborn macho In the bullring of entrepreneurship Or O such cosmopolitan hunk In the realm of fashion and modelling... Sounds like sheltering under a mushroom That springs and dazzles but a day Hope I will hurtle back Hope sweet home, home sweet home I am a finical rat That won't live away from home. -dougwa-
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Feb 23, 2012
Feb 23, 2012 at 11:21 AM UTC
Hope Sweet Home
The rain splutters at me in foreign tongue As my mind hurdles under a mushroom Shelter from the pelting lashes Of nostalgic memory Such vulnerable home from woes Like a rodent hole in flooding summer They tell me I am a finicky rat That will not survive outside Sakubva Ratatat-tatatatat-tart! Oh but how true! Each day I walk out in the morning Come evening I pick every footprint I left Back home Prompted by need to use my footprints Once more Take care! The radio blares Save save save save The television frowns Wise up Recycle is the trick in these hard times Discarded beliefs, discarded memories, discarded tastes Can be recycled Recycled dreams, recycled husband, recycled wife... I scrap my bottom in amazement After all there is always a grain of virtue left In what we discard - O how I love the scent God has made it that way That each time you **** Before you go You save a nostalgic glance at your **** Suppressing a sense of loss For a part of you left behind Like kites tied to strings we are We regale in our false splendour At time's mercy The fruits of mental ************ Deflowered by new ****** worlds Of lewd dreams in striking G-Strings Gyrating ***** of fantastic insanity That lure us Into the heavy -bosomed clouds Pregnant with cultural retribution For the anarchy coursing our veins Like the burning pain on my back Each evening when I bend double To pick up and bag my footprints I left in the morning This is not madness When I tell you to let your beak Of tolerance peck and peck On your **** What difference is there Between **** in your belly and **** steaming betwixt your legs? What difference is home When you are young and when old? Riding on the back of butterfly dreams When I am a newborn macho In the bullring of entrepreneurship Or O such cosmopolitan hunk In the realm of fashion and modelling... Sounds like sheltering under a mushroom That springs and dazzles but a day Hope I will hurtle back Hope sweet home, home sweet home I am a finical rat That won't live away from home. -dougwa-
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From my new book, Poems of Ancient Rome and Greece, available in paperback on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, as well as eBook on Kindle, Nook, and Apple Books:  https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Ancient-Greece-Christopher-Saitta/dp/B0DS6933HB?ref_=ast_author_dp   My mother the sea, She woke my sandy eyes, Just to tell me she had to leave, Draw past the markets where the fish are sun-dried, Snarled by the coral-rough hands of divers deep. My mother the sea, She left her running tab Of the grocer’s choicest greens, Thumbed the velamentous rinds and spiny scarola, Her xylem and phloem are the slow moving cruciferousness of a breeze. My mother the sea, Charwoman of tides, Who dips and delves upon her knees, Who scrubs her brothel-coves with chamber lye, Cyprian mistress of the salt-stained sheets. I have looked for you, mother, A scugnizzo amid the striped awnings of the marketplace ~ like sails to the sky ~ Where the fishmongers hawk their pride Of conch, cavallo, and black sea bream. I have looked for you, mother, Walked sun-forged along the boardwalk, Amid the neon-mascara of signs, Hand-in-hand with only the ladyfingers of salt and vinegar fries, Toward the crisp syllabub of pebbles and sand. A beach is window-warmth spread free, cosmopolitan, The longeur of eyes crushed in the glass-dust of cities. And in the sputtering of the frosted spume of tides, Held broken seashells in my hands like broken needles, Heard the pump-click of the ventilator through your mask of sand. My mother the sea, A naked convalescent, Whose ever-turnings have taken A turn for the worse. Who will know her by her death, who but me?
