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"enamel" poems
Lady Macbeth washed her hands cleaner than Pontius Pilate with a new improved, bio-enzyme oxy-bursting, 99.9% germ-scouring recommended by dermato-logists scented with rose attar oils from Arabia and spermaceti soothing unguents from long dead whales. She’s going to the nail bar for a manicure and application of semi-permanent, diamond- tipped, acrylic base-coated in red blood enamel. She’ll scratch and etch rich tattoos on her husband’s back with every ****** he will shudder with pain and delight He’ll soon forget long, dark nights bewitched by ghosts and ambition. © M.L. Emmett
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Aug 10, 2015
Aug 10, 2015 at 2:55 AM UTC
Lady Macbeth
Rolling a Pall Mall in the courtyard, of Ye Olde Swiss Cottage Tavern, in the last of November's sun:       Lovely sunlight,       You are,       Filling me warmly with joy. Thinking of our desires, from summer and autumn months, up to this bright November morning, we have happily danced, e'en in the shadows. Above me two brick turrets, as I dreamily smoke, nonchalantly state: 'Underground'. High-raised logos winking at our play, struck through with horizontal blue, in a circle of enamel white. 'Old Fool,' the towers hiss, directed at my mortal sensibilities, 'winter has come!' But nothing buries us as our sun still comfortingly kindles a friendly star which when all is dark, glows inside, guiding the shipwreck of my sunken years - the debts and all those unpaid thrills! Dreaming and Loving, as children out, lost in an abundant ***** each holding off for as long as we dare, lovers unmasked, naked before suffocating paternity, and cold winter's bite! where to we hardly know, to avoid its cruel embrace.
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Nov 8, 2018
Nov 8, 2018 at 4:16 AM UTC
Winter Come
Saturday Sounds like the pattering Of bare feet On a dusty concrete yard, Smells of chimney smoke And jagged coal heath, Sheep-scent and Wiry wool on a barbed fence, Saturday Is a jangly guitar In a rickety truck On a gravel road, With a gravel voice Rough as grit, Deep as the caverns Between the peaks, Saturday Is sunlight on an enamel *** A tin kettle And its blood metal tea, It is blackberry-bitten legs and iodine streams, A canopy of heady bracken Below penny-marked trees, Then Sunday, Slantwise Against the setting sun Away again.
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Jan 12, 2018
Jan 12, 2018 at 6:09 PM UTC
Saturday
Delicately pink hearts gently unfurl From nests of lively minds; There is nothing weak about Southern women We are supposed to wear ugly dresses, Enamel bugs, French scarves that wrap around and Tie us all together from the inside out Football and sassy new haircuts might not make faces look younger, But they can lift spirits And just because you spend all day advising others Of their secret trials Doesn't mean that you can hold your family in a cage, Golden and happy though you may want things to be. Remember that if you feel new, an outsider, Your personal tragedies seeming too much to bear, You will always find comfort in laughter Especially if laughter through tears is your favorite emotion. You might not pick up boys or money, But friendship steeps in small salons Like sweet tea. Prickly sarcasm and pessimism aren't always the hallmarks Of a heart devoid of caring, It's just a natural response after two deadbeat husbands and Three ungrateful children; somewhere in all of it is a promise Of hope. And even in a barren womb new life is discovered, And even in death joy is found, And even through pain, Sisterhood blooms, Delicate steel petals enveloping grieving hearts.
