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"glassware" poems
A subtle panic like a slow death creeps, the anxiety within me, for here's where it sleeps. Quietly loud enough to cover the sound, of the glassware you've thrown, now strewn all around. Rocking all positive lullaby's to sleep, ensuring all menacing thoughts I'm to keep. It's adept like the teen who's stayed out beyond curfew, sneaks in armed with oceans with which it will drown you. All because of the lies that were said, went in through your ears and lived in your head. The life you once had held aloft like a prize, you breathe your last breath and then close your eyes. Poetry by Kaydee.
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Dec 18, 2017
Dec 18, 2017 at 4:04 PM UTC
The Prize.
I could have gone to the cemetery, or back to my high school lab, find him lecturing from a podium, bony finger raised, demagogue of the dead. I could break him down piece by piece, cram him in a duffle, a femur jutting the zipper. Ignore the groan- Skeletons are by nature never satisfied. Instead I found myself in the carnival lot, The dog was long dead, the sign kept guard. Rusty rides slouched like tumbleweeds. Cotton candy in memory- blue tack crunching my teeth. Lewd. Skeletons fixed on poles, spiked up through pelvis and spine. Use **** Grip shoulders. twist. lift. When one slid free, he collapsed into my arms all bone-light, lovely, mine at last. I just brought him home. Sat at the kitchen table. Named him Curly. Zoom howled: WAG’s gone weird! What’s his name? What’s his name? His name is Curly, I said, but I knew his name was You. We drink wine by the pool. He never sips. Sometimes I pour a second glass for the glint. Sometimes he tells me Danny Elfman wants to play his ribs like a xylophone. Sometimes he sighs, he hates Oingo Boingo. I laugh. Obliging. So do I. When the wind kicks up he smells of sugar and rust. Sometimes he rattles the glassware. Sometimes he won’t sit still. Skeletons are by nature never satisfied.
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Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM UTC
Curly
As I sit here, at the dining room table and stare over decaf coffee at the screen on my Mac my eyes are drawn, once and awhile, to the picture sitting on the buffet in the butler's pantry. Before we continue you should know that "butler's pantry" in this case means the "third bedroom" that we saw in the listing on Realtor dot com before we bought the house and that, in the usual real estate-ese, is an optimistic label at best. But I was talking about the picture. The picture sits, slightly askew, in a carved wooden bowl given to us by my wife's boss as a housewarming present. It, the bowl I mean, came with salad tongs or forks, depending on what it is that you call them, made of water buffalo horn. They sit in the bowl too and, although she'd never admit it, I know that the thought of serving salad with water buffalo horn salad forks... lets just say..... doesn't appeal to my wife. Right, the picture.... It sits in on the buffet, in the carved wooden bowl, next to another wood bowl. This one full of carved wood fruits and vegetables, which evidently, includes sugar cane. When my wife's dad moved from his house to an assisted living facility the kids, my wife, her brother and sister, took turns going down to help him move. My wife was the last and dad insisted that someone "had" to take the fruit. But, the picture.... It, and the wooden bowls full of fruit and unused salad forks, are surrounded by both faux and real glassware and placemats which all sit perched on the top of the buffet as precariously as refugees and all of their belongings on the deck and roof of an overloaded fishing boat chugging from their homeland to some place that is hopefully better. The picture... It was painted by my father-in-law and, of all the others we have in the house, is one of my favorites. It sits on the buffet, askew in the carved wooden bowl with the horn salad forks, amid polycarbonate and glass drink ware, and placemats, unframed for some reason. All of his other works came framed but this is one he did not... and did I mention that it is one of my favorites? I like his choices of frames on all of the other pictures we have, but this is just canvas, stretched over a frame, sitting in that carved African wooden bowl with those salad forks made from water buffalo horn on the buffet next to the other wood bowl full of wooden fruits and vegetables, and wooden sugar cane, in the butler's pantry.