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Jan 21, 2025
Jan 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM UTC
My Mother, the Sea
From my new book, Poems of Ancient Rome and Greece, available in paperback on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, as well as eBook on Kindle, Nook, and Apple Books:  https://www.amazon.com/Poems-Ancient-Greece-Christopher-Saitta/dp/B0DS6933HB?ref_=ast_author_dp   My mother the sea, She woke my sandy eyes, Just to tell me she had to leave, Draw past the markets where the fish are sun-dried, Snarled by the coral-rough hands of divers deep. My mother the sea, She left her running tab Of the grocer’s choicest greens, Thumbed the velamentous rinds and spiny scarola, Her xylem and phloem are the slow moving cruciferousness of a breeze. My mother the sea, Charwoman of tides, Who dips and delves upon her knees, Who scrubs her brothel-coves with chamber lye, Cyprian mistress of the salt-stained sheets. I have looked for you, mother, A scugnizzo amid the striped awnings of the marketplace ~ like sails to the sky ~ Where the fishmongers hawk their pride Of conch, cavallo, and black sea bream. I have looked for you, mother, Walked sun-forged along the boardwalk, Amid the neon-mascara of signs, Hand-in-hand with only the ladyfingers of salt and vinegar fries, Toward the crisp syllabub of pebbles and sand. A beach is window-warmth spread free, cosmopolitan, The longeur of eyes crushed in the glass-dust of cities. And in the sputtering of the frosted spume of tides, Held broken seashells in my hands like broken needles, Heard the pump-click of the ventilator through your mask of sand. My mother the sea, A naked convalescent, Whose ever-turnings have taken A turn for the worse. Who will know her by her death, who but me?
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Walls were pressed and hammered Therapy for workers, curing pangs of comforts They sat between fleshy webs of knuckles On lunch break they would pluck pouts of moldy fruit If only she could hear summer of 98’ Glimmering puddles and sinkable reasons She could test her strength with Goldfish and a drippy, chocolate cupcake Matching deserts of skin covering joints young enough to bend They spat against another, sweating. Tapping Smoother than honeymooners in a convention center Frigid or uncontrollable, no one could tell The breezeway connected teeth, the left chipped in the corner from A muddy softball game. Their team won 7-2. Wide enough to squeeze uncooked macaroni shells between Became the dusky neighborhood game. Transitioning humans, males most likely, whispered fears between that gap. He was different. He waited in outside the doors, near the trash bins With grumpy janitors, muttering, “fuggin’ kids” and things like that. She loved how ugly they were then. Her thoughts trailed him, what was left of him, as he paced Searching for the mug he left there, no There, holding wet tissue, no Soggy cupcake liner Cupcake, shortcake, cake, cake liner Rainbow or musty brown from 346 degrees Fahrenheit Baking Therapy Class held in her kitchen Maybe because she could pound at the dough and it would never fight back She neglects the finale of rumbling coffee exhale since she knows He’d never come back. Not here or any party she threw. But on another hard drive she saved photos of September 20th. She’ll flip mindlessly through a Cosmopolitan, until she can forget his name
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Feb 15, 2015
Feb 15, 2015 at 2:01 PM UTC
What’s-His-Name
Walls were pressed and hammered Therapy for workers, curing pangs of comforts They sat between fleshy webs of knuckles On lunch break they would pluck pouts of moldy fruit If only she could hear summer of 98’ Glimmering puddles and sinkable reasons She could test her strength with Goldfish and a drippy, chocolate cupcake Matching deserts of skin covering joints young enough to bend They spat against another, sweating. Tapping Smoother than honeymooners in a convention center Frigid or uncontrollable, no one could tell The breezeway connected teeth, the left chipped in the corner from A muddy softball game. Their team won 7-2. Wide enough to squeeze uncooked macaroni shells between Became the dusky neighborhood game. Transitioning humans, males most likely, whispered fears between that gap. He was different. He waited in outside the doors, near the trash bins With grumpy janitors, muttering, “fuggin’ kids” and things like that. She loved how ugly they were then. Her thoughts trailed him, what was left of him, as he paced Searching for the mug he left there, no There, holding wet tissue, no Soggy cupcake liner Cupcake, shortcake, cake, cake liner Rainbow or musty brown from 346 degrees Fahrenheit Baking Therapy Class held in her kitchen Maybe because she could pound at the dough and it would never fight back She neglects the finale of rumbling coffee exhale since she knows He’d never come back. Not here or any party she threw. But on another hard drive she saved photos of September 20th. She’ll flip mindlessly through a Cosmopolitan, until she can forget his name
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Comic relief Cosmic disbelief Cosmetic grief Cosmopolitan relief
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Jun 20, 2014
Jun 20, 2014 at 5:37 PM UTC
Brief Words and Co.