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Apr 17, 2014
Apr 17, 2014 at 3:44 PM UTC
Steel Magnolias
My Grandmother's Hands My Grandmother's hands told many tales Of scrubbing steps and broken nails Hand-washing clothes in enamel sink Red football socks turned white towels pink When not baking cakes at the old gas stove Rag-rugs with old scraps of material she wove Pantry shelves filled with powdered egg Homemade rice pudding sprinkled with nutmeg Sea-coal burning on an open coal fire Bread on a toasting fork burning like a pyre Grandma plumping up pillows from beneath granda’s head Applying ointment to sores caused by being confined to bed Hours spent at auctions bidding with her hand Buying an incomplete bed wasn't what she planned Back home in time for tea, crumpets and homemade strawberry jam, I can still recall the smell of it, bubbling in the pan Switching tv channels with a flick of her wrist That’s how we did it back then, when remotes did not exist Working hard all of her life, meeting everyone's demands Every line and wrinkle told a story On my Grandmother's hands
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Jan 27, 2017
Jan 27, 2017 at 11:09 AM UTC
My Grandmother's Hands
Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ****** like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first hunger is not wrong. The nurses nod their caps; you are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets. You tip like a cup; your head moving to my touch. You sense the way we belong. But this is an institution bed. You will not know me very long. The doctors are enamel. They want to know the facts. They guess about the man who left me, some pendulum soul, going the way men go and leave you full of child. But our case history stays blank. All I did was let you grow. Now we are here for all the ward to see. They thought I was strange, although I never spoke a word. I burst empty of you, letting you see how the air is so. The doctors chart the riddle they ask of me and I turn my head away. I do not know. Yours is the only face I recognize. Bone at my bone, you drink my answers in. Six times a day I prize your need, the animals of your lips, your skin growing warm and plump. I see your eyes lifting their tents. They are blue stones, they begin to outgrow their moss. You blink in surprise and I wonder what you can see, my funny kin, as you trouble my silence. I am a shelter of lies. Should I learn to speak again, or hopeless in such sanity will I touch some face I recognize? Down the hall the baskets start back. My arms fit you like a sleeve, they hold catkins of your willows, the wild bee farms of your nerves, each muscle and fold of your first days. Your old man's face disarms the nurses. But the doctors return to scold me. I speak. It is you my silence harms. I should have known; I should have told them something to write down. My voice alarms my throat. "Name of father-none." I hold you and name you ******* in my arms. And now that's that. There is nothing more that I can say or lose. Others have traded life before and could not speak. I tighten to refuse your owling eyes, my fragile visitor. I touch your cheeks, like flowers. You bruise against me. We unlearn. I am a shore rocking off you. You break from me. I choose your only way, my small inheritor and hand you off, trembling the selves we lose. Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
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Unknown Girl In A Maternity Ward
Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ****** like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first hunger is not wrong. The nurses nod their caps; you are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets. You tip like a cup; your head moving to my touch. You sense the way we belong. But this is an institution bed. You will not know me very long. The doctors are enamel. They want to know the facts. They guess about the man who left me, some pendulum soul, going the way men go and leave you full of child. But our case history stays blank. All I did was let you grow. Now we are here for all the ward to see. They thought I was strange, although I never spoke a word. I burst empty of you, letting you see how the air is so. The doctors chart the riddle they ask of me and I turn my head away. I do not know. Yours is the only face I recognize. Bone at my bone, you drink my answers in. Six times a day I prize your need, the animals of your lips, your skin growing warm and plump. I see your eyes lifting their tents. They are blue stones, they begin to outgrow their moss. You blink in surprise and I wonder what you can see, my funny kin, as you trouble my silence. I am a shelter of lies. Should I learn to speak again, or hopeless in such sanity will I touch some face I recognize? Down the hall the baskets start back. My arms fit you like a sleeve, they hold catkins of your willows, the wild bee farms of your nerves, each muscle and fold of your first days. Your old man's face disarms the nurses. But the doctors return to scold me. I speak. It is you my silence harms. I should have known; I should have told them something to write down. My voice alarms my throat. "Name of father-none." I hold you and name you ******* in my arms. And now that's that. There is nothing more that I can say or lose. Others have traded life before and could not speak. I tighten to refuse your owling eyes, my fragile visitor. I touch your cheeks, like flowers. You bruise against me. We unlearn. I am a shore rocking off you. You break from me. I choose your only way, my small inheritor and hand you off, trembling the selves we lose. Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
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Around me architectural mastery: sycamores, embankments, enduring ionic pillars. I round a walkway bordered by trees, enamel thawing, gliding off their low leaves. Beneath the late-May’s pounding sun, through the glittered trees’ reaches, a gazebo crackles into sight. Children in their prime, sunbathers, a wistful portraitist encircle it carelessly: a leisured chimney; the billows of life. The foliage escapes into the river, purplish, palpitating, cyclic creases receive the dewy notes. Kayaks licking acacia-gum-edged ripples sputter and slip through reverberations of leveled white-water terraces. Blackcurrants in clotted cream slide on the plush lips of a young passerby. The 8 above a doorway dances motionless, silent in my periphery; “Nicolas Cage just sold the spot” pops from unknown lungs inside the Circus crowd. Unacknowledged, half-proud hands built the Roman baths alone, closed-in by such grace, forgotten, then as now. I wander these ancestral lanes more or less alone, the same.
