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"drippy" poems
Pit-pat goes the rain Falling all around. From under my umbrella I watch it hit the ground. Splish-splash go the puddles As I come stomping through. My boots keep me nice and dry, And my umbrella too. Outside it's wet and drippy As rain falls from the sky, But underneath my umbrella I stay cozy and dry. And though the sky is cloudy And the sun has hidden her face, Under my own little umbrella I have a happy, pleasant place.
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Feb 20, 2017
Feb 20, 2017 at 11:09 AM UTC
Under My Umbrella
kiss my sorry *** and imagine a differential. divide it by two, see? this will give you the circumference of existential convulsion; you will see past the freaky book you can't read for lack of knowing and how absurdism scares you if you believe it. that's why you dropped The Myth of Sisyphus part-way through cuz what came to mind with all the drippy Dali-mentalscape spa of shread-dread WHATSyness! was Camus coming to so many a pessimists ending he had to turn it last second to say 'but in the end, we must assume that Sisyphus is happy' and all you see in your minds-eye is pursuit of this absurdist paradise for nervous thought-drawn chain -smokers is a gun to your head with one last glance at the ocean.
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Feb 19, 2014
Feb 19, 2014 at 2:21 AM UTC
suicide trainers
~ one more for patty m. ~ slept late after dancing with my devils, from, from the wee, until a pealing pearl from the Earl of Dawn, recovering from an intrusion~invasion~brain~regurgitation, and it’s nearly 9am, sipping my first cuppa Hawaiian, & woke to a repost of a ten year old wondering plea(1) makes me think “This old thing,” poem, like a fav frock/suit that still drapes perfectly, and yet draws the ***** admiration and drippy drawling yummy compliments, gracefully, gratefully demurred with them three words, & it’s 8:39am, Bruce pitching in with “Born in the USA” recipe for a new thank u Gawd poem to make room for a fast~break diet for an old man with a rebuilt ticker, this very emission~transmission of a verbal politesse writ going some where, cooked on a medium slow burner fueling dressed up seeds of heartfelt appreciation made of ancient oat grasses birthing a poem~child of thanks to the Lawd for one more day, opportunity, the five sense’s delivery gratitude and gratifications, and the desire to intertwine the sights, music, a crisp blue November Sky, the need to bleed brew these words into a fulfilling, second moment mug, for the pearls and Earls of poetic humans 10:01am Thu Nov 2 2023
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Nov 2, 2023
Nov 2, 2023 at 10:16 AM UTC
“This old thing?” (of gratitude and gratifications)
We scream for ice-cream, crunchy cones crisp, cream and sauce drips down your wrists, those sweet calories latching to your hips, but, 'who cares?' you state, licking your lips, we scream for ice-cream, drip, drippy, d r i p s. _________ Drools: http://beautyineverything.com/5065478350
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Oct 10, 2010
Oct 10, 2010 at 5:58 AM UTC
We scream
I sit on a droopy windowsill and gaze out at the stars above me in the stately sky of coal. I let the smoke fill me, pollute my corrupted lungs, ‘til it plugs me, completely consumes my sticky soul, and midnight sorrow blanket hugs the heart in my hole. I sit and I consider the sky with its million-and-one jewels that adorn the vast carpet of night and its one, lone cloud that slowly drools fat, drippy drops of deep fed'ral blues. The ashy, burnt taste is still in my throat; it lingers- a dull, cloying candy cane. The muted flavour chokes and jabs and pecks persistently, in the back of my brain and leaves a steel blue/gray trailing stain. Vague memories of fourth-grade English lessons take me with a deep sigh to forgotten thoughts of Roger McGough and unrequited love- dazed recollections of school poetry taught in obscure slate-blue classrooms, littered with blots. It seems feeling unreturned affection isn't quite as great as I’d thought after all. I must've been wrong, all those hazed years ago, when I yearned to feel unrequited love’s fall, convinced it would be a wondrous, dazzling ball Instead, I'm just ******* in the pale-ing sky that seems to be growing into lighter hues- the navy’s turned to electric, to powder, matching the sapphire in my soul of glue. I'm suppose I'm feeling somewhat, slightly blue. .
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Jul 14, 2014
Jul 14, 2014 at 11:21 AM UTC
Blue.
