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"cupboard" poems
Jack and Jill ran up the hill, To perv on miss muffin Getting her fill, She was getting it hard boiled From Humpy Dumpty, Who fell of the wall, Yolk sprayed up her back, Her screaming she wanted more. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary... How did you make it grow, You played with the bells, And my cockle shells and it did grow, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary Not much words to show, A mouth your good at what you do, Mary my sweet little bike I like to ride so. Old Mother Hubbard Liked it up the back cupboard, From the younger gents She knows, She liked to **** meat till the marrow Did flow swallowed the lot in one go, Now empty is the bone. Who thought a lady in years, Had all this energy on the go...
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Mar 1, 2015
Mar 1, 2015 at 11:53 AM UTC
Naughty Rhymes Jack & Jill & Friends
Set the alarm Lock the doors Lock the windows Lock the shutters Find the cricket bat – “put it by your bed” Say goodnight to mom and dad Although young, not naïve I knew every night had the possibility of being my last A routine that is now muscle memory. Fear – You may think But life – Normal for me. Wake up Turn off the alarm Unlock the doors Open the windows Open the shutters Put the cricket bat in the cupboard Never being able to be left alone at home. Unwillingly dragged from store to store. But – that’s the thing – People don’t know the real Her, They know the exquisite scenery, the unforgettable wildlife They don’t know… But I do. Because She is my home Because being in constant fear for my life – is normal. Confused – What do I tell people about Mother when they ask? The person who raised me, taught me how to be grateful, how to ride a bike,         how to love. Do I tell them? Will I scare them? Although hidden beneath the tyranny – I would say – the bloodshed the faces of malnourished children left for dead on the side of the road the poverty struck soil the corruption      the greed the hunger the death the separation of class and race Although a place feared – Africa. My Africa – Whose sunshine you feel ignited in your soul My Africa – Whose smile is irresistibly contagious My Africa – Whose heart lies in the grassy terrain The golden dunes of sand The never-ending mountain tops My Africa – Who is the heart of various people            cultures    languages           All who call Her home. She is – Where my heart lies even if I am thousands of miles away Where my mind wanders from day to day. Her air, instantly calls you Her smell, instantly smelt Welcoming you ever so dearly –       Home. Like all good mothers, She is the one who can handle both the tranquil and turmoil, the love and war. She is my home. She is who I fear of disappointing. My Africa – is beautiful.
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Jun 21, 2018
Jun 21, 2018 at 8:44 AM UTC
Africa
Set the alarm Lock the doors Lock the windows Lock the shutters Find the cricket bat – “put it by your bed” Say goodnight to mom and dad Although young, not naïve I knew every night had the possibility of being my last A routine that is now muscle memory. Fear – You may think But life – Normal for me. Wake up Turn off the alarm Unlock the doors Open the windows Open the shutters Put the cricket bat in the cupboard Never being able to be left alone at home. Unwillingly dragged from store to store. But – that’s the thing – People don’t know the real Her, They know the exquisite scenery, the unforgettable wildlife They don’t know… But I do. Because She is my home Because being in constant fear for my life – is normal. Confused – What do I tell people about Mother when they ask? The person who raised me, taught me how to be grateful, how to ride a bike,         how to love. Do I tell them? Will I scare them? Although hidden beneath the tyranny – I would say – the bloodshed the faces of malnourished children left for dead on the side of the road the poverty struck soil the corruption      the greed the hunger the death the separation of class and race Although a place feared – Africa. My Africa – Whose sunshine you feel ignited in your soul My Africa – Whose smile is irresistibly contagious My Africa – Whose heart lies in the grassy terrain The golden dunes of sand The never-ending mountain tops My Africa – Who is the heart of various people            cultures    languages           All who call Her home. She is – Where my heart lies even if I am thousands of miles away Where my mind wanders from day to day. Her air, instantly calls you Her smell, instantly smelt Welcoming you ever so dearly –       Home. Like all good mothers, She is the one who can handle both the tranquil and turmoil, the love and war. She is my home. She is who I fear of disappointing. My Africa – is beautiful.