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Jul 15, 2013
Jul 15, 2013 at 9:51 AM UTC
The Picture
As I sit here, at the dining room table and stare over decaf coffee at the screen on my Mac my eyes are drawn, once and awhile, to the picture sitting on the buffet in the butler's pantry. Before we continue you should know that "butler's pantry" in this case means the "third bedroom" that we saw in the listing on Realtor dot com before we bought the house and that, in the usual real estate-ese, is an optimistic label at best. But I was talking about the picture. The picture sits, slightly askew, in a carved wooden bowl given to us by my wife's boss as a housewarming present. It, the bowl I mean, came with salad tongs or forks, depending on what it is that you call them, made of water buffalo horn. They sit in the bowl too and, although she'd never admit it, I know that the thought of serving salad with water buffalo horn salad forks... lets just say..... doesn't appeal to my wife. Right, the picture.... It sits in on the buffet, in the carved wooden bowl, next to another wood bowl. This one full of carved wood fruits and vegetables, which evidently, includes sugar cane. When my wife's dad moved from his house to an assisted living facility the kids, my wife, her brother and sister, took turns going down to help him move. My wife was the last and dad insisted that someone "had" to take the fruit. But, the picture.... It, and the wooden bowls full of fruit and unused salad forks, are surrounded by both faux and real glassware and placemats which all sit perched on the top of the buffet as precariously as refugees and all of their belongings on the deck and roof of an overloaded fishing boat chugging from their homeland to some place that is hopefully better. The picture... It was painted by my father-in-law and, of all the others we have in the house, is one of my favorites. It sits on the buffet, askew in the carved wooden bowl with the horn salad forks, amid polycarbonate and glass drink ware, and placemats, unframed for some reason. All of his other works came framed but this is one he did not... and did I mention that it is one of my favorites? I like his choices of frames on all of the other pictures we have, but this is just canvas, stretched over a frame, sitting in that carved African wooden bowl with those salad forks made from water buffalo horn on the buffet next to the other wood bowl full of wooden fruits and vegetables, and wooden sugar cane, in the butler's pantry.
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On the land molded by footsteps and ruled by obnoxiously bleached clowns, Visited by swarms of neighborhood guttersnipes and the opulent from uptown. Allured by the traditional Irish circus music and the grinding of rusted gears, To arrive at dawn and to leave only when the night sky is tired of fireworks and flares. Skittish and gleaming eyes would roll on the floor, struck by daze and lost in wonderment, At the marvel of giant steel rides and god forsaken and socially foretoken genetic mutants. The word of a woman with two faces and the boy with a tail would make any catholic priest run. Amusing the rational ones, alongside the man with elastic skin and the girl with the forked tongue. The opera lady with outlandish proportions and tumorous lips sings to break a piece of cheap glassware. Little do people know,that the magician’s red gloves are actually stained with blood of rabbit that disappeared. Their noses get caught in the medley of fragrances from the exotic perfumes shop, Blended with the saccharine tang from the stall that sells candy floss and soda pops. Indulging over the overly priced confectioneries at the stall of the baker with the forbidding grin. Try it a hundred times,try it a thousand,you’ll never get the fifth one right in the game of rings. People will come out screaming from the haunted house,only to laugh about it later, Little do they know,that skeletons that drove them pale and white couldn't get any realer. They’ll jostle and struggle to make their way through the crowd to various rides and attractions. Hustling to navigate through the maze the carnival is, encountered by countless illusions. And once your body wears out and senses give in,that’s when you've truly entered the carnival state of mind. Your ears stinging ,nose stifled,tongue baffled, eyes exhausted,and your sense of judgment blinded. That’s when my masked act begins,the most profitable act at the carnival, Diving into the heart of the crowd,to draw an act of brilliance lasting an ephemeral. Slithering across the crowd in a different disguise every hour,concealed by stealth. Sneaking into every nook and corner and slipping my furtive hands into your pockets for a little bit of wealth. Only to dine with the clowns and the carnival family at the haunted house at the end of the day. And of course, rabbits for dinner,if the baker may
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May 7, 2015
May 7, 2015 at 3:13 AM UTC
Carnival