If you could see the inside of a person they would look rather congealed and drippy but..... metaphorically much different than who they are on the outside. You know, the skin part throws us all off to inner beauty and their desires and needs and vulnerabilities. However, personally.... I'll take the heads with teeth in their mouths and skin on their faces. Hopefully they have enough brains in their skulls (and not falling all over the ground) to spill their own guts over a drink (several, if they insist) without me having to see them instead. Fairly certain the epic distraction of their viscera would sincerely disparage what they were attempting to convey anyhow.
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Jul 16, 2015
Jul 16, 2015 at 1:34 AM UTC
Skin Deep
There is a girl on a bench in the park at the edge of the town. She is young. Little ringlets of copper brown frame her delicate face. Wide eyes of the purest sky blue scan the trees. She is looking for something. She stands up and straightens her skirt. Her legs shiver, and her socks grow heavy with water. Nobody is around to question her, about why she's out in the snowstorm. She wouldn't answer anyway; she's too focused. She is looking for something. Cautious steps now. The ground is slippery with ice. Her boots do not hold because they are too worn from walking. Finally she reaches it, the edge of the sidewalk. She peers intently into the grove. Her blue eyes narrow. She is looking for something. All is silent, except for the flurries of snow. Before long there is a blanket on the ground. It is thick powdery snow. It collects in her boots and on her scarf, and she shudders as the ice presses against her porcelain skin. But she is silent, focused. She is looking for something. After a moment, she steps back and sighs. There is a slight smile on her lips. Her nose is red and drippy with cold. Still, she is silent, though not by choice. She has no one to talk with. It's barren. She has found what she was looking for. What it was I can't say. Either I don't know, or it's not my place, or you could ask her yourself. But there is a girl on a bench in the park at the edge of town, and she is happy.
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Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 3:48 AM UTC
Flurries
Josteen Yazzi said the Critic should ask his thought on the matter of great art and literature What do you know of art and literature, Uncle? Nothing, he said, I think about what I do not know. I do not know why people don't like Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell painted the American Dream, with Indians in it, some times. I like Norman Rockwell because I know how he felt. I saw my people live in a good world that vanished. Magic or other wise, I remember mine, the way when I see Mr. Rockwell's America as he imagined he had seen it. Or maybe he painted what you should have been able to see, but for wars and Spanish Flu and cattle barons and reaping machines and steam and electricity. Olaf Wieghorst coulda painted America ugly, too. But he didn't. Literature. I have nothing left to say, Norman Rockwell, maybe he needed a mentioning for some reader anchored reason. We have to deal with that more these days. People with big old dish antennae out there, rusting after Direct TV got a satellite to see the res, Some o'the kids build a radio telescope, outa them three meter models, so we are connected. Norman Rockwell painted the Peaceful Kingdom, just like Mr. Hicks and Mr. Kincaid, not mr klee or mr picaso, they could image hell. My ma liked That drippy guy, said she could see the swing of things in he's paintings, What's-isname, Jackson, damshame, Jackson Pollak right? but the message is in the medium, that's what my Shicheii yoosto say. Art must sing. So I can play my drum. And she can dance. When we think nothing about it.
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Nov 6, 2018
Nov 6, 2018 at 8:45 PM UTC
The Art Critic from Santa Fe
Josteen Yazzi said the Critic should ask his thought on the matter of great art and literature What do you know of art and literature, Uncle? Nothing, he said, I think about what I do not know. I do not know why people don't like Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell painted the American Dream, with Indians in it, some times. I like Norman Rockwell because I know how he felt. I saw my people live in a good world that vanished. Magic or other wise, I remember mine, the way when I see Mr. Rockwell's America as he imagined he had seen it. Or maybe he painted what you should have been able to see, but for wars and Spanish Flu and cattle barons and reaping machines and steam and electricity. Olaf Wieghorst coulda painted America ugly, too. But he didn't. Literature. I have nothing left to say, Norman Rockwell, maybe he needed a mentioning for some reader anchored reason. We have to deal with that more these days. People with big old dish antennae out there, rusting after Direct TV got a satellite to see the res, Some o'the kids build a radio telescope, outa them three meter models, so we are connected. Norman Rockwell painted the Peaceful Kingdom, just like Mr. Hicks and Mr. Kincaid, not mr klee or mr picaso, they could image hell. My ma liked That drippy guy, said she could see the swing of things in he's paintings, What's-isname, Jackson, damshame, Jackson Pollak right? but the message is in the medium, that's what my Shicheii yoosto say. Art must sing. So I can play my drum. And she can dance. When we think nothing about it.
