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"flaked" poems
she had flaked away her memories and stepped up with a ponderous heart, held by two gentle hands; and saying goodbye, did she, as she slipped off her skin, for the moment blood stains the kumari's tender soul, bereaved, will she become, for a goddess never bleeds. her feet shall never touch the tattered, naked ground, for it engulfs and devours and burns off the kumari's flesh. holding her pure spirit, and   accepting a cruel death sentence, her quivering soul cupped but a glimmer of hope, as the fire would flicker and lash and whip as her skin flakes again, and the kumari vanishes. but, if she remains unscathed, blood shall be drawn, and the gods will tremble and her body will collapse. the world will consume her once again. a kumari's blood, drawn, now at death, trembling and alone, had she sobbed tears of joy, for no longer the weight must she bear in her heart, of being a kumari; but a kumari is she, and the world has not chose her, but she has chosen to be. she had withered away, heart no longer ponderous, she stepped up. and her wishes from within passed on to the fearful others, held by two gentle hands, and with a gentle flutter of her eyes, next to her charcoal stained skin, had her heart stopped; for her bejeweled crown had been stained with blood, and the kumari realized that she had died long ago.
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May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018 at 6:41 PM UTC
a kumari's blood
Honey seeps off the tips of our sugar-dotted, pastry flaked fingers. oh, your lips are just as sweet as your soul.
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Jul 2, 2014
Jul 2, 2014 at 9:07 AM UTC
Butter-Cake
What we have named Fire Escape (an ordered, angular tangle of ladders and rail) had made picture geometries in my west window well-framed and flat--set foreground and background in two dimensions, as the sun hid, and my round eye opened. What we have named Fire Escape was flaked-paint brown orange, as if first it had been born of a flame and then had taken up living as metal-- tempered itself into usefulness, which I should trust now, in case of the yelling and the engines. What we have named Fire Escape was happy Jungle Jim or Jungle for Jane for the sparrows I saw this morning which flitted and wildly played within, rising up arched and back again. Made of the square pairs of ladder rungs-- a tunnel entrance or ducking posts, or highway bridges to clear; the birds like small plane, daredevil pilots each following each, going under. No sparrow would ever crash. And what is this I remember now? How one bird eased its engine and perched there to stay? As if to offer me, with a little turn of head gesture-- a thank you, for the bread I'd left on the sill? Or to say I'd better shut the curtain and make my exit? Either prideful guess gets me nowhere fast. Failed even is speaking in any sparrow languages from my recline stuffed chair; again, but now imagined, to draw beady eyes to fix on me, telling me much less. That morning, with the very last sparrow gone, I remember that nothing in my sight moved, save an American flag at a distance in the wind, with its one red-white striped wing waving toward the cold north, as the white church spire, framed in open quadrilaterals, held its position.
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Apr 15, 2013
Apr 15, 2013 at 5:18 AM UTC
A Fire Escape of Sparrows
What we have named Fire Escape (an ordered, angular tangle of ladders and rail) had made picture geometries in my west window well-framed and flat--set foreground and background in two dimensions, as the sun hid, and my round eye opened. What we have named Fire Escape was flaked-paint brown orange, as if first it had been born of a flame and then had taken up living as metal-- tempered itself into usefulness, which I should trust now, in case of the yelling and the engines. What we have named Fire Escape was happy Jungle Jim or Jungle for Jane for the sparrows I saw this morning which flitted and wildly played within, rising up arched and back again. Made of the square pairs of ladder rungs-- a tunnel entrance or ducking posts, or highway bridges to clear; the birds like small plane, daredevil pilots each following each, going under. No sparrow would ever crash. And what is this I remember now? How one bird eased its engine and perched there to stay? As if to offer me, with a little turn of head gesture-- a thank you, for the bread I'd left on the sill? Or to say I'd better shut the curtain and make my exit? Either prideful guess gets me nowhere fast. Failed even is speaking in any sparrow languages from my recline stuffed chair; again, but now imagined, to draw beady eyes to fix on me, telling me much less. That morning, with the very last sparrow gone, I remember that nothing in my sight moved, save an American flag at a distance in the wind, with its one red-white striped wing waving toward the cold north, as the white church spire, framed in open quadrilaterals, held its position.