On the land molded by footsteps and ruled by obnoxiously bleached clowns, Visited by swarms of neighborhood guttersnipes and the opulent from uptown. Allured by the traditional Irish circus music and the grinding of rusted gears, To arrive at dawn and to leave only when the night sky is tired of fireworks and flares. Skittish and gleaming eyes would roll on the floor, struck by daze and lost in wonderment, At the marvel of giant steel rides and god forsaken and socially foretoken genetic mutants. The word of a woman with two faces and the boy with a tail would make any catholic priest run. Amusing the rational ones, alongside the man with elastic skin and the girl with the forked tongue. The opera lady with outlandish proportions and tumorous lips sings to break a piece of cheap glassware. Little do people know,that the magician’s red gloves are actually stained with blood of rabbit that disappeared. Their noses get caught in the medley of fragrances from the exotic perfumes shop, Blended with the saccharine tang from the stall that sells candy floss and soda pops. Indulging over the overly priced confectioneries at the stall of the baker with the forbidding grin. Try it a hundred times,try it a thousand,you’ll never get the fifth one right in the game of rings. People will come out screaming from the haunted house,only to laugh about it later, Little do they know,that skeletons that drove them pale and white couldn't get any realer. They’ll jostle and struggle to make their way through the crowd to various rides and attractions. Hustling to navigate through the maze the carnival is, encountered by countless illusions. And once your body wears out and senses give in,that’s when you've truly entered the carnival state of mind. Your ears stinging ,nose stifled,tongue baffled, eyes exhausted,and your sense of judgment blinded. That’s when my masked act begins,the most profitable act at the carnival, Diving into the heart of the crowd,to draw an act of brilliance lasting an ephemeral. Slithering across the crowd in a different disguise every hour,concealed by stealth. Sneaking into every nook and corner and slipping my furtive hands into your pockets for a little bit of wealth. Only to dine with the clowns and the carnival family at the haunted house at the end of the day. And of course, rabbits for dinner,if the baker may
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Meandering like its canals Venetian streets sing underfoot. Who wore away the stone cobbled streets? Who walked down to the shore? Who gazed out at the Adriatic? Who's dreams were lost in Venice's stream of streets? Licentious lovers loved in Venice's streets, kissed on her bridges, Crossed under by gondola and over by foot. Proposed at the piazza San Marco. Kissed, while the Grand Canal wound her way down. Down into the sea, where the menace that is the world, Venice shuns. Rialto, Doge, Basilica, St. Marks, pigeons! All evoke that lagoon city of streets. Originally refugees, incolae lacunae ("lagoon dwellers") Venetians, gave not only a place for the dispossessed, but a place for the world to see, feel and taste. Art, war, politics, commerce, spice and silk. Venice with her ribbon of streets, alleyways and bridges saw the Renaissance, the crusades, and the Black Death. Glassware, paintings, sculptures, religion, refugees all synonymous with that floating city. A city returning to the water she arose from. Subsiding with grief as she drowns in elegant decay.
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Jun 13, 2014
Jun 13, 2014 at 2:56 PM UTC
Venice streets.
it seems my entire life is defined by drinks. mother's milk out the womb. (and maybe those suckles were sweet - it's not like i remember - but her words, for the rest of my life, certainly weren't.) an hour-long debate, with my best friend at twelve years old - apple or orange juice? (orange, obviously, is the right answer. we rehash the argument sometimes to this day.) the day i turn 19, a beer in my hands. (i'm sat around a campfire with my closest friends, birthdays all older than me - the beer tastes disgusting, as cheap alcohol is, but i'm glad to be there.) yesterday, i had 1 coffee and 2 mugs of lemon honey tea, 4 glasses of water. today, no tea, but 2 cups of coffee, a glass of milk, and 3 glasses of water. i bite at my nails when i'm nervous, swallow down the spit that comes with it, the bile that rises. last summer, i visited pei, had a raspberry cordial - my favourite drink to date - then bought a case of 4 more to take home with me. last summer, when i lived in new brunswick, my friends in the same building knew me as the one who would always have a drink in hand - a milk tea, or maybe a pink lemonade, maybe that obscure korean soda i liked. when i left new brunswick, i took a photo of my 2 trash cans, of the way they were both filled to the brim with empty bottles and cans and jugs. i still miss the apple cider they made there. my life is defined by drinks, sips, swallows, taking five minutes to breathe by making myself a nice whipped coffee, trawling the internet for pretty coasters and glassware for an hour in lieu of doing actual work. Eventually, i close the shopping tabs, take a sip of coffee, and resume with the rest of my life.