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Let's traverse the universe together. I'll navigate the hot air balloon And you'll mark a trail, dotted with echoing wonder and laughter and cookie crumbs and popcorn kernels. Let's traverse the universe together. We can fly paper airplanes to all our friends and only communicate through bottled messages and shooting stars with wishes attached. Let's traverse the universe together. you can lean on me when you need to, and you'll carry me when i trip on my laces People will point and whisper that we're time travelers, or just gone loony. But we're just the good amount of sane- 80% crazy, 10% sense, and 10% who cares?- As long as we're together. We'll eat drippy summer popsicles together- the kind that're 50 cents and you need a friend to eat with. We'll surf rooftops to look like we're badass- and we'll trip and add to the piles of scrapes and memories. We'll build a secret bunker- password and secret-code included with more canned food than we need, just in case zombies come after us. We'll catch frogs and try to make then fight- but they'll just hop away, back into the pond And we'll follow suit and go experience the world with them. It's too short to ask why, let's just do, instead. Let's traverse the universe and write odes to each other, and get drunk off of our own poetic justice. Just you and me. Cherry pits and broken fragments of sticks that once served as swords will litter the roads we once trod. People will say: the world is too much for us to handle. Well they're wrong, we're too much for the world to handle. Let's traverse the universe together.
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May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM UTC
Let's traverse the universe together
Let's traverse the universe together. I'll navigate the hot air balloon And you'll mark a trail, dotted with echoing wonder and laughter and cookie crumbs and popcorn kernels. Let's traverse the universe together. We can fly paper airplanes to all our friends and only communicate through bottled messages and shooting stars with wishes attached. Let's traverse the universe together. you can lean on me when you need to, and you'll carry me when i trip on my laces People will point and whisper that we're time travelers, or just gone loony. But we're just the good amount of sane- 80% crazy, 10% sense, and 10% who cares?- As long as we're together. We'll eat drippy summer popsicles together- the kind that're 50 cents and you need a friend to eat with. We'll surf rooftops to look like we're badass- and we'll trip and add to the piles of scrapes and memories. We'll build a secret bunker- password and secret-code included with more canned food than we need, just in case zombies come after us. We'll catch frogs and try to make then fight- but they'll just hop away, back into the pond And we'll follow suit and go experience the world with them. It's too short to ask why, let's just do, instead. Let's traverse the universe and write odes to each other, and get drunk off of our own poetic justice. Just you and me. Cherry pits and broken fragments of sticks that once served as swords will litter the roads we once trod. People will say: the world is too much for us to handle. Well they're wrong, we're too much for the world to handle. Let's traverse the universe together.
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Your eyes are the sea at a boardwalk on a sunny day, with the sea foam splashing small children holding onto their drippy ice cream cones, begging their mothers for "one last ride". Your eyes are the sparkle in a sapphire stone, Precious, something to be coveted and treasured. And when you smile...your eyes, they glitter and dance, like sparks flying off of a sparkler on the Fourth of July.
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Mar 27, 2017
Mar 27, 2017 at 1:01 AM UTC
Your Eyes
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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take three hours of low-quality sleep, and sprinkle lovingly with the midnight threats of the racist and schizophrenic Madam Crazypants who lives on the next floor up. for milder taste use the glowing red profanities that she hollers through the vents at the Mexicans who aren’t there. for more spice use the white hot suicidal screams that saturate the night sky like streams of lava that shoot from Kilauea. call the cops when she threatens to jump. their lights and sirens will render waves of space into solid panes of ice that smash into your head in surges. go to school and simmer in silence until it’s execution time. while the blood is still flowing from the bullet holes that you gave yourself, pour on half an hour of "constructive" criticism from your professor which will burn like lye or battery acid depending on the day of the week. wash down with caffeine. simmer for three hours in a soulsucking class. go home. drink beer. play Halo. bury your anguished cries beneath your vice and that secret codeine and the bottle of wine you sequestered and the cough syrup which makes the world warm and salty and drippy and noodly like a good bowl of pho. let it sit in the oven but don’t turn it on and then pull it out on Monday wrapped in a cotton blanket of cold ***** bleeding from the brain and fingers empty of meaning. and when the sun blows a fuse well I guess then you can eat it.