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Jul 4, 2012
Jul 4, 2012 at 7:55 AM UTC
Lines Written in Bath, Somerset
Porage Oats? Porridge simmering slowly on an old gas hob, In a large enamel *** that was kept for this job. We stirred it occasionally with a spoon shaped stick, This stopped it burning or getting too thick. You knew when it was time to do the spoon test, If the spoon stood up strait then it was at its best. Served with golden treacle the way I liked it most, That melted like a glaze Oh yes and a slice of toast. Those cold winter mornings it warmed the heart, We would all walk to school with a healthy start. Just been too busy working all my life, No time to make porridge for me and my wife. I have tried many new cereals in the past 40 years, Some not to bad but containing too much sugar. They call it glaze with bits of chocolate to, But with a threat of diabetes it just will not do. Now that I’m retired I go shopping every day, More time for cooking in the old fashioned way. Last winter a large promotion caught my eye, It was for porridge, I could not pass it bye. Not the instant stuff, cooked in minutes two, It's Proper Porage Oats that sticks like glue. Is this a second childhood where I want to play? No, just a wholesome breakfast for a frosty day.
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Jul 19, 2011
Jul 19, 2011 at 8:32 AM UTC
Porage Oats
I. something within me, maybe its my amigdala, misses the oven-turned-gentrified clot, that great collection of want, of transient soles-souls. I miss how we’re piled three stories high, so close to each others’ mouths that we must burrow in criss crossed, colliding tunnels to our point b’s, our job sites, our lovers’ houses. maybe it is indeed part of our un-nature to do this, to cling to one another even as our unforgiving sungod bakes us whole, cornish game hens on the el train, hurdling 40 mph, to and from our personal hovels, heavens and bedsheets, tethered to this place, possibly indentured, definitely flawed, where we revel under roofs to prove incredibleness an virility. II. our eyes are not closed today. they may not blink in unison as mannequin lids do, so effortlessly, plastic and mechanical, but those, we are thankfully not. for we are flesh, and air, and miles of gastrointestinal turnpike, if unpinned, would stretch from here to panama. we are each of us a viscous mound called Sally, Bertram and Queen Mary. We are the collision of milk flowing, divine, a whirling dervish in scalding darjeeling. we are air, gliding over enamel into the collective breath to be devoured so sweetly by others, as saintly man-scripted gelato, dribbling down our chins in piazzas. la dolce ************* vita. III. that’s the funny thing about living in this size 2 world, the ability to appear anywhere upon its face at a moment’s notice, to be in front of any face when desired, to live sans toll booth or customs desk, to simply dust off our ability to fly and tumble icarus-adolescent into the collision between the two blue planes called sea and sky
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Jun 7, 2011
Jun 7, 2011 at 9:58 AM UTC
La Marzocco Lionhead
I. something within me, maybe its my amigdala, misses the oven-turned-gentrified clot, that great collection of want, of transient soles-souls. I miss how we’re piled three stories high, so close to each others’ mouths that we must burrow in criss crossed, colliding tunnels to our point b’s, our job sites, our lovers’ houses. maybe it is indeed part of our un-nature to do this, to cling to one another even as our unforgiving sungod bakes us whole, cornish game hens on the el train, hurdling 40 mph, to and from our personal hovels, heavens and bedsheets, tethered to this place, possibly indentured, definitely flawed, where we revel under roofs to prove incredibleness an virility. II. our eyes are not closed today. they may not blink in unison as mannequin lids do, so effortlessly, plastic and mechanical, but those, we are thankfully not. for we are flesh, and air, and miles of gastrointestinal turnpike, if unpinned, would stretch from here to panama. we are each of us a viscous mound called Sally, Bertram and Queen Mary. We are the collision of milk flowing, divine, a whirling dervish in scalding darjeeling. we are air, gliding over enamel into the collective breath to be devoured so sweetly by others, as saintly man-scripted gelato, dribbling down our chins in piazzas. la dolce ************* vita. III. that’s the funny thing about living in this size 2 world, the ability to appear anywhere upon its face at a moment’s notice, to be in front of any face when desired, to live sans toll booth or customs desk, to simply dust off our ability to fly and tumble icarus-adolescent into the collision between the two blue planes called sea and sky