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Nov 5, 2023
Nov 5, 2023 at 7:38 PM UTC
take a sip
it seems my entire life is defined by drinks. mother's milk out the womb. (and maybe those suckles were sweet - it's not like i remember - but her words, for the rest of my life, certainly weren't.) an hour-long debate, with my best friend at twelve years old - apple or orange juice? (orange, obviously, is the right answer. we rehash the argument sometimes to this day.) the day i turn 19, a beer in my hands. (i'm sat around a campfire with my closest friends, birthdays all older than me - the beer tastes disgusting, as cheap alcohol is, but i'm glad to be there.) yesterday, i had 1 coffee and 2 mugs of lemon honey tea, 4 glasses of water. today, no tea, but 2 cups of coffee, a glass of milk, and 3 glasses of water. i bite at my nails when i'm nervous, swallow down the spit that comes with it, the bile that rises. last summer, i visited pei, had a raspberry cordial - my favourite drink to date - then bought a case of 4 more to take home with me. last summer, when i lived in new brunswick, my friends in the same building knew me as the one who would always have a drink in hand - a milk tea, or maybe a pink lemonade, maybe that obscure korean soda i liked. when i left new brunswick, i took a photo of my 2 trash cans, of the way they were both filled to the brim with empty bottles and cans and jugs. i still miss the apple cider they made there. my life is defined by drinks, sips, swallows, taking five minutes to breathe by making myself a nice whipped coffee, trawling the internet for pretty coasters and glassware for an hour in lieu of doing actual work. Eventually, i close the shopping tabs, take a sip of coffee, and resume with the rest of my life.
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She's a clumsy little human. Broken beakers, test tubes, Plates, glassware, door handles, The antlers of that showpiece deer, Her bed, her favourite pencil. Through seventeen (and a half) years of clumsiness The universe, it's always whispered to her "However careful you might try to be Sometimes things, they'll fall out of your clumsy hands Never on purpose, no satisfactory reason Leaving you with melancholy ruins. Sometimes things, they can be fixed With a little glue and a lot of patience So fix them before they're lost and Be ever more careful thereon. But sometimes things, they can't be fixed Not with glue nor with patience And broken they will forever be So sweep up the pieces gently and Cast them away sans regret." She's a clumsy little human. Broken beakers, test tubes, Plates, glassware, door handles, The antlers of that showpiece deer, Her bed, her favourite pencil, Trust, hearts and friendships.
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 6:35 AM UTC
Clumsy.
In dazzled astonishment She looked up from her reverie As she heard the flap of wings overhead And saw the flash of laser beams in her dim lit room Before her, stood a winged seraph A radiant silhouette with such gentleness and grace As never beholden on any human face With its hands raised in benediction, It saluted Mary and said “Blessed art thou amongst women… …………………………………… The rest she heard in a trance. Unable to comprehend what was said, The girl looked up nonplussed. Again it said, “The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee And a son shall be born of thee Whom you shall call Jesus” In that nanosecond of a new revelation Did Mary’s world shatter like glassware Or did her ****** womb thrill with new life Did she swim in the waters of joyful tidings? Or gyrate in the sweeping swirl of tidal waves For the girl already espoused to a man In whose dreams his comely form had begun Flitting in and out Was it a moment of silent ravishment? Or of stupefied bewilderment Did a dagger cut through her heart? Or did her soul take wing in flight???
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Dec 15, 2016
Dec 15, 2016 at 5:39 AM UTC
Tidal Waves
It is the soaring The arched back Weightless You must have chaos inside you To give birth to a dancing star Dancing Star Alive reaching To speak to guide The chaos inside Everything all at once The arched back Sound of heels on a marble floor in a big quiet room Filled with art Huge external sound of the ***** A ticket Inside To get lost Found All at once The table The glassware The cocktail The landscape The love The company The clothes The beautiful shape The taught and soft skin The text Can’t contain Everything all at once The arched back Flying The flight is worth the fall.
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Feb 25, 2019
Feb 25, 2019 at 2:53 PM UTC
Blood Sweat and Tears
Please be careful with my heart Please be careful of my fragile heart- it is something one must bear with. Like any other glassware package, It is must be handled with care. Please be careful of my fragile heart- it has gone through thick and thin, and ups and downs of a giant mountain range as it always felt like a lonely wanderer There is a tremendous and mighty force, that pushes it to go on. It runs and runs forever but never finds that lost someone. And when it does, he goes away Avoids the girl who he called to stay. He has brought it to a cliff where it could jump off or live. And so this is where its story ends, if it did fall of the cliff. please be careful of my fragile heart- for as long as I shall live.