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Aug 7, 2013
Aug 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM UTC
the recipe for success
spinach has blown down my neck and drifted gently under my ribs *(i'm the salad fork carefully rolling coffee beans in drippy melted warm dark chocolate)* i'm hungry but not in the way where my stomach growls in the way where i want to cry but i've got to keep my $20 teeth fresh and minty at all times the mirror is broken cracked in so many places i'm more jagged lines than person a mosaic of pieces that don't match and parts i don't like the truth is i am flawed and i will always be flawed and i may never stop looking in a broken mirror wishing to smash my body on its sharpest edges but i'm slipping into a comatose state of control and loathing *(the more dead i get the more alive i look)* when will i snap out of this when will i snap out of this *(I DON'T WANT TO SNAP OUT OF THIS I DON'T WANT TO SNAP OUT OF THIS)* stir the greens rip the chicken orange stings the minty sores chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew chew swallow take a bite leave a bite too much too little still hungry always hungry but it will all feel better another ten pounds down
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Jun 3, 2017
Jun 3, 2017 at 9:57 PM UTC
another 10lbs
A prophesied alarm ticks away, As sobering faces make their way. Welcome oh stranger, to the land of the learned, A trip from a ticket handsomely earned. Watch your crooked tongue, Forked and twisted in a manner wrong. For here there be beasts and creatures, In the midst of dreams and futures. Through the air drifts the scent of a fanciful tonic, Quelling instinct, and suppressing the panic. Walk past the snappy ladies and lads, Peering at screens for the latest fads. Watch their suits emanate regality, Killing the scene with sheer brutality. See through the pores of that fine fabric, And you'll find the remnants of a familiar trick. Not unlike the wisdom of the wizened, The words of the victorious, the echoes of the poisoned. Underneath it all, see the truth, Strip away the puffed, monstrous brute. It's a dainty little feeling, fear they call it, On their faces, clear and large is it writ. They turn from the brave to the meek, Everyone caught in this noxious reek. What they ought to have predicted, Is that this reverie is self inflicted. Sullen cheeks, and drippy noses abound, Waiting to be addressed and found. This place is a walking minefield, Of broken bones and souls to be healed. But its not their fault, I can't complain, Because all they feel they don't feign. As in the midst of this perennial parade, I find solace in the friends I've made.
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Jan 26, 2016
Jan 26, 2016 at 10:28 AM UTC
Deimos
. *A story is brothers with a poem. That's all this is, family.* ~~~ Your soul couldn't get any bigger, twilight crept over your toes, and before you knew it--- it was gliding along your throat. Cliffs aren't made of bones, they rock and gleam like armor gnashing twin dragon scales.  The earth growls and lashes, dominance is its domain. Bellow my legs I view the darkness pleading~ I've never witnessed a starving sea, it begged to swallow every inch of my crippled heart of wine. I'm hanging by the wires we call gallows, tendrils thinning like my silver lining. Soon I'll feel the tides swallowing at my spine. When I fall, I'll do so bliss- ful- y This cliff has lockjaw, the stones morphing into fangs of a Greek legend. You're staring at me, Saturn now makes its home in your auburn depths. How I'll miss the misty mountains, because you named them after me. A whisper louder than thunder, lonesome ashes staining venom on my tongue.   Coughing up my regrets as if I had lung cancer. I'm a hanging nightmare. That's ready to drown. No wonder they call you daughter of old man winter, you're practically frozen in place. I've seen the universe, but I think I'll swing by hell for a change. "Ahkira....Ahkira look at me." Why must your voice be so drippy?  I thought you were a frost flower. Since when did you melt when it sleeted? "Yes?" "Don't let go....Don't let go please...I'm coming." "It's no use.  I'm going to die, Cinder." Oh but darling, you should've stayed glued to glass. "Don't say that!  I-" With a lurch the mottled sky pinned you down, senselessly, you crashed to the floor, 6 feet away from my hourglass body. "Give me your hand!" You reached, but I couldn't hold the wire. Slip- ping ne- ver felt so **** wick- ed, But I was wrong. Your soul multiplied. It expanded. But before I fell into the hug of oblivion, I tugged at your heartstrings my very last time. I brushed the surface of your being and my words stung perfectly in your ear. "Close your eyes." .
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Jun 6, 2015
Jun 6, 2015 at 12:14 AM UTC
How I Fell.