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What day is it where we at, where is the **** were you trying to smoke my cat?? I see things through glassed eyes, my mouth has the hunger, but I'm to ****** to drive, Whats in the fridge in the cupboard, f*ck it i can make a munchie feast out of that. I smoke with friends or when alone, i,ll smoke in the dark room the spliff my only light I see "wow look at those trails... I have speed dial on my phone 1 is my frindly dealer who delivers to my home, 2,3,4 take away pardise they no what I want when ever I phone. I,m a stoner there is no mistake, I will always be happy unless my **** does get braked, and if my phone battery dies no mucnchies, no smoke, I couldn't deal with that, "wow look at the pretty lights,
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Feb 27, 2014
Feb 27, 2014 at 11:24 AM UTC
Stoner Dude
home isn’t just a structure - brick and water aren’t symbols, they don’t reflect trust or Love. I can wash - the grease from my hair the dirt from my skin and uncomfortably sleep when my inner monologue is louder than ever, with your songs ringing in my ears, and bad thoughts longing to be heard but it’s love your love that keeps me warm and makes me feel safe, not the white walls or the bread in the cupboard I consume the fibre Anyway and glare at the walls. home could leave unannounced, brutally I'll get warmth from the radiator now you're gone
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Aug 15, 2018
Aug 15, 2018 at 6:59 PM UTC
home is a feeling
Olives, figs, dates and mastic, wyrd or oracles, fates and magic, wars and loves and all that’s tragic. A Father’s lust, an Uncle’s hate, a puzzling labyrinth, through the gate, A Cretan born, another covered, a starry symbol, placed in the cupboard, Special place, where heroes meet him, mindless creature, murderous ****** South in winter, man below with a bull above, placed in the heavens by two father's love, A strangeness here, the seat of trade, in forbidden tryst, a beast was made, Man of blood, tortured soul, stalks the maze, that stalks the pole, "Stranger still, this wild pattern, revolving Seventh, Circle of Saturn?" Unholy corridors made of granites, trace out the movements of the planets! Life of horror, a soul of pain, terrorizing, with no refrain, Smells their fear, scents of sin, raging actions, threshing men; “They call me Moloch! They call me Baal! Tear your body, festoon my hall!” In trepidation, to gatekeeper sent, a ****** start, for your punishment; “I collect the hearts, I eat the eyes, I eat the liver, before he dies!” Olives, figs, dates and mastic, wyrd or oracles, fates and magic, life and death and all that’s tragic.
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Jun 9, 2016
Jun 9, 2016 at 11:48 PM UTC
Asterion
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: "Love has no ending. "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, "I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. "The years shall run like rabbits, For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world." But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: "O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. "In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. "In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day. "Into many a green valley Drifts the appalling snow; Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver's brilliant bow. "O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed. "The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. "Where the beggars raffle the banknotes And the Giant is enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer, And Jill goes down on her back. "O look, look in the mirror? O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. "O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart." It was late, late in the evening, The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on.
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As I Walked Out One Evening
As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming river I heard a lover sing Under an arch of the railway: "Love has no ending. "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, "I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven stars go squawking Like geese about the sky. "The years shall run like rabbits, For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages, And the first love of the world." But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: "O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time. "In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. "In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day. "Into many a green valley Drifts the appalling snow; Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver's brilliant bow. "O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed. "The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. "Where the beggars raffle the banknotes And the Giant is enchanting to Jack, And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer, And Jill goes down on her back. "O look, look in the mirror? O look in your distress: Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless. "O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart." It was late, late in the evening, The lovers they were gone; The clocks had ceased their chiming, And the deep river ran on.