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She unravels herself like a rose In the palm of my hand. Some of her petals break off And lay to the side The pain of growth, Making room for something new. She looks me in the eye, The tension of letting go Of reasonable fear. Too many lonely nights. The crescent moon of every lie Hovers over her head. Piece by piece, She's laid that insecurity in my hands, That uncertainty in her eyes, Slowly turning into trust. Seeing that I didn’t discard The pieces of her that flaked off, In my hands. Regardless of how bad they look, They are a part of her. She twists and she turns, Her thorns piercing my skin, One after another. With confidence, I don’t have to tell her That I am not afraid. But I do so anyway. The crescent moon that hangs Above her head fills out And becomes full. As comfortable as she seems, Fear still lingers. No matter how much she Lets go, She's been let down before. In time, my hands will become A vase that will protect her from harm, And my heart a place That will warm her always. When the day comes she knows, With certainty, that I am not afraid, I will still tell her I am not afraid
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Dec 15, 2024
Dec 15, 2024 at 7:26 AM UTC
Brown Skinned Vase
I am an immigrant lost in a foreign land. lost in the language. Abandoned in the promise of home. Sacrifice wells its tears in the eyes. Alone, further the thought sits in. The breaking of trust twists and turns in the chest. Not a soul to turn to. Not anything reminiscent of home. The thought of your name brand new. A place my dreams could roam free. Stuck in the anticipation of being a part of you. I've wandered the streets of your name. Ambition, now lost and afraid. Once eager to climb the ladder of your streets. In truth all of it was a dream. Your kiss now dried, now hallow. Your hand now chipped and flaked. I've told you my truths My dreams. You've turned a blind eye. Swallowing me in your cracks. Forever lost in the dark
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Aug 10, 2024
Aug 10, 2024 at 2:11 AM UTC
Lost in the Promise of You
Hell shimmies when I am blunted ; When I take a knock to the senses When I am skinless, singing stings and misdirected by pain If I had trained better I'd be deep sea Sussing distant messages Operating with slight tremors, vocals and movement and only when correct... I'd be home I'd be instrument Not an act Not a pet to society No mood fool ; flaked, flooded and littered Rapped at by experiences Attack reacting An embarrassment Watching my own pattern spooling the same sums and spoiling with repetition
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Jul 25, 2018
Jul 25, 2018 at 11:29 PM UTC
I'd be Submarine [Instrument 1]
I want to split you in two, tickle your cherry stem & sprinkle you with sugar drops. I've thought about marshmallow, some vanilla cream on top of your lemon tarts & rolling my tongue to spread it. Honey dripped onto your flower would be tastier than flaked-baklava, a little whipped cream & nuts would certainly finish you off. But I do dream of stuffing your pastry with my creme-filled cannoli. That would be the ultimate dessert, don't you think sweet lady?
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Jan 29, 2014
Jan 29, 2014 at 5:53 PM UTC
I Want To Make You My Dessert (Stuff Your Pastry)
Once upon a time, Oh but that’s such a boring way to start-                                                                                  Once upon a time. I was little red riding hood that knowingly stepped                               onto the wrong side of the path, Hoping that a monster in the woods                                               would come and get me, but you- A hurricane,            car crashes in slow motion,                               personified heartbreak-                                                                          Too much. Too much applesauce madam? The waiter asked, clean-shaven face bathed             In the New York skyline, ignorant to the gunfire explosions                           inside me as I waited for you.                                                                             No thank you, sir.      “Meet me at the station”,                                 scrawled in messy, love- stained letters In between the railway roars and the clatters of foreign accent, you've flaked again, like the struck chord of a bass                         Signifying disappointment like a punch line                                     Reverberating through my skull.              Okay, repeat the mantra, one-two-steady-                                                                                       Okay. It's Okay. Four weeks later                                    I had your body pushed up flush against bricks and- No shut up you don’t get to say anything after you go and shatter me like that You’re sick do you know that? Lips snarling, heart breaking.   You’re sick. So maybe I was the big bad wolf after all.                    Stairwell bricks glinted off iridescence and                                                        your mouth in that sad, sad laugh Studying me like a dream brought                                                                            to the ground, Puffy lipped and eyes blown wide like I was on some psychedelic high-             And you said                                *“You’re still a child with fanciful ideas of love, and the way you cling onto them-                             Quite frankly, it’s terrifying.”*                                                      Please darling, let me redefine myself Skip the pleasantries and small talk,                      scrap the story of little red riding hood- Once upon a time, I was apology and you were forgiveness I can imagine inside you, of alarm bells and sunken souls                  as you listen to the static white noise of                                                                           A dying heart Hello darling, are you there? Can you hear me? Is this mic working?           I hate to sound like those magazine cut outs-                                                                     I hate to sound like, Just another lover, just another cliché-                                        But you were the matchstick to my dynamite                                                                             and nothing feels better Than my own self- destruction, so won’t you please                      Another chance? No?                                 Even Lucifer sometimes longs to be let                                                       Into the gates of heaven again I’ve cooked some apology,           I saved a plate for you So for the love of god come inside and have some before it goes cold.