. *A story is brothers with a poem. That's all this is, family.* ~~~ Your soul couldn't get any bigger, twilight crept over your toes, and before you knew it--- it was gliding along your throat. Cliffs aren't made of bones, they rock and gleam like armor gnashing twin dragon scales.  The earth growls and lashes, dominance is its domain. Bellow my legs I view the darkness pleading~ I've never witnessed a starving sea, it begged to swallow every inch of my crippled heart of wine. I'm hanging by the wires we call gallows, tendrils thinning like my silver lining. Soon I'll feel the tides swallowing at my spine. When I fall, I'll do so bliss- ful- y This cliff has lockjaw, the stones morphing into fangs of a Greek legend. You're staring at me, Saturn now makes its home in your auburn depths. How I'll miss the misty mountains, because you named them after me. A whisper louder than thunder, lonesome ashes staining venom on my tongue.   Coughing up my regrets as if I had lung cancer. I'm a hanging nightmare. That's ready to drown. No wonder they call you daughter of old man winter, you're practically frozen in place. I've seen the universe, but I think I'll swing by hell for a change. "Ahkira....Ahkira look at me." Why must your voice be so drippy?  I thought you were a frost flower. Since when did you melt when it sleeted? "Yes?" "Don't let go....Don't let go please...I'm coming." "It's no use.  I'm going to die, Cinder." Oh but darling, you should've stayed glued to glass. "Don't say that!  I-" With a lurch the mottled sky pinned you down, senselessly, you crashed to the floor, 6 feet away from my hourglass body. "Give me your hand!" You reached, but I couldn't hold the wire. Slip- ping ne- ver felt so **** wick- ed, But I was wrong. Your soul multiplied. It expanded. But before I fell into the hug of oblivion, I tugged at your heartstrings my very last time. I brushed the surface of your being and my words stung perfectly in your ear. "Close your eyes." .
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under the skin all i am is blood and thought forming into a lesser sum of the whole fitted between floorboards and motel rooms between clumsy words and continental souls this is a tired, drippy saying my mother would repeat from the tongue, like a song but not like a poem, just a saying "love this strong has to be domesticated" and i wish i didn't exist outside of my head; i only wish to be a vacancy of thought and i've bruises on the insides of my palms from it; easily hidden and slowly mended
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Nov 8, 2015
Nov 8, 2015 at 4:00 PM UTC
the evershifting theorem of bedsheets and orange juice
I’m having a hippy drippy day A great day to snuggle up inside A drizzling rain and skies are gray. I’ll call some friends to come and play. I’ll cook up some muffins and popcorn And chill off a gallon of cheap jug wine Get out my guitar and my old ukulele This day is going to work out just fine. Rotten Ray and Pity Patty will come The first to arrive as they always are. Cokehead Bobby will ride with them Because he never has a working car. Dan will bring his Alice B. brownies And whatever squeeze he has today. Eldon Day will come since Dan’s here As usual pretending he is not gay. The music will start in right away Four or five guitars and bongo drums. There may be more instruments later It depends on if Dial-A-Party comes. While that is not a professional company, It’s what we call it when we all meet One calls another and soon we see Small groups of people on the street. Especially on rainy days, it turns out We all love this kind of gathering Depending on who is off that day And how big a storm we’re weathering. But joy and music is the rule of the day. We laugh and get ****** and sing, Some drizzily hippy drippy happy fun; A gathering of close friends means everything.
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Mar 8, 2016
Mar 8, 2016 at 3:39 PM UTC
HIPPY DRIPPY DAY
You taste like apple ginger Especially in the rain The smell of wet around us A memory like a stain. You smell like earth and spices I breathe you into my soul Your scent enticing Like a magnet pull. Your hair in my hands Your lips on mine I want to be in collision With your hips in due time. But for now the rain Pouring down like a shower Washing away filth And all the painful power. Refreshing and delicious Of cold and drippy wet Later in the moonlight from the window A hotter mess, I bet. Daydreaming of a collision But for now a car ride A hopefully fulfilled prediction Only now just your hand on my thigh. In due time, in due time You will be mine Sweaty but gingerly Between my thighs.
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Feb 20, 2011
Feb 20, 2011 at 3:30 PM UTC
***** Daydream"
This silence, this incessant silence drives me mad like the drippy faucet that breaks the night I cry.