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_1981_ They came in like diseased eagles; mutated forms of those they wore on their chest and with the change once again in the weather, the ZOMO swooped in to quell what was ‘wrong’, what would bring them down. They run in the streets as well as the miners, running for different reasons and different aims. I look down, out my window and see the army helmets littering the street like rats.             Police.          Rats. I could no longer see a difference. My father went to work that morning. I clutch my doll knowing the chance of seeing him again is             Miniscule.   Poor. There is no more cereal in the cupboard; there is no more cereal in the shop; there is no more shop. The ZOMO set it on fire when the word                           Solidarity appeared in the window. “We are closing the border for the safety of the People”             Incorrect.     Unjustified. For the safety of You, the Elite. “Nine killed in mine shooting” Which side? Only the ZOMO carry guns.             Fascism.       Communism. I could no longer see a difference
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Apr 9, 2017
Apr 9, 2017 at 9:40 AM UTC
ZOMO
evening loneliness arrives at dawn and knocks on the dusty windowpane in the kitchen, i lie — with threadbare arms — against the shabby wooden cupboard frame this house is void of all electricity except for the light bulbs, the fridge, the T.V. and my steady-beating heart of rhythmic defeat lying naked across the tear-stained sheets if you come home and find that i am dead, perhaps some ***** dishes fell on my head but most likely, i'll be, in the living room gloom with a half-drunk bottle of wine to consume with emergency flares tied to both wrists, i'll leave you a smile, a sigh, and a kiss
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May 25, 2016
May 25, 2016 at 7:52 AM UTC
suburban daydreams
Before the gate has been closed, before the last question is posed, before I am transposed. Before the weeds fill the gardens, before there are no pardons, before the concrete hardens. Before all the flute-holes are covered, before things are locked in then cupboard, before the rules are discovered. Before the conclusion is planned, before God closes his hand, before we have nowhere to stand.
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Before
for Sylvia Plath O Sylvia, Sylvia, with a dead box of stones and spoons, with two children, two meteors wandering loose in a tiny playroom, with your mouth into the sheet, into the roofbeam, into the dumb prayer, (Sylvia, Sylvia where did you go after you wrote me from Devonshire about rasing potatoes and keeping bees?) what did you stand by, just how did you lie down into? Thief -- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long, the death we said we both outgrew, the one we wore on our skinny ******* the one we talked of so often each time we downed three extra dry martinis in Boston, the death that talked of analysts and cures, the death that talked like brides with plots, the death we drank to, the motives and the quiet deed? (In Boston the dying ride in cabs, yes death again, that ride home with our boy.) O Sylvia, I remember the sleepy drummer who beat on our eyes with an old story, how we wanted to let him come like a sadist or a New York fairy to do his job, a necessity, a window in a wall or a crib, and since that time he waited under our heart, our cupboard, and I see now that we store him up year after year, old suicides and I know at the news of your death a terrible taste for it, like salt, (And me, me too. And now, Sylvia, you again with death again, that ride home with our boy.) And I say only with my arms stretched out into that stone place, what is your death but an old belonging, a mole that fell out of one of your poems? (O friend, while the moon's bad, and the king's gone, and the queen's at her wit's end the bar fly ought to sing!) O tiny mother, you too! O funny duchess! O blonde thing!
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Sylvia's Death
for Sylvia Plath O Sylvia, Sylvia, with a dead box of stones and spoons, with two children, two meteors wandering loose in a tiny playroom, with your mouth into the sheet, into the roofbeam, into the dumb prayer, (Sylvia, Sylvia where did you go after you wrote me from Devonshire about rasing potatoes and keeping bees?) what did you stand by, just how did you lie down into? Thief -- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long, the death we said we both outgrew, the one we wore on our skinny ******* the one we talked of so often each time we downed three extra dry martinis in Boston, the death that talked of analysts and cures, the death that talked like brides with plots, the death we drank to, the motives and the quiet deed? (In Boston the dying ride in cabs, yes death again, that ride home with our boy.) O Sylvia, I remember the sleepy drummer who beat on our eyes with an old story, how we wanted to let him come like a sadist or a New York fairy to do his job, a necessity, a window in a wall or a crib, and since that time he waited under our heart, our cupboard, and I see now that we store him up year after year, old suicides and I know at the news of your death a terrible taste for it, like salt, (And me, me too. And now, Sylvia, you again with death again, that ride home with our boy.) And I say only with my arms stretched out into that stone place, what is your death but an old belonging, a mole that fell out of one of your poems? (O friend, while the moon's bad, and the king's gone, and the queen's at her wit's end the bar fly ought to sing!) O tiny mother, you too! O funny duchess! O blonde thing!