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Oct 24, 2018
Oct 24, 2018 at 5:04 AM UTC
Apple Sauce With a Side of Introspection
Once upon a time, Oh but that’s such a boring way to start-                                                                                  Once upon a time. I was little red riding hood that knowingly stepped                               onto the wrong side of the path, Hoping that a monster in the woods                                               would come and get me, but you- A hurricane,            car crashes in slow motion,                               personified heartbreak-                                                                          Too much. Too much applesauce madam? The waiter asked, clean-shaven face bathed             In the New York skyline, ignorant to the gunfire explosions                           inside me as I waited for you.                                                                             No thank you, sir.      “Meet me at the station”,                                 scrawled in messy, love- stained letters In between the railway roars and the clatters of foreign accent, you've flaked again, like the struck chord of a bass                         Signifying disappointment like a punch line                                     Reverberating through my skull.              Okay, repeat the mantra, one-two-steady-                                                                                       Okay. It's Okay. Four weeks later                                    I had your body pushed up flush against bricks and- No shut up you don’t get to say anything after you go and shatter me like that You’re sick do you know that? Lips snarling, heart breaking.   You’re sick. So maybe I was the big bad wolf after all.                    Stairwell bricks glinted off iridescence and                                                        your mouth in that sad, sad laugh Studying me like a dream brought                                                                            to the ground, Puffy lipped and eyes blown wide like I was on some psychedelic high-             And you said                                *“You’re still a child with fanciful ideas of love, and the way you cling onto them-                             Quite frankly, it’s terrifying.”*                                                      Please darling, let me redefine myself Skip the pleasantries and small talk,                      scrap the story of little red riding hood- Once upon a time, I was apology and you were forgiveness I can imagine inside you, of alarm bells and sunken souls                  as you listen to the static white noise of                                                                           A dying heart Hello darling, are you there? Can you hear me? Is this mic working?           I hate to sound like those magazine cut outs-                                                                     I hate to sound like, Just another lover, just another cliché-                                        But you were the matchstick to my dynamite                                                                             and nothing feels better Than my own self- destruction, so won’t you please                      Another chance? No?                                 Even Lucifer sometimes longs to be let                                                       Into the gates of heaven again I’ve cooked some apology,           I saved a plate for you So for the love of god come inside and have some before it goes cold.
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My French Gem The Rose tickler finely handwritten The movie part gave her the sign life crossed over gem French kiss the morning The burst of Kaleidoscope Sun Double touched but forbidden On the Cheetah necklace chase The French Lieutenant   her body and lips moonstruck On her chaise To get over it another work of art that got more attention To revive her from drowning in the gem scattered like a benevolent blue splat philanthropic Looking more into his unknown diving suit mixed with envy green how she got mixed into the stranger of Poison Ivy Her love didn't show all her attributes God spiritually well She went to the pastry heart how it flaked all over like crystals He was patiently sitting but got persuaded That little gem of the lounge Her firey gem was the canary that got his tongue Her gem stands taller   The crafted lines of quality in the Pillars "Le Bonheur De  Vivre Gem-Art" French kiss went inside the darker side of the painting       He's transformed. Shape heart delicate uniform. "Parisians on a mission A kiss is a serious manner   LOVE" Gem birth opens her He modifies her rainbow Artwork of brush yellow twinset platter hello fellow the essence beloved to follow So worth her wait being watched By the crystal rock, he loved her going up in spirit or she falls for him The gem to be it Magical modernly gem -fit clock. See through hands meditation harp. Lebonheur De Vivre fine art sharp. Lips movement beyond hearts. Le-bonheur De Vivre gem arts. Artesian heels tapping boots. Fall for Autumn love cahoots. Beloved, divinely he's the healer. The picture spoke she's the winner. Wilderness he glides kisses prints. Pushing her waves hints. Everlasting one thought he's guessing? Art never part beautify stem. Eyes so genuine he's her gem.
