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We,
the uninsured
being inured to this,
the will of gods.
Our lives doled out in tablet form
from birth to breath by those pharmacists
with death proscribed,
prescription wise.

My eyes have seen the crookedness that shake
foundations,
three times a day we pray again to all the gods
to open up and swallow pills and god just nods
his head,agrees that we need medications.

The ***** top bottle throttles me
but I am strangled happily by those 'dolls'
the greens and reds of fol de rols
a plague on gaudiness unless instructions say,
take the pills three times a day.

These games we play, I'll say,
are just a side event,a small diversion to prevent us
from ever having to face the facts,
but we're inured to that and so,
on and on and on we go until the end is reached.

I plead,
just one more pill,
it appears that this is not the will of god or any pharmacist,
I missed the last bus home,but home is hell and
so that's just as well.
I wait in the wings to see
what tomorrow brings.
Liz Rossi Mar 2020
You wanted a love story, sweetheart—
    well, I’m an unwritten tragedy;
  hand me a skull and I’ll monologue
while Rome burns.
      We’re two acts in and falling fast,
         we’re half a city down and soon
            there’ll be nothing but ashes.

          You wanted a love song, baby—
        I’ll sing to you in a minor key,
harmonies in the rain under neon stars,
            screaming in tune with flowers in your lungs
      and blood in your hair
and city lights and city lights and
                                               city lights.

You wanted a love letter, honey—
“Dear Heartbreak,
   I’ve got purple bruises on my chest
     where my prose hits me. I’ve got
       a mess of clichés and a dark and stormy night
         and a pinch of melodrama,
           no talent but I’m trying, honest.
             I don’t suppose you could maybe
              unravel me a little?
               Cut me open like a knife through butter?
                Maybe then I’ll bleed words;
                 maybe then the poems will spill out of me,
                  entrails unravelling.”

You wanted a love poem, darling—
                meet me in your aspect and your eyes
               at ten o’clock tonight. Rome’s burning, baby,
              and all our lions are loose. No time for
    sonnets; we’ll climb the Colosseum with
    our flowers and our songs and
                             we’ll deny the gaudiness
                                                     of the day.

You wanted love, sweetheart—
I’ll give you everything I am:
           a burnt-out city,
           a soliloquy in G minor.
               I’ll play til my fingers bleed,
                     sing til my voice gives out and
                                                             ­            maybe—
maybe
it’ll do.
byron’s “she walks in beauty“ is the one i’m wittering on about in the fourth stanza.
Lennox Trim Mar 2021
At night I close my eyes and dreams are morbid
And Nightmarish nights turn to mournin mornings,
As I toss and turn,
I'm wide awake in this coma
Dreams crash and burn ,
I'm more Bart than Homer,
A trouble maker lookin for an audience,
Or the vindicator for this awful gaudiness
A fallen gladiator that refuse to call it quits,
The great debator to the proof of godliness,
A trailblazer despite my Mike Conleyness,
A heart breaker in relationships,
undertaker when it comes showmanship,
In this time of need some chose to watch like the view from my skinny wrist,
these life choices I choose come with plenty risk,
Its ten past anxiety,
A quarter to dyin,
Its half past my misery ,
And I'm almost an hour early for this journey to Zion,

Joseph said..
"The skys the limit and that's what they told the ****** fool,
I disguise my limits so I'm aiming for the sun and moon"
But peep
The sun watches all I do ,
the moon know all my secrets,
My bed knows who I am at night,
My mirror knows my weakness,
These clothes cover my scars,
(My)hearts the reason for this thesis ,
My pillow knows when I cry,
My brain knows I'm a genius,
I am not my hair, 
Feelings not welcome here,
I dont ever care,
Let me take this time to share...

I'm bigger than my body,
I'm colder than this home,
I'm meaner than my demons,
I'm bigger than my bones,
I'm sure enough to know better
I'm doubting the unknown
I'm old enough for new endeavors,
But I'm cold enough alone

Im tanning in the eternal sunshine of my spotless mind.
I'm relapsing and im napping on this bed of lies,
I'm planning different ways for mama son to shine,
I'm collapsing and unpacking my decisions are unwise,
At times I cant stand myself, I be paraplegic, 
Still want the fair one with my demons, 
Lord knows they deserve a good beating,
J hova spoke to me , and I been sparring with jesus,
After the bout, I ask what his pops been askin bout,
As he spoke, I stamp and shout, almost walked out
The more I knew the more I wish I didnt,
The more I saw the more I wish I didn't have to see,
but I realized what was bein Asked of me , as for me?
I wonder if God charge late fees ,
I wonder if moses would shop at Macy's ,
I wonder if Judas care about the babies,
I wonder if kids see ghost like Patrick Swayze,
I wonder if Allah accept collect calls ,
I wonder when karma comin to collect costs ,
I wonder if you know what it means ,
To only see the bad in goodbyes, 
Or to the good in bad habits
The love in the lies
Or that evil is a talent. ©️
May 2018
Travis Green Feb 2023
His charmingness and tallness
His machoness and sauciness
His flawlessness and gaudiness
It’s all that I can ever think about
All that blows my mind
All that has me hankering
For my fervent flavorful freshness