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Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 8:41 AM UTC
Please be careful of my fragile heart
When everything's bad The world's got you down Don't look so sad It was never your fault Those dates come creeping The stress level rises Your mind keeps leaping From this to that on repeat The system fried Still not your fault The project has died Again, not your fault Please cheer up Don't shed a tear It's like one broken cup On a shelf of glassware I promise you this This mess will get better It is a beat I'll never miss It's one that makes you happy
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May 17, 2011
May 17, 2011 at 1:52 PM UTC
Nothing Goes Right
You came to see me on a unplanned visit so I took you to the only interesting place I could think of. I dragged you through subways, and crowds of interesting people, to get to our destination, our final stop in the Brooklyn station. You doubted my directions, as I had only gone once before, but you trusted me enough to get you to the right store. You looked at me as we walked in, doubting me once more, it was a place full of junk, you must've thought that I was drunk. You stepped in through the door, and right on the floor, you found an old typewriter that you wanted forevermore. Your eyes, they lit up like none I had ever seen, as you began to press each key, and your smile, it gleamed. At that moment in time, I knew I had done well, as you took right off like you were under a spell. You ran though the aisles, taking in each thing, seeing the beauty behind the dust and water rings. You picked up the glassware, each little piece, you told me you loved them, your excitement didn't cease. We looked through the art, and the old records too, you pulled out a few, and I had out some Motown for you. It was the perfect day, that one random trip, the day that changed it, the day I made the slip. I let myself fall so hard and so fast, I forgot that china dolls, are made of such fragile glass.
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Jul 21, 2013
Jul 21, 2013 at 7:58 PM UTC
The MET.
We were so young In the kitchen looking at Grandma’s glassware Pristine like us Next year we were bold I opened the lid and saw flour But you saw ****** What a ******* name. You were missing an (e), I wanted to give it to you, be superhero(e)s But you’re too high for me now. I don’t have a cape, I can’t talk to you anymore. Have you read this book? Can you stay with us? Can the baby stay? I’ll make him a cape And we’ll just talk about it
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Jan 20, 2019
Jan 20, 2019 at 11:52 PM UTC
Capes
After the glass falls and breaks, No matter how much you try to fit the pieces back together, The cracks are still there,,,, The glass is weaker in its form .. It is no longer the same strong, firm glass…. I can no longer withstand as much pressure as it did the first time around.. It is much easier broken... The soul can compare to the mythical glassware… It might have been strong once upon a time, But every time things come undone that break apart the soul, It gets harder and harder to put it back together… It shatters easier and easier with each time….. Eventually one gets tired of repairing and pulling it together… Eventually one decides to give up and throw it all away… Maybe it will not get to the point of no return…. And if it does…. Then I hope I am remembered for who I was instead for who I became!!!
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May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012 at 11:56 AM UTC
Broken Glass
will I keep my secrets? shave my legs on the shower floor imagine how things can be cool **** by chastity belt playing on my apple tv check back soon, check in with me a vegan soup diet black coffee diet coke from the bottle one potato cake and savoys: an australian classic poems, poems, poems words that rhyme off rhymes — no rhymes forced a non sequitur confess, confess confide and abort remake dating app profiles over and over pictures of me: two years old women - women - women - women a cup ******* not even a cup ******* ***** mirror — bathroom sink want a cortado? — past memories mediterranean wholesalers — sydney road buying glassware in south melbourne i dream of mozzarella dairy — unethical and oysters — the cruelty be cruel to me, be my bully kiss me on the lips softly your tongue in my mouth you taste like campari my americano negroni lesbians discuss films you'll mention jim jarmusch coffee and cigarettes winona ryder — taxi cab in los angeles and i was once an actress consider me retired break down the barriers scream inside yourself let everyone in until you can't take it be left alone
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Feb 9, 2020
Feb 9, 2020 at 2:04 PM UTC
Romance
gem scones and ginger loaf bread, slathered with farmfresh butter. washed down with oh so **** cold home made lemonade ices. little pots of salmon rillettes and tiny potted prawns eaten on crisp potato wafers. crustless finger sandwiches of cucumber and tomato, grown twenty feet to the left of where we sit. in the shade of the radiata pine tree. minted gingerale punch. sunshine dappled light, playing on fine glassware. the aromas of ovenlove mint, pine, ginger, citrus and salt, mingle with old spice and lavender water, of the grands, dozing, as they sit baking, basking, in the afternoon heat. high tea, at the homestead farm. on the windswept coastal plain. once every couple of months, awaited with much, anticipation. remembered with much fondness a feast of food, family and much love.