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Jul 9, 2018
Jul 9, 2018 at 9:26 AM UTC
Lebonheur DE Revive Gem
My French Gem The Rose tickler finely handwritten The movie part gave her the sign life crossed over gem French kiss the morning The burst of Kaleidoscope Sun Double touched but forbidden On the Cheetah necklace chase The French Lieutenant   her body and lips moonstruck On her chaise To get over it another work of art that got more attention To revive her from drowning in the gem scattered like a benevolent blue splat philanthropic Looking more into his unknown diving suit mixed with envy green how she got mixed into the stranger of Poison Ivy Her love didn't show all her attributes God spiritually well She went to the pastry heart how it flaked all over like crystals He was patiently sitting but got persuaded That little gem of the lounge Her firey gem was the canary that got his tongue Her gem stands taller   The crafted lines of quality in the Pillars "Le Bonheur De  Vivre Gem-Art" French kiss went inside the darker side of the painting       He's transformed. Shape heart delicate uniform. "Parisians on a mission A kiss is a serious manner   LOVE" Gem birth opens her He modifies her rainbow Artwork of brush yellow twinset platter hello fellow the essence beloved to follow So worth her wait being watched By the crystal rock, he loved her going up in spirit or she falls for him The gem to be it Magical modernly gem -fit clock. See through hands meditation harp. Lebonheur De Vivre fine art sharp. Lips movement beyond hearts. Le-bonheur De Vivre gem arts. Artesian heels tapping boots. Fall for Autumn love cahoots. Beloved, divinely he's the healer. The picture spoke she's the winner. Wilderness he glides kisses prints. Pushing her waves hints. Everlasting one thought he's guessing? Art never part beautify stem. Eyes so genuine he's her gem.
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In the crease of her fingers Is where she held me. A history of thought, Filtered. Flaked off at the end. It was her fingers I felt most comfortable. That I could truly do anything. Stuck between her middle and pointer finger. Held high, upright. Unprecedented in eclipse. She'd press me to her lips. Resuscitated. Flaked at the tip. Scatter ash Where I felt most alive. Nestled in the bend of her fingers. My building without escape. She'd set fire to my head. & like a mad man I'd lay still. This smoke, a place I wanted to be. Our bad habit persisting Day in and day out. The only fact perhaps we truly have. I'd unravel in loss of responsibility, The nook of her fingers, A universal sense of comfort. Withered down. Tossed to the wind. Our history made short, Recognizing that we were doomed from the start. Smoking in front of the no smoking sign, A habit we can't put down
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Oct 8, 2018
Oct 8, 2018 at 9:29 AM UTC
No Smoking Sign
Dean and I loitered on iron horseback Flaked with nuances and peppered with a keen stutter Our jokes had weight Weight creates a gravitational pull Our jokes had a gravitational pull My clone emerged in the rearview mirror with his girlfriend Dean and I thought that was funny They were attracted to us, for once We got a bite to eat, my head, like a gyroscope Universal karma Revolving, self-stabilization Into the palm of reconciliation Forced by nature With interdependence A means to measure And counter each sentence
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Jun 23, 2012
Jun 23, 2012 at 10:01 PM UTC
Galaxsea
God is in the shadows deep in the pocket of that rose an impossible color, beyond crimson, the epitome of crimson, so crimson tears spring forth This is where God, silent, drunk, on vacation, slumbers God is nowhere to be found not in dead fathers not in demented mothers not in fading ex-lovers not where spiders lurk not in the boom & beat of adolescent children It is the sorrow lodged somewhere between breast bone and lung, sorrow the size and shape of an island, a mountain, the texture of wet sand the weight of wet sand It is this that snatches away my breath upon inhaling A life-long sorrow, sealed to skin as surely as metallic paint to a pan - It hangs on with a cage fighter’s tenacity locked in fierce embrace sorrow coppery tasting sorrow flaked in my hair and Draped over the sofa, cat-like. It just hangs around - changing to heat, radiating at a dangerous level nuclear, capricious, then, as time passes just a presence one becomes accustomed to, like an aging dog or webs above the bed Its cousin, malevolence, its twin, melancholia family to my family, blood to my blood – dropping down from the shower head as I bathe sorrow becoming holy, beyond flesh It holds hands with the musician I’ve known all my life and dines regularly with that other writer We speak of transformation, you and I of becoming other than ourselves, as though we can unzip our flesh and find a whole new identity underneath, throbbing, pink, blood-pumped and with this, go forth into the same old world that remembers transgression and forgives nothing
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Jul 15, 2012
Jul 15, 2012 at 4:04 PM UTC
Warrior