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I stand on the scale I look at the number I'm fat I way over 140lbs What am I doing wrong? I barely eat anything She steps off the scale Walks over to the counter And opens the cupboard Peanut butter She untwists the twisty ties Grabs two pieces of white bread Places them in the toaster slots Pulls down the lever For ten seconds Pulls it up Pulls it down Waits ten more seconds Pulls it up Takes it out Spreads the peanutty butter across the crisp edges Starts eating it Nom nom nom Her dog moves close to the counter And begs She walks away Drops a few crumbs And the dog eats it up And follows her into the living room And looks up Nom nom nom nom She just looks at the dog Puts her bare foot against his nose Which is cold And the dog doesn't even move Sticks his tongue outside his mouth And breathes quickly Stupid She puts her foot back down And moves it against the rug a few times Then walks into the kitchen And opens a bag Of salt and vinegar chips Starts eating them Nom nom nom nom Dog catches the crumbs and slides against the kitchen floor She walks back upstairs And the dog follows her To her room She shuts the door And the dog starts scratching through the bottom And barks She just lays in her bed Eating The dog barks again She opens the door And pushes him With her right foot Down the stairs He tumbles down the stairs and hits the kitchen floor He races back up Gets pushed back down Dog runs away She walks towards the bathroom And uses the other scale And she sees that it says 141 lbs I've only been eating for a few minutes Errrr She closes the bag of chips And stomps downstairs And places the bag on the counter Dog waits in the living room Right next to the kitchen His food bowl is empty No water
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Dec 8, 2014
Dec 8, 2014 at 6:49 PM UTC
What Do You Have To Lose?
I stand on the scale I look at the number I'm fat I way over 140lbs What am I doing wrong? I barely eat anything She steps off the scale Walks over to the counter And opens the cupboard Peanut butter She untwists the twisty ties Grabs two pieces of white bread Places them in the toaster slots Pulls down the lever For ten seconds Pulls it up Pulls it down Waits ten more seconds Pulls it up Takes it out Spreads the peanutty butter across the crisp edges Starts eating it Nom nom nom Her dog moves close to the counter And begs She walks away Drops a few crumbs And the dog eats it up And follows her into the living room And looks up Nom nom nom nom She just looks at the dog Puts her bare foot against his nose Which is cold And the dog doesn't even move Sticks his tongue outside his mouth And breathes quickly Stupid She puts her foot back down And moves it against the rug a few times Then walks into the kitchen And opens a bag Of salt and vinegar chips Starts eating them Nom nom nom nom Dog catches the crumbs and slides against the kitchen floor She walks back upstairs And the dog follows her To her room She shuts the door And the dog starts scratching through the bottom And barks She just lays in her bed Eating The dog barks again She opens the door And pushes him With her right foot Down the stairs He tumbles down the stairs and hits the kitchen floor He races back up Gets pushed back down Dog runs away She walks towards the bathroom And uses the other scale And she sees that it says 141 lbs I've only been eating for a few minutes Errrr She closes the bag of chips And stomps downstairs And places the bag on the counter Dog waits in the living room Right next to the kitchen His food bowl is empty No water
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The cupboard Could not hold his dreams, So the green dish fled his home. He traveled the entire world, sailed the Seven seas, and even went Into outer space. What a life!
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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 9:28 AM UTC
The Green Dish Travels
Tuesday night and it’s Baked Beans AGAIN! Does she ever stop talking. I used to fool myself that her snore was musical like a sweet sounding flute, Now it’s just a snore. Too loud, all too familiar. What would happen I wonder if I took that tin of Baked Beans on the table And battered her to death with it. They found the ****** weapon in the cupboard on the top shelf, Next to a quivering can of rice pudding. It didn’t look overly angry or guilty, it looked (for what it’s worth) Like any other tin of beans. However it had blood and hair around the rim. “BAKED BEANS **** the front page of The Sun would say, Amnesty on all tinned goods called for, as the masses Started taking ‘tin(g)s” into their own hands. All over the country, partners dying at the hands of Heinz, Or possibly cans of spam or pear slices. The Army may catch on, a major new part of SAS training, Close quarter baked bean tactics. The wail of sirens as Police arrive at an incident “Put down the weapon or we shall be forced to fire… tinned pineapple”. A can of alphabetti spaghetti could spell death. “Let’s not have Baked Beans tonight my love… Chinese?”
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Oct 17, 2012
Oct 17, 2012 at 5:09 AM UTC
BAKED BEANS ****
It begins with the proper heat of summer           Simmered slow with the joy of expectation   Perhaps a dash of color to keep it real                                      Then we turn the heat off and let it set up           Add a splash of wine or two from the cupboard   A dash of pumpkin spice just to feel crazy             Save this big batch of winter stew in the fridge   Because, like life, . . .it’s always better next day           Congratulations.   You’re now prepared for winter.                        Eat, Drink, Love Yourself,      Love Others, Love Life, Live, And may you always be merry.