I saw the news in obituary black and alabaster-chamber white. Women mulled about in shining dresses, all pinwheel-galaxy black. The men’s suits: darkness-between- stalks-late-in-the-cornfield black The pastor wore a Cosmopolitan’s-table-of-contents white stock in the non-air-conditioned church. His sermon dripped on the bereaved like hardening wax. A portly woman wheezed in the second row. A first-roadkill-of-summer red paper fan swayed  idly in her left hand. The coffin creaked, 4am-grandpa‘s-coffee brown the procession moved outside slowly. The moment was like when two trains  are idle and one begins to drift forward. From inside the other, it feels as if we are drifting backward. Backward to days before with the namer in his study. He has on his 1862-edition-Les-Misérables tan blazer. His wrists crawl out the undersized sleeves. Above his roof, the sky milks over to 4th- grader’s-scratched-locker blue. A wine glass full of just-waking-up-seeing-steam- waft-from-under- the-bathroom-door white wine rests on his particle board desk. I want a 70s B movie villain to bust through the door yelling, "I’m not sorry" and shoot him with a chipping-paint-bike-rack-next-to-the-library¬ grey revolver. I want the namer to be speechless, knock over the wine glass and die with grandma’s-new-couch red  pooling on his blazer. The truth is my grandma’s new couch is this ugly brown-yellow color. I don’t really know how to describe it.
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Dec 27, 2010
Dec 27, 2010 at 5:09 PM UTC
Elegy for the Crayon-namer
Chasing the dreams to touch the sky, shaking the roots of feminism; Happy to shoot for the Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Gia's plagiarism- All for her superstar Angel, she lived the attitude of lesbianism; From Philadelphia to New York she sold, her fraternity and parental prism- The ambitious gal, the ambition gal felt addicted to ******* and heroinism. Climbing the hills in Beverly was not tough enough, shredding chastity for mean; Hallowing for her Tomb Raider, she swallowed her city of sin- All in her attempts she brewed her habits, she tattooed destiny for her queen; From abortion to scandals; she breathed to see her prolific akin- The injured gal, the pitted gal still nearly was not doomed to grin. Succumbing like the serpentine in salt, still longing to meet her dream star; One fine morning she was found half-dead down the alley, waging her life-war- All the fever she had, yet not looking to get out of the foxfire; From one hospital to another, she was taken and was declared a patient of cancer; The lucky gal, the ******* gal was lame enough to meet her jester. The tumor had eaten her bones, like the steroids that made her a body- Donating a million dollars in charity, made a brief appearance by Angelina Jollie; All in her graceful charm, she penetrated hope to fight the disease folly- From a life directionless to the motive of her strife, she kissed her cheeks and regretted being silly- The ambitious gal, the ambition gal had just a single day to cherish her so called glory.
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Jul 13, 2010
Jul 13, 2010 at 4:15 AM UTC
a date with Angelina Jolie
Chasing the dreams to touch the sky, shaking the roots of feminism; Happy to shoot for the Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Gia's plagiarism- All for her superstar Angel, she lived the attitude of lesbianism; From Philadelphia to New York she sold, her fraternity and parental prism- The ambitious gal, the ambition gal felt addicted to ******* and heroinism. Climbing the hills in Beverly was not tough enough, shredding chastity for mean; Hallowing for her Tomb Raider, she swallowed her city of sin- All in her attempts she brewed her habits, she tattooed destiny for her queen; From abortion to scandals; she breathed to see her prolific akin- The injured gal, the pitted gal still nearly was not doomed to grin. Succumbing like the serpentine in salt, still longing to meet her dream star; One fine morning she was found half-dead down the alley, waging her life-war- All the fever she had, yet not looking to get out of the foxfire; From one hospital to another, she was taken and was declared a patient of cancer; The lucky gal, the ******* gal was lame enough to meet her jester. The tumor had eaten her bones, like the steroids that made her a body- Donating a million dollars in charity, made a brief appearance by Angelina Jollie; All in her graceful charm, she penetrated hope to fight the disease folly- From a life directionless to the motive of her strife, she kissed her cheeks and regretted being silly- The ambitious gal, the ambition gal had just a single day to cherish her so called glory.
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The Coronation is A Royal Pain In The Cosmopolitan **** The crowning achievement of Royal Navel Gazing. Chuck it (them) all.