God is in the shadows deep in the pocket of that rose an impossible color, beyond crimson, the epitome of crimson, so crimson tears spring forth This is where God, silent, drunk, on vacation, slumbers God is nowhere to be found not in dead fathers not in demented mothers not in fading ex-lovers not where spiders lurk not in the boom & beat of adolescent children It is the sorrow lodged somewhere between breast bone and lung, sorrow the size and shape of an island, a mountain, the texture of wet sand the weight of wet sand It is this that snatches away my breath upon inhaling A life-long sorrow, sealed to skin as surely as metallic paint to a pan - It hangs on with a cage fighter’s tenacity locked in fierce embrace sorrow coppery tasting sorrow flaked in my hair and Draped over the sofa, cat-like. It just hangs around - changing to heat, radiating at a dangerous level nuclear, capricious, then, as time passes just a presence one becomes accustomed to, like an aging dog or webs above the bed Its cousin, malevolence, its twin, melancholia family to my family, blood to my blood – dropping down from the shower head as I bathe sorrow becoming holy, beyond flesh It holds hands with the musician I’ve known all my life and dines regularly with that other writer We speak of transformation, you and I of becoming other than ourselves, as though we can unzip our flesh and find a whole new identity underneath, throbbing, pink, blood-pumped and with this, go forth into the same old world that remembers transgression and forgives nothing
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The coffee stain would not come off the wall, dear, when i scrubbed it only the peeling wallpaper came off in my hand. It flaked down like snow onto our rug. Do you remember, darling, when we bought that rug, it was an old place in Clapham with threadbare walls and the old man smoking a pipe asked if we were together. We didn't know what to tell him, babe, but when you asked me the other day where I had put the lost keys I thought of us. They have been lost a few years now, We lost the keys somewhere incomprehensible and I cannot get in. The coffee stain will not come off the wall, dear.
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Apr 16, 2014
Apr 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM UTC
Coffee stains
Southwestern Dis-United States of Memory Piñon smoke and sagebrush, voice of New Mexico night driving into an Arizona dawn rising over dreaming pueblos, low-ridden plazas, kivas and ruined cities’ rubble traced and highlighted by sunlight, Anglo angling into Aztec toward Zuni over arid zones… A to Z to El Dorado; a voice covers the high hills with a dusting of snow—every word hangs in the notes of the song: music to fall apart to, breakdown to, hurling the soul  into the bottomless well of psychotic nostalgia: música de cavanga, falling into the depths. Melody pushing to the threshold of a bar and leaving you there with cash in your pocket and no ride home. The warmth inside beckons—you step across as the song fills, swells, intoxicates, then excavates the wall of the dam until it collapses. The fatal mistake: you read too much into the lyrics of shallow love songs. The deathwish beast of despair arises, the flooded plains dazzle your eyes, the Indian girl smiles on the rim of the grand canyon, the tattooed cholo pulls a knife in the trailer park, the dark waters under the bridge murmur and surge with regret; el río de Las Animas, Durango CO, Aztec calligraphy on the wall: Las Cruces, NM; Clifton, Morenci, Globe, AZ: stepped pyramids of copper tailings, gang-warred walls in fallen barrios covered in Chicano hieroglyphics, the ruined huts of shepherds and cowboys, pit-house dwellings’ flaked arrowheads and pottery fragments scattered forever in the coyote laugh of desert dusk. Crepuscular colors on the names of mountain ranges: Santa Catalina, Sangre de Cristo, Sandia, each one a separate sunset delirium—then you ride through the night to the city of palm trees and the orange-lined boulevards of Heaven. The singer herself grew old but her YouTubes live forever.
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Feb 23, 2017
Feb 23, 2017 at 9:37 PM UTC
Lindísima
Southwestern Dis-United States of Memory Piñon smoke and sagebrush, voice of New Mexico night driving into an Arizona dawn rising over dreaming pueblos, low-ridden plazas, kivas and ruined cities’ rubble traced and highlighted by sunlight, Anglo angling into Aztec toward Zuni over arid zones… A to Z to El Dorado; a voice covers the high hills with a dusting of snow—every word hangs in the notes of the song: music to fall apart to, breakdown to, hurling the soul  into the bottomless well of psychotic nostalgia: música de cavanga, falling into the depths. Melody pushing to the threshold of a bar and leaving you there with cash in your pocket and no ride home. The warmth inside beckons—you step across as the song fills, swells, intoxicates, then excavates the wall of the dam until it collapses. The fatal mistake: you read too much into the lyrics of shallow love songs. The deathwish beast of despair arises, the flooded plains dazzle your eyes, the Indian girl smiles on the rim of the grand canyon, the tattooed cholo pulls a knife in the trailer park, the dark waters under the bridge murmur and surge with regret; el río de Las Animas, Durango CO, Aztec calligraphy on the wall: Las Cruces, NM; Clifton, Morenci, Globe, AZ: stepped pyramids of copper tailings, gang-warred walls in fallen barrios covered in Chicano hieroglyphics, the ruined huts of shepherds and cowboys, pit-house dwellings’ flaked arrowheads and pottery fragments scattered forever in the coyote laugh of desert dusk. Crepuscular colors on the names of mountain ranges: Santa Catalina, Sangre de Cristo, Sandia, each one a separate sunset delirium—then you ride through the night to the city of palm trees and the orange-lined boulevards of Heaven. The singer herself grew old but her YouTubes live forever.