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Oct 28, 2018
Oct 28, 2018 at 10:00 PM UTC
Winter Stew
it's as if you shot an arrow through the glass cupboard of my heart. as if my arteries were handles to the china cups and mugs that shattered into a violent destruction, devastation of your target, which was me.
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May 11, 2014
May 11, 2014 at 10:44 PM UTC
archery
It's alright gal I've turned off the lights tonight is going to be a night to remember your coat is in the cupboard under the stairs hung and forgotten for where you are going you won't need it bed awaits our love making your legs wrapped around my hips you get yourself comfy I need to urinate ill empty my bladder and be right there lay back and think of England because no one but me will hear you scream when I slip my ***** in and make you wet
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Feb 10, 2013
Feb 10, 2013 at 10:28 PM UTC
Yorkshire Seduction Translated
I used to hate your healthy avocados...until I had one Not that your coffee tasted superior to my tea But what's taste when you season mine with gun powder? Yes, In case you did not detect There is a lot of hate in this one Call me aggressive and spiteful Whilst holding your rifle They say hate begets hate begets hate begets hate So for you to understand I put aside my ignorance and try to walk in your shoes OK, let's start: A lot of trees Beautiful sky, delightful breeze A rich land where tenants are a many and they shun the proprietor I know I promised to be nice But let's face it for that white picket fence, someone had to pay the price. Start again: Sunny coasts Bacon, eggs on toast Walk the dog in the park, life is not all that hectic here. To make it clear, running out of coffee is my basic fear. Flat stomachs In fact, six packs! Cupboard full of knick-knacks and plenty of time to kick back and relax Never-ending supply of niceties Calm waters Long walks along the harbor and perhaps a tall pint of lager at the pub Throw some juicy ones on the barbie mate! Who cares if 6.2 mil in Somalia are starving mate? You say to me: "survival of the fittest, Darwin mate" "It's so difficult to fit in" I say; so tiring MATE Did I say that right? I'm Mohammad, as James in a play called "Aussie Catch Up" and I don't know how to play that part What else can I say? they gave me a voice (although in English) between the self deprecating migrant and the middle eastern rag head, the gave me a choice And by the way my boss tried to anglicize my name Said Sebastian had a nice ‘ring’ to it Well go ahead, march to your colonial tune and have me sing to it Oh healthy avocados, you're too ripe for my liking Maybe I'm just used to a bit of rawness in my diet To be honest I have a heavy heart, a dark one Maybe to reconcile, you should take a step a very very very very very very long one
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May 2, 2018
May 2, 2018 at 6:00 AM UTC
Healthy Avocados
I used to hate your healthy avocados...until I had one Not that your coffee tasted superior to my tea But what's taste when you season mine with gun powder? Yes, In case you did not detect There is a lot of hate in this one Call me aggressive and spiteful Whilst holding your rifle They say hate begets hate begets hate begets hate So for you to understand I put aside my ignorance and try to walk in your shoes OK, let's start: A lot of trees Beautiful sky, delightful breeze A rich land where tenants are a many and they shun the proprietor I know I promised to be nice But let's face it for that white picket fence, someone had to pay the price. Start again: Sunny coasts Bacon, eggs on toast Walk the dog in the park, life is not all that hectic here. To make it clear, running out of coffee is my basic fear. Flat stomachs In fact, six packs! Cupboard full of knick-knacks and plenty of time to kick back and relax Never-ending supply of niceties Calm waters Long walks along the harbor and perhaps a tall pint of lager at the pub Throw some juicy ones on the barbie mate! Who cares if 6.2 mil in Somalia are starving mate? You say to me: "survival of the fittest, Darwin mate" "It's so difficult to fit in" I say; so tiring MATE Did I say that right? I'm Mohammad, as James in a play called "Aussie Catch Up" and I don't know how to play that part What else can I say? they gave me a voice (although in English) between the self deprecating migrant and the middle eastern rag head, the gave me a choice And by the way my boss tried to anglicize my name Said Sebastian had a nice ‘ring’ to it Well go ahead, march to your colonial tune and have me sing to it Oh healthy avocados, you're too ripe for my liking Maybe I'm just used to a bit of rawness in my diet To be honest I have a heavy heart, a dark one Maybe to reconcile, you should take a step a very very very very very very long one
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**One solitary teabag, not enough for two to share just one for the teapot, the caddy being quite bare, no drawing of the water, no mashing of the *** no teabag for each person... while shopping I forgot, with saucers on the table, there's no teacup at the lips for the corner store's not open, to buy more  'PG Tips', it's tea-less in the cupboard, no tasty leaf to brew so I will have a coffee... and make tea, just for you.** ...   ...   ... 'trademark'
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Apr 10, 2011
Apr 10, 2011 at 3:31 AM UTC
... The Lonely Teabag ...
