"furless" poems
The naked is not dangerous.
Lust filling the eyes of young.
Full bodied stretching
yearning for what is to ***
or merely done
For the sake of comfort.
Not a foreign folly
But a jolly adventure
letting the wind and water
wash away the stress of the days.
Naked as the snakes
or the furless babies
breastfeeding at their mother’s breast.
**** and curved.
Fat or muscled.
Not dangerous, but beautiful
like Michelangelo’s David.
The **** does not destroy
neither does the ******
****** does not diminish our morality.
Oct 21, 2015
Oct 21, 2015 at 1:03 PM UTC
You came too soon, the four of you,
into this world. Your mother,
recognising the feeling,
did what she had to do
to give birth to you,
cleaned you,
disposed of the afterbirth
in nature's economical way.
But you had no experience,
no knowledge of how to be kittens.
Almost still foetuses,
furless, unmoving, cold,
you did not stimulate
her maternal instinct.
She did not recognise you
as her babies. Lying against her belly,
you did not know how to suckle,
and she, not ready to feed you,
walked off.
You had no future.
A bucket of water, I thought, would speed
your departure from the life
you had barely started.
But you, recognising the element
you had so lately left,
were at home in it,
swam untroubled under the surface
like tiny, pink sea creatures.
Unwilling to watch longer,
I gave you a quicker end.
Your mother, unlike me,
resumed her life
as if nothing had changed.
Jan 2, 2017
Jan 2, 2017 at 2:28 PM UTC
Here's to pianos.
To uncut toe nails and broken jaws.
Here's to sweaty palms and fancy door knobs.
The last tissue in the box and third graders who know every single dinosaur.
Here's to prickly legs and furless cats.
Slamming doors and rubbing alcohol.
Fun house mirrors and wet towels.
Here's to the boy with the sweaty armpits,
And the biggest heart in the room.
Here's to all the girls who will never give him a chance
Because his hair is greasy
And he always has pieces of apple stuck in his braces.
Here's to grandmothers holding their children's babies for the first
And last time.
Here's to six foot tall nine year olds
And acne covered foreheads.
North Ohio and beehives.
Here's to wrinkles and back pain,
And the kids who never change for gym class.
Here's to burnt papers and wrongful convictions.
Faked I love you's and backwards t shirts.
For every broken leg and broken heart,
Seasonal depression and ADD.
For unshaven armpits and ripped jeans.
Frequent showers and twisted ankles.
****** mattresses and forged signatures.
Here's to the things that remind me of you.
Oct 28, 2013
Oct 28, 2013 at 9:27 PM UTC
Today i have seen a fox
his tail all furless and broken
he looked at me
and went on his way
he looked like he been hurt
i can think of what he would relate
when he got home
where have you been
out looking for food
come on give me a break
and what happen to your tail
is that lipstik
no woman thats blood
got run over on that busy road
any way i going to lick my wounds
then go to bed
so where is the food
i just told you
i got run over
so it's up to me instead
to get the food
W H A T!
that fox said
as his *****
moved across the room
O K
O K
I will go out again
*****
Aug 25, 2012
Aug 25, 2012 at 4:21 PM UTC
Black cows
Meat ghosts in the mist
What animal contemplations
Are breathing warmly through
your thick shadow flesh?
I see our thumb prints on you
We guide the filling of your flanks
Through generations.
We do not loose
Our child-drive to touch things.
I want to reach out to you now
pat your dark domestic head.
You are cattle.
I am human.
This is pasture.
See the unevenly woven web
We have spun
And now we are dizzy.
I am unsure where the balance
should rest
Between wilds and wanders and the human hand,
Itself belonging to something wild if unrecognized
Behind the shell of our own furless skulls.
So I focus on the drops of dew
Clinging to the web strings
In this early morning mist
And resist the urge
to touch them.
Jan 1, 2013
Jan 1, 2013 at 5:38 PM UTC
Grotesquely vague
The obscene, hell bound silence
Each step a milestone of triumph
The valleys are dark, she holds her breath for each dawn
The bitter taste
The strands fall out until your head is naked and furless
The convulsions of radiation so ******
creating eruptions of decay
You won't let this win
You won't be slayed
The apathetic walls just glare, they've seen it all
It's all they know
Your hope begins to fade
The darkness begins to sweep over you
Your that skeletal anatomy on display
Your empty and hollow
There's not much left anymore
Your deteriorating as we speak
Nov 12, 2015
Nov 12, 2015 at 4:19 AM UTC
first glance
penetrating blue
hostility
embodied
embroiled in inconsistency
irregular heartbeat
palpitates
facilitating fallacies
like ‘health’ and ‘well-being’
beings damaged goods are sold on clearance
shouldn’t the mentally ill be sold into slavery
eliminating national debt
by selling the sick to Chinese factories
sending those who drain our health care system
the **** outta the country –
broken records repeat 16 bar blues
supreme court embraces homosexuality and marijuana
while removing campaign donation limits
and the woman’s right to choose
maintaining balance
is often ugly for the masses
passing gasses for solar fuel
poisoning the producers
creating cancerous lesions
attempting to save the sky –
dangerous liaison as the corrupt
meet with the condemned
concentrating on collusion and coercion
of the community at large
so as to better control the carefree
bleeding calluses hold broken handles
handcuffed to the handrails
hanging on for dear life—
beaten seals stain beaches
furless
representing the future
freedom looks like death
sprinkled with red, white, and blue
candy
at least in my homeland –
Jul 3, 2014
Jul 3, 2014 at 6:56 PM UTC
how do broken dreams
smell while they be fresh
as furless in a snow
as shivering naked flesh
amid a creatures crowd
it wanders sightlessly
and drowns with every breath
when skips few of its beat
this flickering noise it makes
with dying of this day
a solemn heart does shrink
as petals plucked away
and still be set ablaze
by fierceness of night
in midst of mocking stars
in staleness of its plight
i tread along this time
as pilgrims by the sea
and leave for fate to meet
an intolerable prophecy
Oct 22, 2013
Oct 22, 2013 at 8:10 AM UTC
I'm a pack rat
with a furless tail
and red
raspberry
eyes
and I will never
get rid of
(that envelope)
you
gave me
on Xmas eve
with the
crooked tree
on the back-side.
It was carelessly done,
but I am acutely
aware that you did
your best.
Aug 31, 2013
Aug 31, 2013 at 6:53 PM UTC