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Took 287 South to a Borders Goin Outta Biz Sale. Books may be anachronisms, relics from yesterdays analog age, but literacy's bankruptcy does have advantages. Take an additional 30% off on any orphans pleading release from the discount racks. Snooping down the literature isle Samuel Beckett's somber face arrested my roving eyeballs. A stern stare printed across 5 spines of his shrink wrapped oeuvre commanded my arm to rise to liberate the face from the dismal shelf. In mid flight my reach was hijacked by a Kris Kringley red snow flaked trim tome standing open face next to earnest Beckett. It was "The Christmas Sweater" by NYT Best Selling Author, Glenn Beck. Clasping at Beck's book, it inflicted a nasty paper cut to my ring finger. My mind recoiled, thinking, "serves you right. Like Martha, I shoulda chosen the better thing." I'll never make that mistake again. Borders Books Riverdale 2/20/11 jbm
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Nov 6, 2011
Nov 6, 2011 at 3:50 PM UTC
Choose The Better Thing
Single life is sweet And a lover’s life is a dream But then there is that Space in between That doesn’t seem real At all. It’s the fall From cloud nine To the loneliest limbo. It’s watching sparkling sugar coated single earthlings Below show off their uncommitted free spirited Confectioner outfitted Figures and naked fingers Bubblegum ***** call blazers And frosted fickle flaked fedoras Suiting each been-there-done-that suitor In runway Yong Wild and Free And then you see Above Airy fairy angels in love Wearing pale peachy perfection And creamy chiffon Adorned in pearly promises Baby’s breath and fresh roses French kisses and rubbing noses And of course The stupid Valentine’s Day cards. But you are far Away from either world You are a girl In silent confinement Trapped On Cloud Five nothingness Like a time bomb A volatile child Ready to explode At any moment So kept In icy isolation So that no one Could hear the cries Of your eruption.
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May 31, 2012
May 31, 2012 at 7:31 PM UTC
The Semi-Single Life
If you take a left at the pier I promise you wont be disappoint in the amount of sights and sounds The lights meld with watery waves who crash upon aged wood Singing softly to organisms dwelling atop the crushed salt breathes into your heart a pit-pat only talented songstress could imitate - Id go with you if I could but I'm growing tired and old my skin is flaked and aged So begin your journey down the road and take a left at the merry old pier filled with old memories that will fill your ears Ill meet you soon but not in this way, In the sands of the waves and the flashing lights in the salted incrustations atop wooded planks on the polished boats of greedy racers, there you will hear my voice as it carries in the wind pit-pat patterns that only your heart could create
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Jan 12, 2013
Jan 12, 2013 at 3:45 PM UTC
Take a left at the Pier
Of the thousand reasons there is no God… yet god lives in the thousand and First; humility Of all the Homos, One persists by feasting upon the Fruit of a Tree; Humanity! A human ***** full of Pride will ignore that which sharks abide; the LAW And ‘God struck down upon the deck while Atheism commands all Ahoo and knows the flaw. Man adorned with all Its accoutrements of flaked flint and purified plutonium submits to the Universe Man thinks He creates until the noose of Its laws ‘round His neck persists To all God’s creatures past present and future there is one dubious Gift; Sentience Whose edge is but one of a pair and threatens the user with that ‘other edge’; Common sense God in his omnipotence stands all alone despite what demons, angels lambs and fishes Plan So He creates a Tree to tempt His dust to rise and contemplate the distance between He and Man If man is truly God’s image writ tolerably small then what is man without a notion of humility at all? He is ‘god’ with the power of an infant in tantrum’s fit with Entropy standing ready to swallow all of It.