Jane the economy toaster Was cheap as appliances go Her unpolished sides were all greasy And as grey as suburbanite snow The edge of her slot was all melted And her tray was encrusted with crumbs Her lever was missing a handle And would nibble at fingers and thumbs She lived at the back of a cupboard With some rusty old pans and a spider In the gloom she would dream that somebody Would hammer a muffin inside her That some special son-of-a-baker Would fill up her dusty old holes With croissants and baguettes and bagels With waffles and tea cakes and rolls But alas with her family broken The whisk and second-rate kettle Her owners replaced the whole set With something more classy in metal And so in her murky wee crevice She wept and she twiddled her **** She twitched her lever with envy Of the toaster that lives by the hob Jane faded away and she vanished But in silicone heaven she boasts That she's Jane the economy toaster The maker of muffins for ghosts
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Feb 9, 2013
Feb 9, 2013 at 6:14 PM UTC
Jane the Economy Toaster
Let me tell you, I thought I knew love before you came around. I mean, I’ve written a million love poems. But the subjects, they’re more or less the same, black ink, red ink, graphite. And the graphite smudges, and so the picture is never perfect. I try to re-write it all without mistakes, but I don't have an eraser. Which is to say that I have commitment issues, but no issue committing, I just commit all the time, to everything. I've canoodled with paper, but there's never enough space on the page for all the love I have. Sometimes, I’ll meet a crayon that brings some colour to my life, but they’re just too waxy and impressionable. Too immature, too naive. Naive. I’ve never actually been in love. But you, you are so much different and way hotter. You bring a spark into my life that I’ve never known. Baby, you set my world on fire. I tell myself, blue pen, don’t let this go up in smoke. Let me tell you. I would do anything to know love. You see, there isn’t much to me, but I’ve got this way with words and I’ll write you into every poem that’s ever birthed hope in the eyes of star-crossed lovers. I’ll draw you a map of my heart so when you feel lonely after you’ve been put aside and forgotten in the back of a cupboard, I’ll be there. I want you. I want the good things and your sweet embrace of smoke smells really good right now. I want the good things but I’ll take it all. I’ll take the bad things too. Fill my lungs with your poison, show me what it’s like to love something so much it kills you. Teach me how to give all of myself to someone just so they are satisfied, even if it leaves me crushed on the cement. Let me become addicted to you. My whole life is written in ink and I can’t escape the mistakes I’ve made so if you’ll have me, here I am. I can’t guarantee that I’ll be right for you, who knows what you write with but I will be here. Let me tell you, I will still love you after watching you kiss the lips of every person that craves your taste. I will still love you after you steal the oxygen out of helpless gasps and sunken cheekbones. I will still love you after your temper sets forests ablaze. I will still love you when you suffocate me in your fumes, leaving me choking on everything I should have said to you. I will still love you when you burn out and your ember softens against a pillow of ash, and your smell, your taste, your everything lingers in the air like a nostalgic dream that I never want to wake up from. Let me tell you, I am forever. I am infinite and I can create and write anything you want, even if it’s just prose on a piece of paper or a picture of the moon on nights when you’re the only good left in the world. I can be anything you want, and if that is someone that will love you because they want to, and not because they have to, then I will be that. I won’t quit you. I can’t.