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Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ****** like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first hunger is not wrong. The nurses nod their caps; you are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets. You tip like a cup; your head moving to my touch. You sense the way we belong. But this is an institution bed. You will not know me very long. The doctors are enamel. They want to know the facts. They guess about the man who left me, some pendulum soul, going the way men go and leave you full of child. But our case history stays blank. All I did was let you grow. Now we are here for all the ward to see. They thought I was strange, although I never spoke a word. I burst empty of you, letting you learn how the air is so. The doctors chart the riddle they ask of me and I turn my head away. I do not know. Yours is the only face I recognize. Bone at my bone, you drink my answers in. Six times a day I prize your need, the animals of your lips, your skin growing warm and plump. I see your eyes lifting their tents. They are blue stones, they begin to outgrow their moss. You blink in surprise and I wonder what you can see, my funny kin, as you trouble my silence. I am a shelter of lies. Should I learn to speak again, or hopeless in such sanity will I touch some face I recognize? Down the hall the baskets start back. My arms fit you like a sleeve, they hold catkins of your willows, the wild bee farms of your nerves, each muscle and fold of your first days. Your old man's face disarms the nurses. But the doctors return to scold me. I speak. It is you my silence harms. I should have known; I should have told them something to write down. My voice alarms my throat. "Name of father-none." I hold you and name you ******* in my arms. And now that's that. There is nothing more that I can say or lose. Others have traded life before and could not speak. I tighten to refuse your owling eyes, my fragile visitor. I touch your cheeks, like flowers. You bruise against me. We unlearn. I am a shore rocking you off. You break from me. I choose your only way, my small inheritor and hand you off, trembling the selves we lose. Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
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Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward
Child, the current of your breath is six days long. You lie, a small knuckle on my white bed; lie, ****** like a snail, so small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first hunger is not wrong. The nurses nod their caps; you are shepherded down starch halls with the other unnested throng in wheeling baskets. You tip like a cup; your head moving to my touch. You sense the way we belong. But this is an institution bed. You will not know me very long. The doctors are enamel. They want to know the facts. They guess about the man who left me, some pendulum soul, going the way men go and leave you full of child. But our case history stays blank. All I did was let you grow. Now we are here for all the ward to see. They thought I was strange, although I never spoke a word. I burst empty of you, letting you learn how the air is so. The doctors chart the riddle they ask of me and I turn my head away. I do not know. Yours is the only face I recognize. Bone at my bone, you drink my answers in. Six times a day I prize your need, the animals of your lips, your skin growing warm and plump. I see your eyes lifting their tents. They are blue stones, they begin to outgrow their moss. You blink in surprise and I wonder what you can see, my funny kin, as you trouble my silence. I am a shelter of lies. Should I learn to speak again, or hopeless in such sanity will I touch some face I recognize? Down the hall the baskets start back. My arms fit you like a sleeve, they hold catkins of your willows, the wild bee farms of your nerves, each muscle and fold of your first days. Your old man's face disarms the nurses. But the doctors return to scold me. I speak. It is you my silence harms. I should have known; I should have told them something to write down. My voice alarms my throat. "Name of father-none." I hold you and name you ******* in my arms. And now that's that. There is nothing more that I can say or lose. Others have traded life before and could not speak. I tighten to refuse your owling eyes, my fragile visitor. I touch your cheeks, like flowers. You bruise against me. We unlearn. I am a shore rocking you off. You break from me. I choose your only way, my small inheritor and hand you off, trembling the selves we lose. Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.