Badass strapping biceps
Broad blockbuster pecs
Fantastically flabbergasting abs
Attention-grabbing magic stick
I wanna room with his rude smooth pulchritude
In perpetual togetherness
With his impeccable sensual majesticness

The most magical made man
That shines bright in the limelight of my liveliness
I pine to glide my hands
Down his vibrant pliable frame
Delight in his electrifying five-star game

I dig how he moves juicy kissable *****
Thick, exquisite thighs
That captures my imagination
He enlivens and hypnotizes me
Melts me in his magnificence

He is an adventurous seamless instrument
That delivers me the most treasured pleasure
That takes me deep into his sweet musical realm
Of red-hot carnal amorosity
Fill me up with his eternal incomparable love
Travis Green Aug 2022
Your love is a boundless and new-found delight
Ecstatic ****** delectableness
Crisp, earthy sweetness
Utter, passionate lover prodigy
I tremble in the presence
Of your rich and dreamy allure
Immense divine delightfulness

Such enthralling and heart-stopping erotica
In your magically ecstatic and thugtastic palace
Superlative and wondrous art
Profoundly sensual and ultra-muscled ****
I feel so vindicated when you take me in your nakedness
When you flex and spit killer superheated ****

Make me rapt and flabbergasted
Take down my gayness
Shake up my cells
Cause me to crave your saucy, salty taste
Your titillating hotness and rawness
In your thrilling, towering tidal waves
Of roaring sparkling machoness

Dangerously mountainous and unquantifiable excitingness
Blanket me with red-hot flaming spice
Wrap me in fierce impassioned magic
In impeccable majestic lechery
Let me kiss your rich misty rose lips
Lick your delicious chiseled face
Piercing nut brown ale eyes
You engross me in your wildness
In your bright, inviting fieriness
Make me vulnerable to your artful carnal gaudiness
Travis Green Aug 2022
When I am with you
It feels like everything, in reality, turns silent
Your harmonically-rich hotness hypnotizes me
Makes my charming heartland throb
In the incomprehensible tenderness of your touch

Your lingering superheated breath
Traveling the soft, attractive path
Of my heavenly jaunty body
I caress your deftly delectable chest
Venerate the superlatively picturesque details

Your rock-hard razor-sharp abs
Mellow yellow gold Casanova
**** honey candied eyes
Shimmering in the relentless spinning sunlight
Moon-shaped magnetic majesticness

You possess me so effortlessly
Bewitchingly built biceps
Ardent head-turning hot boy
Perfectly formed contours
Visually gripping irresistibleness
Your desirable harmonious frame
Inflames my senses
Your red-hot ranging slanguage
Lights up my life force

You got me ******, bounded by
Your resounding gangsterness
Your gaudiness is an unstoppable body
Of marvelous wonder, a far-famed flame
With flawless glorious game
Travis Green Aug 2022
Your juicy, impassioned, and scorching kisses
Make me burn for your warm, loving charmingness
Fresh and flaming, tender thrilling flex
Wild resounding delight, impassioned juicy kryptonite
Deep-voiced high-energy dreaminess
So adventurous and ambitious
So glowing and imposing

Your smoking hot gaudiness
Has my mind enshrouded
In your blissful and enjoyable sea
Thick with ever-reaching enchantment
I want to probe your endless hypnotic dopeness
Taste your fascinating lemonade whiskey composition

Hungry, lustful thoughts of your glossy four-star sauciness
Consumes my rainbow life and dreams
I float in an impeccable expressive cloud
Of uncontrollable emotive desires
Hypnotically high-voltage fieriness

I linger in your seamless streaming kingdom
Brimming with inexpressible electric ecstasy
Entrancing egg-shaped eyes
Peanut butter mocha colored perfection
Hot slick lover boy, let me cuddle up to your thugness
Feel your skilled smooth hands
On my titillating heavy-breasted dingers

Claw at them, gnaw at them, make me sauced up
Rock me steady, take me, smashing snazzy Daddy
Wrap me in your tasteful stimulating majesty
Wreck my vast and seemingly solid world

— The End —