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Feb 5, 2014
Feb 5, 2014 at 9:32 AM UTC
The Extinction of Humility
I had locked away my true thoughts and muzzled my true voice for far to long. Was it a character i desired to be? Were my words to be but a joke to break the awkward silence? When you start to be social only to lock yourself up to exist with your demons your becoming a dangerous person to yourself. My work once flowed now it sits half finished great starts stalled endings. My skills were learned from not the comic arena and i could imagine my journalist friends laughter mocking me even now. He's slipped finally lost in cheap jokes gone from anything that speak's of his true voice. The people didnt thirst to know John. for my well penned alter ego was the one they all knew and so blindly misunderstood. Old friends check in. Messages on my phone i'd sooner erase than respond to. Had I slipped in some form of insanity? Embracing dellusion to mask my failures in life? I was a writer ,A troublemaker and owner of laughs. A good time for many yet emptyness was my reallity. As from the TV screen reflected change and madness. For crazy is a close friend of chaos. I got in the game to make a mark but what was the price? A destroyed marriage a relationship heading into the very same direction. What had I become but some twisted monster and tormented soul. A sad afterthought to a sick joke. Deppresion can make us into something no mirror can truely reflect. The chamber stayed loaded the glass my curse seldom these days full. And what she wanted I could never give like sunsets red cast gold flaked embrace i was a moment. And moment's can't forever last. No child should know a madman's life. And a selfish bastard I knew was my role. Empty streets and smokey old bars were my path and what to anyone could i truley give? Pain was the fuel hours my sea to sail alone. The chamber was full but soon one would be missing. A tale cant be read untill it's finshed. We are but moments. And moments can't last forever.
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Feb 12, 2011
Feb 12, 2011 at 10:32 AM UTC
Moments
I had locked away my true thoughts and muzzled my true voice for far to long. Was it a character i desired to be? Were my words to be but a joke to break the awkward silence? When you start to be social only to lock yourself up to exist with your demons your becoming a dangerous person to yourself. My work once flowed now it sits half finished great starts stalled endings. My skills were learned from not the comic arena and i could imagine my journalist friends laughter mocking me even now. He's slipped finally lost in cheap jokes gone from anything that speak's of his true voice. The people didnt thirst to know John. for my well penned alter ego was the one they all knew and so blindly misunderstood. Old friends check in. Messages on my phone i'd sooner erase than respond to. Had I slipped in some form of insanity? Embracing dellusion to mask my failures in life? I was a writer ,A troublemaker and owner of laughs. A good time for many yet emptyness was my reallity. As from the TV screen reflected change and madness. For crazy is a close friend of chaos. I got in the game to make a mark but what was the price? A destroyed marriage a relationship heading into the very same direction. What had I become but some twisted monster and tormented soul. A sad afterthought to a sick joke. Deppresion can make us into something no mirror can truely reflect. The chamber stayed loaded the glass my curse seldom these days full. And what she wanted I could never give like sunsets red cast gold flaked embrace i was a moment. And moment's can't forever last. No child should know a madman's life. And a selfish bastard I knew was my role. Empty streets and smokey old bars were my path and what to anyone could i truley give? Pain was the fuel hours my sea to sail alone. The chamber was full but soon one would be missing. A tale cant be read untill it's finshed. We are but moments. And moments can't last forever.
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The Maybaline raccoon eyes stare full of synthesized tragedy for a life severed from the parents she clings to so dearly. The black-flaked fingertips dance without any real purpose for entertainment and communication within a hand-held device. The perfectly messy hair lays upon a head full of thoughts for friends, enemies, and homework yet the ambition isn't anywhere to be found. She sees herself as different but she really is the same committing those high school crimes That she pretends to be above.
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Mar 16, 2011
Mar 16, 2011 at 3:49 AM UTC
Hillary
Public transportation reeks of human sweat; the unwashed bodies of common man pressed together like flaked tuna fish in a can, only less well preserved. What folly bathing can be; as it hides the dark animal truth of who and what we are. The stench we turn our noses up from whilst we traverse throughout our day holds within it's sour notes our true identity. We are not nicely scented soaps and perfectly groomed hair. We are not our finely pressed clothes or smoothly manicured hands. We are creatures of this planet with a developed mind capable of great feats but our greatest achievement thus far may be the lies we have convinced ourselves to believe. And so we pack into busses, trains and planes and do our best not to breath the same air as our fellow passengers on this trip called life.