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Tortured people tell themselves the past never happened. They sit and reminisce about memories that they created. Their hands are brown and worn down, looking like a sibling of the ground that will eventually be a tomb for their bodies. The teeth are fake and so are the smiles. Hair falls off like rusty leaves brushed by a breeze, warning of the death of winter. Limbs turn into string, ******* hang, and guts grow; like pregnant, stray cats. Whenever they die, their houses will be eaten by their children, and not even a piece of gristle or a picture frame will be left. The house will be nothing but a sun-dried ribcage: a discarded postcard with the address marked out. The children will sit and talk of their parents, repressing the abuse and the inability to meet expectations. The children will work in sterile cubicles, thankful that their hands will not be stamped by calluses, yet knowing their fathers would not approve. The children will open up the dust-blanketed boxes and stare at old family pictures, not able to recognize the people who smile and have perfect posture. The children will lay in bed with their spouses and say, to no one in particular, 'Why was it never enough? What did I do? Was it me?' The children will be tortured by these words, by lives that weren't in technicolor, by the paranoia of being tolerated instead of liked, by the anxiety that a paid-off house and nice car couldn't alleviate, by themselves. The children will retire and will have realized that they worked their entire lives just to enjoy ten years. Their hair follicles will let go of strands and locks, like a dandelion being stripped by the wind. The enamel on their teeth will corrode and, before long, they will be thankful for the sensitivity of their teeth because the coldness of senior-citizen-discounted ice cream will be one of the few things they will be able to feel, let alone put a genuine smile on their face. They will sit on their recliners, stare at their keyboard-kissed fingers and tell themselves the past never happened. Because that's what tortured people do.
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Aug 27, 2015
Aug 27, 2015 at 10:01 AM UTC
Tortured People
Tortured people tell themselves the past never happened. They sit and reminisce about memories that they created. Their hands are brown and worn down, looking like a sibling of the ground that will eventually be a tomb for their bodies. The teeth are fake and so are the smiles. Hair falls off like rusty leaves brushed by a breeze, warning of the death of winter. Limbs turn into string, ******* hang, and guts grow; like pregnant, stray cats. Whenever they die, their houses will be eaten by their children, and not even a piece of gristle or a picture frame will be left. The house will be nothing but a sun-dried ribcage: a discarded postcard with the address marked out. The children will sit and talk of their parents, repressing the abuse and the inability to meet expectations. The children will work in sterile cubicles, thankful that their hands will not be stamped by calluses, yet knowing their fathers would not approve. The children will open up the dust-blanketed boxes and stare at old family pictures, not able to recognize the people who smile and have perfect posture. The children will lay in bed with their spouses and say, to no one in particular, 'Why was it never enough? What did I do? Was it me?' The children will be tortured by these words, by lives that weren't in technicolor, by the paranoia of being tolerated instead of liked, by the anxiety that a paid-off house and nice car couldn't alleviate, by themselves. The children will retire and will have realized that they worked their entire lives just to enjoy ten years. Their hair follicles will let go of strands and locks, like a dandelion being stripped by the wind. The enamel on their teeth will corrode and, before long, they will be thankful for the sensitivity of their teeth because the coldness of senior-citizen-discounted ice cream will be one of the few things they will be able to feel, let alone put a genuine smile on their face. They will sit on their recliners, stare at their keyboard-kissed fingers and tell themselves the past never happened. Because that's what tortured people do.