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Apr 4, 2015
Apr 4, 2015 at 5:01 AM UTC
I Am Not Sleep Deprived I Cry
I loved the schoolbus. I had friends in the front, and friends in the back. But sometimes when I climbed those steps, I didn't want to have friends. I didn't want to smile, I didn't want to laugh. I just wanted it quiet so I sat in the middle sometimes, right in between everything. And that's where I met Vanessa, right there in the middle of the bus. She sat alone every day, with her eyes always cast upon the window and what lay beyond it. I noticed her right away even though she was older and a few grades ahead of me. See she was seventeen, and much more experienced than the fourteen-year-old me. But I approached her anyway, working my way into the seat adjacent to her. Eventually working up the ***** to actually say something. We talked for a few weeks, and she humored me. Even when I went to sit in the back and was loud and obnoxious, I would catch her glancing. She would look and sneer at me. So when the day finally came that she said my name and told me to sit in her seat, I dropped everything and joined her. Want to see something? she asked, without so much as a blink. Sure, I mean, of course. I replied, trying my best not to sound too eager She kept her eyes on me as her hands lifted up her skirt, one inch at a time showing me more and more of her. My eyes were locked on her crotch, I could almost hear the shutter clicking as I documented the whole thing mentally. But she stopped when she revealed a crescent-shaped scab on her upper thigh. It was shot through with red lines, swollen and inflamed and I swear that it moved and pulsed right before my eyes. I couldn't look away as she picked the scab off in one big piece, and I saw a white caterpillar unfold from her wound in a squelching symphony of sickening sound and roll it's way down her leg, covered with blood and leaving ***** streaks. Then it hit the seat and I gasped when she grabbed it before it could crawl away and shoved the macabre thing into her mouth, still crawling, killing it with her teeth. I never sat with Vanessa again.
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Apr 17, 2015
Apr 17, 2015 at 10:03 PM UTC
The Drippy Caterpillar
I loved the schoolbus. I had friends in the front, and friends in the back. But sometimes when I climbed those steps, I didn't want to have friends. I didn't want to smile, I didn't want to laugh. I just wanted it quiet so I sat in the middle sometimes, right in between everything. And that's where I met Vanessa, right there in the middle of the bus. She sat alone every day, with her eyes always cast upon the window and what lay beyond it. I noticed her right away even though she was older and a few grades ahead of me. See she was seventeen, and much more experienced than the fourteen-year-old me. But I approached her anyway, working my way into the seat adjacent to her. Eventually working up the ***** to actually say something. We talked for a few weeks, and she humored me. Even when I went to sit in the back and was loud and obnoxious, I would catch her glancing. She would look and sneer at me. So when the day finally came that she said my name and told me to sit in her seat, I dropped everything and joined her. Want to see something? she asked, without so much as a blink. Sure, I mean, of course. I replied, trying my best not to sound too eager She kept her eyes on me as her hands lifted up her skirt, one inch at a time showing me more and more of her. My eyes were locked on her crotch, I could almost hear the shutter clicking as I documented the whole thing mentally. But she stopped when she revealed a crescent-shaped scab on her upper thigh. It was shot through with red lines, swollen and inflamed and I swear that it moved and pulsed right before my eyes. I couldn't look away as she picked the scab off in one big piece, and I saw a white caterpillar unfold from her wound in a squelching symphony of sickening sound and roll it's way down her leg, covered with blood and leaving ***** streaks. Then it hit the seat and I gasped when she grabbed it before it could crawl away and shoved the macabre thing into her mouth, still crawling, killing it with her teeth. I never sat with Vanessa again.
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youre in a too-small bed in pediatrics all sticky plasters and twitching toes stuffed full of wires, pink to the bone hollow and soft, impossibly close youre a skinned hare, still running eyes drippy with moon milk so fresh teeth carved from wax and every orifice a wound; every love, from the flesh so now the sun rises on a sea of all-pale im holding your hand, waiting to flower you let down your hair--i know its gone thin but dear deer, ill still try your tower we're wasting away in symmetrical styles one from the heart; another from the head ill leave it to you to figure which is literal ill leave it to you to see my blood be bled (its too much for me, now: all i can consider are the slow and subtle pains of sharing your bed.)
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Feb 15, 2013
Feb 15, 2013 at 3:27 PM UTC
sweeter waters
A touch, a word, a song The reaching out to tell someone you care can lift the spirit as it travels long You find that you too in the blessing share. I had a drippy miserable cold the gloomy day had made me feel so blue Wrapped in self pity, I was feeling old And then the postman came with thoughts of you. That you erased my cold, I cannot say But words of cheer and happy thoughts you shared I began feeling better on that day It always helps to know that someone cares.