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Nov 19, 2018
Nov 19, 2018 at 2:36 PM UTC
Blue Pen to Cigarette
Let me tell you, I thought I knew love before you came around. I mean, I’ve written a million love poems. But the subjects, they’re more or less the same, black ink, red ink, graphite. And the graphite smudges, and so the picture is never perfect. I try to re-write it all without mistakes, but I don't have an eraser. Which is to say that I have commitment issues, but no issue committing, I just commit all the time, to everything. I've canoodled with paper, but there's never enough space on the page for all the love I have. Sometimes, I’ll meet a crayon that brings some colour to my life, but they’re just too waxy and impressionable. Too immature, too naive. Naive. I’ve never actually been in love. But you, you are so much different and way hotter. You bring a spark into my life that I’ve never known. Baby, you set my world on fire. I tell myself, blue pen, don’t let this go up in smoke. Let me tell you. I would do anything to know love. You see, there isn’t much to me, but I’ve got this way with words and I’ll write you into every poem that’s ever birthed hope in the eyes of star-crossed lovers. I’ll draw you a map of my heart so when you feel lonely after you’ve been put aside and forgotten in the back of a cupboard, I’ll be there. I want you. I want the good things and your sweet embrace of smoke smells really good right now. I want the good things but I’ll take it all. I’ll take the bad things too. Fill my lungs with your poison, show me what it’s like to love something so much it kills you. Teach me how to give all of myself to someone just so they are satisfied, even if it leaves me crushed on the cement. Let me become addicted to you. My whole life is written in ink and I can’t escape the mistakes I’ve made so if you’ll have me, here I am. I can’t guarantee that I’ll be right for you, who knows what you write with but I will be here. Let me tell you, I will still love you after watching you kiss the lips of every person that craves your taste. I will still love you after you steal the oxygen out of helpless gasps and sunken cheekbones. I will still love you after your temper sets forests ablaze. I will still love you when you suffocate me in your fumes, leaving me choking on everything I should have said to you. I will still love you when you burn out and your ember softens against a pillow of ash, and your smell, your taste, your everything lingers in the air like a nostalgic dream that I never want to wake up from. Let me tell you, I am forever. I am infinite and I can create and write anything you want, even if it’s just prose on a piece of paper or a picture of the moon on nights when you’re the only good left in the world. I can be anything you want, and if that is someone that will love you because they want to, and not because they have to, then I will be that. I won’t quit you. I can’t.
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Tell me you couldn't do it anymore and had to leave Tell me I wasn't what you bargained for and the feeling isn't real Tell me I'm stubborn and maybe too ambitious for you to deal with Tell me I'm naïve sometimes and can't seem to keep up with your beat But never tell me I made you leave Never tell me you tried to get even by going for my friend Never tell me I had roaches in my cupboard, Never tell me you left because I was unfaithful.
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Oct 3, 2013
Oct 3, 2013 at 5:37 PM UTC
Unfaithful
It is early. and the world hangs silent, but the birds chirping their chime, An angelic choir of vibratos And tenor beaks humming sweet to the early tangerine crest of sun slivers a powerful bar of light over the peaks to a newly brilliant horizon. Sweeping the dredges of darkness away as the stars fade like coal dust back again, packed into their cupboard of night one by one, lanterns snuffed and sent into the vibrating blue as if the whole sky should erupt into fire azure, hallowed morning pyre Encircled by the gradient hues of coral pink and castille yellow Mediterranean teal A symphonic cacophonic **** of birth Good Day, Sweet mother earth. Squeezed through the valleys canals allies every nook and forlorn cranny kissed with her blissful photonic army And the infantile creatures cry with glee. The dewdrops clutch the blades the tender palasade of petals remembering their darkened escapades slipping tender rain to feed the dirt, the lonely detritus elixirs of the lovely night. And the world bursts into a veritable kaleidoscope of life With a trillion pairs of eyes accessing the mother dream
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Aug 8, 2018
Aug 8, 2018 at 2:48 AM UTC
Rise and Fall (Incomplete)
In my dream, drilling into the marrow of my entire bone, my real dream, I'm walking up and down Beacon Hill searching for a street sign -- namely MERCY STREET. Not there. I try the Back Bay. Not there. Not there. And yet I know the number. 45 Mercy Street. I know the stained-glass window of the foyer, the three flights of the house with its parquet floors. I know the furniture and mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, the servants. I know the cupboard of Spode the boat of ice, solid silver, where the butter sits in neat squares like strange giant's teeth on the big mahogany table. I know it well. Not there. Where did you go? 45 Mercy Street, with great-grandmother kneeling in her whale-bone corset and praying gently but fiercely to the wash basin, at five A.M. at noon dozing in her wiggy rocker, grandfather taking a nap in the pantry, grandmother pushing the bell for the downstairs maid, and Nana rocking Mother with an oversized flower on her forehead to cover the curl of when she was good and when she was... And where she was begat and in a generation the third she will beget, me, with the stranger's seed blooming into the flower called Horrid. I walk in a yellow dress and a white pocketbook stuffed with cigarettes, enough pills, my wallet, my keys, and being twenty-eight, or is it forty-five? I walk. I walk. I hold matches at street signs for it is dark, as dark as the leathery dead and I have lost my green Ford, my house in the suburbs, two little kids ****** up like pollen by the bee in me and a husband who has wiped off his eyes in order not to see my inside out and I am walking and looking and this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime. Pull the shades down -- I don't care! Bolt the door, mercy, erase the number, rip down the street sign, what can it matter, what can it matter to this cheapskate who wants to own the past that went out on a dead ship and left me only with paper? Not there. I open my pocketbook, as women do, and fish swim back and forth between the dollars and the lipstick. I pick them out, one by one and throw them at the street signs, and shoot my pocketbook into the Charles River. Next I pull the dream off and slam into the cement wall of the clumsy calendar I live in, my life, and its hauled up notebooks.