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We are imperfect products placed in the midst of an imperfect society, a vicious cycle of perseverance and failure: constructed, broken, fixed, and fixed again. Airbrushed and painted to perfection: pale skin flushed cheeks slim legs and a smooth mindset. Opinionated only on the matter of superficial products – glamorizing and embellishing. Deteriorating enamel – cracks in a varnished frame. A scratched surface, damaged to the core, polished and glazed over. Skin made paler, cheeks more flushed, skin and bones, and a mind wiped clean. Unachievable expectations and inevitable failure are enough to b r e a k even the toughest material d o w n.
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May 10, 2014
May 10, 2014 at 12:11 AM UTC
Supine Woman
Pure cane sugartar that sits on teeth, sits on a canine porch swing and swings too far, kicking the enamel siding, wood knots, and greying-thin windows. More exposed than Brad Pitt's marriage or JonBenét Ramsay on the cover of Old World News Daily in the dentist's office. And there we are. We're bleached white and burning beneath paparazzi bulbs and a a ****** case. Brief case money/ two thousand fourteen and it's still relevant, still useful blood money. Novocain lightning flash; burn a tree. Cali home tucked behind parsley palms. Fortune teller, baby, O.J. didn't do it. Not The Juice, not him. The gloves. The gloves. The gloves. Comfort of picket fence rainbrushed paint stripping. Raymour retail of a mocha-cushion couch half-off 'cause the back's spattered with toothpaste and taxpayer juice like Grandma's cancer handbag. Put your feet up, stay a while. Don't leave.
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Nov 17, 2014
Nov 17, 2014 at 10:14 AM UTC
The Gloves
"Turn back the pages of history, and see the men who have shaped the destiny of the world. Security was never theirs, but they lived rather than existed," said Hunter S. Thompson at age 17, before he became The Duke, and shaved off a leg in Doonsbury cartoons, before he rapped the sharp corner of his shot glass, so too many times, on the inch thick enamel, of the Woody Creek Tavern bar top, and waited until closing time to begin blowing lines, out of the divets he'd made. The people clapping, the moon attacking, the red bone blood of America pumping past his eyes. After he died, everyone there had a Hunter story: Hunter shot his hot girl assistant in the *** by mistake, but he felt like **** about it. Hunter had a dozen red cheeked lasses he skied with, but he never messed with them. Hunter showed up in a Cadillac convertible packed with strippers dressed burlesque. But it was hard to tell just exactly what he was up to with the strippers, the peacocks, or anything else. Alot of the stories had ****** implications, but what they mostly implied was he was cool about it. He didn't write any of those stories. Despite all evidence to the contrary he liked his privacy, and what peace he found in rare quiet. And he made **** sure they'd shoot his ashes out of a ******* canon when he died. The canon is still there. So are the peacocks.
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Apr 26, 2013
Apr 26, 2013 at 1:45 AM UTC
Ode to Hunter Thompson, and All Those Who Died Trying
One weekend I met with a camel Who believed that he wasn't a mammal I tried setting him right But we got in a fight Which resulted in chipped tooth enamel
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Mar 7, 2012
Mar 7, 2012 at 4:43 PM UTC
Fighting Camels
My lover saves his words, he tucks them under his tongue I chew on his serifs, Aerated, punctuated, hyphenated His desires, they get caught in my teeth the boldness of them wearing on my enamel And then, his smile melts onto my tongue I push it behind my cheek, our own little secret, sweetheart Now I’m smiling too And he hasn’t said a word.
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Mar 20, 2015
Mar 20, 2015 at 1:38 PM UTC
Shyness
1 Another space arrives. The newborn cries. And the destiny determined: Oven or matchstick. Descendant of both; inheritor of another: A machine that dreams itself into being, Dragging its sleeping subjects after it. Sustenance of nightmares, the food of what God is, blood the earth pumps forth. The plastic legacy is siphoned off, Its artifacts cheap jewellery: Enamel glinting white and turquoise. Flimsy chains that never last, And yet last forever, the paint flaking off. So too does the rust on this delicate orchid. It is an oracle of poisons. 2 The city burns in its incandescence. The indelible halo Of a lime-green candelabra Makes light of midnight. Our slumber is Punctured by gunshots and the drone of the Ambulance. Not a foot but a juggernaut, Pandora’s box, Sowing the seeds of your distress. Fallout marks the potent epoch. The neon octopus spews it back, Invisible print on the murderous air. Where water drinks No diving bell can bear The pressure of such fuchsia.