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May 5, 2023
May 5, 2023 at 9:26 AM UTC
Chuck It
I'm not going to be a teenage wasteland forever Someday I'm going to stop polluting my body and hating my mother I have an addiction to those toxic remedies like hair dye nutmeg and bleach. I'll be taking calcium supplements for dwindling marow and for once I'll actually care about politics. Daddy had a habit of calling me a super-feminist just because I wouldn't bring him his slippers when he got home from retrieving the mail. I've always hated dogs in the house so I became vegetarian. My subscription to Cosmopolitan has long been expired. Instead I stick my fingers inbetween the crevices of the fan There's a secret to resentment: Hang it up in the closet on the hanger next to the apron. It's wanting to pour wasabi down pants so they feel the kick so they can hear
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Aug 11, 2013
Aug 11, 2013 at 4:10 PM UTC
I'll Change My Profile Picture To My Mugshot
Those cosmopolitan provincials sorts the chavs, yobs, yobbesses and oiks with semolina for brains them retro-grade grade-less sub-humans bottom feeders who think Cardiff is in East Angular and Magaluf is Eden and Higher Education begins in Borstal or a stint at HM Prisons found by happenstance a tin of Caviar something they'd never seen before with the curiosity of practiced thieves they proceeded to examine its worth 'its a tin of hair gel says one' 'No, no, no says another, I think its something you eat' 'it says Caviar Royal Beluga, observes another' 'throw it away, anything with a name like that is rubbish' 'Beluga...some foreign muck, it look dark and oily' 'yea mate, look like **** throw it away' One of the dis-advantaged rabble with one O'level in Carpentry took a closer look   'look he says, there's sticker on the bottom that reads Caviar Royal Beluga – 1kg £3,780.00' Hahahaha they all roared in ceaseless mirth, hahaha 'some joker is having a laugh, pull the other leg, fancy... a tin of black gunge in some slimy stuff cost three grand, must think people are born yesterday, Beluga..fuckoffluga' And with that, they tossed the tin away and walked off laughing like ********* Ignorance is a disease, ignorance is bliss will vandals extol the sheer magnificence of a Constable or see anything other than a chair in a Chippendale ribbonback chair, will Barbarians shed a tear on hearing the sensuous notes of Chopin or shiver at the graceful notes of Debussy or melt in sheer adoration as Tchaikovsky's romance soars in magical resonance.   Will cosmopolitan heathens gape in mesmerizing wonder on seeing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and praise God for being alive So who has great expectations of our dear cosmopolitan provincials sorts those chavs, yobs, yobbesses and oiks with semolina for brains for in disparaging excellence and rubbishing  the noble and the exceptional they make us appreciate more that we are blessed and privileged and do not have semolina for brains hey! who would like some caviar
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Jun 30, 2019
Jun 30, 2019 at 6:40 AM UTC
Chav's reign in Ambergris
Those cosmopolitan provincials sorts the chavs, yobs, yobbesses and oiks with semolina for brains them retro-grade grade-less sub-humans bottom feeders who think Cardiff is in East Angular and Magaluf is Eden and Higher Education begins in Borstal or a stint at HM Prisons found by happenstance a tin of Caviar something they'd never seen before with the curiosity of practiced thieves they proceeded to examine its worth 'its a tin of hair gel says one' 'No, no, no says another, I think its something you eat' 'it says Caviar Royal Beluga, observes another' 'throw it away, anything with a name like that is rubbish' 'Beluga...some foreign muck, it look dark and oily' 'yea mate, look like **** throw it away' One of the dis-advantaged rabble with one O'level in Carpentry took a closer look   'look he says, there's sticker on the bottom that reads Caviar Royal Beluga – 1kg £3,780.00' Hahahaha they all roared in ceaseless mirth, hahaha 'some joker is having a laugh, pull the other leg, fancy... a tin of black gunge in some slimy stuff cost three grand, must think people are born yesterday, Beluga..fuckoffluga' And with that, they tossed the tin away and walked off laughing like ********* Ignorance is a disease, ignorance is bliss will vandals extol the sheer magnificence of a Constable or see anything other than a chair in a Chippendale ribbonback chair, will Barbarians shed a tear on hearing the sensuous notes of Chopin or shiver at the graceful notes of Debussy or melt in sheer adoration as Tchaikovsky's romance soars in magical resonance.   Will cosmopolitan heathens gape in mesmerizing wonder on seeing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel and praise God for being alive So who has great expectations of our dear cosmopolitan provincials sorts those chavs, yobs, yobbesses and oiks with semolina for brains for in disparaging excellence and rubbishing  the noble and the exceptional they make us appreciate more that we are blessed and privileged and do not have semolina for brains hey! who would like some caviar
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