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45 Mercy Street
In my dream, drilling into the marrow of my entire bone, my real dream, I'm walking up and down Beacon Hill searching for a street sign -- namely MERCY STREET. Not there. I try the Back Bay. Not there. Not there. And yet I know the number. 45 Mercy Street. I know the stained-glass window of the foyer, the three flights of the house with its parquet floors. I know the furniture and mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, the servants. I know the cupboard of Spode the boat of ice, solid silver, where the butter sits in neat squares like strange giant's teeth on the big mahogany table. I know it well. Not there. Where did you go? 45 Mercy Street, with great-grandmother kneeling in her whale-bone corset and praying gently but fiercely to the wash basin, at five A.M. at noon dozing in her wiggy rocker, grandfather taking a nap in the pantry, grandmother pushing the bell for the downstairs maid, and Nana rocking Mother with an oversized flower on her forehead to cover the curl of when she was good and when she was... And where she was begat and in a generation the third she will beget, me, with the stranger's seed blooming into the flower called Horrid. I walk in a yellow dress and a white pocketbook stuffed with cigarettes, enough pills, my wallet, my keys, and being twenty-eight, or is it forty-five? I walk. I walk. I hold matches at street signs for it is dark, as dark as the leathery dead and I have lost my green Ford, my house in the suburbs, two little kids ****** up like pollen by the bee in me and a husband who has wiped off his eyes in order not to see my inside out and I am walking and looking and this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime. Pull the shades down -- I don't care! Bolt the door, mercy, erase the number, rip down the street sign, what can it matter, what can it matter to this cheapskate who wants to own the past that went out on a dead ship and left me only with paper? Not there. I open my pocketbook, as women do, and fish swim back and forth between the dollars and the lipstick. I pick them out, one by one and throw them at the street signs, and shoot my pocketbook into the Charles River. Next I pull the dream off and slam into the cement wall of the clumsy calendar I live in, my life, and its hauled up notebooks.
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From the cupboard two mugs are brought Grounds are measured, water hot The drips fill up the coffee *** From the spout the bold brew streams One sweet with sugar, rich with cream The other black, reflection gleams Both give rise to wisps of steam Anticipation piqued Each unique  At first, slow sips with careful words Not too much, don’t get burned Pleasure comes with each sip The words caressing from your lip Drinks become deeper, feelings slip My cup’s now empty, but my heart is lit
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Jan 15, 2019
Jan 15, 2019 at 4:28 PM UTC
Coffee ***
The broken biscuits lay in a tin An ordinary oblong tin With turquoise pattern And pink embossed flowers Gold edged to finish the job. How many times I visited That tin on the middle shelf In the top half of a cupboard, Sawn door, to allow for fridge, And quietly took out the tin. Broken biscuits were my delight All shapes and sizes tasty bites Wafers, bourbon, custard creams Rich tea, digestive all suited me Sometimes fig sandwich, pleased. Love Mary
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Aug 11, 2018
Aug 11, 2018 at 7:05 AM UTC
A collection of flavours