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Mar 27, 2014
Mar 27, 2014 at 10:48 PM UTC
feast
Mostly these days I enter a room, polka dot populated by folks with too much perfume, or none at all and presuppositions and a cold drink lingering near them. I carry a shadowy painting with me, but it’s unfinished. It’s meticulously cared for and not yet ready to receive merit, let alone garner attention or criticism of ubiquity. Mostly these days I find myself troubled walking into these galleries laden with baby boomer critical gazes, though some understand in a competent comparative fashion and look forward to seeing the end result. The saturation, and the color spectrum. Mostly these days I wander into a tavern with a short story in my arms. It’s falsehood glaring, but with truth inside the lie. It is also unfinished. And yes it’s five years in the making, and everyone gawks, and watches carefully over glassware beaded with condensation, fury during October, the lights come down a bit, and I feel better. Mostly.
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Oct 11, 2018
Oct 11, 2018 at 1:20 PM UTC
Mostly
Today- Reminded me of the beautiful china In my grandmother's house Strong, shiny, beautiful Worth a lot But even the best observer Couldn't see the chips in the glassware The many times the china had been dropped No one could actually tell that it was broken But I could tell. Because even though sometimes I looked Strong, shiny, and beautiful, I was broken as well.
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Nov 12, 2015
Nov 12, 2015 at 1:33 PM UTC
Broken China
with screen pulled down only breezes not bugs find refuge in our stuffy bedroom church bells chime at the full hour just before the train cuts main street in half sweet pup howls in protest of the conductor's shrill whistle crystal glassware shakes in the cabinets yet this old place still stands.
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Oct 3, 2014
Oct 3, 2014 at 1:13 AM UTC
Half Open Window
As a child, it was not I, but my mother Who loved mud Every morning of my adolescence I observed my mother in her rituals She kept a special red tin Full of her desired delicacy She would toss the tin cap aside Eyes weary and hands slow She would scoop a few cups into a machine Without thought, or hesitation She would fill up the mud *** with water Glancing toward the pre-measured dashes And pour it into the contraception As she closed the top she would often say "Good morning son, how did you sleep?" My reply was always the same, "good" Not in disrespect, but because served me to be short Plus I had further examinations A few minutes would pass and the mud Would be begin to boil And drip into the largest compartment Once it's bubbling and popping subsided She would find a ceramic cup Pouring it herself up to the brim Hovering over its steam Clasping the dish close to her When she was done and I was feeling daring I'd sneak to her dismissed glassware Wipe my finger against the bottom Stick it in my mouth Without fail my face would pucker And my mother, as if to add to the dream Would say something like "You should have added sugar and cream"
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Sep 5, 2014
Sep 5, 2014 at 9:33 AM UTC
My Mothers Mud
are some dreams real? dogs in the alleyways stopped at the robot by a slavic cop lady but she lets others pass dragged to a restaurant interrogated by a mafia owner demanding money I don't owe they say I've eaten there with a pregnant lady last week dunno what they mean Alan smiles but conspiratorially with them how can he be a friend? I sob that I don't get their drift too late.. I need to a safe room to tell a story whisper your name in the night dream you lodge nearby I jump up to do midnight chores i pack out glassware from closets and you're there ostensibly to help the helpful lodger gesticulated that he's leaving while I make the right noises of working so, after upturning the table to work on its insides you leave it on the floor upside down it will stand that way till you return you get so irked at my queries I'm half afraid to talk I get a quick kiss pressed onto me face I didn't brush my teeth my tongue feels thick and gritty you rush off into the night I'm in an alley with a tape-recorder hearing a deal go down I call to the fat son of the owner they're all slobs with underwear down their knees and *** on their shoes I drive down the highway with half attention and think how we could have met yet that thought drifts far away now as my story waits in line on a conveyer belt the public never sees stepping out this time line to lance ahead single entity for when the other catches up there just ain't enough temporal cloth to be clad in unity cloaks some dreams are maybe then just dreams
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Oct 31, 2013