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Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 3:20 AM UTC
Nothing More than Animals
Romance is dead. He died on a cold winter night With a bottle of whisky in one hand And 5 missed calls on the night stand. He died along with laughter From red flaked lipstick, fish-net thigh highs And broken wax on the bed sheets. Romance Is Dead. He died along with good mornings and i'm sorry. He died along with warm kisses and long hugs. Died along with wishes and rings, Died with forever and took I Love You with him. Romance Is Dead
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Jul 9, 2013
Jul 9, 2013 at 10:47 PM UTC
Romance Is Dead
i glimpse the dawn through alabaster-flaked rickety-pickets, like the cavity-riddled ******* maw of tom sawyer’s crooked-grinning demon trying to reap its earthly exodus and rail at the wind for its squalling disposition. i have a head full of grass, and a trail of ants in staggered patrol clambering in one ear in hopes of alighting through the other; their bodies breaching synaptic copulations of thoughts and ideas assimilated in lucidity, but turning, like the thrusting-seed of climactic joy, only to find their first glimmer of stirring light is merely a preamble to a yawning, abortive dark. the sun is blinding, and yet i stare onward - inward, finding comfort in the dazzling blur, like a drug redefining the transcendent pain, and rending heart and brain to simple masses without flex or flux to pierce the void and conjure illusions wrought of patch-worked memories and dreams that i can no longer tell apart. here i have come perchance to bleed in pools to stain the shape of my words, and your eyes to dance upon their drift, like the mortician's arms embracing the husk of cuckoldly bones and beguiling flesh. here i have come to cackle at worms that chew holes in the leaves strewn like a sheet, to shadow the moment i stepped off of the page, and splintered these whittled stilts to tempt the proffered flames. it is a moment lost in orbits spent, revolutions spiraled, twisted and turned, like bitter shells spat from that forgetful sea, where i cast line after line of salty breath, to avail the deep with my own sullied hook. so here i lie with a head full of grass, thoughts taking flight on thorax and gaster, staring onward - inward, of the blinding sun, to purge the umbrage of a threadbare soul, and wander the void perchance... to bleed.
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Jul 26, 2013
Jul 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM UTC
into the out of
i glimpse the dawn through alabaster-flaked rickety-pickets, like the cavity-riddled ******* maw of tom sawyer’s crooked-grinning demon trying to reap its earthly exodus and rail at the wind for its squalling disposition. i have a head full of grass, and a trail of ants in staggered patrol clambering in one ear in hopes of alighting through the other; their bodies breaching synaptic copulations of thoughts and ideas assimilated in lucidity, but turning, like the thrusting-seed of climactic joy, only to find their first glimmer of stirring light is merely a preamble to a yawning, abortive dark. the sun is blinding, and yet i stare onward - inward, finding comfort in the dazzling blur, like a drug redefining the transcendent pain, and rending heart and brain to simple masses without flex or flux to pierce the void and conjure illusions wrought of patch-worked memories and dreams that i can no longer tell apart. here i have come perchance to bleed in pools to stain the shape of my words, and your eyes to dance upon their drift, like the mortician's arms embracing the husk of cuckoldly bones and beguiling flesh. here i have come to cackle at worms that chew holes in the leaves strewn like a sheet, to shadow the moment i stepped off of the page, and splintered these whittled stilts to tempt the proffered flames. it is a moment lost in orbits spent, revolutions spiraled, twisted and turned, like bitter shells spat from that forgetful sea, where i cast line after line of salty breath, to avail the deep with my own sullied hook. so here i lie with a head full of grass, thoughts taking flight on thorax and gaster, staring onward - inward, of the blinding sun, to purge the umbrage of a threadbare soul, and wander the void perchance... to bleed.
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In my house It smells like burning nachos Like pico de gallo left to rot And beans too long on the stove. I stand in the doorway Keys in one hand, doorknob in the other. It's snowing outside, and I'd forgotten That I'd asked you over that afternoon, Just to talk. Maybe watch TV. For three and a half years now, we've been best friends. But there was a different time, When we didn't talk to each other, When we let teenage angst and hatred seethe Between us like some dark and twisted monster. There are different kinds of anger. I was mad at you because in the summer Between seventh and eighth grade, you flaked on me For those other girls, the ones who wore bikinis And whose dads had speedboats and sports cars, Whose boyfriends were in high school, Who wore black eyeliner and gossiped all the time. I was mad because you changed yourself for them. I thought that that was why you were avoiding me. Today you told me You were mad at me Because we liked the same boy. You said you thought I resented you for it. I laughed. This is why we have these talks - So that, looking back on our junior high selves, We can make fun of what idiots we are.
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Jan 15, 2012
Jan 15, 2012 at 4:08 AM UTC
talk