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Oct 10, 2016
Oct 10, 2016 at 9:54 AM UTC
Chemical Triumphant
let's go back to basics i'll punch you in the face i'll rip out your hair and eyes and teeth and use them as jewelry around my sleeve oh how much i love you! every part of yourself you've given me! your brown eyes and bleached teeth - you make me look so chic! i don't care that your veins and enamel and sticky hair styling products are ruining all my long-sleeved clothes i'd rather wear you now and save my expensive jewelry for more formal and important events -                                                                                                                                      my heart's made of gold
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Jun 14, 2012
Jun 14, 2012 at 12:25 AM UTC
mentally dissecting someone while trying to mentally dissect yourself dissecting
Aluminum foil teeth Enamel taste bud bayonets Molars initiate waging war On the soft pink left cheek Gnawing away radiated flesh Sawing off fat Eating through layers of rotten blood These Metal dentures cut gums Tonguing out iron spit
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Oct 24, 2015
Oct 24, 2015 at 2:36 PM UTC
going to the dentist
805 This Bauble was preferred of Bees— By Butterflies admired At Heavenly—Hopeless Distances— Was justified of Bird— Did Noon—enamel—in Herself Was Summer to a Score Who only knew of Universe— It had created Her.
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This Bauble was preferred of Bees
Our favourite diner closed its doors two years ago we can no longer walk in from the cold feeling the warmth of syrup and coffee cups Our favourite diner closed its doors two years ago and that server we liked so much we haven't seen him since and no where else has real carnations in milk glass vases on every enamel table Our favourite diner closed its doors two years ago it smelled like a Church basement, felt like my uncle's house and it was our place, it was what we did Our favourite diner closed its doors two years ago and so we stopped going out for brunch on Saturdays we made new traditions but they were never as good And we both knew it Our favourite diner closed its door two years ago and so did we.
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 9:39 PM UTC
Our favourite diner
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home in his nest at even;— He sings the song, but it pleases not now; For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear; they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave; And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me; I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid As 'mid the ****** train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white quire; At last she came to his hermitage, Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage,— The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "I covet Truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat,— I leave it behind with the games of youth." As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground; Above me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird;— Beauty through my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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Each And All
Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Stops his horse, and lists with delight, Whilst his files sweep round yon Alpine height; Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent: All are needed by each one, Nothing is fair or good alone. I thought the sparrow's note from heaven, Singing at dawn on the alder bough; I brought him home in his nest at even;— He sings the song, but it pleases not now; For I did not bring home the river and sky; He sang to my ear; they sang to my eye. The delicate shells lay on the shore; The bubbles of the latest wave Fresh pearls to their enamel gave; And the bellowing of the savage sea Greeted their safe escape to me; I wiped away the weeds and foam, And fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore With the sun, and the sand, and the wild uproar. The lover watched his graceful maid As 'mid the ****** train she strayed, Nor knew her beauty's best attire Was woven still by the snow-white quire; At last she came to his hermitage, Like the bird from the woodlands to the cage,— The gay enchantment was undone, A gentle wife, but fairy none. Then I said, "I covet Truth; Beauty is unripe childhood's cheat,— I leave it behind with the games of youth." As I spoke, beneath my feet The ground-pine curled its pretty wreath, Running over the club-moss burrs; I inhaled the violet's breath; Around me stood the oaks and firs; Pine cones and acorns lay on the ground; Above me soared the eternal sky, Full of light and deity; Again I saw, again I heard, The rolling river, the morning bird;— Beauty through my senses stole, I yielded myself to the perfect whole.