Oct 31, 2013 at 11:02 AM UTC
dreams of may
are some dreams real? dogs in the alleyways stopped at the robot by a slavic cop lady but she lets others pass dragged to a restaurant interrogated by a mafia owner demanding money I don't owe they say I've eaten there with a pregnant lady last week dunno what they mean Alan smiles but conspiratorially with them how can he be a friend? I sob that I don't get their drift too late.. I need to a safe room to tell a story whisper your name in the night dream you lodge nearby I jump up to do midnight chores i pack out glassware from closets and you're there ostensibly to help the helpful lodger gesticulated that he's leaving while I make the right noises of working so, after upturning the table to work on its insides you leave it on the floor upside down it will stand that way till you return you get so irked at my queries I'm half afraid to talk I get a quick kiss pressed onto me face I didn't brush my teeth my tongue feels thick and gritty you rush off into the night I'm in an alley with a tape-recorder hearing a deal go down I call to the fat son of the owner they're all slobs with underwear down their knees and *** on their shoes I drive down the highway with half attention and think how we could have met yet that thought drifts far away now as my story waits in line on a conveyer belt the public never sees stepping out this time line to lance ahead single entity for when the other catches up there just ain't enough temporal cloth to be clad in unity cloaks some dreams are maybe then just dreams
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I'm feeling Bitter. And all this stupid Pretentious hippy "Spirituality" **** Is just getting old Or maybe I'm just getting Older And I'm seeing how all these Burnouts in tie-dye Appear friendly But they're not talking to you, Just your girlfriend. "Free love, man." They're scumbags just like the Scumbags in suits they hate so much Or the rocker scumbags who are Mysoginistic Just like them. This Self-brainwashing Is getting old and I'm getting sick of Being lied to, By them and by me. the truth is nobody knows What's going on in the universe, No matter how much of a Shaman They claim to be or how much Peyote They smoke. And anybody who claims to Is Selling Something- Be it glassware pendants Or **** Or their throbbing ***** This hippy ******** is a bastardization Of an image Of a faded picture Of a set of ideals Thought up fifty years ago That only ever really worked on paper Anyway.
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Jun 23, 2014
Jun 23, 2014 at 8:17 AM UTC
Drum Circle.
The metro station caged the slumbering metropolis From this dingy mid-March town fridged in January wind A ******** clad explorer marches in mellow strides All the way to you To back the lover's whisper spoken by static selfies With fleshy whiffs, a borrowed jacket and a gawky face Blind to but maybe fiddly pepples on the ground. Down at a backstreet diner, its locked out doorstep, A hygge cover made for two, Humming low is the city's nocturnal remains' dubstep Coming from an illuminating exit, Luring the busy hands and buckled excitement, whereto ---- Whereto the vacant main street glides them With the at ease traffic, Down loops of everextending branches I followed you To the roundabout between two surrounding glassware towers Where gleaming sparks ***** on each other's windows Divining themselves by lighting up pavements, entrance signs and glooming heavens. Corridors, lawned with clutters from refurbishments, Lead to glassrooms of suspended business meetings, And that cozy cavern, Where you flump into a swivel chair. Your inhibited expression unwinds As my curious caress explores The damp torso slumping deeper into the pliable seat. And a devoted twitch of ecstasy, blossom unexpectedly On your face, Which already shied itself away from its audience, Doubtlessly, for way too many times ---- A candid sight I could only cache from you, Because I intend to see it again, your effortless reaction. The sarcoma-like lump left uncut at the bottom, Wrinkled like wind waves in a Ukiyo-e drawing. I scoop the saline ripple, so you can taste it beforehand. Our bodies started gravitating onto each other or all over the place. And lips, they startlingly perched, out of wills, like magnets For the very first time. I've been feeling patient. And I love taking my time with you
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Nov 29, 2018
Nov 29, 2018 at 1:13 AM UTC
Somewhere