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Sep 13, 2010
Sep 13, 2010 at 9:16 AM UTC
To Carol
Tiny tawny girl next door, Watch you scrub your kitchen floor. Doggie down there, on all four: I can’t wait ‘til you spill some more. Laundry day, your fragrance drifts Through my screen: My spirit lifts. Subtle scents, your careless gifts, And through each one, my keen nose sifts. Singing, humming, filled with glee: You wash your dishes, dutifully. I hear you, though I cannot see, How drippy-wet and wonderfully? Accomp’nied by Spanish guitar, This summer day, you wash your car. Flamenco skirt, my jaw ajar, On tippy-toes, you’ve stretched too far! Then one day, from the box you came, Bearing junk mail with my name. I quickly turned to hide my shame. You’d caught me staring, just the same. My name, without lifting her head, From that misguided missive, read. Upset? Not yet. She smiled, instead, Then took me by my arm, and said, “I must confide, my next-door boy, I play with you: my sweetest toy. All parts and parcels of my ploy, I mean to share what you enjoy. “I scrub the floor where you can see. I perfume all of my laundry. I softly sing each melody, And even dress indecently. “…But spiders cause me grievous fright! I have a burned-out ceiling light. So, if you can and think you might, Come help me with my chores, tonight.” ©2Dec2017 @DracoTalpus
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Dec 2, 2017
Dec 2, 2017 at 3:15 PM UTC
Chores
By Arcassin B Slash, dangerous, Break in some glass, I'm your home, The tranquil place, the happy place, about to be drowned in blood, Fixing William Shatner mask, I carry my demons heavily on my shoulder, Provoking me, you would also be stupid to get close to me, The devil's messenger incarnate leaking through scared and drippy as I ascended the passage of evil, Be glad I didn't RIP out the pupils, I'm way worse than messily cabin fever, The one that snips Roses and tulips, Like chasing after a relative that doesn't think I exist, Letting them know that my legend lives, No dogs live to take a **** You could get the blade or the fist, Halloween is the day of bliss, A devil on a night like this, Wake to fulfill demon hour wish, Wake to fulfill demon hour wish, A devil on a night like this, Halloween is the day of bliss, You could get the blade or the fist. ● I could feel as good as I feel , when I, Let go, We could make this right in our wills, Feel free, I don't know, I don't know, The horrors that await you can not illustrate you, Their aiming to take this world from you, specifics when theres rent due, they would want to take you, No streets , cars or avenues, The hills definitely have eyes , we call them vultures, Infiltration in disguise, we are their adventures, A voyage , a play , a stage to be performed on, This life is too fake to hold on, Wool over the eyes of some , might as well put the mold on, I wouldn't leave you to dry and dye a different color of your love for me, positivity overrules this tree, Don't you ever think that I, don't love you cause I do, don't **** me, It would break my heart if you , thought i didn't care, don't eat me, Don't you ever think that I, don't love you cause I do, It would break my heart if you , thought i didn't care. ©abpoetry2020 ©arcassinburnham2020.
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Oct 31, 2020
Oct 31, 2020 at 2:08 AM UTC
"M.M / HILLS DEFINITELY HAVE EYES"
By Arcassin B Slash, dangerous, Break in some glass, I'm your home, The tranquil place, the happy place, about to be drowned in blood, Fixing William Shatner mask, I carry my demons heavily on my shoulder, Provoking me, you would also be stupid to get close to me, The devil's messenger incarnate leaking through scared and drippy as I ascended the passage of evil, Be glad I didn't RIP out the pupils, I'm way worse than messily cabin fever, The one that snips Roses and tulips, Like chasing after a relative that doesn't think I exist, Letting them know that my legend lives, No dogs live to take a **** You could get the blade or the fist, Halloween is the day of bliss, A devil on a night like this, Wake to fulfill demon hour wish, Wake to fulfill demon hour wish, A devil on a night like this, Halloween is the day of bliss, You could get the blade or the fist. ● I could feel as good as I feel , when I, Let go, We could make this right in our wills, Feel free, I don't know, I don't know, The horrors that await you can not illustrate you, Their aiming to take this world from you, specifics when theres rent due, they would want to take you, No streets , cars or avenues, The hills definitely have eyes , we call them vultures, Infiltration in disguise, we are their adventures, A voyage , a play , a stage to be performed on, This life is too fake to hold on, Wool over the eyes of some , might as well put the mold on, I wouldn't leave you to dry and dye a different color of your love for me, positivity overrules this tree, Don't you ever think that I, don't love you cause I do, don't **** me, It would break my heart if you , thought i didn't care, don't eat me, Don't you ever think that I, don't love you cause I do, It would break my heart if you , thought i didn't care. ©abpoetry2020 ©arcassinburnham2020.