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Have you ever visited a public ********* When you were really bursting for a dung And sadly found the only cubicle Was vile and ill-prepared to meet your needs, Its stench beyond your wildest nightmare dread? And yet you bravely held your breath and looking Down into the cracked, caked enamel bowl Beheld a horrid, putrid panful there, The likes of which you never dreamed you'd find And live to tell the ******* tale to mortal man. About a hundred people's lurking turds All heaped and piled up to the very brim, Some soft and runny, squashed down by the weight Of countless others, some smudged with blood Lying there like half-cooked hamburgers. And there was barely ******* space in the pan For you to add a steaming trio of your own To the rancid, obscene horrors lurking there As you crouched, puking, with your ******* round your ankles Terrified in case they fell onto the piss-swamped floor. And you noticed with your reeling senses That there wasn't any ****** paper either, Nor had there been for many a long day Judging from the walls' awesome sorry state All covered in ****** brown elevens. (SEE NOTE BELOW)
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Dec 28, 2015
Dec 28, 2015 at 1:39 PM UTC
Brown Elevens
my eyes opened to find the thin lizard dawn gleaming after the gutter drank its' fill of the moon last night the tambourine buried in my lungs still vibrating like these walls papered with cheap roses last night i found comfort the only way i know how in situations like this beside a girl wearing a pretty ribbon twisted around her waist pomegranate lipstick wet clay & tragic glitter smeared across her eyelids we spent the night roped together by half-removed clothing & my fingers third knuckle deep counting the pulse of the heart of the universe while the wild fox barked on the hill outside & the mockingbirds played riffs in the lilac bushes her ******* ran tight around her shins & she sputtered the dark lyricism of bees twisting her tongue backwards around itself in my ear our bare bellies slapped together as my tongue found her tooth enamel & the trees formed a tight center loop to harness the sky for us & i held my breath waiting for her to breathe first i can feel her chest & plump **** now quietly throbbing against the tight young flesh of my back but when i roll over & see her eyes darting green like a thin ocean laser avoiding my dynamic gaze & her pouty mouth emitting a pink yawn i can tell she's unhappy & ashamed of me i tried to run my fingers through the butterscotch tumbleweed of her hair but she just popped her gum & sent me high stepping through the soft warm mud & chest high cattails of her driveway callow under the clouds stuck like gnats to the fly paper sky
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Oct 8, 2015
Oct 8, 2015 at 3:58 PM UTC
butterscotch tumbleweed
my eyes opened to find the thin lizard dawn gleaming after the gutter drank its' fill of the moon last night the tambourine buried in my lungs still vibrating like these walls papered with cheap roses last night i found comfort the only way i know how in situations like this beside a girl wearing a pretty ribbon twisted around her waist pomegranate lipstick wet clay & tragic glitter smeared across her eyelids we spent the night roped together by half-removed clothing & my fingers third knuckle deep counting the pulse of the heart of the universe while the wild fox barked on the hill outside & the mockingbirds played riffs in the lilac bushes her ******* ran tight around her shins & she sputtered the dark lyricism of bees twisting her tongue backwards around itself in my ear our bare bellies slapped together as my tongue found her tooth enamel & the trees formed a tight center loop to harness the sky for us & i held my breath waiting for her to breathe first i can feel her chest & plump **** now quietly throbbing against the tight young flesh of my back but when i roll over & see her eyes darting green like a thin ocean laser avoiding my dynamic gaze & her pouty mouth emitting a pink yawn i can tell she's unhappy & ashamed of me i tried to run my fingers through the butterscotch tumbleweed of her hair but she just popped her gum & sent me high stepping through the soft warm mud & chest high cattails of her driveway callow under the clouds stuck like gnats to the fly paper sky
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There's a threaded zipper on your pants made of little stitches of red which grasp the zipper's brass teeth, which match the enamel tools which grow from my pink gums which pull at that handle. As it slides down, the teeth of brass pull apart (skin from a peach). Little coquette, I can see the smirk of giddy shame as the denim drops and you are bare.
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May 30, 2011
May 30, 2011 at 6:18 PM UTC
Unzipping Your Jeans With My Teeth