The metro station caged the slumbering metropolis From this dingy mid-March town fridged in January wind A ******** clad explorer marches in mellow strides All the way to you To back the lover's whisper spoken by static selfies With fleshy whiffs, a borrowed jacket and a gawky face Blind to but maybe fiddly pepples on the ground. Down at a backstreet diner, its locked out doorstep, A hygge cover made for two, Humming low is the city's nocturnal remains' dubstep Coming from an illuminating exit, Luring the busy hands and buckled excitement, whereto ---- Whereto the vacant main street glides them With the at ease traffic, Down loops of everextending branches I followed you To the roundabout between two surrounding glassware towers Where gleaming sparks ***** on each other's windows Divining themselves by lighting up pavements, entrance signs and glooming heavens. Corridors, lawned with clutters from refurbishments, Lead to glassrooms of suspended business meetings, And that cozy cavern, Where you flump into a swivel chair. Your inhibited expression unwinds As my curious caress explores The damp torso slumping deeper into the pliable seat. And a devoted twitch of ecstasy, blossom unexpectedly On your face, Which already shied itself away from its audience, Doubtlessly, for way too many times ---- A candid sight I could only cache from you, Because I intend to see it again, your effortless reaction. The sarcoma-like lump left uncut at the bottom, Wrinkled like wind waves in a Ukiyo-e drawing. I scoop the saline ripple, so you can taste it beforehand. Our bodies started gravitating onto each other or all over the place. And lips, they startlingly perched, out of wills, like magnets For the very first time. I've been feeling patient. And I love taking my time with you
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Black bones. The pages twist. Oxygen runs down the furrows, split the spines. It hurts to look at. White phosphor. Teeth breaking. I reached my hand in once. Jar of words. Symbols running like a river into the sea. They lose all meaning. Skin wet with breath. Morning cold or an empty grip. Doesn’t matter. They used to dance. Shadows running into the heart. Veins tangled. Feet kicking dust. I’ve been trying to get the words out for awhile now. It hurts the more I try. Backwards or forwards. Everyone smiles, but the gap grows and grows. We’re progressing, they say; heads rotting hollow. I try to fish them out, but pierce their flesh. It’s dead now, so they leave. I used to stare at the stars until they’d burned into my dreams. Ouroboros shaped like a maw. Infinity. Progress. Human beings. Fingers, throats, airways. Seams of tissue, fibrous joints. I’m sick of humanitarians. Conscious flesh rising into godhood, breaching sanity. Hubris. Stupid words, talking themselves out of existence. Circles in circles. Black crows pecking at mirrors until they break. The animal runs its legs to the ground. Biology. Cells. DNA synthesis. Ligase, unwinding. Atomic emptiness. Split the human. Hiroshima. The enlightenment, a success. Clink of glassware. The president eats burnt flesh. But none of that matters. I press the ash between my tips. It feels like fur, collapsing skies. A junction that once was, and now will never be. There is time here. A broken, sad thing. Prisoner of its own flesh, sand in glass. I am lost in this moment. I am disappearing. Breaking like light through a prism. Why do we even try?
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Jun 5, 2016
Jun 5, 2016 at 11:04 PM UTC
Devil Flesh
Black bones. The pages twist. Oxygen runs down the furrows, split the spines. It hurts to look at. White phosphor. Teeth breaking. I reached my hand in once. Jar of words. Symbols running like a river into the sea. They lose all meaning. Skin wet with breath. Morning cold or an empty grip. Doesn’t matter. They used to dance. Shadows running into the heart. Veins tangled. Feet kicking dust. I’ve been trying to get the words out for awhile now. It hurts the more I try. Backwards or forwards. Everyone smiles, but the gap grows and grows. We’re progressing, they say; heads rotting hollow. I try to fish them out, but pierce their flesh. It’s dead now, so they leave. I used to stare at the stars until they’d burned into my dreams. Ouroboros shaped like a maw. Infinity. Progress. Human beings. Fingers, throats, airways. Seams of tissue, fibrous joints. I’m sick of humanitarians. Conscious flesh rising into godhood, breaching sanity. Hubris. Stupid words, talking themselves out of existence. Circles in circles. Black crows pecking at mirrors until they break. The animal runs its legs to the ground. Biology. Cells. DNA synthesis. Ligase, unwinding. Atomic emptiness. Split the human. Hiroshima. The enlightenment, a success. Clink of glassware. The president eats burnt flesh. But none of that matters. I press the ash between my tips. It feels like fur, collapsing skies. A junction that once was, and now will never be. There is time here. A broken, sad thing. Prisoner of its own flesh, sand in glass. I am lost in this moment. I am disappearing. Breaking like light through a prism. Why do we even try?
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