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You move me. You move me like sunlight on the dew drops of wild flowers. You move me like the loud rumbling of thunder. Like an intense game of laser tag; sweating and running and chasing. You move me like Louis Armstrong's fingers on his trumpet. You move me like my mother smiling down at me from the kitchen table when I was six. Like Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Like the smooth surface of my first hand-made bowl. You move me. You move me like the wind in my face when the car windows are rolled down. You move me like my first paint set. You move me like holding my first nephew, staring up at me with his small, blue eyes. You move me like The Ground Is Lava. You move me like the pen on this paper, racing to scribble down my next thought. You move me like snapping hair ties, like broken records, like drippy nail polish. You move me like the rain drops on my window during a violent storm.   You move me like a long, unwinding road. You move me like holding my crying sister. You move me like T.S. Eliot, John Green, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Neil Gaiman. You move me like a fast swivel chair. You move me like my first knocked-out tooth. You move me. You move me like my first kiss in the second grade, smiling and giggling and nodding at, "Do you want to do it again?" You move me like your bruised fingertips. You move me like nervous glances that are shot away when you look back at me. Like our first hug, when I didn't want to let go. Like my blistered feet when I snuck out and ran to see you. Like the playful nudges when we walk rythmically side by side. You move me like your slant rhyme. You move me like my shaky leg. You move me like the late nights spent looking at photos from my past. You move me like new shoes on linoleum floors. You move me like the purple bags under my eyes. You move me like the first time you introduced yourself to me. You move me like my first communion as a child; disrespecting the purpose to the practice and just wanting to down a shot of grape juice. Like the printer that won't stop shooting out pages. Like your tangled imagery and verse. Like my first hat. You move me like rushing water. You move me like falling out bed. You move me like when our hands accidentally brush against each other in the hallway. You move me like refusing to give up and trying again. You move me like the way I dream of moving you. You move me.
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Sep 10, 2015
Sep 10, 2015 at 8:34 PM UTC
You Move Me
You move me. You move me like sunlight on the dew drops of wild flowers. You move me like the loud rumbling of thunder. Like an intense game of laser tag; sweating and running and chasing. You move me like Louis Armstrong's fingers on his trumpet. You move me like my mother smiling down at me from the kitchen table when I was six. Like Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Like the smooth surface of my first hand-made bowl. You move me. You move me like the wind in my face when the car windows are rolled down. You move me like my first paint set. You move me like holding my first nephew, staring up at me with his small, blue eyes. You move me like The Ground Is Lava. You move me like the pen on this paper, racing to scribble down my next thought. You move me like snapping hair ties, like broken records, like drippy nail polish. You move me like the rain drops on my window during a violent storm.   You move me like a long, unwinding road. You move me like holding my crying sister. You move me like T.S. Eliot, John Green, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Neil Gaiman. You move me like a fast swivel chair. You move me like my first knocked-out tooth. You move me. You move me like my first kiss in the second grade, smiling and giggling and nodding at, "Do you want to do it again?" You move me like your bruised fingertips. You move me like nervous glances that are shot away when you look back at me. Like our first hug, when I didn't want to let go. Like my blistered feet when I snuck out and ran to see you. Like the playful nudges when we walk rythmically side by side. You move me like your slant rhyme. You move me like my shaky leg. You move me like the late nights spent looking at photos from my past. You move me like new shoes on linoleum floors. You move me like the purple bags under my eyes. You move me like the first time you introduced yourself to me. You move me like my first communion as a child; disrespecting the purpose to the practice and just wanting to down a shot of grape juice. Like the printer that won't stop shooting out pages. Like your tangled imagery and verse. Like my first hat. You move me like rushing water. You move me like falling out bed. You move me like when our hands accidentally brush against each other in the hallway. You move me like refusing to give up and trying again. You move me like the way I dream of moving you. You move me.
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